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|Orcinus (1)
Also known as the killer whale, the mammals (Orcinus orca) is the largest member of the dolphin family, and one of the most distinctive of all cetaceans (2) (3) (5) (6) (7). The orca's strikingly marked black and white body is unmistakable, being black on the upperparts, sometimes with a light grey 'saddle patch' behind the dorsal fin, and white on the underparts, lower jaw and undersides of the tail. White lobes extend up the sides of the body behind the dorsal fin, and there is a white, oval patch behind each eye (2) (3) (5) (6) (7). In newborn orcas, the white areas of the body have an orange hue (5).
Both the male and female mammals have a broad, rounded head and snout, an enlarged forehead, large, paddle-shaped pectoral fins and a large dorsal fin (2) (3) (5) (6) (7). However, males grow larger than females, and on reaching maturity become stockier and develop disproportionately larger fins, with adult males easily recognised by the tall, erect dorsal fin, which is the largest of any cetacean, growing to an impressive 1.8 metres in height (2) (3) (5) (6). The female orca, in contrast, has a more backward-curving dorsal fin (2) (6), which grows to just 70 to 90 centimetres in height (3) (6). The shape of an orca's dorsal fin and saddle patch are unique to each individual (6).
A number of different forms of orca have been identified, which specialise in different types of prey, differ in appearance, behaviour and habitat use, do not associate with each other and are not known to interbreed. Studies have also revealed genetic differences between the different forms, and the orca may therefore be split into a number of different subspecies or even distinct species in the near future (1) (8) (9).
The mammals is the world's largest predator of warm-blooded animals (2), and the only cetacean to routinely hunt marine mammals (5), including seals, sea lions, dolphins and sea otters (3) (5) (7). The orca will even kill large whales (2) (3) (5) (10), and also hunts fish (including sharks and rays), squid, octopuses, sea turtles and seabirds, such as penguins (1) (2) (3) (5) (6) (7). Despite this varied diet, different orca populations often specialise on particular prey. For example, some of the best studied orcas occur in the eastern North Pacific, where three distinct forms have been identified: 'resident' orcas feed on fish, particularly salmon; 'transients' hunt marine mammals and occasionally seabirds; and 'offshores' appear to feed on sharks. These forms also differ in appearance and behaviour, and do not interact (5) (7) (11) (12).
An intelligent and versatile predator, the mammals shows a wide range of different hunting techniques. Some orcas work together to 'herd' fish, before stunning the prey with strikes from the tail flukes (5) (6) (7) (13), or join together in coordinated attacks on large whales (2) (5). Others chase prey such as tuna or dolphins for long periods, to exhaust them (7), while seals or seabirds resting on ice may be dislodged into the water by rushing to the surface to create a wave (2) (5). Some orcas in Argentina have even learnt to intentionally strand themselves on beaches to reach seals and sea lions on the shore (1) (2) (5) (6) (14), a behaviour which appears to be taught to the young (14). In many areas, orcas have also learnt to follow fishing fleets to feed on discarded fish, or to take prey directly from longlines (7). The orca itself has no natural predators other than humans (5).
The orca is a social species, communicating using a variety of screams, clicks and whistles, as well as through physical behaviours such as breaching, slapping the flippers or tail, and 'spyhopping' (bringing the head out of the water). Click-like sounds are also used for echolocation (2) (5). Orca groups usually consist of up to 40 or 50 individuals, although larger numbers may gather when several groups temporarily join together (2) (5).
The group structure of the mammals can be quite complex. For example, in 'resident' orcas, the basic social unit is a matriline, consisting of a mature female, her adult offspring, and her daughters' offspring, with individuals in this group having very strong bonds and staying in the group for life, although they mate outside of it (2) (3) (5) (6) (7). Groups of related matrilines which are frequently seen together and share a unique call repertoire are known as a pod, while above this are 'clans', which include a number of pods with similar vocal 'dialects'; these pods are probably distantly related, but may not form a particular social unit. Finally, 'communities' are made up of pods which regularly associate but may not necessarily be closely related (2) (5) (7). The social organisation of 'transient' orcas is less well known; the basic social unit is still a matriline, but offspring may disperse from the group they were born into, and so groups tend to be smaller and more dynamic than in resident orcas (3) (5) (7). Transient orcas also tend to share a related call repertoire, rather than showing group-specific 'dialects', and are also generally silent while foraging (5).
Male mammalss reach sexual maturity at around 15 years, but do not become physically mature until about 21, while females reach sexual maturity in their early teens (2) (5) (7). Breeding can occur at any time of year, although in the northern hemisphere births usually peak between October and March (2) (3) (5) (7). The female orca gives birth to a single calf after a gestation period of around 15 to 18 months, and the calf is weaned at 1 to 2 years old (2) (5) (6). Although potentially living for up to 90 years (2) (5) (7), a female orca only produces a calf once every 3 to 8 years, up to the age of about 40 (2) (5) (6) (7). After reaching 40, the female ceases to reproduce, but may instead take on a role as a 'grandmother', passing on important experience to younger relatives (6) (15).
The mammals is found throughout all the world's oceans, and is believed to be the most widespread mammal species after humans (1) (3) (5). It also occurs in many enclosed or partially-enclosed seas, including the Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of California, Red Sea and Arabian Gulf (1). Some orca populations may migrate, probably following movements of their preferred prey species (1) (2) (6) (7).
The orca occurs in virtually every marine region, from polar waters to the equator, and has even been known to enter bays, estuaries and rivers, as well as ice floes. However, it is most commonly recorded in coastal, temperate waters and in areas of high productivity (1) (2) (3) (5) (7).
The mammals has been hunted in several regions in the past and, although significant commercial hunting has now ceased, small numbers are still killed in whaling operations by some countries. Orcas are also sometimes seen as competitors by fisheries, and individuals are often shot as a result (1) (2) (3) (5) (7) (16). In addition, the orca may occasionally be caught accidentally in trawl and driftnet fisheries (1) (3) (7), while overfishing can reduce its food supply (1) (7). Live captures of orcas for public display in aquaria have occurred in recent decades, although captive breeding success and anti-captivity campaigns mean this has now decreased (1) (2) (3) (5) (16).
Perhaps the greatest threat to the mammals comes from the disturbance and degradation of its habitat. As a top predator, the orca is particularly vulnerable to the accumulation of contaminants in its tissues; for example, some populations have been found to carry high levels of chemicals such as PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), with potentially negative effects on survival and reproduction (17). Large-scale oil spills can also affect the orca, either directly, or indirectly by reducing the abundance of its prey (1) (5) (7). Disturbance from boats and other man-made underwater noises can affect orca behaviour, disrupt echolocation and social calls, and potentially reduce the ability of orcas to forage effectively (18) (19) (20) (21). This may be of particular concern in areas where whale-watching is becoming increasingly popular (1) (5) (18) (20), and boat traffic can also increase the risk of collisions and injuries (1).
Some regional orca populations are very small and are considered to be under particular threat of extinction (1) (7) (16). For example, the 'southern resident' community of Washington and British Columbia is listed as Endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and the Canadian Species at Risk Act (22) (23), while the population in the Strait of Gibraltar has suffered declines in numbers and prey availability, and the small populations in southern African waters are particularly at risk from the impacts of longline fisheries (7).
Although once feared by some as a dangerous predator, attitudes towards the orca have fortunately changed in recent decades, and this charismatic cetacean has become a much-loved and intensively-studied species (5). It is covered by a range of national and international conservation legislation (4) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28), and the southern resident population of the north-east Pacific Ocean is also covered by a specific recovery plan (29).
The mammals would be likely to benefit from appropriate whale-watching guidelines (18) (20), while Marine Protected Areas, for example in which boat traffic is controlled, may also help to reduce disturbance to this species (19). However, perhaps the most urgent need is for further research into the abundance, life history and conservation status of potentially vulnerable regional populations of orcas, many of which have yet to be fully studied (1). It will also be vital to clarify the taxonomy of the orca before the conservation needs of this fascinating marine predator can be more fully understood and any appropriate conservation action taken (1) (8).
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GST for Event Stewards
Unto the Populace of Rowany does the Reeve send Greetings,
It has been brought to my attention that there is some confusion over how to calculate the GST component for event reporting.
The good news is there's not much calculation required by you. The total amount collected from the event fee (Cell E27) is divided by 11 to create a value in cell J28 (GST collected).
To fill out "GST paid", add up the amount of GST you paid from receipts or invoices (hall hire, food, miscellaneous) and enter it there. Remember that the original receipts or invoices must still go to the Reeve for filing and double checking purposes.
