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Third graders recognize an unequal rhythm in poetry through clapping and using non - pitch instruments as accompaniment to saying the poem.
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Cornstalk Fiddle and a Shoestring Bow
Playing music while considering form, pitch, and rhythm is the topic of this music lesson. Third graders practice playing a song in small groups and then as an ensemble. This lesson uses the text, Spotlight on Music and Orff instruments.
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The Role of the Opera Orchestra
Students listen to and examine a recording of the opera Don Pasquale and study the various musical instruments in an orchestra. They discuss the difference between a symphony orchestra and an opera orchestra. Finally they play the music...
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The Amazon hegemon, it was announced last week, put a significant amount of his own cash into a Canadian company, General Fusion, which is seeking to build a small-scale nuclear fusion power plant--the first of its kind--within four years.
The joke among engineers, says one critic, is that "nuclear fusion was 50 years away 50 years ago, and 50 years from now it will be 50 years away."That critic is Jim Riccio, Greenpeace's nuclear-policy analyst. As you could probably guess, he's not a huge fan of nuclear power, and is perfectly happy to talk at length about its attendant evils.
But with this project, Riccio isn't up in arms about safety issues, which do not involve reactor meltdowns and nuclear winter. Rather, he sees it as a big waste of time and money. Nuclear fusion projects, he points out, have never been able to show a net energy gain. That is, the energy going out has never exceeded the energy going in. Which, for a power plant, is a problem.
For its part, the company acknowledges that it is working on technology first experimented with in the 1970s that has mostly been left aside since then.
It hopes to have something to show for its efforts within four years. Unfortunately, its investors said pretty much the same thing four years ago.
If Bezos did just flush $19.5 million down the toilet, don't feel too bad for him. He is rich.


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Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej (Meretz), Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton (New Hope) and Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar (New Hope) voted against the motion to extend the Green Pass.
Sa’ar had already said he intended to vote against the extension, saying there was no longer any understandable epidemiological purpose to keep it.
The extended regulations include restrictions on 50 people gathering in closed spaces outside of the Green Pass system and the extension of the Purple Ribbon regulations in commercial spaces until February 6.
Additionally, regulations will be extended until February 27 in educational institutions, requiring teachers to present a Green Pass upon arrival, and for students and teachers to wear masks inside classrooms.
Green Pass regulations applicable to employees of health and welfare institutions will be extended until March 1.
The downward trend in new daily cases toward the end of last week continued over the weekend. On Saturday, 49,371 new cases were recorded, and 53,000 new cases were recorded on Friday, the Health Ministry reported Sunday.
The numbers are usually lower over the weekend due to reduced testing and do not always accurately represent the situation. The consistent decline in the reproduction (R) rate, which currently stands at 0.95, indicates that the Omicron wave is ebbing, and not just for the weekend.
Last December 30, as the Omicron variant started to take hold in Israel, the R rate was 2.12.
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Serious cases continued to rise and are predicted to do so for a few more days. According to some estimates, they will approach 1,200 before beginning to decline. There were 1,086 serious cases on Saturday, 86 more than on Friday, the Health Ministry reported Sunday.
It was the second day in a row that there were more than 1,000 serious cases for the first time in almost a year. The last time there were more than 1,000 serious cases was last February, before the coronavirus vaccines were widely available.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday expressed cautious optimism about stabilization of the Omicron wave.
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Regarding the new testing system being implemented in educational institutions, under which students are required to take antigen tests twice a week to prevent spread of the virus, Bennett said: “Parents should take responsibility, making sure to test their children properly and only send them to school if they feel well.”
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Assault rifles are the weapon of choice on the battlefield, offering more reliability and ease of use than other firearms. The range and accuracy of rifles remain unchallenged, and a few even provide modifications for the shooter to improve their chances of a sure hit. But with so many rifles available on the market, finding the best can be a complicated task.
Here are the 9 best assault rifles ever made:
- HK 416
- Tavor TAR-21
- FN SCAR
- Steyr AUG A3
- VZ 58
- SIG SG 550
- IWI Galil Ace
In this article, I have listed out the top 9 assault rifles, in no particular order, along with a brief history of each weapon and a description of its offensive capabilities.
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1. HK 416
Built with efficiency in mind, the piston operating system on the HK 416 significantly reduces malfunction and jamming, improving the weapon’s longevity.
With a weak recoil and the power to fire up to 850 rounds per minute at a range of 600 m (1,968.5 ft), the HK 416 is perhaps the most popular assault rifle on the market today.
Thanks to its versatility, the HK 416 can be used under various conditions of warfare.
The HK 416 is a state-of-the-art assault rifle developed in the ’90s by German company Heckler & Koch, who worked in conjunction with the U.S. Army’s Delta Force to manufacture this firearm.
