My story begins a long time ago in a land far away….in a small town just outside of Buffalo. Well, maybe not so long ago or that far away then. I grew up in what I always thought was an average American household. It probably was. Pretty sure, the cat was maybe a little weird though.
Any hope of being average was mostly blown away at the age of sixteen when I was playing volleyball at a family gathering and noticed a large lump on my neck. Soon after I was at a doctor's office getting this checked out. We discovered that I had a low platelet count (idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura for those of you in medical land) and that this thing on my neck turned out to be a branchial cleft cyst.
Now, for those of you not already up to speed on platelets, they help you to stop bleeding when you get injured, and with a low platelet count you don't want to cut into someone that can't stop bleeding. This was a problem with having any kind of surgery (like one for a branchial cleft cyst) and a problem with having any kind of injury or fall. They told my mom to put a helmet on her baby so he wouldn't bump his head. She looked at them quizzically and said her sixteen-year-old son would probably be opposed to wearing a helmet around. Both of these conditions typically happen in very young children, you see. Strange blood conditions were only the tip of the medical iceberg it turns out and new and more diagnosis would soon follow. I lost organs. I have a liver transplant. You would never know to look at me though.
I also do not look like I have stripes, but I am what we call in medicine a "zebra". Now, let me explain, and no -- it has nothing to do with stripes. In medicine, you look for the usual and normal things first. If it sounds like a horse, looks like a horse, and acts like a horse, it is probably a horse…unless, of course, it is a zebra. Zebras are the weird medical things that pop up. I am a Zebra. I have had more than my share of unusual health things occur that are anything but typical. More on that as blogs unfold because my many medical zebra moments are at the heart of some of the turning points of my life; like changing my diet, changing my lifestyle, changing states, changing my career path, meeting wizards and magic gems, living off-grid –all that sort of thing.
I have nearly died a few too many times perhaps but a combination of modern medicine and natural medicine have let me keep playing on.
I was given the informal title of The Bard in this group. Maybe because I have dragged myself out of a few hospital beds to make it on time and on stage for a gig. Maybe it's the story telling. I have been enthralled by music since I can remember and my Welsh ancestry has maybe made me a bit of a teller of tales. These are surprisingly useful skills when I teach things like anatomy, chemistry and medical terminology. It may surprise you to learn that not everyone is instantly and easily fascinated by latin prefixes --hard to imagine, I know. I remember my grandfather picking at his guitar, blowing a traditional song on the harmonica, or his attempts at playing the accordion. My great uncle was a fiddler in country bands. I picked up the guitar and later the bass as a kid. I did not become the rock star I had planned to be somehow but ended up in naturopathic and acupuncture schools.
This is where I met what was to become our eclectic group, our clan, our tribe. I first met Dr. Sara Hazel (a.k.a. The Wizard -- though she denied the title for years) who taught a few of my classes. When she mentioned gemstone acupuncture and energy medicine and how she used them to help her patients -- I simply could not believe it at first. I am a bit of a skeptic at all times and need things to be proven to me. Homeopathy failed to impress me for years. Having had most forms of medicine fail to save many of my organs, even while they saved my life, I am not so easily convinced that any form of therapy has the answer. I did see that she had a real success rate with an integration of natural methods and a willingness to embrace whatever works. Still… gemstones? I was studying at an acupuncture school and learning Tai Chi and Qi Gong at the time, so it seemed somehow on the edge of these things, something that might just be possible.
I am the one that talked her in to teaching the first Gemstone Acupuncture class for myself and some fellow students. There have been dozens of classes since then and hundreds of students. She was reluctant at the time and tended to keep that part of her practice fairly quiet back then. Still skeptical, I was intrigued. I came to the first class. When I felt a sphere of rhodochrosite vibrate and almost jump out of my hand during a practice session I finally thought, "maybe this is a real thing".
So I will tell you of our journey as we go, probably with a lot of music lyric quotes. After all, we are on a magical mystery tour on a magic gem bus. I made the musical compilation, of course.
Music Player, Health Science Educator, Storyteller with degrees in Naturopathic Medicine, Psychology, and other training in medicine that help not at all when building Greenhouses and Solar Systems and off grid saunas, hot tubs, showers, and barns.


