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Announcement of Nobel Peace Price
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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Breaking news right now. You are looking at a live picture from Oslo, Norway, where they are about to, we are all about to find out who will be the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
It's Friday, October 10 and from the CNN global headquarters in Atlanta, I'm Carol Lin in for Carol Costello.
Any moment now we are going to be hearing the name of the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. Again, you are looking at a live picture outside the Nobel awards committee meeting room in Oslo, Norway. The committee's chairman will emerge shortly to announce the winner and as you probably know, the Nobel selection process is highly secretive. The names of the candidates, a record 165 this year, are even kept under wraps.
But there has been a lot of speculation Pope John Paul II will be the choice. Other names being floated include the former president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel; Afghan President Hamid Karzai; and Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya.
Now, one reason the names of the nominees aren't revealed is to protect dissidents who could suffer reprisals in their countries.
Right now, the chairman of the awards committee.
OLE DANBOLT MJOES, CHAIRMAN, NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE (SPEECH IN NORWEGIAN, NOT TRANSLATED)
LIN: All right, obviously at the moment he is not speaking English. Ole Danbolt Mjoes is actually speaking in Norwegian, announcing this prize. We expect a translation or an English announcement at any moment.
But once again, you are watching live coverage right now out of Oslo, Norway, where we are expecting any moment now to hear the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2003.
All right, we have just confirmed that it is Ms. Shirin Ebadi who has won the Nobel Peace Prize. She is a lawyer and a human rights activist active in Iran for fighting for women's rights and children's rights. She is actually only, actually, now one of 11 women who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since the inception of the prize in 1901.
She is, actually, was the first female judge in Iran and had to resign her position following the 1979 revolution. She was really considered for a very tiny woman here and a woman certainly of small physical stature, but of a giant stature in the human rights community. She's a member of Amnesty International. She was accused by some hard-line ayatollahs of actually trying to single-handedly undermine Iran's Islamic revolution by her legal actions.
She has tried, for example, to fight for women's rights, children's rights, to raise the minimum age at which a young girl could be married. At the time, girls as young as nine years old could be given away as brides by their families.
This is somewhat of a surprise in the communities which have speculated who might be the most likely winner. Pope John Paul II was one of the top names being mentioned. But, once again, live out of Norway, the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi.
MJOES: ... the Nobel Peace Prize for 2003 to Shirin Ebadi for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children. As a lawyer, judge, lecturer, writer and activist, she has spoken out clearly and strongly in her country, Iran, and far beyond its borders. She has stood up as a sound professional, a courageous person and has never heeded the threats to her own safety.
Her principal arena is the struggle for basic human rights and no society deserves to be labeled civilized unless the rights of women and children are respected. In an era of violence, she has consistently supported non-violence. It's fundamental to her view that the supreme political power in a community must be built on democratic elections.
She favors enlightenment and dialogue as the best path to changing attitudes and resolving conflict.
Ebadi is a conscious Muslim. She sees no conflict between Islam and fundamental human rights. It's important to her that the dialogue between the different cultures and religions of the world should take as its point of departure their shared values. It's a pleasure for the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize to a woman who is part of the Muslim world and of whom that world should be proud along with all who fight for human rights wherever they live.
During recent decades, democracy and human rights have advanced in various parts of the world. By its awards of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has attempted to speed up this process. We hope that the people of Iran will feel joyous that for the first time in history, one of their citizens has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and we hope the prize will be an inspiration for all those who struggle for human rights and democracy in her country, in the Muslim world and in all countries where the fight for human rights needs inspiration and support.
LIN: The Nobel Peace Prize awards committee making the announcement for the Nobel Peace Prize winner of 2003. She is Shirin Ebadi, first a lawyer who practiced in Iran, a human rights activist who fought for the rights of women and children. She is the first Iranian to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize, only the 11th woman to win the prize in the 101 year history of the Peace Prize.
She was actually the first female judge -- she's had a series of firsts in her life -- the first female judge in Iran until she had to resign her position after the revolution of 1979, when Islamic clerics took over control of the country and deemed women to be too emotional and irrational to hold such high level posts. She has expressed herself in her career to be courageous. She has never heeded the threats against her. She has been tried for, among other things, disturbing public opinion in Iran. She was finally freed from jail.
We understand that she's currently right now in Paris. I'm sure she got the phone call not too long ago telling her that she had won this prize. And a bit of a surprise for people who were speculating that it would have been someone else, perhaps Pope John Paul II, for example, was one of the names bandied about early on as a potential winner.
With us on the telephone right now is Stein Toennesson.
He is the director of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo.
Mr. Toennesson, is this a surprise to you?
STEIN TOENNESSON, INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: It is some a surprise to me, but not to the human rights community. And it shouldn't have been a surprise to me because Shirin Ebadi is a prominent human rights figure and she is an Iranian. And I knew that the committee would look for a Muslim, for a woman and for someone fighting for human rights. So my failure to include her among the front runners, I think, is a mistake.
LIN: Among the front runners you were thinking who were most possible, who were they?
TOENNESSON: I was thinking about the former Czech president, Vaclav Havel; about Pope John Paul; about the International Atomic Energy Agency; and also about Brazilian President Lula; all men.
TOENNESSON: There had only been 10 female winners before. But I also pointed at Iranian dissident Agajori (ph), who is in prison in Iran. But he is a man. This choice here, I think, is excellent. And it also points to the quality of another prize in Norway, which is the Rafto Prize, because the Rafto Prize has several times gone to people who have later got the Nobel Peace Prize.
LIN: Which she won back in 2001.
TOENNESSON: That's right. And this has happened also in the past with Aung San Suu Kyi, who got the Rafto Prize first, and later the Nobel Peace Prize. And also the people in East Timor, that preceded a prize to Bishop Belo and to Jose Ramos-Horta.
So the Rafto Prize has become -- the list of Rafto Prize winners must now be included among the sources when we try to guess about who's getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
LIN: Well, specifically, let's talk a little bit more about Shirin Ebadi. I've got some of her very noted credentials here. She is an Iranian lawyer, a human rights activist, born in 1947. She received a law degree from the University of Tehran. And in the years between 1975 and '79, she served as president of the City Court of Tehran, one of the first female judges in Iran.
Now, after the revolution in 1979, she was forced to resign and she now works as an attorney and teaches at the University of Tehran. A pretty remarkable career for a woman in that country, wouldn't you say?
TOENNESSON: Yes, but the women also play, have played a very significant role in the reform movement in Iran. And she played such a role, too. So the women were enormously important supporters for President Khatami when he won the presidency in Iran.
Now that the reform movement is in a kind of crisis and many have been frustrated by the lack of reform in Iran, I think that this may encourage and stimulate it to go on with its struggle for human rights and democracy.
LIN: So help us, Mr. Toennesson, appreciate, then, the work that she has done in the human rights arena in her country and the risks that she took in that work.
TOENNESSON: Now, I think that that has been, from what I see now about information about her, it's quite remarkable and what I heard about her before she was announced now was mainly from Amnesty International, Norway, where the leader actually had her as the lead runner. So he made a very good prediction. And he emphasized how courageous she had been in her work.
