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BkiUbT44uzki0sdMs38A | Justice Anil R. Dave, the head of the five-Judge Bench hearing the challenge to the validity of the National Judicial Appointments Commission has recused himself from hearing the case.
The step taken by the Supreme Court Judge came after senior lawyer, Fali S. Nariman, who represents the Petitioner- Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record Association, raised an objection. According to Mr. Nariman, the provisions of the Constitution (Ninety-ninth amendment) Act, 2014 and of the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act, 2014 came into force from April 13, 2015. Consequently, Justice Dave became a member ex officio of the National Judicial Appointments Commission, the validity of which has been challenged.
He also stated that the 13th April notification was "improper but not illegal", since the validity of the act was still being adjudicated upon. He called it a "conflict of two conflicting duties".
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi called the objection raised by Mr. Nariman "unfounded" and "completely condemnable". Rohatgi also opposed the stand taken by Nariman by stating that Judges fulfill more than one role. They have been a part of earlier collegium also and while continuing to discharge judicial function, they were involved in administrative measures too. "So, they can be a part of new judicial commission apart from doing judicial functions," the AG said, adding that for hundred years it has been seen that administrative decisions of full court are often challenged on judicial side and same judges of full court decide them, "so that there is no conflict of interest". | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUbOjxaKgS2Gx0cEXx | Mucky Hounds Dog Walking are a Buckinghamshire company based in Aylesbury, however we are able to provide our services beyond Aylesbury. We cover much of the north of the county including Aylesbury, Wendover, Princes Risborough, Saunderton, Stoke Mandeville and many others.
We provide both walking and home visiting services.
We can walk your dog/dogs during the day whilst you are out or help with an extra walk during the week to help tire your dog out and to keep them happy and healthy. We can offer individual or group walks depending on your dogs' needs.
Mucky Hounds is run by myself (Tim Pritchard). I am a massive animal lover and have had dogs all of my life for nearly 35 years, so I am a very experienced dog owner and understand how much of an important part of the family they are. I also have ferrets and have been the chairman of a local ferret club, I was also part of a ferret exhibitor group.
Since leaving university in 2004 I have worked for the police, a special needs school and for the NHS where I worked as a clinician in a specialist team with learning disabled children with complex mental health and challenging behaviour. I have also been a manager in the pet retail industry, where I would offer support in relation to pet nutrition.
I set up Mucky Hounds so I can follow my desire to work with dogs whom I believe are truly wonderful and fascinating animals. In my desire to truly learn about and understand dogs even further I am currently studying for a Level 5 Advanced Diploma In Canine Behaviour. This means I understand how important a calm and consistent approach when working with dogs is.
It is my desire to do the very best for the dogs I work with and am willing to offer any help that I can to my clients with regards to dog ownership, or help them find someone who can. I am CRB/DBS checked and have public liability insurance. Due to my course of study there are certain professional standards that I must adhere to at all times.
We provide both walking and home visiting services. We can walk your dog/dogs during the day whilst you are out or help with an extra walk during the week to help tire your dog out and to keep them happy and healthy. We can offer individual or group walks depending on your dogs' needs. With our home visiting service we can help prevent boredom and loneliness by providing a bit of company for your dog during the day.
An individual walk is where we will take your dog out for a walk on their own so all the time and attention will be given to your dog whilst on the walk. Any favourite toys such as balls or rope toys can be taken to be played with. Obviously if you have more than one dog in your family we accommodate walking all of your dogs.
A group walk is where your dog will be able to have regular dog friends, whom they can socialise and play with. We are insured for up to 6 dogs at a time, however it is likely that a group walk will have 2-3 dogs so that more time and attention can be given to each dog. Obviously we would need to meet you and your dog first to establish which group will have the best dogs to make friends with your dog.
If you are interested in any of the services we offer at Mucky Hounds, or have any questions at all then please phone me or send me an email. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdKDxK3YB9ohkMcSE | This suite is made to enjoy togetherness in abundance. It has a huge 2mx2m bed that looks directly on a private fireplace. The big bathroom has two sinks and a huge romatic bathtub (like a hamam almost) for two. The unique interior design is complemented by many selected moroccan antiques and individually designed, hand-carved silverware and wood works. Sink into a pile of cushions on your huge bed, have your private fire-place lit or fill up your huge bathtub for two, light the candles and incense sticks and dive into the magic of 1001 nights. Cream-coloured walls and an individual light concept create a soft, romantic atmosphere. The suite is equipped with air-conditioning, special eco-medical mattresses, private fire-place, huge bathtub for two, hair-dryer, exquisite oriental bathroom amenities, etc. And: Don't miss to check in which chapter of the love story of Yela you are sleeping in - it is written in arabic calligraphy on the huge wooden doors of each room and the last sentence of the chapter is written next to your bed. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
BkiUdrc5qrqCyw_JhGcJ | Insidious Art Reviews
Destructive Music Review - January 2015
http://destructive-music.com/2015/01/19/the-infernal-seaold-corpse-road-insidious-art-and-serpentine-rites/
Reviewed by Steve Earles – 10/10
Three Swords Records
The split release is a fine way of showcasing the best the underground metal scene has to offer, and Old Corpse Road are no strangers to this fine format, contributing three tracks (including the now classic 'Hob Headless Rises') to a split with underground legends The Meads of Asphodel entitled 'The Bones of This Land Are Not Speechless' (Old Corpse Road)/ English Black Punk Metal (The Meads of Asphodel) released on Godreah Records.
Read more: Destructive Music Review - January 2015
Burning Fist Review - April 2014
http://burningfist.co.uk/2014/04/21/cd-review-the-infernal-sea-the-crypt-sessions/
The latest release from TIS sees a split 7″ vinyl along with another of favourite British extreme metal mob, Old Corpse Road. "Tannis Root" (if the term seems familiar, you're probably a fan of classic horror…) is formed from the sound of falling rain and creaking trees. In the distance, you think you can hear whispered voices and chants. Sure enough, they are there, and with a crack of thunder, the riffing and blasting starts, with cries of "Give to us, a child…".
Read more: Burning Fist Review - April 2014
Ben Murphy's Review - April 2014
http://benmurphyauthor.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/insidious-art-and-serpentine-rites/
A little later than expected, here I present to you the review of (the cleverly titled) Insidious Art and Serpentine Rites by The Infernal Sea and Old Corpse Road.
It's easy to write a structured review of assessing each individual element of the music. The guitars sound like this, the drums sound like that… However I'm going to focus this more on how this masterpiece made me feel on whole as in this particular case, I certainly feel that's important. Let's kick it off – short but to the point, just like the vinyl.
Read more: Ben Murphy's Review - April 2014 | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
BkiUbhnxK6nrxrSHd2K4 | The annual Clean Pak Sha Wan Day has been postponed from 16 to 23 September owing to the super-typhoon expected this weekend.
The Clean Pak Sha Wan Day is organised by Hebe Haven Yacht Club, Sai Kung and its aim is to clean seven beaches and trails in the Pak Sha Wan Bay area. It is open to everyone. Transport is provided to the beaches. It starts at 11:00 am and finishes at 4:00 pm. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdH3xK7kjXLSrFToI | The Heartbeat of Citipointe Church is to unmistakably influence our world for good and God. This App provides life changing messages, events and the latest information about Citipointe Church.
as Podcast and Video may use a lot of data, so if you are accessing these away from a WiFi connection, we suggest that you monitor your data usage through your mobile network provider.
* Cloud Based Journal: Your Pursue Journal is accessible online anytime at www.PursueJournal.com. This allows you to be able to add entries anywhere, anytime and they are automatically linked to your Citipointe Church app. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdec4uzqh_Okldh9N | Home Celebrities Johnny Depp, Rachel McAdams Honored at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Johnny Depp, Rachel McAdams Honored at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Barbara Singer
Johnny Depp, SBIFF 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
The Santa Barbara Film Festival (SBIFF) kicked off this week. The event included tributes to Johnny Depp, "Spotlight's" Rachel McAdams and cast, Jeff Bridges and more.
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), now in its 31st year on the California central coast, is helmed by executive director Roger Durling.
The kick-off featured the U.S. premiere of the animated family film "The Little Prince" at the historic Arlington Theatre.
Opening Night, SBIFF 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
Director Mark Osbourne has garnered accolades for his creative version of the classic novel, which features flashback sequences. The film screened at Cannes 2015 and has grossed $100 million worldwide.
Santa Barbara Film Festival Features U.S. Premiere of "The Little Prince"
Osbourne noted that "Santa Barbara is ground zero for the U.S. release." His son, Riley Osbourne, was the voice of The Little Prince. The voice cast also includes Jeff Bridges, Mackenzie Foy and other top actors.
Jeff Bridges and his wife Susan on the red carpet, SBIFF 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
Jeff Bridges, affectionately know as The Dude, is a Santa Barbara local and was instrumental in getting this film made. He recorded his dialog as The Old Man at his home studio in Montecito.
Bridges, who arrived with his wife Susan, sported a long beard, similar to his character. Mayor Helene Schneider welcomed the sold-out theatre crowd, acknowledging Bridges and Roger Durling.
Following the screening, first-nighters made their way to the ever-popular opening night Gala at Paseo Nuevo.
Mark Osbourne, Mackenzie Foy and Jeff Bridges, SBIFF 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
The versatile Johnny Depp is this year's recipient of the Maltin Modern Master Award. It's the highest honor at SBIFF. Depp delivered a knock-out performance as mobster Whitey Bulger in "Black Mass."
Johnny Depp Honored at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Fans were excited to see Depp, who arrived late with his wife, Amber Heard. He is well-known for avoiding interviews and not watching his own film clips of nearly 40 films. He seemed a bit nervous.
But leave it to film critic-writer Leonard Maltin to glide right into the evening and encourage Depp to feel comfortable. The beloved actor recanted stories, jokes and insights into his personality.
He talked about his instant connection with Tim Burton, a frequent collaborator on such films as "Edward Scissorhands," "Ed Wood" and "The Brave." Depp directed "The Brave," which starred Marlon Brando, but it was never released in the U.S.
It was a full house and a special evening at The Arlington.
Rachel McAdams and "Spotlight" Cast Honored at Santa Barbara Film Festival
"Spotlight," nominated for an Oscar, is the recipient of the American Riviera Award. This powerful film, centered on Boston's Catholic churches in 2001, focused on clergymen who abused young boys and the church's cover-up of the scandal.
Roger Durling, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, and Tom McCarthy, SBIFF 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
The Boston Globe's Spotlight team researched and revealed the scandal. Honorees included Michael Keaton and Oscar-nominated castmates Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo. Unable to attend, Ruffalo taped a speech.
Rachel McAdams, SBIFF 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
Keaton received last year's SBIFF's Modern Master Award. Rachel McAdams was pleased that Sasha Pfeiffer, the investigative reporter she portrayed, was in the audience. Writer/director Tom McCarthy presented the awards to the actors.
Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams, SBIFF 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
The 31st SBIFF featured 52 world premieres, 53 U.S. premieres and films from more than 60 countries. The diverse genres included noir, drama, comedy, SBIFF Screen Cuisine, free family films, international films, documentaries, shorts and more.
Many of the screenings were followed by Q&As with the filmmakers, who offered insight into the films and characters. Also, students made films during SBIFF in a 10-10-10 Competition.
The much awaited producers and writers panels took place on the weekend. The Centerpiece Film was director Terrence Malick's "Knight of Cups." The Broad Green Pictures film stars Christian Bale, Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett.
Paul Dano, Geza Rohrig, Elizabeth Banks, O'Shea Jackson, Jr. and Alicia Vikander, Santa Barbara Film Festival 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
The Santa Barbara Film Festival also honored seven actors – "The Virtuosos" – for their breakout performances. Moderator Dave Karger from Fandango has done a great job every year reminding us of these actors. He gave the audience an insight into their personalities.
The Virtuosos for 2015 included:
Elizabeth Banks (Brian Wilson's girlfriend in "Love & Mercy")
Jacob Tremblay (the boy who was born and raised in the "Room")
Paul Dano (the young Brian Wilson in "Love & Mercy")
O'Shea Jackson Jr. (played his father, Ice Cube, in "Straight Outta Compton")
Geza Rohrig (played Saul in the war film "Son of Saul," nominated for an Oscar in Best Foreign Film category)
Joel Edgerton (supporting role in "Black Mass")
Alicia Vikander ("The Danish Girl" and "Ex Machina")
Jacob Tremblay amazed the audience with wit and wisdom beyond his nine years. He was poised and candid with his thoughts on "Room."
Jacob Tremblay, "Room," SBIFF 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
Paul Dano felt intimidated to play Brian Wilson until he met the Beach Boys musician. Then he was protective of the character. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Banks loved her role as Melinda, who falls in love with Brian and saves him from the abusive Eugene Landy.
Elizabeth Banks, SBIFF 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
Paul Dano, SBIFF 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
Joel Edgerton was not present, but in a video, credited his dialogue coach for a perfect Boston accent in "Black Mass." And O'Shea Jackson Jr. was told by his dad, Ice Cube, that he would portray him. It took him two years to gain the confidence to take on the role.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr., SBIFF 2016 | Barbara Singer Photo
For the latest information on the Santa Barbara Film Festival, click through to www.sbiff.org.
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Barbara Singer is a veteran travel and entertainment journalist based in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. She has been a columnist for Beverly Hills Today, Passions International, Boulevard Magazine, Irish Arts & Entertainment and more. She has attended many film festivals, including Cannes, Montreal, Deauville, Santa Barbara, and L.A. Film Festival, and also contributes to many online travel magazines. She is a member of Film Independent, IWOSC, IFW&TWA and NATJA. | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUfWnxaKgQW0DXru1N | Baur au Lac
Romantic luxury, from $850
Talstrasse 1 8001 Zürich
info@bauraulac.ch
https://www.bauraulac.ch/en/
Since it was built in 1844, the Baur au Lac has been modernized at regular intervals to stay ahead of the demands of the international clientele. The Restaurant Pavillon (1 Michelin-star) is taking full advantage of the Baur au Lac s city center yet pastoral setting with views of the hotel's park and the waters of Lake Zurich.
The adjacent outdoor Terrasse has also been transformed into a chic and informal indoor/outdoor space ideal for drinks, dining and people watching throughout the summer period. Uniquely situated in its own private park, in the heart of the city and on the shore of the lake.
Following major renovations 119 luxuriously appointed and individually decorated rooms and suites. Fruits in the room upon arrival. Free mini bar (daily refilled). Free wireless internet in the rooms and all public areas. Free daily newspaper. IT support for the guests.
Two internationally renowned restaurants and a bar Summer terrace restaurant in the idyllic garden. Multilingual and highly qualified staff. Fitness club with spectacular view over the lake and the Alps. Clients have free access to the fitness centre and business centre.
Guided tour "Love stories of Lausanne"
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Taverne Johann
Simple and delicious
Swiss Alps Beginner Canyoning Experience from Interlaken
Swiss Alps Adventure, from $159
Sunnegga Trail
For beginners and pros alike
Widder Hotel
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In the heart of Lucerne, from $220
Fondue House Luzern
The best fondue in Luzern
Coeur des Alpes
Hotel & SPA | commoncrawl | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUeJY5qoTDtv38wSop | In front of the sunbathed picture windows that overlook the Dahan River, long wooden tables are interspersed among sofas, chairs and stools. Although the restaurant, on the third floor of the Ikea outlet in the Taipei suburb of Sinjhuang, is teaming with afternoon guests, its high ceiling and comfortable lighting convey a relaxed feeling, as if it is someone's home.
The trademark of the 70-year-old Swedish brand is creating spaces that are warm and full of imagination. In the 2011 CommonWealth Magazine Golden Service Awards, Ikea placed first in the category of home product stores and left the competition in the dust in terms of atmosphere.
"Some shops seem very distant, very cold," notes a thirtyish female office worker. Newly wed, she and her husband are planning their new home, so they went to Ikea to get some inspiration from the some 50 room designs on display. "Ikea gives you a feeling of the whole family being happily together. It's very homey and warm."
"We hope to use experiential marketing to help customers turn their imaginations about their home into something concrete, in an uncomplicated and direct way," explains Roxy Cheng, marketing manager at Ikea Taiwan. "It's like a friend introducing something to a friend."
Using simple, natural Scandinavian designs that allow people to express their personal styles, Ikea creates the kinds of spaces people want to have. Some Taiwanese customers even collect every single Ikea catalogue.
In order to create a unique style and solutions that are practicable in everyday life, Ikea depends on products that are competitive in terms of price, function and design.
In the Golden Services Award rankings, Ikea products stand out for their uniqueness, coming in even ahead of Muji products, which are famous for their natural and simplified style.
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad, who has made it into the Forbes list of the world's billionaires, once boldly declared that Ikea wants to sell a vast selection of attractive, functional furniture for the vast majority of people who "don't have six figure amounts in the bank and don't live in enormous apartments."
To prevent two major pitfalls, namely, creating functional furniture that lacks good design or well designed products that are extortionately expensive, the some 3,000 Ikea designers worldwide need to be very price-conscious. On top of customers' needs, they also need to take into account technological hurdles, production line requirements and cost control.
Kamprad once said: "To design a desk which may cost US$1,000 is easy for a furniture designer, but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost US$50 can only be done by the very best."
What Ikea sells are furniture and home products with the prices, functionality, style and variety that let customers easily change the look of their homes in a single shopping trip. And with more than 1,000 new products hitting the market four times a year, new customer needs and desires are constantly addressed.
Since the same sofa model can be had with a leather or fabric covering, or can be changed from hot pink to the latest pop color, Ikea is able to match the tastes and desires of people of different ages and walks of life. A piece of furniture is no longer an heirloom, but a means to decorate life, which can be changed at any time to express a person's mood or style.
Given the rapid change and broad selection of items, Ikea devotes a lot of attention to the design of its product labels, listing all the factors customers care about and helping them pick an item or match it with others.
The front side of the label for a white "Marginal" wall shelf lists the product price and the name of the designer, notes that the shelf can be cut to the desired length, and that there are other color options. On the back of the label customers find the product description such as base material, length, width, height, load-bearing capacity, and the "good to know" hint that screws should be retightened about two weeks after assembly. Care instructions state "wipe clean with a cloth dampened in a mild cleaner, wipe dry with a clean cloth." These are all details that are of interest when ordinary consumers select furniture or home products. In contrast to traditional furniture stores, Ikea does not emphasize where the material comes from or how rare it is.
In addition, Ikea furniture is designed for self-assembly and neatly packed so that customers can easily take things home themselves. For the vast majority of Ikea items, delivery services are not necessary.
Lee Jen-fang, professor at the Graduate Institute of Technology and Innovation Management at National Chengchi University, hails Ikea's "lean logistics." As products are packed in flatter and smaller packages, transportation volume decreases too. Ikea employees can easily move the products within an Ikea outlet on pallets and stack them with a pallet stacker, which indirectly increases the company's cost competitiveness. Lee thinks that the Ikea management principles "designed for packaging and storage" or even "designed for logistics" even outdo the famous lean manufacturing of Japanese carmaker Toyota.
Incorporating consumers' ways of thinking and lifestyle preferences, and deploying global manufacturing capacity and design capability, Ikea has become a formidable powerhouse with which few can compete. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUerfxK1yAgYaM3yvi | Jill has been collecting data, and photographing Cemetery Memorials and is now making them available for public use. More information about this web site can be found on the 'this site' page. These records were transcribed from a variety of sources, records held by Cemeteries and Church bodies and directly from the Memorials. Click on the links to select the Cemetery, download the data,view a map or the Photos. . | c4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
BkiUbGo4dbjiVD3oEg7v | Police are investigating the death of an 84-year old man at a Eungai Creek property on Friday night.
A crime scene was established when they arrived and forensic police have visited the site.
The cause of the death is unknown and police are making no further comment until they have the results of a post-mortem.
Police also remind drivers who are planning a road trip during the Easter holiday weekend to be sure to take a break when you see a Driver Reviver.
Drivers of all ages get tired - even the young and fit - and you may not even be aware that fatigue is eroding your driving skills.
Driver Reviver sites are there for all motorists and serve a very important purpose for everyone driving over long periods during holidays. Driver Revivers operate throughout Australia to reduce fatigue related crashes on our roads. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdfk5qoYDgb9DHveH | Benefits of joining as an individual member
By becoming an individual member of the PSDS, you get to become part of a network of local, interstate and international swing dancers while also helping to support the Perth swing dance scene. You will also receive PSDS monthly newsletters (you can also sign up for these without a membership). There will also be other benefits from time to time, these will be advertised when they happen.
By becoming a PSDS member, you are agreeing to adhere to the Perth Swing Dance Society Code of Conduct.
Already a PSDS Member?
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I agree to adhere to the PSDS Code of Conduct | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUfUDxK0wg09lKEbnj | 1. During the week of 01/28/18 – 012/03/18 UUAWOL received 1995 views up 889 from the previous week.
2. The heaviest viewing day was Thursday, 02/01/18 with 941 views.
3. The average number of views per day was 285 while the average number of views the preceding week was 158.
1. The statistics reporting views above are very misleading. There were 635 views on Tuesday probably because of the Michael Moore video on the Women's march the previous Saturday. Viewers accessed this page because of an interest in Michael Moore not Unitarian Universalism. The same thing happened on Thursday with 941 views of the video about the net neutrality whopper at Burger King. This very large viewing days probably had nothing to do with Unitarian Universalism.
2. Since eliminating the columns on Question of The Day, and In Case You Were Wondering, views have dropped, but they were dropping already so it is hard to know the impact of their discontinuation. It is intended that the UU A Way Of Life blog be for people looking for stimulation for the serious study of UU theology and not just entertainment. UUAWOL is willing to sacrifice quantity for quality.
While the columns on Question of the Day, and In Case You Were Wondering were discontinued the columns on Prophetic Voices and Spiritual Practices will continue but not on a daily basis. Also, a new column on the Interior Spiritual Life has been added. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUctM5qYVBL4eBuWm_ | Waiting for private sector to take the lead on capex: CEA Nageswaran
Policymakers must decide if public sector investment should be scaled up, or should the private sector take over as the main engine of capital formation in the economy, said Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on Friday.
"It may not be necessary or healthy for the public sector to keep expanding capital investment at the same pace. Capital expenditure has to increase, but not at the same pace because not only should we not be crowding out the private sector, but also ensuring that the combined investment spending by the public and private sector should not drive up the cost of capital too much," Nageswaran said at the Confederation of Indian Industries' Global Economic Policy Summit.
"The public sector will have to decide at some point whether to continue at the same pace, or allow the private sector to take over as the primary engine for investment in the economy, which we have been waiting for," he said.
Public sector meant central and state governments and state-owned enterprises. Nageswaran said that in the last 10 years, public sector capital investment has increased from Rs 6.8 trillion to Rs 21.2 trillion, at a time when the financial sector companies were still repairing their balance sheets.
The CEA's remarks come ahead of the 2023 Union Budget, which Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to present on February 1. Nageswaran will present the 2022-23 Economic Survey on January 31.
In pre-budget consultations, industry bodies have told Sitharaman that because of the global macro-economic situation, the private sector may still not see a complete revival of capital expenditure, and hence urged the centre to continue increasing capex in order to support infrastructure investment.
Nageswaran said that he had decided to consult an artificial intelligence app to help prepare his remarks for the CII event. He said he had asked the app how does one address the employment problem in India.
"The reply was that you have to continue to invest in infrastructure. It will create jobs directly, but because it lays the foundation for further capital formation in the economy, there will be indirect jobs created as well," he said.
The CEA said that while the government had done well to start divesting stake from insurance behemoth LIC Ltd, there was another 'LIC' which continued needing divesting from. "This LIC is the Licensing, Inspection and Compliance regime. While investment, regulation, easing rules for business are all there, divesting from this LIC will create trust in the economy, and that trust can take us from 7 percent growth to 10 percent growth."
He also said that the private sector should continue doing whatever it can to ensure that the micro, small and medium enterprises are paid on time.
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BkiUdVM4ubnjopQiahv1 | The first objective of communist alliance was to defeat Nepali Congress in provincial and national elections. Will Maoist and UML succeed in unification as well?
There is a riddle in Nepali: Can you make a tonne out of the frogs? This riddle is applicable to all political parties if you define them in terms of body politics of bickering, splits, divisions, factionalism and the constant process of unification, reunification and split. There is no political party in Nepal which has not escaped vertical, horizontal and lateral splits and mergers, acquisitions and absorptions in the name of party purification and unification.