"GST Liability" should automatically be calculated by the spreadsheet. If not, the liability is the difference between the amount of GST collected and the amount of GST paid (or, in spreadsheet cell terms "=J28-J29").
I hope this clarifies the matter satisfactorily.
Yours in Service
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Sept. 18, 2008 — Whether you've got Barack Obama posters in your yard or John McCain stickers on the back of your car, your strong beliefs may be linked to your physiology.
A new study, published in Science, shows that Americans with strong political opinions whose bodies react more strongly to threatening pictures and sudden loud noises tended to support causes like defense spending and capital punishment.
The reason, the researchers suggest, is that these participants' views may be linked to a concern with protecting their group — in this case the U.S. — from perceived threats.
Those people with lesser physical reactions to threatening pictures and sounds were more likely to support causes such as gun control and foreign aid.
Douglas Oxley, from the department of political science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a team of researchers studied 46 people with strong political beliefs. These participants, chosen for having strong political views, were identified through random phone calls in spring 2007. Participants filled out a questionnaire about their political beliefs, personality traits, and demographic characteristics.
Later, they were hooked up to machines to measure their physiological reactions to threatening stimuli, such as a picture of a large spider on the face of a frightened person, vs. nonthreatening stimuli, such as a picture of a rabbit.
The amount of reaction was measured by a machine that tests the conductivity of the skin. This is important because arousal can increase moisture on the outer layers of the skin, which then increases skin conductivity.
In another test, participants' blinks were measured after they heard an unexpected loud noise. Harder blinks are linked to higher level of fear, according to researchers.
The researchers emphasize that their findings can't confirm cause and effect.
So next time you are trying to convert a strong-minded friend to your way of political thinking, don't be disappointed if your best arguments are unsuccessful.
The authors conclude, "Our findings suggest that political attitudes vary with physiological traits linked to divergent manners of experiencing and processing environmental threats. Consequently, our research provides one possible explanation for both the lack of malleability in the beliefs of individuals with strong political convictions and for the associated ubiquity of political conflict."


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Last week I had an awesome time catching up with some old Dunedin friends who have been road-tripping around the country with the Regeneration organisation. They are basically travelling around New Zealand talking to awesome people, making connections, and looking at some awesome social and environmental initiatives that are happening.
Plus they're filming a bunch of rad people from the different regions, and they decided to film me. So yeh, I chatted about writing queer and trans comics, and what it means to me. It was really awesome, and I felt quite honoured to be a part of it all.
Here's the vid:
Plus! I'm also going to be having a table at the Auckland Zine Fest in July and I'm keen to have heaps of queer and trans zines available for people to buy/peruse. If anyone wants to make some, then send it to me, I'd be happy to sell it for ya. Just flick me an email: s orchard (AT) ymail (dot) com (and yep, it's a Y not a G).


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I have never used a jar based library before. After having had problems getting javac to compile a .class properly, I got that figured out and got a successful compile with this batch file:
C:\z\java\jdk1.6.0\bin\javac -classpath C:\z\marc4j\marc4j-2.4\lib\normalizer.ja
r;C:\z\marc4j\marc4j-2.4\marc4j.jar %1.java
To execute with java, I made this "run" batch file:
C:\z\java\jdk1.6.0\bin\java -classpath C:\z\marc4j\marc4j-2.4\lib\normalizer.jar
;C:\z\marc4j\marc4j-2.4\marc4j.jar %1
This produces the following response:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hw
The source I'm compiling is called "hw.java" and looks like this:
import org.marc4j.MarcReader;
class hw
public static void main(String [] args)
System.out.println("It runs!");
Everything seems ok to me, so where did I go wrong?


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|South African traditional healer
|Hand-painted sign advertising a
traditional healer in Ghana
- 9 were told they wouldn't conceive until they had reconciled their personal relationships with neighbours or husband
- 7 were told they had offended the gods by not observing ritual practices
- 5 were told they were guilty of causing tension within their family group
- 4 were told that witches had caused their infertility, and
- 1 was given the unfortunate news that she was herself a witch.
If you would like to read more, take a look at;
Ed. MacCormack, Carol P (1982) Ethnography of Fertility and Birth Academic Press : New York
SJ Dyer et al (2002) Infertility in South Africa: women's reproductive health knowledge and treatment-seeking behaviour for involuntary childlessness Human Reproduction Vol 17 No. 6 1657-1662 http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/6/1657.full.pdf+html
Winny Koster-Oyekan (1999) Infertility among Yoruba Women: Perception on causes, treatments and consequences Journal of Reproductive Health 3 [1]:13-26
Orji, E. O., Kuti, O. and Fasubaa, O. B. (2002). Impact of infertility on marital life in Nigeria International Journal of Gynecology and Obtetrics, 79, 61-62.


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Many Dropouts Try—and Fail—to Return to School
Many dropouts try at least once to return
It takes time, patience, effort, and luck to find students who leave school and return them to the classroom. But getting them back is the easy part: Keeping them long enough to get a diploma is another thing entirely.
Jennifer Harris, the program evaluator for the high school graduation initiative in Washoe County, Nev., found that out the hard way. Back in 2008, the 63,000-student Reno-area district had a nasty shock when new federal graduation calculations showed it graduated a little more than half its incoming freshmen four years later. Eighteen of its high schools were dubbed "dropout factories" by a national research and advocacy group.
In response, the district launched a massive graduation initiative: early-warning data systems to alert principals to at-risk students, graduation advisers to keep students from leaving, and intense outreach to bring back the students who had already left.
Two years later, as the initiative was building momentum, Harris noticed a problem: "We found about 17 percent of the students who had come back dropped out again within the year," she says. "We've gotten pretty good at finding and recovering students through our re-engagement centers, but we still find it a big challenge to keep them from redropping out once we've found them. Many of the reasons that led students to disengage in the first place are still there when the students come back."
Washoe County is not alone in that struggle. There are no national figures on the number of dropouts who re-enroll, but studies of cities and districts find one-third to one-half of out-of-school youths do try at least once again to complete high school before aging out of the K-12 system.
Students often return more motivated to succeed—but then are "expected to navigate a complex maze of systems, services, and programs as they complete their education and prepare for a career," researchers from the nonprofit international consulting group FSG found. "The greater the number of challenges youths face, the harder and more confusing this navigation becomes," they wrote in a report.
Cycle of Frustration
So students drop out again. And again. And again, while their schools take financial and accountability hits every time they leave. Most state accountability systems give schools and districts little credit for re-enrolling students who have little chance of graduating within four years, or even six years for an extended graduation rate, says Andrew O. Moore, a senior fellow at the National League of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education, and Families in Washington.
As a result, once a returning student leaves a dropout-recovery program, "the kid's in double jeopardy; there's no great incentive for school districts to seek these kids out," says Mark Claypool, a former social worker and the president and chief executive officer of Educational Services of America Inc., a Nashville, Tenn., for-profit that provides dropout-recovery programs in 24 states.
In one of the most comprehensive studies of returning students, BethAnn Berliner, a research associate for the federal regional educational lab at WestEd, in San Francisco, followed the 1,352 students who dropped out of San Bernardino, Calif., public schools between 2001 and 2006. More than 30 percent returned to school at least once—a handful of dogged souls came back three times—but in the end, fewer than one in five dropouts actually made it to graduation. The rest struggled a while longer, earning a few credits before giving up on high school for good.
"There's the reality that these kids, the first time they dropped out, had probably been noteworthy in their behavior, and when they come back, they're not always welcome; they have a reputation," Claypool says. "That's a strong headwind for these kids to move against."
Boston policymakers have found that, particularly in the first year, students' return can be tenuous: "If there's a returning dropout and someone says to them, 'You're too old, why are you here?' even if you've just negotiated to have them back in the schools, the next day they're gone, that's it," says Kathy Hamilton, the youth-transitions director for the Boston Private Industry Council, a local community and workforce investment group that paired with the Boston schools to create one of the nation's first "re-engagement centers" to identify, recruit, and place out-of-school youths.
It has worked with Boston schools to create rolling lists of chronically absent students for outreach every month, rather than at the end of each year, to find students in the critical first weeks after dropping out, figure out what went wrong, and help them find a way to continue high school. This year, the center is also testing the use of graduation coaches for former dropouts in two schools with high rates of multiple dropouts.
"The students just need more follow-up, more support, more help," Hamilton says. "They need someone to talk to them and tell them it's OK when things aren't working out. Our first year, we showed some improvement among those who were coached as opposed to those who are not coached."