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Since Climate Change (CC) has been a constant of life on Gaia with the evolution of photosynthesis 3.2 billion years ago and has more complexities than this one essay can address.
Ergo, this article will explore CO2 historic contribution to global warming (GW) as well as explore the relationship of Solar Minimum (SM) to Earth's climate.
Even before the UN-initiated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) formed in 1988, the common assumption was that carbon dioxide was the key greenhouse gas and that its increases were the driving force solely responsible for rising climate temperatures.
At that time, anthropogenic (human caused) GW was declared to be the existential crisis of our time, that the science was settled and that we, as a civilization, were running out of time.
And yet, in the intervening years, uncertainty remained about GW's real time impacts which may be rooted in the fact that many of IPCC's essential climate forecasts of consequence have not materialized as predicted.
Even as the staid The Economist magazine recently noted:
Over the past fifteen years, air temperatures at the Earth's surface have been flat while greenhouse gas emissions have continued to soar."
Before the IPCC formed, NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii registered CO2 levels at under 350 ppm (parts per million) with the explicit warning that if CO2 exceeded that number, Mother Earth was in Big Trouble - and there would be no turning back for humanity.
Those alarm bells continue today as CO2 levels have risen to 414 ppm as temperatures peaked in 1998.
From the outset, the IPCC controlled the debate by limiting its charter…
"to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation."
In other words, before any of the science had been done, the IPCC's assumption was that man-made activity was responsible and that Nature was not an active participant in a process within its own sphere of interest.
As an interdisciplinary topic of multiple diversity, the IPCC is not an authority on all the disciplines of science within the CC domain.
While there is no dispute among scientists that the Sun and its cyclical output is the true external force driving Earth's energy and climate system as part of a Sun-centered Universe, the IPCC's exclusion of the Sun from its consideration can only be seen as a deliberate thwarting of a basic fundamental law of science, a process which assures a free inquiry based on reason and evidence.
It is the Sun which all planets of the solar system orbit around, that has the strongest gravitational pull in the solar system, is the heaviest of all celestial bodies and its sunspots in relation to Earth's temperatures has been known since Galileo began drawing sunspots in 1613.
Yet the IPCC which touts a 'scientific view of climate change' would have us believe the Sun is irrelevant and immaterial to the IPCC's world view and Earth's climate; hardly a blip on their radar.
In the GW debate, CO2 is dismissed as a colorless, odorless pollutant that gets little credit as a critical component for its contribution to life on the planet as photosynthesis does not happen without CO2.
A constant presence in Earth's atmosphere since the production of oxygen, all living organisms depend on CO2 for its existence.
As a net contributor to agriculture, plants absorb CO2 as they release oxygen into the atmosphere that we two- and four-leggeds depend on for sustenance and oxygen as necessities for survival on Earth.
There are scientists who believe that Earth has been in a CO2 'famine' while others applaud Earth's higher CO2 levels in the last three decades as a regreening of the planet.
While An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and An Inconvenient Sequel - Truth to Power (2016) stage managed the climate question as a thoroughly politicized 'settled science' with former veep Al Gore declaring the drama a 'moral' issue, there is no room for any preference that does not depend on a rigorous, skeptical, independent investigation based on evidentiary facts rather than the partisan politics of emotion and subjective opinion.
Given the prevalence of weather in our daily lives, it would seem elementary for engaged citizens and budding paleo-climatologists to understand Earth's ancient climate history and atmosphere in order to gain an informed perspective on Earth's current and future climate.
As a complicated non-linear system, climate is a variable composition of rhythmic spontaneity with erratic and even chaotic fluctuations making weather predictions near-impossible.
Climate is an average of weather systems over an established long term period while individual weather events indicative of a short term trend are not accurate forecasts of CC.
While ice core readings provide information, they do not show causation of GW but only measure the ratio between CO2 and rising temperatures. It is up to scientists to interpret the results.
And that's where this narrative takes, like ancient weather and climate patterns, an unpredictable turn.
It might be called an inconvenient truth that 'skeptic' scientists have known for the last twenty years that the Vostok ice core samples refute CO2's role as a negative and even question its contribution as the major greenhouse gas.
It is no secret to many climate professionals that water vapor with CO2 at 3.6%.
Located at the center of the Antarctica ice sheet, the Vostok Research Center is a collaborative effort where Russian and French scientists collected undisturbed ice core data in the 1990s to measure the historic presence of carbon dioxide levels.
The Vostok samples provided the first irrefutable evidence of Earth's climate history for 420,000 year including the existence of four previous glacial and interglacial periods.
Those samples ultimately challenged the earlier premise of CO2's predominant role and that carbon dioxide was not the climate culprit once thought. It is fair to add that IPCC related scientists believe Vostok to be 'outliers' in the GW debate.
The single most significant revelation of the ice core studies has been that GW could not be solely attributed to CO2 since carbon dioxide increases occurred after temperature increases and that an extensive 'lag' time exists between the two.
Logic and clear thinking demands that cause (CO2) precedes the effect (increased temps) is in direct contradiction to the assertion that carbon dioxide has been responsible for pushing higher global temperatures. Just as today's 414 ppm precedes current temps which remain within the range of normal variability.
Numerous peer-reviewed studies confirmed that CO2 lags behind temperature increases, originally by as much as 800 years.
That figure was later increased to 8,000 years and by 2017 the lag time between CO2 and temperature had been identified as 14,000 years. As if a puzzlement from the Quantum world, it is accepted that CO2 and temperatures are correlated as they rise and fall together, yet are separated by a lag time of thousands of years.
What is obscure from public awareness in the GW shuffle is that geologic records have identified CC as a naturally occurring cycle with glacial periods of 100,000 year intervals that are interrupted by brief, warming interglacial periods lasting 15,000-20,000 years.
Those interglacial periods act as a temperate respite from what is the world's natural normal Ice Age environment. Within those glacial and interglacial periods are cyclical subsets of global cooling and warming just as today's interglacial warm period began at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age about 12,000 years ago.
Since climate is not a constant, check these recent examples of Earth's climate subsets:
200 BC - 600 AD: Roman warming cycle
440 AD - 950 AD: Dark Ages cool cycle
950 AD - 1300 AD: Medieval warming cycle
1300 AD - 1850 AD: Renaissance Little Ice Age
1850 - Present: Modern warming cycle
In addition, climate records have shown that peak CO2 temperatures from the past are relative to today's CO2 level without the addition of a fossil fuel contribution.
For instance, just as today's measurement at 414 ppm contains a 'base' CO2 level of approximately 300 ppm as recorded in the 19th century, any CO2 accumulation over 300 ppm would be considered anthropogenic (man-made) and be portrayed as "historic" or 'alarmingly high' and yet remain statistically insignificant compared to historic CO2 norms.
During the last 600 million years, only the Carboniferous period and today's Holocene Epoch each witnessed CO2 levels at less than 400 ppm.
During the Early Carboniferous Period, CO2 was at 1500 ppm with average temperatures comparable to 20 C; 68 F before diving to 350 ppm during the Mid Carboniferous period with a reduced temperature of 12 C;54F. In other words, current man-made contributions to CO2 are less than what has been determined to be significant.
Contrary to the IPCC's stated goal, NASA recognizes that,
"All weather on Earth, from the surface of the planet into space, begins with the Sun" and that weather experienced on Earth's surface is "influenced by the small changes the Sun undergoes during its solar cycle."
A Solar Minimum (SM) is a periodic 11 year solar cycle normally manifesting a weak magnetic field with increased radiation and cosmic rays while exhibiting decreased sunspot activity that, in turn, decreases planetary temperatures.
Today's solar cycle is referred to as the Grand Minimum which, according to NOAA, predicts reductions from the typical 140 - 220 sunspots per solar cycle to 95 - 130 sunspots.
As the Sun is entering "one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age," a NASA scientist predicted a SM that could "set a Space Age record for cold" but has recently clarified his statement as it applies only to the Thermosphere.
In October 2018, NOAA predicted "Winter Outlook favors Warmer Temperature for much of the US," as above-normal precipitation and record freezing temperatures were experienced throughout the country.
As of this writing, with the Sun noticeably intense, Earth has experienced 22 consecutive days without sunspots for a 2019 total of 95 spotless days at 59%.
In 2018, 221 days were spotless at 61%. Spaceweather.com monitors sunspot (in)activity.
With the usual IPCC and Non-IPCC split, the SM is expected to be at its lowest by 2020 with a peak between 2023 and 2026 as it exhibits
counterintuitive erratic weather anomalies including cooler temps due to increased cloud cover
higher temps due to solar sunspot-free brilliance
potential electrical events
heavy rain and flooding and drought
a shorter growing season
impacts on agriculture and food production systems,
...or it may all be a walk in the park with shirt sleeves in January.
While there is clearly an important climate shift occurring even as the role of CO2 and human activity as responsible entities remains problematic, the elimination of CO2 and its methane sidekick would be exceedingly beneficial for a healthy planet.
It is time to allow scientists to be scientists without political agendas or bureaucratic interference as the Sun and Mother Earth continue in their orbit as they have for eons of millennia.
As Earth's evolutionary climate cycles observe the Universal law of the natural world, the Zero Point Field, which produces an inexhaustible source of 'free' energy that Nikola Tesla spoke of, is the means by which inter stellar vehicles travel through time/space.
The challenge for ingenious, motivated Earthlings is to harness and extract the ZPF proclaiming a new planetary age of technological innovation with,
no rapacious industry
no pollution
no shortages
no gas guzzlers
no war...
The Sun is so Blank
...that it Looks Like a Billiard Ball
by Dr. Tony Phillips
from SpaceWeatherArchive Website
The sun on June 21, 2019.
Credit: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
The sun is blank - really blank...
No sunspots have appeared for the past 34+ days, giving the sun the appearance of a giant orange billiard ball. This is a sign that Solar Minimum is underway...
Earlier this year, a panel of experts from NOAA and NASA predicted that the solar cycle would reach its nadir sometime between July 2019 and Sept 2020.
The current stretch of spotless suns is consistent with their forecast.
What happens when sunspots vanish?
For one thing, solar flares stop happening.
No big explosions means no shortwave radio blackouts and fewer geomagnetic storms.
Also, the sun dims.
Sunspots are sources of extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV). Without sunspots, EUV levels decrease, causing Earth's upper atmosphere to cool and contract.
Satellites and space junk stay in orbit longer as aerodynamic drag subsides.
During this phase of the solar cycle, the solar wind slows and the sun's magnetic field weakens - shields down! This allows extra cosmic rays from deep space to penetrate the solar system.
Indeed, recent high altitude balloon flights show increased radiation in Earth's atmosphere.
Extra cosmic rays,
can trigger lightning
alter the electro-chemistry of the upper atmosphere
boost dose rates on commercial airplane flights
Solar Minimum won't last forever.
Forecasters expect sunspot numbers to increase after 2019-2020, climaxing in a new Solar Maximum around 2023-2026...
Return to Dramatic Changes in Our Sun
Return to Global Warming - An Official Pseudoscience...

