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George Meade has just returned to the army after a short leave in Philadelphia His letter back home from February 1 is a very interesting one. In it, he tells his wife about his encounter with three peace commissioners sent by the Confederacy to meet with President Abraham Lincoln. The commissioners were Alexander Stephens, the Confederate vice president; assistant secretary of war John A. Campbell; and Robert M. T. Hunter, a Confederate senator. Their mission ended in failure because Lincoln stuck to his position that the requirements for peace included reunification of the Union and the abolition of slavery.
Clearly, Meade feels that he should not have spent time talking with the commissioners. I have even read an interview with one historian who says Meade's actions here were treasonous. I can't agree with that assessment at all. In his conversations with the rebels, Meade said nothing contrary to Lincoln's stand that the only want to end the war was for the seceded states to return to the Union and for slavery to end, nor did he offer suggestions for ways in which the commissioners could circumvent Lincoln or suggest negotiating tactics. I think the charge of treason is ludicrous. Perhaps Meade transgressed the bounds of propriety, but he was not doing anything to undermine Lincoln, or to provide "aid and comfort to the enemy."
In anyone went outside the boundaries, it was Grant. He knew that Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton were both wary of meeting with the commissioners, whose instructions including making peace between the "two countries." "At this point Grant, who was increasingly eager to finish off the war and who was not attuned to the niceties of diplomatic negotiations, intervened," wrote Lincoln biographer David Herbert Donald. "He persuaded the commissioners to delete from their instructions the reference to two separate countries and wired to Washington that he hoped Lincoln would meet with them."
After Meade's letter, I include Grant's view of the delegation.
I reached City Point at twelve o'clock last night, having had a very comfortable journey via Annapolis. We found a good deal of ice in the Chesapeake Bay and considerable in the James River; but to-day has been so mild and pleasant I think the ice will disappear.
From all I can gather, the Secretary's telegram must have been based on something Ord sent to Washington; for Grant did not return till Monday night, and in ignorance of Mr. Stanton's telegram, sent me one himself, yesterday morning.
I found on my arrival, last night, that three distinguished gentlemen, Mr. Alexander Stephens (Vice President of the Confederacy), Mr. R. M. T. Hunter (formerly United States Senator from Virginia), and Mr. Campbell, of Alabama (formerly Judge United States Supreme Court), were in our lines, having been passed in by General Grant, on their expressing a wish to go to Washington. After Grant had admitted them, he received a telegram from Washington directing they be retained outside our lines until a messenger despatched from Washington could arrive. They are now awaiting this messenger. They do not profess to be accredited commissioners, but state they are informal agents, desiring to visit the President and ascertain if any measures are practicable for the termination of the war. I called this morning, with General Grant, on them, and remained after General Grant left, and talked very freely with them. I told them very plainly what I thought was the basis on which the people of the North would be glad to have peace, namely, the complete restoration of the Union and such a settlement of the slavery question as should be final, removing it forever as a subject of strife. Mr. Stephens suggested that, if we could stop fighting, the matter might be discussed. I told him promptly that was entirely out of the question; that we could not stop fighting unless it was for good, and that he might be assured any proposals based on a suspension of hostilities would not be received. Mr. Stephens then said they did not consider the slavery question as so formidable a difficulty, but they feared the difficulty would be to obtain such modification of the old Constitution as would protect the States, in case of other questions arising to produce strife. I said if you mean to propose a reorganization and change in our Government, I don't think you will meet with any success. We are satisfied with our Constitution, and you seem to be, since yours is identically ours, excepting the protection you give to slavery. Mr. Hunter then asked me what we proposed to do with the slaves after freeing them, as it was well known they would not work unless compelled. I replied this was undoubtedly a grave question, but not insurmountable; that they must have labor, and the negroes must have support; between the two necessities I thought some system could be devised accommodating both interests, which would not be so obnoxious as slavery. They then said they thought it a pity this matter could not be left to the generals on each side, and taken out of the hands of politicians. I answered I had no doubt a settlement would be more speedily attained in this way, but I feared there was no chance for this.
We then conversed on general topics. Judge Campbell asked after your family, and Mr. Hunter spoke of Mr. Wise, and said he had brought two letters with him, one of which I herewith enclose.
I judge from my conversation that there is not much chance of peace; I fear we will split on the questions of an armistice and State rights. Still, I hope Mr. Lincoln will receive them and listen to all they have to say, for if it can be shown that their terms are impracticable, the country will be united for the further prosecution of the war. At the same time the selection of three most conservative of Southern men indicates most clearly to my mind an anxiety on the part of Mr. Davis to settle matters if possible. All this I have written you must be confidential, as it would not do to let it be known I had been talking with them, or what I said.
I do most earnestly pray something may result from this movement. When they came within our lines our men cheered loudly, and the soldiers on both sides cried out lustily, "Peace! peace!" This was intended as a compliment, and I believe was so taken by them.
I am sorry I could not stay longer with you, but I don't believe I should have had any satisfaction, as every report brought in would have a recall telegram.
Here are Grant's recollections of the peace commission, taken from his memoirs (Vol. II, pp 420-3, available via Google Books):
On the last of January, 1865, peace commissioners from the so-called Confederate States presented themselves on our lines around Petersburg, and were immediately conducted to my headquarters at City Point. They proved to be Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy, Judge Campbell, Assistant-Secretary of War, and R. M. T. Hunter, formerly United States Senator and then a member of the Confederate Senate.
It was about dark when they reached my headquarters, and I at once conducted them to the steamer Mary Martin, a Hudson River boat which was very comfortably fitted up for the use of passengers. I at once communicated by telegraph with Washington and informed the Secretary of War and the President of the arrival of these commissioners and that their object was to negotiate terms of peace between the United States and, as they termed it, the Confederate Government. I was instructed to retain them at City Point, until the President, or some one whom he would designate, should come to meet them. They remained several days as guests on board the boat. I saw them quite frequently, though I have no recollection of having had any conversation whatever with them on the subject of their mission. It was something I had nothing to do with, and I therefore did not wish to express any views on the subject. For my own part I never had admitted, and never was ready to admit, that they were the representatives of a government. There had been too great a waste of blood and treasure to concede anything of the kind. As long as they remained there, however, our relations were pleasant and I found them all very agreeable gentlemen. I directed the captain to furnish them with the best the boat afforded, and to administer to their comfort in every way possible. No guard was placed over them and no restriction was put upon their movements; nor was there any pledge asked that they would not abuse the privileges extended to them. They were permitted to leave the boat when they felt like it, and did so, coming up on the bank and visiting me at my headquarters.
I had never met either of these gentlemen before the war, but knew them well by reputation and through their public services, and I had been a particular admirer of Mr. Stephens. I had always supposed that he was a very small man, but when I saw him in the dusk of the evening I was very much surprised to find so large a man as he seemed to be. When he got down on to the boat I found that he was wearing a coarse gray woollen overcoat, a manufacture that had been introduced into the South during the rebellion. The cloth was thicker than anything of the kind I had ever seen, even in Canada. The overcoat extended nearly to his feet, and was so large that it gave him the appearance of being an average-sized man. He took this off when he reached the cabin of the boat, and I was struck with the apparent change in size, in the coat and out of it.
After a few days, about the 2d of February, I received a dispatch from Washington, directing me to send the commissioners to Hampton Roads to meet the President and a member of the cabinet. Mr. Lincoln met them there and had an interview of short duration. It was not a great while after they met that the President visited me at City Point. He spoke of his having met the commissioners, and said he had told them that there would be no use in entering into any negotiations unless they would recognize, first: that the Union as a whole must be forever preserved, and second: that slavery must be abolished. If they were willing to concede these two points, then he was ready to enter into negotiations and was almost willing to hand them a blank sheet of paper with his signature attached for them to fill in the terms upon which they were willing to live with us in the Union and be one people. He always showed a generous and kindly spirit toward the Southern people, and I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition—and I saw a great deal of him at City Point, for he seemed glad to get away from the cares and anxieties of the capital. Right here I might relate an anecdote of Mr. Lincoln. It was on the occasion of his visit to me just after he had talked with the peace commissioners at Hampton Roads. After a little conversation, he asked me if I had seen that overcoat of Stephens's. I replied that I had. "Well," said he, "did you see him take it off?" I said yes. "Well," said he, "didn't you think it was the biggest shuck and the littlest ear that ever you did see?" Long afterwards I told this story to the Confederate General J. B. Gordon, at the time a member of the Senate. He repeated it to Stephens, and, as I heard afterwards, Stephens laughed immoderately at the simile of Mr. Lincoln.
Meade's correspondence taken from The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army, Vol. 2, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), pp. 258-60. Available via Google Books.
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Q: How to pause JS script execution at a specific line? I have a script which I want to allow users to debug right in the browser. I can get line numbers for the breakpoints and I can get local variable values what I'm curious about is how do I pause the actual script execution at a specific line? I tried putting hidden sleep() calls along with the local vars dumping code, wonder if there's more elegant solution for the problem?
Just a clarification - the console isn't available to me. I can only use regular JS script features. I use chrome dev tools for years but never experienced the need for emulating debugger; instruction by JS code before.

