JoAnna Janét only recently completed her first album, but she learned a long time ago to trust her instincts when it came to writing and choosing material.
"When I write a song, it's very personal," says" Janét (pronounced juh-Nay). "I always write about something that's going on in my life. So when I hear a song by another writer that strikes that sort of chord for me, I know I have to have it. If I feel a song, if it really does something to me, then I fall in love with it forever."
Some people say that guitars hold songs in them, and I'm starting to believe it might be true.
Example: All That I Remember, a song from JoAnna's as-yet-untitled debut disc. The writer was Terry Wade Haynes, Janét's next-door neighbor when she attended Nashville's Belmont University. "I've loved that song for a long time," says JoAnna. "Wade wrote it in fragments of two or three lines over the course of a semester. By the time he finished it, I'd told him I had to have it. So when he eventually signed his publishing deal, he put it into his contract that I would get it. This was long before I had a record deal."
Such long-range planning seems characteristic for Janét, who claims she knew she'd be a singer even as a child growing up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "This has been a dream of mine forever," she says, "and I definitely have long-range plans."
After graduating from Belmont U., Janét began performing on song demos. One such recording caught the attention of Dreamworks Records, who signed the young singer and paired her with Dixie Chicks and Martina McBride producer Paul Worley. But when Worley left the label for Warner Brothers, JoAnna and her almost-finished record went with him. "I was very lucky," she says. "Dreamworks is a great label, but Paul just understands my style and direction a little bit better."
Worley ensured that Janét's songwriting voice came through loud and clear on the album, even when she was collaborating with experienced Nashville song wizards. "Sometimes that process was difficult for me," she confides. "When you write with someone, you're very vulnerable. It takes time to build up enough trust to open up and write together. Sometimes the Nashville way of doing things - cowriting, scheduling writing times, trying to complete a song in three hours - seems very foreign to me. And being faced with writers who've written a lot of hits can be a very intimidating thing. But you have to trudge through the uncomfortable, awkward moments because that's the only way you get to know people well enough to become comfortable in collaborative situations. But I have to confess that I'm still most comfortable writing on my own or with friends."
It's probably no accident, then, that Janét's favorite song from her album-to-be is "If I Could Have My Way", which she wrote with two songwriter friends, Steven Jones and Ashley Gorley. "It's definitely the most personal song on the record," she says. "It describes all the things I wish I could change in my life; but they're impossible things to change, so it talks about being thankful for the things I do have."
JoAnna plays mandolin, guitar, and piano but writes chiefly on the latter two instruments. "For me," she says, "piano songs tend to be sweet and sad. But on guitar, there are no limits to my mood. Guitar songs can be anything from sad ballads to sassy, crazy fun. And right now I'm learning to play electric, which is a completely different instrument from acoustic. It's easier on my fingers, but the amplification makes it so that every little finger move makes a difference. But I know the electric guitar will open new writing doors for me. Maybe more aggressiveness, maybe production ideas I haven't considered before."
JoAnna has a number of Yamaha guitars, including APX10A, AEX500, and CPX15N acoustic-electrics and a CJ32 acoustic. Her chief stage guitar is an LA58.
"It's a gorgeous, hand-made guitar. It's small, because I am - I'm five feet tall, so it's hard to find a guitar that fits me. Yet it has a huge sound, big, deep, and rich. It sounds great in the studio, too. It's easy to play. I love it. I love it. I love it." Yeah, but what do you really think, JoAnna?
"Well," she laughs, "there's something about guitars. When you find one that works for you, you stick with it. Some people say that guitars hold songs in them, and I'm starting to believe it might be true. A guitar's sound can just inspire you in a certain way. I know I've definitely written some songs I love on this guitar. That definitely builds a bond between you and the instrument."


Adrien Chopin, Pascal Mamassian, Randolph Blake; Transition between stereopsis and binocular rivalry is based on perceived, rather than physical, orientation. Journal of Vision 2011;11(11):301. doi: 10.1167/11.11.301.
When dichoptically viewed gratings differ slightly in orientation, they can still combine binocularly to yield perception of a surface slanted in depth. With larger differences in orientation disparity, fusion gives way to binocular rivalry characterized by perceptual alternations between the left and right eye gratings, with no depth. Can this transition point between stereo-fusion and rivalry be shifted by induction of illusory shifts in perceived orientation? We addressed this question using a variant of the Zöllner illusion: When parallel short lines (inducers) are added to a near-vertical grating, repulsion appears between inducer and grating orientations. If stereopsis uses the perceived illusory orientations, vertical inducers should increase the perceived orientation disparity of the gratings and horizontal inducers should decrease it. In contrast, if physical orientations are used, inducers should have no effect on the orientation disparity. Observers were asked to judge the slant of a grating composed of near-vertical contours. Orientation disparity was varied adaptively to estimate the transition in orientation disparity between stereo-fusion and rivalry. If this transition depends on perceived, rather than physical, orientation, gratings should become more often rivalrous with vertical inducers and more often fused with horizontal inducers. Seven of eight observers (six na&ıuml;ve) exhibited reliable differences in this depth/rivalry transition point between vertical and horizontal inducer conditions, indicating that rivalry and stereopsis can be generated from illusory orientations. A second experiment in which observers reported their subjective experiences of rivalry corroborated this finding. The magnitude of that difference was approximately twice the classical Zöllner illusion: it suggests that shifts in illusory orientation arise at a monocular level, before the resolution of rivalry and stereopsis, and adds up between eyes. We are currently investigating whether comparable interactions occur when interocular differences are induced in motion direction, which is believed to be represented at binocular levels of processing.
Supported by NIH EY13358, grants from ED261 and Université Paris Descartes.


The PI's propose to employ recent advancements in geochronometric techniques to refine their understanding and models of the Proterozoic geology of the southern Lake Superior region. Their objectives are two-fold: 1) to use U-Pb monazite geochronometry (both ion probe and EMP) to document and directly date Penokean and subsequent metamorphic events (i.e., Yavapai, Mazatzal and Wolf River metamorphism) in an attempt to link these episodes to continued subduction after the Penokean orogeny; and 2) to use Ar-Ar laser microprobe grain-scale age mapping to evaluate the influence of multiple crustal events on the regional thermal record. Their results will be used ultimately to establish the Proterozoic geology of this historical region in the context of a long-lived convergent orogen model (Karlstrom et al., 2001).

Metamorphic geochronometry. Results of recent NSF-supported research (Holm and Van
Schmus) on the origin of post-Penokean granites show that magmatism long thought to be solely
1760 Ma, actually occurred in three separate, generally southeastward-migrating pulses at 1800,
1775, and 1750 Ma. Van Schmus, Holm and their co-authors have postulated that these
magmatic pulses could correlate with northward-directed subduction associated with southward
growth of the continent. In one possible scenario, geon 17 Yavapai-age slab rollback of a
northward subducting oceanic plate caused continental arc magmatism to step generally
southeastward between 1800 and 1750 Ma. As the slab steepened, it would have disengaged
from the overlying, overthickened crust. The reduced compressional stresses and increased
thermal input allowed for extensional collapse of the orogen and subsequent but short-lived
crustal stabilization. The PI's propose to carry out a detailed metamorphic study to test the hypothesis that widespread metamorphism (and not simply widespread cooling) occurred with the migrating arc magmatism and might be linked spatially to tectonic extrusion (i.e., collapse) structures. Their preliminary SHRIMP and EMP dating of metamorphic monazites appear to support this. These data will provide the first direct timing constraints on both Penokean and post-Penokean metamorphism in the southern Lake Superior region.

Metamorphic thermochronometry. In the 1990's, NSF-funded (Holm) Ar-Ar mineral age data
were used to document the timing and extent of orogenic cooling and later thermal reheating
across the Penokean orogen. For instance, abundant 1760-1720 Ma plateau cooling ages are
interpreted to be associated with a rapid crustal collapse/stabilization period and 1630-1600 Ma
plateau ages are interpreted to indicate reheating/deformation associated with the Matzatal
orogeny to the south. However, preliminary Ar-ion laser microprobe age data documents the
presence of significant age gradients across muscovite crystals (500 m.y. in one case). These
results merit further scrutiny of the existing thermochronologic data. Specifically, do the 1630-
1600 Ma Ar-Ar plateau ages i) reflect the time of widespread deformation and mild reheating; ii)
represent partial resetting associated with geon 14 magmatism; iii) or perhaps represent slow
cooling? Ar-Ar muscovite laser probe age mapping will allow the PI's to better constrain the medium-temperature history of the region and, especially to relate it to younger overprinting events in the thermally reheated areas. The data collected in this study are critical to properly interpret the new igneous ages (obtained by Van Schmus, Holm, and others) and existing Ar-Ar ages and to evaluate the Proterozoic geology of southern Lake Superior region in the context of a long-lived convergent orogen model.


