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Student stabbed at New Rochelle High School
NEW YORK (FOX5NY) - New Rochelle Police are investigating a stabbing that occurred Thursday morning the New Rochelle High School.
At approximately 8:50 a.m. they received a call from high school security that a stabbing had occurred in the school, and the suspect, a 15-year-old student was seen on video leaving the building shortly thereafter.
School staff issued a "hold in place" order after the incident.
Some parents rushed to pick up their children after a student stabbed a fellow student.
Officers and ambulance personnel found a 16-year-old student who had suffered a puncture-type wounds to his left torso. He was rushed to a hospital where he was undergoing treatment. The injuries do not appear to be life-threatening at this time.
This is the third attack in eight days in and near the school.
Several students attacked a 15-year-old student at a pizza shop on Wednesday.
Police said that on January 10, a girl stabbed a classmate, Valaree Schwab, 16, to death at a Dunkin' Donuts.
New Rochelle High School does not have metal detectors but officials said they have increased security since last week's fatal stabbing.


Do you recognize these burglars?
The crime took place in Kansas City Kansas, not Raytown, but maybe someone in Raytown will recognize them.
Thanks to FOX 4 KC for allowing this video to be embeded. For more on this and some very good still pictures, click HERE to read the FOX 4 article.


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Watch Jello Biafra playing "Holiday In Cambodia" with Primus
In a true legends gathering, singer Jello Biafra was invited to take the stage during a Primus show in California. There, the musicians made a cover of "Holiday In Cambodia", a Dead Kennedys classic composed by Biafra in 1980.
Primus is in the middle of a tour to promote The Desaturating Seven, a studio album released late last year. Already the last album released by Biafra was Walk on Jindal's Splinters, a collaboration with The Raunch and Soul All-Stars.
It is worth remembering that at the end of 2017 Primus organized a big New Year party that featured the first show of the Legend of the Seagullmen supergroup, formed by members of Tool, OFF! and Mastodon.
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EducationLatest News
Techiman Municipal records highest rate of exam absenteeism in just ended BECE
The Techiman Municipal Education Director, Mr. Isaac Nsiah Edwards, has revealed that this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has seen the highest rate of examination absenteeism in the municipality.
He said that, out of 4, 063 candidates who registered for the 2020 BECE, 76 – the highest he has ever seen in the municipality.
Giving further breakdown, the Municipal Education Director stated that 45 out of the 76 absentees were females, with the remaining 31 being males.
In an interview with Angel FM's Koo Gyamfi, Mr. Nsiah noted that, "nothing bad happened during the course of the exams but the striking feature in this year's BECE is the rate of student absenteeism. It is too high for my liking. In my opinion it is too high as compared to previous years. This year alone recorded 76 absentees who couldn't write".
According to him, the reasons for the absenteeism are varied; ranging from child marriage to teenage pregnancies among other factors.
"Some of the students are pregnant hence did not see the need to come and write. Others too have been given out for marriage and their husbands have travelled with them", Mr. Nsiah said.
He explained further that some of the students missed the exams due to natural disasters while others might have been involved in accidents.
Mr. Isaac Nsiah, however, said 17 pregnant girls were able to sit for the exams where two gave birth in the course of the examinations.
He also praised the invigilators, students and other stakeholders for their cooperation and efforts to ensure students' safety and the successful completion of the examinations throughout the 5-day period.
While advising the students to conduct themselves properly at home while awaiting their results, the educational director appealed to them to assist their parents and stay away from acts that would jeopardize their future.
SourceFerdinard Tiekon | Angel Online
Adolescent pregnancies
Energy Commission bans importation of 19 electric appliances including Tv sets and fans
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Premier Doug Ford's attack on student unions is vicious and unwarranted. His rhetoric of "crazy Marxist nonsense" is a throwback to 1950s McCarthyism and does nothing to further the educational pursuits of so many hard working university and college students. Faced with cuts to education, debt loads and the need for food banks on campuses, necessitates the existence of unions for students to gather to give mutual support and friendship. It is indeed a low blow by Ford to vilify youth in order to push through his cuts.
Premier Doug Ford defies logic by saying "I think we all know what kind of crazy Marxist nonsense student unions get up to." Leftist tendencies, perhaps, but Marxist? That being the case, I presume we all also know what kind of crazy fascist nonsense the Progressive Conservative Party gets up to.
In regard to Premier Ford's statement concerning the "crazy Marxist nonsense student unions get up to," I would be delightfully enlightened to know when Doug Ford read Karl Marx.