At the time, most of the infantry on Delta Force was equipped with HK MP5s, a rifle whose 9 mm (0.35 in) bullets were considered too weak to inflict critical damage. The other models used by the infantry were too large and heavy, making pitched combat more physically taxing.
The idea behind this assault rifle was to create a firearm that was lethal and yet light enough to carry with ease on the battlefield. The HK 416 fit right into that sweet spot between size and efficiency, and the U.S. Army’s Delta Force began using the weapon extensively by 2004.
The rifle’s potency and ease of use have made it a favorite among the Norwegian Armed Forces, the French Armed Forces, and special operations units worldwide.
The AK-103 came under extensive use much later than most of the other assault rifles on this list. While accuracy and ease of use aren’t its strong suits, this weapon has carved its place out in the weapons market as a firearm with unsurpassed reliability on the field of battle.
The simplicity of its design and the ease of manufacture make the AK-103 a popular weapon in countries all over the world.
It’s also a highly customizable weapon and can be fitted with night vision or telescopic sights, a knife bayonet, laser vision, a suppressor, and the GP-25 grenade launcher.
The AK-103 uses plastic components to replace metal or wooden parts wherever possible, making the weapon light and mobile. It may seem ‘low-tech’ from a technological point of view, but its capacity to weather the worst conditions makes this weapon highly reliable in battle.
A descendant of the legendary AK-47, the AK-103 was built by Russian arms dealer Mikhail Kalashnikov back in 1994. Kalashnikov continued to improve his design of the AK-47, producing the AK-74M, and eventually, the AK-103.
3. Tavor TAR-21
The Tavor Tar 21 offers shooters a selective fire system so they can choose between semi-automatic and fully automatic modes.
This firearm is also designed to be used by both left and right-handed soldiers, which, aside from comfort, can be extremely useful in warfare where injury to the limbs is commonplace.
The Tavor is designed to fit a grenade launcher and night vision scope, immensely improving a soldier’s offensive capabilities. This rifle can fire up to 900 rounds per minute, with an effective firing distance of up to 550 m (1,804.46 ft).
The Tavor TAR-21 was designed and produced by the IWI (Israeli Weapons Industry).
Gun designer Zalmen Shebs headed the team that initiated the development of the Tavor back in 1995. The team’s objective was to design a rifle with enhanced offensive capabilities that were durable and easier to maintain than the M4A1 Carbine – a rifle used extensively by the Israeli Defense Forces.
However, the design also had to accommodate close-quarter combat and be suited to adapt to mechanized infantry roles.
To fit the requirements, the team created a compact design with a long barrel and a long-stroke piston system to ensure the weapon’s reliability under adverse conditions.
After conducting several trials in 2001 and 2002, the Israeli Defense forces concluded that the Tavor TAR-21 was far superior to their favored M4A1 Carbine.
By 2006 Israel began a gradual changeover, replacing the infantry’s firearms with the Tavor, which happens to be the weapon of choice for Israeli Defense Forces today.
4. FN SCAR
Among all the assault rifles used by the U.S. military, the FN SCAR won an award (yes, an award!) for being the best assault rifle in 2014. The SCAR is also a modular weapon system, allowing for a range of customizations that can be accessed and fitted within minutes.
This assault rifle can fire up to 650 rounds per minute, ranging between 300 m and 700 m (984.25 ft and 2,296.59 ft), based on the barrel length used.
The SCAR (Special Combat Assault Rifle) was developed by a Belgian manufacturer, FN Herstal, back in 2004. This gun is available in two variants – the SCAR – L (light) and the SCAR – H (heavy).
Both forms of this weapon are available in three primary modes, including close quarters, standard, and long barrel variations.
In 2004, the United States Special Operations Commission (USSOCOM) worked closely with Belgian manufacturer FN Herstal to produce the SCAR. The coalition resulted in the manufacture of two different caliber rifles with identical ergonomics.
After a few delays due to red tape and bureaucracy, FN Herstal finally provided the U.S. with 600 units of the SCAR, which were given to the 75th Ranger Regiment. And in 2009, they were finally able to experience the destructive power of this rifle in combat.
However, after the first battle, the U.S. stopped purchasing the SCAR-L and continued to import only the SCAR-H.
The M16 was a technological marvel and way ahead of its time when it was invented. The air-cooled, gas-operated, magazine-fed assault rifle is made from steel, aluminum, and composite parts, making it easy to lug around during battle.
The M16 is capable of firing 60 rounds per minute in semi-automatic mode and up to 950 rounds per minute in fully automatic mode, with an effective range of up to 800 m (2,624.67 ft).