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This tutorial takes you through the steps of creating your first book and helps you understand how the component works.
Please note that all parameters are explained next to the input fields – just take your time!
Technical support does not cover issues relating to the incorrect operation of the component resulting from hacks, mods, patches and similar alterations to the Joomla! source code.
4. Adding Pages to the Book.
5. Displaying Your Library of Flip Books: Binding the Book List to a Menu Item.
6. Displaying a Specific Book: Binding to a Menu Item.
1.1. To install the component, call up the Joomla! administration interface.
1.2. Navigate to the component installation tab (Extensions -> Install / Uninstall).
1.3. Select the component file to be uploaded from your computer. Click "Upload File & Install"
1.4. Make sure no errors are reported during installation.
1.5. Installation is complete. The component is available from the main menu of the administration panel (Components -> FlippingBook).
2.1. Prepare the files containing the book pages. These can be JPG, PNG and non-animated GIF images or SWF animations.
• Please use only Latin letters or numbers in the file names.
• No special symbols are allowed.
2.2. Navigate to the file upload page (Components -> FlippingBook -> Manage Files).
2.3. Select the file for uploading from your computer and click "Save" in the upper panel.
3.1. Navigate to the books manager tab (Components -> FlippingBook -> Books).
3.2. Click "New" in the upper panel.
3.3. Enter the book name and description, if necessary.
3.4. Fill in other book parameters - their descriptions are given on the same page.
3.5. Click "Save" from the upper panel. A message will appear if the fields are not filled out properly.
There are two ways to create pages: manually and using batch page creation.
4.1.1. Navigate to the pages manager (Components -> FlippingBook -> Pages).
4.1.2. Click "New" in the upper panel.
4.1.3. Select the page file and the book to which the page is to be added.
4.1.4. Click "Save" in the upper panel.
4.1.5. Repeat the above steps for all the book pages.
4.1.6. Check the page numbers. If they are wrong use the Up and Down arrows to set them properly.
4.2.1. Navigate to the Batch Add Pages section (Components -> FlippingBook -> Batch Add Pages).
4.2.2. Set parameters according the usage example placed in Batch Add Pages section.
4.2.3. Click "Save" in the upper panel.
5.1. Navigate to the Menu Editor (Menus -> target menu where you want the book reference to appear).
5.2. Click "New" in the upper panel.
5.4. Click "Blog Category Layout ".
5.5. Select a category from the drop down list and click "Save".
6.1. Navigate to the Menu Editor (Menus -> target menu where you want the book reference to appear).
6.2. Click "New" in the upper panel.
6.4. Click "Standard Book Layout ".
6.5. Select your book from the drop down list and click "Save".


Cook your rice per package instructions. I have a rice cooker which makes it super easy. If your rice is already cooked leave it out to dry out a bit or refrigerate it for about 30 minutes. I cook my rice in the cooker and right when it's finished I put it in the freezer uncovered while I chop/cook my veggies. It is important to do this before you put the rice in a skillet--it will prevent it from becoming gummy.
Heat oil in a large skillet (or wok), add onion. Cook until softened (about 3 or so minutes), add garlic and cook for 1 minute more. Add cabbage, frozen mixed veggies, salt, pepper, and chili powder. Add water, stir and cook stir frequently for about 5 minutes (until the water is evaporated and veggies are softened). I usually add about a tablespoon of soy sauce during this step too.
Now, dump your rice in the skillet (wok) mix all your veggies with the rice. Add soy sauce until it has the 'fried rice look'. Cook 4-5 more minutes, stirring frequently-making sure the rice does not stick to the skillet. Add more salt and pepper as needed!
Of course you can add any veggie(s) you want to this recipe. I think cabbage and peas are essential though. If I have broccoli I usually throw that in too. I like brown rice better than white (plus it's healthier) but you can you long grain white with this recipe as well. This is a good, quick dinner!
This recipe was not quite the fried rice I was expecting (it didn't really have that greasy cheap Chinese-food feel I was hoping for) but it was SUPER delicious. I would recommend stir-frying some of the veggies in sesame oil (if you have it) to add some additional Chinese flavor. And btw, this recipe makes A LOT of food!


I'm taking care of a friend with stage 2 Alzheimer's. I was wondering if there is any easy way to give them their meds without them fighting me every time.
There are several strategies you can try when giving medication to someone who is resistant to taking it. One strategy is to crush pills and put them into food, such as applesauce, jam, smoothies or shakes, fruit cocktails, and other flavorful foods that can disguise the taste of the medicine. Another possibility is to ask the physician to prescribe the medication in liquid form if available, and put it in the person's morning juice or milk. Be sure to check whether the medication states that it should not be crushed or taken with food.
Another strategy is to use distraction while lifting the medication cup to the person's lips. For example, try distracting the person by commenting on their hair-do or a new hat or something on the television. This approach is more likely to work in the mid to late stages of Alzheimer's.
It is important not to fight with the person or be too insistent. Try using a persuasive tone and approach. Sit down facing the person, smile, and address her by name. Then say something like, "It's time for your vitamins," or, "(Person's name), would you like to go for a walk outside? (Pause for response.) Here are your vitamins before we go." If the person still refuses to take the medications, let it go and try again in an hour or so.
Another option might be to use medication patches if available. Discuss medication options with the person's physician.


Those who participate in a covenant group are more likely to create a culture of involvement within their congregations. What's that mean? It means pastors were more likely to involve their people in leadership and ministry. There was more participation by laypeople in each of these areas: 1) New member's classes 2) Communion 3) Worship leadership 4) Church ministries and 5) Rotation through leadership roles.
Pastors involved in a covenant group have churches with an organized presence and involvement of youth. This included the greater likelihood of a youth minister on staff. Additionally there were higher incidences of the following: 1) A youth program including conferences and camps 2) Congregational events planned and led by youth 3) Youth serving on congregational committees and boards.
There was more intentional involvement in the community including a vision of the congregation as a community change agent. Pastors engaged in a group led their churches with a strong emphasis on community service. There was an expectation within the church that the pastor would be out in the community representing the congregation.
Furthermore, pastors who were involved in a group enjoyed more congregational support for continuing education. Their churches committed more dollars to finance the ongoing retooling of the pastor. There were congregational expectations and requirements for the pastor to do continuing education.
These factors alone are enough to build a solid case for life-long engagement in a clergy learning group. But, there's even more reason for pastors to be a part of a LLC. The study also investigated whether there was any correlation between congregational growth and peer group involvement. The resounding answer was "yes." Participation in a group correlated with congregational growth.
There were two caveats, however. First, longevity in group involvement was a factor. The longer the pastoral leader participated in a group the more likely it was that his or her congregation would experience growth. The most productive years seemed to be in the fourth year of participation and beyond.
Second caveat, the peer group had to have structure, usually marked by a trained facilitator and an established curriculum.
The researchers discovered a strong relationship between congregational health as marked by growth and peer group involvement. Much stronger than they anticipated. This factor was as important as other, more obvious predictors of church growth. For the record, the other predictors of church growth, according to their research, included a youthful congregation, broad hands-on participation in ministry by the laity, little or no congregational conflict, spiritual vibrancy and clear mission.
The researchers noted a consistent thread in their findings: Pastors involved in structured peer groups tend to be missional leaders and are personally involved in their communities. Growth is one predictable result.
A group that is cohesive, "like a family"
A group whose practices focus on ministry improvement through exploring innovative ideas & resources as well as sharing/getting feedback about personal and ministry problems.
They summarized these characteristics with this comment: "peer groups that renew their members' ministries provide a stimulating mix of the practical, the intellectual, and the spiritual along with a certain amount of 'holding each others feet to the fire' in terms of accountability."
The results of this study impressed upon me that ABCNW is on the right track in providing Leadership Learning Communities for our pastors. LLCs are a great resource and they are working for us. I encourage every pastor to be an active participant in one. The next step for us in this journey with leadership clusters is the extension of their benefits to lay leaders. Concepts for doing this are being considered. So, stay tuned.
Thanks to Joe Kutter with ABC Ministers Council for directing me to this information. If you are interested in digging deeper into these findings go to Austin Presbyterian Seminary College of Pastoral Leaders.


