September 9, 1989 in Cedarwood saw a remarkable event in the natal department of the General Hospital. Two sets of twins were born to the McCallister family and the Pascucci family respectively. Ian and Evan McCallister and Rainne and Rio Pascucci were destined to be a part of each other's lives due to the circumstances of their births, and so it seemed to be for the first nineteen years of their adolescence. Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Kathryn R. Biel is the story of what happens to them when a terrible secret rips their lives apart. Ten years after the events that destroyed their friendship, Ian and Rio meet up in Boston and discover they have a connection that is hard to ignore. Despite their sizzling chemistry, there is still a deep dark secret that threatens to keep them from fulfilling their destiny to be together despite the obstacles in their paths. Can their past be overcome, or will they face the future without each other?
This is a great read, a love story that will have you hooked until the very last page. Kathryn R. Biel has created characters that are complex, passionate and stubborn, and they will make you want to bang their heads together! They face the sort of obstacles that we have all encountered in our relationships, and she has also explored family issues that impact on the main characters. Paradise by the Dashboard Light is an emotionally charged story of love and passion, with a healthy dollop of lust thrown in for good measure! It is also a chance to examine the relationships between twin siblings and the connection they share. Rio and Ian have a rocky road to travel if they want to be together and the journey is a thrilling one. I recommend you take it with them!
Paradise by the Dashboard Light uncovers the complicated relationship between a set of twins which started at their birth. Evan and Ian were preemies with medical issues. Rainne and Rio were born to a woman who could barely care for herself. Kathryn Biel intertwines their lives - while Ian is infatuated with Rainne, Rio loves Ian. And Rainne is just mean enough to string him along so he never notices Rio. The time comes when the twins switch places and they make mistakes which take a decade to unravel. Ian doubts he can trust either of the Pascucci twins. As he finishes his doctoral training, he is torn between reaching his goals and grasping for a love he can't live without.
Kathryn Biel brings a romance that will entertain you with a turmoil of emotions. Paradise by the Dashboard Light is a mixture of drama as these old friends find that the chemistry between them will either draw them closer or repel them. I love how the author brings these two together in unlikely circumstances. I would like to mention that the humor in this novel will endear you to this couple as they try to find common ground. The reality that most relationships have misunderstandings is a given as the author magnifies their emotions in this contemporary romance. I would recommend this book for all those who love a hot romance; not just this novel but all of Kathryn Biel's books look promising for a good read. You will love how the story switches between Rio and Ian, allowing the reader to hear both sides of the story.
Paradise by the Dashboard Light is a work of contemporary romantic fiction by author Kathryn R. Biel. Written for adults, the novel takes us through the complexities of the life of its hero, Rio Pascucci, a strong independent woman who thinks she's left a difficult life in Ohio behind. When a blast from her past arrives in the form of old crush Ian McCallister, things take a complex turn. Rio and Ian were never together when they were younger, and Ian always had a thing for Rio's twin sister, but now Rio's love for Ian is renewed. Secrets and heartache from the past are sure to rise up again, and it becomes a question of whether the past can be left to lie for new love to bloom in the present.
Rio is a perfectly balanced heroine in the tale, suitably vulnerable considering the emotional turmoil she's going through, but also strong and pro-active about trying to get on with her life and leave the past behind. I think the audience's knowledge of Rio's secrets is really fun as it keeps you on your toes, wondering when certain things might be revealed. Kathryn R. Biel writes realistically when describing Ian and his feelings, rather than making him a cardboard-cutout perfect male lead. With an intriguing plot line, genuine heartache and realistic characters, I can see many romance fans enjoying Paradise by the Dashboard Light, and coming out the other end desperate for more from this very talented author.


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Q: Child view offset by 20 pixels in TabBar application I have a tab bar application and when I display a modal view controller, the content screen is offset by about 20 pixels to the top and left. It looks like this:
I'm presenting this view from the child view controller (detail view) of navigation controller (main view) of the tabview.
When I show the view, I'm hiding the tab bar and navigation bar but status bar is kept visible. Adjusting the view to be centered (through Interface Builder's Simulated Interface Elements->View Mode : Center) and changing the view's frame after a call to 'viewDidLoad' in the controller doesn't seem to shift it.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
// this still doesn't cause it to shift
self.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 20, 320, 460);
}

What's the way to adjust this so that the content area is shown correctly?
I launch the child view like this:
[detailController presentModalViewController:tvc animated:NO];

The app's view controller hierarchy:
Tab view with two child navigation controllers are created in the app delegate and the nav controllers  added to the TabBar's view controllers:
tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
tabBarController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:tab1ViewController,
                                    tab2ViewController, nil];

[window addSubview:tabBarController.view];

Each view controllers of the tab is created as a NavigationController with 1 view controller:
// MainViewController inherits from UIViewController
[MainViewController *viewController = [[MainViewController alloc] initWithNib..];

tab1ViewController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObject:viewController];

A detail view controller is launched with 'pushViewController' as a result of some action on tab1ViewController :
DetailController *detailController = [[DetailController alloc]
                                                 initWithNibName:@"DetailView"
                                                 bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];

[self.navigationController pushViewController:detailController animated:YES];

[detailController release];

It's from the detailController that I'm trying to launch the problem controller.

A: Some things to check right off: is "viewDidLoad" actually getting called?
If so, what is self.view.frame set to after the assignment?
Put an NSLog at the end that prints out the x, y, width, height, and see what's there.
Also, since the trouble vc is modal, it will occupy the entire screen.
"On iPhone and iPod touch devices, the view of modalViewController is always presented full screen."
HTH,
Mike

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Why Wimbledon Loves The Spanish!
In 2018, Rafa Nadal was involved in the two best and most memorable matches Wimbledon had to offer.
His fifth set against Juan Martin del Potro was hailed by Andy Murray as one of the finest sets of tennis he had ever seen. Simona Halep claimed that for her it was simply the best match ever.
But Nadal wasn't finished and played an epic semi-final against Novak Djokovic, spread over two days. The sheer power and craft on display was breath-taking as millions watched the drama unfold.
Wimbledon has many reasons to love the Spanish. For a start, you helped to create our own champion, Andy Murray, who went to Barcelona's Sanchez-Casal Academy aged 15 and came away, 18 months later, ready to take on the world.
Thanks, Spain!
Then of course there is the greatest match Wimbledon or indeed the world has ever seen – won by one of the best-loved Spaniards in human history, Rafael Nadal.
Yes, it will be hard for tennis ever to beat the 2008 Wimbledon final; which stretched over seven hours and saw Nadal beat the great Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-7 (8-10), 9-7 in near darkness.
Even taking away the two rain delays, that delicious epic still lasted for a record-breaking four hours and forty-eight minutes – and no one will ever forget it.
Thanks again, Spain!
No wonder we so readily forgive one of your great champions for trying to tell us that "grass is just for cows."
Manolo Santana's temporary error of judgement was soon exposed by the great man himself. Santana beat Dennis Ralston 6-4, 11-9, 6-4 to win Wimbledon in 1966, the year he was also world number one. Suddenly grass wasn't just for cows after all!
The plucky Manuel Orantes came close to emulating Santana in 1972 when he reached the semi-final, but it was Conchita Martinez who finally covered Spain in glory once more in 1994, when she beat the great Martina Navratilova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to become the first Spanish woman ever to win Wimbledon.
Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario came close the next two years, only losing out to the legendary Steffi Graf in successive finals.
Then in 2017 Garbine Muguruza, the Spanish-Venezualan, displayed awesome power to defeat the great Venus Williams 7-5, 6-0 to claim her first Wimbledon title, in her second final. The statuesque and athletic Muguruza's following continues to grow by the year.
But the inimitable Nadal's victories of 2008 and 2010 have made him one of the most adored sportsmen London has ever hosted at any venue. And he is never far from the Wimbledon headlines.
In 2018 Nadal succumbed to eventual Wimbledon winner Djokovic in the end.
But he had generated even more love from the Wimbledon crowd, if that were possible. Rafa had done more than anyone to make Wimbledon 2018 so great.
Who will grab our attention next time? Will Nadal storm back once more to wow the crowds and take the title? Will Muguruza reclaim the women's title in 2019?
One thing's for sure: grass isn't just for cows. The Spanish have demonstrated that beyond all doubt and we've loved every moment.
You can be confident that; whatever happens at Wimbledon this year, the Spanish will have some part to play in the most dramatic action.
Viva Espana! Come and enjoy Wimbledon! The great moments of the tournament are as much yours as ours!
And for all the joy you have given us so far, we say a heartfelt "Gracias!"
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Titan IIIE
Tue · Sep 9th, 1975
Type: Planetary Science
The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission. The Viking 2 lander operated on the surface for 1316 days, or 1281 sols, and was turned off on April 11, 1980 when its batteries failed. The orbiter worked until July 25, 1978, returning almost 16,000 images in 706 orbits around Mars.
Space Launch Complex 41
Titan III
First Launched: February 11, 1974
The Titan III rocket has been launched a total of 7 times with 6 successful and 1 failed launches.
Abbreviation: LMT
Launchers: Titan | Agena
Spacecraft: Hubble | JUNO | InSight
Lockheed Martin's Space Division started in the production of missiles and later ICBM's in the 1950s. Their TITAN missile system was used for 12 Gemini spacecraft and the Voyager probes. They have worked largely in collaboration with NASA on many of their probes, landers, and spacecraft, and hope to play a key role in NASA's return to the moon in 2024.
Cape Canaveral, Florida, Lockheed Martin, Titan III, USA


