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She is currently starring in pantomime as a Wicked Fairy.
And Katie Price has ensured her kids are involved in all the festive fun - as illustrated on Sunday when she headed to the New Victoria Theatre in Woking with her sons Harvey and Junior.
The 37-year-old glamour model looked chilled out in a comfy onesie and blingy boots as she escorted Harvey, 13, and 10-year-old Junior into the playhouse.
Katie looked the picture of comfort in her wine-hued onesie, featuring a drop-waisted tie, which pulled around her slender hips, while the legs were loose-fitting.
Never one to stray too far from bling, the stunning model-turned-entrepreneur wore an incredibly embellished pair of Ugg-style boots with a host of multi-coloured jewels scattered across in a pretty pattern.
Brighton-born Katie, who is also mother to Princess, eight, Jett, two and Bunny, one, scraped her blonde locks into a messy bun while shielding her make-up free face with a pair of over-sized sunglasses.
Harvey, Katie's son from her relationship with football ace Dwight York, looked comfy in a khaki jumper and grey tracksuit bottoms.
He clutched an iPad as he walked along, no doubt a utensil to stay entertained as his mum prepared to tread the boards.
Harvey's outfit coordinated with his brother's look, although Junior, whose father is Katie's ex-husband Peter Andre, although he was rocking a navy jumper.
Proud mum: In one adorable shot, the stunning model posed alongside her two boys while adding the caption: 'With my gorgeous boys at Panto today'.
Social media lover Katie documented her sons' trip to work in a series on Instagram posts.
She also shared a cute video showing Harvey, who suffers from Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), running across the stage with his little brother.
Katie is heard in the video asking Harvey if he will sing the chorus of Christmas classic Jingle Bells which he delightedly does.
She added a caption of the video reading: 'Harvey having fun with Junior love my boys'.
Later in the night, the trio were seen departing the theatre looking in great spirits.
Katie had transformed from make-up free to her heavy, stage cosmetics - looking just as stunning with both fashions.
While Harvey stayed in his khaki jumper and tracksuit bottoms, Junior removed his seasonally appropriate jumper and transformed into a light T-shirt.
While Katie appears not to have a care in the world while larking around with her boys, she has hit headlines this week after sharing images of her daughter Princess wearing make-up.
Katie faced criticism regarding eight-year-old Princess' appearance over the past week after two images of the heavily made-up girl were posted on Instagram.
The hard-working mum took to the photo-sharing site to share an image of her daughter to her 798k followers, captioned: 'Here she goes again'.
In the picture, Princess looks almost doll-like wearing heavy make-up, including lashings of mascara, blusher and pink lipgloss.
Some fans were not supportive, taking to the comments section of her Instagram to vent their views.
One wrote: 'how is it normal to put make up on a young girl ? her skin is only developing she's only a young one ! no need for it atal' [sic].
Another wrote: 'There's putting make-up on and then there's this! fair enough they like to try it but am I the only one that reckons this is just too far?! I would never allow my 8 year old to go out like this' [sic].
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Live the jet-set lifestyle with your friends and hire a private island for as little as $50 per person per night. Olhahali is one of the few destinations in the country that can be booked for a guest's exclusive use, and offers a Robinson-Crusoe-type experience.
To get there you will of course need to charter a speed-boat first as the island is outside of the Malé atoll. Take your own barbeque and hammock and experience a night under the stars on this tiny speck in the ocean – just 285 metres in length and 60 metres wide.
Many resorts in the Maldives are under occupied, especially in the low season (April to October). With this in mind, it is more than possible to negotiate day-use of the resorts – even to blag a good deal for an overnight visit at competitive rates. Depending on the resort, they can arrange transfers from the capital and entertainment and activities at a fraction of the price you pay for a packaged holiday.
A day-time trip to a desert island is an experience of its own. The raw, unspoilt vegetation surrounded by pearly white beaches and dazzling azure waters is like a waking dream; everything feels imagined, and you are the only person in this beautiful universe.
A chartered, liveaboard boat in Male will take you to inhabited and uninhabited islands in the atoll. This can also be achieved for a fraction of the cost through day tours organised by local tour operators and independent travel agents, like Surf In the Maldives.
Some of the larger inhabited islands operate organised inter-ferry transfers between Male. The local islands of Hulhumale and Villingili have their own ferry terminals at opposite ends of the island. It is also possible to hop on a sea ferry to the inhabited islands of Thulusdhoo and Himmafushi, which are close to famous surf breaks, Cokes and Sultans respectively. The little-publicised ferry service operates every other day, so you will need to stay at a guest house and arrange a boat to the surf points.
Addu – an hour's flight from Male Ibrahim Nasir Airport – is easily the most backpacker-friendly atoll in the Maldives. It is the only place in the archipelago where it's possible to explore multiple islands by bicycle and encounter local life as it is linked by a causeway, built by the British.
Take a ferry from Feydhoo to the ancient villages of Hulhudoo and Meedhoo in the north. Alternatively take a speedboat to the one-island atoll of Fuvahmulah – boasting the one and only beach break in the Maldives. Discover an amazing beach and verdant interior with Buddhist relics and still-water inland lakes. It is simply unique. Regular speedboats depart from Feydhoo harbour, Addu Atoll.