D.1 – 10 ): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
President Donald Trump is a man of many moods and ‘humours’, a personification of impulse and impetuousness. The fact that the two leaders struck a good rapport, marked by mutual “respect and friendship”, despite the difference in their personalities, augurs well.In Mr. Trump’s own words, he had “tremendous success” in his meeting with Mr.Modi. Progress in bilateral relations over the last few years received the imprimatur of endorsement of the new President, and there were no missed heartbeats or gut-wrenching moments.
Striking a high note, Mr. Modi spoke of Mr. Trump’s successful experience in the business world as lending “an aggressive and forward-looking agenda to our relations”. For his part, he said, he would remain “a driven, determined and decisive partner” of the U.S. The two leaders have set aside the “hesitations of history”, it would seem. Interestingly, on Afghanistan, Mr. Modi spoke of maintaining “close consultation and communication with the U.S. to enhance coordination between our two nations”, and terrorism in that country being “one of our common concerns”. This space must be watched to determine the contours of future cooperation. So too, the reference to the increasing consultations on West Asia in the joint statement, “in accord with India’s Think West policy” flags an issue of important ramifications, requiring more elaboration. The triangulations involving Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iran are extremely complex today, and common India-U.S. perspectives (apart from eradicating Islamic radicalism) await more specific identification.
1. How did Narendra Modi describe his meeting with The President of America Donald Trump according to the author ?
2. Which of the following is true regarding the given passage ?
3. Which Country is the primary partner of India’s Transformation ?
4. Which could be the correct title for this passage ?
5. Which of the following is more complex according to the given passage which is stressed by the author ?
6. Which of the following gives the EXACT meaning as the word impetuousness ?
7. Which of the following gives the exact OPPOSITE meaning as the word Clenched ?
8. Which of the following word contribute the exact meaning as the word Astute ?
9. What does the author tries to convey with the line “one of our common concerns“ from the given passage ?
10. Who according to the author is a man of many moods and humours ?


How to make wooden toy wheels using a circle cutter.
Most of the time it is a lot easier to buy ready made wooden wheels, but there may be a reason that you will want to make your own.
Who would have thought making a simple wooden disc would be such a challenge? As with most things in life, it is easy to do, but not so easy to do well.
It's best to use a drill press and set the speed to no faster than 500 RPM.
My experience with this tool leads me to believe it works best with soft woods like pine.
I have tried it on other types of wood with mixed results. If this is the first time you are using this tool, I would suggest practicing on a piece of scrap.
A circle cutter is designed to cut holes, but we want to use the leftover bit, that is the plug, to use as wheels. The cutters are shaped in such a way that it will leave a bevelled edge on the wheel.
What I did was to grind the bevel of the circle cutter on the opposite side so that the wheel came out nice and smooth.
It is important to remember safety first! I used a bench grinder while holding the cutter part of the tool firmly in a vise grip.
All I need to do now is to bolt the wheel into the drill and sand the edges smooth.
The photo shows a circle cutter in action. Note how the workpiece is clamped onto a piece of scrap.
Keep well clear of those spinning arms, and be sure to use a slow speed setting. Most circle cutters and wheel cutters recommend a maximum speed of 500 rpm.
With a nut and bolt to clamp the wheel in the drill, use a wood file to remove the bur and round off the edges.
Use a small sanding belt for a smoother finish.
For the final touch, plug the hole with a short length of dowel. Using a simple jig as shown clamped in place, drill a shallow hole with a 16mm spade bit.
A few things I have learned along the way.
To fit the axle to the wheel I prefer a snug fit. To relieve the pressure on the wheel, cut a groove about 6mm (1/4") deep in each end of the axle. Make sure to cut along the grain rather than across it. Use a junior hacksaw.
Fit the axle to the wheel, with the cut in the same direction as the grain. This tip serves two purposes, it minimises the tendency to split the wheel, and provides a tiny reservoir for the glue.
Make washers from plastic milk bottles using a hollow punch. This will help to prevent the wheel rubbing against the body of the toy.
Apply candle wax to the area of the axle that fits inside the body of the toy.
How to make large wooden toy wheels using this very simple but effective woodworking jig.
Making wooden toy wheels - from woodwork forums, how to make wagon type wheels.
Spoke wheel jig for model makers, also from woodwork forums.
How other toymakers make wooden wheels.


Making setting the importance of an item for Acquisition more obvious – Got an idea or suggestion?
Marking the importance of items on a list is essential information in order for the Library to ensure additional copies and new titles are ordered when resourcing a course. I would like to see the 'importance' drop-down list and 'note to library field' having a higher visibility . I think this needs to be done at the point of adding an item to a list - - currently a tutor would need to go back into each item they have added to a list to mark the 'importance'. When you Create and Add an Item directly to a list- a dialogue box pops up to select the resource list to add to- the section within the list and option to add a note for students. Can this dialogue box also include the 'Importance' drop-down list and the 'Note for Library field'? Also a similar dialogue box would be required when dragging items over from My Bookmarks to a list you are creating allowing a tutor to mark importance at the point of adding an item to the list.
I also feel that marking the importance should be required- otherwise I am concerned that tutors will say they didn't realise they needed to indicate the importance of each item and are likely to miss this stage out altogether if they have to go back into each item to find mark the importance in the Edit Item dialogue box. At Sussex we resource a course according to an agreed ratio according whether an item is 'essential'- 'recommended' or 'optional' reading - so we really need to know importance for all items.
This is currently in progress as part of the list publishing story.
Note for Library and Importance at point of Bookmark and Add to List is planned.


Lifting/pushing/pulling/carrying required up to 100 lbs. or more. Carts may be pulled up to 75 feet.


(Like "sleep," "skydive," and "succeed," all intransitive verbs show complete action on their own and do not do action to an object. You sleep, you skydive, you succeed, and that's it. You don't "sleep a bed," "skydive a plane," or "succeed a plan".
Literally, when the ocean's tide ebbs, it flows away from land. Figuratively, when something ebbs, it gets lower, or it gets less. Imagine something slowly flowing away like the tidewater, and that's something ebbing.
Talk about someone's energy ebbing (decreasing), or something's power ebbing (becoming less strong), or someone's enthusiasm ebbing (reducing), or something's popularity ebbing (going down), and so on. Your courage, fame, interest, etc. can all ebb. To talk about something that gets stronger and weaker again and again, use the phrase "ebb and flow," meaning "decreasing and increasing."
Parents' influence over their young teenagers often ebbs, unfortunately, right when that influence is most desperately needed.
Customer complaints ebbed at the pizza parlor when the new owners implemented higher standards for food quality and preparation.
Look away from the screen to explain the definition in your own words. You'll know you understand what "ebb" means when you can explain it without saying "decrease" or "lower."
Think of something you don't really care much about anymore, and fill in the blanks: "My enthusiasm for ____ ebbed when _____."
Example: "My enthusiasm for fashionable jewelry ebbed when my baby girl got big enough to grab at anything dangling off of me."
"with" + "beat/fight" = ?
Cicero: "Friends, though absent, are still present."
2. _____, there has been no ebb in the number of car wrecks since the speed limit was lowered on this road.


Click on this and then you need to create a "Personal" buyer account (your sandbox buyer who you will test with) and a "Business" seller account (your sandbox seller who you will test with). Set up each one of these as if you were setting up a new Paypal account.... I'm new to paypal development and am trying to create a BuyNow button in the sandbox to enable me to test my application in a non production environment.
To use a PayPal sandbox account, you will need to use PayPal sandbox generated email address for receiving payment and use the generated Buyer PayPal email account for buying items. The only difference is you will be using a generated email address by your PayPal sanbox account Instead of using a real PayPal address when purchasing and receiving payment..
I'm new to paypal development and am trying to create a BuyNow button in the sandbox to enable me to test my application in a non production environment.


