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The Call of a Trauma Alert
On June 12, 2016, shortly after two o'clock in the morning, 36 patients were rushed into to the Level One Trauma Center at Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) in only 36 minutes. Due to the close proximity of ORMC to the scene of the Pulse attack, there were no warnings, no overhead trauma alerts for the team; the injured just started coming. While, understandably, any emergency department would feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of patients and critical injuries, our trauma team staff quickly and calmly took control. Relying on their training, after a few deep breaths, everyone began to work together as a team.
"We drilled for this," Dr. Michael Cheatham, Chief Surgical Quality Officer for ORMC, says about the Pulse incident. "There is no way to prepare for the reality of such an event, but everybody stepped up to the plate. It was a huge team effort." Because the specially-trained staff at ORMC had prepared for a mass casualty incident multiple times, team members knew what to do, where to be and what their role was.
What's a Mass Intake Drill?
On April 6, 2017, four counties in central Florida, 80 agencies, 26 hospitals, and over 1,000 volunteer victims participated in a Full-Scale Community Exercise to train for a possible mass intake incident ranging anywhere from a terrorist attack to an epidemic. Since 2010, Orlando Health has participated in 11 of these drills and ORMC received 201 victims in the latest drill.
"I want everyone to be ready. I want to make sure all of the hospitals in our system are best prepared for what may impact us and that we are able to care for the sick and injured in our community," explained Eric Alberts, Corporate Manager, Emergency Preparedness at Orlando Health.
During a normal 24-hour shift in the Trauma Center, staff can see anywhere from 15 to 25 patients. Patients present with several injuries – a fall from a roof, electrocution received during a home improvement project, a motor vehicle accident and more. When any one patient arrives, 12 to 15 team members are ready and waiting for them. In a mass intake drill, trauma team members practice the art of scaling back what seems like an unlimited amount of resources for one patient, to finite resources for multiple patients.
What lessons from Pulse were incorporated into this year's drill?
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"I love my job," said Sarah Duran, RN. "I get to see patients on their worst day and help make them feel better. Trauma team staff are lucky enough to care for patients on both an emotional level and physical level, offering both spiritual and medical support."


