NEW HAVEN, CT – Advocates for a transportation system that includes more electric vehicles, fewer overall cars, more bikes, a more sophisticated rail system, and lower auto emissions – among other strategies – got together in New Haven Tuesday to push their initiatives.
The 2nd annual Northeast Multimodal and Transit Summit was held at the New Haven Lawn Club just a few days before legislators are expected to hold lengthy discussions on a couple of different transportation plans: CT2030, the latest plan being proposed by Gov. Ned Lamont, and the competing plan called FASTR CT being offered by state Senate Republicans.
The theme of this year’s summit is “Sustainable, Survivable, and Smart – Transportation for the Next Generations.” The plans and budget for infrastructure investment over the next 10 years will set the framework for the state’s transportation trajectory that will last decades beyond 2030.
The specter of the escalating climate crisis is now expected to rear its head within the lifetimes of most Connecticut residents. The state’s transportation and land-use plans must be vetted for their long-term environmental impacts and contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2018, the state legislature set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by the year 2030 from a 2001 benchmark. The state’s competing draft transportation plans – each of which would increase interstate and state route capacity by adding lanes – represent a conflict with the emission reduction goals set in 2018.
According to cleaner transit advocates, the well-studied concept of induced demand shows that congestion reduction benefits are often temporary and that increased driving trips, combined with sprawling rural development, result in both more driving trips and a speedy return to congested traffic. Further, those same advocates claim that instead of chasing unsustainable interstate expansion models of development, successful cities and regions are implementing transportation demand management approaches that increase transit ridership, carpooling, telecommuting, and spur transit-oriented housing development near employment centers and high-frequency transit hubs.
“Transportation is a civil rights issue,” said Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, who is co-chair of the legislatures Transportation Committee, at the Tuesday session.
Lemar, who has spent the past few years trying to build support for a tolling system on the state’s highways, pushed the conversation away from tolls and toward the overall status of the state’s highways.
“We are struggling to replace an aging infrastructure,” Lemar told the audience. “We have struggled with lack of investment and limited vision. We have allowed the highway system to crumble.”
Lemar added: “We are now at that moment. We also have allowed Metro-North to suffer from limited access and limited vision.”
He also said that “a conversation about just repairing and making trains a little bit faster, repairing bridges across the state,” is not enough.
“It is time for those folks in this room to lead – to find an alternate that doesn’t include piling everyone into a car,” Lemar said. “We need to build transit options for our communities.”
In October, the Transport Hartford Academy widely distributed the statewide CT’s Transportation Future Survey. In that survey, 87% of the respondents felt that unchecked climate change would be either “Very Serious” or “Catastrophic.” The top three items that respondents supported as strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector were:
• Improving existing public transportation including buses, trains, and dial-a-ride (92% support);
• Expanding/improving sidewalks and bike lanes to provide safe alternatives to driving (91% support);
• Expanding public transportation and rail to people and places not yet served (88% support).
Tuesday’s summit included 12 breakout sessions in Yale’s Kroon Hall with over 60 expert speakers on topics ranging from bus transit and rail to walking and biking, and federal legislation and funding. The Transportation Future survey results were discussed in an afternoon session titled, “Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Transportation Sector, the Elephant in the Room.”
The sessions were preceded by a luncheon at the New Haven Lawn Club during which nationally renowned plenary speaker Charles Brown, a self-proclaimed street level researcher from Rutgers University, gave the keynote. His talk focused, primarily on advocates for cleaner transportation to make sure their plans, especially in bigger cities, ensured that minorities, weren’t left behind.
Last week, House Democrats told Lamont that car tolls – a plan preferred by Lamont – were off the table.
House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz and House Majority Leader Matt Ritter asked Lamont to consider truck-only tolls on 12 of the 14 bridges that are part of the governor’s transportation plan.
House leadership would eliminate the tolls on Route 9 and the Wilbur Cross and Merritt Parkways.
Lamont had campaigned on truck-only tolls only to shift his position shortly after being sworn into office, saying trucks alone would not raise enough revenue to solve the problem.
Lamont said he’s recommending that all caucuses be prepared to bring their proposals to a meeting in his office as soon as possible.
The tolls would create a revenue stream that would be used to back low-interest loans from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau.
Under the proposal, truck-only tolling rates would be similar to rates in New York. The Connecticut Department of Transportation has estimated that truck-only tolls could raise about $150 million a year.
Aresimowicz and Ritter said the Senate Republican plan, which excludes tolls, is a non-starter because it would remove about $1.6 billion from the Rainy Day Fund.
Amy McClean Salls, a Senior Policy Advocate and Connecticut Director at the Acadia Center, agreed with Lemar that the time is now to take bold steps to make Connecticut highways cleaner and easier to drive.
She said using more EVs and improving rail and bike lanes were “hard, extraordinary and scary,” but that the time has come.
Victoria Hackett, Deputy Commissioner of the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), chimed in that Connecticut needs to get serious about meeting its ridesharing and emission goals.


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When feeding the horse, there are three general guidelines one should follow. Feeds should be fed at least twice a day. Feeds should be fed in equally divided amounts. Feeds should be fed near to or at the same time each day and at even intervals throughout the day.
Is it OK to feed a horse once a day?
Can you feed your horse once a day? Yes, you can feed your horse once a day as long as you make sure that the horses has enough feed. You will want to use a slow feeder or automatic feeder to ensure the feed lasts at least twelve hours if possible.
How many times should a horse be fed a day?
Most commonly, horses receive two meals a day, although some barns with the ability to do so will feed three or more times a day. Obviously, the more frequently a horse receives forage, the more similar his environment becomes to the way horses evolved.
What times should I feed my horse?
Horses should be fed a minimum of twice a day. Three or four times a day would be better. Feed horses according to their work schedule. If a horse is worked in the morning, feed it one-third of the concentrate and a small portion of hay in the morning and a larger portion of hay with the grain at the noon feeding.
Do horses need to eat constantly?
Horses should eat constantly because their GI tract is designed to always be digesting small amounts of forage as they graze nearly around the clock. … The horse’s stomach is relatively small and can only hold so much at one time. Most of a horse’s energy comes from fermenting forages in the hindgut.
Will a horse stop eating when full?
In general, horses will spend less time grazing good-quality pasture, but this is not always true. … Horses do not have the ability to control their eating so that they will stop eating when they have met their nutrient requirements. They will continue to eat, which can lead to digestive and lameness problems.
How do you know if a horse is hungry?
Horses tend to always want to eat, especially if it’s grain or other concentrated feed. They’ll walk away from hay after they’re full, but most horses will eat themselves sick if given the chance. Easy, just check to see if he’s breathing. If he is, he’s hungry.
Can horses recognize their owner?
A: We all get a sense that our horses recognize us by our appearance or the sound of our voice, and that they can distinguish us from strangers or less familiar people. Certainly we know horses learn associations between a person coming around an expected time and their getting fed, turned out, or exercised.
Should horses be stabled at night?
Some horse should be stabled at night, ones you’re getting ready to show, have diet restrictions, medical conditions, or thin coats, are likely candidates. But it’s essential to treat horses as individuals and consider their unique circumstances before deciding when and for how long to stable them.
Are bananas good for horses?
Bananas are a healthy source of potassium for horses and are a fruit they really enjoy eating. Bananas are a very popular food for riders to give their race horses as they give that extra boost of energy.
Why would a horse eat it’s own poop?
With that said, the most common reasons a horse will eat manure is from a lack of/or an inappropriate feed program, stress, or just plain boredom. A horse’s digestive tract is designed to consume fiber continuously throughout the day. … Don’t feed alfalfa or top quality grass hay if the horse is an “easy-keeper”.
Do horses need salt blocks?
Most horse owners know a hydrated horse is a healthy horse, and a dehydrated horse is a serious matter. We provide salt blocks for horses to replace essential trace minerals they need, and because salt triggers their thirst for water.
How long after a horse eats can you ride?
Ideally, you should wait an hour or so after your horse has finished a meal before riding them. If you’re going to do something really strenuous, it should be closer to three hours. A full digestive system gives the horse’s lungs less room to work, and makes exercise much harder on them.
Can a horse live on hay alone?
So to answer your question, yes, a horse can live on just hay and be perfectly healthy.
Can horses go overnight without water?
Although horses’ bodies can tolerate a lack of water for extended periods, dehydration from water restriction can quickly become fatal.
Should you wet your horses feed?
Wetting a horse’s food will aid in hydration and digestion. Hard food such as pellets and cubes will soften and reduce the chance of chocking and food becomes easier to chew for older horses with dental issues. Soaking hay reduces the dust particles alleviating allergies and sensitivities.