After World War II, dozens of Nazi criminals went into hiding in South America. A new study reveals how a 'coalition of the unwilling' on both sides of the Atlantic successfully stymied efforts to hunt and prosecute these criminals for decades.
All it took was a transposed number -- 1974 instead of 1947 -- for Gustav Wagner to be allowed to stay in Brazil. It was a mere slip of the pen by the man who had translated the German document into Portuguese that prompted Brazil's supreme court to deny West Germany's request to extradite the former SS officer. And yet Wagner stood accused of complicity in the murders of 152,000 Jews at the Sobibor extermination camp in German-occupied Poland.
Josef Mengele, the notorious concentration camp doctor at Auschwitz, also benefited from mistakes and delays because French officials with Interpol, the international police force then headquartered in Paris, refused to conduct international searches for Nazi war criminals. And, in the case of SS Colonel Walther Rauff, who helped developed mobile gas chambers used to kill Jews, it was an official with the German Foreign Ministry who sabotaged his own government's extradition request to Chile for 14 months.
As a result of these breakdowns, all three of these Nazi thugs were never tried in German courts after the war. Wagner, the "beast" of Sobibor, died in São Paulo, Mengele drowned in Brazil, and Rauff died of a heart attack in Chile. Of the hundreds of guilty Nazi officials and mass murderers who had fled to South America after the surrender of Nazi Germany, only a handful of them were ever held to account.
How could so many criminals manage to go unpunished, even though they were clearly guilty? It's a conundrum that mystifies academics to this day. Was it because of the lack of cooperation by West German officials? The lack of interest on the part of South America regimes? Were there even secret ties and collaboration between Nazis on both sides of the Atlantic?
Historian Daniel Stahl has conducted research in European and South American archives in the process of writing a new book entitled "Nazi Hunt: South America's Dictatorships and the Avenging of Nazi Crimes." The work supplies a certain and disgraceful answer to what has long been suspected: that there was a broad coalition of people -- across continents and within the courts, police, governments and administrations -- that was unwilling to act or even thwarted the prosecution of Nazi criminals for decades.
Stahl believes that the motives for being part of what he calls a "coalition of the unwilling" differed widely. West German diplomats sabotaged the hunt for Nazis out of solidarity. French criminal investigators feared that cooperation might expose their own pasts as Nazi collaborators. And South America dictators refused to extradite former Nazis out of concern that trials of war criminals could direct international attention to the crimes their own governments were then committing.
It wasn't hard for this coalition to torpedo the hunt for Nazis. Countless players -- in politics, the judiciary, the government and the administration -- had to work together in order to arrange and execute successful criminal prosecutions. Indeed, a small mistake or minor procedural irregularity was enough to foil the arrest of the criminals.
Walther Rauff, for example, was able to travel between South America and Germany after the war as a representative of various companies. But he never ran into any difficulties because his name didn't appear on any lists of wanted criminals. It wasn't until 1961 that the public prosecutors office in the northern city of Hanover issued a warrant for Rauff's arrest on almost 100,000 counts of murder.
Finding Rauff's address in Chile wasn't a problem, and the German Foreign Ministry instructed Ambassador Hans Strack in Santiago to request extradition of the Nazi war criminal. But Strack, who had also worked at the Foreign Ministry before 1945, ignored the instructions from the ministry in Bonn and allowed the case to drag on for 14 months.
It wasn't until after justice officials in Hanover notified federal colleagues that they were "extremely disconcerted" over the fact that the embassy was treating the case "with such hesitancy" that the government disciplined the recalcitrant ambassador. Strack, a known opponent to redressing the crimes of Nazi Germany, finally applied for Rauff's extradition, which led to his arrest in late 1962.
But, by then, it was too late to punish Rauff because murder came under the statute of limitations in most South American countries at the time. Chile's supreme court denied Germany's request to extradite the former SS colonel. Despite international protests, Rauff continued to live as a free man in Chile for decades.
In other cases, a lack of cooperation by Interpol thwarted the pursuit of Nazis. Stahl uncovered one particularly revealing document, the minutes of a meeting of Interpol's executive committee from May 1962. A short time earlier, the World Jewish Congress had asked Interpol to participate in the global search for Nazi war criminals. Interpol's then-secretary general, Marcel Sicot, responded angrily. Why should war criminals be prosecuted, the Frenchman is quoted as asking in the minutes, "since the victor always imposes his laws, anyway? No international entity defines the term 'war criminal.'" In fact, Sicot regarded the criminal prosecution of Nazi crimes as "victor's justice."
In 1960, there were rumors that Josef Mengele, the concentration camp doctor known as the "Angel of Death," was hiding in Brazil or Chile. The German Justice Ministry advised the Federal Criminal Police Office to conduct a manhunt -- but without involving Interpol. Officials in Bonn were apparently trying to avoid bothering international investigators with the case, but Mengele's hiding place was never found.
Stahl attributes Interpol's failure to arrest Nazis and their collaborators to the wartime past of many French police officers. "As henchmen of the Vichy regime, (they) collaborated with the Nazis until 1944," Stahl writes. "They stood opposed to the criminal prosecution of Nazi crimes."
Stahl also notes that one of the major obstacles in the hunt for Nazi criminals was the fact that South American dictators wanted to cover up their own crimes. On June 22, 1979, the German ambassador in Brasilia wrote that the extradition of someone who had committed war crimes almost 40 years earlier would "bolster the demands of those who insist that all crimes should be prosecuted, including those committed by the military and the police." A short time earlier, the administration of then-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had requested the extradition of Wagner, the former deputy commandant of Sobibor, a request that the judges on Brazil's Supreme Federal Court had denied.
In Germany, a new generation had entered the government bureaucracy -- and one that wasn't afraid to use unconventional means to put Nazi criminals behind bars. In 1982, the Munich public prosecutor's office initiated proceedings to apply for the extradition of Klaus Barbie, the former chief of the Gestapo in Lyon, France. Fearing that Barbie could be acquitted in Germany for lack of evidence, Justice Ministry officials asked their Foreign Ministry counterparts to hint to Bonn's French allies that "they should also seek Barbie's deportation, specifically from Bolivia to France."
When Paris agreed, the Foreign Ministry instructed the German embassy in La Paz, the Bolivian capital, to "encourage such a development with suitable means."
In early 1983, Barbie was deported to France. The notorious "Butcher of Lyon" died in a hospital in that city in 1991.
One time, while one of the mobile vans were being demonstrated for visiting dignitaries, including one SS officer "whistleblower" who reported in detail what was going on to a Swiss diplomat, and who comitted "suicide" by hanging in a prison camp after the war where he was held with other SS, the van engine malfunctioned, and the Jews jammed inside the van suffered locked up like that for 2 hours before finally being subjected to the engine exhaust. The SS found they had to run the engines for 45 minutes to make all the inmates completely dead. Interpol was founded in Nazi Germany, and the first few years was run by an SS officer. Should we really be surprised that the culture of postwar Interpol was Nazi friendly? It was a Nazi organization itself. There were a lot of Nazi sympathizers everywhere all too willing to help these guilty mass murderers thrive after the war.


UPDATED: French President Francois Hollande awarded three Americans and a Briton the Legion d'Honneur on Monday, saying their actions in overpowering a Moroccan gunman on a train prevented "real carnage".
President Francois Hollande bestowed France's highest honour on a group of Americans and a Briton on Monday saying the whole world "admires their courage and cool composure" in overpowering a Moroccan gunman on a crowded train.
Anti-terror investigators were questioning the alleged attacker, 25-year-old Ayoub El Khazzani, who boarded the high-speed train in Brussels bound for Paris on Friday armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a Luger automatic pistol, ammunition and a box-cutter.
Witnesses said he opened fire, injuring a man before being wrestled to the floor and subdued by three young Americans -- off-duty servicemen Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone and their student friend Anthony Sadler -- and a Briton, 62-year-old business consultant Chris Norman.
Presenting them with the Legion d'Honneur at the Elysée presidential palace on Monday, Hollande said: "A terrorist decided to commit an attack. He had enough weapons and ammunition to carry out a real carnage, and that's what he would have done if you hadn't tackled him at a risk to your own lives.
"You have shown us that, faced with terror, we have the power to resist. You have given a message of courage, solidarity and hope," Hollande said.
A French passenger who also tackled the gunman was also due to be honoured, but has chosen to stay anonymous.
Speaking as he left the Elysée, his medal pinned to his suit, Norman said it was "a little bit difficult to believe that it's actually happened".
He said he merely stumbled upon a weapons stash in a park in Belgium and decided to use it to rob passengers, according to Sophie David, a lawyer who was temporarily assigned to his case when he was taken off the train in Arras, northern France.
Khazzani's father on Sunday described his son as a "good boy" who preferred "football and fishing" to politics.
France's counter-terrorism police can hold Khazzani for up to 96 hours without charge. Intelligence services in Belgium, France, Germany and Spain have previously flagged him as an Islamic extremist.
One of the Americans who overpowered him said if Khazzani had known how to handle guns, he could have killed many people.
"He clearly had no firearms training whatsoever," National Guardsman Skarlatos, 22, told reporters on Sunday.
"If he knew what he was doing or even got lucky and did the right thing, he would have been able to operate through all eight of the (ammunition) magazines and we probably wouldn't be here today along with a lot of other people."
Spanish intelligence services say he went to France, from where he travelled to Syria, but the suspect has reportedly denied going to the conflict-ridden country where the Islamic State group controls swathes of territory.
Khazzani is accused of emerging from a toilet cubicle on the high-speed train, brandishing the weapons, just after it crossed from Belgium into northern France.
The French passenger tried to disarm him but he got away and fired at least one shot, wounding a French-American traveller in his 50s.
The Americans told the press conference that they had reservations in the first-class carriage where the attack took place, but could not initially find their seats.
Stone, who serves in the US Air Force, reached the gunman first and was slashed in the neck and on the eyebrow and almost had his thumb sliced off with a box-cutter.


Fade in data bound items?
I've spent a lot of time trying to get items that are added to a ListView or "source" bound element (i.e.

