WARSAW, Poland (AP) —
Poland’s lawmakers on Thursday approved a government plan to hold a controversial referendum on migration alongside key parliamentary elections in October.
One of the questions on the referendum paper will ask voters whether they “support the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa under the forced relocation mechanism imposed by the European bureaucracy.”
Voters will also be asked whether they support the dismantling of a wall recently built along the border with Belarus with the aim of reducing unauthorized migrant arrivals.
In the election for both houses of parliament, scheduled for Oct. 15, the populist ruling Law and Justice party is seeking an unprecedented third term.
The Polish government has vehemently opposed a proposal agreed by EU member states to share out responsibility for migrants entering the bloc without authorization, either by taking a proportion of the new arrivals or by paying money into a support fund.
Critics say the referendum is a campaign ploy by Law and Justice to discredit the opposition. Participation in the referendum is not obligatory, but analysts say that campaign debates on the four questions are a way of rallying the public around the populist government’s policies.
The lower house of parliament, or Sejm, which is narrowly dominated by the ruling party, voted 233-211 with eight abstentions to approve the referendum plan, paving the way for its legal announcement, expected later Thursday.
The announcement of the referendum will require another vote.
Two other questions will be on the referendum paper, one on support for the privatization of some of the state-owned companies and the other on a rise in the retirement age.
The opposition is calling for a boycott.
The questions target the main opposition party, Civic Platform and its leader, Donald Tusk, seeking to paint them as a threat to the interests of Poles.
The pro-business and pro-EU Civic Platform, which governed from 2007 to 2015, raised the retirement age during its time in power, favored some privatization and signaled a willingness to accept a few thousand refugees before it lost power.
Law and Justice said at at the time that accepting refugees was against Poland’s interests.
Observers say that the fact the referendum would be held together with the elections could influence voters’ decisions.
As well as disagreements over migration, Law and Justice has long been in conflict with the EU over a perception by the bloc that the Warsaw government has been eroding democratic norms.
The Associated Press


Textbook Adoption Process
The state textbook adoption process is administered in accordance with the statutory requirements as set forth in T.C.A. 49-6-2201---2209 and 49-3-310. The following is a brief summary of the process.
The State Textbook Commission is composed of 10 members whose responsibility is to recommend an official list of textbooks for approval of the State Board of Education. By law, the Commission includes a county superintendent, a city superintendent, a principal, one teacher or supervisor from grades 1-3, one teacher or supervisor from grades 4-8, one teacher or supervisor from grades 9-12, and one member not employed in the educational system of the state from each of the three grand divisions of the state. The Commissioner of Education serves as Secretary of the Commission.
The policies and procedures for selection of textbooks by the State Textbook Commission, approved in 1981, include the following objectives for selection.
- To provide a wide variety of materials that will enrich and support the curriculum as defined by the Rules, Regulations, and Minimum Standards of the State Board of Education.
- To provide materials that will stimulate growth in factual knowledge, literary appreciation, aesthetic values, and ethical standards.
- To provide materials that will enrich and support the curriculum and personal needs of the users, taking into consideration their varied interests, abilities, and learning styles.
- To provide a background of information which will enable pupils to make intelligent judgments in their daily lives.
- To provide materials on opposing sides of controversial issues so that users may develop under guidance the practice of critical analysis.
- To provide materials which realistically represent our pluralistic society and reflect the contributions made by these various groups and individuals to our American heritage.
- To place principle above personal opinion and reason above prejudice in the selection of materials of the highest quality in order to assure a comprehensive media collection appropriate for the users.
The official list is divided into six sections, with new books considered for listing in one section each year. An invitation to bid, listing the categories to be considered that year, is mailed to each publisher with books currently on contract and to any other publisher expressing an interest in bidding. Publishers typically submit 250-300 books per year for the Commission's consideration.
The physical specifications to which books are constructed comprise one of the most important considerations for the books bid. In order to assure that the books are durable enough to withstand six years of use by students, the State Textbook Commission has adopted the Manufacturing Standards and Specifications For Textbooks of the National Association of State Textbook Administrators as its standard.
Since 1986, the State Textbook Commission has used an advisory panel of expert teachers in each subject area or grade level to advise the Commission on book selections. This panel, commonly referred to as the Textbook Review Committee, thoroughly reviews the books submitted. New members, with expertise in the subject areas up for adoption, are selected for this committee annually through an application process open to any teacher meeting the qualifications to serve on a local adoption committee.
The state seeks input from the public through access to hard-copy materials at 10 collection sites and through online access provided by the publishers. The department announces when the textbooks are available for public review at the collection sites during the state textbook review and approval process. The public can view textbooks at the same time as the state review committees are analyzing them, prior to the approval of the books. The public can submit feedback on the books and their input is sent to the publishers and the Textbook Commission for their consideration during the approval process. The public can continue to view and submit feedback on the approved textbooks at the 10 district collection sites year-round.
The State Board of Education standards development cycle precedes the textbook adoption cycle in order that books bid by the publishers may be evaluated against the board-approved standards. Each year, a review instrument is developed to determine how well the books correlate to what the research says about teaching that particular subject as well as how well they correlate to our standards. Since local textbook adoption committees have limited time and a relatively short time frame in which to make their adoptions, it is essential that the list of books from which they select include only those books which adequately cover the respective courses. Summary reports for each book or series listed are made available upon request to local school systems each year.
When the recommended official list is approved by the State Board of Education, publishers must contract with the State Textbook Commission to provide the listed books at the bid price for a six-year period. Local school systems must subsequently adopt books on the official list and provide them to their students. Local superintendents appoint committees of three or five teachers and/or supervisors who hold professional certificates, have three or more years teaching experience in the public schools, and are currently teaching or supervising the respective subjects. These committees recommend titles from the official list for the approval of the local board of education.
Supplies of books are maintained in a depository in the state. School districts make their purchases directly from the depository.
To Access Tennessee Laws
- Go to the Tennessee Code Unannotated Free Public Access page on Lexis Nexis.
- Agree to the Terms & Conditions.
- At the top of the page in the Search field, enter the code number (i.e., 49-1-101), or search by keyword in Title 49.


