The Free State of Saxony -(Freistaat Sachsen) is a state of Germany, located in the southeastern part of present-day Germany. It is the tenth-largest German state in area (18,413 km²) and the sixth largest in population (4.3 million), of Germany's sixteen states.
Located in the historical heart of German-speaking Europe, the history of the state of Saxony spans more than a millennium. It has been a medieval duchy, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, a kingdom and, since 1918, a republic.
The area of the modern state of Saxony should not be confused with Old Saxony, the area inhabited by Saxons. Old Saxony corresponds approximately to the modern German states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and North Rhine-Westphalia.
Except for Dresden and perhaps Leipzig, Saxony is not known as a primary destination for foreign tourists. Areas along the border with the Czech Republic, such as the Lusatian Mountains, Ore Mountains, Saxon Switzerland, and Vogtland, attract significant visitors, largely Germans. Saxony has well preserved historic towns such as Meissen, Freiberg, Pirna, Bautzen, and Görlitz.
World renown cultural locales as Dresden's Semper Opera, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the outstanding Opera in Chemnitz are great offerings of Saxony. This is also an area offering visitors vast number of castles, palaces, museums, festivals and exhibitions. The southern section of this federal state's reputation of "Musicians Corner" boasts world wide virtuosos have played from instruments created in this part of the world since 1677. The specific area of Saxony's Vogland is homeland for artisans and master craftsmen who have built string and wind instruments.
Plauen, a city known for filigree-type beautiful lace, prides itself for exceptional artists creating this world famous fabric. At the Lake Museum one can attend embroidery workshops, witness lace making and embroidery made on traditional looms and early machines.
The Soviet Union set up the communist government of the German Democratic Republic in 1949, with Saxony a part of it, giving the USSR a satellite in the heart of Europe. The communist government officially dissolved the Free State in 1952, and divided it into the three smaller Bezirke of Leipzig, Dresden, and Karl-Marx-Stadt. The Free State was reconstituted with slightly altered borders in 1990 upon German reunification. Besides the formerly Silesian area of Saxony, which was mostly included in the territory of the new Saxon state, the free state gained further areas north of Leipzig, which belonged to Saxony-Anhalt until 1952.
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area.
Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city with cultural and artistic splendor. The city was completely destroyed by the controversial Allied aerial bombing towards the end of World War II. The impact of the bombing and 40 years of urban development during the East German socialist era have considerably changed the face of the city. Some restoration work has helped to reconstruct parts of the historic inner city, including the Katholische Hofkirche, the Semperoper and the Dresdner Frauenkirche. Since the German reunification in 1990, Dresden has regained importance as one of the cultural, educational, political and economic centers of Germany.
The Elbe Valley of Dresden was an internationally recognized site of cultural significance by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for five years. After being placed on the list of endangered World Heritage Sites in 2006, the city had its status as world heritage site formally removed in June 2009, for the wilful breach of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, due to the construction of a highway bridge across the valley within 2 km of the historic centre. It thereby became the first location ever in Europe to lose this status, and the second ever in the world.
During the final months of World War II, Dresden became a safe haven to some 600,000 refugees, including women, children, and wounded soldiers, with a total population of 1.2 million. Dresden was attacked seven times between 1944 and 1945, and was occupied by the Red Army after German capitulation.
Dresden has experienced dramatic changes since the reunification of Germany in the early 1990s. The city still bears many wounds from the bombing raids of 1945, but it has undergone significant reconstruction in recent decades. Restoration of the Dresden Frauenkirche was completed in 2005, a year before Dresden's 800th anniversary, notably by privately raised funds. The urban renewal process, which includes the reconstruction of the area around the Neumarkt square on which the Frauenkirche is situated, will continue for many decades, but public and government interest remains high, and there are numerous large projects underway—both historic reconstructions and modern plans—that will continue the city's recent architectural renaissance.
Leipzig is, with a population of approx. 519,000, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany and in the new states of Germany. In the 17th century, Leipzig was one of the major European city-centers of learning and culture in fields such as music, astronomy and optics. After World War II, Leipzig became a major urban centre within the Communist German Democratic Republic.
Leipzig later played a significant role in the fall of communism in Eastern Germany, through events taken place in and around St. Nikolai Church. Since the Reunification of Germany, Leipzig has undergone significant change with the restoration of historical buildings and the development of a modern transport infrastructure. In 2006, Leipzig hosted key games in the World Cup.
In 2010, Leipzig was ranked 68th in the world as a livable city, by consulting firm Mercer in their quality of life survey, scoring just below Atlanta, Georgia. In 2009, Leipzig was ranked 35th in the world out of 256 cities for cultural, economic and social innovation.
Chemnitz known from 1953 to 1990 as Karl-Marx-Stadt is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area comprising 3.5 million people. The city's economy is based on the service sector and manufacturing industry. The Chemnitz University of Technology has around 10,000 students and is the centre of scientific life.
During World War II, Chemnitz included factories that produced military goods and a Flossenbürg forced labor subcamp (500 female inmates) for Astra-Werke AG. The oil refinery was a bombing target. The WWII bombings left most of the city in ruins and post-war, the East German reconstruction included large low rise (and later high-rise plattenbau) housing. Some tourist sites were reconstructed during the DDR era and after German reunification.
After the reunification of Germany Saxony faced a significant population decrease. Since 1990 Chemnitz lost more than 20 percent of the inhabitants. In 2006 the BBC reported the city of Chemnitz had the lowest birth rate in the world.
Schloss Moritzburg is a Baroque castle in the municipality of Moritzburg in the German state of Saxony, about 13 km (8 mi) northwest of the Saxon capital Dresden.
The original castle was built from 1542–1546 as a hunting lodge for Moritz of Wettin, then Duke of Saxony. Elector John George II of Saxony had it extended and between 1661 and 1671 the chapel was added after designs by his architect Wolf Caspar von Klengels, a fine example of the early Baroque style. After in 1697 John George's grandson Elector Frederick Augustus I had converted to Catholicism in order to secure his election as King of Poland, the chapel was consecrated in the Catholic rite. Between 1723 and 1733, Augustus had the castle largely remodelled as a pleasure seat by the architects Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann and Zacharias Longuelune, including a formal park, several ponds and a game preserve. The last resident from the House of Wettin was Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony, dispossessed in 1945 by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany.
In winter 1972/1973, the Baroque castle was the festive backdrop for "Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella" – one of the most popular German fairy-tale movies.