A: Use the developer console of your web browser. For example in Firefox, hit CTRL+SHIFT+S, find the specific line, and click on it. It will stop the execution, when it reaches that line.
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A: There is no inline way to pause javascript however using the chrome debugger tools you can have it stop at a certain breakpoint.
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La Suisse a annoncé le  sa participation au Concours Eurovision de la chanson 2014 à Copenhague, au Danemark.

SeBAlter, représentant la Suisse au Concours Eurovision de la chanson, est annoncé le , à la suite de sa victoire lors de la finale nationale Die Grosse Entscheidungsshow.

Processus de sélection
Comme tous les ans, c'est par le biais de Die Grosse Entscheidungsshow que seront choisis l'interprète et la chanson qui représenteront la Suisse au Concours Eurovision de la chanson.

Sélections régionales

Suisse Romande

34 chansons ont été présentées par la RTS. La chanteuse Daria Kinzer, qui a représenté la Croatie au Concours Eurovision de la chanson 2011 a inscrit une chanson. Sur ces 36 chansons, 6 seront choisies par un vote des internautes. Des 6, ne resteront que 2 chansons qui se qualifieront pour la finale, après une délibération de jurys.

Suisse italienne

La RSI a reçu une vingtaine de chansons. Celles-ci furent évaluées par un jury, qui choisit 3 chansons qui passeront une autre étape de qualifications, dans le but de choisir la chanson qui ira en finale.

Suisse Alémanique

La SRF a reçu 159 chansons. Daria Kinzer y a aussi envoyé la même chanson, et la représentante chypriote en 2006, Annet Artani est également entrée dans la compétition. Sur les 9 sélectionnées par les internautes, seules 3 chansons participeront à la grande finale.

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What causes labor coercion? It appears informally in most economies, but in some it prevails as a formal system of slavery or serfdom, with wide economic repercussions. Serfdom existed in most European economies for long periods between c. 800 and c. 1860. In many serf economies, most rural families were obliged to do coerced labor for landlords. Since the rural economy produced 80 to 90 percent of pre-industrial GDP, serfdom affected the majority of economic activity.
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Research shows that financial crises are accompanied by severe and long-lasting drops in TFP. The most recent Global Financial Crisis does not seem to be any different from this pattern. On the contrary, Gerth and Otsu (2017) find significant correlations between financial variables and long-lasting drops in aggregate productivity measures for a myriad of European countries. This finding matches a branch of structural models that saw their advent in the aftermath of the financial crisis that began by the end of 2007. Even though each of these models chooses different measures to indicate financial distress in the economy, the mechanism how a financial shocks propagates is uniform. That is, through resource misallocation. This study therefore tries to empirically determine whether these models are valid to explain the behaviour of the UK economy during the last 8 years. In order to do this, the paper relies on the FAME dataset. This is a micro-level dataset that contains more than 9 million firms within the UK.


