Every year, Hong Kong hosts one of Asia's biggest event dedicated to promoting French culture, arts, entertainment and more in the month of May. Le French May is a time to celebrate, learn and participate in that is contemporary and past works of art and culture in France.
This year, the festival has on offer since the beginning of this month the year's highlight exhibition. Entitled School of Nice – From Pop Art to Happenings, the exhibition brings together masterpieces documenting the last major art movements in post-war France and illustrating the city's remarkable contribution to the history of art in the 1960-70s from the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMAC) in Nice.
This exhibition is the opening programme of Le French May 2018 and is exclusively sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust.
The exhibition will feature over 100 art pieces from MAMAC including paintings, photographs, sculptures and objects, demonstrating artists in Nice, who were driven to extend their creativity into the artistic new realms and found New Realism, Fluxus, happenings and Pop Art such art movements. The artists featured in the exhibition includes Yves Klein, Arman, César and more.
The School(s) of Nice created its own version of Pop Art, even more radical and daring than in America. Artists in Nice pioneered the international Pop Art movement. Martial Raysse and Arman preceded Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist in their use of consumer goods and in their fascination with the entertainment industry, including mass tourism. The sculptures of Cesar and the wooden panels of Gilli are among the most iconic images of French Pop Art.
The exhibition is closing in Hong Kong on this coming Sunday, May 27, 2018. If you are in town, don't miss this free event! For more information on the exhibition, please visit their official website.
With special thanks to the Le French May media/organization team for provision of all information and photos. Copyright of all images belong to their rightful owners.


The bouncy obstacle course was the most popular afternoon item at the Hebert's community block party.
Together the Hebert family, Lions Club, Sparwood Overwaitea and several other sponsors and volunteers held a "block party" over the weekend to draw the community together for fun, food and good company. An inflated obstacle course spanned the length of two lawns and the smell of burgers on the grill filled the air. Many residents of Sparwood and some from out of town attended and enjoyed a great fall day.


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Annual military lounge opens for holidays at Atlanta's airport
By Britney Walker, U.S. Army Forces Command Public AffairsDecember 8, 2010
1 / 1 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Left to right) Greg Kennedy, vice president of airport customer services for Delta Airlines; Mary Lou Austin, president USO of Georgia, Inc.; and Howard C. Butler, deputy commander of U.S. Army Garrison Fort McPherson and Fort Gillem; cut the ribbon during the opening ceremony of the 41st annual Military Holiday Lounge at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. (Photo Credit: Britney Walker, U.S. Army Forces Command Public Affairs) VIEW ORIGINAL
ATLANTA (Dec. 7, 2010) - The 41st annual Military Holiday Lounge at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport's Concourse B at gate 33 is now open to serve military service members and their Families for the holidays.
Howard C. Butler, deputy commander of U.S. Army Garrison Fort McPherson and Fort Gillem, and 17 of his Soldiers were invited to participate in the opening ceremony as guests from the nearest military installation to the airport.
Hosted by current and retired Delta Airlines employees and their family members, the lounge is a safe haven for the thousands of Soldiers, sailors, airman, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and their Families who travel through the world's busiest airport each holiday season. It provides free personal hygiene items, beverages, baked goods and snacks to military service members. It is also a place where they can relax, watch a movie, listen to holiday music, and give their children a place to play games and make crafts.
Delta's Military Lounge is also supported by several corporate sponsors, which allows military service members to participate in these resources at no cost. The lounge serves an average of 7,267 people each season. 2010 marked the lounge's busiest season, serving 11,700 military service members.
The lounge is open to active duty and retired military members and their Families seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., until Jan. 5, 2011. Operated by a core team of nine Delta employees, the lounge is also staffed by more than 100 volunteers from all over the United States and from overseas. The volunteers donate their time to make the holidays less stressful for our nation's men and women in uniform who are forced to travel during the holiday season.
Lorenzo Jones, a retired Delta employee, has volunteered at the lounge everyday it was open during the last two years. When asked why, he said, "Despite recently having both a stroke and a heart attack that left my entire left arm paralyzed, I just want to serve these people."
The holiday lounge also attracted about a half-dozen military travelers during its ribbon cutting ceremony. These military members were not formally invited, but happened to walk by the lounge and decided to step in to check it out.
Brig. Gen. Mark Corson, 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, was on his way back to Iraq when he saw the lounge's sign. "I had no idea that Delta had a military lounge that has been in operation (during the holidays) for the last 41 years," said Corson. "I love folks who are looking out for Soldiers. Thanks to Delta, there is now a safe place for Soldiers to rest in the secure area of the airport." This lounge really says something about how the people of America support us, Corson said.
In addition to Delta's Military Holiday Lounge out on the concourse, the United Service Organizations (USO) also operates a military lounge year round in the airport's main terminal on the second floor above the atrium. USO is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1941 to provide morale, welfare and recreation services to military personnel and their Families. Known as the Jean R. Amos USO Center, the facility at the airport is operated by the USO Council of Georgia, Inc. For information about the airport USO, call 404-761-8061 or visit the USO website at http://www.usogeorgia.org/volunteer.html
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The Hilton Garden Inn Phoenix Downtown invites you to grab a drink and take in a new perspective of our city from the hotel's rooftop sun deck. Located on the 13th floor, this hideaway in the sky, known as Floor 13, is open to the public every Friday evening beginning at 6 p.m.
Upon arrival, you'll find a bar, plenty of comfy seats, couches and loungers, and a breathtaking view of downtown Phoenix. On First Fridays, you'll also have live music to accompany the stunning scenery. Though the deck is open to hotel guests at any time, it will only be open to the public on Friday nights through May.
So be sure to stop by Floor 13 on a Friday night to drink in the view, the history and of course a delicious cocktail.
Floor 13 is also available for private rentals. Contact Event Sales Manager Kimberli Gunn at kgunn@csmcorp.net for more information.
Where: Hilton Garden Inn Phoenix Downtown, 15 E. Monroe St.


