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Joshua Bell leads ASMF in dynamic performances at Harris Theater
Sun Mar 13, 2016 at 10:26 am
By Tim Sawyier
Joshua Bell performed as soloist and conductor with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Saturday night at the Harris Theater.
The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (ASMF) performed at Harris Theater Saturday night under their music director, violinist Joshua Bell. While the evening's repertoire was routine, the performances were anything but, featuring inspired artistry and superlative playing from Bell and the storied ensemble.
The program opened with Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony, which Bell led from the concertmaster seat. The chamber music sensibility this setup fosters was abundantly apparent—the musicians were clearly engaged in collective interpretation and played with a free élan guided more by their ears than eyes.
The opening Allegro con brio bubbled with energy from the opening arpeggiations to its incisive final bars. Tender elegance pervaded the Larghetto, which was laden with organic dynamic shifts and resonant soft dynamics that never sounded anemic. The boisterous Gavotte benefited from dance-like inflections, with the slight hesitations on upbeats providing a satisfying lilt. In the finale the ASMF musicians played with effervescent joie de vivre, and buoyant woodwind solos sparkled throughout. Bell's subtle leadership was unobtrusive, conveying much through his energetic presence and playing.
Bell took center stage following the Prokofiev for Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, of which he gave an impassioned performance. Bell's reading of the first movement had a breathless urgency and forward momentum, which–while not necessarily in line with the movement's Allegro moderato marking–made for thrilling listening. The familiar cadenza sounded fresh and improvisatory in his hands, its stratospheric harmonics sounding with effortless poise.
After the Canzonetta's glowing wind introduction, Bell offered a songful rendition of ruminative anguish that did justice to the composer's homesickness at the time the music was penned. The finale was taken at a breakneck pace, soloist and orchestra jointly navigating its transitions and tempo shifts deftly, and earning an immediate standing ovation after the electrifying coda.
As an accompanying ensemble, ASMF handles like a Maserati. One of many examples of this occurred in the concerto's first movement passages where the orchestra has isolated offbeats under rapid runs in the violin. In conducted performances these spots can find the orchestra tensely at the ready waiting for cues from the podium, while ASMF simply placed the punctuations where they belonged with little apparent effort, aurally following their director's lead.
Following intermission Bell remained in the solo spotlight for the slow middle movement of Schumann's Violin Concerto, which was played with Benjamin Britten's codetta. Principal cellist Stephen Orton's solo playing in the opening had a supple vocal quality, and his sensitive dialogues with Bell were a moving embodiment of the ensemble's collaborative spirit.
A riveting performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 rounded out the night with Bell back in the concertmaster spot. The players lived up to the first movement's Allegro vivace con brio marking playing with incendiary energy and emphasizing Beethoven's jagged dynamic juxtapositions. The playful Allegretto scherzando, an homage to the inventor of the metronome, was coy and drew more understated leadership from Bell.
The spacious Tempo di menuetto had a rustic Ländler feel, its trio showcasing burnished playing from the ASMF horn section and exquisite solos from principal clarinet Nicholas Carpenter. The Finale's headlong gusto emphatically closed the evening, which like the ensemble itself was even greater than the sum of its parts.


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For a query on a non-existent Task, I'd expect to return

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How can I modify my query to return this even when no TaskId exists?

A: If you want to return those values just wrap each column with a SUM and an ISNULL:
SELECT ISNULL(SUM(CASE
        WHEN TaskId IS NULL THEN 0
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A: You can try something like this:
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SET @task = 555555

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FROM Task T
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WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM  Task WHERE TaskId = @task)

A: If it must be in a query, rather than in the code, then just cheat and tack the default row on to the end of your query.  Guarantee that the default sorts after any possible veritable result, and limit to your first row:
SELECT TOP 1 * FROM (
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) ORDER BY TaskExists DESC;

You may find this more readable than alternatives involving aggregate functions or forcing a join and COALESCE/ISNULLing, etc.

A: Please try the below code. I haven't tested.
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PROVPY_CONVERT="python $HOME/ProvPy/scripts/prov-convert"
# Configure to use ProvToolbox source release
PROVTOOLBOX_CONVERT=$HOME/ProvToolbox/toolbox/target/appassembler/bin/provconvert
# Configure ProvStore
API_KEY="ApiKey user:12345qwert"
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PROVMANAGEMENT=$HOME/provman/bin/provmanagement

# Create local configuration directory with default name expected
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python prov_interop/set_yaml_value.py $CONFIG_DIR/harness.yaml test-cases="$PROV_TEST_CASES"
python prov_interop/set_yaml_value.py $CONFIG_DIR/harness.yaml comparators.ProvPyComparator.executable="$PROVPY_COMPARE"
python prov_interop/set_yaml_value.py $CONFIG_DIR/provpy.yaml ProvPy.executable="$PROVPY_CONVERT"
python prov_interop/set_yaml_value.py $CONFIG_DIR/provtoolbox.yaml ProvToolbox.executable="$PROVTOOLBOX_CONVERT"
python prov_interop/set_yaml_value.py $CONFIG_DIR/provstore.yaml ProvStore.authorization="$API_KEY"
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Jordan's Arab Bank net profit rises 43% in 2013 - Daily News Egypt
Business Jordan's Arab Bank net profit rises 43% in 2013
Jordan's Arab Bank net profit rises 43% in 2013
Arab Bank's growth has long been tied to its regional and global expansion, with a strong presence in Egypt and North Africa alongside the Gulf
Daily News Egypt January 26, 2014 4 Comments
Reuters – Jordan's largest lender, Arab Bank Group, posted a 43% rise in net profit to $501.9m last year on higher revenues, with its chairman saying a conservative policy eased the impact of political upheaval across the region.
Chairman Sabih al-Masri said in a statement the bank, one of the Middle East's major financial institutions, saw deposits grow by $1.5bn to $34.4bn the year.
"This was in spite of the challenging environment in the region with the solid growth in operating income reflecting prudent and conservative policies the bank preserved and the strategy it pursued," Masri said.
Masri said the board had proposed paying out 37% of its 2013 profits in dividend payments, up from 30% in 2012.
Arab Bank, which has a $45.6bn balance sheet spread across 30 countries and five continents, had seen a slowdown in profit growth in recent years as it put aside provisions to cover non-performing loans at businesses reeling from the global downturn.
Bankers said the jump in Arab Bank's profits last year partly reflects the fact that it put aside less provisions, although the bank itself gave no figure. It set aside nearly $1bn in provisions in 2011 and 2012 to cover bad loans.
Bankers say the wave of political unrest across the region since 2011 will continue to affect the bank's business in 2014, but a diversified portfolio will help reduce its risks.
Arab Bank's Chief Executive Officer Nemeh al-Sabbagh said the bank would focus on keeping a high level of liquidity, after posting a capital adequacy ratio of 15.15% at the end of 2013.
"It's important to keep high liquidity, which is a main pillar of the bank's solid financial position," Sabbagh said.
The bank's net operating income exceeded $1bn in 2013 as a result of growth in net interest and cost-cutting measures, Sabbagh said.
He said the bank had set aside enough provisions to cover all its non-performing loans.
Investment analysts say the bank has traditionally had a lower risk appetite than peers and it favours capitalisation and liquidity versus profitability.
Arab Bank's growth has long been tied to its regional and global expansion, and it has built a reputation for low vulnerability to major political upheaval.
Its subsidiary in Syria was one of several foreign banks still operating in the civil war-torn country. It has a strong presence in Egypt and north Africa alongside the Gulf.
The firm is one of the Arab world's largest privately owned banks. More than 20 percent is owned by the family of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik al-Hariri, who was assassinated in 2005. Jordan's social pension fund holds a 15.5% stake.
Arab Bank owns 40 percent of Saudi Arabia's Arab National Bank ANB.
Topics: Arab Bank Daily News Daily News Egypt DNE jordan
https://dailyfeed.dailynewsegypt.com/2014/01/26/jordans-arab-bank-net-profit-rises-43-in-2013/