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We continue to update you on relevant issues from the world of international education and the latest update on the impact of COVID-19 on our provision of courses both in Bristol and online.
Do students struggle more online?
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Tara won medals at the 1984 New York, 1988 Seoul and 1992 Barcelona Paralympic Games and competed in numerous UK, European and world swimming events.
Tara Flood (second right) at the New York Games 1984.
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"So I left school in 1983 and because I 'd been competing at Nationals it doesn't feel quite so weird that I jumped straight from school into an international competition because I was swimming all the time – even at school I was swimming at every opportunity I could; always at weekends and certainly one or twice a week. And then when I returned home I connected into the British Les Autres Sports Association and then I can't remember what month the 1984 games were [I think it was July] Yes, I remember it being very hot in New York anyway. As I said before, there was all that controversy about Los Angeles refusing to host the Paralympics and then that strange split between Stoke Mandeville for wheelchair-using athletes and everybody else it seems, from memory.
So you can imagine, what was I, just seventeen, thrown into international competition but, more importantly, meeting disabled people from everywhere in the world. Not as huge as the Paralympics are now, but at the time it felt massive, absolutely massive.
Because it feels like such a long time ago I don't remember a huge amount about the competition – probably tells you more about me – I do remember more about the social life than anything! I think probably because still in 1984 swimming even at international level, didn't feel the same level of professionalism maybe elitism as it was only four years later in Seoul and then much more so in Barcelona. In many ways we swam in New York and competed in New York (and I think I got a bronze medal) but it felt for me as a very, very young 17 year-old much more than that.
You competed at New York in 1984; and then did you go to Seoul?
I did as Les Autres again; the competition hadn't combined even at that point.
On a personal level that's going almost to the other side of the world and just experiencing something...It was very different from New York in terms of size, in terms of spectacle, it felt like where things were really starting to take shape in terms of it being a global elite sporting event – not in terms of looking back from Barcelona but in terms of comparing it with New York.
I remember one of the real differences between New York and Seoul were the fact that the Korean government, local authorities or whatever they're called in South Korea, just packed the stadiums to the rafters: weirdly lots of churches, lots of school kids though which we all loved; and it was all very uniform and I don't know if it was groups within schools or schools themselves (we were never able to make connections with the crowds in terms of meeting or talking) but they were all assigned a particular country to support. But you know in New York the stadiums (well, stadiums, the arenas) were full of people who had travelled with the team, family, friends and maybe a few curious locals – what's that expression, one man and his dog. It felt like that for New York; I don't remember feeling bad about that or upset about that because I was so blown away by the opportunity to compete on an international stage (you become slightly less enamoured of that four years on after you've done other European events). Even now when I get together with other retired Paralympians we always laugh about that [at Seoul], because you couldn't move for spectators and they were there and – well who knows, they seemed to be enjoying it - but what we really loved was the fact that there was noise and cheering and that felt new and good. But it was still the case that it had very little public profile.
I also remember a funny thing about Seoul at the time I was vegetarian and I just remember the really terrible food there – very meaty – and the only thing someone suggested I could eat was boiled rice and Kimchi, basically aged, spiced cabbage. It's cabbage that is sort of spiced and then put into the ground for months. My palate at the time found it absolutely disgusting. So in the end I was living on a diet, probably for not far off a fortnight, when I ate what I could get for breakfast and then for the rest of the time boiled rice and Thousand Island dressing – which is not really conducive as a sports diet. I look back on it and laugh, but at the time I remember just being so horrified that no other arrangement could be made – but I'm sure I probably had more to eat than I remember.
Tara reflects on a changing attitude to Paralympic sport at the 1992 Barcelona Games.
"In the lead up to Barcelona the BPA were very keen to do some heavy promotion of some athletes and I was one of those athletes. I don't know if you know but in the lead-up to Barcelona there was a Challenge Anneka programme – the challenge was to create an "infomercial" (film we'd call it now, I think!) about the Paralympics – well about the British Paralympic team – so we were in that , a group of swimmers, track athletes and some other sports.
I've got a copy of it buried somewhere; it's about three minutes and it's all very heart-wrenching; the sound over it is from the Messiah or something. It's all very kind-of inspiring and you know, (for me it was probably more about ego; I was really chuffed to see my face in it, it was all quite exciting).
I suppose what that told me at the time was that there was a shift in terms not only of the British Paralympic Association getting itself sorted in terms of the media machine but that actually there was the beginning of some media interest in the Paralympics.
Yes some, small and heavily, heavily "triumph-over-tragedy" stories, impairment-specific ... not really about the sport at all but about the individuals and what we had somehow "triumphed" over to get into the pool or get onto the track. In the lead up, much closer to the games there were a series of films made, I think it was five or six of us - I was one of the athletes, Tanni Grey-Thompson (Tanni Grey as she was at the time)and a couple [of others] - we were followed in the lead up in terms of our preparation for the games. I think the idea was a very embryonic version of what they have now in terms of the Paralympic ambassadors – a small group of Paralympic athletes who are seen as the faces of Paralympic sport.
In terms of the games there was a fundamental shift, not just in terms of audiences; we'd been to Barcelona the year before for a European swimming event, so we'd swum in the pool prior to the games – and there's something nice about that; it doesn't feel quite so mind-blowing.
What I think we all noticed and certainly what I remember when I think back is the shift in the professionalism of the whole structure, so not just in us as athletes, but in the way the games actually functioned, the coaching, the classifiers, just the way that the whole games had been organised, loads and loads of people knowing what they were doing, clearly well-trained, everything ran very, very well (not always perfect), a very high profile, in terms of Spain, opening ceremony and closing ceremony, in a packed arena. And it really felt for the first time there was starting to be an equity with the Olympic Games approach to organising, and we all noticed that.
It was tricky for me because, going into 92, I knew that the way I was feeling as a person and how I was beginning to see the world, I could feel that shifting. And I began in the lead-up to the games, probably in the 12 months, 6 months before, began to feel that I was wanting to challenge the way the BPA and the UK disability sports structure was functioning. It was always, but I became much more conscious of it, about disabled people competing in sport and this huge swathe of non-disabled "experts", "professionals", I think I described them in some terms as "do-gooders", but lots of people who wanted control of us and who wanted the glory it felt, in many ways off the back of our achievements. That probably sounds bitter, I don't mean it to sound bitter, but it's really how things for me started to feel. I didn't feel, I couldn't see, disabled people who had been competing and [were] maybe now retired, coming through the ranks in terms of leadership roles; and I couldn't understand why that was because there were so many people who could have taken on those many, many roles and yet we weren't represented at anything other than athlete level. And I think that's something that I found increasingly difficult to swallow, and I had a couple of articles published very close to the games where I said this. You know how it is when your realisation or your thinking about the world starts to shift, there is a disconnect between the new way you think about things and what comes out of your mouth? So I was kind of verbalising all this stuff without doing a huge amount of thinking about the impact of what I was saying, but I realised very quickly what the impact was when I was starting to get some very….. It was becoming quite difficult in terms of how the staffing structure around the swimming, I could sense a shift in their attitude and behaviour towards me; I could sense that they were beginning to see me as "difficult" and challenging and not easy to control, I suppose – and on one level I really enjoyed that, but on another it did start to for me confuse my concentration in terms of getting the job done, i.e. getting my training in and really thinking and envisioning what I wanted to achieve. I mean, I knew what I wanted to achieve, I wanted to achieve gold medal in 50 metre breast stroke – that was it, anything else would be a bonus – and I did achieve that but that was with quite a lot of hard work in terms of me and my emotions and parking the beginnings of the disaffection for the time that it took to get to the end of the pool, I guess.


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Brandon bowler Tymal Mills takes a wicket to help England Lions beat Sri Lanka A
David Freezer
Published: 3:47 PM February 17, 2014 Updated: 2:35 PM October 10, 2020
Tymal Mills in action for Essex. Picture: Nick Wood/Actionplus - Credit: Nick Wood/Actionplus
Brandon bowler Tymal Mills took a wicket to help England Lions win the first of their three-match series against Sri Lanka A on Saturday.
The Lions wrapped up an 167-run win on the fourth and final day, bowling Sri Lanka out for 311 as they chased 479.
Fast bowler Mills, who plays county cricket for Essex, took the wicket of Dhammika Prasad to finish with second innings figures of 33 runs conceded for one wicket from 15 overs, with four maidens.
The 21-year-old had helped put England in control in Pallekele on Friday. Captain Chris Woakes (92no) shared an eighth-wicket stand of 155 in only 33 overs with Scott Borthwick (64) on the third day, Woakes hitting eight fours from 130 balls and Borthwick five from 96 in the Lions' 319 for eight declared second innings.
That saw Mills miss out on a chance to bat, following a knock of 18 in the first innings as part of a 36-run stand for the final wicket alongside Graham Onions.
The declaration left Sri Lanka a highly-improbable target of 479 to win, which they could not reach.
In the first innings Mills, who shadowed the England senior team Down Under during this winter's Ashes defeat, finished with figures of 38 for no wicket from 11 overs in his first innings.
Mills is writing an online blog for the England and Wales Cricket Board's website during the tour.
He wrote: 'Personally, I had a few good days training in the nets leading up to the match and was pleased to be selected.
'Although I didn't end up taking the amount of wickets I would have liked, I was pleased with how I bowled as part of our four-man pace attack which was led brilliantly by the skipper Chris Woakes who set the tone with the new ball.
'It was a hard-fought match that went into the afternoon on day four. We had made all the running and knew that if we stuck in we would get our rewards and that happened following a hostile spell from Liam Plunkett to remove their set batsmen and wrap up the victory shortly after.'
The Lions are now preparing for the second match of the series to get under way on Wednesday.
Mills added: 'We have moved to the more tropical climate of Dambulla where I am now rooming with my Essex team-mate Ben Foakes.
'We were greeted by a rather large iguana as we were walking to our rooms which was a shock to the system!
'Graham Gooch (batting coach) also joins up with us this week to strengthen the Essex contingent which is always nice.'