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March into Planning for 2023's U.S. Privacy Laws
By Scot Ganow on March 1, 2022
Posted in Privacy Policy
With March's arrival and spring around the corner, now it is the perfect time to start getting in shape for the changing privacy law landscape in the United States. As we have written in the past year, three states will be implementing new or updates to privacy laws in their respective jurisdictions:
California: Updates to the CCPA and implementation of the CPRA.
Virginia: The VCDPA goes into effect on January 1, 2023.
Colorado: The CPA goes into effect
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Webinar – Face the Facts: Getting Smart About Employee Privacy and Data Security
By Scot Ganow on July 16, 2021
Posted in Data Privacy, Privacy Policy
With the recent shift to a remote or hybrid workplace and advancements in technology, there are increased privacy concerns for employee information as well as employer liability for data breaches. There are important legal concerns for employers to understand about employee privacy issues. In addition, companies must have a plan to safeguard company and employee data and minimize the risk of a data breach.
Join Taft Law on July 28 at 12:00 pm ET for a discussion of the practical…
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Meet the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA): California Voters Approve Additional Consumer Rights and Business Obligations
By Scot Ganow & Zenus Franklin on December 10, 2020
Last month we discussed California's Proposition 24, called the California Privacy Rights Act ("CPRA"), and that California voters approved the CPRA on November 3, 2020. The CPRA amends the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), which the final regulations of the CCPA were only recently approved by Attorney General Xavier Becerra in August, 2020. The CPRA makes a few substantial changes to the CCPA, such as additional rights to consumers, additional obligations on businesses that apply to the CPRA, an increased focus on "sharing" information for behavioral advertising, and the creation of a new governing entity to enforce the CPRA. The CPRA is set to become effective on January 1, 2023. Until then, the CCPA will remain in full force and effect. …
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California Voters Approve California Consumer Privacy Act; Amendments to CCPA
By Zenus Franklin & Scot Ganow on November 10, 2020
In the midst of an unprecedented presidential campaign, you might have missed that California's Proposition 24, also called the California Privacy Act (CPRA), was poised to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) a mere three months after Attorney General Xavier Becerra approved the final regulations for the CCPA.
On November 3, California voters approved the CPRA by a count of 56% (YES) to 44% (No). In July, we discussed the CPRA's proposed changes to the CCPA, such as…
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Brazil's Plot Twist: Data Protection Law Is Here Despite Previous Postponement
By Jeff Kuo on September 10, 2020
In a surprising turn of events, the Brazilian Senate has revised executive order MP 959/2020 to remove the delayed effective date of Brazil's General Personal Data Protection Law ("Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados" or "LGPD"). As we previously discussed in Taft's Privacy & Data Security Insights blog, Brazil had originally delayed the implementation of LGPD to have an effective date of January 2021. However, during a remote session on August 26, 2020, the Brazilian Senate rejected the proposed delay…
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A little relief? CCPA exemptions for employee and business contact information likely to be extended to 2022 (or beyond)
By Scot Ganow on September 9, 2020
Since we originally posted this content to Taft Privacy & Data Security Insights, the governor of California has since signed AB1281, extending the exemptions for employee personal information and that of business contacts until January 2022. This deadline may be extended again, should voters choose the CPRA, as discussed below.
An important development on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) front occurred as many of us enjoyed the last days of summer and readied for the Labor…
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You Read the Privacy Policy, Right? Sure You Did. A New Federal Bill Seeks to Address the Transparency Gap.
By Brett Hebert on August 5, 2020
Posted in FTC, Privacy Policy
Thank you, reader, for taking time out of your day to read this blog post. I trust before clicking on this link you first sought out our website's Privacy Policy and reviewed it in full, took mental notes while silently nodding throughout, and finished with an audible "I agree" before moving on to review this content. Correct?
Very likely you did not, but take solace in knowing you are in good company. Only 22% of Americans report "often" or "always" reading online privacy policies, and that's solely for websites which require browsers to affirmatively agree to a privacy policy (i.e., flashing a pop-up with some form of "check the box" affirmation). This does not engender much confidence that Americans are actively seeking out and consenting to the privacy policies embedded within the myriad of websites they visit on a daily basis. And who can blame them – a 2008 study estimated it would take 244 hours each year to read every privacy policy in full for all the websites an average web browser visited annually. So put down your summer beach novel and start reading privacy policies – you're already 10 weeks behind.
All kidding aside, this is a real problem for the United States' federal data privacy legal framework, which is guided in part upon the Federal Trade Commission's Fair Information Practice Principles. Notably, those include (i) consumer notice and awareness ("Consumers should be given notice of an entity's information practices before any personal information is collected from them"), and (ii) consumer choice and consent ("In order to be effective, any choice regime should provide a simple and easily-accessible way for consumers to exercise their choice"). If the vast majority of websites utilize privacy policies which consumers are willfully ignoring or otherwise failing to recognize the existence of, much less comprehending their contents, how can one reasonably claim consumers are "on notice and aware" of privacy policies and exercising real "choice and consent" to the management of their personal data?
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Warning! Shields are Down: Top EU Court Invalidates EU-US Privacy Shield Protections
By Scot Ganow & Zachary Heck on July 21, 2020
Posted in GDPR, Privacy Policy
What is Privacy Shield? Since 2016, U.S. companies and organizations receiving personal data relating to individuals in the European Union have relied upon a self-certification program known as Privacy Shield. Rather than enter into numerous agreements and meet other requirements to process the personal data of individuals in the EU, U.S. companies have been able to self-certify to a level of compliance to meet EU law. Privacy Shield serves to address the General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR) requirement that adequate safeguards be in place for the protection of transatlantic transfers of personal data and the receiving entity's handling of that data. Under Privacy Shield, self-certified companies that comply with the agreement's requirements are considered to have met the EU's higher standard for data privacy and obtained some level of "adequacy." Since its implementation, more than 5,300 companies have operated under its terms. The future of Privacy Shield, however, is now in jeopardy.
EU Court holds Privacy Shield to be Inadequate. On July 16, 2020, Europe's highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that United States law is inadequate to protect EU citizens' personal data to the extent that EU law requires. Specifically, the CJEU held that the "limitations on the protection of personal data arising from the domestic law of the United States, on the access and use by U.S. public authorities of such data transferred from the European Union… are not circumscribed in a way that satisfies requirements that are essentially equivalent to those required under EU law." To put it another way, Privacy Shield's fundamental flaw, according to the court, is not so much that member companies' practices are inadequate, but rather that the U.S. government cannot be trusted to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of personal data. Specifically, the justices found that federal laws such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act "cannot be regarded as limited to what is strictly necessary" and fails to meet "minimum safeguards" guaranteed by the EU.
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Data Déjà vu? Data Protection Back On the Ballot in California
By Zachary Heck & Rebekah Mackey on July 15, 2020
It is summer and you just finished all the hard work to make sure your organization addressed all applicable California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA or the "Act") requirements. You sit down, take a deep breath, and see what California has been up to during your CCPA preparations. Well, lo and behold, California wants to give the nation's most aggressive data protection law a facelift in a new ballot initiative to be voted on this November.
You may remember that California pioneered the first sweeping privacy reform in the United States in 2018 when the CCPA was passed. The Act was amended in 2019 and went into effect January 1, 2020, with enforcement beginning July 1 of this year. Taft's Privacy & Data Security group has provided information regarding the data requirements of the CCPA in previous blog posts, but generally, the Act affords consumers the right to know what information is being collected from them, the right to prohibit businesses from keeping their information, and the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information, among other things. The CCPA already reaches outside California state lines, as it applies to companies that do business within the state that have revenues of over $25 million per year, derive at least 50% of its revenue from selling information, or buy, sell or share personal information of at least 50,000 California consumers, households or devices.…
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The Illinois Supreme Court Clears the Way for a Proliferation of Lawsuits Under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
By Richard Hu & Daniel Saeedi on January 31, 2019
On Jan. 25, 2019, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion in Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, a case brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA"). 740 ILCS 14/1 et seq. The court reversed the decision of the Illinois appellate court and held that a plaintiff may bring a lawsuit under BIPA as an "aggrieved" party based upon a defendant's violation of the statutory requirements of BIPA and without the plaintiff being required to show actual damages.
The court's decision has important ramifications for the many lawsuits that have already been brought under BIPA and opens the way for plaintiffs to seek BIPA's liquidated damages and injunctive relief based upon technical violations of the statute.…
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I was listening to a podcast last week and the guy being interviewed was asked about his experience as a first time dad. He didn't have much to say.
I want to be ready for those kinds of conversations. Here's my three month report.
Everyone knows that "everything changes." But how?
Your baby's crying will cut to the fibers of your being and gnaw at every self-esteem issue you ever had (and thought you'd left behind years ago).
Nobody likes to hear a baby cry. But a crazy, instinct-level chemical reaction kicks in when it's your own kid. I guess I should have known this, but the feeling—physical, psychological—is unknowable until it happens to you.
Questioning your entire self-worth after 60 seconds of screaming sounds insane, but there's good reason for it, evolutionarily speaking.
For what it's worth, I first vocalized these feelings to a dad-to-be a few weeks ago, and I've been in a better place since then.
It's hard to see outside of it.
If you've ever been (clinically) depressed or otherwise hung up in a chemically-induced stupor (the day after a night clubbing in the early aughts, perhaps?), you know the feeling of rationally knowing everything is OK, but feeling a deeper emptiness that defies reason. You can't see outside your own depression.
The first few months of parenting are like this. I'm thrilled to be a father, and E brings me indescribable joy, but the all-consuming stresses—of sleep management (hers, mine, my wife's), feeding, planning, working, socializing, and just generally living—put you in a box.
Writing this helps to step outside of that box.
Seeing your kid smile is the best.
Over the last three months, I've seen my wife deliver after a 28 hour labor, soothe an inconsolable baby by humming an instinctual melody, allow grandparents and close friends into our new family circle with grace and warmth, and continue to maintain her business* all the same. She hasn't slept longer than 3 or maybe 4 hours in a row in over 100 days, and she still finds a way to spell me for a nap.
I know there's a lot of instinct and pheromones and nature at work here. More power to her.
Be present with your wife when she gives birth. (And for every day after!) Have somebody else take the photos or video. Bear witness!
You finally 'get' your parents.
Is this an obvious one? I didn't expect it, but it hit me immediately, as soon as we saw them in the waiting room at the birthing center.
How many times have I been an obnoxious ingrate? Sorry, Mom and Dad. I love you.
You know that feeling of borderline boredom or anxiety where you think to yourself, 'hmmmm…what should I do right now?' That's gone.
You have no way of knowing how much free time you have right now. Seriously. And not just 'nothing to do right now' free time. Future free time. Free time next week at 2:30. Free time in July for that Neutral Milk Hotel concert. The best we can do is pray for the stars to align.
Even when there's downtime over here, there's a walk or a feed or a book just around the corner. And you never know when that nap will end, so you while away the minutes without ever really getting to sink your teeth into anything. Zombie phone addiction creeps in.
Please, guys, savor the feeling of just plain not knowing what to do with yourself.
Please invite yourself over. We want to see you. We have no plans. We just have no time to reach out .
We're in a tough spot. We are more or less home all the time. We can go on short walks in the neighborhood. We've even taken a few weekend trips. But we never know *when* we can go or for how long we can go out for. Planning is very difficult. And we don't just want to have you over after she falls asleep. But we also don't want you to sit through a twenty minute fussy freakout.
So please be patient. Know we miss you and love you. If you are up for it, come over one morning. EARLY. Nothing but smiles. Or just spend the better part of a weekend day with us—we'll have no plans but to casually hang, some baby time, some grown up time, a little crying time, maybe.
Don't miss out on this kid. It will be worth your while.
Oh, one last thing. And this doesn't apply to visiting us any more. But in the first few weeks, bring food to new parents or offer to pitch in for errands. We fucked this one up with some friends and feel terrible about it having been on the other side now.
That's all I've got for now. Hope to spend a lazy Saturday with you soon.
*Keeping A's business alive and well—and sending me back to work—would not have been possible without the incredible dedication and support of her sister, whose hard work, generosity, and loving support has been invaluable to our new family. Thanks 1,000,000, SS!


