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New Sites Aim to Help Pick Best Ed-Tech Tools
Goal is for smarter and faster decisions
By Michele Molnar
Educators struggling to choose the best technology products face a mind-boggling array of decisions, a challenge that is spawning a growing number of ed-tech product-review sites.
Such sites—sometimes compared to Consumer Reports, Angie's List, or CNET in how they use ratings and recommendations to evaluate educational technology—are now operating or are launching soon, with educators themselves assigning the grades.
The effectiveness of such review sites is still a big question mark. But their existence comes at a critical time, as schools face a multitude of decisions about laptops, tablets, smartphones, digital curricula, video, apps, and other technologies.
Quicker Searches
About one-third of teachers spend an hour or more each week searching for educational technology they can use in their classrooms, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Common Sense Media, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that focuses on children and media issues.
The same survey found that 92 percent of the 764 teachers who responded would like to use more educational technology in the classroom, but—on a weekly basis—only 19 percent use subject-specific digital-content tools, and only 14 percent use digital curricula.
Into that void step a number of websites that seek to help educators make smarter and faster choices—including edshelf, Graphite, PowerMyLearning, and emerging sites like EduStar (based on PowerMyLearning) and Learning List.
Intelligence Gathering
The effectiveness of review sites is still a big question mark, but they are emerging at a critical time for students.
Graphite.org
Creator: Common Sense Media
Purpose: To help educators find the best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula rated for learning
How it works: Graphite reviewers base their ratings on a rubric that evaluates the learning potential of ed-tech products. Teachers can enter their own "Field Notes" about how best to use the technology in a K-12 classroom, and create Pinterest-type boards of their top picks to share with peers. Users can search by type (apps, websites, etc.), subjects, grades, and price. A blog offer pointers, like how to find the best math apps aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
Launched: 2013
eduClipper.net
Creator: Adam Bellow, educator and education technologist
Purpose: To give educators and students a social learning platform into which they can "clip anything, share everything"
How it works: Often likened to Pinterest, eduClipper gives educators and students a site where content can be saved and added to a clipboard to share. It can be sorted by websites, documents, videos, and images. The site relies on social curation and personal sharing of resources, projects, and content to enhance what users create and/or contribute. eduClipper allows teachers to differentiate instruction and for students to create personal learning portfolios with examples of their work.
edshelf.com
Creator: Mike Lee, internet entrepreneur and former software developer
Purpose: To help teachers find the right educational tools for their needs
How it works: Educators can recommend what works in the classroom. Using a "star" system, they assign ratings based on learning curve, pedagogical effectiveness, and student engagement. Teachers can also compile collections of tools and share them with colleagues and students.
PowerMyLearning.org
Creator: CFY, a national education nonprofit
Purpose: To take the work—and guesswork—out of finding and using K-12 digital learning activities.
How it works: A team of educators curated thousands of academic games, videos, and interactive software, tagging them by subject, grade, Common Core State Standard, and more. Users can search, browse and filter to find content, then create "playlists." Reporting features help differentiate instruction and support learning in and out of school.
The only one of those sites that will charge for access is Learning List, which provides in-depth analysis of digital and print educational resources and their alignment with the Common Core State Standards.
PowerMyLearning, features free digital resources that have been reviewed, tagged, and verified for compliance with common core alignment by educators who are using digital learning to implement the common core in their classrooms.
Jami Domeny, a 5th grade teacher at Lime Creek Elementary School in Kansas City, Mo., learned about Graphite when she attended the International Society for Technology in Education conference this summer in San Antonio.
"As a 21st-century educator, there are just so many resources out there," she said. "I will definitely use it throughout the year."
"What I've appreciated about Graphite is that it's helped me narrow the search," said Ms. Domeny.
Graphite was created by Common Sense Media, whose resources on digital citizenship she also uses to teach in her classroom, where each student has a laptop provided by the school to use for learning every day. On Graphite, a team of professional educators vets the tools featured, and classroom teachers who use the products can weigh in as well.
Ms. Domeny provided two "field notes," or her own evaluations for Evernote, an organizational tool that creates a digital notebook, and Edmodo, a platform that allows teachers and students to collaborate on classroom work, after learning that Graphite was offering a $25 Amazon gift card for teachers who completed two such reviews this summer during its beta test.
While Graphite is review-centered, edshelf wants to be considered "more of a discovery engine," said Mike Lee, a former software developer who is the company's co-founder and CEO. Teachers will find a curated list of free resources, ranked by "meaningful use or behavior" data programmed into the site. As teachers create collections, for instance, their selections are scored as part of rankings.
Edshelf is now used by educators in 4,000 school districts, and Mr. Lee has been invited to present at conferences this fall to introduce it to more schools.
Lack of Awareness
Indeed, an ongoing challenge for the companies and nonprofits creating and running such review sites is simply making educators aware they exist and then getting educators to take test drives on the sites.
Joel Malley, a 9th grade English teacher at Cheektowaga Central High School near Buffalo, N.Y., has been using educational technology in his classroom since 2002, when he began using iMovie for digital film projects. Yet until Education Week contacted him recently, he had not heard of any of the review sites, but plans to give Graphite a try now.
"The way I decide on using technology in my classroom is by hearing about things on my personal learning network—word of mouth, so to speak. I hear about tools on Twitter, at conferences, from colleagues, on Facebook … then decide if they fit my kids' needs," he said. "If I see it filling a niche, I'll check it out. If I think it will be easy to integrate and worthwhile, I take the plunge."
Maps to Curriculum
This school year, two levels of educational technology are particularly worth evaluating: the apps a teacher might use in the classroom and what schools will want to adopt as part of their curricula, said Karen Billings, the vice president for education at the Software & Information Industry Association.
"There's a need for leaders at the district level to see how [a curriculum solution] maps to their framework and standards," she said.
One company working to address that need is Learning List, whose online library of professional reviews draws from educators trained to verify—or rebut—publishers' claims about their alignments with the common-core standards. The publishers themselves can comment on how educators have assessed their products.
After starting with math and English/language arts, the subjects covered by the Common Core State Standards, the company is moving to the separate Next Generation Science Standards, said Jacqueline Lain, Learning List's founder and president.
It will also align reviewed materials to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills standards.
"What they're trying to do is a noble goal, because I do believe that teachers have an overwhelming number of choices in the marketplace."
Rob Mancabelli
CEO, Bright Bytes Inc.
The company, which is subscription-based, charges $75 for an individual, and has a sliding scale beginning at $195 for districts.
Another review project under development is EduStar, which will conduct online rapid-randomized-controlled trials of digital learning activities with students via New York City-based CFY's PowerMyLearning.org platform. CFY, a national educational nonprofit, was founded as Computers for Youth, but later abandoned that name as too hardware-focused and limiting. A research advisory board of experts in psychometrics, research design, and economics has developed the methodologies that will be used for EduStar, and prototype trials are expected to begin this fall.
"Random-control trials cost $2 million and take a minimum of two years now," said Elisabeth Stock, CFY's founder and CEO. "To do a random-control trial [this way] would be much faster. It might be two weeks long, you could see the results, and repeat it again."