LIN: For example, she was an attorney of the families of writers and intellectuals who were victims of the serial murders between 1999 and 2000. What do you know about this?
TOENNESSON: No, I am not, I have not really studied her career before the award was given, and this was part of my failure to predict her.
LIN: No problem. No problem. She has worked actively and successfully to reveal the principals behind the attacks on students at the Tehran University back in 1999, where apparently several students died. And as a consequence, she was or has been imprisoned on numerous occasions.
The ayatollahs, after the 1979 revolution, considered her, actually accused her of trying to single-handedly undermine Iran's Islamic Revolution.
Why was she such a threat to the establishment then?
TOENNESSON: Now, this enters into the ongoing struggle, which has lasted for a long time, between the orthodox people in Iran, who are linked to the great, the leader Khameini, and to the reformers, who have tried to push the president towards a more radical reform, push and pressure. And now the big question now is what kind of reactions you will get from Iran, and if there will be a uniform reaction or if you will see different voices in Iran being expressed as a reaction to this choice.
LIN: What is your prediction there, then? What do you think the reaction is going to be?
TOENNESSON: I would guess that we will get a mixed reaction, where you will get first, perhaps, silence, and then some negative reactions from the orthodox side. And then you will get expression of support from others. And what I hope is that the president and the vice president will see the value of this and see how this may support their reform struggle.
LIN: All right, thank you very much, Stein Toennesson.
Please stay with us.
Stein Toennesson is the director of research, the director of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo.
Right now we want to bring into the dialogue here Shirzad Bozorgmehr.
Do I have the correct pronunciation of your name?
SHIRZAD BOZORGMEHR, JOURNALIST: Yes, close enough, yes, Bozorgmehr.
LIN: All right, Shirzad, thank you very much for being with us.
You're a journalist. I just want to get your reaction to the announcement by the awards committee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
BOZORGMEHR: Well, I'm sure that the people of Iran would be delighted because she's been a very well known activist in the field of promoting women's rights and she's been defending, as a lawyer, some political activists here who have been trying to promote democracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
She has been under a lot of pressure and that is probably why she's been living in Paris for the last few months.
LIN: When you say under pressure, what do you mean?
BOZORGMEHR: Well, she's been defending, as I said, a lot of political activists and as such, she has not been very popular with the powers that be, the conservatives in the Islamic Republic. But she's been very popular within the reformist camp, those who are trying to reform the political system in Iran.
And, as I said, but her work mostly concentrated on promoting women's rights. And as you know, half of the population are women and over 70 percent of them are under 30 years of age. So they're very active. They're very hopeful for their future and gaining some more rights in Iran. And she's been very instrumental in that.
She is a very well known figure in political circles in Iran, not very much liked by the conservatives, but very popular among the reformists, as I said.
This will promote the cause of Iranian women and, as well as that, the political activists in Iran, because now she -- because due to the stature that she has gained now internationally, she has a measure of protection. She could probably come back now. The conservatives would not receive her very well, naturally, but the reformists will and hopefully President Khatami will recognize her efforts and appreciate it publicly.
LIN: Shirzad, a record number of candidates that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee considered this year, 165, many of them certainly noted in their work, certainly as dedicated in their work and the pursuit for peace.
Why is it that you think that the Committee chose her?
BOZORGMEHR: I'm not going to kind of give my own opinion, because I'm not, you know, in a position to do so. But I can imagine, you know, I can explain to you what the conservatives would feel about it. And they would most probably say that the Committee that elected her as a nominee and then awarded her the award was politically motivated. They would most probably say that. And...
LIN: What do you mean politically motivated?
BOZORGMEHR: Because she is going against the current in Iran and because she's representing the women's cause. And this has met with some resistance within the country, within the conservative establishment. So they would naturally think that under the current circumstances where Iran is under heavy pressure from abroad to change its behavior, for the government to change its behavior, so to speak, they would consider this as a means to put more pressure on Iran, to promote -- this is, you know, to promote someone who is opposing the regime, parts of the policies of the regime.
To promote her that way and to award her an internationally recognized award such as the Nobel Peace Prize would give her more clout. And this is not something that the conservatives would appreciate and they would definitely think that this is politically motivated.
LIN: Do you know much about the specifics of the cases she has actually defended?
BOZORGMEHR: Not as such, but she is well known for, as I said, promoting women's rights. She has defended women in the cases against their husbands or against the state when the status of women were in question. She has defended several political activists who have been in trouble with the judiciary and in some cases she has won; in some cases she has lost.
But she is considered to be a very courageous woman, a very exceptional women and an extremely skillful lawyer.
LIN: Shirzad, help the American audience understand the nature of her work and the risks that she took. For example, we understand she was fighting to raise the minimum wage -- minimum age at which a young girl could be married off. She has fought for women's rights in terms of the law regarding blood money paid a murderer to the victim's family in return for the family waiving its right to insist on the death penalty.
BOZORGMEHR: You just said it in a nutshell. You explained all of it. She did not succeed in everything that she tried, but the fact that she brought it to the public attention and the fact that a woman, a lone woman stood up to the establishment and promoted the cause of a group of people, namely women and activists who were, in a way, at the mercy of the system, she stood up for them and she fought for them.
This has endeared her greatly to the Iranian public as a whole.
LIN: So you think she made a difference?
BOZORGMEHR: Oh, she definitely has. She definitely has. Not even -- she had even before receiving this award, because she initiated this whole movement of promoting women's causes openly and publicly and getting into arguments with the powers that be over here, be it in the judiciary or in the government.
So she is known as a very courageous woman who fought against great odds and regardless of the outcome, she fought the good fight.
LIN: Do you know much about her personally? Would you know what her reaction might have been when she got the phone call?
BOZORGMEHR: I have met her a couple of times. I have interviewed her with Christiane Amanpour a couple of times. But I do not know her personally.
But the impression I got from those meetings was that she was a very highly intelligent woman, very well educated and an expert in law, especially when it pertains to women and children. And the striking thing about her was her courage, because when I met her, she was under heavy pressure and -- but she was very adamant and she was very determined to continue.
And as we can see, she has continued and this is a great success for her.
LIN: The Nobel Peace Prize is worth quite a bit of money. I'm looking for the exact figure here. I think it's more than, it's certainly more than a million dollars, $1.3 million.
What do you think she's going to do with the money?
BOZORGMEHR: I have absolutely no idea, but I would imagine that if she's going to give some of it away, it would probably go to the women's cause and the political activists, I would imagine.
LIN: All right, she must have been a formidable foe in her country.
BOZORGMEHR: She is, yah.
LIN: Thank you very much, Shirzad Bozorgmehr, for joining us, a journalist in Iran.
We are going to take a quick break but we are bringing you breaking news about the Nobel Peace Prize winner, the 11th woman in 101 years in the history of the Peace Prize -- Shirin Ebadi, a human rights attorney in Iran.
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The Whitecaps recent victory in Colorado just about fits in to that category but what, if anything, can we extrapolate from that game?
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And maybe his game will grow even more the longer he plays opposite Ali Adnan?
Signing the Iraqi left back to a long term deal has to be the Whitecaps number one priority at the moment.
