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It seems like just yesterday that teams were preparing for the 2018/19 season, and here we are again.
The rumours are plentiful, the fees are astronomical, and we're only just getting started. This summer is going to be a fun one.
Here's a roundup of six of the latest rumours doing the rounds.
After moving to Turkey in 2017 for what looks like pocket change in today's inflated market, Eljif Elmas has been a regular part of Fenerbahce's lineup, but the team have struggled this season. However, he doesn't want out just yet.
According to F5 Haber, the 19-year-old midfielder has rejected the chance to move to Cardiff City, instead believing remaining with the Yellow Canaries would be better for his development.
His resolve looks set to be tested soon, with the likes of Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Real Madrid all said to be plotting offers for Elmas. Manager Ersun Yanal is set to pay close attention to the youngster, but he may find himself on the way out the exit door regardless.
Leeds United are desperately pushing for promotion to the Premier League and, if they do so, they're keen on bringing a Uruguayan star with them.
The man in question is Boca Juniors midfielder Nahitan Nandez who, according to Ovacion, has found himself near the top of Leeds' wish list for next season. He has a £12m release clause, but the Whites are ready to spend up to £25m to secure his signature.
Several Serie A sides are also set to join the race, so Marcelo Bielsa's men will need to secure promotion if they are to have any chance of convincing the 23-year-old to sign.
Leonardo Koutris is a wanted man. The Olympiacos left-back has enjoyed an impressive season, and the Greek star reportedly attracted plenty of spectators when his country faced off against Liechtenstein on Saturday.
Scouts from Leicester City, Everton, West Ham United and Newcastle United were all present, and TEAMtalk claim that they will all monitor him again when Greece travel to play Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday.
A price tag of £10m has been suggested, with the Red-Whites rejecting a bid of half that figure from Genoa in January. If they want him, they'll have to pay up.
Few defenders in world football have generated as much hype as Benfica's Alex Grimaldo. The former Barcelona man has developed into a machine at left-back, and links to the likes of Atletico Madrid and Manchester City have followed. Barcelona will be watching his transfer saga unfold, but not with a view to buying him back.
Instead, Mundo Deportivo note that the Blaugrana negotiated a clause when they sold Grimaldo for just €1.5m which will see them take home 15% of any future transfer fee.
The Spaniard could cost anywhere upwards of €30m, which would be a welcome pay-day for Barcelona.
Thomas Partey has long been the subject of transfer speculation. The Ghanaian is a constant part of Atletico's squad, but regularly just as a substitute, and many fans fear he will look to leave in search of consistent football.
If he does, AS claim Arsenal and Manchester City will be leading the charge to lure him away from the Wanda Metropolitano. Atletico don't want to lose Thomas, so any side would likely have to hit his €80m buyout clause to get the ball rolling.
This summer looks set to be a busy one for Manchester United. The Red Devils have been linked with seemingly every player under the sun, and the latest man on their radar is Sporting CP star Bruno Fernandes. He's been linked a lot recently.
Sporting don't want to lose their captain, but Correio de Manha state that United would be able to get their man if they activate his release clause of €100m.
However, slight problem. Sporting know absolutely nothing about United's interest - and they've not yet received a bit or any kind of approach.
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Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – It's A Holiday Soul Party!
Vintage soulsters do a Christmas album – like you do.
By Johnny Sharp
Given The Dap Kings' love of vintage R&B tropes, it's no surprise that they should have a crack at their own festive collection, just like their spiritual forefathers did. And sometimes, they really bring something special to the party. Live favourite No Chimneys In The Projects sees Jones' charisma and lyrical wit produce a fine Christmas composition of their own, while the self-penned Eight Days Of Hannukah and Big Bulbs burst with horn-fattened grooves.
Elsewhere, though, the experiment can feel a little forced. The jazz-funk reading of Little Drummer Boy never really takes off, and the instrumental sleepwalk through God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is pure filler. But maybe we're over-thinking this: the Ike & Tina-style upbeat reading of White Christmas would go down a storm at any festive bash, and you sense that a few drinks in on Christmas Eve, all this will make perfect sense.
Johnny Sharp
Johnny is a regular contributor to Prog and Classic Rock magazines, both online and in print. Johnny is a highly experienced and versatile music writer whose tastes range from prog and hard rock to R'n'B, funk, folk and blues. He has written about music professionally for 30 years, surviving the Britpop wars at the NME in the 90s (under the hard-to-shake teenage nickname Johnny Cigarettes) before branching out to newspapers such as The Guardian and The Independent and magazines such as Uncut, Record Collector and, of course, Prog and Classic Rock.
Kiss' Paul Stanley offers some life goals advice: "If you choose to pursue something that's out of reach, you're an idiot"
"A lesser band might have been humiliated" - the story of the first Kiss show
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Fort William has one travel Inn called Premier Inn - the one in Fort William is called Brewers Fayre and is very near the bus and train stations.
There are several Premier Inns in the Highlands, and the one in Fort William, Brewer's Fayre offers good quality and affordable accommodation for you to consider.
Fort William's Premier Inn is easy to find and has lots of private parking. Within walking distance of Fort William's Train Station, Bus Stance and the High Street, Fort William's Premier Inn offers great value for money accommodation with a very comfortable restaurant and bar next door to the accommodation.
We have a children's play area inside and outside.
For good value accommodation and great food - it's an easy choice!
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Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) a South African cartoonist, began drawing cartoons in the late 1980's for a wide range of political and progressive organizations. He was editorial cartoonist for Sowetan from 1994 - 2005 and appeared in the Cape Argus 1996 -1997. He has been editorial cartoonist for the Mail & Guardian since 1994, the Sunday Times since 1998 and since September 2005 also appears three times a week in Cape Times, The Star, The Mercury and Pretoria News.
During the last months of 2008, the Nelson Mandela Foundation commissioned Trace to develop a solo exhibition of Zapiro's cartoons. The exhibited works spanned the years of Zapiro's cartoons of Mandela, from the first drawing that was on a birthday card for Mandela who was in prison at the time, to the cartoon celebrating Mandela's 90th birthday. The cartoons were exhibited together with many of Zapiro's preliminary sketches and sketchbooks, showing the interesting process which goes into the making of a Zapiro cartoon. The exhibition took visitors on a journey from the early days of South Africa's democracy to the present. It was an entertaining and insightful way to view the history of South Africa's democracy.
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Kyle Hunter Martino (ur. 19 lutego 1981 w Atlancie) – piłkarz amerykański grający podczas kariery na pozycji pomocnika. Obecnie jest komentatorem sportowym.
Kariera klubowa
Karierę piłkarską Kyle Martino rozpoczął w drużynie uniwersyteckiej - Virginia Cavaliers w 1999. W 2001 roku podpisał kontrakt z Project-40 i 2001 roku wziął udział w drafcie Major League Soccer. Z numerem 8. został wybrany przez zespół Columbus Crew. Jako debiutant wystąpił w 22 meczach i strzelił 2 bramki w swoim pierwszym sezonie w MLS. Dzięki temu dostał nagrodę MLS Rookie of the Year Award. W Columbus Martino występował do końca 2005 roku i rozegrał dla tego klubu łącznie 106 spotkania, w których strzelił 10 goli.
W 2006 roku Martino został zawodnikiem Los Angeles Galaxy. W Galaxy grał przez dwa sezony. 19 lutego 2008 Martino ogłosił zakończeniu piłkarskiej kariery z powodu kontuzji.
Kariera reprezentacyjna
Kyle Martino występował w młodzieżowych reprezentacjach Stanów Zjednoczonych na różnych szczeblach wiekowych. W 2001 roku wystąpił na Mistrzostwach Świata U-20.
W dorosłej reprezentacji Stanów Zjednoczonych Martino zadebiutował 17 listopada 2002 roku w towarzyskim meczu z Salwadorem. W 2003 roku wystąpił na Pucharze Konfederacji. Na tym turnieju wystąpił w zremisowanym 0-0 meczu z Kamerunem. Swoją jedyną bramkę zdobył w wygranym 2-0 meczu eliminacji MŚ 2006 z Panamą.
Komentator
Po przedwczesnym zakończeniu kariery Kyle Martino został komentatorem piłkarskim. Obecnie komentuje mecze w stacjach ESPN i ESPN 2 oraz lokalnej WPVI-TV.
Bibliografia
Profil
Reprezentanci Stanów Zjednoczonych w piłce nożnej
Piłkarze Columbus Crew
Piłkarze Los Angeles Galaxy
Uczestnicy Pucharu Konfederacji w piłce nożnej 2003
Urodzeni w 1981
Ludzie urodzeni w Atlancie
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Pray For My Bank Account Because The Toyota JZX90 Is Now Legal To Import
Raphael Orlove
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Import Cars
Photo: Toyota
For years I have been obsessed with the Toyota Cressida, the easily-forgotten straight six sedan that we got in America up until the early '90s. Did you think the Cressida really went away? Hell no. It packed it up and stuck to Japan, and now all the cool straight six 'Yotas are trickling back into America, finally legal to import.
Indeed, the car that we remember as a Cressida was really only one branch of a family of rear-drive middle-class sedans. Broadly they're all the same, just little variations in trim and body styling, thanks to Toyota's system of multiple dealers. If you can imagine Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick all selling kind of the same car in different dealerships, you're sort of on the right track, only these are all Toyotas.
You have the Mark II, the Chaser and the Cresta. Well, now Toyota calls the Mark II the Mark X and, oh, you're already confused. I haven't made this better, have I. This is why Toyota nerds refer to these cars by their internal chassis codes. Our last Cressida was the MX83. The JDM Mark II version of that car was the JZX81 and, more generally, the generation of cars after that with six-cylinder JZ engines were the JZX90 of the early to mid 1990s and then the JZX100 into the early 2000s. (If you're very curious, the current Toyota Mark X is up to 130 in its chassis codes but I'm getting into the weeds here.)
Please Watch This Completely Manic Drifting With A Huge Old Toyota Sedan
Enjoy some of the most aggressive driving you will ever see, particularly in a car intended to…
The only reason I know any of this is in parts of Japan, these JZXs are extremely popular budget drift cars. Toyota's family of JZ engines are remarkably stout, as is the rest of the car. It's a durable, workable platform, and it's easy to find JZX100s for about what we pay here in America for a decent BMW of the same age.
Again, in Japan, a JZX100 is a good cheap drift car buy. But the first JZX100s were made in 1996 and are not yet available to me thanks to America's 25 Year Import Rule. JZX90s, however, started production in 1993, so they will be trickling in all through 2018.
Photo: Japanese Classics
For example: Here's one at Japanese Classics for $14,495. It's a 1993 car with a mere 42,000 miles and a minty body with an interior to match. It's rear-wheel drive and comes with a twin-turbo, 2.5-liter 1JZ-GTE good for a claimed 280 horsepower, or roughly a gazillion if you decide to tune it.
These cars weighed about 3,000 pounds when new, which sounded like a lot at the time but isn't too bad today. A BMW M4 is more than 400 pounds heavier. This particular JZX90 is an automatic, but I assure you it is only a matter of time before we see manual ones clogging up Craigslist.
The JZX90 also has classic 1990s Japanese sedan styling, in that it barely has any and sort of looks like a hardtop. "It's a good car to commit crimes in," my coworker Mike Ballaban notes. "What was that? A....... car?"
Anyway I love it and I wish it was mine and please stop me my god I only have so much money I want to save I want to live.
Help..... Me.........
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Cressida Madness
Please Buy This Manual Toyota Cressida So I Don't Have To
The Beast Hoard Of Madness In My Mind Demands A Toyota Cressida
Raphael Orlove is features editor for Jalopnik.
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CRAE monitors and reports on the extent to which children are enjoying their rights in practice, to ensure that the Government is held accountable for its record on children's rights.
We submit reports to international human rights bodies, including the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, when they are considering how well children's rights are protected in the UK.
In 2016, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued recommendations (known as Concluding Observations) telling the Government how it should improve the protection of children's rights in the UK. Every year, we publish State of Children's Rights in England, a review of the progress made in implementing these recommendations.
It is not just central government which has responsibilities under the UNCRC. Local authorities should also ensure that they comply with children's rights. CRAE also monitors the enjoyment of children's rights at the local level.
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Manufacturing organizations are increasingly recognizing that the critical IP they have developed in relation to the engineering materials that they use needs to be managed in a comprehensive and cohesive way. In our latest blog post over at #LiveWorx, we look how to more effectively digitalize and then apply this evolving materials information, in order to save time and cost, drive innovation, and reduce risk.
This entry was posted in All about materials, Materials in CAD/PLM and tagged digitalization, GRANTA MI, LiveWorx, PLM on 20th November 2017 by Stephen Warde.
The 2016 Material Intelligence seminar (and associated 5th North European Granta User Group meeting) was hosted by Rolls-Royce in Derby, UK, earlier this month. One (perhaps rather obvious!) message came through to me loud-and-clear: when you're trying to figure out how to get the best from a technology, nothing beats hearing from those who are already doing it.
Amandeep Mhay, project leader of the enterprise materials information management project at Rolls-Royce, shared experience of rolling out this program over 12 years. A phased approach has grown usage from a few tens of engineers in one business unit to thousands enterprise-wide. The system collates, tracks, and qualifies vital materials information, and makes it available in a controlled manner. Its homepage is one of the top ten accessed web pages across Rolls-Royce and cost benefits are estimated at £6.9m per annum.
This entry was posted in All about materials, Materials information management and tagged Jaguar Land Rover, Material Intelligence, Materials Selection, SABIC, seminar on 22nd November 2016 by Stephen Warde.
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Review: Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett
Shorefall, Robert Jackson Bennett's sophomore outing in the Founders series, and the follow-up to 2018's phenomenal Foundryside, is a fantastic book which straddles high fantasy and techpunk aesthetics, producing a genuinely unique and engaging universe in the process. I got hold of Foundryside at Worldcon last year as a gift from the publisher and they've been kind enough to let me see the sequel ahead of publication as well, and I almost bit their hand off at the chance to get back to Tevanne as soon as I could. You absolutely need to have read Book 1 to keep pace with this second instalment, so I need to be very careful with spoilers here, but shelling out for two books, if you have to, is utterly worth it, because this is a clever and appealing world with characters you will root for and love.
Set three years after the first book, we find master thief Sancia Grado, and her compatriots Berenice, Gregor and Orso, running their own consulting merchant house, Foundryside Ltd. They are pursuing their cause of toppling the monopoly of the great merchant houses, who previously kept scriving for themselves, by sharing the secrets of the art with independent scrivers. Their latest plan is to steal the entire lexicon of one of the remaining great houses, but in doing so they set off a deadly battle, one that threatens thousands, but which could be the undoing of their egalitarian ideals should they try to stop it.
What most people really adored about Foundryside, and I was no different, was the delightful world-building and the ingenuity of Bennett's magic system: scriving, the act of altering the reality of an object via magical instructions inscribed onto it. What's so great about this approach is that it interrogates the very idea of magic and the imbalance of power it creates in a novel way. Where other writers have decided to restrict the use of magic – either by limiting who can have it, or exacting so much cost from its use that it can't be overexploited – as a means of stopping their characters simply magicking threats away, Bennett instead directly tackles the questions of what would happen if we could all have that power and the only restrictions were on how to get hold of it. What threats would that actually create? Foundryside addressed the first part of that concern, how to seize the power for yourself, and was fuelled by all the amazing ways that lead character Sancia Grado, and her companions could think to adapt the magic to suit their needs, making it alive and truly a function of the person who wields it, rather than just a flat external solution. It became a book about human inventiveness and you felt the magic was truly a product of the character and not the other way round. Less Bond, more McGuyver, if you will.
Shorefall moves the focus from ingenuity onto the second – arguably, more interesting- concern; what actually happens to the balance of power once you shift it from the privileged to the disenfranchised? As the major merchant houses that were the main enemy in the first book lose their monopoly, are they just replaced with slightly smaller, but no less self-serving alternatives?
This question is explored as the Foundrysiders are embroiled in a battle between the construct Valeria, who Sancia loosed in the previous book, and another godlike being, Valeria's creator, Crasedes Magnus. He is said to have destroyed empires and sacrificed thousands in the pursuit of his powers, and is about to be summoned back by unseen forces. Lest Crasedes run amok again, the Foundrysiders are forced to pursue the means to allow Valeria to successfully meet this threat. But, what's to stop her becoming just another threat of the same kind once he's defeated, precisely because of the techniques the Foundrysiders have used to make her so powerful?
The characters we love are beautifully handled once more, and the context for the magic system, and how the society of the Founders stories has grown up around it, extends the world-building considerably. Arguably, the escalation of the powers described, when these godlike legends get involved, robs this story of some of the inventiveness of the first, flattening the magic a little by making it too easy to apply, and removing its humanity in the process. Scriving gets replaced by the usual pyrotechnics in their hands. But this is a small gripe.
Overall, Shorefall is a sparkling continuation of Sancia's story, driven by an ensemble of extraordinarily likeable and relatable characters and focused on very timely themes. This is a hopeful book, despite the hurts that arise in it, and that's a good contrast to a lot of the grimdark takes on fantasy that have gained dominance recently. I highly recommend this book, but do go back and read Foundryside first to do it justice.
An ARC of Shorefall was provided by Jo Fletcher Books in return for an honest review.
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Tag Archives: Stephen Fry
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sitting down to watch this movie, I was filled with mixed opinions. I liked the first one as a whole film. Then I saw the recent BBC adaptation of Sherlock in its modern day context and found a new interest in what used to be my favorite Disney film. What am I talking about, you may ask? The Great Mouse Detective, plain and simple. This story of rats, cats, and
The one, true Sherlock Holmes.
danger is one of my favorite stories and so cleverly done I think it should rank as one of the best Disney creations of all time. But enough about that. So, when I sat down for the sequel to Guy Ritchie's critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes, I wasn't expecting the world of this film. Just some entertainment.
And it didn't really do that, that much. I was constantly befuddled by the dialogue and the quick witted humor in its attempts to be funny, leaving me unsure as to what was more important, the characters or plot. The action took over all too much of the film and left the sleuthing for the last second. You would get a
Despised friends til the end.
few of those extended deductions, but not enough of any detail that I could have noticed myself. Moriarty's storyline and relevance in the entire showdown was rushed and wasn't developed very well at all. If I hadn't had seen the first film (which this was supposed to stand alone as a Sherlock film) I may not have had any idea or interest of what was going on.
And then we come to my issue with Robert Downey Jr. in this film. I thought he made a great comeback, I don't fault him for that. But what has he done in the last five years that could be considered a serious role? Or even a character that doesn't have a swelled head? I'm seeing Zodiac back in 2007 and that's about it. The persona he's created
I forgot to mention Noomi Rapace was in this one…
since the success of Iron Man is that he is Tony Stark in every role. When you see these movies, it's not "Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes." It's "Robert Downey Jr. playing a playboy, egotistical jerkoff." If there was some range to his acting (other than a standout performance in Tropic Thunder) since his comeback, I would give him more credit. This movie was more of the same.
The playboy strikes again.
It wasn't to say there weren't things in this film I enjoyed. After watching the greatness that is Guy Ritchie's Lock Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, I know the elements he brings to a movie are fast and slick. Jude Law comes off as a decently done Watson with all the hesitations and reservations he's supposed to have. Hell, that's probably because I'm a Jude Law fan. And Stephen Fry makes a great guest star as Sherlock's brother, Mycroft. Although I don't think you could ever consider the two brothers, maybe that wasn't the point. Jared Harris' performance was unremarkable, but I gave a sigh of relief at killing off Rachel McAdams early in the story. Not a spoiler; a message from the Hollywood gods that she really wasn't meant to be in these movies.
So you add all these disappointments together into one movie and you end up with a confusing plot and rinse and repeat
Can we see some more explosions please?…
rapport between two characters seen countless times before. The classic buddy comedy with a facade as a thriller action film. I don't mind all the action and high definition, slo-mo cameras, but this movie got a little ridiculous. The fight with the Russian assassin, the explosions and all the weaponry… This loose adaptation wasn't really that close to the Sherlock Holmes story was it? I think it would be best to allow the BBC and the British to do what they do best with their British authors. Make television versions worth watching. 5.5 out of 10.
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PortableApps.com este un site web care oferă aplicații libere populare pentru Windows într-o versiune portabilă. Aceste aplicații portabile pot fi utilizate inclusiv și de pe unități de stocare detașabile cum ar fi memoria USB. Datele de utilizator sunt stocate într-un subdirector, permițând utilizatorului să facă upgrade sau să mute software-ul fără a-i fi afectate datele. Pentru a șterge soft-ul respectiv, e suficient simplu de șters folderul.
Site-ul a fost fondat de John T. Haller și include contribuții a peste 100 de persoane, printre care dezvoltatori, designeri și traducători.
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di 300,000 studenti frequentano un corso di lingua ogni anno.
insegnare l'Inglese, ma insegniamo l'inglese con il metodo inlingua.
vicino alla nostra sede principale.
Bin absolut begeistert über die Inlingua - Lernqualität. Ich war 2 Wochen dort und es lief alles perfekt. Allerdings ein sehr geschäftsmäßiger Ablauf, keine Welcome-Verantaltung, keine Angebote für gemeinsame Aktivtäten, das war etwas schade. VORSICHT_ATTENTION: Die Firma drive a way / Taxiservice seht am Flughafen mit einem Inlingua-Schild und verpsricht kostenlosen Zubringerdienst zum Hotel. Einen Tag später wird bei der Schule angerufen und 20 Euro für die Fahrt angemahnt -absolut unseriös_!
hello everyone!my name is Lorenzo A.!i attended the preparation course for the IELTS exam for 8 weeks at inlingua malta school. my experience was absolutely positive! i liked the school and moreover i liked my teacher and almost all the employees. in the morning we studied and in the afternoon (and some time even in the evening)the student representatives organized many activities like football match,barbeque,boat party,foam party...it was very funny!!!maybe one day i will go there again!i suggest this experience and i suggest this place.
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Final lineup set for sole night of ABC Democratic primary debate
By: Kendall Karson, ABC News
Posted at 10:21 AM, Aug 29, 2019
Eight months into the campaign season, the third matchup in a series of Democratic National Committee-sanctioned primary debates will feature a winnowed field. It's the smallest qualifying roster yet for a debate with 20 candidates still in the running.
The 10 candidates certified by the Democratic National Committee to participate in the debate, hosted by ABC News in partnership with Univision, are (in alphabetical order):
Former Vice President Joe Biden
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro
California Sen. Kamala Harris
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang
The DNC formally notified the campaigns Thursday that their candidates had qualified for the debate. The podium order -- where the candidates will stand on the debate stage in relation to each other -- will be announced at 3:30 p.m. ET on ABC News Live's "The Briefing Room."
The debate format will be one minute and 15 seconds for direct responses to questions and 45 seconds for responses and rebuttals. Candidates will have the opportunity to deliver opening statements, but there will be no closing statements.
As previously announced, ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos, ABC News "World News Tonight" Anchor and Managing Editor David Muir, ABC News Correspondent Linsey Davis and Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos will moderate.
The debate will be held at Texas Southern University, a public, historically black university, and will air from 8 to 11 p.m. ET across ABC, Univision with a Spanish translation, locally on KTRK-TV and on ABC News Live. The streaming channel is available on the ABCNews.com, Good Morning America and FiveThirtyEight websites and mobile phone apps, as well as Hulu Live, The Roku Channel, Facebook Watch, AppleTV, Amazon Fire TV, YouTube, Apple News, and Twitter.
In the two prior debates in Miami and Detroit earlier this summer, the current two polling front-runners never tangled on the same stage. But in September, Biden and Warren are set to clash for the first time as the field enters a new phase of the primary.
The ideological divide within the Democratic Party will be front and center. Biden will be up against both progressive stalwarts Warren and Sanders, who have avoided criticizing each other so far this cycle, and who even teamed up to champion their shared vision for transformative progressive reform during the July debate.
But Warren might not have an ally this time to help play defense against an expected new round of criticism. After spending the first part of the year trailing Sanders, Warren often now outpaces her liberal colleague in recent polls.
Biden, with a target on his back, is expected to have to fend off attacks from all sides with Harris, Booker, Buttigieg and Yang all armed with fresh ammunition. Klobuchar is another middle-of-the-road candidate who might take aim at a progressive agenda that touts Medicare for All and free public college tuition.
Castro and O'Rourke, both appearing in their home state, are also on the same stage again, potentially teeing up another wrangle between the two Texans.
Earlier this year, prior to the first Democratic debates, the DNC announced more stringent qualifying rules for the fall debates in September and October. Details for the October debate have not yet been announced.
In order to qualify for the September debate, candidates needed to cross both the polling and grassroots funding thresholds. Candidates must have received 2% or more support in at least four national polls or polls conducted in the early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and/or Nevada and have been publicly released between June 28 and August 28.
Any candidates' four qualifying polls must have been sponsored by one or more of the following organizations approved by the DNC: The Associated Press, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, the Des Moines Register, Fox News, Monmouth University, NBC News, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Quinnipiac University, University of New Hampshire, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post and Winthrop University. They also needed to be conducted by different organizations or -- if by the same organization -- had to be in different geographical areas.
Candidates also needed to receive donations from at least 130,000 unique donors over the course of the election cycle, with a minimum of 400 unique donors per state in at least 20 states. Qualifying donations must have been received by 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 28 for the September debate.
HOW TO WATCH THE DEBATE: The ABC News Democratic Debate will air live nationally on the ABC Television Network and Univision (with a Spanish translation) and locally on KTRK-TV. ABC News will livestream the debate on ABC News Live – the network's 24/7 breaking news and live events streaming channel – on Roku, Hulu, AppleTV, Amazon Fire TV, YouTube, Apple News, Facebook, Twitter, and the ABC News, Good Morning America and FiveThirtyEight websites and mobile phone apps. Univision News will also livestream the debate on all of its digital platforms including Facebook, YouTube and Periscope.
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By Allison Cary | January 6, 2023
In our second grade classes, students are using arts integration to learn about Native American communities in their social studies lessons. It is an opportunity for our students to learn about the history and culture of the various communities that have lived in North America for thousands of years, including the tribes from our local area.
But at The Foundations School, our students aren't just learning about Native American communities in textbooks and lectures. In fact, our second grade classes have used multiple art forms to approach the curriculum, and it is clear when you speak with the students that the lessons are working.
One of the art forms that the second graders practiced is dance. A CCE Teaching Artist choreographed and taught the students a dance that celebrates Native American histories and cultures. The performance featured the song "Qonute," which means welcome in the dialect from an Eastern Woodland Tribe. Students acted as wetlands, performed traditional Native American dance, posed as Chickee huts and longhouses, and shared a bit of the Legend of Hiawatha from upstate New York. This project culminated in a performance at our grand opening event in December.
Another art form that the second graders used in their lessons in sculpting. Another CCE Teaching Artist helped the students expand their knowledge of Native American communities by teaching them to build models of traditional Native American homes. Students have worked on multiple projects, depending on which tribes and regions they are learning about. In each case, they understand not only how the homes were designed, but why they were constructed in these ways.
In addition to these projects, students have also created additional art pieces, including a regional map of the United States, traditional instruments, informative pamphlets, and more. These different approaches and projects allow students multiple avenues to learn the information, and the results are impressive. When asked to explain what they're learning, students' answers are always thorough and eloquent.
This is a great example of arts integration in action. You can read about other recent student projects here.
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De Gea and Ter Stegen criticise World Cup ball
Argentina star Lionel Messi has given the Adidas Telstar 18 the thumbs up, but Marc-Andre ter Stegen and David de Gea are unimpressed.
25 March, 2018 04:21 IST
Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen with the World Cup ball - Getty Images
David de Gea and Marc-Andre ter Stegen have criticised the official World Cup matchball, while Pepe Reina has called for it to be changed ahead of the tournament.
Argentina star Lionel Messi previously gave his blessing to the Adidas Telstar 18, which was inspired by the ball used at the 1970 tournament in Mexico.
But after Spain and Germany drew 1-1 in an international friendly in Dusseldorf on Friday, both goalkeepers who started the game were critical of the ball.
"It's really strange," said Manchester United goalkeeper De Gea, who was beaten by Thomas Muller's placed 25-yard drive. "It could have been made a lot better."
Ter Stegen was even more critical of the ball, telling AS: "The ball could be better; it moves a lot.
"But I think we're just going to have to get used to working with it – and try to get to grips with it as quickly as possible before the World Cup starts. We've got no other option."
De Gea's international team-mate Reina, however, thinks the authorities have to consider switching the Telstar 18 for a different matchball.
"They should change it," Reina said. "There's still time."
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Q: PHP form creates a Postgresql entry when web page is opened. How can this be prevented? I have a php/html script to update my postgresql database. The form works alright, that is it inserts data into the database. Problem is that each time I open the web page to do an insert an empty entry is created into the database. I have tried to add a "SELECT setval(...)" to repair the sequence. This did have the effect of getting rid of empty rows it does however not prevent the sequence to get out of line. This is what I have got sofar:
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<?php
$db = pg_connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=crewdb user=postgres password=XXXXXX");
$query1 = "INSERT INTO access(access_name) VALUES ('$_POST[access_name]')";
$result1 = pg_query($query1);
$query2 = "SELECT setval('access_accessid_seq', (SELECT MAX(accessid) FROM access))";
$result2 = pg_select($query2);
pg_close($db)
?>
However the problem still is not solved. I get a table like this:
accessid | access_name
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1 | good ride on mower access throughout
2 | n\a
3 | no ride on mower acces
4 | partial ride on mower acces
5 | fenced off
7 | Obtacles
As you can see accessid is out of wack. Does anyone know how to solve this problem in the most efficient way?
Table specs are:
Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default | Storage | Stats target | Description
-------------+---------+-----------+----------+------------------------------+----------+--------------+-------------
accessid | integer | | not null | generated always as identity | plain | |
access_name | text | | not null | | extended | |
I am a bit new to this so thanks for your help.
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Q: Handle Template Error using ErrorHandler in angular2 Following this question , i get to know that after using Errorhandler in our module angular will not throw any such error and our app works somthly,
i did the same process and works fine,
Problem :- After handling template parse error using ErrorHandler will make all buttons/dropdown on that page and other pages not working properly, is there any kind of method in angular2 by using which neither angular will throw error nor webapp stuck (like buttons are not working in template) ?
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International Journal of Genomics
International Journal of Genomics / 2013 / Article
AbstractIntroductionMaterials and MethodsResultsDiscussionConclusionsAcknowledgmentsReferencesCopyright
Extracting Evolutionary Insights Using Bioinformatics
Volume 2013 |Article ID 671316 | 11 pages | https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/671316
Effects of Taxon Sampling in Reconstructions of Intron Evolution
Mikhail A. Nikitin 1 and Vladimir V. Aleoshin1
1Belozersky Institute for Physicochemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
Academic Editor: Yuri Panchin
Received15 Oct 2012
Accepted02 Jan 2013
Published03 Mar 2013
Introns comprise a considerable portion of eukaryotic genomes; however, their evolution is understudied. Numerous works of the last years largely disagree on many aspects of intron evolution. Interpretation of these differences is hindered because different algorithms and taxon sampling strategies were used. Here, we present the first attempt of a systematic evaluation of the effects of taxon sampling on popular intron evolution estimation algorithms. Using the "taxon jackknife" method, we compared the effect of taxon sampling on the behavior of intron evolution inferring algorithms. We show that taxon sampling can dramatically affect the inferences and identify conditions where algorithms are prone to systematic errors. Presence or absence of some key species is often more important than the taxon sampling size alone. Criteria of representativeness of the taxonomic sampling for reliable reconstructions are outlined. Presence of the deep-branching species with relatively high intron density is more important than sheer number of species. According to these criteria, currently available genomic databases are representative enough to provide reliable inferences of the intron evolution in animals, land plants, and fungi, but they underrepresent many groups of unicellular eukaryotes, including the well-studied Alveolata.
Introns are noncoding sequences inside many eukaryotic genes. Their abundance may vary several orders of magnitude, from hundreds of thousands in mammalian genomes to less than 100 in the genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The origin and evolution of introns is a highly controversial topic despite 25 years of research. The variation of intron content between different lineages suggests a high variation in the rate of intron gain and loss, which may relate to differences in population size, absence or presence of the sexual process, activity of transposable elements, properties of the splicing mechanism, and many other characteristics of genomes, organisms, and populations.
Intron sequences evolve at a high rate, and the negative selection typically stabilizes only few nucleotide positions in splicing sites and the branch point. Interestingly, a significant portion of introns occupy the same positions in the same genes in species that diverged billions years ago (20% of common introns in mammals and Arabidopsis thaliana for the set of 684 conservative genes [1]). These introns were interpreted either as ancestral, originating before the divergence of major eukaryotic lineages, or as convergently inserted in the same positions due to sequence properties (the "protosplice sites"). Both explanations can be true for different subsets of introns in same genome; however, the proportion of ancestral and convergent intron positions in shared introns is controversial. Its estimates vary from 2% to 18% [2] and even more than 50% [3]. The latter estimate was obtained using ad hoc algorithm and datasets and is not directly comparable to others. Functional explanations of the extremely low rate of intron loss are not known. Many introns were found to contain functional elements, such as transcriptional and splicing regulators [4], small regulatory RNAs which produced during the subsequent cleavage of the excised intron, nonsense-mediated decay signals, signals of nuclear export, and others. However, these processes are not evolutionarily conserved, which therefore does not explain the survival of introns for billions of years.