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Gli U.S. National Championships 1888 (conosciuti oggi come US Open) sono stati l'8ª edizione degli U.S. National Championships e seconda prova stagionale dello Slam per il 1888. Il singolare maschile si è disputato al Newport Casino di Newport, il doppio maschile allo Staten Island Cricket Club di New York, il torneo femminile al Philadelphia Cricket Club di Filadelfia, negli Stati Uniti.

Il singolare maschile è stato vinto dallo statunitense Henry Slocum, che si è imposto sul connazionale Howard Taylor in 3 set col punteggio di 6-4 6-1 6-0. Il singolare femminile è stato vinto dalla statunitense Bertha Townsend,  che ha battuto in finale in 2 set la connazionale Ellen Hansell. Nel doppio maschile si sono imposti Oliver Campbell e Valentine Hall. Nel doppio misto la vittoria è andata a Marian Wright, in coppia con Joseph Clark.

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Singolare maschile

 Henry Slocum ha battuto in finale  Howard Taylor 6-4 6-1 6-0

Singolare femminile

 Bertha Townsend ha battuto in finale  Ellen Hansell 6-3, 6-5

Doppio maschile

 Oliver Campbell /  Valentine Hall hanno battuto in finale  Clarence Hobart /   Edward MacMullen 6-4, 6-2, 6-2

Doppio femminile non ufficiale
 Ellen Roosevelt /  Grace Roosevelt hanno battuto in finale  Adeline Robinson /  Vera Ward 3-6 6-3 6-4

Doppio misto non ufficiale
 Marian Wright /  Joseph Clark hanno battuto in finale  Adeline Robinson /  P. Johnson 1-6, 6-5, 6-4, 6-3

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Nita Ambani
New York: Reliance Foundation Chairperson Nita Ambani has been named the most powerful businesswoman in Asia by Forbes, leading a list of 50 women leaders from the region that includes eight from India.
SBI Chairman and Managing Director Arundhati Bhattacharya has been ranked second on the 2016 'Asia's 50 Power Businesswomen' list that features trailblazing women from China, Indonesia, Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines and New Zealand.
Apart from Ambani and Bhattacharya, six women from India have made to the list, including Mu Sigma CEO Ambiga Dhiraj (14), Welspun India CEO Dipali Goenka (16), Lupin CEO Vinita Gupta (18), ICICI Bank Managing Director & CEO Chanda Kochhar (22), VLCC Health Care Founder and vice chairman Vandana Luthra (26) and Biocon Founder, Chairman & Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (28).
The list acknowledges the "inroads women are making in the business world but gender inequality persists. Women are best positioned to know what it will take to get more of them into commanding roles in the workforce and keep them there," Forbes said.
Describing her as the "first lady of Indian business", Forbes said Ambani, 52, is a "power near the throne" and makes her debut on the list because of her rising profile in Reliance Industries, led by her husband and India's richest man Mukesh Ambani.
"In a country where billionaire wives tend to remain in the shadow of their husbands, Nita's rising profile in the Reliance empire is unusual and earns her a debut spot," on the power businesswomen ranking this year, Forbes said of Ambani, who is also Director of Reliance Industries.
On Bhattacharya, 60, Forbes said she is facing her "most challenging test" yet with the State Bank of India as it grapples with mounting bad loans, which stood at USD 11 billion in December and caused net profit to plunge more than 60 per cent to USD 190 million in a recent quarter.
Dhiraj, 40, became the first female boss of an Indian-owned tech unicorn when she took over as CEO of Mu Sigma, a provider of data-analytics services, from husband Dhiraj Rajaram, who founded the firm in 2004.
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Daphna Stern is an Israeli photographer based in Jerusalem. She has been photographing professionally since 2011 and her photos have been inspired by her world travel and cultural experiences. Her work has been featured in several publications and exhibitions as noted below on this page.
In 2018, she graduated with a B.A. degree in Photographic Communication from the Hadassah College in Jerusalem.
Prior to attending Hadassah College, Daphna was a Padi and SSI licensed Scuba Diving Instructor. With her passion for diving, she strives to capture moments under the water through various photography projects.
After her graduation, Daphna was assistant editor and professional advisor for the scuba diving isuue in Masa Acher magazin, November 2018.
She also joined an Humblack whale behavior reaserch in Mozambique, documenting the expedition.
Daphna's work also encompasses still life images as well as videography - clips and movies.
"La fiesta de la Tirana" Masa Acher Magazine, August 2014.
"Ghost Villages" Teva Hadbarim Magazine, February 2017.
"Galapagos Islands" Masa Acher Magazine, November 2018.
"Eilat" Masa Acher Magazine, November 2018.
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About the History of Manston Airfield website
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From Battle of Britain Airman to PoW Escapee
This is the Second World War story of a champion cyclist turned airman who lived to tell the tale against ...
Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War
Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War tells the story of the largest British bombers ...
Battle of Britain Voices
DESCRIPTION July 1940, and Britain is the only European country which hasn't caved in to Hitler's Third Reich. Hitler's stated ...
The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain
Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive ...
Whirlwind: Westland's Enigmatic Fighter
Faster and better armed than the Spitfire, the Whirlwind was the RAF's counter to a new generation of armoured German ...
263 and 137 Squadrons: The Whirlwind Years
References to Manston to be confirmed. For many, the Westland Whirlwind conjures the image of yellow air-sea rescue helicopters, not ...
Kent's Own: The Story of No. 500 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force
'Shrieking from the clouds, the Stukas achieved the measure of surprise they needed. The accuracy of the raid was good ...
Tales from the Control Tower
Tales From The Control Tower is based on the author's personal experiences of the Royal Air Force. It starts in ...
Run The Gauntlet: The Channel Dash 1942 (Raid)
In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet - the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and ...
To Scale the Skies: The Story of Group Captain J.C. 'Johnny' Wells DFC and BAR
With humble beginnings as an RAF apprentice, Johnny Wells progressed to pilot and rose to the higher echelons of command ...
The Battle of Britain (James Holland)
The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any invasion the world had ever seen. It hit Europe with a force and aggression ...
Battle of Britain Airfields
References TBC DETAILS Hardcover: 160 pages Publisher: Midland Publishing (23 Sept. 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1857803280 ISBN-13: 978-1857803280 Product Dimensions: ...
Battle of Britain: A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940
From the bestselling author of Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, Battle of Britain is a magisterial and stunningly illustrated account ...
Airfields of the D-Day Invasion Air Force
As part of the Aviation Heritage Trail series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular ...
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle
Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. The Germans were in retreat from Normandy and seemed to be ...
Kent Aviation – A Century of Flight
Using over 300 photographs, Roy Humphreys tells the story of civil and military aviation in Kent. From the excitement and ...
William de Goat: The Story of Air Commodore William de Goat DSO DFC, the extraordinary Mascot of 609 (West Riding) Squadron during the Second World War
Then we were up in the air; I tried to move around but was restrained. I really was special - ...
Heroes of Fighter Command – Kent
Kent remained at the centre of the conflict throughout the war, and the courageous pilots of Fighter Command received countless ...
The RAF WWII Logbooks of Wing Commander R.P. Beamont
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Battle of Britain – Airfields of 11 Group
The Royal Air Force's 11 Group played a leading role in the Battle of Britain. It included the airfields at ...
A Glint in the Sky
This compelling account of the German air raid on Folkestone and the appalling aftermath is the first comprehensive history of ...
Erprobungsgruppe 210: 'Bombsights Over England'
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To Live Among Heroes
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Wings Over Westgate
RNAS Westgate played a leading role in the defence of the Thames Estuary when the British Expeditionary Force (that 'Contemptible ...
The Story of 609 Squadron: Under the White Rose
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Loss of F/O Henry "Harry" Hector MacKenzie (RCAF) – 3rd January 1944
A New Year's Day present to the Germans of a Handley Page O/100 – 1st January 1917
Messerschmitt Bf109 "Black 12" crash lands at Manston, 27th November 1940
South Goodwin Lightship Disaster, 26/27th November 1954
Air Speed Record set at Reculver, 7th November 1945
An unexpected passenger in a Handley Page O/100 on 4th November 1916
Manston's role in Operation Market Garden, 17th September 1944
Battle of Britain Day, 15th September 1940
Rise and Defend – The USAF At Manston 1950-1958
The second large attack on Manston during the Battle of Britain, 14th August 1940
On this day, 28th August 1942, 56 emergency landings
Manston's role on D-Day, 6th June 1944
Jet engine development, the Gloster Meteor and the V1 threat
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I don't know what this thread is and which part of my application creates it.