Jacksonville, North Carolina, was settled because of its prime location at the head of the New River. It soon became a center of production for naval stores, especially turpentine, and a courthouse was built at Wantland's Ferry nearby. Products shipped up and down the river became the mainstays of the local economy. It was not until 1842 that Jacksonville was officially chartered, and the city was not even laid out until 1849. The town of Jacksonville had its major period of growth after the federal government decided to locate Camp Lejeune in Onslow County in 1940. Within a few days, the population of Jacksonville doubled as hundreds of workers came to the area to work on defense projects for World War II. Property values went up and some buildings in the town were taken over by the Navy. Even though the Jewish population spiked around the same time, the first Jews came to Jacksonville even before World War I.
1948 dedication of Camp LeJeune's Jewish Chapel.
It's unclear whether there were Jews in Jacksonville during the 19th century, but by 1920, there was at least one Jewish family living in town. The Max Margolis family moved to Jacksonville in 1912. He and his wife, Fannie, emigrated from Russia in 1903 and had four children: Maurice, Isaac, Bessie, and Lon. Max opened a dry goods store in Jacksonville. Not until World War II and the construction of Camp Lejeune did enough Jews settle in Jacksonville to establish a community.
At first, some Jews traveled to Wilmington, North Carolina, to attend synagogue. Eventually, enough Jewish men lived in Jacksonville that they were able to get together for a minyan, but it was the influence of a unique circuit riding rabbi program that led to the organization of a congregation. In 1953, prominent Charlotte businessman I.D. Blumenthal established a traveling rabbi program to serve the small Jewish communities of the Carolinas under the sponsorship of the North Carolina Association of Jewish Men and Women. Rabbi Harold Friedman, who traveled in a bus outfitted as a sanctuary, began a circuit composed of ten communities in North Carolina, including Jacksonville. Rabbi Friedman would travel from place to place and conduct services on the bus, which had its own Torah and eternal light. Friedman encouraged the small Jewish communities he served to establish formal congregations. During a 1954 visit to Jacksonville, Friedman convinced local Jews to organize as a Conservative congregation. On June 17th, 1955, the State of North Carolina granted a Certificate of Incorporation to the Jacksonville Hebrew Congregation B'nai Mordecai.
The 18 founding families of the congregation included: Milton Adler, T. Feldstein family, Sam Fleishman, Will Fleishman, Lester Gould family, Robert Kalet family, Louis Katzin family, M. Katzin family, Sam Leder family, Margolis family, Izzy Messenger family, Jack Peck family, Jerry Popkin family, Ben Schwartz family, Julius Segerman family, Leonard Suls family, Morris Trachtenberg family, and Martin Turem family. Jack Peck was the first president of the congregation.
Like most of the congregation's founders, Peck had moved to Jacksonville during the war. Born in New York, Peck lived in Greensboro briefly with his wife Edith before moving to Jacksonville in 1942. At first, the Pecks lived with Max and Fannie Margolis. Not long after arriving, Peck purchased the J.P. Scott restaurant, also called Scott's café. Peck operated the restaurant from 1942 until 1947, when he and Edith converted the establishment into a bakery and luncheonette. In 1962, they moved the business to the New River Shopping Center. The Peck's business remained there until 1975 when Jack sold it and retired. Peck was involved in several fraternal organizations, including the Shriners, Masons, and B'nai B'rith, and was an officer at the Jacksonville Country Club.
One of the more colorful Jews in Jacksonville was Jerry Popkin. Born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey, Popkin moved to North Carolina in 1941 at the age of 18. At first, he found a job cleaning outhouses at the former Army base, Camp Davis in Onslow County. After Camp Davis was closed by the army, Popkin took over a grocery store and brought in two of his brothers as partners. From there, the Popkins went into the furniture business, buying furniture in Wilmington and getting paid to deliver it to Onslow County residents who could not make the trip. Eventually, they had five furniture stores in the county. After World War II, Popkin made a great deal of money in the battery business. He would travel to other cities, mostly in Florida, and buy car batteries to sell to dealers in North Carolina. Jerry and his brothers also put WLAS on the air in Onslow County in 1954, launching themselves into the broadcasting business.
In 1976, Jerry Popkin ran for the North Carolina State Senate, beating the incumbent Senator, Billy Mills, whom he accused of losing touch with his constituents. A self-styled populist, Popkin made quite an impression at the state capitol when he arrived in a chauffeur-driven Lincoln Continental limousine. Popkin was known for his charity in Onslow County, donating to 118 local churches in one year. Despite his lavish lifestyle, Popkin claimed he was not millionaire, "I just want to live like one. I don't want to be one. We spend everything we make." After his death, a bridge in Jacksonville was named after him.
Congregation B'nai Mordecai conducted services in English and Hebrew in a variety of different locations. At first, services were held in the rooms above Jack Peck's bakery. Later on, they were held in rooms above Leder Department store, and, then, in the Katzin Building. Eventually, it was decided that a more suitable location was necessary. At a meeting on February 10, 1955, the congregation agreed to build a synagogue and Jerry Popkin donated a portion of land for the project. They held a fundraiser at a Hadassah installation dinner and ground was broken in September of 1956. The synagogue was completed around 1957 with the help of I.D. Blumenthals of Charlotte. At the time of the building dedication, there were about 32 member families.
Unfortunately, the Jewish community grew older as many of the children raised in Jacksonville moved away. In the early 1990s, the synagogue building was returned to the Blumenthal family, who sold it to an African American church. Although they no longer have a synagogue, there are still Jews living in Jacksonville today. They meet for services at the Camp Lejeune Jewish Chapel. The camp does not have a full-time rabbi, but a visiting rabbi conducts services at Lejeune once a month, and a lay leader conducts services at the chapel when the rabbi is not there.