Does Erik Godoy exist?- Seriously. His name is always there in the lineup. He always gets a decent score in the gold standard of player ratings system. And yet we never see him from the first whistle to the last.
Have the Whitecaps circumvented the salary cap system by signing a ghost? A human riddle in shadow form?
That certainly doesn’t sound like the kind of thing they would do.
So we can only conclude that Godoy is just a very good central defender.
Signing the the Argentinian to a long term deal has to be the Whitecaps number one priority at the moment.
The midfield is still a huge issue. Even at 2-0 up the Whitecaps were leaving huge gaps in the centre of the park for Colorado to run in to.
That’s partly down to Hwang In-Beom being completely unsuited to playing a deep role. The South Korean is too easily bullied off the ball and doesn’t seem to possess the vision to play the killer pass Vancouver all too often rely on.
But put him near the opposition penalty area and suddenly his speed of movement and one touch football is much more likely to produce results.
And Russell Teibert and Felipe are Russell Teibert and Felipe and there’s not much more we can say about that without falling into a pit of deep indifference.
Maybe Andy Rose will turn out to be key that unlocks the box that keeps the answers to all these questions within it?
But he probably won’t.
Signing the right midfielder has to be the Whitecaps number one priority at the moment.
Front three set? The Montero, Bangoura and Venuto combination was easily the most effective that Marc Dos Santos has yet put out.
Replacing Reyna’s pace in the middle with all out pace out wide allowed Fredy Montero to play his natural game of either dropping deep or sniffing out an opportunity.
But the Whitecaps will need more guile when they play teams who are more than happy to sit deep at BC Place.
Signing the right creative player who can open up tight defences has to be the Whitecaps number one priority at the moment.


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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, said developers are now targeting the company’s Ubuntu platform for “game changing” areas such as Network Function Virtualisation and Internet of Things.
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Dog friendly holidays are perfect taken in the off season when restrictions are lifted on many popular beaches. However, visit in summer and many designated beaches welcome dogs too, so you can be sure to find a place for you and your dog to enjoy at any time of year.
With so many dog friendly places to visit you’ll be spoilt for choice. Porthtowan beach is perfect for dog walking with its wide sandy beach backed by sand dunes and cliffs, as is Gwithian St Gothian Nature reserve, with plenty of trails towards Gwithian beach.
When holidaying with your pooch, you can be sure there are a variety of attractions that welcome pets in Cornwall. From the Cornish Seal Sanctuary to the Minack Theatre, you won’t be left worrying about where to take your dog on a family day out. Certain attractions do not welcome pets however, so it is worth checking beforehand to avoid disappointment. For a list dog friendly days out click here.
Many restaurants, pubs and cafes in Cornwall are dog friendly too, with many providing bowls of water outside for your dog to quench its thirst.
Don’t forget to bring with you essentials for your stay, such as dog bed, leads, toys etc. Although some properties do provide these, it’s worth checking with us beforehand.
Look out for steep cliffs, mine shafts, adders, and beware of strong ocean currents, which can all be a hazard when exploring with your dog in Cornwall.
Dogs are not permitted on certain beaches during the summer months, but there are dog-friendly beaches that welcome dogs all year round. The ban excludes guide dogs for the blind which are permitted all year round. To read more about dog restrictions click here.
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With moderate fluctuations taken into account, the variable plans is still cheaper. Our bill is approximately $10 more in the winter, but we’d still save $138 over the course of a year. It’s more a question of whether you can roll with the punches of an unpredictable rate, or would sleep easier knowing your bill is going to look the same month after month.
The Texas Senate Bill 7, passed in 2002, gave 5.6 million Texans the power to choose a retail electric provider (REP) to supply electricity to their home or business. This bill facilitated a competitive energy marketplace that 85 percent of Texans can capitalize on today. Energy choice is available to residents in Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth as well as other cities in Texas.
This company has more plan variety than any other we looked at, though most of them seem more flashy than functional. And some seem weirdly niche — like "Connect to Comfort," a 24-month plan that comes with a Hive Hub and a Hive Active Thermostat, smart home devices that allow you to control your heat and A/C via app. Like many of Direct Energy’s plans, how good of a deal it is depends on how closely its offers align with your established habits.
Every state that is deregulated requires their electricity providers to be licensed or certified by the state in order to sell electricity. Your state’s public utility commission website keeps an up to date list of these electricity providers so that you can be certain that you are purchasing electricity from an authorized electricity provider. All of the electricity providers represented on ElectricityPlans.com are authorized electricity providers in the respective states where they do business.
If you spend most of your leisure time out of the house, none of these plans will do much for your bottom line. But if home is your favorite place to be, you could profit. Based on the estimates of energy companies, most people use about 31% of their total energy on the weekends. If you go through the average 1,000 kWh per month, you'll get about 310 kWh for free. Using data compiled by the EIA, we estimated 30% of average total energy is also used during evenings (including weekend evenings), working out to about 300 free kWh.
In finding you the best Texas electric rates, we only list electric companies that have great business stability, excellent service, environmental awareness, and transparent pricing. This protects you from providers that could soon go out of business, are unattentive to customers, are environmentally unsound, or may end up charging you a higher rate than advertised.
In Pennsylvania, you can choose from the EGSs operating in your area, or stay on with your default provider — your EDC. Currently, less than half of all Pennsylvania’s residential customers have made the switch. If you’re among that number, moving to an EGS could get you cheaper rates, better rewards, and more say in what fuels generate your electricity. Whichever you choose, your electricity will get to you just the same because the EDC is always responsible for delivery.
Pennsylvania offers first-time retail shoppers an attractive discount with the Standard Offer Program. The Public Utility Commission has a rotating list of retail providers and upon enrollment, they’ll hook you up with a 12-month fixed-rate plan at seven percent off the current utility price. You can cancel at any time without fees. For 1,000 kWh per month usage, PECO quoted us a price to compare of 7.13 cents. A seven percent discount brings that rate to 6.63 cents per kWh (lower than any plan on our provider list) — a $60 savings after a year of service.
Depending on the state where you live, you’ll get your electricity bill from your local electric utility or your electricity provider. Either way your electricity bill generally has two line items: supply and delivery. The supply charge is for the actual electricity used and this is paid to your electricity provider. The delivery charge is for the transmission and distribution of electricity and this is paid to your local electric utility. In most states you will receive these charges on one bill, and the company that collects your payment will make sure that the appropriate parties are paid for their services.

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Growing food is fast becoming a lost art. It’s feared, it’s unknown, it’s challenging, it’s rebellious. But it doesn’t have to be hard. Join me in the Love of Dirt podcast where we explore topics around growing food, fair food and sustainable living.
You may often wonder why your sweet basil only lasts one year but your rosemary just keeps on giving. That's because there are a couple of different plants.
Annual plants will only last the one season. eg. Lettuce, Tomatoes, Carrots
Perennial plants will keep on giving. eg. Kale, Rhubarb, Asparagus.
You can also get biennial plants that will generally give you two years if weather permits (aka doesn't get too cold over winter). eg. Eggplant, capsicum, chilli.
Most 'traditional' herbs and veggies that we see will fall into the annual category. This stems from european farming methods that originates from extremely cold climates where the seasons were very distinct.