One of my missions of late has been to obtain some time on a “Big box” in order to see how certain spinlocks behave under pressure, despite my best efforts I am not experiencing much luck on this front. However, there is something I can do with the two socket servers I already do have. Let me outline the principle I wish to demonstrate, I’m going to create a very simple heap, the simplest possible:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[InsertTest] ( [COL1] [int] NULL )
and I am going to insert values into it using a very simple block of T-SQL:
SET NOCOUNT ON BEGIN DECLARE @i int = 0; WHILE @i < 1000000 BEGIN BEGIN TRANSACTION INSERT INTO InsertTest VALUES(@i); COMMIT; SET @i += 1; END; END;
I should mention that delayed durability is not being used.
The log writer invariably lives on core 0 of the first CPU socket. With modern multi socket hardware the terms ‘Socket’ and NUMA node are inter changeable most of the time.
Does It Matter In Terms Of Performance Where The Insert Runs ?
Lets test this, using the CPU affinity mask I can alter the logical processors which are available to the database engine, because I have hyper threading enabled, the first two logical processors on NUMA node 0 correspond to the first physical core on the socket, logical processors 10 and 11 correspond to core 5 (note that all numbering starts from 0) etc:
What do sys.dm_os_wait_stats and sys.dm_os_spinlock_stats have to say ?
CPU Socket 0 Core 0:
CPU Socket 1 Core 0:
Clearly the insert runs the fastest on core 0 of the first CPU socket, the wait stats show that writelog waits only become evident when the insert runs on socket 1. Conventional tools will only shed so much light on this, therefore it’s time to use windows performance toolkit:
CPU Socket 0 Core 0
CPU Socket 0 Core 5
CPU Socket 1 Core 0
A Cache Line and Cache Entry Primer
The unit of transfer of data from main memory to the CPU is the “Cache line”, this is usually 64 bytes in size:
Once cache lines are loaded into the CPU cache they become cache entries.
Spinlocks, Log Buffers and The CPU Cache
Any piece of data used by a CPU has to appear as a cache entry in the CPU cache during its life cycle, when a thread needs to write logging data into a log buffer. Both the log buffer and the cache entry associated with LOGCACHE_ACCESS spinlock need to travel from core 0 on CPU socket 0 to the local CPU cache of the core that the thread generating logging information is running on, in order that the thread can use the log buffer. The thread will write to both the LOGCACHE_ACCESS spinlock and the log buffer before it is returned to the CPU core that the log writer is running on. ( Spoiler alert ! 😉 ) the ‘Distance’ a cache entry has to travel, i.e.:
- The log buffer and LOGCACHE_ACCESS cache entries are already in the L2 cache of the thread generating the logging information and therefore no travel is required at all.
- It has to travel from CPU core to CPU core via the L3 cache.
- It has to travel from CPU socket to CPU socket via the quick path interconnect
has major performance ramifications.
By running the insert thread as closely as possible to the CPU core the log writer thread is running on we can increase the write throughput to the transaction log, by:
- 100% when the insert thread and log writer thread reside on the same CPU core
- 50~60% when the insert thread and the log writer thread are running on the same CPU socket
this is when compared to running the two threads on different CPU sockets.
This illustrates the overhead in having more CPU cores and sockets, but why exactly ?. Note that in the second test the number of spins on the LOGCACHE_ACCESS spinlock goes up from 24,192 to 1,710,336. this is due the LOGCACHE_SPINLOCK cache entry having to travel across the level 3 cache from core to core, this takes longer than the cache entry being shared via the level 2 cache, hence the increased number of spins. When the insert thread is on a different socket the overhead in the cache entry associated with the log buffer having to travel from CPU socket to socket via the quick path interconnect becomes noticeable which is why spins on the LOGFLUSHQ spinlock increase.
We can see that when the insert thread is closer to the log writer, as per the graph above, it burns more CPU cycles because its being made to work harder, evident by the IO throughput graphs from earlier on.
What This Exercise Ultimately Boils Down To
Processing without having to go off the CPU socket for data is the undisputed performance king !
But In A Previous Blog Post You Advised Taking CPU Socket 0 Core 0 Out Of The CPU Affinity Mask ?
Yes I did, if you are experiencing a heavy amount of spin and back off activity on the LOGCACHE_ACCESS spinlock this advice still holds true, so far with the hardware at my disposal I’ve been unable to generate any pressure of note on this spin lock which is why I will be investing in new hardware next year.
How Exactly Does This Help Me ?
This test illustrates the performance penalty paid incurred by the log writer infrastructure when we go off CPU socket, the inference being that the best OLTP performance can be achieved on a single socket machine with the fastest clocked CPU cores available and a large CPU cache. The perfect storm would be everything to run on the first CPU core of the first CPU socket, however this would only be practical for the smallest of OLTP workloads.
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School Robo Calls
Information that the district provides through the district wide Robo call system will be listed below as to when they broadcasted.
9/19/2019 2 Hr Delayed Start for Students on 9/20/19
Good evening, this is Kim Zippie. I am calling to remind you that we are running a 2-hour delayed start for students tomorrow, Friday, for the reason of professional development for teachers. The buses will run the same as if this were a weather-delayed start. Again, tomorrow is a 2-hour delayed start for students.