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Tuesday, August 19 2014 4:10 PM EDT2014-08-19 20:10:07 GMT
The police chief for Gulf Shores along Alabama's coast is weighing-in on the actions of the law enforcement commander in charge of Ferguson, Missouri's in the wake of an escalating crisis brought on by
Gulf Shores Police Chief Ed Delmore wrote a blistering open letter to Captain Ronald S. Johnson, who was given command of law enforcement operations following days of looting and rioting in the city.
The mother of a central Ohio seventh-grader whose school district is refusing to let her play on a football team because she's a girl is considering taking legal action against the district.
The Eagle-Gazette (http://ohne.ws/1acdrUm ) in Lancaster reports that the student's mother, Anjee Jenkins, says the school's decision has left 12-year-old Makhaela Jenkins heartbroken. The mother says she will fight "until there is no hope left."
Liberty Union-Thurston District superintendent Paul Mathews told the newspaper he doubts the school board will reverse its policies on female athletes during its upcoming September meeting. He says the district considers football and wrestling contact sports and has the right to bar girls from playing on those teams.
The American Civil Liberties Union's Ohio chapter on Thursday called the district's decision "unacceptable and unlawful."

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From an article published on September 30, 2015 at www.space.com:
Colorful new maps of Ceres, charted by NASA’s Dawn space probe, have been unveiled at the European Planetary Science Conference in France. The maps highlight the dwarf planet’s topography and composition, as well as a pyramid-shaped mountain and the Occator crater, where many mysterious bright spots can be found.
Dawn scientists are also discussing three bursts of energetic electrons that have them puzzled. As Dawn principal investigator Chris Russell put it, “Ceres continues to amaze”.
To learn more about the outer Solar System, see Chapter 8 of The Cosmos.
Link to the full article on www.space.com
From a New Scientist article, May 16, 2015:
The United Arab Emirates has announced details of its uncrewed Mars probe, which it plans to launch in 2020 to monitor the planet’s atmosphere from orbit. The spacecraft, named Hope, will be a big step up from the country’s previous space activities as it attempts to compete with other emerging space powers like India and China.
Credit: © Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre
The Mars probe will carry spectrometers for analysing infrared and ultraviolet signals, along with a digital camera. These will measure water, dust and other molecules in the planet’s atmosphere, in an attempt to learn how Mars transitioned from a wet, warm world to the dry, dusty one we see today.
The science goals are similar and complementary to those of MAVEN and MOM, two Mars probes launched last year by NASA and the Indian space agency ISRO.
Link: New Scientist article.
From a news report on Phys.org, April 20, 2015:
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has unveiled the plan for a Moon lander. If successful, Japan will be the fourth country to send an unmanned probe to the moon after Russia, the United States, and China.
JAXA plans to launch the mission as early as 2018, with a development cost estimated at up to 15 billion yen ($126 million). The probe, named SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon), will be carried by the nation’s solid-fuel “Epsilon” rocket.
Link: Phys.org article.
An uncrewed Chinese lunar probe was launched on October 23, 2014, to fly around the Moon and back to Earth, in an 8-day mission. Called Chang’e 5-T1, it was a test mission in advance of the Chinese 2017 Chang’e 5 mission that is planned to return lunar rocks and soil to Earth. The return capsule of Chang’e 5-T1 landed in Inner Mongolia, on October 31, 2014.
Like its predecessors, the spacecraft is named after the Chinese Moon goddess Chang’e.


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Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) Nsaid Jan. 30 it would pay $350 million to buy a refinery in Pasadena, Texas, from Brazilian state oil company Petrobras.
In addition to the 110,000-barrel-per-day (bbl/d) refinery, Chevron will take ownership of a 466-acre (188.5 hectares) complex on the Houston Ship Channel that includes storage tanks with capacity for 5.1 million barrels of crude oil and refined products, as well as 143 acres of additional land, the company said.
"This expansion of our Gulf Coast refining system enables Chevron to process more domestic light crude, supply a portion of our retail market in Texas and Louisiana with Chevron-produced products, and realize synergies through coordination with our refinery in Pascagoula," said Pierre Breber, executive vice president of Chevron downstream and chemicals.
Chevron, which reported a 150,000-bbl/d increase in shale production in the third quarter, has said it wants a second Gulf Coast facility to handle that crude and better supply its retail gasoline network. The Pasadena refinery produces mostly gasoline and distillates such as diesel.
The deal includes all of Petrobras subsidiary Pasadena Refining System Inc, which operates the refinery and tank farm and owns the adjoining property, and PRSI Trading LLC.
Once approved by regulators, the acquisition will become the second Gulf Coast refinery operated by Chevron and the company’s only one in Texas.
U.S. oil and gas employment has started to fall as the sector contracts in response to lower prices over the last year—and further job losses are likely in the next few months.
Goodnight Midstream named Ben Daitch as CFO on Oct .15, replacing Andrejka Bernatova, who had been with the Dallas-based company for a little over a year.
T.D. Williamson (TDW), the global pipeline solutions provider, has appointed Bill Rees as vice president—Western Hemisphere, and promoted Chuck Harris to vice president of marketing and product management.

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The latest Pokémon GO update has brought a new feature to Niantic's hit mobile game. Is it a new species that has yet to be released in-game? A new Shiny form of a fan-favorite Pokémon? A way to mass-send Gifts to Friends? No. It's "AR Mapping," which essentially tasks trainers with taking video footage of the areas surrounding Pokéstops. Before we go on, just take a break. Inhale, deep. Exhale. This is major so, as you scroll down to learn more, be careful not to get so excited that you damage your computer.
Niantic, in their heart-pounding announcement of this update that everyone has been asking for, wrote:
"Certain PokéStops will have a special design indicating that you'll receive an AR Mapping task when you spin them! The task will require you to complete an action either at the PokéStop where you received the task or at another PokéStop within a certain radius. Complete the task by heading on over to the AR scanning screen and exploring the area around you. This task will count as your daily Field Research task.
Trainers level 20 and up will have access to this new feature beginning on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. PDT (GMT −7). This feature will not be available to Niantic Kids accounts at launch. In the future, parents will have the option to toggle this feature on for Niantic Kids accounts. Stay tuned for updates on when that option will become available."
Those poor Niantic Kids are going to be missing out on all of this game-changing action. While they play the Pokémon GO Halloween Event, having fun with the game's most beloved annual festivities, all of the adults will likely be found filming their local Pokéstops in exchange for a TM and a few Pokéballs.
On a serious note, this is a voluntary feature that doesn't impede gameplay in any way. It is funny, though, to see this treated as an exciting feature on the week of the release of Galarian Ponyta, Mega Gengar, Shiny Spiritomb, and more in Pokémon GO. This is something that trainers can do passively while hunting but, let's be real, most of these tasks will probably be deleted. No harm no foul, but it would perhaps be more interesting to Pokémon GO trainers if there was more information or even visuals Niantic showed to illustrate what their end goal is with this feature.


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Record Store Day Celebration with Cage + Aquarium
April 13, 2015 @ 5:00 pm - April 18, 2015 @ 11:55 pm
Cage + Aquarium Productions, a premier deejay and live music company, is excited to celebrate Record Store Day with a week of all-vinyl events around the city! Record Store Day, which was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees, is a chance to celebrate a beloved music format—real authentic vinyl records and takes place this year on Saturday, April 18. For Cage and Aquarium, one day is simply not enough to fully appreciate the beauty and wonder of vinyl records. To tackle this issue, the C+A crew has special all-wax DJ sets lined up for each day of the week leading up to Record Store Day with celebrations beginning on Monday, April 13 and ending on Saturday, April 18. With a week’s worth of events to choose from, there is no reason to miss out on Cage + Aquarium’s Record Store Day celebration!
Monday, April 13th
The DJs will be spinning raw vinyl at the Cage + Aquarium Studios
Featuring Chris May (Evil Vince) with special guest Mike Miller
1803 W Byron St.
Chicago, IL 60613
Tuesday, April 14th
C+A hits up the Tonic Room for a classic all-wax hip hop/house set
Featuring, Tyler Huffman, Neville Allen (DJ Elliven) and special guest Teddy Ted
2447 N. Halsted
Chicago, IL 60614
Wednesday, April 15th
Logan Square’s The Whistler is the next stop on the RSD Week train with all-vinyl sets the whole night at this hot spot
Featuring Justin Ferranti (Select Inverse), DJ Demchuk with special guest Constance K
2421 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60647
Thursday, April 16th
C+A heads to Northbar in West Town where wheels of steel will continue to spin
Featuring Cody Palmer, Scott Schaefer, DJ Demchuk and special guest Gant Man
1637 W North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
Friday, April 17th
C+A makes its way to Wrigleyville’s Dark Horse for some more vinyl mixing
Featuring Ed Clemons, Adam Peindl, Tyler Huffman with special guest DJ Silkee
3443 N. Sheffield
Chicago, IL 60657
RECORD STORE DAY: Saturday, April 18th
Finally, the day is here! On Record Store Day itself, a special Record Store Day postgame show at Jerry’s Music Room will take place in Wicker Park.
Featuring Victor Carreon (DJ Limbs), Ajay Hardy (DJ Shade) with special guest Nate Wells (Mr. Gone)
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David Mamet's trifle "November" suddenly looks like a political classic compared to Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's "Yes, Prime Minister." Recycled and updated from a U.K.TV series, this stage comedy…
With the Tonys out of the way, the Broadway productions featured on the kudocast have begun to lock in upcoming plans.
This year it might have been something of a blessing that the pre-show awards weren't televised: It gave the ceremony's voice-over announcer a little time to work out the kinks.
"I was surprised," he says, when he heard the Tony Awards had decided to give him its annual Isabelle Stevenson Award for significant contribution to humanitarian or charitable causes.
How do you turn an analysis of contemporary East/West politics into a smart-mouthed, sharply paced drama? Pour it into a convincing thriller plot. That's what Lucy Kirkwood has done in her seriously…
This year the Tonys will launch a second-screen digital destination, with interactive content set to stream during the annual live kudocast on CBS — a measure other TV skeins, such as the AMC zombie…
Ink on the Tony nominations is barely dry and already one show has called it quits: Sales-challenged "The Testament of Mary" will shutter May 5 after a short run. It's common for struggling…
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Jonathan Groff ("Glee") will join Alfred Molina in Michael Grandage's Tony-winning Donmar Warehouse production of "Red" at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum, opening Aug. 1.
The Geffen Playhouse will stage eight productions for its 2012-13 season, including works from Pulitzer Prize winners Donald Margulies and Lynn Nottage.
The world premiere of a musical adaptation of Erich Segal's "Love Story" and stints from thesps Patrick Stewart and Rupert Everett are among the highlights of the 2010 season at U.K. regional theater…