A study by the Boston-based Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy found that among former Boston dropouts, 72 percent of those who re-enrolled through the re-engagement center were still attending a year later, compared with only 54 percent of those who came back directly to a high school.
Yet while there has been considerable progress in identifying the early warning signs that a student will drop out, Berliner and other researchers say there has been almost no research identifying when a returning student has turned the corner for graduation.
In fact, as Larry M. Perondi, the superintendent of the 20,300-student Oceanside, Calif., district says, the only real evidence most educators have that a dropout recovery is working is "[students'] fannies in a seat."
Finding Positive Signs
The America's Promise Alliance launched a research project this spring to identify the social, emotional, and academic characteristics of dropouts who successfully return to school and complete a diploma.
In the meantime, Harris has taken a more straightforward approach to identifying what helps returning students stay on track in Washoe: Have other students ask them.
Six of the 500 returning students in the district's alternative school have created the Student Voice Project. The students, who left the district's regular schools themselves, have been interviewing their peers on video about their thoughts on the school environment, student character, and adult support factors that contribute to academic persistence for returning students.
"It's not always easy to take an honest look at our systems and have honest conversations about what we're doing right and what we're not doing," she says. "But all you have to do is have a conversation with a student you know has been re-engaged, and it becomes a lot easier. If we're going to make any change that leads to lasting results, we have to involve students."
Haley R. Carlile, 16, is one of the student interviewers. She left her previous school after getting pregnant at 15, tried to take online courses for a while, and then opted to take her junior year at Washoe Innovations High School, the district's alternative school, in part because she was looking for a closer relationship with teachers.
In fact, that relationship is something all the students Carlile has interviewed so far have requested. Carlile recommends that teachers who work with returning students should "just get to know the students and really try to understand their situation."
"A lot of times adults will say, 'Yeah I know life's hard, but you have to do it anyway.' They need to put themselves in students' shoes and figure out how to help them not drop out," Carlile says.
Washoe County must be doing something right: It graduated 70 percent of the class of 2012—a double-digit increase from 2008 that is among the most substantial growth in Nevada.
Vol. 32, Issue 34, Pages 14-15Published in Print: June 6, 2013, as Second-Chance Challenge: Keeping Students in School
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I'm glad. Al is a class act on and off the field. And he left the Packers gracefully, even though I'm sure it wasn't his first choice. While he didn't play in any game this season he was still a member of the team while on the PUP list and I think this is very deserving.
Kudos the Packers organization for a very classy move.
So proud of Al and all he has done for Green Bay and Wisconsin. He totally deserves this ring and to be part of Packer Nation for life. Class act!
This is a bad gesture. If Al Harris deserves a Super Bowl ring then so does Brett Favre. It's odd to me that people don't see how the defense improved with him off the team. Al Harris was bad for the image of the Green Bay Packers. He should rather be on the cover of High Times.


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| 10.6°C Belfast
Britain is going contactless when it comes to making payments, according to new research published today.
Barclays, the banking group, found the number of contactless payments has trebled since 2012, with more than 90 million transactions to be carried out this year alone.
The findings come less than a week after a separate report found the number of bank payments being carried out on mobile has doubled in a year. The report, led by the British Bankers' Association, found that the number of payments delivered via mobile had risen from nine million to more than 18 million over a 12-month period.
The advances in technology have driven this rise, with Barclays introducing their contactless payment card to all customers in 2009, through Barclaycard. The findings today showed that since the launch more than nine million users have signed up, with 80 million transactions carried out over that five-year period.
Tami Hargreaves, the head of contactless at Barclaycard said; "Shoppers across the UK have taken contactless to their hearts since we first introduced OnePulse in 2007 and are now making 400,000 contactless transactions every single day, with Barclaycard customers alone spending £6.6m contactlessly every month."
In the last year, the total value of contactless transactions has trebled from £100m to more than £300m.
As part of the research, Barclays looked at potential future trends, and according to their findings if the current rate of adoption continues, the amount processed through contactless payments will be more than half a billion pounds by the end of 2014.
This is still a long way short of the total spending on credit and debit cards, with the figure at more than £400 billion according to a report by the UK Card Association in 2010.
Digital payments continue to become a more popular way of carrying out transactions however, with Hull City Council announcing this week that the city is looking at using a version of the virtual currency Bitcoin as a way of helping those on low incomes. The scheme would involve paying those who do volunteer work in the currency, which could then be used to pay rent or council tax.


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Maple syrup might be the essential ingredient for flapjacks and waffles, but its utility extends far beyond the breakfast table. In its purest and most potent state, you have maple candy, and "sugar on snow," a traditional treat that doesn't even require a kitchen. Heat syrup to 232 degrees Fahrenheit, then drizzle the amber liquid over shaved ice, then twist it on a spoon until it becomes a gooey, caramel mouthful of taffy. There are also plenty of other ways to enjoy one of nature's sweetest creations. We asked some of our staff and contributors to volunteer their favorite recipes. From food writer Mark Bittman's homemade granola to a Vermont sugar maker's mint maple julep, these offerings span the cookbook.
Homemade Granola
From Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything
½ pound rhubarb
1/3 cup maple Syrup
1 lemon
Orange zest
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups ricotta
Dice the rhubarb into small cubes and toss with the maple syrup. Add 1 teaspoon of orange zest, 1 teaspoon lemon zest, juice of one lemon, and one teaspoon salt. Place mixture in a shallow baking dish and cover. Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Let cool to room temperature.
Slice baguette and toast slices (about 12 pieces). Place generous portion of ricotta on baguette and top with rhubarb mixture. Top with olive oil drizzle.
Makes 4-6 crudité portions.


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The Israeli-Syrian border. Photo by Lien S.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his plans to construct a barrier along the Jordanian border, according to the Israeli daily Maariv (Hebrew). The wall will be built upon completion of the ones along the Egyptian and Syrian borders and will pass through the Jordan Valley, closing off the West Bank from Jordan.
Netanyahu declared that the wall is intended to protect Israeli settlers in the West Bank against Syrian refugees who could come in through Jordan and "invade" the settlements. However, so far no attempt of Syrian refugees to enter Israel through Jordan is known. Therefore, analysts suggest that the move is meant to tighten Israel's grip on the Jordan Valley during the current peace negotiations.
Wall to tighten grip on Jordan Valley
As the question of sovereignty in the Jordan Valley is proving to be a major obstacle in the ongoing peace negotiations, Maariv's report points out that Netanyahu's timing on the announcement of his plan may not be a coincidence. Israel refuses to renounce military control over the Jordan Valley, while the Palestinian Authority demands that only Palestinian forces be deployed in the area in case a Two-State Solution is reached.
Israel demands that any future Palestinian state will be a demilitarized one in which Israel would exert control over the airspace, maritime traffic and border crossings. If a Palestinian state were to be established in the West Bank, this would leave the state of Israel as narrow as 8 miles wide in some places, which would prevent the country from effectively protecting itself or striking back in the case of an attack, Israeli military experts argued in a column in the Saudi Gazette. Furthermore, about 70% of the Israeli population would live within firing-range of the West Bank highlands.
In his address to the U.S. Congress in May 2011, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu therefore admitted, "Israel will never cede the Jordan Valley. Israel would never agree to withdraw from the Jordan Valley under any peace agreement with the Palestinians. And it's vital – absolutely vital – that Israel maintain a long-term military presence along the Jordan River."
The construction of this planned wall through the Jordan Valley will provide Israel with the continued control of the border crossing with Jordan, and will add the final touches to the circle of Israeli walls surrounding the West Bank on all sides.
+972 Magazine stipulates that the fence may in fact be used to annex parts of the Jordan Valley as well. This is already the case for Israel's wall separating present-day Israel from the West Bank, which annexes about 13% of the West Bank, according to the Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem. Upon completion, an estimated 85 percent of the fence will have been built inside the West Bank.
Home demolitions and settlement expansion
In addition to its announced construction plans for a wall, Israel has recently carried out a large amount of home demolitions in the Jordan Valley over the last years under the pretence that the Palestinian villages are located in a closed military zone. In 2011, the Israeli military destroyed over 200 Palestinian-owned structures in the area, according to OCHA. Israeli settlements in the same area, on the other hand, have been allowed to flourish. Of the 250,000 Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley before the 1967 occupation, only 65,000 remain today, the Israeli Committee against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) states.
In 2006, Israeli human rights organization, B'Tselem, published a report stating that Israel had already de facto annexed the Jordan Valley. Confirming B'Tselems report, the 2011 ICAHD report states that over 90 percent of the Jordan Valley is controlled by Israel through its 36 settlements that house 9,000 settlers, in addition to the closed military zones and declared nature reserves.