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Le Petit Nicolas et les Copains est un recueil de nouvelles de René Goscinny illustré par Jean-Jacques Sempé paru en 1963, roman comptant 16 histoires et mettant en scène le personnage du même nom. Il a reçu le prix Alphonse-Allais.

Liste des histoires

Clotaire a des lunettes !

Pour résoudre ses problèmes en classe, le médecin de Clotaire lui fait porter des lunettes, pour être le premier de la classe. Agnan est fâché et le bouillon comme toujours est intervenu et les a punis...

Le chouette bol d'air

Nicolas et ses parents sont invités à passer le dimanche dans la maison de campagne de Monsieur Bongrain, un collègue de son papa. Le fils de Mr. Bongrain et Nicolas jouèrent dans le jardin ...

Les crayons de couleur

La mémé de Nicolas (la maman de sa maman) lui a offert un chouette cadeau : des crayons de couleur ! Nicolas décide de les emmener à l'école. Quelle catastrophe !

Les campeurs

Nicolas et les copains décident de camper dans le terrain vague.

On a parlé dans la radio

Une équipe de radio vient interviewer les enfants dans leur classe, puisqu'ils ne sont jamais passés à la télévision ou à la radio...

Marie-Edwige

Nicolas a invité des copains de l'école pour le goûter ; il a aussi invité son amie Marie-Edwige, la fille de  et  Courteplaque, les voisins.

Philatélies

Nicolas et les copains décident de se lancer dans la collection de timbres...

Maixent le magicien

Maixent a invité ses copains pour le goûter et en profite pour leur faire quelques tours de magie ...

La pluie

Lorsqu'il pleut, les récréations ont lieu dans la classe...

Les échecs

Nicolas est invité chez son copain Alceste. Son papa va les initier aux échecs ...

Les docteurs

Ce matin-là, des médecins viennent pour faire passer des radios aux enfants de l'école...

La nouvelle librairie

Une nouvelle librairie s'est installée près de l'école. Nicolas et ses copains décident d'aller la visiter...

Rufus est malade

Rufus est malade, mais il refuse de se rendre à l'infirmerie.

Les athlètes

Nicolas et ses amis décident d'organiser une réunion d'athlétisme sur le terrain vague.

Le code secret

Geoffroy a mis au point un code secret pour pouvoir communiquer en classe sans faire de bruit et sans se faire gronder par la maîtresse. Il l'apprend à ses amis lors de la récréation mais finit par attraper une retenue pour l'avoir utilisé en classe.

L'anniversaire de Marie-Edwige

Nicolas est invité à l'anniversaire de Marie-Edwige, anniversaire où il est le seul garçon.

Éditions
 Paris : Denoël, 1963, 120 p.
 Paris : Gallimard, 1982, 142 p. (Bibliothèque Folio junior).
 Paris : Gallimard, 1988, 184 p. (Folio junior ; 475. Édition spéciale). . -  (réimpr. 2007). -  (réimpr. 1997)
 Paris : Gallimard, 1994, 122 p. (Collection Folio ; 2663).
 Paris : Denoël, 1994, 100 p.
 Paris : Denoël, 2004, 122 p.

Roman pour l'enfance et la jeunesse
Le Petit Nicolas
Roman français paru en 1963

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					NikkSword (guest) 16 Dec 2010 16:38

I'm stuck on the first part of the quest Shift Manager of DOOM. I can't pass the Tai test, I am Level 15 but only have 1 - 11 Range so I fail. What should I do? It's a BurgerNinja quest, so no allies, or jutsu. I already have Chakra Armor

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					msliver 16 Dec 2010 18:47

Try to get to Jonin before you do it. How are you planing to hit diff 13 in Ninjutsu if you can't hit diff 12 in Tai? You should try to get other range boosters like the arena items and see if you can get a polar star from a generous villager (they are costly though so don't expect too much)

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					NikkSword (guest) 16 Dec 2010 21:05

Good question.. but it's part of being a Jonin, I am on Season 2 so the test requires 3 bloodlines.

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The easiest three bloodlines to obtain are your Basic Bloodline, Blood of the Reaper, and Wasteland Disease. Both of them are fairly simple to obtain every season; For Reaper you don't need to obtain True Blood of the Reaper, so you can stop after doing the quest Over the Edge for MC Stripeypants. As for Wasteland Disease, you get that when you get Haus.

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Dutch court rejects claims for sui generis database protection of national company register
Jan Jacobi Monday, January 17, 2022 - Access to information, Database Directive, Database ownership, database rights, databases, Dutch court, IP ownership, Jan Jacobi, legal databases, Netherlands, ownership of IP rights
In the era of fake news, reliable sources of information are more valuable than ever. When it comes to official registers held on a governmental level, administrative bodies are often tasked to ensure such registers are accurate and complete. Accessing those registers usually comes at a cost, prompting some commercial parties to offer the same information at a lower price.
In a recent case before the Dutch (district) court of Midden-Nederland, the question arose whether database rights can be invoked to prevent third parties reusing and offering data retrieved from the national company register. For those Kats accessing a company register frequently, the decision is certainly worth the read.
A cat studying a shadow register with interest
The official Dutch company register is operated by the Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel, 'KvK'), an administrative body tasked by the Dutch government. The KvK is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Economical Affairs. All Dutch companies are by law required to register with the KvK.
Although generic information (e.g. the company name and address) is free to access within the register, the more detailed extracts and records are only accessible after payment. This has triggered the existence of so-called 'shadow registers', which offer the same information for reduced prices. In 2020, the KvK updated its user terms and stated that the company register qualifies as a sui generis database (in the sense of article 7(1) of the Database Directive 96/9/EC) whereby the KvK's prior consent would be required for reusing and commercially offering information from the register.
The claimant 'Vereniging voor zakelijke b2b informatie' ('VVZBI', a representative of parties offering commercial information) had a different view. It did not dispute that the company register qualified as a sui generis database, but challenged that the KvK could exercise any rights over it.
According to VVZBI, database right protection is based on the 'economical incentive theory', entailing that database protection should only be granted to risk bearing investments in a database. Without database protection, so the theory assumes, the database would not have been created in the first place, as an economical incentive to do so would be missing.
Given that the KvK is statutorily tasked with creating and maintaining the company register, VVZBI argued that the investments could never qualify as risk-bearing economical investments. Consequently, the KvK had not substantially invested in the database in the sense of article 7(1) Database Directive, which is a prerequisite to exercise any rights over it.
The decision by the court
The court firstly considered what is to be understood as a 'substantial investment'. Referring to the recently rendered CJEU case CV-Online Latvia, the court concluded that the investment should be qualitative and quantitative substantial, whereby non-financial investments should also be considered.
Given the KvK annually invests over €100 million in inserting data in the register, processing changes and keeping the register up to date, the court was satisfied that sufficient qualitative and quantitative investments had been made. The fact that these investments were made for the purpose of performing the KvK's statutory tasks did not preclude them from being considered in the assessment of article 7(1) of Directive 96/9/EC, so the court remarked.
However, the court found that the latter circumstance could be of importance in identifying whether the KvK would also be entitled to actually exercise database rights over the company register. In accordance with article 5 and 7 of Database Directive, only the 'maker' of a database could invoke database rights. In assessment hereof, the court once more referred to the CV-Online Latvia case, where the CJEU had held that:
" the purpose of the right provided for in Article 7 of Directive 96/9 is to ensure that the person who has taken the initiative and assumed the risk of making a substantial investment in terms of human, technical and/or financial resources in the setting up and operation of a database receives a return on his or her investment by protecting him or her against the unauthorised appropriation of the results of that investment " (point 22)
The court proceeded, in line with the economical incentive theory brought forward by VVZBI, to consider that:
"It follows from the recitals of Directive 96/9/EC and the case-law of the CJEU that database rights seek to protect the substantial investments in setting up and operating a database, by means of providing the [legal] certainty to the person who has made such investments and who bears the risk thereof that he will be compensated for his investments, which in turn stimulates investments in modern data storage and processing systems which contribute to the development of the information society in the Member States. Database law is therefore based on the grounds of economic justification" (consideration 3.23, unofficial English translation)
Applied to the KvK, the court firstly considered that the setting up and operating of the company register is not done out of any economical motive, but to fulfill the statutory tasks assigned to the KvK. As such, even if the KvK would not be able to recoup any of its costs, it will still be statutorily required to maintain the register and invest therein.
Secondly, the court found that the KvK does not bear any risk to its investments. Due to the government funding the activities of the KvK, any potential loss would be fully covered by the government budget.
The court therefore concluded that the KvK cannot be the subject of database right protection: the maker of the database who makes risk-bearing investments based on an economical incentive. Subsequently, the KvK cannot exercise the database rights of article 5 of Directive 96/9/EC, since these rights are only conferred to the maker of the database. As the losing party, the KvK is ordered to pay €67.000 in costs.
Relying on the rationale of database right protection, the Dutch court strikes a blow for public sector bodies wishing to protect their registers.
The decision will not only be well received by those offering and using shadow registers, but also by the EU legislator. The new Open data and Public Sector Information Directive (2019/1024) specifically aims to overcome barriers that prevent full re-use of public sector information. The upcoming Data Governance Act also encourages commercial reuse of public sector data against no or limited costs.
For those Kats who pay in excess of €10 for a single record of a public register, this decision will surely be welcomed.
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Bear Cottage at Manly has thanked the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles for helping to spread some special extra cheer at Christmas.
In December, the Club established a 'Sea Eagles Toy Drive' inviting supporters to donate presents for Bear Cottage – an initiative of The Children's Hospital at Westmead.
Bear Cottage is the only children's hospice in NSW. It is considered a very special place that's dedicated to caring for children with life-limiting conditions.
Through the wonderful generosity of Sea Eagles supporters, the Club was able to deliver presents to Bear Cottage.
In a letter to the Club dated January 8, 2019, Community Relations Manager Bronwen Simmons thanked the Sea Eagles for their support and kind donations.
"As you can imagine, Christmas can be a difficult time of year for our families, so we do our very best to ensure that we make it as special as possible and a time for them to create lasting memories,'' Simmons wrote.
"With your help, we were able to make sure that each child and family received a number of gifts which bring a great deal of Christmas cheer. Thank you so much for your generosity."
The Sea Eagles thank those supporters who kindly donated presents to our Toy Drive.


