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US' egress from Afghanistan
By Imran Malik
The US' Afghan policy is in total disarray and consequently its Afghan Campaign has gone awry too. It suffers from a persistent mission creep, insufficient force levels, meek operational strategies, an uncertain strategic direction, an ambiguous desired end state and a chronic dearth of policy stewardship and coherence at the White House, State Department and Pentagon levels. There is no unity of command resulting in operational paralysis, indecision and rampant U-Turns in the conduct of its Afghan policy. President Trump now appears to be asserting himself (albeit unsuccessfully thus far), over the State Department and the Pentagon to bring this disastrous Afghan Campaign to a "sensible" closure.
President Trump intends to bid for re-election in 2020 and thus needs to declare victory and withdraw from Afghanistan, well in time. His latest conciliatory overtures towards Pakistan confirm this and clearly establish its centrality and inevitability to any US-led solution to this Afghan imbroglio.
The US has three options for dealing with the Afghan issue. One, a perpetuation of the current military and political situations within Afghanistan and in the region. Two, cut and run, leaving Afghanistan, the Afghanistan Pakistan Region (APR) and the Heart of Asia comprehensively destabilised. Three, leave in an organised manner with a stable, economically viable Afghanistan secure within a peaceful region.
The first option will persist till the three centers of power in the US Administration emphatically decide on either continuing or bringing to a closure their failed Afghan Campaign.
In the cut & run option the US lacks a well-defined exit strategy. None of the models it has in front of it inspire any confidence. Afghanistan can ill afford to undergo a Vietnam or a repeat of the humiliating Soviet departure from Afghanistan. In either instance, the TTA/HN will run riot toppling the NUG and smashing to smithereens the weakened ANDSF in no time. If the US ditches Afghanistan as it dumped and abandoned Pakistan in the post-Soviet withdrawal period, then the destabilisation and unrest will be endless. So, any impetuous US withdrawal from Afghanistan will remove the stabilising factor from it and send it and the APR into a fatal tailspin. The resultant power vacuum will invariably suck in China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan and even peripheral India in a series of relentless ingresses, each seeking to secure its own national interests. Afghanistan, in the meanwhile, will implode as the TTA/HN makes the final push to snatch power from the isolated and weakened NUG. The NUG and ANDSF, the warlords and criminal groups and the various ethnicities and terrorist entities will all add to the mayhem. In this state of total chaos and confusion, with every one fighting every other one, Afghanistan might break up into myriad fiefdoms all vying for self- preservation, power and influence. Thereafter, the weaker ones might form unions on ethnic basis to forestall swamping by the more powerful ones. The literal balkanization of Afghanistan, on ethnic basis, would thus be consummated! It will also leave, for perhaps the first time, the US with minimal to negligible presence and control in mainland Asia starting from Syria, Turkey to Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, CARs, India on to Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and onwards. (State Department's worry!). It would be an ignominious defeat for the mighty US military and a great loss of face, power, prestige and clout globally, too. (Pentagon's worry). US' sphere of influence will be severely curtailed within Asia, leaving only the extremities of West and East Asia under its influence and diktat. A most unfavourable option to follow!
In the third option if the US wants to leave Afghanistan in an orderly, organised manner then a political settlement between the TTA/HN and the NUG is unavoidable. To that end they must first talk to one another and importantly bridge the vast gulf between their political philosophies and envisioned systems of governance. This is key to the success of the peace process. The TTA/HN desire the imposition of Islamic Sharia while the NUG prefers a western style parliamentary democracy. Unless these two mutually exclusive political philosophies and their adherents find some common ground there will be no peace, no elections and no egress for the US. Either both should agree to the current constitution in force or devise a new constitutional framework, a new system of elections, governance and government acceptable to both. A hybrid system of government/governance will thus emerge. This decision can only be arrived at by the Afghans themselves. Consequently, a Multiparty Coalition/National Government could be inducted to coincide with the withdrawal of at least 75 % of all foreign troops from Afghanistan. The remainder would be required for strategic balance and peace within the country. This Multiparty Coalition/National Government may rule for three years after which free and fair elections be held under the auspices of the UN. The party/parties returning to power may then form the government, amend the Constitution, if required, legally. In this case the US will be able to retain some semblance of influence in Afghanistan and the region at large.
A sensible closure of the Afghan Campaign is predicated upon a stable Afghanistan with a strong government, a viable economy and neutralised terrorist outfits. The US approach suffers from a fatal flaw currently – it seeks to pacify the TTA/HN only without tackling the plethora of terrorist outfits like IS, Al Qaeda, TTP, JuA, IMU etc, criminal gangs, drug mafias and so on. It does not plan a reconstruction of Afghanistan, either. A partial solution will be worse than no solution at all!
Regardless of the option the US chooses the TTA/HN will hedge its bets; it has not fought for seventeen years and more to finally share power. Rather, it will always move decisively to snatch and consolidate total power for itself at the first opportunity. Period.
Afghanistan's future thus hangs in the balance! The competing interests of President Trump's re-election bid, the compulsion for the US to secure its vital interests in Asia and the deep and silent moves of the TTA/HN to grab power will make for a fascinating finale to US' Afghan Campaign – if at all!
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Mayors Boycott Meeting With Trump After DOJ Demands Documents From Sanctuary Cities
by Yeji-Jesse Lee January 24, 2018 July 12, 2021
In response to a letter from the DOJ demanding information about sanctuary cities, mayors across the US pulled out of a White House meeting with President Trump.
Just hours before an infrastructure meeting between President Trump and US mayors, the US Department of Justice sent letters to 23 jurisdictions demanding proof whether they were "unlawfully restricting information sharing by law enforcement officers with federal immigration authorities."
The DOJ letters claim that jurisdictions that fail to respond to the requests will be subject to a subpoena and could potentially lose funding from the federal government.
"I continue to urge all jurisdictions under review to reconsider policies that place the safety of their communities and their residents at risk," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a written statement on Wednesday. "Protecting criminal aliens from federal immigration authorities defies common sense and undermines the rule of law."