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The renewable energy horizon
The transition to renewable energies and decarbonization process are unstoppable. As was made clear in Glasgow at the last UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, the energy system we have known up to now has an expiration date and requires the dismantling of fossil fuels. This is the only way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reverse climate change.
In this process, green energies play a fundamental role that will continue to grow through research, innovation and ever-increasing competitiveness.
What are renewable energies?
Renewable energies are those obtained from natural and unlimited sources. Their low environmental impact, which would drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, makes the focus of policies aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
There are several types of renewable energies, depending on the natural element that helps to produce them. Among them, the most relevant is solar energy, which uses electromagnetic radiation from the sun to create energy. It is divided into photovoltaic solar energy (which comes from sunlight) and solar thermal energy (which comes from the sun's heat). It is one of the renewables with the greatest growth projection, especially in those countries that have many days and hours of sunshine per year.
In addition to solar energy, there are the following renewable energies:
Wind energy: it is the energy obtained by the wind moving the blades of a wind turbine.
Hydraulic or hydroelectric energy: this is the energy that comes from the movement of water in rivers and other freshwater currents.
Geothermal energy: uses heat from within the earth's crust.
Tidal energy: energy obtained from the movement of the tides.
Wave energy or wave power: harnesses the movement of waves.
Biomass and biogas: energy extracted from organic waste.
Bioethanol: organic fuel suitable for automotive use, obtained through fermentation processes of vegetable products.
Biodiesel: organic fuel for automotive use, among other applications, obtained from vegetable oils.
The advantages of renewable energies
The energy transition to reverse climate change inevitably involves the development of renewable energies and progressive decarbonization. Advances in research and growing investment have made renewable energies reliable, profitable and increasingly competitive, in contrast to the price volatility of fossil fuels.
They are inexhaustible and do not have limited reserves like gas, oil or nuclear energy, which makes them an essential element of a sustainable energy system that does not threaten the future of the planet.
On the other hand, their role as an element of transformation in developing societies is invaluable in that they reduce energy dependence on fossil fuel exporting countries. Their autochthonous character allows energy to be obtained from renewable resources (wind, sun, water, organic matter) practically anywhere around the world.
Renewables also have a very favorable political framework for their full implementation. In general, there is an atmosphere of international agreement to promote the transition to a low-carbon economy for sustainable future generations.
What are the expectations for the future?
In this context, the energy transition will experience an exponential acceleration in the coming years that will place renewables as the main energy source worldwide. According to forecasts by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the share of renewables in global electricity supply will rise from 26% in 2018 to 44% in 2040, and they will provide two-thirds of the increase in electricity demand recorded in that period. The main players in this phenomenon will be photovoltaic and wind technologies.
The role of renewables becomes even more significant considering that, according to the IEA, global electricity demand will increase by 70% by 2040—raising its share of final energy use from 18% to 24% over the same period—driven mainly by emerging regions (India, China, Africa, Middle East and South East Asia).
Solar PV energy will play a key role in this energy transition. The 'European solar photovoltaic (PV) market outlook 2021', published by Wood Mackenzie, forecasts that 20% of all energy produced in Europe in 2050 will come from solar PV technology, with Spain and Germany leading the way.
To produce all this energy, the report continues, photovoltaic installations will have an average annual growth rate of 10% until the end of the decade.
The role of GRS
It will be a process in which companies such as GRS, with a development pipeline of 3.758 MW and a construction pipeline of 2.228 MW and an excellent international projection, with presence in the main strategic markets (Australia, Middle East, etc.), will play a fundamental role.
With 15 years of experience in photovoltaic plant construction projects and their connection to the grid, GRS has led the installation of a total of 116 plants in 18 countries on five continents. Its installations total 2.4 GW of solar energy, an output that avoids the emission of 3 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.
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Agroclimate Impact Reporter Map Selector (Opens in a new Window)
The Agroclimate Impact Reporter is an interactive map showing drought characteristics and the impacts of drought conditions on agriculture in the Prairie region. Variables can be visualized at a monthly time scale between 2012 and 2017 as spatial polygons. Variables include monthly changes in drought conditions, impact of drought conditions on agricultural operations, agricultural water shortages, etc.
Almanac Averages and Extremes (Opens in a new Window)
The Almanac Averages and Extremes dataset contains the average and extreme temperature and precipitation observations at monitoring stations over the entire period of record. Where available, the most recent 5 years of daily data are also displayed. Data can be searched by calendar date and station name.
Arctic Portal (Opens in a new Window)
The Arctic Portal is a comprehensive gateway to Arctic information and data on the internet, increasing information sharing and co-operation among Arctic stakeholders and granting exposure to Arctic related information and data. The interactive map allows user to select and view specific layers of climate variables, including boreholes, permafrost classification, permafrost extent, details on the active layer, sea ice extent, and historical climate. Additionally, static maps of sea ice, flora and fauna are available for download.
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Canadian Cryospheric Information Network (Opens in a new Window)
Canadian Cryospheric Information Network (CCIN) provides information on measuring, modeling, and understanding the relationships between the cryosphere and the Earth's climate system. It contains data visualizations of current and historical snow water equivalent, sea ice thickness, and current and historical lake ice cover. Historical and future data are available as point and gridded data.
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Canadian Station Inventory and Data Download (Opens in a new Window)
Canadian Station Tide and Water Level Inventory and Data Download contains observations of water level data from stations across Canada for the historical period of 1970 to present. Stations may be selected using an interactive map. Data are available for download in tabular format
Canadian Tides and Water Levels Data Archive (Opens in a new Window)
The Canadian Tides and Water Levels Data Archive contains historical observations of tides and water levels from Canadian and global monitoring stations. Data include Canadian tide and water level data, Canadian Hydrographic Service station benchmarks, and international sea level data. Data are available for download in tabular format or can be visualized using an interactive map.
Climate Atlas of Canada (Opens in a new Window)
The Climate Atlas of Canada is an interactive tool developed for users to learn about climate change in Canada. It combines climate science, mapping and storytelling. The primary source of climate model data presented in maps, charts and tables is the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium. Statistically downscaled data was derived from 12 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) global climate models for two emissions scenarios: Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5. For comparative purposes, observed data are included in all time-series graphs for the period 1950-2005. The source of the observed data used in the Atlas is Natural Resources Canada.
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RIVERDALE PARK ARTS COUNCIL
ArtsFest 2020
ArtsFest vendor application
Artist Fellowship
Gerald King, Artist and Riverdale Park Resident
PG Phil Internship
ANDREW BROWN JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ GERALD KING MARIANNA PREVITI
RIVERDALE PARK PEOPLE OF THE ARTS PAST & PRESENT
DON RENO: An inductee into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, Don Reno lived in Riverdale Park during the 1970s next door to long time resident and fellow Bluegrass musician, Bill Harrell. During his lifetime, Don wrote over 500 songs and instrumentals making him "the most prolific composer in Bluegrass music history." With an immediately recognizable style of banjo and guitar playing, he was considered a true pioneer in a uniquely American musical genre. http://www.donreno.com
TINA VAN PELT: Owner of "Profusions of Glass", specializing in one of a kind, handmade fused jewelry. http://www.profusionsofglass.com
ROBERT KRAFT: Award winning decoy carver and wildlife artist. http://www.riverdalewildfowlarts.wordpress.com
MARIANNA PREVITI: Voted best traditional jazz vocalist 3 years in a row by the Washington Area Music Association, she's been compared to the great vocalists of the past such as Ella Fitzgerald, Lil Green & Dinah Washington. http://www.mariannapreviti.com
LANCE WHITNEY: A photographer who's sense of composition and lighting, transforms the ordinary into works of art.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, the Spanish born poet lived in Riverdale Park while a professor at the University of Maryland in the late 1940's and early 1950's. A prolific writer who's known for his ideas on "porsia pura" or pure poetry, he is considered one of the greatest Spanish poets of the 20th century. Quote: "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
GERALD KING: A long time Riverdale Park resident, teacher and master realism artist, Gerald produced finely crafted oil paintings with an intimate eye that reflects a genuine knowledge of and feel for the subject. Working from his studio "Atelier Royale", over the years he produced a series of landscape paintings of Riverdale Park that capture the heart of the town's architecture and flavor. One of the founding members of the Riverdale Park Arts Council, an art training grant has been named in his honor. http://www.geraldking.com
SAMUEL WILLIAMS: Rev. Samuel Williams, Jr. holds the distinction of being the first African American author to pen a major Sherlock Holmes adventure. His historical fiction novel, Anomalous: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes featuring Jack Johnson and Alphonse Capone was published in August 2012 by MX Publishing located in London, England. Williams has served as president the Riverdale Park Arts Council (RPAC) Board of Directors since July 2014.
EMILY FANNING: The first President of the Riverdale Park Arts Council, Emily is known throughout the metro area for her doll hospital and extensive knowledge of dolls. She has been instrumental in creating a program of mentoring and teaching doll making to local youth of the town. She was honored by the Riverdale Park Town Council for her volunteer efforts over the years.
ANDREW BROWN: A successful guitar maker, composer, and double bass player of diverse musical styles ranging from orchestral to avant garde chamber music as well as jazz and pop. Andrew regularly performs with the jazz ensemble, "Brulee". http://www.awbmusic.com