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Major US airlines, travel industry leaders donate more than 20,000 flights for Afghan evacuees
Several airlines are donating airline tickets to Afghan evacuees to get to their final destinations in the US. US military members and Afghan refugees are here playing soccer on September 30 in Ft. McCoy, Wisconsin.
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN
(CNN) -- Seven airlines, along with other travel industry leaders, are donating more than 20,000 airline tickets to Afghan evacuees to get to their final destinations in the US, matching an additional 20,000 flights contributed by the public, the White House, Welcome.US, major airlines and Miles4Migrants will announce Tuesday morning.
The 40,000 flights cover the majority of Afghan evacuees on domestic military bases and would help them get to their next destination in the US. About 53,000 Afghans are living at US bases in the continental United States, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said during a Monday briefing at the Pentagon. They are spread out across eight bases.
While refugees can receive federal assistance to cover travel costs, funds not spent on flights can be reallocated to cover other expenses as evacuees get set up in their new communities.
The Associated Press first reported the effort.
United Airlines is contributing the mile equivalent of 7,000 flights and Delta Air Lines is donating nearly 700 flights. The commitments build on previous initiatives to collect and match donations for Afghan refugees. American Airlines and JetBlue are also supporting flights, 6,000 and nearly 2,500 flights, respectively. Alaska Airlines is contributing 1,500 flights.
Other companies included in the effort are The Boeing Company, the Tripadvisor Foundation, Frontier Airlines and Air Canada.
The initiative is being launched with Miles4Migrants, which donates frequent flyer miles, credit card points and cash to help fly displaced people, and Welcome.US, a national effort to welcome and support Afghan refugees. Organizers are hoping to secure an additional 30,000 flights to help Afghans.
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• Kenyan households continued to feel the strain on their pockets as inflation rose by 1.60 per cent in March.
• Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) data shows month-on-month inflation rose to 4.35 per cent from 4.14 per cent recorded in February.
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Kenyan households continued to feel the strain on their pockets as inflation rose by 1.60 per cent in March.
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) data shows month-on-month inflation rose to 4.35 per cent from 4.14 per cent recorded in February.
The increase was mainly attributed to the prevailing drought conditions across major parts of the country resulting in an increase in prices of some items on the food basket.
This saw the food and non-alcoholic index rise 3.30 per cent over the review period. The index also increased by 2.84 per cent during the same period last year.
One kilogram of beans increased over the month to Sh111.31 from Sh109.82 while mango prices increased to Sh121.52 from Sh114.69 per kg.
Kale, popularly known as sukuma wiki, rose to Sh52.99 from Sh47.30 per kg while a kilogramme of capsicums (Pilipili Hoho) rose to Sh146.33 from Sh126.81 respectively.
"However, prices of some food items were lower in March 2019 compared to March 2018. Maize grain recorded a drop of 33.81 per cent to Sh41.56 from Sh62.78 per kg over the year," KNBS stated.
Similarly, the prices of sifted maize flour, sugar and tomatoes were lower by 30.55, 10.57 and 10.80 per cent, respectively.
The housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels' index, decreased by 0.06 percentage points in March compared to February 2019.
"This resulted from lower cost of electricity which outweighed increase in house rents and cooking fuels. Transport index increased by 0.42 percentage points, mainly as a result of increases in pump prices of petrol and diesel," KNBS added.
This change takes a turn from previous figures recorded in past months. In February, inflation went down by 82 basis points from January to settle at 4.14 per cent on the back of falling food prices.


HI, Trasee! Long time no see.
In Trasee's case a welcome high tea seems more appropriate.
She had that high tea welcome for new users on SLU, if I recall it right.
How the hell did I miss this thread? Hiya, Trasee!
Is overly delayed welcome replies becoming a thing?
Hi everyone, I'm back too!
Anything else about you we'd benefit in knowing? What virtual worlds are you involved with, if any?


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»2017 Wisconsin Act 206
Date of enactment: April 3, 2018
2017 Senate Bill 711 Date of publication*: April 4, 2018
* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."
An Act to renumber 118.19 (18) (b) 1. and 118.19 (18) (b) 2.; to renumber and amend 118.19 (18) (b) 3. a. and 118.19 (18) (b) 3. b.; to amend 118.19 (18) (c); and to create 20.235 (1) (c) and 39.51 of the statutes; relating to: a pilot grant program to support college courses taught in high schools, lifetime licenses issued by the Department of Public Instruction, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
206,1 Section 1 . 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated: - See PDF for table
206,2 Section 2 . 20.235 (1) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
20.235 (1) (c) Dual enrollment credential grants. The amounts in the schedule for grants under s. 39.51 (2). No moneys may be encumbered under this paragraph after June 30, 2021.
206,3 Section 3. 39.51 of the statutes is created to read:
39.51 Dual enrollment credential grants. (1) In this section:
(a) "Dual enrollment programs" means programs or courses of study designed to provide high school students with the opportunity to gain credits in both high school and an institution of higher education, including transcripted credit programs or other educational services provided by contract between a school district and an institution of higher education.
(b) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning given in s. 118.19 (1c) (a).
(c) "Membership" has the meaning given in s. 121.004 (5).
(d) "School year" has the meaning given in s. 115.001 (13).
(2) Beginning in the 2018-19 school year, from the appropriation under s. 20.235 (1) (c), the board shall award grants to school districts, charter schools authorized under s. 118.40 (2r), and private schools participating in a program under s. 118.60 or 119.23 to support dual enrollment programs taught in high schools. These grants shall be awarded for the purpose of assisting high school teachers in covering tuition expenses for courses taken to meet the minimal qualifications necessary to teach dual enrollment courses.
(3) In each school year, the board shall award at least one grant under sub. (2) to each of the following:
(a) A school district the membership of which in the previous school year was fewer than 650 pupils.
(b) A school district the membership of which in the previous school year was 650 to 1,600 pupils.
(c) A school district the membership of which in the previous school year was more than 1,600 pupils.
(d) A charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r).
(e) A private school participating in the program under s. 118.60 or 119.23.
(4) Following the school year in which a school district, charter school authorized under s. 118.40 (2r), or private school participating in a program under s. 118.60 or 119.23 receives a grant under sub. (2), the school district, charter school, or private school shall submit to the board a report that includes all of the following information:
(a) The number of high school teachers who received financial assistance funded by the grant.
(b) The total number of postsecondary credits completed by high school teachers that were funded by the grant.
(c) The number of high school teachers described under par. (a) who are minimally qualified to teach dual enrollment courses.
(5) No grant may be awarded under this section after June 30, 2021.
206,3c Section 3c. 118.19 (18) (b) 1. of the statutes, as created by 2017 Wisconsin Act 59, is renumbered 118.19 (18) (bd).
206,3g Section 3g. 118.19 (18) (b) 2. of the statutes, as created by 2017 Wisconsin Act 59, is renumbered 118.19 (18) (bc).
206,3n Section 3n. 118.19 (18) (b) 3. a. of the statutes, as created by 2017 Wisconsin Act 59, is renumbered 118.19 (18) (bg) 1. and amended to read:
118.19 (18) (bg) 1. The department may issue a lifetime license under this subdivision to an individual who obtained a provisional license under subd. 2. or par. (a) or (bc) if the individual has successfully completed 6 semesters of teaching, administrating, or pupil services experience and if the school board of each school district in which the individual served as a teacher, administrator, or pupil services professional certifies to the department that the semesters completed by that individual in that school district were completed successfully, as defined by the department by rule.
206,3r Section 3r. 118.19 (18) (b) 3. b. of the statutes, as created by 2017 Wisconsin Act 59, is renumbered 118.19 (18) (bg) 2. and amended to read:
118.19 (18) (bg) 2. An individual who does not successfully complete 6 semesters of teaching, administrating, or pupil services experience, as defined by the department by rule, within the 3-year term of a provisional license issued under par. (a) or (bc) may apply to renew the provisional license. There is no limit to the number of times an individual may renew a provisional license under par. (a) or (bc).
206,3w Section 3w. 118.19 (18) (c) of the statutes, as created by 2017 Wisconsin Act 59, is amended to read:
118.19 (18) (c) If an individual who holds a lifetime license under par. (b) (bd) or (bg) is not actively regularly employed by a school district in education, as defined by the department by rule, for 5 or more consecutive years, the department shall invalidate the lifetime license. An individual whose lifetime license has been invalidated under this paragraph may not revalidate the lifetime license until the individual applies for and obtains a provisional license under par. (a) and obtains the certification required under par. (b) 3. a. satisfies the requirements under par. (bg) for a lifetime license.
206,4 Section 4 . Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) Report. No later than January 31, 2021, the higher educational aids board shall submit a report to the joint committee on finance assessing the effectiveness of the grant program under section 39.51 of the statutes and specifically including all of the following information for each of the first 2 years of the program:
(a) The total number of grant applicants and the total number of grant recipients.
(b) The total dollar amount of grants awarded.
(c) The total number of course credits completed by high school teachers that are funded with the grant proceeds.
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Vinod Bidwaik : Do you have a choice?
If you get a chance to go back in your past and change your past decisions, would you change some decisions? I can certainly say that you would definitely like to change few which had adversely affected your life. But the fact is that we can't go and change our past. We have to live with the past we have.
The only thing we can do to choose that decision. I remember the conversion happened with my friend. We both were studying our management. One day he came with new shirt.
"Vinod, usually my parents buy shirt for me, but this is the shirt of my choice," he said.
"Yesterday, I went to the shop, asked salesperson to show me shirts and I choose one." He replied.
"Do you think you choose the shirt?" I asked.
"You are crazy, you are impossible. This is all philosophy. You are playing with words." He laughed.
"No. How it is possible?" Friend asked me.
"You find out the answer." I smiled and put the ball in his court. I remember, the discussion on choice and decision continued almost for 2 hours and we could not conclude.
What we do in life. We take decisions and we say that we have the choice.
What you do in decisions? You have different alternatives with you and you select one option which you think is a better. In life everybody checks different alternatives; even arrange marriages are based on decisions.
What is the choice? Choice is what you like. Choice is the freedom of choosing something with all good or bad qualities.
Taking decision is the inevitable part of life and nescience of alternative can make your life measurable. However once the decision is taken, you should not worry of its consequences. You can not go in the past and change your decisions. There should not be any regret, only lessons. We should learn from the past and go ahead.
Choose whatever you get. Choosing is accepting what you have. Choosing is accepting with wholly and not partially. You can not accept well and ignore bad.
When it comes to relations, you have to choose your relation wholly with good or bad traits. And that is the freedom of choosing. That is the choice. Even if you have any alternative in front you, have should choose thy whole heartedly.