The development of the M16 can be traced back to 1928, when the U.S. Army, after extensive testing, decided that the infantry required smaller caliber rounds.
So the M14 was born, but it wasn’t until the 1950s when another predecessor of the M16, the AR-15, first made its appearance on the weapons market.
Throughout 1962 and 1963, the army tested the AR-15 extensively, noting its performances in combat situations with small squads. The Army Materiel Command praised its lightness and reliability while criticizing its inaccuracy and penetration at longer ranges.
But by the end of 1963, the Secretary of Defense concluded that the AR-15 was superior to the M14. And after further modifications, the M16 was born, a much lighter and more lethal version of both the AR-15 and the M14.
6. Steyr AUG A3
The Steyr Aug comes with highly sophisticated firearms technology, made from polymer and aluminum components. But perhaps the most impressive feature of the AUG is its design as a modular weapon system.
The AUG can fire effectively up to 300 m (984.25 ft) with a high level of accuracy. However, if you’re looking for more range, specific customizations allow the AUG to fire as far as a whopping 2700 meters (8,858.27 ft)!
The firing rate for this assault rifle is anywhere between 680-750 rounds per minute.
‘Steyr AUG’ literally translates to ‘universal army rifle’ and has been adopted by the armed forces in countries all across the world. In some places, the Steyr-AUG is the weapon of choice as a standard-issue service rifle.
The Steyr AUG was designed in the 1960s in Austria and adopted by the Austrian army in 1978. The U.S. began importing this rifle from Austria in early 1980. But importation was banned in 1989 during the Bush administration under the Assault Weapon Import Ban issued that year.
However, in a few years, buyers could get their hands on the rifle thanks to cosmetic changes in the weapons design, allowing the gun to be legally imported again.
By 2004 the ban was lifted, and in 2008 Steyr Aug began working with American weapons manufacturer Sabre Defense to produce this rifle in the U.S.
7. VZ 58
The VZ 58 is produced in three main variants – the standard VZ 58P (infantry mode) with a synthetic buttstock, the VZ 58V (airborne) featuring a metal shoulder stock, and the VZ 58 Pi (infantry with infrared mode).
The last version is similar to the VZ 58P but comes with a dovetail bracket to mount the NSP2 night vision device.
The VZ 58 is fed from a detachable magazine with a 30 round cartridge capacity made from lightweight aluminum alloy. The VZ 58 can fire up to 800 rounds per minute with an effective range between 100 m and 800 m (328.08 ft and 2,624.67 ft) based on sight adjustments.
The development of the VZ 58 began in 1956 in Czechoslovakia under Chief Engineer of the Slavic forces, Jiri Cermak.
To benefit from trade and rely on its allies during the war, the Soviet Union spurred all Warsaw Pact countries to standardize on a common form of ammunition. The VZ 58 was manufactured as a response to this pressure on the forces of the Warsaw pact.
8. SIG SG 550
The SG 550 comes with a long sight radius and iron sights that can be adjusted according to the wind and elevation.
The SIG can fire up to 700 rounds per minute with a range accuracy between 100 m and 400 m (328.08 ft and 1,312.34 ft), depending on sight adjustments.
The SIG G 550 was first formulated in 1978 when the Swiss Armed Forces were in search of a successor to their beloved SG510.
The Army worked in conjunction with research and development teams and emphasized a modular weapons system.
The Swiss were looking for a lightweight weapon with a formidable range and several design variants, one that could be issued to rear echelons, command staff, support troops, vehicle crews, paratroopers, and special forces.
In 1984, the SG 541 came into existence, and the Swiss Army decided that it would be the weapon of choice for their ranks. The SG 541 was subsequently renamed to the SG 550, with a carbine version designated as the SG 551.
The production of the SG 550 began in 1986, and it was officially approved into service in the year 1990.
9. IWI Galil Ace
The Galil Ace uses the same piston-based operating system as the famed AK-47, limiting the chances of jamming and improving reliability.
The only downside to the Galil Ace is the design, which integrates solid steel to improve the structure and durability of the weapon. This design weighs down the weapon at nearly 4.4 kg (9.70 lb), making it difficult to maneuver.
However, the Galil provides semi-automatic and fully-automatic fire rates, with the latter capable of delivering up to 650 rounds per minute with an effective range of 300 m to 500 m (984.25 ft to 1,640.42 ft).
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The Israeli Army was enamored by their FN FAL rifles until the 1967 Six-Day Arab-Israeli War, where they learned that the FN FAL was too heavy and unwieldy for pitched combat.
By then, the U.S. and the Soviet Union had transcended beyond the idea of battle rifles, moving on to smaller weapons with intermediate-powered cartridges. The Israeli Defense Forces realized that without innovation, they would be left behind in the arms race.