My dad's cousin and his family took us on a road trip from Sydney to Canberra on our first week in Australia. It was a 4-hour drive away from Sydney, and we went there just for a day trip.
The first place we visited was the Parliament House. According to http://www.aph.gov.au : "The home of Australia's Parliament and the meeting place of the nation, Parliament House is located on a 32-hectare site on Capital Hill and is the focal point of Canberra, the capital city of Australia. It was opened on 9 May 1988 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II." Contrary to the usual impression that the capital city of Australia is one of either Sydney or Melbourne, it's actually Canberra, which is located in the middle of the two. There is not a lot about Canberra as a city besides being the Capital of Australia, and precisely because the city is really just built geographically in the middle of Sydney and Melbourne to serve as the political centre of the country.
Visitors and tourists are allowed inside the Parliament House, but not before a security check comparable to an airport. A lot of areas inside the Parliament House were available for access to visitors, including the Great Hall, the Parliament House Art Collection, and Senate and House of Representatives Chambers (when there are no ongoing sessions). You can also go up to the green roof-deck of the building, which actually inclines downwards to the first level, serving both as part-roof and part-facade.
Next, we went to the Australian War Memorial Museum. According to http://www.visitcanberra.com.au : "The Australian War Memorial commemorates the sacrifice of Australian men and women who served in war. Visit one of the world's great museums; an outstanding archive and centre for research into Australia's wartime history." It's a pretty interesting place, but I couldn't appreciate it in its entirety because I was not familiar with the history of Australia, especially their war history. But it indeed is very remarkable how Australia give so much thought and effort to remembering all their heroes and fallen during the past two world wars.