+972 Magazine speculates that the construction of the fence could be "the final step in turning the area into a Jewish-only strip of frontier land."
Palestinians have accused Israel of boycotting the renewed peace negotiations with its settlement expansion policy and plans to construct another Separation Wall in the Jordan Valley. Though the official goal of the peace negotiations is a Two-State solution, Israel is clearly seeking to maintain territorial and military control over large segments of any future Palestinian state, a fact which has caused many to loose faith in the "peace process" as a whole.
Walled in
Israel is rapidly managing to surround itself by walls. In addition to the walls surrounding Gaza and the West Bank, it has thus far constructed a wall to the north along the Lebanese border to protect itself from attacks by Hezbollah, and to the south with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, in attempt to stop illegal migrants or "infiltrators," according to the Israeli government.
Israel's fence with Egypt was essentially completed in January of this year.
This summer, Israel hurried to complete the "smart fence" between the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and Syria, to prevent a spillover of the Syrian conflict into Israel and an influx of refugees, according to The Guardian.
The new fence replaces the old warn-out one and comes equipped with touch sensors, motion detectors, infrared cameras, ground radar and razor wire.
"For me, the message is clear: The idea of peace with our neighbors is going away, and the fences are a symbol of that reality," retired Brig. Gen. Nachman Shai, a member of the Israeli parliament and a former chief spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces recently concluded in an article in The Washington Post.
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"Keeping Your Head (and Heart) in the Game," New Era, May 2009, 10–13
Keeping Your Head (and Heart) in the Game
Prepare for your mission mentally and emotionally.
Before they ever step out onto the playing field on the day of a big game, athletes spend a lot of time preparing. They master fundamental skills through daily practice. Strength training and conditioning also play a crucial role.
But the most successful athletes are not always those who are the physically strongest or the most gifted or skilled. More often they are those who are mentally and emotionally prepared for the challenging situations that arise in any athletic contest. They know how to work through difficulties, keep focused in the face of distractions, and stay positive when adversity strikes.
With Heart and Mind
If you are a missionary-to-be, you know that serving a mission takes a lot of preparation, too—study and prayer, interviews with Church leaders, appointments with doctors and dentists, and shopping for a missionary wardrobe. You should also get in physical shape for biking and walking, and brush up on how to cook a few simple, healthy meals, iron a shirt, sew on a button, and keep an apartment clean.
But serving a mission requires more than having a strong testimony, the right kind of clothing, and a few cans of SpaghettiO's. The Lord told Joseph Smith Senior, "Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength" (D&C 4:2; emphasis added). Like an athlete, you need to prepare both mentally and emotionally for the challenges you will encounter on a mission.
What are some of these challenges? While serving as president of the Philippines Missionary Training Center, I observed that most missionaries have concerns in the following areas:
Finances: "Will I have enough money?" "Will my family have enough money to support me and themselves?"
Family: "I am homesick." "I miss my family and friends." "I worry about problems in my family." "My nonmember parents are not that happy that I'm serving a mission."
Living situation: "Will I have difficulty living in a new environment?" "Will I get along with my companion?" "I'm not used to living on my own."
Missionary life: "Wearing missionary clothing every day may be difficult for me." "Will I be able to keep the missionary schedule?"
Language: "Will I be able to learn a new language well enough?" "I seem to be learning more slowly than others."
Study: "I am having difficulty studying and reading as much or as well as I need to."
These concerns are normal, and most every elder and sister experiences at least one of them. In fact, it would be highly unusual if a young person did not feel some homesickness or apprehension about living in a new city or country. Such concerns do not make you unworthy or disobedient, and you can successfully overcome them.
Facing Challenges
Here are a few ideas that can help you prepare yourself for these normal challenges and others that you may encounter as you go into the mission field to serve the Lord.
Even the prophets have had to overcome challenges to complete their missions.
The prophet Enoch felt so inadequate that he wondered how the Lord could have chosen him for his mission (see Moses 6:31). When he was a teenager just beginning his ministry, the Prophet Joseph Smith encountered bitter persecution from his neighbors (see Joseph Smith—History 1:22). Enos had to struggle mightily to repent (see Enos 1:2). Yet none of these challenges prevented these prophets from successfully completing their missions.
Adjusting to your mission will be a process. You will experience highs and lows.
Initially, you should expect some stress as you adjust to being in a new and challenging environment. As your mission continues, other difficulties will inevitably arise. If you do not understand this, you may become frustrated or discouraged when you and your mission do not measure up to some imagined ideal.
Sharing a concern with another—a companion, district leader, or mission president—can often help diminish your concerns. Keeping them bottled up magnifies them.
When I was serving as president of the Philippines Quezon City Mission, one day Elder Jones* arrived at the mission home wearing a T-shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes and carrying his suitcases. "I want to go home, President," he told me.
After listening to his concerns, I told him: "Leaving your mission is a reactive response, which will diminish the control you have over your life. And if you continue to be reactive, you will have problems dealing with difficulties you encounter after you return home." I also advised him to talk with other missionaries about his concerns.
After further discussion Elder Jones changed into his missionary clothing and returned to his area. He talked with other missionaries, and he prayed for strength to overcome his challenges. The next time I met with him, he expressed gratitude that he had persisted through his difficulties.
"Forget yourself and go to work."
You have probably heard this advice that President Gordon B. Hinckley's father sent to his discouraged missionary son. Work is good medicine. Sometimes just going to work can help your own problems diminish. One wise mission president advised his missionaries to do a small kindness for their companions each day. Focusing on others' happiness also creates positive emotions.
Ammon and the sons of Mosiah, some of the great missionaries of the Book of Mormon, recorded: "Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give you success" (Alma 26:27). In other words, success would come only after they patiently persisted in doing the work they had been called to do.
The Lord is the wisest Counselor and the source of spiritual healing and strength.
By all appearances, Elder Clark* was an ideal missionary. He was obedient, baptized and confirmed many people, and was loved by his companions and Church members. During the last few months of his mission he served as my assistant in the mission office. So when I saw him following his mission I was surprised when he confided that he had had a very difficult time at the beginning of his mission. He was homesick, frustrated with learning the language, and having difficulty with the missionary schedule and rules. However, he knew he had been called by the Lord to serve his mission and that the Lord would support him. So he knelt to talk to the Lord, sharing his concerns and pleading for His help in overcoming them. "As I did this," Elder Clark told me, "I felt a real change in my being. I felt the Lord's support and strength. Ideas and good feelings came to me, and I began to overcome my negative concerns. With God's help, I became a successful missionary."
Taking the Field
After a great athletic contest, we never hear athletes say anything like the following: "The whole game was easy and pleasant. I performed perfectly, and I encountered no challenges." Great games are hard-fought tests of character and resolve. We revere successful athletes for their strength in overcoming significant challenges.
Likewise, all missionaries face situations that test their ability to persevere and to put their faith in the Lord. But no missionary goes into the field alone. As the Lord promised missionaries who served early in this dispensation: "I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up" (D&C 84:88). As the Lord's servant, you can be assured that He is not only aware of you but that He will be with you as you meet the great challenges and experience the great blessings that await you on your mission.


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Zendarin Windrunner was the blood elf cousin of the Windrunner sisters, who allied himself with the black dragon Sinestra in an attempt to create the twilight dragonflight. As a child Zendarin dreamed of rising among the ranks of the high elves, and become a strong and powerful noble. When the Sunwell was destroyed, Zendarin's hunger for magic caused him to become a blood elf. Zendarin unsuccessfully tried to kidnap Rhonin and Vereesa's twin sons, Galdarin and Giramar, because he thought the offspring of a high elf and a human wizard would be powerful. Zendarin despised humans, thinking them as little more than animals, and didn't put much higher opinion of Vereesa (and likely also of Alleria), who had married and had children with a human.
Though Zendarin helped Sinestra create the twilight flight in the promise of being shown new sources of magical energy to sate his addiction, he had his own reasons for allying with her: he secretly wished to take control of Dargonax as a magic source and his own personal dragon, and tried to do so with a final feeding to make him his slave.[1] (NotD 241) Sinestra had foreseen all however, and simply made Zendarin's betrayal a part of her plans, which resulted in his failure and escape from the hungry twilight dragon. Zendarin then sought to steal the Demon Soul (possibly as an alternate magic source having failed to take Dargonax, or as a secondary objective), the foul creation of Deathwing that had been destroyed by Rhonin years earlier. He would have pulled it off if not for Vereesa's intervention, which resulted in the destruction of the Demon Soul — and of Zendarin himself — when the stolen staff of the Naaru touched the artifact.