With the influx of new genomic data, our view of intron evolution changes. For example, the high intron content in vertebrate genomes was initially interpreted as a derived feature of this lineage. However, genomic analysis of the polychaete Platynereis dumerili [5] suggested that most vertebrate introns were already present in ancestral Bilateria and subsequently lost in insect and nematode lineages. In next years, analyses of genomic sequences of cnidarians [6], Placozoa [7], sponges [8], choanoflagellate [9], and early-diverging fungi [10] pushed the origin of abundant vertebrate introns back to the ancestral metazoans and, for some, even earlier, to the unicellular common ancestor of animals and fungi. A recent study of the intron evolution in Alveolata and stramenopiles with data on 23 species infers a highly intron-rich ancestors of Alveolata and Alveolata+stramenopiles, with latter containing more introns per gene as humans [11]. This is unexpected, because all extant members of these groups exhibit a low or at best moderate (Thalassiosira pseudonana) intron density [12]. These examples raise the following questions.(i)How does the available taxon sampling affect our studies of the evolution of introns?(ii)How can the taxon sampling be tested to provide accurate reconstructions?(iii)Which species should be added to compensate for an incomplete taxon sampling?
To address these questions, we compiled dataset of intron-exon structures of two ribosomal protein genes (rpS5 and rpL12) for 80 species representing three major eukaryotic groups, Opisthokonta, Plantae, and SAR (Stramenopiles-Alveolata-Rhizaria), using data from publicly available databases of completed and ongoing genome projects. Phylogenetic relations of the analyzed species according to recent studies [13–20] are depicted on Figure 1. For unannotated data, putative rpS5 and rpL12 cDNA and genomic sequences were found with BLAST, and intron-exon boundaries were established using Genscan [21]. We generated 660 random subsamplings ranging from 15 to 75 species from the initial 80 species set using custom Python scripts (100 subsamplings with 15 and 20 species, 80 with 25, 60 with 30 and 35 each, 40 with 40, 45, 50 and 55 each, 30 with 60 and 65, and 20 with 70 and 75 species). The Csuros [22] and NYK [2] algorithms of inferring intron evolution were run on each of these subsamplings.
The phylogenetic tree for the initial species set according to [13–20].
Results were imported in STATISTICA 8 for statistical analysis and scatterplot generation. If no members of a taxon were present in a subsampling, this subsampling was discarded from calculations and scatterplots for this taxon.
We reconstructed intron phylogenies for the full set of 80 species and for 660 random subsamplings using the algorithms by Csuros and NYK. As depicted in Figure 2, different taxon samplings produce different results. In many smaller subsets, there were no members of a particular taxa. These subsets were excluded from calculations of average ancestral intron densities for these taxa. For example, in 105 out of 660 subsets, there were no nematodes, and they were excluded from calculations of average intron density in the ancestor of Nematoda.
Examples of the intron evolution reconstructed with different taxon samplig size. The intron density on each branch (in introns/kb) is color-coded according to scale in the upper left corner. Upper row: Csuros algorithm, lower row: NYK algorithm. Left column: averaged intron densities using 100 subsets of 20 species each. Right column: full set of 80 species.
For the NYK algorithm, the most striking difference is observed in the internal nodes of the bikont half of the eukaryotic tree. Using subsets of 20 species, one can see a more or less constant intron density among the internal branches in different bikont groups such as Alveolata, stramenopiles, and Viridiplantae. The analysis of original set of 80 species inferred almost intronless ancestors for these groups and recent episodes of intron gain along terminal branches. A similar, but less pronounced, pattern is also observed for the Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and the animal-fungal ancestor. These internal nodes also appear more intron rich when sparse taxon coverage is used. Among the Metazoa and their closest relatives, Choanoflagellata, the results do not change significantly varying the taxon coverage.
For the Csuros algorithm, significant differences were also observed between broader and narrower taxon samplings. Again, these differences are most prominent on internal branches of the Bikonta and Fungi. For small species sets, the output of Csuros algorithm is similar to that of NYK. Analysis of the complete taxon set of 80 species returns very high intron densities for the ancestors of Sporozoa, Apicomplexa, Alveolata, and Ascomycota, far exceeding the observations in recent organisms. Particularly, in the ancestor of Apicomplexa, the estimated intron density in analysis of 80 taxa equals 22/kb, which is three times higher than in mammals (7/kb).
3.2. Specific Effects of Taxon Sampling on Different Nodes
As can be noticed, varying the taxon sampling size affects particular nodes (such as Alveolata and Viridiplantae) more than others (e.g., Metazoa). Figure 3 reproduces this pattern in more detail. For the Bilateria, one can see that average statistics are the same for both algorithms and do not correlate with sampling size. The only observed effect of sampling is a significant dispersion of estimates between smaller taxon sets and uniform patterns when the sampling size is 40 or more species. At internal nodes of Bilateria, such as Nematoda, Insecta, and Spiralia, a significant positive correlation is observed between the intron number and taxon sampling size. Dispersion between samplings of same size is large for smaller samplings and decreases on larger taxon sets. For the Fungi, Basidiomycota, Opisthokonta, and Viridiplantae, a high dispersion is observed for all sampling sizes, albeit less on the larger ones. The average intron density in Fungi and Opisthokonta shows a negative correlation with the sampling size for the both NYK and Csuros algorithms (Table 1), while for the Basidiomycota and Viridiplantae, these correlations are insignificant. The Alveolata exhibit a high correlation of the inferred intron density with the sampling size, however correlation patters are different for the Csuros and NYK algorithms. The two algorithms behave similarly with smaller samplings; however, with larger sets, Csuros infers extremely high intron numbers, and NYK infers their complete absence. Similar patterns were also observed for the common ancestors of Apicomplexa, Sporozoa, and Ascomycota.
NYK Sampling Descendants Outgroup-partial 1st descendant 2nd descendant
Beta P level Beta P level Beta P level Beta P level Name Beta P level Name
Fungi −0.24 0.00 −0.09 0.02 −0.01 0.72 −0.27 0.00 Allomyces −0.18 0.00 Encephalitozoon
Bilateria 0.16 0.00 0.05 0.21 −0.04 0.26 −0.25 0.00 Trichinella 0.22 0.00 Daphnia
Spiralia 0.14 0.01 0.30 0.00 −0.08 0.05 0.68 0.00 Lottia 0.30 0.00 Helobdella
Nematoda 0.20 0.00 0.21 0.00 −0.08 0.05 −0.29 0.00 Caenorhabditis 0.25 0.00 Brugia
Insecta 0.33 0.00 0.35 0.00 −0.08 0.05 0.66 0.00 Rhodnius 0.24 0.00 Drosophila
Ascomycota −0.09 0.07 0.07 0.09 −0.09 0.03 −0.13 0.01 Schizosacch 0.10 0.03 Magnaporthe
Basidiomycota −0.31 0.00 −0.13 0.00 −0.09 0.02 −0.22 0.00 Cryptococcus −0.15 0.00 Ustilago
Viridiplantae −0.06 0.24 0.04 0.29 −0.09 0.03 −0.24 0.00 Ostreococcus −0.17 0.00 Oryza
Alveolata −0.09 0.09 0.13 0.00 −0.15 0.00 0.45 0.00 Paramecium −0.23 0.00 Tetrahymena
Apicomplexa −0.19 0.00 0.10 0.02 −0.17 0.00 0.35 0.00 Eimeria −0.24 0.00 Cryptosporidium
Sporozoa −0.12 0.02 0.02 0.60 −0.07 0.08 0.30 0.00 Eimeria −0.30 0.00 Cryptosporidium
Csuros Sampling Descendants-partial Outgroup 1st descendant 2nd descendant
Fungi −0.34 0.00 −0.24 0.00 0.02 0.63 −0.53 0.00 Batrachochytrium −0.48 0.00 Allomyces
Bilateria −0.05 0.30 −0.09 0.09 0.02 0.65 −0.15 0.00 Nematostella −0.13 0.00 Branchiostoma
Nematoda 0.26 0.00 0.36 0.00 −0.06 0.19 0.39 0.00 Brugia 0.34 0.00 Trichinella
Ascomycota 0.61 0.00 0.54 0.00 0.23 0.00 0.46 0.00 Saccharomyces 0.41 0.00 Schizosaccharomyces
Basidiomycota 0.09 0.06 0.07 0.09 0.07 0.08 −0.32 0.00 Phakopsora 0.19 0.00 Cryptococcus
Viridiplantae −0.03 0.51 0.00 0.92 0.06 0.17 −0.23 0.00 Chlorella 0.12 0.00 Ostreococcus
Alveolata 0.71 0.00 0.52 0.00 0.18 0.00 0.61 0.00 Tetrahymena 0.35 0.00 Paramecium
Apicomplexa 0.20 0.00 0.12 0.00 0.09 0.02 −0.26 0.00 Perkinsus 0.14 0.00 Cryptosporidium
Sporozoa 0.45 0.00 0.47 0.00 0.00 0.92 0.49 0.00 Cryptosporidium 0.28 0.00 Toxoplasma
Partial correlations of the sampling size, number of descendants, outgroups, and presence/absence of key species with intron densities in ancestral nodes. Italics are correlations significant at P level > 0.05. In bold are highest correlations for the node.
Examples of sampling size-intron density correlation patterns inferred by the Csuros (left) and NYK (right) algorithms. Horizontal axis: number of species in the sampling. Vertical axis: inferred intron density at the node (introns/kb). Note that NYK returns estimations of ancestral intron count rounded down to integers, therefore bubble diagram was used. Bubble size represents number of data points at the same scatterplot coordinates.
3.3. Factors Affecting the Reconstruction
One may discuss three factors that influence ancestral reconstructions under varying the taxon sampling. First, broader sampling usually produces more descendants of a given internal node in analyses. Second, the number of outgroup taxa also depends on the sampling size. Third, particular key taxa may strongly affect reconstruction when present in the dataset, which are more likely be found in larger samplings. These three factors may contribute differently and produce a mixed effect. To evaluate their contributions separately, we performed a multiple regression analysis using the numbers of descendants and outgroup species and the presence/absence of particular descendants as independent variables. The results are presented in Table 1.
The regression analysis shows that for the Insecta and Spiralia, the main affecting factor is the presence of particular species in the dataset for both Csuros and NYK algorithms. These species are Rhodnius prolixus for the Insecta and Lottia gigantea for the Spiralia (partial correlation coefficients beta equal 0.65 and 0.67). Correlations with the number of descendants for these nodes range within 0.35–0.37 for Csuros and 0.12–0.30 for NYK. Correlations with the sampling size are less pronounced. For Insecta, we also found that correlation of results with the sampling size is significant only when Rhodnius prolixus is not sampled (Figures 4 and 5).
Effects of critical species sampling on the behavior of the Csuros algorithm. Horizontal axis: number of species in the sampling. Vertical axis: inferred intron density at the node (introns/kb).
Effects of critical species sampling on the behavior of the NYK algorithm. Horizontal axis: number of species in the sampling. Vertical axis: inferred intron density at the node (introns/kb).
For Nematoda, presence of each of the four of its descendants shows a significant effect, with beta positive, ranging within 0.33–0.39 for Trichinella spiralis, Brugia malayi, and Pristionchus pacificus, and negative −0.20 for Caenorhabditis elegans. These correlations are almost the same for Csuros and NYK algorithms.
For other nodes, significance of different factors depends on the algorithm choice.
When the Csuros algorithm is used, for the nodes of Fungi, Basidiomycota, Apicomplexa, and Viridiplantae, the presence of some species affects inferences of intron evolution more than other factors. These species are Allomyces macrogynus and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis for the Fungi (beta = −0.48 and −0.53), Phakopsora pachyrhizi for the Basidiomycota (beta = −0.32), Chlorella variabilis for the Viridiplantae (beta = −0.23), and Perkinsus marinus for the Apicomplexa (beta = −0.26). Furthermore, a significant correlation of the ancestral intron density with the sampling size and the number of descendants is observed only when the critical species are absent (both species absent in case of Fungi).
For the Ascomycota, Alveolata, and Sporozoa, critical species are not easily identified. Presence of every descendant of these nodes shows a significant correlation with the inferred ancestral intron density. Still, some species are more important than others. Among Ascomycota, these are yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe (beta = 0.46 and 0.41, while for other species is lower than 0.20). For the Sporozoa, most variation is due to Cryptosporidium parvum (beta = 0.45, for others less then 0.23), and in the Alveolata, these are two ciliates Paramecium tetraurelia and Tetrahymena thermophila (beta = 0.35 and 0.61, while lower than 0.15 in other cases). Unlike the aforementioned nodes, for the Ascomycota, Sporozoa, and Alveolata, most significant correlation of the ancestral intron density with sampling size and descendants number is observed only when critical species are present in subsets.
For NYK algorithm, certain species usually show the highest impact on reconstructions of ancestral introns, but the overall picture is often more complicated. For the Fungi, similarly to the Csuros algorithm, the critical species are Allomyces macrogynus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, and Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Presence of any of them greatly reduces the dispersion between subsamplings and prevents very high or very low estimates. For the Alveolata, the critical species are again ciliates, but presence of Paramecium tetraurelia positively correlated with the ancestral intron density, and that of Tetrahymena thermophila—negatively. In the Sporozoa, the highest correlation is observed for Cryptosporidium parvum and Eimeria tenella, again with opposite signs. In the Apicomplexa, there are four species that exhibit significant effects—Cryptosporidium parvum, Eimeria tenella, Paramecuim tetraurelia, and Tetrahymena thermophila. Among the Viridiplantae, there are two important descendants, Ostreococcus tauri and Oryza sativa, and two important outgroup species, Paramecuim tetraurelia and Tetrahymena thermophila. A significant effect on the variations of ancestral intron count for the Basidiomycota was found for six species: four descendants (Cryptococcus neoformans, Phakopsora pachyrhizi, Ustilago maydis, and Coprinus cinereus) and two outgroup species (Allomyces macrogynus and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). Analyses for the Ascomycota robustly produce the estimation of 2 introns/kb, with only 13 out of 660 subsamplings exhibiting much higher estimates.
One can see that many key species are the same for both algorithms—for Fungi or ciliates for Alveolata. However, there are significant differences in the importance of outgroup species. They are often important for the NYK algorithms but show only minor effects for the Csuros.
4.1. Cases of Overestimation of the Ancestral Intron Count
The Csuros algorithm in many cases outputs unrealistic, very high intron densities of 15–20/kb, which is three times higher than the observed values in any recent organism and seems unlikely if we consider the spliceosome positioning on pre-mRNA. Such overestimation is commonly found for the Alveolata, Sporozoa, and Ascomycota and also occurs in a portion of subsamplings for the Apicomplexa, Fungi, and Basidiomycota. Our analysis of these anomalies shows that they occur when very intron-poor taxa occupy the basal position among descendants of a node. Yeasts, ciliates, and Cryptosporidium parvum are intron-poor and basal for the Ascomycota, Alveolata, and Sporozoa, respectively, in our full set of 80 species. The chance that these species are present in the analysis increases with the subset size, leading to a high positive correlation of the inferred intron density with sampling size. With the Fungi, Basidiomycota, and Apicomplexa, the full set contains relatively intron-rich basal species (Allomyces macrogynus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Phakopsora pachyrhizi, and Perkinsus marinus), followed by intron-poor branches (yeasts, Ustilago maydis, and Cryptosporidium parvum). For these nodes, the inferred ancestral intron densities show a bimodal distribution, depending on which species happens to be basal in subsamplings. Interestingly, even for the Metazoa, there are several cases when the Csuros algorithm overestimates the ancestral intron density to exceed 10/kb. In all such cases, we found that the extremely intron-poor ctenophore Mnemiopsis leydi in these subsamplings falls in the basal position within Metazoa, while all intron-rich poriferan species are absent.
The NYK algorithm is also prone to overestimation of the ancestral intron count. This is often observed with the Fungi and sometimes with the Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, and Alveolata. As we have found, the prerequisite for such an overestimation is the absence of Allomyces macrogynus and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (for Fungi, Basidiomycota, and Ascomycota), presence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe (for Ascomycota only), and presence of Paramecuim tetraurelia and Tetrahymena thermophila (for Alveolata).
These conditions are similar for those for the Csuros algorithm, but NYK shows a much lesser degree of systematic overestimation. It is especially shown with the example of Ascomycota; the overestimation by Csuros was found in more than half of subsamplings, while by NYK—only in 13 out of 660 subsamplings. The factor analysis also shows that the set of outgroup taxa does not affect the reconstructions with the Csuros algorithm but is important in the case of NYK.
4.2. How Many Taxa Are Enough?
Using the nodes where different algorithms produce similar results, we could evaluate the number of descendants required for accurate reconstructions of intron evolution. In the Spiralia and Insecta, basal intron-rich species (Lottia gigantea and Rhodnius prolixus) strongly affect the results, while in the case of 8-species sets, the results with and without Rhodnius prolixus are very similar (Figure 6). For the Spiralia, a similar trend exists, however, less pronounced due to only 5 available descendants. For the Bilateria and Metazoa, reconstructions are the same with the both algorithms and almost do not depend on sampling, possibly due to a high number of descendants in the sampling (24 and 32, resp.). The average intron count for these nodes does not correlate with the sampling size even if all subsamplings with more than 10 descendants of these nodes are discarded. So, the Metazoa and Bilateria are not very useful for estimating the sampling adequacy. With the results for Insecta, we conclude that 8–10 species should be enough given no catastrophic intron loss among the descendants of the analyzed node. The results obtained for the Bilateria and Metazoa do not contradict with this conclusion.
Effects of the number of descendants and sufficiency of taxon sampling. Horizontal axis: number of species in the sampling. Vertical axis: inferred intron density at the node (introns/kb).
4.3. Comparison with Earlier Intron Evolution Studies
The recent work by Csuros et al. [23] uses an MCMC-based algorithm for the reconstruction of the intron evolution and a broad sampling of 99 species. It also shows that the reliability of the reconstruction of the intron evolution differs between nodes. Their algorithm produced not only inferred estimates of the ancestral intron density, but also its Bayesian posterior distributions. Similarly to our results, the estimates for the Metazoa and Bilateria are robust, the Alveolata exhibit a significant uncertainty, and the stramenopiles-Alveolata (SAR) group or Amoebozoa posterior distribution shows that the estimations are unreliable. Despite the broad taxon sampling, the authors do not use data on such deep-branching intron-rich species as Perkinsus marinus in the Alveolata and Physarum polycephalum in the Amoebozoa. We predict that adding these species to the authors' 99-species set will stabilize the results for the Alveolata and Amoebozoa, respectively.
The Csuros's algorithm tested in our work was used, for example, in the study [11] of intron evolution in the Alveolata and stramenopiles. The authors report unusually high estimates of the ancestral intron densities for many nodes. The highest was 7.5 introns/kb in ancestor of Alveolata, which is 20% higher than in the most intron-rich modern organisms. Our observations suggest that this is likely a systematic bias of the Csuros algorithm. This view is supported by the results obtained with the MCMC algorithm from [14], where the inferred intron density in the ancestral Alveolata is more conservatively estimated at 5.0 introns/kb.
It is of interest to compare the results of our study with [10]. Stajich et al. studied the intron evolution in Fungi, using a sampling of 25 species and four algorithms, NYK, Csuros, Roy-Gilbert, and EREM. The results of all algorithms were in good agreement for most nodes, including the Ascomycota. No systematic overestimations by any algorithm were detected, unlike our work and [11]. There might be two reasonable explanations: (1) a broad gene sampling (1161) allowed to correctly estimate the rate of intron loss even under the low intron density in the basal ascomycete Schizosaccharomyces pombe; (2) a broad species sampling (5) of extremely intron-poor hemiascomycete yeasts and a differential intron loss in them allowed for the conservation of a considerable subset of the ancestral introns. Unfortunately, a broader gene sampling is not always available for groups with an extensive gene loss. For example, for 23 species in [11] (11 stramenopiles and Alveolata and 12 outgroup species), only 394 orthologous genes were present in at least 18 out of 23 taxa. With methods that do not allow for missing data, like NYK, gene sampling would be even poorer.
We observe that the number and composition of taxa often have a strong impact in reconstructions of the intron evolution. While insignificant for some nodes, such as the Bilateria and Metazoa in our analyses, it can be significant for many others. A stronger influence of taxon sampling is observed in nodes with descendants possessing an intensive intron loss. If such a descendant occupies the basal position, the ancestral intron reconstructions are often unreliable. In the indicated cases, the Csuros algorithm exhibits a trend to systematically overestimate the ancestral intron count. Overestimations also occur with the NYK algorithm, however, under a more complex set of conditions and in our analyses were frequently observed only in the node of Fungi. If a group suffers from massive intron loss, a recommended strategy to improve the accuracy of inferring the intron evolution is to identify and add to dataset a deep-branching member of this group with a high intron density, such as Perkinsus marinus in the Apicomplexa.
This work was supported by grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (12-04-01716-a, 12-04-91331-NNIO, and 12-04-00154), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft GRK 1563 (RECESS), and the Ministry for Education and Science of the Russian Federation (8089, 8334, and 8820). Special thanks to Dr. Leonid Rusin for helpful discussions.
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Ever since I started this website in 2012, one of my primary objectives was to convince readers that the American system of government is nothing like what we are told in school and via the oligarch-owned mainstream media. That the country has become so captured and corrupted by sociopathic oligarchs, that a neo-feudal modern serfdom was emerging where the opportunities to enjoy rising standards of living for the vast majority of people was rapidly becoming a pipe dream.
Ever since that study came out, I've noticed more and more people publicly admitting that the U.S. in nothing more than an oligarchy. Even former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said it last week.
Meanwhile, just today, I came across the latest shocking proof of how bought and paid for "our" political system really is. We find out from the New York Times, that only 400 families account for nearly half of all spending on the 2016 Presidential election so far. The Dark Ages almost look democratic by comparison.
Fewer than four hundred families are responsible for almost half the money raised in the 2016 presidential campaign, a concentration of political donors that is unprecedented in the modern era.
The vast majority of the $388 million backing presidential candidates this year is being channeled to groups that can accept unlimited contributions in support of candidates from almost any source. The speed with which such "super PACs" can raise money — sometimes bringing in tens of millions of dollars from a few businesses or individuals in a matter of days — has allowed them to build enormous campaign war chests in a fraction of the time that it would take the candidates, who are restricted in how much they can accept from a single donor.
A New York Times analysis of Federal Election Commission reports and Internal Revenue Service records shows that the fund-raising arms race has made most of the presidential hopefuls deeply dependent on a small pool of the richest Americans.
And that's exactly how the oligarchs like it.
To peruse the top donors in presidential politics is to take a cross section of the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. At least 67 are billionaires or married to one, according to Forbes.
Really? Where is this widespread prosperity, at the end of the rainbow in a leprechaun's hat?
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a favorite of the Tea Party movement, has raised the most cash from the fewest donors. A collection of super PACs supporting Mr. Cruz raised $37 million, nearly all of it from three families. Robert Mercer, a deeply private hedge fund investor from New York, contributed $11 million, making him the top known political donor in the country so far this election cycle.
Ted Cruz knows how to say the right things, but he knows where his bread is buttered.
But millions of dollars also came from corporate entities with no clear link to a known individual or business: One million-dollar donor to the pro-Bush super PAC is Jasper Reserves, a limited liability corporation established two years ago in West Virginia, where records provided few clues about its owners.
Big donors are not only patrons of the candidates but also confidantes, with great access to the candidates — and, sometimes, business before them.
Mr. Braman has previously subsidized Mr. Rubio's salary, and employed his wife. Mr. Fernandez, who became a billionaire after building several health care companies, emailed with Mr. Bush often when he was governor of Florida to ask about doing business with the state, Mr. Bush's emails show.
The largest single donation to America Leads, a group supporting Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, came from a Boston investor seeking to build a $4 billion casino resort there. At least five donors to Mr. Walker's super PAC are companies that received hundreds of thousands of dollars in aid from Wisconsin's economic development agency, according to state records.
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Q: RoundCube not found @ Debian 8 & ISPConfig 3 I have installed ISPConfig with Apache via this repo: https://github.com/servisys/ispconfig_setup.
After them i was switch PHP 5.6 to PHP 7 - apps working fine. But roundcube on url: https://IP:8080/webmail missing = 404.
How can I fix it this problem?
What can I try check?
Thanks
A: I got it ...
https://github.com/servisys/ispconfig_setup/issues/145
Is but about bad redirecting with :8080 port.
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The Galaxy Note 9 won't be announced until August. You wouldn't know it by reading the internet, however. Every nook and cranny of the upcoming phablet has been bared for the world, in a series of leaks over the past several weeks.
Sure, not all of them will pan out, but plenty have come from leakers with established track records, and enough of the details line up so as to paint a wholly believable portrait of the phone we'll finally get an official look at early next month.
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Suncor keeps 2020 oil budget flat, approves $300 million wind farm project
The Canadian Press December 3, 2019
CALGARY – Oilsands giant Suncor Energy Inc. says it will keep capital spending related to its oil operations flat next year while moving forward with a new $300-million wind power project in southern Alberta.
The Calgary-based company says its capital budget for 2020 will rise by about 10 per cent to a mid-point of $5.7 billion from this year's $5.15 billion.
Suncor announced it has sanctioned the first 200-megawatt phase of its Forty Mile Wind Power Project, which received Alberta regulatory approval last spring. About 25 per cent of the capital cost is expected to be incurred this year and the remainder in 2020 and 2021.
Suncor say the project is a key component of its sustainability strategy as it targets cutting its greenhouse gas intensity by 30 per cent by 2030.
It says the 2020 capital budget increase also includes $300 million for its $1.4-billion project to replace coke-fired boilers at its oilsands base camp in northern Alberta with cleaner natural gas-powered co-generation units for heat for the plant and electricity for the provincial power grid.
It also plans to invest $150 million in digital technology initiatives and $50 million to improve efficiency at the Syncrude oilsands mining complex by connecting it by pipeline with Suncor's nearby base camp works.
"Looking forward to 2020, we will continue to focus on value over volume, investing in high-return projects that are largely independent of pipeline constraints and commodity price volatility, to deliver on our $2-billion incremental free funds flow target by 2023," said CEO Mark Little in a statement.
Upstream production is expected to increase by about five per cent to about 820,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
©2019 The Canadian Press
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NHL 2013-14: Rangers will hear softer tone from Vigneault than barking from Tortorella
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The message from the New York Rangers bench might not be any different than in years past. The tone in which it is delivered most likely will be.
Whether the softer approach new coach Alain Vigneault offers in comparison to the barking tones of deposed bench boss John Tortorella is what the Rangers need remains to be seen.
Despite getting the club to the Eastern Conference semifinals last season, Tortorella was somewhat surprisingly let go by general manager Glen Sather and replaced by the gentler-on-the-outside Vigneault, who was dismissed as coach of the Canucks after Vancouver was swept in the first round of the playoffs by San Jose.
In an added twist, Tortorella got Vigneault's old job in Vancouver, while Vigneault took over for him in New York.
Quite a trade indeed.
"I believe the New York Rangers have been doing a lot of the right things for a lot of years," Vigneault said. "This is an Original Six team. This is a great franchise. There are some things I prefer done a certain way, and I'm going to tell the players. But as far as this being a drastic change, this organization is one of the best in the league.
"There are little things here and there that need to be pushed in a certain direction. The atmosphere, the environment that I want to create—a professional, positive environment. I want the players to feel good about coming to the rink and trying to get better every day."
Vigneault is the winningest coach in Canucks history, but after a seven-year run it was determined a different voice was needed in Vancouver—perhaps a harsher one than the one the more user-friendly Vigneault provided.
Tortorella lasted only 4 1/2 seasons before his time with the Rangers ran out.
Sather was quick to assert at Vigneault's introductory news conference that the Rangers needed a change in style. He spoke specifically about Tortorella's strong focus on defence and blocking shots—a philosophy that often led to New York's players being consistently banged up.
Vigneault was given a five-year deal to lead the Rangers, edging out other candidates such as Mark Messier and longtime former Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff, who landed with the Dallas Stars.
In 11 seasons as an NHL head coach with Montreal and Vancouver, the 52-year-old Vigneault is 422-288-35-61 in 806 games.
"The style of play we like to play is outnumber the opposition aggressively so we can recover the puck, set the tone and go on the attack," Vigneault said. "As our players understand the different principles we're trying to put in place, then I think people will be able to pick up (the system)."
The Rangers open at Phoenix on Oct. 3.
Here are five things to keep an eye on with the Rangers this season:
ROAD TRIP: Before the Rangers get into the thick of the new-look Eastern Conference, they will get a healthy dose of Western opponents as they open with a nine-game, 23-day road trip necessitated by extensive renovations at Madison Square Garden. New York will play at Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Jose, Anaheim and St. Louis before travelling to face Eastern foes Washington, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Detroit, which has been transferred from the West to the East. If New York can get off to a good start before finally playing at home on Oct. 28 against Montreal, it could bode well later in the season.
STEPAN'S ABSENCE: The Rangers are dealing with the absence of restricted free agent centre Derek Stepan, who remains unsigned deep into training camp. The sides are believed to be about $600,000 apart on a two-year deal. Stepan is thought to be looking to get $7 million as the Rangers are holding to a $6.4 million offer. It is unknown if Stepan, who could be the club's top centre, will be signed before opening night. He will have to sign by Dec. 1 to be eligible to play.
NEW FOES: While the Rangers will still face familiar rivals from their Atlantic Division days—the New Jersey Devils, the New York Islanders, the Philadelphia Flyers and the Pittsburgh Penguins—they will be joined in the newly formed Metropolitan Division by the Carolina Hurricanes, the Washington Capitals and the Columbus Blue Jackets, who were moved from the West.
NASH AND RICHARDS: Brad Richards is still with the Rangers after his poorest NHL season. He avoided having his contract bought out, but he will need to show the kind of offence he featured during his glory days with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Nash had 21 goals and 21 assists in his lockout-shortened first season in New York. He struggled with a wrist injury and had only one post-season goal.
INJURIES: The Rangers hope to have key forwards captain Ryan Callahan and Carl Hagelin back on the ice soon after both underwent shoulder surgery. They might not be cleared for contact before the season opener. However, leading defenceman Marc Staal said he feels good as he continues to come back from a serious eye injury.
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Q: How to get data from DialogFragment to Fragment and survive recreation activity My application has this chain: the activity that creates fragment. In this fragment there is a button click which calls a DialogFragment. DialogFragment allows user to select camera or choose image from device memory.
Than DialogFragment calls intent which sends image to crop at new activity. And finaly path to croped image send back to DialogFragment via onActivityResult.
The resulting path should be passed to fragment and i exercise this using Interface through activity like in this lesson
This solution works fine until user no changes the orientation of the device.
When device rotated on DialogFragment stage or crop activity stage , first activity recreated and fragemnt recreated and instance of the DialogFragment is destroyed. So my callback not running and and nothing happens. Let me show you code:
SettingUnitActivity
FragmentManager fragmentManager = getFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
addNewUnitFragment = new AddNewUnitFragment();
fragmentTransaction.replace(R.id.single_unit_fragment_container,addNewUnitFragment,"myff");
fragmentTransaction.commit();
//My callback
@Override
public void call(String string) {
AddNewUnitFragment addNewUnitFragment = (AddNewUnitFragment)
getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.single_unit_fragment_container);
if(addNewUnitFragment != null) {
addNewUnitFragment.changeFragImage(string);
} else {
}
}
AddNewUnitFragment
public void onClick(View v) {
switch (v.getTag().toString()) {
case "add_image":
DialogImageSelect imageSelDialog = DialogImageSelect.newInstance(0);
imageSelDialog.show(getFragmentManager(),"imageSelDialog");
break;
...
//Function which should be called from SettingUnitActivity
public void changeFragImage (String string) {
//Do something with string
}
DialogImageSelect
public static interface dateCallBack {
public abstract void call(String string);
}
static DialogImageSelect newInstance(int id) {
DialogImageSelect di = new DialogImageSelect();
Bundle args = new Bundle();
args.putInt("id", id);
di.setArguments(args);
return di;
}
@Override
public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
super.onAttach(activity);
callerActivity = (dateCallBack)activity;
}
//Here we take and send image path from croper activity
@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
if(resultCode != Activity.RESULT_CANCELED) {
if(requestCode == FROM_CROPPER) {
if(data != null) {
croppedFilePath = data.getStringExtra("filePath");
System.out.println("CALL "+callerActivity);
this.callerActivity.call(croppedFilePath);
dismiss();
}
}
}
}
How can I send data to fragment retaining it when device rotated ?