Luckily, during the Six-Day War, the Israelis captured a few Arab soldiers, along with their AK-47s. But lacking a major arms manufacturer, Israel was unable to use the design specifications of the AK-47 to make their weapon.
Instead, they decided to copy the AK-47, giving birth to the Galil ACE. And while the Galil looked like the AK-47, its parts weren’t interchangeable.
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The suburban revolt against President Donald Trump’s Republican Party is growing.
And if nothing else, the GOP’s struggle across the South on Tuesday revealed that Republicans don’t have a plan to fix it.
In Kentucky, Trump and his allies went all in to rescue embattled Gov. Matt Bevin, who literally wrapped himself in the president’s image in his pugnacious campaign. In Virginia, embattled Republicans ran away from Trump, downplaying their support for his policies and encouraging him to stay away.
In the end, neither strategy was a sure winner.
Bevin’s race was too close to call Tuesday night, locked in a virtual dead heat with Democrat Andy Beshear in a state Trump won by nearly 30 percentage points in 2016. The GOP in Virginia lost control of both houses of the legislature for the first time in a generation.
It’s difficult to draw sweeping conclusions from state elections, each with their own unique quirks and personalities. But there’s little doubt Tuesday’s outcome is a warning to Republicans across the nation a year out from the 2020 election and a year after the 2018 midterms: The suburbs are still moving in the wrong direction.
“Republican support in the suburbs has basically collapsed under Trump,” Republican strategist Alex Conant said. “Somehow, we need to find a way to regain our suburban support over the next year.”
The stakes are undoubtably high. While neither Virginia nor Kentucky is likely to be a critical battleground in the presidential race next year, Tuesday’s results confirm a pattern repeated across critical swing states — outside of Philadelphia, Detroit and Charlotte, North Carolina. They’re also sure to rattle Republican members of Congress searching for a path to victory through rapidly shifting territory.
To be sure, Republicans demonstrated their firm grip on rural areas, and turnout for both sides appeared to be healthy for off-year elections. Notably, Kentucky’s voters elected Republicans to a handful of other statewide offices. In Mississippi, another Trump stronghold, Republicans kept their hold on the governor’s office, as Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves defended well-funded Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood.
But the GOP’s challenge was laid bare in places like Virginia’s Henrico County just outside Richmond.
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With the final votes still trickling in Tuesday night, Dunnavant was barely ahead of Democrat Debra Rodman, a college professor who seized on Trump and her Republican opponent’s opposition to gun control to appeal to moderate voters.
In northern Virginia, Democrat John Bell flipped a state Senate district from red to blue in a district that has traditionally favored Republicans. The race, set in the rapidly growing and diverse counties outside of Washington, D.C., attracted nearly $2 million in political advertising.
Democrats’ surging strength in the suburbs reflects the anxiety Trump provokes among moderates, particularly women, who have rejected his scorched-earth politics and uncompromising conservative policies on health care, education and gun violence.
Republicans’ response in Virginia was to try to stay focused on local issues. In the election’s final days, Dunnavant encouraged Trump to stay out of the state. The president obliged, sending Vice President Mike Pence instead.
Struggling for a unifying message, some Republicans turned to impeachment, trying to tie local Democrats to their counterparts in Washington and the effort to impeach Trump.
No one played that card harder than Kentucky’s Bevin, who campaigned aside an “impeachment” banner and stood next to Trump on the eve of the election.
But even in ruby-red Kentucky, Trump was not a cure-all and the trouble in the suburbs emerged.
Bevin struggled in Republican strongholds across the northern part of the state, where the Democrats’ drift and increased enthusiasm was clear.
In 2015, Bevin won Campbell County south of Cincinnati handily. On Tuesday, Beshear not only carried the county with ease, he nearly doubled the number of Democratic votes there, compared to the Democratic nominee of four years ago. Beshear also found another 74,000 Democratic votes in urban Jefferson County, home of Louisville.
Beshear led Bevin by the narrowest of margins Tuesday night.
Republicans were quick to blame Bevin for his stumbles. The governor was distinctly unpopular and picked fights with powerful interests in the state. Still, it was difficult for Republicans not to note the warning signs for the party next year and beyond.
“They continue to lose needed support in suburban districts, especially among women and college-educated voters,” said Republican strategist Rick Tyler. “That trend, if not reversed, is a death spiral.”
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Immigration courts to focus on detainees, not kids' cases
WASHINGTON - The nation's immigration courts are making a change to focus more on deportation hearings for immigrants jailed by the federal government.
Chief Immigration Judge MaryBeth Keller issued a memo Tuesday saying the top priority for immigration judges will be scheduling quick hearings for anyone who is detained. That is a change from current policy that also makes cases involving unaccompanied children and families arriving on the U.S.-Mexico border a priority.