Joint class to create a decoration of Balinese unique from the coconut leaves, green leaves and beautiful flowers. Take a part on learning how the process of making this decorations and offerings. The village maiden will teach 5 model of decoration/ offering.


AT FIRST they couldn't believe what they were seeing.
But when little Odin, 2 and older sister, Amelia, 5 realised they were looking at their long-lost pet cat, disbelief was quickly replaced with pure glee.
Caloundra dad Ricky Shearer was shocked to receive a call from the Currimundi Veterinary Surgery on Friday asking him if he had a lost cat named Sid.
Mr Shearer did have a lost pet, but his fluffy, two-year-old rag-doll went missing more than seven months ago and his family believed the worst had happened.
The family had moved from Bundaberg to a rental at Meridian Plains while looking for a place to buy.
Sid wasn't allowed out of the rental until he was used to his surroundings, but the day the moved Sid escaped through a back door left open briefly.
Mr Shearer said he tried chasing after the car but it was too late.
It's Siddy! Cat returns home after journey: HAPPY DAYS: Amelia, 5 and Odin, 2 were stoked to have their pet cat Sid return home.
The family contacted all of the veterinary clinics, pinned posters around the Coast and regularly contacted the pound.
But Sid had disappeared. Until a mysterious woman brought him into the vet surgery seven months after his disappearance.
Currimundi Veterinary Surgery owner Sue Botha said the woman had noticed Sid hanging around her Caloundra home.
"The woman told us Sid wouldn't leave her alone," Mrs Botha said.
HAPPY DAYS: Amelia, 5 and Odin, 2 were stoked to have their pet cat Sid return home after a seven-month-long adventure. ANd they have no idea what he has been up to.
"He kept hanging around and it looked as if he wanted to come inside her house, so she brought him in.
"We checked his microchip and were able to call Sid's owners right away."
She said it took Mr Shearer a moment to take in what she was saying.
"Sid was fine and we looked after him until he was picked up," Mrs Botha said.
Mr Shearer said his family had given up.
"When I got the call I just thought, how is this even possible?
"Just the other day my daughter was saying how much she missed Sid. So when I brought him home on Friday she was in a bit of shock.
"I think it goes to show how important it is to get your pets chipped, we are really happy to have Sid back it's just surreal."


Rearrangements is a series of four videos that are remixed from old film and television material, which had a dominant impact on Loðmfjörð's childhood in the eighties. These are two classic Icelandic films, one Icelandic television series and the popular German television program Derrick. The old material is reedited for a new context, which reflects on social situations of the present.


That's a question we – and many others – only vaguely knew the answer to at the start of this branding process, in early 2017. A few short months later (by which time we were all experts), Limerick had played host to Ireland's inaugural International Food Truck Festival, with over 25 trucks serving deliciously exotic street food to over 30,000 visitors at the People's Park over 5 days.
Our approach was to create an identity for the festival that would be fun, vibrant, international and above all, welcoming. The identity deliberately lent itself to animation, and we produced a series of suitably playful, engaging and appetising videos which ran online, principally over the Facebook page, which we managed for the festival. Here's to many more years of yumminess!


CD AUCCALAMMA (The Mouth Of The Soul), 2003. Recorded by Dwight Carroll at Pandingo Studios, Altadena. Produced by Roberto Catalano, Enzo Fina, and Dwight Carroll. Roberto Catalano and Enzo Fina, executive producers.
Musicantica (pronounce it accenting the first "a"), was born in Los Angeles in 1994 first as a trio, then a quartet. Permanently a duo since 2000, Musicantica features multi-instrumentalists Roberto Catalano from Sicily, and Enzo Fina from the Salento (the "heel" of the boot). At the start of our project, the idea of presenting the other side of the coin of Italian music intrigued us. For Americans, the Neapolitan repertoire and opera are the pre-eminent genres that come to mind when thinking of Italian music. However, there is a lot more to learn about Italian music. The cultural aspects of the peasantry of our country, especially the South in which we grew up, is what Musicantica is all about. The oral tradition of the peasant world inspire us. The music that is at the heart of what we do is the "pizzica pizzica." The pizzica pizzica is a energy charged, trance-like dance. It was integrant part of an ancient ritual that used music and dance to cure those who believed to having been bitten by the tarantula spider. In order to get rid of the venom, folks refused the official medical science sending, instead, for the musicians. The "bitten" person, most often awoman, danced for hours, sometimes for days, to the percussive sound of the pizzica. Most often there was no real bite but only the consequence to the exhaustion from harsh life conditions that afflicted these poor people for centuries.
Our audiences find the music we perform compelling, involving, and uplifting. We often affirm that, at one time or another, we are all being bitten by the poison of life therefore we bring music that is gratifying, fun to be exposed to, music that makes people feel good. And we really do. For instance, once we were invited to perform at a graduation party in San Pedro, CA. Among the guests there was a woman who danced intensely to the music for twenty minutes straight. We will never forget her greatfulness for having helped to relieve, at least momentarily, whatever weight she was carrying inside.
Sound details and experimentation are our delight and one of the strongest feature. We come on stage with about 30 instruments some of which are native to Italy, others hail from other areas of the Mediterranean, while a few more are made by us. We change instruments for each song thus making the listening experience varied and interesting. Furthermore, we sing strictly in our respective dialects, a characteristic that enhances and complements our overall sound effect. Our audiences have come to love our vocals despite not understanding exactly what we are singing about. Interestingly, they instinctively get the sense, the feeling, and the honesty that permeates the music. In many ways, we are returning the experience. What we mean by this is that, while growing up, we did not understand what the Beatles, or Dylan, or the Stones, or James Brown were saying, but we absolutely loved their sound, the rhythm, and the feel.
Our typical set varies from gig to gig. Our average 11/2-2 hours show may include between 15 to 20 songs. As we deal with traditional music, we play many "covers." These are all Salentine, Sicilian, and Sardinian traditionals and, therefore, not known by the American public. We present also originals written by both of us as well as improvised pieces.


Gayatri!!! Congrats Babe & well done- awesome work from you once again!!!
I wanna see you all create a boy layout but there is a slight catch you must ONLY USE GIRL PRODUCTS AND GIRL COLOURS.
Congrats Gayatri!That layout looks fabulous!


Your business needs one thing as the driving force behind all of it's potential: sales! Through our fun and interactive sales training we will show you how to best present yourself and your product.
As a Collegiate Entrepreneurs Branch Manager, you will be responsible for hiring and managing your own team of employees. You will learn how to coach and motivate people and learn fundamental management principles, how your behavior affects your employees and how to be effective as a manager, having low employee turnover.
Since you will be managing your own employees, it only makes sense that you should hire them as well. You are the human resources department in your small business, sourcing potential employees, screening and interviewing as many people as possible so you can hire a team of the best people available.
Creating a business plan to outline the future of your business is necessary in any company. You will get the experience of developing budgets in marketing, sales and production as well as presenting your plan to your executive. We will also teach you how to manage your profit margins and read your financial year-to-date reports so you know how your business is doing at every stage of the game.
We will be here behind you 100% of the way. We provide you with training seminars on sales, production and product technology as well as manuals that you can have with you at all times for reference. Each manager will also be assigned an executive that will provide on-going advice and direction during the school year and especially during the summer months.
We as a team and as an office staff will be behind you and your business pushing for success 100% of the time. We offer many types of support, from moral and emotional support, to administrative, business consultation and financial support.
As a Collegiate Entrepreneurs Branch Manager, you will be responsible for creating and implementing a marketing strategy that will be effective in drawing customers into your business. With systems in place to start from, you are guaranteed start-up leads and can then get the experience of marketing your business in your own way.
Through our experience in the business, we have figured out what works and what doesn't in terms of marketing. We have pre-printed materials for the manager to utilize that include our logo.