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Government pork is alive and well
By Tom Schatz - 04/13/16 09:00 AM EDT
Pork-barrel spending is alive and well in Washington, despite claims to the contrary. For the fourth time since Congress enacted an earmark moratorium that began in fiscal year 2011, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has unearthed earmarks in the appropriations bills.
The "2016 Congressional Pig Book" exposes 123 earmarks in fiscal 2016, an increase of 17.1 percent from the 105 in fiscal 2015. The cost of earmarks in fiscal 2016 is $5.1 billion, an increase of 21.4 percent from the $4.2 billion in fiscal 2015. While the increase in cost over one year is disconcerting, the two-year rise of 88.9 percent over the $2.7 billion in fiscal 2014 is downright disturbing.
In each of the years following the establishment of the moratorium, there have been fewer earmarks than in the peak years, but far more money was spent on average for each earmark and no detailed description was provided. For instance, legislators added 15 earmarks costing $549.6 million for the fiscal 2016 Army Corps of Engineers in the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. These earmarks correspond to 482 earmarks costing $541.7 million in fiscal 2010.
In other words, the average dollar amount for the Corps earmarks in fiscal 2016 was $36.6 million compared to $1.1 billion in fiscal 2010. The "Congressionally Directed Spending" section at the end of the fiscal 2010 bill contained the names of the members of Congress requesting each project and its location, as required by the transparency rules. In stark contrast, the fiscal 2016 earmarks, which cost $7.9 million more than the fiscal 2010 projects, contained no such data and simply created a pool of money to be distributed at a later date without any specific information about the eventual recipients.
Members of Congress will argue that their standards differ from the earmark criteria used in the "Pig Book," and that the appropriations bills are earmark-free according to their definition. However, the difference in the definition of earmarks between CAGW and Congress has existed since the first "Pig Book" in 1991. The pork-free claim can also be challenged based on the inclusion of projects that have appeared in past appropriations bills as earmarks.
The earmarks in the appropriations bills enacted since the initiation of the moratorium raise disturbing questions for the future, particularly because representatives and senators from both sides of the aisle continue to clamor for their revival.
One of the most frequently used arguments in favor of earmarks is that they would help pass certain spending bills. In the past, however, members have voted for excessively expensive legislation because they have received a few earmarks, which means the moratorium has helped restrain spending. A return to rampant earmarking would inevitably increase the risk of corruption and the potential for an explosion in expenditures compared to current levels.
There are also concerns regarding which legislators benefit most in a system with openly incorporated earmarks. As Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainThe peculiar priorities of Adam Schiff Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Lindsey Graham: 'Graham wants to bring back 1950s McCarthyism' Meghan McCain knocks Lindsey Graham for defending Trump's tweets: 'This is not the person I used to know' MORE (R-Ariz.) explained on May 7, 2014, regarding those making the case for a return to earmarks: "The problem with all their arguments is: The more powerful you are, the more likely it is you get the earmark in. Therefore, it is a corrupt system."
Earmarks create a few winners (appropriators, special interests and lobbyists) and a great many losers (taxpayers). They contribute to the deficit directly, by tacking on extra funding, and indirectly, by attracting votes to costly legislation that might not otherwise pass. Earmarks corrupt democracy by eclipsing more important matters in the minds of legislators and voters.
The latest installment of CAGW's 24-year expose of pork-barrel spending includes $40 million to upgrade the M1 Abrams tank, which is opposed by the Pentagon; $8 million for the aquatic plant control program; $5.9 million for the East-West Center, an earmark championed by Senate Appropriations Committee member Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii); and $5 million for the Maritime Guaranteed Loan (Title XI) account, a program with a remarkably long and sordid history.
The 2016 pork is the latest addition to the total of 110,442 earmarks since CAGW released the first "Congressional Pig Book" in 1991. The cost to taxpayers has now reached $323 billion. The publication of the "2016 Congressional Pig Book" is the latest reminder that earmarks should be permanently banned.
Schatz is the president of Citizens Against Government Waste.
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Happy Birthday Toms River! You're invited to the big celebration Saturday
Vin Ebenau Published: June 23, 2017
Happy 250th Birthday Toms River! In the second installment of our two-part series examining Toms River's impact on the Revolutionary War, we look closer as to how Huddy Park got its name.
Township Historian Mark Mutter explains that on June 24, 1767 Toms River became an official town.
"That is the day that the Royal Assembly of New Jersey passed the act that created our township," said Mutter.
Flash forward 15-years later, where a surprise attack by British Forces in March of 1782 resulted in Nine American Patriot casualties from hand-to-hand combat, and the British also overtook the blockhouse, burned the village of Toms River to the ground and captured its defender and hero, Joshua Huddy.
That's where the name of the park comes from, Joshua Huddy, an American Patriot sent to Toms River at the request of its residents who feared an attack by the British and asked our first Governor William Livingston to send down Huddy.
He came down in February of 1782 to take command of the blockhouse at the time being watched by volunteers.
Huddy Park was purchased by the township in 1905 following a voter referendum and was named in honor of its hero.
Mutter explains that now, in 2017, following recent renovations to the park which it needed following Superstorm Sandy resulted in something breathtaking.
"We're going to re-open the park and remember what Huddy and those American Patriots did at the end of the Revolutionary War," said Mutter.
He adds the soldiers silhouettes you see guarding the entrance to the park were the brain child of high school students who drew up the idea and, "presented it to our historic commission a couple years ago and our engineers in the town like it a lot," said Mutter.
He says the ideas for the new Huddy Park weren't just developed by town officials by the very people who call Toms River home.
"It was a very interesting connection of younger people and older people making the park become what we see today come together," said Mutter.
What do you do when it's someone's birthday? Celebrate!
Toms River will be doing just that and you're all invited to attend and help them celebrate 250 years at Huddy Park, which Mutter says has become the heart and soul of the township.
"Through the course of the twentieth century so many community events have been held here, even people getting married here," said Mutter.
The Birthday bash begins with a ceremony in Huddy Park at 11 am and will include music for the Old Barracks Fife and Drum Corp, the Joshua Huddy Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and you'll get to sign the township charter.
Following the ceremony there will be a food truck festival at 12-noon on Washington Street in Toms River which also includes a beer garden and children's activities.
Proceeds will benefit the Toms River PBA and Volunteer Fire Companies.
Filed Under: Huddy Park, Joshua Huddy, Mark Mutter, Revolutionary War, Toms River, Toms River Township
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Nurse Sherri (1978)
Rating: ★
aka Beyond the Living; Hospital of Terror; Terror Hospital
USA. 1978.
Director/Based on an Idea by Al Adamson, Screenplay – Michael Bockman & Greg Tittinger, Producer – Mark Sherwood, Photography – Roger Michaels, Visual Effects – Bob LeBar. Production Company – Independent-International Pictures Corp..
Jill Jacobson (Sherri Martin), Geoffrey Land (Dr Peter Desmond), Marilyn Joi (Tara Williams), Prentiss Moulden (Marcus Washington), Mary Kay Pass (Beth Dillon), Bill Roy (Thomas Reanhauer), J.C. Wells (Stevens), Erwin Fuller (Charlie), Clayton Foster (Dr Nelson)
Thomas Reanhauer, the leader of a small cult, collapses from a heart-attack while trying to conduct a ceremony in the desert to resurrect one of his followers. He is rushed to an L.A. hospital but dies in surgery. Afterwards, Sherri Martin, the nurse that tended him, begins to act strangely, talking in a deep voice and then going and killing people. Her boyfriend Peter Desmond, a doctor on the ward, realises that she has become possessed by Reanhauer's spirit.
Al Adamson (1929-95) is a director whose output very closely resembled that of Edward D. Wood Jr in quality. Adamson made such films as Satan's Sadists (1969), Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969), Horror of the Blood Monsters/Vampire Men of the Lost Planet (1970), Brain of Blood (1971), Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971), Blood of Ghastly Horror/The Fiend with the Electronic Brain/The Man with the Synthetic Brain/Psycho-a-Go-Go (1972), Cinderella 2000 (1977), Death Dimension (1978) and Carnival Magic (1981), as well as co-directed Dr Dracula (1980). Most of these give the impression of being films where Adamson started shooting but financing ran out and he stitched what he had together with pieces from other films and/or were scenes assembled around getting a former name star fallen on hard times to come in for a day's shooting.
Nurse Sherri is also known under several different alternate titles (as was the case with almost every one of Adamson's films). It is Adamson's contribution to the 1970s exorcism and possession cycle. This became huge after the massive box-office success of The Exorcist (1973) and for a number of years afterwards B-budget and exploitation filmmakers churned out desultory possession copies. Nurse Sherri is an oddity among these in that it defies the conventions of the genre. For one, there are no exorcism scenes and priests chanting "the power of Christ compels you." Adamson even eschews any of the shock theatrics of The Exorcist – no barfing, no levitating beds and rotating heads, no cracked face makeup. What we do get is Jill Jacobson talking in a different voice, although rather than a deep demon voice, all she gets to do is speak with a man's voice, as well as kill a couple of people with pitchforks and knives.
A possessed Nurse Sherri (Jill Jacobson)
Al Adamson makes a dull film. His pacing is lethargic and nothing much happens for large chunks of the film. He never gained the skill as a director to engage one in scenes so much as he simply points the camera in the general direction and let things play out in front of it. For no apparent reason, there is a car chase scene that takes up a stretch of the middle of the film – although it is not clear why it has been included.
The other negative point about the film is Jill Jacobson as the titular possessee where Jacobson gives a performance that resembles more a Flower Child who has wandered onto the set by accident with no real clue what she is doing there. A far more animated performance is given by Marilyn Joi as her co-worker – you cannot help but think the film would have worked a whole lot better if Joi had been allowed to take the lead role.
Director: Al Adamson
Actors: Jill Jacobson, Geoffrey Land, Marilyn Joi, Prentiss Moulden, Mary Kay Pass, Bill Roy, J.C. Wells, Erwin Fuller, Clayton Foster
Themes: Possession, Films of 1978
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Scary MoVie (2013)
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)
The Possession (2012)
Revenge of the Blood Beast (1965)
Ligeia (2009)
The Shrine (2010)


