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package io.reactors
package container

import scala.reflect.ClassTag

/** A reactive hash set.
 *
 *  @tparam T       type of the elements in the set
 */
class RHashSet[@spec(Int, Long, Double) T](
  implicit val arrayable: Arrayable[T]
) extends RContainer[T] with RContainer.Modifiable {
  private var table: Array[T] = null
  private var sz = 0
  private[reactors] var insertsEmitter: Events.Emitter[T] = null
  private[reactors] var removesEmitter: Events.Emitter[T] = null
  private[reactors] var subscription: Subscription = null
  private[reactors] var nil: T = _

  protected def init(ee: Arrayable[T]) {
    table = arrayable.newArray(RHashSet.initSize)
    insertsEmitter = new Events.Emitter[T]
    removesEmitter = new Events.Emitter[T]
    subscription = Subscription.empty
    nil = arrayable.nil
  }

  init(arrayable)

  def inserts: Events[T] = insertsEmitter

  def removes: Events[T] = removesEmitter

  def unsubscribe() = subscription.unsubscribe()

  def +=(elem: T): Boolean = {
    this add elem
  }

  def -=(elem: T): Boolean = {
    this remove elem
  }

  def foreach(f: T => Unit) {
    var i = 0
    while (i < table.length) {
      val k = table(i)
      if (k != nil) {
        f(k)
      }
      i += 1
    }
  }

  def size: Int = sz

  private[container] def lookup(k: T): Boolean = {
    var pos = index(k)
    var curr = table(pos)

    while (curr != nil && curr != k) {
      pos = (pos + 1) % table.length
      curr = table(pos)
    }

    if (curr == nil) false
    else true
  }

  private[container] def insert(k: T, notify: Boolean = true): Boolean = try {
    if (notify) acquireModify()
    checkResize()

    var pos = index(k)
    var curr = table(pos)
    assert(k != nil)

    while (curr != nil && curr != k) {
      pos = (pos + 1) % table.length
      curr = table(pos)
    }

    table(pos) = k
    val added = curr == nil
    if (added) sz += 1
    else removesEmitter.react(k, null)
    if (notify) insertsEmitter.react(k, null)

    added
  } finally releaseModify()

  private[container] def delete(k: T): Boolean = try {
    acquireModify()
    var pos = index(k)
    var curr = table(pos)

    while (curr != nil && curr != k) {
      pos = (pos + 1) % table.length
      curr = table(pos)
    }

    if (curr == nil) false
    else {
      var h0 = pos
      var h1 = (h0 + 1) % table.length
      while (table(h1) != nil) {
        val h2 = index(table(h1))
        if (h2 != h1 && before(h2, h0)) {
          table(h0) = table(h1)
          h0 = h1
        }
        h1 = (h1 + 1) % table.length
      }

      table(h0) = arrayable.nil
      sz -= 1
      removesEmitter.react(k, null)

      true
    }
  } finally releaseModify()

  private[reactors] def checkResize()(implicit arrayable: Arrayable[T]) {
    if (sz * 1000 / RHashSet.loadFactor > table.length) {
      val otable = table
      val ncapacity = table.length * 2
      table = arrayable.newArray(ncapacity)
      sz = 0

      var pos = 0
      while (pos < otable.length) {
        val curr = otable(pos)
        if (curr != nil) {
          val result = insert(curr, false)
        }

        pos += 1
      }
    }
  }

  private def before(i: Int, j: Int) = {
    val d = table.length >> 1
    if (i <= j) j - i < d
    else i - j > d
  }

  private def index(k: T): Int = {
    val hc = k.##
    math.abs(scala.util.hashing.byteswap32(hc)) % table.length
  }

  def apply(key: T): Boolean = lookup(key)

  def contains(key: T): Boolean = lookup(key)

  def add(key: T): Boolean = insert(key)

  def remove(key: T): Boolean = delete(key)

  def clear()(implicit a: Arrayable[T]): Unit = try {
    acquireModify()
    var pos = 0
    while (pos < table.length) {
      val elem = table(pos)
      if (elem != nil) {
        table(pos) = arrayable.nil
        sz -= 1
        removesEmitter.react(elem, null)
      }

      pos += 1
    }
  } finally releaseModify()

}

object RHashSet {

  def apply[@spec(Int, Long, Double) T: Arrayable]() = new RHashSet[T]

  val initSize = 16

  val loadFactor = 450

  implicit def factory[@spec(Int, Long, Double) T: Arrayable] =
    new RContainer.Factory[T, RHashSet[T]] {
      def apply(inserts: Events[T], removes: Events[T]): RHashSet[T] = {
        val hs = new RHashSet[T]
        hs.subscription = new Subscription.Composite(
          inserts.onEvent(hs += _),
          removes.onEvent(hs -= _)
        )
        hs
      }
    }

}


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LGBT Relationships: Research, Issues & Therapy Options
"I am gay."
So starts a social media comment from someone I know. That short post belies the years of self-doubt, struggle and conflict over one's sexuality. This is a process heterosexual people never have to deal with. When I hear the argument over sexuality being a "choice", I can't help but question the logic in that. That said, I want to focus on the work I do as a psychologist, working with the gay and lesbian couples (and all LGBT relationships), in addition to what we have learned from research and the societal changes.
Therapy and counseling encompass the process of examining the mental, physical and psychological effects of issues a person confronts.
If you have to make a presentation to a group and the anxiety over this is overwhelming, counseling will provide the tools to identify where the anxiety is coming from, what triggers it, and how to manage it.
When one is dealing with aspects of sexuality, the issue becomes much more complex and sensitive, especially when exploring these issues in therapy.
It touches on one's identity, self-concept, and self-esteem not to mention all aspects of forming and maintaining relationships.
The society now acknowledges, at least in some circles, that one can be gay, lesbian, intersex or transgender. If the acceptance of any declaration other than the binary (male/female) is nonexistent, the pressure on a person dealing with this becomes intense. So the first task in therapy might be to focus on what social mores one perceives and how to deal with them.
There may be both legal and societal consequences to "coming out."
There may be legal consequences to "coming out." If so, therapy has to consider those in a realistic manner. What about family reactions? This is probably the hardest for anyone, as we all want the approval of our family and friends. At the same time, there are those who feel their sexuality is a private matter and choose not to reveal where they are. Counseling has to be objective and aimed at working with the goals the counselee sets.
Let's move on to how therapy works for a person who has accepted their orientation and now wants to work on forming and/or maintaining relationships.
How does therapy help in this? In the LGBTQ world, there is an additional obstacle of determining who may be receptive to one's approach. It is one thing if you go to gay bars; it is another when you are attracted to someone at work who may or may not share your sexual orientation. The doubts, ambiguity, and anxiety in approaching any prospective partner thus become doubly hard. The role of therapy is in navigating these waters in a way one can be at ease with.
How cognitive therapy can help and what to expect in this type of course of therapy
Aaron T. Beck formulated cognitive therapy, which I practice, in the 1960s. It is based on the model that our thoughts determine our feelings and subsequently, guide our behavior.
When one has faulty beliefs, and inaccurate thinking, emotions are likewise affected and end up with problems in behavior. Therapy aims to first identify those faulty beliefs in the mind. Take for example the expectation that one should aim for perfection in every way. Perfectly dressed and coiffed, speaking perfectly, making absolutely no mistakes in behaving, courteous at all times, achieving all goals with minimum effort and surpassing others in grades, performance, or other aspects of life ad infinitum.
Not difficult to imagine the extreme pressures this kind of thinking would produce, and the anxiety, depression or other psychological symptoms that would ensue. In cognitive therapy, I work collaboratively to change the faulty beliefs that would be identified, understand the distortions and then test out new behaviors. The therapist forms a road map, based on the counselee's inner reality, and then helps him/her to examine the lanes in that roadmap and continue with the journey taking a different path, leading to a better sense of life balance.
In working with LGBTQ clients, it has been a privilege for me to lead that journey, to see the huge roadblocks one can confront in coming out, in seeking relationships and then keeping them.
In most aspects, relationship issues are the same whether one is straight or otherwise. Most concerns center around finances, insecurity or sex. However, there is no doubt that in the minority world, there are additional issues to deal with.
When there are internal struggles to resolve as to how to present oneself and in what contexts, the emotional load can become insurmountable. Despite marriage equality that the United States Supreme Court had a say in, there are parts in this country and in other places in the world where it is not only unacceptable, but also a crime, so even the notion of world travel brings issues to deal with. But it is good to remember the Japanese proverb: If you fall down 7 times, you get up 8. Therapy is one way to give you a hand in being resilient.
Janan Broadbent is a Psychologist/consultant on relationship issues between couples, families, and colleagues. With conflict resolution and personal growth as goals, communication skills help in developing trust and positive thinking. Janan offers a cross-cultural background of 30+ years in clinical work, 25+ years in teaching and business consultations to help her clients achieve well-being. Get in contact with Janan through her RingMD profile (click here).
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This was a request by the boys. They were hooked on Phineas and Ferb during the holidays, they will even record it down if we are going out, so they do not have to miss it. I've no idea what's so attractive about the cartoon, as I did not watch it with them, but I must say the theme song is kind of catchy, it keeps ringing in my head now as I type this. lol.
LT's bento, in the box are fish floss sushi, drumlets, strawberries and blueberries. LT asked for Ferb and IT wanted Phineas, but since the box seems quite empty with one, I did both for them.
IT's bento, same food as above.
IT's bento for School, in the box are nutella rolls, pork jerky(bak kwa) and blueberries.
I don't know this cartoon, but they surely cheer up a bento!
I need to get some of that "grass" for separating the food. It really brightens up your lunches!
I'm using ham for their faces, cheese for their face n flattened bread for hair. The colored bits are done by spraying on Wilton colour mist. Drumlettes are the front portion / joint of chicken wings.