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People develop different belief systems as an attempt to explain everything that happens around them. In old Norse mythology, for example, it was believed that thunder came from the god Thor riding his chariot across the sky, that great warriors would dwell in Valhalla and Folkvang, feasting with the Gods after their death and that the fate of the world was determined by the three Norns – goddesses of destiny and personifications of the past, the present, and the future.
Trolls are no less important than the heroes of numerous Norse legends and folktales. These huge creatures can be found in deep forests or high up in the mountain peaks. Seen from afar, they look like giant boulders overgrown with moss and heather and sometimes even whole trees. A troll can have one, three, five, six, seven, nine, or even more heads.
Such myths and legends are incredibly interesting, but they can also be very confusing sometimes as different sources present conflicting information. While we cannot retell every detail or version of a tale that has survived to this day, we have worked hard to curate engaging, trustworthy and precise recreations of the stories we present.
An example of these stories include the myths surrounding Yggdrasil, the sacred world tree in Norse mythology; you will become acquainted with this representation of the universe according to Vikings through a beautiful model that marks the first stop in our exhibit. Or you may be more interested in the waterfall spirit, the Fossegrim, an incredibly mysterious character who plays the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle whom you can meet at the end of our exhibit.
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NGOs campaign for election of leaders with integrity
in Elections
Wanjiku Gikonyo, the National Coordinator at The Institute for Social Accountability, speaking during the "Restoring Integrity through the Ballot" press conference at the Kenya Human Rights Commission offices in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting was organised by The Angaza Movement together with citizens and other grassroots organisations. Photo credit. @Moses Gowi/KHRC
Government agencies and independent commissions in Kenya have been asked to bar persons who do not meet integrity standards from running for public office during the General Election slated for August 2022.
Political parties were also asked to strive to pick candidates whose names have not been associated with ethical issues and corruption-related scandals during the nominations that are coming up in April.
"It would be unfair for citizens to be duped into electing leaders who have not only previously failed to effectively manage public resources under their care but also failed the integrity test," The Angaza Movement, in partnership with citizens and other grassroots organisations, said during a press conference in Nairobi.
The consortium, which includes the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), the International Commission of Jurists-Kenya, Haki Yetu, and Inuka Kenya Ni Sisi, expressed concern about the question of integrity and called for intensified efforts to ensure that only the names of candidates of upright character find their way to the ballot in party primaries and the elections.
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They asked government agencies responsible for enforcing the necessary laws to do their job diligently. They named the agencies as the Independence Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), the office of the Director of Criminal Investigations, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the Ombudsman, and urged them to "…take necessary action within their mandate to ensure that candidates with unresolved integrity issues are barred from vying in the forthcoming elections".
"Kenyans are being denied the opportunity to weed out corrupt leaders and choose the best. Our institutions are sabotaging the process and refusing to crack the whip on corrupt leaders," the CSOs complained.
Angaza asked Kenyans to effectively utilise their public participation mandate to elect principled leaders in order to ensure prudent management of public resources and good governance.
"Good leaders make good governance decisions, make a prosperous country," said Wanjiku Gikonyo, the National Coordinator at The Institute for Social Accountability.
She added that her organisation was ready to join forces with other relevant formations, such as The Red Card Campaign, to name leaders who do not meet the standards and, thereby, push for accountability in leadership.
Prompted by the August 2017 elections, The Red Card Campaign was initiated in Kenya in 2018 by Transparency International Kenya, Society for International Development/Chapter One Kenya, Mzalendo Trust, and Ni Sisi Trust to challenge the re-election of leaders who had fallen short of ethical standards, as required in Chapter Six of the Kenyan Constitution. It worked under the auspices of the National Integrity Alliance (NIA).
The campaign adopted a "speaking truth to power" approach by publicly naming powerful names in Kenya's political class. It listed 20 individuals as unfit to vie for public office based on the law on leadership and integrity.
It engaged the leaders of political parties to deny nomination certificates to aspirants with a track record of misuse of public finances and resources. The NIA also pressed the IEBC not to clear such aspirants. After meeting with the EACC, the commission released a list of 106 individuals who it said should not be allowed to run for office. The 20 names on the #RedCard20 list were included in the EACC list.
The "Red Card" was independently used by citizens in public rallies to challenge candidates on their integrity record. The IEBC denied a gubernatorial candidate in Mombasa clearance on grounds of integrity. One political party turned down two aspirants, and eight of the "red-carded" individuals failed to win political seats.
"We are looking for leaders whose behaviour is consistent with the objectives of the constitution, people whose behaviour does not bring dishonour to the office they occupy, and who are accountable in the way they manage public affairs," said Davis Malombe, Executive Director at KHRC, adding that hate speech and other conduct that is contrary to the principles and values of good governance should also be condemned.
He expressed concern that the IEBC was either unwilling or unable to stop unfit candidates from running for public office. "We shall take it upon ourselves to go to court and we shall also name and shame them," Malombe said.
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There is an ATM in town but there are no bank branches in Leonora. The closest bank branches are located in Kalgoorlie, approximately two hours' drive away.
The town has a resident doctor and modern hospital and is serviced by a volunteer St Johns Ambulance service.. Visit the Department of Health for more information.
A general store, supermarket, butcher, and café provide for local shoppers and carry most requisites. Other facilities include a newsagent, liquor store, hardware and general store, post office, two roadhouses, nursery and garden centre, and small furniture store.
Two service stations, two hotels and a caravan park provide accommodation, take-away food and dining facilities.
Leonora is serviced by a bitumen road from Perth via Kalgoorlie. A bus service operates from Perth on this route. Leonora also has an airport with flights to and from Perth, operated by Skippers.
There are a range of accommodation options in Leonora, including a motel, two hotels, a caravan park, lodge and the famous Hoover House.
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Internet services are available in Leonora. Telstra is recommended due to its service coverage of the area.
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We are hosting our next meeting on Sunday, January 18th at 3:00pm at Strive, a mini-campus for inner city children, located at 9124 S. Main Street in Los Angeles.
We're meeting in South L.A. on the weekend of Martin Luther King Day to discuss the civil rights issues of our day.
More details will be updated so stay tuned.
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By now, everyone has read the "Liberty Kids" article published by Reuters and carried by the Drudge Report and countless other outlets. No, no, actually we're the Los Angeles County Republican Liberty Cau– OK, so people in media just like "Liberty Kids" better. We can deal with that.
So here's the photo essay of how Amir Zendehnam (secretary), Noah Johnson (treasurer), and this post's author Nick Hankoff (chair) reached true stardom and received Hollywood treatment in Texas, home of The Glenn Beck Program on The Blaze.
So I called Noah and Amir. Next thing you know, we're on our way.
The three of us didn't know what Glenn Beck was going to ask. We quizzed each other on Rothbardian ethics until we nearly initiated aggression on ourselves. To relieve the anxiety, we decided to get our faces and hair did. The closest salon we found was conveniently located inside the state-of-the-art studios of The Blaze.
We felt and looked much better!
The rest is history. Check out The Blaze's coverage of our appearance with more video clips here. Glenn Beck and his team made us feel right at home. Seriously, they rock. Freedom is known to bring people together, and we hope it brings us back to Dallas for a longer visit next time.
The obligatory BBQ photo/video. Thank you Hard Eights. Go there and you'll be licking the toothpicks on their bacon-wrapped chicken jalapeno poppers.
Cheers from Dallas to still-the-best liberty movement in the country, Los Angeles County.