I stepped on stage with Kyle Harty and Wick Vipond from Allen Gerritsen agency to discuss how social advertising is coming of age and Sunoco brand success across-social network campaigns. Check it out!
Although some predict that Facebook’s salad days will soon end, brands shouldn’t believe it.
The company remains on the forefront of the digital revolution, from virtual reality and artificial intelligence to rapid and creative global expansion of Internet availability. At the same time, Facebook’s infrastructure continues to create an entirely differentiated way of digital marketing that is measurably superior to the deeply flawed cookie-based ad tech stack.
Fred Warmbier is a brave man. As the owner of Finishing Technology, he’s in charge of a fairly large team of employees. And, like any boss, he makes mistakes. The difference is that most of us don’t blog about it in the New York Times. In a recent post, he tells the story of his difficulty letting go of being the ‘hero.’
When a company is young and there aren’t so many moving parts, its fun being the person who steps in to solve problems. As the owner of a company, or a member of executive leadership, we have the authority to make big decisions on the fly, and the company is still being run in our own ‘image.’
But that role isn’t sustainable. Stepping in to solve problems can actually create an environment where we are expected to take care of problems. What is a much stronger option is to trust big decision-making and problem-solving to other team members, department heads and the like. This kind of empowerment turns the team into excellent problem-solvers, and also avoids the likely scenario where people resent the boss coming in often to tell them what to do.
Changing from a directive management style to become a delegator is tricky…most of us know this. Letting go is hard after we’ve built up a fondness for the way we handle certain responsibilities. But for a growing company, nobody can be everywhere to solve manage every issue that pops up. Not only that, but we really don’t even want to be that person. It’s draining, and can make us cynical.
Fred found himself managing out of habit, rather than really considering what was best for his team, himself, and his company, fighting one fire at a time. By pulling himself out of the picture several times, he found that his great staff were quick to step in and handle it themselves. And, get this, the world kept spinning!
Changing management style is scary, particularly after having success managing in some particular way. But as companies grow, roles expand, and the job description evolves. What’s great about Fred is that he has the self-awareness to examine what isn’t working around him and be able to pinpoint himself as the cause. As he pulls back from fighting fires, he finds himself missing the thrill of being the hero. And, like all of us, he isn’t quite sure what’s around the corner. This is what growth feels like.
For the last few years, the venture capital and start-up community have exhaustively explored the idea that there is a “Series A crunch”. Opinions differ – sometimes sharply – on the topic.
It goes like this: After slogging through six months to a year of frenzied product development and user testing, seed-funded tech start-ups are fatally hitting a wall — the million to several million dollars in VC funding they need to scale up their cool new services is nowhere to be found. The result is the cruel and needless throttling of a vast stream of promising fledgling companies down to a mere trickle of survivors. Share of seed-funded companies that won’t be able to get follow-on funding: 61%.
In mid-2014, William Hsu of Mucker Capital wrote in re/code: “the distance between that “eureka” moment when an entrepreneur has an idea, to getting funded by a seed-stageinstitutional VC, has become the valley of death — littered with companies that just simply could not get off the ground with little fanfare, attention, or data.”
With 2014 being a massive year for tech M&A, some of the Series A crunch concerns have been alleviated by the availability of early stage “acqui-hire” exits; as Jacob Mullins notes in Business Insider, “Google, Facebook, and Twitter cut the path for the acqui-hire and eased the Series A crunch.”
So maybe there is no crunch, or if there is, it isn’t the horrific “valley of death” that some believe. But crunch or no, from my experience it is certainly difficult.
My company, Kinetic Social, raised its Series A in May, 2013 – a combination of equity and venture debt. We raised our Series B in early 2014, all equity and substantially larger ($18 million versus $8 million). And yet, while both were challenging, the Series A was definitely the harder raise.
Why? In our case, there were at least three significant challenges to surmount:
- We were out raising money from entirely new investors, pitching our company to venture investors who had barely heard of us.
- We were operating in a sector (paid social advertising) that was largely unproven at that time.
- We operated in a crowded industry segment with literally dozens of companies (50+ in our space) that had some form of seed or early stage capital… and some that were further along than that. As AdExchanger’s Zach Rogers puts it: “To many, it seems the landscape of social ad buying platforms has been rapidly commoditized … But Kinetic is betting that it’s early innings for social marketing, and that the winners will bring special-sauce optimization to multiple APIs.”
We were indeed betting on the “early innings” concept Zach suggested. Moreover, we were convinced: 1) what we had already built at Kinetic would command an investment from a smart venture capital firm; and 2) Kinetic would stand out from the pack with a clearly differentiated product and solution. In effect, we were going to market to ask (new) investors to pick us as the likely winners in our crowded space.
Fortunately, it worked. But it wasn’t easy. We contacted about 60 firms, pitched to 30 or so, and ended up with three term sheets – all in roughly one year’s time. Our conviction got us through the process – we believed we were on to something substantial. The combination of a talented team and a strong market opportunity propelled us to realize our vision.
It also helped – a lot – that the market for our services began to shift in our direction. In particular, social media advertising began to evolve from being a primarily earned (free) media model to a primarily paid advertising model. And while we weren’t surprised, we spent a long time in 2012 and early 2013 hoping the pace of this change would accelerate. We began to see it in early 2013 – it’s no coincidence that we closed the Series A shortly thereafter.
Bottom line? The Series A is hard, but raising it simply means you must prove that you have something real. Once you do this, once you prove that there is a bona fide market opportunity for your idea, there is smart capital out there to back your enterprise.
Don Mathis is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kinetic Social, a social data and technology company focused on making sense of the world’s social signal. He also serves in the US Navy on reserve duty, where he is an Expeditionary Combat Logistics & Anti-Terrorism Officer.
Don Mathis of Kinetic Social explores the growing nexus between cybercrime and cyber terrorism, and what can be done about it
By Don Mathis
Imagine the cybercriminal and what comes to mind? Do you think of a disaffected hacker with an ax to grind? A tech geek with a sociopathic streak, getting a thrill from outsmarting unwitting victims with his computer exploits? You wouldn’t necessarily be wrong, according to cybercrime and criminal justice experts.
Now imagine the committed cyber terrorist, operating under the justification of a violent ideology or misbegotten crusade. This hypothetical person may look a lot like the first… with perhaps a black banner of jihad unfurled behind him.
The evidence for a link between cybercrime and cyber terrorism is growing. The common element is, in substantial part, the kind of technology skills required to plan, coordinate and launch a cyber attack; the techniques are similar no matter the intent, whether an attack is launched as part of a criminal enterprise or as an effort to bring down a key component of a nation’s critical infrastructure. Examples of cybercriminal / terrorist cross-pollination include (but are certainly not limited to):
- Phishing (and spear fishing) attacks can be used to dupe an unwitting consumer into surrendering personally identifiable information, which in turn can be used to clean out a bank account … or to create an effective false identity to enable cross-border movement. According to identity fraud expert Judith Collins, “All acts of terrorism enacted against the United States have been facilitated with the use of a fake or stolen identity,” with 5% of all identity thieves connected to terrorism and 2% specifically to Al-Qaeda.
- Malware can be used to siphon traffic and data for illicit internet advertising … or to affect a devastating attack on critical infrastructure like a power grid.
- Bot-nets can be used to disseminate that malware … and/or for extortion, a Distributed Denial Of Service Attack (DDoS), or other destructive behavior.
- Hacking into protected computer systems can serve multiple objectives from criminal to terroristic.
Nor is the issue limited to cyber terrorist exploits specifically: cybercrime can be used to generate financing for terrorist activity in the same way that drug smuggling or human trafficking does. And as detailed by the IMF, it offers terrorist organizations a means of transferring and laundering funds.
As the links between criminals driven by greed and terrorists driven by violent ideology grows, the question for those charged with fighting both – indeed, for all of us – is, how do we stop it? And the first step in stopping it is, do we even recognize that these links exist?
Does law enforcement recognize the link between cybercrime and cyber terrorism?