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Dentelin maakte aanvankelijk deel uit van het erfdeel van de Neustrische koning Chlotharius II. Deze verloor het gebied echter ten voordele van zijn Austrasische neven Theudebert II en Theuderik II na de Slag van Dormelles in 599 of 600.

Toen Chlotarius zijn neven overleefde en in 613 de enige koning der Franken werd, ging Dentelin opnieuw naar hem. Nadien behoorde Dentelin voorgoed bij Neustrië, en speelt het hertogdom Dentelin ook geen enkele historische rol meer.

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Chris Pine Officially In For Wonder Woman
Many feel that Chris Pine has what it takes to become a major movie star, and while it hasn't happened yet, it certainly isn't from lack of big roles or lack dashing good looks. Now the guy could have a real shot as a romantic leading man playing opposite of Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman.
It had been rumored for some time that Chris would be playing opposite Gadot in her solo Wonder Woman movie, which will follow our favorite whipping boy, Batman Vs Superman, and the Wrap reminds us that the solo Wonder Woman flick will be in theaters on June 23, 2017.
Now The Wrap confirms that Pine will play Steve Trevor, and he signed a multi-picture deal that includes options for sequels.
It's taken a long time for a Wonder Woman movie to make the big screen, and you may recall a long time ago that Joss Whedon was up to helm it at one point. Now there's a female director who will bring Wonder Woman to life, Patty Jenkins (Monster), and we'd prefer to see Wonder Woman in her own film than B V F or Justice League.
We hope this will indeed help launch Chris Pine to major leading man status, not to mention Gadot has been getting a lot of notice these days as a major league babe as well, and we're definitely looking forward to seeing her bring the famous superheroine amazon to life.
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All jQuery UI plugins are designed to allow a developer to seamlessly integrate UI widgets into the look and feel of their site or application. Each plugin is styled with CSS and contains two layers of style information: standard jQuery UI CSS Framework styles and plugin-specific styles.
The jQuery UI CSS Framework provide semantic presentation classes to indicate the role of an element within a widget such as a header, content area, or clickable region. These are applied consistently across all widgets so a clickable tab, accordian or button will all have the same "ui-state-default" class applied to indicate that it is clickable. When a user mouses over one of these elements, this class is changed to ui-state-hover, then ui-state-active when selected. This level of class consistency makes it easy to ensure that all elements with a similar role or interaction state will look the same across all widgets.
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We encourage all developers creating jQuery plugins to leverage the new jQuery UI CSS Framework because it will make it much easier for end users to theme and use your plugin.
Download a ThemeRoller theme: The easiest way to build a theme is to use the ThemeRoller to generate and download a theme. This app will create a new ui.theme.css file and and images directory containing all necessary background images and icon sprites which can simply be dropped into your project. This approach will be the easiest to create and maintain but limits customization to the options provided in ThemeRoller.
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Grenfell Tower Panel Challenge
Home > Media > News > Grenfell Tower Panel Challenge
The Divisional Court considered a challenge to the decision of the Prime Minister to appoint Sir Martin Moore-Bick to sit alone when conducting the Grenfell Tower inquiry. Philip Dayle was led by Hugh Southey QC (Matrix Chambers) and instructed by Birnberg Peirce on behalf of the resident who brought the challenge.
The claimant in this case, whose father was among the people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire, sought to renew a judicial review application challenging the Prime Minister's decision to appoint Sir Martin Moore-Bick to sit alone when conducting the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
LJ Bean refused permission for judicial review of the Prime Minister's decision contained in the letter of 21 Dec 2017. He emphasised that this decision that ""additional panel members should not be appointed at this stage"" and expressed "no view on what the position would be if an application were to be made for additional panel members to be appointed to sit with Sir Martin during Phase 2 of his Inquiry, which will consider a large number of issues and where different considerations might arguably apply.
Philip Dayle is part of the Inquest Group at No5.
Read more here: http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2018/1090.html&query=(philip)+AND+(dayle)
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James Dixon of No5 Barristers' Chambers represented the family of Mr Shaun Dewey at an Inquest which found failings in the care for a remand prisoner at HMP Bristol....
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Upstate New York's Catskill Distilling Company was one of the first artisan, "farm-to-glass" distilleries in the country. All grains, fruit and botanicals that make up the company's portfolio are grown on its farm or locally sourced. The distillery, built in an old Victorian house and featuring a saloon, is located just down the road from where Woodstock was held in 1969.
Among the company's unique offerings are Peace Vodka, Most Righteous Bourbon and The One and Only Buckwheat, a spirit made with 80% buckwheat.
I recently spoke to founder and Master Distiller Monte Sachs about his history in the business, the challenges craft distilleries face and how small brands can get distribution.
Beverage Wholesaler: How did you get started in the industry?
Monte Sachs: I learned to distill when I was a veterinary student in Europe, living with a friend whose family owned vineyards and made Grappa. I thought it was incredible, and it really piqued my interest in distillation. When I came back to the U.S. as a horse vet, I always had that interest in the back of my mind. When I retired, I found a piece of property near where I live that happened to be a horse farm, and I started Catskill Distilling.
BW: Was the idea always to have a farm-to-glass philosophy?
MS: Yes, it was about making interesting products from locally grown grains, fruits and botanicals. I'm not a business guy, but as a veterinarian I always worked with local farmers and I wanted to support local agriculture. Maybe I should have had more business sense, but now we have people involved with the company who are business guys and can make me understand that there's more to a distillery than just producing extraordinary product.
I started making vodka, hoping that would pay the bills and allow me to experiment continually. But it wasn't doing what I needed it to, since we needed a large amount of infrastructure to make everything from scratch. My first whiskey was a bourbon, then a wheat whiskey because I liked the idea of doing something few other distillers were.
BW: Tell me a little about your unique buckwheat spirit.
MS: I'm Jewish and I grew up eating kasha, which is made from buckwheat. It's grown all over this area, some on contract for the mills upstate and often as a cover crop that replenishes the soil in-between growing seasons. I saw a tremendous opportunity to make something that no one else in the U.S. was producing.
We use a raw buckwheat, which isn't a grain – it's a pseudocereal in the same family as rhubarb, which makes it more like a fruit than a cereal grain. It took eight months to figure out how to work with it, and almost a year to get the remnants out of the distillery when I made the first batch. It clogged the stills, got into the floor drains, and was a real learning experience. But in the end, it made a spirit that's unlike anything else.
BW: How widely distributed are your products, and how do you go about getting distribution?
MS: When I started making whiskey I used to make a couple dozen 25-gallon barrels and I only had 375-ml. bottles available. Now we're making between 600 and 1000 barrels of each type of whiskey. We're available in eight states and DC, and we export a little to Italy and Japan. We've recently brought in executives who are from the largest liquor company in the world who believe we have something special. They're working on talks with two major distributors, as well as the largest alcohol retailer in the U.S., who wants to take us national because I finally have enough product.
BW: There seem to be some parallels between your company and Tuthilltown Spirits, also in upstate NY. They partnered with William Grant, and that eventually led to an acquisition. What are you looking for?
MS: I'll tell you what I'm looking for: partners in the business that will add value to what we already have. I believe we're good at making product, so I'm looking for partners who know how to market and have outlets and personnel. That's what we're in the process of doing now. Our biggest bottleneck is getting information out; we need to drive awareness of our products nationally.
BW: What are the biggest challenges facing craft distillers today?
MS: The problem is a lack of knowledge regarding the quality of products you need to produce. There are many craft distillers, but most don't create their own product. They make a nice bottle, but they're not distilling because they don't understand the chemistry and science. They approach it from a business point of view, with marketing and sales backgrounds.
I believe what happened to the craft brewers in the 80's is happening now. You see a lot of craft distillers closing down, because it looks easy but it's not. The problem is ultimately quality and distribution, because there's so much substandard product on the market that the space is congested. As time goes on, that space will empty out – people will only buy a bad product once.