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Author: Sergei Zhuk
A former Soviet expert in US history, especially in the social and cultural history of colonial British America, Dr. Sergei Zhuk, moved in 1997 to the United States, defended his new (now American) Ph.D. dissertation about imperial Russian history at Johns Hopkins University in 2002. Now Sergei Zhuk is Associate Professor of Russian and East European History at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. His research interests are knowledge production, cultural consumption, religion, popular culture and identity in a history of imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.
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Soviet Baby Boomers – Closed Cities, CHMO and Soviet Regionalism
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The very important issue addressed in Don Raleigh's book is the relations between Moscow and provincial cities, especially between Moscow and such "closed" cities as Saratov, during late socialism.
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Soviet Baby Boomers – Soviet Patriotism and Anti-Americanism
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One important topic of Raleigh's book is Soviet patriotism and anti-Americanism of the Soviet baby boomers. This topic with an emphasis on Soviet patriotism and rejection of negative aspects of capitalism prevailed in all student diaries from the early stage of the Soviet middle school (5-7 grades) through the years in the high school (8-10 grades) and the first college years through the 1960s and the 1980s. For the authors of those diaries a Soviet child was a patriot of his socialist "motherland." Despite the fact of the growing influence of western cultural products, which became available during the détente in the 1970s, and beginning of cultural fixation over such products like movies, popular music and fashion in the last years in high school and the first years in college, the mental construction of the young man in the diaries is still based on the dichotomy of "Soviet patriot vs. western capitalism."[1]
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Soviet Baby Boomers – Media and the Cultural Politics of Détente
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Another important issue in Raleigh's book is a role of media in cultural consumption of the Soviet baby boomers especially during the 1970s (pp. 221-223, 275, 299). I will add, which was missing in the book. The détente of the 1970s became a critical period in the westernization of Soviet youth, and various media played important role in this process. Paradoxically, by legitimizing consumption of Western cultural products, the official Soviet policy of détente justified an incorporation of various elements of Western modernity (from the new fashions to a commercialization of popular culture) into Soviet ideological practices of the 1970s that further disoriented and confused both local ideologists and local youth.
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Soviet Baby Boomers – Other Sources
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As far as I know, Donald Raleigh's book is the first known Soviet oral history study by a western scholar that is based exclusively on personal oral interviews as only primary sources and uses only the oral history methodology in presenting and explaining these interviews. Apparently this project began as an extension of a book – Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives, Translated and edited by Donald J. Raleigh (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006) – which contained only Saratov's interviews, the former graduates from Saratov's school No. 42. Some of the major characters from the first book and their interviews, like Aleksandr Konstantinov (pp. 24-54), Aleksandr Trubniukov (pp. 220-252) and Gennadii Ivanov (pp. 253-280), still play the important role in this new book as well. What is more original in the new book is an addition the interviews with Muscovites, which create an important social and cultural dimension of historical comparison of two different, but elitist cohorts of the Soviet students from two elite schools specializing in English – one from the "closed" Soviet provincial city of Saratov, and another from the center of Soviet civilization, a capital city of Moscow.
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Soviet Baby Boomers – Previous American Portrayals
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Another interesting source for our understanding of the Soviet Baby Boomers Generation is a written correspondence by the western journalists who lived in Moscow during late socialism. Western journalists' publications were also based on personal interviews. Sometime those publications have more insights and precious information than recent interviews which are distorted by the effect of condensed memory. I would recommend the best book about Moscow in the 1970s, which could be used in our conversation about post-Stalin Soviet generation, Hendrick Smith, The Russians (New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1976).


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International District restaurants covered murals with BLM messages.
by David Yamaguchi, The North American Post
The news footage of the Seattle protests of May 29-June 9 has shocked us all, for it has involved not only peaceful demonstrations against the killing of African American George Floyd, 46, by Minneapolis police. The marches have been accompanied by the burning of police cars, the vandalizing of stores, aggressive policing involving flash-bang grenades and tear gas, a car driving into a crowd, and a shooting.
The mayhem has included damage to over two dozen closed restaurants in the International District, from which many cash registers were stolen. The ID vandalism extends similar, probably racially motivated damage since late March in anger to China for COVID-19. The looting is opportunistic, as thieves know that demonstrations tie up the Seattle Police.
The largest issue at hand is the manhandling of black men and women by mostly white police, and the American societal inequities and lack of empathy across racial lines that foster it. How can we, as ordinary citizens, hope to address these difficult, long standing issues?
What began helping me see a path forward has been reading copies and forwards of email correspondence among UW faculty and staff. They illustrate how true leaders can set the tone for those that work under them. They make the point that while we as individuals cannot solve the nation's ills, that we must each take ownership, and do what we can. I am excerpting some of that content here.
Ben Fitzhugh is an anthropology professor who has written on the prehistoric archaeology of the Kurile Islands, north of Japan. On May 31, he emailed:
"Dear [Research Institute] Colleagues,
"We live in troubling times. In the context of a pandemic that has thrown life as we know it into stasis and a slow motion economic disaster of unknown proportions, we are once again reeling from the poignant evidence of violence, social injustice and inequality boiling over onto the streets of our major cities. Already exhausted by the challenges of adapting to teaching in a pandemic, my emotions over the last few days have gone from shock, over the videotaped murder of George Floyd, to anger over the pervasiveness of racism and abuse of police powers of which it is just the latest example, to horror at the sight of burning vehicles and violence in the streets of Seattle and other major U.S. cities where mostly peaceful protesters sought to express outrage at systems that could protect and reinforce such violent and dehumanizing actions by those sworn to protect us.
"I feel strongly that those of us in leadership roles at all levels of the University… have a responsibility to reach out to those in our networks to acknowledge and bear witness to the pain and suffering caused by these injustices, injustices borne not just by those 'elsewhere across the country' but affecting the lives of students, faculty and staff on our campuses. It is in this context that I want to use this platform to help 'break the silence.' We may feel powerless right now, unsure how to affect positive change when cars are burning in our streets, but I believe it is important to recognize the pain and suffering that is moving mostly peaceful protesters in Seattle and around the country to put themselves at risk of virus and violence to be heard. 'Tomorrow' we can decide what else we might try to do about it…"
On May 30, Paul G. Ramsey, Dean of the UW School of Medicine, wrote the following with five co-signers including Edwina S. Uehara, Dean of the School of Social Work:
"Dear UW Health Sciences Community,
"Our country is once again experiencing the tragic realities of the racism present in our society.
"The slaying of Ahmaud Arbery while jogging in Brunswick, GA; the shooting death of Breonna Taylor by police in Louisville; the false and racist accusation against Christian Cooper in New York City; and most recently, the tragic killing of George Floyd as he was restrained by a police officer in Minneapolis.
"These are only the most recent manifestations of the racist ideologies we all need to confront and eliminate.
"All this is happening in the context of a coronavirus pandemic that is disproportionately impacting the health and economic well-being of Black families and communities in our state and country.
"These events are terrifying and exhausting for our Black colleagues, who are more likely to have experienced the loss of someone in their family and community, and to feel the very real heightened threat of racism.
"This isn't something that only happens in other parts of our country. Our Black colleagues and students here at UW experience racist behaviors in their daily lives here in Seattle that are heartbreaking and wearing.
"In times like these, we want to affirm all of the feelings you are experiencing. They are real and valid. It is important that all of us… express and show support for our Black colleagues by standing against these continued injustices.
"Each of us needs to consider how best to do this within the context of our own roles and circumstances, but we all need to engage in action to create the healthy, equitable, and inclusive community we desire…
(NOTE) Full disclosure. David is currently completing a report for the UW as a technical writer.
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Sunil Gavaskar
Gavaskar says it's possible Kohli resigned to avoid getting sacked again
Ahead of the South Africa tour, the BCCI had removed Kohli as India's ODI captain, which caused a huge uproar and controversy in Indian cricket with the star batsman being at the centre of it,...
'It has absolutely been a hammering': Gavaskar reacts to India's 10-wicket loss to Pakistan in T20 World Cup opener
'He's just given a 'consolation cup' to make up for disappointment in England'
'Indians should never forget ENG's gesture after 2008 Mumbai attacks'
'Virat Kohli should call Sachin Tendulkar, ask what to do'
'England is a two-man team. India should win the next three Tests too': Gavaskar after Kohli & Co. win at Lord's
36 off 174: When Sunil Gavaskar made Lord's crowd fall asleep
Gavaskar cites 'different rules for different people' in Indian dressing room
India vs Australia: Sunil Gavaskar, Dennis Lillee and fire lit at MCG
He is practising in the nets, I don't know what injury it is: Gavaskar bemused at Rohit's omission from Australia tour
Gavaskar's comment distasteful, says Anushka
'Where am I being sexist in this?': Sunil Gavaskar responds after receiving flak for 'inappropriate' comments regarding Anushka Sharma
The greatest Test XI never to feature on the Lord's Honours Board