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LAHORE, Oct 19 (APP):Punjab Sports Minister, RaiTaimoor Khan Bhatti and Director General (DG) Sports Punjab, Nadeem Sarwar have felicitated Pakistan cricket team on winning two-match Test series by 1-0 against Australia in United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In a congratulatory message on Friday, both of them appreciated Pakistan cricketer's excellent team work in the Test series against strong opponents.
Punjab Sports Minister lauded the performance of fast bowler Muhammad Abbas, skipper Sarfraz Ahmed, debutant Fakhar Zaman and ace spinner Yasir Shah for their remarkable contribution in their team's remarkable series triumph.
The DG sports also praised the performance of Pakistan cricket team under the able leadership of Sarfraz Ahmed, who showed great command on his team.
He said Pakistan overwhelmed Australians in all departments of the game in second Test and emerged winners quite comfortably.


While we are still close to all-time or multi-year highs on a lot of major indices, the recent price action has seen one long position fall by the wayside this week. This trade never really got going, and today's price action triggered a small loss.
The good news is that of the remaining three stocks held, two are big winners that have held up really well, alongside the USD/JPY trade that was initiated last week. The trailing stops have moved up nicely, closer to the current price action. As things stand, open profits are still around the +15R mark.
What has been noticeable over the last few days is that a high proportion of stocks I had on my watchlist have seen their price action pull back, and instead of breaking out to new highs, some have actually broken out in the opposite direction. This in itself is a warning sign that things are not favourable to my style of trading.
There has also been a dearth of new stocks coming up on my scans, highlighting that the criteria I use for potential stocks to trade is not being met. While some people might find this frustrating, I see it as being good, as it is keeping me out of the market. The bulk of my equity remains therefore on the sidelines.
Patience and discipline are critical at times like these. You should never trade out of boredom, or trade simply for trading's sake. You want to trade when you have an edge, and in my case, that is when stocks which meet my entry criteria are breaking out.
Therefore at this time it is a question of identifying potential stocks which are setting up and waiting for an entry to be triggered. Until then, there is no need to stay glued to the screen.


Marcus Derrickson went undrafted out of Georgetown but, after his impressive showing in both the NBA Summer League and the California Summer League, many believe he will make the Warriors roster this season. Last night, Derrickson put up 23 points and 7 rebounds on 8-14 shooting. Derrickson showed he could both shoot the long ball (2-5) and attack the rim and get to the free throw line, where he went 5-7.
Before the draft, Derrickson had stated that he wanted to lose about 20 pounds before the regular season started and drop his weight from 250 lbs to 230lbs in an effort to be more of a versatile player. At 6'7", Derrickson is at a unique build in that, if he were to weigh 230 lbs, he could guard almost any position on the floor. Reports are that Derrickson is on pace to meet this goal via workouts and and improved nutritional diet.
Many only know RJ Hunter for his buzzer beater against Baylor in the 2015 March Madness Tournament. Hunter has bounced around quite a bit as Houston is his third team in as many years, with Boston being the team that drafted him and Chicago being the team in between. He was the game's leading scorer with 24 points in the 87-81 Rockets victory. Hunter shot decent from the floor going 8-14 from the field and 5-11 from three-point range. De'Anthony Melton was another standout for Houston, as he poured in 17 points of his own to go along with 5 rebounds and 4 steals.


MAVO was a radical Japanese art movement of the 1920's. Founded in 1923, as a re-institution of the Japanese Association of Futurist Artists, the anarchistic artist group displayed an outdoor exhibit in Ueno Park in Tokyo in protest of conservatism in the Japanese art world. The group leader was Tomoyoshi Murayama (1901 - 1977). The group deployed an interdisciplinary array of performance art, painting, illustration and architecture, to communicate anti-establishment messages to the mainstream. Fueled by responses to industrial development, the MAVO group created works about crisis, peril and uncertainty. Art Historian, Gennifer Weisenfeld has written that Mavo sought to reintegrate art into daily life. Other artists involved in the movement include Masamu Yanase, Kamenosuke Ogata, Shuzo Oura and Shinro Kadowaki, and later Osamu Shibuya, Shuichiro Kinoshita, Iwane Sumiya, Tatsuo Okada, Michinao Takamizawa, Kimimaro Yabashi, Tatsuo Todai, Masao Kato and Kyojiro Haiwara, among others."Mavoist" artists sought to disrupt or blur the boundaries between art and daily life. They rebelled against the establishment by combining industrial products with painting or printmaking, usually in collage form. Their performance art protests against social injustice deployed theatrical eroticism, that mocked public norms for morality at the time.


