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General Relativity and Control Systems Standards
I suspect most of my readers can just about remember light speed, the 100 foot barn, and the 110 foot log from learning about relativity. The barn had doors at each end, and one set would close the instant the other doors opened. The challenge was to transport the log through the barn. The answer had to do with light speed and collapsing space, so that as one got close enough to light speed, the log shortened, and it could fit through the barn. It was a simple enough calculation as to how fast one could go to make the log shrink how much. When each of us had completed the math, the professor sprang the surprise on us: "OK, what is happening from the perspective of a cockroach on the log?"
I haven't been writing much recently, because I have been writing all of the time. The national smart grid roadmap is a project being completed in double time. The EPRI team is diverse and whip smart. The workshop participants are opinionated and have hundreds of millions on the line. I would be surprised of the process was not contentious.
The real problem, though, is no one thinks of the cockroach. Each player on the multi-disciplinary team sees the problem set up the way that they want things to work. Power grid engineers see homes and offices as just one more set of slow devices to turn on and off. Homes and offices see the grid as a secretive and not very reliable partner they have to work with. Green and sustainable energy folks seem to see the laws of thermodynamics as as much a social construct as are the tariffs and business procedures of the grid. Utilities executives see distributed generation as an inefficient way for middle class hobbyists to get their obsessions paid for by those less well off.
The cockroach was moving every bit as fast as the log he was sitting on. While an observer saw space, and the length of the log, contracting, the cockroach was sitting on the log and saw it remaining at 110 feet. The cockroach actually saw the barn getting shorter still, and not likely to let the log pass. However, the cockroach also saw was time dilation instead of space dilation. To the cockroach, the two doors no longer open and close simultaneously, giving the log just enough time to slip through.
And that is the problem with the smart grid. The grid operators do not see the problems of the buildings. The building owners do not see the problems of the grid, because they are hidden by the rules and market design. Venture capitalists do not see a path to profitability in funding projects with years of indecision by the utilities built into the sale cycle. "If only those others would learn about how hard my problems are…" None of them will embrace the perspective of the others; they happen to have other jobs.
Today, I have been wrestling with "Architecturally Significant Interfaces". Grid architects tend to see the world as late 60's open plan houses, with no proper rooms to divide the houses activities. Open up the kitchen to the dining room and living room. (I wonder how much great rooms are responsible for the tendency to eat take-out in front of the TV.) Open up the master bedroom to the great room as a loft; it is open and honest, and who cares if it scares the kids. Heck, pry the doors of the bathrooms, so everybody can interact, no matter what they are doing.
A good architecture divides the house into rooms, and thereby defines how people live there. It does not determine the furniture or the wall paint. The conceptual model of the smart grid (read it yourself, chapter 3) describes the functions of the grid and the buildings and people who participate in it. The Architecturally Significant Interfaces could define how information is handed between them; if selected correctly they will free up those in reach room to innovate, without concern for those in other rooms. If we end up with an open floor plan, we will have a mess, wherein in the name of openness we will need a family meeting to before we can decide to change anything.
Relativity—it relies on acknowledging different perspectives. Without acknowledging a few architecturally significant interfaces, the smart grid will assume a perspective held by no one. And that will be a prescription for failure.


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Investors dump FCCBs, yields zoom3 min read . Updated: 07 Dec 2011, 12:33 AM IST
Investors dump FCCBs, yields zoom
Investors dump FCCBs, yields zoom
Mumbai: Overseas investors have been dumping foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) sold by Indian companies in a fallout of this year's stock market decline, rupee depreciation and a looming economic downturn, a Mint analysis of Bloomberg data shows.
FCCBs are bonds with an equity element. They remain debt instruments as long as investors hold on to them. Investors convert their holdings into equity when the share price touches a conversion price promised by the issuer. If this does not happen, the issuer needs to treat the bonds as debt and redeem them.
With the Sensex, the benchmark equity index, falling at least 18% so far this year, widening the gap between the stock price and the conversion price, the demand for FCCBs has taken a hit. The rupee recently dropped to a lifetime low against the dollar and has lost some 16% since August when the slide started. Equities have slumped to a two-year low in the face of concerns about slowing economic growth.
While prices of bonds have moved by not more than 10% since January, the yields on some companies' debt have increased more than three times, data shows.
"Indian convertible bonds have lost their sheen with most of the companies' stock prices trading far below the conversion price. Investors have dumped the bonds in the last 11 months and data shows that," said a hedge fund manager holding bonds of more than five firms, who requested anonymity as he is not authorized to talk to the media.
Even FCCBs of large-cap companies such as Tata Motors Ltd have suffered. The company's stock price has fallen by 26.8% so far this year.
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Mint's Sneha Shah says that with markets falling and the rupee weakening, investors are fleeing from the foreign currency convertible bonds issued by Indian firms.
The yield on the first set of Tata Motors' FCCBs maturing in December 2012 reversed from -2.019% at the start of the year to 6.346% in November. The yield on the second set of bonds maturing in October 2014 has changed from -13.21% to -3.664%.
While many see this as the function of a looming economic downturn causing investors to pull back, some say this is the result of redemption time drawing closer.
"As redemption keeps nearing, investors have a clearer view on whether the bond will be converted into equity. The yields are also a function of the current share price, currency volatility and the time gap to redemption," said the head of debt at a large private bank on condition of anonymity.
Yields on the bonds of other top companies such as Financial Technologies (India) Ltd ($100 million, or Rs514 crore today) increased from 6.977% to 20.395% and Reliance Communications Ltd ($1 billion) from 6.629% to 28.993%.
The yield on 3i Infotech Ltd's €30 million (Rs207 crore today) bonds increased from 24.52% to 41.15%, while that on another set of $100 million bonds rose from 18.117% to 24.45%. Hotel Leelaventure Ltd's $100 million bonds saw yields increase from 10.519% to 18.393%.
Similarly, yield on Sterling Biotech Ltd's $100 million bonds rose from 13.08% to 98.098%. Moser Baer India Ltd's two set of bonds have seen yields rise from around 45-48% to 300-340% so far this year. The yield on JSW Steel Ltd's $325 million bonds tripled from 3.15% to 10.664% in the last 11 months.
More than 60 separate FCCB issues are due for redemption in the next 12 months or so, having an outstanding cash obligation (including redemption premium) of $7 billion, according to KNG Securities LLP, which tracks Indian FCCBs. In 2006 and 2007, Indian companies sold some $14 billion worth of FCCBs when the rupee was trading at around 40 per dollar, KNG Securities said in a 2 December report.
The ability of a large number of mid-cap issuers to repay looks doubtful, the report said.
"We believe only a small proportion of companies (the larger caps) have hedged their foreign currency exposure. Generally speaking, small- to mid-cap companies have no US dollar protection," the report said. "In addition, many Indian issuers do not have the natural hedge, i.e., overseas reserves derived from foreign subsidiary incomes. We believe that with the weakening currency, these companies in particular will struggle to repay FCCB debt."