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Naturalistic perennial planting: the low-effort, high impact gardening technique we should all be trying
By Mary Keen 16 March 2019 • 10:30am
Pictured: housing estate, Sheffield, sown with Pictorial Meadows seed mix by Nigel Dunnett Credit: Jane Sebire
How exciting for gardeners to have such an important and different book from Nigel Dunnett, professor of planting design and vegetation technology at Sheffield University. (Sheffield is world famous for its landscape architecture course). His new book, Naturalistic Planting Design: the Essential Guide (Filbert Press, £35), encourages gardeners to explore new territory with planting schemes.
For those, like me, who have never quite cottoned on to the new perennial movement – too blokey, too blocky – here is a different way of gardening with nature. The low-input, high-impact schemes devised by Prof Dunnett bridge the gap between horticulture and ecology, while introducing more emotion and colour than we have come to expect outside traditional gardens. Every page is – literally – brilliant.
Prof Dunnett admits that he never disregards the pleasure that traditional gardening gives. There are pictures of the nut walk at Sissinghurst and of the painterly impressionistic borders at Sleightholmedale Lodge in Yorkshire which he admires; Christopher Lloyd, the arch experimenter, was a great influence. But what most inspires him are powerful experiences in nature. "Dramatic flowering landscapes or landscapes where there's a rhythmic, almost hypnotic repetition of forms and textures" are, he says, "uplifting, joyful, overwhelming".
Think of being in a bluebell wood – that is the kind of immersive feeling he wants to create with his plantings. He writes: "One of my primary aims in designing, is to produce an emotional response in the viewer." How often do you get a gasp of pleasure in a carefully tended garden?
People gasped with pleasure at the Olympic Park plantings, which were designed by Prof Dunnett with his colleague Prof James Hitchmough. (Prof Hitchmough also teaches on the landscape architecture course at Sheffield, where his focus is designed ecology). In inner-city Sheffield, the urban meadows they planted lit up people's lives. In my last garden, visitors gasped and my life was lit up when I grew the annual Classic Pictorial Meadow mix.
Prof Dunnett developed these seed blends as an alternative to traditional herbaceous and perennial planting. His mixes only mimic wild flower meadows, because they contain no grasses and very few wild flowers. They are an idealised version of nature. But these enhanced annual and perennial meadows perform much more reliably on a variety of soils than wild flowers and are the result of years of trials and research.
Prof Nigel Dunnett, of the University of Sheffield, at the Barbican Credit: Marianne Majerus
Naturalistic Planting Design takes gardeners a step further than sowing ready-mixed seed. It aims to explain the thinking behind designing in a naturalistic way, so that gardeners can create their own flower-packed schemes. In America as well as Europe, the new perennial movement has seen many styles and techniques of planting. But this may be the first contemporary book to put design and aesthetics before the technical mastery of plant behaviour. There is surprisingly little on what to plant; the core message of the book is more how you arrange it, than what to grow. Prof Dunnett is writing a second book, a companion volume, which should be out next year. This will be the one for detailed plant lore.
What has always struck me about most new perennial plantings is how bewildering and vast they are. Prof Dunnett has some interesting things to say about prospect and refuge, how you need a safe place to survey a prairie or a steppe, which he refers to as "basic framing needs". So, controlling views, providing pinch points – elements that we are used to organising in gardens – are still relevant. Also, Prof Dunnett often uses shrubs to anchor his plantings, which are more reminiscent of Lloyd's mixed borders at Great Dixter than are most new-wave designs.
The work flow
Legibility, which is the antidote to bewilderment, is another Nigel Dunnett tenet. He writes: "There has to be a recognisable internal organisation to the planting for it to work." One of his favourite ways of doing this, is with an echo of the painter Hogarth's line of beauty. This is a curving line, a sinuous S running through the scheme, which guides the placing of the main structural plants. Another device is to plant in constellations, so you have a cluster of plants, with a few outlying ones that mingle with those that have strayed from another constellation. This happens in nature, when plants seed around a parent plant. Imposing fluid design principles allows the viewer to absorb the logic of the planting, leaving them free to react emotionally to the overall picture.
The hardest precept for gardeners who want to grow everything, is that of not using too many plants in flower at once. The Dunnett allowance is three, so waves of interest and colour succeed each other throughout the year. This is tricky to follow and I did spot it being broken in some of the terrific illustrations that illuminate the text. Repetition is another rule. Long ago, Lanning Roper, who was the go-to elegant garden designer of the Sixties and Seventies, used to say: "Don't be afraid to repeat good plants to get cohesion." Legibility is just another name for cohesion. A collection of plants, one of this and one of that, will always end up exhausting and puzzling the onlooker.
Pictorial Meadows seed mixes were designed for urban settings and derelict land Credit: Marianne Majerus
Then there is colour. Colour has not been the word that springs to mind in modern grass-dominated gardens. Brown yes, but zingy, bold and brilliant, as championed by Sarah Raven and Great Dixter, is not what is uppermost when admiring a new perennial scheme. Higher things like form and structure are what we are supposed to think about. But here is Prof Dunnett saying, "for me, colour is fundamental," and that it is important not to get stuck in a rut of tastefulness.
He shows pinks, purples and blues, with a dash of contrasting orange at Trentham, where his prize-winning scheme is celebrated for dramatic use of colour. At the Barbican, another Dunnett triumph, the brutalist architecture now surrounds a changing palette of lime green euphorbia, with scarlet Tulipa praestans 'Fusilier', followed at midsummer by Achillea 'Terracotta', with white Lychnis coronaria 'Alba', purple Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna' and scarlet Crocosmia 'Lucifer'.
Paul Klee and the impressionists inspire his painted landscapes. If you plan a garden for waves of successional colour throughout the year, then you can change the colour scheme with the seasons. The Dunnett way of gardening is dynamic. Follow him on Instagram and you will see that, in his own garden at home, the planting is just as exciting as it is in the public spaces where he has worked as a designer.
Mean and lean planting
The book is not quite as easy to follow as the professor suggests. He is, after all, an academic, so the text repays careful study. If you want a real grasp of the subject, you need to understand the diagrams and explanations of plant phenology, which are rarely average picture book topics. This is definitely not another lovely "coffee table" volume, with vague, get-the-look indications, but a book to keep and return to for its invaluable and proven research. Anyone who follows a quarter of the advice here can expect to find that their gardens become much livelier and more colourful places.
Putting ecology first can seem worthy and often drab, but "working with nature to create the most beautiful, wonderful, joyful, uplifting and engaging places", as Prof Dunnett urges his readers to try, turns environmental awareness into a marvellous celebration of life and flowers.
Naturalistic Planting Design by Nigel Dunnett (Filbert Press, £35). Buy for £30 at books.telegraph.co.uk or call 0844 871 1514.
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Dr Alana Barton is a Reader in Criminology. Her research and teaching interests include the politics of punishment, criminological epistemology and pedagogy, zemiology and agnotology. Her book 'Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities: Two Centuries of Semi-Penal Institutionalisation for Women' was published by Ashgate in 2005 and was nominated for the Hart Socio-Legal Studies Award and the British Society of Criminology Book Prize. She is co-editor of 'Expanding the Criminological Imagination' (2007) and 'Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination' (2018). She has worked on various large-scale research projects and has presented papers at numerous academic conferences in the UK, USA, Canada, Greece and Russia. She has co-edited three special editions of the Prison Service Journal (with Dr Alyson Brown) and is currently working on publications examining the challenges to the 'criminological imagination' posed by neo-liberal shifts in education and the political and social construction of ignorance (with Dr Howard Davis).
BSc (Hons) Psychology, Manchester Polytechnic, 1989
PhD Criminology/Criminal Justice – 'Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities', Liverpool John Moores University, 2001
CRI1016 – Power, Knowledge and Crime
CRI3110 – Politics of Imprisonment
CRI3114 – Learning Together: The Sociological Imagination (with HMP Thorn Cross)
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Prisons and prison 'tourism'
Austerity and the 'war on the poor'
Criminological epistemology and pedagogy
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Barton A and Davis H (Eds, 2018) Ignorance, Power and Harm: The Study of Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination, Palgrave
Barton, A., Davis, H. and White, H. (2018) 'Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination' in Barton, A. and Davis, H. (Eds) Ignorance, Power and Harm: The Study of Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination, Palgrave
Barton, A. and Hobson, A. (2017) 'Learning to Fail? Prisoners with Special Educational Needs', Prison Service Journal, No.232
Barton, A (2017) 'Semi-Penal Institutions' in Tuner, J., Taylor, P., Morley, S. and Corteen, K. (Eds) Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Policy Press.
Barton A and Brown A (June 2017) 'Prison Tourism' in Tuner, J., Taylor, P., Morley, S. and Corteen, K. (Eds) Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Policy Press.
Barton A & Davis H (2016) 'From empowering the shameful to shaming the empowered: Shifting depictions of the poor in 'reality TV'', Crime, Media, Culture (published online before print, 24 November)
Barton, A. and Brown, A. (2015) 'Show Me The Prison! The Development of Prison Tourism in Britain". Crime, Media, Culture. Vol 11 (3): pp 237-258.
Barton, A. and Davis, H. (2015) 'Neo-liberalism, Higher Education and Anti-Politics: The Assault on the Criminological Imagination', in Frauley, J. (ed.), C W Mills and the Criminological Imagination, Ashgate.
Barton, A. and Davis, H. (2013), 'The Politics of Crime and the Crimes of Politics: Where Does Criminology Stand in the "War on the Poor"? European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control: Autumn Newsletter.
Barton, A. & Cooper, V. (2012), 'Hostels and Community Justice for Women: The 'Semi-penal' Paradox', in Malloch, M. & McIvor, G. (eds.) 'Women, Punishment and Social Justice: Human Rights and Penal Practices', Routledge.
Barton, A. & Brown, A. (2012), 'Dark Tourism and the Prison', Prison Service Journal,No 199, pp. 44-49.
Barton, A. (2011), 'A Woman's Place? Uncovering Maternalistic Forms of Governance in a 19th Century Reformatory', Family and Community History, 14 (2), pp89-104.
Barton, A. & Brown, A. (2011), 'Dartmoor: Penal and Cultural Icon', Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 50 (5) pp478-491.
Barton A., Corteen K., Davies J. & Hobson A. 'Reading the Word and Reading the World: The Impact of a Critical Pedagogical Approach to the Teaching of Criminology in Higher Education' (2009) International Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 21 (1) pp. 24 – 41.
Barton A., Corteen K., Scott D. & Whyte D. (eds) (2007), 'Expanding the Criminological Imagination: Critical Readings in Criminology', Willan.
Barton A. (2005), 'Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities: Two Centuries of Semi-Penal Institutionalisation for Women', Ashgate.
Barton A. (2005), 'Incapacitation' and 'Just Deserts', in Bosworth M. (ed) (2005), Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities, Sage.
Barton, A. 'Women and Community Punishment: The Probation Hostel as a Semi-Penal Institution for Female Offenders'(2004)Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol 43, No.2, pp. 149-163.
Barton, A. 'Responding to Punishment in the Community: Conformity as Resistance in a Women's Probation Hostel' (2002) British Journal of Community Justice, Vol 1, No 3, pp. 37–49.
Mair, G. & Barton, A. 'Drugs Throughcare in a Local Prison: A Process Evaluation' (2001) Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, Vol 8, No 4, pp. 335-345.
Barton, A. 'Wayward Girls and Wicked Women: Two Centuries of Semi-Penal Control' (2000) Liverpool Law Review, Vol 22, pp. 157-171.
Barton, A. & Evans, R, (1999) 'Proactive Policing on Merseyside', Home Office Police Research Group.
Roberts, K., Barton, A., Buchanan, J. & Goldson, B. (1996) 'Evaluation of a Home Office Initiative to Help Offenders into Employment', Home Office.
Barton, A. & Brown, A. (2014) 'Prison Tourism: Past and Present', Representing Penal Histories: Displaying and Narrating the Criminal Past Conference, SOLON, Nottingham Galleries of Justice, Jan 2014.
Barton, A & Brown, A. (2012) 'Prison Tourism and the Search for Ethical Authenticity', Criminal Justice, History and Activism Conference, University of Liverpool, June 2012.
Barton, A. (2005), 'Reflecting on the Research Process: Partial Identification and the Dilemmas of Standpoint Methodology', American Society of Criminology Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Roach, L. & Barton, A. (2004), 'Local Life: The Experience of Serving a Life Sentence in a Local Prison', American Society of Criminology Conference, Nashville, USA.
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| SIBARIUM: Fear the ballot
Aaron Sibarium
SIBARIUM: Fear the ballot
Aaron Sibarium 2:40 am, Nov 07, 2014
I've heard quite a bit about voting the past couple weeks. It's your civic obligation. Make your voice heard. If you do not vote, you are apathetic and have no right to your opinions. If you do not take the time to educate yourself on the issues and cast an informed ballot, you will have committed an unparalleled sin against democracy. Oh, and by the way, Governor Malloy has a far superior record on jobs.
This kind of rhetoric is more than disrespectful; it is fundamentally counterproductive to healthy political engagement. Our commonplace vilification of perceived indifference reveals a dangerous attitude toward voting that devalues the responsibility democracy ultimately entails.
Equating a failure to vote with moral apathy is pure non sequitur. I personally disagree with the decision to not vote as a way to express disenchantment with current political norms. I think to not vote is to resign oneself to the hands of electoral caprice. But to say political abstinence disbars one from a right to hold opinions is absurd.
I question the sanity of whoever believes our current system is anything close to a healthy paradigm of democracy. It's one thing to dispute the logic of abstention, another to contemptuously brand its proponents apathetic. For some, the act of not voting constitutes a kind of civic engagement unto itself, a refusal to make an unconscionable endorsement of a broken political environment.
That is not my view. But those who subject this position to vitriolic invective are frighteningly optimistic about the challenges of making an informed decision.
Even the most militant Facebook apologia usually recognizes the importance of coming to an educated conclusion — but what happens when you do your research and just can't decide? Self-assured dogmatists may try to explain away this uncertainty by saying no two candidates are ever equal. But that misses the point. It is entirely possible for someone to weigh the facts and still feel unsure of their judgment, to the point he or she questions the wisdom of casting a vote. That is humility, not apathy.
Perhaps this person could have come to a decision with more research. But if one has not yet come to decision, has a problem set due the next
day and is organizing an a cappella concert for charity, one may think it best to just let more qualified citizens head to the polls. I do not claim this is always the right decision, but it is certainly understandable. Far from signifying apathy, not voting in this case demonstrates principled restraint and suggests an appreciation of the ballot's power.
Never mind the presumption that everyone has unlimited time. Never mind that indifference between two candidates is not the same as civic apathy. Never mind that most people telling you to vote for whomever you like have already changed their profile picture to Malloy or Foley. There is a more fundamental issue here: democratic levity.
We are so indoctrinated into the cult of democracy that we treat voting like a happy bipartisan celebration and then slander all who demur this glorious festival. But I have a different view.
I think true civic responsibility is impossible without fear.
Votes do matter. They change lives. When you vote, you affect millions of men, women and children. And that should terrify you, the knowledge that if you choose wrong, you could be condemning a family to life on the street. The knowledge that, if you choose wrong, you could be responsible for a bank default or a school shooting.
Bombastic advocates of voting become harmful when they grow blind to the gravitas of their own freedoms. I wonder if some of our "unpatriotic" peers feel frightened to take responsibility for the lives of millions. Maybe they feel unqualified to do so. Maybe they are.
Fear is a dark but necessary ingredient for democracy to flourish. To indict all who stay home on Election Day is social coercion. It promotes an imprudent mode of political engagement antithetical to the core of representative governance.
I sincerely hope all who did vote Tuesday were sweating when they finished. I hope they thought of the lives they bettered or, perhaps, destroyed.
I hope. But I doubt it.
Aaron Sibarium is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu.