Evaluation results will be made widely available online in a format that educators will find easy to understand, according to Ms. Stock.
CFY and the organization's collaborators are waiting for another round of funding to advance the project, which is a team effort with former White House economists Benjamin Jones, an associate professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and Aaron Chatterji, an associate professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
'The Gold Standard'
As the review sites evolve, observers are watching to see which will emerge as the "go to" resources for educators making decisions about technology tools.
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"What they're trying to do is a noble goal, because I do believe that teachers have an overwhelming number of choices in the marketplace," said Rob Mancabelli, the co-founder and CEO of BrightBytes Inc., a San Francisco-based learning-analytics company.
"One of the things the review sites need to do better is to base the reviews on data," he said—for instance, matching a student's areas of deficiency with technology proven to address those shortcomings.
Mr. Chatterji, who is working on EduStar, agrees with the need for more data.
"We're all chasing after the same North Star, which is to raise educational outcomes with technology," he said. "In the ecosystem of [review-site] players, the gold standard is evidence."
Coverage of entrepreneurship and innovation in education and school design is supported in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Education Week retains sole editorial control over the content of this coverage.
Vol. 33, Issue 02, Pages 12-13
Published in Print: August 28, 2013, as New Sites Designed to Help Choose Best Ed-Tech Tools
"Q&A: Bill Gates on Teaching, Ed Tech, and Philanthropy," (Digital Education Blog) Aug. 16, 2013.
"Can Ed-Tech Companies Survive Marketing Only to Teachers?," (Marketplace K-12 Blog) Dec. 6, 2012.
"New Tools Seek to Evaluate Ed-Tech Products," October 17, 2012.


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Corporal Damian Mulvihill died whilst taking part in a joint ISAF - ANA patrol engaged in operations near Sangin. The marines of Alpha Company were conducting a clearance patrol to deter Taliban intimidation of local Afghans. It was during this action that an Improvised Explosive Device was detonated, which sadly killed Corporal Mulvihill instantly. He died leading his section and the Company from the front.
Damian Mulvihill joined the Royal Marines on 20 September 1998 and completed commando training despite contracting septicaemia towards the end. After passing out of recruit training, 'Dee' joined 42 Commando Royal Marines where he took part in numerous deployments around the world as well as taking part in OP Palliser and OP Silkman in Sierra Leone and OP Banner in Northern Ireland.
During his time at 42 Commando he was promoted to Lance Corporal. He then joined Air Defence Troop in 2002 and completed his specialist training before being promoted to Corporal in December 2003. On completion of his service with the United Kingdom Landing Force Command Support Group, based at Stonehouse Barracks in his home town of Plymouth, he joined Alpha Company, 40 Commando Royal Marines in April 2006.
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Last September, under x-ray assault, the rapid implosion of a plastic shell into icy isotopes of hydrogen produced fusion at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF). This wasn't just a run-of-the-mill fusion reaction: it was the first one NIF has ever produced wherein the fuel released more energy than it absorbed.
"This is closer than anyone's gotten before" to self-sustaining energy, Hurricane says. Yet scientists still have a lot of work to do. Although the fuel pellet yielded 17,000 joules of energy, the entire fusion experiment fell far short of breaking even. The NIF experiment required more energy to run than it generated; feeding the lasers alone required a burst of at least 190 million joules.* Doing better than breaking even—or "ignition," as the NIF folks put it—will require even more extreme pressures and other conditions. A source of nearly unlimited, clean energy is still decades away.
*Correction (7/31/14): This sentence was changed after posting from the original print version, which erroneously stated the amount of energy necessary to feed the lasers.


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Brisbane, January 6
Japan's Kei Nishikori and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus continued their Australian Open preparations by swiftly marching through to the quarter finals of the Brisbane International on Wednesday.
Nishikori cruised past Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 6-4 on Pat Rafter Arena before twice Australian Open champion Azarenka dispatched Belgian lucky loser Ysaline Bonaventure 6-3, 6-2. Azarenka battled with her serve early in the first set against the young Belgian, who played valiantly after stepping in for world number two Simona Halep, who pulled out with an Achilles problem.
Azarenka, currently ranked 22 in the world, served seven double faults and lost her opening service game but broke back in a marathon fourth game to take control of the contest as her novice opponent faded. The Belarusian whizzed through the second set in just over half an hour and sealed victory on her first match point when Bonaventure sent a forehand return long. Azarenka will next play US Open finalist Roberta Vinci of Italy for a place in the semi-finals.
Nishikori also reached the final of the New York grand slam in 2014 and his game looks suited to the hot and fast conditions likely to await the players in Melbourne when the year's first major gets underway on January 18. The Japanese second seed needed only 90 minutes to brush past Kukushkin. In day's another encounter, home hope Bernard Tomic beat Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic 7-6 (8/6), 4-6, 7-6 (7/4).
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos echoed a sentiment expressed by President Donald Trump about the need to address mental health issues, and noted that the suspect in the shooting, Nikolas Cruz, "put up lots and lots of signals and warning signs."
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By Erica L. Green, New York Times
A chorus of Democratic lawmakers have joined Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in calling for Congress to act after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
In a letter Friday, all 17 Democrats on the House Education Committee urged Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., the committee's chairwoman, to convene hearings on school shootings, describing them as a "public health epidemic." The panel has not addressed the issue since February 2013 — two months after a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut left 20 first-graders and six adults dead, they said.
"Wednesday's preventable tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, resulted in the deaths of at least 17 students and faculty," the letter said. "Sadly, since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School five years ago, more than 430 people have been shot in over 230 school shootings."
The letter adds pressure on Congress to address the pervasiveness of school shootings across the country, an issue DeVos raised during an interview Thursday with the conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
"Congress needs to be holding hearings on these issues," DeVos said, adding: "We've seen, you know, lots of finger pointing back and forth. But we need to have a conversation at the level where lawmakers can actually impact the future, because going back to and putting myself in the seat of one of those families impacted, one of these shootings is one too many. And we have got to have ...(Continued on next page)
an honest conversation, and Congress has to lead on this. It's their job."
Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Senate Education Committee, said she "wholeheartedly" agreed with the suggestion and invited DeVos to testify.
"Families across the country are tired of waiting for Congress to step up, have the tough conversations, and adopt common sense gun safety and other policies to end this scourge in our schools and communities," Murray said in a statement.
Asked whether she believed teachers should be allowed and trained to carry weapons, DeVos said only that it was "an important issue for all states to grapple with and to tackle," and that it "needs to be part of the broader, more robust conversation about how can we avoid these things in the future."
DeVos did not say whether her department would encourage superintendents to work with law enforcement to identify troubled students. But she echoed a sentiment expressed by President Donald Trump about the need to address mental health issues, and noted that the suspect in the shooting, Nikolas Cruz, "put up lots and lots of signals and warning signs."
The Education Department has not indicated whether DeVos would visit Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
In April, she made an unannounced visit to San Bernardino, California, shortly after a shooting at North Park Elementary School left one student injured and another student and special education teacher dead.
That same day, Trump delivered an address at the annual convention for the National Rifle Association, which provided at least $30 million in support during his presidential campaign.