A colleague asked me to recommend some books on software design. That's a good opportunity to have a look at this particular part of my bookshelf and select a few highlights. As usual, you can't go wrong by reading Fowler, but let's see what we've got.
Ranging on the border between coding style and design, there are two candidates: Refactoring and Clean Code. Refactoring by Martin Fowler is a widely recognized classic that had a huge impact on the industry. It provides a catalog of refactorings, many of which have been integrated into IDEs like Eclipse. Clean Code by Robert C. Martin on the other hand focuses on coding style in a slightly wider context. Personally, I think Refactoring is a better read but if you're looking for ways to improve your coding style and design, Clean Code probably offers more bang for your buck.
Next is the undying classic, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides, also known as the Gang of Four. The book contains a rather large catalog of patterns that every software developer should be familiar with. This is a must-have if you're serious about your craft. Being from 1995, the book is rather old with examples in C++ and Smalltalk and diagrams in OMT (one of the UML predecessors). A friend of mine suggested Design Patterns Explained as a more modern way to learn the classic patterns. Others prefer Head First Design Patterns, a good book certainly, but much too verbose for my taste.
Another good one is Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler. The book shows how to structure your application (layering, organizing domain logic, database access, etc.) and is essential if you build larger business applications.
Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans is a great book that received its fair share of hype. It's one of the few books that focuses entirely on creating expressive, flexible domain models. The book is rather long but extremely well written and one of the best technical books I've read. If you want to try before you buy you can watch some conference videos to get a first impression.
A rather new addition to my collection is Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin. Usually, I wouldn't read anything with C# in the title, but even as a Java guy, you can understand the book without problems. I bought it because it's one of the few books to discuss package design, an area where many developers (including me) seem to struggle. The book is very practical and, like the title suggests, touches a lot of bases.
There are a lot more good books, especially pattern-centric ones, but my impression is that there's much repetition. Once you've read the books above, you should know enough to focus on other, equally interesting topics.
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I had to use Head First Design Patterns for a Software Design class in college – reading a single page will make your eyes bleed. It's written in the "for dummies" spirit and treats it's reader like a total idiot. Just my .02.
I think the Head First books are usually a very gentle introduction into a topic you don't know at all. If you have prior knowledge in the subject, they get on your nerves quickly because they don't seem to get to the point. Apart from that, I think for a college course a Head First book isn't appropriate.


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The 5 Most Expensive Destinations In 2018
Jasmine Locke
If you're planning a trip on a budget this year, you might want to exclude these destinations from consideration. But if you'd like to fantasize about the most extravagant, luxurious travel the world has to offer, or if you're fortunate enough to be able to afford it yourself, you've come to the right place.
1. Bermuda
Bermuda has been described as being less like an island and more like an island-sized country club. It has some magnificent beaches, great restaurants, and friendly people, but it also comes with a big price tag.
While Bermuda is only a two-hour flight from New York City and you can get deals on the flight itself, it's another story once you arrive on the island.
Accommodations can be very expensive due to lack of competition from hostels. The cheapest place you'll find will likely still be higher than $100 per night, and that's using sources like Airbnb, Bermuda Rentals, or HomeAway. There are a handful of Couchsurfing hosts who offer private rooms at a more competitive price, but since there are so few, you'll want to book far in advance to secure a place.
Transportation can also be pricey with a short taxi ride costing $20 USD. Buses are a more affordable option, and visitors may also rent motorbikes to traverse the small island for a cheaper cost and on their own time.
Bermuda. Unsplash / Jenny Marvin
2. Switzerland
While Switzerland has been called one of the most expensive countries to visit in the world, it's also known as one of the most beautiful. It has rolling green hills, snow-capped peaks, and a lake in nearly every city. The architecture, food, weather -- we could go on forever!
The flip side of the coin is that the World Economic Forum ranks Switzerland as one of the most expensive countries for visitors and that tourists will, on average, spend roughly $1,882 per person.
Dinner out for two can easily cost 150 francs, a near-equal conversion to USD. Transportation can be expensive, so visitors might want to consider a metro pass in more built-up cities like Zurich. It's also wise to shop ahead for deals as they can be found from time to time.
3. The Bahamas
With 700 islands spread over 180,000 square miles of ocean, 2,000 rocks and cays, and some of the most crystal clear water you'll ever see, it's no wonder that many travelers look to the Bahamas for their next beach vacation.
Expenses come thick and fast, though, with accommodations usually costing a minimum of $100 USD per night, and that's just for a two or three-star hotel. Airbnb has better prices at times, but again, due to the high interest from other travelers, you'll want to book early.
Nearly every activity that visitors will want to partake of (at least the guided ones) come with a price tag that starts around $150 USD, making excursions one of the fastest ways to burn through cash.
Taxis can be pricey, but transportation around Freeport or Nassau is relatively easy with minibus trips at minimal cost. Uber is another good option.
Tha Bahamas. Unsplash / Ishan @seefromthesky
4. Norway
Norway won second place in the United Nations' 2013 World Happiness Report, and it's likely for reasons such as safety (Norway has a ridiculously low crime rate), ability to pitch a tent on any uncultivated land, lush scenery including epic mountains and fjords, and well-designed urban spaces.
The price of having some of the highest living standards in the world is high, and travelers will experience that with hotels easily charging north of $300+ per night, car rentals that can be as high as $500 per week, and taxi rides that are often expensive, especially from the airport.
The cheapest options are local ferries, trains booked well in advance, hotels in the summertime (although flight prices can go up around this time), and worst case scenario, you do have the option to tent anywhere as mentioned.
5. Iceland
Despite ranking as the third-most-expensive country in the world, Iceland has increased in popularity as a travel destination. It's likely due to the natural beauty it encompasses, such as the massive Blue Lagoon outdoor spa, abundance of waterfalls, a mythical history including Vikings, elves, etc., and whale watching.
How expensive is it? Research shows that a hotel in Reykjavik, the capital, is 10-32% more expensive than staying in other Nordic capitals and that restaurant bills are about 44% higher than the EU average. Buying a drink is a whole other story as it also exceeds the average by about 123%.
As is the case with some other destinations, camping is actually the most affordable way to stay in Iceland and totally doable in the warmer summer months. Hitchhiking is extremely common in Iceland and known for being very safe, so if you're really traveling on a budget, this might be another option at times.
Since eating out can be so pricey, it's recommended for visitors to plan a couple special occasions out on the town, but eat primarily food that they buy at local grocery stores and cook themselves.
There you have it: the most expensive places to visit in 2018! Of course, the fact that they're so beautiful might have you ignoring the cost altogether...
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Alternatively, there is in the guide, the description and map of an alternative route to Askja, that has no so deep fords. This can be better traveled with enduro. But even the more demanding route is feasible with a travel enduro (Fully Loaded), if several people are traveling.
The first ford - came faster than expected; described with respect as in every book in conduct crossing of fords, we parked the bikes, rolled up pants and waded - freezing. Retour each on his motorcycle and consecutively. It went well. Then came the 2 nd, we already saw at the ford that it was deeper, wider and stronger the flow; that we felt even with the passage, the power of water, which will push away a fortune but was also mastered this.
Endpoint is the Camp in Askja.