UPD: The answer to my question is partially revealed in this topic but there is no explanation how I could pass data using interface callback from DialogFragment through Activity to Fragment if Activity recreated after rotate.
A: Basically you need to save the instance state on fragment in onSaveInstanceState() method . then use this retained state inside the Base Activity's onCreate() method.
See:
Once for all, how to correctly save instance state of Fragments in back stack?
and
http://emuneee.com/blog/2013/01/07/saving-fragment-states/
You can google more on this and search stackoverflow. There are plenty of questions like yours with proper answers.
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Q: De-Activate Physics on SpriteKit i wanna dis-activate the physic of node for a while .Please help me figure that out .
SKSpriteNode * node = [SKSpriteNode spriteNodeWithImageNamed:@"blade.png"];
node.size = CGSizeMake(30, 30);
node.physicsBody = [SKPhysicsBody bodyWithRectangleOfSize:node.size];
node.physicsBody.dynamic = YES;
node.physicsBody.collisionBitMask = CharacterCategory;
node.physicsBody.categoryBitMask = ObjectCategory;
node.physicsBody.contactTestBitMask = CharacterCategory;
node.position = nd.Position;
node.physicsBody.mass = 10000;
SKAction * actfadein = [SKAction fadeInWithDuration:nd.FadeInDuration];
SKAction * actfadeout = [SKAction fadeOutWithDuration:nd.FadeOutDuration];
SKAction * wait = [SKAction waitForDuration:3];
SKAction * removephy = [SKAction runBlock:^(void){
// i tried to removeFromParent but it never comes back
}];
SKAction * activatephy = [SKAction runBlock:^(void){
//[self addChild:node];
}];
SKAction * myActions = [SKAction sequence:@[actfadeout,removephy,wait,activatephy,actfadein]];
[node runAction:[SKAction repeatActionForever:myActions]];
[FadeObjects addChild:node];
A: Just set the physicsBody property of the SKSpriteNode to nil. If you later need to apply physics again, just assign another physicsBody.
A: Set this:
node.physicsBody.dynamic = NO;
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Dont let bad breaks, luck stop your search
Updated: Oct. 30, 2006, 5 a.m.
Dear Kate & Dale: How can my husband salvage his career? He was a college soccer coach who was released when his assistant coach made recruiting violations. He and the school agreed to state that he was leaving to "pursue another position." Other positions have not lived up to his standards and to make matter worse, he was released from an elementary-school position due to an outburst of anger; then he received a DUI, which resulted in a suspended license. Yes, he's in therapy, but he desperately needs employment. – Alicia
DALE: Until you've gone through it or known someone who has, it's hard to understand just how quickly a life can spiral down. The good news is that there are plenty of people who've had that revelation, and if your husband is earnestly seeking help, those people will treat him with sympathy rather than contempt.
KATE: I'd say that the downward spiral started when the college asked him to lie about his leaving. Nothing made sense in his career after that. So he goes to a program not as good, then winds up at an elementary school. I can only imagine how frustrating that was for him. I can picture the anger and the drinking and all the rest – I could see how it could happen to anyone, myself included.
DALE: See what I mean about sympathy, Alicia? However, people in public institutions are in a lousy position to come through with a "sympathy hire." How does it look when the local news media do stories on the new coach's "checkered past"? Awful. What administrator would take that risk? That's why your husband should focus on jobs with professional teams, or perhaps being a consultant to schools who are starting a new program or whose coach needs help (or is on leave).
KATE: In doing so, he will prove to himself and you that his therapy is successful, while he adds success stories to his resume. Eventually he will get to that place where a college athletic director can logically offer him a job. It's a long way 'round to where he was, but as Judge Sol Wachler put it: "When God closes a door, He opens a window. But the hallways are hell." Wachler spent time in those hallways -- he headed the New York State Supreme Court before self-medicating for bi-polar disorder and ending up in jail for harassing his girlfriend. I know it doesn't help much to hear, "It could be worse"; however, you must remember that there's a window waiting for your husband, and he's lucky to have you helping him get through it.
Dear Kate & Dale: I'm a 40-year-old who never finished college. I have spoken with a university that will take transfer credits and has an online program. It will cost $22,000. I'm not eligible for grants, and I don't want a student loan. I'm excited about finishing my degree and making a better life, but how do I pay for it? – A Reader
KATE: The bottom line: You can't afford such an expensive school. If you're going to finish online, you needn't restrict yourself to a local college; broaden your research to lots of other schools. I went on the Web site of your closest state university and found that a four-year degree would cost about $24,000. Because you have transfer credits, it could thus cost you far less than the online school.
DALE: But let's back up and consider "making a better life." Before you spend the time and money, make sure that's true. Go to people in a position to hire you for higher-level jobs and ask, "If I got this degree, would that make all the difference in getting hired?" If yes, then you can "dollarize" the investment -- project out your higher income and see that loans just might be a good deal. On the other hand, your questions might lead you straight into an offer for one of those better jobs, and you could end up taking classes for the joy of learning.
Kate Wendleton is the founder of The Five O'Clock Club, a national career counseling network (www.fiveoclockclub.com). Her newest book is "Mastering the Job Interview and Winning the Money Game (Thomson Delmar Learning). Dale Dauten is the founder of The Innovators' Lab. His latest book is "BETTER THAN PERFECT: How Gifted Bosses and Great Employees Lift the Performance of Those Around Them" (Career Press). Please write to them in care of King Features Syndicate, 888 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019, or [email protected] for e-mail.
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At least 60 people killed as two suicide bombers target Shia shrine in Iraqi capital.
Two separate attacks took place a day earlier, one in Baghdad and the other in Diyala province, which targeted Iranian pilgrims.
The second attack occurred near Muqdadiya, 80km from Baghdad, in the northeastern province of Diyala, apparently targeting a group of Iranian pilgrims in a restaurant.
Most of the 64 dead were believed to be Iranians visiting Shia Muslim religious sites in Iraq, police said. More than 60 others were wounded.
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Quite some time ago major improvements have been made to LTE with LTE-Advanced as part of 3GPP Release 10. Unquestionably, LTE-A will be the leading global 4G standard fulfilling the defined ITU-R requirements on IMT-Advanced such as peak data rates beyond 1Gbps. While further enhancements to LTE-Advanced have just been completed in 3GPP Release 11, the new technology trends become visible to serve the continuously growing traffic demand. This White Paper, based on Nomor's attendance of 3GPP, provides an outlook on 3GPP standardisation for the forthcoming years. Besides a summary of general trends and a projected release schedule, it includes an overview of the work and study items of Release 12 in the Radio Working Groups. New key technologies that Release 12 will address are: Small Cell Enhancements, a New Carrier Type, 3D-MIMO Beamforming, Machine-Type-Communication, LTE-WiFi Integration at radio level and Public Safety incl. Device-to-Device communication. While the completion of Release 12 is expected mid of 2014, deployments might be seen around the end of 2015 and later. NoMoR is active in different related research projects and offers consultancy services for related research, standardisation, simulation, early prototyping and technology training.
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How many Kids are Homeless?
There is a Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report to Congress with information on this subject titled Runaway and Homeless Youth: Demographics, Programs, and Emerging Issues which was published in January 2007. This link is to their 37 page report.
The precise number of homeless and runaway youth is unknown due to their residential mobility and overlap among the populations. Determining the number of these youth is further complicated by the lack of a standardized methodology for counting the population and inconsistent definitions of what it means to be homeless or a runaway.
Estimates of the homeless youth population range from 52,000 to over one million. Estimates of runaway youth – including "thrownaway" youth – are between 1 million and 1.7 million.
Part of the problem of counting homeless youth is that they often avoid shelters and more or less hide in inaccessable areas where they avoid counters. Some hide out with friends, others take to the woods and alleys, even the rails. You may have seen an earlier post of mine (Homeless Youth Project) where loose groups of homeless youth ride the rails around the country. Youth that do come into contact with census counters are reluctant to admit that they are homeless.
The 52,000 to over 1 million estimates are based on a series of counting attempts through the decades. A 1987 GAO report estimated 52,000 to 170,000 homeless on any one night. CDC's 1992 National Health Interview Survey of youth ages 12 to 17 determined that 5% of those they surveyed had been homeless during some part of the prior year. That estimate came to more than a million youth that experienced homelessness during that year.
The latest federal survey was conducted by NISMART – (National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Throwaway Children) which was conducted in 1999. That study found that 1.8 million youth under age 18 left home or were asked to leave home in 1999 (at some time during the year).
That leaves more than 18,000 that never came back that year.
Another study, reported by Jan Moore, Unaccompanied and Homeless Youth Review of Literature (1995-2005) , reported 1 million to 1.3 million homeless youth. I reported on this study earlier, see How many of the Homeless are Youth?
Also see a forum report I presented in 2006 on the Cobb Faith Partnership site titled: Homelessness Among Children and Youth – Basic Facts in which 1.35 million homeless children are reported homeless in a given year, according to the National Law Center. The numbers seem to be centering around 1.3 million with a spread of 300,000 either way. I feel that the numbers probably fluctuate wildly on any given day in any given year, much like trying to get the average level of a raging river.
Factors Influencing Homelessness and Leaving Home: Youth most often cite family conflict as the major reason for their homelessness or episodes of running away. A literature review of homeless youth found that a youth's relationship with a step-parent, sexual activity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, school problems, and alcohol and drug use were strong predictors of family discord. 14% of Foster kids that age out of the system experience homelessness the first year and 25% at sometime overall. Another report shows 20%.
or feared abuse upon returning home.
Basic Center Program: To provide outreach, crisis intervention, temporary shelter, counseling, family unification, and after care services to runaway and homeless youth under age 18 and their families.
Transitional Living Program: To support projects that provide homeless youth ages 16 to 21 with stable, safe longer-term residential services up to 18 months (or longer if the youth has not reached age 18), including counseling in basic life skills, interpersonal skills building, educational advancement, job attainment skills, and physical and mental health care.
Street Outreach Program: To provide street-based outreach and education, including treatment, counseling, provision of information, and referrals for runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to or are at risk of being subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation.
Those are the facts on homeless youth, the best that I can report at this time. You can select whatever set of data suits your purpose, but it appears the most current data comes in somewhere between 1 and 1.8 million kids that experience homelessness in any given year, centering around 1.3 million youth.
There is no good estimate as to how many that amounts to on any given night, but if you are one of those kids, it is way too many.
Click to see all Oldtimer Speaks Out homeless youth articles (35 so far).
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I have an question that I'm hoping someone can help me with. My husband and I have been ttc for over three years now. We had a miscarriage in November and I haven't had a period since. I started to see a new doctor about it recently and he put me back on femera I have been on if before and I have been told I am a clomid failure. He said I should have a natural period within 3 weeks. Well lone behold she came rearing her ugly face and now I'm tying to figure out cycle days. I am suppose to start the medication In cycle day 3. I started spotting yesterday and it started full force today. I have never had a period spot before I'm wondering if today is day one or if yesterday was? I hope someone can help!
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Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, ©2006.
Reveals how to hone and deploy one's leadership assets while managing the inherent tensions at the heart of successful leadership.
Leadership -- Guides, manuels, etc.
The price and prize of leadership.
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones.
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library:placeOfPublication <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/866846115#Place/boston_mass> ; # Boston, Mass.
schema:location <http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/866846115#Place/boston_mass> ; # Boston, Mass.
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Q: Как восстановить место в справке Vim? Допустим, я читал некий топик во встроенной справке Vim. Как вернуться к месту чтения после закрытия и повторного запуска Vim? При этом использовался Session.vim. Опция 'sessionoptions' слово "help" содержит.
Окно со справкой восстанавливается. Проблема в том, что файл справки в этом окне после восстановления становится обычным файлом, в котором забыты теги переходов, да и сами теги по ^] перестают работать. Выручает копирование тега, :h <вставка_тега>. Открывается новое окно справки. При этом предыдущее окно с сохранённой справкой вновь становится окном справки. Вот.
Можно ли сделать это проще?
Vim 7.4 в Linux и Cygwin
A: Это баг. "Починить" теги можно принудительно установив опцию :h 'buftype' и др. Например:
~/.vim/after/ftplugin/help.vim
if &buftype !=# 'help'
setl buftype=help iskeyword=!-~,^*,^\|,^\",192-255
setl foldmethod& tabstop&
setl noarabic nobinary nobuflisted nocursorbind nodiff nofoldenable nolist
setl nomodifiable nonumber norelativenumber norightleft noscrollbind nospell
endif
UPD. Пропатчено Vim 8.2.4007.
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One of the crucial areas the place individuals get it wrong in physique transformation – attempting to lose fat and get the body they need – is as a result of they use exercise as a trade off for poor diet habits. A study reported in the Journal of Health Psychology showed individuals in a 10-week research had vital cognitive and psychological improvement resulting from train. It's protected to assume that you'll have a hard time sticking together with your nutritious diet if you go from frequently consuming french fries to strictly salads in at some point.
I simply went on trip and ate like crap for ten days… Got dwelling Monday and have nonetheless been eating like crap because I thought, effectively, might as properly wait till next week to start out maintaining a healthy diet once more… F that!!! A dangerous diet just isn't good for anybody; depending upon genetics it's going to have an effect on everybody in the end, some extra rapidly than others. Exercise calms us down, and suppresses the stress hormones that cause our cravings for junk meals to go awry. Eat traditional complete meals prepared correctly, indulge your vices sparingly, exercise to keep the body and thoughts wholesome to fulfill your goals – not defeat them. If your objective is to recalibrate your physique composition ratio and get leaner, these habits may help you attain your objective.
The National Institute of Health links lengthy-time period poor diet with a lot of physical points. James 'Keefe, a Kansas City heart specialist and ex-triathlete who believes sustained endurance exercise can damage the heart, said he would recommend no more than 20 miles per week at a modest tempo. For more ideas and ideas to spice up your diet see these great tips from the Australian Government Shape Up Australia. It's perfectly tremendous to enjoy just a little pizza or chocolate now and then, however you could find that eating healthy most of the time just isn't solely potential, it's satisfying! I'm a Personal Trainer and a Nutrition Consultant and I will probably be giving free advice and recommendations on Fat / Weight Loss, Diet Tips, Healthy Eating!
Shin splints, hair loss, acne, muscle tears, strains, tendopathies, broken bones, repetitive sicknesses/inflammation, sleep problems and lots of digestive circumstances (i.e. irritable bowel syndrome, crohn's & celiac disease) all are sometimes a result of poor diet.
These unhealthy eating habits can affect our nutrient intake, including vitality (or kilojoules ) protein, carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals as well as fibre and fluid. In many cases, weight problems is extra to do with environmental factors, akin to poor eating habits discovered during childhood. Short-term effects of poor diet embody lethargy and feeling unwell typically. Being match begins with weight-reduction plan determining 70-eighty% of the battle to turn into healthy, and train is barely 20-30% of the issue. Causes of poor diet embrace eating problems, alcoholism, hunger and poor eating regimen.
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A name server for the BSD operating system; a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network. Put simply, it is a distributed database system for objects in a computer network. BIND is fully integrated into BSD network programs for use in storing and retrieving host names and DNS address. The system administrator can configure the system to use BIND as a replacement for the older host table lookup; the default configuration for BSD uses BIND.
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require 'whois/record/parser/base'
require 'whois/record/parser/scanners/verisign'
module Whois
class Record
class Parser
# Parser for the jobswhois.verisign-grs.com server.
class JobswhoisVerisignGrsCom < Base
include Scanners::Ast
property_supported :disclaimer do
node("Disclaimer")
end
property_supported :domain do
node("Domain Name") { |raw| raw.downcase }
end
property_not_supported :domain_id
property_supported :referral_whois do
node("Whois Server")
end
property_supported :referral_url do
node("Referral URL") do |raw|
last_useful_item(raw)
end
end
property_supported :status do
node("Status")
end
property_supported :available? do
node("Registrar").nil?
end
property_supported :registered? do
!available?
end
property_supported :created_on do
node("Creation Date") { |raw| Time.parse(raw) }
end
property_supported :updated_on do
node("Updated Date") { |raw| Time.parse(raw) }
end
property_supported :expires_on do
node("Expiration Date") { |raw| Time.parse(raw) }
end
property_supported :registrar do
node("Registrar") do |raw|
Whois::Record::Registrar.new(:name => last_useful_item(raw), :organization => last_useful_item(raw), :url => referral_url)
end
end
property_supported :nameservers do
Array.wrap(node("Name Server")).reject { |value| value =~ /no nameserver/i }.map do |name|
Nameserver.new(name.downcase)
end
end
# Initializes a new {Scanners::Verisign} instance
# passing the {#content_for_scanner}
# and calls +parse+ on it.
#
# @return [Hash]
def parse
Scanners::Verisign.new(content_for_scanner).parse
end
protected
# In case of "SPAM Response", the response contains more than one item
# for the same value and the value becomes an Array.
def last_useful_item(values)
values.is_a?(Array) ? values.last : values
end
end
end
end
end
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Kidney donation between former suburban coach, basketball player creates bond for life
By Anthony Ponce
Nearly 40 years after coaching her basketball team, a suburban coach and a former player have a new "forever" bond. And with Thursday, March 12 being World Kidney Day, the pair is sharing their inspiring story.
CHICAGO - Nearly 40 years after coaching her basketball team, a suburban coach and a former player have a new "forever" bond. And with Thursday, March 12 being World Kidney Day, the pair is sharing their inspiring story.
"We had to keep their mind on basketball and not on boys," said 77-year-old John Mulhern, reflecting on the year 1984 when he coached his daughter, Jenny, and Jenny's best friend, Stacy Brown Michalski.
"Stacy was a good basketball player, but she's a better person," Mulhern said while fighting back tears, and there's a reason he gets choked up thinking about the two girls staying friends all these years.
"Jenny had just thrown it out there, 'hey if anybody's A-positive, Dad needs a kidney' and I was like 'OK, no problem!'" said Michalski.
After no one in Mulhern's immediate family matched up as a kidney donor, Michalski volunteered to donate one of hers. This past year, John's own kidneys had hardened to the point where they lost their filtration ability. He desperately needed a transplant.
"The only way to get a kidney transplant without waiting 6 or 7 years now for the most common blood group is to find a living donor," said Dr. Joseph Levanthal, who performed the transplant in October at Northwestern Hospital.
"It was an unbelievable feeling at that point," said Mulhern after the successful operation.
After feeling fatigued for a few weeks following the transplant, Michalski said she has no regrets. "Once you know somebody, and especially if you know what they'd have to go through to be on dialysis, and once you know [Coach Mulhern], you would never want him to be on dialysis. It was really very simple."
Dr. Levanthal encourages all healthy adults to consider becoming an organ donor.
Former Chicago cop had 44 traffic tickets dismissed by claiming his girlfriend stole his vehicle: prosecutors
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How to use boxing in your rugby training
lmudaly
George Groves feels the power – or not! – of editor Paul Morgan
Boxing is a fantastic conditioning tool, writes Roy Headey, the RFU's Head of Sports Science.
It's physically demanding but because guys love doing it they don't realise just how hard they're working, and it can get their heart-rates high for sustained periods.
Like tackling in rugby, boxing is all about getting your feet in the right place to punch. It also requires full-body coordination, and your whole body is working while needing to perform explosive movements – as you would in a game.
George Groves, the Commonwealth Super-middleweight champion (right), has worked with the RFU to devise boxing techniques to help players.
Players can use boxing to get fired up on game day, and it's useful when you're coming back from injury and can't yet take part in full-contact sessions but want to train at intensity.
Do low-intensity, low-speed shadow boxing to warm up your trunk, hips and shoulders. Wear wraps to protect the backs of your hands and sparring gloves, where the thumb is stitched to the main part of the glove.
Here are some drills you can do at home:
180 – Two pad-holders will take it in turns to call out a combination of punches for the boxer, who stands in the middle, and has to spin 180° between them. This is hard physically and requires great concentration.
To make it harder, the pad-holders can stop calling out instructions and simply hold the pads out, so the boxer has to recognise which punches to do. To make it harder still, ask him questions about, say, lineout calls or moves at the same time.
Bullying – This makes the training more relevant to rugby, where you have to do a lot of grappling and driving. The boxer throws a set of punches at the pad-holder, and then has to drive him away before the next set of punches. You then swap, so the pad-holder does the driving. This is incredibly tiring, and good practice for when players have to get defenders off them.
Knock down – The boxer throws a set of punches, then quickly gets down on the floor and back up again. This prepares him for the fatigue that can hit you during a game.
Bag work – This won't develop your footwork but it's still exhausting. Great for anaerobic conditioning.
It will be more beneficial if you work on technique as well as punching as hard as you can. It's skills such as footwork and reaction times that will really make a difference to your rugby.
Commonwealth champion George Groves believes boxing can help rugby players because:
It's a different way of practising technique needed for footwork
In drills like 180 you have to get your feet into the correct position before you punch – as in a tackle
You have to think while in a state of exhaustion
This article appeared in the March 2011 issue of Rugby World Magazine.
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Maryland man arrested in U.S. Capitol riots, was placed at scene by GPS monitor required by his probation, FBI says
Army private arrested in Georgia on terrorism charges, alleged to have plotted to bomb 9/11 Memorial and attack fellow soldiers
Maryland men's basketball knocks off No. 6 Wisconsin, 70-64, for first win over top-10 team since 2016
By Daniel Oyefusi
Baltimore Sun |
Junior guard Eric Ayala scored all 17 of his points in the second half and junior guard Aaron Wiggins added 15 points as Maryland men's basketball beat No. 6 Wisconsin, 70-64, at Kohl Center in Madison on Monday night.
The win marks the Terps' first victory over a top-10 team since an upset of No. 3 Iowa on Jan. 28, 2016, and just the program's third such win since joining the Big Ten in 2014. The last time Maryland beat a top-10 team on the road was Jan. 19, 2008, when it upset No. 1 North Carolina, 82-80, in Chapel Hill. The Terps had lost 17 consecutive true road games against Associated Press top-10 teams entering Monday's game.
Maryland (6-3, 1-2 Big Ten) responded from a shooting slump that lasted from the 3:37 mark of the first half to the 16:14 mark of the second half — 11 straight missed shot attempts — to make nine straight field goals over almost seven minutes en route to picking up its first conference win of the season, and the first over a Power Five opponent. The victory also ended Wisconsin's 10-game conference winning streak.
The Terps shot 64% from the field in the second half and made 11 of their final 12 field-goal attempts.
After a 73-70 loss to Purdue on Christmas Day in which Maryland missed 11 of 21 free throws, the Terps made 12 of 15 from the free-throw line against Wisconsin (8-2, 2-1 Big Ten) and several late to hold off a late comeback bid.
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"We really grew in the last five days," Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said. "A lot of meetings, a lot of just being together. And we were terrific in practice [Sunday] so you kind of knew our guys were going to compete. And we just made enough shots and enough free throws to pull this one out."
Wisconsin took a 20-17 lead with 5:30 left in the first half with a 6-0 run, prompting Turgeon to call a timeout. The Terps responded well afterward, with a dunk by senior guard Darryl Morsell (eight points) cutting the Badgers' lead to 25-24 with 3:37 remaining. But that slam would be the final field goal of the half for either team.
Maryland missed its final five field-goal attempts and went scoreless for the remainder of the first half. Wisconsin didn't score over the final 3:58 but a trio of made free throws by senior guard D'Mitrik Trice (game-high 25 points) gave the Badgers a 28-24 lead at halftime.
Both teams shot 10-for-27 from the field in the first half but Wisconsin made just five of 10 free throws. The Badgers missed seven of 15 for the entire game.
Maryland's offensive struggles continued into the second half, with a post layup from Ayala breaking the streak of 11 straight missed shots.
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"It was just a matter of us executing plays, making sure we were getting good looks," Wiggins said of the turnaround on offense. "At one point, we were just coming down and we were just shooting the first shot that we had open after guarding 25 seconds on the defensive end. It was just a matter of us getting good shots.
"There have been multiple times where our team, we might not be shooting the ball well but we're still able to go on a run eventually. Or we know that our time is coming because basketball is just a game of runs and when things aren't going our way, we know it's just a matter of time before things flip and we have a little run in us."
Out of the under-16 media timeout, with his team down 34-28, a savvy adjustment from Turgeon, switching from man-to-man to a full-court press and then 3-2 zone defense, sparked an 8-0 run. Wiggins intercepted a pass for a breakaway dunk to tie the game at 34 with 13:29 left.
"We knew we were going to play some 3-2 [zone]," Turgeon said. "We thought we could use it against this team, we've used it in the past and it was good for us. It kind of got a little bit [off-kilter] and then [Wisconsin forward Nate] Reuvers hit a couple from the high post. [The zone] kind of gave us confidence. It got our offense going because we got some easy ones."
A 3-pointer by junior forward Jairus Hamilton (nine points) gave Maryland a 54-52 lead with 5:09 remaining and the Terps led for the remainder of the game.
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After a 3-pointer by Trice, Maryland led 60-59 with 1:58 left. Two consecutive baskets by sophomore forward Donta Scott (12 points), including a strong two-handed dunk over multiple Wisconsin players, gave the Terps a 5-point lead with 57 seconds left and a string of free throws sealed an impressive win for a Maryland team that had lost three of its past four games.
"I was disappointed in the way we ended the Purdue game," Turgeon said. "I thought we were going to pull that one out. We weren't able to do it, but we're growing. We've gotten so much better since the Clemson game. We just get a little bit better every game, we get a little bit tougher and it finally came all together tonight."
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"We do not talk of such things". An Analyst Travels Through Japan to Consult on the Inter-generational Transmission of Trauma and Learns to Use Her Countertransference to Facilitate Helping a Population with Hidden Traumas.
Certificates of attendance only. No CME credits are provided.
Mary Ann Chudy Levy, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine is now retired from her clinical practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy of child, adolescent, and adult patients, but remains active in professional and educational activities. She is a training and supervising analyst with the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and was the first woman to graduate from their program. She has enjoyed her many years as a teacher and supervisor of psychoanalytic candidates as well as psychiatric residents and other clinical specialists. As a past president of the Denver Psychoanalytic Society, she helped facilitate its response to the Columbine shooting disaster where the society members became involved in many aspects of out-reach and clinical support for survivors of that terrible community disaster. She has always been surprised by how much early childhood traumas have contributed to her work with patients and how little acknowledgement of this has been stressed in psychoanalytic training until recently. Scholarly interests have included femininity in psychoanalytic work, and countertransference as well as the treatment and long term effects of traumatic stress.
Dr. Levy was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and received her MD in 1964 from the University of Manitoba. She subsequently completed her psychiatric residencies in Adult and Child Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, followed by her Psychoanalytic training at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis.
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Rio is a friendly dogs who gets along well with all sorts of humans and most dogs. He's great in a crate and good at listening–so this good boy needs someone to help teach him basic commands. His foster family says he's a dream dog and he loves being near his humans. He could nap all day if you're near him. Rio is a medium-energy dog–a couple of 20-minute walks a day and some playtime (he likes to fetch), and he's good.
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Straddling the banks of the River Avon, the culture pot that is Bristol is boiling over with hidden gems. Stray from the beaten track and follow our guide to Bristol's best kept secrets.
Bristol is an all year round destination, but the best time to make your trip to Bristol is during the summer months when the weather is at its warmest and there are many outdoor cultural events. When you book your Bristol flights, you can look forward to summer events such as the Bristol Harbour Festival with music and family filled activities along the waterfront, and The Bristol Shakespeare Festival held in the city's parks and historic buildings. During August, The Bristol International Balloon Fiesta features massive hot air balloons floating over Ashton Court. Need a place to stay in Bristol? Check out Ryanair Roomsfor great value deals on hotels, apartments and places to stay in Bristol.
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A couple of weeks ago at the Bellevue Collection Spring fashion show (mentioned here) , they had the new store Everything But Water contribute some of their suits to the show. I fell in love. So, of course, I had to go and check out the store. They have almost every swimwear designer you can think of. It's amazing! They even have one of my favorites Trina Turk Swim. This store came to Bellevue Square at the perfect time! Check it out! It's located in Bellevue Square on the second floor right outside of Nordstrom.
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In This eNewsletter:
• From the Editor's Desk, 21st Century Vinyl, by John Atkinson
• Expert Schmexpert, by Wes Phillips
• This Month's Audio URL, from Wes Phillips
by John Atkinson
A highlight of recent Home Entertainment Shows has been the Sunday afternoon "Analog Clinic" presented by Stereophile senior editor Michael Fremer. Michael, who writes about vinyl playback every month in his "Analog Corner" column, spends an hour showing Show attendees how to set up a turntable and how to optimize the tonearm geometry. To judge by the attendance at Home Entertainment 2006, held last month in Los Angeles, this is a popular subject these days.
It seemed a no-brainer, then, for Michael to produce a DVD covering the subject in even greater depth. 21st Century Vinyl is the result: On this almost three-hour, double-layer DVD, Michael Fremer sets up three popular turntables. Using close-ups, illustrations, animation, and straight talk, Fremer takes you from leveling the platter to spinning a record. Mikey "guarantees" that after watching the disc, even a totally inexperienced audiophile will be able to set up a turntable (though he recommends first attempting it with an "inexpensive" cartridge).
There's a chapter on selecting tools and even one that suggests the proper set-up mood. You will never confuse this often entertaining, sometimes funny, and always informative DVD with one of those cadaverous home theater set-up discs. Bonus features include: a "tour" of Sterling Sound mastering engineer George Marino's cutting lathe and a 20-page PDF containing more set-up tips and easy-to-understand explanations of fun stuff like tonearm mass vs cartridge compliance.
In his review for Home Theater magazine's website, Mark Fleischmann praised Mikey's DVD, concluding that 21st Century Vinyl is "a helpful bridge between the first flush of analog enthusiasm and a long-term survival strategy."
The information in 21st Century Vinyl will be found useful by veteran audiophiles and tyros alike. The DVD is available from the Stereophile website's secure "Recordings" page for $29.99 plus S&H.
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Expert, Schmexpert, by Wes Phillips
The function of the expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons.—Dr. David Butler
Are you someone's expert? I am—and not because I write audio reviews for Stereophile. It's because I "know about that stuff," whatever that stuff might be. You're probably someone who knows about that stuff, too. There are a lot of us around.
Here's my real question: When people ask you your "expert" opinion, do they actually take your advice?
Mine neither.
I remember the first time someone asked my advice on a hi-fi question. I was working at a record store and had painstakingly constructed a nice starter audiophile system: a fairly good turntable, a slightly long-in-the-tooth tube preamp, a classic tube amp, and a pair of compact, British, stand-mounted monitors. You, as a fellow expert, would recognize it as a lovingly matched system that pitted my champagne tastes against the ineluctable realities of a record clerk's salary.
To my friends, it was "that stuff." Which is why I got a phone call from one of my wife's friends, who asked if I could tell her friend which speakers to buy. I was impressed with myself. She'd called me because I knew this stuff! I spoke to her friend, asked what size room she wanted to put them in, how many watts her amp delivered (she didn't know), what kind of music she listened to—
This was where I started losing her. She'd wanted an answer, and she was getting the third degree. Anyway, I finally allowed as how, given her budget, musical tastes, room size, and placement constraints, a pair of Wharfedale Diamonds was precisely what she needed. Did I say "needed"? Nay, they were the speakers she was fated to own—she was going to fall in love with them, and then she'd need an amplifier and a source, and she'd become my novitiate in the sacred order of the audiophile...
None of that happened. I contained myself for as long as I could, and eventually called her to inquire how she and her new Diamonds were getting along. "Oh, I didn't buy them," she said. "I bought something the salesman told me was better."
"You went to the store I told you to go to and they said they had a better pair of speakers than the Wharfedales—at the same price?"
"No, that store was too far downtown. I went to Circuit City."
My audiophile mind tricks had not worked on her. I was outsold by the Circuit City guy.
In many ways, it was I who sabotaged that deal. My wife's friend's friend wanted a simple answer and I'd given her a complicated one. If she'd wanted to get queried about her listening habits and ponder the minutiae of hi-fi ownership, she could have gone to a real hi-fi store—like the one I'd suggested she go to. That's not what she wanted. She wanted to buy an appliance, something that worked and that she didn't have to think too much about.
We audiophiles tend to forget that most people don't divide hi-fi into bad, good, really good, and wouldn't-that-be-nice. To the nonenthusiast, hi-fi is like, well, a DVD player. Have you shopped for a DVD player lately? Okay, maybe I'm asking the wrong crowd—the chances are pretty good you have shopped for a DVD player recently. I'll rephrase the question: If you were going to buy your mom a DVD player, what would you do?
Most folks would go to CostCo, Target, or Wal-Mart and see what was on sale. My friend Jeff Wong—who rates pretty high on the audio-geek scale, maybe even higher than I—recently did just that. Jeff and his brothers came home with a $39 DVD player that had features I paid a lot of extra money for just a few years ago. It worked like a charm out of the box. And if it stops working? Hey, it was a $39 DVD player.