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What Does Obama's Good Fortune Mean for the Future of the Democratic Party?
by Julia Azari
This week brings positive news about recent economic growth. Paired with falling gas prices, this looks like good news for Obama (a bit late). Brendan Nyhan explains why the administration can be cautiously optimistic about the impact on the president's popularity. Andrew Sullivan questions whether Obama is a "good closer" and cites last week's move toward normalizing relations with Cuba along with economic gains, healthcare, and foreign policy (including, but not limited to, last week's move toward normalizing relations with Cuba). Columnists across the ideological spectrum, from Ed Kilgore to Reihan Salam, have asked how this will shape the Republicans' strategy and status as the 2016 presidential race (sort of) nears.
But the administration's final two years will have implications for the direction of the Democratic Party, too. The questions facing the party – real and perceived, new and old – have been prominent here at Mischiefs of Faction this week. They've also been swirling around in the news cycle for awhile, as we consider whether Elizabeth Warren will run and what it would mean if she did. As unlikely as a Warren bid may be, the possibility of her candidacy represents one kind of potential future for the party: more liberal, more economically populist. In other words, a break from the party of the Clintons and Obama, who have been criticized from the left for their connections with and lenience toward major financial institutions.
Meanwhile, the New York Times' Jacob Heilbrunn has declared that the "real threat" to Hillary Clinton is not Elizabeth Warren, but rather former Virginia Senator Jim Webb. I'm not sure I'm ready to sign on to the central argument there, but, once again, the ideas represented by a potential Webb candidacy (he has formed an exploratory committee) are important even if the presidential bid never takes off. Webb's critiques of the both parties include both involvement in the Middle East and the federal deficit. Webb's economic ideas are somewhat difficult to pin down; there's a definite populist undertone, but he's clearly a different kind of Democrat than Warren. Back in 2008 (when they were still a thing), the moderate Democratic Leadership Council named Webb their "New Dem of the Week." A few months ago, Daily Kos offered a typically impassioned but well-sourced argument that Webb is "more Reagan Democrat than Progressive Populist."
How do recent events figure into all of this? Most obviously, if economic numbers and approval ratings continue to climb – this would need to continue into 2016 (the actual year and not just the election cycle, which has been under way for awhile) – the Democratic candidate has a much better shot at winning. These are what political scientists call the fundamentals, and they matter.
Each stage of the election and transition will require the candidates to position themselves with respect to the actions of the Obama administration. Questions (for Democrats) will include whether to turn to the left on economic issues, and whether to pursue the lines of inquiry that Obama has begun to open with regard to whether work actually does pay enough to live and whether inequality constitutes a crisis of justice. Questions persist outside economic issues, too. Will the next stage of the Democratic Party maintain the mixed status quo with regard to the drug war, crime and punishment, and immigration, allowing incremental change to occur through enforcement and subnational policy change? Or will the national party's policy stance "evolve" as it has toward marriage equality?
These questions are typically depicted as a dilemmas about the different parts of the Democratic coalition. But coalitions and their interests are not static. Depending on policies, proposals, and other context, the way that group interests translate into politics can change. Improved economic conditions could weaken the impetus for a move to the left on economic issues, and strengthen the case for a Democratic Party that continues, rather than pulls away from, Obama's legacy.
For social issues, the future picture is less clear. The "post-materialism" thesis suggests that a sound economy will open the way for discussion of social issues. But evidence from the late 1990s doesn't necessarily support that in the case of the Democrats. Another line of thinking suggests that with more resources to go around, the parties may not be so fiercely competitive. This would be good for negotiation and policy-making, but not so good for those who think the Democratic Party should move to the left on economic and social issues. Without such a strong pull to differentiate from and compete with the Republicans, the Democrats might not have much incentive to stake out new ground.
[Cross-posted at Mischiefs of Faction]
Julia Azari
Julia Azari is an Assistant Professor at Marquette University.