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Pregunta: ¿Moroni enterró las placas de oro en el Cerro Cumorah que se menciona en el Libro de Mormón?
Pregunta: ¿Moroni enterró las placas de oro en el Cerro Cumorah que se menciona en el Libro de Mormón?
The Book of Mormon does not state that the plates of Mormon were buried in the Hill Cumorah: All of the other records except the gold plates were buried there
The Book of Mormon does not state that the plates of Mormon were buried in the Hill Cumorah; in fact, it states that the plates were not buried in Cumorah at that time, but were given to Moroni to safeguard until it came time for them to be put in their ultimate place of deposit:
"And it came to pass that when we had gathered in all our people in one to the land of Cumorah, behold I, Mormon...made this record [the plates of Mormon] out of the plates of Nephi, and hid up in the hill Cumorah all the records which had been entrusted to me by the hand of the Lord, save [except] it were these few plates which I gave unto my son Moroni." (Mormon 6:6) (énfasis añadido)
This demonstrates that the burial place of the rest of the plates from the people of the Nephites were buried at the hill where the Nephite destruction took place, the actual ancient Cumorah.
Moroni wandered for 36 years before burying the plates of Mormon
This took place in approximately A.D. 385. Moroni did not bury the plates of Mormon until A.D. 421. During this 36-year period Moroni explained:
"[The Lamanites] put to death every Nephite that will not deny the Christ. And I, Moroni, will not deny the Christ; wherefore, I wander whithersoever I can for the safety of mine own life." (Moroni 1:3)
During that 36-year wandering to escape the Lamanites, it seems likely that he could have traveled a great distance. If the Nephite Cumorah was not in New York, Moroni could easily have eventually come to modern New York state where he buried the plates. On the other hand, he could have easily remained in the general area of the Nephite destruction in his wanderings.


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Summer is technically winding down but it'll still be miserably hot in Florida for a few more months. Unfortunately, that means we'll need to watch out for mosquitos and Zika. And it may be too late for me as I got tore up by mosquitos in Pinellas County getting a few of these shots. Thankfully I get my blood tested often as I donate blood and platelets so I'll find out fairly quickly if I got the Zika. And don't think I wasn't using bug repellant...I keep it in my car and use it if I'm shooting after dark. Too bad I think the one I applied lost some of its strength as I was surrounded by a swarm of mosquitos as I walked the beach and back to my car.
Besides mosquitos, Fort De Soto park is currently surrounded by thousands of stingrays. I saw around 20 baby rays during the two days I was shooting at Fort De Soto last week. They literally wash up with the waves, so if you're walking along the beach with your feet in the water you really need to watch your step.
It's also been a fairly active month for evening storms. Got a few decent shots but still nothing as good as the shot I got in July by the lake. Regardless, some of the storms this summer have been the prettiest storms I've ever seen.


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JERUSALEM (CNS) — For Salim Badawi, a Greek Orthodox Palestinian from the West Bank village of Beit Jalla, the opportunity to help a group of Franciscan priests harvest olives in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives offers a sense of hope amid the adversaries his family has faced in their own olive groves.
He said much of the olive grove of his extended family has long been unreachable as it was taken years ago to build an Israeli settlement, now considered a neighborhood of Jerusalem.
An uncle tries every year — unsuccessfully — to reach the land, Badawi said.
"Here I feel hope that maybe one day it will be different, maybe we will one day be allowed to go there and pick our olives," Badawi told Catholic News Service while reaching into the branches of one of the trees that can be traced to the time of Christ. "The olive trees are still there, but we can't reach them. I feel something special in this holy place where we are picking the oldest olives in the area, maybe in the whole world."
At the bottom of the tree, Karina Henriquez, a volunteer from Chile, places olives that drop from the branches into a sack. For her, the trees that continue to bear fruit after thousands of years are a symbol of Jesus, who is still giving fruit to all who seek him.
Henriquez does not want to discuss politics, but she knows that Israelis and Palestinians are good people.
"Too bad they can't solve their problems. We were hopeful with the pope's visit, but then there was the war," she said.
Still, Henriquez feels the need to share the pope's message of speaking to the soul of people about love and peace. "We have to pray so God will place peace and love in the hearts of all people," she said.
Since the Franciscans retook possession of the small olive grove adjacent to the Church of All Nations in 1681, the Franciscan fathers have tended to eight of what are believed to be the oldest olive trees in the Holy Land. Tradition, backed by modern genetic testing, holds that the gnarled trees were grafted at some point during the Crusader era from a single tree that was a witness to Jesus' agony more than 2,000 years ago.
Today, the trees are part of the Garden of Gethsemane, fenced off and protected from the crowds of faithful who come on pilgrimage to the site. To accommodate pilgrims, the Franciscans keep a box of small branches pruned from the trees from which people can freely take a memento.
As the olive harvest begins in the Holy Land, Father Benito Choque, an Argentine who is superior of the Franciscan community at the church, ponders the significance of the olive in the Bible as he greets pilgrims outside the fence and walks among the trees inside the garden. A few pilgrims ask for an olive from the trees, but the friar gently denies their request. If he gives an olive to one, then all the other pilgrims will want one, too, he explained.
"These oldest of trees are a testament to Jesus' suffering," Father Choque said. The ancient trees continue to speak to those who will hear, he said.
The Franciscans have been in the Holy land for eight centuries under mandate of the Holy See, and their mission, he explained, is to live with the Jews and Muslims, transmitting their charism.
"What the Crusaders in the past did with their weapons, we do with prayers," Father Choque told CNS. "I believe God has given something beautiful to humanity and I think the people of this land are blessed also with the planting of the olive trees."
Though now there is confrontation not far from the trees, the priest sees the harvest as a time that unites people as families gather to pick olives and neighbors and friends meet at the olive press to make the fruit into oil used in cooking throughout the year.
Franciscan Father Diego Dalla Gassa, who guides volunteers at the garden, said he urges them to consider the vocation of the olive and the olive tree, likening them to the life of Jesus. They are cared for with the rain which God provides and in the end, they are meant to be pressed for the oil so precious and important in the region, he noted.
"It is very beautiful for us to pick the olives here from the trees we have cared for. When we collect the olives, we understand we are doing what God does with us. When we see an olive on a faraway branch, we must reach out to it to take it and so it happens with us that God is reaching out for us, searching for us," Father Dalla Gassa said.
"This place interprets all of the life of Jesus," he added. "Jesus was pressed here (as the olive is pressed) and we received the beautiful oil, in this case the blood (of Jesus)."
The Franciscans utilize every part of the olive, the oil is blessed and used for the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, including the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, ordination of priests, and anointing the sick. Last year, the Franciscans sent a bottle of the blessed oil to Pope Francis for Holy Thursday in anticipation of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
The olive pits are sent to a few Christian Palestinian families who traditionally make them into rosaries which are then gifted to the Franciscan priests.