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Parallel Computing Technologies [electronic resource] : 6th International Conference, PaCT 2001 Novosibirsk, Russia, September 3–7, 2001 Proceedings / edited by Victor Malyshkin.Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science: 2127Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2001Description: XII, 524 p. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783540447436Subject(s): Computer science | Computer network architectures | Software engineering | Computer software | Computer simulation | Computer Science | Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems | Computation by Abstract Devices | Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity | Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks | Simulation and ModelingAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 005.1 LOC classification: QA76.758Online resources: Click here to access online
Theory -- A Hybrid Approach to Reaction-Diffusion Processes Simulation -- Formal Verification of Coherence for a Shared Memory Multiprocessor Model -- Static Analysis for Secrecy and Non-interference in Networks of Processes -- Consensus in One Communication Step -- Design Space Exploration for Massively Parallel Processor Arrays -- GCA: Global Cellular Automata. A Flexible Parallel Model -- Cellular-Pipelined Algorithm Architecture for Polynomial Computing -- MetaPL: A Notation System for Parallel Program Description and Performance Analysis -- First-Order 2D Cellular Neural Networks Investigation and Learning -- Quiescent Uniform Reliable Broadcast as an Introduction to Failure Detector Oracles -- A Transaction Processing Model for the Mobile Data Access System -- Characterizing Timed Net Processes Categorically -- Mapping Heterogeneous Task Graphs onto Networks: Execution Time Optimization -- An O[n 3/z 3] Reduction Procedure for Determining the Maximum Degree of Parallelism in Parallel Applications -- Software and Architecture -- ARTCP: Efficient Algorithm for Transport Protocol for Packet Switched Networks -- Extension of Java Environment by Facilities Supporting Development of SPMD Java-Programs -- Mechanisms of Parallel Computing Organization for NeuroCluster -- Parallel SPMD-Tasks Graph Description Language for Network Clusters -- Optimizing Metacomputing with Communication-Computation Overlap -- WebCluster: A Web-Accessible Cluster Computing System Based on Coordination and Mobility -- On Using SPiDER to Examine and Debug Real-World Data-Parallel Applications -- Experimental Version of Parallel Programs Translator from Petri Nets to C++ -- Typing the ISA to Cluster the Processor -- Send-Recv Considered Harmful? Myths and Truths about Parallel Programming -- UNICORE: A Grid Computing Environment for Distributed and Parallel Computing -- Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement with Load Balancing for Finite Element Method -- Concurrent Implementation of Structurally Synthesized Programs -- An Associative Version of the Bellman-Ford Algorithm for Finding the Shortest Paths in Directed Graphs -- Fusion of Concurrent Invocations of Exclusive Methods -- Computational Portal: Remote Access to High-Performance Computing -- Event Logic Programming -- Techniques for Increasing Performance of CORBA Parallel Distributed Applications -- Manager-Worker Parallelism versus Dataflow in a Distributed Computer Algebra System -- Communication Interface CoIn -- Design of a Tool for Providing Dynamic Network Information to an Application -- Compilation Principle of a Specification Language Dedicated to Signal Processing -- An Approach to Composing Parallel Programs -- Web-Based Parallel Simulation of AGVs Using Java and JINI -- Applications -- On the Parallelezation of Domain Decomposition Methods for 3-D Boundary Value Problems -- Parallel Generation of Percolation Beds Based on Stochastic Cellular Automata -- Parallel Simulation of 3D Incompressible Flows and Performance Comparison for Several MPP and Cluster Platforms -- Distributed Simulation of Hybrid Systems with HLA Support -- Application of the Parallel Computing Technology to a Wave Front Model Using the Finite Element Method -- A General Parallel Computing Approach Using the Finite Element Method and the Objects Oriented Programming by Selected Data Technique -- Parallel Implementation of a Corrected DSMC Method -- Parallel Algorithms for Non-stationary Problems: Survey of New Generation of Explicit Schemes -- Tool Environments in CORBA-Based Medical High Performance Computing -- Parallel Algorithms for the Analysis of Biological Sequences -- Some Parallel Monte Carlo Algorithms -- Implementation of the Parallel Four Points Modified Explicit Group Iterative Algorithm on Shared Memory Parallel Computer -- A Parallel Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) Clustering Program -- Protein Sequence Comparison on the Instruction Systolic Array -- SCI-Based LINUX PC-Clusters as a Platform for Electromagnetic Field Calculations.
The PaCT-2001 (Parallel Computing Technologies) conference was a four-day conference held in Akademgorodok (Novosibirsk), September 3–7, 2001. This was the sixth international conference in the PaCT series, organized in Russia every odd year. The ?rst conference, PaCT-91, was held in Novosibirsk (Academgorodok), September 7–11, 1991. The next PaCT conferences were held in Obninsk (near Moscow), August 30 – September 4, 1993; in St.Petersburg, September 12–15, 1995; in Yaroslavl September 9–12, 1997; and in Pushkin (near St.Petersburg) from September 6–10, 1999. The PaCT proceedings are published by Springer- Verlag in the LNCS series. PaCT-2001 was jointly organized by the Institute of Computational Mat- maticsandMathematicalGeophysicsoftheRussianAcademyofSciences(No- sibirsk), the State University, and the State Technical University of Novosibirsk. The purpose of the conference was to bring together scientists working with theory, architecture, software, hardware, and solution of large-scale problems in order to provide integrated discussions on parallel computing technologies. The conference attracted about 100 participants from around the world. - thors from 17 countries submitted 81 papers. Of those submitted, 36 papers were selected for the conference as regular ones; there were also 4 invited - pers. In addition there were a number of posters presented. All the papers were internationally reviewed by at least three referees. As usual a demo session was organized for the participants.