The general approach to policing and/or combating most forms of illicit activity has its roots in an earlier, pre-internet era. Indeed, much earlier: the modern police philosophy that we recognize today grew out of efforts in the 18th and 19th centuries to explicitly separate the spheres of military and law enforcement activity, concurrent with the evolution of Enlightenment notions of citizenship versus subject.* As a result of the evolution of modern criminal justice / law enforcement doctrine and philosophy, we entered the post-9/11 period with a fragmented approach to the cyber threat. Counter terrorism agencies were trained to look for and disrupt violent jihadist networks … not digital fraud. Agencies like the Federal Trade Commission or State Attorney Generals on the other hand were created to protect consumer rights … not to stop terrorism.
Unfortunately, today’s cyber bad guys do not necessarily observe the niceties of such boundaries between the realms of war, crime and fraud.
“The problems of organized crime and terrorism were often considered separate phenomena prior to the September 11th attacks,” writes lawyer and criminology researcher Frank Perri. “Security studies, military and law enforcement seminars discussed the emerging threat of transnational organized crime or terrorism, but the important links between the two were rarely made…” (Frank S. Perri and Richard G. Brody in the Journal of Money Laundering Control, emphasis added).
Cyber Broken Windows
Can a cyber “Broken Windows” approach help cope with the blurring line between cybercrime and cyber terrorism? Most people are familiar with the “Broken Windows” theory of criminology (James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling). Greatly simplified, the theory suggests that by maintaining law and order and prosecuting minor offenses such as vandalism, more serious crime might be headed off or prevented entirely as a result.
In the cyber version of Broken Windows, the theory could be interpreted to mean that cyber fraud begets cybercrime, and cybercrime facilitates cyber (and real world) terrorism. From a security services and law enforcement perspective, this approach would only work if there is coordination of effort to combat this spectrum of illicit cyber activity.
There is evidence that this is precisely the approach that is being increasingly adopted by key government agencies – i.e., the development of a more sophisticated understanding of the nexus between cybercrime and terrorism. As a result, the patchwork of enforcement and prevention efforts is (slowly) being knitted together. In the U.S., this increasingly integrated approach is being spearheaded by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, leveraging organizational structures such as the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force and the National Counterterrorism Center.
In particular, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stands as a powerful example of an agency that is working to reduce the “silo-effect”. I had the opportunity to see elements of this first hand, as part of a cybersecurity company called Online Intelligence that worked to combat cyber fraud. Facilitated by a colleague who is a former FBI Special Agent and cybercrime specialist – as well as my own anti-terrorism background in the U.S. Navy – we first met with the FBI about five years ago, providing an opportunity to observe an inter agency and public-private approach, one that better takes a holistic approach to the multi-headed cyber threat. FBI Director Robert Mueller pioneered this revolutionary shift in strategy and operations at the nation’s leading law enforcement agency shortly after the 9/11 attacks, and Director James Comely has continued it. Under their leadership, the FBI has transformed from a nearly exclusive crime fighting footing into an integrated counter-terrorism agency which also facilitates cyber attack prevention – no matter the intent.
This concept of preventing attacks and safeguarding people and assets has required the adoption of a different mind-set, a substantial paradigm and cultural shift at the Agency: one that looks to disrupt and interdict attacks as well as to solve crimes that have already occurred. And today, after over a decade of effort to reorient itself, the FBI is perhaps the best positioned federal agency in the United States to break down the silos and connect the dots between cyber fraud, cybercrime and terrorism.
The cyber realm: borderless opportunity for good … and evil
The cyber realm is characterized by a perceived sense of statelessness, of few or no rules regulating a growing transnational digital society. There are clear benefits that flow from the openness and borderless nature of the Internet. But there are costs as well; the cyber world is one where criminals and terrorists can interact more easily than in the physical world, sharing techniques and exploits. Like an unlit alley in a dangerous urban landscape, black hat forums and dark internet meeting hubs provide effective environments for the bad guys to “meet” and learn from each other, often with impunity.
The increasing prevalence of cybercrime should raise red flags around the risks of cyber terrorism. According to Peter W. Singer of the Brookings Institution, 97% of the Fortune 500 companies having been hacked. FBI Director James Comey has said, “there are two kinds of big companies in America: those who have been hacked…and those who don’t know they’ve been hacked.” And as the United Nations put it in its report Cybersecurity: A global issue demanding a global approach: “cybercrime has now become a business which exceeds a trillion dollars a year in online fraud, identity theft, and lost intellectual property, affecting millions of people around the world, as well as countless businesses and the Governments of every nation.”
This phenomenon will become more, not less pronounced over time: the motivation for both terror and crime are not going away, and the opportunity to exploit a common tool set to engage in both increases as technology (exponentially) develops. Our best and most effective defense is recognizing the convergence of cybercrime and terrorism; protecting ourselves from its effects; and interdicting it where we can. Policing systems developed over generations must continue to evolve to effectively meet the threat. A collective, integrated and coordinated approach is required across a range of players, public and private – one that involves collaborative efforts at the law enforcement and counter terrorism level, and one that involves the private sector stepping up to safeguard our systems and networks from attack.
Recognizing this growing and converging threat is unsettling. Mitigating it will be costly in terms of effort and resources. But the consequences if we fail to do so will be far worse.
* The topic of policing theory and development is a separate one, worthy of much more attention than can be provided by the scope of this blog. I had the extraordinary opportunity to write my thesis with Hsi-Huey Liang, Professor at Vassar College, shortly before his retirement; Dr. Liang was the author of The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System, and his historical analysis of the subject is an excellent treatment among other things of the connection between domestic order, security, the concept of citizenship and social progress.
It’s hard to vacation. Yes, I realize that this is a ‘first-world problem’ (laughably so), but I was struck on a recent vacation myself how it can be difficult to truly disconnect from work in a real way.
While we’re having fun with family, friends, and maybe even the occasional exotic locale, there can be a creeping sense of guilt for missing work. Emails are piling up. Clients are calling. Colleagues need me.
The overwhelmed brain can take a while to wind down.
Here’s the terrible truth about our minds: they’re limited. When it comes to attention, there are two ‘networks’ at play. The task-positive network (referred to as the Central Executive by neuroscientists) is your active engagement with a task. The task-negative network takes over when your mind wanders or is creative. When one of these two networks is active, the other is not.
Both the task-positive and the task-negative networks are very important to us humans. While we need that focused attention to accomplish tasks, the inspiration and ideas come from the daydreaming. It’s a two-part attention system, and it’s easy to abuse at work. Sometimes we force the employment of the task-positive network in order to be extra productive. Sometimes we vacillate back and forth too quickly, like when we allow social media to interrupt work.
Vacations can be enormously restorative, but not if we use our minds in the same way as we do when we’re working. Checking email, thinking about work, or using your Central Executive while on vacation means your mind doesn’t get that break.
So as you manage to eke out a couple days for yourself and your family this month, make sure you do your brain a favor and let it wander. Let your creative mind flow. When you need to concentrate on something, take your time.
Don’t worry, the Central Executive has gotten enough exercise, and will still be healthy when you return.
Recently, numerous high profile leaders have gotten in trouble with the law. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund and a leading French politician, was arrested on charges of sexual assault. Before that, David Sokol, thought to be Warren Buffett’s soon successor, was forced to resign for trading in Lubrizol stock prior to recommending that Berkshire Hathaway purchase the company.
All of these incredibly talented leaders were successful and at the peak of their careers. So why destroy everything they have built by confusing acts and antics? The media has painted portraits of these leaders as evil, terrible people. However the question is raised what makes these thought to be “good” people lose their way?
These leaders did not necessarily become bad people, they rather lost sight of their morals and values. Few people find their way into positions of leadership by cheating or being evil, yet we all have the ability to lose sight of what’s important.
The important message is that people have a hard time staying grounded without some help. Leaders rely on people close to them to help them remain centered. Their spouse or partner can be a great person who knows them best and aren’t impressed by the wealth, prestige and titles.
As Senator Ensign told his fellow senators in a farewell speech in May, “When one takes a position of leadership, there is a very real danger of getting caught up in the hype surrounding that status … Surround yourselves with people who will be honest with you about how you really are and what you are becoming, and then make them promise to not hold back… from telling you the truth.”