In response to the DOJ letter, several mayors, including Bill de Blasio of New York and Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, decided to boycott a planned working session with President Trump later that day.
In response to the leaders who chose to play truant, White House Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters stated, "We are disappointed that a number of mayors have chosen to make a political stunt instead of participating in an important discussion with the President and his administration."
At the scheduled meeting with around 100 US mayors on Wed, Jan 24, President Trump stated: "As you know the Department of Justice today announced a critical legal step to hold accountable sanctuary cities that violate federal law and free criminal aliens back into our communities."
"We can't have that," Trump continued. "Can't have it. It'd be very easy to go the other way but we can't have it. We want a safe country."
"My administration is committed to protecting innocent Americans and the mayors who choose to boycott this event have put the needs of criminal illegal immigrants over law-abiding Americans. But let me tell you, the vast majority of people showed up. Okay? The vast majority. Because the vast majority believe in safety for your city."
President Trump's long ongoing feud with "sanctuary cities," the jurisdictions that protect undocumented immigrants from deportation or prosecution by refusing to assist federal immigration enforcement, began just days into Trump's presidency when he signed an executive order that sought to deny federal funds to jurisdictions that refused to share information with federal immigration officials.
The policy was permanently blocked, however, by Federal Judge William Orrick of California, who deemed that the executive order violated the separation of powers and was "unduly coercive."
"The White House has been very clear that we don't support sanctuary cities," Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a press briefing on Wednesday. "We support enforcing the law and following the law. And that is the Department of Justice's job, is do exactly that. And if mayors have a problem with that, they should talk to Congress, the people that pass the laws."
The White House is scheduled to release a legislative framework on Monday, Jan 29, that will fulfill four pillars that the Trump administration deems as necessary to "fix" the immigration system: securing the border and closing legal loopholes, ending extended-family chain migration, cancelling the visa lottery and providing a permanent solution on DACA.
The framework was assembled after dozens of meetings with both Republican and Democrat leadership and "represents a compromise that members of both [the Democratic and Republican] parties can support," Press Secretary Sanders said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Brooke Norton-Cuffy signing for Coventry City on loan (Photo via Norton-Cuffy on Twitter)
Arsenal recall 18yo and re-loan him within minutes
Arsenal recalled and re-loaned Brooke Norton-Cuffy this week, moving him from Rotherham United to Coventry City.
Brooke Norton-Cuffy posted on Twitter on Friday afternoon to say his farewells to Rotherham United, with the club confirming his recall by Arsenal minutes later.
Just a couple of minutes after that, Arsenal had confirmed the right-back's move to Coventry City, on loan until the end of the season.
Both Rotherham United and Coventry City are in the Championship, though Rotherham are just one point clear of the relegation zone whilst Coventry are firmly in mid-table.
That's probably part of Arsenal's decision, as it's usually better for a loanee to be playing further up the table. But the main potential benefit will be the 18-year-old's minutes.
With Rotherham, Norton-Cuffy made 21 appearances (15 starts), a very good return for half a season. But he'd started to drop out of the team in recent weeks.
In their last seven games, Norton-Cuffy had only started twice, and he'd come off early on both occasions. It was a far cry from the start of the season, when he regularly completed 90 minutes.
Brooke Norton-Cuffy in training with Coventry City on loan (Photo via Norton-Cuffy on Twitter)
Even though the Arsenal youngster was still coming off the bench in most games, the Gunners have acted quickly to find him a new club where he can hopefully become a starter again.
Coventry City face Wrexham in the FA Cup on Saturday at 17:30 GMT, and it remains to be seen whether Norton-Cuffy was registered in time for that match.
If not, their next game is away to league leaders Burnley on Saturday, 14th January at 15:00. That would be quite the time to make a positive impression.
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Tags: art, bird, breath, cataclysmic, cosmos, creation, crisis, drama, Elizabeth Kirshner, failure, flow of music, formation, inward explosion, language, light up, lit lyric, lyric poem, lyrical verse, music, poem, poet, poetry, pressure of time and space, pulse, Raymond Carver, survival, synapses firing, tension, THE LIT LYRIC, The lyric poet, tin drum, to be, trauma, winged migrations, word, writing
THE LIT LYRIC
Someone once said that writing a poem meant riding upon the pulse. It is a cataclysmic happening with all the synapses firing at once. In order to achieve the lyric poem, one must build a sky bridge, be connected to deep red earth and moody, bluesy stars. Create a cosmos and step into it. Get in, get out, get your pain over with, was Raymond Carver's advice and it has stayed with me for decades.
With the lyric poem, there's no stretching out on the backbone of narrative. The poet must fall up, not down, way up, let each line be a tree limb veined with bronze honey. Some limbs snap under the freight and weight of too many blossoms. Likewise the line—if it's too ornate it will break. The violence of the mind, its maelstrom, can also destroy it. We are our own best enemies of the poet.
And in all that bronze honey, a flow of music, vast, celestial or a dirge, lament, elegy. The lyric poet must make music out of rough tools, be it a tin drum or the lyre in the sky amid winged migrations. Each word a bird in formation. It is this music that rules the form of formal formation in lyrical verse most of all.
I think: storm surge and purge. I think: poem as a tiny trauma. There's some sort of act of survival involved. A drama, then, an inward explosion that sets off sparks that light up the lit lyric. Media res at the beginning, then leap, leap, leap line by line wherein language is always under the pressure of time and space. Perhaps creation is always in crisis. A risky business at best, a willingness to be flailed by failure. At least for me.
Always and evermore, the tension between first breath, last breath. Endings do come, sometimes swiftly like the lash of a whip. Other times, it's more like a swan song in a destitute denouement. I'm often done in by getting it done. At the other extreme—ecstatic revelations. Or, the final end stop as a stab in the heart caused by a stab in the dark. I want to be beautifully demolished by the poems I write, to be impoverished by the riches I must bear. I end with this—the end of the poem is a crucifixion of the poet by which the reader is resurrected. A paradigm of paradox in a paradise lost, but finally, hopefully regained.
~~Elizabeth Kirschner