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OPEN ACCESS ANTIQUARIANISM
Where Technology & Art Bring the Future to the Past and the Past to the Future
The Golden Horns of Gallehus: 3D Printing Family Archaeo-Legends
My family is quite kooky and delightfully ancient.
We know the ins and outs of our family history for a variety of reasons, most of which revolve around hoarding Victorians and my great-grandmother's life quest to hunt out every detail she could about her family's past–which drove her into the records of the Church of Latter Day Saints and out to a series of tiny churches and cemeteries all over Europe and Central America.
The 1988 stamp commemorating the awesomeness of Ole Worm–and you'll note, the first Gallehus horn.
The Saga of Ole Worm
Though there are literally hundreds of tales, and thousands of antique photographs (and yes, one day– these too will be archived and annotated if for no other reasons than that they should be); the bit of family history that has always seemed most apropos for me to discuss is our relation to one of the first archaeologists, the noted 17th century antiquarian Ole Worm (or Olaus Wormius).
In among his various life triumphs like deciphering the Norse runic alphabet, being the royal physician to the much beloved King Christian IV of Denmark, possessing one of the most extensive Cabinet of Curiosities of his time, and eventually having a Danish postage stamp and an HP Lovecraft character in his honor–he was involved with the first of the golden horns of Gallehus.
As you can tell from that litany, he's a bit cool. And I rather think if he hadn't been a long-distant family member, my mother would never have let me pursue archaeology as a career. She justifies it all now as 'keeping it in the family.' But his are big, daunting shoes that I don't think I ought to try to fill.
The replicas of the Golden Horns of Gallehus at the Danish National Museum.
But back to our tale of artifact replication and the proposed techno-art project it involves:
The Golden Horns
The first golden horn was reputedly found by a peasant girl near the village of Gallehus in Denmark, prompting further excavation and study by the King's right hand man and collector of antiquities and oddities– yep, you guessed it– our hero Ole Worm.
After much study, translation, and publication on the subject by Ole Worm–the horn, and another similar shorter horn found nearby almost a century later, passed into the king's museum collection. Where they lived a quiet life on a shelf until they were stolen by an itinerant goldsmith and melted down in 1803. Luckily casts of the original horns had been made for a Cardinal in Rome, as the papacy had specifically approved the initial research on the Viking artifacts of Gallehus and apparently eventually wanted their own copy. Unluckily, those original casts were lost in transit, when the ship carrying them sank.
Utilizing Ole Worm's drawings of the horns, replicas were subsequently made, and several copies from these replicas were cast. These copies are made from a variety of materials and were sent out to several Danish and international museums.
One of Ole Worm's published drawings of the Gallehus horns.
The British Museum reproductions of the Gallehus horns are electrotype copies of the replica and at my last visit, were kept in a central case in the antiquarian rooms of the museum. Since their arrival in London, this set of horns has led a quiet life.
The other replicas of the replicas have been less fortunate. And in the past decade, both the replicas from Moesgaard Museum and the Kongernes Jelling Museum were stolen from their cases, but promptly recovered by authorities.
The Family Replica
In the 1970s, my grandmother Nanook, the ever-creative and fabulous Lynn Zalot, decided we apparently ought to have our own version of the Gallehus horn of Ole Worm. And so she wrote the museum authorities and requested photographs of the artifact. Eventually, she was sent a single shot. And from that image, she crafted her own interpretation of the horn.
My grandmother Lynn Zalot in one of the promotional belly dancing series for her Middle Eastern Dance Magazine: Habibi…another something-something that ought to be archived. We have boxes and boxes of the best of 1960s and 1970s bellydancing stored up, in addition to the anthropological articles of the magazine itself.
Nanook's replica of the Galleheus horn–shorter, stouter, and made of clay.
And now, I'd like to try again. Going back to the original etchings, I'd like to digitally model and 3D print the first golden horn of Gallehus–displaying it in our Cabinet of Curiosities alongside my grandmother's replica and the personal family tale that tacks onto this ancient archaeological legend of replication.
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Mix beans and onion together in a serving bowl; set aside. Combine remaining ingredients in a saucepan and heat until sugar dissolves; pour over bean mixture. Refrigerate at least 12 hours prior to serving.
This tastes just like the 3 bean salad my mom used to make. A kids we always loved it, and it was always requested at family gatherings and other functions. So simple yet yummy. NOTE: We cut the sugar to 1/4 cup (4Tablespoons) and added a pinch more salt. For the vinegar we used red wine vinegar; but any flavor would work; sometimes some ingredients can be used interchangeably.