I use a mix of both types of plants within my garden. For example our Mandala garden is surrounded with my perennial or Biennial plants, whilst the central circle is divided into slices which I rotate my annual crops around.
Benefits of Perennial plants
- You plant once
- Harvests are available for longer (if not indefinitely)
- They are more hardy and generally take care of themselves
Downsides of Perennial plants
- You need to choose your location wisely
- It's hard to find alternatives for those veggies you really love
- Sometimes they take a little while to get going (hello asparagus)
Perennial Veggies you might want to try
- Globe Artichoke
- Jerusalem Artichoke
- Kale (often grown as an annual)
- Scarlet runner beans
- Egyptian walking onions
- African Blue Basil
If you don't actually like to garden but still enjoy eating fresh produce direct from your garden, finding perennial plants is going to be the best option for you.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among those condemning Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Tuesday for reiterating her defense of the legislative filibuster, a Senate rule that is impeding congressional action on abortion rights as the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
"The filibuster is not protecting democracy. It's undermining it. End the filibuster now."
"We could protect Roe tomorrow, but Sinema refuses to act on the filibuster," Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted after Sinema (Ariz.) issued a statement touting her support for the Women's Health Protection Act, House-passed legislation that would codifythe right to abortion care into federal law.
Until Sinema's position on the filibuster changes, Ocasio-Cortez wrote, "she can take a seat talking about 'women's access to healthcare.'"
"Hold everyone contributing to this disaster accountable, GOP and Dem obstructionists included," the New York Democrat added. "She should be primaried."
In her statement, Sinema characterized the filibuster as a safeguard "against the erosion of women's access to healthcare," pointing to several instances in recent years of the 60-vote threshold preventing Senate Republicans from pushing through anti-abortion measures.
"Overturning Roe v. Wade endangers the health and wellbeing of women in Arizona and across America," Sinema said. "I'm a co-sponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act, and I'll continue working with anyone to protect women's ability to make decisions about their futures."
Earlier this year, anti-abortion groups ran ads praising Sinema for helping thwart Senate Democrats' attempt to pass a voting rights carveout for the filibuster.
While Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) vowed Tuesday to hold another vote on the Women's Health Protection Act in the near future, Democrats don't have the 60 votes needed to pass the legislation with the filibuster intact.
The filibuster can be weakened or abolished with 50 votes plus a tie-breaker from the vice president, but Sinema and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) have refused to support changes to the 60-vote rule. Manchin was the only Democrat to join Senate Republicans in filibustering the Women's Health Protection Act in February.
"The filibuster is the only protection we have in democracy," Manchin, an opponent of abortion, said Tuesday after declining to comment on the leaked opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito, which if finalized would spell disaster for reproductive rights and much more.
Countering Manchin, the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington argued that "the filibuster is not protecting democracy."
"It's undermining it," the group said. "End the filibuster now."
An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Tuesday found that 54% of Americans want the Supreme Court to uphold Roe, while just 28% want the court to overturn the 1973 decision.
The survey also showed that 58% believe abortion should be legal in "all or most cases."
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Storing any kind of large data is tricky. So when we designed our Longbow engine, for our Analytics Stack, we did so with flexible caching and storage in mind.
Longbow is our framework based on Apache Arrow and Arrow Flight RPC, for creating modular, scalable, and extensible data services. It is essentially the heart of our Analytics Stack ( FlexQuery). For a more bird’s eye view of Longbow and to understand its place within FlexQuery, see the architectural and introductory articles in this series.
Now let’s have a look at the tiered storage service for the Flight RPC in Longbow, its trade-offs and our strategies to tackle them.
If you want to learn more about the Flight RPC I highly recommend the Arrow Flight RPC 101 article written by Lubomir Slivka.
The storage trade-offs
To set the stage for the Longbow-specific part of the article, let us briefly describe the problems we tackled and some basic motivations. When storing data, we need to be mindful of several key aspects:
Setting them up and balancing them in cases when they go against one another is a matter of carefully defining the requirements of the particular application and can be quite situation-specific.
Cost v. Performance
The first balancing decision is how much we are willing to spend on increased performance. For example, when storing a piece of data being accessed by many users in some highly visible place in our product, we might favor better performance for a higher cost because the end-user experience is worth it. Conversely, when storing a piece of data that has not been accessed for a while, we might be ok with it being on a slower (and cheaper) storage even at the potential cost of it taking longer to be ready when accessed again. We can also be a bit smarter here and make it so that only the first access will be slower (more on that later).
Capacity v. Performance
Another balancing decision is about where we draw the line between data sizes that are too big. For example, we might want to put as many pieces of data into memory as possible: memory will likely be the best-performing storage available. At the same time though, memory tends to be limited and expensive, especially if you work with large data sets or very many of them: you cannot fit everything into memory and “clog” the memory with one huge flight instead of using it for thousands of smaller ones would be unwise.
We also need to decide on how durable the storage needs to be. Some data changes rarely but is very expensive to compute, it might even be impossible to compute again (e.g. a user-provided CSV file): such data might be a good candidate for durable storage. Other types of data can be changing very often and/or be relatively cheap to compute: non-durable storage might be better there. Also, there can be other non-technical circumstances: compliance or legal requirements might force you to avoid any kind of durable storage altogether.
Isolation and multi-tenancy
Yet another aspect to consider is whether we want to isolate some data from the rest or handle it differently, especially in a multi-tenant environment. You might want to give a particular tenant a higher capacity of storage space because they are on some advanced tier of your product. Or you might want to make sure some of the data is automatically removed after a longer period of time for some tenants. The storage solution should give you mechanisms to address these requirements. It is also a monetization leverage - yes, even we have to eat something. ;-)
Storage in Longbow
When designing and developing Longbow, we aimed to make it as universally usable as possible. As we have shown in the previous section, flexibility in the storage configuration is paramount to making a Longbow deployment efficient and cost-effective.
Since Longbow builds on the Flight RPC protocol (we go into much more detail in the Project Longbow article), it stores the individual pieces of data (a.k.a flights) under flight paths. Flight paths are unique identifiers of the related flights. They can be structured to convey some semantic data by having several segments separated by a separator (in our case it is a slash).
In this context, you can think of a flight as a file on a filesystem and a flight path as a file path to it: like it, it is a slash-separated string like cache/raw/postgres/report123.
The flight paths can be used by the Flight RPC commands to reference the particular flights. Flight RPC, however, does not impose any constraints on how exactly the actual flight data should be stored: as long as the data is made available when requested by a Flight RPC command, it does not care where it comes from. We take advantage of this fact and we make use of several types of storage to provide the data to Flight RPC.
The storage types in Longbow are divided into these categories:
Shard - local, ephemeral storage
- Memory-mapped disk
External, persistent storage
As you can see, the lower in the storage hierarchy we go, the slower, larger, and cheaper the storage gets, and vice versa. Also, only the external durable storage survives Longbow shard restarts. To expose these layers and to make them configurable, we built an abstraction on top of them that we call Storage classes.
A storage class encapsulates all the storage-related configurations related to a subset of flights. It has several important properties:
- It can be applied only to some flights: you can have different storage classes for different types of flights.