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Home Auto News GM faces unexpected bills as India-China tensions delay sale of plant: Sources
GM faces unexpected bills as India-China tensions delay sale of plant: Sources
GM had planned to use the expected sale proceeds of $250 million-$300 million to pay off liabilities incurred with its exit from manufacturing in India.The company had stopped selling in the country at the end of 2017 after years of low sales but the factory currently builds vehicles for export.
| Updated on: 17 Sep 2020, 12:54 PM
General Motors' efforts to take a rival to task for allegedly inflating its labor costs suffered a major blow with the dismissal of its racketeering lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler. (AFP)
Delays to General Motors' sale of its Indian plant to Great Wall Motor due to tensions between India and China are likely to result in hefty unplanned costs for the US automaker, people familiar with the matter said.
Gaining Indian government approval for China-related deals is now expected to take quite some time and although the sale should still happen at some point, GM has not changed its plan to begin winding down the plant's operations next month, they said.
"By next year, it will either be a closed GM site or it will be an operating site with Great Wall," said one source.
GM had planned to use the expected sale proceeds of $250 million-$300 million to pay off liabilities incurred with its exit from manufacturing in India in what a second source said would have been a "no gain-no loss" situation.
(Also read: GM to manufacture own 'family' of EV drive systems, motors)
Although money will come through once the deal is done, it will now have to pay out of pocket for severance pay, some of which would never have occurred had the deal proceeded smoothly, as well as other costs - which could amount to a couple hundred million dollars, according to the second source.
Sources also said severance pay costs could be much higher than usual due to lack of clarity about the deal's prospects and workers' demands for greater relief given the low chances of finding new jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The sources were not authorised to discuss the deal and spoke on condition of anonymity.
GM stopped selling in the world's second most populous nation at the end of 2017 after years of low sales but the factory continues to build vehicles for export. Located in the western state of Maharashtra, the plant employs about 4,000.
(Also read: General Motors, Honda seek alliance to share car platforms in this country)
If workers don't agree to the severance offered, GM will need local government clearance to lay off staff. That is often a long, bureaucratic process which could help stoke worker protests or political opposition, the sources said.
GM said in a statement it continues to work toward ending production at the plant and closing the deal with Great Wall. Great Wall did not respond to a request for comment.
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FILE PHOTO: The GM logo is pictured at the General Motors Assembly Plant in Ramos Arizpe, state of Coahuila, Mexico October 7, 2019. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril (REUTERS)
The sale was announced in January and had been slated to close in the second half of 2020. Just when it might proceed remains highly uncertain.
In April, India introduced stricter rules for investments from China and other neighbouring countries aimed at preventing pandemic-hit Indian companies being taken over at bargain prices. A number of central government ministries are now required to sign off on the deal, instead of just Maharashtra state.
Then in June, a deadly border clash between the two nations resulted in a further clampdown on Chinese businesses and Maharashtra put three investment proposals from Chinese companies, including Great Wall's, on hold.
(Also read: GM encouraged by global recovery, but no intent of 'short-term pop' for stock)
Further complicating matters, GM and Great Wall did not seek central government approval until late July, the sources said.
Investment proposals from Chinese companies are unlikely to be approved until tension at the border dissipates, two central government officials told Reuters.
India's finance and commerce ministries did not respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Great Wall "now feels it is impossible to finish the transaction this year," a company source said.
(Also read: Nikola and Rivian's appetite for risk is real prize for General Motors, Ford)
The hold-up has made the Chinese automaker nervous as it had planned to launch its first India-made car in the first half of 2021, said a separate person aware of the plans.
The company, which plans to invest $1 billion in India, has started hiring staff, including executives to run the plant, and is in talks with auto parts suppliers, the person said.
But even after the central government greenlights the project, Great Wall will still need more than three months to finalise investment terms with Maharashtra state and to revamp the plant, the person added.
First Published Date: 17 Sep 2020, 12:53 PM IST
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Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Statement Concerning Ibrahim Halawa
Ahead of Ibrahim Halawa's next scheduled hearing date of the 13th December, a date which also marks Mr. Halawa's birthday, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission ("The Commission") has expressed its deep continuing concern in relation to his situation and detention. Mr. Halawa has now been detained without trial in Egypt since August 2013,…
Concerns Over "Deficit in Protection" for Victims of Human Trafficking
A Council of Europe evaluation of Ireland's action against trafficking in human beings is to be told that the State is failing to act to sufficiently protect trafficking victims in Ireland. With the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission ("The Commission") pointing to a "deficit in the protection of, and assistance provided to victims of…
Ireland Must Ratify UN Disability Rights Treaty
-State Now the Last EU Member to Ratify UN Treaty for People with Disabilities – Advice to government, published today from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission ("the Commission") has warned that people with disabilities in Ireland risk being further excluded from decisions, which impact their daily lives, from employment to voting. Ireland today…
Taoiseach's Historic Commitment to Traveller Ethnicity Must Be Delivered
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Гай Кла́вдий Пульхр (; умер после 91 года до н. э.) — древнеримский политический деятель из патрицианского рода Клавдиев, консул 92 года до н. э.