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Persona de contacto: Dr. Manuel Desco
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a biomedical imaging modality with outstanding features such as excellent soft tissue contrast and very high spatial resolution. Despite its great properties, MRI suffers from some drawbacks, such as low sensitivity and long acquisition times.
Compressed sensing is a novel technique that enables the reduction of acquisition times and can also improve spatiotemporal resolution and image quality. Compressed sensing enables the reconstruction of images from an incomplete number of acquired samples, provided that 1) the images to reconstruct have a sparse representation in a certain domain, 2) the undersampling applied is random and 3) specific non-linear reconstruction algorithms are used.
Moreover, not only medical images are typically sparse, but also the higher the dimensionality of the measurements, the higher the acceleration that can be achieved, and cardiac cine MRI and fMRI are good examples due to their temporal redundancy.
In our group we have developed and tested new algorithms for the reconstruction of compressed dynamic MRI studies, and implemented the solution in our Bruker Biospin 7T scanner.
P Montesinos, JR Polimeni, B Bilgic, SF Cauley, M Desco, R Nezafat, LL Wald, E Adalsteinsson, DE Sosnovik. "High Resolution Inner Volume Imaging of Human Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque: Impact and Limits of Parallel Acquisition" (In preparation)
P Montesinos, H Seifarth, H Bhat, M Desco, F A Jaffe, E Adalsteinsson, U Hoffmann, R Nezafat, D E Sosnovik. “Motion, Resolution and Noise Thresholds for the Accurate Classification of Human Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque”. (Submitted to JCMR)
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The New Zealand sharemarket has lost ground on Wednesday.
At 1.35pm, the NZX50 index was down 6 points to 34 67 on turnover of $62 million.
Across the Tasman, the Australian 200 index was down 12 points to 4586.
The New Zealand dollar was trading at 82.80 US cents, 77.40 Australian cents, 51.52 pence, 66.94 yen and 0.5731 euro. The Trade Weighted Index was at 71.35.
Fletcher Building was down 9 cents at $8.47, Contact Energy was up 2c at $5.37 and Telecom was unchanged at $2.50.
Sky City Entertainment Group was down 1c at $3.63.
Auckland International Airport Ltd was up 2.5c at $2.285, The Warehouse was down 1c at $3.56 and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare was down 2c at $2.70
Nuplex was down 5c at $2.85, Guinness Peat Group was down 11c to 79c and Port of Tauranga was up 14 cents to $9.25.
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An authentic New England Clam Chowder recipe from an authentic life-time New Englander. Try this recipe for the ultimate in creamy comfort food from Maine blogger, Sheryl Thompson, The Wilderness Wife.
1 1/2 lbs fresh clams *see notes
1 quart water
1 bay leaf
3–4 sprigs of fresh thyme or 1 1/2 tsp of dried thyme if no fresh avalable
4 ounces Salt pork, diced into 1/4” pieces
1 large yellow onion, 1/4″ dice
2 celery stalks, cut into 1/4” pieces
1 quart clam broth (created when you steamed clams)
3–4 large Russet potatoes, 1/2″ cubes
1 cup heavy cream
Yukon Gold potatoes, 1/2 cubes cooked till fork tender
1 tsp white pepper
1/2 tsp kosher salt, if needed. Taste test first before adding as many of the ingredients are salty.
In a large steamer pot with a steamer basket, 1 quart of water, 1 bay leaf and 3-4 sprigs of fresh thyme. (If using dried thyme use 1 1/2 tsp.) Steam the clams over high heat till clams just open, about 10-15 minutes. Remove clams as soon as they open with a slotted spoon. It is important not to overcook clams! Discard any that do not open. They were dead are not good to eat. Place open cooked clams in bowl and allow to cool.
In a large pot or Dutch oven, over medium heat, add salt pork, Cook stirring to render the salt pork until golden brown. Remove the salt pork from pot with a slotted spoon, leaving rendered fat, and set aside for now.
Add onions and celery to pot. Cook until translucent and just beginning to turn brown.
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Bring to a low boil. Add Idaho potatoes. Cook until Idaho potatoes begin to dissolve and thicken broth.
With heat on medium-low add cream.
Add clams and Yukon gold potatoes.
Add 1 tsp. of white pepper. ( you can use black pepper, but you will see the black specks in the chowder)
Add kosher salt if needed. Be sure to taste first, and only add if needed. The clams and the clam broth will add a lot of salt to the chowder and the salt pork will have the same effect.
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It's award season in the NBA but commissioner David Stern is concerned his league may be veering too close to handing out Oscars.
During Sunday's Eastern Conference semifinal opener between the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers, Stern was asked what he thought about comments made by Pacers coach Frank Vogel in regards to what Vogel considered the Heat's tendency to flop.
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Subject/s: Infrastructure; Asset Recycling Bill; National security; NBN.
ANTHONY ALBANESE: It’s great to be here on this beautiful if slightly chilly Hobart morning and I’m here with Brian Mitchell who is our candidate for the federal seat of Lyons and my parliamentary colleagues: my shadow ministerial colleague Julie Collins and Parliamentary secretaries Carol Brown and Lisa Singh. I’m here to talk about Tasmanian infrastructure. I made many visits as a minister here – in the order of 20 visits and each and every time I was here to either look at the construction of new infrastructure here in Tasmania or announce funding for Tasmanian infrastructure. I’m quite proud of the fact that we almost tripled funding for infrastructure here in Tasmania: projects like rail revitalisation, projects like the investment in the Midland Highway, investment in our ports, investment in our roads. What we saw from the first Abbott-Hockey Budget was a debacle for Tasmania – not one new dollar for any new infrastructure projects in Tasmania. Worse still, we saw $100 million ripped off from the Midland Highway. Remember Tony Abbott coming to Tasmania saying I have $400 million that will fully duplicate the Midland Highway? Well we had $500 million in the Budget and he took $100 million out. He’s now not saying it will fully duplicate the Midland Highway. Why? Because that was an absurd claim. We also have the ongoing debacle of the funding for Cadbury and we see in terms of this morning’s reports in the Financial Review that we’ve released advice from the library that goes to the heart of the falsehoods being peddled by Joe Hockey about infrastructure and this Budget. On Budget night the Government announced with some fanfare the so-called asset recycling fund. What that should be called is a we’ll-bribe-states-to-privatise-essential-assets fund. It’s taking money from funding that was already in the Budget for infrastructure – the Building Australia Fund and the Education Investment fund – renaming it so the only thing that has been recycled is that money but putting pressure on state governments to privatise assets in order to get access to any new money. The Senate put some important amendments through to that legislation – some 41 Amendments.
Eighteen of those were the Government’s own amendments. Their legislation was so flawed that they had to make 18 changes to it. The other changes that were made were to make the Government accountable and make them fulfil their promises: One, that essential services couldn’t be a part of this process; secondly that all projects above $100 million had to have proper cost-benefit analysis associated with it. That is the same provision that was always there for the Building Australia Fund where the money was being taken from. They were the essential keys to our amendments. Now they’ve been rejected by the Government and now, over the past week, Joe Hockey has been saying: Don’t worry about that. We’ll just rename it to be a part of a Budget appropriation and therefore the Senate will have no choice but to vote for it. Well Labor has said very clearly, as have the Greens political party as well I note, that we wouldn’t block supply. But you don’t make a Bill a part of an appropriation simply by renaming it. It’s another example of Joe Hockey being slack when it comes to paying attention to detail. No wonder he got the nickname of Sloppy Joe in Opposition. It’s a real problem though when you have someone who pays so little attention to detail when it comes to being the Treasurer of this nation. And here we have pressure being put on then Tasmanian Government to flog off Tassie Hydro. That would have devastating consequences for jobs here in Tasmania. But importantly also it doesn’t make economic sense because we know that almost $200 million was given to the Tasmanian Government in the form of a dividend last year. If you flog off this asset then you won’t have that dividend stream in order to fund education and health and essential services over a long period of time. So no-one has a mandate for it. The opponent of my friend here the Member for Lyons Eric Hutchinson has come out and said it should be looked at, it’s a good idea. Well where did Eric Hutchinson and the other second-rate people who’ve been elected by the Liberal Party to the House of Representatives as part of Eric Abetz’s team, where did they have a mandate at the Federal election to flog off Tassie Hydro? The State Government here have at least said that they didn’t have a mandate for it. But Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott are saying if you don’t privatise Tassie Hydro there’ll be no new money for any new infrastructure here in Tasmania. They have taken Tasmania for granted after the Federal result and the state result and Tasmania is losing out as a result.
QUESTION: Are you going to block the Asset Recycling legislation?
ALBANESE: We’re going to support our position. The fact is that there were 41 amendments carried. We believe that this is flawed legislation. We’re not going to give a blank cheque to Joe Hockey to privatise assets, use the money to incentivise projects that have had no cost-benefit analysis. Joe Hockey has been out there talking today about the East-West Road in Melbourne and Westconnex in Sydney. Well on the East-West Link they’ve already paid $1.5 billion in advance when there hasn’t been a sod turned, a contract signed. There are different figures – I note against today another study has been thrown out because it shows that it doesn’t stack up, this project. And yet they’ve given an advance payment. So much for the Budget emergency. In Westconnex in Sydney the NSW Government can’t tell you where is going to start, let along where it’s going to finish. Vince Crowe, a constituent of mine in Haberfield, received two letters signed by the same person on the same day. One said we’re going to buy your house, the other said we don’t need your house. This is a farce. This is why you have proper planning in place. This isn’t an academic exercise or a political exercise by the Australian Labor Party. This is an exercise in ensuring that taxpayers’ money is well spent by making sure that the investments that are made in infrastructure are the right investments.
QUESTION: Joe Hockey says blocking the Asset Recycling legislation will cost jobs though. Is that a risk you are willing to take?