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An important component of technical analysis is price patterns.
The easiest way to understand price patterns is probably to start with an explanation of trade action.
Every day investors, traders, professional and institutional as well as private individuals all buy and sell securities on the exchange.
The numerous types of market participants are buying or selling for their own unique reasons, with their own unique views, ideas and beliefs around what the securities they are trading are worth.
The meeting point of buyers and sellers, for whatever reason they are acting, is price.
No trades can take place unless both the buyer and the seller agree on a price.
This drives the price of securities… buyers bring with them demand for a security while sellers bring supply.
The market runs like a continuous auction throughout the day, with buyers and sellers competing with each other to get the best possible price.
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Now, FirstRand only really trades an average of 5m shares a day, so the fund will have to buy three days' worth of trading volume in order to fill its order.
If they had to try and buy that number of shares in just one day, it would represent a huge amount of demand and undoubtedly drive the price significantly higher.
The same would happen if they tried to do it over three days, as they would have to be the buyer to every seller and therefore compete for the best price.
In doing so, they'll drive the price significantly higher.
Their objective is to get the best price possible for the purchase of the shares, but also to complete the purchase of the shares in ten trading days.
As much as they don't want to 'show their hand' to the market, they still need to be aggressive buyers in order to buy 15m shares in ten trading sessions.
They decide to step in and buy whenever the share price comes down from a dip.
They'll then continue buying until they find a large seller, at which point they stop buying and allow the stock price to dip again.
This process is to be repeated until they have all the shares they need.
Buying will become more aggressive as they move closer to their ten-trading day deadline.
Simultaneous to this buying process, let's suppose that Balanced Fund B is looking to sell 7m FirstRand shares over the same period.
They too want the best possible price for their stock but have decided to be more patient and not accept a cent less than the price they want.
They wait until the price comes up to the level they are willing to sell at and then only sell at that price.
The more people are willing to buy at their price, the more they are willing to sell.
Now we have a situation where on the buy side of the market a participant is aggressively buying up stock when the price dips, facing off against a participant who is standing their ground and selling only at a specific level.
Over time, say a week-and-a-half, a price pattern has emerged.
Consecutive higher lows, with consecutive highs at the same level.
Also known as a flat top triangle.
Eventually, Balanced Fund B has sold all they have to sell, but Balanced Fund A still needs stock and they need it fast because their deadline is looming.
So, when the overhead supply dries up, there are no sellers left to keep price down.
But Balanced Fund A still needs to aggressively buy stock.
The formation breaks and price moves rapidly higher, with the large buyer being forced to pay up for stock.
Scenarios like the fictional one above play out in the market almost constantly.
That is the very nature of the market and the driving force behind longer-term price trends.
Large institutional investors take views and drive prices for days, weeks, or months at a time, employing all sorts of tactics to attract buyers or sellers to a specific level so that they can transact and take positions.
This, coupled with herd mentality and the interaction of millions of different participants for as many reasons, forms price movement patterns that stretch over extended periods of time and can be used to make probabilistic forecasts on where price might move in future.
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The window farm towers are made out of recycled materials and attached to bamboo sticks. The conserve electricity, a single, low-wattage battery pump has been used.
February 25, 2015 / Volume XXXVII / Issue 2
There is a new addition to the Four Winds that offers fresh, campus-grown produce. Standing in the back corner of the patio are two window farm towers. These hydroponic vertical gardeners were constructed in January as part of the Permaculture Independent Study Project (ISP).
Permaculture ISP was conducted mainly on Caples Campus and utilized the student garden there in order to practice permaculture techniques. The permaculture movement, founded in the 1970s by David Holmgren and Bill Mollision, focuses on the idea of sustainable agriculture. Gardening TA and thesis student Hannah Gilbert, who taught Permaculture ISP, has been working on implementing a variety of gardening forms in the Caples garden.
Some of the projects that were built this past January demonstrate urban gardening methods. The window-farm, built by first-years Ava Howard and Jenna Molen, is one of those projects. Urban gardening focuses on maximizing gardening space, working with available land, repurposing items that would otherwise be considered trash and planting in areas that have little or no soil. The window farm fits all of these criteria.
"Recycled water bottles are used as containers for plants and they're watered hydroponically," Howard said. "They're meant for basically an urban environment, hanging from a window or wherever it fits, and it fits pretty well most places. It's powered by an aquarium pump."
Window farms are nicknamed such after the company that began developing and producing them, Windowfarms. The project became popularized through an international online community that worked to develop sustainable urban agricultural techniques.
"Our TA, Hannah, showed us a project that was started in Brooklyn," Howard said. "The lady who started it did a TED talk on it. Basically it seemed like a really cool design. They produced an open source set of instructions. I'm really interested in urban gardening and urban sustainability. Jenna and I just agreed that it would be a good project for us so we could expand gardening away from just Caples."
The plants are grown mostly in clay, and an aquarium pump is set to feed a mix of water and nutrients to the plants at specific time intervals. Howard is still working on perfecting the system. She checks on the towers frequently. Soon, she believes, a sustainable system will be reached that can be spread across campus.
The window farm's vertical, no-soil design supports indoor gardening. This type of garden would produce fresh produce for most of the year with little time commitment: a college student's dream.
"I think that the window farms are awesome," thesis student and Four Winds employee Ganga Devi Braun said. "It would be great to cover the entire window on the porch with them."
One tower is currently growing kale, cilantro and mint. The other holds arugula and garden bean seedlings.
According to Howard, making the towers is a simple process once all the supplies are acquired. There is a strong online community that frequently offers advice.
"Building it we came up with a lot of problems, which makes sense since we were building our own plumbing. There was a lot of water all over the floor. We tweaked the design to make it fit for New College, so all of the problems that we had were basically like troubleshooting," Howard said. "We ended up just changing the design completely because of those issues. But overall, it was a pretty smooth process. None of the problems were too big."
In the future, Howard and others are looking to spread green projects like these across campus. Pei campus is the site of serious consideration, given that it houses the majority of students and has less available room for garden plots.
"The Pei side of campus could avoid a lot of the logistical and bureaucratic issues that come with trying to make garden plots by using urban gardening techniques," Gilbert said in an email interview. "Since the Pei side is essentially a high-density tiny 'city', it makes sense to incorporate those techniques, and then more food could be grown by students for students."
Information obtained from http://www.windowfarms.com/about-us


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Underwater Robotics Class for 6th - 8th Grade Students!
posted Jan 4, 2017, 12:33 PM by Stephen Schmidt [ updated Jan 4, 2017, 12:33 PM ]
Horace Mann Middle School 3 - 4:15pm Wednesdays, January 18 - February 22.
Please pass this on to any friends and families who might be interested. More details below...
This after school enrichment program introduces students to the engineering and science of Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROVs). Students work in teams to perform a science experiment, build a virtual ROV and real ROV frame, learn to solder a practice control board, and complete a mission. Watch the video linked below to see an ROV built by Wausau students in action at a competition.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBajaE-_8tk
I. ROV Basics
II. Engineering & Design
III. Sea Trials (pool)
IV. Circuitry & Soldering
V. Complete Soldering Project & ROV Frame
VI. Complete a mission
The program is open to any middle school aged student who lives in the Wausau School District.