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" SP TIMES: Jennings to Ask House for 'Investigation' in FL-13 Race	"
SP TIMES: Jennings to Ask House for 'Investigation' in FL-13 Race
'Constitutional Option' Likely to be Invoked in Fight Over U.S. House Seat According to Paper
Howard Dean Says Election 'Not Valid', Agrees House Should Not Seat Buchanan; Tom Feeney Bullies...
By Brad Friedman on 12/7/2006, 9:35am PT
ED NOTE: See our own thoughts on the "Constitutional Option" of a Congressional challenge in the Jennings/Buchanan FL-13 race, and how this version differs from the same law (mis)applied in last Summer's Busby/Bilbray Special U.S. House election in CA-50 as posted yesterday.
From today's St. Petersburg Times...
WASHINGTON — Republican Vern Buchanan may be the official winner in a messy Sarasota-area Congressional race, but Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean says the Democratic-controlled Congress should not seat Buchanan without another election.
"Absolutely not,'' Dean said in a taped "Political Connections" interview airing Sunday on Bay News 9. "You cannot seat someone if you don't have an election that's valid.
"This election is not valid. There are 18,000 people who may have voted and we don't know what happened to their votes," he said. "You can bet that if the Republicans were 500 votes short they'd be calling for a new election, and they'd be right."
On Wednesday, Democrat Christine Jennings said she will ask the U.S. House to take the extreme measure of conducting its own investigation into the election.
In a side note, Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Abramoff), a man who knows a thing or two about both bad elections and bullying people to get his way, is quoted in the story as well:
"I think there would be a huge pushback in terms of the American people,'' said Rep. Tom Feeney, an Orlando area Republican. "I think that the consequences of that would be severe for the Democratic leadership."
Feeney, aside from allegedly asking computer programmer turned whistleblower Clint Curtis to create vote-rigging software back in 2000 (which is notorious enough), notoriously also announced, back in 2000 as Speaker of the Florida House, that he would take it upon himself to ensure that Florida's Electors went to George W. Bush no matter what the United States Supreme Court would ultimately decide during the 2000 imbroglio.
Feeney is a bully of the highest reknown. With a fresh election "victory" under his belt (albeit one which his challenger, the whistleblower-turned-candidate Curtis, has questioned) watch for him to crank up his bully-boy-ness as things move forward in this and other related affairs in the new Congress. Watch for The BRAD BLOG to keep calling him on it.
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"SP TIMES: Jennings to Ask House for 'Investigation' in FL-13 Race"
... politicky said on 12/7/2006 @ 4:42 pm PT...
Dean: Dems should keep out Buchanan
... Larry Bergan	said on 12/7/2006 @ 6:40 pm PT...
Oh oh, The head of the DNC is, (take a deep breath), CASTING AN ASPERSION ON THE VOTING MACHINES!
Hey Santorum, maybe you can impound those bad voting machines after all!
... william shakespear III	said on 12/8/2006 @ 8:50 am PT...
{Ed Note: Sorry, Bill, take all the screen shots you want. Certain maniacs have been barred from BradBlog for cause, and your guy is one of them. --99}
... Nana	said on 12/8/2006 @ 9:41 am PT...
I think Feeney lives in never-never land. After 18,326 votes disappear in Sarasota without any rational explanation, he offers empty threats. Voters have concerns about the way we elect our officials.Yet he is rattled at the request for an investigation.He is not concerned that our standards should be higher for elections.
... Emma	said on 12/8/2006 @ 7:49 pm PT...
Sigh.....
Feeney? 2 more years??? God help me.
... molly said on 12/9/2006 @ 1:30 pm PT...
Don't think bullying works anymore. Good day when Howard Dean addresses our biggest national security problem. I count on him to be smart and fair. Having the democratic congress call it would set a dangerous precedent. Repubs. and dems. both corrupt.


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The featured quilt of the week in the April 25, 2010 edition of the Start Your Week With a Quilt newsletter is called Catch of the Day, and it was created by Inez Wilkerson. Inez loves bright, happy quilts, and this quilt is no exception — even if this beautiful little fish may be somebody's catch of the day. Let's hope he is the one who gets away.
Inez machine appliqued the fish and her surroundings on a blue background. She also quilted the piece on her machine. Crystal air bubbles add a dash of bling to this cute little quilt.
Catch of the Day was featured in the challenge quilts in the 2009 Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Show. Each quilter was asked to make a personal representation of what it means to be an African American quilter.


The Jewish umbrella organization of Argentinian Jewry said that the social deterioration of the country's society triggered an attack by a homeless couple on a Buenos Aires synagogue.
The attack took place on Friday night at the Mikdash Yosef Orthodox synagogue in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
"The impoverished situation of our Republic provokes, in some sectors of society in a situation of marginality, the invocation of old prejudices installed in society," the Delegation of Argentine Israelites Associations, or DAIA, said Monday in a statement. The statement designated the attack as anti-Semitic.
On Friday evening a woman entered the synagogue building during Shabbat evening services and was told by worshippers that she could not remain. After the service, as some members of the Jewish community stood talking on the sidewalk in front of the synagogue, a homeless man identified as a friend of the woman, broke a bottle and threatened the community members, shouted insults and threw stones. The synagogue's rabbi, Uriel Husni, grappled with the man and was injured in his arms. The aggressor was eventually held by community members until the police came, according to reports.
In Argentina the Catholic University, or UCA, created a poverty index used by sociologists and experts. According the latest UCA´s Social Debt Observatory report, poverty rose from 26.6 percent to 31.3 percent, with 12.7 million people living below the poverty line.
The Social Debt report was made public at the end of March and analyzes society not only by income, as the national state statistics institution does, but also through measurements such as access to food, health care, housing, education, employment, and social security systems.


An international aid convoy has delivered food and humanitarian supplies to a besieged, rebel-held area near Damascus, the first such distribution to reach Syria's Eastern Ghouta since late November.
The convoy delivered supplies to "over 7,000 civilians for a month" in the town of Nashabiyah, about 19km east of Damascus, on Wednesday, said Jakob Kern, Syria country director with the United Nations World Food Programme.
"We need much more such convoys. Fighting has to stop to deliver much-needed aid to all civilians in need," Kern said on Twitter.
Nine aid trucks delivered food parcels, flour, medicine, nutritional aid and medical supplies, said the Syrian Red Crescent, which helped organise the convoy.
About 400,000 people have been living under a government-imposed siege in Eastern Ghouta, an opposition-held area east of the Syrian capital, since 2013.
Local residents, half of whom are reportedly children, are suffering from a severe lack of food, medicine and medical supplies, which has crippled local hospitals.
While the area is one of a handful of "de-escalation zones" - in which opposition and government forces had promised to limit fighting under an internationally brokered deal last year - scores of people have been killed in Eastern Ghouta in February amid heavy Syrian state and Russian bombardments.
Almost 200 people were killed in Eastern Ghouta and Syria's northern Idlib province in only four days earlier this month.
Al Jazeera's James Bays, reporting from the UN headquarters in New York, said while the convoy delivered "desperately needed aid", the residents of Eastern Ghouta "require a lot more than one convoy because they have been cut off for so long".
"Aid supplies to besieged areas in Syria have been a continuing problem [for] the UN trying to get them in. Often, when there are aid trucks allowed in, supplies are taken from the trucks by the Syrian government," Bays said.
Privately, international diplomats have questioned the timing of the aid delivery, Bays reported, with some calling it a "pretty cynical" move on the part of the Syrian government, which was seeking to alleviate pressure ahead of a meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC).
"We've seen this pattern before, allowing a small amount of aid in, to reduce the pressure around the council table," Bays said.
The UNSC met on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing war in Syria and the increasingly complicated situation playing out in the country as fighting continues to rage on a number of fronts.
Staffan de Mistura, the UN envoy to Syria, said the situation in the country is the most "violent, dangerous and worrying" he has seen over the past four years.
In January, Turkey launched a military offensive in Afrin, a Kurdish-held region in northern Syria, in an effort to root out Kurdish YPG fighters from the border area.
While Turkey views the YPG as an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought a decades-long war with Ankara, the YPG has been an ally of the United States in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS).
That has led to an increasingly tense relationship between the US and Turkey.
Meanwhile, this month has also seen a surge in Syrian and Russian air raids on rebel-held areas of the country and cross-border confrontations between Syrian state forces and the Israeli military.
Syrian forces reportedly shot down an Israeli jet on February 10. The aircraft was returning from bombing an Iran-backed site in Syria after Israel said an Iranian drone entered its airspace earlier in the day.
Israel later retaliated further by shelling what it said were a dozen Syrian and Iranian targets inside the country.
Francois Delattre, France's ambassador to the UN, also told reporters "all the ingredients are present if we do nothing about it, urgently, for a major regional and international confrontation" in Syria.