In spite of likely accusations of being labeled as prejudiced and skeptical, let me make a personal observation on Nepali society and politics. Individually, Nepali people are superb but when it comes to organized endeavor they fail despairingly. This is primarily due to lack of management skills and capability. Maybe I will take up Nepali way of management sometime in the future but the issue I want to discuss here is much hyped communist unification.
The electoral alliance between CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre with the eventual goal of merger and unification came as a surprise to many people. There are several reasons behind this. First, the two largest communist parties, who behaved with each other as arch rivals, decided to come together. Second, this came at a time when Nepali people were celebrating Dashain holidays. Third, due to the abruptness of the move, people, in general, have not understood the motive behind the whole process. Nepali Congress (NC) admits it as "unexpected and unusual" result of "behind the scene" plays. In social media, many point to hands of China and India for the development.
There are two sides to communist unity. The first objective was to forge an electoral alliance, on which the two parties succeeded well, though they are little sort of securing two-thirds majorities required for amending the constitution to their liking. The long-term objective was creating single communist entity through the complete unification of left parties in Nepal.
Various committees are reportedly working for this purpose.
The first was tactical move to defeat Nepali Congress in the provincial and national elections. They succeeded on this too. But what about unification? Is this possible? Is this desirable or even feasible in a Nepali context? This is where much of Nepal's current political debate has concentrated.
Given the past background and schoolings of communist parties in Nepal, party unification may not be an impossible dream but it is, definitely, a herculean task. There had been constant splits and factions due to factors such as ideological differences, external orientation, personality differences among leaders and so on (Look at the chart alongside for a brief history and evolution of communist party polarization and fragmentation in Nepal. Also note, due to space constraint only major events are mentioned there).
With a successful electoral alliance, there is a feeling of déjà vu in the leftist camps. With united communists and a stable government for at least five years to come, they are expecting a much needed political stability. And the political stability is expected to bring good governance and prosperity to all.
Graduating Nepal from a status of the least developing country to a developing country by 2022 is not going to be easy. The communist fans have even started dreaming of transforming Nepal into Switzerland of Asia. Who knows, ongoing Davos jamboree may take place in Daman? Let them dream.
The skeptics draw an analogy between unification of two parties and mixing of oil with water. That is to say, they do mix, but at the end, oil will be oil and water will be water. But this scribe is not much worried by the line of demarcation as much as by the slipperiness of the mixture. We do have to wait and see who is going to slip-in and slip-out while stepping into this mixture called communist unification. The leaders are already joggling with the slippery issue as they have stopped duping their followers regarding the timing of unification: that is, whether it should take place before, after or during government formation.
Expect them to say: Unification has been delayed due to delay in government formation. They have already started to say a government formation is an event while unification a long-term process. One can never match playing words with communist fellows in Nepal.
Remember their stand on National Assembly elections ordinance? They said it is unconstitutional but they accepted President's authentication of the same as constitutional. Same goes with the government's appointment of the provincial governors and fixing provincial capitals. They agree with the process but disagree with outcomes.
The communist unification was a ploy to win elections through the electoral alliance. Having succeeded with the alliance, it will be no wonder to see, in the days to come, unification process being delayed or used only for public consumption to contain disgruntling voices of the party members and cadres. If one is aiming for a fewer political party or two political parties in Nepal, what is desired is the unification among smaller political parties, not the big ones.
If communist unification has been forwarded as a part of the electoral alliance, it is even more dangerous for the country's politics. Already electoral alliances have made a mockery of electoral democracy. It is virtually like a political match-fixing—far more dangerous than electoral frauds. At least, in the game of sports, we do have a code of conduct for a fair play. Should we not have one during political elections? | c4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
BkiUdyM5qhLAB70I4Q1t | Alexandre Carrier (né le à Saint-Elzéar-de-Beauce, dans la province du Québec au Canada) est un joueur professionnel québécois de hockey sur glace. Il évolue au poste d'ailier droit.
Biographie
Il devient professionnel en 2011 avec l'EC Red Bull Salzbourg dans l' EBEL.
Statistiques
Pour les significations des abréviations, voir statistiques du hockey sur glace.
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|2006-2007 || Commandeurs de Lévis || LHMAAA ||2 ||0 ||0 ||0 ||4 ||2 ||0 ||0 ||0 ||0
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|2007-2008 || Commandeurs de Lévis || LHMAAA ||44 ||6 ||10 ||16 ||134 ||3 ||0 ||1 ||1 ||8
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|2008-2009 || Foreurs de Val-d'Or || LHJMQ ||45 ||0 ||1 ||1 ||51 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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|2009-2010 || Foreurs de Val-d'Or || LHJMQ ||29 ||2 ||4 ||6 ||50 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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|2010-2011 || Foreurs de Val-d'Or || LHJMQ ||67 ||6 ||15 ||21 ||130 ||4 ||2 ||2 ||4 ||2
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|2011-2012 || EC Red Bull Salzbourg || EBEL ||10 ||2 ||1 ||3 ||37 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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|2012-2013 || Titans de Trenton || ECHL ||47 ||1 ||5 ||6 ||102 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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| 2013-2014 || Jackals d'Elmira || ECHL ||6 ||0 ||0 ||0 ||5 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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|2013-2014 || Thunder de Wichita || LCH ||2 ||0 ||0 ||0 ||5 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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|2013-2014 || Nailers de Wheeling || ECHL ||10 ||0 ||0 ||0 ||9 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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|2014-2015 || Rivermen de Peoria || SPHL ||11 ||2 ||2 ||4 ||51 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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|2014-2015 || Solar Bears d'Orlando || ECHL ||16 ||0 ||1 ||1 ||33 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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|2014-2015 || Devils d'Albany || LAH ||13 ||0 ||0 ||0 ||10 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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|2015-2016 || Thunder de l'Adirondack || ECHL ||47 ||5 ||8 ||13 ||108 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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|2015-2016 || Devils d'Albany || LAH ||5 ||0 ||0 ||0 ||0 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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| rowspan=3 | 2016-2017 || Grizzlies de l'Utah || ECHL ||18 ||1 ||4 ||5 ||38 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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| Solar Bears d'Orlando || ECHL ||10 ||1 ||3 ||4 ||16 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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| Nailers de Wheeling || ECHL ||17 ||1 ||4 ||5 ||21 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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| rowspan=2 | 2017-2018 || Gladiators d'Atlanta || ECHL ||46 ||3 ||7 ||10 ||88 ||- ||- ||- ||- ||-
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| Americans d'Allen || ECHL ||13 ||0 ||2 ||2 ||2 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
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|2018-2019 || Thunder de l'Adirondack || ECHL ||48 ||2 ||6 ||8 ||82 ||1 ||0 ||0 ||0 ||10
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|2019-2020 || Thunder de l'Adirondack || ECHL || 39 || 3 || 6 || 9 || 51 || - || - || - || - || -
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| 2021-2022 ||Thunder de l'Adirondack || ECHL || 40 || 6 || 2 || 8 || 60 || - || - || - || - || -
Notes et références
Naissance en février 1991
Naissance en Chaudière-Appalaches
Joueur canadien de hockey sur glace
Attaquant de hockey sur glace
Joueur des Foreurs de Val-d'Or
Joueur des Titans de Trenton
Joueur des Jackals d'Elmira
Joueur du Thunder de Wichita
Joueur des Nailers de Wheeling
Joueur du Thunder de l'Adirondack
Joueur des Devils d'Albany
Joueur des Grizzlies de l'Utah (ECHL)
Joueur des Americans d'Allen
Joueur des Gladiators d'Atlanta
Joueur des Solar Bears d'Orlando (ECHL) | wikipedia | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUf93xK03BfNelYfuO | Pitt Race offers a wide variety of enjoyable ways to get behind the wheel and burn rubber. We were asked to put together a small media piece for them to use via their social media channels. Stop out and give their karting track a run. It's a blast! | c4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdqE5qhLACG6g_hRi | """Tests for unittest_utils."""
import numpy as np
import io
from PIL import Image as PILImage
import tensorflow as tf
from datasets import unittest_utils
class UnittestUtilsTest(tf.test.TestCase):
def test_creates_an_image_of_specified_shape(self):
image, _ = unittest_utils.create_random_image('PNG', (10, 20, 3))
self.assertEqual(image.shape, (10, 20, 3))
def test_encoded_image_corresponds_to_numpy_array(self):
image, encoded = unittest_utils.create_random_image('PNG', (20, 10, 3))
pil_image = PILImage.open(io.BytesIO(encoded))
self.assertAllEqual(image, np.array(pil_image))
def test_created_example_has_correct_values(self):
example_serialized = unittest_utils.create_serialized_example({
'labels': [1, 2, 3],
'data': [b'FAKE']
})
example = tf.train.Example()
example.ParseFromString(example_serialized)
self.assertProtoEquals("""
features {
feature {
key: "labels"
value { int64_list {
value: 1
value: 2
value: 3
}}
}
feature {
key: "data"
value { bytes_list {
value: "FAKE"
}}
}
}
""", example)
if __name__ == '__main__':
tf.test.main()
| github | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
BkiUdak4ubng0WcZydzx | Q: Github action failing react test, running locally My test suites were running fine in GH actions (and locally). Suddently they are not running anymore (still running locally). The problem seems to be async functions timing out for some reason:
Timed out in waitForNextUpdate after 1000ms.
My .yml file with the action:
name: Webapp test and build
on:
pull_request:
branches: [ dev ]
types: [opened, closed]
jobs:
test_build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
matrix:
node-version: [14.x]
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v2
with:
token: ${{ secrets.GIT_TOKEN }}
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
uses: actions/setup-node@v2
with:
node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
cache: 'yarn'
- name: Install packages
run: yarn install
- name: Run Tests
run: yarn test
Once more, test running locally on Node 14 and same repo. Any hints or help deeply appreciated
A: It turns out that I was missing environmental variables in Github actions. Why the tests were originally passing in GH actions is still a mistery...
| stackexchange | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUeCLxK7IAG-HAXAz9 | Sherrilyn Kenyon has created a world that is truly unique in the Chronicles of Nick. The characters are one of a kind and the situations they get into are perilous, but you know the good guys are going to end up on top.
In Illusion, the fifth book in the Chronicles of Nick, Nick is thrown into an alternate dimension where his life could have been completely normal, but his friends are completely normal too. This leaves him trapped. He doesn't know how to use any of his abilities and in this new world he cannot even access them.
This installment to the series had me laughing out loud and fearful for Nick. There were so many things revealed about certain characters and the world they live in. I want to keep this spoiler free, but I'm glad Kenyon finally divulged some information on the why's/how's of the series. We have a more in depth look at Kody, Caleb, and Nick's Malachai existence.
Anyone who's a fan of the series will enjoy Illusion and if you haven't picked up the series I recommend it to any fan of Kenyon or Young Adult literature. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfUw5qhDCyOQLSTPh | Free NBA cosmetics supporting available black communities
February 13, 2022 by Chalupa
Last updated 2 years ago
Take two companies like 2K and Rockstar Games have made small gestures as a result of George Floyd's death last week. The online services of their games have been closed for a few hours in honor of Floyd's life. Whether these actions are significant or not is debated, but 2K makes a little more in the NBA 2K20 community. Yesterday, after the recovery of their online services, the NBA 2K20 players were greeted by a commemorative message to George Floyd. Players could also buy a number of free cosmetics for their avatars at stake.
The three designs have slogans that are popular among protest protests against police brutality throughout the United States; The black lives count, I can not breathe and pronounce their names. These are all black shirts with white text, just like the Black Lives Matter logo designs. What is even more powerful is that players have come down in the digital streets of the neighborhood. The neighborhood is a turntable for players to gather, play basketball and other games and activities. The steps were conducted in the game with players carrying their Black Live clothes Matter and raising your arms crossed.
We do not know how long these free cosmetics will be available in the Swags online store. Earlier in the year, NBA 2K20 also paid tribute to the Superstar of the NBA, Kobe Bryant, after his death. NBA players also brought shirts I Can not Breathe to protest police brutality after Eric Garner's murder. We can only hope that there will be no more tragedies on the horizon for which communities will have to pay tribute. Although it's small gestures, they can help communities online like this to heal and feel united in their grief, frustration and hope for the future. NBA 2K20 is now available on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
Have you participated in a walk or an online event? Let us know in the comments below.
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BkiUdfU4dbjiU_-ddgoV | Cricket51days
Cricket in all its formats…and the occasional travelblog too!
Triumph and disaster – time for a kiple?
Before he had a career change to make 'exceedingly good cakes' (or so it's claimed) Mr Kipling waxed lyrical in his 'If' about treating triumph and disaster just the same as part of your development but as I've seen this week it also applies to teams in many fields.
Ireland has had its share of triumph so far this week. Shane Lowry beat all before him to take the Open Championship, whilst his playing partner of earlier rounds vying for the lead before he stepped onto the first tee at Portrush found disaster and moved from first to almost last in the blinking of an eye (in golfing terms) and his potential triumphant pay cheque of £500,000 disintegrated as did his golf and he walked away with only £ 22,000 for his toils.
The triumph of staging the Open in Ireland must have spread to the Test cricket side (yes…Ireland are one of the new boys of test cricket) as they approached their first ever test against England and at Lord's. So, the opportunity of witnessing history for the first two days of the test could not be ignored.
England are expected (as one of the leading lights of test cricket) to roll Ireland over by a significant margin without breaking into a sweat so triumph and disaster for each side is regarded as a 'given'. Failure to do so and also to dominate in every area of the game would be regarded by England as a disaster especially as the Ashes follow hot on the heels of this game – and England need to be mentally on top of their game for those tests because Australia will be!
No leprechaun luck needed!
So, to witness an abject batting performance on the first morning was expected but it was not expected was that it would be England who would be done like a kipper! All out for 85 on the stroke of lunch (a four day game instead of the standard five but not that many fewer overs meant that timings are all over the place).
The weather was warm and sunny – verging on hot later – no real cloud cover; a pitch which looked from afar not to be too green but what followed at 11.00 am was an exhibition of seam/swing bowling by Tim Murtagh (Middlesex player of many years standing so he knows every blade of grass here at Lord's) to stand tall in the pantheons of bowling. England's batsmen played as if they had never seen a bat before, let alone a ball and collapsed (more than embarrassingly) to be all out in just over two hours and Tim taking 5-13 in nine overs – so he gets himself on the honours board at Lord's which is a career highlight in itself but with one of the best set of figures in the history of the game seen at Lord's.
Tim wreaking havoc!
The excuse being rolled out (by those that know) is that the England team had been focussing on winning the one day World Cup that there were mentally tired – that may be so but not all of this team are World Cup winners, so why were they so bad? Some were in one-day mode so why didn't the ECB organise some four day cricket for them – perhaps, even dare I say, a county championship game? Or even, why play this test now…if England don't win by a large margin in next to no time it would be seen as a disaster and at lunch on Day 1 that looked likely. Regular readers will be well versed in my frustration at being unable to understand the ECB!
Tim wreaking havoc with the bat!
But anyway…we are where we are. By tea Ireland move to 120-odd for two and the England bowling ineffective and once Plan A didn't work, Plan B was just to repeat Plan A (now where have we seen this before?) but by the close (as clouds rolled in) Ireland had been dismissed for 207 and a lead of over 100. England send out Leach as night watch man for one over (seen that before!) but for the first time since the early 1950s three innings were seen on the first day of a test.
A casual observer would have looked at the headlines and seen one side out for 85 and the other for over 200 and thought England were all over Ireland like a rash but the opposite was true. Triumph and disaster in one day! Excellent bowling – especially by Ireland – but batting dire in the extreme by England and capable by Ireland.
Day 2 dawned with lists of records and events at Lord's and the prospect of the hottest day ever recorded in the UK as well as the risk of recently-retired Prime Ministers and other sacked/resigned Cabinet ministers trying to occupy their time at the Test whilst the circus they had left behind transformed itself into the true three-ring variety just down the road – again triumph and disaster in equal measure.
England needed to establish a lead and also get some of the side into some kind of batting form but the one-day approach (seemingly highly contagious as it spread to the non-World Cup guys) reappeared; the shock and delicious irony was that Leach as night watchman made 92 and Roy on debut 72 provided the bulk of the runs. Perhaps Leach is the solution to the opening problem?
Stylish Leach
And reaches 50!
But England collapsed around tea time as the clouds rolled in and the Irish seamers found their forte; by the close (taken early since there was a thunderstorm brewing in the Croydon area) England strained to reach 300 and a lead of 180 but with one wicket to go.
Probably the shot of the day by Roy
And more Surrey style/class!
And I musn't forget one of my stable of hobby horses before I close – 12 overs were lost on Day 1 due to slow over rates and 22 on Day 2 – but no one seemed to mind of being cheated out of paid entertainment! Others may not but I do!
So as the match reaches Day 3, there's the opportunity of triumph and disaster for both sides – but who knows how it will go.
What is clear from two days is that England's batting was poor, their attitude and approach suffered a shock on that first morning and first day and what are the mental implications for the Ashes?
Ireland did themselves proud as they stepped onto the large arena and embarrassed England with their professionalism and better skill on the first day. And I can say that I was there!
And…there's the opportunity for more triumph and disaster across the Channel as the Tour de France reaches its climax; disaster for last year's winner as he slips down the order and probably out of contention, and possible triumph for France in having their first Tour winner for over 30 years.
But then just as the Maillot Jaune changed hands in the Alps but with an opportunity to change back as they descended from the highest peak of the whole Tour, a freak hailstorm caused the stage to be abandoned so from triumph to disaster to the hope of triumph to disaster was unprecedented!
And as Mr Kipling muttered through his crumb filled face – treat triumph and disaster just the same and you'll be a better person/team etc – let's hope England don't get kipled by the Aussies but we shall see
cricket51days Uncategorized Leave a comment July 26, 2019 5 Minutes
Cannabis or revolver? County Championship cricket!
I fully understand the need for increased security in the current times we live in but I'm fascinated about the varying levels of scrutiny I've experienced.
At Lords I'm questioned about any miniatures I may have under my hat, at the WACA in Perth umbrellas were regarded as blunt instruments (trombones were ok), in Sri Lanka no one worried, at the Oval it's a open arm welcome and jolly banter when there's a search (tests and internationals only) but at Chelmsford it just gets bizzare!
The last two days my bags were thoroughly searched and the contents broadcast by the security guy for all to hear. Rest assured there's never anything inappropriate in my backpack!
When asked if he could do 'the usual bag check' I asked what that was. I was told that he's looking for cannabis or a revolver! Now, whether that's for his own use I didn't ask but I sit here wondering what such a combination would do at a first class cricket match.
Given the average age of those attending I would venture that some may have experimented with the former many years ago (remember most of the Tory leadership candidates had done something at sometime) but I reckon the most radical thing the current group of spectators would do is join the provisional wing of the Women's Institute and use strawberry rather than raspberry jam in a sponge! And as for the revolver…not quite sure about that.
Anyway today's check was 'any glass in there mate?' as he pointed to my backpack. No…I replied, 'Ok… thanks' and I was allowed in. What worries me now is who in the crowd has the revolver!
By the way, after 45 minutes Warwickshire can't remove the Kiwi night watchman as Essex progress to 116/1 and Sir A another 50. Lead is now 200
By lunch, the Essex 'net' progresses to 169/4 off 62 overs (33 in session!); thanks in the main to 83 by Sir A (still not converting those 50s into centuries…but then no one else is doing so either here at Chelmsford- home or away teams).
A minor collapse in losing three quick wickets was somewhat stabilised but losing another two in the first over after lunch by Brookes sees the score move to 190/6 by 2pm and a lead of 275.
Only two scores of over 300 have been made here all season (and both by Essex) and on the evidence of Warwickshire's first innings, this should be ample but bat until tea, lead by 350 and bowl after tea.
Tea arrives, almost on time, as Essex reach 299/7 and a lead of 383. Lawrence has made a fine 74 and Harmer 43 as they grind the opposition down. There's been an element of declaration batting but nothing too serious.
Wickets today fall in clumps; Wheaters attempt at a second reverse sweep ending his innings prematurely. Reverse sweeping 32 years ago didn't look good (M W Gatting will know) and it doesn't work now.
Wheater leans on his bat after the reverse sweep fails
There's only one result for this game now and Warwickshire have been off the pace ever since ball one on Saturday and don't look like working miracles.
Yates – ready for close fielding
The World Cup effect seems to have started with an excellent crowd here for a working Monday – the top of the Pearce Stand looks full. There's also a bigger smattering of youth here today – some I suggest have played truant – but also younger people than average. Nonetheless care homes must be empty today and people can roam the streets free in the knowledge that most of the old folk are at the cricket!
Pearce stand…packed out
Wonder if anyone's got the revolver?
What will be interesting is how long the effect lasts – shall we see such numbers when we have to wear ski suits to watch cricket ? And also the response of the ECB to the public reaction and the vast numbers watching the free to air Final and following on line – I'm told the final had more on line followers than all other sports combined yesterday. Come on ECB…ride this wave, make the changes, ditch the Hundred, resurrect the county 50 over game and bring cricket back to the people!
Rush of blood after tea by Lawrence sees him return to the Pavilion post haste. The only reasons the cognoscenti can see for continued batting are – Lawrence to reach 100 (didn't happen), Harmer to reach 50 (which he didn't), Essex to score over 300 (yes they did) or to set a target of 400 (which they did).
Rush of blood – fish eye view
Warwickshire reappear (Essex with substitute keeper) to bat for 3 and a bit sessions, 110 plus overs or score 400. Based on their first attempt that doesn't look likely. But they stick to the task manfully and reach the end of the day at 67/1. The one falling to Beard. The plan tomorrow must be for Harmer to take one end and rotate the quicks from the other.
But that's for tomorrow and I wonder what I'll be searched for but I couldn't find the revolver!
Supersport Sunday but for me…the Aussie takes it!
On a day overrun with the prospect of excellent sport – Wimbledon, Grand Prix, Tour de France and the World Cup Final – all on TV as I'm not prepared to pay exorbitant prices even if tickets could be obtained- I take myself off to the CloudFM County Ground for Day 2 of Essex Warwickshire.
Bring me sunshine?
There's about 600 or so others here at the start of play so it's not being played to empty grounds; although there is the option of watching two of the above events in the Pavilion (members only) but why would you when you've..,
Warwickshire start their first innings and reach 57/4 lunch off 30 overs; not a poor effort but a very poor one. No one seems to have any idea against some excellent fast bowling and seem dumbstruck by spin; ok, they've lost two key men to the Lions match but the standard on display would surely shame second eleven games.
Appealing…Sri Lankan style!
Tongue out…concentrating!
Spin finger protection
The look in Ambrose's eyes say it all as he edges Siddle down Westleys throat!
Looks a nice cover drive…except that it went down cover's throat. Siddle again!
Not such a good shot…caught by the keeper!
An extended afternoon session…just because Warwickshire were nine down at the appointed time sees them dismissed for 161 off 66 overs. No one really settled although Burgess and Ambrose (not sure if spies or a comedy double act) showed the most cohesion but when clouds rolled in a bit more, Siddle was offered the ball and ripped out the middle and lower order as if turning a herring into a kipper. But with a lot less smoke! Five for 33 all told was as fine a display of fast bowling, seam and swing as you'd ever see and the experts here at Chelmsford have him picked for the Aussies in the Ashes.
Overall it's five wickets for the Aussie, two for SA, one for NZ and one for England born players! Suppose it says it all about County cricket!
Essex have a lead of 84 – not quite what they had in mind earlier before lunch and Warwickshire making a bit better effort this afternoon; but we're half way through the game, it's still cloudy and forecast to be that way, but I wouldn't want to face Harmer batting fourth!
Essex enjoy what looks like an extended net with no alarms or concerns and have a lead of 150 or so at the close. The only blemish being Browne falling to Rhodes just before the close. Rhodes is becoming a 'golden arm' – the player you turn to when you need a wicket.
The World Cup Final is building up nicely…time to pop home and see the end. Wonder how it will go?
cricket51days Uncategorized Leave a comment July 14, 2019 July 14, 2019 2 Minutes
Patience, perseverance and concentration.
Look at the spectators in the background- some found it too exciting!
After two weeks of being a tourist, I'm back to the day job of self employed cricket watching. It's day 27 of the season for me and rocking up at the CloudFM County Ground for Essex v Warwickshire; originally scheduled for September but swapped since Worcester was not able to cater for the home fixture due today. Confused? Warwickshire and Worcester are different counties, home matches switched round and so forth…It will all become clear!
However the cricket today was absorbing and a true four day pace. Essex reach 73/2 at lunch off 32 overs with Cook (Sir A) taking root whilst Browne And Westley were too extravagant on such a day and surface. Overcast yet on the cool side of warm meant that the Warwickshire bowling caused issues from early on. Hannon-Dalby so far bowling seven overs, six of which were maidens! Slightly indifferent bounce especially from the Hays Close end meant that patience and perseverance are key.