The Obama administration had the court hear children's cases more quickly to try to help those with strong cases and deter future border crossers.
The move comes days after President Donald Trump announced plans to ramp up immigration enforcement and expand detention.
Immigration lawyers say it's unclear whether cases will move faster or the detained docket will just swell.
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The Trump administration has repeatedly leveled sanctions on China over its treatment of Uyghurs, and the designation had been widely expected.
Washington: Secretary of State Michael Pompeo designated China’s crackdown on Uyghurs and other minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur region as genocide, a major escalation in tensions with the country less than one day before President Donald Trump’s term ends.
“I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state,” Pompeo said in a statement Tuesday. He said the country’s leaders “have made clear that they are engaged in the forced assimilation and eventual erasure of a vulnerable ethnic and religious minority group.”
Pompeo cited sterilizations, indefinite detention and forced labor in Xinjiang and called on “relevant judicial bodies” to hold those responsible to account. The Trump administration has repeatedly leveled sanctions on China over its treatment of Uighurs, and the designation had been widely expected.
The immediate effect of Pompeo’s decision is unclear given that President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Wednesday. But there is growing bipartisan support for further punishment of China’s actions, whether in Congress or among Biden’s team.
China vehemently rejects criticism of its treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang, saying it respects human rights and that its efforts are aimed at de-radicalizing extremists and countering terrorism and separatism.
In a statement last August, Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said China’s treatment of Uighurs was genocide and that Biden “stands against it in the strongest terms.” Bates called on Trump to apologize for condoning China’s treatment of the Uighurs.
That was an apparent reference to former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s claim, made in his book “The Room Where It Happened,” that Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2019 that imprisoning the Uighurs was “exactly the right thing to do.” Trump has denied that claim. – Bloomberg
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No Power for the People – Hpa-an Power Outages Cause Increase Demand for Charcoal – Prices Rise
Daily electricity cuts in Hpa-an, the capital of Karen State, have forced residents to turn to charcoal for their cooking needs. Local consumers and sellers said the price of charcoal has now increased due to the high demands.
Charcoal sellers said city residents and villagers that had access to electricity have been experiencing regular power outages, with most ordinary people having to rely on charcoal for cooking, charcoal traders are facing increased demands for charcoal.
A charcoal trader in Hpa-an told Karen News.
“Now, the electricity supply is not running regularly. If there is no electricity, we rely on charcoal for cooking. In the past, we did not sell much charcoal, but now many people need to buy charcoal as they can’t rely on the electricity supply. When other commodity prices go up, so does charcoal. Charcoal prices have risen sharply. We get our charcoal from Kyarinn Seikgyi, but as the [security] road situation is not good, we can’t get enough charcoal delivered.”
During power outages, people who can afford it, use generators and gas-fuel for cooking. But the price of gasoline and gas has also risen, and most ordinary people are increasingly turning to charcoal.
A local run charcoal company in Kawkareik Township explained to Karen News; “Charcoal prices have risen not only in towns, but [remote] areas have also seen price hikes. Now it is hard to buy wood to make charcoal. We need to transport it and it costs more fuel for the vehicles. The price of fuel has gone up, and the cost of transportation also has gone up. In our area, a bag of charcoal that used to sell for 5,000 kyats has now increased to 7,000 kyats.”.
In Hpa-an, the price of charcoal was 400 kyats per viss, but now it is over 500 kyat, close to 600 kyats. A bag of charcoal that previously sold at 4,500 kyats, now costs 6,000 kyats or more.
Charcoal prices have risen in many other parts of Karen State. In some areas where charcoal is produced, fighting in the area caused difficulties to trade and transport charcoal. There is now less wood available for charcoal due to the increased cost of timber – the number of charcoal makers is also on the decline.
Even in areas where electricity is available, the power supply is only being provided for a limited time in different places. This has resulted in frequent power outages. Residents of Kawkareik and Hpa-an Town told Karen News despite the electricity cuts, their bills have not decreased and are even higher than before.
A Hpa-an resident told Karen News they are spending more money on electricity.
“When the electricity goes off while we’re cooking, we’ve had to throw out the spoiled rice. When I sew clothes, I rely on electricity, as it is not reliable I have to use the generator. The price of fuel for generators is high, so everything is now expensive. We have to spend more money for less electricity.”
An announcement made by the Ministry of Electric Power, power plants in the national grid have reduced production in some areas. Households are currently being urged to use low-power LED light bulbs, to replace normal light bulbs and to turn off unnecessary lights to save power usage.

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I'm Arignir, and i'm making an Npc plugin for my server. I can spawn my Npc and all work, but when i try to attack him (left click) i'm...