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whether secured or unsecured.and long-term loans for Filipino entrepreneurs. (d) Encourage industry. together with capital loans secured by bonds. frugality and the accumulation of savings among the public. bills of exchange. and (e) Regulate and supervise the activities of thrift banks in order to place their operations on a sound. bonds and other forms of security or in loans for personal or household finance. or in financing for home building and home development. private development banks. acceptances or notes arising out of commercial transactions.Providing for the Creation. to encourage the establishment of more private thrift banks in order to meet the needs for capital. Loans or advances extended by rural banks shall be primarily for the purpose of meeting the normal credit needs of farmers. Towards these ends. (c) Encourage and assist the establishment of thrift bank system which will promote agriculture and industry and at the same time place within easy reach of the people the medium. (Sec 17. and to provide incentives to needed investments. It is the policy of the State to: (a) Recognize the indispensable role of the private sector. chattel mortgage. to encourage private enterprise. stable and effi cient basis and to curtail or prevent acts or practices which are prejudicial to the public interest. personal and investment credit or medium. in commercial papers and accounts receivables. and for Other Purposes). and for Other Purposes). "Thrift banks" include savings and mortgage banks. Organization and Operation of Rural Banks. the rural bank shall give preference to the application of farmers and merchant whose cash requirements are small. in readily marketable and debt securities. and in such other investments and loans which the . drafts. fishermen or farm families owning or cultivating land dedicated to agricultural production as well as the normal credit needs of cooperatives and merchants. and stock savings and loans associations organized under existing laws. rural banks may deposit in private banks more than the amount prescribed by the Single Borrower's Limit subject to Monetary Board regulations. (b) Promote economic development pursuant to the socio-economic program of the government. to expand industrial and agricultural growth. and the members and stockholders of thrift banks. RA 7353) Thrift Banks i. In granting of loans. the State encourages and assists in the establishment of rural banking system designed to make needed credit available and readily accessible in the rural areas on reasonable terms. (Sec 2. RA 7353) In areas where there are no government banks.and long-term credit facilities at reasonable cost. RA 7906 – An Act Providing for the Regulation of the Organization and Operations of Thrift Banks. (Sec 6. mortgages in real estate and insured improvements thereon. and any banking corporation that may be organized for the following purposes: (1) Accumulating the savings of depositors and investing them. ii.
acquisition. services. the Land Bank of the Philippines. as well as rediscounting rate to be charged by any of these institutions. (2) Providing short-term working capital. buy and sell them for its own account or for the account of others. subject to such guidelines as may be established by the Monetary Board. and other government owned or -controlled corporations. the Development Bank of the Philippines. That the thrift bank has net assets of at least Twenty million pesos (P20. (e) Act as official depository of national agencies and of municipal. enlargement or improvement of productive properties and real estate mortgage loans for: (1) the construction. and the Bureau of Customs. to businesses engaged in agriculture. The following are the powers of thrift banks: (a) Accept savings and time deposits. Social Security System. industry and housing.000. That the date of maturity of the certifi cates is not later than the date on which the payment would otherwise become due. (Sec 3 RA 7906) iii. city or provincial funds in the municipality. city or province where the thrift bank is located. in the absence of the aforesaid prepayment. including but not limited to. ➢ Such mortgage and chattel mortgage certificates shall be issued exclusively in national currency and exclusively for the financing of equipment loans. conservation. and (g) Issue mortgage and chattel mortgage certificates. expansion or improvement of rural and urban properties. . the Bureau of Internal Revenue. or accept and receive them in payment or as amortization of its loan. (b) Open current or checking accounts: Provided. (2) the refi nancing of similar loans and mortgages. (d) Act as collection agent for government entities. (f) Rediscount paper with the Philippine National Bank. and (3) Providing diversified financial and allied services for its chosen market and constituencies specially for small and medium enterprises and individuals. medium and long-term financing. ➢ A thrift bank shall coordinate the amounts and maturities of its certificates with those of its loans. (c) Act as correspondent for other financial institutions.000) subject to such guidelines as may be established by the Monetary Board. Said institutions shall specify the nature of paper deemed acceptable for rediscount. The bank shall accept its own certificates at least at the actual price of issue. in any prepayment of loans which mortgage or chattel mortgage debtors may wish to make: Provided. so as to ensure adequate cash receipts for the payment of principal and interest at the time they become due.Monetary Board may determine as necessary in the furtherance of national economic objectives. and (3) such other purposes as may be authorized by the Monetary Board. and shall be allowed to directly clear its demand deposit operations with the Bangko Sentral and the Philippine Clearing House Corporation. mortgage loans for the acquisition of machinery and other fixed installations.
wage or income pursuant to the terms of his loan. That the performance of any banking function shall be subject to prior approval by the Central Bank of the Philippines. (e). to remit deductions to the thrift bank concerned. The term "cooperative bank" shall include cooperative rural banks. to make deductions from his salary. (l) Extend credit against the security of jewelry. the majority shares of which is owned and controlled by. ii. (7) To issue debentures subject to the approval of and under conditions and guarantees to be prescribed by the Government. That in the case of a borrower who is a permanent employee or wage earner. (6) To issue negotiable instruments to facilitate the activities of cooperatives. A cooperative bank is one organized by. (5) To discount bills and promissory notes issued and drawn by cooperatives. (3) To mobilize savings of its members for the benefi t of the cooperative movement. (g) and (i) only upon prior approval of the Monetary Board. (Sec 100 RA 6938 – An Act to Ordain a Cooperative Code of the Philippines). iii. A cooperative bank may perform the following functions: (1) To carry on banking and credit services for the cooperatives. hold and convey real estate under the same conditions as those governing commercial banks.(h) Purchase. operate under an expanded banking authority. (4) To act as a balancing medium for the surplus funds of cooperatives and their federations. (d). (2) To receive financial aid or loans from the Government and the Central Bank of the Philippines for and in behalf of the cooperative banks and primary cooperatives and their federations engaged in business and to supervise the lending and collection of loans. subject to such rules and regulations as the Monetary Board may prescribe. (8) To borrow money from banks and other financial institutions within the limit to be prescribed by the Central Bank. rules and regulations to the contrary. cooperatives primarily to provide financial and credit services to cooperatives. It may also perform commercial banking services.(Sec 10) Cooperative Banks i. the treasurer. and (m) Offer other banking services. and collect such reasonable fee for his services. precious stones and articles of similar nature. (i) Engage in quasi-banking and money market operations. (k) Extend credit facilities to private and government employees: Provided. cashier or paymaster of the offi ce employing him is authorized. Membership of a cooperative bank shall include only cooperatives and federations of cooperatives. notwithstanding the provisions of any existing law. (j) Open domestic letters of credit. Thrift banks may perform the services under (b). and (9) To carry out all other functions as may be prescribed by the Cooperative Development Authority: Provided. or exercise such other powers incident to a corporation with prior approval of the Monetary Board. (Sec 102) Islamic Banks .
by virtue thereof. 6848 created the Al-Amanah Islamic Investment Bank of the Philippines. RA 6848 – An Act Providing for the 1989 Charter of the Al-Amanah Islamic Investment Bank of the Philippines. or the Islamic Bank. or otherwise by participating in any way with other companies. the Islamic Bank is authorized to operate an Investment House pursuant to Presidential Decree No. R. as amended.(Sec 3) iii. partner. rules and regulations of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. and (3) The Islamic Bank may perform all business ventures and transactions as may be necessary to carry out the objectives of its charter within the framework of the Islamic Bank's fi nancial capabilities and technical considerations prescribed by law and convention: Provided. Its principal domicile and place of business is in Zamboanga City. industrial. Any zakat or "tithe" paid by the Islamic Bank on behalf of its shareholders and depositors shall be considered as part of compliance by the Islamic Bank with its obligation to appropriate said zakat fund and to disburse it in legitimate channels to be ascertained fi rst by the Shari'a Advisory Council. All business dealings and activities of the Islamic Bank shall be subject to the basic principles and rulings of Islamic Shari'a within the purview of the declared policy. (2) The Islamic Bank may carry on commercial operations for the purpose of realizing its investment banking objectives by establishing enterprises or fi nancing existing enterprises. Other Banks The following are Government-Owned Banks: . carry on the following types of commercial operations: (1) The Islamic Bank may have a direct interest as a shareholder. That these shall not involve any riba or other activities prohibited by the Islamic Shari'a principles. financing and investment operations and to establish and participate in agricultural. 1688 and. commercial and industrial ventures based on the Islamic concept of banking. Authorizing its Conduct of Islamic Banking Business and Repealing for this Purpose Presidential Decree Numbered Two Hundred and Sixty-four as Amended by Presidential Decree Numbered Five Hundred and Forty-Two Creating The Philippine Amanah Bank. owner or any other capacity in any commercial. iv.A. and as a Venture Capital Corporation pursuant to Presidential Decree No. agricultural. institutions or banks performing activities similar to its own or which may help accomplish its objectives in the Philippines or abroad. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary.i. (Sec2. or otherwise invest under any of the various contemporary Islamic fi nancing techniques or modes of investment for profi t sharing. It may establish branches. under any of the contemporary Islamic fi nancing techniques or modes of investment for profi t sharing. The primary purpose of the Islamic Bank is to promote and accelerate the socioeconomic development of the Autonomous Region by performing banking. real estate or development project under mudarabah form of partnership or musharaka joint venture agreement or by decreasing participation. agencies or other offi ces at such places in the Philippines or abroad subject to the laws.) ii. 129.
The common shares were fully subscribed by the Government for and on behalf of the veterans. promissory notes. (Sec 95. the Philippine Veterans Bank was created with the enactment of Republic Act No. which were to be sold to the veterans at the rate of one share each. participations. Quasi-Banks Quasi-banks refer to entities engaged in the borrowing of funds through the issuance. but need not be limited to. through the issuance. These instruments may include. the government created the Rehabilitation Finance Corporation (RFC) under R. which became its charter. While PVB was conceived and created as a private commercial bank that is owned by the veterans. In 1958. and paid out of the Veterans Trust Fund. Under the provisions of this law. endorsement.000 common shares and 490.00. The preferred shares. 85 which absorbed the assets and took over the functions of the Agricultural Industrial Bank. (iii) Development Bank of the Philippines In 1947. or acceptance of debt instruments for the borrower's own account.The Association confi nes its membership to a well-defi ned group of persons and cannot transact business with the general public. The RFC provided credit facilities for the development of agriculture. Non-Stock Savings and Loan Associations Non-stock savings and loan association is a non-stock. (ii) Land Bank of the Philippines Republic Act No. 1963. bankers acceptances. NCBA) Organization Of Banks A. the P100 million authorized capital of the Bank will be divided into 510. certifi cates of assignment and similar instruments with recourse. for the purpose of relending or purchasing of receivables and other obligations. 3844 (Agricultural Land Reform Code) created the Land Bank of the Philippines to fi nance the acquisition and distribution of agricultural estates for division and resale to small landholders as well as the purchase of the landholding by the agricultural lessee. commerce and industry and the reconstruction of properties damaged by the war. other than deposits. their widows and orphans. deposit substitutes is an alternative form of obtaining funds from the public.A. were eventually distributed to them at no cost on their part.In this connection. Conditions . the law provided that it shall be a government depository as a gesture of appreciation by a grateful nation to the veterans for the sacrifi ces that they offered on the altar of freedom. 3518. non-profi t corporation engaged in the business of accumulating the savings of its members and using such accumulations for loans to members to service the needs of households by providing long-term fi nancing for home building and development and for personal fi nance.(i) Philippine Veterans Bank On June 18.000 preferred shares with a par value of P100. the RFC was reorganized into the Development Bank of the Philippines. endorsement or assignment with recourse or acceptance of deposit substitutes for purposes of relending or purchasing of receivables and other obligations. and repurchase agreements. The change in corporate name marked the shift from rehabilitation to broader activities.
and d) internal controls. (Sec. Incorporators/Subscribers (i) The incorporators/subscribers and proposed directors and offi cers must be persons of integrity and of good credit standing in the business community.(Sec 9. and unless otherwise allowed under the provisions of existing laws are not offi cers and employees of a government agency. That a cooperative or corporation owning or controlling the whole or majority of the voting stock of the rural bank shall be subject to special examination and to such rules and regulations as the Monetary Board may prescribe. That the entity is a stock corporation. b) directors and senior management. Capabilities The Monetary Board shall take into consideration their capability in terms of their fi nancial resources and technical expertise and integrity. The bank licensing process shall incorporate an assessment of: a) the bank's ownership structure. as well as e) its projected fi nancial condition and capital base. (iii) A bank may be organized with not less than fi ve (5) nor more than fi fteen (15) incorporators. (Sec 4 RA 7353) . Upon consultation with the rural banks in the area. GBL) 2. including the terms thereof and rights appurtenant thereto to determine compliance with laws and regulations governing capital and equity structure of banks. That the minimum capital requirements prescribed by the Monetary Board for each category of banks are satisfi ed. or the granting of loans to banks. 8 GBL) C. In case there are more than fi fteen (15) persons initially interested in organizing and investing in the proposed bank. (S) ➢ The Monetary Board may prescribe rules and regulations on the types of stock a bank may issue. c) its operating plan. (C) B. That its funds are obtained from the public. * Note: Cooperatives may organize a rural bank. department or offi ce charged with the supervision of. and (P) 3. which shall mean twenty (20) or more persons. the excess may be listed among the original subscribers in the Articles of Incorporation. Capital Requirements See new requirements D. (ii) The incorporators/subscribers and proposed directors and offi cers must not have been convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude. The subscribers must have adequate fi nancial strength to pay for their proposed subscriptions in the bank. duly established cooperatives and corporations primarily organize to hold equities in rural banks may organize a rural bank and/or subscribe to the shares of stock of any rural bank: Provided.The Monetary Board may authorize the organization of a bank or quasi-bank subject to the following conditions: (SPC) 1. ➢ Banks shall issue par value stocks only. instrumentality.