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Q: Why is my MC14504B circuit acting strangely? Chip in Question: ON Semiconductor - MC14504B
Datasheet Link: https://www.onsemi.com/pdf/datasheet/mc14504b-d.pdf

Issue at Hand:
I am intending to use this chip alongside Arduino Mega 2560. When I bring Arduino pin High(5VDC) I was opening a relay. I had to change the relay to one that opens at around 7VDC. Because of this I am using the MC14504B to step up the voltage and open relay when set to high.

My understanding of the chip is that when you enter 5VDC into VCC and 9VDC into VDD, then apply a 5VDC(HIGH or 1) to one of the eight "IN" pins, the corresponding "OUT" pin should then be brought to HIGH or 1, at voltage applied to VDD.
In practice this is not the behavior I am experiencing. Measurements were made with Calibrated Keysight 3458A. Please see schematic and notes below.

I am not understanding why when I bring FIN to match VCC, why I am not getting the voltage at VDD off pin FOUT as described. I am using all the channels on this chip, but for ease of understanding made a sketch of the problem at hand.
I am using a total of 3 of these chips for (8x3) 24 Channels.
Can someone help me understand what I am doing wrong. I am fairly new and self taught to electronic engineering.

A: Consider all CMOS as an ideal switch with a resistor that is supply and temperature sensitive, ranging from 22 Ohms for lov voltage 74ALC 3.6V types to 1k max for 16V types.
Using Ohm's Law you can compute this but generally  to avoid cross-conduction issues, the higher the voltage rating , the higher the RdsOn of the P/Nch  FET outputs.  For example at high temp Roh=(Vdd-Voh)/Ioh (output high) is almost 1k at 125 'C.
If you only need one output a low side NPN coil drive and diode is the easiest solution.
I'll bet you a dozen donuts the DCR of the relay is lower than the computed Roh of the CMOS.

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Sentara prepares to receive first doses of COVID-19 vaccine
by: Stephanie Hudson
Posted: Dec 8, 2020 / 06:48 PM EST / Updated: Dec 15, 2020 / 11:39 AM EST
A nurse holds a phial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy's Hospital in London, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. U.K. health authorities rolled out the first doses of a widely tested and independently reviewed COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, starting a global immunization program that is expected to gain momentum as more serums win approval. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool)
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The FDA is expected to approve the first COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday.
Two local hospital systems in Hampton Roads, Sentara and Riverside, are in line to get some of the first vaccines.
"It's very, very difficult we had to get special freezers in. We also have to understand how to handle [them] because you can get burned from touching something that's that cold," Sentara's Chief of Pharmacy Officer Tim Jennings told WAVY.
None of the other drugs in the hospital have to be kept as cold as this one, at basically 100 degrees below zero.
Jennings said the delivery chain is different than anything they're used to.
Sentara has coolers packed with dry ice to move it. Jennings said they are training all of the pharmacy staff and nurses who will administer it on how to handle the ultra-cold vials so they don't get burned.
He told us once they're ready to immunize someone, the vaccine must thaw for 30 minutes then be diluted and administered relatively quickly to maintain efficacy.
It's a lot of pressure on the workers.
"For us, it's just trying to do the right thing and getting everything appropriate and realizing there's a lot riding on this for not only ourselves, but our community. So it's that responsibility that — it's very tiresome," Jennings said.
They plan to do a dry run later this week. Jennings hopes to have the vaccine sometime next week so they can start immunizing front-line hospital workers as soon as possible.
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Manning says TD record is temporary in today's NFL
BY foxsports • December 24, 2013
Peyton Manning says his 51-TD record will be short-lived, suggesting Tom Brady will take it back soon enough.
Or, for that matter, any number of other quarterbacks could break it should NFL owners get their way and expand the season to 18 games.
Perhaps he's just being pragmatic.
Maybe he's just being modest.
''I think if it does go to 18 games, I think that is a practical assessment,'' said tight end Julius Thomas, who caught the record-breaker in Denver's 37-13 win at Houston on Sunday. ''Those two extra games would give a quarterback two additional opportunities to go out there and put more touchdowns on the board.
''I think that will skew a lot of records. But you know he's also a modest person. That's who he is. It's pretty remarkable to throw 51 touchdowns. I believe records are meant to be broken and most are broken. But that's one that could stand for a while.''
It will stand for a long time, suggested Eric Decker, who retrieved the record-breaking memento when Thomas nonchalantly dropped it, unaware of the famous football's emotional or even economic value.
''Of course he's being modest,'' Decker said Monday. ''I think it's a tough feat. Fifty-plus touchdowns in a season, you've got to do something very, very special. (Dan) Marino had it for such a long time and then it went back and forth for a while. But I think with the game how it is now, it's more of an offensive game and you have more opportunities to maybe do something like this.
''But I think the numbers he has put up, I think it's tough to match those unless you have an unbelievable year.''
That, Manning has.
He began the season by becoming the first QB since 1969 to throw for seven TDs in a game, one of eight games this season in which he's thrown for four or more touchdowns.
He's thrown a dozen TD passes to Julius Thomas and Demaryius Thomas and 10 each to Decker and Wes Welker.
After breaking Brady's single-season touchdown record of 50 on Sunday, Manning is 266 yards from breaking Drew Brees' single-season mark for yards passing. The Broncos are 18 points shy of setting a single-season scoring record and 28 points from becoming the league's first 600-point team.
They're already the first team in NFL history with five players with at least 10 touchdowns; running back Knowshon Moreno has 10 TD runs and two TD catches. Nobody else has had four players with double-digit TDs.
It's gotten to the point where it's expected that the Broncos will put up gaudy numbers week in and week out and when they don't march right down the field, fans wonder what's wrong.
''Yeah, we talked about that a little bit earlier in the season, if we punt, man, we would get booed,'' Julius Thomas said. ''But it just speaks to what we've done as an offense. We have no problem with people having high expectations of us because we have high expectations of ourselves.''
Maybe that's why he didn't realize he had the record-holder in his hands when he caught No. 51 Sunday and just let it go instead of holding onto it. Decker picked up the ball and tucked it in the side of his jersey, where it remained as he walked off the field.
''It wouldn't have surprised me if Julius would have went and handed it to some babe up in the stands, trying to get her phone number in exchange for the ball,'' Manning joked. ''That would be right up Julius' alley.''
Julius Thomas said: ''I don't think I'll be using that tactic. But I guess if it was the right girl, maybe I'd think about it.''
Decker, who was pranked by Manning in the offseason, when the quarterback invited him for a weekend passing camp at Duke and tricked him into thinking he had to pay thousands of dollars for doing so, saw an opportunity for payback.
''I was going to take it home. That's an item that is going to go for a lot,'' Decker said Monday. ''Naw, it was one of those pranks where he got me at Duke. I figured this was maybe a time where I could hold the ball ransom and see what I could get out of it. But I had to give it to him, and that was such a cool thing to be a part of.''
Of course, Manning can make it even more difficult to break his TD record when the Broncos (12-3) visit the Oakland Raiders (4-11) on Sunday.
Because the Broncos need to win to stay ahead of New England in the race for home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs and the Patriots kick off against Buffalo at the same time, Manning, and not his backup, Brock Osweiler, will be under center fine-tuning things before the playoffs.
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Ask the Lord for strength to put right choices into action.
Often, Right Choices Are Right for More Thank One Reason.
Bible Reading of the Day: Read Philippians 2:12-15.
Verse of the Day: "God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him" (Philippians 2:13).
Emily looked over the page layout for the school yearbook with her friend Drew. "When are we taking the yearbook staff picture?" she asked.
Instantly, Emily knew what Drew was talking about. If they took the staff picture tomorrow afternoon, Lana wouldn't be in the picture. She was on a four-day trip with the concert band. Drew and Lana were not exactly enemies, but they had trouble getting along with each other, especially since Lana had been chosen as the yearbook editor and Drew had been made the assistant editor.
"Drew," Emily said in a scolding tone.
Emily relaxed and shook her head. "It would be a big deal to Lana, wouldn't it?" she said, a slight smile appearing on her face.
TO DISCUSS: What did Emily say was wrong with Drew's plan? Do you think a wrong choice can be wrong for more than one reason? Do you think a right choice can be right for more than one reason? If yes, think of some examples.