While ringing in the New Year, self-reflection is almost unavoidable. Yet with work, kids, family, school, and relationships—it's easy for the mind to focus on what has to be done for others and throw 'self' on the backburner.
With the body serving as the control center to achieving greatness, Retro Fitness wants to encourage and lead others to their greatest mission in 2017—a healthier and happier version of themselves. The leading national low-cost, high-value fitness franchise shares seven tips to help prioritize your fitness goals within the first 90 days of your fitness plan.
Discover your Routine: Establishing a workout routine is vital to tackling your fitness goals. Play around with which days and times hitting the gym work best with your schedule. Once your mind and body get into the steady, consistent habit of attendance, the vision becomes clearer and the sweat sesh becomes a part of your new life routine.
Find your Why: There will be days when the scale doesn't match your efforts and the gym seems daunting. That's why it's important to write down or constantly remind yourself why you're making a change for the better. Your reasoning will serve as the drive and motivation to dig deeper.
Track Eating Habits: This is not to say that you will always have to count calories or macros but it can be a real eye opener in the beginning to see exactly what you're consuming throughout the day. By focusing on your eating habits, you may find you've been neglecting a food group or overconsuming sodium or sugar.
Embrace the Power of Weights: Muscle burns fat, so the incorporation of weight training into your workout routine is an effective route in becoming leaner and increasing muscle definition.
Prepare for Nights Out: There will always be holidays, birthdays and celebrations to take into account, especially when you think about all the food and drinks that accompany a good time. Plan ahead by adding in an extra workout, eating a healthy snack before dinner, and viewing the menu ahead of time to see what can fit best into your diet. There's no need to get down on yourself if you slip, but it's important that gatherings aren't viewed as a free for all. Also, oftentimes, restaurants are willing to work with your healthy diet – don't be afraid to ask!
Play Around: Once you begin the second month, you may notice that your go-to workout routine is becoming easier and your body is craving a new challenge. Exploring different fitness methods, such as group classes or a new dumbbell routine, can be exciting to throw into the mix. Speaking with a personal trainer or roaming through Pinterest and Instagram is also a great way to explore different ways to challenge your body and put you closer to your goal.
Measure your Transformation: Falling in love with the process is half the battle. It's during the journey to the goals where real change takes place. Documenting your progress bi-weekly or monthly with pictures of yourself, measurement logs, scale checks, or rep counts are visual ways to see that you have become stronger and leaner and are on the right track.


The RS:X came about as a result of a successful bid by NeilPryde WIndsurfing to supply one design windsurfing equipment for the 2008 Olympic Games in China. The RS:X was designed in 2004 and went into production in 2005. The RS:X design features a high technology rig, with carbon mast and boom, a 'wide-style' board that merges modern windsurf board design with a centreboard, thus enabling competitions to he held in virtually any condition from 3 to 30 knots. This means that the RS:X is always a dynamic, versatile class to observe, and racing is always close, exciting and visually appealing.


Conopholis americana (American cancer-root or squawroot or bumeh or bear corn) is a perennial, non-photosynthesizing (or "achlorophyllous") parasitic plant, from the family Orobanchaceae and more recently from the genus Conopholis but also listed as Orobanche, native but not endemic to North America and when blooming, resembles a pine cone or cob of corn growing from the roots of mostly oak and beech trees.
Conopholis americana is parasitic on the roots of woody plants, especially oaks (genus Quercus) and beech (genus Fagus). The only part of the plant generally seen is the cone-shaped inflorescence, which appears above ground in spring. The entire structure is a yellowish color, turning to brown and achieves heights of 10 centimeters (4 in) to 20 centimeters (8 in) tall.
Stout and unbranched 1.3 centimeters (0.5 in) to 2.5 centimeters (1 in) thick stems. Since C. americana does not photosynthesize it also does not have true leaves; it has instead simple, ovate, tiny scales 1.3 centimeters (0.5 in) long and brown, which appear underneath each flower.
Conopholis americana produces spikes of yellow to cream flowers densely crowded all around the stem. Each flower is 5-parted, 8 millimeters (0.3 in) to 13 millimeters (0.5 in) long, tubular with a swollen base and facing downwards. As the flowering spike matures and begins to wither and becomes brown throughout the summer and often persisting through the winter, by which time it has become shriveled and black. There is no noticeable floral scent.
Conopholis americana in beech/oak forest in northern Florida.
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Q: Minimizable JFrame that stays on top of main application window My apps pops up a dialog. Users usually want to switch back and forth between this dialog and the application window for a period of time. I want this dialog to stay on top, so that it doesn't get hidden behind the main application window. But at the same time I want the dialog to have a minimize button so that it can get out of the way if it's not needed for a while.
Here is what I've tried:

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*use a modeless JDialog - the dialog stays in front  nicely, but it doesn't not have a minimize button, and it doesn't have its own taskbar button either

*use a JFrame - the dialog now has a minimize button and its own taskbar button, but when the main window gets focus the dialog is hidden behind it.

*use a JFrame and add WindowListener.windowDeactivated() { this.toFront() } on the dialog. The problem with this is that toFront() also sets the focus, so that you get a weird focus flickering effect.

*use a JFrame with setAlwaysOnTop - this is the neaerest solution, but now the window will stay on top of all other applications, not just my application.
It would be easy if toFront just brought the JFrame to the front without changing the focus, but unfortunately that is not the case. Is there another way to change JFrame Z-order?
edit: It just occurred to me that if there were an easy way to "roll-up" a JDialog, i.e. minimize it but not to the taskbar, that would solve my problem too.

A: Why not listen for the focusGained event in the frame and then use setZOrder/toFront on the dialog at that point? (Not sure this will work but worth a shot).


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Short-Term Certificate Course on Geographic Information System for Environmental Management 2023 – University of Peradeniya
Call for Applications – Short-Term Certificate Course on Geographic Information System for Environmental Management (Beginners Level 2nd Batch) (2023) from the Centre for Environmental Sustainability (CES), University of Peradeniya
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The M-SAVER ultra is an optical voltage monitor for 4-,5- or 6-cell NiMh (or 2s LiFe/LiPo) batteries. It informs you any time about the voltage state of your receiver battery. It is simply plugged into an unused servo output of the receiver. An ultra-bright twelve-segment LED bar digitizes the course of the receiver battery voltage into four ranges: green, yellow, orange and red. Thanks to its memory function, the current battery voltage and the smallest voltage measured so far (under load) are displayed by turns. If the LED display drops into the critical range (orange/red) while the battery is under load, the model should not be started any more !