Now that's how to concentrate!
By tea Essex reach 169/4 off 65 overs (bowled within the four hours expected!) but could have been better. Cook (Sir A) went to a false shot outside off, Lawrence caught behind having made 84 and 61 respectively and were sitting pretty at 157/2. The Warwickshire bowling has looked indifferent this afternoon, lacking the penetration needed but applying pressure via maidens. It wasn't until Will Rhodes appeared just before tea to nip out the two batsmen that things improved. Rhodes looks quite slippy and is more of a handful than batsmen think.
Not the score from Wimbledon! Just v tight bowling!
But by tea I suppose each side is reasonably happy, Essex the more so but given that there's only been two scores of more than 300 here all season, then a clattering of wickets can only be expected later. Warwickshire would have 240/250 in their heads as a good days work having elected to field, but let's see.
Honestly…I write each part of the blog at convenient intervals so my hint of an Essex collapse was no more than that; but I'm equally not surprised when they collapse from four down at tea to be nine down an hour or so later at 197/9. Other than Lawrence and Sir A, no one has shown any tenacity or more importantly patience to wait for the bad ball…too many loose shots for most people's liking.
Workmanlike approach by Olly Stone
A waggle of the tail – Beard and Quinn – add a level of respectability – and wag until the 94th over of the day before the innings closes at 245. Both sides are probably content with their days work…but a bit more patience could have meant…
Quinn dodging a bouncer
And to make it clear why this match is being played now:
Warwickshire's home ground – Edgbaston – has been under the control of the ICC for the World Cup
No other Warwickshire Ground was available/made the grade
Agreed to move the home fixture to Worcester
Worcester is then flooded during June and Ground is not fit for play.
Solution – move the Essex away fixture to a home fixture and move the home one away in September!
Too much geography! 'I'm a self employed cricket watcher…get me out of here!
One of the delights of Canada is the sheer variety of things to do and see, places to visit and enjoy…especially when it comes to the great outdoors (the climate is such that when it's warm, you get into the great outdoors since winter lasts so long!).
So today it's the delights of Hamilton (Ontario), waterfalls along the Niagara escarpment and early evening down by the lake (Lake Ontario that is…one of the Great Lakes). One thing you learn a lot about when you visit Canada is geography!
Deep enough in the forest of the escarpment for my own 'I'm a celebrity…' bridge walk!
The owner received a knighthood from Queen Victoria for beating off the Americans!
A brief stop at Castle Dundern in Hamilton (there's little else happening here on a warm July Monday); but…for Castle read 'manor house' (guide book) or 'Villa' (as the explanatory signs said) or just 'house' – my Essex (UK) readers will understand when I say Hylands House is larger!
And so to waterfalls…for which Hamilton is renowned (as well as being the first host city of the Commonwealth Games in 1930…pub quizzers please note). The famous Niagara Falls cut through the rocks of the Niagara Escarpment (in essence a high ridge of land stretching for miles and miles) which has fertile soil and climate for grape growing (and wine) as well as providing the local rivers with something to fall over. (Told you there's lots of geography here!). And so some photos of a couple of waterfalls, the escarpment and a bridge for my own 'I'm a self employed cricket watcher…get me out of here' photo op!
Tews Falls
Somewhere in there are two waterfalls as you look from Dundas Peak
Views from Dundas Peak looking towards Hamilton
Dundas Peak from the escarpment (the viewpoint of the last photo is the small ridge on the horizon
Webster Falls named after a Mr Webster from Gloucester
And finally, Lake Ontario looking first towards Toronto and then towards Hamilton from a lovely little lakeside village called Port Credit (pronounced PorCredi…v French); and given the size of the properties and yachts dotted around you need a lot of credit to live here.
Hence, as a self employed cricket watcher…get me out of here!
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More tourist snaps…but none of the nudist beach!
One of the hidden gems of Toronto is the Toronto Islands Park. It costs C$10 to get there by water taxi from the harbour front – a journey of less than 10 mins. It has everything you could want for a day out in all seasons including a 'clothing optional beach' and it's where Toronto goes to relax.
So here's a few photos to whet your appetite for a visit when you visit!
Stunning cityscape from the Islands
Tranquillity can be found anywhere in the park (even when teeming with people).
Taxis ply for trade…but people tend to go back on the free ferry; doesn't seem very economical as far as the taxis are concerned.
Bike hire is the best way to get around the islands…they're car free but home all year round to 700 people, who don't seem to mind having tourists and park goers passing by every ten seconds or so!
I have more photos but looking at other people's holiday snaps can be one of the worst types of torture known to man!
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Return to Niagara…17 years later.
One of the first intercontinental family holidays all those years ago was a week long trip to Toronto (using accumulated air miles etc) and a day trip to Niagara Falls complete with Maid of the Mist boat trip (the last boat on the last day of the season that year…so we only just made it).
So on my nth trip to Canada since then took in a full day in Niagara Falls, the wineries of Niagara on the Lake and some spectacular views all round…so enjoy!
Upstream from the Falls
And as you approach the Falls, there's no inkling of the drop or spectacle to follow
And this time…the walk behind the water!
Horn blowers…the Canadain boats (can take up to 700 at a time); the US boats are a lot smaller
All the ponchos are recycled- saving the planet
The American side…and the actual Niagara Falls; the famous ones are the Horseshoe Falls!
The gardens are equally spectacular
Dainty…Niagara on the Lake
Lake Ontario…and you can just see Toronto on the other side, some 60 miles away but you have to drive round the side of the Lake!
If you only make one visit to Canada, make it here. Add it to your bucket list!
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Happy 152nd birthday!
No one has yet made it to their 152nd birthday (although I'm told pension actuaries have calculated that the first person to live to 150 has been born and is alive somewhere on the planet – some people need to get out more!) so this birthday celebrates Canada being formed exactly 152 years (and now one day) ago.
The twin towers of Mississauga- locally known as the Marilyn Monroe buildings!
So, following my own advice, I'm getting out more to experience Canada Day at first hand in Mississauga Ontario (Mississauga is Canada's fifth largest city…a useless fact unless you're doing a pub quiz or TV game show for money…remember you saw it here first!).
Some of my readers will be pleased to see I'm off on more travels which means fewer words and more photos; whilst others may welcome the break from my feeble attempts at reporting on cricket. I've left the runfest which is the World Cup behind but should be back to cast an eye over the later proceedings from the UK.
Celebration Square gearing up for celebrating
The celebrations are a time to reflect on the nation as a whole, the equal and welcoming society it has become; ok it has its problems (the neighbours are kicking up more of a fuss than of late) but Canadians are judged on being Canadians, not where they came from, what jobs they do, where they live, what they believe, what they look like or any of the hang ups Europeans and especially Britain has been clinging on to in an anally retentive mode for decades.
It has taken Canada not time at all to be this welcoming – perhaps others can learn how to do it too?
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"What is actually driving our economy is the transport network," says Huang Shao Fei, Director of Innovation and Smart Mobility at Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA).
"That's why we have to take bold steps," Huang adds. Below, he tells GovInsider how the island state is exploring plans to predict train disruptions; make every vehicle a traffic sensor; and ways to use artificial intelligence to secure all this infrastructure.
Singapore has experienced a spate of metro train disruptions since 2011, to the chagrin of thousands of commuters. The reality is, "we have a lot of ageing infrastructure" in the public transport network, Huang says. "Truth be told, they are not as reliable as they were when they were just rolled out," he admits.
Drones will be put to work in a trial to inspect rail infrastructure. This work must be done overnight, during the few hours that the trains are not running. LTA will "send these drones into the tunnels and then check for the conditions of the tracks and tunnel walls, instead of sending people in", he explains.
And artificial intelligence is something "we will eventually have to look into", Huang says. AI will be able to predict if there will be more stress on particular equipment so that train operators can immediately zoom in on those.
It would be able to learn from the past, and advise on issues expected in new lines, like the upcoming Thomson-East Coast route. "We will expect that artificial intelligence will be able draw lessons from [the existing] Downtown Line and then we will actually correlate them, extrapolate to the new line," he explains.
Singapore plans to use predictive maintenance on buses too. This "only makes sense", he says, since the government now owns 6,000 or so buses. "So if the buses break down, the government shares the responsibility to address them," he says. As a start, each of these buses are now fitted with sensors that feed their location back to officials.
"The Singapore government has placed its bets on self-driving technology," Huang says, and plans to use it in two ways. One is for self-driving public buses on scheduled and fixed routes, with similar capacity to the public buses in use today. This is in early stages, with plans to have two prototypes ready by 2020.
The second use is in "driverless pods" for first- and last-mile connectivity. These will be for "citizens with special needs," Huang says, like the elderly, disabled or families with young children. They will be available on-demand with bookings made via smartphones, much like an Uber or Grab service.
But that's not the whole story. What will make driverless vehicles powerful is that they will all be connected to a new S$556 million satellite-based traffic management system. "Every vehicle will become like a sensor", transmitting location data back to HQ. "It's for intelligent transport systems that we are going to fuse the data together with other data sources around public transport," Huang explains.
For instance, bus schedules would be more dynamic, so that operators can add driverless buses to the network when there's a surge in demand. "You can deploy these buses autonomously to go and carry these people to wherever they need to go," Huang says. Data from the driverless cars will also help "tune our traffic lights", he adds. In an emergency, traffic signals would change to create a clear lane for ambulances or fire trucks.
Outside of public transport, Singapore is trialling autonomous trucks to transport containers at ports. Other potential areas are autonomous garbage trucks or road-sweeping cars, Huang shares.
Singapore will need to ensure that all of the transport data it will collect is safe. With a shortage of security specialists the world over, "we have to find a way to go around this resource crunch", says Huang, who is also Director of IT Security at LTA.
Artificial intelligence could be a solution, he believes, and plans to trial it. It can take years to train cyber security specialists, and with the risks involved in this type of work, you want an experienced and reliable pair of hands, according to Huang. "Over time, any artificial intelligence technology will hopefully be able to build up a corpus of knowledge that represents an experienced person who has been in the system for a long time," he says.
However, current AI technology for security "falls short" of being fully autonomous. "You need to train it to understand the environment, you need to contextualise it," he says. This is where a human is still required, he believes.
The government, however, is "seriously short of engineers", particularly in rail, Huang says. Hence, Singapore is promoting schemes to attract engineers, data scientists, technologists and security specialists.
But it is important that these engineers are allowed to work across agencies, believes Huang, who is himself a mechanical engineer by training. Government officials often tend to narrow down their ideas to their own ministry or agency, he says. Instead, "you want to tear down walls to allow people to have an opportunity to incubate ideas," he says.
This mentality has been shaken up by the Government Technology Agency's centralisation under the Prime Minister's Office, he believes. "It's like a shot in the arm by saying that this whole team of people will come under the Prime Minister's Office," he says. This will allow technologists and engineers to work across agencies and ensure that good ideas are given a chance, no matter which agency they come from.
With Singapore's role as a regional transport hub, its own residents along with cities across Asia will be watching its next move. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
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It's a long, long night is a game about prolonging the magic. As the stars fade away in the morning, your goal is to rekindle their light in order to delay the sunrise and enjoy the longest possible night.
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French website Dealabs has been nailing Sony's subscription service leaks lately. Therefore it's no surprise that it also spiked the January 2022 PS Plus line-up. On November 29, PlayStation has confirmed the games that will be coming for subscribers in the first month of 2022. Namely, we have Persona 5 Strikers (PS4), DIRT 5 (PS4 / PS5), and Deep Rock Galactic (PS4 / PS5). The lineup is better than the previous month since it brings two recently-released games like Persona 5 Strikers, and DIRT 5. Deep Rock Galactic is also being launched in the service, which adds further relevancy to it and will possibly boost the number of players.
January PS Plus games will be available from January 4th to subscribers of the service. Until then, on January 3, it will still be possible to redeem the titles from December 2021. To refresh your memory, the titles are Mortal Shell (PS4), LEGO DC Super-Villains (PS4), and GodFall Challenger Edition (PS4/PS5). To get the games through the browser is simple: just go to the PS Store website, log in to an account with the service active and click on "Add to Library". Ready! Games will be saved in your library. The process is even simples with the PS App for Android and iOS.
Check more details about the upcoming titles below:
Persona 5 Strikers (PS4)
"Join the Phantom Thieves to counteract the corruption spreading across Japan's cities. Summer vacations among close friends will take an unexpected turn when a distorted reality emerges; reveal the truth and rescue the hearts of those who were held captive in the center of the crisis!"
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Deep Rock Galactic (PS4/PS5)
"Team up to dig, dig, explore and fight your way through a gigantic cave system filled with hordes of deadly enemies and valuable resources. If you want to survive the most hostile cave system in the galaxy, you need to trust your teammates!"
DIRT 5 (PS4 / PS5)
"DIRT 5 is the most ambitious title in the legendary Codemasters racing series. With new features and dizzying action, DIRT 5 bets big on epic racing, pure expression, and unbridled style."
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BkiUdQ7xK6nrxqmozgWA | For many retirees, the fear of running out of money is their greatest worry. They don't know how to stretch their Social Security benefit to pay all their bills, or they are uncertain about how often, or how much, they can dip into their individual retirement account or other retirement savings.
According to a 2019 survey from the Certified Financial Planner Board, barely 40 percent of Americans track their expenses and make a household budget. For the rest, budgeting simply means spending whatever income comes in during the month — or maybe more, if you haven't yet reached your credit limit.
That's where a budget comes to the rescue. A budget shows how you spend your money and where you can make adjustments to fill the financial holes. It also helps you prepare for the nasty surprises that inevitably come along in life, like a major home or car repair or unexpected medical bill. By having a plan, you avoid a lot of stress and reduce all those fears about not being able to pay your bills.
Here are six steps for creating a budget that will keep your finances in good order and help put your mind at ease.
To make a plan, you need to know where you stand. Haul out your checkbook and your credit card statements so you can access your records for the past year. Many credit card companies offer a yearly summary to make this step easier. And tax season is a good time to do this, since you're already using much of this information to fill out your reports to the IRS.
These are your expenses that are the same every month. They include your rent or mortgage, a car payment, your Medicare payment and anything else you do that gets billed in equal monthly amounts, from a gym membership to your cable and phone bills.
This step is a little harder, since some bills change every month. They might include your heating and electric bill, your ongoing medical expenses, grocery bills, pet fees, gasoline charges and entertainment costs. Look over your bank statements and credit card bills. Total your spending for the year in each category, then divide that number by 12 to arrive at your average monthly cost. There are ways to convert many of these variable bills into fixed expenses by signing up for monthly plans or paying in installments, but be aware that there could be an extra charge for this convenience.
Are you planning to take a vacation or buy a new car this year? That's a special expense that requires advance planning. There are other bills that you pay only once or twice a year, such as membership dues, some insurance bills or medical expenses, home and car repairs and birthday and Christmas gifts. Once you figure out what occasional expenses you're dealing with, add them up and divide by 12 so you can set money aside for them every month.
No two months are exactly alike, so you may go over or under budget from month to month. But over the course of the year your spending should match your income, hopefully with a little to spare. If you're spending more than you take in, then you'll have to make some changes. Having a budget will make this step easier, since now you know where your money is going and where you can cut back with the least amount of pain. Depending on the shortfall, you can make fairly minor changes, such as reducing entertainment expenses. But this is also where you might have to make some lifestyle decisions. For example, if you want to do more traveling, you might want to downsize and live in a less expensive neighborhood.
Creating a budget is useless unless you test it out to see that it's relatively accurate and that you're really following it. You should check your budget every month at first, to see if it makes sense. After you're comfortable with the process, checking once a year may suffice. But remember, a budget is not a legal document, it's a guideline. Having a budget is not meant to restrict your life, but to make it easier to track your spending, avoid getting into trouble and take the stress and anxiety out of your financial life.
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BkiUe6M25V5jRAvtXd4U | Abuses that Wouldn't Exist in a Socialist America
Paul Buchheit
We Americans have been deceived by the notion that individual desires preempt the needs of society; by the Ayn-Rand/Reagan/Thatcher aversion to government regulation; by the distorted image of 'freedom' as winner-take-all capitalism; by the assurance that the benefits of greed will spread downwards to everyone.
Our current capitalist-driven inequalities will only be rectified when people realize that a strong community makes successful individuals, not the other way around.
These are a few of the ways we would benefit with a social democracy:
1. The Super-Rich Wouldn't Make Our Decisions for Us
Decisions about higher education should be made by all of us, with public tax dollars allocated in a democratic fashion. But our tax dollars have gone away. The Reagan-era "government is the problem" attitude led to dramatic tax cuts and a resulting decline in government funding for public universities. Instead of paying for all the societal benefits heaped upon them, billionaires keep getting richer — just 14 individuals making more than the entire federal education budget two years in a row.
As a result, as noted by Larry Wittner, "campus administrators, faced with declining income, are increasingly inclined to accept funding from wealthy individuals and corporations that are reshaping higher education to serve their interests." The Koch brothers have spent millions funding universities and stipulating the kind of education that should be provided.
We're left with philanthropy instead of democracy. The philanthropists, not we the people, are beginning to make these vital decisions. Said Charles Koch: "I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington."
Education is not the only area where we're losing control. Bill Gates' contribution of $2 billion toward alternative energy solutions is admirable, but energy decisions should be made by society as a whole, with tax money, through our (well-chosen) representatives, and with the complementary support of private investors. Gates himself admits, "DARPA money is very well spent, and the basic-science money is very well spent. The government…should get about four times as much money as they do."
2. We Wouldn't Spend So Much Money on Security for Rich People
Nationally, we spend over $1 trillion per year on defense. Not just the half-trillion Pentagon budget, but another half-trillion for veterans affairs, homeland security, "contingency operations," and a variety of other miscellaneous military 'necessities.'
But that's not enough for the relative few at the top of our outrageously unequal society. The richest Americans build private fortresses to protect themselves from the rest of us, as they scoff at the notion of a 1950s-like progressive tax structure that would provide infrastructure funding for all of us.
3. We Wouldn't Give All the Credit for a Tech Product to One Person
In the extreme capitalist mind, Steve Jobs started with boxes of silicon and wires in a garage and fashioned the first iPhone. The reality is explained by Mariana Mazzucato: "Everything you can do with an iPhone was government-funded. From the Internet that allows you to surf the Web, to GPS that lets you use Google Maps, to touchscreen display and even the SIRI voice activated system — all of these things were funded by Uncle Sam through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, the Navy, and even the CIA."
That's true of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and every pharmaceutical CEO. They may be brilliant leaders, and they certainly deserve compensation for their roles, but the main accomplishment of each was to assemble the parts provided by years of public research.
4. Public Sentiment Would Prevail Over the Demands of Lobbyists
Society's needs are often ignored in our individual-oriented capitalist system. Over 90% favor laws on clean air and water, but Congress has proposed to weaken them. Over 90% want background checks for gun purchases, but the NRA constantly bullies over 200 million Americans.
80% of us want to take on Wall Street. Instead, authorities pick on disruptive 5-year-old black kids.
5. Our Jobs Wouldn't Be Held Hostage in Tax Havens
The great majority of Americans — including many millionaires — want to end overseas tax loopholes for corporations. But Fortune 500 companies ignore the rights of the public. They owe more than $600 billion in taxes on their tax haven hoardings.
That's a job for all 8 million unemployed Americans, at the nation's median salary of $36,000. For two years.
But our greedy super-capitalist system allows much of society to be deprived of opportunities to work.
A Social Democracy
Social-oriented economic systems are not incompatible with small business entrepreneurship. In a social democracy, similar to those in Scandinavian countries, with elements of both capitalism and socialism intact, the worst abuses of a winner-take-all corporate-ruled system are avoided. The result is a land of opportunity. As Harvey J. Kaye put it, with supporting references to Thomas Paine, FDR, Martin Luther King, and Bernie Sanders, "Social democracy is 100 percent American."
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On April 1, 1993 the NASCAR racing world lost a great owner and racer, Alan Kulwicki. Prior to the 25th anniversary of Alan's death, articles about him started appearing on many racing sites. I, like many other fans, read most of them. Some of us cried and some of us smiled at times as we remembered Alan and how he accomplished something many other independent car owners and racers had not. Most of us automatically thought and still think of the song, "My Way" and we smile as we think how perfectly that song fit Alan.
Shortly after reading many articles, I responded to the one by David Nance who is one of our writers here at RFF. If you haven't read it already, the link will take you there.
It was hard reading this without stopping and remembering Alan and why it was that I, along with so many others, liked him. Misty eyes kept interfering and then memories would creep in for a bit before I would - or could - continue. Just last night I was thinking how one remembers where they were, who they were with and what they were doing when they heard certain news. This is one of those remembrances. Ever since that April 1st in 1993, I have shied away from April Fools jokes and until this year, I have never associated April 1st with Easter. I never see a Hooter's ad, restaurant or picture that I don't think of Alan. When I heard the news about Alan, I was working out of town in AZ and the mail girl at the company gave me the news. At first, I thought she was pulling an April fool's joke and then I saw her tears. That night, alone in a motel I watched the news on every channel I could get. I made phone calls and reminisced alone and with whoever I talked with on the phone. It was unreal and sometimes it still seems that way.
After reading my response, David suggested I do an article on the subject of where and when memories and use my response as part of it. So, David and all others, here it is.
A lot of us seem to remember what we were doing and where we were when certain events have happened during our life. Sometimes, when those events are talked about, it takes us on a trip to another time and another place in our life. We close our eyes and go back to those times and then our thoughts and feelings take us on a journey. Many times they may take us on a happy journey, other times it is a sad journey, but above all, they tend to make us realize how fortunate we are to be able to recall those special happy or sad memories.
Living in the Orlando area during the sixties and early seventies was an exciting time. I lived only about 55 miles from Cape Canaveral and 60 miles from Daytona. We not only were close to the new NASCAR world but were close to the great new space center of NASA. That time in my life left me with some great memories, both happy and sad.
A few years later the smile turned to tears. I was riding in a car with 3 friends. We were stopped for a red light on Hwy 17-92 in Winter Park, FL just a few miles from Orlando. A news flash came over the radio and we heard how 3 of our astronauts at Cape Kennedy had perished as a flash fire swept through the command module during a rehearsal test. We canceled our plans to eat at the Steak and Shake we were headed for and decided not to go to the movies as planned after we heard the news. We just wanted to talk and share our feelings and then go home to be with our families. This was a sad time during my life. Note: Cape Canaveral had been re-named Cape Kennedy right after President Kennedy was shot, but then was later changed back to Cape Canaveral again.
Down that same memory lane, I recall a 19 year old me sitting on the floor of a day care room watching television while 11 children, aged 2 through 5 were napping on their mats after lunch. All of a sudden, a news flash broke into the regular programming to tell us President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. My feelings of shock and sadness still come back at times when I remember that day. America changed after that day for a lot of us. It seemed the whole world had changed.
Another memory comes from the racing world. While doing landscaping on a new home we had just bought in OR, I took a break and wanted to find out what was going on at Daytona. I went inside and turned on the television and that is when I learned that Neil Bonnett had died during a practice crash. Neil was one of my favorites back then. It was a very sad time for many fans and of course, his dear friend Dale Sr. I immersed myself in yard work to keep from thinking and crying. This type of escape is used by many people, I believe. That is because we think if we stay busy enough, we won't have time to be sad and cry.
February 18, 2001 the Daytona 500 had the saddest ending ever. A most beloved driver, Dale Earnhardt Sr. was involved in a last lap crash. Like many fans, I watched the race on television. Normally, because of our time zone in the West, after a race I set about doing other things right after it is over. However, this day I sat with my eyes glued to the television waiting to hear anything I could about the accident. I had an ominous feeling that all was not well. Waiting seemed to go on and on, and on. Finally, after much time, Mike Helton came out and gave us the sad news about the loss of Dale. A state of shock set in and for weeks, I absorbed all news I could about Dale. For many of us, nothing has seemed right in the world of NASCAR since that day.
Then came September 11, 2001. While we watched in disbelief, our country was attacked by terrorists. We all suffered during and after that time. Each of us probably remembers where we were and what we were doing when we heard that news. I want to share what most of us think and feel when we hear the song Alan Jackson wrote and sang. I selected one with lyrics so you can read along and think of how important life really is.
As I listen and read the lyrics, I can relate to the following words: "In a crowded room, did you feel alone?" It is almost normal to feel that way when so much sadness abounds.