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Caddo Magnet's Settlemire denies being 'a sexual predator'
Sentencing of the former fencing coach is postponed due to letters of support
Caddo Magnet's Settlemire denies being 'a sexual predator' Sentencing of the former fencing coach is postponed due to letters of support Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2019/07/09/caddo-magnets-settlemire-denies-being-a-sexual-predator/1687409001/
Jimmy Watson, Shreveport Times Published 5:49 p.m. CT July 9, 2019 | Updated 10:02 a.m. CT July 10, 2019
To subscribe to The Times go to https://help.shreveporttimes.com/subscription-services Henrietta Wildsmith, Shreveport Times
Convicted two weeks ago of attempted molestation of a juvenile by a six-person jury, former Caddo Magnet teacher and coach Sharron Settlemire entered Caddo District Court Tuesday for what was supposed to be her sentencing hearing.
But the defense, led by Alan Golden, submitted more than 40 letters of support and requesting a light sentence for Settlemire, so Judge Ramona Emanuel postponed the sentencing to next Wednesday to give herself time to review the letters.
Portions of several letters were read in court Tuesday by Golden while Settlemire, clad in an orange jumpsuit and sitting in a wheelchair, nodded her head as the words were read. Settlemire also addressed the court.
Sharron Settlemire (Photo: SPD)
"While I have been incarcerated over the last 12 days, I've had time to reflect and I understand I've been tried and convicted," she said. "But I'm not a sexual predator as the prosecution has said. I'm a Christian woman.
"It doesn't matter about guilt or innocence at this point. It's the pain of both families that are involved. I am truly sorry to (the student) and her family. For 48 years I've been a model citizen in Shreveport. I taught more than 3,000 students and there was never an accusation until this charge. I am almost 73 and I'm not a threat to the community or a flight risk.
"I am truly sorry for the pain I've caused (the student) and her family – truly sorry."
Caddo assistant district attorney Joshua Williams, who presented a tight-knit case that earned a conviction for the state, reminded the court that Settlemire is "a convicted sex offender who admitted to the jury that she had inappropriate sexual contact with (the student)."
"Ms. Settlemire did not show remorse during the trial and I do not believe she is remorseful," Williams said. "This process is victim driven. The victim has lived with this for 19 years. She has been knocked down for coming out against 'Momma Set' (the nickname some Magnet students gave to Settlemire)."
Caddo Assistant District Attorney Joshua Williams (Photo: Paul Schutze/The Times)
The letters read by Golden included one from a social worker in Monroe who called Settlemire their favorite teacher at Caddo Magnet. Many of the letters referred to the teacher as "Mom Set."
"She was there for me when I needed someone to talk to about personal issues," one letter writer said. "I beg you to please show her mercy."
Another letter came from a current Caddo Parish educator.
"I've known Sharron Settlemire for 27 years – since I was a freshman at Caddo Magnet," the woman said. "I do not make excuses for this lack of judgment, but I do ask for mercy."
Another former Veteran's Administration employee said that the public humiliation of the accusations and "the loss of her good name" has been enough punishment. Other letters cited her age as a reason for leniency, but Williams discounted those remarks.
"I ask for the same sentencing for all sex offenders," he said. "We have an 80-year-old currently serving a 40-year sentence at hard labor. The state does request she receive jail time."
Caddo Magnet fencing coach Sharron Settlemire in 1999. (Photo: Copyright 1999 The Times Shreveport)
Emanuel could sentence Settlemire, who was accused 17 years after the alleged incident, to 7 ½ years with or without hard labor and require her to register as a sex offender.
The now 72-year-old Settemire entered the courtroom clad in an orange jumpsuit and sitting in a wheelchair. She was pushed into the room by a Caddo deputy.
Golden filed a Pre-Sentence Memorandum on July 3 also seeking a probated sentence.
"Although attempted molestation of a juvenile is a serious offense, Ms. Settlemire's particular offense is mitigated by two facts – the victim (was) just a few months shy of the age of consent at the time of its occurrence and she was a willing participant often waiting as a half hour or more to rendezvous with Ms. Settlemire."
Settlemire allegedly had relations with the then 16-year-old student while she was the fencing coach at Magnet, although she retired in 2002. The student was 33-years-old when she filed a complaint about the molestation in 2017.
It is unclear why the student waited so long to file, but the statute of limitations is 30 years once a defendant has turned 18.
Settlemire had been denied bail in a hearing shortly before the Fourth of July holiday.
The jury had five options in their deliberations about Settlemire's guilt or innocence: molestation of a juvenile, attempted molestation of a juvenile, indecent behavior with a juvenile, attempted indecent behavior with a juvenile or not guilty.
Settlemire began teaching in Caddo Parish in 1975 and was a founding member of Caddo Magnet High School.
She was arrested in 2017. After four days of testimony in June, a three-man, three-woman jury found Settlemire, who was 53 years old at the time of the alleged incidents, guilty of a lesser charge of attempted molestation. On the final day, the jury listened intently to two hours of closing arguments and rebuttals by the attorneys then retired to consider the accounts from multiple witnesses over the four days of the trial.
Settlemire was employed as a teacher and fencing coach when the alleged assaults occurred.
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Previously in this case:
Caddo Magnet's Settlemire due for sentencing in student sex case
Caddo Magnet's Settlemire found guilty in student sex case
Former Caddo coach's molestation trial to start Monday
70-year-old woman arrested on molestation charges
Updated: Caddo Magnet's Settlemire arrested on sex charge involving teen
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Our fellowship is a two-year program with an emphasis on training in clinical infectious diseases. A third year of training in research techniques is made available in exceptional cases for fellows preparing to accept a faculty position. Candidates must be Internal Medicine board eligible or ABIM certified.
CLINICAL: Experiences will include inpatient consultations and a weekly half-day outpatient clinic (maintained continuously through the fellowship). Outpatient clinical care includes management of HIV as well as care of patinets on outpatient parenteral antimicrobials (from all medical and surgical disciplines). Each fellow will also gain experience managing patients with mycobacterial diseases, fungal infections, pre-transplantation patients, immunocompromised patients and a variety of outpatient referrals for other complicated infections.
RESEARCH: Research experience is required and encouraged in conjunction with our faculty, basic scientists or clinical microbiologists from the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology or research faculty in the Department of Pharmacy. We have several research project partnerships with colleagues in the Gastroenterology, Pulmonary/Critical Care and Cardiology divisions; partnering with our surgical colleagues provides additional opportunities.We also encourage our fellows to gain clinical trials experience by participating in ongoing studies of antimicrobials and vaccinations.
TEACHING: Fellows are expected to participate in educating medical students, interns and residents rotating through the infectious diseases service. We believe that professionalism, ethical standards and humanistic qualities are paramount to the successful practice of medicine, and our faculty subscribes to the "lead by example" philosophy.
We look forward to working with you and helping you graduate as a competent, confident and compassionate physician who will be a lifelong learner and a dedicated teacher for the next generation, ready to solve new problems and disseminate information for others to study and emulate.