Over the course of the week, a lot has been written about the arrival of Marten De Roon at Middlesbrough.
The 25-year-old, currently contracted to Atalanta in Italy, has been promised to the north of England for the best part of a couple of weeks, and it looks like the deal is reaching the finishing line.
Articles from a few days ago suggested the deal should be done by the weekend, but Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy say this could take a bit longer.
That's all the information they provide for now, as it's mentioned briefly, but if the deal isn't announced by the weekend, as was promised by the English press, Boro fans shouldn't panic too much.
It should, if all goes well, happen soon.
De Roon was named as Atalanta's MVP last season, playing 37 games, scoring two goals and providing one assist.


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package org.kuali.rice.kew.impl.peopleflow;

import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.kuali.rice.core.api.util.RiceKeyConstants;
import org.kuali.rice.kew.impl.KewImplConstants;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.maintenance.MaintenanceDocument;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.rules.MaintenanceDocumentRuleBase;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.service.BusinessObjectService;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.service.KRADServiceLocator;
import org.kuali.rice.krad.util.GlobalVariables;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

public class PeopleFlowBusRule extends MaintenanceDocumentRuleBase {
    private BusinessObjectService businessObjectService;

    @Override
    protected boolean processCustomSaveDocumentBusinessRules(MaintenanceDocument document) {
        boolean result = super.processCustomSaveDocumentBusinessRules(document);
        PeopleFlowBo peopleFlowDoc = (PeopleFlowBo)document.getNewMaintainableObject().getDataObject();
        if (StringUtils.isBlank(peopleFlowDoc.getId())) {
            result &= checkIfDuplicatePeopleFlow(peopleFlowDoc);
        }
        return result;
    }

    protected boolean checkIfDuplicatePeopleFlow(PeopleFlowBo peopleFlowBo){
        boolean rulePassed = true;
        if (!(StringUtils.isBlank(peopleFlowBo.getName()) ||
              StringUtils.isBlank(peopleFlowBo.getNamespaceCode()))) {
                Map<String,String> criteria = new HashMap<String,String>();
                criteria.put(KewImplConstants.PropertyConstants.NAMESPACE_CODE, peopleFlowBo.getNamespaceCode());
                criteria.put(KewImplConstants.PropertyConstants.NAME, peopleFlowBo.getName());
                Collection<PeopleFlowBo> peopleFlows = getBusinessObjectService().findMatching(PeopleFlowBo.class,criteria);
                if (CollectionUtils.isEmpty(peopleFlows)) {
                    rulePassed = true;
                } else {
                    GlobalVariables.getMessageMap().putError("document.peopleFlow.duplicate",
                            RiceKeyConstants.PEOPLEFLOW_DUPLICATE, peopleFlowBo.getName().toString(), peopleFlowBo.getNamespaceCode().toString());
                    rulePassed = false;
                }
        }
        return rulePassed;
    }

    public BusinessObjectService getBusinessObjectService() {
        if(businessObjectService == null){
            businessObjectService = KRADServiceLocator.getBusinessObjectService();
        }
        return businessObjectService;
    }

    public void setBusinessObjectService(BusinessObjectService businessObjectService) {
        this.businessObjectService = businessObjectService;
    }
}