One of those somethings was No Men, No Cry, a collection of prose written by women published in 2011 by the International Cultural Programme Centre (now the Lithuanian Culture Institute). Ann Morgan, writer and the founder of the blog A Year of Reading the World, discovered the anthology on Amazon and read it. She'd taken on the project of reading one book from every country around the world and writing about it, and her description of her reading odyssey became quite popular, reaching a wide, global audience.
And time did tell. Since she wrote those words, the situation has changed quite a bit, and in recent years several novels and collections of Lithuanian essays and short stories have been published in English, French, and German. But what if, let's say, someone in Britain were to go to their local bookshop (be it bricks-and-mortar or online) in search of a Lithuanian novel to read? As things stand, they'd come up with nothing.
But there is hope. It seems Lithuanians are finally understanding (after more than 20 years of use) that the best tool for the dissemination and popularization of literature is the Internet. And the best way to present the literature of a small country is not to hand out free brochures or pamphlets, business cards or magazines, but rather to open a digital window to anyone who is curious, who is searching, or who is just passing by.
The Vilnius Review website is such a window. In our view there is no such thing as "small" literature; there are only writers who are not good enough or writers who are not publicized enough.
Our website will continually publish texts from Lithuanian poets, prose writers, essayists, and documentarians, translated into English, as well as reviews of their works, articles about them, and interviews with them.
I believe that the Vilnius Review will also provide a space and a voice for Lithuanians writing from abroad, as well as works created by emigrants (writing in Lithuanian or in English). Currently these writers are few in number but there is no doubt their ranks will only increase in the future. I understand that Lithuanians working abroad have big ambitions—they cannot be constrained by borders or language—and we want to contribute towards broadening their audiences, and perhaps even become the starting point for new journeys into writing.
We'll publish their texts, book excerpts, and interviews with them. We'll also strive to introduce the English reading public to the works of authors writing abroad who are in one way or another connected to Lithuania or Lithuanians.
The Vilnius Review is not a news site—we will move and develop slowly but consistently. New poems, prose, reviews, essays, and other texts will appear monthly. There are many interesting writers in Lithuania and Lithuanian writers abroad; it's simply a matter of translating those writing in Lithuanian and making their work accessible in one place.
We have many plans, and we must hope and believe they will all be realized, that the Vilnius Review will grow and strengthen, and that the number of writers and readers will increase along with it. We trust that, in time, reading the Vilnius Review will become not only a habit but also a necessity for a dedicated audience.
In the meantime, we are open to opinions, suggestions, criticisms, and, of course, contributions. Write, rejoice, criticize—let the discussion be lively!


Maintenance planners, planners in training, supervisors and people who have to manage the planning function. In addition schedulers, material coordinators and maintenance engineers that get involved in creating job plans. There is also an advantage to having representatives from operations and stores for their perspective and input.
Our promise for this program is that your planners will be conversant with the techniques and procedures of effective planning and scheduling. They will also be trained to coordinate the maintenance schedule with production control and operations. This new understanding will lead to better job plans and more effective scheduling.
A few extras like reduce parts usage and higher organizational morale (in production departments) are also direct benefits of planning and scheduling.
1. 100% of the course will pertain to your industry and your maintenance situation.
2. Can be adapted to your maintenance language and forms to be easily usable.
3. Special issues can be discussed on a confidential basis with the instructor.
4. Schedule to be convenient to your business cycle.
5. Use as a team building experience.
6. Create a shared a common language and vision for maintenance.
What is planning and why plan maintenance jobs?
How to Sell Planning & Scheduling to your management and operations? Specifically where does the ROI (Return on Investment) come from with planning?
Understanding the Nature of Maintenance Activities. Where does Planning fit Into Good Maintenance Practices.
Design of work order systems, auditing work orders and training in completing work order preparation. Short discussion of the work flow with a job control function.
Complete Planning questionnaire so that participants can evaluate their own current planning operation against competent and world class organizations.
Complete description of the planner's job.
What are the conditions necessary for effective planning? This section includes a discussion of the institutional systems necessary for successful planning and scheduling. Specific areas include storerooms, PM programs, planner Libraries, supervision and high level sign-off.
What are the steps in effective planning?
The complete planning process. Workshop exercise in specific job planning. This is called micro-planning (job by job).
What are the contents of a complete planned job package. The contents are based on the complexity, hazard, experience and size of the job.
Calculating available hours from maintenance workers. Given your straight time year how many hours are actually available for maintenance scheduling. Includes work sheets.
Complete scheduling and coordination questionnaire so that participants can evaluate their own current planning operation against competent and world class organizations.
Scheduling Maintenance Work. Coordination with Operations and Coordination meeting. Includes a generic agenda for the weekly coordination meeting.
One task at the coordination meeting is Job Loading until available hours are used up. We will perform a job loading exercise in this section.
After the jobs are loaded the next step is to create a credible schedule that takes all the constraints into account.
How to use CMMS to Aid Planning and Scheduling.
Metrics and Benchmarking Planning and Scheduling includes both direct and indirect measures of maintenance effectiveness.
Option 1: The most basic way is to just talk on the phone (or use E-mail) and then present a standard course. The courses are tried and tested and has been used to good effect in many maintenance situations.
Option 2: The second and most common option involves a one day site visit before the class, which allows us to add examples from your facility and adjust the verbal presentation to more nearly suit your needs, meet some of the key players and see for myself some of the special problems you face.
Option 3: The third option is to conduct a maintenance survey which looks at all of the aspects of maintenance, evaluates areas where improvements are possible and a slanting of the training to the competencies needed to implement the improvements uncovered in the survey.
Email efss@fallsafety.com or Phone (800) 372-7775 Extension 130 to discuss your specific needs.