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Produce a suite of three-year utility budgets, breaking down all commodity and non-energy components at an individual site level. These reports are regularly reforecasted using latest techniques and information to ensure financial governance is guaranteed.
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Macclesfield RUFC 16 Coventry 13
Matt O'Regan's late converted try proved the difference in a tense victory over Coventry at Priory Park.
Macclesfield Express
Captain Tom Eaton was on-target with all his kicks to contribute 11 points and make it six wins in a row for the Blues, putting them one point behind 13th -placed Wharfedale.
Despite an excellent game from Coventry's full-back and kicker Clifford Hodgson, the visitors failed to hold on, despite leading for most of the match.
Macclesfield went on the attack from the off, with Mike Finnemore coming close down the right wing after good attacking play from Dean Williams and Tom Mantell.
Hodgson provided notice of how influential he is with an impressive kick into touch resulting in a line-out close to Macclesfield's goal line. Five minutes later he kicked a 30-yard penalty to open the scoring.
Midway through the half Coventry's Jamie Harrop fouled Eaton, who levelled with the resulting penalty.
Coventry's best chance came soon after as the visitors outnumbered the Blues on the right wing but a bad pass from Gregory Evans to winger Tom Harris allowed Macclesfield to snuff out the threat.
However, Coventry's next attacking play paid off as a clearance from Ed Styles was blocked, allowing Hodgson to catch the ball in space and score down by the posts, his kick making it 10-3.
The visitors continued to press and their next chance came as centre Heath Stevens broke past several players before passing a high ball out to Dan Wright, who was brought down by Tom Cruse's good tackle.
Macclesfield had several chances late in the first half after Matt Owen's run through the centre gained 30 yards, Tom Mantell receiving the ball and carrying it well as momentum changed in the Blues' favour.
Matt Rhodes and Eaton then linked up well together but Coventry kept it tight at the back to deny the home side a try before half-time.
A minute into the second half, Hodgson scored another penalty to give Coventry a 13-3 lead.
Important tackles from Styles and Dave Marwick helped stop attacks from building up and as the ball turned over, Macclesfield went back on the attack, Cruse and Elliot Brierley looking threatening going forward.
Penalties from Eaton in the 59th and 61st minutes narrowed the score to just 13-9, giving the Blues hope.
As the home crowd got behind them, Macclesfield continued to press and search for the try it would take to give them the lead, and after 76 minutes Coventry prop Bronson Ross was given a yellow card for not moving away.
The Blues took advantage of the extra man and in one of the last chances of the game, centre O'Regan dived over the line to score the Blues' only try and take the lead for the first time.
Eaton's conversion brought the score to 16-13 and one nerve-jangling minute later the full-time whistle went, giving Macclesfield an important four points.
Head coach Geoff Wappett was delighted with the result, as well as the home support.
"I thought the spectators were really good," he said. "The crowd really got behind the boys and showed a lot of passion and emotion and need to do the same next Saturday.
"I've always said you have to play right to the final whistle and I thought we did deserve to win, albeit leaving it late.
"In the first 20 minutes we were stronger than them and created one or two good chances, but after we made that error and conceded seven pretty soft points, I thought it affected us badly and helped them.
"In the second half they started conceding penalties and Tom (Eaton) did well to convert those chances.
"I thought it was a great pass to Matt O'Regan for the late try that put him into a bit of space, his little kick-and-chase was really well done as he was being chased by two defenders.
"Tom was cool as a cucumber once again to convert, so with the try being so late it gives very little opportunity for the opposition to get back at you.
"I don't think we've played at our best yet, we've got a lot to still deliver on. It's nice to think that there's still some left in the tank. The lads know that, that there is more in there, and one day it will all come out."
Speaking about next week's game against Fylde, Wappett added: "Their home form is considerably better than their away form, but they're a good side and they have a number of very good players, so you have to respect the potential in their team.
"Frankie Barker will be back, Ed Stobart is fit again, as well as Alan Marsh, and those three will make a difference to any side."
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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey stepping down as CEO
Shares of Twitter are surging on a report that co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as the company's chief executive
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer
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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as CEO of the social media platform, the company announced. He will be succeeded by Twitter's current Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows below.
Shares of Twitter are surging on a report that co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as the company's chief executive.
Twitter's stock, which has consistently underperformed the market, jumped more than 10% at the opening bell Monday before trading was halted pending news.
CNBC first reported that Dorsey may step down soon, citing anonymous sources.
Twitter Inc. did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press early Monday. On Sunday, Dorsey sent the tweet "I love Twitter."
Dorsey is also the top executive at Square, a financial payments company that he founded, and some big investors have openly questioned whether he can be effective leading both.
Last year, the company came to an agreement with two of those activist investors that kept Dorsey in the top job and gave a seat on the company board to Elliott Management Corp., which owned about 4% of Twitter's stock, and another to Silver Lake.
Twitter was caught up in the heated political atmosphere leading up to the 2020 election. Former President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter, with Dorsey defending the move, saying the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and Trump's tweets after the event resulted in a risk to public safety and created an "extraordinary and untenable circumstance" for the company. Trump sued the company, along with Facebook and YouTube, in July for alleged censorship.
The early days of Twitter began with a tweet sent by Dorsey on March 21, 2006, that read "just setting up my twttr." Twitter went through a period of robust growth during its start, but as the growth slowed the San Francisco company began tweaking its format in a bid to make it easier and more engaging to use.
Dorsey initially became Twitter CEO in 2007, but was forced out the next year. He returned to the role in 2015.
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Can Trump Hold Off Economic Crash Until 2020 Election?
Thom Hartmann: The entire "supply side" scam that if the rich people get richer it'll help us all is totally discredited, but, in deference to their billionaire donors, the GOP still clings to it.
If he times it right, Donald Trump might set back the Democratic Party for a generation or more; if he misses, he'll go down in history along with Herbert Hoover as the guy who brought the nation an economic disaster.
Back in 2007 and early 2008, many of us were convinced that an economic crash was coming, and that George W. Bush and his Treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, and Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, knew it.
And we also thought that they were doing everything they could to hold it off so it would happen after the 2008 election, so if a Democrat was elected they could say the crash was because people were "worried about the incoming Democrats," and if McCain won it would be his problem, not Bush's.
It appears that Trump may be doing the same thing, only, as with so many of his High Crimes (a phrase that includes "serious misuse or abuse of office"), he's being much more public about it. On June 15, he tweeted, "if anyone but me takes over... there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before!"
The question now is whether he'll have the same bad luck Bush did in not being able to forestall it by a year or so.
Bush knew the business cycle that had cranked up during the late 90s was coming to an end, and he, Greenspan, and Paulson did everything they could to hold it off.
Between 2001 and 2003, he pushed through Congress and signed fully three major tax cuts for wealthy people and businesses, including massive cuts to dividend and capital gains income. This poured hundreds of billions in borrowed money into the economy, wiping out the $236 billion budget surplus Bill Clinton had left him and throwing us into a $458 billion annual deficit in 2008.
To further goose the economy, Bush and Cheney illegally got us into two wars, raising defense spending from the $290 billion ceiling it had hit during the 1990s to over $595 billion in 2008, pouring literally trillions into the defense industry.
In particular, the old Ayn Rand cult member and acolyte Alan Greenspan got into the act by lowering the Fed funds rate—the basis of U.S. interest rates—from 6.5 percent at the end of 2000 to below 2 percent in 2002. Greenspan kept the interest rates below 2 percent right up until just after the election of 2004, when he let them float up slightly. Bush rewarded his good efforts by reappointing him as Fed chair in 2005, which many speculate was why he'd jacked up the economy so hard leading up to the election of 2004, giving Bush a credit-fueled "feel good economy."
The entire "supply side" scam that if the rich people get richer it'll help us all is totally discredited, but, in deference to their billionaire donors, the GOP still clings to it.
And it was insanely credit-fueled. Between 2000 and 2006, housing prices in the United States doubled because the low interest rates, combined with repeated Republican deregulation of the banking and security sectors, allowed millions of unqualified new home buyers into the marketplace, driving demand toward the sky.
Trump, Steven Mnuchin, and Jerome Powell have virtually cloned the process, from tax cuts to defense spending to low interest rates, and the inevitable result is increasingly obvious to financial publication opinion writers. Op-eds in staid publications like the Financial Times and the Economist are, with growing frequency, somewhere between, "The sky is about to fall!" and, "There's a meteor coming the size that wiped out the dinosaurs!"
And with good reason.
The entire "supply side" scam that if the rich people get richer it'll help us all is totally discredited, but, in deference to their billionaire donors, the GOP still clings to it. Their policies, true to their proclamations, have raised the wealth of the top 1 percent by a total of $21 trillion just in the years since Reagan's last months in office, leaving them sitting on over $30 trillion in assets and cash.
In fact, though, demand is what drives economies. And, while rich people might buy a few yachts and fancy mansions, it's the purchasing power of the bottom 99 percent that is known by economists as "aggregate demand" and actually moves marketplaces.
Reaganomics—the neoliberal economic system we've been living under continuously since 1981—has wiped out the purchasing power of the bottom 99 percent. In the same time that the rich have gotten $21 trillion richer, the bottom 50 percent of Americans have lost—vanished, gone forever, lost—over $900 billion.
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By Lenore Daniels Jan 26, 2023
Cheap credit is the only thing that's keeping most Americans buying anything beyond groceries and medicine, and both of those are exploding in price because of climate change, monopoly, and fraud. It's not a question of if, but when the working people of America will stop going deeper and deeper in debt simply to maintain their current lifestyles.
And as more and more Americans downsize their housing or even become homeless (we're the only developed country in the world to have homeless teachers, nurses, and fast-food workers), their ability to keep the American economy afloat will collapse even with 1.5 percent interest rates. Right now, half of us would get wiped out by a medical or car expense of just a few hundred dollars, having to turn to friends, family, a new credit card, or GoFundMe to stay afloat.
Back in 2007, I started refusing to read advertisements on my radio/TV show for banks and subprime lenders. It infuriated our advertising sales team, but I was openly warning people on the air that an economic winter was coming, and couldn't in good conscience then tell them to take on more debt.
We're there again. In some very real ways, in fact, we never got out of it.
Over the past five years, if there had not been a multitrillion-dollar increase in government, corporate, and individual borrowing, the U.S. economy would have contracted, rather than grown.
All of our national economy's growth has been on borrowed money for all of Trump's presidency: there's quite literally no "there" there.
This is not how a healthy economy is supposed to work; instead, Trump is maintaining and inflating an economic Potemkin village, a pretend economy made out of cardboard, chicken wire and bubble gum that will collapse in the face of the first stiff economic wind.
If Trump and his collaborators can hold back the winds until November of next year, the GOP has a chance in the elections.
And, as a bonus for Trump, if Democrats sweep the 2020 elections and Powell and Mnuchin pull out the economy's temporary props right afterward, crashing the economy, Republicans will blame Democrats for the ensuing economic disaster for the next generation or two.
On the other hand, if Trump can't pull it off, get ready for some epic tiny-finger pointing.
And a crash before the election could offer our nation an opportunity, should Democrats nominate an actual progressive who will take us off the neoliberal Reaganomics we've suffered under since 1981.
A 2021 return to New Deal Keynesian economics, which rescued America after the Republican Great Depression and built the strongest middle class in history between 1933 and 1980, could return working-class Americans to opportunity, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
In either case, winter is coming, and we all need to be prepared, both politically and economically.
Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment and more than 25 other books in print. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute.
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The course is carved out of the woods with most fairways open enough to put some zing on your tee shots. The front nine is flat and easier than the back nine. Holes 3, 4 long, and 6 are the most difficult on the front side.
The back nine has some minor elevation changes and has arguably the three most difficult holes: 12, 16 and 17. The longest hole is #17 at 461′.
The course is very popular and it is located in central Charlotte. Benches at most tees. Course features fairways carved out of a heavily wooded area. Slight elevation changes, with mulch mounds accenting elevation. 1997 World Championship site.