) to fade in using FX Fade (http://docs.kendoui.com/api/framework/fx/fade) instead of just appearing abruptly. Unfortunately, I have been unsuccessful. Can you explain how to do it in *both* cases (i.e. when using a ListView and when using source binding)?
kendo.fx($('div[data-uid="' + e.items[i].uid + '"]')).fade('in').play(); // THIS DOES NOT WORK.
myData.push('Test data item'); // SHOWS UP IN THE DIV, BUT DOES NOT FADE IN.
I am afraid that what you would like to achieve is not supported out of the box because when the ListView DataSource changes all the items will be re-rendered.
One possible workaround for this case it to listen for the change event of the DataSource (or Observable Array) and if an item was added to fadeIn only the last item.
Your method seems to work in Kendo UI Web, so thanks for that. I'm going to mark this as answered.
However, my project runs on both Web and Mobile (via Icenium/Kendo UI Mobile). Just FYI, your method does not work with Kendo UI Mobile because of an apparent bug with KendoMobileListView. For the KendoMobileListView, the DataBound even does not fire. I am unable to report this bug on the Kendo UI Mobile Premium Forums because I do not have a license for Kendo UI Mobile (since I use Icenium, there was no reason for me to purchase a separate Kendo UI Mobile license. It might make sense if you guys give Icenium subscribers access to the Kendo UI Mobile Premium Forums). I did, however, report this to Icenium, though it really seems to be a Kendo UI Mobile bug. The linked bug report also mentions how you can view a working example of this bug in Icenium.


Solving the Bannockburn Problems: What was it like?
The word 'elenchus' refers to logical argument. The most famous practitioner of elenchus was Socrates, the Greek philosopher who sought to reveal the truth by questioning the arguments of the so called 'great men' of his time. Hence the publishing imprint: ELENKUS. It is apt, because most of the publications are concerned with discovering the solution of difficult problems.
William Scott taught Mathematics (as well as philosophy) for many years, heading departments in several colleges. He served on the Scottish Mathematical Council, published numerous articles and papers and reviewed books for the Mathematical Gazette.
Elenkus Ltd publishes the books of William Wallace Cunningham Scott. Elenkus is a word derived from elenchus, a method of question and answer which unravels the truth, practised by Socrates and immortalised in Plato's Dialogues.
• "The book is certainly a tour de force, and by far the most intelligent and comprehensive account of the battle ever written."
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• "Superbly researched, revealing previously unknown information. Every aspect of the battle is explained with compelling conviction, bringing new light to a glorious moment in Scottish history."
• "A triumph...you come across as an Historian, Scientist, Geographer, Hydrologer, and also as a first class strategic and tactical commander, able to appreciate ground and leadership in impeccable detail. "
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• Two world class problems are solved within this novel. The problem of the suicide bomber: what would you say to divert him from blowing up himself and others?
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'A triumph...you come across as an Historian, Scientist, Geographer, Hydrologer, and also as a first class strategic and tactical commander, able to appreciate ground in impeccable detail. Your meticulous sifting of the evidence is breathtaking... the detail of the battle is masterly.' Col. Bruce Niven, MA 1st Class (Geography), MBE, ex Chief of Staff, SAS, leader of climbs on Annapurna 1 and Everest.
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'Superbly researched, revealing previously unknown information. Every aspect of the battle is explained with compelling conviction, bringing new light to a glorious moment in Scottish History.' David Torry, Editor, DC Thomson.
Of 'The Bannockburn Years,' Constable Trophy winner, 1997, published by Luath Press, Edinburgh, 1998 and reprinted 2003, 'William Scott, a brilliant storyteller,' Nigel Tranter, on the cover.
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- Neither the pro-choice nor the pro-life forces won.
- Both sides are unhappy with the decision, except for the ways they can use it to hype fundraising.
- States get an engraved invitation to write every abortion-restricting law they can think of in hopes a few will squeak past the Supreme Court.
- Congress will step up efforts to pass the Freedom of Choice bill. But President Bush will veto it. The override effort will fail. The abortion controversy will become further politicized. And the issue will weigh heavily on congressional elections now and in the future.
- The Supreme Court will have more abortion cases on its docket far into the forseeable future.
- President Bush can make the political argument that he needs one more Supreme Court appointment to assure the demise of Roe v. Wade. Bill Clinton-and presumably Ross Perot-can insist they must be elected to block that possibility and protect the slender pro-Roe majority.
- The issue is never going to go away-not in our lifetime, not in the lifetime of our children.
Essentially, the high court upheld Roe v. Wade only by a slim 5-4 vote. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia, Byron R. White and Clarence Thomas wanted to overturn the 19-year-old decision completely. There have been at least 26 million abortions since Roe made them legal.
Instead, what the high court did was uphold most of the provisions of a Pennsylvania law putting a few limitations on abortion-on-demand. It let stand requirements for a 24-hour waiting period, pre-abortion counseling, consent of a parent or judge for a girl under age 18 and statistical reporting by the physician. It struck down a provision that a woman must tell her husband she plans to have an abortion.
''Don`t be fooled. Roe v. Wade is dead,'' proclaims Planned Parenthood in hysterical newspaper ads appealing for donations and congressional action.
That`s not what happened. But it illustrates the overblown rhetoric and self-righteous anger endemic to both sides of this weary controversy.
What should encourage pro-choice forces is that three justices-Sandra Day O`Connor, Anthony Kennedy and David Souter, all Reagan or Bush appointees-refused to join the four justices who wanted to overturn Roe.
In a joint opinion, the three justices noted that a decision to overrule Roe`s essential holding would result in ''profound and unnecessary damage to the Court`s legitimacy and to the Nation`s commitment to the rule of law. It is therefore imperative to adhere to the essence of Roe`s original decision.'' With the view on record that overturning Roe in the face of political pressures would undermine the very legitimacy of the high court, it seems unlikely any of the three would ever vote against Roe.
But the Casey ruling does open the door wider for states to continue to nibble away at the edges of Roe. The high court has yet to rule on the upcoming Guam and Louisiana cases, which it will surely not uphold in view of this current decision.
What else the Supreme Court might approve isn`t clear, given O`Connor`s new standard that state laws must not put an undue burden in the way of women seeking abortion. But there is no doubt state legislators who are zealous pro- lifers or beholden to pro-life constitutents, will keep passing state laws that challenge the current limits.
That likelihood, of course, could be pre-empted by Congress. And that is another complicated story.
Many people who want to get abortion off the national agenda and curtail its ubiquitous effect on everything political argue that what the nation needs is a major, cathartic debate on the issue leading to federal legislation. This the public has never had a chance to do. The Supreme Court simply pre-empted the issue and determined public policy without public input.
But so far, there`s been little public input into the Freedom of Choice Act now being pushed through Congress. Generally, it is even more sweeping in its permissiveness than Roe and with a few exceptions is intended to prevent states from limiting abortion on demand up to the time the baby is viable.
This week, both the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee approved the act in slightly different versions. The House measure allows states to require that a minor must ''involve'' an adult in her abortion decision. And states can permit health-care workers to opt out of performing abortions if they object.
But the proposed legislation is much more permissive than polls consistently show to be the public`s view on abortion.
Even if Congress could pass a veto-proof Freedom of Choice bill, the abortion issue isn`t going to go away. Too many people can`t forget that abortion not only solves a woman`s problem pregnancy, it kills what is undeniably a living baby, however convenient it is to define it otherwise.


