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- Measurements of transverse energy distributions in Au+Au collisions at sqrt [sNN ]=200 GeV (2004)
- Transverse energy ( ET ) distributions have been measured for Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN ]=200 GeV by the STAR Collaboration at RHIC. ET is constructed from its hadronic and electromagnetic components, which have been measured separately. ET production for the most central collisions is well described by several theoretical models whose common feature is large energy density achieved early in the fireball evolution. The magnitude and centrality dependence of ET per charged particle agrees well with measurements at lower collision energy, indicating that the growth in ET for larger collision energy results from the growth in particle production. The electromagnetic fraction of the total ET is consistent with a final state dominated by mesons and independent of centrality.
- Photon and neutral pion production in Au + Au collisions at sqrt[sNN ]=130 GeV (2004)
- We report inclusive photon measurements about midrapidity ( |y| <0.5 ) from 197 Au + 197 Au collisions at sqrt[sNN ]=130 GeV at RHIC. Photon pair conversions were reconstructed from electron and positron tracks measured with the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) of the STAR experiment. With this method, an energy resolution of Delta E/E ~ 2% at 0.5 GeV has been achieved. Reconstructed photons have also been used to measure the transverse momentum ( pt ) spectra of pi 0 mesons about midrapidity ( |y| <1 ) via the pi 0 --> gamma gamma decay channel. The fractional contribution of the pi 0 --> gamma gamma decay to the inclusive photon spectrum decreases by 20%±5% between pt =1.65 GeV/c and pt =2.4 GeV/c in the most central events, indicating that relative to pi 0 --> gamma gamma decay the contribution of other photon sources is substantially increasing.
- Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of charged hadron production at intermediate pT in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN ]=130 GeV (2004)
- We present STAR measurements of charged hadron production as a function of centrality in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN ]=130 GeV . The measurements cover a phase space region of 0.2< pT <6.0 GeV/c in transverse momentum and -1< eta <1 in pseudorapidity. Inclusive transverse momentum distributions of charged hadrons in the pseudorapidity region 0.5< | eta | <1 are reported and compared to our previously published results for | eta | <0.5 . No significant difference is seen for inclusive pT distributions of charged hadrons in these two pseudorapidity bins. We measured dN/d eta distributions and truncated mean pT in a region of pT > pcutT , and studied the results in the framework of participant and binary scaling. No clear evidence is observed for participant scaling of charged hadron yield in the measured pT region. The relative importance of hard scattering processes is investigated through binary scaling fraction of particle production.
- Rapidity and centrality dependence of proton and antiproton production from 197Au + 197Au collisions at sqrt[SNN ]=130 GeV (2004)
- We report on the rapidity and centrality dependence of proton and antiproton transverse mass distributions from 197Au + 197Au collisions at sqrt[sNN ]=130 GeV as measured by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Our results are from the rapidity and transverse momentum range of |y| <0.5 and 0.35< pt <1.00 GeV/c . For both protons and antiprotons, transverse mass distributions become more convex from peripheral to central collisions demonstrating characteristics of collective expansion. The measured rapidity distributions and the mean transverse momenta versus rapidity are flat within |y| <0.5 . Comparisons of our data with results from model calculations indicate that in order to obtain a consistent picture of the proton (antiproton) yields and transverse mass distributions the possibility of prehadronic collective expansion may have to be taken into account.
- Production of e+ e- pairs accompanied by nuclear dissociation in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions (2004)
- We present data on e+ e- pair production accompanied by nuclear breakup in ultraperipheral gold-gold collisions at a center of mass energy of 200 GeV per nucleon pair. The nuclear breakup requirement selects events at small impact parameters, where higher-order diagrams for pair production should be enhanced. We compare the data with two calculations: one based on the equivalent photon approximation, and the other using lowest-order quantum electrodynamics (QED). The data distributions agree with both calculations, except that the pair transverse momentum spectrum disagrees with the equivalent photon approach. We set limits on higher-order contributions to the cross section.
- Multistrange baryon production in Au-Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=130 GeV (2004)
- The transverse mass spectra and midrapidity yields for Xi s and Omega s are presented. For the 10% most central collisions, the Xi -bar+/h- ratio increases from the Super Proton Synchrotron to the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider energies while the Xi -/h- stays approximately constant. A hydrodynamically inspired model fit to the Xi spectra, which assumes a thermalized source, seems to indicate that these multistrange particles experience a significant transverse flow effect, but are emitted when the system is hotter and the flow is smaller than values obtained from a combined fit to pi , K, p, and Lambda s.
- Cross sections and transverse single-spin asymmetries in forward neutral-pion production from proton collisions at sqrt[s] = 200 GeV (2004)
- Measurements of the production of forward high-energy pi 0 mesons from transversely polarized proton collisions at sqrt[s]=200 GeV are reported. The cross section is generally consistent with next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations. The analyzing power is small at xF below about 0.3, and becomes positive and large at higher xF, similar to the trend in data at sqrt[s] <= 20 GeV. The analyzing power is in qualitative agreement with perturbative QCD model expectations. This is the first significant spin result seen for particles produced with pT>1 GeV/c at a polarized proton collider.
- Identified particle distributions in pp and Au + Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=200 GeV (2004)
- Transverse mass and rapidity distributions for charged pions, charged kaons, protons, and antiprotons are reported for sqrt[sNN]=200 GeV pp and Au+Au collisions at Relativistic Heary Ion Collider (RHIC). Chemical and kinetic equilibrium model fits to our data reveal strong radial flow and long duration from chemical to kinetic freeze-out in central Au+Au collisions. The chemical freeze-out temperature appears to be independent of initial conditions at RHIC energies.
- Rho 0 production and possible modification in Au+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt[sNN]=200 GeV (2004)
- We report results on rho (770)0--> pi + pi - production at midrapidity in p+p and peripheral Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=200 GeV. This is the first direct measurement of rho (770)0--> pi + pi - in heavy-ion collisions. The measured rho 0 peak in the invariant mass distribution is shifted by ~40 MeV/c2 in minimum bias p+p interactions and ~70 MeV/c2 in peripheral Au+Au collisions. The rho 0 mass shift is dependent on transverse momentum and multiplicity. The modification of the rho 0 meson mass, width, and shape due to phase space and dynamical effects are discussed.
- Pion-kaon correlations in central Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=130 GeV (2003)
- Pion-kaon correlation functions are constructed from central Au+Au STAR data taken at sqrt[sNN]=130 GeV by the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The results suggest that pions and kaons are not emitted at the same average space-time point. Space-momentum correlations, i.e., transverse flow, lead to a space-time emission asymmetry of pions and kaons that is consistent with the data. This result provides new independent evidence that the system created at RHIC undergoes a collective transverse expansion.