What type of spiriferid is this?
Hello everyone, I have dwindling amounts of material from my trip to paupack to be identified. This is some spiriferids from the trilobite ridge, these were especially numerous. Some layers were basically made out of them. I'd like to get a species or at least a genus on these guys, the loose one I'm thinking of labeling and placing in a river mount, then sending it to the land owner. The formation is questionable as there are many present, although it's probably lower Devonian (although some late Silurian exist).
Your last image reminds me a bit of both Acrospirifer sp. and Punctospirifer sp.
Or possibly mucrospirifer (sans wing tips!) ?


As we commemorate "Constitution Day and Citizenship Day," we should be asking ourselves two questions. First, is this what the Founders had in mind when "We the People" came together to create the Constitution? Second, and perhaps more important, how does the Constitution empower us to do something about it today?
The Constitution was the culmination of a literally revolutionary idea – that government should be of the people, by the people, and for the people. Americans would be citizens of a Republic, not colonial subjects governed without representation by the British Parliament.
Today, nearly 5 million U.S. citizens are treated as second-class simply because of where they live: in a U.S. territory or the District of Columbia. That's over twice the population of the Thirteen Colonies. The result is that we are mere observers in a political process that affects our daily lives, from the military buildup, to visa waiver programs, to our healthcare.
As a result of these constitutional changes, today it is clearer than ever that the relationship between the people of Guam and the federal government is completely contrary to America's most fundamental democratic and constitutional principles.
This Fall we plan to file a federal lawsuit on behalf of residents of Guam and other U.S. territories who are denied the right to vote for President. We have put together an impressive team of attorneys who have developed an exciting new equal protection argument that offers an opportunity to succeed in court where past efforts have failed.
Already over 1,500 residents of Guam and other U.S. territories have shared their stories to help develop the case through our "Right to Vote" survey, which is available at www.RepresentGuam.com. The more people's stories we are able to bring together, the stronger the case will be.
We are especially interested in hearing from members of our veterans and active duty community in Guam who believe they have earned the right to vote for President. We also are looking for current residents of Guam who at one time resided in Illinois, President Obama's adopted home state. If President Obama were to retire to Guam, even he wouldn't be able to vote for President!
Ultimately, more will be needed than just action in court. Guam's leaders must also work towards political solutions through self-determination. But as with prior civil rights cases, pressure from the courts can be an important ingredient in helping move the conversation forward and drive broader political change.
So long as Guam is part of the United States, with Guam's sons and daughters fighting to defend the Constitution and America's democratic principles, our people deserve to be treated as full and equal members of We the People.
Please visit www.RepresentGuam.com to let your voice be heard. Or call or visit the Law Office of Leevin Camacho, 194 Hernan Cortez Ave., Ste. 216, Hagåtña, GU 96910, 477-8894.
Neil Weare and Leevin Camacho are among the attorneys working to develop this new federal voting rights lawsuit as part of We the People Project's new "Represent Guam" campaign.
I thought guam people are "automatic us citizens" already? so they should have that right established?


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Former KU Football Standout Jon Cornish Named CFL Offensive and Canadian Player of the Week
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Former Kansas and current Calgary Stampeders running back Jon Cornish was named the Gibson's Finest CFL Offensive and Canadian Player of the Week for Week 7. Cornish ran for 175 yards on 16 carries and scored a career-high four touchdowns to help the Stampeders knock off the undefeated Roughriders, 42-27 at McMahon Stadium on Friday night.
The New Westminster, BC native was able to win the battle between the top rushers in the league against Saskatchewan's Kory Sheets. After Cornish's big game this week, he has racked up 676 yards along the ground this season and leads the league with seven rushing touchdowns.
Cornish, who lettered at KU from 2003-06, scored touchdowns from 32, 14, 2, and 1 yard out. His longest rush of the game was 53 yards.
Cornish is the Kansas single-season rushing record holder with 1,457 yards on the ground in 2006. He ranks 10th on the KU career rushing chart with 2,248 yards and 17 touchdowns on 287 carries. Additionally, he is fourth on the KU all-time list for 100-yard rushing games with 12 in his Jayhawk career.
Cornish and his Calgary teammates will return to action on Saturday, Aug. 17, when they play travel to the BC Lions at 8 p.m. He is one of three Kansas alums playing in the CFL as Raymond Brown plays defensive back for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Marcus Henry plays wide receiver for the Edmonton Eskimos.