Altogether, at least 25 people have died and more than 250,000 people have been driven out of their homes as California was engulfed by five identified fires, from north to south, on Saturday. Strong winds, low humidity, drought and vegetation so dry as to act like matchsticks exacerbated the flames.
Twenty-three deaths in the north of the state combined with two bodies discovered on Saturday in a residential neighborhood in Malibu, Calif., brought the statewide total to 25.
"One firefighter went to his house, knocked down the flames and figured his house was going to make it," Scott McLean, a deputy chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, told NPR. "He came back and it had burned to the ground."
The Camp Fire blaze erupted Thursday.
In addition to the nine confirmed fatalities, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said in a press briefing Saturday, 14 more bodies have been found, bringing the total dead to 23 in the north of the state.
As the sheriff's office reported earlier, five others were found inside cars that were overwhelmed by flames, three outside residences, and one inside a home. Names of the victims have not been released.
He added that the fire took less than two hours to reach the small town of Paradise, which it proceeded to devour.
Some people, attempting to flee the fire, were stuck in traffic and left their cars behind to run with their families.
According to Cal Fire, the fire has grown into 100,000 acres and was 20 percent contained by Saturday morning. It was still burning in Paradise, and authorities estimated the fire may be fully contained by Nov. 30.
Nearly 6,500 residences have been destroyed and another 15,000 threatened, according to emergency officials. Authorities expect that strong northeastern winds will start up again in the evening, potentially spreading across one of California's biggest lakes into the city of Oroville.
Red flag warnings will return in the evening, McLean said, marking strong winds and dropping humidity.
About 170,000 residents and 50,000 homes are under evacuation orders that remain in place for Hidden Hills, Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village and Malibu, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Chief John Benedict in a press briefing on Saturday.
In Malibu, investigators are looking into the deaths of two people after their bodies were found "severely burned inside of a stopped vehicle located on a long, residential driveway," Benedict said, but that no further information was available.
The Woolsey Fire, a brush fire that started Thursday some 500 miles south of the Camp Fire, more than doubled in size from Friday to Saturday. It crossed U.S. Highway 101 just a few miles east of Thousand Oaks, where 12 people died in a bar shooting Wednesday night.
Crews were battling extreme flames on steep terrain. The fire has shrunk to 70,000 acres, up to 5 percent containment compared to this morning's zero percent, according to Cal Fire.
Flames sent thousands fleeing after mandatory evacuations in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Officials said they had not been able to tally the number of homes that were destroyed, the Los Angeles Times reported, but sheriff's officials in Ventura County put the number at 50 or more.
Another fire, called the Hill Fire, measured a little more than 4,500 acres on Saturday. "It seems to be stopped and burned into an area where firefighters can get a handle on it," McLean said. It traveled into an old burn scar, where a previous fire had passed years ago. As it thinned, firefighters were able to get closer and control it — at least temporarily.
With winds expected to pick up on Sunday, Ventura County Fire Department Chief Mark Lorenzen warned residents to "stay vigilant."
"These winds will be severe if not more severe than we saw in the last few days," Cal Fire Chief Scott Jalbert said. From Sunday through Tuesday, winds are projected to jump to 30 to 40 miles per hour.
Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks thanked President Trump for approving an emergency declaration for California, but also called for a major disaster emergency declaration that would free up federal resources to support the recovery process. "We do have to remember we aren't out of it yet," Parks said.
Lady Gaga, Alyssa Milano and Kim Kardashian West were among the California residents who had to flee their homes.
"I am thinking so deeply for everyone who is suffering today from these abominable fires & grieving the loss of their homes or loved ones," Lady Gaga said. "I'm sitting here with many of you wondering if my home will burst into flames. All we can do is pray together & for each other. God Bless You."
"I'm waiting to hear the fate of my home. They won't let us in the area," Milano wrote Saturday morning local time, before adding, "There are no words for this kind of devastation."
"I heard the flames have hit our property at our home in Hidden Hills but now are more contained and have stopped at the moment. It doesn't seems like it is getting worse right now, I just pray the winds are in our favor," Kardashian West said.
Cher wrote on Twitter that she was worried about her house "but there is nothing I can do." She said she has had a house in Malibu since 1972 and "can't bear the thought of there being no Malibu."
The Los Angeles Zoo announced that some of its animals, including lemurs and birds, had been relocated but that a brush fire in nearby Griffith Park did not enter its grounds. "The animals that were relocated have been safely moved back to their habitats and are doing well," the zoo said. "We are thinking of those who are battling the wildfires still threatening Los Angeles and Ventura counties."
"A big thank you to firefighters from across the country who are helping California's firefighters battle these blazes," Sen. Kamala Harris tweeted Saturday. "We appreciate your work and could not be more grateful."
President Trump also took to Twitter to write: "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!"


The Class "A" rating on stone-coated steel is conditional.
Stone coated steel roofing installed over wood shake is rated as Class "C" if specific additional fire resistive materials are not installed.
The installation weight for Class "A" over shakes, including steel panels, old wood shakes, wood support system, and gypsum boards, is 730 pounds per square (a square equals 100 square feet of surface area). This is heavier than composition and light weight concrete tile roofing.
The installation weight for Class "C" over shakes, including the steel panels, old wood shakes and wood support system, is 560 pounds per square.
The warranty coverage on the stone surface coating is typically only 20 to 25 years, after which the homeowner has no coverage if the stone coating erodes down to bare metal.
Warranty coverage is typically prorated, meaning the homeowner will most likely be paying an ever increasing amount as time passes for any necessary repairs, even those covered under the warranty.
When is a Class "A" roof not Class "A"?
Manufacturers of stone-coated steel products fail to highlight the fact that their Class "A" rating is conditional upon the type of installation. Depending on the way it is installed, it can be a Class "A", "B", or "C" system. Achieving Class "A" in reroof applications over wood shakes is, in the case of some manufacturers, not possible, and with others, requires the extra cost and considerable weight of a ½ -inch gypsum board. Stone coated steel roof products were "grandfathered" into the building code as Class "A", however, they have failed standard burning brand tests for a Class "A" rating which were conducted by a certified testing laboratory.
When is a "lightweight" roof not lightweight?
Referring to stone coated steel roof panels as "lightweight," when used in a Class "A" reroof application over wood shakes, is very misleading. The steel roof panel manufacturers imply that their product, when installed as a Class "C" assembly, over an existing wood shake or shingle roof, weighs 140 to 150 pounds per square. It is very important to recognize that when the weight of the existing roof of 350 pounds per square or more and the weight of the wood support system (batten and counterbattens) of approximately 60 pounds per square are taken into account, the actual weight of the combined components is almost four times greater than quoted by the manufacturers.
When these products are installed as Class "A" assembly, the installation is the same as for a Class "C" assembly, except a layer of ½ - inch gypsum board has to be added at an approximate weight of 170 pounds per square. This brings the combined weight of all the components to 730 pounds per square, which is well above the generally accepted maximum weight of 600 pounds per square definition of lightweight roofing. At weights of 600 or more pounds per square, most communities require an engineering evaluation of the roof structure that could lead to the necessity for structural reinforcement. It should also be noted that some steel manufacturers can not achieve a Class "A" rating on their products that are installed over wood shakes regardless of weight or construction components.
Is a stone-coated steel roof installed over a wood shake or shingle roof fire safe?
In the late 1980's and early 1990's, the fire service experienced many residential fires involving this type of reroof system which resulted in extensive fire damage and occupant fire safety concerns. In an effort to address these issues, the California Fire Chiefs' Association (CFCA) and the Steel Roof Manufacturers' Association (SRMA) conducted several fire tests (Building Standards Committee Report 1993-4, FPO/CFCA) at the Weyerhaeuser Laboratory in Longview, Washington, on June 9 and 10, 1993. These tests showed that reroof systems of this type, when installed with a fireblock material, 1- 1/2 inch thick foil faced Manville Microlite fiberglass insulation installed directly on top of he wood shakes, greatly reduced the spread of fire through the reroof system. The CFCA accepted the test result using this type of fireblocking as a reasonable and prudent method to provide a fire resistive reroof system. However, this system of installation has a maximum fire resistive rating of Class "B".


The anti-unification problem of two terms t1 and t2 is concerned with finding a term t which generalizes both t1 and t2. That is, the input terms should be substitution instances of the generalization term. Interesting generalizations are the least general ones. The purpose of anti-unification algorithms is to compute such least general generalizations.
Research on anti-unification has been initiated more than four decades ago, with the pioneering works by Gordon~D.~Plotkin and John~C.~Reynolds. Since then, a number of algorithms and their modifications have been developed, addressing the problem in first-order or higher-order languages, for syntactic or equational theories, over ranked or unranked alphabets, with or without sorts/types, etc. Anti-unification has found applications in machine learning, inductive logic programming, case-based reasoning, analogy making, symbolic mathematical computing, software maintenance, program analysis, synthesis, transformation, and verification. Some of these algorithms and applications will be reviewed in the talk. We will also consider recent developments in unranked and higher-order generalization computation.