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The United Arab Emirates has awarded Prime Minister Modi with the highest civilian honour for boosting the relations between India and the Emirates.
We have historical and comprehensive strategic ties with India, reinforced by the pivotal role of my dear friend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who gave these relations a big boost. In appreciation of his efforts, the UAE President grants him the Zayed Medal.
— محمد بن زايد (@MohamedBinZayed) April 4, 2019
Taking to Twitter to congratulate Prime Minister Modi, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, said the Indian Prime Minister had played a pivotal role in enhancing bilateral ties to the level of comprehensive strategic relations. The Zayed Medal is the highest decoration awarded to kings, presidents and heads of states.

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Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BASPHCDA), on Saturday announced that 17 inmates of a correctional facility in the state tested positive to COVID-19.
Mohammed speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi, also disclosed that 51 medical officers have so far tested positive for coronavirus in the state.
He explained that an isolation centre has been established in the correctional facility to ensure that no inmate escapes.
“51 medical personnel have so far been infected in the state and out of this figure, one was confirmed dead.
“Also, we have 17 inmates who have been confirmed positive for Coronavirus
“Fourteen of them are currently on treatment in the isolation centre inside the facility,’’ Mohammed added.
So far, Bauchi State has recorded 402 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 11 deaths.

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When it comes to estimating what a film will do on its opening weekend it’s mainly a guessing game. Sometimes a film will do what you predict it will do; sometimes it does even better; and then a lot of the time, it does even worse. You never know; and anyone who claims they know for sure is really just speculating like everybody else.
But then once in a while, it’s too obvious. Take for example one of this weekend’s major openings – “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” (“PPZ”). Who didn’t see that the film was going to tank big time? It had everything going against it.
Even though it’s based on a popular book, it’s still a dumb idea. Take a satire of a Jane Austin novel and put in zombies in it because…why? Zombies are all hip and cool now? Is there a logical reason to even put these two extremes together? Second, the trailers for the film made it look even worse than anyone could have imagined. And third, who is the film for? Young women who would have been attracted to the Jane Austin aspect of the film stayed away from it because of all the horror film elements and zombies. Horror film fans stayed away for all the Jane Austin stuff.
And then on top of that. it was rated PG-13. Who wants to see a movie about zombies rated a tame PG-13? You could argue it worked for “World War Z” which was rated PG-13, but that film was more of a globe-trotting action movie than a straight out horror film. Any 15 minutes of “The Walking Dead” is scarier and more explicit than all of “PPZ,” so who’s going to bother watching it?
Well, guess what? The film tanked this weekend, coming in 5th place, making some $5.2 million, which means it’ll be out of most theaters by the coming weekend. Like I said – sometimes it’s too obvious.
And this being Super Bowl weekend, box office
numbers are lower than usual – especially today, Sunday, which may account for why, even though “Kung Pu Panda” was No. 1 again this weekend, it took a big drop of about 49% from last weekend, making $21 million, for $69 million total so far (and another $129 million overseas as well).
The Coen brothers’ latest film, spoofing 1950’s Hollywood, titled “Hail Caesar,” came in second, with $11 million, which, for the average Coen brothers film, is not a bad opening, and actually better than most. With the exception of a few, like “True Grit” (their biggest b.o. hit to date, with $171 million domestic), and “No Country for Old Men,” most of the Coen brothers films have been box office flops, or just middling box office performers.
But because critics love them to death, and think everything they do is brilliant, and they’re well respected in the business, seen as hip and cool outsiders, they can always get their films made. I’ll bet that their next three films already have financing lined up.
And in other news, “Stars Wars: The Force Awakens” just keeps keeping on with over $900 million in the U.S. Though it’s not going to be the first film to make $1 billion domestically, it’ll come close. Perhaps the next “Star Wars” film in 2017 will do that.
“The Revenant” keeps going on as well, coming in third place, with almost $150 million so far, and over $326 million worldwide, easily making it, to date, director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s highest grossing film, both domestically and worldwide.
1) Kung Fu Panda 3 Fox $21,000,000 Total: $69,050,957
2) Hail, Caesar! Uni. $11,440,000
3) The Revenant Fox $7,100,000 Total: $149,703,403
4) Star Wars: The Force Awakens BV $6,890,000 Total: $905,961,469
5) The Choice LGF $6,085,000
6) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies SGem $5,200,000
7) The Finest Hours BV $4,715,000 Total: $18,380,660
8) Ride Along 2 Uni. $4,520,000 Total: $77,206,830
9) The Boy STX $4,098,000 Total: $26,895,684
10) Dirty Grandpa LGF $4,050,000 Total: $29,389,753
11) The 5th Wave Sony $3,692,000 Total: $25,657,200
12) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi Par. $2,850,000 Total: $47,742,592
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‘When people come out on the scene, a lot of people take drugs and have sex.’
Nash Sithole is a poet and author who has long attended 56 Dean Street’s monthly Let’s Talk About Gay Sex and Drugs.
It’s an evening aimed at creating a safe space initially for gay and bi men, but now the whole LGBTI community, to talk about chemsex and ‘high and horny’ behavior.
It’s been running in London for two years, but as our community begins to understand more about chemsex, groups are starting in other cities.
Sithole has just launched a group in Manchester. But a Let’s Talk group has also begun in Berlin this year too.
Gay Star New’s global chemsex survey showed alarming levels anxiety and depression among those who in engage in party and play.
Sithole says to GSN, pain, upset and anger are themes that come up ‘over and over’ at these events.
He has his own story of using drugs for sex which he tells to GSN’s chemsex series:
Sithole says LGBTI venues closing contributes to growing the chemsex scene
Stumbling across chemsex ‘accidentally’ talking about his experiences he says ‘I think it’s just once you were there [the drugs] just made it easier.’
Looking back at his time partying in Soho, Vauxhall and in the rest of gay London’s clubbing scene, he reflects on how much it’s changed too.
Angry with the closure of spaces all over London, he believes this is part of the reason why drugs went behind closed doors.
‘I do think the drugs were changing and it was a pretty quick. Going from things like pills and MDMA and ketamine.’
The change happens when the ‘unholy trinity’ hit the scene: ‘mephedrone and G and then Tina slowly got introduced to the mix and I think the issue is they really pump up the sex’
‘You put people behind closed doors with these narcotics and there’s no one there to regulate anything. You know at least in a club you’ve got to bide your time because if you’re in the toilet all night someone’s going to knock on the door. But [away from the clubs] you can pretty much just sit behind closed doors and do it.
‘That’s the scary bit.
In the last 11 years, nearly 6 in 10 of LGBTI venues have closed in the capital.
‘If you haven’t yet: don’t start’
Let’s Talk’s message is talking about drugs and sex without stigma or shame. It’s that message that inspired the Gay Star News chemsex series.
However, Sithole says despite this, if you haven’t ever used chems for sex ‘don’t start.’
Even so, his prominent message about the group is how it’s about talking, to let go of pain.
‘So many people ask, why did I have to through this? what did I do to deserve this?
‘It’s really heartbreaking to see’
Time and again throughout the interview Sithole comes back to shame. Speaking in particular about how many LGBTI people growing up are told that their identity is wrong or one to be ashamed of; In his view, that’s what drives people to use drugs to escape.
That’s why he hopes people will join him at Let’s Talk in Manchester. Or find another way of getting those thoughts about shame out.
Sithole writes poetry, and says ‘tell someone, and if you can’t tell someone write it down.’
He’d never stigmatize someone who takes drugs, however, he says:
‘But if someone came up to me and said I’ve never done chem’s before and I’m thinking about trying it; I would say don’t do it.’
This article is part of the Gay Star News Chemsex Series. Read more stories, support and see the videos on our chemsex section.