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Video games may be a very popular hobby, but above all it remains a very lucrative but also very competitive sector. The biggest publishers often enforce their law, sometimes through large buyouts. One of the industry giants, Take-Two, has just carried out a historic takeover to get another foothold in the mobile game.
The advent of mobile gaming
Since the democratization of the video game, two camps have formed and fought for a war without borders: PC gamers and console gamers. They are often busy struggling to find out which Sony or Microsoft is the best manufacturer. Where the "PCists" offer maximum performance or a large selection of games, the "comforters" rely on significantly more attractive and well-known exclusives.
But with the advent of smartphones, mobile gaming has grown so much that it quickly became the most lucrative. It is therefore only logical that more and more studios and publishers are looking into it, even if it means investing the necessary funds. Proof of this is the well-known publisher Take-Two (GTA, Bioshock, NBA 2K), who has just made the largest buyout in video game history to acquire a mobile publisher.
Take-Two Takes in the Mobile Gaming Market
In 2021 Microsoft marked the year of its coining with the purchase of the Bethesda Studios (The Elder Scrolls, Fallout) for the impressive sum of 7.5 billion euros. But that sum now seems ridiculous, while Take-Two, in particular owners of Rockstar Games (GTA) and 2K Games (Borderlands, NBA 2K), announced the takeover of the company Zynga for 12.7 billion dollars.
If the name Zynga doesn't ring the bell, it's an editor behind the hit Farmville games that you might have played straight from Facebook a few years ago. While its popularity has plummeted over the years due to the fact that games that are accessible through social networks are no longer generating income, the company is now focusing on the mobile games market, which nonetheless grossed almost $ 2 billion in 2020.
There's no doubt that Take-Two will be able to give Zynga a boost, as the latter's action is already up more than 60% after the New York giant announced its acquisition. However, we will have to wait a few more months – even years – to see if it manages to compete with the industry leaders. Including EA and Activision, the latter having already bought the King Studio (Candy Crush Saga) in 2015.
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About this Major
At Seattle University, the study of Political Science features seven prominent themes:
POWER & LAW In every nation and locality, in the US and abroad, government is about the exercise of power. The arrangement of governing bodies, the access of political parties and interest groups, and the occasional participation of citizens shape the use of power and law for public and private purposes.
SOCIAL JUSTICE Power and law affect the daily lives of people: their well-being, personal dignity, and sense of belonging to communities. Questions of opportunity, equality, and fairness permeate the Political Science curriculum.
SOCIAL & ECONOMIC POLICY Governments collect taxes, spend money, regulate behavior, and provide security for the benefit of all or for the benefit of the few. Scrutiny of policies—for example, in economic growth, welfare, social services, education, health care, land use, environment, and civil rights—reveals who really benefits.
RACE, GENDER, AND CLASS The conditions of ethnic minorities, the roles of women, and the persistence of privilege and poverty receive special attention in many of our courses.
INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT & COOPERATION Wars and other forms of coercion are extremely costly and destructive, yet they occur with disturbing frequency. International law and organizations offer alternative means of conducting foreign relations.
GLOBALIZATION Global economic interdependence undermines efforts of governments to assure their citizens material security and the means to shape their own destinies.
INTERNSHIPS & CAREERS We offer internships in the nation's capital, in Olympia, in King County, and in Seattle. Our students later pursue careers in elected government, law, public administration, interest organizations, secondary and higher education, policy analysis institutes, and domestic and international social and non-profit organizations.
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Key Workplace Skills
Make decisions and solve problems
Plan, organize, and prioritize work
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Leadership
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WA State Legislature
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"Hunters"
George Drouillard and John Colter
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, as the era of the eastern longhunter was drawing to a close and the time of the western explorer and beaver trapping mountain man was beginning, two men exemplified the rugged individualism and resourcefulness required to challenge the hostile Indians, fierce grizzly bears and all the dangers of existing hundreds of miles from civilization. George Drouillard, born approximately 1770 to a French Canadian trader and a Shawnee mother, had extensive knowledge of the wilderness and after serving as a hunter for the army out of Fort Massac, in 1803 at the age of thirty three, he was recruited by Lewis and Clark as an interpreter and hunter for their upcoming expedition. He accepted the appointment as a civilian engagé. Drouillard carried and usually used his own longrifle, not the military Harpers Ferry model 1803 that was issued to most of the others. He hunted along the shoreline or out in front of the others as they proceeded by boat or in a large group on horseback. Often he hunted with his friend John Colter. Drouillard was an excellent marksman and he once killed a charging grizzly, only a few steps away, with a single shot to the brain. Lewis and Clark thought so highly of him that upon their return, they paid him double the amount of payment he had been promised. After they returned from the expedition, Drouillard and Colter continued life as hunters and trappers and joined Manuel Lisa's trading company in the Rocky Mountains. In 1810, along the Jefferson River, Drouillard ran a trap line, for a few days alone, against the judgment of his companions. The first two days were fine, but on the third day when he didn't return to camp, his friends went looking for him. They followed his trail and saw where the Blackfeet had picked up his tracks. The signs told how he fought to the end, keeping his horse between himself and his enemies until eventually, the overwhelming number of Indians surrounded and killed him. They found his dead horse and his decapitated body so near camp that if the wind hadn't carried the sound of the fight away, Drouillard could possibly have been saved. Thirty year old John Colter, another member of the famed Corps of Discovery, was promoted to hunter and scout and was considered to have been so valuable to the expedition that he was the only member of the group to be discharged early by Lewis and Clark who "were disposed to be of service to anyone of our party who had performed their duty as well as Colter had done". Colter then accompanied two fur trappers, Forrest Hancock and Joseph Dickson, back into Mandan country. He left them after one season and joined Drouillard, John Potts and Peter Weiser who were again heading west with a large group of Lisa's traders. In the fall of 1808, while trapping on the Jefferson River, Potts was killed and Colter was captured by the Blackfeet. Colter was stripped naked and set free to be pursued by the warriors for sport. He outran all except one and when that pursuer finally caught up with him, Colter outfought him and killed him with his own spear. He again outran his enemies, hid under some driftwood in the icy water near a beaver dam and swam to safety that night. It then took seven more days for him to reach safety. By 1810, he had had enough of the hunter's life, returned to Missouri, married and settled down to life as a farmer. His legacy lives on in the boiling springs and steaming geysers of Yellowstone known as "Colter's Hell" and on a large sandstone rock near the confluence of the Big Horn and Yellowstone rivers where he carved his name and the year, 1810.
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est un philosophe japonais qui, durant l'ère Meiji, a aidé à importer la philosophie occidentale au Japon.

Biographie
Nishi Amane (prononcé Amané) est né à Tsuwano, ville située dans la préfecture de Shimane. Il fait des études a l'Université de Leyde aux Pays-Bas, où il est l'élève avec son camarade Mamichi Tsuda du professeur Simon  Vissering  qui leur enseigne l'économie politique, les statistiques et l'histoire diplomatique. Ils nouent des liens d'amitié avec Vissering , celui-ci, franc-maçon, les présente à sa loge maçonnique Vertu N°7, où ils sont initiés à la franc-maçonnerie et dont ils deviennent les premiers adhérents japonais le .

Nishi Amane ramène au Japon l'utilitarisme et l'empirisme et devient en  le premier directeur de l'académie militaire de Numazu. Il est le créateur du mot  qui signifie philosophie en japonais.

Maison de Tsuwano
Il est toujours possible de visiter sa dernière maison à Tsuwano, située non loin de celle de Ōgai Mori (ainsi que du musée consacré à l'œuvre de l'écrivain). La maison de Nishi Amane est conservée en l'état. Elle n'est pas un musée. N'importe qui peut y aller gratuitement : il est simplement demandé de ne pas marcher à l'intérieur sur les tatamis. Comparé au musée consacré à Mori Ōgai, quelque peu exubérant, cette maison est toute simple.

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 Cooney, Owen. Shaping Modern Japan Through Kangaku: The Case of Nishi Amane. Masters Thesis. Columbia University. Retrieved 5/8/12.
 Defoort, Carline. Is 'Chinese Philosophy' a Proper Name? A Response to Rein Raud, in Philosophy East and West 56, no. 4 (2006): 625-60.
 Gluck, Carol. (1985). Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the late Meiji Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
 Godart, George Clinton (January 2008). Philosophy or Religion? The Confrontation with Foreign Categories in Late Nineteenth Century Japan. Journal of the History of Ideas. 1 69: 71-91.
 Havens, Thomas R.H. (1970). Nishi Amane and modern Japanese thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
 Jansen, Marius B. (2000). The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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 Minear, Richard (Summer 1973). . Nishi Amane and the Reception of Western Law in Japan. Monumenta Nipponica. 2 28: 151-175.
 Murphy, Alex. Traveling Sages: Translation and Reform in Japan and China in the Late Nineteenth Century. Studies on Asia. Kenyon College. Retrieved 5/8/12.
 Ramsey, Robert (April 2004). The Japanese Language and the Making of Tradition. Japanese Language and Literature. 38 1: 81-110.
 Saitō, Takako. The meaning of Heaven according to Nishi Amane, in Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy, edited by James W. Heisig (Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture,2006): 1–21.
 Steben, Barry. Nishi Amane and the Birth of "Philosophy et Chinese Philosophy in the Early Meiji Japan.
 Wei-fen, Chen. The Formation of Modern Ethics in China and Japan: The Contributions of Inoue Tetsujiro and Cai Yuan-pei''. Article.

Liens externes
 The First Japanese Freemason by James L. Johnston
National Diet Library Bio
Photographie de la tombe de Nishi Amane

Lexicographe japonais
Philosophe japonais du XIXe siècle
Kazoku
Hatamoto
Membre de la chambre des pairs du Japon
Naissance dans la préfecture de Shimane
Naissance en mars 1829
Décès en janvier 1897
Décès à 67 ans
Personnalité de la franc-maçonnerie japonaise