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Those frisky Nats have bolstered their pitching staff by nabbing someone on their wish list and the Mets continue to be enamored with Japanese players. Jayson Stark sports a mighty chub for springtime so you know it's time for HOTFUCKINGSTOVE.
• The Texas Rangers are determined to make this Darren Oliver relationship work and have signed him to a one-year deal or until they're eliminated from the playoffs where they'll dump him off on a contender once again.
• Ken Davidoff heard something a while ago about the Yankees asking about Carlos Zambrano but he didn't deem it necessary to write about until everyone else did.
• Cliff Lee is still confused as to why the hell he is going to Seattle: "I was caught off guard by the whole thing. The day before it happened I heard all the rumors. I called my agent, he called them and they basically said it was not real. Don't believe the rumors, don't believe what you're hearing. So at that point I thought for sure it wasn't going to happen, then the next morning they called and confirmed that it did happen."
• Peter Gammons says screw this Winter Meetings crap and let's yell about Sarah Palin. BECAUSE HE CAN.
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MCR has created an innovative Infinity Centre for students in Keilor East.THE Infinity Centre at Keilor East is McBride Charles Ryan's (MCR) latest creation. Made for year 11 and 12 students attending Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School, this extraordinary new building is testament to the skills of this award-winning practice. Like the Penleigh Junior School in Essendon, MCR has come up with something quite unique for this project.
While the Keilor East site was opened in the 1960s by then prime minister Robert Menzies, the large property facing Rachelle Road consisted of a cluster of ordinary brick buildings and a series of ovals. A limited architectural competition was held by the school, aiming for a design that would inspire students and staff to greater heights, while still maintaining the generous grounds.
When architect Rob McBride and interior designer Debbie Ryan first inspected the site they noticed the extreme winds, as well as the heat from the slightly elevated L-shaped site. "Our first impression was to provide a solution that offered protection from the wind and extreme temperature," says McBride.
The MCR practice also saw the design as an opportunity for students from two separate Penleigh schools in Essendon, to come together in their final years of school. "There is that idea of the 'walled city', like places such as Oxford University. But the infinity form is also about students in their final years at school, aspiring to the next level in their journey. We really saw the infinity sign as something inspirational," adds McBride.
Like ancient walled cities, the Infinity Centre is monumental. Featuring an exterior skin of gloss black and silver glazed bricks, the walls on the inside of the centre are clad in vertical bands of black and silver steel. "We wanted students to be able to read the shape. We also wanted them to enjoy passing through these gateways [one at either end of the continuous form]," says Ryan. The curvaceous undercroft of the Infinity Centre, clad in timber and punctuated with vibrant fuschia alcoves, adds to the drama.
Contrasted with the steely exterior is a rich interior, expressed in joyous colour and sensual curves. At the heart of the plan is the library, deemed by the school to be paramount in the hierarchy of spaces. Located at the junction of the symbol, the library is endowed with a complex beehive ceiling, with cubicles looking as though formed by the "honey" released from the hive.
"This space was about valuing the school's collection of books and the importance of a library, but we wanted to create moments for the students, in spaces that were rich and varied," says Ryan who, like McBride, was inspired by the work of great architects, such as the early 20th century Italian architect Carlo Scarpa.
Each of the components forming the infinity symbol has been carefully delineated as a way of differentiating spaces, as well as a location guide. The cafe, for example is green, while the science area features rubber flooring in broad bands of bright yellow and grey stripes.
Even areas such as those allocated to lockers have been thoughtfully considered, not only in terms of finish, but also in terms of location. "Often locker areas are tucked away, far from teacher supervision. There's no reason they should be treated as a low grade aesthetic," says Ryan, pointing out the luscious vibrant colour joinery.
Staircases joining the two levels of the centre are memorable, some finished in concrete, while others are lined in timber. One staircase is even lined in a rich hue of blue tiles, evocative of a swimming pool, with light filtering down from blue painted skylights above.
Outdoor spaces merge with those indoors. And mindful of the wind conditions, MCR has set up delightful protected pockets for students, such as the undercroft of the lecture theatre.
While the infinity sign might be seen as a metaphor for life, it's also clearly an inspirational building by one of Melbourne's leading design practices.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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This is what she has been waiting a lifetime for.
The crisp wind bites at Hannah's nose as she glides through the opening ceremony of the Iditarod. A fresh blanket of snow fell last night, and the conditions are perfect. They round a corner, and the crowds cheer a little bit louder at sight of her sled.
With Iditarod veteran Ramey Smith at the helm, everything seems so easy to Hannah – the dogs pull her sled forward effortlessly and all thoughts of her life-threatening immune disorder fade into the distance.
This is what she has been waiting a lifetime for.
Hannah dreamt of traveling to Alaska to see the Iditarod forever, but that dream was put on hold when she was diagnosed. Before her eyes, the life she once had with normal routines and aspirations became a cyclical process of doctor visits and medical treatments. She struggled to keep a positive attitude throughout treatments; thoughts of adventure slowly faded.
But then she was given a glimmer of hope: a wish.
Her journey to the snowy state was not just as a spectator. No, she wanted the full experience. The team that sponsored her Iditarod experience made sure that she had - quite literally - a front row seat. Hannah mingled with other sled teams and played with the dogs before the race began. Even the toughest Iditarod competitors admired her strength.
For the first time in a long time, her condition didn't define her.
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Take a superstore full of crazy nutritional advice, and shove it all into the biggest pot you can find. Simmer gently for months, skimming the scum off the top occasionally. Finally, reduce until you have only the best, most trustworthy claims left. What's left? The world's healthiest meal.
That's pretty much the recipe that the Leatherhead Food Research group followed in order to sort the good nutritional research from the bad. They whittled down thousands of nutritional studies until they were left with just 222 that were judged to be most scientifically convincing.
Then, they built up a menu for a three course dinner, which ticked as many of the health-giving boxes of their findings as they could manage. Course-by-course, it runs as follows:
- Fresh and smoked salmon terrine; high-fiber multi-grain bread roll
- Chicken casserole with lentils and mixed vegetables; olive-oil dressed mixed leaf salad
- Live yogurt blancmange topped with walnuts and sugar-free caramel sauce
It certainly sounds healthy, and the researchers can argue that every single ingredient present is there for a reason: from Omega 3 fish oils which are good for cholesterol, through protein for muscle mass, to walnuts which "contribute to the improvement of the elasticity of blood vessels".
And actually, for something that's designed to be as healthy as possible, it doesn't sound too bad. Well, apart from pudding. Who the hell eats blancmange these days? [Leatherhead Food Research via Daily Mail]
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Razorbacks' Wilson hopes to suit up against Rutgers
Star quarterback recovering from concussion symptoms
After the Razorbacks disappointing loss to Alabama last Saturday, many fans are wondering if the fate of the season lies in the possible return of quarterback Tyler Wilson.
The star player is still recovering from concussion symptoms. Despite that, he was in good spirits when he addressed the media Monday.
Wilson said he's extremely optimistic about his chances to play Saturday night against Rutgers.
"You've got to play football. That's why I came back. I'm not going to risk my complete health, but when I feel good enough to play -- and I feel good right now, I feel a lot better and I think it will continue to get better -- I'm going to be out there on the field. Period," Wilson said.
Wilson missed last week's game against Alabama, and sat out during the second half of the Razorbacks' overtime loss to the University of Louisiana-Monroe two weeks ago.
Since then, he has met with doctors in Fayetteville and with some of the best concussion specialists in the country.
Wilson ran with the team for their normal Sunday routine and went through some tests Monday morning with results almost similar to his baseline level, so that's a very good sign that he's recovering.
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Yesterday, we ran into Dan Neil at the LA Auto Show and stopped and chatted a bit. He seemed pleased to meet us, and we were certainly pleased to meet him. As erudite and quick in person as he is on the page, Neil mentioned that his son was in a band and wanted to tour. His choice for the ultimate Rock 'n' Roll Sexy Van? The Dodge Sprinter. Customized for two-wheeled maven Brian Lopes, this Sportmobile-built Sprinter 2500 is a no-nonsense hauler that illustrates the utility of the Merc/Dodge van and simply put, kicks ass.
With room for a couple of motocrossers or a number of bicycles in the wayback and a small living area behind the front seats, a Kicker sound system and knobby tires, the blood-red, no-nonsense van looks innocuous yet slightly menacing due to its off-road tires. Subtlety and utility carry the day here, and in a world of flash custom vehicles for celebs, it's a welcome change.