In addition to the eight old trees, the garden includes a younger tree planted by Pope Paul VI during his visit in 1964 and the newest sapling planted by Pope Francis during his pilgrimage earlier this year.
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By Dr. Jerry Terrill "Be still and know that I am God" (Psalms 46: 10a)
The theologian and philosopher Soren Kierkegaard writes in his journal about an experience on the coast of Gilbjerg: "It has always been one of my favorite places. As I stood there one quiet evening as the sea struck up with its deep quiet solemnity, whilst my eye met not a single sail on the vast expanse of water, and the sea set bonds to the heavens, and the heavens to the sea; whilst on the other side the busy noise of life subsided and the birds sang their evening prayer…but I saw everything as a whole and was strengthen to understand things differently" (Kierkegaard 42 – 43).
In modern counseling theory, what Kierkegaard describes is known as "mindfulness." Mindfulness might be summed up as being aware of your thoughts and feelings in the moment and being able to accept them non-judgmentally. Mother Teresa shares, "Each moment is all we need, not more." Normally this occurs during a time of prayer, mediation on the Word. "Trusting to God I have found peace, calm, and confidence in God" (Kierkegaard 147).
To quote Mother Teresa, "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…the more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life. We need silenced to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. All our words will be useless unless they come from within—words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness" (Something Beautiful for God 48).
However, "The light of dawn does not emerge from a void: it emerges from darkness. Darkness is a precondition for light to appear" (Patocka 95). The poet Aton Wildgans states, "What is to give light must endure burning."
Mindfulness physically, emotionally, and spiritually provides the insights to "be transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Romans 12: 2). Paradoxically, this inner transformation through mindfulness occurs by emptying our lives of the external "things" as observed in Philippians 2: 5: "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Galatians expands this theme in 2: 20: "It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me." Henning Mankell terms this "Clarity that arises in the spaces in between."
In A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce, we see the main character, Stephen Dedalus, beginning to achieve inner consciousness or mindfulness: "Life became a divine gift for every moment and sensation of which, were it even the sight of a single leaf hanging on a twig of a tree, his soul should praise and thank the Giver" (Joyce 166).
Mindfulness allows us to become present in the moment, a new creation, experiencing an individuated state of congruence through a new stream of consciousness narrated and facilitated by a passionate and loving God.
Dr. Jerry Terrill is Professor of Counseling and Director of the Counseling Program at Houston Graduate School of Theology


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A Prom Guide: 10 Prom Tips for High School Girls! :)/
Prom was definitely one of the highlights of my high school life. It's a fun night you get to play dress-up and party with friends.
In the Philippines, prom season happens some time around January to March. And since it's already prom season, allow me to share you some tips for your very special night! :)
Beware: most of the photos here are ANCIENT! lol! (circa 2011-2012)
1. Avoid the rush!
Here's the thing: prom season is C R A Z Y. By February, you'll see everyone cramming to buy dresses in RTW stores; some designers/dressmakers will be too busy to take you in anymore because they already have a long line-up of gowns to work on.
So, better yet, plan ahead. If you're planning to have your dress made by a designer or a dressmaker, start tapping them as early as two months before prom night. This will give enough time for adjustments. If however, you plan to buy an RTW dress, avoid joining the rush prom gown shopping craze! :)
(Photos by Bria Cardenas)
Dressmaker: Toby Albrando
2. Print prom dress pegs to serve as a guide
Think of what look you're going with for prom. Decide whether you want a fairytale ball gown, a cute little cocktail dress, or somewhere in between. Already have a color in mind? Perfect. Gather all your pegs in one mood board to serve as your fashion inspiration! You may google celebrity red carpet events or even blogs to get ideas from.
Fun fact: my junior prom gown (year 2011) was inspired by Selena Gomez's dress! (This was way before mullet skirts became a fashion trend again!)
Dressmaker: Bridal Factory by Ysabelle
3. Preparing for prom doesn't have to be expensive!
Be as creative as possible. You'll never know what treasures you may find in department stores, rental shops, or even inside your mom's/sister's closet!
Remember, prom isn't about how much you spend on your dress or shoes. Looking your best doesn't mean having to wear expensive stuff; it's about being confident in your own skin and carrying yourself well. Put on your dress, tell yourself you're beautiful, and flash that pretty smile, and you'll be a head-turner for sure. :)
4. Have your nails done one or two night/s before!
If you plan on having your nails done, DO NOT do this on the day of the prom itself!
Doing this last-minute will just stress you out. Same rule applies for getting a wax treatment. :P
Photo from Bria Cardenas
5. Get a good night's sleep!
You'll need a lot of energy if you plan to dance the night away. Plus, you won't want to wake up looking stressed and tired, don't you? :)
6. Charge your phones/cameras!
Of course, back in our time, we didn't have iPhones (Instagram didn't even exist then!!) . We only had our digital cameras to help us capture moments. But today, you girls are lucky cause you have your smart phones/iPhones/ iPods. Make sure your gadgets are fully charged and take lots of photos! :)
7. Prepare at least 5 hours before the event
Allot enough time for hair and make-up, dressing up, and even travel period. This will save you from getting stressed! :P
8. Powder and lipstick will come in handy
Keep these babies in your purse-- you won't want to look oily or pale in pictures!
This photo was from my debut. Looking for debut tips? Click HERE.
9. It's always better with friends around!
Sure, having a date to prom is fun, but that doesn't mean you'll have fun any less without one!
Prom is definitely a great bonding sesh with your barkada. When I was in highschool, my parents wouldn't allow me to go on sleepovers. So my friends booked a room just beside the room that my parents and I stayed at. We connected the two rooms, and then had a sleep-over. How sweet, right? Haha! We even prepared for prom night together and did a mini photo-shoot before we entered the ballroom.
10. Lastly, don't forget to be confident, let loose, and just have fun!
(Sorry, my heels were killing me! haha!)
Thanks for reading, girls! :) Hope you learned a thing or two! Oh, and enjoy prom! <3
The Teenage Queen


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The Central Board of Secondary Education had organized NET exam for under and postgraduates students. The CBSE UGC National Eligibility Test 2019 is conducted for the eligibility of Junior Research Fellowship & Eligibility for Assistant Professor Both in Indian Universities and Colleges. The CBSE UGC NET Exam 2019 was held in the month of 08th July 2019. The aspirants are waiting for CBSE UGC NET Result 2019 can check on the official website. The announcement date of the NET Result is updated on our web portal. The Board is releasing the result on the official website. The steps required to download the CBSE UGC NET Result 2019. Here we also upload a direct link to download the result. The postulates can use the below article to know more details regarding the above notification.
CBSE UGC NET Result 2019 ~ Check Here @ cbsenet.nic.in National Eligibility Test July Exam
The NET exam was conducted on behalf of UGC. The exam paper was prepared based on the 84 subjects. The NET was held in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Gujarat, Chhatisgarh, Chandigarh, Goa, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, TamilNadu, Sikkim, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarkhab=nd, West Bengal, Kolkata. a huge number of students attend the exam, But very few will only get qualify.