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Some of What You Missed at the Harvard Arab Conference 2021
The Harvard Arab conference 2021 is North America's largest pan-Arab conference, bringing together nearly 1,300 students and professionals to discuss key issues with the Arab region's most prominent politicians, influencers, business people, and society leaders to have important and impactful discussions. This year, the ACH x HAWC is themed "Change by Design: Young Leaders Building the Future". It is known that the Arab world today is 'young, dynamic, and ready for evolutionary change'. In fact, many of the young Arabs that are speaking up are ready to shake the norms of the past, and settle new ones. Today's Arabs and Arab-American youth are not like any one has ever seen, they are ready and have their eyes on the prize. They are ambitious, and so fed up with the norms. They want to set out, break free, and expand their horizons. With so much risk-taking, comes also its challenges. Majority of them being second generation children they are often set back from their parents' stories, and the heavy past they need to carry, their ability to take risks makes their futures also very uncertain. Most importantly, as they are changing and constantly evolving, the Arab world, and society is too. What will become of their identity next? What are the necessary steps they need to take to achieve their goals? With their head held high, they continue to push past the negative thoughts, and continue their journey. They were recently all present at Arab Conference at Harvard, again with their eyes on the prize, and their stories woven in their hearts ready to be shared.
In case anyone has missed the incredible conference that took place March 25-28 we are presenting 4 panelist speakers that truly stood out to us, and one of them just happens to be one of the co-founders of Yalla! Let's Talk. Here are a few of the speakers and a snapshot of what they talked about:
Amal Arab
Amal is very active on social media, followed by more than half a million people distributed among Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and TikTok. From a very early age Amal has been participating in many competitions that are related to literature, poetry, and fields of recitation. Growing up, she has always loved reading Arabic books thanks to her mother, and has even gone on to be a teacher of the beautiful language. She remembers when she was 13 years old, her mother gave her the book; The Days, by Taha Hussein, and she remembers highlighting its beauty and sharing it with an audience on her social media networking sites. She has recorded various Arabic language books, and her hopes for the future are to create an audio version of a whole Arabic library that highlights some of the most interesting Arabic literatures to date. She hopes that whoever does listen to her audio understands the beauty of the Arabic language, and she is keen on raising a generation that is proud of its identity, and heritage. At the Harvard Arab conference 2021 she talked about the beauty of the Arabic language and the it's unfortunate decline to appeal to the younger generation. She also talked briefly about the pandemic and talked about the fact that the virus does not discriminate against individuals, no matter what their race, religion, or sexual orientation. She finally highlighted the importance of planning for the future, but also having a balance of living in the moment.
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Hani Al-Dajane
Hani is a social entrepreneur and lawyer who started Yalla! Let's Talk. in 2017. During the conference he talked about the lessons he has learned throughout his journey with Yalla! Let's Talk and the importance of purpose driven businesses. His belief was that the more knowledge a specific person's story, the more empathetic they can become. His vision was to share the stories of these specific people and create a safe space for people to share. He wanted to make his contribution to a more inclusive world. Him, and co-founder, Mays Alwash, quickly turned their initiative to a global movement where people in the Arab diaspora and world could meet, talk and share about underrepresented issues in their community from mental health, racism, community issues, and much more. In the span of three years, Yalla! Let's Talk has transformed into a full grown movement to amplify the voices of Arab zillennials. Aside from that, Hani is also a lawyer and is the co-founder of Emerge LLP, an innovative law firm that made legal services more accessible for startups and small businesses.
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Hassan Morshedy
Hassan is the CEO of Memaar Al Morshedy development company in Egypt which is creating one of the worlds largest residential buildings in the world. Spanning an area the size of 30 football pitches on Cairo's outskirts. Morshedy is all about being on a mission to create change, and make the lives of people with housing shortages better. He is providing up to 40,000 people with 13,500 new apartments all housed in what the Guinness Book of World Records claims to be the largest residential building on the planet. He has also worked with many mega celebrities including his good friend Mohammad Hadid. Hasan claims his new project is going to be one of the most iconic in the world, but also one that will help and change a lot of people's lives. During the Harvard Arab conference 2021 he talked mostly about self development during the pandemic, and how it is important to identify the path you want to take and the goals you want to achieve. It is important to understand what personal skills you need to gain, such as public speaking and networking, to achieve those goals and work towards them accordingly. He also highlighted the importance of diversifying your portfolio in case the market falls down, and even advised youth that instead of buying a car, to invest in an apartment. He believes in educating and adding value to customers, quoting: "When you educate your client, then they'll want to invest".
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Antonio Tahhan
Antonio was born in Venezuela to a Middle Eastern family growing up in Miami, and that is where he started drawing inspiration from a variety of cultures. He pursued degrees in Math, economics, and Spanish Literature from Cornell University. In 2010, Tony was awarded the Fulbright Research grant to Syria, where he studied the midday meal in three contexts: at homes, in restaurants, and in the streets. From cooking to eating, food was one thing he felt that was a natural way to explore others cultures. From his current home in Baltimore, Tony continues to document recipes and stories from Aleppo, his travels and the passion of bringing people together online and in person around the love for food.
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The Harvard Arab conference 2021 is the perfect place to amplify the voices of young Arab entrepreneurs that are putting massive amounts of work to completely change the world that they live in. It takes people like the incredible individuals listed above to walk into life with a mission to shake things up, and truly touch the lives of people around the world. If you have missed the full Arab conference you can see the full list of speakers here. You are also able to listen to the full conference here. Every year the North America's largest conference dedicated to Arabs leaves everyone inspired, motivated and ready to lead the world with change.
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Another Resounding Victory for Firearm Rights
At the end of September, Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona of the United States District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands invalidated the majority of firearm restrictions challenged in a lawsuit in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). This is the same Chief Judge Manglona who earlier this year struck down the last handgun ban in the United States, in Radich v. Guerrero.
The government's response to the Radich decision was to cobble together a new Special Act for Firearms Enforcement (SAFE), a "dramatic overhaul" of the Commonwealth's gun-control laws, enacted two weeks after the court struck down the handgun ban. In signing the legislation, Gov. Ralph Torres explained that because of the ruling, "the only option we have is to make regulations as strict as possible."
The NRA predicted that this new legislation would certainly face a court challenge. Sure enough, in this most recent case of Murphy v. Guerrero, the court considered the validity of several restrictions in SAFE and the CNMI Weapons Control Act. These included the requirement that a person obtain a license for and register all firearms by way of a government-issued weapon identification card (WIC). Under CNMI law, it was a crime to possess or import firearms and ammunition without a WIC, and persons without a WIC were liable to have firearms seized as contraband upon entry into the Commonwealth. The law also restricted how firearms could be stored at home by requiring them to be stored in a locked container or disabled with a trigger lock, or "carried on the person" by someone aged at least 21. The Commonwealth law also banned large capacity magazines (LCMs), being any magazine or similar device that could hold more than ten rounds; banned rifles in calibers above .223; banned "assault weapons;" and prohibited transporting operable firearms by allowing only the carrying or transport of guns that were unloaded and carried or transported apart from any ammunition. Lastly, a $1,000 excise tax was imposed on all imported handguns, irrespective of the gun's value.
These restrictions were challenged by Paul Murphy, a veteran who served honorably on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Army Ranger. He had his handgun, rifle, and ammunition confiscated when he entered the CNMI; other guns were seized when he later refused to re-register or register his rifles. None of his property had been returned to him. Murphy protested these seizures to Commissioner James Deleon Guerrero of the Department of Public Safety and the CNMI Office of the Attorney General, but was told that his disagreements with the law were improperly made or, in the case of the Attorney General's Office, not acknowledged at all.
Murphy filed his lawsuit as a pro se litigant, arguing that these restrictions violated his Second Amendment rights. The CNMI's founding covenant adopts and recognizes the Constitution of the United States of America, and adopts the Second Amendment and section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution as they apply to the states. Accordingly, the Second Amendment applies with full force in the CNMI as if it were a state.
After extensive legal analysis, the court determined that the firearm registration requirement, the ban on rifles in calibers larger than .223, the ban on "assault weapons," the ban on transporting operable firearms, and the $1,000 excise tax were unconstitutional, but left in place the licensing and storage requirements, and the ban on LCMs.
Chief Judge Manglona found that the registration requirement unconstitutionally burdened Second Amendment rights because, for each firearm a responsible law-abiding person had to register (even if he or she already had a WIC), the person still had to wait at least 15 days before the gun could be possessed lawfully. No public safety rationale advanced by the government justified this restriction. Similarly, the long gun caliber restriction failed because the government's reason for the ban – that bullets from such guns travelled farther and thus carried a more significant risk of collateral damage for missed shots – was unsupported by any evidence. Even assuming this restriction had its intended effect, there was nothing to show that it actually made bystanders any safer. "The Commonwealth cannot heavily burden a constitutional right with such scant evidence."
Turning to the ban on "assault weapons," defined as including semiautomatic rifles with any of the prohibited attachments (a pistol grip under the action, a thumbhole or folding or telescoping stock, a flare launcher, a flash suppressor or a forward pistol grip), the court concluded that these weapons were "not dangerous and unusual," and if anything, the evidence "suggests that the banned attachments actually tend to make rifles easier to control and more accurate—making them safer to use," with "self-defense safer for everyone." The government's own expert testified that "there [was] no law enforcement concern for pistol grips or thumbhole stocks," and essentially no difference between a short standard stock (which was legal) and a shortened retractable stock (which was not). In the absence of evidence demonstrating a public safety reason for the ban, this, too, was held to be invalid.
Regarding the public carry ban and transportation restriction, which prohibited carrying an operable firearm in public, Chief Judge Manglona parted ways from the decisions of recent federal courts by ruling that "the Second Amendment, based on its plain language, the history described in Heller I, and common sense, must protect a right to armed self-defense in public." Because the restriction "completely destroys that right, it is unconstitutional regardless of the level of scrutiny applied, and the Court must strike it down." However, that conclusion was based on the law's impact on the individual's right to carry and transport an operable handgun openly for self-defense outside the home, and did not extend to restrictions on the transportation of other firearms.
The government defended the final restriction, the excise tax, as a legitimate revenue-raising mechanism that was protected from judicial second-guessing. The court noted that when the tax was considered against the cost of the least expensive ($150) handguns, the tax amounted "to a whopping 667% tax, more than six times higher" than the penalties imposed under the Commonwealth's import tax laws. Further, there was no legitimate and important interest to be served by imposing this special tax. "Public safety cannot be the legitimate interest, unless the Commonwealth seeks to safeguard the community by disarming the poor." Clearly, what was being contemplated was the destruction of the right to keep and bear a handgun for self-defense. The government could not do indirectly through taxation what it was forbidden to do directly through regulation; accordingly, this "excessive" and "tremendous" burden on the exercise of the right of law-abiding citizens to purchase handguns for self-defense could not stand.
In granting the permanent injunction against the enforcement of the invalidated laws, the court especially commended the courage and dedication of Paul Murphy in his "lone uphill battle" against the deprivation of his, and his fellow citizens', inalienable constitutional rights. Murphy had "valiantly pursued all lawful efforts to protect and defend his rights in a community where the voice of the majority can often overpower the equally important rights of the minority."
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Gun-Control Group Spends Big to Boost Warnock
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Mark Kelly Says he Supports the Second Amendment. But Actions Speak Louder than Words
Law Professors Make Case for Second Amendment Rights in Uncertain Times