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Photo galleries: Commuters use Highway 38 for first full day since Sunday tragedy | More Yucaipa bus crash galleries
Related stories: Tour bus company failed more than a third of safety inspections | First responders can turn to peers, counselors, chaplains after disturbing incidences
PDF: U.S. Department of Transportation report on bus company Scapadas Magicas, LLC
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Sunday — Bus overturns near Yucaipa
Monday — Crews clear scene of fatal bus crash on Hwy 38; six victims identified
LOMA LINDA – A dream trip to see snow for the first time in their lives turned into a nightmare for two cousins from Tijuana, Mexico, when the tour bus they were riding in crashed into a truck and car Sunday night in Yucaipa, leaving one friend dead among seven passengers who were killed.
"I thought I was going to die, that I wouldn't see my mother again," said Andrea Vasquez, a 19-year-old law student.
A shaken Vasquez sat in a wheelchair as relatives surrounded her in an eighth-floor waiting room down the hall from trauma rooms at Loma Linda University Medical Center on Tuesday.
Vasquez and her cousin, 28-year-old Miriam Becerra, paid $40 each to board a Scapadas Magicas Tours bus that left Tijuana at 5 a.m. Sunday and planned to return later that night.
They were joined on the trip by four friends.
Each spoke Tuesday through another cousin, Jorge Montes of Newport Beach, who translated their Spanish as they recalled a trip gone terribly wrong.
The women and others on the bus joked and sang while they looked forward to playing in the snow of the Southern California mountains.
A stop at McDonald's filled the group with energy as the bus drove north into San Bernardino County. They had no idea about the bus company's reputation for numerous safety violations.
"I've travelled with this tour bus before, to Magic Mountain," Becerra said.
She sat in the same waiting room while Vasquez went to get something to eat.
Becerra's head was heavily bandaged on the right side.
National City-based Scapadas Magicas Tours had failed 36 percent of its safety inspections in the past two years, according to federal transportation records.
Only 16 of its 25 vehicles passed inspection. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said the failure rate exceeded the national average.
Vasquez and Becerra hadn't seen much snow. They joked about snowball fights in little patches of the white stuff.
"I hit her in the butt," Becerra said.
Passing vehicles sped by and honked their horns as they passed the bus that began its route home on the mountain road.
Moments before the crash, 52-year-old bus driver Norberto Perez of San Ysidro screamed at the passengers to call 9-1-1.
"We started panicking," Becerra said.
The crash flung Vasquez from the bus. When she regained consciousness, she was on the road, staring at the most gruesome sight of her life.
"There was a body in pieces," she said.
Dazed, and sore with bruises all over her and a hurt back, she heard screams from her cousin.
Becerra's head was split open. She tried to help a man in front of her whose legs were pinned in the seats.
"But every time I moved, blood started coming out of my head," Becerra said. "I turned around and saw a bunch bodies on the floor. I first thought I needed to look for my cousin. I started screaming for my cousin and she heard me."
Vasquez didn't pray. Becerra did. Her grandmother recently died.
"I started praying that my grandmother would protect me," Becerra said.
They thought the bus was going to fall off the side of the road and tumble down the mountainside.
Vasquez called her mother from an ambulance. She was in Mexico.
"I got a call from Andrea," said 48-year-old Beatriz Becerra Lucero, through Montes. "I was very nervous that I wasn't able to come here right away."
On the same eighth-floor hallway of Loma Linda University Medical Center on Tuesday, friends and relatives were devastated over the condition of Fred Richardson, the Ford pickup driver involved in the crash.
They declined to speak to a reporter's inquiries.
Richardson is a 72-year-old landscaper beloved in the Mountain Home Village community.
Brenda Knight, a Beaumont councilwoman who is Richardson's niece, told the Los Angeles Times that he was in an intensive care unit with injuries to his head and chest.
Kim Ammons, a neighbor of Richardson's, described him as a down-to-earth family man, one of the nicest people one could meet.
Ammons said by phone that the neighborhood felt like a ghost town as the shock of the accident set in.
"He's just the hardest- working man you'll ever want to meet," Ammons said. "It's just really sad. It shouldn't happen to anybody, but for him to have this happen is really sad."
At the hospital, Becerra was pondering her second chance at life.
"It was a deadly accident. I feel reborn," she said.
Vasquez said she was waiting to hear about the condition of one of her friends on the bus who suffered fractures and broken bones in the collision.
They had spoken earlier in the hospital.
"She was making fun of me because of the scratches on my butt," Vasquez said.
She managed to smile.
But hours later Vasquez and Becerra would receive heart-wrenching news. Another friend, 24-year-old Liliana Camerina Sanchez Sauceda, had been identified among the dead.
Montes, their soft-spoken cousin, said by phone that Vasquez and Becerra were already on their way back home to Mexico.
Tuesday was his 26th birthday.
"It's just eye-opening," Montes said. "You're here today and gone tomorrow, as far as your family. Don't take it for granted. Take the ones around you a little more serious and (keep them) close."
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Verification and Validation in Engineering Simulation
Building simulation credibility in an industrial context
28 - 29 November in Wiesbaden, Germany
The course has been taught over 30 times since 2013 all over Europe.
Engineering simulation plays an increasing role in industry's search for competitiveness and technology based innovation at any stage of the design, qualification and certification of their products. Key decisions and product qualification/certification increasingly rely on virtual tests and digital simulations, creating a major paradigm shift inwhich the objective of physical tests is progressively moving from a demonstration of compliance to a reference for analysis validation. This trend in industry is shown through adoption of new terms such as "realistic simulation" and "virtual testing". This situation creates new responsibility for the engineer to guarantee the required confidence level.
This new approach requires secured processes for the verification and validation (V&V) of simulations bringing evidence of their predictive capability. In particular, programme managers now require formal evidence on "simulation fit for purpose" on which they can build confidence and take decisions. In addition, the increasing situation for extended enterprise creates new constraints to guarantee safe and robust analysis processes.
At the same time, and due to the economic pressure, V&V activities are frequently seen as an additional cost that can easily be reduced and even fully cut, thus underestimating the induced risks. In addition, V&V is not easy to implement because of the diversity of involved persons: managers, simulation experts, test specialists, software developers and quality controllers, software vendors…
Course objectives and benefits
This Master Class is especially dedicated to V&V methodologies for numerical simulation in Engineering. Participants will:
- Understand essential links between the product validation/certification and simulation V&V.
- Learn how to plan and prioritize simulation V&V including physical tests programmes.
- Understand validation test issues and improve synergy between virtual and physical tests in the context of validation.
- Learn how to build business cases allowing for justification of V&V plans.
- Understand simulation V&V organisation and management issues and best practises
- Learn how to implement reporting to bring visibility and confidence to all managers concerned with simulation outcomes.
- Be able to adapt or tailor the course methodologies to their specific industrial context, and further improve their V&V processes and plans.
Who should attend?
- Primarily experienced engineers and senior analysts in charge of simulation activities or preparing to take new responsibility in the management of simulation, especially with regard to V&V responsibility
- Managers in charge of engineering simulation teams and willing to improve their knowledge in V&V and in the relevant processes
- Programme/project managers who need to make critical decisions based on engineering simulation results and wish to increase their understanding and visibility of the required V&V activities
Participants should have a few years of experience in engineering simulation for the design and development of industrial products.
Course context
All industry sectors confronted with numerical simulation V&V are concerned with this course. It is established on the solid knowledge of the tutors and the vision they have developed from their rich industrial experience, mainly within the aerospace and nuclear energy sectors and is primarily illustrated by FEA/Structure Analysis examples. The course is therefore of greatest interest to engineers involved in this technical domain, but will also appeal to engineers from other simulation domains because most of the V&V methodologies which are presented are generic in nature.
The course is neutral and independent of any particular software solution.
We limit the number of participants to a small group to facilitate dialog and exchanges between participants.
2 day Master Class Program
1. Introduction
Industrial context and stakes
- Fundamentals of engineering simulation
- Credibility for decision making
2. Verification & Validation of industrial products
- V&V concepts for industrial products
- V&V in Systems Engineering, hierarchical validation
- Innovation in product development and TRL
- Regulations and certification in aeronautics
3. Simulation management with focus on credibility
- Simulation management with focus on capability management
- Key management processes for credibility
− Management of simulation processes and data (SPDM)
− Competence management
4. Simulation V&V foundations & standards
- Basic concepts
− Verification
− Validation and uncertainty quantification
− Predictive capability
− V&V processes
- Guides and standards
− History of standardization in V&V
− Main standards: ASME, AIAA, NASA, NAFEMS…
5. Code verification
- Error typology
- Verification of algorithms
- Quality assurance for software: methodologies for SW development, regression tests, exact and manufactured solutions…
6. Verification of analyses
- A priori verifications: formal aspects, check-lists.