ALBANESE: Well, it’s a nonsense. What jobs? Nothing is happening. Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott said there would be cranes in the sky within one year of the Abbott Government being elected. Well it’s now less than one month until September 7. There not only aren’t any cranes, there aren’t any contracts, there aren’t proper plans and people don’t know where these roads are going. So in terms of processes, Joe Hockey when it comes to infrastructure and creation of jobs, what they’ve done is go around the country on Warren Truss and Joe Hockey’s magical infrastructure re-announcement tour. They go around – whether it’s the it’s the Huon Valley, whether it be the Midland Highway, they go round and they see a project and they see here we go, this is what we’re doing. They are all old projects that were begun by the Federal Labor Government. There isn’t a project anywhere in the country that is a new project announced by them that has begun – not one – and we are almost one year since the last election. Nothing on the Toowoomba Bypass, nothing on the Perth project that they announced where they say Freight Link might start around 2019, nothing on East-West and nothing on Westconnex. This is a mirage. Jobs need to be created by the pouring of concrete, the forging of steel and the construction of roads and highways. This is a government that isn’t doing any of that.
QUESTION: The State Government have ruled out selling Hydro. Is keeping the issue in the media cross hairs scaremongering?
ALBANESE: You have a federal Liberal member Eric Hutchinson, saying that this should be considered. You have a Prime Minister and a Treasurer saying that if you want any new money you have to sell assets. Now if you look at what assets are going to be sold here in Tasmania, is it hospitals? Is it schools? Is it Tassie Hydro. Hydro is the one that’s been identified by the Government itself. We are holding the Government to account for what it is saying.
QUESTION: [Inaudible] Could there be opportunities in other states that they should have the opportunity to access a scheme like this .. [inaudible]
ALBANESE: There’s no new money here. They are taking money that was already in the Budget – the Building Australia Fund and the Education Investment Fund – calling it something else and saying you’ve got to flog assets in order to get investment in infrastructure. What we did through the Nation Building Program was make sure that nation-building investments in infrastructure happened. They happened here in Tasmania. They were quite happy to coming for example to the opening of the Brighton Interchange – quite happy to do that. That didn’t just happen. It didn’t happen by selling something off. It happened because the Federal Government invested money here in Tasmania to create jobs and boost the economy.
QUESTION: The Tasmanian Premier and Treasurer are getting ready to hand down their first Budget so what advice do you have for them?
ALBANESE: Id’ say don’t be bribed into doing something by the Federal Government that you have no mandate to do. I think the people of Tasmania will hold them to account for their own promises. What’s extraordinary is that Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott don’t seem to care less about whether there is a mandate, whether anything was promised. Who heard the Federal Government say before the last election that states would not get any money for infrastructure unless they flogged off essential assets that they own? And therefore, worsen their balance sheet in the long-term because they get that one-off gain, but in the long-term they lose that revenue stream. Now we’re not against all privatisations. We believe that you should look at it asset by asset on whether it stacks up or not and that’s why we amended the legislation and then voted for it. It’s the Government’s that’s actually voted against this legislation because they weren’t prepared to support it with accountability mechanisms around it.
QUESTION: When it comes to the federal Budget, do you feel as if Tasmania’s Premier Will Hodgman stood up to Abbott and Hockey and what the state needed or did he just toe the party line?
ALBANESE: Well he rolled over and had his tummy tickled. What’s Tasmania got out of this Budget? They got nothing. They’ve got cuts to education, they’ve got cuts to health, they’ve got the National Broadband Network here being cut – rolled back. They got not a dollar for new infrastructure development. They’ve got less money for training, their pensioners – of which Tasmania has more pensioners as a percentage of the population than other states – they’ll miss out, They’ll have people who if they are in the workforce will have to work longer. This was a a shocker of a Budget for Tasmania and if Premier Hodgman had an ounce of ticker he’d be out there screaming from the rafters. Other premiers like Colin Barnett certainly have been from time to time but Hodgman seems to be quite happy to get less from this government
QUESTION: Just in terms of the advice that Labor is using in the Senate to back up its position on asset recycling, isn’t the Clerk the appropriate person to provide that advice?
ALBANESE: Well the Clerk of course provides advice in terms of procedural matters that are before the Senate. The Parliamentary Library is an entirely appropriate, independent, arms’-length body. So if Joe Hockey wants to call that into question, we’ve released the advice, unlike Joe Hockey. He doesn’t release anything. Remember all of the detail of the Commission of audit – all kept secret. We asked for the advice, we’ve got it and common sense tells you that if you have a Bill that’s called the Asset Recycling Bill and it gets amended in the Senate quite properly – no-one is suggesting it wasn’t amended properly – that Hoe Hockey is saying: We’re going to change the name of the Bill and that will fix all the problems. Common sense tells you. You don’t actually have to be an expert. Common sense tells you that that’s just a manipulation. The Parliamentary procedures don’t allow for manipulation in just changing the name. Otherwise you could call every single thing an appropriation. Supply is about the business of the Government. It was carried in June. That’s why public servants are being paid and pensioners are being paid. That’s about the normal processes of government and this advice is very clear. Common sense tells you that it’s the right advice as well
ALBANESE: [Inaudible] … sanctions against Russia. Do you think that Australia should go further?
ALBANESE: Oh look, I’ll leave foreign affairs to our appropriate people.
QUESTION: But has the action been tough enough so far?
ALBANESE: I have no criticism of Tony Abbott in his performance regarding these issues. This is an issue where Labor does not seek to have any distinction between our position and the position that the Prime Minister has held.
ALBANESE: Labor does not seek to draw a distinction. We’ll have proper briefings and we’ll work with the government. What’s important about this tragedy and all the associated issues including the quite outrageous behaviour of Russia is that we work together as a nation and that it be above party politics. I intend absolutely to do just that.
QUESTION: What do you make of claims that the current GST carve-up is scandalous and unfair?
ALBANESE: Well the fact is that Western Australia of course was the great beneficiary of it for a long period of time. Now they seek to change the balance. Why is that the case? The problem is that Tony Abbott, we know that he doesn’t have a great understanding of the Internet and we’ve seen in the last week I think the debacle that is the Abbott Government’s knowledge of all things technological. But they should have got the idea that if you say something in Western Australia then people in other states might hear about it, just as it’s possible that someone outside of Hobart knows what I am saying here this morning. They don’t seem to get that and so Colin Barnett, who quite clearly is on a promise from Tony Abbott of additional GST revenue – that has to come from somewhere. Where does it come from? It has to come from Tasmania and the problem is that Tony Abbott, when he has been in Western Australia has said you should get more, but when he has been in Tasmania has said something quite different. I believe the system of horizontal fiscal equalisation is an important principle. It’s an important principle that those states who can pay more according to the system do so. We are a national economy and we need to represent the national interest. That’s what I’ve always done and that’s what the former Labor Government did and Tony Abbott really has to respond to this once and for all. This is speculation that can’t be allowed to continue and certainly should be cleaned up by the Government prior to Tasmania bringing down its Budget. Otherwise that Budget could go into disarray.
ALBANESE: I think that photo is just beyond comprehension. As a parent the idea that children would be involved in something like that … you know you shake your head and wonder how that could possibly happen in terms of just common humanity. And look, Labor has always been very strong on issues relating to terrorism. These also are issues that should be above party politics. We’ll take proper briefings though about the process. We saw last week what happens when you don’t have proper briefings. You had a national security committee and then arising out of that frankly a debacle that has still not been cleaned up by the government. If the government doesn’t know what it’s doing – senior government ministers in the Cabinet including portfolio ministers like Malcolm Turnbull didn’t know what was going on – he read it on the front page of the Daily Telegraph – various proposals that relate directly to his portfolio – then Labor needs to have proper briefings. We’ll get that and we’ll respond accordingly, constructively, but also in a way that is responsible and makes sure that we also defend the rights of innocent people. You don’t defend freedom by giving it away so it’s very important that proposals be looked at in that balanced way.
ALBANESE: We will have a proper process and we’ll respond. The briefings weren’t even given to the Opposition at all for a number of days. I certainly haven’t been privy to any briefings. As a former member of the National Security Committee I regard these issues very seriously. I regard them as ones that should be considered rather than there just being simply a political response of saying what we are for, what were are against. Let’s see the detail, examine it, come to a position.
QUESTION: The reports on the NBN released last week said that the rollout in Tasmania was shambolic and without a business case. What’s your take on those reports?
ALBANESE: The fact is you have to take a step back. The National Broadband Network was about fibre to the home for every Australian, both in terms of homes but also to businesses. Here in Tasmania it was due to benefit substantially by being the first state that would receive that rollout gaining it first mover advantage. That’s one of the things that has been criticised in many of the reports. I make no apology for the fact that given Tasmania is the southern island in our great continent – suffers from the tyranny of distance – it made absolute sense for the Tasmanian roll-out to be done first. It also made sense to choose a number of different sites – be they major sites in capital cities or places like Scottsdale, to also make sure that you roll it out, you get that experience and you improve the rollout as it goes on. This is, I believe, an exciting project. Did we make the right decisions on the National Broadband Network in terms of having fibre to the premise? Yes we did. It’s world’s best practice and Malcolm Turnbull – all he has done is have I think it’s up to about nine different reviews costing tens of millions of dollars. How about he get on with what his policy is and what the future of the NBN is here in Tasmania instead of this absolute concentration on politics – looking backwards. This is the problem with the government. They have no vision looking forward. It’s all about going backwards, whether it be the various Royal Commissions that are on, all these inquires. Why don’t they get on with the business of governing? Why? Because they had a plan to get into government by they don’t have a plan to govern. I go back to where I began. This is a Government that was elected that has not invested a single dollar in any new infrastructure project here in Tasmania. They’ve cut $100 million from the Midland Highway and they say if you want anything at all, and we won’t tell you what the infrastructure projects would be, that you’ve got to flog off you assets like Hydro. Thank you very much.