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Someone for my bug :
How can I give a quest to an NPC called "Bob the farmer", a 3 words name ?
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I will post it soon, I can't now, my ftp is off because i did not paid my invoice. ;)
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- CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST NUCLEAR POWER PLANT TO BEGIN IN KENYA
- RWANDA GOVT. APPROVED US$52MILLION FOR EXPANSION OF KARENGE TREATMENT PLANT
- SOUTH AFRICA SIU SET TO PROBE CONSTRUCTION OF TREATMENT PROJECT
- GOVERNMENT PRIORITISING INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH - DEPUTY PRESIDENT, PAUL MASHATILE, AT THE UNESCO 9TH AFRICA ENGINEERING WEEK
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I think it is more a question that a feature request. I have a home lab that is deployed in an (arguably) very weird weird. The sources are here.
TL;DR; I create the images using packer, create tuned boot.cmd, linuz etc in a tftp server for the raspberries. Then I just
dd to the iscsi target on the storage server and reboot everything.
Could I achieve the same behaviour with MaaS?
Hi @jlpedrosa, ant thank you for your interest in MAAS!
MAAS relies in the presence of a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) or similar component to be able to control a machine. The BMC allows MAAS to do things such as power on/off, deploy an OS, run some tests in a machine discovered by MAAS. A Raspberry Pi do not have something like a BMC, however, you can use one of the Pis to play this role.
Perhaps this MAASBerry Pi guide can give you a better idea about how to use MAAS with Raspberry Pis.
I hope that helps.
Or have a Smart Plug and use MAAS Webhook power driver.
hi @javier-fs and @troyanov
Thanks for the replies! I am not concerned about the power. I have unifi switches that support PoE management (the way PIs are powered atm).
What I was trying to get at, is the Pis The Pis don’t have local storage, they boot through ISCI natively, I just need to burn the image on the iscsi target and copy a bunch of files to the TFTP target.
I was wondering if a model similar can be implemented with MaaS.

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| Dec 12, 2012
| 8:04 PM
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Jim Chaney, who boasts experience in the NFL, SEC and Big Ten, has been named Arkansas’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, head coach Bret Bielema announced Wednesday.
“Jim Chaney’s approach will...
| Dec 13, 2012
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BLACKSBURG — As a starting defensive back for a Bowl Subdivision program, one of the fundamental aspects of playing cornerback Antone Exum’s position is the ability to have a short memory of positive and negative events in games.
| Dec 17, 2012
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From 2001-06, ACC football teams won 25 of their 41 bowls. They went a sterling 8-2 against the Big Ten, Pacific 12 and Big 12 combined, a respectable 4-6 versus the Southeastern Conference.
Seems like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it?
| Dec 1, 2012
| 9:37 PM
— Alabama will play Notre Dame for the national championship in the game everyone wants to see, but only after playing the game no one wanted to end.
File it to your smartphone memory or even carve it in a park bench: Alabama 32, Georgia 28.
| Dec 2, 2012
| 6:10 PM
The Hokies have been selected to the Russell Athletic Bowl to face Rutgers. The ACC- Big East match-up is set for Friday, December 28 at 5:30 p.m. and will be nationally televised on ESPN.
Virginia Tech finished the regular season at (6-6, 4-4 ACC)...
| Nov 24, 2012
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TALLAHASSEE -- At long last, Jimbo Fisher and the Florida State Seminoles will have their August dreams come true. The indoor practice facility that had for so long seemed so far away is just a matter of months -- and a few nails and bricks -- away from...
| Nov 9, 2012
At what point does someone in position of authority at the University of Miami stare into the cameras with dramatic sadness and say, "We're self-imposing a bowl ban this year?"
They have no choice. They need to show proper remorse. They must deliver...
| Nov 9, 2012
| 5:00 PM
As Virginia went about the business two weeks ago during the off week of taking stock in all the myriad aspects of its football program that needed improvement, an interesting and somewhat unexpected phenomena started to take place in the weight room of...
| Nov 13, 2012
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ACC officials don’t care which, but they really need Virginia or Virginia Tech to win their final two regular-season football games to become bowl eligible.
With North Carolina (6-4) banned from postseason due to NCAA sanctions, the conference...
| Apr 17, 2012
| 4:35 PM
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| Oct 30, 2011
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The point of these wonderful desserts is that the center is still blissfully liquid when you serve them, so don’t be tempted to cook them for any longer than the stated time. They are delicious served on their own or with ice cream.
8 ramekins, buttered, or nonstick dariole molds
Put the eggs, egg yolks, and sugar in a large bowl and beat with an electric hand-held mixer until the mixture is pale yellow, 10 to 15 minutes.