Происхождение
Гай Клавдий принадлежал к одному из самых знатных и влиятельных патрицианских родов Рима, имевшему сабинское происхождение. Первым носителем когномена Пульхр («Красивый») стал предок Гая в пятом поколении Публий, один из сыновей Аппия Клавдия Цека и консул 249 года до н. э. У отца и деда Гая, согласно Капитолийским фастам, были преномены Аппий и Гай соответственно; предположительно Аппий — это консул 143 года до н. э..

Мать Гая принадлежала к плебейскому роду Антистиев. Младшим братом Гая был Аппий Клавдий Пульхр, консул 79 года до н. э.; на сестре Гая был женат Тиберий Семпроний Гракх.

Биография
Рождение Гая Клавдия исследователи датируют приблизительно 141/136 годом до н. э. Его политическая карьера началась в 105 году до н. э. с должности квестора. В 104 году до н. э. он был одним из монетных триумвиров, а в 100 году принял участие в борьбе с народным трибуном-популяром Луцием Аппулеем Сатурнином. Марк Туллий Цицерон в числе аристократов, которые явились к храму Санка, чтобы взять оружие из общественного хранилища и принять участие в решающей схватке, называет и Гая Клавдия. Возможно, именно этого нобиля имеет в виду Орозий, когда пишет, что союзник Сатурнина Гай Сервилий Главция спрятался в доме некоего Клавдия, но его оттуда вытащили и убили.

В 99 году до н. э. Пульхр был курульным эдилом и в этом качестве организовал роскошные игры: римские зрители впервые увидели слонов, а сцена цирка впервые была раскрашена в разные цвета. Позже Гай Клавдий председательствовал в суде, где рассматривались дела об отравлениях, а в 95 году до н. э. занимал должность претора. В этом качестве он возглавлял суд по делам о вымогательствах; сенат именно ему поручил составить для города Галесы в Сицилии закон о выборах. В последующие годы Пульхр был куратором дорожных работ.

Вершиной карьеры Гая Клавдия стал консулат 92 года до н. э., совместный с плебеем Марком Перперной. Поскольку последний был незнатным и довольно пожилым человеком, Ф. Мюнцер предположил, что он получил должность исключительно благодаря поддержке Пульхра. Во время следующих выборов коллеги помогли стать консулом Луцию Марцию Филиппу, который кому-то из них приходился родным племянником по матери. Известно также, что Гай поддержал своего брата Аппия на выборах в эдилы, но тот всё равно потерпел поражение. Во время консулата Пульхр доложил сенату о «мятеже» народного трибуна Гнея Папирия Карбона, поскольку последний не распустил народное собрание, когда начались беспорядки. Выслушав доклад и мнение о нём Луция Лициния Красса, сенат признал, что трибун стремился к «насильственным действиям».

После консулата Гай Клавдий уже не упоминается в источниках. По-видимому, он умер вскоре после 92 года до н. э.

Интеллектуальные занятия
Марк Туллий Цицерон включил Гая Клавдия в перечень ораторов в своём трактате «Брут». По его словам, Пульхр был посредственностью и выделялся на общем фоне только благодаря своим знатности и влиянию.

Потомки
Сыном Гая Клавдия мог быть Аппий Клавдий Пульхр, военный трибун в 87 году до н. э. Согласно одной из гипотез, именно Аппий был родным отцом Марка Ливия Друза Клавдиана, отца Ливии Друзиллы.