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Textron: A Still Uncertain Future for Tax Accrual Workpapers
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In 1984, the IRS announced that it would not request tax accrual workpapers from taxpayers during an examination except in unusual circumstances (referred to as the "policy of restraint") (Announcement 84-46). In 2002, the IRS identified listed transactions as an unusual circumstance warranting an exception to its policy of restraint and began routinely requesting tax accrual workpapers when it believed the taxpayer had participated in a listed transaction (Announcement 2002-63; see also Internal Revenue Manual Section 4.10.20.3).
Since then, taxpayers have challenged IRS requests for tax accrual workpapers, claiming various protections against disclosure, including protection under the work-product doctrine. A significant case focusing on application of the work-product doctrine to tax accrual workpapers is Textron Inc., 507 F. Supp. 2d 138 (D.R.I. 2007). As litigation on this question enters its fourth year, it remains unclear to what extent the work-product doctrine protects tax accrual workpapers and how to effectively invoke that protection.
Request for Tax Accrual Workpapers
During an examination, the IRS determined that a Textron subsidiary participated in several sale-in, lease-out (SILO) listed transactions described in Notice 2005-13, 2005-1 C.B. 630, and requested Textron's tax accrual workpapers. When Textron refused to produce the documents, the government issued a summons and subsequently sought to enforce the summons. The lower court found that Textron's tax accrual workpapers for the year in question consisted entirely of a spreadsheet listing items on the return that Textron's counsel believed might be challenged by the IRS, counsel's estimate of the percentage likelihood of prevailing, and the dollar amount of financial statement reserves to reflect the possibility of not prevailing, along with backup workpapers for the spreadsheet.
Textron challenged the IRS request to produce these documents, claiming that they are protected by the work-product doctrine. The taxpayer also claimed that the attorney-client privilege applied. The lower court held and the appellate court affirmed that although the attorney-client privilege applied in this case, it was waived. Waiver of attorney-client privilege is not determinative with respect to waiver of work-product protection. The lower court agreed with Textron that the tax accrual workpapers in question were created in anticipation of litigation and that, as a result, the work-product doctrine protects the document from disclosure to the IRS.
The IRS appealed the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. A panel majority originally affirmed the lower court's decision that the workproduct protection applied to the tax accrual workpapers, but it vacated the portion of the lower court decision relating to waiver and remanded that portion of the case to the lower court for additional factual development and consideration (see Textron Inc., 553 F.3d 87 (1st Cir. 2009)). The First Circuit decision was withdrawn and judgment in the case was vacated when the First Circuit agreed to have the full panel for the court rehear the case.
In Anticipation of Litigation
Many commentators have stated that the district court decision in Textron was a big win for taxpayers, and in some respects it was. One question in the case was the extent to which the document in question was prepared "in anticipation of litigation," a prerequisite for the workproduct doctrine to apply. The IRS argued unsuccessfully that a document cannot be treated as prepared in anticipation of litigation if it can also be used for another business purpose (in this case preparation of financial statements). Although the IRS previously prevailed on this argument more than 25 years ago in the Fifth Circuit (El Paso Co., 682 F.2d 530 (5th Cir. 1982)), the district court rejected the IRS's limited interpretation of the phrase "in anticipation of litigation." Whether the IRS can persuade the entire First Circuit on this point remains unclear, but it is central to whether Textron will ultimately prevail on this issue.
Waiver of the Work-Product Doctrine
Unlike waiver of attorney-client privilege, disclosure to a third party will not necessarily waive protection under the work-product doctrine. Waiver for purposes of the work-product doctrine occurs if disclosure is made to an adverse party. The district court concluded that there was no waiver of the work-product doctrine in the Textron case. If the First Circuit agrees with the district court that the work-product doctrine protects Textron's tax accrual workpapers from disclosure to the IRS, it will then be asked to address the government's argument that Textron waived protection under the work-product doctrine when it showed the tax accrual workpapers to its financial auditor.
Impact of Uncertainties
Given the legal maneuvering in this case, it is possible that it will remain in litigation for quite some time. Until the litigation has concluded, the extent to which the work-product doctrine protects tax accrual workpapers and how to effectively invoke that protection remains unclear. In light of such uncertainty, practitioners should keep abreast of developments in the Textron litigation and be prepared to work with clients as they try to navigate this unsettled area.
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John Miller is a faculty instructor at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, NE. Rochelle Hodes and Corina Trainer are with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Washington, DC. Mr. Miller and Ms. Hodesare members of the AICPA Tax Division's IRS Practice and Procedures Committee. For further information about this column, contact Mr. Miller at johnmillercpa@cox.net.
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At relay, senior reflects on diagnosis
By Lianna Havel Apr 16, 2012 3:35 AM
If her doctors' diagnosis is correct, Saturday was Alexa Lee's last Relay for Life.
The senior, diagnosed last year with inoperable tumors in both her kidneys, learned in December she has six months to live. Lee has captained a Relay for Life team for seven straight years, but this is her first time doing it as a cancer patient.
"I'm not a doctor. I can't find the cure for cancer, I can't do that," Lee said about her involvement. "But I can walk and show support and show solidarity."
A few hours into the night, after starting the event off as part of the survivor lap, Lee shared her story with roughly 1,000 attendees filling the Lerner Health and Wellness Center for GW's fifth annual Relay for Life.
"To be honest, I feel weird calling myself a survivor here tonight when I am still part of
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Junior Leland Gohl holds up senior Teena Cherian during Relay for Life's doughnut eating contest.
the fight," Lee said to the packed gymnasium during the Luminaria Assembly. "But in the words of my favorite oncology nurse, 'If you survive five minutes after hearing the words 'you have cancer,' you're a survivor.' "
Cancer has always been a part of Lee's life. As a child, she watched her dad beat skin cancer. In high school, when her best friend was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, she took him to chemotherapy sessions and helped him through the recovery process. She never thought he would have to return the favor.
Now, as president of the community service-focused fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, which raised nearly $7,000 for the event this year, Lee said her friends have helped her come to terms with her diagnosis.
One of the most difficult adjustments in her life, she said, was learning to ask for help.
"It's really the little things that you pick up on – not always being able to make yourself dinner and not [being] able to walk to class," she said.
In describing to the audience the support she's received since her diagnosis, Lee pointed out where she finds love.
"Love, to me, is a roommate who sits with me on the couch watching trash TV as I'm recovering from a round of chemo," she said. "Love is a friend who rushes himself to the hospital to get tested for a kidney transplant."
This spring, Lee will complete her degree in human services against the wishes of her parents and doctors, who wanted her to be closer to home while undergoing chemotherapy.
"I prepared myself for what would be the biggest challenge of my life: being a cancer patient and a second semester college senior," she said.
After Lee spoke, hundreds walked in silence around the track, which was lined with strings of lights. Sophomore Clara Troyer, a Relay for Life organizer, then announced that donations had reached $53,000 – just $7,000 short of this year's goal.
"I think that the reason people participate is because everyone has been touched by cancer," co-chair Lauren Clark said. "Whether it's someone as close as your mom or dad or a sibling, or a distant relative or a friend."
By the end of the event, the 55 teams raised more than $53,800, according to the event's website. The GW Women's Rugby team brought in the most money, at more than $7,000 – just a few hundred dollars ahead of Alpha Phi Omega.
Seven participants from six different teams each raised more than $1,000.
This article appeared in the April 16, 2012 issue of the Hatchet.


You are invited to attend the Ground Breaking Ceremony for the TLC Living Community Assisted Living Project on Thursday, September 14th, from 4:00p – 5:00p. This 60-unit assisted living development is the product of a public-private partnership that will serve as a catalyst for the redevelopment of the Machesney Town Center (former Machesney Park Mall).
TLC representatives, Dignitaries, and Staff will be on-site for the ceremonial ground breaking and will provide brief statements regarding the project. A map illustrating the general location of the ground breaking event can be viewed here: https://goo.gl/maps/GmUMaP9cnTT2. Attendees and speakers will gather at the tent/podium that will be in place on-site. We look forward to seeing you there!