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The University of Cape Town on Tuesday morning confirmed reports that “four cars were set alight at .
Eikenhof, south of Johannesburg, is back to normal following protests over the shortage of houses.
On Tuesday, disgruntled residents from the informal settlement in the area protested and barricaded roads with burning tyres.
They say the pace at which they are being given RDP houses at Lehae is too slow.
One of the residents, Mandla Mnisi, said: "We've waited for the houses for a long time. All we hear are excuses."
Residents' leader Mbulelo Mantsithi said: "All we want is for people who qualify for the houses to be able to move in."
Addressing the residents yesterday, Siphiwe Sibanyoni, of the housing department, said: "Some of the houses are not suitable for occupation. We can't allow you to move into unsafe houses." - Tebogo Monama


Let’s be clear: a video interview isn’t as scary as it seems. Just think of sweet Dorothy of Kansas who was petrified to speak to the great and terrible Oz. Thanks to Toto’s curtain pulling, it turns out that Oz wasn’t as terrifying as he first appeared. For years, video interviewing has been surrounded by speculation and weariness. That’s right, years. It’s been around for some time, and one thing is for certain: it’s here to stay in today’s new world.
Whether you call it a video interview, a digital interview, or an asynchronous video interview, Kimberley Black, founder of INTRObyVIDEO and currently completing a Master of Arts degree at Ontario Tech University, has the answers to all your questions. There’s no one better to walk you through how they work – after all, her Master of Arts degree research focuses on developing communication skills through video and will become the standard for the future. Did we also mention she’s used asynchronous video interviews before to land a job?
You might be hesitant to get on board with the new norm that is video interviewing. Isn’t interviewing stressful enough? Why fix something that isn’t broken? Let us enlighten you by explaining where video interviews got their start. Simply put, it was a means for employers to screen many, and we mean many, applicants quickly and with ease. You know the competition is tough when applying to a job. Imagine the other end from the employer side: all those applications are a literal paper mountain to get through. But with the beauty of technology, it’s now easier to cut through and get to your main candidates. Video interviewing, and asynchronous video interviews, skip the tedious flipping of resume pages and get you in the hot seat to show you’re ready to be taken seriously.
Let’s break down some terminology. Video interviewing is the general blanket for all things video, no matter the platform. (Think Zoom, WebEx, the list goes on.) Kimberley describes asynchronous videos as pre-recorded snippets of you answering some prepped questions from that employer. Whether it’s pre-recorded or live, it’s all about you sitting in front of that screen.
So let me ask you. Are you excited about this? Or are you now really anxious? What would you think about a [video] interview request?
The important thing is to not become too nervous during this stage. Approach it exactly like the first interview with some extra steps. Do all the things you would regularly do when getting ready for an interview, and if you’re unsure what those things are, then check out the plethora of videos right here on CMA NXT. There are helpful interview videos as far as the eye can see and it’s all in one spot for you to access. (We recommend Steve & Sheldon’s Video Resume series “How to Get Creative With Your video Resume to Help You Stand Out and Get Hired”. Why not dive off the deep end in all things videos?)
Once you’re done with that, or if you’re an interviewee Rockstar, add these simple video interview steps:
Video interviewing is only going to get better and better with new technological advances. That incredible evolution speed is what makes the impossible, like Netflix party mode, possible. Whether you’re a tech novice or a pro, video interviewing will become as easy as clicking a button.
When you’re being interviewed, it’s all about your communication skills. It’s how you effectively say something with the right tone and accuracy that’ll make the person sitting across from you say, “Yes, couldn’t have said it better myself!” With both video interviewing and asynchronous video interviews, communication is more important than ever because that physical body language aspect is absent. Add in the corresponding fear factor: a blip in a pre-recorded clip you’ve just in, or messing up live in action - it’s enough to give you the sweats. There’s no blooper reel option in video interviewing. So Kimberley suggests that you practice some self-assessment using video itself. Get your camera ready, press record, and practice your answers for yourself.
It’ll take some time to get used to seeing yourself on the screen, but here’s the good news: that awkwardness will melt away to a confident and polished interviewee, aka you! By pre-recording your responses, and analyzing them, you’re going to be able to see where you can make improvements. This method has a proven track record across many industries: medicine, social work, hospitality, and business programs. Remember this classic movie cliché? A video montage of the scientist running tests to see what he does to improve for next time. It’s the same basic principle, just different genres.
Don’t think you’re through just yet. Kimberley challenges you to try peer assessment to level up in your video interviewing game. What exactly is peer assessment? That’s right: it’s sharing your pre-recorded practice runs with some friends, colleagues, or anyone you know who will give you some constructive feedback. We know this sounds intimidating, but there are so many cool benefits to peer assessment.
Kimberley calls them the six ‘C’s of communication and goes into detail with her video on CMA NXT. It comes down to this though. If you are nervous about sending through your interview videos to someone else, that’s a red flag. Is it nerves or is it because your interview videos aren’t up to snuff? Knowing someone is going to review your work will push you to create content that you can be proud to put your name on. In turn, the feedback you get from your watcher will only serve to tweak those details you might have missed. Plus, when it’s their turn to get some feedback, you’ll be right there and ready to help finetune their stuff.
We know that video interviewing isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. It may seem distressing knowing that this will become the norm for the next little while, but we’re here to say that with any new change, comes a silver lining. Becoming comfortable with video interviewing will only benefit you for the future. Those nerves that Kimberley mentioned earlier? Well, with more video interviews under your belt, the less those nerves will get to you. So, embrace the video interview for what it is: your shot to get that dream job.