Contact sschmidt@snapshotscience.org for more information or to register, complete the permission slip below, print, and deliver or mail to Zoe Morning at Horace Mann Middle School.
UnderwaterRoboticsPermissionSlip.pdf
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Are charter schools and district schools funded equally?
IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE. While charter schools do receive state funding, unlike district schools, charters do not have access to local property tax funds. Even when a parent transfers their child to a charter school, the local property tax dollars stay with the district school.
Currently, charter schools receive about $7,500 per student. However, because the district schools receives both state funds AND local property taxes they benefit with significantly more funding per student.
For Ohio to underfund charter schools that exist solely to educate poor children and then give it to districts that, in some cases, are overfunded by double or triple the amount provided to charters - is inexcusable!


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Clarets Chasing Liverpool & England Midfielder
Posted on May 27, 2020 by chadwig3
Clarets Join Race to Sign Liverpool Midfielder Adam Lallana
Burnley Football Club are the latest club to join the race for Liverpool's Adam Lallana as Sean Dyche bids to convince the midfielder to make the move to Turf Moor. Lallana, will be one of a number of Premier League players to sign extensions to their contracts in the coming weeks as his current deal with the Reds will run out on the 30th June.
However he will stay on until the end of the campaign in order to almost certainly pick up a Premier League winners' medal, as the Reds stand just two wins away from lifting a first top flight league title in 30 years. There remains the possibility that Lallana could stay on at Liverpool for the 2020/21 season, but the former Southampton man seems certain to move on in search of more regular first-team football elsewhere in the Premier League.
Leicester City are at the head of the queue to bring in Lallana as boss Brendan Rodgers hopes to team up with the midfielder he signed for Liverpool back in 2014. The Foxes could have the added bonus of Champions League football next season and remain the favourites to lure the 34-times capped England midfielder to the King Power Stadium.
London trio Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham United are also in the pack of clubs hoping to sign Lallana and they have now been joined by Dyche's ambitious Burnley. He joined the Reds from Southampton for £25million in the summer of 2014, and was a regular in his first three seasons at the club until injury issues began to strike.
However he has made more appearances in the current season than in either of the last two season's and scored a crucial equaliser for the Reds in a 1-1 draw against Manchester United at Old Trafford in October. So the former Englnd International may be content to play a minor role with the Premier League Champions for another season.
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This training course is designed for people who work in or around confined spaces. Participants will learn to complete risk assessments and work permits for confined space operations. They will also learn to operate and identify a large range of safety equipment.
Confined Space Entry training courses are designed to teach participants how to identify and work safely in a confined space. This training course is designed for people who work in or around confined spaces. Participants will learn to complete risk assessments and work permits for confined space operations. They will also learn to operate and identify a large range of safety equipment.
This course can be tailored to suit your company's specific training requirements. Breathing Apparatus training can also be completed in conjunction with this training course. This course has a large focus on safety procedures and practical scenarios relevant to your company's confined space operations. An annual Confined Space refresher training course is also offered.
Classes run over 2 days (without BA) from 8:30am to 4:00pm. All students are required to be present 15 minutes before course commencement time. Late arrivals may be refused from the course as a failure to attend. Training occurs at Eagle Training Services training facilities located in Alice Springs. Participants undertake the course in comfortable, air-conditioned classrooms with the latest IT and audiovisual capabilities. Students are supported through the provision of high quality learning materials and resources.
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Lucius Merriweather's Most Agreeable Games of 2014
Lucius P. Merriweather 20 December 2014 Best-of Lists
Blimey, is it that time of year already? 2014 has flown by for me, mostly thanks to lots of travelling and working in various places, culminating in a move from London to Edinburgh at the end of the year. All that to-ing and fro-ing left me with very little time to play this year's video games in the end. And when I have had time to play games, I've mostly been attempting to whittle down my games backlog – this year I finally got to the end of the Mass Effect trilogy and caught up with a ton of great 3DS games, as well as sinking dozens of hours into Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, a game I'm still hooked on a year and a half after its release.
But having said that, 2014's harvest of games has left a little to be desired, certainly compared with last year's bumper crop. I've still yet to buy a PS4 or Xbox One, but there's not a lot out there to tempt me right now. Most of the handful of 2014 games that have peaked my interest are still available on the Xbox 360 and PS3, and many of the big hitters for the PS4 and Xbox One have been delayed to 2015. Then there's the fact that a whole litter of AAA games have met with mixed receptions, or have even been released in an embarrassingly broken state – Assassin's Creed: Unity, DriveClub and Halo: The Master Chief Collection to name a few. Perhaps the biggest success story of the year is Nintendo, which is rather surprising considering the poor state in which it began 2014. With a slew of brilliant new games under its belt (Mario Kart 8 and Smash Brothers to name two), a fantastic E3 presentation and a rock-solid reputation for quality, bugless releases, Nintendo has ended the year on a high. I'm even thinking about buying an Amiibo. [Update: I finally caved in and bought one – Link, natch. Although a few others are tempting, too…] [Update 2: OK, I bought Marth as well. I mean come on, it's Marth!]
The Best Games of 2014 That I Actually Played
Undoubtedly the best Mario Kart game ever. This was one of a handful of games I've rushed out to buy on day one, and it's barely left my Wii U since I bought it. The track design is amazing (particularly Mount Wario), the music is sublime and it looks simply stunning. Plus the DLC was reasonably priced and actually offered a lot of extra content, not least of which was the ability to play as Link – Nintendo showing other companies how DLC SHOULD be done.
Flippin' hilarious – I haven't laughed so much while playing a game since Monkey Island back in the nineties. If you're at all a fan of South Park, you need to play this game – it's one of those rare TV tie-in games that's actually good. Very good in fact. Some criticised it for being short for an RPG, but after finishing the Mass Effect trilogy this year, I was crying out for a game of manageable length for people who, you know, have to work for a living.
When I got my iPhone a few years back, I played through dozens of mobile games. But over the last year or two, my mobile gaming has dwindled to nothing with the realisation that most games on offer are either incredibly repetitive and shallow or have dreadful controls that don't really work on a touch screen. Oh, and they try to get you to buy things every five flippin' minutes. But Threes isn't like that – there's no hard sell, just wonderfully deep strategy that's also perfect for playing in short periods. So there are good games on mobile after all…
The Best Games of 2014 That I Would Have Played If I'd Had The Time
This one is winging its way to me as we speak – a little Christmas present to myself. I love the idea of the game – recreating the 1970s sci-fi feel of the original Alien film but with an unpredictable AI xenomorph that's constantly hunting you. The idea of being hunted by an unstoppable monster has cropped up a handful of times in gaming – 3D Monster Maze on the Spectrum was probably the first one to do it – but the idea of merging that mechanic with the Alien universe was genius.
As Sir Gaulian said on his list, this one took many people by surprise by actually being very good indeed, especially after the last few Wolfenstein games have been a bit sub-par. The idea of setting it in an alternative 1960s is brilliant: it reminds me of one of my favourite PS2 games, Ring of Red.