HEALTH bosses have been urged to move a Tamiflu collection point out of Solihull Central Library.
Maggie Throup, Prospective Conservative MP for Solihull, has hit out at the disruption brought about by the pick-up point.
Although the theatre is closed throughout August, Ms Throup said that other services had been affected.
The tourism information team has been moved, visitors must enter the cafe through a separate entrance, and blood donations have been cancelled.
Ms Throup said: "I first raised my concerns about the library being used as the collection point for swine flu antivirals at the end of July, but residents' experiences now being fed back to me have emphasised my concerns." She suggested that it would make more sense to set up a number of smaller points around the borough.
The antiviral collection point was one of two opened last month – the other is at Chelmsley Wood library.
* Do you think the library is the right place to provide Swine Flu medication? Email solihull_news@mrn.co.uk or write in to the usual address.
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Rebecca Coleman is the author of THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD, an utterly absorbing look at the breakdown of a woman and a family, beautifully written novel that explores a relationship between a teenager and a teacher as it veers from platonic to unsettlingly forbidden territory.
So today I got an opportunity to join her virtual tour and get to ask her some questions.
D: Your manuscript for the TKOC was a semifinalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition! Tell us a little more about this.
RC: That was a lot of fun. My friend Erika suggested I enter my manuscript-- the contest hadn't been on my radar at all-- so I did, because it's free and I had nothing to lose. And then the book ended up making it through one round after another until it was a semifinalist. I'd gotten a Publisher's Weekly review as part of that process, and it was a very strong one-- they called the book "a scalding, engaging portrait" of two people "caught in a trap of their own making." Having that review in hand was extremely helpful in getting an agent. But the process was also just very fun and exciting-- it was like a horse race, betting on which entries would make the next cut, because Amazon posted excerpts at one stage. One of the finalists that year was Johnny Shaw, who I ran into at BookExpo as he was promoting "Dove Season." He's a great guy, very funny. Entering ABNA is like being on "Survivor"-- you make friends and alliances, and other people you want to vote off the island on the first day.
D: How long did it take you to write the book?
RC: From concept to completion, about two and a half years. That's not a very long time, on the scale of novel-writing, but it feels like a long time when you have no idea whether this is a work project or just an obsessive hobby.
D: Did you do any special research on Waldorf for the book?
RC: I read Torin Finser's "School as a Journey," which is a very detailed look into a Waldorf teacher's mind and classroom, and I read a great deal by Rudolf Steiner, who is the originator of the philosophy. But I also spent a lot of time reading forums and websites by people who felt disenfranchised by Waldorf and critical of it. Because I idealized it for so long, it's oddly painful to be critical. I felt I did my due diligence with research, but mainly I relied upon my real-life experience with it-- attending school events and festivals, observing my son's classroom, and working with the materials-- the toys and art supplies, the storybooks. It's all been a part of my life for many years.
"Yeah, but it's still safer if you use them."
"Safer for what? I don't have any diseases. Do you?"
In a scornful voice he said, "No. But they say you ought to act like everybody does,anyhow."
I gave a deprecating laugh. "Oh, the things they teach you teenagers."
Rebecca Coleman received her B.A. in English literature from the University of Maryland at College Park and speaks to writers' groups on the subjects of creative writing and publishing. A native New Yorker, she now lives and works near Washington, D.C. Her manuscript for The Kingdom of Childhood was a semifinalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition. An emotionally tense, increasingly chilling work of fiction set in the controversial Waldorf school community, it is equal parts enchanting and unsettling and is sure to be a much discussed and much-debated novel.
The Kingdom of Childhood was compelling, love Rebecca's writing.
Absolutely loved reading about the author's experiences with the Amazon competition. While not my genre the book sounds fascinating. Great interview.
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This week I had a class that were comparing the weapons and tactics used on the battlefield in the First World War. In order to do this we created venn diagrams to compare. However these were venn diagrams with a difference, we took them off of the paper and and used hoops and white board pens.
The pupils decided on the weapons or tactics they wished to compare and set up their venn diagram on the table. They then simply used the whiteboard pens to write on the tables. I recoded their work using the SeeSaw app.
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I am very pleased to announce the publication of my latest journal article, "Acquired Pasts and the Commodification of Borrowed Heritage: The Case of the Bank of America Stadium Tour." The article was co-authored with Dr. Sean Gammon of the University of Central Lancashire and Dr. Wei-Jue Huang of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is published in the Journal of Sport & Tourism.
Contemporary understandings of heritage and heritage tourism have viewed 'heritage' as more than just tangible objects and places but also the social values and practices associated with things and places of heritage. As such, sports heritage venues often emphasize the history of the sport or the team to sustain the legacy of the place and create a meaningful experience for the visitors. However, stadiums that are relatively new lack the 'recognizable' heritage that could be incorporated into their stadium tour narratives. To understand different forms of heritage construction, this study examines tours of the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, home of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). Being a stadium with little history, its tour narratives are not rooted in the heritage of the venue itself but rather in the more intangible traditions, language, and rituals of NFL fandom. In particular, the stadium tour espouses the identity, experience and performance of being an NFL fan, providing patrons an opportunity to not only reflect on their past spectator experiences, but also to create new personal/collective heritage through continued consumption. In addition, the tour borrows heritage from other NFL-based heritage markers in order to reinforce the authenticity of the location and experience, seemingly until such time that the facility and team can establish a recognizable and commodifiable 'homegrown' heritage.
A limited number of article e-prints are available via the link here.