- The settings in the storage class can be tiered: you can mix and match different types of storage and flights can be moved between them.
Longbow uses the storage class definitions to decide where to physically store an incoming flight and how to manage it.
Storage class settings
Storage classes have different settings that define the storage class as a whole, another set of settings that define different so-called cache tiers, and another set that can govern the limits of several storage classes. Let’s focus on the storage-class-wide ones first.
Flight path prefix
Each storage class is applied to a subset of the flight paths. More specifically, each storage class defines a flight path prefix: only flights that share that flight path prefix are affected by that particular storage class. This allows us to handle different types of data differently by constructing their flight paths systematically thus handling the tradeoffs described earlier differently for data with different business meanings.
The storage classes can have flight path prefixes that are substrings of each other: in case of multiple prefixes matching the given flight path, the storage class with the longest matching prefix is used.
Going back to the filesystem path analogy, you can think of the path prefix as a path to the folder you want to address with the particular settings. Folders deeper in the tree can have their own configuration, overriding that of the parent folders.
Storage classes must specify the level of storage durability they guarantee. Currently, we support three levels of durability:
none– the storage class does not store the flights in any durable storage. Data will be lost if the Longbow node handling that particular flight runs out of resources and needs to evict some flights to make room for new ones, crashes, or is restarted
weak– the storage class will acknowledge the store operation immediately (before storing the data in durable storage). Data can be lost if the Longbow node crashes during the upload to the durable storage. However, the happy-path scenarios can have better performance.
strong– the storage class will only acknowledge the store operation after the data has been fully written to the durable storage. Data will never be lost for acknowledged stores, but the performance may suffer waiting for the durable write to complete.
These levels allow us to tune the performance and behavior of different data types. For data we cannot afford to lose (for example direct user uploads), we would choose strong durability, for data that can be easily recalculated in the rare case of a shard crash, weak might provide a better performance overall.
Storage classes with any durability specified will store the incoming data in their ephemeral storage first (if it can fit) and then create a copy in the durable storage. Whenever some flight is evicted from the ephemeral storage, it can still be restored there from the durable storage if it is requested again.
Durable Storage ID and Prefix
Durable storage ID and prefix tell the storage class which durable storage to use and whether or not to put the data there under some root path (so that you can use the same durable storage for multiple storage classes and keep the data organized). This also means you can use different durable storage and in the future, this would also enable some “bring your own storage” types of use cases for your users.
Flight Time-To-Live (TTL)
With flight Time-To-Live (TTL), storage classes can specify how long “their” flights will remain in the system. After that time passes, flights will be made unavailable.
In non-durable storage classes, the flights might become unavailable sooner: if resources are running out, the storage class can evict the flights to make space for newer ones.
In durable storage classes, the TTL is really the time they will be available for. In case the flight is evicted from the ephemeral storage tier (more on that later), it will be restored from the durable storage on next access. After the TTL passes, the flight will also be deleted from the durable storage.
Optionally, the flight replicas setting directs the storage class to create multiple copies of the flights across different Longbow nodes. This is not meant to be a resilience mechanism, rather, it can be used to improve performance by making the flights available on multiple nodes.
Cache tier settings
As described earlier, each Longbow shard has several layers of ephemeral storage resources and if configured, also external durable storage (e.g. AWS S3 or network-attached storage (NAS)). To utilize each of these layers as efficiently as possible, storage class settings can configure the usage of each of these tiers separately. There are also policies that automatically move data to a slower tier after that piece of data was not accessed for some time and vice versa, moving the data to a faster tier after it has been accessed repeatedly over a short period of time.
The cache tiers each have several configuration options to allow for all of these behaviors.
Tiers must specify the type of storage they manage. There are several options:
memory– the data is stored in the memory of the Longbow shard.
disk_mapped– the data is stored on the disk available to the Longbow shard and memory mapping is used when accessing the data.
disk– the data is stored on the disk available to the Longbow shard. This disk is wiped whenever the shard restarts.
The storage types are shared by all the tiers of all the storage classes in effect (there is one memory after all), so once the storage is running out of space, flights from across the storage classes will be evicted.
For storage classes with no durability, eviction means deleting the flight forever.
For storage classes with durability, eviction deletes the flight copy from the ephemeral storage but keeps the copy in durable storage. This means that if the evicted flight is requested, it can be restored from the durable copy back into the more performant ephemeral storage.
Max flight size and Upload Spill
Each tier can specify the maximum size of flights it can accept. This is to prevent situations when one large flight being uploaded would lead to hundreds or thousands of smaller flights being evicted: it is usually favorable to be able to serve a lot of users efficiently with smaller flights than only a handful with a few large ones. There is also a setting allowing the flights larger than the limit to either be rejected straight away or to spill over to another storage tier (e.g. from memory to the disk instead).
Since the flight data is streamed during the upload, the final size is not always known ahead of time. So the upload starts writing the data to the first tier and only when it exceeds the limit, the already uploaded data is moved to the next tier, and the rest of the upload stream is also redirected there. For cases when the final size is known ahead of time, the client can provide it at the upload start using a specific Flight RPC header, to avoid the potentially wasteful spill process.
Priority and Spill
When a storage type is running out of resources, it might need to start evicting some of the flights to make space for newer ones. By default, the eviction is driven using the least-recently-used (LRU) policy, but for situations where more granular control is needed, the storage tiers can specify a priority: flights from a tier with a higher priority will be evicted only after all the flights with lower priority are gone.
Related to this, there is also a setting that can cause the data to be moved to another storage type instead of being evicted from the ephemeral storage altogether (similarly to the Upload Spill).
Move after and Promote after
Tiers can also specify a time period after which the flights are moved to another (lower) tier. This is to prevent the “last-minute” evictions that would happen when the given storage tier is running out of resources.
Somewhat inverse to the Move after mechanism, tiers can proactively promote a flight to a higher tier after it was accessed a defined number of times over a defined period of time. This handles the situation where a lot of users start accessing the same “stale” flight at the same time: we expect that even more are coming so to improve the access time for them, we move the flight to a faster tier.
Tuning these two settings allows us to strike a good balance between having the flights most likely to be accessed the most in the fastest cache tier while being able to ingest new flights as well.
To have even more control, the configuration also offers something we call Limit policies. These can affect how many resources in total a particular storage class takes up in the system. By default, without any limit policies, all the storage classes share all the resources available. Limit policies allow you to restrain some storage classes to only store data up to a limit. You can limit both the amount of data in the non-durable storage only and the total amount including the durable storage.
For example, you can configure the policies in a way that limits cache for report computations to 1GB of data in the non-durable storage but leaves it unlimited capacity in the durable storage. Or you can also impose a limit on the durable storage (likely to limit costs).
There are several types of limit policies catering to different types of use cases. One limit policy can be applied to several storage classes and more than one limit policy can govern a particular storage class.
Standard limit policies
These are the most basic policies, they set a limit on a storage class as a whole i.e. on all the flight paths sharing the storage class’ flight path prefix. They are useful for setting a “hard” limit on storage classes that you fine-tune using other limit policy types.
Segmented limit policies
Segmented limit policies allow you to set limits on individual flight path subtrees governed by a storage class.