There are many more memories of this type that I recall. I remember what I was doing and where I was when we lost Fireball Roberts, when Richard Petty got his 200th win, when President Reagan started the Daytona 500 from Air Force One, and I even remember where I was and when I had my first experience using a telephone. There are so many others that are just too numerous to talk about here.
When all is said and done, life has good and bad memories and at times it may not seem so, but good usually prevails. And that is why I am often reminded of how Garth Brooks sang "Looking back, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance. I could have missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the dance." Those words are very profound.
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Thank you for reading and I look forward to your comments. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
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BkiUdo7xK7IDPXIhneQ3 | package com.payneteasy.superfly.web.wicket.page.sso;
import com.payneteasy.superfly.model.SSOSession;
import com.payneteasy.superfly.model.SubsystemTokenData;
import com.payneteasy.superfly.service.SessionService;
import com.payneteasy.superfly.service.SubsystemService;
import com.payneteasy.superfly.web.wicket.page.SessionAccessorPage;
import org.apache.wicket.Component;
import org.apache.wicket.Page;
import org.apache.wicket.model.IModel;
import org.apache.wicket.model.Model;
import org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.servlet.ServletWebRequest;
import org.apache.wicket.request.IRequestHandler;
import org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle;
import org.apache.wicket.request.http.WebRequest;
import org.apache.wicket.request.http.WebResponse;
import org.apache.wicket.request.http.handler.RedirectRequestHandler;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import javax.servlet.http.Cookie;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
/**
* @author rpuch
*/
public class SSOUtils {
private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SSOUtils.class);
public static final String SSO_SESSION_ID_COOKIE_NAME = "SSOSESSIONID";
public static final int SSO_SESSION_ID_COOKIE_MAXAGE = 3600; // seconds
public static String buildRedirectToSubsystemUrl(String landingUrl, String subsystemToken, String targetUrl) {
StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
buf.append(landingUrl);
buf.append(landingUrl.contains("?") ? "&" : "?");
buf.append("subsystemToken").append("=").append(encodeForUrl(subsystemToken));
buf.append("&");
buf.append("targetUrl").append("=").append(encodeForUrl(targetUrl));
return buf.toString();
}
private static String encodeForUrl(String subsystemToken) {
try {
return URLEncoder.encode(subsystemToken, "utf-8");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
throw new IllegalStateException(e);
}
}
public static void redirectToCantLoginErrorPage(Component component, SSOLoginData loginData, String aReason) {
logger.warn("redirectToCantLoginErrorPage: {} - {}", aReason, loginData);
anonymizeLoginData((SessionAccessorPage) component.getPage());
redirectToLoginErrorPage(component, new Model<String>("Can't login to " + loginData.getSubsystemIdentifier()));
}
public static void redirectToLoginErrorPage(Component component, IModel<String> errorModel) {
component.getRequestCycle().setResponsePage(
new SSOLoginErrorPage(errorModel));
}
public static void saveLoginData(SessionAccessorPage page, SSOLoginData loginData) {
page.getSession().setSsoLoginData(loginData);
}
public static void anonymizeLoginData(SessionAccessorPage page) {
SSOLoginData loginData = getSsoLoginData(page);
if (loginData != null) {
loginData.setUsername(null);
}
}
public static SSOLoginData getSsoLoginData(SessionAccessorPage page) {
return page.getSession().getSsoLoginData();
}
public static void redirectToSubsystem(SessionAccessorPage page, SSOLoginData loginData, SubsystemTokenData token) {
if (loginData == null) {
// possibly, session has expired
logger.error("Tried to redirect to subsystem with loginData=null", new RuntimeException());
redirectToLoginErrorPage(page, new Model<String>("Session has expired. Please try to login again."));
} else {
SSOUtils.anonymizeLoginData(page);
String url = buildRedirectToSubsystemUrl(token.getLandingUrl(),
token.getSubsystemToken(), loginData.getTargetUrl());
redirect(page, url);
}
}
public static void redirect(Page page, String url) {
IRequestHandler requestTarget = new RedirectRequestHandler(url);
page.getRequestCycle().replaceAllRequestHandlers(requestTarget);
}
public static String getSsoSessionIdFromCookie(WebRequest request) {
String ssoSessionId = null;
Cookie cookie = request.getCookie(SSOUtils.SSO_SESSION_ID_COOKIE_NAME);
if (cookie != null) {
ssoSessionId = cookie.getValue();
}
return ssoSessionId;
}
public static void onSuccessfulLogin(String username,
SessionAccessorPage page,
SSOLoginData loginData, SessionService sessionService,
SubsystemService subsystemService) {
if (loginData == null) {
throw new IllegalStateException("loginData is null");
}
SSOSession ssoSession = sessionService.createSSOSession(username);
Cookie cookie = new Cookie(SSOUtils.SSO_SESSION_ID_COOKIE_NAME, ssoSession.getIdentifier());
cookie.setMaxAge(SSOUtils.SSO_SESSION_ID_COOKIE_MAXAGE);
cookie.setPath(getApplicationRootPath(page));
((WebResponse) RequestCycle.get().getResponse()).addCookie(cookie);
SubsystemTokenData token = subsystemService.issueSubsystemTokenIfCanLogin(
ssoSession.getId(), loginData.getSubsystemIdentifier());
if (token != null) {
// can login: redirecting a user to a subsystem
SSOUtils.redirectToSubsystem(page, loginData, token);
} else {
// can't login: just display an error
// actually, this should not happen as we've already
// checked user access, but just in case...
SSOUtils.redirectToCantLoginErrorPage(page, loginData, "Please check if user can login to subsystems. Please note: assign actions to your role only via groups. Do not assign actions directly to role.");
}
}
private static String getApplicationRootPath(SessionAccessorPage page) {
String contextPath = ((ServletWebRequest) page.getRequest()).getContextPath();
String filterPath = ((ServletWebRequest) page.getRequest()).getFilterPath();
return contextPath + filterPath;
}
}
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BkiUe9HxK6nrxqmo1LTv | Buy Diazepam Next Day Kettel is one of the few electronic music makers to wear his heart on his sleeve. He isn't afraid of sweet melody, and he has the confidence to mix old and new sounds. He follows up last year's beautiful Whisper Me Wishes with some of the warmest acid tracks I've ever heard.
Buy Diazepam Mexico On "The Wombat," TB-303 squelches swarm over softer synths. It's a happy tune. "Dolend" plays with a similar palette, but at a slightly slower pace. "Kroost Kids" pairs a crunchy hip-hop beat with harpsichord-like tones. The melody is great, and a solid bassline pulls it all together. "Church" sounds a lot like a certain Squarepusher track, albeit with simpler percussion.
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Cheap Valium From China Two fine remixes flesh out this release. Phoenecia turn "My Dogan" into a brooding, abstract collage of sound. Secede's remix of "Church" slowly builds with voices and oscillating bass, the former sounding like a Bach organ work played presto.
http://charlotteskitchendiary.com/1.rar Count Kettel as another artist inspired by AFX's Analord project, but of course Reimer has his own refreshingly unique interpretation. I have a feeling this album will make my top ten at the end of the year. I can't wait to hear the second part in a few months! | c4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
BkiUeyDxK6-gD5Tle-UE | Everyone has always desired to achieve a healthy lifestyle without having to sacrifice some of the delicious and favorite foods that they have used to consume. A healthy diet is important in keeping a good health and keeping yourself away from any serious illness. Typically, a Filipino diet contains heavy fatty meals with fewer vitamins and other essential ingredients for a healthy body. To correct the misconception that healthy foods mean tasteless and bland, here are 10 healthy Filipino dishes that are at the same time delicious.
Started at the province of Bicol, this is a spicy dish made from taro leaves and has a creamy spicy taste brought by the coconut milk. This dish contains vitamin A, vitamin C, and iron, and is a perfect match with newly cooked rice.
A chicken soup cooked with chayote, which is abundant in folate that is important in the production of red blood cells. Folate cannot be created naturally by the human body, and must therefore be supplied through our intakes. Additionally, chicken is a great provider of protein and has lesser fats compared with all other meats.
A dish that's a mix of different vegetables, this is usually prepared with fermented shrimp paste commonly known in the Philippines as bagoong. Rich in fiber and vitamin A, this dish usually contains eggplant, bitter melon or ampalaya, okra, squash, and string beans.
Basically, this is an egg wrapper consisting of fresh coconut shoot or ubod, carrot, jicama, lettuce and spring onions inside. Requiring only minimal cooking, this belongs to the freshest Filipino dishes in the country. To add taste, this dish also comes in peanuts and a thick sauce. Overall, the food has high amounts of Vitamin A that is good for the immune system and is good in providing a healthy vision.
Crowned to be the miracle vegetable and was recently hailed as the National vegetable of the Philippines, malunggay or moringa is being cooked in various ways and is rich in magnesium, iron, vitamin B, and vitamin C.
One of the cheapest Filipino dish that can be prepared, this recipe is mainly composed of string beans or sitaw and squash. Small pieces of meat are usually included in the dish, prepared in adobo style. This is rich in fiber and vitamin C. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdcI5qX_Bo8oPOhrs | Lin Kun-han (; born 5 January 1968), is a Taiwanese baseball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
He was part of the Chinese Taipei baseball team which won the silver medal. He played as infielder.
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1968 births
Living people
Asian Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
Asian Games medalists in baseball
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Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
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Mercuries Tigers players
Olympic baseball players of Taiwan
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BkiUbPk4c3aisE1SPaPk | Melissa McCarthy's foul-mouthed, borderline psychotic performances were highlights of Bridesmaids and This is 40 but in Identity Thief, this routine is looking a bit tired.
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This is the highly unbelievable set up for a very familiar road movie scenario where the uptight businessmen winds up stuck in a car with an annoying nut. Unfortunately, this is no Planes, Trains and Automobiles or even Due Date as the film barely manages to squeeze a handful of laughs from this well-worn set up. The witless script deftly avoids anything resembling clever comedy and instead relies on people being hit by cars, kicked in the nuts or, in a delightful running gag, being punched in the throat. There's also that road movie standby of the tone deaf idiot screeching along with songs on the radio.
Jason Bateman does his familiar but always likeable shtick as the decent Everyman drawn into a disaster. Although, there's precious little in the script for him to work with, he delivers the film's few amusing lines in typically droll fashion. Melissa McCarthy should have been alot funnier than she is in this film. She throws herself into the role and provides a couple of amusing slapstick moments but she barely has a funny line. She's also involved in too many weird, overlong, overwrought and unfunny sequences such as a bizarre sexual encounter with a plus size cowboy (Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet).
Director Seth Gordon, who has some comic credibility having worked on The Office and Modern Family, just can't settle on a consistent tone. He keeps making jarring gear changes between violent slapstick and syrupy sentimental scenes where the film (superficially) tries explain Diana's sociopathic behaviour. Any attempt to make us sympathise with Diana fails dismally, though, as she's obnoxious from start to finish. Adding to the mess are badly underwritten and unfunny subplots in which criminals Genesis Rodriguez and rapper TI, (both of whom look like supermodels) and bounty hunter Jason Patrick are also pursuing Diana.
Another lazy obvious comedy isn't what cinema needs right now and it's only Jason Bateman's steadying presence and a few slivers of McCarthy lunacy that saves this film from complete turkeydom.
Release date: 4th April 2013. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUbf04ukPiES_fI25z | Sweet Emma Barrett, née le et morte le à la Nouvelle-Orléans, Louisiane , était une pianiste et chanteuse de jazz autodidacte américaine. Elle connut la célébrité avec le Preservation Hall Jazz Band des années 1960 et devient une des figures emblématique du jazz traditionnel de la Nouvelle-Orléans.
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Sweet Emma Barrett a commencé à jouer à l'âge de 7 ans. Au début des années 1920 elle rejoint l'orchestre de jazz Original Tuxedo d'Oscar Celestin et réalise son premier enregistrement en 1926 pour Columbia Records
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Notes et références
Liens externes
Sweet Emma Barrett au Preservation Hall
Chanteuse américaine de jazz
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in Asia, Featured, World
Opposition lawmakers have criticised Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for offering to re-start talks with India on key issues, including terrorism and Kashmir, without taking parliament into confidence, a media report said on Tuesday.
Senate, the upper house of parliament, met Monday evening and among other issues discussed the government's efforts to revive talks with India.
In the letter dated September 14, the cricketer-turned-politician, who became the prime minister last month, proposed a meeting between Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York this month.
Khan had written the letter in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's letter to him on August 18 in which the Indian leader had conveyed commitment to pursue "meaningful" and "constructive" engagement with Pakistan and emphasising the need to work for a terror-free South Asia.
Pakistan Senate's former chairman Mian Raza Rabbani of Pakistan Peoples Party said that Khan's offer for talks to India was incomprehensible given the situation in Kashmir.
He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's letter to Khan was ceremonial in nature, but an offer of dialogue was made in the letter written in response to it.
He also objected to the language used in Khan's letter that Pakistan was "ready to discuss terrorism".
Senator Abdul Ghafoor Haidri of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl questioned as to how a single individual could offer dialogue to India.
He criticised Khan for writing a letter to his Indian counterpart without taking parliament into confidence. He advised Khan to tread carefully, saying that the prime minister was taking decisions in haste which lacked vision.
Responding on behalf of government, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry explained that Khan's letter to the Indian prime minister was in response to a communication he received from him. He said Pakistan wanted to find a solution to all bilateral disputes with India, including the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir.
"The two countries have been fighting for seventy years and we can continue to fight for another seventy years if India wants," he remarked and warned that a nuclear war if it broke out would mean devastation in the subcontinent.
Faisal Javed of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf regretted that efforts were being made for point-scoring on the issues which required a complete unity in the ranks of the political class.
"We need to project Pakistan's narrative," he stressed.
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BkiUdY45qdmB629MHHex | Businesses in Nellis, WV have advanced into the modern age of technology. However, it comes at a price. An internet connection is mandatory to establish business and continue its success. It forms ways to communicate and process need and demand from clients. Although, one of the most important ways a business has adapted to the age of technology is by allowing an ease of communicating throughout companies by employees and executives. Use MyRatePlan to compare business internet service providers in Nellis, WV.
Technology is constantly advancing, and the internet is advancing right along with it year by year. The types of internet out there now are cable, DSL, fiber optic, T1, satellite and fixed wireless. If a Nellis, WV business has been using the same type of service for a long period of time, it would be smart for it to look into its options and see what's out there, because there could be a great upgrade opportunity. It is important for a business to keep in mind the issue of availability. Some internet types provide excellent efficiency and overall performance, but their distribution networks are limited. That's why a business needs to first find out what options are available in its particular area.
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BkiUdwA4eIOjR-nC7Ll_ | Forensic psychiatrist diagnoses Derrick Powell with seven disorders
Derrick Powell suffered from seven diagnosed mental disorders, including post-traumatic stress after being arrested for the murder of a Georgetown police officer, according to a forensic psychiatrist who testified at Powell's penalty hearing.
Dr. Saadia Alizai-Cowan of Maryland was called by the defense in the fourth day of the hearing in Sussex County Superior Court. Attorneys for the 24-year-old Powell are trying to save him from facing the death penalty, following his conviction last week for the September 1st 2009 shooting death of officer Chad Spicer.
Dr. Alizai-Cowan told jururs she examined Powell for several hours less than two weeks after Spicer was killed, reviewed numerous records, and saw Powell again in August 2010. Based on her findings, she diagnosed Powell with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar-2 disorder, panic disorder, cognitive disorder, anti-social personality disorder, post-traumatic stress, and cannabis disorder from the use of marijuana.
ADHD may have been present in Powell at a very young age, according to Dr. Alizai-Cowan. Jurors again heard about school and social-service records which indicated a pattern of disruptive and disturbing behavior, and being prescribed medication for the disorder. His father, Joseph Powell, said on the stand this week that he withheld the medication from his son unless absolutely necessary because he was concerned it could be a "gateway" drug.
Mr. Powell and Derrick Powell's mother, Tina Durham, told the court about their stormy relationship, their drug, and physical and verbal abuse of Derrick as he was growing up in Cumberland, Maryland.
Dr. Alizai-Cowan said the disorder related to marijuana could have begun as early as age seven. She said Derrick Powell gave some stories she did not believe, including that he smoked 30 to 40 "blunts" per day, that he made $20,000 a week selling drugs at one point, and that he was shot. Powell also told the doctor that he believed he had a superior mind and that he could control traffic lights.
"I was made this way. You shouldn't try to fix the Lord's work," he said at one point during their conversations.
Her finding of PTSD was based on bruises and cuts found on Derrick Powell after his arrest for the police officer's shooting, injuries she termed consistent with an "assault." Powell was taken into custody at a home in Georgetown after fleeing the scene of the shooting. He was in a car with two other men and had been involved in a drug-related robbery attempt and shooting a short time earlier at the McDonald's restaurant on Route 113.
Under questioning from prosecutor Paula Ryan, Dr. Alizai-Cowan said it appeared Powell likely had many of these disorders on September 1st 2009, except for post-traumatic stress. She said it was unlikely that the earlier shooting and the police pursuit triggered PTSD, but she also could not rule that out.
Powell discussed the night of the shooting and his arrest with Dr. Alizai-Cowan, saying they did not intend to kill an officer. "If we did, two officers would be dead," according to her records of the conversation..
Defense attorney Dean Johnson asked the doctor of Derrick Powell would do well if he spent the rest of his life in prison. Dr. Alizai-Cowan believed he would, saying that Derrick Powell has already reconnected with family members, his sister and her kids. He was getting to be "more like the Derrick they loved," she said. Also, Dr. Alizai-Cowan feels Powell would benefit from the atmosphere of consistency, rules, and definite consequences for breaking any rules in prison.
The penalty phase in the courtroom of Judge T. Henley Graves enters its second week on Monday.
Delaware City's PBF refinery discharged more than one million pounds of nitrogen into the Delaware River without violating its permit. Advocates say that's a problem. | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUflfxK6EuNA_gP-nL | Mariota regroups after struggling early
Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota had
ATLANTA >> Tennessee rookie quarterback Marcus Mariota quickly learned NFL games are different from practice.
Mariota's first two series ended with an interception and a fumble before he recovered to lead a touchdown drive in the Titans' 31-24 loss to the Atlanta Falcons in a preseason opener Friday night.
One play after he was sacked early in his first drive, Mariota's screen pass was intercepted by linebacker Justin Durant, whose 20-yard return set up a field goal. On Tennessee's next drive, the ball was knocked out of Mariota's hand as he was preparing to pass. Linebacker Paul Worrilow scooped up the loose ball and raced 14 yards for a touchdown.
"I just kind of shrugged it off," Mariota said. "I figured we needed a good drive, and we finished with a good one."
Mariota regrouped on his third possession. He had two 17-yard completions to former Falcons receiver Harry Douglas and a 26-yard pass to running back Antonio Andrews to set up Dexter McCluster's 6-yard scoring run.
"We obviously had a tough start," said Titans coach Ken Whisenhunt. "We can't turn the ball over. … It was disappointing, but I like the way they responded."
Mariota, the No. 2 overall draft pick, went 7-for-8 for 94 yards. He entered the preseason opener with an impressive streak of 186 passes without an interception in seven-on-seven and team drills at training camp.
The Falcons led 17-0 behind new coach Dan Quinn before the Titans pulled even at 24. Michael Ford's 1-yard score in the fourth quarter snapped the tie.
Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan completed all six passes for 86 yards on his only possession, including a 13-yard touchdown to Julio Jones. Jones had four catches for 61 yards — all in the opening drive.
"He's a beast and I'm lucky to call him a teammate," said Ryan of Jones.
Titans backup quarterback Zach Mettenberger was 8-for-11 for 129 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
Mariota struggles early as Falcons top Titans
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BkiUdjk25V5ipNhMCJ3u | Ronnie is an initiated Pintupi man born at Muyinnga approx 100 klms west of the Kintore Range in Western Australia. His family departed their traditional homelands for Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji) south west of Papunya where they settled. Ronnie and his younger brother had gone to Yuendemu near the Tanami Desert but reunited with the family at Papunya where he was one of the youngest artists at the very beginning of the Western Desert Aboriginal art movement in the early 1970s under the guidance of Geoffrey Bardon. Ronnie was a founding member of the now internationally famous Papunya Tula Artists.
This painting is a superb example of his influence as one of Papunya Tula's major artists and is a major advancement upon his already acknowledged "pioneering, bold, scaled-up and linear style" (a) from the 1990's that gained international attention. Its origins lie in dot painting that involves the repetition of a loaded brush pulled linearly on the canvas to form his desired motifs, in this case geometric forms and shapes that move and swirl across the canvas – clearly evoking both the surface and subterranean water impacts on landforms and bringing renewal of life in the desert.
Ronnie's use of colour in "Water Dreaming" is extraordinarily subtle – in great contrast to "Tingari Cycle" ref PGPT031 – by compelling the eye in an endless process of discovery that evokes the 'Creation' motivations behind both "Water Dreaming" the painting and the sacred Creation subject matter behind it. | c4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUd8bxK1ThhCdy9EWm | Tales From Both Sides Of The River
Fulham vs. Chelsea : 17 April 2013.
I was able to leave work slightly earlier than usual at 3.45pm. Unfortunately, Parky was unable to attend once more. It would be me – just me – alone with my thoughts on the familiar drive to SW6. There was certainly much to dwell upon. Firstly, my mind was full of thoughts of my father. Wednesday 17th. April 2013 was, sadly, the twentieth anniversary of his passing. My father was taken ill while shopping in Frome during the afternoon of Friday 16th. April 1993. He sadly passed away at the Royal United hospital in Bath in the small hours of the following day. In truth, much of my grieving twenty years later had taken place on the Tuesday; virtually all of the tearful memories and the strongest emotions came from the Friday 16th. April 1993.
Dad wasn't a massive football fan; his sports were swimming, diving and badminton. He once boxed in the RAF during World War Two. However, once I fell in love with Chelsea Football Club, he soon realised how much the club meant to me. That shouldn't be taken lightly. I often hear stories of friends saying "my dad hated football and never took me to any games."
Not so my father – and mother.
My Christmas present in 1973 – the best ever – was the news that my parents were going to take me to Stamford Bridge to see Chelsea. Oh my; just writing these words some forty years later brings it all back. That realisation that I'd be seeing my heroes in that iconic royal blue kit – in colour, for real, not on our black and white TV – made me so excited. As I have said before, I owe my parents so much.
My father attended many games with me over the years. His last one was against Everton on the first day of 1991. As I drove past Swindon on the M4, I remembered a game from January 1988. My father finished work in Frome and drove home to collect my mother and I to take us all to Swindon for Chelsea's Simod Cup (aka Full Member's Cup ) game against Swindon Town at their County Ground stadium. At the time, we were plummeting towards the First Division's relegation zone while Swindon was a Third Division side. We were caught up in traffic, however, and found it difficult to find a parking place. The plan was for my parents to sit in the main stand while I joined 2,000 Chelsea in the cramped corner terrace. We were so late arriving that I heard the roars from the home crowd celebrating Swindon's second goal as I was still trying to get in.
"Oh great. This is going to be a great night."
In the end, we lost 4-0. We were awful, even though our team contained stalwarts such as Kerry Dixon, Steve Clarke, Colin Pates, John Bumstead and Tony Dorigo; good players one and all. I remember chants of "Hollins Must Go, Hollins Must Go, Hello, Hello" all night long. It was a dire night and it was a grim fore-telling of our eventual fate come May.
We were kept inside for ten minutes while the local hoodlums were pushed away from the stadium. I looked around the terraces where we had been stood all evening. Twenty yards away, looking out of place amongst hundreds of young Londoners, were my mother and father. I trotted over to greet them. It seems that they had arrived too late to gain entrance to the main stand; they had not bought tickets beforehand, we hadn't thought it necessary. In those days, paying on the day was the norm. My parents had informed the club officials that they were Chelsea supporters and so, unbelievably, had been led around the pitch by stewards and put inside the away pen.
I think if I had seen them, I would have thought "oh no, what have they done now?"
Twenty-five years on, the image of my Mum and Dad, dressed in his suit, with a sheepskin coat, still brings a smile to my face.
Later that season, they were in The Shed for the Charlton Athletic game. But that's another story for another time.
I stopped at Reading services on the drive east. As I returned to my car, I strangely noticed the incessant roar from the traffic hurtling towards London on the eastbound carriageway of the M4 motorway. I was thrilled by it. I smiled. It reinforced my love of travel, of moving, of visiting new and old places, the constant desire to see new cities, new landscapes, new towns, new villages, new people. There is still romance in travel; from seeing the ocean as a four year old boy – the wonder of that vast body of water – to visiting foreign lands in my middle years. I never want it to stop.