Studying isn't a vacation spot, starting and stopping on the classroom door. January 29, 2012 – REPLACE: Parents' Coalition releases modification to Pearson Education, Inc. The outcomes of this experiment may be applied each to the areas of drawback-fixing, psychology, and education fields. The firm is investing in its schooling holdings by making acquisitions with a view to develop its content material, build up its technology and services offerings, and develop in international markets.
According to the company's Wikipedia page and its website , Pearson owns leading educational media brands including Addison-Wesley, BBC Active, Bug Membership, eCollege, Fronter, Longman, MyEnglishLab, Penguin Readers, Prentice Hall, Poptropica and Financial Instances Press. Including them to previously published work displays inexperienced, shoddy work on the part of Pearson and NYSED.
Adult educators add worth to the adult schooling industry in each aspect of instructing to ensure that current and potential employers acknowledge the direction of business developments constructive to grownup studying—selling learning as a vital a part of company existence and education. I can not get previous the callous approach he took her cellphone and have to marvel if he needed it to destroy evidence. Charles Grey was an actor who will be remembered for his roles in a number of basic movies, but he's best recognized for playing Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Endlessly.
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Donate Car For Tax Credit: How It Works And Helps?
There are several reasons for donating your vehicle to a charitable organization of your choice. At times, people may have more than one vehicle and they do not like their cars to be sent to junk spots in the future just because they were unused and parked in their garages. If you have a car that you do not use or want or takes up space in your garage, it may be the right time to donate it. Finding the right organization can be hard however it is important to choose the one which is accredited by IRS.
In addition to just making donations, you may also like to benefit from the car tax deduction associated with donation process. At present, car donation has revised federal regulations and there is lots of misinformation floating around for those people who decide to donate car for tax credit. Apparently, it seems like donating a car to charity is not a financially good decision anymore. This analysis, however, is an oversimplification as donating your vehicle can be financially beneficial for you depending on whom you want to give it away to.
Simply put, you can donate car for tax credit and gain big returns as well. You may also have many questions in mind whether you can donate your vehicle to charity regardless if it has some violations, such as parking tickets. The good news is that you still donate car for tax credit to a charity as long as you follow the steps mentioned below.
Whether you want to donate car for tax credit, to help your community or both, the overall process requires some paperwork. Not only is getting the required documentation for vehicle donation very simple, the donation process itself is a breeze. Generally, these documents include vehicle ownership evidence and the title of ownership which must be transferred in the name of the charity.
If you want to enjoy benefits of tax deduction for your car donation, you should select a charity which is qualified and IRS accredited. According to the section 501(c) (3), organizations like educational or kids charities and religious groups are the most qualified organizations. Accordingly, you can use 'EO Select Check" tool on the IRS website to find out if the organization you want to work with is qualified. The same can also be done by contacting the IRS tax-exempt division at their toll free number (877-829-5500. Make sure to have the organization name and address when calling the IRS.
First of all, you would request for a duplicate document of the vehicle's title from DMV in your local area. You can also do the same online. Then, get the printout of the form and sign under the seller line. If the car's ownership is shared by two people, both the individuals need to print and sign the same. Under 'buyer section', you will write organization's name you are donating the car too. Make sure the information you fill are absolutely correct with their right spellings since the DMV will not accept any forms that have scribbled things. Once the form is filled out, keep a copy of it for your record.
The lien release will be another important document to obtain if you purchased the vehicle using the services of a financial institution and this is mentioned in the car's title document. You can do this by contacting the lending body and asking them to provide you with a letter which will confirm that you paid off the full loan and own the car. Make sure this letter is on the institution's letterhead and contains the make, year, and Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) of the car. As mentioned above, there are many misconceptions floating around car donation though it is certainly an easy process to peruse. To qualify for tax credit, you will need to itemize your deduction using the 1040 Form (schedule A) which will help you donate car for tax credit to the charity.
If your donated vehicle is going to contribute more than $500, you probably need to work on a written acknowledgement. Usually, this document contains your name and your Tax Identification Number, the VIN of your car, donation date along with a declaration that you did not receive anything in return from the organization, and an approx. value of your vehicle. You will also need to obtain a statement from the charity that they did not deliver you any service for this donation, such as towing the car from your place to their donation area. There are various online portals, such as KBB, Carfax, and Edmunds to determine the market value of your car. Use any of these websites to have an idea of the amount your donation may bring about for a good cause.
If your tax credit is less than $500, you'll need to provide the IRS with a written statement that must contain name of the charity, description of your vehicle, value of the car provided by the charity, and the declaration that you did not obtain anything from the charitable organization in return of your donation. If it was possible for the charity to auction your car, the amount of your tax credit is limited to the amount the charitable organization received from the auction.
In addition to the aforesaid information, the written acknowledgement must be able to certify that the vehicle was not sold to a friend or relative, and has information about the date of car sale, the amount received from the sale, and a statement that your tax credit may not go above the amount of sale. Once you are done with this declaration, do not forget to attach the Form 8283 and the written acknowledgments to your tax returns.
There are many charities that work with people to provide them with the solutions they need. Donate car for tax credit and win a chance for advancement is much more possible than giving a one-time financial donation to a charity. In other words, when you donate car for tax credit, you also contribute to how it will change the life of a needy.


When you have Canada's national players showing you how it's done, it can inspire you to elevate your game.
Ian Kellow said that's what happened at the B.C. High Performance ID Softball Camp that was held recently at Arbutus Meadows in Nanoose Bay.
The older participants, Kellow pointed out, were split into three squads and teamed up with national players.
The second annual camp, which had more than 100 participants from all over Vancouver Island and across the province, featured Canada's national head coach Mark Smith, along with other national coaches Rob Guenter, Dave Paetkau, Mel Basilio and Lauren Tashman. Also helping out were national players Larissa Franklin, Jenny Gilbert, Emma Entzminger, Kelsey Jenkins, Sara Groenewegen and Holly Speers.
The camp attracted some collegiate head coaches, including Douglas College Royals' Jenn McKellar, SAIT Trojans' George Edwards and UBC Okanagan's Joni Frei. They came to introduce their respective softball programs to potential players.
This is McKellar's first time to be at the camp, which is in its second year. She found the atmosphere totally different from her own winter ID camp that they held at Douglas College.
Kellow said a lot of the girls at the camp are already destined to play collegiate and university softball. He is confident that players from Parksville Qualicum Beach and area will be recruited.
• The Parksville Rage softball season has started. They played their first games on the road against Langford Lightning of Victoria and opened with back-to-back wins.
The Rage will play their first home game, a doubleheader against the Lightning, at the Community Park, April 6 at noon and at 2 p.m.
• To encourage more players to come and try the game of softball, the Oceanside Minor Sotball Association is hosting a Learn To Play game on April 7 at the Parksville Community fields.
The event, which takes place at 10 a.m., is open to all female players ages five and up. It's free of charge. Participants will also be treated to a free hot dog lunch.
For more information, contact Sarah at 250-228-4007 or Kris at 250-927-1806.