After completing the admission process, qualified applicants will be admitted in a pre-petition status and should then complete the Start of Semester Checklist. Applicants will then be selected for entry into core program courses through the petition process. Petition requirements vary by program; review the Practical Nursing Technician Petition Requirements for details.
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More details about how Submission Correctness Tests for interactive coding exercises work behind the scenes.
To learn about why a Submission Correctness Test (typically referred to as SCT) exists, what it looks like and who writes them, read this article first. As mentioned there, the SCT is a script of custom tests that accompany every coding exercise. These custom tests have access to the code students submitted and the output and workspace they created with their code. For every taught language, there is an open-source library that provides a wide range of functions to verify these elements of a student submission. When the functions spot a mistake, they will automatically generate a meaningful feedback message.
In the remainder of this article, when xwhat is used, this means that the information applies to all of the SCT packages listed above.
Starts a student coding process, and executes the pre_exercise_code in this process. This code initializes the process with data, loads relevant packages, etc., so that students can focus on the topic at hand.
Starts a solution coding process at the same time, in which both the pre_exercise_code and the solution are executed. This coding process represents the 'ideal final state' of an exercise.
Executes the submitted code in the student coding process and records any outputs or errors that are generated.
Tells xwhat to check the submitted code, by calling the test_exercise() function that is exposed by all of the SCT utility packages. Along with the SCT (the R/Python script with custom tests), the backend also passes the following information: (1) the student submission and the solution as text, (2) a reference to the student process and the solution process, and (3) the output and errors that were generated when executing the student code. If there is a failing test in the SCT, xwhat marks the submitted code as incorrect and automatically generates a feedback message. If all tests pass, xwhat marks the submitted code as correct and generates a success message. This information is relayed back to the coding backend.
Bundles the code output and the correctness information so that it can be shown in the learning interface.
In this exercise, you'll assign your first variable.
Create a variable `m`, equal to 5.
Student submits a <- 4 : A feedback box appears: "Did you define the variable m without errors?". This message is generated by check_object(), that checks if m was defined in the student coding session.
Student submits m <- 4 (correct variable name, incorrect value): Feedback box appears: "The contents of the variable m aren't correct.". This message was generated by check_equal(), which compares the value of m in the student coding session with the value of m in the solution coding session. Notice that there was no need to repeat the value 5 in the SCT; testwhat inferred it.
Student submits m <- 5 (correct answer): All checks pass, and the message "Well done!" is shown, as specified in success_msg().
Want to learn more? Learn best practices for writing great SCTs that are both robust to various ways of solving an exercise, yet specific about the mistakes students are making!