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New measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein's theory of General Relativity
Artistic representation of the Sun, the Earth and the Moon with the space-time curvature of Einstein's General Relativity over the spectrum of sunlight reflected from the Moon. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC).
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Article (A&A): "The solar gravitational redshift from HARPS-LFC Moon spectra"
An international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has measured, with unprecedented accuracy, the gravitational redshift of the Sun, a change in frequency of the lines in the solar spectrum which is produced when the light escapes from the gravitational field of the Sun on its way to Earth. This work, which verifies one of the predictions of Einstein's General Relativity, is to be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
The General Theory of Relativity, published by Albert Einstein between 1911 and 1916, introduced a new concept of space and time, by showing that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time which is felt as gravity. In this way, Einstein's theory predicts, for example, that light travels in curved paths near massive objects, and one consequence is the observation of the Einstein Cross, four different images of a distant galaxy which lies behind a nearer massive object, and whose light is distorted by it.
Other well known effects of General Relativity are the observed gradual change in Mercury's orbit due to space-time curvature around the "massive" Sun, or the gravitational redshift, the displacement to the red of lines in the spectrum of the Sun due to its gravitational field.
The gravitational redshift is an important effect for satellite navigation systems such as GPS, which would not work if General Relativity was not put into the equations. This effect depends on the mass and the radius of an astronomical object, so that even though it is bigger for the Sun than for the Earth, it is still difficult to measure in the solar spectrum.
In 1920, Einstein wrote: "For the Sun, the theoretical redshift predicted is approximately two millionths of the wavelength. Whether this effect really exists is an open question, and astronomers are currently working hard to resolve it. For the Sun, its existence is difficult to judge because the effect is so small".
To measure it, the scientists have used observations of the solar spectrum reflected from the Moon, obtained with the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial-velocity Planet Searcher) instrument using the new technology of the laser frequency comb.
"Combining the precision of the HARPS instrument with the laser frequency comb, we have been able to measure with high accuracy the position of the iron lines in the solar spectrum", explains Jonay González Hernández, a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the IAC and first author of the article. "This has enabled us to verify one of the predictions of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, the gravitational redshift, to a precision of just a few metres per second".
"New measurements with the laser frequency comb attached to the ESPRESSO spectrograph, on the 8.2 m VLT telescopes, would allow us to improve these measurements", adds Rafael Rebolo, a researcher and the Director of the IAC and a coauthor of the article.
Other researchers at the IAC who have participated in this work are Alejandro Suárez Mascareño and Borja Toledo-Padrón, who used the LFC (Laser Frequency Comb) attached to the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), at the La Silla Observatory (Chile).
Article: González Hernández, J. I., Rebolo, R., Pasquini, L., et al. "The solar gravitational redshift from HARPS-LFC Moon spectra. A test of the General Theory of Relativity." A&A, 2020: arXiv_2009.10558: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.10558.pdf DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038937
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Satellite galaxies can carry on forming stars when they pass close to their parent galaxies
Historically most scientists thought that once a satellite galaxy has passed close by its higher mass parent galaxy its star formation would stop because the larger galaxy would remove the gas from it, leaving it shorn of the material it would need to make new stars. However, for the first time, a team led by the researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Arianna di Cintio, has shown using numerical simulations that this is not always the case. The results of the study were recently published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).


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We've all heard how acrimonious separation and divorce can be; after all, it's understandable that there may be feelings of hurt, anger and bitterness.
Sometimes this leads to intractable disputes which can only be resolved by the intervention of a court. If the court takes over, it may impose a solution which neither party really wants, leaving you feeling helpless and dissatisfied with the whole process.
Well, there is an alternative – known as "collaborative law".
Traditionally, when couples split up, each takes independent advice from a family lawyer, and working through their lawyers they try to reach an agreement on how best to settle their differences. The parties lawyers negotiate on their behalf … how to share the money and property of the marriage, or how to care for the children after the separation.
In collaborative law, instead of the parties solicitors negotiating on their behalf, the parties and their solicitors sit down together to work things out face-to-face, to find a solution which works for everybody.
Of course to make this work requires people with the right frame of mind, and expert family lawyers who have been trained to work in this way.
You and your partner will need to share a desire to make this work, to find a solution to your problems rather than simply arguing about what you want or what you think you're entitled to.
For those who have a genuine desire, this approach can be hugely successful; you remain in control of the process; you set the agenda, so you talk about the things that matter to you most; you set the pace, so you're not bound by court dates or obligations to file documents with the court. You will still have the benefit of expert legal advice, and ultimately the key decisions remain yours to make.
For couples who genuinely seek a fair solution, and who want to minimise the pain of family breakdown, collaborative law can offer you and your partner the best solution.
Simon Nellar is a collaborative family lawyer and would be happy to tell you more about the process.
For further information please contact Simon Nellar on 01904 528383 or email sfn@hethertons.co.uk.
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Harrison, O. C. February 16, 1922.
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and two others and was provided by Baylor County Free Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this issue can be viewed below.
Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner. (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 16, 1922, newspaper, February 16, 1922; Seymour, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth992647/: accessed April 22, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Baylor County Free Library.