Established in 1985, Leadership Greater Little Rock seeks to develop community leaders by training and informing participants on a wide array of local public policy issues and concerns. In-depth training sessions focus on these issues, exploring their background, origin and present-day status. The program covers a full slate of topics, including government, the area's economy, education, social services and much more. The sessions combine lectures, tours, dialogue and interaction between speakers and participants.
Leadership Greater Little Rock (LGLR) is a nine-month community leadership program committed to enhancing and connecting leaders from businesses, nonprofits and government. This unique program has empowered participants with a comprehensive understanding of our region's challenges and opportunities. Each month (October – June), the class meets at a different central Arkansas location to explore topics through expert speakers, panelists, tours and group presentations. With very strict attendance guidelines, class members are allowed to miss no more than 16 hours (each session is considered 8 hours). Additionally, the 2-day retreat, held in October, is mandatory for participation in the class.
The application for Class XXXV will be available mid-March 2019 and can be downloaded here at that time. The applications will be accepted through early June 2019. All applicants will be invited to interview and selections will be made in late August.


I became Curator in 1998 and was awarded a 3-year National Science Foundation, Biological Research Collections, grant in 2001 to modernize and upgrade the plant collection and to database all collection information. Data from the ca 75,000 specimens in the Pullen Herbarium are available through our webpage (www.herbarium.olemiss.edu), as is the preliminary checklist of the plants of Mississippi (McCook and Kartesz, 2000).
I am Director of the University of Mississippi Biology Bootcamp, which is a 5 day intensive academic program to prepare freshmen to succeed in freshman biology for science majors, BISC 160 & 162, and beyond. The program occurs the week before classes begin each fall and is only for entering freshmen who are enrolled in BISC 160.
The week of Biology Bootcamp includes lectures, exams, labs, test analysis & study skills workshops, all presented by faculty and staff from the UM Department of Biology. For one brief but intensive week, students can experience taking a full load of classes with exams and all the other activities of campus life—before actually starting the semester. They also meet other students and create study groups for the fall semester, and many continue to interact throughout the school year with the Mentor that they met during Bootcamp. Every year, the average final grade of Bootcamp participants has been higher than the average grade of non-participants. In 2014, the average grade of students that completed Bootcamp was one letter grade higher than students that did not participate!
I started teaching Botany and non-majors Biology at The University of Mississippi in 1993 and taught freshman Biology for science majors (BISC 160 & 162) for 15 years. Currently, I teach a graduate level Plant Taxonomy course (BISC 532) and will begin teaching non-majors Biology again in 2016.
Ph.D. (Plant Systematics) Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University. 1989.
M.S. (Biology) University of New Orleans. 1982.
B.S. (Horticultural Science) Louisiana State University. 1976.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Botany Department of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. 1989 & 1990.
Horticultural Taxonomist and Curator of Living Plants, Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. 1991 & 1992.
McCook, L.M. 1998. An annotated checklist of the genus Phragmipedium, the New World conduplicate- leaved slipper orchids. Orchid Digest 62(4; special pub.): 1-11.
Goldblatt, P., P. Hoch & L. McCook. 1993. Documenting scientific data: the need for voucher specimens. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 79(4): 608-609.
McCook, L.M. 1990. The genus Phragmipedium–Part II. Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 59(2): 153-158.
McCook, L.M. 1989. The genus Phragmipedium–Part I. Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 58(11): 1095-1100.