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Dayton-based Columbia Pulp is building its first mill, anticipated to be up and running by the end of 2018. The mill will synthesize a projected 140,000 tons per year of paper-making pulp from wheat straw via a proprietary process developed by two University of Washington researchers, Mark Lewis and Bill McKean. (Courtesy Columbia Pulp)
New mill to convert wheat straw to pulp expects to hire 80 people
Laura Kostad|June 2018
Progress is moving forward on Columbia Pulp's new plant north of Dayton. With a pilot plant starting in July in Pomeroy and the goal of beginning pulp production at the Lyons Ferry operation in the fourth quarter this year, the company is ramping up recruitment efforts.
CEO John Begley said the pilot plant "is a small replica of the big mill that we will use to train our employees and develop samples for customers."
Columbia Pulp aims to revolutionize pulp production by creating a market for a former waste byproduct, wheat straw, which will be used to produce sustainable paper-making pulp to manufacture paper towels, facial tissue, packaging, molded fiber for single-use plates, cups, de-icing and dust abatement agents, and more.
With orders already on the books, and more than 100,000 tons of straw on-hand to feed the mill at start-up, Columbia Pulp is actively hiring. Key positions listed under the employment section of its website include journeyman electrician, maintenance mechanic, controller and purchasing assistant.
Begley said about 30 employees have been hired — it held a job fair in May — but that the company plans to bring on another 75 to 80 workers this year.
Ground was broken in August 2017 on the $185 million complex, which comprises about 15 acres near the Lyons Ferry bridge, north of Dayton in Columbia County. Pacific Civil Infrastructure Inc. of Sumner is the general contractor, with several local subcontractors such as G2 Construction of Kennewick, also making contributions.
In selling its leftover straw to Columbia Pulp's subsidiary, Columbia Straw Supply, local wheat farmers stand to benefit from the profitable, eco-friendly alternative to the costly practice of burning it after harvest. About 1 million tons are burned annually in the state of Washington, Begley said.
Conservation districts sell permits to burn the wheat straw residue, priced per acre.
Cody Chapman, a Dayton wheat grower who has sold to Columbia Straw Supply, said it's a hefty cost to factor in when burning 1,300 acres biannually.
"Income off of the straw has been nice," he said. "You pay to burn, but now I'm creating income through the straw."
Skip Mead, a Dayton wheat grower who plans to sell straw to Columbia Straw Supply, said he doesn't know anyone who likes to burn it. "Burning was just another tool," he said.
So, what's kept wheat straw from becoming a valuable commodity until now?
Wheat straw had eluded commercialization by the North American paper industry because of limitations of existing pulping technologies, according to the company.
But that changed when Begley was approached five years ago by University of Washington researchers Mark Lewis and Bill McKean, who had responded to the state Department of Ecology's call for a solution to the leftover straw dilemma.
Begley, who had accumulated more than 40 years of experience in the pulp and paper industry through his work with Weyerhaeuser, Port Townsend Paper and Grays Harbor Paper in leading roles, came out of retirement to pursue the new project with McKean and Lewis, forming Columbia Pulp.
Begley reported that the project is being financed by a combination of $135 million in solid waste disposal bonds supplied through the Washington Economic Development Finance Authority, which are underwritten by Goldman Sachs.
The remaining $50 million is private equity invested into the firm and managed by Columbia Ventures Corp., based in Vancouver, Washington.
Columbia Pulp is sourcing its straw from within a 75-mile radius of the plant, Begley said, and the Columbia County Conservation District helped to promote the idea to local growers at a meeting three years ago.
"This whole thing's a success story," Mead said.
"It's a fantastic opportunity for our economy and I really hope that it takes off and is here for a long time," Chapman said.
However, local growers aren't without their reservations, as many consider the burning of leftover straw an important part of soil renewal.
"There is a way to do it right and not steal from your soil, which I think a lot of people are concerned about," Mead said. "I think with good management, you can do both — you can save your nutrients and supply some straw."
Chapman said he aims for long-term sustainability in his fields. In a higher rainfall area like Dayton, Chapman's fields are on a four-year rotation and straw is baled for sale during the second year of that rotation.
"We're only taking straw off one of those four years. … Currently, we're not seeing any nutrient loss," he said, adding that yearly soil tests reveal patterns in nutrient deficiencies.
The amount of straw used by Columbia Pulp for manufacturing market pulp and then paper products will replace approximately 280,000 tons of wood chips, positively impacting forest sustainability, the company said.
The innovative concept will serve to revitalize the local straw industry via an estimated annual $13 million in straw purchase, eliminating the need to burn 250,000 of the four million tons produced within the sourcing area of the Lyons Ferry plant, saving an estimated 45,000 tons of air emissions, Begley said.
The state-of-the-art facility also will incorporate energy-efficient processes because it will use less energy and chemicals than traditional pulp mills, reducing unpleasant odors often experienced in communities near sulfur-based mills.
Columbia Pulp plans to sell or use the residual product from pulping, including carbohydrate and lignin residues from the manufacturing process.
"It's going to have a big impact on the local community," Begley said, adding that future expansion is "certainly our hope."
Columbia Pulp's main office is at 115 E. Main St., Dayton. For more information, visit columbiapulp.net; 509-288-4892.
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Amidst continuing uncertainty in overall business climate, Tata Group Chairman Cyrus P. Mistry said to succeed in the volatile environment, the group companies must evaluate alternative scenarios of the future while crafting their strategies.
"Clearly, the year gone by has witnessed a business environment that has continued to be volatile and uncertain. Stagnant or sluggish economic growth across some of our key markets such as India and Europe has impacted the performance of several Tata companies. This is a time for us to re-look at some of our strategies, recalibrate our business models, fine-tune our execution capabilities and invest in our future,??? Mr. Mistry said in a year-end letter to employees of the group.
Need for innovation
Stressing the need for innovation and investing in R&D, Mr. Mistry said: "Our organisations will need to embrace agility, powered by teams with the aptitude and capability for continual learning. To remain relevant in an increasingly competitive world, we shall put innovation capability at the core of each of our companies' operating structures and will invest in R&D and grow top talent.???
He also urged employees to seek opportunities for group companies to pool resources to co-create shared value.
"There is so much that collaboration between our companies can offer, be it in areas like innovation, management of technology, or identifying the emerging needs and wants of consumers,??? Mr. Mistry said while following a habit set by his predecessor Ratan Tata who used to send out a letter to employees at the end of the every year.
The Tata Group chairman said the group, to achieve its goal, must, among other things, foster a culture of openness across the group, and develop a performance-oriented framework that valued each colleague's contribution as well as cultural fit with the group. "This requires significant investment in people development and in encouraging diversity in the workplace,??? he added.
In his opening remark, Mr. Mistry, who completed one year as chairman of Tata Sons on December 28, said he spent the past year interacting with colleagues across the globe, acquiring a fuller understanding of the multiple businesses under the Tata group umbrella, and comprehending all that the group represented for its many stakeholders.
He said each employee of the group had a responsibility to protect and enhance the group's brand through the ethical conduct of business and by adhering to the unique value system instilled by the founder, sustained for over half-a-century by JRD Tata, and fortified by Mr. Ratan N. Tata in recent years.
In conclusion, quoting the late Nelson Mandela, Mr. Mistry said: "Do not judge me by my successes; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.???
"There is a lesson in these words of Nelson Mandela, and by taking them to heart we can build on the unique platform that our founder and those who followed him created,??? Mr. Mistry added.
This is Mr. Mistry's second letter to the employees of group companies and the first one was written by him soon after he took over in January 2013.
–http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/this-is-time-to-relook-at-some-strategies-cyrus-mistry/article5523573.ece?homepage=true
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Back in England, the pairing of Olly Murs and Flo Rida seems a little odd, to the point where some close to the singer questioned if he was lying when he revealed the collaboration.
Murs continued that while the U.S. views him and Flo as pop artists, the UK considers Flo more of a hip-hop/urban artist, thus the initial disconnect.
What makes the foreign view on the mix of genres even more puzzling is that Murs is already an established powerhouse overseas. He scored three double-platinum albums in the UK; the latest called Right Place Right Time, which features "Troublemaker." He is now trying to emulate that success across the pond. Murs' new LP is slated for an April release in America on Columbia Records. He could only hope to achieve the success of his labelmates, One Direction.
Of course with the fame comes the scrutiny of the media, and One Direction found them under the microscope throughout the band's last visit to New York.
Coverage of the fellas reached a fever point last December when Harry Styles was spotted out and about in New York with Taylor Swift. The two have since called it quits, and when asked who might be a good replacement to Spears or L.A. Reid on the U.S. version of "The X-Factor," Murs brought up the singer/songwriter.
Murs wouldn't be worried that Swift may not be as critical as a judge should – citing the presence of the ever-cynical Simon Cowell on the panel.