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Millions in South African Lottery Grants Administered by Chicken Farmer
Автор: Raymond Joseph and Roxanne Joseph
A school in a remote town in South Africa owned by a chicken farmer with a checkered business history was chosen by that country's national lottery to handle almost US$ 3.7 million in grant money intended to help poor or under-served communities.
Logo of South African National Lottery (Credit: wikimedia.org).
Anomalies in the records of the national lottery make it difficult to tell how much of the money reached its intended recipients, or whether the school was legally entitled to receive the funds in the first place.
The National Lottery Commission regulates the lottery, which has paid out 44 percent of its annual receipts to charity since 2002 using a grant system.
Tsietsi Maselwa, the head of legal services for the lottery commission, insists that the transactions met all legal requirements and said, "the commission funds non-profits as long as basic requirements are met."
The grants in question were uncovered using a data analysis tool built by OpenUp, a non-governmental civic tech organization, to help journalists easily search through all disbursements made by the lottery since it was launched in 2002. The South African probe is part of a transnational investigation into the worldwide lottery industry by a group of 40 journalists and several publications in different countries.
Using the tool, reporters examined 15 years of lottery grants, pinpointing how much was handed out, who got the grants, and why. They determined that in 2015 and 2016, the lottery gave nearly US$ 3.7 million to a school owned by businessman and farmer Humbulani Tshifhango to give out as sub-grants to other organizations.
The lottery sometimes uses a "conduit" system to send money to small or new organizations that do not meet the lottery's stringent requirements. Conduits are usually bigger, more established organizations that are supposed to distribute the grants to the ultimate recipient.
Tshifhango runs the Konani Pfunzi Learning Centre, a private school in the Limpopo province bordering Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The school was chosen as a "conduit" for two grants: one for a nationwide drought relief program and one to support a tribal heritage festival.
Both projects related to the grants appear to have been implemented as intended.
Asked why a tiny school in a small town with less than 180 pupils taught by 14 teachers was chosen to handle one of the 25 largest grants ever awarded by the lottery, a spokesperson said that "every application that meets the criteria/requirements and qualifies will be funded, no matter its size."
A tangle of documents
Officially, the contract was given out in the name of the school: the Konani Pfunzi Learning Centre.
Tshifhango is the director of the school, which has been registered as a private business since 2003. The lottery is not supposed to give money to for-profit businesses. The school does however have a related non-profit arm, also called the Konani Pfunzo Learning Centre.
Maselwa is adamant that the non-profit received the grant and to prove his point, he produced a scanned copy of a Department of Social Development (DSD) certificate stating that the school's related non-profit arm, the Konani Pfunzo Learning Centre, was registered as a non-profit organization, on Aug. 17, 2004.
A search of the DSD registry of non-profits reveals that the registration number on the certificate Maselwa provided is actually that of the "Konani Pfunzo Foundation", rather than "Konani Pfunzo Learning Centre."
A DSD spokesperson explained it this way: The organization was originally registered with the DSD as the Konani Pfunzo Learning Centre in 2004, but changed its name to Konani Pfunzo Foundation in December 2016, almost a year after the second grant was paid out.
Meanwhile, the Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission (CIPC), a registry of private companies, shows that a private company with the slightly different name -- Konani Pfunzo Comprehensive Learning Centre -- was first registered in 2003 as a for-profit business entity. In 2010, it converted to a for-profit limited liability company.
Tshifhango did not reply to numerous requests for clarification or comment. His other businesses, ranging from a fresh produce supplier to transport and property companies, were most registered at the same address in Limpopo.
Over the past seven years, at least three of his enterprises have been struck off the registry, while a fourth is currently undergoing the process, according to corporate records maintained by the CIPC. It is not clear why.
Lottery commission officials would not say how they came to pick Tshifhango's school as a conduit.
Boreholes and Another School
The lottery commission's annual reports show that Konani Pfunzo received about US$ 270,000 in 2015 and about US$ 3.4 million in 2016 for the two grants. The reports indicated that the larger amount was intended for Operation Rehydrate, a project to sink 200 boreholes in a search for new water supply in four provinces across South Africa. The smaller amount was for a Ndebele heritage festival (The Ndebele are a people who live primarily in South Africa's Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces; Ndebele is one of the country's 11 official languages.)
The paperwork trail was even more difficult to follow because the borehole project was actually managed by yet another organization: the Tshikovha Graduate Academy, which has no other connection to Tshifhango and was only registered as a non-profit company in January 2016, around two months before the money was paid out and the first boreholes were drilled.
As the academy was too new, and therefore did not have the financial reporting history to legally receive the funds, the money was channeled through Konani Pfunzo, lottery commission members said.
The academy is linked to Tshikovha Environmental and Communication Consulting, which was first registered as a closed corporation in 2005. In June 2017, its status changed to "private company." Tshikovha's sole director, Ngwedzeni Moudy Mudzielwana, is also a director of the academy. The non-profit and the private company share premises and phone numbers.
Financial records filed with the DSD by Konani Pfunzo Learning Centre make no mention of lottery funds (or similar amounts) in either 2015 or 2016. A request for clarification to the school's auditors has not been answered. Because Tshikovah Academy is newly registered, it has yet to file its first financial statement with the DSD.
Maselwa, the lottery commission's legal representative, said he had no problem with any of this. In a written response to reporters' questions he said the regulations were relaxed in 2015 to allow "small or emerging non-profits to get funding."
Technically, he said, even a non-profit organization registered just a day ago can ask the commission for funding.
Asked how Konani Pfunzo had been chosen as a conduit, Maselwa did not address Konani Pfunzo specifically but said the commission doesn't need a formal request or application from an organization: the minister or the commission on its own can pick out a recipient.
The borehole project was never put out to tender, Maselwa said, adding that the lottery commission does not need to follow state bidding and tender procedures.
Another puzzling aspect of the borehole grant is that its amount varies depending on the source.
The commission's 2016 annual report records Konani Pfunzo as having received 55.4 million rand (about US$ 3.4 million) in 2016, while its Annual Performance Plan 2017-2018 (see page 16), a 2016 Stakeholders Update, and a news release published on its website all give its value as 50 million rand (about $3.07 million).
A lottery spokesperson could not explain the almost US$ 307,000 discrepancy, but insisted "the total allocation was for drought relief." Maselwa agreed that the "full" US$ 3.4 million had gone to the borehole project. By law, any organization that acts as a conduit is limited to charging a fee amounting to five percent of the project value, but the fee is not to exceed US$ 11,200 (at current rates).
A series of spreadsheets provided by the lottery provided comprehensive details of dozens of boreholes dug as part of the project in remote villages throughout South Africa.
The second project funneled through Konani Pfunzo was a grant of just over US$ 270,000 (2015 rates) for "Ndebele Culture and Heritage Restoration," a festival to promote the Ndebele culture.
Lottery officials said that in this case, Konani Pfunzo acted as a conduit for the Silamba Trust to receive the grant. Again, they did not say how the school was selected.
But a search of the DSD's database of non-profit organizations and of the Department of Justice's records found no trust under that name. Several online references, such as this one or this one, can be found referring to the trust, named after the late Ndebele King Silamba.
Lottery officials said they were satisfied that the festival took place as intended, and that they had received the required reports from the grantee, but did not provide copies of the reports upon request.
Investing in the People
Back on Tshifhango's farm, things seem to be going well.
Maanda Bele, a reporter from the Limpopo Mirror posing as a customer wanting to buy a free-range chicken, visited the farm in Matanda, a village about 105 kilometers from the Zimbabwe border.
A man who told Bele he was Tshifhango's brother, took the reporter on a tour of the farm. He said machines were used to clean and package chickens. Bele said "There appeared to have been large investments in the farm, including an extensive irrigation system."
The Nzhelele area of Limpopo, where the village is located, has serious water shortages. The brother boasted about how many jobs they were creating as they worked to build a large chicken packaging plant and to supply fresh vegetables to local businesses.
"It's a big farm with a beautiful house with a big, silver-gray Mercedes Benz parked outside," Bele said. "There were lots of people working on the farm and we saw a young boy wearing a Lotto t-shirt playing outside."
This article was researched and written with support from Trust Africa, a non-governmental organization which funds journalism, research and advocacy projects.
It is also part of the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium, a collaborative effort between OCCRP and Transparency International to fight corruption by combining investigative journalism and grassroots activism.
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Q: Photon-mirror collision I'm trying to implement a simple simulation of a box of photons, to demonstrate mass-energy equivalence, and relativistic time dilation. I want to be able to push the box around interactively. As I understand it, two effects should emerge from this simulation if I implement it properly:

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*The photons should increase the mass of the box through radiation pressure.

*As the box moves faster, the photons should slow down relative to the box, approaching zero as the box approaches c.