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With less than four months until a long-awaited decision on new protections for portions of the Antarctic Southern Ocean, The Pew Charitable Trusts today will welcome U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and ambassadors from around the world to discuss proposed marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean, including the U.S.-New Zealand effort to create the largest marine protected area on Earth in the Ross Sea.
Secretary Kerry will deliver remarks in the company of the New Zealand Ambassador to the United States and former prime minister, the Right Honorable Mike Moore, and the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Bob Carr, at an evening reception and screening of the award-winning documentary, "The Last Ocean," at the National Geographic Society. Highlighting the Ross Sea, the film shows the stark and frozen landscape of Antarctica surrounded by an ocean filled with a dazzling abundance of marine life.
In July, at the urging of scientists and conservation leaders, 24 countries and the European Union are expected to decide whether to create marine protected areas in the Ross Sea and East Antarctica, or leave them unprotected and vulnerable to large-scale fishing. Over the past decade, several nations have expanded their fishing activity in the Ross Sea, targeting the Antarctic toothfish, an apex predator in the ecosystem that's marketed in the United States as "Chilean sea bass."
The United States and New Zealand have partnered on a proposal to protect a vast area in the Ross Sea. Their efforts fell short the last time governments met on Antarctic conservation. The two countries are now increasing efforts to gain support for the creation of a Ross Sea marine protected area this summer.
"We are very proud of the United States/New Zealand proposal for a Ross Sea Marine Protected Area, which would be the largest of its kind in the world," said Ambassador Moore. "Our joint proposal is born out of a shared commitment to the environment, and a shared vision for the management of our oceans and fisheries. To us, it represents the best chance of successfully establishing an MPA in this important region."
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, or CCAMLR, was formed in 1982 to address the conservation and sustainable use of marine life in the Southern Ocean. It makes decisions by consensus.
In 2011, CCAMLR member states identified a number of areas for possible protection. In October 2012, the first two areas were proposed: the Ross Sea, by the United States and New Zealand, and the East Antarctic marine area, by the European Union, France and Australia. But the commission could not reach consensus, and has called a special meeting that will take place in Bremerhaven, Germany, from July 15-17, to revisit the proposals.
"Australia is an island state, with the third -largest marine jurisdiction in the world," said Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Carr. "Australia recognizes that Marine Protected Areas are valuable ocean management tools used to protect marine biodiversity, species or populations at risk of extinction, habitats that are critical for the lifecycle of species, and the structure and function of ecosystems. The Australian Government recently created the world's largest representative network of marine protected areas. Australia supports the protection of the Ross Sea, and is working on a similar initiative with the European Union and France to create marine reserves off the coast of East Antarctica."
Pew has supported the conservation of the Southern Ocean for two decades, and has partnered with scientists, environmental groups and governments to identify marine areas with important environmental and scientific value. The biodiversity in the region includes 16,000 known species, including significant populations of penguins, whales, and seals. The Antarctic is a living laboratory for scientists to understand how climate change affects marine ecosystems.
"The Ross Sea is one of the most pristine places left on Earth," said Joshua Reichert, executive vice president of The Pew Charitable Trusts. "It now faces challenges, brought on in great part by the warming of the earth's climate, that threaten to alter the fragile web of life that has endured for millennia. While we cannot prevent some of these changes from taking place, we can protect it from other types of pressures such as industrial fishing that will further exacerbate disruption.
"The international community must work together to ensure that these Antarctic waters are designated, and that the protections they agree to are permanent and comprehensive, without loopholes that will allow more incursions from industrial fishing. The countdown to consensus starts now."
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Capital cities are never a cheap place to visit, and hotels in Madrid can be particularly expensive, almost on a par with prices in London, Paris and Rome. When visiting Spain's beautiful capital, renting an apartment is a great way of saving enough euros to really enjoy your holiday - particularly if you're bringing the whole family with you.
Madrid is the financial and cultural hub for Spain, and much of Southern Europe. There is a huge amount to see and do there, as well as excellent nightlife in terms of bars, restaurants, clubs and entertainment. As the area has been inhabited since Roman times, there are also plenty of historical sites to explore and enjoy. At the other extreme, you can also visit the Bernabéu stadium, home of Spanish football giant Real Madrid. This is usually popular with the younger members of the family, and many of the older ones! For art lovers you are torn between the Prado Museum, with works from the 12th to 19th Centuries including Goya, Velasquez and Rubens, or you can go to the Reina Sofia Museum for art from the 20th Century and beyond. The Reina Sofia houses Picasso's most famous painting Guernica, as well as key works by artists such as Salvador Dali - it gets incredibly busy but is a crucial place to visit!
While Madrid is a huge city, and it is easily possible to spend a whole holiday exploring, there is also a lot to see outside the city itself. Renting an apartment gives you the confidence and freedom to roam further afield, unfettered by needing to stick to hotel mealtimes, and giving you a kitchen to prepare a packed lunch or picnic. Suggested excursions include Toledo, former capital of the country and a medieval city full of charm, and Segovia with its extraordinary castle which was used as inspiration for Walt Disney's iconic castle logo.
It makes great sense to rent an apartment in Madrid, to get a slightly more authentic sense of Madrid city life than can be found cooped up in a budget hotel. As well as being much cheaper (from around £20 a night for a central rented apartment), there won't be the inevitable temptation to order ham, egg and chips in the hotel restaurant each night, and you will either be cooking for yourself with local ingredients, or venturing into the many restaurants that Madrid has to offer, sampling Iberian pork and other local delicacies, with a bowl of olives alongside. Go to Madrid just outside the peak season, and you will be able to find great deals on rental apartments, wonderful food and still idyllic weather.


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The conventional understanding you get from the media is that Israel is worried that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a serious threat to the country's existence.
Is that really what's happening, though? Another interpretation is that Iran might want nuclear weapons not to launch any such an attack but to prevent an attack on its country--nuclear deterrence, in other words. (Of course, it's important to note that there is currently no evidence that Iran is pursuing a weapons program.)
I was struck when I heard Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman bring up some of these ideas on NPR's Talk of the Nation on January 30. Bergman is no outsider critic of Israeli policy; when he appeared recently on the NewsHour (1/12/12) and was asked about the assassination of Iranian scientists, his answer was: "I don't know. And even if I knew, I would tell you that I don't know."
Here's what he said on NPR, appearing to talk about his New York Times magazine piece on Israel and Iran:
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BERGMAN: I would assume that--oh, I know that most of Israel's leaders do not believe that Iran is going to use nuclear weapons against Israel. The problem is not the nuclear threat. The Iranians are not stupid. They want to live.... And I think that most leaders, and me personally as well, see that there are only a few people who believe that Iran would be hesitant enough to--sorry, brutal enough and stupid enough to use nuclear weapon against Israel.