For example, if you have flight paths like
cache/snowflake and a storage class that covers the
cache path prefix, you can set up such a policy that limits data from each database to take at most 1GB per database type and it would automatically cover even database types added in the future.
Hierarchical limit policies
Offering even more control than with the segmented limit policies, hierarchical limit policies allow you to model more complex use cases limiting on more than one level of the flight paths.
For example, you have a storage class that manages flights with the
cache prefix. On the application level, you make sure that the flight paths for this storage class always include some kind of tenant id as the second part of the flight path, the third part is the identifier of a data source the tenant uses and finally, the fourth segment is the cache itself:
cache/tenant1/dataSource1/cacheId1. Hierarchical limit policies allow you to do things like limiting
tenant1 to 10GB in total and also allow them to put 6GB towards
dataSource1 because they know it produces bigger data while keeping all the other tenants at 5GB by default.
As we have shown, storing any kind of large data certainly isn’t straightforward. It has many facets that need to be carefully considered. Any kind of data storage system needs to be flexible enough to allow the users to tune it according to their needs.
Longbow comes equipped with a meticulously designed tiered storage system exposed via Flight RPC that enables the users to set it up to cater to whatever use case they might have. It takes advantage of several different storage types and plays to their strengths whether it is size, speed, durability, or cost.
In effect, Longbow’s cache system provides virtually unlimited storage size thanks to the very cheap durable storage solutions while keeping the performance much better for the subset of data that is being actively used.
Want to learn more?
As we mentioned in the introduction, this is part of a series of articles, where we take you on a journey of how we built our new analytics stack on top of Apache Arrow and what we learned about it in the process.
As you can see in the article, we are opening our platform to an external audience. We not only use (and contribute to) state-of-the-art open-source projects, but we also want to allow external developers to deploy their services into our platform. Ultimately we are thinking about open-sourcing the Longbow. Would you be interested in it? Let us know, your opinion matters!
If you’d like to discuss our analytics stack (or anything else), feel free to join our Slack community!
Want to see how well it all works in practice, you can try the GoodData free trial! Or if you’d like to try our new experimental features enabled by this new approach (AI, Machine Learning and much more), feel free to sign up for our Labs Environment.
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I love reading Penguin classics and I managed to buy a beautiful collection of minty green and miniature Penguin novels from Gumtree.
Being a design lover, I’m always on the lookout for iconic pieces. I have been collecting Marimekko designs for as long as I can remember.
On my desk is a collection of Marimekko tins, again bought from Gumtree.
Do you, like I, find it awkward talking about prices of itemswhen you’re either buying or selling face-to-face?
According to research from Gumtree, you could be experiencing a personal loss of £496.20 in annual savings because you don’t feel comfortable negotiating.The rise of online marketplaces shows that people are starting to see the value in purchasing pre-loved items.
Gumtree is just one example of a trusted classified ads site used by 33% of UK’s digital population every month.
I was super excited to be offered the opportunity to learn from expert negotiator, Gavin Presman, at a recent event set up by Gumtree and the How to Academy.I’ve recently caught the upcycling bug and can’t wait to revamp some of the vintage furniture I’ve collected throughout the years.
I think I may also try my luck (and new found negotiating skills) at selling these pieces on Gumtree.
Gavin let me in on his seven negotiation tips, from doing your homework before listing, to checking quality up close.
Confidence is key when executing each of the following: – Research, Advertise, Connect, Arrange to meet, Meet, Examine and The Negotiation.My favourite part of the workshop was learning about the AIDA formula under the Advertise section. Anyone in marketing and selling should use AIDA. It’s so simple to use but totally effective.
The A in AIDA stands for Attention. At the workshop, Gavin helped us think through how we could make our ads stand out with attention-grabbing headlines.
My ‘hamster cage for sale’ soon became “Contemporary hamster Condo for sale. Let your hamster live the best two and a half years of its life.”
To set the record straight, I have not embellished on my description.
We really did have a stylish 3 storey hamster house and Nibbles had a wonderful 2.5 years of luxury.The other thing I took away from my preview of the workshop was that many of the barriers we face during the negotiation process can be overcome when closing a deal face-to-face or online.
If we apply the stages in a handy guide created by Gumtree and the How to Academy, with every purchase – we’ll soon become expert negotiators.
With my new-found knowledge, I’ll be listing a few pieces of the furniture that I previously couldn’t sell. I’m now feeling quietly confident.What’s exciting is that you too can now find out these secrets to successful and confident negotiation, as Gumtree will be running a consumer workshop on 4th September at Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design.
You can sign up for the free workshop here.
If you can’t attend the workshop, then fear not, as Gumtree has also made its guide on the ‘Etiquette of Buying and Selling Online’ available to download here.
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The Evolution of Groupwise Poverty in Madagascar, 1999-2005
Journal of African Economies, 2010
Posted: 23 May 2011
Date Written: March 30, 2010
This paper explores whether there exist differences in groupwise poverty in Madagascar; that is, whether there is a pattern over time of consistently poorer performance among sub-populations readily identifiable by one or more identity markers. Three key messages come out of this analysis. First, there exists a core type of household that remained persistently poor over the period 1999–2005. These households were largely not members of the dominant ethnic group, land poor, lived in remote areas, and were headed by uneducated individuals, most commonly women. Second, in addition to establishing the existence of persistent differences in poverty across groups, relative differences in returns to education, land and remoteness underscore the existence of differences within groups, as one characteristic affects the returns to another. Third, persistent differences in groupwise poverty are associated with multiple different identities, some of which are offsetting and some of which are reinforcing. For example, women's higher education tends to offset the disadvantages associated with being a head of household, while remoteness compounds the disadvantages associated with living in female-headed households.
JEL Classification: O21, O55, R20
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By S. Harrish
DINE-IN will be allowed for all food outlets in Sarawak starting tomorrow, provided the operator and workers have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
State Disaster Management Committee said this condition was decided on after a review and some improvement to the SOPs for food outlets.
The easing of the rules comes as Sarawak is now in Phase 2 of the National Recovery Plan.
According to the new SOPs, food outlets can resume dine-in only at 50% capacity and cannot exceed 100 people.
Food outlets must also ensure their premises are well ventilated, have hand sanitisers and ensure customers maintain social distancing of one metre.
The maximum number of customers allowed must be displayed and tables need to be two metres apart.
Between two and six people are allowed per table, depending on the table size and no music or entertainment activities are allowed.
Any premises that flouts the SOP will be closed for 14 days.


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Turkey and Vegetable Chili
Updated: Sep 18, 2020
Even though it's springtime there's still a chill in the air. In my mind, that's a perfect reason to make a pot of chili. Since I couldn't decide between making a turkey chili or a vegetable one I chose to combine the two. I'm so glad I did because it turned out just delicious.