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Mulcair asks how ex-PMO lawyer's emails 'disappeared'; info watchdog wants to investigate
Andrea Janus, CTVNews.ca
Published Monday, December 2, 2013 1:29PM EST
Last Updated Monday, December 2, 2013 11:08PM EST
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair asked Monday how former PMO legal adviser Benjamin Perrin's emails could have been found months after the RCMP first asked for them in relation to the Mike Duffy-Nigel Wright affair.
The opposition used Monday's question period to ask the federal government about a revelation late Sunday that the Privy Council Office "found" Perrin's emails that it had previously said were deleted.
CTV News has learned that Canada's information commissioner, Suzanne Legault, is investigating a complaint into why the Privy Council Office was unable to provide a single document in response a request by the Liberal Party for all records related to the Duffy-Wright deal.
The office of the commissioner requires that every government record of business value be saved.
In a letter to the RCMP's assistant commissioner Gilles Michaud dated Dec. 1, the PCO said it has informed the Prime Minister's Office that emails from Perrin -- who allegedly helped broker a deal between Wright and Duffy -- were not deleted, as is standard practice, following Perrin's departure from the PMO in March 2013.
The letter states the account was in fact frozen due to unrelated litigation.
On Monday, Mulcair asked several questions about the newly discovered emails.
"How could Ben Perrin's emails, the PM's legal counsel, how could they have disappeared for three months?" Mulcair asked in French. "How could they have disappeared, whereas these same emails had been retained by them in another legal matter? Explain that to us."
Minister for Democratic Reform Pierre Poilievre responded in English by reading from the PCO's letter from Sunday.
"It says here, and I quote, 'it is the operating protocol of the Privy Council Office to close and delete email accounts of departing employees of the PCO and the PMO as a matter of course. Consistent with this protocol, upon Mr. Perrin's departure at the end of his employment in late March 2013, the PMO was provided with notice that his emails had been deleted from the computer server.'"
According to the letter issued Sunday, the PMO asked the PCO to make available to police "the emails of certain individuals requested by the RCMP" in September 2013. It was at that time the PCO "advised" the PMO that Perrin's emails had been deleted from a server "and were no longer available."
But Sunday's letter explained that the PCO was wrong in making that claim.
According to the PCO, the email account came to light in recent days, after the RCMP sought further confirmation from the PMO's counsel that Perrin's emails were not available from any other source.
"In response to this inquiry, on November 29, 2013 we found that Mr. Perrin's emails had in fact been retained due to a litigation hold in an unrelated matter. On learning that Mr. Perrin's emails were in fact available, we informed the PMO on November 30, 2013."
The PCO apologized for any inconvenience "it may have caused."
"We regret that we previously failed, even if inadvertently, to accurately inform you and the PMO about the availability of Mr. Perrin's emails."
Perrin is currently the subject of a complaint filed by a University of Ottawa law professor, who claims that Perrin and Duffy lawyer Janice Payne violated professional ethics for their alleged roles in a secret deal that saw Wright, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff, give Duffy a $90,000 cheque to cover the senator's ineligible expenses.
The RCMP is investigating the transaction. In an affidavit filed last month, Cpl. Greg Horton alleges that Wright broke the law by giving Duffy the money.
None of the allegations has been tested or proven in court.
When Mulcair asked what "unrelated litigation" Perrin was involved in, Poilievre replied that he "cannot answer that question," noting that the PMO has instructed the PCO to hand over to the RCMP all emails that the force requests.
Liberal House Leader Dominic Leblanc asked if any PMO staffers had access to Perrin's emails between the time of the original RCMP request and when they were discovered.
Poilievre did not directly reply, pointing only to the PCO's apology in the letter.
Kinsella 'not happy about' Senate scandal
Meanwhile, Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella held a rare news conference Monday morning in which he told reporters that he is "embarrassed" by the ongoing expenses scandal, but left many direct questions unanswered about what reforms might be coming to the upper chamber to prevent such events in the future.
Reporters gathered in the red chamber at 11 a.m., hopeful that Kinsella would have a lot to say about the scandal that has led to multiple RCMP investigations and three senators suspended without pay.
Instead, Kinsella opened with a history lesson about the upper chamber before opening the floor to reporters' questions.
When asked whether he feels the need to repair the Senate's image, Kinsella replied: "I do." But he's less concerned about image, he said, and more interested that there "be public trust, public engagement in the work done by members of the House of Commons, as well as work done by members of the Senate."
"I'm not happy about it," he said of the scandal, but later said: "We've got to learn from this experience."
He also said that the Senate is complying with a request from the RCMP that it turn over all emails by Senators Marjory LeBreton, David Tkachuk, Carolyn Stewart Olsen and Mike Duffy that relate to Duffy's audit and the alleged Wright-Duffy deal.
The Senate clerk said IT staff are compiling those records and will hand them over within a 30-day deadline.
The Senate "is co-operating 100 per cent," with the RCMP investigation, Kinsella said.
"Parliamentary privilege cannot be used as a shield to inhibit a police investigation," he said.
Kinsella's news conference came days after the Senate's internal economy committee heard from the team that audited Duffy's expenses, after an RCMP affidavit alleged attempted interference in the process by the PMO and Sen. Irving Gerstein, chair of the Conservative Fund.
The affidavit, filed recently in an Ottawa court, suggested Gerstein called a partner at auditing firm Deloitte, Michael Runia, to inquire about the audit of Duffy's expenses. One of the auditors confirmed before the Senate committee last week that Runia called to inquire about their work, but said he cut the call short and the process remained independent.
When asked if he would like to see Gerstein appear before the committee to explain why he called the firm, Kinsella did not provide a yes-or-no answer.
"If the matter comes up in committee or chambers, it will be dealt with by the members of that committee," Kinsella said. Kinsella became chair of the committee last week.
Senators will debate a motion beginning Tuesday that, if passed, would compel Runia to appear before the committee.
When asked if the Senate will ultimately open its own investigation or hold an inquiry, Kinsella said "I'm not going to predict the future."
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Ex-PMO lawyer's emails not deleted: PCO to RCMP
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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair asks a question during question period in the House of Commons on Monday, Dec. 2, 2013.
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Speaker of the Senate Noel Kinsella speaks with the media in the Senate Chamber on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
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Omicron and a Health Order put North Bay theatre on pause (again)
North Bay theatre came back with a vengeance in mid-2021 when restrictions were lifted and theaters could once more welcome audiences inside. Almost every theatre company in the region returned to live production with solo shows, comedies, and the occasional musical.
The New Year brought news of Omicron, a more contagious variant of the coronavirus, and an explosion of new cases. Some theatre companies found it difficult to proceed with rehearsals after positive COVID test results were reported by cast and crew members. Other companies found it challenging to open with the Sonoma County Health Officer's order restricting large indoor gatherings.
Consequently, live theatre finds itself once more scrambling. These are the shows originally scheduled to open from mid-January through early February that have moved their opening dates and/or adjusted their runs:
Amy and the Orphans – Cinnabar Theater – Petaluma – The opening of this poignant comedy about siblings reuniting after the funeral of their father is delayed till Feb. 11.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abr.) – Raven Players – Healdsburg – The Raven's remount of this irreverent, amusing summary of all Shakespeare's works now runs Feb. 11 – 20.
Either – Left Edge Theatre – Santa Rosa – The U.S. premiere of Ruby Thomas's new play about relationships is now scheduled for Feb. 11 – 20.
The Glass Menagerie – Main Stage West – Sebastopol – The Tennessee Williams classic will now run Feb. 11 – Feb. 25.
Hair – 6th Street Playhouse – Santa Rosa – The self-proclaimed American Tribal Love-Rock Musical has had its opening rescheduled for Feb. 12.
The Legend of Georgia McBride – 6th Street Playhouse – Santa Rosa – This homage to the drag queens who mentored the playwright through his own coming out is now scheduled for Feb. 17 – Mar. 20.
Master Class – Sonoma Arts Live – Sonoma – Diva Maria Callas will be left waiting till Feb. 11 – 27
The Music Man – Spreckels Theatre Company – Rohnert Park – The quintessential all-American musical has been postponed till the Fall of '22.
Pass Over – Marin Theatre Company – opening moved to Feb. 2
Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Jersey Lily – Ross Valley Players – Ross – The case won't be opened till Feb. 4.
The Who's Tommy – Novato Theater Company – Novato – "We're Not Gonna Take It" may be this show's motto after experiencing its second postponement, having closed after a single preview performance in March '20. The new opening date is TBD.
All these dates are (of course) subject to change. Check each company's website for the latest information.
This article originally appeared in an edited version in the North Bay Bohemian and Pacific Sun.
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The deceased female has been identified as 38-year-old Alicia M. Paulus of Sidney.
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Duchak said witnesses — or those with any information — are now being sought to help in the investigation.
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Duchak said they are requesting that anyone who was in the area of Loy Road and Alcony-Conover Road between midnight and 7 a.m. Saturday morning — and observed anything suspicious — to call the Miami County Communication Center at (937) 440-9911.
He said they also are requesting that anyone who was with Paulus in the previous 24 hours or anyone having any information to also call the Miami County Communication Center. Anonymous tips can be left on the Miami County Sheriff's Office website at www.miamicountysheriff.org.
The investigation continues, Duchak said.
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The head of the Executive Branch, one of the three branches of the federal government.
The U.S. Constitution sets relatively strict requirements about who may serve as president and for how long. Under Article II, only a natural-born citizen of the United States is eligible to serve as president; a person born outside the United States, even if he later becomes a citizen, may not serve. In addition, a person must be at least 35 years old to become president and must have resided in the United States for at least 14 years. Under the Twenty-Second Amendment, which was added to the Constitution in 1951, no person may serve as president for more than two four-year terms. The amendment further provides that a person who succeeds to the office for more than two years of an unexpired term (for example, because a sitting president dies or resigns) may serve for only one additional four-year term.