I've only ever played a couple of Dynasty Warriors games, and even then only for a very short while, but I really liked what I saw. They're criticised for being repetitive, but there's a lot of fun to be had in ploughing your overpowered characters through armies of assailants, and I have a soft spot for Chaos Legion, which is in a similar style. Hyrule Warriors seems like the perfect introduction to the Warriors series: can't wait to play it.
Another Wii U game on my list of must plays – the Wii U has really had a brilliant year. The original Bayonetta was a non-stop rollercoaster ride of bizarreness and surpisingly deep fighting mechanics, and by all accounts the sequel is even better. I wonder what the end-game sequence will be like this time? Surely it can't top the last one…
This should actually be in my house right now, but annoyingly it's currently lost somewhere in Post-Land. Hopefully it will turn up in time for New Year so I can soothe the January blues by punching Nintendo characters in the face. When this game was first announced I wasn't particularly bothered about playing another Smash Bros., but I've been truly impressed by the level of detail and fan service they've put into this. And it's got the Dog from Duck Hunt in it! Didn't see that one coming.
BUBBLING UNDER: Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, The Banner Saga, Shovel Knight, Child of Light, The Wolf Among Us, Destiny (although the more I read about Destiny, the more it sounds like a slightly broken, never-ending cycle of joyless grinding: feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).
[As written by Lucius Merriweather while preparing manically for Santa's arrival. Merry Christmas everyone!]
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Prof.mcstevie says:
I imagine the postman is still debating whether or not he deserves some smash bros themselves for Christmas. Hope it reaches you soon, it is a hell of a game.
lewispackwood says:
It finally arrived at the weekend, I'm pleased to say, and it is indeed one hell of a game. I'm useless at it, but I'm having fun!
Damn straight – the Wii U has a killer line up right now (unless you're a big FPS fan, of course). I'm looking forward to picking up Hyrule Warriors in the New Year… and maybe a couple more Amiibo, too.
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Business Tax Modifications and Payroll Tax Benefits Under the "Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act"
Mar 31, 2020 | Firm Overview Articles, Business & Corporate Law News
On Friday, March 27, 2020, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the bi-partisan Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the, "CARES Act"). Sections 2301 through 2307 of the Act help generate cash flow and liquidity to keep business going and maintain payroll. Below is a high-level summary of these tax provisions and how they affect credits, payment delays, loss carrybacks, and interest deductions for companies and corporations.
Employers may qualify for a payroll tax credit for 50 percent of qualified wages.
Employers may be able to defer payment of the 6.2 percent Social Security tax on employee wages.
Companies may be able to use net operating losses to offset losses and amend prior years' tax returns.
Employers may not enjoy the tax advantages under Sections 2301-2302 and the Small Business Association loan benefits under Section 7(a).
Employee Retention Credit for Employers Subject to Closure Due to COVID-19
Section 2301 provides a refundable payroll tax credit for 50 percent of qualified wages paid by employers to employees during the COVID-19 crisis. The credit is available to employers who qualify as follows: either (a) operations were fully or partially suspended due to a COVID-19-related shutdown order; or (b) gross receipts declined by more than 50 percent when compared to the same quarter in the prior year. The statute specifies that the calendar quarter begins after December 31, 2019.
Note that the credit is based on qualified wages. For employers with more than 100 full-time employees, qualified wages are wages paid to employees when they are not providing services due to COVID-19-related circumstances. For eligible employers with 100 or fewer full-time employees, all employee wages qualify for the credit, whether the employer is open for business or subject to a shut-down order. The credit is provided for the first $10,000 of compensation, including health benefits, paid to an eligible employee. The credit is provided for wages paid or incurred from March 13 through December 31, 2020.
However, according to Section 2301(j), an employer may not be eligible for the credit under Section 2301 if the employer is taking a loan under paragraph (36) of Section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a)). Consult an attorney to clarify whether you qualify.
Delay of Payment of Employer Payroll Taxes
Section 2302 permits employers and self-employed persons to defer payment of the employer share of tax they otherwise are responsible for paying. Employers are responsible for paying a 6.2-percent Social Security tax on employee wages. The provision requires that the deferred employment tax be paid over the following two years, with half of the amount required to be paid by December 31, 2021 and the other half by December 31, 2022.
However, according to Section 2302(a)(3), this benefit may not apply to the taxpayer who has had indebtedness forgiven under Section 1106 of this Act with respect to a loan under paragraph (36) of section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 6365(a)). Consult an attorney to clarify whether you qualify.
Modifications for Net Operating Losses
Section 2303 relaxes the limitations on a company's use of losses. Net operating losses (NOL) are currently subject to a taxable-income limitation; losses can be carried into the future to set off profits, but they cannot be carried back to reduce income in a prior tax year. The provision provides that an NOL arising in a tax year beginning in 2018, 2019 or 2020 can be carried back five years, with some exceptions, and temporarily removes the taxable income limitation to allow an NOL to fully offset income. Companies can take advantage of this benefit to utilize losses and amend prior year returns, thereby increasing present cash flow.
Modification of Limitation on Losses for Taxpayers Other Than Corporations
Section 2304 allows pass-through entities and sole proprietorships to also benefit from Section 2303's relaxed NOL carryback.
Modification of Credit for Prior Year Minimum Tax Liability of Corporations
Section 2305 allows companies to apply for and receive within 90 days a credit or refund in the amount of overpayment based on the corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT). The AMT was repealed as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but corporate AMT credits were made available as refundable credits over several years, ending in 2021. This provision accelerates the ability of companies to recover those AMT credits.
Modification of Limitation on Business Interest
Section 2306 temporarily increases the amount of interest expense businesses are allowed to deduct on their tax returns, by increasing the 30-percent limitation to 50 percent of taxable income (with adjustments) for 2019 and 2020. This provision will allow businesses to increase liquidity with a reduced cost of capital, so that they are able to continue operations and keep employees on payroll.
Correction of Bonus Depreciation for Qualified Improvement Property
Section 2307 clarifies the bonus depreciation rules under Section 168(k) of the Code.
Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 ("TCJA") contained a provision allowing taxpayers to claim bonus depreciation deductions (up to 100%) for certain types of qualified property, which included property with a depreciable life of 20 years or less. The TCJA defined the concept of "qualified improvement property" ("QIP") as "any improvement to an interior portion of a building which is nonresidential real property if such improvement is placed in service after the date such building was first placed in service." The intent of this provision was to make the bonus depreciation deduction available to restaurants and other retail establishments that invested in improvements or renovations to their commercial properties.
However, because of a drafting error, the QIP were not actually eligible for the bonus depreciation deduction, as their recovery period was set at the 39-year ordinary life of a building instead of the intended 15 years. Only property with a recovery period of 20 years or less is eligible for bonus depreciation.
The CARES Act corrects the drafting error by assigning a 15-year depreciable life to QIP, thereby allowing it to be characterized as qualified property eligible for bonus depreciation. Furthermore, the Act revised the definition of "qualified improvement property" to mean only "improvements made by the taxpayer," which eliminates the option of a taxpayer getting bonus depreciation for "used" QIP that was purchased by the taxpayer. These corrections are effective retroactively to property placed in service in 2018 and beyond.