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Students react to rat in Dora's
Freshman Elijah Taplin thought he heard silverware drop during dinner, until the Dora Roberts Dining Hall erupted in screams of, "There's a rat!"
"I videoed it because I didn't think my friends would believe me," Taplin said. "One of my friends was like, 'I bet you won't post that to Twitter.' We made a deal and I posted it on Twitter."
Elijah Taplin videoed a rat in Dora's and posted it to Twitter. Photo illustration by Shaydi Paramore
Taplin, a biology major, was catching a late dinner Oct. 24, when a rat fell through the ceiling. The video he posted to Twitter, "Ratatouille of txwes" caused some students to be concerned about whether it was safe to be eating at Dora's. As of late last week, the video has been retweeted more than 50 times from the original source, and even more from retweets.
"I don't know [if it's safe to be eating there]," Taplin said. "I haven't eaten there since. I've been going to the WEE. I don't really want to eat back there. I mean, there's going to be bugs wherever, but a whole rat is kind of nasty and disturbing."
Sophomore chemistry major Jose Tiejo also was concerned about a rat being found in Dora's and stopped eating there for a bit.
"Honestly, I was kind of disgusted [by the rat], which is why I didn't come to Dora's for like that whole week," Tiejo said. "I just did not want to be anywhere around that. At the same time, I could understand, because it was going to happen at some point. I just don't want to take the risk of getting sick from that."
Junior education major Hannah Six also wasn't surprised by a rat being found in Dora's.
"For me personally I've heard [noises in the ceiling] them since late September," Six said. "I've heard from a former staff member that it's been happening since last year."
When Six saw the video on Twitter, she was upset and ready to act.
"I wasn't here that day, but I saw videos all over Twitter and everything," she said. "I was so upset about it all. The next day when I realized they were still open that upset me more. How do we know that we sanitized and all that stuff?
"That really upset me, so I called the dean right after that happened the next day. I was like, 'This is not okay' and he didn't get back to me, but he put me in contact with Sarah [McMahon, assistant dean of students for residence life]. I sent her a long email saying, 'The rat isn't the only problem. It's other problems that have led up to this and I don't see why ya'll haven't seen all these problems.' I feel very strongly about it [the rat]."
Six and Tiejo both said they're only eating at Dora's right now because they've paid for a meal plan.
A meal plan is $1,992 per semester, plus tax, per semester, and is required of all students living in the residence halls, according to txwes.edu.
"It's very annoying that [the meal plan] is so expensive and that it's required," Six said. "I can't even choose to eat here. I have to eat here, so they should at least keep it sanitary and healthy for us to eat at."
While Six would like to see a public apology from dining services, Tiejo would like it to go beyond that.
"I feel like there should be some sort of alteration because this issue happened," Tiejo said. "They should give some kind of discount or lower the price, because there was the chance of illness."
Karen Cutler, Aramark's vice president of communications & public affairs, wrote in an email Monday that the rat appearance at Dora's is an "isolated situation." Aramark, she wrote, takes food safety "very seriously" and the company works closely with Wesleyan, the pest control company and the Health Department "to ensure that the food served at Texas Wesleyan is of the highest quality and prepared within the safest environment."
Aramark's director of dining services, Michael Clifton, referred all comments about the rats in Dora's to Ann Davis, Wesleyan's director of communications.
Davis said Thursday that the rat issue has been dealt with and it is safe to eat at Dora's.
"Yes absolutely [students are safe to be eating at Dora's]," said Davis, who posted a statement about the rat incident and how it has been dealt with at txwes.edu/update. "It was the day after [the rat] that they completely disinfected and cleaned everything from where the rodent had come down from the night before. Everything was even double-checked after that."
Davis said that the school is contracted with Massey, a pest control company, that comes out once a month and that Dora's has regularly reported health inspections by the health department. She also said Dora's engages with an independent auditor that does health and safety checks a few times a year as well as their own self-audits.
"We have [been having health checks] like clockwork," Davis said. "Everyone here takes that very seriously. We're serving food for our students. I know that Aramark takes a lot of pride in the food that they serve."
Davis said the reason for the rat being found in Dora's was the weather changes.
"We're obviously so sorry that happened," Davis said. "What happened, which I learned from talking with Michael [Clifton], the director of dining services at Dora's, facilities, and everything, is that — I know this for a fact because I used to work PR with a home pest control service – October is the number one time of year where rodents and little critters are trying to get in. It's because it was cold that week. We had a huge, first cold snap, so that was the first time this year that they're running inside to find warm places."
Taplin and Six are concerned that there will be more rats in the future.
"I do feel like there is [more than one rat around]," Taplin said. "I talked to some people in the administration office because they said they've seen the video too. They've said that there's been complaints [about rat infestations] down the street like a few blocks over. I feel like they'll [Dora's] get a lot more [rats], especially with the weather changing."
Health or safety issues should be reported to facilities at (817) 531-4454 or emailed to Jimmy Gresham, director of facilities operations, at jgresham@txwes.edu.
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After a career in health and social care, Angela Barnes decided to realise a long held ambition and give comedy a go. Within a couple of years she had won the 2011 BBC New Comedy Award and became a finalist at the 2011 Latitude Festival New Act of the Year competition. Since 2011, Angela and her witty world view have been catapulted onto numerous radio and television shows including appearances on BBC Three's Russell Howard's Good News, Russell Kane's Whistle Stop Tour (BBC Radio 2), and BBC Radio 4's The Now Show.