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Lynn Nottage on Her Broadway-Bound Play, Sweat, and Why She's Wary of "Poverty Porn"
By June Thomas
Dec 06, 20167:33 AM
Khris Davis and Will Pullen in Sweat at the Public Theater.
Joan Marcus
Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Lynn Nottage's latest play, Sweat, tells the story of nine residents of Reading, Pennsylvania, as they deal with the threatened closure of the steel plant where most of them work. Set in 2000 and 2008, Sweat explores the characters' response to their changing fortunes. The play, which was first produced at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and ran at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., can be seen at New York's Public Theater through Dec. 18. The production will transfer to Broadway in the spring, with previews beginning at Studio 54 on March 4.
I spoke with Nottage about her development process, the crisis of capitalism, and what Sweat has to say about Donald Trump.
How did you come to write a play about the closing of a steel plant in Reading, Pennsylvania?
I received an email from a friend of mine—a single mother of two who lived a couple doors down from me. She said that she was completely broke and had been for some time and that when we saw her with a smile on her face, she was just putting [it on], and she was really in dire straits. We ended up going to Occupy Wall Street during the first week of that movement. At the end of the day, she said to me, "Nothing has changed, but I just feel a little better about my circumstances."
Then I became interested in what was happening on a larger scale, how poverty and economic stagnation was beginning to shift our American narrative. What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it. That's how I stumbled upon Reading, which, when I was beginning to cast my net for a small postindustrial city, was deemed the poorest city in America for its size, according to the Census. I ended up spending two-and-a-half years going back and forth, just listening to people, really being open.
I sat in a circle with a group of, by and large, middle-aged white steelworkers who had been locked out of their plant for 93 weeks and were in an utter state of despair and frustration. We sat around and they told me their story, and for the first time, I felt a great deal of empathy for them. I found that the way in which they spoke was really familiar to me, as an African American woman who has struggled with marginalization throughout my entire life. For the first time, they were saying, "We feel unseen, unheard, frustrated." At the end of the meeting, I said, "You guys sound like socialists." People say it's Trumpland, but I think that a lot of people I spoke with were more in line with Bernie Sanders than with Trump.
Can you tell me a little bit about how you operated when you were in Reading?
I was there to listen and to exchange my experiences. I always begin with sharing a little bit about myself. This is who I am, this is the kind of artist I am, this is why I'm here—tell me a little bit about yourself. Unlike a lot of journalists who will go in, spend a couple hours and leave, I actually got to know people because I was going back and forth. I got to see them over the course of two years and see their evolution.
I'm sure many journalists would like to spend more than a couple of hours, but you've got to produce copy. Even as a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, you don't have unlimited resources.
I didn't have unlimited resources, but I see this as part of my creative process, an extension of my journey as an artist. I don't see the two things as separate. I can't explain it other than I just enjoy the process of getting to know people and getting to know a place that I've never been is entering into unfamiliar landscapes.
You're not operating in the same way as a journalist.
No, and I don't have the same responsibilities as a journalist.
If a journalist went there, and a person who they'd interviewed later thought, I don't recognize myself in this person, that would be a problem. But I don't know if it's a problem for a playwright. Would you want the people that you actually spoke with to recognize themselves in Sweat?
Because Sweat is not based on individuals but inspired by individuals, I think that they might recognize aspects of themselves. Some of the steelworkers who have come and seen the play have recognized things that they have said that have been interpreted. I appreciate when folks from Reading come and have some level of recognition.
The message of the play is that people, workers, deserve to be treated with dignity.
Which is hard to argue with. But is it enough? Are there actions that the characters could have taken that would have saved their jobs?
Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs. That's the tragedy of what's happening today. Could they have taken action? Perhaps. But I know from the workers that I spoke to, they did take action and that action was met with a closed door
Some of the characters feel powerless, and they strike out because of that feeling. Or they become paralyzed by their feeling of powerlessness.
Whereas, in fact, they're not actually powerless. Is the play trying to show people what their power is?
They aren't powerless, and I agree with that statement, but I think that what happens is that when people become desperate, they begin to cannibalize the people who are closest to them. An alternate title for the play could have been The Cannibals, in that rather than uniting as a group, what they choose to do is become even more fractured. And it's in business's interest to keep us fractured, to keep us nonaligned. Once working people discover that collectively we have more power than we do as individual silos—then we become an incredibly powerful force. But I think that there are powers that be that are invested in us remaining divided along racial lines, along economic lines. And so at the heart of my play, what I was looking at is the way in which economics fracture people along racial lines.
Everyone is focusing on the white middle class, but you forget that it's not just white people up on that stage. It's not about white people. It's about the way in which our culture, which is a multicultural culture, becomes fractured because of the way in which corporate greed chooses to divide us.
We're in a moment when we feel the need to compare everything to what happened in the recent election, but Sweat does feel like it's talking about the issues that apparently motivated some people to vote for Donald Trump: political alienation, feeling that no one is fighting for them or supporting them, that other people or groups are coming to take the little that you have. How does that interpretation strike you?
I find it interesting, and I think it would be different if Bernie Sanders had won. The play is not about Donald Trump's America. It just is not, and I want to be clear about that. I think that that's one way for people who feel guilty for not being more alert interpret it. This play was written before Donald Trump was even on the landscape, and it takes place in 2000 and 2008. So to say that it's about Donald Trump's America is shortsighted.
Or, as you say, a way of excusing—
Your own myopia.
In England, this kind of situation has often made its way into theater, most famously as musical treatments like The Full Monty or Billy Elliot or Kinky Boots. Yes, there's something transporting about using self-expression as a way of dealing with terrible dislocation like losing your job or losing your trade, but after seeing Sweat, that approach feels naïve and maybe even insulting. Were you aware of the way that those productions have dealt with this kind of loss?
I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage. The things that bother me are poverty porn, in which working people aren't given three dimensions, because the majority of us in America, our roots are in the working class. The majority of the people who are in Sweat, standing on that stage—those actors—their roots are in the working class. They were very invested in the veracity of the characters. In this circumstance, I can't imagine singing and dancing about it. [Laughs] I just can't.
Theater is a very inefficient medium: You have to gather people in a room at a specific time and place. What draws you to it?
I don't think that it's the most inefficient. I think it's the most efficient, in that once you have this collective audience, it's easiest to build empathy. You dismiss the power of a collective experience. I think that in this fast-paced, disconnected culture, the one thing that can really still us and get us to sit down and listen is when we sit down in a theater. You have two hours to make either a persuasive argument or delight or titillate people in ways that you can't do in any other medium. When I wrote the play Ruined, which was about rape in Congo, we had one evening with Ban Ki-moon and Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, and all of these people who had worked in Congo—and they said, "You know, we work every day on these issues, but we're so disconnected from them in order to do it that when we sat down, we could actually be in the theater and release, and we could cry for the first time." I think that's why it's deliberately dark, to allow us that personal experience. While we're facing forward, people can't see our faces, as we're going through whatever it is that we're going through.
There was lots of crying in the theater when I was there.
Before this election there was crying—a year and a half ago, when we first produced it. It helps them understand the anger, which I think some people were blind to.
This interview has been condensed and edited.
*Correction, Dec. 6, 2016: Due to an editing error, the title of this post originally misstated the title of Lynn Nottage's play.