Article II also sets limits on the president's authority. The article provides that the president is the commander in chief of the Armed Services. As commander in chief, the president has the power to preserve the peace by governing a captured territory until Congress establishes civil authority over it; the president also may declare Martial Law, which provides for the imposition of military authority over civilians in the event of an invasion, insurrection, disaster, or similar occurrence. In addition, the president can end a war through a treaty or a presidential proclamation. The power to declare war, however, is vested exclusively in Congress and not the president. In a situation of an undeclared war, under the War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C.A. §§ 1541 et seq.) the president must consult with Congress before introducing armed forces into hostilities. Nevertheless, the practical effect of the statute is somewhat limited because it recognizes the power of the president to unilaterally deploy military forces when necessary.
As the head of the executive branch, the president executes the law but does not legislate, although he submits budgets and may propose bills to Congress. The president's legislative power is limited to approving or disapproving bills passed by Congress. If the president approves a measure, it becomes law. If he vetoes the bill, or refuses to approve it, it goes back to either the House of Representatives or to the Senate (wherever the bill first originated). If both bodies then pass the bill again by a two-thirds margin, the president's Veto has been overridden and he must sign it into law.
In 1996 Congress sought to give the president more control over the budget by passing a line-item veto law (2 U.S.C.A. § 691 [1996]). Under the law the president could veto portions of an appropriation bill while leaving the remainder of the legislation intact. Members of Congress challenged the law as an unconstitutional surrender of Article I congressional power that jeopardized the Separation of Powers, but the Supreme Court refused to hear the case until the veto was actually used. After President Clinton used the line-time veto several entities that lost federal funds because of the veto filed a federal lawsuit. The Supreme Court, in Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S.417, 118 S.Ct. 2091, 141 L.Ed.2d 393 (1998), struck down the law. The law allowed the president to effectively amend or repeal acts of Congress, but this action was not authorized by the Constitution. The only way for the president to obtain this power would be through the passage of a constitutional amendment.
The president's executive powers also include the authority to issue proclamations and executive orders. A proclamation is a general announcement of policy, whereas an Executive Order has the force and effect of law by carrying out a provision of the Constitution, a federal statute, or a treaty. For example, during World War II President franklin d. roosevelt issued an executive order confining Japanese American citizens to camps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The president has the exclusive authority to represent the United States in its relationships with governments of other countries. Through the Secretary of State and other officials, the president communicates with other nations, recognizes foreign governments, and makes agreements, including the negotiation of treaties. Treaties, however, must be approved by two-thirds of the Senate before taking effect. Executive agreements with other nations do not require Senate approval but still carry the force of law. For instance, the United States, through the president, has frequently entered into executive agreements to supply economic aid to other nations.
In domestic matters the president is advised by the cabinet, which consists of more than a dozen executive departments covering a wide range of areas, including commerce, housing, labor, and the treasury. Each department is headed by a secretary, who is responsible for its overall administration and for reporting to the president.
Should the president be unable to serve a full term, Article II and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution provide for a line of succession. If the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office through the Impeachment process, the vice president becomes the acting president. This transfer of power also occurs if the president informs both houses of Congress that he is temporarily unable to discharge the duties of president. The House of Representatives can impeach a president or indict him for Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors. If the House votes to impeach, the president is not automatically removed from office; impeachment is instead a formal charge accusing the president of a crime. The articles, or charges, of impeachment are submitted to the Senate, where the president is tried, with the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court presiding over the proceeding. A two-thirds vote in the Senate is needed for a conviction and the removal of the president from office. Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 and then was acquitted by only one vote. In 1974 the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach richard m. nixon, but he resigned from office before the entire House could vote on the matter. The House of Representatives passed a bill of impeachment against President bill clinton, but the Senate acquitted him of the charges in 1999.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the president has absolute Immunity from civil lawsuits seeking damages for presidential actions. However, the Court ruled in Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681, 117 S.Ct. 1636, 137 L.Ed.2d 945 (1997), that a sitting president does not have presidential immunity from suit over conduct unrelated to his official duties. The holding came in a civil suit brought by Paula Corbin Jones against President Clinton. Jones's suit was based on conduct alleged to have occurred while Clinton was governor of Arkansas. Clinton had sought to postpone the lawsuit until after he left office.
The Court stated that it had never suggested that the president or any other public official has an immunity that "extends beyond the scope of any action taken in an official capacity." The Court has based its immunity doctrine on a functional approach, extending immunity only to "acts in performance of particular functions of his office." It also rejected Clinton's claim that the courts would violate the separation of powers between the executive and judicial branches if a court heard the suit. Finally, the Court rejected the president's contention that defending the lawsuit would impose unacceptable burdens on the president's time and energy. It seemed unlikely to the Court that President Clinton would have to be occupied with the Jones lawsuit for any substantial amount of time. The Court also expressed skepticism that denying immunity to the president would generate a "deluge of such litigation." In the history of the presidency, only three other presidents had been subject to civil damage suits for actions taken prior to holding office.
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Milkis, Sidney M. 2003. The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776–2002. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
Nelson, Michael, ed. 2003. The Presidency A to Z. 3d ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
Will, George F., and George R. Stephanopoulos. 2001. "The Power of the Presidency." Northern Kentucky Law Review 28 (summer).
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Observing themselves for evidence of �looking,� talking, walking, dressing, or gesturing like someone who is either gay or straight. Compulsively reviewing and analyzing past interactions with other men or women to see if they have acted like a gay or straight person. how to ask a younger girl out in high school The world today is a far more welcoming place for gay teens than it was a couple of generations - or even a couple of decades - ago. But it is still very difficult.
There really is no for sure way to tell if someone is gay/bi. Sometimes watching to see what gender of people they look at that walk by could help. Really the only way to know for sure is to just tell him. If he says he's not, don't feel bad. It's the same rejection everyone has dealt with. The only thing you can do wrong is to not tell him how you feel.
10/04/2010�� but if you do ask in private, and the person is a friend of urs it may not be as offending, but definitely not in public because if someone is in closet, the last thing they want is to have their sexuality exposed in the spotlight. so be discreet! and since this society is currently straight-dominated and the LGBT group lacks many rights, i guess you can proudly say ur straight.
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Pelosi Says GOP Condescends to Jobless By Plan to Trim Benefits
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Republican lawmakers and the White House are engaging in "condescension" when they suggest a $600-per-week federal unemployment enhancement is too high and should be scaled back or ended.
Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke on ABC's "This Week" about progress toward a new coronavirus stimulus package, at a time enhanced jobless benefits for millions of Americans has just expired.
Many Republicans have said that the emergency payment started in March is a financial disincentive for Americans to return to work, since some people can make more money by not working, and is disrupting labor markets.
Pelosi said that's not supported by "data" but possibly by a few anecdotal cases. She allowed that at some point, supplemental unemployment payments could be pegged to the jobless rate — but not in the relief package now being negotiated.
"It's condescension, quite frankly, because they're saying, [people] really don't need it; they're just staying home because they make more money at $600," Pelosi said.
Democrats are "unified in our support for the $600," but Pelosi said Republicans "put on the floor a $200 proposal," which she said does not meet the needs of the American families.
Mnuchin said the administration proposed a one-week extension of the $600 as a bridge to a longer-term solution, and that he was "surprised" Democrats didn't agree to that.
But he said there's "no question" the $600 a week extra payment can be a disincentive for workers.
He also said the U.S. must be careful about piling up "enormous" amounts of debt with new stimulus measures, days after Fitch Ratingsrevised its outlook on U.S. credit score to negative from stable.
Mnuchin, Pelosi, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer met for three hours on Saturday. They're attempting to close the gulf between the $3.5 trillion virus relief package that Democrats passed in the House two month ago and the $1 trillion plan Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled last week.
Extra weekly aid for as many as 30 million jobless Americans has run out and the economy is sagging with a new surge of Covid-19 cases forcing many states to roll back reopening plans.
The most pressing issue in the talks is about extra federal unemployment benefits of $600 a week that ran out as of Friday, leaving millions of out-of-work Americans without an additional safety net at a time when the jobs market is still depressed. In addition, a moratorium on evictions expired July 24.
Democrats have rebuffed proposals from the Trump administration to extend lapsing supplemental unemployment benefits and the eviction moratorium temporarily while work on a broader package continues.
Hours after Saturday's meeting was termed productive, Trump weighed in cryptically on the negotiations, tweeting "Payroll Tax Cut plus Dollars!"
A payroll tax holiday was one of Trump's initial demands, but the idea had almost no support from lawmakers in both parties and was quickly dropped in the talks.
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Q: How do you do Impersonation in .NET with IIS context? I used to run an own app in an IIS ApplicationPool which needs to have access to a forgein server to access files. (Remote load and copy local files to deliver over the net)
My approach was to
If LogonUser(m_username, m_domain, m_password, LOGINTYPE, LOGON32_TYPE_NEW_CREDENTIALS, windowsToken) <> 0 Then
...