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Transportation Brief: Consumer Protection Class Actions — A New Favorite for IC Drivers
by Karen Butler Reisinger, Angela S. Cash
Recently, independent contractor drivers in Iowa, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah have obtained class certification of claims alleging deceptive practices by a motor carrier under state consumer protection statutes. Contractors argue that motor carriers deceive drivers by promising monthly miles or revenue in the recruiting process that fails to materialize.
Given the statutes' broad remedial purpose to guard against deceptive practices, when contractors present evidence they were exposed to the same promise, courts have allowed "an inference of reliance" to replace the need for traditional proof that the promise caused each contractor to sign their contract. Although this inference is subject to legal challenge, it may provide an easier path to certification and leverage to class counsel to demand a multi-million-dollar settlement. Motor carriers should carefully examine recruiting and onboarding practices and address any representations that could be interpreted as a promise of a contractor's future income.
Scopelitis' Transportation Brief® is intended as a report to our clients and friends on developments affecting the transportation industry. The published material does not constitute an exhaustive legal study and should not be regarded or relied upon as individual legal advice or opinion.
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Transportation Brief: AB 5 Petition Denied by U.S. Supreme Court
by Shannon M. Cohen , Gregory M. Feary , Prasad Sharma
On June 30, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court refused the California Trucking Association's (CTA) appeal to maintain an injunction prohibiting enforcement of California's AB 5 (the strict ABC worker status test used in California). On August 29, the injunction was lifted. AB 5 can now be enforced by state officials against the trucking industry. Transportation businesses may use various strategies in an effort to comply with AB 5, but much is still unclear. Read more from Scopelitis attorneys about thoughtful and informed strategies regarding AB 5.
Transportation Brief: Illinois Supreme Court Poised to Issue Key Biometric Privacy Law Rulings
by Jared Kramer
Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) is one of the nation's toughest laws regulating the collection, storage, and use of biometric identifiers. The Illinois Supreme Court is considering two cases that may have significant ramifications for companies that have potential exposure under the law. Read more about these cases and their potential impact on the industry.
Transportation Brief: Individual PAGA Claims Can be Arbitrated, But Only Where the FAA Applies
by Braden K. Core , Prasad Sharma
The U.S. Supreme Court held that California's long-standing rule prohibiting parties from agreeing to arbitrate Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). However, there are limits to the holding. Read more from Scopelitis on those limits.
Transportation Brief: Supreme Court Addresses "Transportation Worker" Exemption from the FAA
In a unanimous opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified who qualifies as a "transportation worker" for purposes of the exemption from the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). In Southwest Airlines v. Saxon, the Court held that an airline's ramp supervisor, who regularly performed loading and unloading of luggage, mail, and cargo, was exempt from the FAA. Read more about the Court's reason and how it might apply to workers.
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Freight forwarders that handle air and ocean cargo face a daunting set of legal hurdles at every turn. The Scopelitis Air and Ocean Practice helps clients navigate this often-uncertain legal environment by charting a course to success that aligns with the unique objectives of each business. Learn more about how Scopelitis attorneys help businesses with air cargo and ocean cargo issues, respectively.
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Pain can be caused by a myriad of factors and nociceptors are differentiated based on the type of stimuli that they detect. These include thermal, mechanical, and chemical. Silent pain receptors are activated when there is any inflammation or tissue injuries. Following exposure to harmful stimuli (e.g. heat, incisions that break the skin's surface, corrosive chemicals, etc.), tissues become damaged and appropriate pain receptors get activated. Electrical signals are then generated and propagated along the nerve cells to the spinal cord and the brain for processing. These pain sensations will then quickly alert the body of dangerous situations and prevent further injuries.
What is the mechanism of action of lidocaine?
Despite being an important survival mechanism, pain sensations are inconvenient side effects of medical procedures. Lidocaine is then used to effectively suppress pain and discomfort during treatment sessions. Once applied topically, xylocaine blocks the fast voltage gated sodium (Na+) channels in the nerve cells. This not only results in altered propagation of pain signals along the nerves to the brain, but it also aborts the production of pain signals in the first place. Hence, pain and discomfort are successfully suppressed temporarily.
What are the indications for xylocaine?
Local anaesthetic agent: Topical numbing products like Emla cream contain lidocaine to instantly suppress pain. These lidocaine-containing creams are usually applied before minor medical procedures (e.g. blood sampling, tattoo removal, needle insertion, hair removal, vaccination, circumcision, etc.) to ensure that patients are pain-free during the treatment session. Besides being used before minor medical procedures, some of the lidocaine-containing gels can also be applied after the treatment sessions to relieve pain and quicken wound healing.
Heart arrhythmia: This condition is marked by irregular heartbeats. Lidocaine is classified as an important class-1b antiarrhythmic drug that helps to interfere with the sodium channels in the heart to stabilise the conduction of impulses along the heart muscles. It is usually given to patients who have just had undergone defibrillation or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); xylocaine is not suitable to be used as a long-term preventive dose following a myocardial infarction episode.
Epilepsy: Lignocaine can also be used intravenously for the treatment of neonatal seizures. It is prescribed as a second line of treatment in the event where phenobarbital fails to stop neonatal seizures.
Besides the major health indications stated above, lidocaine can also be used as a cough suppressor to help reduce the cough reflex. This is usually indicated for patients who have been intubated as it helps to reduce the risk of coughing and subsequent tracheal damage. Patients affected by jellyfish stings can also be treated with a combination of lidocaine, ethanol, ammonia, and acetic acid. This concoction not only suppresses pain, it also prevents nematocyst discharge.
What are the side effects of lidocaine?
If administered accurately, lidocaine should not cause adverse health effects in patients; however, some patients have experienced the following side effects following topical application of lidocaine.
Site reactions: Rashes, burning sensation, dermatitis, redness, itchiness, and formation of vesicles.
Side effects affecting the nervous system: Headache, lightheadedness, taste alteration, somnolence, hyperesthesia, and hypoesthesia.
Side effects affecting the gastrointestinal system: Nausea and vomiting.
Some patients have also experienced allergic responses, but these reactions are quite rare. Serious side effects associated with lidocaine for anaesthesia are usually caused by inaccurate administration techniques or the pharmacologic effects of xylocaine itself. Patients must get immediate medical attention if they experience any of the side effects of lignocaine to prevent life-threatening complications.


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Focusing in on Xianbo Shi, optics specialist for the APS Upgrade
Editor's Note: People of the APS Upgrade
The Advanced Photon Source is currently undergoing a massive upgrade, one that will see the current electron storage ring replaced with a state-of-the-art instrument. Once it is complete, the X-rays generated by the new APS will be up to 500 times brighter than those the current version can create.
A project of this scope is an extraordinary endeavor, but like all similar projects, it is being designed, built, tested and installed by people. This series of profiles focuses on the people behind the APS Upgrade. This project has dozens of human faces, and it's the goal of this series to showcase the people who make up the APS Upgrade team and their roles in the larger effort. #TeamWorkMakesTheBeamWork
To hear Xianbo Shi tell it, there is no substitute for on-the-job training in the field of X-ray optics.
There is no particular educational track, he says, that will teach you how to design the complex series of synchrotron beamline optics (mirrors, lenses, monochromators, etc.) that manipulate powerful X-ray beams for scientific purposes. If you want to learn, you have to put down the books and go work at an X-ray facility.
That's why, after obtaining his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 2009 at Queens College, part of the City University of New York, Shi interned at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory for eight months, helping to build the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
"I was teaching, working three days a week, and driving 55 miles to Brookhaven," he said. "I was on the beamline team, learning all about optics and helping to design the beamlines."
The effort paid off. Brookhaven was so impressed with Shi that they hired him as a postdoc to work on the design of NSLS-II's X-ray Powder Diffraction Beamline. Following that, Shi spent another year developing X-ray optics at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. And in 2013, when the team behind a planned upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a DOE Office of Science User Facility at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory, was looking for an accomplished optics specialist, they chose Shi.
Now Shi, a physicist in Argonne's X-ray Science Division, is at the forefront of the effort to design new, state-of-the-art optics for the APS Upgrade project. When it's completed, the upgraded APS will generate X-ray beams that are up to 500 times brighter than those of the current facility. It's Shi's job to make sure those beams can be focused down to extremely small sizes and manipulated for different scientific purposes.
This means designing mirrors, lenses and other optical elements that change and shape the ultrabright X-ray light of the APS. And since the upgraded APS will create light that is so much brighter, the optics currently in use won't get the job done. Nine new feature beamlines will be built and 15 existing beamlines will be updated as part of the APS Upgrade, each one intended to take full advantage of the new facility's capabilities, and Shi is helping design optics for most of them.
"Each beamline has specific optics requirements, so I am working with the beamline staff," Shi said. "We have to select the optics they need, optimize the optical layout and then refine their specifications."
For Shi, that meant starting from scratch, in more ways than one. Since the APS Upgrade is a state-of-the-art effort, some of the older methods of designing optical mirrors and lenses weren't up to the task. Before Shi and his colleagues could design the optics they needed, they had to write software that could handle the precision of the designs.
Why so precise? One of the goals of the APS Upgrade is to focus the X-ray beams down to as small as 5 nanometers – a human hair is about 100,000 nanometers wide – to provide extraordinary resolution for X-ray imaging. To get there, the mirrors must be polished down to an exacting degree.
"The mirrors are the most demanding state of the art in the world, even more than those designed for astronomy," Shi said. "We can't make them, so we need to purchase them. There are only a couple places in the world that can make them. This isn't just polishing; this is removing atoms one at a time from the surface."
The APS Upgrade project will need 58 of these mirrors, and more than 1,700 compound refractive lenses. Some have been purchased and delivered, Shi said, but many more are in production. They each have to be measured with advanced optical metrology, and ultimately with X-ray beams – beamline 1-BM is reserved for optics testing. As Shi explains it, some of the mechanisms to test optics at this level of precision did not exist. They had to invent those as well.
Shi notes that such a complicated effort must be undertaken by a team, and the one assembled for the APS Upgrade is dedicated and skilled. Each beamline group has engineers, scientists, and procurement specialists, and Shi works with them all on a regular basis.
"None of us can do the job ourselves," he said. "We rely on teamwork to coordinate."
In his off time, Shi can be found hanging out with his family (his wife Luxi Li also works at the APS), though he does admit to working some in his off hours. He chalks this up to excitement: with each month that goes by, the APS Upgrade moves closer to its year-long installation period (now scheduled to begin in April 2023), and the optics system he helped design moves closer to facilitating breakthrough science at the beamlines.
"I cannot wait until we have beam," he said. "I'm already thinking ahead to it. I'm really happy to be working on this project."