The provision should not only increase a company's access to cash flow by allowing it to amend a prior year tax return, but also incentivize taxpayers and American businesses to continue to invest in building improvements during these uncertain times
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The Animated Woman: Shopping LIST.
The ZOMBIE Car is on it's last legs. After upgrading the ZOMBIE Fridge to a shiny silver box that looks like a frikkin' space ship, I dunno how we're gonna make this happen.
What's out of reach on your shopping list?
Furniture. Ours is looking very 1999.
New windows for the House..ok, Landlord is taking care of the new windows, but I need new window treatments.
if you saw my stolen post yoou would know mine is a home. . .
We really need new windows. One day.


The Paluxy River is a place to go that is reasonably close to home and easy to fish. The Paluxy lived up to its billing as a mercurial bit of water — fast to rise, even faster to fall. The hope, inspired by frequent roadside warnings to use caution for high water, did not last past the morning meeting when we gathered in the parking lot of Big Rock Park. There was no water coming over the spillway, just puddles below the dam.
After a filling breakfast at Debbie's Restaurant, our grease levels were high enough to fully comprehend that we needed to go upstream. The Paluxy has a solid limestone rock bottom, and wading is easy. The water is usually clear and not overly swift. Access is easy at numerous points along its course. It is made up of the North Paluxy and the South Paluxy rivers at its confluence near Bluff Dale in Erath County. It then flows 29 miles through Somervell County to ultimately join the Brazos near Glen Rose.
Over a stretch of about six miles there were numerous promising areas to explore. With 20 or so fishers, we needed a lot of space. Jan Bates and friends skipped the Dinosaur State Park spots to try their luck at the first low-water crossing, then headed up to Baker's Crossing. Jan caught a nice little bass in one of the dinosaur tracks (left). Bill Stewart led the charge at the Cemetery low-water crossing. How many times can you tell your kids or friends that you fished a cemetery? Of course, this was in the daylight.
Michael Parteneau, a new member and new to fly fishing, was on his first venture with the long, skinny rod and took a bass (top right) and several bluegills. Greg Ramirez offered assistance in the effort. Congrats! Les and Kay Jackson and other Intrepid anglers went straight up to Baker's Crossing, about five miles upstream, where Les brought in a nice largemouth (right). Other than Les's haul, there was not much evidence of the creation of a Share-a-Lunker candidate was readily apparent. Keep your eye on the water flow reports. If it rises, plan another adventure down to Somervell County.
Photos: Jeff Mitchell, left, takes a minute to look for a fly to entice a Paluxy bass, and below is a look at the approach to the Paluxy on a dry summer day.
Hey I would love to learn more about your tribe! My son is going to TCU and I will be in Fort Worth Sept 28th. Looking for info on fly fishing the Trinity right in town. Carp, bass etc.
Let me refer you to a member, Stephen Woodcock, director of fly fishing at the Fort Worth Backwoods store. The store phone number is 817-332-2423. You might also post your question on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/fortworthflyfishers/ and see if you get any more recommendations. On the presentation, feel free to contact our director of speakers, Adam Tate, at adamtate33@gmail.com. Good luck.


Insert your own joke here about tornadoes and Hyde Park trailer parks. Yes, your grandfather's memory was accurate. One hundred years ago this month, stately Hyde Park did indeed experience the vulgarity, the insult to neighborhood propriety, the plain rudeness of a tornado.
The cyclone barged into the area on a Sunday evening, long after the civilized hours of Sunday afternoon visitation had concluded. Like a drunken commoner it trespassed through dozens of homes without so much as a calling card or thank you note. Thank goodness the tornado at least had the decency to conduct its business in Hyde Park first before moving on to (shudder) Eastern Avenue.
At his tender age, your grandfather was probably spared the details of deaths and injuries, and of worse devastation elsewhere. Recovering Hyde Parkers may have been consoled knowing that their neighborhood had the notoriety of enduring Cincinnati's very first confirmed tornado. Whether or not this "debut" deserves an entry in the Blue Book is still under consideration.
Please see the previous item; we have reached our monthly quota of upscale smuggery. Regardless, that Marathon station sits on the border between the villages of Indian Hill and Madeira, and chooses to align itself with the latter.
We should not assume that the Marathon clerk the Doctor spoke with lives far from Madeira or Indian Hill. Without doubt, numerous citizens from this affluent area wear Metallica T-shirts that haven't seen a washing machine for an indeterminate period. When asked about the glaring price anomaly, the clerk's eyes rolled. "I get this s*** all the time." Considering how often he gets this s***, one might expect that at some point he would have sought an answer to this s***, but it is possible that he finds a benefit in the exercise that eye-rolling provides. And really, the selection of pop is awesome.
Readers of this magazine apparently do not include the sub-species known as Griffithus savantus. At the Doctor's inbox, no servers were harmed. But in the interests of transparency and of protecting our brand from being labeled "lying media," let us now Return To Mayberry. At the same time, we shall also drop a bombshell.
Our column of December 2014 confirmed that during most seasons of The Andy Griffith Show, the map hanging behind Andy's desk was a modified 1951 Cincinnati map. But we erred in claiming that no character ever directly addressed the map. Indeed, in Season 4, Episode 7, both Andy and Barney stare at it intently; they're checking the route of a gold-filled armored truck that will soon pass through town.
Andy first points to an edge where the truck will enter their North Carolina county. (He's really in Hollywood staring at a map of Cincinnati, but hey, that's showbiz.) Then he points to Mayberry specifically. Drum roll, please: Mayberry is Burnet Woods! That's precisely where Andy's finger lands. Feel free to organize a scavenger hunt in Burnet Woods for the discarded shell of Barney's bullet.


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J.K. Simmons, Jason Schwartzman, Joan Cusack Join Voice Cast of Animated Film "Klaus"
By April Dawn on	 November 17, 2017 2 - FILM NEWS, Attachments (Film)
Netflix has acquired the exclusive global rights to the animated feature KLAUS, which will serve as the directorial debut for Sergio Pablos. Pablos is the co-creator and writer of Despicable Me for Universal's Illumination Studios J.K Simmons, Jason Schwartzman, Joan Cusack, and Rashida Jones have already signed on the project, which makes for an impressive cast.
The family film will tell the story of a desperate postman who accidentally brings about the genesis of Santa Claus. Pablos, Zach Lewis, and Jim Mahoney wrote the screenplay, based on an original story by Pablos. In a recent statement, Pablos said "How is it possible there's no story about the origin of Santa Claus? He's one of the most well-known and loved characters in the world! We felt this was a story that needed to be told and that there was no better way than with animation."
Sergio's screen credits include Despicable Me, Rio, Treasure Planet, and Tarzan. Sergio helms the the SPA studios, where Despicable Me originated, along with the upcoming Klaus. The Netflix Original will be available just in time for Christmas in 2019.
April Dawn | Editorial Intern


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Joshua Mathiot (April 4, 1800 – July 30, 1849) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Mathiot moved to Newark, Ohio, about 1830.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Newark.