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The best bites from bars around the city.
The fresh-pressed juice and smoothie cocktails at the recently opened Cocktail Bodega are meals in and of themselves, but its eclectic menu of international street eats is also worth a look. Designed by Roblé Ali of Bravo fame, the short menu is a whimsical melting pot of flavors from the Americas, the Caribbean, and Asia, all served up cafeteria-style in checkered paper and red baskets.
Fun dishes include the Cuban Sandwich Quesadilla ($9), the always reliable pairing of ham, pork, cheese, mustard, and pickles pressed together in a flour tortilla instead of the usual Cuban bread. The result is much less greasy than the typical Cubano sandwich, and just as tasty.
Bodega Wings ($7), typically an afterthought on most bar menus, are excellent here. Plump and juicy with plenty of meat, the wings have a spicy flavor with a hot, crunchy coating. The dish comes with a side of blue cheese sauce, but the wings are better on their own.
Curried Coconut Shrimp ($11) also had a lovely sweet and spicy flavor, but with only four shrimp to an order, the dish felt much skimpier than the other menu options. Caribbean flavors are quite popular here—the kitchen also offers Jamaican Beef Patties ($9) and Jerked Chicken Satays ($7), which look far more filling.
Spare Ribs ($2 each) came recommended by the bartenders, but the version that we tried was tough and chewy. It was the only dish not completely devoured.
Instead, finish out the meal with a side Waffle Fries ($5, pictured below), which are exactly as pictured: warm, crisp, and perfectly filling.
Nancy, who comes to New York by way of Los Angeles, writes The Wanderist, a food and travel blog of adventures here and abroad. She writes the column Bar Eats, largely because of an affinity for bar food and a genetic aversion to alcohol. She loves noodles, subway maps, and word games.


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Q: How to pre or post process KnotData "substrate" What I'm after might be thought of as operating on the 'rope' that KnotData[] uses. Specifically, I'd like to be able to specify that the knot is to be made of a prism (not the Mathematica Prism[], which is always triangular) whose cross section could be a not-necessarily-regular $n$-gon, and could be twisted a la the Möbius strip.  Looking at the daunting appearance of the InputForm[] of KnotData[] convinces me that polygonalization and twisting steps should precede KnotData[] - but how?
Here is the InputForm[] structure for several knots (e.g., Torus, Trefoil)
Graphics3D[{{GraphicsComplex[{{-0.53993, -0.00924, 0.16395}, ... ,
                           {-0.50971, 0.00165, 0.07456}},
{{{EdgeForm[],
    GraphicsGroup[{Polygon[{{1, 2, 14, 13}, ... ,
                             {8820, 8809, 8821, 8832}}]}]}, {}}},
VertexNormals -> {{0.00026, -0.18488, 0.98276}, ...,
                  {0.60404, 0.15619, -0.78149}}]}},
{Boxed -> False, PlotRange -> {All, All, All}, PlotRangePadding ->
{Automatic, Automatic, Automatic}, ViewPoint -> {0, 0.01, 5}}]

Notes: Tube seems to be the default (whether explicitly specified, or not, as in the above).  Documentation, i.e.,  ref/KnotData, shows the use of Sphere to accomplish a similar goal. And, speaking of docs, there seems to be an omission:
Below list of Classes omits  "Ribbon", "Slice", and "Twist" though all three are included in the "Basic classes of knots"  in ref/KnotData.   Both "Alternating" and "Nonalternating" are listed as "Basics", though it appears that "Nonalternating" should be with the other Non's in "Negative classes of knots."
KnotData["Classes"]

{"Alternating", "Amphichiral", "Chiral", "Composite", "Hyperbolic",
"Invertible", "Nonalternating", "Nonhyperbolic", "Noninvertible",
"Nonsatellite", "Nontorus", "Prime", "Satellite", "Torus"}

Lastly, I obviously haven't gotten the hang of Markdown yet.  Much obliged.

A: What follows is basically @TeakeNutma's answer to Extruding along a path, but modified to allow arbitrary n-gons as the cross section. First, here is one way to obtain a parametrized n-gon. Suppose the points making up the 2D n-gon are given in a list pts. For example:
pts = {{1, 0}, {-1/2, 1}, {-1/2, -1}};

Then, you can parametrize the n-gon by creating a 3D InterpolatingFunction:
poly = Interpolation[
    Thread[{
        Range[0, Length[pts]],
        PadRight[pts, {Length[pts]+1, 3}, PadRight[pts[[1]], 3]]
    }],
    InterpolationOrder->1
];

Let's check out the 2D projection of this InterpolatingFunction:
ParametricPlot[poly[t][[;;2]], {t, 0, Length[pts]}]

The space curve for a knot can be obtained using the "SpaceCurve" property:
knot = KnotData["Trefoil", "SpaceCurve"]

{Sin[#1] + 2 Sin[2 #1], Cos[#1] - 2 Cos[2 #1], -Sin[3 #1]} &

Now, we use poly and knot to create your graphic:
ParametricPlot3D[
    knot[u] + 1/8 RotationMatrix[{{0,0,1},knot'[u]}] . poly[v],
    {u,0,2 Pi},
    {v,0,3},
    Exclusions->None, Boxed->False, Axes->False, Mesh->False, PlotPoints->40
]


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Het station bevindt zich op de hoek van Beach 59th Street en Rockaway Beach Boulevard. Het is gelegen in de wijk Rockaway, een schiereiland in het uiterste zuidoosten van de borough Queens. Het station wordt ook van Beach 60th Street-Straiton Avenue genoemd.

Het station wordt te allen tijde aangedaan door metrolijn A.