- A posteriori verifications: space and time discretization errors, improvement of results.
- Example of verification check-list
7. Validation and simulation/test synergy
- Validation process and hierarchical planning
- Validation tests, simulation/testing collaboration
− Specificities and difficulties of validation tests
− Prerequisites for successful validation tests
− Test uncertainties
- Accuracy assessment: deterministic and statistical validation metrics…
- Predictive capability: main attributes and how to assess it?
- Industrial examples
8. Trends in r
ealistic s imulation
- HPC infrastructure trends: new architectures.
- New discretization techniques
- Solver improvements, multi-physics, multi-scale, optimization…
Realistic visualization: issues and benefits
- Impact on V&V plans
9. Simulation Uncertainty Quantification (UQ)
- Typology: random, epistemic uncertainties
- Maturity of existing uncertainty quantification methodologies: Monte Carlo, Latin hypercube, response surfaces, polynomial chaos, "Lack of knowledge" theory, theory of evidence…
- Sensitivity analysis, robustness (key parameters identification…)
- Academic and industrial examples, methodologies and tools
- UQ best practises
10. V&V i
mplementation strategies
- Responsibilities of V&V processes and actors
- Implementation issues and obstacles
- Simulation, V&V and industrial risks
- Industrial justification: V&V business case, benefits versus costs
- Best practises: planning and prioritization, maturity assessment and reporting to decision makers, organization.
11. Course outcomes and conclusion
Event Type: Course
Location: Wiesbaden Germany
Date: November 28, 2018
This course is tutored by Jean-Francois IMBERT and Philippe PASQUET, high-level simulation professionals both benefiting from along academic and industrial experience gained from leading companies. Their skills extend from numerical methods to solving industrial problems, especially in aerospace and nuclear area, and to analysis management. V&V is one their key expertise, reason for which they have been asked for help by major European companies. They are recognized as ones of the leading figures in the engineering analysis community in France..
Jean-François IMBERT
In order to read Jean-François IMBERT's biography, please visit the NAFEMS' tutors page.
Philippe PASQUET
In order to see Philippe Pasquet's biography please visit, the NAFEMS tutors' page.
Accreditation Policy
The course is agreed and under control of NAFEMS Education and Training Working Group (ETWG).
Both days from 9am - 5pm
Hotel Oranien
Platter Straße 2,
D-65193 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 (0)611 - 1882 - 0
Fax +49 (0)611 - 1882 - 200
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
A limited number of reduced-price rooms have been reserved for conference delegates. Please book your hotel room by using the keyword"NAFEMS".
Course Fee
Non NAFEMS members:
1.950 Euro / person*
NAFEMS member:
1.560 Euro / person*
Proceedings, lunch, coffee breaks and certificate included.
* plus VAT if applicable.
In-house Course
This course can be booked as in-house course. Please request a quote.
Cancellation Policy
Up to 6 weeks before course starts:
free of charge;
up to one week before: 75 %;
later and no show: 100 %.
Cancellation of a seminar
If not enough participants we keep the right to cancel the course one week before. The course can be canceled also in case of disease of the speakers or force majeure. In these cases the course fees will be returned.
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There's nothing like love that transcends borders. Kind of like the one Princess Leia and Han Solo share. Back in 2005, Lucas confirmed that Leia and Han did, indeed, live happily ever after. That's something everyone already assumed, but still, it was nice to get confirmation. Now you can be reminded of that fact every day with these Han and Leia Hand Towels that'll add a little extra something in your bathroom.
These soft towels have silhouettes of Leia and Han on one side and the Rebel Alliance insignia on the other side. It isn't complete without the Star Wars logo, so you'll find that in the corner. You've always said it with roses; why not declare your love with towels this year?
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Ok, i know this is my faul but I have a computer that my compiler is the command line compiler for c++ and everything works fine except the fact that the headers that it gets for some of the stuff is the .Net headers.
I need to do some simple file IO but I am having problems. My setup is a windows 2000 server with the Platform Core SDK and the .Net 1.1 Framework SDK.
I have been developing on this for a while now and not had to do any file IO but now the need has risen and I cant seem to do the normal IO that i know.
I tried to include iostream or fstream and I get an error of file not found. the file is int the sdk\src\crt or sdk\src\win64\crt and i tried pointing directly to that file and i get an error saying it is trying to use c directives.
all i need to do is write some numbers to a file so is there some easy way to output using the .Net SDK?


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United Way Summer Literacy Program
United Way of Horry County Partners with Horry County Schools on Summer Literacy Program
Conway, SC, June 27, 2019– United Way of Horry County partnered with Horry County Schools to bring a five week Summer Literacy Program into Horry County. The program is taking place at Finklea Community Center in Loris, South Carolina.
The program started on June 10, 2019 with over 40 children signed up to improve their literacy skills. Selena Melvin, the Summer Day Camp Program Director and her team are focusing on helping students from Kindergarten through second grade. Intentional small group instruction allows teachers to work with students on their specific area of need. Each student is given a take home kit, full of new books and color pencils, to encourage interaction at home with their parents and the honing of their skills. The ultimate goal of the program is to provide instruction that will help move each child to grade level proficiency. Also, preventing "summer slide," which is the tendency for some students, especially those from low-income families, to lose some of the achievement gains they made during the previous school year. Each child was given a test at the beginning of the program to assess their current literacy level and will be tested during the final camp week to see how far they have improved. These results will be shared with the students' base school to use as an additional source of data to help determine what level of support a child may need during the upcoming school year.
Ashley Buxton, Interim President & CEO of United Way of Horry County, states that "working with the children in an area of the county with limited resources was one of the main reasons why we have positioned the program at Finklea Community Center. We want to be a partner in giving these children an opportunity to move ahead, breaking generational cycles below basic literacy skills. We are so excited to work in partnership with Horry County Schools and hope that we can continue to grow this program in order to support children in need."
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DOVER ― With the fire danger level rated at a Class 4 for the duration of the weekend, departments responded to calls within their own communities as well as provided mutual aid to a number of neighboring towns and cities.
A handful of brush fires were reported in area communities over the weekend. Firefighters said they did not know the causes but were investigating.
On Saturday, a brush fire was reported in the Silver Street area near the train tracks in Rochester.On Sunday, the Rochester Fire Department responded to a call along Whitehouse Road where a brush fire had developed behind the Amazon Campground property. Tankers from Berwick, South Berwick and Somersworth Forestry responded to a call for mutual aid.That fire was knocked down within about half an hour.
Another brush fire occurred in Barrington Sunday afternoon, calling mutual aid to Holly Road along Route 4.
That fire, which rose to second alarm, was described as a patch of land roughly 1,000 feet by 1,000 feet with another patch burning actively as crews worked to contain the first patch.
By early evening that fire was contained.
According to the state Division of Forests and Lands, the Class 4 fire danger rating for both Strafford and Rockingham counties means fires will start easily from all causes and will spread and increase in intensity rapidly. Spot fires can occur and fires have the potential to burn deeply.


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Whether this is your first time visiting, you work or live here, Beverly offers something for everyone. Our City is a desirable North Shore destination with recreation, shopping and dining options for all tastes and styles.
Located on the North Shore of Massachusetts, about 26 miles from Boston, Beverly has a unique personality– small town charm coupled with a city identity.
Beverly has a first class public school system, excellent access to Route 128, five commuter rail stations, a municipal golf course and airport making it an easy place to work, visit or live.
Beverly is a great place to live with stable, diverse communities in picturesque settings. With miles of coastline, public parks and open spaces, Beverly is aptly called the "Garden City."
A strong partnership between business, government and community coupled with a thriving downtown and many business hubs, attracts a wide range of businesses to Beverly.
Beverly is also a hub for creativity that supports many artists who own their own businesses and studios.
This website is the place to find answers to your questions and learn more about our City. Welcome!


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This problem occurs due to IR noise received by the IR receiver on the Cable/Satellite/Set-Top Box which originates from the screen of the LCD TV. This IR noise drowns out IR signals from the remote of the Cable/Satellite/Set-Top Box due to which the IR receiver cannot properly decipher the IR signal it is getting from the remote.
All LCD TVs emit a certain degree of IR radiation but only some external devices with certain types of IR receivers are affected. The amount of IR radiation being emitted is more for large screen TVs.