The problem is that once Iran acquires this ability, it would change the balance of power in the Middle East. And a country that possesses nuclear weapon is a different country when it comes to support proxy jihadist movement. And these Israeli leaders afraid would significantly narrow down the variety of options from the point of view of Israel, just to quote one example coming from Minister of Defense Barak, when he said, just imagine--he told me in a meeting we had on the 13th of January in his house--said, just imagine, Ronen, that tomorrow we go into another war with Hezbollah in Lebanon like we did in 2006, and this time we are determined to take them out. But Iran comes forward and say, to attack Hezbollah is like attacking Iran, and we threaten you with nuclear weaponry.
Now, Minister of Defense Barak says it's not necessarily that we would be threatened not to attack, and we would decide to cancel the war, but it would certainly make us think twice.
In other words, Israel's position might be that an nuclear-armed Iran could make it harder to have future wars. That's a very different discussion from the one we're having now.


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Rodriguez drives in four after birth of fourth child
ST. PETERSBURG -- After being reinstated from the paternity list on Friday, Sean Rodriguez celebrated the birth of his son by hitting a three-run homer and driving in four in an 8-1 victory over the Rangers at Tropicana Field.
Rodriguez, who homered in the third inning and was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the first, tied his career high with four RBIs.
"It's been great with the birth of my son, and getting a W topped off a great day," Rodriguez said.
On Thursday, Rodriguez and his wife, Gisele, welcomed to the world their son, Zekiel Cruz, who was born at 12:47 p.m. at Bayfront Baby Place.
"Delivery went great," Rodriguez said before the game. "Giselle was a little bit in pain early on, but I guess having a couple made the delivery a lot less time-consuming, but it went well. She's strong."
Zekiel weighed in at 9 pounds and 24-1/4 inches tall. He is the couple's fourth child.
"I definitely got my infield, first to third," Rodriguez said. "I'm pretty sure we're done though. We talked about that, hopefully we can keep it that way."
While Rodriguez was away from the team, he managed to watch the game on TV.
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As for watching the birth?
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T.R. Hanrahan, the Missouri College Media Association's 2010 Adviser of the Year, said the decision was "not unexpected, but odd." His students discovered he had been left off the fall schedule of classes before he found out Thursday he would be let go.
The department head told him they were going to go in a "different direction." However, Hanrahan said, Department of Communications chair J.R. Moorman has been vocal in his support of the newspaper.
"How did I get so bad at my job in 12 months?" Hanrahan said. "Somehow my boss, in letting me go, praised my performance and said, 'We're going in a different direction.' That doesn't sound to me like it was made at the department level. To my knowledge he's been nothing but supportive."
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different directions!??? what does that mean, Moorman? and where is the dean of arts and sciences in all of this? Richard Miller... what a bunch of idiots...
If I were Moorman, I would be incensed to think that these decisions "to go in another direction" were made for me, instead of by me. So, if he truly didn't make this decision himself, he should show some solidarity and resign. And so should Dr. Stebbins, as it is my understanding (I don't work there, this is hearsay) that Dr. Stebbins was instrumental in bringing Hanrahan to MSSU to begin with. Of course, this might be over-zealous, and these fine professors might find themselves out of a job, but they should have the balls to do it anyway to make a point. After all, it is Dr. Stebbins son, Brennan, who wrote most of the "errant" articles, right? Otherwise, they both appear to be spineless lackeys for a run-away administration and board of governors.
But maybe this is OK with both of these fine people, and they can sleep well knowing that they are doing their jobs judiciously.
Evidently, the Chart sponsor was fired because, as Dr. Moorman said, "We're going in another direction." Has no one asked what direction that might be?
Are we going to publish only stories friendly to Bruce Speck and Dwight Douglas? Are we going to publish only excerpts from old "I Love Lucy" scripts? Are we going to change the name of the school paper to Pravda or Izvestia? (For the youngsters, those papers were the voice of the Soviet Union during the cold war.)
What direction can Moorman have in mind that "arranges" the news, as the Globe's publisher has agreed to do? What direction might he be thinking of that shields the president and board from any tough questions or outright criticism?
Newspapers, Professor Moorman, are supposed to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable! You and your department should get back to basics, and CONTINUE the Chart's tough investigative ways. It's the only way to redeem yourself from the disgust of your colleagues and the ostracism you will surely suffer now.
Finally, where was A.J. Anglin in all this? The friend of the faculty? The advocate for academic freedoms? A.J., if you will ever regain your self-respect, it's time you stand up to B.S. and defend what you know is right!


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New investment aims to establish the UK as a global graphene research hub
02 Feb 2012
Today sees the announcement of full details of how an additional £50 million will be spent to keep the UK at the forefront of research into 'wonder material' graphene. Also below are details of further investment strands for graphene engineering and research technology.
200 times stronger than steel and just one atom thick, graphene is the strongest and thinnest material ever measured, and also the world's most conductive material. It has a wide range of potential uses, including electronics, flexible touch screens, sensors and in composite materials.
The investment will help establish the UK as a graphene research and technology 'hub', funded through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), that will lead to the rapid commercialisation of graphene technologies in the UK. There will be four investment strands, building on the strong, and rapidly-expanding, UK research in this field.
Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, said: "This significant investment in graphene will drive growth and innovation, create high-tech jobs and keep the UK at the very forefront of this rapidly evolving area of science. With a Nobel Prize and hundreds of published papers under their belts, scientists in the UK have already demonstrated that we have real strengths in this area. The graphene hub will build on this by taking this research through to commercial success."
A key element of the graphene hub will be a national institute of graphene research and commercialisation activities. The University of Manchester has been confirmed as the single supplier invited to submit a proposal for funding a new £45 million national institute, £38 million of which will be provided by the UK Government. This world-class shared facility for graphene research and commercialisation activities will be accessible by both researchers and business.
The national institute, funded through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and The University of Manchester, will offer access to specialist facilities and equipment which enable the simulation of manufacturing processes. The University of Manchester is an acknowledged research leader in graphene research with tens of thousands of citations for graphene papers, and is the academic home Nobel Laureates, and now Knights Bachelors, Professor Sir Andre Geim and Professor Sir Kostya Novoselov, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for demonstrating the remarkable properties of graphene.
Professor Andre Geim said: "Creating a National Graphene institute here at The University of Manchester would allow our world-class scientists and researchers to further explore the limitless potential of graphene.
"To have such a facility here is a testament to the expertise at the University and will offer fantastic opportunities for Manchester researchers to work closely with industry and business."