Our focus this year is on marine plastics and, more specifically, plastic bottles. As the litter dropped in or around the Tees could end up at the coast we want to work to reduce the amount finding its way to the sea. We all have heard at some point how damaging marine plastics can be and we hope that this event can both to reduce the amount of plastic that the River Tees is transporting out to sea, and raise awareness for the plight of animals - both on our coastline and around the world. This year we will be separating out any plastic waste found and a prize will be awarded to the litter pick that collects the most plastic bottles!
The attached information pack gives you everything you need to register and plan your litter pick as part of the Tees Tidy Up. Litter picks will be taking place throughout the River Tees Rediscovered Partnership area, so if there are any sites that you think need attention let us know and we can organise a pick there!
Tees Tidy Up 2017 involved 253 volunteers picking over 400 bags of rubbish! We want Tees Tidy Up 2018 to be even bigger and better than last year, so get in touch and plan your pick now!
For more information, please contact Zoe@teesriverstrust.org or on 07712 659434 / 01325 787651.


KANDIARO (Dunya News) – Sajid Qureshi, resident of Shah Latif Colony, on Monday doused hot oil on a student of tenth grade, Aqsa, for refusing to marry him.
The girl was taken to Karachi Hospital for first aid and according to the sources of the hospital, 35 percent of the victim's body has been burned.
Police arrested the culprit on the report filed by victim's brother.


(ALBANY, NY) – An anti-hate crimes measure has moved closer to a vote in the Republican-controlled New York State Senate, where it now has the support of a majority of Senators. The measure, which has already passed the State Assembly, was championed inside the GOP majority by Senator Roy Goodman (R) of New York City, who also chairs the Manhattan Republican Party.
The news of an imminent vote on the measure, likely to be held this morning, came late yesterday from Goodman and leaders of a coalition of supportive organizations, including the Log Cabin Republicans of New York. The timing of the vote was sooner than previously expected, as Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R), an opponent of the measure, had announced earlier this year that a hate crimes bill would be brought to a vote "before the end of the year."
"Years of hard work have paid off, and the gay and lesbian community of New York owes a lot to Senator Goodman for championing our cause for 25 years and making this vote possible," said James Wagstaff, President of Log Cabin Republicans of New York City. "Senator Goodman is a shining example of a Republican leader of all the people, and we thank him for his leadership and dedication on our community's behalf for so many years."
Republican Governor George Pataki has long supported the passage of a hate crimes measure which includes sexual orientation, and has pledged to sign the bill into law. In addition to Log Cabin Republicans, the Empire State Pride Agenda and the coalition of organizations supporting the bill, it had the strong support of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R-New York City), who lobbied Republicans in Albany in favor of its passage.
"The success of this effort has a lot to do with the fact that gay voters in New York have both parties actively addressing their concerns," said Rich Tafel, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans in Washington, D.C. "Behind every success in our movement has been a truly bi-partisan strategy, and every failure can be traced back to a one-party strategy. The passage of this bill will be a tribute both to the state Republican leadership and the bi-partisan gay leadership that joined forces with them."
Log Cabin Republicans is the nation's largest gay Republican organization, with state and local chapters nationwide and a federal political action committee. The Log Cabin Republicans New York state organization includes chapters in Rochester, New York City and Long Island.