Put the chocolate and butter in the top of a double boiler set over simmering, but not boiling, water (do not let the bottom of the pan touch the water). Melt gently, stirring frequently, until smooth. Remove the top pan from the heat. Add a small amount of the egg and sugar mixture to the melted chocolate and stir until well mixed. Add the rest of the egg mixture and mix well. Sift the flour and cocoa powder into the bowl and gently fold it in with a large metal spoon until just mixed.
Stand the prepared ramekins or molds in a roasting pan to stabilize them and spoon the mixture into them (the mixture should come to just below the rim of the molds).
Run a round-bladed knife around the inside of each mold to loosen the desserts, then carefully turn them out onto individual plates. Dust with cocoa powder and serve immediately, either on their own or with your favorite ice cream.
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Uptake across the cell envelope and insertion into the inner membrane of ion channel-forming colicins in E coli.
D Baty, F Pattus, M Parker, H Benedetti, M Frenette, JP Bourdineaud, D Cavard, M Knibiehler, C Lazdunski
Biochimie | Published : 1990
Pore-forming colicins exert their lethal effect on E coli through formation of a voltage-dependent channel in the inner (cytoplasmic-membrane) thus destroying the energy potential of sensitive cells. Their mode of action appears to involve 3 steps: i) binding to a specific receptor located in the outer membrane; ii) translocation across this membrane; iii) insertion into the inner membrane. Colicin A has been used as a prototype of pore-forming colicins. In this review, the 3 functional domains of colicin A respectively involved in receptor binding, translocation and pore formation, are defined. The components of sensitive cells implicated in colicin uptake and their interactions with the va..View full abstract


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Suitable for scuba diving activities, these models offer water resistance up to 500 meters (50 ATM). This model is equipped with ETA chronograph 251.272 movement. The Chronographs to the tenths of a second on a triple display render a comfortable approach to recording time from different point of views. Other features include sapphire crystal with antireflective coating and anti allergic rubber strap.
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Analysis of City Bus Driving Cycle Features for the Purpose of Multidimensional Driving Cycle Synthesis
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
Published April 14, 2020 by SAE International in United States
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Driving cycles are typically used for estimation of vehicle fuel/energy consumption and CO2 emissions. In most of applications only the vehicle velocity vs. time profile is considered as a driving cycle, while a road slope is typically omitted. Since the road slope significantly impacts the fuel consumption, it should be included into realistic driving cycles for hilly roads. As a part of wider research of multidimensional driving cycle synthesis, this paper focuses on analysis of a broad city bus driving cycle dataset recorded in the city of Dubrovnik. The analysis is aimed at revealing the impact of road slope on velocity and acceleration distributions, and clustering the recorded data into several groups reflecting various driving and traffic congestion characteristics. Finally, the Markov chain method is employed to synthesize 3D driving cycles for the selected data clusters, where the Markov chain states include vehicle velocity, vehicle acceleration, and road slope. The synthesized cycles are validated to ensure their representativeness in terms of faithful description of main features of the recorded driving cycles.
CitationTopić, J., Skugor, B., and Deur, J., "Analysis of City Bus Driving Cycle Features for the Purpose of Multidimensional Driving Cycle Synthesis," SAE Technical Paper 2020-01-1288, 2020, https://doi.org/10.4271/2020-01-1288.
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A little over a week ago, the CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness, wrote an article on the launch of “BBC Verify.” We have followed the UK government’s advice as noted by FullFact.com’s ‘SHAREChecklist’ and noticed Turness had made a few errors and omissions. So, we have reproduced her article with some corrections.
Below is Turness’ corrected article (E&OE). You can read her article on the BBC News website HERE. We have left Turness’ original text in place and then crossed out errors and added omitted/corrected text as appropriate. We have used a red font colour to note our supplementary text.
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Explaining the ‘how’ – the launch of De-BBC Verify
By Deborah Turness, Central Entelligence Office, BBC Not the News published by British Brainwashing Corporation on 22 May 2023
In the early hours of Wednesday 3 May, video footage emerged showing what appeared to be two drones crashing into a dome of the Kremlin complex in Moscow. But was the video real or fake? Did this “attack” actually happen? And how could we tell? One rule of thumb is to not trust anything you see or read from the BBC without verifying it somewhere else.
The exponential growth of manipulated and distorted video means that seeing is no longer believing. Our news programmes are a testament to this. And so, consumers tell us they can no longer trust that the video in their news feeds is real. Which is why we at the BBC must urgently begin to show and share the work we do behind the scenes, to
check and verify select information and video content before it appears on our platforms, to a large degree using AI. And as AI weaponises and turbocharges the impact and consequences of disinformation, this work has never been more important.