EPSRC Chief Executive, Professor David Delpy, said: "From the first grant of just over £500,000 in August 2001 which led to the demonstration of graphene, to a grant of more than £5 million awarded in October 2009 to investigate the potential of the material, EPSRC directly funded the research which led to the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics being awarded to Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov. This new investment will help accelerate commercialisation and open up new opportunities for growth.
"The applications for commercial use of graphene are vast including the creation of new materials and the manufacture of innovative electronics. The £50 million in additional funding is an important step in ensuring we can reap the benefits of those applications.
"The race to be the first country to produce commercial products is well and truly on. "
Iain Gray, Chief Executive of the Technology Strategy Board, said: "Technology innovation – and, in particular, the commercialisation and exploitation of innovation – is absolutely vital for the UK's economic future, and to improve our quality of life. Establishing this Institute of Graphene Research will help to ensure that we capitalise on the UK's great strength in graphene research by supporting the development of applications for the technology. This will drive economic growth and create high-tech jobs."
Secondly, £12 million is available from the UK Government to invest in research equipment related to graphene. EPSRC will seek to fund equipment that can be used across a variety of disciplines and research groups and which will be accessible to business.
Thirdly, additional £10 million of investment is available from EPSRC's research budget to support graphene engineering research, and accelerate the generation of novel devices, technologies and systems. It will also strengthen the UK position in relation to European initiatives with potential for further financial leverage.
Fourthly, an innovation centre to focus on the market development and exploitation of emerging graphene technologies will be established, with around £10 million of investment from the EPSRC and the Technology Strategy Board. Separate from the institute of graphene research and supported by business, the centre will help to accelerate the development, application and exploitation of new graphene technologies, in order for them to realise their full commercial and economic potential.
Professor Sir Peter Knight, President of the Institute of Physics, said: "We welcome the Government's commitment to additional investment in the science base. Graphene is a great success story for British science and an outstanding example of the value achievable from the application of physics."
Notes for editors
The £50 million is subject to a submission requesting BIS Ministerial approval of the full business case and authorisation to proceed on this basis.
On 3 October 2011, the Chancellor of the Exchequer pledged a £50m investment to create a graphene global research and technology hub and build a national capability to support the commercialisation of applications for graphene and ensure the UK remains at the forefront of graphene work. The details were explained by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts. http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=421451&NewsAreaID=2
The national institute, although based at Manchester, will be a resource for research groups and businesses across the UK.
The invitation to bid for equipment funding and engineering research grants will be available from early February.
The business focused innovation centre will aim to support the early stages of technology development and application and is expected to be launched in late 2012/ early 2013.
EPSRC Case study:
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is the UK's main agency for funding research in engineering and physical sciences. EPSRC invests around £800m a year in research and postgraduate training, to help the nation handle the next generation of technological change.
The areas covered range from information technology to structural engineering, and mathematics to materials science. This research forms the basis for future economic development in the UK and improvements for everyone's health, lifestyle and culture. EPSRC works alongside other Research Councils with responsibility for other areas of research. The Research Councils work collectively on issues of common concern via research Councils UK.
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Talk:Londiste Tutorial (Skytools 2)
From PostgreSQL wiki
Thanks, this is highly appreciated. I also have some docs on slony and WAL shipping which I'll contribute soon. - Robe 15:25, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
While this is indeed highly appreciated, I suggest a bit more context. It's not clear the state of the subscriber database and server when we start. It'd be good to put in a paragraph indicating whether the tables have been created in the subscriber, and whatever else had to be done to prepare for this. --Edgreenberg 17:52, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
This HOWTO has indeed enabled me to start up a londiste replicator (where the docs in the distribution failed). It does the job in telling me what to DO. I can likely help make it clearer still as I have just finished the installation and remember my problems: (1) the ticker daemon para contains data meaningless and confusing to a newcomer - queue? What queue? Many queues? I don't want many of anything when I start, and telling me about many and using the word IF too is a big no-no at this point. (2) the logfile and pidfile formats in the ticker.ini para are not particularly good nor safe - some people might not know what a directory is and not make a log or pid directory! ~/londiste.%(job_name)s.log is probably safe, but then logs anywhere in one's home (WHOSE home?) are weird anyway. At this point we don't know what machine we are on nor which user we are running as. (3) it's already too late, but we needed to know which machine to be working from and giving the instructions from (it doesn't seem to matter, but what do I know ..) and which user we are working as. Which user seems to matter since some instructions launch daemons, and they seem to try and write logs and pids in system dirs (/var/log/londiste/, /var/log/run/). I solved that by running all daemons as myself, adding myself to group adm, changing group of the londiste system dirs mentioned in the parentheses to adm, and giving write permission to group on them. Come to that, I had to create the dirs in the first place - obviously my skytools install was defective, but then I had to improvise a lot of it for python2.5 and postgres 8.4. (4) this replication daemon - this para is all wishy-washy about where to run daemons from. One needs instructions, not philosophy. I seem to remember I ran the daemon on the subscriber and something is certainly making log noise there, but what with the ticker daemon I don't remember clearly. Again where and who is not clear. (5) installing londiste - the tenses are not clear. You probably mean "you had installed the whole skytools package" (PAST subjunctive tense), not "you install the whole .." (FUTURE subjunctive tense), as written. (6) adding tables and sequences - what's a sequence? Never heard of one and the text doesn't say which command is for tables and which for sequences. Never mind .. it's clear to me, but probably not to all. Anyway, not all adds work for me - anything on a big table times out. I've tried altering the timeout in setup.py but it just takes longer to timeout. Here you are: psycopg.ProgrammingError: ERROR: canceling statement due to statement timeout CONTEXT: SQL statement "create trigger londiste_replica_logger after insert or update or delete on ptb.user_calls_353 for each row execute procedure pgq.logtriga('londiste.replica', 'kvvvvvvv', 'ptb.user_calls_353')". PL/pgSQL function "provider_create_trigger" line 12 at EXECUTE statement SQL statement "SELECT londiste.provider_create_trigger( $1 , $2 , $3 )" PL/pgSQL function "provider_add_table" line 27 at PERFORM PL/pgSQL function "provider_add_table" line 2 at RETURN. Shorter tables are OK. --Peter 10:25, 16 October 2009 (UTC)


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Everyone must stay at home to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
You should only leave the house for 1 of 4 reasons:
Important - These 4 reasons are exceptions – even when doing these activities, you should be minimising time spent outside of the home and ensuring you are 2 metres apart from anyone outside of your household.
There is separate advice about:
Do not leave your home if you have either:
To protect others, do not go to places like a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital. Stay at home.