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Social Security: By the Numbers
Here are five facts about Social Security that might surprise you.
Have A Question About This Topic?
Emotional biases can adversely impact financial decision making. Here’s a few to be mindful of.
This article may help you maximize the benefits of your donation for your chosen charity.
This article allows those who support LGBTQ+ interests to explore the possibilities of Socially Responsible Investing.

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Haryana Deputy CM writes to PM urging to resume talks with protesting farmerstext_fields
Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana Dushyant Chautala on Saturday wrote to PM Modi urging him to resume talks with farmers protesting against the three contentious farm laws for over 100 days at the Delhi borders. Chautala suggested that a team of 3-4 cabinet ministers restart discussion while adding that he believes that every problem has a solution through mutual discussions.
"I would like to bring to your kind attention that our ''Annadattas'' are on roads at Delhi border agitating in respect of newly enacted three farm laws of the Central government. It is a matter of concern that such agitation is going on for more than hundred days," Mr Chautala wrote in the letter dated April 15.
"The earlier discussion between the central government and farmers' union brought a few solutions to the concerns raised by Samyukt Morcha. In this regard, a team consisting of three to four senior cabinet ministers may lead the delegation for resuming talks with farmers so as to bring an amicable conclusion in this issue," it read.
The deputy chief minister wrote the letter days after state's home minister Anil Vij's missive to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, saying talks with farmers should be resumed to resolve the issue.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have been camping at the borders of Delhi for over a hundred days now. They have been demanding a repeal of the three farm laws enacted by the Centre last September, saying the laws will weaken the minimum support price system, leaving them at the mercy of corporates.

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Move over Mr. Hockey. Jumbo Joe is coming through.
San Jose Sharks center Joe Thornton notched his 1,050th assist on Monday night to pass Detroit Red Wings great Gordie Howe on the NHL’s all-time list.
The perfect feed to Kevin Lebanc on a 2-on-1 moved the 39-year-old Thornton into 9th place on the all-time list, just 13 back of longtime Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman, who sits in 8th place at 1,063.
"That's an unbelievable accomplishment, unbelievable career, and that's something that should be really celebrated, and I think our whole group and I are excited we were here to witness that," Sharks coach Peter DeBoer told the Associated Press.
"Gordie Howe's career speaks for itself but when you get a guy like Joe Thornton that actually passes him on the assist list that is an amazing accomplishment."
The assist was also Thornton’s 1,457th NHL point, tying Teemu Selanne for 15th place on the all-time points list.
The Sharks, who have the best record in the Western Conference at 34-16-7, beat the Vancouver Canucks 7-2.
“The Great One” Wayne Gretzky is all the NHL’s all-time leader in assists with a remarkable total of 1,963. That’s 714 more than the second-place player, Ron Francis.
Milestones reached by Jumbo tonight:— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) February 12, 2019
- Passed Gordie Howe for sole possession of 9th on the NHL's all-time assist list
- Tied Teemu Selanne for 15th on NHL's all-time points list
- Passed S. Doan and J. Bucyk for sole possession of 15th on the NHL's all-time games played list pic.twitter.com/q8OPXkReXn
Thornton passes Gordie Howe for 9⃣th place on the all-time assist list. pic.twitter.com/cXbLlhI1uJ— NHL GIFs (@NHLGIFs) February 12, 2019
Joe Thornton 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 need a bigger shelf, just sayin'. pic.twitter.com/8qVPbEi7Uf— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) February 12, 2019

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Seemingly overnight, electric scooters went from being a fun — if niche — recreational gadget to suddenly appearing on every street corner in almost every city in the US. The unexpected success of shareable dockless e-scooter companies, as encapsulated by Bird and Lime, is undoubtedly one of the biggest tech crazes of the last year.
But there’s a dark side to scooter-sharing (and I’m not talking about the vandalism or the sidewalk clutter or even all those injured riders). The fundamental numbers don’t really add up because scooters don’t bring in enough money to cover their cost. Ride-sharing is wildly unsustainable, and if the business continues on its current path, it’s entirely possible that these scooters will end up in a mass graveyard like those viral photos from China.
It all comes down to unit economics — how much revenue each individual scooter brings in for the company — and the most important number to consider is the lifespan of each scooter. The more trips and miles a single scooter can cover, the better it is for scooter companies that have to recoup the cost of each vehicle before they can start making money.
Recent research by ARK and some savvy number crunchers at Quartz and The Information provides a closer look at how much money scooter companies are losing. But to understand the nuts and bolts of scooter-sharing, we really need to look at the big picture.