During the last hour of my journey, this was enforced further as I attempted to put some plan in place in order to visit Old Amsterdam for our potential participation in the Europa Cup final and New Amsterdam for our friendly at Yankee Stadium. I have already block-booked that fortnight from work; now for the intricate fine tuning…schedules, dates, hotels, flights, just lovely.
My pre-match plans for the evening's game at Craven Cottage actually stemmed from my visit to Yankee Stadium in July. After the Chelsea game in Philly, I returned to NYC to catch a Yankees vs. Red Sox game before I returned home. In "Stans Sports Bar" that evening – before and after the game – I got chatting to Britt, an American who was over from London, visiting NYC with friends. I was wearing a CFC T-shirt and she soon announced she was a Fulham season-ticket holder. We exchanged email addresses and promised to meet up for a pint during the season. We had arranged to meet that night at The Spotted Horse in Putney at 6.45pm.
On the approach into London, high on the elevated M4, I was again mesmerized by the panorama of London's skykline which was particularly clear in the early evening sun; Harrow On The Hill to the north, the Wembley Arch, the Post Office Tower, Canary Wharf away in the distance, a quick glimpse of The Shard, the hills around Clapham to the south. Up close were the new high-rises at Brentford, the old art deco buildings, the Lucozade sign, the floodlights of Griffin Park, Earls Court and Olympia.
Travel. I love it.
I soon drove around the Hammersmith roundabout and down the Fulham Palace Road. No need to turn off along Lillee road this time; I was heading south to Putney, not east to Stamford Bridge. As I drove on, I caught glimpses of the floodlight pylons at Fulham's classic stadium to my right. At the Golden Lion pub I saw a sign which stated that access was for FFC season ticket-holders or membership card holders only. I was stuck on Putney Bridge for a while as neon-clad cyclists, cars and London buses jostled for position.
Just after 6pm, I was parked up.
Walking past a few pubs by the River Thames – The Half Moon, The Duke's Head – I soon realised what a lovely pre-match this would be. There is nothing quite like a game of football at Fulham. I looked up and saw a modern red bus crossing Putney Bridge. It wasn't the old classic shape of a Routemaster, but it was still an iconic sight.
I needed sustenance and so looked for options. Unlike my expensive meal in Turin in November, there was no gastronomic treat for me this time. I ended up with a typical football meal of chicken and chips. Bloody hell, even KFC even sounds like a football club.
I reached The Spotted Horse at 6.30pm. Britt soon appeared and it was lovely to see her again. She was with her bloke Chris – an armchair Liverpool fan – and we had a quick catch up. As I quaffed a pint of Peroni, we chatted about all sorts. In addition to being a Fulham season ticket holder, she also follows Saracens rugby union. She is originally from DC and we spoke about that area's sports teams. In fact, it was a similar conversation that I have had with various US guests to Stamford Bridge over the years. It felt almost liberating to be chatting to a fan of a rival team though. I had promised myself not to have too many digs at Fulham during the evening; I almost succeeded. In truth, Britt summed things up when she said –
"You don't care about us, though, do you?"
Broadly she was correct, though I have a little soft spot for Fulham, which I am sure winds most Fulham fans up further. It's true though. Long may the SW6 derby continue in the top flight.
Before we left The Spotted Horse, I briefly mentioned my father and we toasted him.
"Cheers Dad."
There was talk of Peter Osgood, my first game, a Chelsea vs. Fulham game from 1982, a game from 2002, the banter was flying, it was super.
We then moved onto an even better pub – The Coat & Badge – and I had another pint while talking to more US Fulham fans. I had to stop and think –
"Shouldn't I be talking to Chelsea fans? What will my mates think?"
To be honest, I was revelling in the change of scene, seeing new people, new places. I spoke to a Fulham fan from Philly and he was baffled by our club's decision to sack Roberto di Matteo. To be truthful, I was stuck for words. I couldn't – still – validate Roman's decision. I also chatted to a girl – another American – about her experiences watching Fulham and living in London. Her accent suggested she was from The South, but I recognised a few cadences which lead me to believe she was from North Carolina or Georgia. To be honest, her accent was very similar in places to that of Mary-Anne from Knoxville Tennessee. I decided that I had to quell my inquisitiveness and so I asked her if she was from North Carolina or Georgia.
"Yes! North Carolina, Tennessee."
"Ah, I thought so…you sound like a friend from Knoxville."
"Knoxville is my home!"
"Damn…I should have gone with my hunch and said Knoxville…would have freaked you out, right!"
At 7.30pm, it was time to depart. We had a fantastic walk across Putney Bridge, with Britt leading the way, nothing getting in her way. It was quite an aerobic workout. I again commented that there is something quite therapeutic and hypnotic about walking towards a football stadium with thousands more.
It was a lovely spring evening as we strode through Bishop's Park. The Oxford and Cambridge boat race starts on the river at Putney Bridge of course. It's a lovely part of the world.
I wished Britt and Chris well – "may the best team win and all that bollocks" – and then turned towards the red brick of the away turnstiles where more familiar faces were everywhere I looked.
I soon bumped into two lads from Melksham, near where I work; "no Parky, mate?"
I looked down at my phone…what was the time?
A good year.
Up into the seats and I was soon alongside Alan and Gary and Kev from Bristol.
We were lower down than usual. Not far from the pitch. Excellent.
Before I had time to blink, the teams were on the pitch, walking across from the cottage to my right. Chelsea were in all blue. Although I love the design of our kit this year, I still think the blue is not dark enough, not vivid enough, too light, too muted. There was to be no show of hostility that we saw at Griffin Park as Benitez strode across the pitch. I quickly ran through the team. John Terry back, Ivanovic at right-back, Lamps back, Moses in, Torres in. I looked at the Fulham team to see if Duffer was playing, but didn't spot him.
Let's go to work.
This was a game that we simply had to win to stay in the hunt for a top four place in the league. We all knew that. But it wouldn't be easy. The last two visits to Craven Cottage were draws.
Gary mentioned that he had seen some American Fulham fans on the tube on his journey from work. I can see the attraction, what with the pleasant setting of Craven Cottage, plus the former US players such as McBride, Bocanegra, Dempsey, Keller and Johnson who have represented Fulham recently. I wonder if those Fulham fans were aware of Fulham's first batch of American players in the 'thirties; the often forgotten trio of Lou Schattendorrf, Farmer Boy O'Malley and Chuck Rosencrantz III.
Fulham began strongly, much to our chagrin, and we heaved a massive sigh of relief as Ruiz volleyed over from close in. We weren't playing well and a Karagounis effort bounced against the top of the bar. There were murmurs of disquiet in the away end. I looked around the trim stadium. I noted small pockets of empty seats, but it was near capacity. The Chelsea choir decided to start mocking our neighbours with a few choice ditties –
"We don't hate you – 'cus you're 5hit."
"Michael Jackson – he's one of your own."
"Nonce for a statue. You've got a nonce for a statue."
I felt that Dimitar Berbatov was their main threat, yet we seemed to be offering him too much space. He was often unmarked. A few half-chances came and went, but it clearly wasn't a great start by Chelsea.
The Chelsea fans were in good voice, though, with a variety of songs being aired. I could hear some sort of noise emanating from the Hammersmith End – where Britt and Chris were watching – but I couldn't decipher it. I never heard once their usual "We are Fulham, fcuk Chelsea" song once.
On the half-hour, with frustrations rising, the ball was played square to David Luiz, some thirty-five yards out. Many fans behind me simultaneously yelled "shoooooot!" and I am sure this was mirrored in bars all over the world. Luiz touched the ball once, it sat up for him, and he unleashed a curling, dipping, thunderbolt which crashed into Mark Schwarzer's goal.
What a cracker. Schwarzer was beaten before he could move.
The Chelsea end roared.
In truth, the goal had come against the run of play. Until then, we had looked disjointed.
Just after, Emanuelsen had the ball under his spell, looked up and painstakingly aimed a shot at the far post. I was right behind the path of the ball and expected a goal. From the middle of the six yard box, Petr Cech stretched low and touched the ball out for a corner. It was a phenomenal save. Just after, a lovely flowing move out from defence found Torres in space and in the inside-right channel. His shot was crashed over and we sighed.
A shot from Berbatov went wide, a Lampard free-kick went close. Just before the break, the previously quiet Juan Mata floated a cross towards the far post and John Terry, making a great blind run, was able to rise and head home. How he celebrated that one.
With us 2-0 up, we were able to breath a massive sigh of relief. A Ruiz penalty claim was waved away by Mike Dean. We had ridden our luck, but the two goal cushion meant there were smiles at half-time.
Soon into the second-half, with the pressure seemingly off, we were able to relax and sing. The Putney End, which seems to have excellent acoustics, was rocking to a fantastic foot stomping and hand clapping rendition of a song from Munich.
"We are the Champions – the Champions of Europe. We are the Champions – the Champions of Europe. We are the Champions – the Champions of Europe. We are the Champions – the Champions of Europe. We are the Champions – the Champions of Europe. We are the Champions – the Champions of Europe. We are the Champions – the Champions of Europe."
The place was rocking. What noise.
To be honest, despite the awful anniversary, this was turning into a just magnificent evening down by the banks of the Thames. The jokes were coming thick and fast between Alan, Gary and myself, the boys were winning 2-0 and the Chelsea fans all around me were turning in the best vocal performance of the season.
The majority of Chelsea's play seemed to be coming down our right flank, with Torres putting in a great night's performance, full of energy and application. I was able to capture a lot of Hazard's dribbles on film. The team were creating more chances and the fans were responding. A great Torres cross almost resulted in a goal, but Mata was unable to connect.
A Moses curler forced a fine save from Schwarzer. From the corner, Torres flicked on Mata's delivery and John Terry made sure, heading it in from beneath the bar. The Chelsea fans in the Putney End believed that Nando had scored and so soon serenaded him. John Terry smiled at us and pointed towards Torres, while Torres dismissively waved away the adulation. Texts soon confirmed that it was JT's goal.
Fulham 0 Chelsea 3.
Time for more song.
"Amsterdam, Amsterdam – we are coming.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam I pray.
We are coming in the month of May."
Towards the end of the game, the Chelsea fans began looking ahead towards Sunday and our game at Anfield by warming up with a smattering of Liverpool songs. This was almost Mourinho-esque…with games won, he would often change the focus, ask players to conserve energy and start to think about the next challenge. Alas there is no Anfield for me on Sunday but I am not disappointed. With all of the noise about Benitez which will undoubtedly dominate the day, I am happy missing it.
There was a cooling wind coming off the Thames as I hurriedly walked back through Bishop's Park. The lights alongside the river created flickering reflections on the water. It was a lovely scene. The Chelsea fans were still in good voice. The Fulham fans, who must have been taking part in an odd oath of silence since half-time, were unable to be heard.
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BkiUdHI5qoTA-75cixi7 | Please download SystemLook from the following link below and save it to your Desktop. Use the correct version 32bit or 64bit.
Double-click SystemLook.exe to run it.
here are the logs. when I do check-disk , I used chkdsk/f not /r, please be noted. it seems it has some bad sectors in hard drive.
I made a mistake. so I redid the check disk with R option. it stuck at 10% for over an hour. but it finished. report is attached.
sorry not to reply earlier. the laptop is for my work. oddly, sometimes at work, your website is not showed up, hope our company is not blocking you guys.
at this moment, I will live with that 2 bad images because they are doing any harm. but my start manu" button is not working at all. I mentioned in my earlier post. I tried to install "classical shell" but I end up another "bad image' message with the "classic shell".
The original start button was part of Pokki, that really is bad news and should not be on anyones system.
I burned the Sea tool CD. you could see the files in windows explorer. however, when I choose to boot from the CD by using PC setting-recovery-restart now-boot form device -USB CD, the computer will restart and cd in cd rom rotates, however, it finally boot from the HHD. I don't know if there is an alternative tool to check the health of my HDD.
I know how to change the bios in windows 7, but windows 8 looks like different to access bios. How about I go directly refresh the system?
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BkiUcWE5qsNCPeN2FjIB | Make sure you take some time to be kind to yourself as well as others. Being kind not only improves your mental health and well-being, but it helps to improve others too!
The essence of politeness. This act is an easy way to make someone feel respected.
we all need a little pick-me-up from time to time, so why not got the extra mile and buy someone a cup of kindness.
Often a homeless person just wants to be treated respectfully and not ignored. Acknowledge their existence, engage them in conversation. Even a simple smile will go a long way!
You know that saying 'smile and the world smiles with you'…well, it's true – smiling really is infectious and is one of the quickest ways to light up someone else. Try it!
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BkiUdPk5qhLACGfB1guI | import io
import os
import sys
import subprocess
import pytest
from astropy.config import (configuration, set_temp_config, paths,
create_config_file)
from astropy.utils.data import get_pkg_data_filename
from astropy.utils.exceptions import AstropyDeprecationWarning
OLD_CONFIG = {}
def setup_module():
OLD_CONFIG.clear()
OLD_CONFIG.update(configuration._cfgobjs)
def teardown_module():
configuration._cfgobjs.clear()
configuration._cfgobjs.update(OLD_CONFIG)
def test_paths():
assert 'astropy' in paths.get_config_dir()
assert 'astropy' in paths.get_cache_dir()
assert 'testpkg' in paths.get_config_dir(rootname='testpkg')
assert 'testpkg' in paths.get_cache_dir(rootname='testpkg')
def test_set_temp_config(tmpdir, monkeypatch):
# Check that we start in an understood state.
assert configuration._cfgobjs == OLD_CONFIG
# Temporarily remove any temporary overrides of the configuration dir.
monkeypatch.setattr(paths.set_temp_config, '_temp_path', None)
orig_config_dir = paths.get_config_dir(rootname='astropy')
temp_config_dir = str(tmpdir.mkdir('config'))
temp_astropy_config = os.path.join(temp_config_dir, 'astropy')
# Test decorator mode
@paths.set_temp_config(temp_config_dir)
def test_func():
assert paths.get_config_dir(rootname='astropy') == temp_astropy_config
# Test temporary restoration of original default
with paths.set_temp_config() as d:
assert d == orig_config_dir == paths.get_config_dir(rootname='astropy')
test_func()
# Test context manager mode (with cleanup)
with paths.set_temp_config(temp_config_dir, delete=True):
assert paths.get_config_dir(rootname='astropy') == temp_astropy_config
assert not os.path.exists(temp_config_dir)
# Check that we have returned to our old configuration.
assert configuration._cfgobjs == OLD_CONFIG
def test_set_temp_cache(tmpdir, monkeypatch):
monkeypatch.setattr(paths.set_temp_cache, '_temp_path', None)
orig_cache_dir = paths.get_cache_dir(rootname='astropy')
temp_cache_dir = str(tmpdir.mkdir('cache'))
temp_astropy_cache = os.path.join(temp_cache_dir, 'astropy')
# Test decorator mode
@paths.set_temp_cache(temp_cache_dir)
def test_func():
assert paths.get_cache_dir(rootname='astropy') == temp_astropy_cache
# Test temporary restoration of original default
with paths.set_temp_cache() as d:
assert d == orig_cache_dir == paths.get_cache_dir(rootname='astropy')
test_func()
# Test context manager mode (with cleanup)
with paths.set_temp_cache(temp_cache_dir, delete=True):
assert paths.get_cache_dir(rootname='astropy') == temp_astropy_cache
assert not os.path.exists(temp_cache_dir)
def test_set_temp_cache_resets_on_exception(tmpdir):
"""Test for regression of bug #9704"""
t = paths.get_cache_dir()
a = tmpdir / 'a'
with open(a, 'wt') as f:
f.write("not a good cache\n")
with pytest.raises(OSError):
with paths.set_temp_cache(a):
pass
assert t == paths.get_cache_dir()
def test_config_file():
from astropy.config.configuration import get_config, reload_config
apycfg = get_config('astropy')
assert apycfg.filename.endswith('astropy.cfg')
cfgsec = get_config('astropy.config')
assert cfgsec.depth == 1
assert cfgsec.name == 'config'
assert cfgsec.parent.filename.endswith('astropy.cfg')
# try with a different package name, still inside astropy config dir:
testcfg = get_config('testpkg', rootname='astropy')
parts = os.path.normpath(testcfg.filename).split(os.sep)
assert '.astropy' in parts or 'astropy' in parts
assert parts[-1] == 'testpkg.cfg'
configuration._cfgobjs['testpkg'] = None # HACK
# try with a different package name, no specified root name (should
# default to astropy):
testcfg = get_config('testpkg')
parts = os.path.normpath(testcfg.filename).split(os.sep)
assert '.astropy' in parts or 'astropy' in parts
assert parts[-1] == 'testpkg.cfg'
configuration._cfgobjs['testpkg'] = None # HACK
# try with a different package name, specified root name:
testcfg = get_config('testpkg', rootname='testpkg')
parts = os.path.normpath(testcfg.filename).split(os.sep)
assert '.testpkg' in parts or 'testpkg' in parts
assert parts[-1] == 'testpkg.cfg'
configuration._cfgobjs['testpkg'] = None # HACK
# try with a subpackage with specified root name:
testcfg_sec = get_config('testpkg.somemodule', rootname='testpkg')
parts = os.path.normpath(testcfg_sec.parent.filename).split(os.sep)
assert '.testpkg' in parts or 'testpkg' in parts
assert parts[-1] == 'testpkg.cfg'
configuration._cfgobjs['testpkg'] = None # HACK
reload_config('astropy')
def check_config(conf):
# test that the output contains some lines that we expect
assert '# unicode_output = False' in conf
assert '[io.fits]' in conf
assert '[visualization.wcsaxes]' in conf
assert '## Whether to log exceptions before raising them.' in conf
assert '# log_exceptions = False' in conf
def test_generate_config(tmp_path):
from astropy.config.configuration import generate_config
out = io.StringIO()
generate_config('astropy', out)
conf = out.getvalue()
outfile = tmp_path / 'astropy.cfg'
generate_config('astropy', outfile)
with open(outfile) as fp:
conf2 = fp.read()
for c in (conf, conf2):
check_config(c)
def test_generate_config2(tmp_path):
"""Test that generate_config works with the default filename."""
with set_temp_config(tmp_path):
from astropy.config.configuration import generate_config
generate_config('astropy')
assert os.path.exists(tmp_path / 'astropy' / 'astropy.cfg')
with open(tmp_path / 'astropy' / 'astropy.cfg') as fp:
conf = fp.read()
check_config(conf)
def test_create_config_file(tmp_path, caplog):
with set_temp_config(tmp_path):
create_config_file('astropy')
# check that the config file has been created
assert ('The configuration file has been successfully written'
in caplog.records[0].message)
assert os.path.exists(tmp_path / 'astropy' / 'astropy.cfg')
with open(tmp_path / 'astropy' / 'astropy.cfg') as fp:
conf = fp.read()
check_config(conf)
caplog.clear()
# now modify the config file
conf = conf.replace('# unicode_output = False', 'unicode_output = True')
with open(tmp_path / 'astropy' / 'astropy.cfg', mode='w') as fp:
fp.write(conf)
with set_temp_config(tmp_path):
create_config_file('astropy')
# check that the config file has not been overwritten since it was modified
assert ('The configuration file already exists and seems to have been '
'customized' in caplog.records[0].message)
caplog.clear()
with set_temp_config(tmp_path):
create_config_file('astropy', overwrite=True)
# check that the config file has been overwritten
assert ('The configuration file has been successfully written'
in caplog.records[0].message)
def test_configitem():
from astropy.config.configuration import ConfigNamespace, ConfigItem, get_config
ci = ConfigItem(34, 'this is a Description')
class Conf(ConfigNamespace):
tstnm = ci
conf = Conf()
assert ci.module == 'astropy.config.tests.test_configs'
assert ci() == 34
assert ci.description == 'this is a Description'
assert conf.tstnm == 34
sec = get_config(ci.module)
assert sec['tstnm'] == 34
ci.description = 'updated Descr'
ci.set(32)
assert ci() == 32
# It's useful to go back to the default to allow other test functions to
# call this one and still be in the default configuration.
ci.description = 'this is a Description'
ci.set(34)
assert ci() == 34
# Test iterator for one-item namespace
result = [x for x in conf]
assert result == ['tstnm']
result = [x for x in conf.keys()]
assert result == ['tstnm']
result = [x for x in conf.values()]
assert result == [ci]
result = [x for x in conf.items()]
assert result == [('tstnm', ci)]
def test_configitem_types():
from astropy.config.configuration import ConfigNamespace, ConfigItem
ci1 = ConfigItem(34)
ci2 = ConfigItem(34.3)
ci3 = ConfigItem(True)
ci4 = ConfigItem('astring')
class Conf(ConfigNamespace):
tstnm1 = ci1
tstnm2 = ci2
tstnm3 = ci3
tstnm4 = ci4
conf = Conf()
assert isinstance(conf.tstnm1, int)
assert isinstance(conf.tstnm2, float)
assert isinstance(conf.tstnm3, bool)
assert isinstance(conf.tstnm4, str)
with pytest.raises(TypeError):
conf.tstnm1 = 34.3
conf.tstnm2 = 12 # this would should succeed as up-casting
with pytest.raises(TypeError):
conf.tstnm3 = 'fasd'
with pytest.raises(TypeError):
conf.tstnm4 = 546.245
# Test iterator for multi-item namespace. Assume ordered by insertion order.
item_names = [x for x in conf]
assert item_names == ['tstnm1', 'tstnm2', 'tstnm3', 'tstnm4']
result = [x for x in conf.keys()]
assert result == item_names
result = [x for x in conf.values()]
assert result == [ci1, ci2, ci3, ci4]
result = [x for x in conf.items()]
assert result == [('tstnm1', ci1), ('tstnm2', ci2), ('tstnm3', ci3), ('tstnm4', ci4)]
def test_configitem_options(tmpdir):
from astropy.config.configuration import ConfigNamespace, ConfigItem, get_config
cio = ConfigItem(['op1', 'op2', 'op3'])
class Conf(ConfigNamespace):
tstnmo = cio
conf = Conf() # noqa
sec = get_config(cio.module)
assert isinstance(cio(), str)
assert cio() == 'op1'
assert sec['tstnmo'] == 'op1'
cio.set('op2')
with pytest.raises(TypeError):
cio.set('op5')
assert sec['tstnmo'] == 'op2'
# now try saving
apycfg = sec
while apycfg.parent is not apycfg:
apycfg = apycfg.parent
f = tmpdir.join('astropy.cfg')
with open(f.strpath, 'wb') as fd:
apycfg.write(fd)
with open(f.strpath, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fd:
lns = [x.strip() for x in f.readlines()]
assert 'tstnmo = op2' in lns
def test_config_noastropy_fallback(monkeypatch):
"""
Tests to make sure configuration items fall back to their defaults when
there's a problem accessing the astropy directory
"""
# make sure the config directory is not searched
monkeypatch.setenv('XDG_CONFIG_HOME', 'foo')
monkeypatch.delenv('XDG_CONFIG_HOME')
monkeypatch.setattr(paths.set_temp_config, '_temp_path', None)
# make sure the _find_or_create_root_dir function fails as though the
# astropy dir could not be accessed
def osraiser(dirnm, linkto, pkgname=None):
raise OSError
monkeypatch.setattr(paths, '_find_or_create_root_dir', osraiser)
# also have to make sure the stored configuration objects are cleared
monkeypatch.setattr(configuration, '_cfgobjs', {})
with pytest.raises(OSError):
# make sure the config dir search fails
paths.get_config_dir(rootname='astropy')
# now run the basic tests, and make sure the warning about no astropy
# is present
test_configitem()
def test_configitem_setters():
from astropy.config.configuration import ConfigNamespace, ConfigItem
class Conf(ConfigNamespace):
tstnm12 = ConfigItem(42, 'this is another Description')
conf = Conf()
assert conf.tstnm12 == 42
with conf.set_temp('tstnm12', 45):
assert conf.tstnm12 == 45
assert conf.tstnm12 == 42
conf.tstnm12 = 43
assert conf.tstnm12 == 43
with conf.set_temp('tstnm12', 46):
assert conf.tstnm12 == 46
# Make sure it is reset even with Exception
try:
with conf.set_temp('tstnm12', 47):
raise Exception
except Exception:
pass
assert conf.tstnm12 == 43
def test_empty_config_file():
from astropy.config.configuration import is_unedited_config_file
def get_content(fn):
with open(get_pkg_data_filename(fn), 'rt', encoding='latin-1') as fd:
return fd.read()
content = get_content('data/empty.cfg')
assert is_unedited_config_file(content)
content = get_content('data/not_empty.cfg')
assert not is_unedited_config_file(content)
class TestAliasRead:
def setup_class(self):
configuration._override_config_file = get_pkg_data_filename('data/alias.cfg')
def test_alias_read(self):
from astropy.utils.data import conf
with pytest.warns(
AstropyDeprecationWarning,
match=r"Config parameter 'name_resolve_timeout' in section "
r"\[coordinates.name_resolve\].*") as w:
conf.reload()
assert conf.remote_timeout == 42
assert len(w) == 1
def teardown_class(self):
from astropy.utils.data import conf
configuration._override_config_file = None
conf.reload()
def test_configitem_unicode(tmpdir):
from astropy.config.configuration import ConfigNamespace, ConfigItem, get_config
cio = ConfigItem('ასტრონომიის')
class Conf(ConfigNamespace):
tstunicode = cio
conf = Conf() # noqa
sec = get_config(cio.module)
assert isinstance(cio(), str)
assert cio() == 'ასტრონომიის'
assert sec['tstunicode'] == 'ასტრონომიის'
def test_warning_move_to_top_level():
# Check that the warning about deprecation config items in the
# file works. See #2514
from astropy import conf
configuration._override_config_file = get_pkg_data_filename('data/deprecated.cfg')
try:
with pytest.warns(AstropyDeprecationWarning) as w:
conf.reload()
conf.max_lines
assert len(w) == 1
finally:
configuration._override_config_file = None
conf.reload()
def test_no_home():
# "import astropy" fails when neither $HOME or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
# are set. To test, we unset those environment variables for a
# subprocess and try to import astropy.
test_path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
astropy_path = os.path.abspath(
os.path.join(test_path, '..', '..', '..'))
env = os.environ.copy()
paths = [astropy_path]
if env.get('PYTHONPATH'):
paths.append(env.get('PYTHONPATH'))
env['PYTHONPATH'] = os.pathsep.join(paths)
for val in ['HOME', 'XDG_CONFIG_HOME']:
if val in env:
del env[val]
retcode = subprocess.check_call(
[sys.executable, '-c', 'import astropy'],
env=env)
assert retcode == 0
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BkiUbpLxaKgS2EKBg_s6 | Get a little musical interlude from the pros at Broadway in the Bar at Ghillie Dhu.