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Six years later, the Financial Times is back in the App Store. (Apple still won't get a cut of subscriptions.)
"We saw that we had a much higher app adoption rate on Android, where we had a native app, than on iOS."
By Laura Hazard Owen @laurahazardowen Aug. 7, 2017, 2:13 p.m.
The Financial Times shuns the App Store, but not the iPad
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"Six years is a long time in product," said Martin Fallon, the Financial Times' product manager for apps. Six years ago was the last time that the FT's main app was in Apple's App Store. In 2011, the company introduced a web app and, a couple months later, pulled its dedicated iOS apps because, reportedly, it did not want to give Apple a 30 percent cut of in-app subscription revenue and wanted more information about subscribers than Apple was willing to provide.
More than half a decade later, you can find the FT app in the App Store once again (alongside some of the company's other apps, like FTChinese, that never left.) Apple will not, however, be getting a cut of subscription revenues; as The Wall Street Journal reported Monday:
The new iOS app will therefore only be accessible to existing FT subscribers. New readers won't be able to purchase subscriptions from within the app itself, but must instead do so from the FT's website before logging in.
This model means the FT can avoid giving Apple a cut of subscription revenue and will allow it to collect payment information and other valuable data directly from its subscribers. Spotify and other subscription-based services have taken a similar approach in recent years.
How Renée Kaplan, the FT's first head of audience engagement, approaches her new role
"We identified an iOS app as a key way to drive engagement," Fallon told me. "We saw that readers who used our existing apps were much more engaged than those who didn't. We also saw that we had a much higher app adoption rate on Android, where we had a native app, than on iOS." (Engagement became a bigger part of the discussion in 2015, when the FT created an audience engagement team.) He also mentioned other benefits of an iOS app over a web app: Improved offline reading, persistent login, easier sharing, and — ultimately — push notifications and automatic update downloads, things that readers have been asking for but that weren't possible with the web app.
"Another motivation is simple — customers asked us for it," Fallon said.
Right now, the FT's iOS app is aimed only at existing subscribers. When you open it, you're prompted to sign in; if you don't, you can see a homepage but can't read a single story. The web app will continue to exist for now, but the FT intends to move the majority of its readers over to the iOS app. (As of Monday, I couldn't find anything on the FT's site to alert readers to the existence of the iOS app; it was still only promoting the web app.)
The Financial Times has nearly 870,000 total paying subscribers (up 9 percent from this time last year); of those, 666,000 are digital-only subscriptions (up 13 percent from this time last year). More than 50 percent of the FT's digital subscribers already use its apps, and with the launch of the iOS app, that percentage is expected to increase.
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GOAL! City settle it off as Palace overextend, the visitors break three on two and De Bruyne finds Jesus who take a good touch and slaps it into the near post. Crystal Palace 1-3 Manchester City.
Full-time here at Selhurst Park. A great performance from City after a dominant performance as Sterling's brace put them two up, Milivojevic grabbed one back but Jesus came on to see it off for the guests. Crystal Palace 1-3 Manchester City.
Substitution for Pep as Sane makes way for Stones.
Final change for Palace as Sako replaces McArthur.
This could be a nervy finish for City now. They will really be kicking themselves if they don't win this game as they have controlled it from the start.
GOAL! Free-kick to Palace right on the edge of the box after Gundogan fouls McArthur from behind. Milivojevic sends a powerful free-kick through the wall and it finds its way past Ederson. Game on. Palace 1-2 City.
Palace bring on Meyer for Townsend, who did not come close to repeating his heroics against City in the reverse fixture.
City make their second change of the game as Pep looks towards the Spurs Champions League tie during the week, Aguero makes way for Jesus.
City want to put a lid on it and a few signs that this game is going up a bit more, but City have defended well so far, with Walker particularly impressive.
SHOT! Milivojevic swings the ball in for Benteke, who meets it on the volley from around 15 yards out but doesn't make a clean contact and Ederson saves comfortably.
Substitution for the visitors following the goal, David Silva is replaced by Bernardo Silva.
GOAL! That's two for Sterling and two for City. They finally break through the Eagles defense for the second time. Sane sends the ball across the box and Sterling with a great first time finish, passes it beyond Guaita.
Gundogan tries his luck from around 25 yards out but fires well over the bar. Pep Guardiola looks frustrated, no doubt eager to see his side score a second and make the result safer.
Ten minutes gone in the second half and you just feel that if City score a second the floodgates will open a bit. Palace still sitting deep.
Selhurst Park is a bit flat at the moment, City continue with all the ball and the home crowd have seen the Eagles win just 4 times at home this season.
CLOSE! Good goalkeeping from Guaita. De Bruyne chips in a cross that almost deflects into the net off Kelly, but Guaita reacts quickly to save on the line.
No changes from either manager at the break as the hosts get us rolling. Crystal Palace 0-1 Manchester City.
CHANCE! City so close to a second. Gundogan has time to look up and chip over the top of the Palace defence. Three City players go for the ball in the box and it falls for De Bruyne, who fires at Guaita from close range.
Half time here at Selhurst Park with just Sterling's goal being the difference, the Englishman missed a sitter before opening the scoring for the visitors. Crystal Palace 0-1 Manchester City.
Just under five minutes to go in the half and you would think Hodgson wouldn't be too upset to go into the break just a goal down. Pep's side is still pushing..
Despite City having all of the ball and all of that ball in the Palace half, it remains just one and Palace are known to be good on the counter attack, the likes of Townsend and Zaha just need a glimpse on the break..
SAVE! Sane causes havoc for the Palace defense as he dances between men before firing a rifled shot at the near post, but Guaita gets a strong hand to it!
Milivojevic chips into the box for Benteke, who wins the header and knocks into the middle towards Kouyate. He is set to take a shot but Gundogan slides and clears the danger.
Not many shots from the visitors but Aguero gets a sight of goal and that's all he really needs to let fly, he gets the ball on the edge of the area and lets out a snapshot that flies just over Guaita's crossbar.
The Eagles have been stuck inside their on third for the majority of the game, the likes of Benteke and Zaha are playing on absolute scraps for the hosts.
The game has gotten a bit cagey following a lengthy injury break for both Sterling and Schlupp. Sterling seems fine to continue but Schlupp is forced off and Kouyate is his replacement.
This looks ominous for Palace at the moment, although City did also take the lead in the reverse fixture that they lost at the Etihad in December.
GOAL! Sterling makes up for his horrendous miss! A great tackle at the back from Kompany gets City going, De Bruyne puts Sterling through and smacks it into the roof of the net from close range.
MISS! City should lead! The hosts fail to clear and City have Palace on the backfoot, after a sweet one-two on the edge of the area Sane beats two men and squares it for Sterling who has an open goal but scuffs it wide.
It's been one-way traffic so far. City have had almost all of the ball in the opening stages, they have kept Palace pinned back inside their own half.
Palace with their first foray foward as Schlupp moves the ball down the right flank and tees up Milivojevic, but he can't keep his shot down.
Lots of early possession for City and nearly an early chance Silva is set up by Walker from the flank, the Spaniard has his back towards goal inside the area but can't turn under pressure.
The visitors get us rolling at Selhurst Park!
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Palace XI: Guaita, Van Aanholt, Dann, Kelly, Wan-Bissaka, McArthur, Milivojevic, Schlupp, Townsend, Zaha, Benteke. Bench: Hennessey, Ward, Meyer, Kouyate, Ayew, Batshuayi, Sako.
City XI: Ederson, Walker, Kompany, Laporte, Mendy, Gundogan, De Bruyne, David Silva, Sane, Sterling, Aguero. Bench: Muric, Danilo, Stones, Bernardo Silva, Mahrez, Otamendi, Jesus.
Two changes for Roy Hodgson following their 1-0 win at Newcastle as Dann comes in for the injured Tomkims and Benteke is handed his first start since early February at the expense of Michy Batshuayi.
Pep makes four changes after he saw his side's 14 game unbeaten run come to an end at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium during the week, Delph, Mahrez, Fernandinho and Otamendi fall out for Mendy, De Bruyne, Kompany and Sane.