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Special theme: Evolving Software
Guest editors: Tom Mens (Univ. of Mons) and Jacques Klein (Univ. of Luxembourg)
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Evolving Software - Introduction to the Special Theme
by Tom Mens and Jacques Klein
As chair and member of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution, we are honoured to act as guest editors for this issue of ERCIM News with the special theme of Evolving Software. The importance of software in our information society cannot be underestimated: just imagine what would happen if all software systems around us failed. There would be no television, no radio, no Internet, no financial transactions and e-commerce, no energy production, huge problems in public transport, and the list goes on.
Holistic Software Evolution
by Michele Lanza
In order to analyze and understand large, complex, and evolving software systems, we take a holistic stance by combining diverse sources of information.
PINCETTE – Validating Changes and Upgrades in Networked Software
by Pamela Farries and Ajitha Rajan
Europe relies on the availability and flawless functioning of distributed infrastructure services such as electricity, water, communication, transportation and environmental management, which are all increasingly controlled by software. Currently, however, the potential for innovation is limited owing to the inherent risks and costs of upgrades. For example, incompatibilities when simultaneously running old and new versions of control software can result in major service outages. Similarly, fast moving technology, such as sensors, could enable advances in safety critical applications such as aerospace; however revalidating avionics software to introduce new niche functionality is prohibitively expensive. The PINCETTE project has been set up specifically to ensure safe infrastructure upgrades and enable rapid product development by providing solutions for continuous validation. Certainty in the safety of upgrades will allow communities to confidently apply and leverage the efficiency gains and advantages of upgrades.
A One-Stop-Shop for Software Evolution Tool Construction
by Mark Hills, Paul Klint, Tijs van der Storm and Jurgen Vinju
Real problems in software evolution render impossible a fixed, one-size-fits-all approach, and these problems are usually solved by gluing together various tools and languages. Such ad-hoc integration is cumbersome and costly. With the Rascal meta-programming language the Software Analysis and Transformation research group at CWI explores whether it is feasible to develop an approach that offers all necessary meta-programming and visualization techniques in a completely integrated language environment. We have applied Rascal with success in constructing domain specific languages and experimental refactoring and visualization tools.
Automatic Upgrade of Java Libraries
by Zdeněk Troníček
Our work focuses on the automatic update of Java code in response to changes in library interfaces. Our approach is based on refactoring rules that are specified by the library author and later applied by a developer on client code. This approach turns out to be very successful in practice. Although many researchers have focused on the problem of automatic migration to a new API and several approaches to the problem have been suggested, there is currently no widely used tool for automatic migration and research is still active in this area.
An Environment for Dedicated Software Analysis Tools
by Muhammad Usman Bhatti, Nicolas Anquetil and Stéphane Ducasse
Moose is an open-source platform for the assessment of software and data analysis. Moose provides several engines to build tools, analyses and visualizations. One of Moose's strengths is the possibility to rapidly build domain-specific analysis tools.
A Benchmark for Design Pattern Detection Tools: a Community Driven Approach
by Francesca Arcelli, Andrea Caracciolo, Marco Zanoni
Comparing tools is a difficult task because standard benchmarks are usually not available. We propose a Web application that supports a collaborative environment for the comparative analysis of design pattern detection tools.
Recovering Software Architecture with Softwarenaut
by Mircea Lungu and Oscar Nierstrasz
As a complex software system evolves, its architecture typically degrades, and thus it becomes progressively harder to understand and maintain. Softwarenaut is an interactive and collaborative tool that helps developers recover and consequently improve the architecture of such systems by offering mechanisms to represent, filter, query and manipulate architectural views of the system under analysis. Softwarenaut is an open and extensible tool that is part of the Moose software analysis platform, which is used for numerous academic and industrial projects related to software evolution.
Code Smells, Micro Patterns and their Relations
by Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Marco Zanoni and Bartosz Walter and Paweł Martenka
Code smells are an example of a pattern-oriented trend applied to software evolution. Due to their abstract and informal nature, the detection process requires support from lower-level indicators like individual metric values, history of code changes, knowledge about program structure or results of program execution. We examine how the presence of program structures, called micro patterns, is correlated with the code smells and how micro patterns can be exploited for the purpose of smell detection.
Managing the Evolution of FOSS Systems
by Davide Di Ruscio, Patrizio Pelliccione and Alfonso Pierantonio
EVOSS, a model-driven approach that manages the upgrade of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) systems, is presented. The approach simulates upgrades so that failures can be predicted before they affect the operating system. Both fine-grained static aspects (eg, configuration incoherencies) and dynamic aspects (eg, the execution of configuration scripts) are taken into account, improving over the state of the art of upgrade planners. Effectiveness is validated by instantiations with widely-used FOSS distributions.
Pat-Evol: Pattern-Driven Reuse in Architecture-Based Evolution for Service Software
by Aakash Ahmad and Claus Pahl
Although architecture-centric maintenance and evolution is useful for adjusting software structure and behaviour at higher abstractions, this approach lacks the potential for systematic change reuse. The Pat-Evol project focuses on managing a constructive architecture-based evolution process for service software. It enables continuous automated identification of evolution patterns from the architecture change log with support for pattern specification and instantiation provided by a pattern library. A pattern library acts as a repository to enable pattern-driven change execution, supporting the notion of an off-the-shelf architecture evolution.
Process Mining Software Repositories: Do Developers Work as Expected?
by Alexander Serebrenik, Wouter Poncin and Mark van den Brand
Modern software development commonly makes use of a multitude of software repositories. How can these help us to understand the on-going development process? Researchers of Eindhoven University of Technology design new methods revealing how software has been developed.
Architectural Evolution with Adaptive Services: the Meta-Service Approach
by Carlos E. Cuesta, M. Pilar Romay and Elena Navarro
At the architecture level, the application of adaptation strategies often implies dynamic reconfiguration and, ultimately, system evolution. Hence adaptation can be considered as a low-level version of architectural evolution; generic dynamic techniques, such as meta-level superimposition, can effectively be used for both. This approach can be translated to several different contexts, and we describe the specific case of service-oriented architectures.
Internet Software Evolution with VPraxis
by Xavier Blanc and Jean-Rémy Falleri
VPraxis is a tool to support the evolution of Internet applications. It automates the construction of a software application's history together with the histories of used resources. Comparing these histories enables change impact analysis and eases evolution management.
Cross Modality Adaptation of Service Front Ends
by Fabio Paternò, Christian Sisti and Lucio Davide Spano
The current evolution of pervasive technologies means that traditional access modalities are not always suitable for a particular service and, consequently, need to be reassessed. There are many scenarios in which the user is unable to use a screen or keyboard to interact with a given service. In such cases, a vocal interaction can be useful, but this is only supported by a few application providers. We propose a solution to adapt existing Service Front Ends in order to support vocal interaction, which is based on reverse engineering, adaptation heuristics and automatic generation of the vocal implementation.
Open-Source Formative Evaluation Process in Remote Software Maintenance
by Javier Cano, Christophe Joubert, Miguel Llácer and Miguel Montesinos
One of the main challenges of software evolution is to provide software applications with a maintenance environment with maximum time efficiency at minimum cost and the strongest accuracy. This includes managerial aspects of software evolution, like effort estimation, prediction models, and software processes. In this work, we focused on formative evaluation processes to give early feedback on the evolution of development metrics, global quantitative goals, non-functional evaluation, compliance with user requirements, and pilot applications results. Our results were applied to a monitoring control platform for remote software maintenance.
CAPucine: Context-Aware Service-Oriented Product Line for Mobile Apps
by Carlos Parra, Clément Quinton and Laurence Duchien
The design of a mobile application is a tedious task owing to its intrinsic variability. Software designers must take into account in their development process the versatility of available platforms (eg Android, iPhone, tablets). The variety of existing devices and their divergences (eg frontal camera, GPS) introduce a further layer of complexity to the development process. In addition, at runtime, many potential situations have to be considered (eg limited connectivity, hardware heterogeneity, changes of user preference, etc.). Such software systems are seen increasingly as evolutive systems.
"in vivo" Research in Software Evolution
by Serge Demeyer, Ahmed Lamkanfi and Quinten Soetens
The production of reliable software is an important area of investigation within the software engineering community. For many years, reliable software was seen as software "without bugs". Today however, reliable software has come to mean "easy to adapt" because of the constant pressure to change.
Guaranteeing Correct Evolution of Software Product Lines
by Maurice ter Beek, Henry Muccini and Patrizio Pelliccione
Researchers from the Software Engineering and Architecture group, University of L'Aquila, together with the Formal Methods and Tools group of ISTI-CNR are developing a novel approach that extends and adapts assume-guarantee reasoning to evolving SPLs in order to guarantee resilience against changes in the product environment. The proposal is to selectively verify and test assume-guarantee properties over only the components affected by the changes.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees with New Econometric Aggregation Techniques
Alexander Serebrenik, Mark van den Brand and Bogdan Vasilescu
Understanding software maintainability often involves calculation of metric values at a micro-level of methods and classes. Building on these micro-level measurements and complementary to them, econometric techniques help to provide a more precise understanding of the maintainability of software systems in general.
Software Evolution in Model-Driven Product Line Engineering
by Silvia Abrahão, Javier González-Huerta, Emilio Insfran and Isidro Ramos
New requirements and technology changes lead to continuous changes of the assets comprising a software product line. Since the product line represents a large number of potential products (or already deployed products) in a given domain, managing these changes becomes a key issue when dealing with evolution. We present a framework to support the development and evolution of high-quality software product lines. The framework is based on several interrelated models or system views (eg, functionality, variability, quality) and a production plan defined by model transformations that generate a software system that meets both functional and quality requirements. We used our framework to develop a software system for the automotive domain.
Continuous Architecture Evaluation
by Eric Bouwers and Arie van Deursen
Keeping the implementation of a software system in-line with the original design of the system is major challenge in developing and maintaining a system. One way of dealing with this issue is to use metrics to quantify important aspects of the architecture of a system and track the evolution of these metrics over time. We are working towards extending the set of available architecture metrics by developing and validating new metrics aimed at quantifying specific quality characteristics of implemented software architectures.
How to Deal with your IT Legacy: What is Coming up in MoDisco?
by Hugo Bruneliere, Jordi Cabot and Grégoire Dupé
The Eclipse-MDT MoDisco open source project is part of the Indigo Eclipse Simultaneous Release. Here we describe how MoDisco can play a role in the evolution of (legacy) software, focusing on the latest project news.
Evolutionary Architecting of Software-Intensive Systems
by Jakob Axelsson
Most industrial software-intensive systems have a very long life span, and undergo many changes after their initial conception. To ensure that they maintain the desired system-level properties, it is essential that their architecture is also updated to reflect the added functionality. To this end, we have investigated how Evolutionary Architecting should be carried out in order to provide a strong basis for a system, not only at conception but throughout its life. The results are concrete and based on empirical findings, and include both a new state-of-the-art process description and a light-weight maturity evaluation method.
Model-driven Evolution for Multimodal Mobile Geographic Information Systems
by Nadia Elouali, Daniel Liabeuf, Xavier Le Pallec, José Rouillard and Jean-Claude Tarby
In the MOANO project we aim to create an end-user modelling environment to design and generate multimodal mobile Geographic Information Systems (GIS) capable of evolving over time. Here we discuss different challenges and suggestions to address them using a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approach.
Automated Synthesis of CONNECTors to support Software Evolution
by Amel Bennaceur, Paola Inverardi, Valérie Issarny and Romina Spalazzese
Today's software systems are increasingly networked and are further characterized by ever-changing functionalities provided to/required from the networked environment because of the wide variety of dynamically available heterogeneous applications. To manage evolution in this context, the CONNECT project pursues the automated synthesis of CONNECTors enabling continuous composition and interoperability of applications.
EVOLIS: A Framework for Evaluating Evolution of Information Systems
by Alexandre Métrailler and Thibault Estier
This research proposes a framework (named EVOLIS) to study information systems (IS) evolution. The benefits of the EVOLIS framework are twofold. First, it gives managers a tool for assessing the impact of a change from either the user or the business/IS perspective. This can be used to design a strategy for IS evolution. Second, the repeated use of the EVOLIS framework reveals specific evolution patterns.
Emergent Middleware
by Paul Grace, Gordon S. Blair and Valerie Issarny
We are moving towards a world in which everything is connected. Yet such a goal highlights the deficiencies of today's systems platforms in achieving a fundamental property of distributed systems, namely interoperability. Faced with extreme heterogeneity of computational devices and networks, how can we ensure that every system can talk to every other system?
Mathematics Meets Chemistry - Workflow-guided Evolving Software for Molecular Modelling
by Dirk Reith and Karl Kirschner
Computational chemistry began with the birth of computers in the mid 1900s, and its growth has been directly coupled to the technological advances made in computer science and high-performance computing. A popular goal within the field, be it Newtonian or quantum based methods, is the accurate modelling of physical forces and energetics through mathematics and algorithm design. Through reliable modelling of the underlying forces, molecular simulations frequently provide atomistic insights into macroscopic experimental observations.
Never-stop Learning: Continuous Validation of Learned Models for Evolving Systems through Monitoring
by Antonia Bertolino, Antonello Calabrò, Maik Merten and Bernhard Steffen
Interoperability among the multitude of heterogeneous and evolving networked systems made available as black boxes remains a tough challenge. Learning technology is increasingly employed to extract behavioural models that form the basis for systems of systems integration. However, as networked systems evolve, their learned models need to evolve as well. This can be achieved by collecting actual interactions via monitoring and using these observations to continuously refine the learned behavioural models and, in turn, the overall system. This approach is part of the overall CONNECT approach.
Fostering Collaboration in the Modelling, Verification and Evolution Research Communities in Belgium
by Carlos Noguera, Andy Kellens and Theo D'Hondt
For more than 20 years, the Belgian Science Policy has been promoting the Interuniversity Attraction Poles (IAP) programme, with the aim of providing an incentive for the formation of excellent research networks. As a means to achieve this goal, the IAP programme focuses on fostering collaboration between research groups, rather than on research results. It is within this programme that five years ago the "Fundamental Issues in Software Engineering: Modelling, Verification and Evolution of Software" (MoVES) project was founded. We report here on how this project was able to both advance the state-of-the-art in the domain of software evolution, and form a cohesive national research network.