Elevated levels of IR radiation are emitted under the following conditions:
Ambient conditions which make the problem worse:
Supplementary (crude) Solution: (If the solutions above do not suffice)
Cover the front panel of the Cable/Satellite/Set-Top Box with opaque tape in such a way that only a small window is left open for the IR receiver to accept incoming IR signals from its remote.
Solution 1 is applicable to all LCD TVs
Solution 2 is applicable to TVs with features such as "Dynamic Contrast", "Active Control" or any similar features which dynamically adjust the intensity of the LCD TV's backlight.
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I-Team: College grad battles loan co. harassment
Experts say private loans should be last resort
Student loan debt has become a political, financial and educational problem, and the 11 News I-Team took on one of the country's biggest lenders to help a local college graduate who said she's practically being harassed about paying her loans.
Student loan debt in the U.S. recently hit the $1 trillion mark.
Sara del Gavio, 24, has long dreamed of being a marine biologist. Given the tough job market, she has had to keep on dreaming, working at Barnes & Noble while she hunts for a job in the sciences. In the meantime, her massive student loans have come calling rather aggressively.
"Harassing, bullying, just constant bombardment demanding payment," she told 11 News I-Team reporter Deborah Weiner.
Del Gavio owes more than $146,000 in loans, most of which are to private student loan lender Sallie Mae. She said that's how she was able to attend Coastal Carolina University outside of Myrtle Beach.
"To get the loans, they're like, 'Oh, we'll give you all this money.' But then in the long run, they're acting like loan sharks coming after you," Del Gavio said.
Starting in May -- five months after she graduated – del Gavio logged daily calls from Sallie Mae to her cellphone. In less than a month's time, she counted 370 phone calls -- as many as 25 in just one day -- before she started blocking the calls.
Weiner reported that it all coincided with very minimal payments del Gavio was making, many of which were $50. Sallie Mae wanted about $1,400, which nearly equaled her salary at Barnes & Noble.
"I understand they want their money. I understand that completely, but … you can't get blood from a turnip," said mom Jane del Gavio.
Sara del Gavio may be a victim of the boom of the private student loan market, which started to really take off the year she graduated from high school, Weiner reported.
Experts: Private loans should be last resort
According to a recent report to Congress, many borrowers are struggling to repay their loans, and default rates have spiked significantly, exceeding $8 billion, which represents more than 850,000 individual loans.
At schools like the University of Maryland, College Park, student debt is the elephant in the room, Weiner reported.
"We're graduating in an economy where we're not sure if we are going to find jobs, but we're still burdened with all this debt when we come out," said James Jalandoni, of the College Park Student Government Association.
It's an intimidating concept for families who are touring college campuses.
"For his four years, I'm thinking he's going to probably walk out with $100,000 in debt, at least," one father visiting the campus told Weiner.
In del Gavio's case, the bulk of what she borrowed came from private student loans, which have fewer repayment options than a federal loan funded by the Department of Education. Private loans are more expensive, and the interest rates are not fixed. Del Gavio's was more than 10 percent.
The consumer group Maryland PIRG said private student loans should be a last resort for students.
"If they aren't able to make those payments on their loan, they have to either deal with exorbitant fees or have to keep paying. There's no other option for them," said Maryland PIRG spokeswoman Jenny Levin.
The website Consumer Affairs lists more than 800 similar complaints about Sallie Mae.
Sallie Mae told the I-Team that in the past, it verbally offered del Gavio reduced interest rates and much lower payments; however, del Gavio did not recall that offer coming without caveats, and Sallie Mae officials apologized for any possible confusion.
Sallie Mae officials told the I-Team that their many phone call attempts to reach del Gavio were an earnest attempt to reach her and help her prevent default.
Once the I-Team contacted Sallie Mae on her behalf, she secured a $445 a month payment -- reduced by about $1,000 -- and an interest rate that was whittled down to 1 percent. All of her late fees have been waived under the new plan that's good for 15 months.
Del Gavio said she is relieved, but offered some advice to other college-bound students.
"Definitely look into doing well in high school so you can get those scholarships so you don't have to have loans at all," she said.


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I am trying to find some really good music to play at the beginning of my haunted house for this year. My plan was to play something in the "waiting room" where everyone will stand in line to go through the haunted house. I have a nice set of speakers, but I need some awesome music to go with it. I want something with a lot of bass, something thats crazy scary(something that would freak most adults out) and something that doesn't have too many words or spoken parts in it.
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Organ recitals being presented in conjunction with the July 6-11 Pipe Organ Encounter (POE) organ camp for students are open to the general public.
Admission to the recitals is free.
The four events began Monday, July 7, and will continue through Friday, July 11.
The first recital, featuring five Hope alumni, was presented on Monday, July 7, in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The performers were Susan De Kam '02, Peter Kurdziel '96, Richard Newman '07, Abigail Rockwood '06 and David Schout '00.
The second recital, featuring faculty of the camp, will be presented on Tuesday, July 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The performers will be Gregory Crowell, Steven Egler, Peter Kurdziel '96, Ann Labounsky, Marilyn Ossentjuk, Joan Ringerwole and Linda Strouf '84.
Members of the camp's faculty will also present the third recital on Thursday, July 10, at 7:30 p.m. at Third Reformed Church. The performers will be Paul Barte, Margaret Evans, James Kibbie, Peter Kurdziel '96, Cherry Rhodes, Karl Schrock and Linda Strouf '84.
The final recital will be a progressive recital presented by the camp's students, and will be presented on Friday, July 11, starting at 10 a.m. The recital will begin at Pillar Church and then move to Western Theological Seminary's Mulder Chapel and conclude at Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
Pipe Organ Encounter organ camps are a 20-year-old program of the American Guild of Organists (AGO). The local POE camp is one of seven such camps nationwide this summer and has been organized by the Holland Area chapter of the AGO.
The camp is being attended by 32 students, the maximum enrollment possible, ranging in age from 12 to 18. The students come from eight states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania); some have had no previous experience with the organ, and others have been playing for up to 10 years. The 14 faculty come from across Michigan as well as New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon and California; most are college or university professors.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street. PillarChurch is located at 57 E. 10th St., between Ninth and 10th streets at College Avenue. Third Reformed Church is located at 111 W. 13th St., on 13th St. at Pine Avenue. Western Theological Seminary is located at 101 E. 13th St., and Mulder Chapel is located east of College Avenue between 13th Street and the former 12th Street.
Additional information including a schedule is available on the Holland AGO chapter's Web site at http://www.hollandago.org/poe.html


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Welcome to a Secret Subject Swap. 15 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else
and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously
divulging our topics and submitting our posts.
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My subject is "I want to tell you about the least amazing thing in my life." It was submitted by:
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So this subject was easy, peasy, lemon-squeezy for me!! The least amazing thing in my life is my car!! Ahhh..to put it lightly it is junk. I have a 2006 Chevy Aveo. The car should have come with a disclosure that reads as follows:
I apologize to the owner for being so uncomfortable! (I have learned that the excitement of getting a new car often hides the most obvious issues such as the seats being ridiculously hard). Your butt and back will start to hurt after atleast 2 hours of steady driving.
I will start to break down once I hit 80k miles at least every couple of months, especially if that month happens to have a 5 week pay period.
If it is very cold out, say 40 degrees or below I have a hard time shifting gears. The dealership will say that this is a gas saving mechanism, it is really a because I am a junk car, poorly made.
Forget about every trying to drive me in the snow without snow tires. You will literally get stuck in a 1/2 inch of snow and a stranger will have to push you out of parking spaces.
I am a target to getting into car accidents, even if you are not in it. I don't know if it's because of my size and bigger trucks can't see me, but I will get hit often! I may even hit a man in a wheel chair, but that doesn't apply to all owners.
I will have faulty wiring that will cost more to repair, more than I am worth, but you will have no choice to fix it, because I will trick you by slowly having things go one at a time.
I am really too small to carry around 2 kids and a husband who is 6'1". This is not a family car, but I am good at tricking new owners that I am a great car due to high gas prices.
In order to close the trunk you have to slam it down at least 5 times before it will actually hitch. This actually amuses me to watch the owners do this. It is a game I play.
Your airbag light will always be on on the passenger side. Even though you will get it checked many times, and your mechanic will think he fixes it. It won't, because of the crazy wiring inside me.
You may also have to slam your glove compartment box really hard to get your heat to work. This is also a game that I play, and amuses me.
So enjoy your new Chevy Aveo. Drive me around. I am good at fitting into small places, you have to admit, that is a good thing :)
If only I had known...things would be different...