That's what our friends expect everything to be like these days: It should work better and cost less than the old stuff. If we enthusiasts make hi-fi more complicated than it needs to be, or if we immediately start mouthing off about some of the arcana we fixate on among ourselves, we'll be fogging our friends' minds when we should be clarifying them.
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.—Robert Heinlein
About 12 years ago, I was visiting my hometown, attending to some details concerning my mother's admission into an extended-care facility, and I took the opportunity to spend the evening—well, the late evening and most of the early morning—with the same rowdy crowd with whom I'd whiled away a substantial part of my young adulthood. For a four-day trip, I believe I'd packed about 60 CDs. I played a lot of new music for my old pals.
"You know," Randy said, "music's just not as important to me as it used to be. We watch movies at home or play computer games, or just read magazines. It could also be that the music's not as good as it used to be."
Emboldened by a small amount of Bordeaux, I countered: "That's a lot of hooptydoodle. The real problem is that you're listening to crap gear. You bought this stuff at the PX when you were on R&R in Japan—and those speakers were so bad, JVC never even tried to sell them in this country."
Okay, maybe it was more than a small amount of plonk. But in vino veritas, and we were all old enough chums to really let it all hang out. My friends Frank and Robin were there that night, and, a week later, announced their intention to build their own house. Because Frank was one of my oldest and dearest friends—he'd helped me move more times than I can remember, and I could always crash on his sofa when I had nowhere else to go—my wife and I decided to give them a special housewarming present: a new hi-fi. It wasn't elaborate; just a simple NAD system with a pair of compact, British, stand-mounted monitors (with stands). I considered telling them how good the stuff was, but I'd been an expert too many times to go there. I just set up the system and shut up.
Frank called two weeks later. "Remember that time you told us we never listened to music any more because we were listening on crap? Well, I thought you'd surpassed yourself for being full of yourself that evening."
Well, yeah, it is sort of embarrassing to recall that outburst.
"But the thing is, you were right! Since you gave us that hi-fi, we don't watch TV anymore. I listen to music all day at work, but I find myself thinking, Wow, I can't wait to hear that at home, and when I come home and listen to it again, it is better.
"I don't hear a lot of that stuff you go on—and on and on and on—about, but this is different. It's like the music has more flavor or brighter colors. Even though it's easier to hear stuff, we listen harder."
Yes! My best friend gets it.
No expert was ever paid a higher fee for his testimony.
There's a lesson to be learned there. As an audiophile, I knew that the point of the hobby was to hear better and listen harder, but I'd never actually thought to tell anybody—not even my best friend. Anyone can recommend a pair of loudspeakers—but we experts need to remember what it's really all about. Then, maybe people will actually take our advice.
Wife, looking over shoulder: "Hah!"
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Spring time is getting closer….
To hold and work a complete bonded warehouse in the heart of Gothenburg means that every now and then Maintenance is forced and needed.
The day has come when we needed to repair some surface inside our sheds and also our Entre-road.
For the first time in several years the ground is now 100 % flat and looks actually quite nice.
On our entrance we have heavy traffic daily and about 100 containers and trailers pass per day so no doubt the road is being hit hard with heavy weights daily.
In the shed that we repaired we normally store up to 1500 tons so that is also a spot which takes on heavy burdens.
Anyways, we wish that all our customers shall enjoy making visits to us and to continue to entrust us handling their cargo in a clean and safe environment.
We are proud to share what we do for you all our customers and visitors.
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People who fail in their attempt to get fit rarely do so because they ineffectively applied their diet or workout plan. Usually the lack of motivation or knowledge is what keeps people from reaching their goal. The main factor in designing and executing a fitness plan is to choose fun activities that will hold your interest over the long term. The advice in this article is designed to help you find the best ways to achieve that goal.
Are you exercising enough? Many people think that working out once a week for an hour will give them the fitness results that they are looking for. It is the consistency that matters when it comes to exercise. You should strive for 30 minutes of exercise with moderate intensity for 5 times a week to have a better chance of accomplishing a better fitness level.
View this review of LateralX LX3 by FitAdvisor if you are looking for a decent indoor home gym that you can incorporate into your fitness routine to save time visiting the gym for a workout on weekdays when you are busy at work.
A simple way to reduce your calorie count is to avoid cream and sugar for your morning coffee if you have a habit of starting your day with one. In fact, black coffee is shown to boost your metabolism to burn more calories. Therefore, it may be a good idea for you to drink black coffee instead.
Working out shouldn't be a chore. Make yourself look forward to working out by having fun with it. These tips will help you to have fun while you exercise!
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Discuss solutions for meetings applications here.
What is needed? How to implement? model? controller? database tables / fields? page views? ideas? etc.
it would be fine to first realize simple solutions. And later the more improved perfect features.
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A Young Indian Writer explains why she wouldn't return her award in case she gets one
by Paulami DuttaGupta
in Opinions
I earn my bread and butter through my pen and words. I also romance them; share my deepest fears and thoughts with them. Sometimes I feel no lover or friend is closer to a writer than the pen and words. Also which job in the world gives you this kind of power? A writer gets to write love songs that lovers hum through ages. A writer also gets to shape public opinion. And that is why it pains me when senior Indian writers sought political hypocrisy and selective outrage.
Autumn is my favourite time of the year. There is always love and poetry in the air and the yellowed leaves almost seem to sing a beautiful tune. But this year the air is heavy. No. I am not of the scaremongering group and will not predict any approaching apocalypse. But the air is undoubtedly heavy with hypocrisy. The nation has been bleeding for a long time. Why queue up now and return awards? Why is it that no atrocity made them sit up all this while? Why is it suddenly easy to raise voices?
Writer Shashi Deshpande resigned last Friday from the Sahitya Akademi General Council and said she "deeply distressed by the silence of the Akademi on the murder of Professor M M Kalburgi." Though I haven't read MM Kalburgi's works, I presume he was a great writer and a much respected man. Whether people agreed to what he had to say is not even a point of debate. Dissent doesn't give a licence to kill anyone, writer or not. I therefore share Ms Deshpande's anguish. But I fail to share her opportunism.
Unfortunate as it might be, Mr. Kalburgi is not the first rationalist who was murdered by fundamentals. Narendra Dabholkar was murdered on 20th August 2013. No one talked about 'Silence is a form of abetment' then. No awards were returned. No emotional resignations were written. But of course there was a UPA at the centre and a Congress in Maharashtra. The lanterns at 10 Janpath were burning very brightly.
They say there is a phenomenal increase in cases of intolerance. I want to ask just one question. When was India tolerant? The idea of Gandhi's India is probably romanticized in books. But was India really tolerant? Unfortunately I come from a town that has seen cases of ethnic violence and even terrorism from a very close quarter. Only a couple of years back agitating groups in support of Inner Line Permit burnt two people to death. There was a mob that day too. Does the mob remind you of Dadri? Yes I am sure it does. How are two cases different? The right to life of an Indian citizen was snatched away. One was killed because he was trying to earn. Another was killed for a supposed menu that was not even on his platter. In both cases the 'Idea of India' was at stake. My liberalism teaches me to not be selective over grief. Dadri made sure I couldn't eat meat for a while. Whenever I saw a piece of meat, the helpless faces of the victim's family flashed in front of me. But my liberalism does not allow me to say 'look here one death is more important that the other'. If I cry for Akhlaq, I will also cry for Prashanth Pujari or Vikas Nandwal.
The Indian writers of course have every right to do what they want with the awards. They can just throw it away. But using their clout to shape public opinion is scary. Which major work of art was banned since the Modi government has come to power? If one calls Fifty Shades of Grey, Unfreedom and AIB roast the epitome of creativity, them may be I am intellectually challenged. Or was the opinionated piece called India's Daughter an essential aspect for women's safety in India? Even if I agree with their opinion, I would want to know if these are the only films that were banned? Aandhi and Kissa Kursi Ka are probably the older ones and some might say 'hey I wasn't even a writer then'. But what about 'Girl with a Dragon Tattoo?' That was banned in 2012 under the progressive UPA rule! Come on. This country has seen a ban on a Satyajit Ray documentary and an Anurag Kashyap film.
Or forget bans. Because that is an uncomfortable subject. Who can forget The Red Saree and the quiet ban on it? Taslima Nasreen is probably not even important, since she was born on the wrong side. Had she been anywhere near to Mr. Kasuri's residence; things would be different. And Sir Rushdie doesn't talk about the ban on his books, but just present day India. Let's just talk about the supposed throttling atmosphere for Indian writers. What was done to Perumal Murugan was sickening. But the fate of Joe D'cruz was of no importance? Today they talk of intolerance. How many of them stood by Shirin Dalvi when she was hounded for the Charlie Hebdo cartoons? A leading opinion portal had in fact put up a headline – 'Je Suis Shirin Dalvi anyone?'
Today everything has come down to the 'right to dissent'. Of course that is what Indian writers are all about. Breaking societal norms is what the pen can afford to do. But sadly if we criticize the 'award wapsi', we are almost called unlettered, tagged petty commercial Indian writers and also 'Modi toadies'. But of course. It is the government that doesn't allow us to 'dissent'!
A 'senior' 'journalist' mentioned – 'The new buzzword is 'selective outrage': if you didn't outrage about a crime against a Hindu you have no moral right to outrage when a Muslim is killed.' What they fail to realize is it is not about Hindu and Muslim. If slaughter of Sikhs and Kashmiri Pandits is painful, so are Bhagalpur and Hashimpura and Muzzafarnagar. If it is about the Hindus that were burnt to death it is also about the innocent Muslims that were murdered for no fault of theirs in Gujarat. It is about Indians and not Hindus and Muslims. It is also about Graham Staines and every Dalit that has been killed.
Conscience is a very heavy word. It keeps us sane in these times when human bonding is eroding. But if your conscience has slept through when men were sterilized, when public money was usurped with multiple scams, when women's faces were burnt, when women were raped, when girls were killed in wombs or in the name of dowry; then this country probably doesn't matter to you.
Indians are Indians. Rationalists are rationalists. I just wonder what kind of liberalism makes one cry for someone and look away when someone else is in grief.
P.S – In these three years of my writing career none of my books have become bestsellers or have attracted awards. Even the national award was not for me but for my film. So I will never have an option to return it. But even if I had I wouldn't. Because then my conscience would box my ears and say 'where the hell were you when your country was weeping?'
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मैं पंखा हूँ, मैं सुदर्शन चक्र हूँ
8 Poems by Akademi Award winners Ashok Vajpeyi and Uday Prakash to make your Dull Sundays AWESOME!
Paulami DuttaGupta
Born in Shillong, Paulami Duttagupta is currently based in Kolkata. She has worked as a journalist, radio artist, television analyst, and copywriter. But amongst all these, her favorite job is that of a 'dreamer.'
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King Stefan Uroš promises to the citizens of Dubrovnik possesions they held at the time of his father's death and legal settlement of disputes regarding possessions acquired later, and regulates various other issues in mutual relations (original).
Državni arhiv u Dubrovniku, Beč 966a.
B) in this collection and C) Draft or copy (mid 13th century) in Kiev.
Original dating clause: In the year 6762, indiction 12, in the month of August 23.
P. Karano-Tvrtković, Srpski spomenici, 29–31, no. 21; F. Miklosich, Monumenta Serbica, 45–47, no. 46; Diplomatički zbornik IV, 567–569, no. 495; S. Novaković, Zakonski spomenici, 150; A. Solovjev, Odabrani spomenici, 46–47, no. 29; LJ. Stojanović, Povelje i pisma I–1, 18–19, no. 21; P. Đorđić, Istorija srpske ćirilice, 270, ph. 46 (only photo); Zbornik I, 211–214, no. 58.
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Q: How do I use Entity framwork on an existing database with out migrations? I have an existing database that has tables like Surface, that hold different surfaces (not plural like EF seems to like).
I have created a type that uses data annotations thus:
[Table("Surface")]
public class Surface
{
[Key]
public Guid SurfaceKey { get; set; }
public string SurfaceType { get; set; }
}
And I've create an entity framework context, and repository etc. Now when I access this in an MVC view, I get a message that the
'The model backing the 'EFDbContext' context has changed since the database was created...'
What difference does it make if it's changed? I might not have typed in something or another.
So what? I'm not asking EF to use my database. I have an existing database, I need to map it to classes, Entity Framework should quietly oblige, with no stupidity of migration. I'm not migrating. Every time I do a rebuild, it should start from scratch.
I just want to access my existing database, and if I compile with a typo, it should be forgotten when I correct the error and recompile.
How do I do this?
A: You configure this feature in the context class that you create.
public class MyContext : DbContext
{
static MyContext()
{
Database.SetInitializer<MyContext>(null);
}
//....
}
Here's a useful link regarding database initialisers
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I've been asked, even criticized, about adding a focus on nutrition to Desert. There's a reason why. I had poor nutritional examples growing up. Being confused on the issue of nutrition cost me a lot. I remember yo-yo'ing a lot. The only time I even came close to being my desired weight was when I did high-intensity workouts daily. At one point, I was exercised about 6 hours a day. I was in multiple dance classes and a karate class, as well as another karate club that met for two hours three days a week. I also rode my bike to campus, and even added a one hour workout when I got home. I was still thirty pounds overweight. I can attest to the coined phrase "You cannot exercise away a bad diet."
It was hard to consider diet for me, because I had a genetic heritage that leaned on the heavy side. I felt trapped, having a low metabolism. It seemed if I even looked at what others ate, I was the one who gained weight.
Every once in a while, someone would mention diet to me, but it did little to sway me. Why? Bad examples.
Brad Pitt in Ocean's Eleven. Every scene he's in, he's eating something unhealthy.
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I also knew several "weighed down" people who were eating a healthy diet.
It wasn't until I was in college, having just finished my laps in swimming plus a jog, that I stopped by to visit a friend--a slim friend who never seemed hungry. It seemed so unfair as I watched her prepare herself a salad and two small slices of pizza.
I knew in that moment that if I ate like her, I would look like her. I also knew that if I prepared a small salad and two small slices of pizza, that by the end of the meal I would end up not eating just one personal pizza, but two or three.
I started to believe in nutrition, but I didn't have faith that someone like me could do it.
I was right, and I was wrong . . .
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Posted on February 5, 2019 by Robert Sullwold
Tonight, Council will hold a special meeting at which the four finalists vying to be selected to develop the "West Midway" site at Alameda Point will make presentations.
Slideshows of proposed designs are banned. Instead, expect to hear the presenters – and those on Council – blather on about how any development on the site should be "vibrant," "robust," "sustainable," etc.
But what the Merry-Go-Round will be listening for – and what we were looking for as we read the written responses to the request for qualifications – is evidence of the developer's ability to deliver, on schedule and on budget, a project whose economics are challenging, to say the least.
The economics are daunting primarily because the developer will be required to construct not just the backbone infrastructure for the 22.8 acres on which it will build its own 291-unit project but all of the backbone infrastructure for the entire 34-acre area south of Midway Avenue between Pan Am Way and Main Street. This is necessary to make it feasible for a non-profit developer to build a 267-unit supportive and affordable housing facility on the 9.7 acres next to the West Midway site.
Constructing this much infrastructure will not be easy – or cheap. As the RFQ disclosed, all of the utilities within the 32 acres "are old and deteriorated and will need to be replaced." At the City's request, a civil engineering firm prepared a "preliminary cost estimate" for the area-wide backbone infrastructure work, which was attached to the RFQ. The total tab came to $56.9 million. But the RFQ went on to caution that this estimate was "for informational purposes only" and "not a guarantee."
In addition, the City has imposed a couple of other requirements that adversely affect the economics for a developer, one on the expense side and the other on the revenue side of the ledger.
First, the developer will be required either to adopt the City's "Project Stabilization Agreement" for public-works contracts or enter into its own project-labor agreement with the construction trades unions. By whatever name, this type of agreement makes it difficult to employ non-union workers on a project, which results in an increase in labor costs of between 5 and 15 percent (to use the range cited by former City Manager John Russo).
Second, the RFQ specified that the 291 new housing units must include 31 "moderate-income" units (defined as housing affordable by households earning between 80 and 120 percent of area median income) and a minimum of 26 "workforce" units (defined as housing affordable by households earning between 120 and 180 percent of AMI). The former requirement is derived from the settlement agreement between the City and Renewed Hope governing all new residential development at Alameda Point. The latter arises from the "specific plan" for the Main Street Neighborhood (of which the West Midway site is a part) adopted by Council in March 2017.
Taken together, these requirements will ensure that the West Midway project will not become an exclusive enclave for the well-off. But they also mean that the developer will not be able to charge top dollar for 57 of the 291 units, thereby diminishing project revenue and decreasing market value.
From our perspective, these economic challenges make it especially important for the decision-makers to scrutinize, very carefully, the track records of the four finalists. Among other things, we would want to know not just how many multi-family residential projects the developer has built, but how many of these projects included below-market-rate housing (and how much) or were saddled with project labor agreements. Most importantly, we'd want to know whether the developer ever has been responsible for completely replacing the backbone infrastructure in the area in which its project was located. If so, was the work done on schedule and on budget?
Of the four finalists, the one about which Alamedans already know the most is Alameda Point Partners, the developer for the 800-unit Site A project for which ground was broken last May and infrastructure construction now is under way. For better or worse, this means that APP's track record is right out front for all to examine.
Both the configuration and the timing of the Site A project have changed since APP got the deal. For example, the original proposal called for 72 moderate-income units to be interspersed among the market-rate units. But in July 2017, APP told Council that this plan was no longer "feasible," and it requested an amendment to the DDA allowing it to move 70 of the 72 moderate-income units out of the market-rate buildings and into a separate building, not part of the original scheme, that would be reserved for housing for teachers and other employees of the Alameda Unified School District. Council approved the amendment, but it is worth asking what this change signifies about APP's capacity to deliver the moderate-income units in the West Midway project.
Moreover, under the original DDA, Phase 1 of Site A was scheduled to close in December 2016, at which time the City would transfer title to the land to APP. The backbone infrastructure work was supposed to begin 30 days after closing, but APP asked for, and received, three extensions of the closing date, the final one to April 9, 2018. For each extension, APP offered good reasons – or at least reasons deemed satisfactory by Council – but, again, it is worth asking how APP intends to prevent a similar delay in commencement of the infrastructure work if it gets the West Midway contract.
We don't mean to pick on APP, and maybe the events we've identified could be regarded as a "learning experience" that cuts in APP's favor. In any case, only one of the other four finalists appears to have performed infrastructure work akin to that which will be required of the West Midway developer: Catellus, which developed the Bayport and Alameda Landing projects on the site of the former Fleet Industrial Supply Center on the northern waterfront in Alameda and, according to its response to the RFQ, is installing infrastructure at Mission Bay in San Francisco that includes new stormwater and sewer systems. (Another finalist, Brookfield Residential, cites in its response to the RFQ a project involving the relocation of a U.S. Army Reserve base in Dublin and construction of a "master-planned community" on the vacated site, but the scope of the infrastructure work is unclear.)
We'd like to hear more on this subject from both of these firms.
Given the economic challenges facing the developer of the West Midway site, we think it is also vital to pin down the finalists on their ability to finance the project from pre-development through construction to certificate of occupancy. The last thing the City – and advocates for supportive and affordable housing – need is for Council to approve a developer based on a presentation that pushes all the right buttons – and then see nothing happen on the site because the chosen firm can't come up with the dough to start, much less finish, the job. One Del Monte warehouse project is quite enough.
As it happens, all of the finalists for the West Midway project have solid financials:
APP is backed by Trammell Crow, which, according to APP's response to the RFQ, has assets under management exceeding $15 billion across the United States.
Catellus is owned by TPG Capital, which has more than $70 billion of assets under management around the world.
The Jamestown/Cypress Equity Investments partnership is made up of Jamestown, which has more $10 billion of assets under management, and Cypress Equity Investments, which has amassed a real-estate portfolio worth $5 billion.
Brookfield Residential is – relatively speaking – the piker in the group. Its total assets at the end of 2017 amounted to a mere $4.2 billion.
Financial credentials like these may earn the four finalists the enmity of the City of Alameda Democratic Club ideologues eager to rail against "global conglomerates," but they show that each of the developers has the resources to put its own cash into the West Midway project. It would be useful to know, however, just how much of an equity stake each finalist intends to take, since the more a developer is willing to put at risk, the less likely it is to walk away. (We note that, by the time ground was broken at Site A, APP had sunk $15 million in equity funds into the project.)
But equity is only one element of project financing, and each finalist also needs to be asked: Where's the rest of the money going to come from?
We'd be particularly wary of any developer who proposes to rely on public, rather than private, financing for the West Midway project. One way to pay for infrastructure is to create a community facilities district, which then issues bonds to be repaid by taxes assessed against subsequent property owners. The problem is that this approach, by increasing property taxes on new housing units and commercial buildings, makes them more expensive – and thus less desirable – to potential buyers or renters, which in turn may compromise the marketability of the project. Indeed, the RFQ cautions that the City will authorize formation of a CFD designed to pay infrastructure costs only of it "determines that the resulting total annual tax burden on the property . . . is not unduly burdensome."
Of the four finalists, Catellus appears to have depended most heavily on public sources of funds. Its response to the RFQ stated that, for both Alameda Landing and Mission Bay, infrastructure costs were "reimbursed through public financing." For another project located in Mueller, Texas, a special district similar to a CFD was an "essential tool in funding the development." By contrast, the only CFD created – so far – for Site A is the one established to shoulder the annual costs of the transportation demand management program and related items.
But private financing is not always easy to get. Indeed, when APP sought extensions of the Site A closing date, it usually cited the need for additional time to "secure" and "finalize" funding commitments from third parties. What funds are available from what sources, and at what price, for the West Midway project depends on a host of factors affecting real-estate investments in particular and the economy in general. In their responses to the RFQ, none of the developers delved into the financing for any of its prior projects, but we'd be interested in getting more details about where the developer got the money – and whether it thinks it can go back to the same well again. It surely would be nice – although highly improbable – if one of the finalists was able to offer the same assurance Carmel Partners did when it was pitching the North Housing project to Council: "Our money is already in place!"
We have to confess that we are not confident that all, or perhaps any, of our questions will get asked tonight. The staff report directs Council's attention to three "important considerations" in selection of a developer: "diversity of developer base," "commercial vision," and "job creation/training." None of these has any bearing on the developer's ability to deliver a project on schedule and on budget. Moreover, at least a couple of our Council members probably consider the developer's financial resources and management skills less important than its willingness to build a LEEDS-certified transit-oriented development with an ample supply of bike racks.
But if the practical issues are ignored entirely, the City will be proceeding at its peril.
Site A: 2017-01-17 staff report re amendment to Site A DDA; 2017-01-17 staff report re amendment to Site A DDA; 2018-03-06 staff report re Site A DDA amendment
Main St. Neighborhood: 2017-10-24 Ex. 1 to staff report to P.B. – Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan
West Midway project: 2019-02-05 staff report; 2019-02-05 Ex. 1 to staff report – Request for Qualifications; 2019-02-05 Ex. 4 to staff report – Statement of Qualifications
This entry was posted in Alameda Point, City Hall, Development, Housing and tagged Alameda Point Partners, Brookfield Residential, Catellus, Cypress Equity Investments, Infrastructure, Jamestown, Main St. Neighborhood, Trammell Crow Residential, West Midway. Bookmark the permalink.
4 Responses to Battle of Midway
NYBORN2012 says:
Solid observations and information here. Council members are about gaining popularity and attention from Sacramento politicians, thus your questions are far to relevant for the council to ask. If Frank were still on Council, he would ask them. Maybe Tony will this time? Catellus has supported the Alameda community in many ways over the past few years and has invested in many programs and non profit organizations here. All things considered, I'd lean in their favor.
Steve Gerstle says:
You raise some interesting questions, Robert; however, I disagree with this conclusion, "But if the practical issues are ignored entirely, the City will be proceeding at its peril."
What would be the greater peril for their political careers, approving a project that meets political standards that does not get built, or approving a project that does not meet political standards but does get built? To rephrase Calvin Coolidge, "The business of America is politics."
Steve, i Don't think he means the Council, but the City itself. The Del Monte has been tied up for decades by developers who cannot seem to develop it.
Mike McMahon says:
The last iteration of developing the Del Monte project has so many pre-conditions that the developer ran out of money to develop the actual project, which I believe is the point of this current post.
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Mythic Items, introduced in the Gavel Update (1.14), are the best items available in terms of their damage values and level minimum, and are signified by a dark purple name tag. All current Mythic items are, with a 1/142857 (7/999999) chance to drop, the rarest variant of item to be found. Some Mythics require a few of the most unique playstyles in Wynncraft, so some won't do damage the way players want them to. A few (one) Mythic is not even intended to be used as a main weapon, due to the massive downsides it brings.
Mythics were introduced in the Gavel Expansion and are the rarest items in the game.
Mythic Accessories do not exist in-game.
Mythic Armor was added to the game in the Gameplay Update.
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Our responsibility as INSTRUCTORS is to teach you "line upon line" and "precept upon precept" what it takes to become a BLACK BELT... and we take that responsibility very seriously. We believe that we offer the best martial arts instruction around. The Academy's goal is to produce well rounded martial artists. The Academy teaches students true self defense for real life protection, as well as skills and philosophies to help the student become their best.
Welcome to Blue Ridge Kung Fu Arnis Academy. By signing up with the Academy, you are taking your first steps on what we hope will be a long journey in the martial arts.
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Grandmaster Laing owns and operates two BRKFAA locations.
The Mountain City, TN academy was the first second-generation school under Grandmaster Rick Ward's Internation Kung Fu Arnis Association. Laing took over ownership and operation over 15 years ago. The academy is located at 119 Village Square Lane, Mountain City, TN 37683.
The Abingdon, VA academy was the third second-generation school. Grandmaster Laing originally opened the school in Damascus, VA. Laing moved the academy to Abingdon 11 years ago. The move brought the school closer to those in Bristol TN/VA and the surrounding areas. The Abingdon academy is located at 128 Russell Road, Abingdon VA 24210.
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For 30 years Grandmaster Chris Laing has studied many "styles" of martial arts, including Sil Lum, Tai Chi, Sasamba, Modern Arnis, and Emperor's Long Fist. Sifu Chris now holds the rank of 6th degree black belt in Sil Lum Kung Fu, 5th degree black belt in Shao Lin Long Fist, 6th degree black belt in Sasamba, Kali Arnis, 7th degree black belt in Comjuka-Kali, and a black belt in Modern Arnis. Sifu Chris is a certified Chi Kung instructor. Grandmaster Laing is a Vice President for the INTERNATIONAL KUNG FU ARNIS ASSOCIATION. In 1998, Chris was inducted into the Filipino Martial Arts Hall of Fame as "Outstanding Instructor of The Year". He was inducted again in 2006 as "Weapons Expert". Also in 1998, Laing was inducted into the Who's Who of Martial Arts and was awarded World Top 100 Exceptional Martial Artist Gold Medal Award signed by Former President Bill Clinton and Former President George Bush, Sr. Grandmaster Laing is a Licensed Police Tactics Instructor and is the Tennessee and Virginia Representative on the Board of Directors for the Filipino Martial Arts Hall of Fame. In 2007, Chris was nominated for induction into the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
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Saleh, Lanja; Mueller, Daniel; von Eckardstein, Arnold (2015). Analytical and clinical performance of the new Fujirebio 25-OH vitamin D assay, a comparison with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and three other automated assays. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine:online.
Min, Kan; Haefeli, Mathias; Mueller, Daniel; Klammer, Georg; Hahn, Frederik (2012). Anterior short correction in thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with mini-open thoracotomy approach: prospective clinical, radiological and pulmonary function results. European Spine Journal, 21 Suppl:S765-S772.
This list was generated on Fri Apr 19 10:22:34 2019 CEST.
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Take a look at the cool freebie that Copenhagen is offering up today. They are giving away free sets of Limited-Edition Coasters. You can choose which ever one you want most. To claim this offer, just create a free account on Copenhagen's website (21 years old or older only). After that, look for the newest promo, hit the "Take home a piece of history" button, claim your offer and confirm your mailing info. This sample will most likely take 6 to 8 weeks to arrive at your door. This offer will last as long as the company's supplies do.
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Terry Reid tears it up at Plan B
Terry Reid is in the history books for turning down a chance to play with Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin and turning him onto this new kid named Robert Plant. So it was appropriate that he opened his set Saturday at Plan B nightclub in Thousand Palms with Rod Stewart's "Some Guys Have All the Luck."
What was surprising was to see how much passion the British singer-guitarist put into that song and his entire set at this 40th birthday party for CV Music Show host Alex Burdon-Young. Stewart sang that plaintive song with sort of a lackluster lilt, but Reid tore into it like the man nicknamed Superlungs after his recording of "Rich Kid Blues" and "Superlungs My Super Girl."
Reid has sung jazz, country and acoustic rock, but he never sounded better than with the superlative bass player Nigel Dettelbach of Slipping Into Darkness.
Reid, who lives in Palm Desert, rehearsed three nights with members of that band that played the 2013, but then Alvin Taylor — drummer for the likes of George Harrison, Eric Burdon and Billy Preston — sat in with no rehearsal and helped the band just rip it up. Burdon-Young also stood in for a fun duet of Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home To Me."
Slipping Into Darkness was supposed to headline the Plan B show, but someone went to Plan C and put them on early in the evening. Those who missed this up-and-coming Desert Hot Springs group can hear them perform songs from their excellent new album, "SHurpedelic," at 11 tonight at Schmidy's Tavern in Palm Desert.
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CSS - Tableless - Khai's personal knowledge vault.
Generally speaking it's difficult to obtain proper horizontal alignment in CSS. Horizontal alignment wholly depends on the float declaration, which, though supported by all modern browsers, is supported according to two different models, with minor variations even between browsers that support the same model.
These problems aren't unsolvable; coding a simple four-block layout with the float declaration is quite possible. Nonetheless the danger of insolvable browser incompatibilities increases exponentially with every floating block you add.
In the bad old days web developers placed all page elements in tables, and if the page didn't look as expected it needed yet more tables inside the already existing tables. This process was repeated until the page worked. The underlying theory seemed to be "If we squeeze enough HTML into the page it'll work eventually." It made for eternal download times and nonsensical markup that was impossible to update.
Minimal table use means: use as little tables as possible.
In general you should style the DIVs inside the TDs instead of the TDs themselves. For instance, browsers see a width declaration on a TD as a sort of advice, and they don't hesitate to overrule it when they think it's necessary. They will always obey width declarations on DIVs, though.
The only exception is the vertical-align, which must be declared on a TD.
CSS Aid's "Tables without Tables" misses the point (or: the dark side of web standards).
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We LOVE overnight oatmeal at our house! My older kiddos love to mix up their own the night before and then they have their perfect breakfast ready for them in the morning. You can eat them hot or cold so they are PERFECT! Here's one of our favorite recipes.
These make ahead breakfasts are a staple at our house!
In a large jar, layer your ingredients starting with about a 1/2 a cup of old fashioned rolled oats.
Your favorite nuts. We like pecans at our house.
Then we top with some fruit that is full of antioxidants.
Blueberries and raspberries are perfect. Next add a spoonful of either Cinnamon or Maple Jif® flavored Peanut Butter Spreads.
I also like to add a few chia seeds as well.
Doesn't it already look divine?
Now cover with your favorite kind of milk. You can use cow's milk or your favorite almond, coconut or soy milks.
I also top with a little honey and vanilla extract.
Gently stir your ingredients, top with a lid and place in the fridge overnight.
In the morning, you'll have a lovely jar full of yummy oatmeal ready and waiting for you. I LOVE to eat it cold, but you can pop it into the microwave for a minute or so to warm it up if you like yours hot. Either way tastes great!
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Moving to a new office can be one of the largest stressors in the working environment. Yet, it can also be a sign of progress, especially if your team is growing and you need to upgrade to a larger space to operate your business. Regardless of your industry, if you've got technology equipment, such as computers, printers, phones and network cables, it's extremely important that organized planning is used to pack up and physically move these different items.
Loss or misplacement of a vital disk or confusion about how to reconfigure all of your cords and devices after a move can be overwhelming. For these reasons alone, it's best to hire a professional office relocation services provider adept at planning and conducting the transfer of office technology to your new location.
Moving offices isn't as simple as powering down your equipment, boxing it up and moving it to the new location. The process is actually quite complex and requires a ton of planning to make sure the execution is seamless.
Minimizing downtime and providing continuity of service. With proper planning you can reduce the time your office is out of operation while the physical move takes place.
Enhanced employee productivity. Instead of tasking unqualified employees with the technology transfer, an experienced pro can handle the work in less time and with less effort. This also leaves your employees with more time to execute the work they do best.
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Jan-Michael Vincent
Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and its crew as they undertake various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme.
The show was created by Donald P. Bellisario. The first three seasons star Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, and Jean Bruce Scott. After the original series was cancelled, a fourth season, with an entirely new cast and on a much smaller budget, was filmed in Canada for the USA Network.