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Oando Foundation harps strategic partnership with stakeholders
Oando Foundation has charged female and budding entrepreneurs to look out and embrace strategic partnerships with local and international organisations, to gain from the immense benefits therein.
The Foundation Head, Adekanla Adegoke, gave the charge at the 2019 Women in Development Summit, a network of women working in the social sector, which held in Lagos, recently.
Leveraging on good partnerships, she added that this would not only leapfrog new organisations to greater development, but also ensure their continuous and steady success.
She said the foundation understands the power of a well thought-out partnership and leveraged on it.
Presenting a paper on, "Strategic Alliances: Activating Partnerships Between Nonprofits and Businesses," Adegoke encouraged mentees to have a global outlook to their social work without losing focus of local programming implementation approaches and their operating environment.
Think global, act local, cultivate strategic and sustainable partnerships were the summary of the numerous tips she gave to mentees during the master class session. She also spoke on the power of association through volunteering activities and the need to be passionate about the cause they choose to support.
The 2019 edition, which was themed "Women-led Business as a Tool for Social change and Nation building" had a faculty of women speaking on various topics, such as "Are Women Entrepreneurs Ready to Drive Social Change in Nigeria? What would it Take? "New Media: Platforms for Entrepreneurial Opportunity."
Hosted by Ideation Hub Africa, the summit is a high-octane networking conference for women working across Africa on development and social-change in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), social enterprise, public sector as well as corporate organisations; providing a rallying point for change-makers working actively for social good.
Citing the Foundation's investment in basic education, she said: "When Oando Foundation, an independent charity established by Oando Plc, began operations in 2011, it learnt from international development agencies already working in the Nigerian education space that public schools needed at least eight years of holistic intervention to see significant results. This formed the premise upon which the Foundation's school adoption model was designed – to run effective non- profits, structure, networking and providing evidence are all important."
Apart from funding, Adegoke said the Foundation provides for its adopted schools, and leverages strategic partnerships with various local/international organisations to bring in more resources to the schools.
For instance, she cited the Foundation's partnership with Sumitomo Chemical, one of Japan's leading chemical companies, which resulted in the provision of ICT centres in three of its adopted schools annually since 2017, impacting over 7,000 beneficiaries to date.
She encouraged the participants, who were mostly young women in the development sector, to operate well-structured NGOs to attract productive and sustainable partnership in the interest of their core beneficiaries.
Founder of Ideation Hub, Mrs Debola Deji-Kurunmi, said the programme was organised to expose entrepreneurs and those in the development sector to build their capacity to deliver impact.
"We want to grow the capacity of development practitioners, young corporate leaders, social entrepreneurs to deliver impact; to succeed in their work. But we also want to see entrepreneurs partner with NGOs so that they can provide support and funding, and solving a problem they are also passionate about," she said.


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Q: Find cofactor matrix of a certain matrix I'm studying for a qualifying exam in Linear algebra, and I came across this problem:
Compute the cofactor matrix of the $n\times n$ matrix $A$ whose elements are $-1$ off-diagonal and $n-1$ on the main diagonal. What can you conclude about the invertibility of $A$?
For example, if $n=3$ then $A=
\begin{bmatrix}
2&-1 &-1 \\
-1 & 2 & -1 \\
-1 & -1 & 2\\
\end{bmatrix}$
Through some numerical exploration, I think the cofactor matrix will be $n^{n-2}J_n$, where $J_n$ is the $n \times n$ all-ones matrix. From here, it is easy to conclude that $A$ will not be invertible, because it's adjugate will be a singular matrix.
But I'm having trouble finding the cofactor matrix itself. How do I show that each cofactor will be $n^{n-2}$? Any help is appreciated.

A: There is a way to link this to spectral graph theory. This is the laplacian of the complete graph $K_3$.
The cofactor matrix of a laplacian matrix has all of its entries equal to each other, its entries are equal to the number of spanning trees of the graph, which in this case would be $3$. This result is sometimes known as Kirchoff's theorem.
There is another way to see this matrix is not invertible, all of its rows have sum $0$, so the vector consisting only of ones is in the kernel.

A: 1.) Note that $A=nI- \mathbf {11}^T$ has eigenvalue of 0 with multiplicity one and $n$ with muliplicity $n-1$. This means $\text{rank}\big(A\big)=n-1$.  (I tacitly assume/ infer you're working over $\mathbb R$.)
2.) Using the above approach, you can can easily compute the diagonals of the adjugate (compute the spectra of the leading $n-1 \times n-1$ principal submatrix).  They are constant and equal to $\gamma$.
3.) There's various ways to finish.  Using the rank one update formula (Sherman-Morrison) for inverses consider the form of the adjugate for the  sequence  $B_k := \big(nI -(1-\frac{1}{k})\mathbf {11}^T)\big)$.  Without any computation you can see the off diagonals of the adjugate are all equal to one another for any given $k$ and therefore they are in the limit (= the adjugate of A). Thus the adjugate is of the form $\beta I + \alpha \mathbf{11}^T$ and it has rank one (why?) which implies $\beta =0$ and $\alpha = \gamma$.

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Eastside Primetimers chief executive Richard Litchfield has contributed in the Financial Times on the challenges involved in executing charity mergers, as an "ask an outsider" feature in their longer piece about Cancer Research UK's Harpal Kumar and how he integrated the organisation after its 2002 founding merger.
Charity mergers are about values, not value, says Richard Litchfield, chief executive of Eastside Primetimers, a social purpose consultancy. They differ from commercial deals because they do not usually involve money changing hands, although a transaction is nevertheless taking place.
Not-for-profit deals can transform how social causes are tackled but are also "10 times harder", he says, because without golden handshakes they involve more delicate motivations and missions.
In a similar vein to the CRUK merger, when Breast Cancer Now was formed in 2015 it brought together two rivals of similar size. It required the relentless communication of a shared vision, Mr Litchfield adds, and consideration of the complex incentives for those involved. For many charity managers and trustees, the organisation is deeply personal to them (and that is before considering the views and interests of beneficiaries and stakeholders).
About half the trustees from the previous charities selflessly resigned to enable a single board to be established, and a chair and chief executive were appointed.
You can read the full piece at the Financial Times website here.
If you are interested in a discussion about merger support, contact Dawn now on 0207 250 8334 or dawn@ep-uk.org to arrange a conversation with one of our specialists.