UGC NET Jan Result 2019 Declared Date
|Name of the Examination
|National Eligibility Test
|Selection For
|Assistant Professor and Junior Research Fellowship
|Conducted By
|Central Board of Secondary Education
|Date of UGC NET Examination 2019
|July 2019
|CBSE UGC NET Result Release Date
|July 2019
|Cutoff Marks for UGC NET 2019
|Releases Soon
|CBSE UGC NET Merit List 2019
|Updated Soon
|Official Website
CBSE NET Gen OBC SC ST Expected Cut Off 2019
The students can check the solutions from the answer key. The answer key will be released by many institutions. The Board officials had released the answer key in the month of July 2019. The aspirants can calculate the marks obtained in the exam. The contenders appeared for the exam can check the cut off marks displayed below. The result will be declared based on the cut off marks. The contenders waiting for the result can check the CBSE NET Cutoff Marks on the official website. To get an idea about the cut off marks to visit the previous year cut off marks. The department officials soon release the different cutoff marks for different category candidates. The cut off marks are prepared on basis of category. The aspirants should qualify in the exam should satisfy the cut off marks. After the releasing of the rank list will be displayed.
|Marks Should Be Obtained
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Steps to Check CBSE UGC NET Rank List 2019 January
The aspirants have completed the CBSE UG NET in July 2019. The aspirants attended the exam are searching for the result. The contenders can check the result from the official website by giving the details like admit card number and date of birth. The result will display the marks scored in the exam. Here we are going to provide the steps to check from the official website. The contenders can follow the below steps to check the result.
- The aspirant should first open the official website of National Eligibility Test i.e.www.cbsenet.nic.in
- Then link to the CBSE UGC NET Result 2019 link.
- Enter the username and password in the allotted box entered during applying the form.
- The Scorecard/ Rank Card will be displayed on the screen.
- Check the details on the result.
- Click on download now.
- The contenders can download the pdf and take print out of the result for future reference.
Click Here to Download the CBSE UGC NET 2019
CBSE UGC NET Merit List 2019
After declaring of result the student should the merit list. The merit list is prepared based on the cut off marks. The contenders appeared in UGC NET Selected List 2019 will eligible for the further process. The contenders can download the merit list and check the eligibility. In the rank list, the top 15% candidates (for each subject and category) will be considered for Assistant Professor only. And rest of the 15% qualified candidates a separate merit list is prepared and awarding JRF.
Important Links
- CBSE NET Jan Result 2019
- NET 22nd Jan Exam Scorecard Online.
- UGC NET Result of CBSE.
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The Confederacy lives in NC law. Why respect that?
Protesters march and call for professors to strike against BOT recommendation for Silent Sam
Those at UNC-Chapel Hill who are pushing to remove the Confederate monument Silent Sam from our campus landscape are hitting a wall called the law. The law, we are told, keeps all of our state's historical monuments in place. The law, we are told, takes decisions from campus hands and places them in the hands of state commissioners. The law, we are told, must be respected.
There is no doubt that our state's law on historical monuments, Section 2.1 of Chapter 100 of the General Statutes, must be followed. But must it be respected? Let's look at our state's laws touching on the historical memory of the Civil War and Jim Crow.
Section 2.1 of Chapter 100 came in late July 2015, as Confederate flags and monuments around the South were coming down in reaction to Dylann Roof's murderous rampage in a black church in Charleston, S.C. The law forbids removal of any "object of remembrance" from public property unless a state commission approves it, and lays down a number of conditions for any removal. Among other conditions, any removed object has to go to "a site of similar prominence, honor, visibility, availability, and access" as its original site.
That law doesn't mention the Confederacy, but the circumstances of its enactment leave no doubt about the "remembrance" the General Assembly wanted to preserve.
Other laws explicitly reference the Confederate cause. Section 10 of Chapter 100 authorizes counties, cities, and towns to join memorial organizations for, and spend public money to build memorials to, "the soldiers who fought in the War Between the States." Yes, that is how this N.C. law refers to the Civil War. The law was passed in 1919, at the height of Jim Crow. It is still on the books.
Section 9 of that same chapter authorizes county officials to use public funds to build "substantial iron fences" around monuments that were "erected to the memory of our Confederate dead" in courthouse squares. The General Assembly passed this law in 1905 and has never repealed it.
Confederate memory lives on in other sections of our laws as well. Our list of official public holidays — in section 4 of Chapter 103 — includes Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee's birthday.
Our statutes also make provision for General Lee's daughter. Section 44 of Chapter 136 directs the Department of Transportation to "look after the care and keeping the grounds surrounding the grave of Miss Anne Carter Lee, daughter of General Robert E. Lee, in Warren County." That law dates from 1939. The General Assembly reviewed and changed it as recently as 2001. They left the protection of Miss Lee's grave untouched.
Veneration of the Confederacy lives on in one more provision. In Section 4 of Chapter 65, our state corrections agency is "authorized and directed to furnish … such prisoner's labor as may be available, to properly care for the Confederate Cemetery situated in the City of Raleigh, such services to be rendered by the State's prisoners without compensation."
Let me translate: North Carolina allows inmates to be used as slave labor to tend to the graves of Confederate soldiers. This has been the law in our state since 1927. The General Assembly amended the language of the statute in 2012 to update the official name of the state's corrections department, but did not repeal the law.
We are told that UNC's Confederate monument must stay on campus because a statute requires it. But our statute books themselves build their own landscape of legal monuments to the Confederacy. Is it any wonder that so many find the law so hard to respect?


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Epic Khawaja century delivers for Australia
Maligned for his returns in Asia, Usman Khawaja's defiance in Dubai was just reward for his tireless work to improve his game
Louis Cameron at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium
11 October 2018, 08:23 PM AEST
When Australia needed him most, Usman Khawaja delivered with arguably the most important innings of his career.
On the final day of the first Test against Pakistan, Khawaja scored a defiant maiden Test century in Asia as his side desperately tried to salvage a draw on a wearing Dubai pitch.
DAY FIVE SCORECARD: Pakistan v Australia
The 31-year-old followed up his first-innings 85 with an even grittier knock in the second dig, twice jumping in the air in celebration and acknowledging teammates and his wife Rachel, who shed tears of pride and joy, as he brought up triple figures off 224 balls with a single after lunch.
It's just the fifth century by an Australian in the fourth innings of a Test in Asia, following Bob Simpson (115 v Pakistan in 1964), Mark Taylor (102 not out v India in 1998), Ricky Ponting (118 not out v Bangladesh in 2006) and David Warner (112 v Bangladesh last year).
Much had been made of Khawaja's struggles on the subcontinent having never managed a score of more than 26 in nine previous Test innings there before this Test. He had also been dropped mid-tour the past two times he's played there (in Sri Lanka in 2016 and in Bangladesh last year).
But Khawaja, against the country of his birth, has lived up to Ricky Ponting's billing as his country's "best batsman by a street" in a side without Steve Smith and David Warner.