He served as prosecuting attorney 1832–1836.
He served as mayor of Newark in 1834.

Mathiot was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843).
Grand worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance in Ohio, and while attending a temperance convention at Sandusky contracted cholera, from which he died in Newark, Ohio, July 30, 1849.
He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

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Zeinab Badawi (ur. 24 listopada 1959 w Sudanie) – brytyjska dziennikarka telewizyjna, radiowa i prasowa oraz prezenterka informacyjna. Znana głównie z BBC World News, BBC News, BBC Four oraz BBC Radio 4. Współpracowała poprzednio z ITV News i Channel 4 News, Yorkshire Television, BBC Manchester. Urodzona w Sudanie, od 1 roku życia mieszka w Wlk. Brytanii, w Londynie. W listopadzie 2009 r. została wybrana "międzynarodową osobowością telewizyjną roku" przez Association for International Broadcasting.

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MEMS integrate miniaturized mechanical structures with electronics to extend the benefits of planar-integrated circuit technology to a broader class of systems involving sensors, actuators, filters, resonators, switches, and wave guides. The mechanical structures provide transduction between energy domains, passive implementations of discrete electrical devices, and conduction paths for electromagnetic radiation.
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Mumbai Foot Overbridge Collapse: Death Toll Rises to Six; Eyewitnesses Recount 'Near Death Experience'
A portion of a foot overbrigde collapsed in Mumbai on Thursday evening leaving at least six dead and several others injured. A high-level committee probe has been ordered into the incident by Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis.
Published: March 15, 2019 6:40 AM IST
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Mumbai Foot Overbridge Collapse Kills Six.
Mumbai: Six persons were killed in a tragedy that struck Mumbai on Thursday evening, during rush hour. Meanwhile, at least 31 were left injured as a portion of a foot overbridge, connecting Chhatarapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) platform 1 north end with BT Lane near The Times of India building, collapsed in south Mumbai. According to eye-witnesses, 'it looked like I had near death experience' and 'appeared as if a powerful bomb went off'.
The deadly incident at one of the busiest stations in Mumbai took place at 7:30 PM, when there was a lot of rush on the overbridge. "The incident took place as the bridge was overloaded with commuters hurrying to their homes", the BMC Disaster Control said. An eyewitness said the over-bridge was being used by pedestrians even as repair works were ongoing. Another eyewitness said most of the victims were walking on the overbridge on their way to the CST station when it collapsed.
List of Deceased:
Apoorva Prabhu (35)
Anjana Tambe (40)
Bhakti Shinde (40)
Zahid Shiraj Khan (32)
Tapendra Singh (28)
According to an eye-witness, Faizan Ahmad, "The dust and cries of the victims filled us with fear and we soon realised that a bridge has fallen." Meanwhile, Manish Jha, a reporter with a Hindi daily narrated how he had a lucky escape. "It looked like I had near death experience. The moment I walked on the bridge, I felt its floors vigorously swaying," he said.
CM Devendra Fadnavis Announces Compensation
Expressing grief over the incident, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the family of the deceased and Rs 50,000 each to the injured. Adding he said that the cost of treatment of injured will be borne by the government. He also ordered a high-level committee probe to investigate the circumstances under which the 40-year-old overbridge collapsed.
"Pained to hear about the foot over bridge incident near TOI building in Mumbai. Spoke to BMC Commissioner and Mumbai Police officials and instructed to ensure speedy relief efforts in coordination with Railway Ministry officials," Fadnavis tweeted.
BMC, Central Railways to Jointly Inquire Accident
District Guardian Minister of Mumbai Vinod Tawde said that the incident will be jointly probed by BMC and Central Railways. "I have discussed the issue with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as well as with CR General Manager D K Sharma, BMC chief Ajoy Mehta and joint police commissioner (L&W) Deven Bharti. The railways and the BMC will jointly inquire the accident," he told reporters.
Notably, this was the third foot overbridge collapse incident in the city in the last 8 months. Earlier a foot overbridge at the Elphinstone Road railway station had crashed on September 29, 2017, killing 29 commuters, while on July 3, 2018, a portion of the foot overbridge collapsed on the railway tracks near Andheri station, killing at least one and injuring many more.
Following the incidents, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal had then announced a joint safety audit of all 445 bridges in Mumbai, following which the railways, the BMC and the IIT-Bombay had conducted a safety audit.
Published Date: March 15, 2019 6:40 AM IST
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6lack And Lil Tjay Deal With A Persistent Ex On The Honest 'Calling My Phone'
Post author By Iqra Mcfadden
Valentine's Day is just two days away and while most are looking for new love, or hoping to celebrate with an already-secured partner, 6lack and Lil Tjay have different goals in mind. Their new collaboration, "Calling My Phone," finds the two acts trying their best to escape the grasp of a former lover, who can't seem to understand that the relationship has ended.
Lil Tjay delivers a promise to never return to his ex singing, "I done told you before that it's over, leave me 'lone." He adds, "I won't go back / But trust me, you're gon' hold that." 6lack arrives for a second verse and doubles down on his collaborator's message. "No, you can't wear my chain no more," he sings. "We are not a thing, can't take no more." The song is also paired with a video that shows exactly what the artists' struggle looks like as their ex-lovers hold on to their coattails in hopes of a chance at renewed love.
The song arrives as 6lack continues work on his upcoming third album. While the new project will be his first full-length effort since 2018's East Atlanta Love Letter, the Atlanta native made the wait for album No. 3 easier for fans with the release of his 6pc Hot last year.
As for Lil Tjay, the Brooklyn native is coming off a year that saw the release of his State Of Emergency EP before he landed a spot on the 2020 XXL Freshman Class list. Unfortunately, to end the year, Tjay was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, weapons, and grand larceny
You can listen to the track in the video above.
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x choose y means to start with the factorial of how many ways you could order all items in the set, choose any y of them in a specific order, then divide by how many orders there are within that set of y, and divide by how many orders there are within those you did not choose (since by choosing something, you also exactly define all things which are not it).
In each of the 7 cells of Star Of David Theorem, there is a relative xChooseY for variables x and y plus and minus 1 in 7 combinations, with x choose y at its center.
The exact numbers are not whats important... What really surprised me is that the topology of sets is exactly the same shape for positive and negative size sets and is a type of relativity where you do not need to know the sizes of any specific sets as long as you know their sizes relative to eachother. That's what Star Of David Theorem proves.
Ben, you were lucid there for a while. But you did not previously define negative size sets.
My understanding, which is the accepted modern view, is that if a set has a cardinality, the size is nonnegative. The empty set has cardinality zero, the set of fingers on my right hand has cardinality 5, the set of integers has cardinality aleph-null, etc. Cardinality is always greater than or equal to zero.
If you have some other measure of set size in mind that involves a sensible meaning of a negative set size, I'd be interested to know what it is.
As an aside, I was careful to write that if a set has a cardinality, then that cardinality is nonnegative. That's because in the absence of the Axiom of Choice, there exist sets that do not have any cardinality at all! That's because AC is equivalent to the (non-intuitive) proposition that every set can be well-ordered. In the absence of Choice there exists a set that can not be well-ordered. Now, the cardinality of a set is defined as the least ordinal x such that x is bijectable to the set. Since our set is not well-ordered, no ordinal bijects to it hence it does not have a cardinality.