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ISO 14001: The Dreaded Revision Process Has Started!
The ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems standard has been adopted by more than 250,000 organizations globally since it was originally issued in 1996 and then revised in 2004. General perception amongst adopters has been that it is a well written standard with enough flexibility to apply to any organization. In fact, ISO reviewed the standard in 2010 and determined that no change was required.
That was before ISO issued Guide 83 "High level structure and identical text for management system standards and common core management system terms and definitions." Guide 83 is intended to provide a single high-level structure and common text that will apply to all ISO management system standards (MSS). ISO developed Guide 83 in response to complaints from organizations that have implemented multiple standards only to find that each has a different structure and slightly different requirements. And, when integrating management systems, it is a challenge to understand how the different standards fit together with minimum redundancy.
Guide 83 is certainly an interesting concept — a common format, structure and core requirements for ISO 14001, ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 50001 — this should make it less confusing for an organization to implement a fully integrated management system. ISO has requested that standards be revised to conform to Guide 83; the ISO Technical Committee (TC) 207 has started the process to revise ISO 14001, with a target of issuing a Final Version in 2015.
ISO standards are referred to as "consensus standards" because they are developed with the consensus of all participating countries. For example, the 2004 revision was issued with active input from more than 70 countries and approval vote from more than 130 countries. Each participating country forms a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) that reviews the standard, proposes wording and revisions, and provides a single vote of approval or disapproval regarding the standard. The United States is represented by the US TAG to TC 207 regarding ISO 14001. Working Group (WG) 5 is responsible for revising the standard.
Imagine the challenge to develop a single document that more than 130 countries agree is suitable to the situations organizations in their country face. When developing consensus standards there is extensive discussion amongst countries to agree on the specific final wording used in the standard. For those of us used to a bit of action, it can be a bit like watching paint dry.
WG 5 is currently developing initial drafts of the ISO 14001 standard to reflect the Higher Level Structure defined in Guide 83. The revised version of ISO 14001 is presently at the Working Draft stage; expect that there will be numerous changes between now and the Draft International Standard version that should be issued later this year. But, even though we can expect changes, it is not premature to start discussing the current Working Draft (WD) version of this document.
The primary changes to the ISO 14001 standard are structural in nature. All ISO standards will now adopt a common format, with requirements included in seven sections; the ISO 14001 Plan-Do-Check-Act structure, with 17 elements in section four, will no longer apply. The fundamental question becomes: "Is the revision just a reorganization of the current requirements? Or are there new requirements contained in the proposed changes?" The answer is complicated because the text is subject to significant review and potential change (we are currently at Working Draft 3), but the current text does contain new requirements.
So, let's talk about some of the new requirements in Working Draft 3 (we will refer to this version as 201X for the rest of this article).
Section 4 "Context of the Organization" is similar to the 4.1 General Requirements where the organization needed to define the boundaries of the EMS. The proposed 201X version expands this requirement to require the organization to evaluate and understand the external and internal context of the organization related to the environmental interactions, and to evaluate and identify the needs and expectations of interested parties. The wording is such that an organization may need to expend some effort to conduct these evaluations.
the importance of conformance to EMS requirements is internally communicated.
Section 5 also includes the requirements associated with the environmental policy, and there are changes associated with the environmental policy requirements. While the requirements are very similar to the current version of ISO 14001, the commitment associated with preventing pollution is expanded such that the organization shall "…mitigate its risks and manage opportunities associated with prevention of pollution, sustainable resource use, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and protection of the environment, biodiversity and restoration of natural habitat." Is this a big change? It certainly is a more explicit listing of the items that need to be addressed in the EMS, and many registrar auditors may view this as a list of opportunities an organization needs to address.
Environmental Aspects – environmental aspects need to consider a life cycle perspective, and consider environmental conditions originating outside the organization.
Environmental Objectives – identify key performance indicators for each environmental objective against which performance can be evaluated.
In Version 201X, Section 7 "Support" includes sections entitled Resources, Competence, Awareness, Communication and Documented Information. While the requirements are generally the same as found in ISO 14001:2004, there are some proposed additional requirements in Communication. First, the organization is required to develop a communication strategy. Second, there is a new section External Communication and Reporting that requires a procedure associated with external reporting. Some wording in the Working Draft 3 version is a bit concerning, as "data and information communicated externally shall be truthful and not misleading" and external communication regarding environmental performance shall be "complete, accurate, transparent and reliable…" The concern is not with the intent of the selected wording, but with the evidence that auditors may request to demonstrate conformance to the standard.
In Version 201X, Section 8 "Operations" includes two sections similar to those in ISO 14001:2004: operational planning and control, and emergency preparedness and response. Section 8 adds two new sections to the requirements: design and procurement. These new sections expand the requirements associated with integrating EMS into the design and procurement processes.
In Version 201X, Section 9 "Monitoring, Measurement, Analysis and Evaluation" includes requirements similar to ISO 14001:2004 contained in the following elements: monitoring and measurement, evaluation of compliance, internal audit and management review. There do not appear to be any significant new requirements included in these sections.
In Version 201X, Section 10 "Continual Improvement" includes nonconformity and corrective action and a new section entitled "continual improvement." This new section brings added support to demonstrating continual improvement in environmental performance.
There is considerable fear among US TAG members regarding the specific words used in the standard and the objective evidence required by a registrar auditor when performing a registration audit. The wording used in the Working Draft 3 version of the standard supports this fear. While the intent of the revisions can be supported by most environmental professionals, the specific wording may be interpreted differently by auditors seeking objective evidence to demonstrate conformance to the standard.
The standard is still some distance from being in final form, and there are numerous changes that can be expected. A public draft version is planned for later this year (2013), and the planned date to issue the final standard is early 2015. Once the final version is published, ISO will announce a transition schedule for those organizations registered to ISO 14001:2004. Past major revisions have allowed for up to 24 months for the transition to the new standard; plan some time and effort to transition your environmental management system to the revised standard.
One other action that any organization can take is to volunteer your time to support the US TAG to revise the ISO 14001 standard. The US TAG is always seeking the perspective of industry, consulting and public organizations, and your involvement can help shape the future ISO standard.
Terry A. Mors, QEP, is a Senior Consultant in the Holland, Michigan office of Environmental Resources Management (ERM). He has more than 32 years of experience providing EHS support for clients in the automotive, chemical, electronics, metals, mining, and service industries. Mr. Mors is Qualified Environmental Professional, RABQSA Lead ISO14001 Auditor, RABQSA Lead Responsible Care Auditor, RABQSA Lead ISO9001 Auditor, and a member of the US Technical Advisory Group to TC 207. He conducts management system audits, works with senior management to improve company performance, and provides training, including implementation training, internal auditor training, problem solving training, and other organization-specific training. Mr. Mors' management systems experience includes EHS and quality standards (e.g., ISO 14001, RCMS and RC14001, ISO 9001, ISO/TS 16949, and OHSAS 18001).
Photograph: Fern by Piotr Menducki, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Świętokrzyski, Poland.
I do not totally agree with statement that "going green cost money". Will you get rich if you are green? No probably not. But there is a misconception in organizations that going green hurts the bottom line, and I would challenge that philosophy. I work for a company that saves on the average of 1.2 to 3 million dollars annually by "being green". Step #1 – tell your suppliers to get on board. Whatever they send to you, along their product, is yours to get rid off. Reduce or eliminate it, and that is one less thing you have to deal with. I do agree that there is more of a challenge for smaller businesses, but that does not mean that the opportunities are any smaller.
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The concept of probability is not as simple as you think
The gambler, the quantum physicist and the juror all reason about probabilities: the probability of winning, of a radioactive atom decaying, of a defendant's guilt. But despite their ubiquity, experts dispute just what probabilities are. This leads to disagreements on how to reason about, and with, probabilities – disagreements that our cognitive biases can exacerbate, such as our tendency to ignore evidence that runs counter to a hypothesis we favour. Clarifying the nature of probability, then, can help to improve our reasoning.
Three popular theories analyse probabilities as either frequencies, propensities or degrees of belief. Suppose I tell you that a coin has a 50 per cent probability of landing heads up. These theories, respectively, say that this is:
The frequency with which that coin lands heads;
The propensity, or tendency, that the coin's physical characteristics give it to land heads;
How confident I am that it lands heads.
But each of these interpretations faces problems. Consider the following case:
Adam flips a fair coin that self-destructs after being tossed four times. Adam's friends Beth, Charles and Dave are present, but blindfolded. After the fourth flip, Beth says: 'The probability that the coin landed heads the first time is 50 per cent.'
Adam then tells his friends that the coin landed heads three times out of four. Charles says: 'The probability that the coin landed heads the first time is 75 per cent.'
Dave, despite having the same information as Charles, says: 'I disagree. The probability that the coin landed heads the first time is 60 per cent.'
The frequency interpretation struggles with Beth's assertion. The frequency with which the coin lands heads is three out of four, and it can never be tossed again. Still, it seems that Beth was right: the probability that the coin landed heads the first time is 50 per cent.
Meanwhile, the propensity interpretation falters on Charles's assertion. Since the coin is fair, it had an equal propensity to land heads or tails. Yet Charles also seems right to say that the probability that the coin landed heads the first time is 75 per cent.
The confidence interpretation makes sense of the first two assertions, holding that they express Beth and Charles's confidence that the coin landed heads. But consider Dave's assertion. When Dave says that the probability that the coin landed heads is 60 per cent, he says something false. But if Dave really is 60 per cent confident that the coin landed heads, then on the confidence interpretation, he has said something true – he has truly reported how certain he is.
Some philosophers think that such cases support a pluralistic approach in which there are multiple kinds of probabilities. My own view is that we should adopt a fourth interpretation – a degree-of-support interpretation.
Here, probabilities are understood as relations of evidential support between propositions. 'The probability of X given Y' is the degree to which Y supports the truth of X. When we speak of 'the probability of X' on its own, this is shorthand for the probability of X conditional on any background information we have. When Beth says that there is a 50 per cent probability that the coin landed heads, she means that this is the probability that it lands heads conditional on the information that it was tossed and some information about its construction (for example, it being symmetrical).
Relative to different information, however, the proposition that the coin landed heads has a different probability. When Charles says that there is a 75 per cent probability that the coin landed heads, he means this is the probability that it landed heads relative to the information that three of four tosses landed heads. Meanwhile, Dave says there is a 60 per cent probability that the coin landed heads, relative to this same information – but since this information in fact supports heads more strongly than 60 per cent, what Dave says is false.
The degree-of-support interpretation incorporates what's right about each of our first three approaches while correcting their problems. It captures the connection between probabilities and degrees of confidence. It does this not by identifying them – instead, it takes degrees of belief to be rationally constrained by degrees of support. The reason I should be 50 per cent confident that a coin lands heads, if all I know about it is that it is symmetrical, is because this is the degree to which my evidence supports this hypothesis.
Similarly, the degree-of-support interpretation allows the information that the coin landed heads with a 75 per cent frequency to make it 75 per cent probable that it landed heads on any particular toss. It captures the connection between frequencies and probabilities but, unlike the frequency interpretation, it denies that frequencies and probabilities are the same thing. Instead, probabilities sometimes relate claims about frequencies to claims about specific individuals.
Finally, the degree-of-support interpretation analyses the propensity of the coin to land heads as a relation between, on the one hand, propositions about the construction of the coin and, on the other, the proposition that it lands heads. That is, it concerns the degree to which the coin's construction predicts the coin's behaviour. More generally, propensities link claims about causes and claims about effects – eg, a description of an atom's intrinsic characteristics and the hypothesis that it decays.
Because they turn probabilities into different kinds of entities, our four theories offer divergent advice on how to figure out the values of probabilities. The first three interpretations (frequency, propensity and confidence) try to make probabilities things we can observe – through counting, experimentation or introspection. By contrast, degrees of support seem to be what philosophers call 'abstract entities' – neither in the world nor in our minds. While we know that a coin is symmetrical by observation, we know that the proposition 'this coin is symmetrical' supports the propositions 'this coin lands heads' and 'this coin lands tails' to equal degrees in the same way we know that 'this coin lands heads' entails 'this coin lands heads or tails': by thinking.
But a skeptic might point out that coin tosses are easy. Suppose we're on a jury. How are we supposed to figure out the probability that the defendant committed the murder, so as to see whether there can be reasonable doubt about his guilt?
Answer: think more. First, ask: what is our evidence? What we want to figure out is how strongly this evidence supports the hypothesis that the defendant is guilty. Perhaps our salient evidence is that the defendant's fingerprints are on the gun used to kill the victim.
Then, ask: can we use the mathematical rules of probability to break down the probability of our hypothesis in light of the evidence into more tractable probabilities? Here we are concerned with the probability of a cause (the defendant committing the murder) given an effect (his fingerprints being on the murder weapon). Bayes's theorem lets us calculate this as a function of three further probabilities: the prior probability of the cause, the probability of the effect given this cause, and the probability of the effect without this cause.
Since this is all relative to any background information we have, the first probability (of the cause) is informed by what we know about the defendant's motives, means and opportunity. We can get a handle on the third probability (of the effect without the cause) by breaking down the possibility that the defendant is innocent into other possible causes of the victim's death, and asking how probable each is, and how probable they make it that the defendant's fingerprints would be on the gun. We will eventually reach probabilities that we cannot break down any further. At this point, we might search for general principles to guide our assignments of probabilities, or we might rely on intuitive judgments, as we do in the coin cases.
When we are reasoning about criminals rather than coins, this process is unlikely to lead to convergence on precise probabilities. But there's no alternative. We can't resolve disagreements about how much the information we possess supports a hypothesis just by gathering more information. Instead, we can make progress only by way of philosophical reflection on the space of possibilities, the information we have, and how strongly it supports some possibilities over others.
Nevin Climenhaga
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Q: Additional blank information being sent when printing HTML forms to file/email I am trying to create a HTML form in which users can fill in their information and submit it. The information should then be printed to a text file (or email). The script works, however, after a successful submission, it will send from 2-6 additional blank forms to the text file or email. I don't believe it's a problem with my code, but here it is:
The HTML form:

Physician Information

<form action="Success.php" method="POST">

 Name: <input type="text" name="name" size="30"/>

 Email: <input type="text" name="email" size="30"/>

 Gender: <input type="radio" name="gender" value="Male"/>Male <input type="radio" name="gender" value="Female"/>Female

 Job: <input type="radio" name="job" value="Physician"/>Physician <input type="radio" name="job" value="Nurse"/>Nurse

State: <select name="state">
<option value="New York">New York</option>
<option value="California">California</option>
<option value="Washington">Washington</option>
<option value="Illinois">Illinois</option>
</select>

Language:  <select name="language">
<option value="Chinese">Chinese</option>
<option value="Korean">Korean</option>
<option value="Vietnamese">Vietnamese</option>
</select>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/>

And the PHP script:
<?PHP
$Name=$_POST['name'];
$Email=$_POST['email'];
$Gender=$_POST['gender'];
$Job=$_POST['job'];
$State=$_POST['state'];
$Language=$_POST['language'];
$File="Database.html";
$Data= "$Name, $Email, $Gender, $Job, $State, $Language";
file_put_contents($File, $Data . PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);
echo "Submission successful. Thank you!";
?>

The output should look something like this:
Name1, Email@email.com, Male, Physician, California, Korean
Name2, Email@email.com, Male, Physician, New York, Chinese
Name3,Email@email.com, Male, Physician, New York, Vietnamese

Instead it looks like this:
Name1, Email@email.com, Male, Physician, California, Korean,,,,,,,,,,,Name2, Email@email.com, Male, Physician, New York, Chinese,,,,,,,,,,Name3,Email@email.com, Male, Physician, New York, Vietnamese,,,,,,,,,,

If I send it via email using the mail() function, it will do the same thing, except it will send one email with the information filled in, followed by two to six blank emails with no information.
Is this a problem with the code or could it be caused by some other source?


Does anyone have experience with BWM paints? What is your impression vs Interlux or Petit?
Re: Blue Water Marine paints?
I believe Yooper, a member on this forum, has used Blue Water paints and was happy with them.


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