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I find it strange that Nigerians are squirming over the new year day campaign posters announcing President Goodluck Jonathan`s interest in the 2015 presidential elections. I feel this way for two major reasons. One is that Jonathan is eminently qualified and has the right to aspire once again to the office of President which he is already occupying. This being the case, we need not lose sleep over the prospects of the President’s possible come-back in 2015. The other reason is that Nigerians should, by now, be used to situations like this.
It is customary for Nigeria’s Heads of State or Presidents to deny ever having interest in the office they occupy beyond the material tenure which they are already enjoying. General Sani Abacha did that as Head of State. Even when the five fingers of a leprous hand (as Bola Ige called the political parties of the era) adopted him as their consensus candidate, the man did not bat an eyelid. Yet there was every indication that he was set to transmute from military head of state to civilian President. The same thing is true of Olusegun Obasanjo as President of Nigeria.
While his tenure elongation project was known to even the uninitiated, Obasanjo was busy dismissing it as unknown to him. In the light of our recent experiences along this line, my expectation is that Nigerians should only wink and smile wryly when similar or familiar situations present themselves. In the present circumstance, we need not quarrel with Jonathan or bother about the source of the campaign posters. We should rather remind ourselves that it is an all-too-familiar road. A beaten track. A road well travelled. But when we howl and go into frenzy as we are doing now, we give the impression that what is happening is new.
We give ourselves away as having learnt nothing from our recent political experiences. Having chided ourselves enough for jeering and howling over the new year day posters, we should then pause for a moment and spare a thought on the real issues surrounding the 2015 presidency. Until this moment, Jonathan has managed to keep Nigerians guessing. He has asked them to wait till next year to know the way his mind is working on the issue. But for analysts in our midst, we do not need to wait for anything. If the president were not interested in 2015, he would have said so long before now.
The fact that he has asked us to wait means that he is busy with the idea. He is perfecting his plans. He is laying out his strategies. He is supremely interested. But then, it will be naïve for us to expect the president to brush aside all the big issues troubling his presidency and begin to make early declarations. It will be most impolitic for him to do so. If he does that, Nigerians will latch on his inadequacies and upbraid him mercilessly for having the audacity to talk about 2015 when Boko Haram has wrestled the country to the ground. They will jibe at him for looking at 2015 when electric power has proved to be hydra -headed.
He will be maligned in so many other ways because the problems of the country seem to be taking a more serious dimension under his reign. Given this scenario, President Jonathan has to tread cautiously. That is what he is doing. He is moving with care. His postponement of the day or year for his declaration is part of this care. He has to do this to be on the right side of public opinion. But he will deliver the punch at a very auspicious moment, and by that time, we will be caught so off-guard that our defence (if any) will be faint- hearted and weak. The other way to look at the 2015 permutations is to say that Nigerians do not believe in real elections. They are more interested in situations that we used to call “army arrangement”.
The people’s disposition is such that they do not want an incumbent, especially at the presidential level, to be interested in a return. They want the incumbent to throw in the towel after one tenure so that others can step forward and try their luck. The assumption here is that an incumbent president must necessarily succeed in his return bid. The only way to get rid of him therefore is to discourage him from running for a second term. That is the fear building around Jonathan’s possible candidacy. If it were not so, Nigerians would not be shouting themselves hoarse over the possibility of a Jonathan 2015 presidential ambition.
If it was not so, they would have granted Jonathan the chance to run if he so wishes and have his fate at the polls decided by the people. But there are no people here. Rather, the land is peopled by proles. We have a surfeit of upside-down fellows who do not know where right ends and where wrong begins. Consequently, the people accept any action foisted on them without question. If ours were a system that admits of right and wrong, we will recognise and appreciate the fact that incumbency is not the same thing as automatic return to office. But in Nigeria, it is because we live in a permissive environment that makes such possible.
It is unfortunate that Nigerians are fixated over situations like this. If we are a people that make allowance for higher realm of societal growth and maturation, we could, for instance, be bold enough to put the factor of incumbency to test. Since the north is particularly incensed over suggestions that Jonathan would stay beyond 2015, Nigeria could use the election of that year to test the strength of the competing tendencies. It would have been interesting to see the north form a formidable mass of opposition that can dethrone Jonathan. Since the north claims to have more population than the south, it could rely on its numerical strength to defeat the southern incumbent. It would have been interesting to see how this can play out.
Then again, since a good many Nigerians talk as if Jonathan is badly disliked by them, it would have been interesting to see the president lose grounds in both the north and south at the polls. Should this happen, Nigerians could begin to see themselves as a people who do not necessarily vote according to north-south divide, but people driven by a pan- Nigerian spirit. The 2015 presidential contest could have resolved all this and more were we not the way we are. In the light of our peculiar political character and characteristic, we should not continue to foul the air over the new year day campaign posters.
They are in line with the nature of Nigerian politics. Those who are even more worried that the people behind the posters are faceless should look beyond the presidency and try to recall scenarios similar to those that played out during the ill -fated Third Republic. We have not forgotten Arthur Nzeribe’s “Association for Better Nigeria”, an organization that played a major role in the scuttling of the June 12, 1993 presidential election.
We must also remember Daniel Kanu’s “Youths Earnestly Ask For Abacha” that organised the two million man march in support of Abacha’s civilian presidency flirtations. With all this behind us, we must appreciate the fact that Jonathan’s case is still at its embryonic stage. It may not mature to the level of absurdity if Jonathan speaks out soon. But it could become a macabre dance of the ridiculous if Jonathan continues to play the waiting game. But no matter what we say, I do not think that anything new is happening. We are only treading a familiar path.


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Downtown, or El Centro, is located in the 6th district and is where most tourists stay in due to its easy access to the city’s main attractions. The Plaza San Francisco area has countless souvenir shops, hotels, and restaurants. Although it is a good spot to walk around, it is a bit far from the “real Bolivia.” If you walk towards Avenida Perez, you’ll see the city’s true downtown with most of the important government buildings, the city’s best museums, oldest churches, and Calle Jaen and Plaza Murillo.
SopocachiThis is the bohemian district of La Paz with a mixed of grand colonial mansions and towering modern apartment blocks. Here, there are many upscale restaurants, cafés, bars, and nightclubs.
Casco ViejoThis is the historic and ancient center of the city. It is home to many museums, hotels, shops, the Mayor City of La Paz, and the Central Bank of Bolivia. You’ll find the Plaza Murillo in the Old Quarter where the Government Palace and the National Congress are.
Warnings & Dangers
OVERALL RISK : MEDIUM
Taking normal safety precautions are recommended in La Paz. Exercise common sense and remain vigilant for suspicious behaviour as you would in any other country. Watch out for pickpockets in tourist areas and protect your valuables.
PICKPOCKETS RISK : N/A
Pickpocket and bag and purse snatching are common in tourist locations and public transportation. Remain vigilant for thieves that use different strategies to rob you.
MUGGING RISK : N/A
Muggings have happened in urban areas. Though most victims are not physically injured, criminals usually do not hesitate to use force if the target does not cooperate; in case of being robbed, do not resist and hand over your valuables. Avoid walking alone after dark. Although kidnapping is not common, express kidnapping involving tourists have occurred in Bolivia. Victims are abducted for a few hours and forced to withdraw money from ATMs in order to be released.
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As in any other country, taxi drivers will try to take advantage of travelers by overcharging them as they are not metered, so make sure you agree on a fare before getting in the vehicle. Bag snatching is common, so make sure you carry your bag facing away from the street and preferably always close to you. Beware of “non-uniformed” policemen asking for your passport and permit. Official policemen will always be satisfied with a copy of your documents.
TRANSPORT & TAXIS RISK : N/A
Transportation is not very reliable due to strikes. Strikes often affect local transportation, and they usually last one or two days. Follow local news for updates on strikes and road blockages.
NATURAL DISASTERS RISK : N/A
Expect floods and landslides, especially in mountainous areas during the rainy season (November-March).
TERRORISM RISK : N/A
Terrorist attacks are unlikely in Bolivia. However, they cannot be ruled out. Remain vigilant and take advice from authorities, hotels and tour operators.
WOMEN TRAVELERS RISK : N/A
Many women travel safely without any issues. However, if you are traveling alone, it is important to exercise particular care in crowds, on public transportation, in rural areas, and in isolated sections. Avoid traveling alone after dark. Women may get some unwanted attention from men.

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Archive - Jan 13, 2012 - Latest News
BLACKFOOT â€” The Bingham County Courthouse was placed on lockdown for four hours Friday afternoon after an envelope containing a white powder-like substance was discovered in the Treasurer's Office. A regional hazmat team was called in to handle and test the substance, which has not been identified.
BLACKFOOT â€“Â The lockdown at the Bingham County Courthouse was lifted after a four hour wait Friday afternoon.
The lockdown was initiated at noon Friday after a white substance was discovered in an envelope received by the Treasurer's Office. The substance remains unidentified but testing conducted by the Region Six Hazardous Materials Response Team determined that it was not a biological or chemical threat.
Those inside the courthouseâ€”an estimated 300 people including employees and citizensâ€”were allowed to leave at 4 p.m.
The Hazmat team has suited up. Wet decontamination is ready to go. They should begin preliminary testing soon.
The Pocatello hazmat team suits up to enter the Bingham County Courthouse after the building was put on lockdown because of a white substance that was found in the Treasurer's Office.
BLACKFOOT - The Bingham County Courthouse is on lockdown after an envelope containing white powder was discovered in the Treasurer's Office.
Update 3:45 p.m.: The courthouse remains on lockdown. The regional hazmat team from Pocatello has suited up and is running a battery of test on the substance outside the courthouse.
BLACKFOOT â€“ An evidentiary hearing for Nathan Anthony Walker, age 20, is set for 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 7. He is charged with a probation violation.
The alleged violation is being a minor in possession of alcohol on Dec. 22.
Defense attorney,Stephen Blaser requested Walkerâ€™s evidentiary hearing be set during Walkerâ€™s spring break. He is attending Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Ore.
Seventh District Magistrate Judge Charles Roos agreed to set the hearing in early March.
BLACKFOOT â€” As Stefano Bronzati, a Salt Lake City businessman, stood amid the debris in the former Winger's Restaurant in Blackfoot earlier this week, he discussed the future of the building.
"This is completely different than it was before," he said of what will become the prototype for Winger's Express.
"When you walk in, you come and order at the counter," Bronzati added. He said Winger's Express will be similar to quick service restaurants such as Cafe Rio, Rumbi Island Grill and Five Guys Burgers and Fries. All food will be cooked to order.
BLACKFOOT â€” Several local kids have been working for several months on the first TaVaci School of Performing Arts TaVaci Teen mini-musicalâ€”"Adventures of a Comic Book Artist."
The show will open tonight and continue Jan. 14, 16 and 17 at the Nuart Theater, 195 N. Broadway at 7 p.m. Admission is free; donations are welcome.
"Adventures of a Comic Book Artist" is a mini-musical based on comic book heroes. Director Breclyn Everett said it is a fun show for the entire family.