Ingredients for Turkey-Vegetable Chili:
3 tablespoons grapeseed oil
1 pound ground turkey
1 1/2 cups chopped onion, about 1 medium
1 cup diced yellow squash
3/4 cup diced orange bell pepper
1/2 cup diced carrot
1 poblano pepper, diced
2 tablespoons chili powder
2 teaspoons oregano
1 tablespoon cumin
1/8 teaspoon cayenne
1 1/2 cups chicken broth
1 4-ounce can diced green chili peppers
1 - 15 ounce can cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
Optional: serve with cooked white rice ( a must for my husband), sliced radish, chopped red onion, sour cream, sliced lime, and chopped cilantro
Time-Saving Tips: All of the vegetables can be prepped earlier in the day or even the night before preparing the chili. The chili can be prepared in advance and reheated before serving.
Let's see what we need.
We're ready to cook.
Saute the onion and pepper with 3 teaspoons of oil for about 4 minutes. Add the garlic and once fragrant combine the turkey with the vegetables. Season with salt and pepper and cook until turkey is no longer pink. Toss in all of the dry seasonings. Then add the beans, tomatoes, broth, and sauce.
Simmer chili for about 8-10 minutes until chili has thickened. Adjust seasonings. At this point, it is ready to serve or once cooled it can be refrigerated for later. The chili will thicken more as it cools. If you'd like, add a little chicken broth to loosen it up.
It's ready! This chili is awesome. It has the perfect balance of spices. Feel free to make a double batch to share or for leftovers the next day.


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After three months of filming, Todd Phillips upcoming Joker origin film has reportedly wrapped principal photography in Brooklyn over the weekend.
In the last week of filming, Joaquin Phoenix was seen on location posing for publicity photos both in full costume and makeup as the titular Clown Prince of Crime and in his pre-villain persona as the unassuming Arthur Fleck. Also seen posing for photos was Zazie Beetz as a single mother befriended by Arthur in the film, seen on location with what appears to be her young daughter. The behind-the-scenes photos of the photo shoot were posted on the Daily Mail.
The film had begun principal photography in Brooklyn this past September after being fast-tracked into production over the summer with additional filming in The Bronx and New Jersey doubling as Gotham City.
Now entering post-production, an official teaser trailer is likely in development to give audiences a better look at the film as it prepares for its October release.
Directed and co-written by Todd Phillips, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix as the titular character along with Robert De Niro, Marc Maron, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, and Bill Camp. It is scheduled to be released on October 4, 2019.


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Gerald (Jerry) Black, who passed away August 9, 2006 will be honored by a celebration of Jerry`s life at Lake Creek Pioneer Hall,Sunday, October 29 at 1:00 p.m. The family invites all who knew and loved Jerry to please attend.
Ruth Marie Nimrod
Ruth Marie Nimrod, 88, of Jacksonville, died Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at Bergdorf Adult Foster Care in Medford. Arrangements by: Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home, Ashland.
Larry Jake Ruby
Dec. 30, 1954~Oct. 18, 2006
The graveside service for Larry will be Saturday, October 21, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. at Siskiyou Memorial Park. Conger~Morris Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements. 541-772-7111
Atha M. Schreck
Atha Mae Schreck, 91, of Medford, died Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at Medford Rehabilitation Center. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Memory Gardens Mortuary.
Delbert Wedel, 78, of White City passed away Thursday, October 19, 2006 at his home. Arrangements by Rogue Valley Funeral Alternatives.
Herbert G. Wing
Herbert G. Wing, 76, of Medford, passed away Thursday, October 19, 2006 at Hearthstone Manor. Arrangements by Rogue Valley Funeral Alternatives.


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While Johnson loves to spend time with his girls, his busy schedule takes him all over the world. So how does he keep in touch with his ladies back home?
"We're just constantly texting each other, checking in, always FaceTiming," he shared. "There's a little bit of challenge, obviously, when I leave, especially [since] we have an [almost] 3-month-old at home and a 2.5-year-old at home. And I'm a big baby too when I get home. So Lauren does a tremendous job."
"I'm really so proud of her," he marveled. "She is just a supermom, I tell her all the time. I'm like, 'You're my superwoman, baby.'"
The actor will soon be able to reunite with his family following Skyscraper's release on July 13. ET was with Johnson in Hong Kong earlier this month, where he dished on his intense one-take stunt in the film.

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SecoLarm SL-SM300QW Normally Open Door Switch, Package of 5
Normally Open Door Switch
This Normally Open Proximity Door Switch SL-SM300QW is built to monitor the opening and closing state of your windows and doors. These are traditionally used with a security system or automation system. The functioning internal reed switch closes and the circuit is completed when doors and windows OPEN.
These are meant for contact closure rather and are not meant to run lights. A supplementary relay and surge suppressioin must be used if the intention of the switch is to activate a bell or siren strobe or a voltage load.
Normally Closed vs Normally Open
Normally open *Example: light turns on when door is open
A N/O contact does not flow current in its normal state. Activating the contact (opening a door/window) will create a flow of current to create an alarm/turn on light etc.
Normally closed *Example: light is on when door is closed
A N/C contact flows current in its normal state. Activating the contact (opening a window/door) will interrupt the contact, allowing no current to flow. Normally closed is typically used for alarm systems to alert when door/window is opened or wire is cut.
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About The Artist:
Smt. Gayathri Venkataraghavan, began her training in carnatic music at a young age under the tutelage of Smt.Rajalakshmi and then under Smt. Padma Veeraraghavan, a disciple of Palaghat Sri.K.V.Narayanaswamy.
Her advanced training was under Acharya Choodamani Late Sri.A.Sundaresan. Gayathri is presently under the guidance of Padma Bhushan Sri. P.S.Narayanaswamy.
Gayathri Venkataraghavan is an A grade accredited artiste of All India Radio. She won the All India Radio National level competition in 1993. Her regular performances for the A I R include a prestigious National Broadcast in 2006.She has sung various themes for Archival purposes for the AIR.
The concert prizes that she has won by the Grace of Almighty at the Music Academy conference, include The D.K.Pattammal award for Lady vocalist in 2001, T.T.Rangaswamy award in 2002, H.Natarajan Prize 2003 and 2004 , The Pappu Kamakshi Award in 2006 and the Award for Swara singing during 2007.
She has been performing regularly at various centres in India. Her performances abroad include ones at the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival 2005 and 2008 at Ohio State, USA and Toronto in Canada. She also performed at the SIFA annual festival at Singapore in Feb 2007. She has also toured the United States and Canada extensively for a concert tour in September and October 2007.
In 2003 she was awarded the Kalki Krishnamoorthy award and in the same year she was given the Nada Oli title by Nada Inbam, Madras. She was awarded the SIMANA award instituted by The Carnatic Music Association of North America, Inc.NJ (USA) Dr.MLV Endowment by Narada Gana Sabha 2006.


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Who's Housh want?
Posted by Danny O'Neil
He's probably not going to be sitting out for too long, though. Houshmandzadeh has not returned messages since being released by the Seahawks and becoming an unrestricted free agent. His decision on where to play next season appears to be narrowing down to either Oakland or Washington, according to a source who had spoken with him.
Houshmandzadeh, 32, led Seattle in receptions last season, but was released by Seattle on Saturday. His 2010 salary of $7 million is guaranteed, but there is certainly an offset clause, which would mean that Seattle is responsible only for the difference of the $7 million total and whatever he would earn from another team in 2010. Most expect him to sign for the veteran minimum in 2010 with another team.