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Newsmax: Madison Institute's McClure: 'Obamacar' Lemon Should Head to the Junkyard
By J. Robert McClure
As problems keep emerging in the struggle to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), long-time critics and former supporters alike face a different kind of struggle: finding words adequate to convey the scale of these problems."A train wreck," was what Democratic Senator Max Baucus called it. Maybe a handier way to depict some of the problems is to imagine where we'd be if, instead of "Obamacare," we were talking about the "Obamacar."This 2010 model rolled off the assembly line at Congressional Motors (CM) with scant attention to quality control. Already Congress has been forced to act nine different times to fix broken parts, including a provision that would have forced virtually everyone who pays anyone anything to file an IRS Form 1099, as if the IRS didn't have enough to worry about these days.The U.S. Supreme Court – by a decisive 7-2 margin – struck down another provision that would have forced states to expand Medicaid. If a "50 Worst Laws of All Time" list is ever compiled, the PPACA deserves at least an honorable mention.Indeed, if an actual vehicle had posed as many risks to highway safety as the PPACA poses to the health of the U.S. economy, federal authorities would have ordered a massive recall.Congressional Motors also would have been in trouble with consumer advocates for misleading the public on its warranty, namely President Obama's promise that "If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it."Tell that to the unions and others who supported the PPACA but have broken ranks upon learning that they won't be able to keep many of their health insurance plans after all — unless they pay sums of money they can't afford.Then there's Mr. Obama's other guarantee: "If you've got a doctor you like, you'll get to keep your doctor." Tell that to the patients whose doctors are taking early retirement – or are setting up a "concierge practice" – to avoid the catastrophic effects of the PPACA. Worse, where will Americans find a doctor a decade from now, when the nationwide shortage of physicians is projected to approach 100,000?That shortage may be only the beginning. Indeed, some bright young people are beginning to ask themselves a sobering question: Why should I hit the books from middle school through medical school, endure an internship and a residency, and potentially amass huge student-loan debts, only to enter a profession where the feds dictate exactly what I can do and what I may earn?As bad as the blows are to what formerly was a system providing some of the world's best health care – even to the uninsured – the job-killing PPACA's blows to the U.S. economy will be worse.Small businesses, in particular, are already are taking steps to survive. Does the law dictate providing health insurance if a business has 50+ fulltime employees? Cut back to 49 or fewer.Already approaching 50 fulltime workers? Don't add any. No wonder 70 percent of the jobs added during the economic recovery are part-time jobs. Does the law mandate providing health insurance even for part-timers who work 30+ hours a week? Reduce their hours.Such part-timers will now face a double whammy: Reducing their hours gives them less money in their paychecks, and now they'll be forced to spend a portion of it to buy their own health insurance — or else pay a "tax."As U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio pointed out during a recent talk at The James Madison Institute's Tallahassee headquarters, because of this the PPACA will also cause serious ripple effects throughout the U.S. economy. For one thing, it'll mean that consumers will have less money to spend on other things – dining out, movies, dry cleaning, transportation, housing, etc. These ripple effects will be among the PPACA's many unintended consequences.The more Americans learn about the PPACA, the more they realize they've been sold a lemon. It's time to send the Obamacar to the junkyard and look at better healthcare models, which are fueled by marketplace principles that empower consumers not Washington bureaucrats. Those principles could get us where we need to go – even in healthcare – if we'd give them a try.Dr. J. Robert McClure is President/CEO of The James Madison Institute, a Florida-based non-partisan research and educational organization. Contact him at bob@jamesmadison.org or follow him on Twitter at @DrBobMcClure.
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A bireme is an ancient oared warship (galley) with two decks of oars. Biremes were long vessels built for military purposes and could achieve relatively high speed. They were invented well before the 6th century BC and were used by the Phoenicians, Assyrians, and Greeks.
The name bireme comes from "bi-" meaning two and "-reme" meaning oar.
It was typically about 80 feet (24 m) long with a maximum beam width of around 10 feet (3 m). It was modified from the penteconter, a ship that had only one set of oars on each side, the bireme having two sets of oars on each side. The bireme was twice the triaconter's length and height, and thus employed 120 rowers. Biremes were galleys, galleasses, dromons, and small pleasure crafts called pamphyles.
The next development, the trireme, keeping the length of the bireme, added a tier to the height, the rowers being thus increased to 180. It also had a large square sail.
These ships were frequently used by the Romans, as during the second of Caesar's invasions of Britain. The bireme eventually evolved into the trireme. A unit commandant (who was given a tent on the open deck) directed a group of marines. The bireme was also recorded in ancient history on the 8th and early 7th-century BC Assyrian reliefs, where they were used to carry out an amphibious attack on the coast of Elam and the lagoons of the Persian Gulf during the reign of Sennacherib.
Medieval galleys are also described as "bireme" or "trireme" depending on the number of their banks of oars. The terminology can lead to confusion, since the terms are also used for rowed warships of the Greco-Roman period built on entirely different design principles.
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WILMINGTON, N.C. (September 14, 2010) In a collaboration with energy solutions provider Brady (www.bradyservices.com), the University of North Carolina Wilmington (www.uncw.edu) is making a $4.5 million facility upgrade pay for itself. The project includes a performance contract that guarantees more than $333,000 in annual energy savings, a total of $8.9 million over the 20-year life of the contract. The improvement to mechanical and lighting systems in 10 campus buildings is part of the university's ongoing commitment to being environmentally responsible.
In this performance contract, Trane Comfort Solutions Inc, assumes the financial risk of the project, enabling the UNCW to use future energy savings to pay for up-front costs and eliminating the need to use capital-improvement budgets to upgrade systems. UNCW's performance contract with Trane Comfort Solutions Inc. guarantees that if energy savings projections are not achieved, Trane Comfort Solutions Inc. will write the university a check for the difference. Energy savings audits and financial reconciliation will be conducted annually.
This the first performance contract with the UNC System that includes the use of day lighting as an energy savings strategy. Solar tubes will be added to Randall Library. Other improvements that will increase energy efficiency and/or reduce water consumption include the replacement of boilers, connecting additional buildings to the central energy plant, new temperature controls, new air handing equipment and lighting upgrades.
Brady is providing administrative and engineering support, as well was management of the installation of the energy conservation measures.
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