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Nexus Player now available, compatible games lined up
John Hoff
And it's officially selling – the Nexus Player, that is. If you haven't come across this device yet – although we're not sure how that would be possible – this is the first Android TV set top box being pushed by Google and was manufactured by ASUS. We've speculated on its availability for a time now, but it's finally available.
By available, we of course mean that the device is now listed and can be purchased at the Google Play Store. The listing has changed from "Coming Soon!" to officially for sale at USD$99.00. The Nexus Player is an Intel Atom-powered device, with a 1.8Ghz quad-core processor. The device also has 8GB of internal storage and 1GB RAM. The latter part would be a worry for gamers, as the Nexus Player is also being marketed as having console type gaming available.
To that end, ASUS is going to start selling a gamepad compatible with the Nexus Player starting late November. A lot of game app companies have also made games specifically with the Nexus Player in mind. They include 10 titles from Gameloft: Despicable Me: Minion Rush, Asphalt 8: Airborne, Modern Combat 4 : Zero Hour, Modern Combat 5: Blackout, GT Racing 2 The Real Car Experience, Dungeon Hunter 4, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Wonder Zoo, Ice Age Village, and World at Arms. The Double Dragon Trilogy has also been optimized for the Nexus Player, as well as Final Fantasy III for Android.
Looking at the list of games, most of these would fall under the "casual gaming" genre, which should make the Nexus Player a bastion for casual gaming apps if ever the console gaming aspect of the device picks up. Check out the Google Play Store listing at the source link.
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David Vaughan was sitting in his office in Cambridge when he first saw the grainy black-and-white picture of something he had never thought possible. It was a satellite image of a huge ice shelf on the edge of the South Pole in an area he had been studying with his colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey research centre. At least, it was supposed to be.
"It was like looking at a map of Britain and seeing half of Cornwall had disappeared," he told me recently.
This was baffling, and disconcerting, because ice shelves act like giant doorstops that block the world's last two ice sheets, in Antarctica and Greenland, from oozing faster towards the ocean. Those sheets are a frozen menace to civilisation – they would push up global sea levels by more than 60m if they ever slid into the sea. So a plane was dispatched to check on what Vaughan's picture really showed. Its crew returned with startling news: the ice shelf had gone.
It was not the last. Today, seven of the 12 ice shelves that once fringed that part of the Antarctic have either collapsed or shrunk, along with 81 per cent of its 300 glaciers. And while temperatures have not risen across the entire Antarctic continent, the area that Vaughan was studying has warmed by about 3C in the past 50 years, much faster than global temperatures have risen.
Vaughan never thought about the natural world in the same way again. Today, he is a prominent author of a mammoth international report that will start to be published next month on one of the most fraught public policy issues of our age: climate change. This will be the first assessment report in six years from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN body created in 1988 to give governments an expert technical appraisal of how the climate is changing and why. There have only been four such reports before – in 1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007. Many of the scientists writing them have had experiences like David Vaughan's that have convinced them the climate is changing profoundly, a conclusion each of their reports has confirmed with growing confidence.
But this report will be unlike any other. For one thing, it is the first since the IPCC was plunged into two controversies four years ago, one over claims that hacked scientists' emails showed some IPCC authors had tried to hide data undermining their findings on global warming; another about an error in the 2007 report suggesting Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035. It is also the first since it became so clear that, despite a relentless rise in carbon dioxide emissions, global temperatures have not risen nearly as fast over the past 15 years as they did in previous decades. And it will be the last before world leaders meet in Paris in 2015 to finalise a legally binding agreement to tackle climate change, which will be guided by the IPCC's latest findings.
This means the report will be one of the most carefully analysed documents on climate change this decade, probed and picked apart by the thousands of people around the world for whom the subject has become a driving passion. Yet interviews with some of the scientists who have drafted the new assessment reveal the IPCC is still a curiously misunderstood body, made up of people with widely differing views about how the climate is changing and even about the value of the IPCC itself.
There is nothing else quite like the IPCC. No other branch of science appraises everything of note published in its field for several years on end and puts it together into one enormous study. Each assessment report is so big it is published in stages over the course of a year. The last one weighed in at 20lbs on my bathroom scales and ran to more than 3,000 pages. The one that will start to be published next month is set to be even bigger, in line with an explosive growth of climate science research. The first IPCC assessment in 1990 had 97 main authors. This one has 840.
In the wake of the "Climategate" and "Glaciergate" controversies four years ago, a raft of inquiries eventually found no evidence of serious wrongdoing, let alone anything to raise doubts about the IPCC's conclusions. But the scientists remain the target of a vigorous group of critics sceptical about their work. They have been branded "criminals" (Britain's Lord Monckton) guilty of "massive international scientific fraud" (US congressman James Sensenbrenner) who should commit "hara-kiri" (US pundit Glenn Beck) for duping the world with "snake oil" (former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin).
This has had an impact on the people doing this latest IPCC assessment, according to several of the scientists interviewed for this article. "I see it in the tension in the author team," as they check, recheck, then check again all their work, said David Vaughan. "I think there is a point at which that kind of stress can become difficult to manage," he added, explaining it has made IPCC work "a very cumbersome, slow process".
These furores have also added confusion to what is still a widely misunderstood scientific endeavour. For one thing, the IPCC does not actually exist, at least not in the way many imagine it does, with a staff of comfortably remunerated researchers beavering away to produce its reports. Instead, it relies on hundreds of mostly government-nominated scientists working for free for large parts of the several years it takes to produce the assessments for the IPCC's 195 member countries, all of which are ultimately supposed to approve the report summaries.
The report authors are divided into three working groups: one on the physical science; one on how to adapt to climate change; and one on how to curb it. The most closely watched is Working Group I, on the physical science of climate change, whose report is coming out next month.
The largest share of authors comes from the US and then the UK, which has long been disproportionately represented in the IPCC. For more than half the panel's life there has been a British scientist either chairing it or leading Working Group I, thanks to a drive to fund climate research dating back to former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Perhaps the least understood aspect of the IPCC, however, is how it is run. Its work is supported by a secretariat based in the home of international secretariats, Geneva. But unlike the nearby World Trade Organization, which has 629 regular staff, or the World Health Organization up the road, which has more than 1,800 in its headquarters, the IPCC has just 12 full-time staff in a strip of offices on the eighth floor of the World Meteorological Organization.
The day I visited in late June, I met Renate Christ, the Austrian scientist who has headed the IPCC secretariat since 2004, and asked what her annual budget was this year. "It goes between $7m and $10m," she said, peering at her computer to check exactly what it was for 2013. It turns out that the amount of money the world has come up with to fund the headquarters of the body producing the last word on what Barack Obama recently called "the global threat of our time" is $9.3m this year, about the same as Cumbria spent fixing potholes last year.
If you sat down and read all the IPCC's reports together, which few ordinary mortals ever do, you would read a story of growing scientific conviction that the Earth is warming and that it is probably because of the greenhouse gases humans have produced since they took to burning fossil fuels such as coal and gas in ever more prodigious quantities from the industrial revolution onwards.
The last assessment, in 2007, said average global surface temperatures had gone up 0.76C since 1850, had accelerated in recent decades, and were rising nearly twice as fast in the Arctic. The oceans were warming; glaciers were suffering "widespread mass loss"; and sea levels were rising. Global warming was therefore "unequivocal", the report said, and most of the temperature rises seen since the mid-20th century were "very likely" due to the increase in human-made greenhouse gases, the most important of which is carbon dioxide.
A leaked draft of the new fifth assessment done in October last year said this conclusion had only been strengthened by newer data and that heatwaves were also more likely in many parts of the world, as well as heavy rains.
The extent of this slowdown depends on how one measures it. Each of the past three decades has been warmer than the previous one and the long-term trend since the 1850s clearly shows a steady temperature rise. However, the average rate of warming was 0.17C per decade between 1970 and 1998 and just 0.04C per decade from 1998 to 2012, according to one of the main global temperature data sets.
Slowing temperature rises have happened before, notably between the 1940s and 1970s. But the recent slowdown has come even though the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million earlier this year, the highest level in millions of years.
The most contentious theory – and the one global warming sceptics are most interested in – is that the climate is not as sensitive to carbon dioxide emissions as previously thought. Even if this proves correct, all the climate models used by the IPCC for its latest assessment show that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at current rates, the world will still exceed this century the 2C warming from pre-industrial levels that some scientists believe could prompt dangerous forms of climate change.
But in a sign of what a potent issue the slowdown is becoming, politicians in the US and the UK are already asking if it means they can ease back on contentious measures to curb global warming such as offshore wind farms or carbon pricing.
The man at the centre of the IPCC's new assessment is a gruff Swiss environmental physicist named Thomas Stocker, co-chair of the Working Group I report. After a lifetime spent in the trenches of climate science he is a man of firm opinions. He likes the cerebral American jazz pianist, Keith Jarrett, and spotting orchids. He dislikes a lot of things, including people addicted to smartphones (his own ancient device does almost nothing but take calls), the falling rate of scientific literacy in western society, and poorly run meetings, which he says are "just terrible" and even "irresponsible". When I saw him in the airy office he has occupied at the University of Bern for the past 20 years, the walls were plastered with reproductions of some of his team's best-known scientific publications, including a chart showing that concentrations of carbon dioxide in the past 200 years rose to levels more than 30 per cent higher than at any time in the past 800,000 years.
"That's the most impressive hockey stick," he said proudly, a reference to the famously contentious graph first published in the late 1990s by the US scientist, Michael Mann, and colleagues. This showed temperatures stayed roughly flat for nearly 1,000 years, like the handle on a horizontal hockey stick, before rising sharply in the 20th century, like the blade, after fossil-fuel emissions began to soar. Climate sceptics have spent years attacking it and Mann because it was such a simple picture of the link between global warming and rising carbon dioxide emissions.
Stocker says, however, that it was his team's research that was used in the Al Gore film, An Inconvenient Truth, for the part where Gore uses a forklift to illustrate the relative level of today's emissions compared with those of the past.
He is characteristically brusque about the idea that the recent slowdown in warming suggests politicians can ease up on measures to curb global warming because scientists were mistaken about climate sensitivity. Such questioning is based on "complete disinformation", he said, pointing out that even the IPCC's best estimates are always given together with a range of upper and lower projected temperatures. In any case, he said, 15 years of slower warming is simply too short a timeframe on which to base a judgment. "If we found that indeed for 30 years the temperature didn't go up and CO2 went up with the rate that we observe today, then of course that would pose serious questions. It's absolutely clear," he said.
It is a similar picture for aerosols. "I think generally there is a large uncertainty," he said, adding that the current rate at which fossil fuels are being burnt means a considerable amount of warming is nonetheless certain.
Stocker's view is shared by many of the thousands of scientists who have contributed to the IPCC reports over the past 25 years but not all. Dr Judith Curry, chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is one of several prominent US contrarians who have taken part in past reports but says she would not do so again. The process focuses too narrowly on human impact on the climate, she says, and requires a consensus about its conclusions that can lead to a tribal, group-thinking about the science. "This focus has essentially neglected natural climate variability, and has also neglected to assess potential benefits from a warmer climate," she told the FT.
One doesn't need to look far to find IPCC scientists who are – for different reasons – even less flattering about some of its work, including one helping to shape the latest assessment. Peter Wadhams, a leading expert on Arctic sea ice at Cambridge university, is a review editor on the new Working Group I report. He was pleased to be involved with this one because he was so upset about certain aspects of the last IPCC assessment in 2007.
Thomas Stocker, who had a hand in drafting that earlier report, said uncertainties about how the ice sheets were changing made it impossible to include them in the way Wadhams thought they should have been. "Our purpose in AR4 [the earlier assessment] was not to report the highest numbers which would make headlines, but it was to report the numbers that we can defend," he said.
But Wadhams is even angrier about another line in that last IPCC report suggesting it could take until the latter part of this century before Arctic summer sea ice disappears almost entirely. The sea ice that covers much of the North Pole always melts a little in summer and then refreezes as winter sets in. Last summer, however, it shrank to its lowest point in more than 30 years, a much more dramatic decline than predicted. Wadhams thinks it more likely that its summer sea ice will vanish as soon as 2015.
This change could happen. Earlier this year, Renate Christ from the IPCC secretariat sent a letter to all the governments that commission the panel's reports asking them to consider "the future of the IPCC" in time for a meeting to be held in October in the Georgian city of Batumi. Similar reviews have been done in the past but one question up for debate this time, according to an accompanying background document that was sent out, is "should the IPCC continue to give priority to comprehensive assessment reports", with smaller special reports. Another was whether it should do more "focused thematic reports that would jointly constitute an assessment report".