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The FY 2015 appropriation for the HSI program was $100,231,000. Of that amount, $48,977,025 was used to make 109 non-competing continuation (NCC) grant awards. The remaining balance of $51,066,641.04 funded 96 FY 2015 new development grants (82 Individual grants, and 14 Cooperative grants). An Individual Development grant was made to support an IHE that is eligible to receive a grant under this program. A Cooperative Arrangement Development grant was made to an eligible institution which has a formal arrangement to carry out allowable grant activities with another institution(s) of higher education. The lead institution of a Cooperative Arrangement Development grant must meet all eligibility requirements of the HSI program. However, partnering IHEs do not have to meet the eligibility requirements.
The FY 2014 appropriation for the HSI program was $98,583,000. Of that amount, $78,269,780 was used to make 121 non-competing continuation (NCC) grant awards. The remaining balance of $20,141,221 funded 38 FY 2014 new development grants: 29 Individual grants, and 9 Cooperative grants.
The FY 2013 appropriation for the Title V, Part A Program was $95,178,637 (after sequestration). Of that amount, $87,326,384 was used to make 139 non-competing continuation awards and $424,981 was obligated to make a supplemental award to a grantee that had not received its full funding in the previous year. The remaining balance of $7,426,918 was used to fund 11 FY 2013 new development grants: seven Individual grants and four Cooperative grants. Due to the limited funding available in FY 2013 to make new awards, it was decided to fund down the FY 2012 slate in lieu of having a competition.
The FY 2011 appropriation for the Title V, Part A, HSI Program is $104,394,792, a reduction of $13,034,208 from FY 2010. The Department anticipates no reduction in the amount of non-competing continuation (NCC) awards to be made in FY 2011. The Department also anticipates making new awards under this program in FY 2011 by funding down the FY 2010 grant slate.
The FY 2011 appropriation for the Title V, Part B, PPOHA Program is $20,836,290, a reduction of $1,163,710 from FY 2010. The Department plans to reduce each NCC award by approximately $51,748 from the requested amounts for FY 2011. The Department does not plan to make new awards in FY 2011.
Additional information regarding the FY 2011 budget is available.


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Kuwait deported 29,000 migrants in 2016 – and the parliament wants to deport more
Kuwait's Ministry of Interior Affairs announced that at least 29,000 expats were deported in 2016 - about 80 persons a day. This is a meaningful increase from the 25,000 deported in 2015. A Ministry official cast these statistics in a positive light, claiming that they "show undoubtedly that we have made deportation processes much faster." Deportees were accused of violating residency and labor or committing crimes, particularly traffic violations. In the past two years, Kuwait has deported migrants for a range of minor offenses, including barbecuing in parks and joining protests. Once, the Minister of Interior himself boasted about deporting an Indian driver "on the spot" after seeing him commit a traffic violation.
The same official claims that prisoners only spend a maximum of a week in deportation prison, and some as little as three days. According to authorities, it only takes a week to finalize papers and obtain a return ticket, and the process is expedited when sponsors cooperate. Kuwait has long been criticized for its overcrammed prisons, particularly during its professed "campaign on illegal workers" in 2013. Many migrants reported they were unjustly deported because policemen ignored their explanations or their sponsors could not be bothered to bring in the papers could release them. Authorities denied media reports of poor detention conditions and indefinite waiting periods.
Though Kuwait's newest parliament has been celebrated as a "return of the opposition," policies towards expats are not likely to improve. Kuwait's parliament has rarely shown concern for the rights and well-being of migrants, and in its latest session on expats has proposed the deportation of 100,000 expats every year "to tackle the issue of demographic imbalance." Opposition members claim that "security, social, and economic concerns" necessitate mass deportation. MPs argue the deportation of "illegal workers" will decrease the crime rate. They are concerned that some migrant communities are "too big." MP Walid al-Tabtabai said "we need to become 50% of the population within the coming 10 years." He added that "this means we have to deport 100,000 expats every year, this way it will not harm the labor market." He suggested that quotas be determined by nationality. Another MP, Adil al-Damkhi, who also heads the parliament's Human Rights committee, agreed with his colleague. He added that Kuwait should "activate anti-trafficking laws to fight those trading with working visas as they are the real reason behind this problem."
The Minister of Labor, Hind al-Subaih, does not seem to disagree with the parliament. Though she has recently distanced herself from the "100,000 deportations a year" figure, she has spoken of this "demographic imbalance" many times. Al-Subaih proposes a 15 years plan to bring about a demographic change, while MPs believe it should only take 5 to 10.
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The number of foreign workers who worked in Japan last year was found out to be about 1,270,000 people and was the highest on record as noted by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare since statistics keeping began in 2008.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare as at the end of October last year the foreign workers who worked for a Japanese enterprise was 1,278,670 people, and compared with the 194,000 people at the end of October a year before it was a 18% increase and became the highest since 2008 when statistics keeping began.
On country basis the highest was the Chinese with 372,000 people, followed by 240,000 Vietnamese and 146,000 Filipino, the Vietnamese stood out when compared with a year earlier as it was an increase of nearly 40 %.
On industry basis 385,000 people worked in "industry", 189,000 people in "service industry" of cleaning, 166,000 people in "wholesale business" and "retail trade" such as convenience stores and supermarkets.
According to the residence qualification , Japanese descent or spouses of the Japanese was 459,000 people while students from abroad was 259,000 , skill learning student apprentice was 257,000 , students from abroad had increased by approximately 24 %.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare assumed that "against the background of labor shortage and a recovery of business conditions, students from abroad doing part-time jobs and skill learning student apprentice doing practice are increasing."
It seems that the economic ties between Japan and Vietnam are increasing.