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Merry Christmas ransomware hit us around 3rd of December last year and ever since then, the virus has been infecting unsuspecting users via spam e-mails. What this particular ransomware does is it takes advantage of unexperienced users and applies encryption on their computers to extort them for their files. The victims of both versions of the virus were asked to pay a hefty sum to get their files back. However, those who did not pay can now successfully restore their files for free, using the below-stated decryption and removal instructions.
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using System;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace Configur.Tests
{
	[TestFixture]
	public class AppConfigurationTests
	{
		[Test]
		public void test()
		{
		}
	}
}

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In summer 2011 I led a project called the Pinhole Pedallers. It involved building a large camera obscura, one big enough to climb inside, before packing it all on bicycle trailers and taking to the road. The idea was to celebrate some of the South West's finest landscapes, inviting people inside to look at the cameras projections, and offering portraits of locals and tourists within the landscapes. For me, it combined 3 huge passions of mine – photography, bicycles and landscapes, and I was lucky persuade a good friend Louise to come along.. Below is a sample of photographs taken on tour, but to see Blog entries, the full galleries and more – visit the dedicated website here. The project is ongoing, a bigger better tour is being planned for 2012. Get in touch if you would like us to visit you.


Network programming is notoriously hard to understand: one has to deal with a variety of protocols (IP, ICMP , UDP, TCP etc.), concurrency, pac ket loss, host failure, timeouts, the complex sockets interface to the protocols, and subtle portability issues. Moreover, the behavioural properties of operating systems and the network are not well documented.
A few of these issues have been addressed in the process calculus and distributed algorithm communities, but there remains a wide gulf between what has been captured in semantic models and what is required for a precise understanding of the behaviour of practical distributed programs that use these protocols.
In this paper we demonstrate (in a preliminary way) that the gulf can be bridged. We give an operational model for socket programming with a substantial fraction of UDP and ICMP,including loss and failure. The model has been validated by experiment against actual systems. It is not tied to a particular programming language,but can be used with any language equipped with an operational semantics for system calls — here we give such a language binding for an OCaml fragment. We illustrate the model with a few small network programs.
F. Baker. Requirements for IP version 4 routers. Internet Engineering Task Force, June 1995. http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html.
R. Braden. Requirements for internet hosts-communication layers, STD 3, RFC 1122. IETF, October 1989. http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html.
S. J. Garland, N. Lynch, and M. Vaziri. IOA reference guide, December 2000. http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/~garland/IOA/.
X. Leroy et al. The Objective-Caml System, Release 3.00. INRIA, April 27 2000. http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/.
J. Postel. User Datagram Protocol, STD 6, RFC 768. Internet Engineering Task Force, August 1980. http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html.
J. Postel. Internet Protocol, STD 6, RFC 791. Internet Engineering Task Force, September 1981. http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html.
A. Serjantov, P. Sewell, and K. Wansbrough. The UDP calculus: Rigorous semantics for real networking. Technical Report 515, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/pes20/Netsem.
The SwitchWare project. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~switchware, 2001.