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Dolina community centre
The proposal rises from a mass of existing structures to which it carefully responds. At the western facade mass of the clinic stretches lower to the level of the terraced housing on its side, whilst on the north it gradually climbs to the level of a neighbouring residential building, all the way to the Cultural centre. Within the set perimeter, four volumes form with sufficient pedestrian access and flow between them in mind – a quality often lacking in today’s cities. At the same time, all the public and semi-public areas are clearly defined to prevent the creation of vague vacuum of public space, a common characteristic of typical panel housing settlements – sídliště. The public space along the S.K. Neuman street is completed by an on-street bus stop, which simultaneously enables a safe crossing of the road for the pedestrians and does not permit illegal short-stay parking in the stop area.

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Nuclear restraint exercised by India has brought the country some praise on Tuesday from US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter.
Carter, who was speaking on the subject of Sustaining Nuclear Deterrence at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, noted India's responsible behaviour in nuclear technology, PTI reported.
Carter noted that nuclear deterrence is the bedrock of US security, but said that the deterrence mission has remained same and has not changed. But he accepted that the nuclear landscape has changed.
"One way the nuclear landscape has changed: we didn't build new types of nuclear weapons or delivery systems for the last 25 years, but others did, at the same time that our allies in Asia, the Middle East, and NATO did not, so we must continue to sustain our deterrence," he said according to the official statement.
Casting his doubts over Russia modernising its nuclear arsenal, he questioned the strategies of Russian leaders.
Carter called the recent North Korean nuclear activity as reminder of a nuclear threat looming large in the world, but assured that the US is ready to extend its deterrence to the "allies in the region". He also cautioned North Korea on the use of nuclear weapon, saying it will be "met with an overwhelming and effective response."
However, apart from India, Carter praised China too as behaving responsibly.
He noted that Iran's nuclear aspirations have been "constrained" and as long as they continue implementing the historic nuclear deal with P5+1 group (the US, UK, France, China and Russia plus Germany), it will be unable to acquire nuclear weapon.
He said that Pakistani nuclear weapons are "entangled in a history of tension" and assured that they were not a threat to US directly. But he also revealed that US works with Pakistan to "ensure stability."


The fate of Rockford's Metro Centre will be known soon. The Rockford city council is expected to vote Monday night on Mayor Doug Scott's $700,000 plan loan to bail out the entertainment venue. The state of Illinois could have some influence on what happens. The state has already approved funding for the capital improvements underway at the Metro Centre.
The $3.8 million that will be released will help the financially troubled venue pay down some of its debt, but the release of the money still has not cleared the comptroller's office, so the Rockford City Council will still have to decide if they will co-sign on a loan to keep the Metro Centre running until state funds arrive.
The Metro Centre authority says they need $700,000 to stay afloat until next June, but some aldermen don't want the city to bailout the facility without assurances that the venue will fix its financial problems, so they are offering to only co-sign on a $300,000 loan.
If the city council votes along party lines, the mayor will be the deciding vote.


A man at the centre of the 1960s Profumo affair is to be immortalised in a new West End show by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Stephen Ward was the alleged high-society "fixer" who, it's said, introduced call-girl Christine Keeler to War Minister John Profumo, who resigned over the scandal 50 years ago.
Watch our archive video below from March 1963, in which Stephen Ward backs John Profumo's denials about his affair with Christine Keeler.
It was later revealed that Profumo was lying, and that he had been seeing Keeler, who was also sleeping with a Russian naval attache.
Stephen Ward was arrested in June 1963 and charged with living off immoral earnings, as well as with a separate charge of procuring prostitutes. He took a fatal overdose the night before his trial finished.
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Parents and psychologists have warned of a technology addiction crisis, with one mother revealing how her son "simply stopped functioning".
Hamid Ali Jafari, whose father Ali Yawar Jafari, 82, was killed said he prayed every day that he would die so he could see his father again.
Sajid Javid has used his first major speech since his appointment as Home Secretary to offer an olive branch to police officers.


Ghana based Nigerian musician, author and creative, Apolo Imon dropped a 7 track EP entitled Fila. The crooner brings forth a mix of vibely mid tempo beats and a dynamic voice to create the perfect post summer wave. The project was made in… Read More ›
Rising Ghanaian rapper and producer Bryan The Mensah presents his brand new project, titled the “WILDLIFE” EP. The young Ghanaian, who describes himself as a contemporary artiste, had his fans and music lovers in general anticipating his second official EP. The… Read More ›
One of the Nigerian producers, Masterkraft, has just released his EP album titled “Rumination” feature singers, Waje, Nosa, CDQolowo, Tamba Hali and Kay Musiq.
Super Cool Cats head honcho Ice Prince releases EP album titled “Cold“, the Cold EP is an 8-track music project that features the likes of Kay Switch, Remy Baggins, Jethrofaded, PatrickxxLee and Straffitti. The producers that worked on the project include Remmy… Read More ›
East Africa’s Trailblazing Queen, Victoria Kimani releases her new LP titled “Afropolitan“, Independently under her own Imprint Kimani Music. This 7 song compilation is a fantastic glimpse into the unfiltered natural vibe of Miss Kimani, Fusing her core R&B/Pop Vocals… Read More ›
A fresh face on the Lagos scene, WANI conjures up musical memories from his childhood in Nigeria alongside later forays to the UK and Chicago all moulded into a supple, cosmopolitan cocktail of sounds. Across six songs, his debut EP Lagos City Vice synthesises… Read More ›
Barely resting from the euphoria of Boda Luku, her latest sensational release, Bisola Aiyeola has dropped a surprise six-track compilation which she calls The Playlist. This new compilation drops in a very interesting week off the back of her performance in Austin, Texas at South… Read More ›


One of the nights that seemed to be the most special for Taylor Swift and his hundreds of fans who attended a concert in Brazilended in one of the most tragic nights that could be experienced at a concert, after the death of a fan due to cardiorespiratory arrest became known, and more than a thousand people fainted due to the heat wave that was experienced in the place.
According to social networks, the country’s temperatures reached more than 60 degrees, which caused the fans in the crowd, fury and fervor to feel very bad, to the point of being completely unconscious.
And the start of her tour in Brazil this November 17 did not end well for Taylor, as it was learned that one of her fans, Ana Benavides, died due to high temperatures. In addition, the moment was captured where the singer also had to leave the stage, because the heat she felt was already unbearable.
Unfortunately, the show didn’t start in the best way, and it is claimed that Swift’s team had to hand out water to concertgoers to withstand the heat. But this was not enough, since firefighters reported that an approximate number of 1000 attendees fainted while they waited for the night.
As has been known, the place did not have the best conditions to hold a show for that crowd, and the areas that were prepared for better ventilation were covered with coating, which prevented it from having a more adequate temperature.
The Nilton Santos Olympic Stadium has its structure, openings and areas for
promote air circulation in the archways and on the tracks. All of them were covered by tapume, which greatly prejudices the ventilation of the environment. Also with a more pleasant temperature on the side of… pic.twitter.com/dpYtBOThBa
— Igor Paiva (@atheon_apex) November 18, 2023
According to Folha de S. Paulo, firefighters report that in around a thousand days, the heat of the thermal sensation of 60ºC has caused the punishment of Rio de Janeiro at the start of Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour”. #RioTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/s8QPJwGujn
— PAN (@forumpandlr) November 18, 2023
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Do you think that surfers are really cool people but that it’s not really your kind of lifestyle? Try on their shoes, or more appropriately, their surfboards and know what it’s like to be riding the waves at the Aloha Boardsports Surf & Music Festival 2012.
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Surfers and beach enthusiasts unite and celebrate at this year’s most exciting surf event in the country via the Aloha Boardsports Surf & Music Festival 2012. Learn the basics of surfing with pro surfer, Luke Landrigan, the first Filipino to be sponsored by Billabong Asia. Newbies can also test their skills at the Aloha Boardsports – Manila Surfers Association Beginner Surf Competition, and also watch the pros rip at the break of the country’s top emerging surf spot.
The festival, to be held in Brgy. Balaoi, Pagudpud, also brings together the best local acts like Wolfgang, Pedicab, Imago, Tropical Depression, Up Dharma Down, Franco, Urbandub, Kalayo, Razorback, Indio I, and more.
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INFOBOXGenre(s): Indie/Alternative, Pop
From: Vienna, Austria
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HipHop und Pop have always been friendly neighbours. Vienna based Sharktank finally have them married happily ever after. What started off as a solo project of rapper Mile quickly became a band when young singer Katrin Paucz joined the studio session Mile held at renowned producer Marco Kleebauers studio (he famously produced several award winning and chart-topping albums from bands like Bilderbuch, Oehl and his own band, Leyya).
Their joint debut “Washed Up” hit the airwaves right after release and immediately gained traction on Spotify (180k plays in a few weeks without any editorial playlists) and radios (>5000 registerted airplays in Europe within two months).
Now that the band grows a fanbase so rapidly, listeners are eagerly awaiting the follow-up, “Too Much”, which is out Friday 23 October. Katrins magic vibe and lyrics on the difficulties of expectations in a relationship are encountered by Marcos positively-quirky production and conscious rap lines of Mile.