Not only has he more than doubled his entire run tally in Asian Tests in one match, he's also batted for longer in this Test (594 minutes at the time of his ton) than he has in his other nine Test innings on the subcontinent put together.
Few gave Australia much hope of denying Pakistan victory in the series-opener after their extraordinary collapse of 10-60 on day three. But from the start of Australia's fourth innings. Khawaja looked intent on – and capable of – batting out the best part of five sessions to secure a draw.
Following an 87-run partnership with debutant Aaron Finch (backing up their 145-run stand in the first innings), Khawaja held firm late on day four as Abbas ripped through Australia's top order with three wickets in seven balls including both Marsh brothers for ducks.
He then found a willing ally in the debutant Head, with the two left-handers safely ensuring their side's passage to stumps on Wednesday, before the pair then went unbeaten through the first session on day five.
While defence was the backbone to Khawaja's resistance, his willingness to reverse sweep Yasir Shah out of the rough ensured he didn't got bogged down.
He had a fascinating battle early on day five with Abbas, with the right-armer beating Khawaja's outside edge on a handful of occasions and offering a few choice words, but the Queenslander was happy to look ugly on occasions to get through.
His hundred also marks a successful return to the opening position, forging a successful bond with Finch after moving up there from No.3 for this Test. Khawaja struck 79 not out and 145 in two previous Test innings filling in at the top.
Ahead of the series, Ponting predicted Khawaja to overcome his struggles on the subcontinent as long as he was given some certainty over his spot.
"There's been lots of different discussions over the last couple of years about Khawaja and how to get the get the best out of him," the former Test skipper told cricket.com.au last month. "(People wonder), 'is he an Australian Test match player only? Do we just not pick him on the subcontinent?'"
"I just think you've got to keep picking him – with Warner and those guys out, he's clearly our best batsman by a street.
"The more he can play in those conditions, the more he'll start to work it out.
"It's difficult. I was a bit the same; the first few tours I had to India, I struggled. But the more I played, the more I learned about how I was going to survive and how I was going to cope. The last couple of tours I had there were some of the best I ever had.
"Someone like Uzzie, he's been in and out, he's played the start of a series over there and got dropped but then been picked as soon as he's got back to Australia.
"He's a class player, no doubt about that. The more secure he can probably feel in his own mind, we'll see him get better and better."
Qantas Tour of the UAE
Australia Test squad: Tim Paine (c), Ashton Agar, Brendan Doggett, Aaron Finch, Travis Head, Jon Holland, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitch Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Michael Neser, Matthew Renshaw, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc
Pakistan Test squad: Sarfraz Ahmed (c), Azhar Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Asad Shafiq, Haris Sohail, Usman Salahuddin, Yasir Shah, Shadab Khan, Bilal Asif, Mohammad Abbas, Hasan Ali, Wahab Riaz, Faheem Ashraf, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Hafeez
Oct 7-11: First Test, Dubai
Oct 16-20: Second Test, Abu Dhabi


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An Australia Day Reflection
We have a lot to be thankful for in Australia and I'm OK with celebrating a National Day.
In many, many ways we are the lucky country.
But sometimes we can get carried away and forget to "look in our own backyard."
This was the case with our Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last week when speaking in Washington. There he urged the USA to show leadership by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea [UNCLOS] and endorsed the value of international law to settle disputes.
In fact he was particularly eloquent and after quoting some ancient history [Thucydides] said:
"Now, the international order, the rule of law, seeks to ensure that that is not so, that might is not right, and that is why we will always work with the United States and our other allies and partners to uphold."
Australia's international law record with East Timor is not so rosy.
And some who know the story well could not remain silent.
The day before "Australia Day" the gap between the "talk and the walk" was called out by Tom Allard's article in the Sydney Morning Herald "Malcolm Turbull's foreign policy hypocrisy on East Timor."
The article notes:
"In 2002, after negotiating a temporary boundary with the transitional administration in East Timor that hugely favoured Australia and placed the bulk of oil and gas reserves within its territory, Australia quietly withdrew from the jurisdiction of UNCLOS.
The reason was obvious. It had negotiated a deal with an impoverished, war-ravaged and fledgling state that was so unfair it would not stand up to challenge under international law.
If the boundary was drawn midway between East Timor and Australia – as is standard under international law – most of the oil and gas reserves would lie within Timor's territory."
We have an explainer on this in a blog post called The Carve Out.
After the Carve Out was executed in stealth in March 2002 some members of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties spoke out to say they believed that:
"the ICJ declaration made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs damages Australia's international reputation and may not be in Australia's long-term national interests.
The declaration may be interpreted as an effort to intimidate and limit the options of neighbouring countries in relation to any future maritime border disputes."
Too right.
Minister Xanana Gusmão described the message sent by the 2002 Carve Out in this video.
"It means something. At least bad faith. At least no sentiment of compassion. It means something very different from compassion"
It is not in Australia's interest to continue this "diplomatic double standard".
To reapply Mr. Turnbull's own words it diminishes Australia's leadership where it is most needed.
The solution?
Resubmit to the jurisdiction of the ICJ and ITLOS which are the dispute resolution mechanisms for maritime boundaries under UNCLOS or get on with negotiating the maritime boundary.
You will be hearing many voices adding to this call during 2016.
Come Australia - we are better than this.
Lead the way Mr. Turnbull.


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Beaver X has many features like separate internal and external MDL's. The software is fully FSX compatible featuring a special mission for the users. The FSX shows effects like snow, crop dusting and fire fighting. It has a solid and a reliable flight model with forty five textures. The software includes five aircraft models. There are six different interiors and seven pilots with unique characteristics. There are signed gauges, leather seats and electrical flap system that ensure luxury. There are about 20 MDL files and 10 pilots in FS2004.
Users can enjoy a virtual cockpit where they can operate the aircraft. The sound effects add realism to the simulation. The virtual cockpit is detailed which ensures that you do not miss on anything. Users can avail an extended manual of thirty four pages which would explain you about the software. The manual has various illustrations to make things more clear. This software can be used by novice and seasoned pilots. The graphic details and sound ensures the user to get the best flight simulation experience.
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Angels beat Mets 5-4 on hit batter in 11th inning
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Hank Conger got his first RBI of the season the hard way. It was the ultimate in taking one for the team.
Conger was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the 11th inning after rookie Jeurys Familia intentionally walked the previous two batters, and the Los Angeles Angels got home runs from Mike Trout and J.B. Shuck in a 5-4 victory over the New York Mets on Friday night.
"With bases loaded, your job is to try to somehow get on base so you'll drive in the run. So I was just trying to get a pitch up because I knew a sac fly would do," said Conger, who entered on defense in the ninth after catcher Chris Iannetta was replaced by a pinch runner. "I just went up there trying to battle him."
Raul Ibanez led off the 11th with a single against Familia (0-2), who was working his third inning of relief. Ibanez advanced on a wild pitch and went to third on a grounder to shortstop by David Freese before Mets manager Terry Collins ordered Familia to walk Howie Kendrick and Shuck to set up a force at any base.