Startups in the wide-ranging Australian healthtech sector have raised more than a combined $165 million in funding, while biotech sits at $87.8 million.
Between bone repair glue and gene splicing, there is a diverse range of startups working to improve our health or innovate the way the sector operates.
Brisbane based startup DoseMe is making headway into the multibillion dollar medical market with their new PharmaTech solution.
Founders Dr Robert McLeay and Dr Bruce Green have their sights set on tackling the USA and European markets with their recent $500,000 capital raise from Australian investors, led by Brisbane based Steve Baxter.


Our golden pineapple balsamic is sweet and tart with the heady aroma of fresh, ripe pineapple. This amazing, zesty balsamic is the perfect complement to fruit salads and fresh berries. It adds substantial flavor without discoloring salads. Try pairing with soy sauce, ginger and our garlic EVOO for an amazing marinade. This balsamic is progressively aged in wood barrels according to the Solera Method and is certified to come from Modena, Italy. Available in petite 60 ml, small 200ml, medium 375ml, & large 750ml.


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const char *float2int_kernel_code =
"__kernel void test_float2int(__global float *src, __global int *dst)\n"
"{\n"
"    int  tid = get_global_id(0);\n"
"\n"
"    dst[tid] = (int)src[tid];\n"
"\n"
"}\n";

int
verify_float2int(cl_float *inptr, cl_int *outptr, int n)
{
  int     i;

  for (i=0; i<n; i++)
  {
    if (outptr[i] != (int)inptr[i])
    {
      log_error("FLOAT2INT test failed\n");
      return -1;
    }
  }

  log_info("FLOAT2INT test passed\n");
  return 0;
}

int
test_float2int(cl_device_id device, cl_context context, cl_command_queue queue, int num_elements)
{
    cl_mem            streams[2];
    cl_float        *input_ptr;
    cl_int          *output_ptr;
    cl_program        program;
    cl_kernel        kernel;
    void            *values[2];
    size_t    threads[1];
    int                err;
    int                i;
    MTdata          d;

    input_ptr = (cl_float*)malloc(sizeof(cl_float) * num_elements);
    output_ptr = (cl_int*)malloc(sizeof(cl_int) * num_elements);
    streams[0] = clCreateBuffer(context, CL_MEM_READ_WRITE,
                                sizeof(cl_float) * num_elements, NULL, NULL);
    if (!streams[0])
    {
        log_error("clCreateBuffer failed\n");
        return -1;
    }
    streams[1] = clCreateBuffer(context, CL_MEM_READ_WRITE,
                                sizeof(cl_int) * num_elements, NULL, NULL);
    if (!streams[1])
    {
        log_error("clCreateBuffer failed\n");
        return -1;
    }

    d = init_genrand( gRandomSeed );
    for (i=0; i<num_elements; i++)
        input_ptr[i] = get_random_float(-MAKE_HEX_FLOAT( 0x1.0p31f, 0x1, 31), MAKE_HEX_FLOAT( 0x1.0p31f, 0x1, 31), d);
    free_mtdata(d); d = NULL;

    err = clEnqueueWriteBuffer(queue, streams[0], CL_TRUE, 0, sizeof(cl_float)*num_elements, (void *)input_ptr, 0, NULL, NULL);
    if (err != CL_SUCCESS)
    {
        log_error("clWriteArray failed\n");
        return -1;
    }

    err = create_single_kernel_helper(context, &program, &kernel, 1, &float2int_kernel_code, "test_float2int");
    if (err != CL_SUCCESS)
    {
        log_error("create_single_kernel_helper failed\n");
        return -1;
    }

    values[0] = streams[0];
    values[1] = streams[1];
  err = clSetKernelArg(kernel, 0, sizeof streams[0], &streams[0]);
  err = clSetKernelArg(kernel, 1, sizeof streams[1], &streams[1]);
    if (err != CL_SUCCESS)
    {
        log_error("clSetKernelArgs failed\n");
        return -1;
    }

    threads[0] = (size_t)num_elements;
    err = clEnqueueNDRangeKernel( queue, kernel, 1, NULL, threads, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL );
    if (err != CL_SUCCESS)
    {
        log_error("clEnqueueNDRangeKernel failed\n");
        return -1;
    }

    err = clEnqueueReadBuffer( queue, streams[1], true, 0, sizeof(cl_int)*num_elements, (void *)output_ptr, 0, NULL, NULL );
    if (err != CL_SUCCESS)
    {
        log_error("clEnqueueReadBuffer failed\n");
        return -1;
    }

    err = verify_float2int(input_ptr, output_ptr, num_elements);

    // cleanup
    clReleaseMemObject(streams[0]);
    clReleaseMemObject(streams[1]);
    clReleaseKernel(kernel);
    clReleaseProgram(program);
    free(input_ptr);
    free(output_ptr);

    return err;
}


My mom is a fabulous sewer but she's been cleaning out her excess supply of sewing notions over the past few years. Occasionally, I get a 'gift' from her that was my grandmother's (whom I never really knew) and I am always saving theses items for a 'special' project.
I will tell you more later, but I have not been overly ecstatic about a certain just-finished project. It is currently drying and blocking – I love certain elements of the sweater but overall … eh.
I do love the yarn. It is Blue Moon Fiber Arts BFL Sport in Spinel. Love. And it was wonderful to work with.
There isn't much else I love about this project. So, I decided it was time to dig into my button & notion stash and see what I could come up with.
These have been sitting in my button stash forever. I decided maybe I could find some neat fabric to cover them with (I absolutely love fabric-covered buttons but have yet to make a sweater with them – weird, huh?).
Enter my most favourite fabric ever. It's just a scrape left from some unfinished hot-mats I've been working on. This would help bring this sweater into love territory, yes?
This is the back with the instructions – I couldn't bring myself to cut up the packaging as I would like to save it but nifty, huh? Guess how much this package of 5 stainless steel buttons cost?
ps. I realized after my post last time that I accidentally may have lead you to believe that Donegal is in Northern Ireland, the country, when I meant it was just in the north of Ireland compared to where the shop was that I bought the yarn from. Sorry for the mix up!
I've never made fabric-covered buttons before – you've inspired me! Yours really do give a neat finish to the mysterious button band. Looking forward to seeing the sweater pics!
How special! I love that fabric- it looks great on the buttons.