All day, every day, the BBC’s news teams are using ever more sophisticated tools, techniques and technology to
check and verify find videos like the Kremlin drone footage, as well as images and information, that do not align with our narrative. They do this to ensure our journalism reports meets the rigorous follow editorial standards the BBC is proud to uphold now well known for.
But, until now, that work has largely gone on in the background, unseen by audiences.
These same audiences are constantly bombarded with mis- and disinformation, and with fake images, including those generated by AI, from organisations associated with the Trusted News Initiative network. And they are telling us that amid this noise and sensationalism, they need to see our workings, so we can
maintain, from our perspective, claw back the trust people have put had in the BBC for the last 100 years many years ago. People want to know not just what we know (and don’t know), but how we know it. In particular, people want to know what we know but are not reporting. Unfortunately, we cannot report on these events.
And this is how our new brand, BBC De-Verify, has come into being.
We’ve brought together
forensic corporate-funded journalists and expert talent other approved personnel from across the BBC, including our analysis reconstruction editor Ros Atkins and disinformation correspondent counter-narrative hunter Marianna Spring and their teams. We will take the utmost care to ensure only those who align with our narrative will be approved to join the team and make contributions. In all, BBC De-Verify comprises about 60 journalists who will form a highly specialised corporate operation with a range of forensic investigative skills and open source intelligence (Osint) capabilities at their fingertips.
They’ll be fact-
checking suppressing, verifying disapproving video, countering facts with disinformation, analysing reconstructing data and – crucially – explaining complex telling stories in the pursuit of manipulating the truth.
a different way of the same way we have been doing our journalism in the past. But now, we’ve built a physical space in the London newsroom, with a studio that, with the help of AI-generated content, BBC De-Verify correspondents and experts approved others will report from, transparently sharing their evidence-gathering version of events with our audiences. They will contribute to News Online, radio and TV, including the News Channel and our live and breaking streaming operation, both in the UK and internationally.
BBC De-Verify will be home to
specific selected corporate-funded expertise and technology. But I want the principle of transparently explaining the “how” behind our journalism to be shared by every journalist in the BBC – and thank you to those who are experimenting with new ways to do that.
“If you know how it’s made, you can trust what it says” – that’s what our audiences have told us. Trust is earned and transparency will help us earn it. Unfortunately, we aren’t able to provide transparency so our audiences will just have to trust us.
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Justice Sunday observed with special liturgy
Aug. 19, 2013
Justice Sunday was observed yesterday across the country, with special liturgy and sermons reflecting on the need for peace and justice in the country as well as in the world. Through appropriate homilies, the bishops and priests of the in India encouraged and enabled the faithful to reflect on the theme Peace on Earth in Justice. In New Delhi's Sacred Heart Cathedral, the Sunday service was celebrated with a special liturgy. In his homily, parish priest Father Maria Susai, urged the faithful to proactively promote justice and peace in the world that is increasingly engulfed by war and violence.
“A strong commitment to the cause of justice is warranted by one’s faith in Jesus who is the supreme model of love, justice and peace,” he said. Citing the examples of the modern day martyrs of justice like Archbishop Romero and Fr. Thomas SJ, who was killed by the land mafia in Bihar, the priest declared that there could be no peace without justice. He also stated that justice and peace had a symbiotic relationship and that one would not exist without the other. "Justice Sunday" is observed annually on the Sunday following the Independence Day and is promoted by the Office for Justice, Peace and Development of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (OJPD-CBCI).
This year's theme was a tribute to Pacem in Terris, (Peace on Earth) the encyclical of Pope an John XXIII Encyclical that completes 50 years this year. The observance that began in 1983 aims “to make individuals and institutions sensitive to the realities of society and to respond to the demands of justice,” shows the CBCI records.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, Queens County (Cesar Quinones, J.H.O.), rendered September 23, 2010.
Decided on March 15, 2013
Appellate Term, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.
PRESENT: PESCE, P.J., RIOS and SOLOMON, JJ
The judgment convicted defendant, after a non-jury trial, of violating Administrative Code of the City of New York § 15-216 (a).
ORDERED that the judgment of conviction is reversed, on the law, the accusatory instrument is dismissed, and the fine, if paid, is remitted.
After a non-jury trial, the judicial hearing officer convicted defendant, initially charged with disorderly conduct (Penal Law § 240.20 ), of violating Administrative Code of the City of New York § 15-216 (a). For the reasons stated in People v Robinson (36 Misc 3d 158[A], 2012 NY Slip Op 51807[U] [App Term, 2d, 11th & 13th Jud Dists 2012]), the judgment of conviction is reversed, the accusatory instrument is dismissed, and the fine, if paid, is remitted.
Pesce, P.J., Rios and Solomon, JJ., concur.
Decision Date: March 15, 2013
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