Marketing and promotional are indispensable to spread the name about a brand. In current era which is technologically advanced and where miraculous invention of internet has taken over the world, social media has totally changed the game of promotion and marketing for brands and organizations. Now, brands like to spend a mammoth amount on promotion of their brands on social media. But, is it really worth pursuing social media for an existing business? With the passage of time as this online media is evolving, more complications and issues are emerging on the surface.
Promotion on social media is no easy feat; it involves devising effective strategies and analysis of situation to properly promote your brand on various social forums online. Now that the organizations are spending a mammoth amount on promoting their brands on social media, people are taking these forums seriously and evaluating its effectiveness as well.
Recently, a report was published in the Telegraph that sheds light on the effectiveness of the social media for promotion and actually refer it as waste of time. Pete Walter, who is the founder of Deal with the Media, put forwarded this research and statement in a group’s discussion which caused a stir among the branding and marketing professionals.
This comment on its own invited 184 professionals to comment and express their opinion on this subject. The surprising thing is that out of these 184 people not even a single comment agree with what the quoted research states. People point out reasons why social media may not work for some people, but none of them accepted the opinion that social media is a total waste of time for small businesses.
Paul Peace in his comment paid importance to the concepts of targeting the right audience and reaching to them in a right way.
If we thoroughly observe all the comments of these experts, we can decipher that social media for small business is not a waste of time. However, there are a number of factors that may hinder the performance of social media. Before deciding whether investing time in social media is a waste or gain, one must describe and outline its core objective as to what results one wants to see by indulging social media activities. Also, it is imperative to take into consideration the profile of your target audience as well as the product or service that you want to promote and market on social media. Most of the experts also suggested that driving sales from social media may be an arduous task, especially for small business because of lack of funds to promote posts and host giveaways, but various online forums surely help organizations to create brand awareness and to form a connection with the target audience. In nutshell, it can be iterated that even if social media not turning sales, it helps in creating brand awareness or render other benefits, so it’s not like that investing time on social media can be a waste of time for small businesses.
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Context: Blogged this the day that I took part in The Amazing Race (hence the gear) – we came 3rd out of 20 teams.
On arrival in our current country of residence, Papua New Guinea, we endured 14 weeks of cross-cultural orientation. Some of it was horrible. Most of it was fun. All of it was challenging. One of the challenging things turned out to be a video series we watched. It followed the life of one man – Joe Leahy (surname pronounced Lay). Joe was spawned by the exploits of the Leahy brothers, the first white men to ever set foot in the New Guinea highlands. They did so in the early 1930s and where they thought they’d find nothing but gold, they found a million people. Black Harvest was one in this series of films that we watched.
Joe Leahy is something of an anomaly. A man caught between two cultures. Sired by a white man who abandoned him to his local mother, he was always different and, though sheer hard work and a couple of opportunities that came his way through his white connections, he became a wealthy highlands coffee farmer. He then entered into partnership (of sorts) with local landowners firstly to work his own plantation and then to work in partnership on a jointly owned venture.
The documentary film Black Harvest tells the story of Joe’s joint venture with the Ganiga tribe, of walking cultural tightropes, of the eventual decline of the local status quo into anarchy and a 9 year tribal war, and the destruction of millions of dollars worth of coffee beans as they turned black on the trees. The video is fascinating, full of drama and portrays great insights into Papua New Guinean culture.
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me if I’d read the book about the making of the film. I had no idea there even was one. But it seemed that after the wife of the couple who filmed it had died, her husband went through her diaries and discovered that she’d captured virtually everything they had encountered while filming it. As a form of grief, he decided to write their account.
Bob Connolly writes well. Not as well as he films, but well nonetheless. There are many gripping passages in the book as the the couple find themselves caught up in events that they hadn’t even imagined might take place. As the Ganiga get involved in tribal warfare, they find themselves faced with friends on each side becoming enemies of each other. Some of the stories are tragically heart-rending. Many die.
Having seen the film, it was wonderful to get this behind the scenes detail, to understand what it took to make the film, how the film materialised out of nowhere, completely against their expectations. And it was also great to get more of an insight into the character of Joe Leahy and what it was like to work with him.
The documentary series really is remarkable and I wish it was more widely available to people the world over. If you’re in Australia, you might be able to get hold of it. But wherever you are you’ll be able to find Making Black Harvest. If you want to get a glimpse into the world we now live in, a world that very few people know about, I’d recommend getting a copy of it.
Black Harvest became a viable proposition when I flew to London in early 1989 to meet an overworked man in a cramped office on the fifth floor of 60 Charlotte Street, W1.


What is the peak voltage at the tips of a dipole antenna?
What is the peak voltage present at the very end tips of half-wave dipole antenna in free space, and how might this peak voltage relate to transmitter type, transmitter power, RF frequency vs. antenna half-wave frequency mismatch, feed line, SWR, wire diameter, and etc.
It's really hard to say, because it depends on so many things. Analyzing the antenna in free space simplifies some things, but we'd still have to consider the exact geometry of the antenna (How thick are the wires? Are they bent at all?) and the material from which they are made (any resistance will decrease the Q factor of the antenna, reducing the peak voltage).
However, if you look to analysis of end-fed dipoles, you can find that it's been determined empirically and by modeling that the impedance at the end of a real half-wave dipole is somewhere between 1800 to 5000 ohms.
This is the power delivered to the antenna. Transmitter type and the match to the antenna (SWR) are relevant only to the extent that they change the power delivered to the antenna.
This is all assuming that the antenna is operated at resonance. As the frequency moves away from resonance, the peak voltage decreases. The reason why is simple: this high voltage is attainable because each cycle reinforces the previous. If you take a limiting case where the antenna is operated at DC, the voltage at the ends is equal to the voltage at the feedpoint, because there is no resonance to reinforce the voltage at the ends.
I'm going to approach this a little differently starting from roughly the same place. Here I am going to use a resonant $\lambda$/2 20m dipole driven by 100 W as the model.
EDIT: Most of the above equations come from the section on Circuital Design in the reference listed above. The book is more math heavy than typical amateur radio references, but not as bad as some of the more modern engineering texts. It's slow going, but a worthwhile read.
For those of you with EZNEC or some other antenna modeling software, there is a way to answer this question using EZNEC. Model a 1/4WL stub in free space taking care not to violate any geometry checks. Put a 100w source at one end of the stub and a 10 megohm load at the other end of the stub. Adjust the stub length and user defined wire loss to obtain the resistive feedpoint impedance of a dipole looking into the stub. Then display the load data. It will tell you the voltage at the end of a dipole. I set my 4 MHz stub for 70 ohms and got 879 volts across the 10 megohm load resistor. The additional user defined wire loss is equivalent to the power lost from the dipole through radiation.
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Why does eating a protein meal late at night prevent morning sickness?
When you are very early in the pregnancy, your body has not yet adjusted to "eating for two" and may not be regulating your blood sugars as well as usual. While you are sleeping, and not consuming any foods, the fetus is still "eating" your stored calories. This makes your blood sugar dip low by morning, which typically causes nausea (even when not in pregnancy).
Proteins are metabolized slower in the body than are carbohydrates, meaning that the calories last longer when you eat proteins and keep your blood sugars more stable when fasting at night. That is why if you eat a protein snack at night (cheese, meat, peanut butter, etc.), it can help your blood sugar stay more stabilized until breakfast.
Often, if you will eat the very first thing upon waking up one or two plain soda crackers (aka saltines), it will help prevent morning sickness because they are a rapidly absorbed source of carbohydrates that can more quickly increase the blood sugar levels to replenish. Once that has relieved any nausea from the low blood sugar, you then eat a nutritious breakfast (that includes proteins to steady the blood sugars) to help you start the day with fewer morning sickness symptoms.
Not all women experience morning sickness, which is another sign that it is likely associated with how a woman's body metabolizes calories and stabilizes blood sugar levels. That is why, in some women whose bodies do that less well than others (even when not pregnant), "morning sickness" can happen any time of the day and not just in the morning. It also can happen either only at the beginning of pregnancy or continue longer, even up until delivery in some unfortunate women.
The best all around plan for avoiding morning sickness symptoms (or nausea due to hypoglycemia at any time of the day), is to eat small portions but more frequently. These frequent mini-meals should include all types of foods, i.e, proteins, complex carbohydrates (like fruits and vegetables), fats, whole grains, etc., and avoid as much as possible the simple carbohydrates (like saltines, most breads that are not whole grain, sweets, and other "starches" like corn, white rice and white potatoes). Five or more smaller meals is much better than only three big ones. Some women switch to eating every two or three hours all day with protein at night to keep the blood sugars even.
Ask your obstetrician to suggest the most appropriate diet for you while your baby develops.