The show's distinctive musical score, which was originally orchestral-based and shifted to more synthesizer-oriented arrangements early in the second season, was composed and conducted mainly by Sylvester Levay. Udi Harpaz conducted the scores for many later second and third season episodes.
Genre: Action, Action & Adventure, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War & Politics
The Mechanic
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he'll discover who killed his father.
Buffalo '66
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
Burt Reynolds plays a legendary stunt man known as Sonny Hooper, who remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop pain killers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
Deadly Embrace
A beautiful but horny and neglected Beverly Hills wife hires a hot young stud as a gardener. It eventually gets through to her husband that some hanky-panky may possibly be going on, and he begins to spy on her.
Vigilante Force
Vigilante Force is a 1976 American action film concerning a Vietnam War veteran (Kris Kristofferson) and his buddies, who are hired by his brother (Jan-Michael Vincent) and others in a small California town for protection from rowdy oil-field workers.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Born in East L.A.
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico – without speaking a word of Spanish!
Alienator
Kol is an evil guy about to be executed on a distant spaceship. He manages to escape on a shuttle and make his way to some woods in America. The commander of the spaceship decides to send out The Alienator to execute Kol at all costs. Kol meets up with some teens and Ward Armstrong and together they all try not to get killed by the pursuing Woman of Death – The Alienator.
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From science to comics, get familiar with these groundbreaking African-American innovators and creators you might not have heard of.
May 18, 2016. Dr. Frank Smith African American Civil War Museum. In 1982 Smith was elected to the D.C. City Council and served for 16 years. His council.
combining the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar and the Museum of the Confederacy into one new museum that aims to tell the stories of the Union and the Confederacy, as well as.
Feb 3, 2016. Chuck Hicks, director of the D.C. Black History Celebration Committee addressed participants Feb. 2 at a kickoff reception at the African.
Despite nearby sites like Gettysburg and the presence of the National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg's significant involvement. However, absent from this celebration were the 180,000 African-American.
Jul 26, 2018. The African American Civil War Museum, capping off a week of celebrations, recently honored Pepco with its Corporate Citizen Award during.
Oct 31, 2017. My favorite monument is the African American Civil War Memorial in my hometown, Washington, D.C. and my second favorite is. Dr. Frank Smith, founder of the museum, historians, and politicians spoke about the exploits of.
Destination DC, the District's tourism bureau, says it will no longer include in its annual visitors guide an advertisement from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick. nine members.
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly called Confederate General Robert E. Lee "an honorable man." The founding director of African American Civil War Museum took exception to the idea.
Y" image_size="large" trending_posts="true"] *The African American Civil War Museum in Washington, DC will host the "More Than a Fraction: African American Heritage & Culture" presentation of.
represents the completion of a goal first set out more than a century ago when a group of black Civil War veterans in DC proposed a national museum celebrating African-American contributions to the.
The abolitionist and Civil War spy lived the second half of her life in the city. The museum and the Library of Congress jointly acquired the photo for $161,000 at a March 2017 auction.
Clark is instead showcasing a different flag flown by the Confederacy during the Civil War: the one. the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. "This is the flag that.
Hari Jones was the curator of the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C.
African-American Civil War Museum – Washington DC Attractions from Viator.com.
MCN Build modernized the African American Civil War Museum into a centerpiece of the U Street community. The modern historical attraction features.
Set in an old schoolhouse behind the African American Civil War Memorial, the museum makes the point that for some, the Civil War was about secession.
The bookstore, focused on Lincoln and the Civil War. or museums along the way. If you're planning to hopscotch between attractions on the Mall — say, from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial to the.
Bunch, the. tell us less about the actual Civil War but more about the uncivil peace that followed. It is often easier to take our attention away from the harsh realities of history. At the.
Discover the closest metro/subway station to the African American Civil War Memorial & Museum in Washington DC.
Check out African American Civil War Museum 's events, learn more, The museum is located at 1925 Vermont Ave, NW Washington DC 20001 and is open to.
Nov 9, 2014. The African American Civil War Memorial and Museum in Washington, DC commemorates the more than 200000 soldiers of the U.S. Colored.
DC. African American Civil War Memorial and Museum. These soldiers who fought for freedom during the Civil War are also the focus of a memorial in the.
. the African-American servicemen from the Civil War can research their heritage through the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum in Washington, DC. Sesquicentennial events will be taking.
Nov 15, 2016. African American Civil War Museum Honors Two Leaders Who Work. was touted as the "Location of the Month" by the DC Film Commission.
The first black president of the US has formally opened the first US national museum about African-American history, in Washington DC. Barack Obama said the $. Black veterans of the US Civil War.
A never-before-seen photograph of Harriet Tubman as a young woman went on view today at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American. tintype images of Civil War-era abolitionists.
On Friday, the president upgraded the status of the 373-acre Camp Nelson in central Kentucky, a significant site for African-American soldiers. barracks and visit a museum containing objects from.
Apr 14, 2017. Female Re-Enactors of Distinction, or FREED, was founded in 2005 in association with the African American Civil War Museum in D.C., and its.
WASHINGTON DC — With this year marking the 150 anniversary of the American Civil War, a new, fully-renovated African-American Civil War Museum is set to open its door on July 18 in Washignton DC. The.
While the army kept records of their backgrounds and where they fought as well as their fates and fortunes, they reside, in paper format, in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. and.
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The African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation and Museum. stands in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C., near Howard University.
A group of black women in Washington. black women of the Civil War in a different spin on re-enactment groups. Female Re-Enactors of Distinction, or FREED, was founded in 2005 in association with.
Apr 5, 2011. African American Civil War Museum Moves into Awesome New Building. to the new space at 1925 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20001.
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Fuga nei mondi perduti (Ports of Call) è un romanzo di fantascienza dello scrittore statunitense Jack Vance pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1998.
Racconta il viaggio picaresco del giovane Myron Tany attraverso la Dominazione Gaenica; il romanzo Lurulu del 2004 ne è il seguito.
Storia editoriale
Fu pubblicato nel 1998.
La traduzione italiana di Maura Arduini è stata pubblicata dalla Mondadori nel 1999, nel volume n. 1352 della collana Urania e poi di nuovo nel 2007, nel volume n. 45 della collana Millemondi come parte dell'antologia Myron Tany e I vandali dello spazio, che comprende anche il seguito Lurulu ed un terzo romanzo: I vandali dello spazio.
Trama
La famiglia di Myron vorrebbe per lui una carriera sicura e rispettabile nella finanza; tuttavia, quando la sua ricca ed eccentrica prozia Madame Hester Lajoie entra in possesso di uno yacht spaziale, Myron improvvisamente scopre che la realizzazione dei suoi sogni d'avventura a lungo soppressi è a portata di mano.
In qualità di capitano della nave spaziale entra al servizio di Madame Hester nel suo viaggio alla ricerca di una clinica ove sembra sia possibile ripristinare la perduta giovinezza dei clienti ricchi; Myron scopre presto che sua zia è tanto capricciosa quanto esuberante e dopo una discussione, si ritrova solo su un pianeta remoto.
Invece di tornare a casa, Myron trova lavoro come agente commerciale su un vecchio cargo dello spazio, continuando così a viaggiare tra gli esotici pianeti della Dominazione Gaenica.
Collegamenti con altre opere dell'autore
Il romanzo Lurulu del 2004 ne è il seguito.
Critica
Elizabeth Hand, recensore di F&SF, ha lodato Ports of Call definendolo "delizioso", dichiarando che "si gode di Ports of Call come si fa con una restoration comedy, per l'oltraggiosa purezza dei suoi personaggi e la precisione della potenza descrittiva spesso lunatica, di Vance".
Note
Bibliografia
Collegamenti esterni
Romanzi di Jack Vance
Romanzi di fantascienza
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A ComputerWorld Canada article by Shane Schick discusses the recent non-announcement by Microsoft claiming that it would open its specifications to competitors, including FLOSS. This is Microsoft's latest attempt to get off the radar of European regulators for their monopolistic behavior, and is sound and light with no substance.
The Software Freedom Law Center has published A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects.
Lies, Damned lies, and IIPA/BSA/etc statistics.
One of the key tools used by lobby groups like the IIPA is statistics to try to "prove" that there is massive harm to them, and which must be remedied in the way they propose. An analysis of their statistics often indicates that their real target is competitors, not copyright infringers.
These studies need to be debunked as they have a large influence on governments who have outsourced this key policy tool to special interest groups. William Patry documents on his BLOG (Via Google Cache) how, lacking any investigative resources of its own, USTR uses figures given to it by IIPA. If you read transcripts from Canadian parliamentary committees studying "counterfeiting and piracy" or Copyright and patents, you will see that Canadian politicians are no better. It is frustrating to know how many amazing economists are working for Industry Canada and other departments, and yet Industry Committee never bothered to consult them when they are studying critical economic policy.
Those debunking these studies are not apologists for copyright infringement. I document how this infringement harms companies like my own more than the members BSA/ESA/etc. I am very interested to stop software copyright infringement, but believe that the policies promoted by the BSA/ESA/etc have an anti-competitive effect and do not reduce software copyright infringement.
Can virtualization help with bigger problems like climate change?
Listening to some recent talks, I noticed what seems like a conflict. Interviewed for CBC's Spark, Nicholas Carr (full interview) says we are moving to cloud computing. Also on a recent Spark show, Bill St. Arnaud explains (full interview) how the Internet causes carbon emissions, and tells us we need to move data centres closer to power and cooling. Then we have Eben Moglen, Director at the Software Freedom Law Center, talking about the technology of memory and the major problems of putting our data out on the cloud, with that data being manipulated by software which we do not control.
John C. Dvorak thinks that Bill Gates is going to leave Microsoft and then come back. I write on IT World Canada why I disagree, and think there will be more than enough interesting things to keep him busy and interested via his foundation.
Just a quick note for those who have been watching, I received my XO this afternoon. I signed on to the Give 1, Get 1 within an hour of it opening, which suggests that other Canadians should start to receive theirs soon as well.
I dropped the battery in, turned it on, and all is well. I've put it on the power pack just to refresh the battery. Won't have time to play with it much right away, but will post thoughts on it to the BLOG soon.
McAfee filed a report last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission that made a few statements about risks associated with their use of some Open Source software. These statements received quite a bit of media attention.
There is a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) spread about Free/Libre and Open Source (FLOSS) licenses. While companies dependant on older competing business models suggest these licenses are complex or "ambiguous", the reality is quite the opposite.
New York Times headlines about the OLPC.
I find this New York Times article by John Markoff interesting. First the editors used the headline "demise of One Laptop Per Child" and now uses "Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children". Inside the article John is quite clear that OLPC was really leaving Intel because Intel was harming the project.
At the meeting, the board agreed that Mr. Negroponte should make a final effort to end Intel's efforts to disrupt One Laptop's sales.
A rapprochement never happened, however.
It is like some editor refuses to believe that it is Intel that is in the wrong, or that OLPC is doing well and might possibly be better off without Intel's involvement.
I want to clarify the roll I play in CLUE: The Canadian Association for Open Source, and my involvement with the Canadian Software Innovation Alliance. This article is my strong endorsement of CSIA, and my suggestion that all Free/Libre and Open Source Software companies and professionals join CSIA. I also want to promote the CSIA White Paper just released.
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Founded in 1964, Lift All has grown to become the largest and most well known sling manufacturer in North America, producing the most complete line of slings available. Visit the website for a wide range of lifting slings available.
The state of the art airport baggage claim system offered by Airport Lost and Found has a sophisticated database to customers get back their luggage.
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The 2018-19 Victorian Budget will be handed down on Tuesday 1 May, followed by the Commonwealth Budget on the 8 May.
What will this mean for the public health sector?
VHA members are invited to attend the FREE VHA Budget Breakfast on 9 May, to be briefed on the highlights and impacts of the State and Commonwealth Budgets by David Rumble - Principal, and Jayesh Kapitan – Director, at VHA partner RSM.
A panel of budget experts, facilitated by VHA CEO Tom Symondson, will include Jayesh Kapitan with Emily Wilhelm Director of Health Technology at PwC and Emma Turner Special Counsel at Russell Kennedy Lawyers.
Where: First State Super | Level 13, 15 William Street, Melbourne.
This is a no cost member-only event.
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New Data Shows Forest Loss Equal To One Football Field Every Second In 2017
New data from a global satellite survey suggests that every second in 2017, there was loss of forest of the size of more than one football pitch throughout the world. The loss for the entire year was of the same size of that of the whole of Italy.
Felling of trees at this huge rate - mostly done illegally, presents a very serious threat to the addressing issues of climate change and very significant decline of wildlife. 29.4 million hectares was the total loss of forest in 2017 as recorded by Global Forest Watch. That number is the second highest loss ever since such data had begun to be collected in 2001.
The rate of deforestation in tropical rainforests have doubled since 2008 whereas since 2003, the global tree cover has also doubled. Political instability in Brazil had reversed a falling trend. Forest destruction has increased in Colombia.
Record losses have been noted in the vast forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. On the other hand, there has been a 60 per cent drop in deforestation in Indonesia in 2017 because of lower number of forest fires and government action.
Loss of forests is a major contributor of carbon emissions which causes global warming and this emission is the same as that emitted by the US in total. US is the second biggest polluter in the world. A sixth mass extinction has been triggered in the last 40 years because of the halving of the population of wildlife and one of the key reasons for this is deforestation which destroys wildlife.
"The main reason tropical forests are disappearing is not a mystery – vast areas continue to be cleared for soy, beef, palm oil, timber, and other globally traded commodities," said Frances Seymour at the World Resources Institute, which produces Global Forest Watch with its partners. "Much of this clearing is illegal and linked to corruption."
Seymour said that despite the fact about one third of the targeted cuts in global emission by 2030 from protection of forest, just about 2 per cent of the total funding for climate action is provided for forest and land protection. "This is truly an urgent issue that should be getting more attention," she said. "We are trying to put out a house fire with a teaspoon."
The data also however shows that there is growth of new forests in countries like in China and India. However, the extent to which these new forests would offset the massive loss of forests is however not yet known. It can however be said that deforestation is significantly more than afforestation. According to an estimation, only about 15 per cent of the original forests that existed before human civilization exists today – about one forth have been razed while the rest have been fragmented or degraded.
(Source:www.theguardian.com)
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This ebook covers ten of the most common grooming and style mistakes in depth. The three full-length audio sessions are packed with useful info that will save you from embarrassment time and time again.
There are so many myths about hair styling that has scared hair loss sufferers from coloring, styling or even brushing their hair. But this ebook addresses and debunks these myths (and explains exactly WHY a few of these myths are actually true).
This guide is a MUST for any hair loss sufferer who worries about finding the right style, using the right products and getting the most attractive hair style for their life.
When you suffer a painful compound fracture (where the bone protrudes through the skin,) one of the things you could be potentially left with is a large, unsightly scar.
Scars are a sign of the body's internal healing processes at work, but let's face it: They look ugly.
That's why I also did extensive research on how to heal scars naturally without the aid of pharmaceutical "topicals" and other drugs which sometimes can cause damage to your liver as well as cause allergic reactions.
In this ebook, you'll learn natural methods for eliminating your scars that you won't hear about from doctors or anywhere else... How to minimize the appearance of new scars in just a matter of days... and how to permanently get rid of scars - even if they have been on your body or face for years.
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It's going to be another awesome festival.
Step 3: I'll throw all the entries into a hat and pick three random winners, who will each receive a pair (2) of tickets to the 2016 CAAMFest Opening Night Film and Party, happening Thursday, March 10 at the Castro Theatre and the Asian Art Museum.
Please, only one entry per person/Twitter account. Cheaters will be publicly shamed. The giveaway ends on Friday, March 4, 2015 at 11:59AM PST. Winners will receive a Direct Message with further information. You must provide your own transportation to CAAMFest. And please, don't be a flake -- enter the giveaway only if you really plan on attending.
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Camping is a very flexible outdoor activity where you can go with your family or friends sometimes can also decide to do it alone but it is one of the best. If you go camping to a place that you like a lot will always get new experiences it will help you to relax and unwind which is very important for you can start your week or even another day. You camping will be successful if you have to carry with you the appropriate camping tools. For example, a forget to carry with you a camping mat because otherwise, you might be very uncomfortable because you will be sleeping on the cold. If you don't have such camping tools with you, it is very important to go shopping so that you can have everything for a better experience. Here are some tips that can be very up when it comes to buying a sleeping pad.
There are very many things are in play before you can choose any type of sleeping pad. Some important features you need to consider when it comes to buying the sleeping pad includes the temperatures and insulation. This is because in the making the permit in a different way when it comes to the temperatures and there are different levels of temperatures that are available for you. The important thing to focus on is comfort which most of the times depend on where you are going so that you can buy the appropriate is insulated and appropriate temperatures for your camping. Therefore, anytime shopping for the sleeping pad ensure that you are actually looking for the temperature ratings as well as the insulation features. For example, when it comes to the installation, there as synthetic, goose down and water-resistant while temperatures you can find such as summer season, 3-season and winter. You can also decide to buy depending on the shape of the camping sleeping pad that you want . You can decide to buy rectangular, semi-rectangle, there is also the two-person and mummy- shaped sleeping pad.
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Bringing your 'whole self' to work
By Penny Paddle, A.E. Verona Cocks2020-02-20T15:27:00+00:00
With almost half of lawyers currently suffering from some form of mental health issue, (according to the Junior Lawyers Division Resilience and Wellbeing Survey Report 2019) law firms are finally starting to pick up rhetoric about lawyers needing to bring their whole selves to work. Not only is this essential for the wellbeing of the individual but, in truth, it is pivotal to the success and wellbeing of the business.
Penny Paddle and A.E. Verona Cocks
The 'sausage machine' of the past is slowly being replaced with new ways of working which takes into account lawyers' individual experiences and commitments, both inside and outside of work. This makes for more rounded professionals and gives clients a richer experience. However, it's about more than just offering zero chargeable hours and flexible working, although undoubtedly that is a start. What the profession needs is a cultural change and a shift in attitude. That may be harder to achieve in long-established practices where the traditional pressures are still felt. It is a more achievable goal for new firms to start off that way; embedding it into the foundations of their ethos.
We thought about the type of law firm we wanted to establish, and the fact that a consultancy model allowed us to move away from traditional sources of destructive stress was a major factor in us choosing this structure and way of working. Aside from the ethical considerations, we think increased flexibility and the lack of target-hours make for the most sustainable business model.
Make no mistake, encouraging this kind of flexible work doesn't just make for a nice working environment – it creates a more profitable firm too. The new consultancy model can generate annual growth year on year in the region of 40% to 50%, with a traditional law firm's turnover tending to grow around 2% annually. The consultancy model allows more freedom for people to 'bring their whole selves' to work which means higher levels of emotional intelligence and this contributes to closer relationships and overall, a better client service.
Businesses also have a duty of care to their staff – and this extends to taking care of employees with pre-existing health issues and disabilities and preventing new work-related ones arising. Not doing so may result in an unhappy, unmotivated, workforce with high sickness absenteeism. This has a knock-on effect on the business: low retention rates and a decline in productivity which effects the bottom line.
Clear polices around mental health and wellbeing are a great way for all firms to make a clear commitment to their staff's mental welfare – especially if the firm is small and can't cover the cost of employee/consultant benefits which support wellbeing – in these instances, a wellbeing policy should provide information on support resources, which can be accessed free of charge. Creating a sense of community for consultants is also important and WhatsApp groups are a simple but effective way to encourage communication and keep everyone connected.
Thankfully, large firms are now starting to recognise the extreme stress that their staff are under and are trying to put in place measures to improve working conditions, but there are still many lawyers out there feeling stressed and unsupported. However, the consultancy model is increasingly growing in popularity for lawyers, who are realising they don't need to sacrifice quality of legal work in order to be relaxed and appreciate a good work life balance.
A.E. Verona Cocks and Penny Paddle are joint managing partners of Paddle & Cocks LLP, a full-service commercial law firm
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Your favorite place is opening for a Sneak Preview Weekend!
Join us for a thrilling weekend preview of the park Friday, April 14 - Sunday, April 16! This is a weekend you won't want to miss. Be the first to ride all of your favorite coasters and get a taste of what this summer will have in store for you.
Friday April 14 – 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday April 15 – 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday April 16 – 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
These are regularly scheduled operating days, not private events. Valid 2017 Season Passes, Memberships, or Single Day Tickets will gain you admittance to the park.
Make sure you don't miss out! Buy your tickets today.
Can't make it to Sneak Preview Weekend? Don't worry, our season is just getting started! Check out what other days we are open this season.
From thrillseeking coaster lovers to folks that like to keep their feet planted on the ground we have something for everyone. Thrillseekers can take a ride on the record breaking Goliath or take in the sights on Sky Trek Tower.
With season just starting, it's a great idea to pick up a Season Pass for unlimited park visits, free entry to Hurricane Harbor, and tons of discounts in the park!
Operating hours and ride availability subject to change.
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"Beyond What You Can Imagine": S Jaishankar Flags Off Mansarovar Yatra Foreign Minister S Jaishankar today flagged off the first batch of Kailash Mansarovar Yatra of 58 pilgrims in Delhi. The pilgrimage is "beyond what you can imagine," he said as he wished the pilgrims....
Iran Bars Times Correspondent From Reporting The correspondent, Thomas Erdbrink, has been unable to work since February, when his press credential was revoked. The Iranian authorities have offered no explanation....
Gay bars and wavvy beats: 90 minutes of queer hip-hop Hip-hop—like country music before it—has struggled to embrace LGBTQ+ artists, despite them flourishing on the edges of the genre and aiding its evolution. Alternative hip-hop acts like Big Freedia and...
Austria passes smoking ban in bars and restaurants "After many setbacks and 18 months of political ignorance it was finally possible to set a law in motion that will improve Austrians' lives," Social Democratic leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner said after th...
UK Bars RT, Sputnik From Conference For "Spreading Disinformation" Britain said Monday it had barred Russia's RT and Sputnik news organisations from a global conference on media freedom in London because of their "active role in spreading disinformation"....
10 of the best cheap restaurants, cafes and bars in Milan Milan's reputation for just stuffy high-end dining is changing. Our selection focuses on fabulous flavours without the fancy pricesNot long ago, Milan was considered to be Italy's least exciting food ...
National Martini Day 2019: NYC's top bars to celebrate Cheers to the classiest drink in history. The martini is the cocktail that unites us all, from James Bond's shaken-not-stirred signature to the "Sex and the City"-style Appletini that spaw...
16 charged in connection to Bangladeshi student burned alive for reporting sexual harassment Sixteen people in Bangladesh were charged on Wednesday in connection to the murder of a teenage girl who was burned to death last month after reporting sexual harassment....
Is an influencer promoting your business? Sign an agreement – or risk getting burned | Gene Marks Social media celebrities can help create buzz – but as an Australian cafe owner learned, you may end up paying more without a written dealThese days many a small business may be thinking about hiring ...
Pence says move to bar rainbow flags outside U.S. embassies was 'the right decision' In an interview with NBC News, the vice president defended the Trump administration's decision, saying that "one flag should fly, and that's the American flag."...
In photos: Soldiers place flags at Arlington for Memorial Day Old Guard U.S. Army soldiers place American flags at the tombstones of the fallen at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on May 23, 2019 in advance of Memorial Day weekend. President Donald...
Google flags U.S. national security risks from Huawei ban - FT Alphabet Inc's Google has warned if the U.S. administration moves ahead with sweeping ban on Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, it risks compromising national security, the Financial Times reported on Thursd...
Wildfire prompts evacuation at California Six Flags park SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — A fast-moving brush fire erupted near a huge amusement and water park in Southern California on Sunday, sending hundreds of visitors to the exit to escape clouds of smoke ...
Ireland flags need for no-deal Brexit checks, just not at border Ireland will not impose any restrictions along its now open border with British-run Northern Ireland if Britain quits the EU without a deal but will need to take "some action somewhere" to protect the...
Google flags U.S. national security risks from Huawei ban: FT Alphabet Inc's Google has warned if the U.S. administration moves ahead with sweeping ban on Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, it risks compromising national security, the Financial Times reported on Thursd...
Rangers' Mike Minor comes with plenty of fantasy red flags The first chapter of this season's fantasy baseball choose-your-own-adventure gamebook is over. Some managed to find the path that has them at the top of the mountain looking down at everyone below, s...
Soldier placed flags at headstones even as tornado warning sounded A photo of a lone soldier placing a flag during torrential rain at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Va., was shared by the Army ahead of the Memorial Day weekend....
Judge bars Trump from using $2.5B to build border wall OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has prohibited President Donald Trump from using $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority sections of his prized border wall in California, Arizon...
CIA leaker attempted to start 'information war' while behind bars: prosecutors A former CIA technician charged with handing over classified documents to Wikileaks smuggled cellphones into a Manhattan correctional facility to wage an "information war" against the government, pros...
Nestle launches paper packaging for snack bars Global food giant Nestle SA has developed new paper packaging for its YES! snack bars, a technology it hopes to scale up and extend to other confectionery products as it tries to make all its packagin...
New Jersey millionaire gets 7 years behind bars over sex with teen girl A New Jersey millionaire who engaged in sexual acts with a 15-year-old girl for seven months, according to court documents, was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison....
Soulja Boy Released From Jail Early After 3 Months Behind Bars Soulja Boy is a free man once more. The 28-year-old rapper was released from a Los Angeles jail on Sunday just before 2 a.m., records show, after serving a little more than three months......
New US charges against Julian Assange could spell decades behind bars WikiLeaks founder charged in 18-count DoJ indictmentAssange 'risked serious harm to US national security'Julian Assange could face decades in a US prison after being charged with violating the Espiona...
U.S. judge bars immigration arrests at Massachusetts courts A federal judge on Thursday ruled that U.S. immigration authorities cannot arrest illegal immigrants at Massachusetts courthouses, the first order of its kind barring courthouse arrests....
Teen arrested in Houston road rage shooting that burned tots in fireworks explosion A teen was arrested Monday in the Texas Fourth of July road rage shooting that caused fireworks to explode inside a moving pickup, burning two small children and their parents....
Camille Grammer says ex Kelsey didn't reach out after her home burned down in Southern California wildfire On Tuesday, Camille appeared on "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen" when a fan asked the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star if Kelsey reached out after her home burned down in the Woolsey F...
| YouTube flags Notre Dame cathedral fire as 9/11 conspiracy YouTube's software mistakenly labeled the plumes of smoke in Paris as footage from 2001, triggering the panel below the video about the September 11 terrorist attacks....
Trump 'will take a look' after Peter Thiel flags Google ties with China President Trump said his administration will probe Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel's claims that Google has "seemingly treasonous" ties with China. Trump signaled there will be a US investigati...
'A category one insurrection': Some U.S. embassies still hoisting rainbow flags, despite new policy Since the State Department began rejecting all embassy requests to fly rainbow flags outside the mission buildings during Gay Pride Month, some U.S. diplomats have been finding ways to defy, or at lea...
Pence calls US ban on flying LGBTQ flags from embassies 'the right decision' Vice President Mike Pence defended the Trump administration's decision to prohibit American embassies from flying LGBT flags on their flagpoles to commemorate LGBTQ Pride Month, saying in a new interv...
UK competition watchdog flags concerns on Live Nation-MCD merger Britain's competition watchdog said on Thursday the proposed takeover of Ireland-based MCD Productions by the joint venture owned by U.S.-based Live Nation raises competition concerns in the music pro...
Online pharmacy flags possible new impurity in blood pressure drug Online pharmacy Valisure reported that it found a new cancer-causing impurity in some versions of widely prescribed blood pressure medicine valsartan, but U.S. regulators said on Tuesday that the amou...
Six Flags Magic Mountain evacuated due to nearby brush fire A fast-moving brush fire erupted in southern California near Six Flags Magic Mountain Sunday, causing the amusement park to be evacuated, authorities said....
It's "Big Red Flags" for 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way's Laura After a Fight With Aladin Over Social Media It's Laura's last days in America before she travels to Qatar to be with her husband Aladin in 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way, and things are fine, right? Uh, wrong. "I got......
Diesel fuel. Flames. Why veterans set 25,000 flags on fire in Louisville Dozens of veterans whose service spread from World War II to Iraq burned old flags at a rural farm in a ceremony to honor and "retire them." ...
Deutsche Bank flags 'tough cutbacks' as shareholders grumble Chief executive Christian Sewing has promised to speed up the embattled bank's "transformation," as he faces disgruntled shareholders and activists in Frankfurt....
Trump defends his creditworthiness after report says Deutsche Bank ignored red flags A series of tweets Monday marked the latest chapter in Trump's decadeslong effort to refute published reports that his previous financial problems have rendered him an undesirable client for some...
Protesters in Iran, Iraq burn Israel, US flags on 'Quds Day' Iranians have begun rallies across the country to mark Quds, or Jerusalem Day, which will see demonstrations across the Mideast as the Trump administration tries to offer an Israeli-Palestinian peace ...
Exclusive: Panama to withdraw flags from more vessels that violate sanctions Panama will withdraw its flag from more vessels that violate sanctions and international legislation, the country's maritime authority told Reuters, following the removal of about 60 ships linked to I...
MS-13 member in US illegally dodges life behind bars in brutal murder of 4 An MS-13 gang member, in the US illegally, faced life behind bars for a savage 2017 quadruple slaying on Long Island — but a federal judge went easy on him Wednesday, despite tearful statements ...
Trump administration bars Steve King from Air Force One: report Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King, who was stripped of his committee assignments for his pro-white nationalist statements earlier this year, was reportedly barred from Air Force One Tuesday while Presid...
U.S. regulator bars airlines from flying over some Iran-controlled airspace The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday issued an emergency order prohibiting U.S. operators from flying in an overwater area of Tehran-controlled airspace over the Strait of Hormuz and G...
FAA bars US planes from flying over Mideast areas amid tensions DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says it has barred U.S.-registered aircraft from operating over parts of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman over heightened te...
Major science publisher bars Huawei from reviewing papers The US' effective ban on Huawei might have serious consequences for the scientific community. One of the largest science publishers, IEEE, has banned Huawei scientists from reviewing papers so l...
New Orleans residents huddle at home, and in bars, ahead of hurricane Tropical Storm Barry, poised to make landfall as the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019, churned ever closer to Louisiana's shore early on Saturday as most New Orleans residents huddled at home, or in b...
Tarifa holiday guide: the best activities, bars, restaurants and hotels This beach town in the far south of Spain, only a windsurf away from Africa, mixes a surfer vibe with excellent nightlifeIt's the most southerly town in mainland Europe, only 14km from Africa across t...
Turkey: Erdogan influence bars mayors-elect from office Istanbul, where the mayoral vote is due to be rerun after presidential pressure, isn't the only place where local election results remain contested. In Turkey's east, several winners have also been sh...
Probe Agency Bars Officials At Its Headquarters From Talking To Media The Enforcement Directorate has issued an order that virtually gags its officials posted at its headquarters in New Delhi from interacting with journalists and said non-adherence to the new directive....
Saturday's Best Deals: Clif Bars, HyperX RAM, Kindle Books, and More A Greenworks tool sale, smart home sale, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Libratone Speakers, and a juicer lead off Saturday's best deals from around the web....
Federal Judge Bars ICE From Immigration Arrests at Massachusetts Courthouses (BOSTON) — A judge has barred federal authorities from arresting people at Massachusetts courthouses for civil immigration violations while a lawsuit challenging the practice plays out. U.S. Dis...
Edgy 'Prisoner of the State' opera puts Philharmonic behind bars In all its 177 years, the New York Philharmonic never conducted business with a prison-supply store — until now. For the concert opera "Prisoner of the State," Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall has t...
Tamal Ray's recipe for strawberry crumble bars | The sweet spot Forget about the mess and let the kids enjoy making their own scrumptious sweet treatsBaking with kids can be a stressful experience. I find it's best to embrace the chaos and accept that you might en...
Robin Thicke, April Love Geary get burned for feeding toddler Flamin' Hot Cheetos April Love Geary responded to critics who said the snack was toxic, "We're here for a good time. Not a long time." ...
Texas toddlers critically burned after road rage shooting sets off fireworks in family truck Two toddlers in Texas were critically injured late Thursday night after someone opened fire into their parents' vehicle, igniting fireworks inside, police said....
Flag burned in front of White House as tensions mount ahead of Trump's 'Salute to America' Multiple protestors were arrested in front of the White House on Thursday after an American flag was set ablaze in protest to President Trump's "Salute to America" event scheduled to take place later ...
Army Old Guard places some 228K flags at Arlington National Cemetery The U.S. Army Old Guard placed American flags on more than 228,000 graves at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday as part of the annual "Flags In" tradition ahead of Memorial Day....
Southern Calif., brush fire shuts down Six Flags amusement park Ash rained down on Six Flags Magic Mountain visitors Sunday as a fast-moving brush fire spread in Southern California, prompting the amusement park's evacuation. The blaze erupted at around noon...