Use the 111 online coronavirus service to find out what to do.
Only call 111 if you cannot get help online.
Read general information such as:
Pendlebury Health Centre659 Bolton RoadPendleburySwinton, M27 8HPTel: 0161 983 0940
Every month the practice will be leading on various health promotion campaigns where we will have patient information available for you, health promotion displays in the surgery and we will be encouraging patients to engage with us in helping you to help yourself.
We are asking all patients who are ringing for results of investigations, queries with prescriptions, general queries to telephone the practice between 11am - 4.00pm - this means the telephones will be available for those patients who need to see a doctor or nurse that day and also for patients ringing in requesting a visit. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Advanced Nurse Practitioners
This practice employs ANP's (Advanced Nurse Practitioners) who are highly qualified individuals who work in a similar way to the GP's, seeing, assessing and sometimes referring patients.
Booking Appointments
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If you feel you may need more than a 10 minute slot please inform the receptionist of this. If you do attend an appointment with a number of health problems the GP may ask you to rebook another appointment so that more time can be spent with you.
If you wish to register for online appointment booking, please speak to the receptionist or contact the practice to be sent your registration details.
Extended Surgery Hours
The practice now offers an extra 6 hours surgery time per week, some weeks this may be a Saturday morning from 9.00am – 12.00pm or a Weekday morning from 7.00am – 8.00am and Wednesday Evening 6.30pm – 7.30pm.
If you work and find it easier to book an appointment out of work times, please feel free to book an appointment in our extended surgery hours.
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13 June, 2010
the first timeI had been to many great "big band"concerts but this was my first experience of U2 live and WOW what a great night, the company I went with was lousy and the seats were at the back of the stadium, but I still remember sitting waiting for U2 to come on stage and being in total awe, huge screens and props ,dangling cars, the massive lights, it certainly made up for being at the back! The music was fantastic and Bono voice sublime- how I love those songs from Achtung Baby and Zooropa. Ever since I have been addicted to U2. Every time U2 come to Oz I will be there. Vertigo tour was fantastic also, can't wait for the 360 tour!


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High Point Market backers to lobby after McCrory proposes halving budget
Supporters of the High Point Market will have a chance this week to personally lobby legislators for the first time since Gov. Pat McCrory recommended cutting state money for the trade show in half by the middle of 2014.
Market supporters will go to Raleigh on Wednesday as part of a previously scheduled regional delegation trip to the N.C. General Assembly.
"We'll be making some calls around the Legislature. Also, they are hosting a luncheon that all members of the Legislature are invited to," said Tom Conley, president of the High Point Market Authority.
Last week, McCrory stunned High Point leaders and residents by proposing that state funding for the trade show drop from $1.65 million now to $800,000 by the start of the 2014-15 fiscal year. The new Republican governor recommended the cuts as part of his $20.6 billion budget proposal to the GOP-controlled General Assembly.
State appropriations make up about one-third of the Market Authority's $4.7 million annual budget. The money funds shuttle transportation services and promotion of the world's largest home furnishings trade show, which also is the single-largest economic event in North Carolina each year.
Since McCrory's proposed cuts to market funding became public last week, businesses that rely on the home furnishings industry have been "galvanized about how important market is," Conley told The High Point Enterprise.
Supporters of the market should continue to emphasize that the impact of the trade show reaches beyond High Point and the Triad, said City Councilwoman Becky Smothers.
"There is a money trail across the state," she said.
Ironically, Smothers said, while serving as High Point mayor last decade, she requested and received information from McCrory when he was mayor of Charlotte about the economic impact of market on his city. Many marketgoers fly in and out of Charlotte/Douglas International Airport.
"He (McCrory) was instrumental in helping me get the data from Charlotte/Douglas on the amount of traffic coming through there related to market," said Smothers, who previously served on the Market Authority board of directors.
If the worst-case state funding scenario comes to pass, the Market Authority would face either cutting transportation services and marketing of the trade show or finding new revenue sources.
Operators of High Point Market showrooms already pay $1.5 million annually through a special showroom license tax. The city of High Point contributes $1 million each year to the Market Authority.
Smothers said that one option for filling a state funding gap would be contributions from regional governments that benefit from market or cities such as Charlotte or those around Raleigh-Durham International Airport that reap rewards from market travelers. Right now the only government support outside of High Point comes from $75,000 contributed by the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, according to the Market Authority's budget.
The Market Authority has received $17.6 million in total state funding during the past seven years, according to information through the office of Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford. State funding for the market began in 2006.


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Software Languages Lab
The Software Languages Lab is a research lab within the Department of Computer Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). The Software Languages Lab was founded in 2009 as a merger of the Programming Technology Lab and the System and Software Engineering Lab. The Software Languages Lab is currently headed by Prof. Dr. Theo D'Hondt, Prof. Dr. Viviane Jonckers, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter, Prof. Dr. Elisa Gonzalez Boix and Prof. Dr. Coen De Roover.
Broadly speaking, the lab is active in the design, implementation and application of better languages to support the software engineering life cycle. This includes programming languages, formal languages, design languages, meta languages, modeling languages, domain specific languages, etc. The Software Languages Lab covers all aspects of the research spectrum, including:
- Design of languages (advanced modularity, distribution, concurrency, context, …)
- Formal study of languages (type systems, abstract interpretation, static analysis, contract systems, …)
- Efficient implementation of languages (virtual machines, parallelization, scheduling, …)
- Tool support for languages (IDEs, debuggers, versioning tools, evolution support, refactoring, …)
- Applications of languages (android applications, RFID‐enabled applications, web applications, embedded applications, city-ware, …)
Have a look at the website of the Software Languages Lab for more details.


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You're a safe driver. Other drivers, pedestrians, and your car insurance company appreciate it. In fact, your car insurance company might even show their appreciation by offering you a discount for your safe driving.
But wouldn't it be cool if your discount was based on exactly how well you drive? And if you could save even more based on how little you drive?
We thought so. That's why we introduced the DriveSense® discount.
Pay as you drive with the DriveSense® discount
In our never-ending quest to find drivers new and smarter ways to save on their car insurance, we couldn't help but wonder, "What if there was a device that could tell exactly how well a driver was doing behind the wheel? Even better, what if it rewarded them with a discount tailor-made to their awesome driving skills?"
"Sounds like a good idea," we thought. And after a period of testing and tinkering, we released our usage-based insurance device, DriveSense® to drivers in the great state of Texas.
Why just Texas, you ask? Well, a fully detailed answer would probably bore you (and me) to tears, but the gist is that we wanted to see how well the device and discount worked before rolling it out to the rest of the country.
So far, things are looking pretty darn good in Texas, which means DriveSense® could be coming to your state soon.