The ideal Mother's day gift - treat her to a fabulous day out in the capital!
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BkiUdY85qWTBGh9UQ06p | Rywalizacja drużyn mieszanych w konkurencji snowcross podczas mistrzostw świata w Utah została rozegrana na trasie o nazwie Main Street 3 lutego 2019 roku o 11:00. Złoty medal wywalczyli reprezentanci USA: Lindsey Jacobellis i Mick Dierdorff, którzy wyprzedzili Włochów w składzie Michela Moioli i Omar Visintin oraz Niemców: Paula Berga i Hannę Ihediohę.
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Wyniki
Opracowano na podstawie materiału źródłowego:
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BkiUcuDxaKPQonPpLE7e | KIRA LEIVA
Actor/Singer
I Need You To See Me
Music and lyrics by Makan, the song is performed by 101 CALD and BIPoC artists, and is a call to arms for better representation on stage and screen.
Further links:
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https://scenestr.com.au/arts/101-diverse-bipoc-performers-come-together-for-i-need-you-to-see-me-20200929
http://artsreview.com.au/vidya-makan-i-need-you-to-see-me/
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BkiUf9HxK7IDPXIhoYS7 | What is your favourite store world?
Which Showtime will you get?
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Questions about Master Suite Stuff?
The Sims 3 for LAPTOP too?
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BkiUczw5qdmC-HfOY8YQ | Bulldozers move in to clear the way for flats and shops at site of 19th century pub
The Stockton pub closed in the mid-2000s and the site is being redeveloped by Jomast
Alex MetcalfeLocal Democracy Reporter
The Riverside Inn dates back to the 19th Century (Image: Ian Cooper / Teesside Live)
Work on a historic Teesside pub which has stood since the 19th century is taking shape.
Bulldozers moved in on the rear of the former Riverside Inn, in Stockton, on Thursday to clear the way for a new set of apartments and shop fronts.
Teesside property developer Jomast is converting the inn on Thistle Green into six, two-bed apartments on the first and second floor.
The plan is to retain the existing pub and increase its roof height while the ground floor will be kept and divided down into two "commercial units".
Efforts to build student digs on the town centre site were turned down in 2007 and 2016 before the green light was eventually given in 2017.
Bulldozers clear the way around the Riverside Inn (Image: Ian Cooper / Teesside Live)
The pub was originally called the Three Tuns and is thought to date from the 19th century.
It has sat decaying near Stockton Police Station since it closed for business in the mid-2000s.
The 1920s saw it owned by Edward Nugent, whose his wife Mary continued to run it after his death.
The Riverside Inn, Stockton, which is being converted into flats (Image: Ian Cooper / Teesside Live)
It became a haunt for council workers in the 1970s and 80s offering takeaway sandwiches and pub lunches under its new name, The Riverside Inn.
The former Camerons pub also boasted a successful local league football team.
Gender-neutral toilets trial backed after call from Tory councillor
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BkiUdUvxaKgQNICjgJuZ | About VDB TV
Gregg Bordowitz: Part 2
TRT 01:18:29
The Suicide
Gregg Bordowitz | 1996 | 01:27:49 | United States | English | Color | 4:3
Gregg Bordowitz's 1996 adaption of Nikolai Erdman's 1928 avant-garde play The Suicide.
Portraits of People Living with HIV
A series of intimate, close-up video portraits of HIV positive men in the early 1990's.
Gregg Bordowitz: Part 2, streaming on VDB TV June 19th-July 22nd, 2019
VDB TV and the Art Institute of Chicago are pleased to present Gregg Bordowitz: Part 2, focusing on videos by writer, artist, and activist Gregg Bordowitz, presented on the occasion of I Wanna Be Well, the first comprehensive exhibition of the artist's thirty-year career. The second installment of this program includes Bordowitz's Portraits of People Living with HIV (1993), "A Cloud in Trousers" 1914-1915 (1995), and The Suicide (1996). Portraits of People Living with HIV is a series of video portraits featuring interviews with Derek Link, David Barr, Mark Simpson, Robert Vazquez, Frank Moore, and Stephen de Francesco that were originally broadcast on Living with AIDS, a cable television show co-produced by Bordowitz and Jean Carlomusto at the Gay Men's Healthcare Crisis between 1987-1993.
Like Portraits of People Living with HIV, "A Cloud in Trousers" 1914-1915 was intended to be broadcast on television, and yet the piece drew upon radically different aesthetic strategies. Instead of utilizing Bordowitz's direct interview style, the video is rooted in the history of art performed for television — including switching between multiple camera perspectives, and the use of intimate close-ups — that peaked in the early broadcast era. Recorded by cinematographer Ellen Kuras and broadcast in 1996 on the PBS series New Television, "A Cloud in Trousers" 1914-1915 features artist and writer David Rakoff performing Futurist artist Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem A Cloud in Trousers. Written in 1914–15 and published in complete form in 1918, the poem takes its name from an encounter between the artist and a Russian imperial censor, in which the artist responded, "All right, if you want — I will be wild, if you want — I will be tender, not a man, but a cloud in trousers."
In the feature-length work The Suicide, Bordowitz explores themes outside of the framework of AIDS activism, instead recreating Nikolai Eardman's Soviet avant-garde play from which the piece takes its name. The play follows the protagonist Semyon as he tries to unyoke himself from the enforced optimism of a bureaucratic order that prohibits any discussion of disappointment and despair following the revolution.
Gregg Bordowitz: Part 2 stands as a personal, thirty-year record of an activist artist who has lived with HIV for more than half his life. This collaboration marks the first partnership between the Art Institute of Chicago and VDB TV, and was organized by VDB and the museum's co-curators Robyn Farrell and Solveig Nelson.
Portraits of People Living with HIV, streaming June 19th-July 22nd
"A Cloud in Trousers" 1914-1915, streaming June 19th-July 7th
The Suicide, streaming July 8th-July 22nd
Love what you're watching?
Order titles by Gregg Bordowitz on vdb.org
About Gregg Bordowitz:
A Professor and Director of the Low-Residency MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bordowitz was as an early participant in New York's ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in the late 1980s. In this capacity, Bordowitz co-founded several video collectives — including Testing the Limits, an advocacy group within ACT UP, and DIVA (Damn Interfering Video Activists) — that videotaped some of the movement's earliest direct action protests and initiated works made by and for individuals who self-identified as HIV-positive. As the artist wrote in a famous 1987 essay, video had the capacity to "picture a coalition of people who will end this epidemic." Simultaneously, Bordowitz made his own experimental videos and television broadcasts that juxtaposed performance documentation, archival footage, role play, and recordings of protest demonstrations, drawing influence from feminist conceptual art. Bordowitz's work critiques patterns of media reporting and, in the artist's words, creates "conjunctions and asymmetries" among his Jewish, bisexual, gay, and artistic identities through an expanded concept of portraiture as a mode of political and artistic address.
The tension arising between the demands of AIDS activism and Bordowitz's increasing desire to explore aspects of his own life outside the framework of AIDS resulted in the appropriation of a work from the Soviet avant-garde: Nikolai Erdman's play The Suicide. The protagonist, Semyon, as he tries to unyoke himself from the enforced optimism of a bureaucratic order that prohibits any discussion of disappointment and despair following the revolution.
Featuring Lothaire Bluteau as Semyon.
An up-close compilation of interviews and discussions with people living with HIV in the early 1990s.
"We have to use these forms, no matter how tired they are, in order to experiment and to develop new forms. It's the way I feel about art and documentaries: how are we going to develop more effective means of representation 'for us', for the people who are affected by AIDS, unless we use the available forms? That means employing clichéd forms. What we can try to do is to alter them and make them signify for us, so that what we come up with is something radically different than what is presented to us. It's radically different because it's 'us' making meaning about our situation, and not just waiting for an invitation from the culture, which someone else has always defined."
— Douglas Crimp & Gregg Bordowitz, Art and Activism in AIDS, the artists' response, Hoyt L. Sherman Gallery, and Ohio State University, 1989
Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well at the Art Institute of Chicago
Grow Gills and Swim: The Evolution of Activist Video, Gregg Bordowitz, 2006
Wake to Dread, Gregg Bordowitz, Triple Canopy, 2019
VDB TV is an innovative digital distribution project which provides free, online streaming access to curated programs of video and media art. Sourced from the historically significant archives of the Video Data Bank, VDB TV will include work from early video pioneers active in the 1960s and 70s, through to emerging contemporary artists. VDB TV offers viewers across the United States and beyond access to rare video art, the opportunity to engage with programs conceived by a wide range of curators, and original writing, all while ensuring that artists are compensated for their work.
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BkiUdJY4ubng3m-N4w8S | Yes, really cant remember the server.
I would first warn him or her, if he or she continued i would warn her or him a second time and kick him or her, and a third would result in a permanent ban.
I would tell them to go to a vendor and buy an item then sell it seeing as its free.
I can vary in things to do. I can test things, check for bugs...many more.
I think i should be a GM because i work well with people, i am funny and i like to joke a bit but then i get serious with people. i ALWAYS obey the rules, and dislike people who don't. Also im EU so i can come on at times others cant.
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BkiUfKo4uzqj8WoUXF7g | 4/27/2018, 11:28pm
Taking a look at Auburn's 2nd round NFL Draft picks
By Will Sahlie | Sports Editor , Tyler Roush | Sports Reporter and Nathan King | Assistant Sports Editor
Three former Auburn stars were taken in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft Friday night. Here is a look at the three future-NFL rookies:
Braden Smith – Indianapolis Colts – 37th overall pick
Auburn's Braden Smith became the first Tiger player to be selected in the 2018 NFL Draft.
Smith was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the 2nd round and 37th overall pick of the draft.
As a first-team All-American in his senior season, Smith quickly became the replacement for offensive tackle Greg Robinson, who was the second-overall pick in 2014, as a freshman. Helping pave the way for 1,000-yard rushers all four of his seasons on the line, Smith then became the focal point of the Auburn offensive line.
"Braden Smith is one of the best I've coached," Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn tweeted. "The @Colts are going to love him. Congrats Braden!"
Coming out of high school, Smith was the top-rated offensive guard recruit in the country by 247Sports. The Olathe, Kansas, native played in all 13 games his freshman season, including a start against Wisconsin in an Outback Bowl loss.
Offensive line coach J.B. Grimes said that Smith was "stronger than train smoke" despite being fresh out of high school.
Some NFL analysts believe that Smith is both "underrated" and ready to start day one as a professional.
"I think Braden Smith's the most underrated of this group," ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. said. "I think if you get into the third round for Braden Smith, you've got a plug-and-play rookie."
Smith joins the Colts' first-round draft pick, Quenton Nelson, as future starters along the Colts' frontline. Nelson, an offensive guard out of Notre Dame, was the No. 6 overall pick in the draft. The Colts allowed a NFL-leading 56 sacks last season, which made the offensive line a priority in the draft. Indianapolis ranked 22nd out of 32 NFL teams in rushing last season. With Nelson and Smith aboard, the Colts will look to shift its offensive line from a liability into a strength.
Braden Smith (71) blocks Trenton Thompson (78) in the first half vs. Georgia on Nov. 11. File Photo.
Kerryon Johnson – Detroit Lions – 43rd overall pick
One of Auburn's all-time great backs has found his new home.
Kerryon Johnson was selected by the Detroit Lions with the 43rd overall pick in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft. He was the second Auburn player to hear his name called in the draft.
"This is an extreme honor," Johnson said. "It's a great football team and I'm ready to get in and go to work."
Johnson was named the SEC Offensive Player of the Year after carrying the Tigers to 10 wins and a berth in the SEC Championship Game.
Johnson racked up an SEC-leading 1,391 rushing yards along with leading the conference with 19 touchdowns in his final season at Auburn. He also snagged two receiving touchdowns, most notably a 55-yard catch-and-run to put the nail in Georgia's coffin in the Tigers' 40-17 rout of the Bulldogs.
Johnson was named First Team All-SEC during his final season on The Plains.
The Madison, Alabama, native finished his Auburn career with 2,494 yards and 34 total touchdowns in his three seasons for the Tigers.
"I'm very thankful for the spot that I went in," Johnson said. "It could be way later, it could be way earlier, who cares. I went in this spot and that's where I was meant to go and that's where I went. Props to those guys that got drafted just like I did. We're all equally happy, I promise you that."
"One of the best to come thru Auburn," Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn tweeted. "The @Lions got a great one!"
The Lions ranked last in the NFL last season with just 3.4 yards per carry by their tailbacks. Johnson will join former All-Pro quarterback Matthew Stafford in the backfield as Detroit looks to build on a top-ten offense last season.
"I love this pick," CBS Sports noted on its draft tracker. "The Lions have their lead runner. He will be a big-time producer on the ground."
Kerryon Johnson (21) runs the ball in the first half vs. Alabama on Nov. 25. File Photo.
Carlton Davis – Tampa Bay Buccaneers – 63rd overall
Add another to the list of Auburn players taken in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
Carlton Davis was picked by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round with the 63rd overall pick. The former standout defensive back will look to improve/bolster a Buccaneers team that ranked last in the league in passing defense last season.
Often compared to All-Pro corner Richard Sherman for his ability to crowd and bully wideouts into the boundary, Davis declared for the draft following the completion of his junior season on The Plains.
The Miami, Florida, product emerged from high school as a physically imposing, four-star athlete. In 38 games over his three years, Davis started in 32, accumulating 138 tackles, four interceptions and three forced fumbles.
After earning All-American honors his junior year and All-SEC accolades his junior and sophomore seasons, Davis began to garner "buzz" from NFL coaches due to his stature and physical style of play.
NFL.com's Lance Zierlein scouted that given the right defensive scheme, Davis "could become a high-impact starter."
"(Scouts) love his size, his toughness, his grit, the ways he plays the position on the island," NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks said. "And so anytime you can find bigger corners that can move in transition and kind of give you the toughness and tackling that you see from him on the edge, you like that."
The Buccaneers ranked last in the NFL last season allowing 260.6 passing yards per game. Tampa Bay also ranked ninth-worst in the NFL allowing 23.9 points per game. The Buccaneers used two of their three second round picks to select defensive backs, drafting M.J. Stewart from North Carolina with the 53rd overall pick and Davis 10 picks later. Davis will likely see playing time early in his NFL career as the Bucs look to bolster the worst pass defense in the NFL in 2018.
"You talk about long corners with the ability to play press coverage, this is your guy," NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock said. "When you draw it up, this is what it looks like. An impressive specimen."
Carlton Davis (6) celebrates after a fourth-down stop vs. Alabama on Nov. 25. File Photo.
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Mary Elaine Southerly, 66, of Moorefield, passed away on Sunday, July 31, 2022, at Mon Health Medical Center in Morgantown, WV.
Born April 12, 1956, in Petersburg, WV, she was the daughter of the late Junior F. and Ella Mae (Fitzwater) Cullers. Elaine was also preceded in death by her husband, John Merle Southerly and a half-brother.
Elaine retired from Hardy County Schools. She was the librarian at Moorefield Middle School. She previously worked in the assessor's office at the Hardy County Courthouse for many years. She was a member of the Moorefield Church of the Brethren. She was a life long learner and had an extensive college education.
She is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth Simmons of Franklin and Jennifer Champ and husband, Shawn of Maysville; one sister Pam McCartney and husband, Jim of Morgantown; one brother, Tim Cullers and wife, Shawn of Moorefield; two grandchildren, Allison Champ and Lindsay Simmons.
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Whether it's Afrobeat, Afrobeats, Afro-beats or Afrobeatz, and the exact the origins of the music – is not entirely clear. What is entirely clear, is that this intoxicating fusion of traditional African drumming and tribal sounds, mixed with electro, RnB or hip hop – depending on the artist - has taken off big time in Melbourne.
People from all backgrounds, ages and ethnicity are swapping their heels for their runners and turning up in droves to try a class, attend a club night, event or festival showcasing this emerging music genre, its unifying dance moves promising a healthy dose of serotonin.
From bars that have regular Afrobeats nights to large ticketed basement and boat parties, locals and visitors can dip their toes in, or jump in fully-clothed.
Sounds Of Africa organises a variety of specialist music events celebrating African culture. The up-coming SOA Block Party showcases two of Melbourne's best Afrobeat artists Lowkey and Kudzai. The DJs will be playing the best of Afrobeats, Reggae, Dancehall (a music style originating from Jamaica with its roots in Reggae) Zouk, RnB and Hip Hop. Strict dress code of cocktail style Black & Gold. Saturday July 20th.
Let's Vibe / Sriracha is another event promoter with a passion for exposing the sounds of Africa to Melbourne. The guys organise a range of events from open mic at Whitehart to summer boat parties and smoking hot 'Sriracha' basement parties in the city – organiser and DJ Jerry C's mix of Hiphop, Afrobeats and electronic music usually means they sell out quick.
Members only Moja Afrobeats offers a more boutique style of event and champions the rapidly emerging movement in Melbourne. Moja is a Swahili word that means 'one'. The mission, to get everyone together through the Afrobeats movement. The downloadable app has more info on events coming up.
Brunswick music house incubator Bar Oussou offers free nightly live music in an intimate space with an international flavor. Sunday nights are dedicated to the Ausecuma Beats - with combined influences from Africa, Cuba, and Australia and a Senegalese Feast to boot. Think peace and happy vibes with people spilling out to dance in the streets.
City centre bank plc basement bar, Marrakesh, becomes Bendo every Thursday. Early arrivals can join the dance class to learn to the moves, and once the night kicks off in earnest, the whole crowd unites in harmony as it moves together, choreographed by top notch instructors from all around the world. Impossible not to join in.
I love Dancehall is a monthly ticketed music night at Brunswick's Rubix Warehouse. The events have evolved over ten years from traditional Dancehall to now include Afrobeats. Next event planned for July 6th.
Family-friendly cultural events and festivals featuring the stars of Afrobeats.
The Sounds of Africa Festival is an annual family-friendly celebration of African culture, music, food and vibes at Ceres in East Brunswick. From drumming workshops and dance performances, arts and crafts, amazing food and of course DJ's playing Afrobeats - the event is simply a wonderful day out and introduction to the many diverse and colourful African cultures. The 2019 event will take place on December 7th.
A PBS event in its fourth year, the next Beasts of No Nation will be held Saturday August 31 at Max Watts and will pay homage to the irrefutable king of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, who will be in Australia for the first time since 2014. His singer-saxophonist, two-time Grammy nominee son, Femi Kuti will be joining the performance. Event co-founders The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra will also perform. With all previous Beasts of No Nation events having sold out, there's no doubt the 2019 event will do the same
Melbourne African Traditional Ensemble (MATE) is in the line up for the City of Yarra's popular Leaps and Bounds Music Festival. The Pan African quartet hail from Ghana, Ethiopia and South Africa. Traditional instruments and influences create a must-move vibe. The event is organised by AfroHub –a platform for African talent in all its diversity - and Abbotsford Convent.
Sunset Safari at Werribee Open Range Zoo will return for the summer months from November 2019 to March 2020. In this exclusive after-hours and small group event, visitors spend an incredible night out with some of the world's most iconic animals. While they adventure onto the Savannah for a guided sunset tour and feast with friends at an intimate dinner, they also enjoy immersive performances that showcase the rhythms of Africa by some of Melbourne's best African percussion and dance experts.
A perfect way to fully understand the appeal of the Afrobeats movement. Dancing and drumming classes of different styles are available all around Melbourne for those who want to sign up to a course, or simply turn up and dance.
Classes are on offer on Thursday nights at the Marrakesh club before the Bendo night kicks off with Afro Caribbean dance styles include Kizomba, a genre of dance and a music originating in Angola and meaning "party", and Zouk, a quick tempo musical style originating from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. 25 Bank Pl, Melbourne VIC 3000, (03) 9939 1408
Dance Energy Happiness at Jungle City Dance is run by KT or Kwame Tousuma - a well known name in the dancehall scene - and is open to people of any level and fitness. From traditional to modern Afrobeats trends. Jungle City Studios, 7b Level 1, 7-9 Hope Street, Brunswick 3056
Afrikan Soul has a similar offering at Robles Studio in Carlton and proclaims to be 'the home of Kizomba in Melbourne'. Instructors Lam and Kylie have over 25 years of cumulative dance experience between them, in styles diversified across Africa, Cuba and the Dominican. Their first passion and now primary teaching focus is in the related styles of Kizomba, Semba, and African Dance. First floor 171 Lygon Street, Carlton, 0466 635 533
Also, Afro Funk classes with dance and drumming are available at Asanti Dance Theatre on Thursday nights in St Kilda, and African star dance uses some of the top dancers in Melbourne for workshops, dance and drumming classes, they are available for special events and parties and they run regular classes around Melbourne.
Afrobeats music artists around Melbourne
As the city that musos across Australia gravitate to in order to progress their music career, Melbourne has become the home to some of the top and emerging Afrobeats and hip hop artists.
While Sampa the Great's music is more often described as hip hop, she taps into her Zambian roots and works with one of Melbourne's top Afrobeat drumkit players ( Julian Goyma ) on her increasingly popular style of music. Sampa the Great is on a huge global upward trajectory having won many awards and recently played the UK's Glastonbury Festival.
The Senegambian Jazz Band is local outfit that fuses influences from Gambia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Ghana and Australia with jazz and world music beats, they are playing at the Marysville Jazz and Blues Festival October 18 – 20 2019.
Ajak Kwai is one of Melbourne's top female artists to catch live in concert. Ajak's music is inspiring and soulful, infused with funky Afrobeats representing the depth and richness of her South Sudanese roots. Her performances are filled with vibrant sounds and her distinctive voice has mesmerised audiences nationally and internationally. Like her contemporary, Lamine Sonko, she is also an important cultural public figure for the Melbourne / African communities.
Lamine has a group called the African Intelligence and is the lead singer in a number of Melbourne's top Afrobeats ensembles. They play traditional live Afrobeats and afro funk and have performed all around the world.
Digital Afrika is a two piece band with a new EP out that focuses on dance Afrobeats and house and is selling out events and club nights around the city.
Those who are keen to try before they buy, should tune in to renowned international dancer and drummer, Kofi Shabba's Kiss FM 87.6 Sunday show.
So be it a curiosity, a love of dance or a desire to learn more about the eclectic and colouful African communities in Melbourne, visitors and locals alike should jump onboard this movement as its continues its domination of Melbourne, and the world.