Norway's Telenor flags lower earnings on dismal Asian businesses Norwegian telecoms group Telenor said on Tuesday the company expects a decline in earnings for the rest of the year, dented by problems faced at some of its Asian operations....
World bonds wave recession flags as future inflation evaporates After almost three years of successfully predicting a global economic revival, world bond markets are furiously flagging the risk of yet another recession, as well as low inflation for a generation....
GSK pharma head flags need for speed in high-pressure drug market Doing things one at a time in drug development is not a luxury that GlaxoSmithKline can afford any longer, the head of pharmaceuticals at Britain's largest drugmaker told Reuters....
In Cincinnati, National Flag Co. celebrates 150 years making American flags July Fourth marks the end of 'flag season' for the West End's National Flag Co., a local manufacturer that deals in American and other flags. ...
Tesla readies production boost, flags return to hiring mode After several rounds of job cuts over the past year, the company told employees that Tesla is hiring. "As we continue to ramp up production, please tell your friends and neighbors that we have lots of...
Federal review flags concerns in efforts to protect right whales in Canada The study says speed restrictions and fishing-zone closures in the Gulf of St. Lawrence have helped to lower risks of injury and death to right whales, but dangers remain, especially in the waters jus...
Australia's central bank flags lower rates in jobs hunt Australia's top central banker on Thursday said it was not "unrealistic" to expect a further reduction in interest rates given ample slack in the labor market, and called on the government for ac...
U.S. bars China supercomputer firms, institute from buying American parts The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it was adding several Chinese companies and a government-owned institute involved in supercomputing with military applications to its national security "ent...
Cracker Barrel bars church event over LGBT execution remarks Cracker Barrel says it won't host an event by a Tennessee church whose pastor was a detective who preached that the government should execute gay people....
Aviation Regulator Bars Off-Duty Crew Members From Travelling In Cockpit Aviation regulator DGCA Monday barred airline officials, including pilots and aircraft maintenance engineers, from travelling in the cockpit when they are off-duty or on leave....
UPDATE 1-U.S. bars Chinese supercomputer firms from buying American parts The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it was adding several Chinese companies and a government-owned institute involved in supercomputing with military applications to its national security "ent...
UPDATE 6-U.S. regulator bars airlines from flying over some Iran-controlled airspace The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency order on Thursday prohibiting U.S. operators from flying in Iran-controlled airspace over the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman due to heig...
Appeals court bars Trump from blocking critical Twitter followers President Trump has frequently accused social media companies of violating constitutional free-speech protections. When he blocked Twitter followers for criticizing him, he ran afoul of the same stand...
Federal judge bars Trump from using $2.5 billion to build border wall A federal judge prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico. ...
Wisconsin's 'serial toilet clogger' gets 150 days behind bars, three years probation A Wisconsin man dubbed "the serial toilet clogger" was sentenced to 150 days behind bars on Monday after being convicted of five counts of criminal damage to property for repeatedly plugging plastic b...
Steve Bullock Hates Dark Money. But a Dark Money Lobbyist Is Helping His Presidential Campaign Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is staking his name and presidential campaign on battling "dark money" — a commonly used term for secretive political cash meant to influence elections. He...
Assam Chief Minister Flags Off Annual Mela At Guwahati's Kamakhya Temple Devotees from across the world thronged the famous Kamakhya temple atop the Nilachal hill in Assam's Guwahati to mark the beginning of the annual Ambabuchi Mela - one of the biggest religious......
FIFA Bars Afghan Soccer Chief for Life After Sexual Assault Accusations Soccer's governing body said Keramuddin Keram had been found guilty "of having abused his position and sexually abused various female players, in violation of the FIFA Code of Ethics."...
UPDATE 3-U.S. bars China supercomputer firms, institute from buying American parts The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it was adding several Chinese companies and a government-owned institute involved in supercomputing with military applications to its national security "ent...
Babies, Break-Ups and The Situation Behind Bars: Why This Season of Jersey Shore Family Vacation Changes Everything It's not all fist pumps and Ron Ron juice anymore. With Jersey Shore Family Vacation back for its first new batch of episodes in 2019--marking a continuation of season two rather than......
Fun without alcohol? Sober bars offer social connections without peer pressure to drink Alcohol is linked to heart disease, depression and many cancers, yet 67 million in US binge drink at least monthly. Sober bars want to change that. ...
Kevin Spacey groping accuser invokes Fifth Amendment; judge bars testimony Spacey's defense attorney, Alan Jackson, also said that the accuser's mother, Heather Unruh, may have been watching live coverage of her son's testimony on TV....
FAA bars U.S. airlines from flying over Persian Gulf amid escalating tensions with Iran The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency order prohibiting U.S.-registered aircraft operators from flying over the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman due to increased tensions with ...
Judge bars Trump from building border wall sections with emergency funds Ruling immediately halts administration's efforts to use money secured with declaration of national emergencyA federal judge has blocked Donald Trump from building sections of his long-sought border w...
Cancer survivors share a roller coaster ride and hope at Six Flags Great Adventure A new campaign from Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey aims to boost awareness and education for cancer patients at the theme park. ...
Fast-moving brush fire shuts down Six Flags Magic Mountain with guests inside Firefighters are working to control a brush fire that closed Six Flags Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita, California. Guests were told to stay inside. ...
Six Flags Magic Mountain, Hurricane Harbor see evacuations, confusion with brush fire nearby Six Flags Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor were closed early after a brush fire in Southern California broke out nearby forcing hundreds of visitors to escape the clouds of smoke and ash....
Big win for Robert Kraft: Judge bars massage parlor video from use at prostitution solicitation trial The videos are the key — and potentially only — pieces of evidence that prosecutors have against Kraft to sustain their charges of soliciting prostitution....
A federal court reportedly ruled 'bikini baristas' at Washington coffee bars may have to cover up Ted S. Warren/AP Women serving coffee at Seattle-area drive-through stands reportedly might have to wear more than just bikinis while on the clock. A new ruling from a federal appeals court upheld lo...
Gold bars found in South Korea airport trash pose legal quandary South Korean authorities are facing a dilemma following the discovery of more than 2 pounds of gold bullion in a trash receptacle at Incheon Airport....
Schoolgirls who slashed 14-year-old across the face in Snapchat video are sentenced to total of 12 years behind bars Two schoolgirls who slashed a 14-year-old across the face for "twisted glory" and filmed the attack in a Snapchat video have been sentenced to a total of 12 years in a young offender institution....
Judge bars Roger Stone from social media, says ex-Trump adviser violated gag order A federal judge on Tuesday barred former Trump adviser Roger Stone – facing charges of tampering, obstruction and false statements in a case brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller – from posting an...
Popular Soccer App Spied on Fans Through Phone Microphone to Catch Bars Pirating Game Streams Spain's data protection agency has fined La Liga, the nation's top professional soccer league, 250,000 euros ($283,000 USD) for using the league's phone app to spy on its fans. With millions of downlo...
The transformation of London's Northbank: major regeneration plan to bring new homes, shops and bars set to rival the Southbank Westminster council, which is to fund the £28 million transformation scheme for Northbank, is set to reveal plans for underused riverside space at the end of this month....
'Every Game You Like Is Built on the Backs of Workers.' Video Game Creators Are Burned Out and Desperate for Change Spending on video games and related equipment reached an all-time high last year, with Americans shelling out $42 billion to immerse themselves in virtual worlds where they can steal cars, shoot cowbo...
'Wimbledon Prowler' jailed: Notorious burglar who targeted wealthy home-owners including Boris Becker is sentenced to 14 years behind bars The notorious burglar known as the Wimbledon Prowler who targeted wealthy home-owners including tennis ace Boris Becker in a "militaristic" crime spree stretching over a decade has been jailed for 14 ...
Pride Jewelry for You and Bae We love these products, and we hope you do too. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of the revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not......
How to Celebrate Pride Outside Yes, there's the 50th anniversary of Stonewall this summer. But the rainbow flag will also wave proudly in the great outdoors, at a variety of backcountry trips, hikes and tours....
Pride Events: Here's How to Celebrate From exhibitions to music and movies, we offer over 25 options for commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and celebrating Pride Month....
Pride Accessories for Parades and Beyond We love these products, and we hope you do too. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of the revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not......
9 queer comics that go beyond pride Pride month is all about celebrating the queer experience and showing the world that there's no shame in loving who you love, but being queer isn't always glitter and rainbows. Sometimes it's tears an...
Big Beauty Tuesday: Got Pride? I'm smiling in this picture, but just before writing this, I learned of the murder of yet another black trans woman in Texas. Last night, I went to a hilarious but poignant play starring Moonlight wri...
Celebrating Pride around the world We may never know who threw the first brick outside the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in the wee hours of June 28, 1969....
Zoo 4 You: Protect the Pride Campaign Since the release of the original Lion King film, 25 years ago the world has lost half of Africa's lions. Reid Park Zoo has joined the protect the pride campaign to help bring the lions back, Ne...
At World Cup, U.S. Team's Pride Is Felt by Others, Too The United States women's team has been a source of inspiration to L.G.B.T. soccer players in France, who say they do not enjoy the same freedom to be themselves....
Pride and prejudice: the best books to help with coming out An exquisite kiss from Virginia Woolf, hot skin from Carol Ann Duffy … Charlotte Mendelson picks books to inspire LGBTQ readersEveryone needs books, particularly the newly gay. Books make us feel less...
Obscured or enlightened? Pride and big business It is half a century since police raided a bar in Greenwich Village known as the Stonewall Inn. The raid sparked the fury of a gay community that had grown weary of prejudice and victimisation. Riots ...
How parenthood has helped me redefine Pride In our 20s, this month meant boozy brunches and public displays of affection. Now married with a child, we celebrate in a different way, and with greater purpose....
The History of Pride Month Celebrations Pride Month is more than just a colorful parade or a series of parties (though those are great, too)—it's the observance of the people who came before us that made these celebratory events possible....
Pride Shoes to Feed Your Sole We love these products, and we hope you do too. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of the revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not......
Pride on parade with events all weekend A weekend of New York City Pride events begins Friday evening with 50th-anniversary commemoration of the Stonewall uprising outside Greenwich Village's historic Stonewall Inn, now a nationally designa...
36 Hours of New York City Pride This year's host of WorldPride offers a calendar packed with activities. So dive right in, but don't skip some of the lower-key options (and save room for Frito pie)....
Lil Nas X Seemingly Comes Out as Gay Before Pride Month Ends: ''Some of Y'all Already Know'' Lil Nas X celebrated the end of Pride month with a major announcement. The "Old Town Road" singer took to Twitter on Sunday evening to share an animated visual of his new single,......
What's the point of a Straight Pride march? A men's group in the US called Super Happy Fun America have asked the city of Boston if it can hold one – and adopted Brad Pitt as a mascot.Name: Straight Pride.Age: At present, still slouching toward...
'I Live This Every Day': Portraits of Pride in Iowa Eight months before the all-important Iowa caucuses, revelers came to the state's capital to celebrate Pride — and to hear presidential candidates speak about issues that matter to them....
The Ultimate Warrior Is Not A Gay Pride Mascot On Thursday afternoon, WWE ambassador and creative team member Dana Warrior, tweeted a pro-LGBTQ+ pride message, stressing that she "believe[s] in equality, education, awareness, and this simple fact:...
Gay pride flag set on fire again outside Harlem bar Someone set a gay pride flag alight outside Harlem's Alibi Lounge early Monday — a month after several rainbow banners were torched in front of the same bar, according to police. The flag ...
NYC park transforms staircase into gay pride flag A staircase in a NYC park was transformed over the weekend into a giant gay pride flag. The 1200 square foot rainbow colored flag in FDR Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island was created to sho...
Make a Statement With These Pride Graphic Tees We love these products, and we hope you do too. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of the revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not......
Which Pride Month Merchandise Actually Helps LGBTQ Causes? This June, President Trump is celebrating the start of Pride month by trying to make a profit—and selling a new line of "LGBTQ for Trump" T-shirts on his website, which retail for $24 each....
A sense of pride: the London LGBT+ pioneers As London prepares for its rainbow-doused celebration of all things LBGT+, Paul Flynn celebrates the capital's fearless, pioneering heroes who got us where we are today...
The Diamondbacks To Host "Pride Night" vs. Giants PHOENIX — In celebration of Pride Month, the D-backs will host Pride Night tomorrow at the D-backs vs. Giants game at Chase Field. We'll have more on News 4 Tucson at 6 & 10 p.m. "P...
Road once adopted by KKK is sponsored by gay pride group NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) — A stretch of road on Florida's Gulf Coast that was adopted by the Ku Klux Klan 25 years ago is now being sponsored by a gay rights group. Pasco Pride recently adopte...
18 fun and affordable ways to wear your Pride this weekend Pride Month 2019 is here, and you can show your love for the LGBTQ+ community (whether you're part of it or not) with these 18 fun finds. ...
Police in uniform now welcome at Sacramento pride event SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Organizers of a pride parade in California's state capital have reversed course and say uniformed police officers are welcome at this weekend's parade and other f...
There's still time to catch some Pride highlights this weekend Miss out on the Pride Island presale? No sweat — Madonna isn't the only one who can throw a party. Here's where to let your rainbow flag fly all weekend. Azealia Banks | Friday, 3 Dollar Bill Before b...
Pride Month celebrates the LGBTQ community TUCSON – June is Pride Month – it is to honor the Stonewall Riots in Manhattan, which was the tipping point for the Gay Rights Movement in the U.S. Fifty years later, the U.S. continues to reco...
The UFC's Pride Month Shirts Can't Hide How It Really Feels Shortly following the start of Pride Month in June, the UFC joined in the grand tradition of brands glomming onto the LGBTQ+ rights movement in order to enhance their profiles:...
Pride in London 2019: 'I want everyone to march together' – live Rolling coverage of LGBT celebrations in the British capital, with up to 1.5m people predicted to turn out in what could be the biggest event to datePride in London organisers fend off pinkwashing cla...
Raymond Arroyo: American pride should never diminish Fox News' Raymond Arroyo guest hosted "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday and gave a concise explanation on why pride in America has decreased in recent years and what America's past will teach citizens as t...
Bloomingdale's debuts 'Pride for All' rainbow pop-up shop Get ready to ride the rainbow. The latest iteration of the Carousel — Bloomingdale's fanciful rotating pop-up shop — is dubbed "Pride for All" and was curated by Out magazine Editor-in-Chief Phi...
The best Pride 2019 events in New York City The main events This is no ordinary Pride month in New York. The city is hosting WorldPride 2019 — the first US edition of the global celebration of LGBTQ rights — and also honoring the 50th anniversa...
Exuberant crowds celebrate historic Pride NEW YORK (AP) — Exuberant crowds carrying rainbow colors filled the streets of New York and other cities to celebrate gay pride, marking the 50th anniversary of the infamous police raid on the Stonewa...
Several Injured In Washington DC Pride Parade After Gun Scare Several people were injured at a gay pride parade in Washington on Saturday when some in the crowd ran to escape what they thought was gunfire, and a man was later arrested when police found a firearm...
First gay pride rally held in North Macedonia In a landmark move, North Macedonia hosted its first ever Gay Pride Parade, with cabinet members and foreign diplomats joining LGBT activists in Skopje. Priests from various denominations attended a c...
US Army specialist comes out on live TV at NYC Pride parade A gay US Army specialist came out on national TV in Manhattan on Sunday while celebrating the Pride march. Spc. Brion Houston was interviewed in the crowds in New York City when he was asked if he had...
Can't Visit Stonewall in NYC? You Can Still Get Get There Via a 'Living' Pride Monument Today, New York City's LGBT Community Center, Google and the National Parks Service launched Stonewall Forever, a "living" monument to 50 years of Pride, to half a century of resilience, and to many ...
How Hollywood Is Celebrating Pride Month 2019 Pride month is here, which means it is time to celebrate! Stars are donning their finest rainbow attire in honor of Pride month and, of course, there are plenty of photos to mark the......
18 fun and affordable ways to wear your pride this month Pride Month 2019 is here, and you can show your love for the LGBTQ+ community (whether you're part of it or not) with these 18 fun finds. ...
Ukraine holds its biggest ever Gay Pride parade Huge crowds, including Western diplomats, have marched through central Kyiv for the city's annual Gay Pride parade. Authorities deployed a heavy police contingent and National Guard members to protect...
Boston Approves All But Certain Straight Pride Riot A major northeastern city actually approved an application for a parade celebrating straight people, and, yeah, it's the one you think it is....
8 LGBTQ Documentaries to Watch During Pride Month Every June, members of the LGBTQ community and allies celebrate Pride Month. While many honor Pride by attending parades throughout the world, others may choose to celebrate by learning more about the...
Rainbow Fashion to Show Your Pride in Style We love these products, and we hope you do too. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of the revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not E!. As......
Lexington Pride Festival Celebrates Milestones LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Lexington's annual LGBTQ Pride celebration is noting several milestones this year. The city's 12th annual Pride Festival coincides with a important annive...
North Macedonia hosts its first Gay Pride march North Macedonia held its first Gay Pride march on Saturday, in a test of the conservative Balkan country's record on respecting minority rights as it seeks to join the European Union....
Several injured in Washington, D.C., pride parade from gun scare Several people were injured at a gay pride parade in Washington on Saturday when some in the crowd ran to escape what they thought was gunfire, and a man was later arrested when police found a firearm...
The big picture: national pride flourishes amid war in Ukraine Mark Neville captures a moment full of symbolism on the fringes of the conflict in DonbassOver the past three years, London-based photographer Mark Neville has been travelling around Ukraine to work o...
Thousands march in Ukraine's largest ever Pride parade Ukrainian politicians and foreign diplomats joined thousands marching in a gay pride parade in Kiev on Sunday, the biggest and most peaceful ever in the former Soviet country....
Thousands march in Romanian capital's pride parade Thousands of people joined a LGBT pride march in Bucharest on Saturday, nearly a year after Romania held a failed referendum to ban same sex marriage....
| Brumbies playing for Australian pride in quarter-finals The Brumbies are the only side left flying the Australian flag in Super Rugby and coach Dan McKellar says the team will be playing for national pride in the quarter-finals....
Thousands March in Kiev for LGBTQ Pride Parade (MOSCOW) — Thousands of supporters of LGBT rights have marched through the center of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, under a heavy police presence to separate them from opponents. Police said Sunda...
Boston Approves Application for Straight Pride Parade Advocates for what they call America's "oppressed majority" — heterosexuals — will march in Boston on Aug. 31. They said the parade is not anti-L.G.B.T....
Pride of a Different Sort: Disabled Italians Parade in Rome Now in its fifth year, Italy's Disability Pride Parade brings an often ignored community onto the streets, which are often tricky for them to navigate....
Your Celebration of Pride Must Go Further Than Putting Up a Rainbow on Social Media With the coming of June marks another year where I celebrate being 55 shades of gay. Indeed, I do celebrate my homosexuality every day I chose to take a breath, but June marks Pride Month and with tha...
Pride parade kicks off in Tel Aviv with partyers, protesters TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The largest gay pride parade in the Middle East is drawing hundreds of thousands of revelers to the streets of Tel Aviv. Drag queens and rainbow-clad marchers streamed through ...
NYC's largest gay pride flag unveiled on Roosevelt Island Pride has been stepped up on Roosevelt Island. The city's largest gay pride "flag" was unveiled Saturday to the delight of visitors at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State P...
'The Lion King' is a lie that erases the female pride: scientist Some catty critics have said that the characters in the new remake of "The Lion King," featuring the animal kingdom animated with CGI technology, lack the "charisma" and expres...
What makes Beto run? This morning it's Pride and fighting prejudice The Guardian joined the Democratic 2020 contender Beto O'Rourke in New York for a 2km run to celebrate LGBTQ rightsBeto O'Rourke likes running. The presidential candidate has made jogging part of his ...
As New York Celebrates Pride, Australia Debates Freedom The case of Israel Folau, a Christian rugby player whose contract was canceled over his anti-gay posts, has spurred a national rift over how rights coexist....
Pride and protest: Stonewall rally to look back and ahead Activists from around the world will rally in New York's Greenwich Village on Friday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the LGBTQ movement and decry a wave of Trump administration polic...
AOC turns to DayQuil, VapoRub for Queens Pride Parade WASHINGTON – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hopped over the counter to get to the Queens Pride Parade Sunday — turning to cold medicines to get her out of bed after initially calling in s...
This year's Pride biggest yet, claim march organisers Estimated 1.5 million people attended London parade"I'm trying to be a walking piece of political art," said actor Billy Porter ahead of headlining London Pride. "Just as a human being, as an out blac...
Bishop faces backlash after tweet about Pride Month PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is defending a tweet urging Catholics to not support or attend LGBTQ Pride Month events, but says he didn't mean to offend anyo...
Tiny Irish village to welcome Trump with pride, not protest In a small corner of Ireland's west coast Donald Trump means jobs. And the locals are getting ready to line the street with the Stars and Stripes to express their gratitude when he visits next week....
Show Your Colors With 20 Of Our Favorite Pride Month Collections Pride Month has arrived, and you know what that means: Brands are decking their products out in rainbows aplenty, and also donating quite a bit of cash to organizations that support LGBTQ+ rights and ...
GOP lawmaker questions flying of gay pride flag in Wisconsin MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker says Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' order to fly a rainbow flag symbolizing gay pride over the Wisconsin state Capitol for the first time is divisiv...
Pride sale celebrates 50 years since Stonewall – in pictures To mark WorldPride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, Swann Galleries in New York is holding a Pride sale, which explores and celebrates the art, influence and history of the LGBTQ+ c...
NYC Pride March concludes month of Stonewall commemorations NEW YORK (AP) — New York is throwing a massive LGBTQ Pride march as other cities including San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle also host parades commemorating the 50th anniversary of the clash between ...
Revelers begin gearing up for Sunday's NYC Pride March Rainbow-clad revelers in the millions will gather in Manhattan on Sunday for the annual NYC Pride March, which steps off at noon from Fifth Avenue and 26th Street. Billed by organizers as the biggest ...
Library cancels its Pride Prom after protests against the event A Florida library's Pride Prom was supposed to be a safe space for LGBT youth between ages 14 and 18 to connect with peers and learn about community resources....
Man arrested for waving gun at DC Pride parade, sparking stampede A man was arrested for waving a handgun during the Capital Pride Parade in Washington DC — sparking a stampede that left several people in the hospital, according to cops. The unidentified man w...
Axe body spray defends LGBTQ pride on Twitter In a tweet that has since gone viral, Axe, the popular body wash and spray brand, defended LGBT Pride and gay rights. Pride Month began in June. ...
Jerusalem pride draws thousands of gay revelers and police Thousands of people are marching through the streets of Jerusalem in the city's annual gay pride parade, a festival that exposes deep divisions between Israel's secular and Jewish ultra-Orthodox camps...
Where to celebrate this year's New York City Pride March New York was already turning rainbow-colored early Sunday hours before the start of the official Pride march. As millions were expected to watch the annual march — billed as the biggest LGBTQ de...
Pride march in NYC concludes month of Stonewall commemorations More than 2,000 people gathered outside the bar where patrons resisted a 1969 police raid. Thousands also turned out for a larger parade that packed Fifth Avenue, where rainbows were on display across...
'Asian Pride' pot bust largest in Colorado history In all, 42 people will face state and federal charges, after law enforcement officials seized more than 80,000 marijuana and 4,500 pounds of "finished marijuana products" throughout the Denver metro a...
New York Post proudly marches in Pride parade Posties got pride! A contingent of colorful New York Post staffers marched for the very first time in the annual Pride parade on Sunday. Nearly 150 Posties wore rainbow capes with "PRIDE" ...
Istanbul police use tear gas to disperse gay pride march Police have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of people at a banned gay pride march in Istanbul. Activists had gathered to promote rights for gay and transgender people. They had hoped the ban would ...
Man found shot to death in SUV: cops Police found a man dead in the driver's seat of his SUV early Sunday morning. Dante Ryer, 26, was discovered with a gunshot to the head in his Nissan Pathfinder in front of 6 East 132nd Street i...
Cops looking for suspect in death of cab driver hit by own car Police are looking for the man who robbed a taxi driver in the Bronx Sunday night, causing the driver to chase after him and cause himself to be run over and killed by his own car. The suspect was cau...
Drugged-out mom locked son in hot car as punishment: cops A drugged-out Utah mom deliberately locked her young son in a hot car as "punishment" for him misbehaving, according to cops. Jesica Lee Brown, 28, was busted in Draper on Monday night fol...
Man stabbed near Penn Station: cops A man is expected to survive after being stabbed near Penn Station Sunday morning, cops said. The incident happened just before 10 a.m. at the intersection of West 31st Street and 8th Avenue and his a...
Meet the NYPD's badass bee cops The NYPD's bee whisperers are making quite the buzz. One member of the two-man-led bee unit shocked the public when he sucked up a swarm with a hose in the Financial District — while weari...
Mom left baby to die in scorching car while she took a nap: cops A 3-month-old Kansas girl died after hours inside a sweltering car while her mother was home napping, according to reports — marking the 11th tragedy of its kind this year. The 44-year-old mom returne...
Ground Zero homeless man moved away by cops The homeless man who set up camp in a cardboard shanty near Ground Zero was ordered to move Wednesday by police officers, who also gave him some cash "to get something nice to eat." About ...
Motorcyclist killed in hit-and-run crash: cops A New Jersey man was killed in Brooklyn early Thursday when he lost control of his motorcycle and fell onto the road, where he was struck by a hit-and-run car, police said. Daniel Costa, 37, was speed...
Warsaw's pride parade comes amid fears and threats in Poland Thousands of people are expected to join Central and Eastern Europe's largest gay pride parade in Warsaw at a time when Poland is divided over the demand for LGBT rights....
My Little Pony brings lesbians to Equestria – just in time for pride week Australian conservative commentator Lyle Shelton has taken a stand against tiny cartoon pony same-sex couple – but news is welcomed by mostAn upcoming episode of My Little Pony will feature the show's...
Pride 2019: World's 15 biggest LGBTQ celebrations June is Pride Month and we're taking a look at all the exciting ways cities around the globe plan to celebrate the LGBTQ this year. ...
Warsaw's pride parade comes amid fears and threats in Poland Thousands of people are expected to join Central Europe's largest gay pride parade in Warsaw at a time that Poland is exhibiting divisions over the demand for LGBT rights....
Several injured at D.C. pride parade after noise mistaken for gunshots causes panic A panic caused by a mistaken belief that a gun had been fired during a pride parade in America's capital sent people running through the city's streets, authorities said....
Georgia prepares for first LGBT pride amid threats of violence After being beaten in Tbilisi six years ago, the country's LGBT activists are ready to be boldSix years on, the violent scene remains imprinted in the minds of Georgia's LGBT community: dozens of gay ...
Taylor Swift gives surprise Pride Month performance at the Stonewall Inn Taylor Swift gave a surprise performance Friday night at the Stonewall Inn and wished the crowd at the site of the LGBTQ rights landmark a happy Pride Month....
'Straight, country boy' turns pickup rainbow for pride month HULBERT, Okla. (AP) — Self-described "straight, country boy" Cody Barlow believes duct tape really can fix anything, including bigots. The 28-year-old college student from Hulbert, Oklahom...
I Kept Hearing My Masculinity Was Under Attack by The Gay Agenda, So I Went to Pride to Test This Theory On June 11, 2016, Omar Mateen—armed with a semi-automatic assault rifle, a 9mm Glock and an insatiable disregard for human life—destroyed 49 innocent lives while causing irreparable harm and suffering...
Israeli police arrest 17 at annual Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Thousands of advocates showed up Thursday to Jerusalem's Gay Pride Parade, an event that might have been marred by a knife attack if it wasn't for attentive security officers....
Jussie Smollett returns to Instagram with Pride month message Actor Jussie Smollett celebrated Pride month in his first Instagram post since January, when the "Empire" actor first said he was the victim of a hate crime, a claim later refuted by police....
Cincinnati City Hall to fly LGBTQ pride flag for first time CINCINNATI (AP) — The City of Cincinnati is raising a rainbow pride flag at City Hall for the first time to kick off Cincinnati Pride. The rainbow pride flag was to be raised at City Hall at 11 a.m. F...
'Straight Pride' parade attempt sparks outrage in Boston BOSTON (WBTS) – An attempt at a "straight pride" parade in Boston has sparked outrage days before the city hosts its gay pride parade. Efforts by the group calling itself Super Happ...
Capital Pride marchers panic after mistaken gunfire; man arrested One man was taken into custody and multiple people sustained minor injuries after a report of a man with a gun at the Capital Pride parade in Washington D.C., on Saturday night....
'Because It Is Pride.' Cara Delevingne Discusses Her Relationship With Ashley Benson After a year of dating, Cara Delevingne has gone public with her relationship with actress Ashley Benson. Over the weekend, Delevingne took to Instagram to share a clip of the couple kissing in a scen...
Tel Aviv runs rainbow colors at jubilant pride parade The summer attire was colorful and rainbow flags billowed with pride in the Mediterranean breeze as revelers flooded the streets of Tel Aviv on Friday for the city's annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and....
How straight parents can raise kids to be allies, during Pride Month and beyond Although I write and speak regularly about parenting, sexuality and equality — and try year-round to teach my kids about inclusivity — hearing another parent describe Pride Month as "huge" for their f...
Pride Media sued by LGBTQ publisher over back payments Pink News, an LGBTQ digital publisher in London, is suing Pride Media, owner of Out and The Advocate, claiming the American publisher owes it close to $200,000 in back payments for advertising that ra...
'Straight' Oklahoma man turns pickup rainbow for pride month HULBERT, Okla. (AP) — Self-described "straight, country boy" Cody Barlow believes duct tape really can fix anything, including bigots. The 28-year-old college student from Hulbert, Oklahom...
Police fire tear gas at Pride parade activists in Istanbul Police allowed parade reps to make a short statement to reporters — and then cops in riot gear tried to disperse the crowd by macing them. Police dogs and water-cannon vehicles were also at the scene....
Kick off Pride Month with The A.V. Club's queer country playlist In its most public aspects, country music lags behind in accepting and promoting LGTBQ artists. The genre's deep religious roots and traditionalism, at least in the mainstream, have made for a very sl...
Men race in high heels for Madrid's Gay Pride festival Men in stilettos race through the streets of the Spanish capital in an event held during Madrid's Gay Pride festival. ...
Jackee Harry dishes on 'Pride and Prejudice: Atlanta' and her career Comedy legend Jackée Harry, best known for her Emmy-winning role as Sandra Clark on NBC's "227," has been itching to show off her drama chops. Now she has the chance. "I've been waiting a long time to...
Panic at DC pride parade sends people running, some injured WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials in Washington, D.C., say several people were injured after a panic at the LGBTQ pride parade sent people running through the streets of the nation's capital. It happe...
Laverne Cox's New H&M Pride Collection Campaign Will Make You Feel the Love Laverne Cox has the perfect reminder for you to stay true to yourself. In honor of H&M's upcoming "Stay True Stay You" collection in celebration of Pride, the equal......
Cologne celebrates Germany's largest LGBT+ pride parade Over 1 million people were expected in Cologne for one of Europe's largest pride parades. With homophobic attacks on the rise in Germany, organizers made it clear that this year's event is pushing for...
Poland Is Holding Massive Pride Parades. But How Far Have LGBTQ Rights Really Come? The biggest pride event in Central and Eastern Europe brought more people than ever to the streets in the Polish capital of Warsaw on June 8. Tens of thousands of people marched, danced and sang wavin...
2019 Pride Month A-Z Guide: Everything You Need to Know About the Fiercest Time of Year It's officially June and that can only mean one thing: It's time for Pride Month! Starting today, rainbow flags will be flown, brands will launch their LGBTQIA-targeted......
FBI investigates 'glitter bombing' of Straight Pride Parade organizers The FBI has confirmed that an investigation has been launched after three members of Super Happy Fun America, the organization behind Boston's upcoming Straight Pride Parade, were sent glitter-filled ...
Midboss' Summer of Pride is a game-streaming celebration of inclusivity MidBoss, the company behind 2064: Read Only Memories, is kicking off its Summer of Pride gaming celebration to coincide with Pride Month. The event features a myriad of gaming personalities from the L...
Dad goes viral for giving hundreds of hugs at Pittsburgh Pride parade One Pennsylvania man has gone viral on social media for sharing the story of his bittersweet exchanges with two strangers at the Pittsburg Pride parade....
Uniformed police officers banned at Sacramento pride parade SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Organizers of a pride parade in the California state capital have banned uniformed police officers from participating in this weekend's march and other festivities. The...
How retailers have turned Pride month into a marketing, sales bonanza Major retailers have diversified their inventory for Pride month, selling apparel and other goods that celebrate LGBTQ culture. ...
World Pride parade preempted by anti-corporate dissidents The world's marquee gay pride parade was preempted by thousands of anti-corporate dissidents who staged their own protest on Sunday, rejecting a uniformed police presence and commercial sponsorship wh...