Once compost is worked into the soil, whether by people or earthworms, it dramatically improves the texture and structure of the soil. Texture refers to the nature of the soil particles. How does a handful of soil feel? Are the soil particles so fine that they pack together tightly, leaving very little space for air so that they get gummy when they are wet? This is typical of clay soils which feel heavy, dense, and solid. Are the soil particles larger, coarser and lighter, their looseness creating so much airspace that water drains through them very quickly? This coarser texture is typical of sandy soil. How much airspace there is in a soil for oxygen and water to be held available for plant roots is very much a function of a soil's texture. It also determines how easy it is for plant roots, especially the tiniest ones, to move through the soil searching for the food and moisture it contains. A very sandy texture is great for root growth, but doesn't hold enough water or nutrients to sustain the plants. The heavy clay soil is great for holding nutrients but is often so compacted that roots are unable to grow and access the nutrients.
Between the two extremes of clay and sand is loam. The texture of loamy soil is just coarse enough to retain air and water, yet fine enough to hold it. However, what gives loam its distinctive and ideal texture is the presence of some humus, or decomposed organic matter. Loam's ability to drain well, yet hold moisture and air is enhanced by the presence of humus. Consequently, to the degree that a clayey or sandy soil can be amended with some humus, it is brought closer to the ideal loam with all its good properties.
Adding fresh organic materials to a problem soil in the form of chopped leaves or chopped straw, both organic materials, will ease its compaction and improve its air and water holding capacity, but at a price. Chopped leaves or straw begin to decompose after they are buried in the soil, and as they do, they pull much of the nitrogen in the soil that is available for plants over to participate in the decomposition process. So, while that organic material is decomposing, it is reducing the amount of nitrogen available to the plants. Therefore, fresh organic material in this form is actually a detriment rather than a benefit, at least during the decomposition period. However, if humus in the form of finished compost is added to soil, it does not deplete its nitrogen, since it has already virtually completely decomposed. Obviously, compost can play a major role in modifying the texture of poor soils by serving as the humus component.
A good soil, one that can be characterized as loamy, has a light, crumbly, texture and holds lots of air and water. A soil with those characteristics is called "friable". It is said to have good "tilth". Adding compost to heavy clay soil, gives it more of those qualities. Adding compost to loose, sandy soil, gives it more of those qualities. Even added to loamy soil, which already has some humus, it improves its tilth that much more. Compost is the key to good soil texture. It helps soil of all types perform all the necessary functions. Its presence among soil particles encourages air pockets for water and oxygen, provides some nutrients as it breaks down further, and reduces compaction. It improves the texture of any soil.


Does anyone use mouse for curl definition?
I was trying to do a perm rod set on my hair last night and while the perm rod set did not turnout the way I wanted, I noticed the mousse (styling foam lotion by silk elements) made my curls and coils pop all over. I was wondering anyone, particularly my coilier, kinkier ladies, ever used mouse as their main curl def product? I have very fine curls so a lot of product will weight them down. I would love to use mousse since its considerably lighter but I'm concerned about the ramifications (dryness, breakage etc.). What are your experiences?
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Pay equity is a means of eliminating gender and ethnic discrimination in the wage-setting system. In this context, the criteria which employers use to determine wages must be gender- and ethnicity-neutral.
What is pay equity legislation?
Penalties: Salary inquiries – unpaid wages and interest, plus an equal amount as liquidated damages and attorney fees.
Voluntary Disclosure: This is not presently addressed.
Violations: Seek pay history of a candidate. Pay history does not include revenue, sales or other production reports.
Penalties: Warning and notice to correct for first violation; $100 for second violation; up to $200 for third violation; up to $500 for each subsequent violation; legal and equitable relief.
Voluntary Disclosure: Employers may rely on information gathered via voluntary disclosure. This is not a violation.
Interview Guidelines: Employers may engage candidates in discussions about salary, benefits and other compensation expectations without violating the law.
Violations: Seek pay history of a candidate from applicant or former or current employer, including benefits and other compensation.
Penalties: Salary inquiries – civil penalty from $1,000 to $5,000 for first offense; $5,000 to $10,000 for each additional violation.
Voluntary Disclosure: Employers may not rely on information, even if it is voluntarily disclosed, until employment offers have been made and accepted.
Penalties: There are no penalties at this time.
Penalties: Salary inquiries and unfair pay – unpaid wages and interest, plus an equal amount of those wages and interest as liquidated damages; attorney fees.
Violations: Employers of at least four employees may not seek pay history of a candidate from any current or former employer.
Penalties: Compensatory damages, reinstatement (with or without back pay) and oversight by Albany Commission on Human Rights. Potential private right of action.
Penalties: Salary inquiries – up to $125,000 for civil penalties; up to $250,000 for “intentional malicious violations”.
Voluntary Disclosure: Employers may rely on information gathered through voluntary disclosure. This is not a violation.
Penalties: Reinstatement, back pay, compensatory damages, costs, reasonable attorney’s fees, punitive damages, oversight by Westchester County Human Rights Commission. Potential private right of action.
Voluntary Disclosure: Not a violation to rely on a voluntary disclosure to set compensation.
Voluntary Disclosure: Employers may rely on salary information gathered through voluntary disclosure but cannot pressure candidates for it.
Penalties: Salary inquiries – Civil penalties up to $2,000 incurred for each violation. Repeated violations will lead to imprisonment for 90 days.
Penalties: Salary inquiries – Companies which retaliate against employees who address pay inequality will face double damages. Penalties will not take effect until March 8, 2018.
Voluntary Disclosure: Employers may rely on information gathered through voluntary disclosure. It is not a violation if a salary was already negotiated with a candidate and an offer letter was set.
Interview Guidelines: Employers may engage candidates in discussions about salary expectations without violating the law.


Could a rookie kicker taken in the fifth round be one of the more important Miami Dolphins this season? Certainly.
Kicker Caleb Sturgis from the University of Florida will battle Dan Carpenter this offseason for the team's kicking job in one the more intriguing yet largely untalked about position battles. As Dolphins fans have learned over the past few years, the kicker position is important.
A former Pro Bowler, Dan Carpenter has been inconsistent at best over the past three years and perhaps even more surprisingly, has battled injury.
Carpenter went 22-for-27 last season and hit a game-winner as time expired against Seattle, but in recent history, Carpenter has not been there when the game was on the line.
His 81.5 field goal percentage last season ranked just 24th in the NFL and he was just 2-for-5 from 50 yards and beyond. And in a season in which the Dolphins stayed in the playoff race until Week 16, he had an opportunity to win games early in the season that ultimately resulted in losses.
In Week 3 against the New York Jets, Carpenter missed a pair of field goals including a game-winning attempt in overtime as the Jets knocked off Miami 23-20. Carpenter also missed a kick the following week at Arizona which would eventually result in a 24-21 overtime loss to the Cardinals.
Carpenter even had an 0-for-4 effort in a 17-14 home loss to the Buffalo Bills back in December of 2010.
But beating out Carpenter won't be easy for the rookie from Florida. A two-time Lou Groza Award finalist, Sturgis has battled injury himself, but has been solid during his Florida career and possesses a big leg.
As a senior in 2012, Sturgis was 24-for-28 on field goal attempts, a perfect 3-for-3 from 50 yards and beyond and 9-for-10 from 40 yards out and beyond. His 85.7 field goal percentage last season was more than four points higher than Carpenter's and that's with wider hash marks in the college game.
Both guys have big legs, but over the last two years, Sturgis has been more consistent. Last season, five of Miami's nine losses were decided by a touchdown or less and there will likely be a lot of close contests this season so having a good kicker is necessary.
Carpenter has had a solid career with the Dolphins, but has come up short in critical situations in recent history and it's time the Dolphins move forward with a new face. With a career-long of 56 yards at Florida, Sturgis certainly has the leg and ability to thrive in the NFL. And if Sturgis is the guy, he will certainly be faced with some critical situations, but those are situations where Carpenter has not thrived in recent years. Teams play close games every week in the NFL and if the Dolphins are to make the postseason for the first time in five years, they're going to need a reliable kicker.


The singer won Billboard's woman of the year award.
An emotional Selena Gomez couldn't hold back her tears as she thanked best friend Francia Raisa for "saving her life" at the Billboard Women In Music awards in Los Angeles on Thursday (30 November).
Gomez was presented with the woman of the year award by Raisa and Elle Fanning. The 25-year-old gave a candid acceptance speech where she spoke about her kidney transplant in September this year.
Speaking about Raisa, Gomez said: "I think Francia should be getting this award. She saved my life... I feel incredibly lucky."
"She gave me the ultimate gift and sacrifice by donating her kidney to me," the singer had earlier written in a heartfelt Instagram post.
The Bad Liar singer underwent surgery earlier this year due to complications with lupus.
"My kidneys were just done. That was it and I didn't want to ask a single person in my life. That was the day I came home and she [Raisa] volunteered, she did it," Gomez told host Savannah Guthrie in an interview with NBC's The Today Show in October.
Ahead of the awards show on the red carpet, Raisa was asked about being a kidney donor to her friend and she answered: "What's scary is knowing she was two weeks away from kidney failure and I didn't find out until after the surgery.
"Just seeing my friend get sick, and more sick, and more sick was hard but at the same time so positive for our friendship. It got us closer but I also learned so much this year about myself. It was a very humbling experience."
Accepting the award, Gomez said that she was grateful for all the support she has received throughout her career.
"Honestly, I couldn't be more grateful for the position that I've been given in my career from seven to 14 to now.
"I want people to know that I respect the platform that I have so deeply because I knew that I wanted to be a part of something great, I wanted people to feel great," the singer added.
The Wolves hitmaker, who recently got back with ex boyfriend Justin Bieber, had to take a brief hiatus from her successful music career due to health problems. But she has since promised to make a comeback with an "epic album".
"I don't know how I'll ever repay it but maybe I'll make an epic album next year," Gomez said.
Beyonce, Pink, Taylor Swift and Fergie are the former recipients of the award.
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