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Midwest voters almost evenly split on Trump's trade policies
Voters in the Midwest are almost evenly divided on President Trump Donald John TrumpNational Archives says it altered Trump signs, other messages in Women's March photo Dems plan marathon prep for Senate trial, wary of Trump trying to 'game' the process Democratic lawmaker dismisses GOP lawsuit threat: 'Take your letter and shove it' MORE's foreign policy approach towards trade, according to a Hill-HarrisX poll released on Wednesday.
The survey found that 48 percent of Midwest voters approve of Trump's handling of trade issues, while 52 percent of respondents said they disapprove of the president's handling of trade.
Trump's new trade deal with House Democrats could sway those voters one way or the other on the issue in the coming months.
U.S. farmers, particularly those in the Midwest, have been hit especially hard by Trump's ongoing trade war with China. Both soybean and pork farmers continue to struggle to overcome rising prices as a result of China's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports and a drop in global demand for their products.
In addition to unveiling two articles of impeachment against Trump, House Democrats announced Tuesday that they had reached an agreement with the White House to update the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). A full vote on the deal could happen could as soon as next week.
"This is a day we've all been working to and working for on the path to yes," Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiRepublicans will pay on Election Day for politicizing Trump's impeachment Trump chooses high-profile but controversial legal team Trump: Impeachment timing intended to hurt Sanders MORE (D-Calif.) said at a news conference to tout the deal. This came an hour before Pelosi appeared before cameras that Democrats were impeaching Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
However, even if House Democrats approve the deal, its chances of passing in the Senate before the end of the year are slim.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDems plan marathon prep for Senate trial, wary of Trump trying to 'game' the process Senate GOP mulls speeding up Trump impeachment trial Republicans will pay on Election Day for politicizing Trump's impeachment MORE (R-Ky.) made it clear on Tuesday that the Senate would not take up Trump's trade deal with Canada and Mexico before the end of the year due to the expected impeachment trial.
"We will not be doing USMCA in the Senate. They will have to come up in all likelihood after a trial is finished in the Senate," McConnell said.
Republicans remain firmly behind Trump on issues such as trade and impeachment.
Wednesday's Hill-HarrisX poll showed that 87 percent of respondents who identified as GOP voters back Trump's handling of trade. Another poll released Tuesday, meanwhile, showed his job approval rating at 85 percent among Republicans.
The survey comes amid Trump's escalating trade war with China.
The president on Sunday is set to impose more than $100 billion in tariffs on China imports. The new tariffs could increase prices on a range of consumer goods, including everything from clothing to technology products that are not as readily available in the U.S. and likely to be in high demand during the holiday season.
Trump is also set to impose new tariffs on a wide range of European food imports that could trigger retaliatory tariffs from the European Union against U.S. farmers.
The Hill-HarrisX survey was conducted Dec. 8-9 nationwide among 1,000 registered voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.


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With such a great turnout at our last training, we are putting on another session to meet demand! So this is a shout-out to all budding comedians again!
If you work or study at the University of Dundee, and you want to try your hand at a new way of public engagement, then come along to this comedy training, and develop your skills in stand-up comedy and public speaking.
The training can really boost confidence in public speaking or just hone and enhance skills you may already have in public engagement. The training will develop your communication skills about the work you do at the University, whether it is about student life, or your research. We'll help you find the humour in your research!
The training will take place on Monday 28 January 2019, 5-9pm, on the city campus of the University of Dundee.
To find out more, or to book your free place on this workshop, then email us.
The training will take place on Monday 1st October 2018, 5-9pm, on the city campus of the University of Dundee.
Bright Club Dundee #31 was another cracking success! With five performers making their debut appearances at Dundee, it was a fantastic night which had the crowd in so much laughter! If you missed out on tickets, or if you want to re-live some of the highlights from the show, you can catch the action here on our playlist.
Join us on Tuesday 24 April 2018 in Duke's Corner for another fantastic night of comedy featuring academic talent from Dundee and beyond!
Doors open at 7.30pm and the night kicks off at 8.30pm.
Tickets are only £6 so make sure you book yours today before it's another sell-out-show!
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Well, after a full house at our last training, we've decided to put another training session on for all you interested people! If you are a researcher, academic or student at the University of Dundee, and you want to try your hand at a new way of Public Engagement, then come along to this training, and develop your skills in stand-up comedy and public speaking.
The training can really boost confidence in public speaking or just hone and enhance skills you may already have in public engagement.
The training will take place on Monday 19 February 2018, 5-9pm, on the city campus of the University of Dundee.
To find out more email us.
Grab the popcorn, pull up a seat and turn off your phones!
This playlist is worth every minute!
We are back with another cracking night of comedy in Dundee!
Join us on Tuesday 26th September 2017 and meet some of the funniest people from the University of Dundee, as they make their debut on stage, joined by the one and only Susan Morrison! Susan is in a class of her own when it comes to quick-fire wit. She mixes real-life experiences, topical observations, audience interaction and Glasgow style storytelling to spellbinding effect.
Prof Jan Clarkson from the University of Dundee is heading to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as part of the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas 2017 programme on Tuesday 8th August 2017, 1.50pm.
Join Jan and comedian Susan Morrison as they debate, discuss, and discourse whether visiting the dentist is really necessary in this hilarious show!
We are pleased to announce that we now have our line-up for 21st February 2017 at Braes, Dundee !