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import MySQLdb as sql
from config import sqlconfig

class users:

    def __init__():
        self.connection = sql.connect(
            host=sqlconfig.host, user=sqlconfig.user, passwd=sqlconfig.passwd
        )
        self.cursor = self.connection.cursor()

    def __del__():
        self.cursor.close()
        self.connection.close()

    def new_user(name, email):
        self.cursor.execute(
            "SELECT ID FROM dutchman.Users WHERE Email=%s",
            [email]
        )
        existing_user = self.cursor.fetchall()
        if len(existing_user) is not 0:
            print("Existing User")
            return
        self.cursor.execute(
            "INSERT INTO dutchman.Users(Name,Email) VALUES(%s,%s)",
            (name, email)
        )
        self.connection.commit()
        self.cursor.execute(
            "SELECT ID FROM dutchman.Users WHERE Email=%s",
            [email]
        )
        ID = self.cursor.fetchall()
        ID = ID[0][0]
        command = "CREATE TABLE " + email
        query = ("CREATE DATABASE " + email,)
        query.append(
            command + ".inbox (ID INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, \
            message VARCHAR(2000) NOT NULL, recipient VARCHAR(200), \
            read INT NOT NULL)"
        )
        query.append(
            command + ".outbox (ID INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, \
            message VARCHAR(2000) NOT NULL, \
            sender VARCHAR(200), \
            read INT NOT NULL))"
        )
        query.append(
            command + ".queries (ID INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, \
            message VARCHAR(2000) NOT NULL, \
            response VARCHAR(2000))"
        )
        query.append(
            command + ".friends (SR INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, \
            ID INT NOT NULL)"
        )
        self.cursor.executemany(query)
        self.cursor.close()
        self.connection.close()

    def add_friend(user, friend):
        self.cursor.execute(
            "INSERT INTO " + user + ".friend (ID) VALUES(%s)", [friend]
        )
        self.connection.commit()

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The first aspect to be considered is to relate the architecture of a given reality with its conceptual engineering. Conceptual engineering defines a problem's architecture. To do so it is necessary to structure the ontology of that reality.
The first approach to effectiveness was adding efficiency plus efficacy to achieve the best possible result.
It was an empirical solution developing work processes optimizing the efficiency of the systems and the efficacy of humans.
In those times people were trained to develop the necessary skills to manage the working processes.
The results of this theory were inconsistent. "Change resistance" was the natural explanation for inadequate results.
The research of effectiveness, considered as a complex system, showed that its components should not be added, but integrated. Integration means conjunction. Conjunction, in mathematical terms, means multiplication.
This was the first approach to ontological analysis of working processes, integrating its three components, considered in those times as variables, which at the end were defined as the functions of a concept.
Analyzing a working process from an ontological point of view implies recognizing a different reality of workflow. It is much more flexible and offers much more possibilities than the empirical addition of efficacy + efficiency.
Peopleware is defined by the structure of objects that individuals have in their minds which define the models they use when dealing with hardware and software at work. It provides the necessary information to transform business architectures into operational business models.
Peopleware is what allows integrating hardware and software providing the true driver of the business model.
It is necessary to understand the organizational equilibrium laws, the natural organization and the object driven business model in order to manage peopleware.
When peopleware has been defined and adequate aesthetic use of software with a solid hardware will make business processes operational.
Peopleware is perhaps the most significant development to provide business operational solutions to companies.
It allows transforming administrative systems into adaptive systems to upgrade work processes when managing businesses as unified fields.
Peopleware provides the utility to operational business models allowing software to be user friendly (aesthetic for the user) and the functionality of hardware to become solid.
By definition, an approach that deals with the deepest human drivers to work is abstract. This abstraction needs to be apprehended in a reflection process to approach solutions for work processes.
Peopleware is business architecture applied to work process design. Therefore, it is for people who have a sound knowledge of the business that is being modeled.


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Trevor Noah on South African Feminists: 'The Most Dangerous Freedom Fighters That Existed'
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Following the massive turnout at cities across America and the world for last weekend's Women's March, Trevor Noah took some time between Daily Show scenes to reflect on the heroines he saw during his youth in South Africa. "I grew up in a world that was very matriarchal," Noah told the audience. "Women were the most dangerous freedom fighters that existed. It's true!" Noah's praise of Winnie Mandela — ex-wife of the late president Nelson Mandela, and an activist and politician in her own right — should inspire any woman who's still riding a wave of enthusiasm from the march to read a book about a person even the police feared.
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Pop stars Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga appear to have been listed as examples of artists whose songs contained "offensive lyrics" in a Parliament handout issued on Monday (1 April).
Workers' Party MP Chen Show Mao shared on Facebook a picture of the handout, which appears to be part of the Ministerial Statement that Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam delivered in Parliament earlier in the day. The document showed lyrics of the aforementioned artists as well as those by rock band Nine Inch Nails and singer-songwriter Hozier.
In the song "God is a woman" by Ariana Grande, the example cited was, "You love it how I touch you/My own, when all is said and done/You'll believe God is a woman".
Another example was the song "Judas" by Lady Gaga in which she sang, "I am just a Holy Fool, oh baby….I wanna love you/But something's pulling me away from you/Jesus is my virtue and/Judas is the demon I cling to/I cling to".
In his Ministerial Statement on hate speech, Shanmugam emphasised the need to curtail the problem even in the sphere of entertainment.
In his 90-minute delivery, Shanmugam addressed the cancellation of the planned concert by Swedish black metal band Watain on 7 March. He noted that Christian leaders whom his ministry consulted did not want the concert to go ahead under any circumstances because of what Watain stands for.
Even though the concert was initially granted a restricted license, it was eventually cancelled as many Christians found the band "deeply offensive and denigrating", Shanmugam said.
The minister also said that offensive speech can lead to "dehumanisation" and create an environment "conducive to discrimination and eventually violence". Offensive speech, which can imply that its targets lack morality, intelligence or dignity, is "even more insidious" than hate speech, he added.
The Law Ministry also tabled the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill in Parliament on Monday.
The Ministry said that the Bill seeks to protect society against the damage from deliberate online falsehoods created by malicious actors. It stressed that the draft legislation targets falsehoods, not opinions and criticisms, nor satire or parody. It defines a falsehood as a statement of fact that is false or misleading.
Proposed sanctions include fines of between $30,000 and up to $1 million, and/or jail time of up to 10 years. The penalties could be doubled if the falsehood will or is likely to impact public interest as defined in the law.
Only those who act to deliberately undermine society using falsehoods will be subject to the criminal offences.


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Q: R: Transforming variables over many columns I want to transform multiple columns in a large data.frame at once using across.
As an example I want to make this transformation
library(tidyverse)

iris %>% mutate(Sepal.Length2 = (Sepal.Length^4-min(Sepal.Length^4)) / (max(Sepal.Length^4) - min(Sepal.Length^4)))

but for all columns starting with "Sepal".
I think, I can use this command, but I can't figure how I can add my function.
iris %>% mutate(across(starts_with("Sepal")), ... )

Sorry if it is too trivial, but I don't know what I have to enter into google to find some useful pages.

A: We can use
library(dplyr)
iris1 <- iris %>%
    mutate(across(starts_with("Sepal"),
           ~ (.^4-min(.^4)) / (max(.^4) - min(.^4)), .names = '{.col}2'))

A: my_function <- function(x) {
  y = x^4-min(x^4)/max(x^4)/min(x^4)
  return=y
}

iris %>%
  mutate(across(starts_with("Sepal"), my_function))

Output:
   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width    Species
1       676.5198   150.05983          1.4         0.2     setosa
2       576.4798    80.99733          1.4         0.2     setosa
3       487.9678   104.85493          1.3         0.2     setosa
4       447.7453    92.34943          1.5         0.2     setosa
5       624.9997   167.95893          1.4         0.2     setosa
6       850.3053   231.34143          1.7         0.4     setosa
7       447.7453   133.63093          1.4         0.3     setosa
8       624.9997   133.63093          1.5         0.2     setosa
9       374.8093    70.72543          1.4         0.2     setosa
10      576.4798    92.34943          1.5         0.1     setosa
11      850.3053   187.41343          1.5         0.2     setosa
12      530.8413   133.63093          1.6         0.2     setosa
13      530.8413    80.99733          1.4         0.1     setosa
14      341.8798    80.99733          1.1         0.1     setosa
15     1131.6493   255.99733          1.2         0.2     setosa
.....