But, I'm not sure how to model the box-photon collisions. Looking through Wikipedia, I found classical collision models, and statistical scattering models, but nothing that applies to a single, massless particle.
My best guess is that momentum is conserved:
$$
m\vec{v}_{box} + \vec{p}_{photon} = m\vec{v}'_{box} + \vec{p}'_{photon}
$$
and energy is conserved:
$$
{m\over2}|\vec{v}_{box}|^2 + |\vec{p}_{photon}|c = {m\over2}|\vec{v}_{box}'|^2 + |\vec{p}_{photon}'|c
$$
and angle is reflected about the normal $\vec{n}$:
$$
\vec{v}'_{photon} = \vec{v}_{photon} - 2(\vec{n}\dot{}\vec{v}_{photon})\vec{n}
$$
and solving that system will give me $\vec{v}'_{box}$ and $\vec{p}'_{photon}$.
But I'm skeptical that this is correct, and I'd like to know if this subject is already documented somewhere.

A: Photons always travel with velocity c, by construction of the theory that includes photons. It is only  light that can change velocity because it is an emergent phenomenon from a quantum mechanical superposition of innumerable photons . (AFAIK the slowing of light needs a medium) .
Elastic scattering is the same whether one is talking of the photon or other  particles .

A perfectly elastic collision is defined as one in which there is no loss of kinetic energy in the collision. An inelastic collision is one in which part of the kinetic energy is changed to some other form of energy in the collision. Any macroscopic collision between objects will convert some of the kinetic energy into internal energy and other forms of energy, so no large scale impacts are perfectly elastic.

Think of a ball bouncing off a wall. The velocity of the wall due to the collision is very close to  zero, momentum conservation is easy to achieve .
Your  "box-photon collisions." fall into the framework  of a macroscopic collision , because  the box is a macroscopic object. Because of the large mass of the box the velocity of the box needed  to achieve momentum conservation is practically zero,  and within measurement errors, which means, even though the photon will lose some of its energy to the box, the energy  change is so small that it cannot be measured.  Note that energy  change in a photon is seen as a frequency change because $E=hν$,not a velocity change.

A: You have to use elastic scattering, when a photon gives part of its energy to a system, and changes angle.
The photon gives the box part of its energy as kinetic energy, thus slowing it down (compared to light), and to an external observer this will give the box rest mass.
That is why some say an electron or quark is like a box that has energy in it, photons or gluons, that gives them rest mass to an external observer.

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What is the difference between the Public Service and the Civil Service of Ghana?
The public service of Ghana covers a broad range of institutions/organizations which are paid for by the State to provide state services to the public. The Public Service includes the Civil Service. The Civil is the bureaucrat wing of the government responsible for running government's offices or departments. Refer to Article 190(1)a of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.
THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF GHANA
Refer, Article 190 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana
(1) The Public Services of Ghana shall include –
the Civil Service,
the Judicial Service,
the Audit Service,
the Education Service,
the Prisons Service,
the Parliamentary Service,
the Health Service,
the Statistical Service,
the National Fire Service,
the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service,
the Internal Revenue Service,
the Police Service,
the Immigration Service; and
the Legal Service;
(b) Public corporations other than those set up as commercial ventures;
(c) Public services established by this Constitution; and
(d) Such other public services as Parliament may by law prescribe.
(2) The Civil Service shall, until provision is otherwise made by Parliament, comprise service in both central and local government.
(3) Subject to the provisions of this constitution, an Act of Parliament enacted by virtue of clause (1) of this article shall provide for –
(a) the governing council for the public service to which it relates;
(b) the functions of that service; and
(c) the membership of that service.
(4) For the purposes of this article "public corporation" means a public corporation established in accordance with article 192 of this Constitution other than one set up as a commercial venture.
How can one gain employment into the Ghana Public Service?
Recruitment into lower-level positions, that is the Deputy Director position and analogous grades and below has been decentralized to the various public services.
You may contact the respective public service organisations or their websites for detailed recruitment processes and procedures.
Recruitment into the Director positions and above, are done by the President acting upon the advice of the governing Board/Council and in Consultation with the Public Services Commission of Ghana.
What are the general conditions for recruitment into the Public Services of Ghana?
There must be an available vacancy
There must be confirmation of Financial clearance by the Ministry of Finance
The applicant must have the relevant qualification and experience required for the position
The applicant must pass an assessment interview and/or examination
Applicant must be medically fit for the job
Be a Ghanaian and at 18 years and above.
When can one apply for a job position in the public services of Ghana?
When a vacancy is declared, and an advert is posted either in the daily newspapers on the website of the Agencies
Please note unsolicited applications will be put into the database of the agencies and may be used when the need arises
What does the selection process involve?
The selection process will be spelt out in the job advertisements and may include writing of examination and physical examination depending on the agency recruiting
Only shortlisted candidates are invited to oral interviews or to progress to the next level of the selection process
Except in the security services, selection process into any position in the public services will have at least one formal interview
The panelists for the assessment interview for positions below the rank of the deputy director will include a representative from the Public Services Commission
Successful candidates are issued appointments letters by the Head of the Service/Institution
The Public Services Commissions chairs all interview panels for the Director and above grade office holders and are usually conducted within the premises of he Commission
The Public Services Commission issues appointment letters to successful candidates upon receipt of a signed Advice Paper from His Excellency the President
How and where do I express my satisfaction or dissatisfaction about my experience with a public service?
You may express your satisfaction or otherwise as indication of degree of satisfaction or dissatisfaction per the statements below:
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Written by Count Yegor Frantsevich Kankrin (Егор Францевич Канкрин) (16 November 1774 – 10 September 1845) as a three volume set in 1820, it followed his service in the Russian Army as a Commissary during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1823, he was appointed Finance Minister, a post he would hold for the next 21 years, his most singular achievement being the reform of the Russian currency.
His book on military supply expands on Clausewitz's theme that armies can best live by requisitioning from the local authorities and can, in most circumstances live without magazine supply, which he considers limits the manoeuvrability of armies. However he goes further than Clausewitz, giving detailed statistics on the availability of supplies in seven categories of terrain from highly cultivated lands to desert, with examples of actual countries or provinces that correspond to these categories. Using these statistics and calculations on the supply requirement of a typical corps, he shows the method of supply needed for each of these terrain categories, highly cultivated terrain can support a corps by requisitioning and quartering, medium cultivated terrain is the same with the support of some magazine supply, lightly cultivated terrain requires magazine supply and limits the size of the army, while semi-desert and desert can only support small forces.
Bibliographic listing: Kankrin, Y. F. Uber Die Militairokonomie Im Frieden und Krieg, und Ihr Wechselverhaltniss zu den Operationen.
Free e-book version on Google books. Band-1 Band-2 Band-3 Please note that the Google numbering is incorrect but the correct volume number is shown in German on the title page.
Krankrin's book is unclear as to the area of land required by his typical Corps for foraging in his seven categories of terrain and their associated population density. However Clausewitz does give an indication of the area of land needed to sustain a Corps of 30,000 men for a couple of days when the population density is 2,000-3,000 inhabitants per Q Meile (35-55 people per km sq) which is a square of 2 Q Meile sides (15 km) or an area of 4 Q Meile (225 km sq). By combining these two approaches it is possible to quantify Krankin's model.