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Trent L. Miller
Letter from the Chairperson of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association
Written evidence from the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (OTS0113)
UKOTA would like to draw to the attention of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the existence of discriminatory provisions within the British Nationality Act in respect of the British Overseas Territories. These were drawn to the attention of the Home Secretary Rt. Hon. Sajid Javid MP on 31st May 2018 but which to date we have not received a response.
In a letter dated 18th April 2018 the Joint Committee on Human Rights, the Rt. Hon. Harriet Harman MP, drew to the then Home Secretary, Rt. Hon. Amber Rudd MP, that the Committee was scrutinising the proposal for a draft British Nationality Act (Remedial) Order and the use of such a Remedial Order in respect of the discrimination against British Overseas Territories Citizens and asked:
"What does the Home Secretary intend to do to remedy the discrimination (discrimination as between women and men, and also discrimination based on marital status) on the face of the British Nationality Act 1981 in respect of British Overseas Territories Citizenship?"
UKOTA wrote to the Home Secretary on the 31st May 2018 drawing his attention to the above-mentioned letter, supporting the Joint Committee on Human Rights' call for the discrimination to be remedied in any proposed Remedial Order.
To date we have not received a response. Copies of both letters are attached.
This discrimination continues to affect nationals of the British Overseas Territories and their offspring.
Eric Bush, JP
UKOTA Chairman
United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association
From the office of the Chairman
The Rt. Hon. Sajid Javid MP
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State Home Office
2 Marsham Street London
Dear Mr. Javid,
The British Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2018
We understand that the Joint Committee on Human Rights is scrutinising the proposal for a draft British Nationality Act (Remedial} Order 2018. We believe this proposed Order provides an opportunity to start the process in remedying discrimination against children, who are now adults, born outside overseas territories between 1947 to 2006 to British Overseas Territories' fathers. These children are denied the retrospective right to claim their fathers' nationality by descent simply for the fact they were born out of wedlock.
In 2014, children (now adults) who were born to British citizen fathers' in the same circumstances i.e. out of wedlock, were given a right to retrospectively claim their father's nationality. The omission of the British Overseas Territories from a Bill (section 65 Immigration Act 2014) which amended the British Nationality Act 1981 granting this right was recognized at its third reading.
At that reading Lord Taylor, for the Government, in response to the late Lord Avery's concern, advised Parliament that "Changes to those provisions require consultation with the territories concerned and this has not been possible in the time available. However, I assure my noble friend that the Government will look for suitable opportunities to discuss this issue with the overseas territories once the provisions are implemented."
We believe the Remedial Order presents such a suitable opportunity. Therefore, we urge the Government to give proper consideration to this matter and remedy this unequal footing under nationality law by providing the same right retrospectively to the children of British Overseas Territories' fathers, as is granted to British citizen fathers'.
Eric L Bush JP


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'(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction,' 45 Years Later
Forty-five years ago, the Rolling Stones brought rock to the dark side.
ByMICHAEL MURRAY
May 6, 2010, 5:20 PM
May 6, 2010— -- Forty-five years ago, a sleepy Keith Richards was playing his guitar and a riff stuck in his head, so he took his tape player and recorded the riff along with the words, "I can't get no satisfaction."
The next morning, he and vocalist Mick Jagger finished the Rolling Stones classic. They recorded it as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," and it went down as one of the greatest songs of all time.
The summer of 1965 was full of singles still heard blasting from stereos today -- including "Help Me, Rhonda" by The Beach Boys, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by The Byrds and "I Got You Babe" by Sonny & Cher.
But they all were overshadowed "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." The single won a gold record award by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling 500,000 copies, giving the Stones the first of many gold discs in the United States.
"It is probably the most famous rock and roll song of all time," said Stanley Booth, an American music journalist who spent a lot of time touring and hanging out with the Rolling Stones and wrote a biography of the group, "The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones."
"There were so many great songs that summer," Glenn Gass, a professor at the School of Music at Indiana University, told ABC News, "and it still claimed that summer."
When the track was released, it shot to the top of Billboard's Hot 100 chart and stayed there for four weeks in July 1965.
More recently, Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at second on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."
In 2006, it was added to the Library of Congress National Recording Registry.
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, the song wins acclaim on that front as well, with covers by artists as varied as Otis Redding, Devo and Britney Spears.
Keith Richards Riffing While Passing Out
The song was born late one night as Richards sat in bed, waiting to pass out.
"Keith is always holding a guitar," Booth told ABC News. "If you go to his house, or one of his houses, he's always sitting on a couch or on the floor, picking his guitar.
"Keith never really fell asleep," Booth added. "He would pass out. The riff was derived from being on the nod. He finally got high enough to fall asleep and he came up with the riff. ... The next morning, he played back the cassette tape recorder he had on his bed the night before and he thought it was cute."
Following that night, Richards laid the riff on front man Mick Jagger in a hotel room in Clearwater, Florida.
"That was how they worked," Booth said. "Keith would play eight bars and Mick would usually relate it back to something he was doing with a girl that he probably wasn't supposed to be doing.
"Jagger wrote the song while sitting by the pool in the middle of a plastic culture," Gass said. "The whole cacophony of America is probably what he was trying to capture with his music."
The song was part of a turning point in rock music that had been dominated by the intensely popular Beatles, who had popularized a lighter form of rock.
The song, influenced by Bob Dylan's song "Subterranean Homesick Blues," Motown and blues riffs, was a "great 'no' to the Beatles' 'yeah'," Gass said.
"There was a time when you had to choose between the Beatles and the Stones," Gass added.
But "Satisfaction" cut through the bright music being made by the Beatles "like a knife," he said.
"They were already going strong, but that song put them in the Beatles' stratosphere of rarified air," Gass said.
However, for any aspiring musicians, it is important to note that legends are not born of laziness.
"I've never seen anybody in any genre work as hard as the Stones," Booth said.
So keep practicing, and make sure you take a listen to what comes out as you strum, sitting on your bed. You never know what you might stumble upon.


We've got an exciting week ahead of us at Business Science: we're launching our first ever Business Science Demo Week. Every day this week we are demoing an R package: tidyquant (Monday), timetk (Tuesday), sweep (Wednesday), tibbletime (Thursday) and h2o (Friday)! That's five packages in five days! We'll give you intel on what you need to know about these packages to go from zero to hero. First up is tidyquant, our flagship package that's useful for financial and time series analysis. Here we go!
tidyquant: What's It Used For?
We'll go over first two points in this demo. See the documentation for other topics.
If you don't have it installed, install tidyquant.
Load the tidyquant package, which is all you need for the demo.
Use tq_get() to get data from the web. There's a bunch of API's it connects to including Yahoo! Finance, FRED Economic Database, Quandl, and more!
Pass a vector of stock symbols to tq_get() setting get = "stock.prices". You can add from and to arguments to bound the daily stock prices to a window.
We can plot the results very easily using ggplot2. We'll use tidyquant themes (theme_tq() and scale_color_tq()) for nice financial / business-ready graphs.
This example comes from Deputy Chief Economist at Freddie Mac, Leonard Kieffer's recent article A (TIDYQUANT)UM OF SOLACE. We'll use tq_get() with the argument get = "economic.data" to retrieve data from the FRED economic database.
Pass a vector of FRED symbols to tq_get().
Like the financial data, we can plot the results very easily using ggplot2. We'll again use tidyquant themes (theme_tq() and scale_color_tq()) for nice financial / business-ready graphs.
The tq_transmute() and tq_mutate() functions are used to apply xts, zoo, and quantmod functions in a "tidy" way. We'll jump right into how to use, but see below for Available Functions that are integrated into tidyquant.
The difference between tq_transmute() and tq_mutate() is that tq_transmute() returns a new data frame whereas tq_mutate() grows the existing data frame width-wise (i.e. adds columns). The tq_transmute() function is most useful when periodicity changes the number of rows in the data.
Here's an example of changing the periodicity from daily to monthly. You need to use tq_transmute() for this operation because the number of rows changes.
If you need to change periodicity and do other time-based operations, pay attention on Thursday when we demo the new tibbletime package… tibbletime takes time-based operations such as period changes to another level!!!
Much clearer when changed to a monthly scale via tq_transmute().
The tq_mutate() function returns the existing data frame column-binded with the output of the xts-based operation. Because of this, tq_mutate() is most useful when the number of columns returned is more than one (dplyr::mutate() doesn't work in these situations).
An example of this is with lag.xts. Typically we want more than one lag, which is where tq_mutate() shines. We'll get the first five lags plus the original data.
select = adjusted, We only want the adjusted column to be kept. We can leave blank or select a different subset of columns to be returned in addition to the output.
mutate_fun = rollapply, This is the xts-based function that will be applied in a "tidy" way (to groups).
width = 5, The width argument tells rollapply how many periods to use in the window calculation.
by.column = FALSE, The rollapply() function defaults to applying functions to each column separately, however we want it to consider all columns in the operation.
FUN = quantile: The quantile() function is applied in a rolling fashion.
probs = c(0, 0.025, ...), These are the probabilities that will be returned.
na.rm = TRUE, Instructs quantile to remove NA values if present.
##    symbol       date adjusted   X0.  X2.5.  X25.  X50.  X75. X97.5.
We've just briefly touched on the xts-based functions that are integrated with tq_transmute and tq_mutate. There are a lot more xts-based functions that can be applied in a "tidy" way! Use tq_transmute_fun_options() to investigate other available functions.