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» ANU wins $4.7 million for renewable energy research
ANU wins $4.7 million for renewable energy research
The Australian National University (ANU) has won $4.7 million in new funding for renewable energy research, and more than any other university, in the latest round of industry-researcher collaboration funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).
The funding will support two projects from the College of Engineering and Computer Science and one from the Fenner School of Environment and Society.
The projects will help develop a system to estimate the power produced by rooftop solar PV in a given area, examine how robots could capture data for solar PV installation diagnostics, and examine how consumers can take charge of their energy use through batteries, while simultaneously being rewarded for helping manage the electricity grid.
"Capturing a third of the ARENA grants in this area recognises the ground-breaking work that is being done at ANU," said Director of the ANU Energy Change Institute Professor Ken Baldwin.
"As electricity from renewable energy continues to grow, integrating renewables into the grid becomes more and more vital.
"Australia already leads the world in the take-up of residential roof-top solar, and there is massive potential for growth in large-scale solar power stations given our vast solar resources."
ARENA Chief Executive Ivor Frischknecht said the funding would create clear pathways for renewable energy technologies to move from the laboratory to field by fostering collaboration between research institutions and industry.
"Each successful project is focussed on delivering commercially viable solutions, aimed at solving current industry challenges," Mr Frischknecht said.
"The rich array of industry partners shows the breadth of sectors that will be involved in the transformation of Australia's energy networks and systems."
The successful ANU projects are:
ARENA funding
Total project value
Consumer Energy Systems Providing Cost-Effective Grid Support
Professor Sylvie Thiebaux, ANU Research School of Computer Science
A Robotic Vision System for Automatic Inspection and Evaluation of Solar Plant Infrastructure
Professor Fatih Porikli, ANU Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering
Real-time Operational Distributed PV Simulations for Distribution Network Service Providers
Dr Nicholas Engerer, ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society
For more details on the announcement go visit the ARENA website.


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package uk.dangrew.nuts.graphics.research;

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.contains;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;

import uk.dangrew.kode.launch.TestApplication;
import uk.dangrew.nuts.research.ResearchArticle;
import uk.dangrew.nuts.research.ResearchArticleStore;

public class UiResearchControllerTest {

   private ResearchArticle first;
   private ResearchArticle second;

   private ResearchArticleStore store;
   @Mock private UiResearchPane pane;
   private UiResearchController systemUnderTest;

   @Before public void initialiseSystemUnderTest() {
      TestApplication.startPlatform();
      MockitoAnnotations.initMocks( this );

      store = new ResearchArticleStore();
      first = store.createConcept( "First" );
      second = store.createConcept( "Second" );

      systemUnderTest = new UiResearchController( store );
      systemUnderTest.associate( pane );
   }//End Method

   @Test public void shouldProvideAvailableArticles() {
      assertThat( systemUnderTest.articles(), contains( first, second ) );
   }//End Method

   @Test public void shouldDisplayResearchArticle() {
      systemUnderTest.show( second );
      verify( pane ).show( second );

      assertThat( systemUnderTest.selected().get(), is( second ) );
   }//End Method

}//End Class


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Virginia Secretary of Transportation to Address the MSV Business Forum Luncheon Today
More than 250 Regional Business Leaders to Attend Event Featuring Sean T. Connaughton, Secretary of Transportation, Commonwealth of Virginia
Winchester, VA 10/09/13…More than 250 regional business leaders have registered to attend the fifth annual Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) Business Forum Luncheon on Wednesday, October 9. The highlight of the event will be a presentation by Sean T. Connaughton, Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Virginia. The event will offer an opportunity for networking from 11:30 a.m. until noon. Lunch will be served at noon with the presentation immediately following.
According to MSV Business Advisory Committee Chairman John C. Williams, the Museum is pleased to be presenting Secretary Connaughton at a time when Virginia's new transportation legislation—and the changes that will be brought about by the funding package—is such pertinent topic for businesses and communities throughout Virginia.
The Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Virginia, Sean T. Connaughton oversees seven agencies with more than 10,000 employees and combined budgets of more than $5 billion. Prior to accepting his current responsibilities in the cabinet of Governor Bob McDonnell, he was Corporate Vice President, Government Affairs for the American Bureau of Shipping, one of the world's leading ship and marine classification societies. Sean Connaughton was named U.S. Maritime Administrator by President George W. Bush in 2006. As Maritime Administrator, he was head of the Maritime Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, and responsible for the daily management of that agency and its promotional programs for the marine transportation industry.
A graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Connaughton has served the U.S. Coast Guard as both a commissioned officer and as a civil servant in the Office of Marine Safety, Security, and Environmental Protection. He was elected chairman at-large of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors in 1999 and reelected to that position in 2003. Connaughton holds a Master's degree from Georgetown University and a law degree from George Mason University.
Williams, president of BB&T Community Bank and member of the MSV board of directors, notes that the Business Forum Luncheon was created by the Museum's business advisory committee five years ago to present a forum for discussion regarding the most pressing issues of the day for the region's business leaders. Previous featured speakers for the event have included, in 2009, John A. Allison, chairman of BB&T Corporation; in 2010, Mark H. Merrill, president and chief executive officer of Valley Health; in 2011, the Honorable David M. Walker, founder, president and chief executive officer of the Comeback America Initiative; and last year, Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs and one the nation's most respected health and health policy journalists. This Wednesday's event is sponsored by VNBTrust, BB&T, Sodexo Catering, Trex, Valley Health, and Yount, Hyde & Barbour, P.C.
The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley is located at 901 Amherst Street in Winchester, Virginia. The MSV complex—which includes galleries, the Glen Burnie House, and six acres of gardens—is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. The Museum is open year-round; the gardens are open April through October. The Glen Burnie House is now closed until 2014 for a comprehensive preservation project. Additional information is available at www.theMSV.org or by calling 540-662-1473, ext. 235.