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Q: Failure to Execute UPDATE Query in ASP.net using VB I have been searching in several forums including this one about the trouble I am currently facing.
Currently I am developing a website using Visual Studio 2017 and the database runs with MS Access 2007. The problem I am facing is perhaps not an error, because it does not show any error messages, although I have put Try and Catch on my codes.
So I am trying to execute an UPDATE query for a table I have in Access but it fails to update. The purpose is to update a table called 'DataDiriKaryawan'.
Prior to updating, I SELECT the data per 'nip' (ID as primary key) and display it on my web form by calling Function 'isi' on page_load. Then users are able to edit the data based on preexisting data.
 Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
    Session("editval") = "WAMB17001"
    isi()
End Sub

  Protected Sub isi()
    Dim dr As OleDb.OleDbDataReader
    Dim nip As String = Session("editval")

    Try
        Using command As New OleDb.OleDbCommand("SELECT * FROM DataDiriKaryawan WHERE NIP='" & nip & "'", mdl_koneksi.connection)
            dr = command.ExecuteReader
            dr.Read()

            lblnip.Text = dr.GetValue(0)
            txtnamadepan.Text = dr.GetValue(1)
            txtnamabelakang.Text = dr.GetValue(2)
            txtnoktp.Text = dr.GetValue(3)
            txtnonpwp.Text = dr.GetValue(4)
            txtalamatktp.Text = dr.GetValue(5)
            txtkabktp.Text = dr.GetValue(6)
            txtprovinsiktp.Text = dr.GetValue(7)
            txtkodeposktp.Text = dr.GetValue(8)
            txtnegaraktp.Text = dr.GetValue(9)

            txtalamattgl.Text = dr.GetValue(10)
            txtkabtgl.Text = dr.GetValue(11)
            txtprovtgl.Text = dr.GetValue(12)
            txtkodepostgl.Text = dr.GetValue(13)
            txtnegaratgl.Text = dr.GetValue(14)

            txtkontak1.Text = dr.GetValue(15)
            txtkontak2.Text = dr.GetValue(16)
            txtkontakdarurat.Text = dr.GetValue(17)
            txthbgn.Text = dr.GetValue(18)

            If dr.GetValue(19) = "Laki-laki" Then
                rblaki.Checked = True
            Else
                rbperempuan.Checked = False
            End If

            txtnikah.Text = dr.GetValue(20)
            txtjmlhanak.Text = dr.GetValue(21)
            txttmptlahir.Text = dr.GetValue(22)
            txttgllahir.Text = dr.GetValue(23)
            txtpendidikan.Text = dr.GetValue(24)
            txtnorek.Text = dr.GetValue(25)

            command.Dispose()
            connection.Close()
            dr.Close()

        End Using
    Catch

    End Try

Upon editing of data in web form then the UPDATE query is executed.
Private Sub simpan()
    Dim nip As String = Session("editval")

    Try
        Using command As New OleDb.OleDbCommand("UPDATE DataDiriKaryawan SET nama_depan=@nama_depan, nama_akhir=@nama_akhir, ktp_no=@ktp_no, no_npwp=@no_npwp, alamat_ktp=@alamat_ktp,
        kota_ktp=@kota_ktp, provinsi_ktp=@provinsi_ktp, kodepos_ktp=@kodepos_ktp, negara_ktp=@negara_ktp, alamat_tgl=@alamat_ktp, kota_tgl=@kota_tgl, provinsi_tgl=@provinsi_tgl,
        kodepos_tgl=@kodepos_tgl, negara_tgl=@negara_tgl, cp1=@cp1, cp2=@cp2, kontak_darurat=@kontak_darurat, hbgn_kontak=@hbgn_kontak, jenis_kelamin=@jenis_kelamin, status_nikah=@status_nikah,
        jmlh_anak=@jmlh_anak, tempat_lahir=@tempat_lahir, tgl_lahir=@tgl_lahir, pendidikan_terakhir=@pendidikan_terakhir, rek_niaga=@rek_niaga WHERE NIP='" & nip & "'", mdl_koneksi.connection)
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@nama_depan", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtnamadepan.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@nama_akhir", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtnamabelakang.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@ktp_no", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtnoktp.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@no_npwp", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtnonpwp.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@no_npwp", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtnonpwp.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@alamat_ktp", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtalamatktp.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@kota_ktp", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtkabktp.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@kota_ktp", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtkabktp.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@provinsi_ktp", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtprovinsiktp.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@kodepos_ktp", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtkodeposktp.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@negara_ktp", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtnegaraktp.Text

            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@alamat_tgl", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtalamattgl.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@kota_tgl", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtkabtgl.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@provinsi_tgl", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtprovtgl.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@kodepos_tgl", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtkodepostgl.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@negara_tgl", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtnegaratgl.Text

            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@cp1", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtkontak1.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@cp2", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtkontak2.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@kontak_darurat", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtkontakdarurat.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@hbgn_kontak", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txthbgn.Text

            If rblaki.Checked = True Then
                command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@jenis_kelamin", OleDbType.Char)).Value = rblaki.Text
            Else
                command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@jenis_kelamin", OleDbType.Char)).Value = rbperempuan.Text
            End If

            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@status_nikah", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtnikah.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@jmlh_anak", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtjmlhanak.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@tempat_lahir", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txttmptlahir.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@tgl_lahir", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txttgllahir.Text

            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@pendidikan_terakhir", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtpendidikan.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@rek_niaga", OleDbType.Char)).Value = txtnorek.Text
            command.Parameters.Add(New OleDb.OleDbParameter("@NIP", OleDbType.Char)).Value = lblnip.Text

            command.ExecuteNonQuery()
            command.Dispose()
            connection.Close()
            Session("editval") = ""
            Page.Response.Redirect("FrmRedirectInsertData.aspx")
        End Using
    Catch ex As Exception
        lblpesan.Visible = True
        MsgBox(ex.Message)

    End Try
End Sub

Then Function 'simpan', containing the UPDATE query is called in btnsimpan.click.
Protected Sub btnsimpan_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnsimpan.Click
    simpan()
    Session("editval") = ""
End Sub

Now here are the anomalies:

*

*Despite having try catch, I am not shown any error messages. The web form just refreshed to the same data as previous and the table in MS Access is not updated.

*If I did not call Function 'isi' on page_load to fill the web form with preexisting data, the UPDATE query works very find.

*I have used the same methods and codes in other forms for different tables and it worked just fine.
I have been spending a couple of days now, trying to compare the tables in Access and codes in Visual Studio and I have found no difference of codes and settings/properties.
Thus, I may need your kind assistance to solve this problems. Cheers!