I offer this as a counterpoint to all the people who use the Banach-Tarski paradox or the Hat paradox (http://cornellmath.wordpress.com/2007/0 ... -is-wrong/) to claim that AC is false or that math is broken or some such. It is absolutely true that AC implies some very counterintuitive and arguably false conclusions; but so does the negation of AC.
I hope someone who reads this someday is spared the trouble of getting upset about the Axiom of Choice. It's obviously true about sets. The notion you have to let go of is that set theory has anything to do with the real world.
In that case, why not accept the negation of the Axiom of Choice?
I find the idea of a set without a well-defined cardinality very counterintuitive. That if you take all the cardinals and line them up in order, there's some set that's not cardinally equivalent to any of them. How can that be?
"Take the set X and extract a subset C. Note that there is x in X such that there is no c in C with c ~ x."
Doesn't seem that surprising, a priori, to me.
I should say that, for the record, I don't have a serious problem with AC. The axiom I don't like is regularity/foundation.


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A Defence Industrial Strategy for the UK
John Louth and Trevor Taylor
Occasional Papers, 6 April 2018
Defence, Industries and Society, Defence Spending, Equipment and Acquisitions, Defence Management, UK
This paper seeks to build on the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) 'Refreshing Defence Industrial Policy' of December 2017 by generating eight points that would be key elements of a strategy to implement its intent.
defence_industrial_strategyv19.pdf
The paper's premises are that, as laid out in the 2015 National Security Strategy, it is government policy to present the UK as 'strong, influential, global' and, as argued in the National Security Through Technology White Paper of 2012, the freedom of a country to use its armed forces as it sees fit should be recognised as related to the 'essence of sovereignty', that is, critical, highly important and sensitive. In addition, government has laid a formal responsibility on the MoD to promote national prosperity.
With this as the policy imperative, the paper discusses the consequential need for the maintenance and development of a strong defence supply base within the UK. Recognising that no decision set is without risk, the paper highlights the risks associated with this policy stance, along with suggestions for their effective mitigation or management. This mitigation, the authors suggest, would augment current policy and practice.
With this background, the paper suggests that the MoD needs to go beyond seeing itself as a simple 'customer' as, the authors suggest, it does now, and accept its responsibility as the prime contractor for the generation of UK defence capability. As such, it would recognise broader portfolio and programme management of the sector as one of its key responsibilities. From those core points, the paper offers eight specific recommendations for government policies, behaviours and practices:
A commitment to sustain and strengthen national, on-shore defence design, manufacturing and support capabilities in a partnership between the MoD and industry.
A policy imperative to insist on the ability and technical know-how to modify imported equipment.
An ambition to collaborate with peer partners on capability development.
A commitment to design and develop UK capabilities overtly with exports in mind pre-manufacture.
Emphasising the place of competition among projects and the specification of their worth.
Commitment to proactive programme and supply-chain management within a complex portfolio.
Revamping sector prioritisation across defence, focusing on critical strategic industrial sectors.
Recognising that future defence capabilities remain technology-rich. A commitment, therefore, to an increase in funding of science and technology, especially in the pure research-phases of a development cycle, is critical. So, too, is a change of culture to champion experimentation, adaptability and early adoption of disruptive technologies.
Finally, the authors underline that if high-level policy were to be scaled back – if the UK was to no longer aspire to be globally influential or 'strong' and if the MoD was free to leave the pursuit of economic prosperity to others – many of the arguments and recommendations here would lose their relevance.
Banner image: HMS Artful (left) and HMS Audacious of the new Astute-class submarine under construction at BAE's site in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Courtesy of the Royal Navy
Professor John Louth
Professorial Research Fellow, Defence, Industries and Society
Trevor Taylor is Professorial Research Fellow in Defence Management at RUSI, where he heads up a research programme in Defence,... read more
Marauding Terrorist Firearms' Attacks: A Practitioner's View of the UK's Emergency Service Initial Response Arrangements to Deal with an Active Shooter
RUSI Journal, 1 June 2018
Improvement is needed to the UK's emergency services's plans to respond to marauding terrorist firearms' attacks.
Tags: RUSI Journal, UK, Terrorism
What Will the Defence Space Strategy Tell us About the UK's Space Ambitions?
Commentary, 1 June 2018
Alexandra Stickings
The announcement by the Ministry of Defence of a forthcoming Defence Space Strategy paper shows recognition of the threats posed to the UK's space-enabled military capabilities. The question is how much the strategy will add to understanding the UK's role as a space power.
Tags: Aerospace, Cyber, Terrorism and Conflict, UK, Technology
The Home Front: The Future Accommodation Model for the UK Armed Forces: Obligations and Choices for Service Personnel and Families
Occasional Papers, 31 May 2018
John Louth, Trevor Taylor, Lauren Twort and Gabriela Thompson
The accommodation options offerred to defence personnel and their families are central to Britain's defence policy.
Tags: Armed Forces, Civil–Military Relations, Defence, Industries and Society, Occasional Papers, Defence Management, Defence Policy, UK, Military Personnel, UK Defence, Europe
The Ministry of Defence Green Paper and top level defence policy
Commentary, 5 February 2010
The Defence Green Paper hints at more cooperation with Europeans as the way forward, but a need for short-term cuts may damage the coherence of defence outputs before the defence review is completed.
Tags: Aerospace, Defence Management, Defence Policy, Land Forces, Maritime Forces, Military Personnel, Technology, UK Defence, Europe
Bigger changes are on the way for the US military
The latest Quadrennial Defense Review, presented by the US Department of Defense, outlines a five-year programme until 2015 that sees the US playing a 'global role' in 'a complex environment'. It could pave the way for big changes as it accomodates itself to adjusting military capability so as to be able to do more with its allies.
Tags: Americas, Defence Management, Defence Policy
Assessing Value for Money at the Ministry of Defence
Commentary, 18 December 2009
The most arresting point made by the latest report from the National Audit Office concerns the slippage of major projects. It reveals that the majority of the increase in project costs is due 'to deliberate decisions to slip projects, taken corporately by the Department as part of a wider package designed to address a gap between estimated funding and the cost of the Defence budget over the next...
Tags: Defence Management, Defence Policy, Europe
Review: The Robots and Robotics Debate
RUSI Defence Systems, 3 March 2010
Two recent books on robots and robotics raise the issue of whether we are as wired for war as robots
Tags: RUSI Defence Systems, Defence Management, Information
Review of Acquisition: The Gray Report
The Gray Report ignores the Treasury view that analysis of past experience is the optimum way to realistically assess risk
Tags: RUSI Defence Systems, Defence Management
The Conservative Prospect: Not an Easy Ride
An in-coming Government would do well to learn the lessons of the previous SDR. UK security would not be well served by the Treasury dictating the terms


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This facility addition was designed and constructed to LEED Silver Certification requirements, and recently was awarded LEED Gold Certification.