"That's part of the game, you know? Sometimes you have to do that – walk the guy and try to get a double play," Familia said. "So you just try to keep going, pound the zone and try to get groundballs."
The strategy backfired when Familia plunked Conger in the ribs with a 2-2 delivery on his 51st pitch. Conger recoiled to absorb the blow.
The run ended a string of 18 2-3 scoreless innings by Mets relievers after they allowed 13 earned runs in the team's first four games.
Kyle Farnsworth helped keep the streak going when he retired Albert Pujols on a grounder with the bases loaded to end the eighth. Pujols came up again in the 10th with two on and hit a bouncer back to Familia for the third out, leaving the three-time NL MVP with five RBIs in his first 41 at-bats.
Michael Kohn (1-0) pitched a perfect inning for the win.
Travis d'Arnaud homered for the Mets and Josh Satin hit a two-run double.
This is the Mets' third visit to Anaheim since interleague play began in 1997. Their previous series at the "Big A" was in June 2008, when manager Willie Randolph was fired in the middle of the night and replaced by Jerry Manuel.
New York's 4-2 lead evaporated in the sixth when Dillon Gee gave up a walk to Kendrick and a two-run homer by Shuck that landed in the lower seats in the right field corner.
It came in the first game of the season for Shuck, recalled from the minors Wednesday when right fielder Josh Hamilton went on the disabled list with a torn ligament in his left thumb. Hamilton, injured on a headfirst slide into first base Tuesday at Seattle, had surgery Friday morning and is expected to be sidelined six to eight weeks.
"It says a lot about J.B. and a lot about the team," Conger said. "Obviously, it had to be kind of a shock for him to get sent down toward the end of spring training. The team knows there's big shoes to fill, as far as Hamilton goes. So he comes up here and plays with a chip on his shoulder, and tonight he did an awesome job."
Gee was charged with four runs and six hits in 5 2-3 innings, the first time in 20 starts that he failed to get through the sixth. He walked the bases loaded in the fifth, but escaped when Satin fielded a grounder by Ibanez that hit first base and bounced high in the air.
"It's really frustrating. Today was just not a good outing all the way around," Gee said. "I didn't feel really good and I struggled with command, walking as many guys as I did. So I just tried to battle through it and grind it out. This was one of those days where I had trouble finding the release point I wanted."
The Mets, who traveled cross-country following Thursday night's 6-4 victory in Atlanta, didn't get to their hotel until 3 a.m. But they scored in three of the first four innings against lefty Tyler Skaggs.
"You want to put up zeros, but fortunately the team picked me up," said Skaggs, who went seven innings.
Curtis Granderson caught Shuck's flyball in the right field corner for the first out of the eighth, then did an immediate 360 toward the stands after a fan reached out and touched him on the back. Security guards escorted the fan out moments later.
NOTES: Collins piloted the Angels for two-plus seasons and resigned with 29 games left in the 1999 campaign. Mike Scioscia took over the following season. … The Angels reinstated RHP Dane De La Rosa (strained forearm) from the disabled list and optioned LHP Nick Maronde to Triple-A Salt Lake.


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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This fabulous collection features 15 selections from Mel Brooks' classic blockbuster that swept the 2001 Tonys, winning a record 12 awards including the coveted Best Musical and Best Original Score! The songs are in standard piano/vocal format with the melody line in the piano part. Includes: Along Came Bialy * Betrayed * Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop * Goodbye! * Haben Sie Gehort Das Deutsche Band? * Heil Myself * I Wanna Be a Producer * Keep It Gay * The King of Broadway * Prisoners of Love * Springtime for Hitler * That Face * 'Til Him * We Can Do It * When You Got It, Flaunt It.


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15 December 2016
GCU is supporting the United Nations' International Migrants Day (December 18) with a display of the Migrant Voice 'Engaging Pictures' exhibition, which includes photographs and stories representing migrants' lives and their part of life in Scotland.
Migrant Voice is an organisation with a vision of an equitable society where migrants and are recognised for their contribution, embraced as valuable members of our community, and their voices equally heard. The Engaging Pictures project brought together migrants and Scots to engage in a dialogue and promote a better integrated Scotland.
The images are being shown in the foyer of the Centre for Executive Education and can also be viewed on the GCU Image Gallery.
Photographer Karen Gordon said: "I am so pleased and excited these portraits are being exhibited for International Migrants Day this year, as now, more than ever, the positive aspects of migration need to be highlighted."
GCU will also host 'Migrants and Migration Post Brexit; finding our voice to influence the new landscape', a Migrant Voice conference, on January 21. This one-day media-skills focused event will involve staff and journalism students from within the Glasgow School for Business and Society and members of the Scottish media. Visit eventbrite for more details.
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A legal battle has erupted between the developer and owners association of the Jockey Club, a large timeshare property on the Strip.
In a recent lawsuit, a family of companies controlled by the Cloobeck family sued the Nevada Jockey Club Interval Owners Association, the association representing the timeshare owners at the Jockey Club. Also named as a defendant was Tricom Management, the current manager of the property.
The Jockey Club is a Strip condominium development south of Flamingo Road near the Bellagio hotel-casino.
The lawsuit alleges improper billings by the association, violation of the association's bylaws and mismanagement of the property. It seeks unspecified monetary damages, new elections for board members and an order forcing compliance with the association's bylaws.
The Cloobeck family first obtained an interest in the property in 1980, when owner Sheldon Cloobeck purchased a 50 percent stake in the the partnership responsible for developing the Jockey Club. In 1995, Cloobeck acquired the remaining 50 percent ownership. Two years later, management of the property was transferred from the family's Polo Resorts to California-based Tricom.
Under agreements made between the family's International Resort Group and the association, the association agreed in 1998 to purchase defaulted timeshare properties during foreclosure sales, the lawsuit said, then sell these properties to IRG. IRG would then resell the properties.
But since this agreement, the association has attempted to drum up outside bidders for foreclosed properties, the lawsuit claims. Many of the properties were sold to outside parties, and others were purchased by IRG at a price higher than would be paid if the agreement were followed, the lawsuit states.
Further, the plaintiffs claim, the association is not licensed to conduct such sales in the state of Nevada.
A second dispute has arisen over the payment of association fees owed by delinquent timeshare owners. Under the 1998 agreement, delinquent fees owed by timeshare owners who do not hold title on their property are supposed to be paid by Jockey Club Resort Properties, the developer of the property.
The association was supposed to provide a list of delinquent accounts as far back as 1997, but the developer claims no such invoice was provided until last September. Jockey Club claims it contained late billing fees and collection charges that would not have been charged if the bill had been presented in a timely fashion. Further, the developer claims it contained double billings.
The association agreed to remove the double billings, but did not drop its demand for late fees. Jockey Club said it sent payment for the amounts owed, less the disputed fees, but that this payment wasn't accepted by the association.