Inspired from the pages of Elantris™ by Brandon Sanderson, the Badali Jewelry artist created the Aon™ Pendants. The Shao™ necklaces are skillfully crafted in your choice of sterling silver, 14k yellow gold, or 14k white gold. Each Aon Pendant is carefully hand finished and individually inspected for the highest quality by our staff. The Aon Shao Pendants are officially licensed Elantris jewelry through Brandon Sanderson.
Aons™ are the magical symbols used by Elantrians to perform AonDor™, the magic of the Aons. Each symbol has a specific meaning and power. Aon Shao™ is a symbol of Transformation and Change. The Korathi Necklace™ is finished with your choice of gemstone colored enamels: Amethyst, Black Onyx, Carnelian, Emerald, Jade, Peacock, Pearl, Pewter, Ruby, Sapphire, Tiger's Eye, Topaz, Tourmaline, and Zircon.
The Shao Pendant measures approximately 28.3 mm (1 1/8") long, 22.2 mm (7/8") wide, and weighs approximately 4.8 grams in sterling silver / approximately 6 grams in 14k gold. The back of the pendant is textured and stamped with our copyright hallmark. Each Aon pendant is stamped STER, Sterling, or 14K; ensuring our jewelry is made of the finest metals.
Choose from a 24" long stainless steel curb chain, a 24" long gold plated curb chain, or a 24" long black leather cord. A 20" long 1.2mm sterling silver box chain is available for an additional $25.00, an 18" long 14k yellow gold rope chain for $175.00, or an 18" long 14k white gold rope chain for $175.00.
We are a cast-to-order company and cast every Tuesday and Thursday. Please allow 5 to 7 days from the next casting date for production of this item. Orders placed before 3pm MST Monday or Wednesday will be included in the following day's cast. Feel free to contact us for the production time for your Aon jewelry.


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"The People's Debate: Tackling State and National Issues with Your Questions" on Nov. 2
"The People's Debate: Tackling State and National Issues with Your Questions" will be led by L. Douglas Wilder, former Virginia governor and distinguished professor at the Wilder School, and Robert D. Holsworth, Ph.D., noted political analyst and former dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences at VCU.
Seven from Wilder School to Present at 2017 NASPAA Conference
Seven Wilder School faculty, students and alumni are set to present a wide-range of topics next week at the 2017 Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) Conference in Washington, D.C.
National Community Planning Month is Every Day
October may be National Community Planning Month, but the Wilder School celebrates it every day.
Wilder School Spotlight / October 4, 2017
Meet Pam Spratley
No two days are ever the same for Pam Spratley, a travel coordinator and office services specialist at the VCU Wilder School. Spratley manages a travel portfolio that includes more than 100 faculty, staff and doctoral students during any given semester. Though much of that work is behind-the-scenes, it's a critical role that Spratley enjoys.
News / September 28, 2017
Student-run Exhibit Sheds Light on Domestic Violence
Student volunteers from two classes led by Wilder School assistant professor Amy Cook,Ph.D., will stage an exhibit to bring awareness to the issue of domestic violence at the James Branch Cabell Library Oct. 12-16. "Silent Witness" will feature life-size wooden silhouettes of Virginians killed by an intimate partner.
News / May 11, 2017
Three Wilder Students Selected for Competitive Policy Workshop
Three Wilder School students--Sombo Chunda, Suparna Dutta and Brittany Keegan--have been selected to participate in the competitive International Young Scholars Workshop in Chennai, India this summer.
Graduate Information Session on October 20
The Wilder School will host an information session about our graduate programs on Friday, Oct. 20, in the VCU Student Commons.
Slavery Then, Slavery Now: Class Connects Slave Trade to Human Trafficking
Students from Maureen Moslow-Benway's "Human Trafficking" course toured Libby Hill, The Devil's Half Acre and Richmond's African Ancestral Burial Grounds earlier this month. In a evocative presentation curated by Untold RVA Director Free Egunfemi, the class examined Richmond's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and drew connections to contemporary human trafficking.
2017 Alumni Star: Gregory H. Wingfield
Greg Wingfield, a MURP graduate, is a senior fellow at the VCU Wilder School and a principal of G.H. Wingfield. He is a nationally recognized expert on economic development and expert services.
Metro Richmond Exports Initiative Announces the Launch of New Website
The Metro Richmond Exports Initiative has launched its new website, MetroRichmondExports.com
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These mammalian expression plasmids encode the nuclease-null dCas9 (D10A, H840A) with HA and FLAG epitope tags either alone or fused to the transcriptional activator VP64. When directed to its target in gene promoters by the sgRNA expressed in trans from pSPgRNA, the dCas9-VP64 fusion protein activates the expression of downstream genes. Multiple sgRNAs targeted to the same promoter act synergistically to activate gene expression. The dCas9 protein serves as a negative control of the function of the VP64 activator and can also be used to inhibited gene expression via steric hindrance.
RNA-guided gene activation by CRISPR-Cas9-based transcription factors. Perez-Pinera P, Kocak DD, Vockley CM, Adler AF, Kabadi AM, Polstein LR, Thakore PI, Glass KA, Ousterout DG, Leong KW, Guilak F, Crawford GE, Reddy TE, Gersbach CA. Nat. Methods . 2013 July. PubMed .
Multiplex CRISPR/Cas9-based genome engineering from a single lentiviral vector. Kabadi AM, Ousterout DG, Hilton IB, Gersbach CA. Nucleic Acids Res. . 2014. PubMed .


Ozone is a gas that occurs both in the Earth's upper atmosphere and at ground level.
The layer closest to the Earth's surface is the troposphere. The troposphere generally extends to between 10 and 18 km up, where it meets the second layer, the stratosphere. Here, ground-level or "bad" ozone is an air pollutant which is harmful to breathe and damages crops, trees and other vegetation. It is a main ingredient of urban smog which can cause officials to issue "ozone alerts".
Ozone formation. Source: Ozone Solutions, Inc.
The stratosphere or "good" ozone layer protects life on Earth from the sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays. Ozone is produced naturally in the stratosphere. "High-energy" UV radiation strikes O2 molecules which split into 2 free oxygen atoms. The free oxygen atoms collide with O2 molecules to form ozone molecules.
But this ozone layer is gradually being destroyed by chemical reactions which mainly involve light, chlorine and bromine. The main source of these atoms in the stratosphere is photodissociation of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and bromofluorocarbon compounds. These compounds, which are also active as greenhouse gases, are a result of human activity.
Thinning of the protective ozone layer can be observed by satellites, particularly over the polar regions, and is known as the ozone hole. Ozone depletion causes increased amounts of UV radiation to reach the Earth which can lead to more cases of skin cancer, cataracts and impaired immune systems.
On the trail of the missing ozone. Source: EPA's Region 9 Office in San Francisco, California. Click here to download the cartoon.
The role of sunlight in ozone depletion is the reason why the Antarctic ozone depletion is greatest during spring and reaches its maximum area in September. In the polar regions (particularly at the south pole), circulation patterns generate little mixing in winter, whereas normally gases are well-mixed. This creates an atmospheric container which fosters the ozone-destroying chemical reactions.
By October, these reactions stop and the hole shrinks in area and depth. During the period from October to December, the ozone depleted region is "stirred up like a can of paint" into the mid-latitudes, depleting atmosphere ozone there.
Despite successful measures that have stopped production of CFCs, scientists don't expect to see the hole significantly reduce in size for about another decade. This is due to the long lifetimes of CFCs already in the atmosphere. Also scientists remain uncertain about how climate change will interact with the recovery of the ozone hole.
The more ozone in a given parcel of air, the more heat it retains. Ozone generates heat in the stratosphere, both by absorbing the sun's ultraviolet radiation and by absorbing upwelling infrared radiation from the troposphere. Consequently, decreased ozone in the stratosphere results in lower temperatures.
At the same time greenhouse gases - among which ozone - have risen in the troposphere, triggering global warming. The two phenomena may be linked.
You have to know that temperature, humidity, winds, and the presence of other chemicals in the atmosphere influence ozone formation, and the presence of ozone, in turn, affects those atmospheric constituents.
Dobson unit scale. Source: Eumetsat/DLR.
The ozone vertical column density is expressed in Dobson units (DU). The Dobson unit is the most basic measure used in ozone research.
One Dobson unit refers to a layer of ozone that would be 10 µm thick under standard temperature and pressure. For example, 300 DU of ozone brought down to the surface of the Earth at 0°C would occupy a layer only 3 mm thick.