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Daniel Bailey is a multi-instrumentalist residing in NYC. He has most notably performed in productions of Million Dollar Quartet, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, One Man Two Guvnors (Music Director), and Boyband Review NY. Additionally, he performs in the band Sugarmore which has several highly acclaimed ... (read complete bio)
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Daniel Bailey Biography
Daniel Bailey is a multi-instrumentalist residing in NYC. He has most notably performed in productions of Million Dollar Quartet, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, One Man Two Guvnors (Music Director), and Boyband Review NY. Additionally, he performs in the band Sugarmore which has several highly acclaimed videos across YouTube. In 2017, he co-founded Hollow Spirit Studios alongside his cousin Dominique Scott where he continues to produce and mix songs for a multitude of artists across the country.
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Approaching the Swingularity: Tales of Swinging & Polyamory in Paradise , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 980min, (USK 18)
It's Exit to Eden meets The Rum Diary! Spend seven days at the hedonistic tropical paradise of a swingers resort in Mexico. Just enough time to get into some very sexy trouble! Ryan and Jenn are still newbie swingers in many ways when they arrive with their friends, lovers, and playmates, Bruce and Paige, veterans of this trip. As this foursome tries to wring out every last drop of pleasure that Aphrodite's Resort and Spa has to offer, they're confronted with the realities of life at home, as well as complexities of exploring a life less monogamous, the spectrum of sexuality, budding and waning attraction and love, and how one truly gets the most out of an orgy. Alongside them are Alejandra and Crista, a lesbian couple on their first sexy vacation, recognizing the differences and difficulties in being the only lesbian swingers in the crowd. Raymond Horne is the host extraordinaire, on his tenth trip, who is losing his confidence and direction after watching his partner walk out the door the month before. One hundred and eleven couples have descended upon Aphrodite's, a place of pleasure and debauchery, situated on a strip of white sand beach on the Riviera Maya for a week of the finest food and drink, meeting and flirting, and getting down and dirty with friends and lovers alike for tales of swinging and polyamory in paradise. They will experience ecstasy and strain, the spectrum of sexuality and open relationships, from bisexual exploration, budding polyamory, orgies, pegging, the value of building kegel muscles, G-spot orgasms, and more. Nothing is quite so intense and wonderful in non-monogamous lifestyles as seven straight days at a resort filled with like-minded hedonists. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Cooper S. Beckett, Kat Stark, Emily Sotelo Matlack, Ophilia Tesla, Miko Technogeisha, John Gaines, Flick Morrison. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096508/bk_acx0_096508_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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He knew it was a dumb stunt from the start. A midnight run through a cemetery to impress a couple of girls is hardly the stuff of legend, but Alex Carlisle longs to escape the crushing mediocrity of life after high school. Then he stumbles upon the ritual, and the cultists, and two bound and bloodied women. Alex intervenes and the ritual blows up in his face, leaving him bound to them both: Rachel and Lorelei, an angel and a succubus. It's hardly the sort of challenge a guy can face with dignity when he still lives at home with his mom. Alex never imagined falling for an immortal demon seductress, or that he'd spend his nights dodging her co-workers, her old boss, and every other supernatural freak in Seattle. He never thought a woman like Lorelei could have a rival like Rachel, either. But then, nobody ever said adulthood would be easy) WARNING: Good Intentions contains explicit sexuality, violence, nudity, inappropriate use of church property, portrayals of beings divine and demonic bearing little or no resemblance to established religion or mythology, trespassing, bad language, sacrilege, blasphemy, attempted murder, arguable murder, divinely mandated murder, justifiable murder, sexual promiscuity, kidnapping, attempted rape, arson, dead animals, desecrated graves, gang activity, theft, assault and battery, panties, misuse of the 911 system, questionable interrogation tactics, cell phone abuse, reckless driving, consistent abuse of vampires (because they deserve it), even more explicit sexuality, illegal use of firearms, polyamory, abuse of authority, hit and run driving, destruction of private property, underage drinking, disturbances of the peace, disorderly conduct, Internet harassment, bearers of false witness, mayhem, dismemberment, falsification of records, tax evasion, an uncomfortably sexy mother, bad study habits, and a very silly white guy inappropriately calling another white guy "nigga" (for which he will surely suffer). 1. Language: English. Narrator: Tess Irondale. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023419/bk_adbl_023419_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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Candy Kavana's life has changed in ways she never thought possible. But there's more to come. A new job, a new home, and a man who gives erotic a whole new meaning...what more could Candy want? You'll find out in Trading Places, book three of Anita Cox's intensely passionate series, Dirty White Candy. In the last few months, Candy Kavana has conquered her world. And now that she's back from the ultimate vacation, she's got a whole new set of variables to conquer. Her hot contractor boyfriend has built a home just for her, complete with a bar and swing room, but is she ready for such a commitment? Nervous about the change, she seeks solace in her job, the only place where confidence isn't an issue. She's further thrown when her company merges with a major competitor and she's transferred to a new division, further skewing her self-worth. While Candy copes with all these changes, her best friend, Stacy, has a meltdown as her marriage comes to an end. Though Candy maintains her best-friend duties, she also struggles to gain some semblance of control in her own life. Moving homes, moving jobs, and moving forward, Candy concocts a plan to take control of her destiny while helping a few friends along the way. Content notes: intense, anal play, D/S elements, exhibitionism, voyeurism, menage, polyamory, spanking, light BDSM, M/F/M . 1. Language: English. Narrator: Jazmin Kensington. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/031453/bk_acx0_031453_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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Flexible display slims down
By Eric Smalley, Technology Research News
The long-running quest to build a computer screen that you can fold up like paper and put in your pocket is a little closer to reality.
Researchers from E Ink Corp. have produced a high-resolution electronic display that is 0.3 millimeters thick -- about four times the thickness of a typical piece of printer paper -- and can be rolled into 4-millimeter cylinder.
The researchers' prototype is a little larger than a business card and has a resolution of 96 dots per inch, which is comparable to today's handheld computer screen resolutions. The screen has an ink-on-paper appearance, a 180-degree viewing angle, and can be bent into a curve 3 centimeters in diameter without affecting the picture, said Yu Chen, a senior engineer at E Ink.
The device could eventually be used in electronic books that are more paper-like that today's tablets, and it paves the way for lightweight screens for wearable computers, said Chen.
There are two major challenges to making electronic displays in a paper-like form, said Chen. The first is developing an electronically controllable ink that has the optical properties of regular ink and can retain its image without any applied power, he said.
The electronic ink used by the researchers' prototype was first demonstrated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers in 1998.
It consists of many tiny capsules of charge-sensitive pigment. The capsules are tens of microns in diameter, said Chen. A red blood cell, in comparison, is 5 microns across. In the researchers' black-and-white prototype, capsules contain both black and white particles of pigment. A negative voltage causes the white particles to move to the surface, and a positive voltage causes the black ones to move to the surface. When the power is off, the pigment stays put.
The second challenge is to to produce a thin, flexible network of electronic circuits that connect every pixel in the display so they can be turned on and off.
The researchers' relatively thin display is a four-layer sandwich of electronic ink capsules, thin-film transistors that switch each capsule on and off, an insulating material and a 75-micron-thick steel-foil substrate, or backing. The researchers used standard photolithography processes, which employ light and chemicals to etch out tiny features, to form transistors in the thin-film layer. They laminated the electronic ink layer on top of the electronics.
The researchers increased the speed, contrast ratio and image stability of the electronic ink by improving the materials and chemistry involved, said Chen. The researchers' device switches pixels between black and white within a quarter of a second, which is considerably slower than a computer screen, but is sufficient for an electronic book page-turn.
The researchers' next steps are to improve the ink switching speed, make the device thinner, and add color, said Chen.
The ink switching speed would have to improve from 250 to 15 milliseconds to be able to support today's computer video applications, said Chen. And to make the device thin enough to be folded like a piece of paper, the thickness of the steel-foil substrate must be reduced to 25 microns, he said.
The device is currently ready for black-and-white applications like electronic readers and smart ID cards. It will probably take several years to develop a full-color display that switches quickly enough to support video and is thin enough to be folded into a pocket, said Chen.
Ultimately, "electronic paper and wearable computer screens... might have a large impact on environmental protection... and how our society distributes information," said Chen. "Just imagine the billions of trees we can save each year."
Chen's research colleagues were Joanna Au, Peter Kazlas, Andrew Ritenour, Holly Gates and Michael McCreary. At the early stages of the prototype's development the researchers also worked with Sigurd Wagner and James Sturm of Princeton University, said Chen.
The work appeared in the May 8, 2003 issue of Nature. The research was funded by E Ink.
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The former home of Seneca Lake Country Club could be transformed into a winery/ tasting room, nine-hole golf course and clubhouse by next year.
At Tuesday's meeting of the town of Geneva Planning Board, Matt Newcomb — from Rochester-based engineering firm Passero Associates — went over some changes to the project. It is being called Seneca Turk Resort Winery.
Passero is working with Snell Road resident Greg Missick, who bought the property off Route 14 last year from the Iannopollo family, which owned the golf course for many years. The course has been dormant since the fall of 2015.
Missick is also a developer doing the Seneca Springs Townhomes project near his home on Snell Road, the former Sisters of Mercy retreat at High Acres. He is the owner of Villa Bellangelo winery in the Yates County town of Starkey and Branch by Bellangelo, a satellite site in the former Seneca Lake Country Club clubhouse.


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