Tricom then recorded a lien against the entire property at the association's request, rather than just the delinquent properties, the lawsuit claims. As a result, Jockey Club said its efforts to sell units in the tower are being delayed.
The lawsuit also accuses association board members of engaging in "numerous self-serving and improper acts" and "numerous actions ... in which direct conflicts of interest were not revealed to members of the association by the directors."
For example, the lawsuit states, association President Forney Smith is not a member of the association, and is thereby prohibited from serving on the board of directors. The suit also claims director Brenda Schmidtberger is "an employee of a competing timeshare operation in Las Vegas."
Jockey Club claims the board is taking measures to deprive it of a voice on the board. Although Cloobeck's companies are permitted to name three directors, Smith recently nominated a slate of directors without informing the plaintiffs, the lawsuit states. Jockey Club provided a list of nominees, but the association did not place these names on the ballot, the lawsuit said.
The defendants could not be reached for comment.


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The 'confidential' report with verifiable sources may have been leaked at this precise moment not only due to the passage of time and in the interest of truth but also to expose how the United Kingdom government allegedly let down Barotseland, a long time faithful ally.
The report is a short account of the principal events and incidents, such as negotiations, agreements and assurances, which had a bearing on the constitutional position of Barotseland and the constitutional relationship of Her Majesty's government with it in the period 1890 - 1958.
In spite of the many official assurances given to Barotseland, Her Majesty's government conveniently shed off all responsibilities to the novice Zambian state and did not seem to care what happened to Barotseland thereafter.
Like no other documentation on the subject, the report names British government officials directly involved in the negotiation processes with Barotseland that culminated in the signing of the Barotseland Agreement of 1964 which would make Barotseland a component of independent Zambia, with the mere promise of internal self-government instead of separate sovereignty as was the case with Bechuanaland and Basutoland.
It covers all important issues that anyone; legal, scholar, cynic, historian, activist, politician would wish to know about Barotseland's relationship with the United Kingdom from 1890 to the advent of Zambia's independence.
Among some of the topical issues covered are; all the concessions and treaties with the BSA Co and the British government, the Amalgamation of Barotseland and North Eastern Rhodesia, Caprivi Strip, Balovale Dispute, The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and Barotseland Protectorate Status prior to Zambia's independence.
The report also reveals that some British officials were not always enthusiastic about British Policy towards her colonies, as the case of Barotseland would show.
And reacting to the leaked documents, some commentators have immediately snubbed Britain's policy of tending to tilt towards expediency rather than ethics on many occasions in her decolonization era, accusing that forcing the Barotse into Zambia was such an example.
"These documents deserve to see the light of day. Obviously it (may) not change anything but it is important for people to judge whether or not Her Majesty's government was ethical in forcing Barotseland into Zambia.
Some may argue, however, putting the blame entirely on the British government would not be telling the whole story as the documents also reveal that the British government did everything feasible to ensure that all the Crown treaties and concessions with Barotseland would inure in post independent Zambia.
Perhaps what the UK government did not foresee, they may state, is the treachery of the post independence leadership. However, even then, Her Majesty's government should have prevailed over Kenneth Kaunda's government when it became clear in 1965 that Kaunda would not act honorably towards the Litunga Sir Mwanawina III and the entire Barotse nation.
Similarly, a source in the Barotseland transitional government regretted the reluctance of successive British governments and the Common Wealth offices to give timely interventions when the Zambian government began to repudiate the pre-independence Barotseland Agreement of 1964, hiding behind the diplomatic veil of non-interference in internal matters of a sovereign state.
"This is what probably gives the British a bad name over their decolonization process when compared say to the French who have always ensured that unbecoming behavior is not tolerated in their former colonies," he stated, further citing the recent timely French interventions in Côte d'Ivoire when a despot, Laurent Gbagbo, refused to step down after losing a general election to Alassane Ouattara. Consequently, Laurent was extradited to the International Criminal Court preventing a potentially bloody civil war.
Because of the historical and possible legal implications of these leaked documents, copies of originals are here below reproduced from a verifiable source who served the British Government at the time Barotseland was forced into the union with Zambia.
It is further hoped that the public will make independent judgment whether or not Barotseland has a case against both Her Majesty's Government and successive Zambian governments in light of the apparent impropriety revealed by these once confidential documents.
The report, with two accompanying memoranda, was written sometime in 1960, during the run-up to Northern Rhodesia becoming independent Zambia, making it a very rare historical point of discussion in the ongoing debate about Barotseland.
1. REPRODUCED - 19600225 Barotseland & UK
2. REPRODUCED - 19600225 Memorandum A on the Lewanika Concessions
3. REPRODUCED - 19600225 Memorandum B on Barotseland's Future


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Christensen Road Bridge Replacement Project
The Spokane County Public Works Department will replace the existing Christensen Road Bridge spanning Deep Creek in western Spokane County, Washington. This project was federally funded and administered by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The total length of the project was 0.02 miles and included removal and replacement of the existing Christensen Road Bridge. Both the new bridge and the roadway will remain in their general original footprint with some widening.
Project plans included replacing abutments in their current location, and approaches will receive fill to create a uniform approach. The proposed improvements are limited to an existing modern transportation infrastructure environment, and natural land surfaces within the project have been altered by road and bridge construction, and an underground utility. The pedestrian survey of the proposed undertaking revealed no Native American cultural materials or features. The Project Area has been subject to at least one fill episode during bridge construction and the three shovel probes confirmed this with one chert flake recovered from the same fill matrix as barbed wire, aluminum foil, and bottle glass.
The Christensen Road Bridge was constructed in 1924, replaced in 1958, rebuilt in 2003, and is now slated for replacement. At the time of the cultural resource survey, the structure was in a state of deterioration, having been "band-aided" structurally. It was inventoried, and determined not eligible for listing on the NRHP. The proposed undertaking resulted in No Historic Properties Affected, and no further archaeological investigations were recommended prior to, or during, execution of this project.
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Mallik, J.
1. The facts of the case which has given rise to this appeal are briefly these:
2. One Kashi Nath was the owner of some property. He died leaving three sons, defendants 1 and 2 and Trailakhya, the husband of the plaintiff. Trailakhya died when the plaintiff was a little girl of 14. And after Trailakhya's death and after defendants 1 and 2 had separated in mess, plaintiff began residing for most of her time at her father's house and would occasionally come to live in the house of her father-in-law While in her father-in-law's house, she was well cared for by her brothers-in-law and maintained out of the usufruct of the ejmali property and while residing at her father's place, she was given at times some profits by defendants 1 and 2 for her necessary expenses, and she used to be given also according to the direction of defendants 1 and 2 some profits from the bhagchasis of some properties other than those in suit. Plain tiff continued to be in possession of the ejmali property in that manner until 1329 B.S., when defendants 1 and 2 began to illtreat her and when she with her father's help attempted to possess separately the 1/3 share in the property, the defendents dispossessed her in Jaistha 1330 by refusing to allow plaintiff's father to possess the same and denying, the plaintiff's title. Thereafter the plaintiff gradually came to know that defendants 1 and 2 had executed kabalas in favour of defendants 3 to 14 in respect of the property in suit. On these facts, the plaintiff who is a pardanashin Hindu lady, brought the suit for a declaration of her title to a third share in the property and for joint possession of the same.