The following points will be analyzed by the Doctrinal Council in September. The points (all or some) will be presented to the 2019 GC Delegation Session next year.
This spring, the Doctrinal Committee (pictured above) met to discuss the agenda of doctrinal points to be discussed by the Doctrinal Council later this year. As the brethren always request the prayer of our members during this time, they felt it would be important the members know what they were praying for.
The following is a list of topics that will be analyzed by the Doctrinal Council, which will meet in Roanoke this September. The Council will advise on which topics (all or some) will be presented to the 2019 GC Delegation Session next year.
The Doctrinal Committee has studied these points, prepared position papers with texts from the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy and formulated proposed resolutions. Now, this material will be further analyzed by the Doctrinal Council meeting this coming September for further improvements. The topics approved and finalized by the Doctrinal Council will then be proposed to the General Conference delegation session to be held in Brazil in 2019.
Let us keep the brethren in our prayers that God may guide them and give them wisdom.


You can reach Porto Turistico Maratea by calling VHF6.
Porto di Maratea is also known as Porto Turistico Maratea or Port of Maratea and it is located in the municipality of Maratea which can be found by visitors and boat owners in the province of Potenza and the historic region of Basilicata. Maratea or Marathia in the local dialect, is an Italian marina in the southern side of the country that reveals many treasures of nature in this green area that has incredible beaches and surreal water colours. It is often called the "Pearl of the Tyrrhenian Sea" thanks to its breath-taking coves, it lush vegetation, a rich fauna and flora and a large number or tourist attractions. A high quality of life will be encountered in this natural environment, as well as a well-developed culture. The Monte San Biagio is a thrilling attraction in this area, as well as the beach of A Gnolla, the Grote of Miracles, etc. There are stunning hotels in Maratea, such as La Locanda delle Donne Monache, the Romantic Hotel & Restaurant Villa Cheta Elite and many more.
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National Album Day set to return on October 16; 2021 event to celebrate women in music
March 8th 2021 at 10:17AM
National Album Day is set to return on October 16. This year's theme – Celebrating Women In Music – intends to shine "a light on the huge contribution made by women and female-identifying artists to our music and culture through the art form of the album."
Speaking in a joint statement, Geoff Taylor, chief executive BPI, and Kim Bayley, chief executive, ERA, the organisations behind National Album Day, said: "We are delighted that National Album Day is returning for a fourth edition, shining a light this year on the tremendous contribution women make to music through the album format, supported by our official partners Bowers & Wilkins and BBC Sounds. While the ways in which fans enjoy music constantly evolve, the album remains central to artists' self-expression and to fans' understanding of what an artist has to say. National Album Day is an opportunity for artists and fans alike to celebrate this much loved artform and remind ourselves of its continuing power to tell stories, influence and inspire."
Last year's National Album Day was its most successful yet, with the BPI's Geoff Taylor saying the team behind the event has "taken it to the next level" as NAD releases claimed three places in the albums Top 20 and contributed to a 24% lift in sales for Saturday, October 10, 2020.
To coincide with the announcement, National Album Day has also revealed the Top 10 women album artists since the start of 2000 according to Official Charts Company data. Adele tops the list – which includes Amy Winehouse, Kylie, Madonna and Britney Spears – the best-selling women album artist of the century.
The Top 10 artists have sold in excess of 72 million albums (including streamed album equivalents), with three of the artists British – Adele, Dido and Amy Winehouse.
Official Charts data has also revealed the Top 10 albums by women over this period, with Adele featuring no less than three times. Each of her albums has been BRIT Certified at least 8x platinum in the UK, with 2011's 21 shifting just shy of 6 million copies in the UK alone.
The most successful album of this period was Adele's 21, followed by Amy Winehouse's Back To Black (marking its 15th anniversary in October) and fellow Brit Leona Lewis' Spirit was the fourth best-selling album.
Adele, Amy Winehouse and Leona Lewis are all alumni of The BRIT School, the leading Performing & Creative Arts school in the UK that is free to attend.
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Top 10 albums by women artists: 2000-2021 (up to week 6) Based on Official Charts Company data
Adele – 21
Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
Leona Lewis – Spirit
Lady Gaga – Fame
Dido – No Angel
Dido – Life For Rent
Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
Emeli Sandé – Our Version Of Events'
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Pope Francis pictured at yesterday's Jubilee for the sick and persons with disabilities (AP)
Pope Francis has offered prayers for all those affected by the "terrible massacre" in Orlando (full text).
Disabled people must not be kept "apart, in some 'enclosure'", Pope Francis said yesterday as he celebrated the Jubilee Mass for the sick and disabled (full text, full video).
The Pope has met the Argentine mother of a man on death row in Texas.
The Russian Orthodox Church will decide today whether to continue to support the Pan-Orthodox Council due to begin on Friday (John Allen, Phil Lawler).
Marco Tosatti asks if the Vatican is softening its stance on abortion and contraception.
Stephen Greydanus says a sequel to Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is probably a bad idea.
And a 32-year-old cloistered nun in India has earned a PhD in aerospace engineering.
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Wulkanodon (Vulcanodon karibaensis Raath, 1972) – dinozaur roślinożerny, żył we wczesnej jurze około 200 mln lat temu na terenie dzisiejszego Zimbabwe. Osiągał 8 metrów długości i ważył około 1 tony. Wulkanodon był jednym z najstarszych znanych zauropodów.

Nazwa
Vulcanodon oznacza "wulkaniczny ząb". Nazwa nawiązuje do faktu, że skamieniałości okazu holotypowego, odkryte na wyspie na jeziorze Kariba, znajdowały się pomiędzy skałami pochodzenia wulkanicznego, a wraz z nimi odkryto także duże zęby przypominające kształtem zęby teropodów; zęby te prawdopodobnie nie należą do wulkanodona, lecz do teropoda, który pożywiał się ciałem okazu holotypowego V. karibaensis.

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Bressett first became interested in coins in 1937 when his neighbor gave him a coin each from China and Belgium. He began collecting coins in earnest while he was a clerk in a grocery store in 1943 and through high school. Bressett attended Dresser Business School in 1947[5] and later studied graphic arts at the University of Wisconsin. He joined the American Numismatic Association in 1947 and attended their convention in Boston the following year. From 1949 until 1959 Bressett worked as a printer and compositor for Sentinel Publishing Company.
Bressett began free-lance editorial work on Red Book in 1956. He went to work for Richard S. Yeoman at Whitman Publishing in Racine in 1959. He wrote several books while at the publishing house and in 1962 became the editor of the Whitman Red Book and Blue Book.[8] From 1964 to 1968 Bressett was the Editor and Publisher of the Whitman Numismatic Journal. In 1971, following Yeoman's retirement, he became editor of the Red Book.
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Für die theoretische Betrachtung und die semantisch genaue Definition von Anfragesprachen für Datenbanken werden Kalkülausdrücke genutzt, speziell der Tupelkalkül () und der Bereichskalkül (auch Domänen-Kalkül, ). Aufgrund ihrer Ähnlichkeit werden sie hier zusammen betrachtet. Es existieren aber noch weitere kalkülartige Anfragesprachen.