To switch / widen uer rights to remote server. And start copying files.
This works as long as I am running it in a debugger / self hosting exe.
Whenever I try to deploy the dlls to IIS and run it there I have again no access to the remote file server.
I also played with the different other LOGIN-Types (NETWORK,BATCH..) but then a new problem rises: I have access to remote server, but no access to own local machine. (Remote user has no local rights).
Has anyone an idea? My be this a IIS specific issue?

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A quick update on my writing progress. With the holidays over (Christmas in Ireland pretty much runs for 30 days and requires another fortnight for me to recover and catch up), I am happily back at it. To my surprise, I have found myself suddenly making a pretty good start on a first draft of a sequel to Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead. After much idea-chewing over a long period of time, the story and the characters have at last settled into something I can get really interested in, and I'm now pretty movitated to put it all down on virtual paper. So, in answer to the question that I get most often about Max & Carly, yes, the next (actually third) book will be a sequel to the youthful exploits of Dallas Green. Of course, before I get too caught up in that writing project, I really need to go back to editing and polishing the second book (the sword and sorcery one). Anyway, this is definitely the time of year to try to get these things done.
During this seemingly interminable period between the actual publishing of books, I take vicarious satisfaction in the publishing being done by other people—like my friend Claes.
My acquaintance with Claes was born out of the moment I entered the Egyptian Theatre in Seattle in 1987 for one of 68 screenings I attended during the twelth Seattle International Film Festival. I didn't actually meet Claes way back then. But I wrote something that would eventually find its way onto the world wide web (once the world wide web had finally been invented) and would consequently draw him to me. It was a three-hour Finnish war movie called Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, in English), and I took on a typical (for me) tongue-in-cheek tone in reviewing it. Thirteen years after I had written that review, Claes emailed me to take me to task. And he was in a good position to do so because he wrote the book on Finland during World War II. And I mean that literally.
His 272-page hardcover book Hitler's Nordic Ally?: Finland and the Total War 1939-1945 will be released on February 28 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. The book is in English, which is worth mentioning because Claes has written quite a few books (both fiction and non-fiction), and not all of them are in English. Some of them are in Danish. Two of his English-language books, which I have read and enjoyed, were fairly definitive biographies of two seminal 1960s English rock bands: The Zombies: Hung Up on a Dream and Procol Harum: Beyond The Pale. Something else he wrote in English was a very good radio drama called Sam and the Animal Man, which was aired two years ago on RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster, and which can be streamed from RTÉ's web site.
When Claes and I first began corresponding, he thought (logically enough) that I was in the U.S. and I assumed that he was in Denmark. Imagine our mutual surprise when we finally realized that we were both in Ireland and that fewer than 300 kilometers separated us.
It sounds as though I might get the chance to read and write about his book in advance of its release. (Stay tuned.) Already being familiar with Claes's writing, I am sure it will be a good read. Moreover, it will bring my very glancing acquaintance with Finland's World War II experience full circle—more 28 years after I wandered into a Seattle cinema to see a three-hour Finnish war movie.


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Daniel Esteban Pedrozo Martínez (born 19 March 2004) is a Colombian footballer currently playing as a defender for Real Cartagena.

Club career
Born in Bucaramanga, Pedrozo began his career with amateur side Independiente Santander, joining at the age of eight. He stayed with Independiente until the age of fourteen, and spent 2019 with Belén La Nubia Arco Zaragoza in Medellín. In January 2020, he signed with professional side Real Cartagena and was immediately integrated into the first team at the age of fifteen.

In early 2023, he was subject of a bid from an unnamed club from the United Arab Emirates.

International career
Pedrozo represented Colombia at the 2023 South American U-20 Championship, where he was one of Colombia's best players during the tournament.

Career statistics

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References

2004 births
Living people
People from Bucaramanga
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Categoría Primera B players
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Brian K. Horton (born March 23, 1970) is an American geologist, currently the Alexander Deussen Professor of Energy Resources at the Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin.
He studies sedimentary geology and tectonics, with emphasis on foreland basins and fold and thrust belts.  His research addresses nonmarine depositional systems (including fluvial megafans), sediment provenance, river catchment evolution, and mountain building along convergent plate margins (including the Tibetan Plateau, Zagros Mountains, and North American Cordillera), with a focus on the evolution of the Andes Mountains and Amazon Basin.  Horton received the Geological Society of America Donath Medal (Young Scientist Award) in 2004, an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship in 2005-2006, and the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) William R. Dickinson Medal in 2018. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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1970 births
Living people
University of Texas at Austin faculty
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Louisiana State University faculty
University of Arizona alumni
Montana State University alumni
University of New Mexico alumni
21st-century American geologists
Fellows of the Geological Society of America


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In case the employer really wishes to hire you, he might return with a counteroffer. With the economy back on the right track, employers are more inclined to earn a work offer today than they were several years back. You're able to inform the possible employers about your existing requirements and the degree of flexibility you desire when you update them about your choice to never take the job.


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A Noble Treason
The Story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Revolt Against Hitler
By: Richard Hanser
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History > World War II
Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans were handsome, bright university students in 1942 Germany. As members of the Hitler Youth, they had once been enthusiastic supporters of the German renewal promised by National Socialism. But as their realization of Nazi barbarism grew, so did their moral outrage.
Hans and Sophie formed a small group of like-minded friends, which initially included two medical students, a student of philosophy, and a fifty-year-old professor. They self-identified as Christians from various traditions-Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox-and they called themselves the White Rose. In a darkened studio lent them by an artist, they printed eloquent anti-Nazi leaflets, which they ingeniously spread throughout Germany.
A Noble Treason tells the true story of this underground group at the University of Munich that instigated, organized, and carried out the first overt resistance to Hitler's regime. What gives A Noble Treason its unforgettable and inspiring quality is the personality, character, and courage of the White Rose members, as they resisted the pull of wartime patriotism and overcame their fear of the terrible price they would pay for their dissidence.
The story of the White Rose is one of faith-inspired idealism in deadly conflict with ideological tyranny. Its theme is the ultimate victory of that idealism despite its bloody-and seemingly final-destruction by the state.
Richard Hanser
Richard Hanser served as a psychological warfare specialist in Europe during World War II. He was a reporter and feature writer for newspapers in Buffalo, Cleveland and New York before the war. Afterward he wrote for documentary films and authored several books.
"I thought I knew the story of the White Rose pretty well, but Richard Hanser provides detail, context, and insight that I have not previously encountered. A Noble Treason is an exciting read and a tribute worthy of the defiance and the sacrifices made by those students at the University of Munich when they were under the thumb of Hitler's minions."
- Ronald J. Rychlak, Author, Hitler, the War, and the Pope
"This vivid account gives witness to the true spirit of man. One can only marvel at the patience, ingenuity and determination of these students as they pit themselves against Hitler and his Third Reich. Undeterred by the price to be paid if they were caught, their story reminds us of what true courage is and of our responsibility to do what is right...despite the odds."
- Kurt von Schuschnigg, Author, When Hitler Took Austria
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By: Maria Faustina Kowalska
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Your IT Consultant is Highly Familiar with Protocols.
C-3PO's main function is to be familiar with procedures, rules, and systems. His job is to serve, and – while he may do it with some apprehension at times – he always gets his job done and stays loyal to his master. When you find a great IT consultant, they are there to know the protocols and inner workings of your network, and they get the job done, regardless of duress.
Your IT Consultant Can Translate Data into Words You Can Understand.
One of C-3PO's most valuable functions throughout the entire Star Wars saga has been his ability to serve as a communication device when all parties don't speak the same language. Can you imagine how boring the films would have been if Threepio couldn't understand R2-D2's beeps and blips? Now imagine how ineffective an IT consultant would be if he couldn't explain exactly what was going on in your network in terms you can understand.
Your IT Consultant is Here for the Long Haul.
Of all the characters in the Star Wars saga, only two have appeared in every episode: Artoo and Threepio. Why, you may ask? We think it's loyalty. C-3PO and R2-D2 enjoy a great symbiosis, but they cannot exist alone. When they find people with whom they can work with to mutual benefit, they stay for good. In fact, each time R2-D2 goes off on an "adventure" by himself, it's C-3PO who chastises him and insists he return to where he's needed. A fantastic IT consultant doesn't just want to work with you for a month or even a year, they want to be with you for the long haul – advising you and helping you out of tight situations all the way. That's the way it should be.


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Q: How do I run a Java Service Wrapper based application on startup I want to be able to run Sonatype Nexus as a service on the Mac. It comes with the Java Service Wrapper start scripts for the mac so I basically have a shell script that can start the server.
I believe I have to add some sort of setup to /etc/launchd.conf and maybe use launchctl. All documentation I found points to plist files though but I don't have such a file for Nexus.