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Q: Snell's law for classical particle? I was thinking whether there is any analogous Snell's Law for classical particles.
for example I have a problem where a particle (in 2D) crosses a boundary separating potential $U_1$ and $U_2$. It enters the boundary with angle $\theta_1$ with the normal to the boundary.
I wanted to find the $\theta_2$ that the particle makes with the boundary when it has entered the new region.
If there isnt any Snell's law for classical particles, How to solve this problem ??
Are the energy and momentum conservation equations enough?

A: Newton has done this for you!
He used his ideas about Mechanics and assumed that the component of velocity of the corpuscles (the name he gave to the particles of light) perpendicular to the interface, as they moved from one medium into another medium, changes due to the change in the potential, whereas the components of velocity parallel to the interface did not change as there were no forces in that direction, so $v_1\sin \theta_1= v_2\sin \theta_2$.
So the refractive index $=\frac{\sin \theta_2}{\sin \theta_1} = \frac{v_1}{v_2}$ which from your diagram means that the speed of light is less in medium $2$ than in medium$1$ which  was later shown experimentally to be incorrect.

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Published by chiefengineer at August 16, 2016
Central Park Medical College The Health and Education foundation was established after extensive consultations undertaken by a group of overseas Pakistani doctors from the United Kingdom led by Dr. Ahmad Tanvir Naqvi & Dr. Asif Abbas Naqvi, who wanted to contribute in medical education and medical service delivery in Pakistan. It was however recognized that in order to establish a workable organization one must have collaboration with a Pakistani based group. This came about in the form of Mr Mian Tahir Javed, Mr Riaz Chohan and Mr Ashfaq Mahmud Khan who are businessmen and Philanthropists. Further support came from a USA based educationist Mrs. Uzma Rafiq.We can take pride in fact that we have developed a purpose built Campus in 26 Acres of land in periphery of Lahore where extensive developments are already taking place. The campus promises to be one of the most beautiful and state of the art establishment. The Campus consists of Medical school building, girls and boys hostels with ample social services for the students and teachers. It has most up-to-date medical education center with modern Library equipped with online Journal facility. It has learning resource centre which will have network throughout the institution.


You are a business owner and have been for quite some time. You have become a "jack of all trades". From managing a team to hiring new people and at times even answering calls, you have done it all. In truth, you now understand the complete picture of your business. You have employed people to perform those tasks which you cannot.
Work is dished out depending on qualifications and professional requirements. All in all, you have a good grip over your business. By now, you would have ran into a few times that you would have needed specialized services as not everything can be carried out in-house.
This may be because of limited knowledge, lack of space, financial benefits etc. The reason could vary, but the answer lies in outsourcing. This is where you need to use professional service providers.
If you are willing to pay the right price, you can outsource any job. However, if you outsource everything you could minimize your control. It is advisable to outsource only those jobs that require huge investment and are required to be performed by experienced and skilled professionals. These professional service providers can perform the task faster and with more accuracy than any internal team would be able to. Let us now look at some of the activities that are best performed by professional service providers.
When it comes to legal matters you have to be at the top of your game and can't fake ignorance. Therefore, this is one job best left to those who know the intricacies involved inside-out, aka lawyers. As a business owner, you will be adhering to certain rules and regulations, entering into contracts with employees and third-party's and filing litigation. All this makes for a lot of legal work that needs to be filed. You also need to understand the legal mumbo-jumbo. Only a lawyer can fully comprehend the matter at hand and provide the correct legal advice, draw up papers and fight a case in a court of law. Therefore a professional legal service provider is a better bet every day of the week.
Accounting is another area where you could use professional help. Yes, you could employ people to do this. But, how will you judge their capability when you don't understand the work itself? Skilled accountants can help you manage your finances, do audits, assist in tax planning, advice on all matters that have financial ramifications and look for government grants. Therefore, this is another job best left for the experts.
All businesses rely heavily on IT. There is a lot of business that is conducted solely over the internet. Information technology has seamlessly integrated itself in all aspects of business. Again you are no IT expert even if you are, it's nearly impossible to concentrate on running your business and on IT management. Managing IT is not a part-time job which can be managed in intervals. It requires continuous monitoring, processing, and upgrading. All of which can be draining on time, money and finances. Therefore, professional service providers like Dorks are there to lend a helping hand. We provide IT support management and application development for a wide array of clientele. Focusing on specific needs we work in-sync with the clients business model. As professional service providers, we can help you streamline your systems and operations management, implement hi-tech solutions to uphold the security, integrity, uptime, and accountability of all internal system processes.
Another activity which is the job of specialised professionals is marketing. This is mainly because it involves being on top of market trends at all times. Running a business is full-time work. How will you create more hours in a day to do marketing as well? Marketing experts not only know what works but are also equipped to continuously innovate and modify for maximum return.
How to Choose Professional Service Providers?
Choosing the right professional service provider is a matter of proper research and due diligence.
Getting referrals is the easy part. Ask fellow entrepreneurs, and other professionals, post queries and check the internet. You can also inquire with various professional associations and government agencies that have interest in the same field. The idea is to get to know some key players.
Contact some of these players to see if they would be interested in working with you. If yes, ask them if they would be interested in getting down to details.
The idea here is to match the skill-set to your requirements. Many times the professional service providers come with preconceived notions concerning your business requirements. Make sure to describe your needs clearly so that you can get tailormade solutions that suit your business.
Pricing is at times a game-changer. Discuss the pricing structure and the payment structure in detail. This needs to fit your budget and expectations. As a business owner, keep in mind the fact that costly does not mean the best. Be aware of the service delivery and what happens when expectations are not met, this could be a misunderstanding in a contract that was written by a solicitor or unexpected downtime. Make sure you are aware of what you are getting for your money. Most of the time when you are starting out, you don't need the best. Depending on the model of your business you might be able to make do with a more cost effective service that might not have the uptime guarantees that a premium service offers.
No matter what the professional service provider claims, it is best to check and validate their credentials, ask for testimonials if they have not been provided.
1. When it comes to dealing with professional service providers there are a few ways in which you can keep the costs in check. These go a long way in keeping you and your business financially happy.
2. Firstly, as already stated above, you don't always need the best. Hence, instead of concentrating on a big name, try to look for expertise.
3. Some tasks are straightforward and simple. You don't need a highly qualified professional to look after them. In order to handle such tasks employ paralegals, bookkeepers etc., on your own payroll, keep the difficult tasks to be outsourced.
4. Always keep your records organized, memorandums written and documents indexed. Otherwise a professional will charge you an hourly rate for doing it. Doing your own footwork will keep your expenses in check as long as it's not at the expense of time that you could be earning more doing something else.
5. Refrain from making impromptu calls to the professional service provider. Depending on their procedures and process you could be billed for every 6 minute amount. A quick Google and you will be surprised how much of this could actually have been cut down.
6. Don't just always rush to your lawyer for each and every dispute. First, try to settle them on your own. You can ask your legal counsel for guidance in such cases.