How the DriveSense discount works
When you sign up for the DriveSense program, we'll send you a small telematic device that you plug into your car's onboard diagnostics (OBD) port. Standard in most cars since 1996, the OBD port simply allows access to your car's internal computer (which can tell how fast you drive, how often you brake, etc.). The DriveSense® telematic device is able to send, receive, and store that info via telecommunication. Don't worry though, we make sure your info stays private and secure.
That's really it. You'll immediately score a 5 percent discount just for installing the device, and depending on how safely and how much you drive, you could save as much as 30 percent!
Huge, right?
What you can do with the DriveSense® device
The DriveSense® program isn't just about giving safe drivers some sweet, sweet savings. When you sign up for the program, you'll get access to a personalized website where you can review and analyze your driving (and compare it with others' as well). Once you've logged in, you'll see how many times you were a little lead-footed, when you had to brake a little harshly, and how many miles you drove recently (among other things).
You can even set up notifications that'll let you know as soon as you do … well, just about anything. Want to know if you topped 70 yesterday? You got it. Prefer to be notified when you've driven over 100 miles in a day? No problem. How about if your son is out driving past curfew while you're off on a business trip? Done.
Which leads us to another use for DriveSense®: teaching.
Help young drivers be better drivers
With access to all that data, you can more effectively monitor your young driver's performance and proactively troubleshoot any behaviors that aren't so great. You can even set up driver-specific notifications to let you know about your son or daughter's driving. So, if you notice young Danny tends to hit the brakes a little hard, you can combine custom notifications with a little one-on-one driver training to correct the problem.
You can't be with your young driver every time they get behind the wheel, but with DriveSense®, you can still get a good idea of how well they're doing out there on the road.
Why Esurance likes DriveSense® … and you might too
As noted in a recent Bloomberg Businessweek article, "insurance carriers have traditionally evaluated risk based on criteria such as age, gender, marital status, and vehicle type." And statistics show that those criteria work pretty well. But with a pay-as-you-drive system like DriveSense®, we can move beyond such generalized ratings to provide you with more personalized savings.
Let us know what you think!
Are you interested in personalizing your savings with programs like DriveSense®? Let us know!
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Letter dated - 02/13/98 Environmental Protection Agency
Feburary 13, 1998
Thomas E. Kelly (MC-2131)
Small Business Advocacy Chair
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
401 M Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460
Subject: Ground Water Disinfection Rule; SBREFA Small Business Advocacy Panel
Dear Mr. Kelly:
I have received your letter dated January 29, 1998 regarding the Ground Water Disinfection Rule, notifying us of the possibility of convening a Small Business Advocacy Review Panel under Section 609(b) of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996. We have reviewed the list of suggested small business representatives, and have added two additional parties at this time (see attachment).
We need the agency to identify which representatives are members of trade associations that operate non-community water sources, and which representatives were recommended by their respective trade associations. In order to implement the SBREFA process, we would like to ensure that the interests of the trade associations with small entity members are fully represented, and need to know which trade associations are willing to provide important technical advice and assistance to its members who are to participate in the process. The agency has already provided some of this information. We may wish to supplement this list in the future, after receipt of this additional information from EPA.
We appreciate the advance receipt of some of the materials associated with the rulemaking forwarded by your office, including the list of small entity representatives already identified by EPA, general background information concerning the rule, and materials provided in a December 1997 stakeholder meeting regarding this rule.
Next Steps
We understand that the agency plans to draft a report containing the views and the recommendations of the small entity representatives, and re-evaluate whether the proposal would have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities. If not, a Panel would not be required under SBREFA. If a Panel is convened, a final Panel report would be prepared.
If a panel is warranted, we ask that EPA provide, in advance of the convening of the Panel, supporting materials and possibly a draft regulatory analysis and/or draft rule (see RFA Section 609(b)(4)), in order to allow sufficient review time by Panel members. We look forward to working with the agency to implement this important new law.
Jere W. Glover
Chief Counsel for Advocacy
cc: Art Fraas, OMB
Mike P. Walsh
Shoreland Water Company (recommended by National Association of Water Companies)
1709 Union Ave.
P.O. Box 15
Hazlet, New Jersey 07730
Representative or member of Association of California Water Agencies
Others that may be identified by trade associations representing non-transient/ non-community systems and transient/ non-community systems (if not already represented)


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*pulcino*Sale Fair
Posted by piyogorou in *pulcino*, 50%OFF, event, limited time, MESH, MESH Nails, Slink Applier on 2015/08/21
hi all!!
Sale Fair officially started!
*pulcino* is participating too.
Old commodity is half price at the event limited.
i will do this event from start to end.
Kokoa Fair Park - Sunset beach, Spode
Slink Nail Applier
Rabbit Crescent
MESH nails
I wish
I wish No.2
*Slink nail Apprier is the product version 1.
*Slink Nail Applier is demo does not have.
*Demo of MESH nails are located in the flagship store.
*This half price items is only one that is placed in venue.
Also after the end of the period it will return to the normal price.
*pulcino* Flagship store, Kourinbou (18, 66, 22)
Kiyomizu shopping mall
*pulcino*backstroke & backstroke
Posted by piyogorou in *pulcino*, group limited, limited time, luckyboard, MESH, MESH Nails, Slink Applier on 2015/08/11
Mesh Nail and Slink Nail Applier released!!
This is the nail of irregular stripes.
I made it thinking like flowing like a swimming line.
A total of texture change ten colors is possible.
Mesh Nails
no mod/no trans
*pulcino* in Second Life: メッシュネイルHUDの使い方(日本語)
*pulcino* in Second Life: HOW TO USE MESH NAIL HUD(English)
Slink Applier
no mod/no trans
* attention *
Applying the nails textures included in the pack is as easy as 1+1.
Located in the folder of the foot or slik hand I received your purchase
"Slink Avatar Enhancement Hand Gesture (Unpack)"
Or "Slink Avatar Enhancement Flat Feet (APPLIERS) (WEAR TO UNPACK)" within
I have you installed the products,
(I have you fitted with hud is - "Stocking Visibility Slink Avatar Enhancement",
Please OFF the stockings.. )
Please change the nail in the nails HUD then.
If the foot is not in your product or hand nail color change system support,
I touch the "Slink Redelivery and Credit Terminal" of slink store
If you click on the target product from the purchase item list
Please use the latest version there, so will be sent to you.
You can not change it with the product of my shop the color of the skin.
Please buy it in a shop that sells the product for separately.
I ask to slink the question of foots itself or other hand.
No demo is included since we don't own a transferable copy of Slink's hands.
So please make sure that everything is understood before you purchase one of these packs.