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Chronic diseases of lifestyle are a major contributor towards the increased incidence of mortality and morbidity among individuals worldwide. In conjunction with this, dietary and lifestyle modifications have contributed towards the overweight and obesity problem. Recent but not conclusive evidence has suggested that the consumption of added sugars, particularly from sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) could be the driving force behind this problem. University students are vulnerable to these dietary and lifestyle changes as they are exposed to a new environment in which independent food choices have to be made. Unfortunately the influence of the food environment often results in poor dietary habits. Determining the relationship between added sugar intake and body mass index (BMI) among undergraduate students between the ages of 18-25 years studying at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Pietermaritzburg campus. To determine: the demographic characteristics of the students such as age, gender, race and place of residence; the BMI of the students; the dietary intake of added sugar from foods and beverages among the students; the association between the dietary intake of added sugar and the students' BMI; the consumption and consumption patterns of sugar sweetened beverages; the influence of demographic characteristics on the dietary intake of added sugars and the factors that influence the intake of SSBs. A cross sectional study was conducted on 387 undergraduate students between the ages of 18-25 years attending UKZN, Pietermaritzburg. Non-probability sampling was used to recruit the students. A three part questionnaire was used to gather information on anthropometric measurements, demographic characteristics, and a 24 hour dietary recall and a Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) was used to assess the added sugar intake among the subjects. The study population consisted of 33.1% male subjects and 66.9% female subjects. Most of the subjects were from the Black African race group (90.4%), followed by the Indian (7%), Coloured (2.1%) and White (0.5%) race group. A vast majority of the subjects lived away from home (76.7%). A significant number of the subjects were within the normal BMI classification (64.9%) and the mean BMI of the subjects was 23.5kgm2. The prevalence of overweight and obesity was higher among the female (22% and 11.5%) than male subjects (13.3% and 2.4%) and more male subjects were within the normal BMI category (77.3%). Significant differences were observed between the subjects BMI and the consumption of some food and beverage items listed in the FFQ. Subjects with a higher BMI consumed flavoured milks less often, and consumed a greater amount of ice cream and a smaller amount of hard boiled sweets. The frequency of consumption of the foods and beverages that contained added sugar was significantly higher among the female subjects, and the male subjects consumed significantly greater amounts of these foods and beverages. Differences were observed in the consumption of added sugars across the genders, races and place of residence. Subjects that lived at home and that were Indian and female consumed most of the food and beverage categories that contained added sugars more frequently. Taste and price significantly influenced the students' consumption of SSBs. The most frequent place of purchase and consumption of SSBs as reported by the subjects were supermarkets and on campus respectively. Most of the subjects were within the normal BMI classification. Approximately one third of the subjects were overweight or obese, however there were more overweight subjects. The prevalence of overweight and obesity was higher among the female subjects. The subjects' diet lacked variety, and the frequency of consumption of added sugars from the various food and beverage categories was relatively high among the sample population. Differences with regards to the consumption of added sugars were observed across the categories of gender, race and place of residence. Factors such as taste and price greatly influenced the students' consumption of SSBs. Although significant differences between BMI and the intake of some sugar containing foods and beverages existed, this aspect requires further exploration among university students. The poor dietary habits among the university students as well as the prevalence of overweight and obesity among this population group, highlight the fact that there is a great need for strategies to be implemented in order to promote healthier dietary and lifestyle habits among young adults. | commoncrawl | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUdRQ4uBhhxMInUc8s | American mistakenly used wrong plane for overwater flight to Hawaii
American Airlines mistakenly operated a Hawaii flight with an aircraft that was not certified for long over-water flights, the company has acknowledged. The mistake came Aug. 31 on a flight from Los Angeles
American mistakenly used wrong plane for overwater flight to Hawaii American Airlines mistakenly operated a Hawaii flight with an aircraft that was not certified for long over-water flights, the company has acknowledged. The mistake came Aug. 31 on a flight from Los Angeles Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1F9btoH
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Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY Published 8:25 a.m. ET Sept. 14, 2015 | Updated 12:46 p.m. ET Sept. 15, 2015
American Airlines admits it accidentally used a plane that wasn't certified to fly over the Pacific for a recent flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii. Jen Markham (@jenmarkham) has the story. Buzz60
A file photo of an American Airlines Airbus A321. (Photo: American Airlines)
American Airlines mistakenly operated a Hawaii flight with an aircraft that was not certified for long over-water flights, the company has acknowledged.
The flight occurred Aug. 31 on a route from Los Angeles to Honolulu. The airline is now revising its internal procedures after the incident, according to aviation blogger Brian Sumers, who first reported the story.
American's mistake centered not on whether the Airbus A321 had the range to fly from California to Hawaii – it is able to do so – but rather on whether it was properly certified.
Planes that fly long over-water routes must receive special certification for such flights. That certification is known as "ETOPS," which stands for "Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards."
The Washington Post notes the certification "is primarily an administrative requirement, but it also calls for the planes to be equipped with extra oxygen and a fire suppression canister."
American says it notified the Federal Aviation Administration as soon as it realized the mistake had been made.
When we realized what happened, we immediately notified the FAA and began a thorough review of our procedures," American spokesman Casey Norton says to Today in the Sky. "Already, we have revised our software to properly identify the correct aircraft are operating the correct routes."
American spokesman Casey Norton explains to AFP that – except for the ETOPS certification – the A321S that mistakenly flew the Hawaii trip is the same as the A321H that was supposed to fly the route.
"American's A321S flies over water regularly for many missions, but is not ETOPS-certified, which is required by the FAA for American's Hawaiian flights," American adds to ABC. "The A321S is equipped with four slide-rafts (one at each corner of the aircraft) and one portable raft in addition to life vests and seat cushions that can serve as flotation devices."
"It has the same engine, same fuel tanks, same range," Norton says to AFP.
Speaking to The Associated Press, FAA spokesman Les Dorr said agency officials cannot recall any past incidents quite like this one.
The Aug. 31 incident came about two weeks after American switched from Boeing 757s to Airbus A321s for its L.A.-Honolulu route.
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Board index » Book Discussion » Gollum's Cave (The Hobbit) » Which dwarf you like most?
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Welcome to the forum!! And ya gotta like Bombur.
In TH the book ... hmmmmm ... I guess Balin, as he is the one who visits Bilbo together with Gandalf at the very end of the book, several years after the quest to Erebor.
If I only have to pick one, it's Bombur. But I like Balin and Thorin as well.
Torin is my favorite dwarf despite his mental breakdown. I like his self-devotion to the duty.
Torin is a selfless and responsible dwarf.
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BkiUbtc4ukPiESmuB7zS | Hannah Elizabeth Coulter, age 18, moved peacefully from her loving home into the arms of Jesus on Monday, December 3, 2018.
Hannah was born on April 13, 2000 in Portland, Texas to parents Tommy Glenn Coulter and Marsha Lynn Rogers Coulter. From the time she came into this world, Hannah was a blessing to the many lives she touched. She was the epitome of genuineness and a perfect example of how to live without pretense. Hannah loved music and movement and was her happiest when she was expressing herself with both. Throughout her short years on earth, Hannah touched the lives of literally hundreds of people. Teachers, caregivers, therapists, doctors and relatives alike all agree that as they worked to help Hannah, they found the reverse was true. Hannah was the most effective kind of instructor in the life-lessons that matter the most. She taught love, compassion, patience and honesty without saying so much as a single word. Hannah left an unforgettable mark on those who were blessed enough to cross her path. She is now undoubtedly singing and dancing with the heavenly hosts!
Hannah was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Ernest Coulter. She is survived by her parents, Tommy and Marsha; her sister Hayley; her paternal grandmother Elizabeth Coulter; her maternal grandparents Marshall and Georgia Rogers; her uncles Kirk (Kelly) Rogers, and Greg (Kimberly) Rogers; and her aunt Joni Harrel (Nick): as well as her many cousins, great aunts, uncles and beloved friends.
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BkiUbi84ubnjoqgDVBKh | Final piece in recruiting puzzle was a big one
February 12, 2018 By Brett Friedlander Leave a Comment
National Signing Day has been reduced to an afterthought, thanks to an early signing period in which most schools locked up the majority of their incoming freshman classes two months before the traditional early February date.
But while this year's Signing Day lacked the fanfare of previous years, it was no less significant for East Carolina's struggling football program.
Coach Scottie Montgomery added only one more player to the 19 that submitted their national letters of intent back in December.
Dorian Hardy (Twitter.com/Hardy39Hardy)
It was a big one, though, and not just because Dorian Hardy is 6-foot-4 and 245 pounds.
Rather, it's because of the list of schools the four-star prospect passed up on to join quarterback Holton Ahlers as the highest-rated member of ECU's recruiting class.
According to most of the top Internet recruiting sites, Hardy held offers from Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Miami and Michigan, just to name a few.
The young New Jersey native had originally committed to Penn State, but the Nittany Lions backed off him last October after he was involved in a post-practice fight at Paramus Catholic High School.
Accounts of the incident differ, but Hardy was suspended and subsequently transferred to North Brunswick Township High.
It's not clear whether the controversy caused any of the other top teams pursuing him to lose interest as well. But it's certain that ECU wouldn't have been in a position to land him had his senior year not encountered such a serious speedbump.
Upon announcing Hardy's signing last week, Montgomery told Bonesville's Al Myatt that he and his staff thoroughly researched both the incident and the young player's character and "don't have any reservations about giving him an opportunity to play."
Regardless of the past, the Pirates coach said his newest player will have the opportunity to "prove himself continually by the day" in the future — the same as every other member of the program.
Even if there is some lingering doubt, signing Hardy was still a gamble worth taking.
Traditional powers in the highest profile conferences can afford to be picky with their recruits when there are other four- and even five-star talents on which they can fall back. When you're a Group of Five team coming off back-to-back 3-9 seasons with a defense that ranked dead last among FBS schools in both points and yardage allowed per game — as ECU is — you have to take a few chances.
And Hardy certainly appears to be worth the chance.
Listed as the No. 3 recruit in New Jersey and sixth among all defensive ends nationally, Hardy led his original school, St. Joseph Regional, to a pair of state championship game appearances before leaving for Paramus Catholic.
In five games before his 2017 season was derailed, Hardy was credited with 34 tackles, 2.5 sacks, three recovered fumbles and two forced fumbles. His quickness and athleticism give him the potential to become a disrupter off the edge the likes of which ECU hasn't had in a long time.
How long it takes for him to earn his way into the lineup will depend on how quickly he comes along in fall camp, since unlike 10 of his fellow new recruits, he won't be on campus in time to participate in spring practice.
That begins next week, by the way.
Of those new recruits already enrolled, seven play on the defensive side of the ball, including two junior college transfer cornerbacks. Their early arrival will give them a head start in learning the system being installed by new defensive coordinator David Blackwell. Along with the addition of a talent the likes of Hardy, the juco DBs represent a hopeful first step toward improving a unit that can't get much worse than it was a year ago.
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BkiUdWE4eIXhwh1BxKvB | Home Sports Rahil Gangjee clinched Panasonic Open title
Rahil Gangjee clinched Panasonic Open title
Vastavam web: Indian golfer Rahil Gangjee on Sunday clinched the Panasonic Open title in style by hitting a birdie in the last hole to end a 14-year-long title drought.The 39-year-old Gangjee was tied with Korea's Hyungsung Kim on 13-under going into the 18th and the final hole. The Indian held his nerves to hit a birdie on the final hole to end with a score of 14-under and bag the title in Osaka, Japan.The win brought Gangjee a lot of benefits, including a winner's cheque of over USD 283,000 plus a bonus of USD 50,000 for finishing second on the Panasonic Swing behind Shiv Kapur (who got USD 70,000). Gangjee also got two-year exemptions into Asian and Japan Tours.
In the intervening period from 2004 to the present, Gangjee had finished second three times, third another three times and had a total of 22 Top-10s.Gangjee became the third Indian after Jyoti Randhawa (Suntory Open 2003), Jeev Milkha Singh (2 in 2006 and 2 in 2008) to win a Japan Tour title. Last year, Ajeetesh Sandhu won a 36-hole event on Japan Challenge Tour.Kolkata-born Gangjee wanted to be a jockey before his father convinced him to take up golf because he was afraid of his son getting injured. Little over a year ago Gangjee moved to Bengaluru and the move seemed to pay off.
An emotional Gangjee said, "It has been 14 years. I've been in such situations a few times now but obviously have not been able to convert my chances until today. It has been a very hard 14 years and the thing that surprises even myself is my will to keep going.""My third shot out of the bunker was not really a tough shot. But under the pressure it could have been a very tough one. But somehow I was calm. My bunker play is one of the strongest aspects of my game. A lot of people don't get to see it, but if you ask my caddie, he will tell you that's the best," he added.
It was a massive relief for Gangjee, who did not have playing rights anywhere, including in India, when he came from US after losing his Nationwide (now Web.com) card in 2012. He earned the 61st and final card for 2018 season.Among other Indians who played in the final round, Ajeetesh Sandhu (69), the last Indian to win in Japan, was Tied-10, while SSP Chawrasia (73), a one-time room partner of Gangjee, was Tied-40 and Arjun Atwal (75), a former neighbour of Gangjee in Kolkata, was Tied-44.
On the back nine, it was Gangjee who made the move first and Kim followed suit. Gangjee had a superb run of three birdies from 12th to 14th, which carried him back to 13-under, while Kim birdied 13 and 14 to get to 13-under. Hwang birdied 12th to get to 12-under.Kim and Gangjee stayed steady with pars for next three holes and were still at 13-under. Hwang bogeyed the 16th but birdied 17th and 18th to set the clubhouse target of 13-under.
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BkiUes_xK1yAgXBVGKEU | Ed Alkire '58 is Awarded the…
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Ed Alkire '58 is Awarded the Lafayette Medal for Distinguished Service
Elbern H. (Ed) Alkire Jr. '58 was presented the Lafayette Medal for Distinguished Service, the College's premier award for volunteers, at the 176th Commencement May 21. (See full coverage of Commencement on the web.)
A Lafayette trustee from 1986 to 1991, Alkire served on the Committee on College Relations. He was president of the Alumni Association from 1982 to 1984 and a Board Associate and member of the Committee on College Relations from 1980 to 1984. He chaired the Lafayette College Fund from 1991 to 1994 and served on the Lafayette Leadership Council from 1996 to 2000. He was presented with the Alumni Association's Joseph E. Bell '28 Award, given for service to the College or the association, in 1996.
Alkire's service to the College is distinguished not only by his key volunteer leadership roles, but by his dedicated, consistent willingness to assist whenever asked. He has held eight leadership positions in alumni and development programs, six in Class of 1958 activities, three in chapter activities, and three as an Alumni Admissions Representative. In 1988, he received the William G. Wilson Award for distinguished service by an AAR.
As his class' fund manager for 50 years, from the time of his graduation until 2008, he received the Joseph E. Losee '94 Award and Ernest G. Smith '94 Award. In 2008, he was elected class president. Having served on all 10 of the Class of 1958's Reunion Committees and as chair of the 10th Reunion, Alkire also was chair of the 50th Reunion Gift Committee in 2007-08. As part of their Reunion gift that year, the class gave the College its second leopard statue; the first was their senior class gift. He received the Outstanding Reunion Volunteer Award in 2008.
Alkire and Gratia Greene, his wife of 50 years, are sustaining members of the Marquis Society. Alkire is a charter member of the Fleck Consistent Giving Society and a member of the James Madison Porter Society.
Alkire had a 32-year career with Air Products and Chemicals Inc., from which he retired in 1995. In 1975, he was chosen to serve on the Pennsylvania Governor's Review team studying state-owned universities and was assigned to Bloomsburg University, where he later served as a trustee and foundation chair. From 1995 to 2001, he was executive consultant to the State System of Higher Education of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. He now devotes his time to family and volunteering.
Alkire is the ninth recipient of the Lafayette Medal since it was commissioned by the Board of Trustees in 1987. Previous recipients include Cyrus S. Fleck '20, John D. Raymond, Mark B. Weisburger '55, Albert W. Gendebien '34, Edward (Ned) Jesser Jr. '39, Wilbur W. (Billy) Oaks '51, Charles E. Hugel '51, and John W. Landis '39. | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfMTxK7ICUt7cQ88j | This world is consisting of every people who are a Richest person and poor Person or may be something but none of them is satisfied with their present condition and he/she wants to grow more and more. In our daily schedule, we dream of having more luxury and comfort to wind up that schedule. For example, if someone has to go a particular destitution by walk then he/she desires for at least some money for the bus or buy a bicycle while the person who is already traveling to bus wants money for auto or a scooter and even if some is having a car he/she wants something beyond that.
Everybody dreams of making his/her condition more luxuries and comfortable than the current one. Well there is nothing wrong to dream of something and chasing it too but just have a dream and some make it real by their hard work and strong will power and today they have a lot of stuff as their assets.
Our this article is written for especially such dream chasers which can boost their moral to a very high level so that they can buck up more and more for their dream. Recently a list of top ten richest people of India has been released and we are unwrapping that list in this article.
An Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani having a net worth of $7.0 Billion has secured the tenth rank in this list. Adani is chairman and founder of Adani Group. He was born on 24 June 1962 in a Gujarati Bania family of Mr. and M/s Shantilal and Shanta Adani. Adani done is his second year of graduation for the degree of Bachelor's in Commerce from Gujrat University because he left for Mumbai having countable money. Though Mr. Shantilal is having his own textile unit in Ahmedabad still Adani wants to do something of his own so for the sake of this he left his father's house when he was just 18. He got his first break as a diamond sorter at Mahindra Brothers and he served his services there for two years. Afterward, in the third year he set up his own diamond brokerage business and at 20 he made his first million and the most important fact is that making a million was a quite big amount in the early 80's.
Later an entrepreneur Mahasukh Adani who is also his elder brother calls him back so that Adani can run his newly purchased plastic factory. Eight years later i.e. in 1988, Adani established his Adani Exports Limited for the trading variety of power and agricultural commodities. He also established a thermal plant, Adani Power Ltd to expand his business in the power sector. Adani didn't stop here and keeps expanding his business and as a result of today he is having his Adani group which is currently trading in various businesses sectors such as coal trading and mining, oil & gas exploration; transmission and distributions, edible oil, ports, multi-modal logistics, power generation and Agri Infrastructure. Apart from this, he is having a foundation school in Ahmedabad only for those parents with an annual income less than Rs.1 lakh, Adani VidyaMandir. This school receives three percent profit of Adani Group.
The ninth rank is secured by an Indian industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla is having a net worth of $7.8 Billion. Birla is chairman of Aditya Birla Group.
On June 14th, 1967 in Kolkata, Birla took birth in a Rajasthan based Birla family as a fourth-generation member of the family and as a son of Aditya Vikram Birla. He has received a degree in Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Bombay and from London Business School he received a degree in Master of Business Administration. When he was 28 following his dad's death he took over as chairman of Birla Group and during his tenure of chairmen from 1995 to 2015 he has expanded group's annual turnover to US$41 billion from just US$3.33 Billion and therefore today this group has become one of the largest conglomerate corporations in India. Apart from being a chairman, Birla is also chairmen of IIT Delhi and Rhodes India Scholarship Committee for Oxford University. In addition to this, he is also a chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology & Science and an Honorary Fellow of the London Business School from where he has received his degree in Master of Business Administration.
The eighth rank is secured by an Indian businessman Cyrus Poonawalla having a net worth of $8.5 Billion, who is a chairman of Poonawalla Group.
Poonawalla has done his schooling in Pune from The Bishop's School and he receives a graduation degree in Commerce from Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce which was affiliated with the University of Pune. The Poonawalla Group is consisting of an Indian biotech company which manufactures pediatric vaccines and Serum Institute of India. The Government of India has given a Padma Shri to Poonawalla in 2005 for his contribution to the field of medicine.
The seventh rank is secured by a UK based Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal having a net worth of $11.2 Billion, who is a chairman of and CEO of ArcelorMittal.
Mittal was born on born 15 June 1950 in the family Mohan Lal Mittal, who runs a steel business. In early 90's the Mittal family's main assets in India includes only two sheet plants, one was a cold-rolling mill for steels sheet in Nagpur and another was an alloy steels plant near Pune but today it includes a very large integrated steel plant near Mumbai.
He has done his schooling from Shri DaulatramNopanyVidyalaya and afterward he receives a degree in Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Calcutta. When he was 26 he opens his first steel factory in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia due to a curb by the Indian government of steel production, PT Ispat Indo.
Today his firm ArcelorMittal is world's largest steelmaking company. He had become the eighth-wealthiest man in Britain in 2002 and in 2011 Forbes announced him as a globally sixth Richest person and even being too wealthy Mittal didn't request for British citizenship and still today he is considered to be the UK based India businessmen. Well, the story doesn't end here, and another achievement in the account of Mittal was his daughter's wedding. The wedding of Vanisha Mittal daughter of Lakshmi Mittal is recorded as the second most expensive wedding in history.
The sixth rank is secured by an Indian Parsi family Godrej Family having a net worth of $11.4 Billion, who is managing the Godrej Group.
The Godrej Group was established in 1897 in Bombay by two Parsi brothers Ardeshir Godrej and PirojshaBurjorji Godrej. The Godrej brothers started their business by developing and selling locks after reading an article describing the rising rate of crime in the city. During this time Ardeshir was assisting his brother Burjorji. Today the third generation of Burjorji is handling the family business as Ardeshir dies childless therefore his family tree terminates there and Burjor, Sohrab, and Naval the sons of Burjorji manages and expands the business in the second generation branch and currently Adi, Nadir, and Jamshyd are working in the third generation branch where Adi and Nadir are brothers while Jamshyd is their cousin.Today Godrej Group is considered to be one of largest groups serving in the sectors of real estate, consumer and agricultural products, industrial engineering, appliances, furniture, security, and products.
The fifth rank is secured by an Indian industrialist and philanthropist Shiv Nadar having a net worth of $12.9 Billion, who is founder and chairman of HCL.
Nadar was born on 14 July 1945 in a Tamilian family of Mr. and M/S SivasubramaniyaNadar and Vamasundari Devi, who resides in Moolaipozhi Village, Tamil Nadu.He has received a degree from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He started working in Cooper Engineering of Walchand group and later left his job for the sake of starting something of his own. Thus with in order to complete his dream he team up with his seven fellows: AjaiChowdhry, Arjun Malhotra, Subhash Arora, Yogesh Vaidya, S. Raman, MahendraPratap and DS Puri to start a firm for selling tele-digital calculator, Microcomp and in 1976 this team founded Hindustan Computers Limited or HCL and for this they have invested a sum of Rs. 187,000. For his hard work and great efforts in IT, industry Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2008.
The fourth rank is secured by an Irish Indian construction tycoon Pallonji Mistry having a net worth of $14.7 Billion. Mistry is chairman of ShapoorjiPallonji Group and son of late ShapoorjiPallonji who has bought some shares in Tata son. Well, Shapoorji has bought only a few shares in 1930 of Tata Sons but today his son Pallonji is the largest single shareholder.
Mistry is married to Pat PerinDubash and has four wards Cyrus Mistry, Shapoor Mistry, Laila Mistry and Aloo Mistry and among them Cyrus serves his services as a chairman of Tata Sons from November 2011 to October 2016 as Tata removes him from his post because he has been accused of breach of trust and confidentiality and Aloo is married to half-brother of Ratan Tata, Noel Tata.
The third rank is secured by an Indian business tycoon Azim HashimPremji having a net worth of $16.5 Billion, who is chairman of Wipro Limited. Premji is a business tycoon, investor, and philanthropist by profession.
Premji was born on 24 July 1945 and on 29 December 1945 his father Muhammed HashimPremji incorporated a firm in Amalner, Maharashtra for the manufacturing of vegetable and refined oils Western India Palm Refined Oil Limited, which is abbreviated as WIPRO. When Premji turned 21, unfortunately, his father passed and he took over as chairmen of WIPRO. Since Premji receives his degree in Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Stanford University of USA so he shifted his companies focus on IT and computing industry and on the same time they expanded themselves in consumer products after launching one family soap and one toilet soap. The family soap was a tulsi-based soap and its name was Ralak" a family soap and the toilet soap was Wipro Jasmine.
The second rank is secured by an Indian businessman Dilip Shanghvi having a net worth of $17.5 Billion, who is the founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals.
Shanghvi was born on 1 October 1955 to the family of Mr. and M/S ShantilalSanghvi and KumudSanghvi in Gujrat. He has received a degree in Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Calcutta.In 1983 Shanghvi established his firm in Vapi with a partner, Pradeep Ghosh to treat psychiatry ailments. Initially, he introduces five products for the treatment and today Sun Pharmaceuticals has become a market leader in many sectors such as cardiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopedics and psychiatry. In 2016 he received a civilian honor of the Padma Shri.