Corporate America gets on the Pride parade, and it's appreciated, but also complicated A growing number of companies have launched LGBTQ-themed ads and products to celebrate Pride month to both gratitude and skepticism. ...
Lady Gaga arrives at Stonewall for Pride weekend performance Lady Gaga arrived at the historic Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village on Friday for the anniversary of the first gay pride parade. The "Born This Way" singer strutted onto a stage near the ...
Rhode Island bishop sorry for saying Pride events 'harmful for children' Prelate: LBGTQ month 'contrary to Catholic faith and morals'Pride organiser: 'Jesus never said a word about homosexuality' The Catholic bishop of Providence, Rhode Island has apologized for saying Pri...
Backlash after bishop's warning over 'harmful' LGBT Pride events A bishop in the US has received widespread criticism after urging Catholics to not support LGBT events because they are "especially harmful for children". ...
Pride, film history — What 2019 means for the LGBT community This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that sparked the gay pride movement. 2019 also marks 100 years since the first movie to deal with homosexuality, which caused an uproar back...
Istanbul Police Disperse LGBT Pride March With Tear Gas ISTANBUL — Activists gathered in Istanbul to promote rights for gay and transgender people Sunday before police dispersed the crowd at a pride event that Turkish authorities had banned for the f...
Man who tried to sell daughter for $50 claims he was joking: cops A Pennsylvania man tried to hawk his infant daughter to a stranger for a measly $50 — and then claimed it was all a joke, police said. Deniz Ak, 59, was arrested by Middletown police after a man...
7-year-old boy wounded in shooting in the Bronx: cops A 7-year-old boy was wounded when a gunman opened fire in the Bronx on Wednesday afternoon, police said. The youngster was with his grandmother in front of 600 East 137th St., part of the NYCHA Mill B...
305 Lucknow Cops Charged In A Day For Traffic Violations In what could be a major embarrassment for the Lucknow Police, as many as 305 policemen, including 155 traffic personnel, were booked for traffic violations in a day-long campaign in Lucknow on......
Cops say they found two kids who went missing in Brooklyn Two young Brooklyn children were reported missing Monday morning — but were found hours later "safe and sound," high-ranking police officials said. The two boys, ages 1 and 3, who live at a NYCHA hous...
78-year-old woman raped in Queens: cops A 78-year-old woman was raped Sunday morning in Queens, cops said. The sexual assault was reported just after 6 a.m. in a house on 148th Street near 241st Street in the Brookville neighborhood, accord...
Man drugged, robbed by temptress he met at nightclub: cops A Queens man was drugged and robbed of cash and a pricey watch by a raven-haired beauty he met at a Manhattan nightclub, cops said. The 25-year-old told police he met the woman at LAVO New York and to...
Cops seeking robbers in bogus Fed Ex uniforms Cops are still looking for a pair of enterprising thieves who dressed in full Fed Ex uniforms — and even carried a bogus package — in hopes of robbing an apartment in the Bronx two weeks a...
"Corrupt Cops Will Be Asked To Take Compulsory Retirement": UP Top Cop The Uttar Pradesh government has started an operation to screen corrupt police officials who will be asked to take compulsory retirement, the state's top cop said Thursday....
Suffolk County cops nab escaped horse There goes the "neigh"-borhood. A horse escaped from a Long Island farm Monday and hoofed it for nearly a mile along a busy highway during morning rush hour — before cops high-tailed it to...
Uber driver pulls out sex toy on cops who feared it was a gun A Connecticut Uber driver was tackled to the ground by police who believed he was reaching for a gun — only for him to whip out a sex toy, authorities said. Eliot Buenano-Andrade, 48, was allegedly ca...
NYPD cops celebrate National Donut Day New York's Finest embraced their reputation as donut lovers Friday — when the NYPD tweeted out photos of cops enjoying the delicious fried treats for National Donut Day. Even health-conscious Of...
It Wasn't Cocaine. But You Wouldn't Know That From Watching 'Cops.' A new podcast takes on the 30-year-old reality show, saying it presents an uncritical view of policing, and suspects are pressured to give permission to appear....
'Kind-hearted cops' pay for shoplifter's food When a woman accused of shoplifting from a food store in New York was approached by three police officers, she might have expected to be arrested - but instead they paid for her food....
55-year-old man loses teeth in bus beating: cops A 55-year-old man lost eight teeth in a vicious beat-down on a city bus in the Bronx, police said Sunday. Authorities are still hunting the heartless thug who left the man in hospital after the sensel...
To Help Cops Respond Better To Attacks, These US Students Shoot At Them On a Friday afternoon in April, Texas State University freshman Kendyl Cutshall stopped by a research facility near campus to shoot a police officer for class credit. Inside a simulated classroom......
Taylor Swift Celebrates LGBT Pride at Wango Tango: "We Need to Stand Together" Taylor Swift got political and reaffirmed her support for the LGBT community onstage at the 2019 iHeartRadio Wango Tango show on Saturday, the start of Pride Month. Wearing a pastel......
Canadian city votes against allowing group to fly straight pride flag A small Canadian city that only held its first LGBTQ pride celebration last month has unanimously voted this week against allowing a group called "It's Great to be Straight" to fly a straight pride fl...
Kirsten Gillibrand bartends at Iowa gay hotspot in honor of Pride Month Will sling drinks for votes. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand took her booze-fueled White House run to the next level with a turn behind the taps Friday night at a gay bar in Des Moines, Iowa. Taking a cue fro...
HS football players reportedly posted Snapchat of burning pride flag A pair of Utah high school football players were booted from their team Wednesday over a Snapchat video of a Pride flag being burned and someone saying: "all gays die." The footage, posted...
U.S. embassies denied permission to fly LGBTQ2 pride flag from flagpoles: Reports While embassies are required to obtain permission from the State Department when flying anything besides the American flag on their main flagpoles, the Obama administration had previously granted blan...
| WATCH: New York stages huge Gay Pride march, 50 years after Stonewall Throngs of people gathered in the streets of New York on Sunday for a Gay Pride march before an expected crowd of up to three million rainbow-flag-waving supporters, 50 years after the Stonewall riots...
Singapore holds gay pride rally amid calls for repeal of colonial-era law Thousands of people took part in Singapore's annual gay pride rally on Saturday, with many calling for a law banning gay sex to be scrapped following similar measures elsewhere in the region....
'We Want YouTube to Remove Crowder': Googlers Gear Up to Protest at Pride Events YouTube dug a great big hole for itself earlier this week when its PR bungled its response to the ongoing harassment of a journalist by a far-right pundit. Internally, the backlash from employees at i...
The Lion King Turns 25: Everything You Need to Know About Disney's Original Trip to Pride Rock It's almost time to return to Pride Rock. We're just a little over a month away from Disney's photo-realistic "live-action" adaptation of The Lion King roars its way......
Suspicious substance mailed to 'Straight Pride' organizers turns out to be … glitter Anonymous envelopes sent to members of 'Super Happy Fun America' who believe straight people are an 'oppressed majority'Organizers of Boston's so-called "Straight Pride" march have revealed that threa...
Hockey coach who went viral for pro-national anthem message: 'I take pride in my country' An assistant hockey coach who went viral for telling his players to stand for the American and Canadian national anthems said Thursday he is not going to apologize for asking his players to show respe...
Cuomo signs bill at Pride parade banning 'gay panic' defense Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday signed a law banning the so-called "gay panic" defense in New York State, saying it "ends the justification of homophobia." Cuomo scribbled his John...
Billy Porter, the Queer Eye Cast & More Celebs Celebrate the NYC Pride Parade It's time to celebrate, y'all! The NYC Pride Parade has officially kicked off, and thousands of people are flooding the streets for the historic occasion. From Pete Davidson to......
Pence defends barring rainbow flag at US embassies during pride month Vice President Mike Pence said it was "the right decision" by the Trump administration to deny requests to fly rainbow flags during gay pride month, according to a new report. Pence confirmed a recent...
Google launches a Pride doodle, and it's getting lots of love on the internet Google has released a new doodle celebrating 50 years of pride, on the same day as the launch of Stonewall Forever. People are responding positively. ...
Warsaw to Hold Gay Pride Parade Amid Fears and Threats in Poland The largest pride parade in Central and Eastern Europe comes as a government campaign depicts the gay rights movement in Poland as a threat to families....
The steps of an NYC park to be transformed into the city's largest LGBT pride flag Organizers said the flag, made of rainbow vinyl, will measure 12-by-100 feet, making it what they say is the largest LGBT pride flag in New York City....
Madonna to headline Pride event at Hudson River Park's Pier 97 It's official: Madonna will get into the groove at World Pride NYC. After months of speculation by rabid fans, NYC Pride confirmed Monday that the Material Girl will appear at the two-day Pride Island...
Google Artist's Doodle Celebrates Pride History And A Personal Journey Google Doodle On Pride Month: Today's Google Doodle commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the celebration and acceptance of gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual identities....
Thousands in Costa Rica celebrate in first pride march since gay marriage ruling Tens of thousands of Costa Ricans celebrated gay pride on Sunday in the capital, San Jose, in the first such march since the country's constitutional court promised same-sex couples the right to......
Tweets Pour In For Sikh Man Who Wore Rainbow Turban At Pride March In US Jiwandeep Kohli, a San Diego-based neuroscientist who is bisexual and a Sikh, is ringing in this years Pride Month with a rainbow turban that has gone viral on social media....
| Gay pride | Immigration suffering: WATCH the top world news videos for today Canada's largest Pride parade takes over downtown Toronto | Migrants describe squalid Mexican detention centres; here are the top world new videos for today. WATCH....
'I refuse to regret waking up a day older': Ashton Applewhite's fight for age pride The activist on her manifesto to empower older people, how to challenge age prejudice – and why she dyes her hair grey When Ashton Applewhite hit 55 years old, she dyed her hair. So what? That's what ...
The Pride's queer superhero team returns in this Fame Monster exclusive When it comes to queer representation in superhero comics, publishers all too often expect readers to be grateful for crumbs. There have been queer-led solo series (America, Batwoman, Iceman, and Midn...
The Babadook gets rainbow-colored, limited edition Blu-ray release for Pride Month Pride Month, among other things, is about celebrating and giving thanks to the LGBT heroes that came before us. That's why, as reported by Vulture, IFC Midnight and Shout Factory are releasing a limit...
Rachel Dolezal reveals that she's bisexual in the middle of Pride Month Rachel Dolezal, the woman who "self identifies" as black and stepped down from a senior NAACP post in 2015, says on social media that she's bisexual. ...
Protecting Pride: Safe Spaces Are Crucial to the Existence of the LGBTQ Community Pride Month is a time of celebration. A time where same-gender-loving men get together to celebrate love, liberty and the occasional Beyoncé. During these celebrations, it is imperative for us to feel...
Group pushes Boston 'straight pride' parade, sparks backlash BOSTON — An attempt at a "straight pride" parade in Boston has sparked outrage days before the city hosts its gay pride parade. Efforts by the group calling itself Super Happy Fun America come amid LG...
A Cincinnati company made a Pride month mural out of 26,000 Post-It notes Cincinnati Bell employees used 26,000 Post-it notes to create a Pride mural on the north side of the company's Atrium 2 headquarters. Plus, they lit up the building. ...
AMD tells all about its $449 Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU After unveiling its first 7-nanometer "Navi" GPUs a few weeks ago at Computex, the Radeon RX 5000 series, AMD finally gave us more details at E3. Its first cards from the new "RDNA" family will be the...
Brutal dating app tells you exactly how hot you are How hot are you, exactly? A dating app wants its users to know precisely how dateable they are in the eyes of fellow swipers — by evaluating them on the strength of their photos, then informing users ...
Man Allegedly Tortured By Cops In UP When He Tried To Report Wife's Rape A man was allegedly given third-degree torture by the cops in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri after he approached them to file a complaint against the kidnapping and rape of his wife....
3 people robbed at gunpoint in Prospect Park: cops Three people were robbed at gunpoint while relaxing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, police said Sunday. Two women, ages 20 and 21, and a 20-year-old man were "just chilling" in a field ...
Top NYPD cops called in to take down art showing kids in cages Elite NYPD cops were forced to spend Wednesday morning inspecting and dismantling guerrilla art installations around the city depicting children confined in metal cages — and department insiders were ...
Drunk SC woman assaulted husband because he denied her A/C: cops A South Carolina woman attacked her husband with a glass jar on Tuesday because he stopped her from driving to an air-conditioned hotel with their children while intoxicated, police said....
Cops probing possible 'foul play' in disappearance of Connecticut mom Authorities are investigating whether "foul play" led to the disappearance of a Connecticut mom of five who's involved in a bitter divorce, cops said on Wednesday. A statement releas...
"Will Shoot In Your Face": Cops After 4-Year-Old Took Doll From Store An Arizona couple is suing the city of Phoenix and its police department for $10 million after a video captured officers drawing their weapons and threatening to shoot the family of four....
Man breaks into AOC's offices in NYC, sprays cops with fire extinguisher An unhinged trespasser broke into the empty Queens campaign offices of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday, and barricaded himself into a closet before cops hauled him out....
Man harassed with ant-gay comments, attacked in Tribeca subway: Cops A straphanger was attacked at a Tribeca subway station on Sunday night by two men shouting anti-gay statements, cops said. The incident happened around 7 p.m. on a northbound A Train at Chambers Stree...
Injured hawk rescued by cops on Brooklyn sidewalk An injured hawk was rescued by cops Wednesday after the bird ventured onto a Brooklyn sidewalk, police said. A group of passersby initially surrounded the ailing bird — whose foot and leg appear...
Florida cops arrest man who said he stole pool floats to use for sex A Florida man arrested in the theft of stolen pool floats told cops he sexually pleased himself with the inflatables instead of raping women, court papers show....
Man attacked worker over sawdust left on Porsche: cops A Connecticut hothead caused quite the dust-up when he discovered sawdust on his prized Porsche, police said. When Francisco Hidalgo, 35, of Norwalk, went to move his ride on Tuesday, he discovered it...
Son Begs Father Not to Call Cops on Black Man for Standing Outside A man was caught on video performing the sacred ritual passed down from his fugitive slave catcher ancestors when on July 4, he called the police on a black man who refused to submit to his nonexisten...
NYC posts record low in murders, other major crimes: cops Murders in New York have reached an all-time low, police announced Monday as they revealed "record" reductions in major crimes — along with an uptick in shootings. There have been just 135 murders rep...
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Ron Knecht
I Take Exception — My Rebuttal
March 21, 2015 vickielrock1 Comment
NV Controller Ron Knecht's "2nd Monthly Report" was published last week in the Humboldt Sun. I took exception with much of what he had to say. Below are his report and my rebuttal which was published in the second edition of this week's Humboldt Sun:
Mr. Knecht's Report:
The second Controller's Monthly Report is now on the state web site (www.controller.nv.gov). It addresses state revenues, while the first one reviewed state spending. In sum, its findings are …
Nevada state revenues include taxes, federal and other grants and contracts, plus charges for services that have amply served the public interest. Both total tax revenues and charges for services have increased slightly relative to Nevada's economy and the incomes of Nevada families and businesses since 2008. Total state revenues have increased at roughly the same rate as state spending, and both spending and taxes have grown significantly faster than our economy, proving again that we have a spending problem, not a revenue deficit.
Every cent taken in taxes is an act of destruction of human and social well-being; so, public spending items should not be adopted unless they clearly provide benefits exceeding the damage done by taxes required to support them. The essence of sound fiscal policy is to deploy only the least destructive tax methods and most beneficial spending measures, and to find the taxing/spending balance point that maximizes net social benefits and public wellbeing.
All taxes are "unfair" because they can't be charged according to the social costs that people cause, nor the benefits they receive. Fairness being illusory, in taxation and other public policy, we should seek to maximize economic growth and the human well-being that growth fosters. "Ability to pay" criteria, which have a superficial ring of fairness, and "redistribution" policies are particularly destructive to the broad public interest in growth. And claims that taxing one person to subsidize another involves "compassion" are false.
The real tax fairness issue is that public spending's beneficiaries — public employees and contractors, plus those receiving public payments — have an unfair political advantage over taxpayers and the public, an advantage that produces excessive taxing/spending levels.
So, consider the recent fortunes of taxpayers and public employees. In the last six years, Nevada taxpayers' average incomes declined by nearly 8 percent (from $39,079 in 2008 to $36,039 in 2010) before rebounding slowly back to prior levels ($39,173 in 2014). State employees took 4.6 percent cuts via furloughs for a couple of years, followed by a combination of furloughs and actual pay reductions still totaling roughly 4.6 percent. At present, they still must take furloughs equal to cuts of about 2.3 percent.
So, state employees in general have borne roughly the same burden from our economic troubles as have taxpayers. Considering the total package — pay, benefits and job security — state employees in Nevada essentially get total compensation at market levels. Local government employees, on the other hand, have taken fewer, if any, pay cuts and many have continued to get increases. In Clark and Washoe counties, their total compensation levels are much higher than market levels prevailing in the private sector.
The accumulated and ever-increasing over-reach of government is greatly responsible for the slow economic growth of recent years and the prospects of the same in the future. So, voters, taxpayers, Nevada state employees and the broad public interest are victims of government excess, while local public employees are to some extent beneficiaries.
All these considerations reinforce the conclusions of Controller's Monthly Report #1 that to leave our children a better future, we must stop the growth relative to the economy and to Nevadans' incomes of public spending that drives taxes. We must especially avoid mistakes such as adopting versions of the business margins tax defeated 4-1 by voters last November. We must restructure fiscal processes for real budget constraints and effective cost management, emphasize no- and low-cost reforms in K-12 education and end public employee collective bargaining and prevailing wage rules.
My rebuttal to his partisan ideological propaganda:
I have some serious problems with Mr. Knecht's "Commentary" in the 3/13-16/2015 Humboldt Sun.
"Every cent taken in taxes is an act of destruction of human and social well-being?" Really? Mr. Knecht doesn't believe in ANY public commons? He doesn't believe in public roads? Or public water and systems? Or police and fire fighters? Or public schools and universities? I'm sorry, but all of those do promote "human and social well-being" and they're all part of OUR public commons created using OUR tax dollars. So exactly what is Mr. Knecht proposing, selling off all of our "public commons" at fire-sale prices to the "deserving" richest among us, all so THEY can charge us by the mile, by the book or test, by the flush or by the flame? What about the police? Is he proposing we should submit to a "Robocop" scenario across the state? Isn't that why our fore-father's fled Europe? To flee the tyranny of the rich who oppressed those beneath them?
"All taxes are unfair because they can't be charged according to the social costs that people cause, nor the benefits they receive?" What does that even mean? That we should bestow OUR public commons to corporate parasites that pay NO taxes just because they might be the bearer of jobs? Isn't it "corporations" that consume our infrastructure and pollute our lands and waters at the greatest rates, causing destruction of human and social well-being? Isn't it the corporations that choose NOT to pay a living wage NOR to provide health benefits to their workers, leading to the destruction of human and social well-being? Isn't it those same workers who now, no longer have an "ability to pay," again, leading to the destruction of human and social well-being? Is that really what Mr. Knecht's "fair way to run our country" would look like?
Then there's his rant about public employees. Every cent of Mr. Knecht's paycheck is paid with public tax dollars. That makes Mr. Knecht a PUBLIC employee. What makes him believe he's so infinitely better than police, firefighters, teachers, or even a clerk at a local DMV?
He may talk fondly about our kids/grandkids, but that's just a ruse, a distraction. He does make his intentions clear: to do everything he can to stifle/gut K-12 education programs that might make our children competitive and productive in an ever changing economy.
I disagree with Mr. Knecht and with that for which he stands. Instead of looking for ways to improve our "human and social well-being," he's apparently looking for ways to destroy it. I fear that our "investment" in his paycheck will yield only negative dividends for the everyday Nevadan before all is said and done.
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Is Ron Knecht rewriting history?
—by Rich Dunn, RNDC 2nd Vice Chair
In a Nevada Appeal op-ed, Controller-elect Ron Knecht laid out the premise for his ultra-conservative world view as follows:
"For 125 years, we've seen the rise of the dysfunctional politics of Progressivism. As it
has accelerated in the last five decades, we've had slowing economic growth and reductions in individual liberty, prosperity, opportunity and hope."
I doubt that Mr. Knecht was referring to the short-lived Progressive parties of Theodore Roosevelt (1912), Robert La Follette (1924) or Henry Wallace (1948), so I'll assume that he was actually referring to progressivism with a lower-case p. So what is that?
Wikipedia observes that "American progressives tend to advocate progressive taxation and oppose what they describe as the growing and negative influence of large corporations. Progressives are typically in agreement on an international scale with left-liberalism in that they support organized labor and trade unions, they usually wish to introduce a living wage, and they often support the creation of a universal health care system."
All of the above have been around in one form or another for the past 125 years, and for lack of a better word we can agree to refer to them collectively as "progressivism." And according to Ron Knecht, those progressive ideas have driven the "dysfunctional politics" he sees as responsible for "slowing economic growth and reductions in individual liberty, prosperity, opportunity and hope."
I have no clue what Ron Knecht thinks of as individual liberty, prosperity, opportunity or hope, so I'll leave those aside, but economic growth is something that can be objectively measured, so let's do a fact check on that part of his world view. Knecht seems to believe that economic growth has been slowing for the past 125 years, and that perceived slowing has "accelerated in the last five decades." So, is that a true statement? Let's see.
Looking back 125 years, we find that nominal GDP in 1889 was $14 billion, which is $360 billion in 2014 dollars. That is 1/47th the output of today's economy. And US GDP fifty years ago (1964) was 743.7 billion, which is $5.71 trillion in 2014 dollars. That is only 1/3rd of today's $17 trillion GDP. I'm not an economist, but to my mind those numbers reflect a pretty robust rate of economic growth.
Perhaps the best test of Ron Knecht's thesis that progressivism is bad for economic growth is to look at the years immediately following the Crash of 1929. That will let us contrast the effects of Hoover's pro-cyclical regressivism to Roosevelt's counter-cyclical progressivism. Here goes: GDP growth in 1930 was -8.5%, in 1931 it was -6.4%, 1932 -12.9%, 1933 (FDR took office in April) -1.3%, 1934 +10.8%, 1935 +8.9%, 1936 +12.9%, 1937 +5.1%, 1938 -3.3%, 1939 +8.0%, 1940 +8.8%, 1941 +17.7.
It should be noted that the recession of 1938 followed FDR pulling back on his counter-cyclical progressive policies at the urging of conservatives in his own party. The hope was that the economy already had enough momentum to grow on its own (bad guess).
Conservative ideologues routinely make the same kind of mistakes here in the 21st century, as witnessed by the tea party's on-going temper tantrum over counter-cyclical recovery measures like QE, TARP and the ARRA. Unlike real world conservatives like George W. Bush and his treasury secretary Hank Paulson, they don't understand that the public and private sectors do not compete in a developed economy, they are in fact complementary.
Knecht ties off his progressivism-slows-growth argument with this counter-factual assertion: "Now, after a six-year blowout of it since the Great Recession, we're mired in a long-term non-recovery it has caused." Why do I call that counter-factual? Well, think about it…
In response to the Global Financial Crisis, European governments responded with austerity: pro-cyclical fiscal policies that drove the EU as a whole into a prolonged period of near-zero growth and southern Europe into an outright depression, with unemployment rates over 25% in Greece and Spain and joblessness up to 50% among the under-30's.
Contrast that with the US, which was fortunate enough to have Democrats in control of both houses of congress when the financial crisis hit in September 2008. The progressive counter-cyclical response turned what was clearly an impending economic depression into a recession that was over in just a few months.
Today, after 56 months of continuous job growth, the US unemployment rate is under 6%, the economy is growing at a robust 3.5%, gasoline is under $3 a gallon, the stock market is at an all-time high, and the federal budget deficit has been cut in half, not to mention that ten million more Americans can afford to see a doctor when they get sick.
Not too shabby, and I can tell you this with total certainty: Were that the record of a Republican president, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity et al would be crowing about it around the clock. But they are all about politics, not reality, so all you're going to hear about is "Obama's failed agenda." Yeah, right.
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Who is Andrew Martin?
September 26, 2014 NVRDC1 Comment
If you were at Winnemucca's Labor Day Parade or the Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, you would have had an opportunity to meet and talk to or at least wave at Andrew Martin who is running for State Controller on the November ballot.
As an Assemblyman and member of the Economic Forum Andrew has worked on Nevada's budget, understands our finances, and knows what needs to be done to improve our economy. Andrew is a business owner, Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), and Certified Internal Controls Auditor (CICA). Mr. Martin has over 28 years of professional experience providing accounting, advisory, audit and tax services to a diverse group of business, individual, governmental, and non‐profit clients.
His opponent, Ron Knecht, is a "limited government conservative" who was a member of the "Mean 15" and who has signed onto Grover Norquist's "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" of no new taxes. He's a proudly professed NRA member (who also proudly supports "campus concealed carry) and who was elected to the Nevada Assembly once and NOT returned. But, most importantly, where Andrew clearly holds certifications beneficial for the job, Mr. Knecht is a Mechanical Engineer by profession and has managed a few budgets and made a few investments.
Really? That's the best fiscal and financial expertise the Republican Party has to offer up? Somebody who diligently works side-by-side with Sharron Angle to shut government down?
"Fiscal responsibility, transparency and accountability isn't just a campaign slogan, it is what I believe in, and they are the principals by which I will operate the Office of the Controller." — Andrew Martin
As our Nevada State Controller, Andrew Martin has pledged to:
Strengthen the State's fiscal oversight and accountability, which will benefit the economic health of Nevada and improve our outlook for the future.
Assure that our tax dollars are being spent wisely to accomplish tangible results, linking dollars spent to measurable outcomes that are tied to state-wide priorities, such as higher student test scores, lower crime rates, and a healthier population.
Collect debts owed to the State so that Nevadans who work hard and pay sales, gas, real estate and other taxes don't have to carry the load for businesses that don't.
Make sure the worldwide financial community knows that Nevada is a great place to invest, improving Nevada's business climate, boosting our economy and stimulating job creation.
Personally, when I'm looking to hire a State Controller, I'm looking for someone who is pledging to do what's best for Nevada's citizens, not someone who is beholding to Grover Norquist, someone who doesn't live in Nevada, and who most likely knows absolutely NOTHING about the needs of Nevadans. I don't know about you, but I'm planning to pony up to the voting booth during early elections to cast my vote for the best qualified candidate for the job: Andrew Martin!
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Really? Updated College Sexual Assault Prevention Guidelines are Federal Overreach?
July 16, 2014 NVRDC
— by Zach Hudson, NSDP Communications Director
Remember Todd Akin, the GOP Senate candidate in Missouri who talked about "legitimate rape?" Akin's comments were ignorant, insensitive, and out-of-touch. Which is why we were disappointed Nevada Republicans seem to be taking their cues on women's health from Todd Akin.
Last week, the Republican nominee for Nevada Controller, Ron Knecht, wrote an op-ed where he essentially said new guidelines to prevent sexual assault on college campuses are an example of federal overreach. He even blamed programs to prevent sexual assault for the increase in college tuition!
Let's make sure Republicans like this never get elected to office – join Democrat Andrew Martin's campaign for Controller by clicking here today.
Ron Knecht's comments were moronic, but unfortunately not surprising. Whether it's Sen. Dean Heller's support for restricting access to contraception, Rep. Joe Heck's votes to ban abortion for rape victims and to weaken the Violence Against Women Act, or Nevada Republican Senate Leader, and former Tom DeLay operative, Michael Roberson, supporting "personhood" measures which could outlaw forms of birth control, Nevada Republicans time and time again demonstrate they are completely clueless when it comes to women's health.
Fortunately, Nevadans have a clear choice in the election for State Controller. While Ron Knecht is focused on criticizing programs to help sexual assault victims, Democratic nominee Andrew Martin will focus on managing the state's finances.
Click here to join Andrew's campaign and tell Nevada Republicans when it comes to women's health decisions, #ItsNotUpToThem.
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Moderna COVID-19 vaccine efficacy falls slightly to 90 per cent in U.S. trial
WASHINGTON — U.S. biotech company Moderna announced that its COVID-19 vaccine is 90 per cent effective against all forms of the disease and 95 per cent effective against severe disease.
The new results come from its ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial involving more 30,000 people across the United States, and the headline efficacy figure is a slight decrease from an earlier figure of 94.1 per cent, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in December.
The new number is based on 900 adjudicated cases of COVID-19 from the study as of April 9, while the previous figure was based on 185 cases.
A company press release did not indicate why efficacy has fallen, but one reason might be the emergence of new variants of concern which are not as susceptible to antibodies evoked to the vaccine.
Moderna is working on two variant-specific boosters, and said mice studies showed they elicited an increased immune response. The results of these studies have been posted online in a scientific paper that is now awaiting peer review.
"The new preclinical data on our variant-specific vaccine candidates give us confidence that we can proactively address emerging variants," said CEO Stephane Bancel.
The company said that as of April 12, it has delivered 132 million doses of its vaccine globally, including approximately 117 million doses to the United States.
It remains on course to deliver its second tranche of 100 million doses by the end of May followed by 100 million more by the end of July.
The company's clinical trial for adolescents aged 12 to 17 is now fully enrolled with 3,000 U.S. participants, and its pediatric trial for children aged six months to 11 years is continuing to enroll its 6,750 participants in the United States and China.
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The Lovely And Dangerous Launch Of Lucy Cavanagh
by Stacy Peterson
It's spring of 1867, and Lucy Cavanagh—NYC heiress, literary lover, and dreamer—is taking the biggest risk of her life. She's left everything behind to journey west, in the hopes of reconnecting with the only person who can answer questions that have haunted her since her mother's death, answers that may help her discover who she is. But halfway to San Francisco, her stagecoach is attacked and Lucy finds herself the sole survivor of a massacre.
After days left alone in the wilderness of Colorado Territory, armed only with a gun, she finds hope in the form of a lone rider—Will Shanks, leader of the most notorious outlaw gang in the west. Together, they head for Denver on horseback. But when a violent storm brews, Lucy and Will come across Valley City, the destination of the Holloways, a young newlywed couple who died in the stagecoach massacre. Hoping only for shelter from the storm, Lucy and Will are mistaken for the Holloways and welcomed with open arms.
As greater danger unfolds and she learns Will's reasons for his final heist, Lucy becomes inextricably weaved into his world and the lives of the townspeople, who embrace her so unconditionally. As the lines between pretend and reality are blurred and bounty hunters close in on them, Lucy begins to discover a courage she never knew she had and must decide for herself who she is, and what it means to live bravely.
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Stacy Peterson studied English and literature at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has always loved to read, write, and dive into new worlds. Stacy travels often and has an affinity for the Mediterranean. She currently resides in Paradise Valley, Montana, with her daughter. The Lovely and Dangerous Launch of Lucy Cavanagh is her first book.
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^ Jill Littrell (2014). Understanding and Treating Alcoholism Volume I: An Empirically Based Clinician's Handbook for the Treatment of Alcoholism:volume Ii: Biological, Psychological, and Social Aspects of Alcohol Consumption and Abuse. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-317-78314-5. The World Health Organization defines alcoholism as any drinking which results in problems
We all know whole grains are good for us, but we've collected the best whole-grain recipes to make them a regular part of your cooking routine. The fiber and nutrients associated with whole grains make them an essential part of a healthy diet, but it's often difficult to work them into your everyday cooking. This collection of recipes uses whole grains—from brown rice to whole-wheat pasta—in a delicious variety of ways.
This loaded veggie bowl gets a touch of smoke from the chili-spiced sweet potatoes and roasted bell pepper and plenty of zing from fresh lime. Chili powder and lime also give toasted almonds an addictive crust; make extra and enjoy as a snack. Cotija cheese has a dry, crumbly texture—it won't melt or disappear into the bowl. Use it to top tacos, stir into whole-grain salads, or top roasted broccoli.
The preparation of animal-based food usually involves slaughter, evisceration, hanging, portioning, and rendering. In developed countries, this is usually done outside the home in slaughterhouses, which are used to process animals en masse for meat production. Many countries regulate their slaughterhouses by law. For example, the United States has established the Humane Slaughter Act of 1958, which requires that an animal be stunned before killing. This act, like those in many countries, exempts slaughter in accordance to religious law, such as kosher, shechita, and dhabīḥah halal. Strict interpretations of kashrut require the animal to be fully aware when its carotid artery is cut.[84]
Edible animal material, including muscle, offal, milk, eggs and egg whites, contains substantial amounts of protein. Almost all vegetable matter (in particular legumes and seeds) also includes proteins, although generally in smaller amounts. Mushrooms have high protein content. Any of these may be sources of essential amino acids. When proteins are heated they become denatured (unfolded) and change texture. In many cases, this causes the structure of the material to become softer or more friable – meat becomes cooked and is more friable and less flexible. In some cases, proteins can form more rigid structures, such as the coagulation of albumen in egg whites. The formation of a relatively rigid but flexible matrix from egg white provides an important component in baking cakes, and also underpins many desserts based on meringue.