3. The defence inter alia was, that the plaintiff and defendants 1 and 2 were completely separate in 1313, that in 1313, plaintiff surrendered the property allotted to her to defendants 1 and 2 but taking advantage of the absence of a deed of surrender, she again claimed her share in 1315 but was driven out by defendants 1 and 2. The plea of limitation was another point raised by the defence. This defence, however, was negatived by both the Courts below and both the Courts below holding that the plaintiff's suit was in time, gave her a decree. Defendants 3 to 11 have appealed to this Court.
4. The only point in controversy before us has been on the question of limitation. Dr. Basak for the appellant contended that as the plaintiff had come to Court with a story of possession and subsequent dispossession Article 142, Lim. Act, was the article applicable to the case and the lower Courts were wrong when they held that it was not applicable. I do not think this contention is sound. Plaintiff no doubt, in her plaint, used the word "dispossession (Bedakhal), but her story was not a story of dispossession of the kind as is contemplated in Article 142. Dispossession contemplated in Article 142 refers to actual physical dispossession and there is no dispossession under that article until some one else takes possession. Dispossession is, when a person comes in and drives out of the other from possession. In the present case, as would appear from the facts of the case set out before, the only dispossession alleged by the plaintiff was in the way that the plaintiff's father was resisted in his attempts to possess separately the 1/3rd share of the plaintiff in the property. This dispossession, if it was any dispossession at all, was not, in my judgment, such dispossession as is contemplated by Article 142. I am, therefore, of opinion, that Article 142, Lim. Act, was not the article applicable to the present case.
5. If Article 142 does not apply to the present case-and I have held that it does not apply-the claim of the plaintiff who was undeniably the 1/3rd cosharer of the property to have a declaration of her title to that extent and to have joint possession of the same could be defeated only if the defendants had succeeded in establishing their adverse possession for 12 years. But here in the defendants, in my opinion, were wholly unsuccessful. There was no assertion by them of any hostile title to the plaintiff and theonly thing that there is on the point in the case is, that defendands 1 and 2, plaintiff's cosharers, through whom the plaintiff had been getting her share of the property, began to ill-treat her in 1329 and the attempt of her father to possess separately the plaintiff's 13/rd share in the property was resisted by the defendants in Jaistha 1330. Dr. Basak for the appellant contended that the mere fact that defendants 3 to 14 had entered upon the property and was in possession of the same, was an assertion of hostile title. But such entry upon land, in order to be an assertion of hostile title, must be an entry as an owner. In the present case, there is in the first place, nothing to show that the plaintiff was, until a recent date, even aware of the entry of defendante 3 to 14 upon the land and even when the plaintiff came to know that defendants 3 to 14 were holding the land, it was quite possible, for all that we know, that she took them to be only bhagchasis under her co-sharers defendants 1 and 2. I would therefore hold that there was no such adverse possession by the defendants in the present case as could defeat the lawful claim of the plaintiff to a declaration of her 1/3rd share in the property in the suit and to joint possession of the same.
6. The lower appellate Court, in my judgment, was in these circumstances, right in giving a decree to the plaintiff.
7. The appeal is accordingly dismissed with costs.
8. The cross-objection which is not pressed is also dismissed but without costs.
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One-time education technology leader Apple is now a distant third in new computing device shipments to K-12 schools in the U.S. But this week, it may become clear about how Apple plans to reverse its current unenviable position, which is closer to education's trailing edge than to its cutting edge.
Apple has invited news media to what it's calling an education "field trip" in Chicago on Tuesday. To be held at Lane Tech College Prep high school, the event is said to focus on "creative new ideas for teachers and students." But that, in typical secretive Apple fashion, is it. There are no other hints about what will be announced.
The company is indirectly fueling speculation that a big reveal is coming, due to the event's unusual location (it's not at the company's Cupertino headquarters), and the fact Apple will not livestream the announcement. Rumors range from a cheaper iPad or MacBook Air to cloud-based tools for teachers.
Apple is arguably stronger in higher education, but its current K-12 position is weak. Market research firm Futuresource put Apple's share of new mobile computing device shipments into U.S. K-12 schools in the fourth quarter of 2017 (both of Apple's iOS and MacOS) at 14.1 percent, the lowest it had been for all of last year. That's far behind Google's Chrome OS at 59.6 percent and Microsoft Windows OS at 25.6 percent in the same quarter. Outside of the U.S., Futuresource noted Apple's share is even smaller.
This is a far cry from when iPad-mania gripped schools districts earlier this decade. Futuresource's Ben Davis said that in 2012, Apple held more than a 50 percent share of new mobile computing device shipments to U.S. schools, a mere two years after the iPad's launch.
But a number of factors seemed to undermine Apple's then-leadership: the need to add (and buy) keyboards for iPads to make them fully functional beyond fifth grade for writing and online testing, Google's push of much less expensive Chromebooks available from a variety of partners, and Microsoft's recent catch-up play with cheaper Windows 10 education devices from its partners.
Parents of a certain age have fond memories of Apple in education. Apple basically owned the early personal computer edtech market in the 1980s with the Apple II. Lots of students then "died of dysentery," thanks to The Oregon Trail and other popular floppy-disk based educational software programs.
Since then, Apple's fortunes in education have waxed and waned while its consumer cred (and price points) have skyrocketed.
Apple has made some education plays in recent years. It acquired student data analytics startup LearnSprout in 2016. But that was its last significant public move. And its last education-only roll-out event was even further back, in 2012, when it announced its iBooks platform for digital textbooks.
In an analysis, Futuresource's Davis said there are a lot of possibilities about what Apple may announce beyond less expensive hardware, from reinforcing its efforts in classroom coding and STEAM education to doing more with augmented reality tools.
Overall, it may take a lot to move the needle. As Davis concluded, these types of announcements "will help Apple retain existing customers in the segment, and may bring some new schools to its stable, but it remains to be seen if these developments could create an immediate and significant shift in its competitive situation."
Check back for coverage and analysis of Apple's event Tuesday morning on GeekWire.


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This "end of the world" sci-fi thriller was a good read. It took me awhile to get into it, but about half way through it captured my interest. Of course, it's very timely, with many thinking the world will end in December of 2012 which is the premise of this novel.
I got a bit lost in the science terminology as I'm not really a sci-fi reader, but it was a good story line with interesting characters and I enjoyed the change of pace overall. One thing that disappointed me though is that though it was clean and had Christian references, it didn't clearly present the Gospel. There are definitely points in the story line where it could have been presented, but the author kept it rather vague. Overall, I would recommend this book to someone who enjoys science fiction without the secular mindset.


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