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Candidate for prime minister seat presented list of ministers in Parliament
The candidate for the position of prime minister, Ion Chicu, presented today, November 14, the list of ministers for the new government.
"The political crisis that started a few days ago can have extremely serious repercussions for the socio-economic fields. We are all aware that with each passing day, the crisis and implicitly the malfunctioning of the central and local public administration, will aggravate even more the country's situation in the eve of winter. That is why my colleagues and myself took the decision in just a few hours after the president of Moldova signed the nomination decree of the candidate for the position of prime minister, to ask for your kindness, dear Members of Parliament, to examine the establishment of a new government", said Ion Chicu in Parliament's plenary session.
Sergiu Pușcuța was nominated for the position of deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, while Alexandru Flenchea was nominated for the position of deputy Prime Minister for reintegration. Anatol Usatîi's candidacy was put forward for the seat of Minister of Economy and Infrastructure, Pavel Voicu - Minister of Internal Affairs. Fadei Nagacevschi was proposed for the Minister of Justice position. Aureliu Ciocoi was proposed as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, as Defense Minister - Victor Gaiciuc, Minister of Education, Culture and Research - Corneliu Popovici, Minister of Health, Labor and Social Protection - Viorica Dumbrăveanu. Ion Perju was nominated for the Minister of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment seat.
"Considering the status of minority government, which was established in order to redress the precarious situation in most areas of socio-economic life in Moldova, the time horizon is limited to the period up to the presidential elections of autumn 2020. The program reflects the government's vision regarding the issues that require immediate action over the course of the coming weeks or even hours in order to restore the functionality of the central public administration, which was significantly affected during the last months", said Ion Chicu.
The candidate for the prime minister's office said that the government's program focuses on several priority areas, namely on social, economic and business initiatives.
"We intend to literally transform the country into a construction site over the course of the next year. We will primarily focus on road infrastructure. We will start as soon as weather conditions allow it. We set the objective to reorientate available funds for investments, about four to five billion lei, towards infrastructure investments. Additionally, we already have a plan to attract 300 million euros next year in order to repair and build roads on the main arteries of the country", said Ion Chicu.
The candidate for the position of prime minister said that the most "urgent emergency" is justice reform and the prosecutor's office reform. "We have counted hours to adjust the concept of reform of the Supreme Court of Justice and the extraordinary evaluation of judges and prosecutors, in strict accordance with the recommendations of the Venice Commission and other specialized international forums, so as not to miss the Commission meeting that takes place in December. We must continue the process of selecting an independeny general prosecutor with integrity, in accordance with the legislation in force. In no time, we must identify urgent solutions in order to prevent bottlenecks within the justice system", said Ion Chicu.
According to him, the new executive will focus on strengthening strategic partnerships with the US and the Russian Federation. Additionally, the government will intensify efforts to deepen friendly relations with neighboring states, Romania and Ukraine.
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At once a performance video and a behind-the-scenes look into the burgeoning world of rap music, this spirited documentary video offers live concert footage from the U.S. and Japan and backstage commentary from the artists themselves. Also featured is a round-table discussion with rap's founding fathers, including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Naughty By Nature, Notorious B.I.G., Run DMC and Wu-Tang Clan.
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The 2011 Women's World Cup was one of the most enthralling soccer spectacles in recent memory. The PSP reflects on the standout performers from this summer's tournament.
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Freed Monsignor Told to Report Weekly
By Geoff Mulvihill	• Published January 6, 2014 • Updated on January 6, 2014 at 6:03 pm
A judge on Monday told a Roman Catholic church official that she already has signed an arrest warrant that she would issue if he violates the term of his release on electronic monitoring following the reversal of his conviction in the priest sex-abuse scandal.
Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa Sarmina also told 63-year-old Monsignor William Lynn to report to a probation officer weekly.
Monday's brief court hearing was the first public appearance for Lynn since he was released from prison on Friday after serving 18 months of a three- to six-year prison term for felony child endangerment.
The pre-signed arrest warrant is standard for defendants released on bail.
Several supporters were there to see the priest, who lost 80 pounds during his time in prison.
Lynn was the first U.S. church official ever convicted in the handling of abuse complaints. But a state appeals court ruled Dec. 26 that the state's child-endangerment law in the late 1990s did not apply to supervisors like Lynn.
During his tenure as secretary for clergy for the archdiocese from 1992 until 2004, Lynn documented hundreds of abuse complaints against priests and then locked them in a secret archives room. Many of the accused priests were transferred to new parishes without warning, although Lynn said he often tried to get them and their victims help.
He was released from prison Friday.
His lawyer, Thomas Bergstrom, said Lynn is restricted to the two floors of a rectory at St. William Parish in Northeast Philadelphia and has to get permission to leave for appointments with his doctor, lawyer or to attend to anything else. There is no school at the parish.
Lynn remains a priest in good standing, and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia posted $25,000 for bail last week. After the hearing, Bergstrom said there are no plans for him to return to any job in the church for now.
Lynn declined to answer questions from reporters as he left court, saying only, "I'm just taking care of myself."
The Philadelphia district attorney's office plans to appeal last month's ruling to the state's Supreme Court. If the court decides not to hear the case, last month's ruling would stand and Lynn would remain free.
Either way, it's likely to be at least months before an appeal is resolved.
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams last week criticized the archdiocese's decision to post bail for Lynn.
But Bergstrom said it was the right move.
Lynn is "not a threat of flight, he's not going anywhere," Bergstrom said. "If he abides by all the conditions of bail the money will go back to the archdiocese, so it's not as if they've lost the money."