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Evan Marks of The Ecology Center on Fostering Local Farm Hubs
We speak with Evan Marks, founder of the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano (Orange County), CA. Evan is a first-generation farmer who has practiced agroforestry in Nigeria and Ghana. For the past several years, he has devoted himself to fostering agroecological, community-focused agriculture in his own suburban region, in...
American Humane's 143-Year History
Started in 1877, American Humane blazed a trail for animal welfare. Today, the organization is doing more than ever before. In this first episode of Behind the Label with American Humane, president and CEO Robin Ganzert shares intriguing details from the organization's history. From American Humane's work on a law...
Raising Grass Fed Beef at Hearst Ranch
HRN Board Member, Brian Kenny sits down with the Division Manager for Hearst Ranch, Roland Camacho. Hearst Ranch is the nation's largest single-source provider of 100% grass-fed beef. Brian and Roland talk about the practices that make Hearst Ranch unique, including the conservation easement that protects 150,000 acres of California...
Indonesia: Wealth of Species
Indonesia is home to a wealth of species, and a vast rainforest that is rapidly disappearing through the untrammeled sale of land to internal and external forces intent on becoming the largest producers of palm oil in the world. The land grabbers are mostly Indonesian but they sell their product...
The National Farmers Union Talks Farming
Tom Driscoll, Director of the NFU Foundation and Conservation Policy describes the biggest challenges facing farmers today. Whether its the 50% reduction in income projected for this year, or the market consolidation in commodities and agriculture, farmers are being squeezed up and down the supply chain. Listen up for a...
Lindera Farms vinegars with Daniel Liberson
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Daniel Liberson became a vinegar maker by way of preservation; a 200 acre estate in Delaplane, Virginia, once surveyed by George Washington himself, was site to a rampant herd of cattle trampling the banks of the Boiling Branch Stream. This tributary empties into...
The Secret Life of Bees
On this episode of Eating Matters, host Jenna Liut speaks with Dr. Reese Halter about the effects of our current agricultural system on bee health, including recent declines in the bee population, its devastating repercussions and what everyone can do to reverse this trend. Dr. Reese is an author and...
Erin Fairbanks
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, the last of 2016, we end with a retrospective look at Erin Fairbanks' work with Heritage Radio Network. Her near 5 year tenure as our Executive Director, and 7+ year run on her own podcast, The Farm Report, in which she talks to...
Betsy Barlow Rogers and the Green Metropolis
This week on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito are joined in the studio by Elizabeth "Betsy" Barlow Rogers, a landscape designer, landscape preservationist and writer, whose lasting memorial is the revitalization of Central Park, New York City. This took place under her guidance as the...
Spreading The Word To Save The (Buffalo) Herd
Mike Mease of the Buffalo Field Campaign joins us on the phone to talk about the American buffalo. Also known as the bison – and recently named the US's national mammal – the creature faces culling in the state of Montana. "The only ones that aren't behind fences, grass-fed and...


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Screen's UK Stars of Tomorrow meet the international industry
Screen UK Stars of Tomorrow line up to face the international industry
October 2014 | London Film Festival
As a highlight of the London Film Festival, which came to a close earlier this week, we spent a busy evening introducing the next generation of British filmmakers and screen acting talent to the international industry, as part of a special event in partnership with Screen International.
Presented as part of the BFI London Film Festival (which has just closed after another hugely successful edition) the event celebrated some of the most exciting up-and-coming names in UK cinema and screen, profiling the best new actors, directors, producers and heads of department.
Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2014 showcases a range of already successful industry names including actor Mia Goth (Nymphomaniac, Everest), Olivier Award-winning Scottish actor Jack Lowden, and Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams. New names to watch are Hammersmith-born former Burberry model, Callum Turner, who recently landed the lead role in John Boorman's Cannes premiere Queen and Country, and actor/writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, whose script for award-winning one-woman play Fleabag has just been snapped up for screen adaptation by the BBC, and who will soon be seen in the highly anticipated seconmd series of ITV's Broadchurch.
With past years' Stars alumni including household names like Benedict Cumberbatch, Gemma Arterton, James McAvoy, Emily Blunt and Robert Pattinson, the rising talents recognised in this year's Screen Stars of Tomorrow event will certainly be the names to watch in 2015 and beyond.
As we introduced the Stars to guests from across the international film industry, including festival curators, agents, producers and casting agents, a select group of profile UK guests including director Michael Winterbottom and King's Speech producer Gareth Unwin, also joined in the table-hopping in order to share their international experiences. We grabbed some of the guests and the Stars themselves on the night to find out what the accolade means for their careers and for the wider industry.
This is the first time that Screen Stars of Tomorrow has been presented at London Film Festival and is a new partnership between British Council's Film team, together with the Casting Society of America (CSA), in association with We Are UK Film.
'Connecting the brightest and best filmmakers, both established and up-and-coming, to international audiences and counterparts is absolutely at the heart of what we do at British Council Film. We are thrilled to be partnering on this event, which gives the UK Stars of Tomorrow a focused opportunity to meet and greet key players from the international film industry.'
Briony Hanson, Director of Film, British Council
'We see this as an opportunity to share insights on our craft; all of which relies on the talent of outstanding actors like those who are being recognised.'
Matthew Lessall, vice president of the CSA
'We are thrilled to be embarking on this new partnership with Screen International and British Council on an initiative that will provide concrete opportunities for the UK Stars of Tomorrow to expand their networks and engage with international industry attending the BFI London Film Festival.'
Clare Stewart, LFF Festival Director


The bowl isn't a standard one-size-fits-all - they're completely customisable from a selection of rice, noodles, salad or bao bun bases topped with crisp veg, proteins, sauces and condiments. The combos are endlessly delicious, think: udon rice noodles topped with crispy sesame soy pork, blistered beans in black garlic sauce, drizzled with apple soy ginger sauce and garnished with tempura crunch, or sushi rice with spicy yuzu ponzu salmon chirashi, charred corn and garlic shoots, Japanese salad dressing and toasted nori strips. And if you social share your lunchtime snap you're getting a free ice-cream sandwich next time you stop by.
But if taking a lunch break is looking unlikely for tomorrow, don't panic, you can still sample the goods without any financial outlay. From 7am on Thursday this junior player is offering the first 100 customers a free breakfast porridge bowl plus regular coffee.
Breakfast not your jam? The #TGIF crew is also catered for: from 5pm Friday the first 100 customers score a free build-your-own bowl and 300ml Hattori Hitgirl or Blushing Geisha craft beer.
The opening of this second junior casual eatery (Saké Jr Sydney opened in August this year) from pedigreed parent Saké marks a fresh new foodie-defining movement towards fast, healthy casual dining and it's a trend we can really get behind. On-the-go chef-made meals? Yes, Saké, yes.


A: The easiest place to begin is Fayetteville's Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 822-7027. In addition, several nursing homes in the Cape Fear region welcome such donations for patients.
We also talked to the Fairy Godmothers, who knit, crochet and sew garments for babies at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center and Womack Army Medical Center. They occasionally make blankets for veterans and mission trips, too. Betty Johnston, a member of the group, said it does not accept donations but she would love to have new members attend the meetings, which are the second and fourth Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon at Snyder Memorial Baptist Church's mezzanine.
Some organizations and churches have collected knitted items for children in war-torn areas of Afghanistan. Nonprofit groups such as afghans for Afghans (find it at afghansforAfghans.org), based in San Francisco, accept donations and ship them overseas. Another group, Binky Patrol (binkypatrol.org), accepts blankets and knitted items for infants born HIV-positive, drug-addicted, infected with illnesses.
In short, there are many destinations for your donations.
A: Your question seems simple and our answer is, well, not so simple. It depends on who owns and operates a particular BP store. Without knowing who owns the one in question, answering your question is a bit difficult.
We called M.M. Fowler Inc. in Durham, a company that does business as Family Fare Inc. and owns or operates several BP convenience stores, primarily in the Triangle. A spokeswoman said the company has two leased locations in Fayetteville - it owns the property, but the store is owned and operated by someone else. The stores operated by Fowler will have "Family Fare" on an outside sign or inside the store. So if the store you're unhappy with appears to be a Family Fare store, call Family Fare at 800-313-6635 and you will be directed to the proper department.
We searched online for "BP convenience stores" and came up with a website that appears to be the home for BP stores and operations in Australia. We figured that was not exactly what you were looking for - unless you happened to be Down Under when you had your experience.


Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often show executive function (EF) problems and neurophysiological hypoarousal. Baroreceptor activation, as part of the baroreflex short-term blood pressure regulatory mechanism, has been linked to cortical inhibition and attenuated cognitive-attentional functioning. We investigated the hypothesis that higher resting baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) predicts poorer EF performance in children with ADHD. EF measures of speed and accuracy were regressed upon resting BRS in 10-to-12-year-old children with ADHD from a clinic-referred sample (n=181) and healthy (n=194) and clinic-referred (n=260) comparison samples. Resting BRS was positively associated with poorer EF performance (e.g., response variability, working memory, response inhibition), especially in ADHD combined type, boys, and unmedicated children. Comparison samples partly suggested negative associations. We conclude that higher resting BRS is related to poorer cognitive performance in children with ADHD. Findings suggest afferent influences of the body's visceral state on higher-order cognitive functioning and imply energetic state dysregulation in ADHD.


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