Live food is commonly used as feed for a variety of species of exotic pets and zoo animals, ranging from alligators to various snakes, frogs and lizards, but also including other, non-reptile, non-amphibian carnivores and omnivores (for instance, skunks, which are omnivorous mammals, can be technically be fed a limited amount of live food, though this is not known to be a common practice). Common live food ranges from crickets (used as an inexpensive form of feed for carnivorous and omnivorous reptiles such as bearded dragons and commonly available in pet stores for this reason), waxworms, mealworms and to a lesser extent cockroaches and locusts, to small birds and mammals such as mice or chickens.
Fruits are the ripened ovaries of plants, including the seeds within. Many plants and animals have coevolved such that the fruits of the former are an attractive food source to the latter, because animals that eat the fruits may excrete the seeds some distance away. Fruits, therefore, make up a significant part of the diets of most cultures. Some botanical fruits, such as tomatoes, pumpkins, and eggplants, are eaten as vegetables.[10] (For more information, see list of fruits.)
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learn to live in harmony with the cycles and processes of Nature.
to the heartbeat rhythm of a drum that is the Earth's own.
watching the last of the bumblebees spin in the fall flowers outside.
And feel our connection to all living beings.
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Dr. Young is an Assistant Professor and Biostatistician in the Department of Population Medicine. Her research focuses on the development and application of statistical methods that may remain valid for estimating the causal effects of time-varying treatment strategies on health outcomes in the face of complex time-varying confounding and selection bias. She has particular interest in failure event outcomes that may be subject to competing risk events and dynamic time-varying treatment strategies; i.e. strategies under which treatment assignment at a given time may depend on time-evolving patient characteristics.
Dr. Young received her doctoral degree in Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Prior to joining DPM, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Associate in the Program on Causal Inference at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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GSA and DOD Announce New Buy American Rule
On March 1, 2022, in his first State of the Union address, President Joe Biden pledged that the United States government would "buy American" when spending federal money on infrastructure and other procurements. To reach that goal, the General Services Administration and Department of Defense announced a rule on March 7 that changes federal rules around procurement to require more federal spending aimed toward American business.
The principal change in the law surrounds how much of federal products need to be made in the United States to be considered American. Before, products are considered made in America by federal procurement standards if 55% of their component parts are made in the United States. Under Biden's change, products must consist of 75% American component parts to meet the threshold.
Additionally, the Small Business Administration has created a new office designed to help small businesses "access Federal contracts, financing, and business development support." The office will be housed in the federal contracting division.
More on President Biden's "Buy American" commitments can be found via the White House. You can read the GSA rule here.
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Birmingham to axe over 1,000 jobs due to 'brutal' Whitehall cuts
Britain's biggest council says it is facing 'the most challenging period its history' after announcing a further round of huge cuts in its workforce.
Birmingham City Council has confirmed it will cut almost 1,100 jobs next year in a the face of further reductions in Government funding and increasing demand for services.
This will come on top of 12,000 jobs – more than half the council's former workforce – being axed since 2010.
The job losses are part of a four-year plan rubber-stamped yesterday which includes a 4.99 per cent increase in council tax from April.
Other measures include dimming street lights, increasing bulky waste and garden waste fees and reducing fly-tipping enforcement resources.
The Labour-run authority will make £46m worth of cuts in the 12 months from April, rising to £85m over the next four years. It expects a further 500 jobs to go by 2022/23.
The budget was passed as hopes rose for an end to the series of one day strikes by refuse collectors.
Unite the union suspended its action yesterday (Tuesday) pending further talks at ACAS over disputed payments made to members of a rival union who worked through a previous strike.
But if the talks fail the council says it will go ahead with a legal challenge to the industrial action tomorrow (Thursday).
The council will argue that the grounds for the strike are unwarranted because the payments to GMB union members was because they were not consulted over the settlement of the strike last year.
Council leader Ian Ward Council leader Ian Ward blamed 'brutal' government cuts of £700m since 2010 for the latest job losses.
But he also claimed there were 'reasons for optimism' including improvements in children's services, major housing developments and forthcoming projects such as HS2 and the Commonwealth Games in 2022.
He said: 'The budget is not simply a response to our financial challenges, it is a forward looking financial plan to transform the way we work, change the way services are delivered, and look towards new opportunities to improve quality of life for citizens in the long-term.'
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Shiny But Rusty – Playable Elders In RPGs: Part Two
by Ben · January 12, 2022
In an age where boy band knockoffs, youthful adults, and sometimes mere children are the norm when it comes to playable characters, it's hard to believe there was a time when the more "seasoned" adventurers were frequently put on the frontlines. That's right, I'm talking about those battle-hardened "geezers" whose know-how easily outweighs their aging statures. Of course, more elderly figures can still be found in some modern RPGs, but I've found that their presence isn't quite up to the numbers they once had in ages past.
Recent slip in attendance aside, it's time to celebrate the elderly side of playable RPG characters, but I use the term "elderly" quite loosely. We're taking a look at any character 40 and up because surprisingly, even the 40-ish range is somewhat nonexistent in modern RPGs. This list will only be considering actual human beings, however, meaning no centuries-old sorcerers, no Geralts of Rivia, no Lunarians named FuSoYa, and no half-vampires like Alucard. With all that in mind, let's get into it!
Keithgriff Hazeldine – Atelier Dusk Trilogy
You know the devoted scientist/historian trope that is painted as socially awkward with an unhealthy devotion to their craft? The (in)famous alchemist Keithgriff Hazeldine falls into that category but unlike most, also has skill and combat prowess to stand toe-to-toe with just about anyone. Leveraging his vast knowledge of alchemy, he uses infused rings and gems to deal damage and provide support to allies. He may come across as a jerk, but he ultimately means well and is a valuable asset to any party.
Cyan Garamonde – Final Fantasy VI
The proper heir to Gau's erroneously placed "Mr. Thou" label, Cyan Garamonde is a legendary, but aging samurai from the kingdom of Doma whose loyalty for king and country knows no bounds. After losing everything, including his honor, at the hands of Kefka's nefarious plans, he gladly puts himself on the Returner's frontlines in their war against the Gestahlian empire. While he's arguably one of the weakest characters in the original version of the game for a number of reasons, his tragic story and flashy Bushido techniques have permanently carved a way into both my heart and main party.
Ryan/Riki – River City Ransom: Underground
Rival-turned-best friend of Alex/Kunio, Ryan, is a staple in most Kunio-kun games. The two brawling masters once swept the streets of River City in River City Ransom, only to reunite 20-ish years later for similar reasons in River City Ransom: Underground. Age, however, has not affected their skill in the slightest, with both still being quite capable fighters. Alex may generally be the star of the show, but Ryan undoubtedly has the more appealing toolkit in Underground, with skills such as Stone Hands (swift punches of, you guessed it, stone), Dragon Feet (lightning-fast kicks), and Acro Circus (a multi-front flip evasive maneuver that also deals damage). Not only that, his rockabilly hairdo is even more impressive than it was in his youth.
Ogden – Dragon Fantasy
Ogden is a charming lead for all the right reasons: he's a ginger, and a "has-been," but he doesn't shy away from comedic relief or the chance to prove to youngsters he still "has what it takes." He may be prematurely bald from a bout with a dragon three decades ago…but that is exactly why he is still a badass – he defeated a dragon and lived long enough to depart on yet another (unexpected) adventure. While his abilities may not be as flashy as the other geezers on this list, it's the OG Dragon Quest-esque simplicity of the entire experience that makes him so appealing.
That's it for the list! What are some other older characters in RPGs that you like? Let us know in the comments below!
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Your doctor prescribed a new medicine to you. You don't quite understand why, but you trust that your doctor knows what he or she doing. After about a month, you don't feel much different, which makes you wonder: Is this medicine even working?
If you're not feeling or seeing an improvement while taking your medicine, it's understandable that you may feel like it's not doing its job. The thing is, many medicines may seem like they're not doing anything, but in reality, they're actually working really hard behind the scenes. Even though you can't feel it, they're helping.
"For silent chronic conditions, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, it may be working, but you may not be feeling the effects," says Preeti Parikh, MD, chief medical editor at HealthiNation and a pediatrician at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
If you're feeling like you don't understand your prescription, don't stop taking it. Medications only work if you take them as directed. It can be dangerous if you skip doses, elect not to take a prescribed medicine, or take too much.
TIP #1: Ask your doctor what you can expect.
Whether you've been taking your medicine for a while or you've just been prescribed, it's important to discuss your treatment plan with your doctor and ask questions. You have every right to know exactly how your medication is going to affect you.
How is this medicine working in my body?
What's the long-term goal of this medication?
Are there tests to make sure the medications are working?
Write down any questions or concerns you have before your appointment so you don't forget.
TIP #2: Write down, repeat, and review.
At your appointment, write down the medication information, your treatment plan, and the answers to your questions.
Being thorough in this process will help clear up any miscommunication that may lead to confusion down the road.
TIP #3: At the pharmacy, ask for a patient handout.
When filling your prescription, talk to your pharmacist about any questions or concerns you may have and be sure to ask for a patient handout.
"Read the prescription information at the pharmacy and reread it when you refill your medication in case there are any changes," says Punkaj Khanna, PharmD, a pharmacist based in New York City.
Understanding your medications and taking them as directed is just as important to your health as getting enough exercise and eating a nutritious diet.
"Remember: You, your doctor, and your pharmacist are a team, so work together and make sure you're getting the best treatment plan possible," says Dr. Parikh.
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At 7 p.m. Wednesday, the South Park Bridge's draw spans will open for a last time and stay that way until the entire structure is soon demolished.
The 78-year-old bridge has reached its useful life and will be permanently closed for safety reasons, cutting off a vital transportation link across the Duwamish River — 20,000 vehicles cross it every day — and further isolating a neighborhood that locals say has always been forgotten.
Today the State of Washington announced additional funding for a new bridge, but it may still take years until one is in place.
"We know that it's going to take approximately two-and-a-half years to build … best possible scenario is three years without the bridge," said Bill Pease, a 10-year South Park resident and member of the South Park Bridge Committee, a neighborhood group that has been lobbying for funding for a new bridge for six years.
When I recently walked, drove and drew around the area, I discovered a close-knit community that I enjoyed for its small-town feel and diversity. Here I could put my Spanish to use at the stores and join in the morning chat at the café or the bus stop.
While the bridge's poor condition is no suprise to most people –it sustained serious damage during the 2001 Nisqually earthquake– the neighbors and business owners I talked to along 14th Avenue South were shocked and angered the bridge will close before it can be replaced. They said the street will be a road to nowhere after the bridge closes, a ghost town.
Over the next few days, I will share the stories I came across sketching near the bridge. The sketches were done in South Park on May 19 and 25, and June 8. You'll also find some of the sketches and stories in Sunday's printed edition.
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Q: How to write custom test client of django? I read the documents about objects but cannot really figure out how to make custom class of test client. There is a document that describes how to make custom test client. but cannot make it. I want to make the client to enforce csrf check. How can I make it? Thanks in advance.
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August 21, 2019 1:50pm Comment Joe Fedewa
[Update: Postponed for G Suite] Google will transition "classic" Hangouts users to Chat and Meet later this year
Update (8/21/19 @ 1:50 PM ET): The "classic" Hangouts migration has been postponed for G Suite customers.
One of the biggest Google stories of 2018 was the downfall of Hangouts. The platform had long been seemingly abandoned, but we finally got some news about its future. In December, we learned that Hangouts users will eventually be transitioned to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. There was no timeline given at the time, but now we have a little more of an idea.
Google has posted an update on the transition for G Suite users from "classic" Hangouts to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. The company also shared some details for non-G Suite users. There's always confusion when talking about Hangouts because of the different availability for free users and G Suite users. We'll try to clear up some of that.
"Classic" Hangouts, which is the app and web service most of us know and use, will begin "retiring" in October 2019 for G Suite users. For those of us who are not G Suite users, Google does not have an end date yet, but it will likely happen in 2020. G Suite users will be transitioned from classic Hangouts to Chat and Meet. Google will begin bringing features over from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat in April 2019. Those features include:
Integration with Gmail
Chatting with external users
An improved video calling experience
Making calls with Google Voice
Hopefully, Chat is a much better app by the time that October date rolls around. So what about non-G Suite users? While we don't have an end date yet, we do know a little more about a landing spot. Google says they will transition consumers to a free version of Hangouts Chat and Meet sometime after the G Suite transition. Previous reports claimed consumers would be moved to a limited free version of Chat and Meet. This latest news seems to follow along with those reports.
Source: G Suite Blog
Update: Postponed for G Suite
Google originally announced plans to retire classic Hangouts for G Suite customers in October. After receiving feedback from customers, Google has decided to postpone the final transition date to "no sooner than June 2020." A more definitive date will be given later on. In the meantime, G Suite customers can continue to use classic Hangouts, but Google does urge people to start transitioning to Chat.
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Manhoef KO's Sakuraba at DREAM.4 Middleweight GP
By Monty DiPietro / June 16, 2008
The event featured four qualifying bouts, with winners advancing to the DREAM Middleweight GP Final at the Saitama Arena on September 23.YOKOHAMA, June 15, 2008 — Dutch kickboxer Melvin Manhoef manhandled Kazushi Sakuraba, using punches and kicks to KO the Japanese mixed martial arts legend at tonight's DREAM Middleweight Grand Prix 2008. The event featured […]
DREAM.4 Middleweight GP 2008 2nd Round Press Conference
TOKYO, June 14, 2008 — The DREAM Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 moves into second gear tomorrow, when eight quarterfinalists meet at the Yokohama Arena.TOKYO, June 14, 2008 — The DREAM Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 moves into second gear tomorrow, when eight quarterfinalists meet at the Yokohama Arena. All fighters have made the 84kg/185lbs weight cut, […]
Alvarez, Uno and Kawajiri Win at DREAM.3
By Monty DiPietro / May 12, 2008
SAITAMA, May 11, 2008 — American wrestler Eddie Alvarez beat Norwegian shooto fighter Joachim Hansen in a thriller; while Japanese mixed martial arts legend Caol Uno won in the Main Event at tonight's DREAM.3 Lightweight Grand Prix 2008 2nd Round. SAITAMA, May 11, 2008 — American wrestler Eddie Alvarez beat Norwegian shooto fighter Joachim Hansen […]
Success for Sakuraba in Saitama
By Monty DiPietro / April 29, 2008
Held at the Saitama Super Arena, the event opened this year's DREAM Middleweight Grand Prix series. Fourteen of the world's top mixed martial arts fighters battled for the right to advance to a final elimination tournament on June 15 and a chance for a spot in September's DREAM Middleweight GP Final. SAITAMA, April 29, 2008 […]
Zimmerman is the Man at K-1 Europe GP
This was a classic eight-man elimination tournament — all bouts contested under K-1 Rules (3Min. x 3R w/1RExt.), a quartet of first-tier fights advancing four men to a pair of semis, and the winners there going head-to head in the final.AMSTERDAM, April 26, 2008 — Errol Zimmerman of Holland won today's K-1 World GP '08 […]
Hari Shocks Sefo; Schilt Wins in Yokohama
YOKOHAMA, April 13, 2008 — Moroccan muay thai dynamo and Defending K-1 Heavyweight Champion Badr Hari, 23, scored three quick first-round downs to defeat Ray Sefo tonight at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 in Yokohama. InYOKOHAMA, April 13, 2008 — Moroccan muay thai dynamo and Defending K-1 Heavyweight Champion Badr Hari, 23, scored three […]
K-1 World GP '08 in Yokohama Press Conference
TOKYO, April 12, 2008 — Hoping to make history for a second time, former K-1 World Grand Prix Grand Champion Mark Hunt returns to the ring tomorrow against the three-time and defending K-1 WGP Champion Semmy Schilt of Holland. It's been five years since Mark Hunt last fought in K-1, but fightsport fans everywhere remember […]
Masato Masterful in Hiroshima
By Monty DiPietro / April 9, 2008
HIROSHIMA, April 9, 2008 — Twenty-nine year-old Japanese kickboxer Masato out-punched South African boxer Virgil Kalakoda to emerge victorious tonight in the Main Event at the World Max '08 Final 16 Tournament in Hiroshima.HIROSHIMA, April 9, 2008 — Twenty-nine year-old Japanese kickboxer Masato out-punched South African boxer Virgil Kalakoda to emerge victorious tonight in the […]
World Max 16 in Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA, April 8, 2008 — The K-1 World Max is one of the most thrilling fightsport competitions in the world today. With its 70kg/154lbs weight class, World Max delivers the unparalleled combination of speed and technique that have made it a favorite of sports fans everywhere. The road to this year's World Max Championship has […]
CroCop's Saitama DREAM Comes True
By Monty DiPietro / March 15, 2008
Held before a sellout crowd at the Saitama Super Arena — with millions of Japanese television viewers watching live — DREAM.1 featured seven qualification bouts in the DREAM Lightweight (70 kg/154 lbs) class, along with a trio of open-weight fights. SAITAMA, March 15, 2008 — Returning to one of his favorite venues, Mirko CroCop made […]
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Home News The Division is planning to 'reinvigorate' its PVE
The Division is planning to 'reinvigorate' its PVE
What exactly that is...they aren't saying.
Daniel R. Miller
The Division is a solid game, but it seems to be known more for what's wrong with it versus what it does well. One thing that I'm sure everyone can agree on is that there needs to be more to do after Level 30. While many are expecting something big from the upcoming batch of DLC in June, we don't know what that will be exactly. Ubisoft Community Developer, Hamish Bode may have given us a hint as to what that could be.
During a Twitch stream today, a viewer inquired as to whether or not there were any plans to "to reinvigorate the PvE area" of the game. Bode admitted that this was indeed the case, though what exactly that entails, he wouldn't say (of course).
Between all of the glitches and issues that appear to be plaguing the PVP portion of the game, it wouldn't surprise me to see Ubisoft try to steer attention away from that part of The Division in an effort to get players to focus on something that the game does well while trying to work out the kinks with fewer fans breathing down their necks. Exploits have become so bad (especially on PC) that one networking developer believes the game needs a "complete rewrite" to fix its problems.
We will see where Ubisoft takes The Division from here.
Source: [Twitch]
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Seven years ago I started working on MozCC, an add-on for Firefox that exposed Creative Commons license information embedded in web pages. Little did I know that add-on would be the start of a career with CC, eventually leading me to San Francisco, and subsequently around the globe to talk about CC's technology. MozCC was dropped from active maintenance somewhere around Firefox 3, but of the tools I built during my first couple years at CC, it's the one I still get the most questions about.
This summer, Igor Lukanin worked on a Google Summer of Code project for CC to develop a replacement for MozCC, an add-on for Firefox that would expose license and attribution information. While the project wasn't totally successful, it did produce an add-on that detected CC licenses in pages, and exposed details about them.
Last month I had the opportunity to attend Learning, Freedom, and the Web, the first Mozilla Drumbeat Festival, in Barcelona, Spain. One of the issues identified by attendees was that, while there are plenty of works being licensed under CC licenses, knowing how to properly attribute re-use is still a challenge. How many times have we seen presentations made up of beautiful photos, with a simple "CC licensed, Flickr" under each (if that)? The proposed solution was an attribution generator: a tool that would generate reasonable attribution for CC licensed works, based on information available.
OpenAttribute is an add-on that displays a small "CC" icon in the URL bar when license information is present. Clicking that icon displays the page's license information and, importantly, copy and paste HTML you can use to attribute the work. You can click the "More Information" button to display the details on licensed objects in the page.
There's still work to be done, but at this point I think it's ready for broader testing. You can download the add-on and find the code on github. Feedback, questions, suggestions should all probably go to the attrib-generator Google Group.
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TRAPPIST-1e, ook aangeduid als 2MASS J23062928-0502285 e, is een vaste exoplaneet ter grootte van bijna de Aarde, die in de bewoonbare zone rond de ultrakoele dwerg TRAPPIST-1 draait, ongeveer 40 lichtjaar, oftewel bijna 3,7336×1014 km van de Aarde in het sterrenbeeld Waterman. De exoplaneet werd gevonden met behulp van de transit-methode, waarbij het verduisterende effect wordt gemeten dat een planeet veroorzaakt wanneer zij voor haar ster langs trekt.
Het was een van de zeven nieuwe exoplaneten die met behulp van waarnemingen van de Spitzer Space Telescope rond de ster werden ontdekt. Drie van de zeven (e, f, en g) bevinden zich in de bewoonbare zone. TRAPPIST-1e is vergelijkbaar met de massa, straal, dichtheid, zwaartekracht, temperatuur en stellaire flux van de aarde. Ook is bevestigd dat het een compacte atmosfeer heeft zoals de aardse planeten in het zonnestelsel. In november 2018 stelden onderzoekers vast dat van de zeven exoplaneten in het multiplanetaire systeem, TRAPPIST-1e degene is met de grootste kans om een aarde-achtige oceaanplaneet te zijn en degene die het meest de moeite waard is om verder te bestuderen met betrekking tot bewoonbaarheid. Volgens de Habitable Exoplanets Catalog is TRAPPIST-1e een van de meest potentieel bewoonbare exoplaneten die tot nu toe zijn ontdekt.
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Massa, straal, en temperatuur
TRAPPIST-1e werd ontdekt met de overgang-methode, waarbij de planeet een klein percentage van het licht van zijn ster tegenhield toen hij tussen de ster en de aarde in trok. Hierdoor konden wetenschappers de straal van de planeet nauwkeurig bepalen op 0,910 aardstralen, met een kleine onzekerheid van ongeveer 166-172 km. Variaties in de tijd van de passage en geavanceerde computersimulaties hielpen bij het bepalen van de massa van de planeet, die 0,772 aardmassa bleek te zijn. Nu zowel de straal als de massa van TRAPPIST-1e met kleine foutmarges zijn vastgesteld, konden wetenschappers de dichtheid, oppervlaktezwaartekracht en samenstelling van de planeet nauwkeurig berekenen. TRAPPIST-1e is ongewoon in zijn systeem omdat het de enige planeet is met een zuivere rots-ijzersamenstelling, en de enige met een hogere dichtheid dan de Aarde (TRAPPIST-1c lijkt ook volledig uit rots te bestaan, maar heeft een dikke atmosfeer waardoor hij minder dicht is dan TRAPPIST-1e). Hij heeft een dichtheid van 5,65 g/cm3, ongeveer 1,024 maal de dichtheid van de aarde van 5,51 g/cm3. De hogere dichtheid van TRAPPIST-1e impliceert een aardachtige samenstelling en een vast rotsachtig oppervlak. Dit is ook ongewoon onder de TRAPPIST-1 planeten, want de meeste zijn volledig bedekt door ofwel een dikke stoomatmosfeer, een wereldwijde vloeibare oceaan, of een ijsschelp. TRAPPIST-1e heeft 93% van de oppervlaktezwaartekracht van de aarde, de op één na hoogste in het systeem. Zijn straal en massa zijn ook de op twee na kleinste onder de TRAPPIST-1 planeten.
De planeet heeft een berekende oppervlaktemperatuur van 246,1 K (-27,1 °C), gegeven een albedo van 0. Voor een realistischer aarde-achtig albedo geeft dit echter een onrealistisch beeld van de oppervlaktetemperatuur van de planeet. De evenwichtstemperatuur van de aarde is 255 K; het zijn de broeikasgassen van de aarde die de oppervlaktetemperatuur doen stijgen tot het niveau dat wij ervaren. Als TRAPPIST-1e een dikke atmosfeer heeft, zou zijn oppervlak veel warmer kunnen zijn dan zijn evenwichtstemperatuur.
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TRAPPIST-1e draait vrij dicht om zijn ster heen. Een volledige omwenteling rond TRAPPIST-1 duurt slechts 6,099 aardse dagen (~146 uur). Hij draait rond op een afstand van 0,02928285 AE, of iets minder dan 3% van de afstand tussen de aarde en de zon. Ter vergelijking: de dichtstbijzijnde planeet in het zonnestelsel, Mercurius, doet er 88 dagen over om op een afstand van 0,38 AE rond de zon te draaien. Ondanks de nabijheid van zijn ster krijgt TRAPPIST-1e slechts ongeveer 60% van het sterlicht dat de aarde van de zon krijgt, vanwege de lage helderheid van zijn ster. De ster zou een hoekdiameter van ongeveer 2,17 graden vanaf het oppervlak van de planeet beslaan, en zou vanaf de aarde ongeveer vier keer zo groot lijken als de zon.
Ster
De planeet draait rond een (laat M-type) ultrakoele dwerg genaamd TRAPPIST-1. De ster heeft een massa van 0,089 zonmassa's en een straal van 0,121 zonstralen. Hij heeft een temperatuur van 2.516 K en is tussen de 3 en 8 miljard jaar oud. Ter vergelijking: de Zon is 4,6 miljard jaar oud en heeft een temperatuur van 5.778 K. De ster is metaalrijk, met een metalliciteit (Fe/H]) van 0,04, ofwel 109% van de zonnehoeveelheid. Dit is bijzonder vreemd, omdat van sterren met zo'n lage massa op de grens tussen bruine dwergen en waterstofsmeltende sterren verwacht mag worden dat ze aanzienlijk minder metaal bevatten dan de zon. Zijn lichtkracht is 0,0522% van die van de zon.
De schijnbare magnitude van de ster, of hoe helder hij lijkt vanuit het perspectief van de aarde, is 18,8. Hij is dus te zwak om met het blote oog te worden gezien.
Bewoonbaarheid
Er werd bekendgemaakt dat de exoplaneet binnen de bewoonbare zone van zijn moederster draait, het gebied waar, met de juiste omstandigheden en atmosferische eigenschappen, vloeibaar water aan het oppervlak van de planeet kan bestaan. TRAPPIST-1e heeft een straal van ongeveer 0,91 aardstralen, dus is het waarschijnlijk een rotsachtige planeet. Zijn ster is een rode ultrakoele dwerg, met slechts ongeveer 8% van de massa van de zon (dicht bij de grens tussen bruine dwergen en waterstofverbruikende sterren). Daardoor hebben sterren als TRAPPIST-1 het vermogen om vier tot vijf biloen jaar stabiel te blijven, 400-500 keer langer dan de zon. Vanwege dit vermogen om lang te leven, is het waarschijnlijk dat TRAPPIST-1 een van de laatst overgebleven sterren in het heelal zal zijn, wanneer het gas dat nodig is om nieuwe sterren te vormen uitgeput zal zijn, en de bestaande sterren beginnen af te sterven.
De planeet is waarschijnlijk opgesloten in een getijdenstelsel, waarbij één kant van zijn hemisfeer permanent naar de ster is gericht, terwijl de andere kant in eeuwige duisternis is gehuld. Maar tussen deze twee intense gebieden zou een strook bewoonbaar zijn, de zogeheten terminator-lijn, waar de temperatuur (ongeveer 273 K, 0 °C) geschikt zou kunnen zijn voor vloeibaar water. Bovendien zou een veel groter deel van de planeet bewoonbaar kunnen zijn als het een atmosfeer heeft die dik genoeg is om warmte over te brengen naar de kant die van de ster af is gekeerd.
Gedetailleerdere studies van TRAPPIST-1e en de andere TRAPPIST-1 planeten die in 2018 zijn vrijgegeven, hebben vastgesteld dat de planeet een van de werelden is met de grootste omvang van de aarde die is gevonden, met 91% de straal, 77% de massa, 102,4% de dichtheid (5,65 g/cm3), en 93% de oppervlaktezwaartekracht. TRAPPIST-1e is bevestigd een aardse planeet te zijn met een vast, rotsachtig oppervlak. Het is koel genoeg voor vloeibaar water om zich op het oppervlak te verzamelen, maar niet te koud om te bevriezen zoals op TRAPPIST-1f, g, en h. De planeet ontvangt een stellaire flux 0,604 maal die van de Aarde, ongeveer een derde lager dan die van de Aarde maar aanzienlijk meer dan die van Mars. Zijn temperatuur varieert van 225 K (-48 °C) tot 246,1 K (-27,1 °C), afhankelijk van hoeveel licht de planeet in de ruimte weerkaatst. Beide liggen ook tussen die van de Aarde en Mars. Het is bevestigd dat TRAPPIST-1e een compacte, waterstofvrije atmosfeer heeft, zoals de rotsachtige planeten in het zonnestelsel, wat de kans op bewoonbaarheid nog groter maakt. Waterstof is een krachtig broeikasgas, dus als er genoeg zou zijn om gemakkelijk waar te nemen, zou dat betekenen dat het oppervlak van TRAPPIST-1e onherbergzaam zou zijn. Aangezien zo'n atmosfeer niet aanwezig is, verhoogt dat de kans dat de planeet in plaats daarvan een meer aardachtige atmosfeer heeft.
Omdat het een van de meest veelbelovende potentieel bewoonbare exoplaneten is, zal TRAPPIST-1e een vroeg doelwit zijn van de James Webb Space Telescope. Deze telescoop, met 24 december 2021 als doeldatum voor de lancering, zal gebruikt worden om de atmosfeer van de planeet grondiger te analyseren zodat makkelijker kan worden gezocht naar chemische tekenen van leven of biosignaturen.
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The Lebanese Electoral Assistance Project (LEAP) affiliated to the UNDP organized yesterday a workshop on "Electoral Laws and Women's Participation". The workshop which was attended by a number of women who have presented their candidacy to the next parliamentary elections and representatives of local and international civil society organizations, discussed ways to strengthen women's participation in political life.
The UNDP Country Director Mr. Luca Renda, emphasized that supporting national efforts for strengthening a comprehensive political process as well as strengthening women's participation in elections is a key concern on the agenda of the United Nations. He noted that women's political participation in Lebanon is limited and does not exceed 3% in parliament as the 2009 elections only resulted in bringing in four women parliamentarians. This is particularly alarming since globally, women's representation in parliaments has increased two fold since the year 2000.
The workshop, which was funded by the European Union, included an address by The Political Affairs Officer at UNSCOL Chantal Sarkis, who pointed out to the low global status of Lebanon having recoded a 135th ranking in terms of women's participation in political life.
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Q: How can I connect my java phone's internet to my pc? Itried a lot to connect my java mobile for sharing internet in my phone. But I don't know how to make the connection true. How can I connect my mobile phone(java) as a mobile broadband to share internet to my computer?
A: You have to search on google: active tethering and router wifi and so you will have istructions .
Before you can see if you model support you option on this site
Update:
see this guide official of samsung because you model can share internet
A: This is really going to depend on the phone. In some instances you are going to have to install a program in the google market place to download a tethering app. In other cases, tethering is already included in the phone. If I go to settings, more networks, and go to tethering and mobile hotspot it will give the option for me to tether my phone using usb, or wifi. This is also going to depend on your service provider because some service providers lock down tethering unless you have a plan aka MetroPCS. In some cases, like one of my older phones you can get around this using one of the tethering apps, but in other cases the phone is really locked down and the only options are to either pay or to root your phone using something like multirom.
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← VOTE NOW! for our Aviva Community Fund idea in support of Camp Wa-Thik-Ane!
This post originally appeared on the blog Everything But the Kid. Thank you Amy for allowing us to share this with our audience!
For years I have volunteered in some capacity or another with various groups and I love it. From racing to the Cancer Society and beyond, I love helping others plain and simple.
For me, I can't always afford to donate to things in a monetary capacity, but I can and do donate my time where I can. I admit I did feel burnt out with volunteering a few years ago (I overdid it slightly) and had to step back and re-evaluate how to best help out. But now I'm re-energized and re-focused so this year my big volunteer project is a very non-mom themed one.
Early in the year my darling wonderful BFF Jackie (who knows how much I love to craft) told me her daughter was enrolled in Sparks and invited me out to check it out and help out. I got hooked immediately. I freely admit there are MANY MANY MANY a moment when this non-mom wishes she had one of her own, so any time I get to spend with kids I cherish and so enjoy. Jackie laughs I'm sure at how I light up when I see her kids and so do my other friends when I see theirs too. I love munchkin time.
I started the paperwork process as quick as I could to get cleared and signed up to be a Sparks leader this year and I swear it's one of my best decisions ever. I beyond look forward to the meetings and while intimidated slightly at the beginning, I'm slowly settling into a routine with the girls and the meetings. I get to help the girls learn and grow in positive ways and in a program that I myself went through and believe strongly in. If I had a daughter, believe me, they'd be in the program.
I get to give back to the community and some amazing girls, and in return I get to smile and indeed, as my leader name indicates: Sparkle!
Do you volunteer? What has been your favourite or most rewarding volunteering experience?
By guest blogger Amy of the 15th Oakville Sparks. This post originally appeared on Amy's own blog Everything But the Kid. Thank you Amy for allowing us to share this with our audience!
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1 Response to Giving Back with Sparks and Sparkles!
The majority of the people I volunteer with have children in guiding as well. So from one non-mom to another thank you for sharing!
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