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Ausgegangen wird davon, dass Daten in einer Datenbank in einer Anzahl von Tupel (Relationen) gleichen Typs gespeichert sind, d. h. die Komponenten der Tupel in einer Tupelmenge haben alle den gleichen Datentyp, und somit die gleichen Operationen, die auf sie anwendbar sind. Da die Kalküle "nur" eine theoretische Fundierung darstellen, werden Datentypen hier aber nicht weiter betrachtet, sondern davon ausgegangen, dass die üblichen Operationen gelten.

Die Anfragen, die mit den Kalkülen spezifiziert werden, werden dann als Mengen konstruiert. Diese Konstruktion folgt einer bestimmten Form: Beim Tupelkalkül werden Mengen aus Tupeln konstruiert, beim Bereichskalkül Mengen aus den sog. "Bereichen", die im Wesentlichen freie Variablen sind, die Werte aus dem Wertebereich der Tupelkomponenten annehmen können. Generell kann aber definiert werden, woher die Daten kommen, wie sie zu verknüpfen sind und welche zusätzlichen Bedingungen gelten sollen.

Kalküle liefern eine sehr mächtige Anfragesprache, was im Bereich der Datenbanken aber nicht erwünscht ist. Es ist z. B. kein Problem, mittels Kalkülausdrücken eine unendliche Ergebnismenge zu spezifizieren, was ein Designprinzip von Anfragesprachen verletzt. Für die allgemeine Datenbanktheorie interessant ist daher die Abgrenzung von sicheren Kalkülausdrücken, die in der Mächtigkeit der relationalen Algebra entsprechen. Kalkülausdrücke sind weiterhin streng relational vollständig.

Für SQL gibt es eine formale Definition mittels des Tupelkalküls. QBE basiert auf dem Bereichskalkül, QUEL ist eine relativ direkte Umsetzung von Teilen des Tupelkalküls.

Allgemeine Form

In der Mathematik kann man eine Menge konstruieren, indem man angibt, was für die einzelnen Elemente gelten soll. Die einfache Form dafür ist {x | Formel}, d. h. ich wähle alle x, für die die Formel gilt, z. B. , um die natürlichen Zahlen zwischen 2 und 8 zu erhalten. Angegeben wurde hier, erstens woher die Daten kommen (natürliche Zahlen) und zweitens, was für sie gelten soll (die Formel). x ist eine freie Variable, deren Wertebereich durch die Formel festgelegt wurde. Statt einer einfachen freien Variablen kann auch eine Formel als Ergebnis angegeben werden, z. B. x², um die Quadratzahlen der Zahlen zwischen 2 und 8 zu erhalten. Die allgemeine Form dieser Mengenkonstruktion ist {f(X) | g(Y)}, worin f und g die jeweiligen Formeln und X und Y Mengen von freien Variablen sind.

Für den Datenbankbereich sind die Wertebereiche nun nicht willkürlich festgelegt, sondern sie entstammen den erwähnten Tupelmengen (üblicherweise Relationen, durchaus aber auch Entitäten oder Objektmengen). Die Ergebnisse können entweder als Variablenmengen oder als Tupel angegeben werden, d. h. man konstruiert die Menge als "alle freien Variablen, für die gilt …" oder als "alle Tupel, für die gilt …". Ersteres führt zum Bereichskalkül; zweiteres zum Tupelkalkül.

Kalkülformeln

Die Menge der möglichen Formeln ist ebenfalls auf eine bestimmte Form eingegrenzt, die für die beiden Kalküle sehr ähnlich ist. Dabei werden Terme zu atomaren Formeln, und diese wiederum zu Formeln zusammengesetzt. Wertebereiche freier Variablen werden durch Datenbankprädikate angegeben, wodurch festgelegt wird, woher die Daten kommen (Bereichskalkül: KUNDE(x,y,z), Tupelkalkül: KUNDE(k)).

Terme: Variablen, Konstanten, Funktionsanwendungen
atomare Formeln: Anwendung von Operationen der Datentypen, z. B. <, > auf den Wertebereich der natürlichen Zahlen und Datenbankprädikate
Formeln: Verknüpfung atomarer Formeln mittels Operatoren der booleschen Logik, ∧, ∨, ¬, ∀, ∃

Die Kalküle können so erweitert werden, dass es mit ihnen vergleichsweise einfach möglich ist, Datenbanksprachen wie SQL zu formalisieren. Dazu führt man statt einer Mengensemantik eine Multimengensemantik ein und zusätzlich die Möglichkeit, Formeln – insbesondere die Aggregatfunktionen – im Ergebnisbereich zu verwenden. Weiterhin ist es denkbar, für Datenbankprädikate wiederum Anfragen zu erlauben, so dass die Kalküle abgeschlossen werden.

Bereichskalkül

Die Form ist {x1, …, xn | φ(x1, …, xn)}, wobei die xi das Ergebnis als Tupelmengen sind und φ eine Formel ist. Diese Formeln sind wie oben angegeben aufgebaut. In Datenbankprädikaten müssen nicht alle Variablen belegt werden, stattdessen kann auch '_' geschrieben werden, wofür gilt, dass sie jeweils unterschiedliche, unbenannte freie Variablen sind.

Beispiele

Gegeben seien Relationen mit den Relationenschemata KUNDE(kdnr, kname, adresse, ort), AUFTRAG(auftragsnr, kdnr, warennr, menge), WARE(warennr, wname, wpreis).

Orte, in denen es Kunden gibt: {x | KUNDE(_,_,_,x)}

Alle Kunden aus Bremen: {x, y, z | KUNDE(x,y,z,w) ∧ w='Bremen'} oder kurz {x, y, z | KUNDE(x,y,z,'Bremen')}

Kunden, die etwas bestellt haben: {x, y, z | KUNDE(x,y,z,_) ∧ AUFTRAG(_,x,_,_)}

Waren, die nicht bestellt wurden: {x, y | WARE(x,y,_) ∧ ¬AUFTRAG(_,_,x,_)}

Tupelkalkül

Die Form ist {t | φ(t)}. t ist dabei eine Tupelvariable, φ eine Formel wie oben angegeben. Datenbankprädikate werden als R(t) oder t∈R geschrieben, auf einzelne Elemente des Tupels (Attribute) greift man durch eine Punktnotation mit Angabe des Namens aus dem Schema zu, also t.A, oder durch einen Zugriff über den Index t[i].

Beispiele

Mit dem o.a. Schema,

Orte, in denen es Kunden gibt: {t.ort | KUNDE(t)}

Alle Kunden aus Bremen: {t | KUNDE(t) ∧ t.ort='Bremen'}

Kunden mit Bestellung: {t | KUNDE(t) ∧ ∃s(AUFTRAG(s) ∧ s.kdnr=t.kdnr)}

Waren ohne Bestellung: {t | WARE(t) ∧ ¬∃s(AUFTRAG(s) ∧ s.warennr=t.warennr)}

Wie man sieht, werden im Tupelkalkül die Verbundbedingungen explizit angegeben, wogegen ein Verbund im Bereichskalkül durch gleichbenannte Variablen gebildet wird.

Siehe auch
 Anwendung der Prädikatenlogik

Literatur

 Andreas Heuer, Gunter Saake: Datenbanken: Konzepte und Sprachen, MITP Verlag, ISBN 3-8266-0619-1, S. 297 ff.

Datenbanktheorie


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