Please refer to the following URL for more information.
Slink Avatar Enhancement System – Customer Information | Slink Style
I'm Wearing:
mesh nails
skin&head *(OO)*YUKI_(Milk) Tea 04
lashes Maitreya V.I.P. Group Gift - Mesh Eyelashes
eyes *pulcino eyes "Rain arch"(Green)
ears +pe+ Sirens Ears Plain
hair booN PRT424 hair platinum
booN hairpieces JOPE57 platinum
necklace Soothe. Stone bijou necklace (turquoise)
cloth B.C.C Ariel Dress Mint
rings ::C'est la vie !:: Manon Ring(red)
Nail applier
skin&head *(OO)*YUKI_(Milk) Tea 01
lashes Maitreya V.I.P. Group Gift - Mesh Eyelashes
eyes *pulcino eyes "Rain arch"(Blue)
ears +pe+ Sirens Ears Plain
hair booN PRT424 hair red
booN hairpieces JOPE57 red
necklace Soothe. Stone bijou necklace (howlite)
cloth B.C.C Ariel Dress White
hand Slink AvEnhance Hands Female - Gesture
foots Slink Womens Natural Barefeet (Mesh Rigged)
shoes :SMC: Leather sandals WE
pose *.amato.* the secret 01
location:::frog's garden:: forest
*pulcino* Flagship store, Kourinbou (18, 66, 22)
Kiyomizu shopping mall


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The incredible Audi R8 is getting even more praise. This time, they won not one, but three awards from the Canadian Automobile Awards.
First up is the 2008 Canadian Car of the Year award by the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada. There were 11 other "best new" cars to chose from, which the journalists drove and evaluated, finally choosing the R8 as the victor.
The second award was the AJAC's Best New Design award for 2008. This actually surprises me a little bit. While I personally love the R8's design, it is controvertial, and I do hear many people say that it's ugly. I say they're crazy. Lastly, the R8 won the AJAC Most Coveted Vehicle award, which is no surprise. The R8 is pure car lust, from the looks, to driving, to the sound, the power, and overall "want it now" factor.
Congrats to Audi for making such an excellent car and getting so much completely deserved attention.


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Fun Friday: Best Entertainment This Year So Far
The idea for today's fun friday comes from Tyrone who wrote this in an email to me this week:
fun friday idea: best entertainment this year across the board, albums, films, series, sites, youtube channels etc?
For me, the answer is the NBA playoffs (though the result bums me out), This Is The End (the jonah hill exorcism is hysterical), and my favorite records of the year so far are Lysandre, Modern Vampires Of The City, Random Access Memories, Mala, and Isles.
What are your favorite entertainment moments of the year so far?


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Earl Grey Fantasy
Light citrus aroma accentuates rich flavour of black tea from Uva district in Ceylon and gives special finesse to the exquisite composition of Earl Grey Fantasy.
About type of teaHistory of the famous Earl Grey tea, a habitué of English aristocratic saloons and essential part of five oíclock tea-drinking tradition is both mysterious and romantic.
When British politician and big tea connoisseur sir Charles Grey was in China and did service to one of the high-ranking officials close to the emperor himself (some legends even presume that sir Charles saved his life) the grateful courtier thanked Earl Grey with the secret recipe of wonderful tea. But may be that the British acquired the recipe of tea flavoured with Cantonese orange as a result of cunning political intrigue? Or simply bergamot oil spilled over tea in the hold of a tea clipper in stormy weather en route to British Isles? Who knows the truth today? Anyway the legend remains beautiful on a par with the original character of Greenfield Earl Grey Fantasy that wonderfully combines orange, lemon and bergamot aromas.
By the way, the most credible seems the story that bergamot scented tea is a European invention. One of the most poignant supporting facts is that the origin of the fruit is an Italian town of Bergamo, home-town of Truffaldino, a protagonist in the comedy of the same name by Carlo Goldoni. The character of Greenfield Earl Grey Fantasy is quite similar to the temper of ever-cheerful Truffaldino - spicy flavor of Ceylon tea and festive citrus aromas come together in Earl Grey Fantasy to invigorate and inspire you with light-hearted carnival mood.
By the way, the most credible seems the story that bergamot scented tea is a European invention. One of the most poignant supporting facts is that the origin of the fruit is an Italian town of Bergamo, home-town of Truffaldino, a protagonist in the comedy of the same name by Carlo Goldoni. The character of Greenfield Earl Grey Fantasy is quite similar to the temper of ever-cheerful Truffaldino - spicy flavor of Ceylon tea and festive citrus aromas come together in Earl Grey Fantasy to invigorate and inspire you with light-hearted carnival mood.
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How to brew tea correctly?
Ask this question to a true tea connoisseur and he will tire you with an endless story about the stages of boiling water and methods of putting tea leaves into a teapot with special circular motions....More
Regions of tea cultivation
There is a geographical division of tea depending on the country of origin....More
Tea palette
There are four main types of tea ñ black, green, red, yellow. ...More
Tea harvesting and processing
Tea is a plant cultivated only for its leaves. ...More
Greenfield introduces a renewed collection of excellent leaf tea in pyramids
The package design of the collection has been updated and the product range has been expanded...More
Linden flowers and ripe cranberries
Two new original black flavoured teas have appeared in Greenfield Herbal Collection. ...More
Greenfieldís record
In the northern capital the Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) has finished. Greenfield has been the official drink of this economical event, known as ìRussian Davosî, for more than 10 years. ...More
Theatrical tea
Greenfield will once again be the official drink of the International Theatre Festival of Chekhov, which is considered to be the most representative review of the international theaterís achievements in Russia. ...More
Greenfield and the Garnet Bracelet
Greenfield has traditionally become the official tea of Russian Film Festival "Literature and Cinema" which was held in Gatchina. "Literature and Cinema" ñ is a unique festival, it is the only one in Russia, which represents the modern cinema inspired by literature works....More
New-Year's Offer
When the last days of the old year are running faster and faster, the feeling of magic fills the air and the expectation of unknown but surely fine changes fills the soul with warm, cozy, tangerine ginger New-Year's joy....More
St.Petersburg lit the ìSofitî for the 20th time
The Northern capital held the 20th highest theatrical award of St.Petersburg ìGolden Sofitî for the season 2013-2014....More
The Russians declared the love of Greenfield again
The results of the latest rating ìFavorite brandsî among the Russians held since 2008 by the research organization Online Market Intelligence (OMI) were announced....More
Greenfield ñ an exhibitor of SIAL-2014
The entire Greenfield collection was presented at the World Food Exhibition SIAL-2014, held at the Nord de Villepin exhibition centre in Paris. ...More
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The greatest gastronomic festival ìŒ, ‰ý! ≈‰ý!î (O, da! Yeda!/ Oh Yes! Food!) took place in St. Petersburg recently....More
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The first ingredient in this food, and its main ingredient, is Maize (corn). Corn is a difficult to digest grain that has limited value and is very commonly linked to allergy problems. Whatever their quality, grains are an unnatural foodstuff for a canine. Foods intended for dogs should be based on meat, not on grain.