Skanska has signed a seven-year highways maintenance contract with Hampshire County Council, in the south of England. The total value over the course of the contract will be GBP 280M, about SEK 3.1 billion. The first two years of revenue, GBP 80M, about SEK 890 million, will be included in the order bookings for Europe in the first quarter 2017.
The contract is to maintain nearly 9,000 kilometers of Hampshire's highway network outside the cities of Portsmouth and Southampton, carrying out planned, reactive, winter and emergency maintenance. Skanska will focus on local employment skills, local supply chain opportunities and community projects and it will use innovative and cost-effective solutions from across its business.
The contract will run from 1 August 2017 to 31 March 2024, with extension options for a further five years.


We had a great seminar with 10 time IBJJF World Champion Caio Terra. He covered his version of the guillotine choke, set ups, and recovery for failed attempts. It was really good and we highly recommend that you learn from him if you have the chance. Thank you to everyone who attended!


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Penn has no answer for Chesterton's Mullen in 20-14 sectional loss (copy)
The Chesterton Trojans won a big one for their head coach Friday night and ended the football season for the Penn Kingsmen.
Chesterton head coach Mark Peterson learned earlier on Friday that he had tested positive for COVID-19, so assistant John Snyder took the reins and the Trojans responded behind three touchdowns accounted by junior quarterback Chris Mullen to stun the Kingsmen 20-14 at Chesterton Stadium's Field of Troy.
And, believe it or not, it was sophomore running back Ethan Troy of Chesterton who scored the winning touchdown on a 41-yard reception on a fourth-and-10 pass by Mullen with four minutes to play that ultimately was the winning touchdown that moved Chesterton (5-4) into the Class 6A-Sectional 2 championship next week at No. 5 Elkhart (8-0), a 67-33 winner at Portage.
The loss was Penn's first ever against Chesterton after six straight victories. It also ended Penn's three-game winning streak that ended the regular season. The 5-5 campaign for 18-year head coach Cory Yeoman is his worst finish as head coach and Penn's worst season since going 5-5 in 1980 under Hall of Fame coach Chris Geesman.
Mullen finished the game with 155 yards and two touchdowns on 17-of-26 passing and also ran for 85 yards on 13 carries, including a 35-yard touchdown run in the third quarter that put the Trojans up 14-7 heading into the final quarter. Junior wide receiver Jackson Westmoreland caught 11 of Mullen's passes for 11 yards, including a 39-yard scoring strike late in the first quarter.
Mullen's 240 total yards overshadowed the performance of Penn senior running back Kyle Riffel, who carried the ball 27 times for 172 yards and a pair of one-yard touchdown runs. Senior quarterback Ron Powlus completed 12 of 19 passes for 152 yards and one interception for the Kingsmen, who totaled 380 yards for the night but also had three first-half turnovers — two fumbles and the interception — that proved costly. The Trojans finished with 344 total yards.
There were five turnovers in the first half by the two teams and Chesterton took advantage of the first one. Penn punt returner Zach Hoskins fumbled a short punt, the Trojans recovered at the Penn 39 and on the first play Mullen connected with Westmoreland for a 39-yard touchdown play with 1:09 left in the first quarter. Jackson Syren's PAT made it 7-0 Trojans.
But the Kingsmen answered with a seven-play, 83-yard scoring drive to knot the score. Riffel carried seven times for 40 yards, going the final yard for the touchdown with 10:28 left in the first half. But it was Powlus' 43-yard completion to Carson Mumaw to the Chesterton 3 that came on a second-and-18 play that set up the score. Ryan Majerek's kick made it 7-7.
Majerek later would miss a 31-yard field goal attempt with 8:04 left after Riffel ripped off runs of 16 and 12 yards midway through the half. Riffel finished the first 24 minutes with 19 carries for 132 yards on the ground and the Kingsmen had 258 yards in total offense as Powlus completed 7 of 11 passes for 125 yards. Mullen was 14 of 20 for 137 yards, 10 of the completions to Westmoreland for 105 yards. But Penn got interceptions from Tye Zehner and Ryan Plummer in the first half.
The Trojans found running space in the middle of the Penn defense in the second half and exploited it to take the lead. After Chesterton stopped Riffel on a fourth-and-one at the Penn 48 for no gain, the Trojans needed just four plays to score. The final one was a 35-yard scamper by Mullen. Syren's PAT made it 14-7 with 4:28 to play in the third quarter.
The Kingsmen then drove downfield to the Chesterton 21, but on fourth down, Riffel lost four yards.
But Penn got a break when Troy fumbled on the second play of the fourth quarter near midfield. Powlus connected twice with Nick Favilla on throws of 15 and 14 yards, the last one to set up a first-and-goal at the Chesterton one. Riffel took it in from there and Majerek's PAT tied it at 14-14 with 9:07 left in the fourth quarter.
But the Trojans answered with a nine-play, 74-yard scoring drive that ate up 5:07 of the clock. Chesterton had a third-and-inches at the Penn 32 but was called for a false start. Then Mullin lost four yards when he was sacked by tackle Brendan Arendt.
But on fourth-and-10, Snyder elected to gamble after a timeout. Mullen had time to throw and finally found Troy behind the Penn secondary for a 41-yard scoring strike with 4:00 left. Syren's PAT failed but Chesterton had the lead and held on for the victory.
At Chesterton Stadium, Chesterton
Penn 0 7 0 7—14
Chesterton 7 0 7 6—20
C—Jackson Westmoreland 39 pass from Chris Mullen, 1:09 (Jackson Syren kick)
P—Kyle Riffel 1 run, 10:28 (Ryan Majerek kick)
C—Mullen 35 run, 4:28 (Syren kick)
P—Riffel 1 run, 9:07 (Majerek kick)
C—Ethan Troy 41 pass from Mullen, 4:00 (kick failed)
Penn Chesterton
Rushing Yards 228 189
Comp.-Att.-Int. 12-19-1 17-26-2
Punts-Average 1-40 3-32


Abstract: The collection mostly consists of letters, but also includes a pamphlet, a penmanship tablet and photographs, much of which was sent to Percy Keller by J. Harvey Hanford.
Residing in Paterson, New Jersey during the years 1910-1917, Percy Keller was most likely a former student of J. Harvey Hanford.
The collection consists chiefly of incoming letters, but also includes a pamphlet, a penmanship tablet and photographs, much of which was sent to Percy Keller by J. Harvey Hanford. In his letters, Hanford reports on his health, his family, and on his religious beliefs and practices. Of particular interest is his mention of Billy Sunday, an evangelist known for his attacks on liquor consumption. Hanford congratulates Keller on being a member of Billy Sunday's church, and regrets that he has never seen him preach.
Enclosed with Hanford's letter, is a printed history of his church in Unionville, in which he is featured, and his portrait dated 1917.
Hanford, J. Harvey, fl. 1839-ca. 1915.
This collection should be cited as: Manuscript Group 1577, Percy Keller Papers, The New Jersey Historical Society.
1 3 Photograph: church interior n.d.


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