Dec 24 - 6:10 AM Looking back: Revisiting Sunday's scouting report
Dec 24 - 1:09 AM Seahawks' scoring binge
Dec 24 - 1:01 AM Video: Summing Seattle's victory
Dec 24 - 12:58 AM Video: Russell Wilson post-game comments
Dec 24 - 12:21 AM Rookie passing roll call


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Jeremy Sterngold, Head of Fixed Income
Generally, during the summer months, central banks try to stay out of the limelight. This is primarily due to lower liquidity, given that a lot of market participants are away, and any commentary could exacerbate market movements. The exception to this rule is the annual Federal Reserve (Fed) symposium which takes place at the end of the summer. While this is not an official central bank meeting, in the past this has served as a platform to highlight future policy thinking; only last year the Fed used this event to announce their switch to an average inflation targeting framework.
With the US recovery well underway, expectations have increased that the Fed will reduce its asset purchases or “taper”. Over the past month, GDP data for the second quarter has been published confirming that the US economy is now larger than its pre-pandemic size. A rather swift turnaround compared to the recessions in recent decades. The employment data also showed signs that jobs are plentiful, and that more people are returning to the labour market as the leisure sector has broadly re-opened. Given the strong recovery, it is no surprise that investors see the Fed dialling down its ultra-accommodative stance.
More recently however, some economic data releases have brought into question the resilience of the US economy amid the Delta variant outbreak. Consumer confidence fell quite sharply, and survey data showed a marked decline in service output, although still in strong expansionary territory. Despite these setbacks, the benchmark S&P 500 index has continued to make new all-time highs and has returned in excess of 20% this year (as at 25th of August).
This backdrop makes the situation for the Fed challenging. On the one hand, the recovery has progressed well, with the job market likely to see further gains, and the economy continues to grow at a pace that is above the so-called “trend” levels. While equity markets have delivered solid returns on the back of solid earnings, this is also supported by the Fed’s loose policy stance. On the other hand, however, if the Delta strain continues to put pressure across global supply chains and US states move to reimpose restrictions, this could result in things being set back further.
Whilst the Jackson Hole Symposium may not be the forum where the Fed ultimately decides to map out its tapering plan, given the elevated valuations in both equity and credit markets, the Fed may see increasing risks of maintaining the current policy stance. Should they decide to delay tapering, equity markets may face larger adjustments when they ultimately look to tighten policy. Whilst the path to recovery from the pandemic may be facing further bumps along the road, the Fed will factor in the potential fiscal support coming from the US congress. It is important for investors to remember that the Fed is just thinking about buying fewer US Treasuries and Agency Mortgage Backed Securities over time, rather than raising interest rates or winding down its balance sheet.
Whether tapering gets announced over the weekend or not, it is clear that the Fed is now thinking more proactively about the risks of maintaining such loose policy, especially given elevated asset prices. So, whilst the timing is yet unclear, the Fed does appear to be gently taking its foot off the accelerator.
 GDP – US Department of Commerce, Bloomberg
 Employment – Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bloomberg
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Director: Michal Goldman
Cast: Tawfik Badawi, Virginia Danielson, Amal Fahmy
Egypt, 67’, 1996, color, black and white
Arabic , English; with Turkish subtitles
She had the musicality of Ella Fitzgerald, the public presence of Eleanor Roosevelt and the audience of Elvis Presley. Born a peasant at the turn of the last century, legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum earned a position of great wealth and influence. She was a powerful symbol, first of the aspirations of her country, and then of the entire Arab world. Four million people filled the streets of Cairo for her funeral in 1975, and to this day her songs outsell those of many contemporary Arab female vocalists. Narrated by Omar Sharif, Umm Kulthum, A Voice Like Egypt takes viewers into her home village and to the streets and cafes of Cairo where she lived and worked. Featuring concert footage, film clips and interviews with the famed singer’s friends and colleagues, Goldman's documentary places the life and career of Umm Kulthum in the context of the epic story of 20th century Egypt.
Inspired by its Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, Pera Museum presents a contemporary video installation titled For All the Time, for All the Sad Stones at the gallery that hosts the Collection. The installation by the artist Nicola Lorini takes its starting point from recent events, in particular the calculation of the hypothetical mass of the Internet and the weight lost by the model of the kilogram and its consequent redefinition, and traces a non-linear voyage through the Collection.
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Meet The Artist: Charlotte Hardy
19 Jul 2023
Charlotte Hardy’s expressive, colourful and illustrative paintings convey such charm, warmth and joy that we knew upon first sight that she had to join the family of artists we task with creating our seasonal postcards. From her signature café scenes to vivacious tumbling blooms to captivating still lives, her paintings are so vividly evocative that we felt sure that her brushes would perfectly encapsulate the exuberant glory of heady high summer. Now we step inside her studio to learn a little more about her, from where it all began to how she defines her style.
Firstly, can you take us back to your creative roots. Were you always drawn to making in some capacity?
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always loved making pictures. When I was a child, I was just so happy painting, drawing and going to my Saturday morning art class and by the age of eight, I had decided that I wanted to be an artist.
You first studied at art school, later following it up with a degree in textiles. What drew you to that art form in particular?
On my art foundation course, I ended up specialising in textiles because of my love of colour and pattern. I then went on to study printed textile design – I couldn’t believe that a degree existed which encompassed everything I loved.
Today you are known best for your captivating paintings. What prompted you to take up the brushes, or had your always painted alongside your textile work?
On my textile degree, we drew and painted all the time, keeping sketchbooks and developing a personal style. My paint brushes, dip pen for inks and bags of collage were always by my side.
I think that my textiles background is evident in everything though, from the way I flatten perspective to the strong sense of composition, which has an ornamental feel.
Your paintings have an enchantingly whimsical overtone, whether the subject matter is an interior, a café or something from the natural world. How do you describe your style?
I love to keenly observe my subject matter but to express it in a loose and energetic way. I also love to draw, which I think gives the work an illustrative feel.
Can you outline the loose shape of a typical day for you?
I drop my children at school and then get the bus to my beautiful studio, which is in Charlie Chaplin’s old rehearsal studios. It is such a pleasure to arrive there each day. I make a cup of tea, put the radio on and try to get stuck in as soon as I can, as my day is too short! Before I know it, it’s time to do the school pick up.
I’m always taking photos of anything I find inspiring – I have a huge list of things I want to paint! I recently went to a café near the river in Richmond in London and I’m desperate to paint it.
We’ve loved working with you on our new postcard. Can you tell us a bit about it and the idea behind it?
I love colour and pattern so this project to create your summer postcard was perfect for me. I began with rough pencil sketches initially to get a nice sense of energy and allow some looseness to run through the composition. The final piece was painted on a lovely piece of watercolour paper and I was really inspired by your summer palette of warm yellows and peaches which run through many of your textiles. The Flora Hand Painted Jug is a lovely creamy colour so it’s also picking up the reflection of the flowers, but I also wanted to achieve the feel of dappled sunlight, which is so evocative of summer.
Read more about our work to support British illustrators as part of our Consciousness pledge and watch our latest short film of our visit with Charlotte below.


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