A: The preferred way to start services on OS X is with launchd.  Basically, you create a .plist file that describes what needs to be run, and when, and put the file in /Library/LaunchDaemons.  The tricky thing is that launchd expects to be able to monitor the daemon, so it doesn't like things that drop into the background; if I understand nexus right, that means running it in console mode rather than "start"ing it as you would on most systems.  I think this is about what you'll need to have in the file (you may need to adjust the path to the executable):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.sonatype.nexus</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/nexus/bin/jsw/macosx-universal-32/nexus</string>
        <string>console</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Save that as /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.sonatype.nexus.plist, set the ownership to root:wheel and permissions to 644.  To activate it, either reboot or run the command sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.sonatype.nexus.plist.


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Q: finding files with missing or old signatures To update signatures in /boot I'd like to use find (GNU findutils) 4.6.0.
I know I can just loop and check if the signature matches with gpg, but I'd like to know how to use find with -newer in the same directory and use the currently matched pattern somehow to test if file.img is not newer than file.img.sig. Can this be easily done?
i.e. something like:
sigs=(`find /boot -type f -iname '*.sig'`)
for sig in ${sigs[@]}; do
  file=${sig%*.sig}
  find /boot -type f -name "$file" -newer /boot -type f -name "$sig"
done

A: Loops with find results can often be replaced by find -exec:
Try something like this,
find /boot -type f -iname '*.sig' \
    -exec sh -c 'find /boot -name "${1%.sig} -newer "$1"' sh {} \;


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Entertainment and Celebrity News
ENTERTAINMENT: John Lloyd Cruz Takes a Break from Showbiz
By Ashley Lucas
John Lloyd Cruz was recently thrown into the harsh spotlight following his recent escapades with Ellen Adarna. Now, he has made a heartbreaking decision to take a break from showbiz.
Below is the full statement from ABS-CBN:
"ABS-CBN and John Lloyd Cruz have agreed for him to take an indefinite leave of absence to attend to personal matters.
"John Lloyd will be taking a break outside the country and will return to ABS-CBN after his leave of absence."
There were no specific details given as to what brought about this sudden announcement, but the decision is said to be based on mutual agreement, with Cruz and his management ABS-CBN conforming to allow the actor to leave the entertainment industry for an indefinite time.
Do you agree with John Lloyd's decision? Let us know your thoughts!
Ashley Lucas
A twenty-something thinker, reader, and wanderer with a four-year degree in Journalism. She actively writes for a number of publications here and there, covering lifestyle and technology. If you don't see her behind a laptop, she's most likely out in the ocean, watching the sun come up.
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Why I'm Pissed Off This Week: Steve Nash for MVP
That's right, pretty boy: I'm calling you out!
You know, I had intended to start this column a couple of weeks ago. The fact I didn't is the truest sign yet that the Sonics are off to a fantastic start, inasmuch as the grumpiest 32-year-old you'll ever meet could not find a stitch to criticize in the jersey that is this season.
Well, let me commence this week's epistle with a quote from our friend Eric Neel at espn.com: "You can be a wiry, hang-dog, thirty-something, 6-foot-3 point and be the center of the basketball world." Neel is referring to, of course, the Suns' erstwhile guard, Steve Nash.
I assume that, like me, you're still laughing at the absurdity of that comment. Perhaps you need a moment to collect yourself. I suggest grabbing an immovable object, such as a table, or Vitaly Potapenko.
Now that we've all gathered ourselves, let's dissect this argument. Does Neel truly expect us to believe that Steve Nash, a player who isn't even the second-best player on his team, deserves to have his name on the same award as Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan? Does he think we're that idiotic?
Yes, he does.
Why does this tick me off? For two reasons. One, it's a stupid assertion made by a ridiculous columnist who is either naïve enough to believe his own nonsense or so eager to draw in readers that he'll make outrageously brainless claims.
Two, it speaks to an element of our society that I detest like a gardener detests weeds. It's the idea of flaunting your intelligence by supporting an unheralded person or idea. Cheering for Steve Nash is akin to saying you like reading Kerouac, or listening to the Velvet Underground. Since nobody you'll talk to will be able to call you on your arguments, you're home scot-free, the resident insider into what's truly "in."
Well, in this case, Neel has gone too far.
Let me be blunt. I hate Steve Nash. No, I've never met the man, and I'm sure he's a nice enough guy, but why I hate him has nothing to do with Nash the person. What I hate is white sportswriters fawning over him as if he carries the Da Vinci Code for decrypting exciting basketball. Add in the fact that he's a Canadian and I live in Canada, and you can imagine how much Nash crap I have to hear every day.
I'll admit that Nash is a fine player. In fact, he's one of the five best point guards in the NBA. But that doesn't make him any more of an MVP candidate than Gilbert Arenas.
Let's face it. Nash went to a team with two bona-fide all-stars in residence, a shooting guard who is capable of scoring 20 points a game (Joe Johnson), and another shooting guard (Quentin Richardson) who is a rising talent. Did the Suns really need Steve Nash to make the playoffs this season?
Yes, the Suns are markedly better. But why does Nash get all of the credit and Q gets none? After all, Q plays more minutes (36 to 34). Doesn't this mean he has had more of an impact than Nash, or at least as much?
Fine, Nash is more valuable than Q. But is he more valuable than Shawn Marion, a guy averaging 20 ppg, 12 boards, 2.2 blocks, and more than a 3 per game? Surely Nash isn't more important than Amare Stoudemire, who's at 26 ppg, with 9 boards and two blocks.
If you don't believe me, listen to the stathead websites. Over at dougstats.com, the site's author uses a complicated method he terms MyTendex to evaluate players based upon their overall contribution to the team. Where does Nash rank on the Suns?
Third, behind Stoudemire and Marion.
How about Points Above Replacement (PAR), which tracks how many points a particular player produces above and beyond what a replacement level player would contribute. In the offensive side of the equation, guess where Nash ranks in the NBA?
Ninth, behind, among others, Marion and Stoudemire.
Look, Nash is a neat player who hustles and throws cute passes and likes to flick his hair. So what? The bottom line is this: If you're an NBA GM, and you're allowed to sign any player in the league for this season only, with money as no object, how long before Steve Nash's name comes up?
Let's try one final example. Listed below are the stat lines from two NBA players for this season:
.....Min.....ppg.....apg....to/g...3pm...ftm...st/g...reb
A....34.0....15.6....11.0.....3.1.....29.....52....1.0....3.3
B....38.6....19.8.....8.6.....3.0.....33....103....1.5....3.0
Player A is the "MVP."
Player B? Stephon Marbury.
Game Night #28 : Charlotte Bobcats
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Game Night #26: Utah Jazz
Why I'm (Not) Pissed Off This Week: Christmas Wishes
Seatown in Nine-Tre
Sick Sonics blow out Nuggets, 98-83
Game Night # 25: Denver Nuggets
Viva la Sonics!
Phoenix Phallout
Game Night # 24: Phoenix Suns
Ibrahim Kutluay: Behind the Music
Sonics lick Lakers, 108-93
Game Night # 22
Talking in L.A.
Gary and Celts school Sonics, 98-84
Supersonicsoul at the Key tonight!
Game Night #21
Sonic Nation
Sonics dump Dallas, 107-102
Ehlo is Mint!
Sonics smack Spurs, 102-96
What do you want for Christmas?
What the duck?
Sonics bag Blazers, 99-89
Game Night #18: Blazers
Antonio Daniels: 24/7
New Alt. Uni Poll
Don't call it a comeback: Sonics top Utah in OT
Game Night #17: Utah
Fortson: Friend or Foe?
Sonics slip in Portland, 100-94