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Lies that bind us
By Robyn Sassen on October 7, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )
MY grandfather, myself: Maude Sandham tells her family's tales. Photograph courtesy Wits.
WHAT DO YOU do when you discover an implacable secret that effectively will cause tectonic shifts in your relation to the world in which you've lived up until now? Do you try to secrete it back where you found it? Do you address it and follow up all its innuendos even if it brings you to a point where you're addressing the dead and don't know which way is forward? This is part of the rich and beautiful challenge Maude Sandham set herself in honouring the life and secrets of her grandfather, Alan.
And there follows a very richly constructed text written with a strong hand and a sophisticated sense of timing and of clarity. The language is lucid and poignant and runs directly from the heart with a sense of unwavering frankness. The tale is a true one, unfettered with sensationalism or unnecessary detail or fluff, but a wrenching one premised on apartheid's draconian values and rules. And it is immediate: we meet Maude's grandfather, a husband and father, a bricklayer employed by the railways, and a man who is stoic in the face of the indignity of being poor and white – but he is utterly bereft of a true sense of belonging because of a secret that would shatter everything he stood for.
Generations succeed generations and children are born, plastering away a past that is understood for its damaging consequences. It's a tale that resonates with that of the Afrikaans film Vaselinetjie, and one that serves as a potent hit back to generalisations about what skin colour means. Centred on the Johannesburg suburb of Crosby, known for being a repository for poor people who were white, the work is coupled with a set that comprises projected images of old family snaps that have not been digitally cleaned up, and in consequence, it is deeply haunting, hanging on to authenticity with photographic grain. And the optimistic young face of the boy in one of the photographs becomes a cipher for complex levels of betrayal.
The revelation of the secret is the nub of the play and it is evolved in layers of devastating subtlety that give voice to the depth of value in a sense of belonging; a subtlety that remembers the bond of sibling love even through the horrors of separation.
The complicated challenges of telling your own story and being the pivotal character in the unfolding tale is clearly one not lost on Sandham who embraces the text with a fulsome sense of directness, but an engaging humility, sweeping you into the values of self-doubt, classical music and memory.
Criss-crossed by references to the other side of the tracks, the work skirts deftly from cliché, and features a humble armchair and a standing lamp, on a carpet; there's a small table on which a framed photograph stands, its back to the audience. It's a play in the internal context of a domestic environment, and yet, in being so, it's a play that opens its heart to the helter-skelter emotional values central to what being raised in a world where the brutality of racial segregation felt obvious.
Unflinching yet vitally important in saying what it does, it is a play of this nature, crafted with a keen sense of aesthetics and a potent understanding of the magic of storytelling that makes you remember what theatre is all about. This kind of work is the kernel and heart of a festival such as So So1o. It deserves legs all over the country – and publication.
Tracks is written by Maude Sandham and Nicola Pilkington. It is performed by Maude Sandham and directed by Nicola Pilkington and is the So So1o commissioned play for 2017. It performs in the Downstairs Theatre, Wits University, until October 8. Visit webtickets.co.za or www.wits.ac.za/witstheatre
Categories: Review, Robyn Sassen, Theatre, Uncategorized
Tagged as: Alan Sandham, Bosmont, Bridget van Oerle, Coronationville, Crosby, Downstairs Theatre, Gita Pather, Maude Sandham, Nicola Pilkington, So So1o Festival, So Solo Festival, Tracks, Wits University
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Chef Chris Cosentino Returns to Johnson and Wales with Advice for Culinary Students
Cosentino had the chance to thank one of his mentors in the audience, legendary chef Jacques Pepin.
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Chef Chris Cosentino.
San Francisco chef and Johnson and Wales University alumnus Chris Cosentino ('94) had his homecoming yesterday at Johnson and Wales University's Harborside campus as the 183rd distinguished visiting chef. It was his first visit back in more than eighteen years. The renowned chef is famous for whole animal cooking, and he owns restaurants Cockscomb in San Francisco, Jackrabbit in Portland, Oregon, and Acacia House at Las Alcobas in Napa Valley. He is also chef and partner of Delicious MFG and C.O., and author of Offal Good, as well as the winner of "Top Chef Master" season four.
Cosentino gave a cooking demonstration to students in the JWU amphitheater, including recipes for tripe and a grilled cheese with duck egg, bitter honey and truffle. In between tips for tenderizing tripe, he also shared memories from his days at JWU and gave students career advice to achieve their goals. He didn't sugarcoat his suggestions. And he was very generous with truffles.
He urged students to build their foundation and techniques before they even think about being on television, or even becoming a chef or sous chef. "We went through the school of hard knocks to get to where we want to be," he says. "The road is long and bumpy, but if you are willing to put in the time, energy and effort, you will succeed. The only thing that's stopping you from succeeding is you. Nothing else."
Chef Chris Cosentino at Johnson and Wales University.
During the demonstration, Cosentino had the chance to thank one of his mentors, who was in the audience. Legendary chef Jacques Pepin sat in the front row at the amphitheater, and Cosentino explained how his dyslexia and ADD prevented him from being able to read traditional textbooks and cookbooks.
"In my school books, there was very small writing, lots of graphs, lots of charts, lots of numbers. 75 percent of it was backwards for me," he says. "I struggled…I couldn't process what was in the book. I kept trying to be prepared, but it was so difficult for me to translate what was in the book to what was going to happen in class."
Cosentino said Jacques Pepin's step-by-step books, La Technique and La Methode, that detail how to break down a chicken and fish using step-by-step illustrations, helped him become who he is today. Cosentino choked up on stage when explaining just what these books and Pepin's influence meant to him.
"I had to learn how to deal with my broken brain," Cosentino says. "If it wasn't for chef, I wouldn't be here now. I wouldn't be who I am without these. I am sorry to become so emotional about it, but it was a powerful thing to figure out, when you were a kid who didn't have guidance, who didn't have help."
He went on to explain how he grew up watching WGBH, learning from Pepin and Julia Child. "They were the originally food TV, not that shit you see now," he says.
Cosentino demonstrated how he makes grilled cheese in his restaurant. It's a distant departure from the grilled cheese he made with his brother after school using leftover cheese scraps. He piles a generous amount of taleggio cheese — end to end — and ample truffles on sourdough bread. Then he uses a cast iron pan and lots of butter to achieve even crispness, topping the grilled sandwich with a duck egg and drizzled bitter honey. "We charge $18 for our grilled cheese at the restaurant," Cosentino says. "When we opened, everyone was like, 'What's wrong with you? $18 for a grilled cheese? It's bread and cheese!' But we get to have a little fun."
Chris Cosentino's grilled cheese with taleggio, quail egg, truffles and bitter honey.
Cosentino urged students to work hard and to read as much as they can. "The thing you have to remember is that no matter if it's the simplest thing, a grilled cheese, or the most humble thing, like tripe, it's all or nothing," he says. "Give it everything. Make it the best. It doesn't matter if you are working at Frosty Freez and you are pulling that machine for the best soft-serve. Make the best swirl. We're giving taste memories. That's our life."
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Tags: chris cosentino, grilled cheese, Jacques Pepin, Johnson and Wales, trip


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acuboidsoil sample with 50mmsides was tasted in a sample shear device. at failure the vertical load was 500N the horizontal load 375N and the shear load was 150N. The excess pore water pressure was 60Kpa. plot mohr's circlefor total stress & effective stress
deepika s answered on October 08, 2016
Vertical force = 500N
Vertical normal stress(σ1f) = 500/(50*50) = -0.2 N/mm2
Horizontal force = 500N
Horizontal normal stress(σ2f) =375/(50*50) =0.15 N/mm2
Shear load =150 N
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require 'spec_helper'

describe 'projects/pipeline_schedules/_pipeline_schedule' do
  let(:owner) { create(:user) }
  let(:maintainer) { create(:user) }
  let(:project) { create(:project) }
  let(:pipeline_schedule) { create(:ci_pipeline_schedule, :nightly, project: project) }

  before do
    assign(:project, project)

    allow(view).to receive(:current_user).and_return(user)
    allow(view).to receive(:pipeline_schedule).and_return(pipeline_schedule)

    allow(view).to receive(:can?).and_return(true)
  end

  context 'taking ownership of schedule' do
    context 'when non-owner is signed in' do
      let(:user) { maintainer }

      before do
        allow(view).to receive(:can?).with(maintainer, :take_ownership_pipeline_schedule, pipeline_schedule).and_return(true)
      end

      it 'non-owner can take ownership of pipeline' do
        render

        expect(rendered).to have_link('Take ownership')
      end
    end

    context 'when owner is signed in' do
      let(:user) { owner }

      before do
        allow(view).to receive(:can?).with(owner, :take_ownership_pipeline_schedule, pipeline_schedule).and_return(false)
      end

      it 'owner cannot take ownership of pipeline' do
        render

        expect(rendered).not_to have_link('Take ownership')
      end
    end
  end
end