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Help Remedies & the DKMS Bone Marrow Registry
Your next papercut could be the first step in saving the life of a leukemia patient. Help Remedies, a small(er), over-the-counter drug company, has partnered with the DKMS bone marrow registry to package a bone marrow testing strip with their “help: I’ve cut myself” adhesive bandages. Since you are already bleeding (hopefully not profusely) when using their products, the partnership hopes that you’ll dab some of that lovely stuff onto a testing strip to be mailed to DKMS.
According to GOOD1, Graham Douglas, from ad agency Droga5, was looking for a drug company brave enough to attempt integrating a bone marrow testing kit in their product. Douglas’ identical twin brother beat leukemia after finding a donor match for a bone marrow transplant. Douglas wanted to find hope for others with leukemia and found Richard Fine, founder of Help Remedies. According to Douglas: “I wanted to make it as fucking simple as possible to do something good,” he says. “I think a lot of people hear bone marrow donation and they think it’s going to be torture and that’s just not the case.”
I wanted to make it as fucking simple as possible to do something good. I think a lot of people hear bone marrow donation and they think it’s going to be torture and that’s just not the case.
Douglas found the perfect partner with Fine and Help. Help Remedies markets itself as a new type of over-the-counter drug company. They promote a “less is more” philosophy with their products stating that “people get enough drugs, dyes, and nonsense from other kind of drug companies.”2 Besides using less dyes and less wasteful packaging, Help also donates 5% of their profits to organizations that help U.S. children gain access to healthcare. That’s refreshing.
Help Remedies’ “help: I’ve cut myself” bandage kit contains 16 adhesive bandages in two sizes as well as a bone marrow testing kit.
This is the kind of product-cause partnership we love to see here at CraveGood. The product uses market forces to assist the cause in breaking down barriers — in this case, the need to reach a bigger pool of donors. At the same time, the partnership is a symbiotic one for the company. Fine has says that “the mild increase in cost, especially in larger volumes, will be more than made up for in increased retail business and consumer interest.”3 He also notes that the company continues to make a profit, but at the same time, hopes to save 10,000 lives with the product. Good stuff.
Also, quirky marketing videos!
Although there are millions of people in the bone marrow donor registry, 6 out of 10 patients never receive the transplant they need to save their lives.4
Do to the diversity of patients with leukemia, donors of all ethnicities and ancestries are needed by the registry. It’s quite possible that you are the only person in the registry who can save a patient’s life.
DKMS Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei gGmbH (German Bone Marrow Donor Center in English) was founded in Germany in 1991. It’s founder, Katharina Harf lost her mother to leukemia at the age of fourteen after a long search for potential donors. During her mother’s illness, Katharina’s father Peter Harf recruited 68,000 donors in a desperate year of searching. Katharina has continued to fight for leukemia patients everywhere.
- Buy some “help: I’ve cut myself” adhesive bandages (Approx. $4/box)
- Register directly as a bone marrow donor at DKMS
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ST. LOUIS, AUG. 6 -- General Dynamics Corp. today announced a consolidation of two California defense-related divisions that will result in 1,500 to 2,000 layoffs by the end of 1991.
"The consolidation, effective immediately, is the result of declining business prospects in the defense industry," said Ralph Hawes, executive vice president for missiles and electronics.
General Dynamics, which has nearly 103,000 employees, already has laid off 1,150 employees this year. The announcement of additional layoffs is the latest example of how cutbacks at the Pentagon have affected defense contractors.
Last month, the nation's largest defense contractor, McDonnell Douglas Corp., announced it was reducing its work force by up to 11 percent, or 17,000 jobs nationwide, by the end of this year.
Both companies are based in St. Louis.
General Dynamics said it was consolidating its Valley Systems and Pomona divisions, which are about 16 miles apart in Pomona and Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. The new unit will be called the Air Defense Systems Division.
"In order to remain competitive in a declining market for missiles and other air defense systems, General Dynamics must more efficiently use its existing resources and reduce overhead," said Michael C. Keel, who has been named corporate vice president and general manager of the new division.
"While we all welcomed a diminished threat from the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, these changes have brought unfortunate personal economic consequences for many people in the U.S. defense industry," Keel said.
Keel had been corporate vice president and general manager of the Valley Systems division since 1988. Sterling Starr, who had been corporate vice president and general manager of the Pomona division, will help in the initial steps of the consolidation before being reassigned.
Keel said the company would provide displaced workers with career counseling and placement assistance. More than 600 of the layoffs will be made by eliminating duplicate jobs, he said.
The Pomona division produces Standard and Sparrow Missiles and Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems, while Valley Systems builds Stinger and Rolling Airframe missiles for the U.S. military and its allies.
The Pomona division was formed in 1952 and Valley Systems was created in 1985 in response to the then-expanding military market. The company said the Air Defense Systems Division would operate facilities in Pomona and Rancho Cucamonga, as well as in New Mexico, Arizona, Arkansas and in California's San Diego County.
With the consolidation, General Dynamics, the nation's second-largest defense contractor, will have eight divisions and six subsidiaries. They are all involved in defense work, except Cessna Aircraft, which makes general aviation aircraft.


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Poems. By Thomas Carew, Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of the Privie-Chamber, and Sewer in Ordinary to His Majesty. 1640. 2nd ed. 1642.
Poems, with a Maske. 3rd ed. 1651.
Poems, Songs and Sonnets. Together with a Masque. 4th ed. 1671.
Works. Ed. Maitland, T. Edinburgh, 1824.
Poems. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. Roxburghe Library. 1870.
Poems and Masque. Ed. Ebsworth, J. W. Library of Old Authors. 1893.
Poems. Ed. Vincent, A. 1899.
Single Works and Selections
Clum Britannicum. A Masque at Whitehall in the Banquetting-House on Shrove-Tuesday-night, the 18 of February 1633 [n.s. 1634]. 1634.
Thomas Carews Poems. Hull, 1903.
[See A. T. Quiller-Couchs Adventures in Criticism, 1896.]
Hesperides: or, the Works, both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq. 1648.
Select Poems from the Hesperides, with occasional remarks by Nott, J. Bristol, 1810.
Poetical Works of Robert Herrick. Ed. Maitland, T. Edinburgh, 1823.
Poetical Works. Ed. Singer, S. W. 2 vols. 1846.
Complete Poems. Ed. Grosart, A. B. 1876.
Hesperides. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 2 vols. 1869. New ed. 1890.
Chrysomela: Selections from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick. Ed. Palgrave, F. T. 1877.
Selections from the poetry of Robert Herrick. Ed. Hale, E. E., jun. Athenaeum Press Series. Boston, Mass., 1895.
Hesperides. Ed. Pollard, A. W., with a preface by Swinburne, A. C. 2 vols. 1891. Revised ed. [n.d.]
Among other rpts. of Hesperides, mention may be made of the Kelmscott ed., ed. by Ellis, F. S., and ptd. by William Morris, 1895, and of the Aldine Poets ed., ed. Saintsbury, G., 2 vols., 1893.
(For general authorities, see later.)
Gosse, E. Seventeenth Century Studies. 1883.
Grosart, A. B. Memorial-Introduction to Complete Poems. 1876.
Hale, E. E. Die Chronologische Anordnung der Dichtungen Robert Herricks. Halle, 1892.
Moorman, F. W. Robert Herrick: a biographical and critical study. 1910.
Swinburne, A. C. Preface to Pollards ed. of Hesperides.
See, also, the introductions to eds. of the Hesperides by Hazlitt, W. C., Pollard, A. W., and Saintsbury, G., and the article on Herrick in the Edinburgh Review, January 1904.
Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, etc., to which is added Amarantha, a Pastorall. By Richard Lovelace, Esq. 1649.
Lucasta: Posthume Poems of Richard Lovelace, Esq. 1659.
Lucasta. Ed. Singer, S. W. 1818.
Lucasta. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. Library of Old Authors. 1864. 2nd ed. 1897.
Cavalier and Courtier Lyrists. Canterbury Poets. 1891.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry, vol. III. 1903.
Jusserand, J. J. Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais, vol. II. 1904. Eng. trans., vol III. 1909.
Masterman, J. H. B. The Age of Milton. 1897.
Morley, H. The King and the Commons. Cavalier and Puritan Song. [An anthology.] 1868.
Saintsbury, G. History of English Prosody, vol. II. 1908.
Schelling, F. E. A Book of 17th century lyrics. Athenaeum Press Series. 1899.
Wendell, B. The Seventeenth Century in English Literature. 1904.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING
Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of all the Incomparable Pieces, written by Sir John Suckling. And published by a Friend to perpetuate his memory. 1646. A 2nd ed., unaltered, appeared in 1648; a 3rd, with some new Additionals, in 1658.
Poems, Plays and Other Remains. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 2 vols. 1874. 2nd ed., revised. 1892.
The Works of Sir John Suckling. Ed. Thompson, A. H. 1910.
Single Works and Selections
Aglaura, a tragi-comedy. 1638 and 1648.
The Discontented Colonell [entitled Brennoralt in the Fragmenta Aurea of 1646]. [n. d.]
The Coppy of a Letter written to the Lower House of Parliament touching Divers Grievances and Inconveniences of the State, etc. 1641.
The Goblins. A Select Collection of Old Plays. Ed. Collier, J. P. Vol. X. 18257.
Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling, 1836; contains a biography of Suckling by Suckling, A. I. See, also, Linton, W. J., Rare Poems of the 16th and 17th centuries, Boston, Mass., 1883.