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/**
 * getControl
 *
 * @param  {object} propType The propType we want the control for
 * @return {component}       The rendered control for the propType
 */

import React from 'react';
import has from 'lodash/has';
import DummyControl from '../components/controls/base/DummyControl';
import defaultControls from '../components/controls/defaultControls';

const getControl = (propType, propMeta) => {
  const controlType = propMeta && propMeta.controlType ? propMeta.controlType : propType.name;
  const constraints = propMeta && propMeta.constraints ? propMeta.constraints : {};
  const controlProps = {
    // If something is required, don't randomise it to null/undefined
    required: propType.required,
    constraints,
  };

  if (has(defaultControls, controlType)) {
    const Control = defaultControls[controlType].control;
    controlProps.propTypeData = propType;
    return <Control {...controlProps} />;
  }

  return <DummyControl />;
};

export default getControl;


Entrepreneurship is very important because it changes the way of your work and lives. Entrepreneurship is the way you organize your business, the risk that you get and the profit, the profit/loss you generate in your business.
As an entrepreneur, you can become a wealthy person and also create a wealth for your family and society, from which you belong.


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James Larsen [detail] by Arthur B. Rickerby / 1956,Gelatin silver print / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Wanda Rickerby
In Memoriam: Don Larsen, 1929–2020
January 6, 2020 - February 3, 2020
Born Michigan City, Indiana
In the 1956 championship series pitting the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers, Yankee hurler Don Larsen entered the record books by pitching the first and only perfect game in World Series history. With the series even at two wins apiece, Larsen took the mound for game five and, inning by inning, proceeded to retire each Dodger batter he faced. In the top of the ninth, with two outs and the count on pinch hitter Dale Mitchell standing at one ball and two strikes, Larsen unleashed a pitch that zoomed over the plate for a called third strike to end the game. By retiring twenty-seven consecutive batters without allowing a single hit or base on balls, Larsen had achieved pitching perfection.
In this dramatic image, press photographer Arthur Rickerby not only captured Larsen's delivery of the game-winning pitch but preserved the perfect game tally on Yankee Stadium's centerfield scoreboard.
James Larsen, (1929-2020) [detail] by Arthur B. Rickerby (1921–1972) / 1956, Gelatin silver print / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / NPG.95.385 / © Wanda Rickerby


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Q: Obtaining the power of most powerful test Let X be a random variable having the probability density function f which belongs to
$f_{0}$,$f_{1}$. The $f_{0}$ is from uniform distribution, $U(0,1)$ while $f_{1}$ is also uniform with $U(0,2)$.
For testing the null hypothesis $H_{0}:f=f_{0}$ versus the alternative hypothesis $H_{1}:f=f_{1}$ based on a single observation on X, the power of the most powerful test of size $\alpha =0.05$ will be?
I know, from the Neyman Pearson lemma, that the most powerful test is the ratio of likelihood functions under the alternative and null hypothesis. But, all the problems that I solved, the critical region used to come as a function of sample values. But in this problem, I am not able to get a critical region. If someone help me in the critical region, I am able to find the power of the test. Thanks in advance.

A: The most reasonable test has power 50% and significance 0. Not a formal proof, but:

*

*If the null hypothesis is true, the single observation X will lie in $(0,1)$

*If the null hypothesis is false, the single observation X will lie in $(0,2)$

*Therefore, the only reasonable test (for any $\alpha$ below 50%) is to accept the null hypothesis if X lies in $(0,1)$ and reject it if it lies in $(1,2)$.

*If the nul hypothesis is false, the probability of getting X in $(1,2)$ is 50%, and then power of the test is 50%.

However, you could increase the power by using $\alpha=0.05$. You just need to reject the null hypothesis for a 5% of observations falling within $(0, 1)$, and since both under the null and the alternative hypothesis all points in $(0, 1)$ have the same probability, it doesn't matter how you decide for which 5% of points you reject the null hypothesis. For example, the following methods would be fine:

*

*Rejecting the null hypothesis for all values over 0.95

*Randomly deciding whether to reject with probability 5% in $(0, 1)$ and always rejecting in $(1, 2)$ (as suggested in Björn's comment).

This way, if the null hypothesis is false the, probability of rejecting it (aka power) is $0.5·0,05+0.5=0.525$, although you wouldn't use this test for a practical purpose.


'Pente' is the Greek word for 'five' and 'athlon' is the word for 'contest'.
1) In the ancient Olympics, naked athletes competed against each other in the long jump (from a standing position), javelin, throwing a discus, running and wrestling. This ancient competition was revived for the 1906 modern Olympics in Athens (although the competitors were allowed to wear clothes).
2) The pentathlon was then modified for the 1912 games when the standing long jump and Greco-Roman wrestling was replaced by the modern long jump (with a run up) and the 1500m race. This competition was discontinued after the 1924 games.
3) The modern pentathlon was introduced in 1912 (alongside the more classical pentathlon). This event continues to this day and features fencing, swimming, show jumping and the combined running and shooting.
4) The pentathlon for women was introduced in the 1964 games in Tokyo and included hurdling, shot put, high jump, long jump and 200 metre race.
5) The women's event was changed in 1976 with the hurdles over 100m and the running over 800m. The event was replaced by the women's heptathlon in 1984.


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Nov 30, 2018 - Economy & Business
AT&T's new subscription streaming service will have 3 tiers
Sara Fischer, author of Axios Media Trends
Photo: Robert Alexander/Getty Images
AT&T says that the new streaming service it plans to launch during the fourth quarter of 2019 will have three tiers to target all types of customers.
Why it matters: The service would provide similar flexibility to rival Netflix, which also offers three different streaming tiers, allowing it to lure customers to better compete against its more-established competitor.
Details: The tiers...
Entry level package: This package will provide only movies from AT&T's content database, including films from WarnerMedia's movie studio, Warner Bros., and its premium cable channel, HBO.
Premium service: This will include additional premium content and movies.
Bundled package: This package combines content from the first two packages, plus more content from the WarnerMedia suite, which could include television programming from WarnerMedia's cable channels — truTV, TBS, TNT, CNN, etc.
Between the lines: One a call with investors Thursday, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson suggested that he would consider selling off some of the company's assets to be able to foot the bill for AT&T's streaming ambitions, even teasing that he could sell AT&T's 10% stake in Hulu, which was obtained through its acquisition this summer of Time Warner.
The bottom line: Analysts seem happy with AT&T's plans and positioning around WarnerMedia. "We believe AT&T's analyst day was constructive and should help ease concerns around growth and pathway to deliver," writes UBS in an analyst note.
Go deeper:
AT&T's new media overhaul
AT&T posts strong earnings with help from WarnerMedia
AT&T to launch a Netflix competitor late 2019