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Poultry fat is a further low quality ingredient rarely found in anything but very low quality foods. Poultry fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this as obtained from the tissues of poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative".
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I'm still working on a post which tries to explore some of the political science of the recent English riots, but in the meantime I'm struck by the wave of commentary on the riots which positions them as an inter-generational issue. I touched on this in my last post, but only briefly.
And perhaps it's not surprising that it has taken a little longer to emerge. The older generation, who are generally more blind to this issue (what? us? inter-generational beneficiaries?) include the politicians and media commentators who have more privileged access to the media and were therefore able to construct their preferred narratives more quickly.
I was interested in this because in several of the scenarios we've done since the crisis, the pattern of inter-generational conflict has emerged strongly. Let's start with the economist David Blanchflower, who's been more right than most on both the crisis and the downturn, in the New Statesman:
It is quite clear that the coalition decided very early on to protect the old at the expense of the young, presumably because this was politically expedient. It cut spending on youth workers and youth centres, abolished the Future Jobs Fund and Education Maintenance Allowance for children from disadvantaged families and slashed funding for charities at a time when demand was rising. An explosion in the inner cities was almost inevitable. What the heck did they expect?
On Open Democracy, politics lecturer Andrew Mycock made a similar point, but drew it more widely, albeit in a somewhat moralising post:
There has been a gradual abrogation of the responsibilities of the state towards young people which is rarely acknowledged by politicians. This curtailment of the role of the state has been viewed as politically expedient. Many of the young people most affected are not old enough to vote whilst those who can have become increasingly disengaged from a political system which increasingly focuses on older voters.
The great disconnect
The most entertaining exchange, though, came on the pages of Prospect's blog. Prospect's editor, David Goodhart, had spent time on the blog developing a more literate version of David Starkey's argument on Newsnight, connecting the riots to hip-hop and Britain's Anglo-Jamaican experience. The headline caught the tone: "The riots, the rappers and the Anglo-Jamaican tragedy".
Shiv Malik, the co-author of Jilted Generation, responded sharply, and entertainingly a few days later.
What Davids Goodhart, Starkey and Cameron seem not to understand is that young people, especially those in Britain, live completely different economic lives to their elders. This is the great disconnect. To fail to understand that this massive generational difference in economic plight would not translate into anger is a remarkable failure—or just willful blindness—on behalf of our political and cultural leaders.
Malik points to employment and housing as significant issues. The unemployment rate for young people is five times that for over-50s; one-third of under-30s live with their parents; those who live in rented accommodation (unable to afford to buy) have seen rent increases far outstrip inflation. And the cuts – as Blanchflower observes above – have fallen disproportionately on the young.
The message is plain: if you're young, you'll have to pay your own way because this country can't afford you—even though we will depend on you to pay for the older generation's pensions and health care in the coming decade.
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One of the more entertaining parts of the exchange between Goodhart and Malik is watching two writers engaging in textual analysis of Lethal Bizzle's rap song, "You'll Get Wrapped" (yes, I was new to it as well). There's a line in it which goes, "You don't come 'round here. You don't know". The older Goodhart hears this as saying, if you're not from here, if you're not one of us, you don't have a right to speak. The younger Malik: "Geography matters, and if anything, I'd read Lethal Bizzle's statement as an invitation to come and witness his reality."
If you're not from here, if you're not one of us… You can turn that on its head, of course. One way of looking at this – which is underlined by the severity of the post-riot sentences – is that we're seeing a "moral panic", a term popularised in the early '70s in his book Folk Devils and Moral Panics by Stanley Cohen which described how "[a] condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests." Folk devils, meanwhile, are those people who supposedly threaten the social order, and in a moral panic they're are labelled and 'othered'. Cohen identifies groups which are repeatedly on the end of moral panics; the first is 'young working class violent males'.
Labelling the young
Abby Day talks about the way young people have been labelled in a post called "Riots, Respect and Research":
Mindless, crass, materialistic, and, probably most unforgiveable by those on the left, apolitical. Those are the common descriptors of, principally, the young people involved in last week's riots. Unsurprisingly, they are the words most commonly employed to describe young people even in the absence of rioting.
Similar stories, in similar tones, she says, are told in Australia and the US, as well as the UK. This is because they are myths, not insight.
And as it happened, I stumbled this week on The Insecure Offenders, a book published in 1961 and written by T.R.Fyvel, a left-wing journalist and sometimes collaborator of Orwell's. His subject was "rebellious youth in the welfare state", and he was much taken with the difference between the Teddy Boys of the early '60s and another group of young people which he called "Thrusters and Drifters".
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In the early '60s, the Teddy Boys – like their close cousins, the mods and the rockers – were a puzzle. Fyvel suggests that this was because they were the first generation of working class kids to have money to burn. In contrast, his notes on the 'Thrusters and Drifters' could come from this month's riot discourse: "An idea of being excluded or unfairly treated, which can set off their floating resentment like a spark of fire, often motivates cases of vandalism".
One of the reasons for moral panics, it's argued, is that the underlying phenomenon is too difficult to discuss directly. In the early 1960s, the notion of an affluent working class, which might not behave the same way as the existing middle classes, represented such an underlying social fear. In the end. that cohort was the bedrock of Thatcher's electoral success. Now that 30 years of neoliberalism has once more stripped that brief moment of affluence from the working class – at least in relative terms – the spectre of the young urban poor, and the hidden fear of the return of the English mob, is certainly enough to cause a moral panic. The other question that has emerged in our post-crisis scenarios is, where does the anger go? At least we have one answer to that now.
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What is common is of frequent occurrence.Used in forming titles from late 14c. with the sense "having general authority or jurisdiction, chief." Phrase in general "without exception, in one body; as a rule, generally, not specifically" is from late 14c. General rule, one applying to an art or science as a whole, is from c. 1400. General store attested by 1810, American English, in reference to the range of goods sold; a general hospital (1737) is one not restricted to one class of persons or type of disease.
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In an interview with Britain's Sky News program, mother Kerry Richardson said that the boys were both born white but as they've gotten older one of the boys got darker and the other lighter.
Today, she says, the twins attract attention wherever they go.
Richardson is of mixed race, with Nigerian and English heritage, while the father is white.
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