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The song, which was released as a promotional track from 'Ultraviolence' album, features guest vocals from Del Rey's boyfriend Barrie-James O'Neill.
Lana Del Rey has released another new track from her upcoming album, "Ultraviolence". Arriving on the singer's Vevo on Sunday, June 8, the song called "Brooklyn Baby" was dropped as the record's promotional single.
The slow-tempo track was co-written by Del Rey's boyfriend Barrie-James O'Neill. He also adds his vocals to the song's chorus, singing, "Yeah my boyfriend's pretty cool/ But he's not as cool as me/ Cause I'm a Brooklyn baby."
"Brooklyn Baby" is the fourth song from "Ultraviolence" album that fans have enjoyed. Del Rey previously previewed the LP with its lead single "West Coast", which peaked inside Billboard 100's top 20, and promotional tracks "Shades of Cool" and "Ultraviolence".
Set to be officially released on June 17 via Interscope, the follow-up to 2012's "Born to Die" was produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach who had nothing but nice things to say about Del Rey in a recent interview with Rolling Stone.
"She's a true eccentric, and, you know, extremely talented," he told the site of the 27-year-old songstress. "She has a definite vision of what she is and what she wants to be, musically and visually, which is cool."

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Peter Struss, Andreas Malik, Martin Sachenbacher
Qualitative Modeling is the Key
In: Workshop Notes of the 6th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-95), Goslar, Germany, October 1995.
The paper presents objectives and results of a case study in computer support for failure mode and effects analysis and for the creation of repair manuals in the domain of automotive systems. Model-based prediction and diagnosis reflect the requirements of these tasks. More specifically, qualitative models of system components are necessary for both capturing the available knowledge and achieving the desired coverage and granularity of the analysis results. We describe models for parts of the anti-lock braking system (ABS) and the electronic diesel control (EDC), focusing on a qualitative approach to compositional modeling of the involved electrical circuits. The summarized results of the case study demonstrate the necessity and utility of qualitative models for the successful application of automated diagnosis to industrial problems.


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Deep Sea Adventure
A group of poor explorers hoping to get rich quickly heads out to recover treasures from some undersea ruins. They're all rivals, but their budgets force them all to share a single rented submarine. In the rented submarine, they all have to share a single tank of air, as well. If they don't get back to the sub before they run out of air, they'll drop all their treasure. Now it's time to see who can bring home the greatest riches.
Deep Sea Adventure is the highly popular, push-your-luck treasure hunting game from Oink Games - now available in Australia from Grail Games!

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Definitely their best player and among the best in the league but he sat out like the last 4-5 minutes. Was he injured?
I don’t know. He looked exhausted. Maybe his coach was teaching him a lesson for the weak defensive move he tried on cdjr.
He was gassed and the game was out of reach at that point. Don’t think he was happy with Cumberland.
Said after the game that they tried to get in a shooting match with the Coogs and the Coogs are a better shooting team.
Sometimes it is better to take a player out when he is having a tough time and shows no sign of coming out of it. Cronin knows Cumberland well, and obviously saw something that was not good.
I recall one game in Hofheinz the first time that Hakeem matched up against Arkansas’ Joe Klein. Klein was a highly sought after big man recruit, and a favorite to be an All American and high NBA draft choice. He couldn’t even get a shot off, and Olajuwon was killing him. So Klein started traveling trying to get a shot off. Eddie Sutton saw enough, took Klein out and sat him rather than watch him struggle.
Cronin is looking to future games. No reason to harm your main player.
In his postgame press conference, Cronin said he new the game was over and Cumberland was gassed so he left him on the bench.
From the article…
He was better Sunday, grinding out 20 points, nine of them from the free throw line. Cronin said his best player was tired and asked to come out. Also, “He was not rotating defensively,’’ said Cronin. “You don’t rotate defensively, you don’t rebound’’ you don’t play. “We weren’t going to win the game. Plus, it’s been a long year. He’s beat up physically.’’
Man, Cronin just seems like sour grapes. To me, it looks bad when a coach bad mouths his team publicly like that. Good grief, you can’t tell me that the Bearcat players didn’t want to win their last game at home and at least share a conference title. Just realize that they flatly got manhandled by a top program.
I’ve always thought he is an a**h*le. Just looking at his mug says look at this jerk. He obviously has no offensive coaching ability. His little tirades on the court are stupid.
Corey tapped him out.
I heard someone gave him a chop block a few games ago and he is now saving himself for the NBA.
Cronin is a sarcastic but excellent coach. He takes responsibility seriously. And he considers challenging the heart and manhood of his players his responsibility.
They just aren’t the best team this year. The Cincy media should get over it.
Cronin and Samson played golf in the off season and they speak highly of each other. I’m not a huge Cronin fan, but if he’s good enough for coach, he’s good enough for me.
He’s had a great run at UC. great coach and for the most part they own us. Not this season tho.
That press conference was all about our third meeting in the conference tourney.
Again, in the 2nd half of the game, Hinton was guarding Cumberland for the most part and there was no Gap to the basket. Cronin knew it was fruitless to keep him out there, so why not sit him down and rest him for later this week.
He pulled Cumberland right after this play with 6:17 left. Davis blew right by him for a layup and one. Cumberland’s effort was basically non existent on the play. Flat footed, reached and watched Corey go to the bucket. Cumberland never got back in and their coaches game remarks probably are a message to him mostly.
Yep, I agreed! Cincy brought their A game in the first half, with them getting a ton of foul calls. But UH turn it on in the 2nd half and blew them out.
IIRC he still managed to score as many points in the last 6 minutes from the bench as he did in the last 6 mins of our first game with them.