The first rank is secured by an Indian business magnate and chairman of Reliance Industries Limited MukeshDhirubhaiAmbani having a net worth of $22.3 Billion. Ambani is also MD of RIL and holds largest amounts of shares of Reliance Industries Limited.
Ambani was born on 19 April 1957 to the family of late DhirubhaiAmbani and KokilabenAmbani. His father Dhirubhai was a business tycoon and in 1960 had founded Reliance Industries in Bombay as Reliance Commercial Corporation.
He has received a degree from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga in Bachelors of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and he joined an MBA program at Stanford University but to help his father to build and expand RIL he left it in the midway. Today he is holding 44.7% stake in the company. Though at that time RIL was a small enterprise but today it deals in refining, petrochemicals, oil and gas sectors.
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We may know the right thing to do. But do we always do it? And how do you inspire others to do the right thing?
The Consumer Policy and Research Centre (CPRC) built the Building Customer Trust report; a clear, practical and engaging toolkit that shows electricity and water companies how to build trust with their most important stakeholder, the customer.
Quite simply, CPRC researched ways that electricity and water companies create good customer experiences and now they are encouraging the adoption of these best practices across Victoria.
As we learned in our previous article, it is CPRC's role to drive policy development and better protect consumers. CPRC's Acting CEO at the time, Petrina Dorrington, says that, "We had an initial report, but we didn't know how to get the businesses on board and embed the principles in the community."
The initial CPRC research revealed a number of key principles and several case studies from which businesses could learn. So the organisation wanted to make it easy for the electricity and water sectors to engage with and apply their research.
CPRC engaged Midnightsky to lead them through a process that Petrina says is, "strategic, creative and gets the best out of people." The final report made the original, solid information clear and inspiring, as well as engaged key stakeholders in the power of the research.
How did the report achieve this?
Using language that speaks to your audience
One key part of the process was to look at the language of the report. The report distilled the many research principles into four, making it more likely that businesses will remember and apply the information. The report used warm and direct language to reflect one of CPRC's key aims; to build trust between people and their electricity or water supplier.
The original research title was changed from the pragmatic but cold, 'Principles of a fair consumer experience' to the report's more welcoming title that resonates with both industry and community, 'Building Customer Trust'. And similarly, the language throughout the report was simplified to help communicate the messages more directly.
Getting audience skin in the game
The second key part of the process was to engage the broader water and electricity sector to build ownership in the report. This simple action can be extremely powerful.
Workshops were held with key stakeholders, including utility companies and community reference groups, to gather out their feedback on the four key principles.
The workshops also sought their input on the best actions that will help businesses to embed the practices. Petrina says that, "the workshops created excitement as the participants started to see how the report could contribute to positive relationships with customers and, in particular, support the most vulnerable in our community".
The report is already making its way into the right hands. It was launched in September 2017 by 'Thriving Communities Partnership' , a cross-sector community and industry collaboration that includes Yarra Valley Water.
So next time you're talking with your Electricity or Water supplier and you leave the conversation feeling heard, reassured and satisfied, it may have something to do with the good work of the good people at the Consumer Policy and Research Centre and their 'Building Customer Trust' Report.
by Cressida Bradley
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How to kick perfect goals while the posts are moving
Or creating a clear and effective Strategic Plan
The Consumer Policy and Research Centre (CPRC) recently achieved the strategic equivalent of the triple somersault, half twist in a pike position off the 10 metre diving board with a 9.0 difficulty rating; it found clarity and purpose in a new strategic direction, expanded the trust and support of its main funder, and continued to kick perfect goals while the posts were moving. Sorry, mixing my sports metaphors there.
Oh, and did I mention that they were also recruiting for a new CEO throughout the strategic planning process? So CPRC had the additional challenge of creating a Strategic Plan that should provide enough direction to keep the organisation moving and enough certainty to guarantee funding. And the plan should also allow any new visionary CEO to take ownership of the plan and make key decisions or reasonable changes. That has just increased the strategic difficulty rating to a 9.9. So how did they do it?
A key decision that led to their success was to develop a Strategic Plan that spanned three years, but included a review after the first year. This would allow the new CEO to make reasonable changes and learn from the organisation's experiences.
CPRC is a Victorian Government funded broad-based research centre that helps to drive policy development and better protect consumers. Until recently, the CPRC was known as the Consumer Utility Advocacy Centre (CUAC). Apart from a name change, the recent transformation also expanded the organisation's purpose and scope of activity from being an advocacy body to take on a research role and the responsibility to deal with broader ranging consumer issues across all sectors.
The Board and staff went through a process with Midnightsky that guided the organisation to a confident, shared understanding and clarity that could be communicated with key funders, new leadership and all staff.
Acting CEO, Petrina says that the resulting Strategic Plan, "gave us the basis to show the government where we were going, which aligned with what they were thinking too."
Midnightsky helped the organisation navigate the significant change by asking it to reconsider some fundamental strategic questions: what is its purpose, what is it going to do to achieve that purpose, how is it going to behave along the way, and how will it know when its achieved success?
In other words, the organisation re-articulated its Vision, Role, Values and Goals. These are key aspects required to inspire and focus any organisation and its stakeholders, including staff and funders.
Since the development of the Strategic Plan, the new CEO, Lauren Solomon, has built the research agenda for the organisation. This research agenda has become part of the whole Strategic Plan and contributes to the organisation's vision.
The clear and direct language of the new Strategic Plan continues to emerge in reports and other communication tools as the organisation's strategy is embodied by the CPRC team and implemented through their activities.
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How to learn everyday superpowers
What do you do when you have the passion and potential to change the world, but don't know how to start? Maybe you have expert knowledge and a vision for a better future, but you can't do it alone. So how do you get others to help make it happen? Do you have superhuman skills to achieve all that?
Each year the Future Makers Fellowship welcomes change makers, political influencers, digital storytellers, social entrepreneurs and, in their words, "f**k givers" who are asking themselves exactly those questions.
Recently I spoke to the Facilitator of the Melbourne Future Makers program, Matt Wicking, about how their program is nurturing leaders who can tell clear, compelling and informed stories that inspire their audiences to think and act.
Matt says, "The Future Makers Fellowship has been running for 12 years. It's a life-changing personal and professional development program that builds skills, confidence and communities." Matt adds, "We want to inspire our participants to embody their role as resilient and positive change-makers."
Every graduate goes on to lead in their own way and supports each other as they create change.
For example, there is Cameron Elliott, who is creating meaningful community with The Weekly Service, and Sally Hill who is designing and delivering purpose-driven events with Wildwon, and Ellen Sandell who is the State MP (Greens) for Melbourne, and Eyal Halamish who is giving the people more voice in our democracy with Our Say, and Katerina Kimmorley who is bringing power and light to India with Pollinate Energy.
And for every alumnus who is running a new enterprise, or holding down a high-powered visible role like those above, there are many more who are having an impact within community groups and corporates, not-for-profits and other organisations.
Matt explains that a significant part of the fellowship program is a week-long retreat for both the Sydney and Melbourne fellows to focus on their Media, Communication and Storytelling skills. Matt and his team have carefully assembled a welcoming space where participants feel challenged, supported and energised.
For the last five years, Luke Hockley from Midnightsky has joined the retreat, working in groups and with individuals to help the fellows find their purpose, realise the power of storytelling, and become an authentic communicator.
Luke uses his creative and communication experience, as well as knowledge on how to think and move in cooperation with our design in order to perform at our best. Matt observes that Luke, "gently shapes and shifts participants out of where they are, so that they can take risks in a safe and skilful way".
Matt says that Luke's workshops help the participants "see their passion more clearly and get out of the messy drama and noise that we all experience". By finding clarity in the complex, the Future Makers fellows develop life-long skills to make better decisions, spread ideas, and have a lasting impact on the world.
Now that sounds like everyday superpowers I reckon we could all learn.
Applications to the Future Makers Fellowship close on November 18th
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What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is an education process where we learn how to think and move in cooperation with our design in order to perform at our best as often as possible.
The basic principle of the Alexander Technique is that all movement (including sitting, walking, washing the dishes, thinking, speaking, singing, problem solving…) can be performed more easily if the head is balanced well with the rest of the body.
During a lesson with me you will learn how to:
Observe yourself
Understand how the body moves
Explore how your thinking impacts on your movement
Make choices about how you think and move
I work with students in a few ways to explore this balance, including:
Conversation and discussion to explore how our thinking impacts on our movement
Reviewing anatomical images to ensure the image we have of our moving body is accurate
Using touch to help encourage a balanced relationship between head and rest of the body
In every situation we have habitual responses. These are sometimes very helpful (like being able to tie our shoe laces) and sometimes not (like tightening our shoulders when we start to think about what we want to do with our lives). The technique helps us to see our unhelpful habits and make different choices when they emerge. If we are tightening ourselves when we think about our purpose in life then it will be harder for us to find answers to these important questions that are meaningful and sustainable.
Get in touch if you have any further questions.
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Busy, busy is boring.
I can keep myself very busy. Busy, busy doing things.
But it is only productive if I am busy doing things that move towards some bigger goal that matters to me. Without this bigger picture I get disheartened with the busy and get very bored.
With a clear goal busy becomes productive. When this happens I get momentum. Then I start getting things done.
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BkiUfuPxK02iP4WkBzul | Over the years I have designed and taught a number of graduate and undergraduate courses, both in English and in Portuguese. Here is a sample. I should mention that I LOVE teaching!
Viseu, A. & Maguire, H. (2012). Integrating and Enacting 'Social and Ethical Issues' in Nanotechnology Practices, Nanoethics, 6 (3): 195-209.
Viseu, A. & Suchman, L. (2010). Wearable Augmentations. In J. Edwards, P. Harvey & P. Wade, (Eds.), Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies (pp. 161-184). Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books.
Doubleday, R. & Viseu, A. (2009) Questioning Interdisciplinarity: What roles for laboratory based social science? In K. Kjolberg & F. Wickson (Eds.) Nano Meets Macro: Social Perspectives on Nano Sciences and Technologies (pp. 55-84). New Jersey: Pan Stanford Publishing.
Viseu, A. (2008). Disciplining Nano. Invited Paper. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science¸ 2 (1), 122-131.
Viseu, A. Clement, A., Aspinall, J. & Kennedy, T. (0ctober 2006). The Interplay of Public and Private Spaces in Internet Access. Information, Communication and Society, 9 (5), 633-656.
Viseu, A., Clement, A. & Aspinall, J. (2004). Situating Privacy Online: Complex Perceptions and Everyday Practices. Information, Communication and Society, 7 (1), 92-114.
Clement, A., Aspinall, J., Viseu, A. & T. Kennedy. (2004). Public access, personal privacy and media interweaving in everyday internet experiences: exploring current policy concerns via a 'neighbourhood ethnography'. In M. Moll & L. Regan Shade (Eds.), Seeking Convergence in Policy and Practice (pp. 245-282), Communications in the Public Interest, Vol. II. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Viseu, A. (2003). Simulation and Augmentation: Issues of Wearable Computers. Journal of Ethics and Information Technology, 5 (1), 17-26.
Viseu, A. (2003). Social Dimensions of Wearable Computers: An Overview. Technoetic Arts, 1 (1), 77-82.
Viseu, A. (2003). Shaping technology/Building body(nets). In J. Bagchi, M. Narula, R. Sundaram, R. S. Vasudevan, S. Sengupta, G. Lovink & M. Stikker (Eds.), Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies (pp. 128-133). Delhi and Amsterdam: Sarai-Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Waag Society for Old and New Media.
Corpos Tecnológicos. Mestrado em Cultura, Comunicação e Tecnologias da Informação, ISCTE-IUL.
Communication and the Sociotechnical: Perspectives, Debates, Applications. York/Ryerson Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University.
Theoretical Approaches to Media and Culture. York/Ryerson Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University.
Augmented Bodies. Department of Science and Technology, Cornell University. | c4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUf-vxK3YB9m3uzBQs | A recent draft of a report detailing the many values of the Merced River Corridor of Yosemite Valley contains good news for climbing access. In a recent draft of their Outstanding Remarkable Value report, Yosemite National Park officials acknowledged climbing as one of the important uses of the Corridor, which extends a quarter mile on either side of the river.
In a press release, the Access Fund stated that "this is important because climbing as an activity is now more likely to be 'protected and enhanced' rather than restricted." This development is particularly pertinent as the Merced Corridor contains many celebrated climbing areas—such as The Rostrum, Cookie Cliff and Middle Cathedral Rock—and access to even more, like El Capitan and Half Dome.
Alpinist.com first reported on growing access concerns in the corridor issue on July 19, 2008. With over 5 million visitors coming to the Park yearly, and a large majority of those visitors staying in Yosemite Valley, many groups, including the Friends of Yosemite Valley and the Park Service, have recognized the need for regulation of Yosemite's natural resources, though opinions on the nature of that regulation have varied greatly.
On February 2, 2010, Alpinist.com reported on an Access Fund request that climbers send letters to YNP authorities to help advocate for climbing as an integral and historic part of Merced River recreation before the end of the Park's "scoping period." Now with rock climbing listed alongside other social and recreation values of the river, the Access Fund is hoping that the future of climbing in Yosemite Valley will be more secure. In a letter commenting on the ORV draft, Access Fund Regional Coordinator Paul Minauta also expressed desire for increased roadside parking and "primitive, walk-in style" camping facilities in the National Park.
Yosemite National Park held several workshops starting June 28 regarding their draft of their ORV report, and plan to hold more workshops and roundtables over the course of the next week to listen to community feedback before the draft is finalized in the coming months. Further information, including dates and locations, is available at the Access Fund website. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUb2DxK4sA-5Y3rOse | Multi-regional bodies
Anti-Money Laundering Liaison Committee of the Franc Zone
Established in 2000, the Anti-Money Laundering Liaison Committee of the Franc Zone (CLAB) promotes the adoption and effective implementation of anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes. Photo credit: DGTresor, "Réunion des ministres de la Zone franc – Paris, 3 octobre 2014," CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) is an informal process of dialogue and cooperation; in 2001, ASEM formulated the Copenhagen Declaration on Cooperation against International Terrorism. Photo credit: Number 10, "Asia-Europe meeting," CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Counter-Terrorism Task Force
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's Counter-Terrorism Task Force operates to secure the region's people and its economic, trade, investment, and financial systems from terrorist attack. Photo credit: Tatie Choukette, "APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Building," CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance and among its fundamental objectives is combating international terrorism. Photo credit: UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras.
Commonwealth Committee on Terrorism (CCT)
The Commonwealth Committee on Terrorism (CCT)—a sub-committee of the Commonwealth—focuses on the implementation of concrete counterterrorism plans of action within member nations. Photo credit: Steven Vacher, "Foreign & Commonwealth Office," CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Anti-terrorism Centre (ATC)
The CIS established its Anti-terrorism Centre (ACT), the main purpose of which is to help coordinate interaction among competent authorities of member states in the struggle against international terrorism and other forms of extremism. Photo credit: Dennis Jarvis, "Belarus_3898 - House of Government," CC BY-SA 2.0.
Counterterrorism Action Group (CTAG) of the G8
Established by the G8, the Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) functions to support the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee, primarily through coordination and outreach efforts. Photo credit: G8 UK, "G8 session on counter-terrorism," CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Counterterrorism Committee of the League of Arab States (Arab League)
The Arab League Ministerial Council has resolved to fight against terrorism in the region, with respect for the security, economic, ideological, and social dimensions of the threats. Photo credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider.
Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units
Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (Egmont Group FIUs) endeavor to cooperate in the areas of information exchange, training, and the sharing of expertise to fight against money laundering and financing of terrorism. Photo credit: Stephane Mignon, "L'entrée du Palais d'Egmont," CC BY 2.0.
Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (EAG)
Established in 2004, the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing is an FATF-style regional body (FSRB) for the countries of the Eurasian region. Photo credit: Alexey Kljatov, "Emerald city," CC BY-NC 2.0
The FATF sets standards and aims to promote effective implementation of measures for combating terrorist financing and other related threats to the integrity of the international financial system. Photo credit: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas.
Galle Dialogue - International Maritime Conference
The Sri Lankan government hosts the Galle Dialogue, which includes multilateral discussions by international security force representatives on issues of regional security in South Asia, such as maritime-related terrorism and the trafficking of narcotics, weapons, and people. Photo credit: Marc Biebusch, "Galle Fort," CC BY-SA 2.0.
Global Counter-Terrorism Forum (GCTF)
Founded in 2011, the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum "provides a venue for national counterterrorism (CT) officials and practitioners to meet with their counterparts from key countries in different regions to share CT experiences, expertise, strategies, capacity needs, and capacity-building programs. It prioritized civilian capacity building in areas such as rule of law, border management, and countering violent extremism." Photo credit: DFATD | MAECD, "Baird Delivers Remarks at Global Counterterrorism Forum and Meeting | Le ministre Baird livre un discours à une réunion du Forum mondial de lutte contre le terrorisme," CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Gulf of Aden Regional Counterterrorism Forum
The Gulf of Aden Counterterrorism Forum focuses on the transnational threat posed by al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Photo credit: Official U.S. Navy Page, "USS Barry arriving in Djibouti," CC BY 2.0.
In the aftermath of hijackings in the 1970s, the ICAO shifted its focus to matters of prevention and detection in the fight against terrorism.
Legal measures adopted as part of the IMO regulatory regime support states' anti-terrorism agendas. Photo credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten. | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUcbTxK7kjXIK5q3oL | I think I'm having a harder time being back from our Disneyland trip than my boys. They LOVED every minute of it, but today they were back in school with their friends, and they finally got to play withaa few birthday toys that got left behind on our trip.
We had the best time! I loved Sea World, the beach was beautiful (and a bit chilly), but Disneyland/ California Adventure was by far my favorite! It's honestly magical there. I loved all the rides, the parades, and shows. If you are planning a trip to Disneyland soon and haven't seen World of Color, it's a MUST SEE! We got fast passes for it in the morning, and we still had to get in line early to get good "seats" (you stand for the entire show), but it was totally worth it. They do it at night, and its full of water, lights, and Disney music and images. Absolutely stunning!!
I was hoping to share more pictures on Facebook, but my phone and Facebook aren't getting along these days. Hopefully I'll get it figured and and share more pictures on there. If not, stay tuned here. We have over a thousand pictures from our trip, and I'd love to share some here. I just need to find the time.
Hope you all had a wonderful week. I'm glad to be back here. | c4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUc3_xK6EuM_UbqczO | In 1910, this site was an isolated acreage of stumps and bush. It was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway and was leased by the Shaughnessy Golf Club from 1911 until 1960 when the golf club moved to a new location. The railway proposed a subdivision, but was opposed by many citizens. In 1966, the VanDusen Botanical Garden Association was formed to assist the Vancouver Park Board with saving the site. This effort was successful and the land was purchased with shared funding from the City of Vancouver, the Government of British Columbia and the Vancouver Foundation with a donation by W. J. VanDusen, after whom the Garden was named.
Development started in 1971 and VanDusen Botanical Garden officially opened to the public on August 30, 1975.
Landscape development was under the direction of W. C. Livingstone from 1971 to 1976. Curator Roy Forster managed the Garden and was responsible for much of the planting design from 1977 to 1996. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbIM5qsNCPdNDGVZl | Food Webs: Crash Course Kids #21.2
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Last time we put a polar bear in the desert and we still feel bad about that, but there's a lot more going on in ecosystems than just temperature. In fact, there are so many elements in ecosystems, that if just one leaves or gets out of whack, it can be terrible for the whole thing. But today, let's talk about spider monkeys!
This first series is based on 5th-grade science. We're super excited and hope you enjoy Crash Course Kids!
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5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the idea that matter that is not food (air, water, decomposed materials in soil) is changed by plants into matter that is food. Examples of systems could include organisms, ecosystems, and the Earth.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include molecular explanations.]
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Sabrina: So last time we put a polar bear in the desert and I still feel bad about that. The good news is that in real life a polar bear probably won't just wander into the Sahara, but not everything stays in the same habitat all the time. A new species might come into a habitat, a species might die out, even the habitats themselves might change as a result of floods and droughts.
Point is, habitats, and the food webs they support, can get out of whack, and sometimes it's not pretty. Let's look at what happens when an ecosystem gets out of balance.
Big Question (0:39)
Last week we learned that a habitat is home to a tangle of food chains called food webs. The animals depend on each other for food, but they don't just need each other, they rely on the non-living things in the habitat, too. This interaction of living and non-living things in a habitat is called an ecosystem.
The things in an ecosystem are all connected, just like when you touch one part of a spiderweb and the whole thing vibrates, when one link in the food web is threatened it can shake up the whole ecosystem. Let's see what might happen, for example, if an ecosystem loses a species.
Investigation (1:11)
Since we're talking about food webs, I think we should look at spider monkeys. They're called spider monkeys because they hang upside down from their tails with their arms and legs dangling. This somehow completely adorable. Primates live in a tropical rainforest habitat, which is just bursting with some of the coolest creatures out there. Toucans, jaguars, sloths.
As we learned last time, these animals need each other to survive, and spider monkeys happen to play a pretty important role in the rainforest food web. They eat mostly fruit, which contains seeds, and we know that seeds are how plants make more plants.
When a spider monkey snacks on a berry, he gets to enjoy the tasty food while also doing the plant a solid favor. When the monkey moves on to another part of the forest and, um, passes the fruit, he leaves the seeds behind. Wait a while and then voila! You have a new plant.
Imagine thousands of monkeys eating thousands of fruits every day. More monkeys equals more plants and trees. Those trees support lots of other animals; insects and sloths eat those plants too. And more spider monkeys, insects, and sloths mean more food for carnivores. Leopards dine on the sloths and spider monkeys, while frogs eat the insects. And of course, our decomposers like fungi and bacteria break down leftover plant and animal matter. So, we're talking around 50,000 plant and animal species that rely on these plants.
Now imagine the spider monkey population starts to decline. Maybe they're hit with a strange new disease or maybe humans over-hunt them. If them monkeys aren't there to eat the fruit, then the seeds aren't scattered around and the forest stops growing, leaving fewer fruits for fewer monkeys. Not only that, but fewer plants means less food for other animals like insects and our sloth friends. That means that the insect and sloth numbers start to decline, and that means less food for the animals that eat them. All of the sudden, none of the animals in our ecosystem have enough to eat, all because of the loss of one species.
Do you see how this could get really bad? Remove one piece of the food web and you might knock down the whole thing. That's bad news for us, too. The good news is that ecosystems want to be in balance. After a natural disaster like a forest fire or a flood, things might be wacky for a while, but habitats can usually get back to normal.
But, if things get really bad, the habitat might change forever. The old species will leave, searching for a better place to live, new species will come in, life will keep going, but it won't look the same.
Conclusion (3:25)
In every ecosystem, the plants and animals are connected. you can't mess with one species without affecting all the others. Food webs are delicate, like spider webs. We don't want to be all crazy-pants and just go knocking them down.
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BkiUdB3xK6wB9dbuTl5u | Dr. Jutta Marquardt was born and bred in Germany. She studied medicine at Julius-Maximilians-University, Wuerzburg, Germany and received her Medical License and her Doctorate in December 1979, finishing all her qualifications with the highest marks.
Dr. Marquardt went on with her education as a specialist for neurology at the Neurological University Clinic of the Saarland, Germany, where she took an engaged and active part in the out-patient clinic dedicated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and later at the Neurological Department of the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, where she headed the outpatient department designed to diagnosing and treating Myasthenia Gravis. Due to her highly qualified work, Dr. Marquardt became Head of the Department and permanent Assistant Medical Director of the Neurological Clinic at the University Teaching Hospital in Schweinfurt in 1983.
During this period (1983 to 1995) she additionally qualified in Psychiatry at Castle Werneck Hospital, specialized in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. She then pursued her education in Neurological Geriatric Medicine and Neurological Intensive Care which she successfully finished within the given period of three years each. Committed to her work as a doctor, Dr. Marquardt became instructor for Neuro-sonographic investigations with the Association of SHI Physicians, Bayern, Germany. She also acquired her specialization in Acupuncture focused on pain and Psychosomatic Medicine.
In 1996 Dr. Marquardt set up her own large private outpatient Clinic for Neurology in Schweinfurt which she was successfully heading till July 2015. Dr. Marquardt has been for almost twenty years Neurological Consultant to the US-Army´s Tricare Insurance System with potentially 40,000 soldiers and their families in the region around Schweinfurt.
Dr. Marquardt has longstanding experience in diagnosing and treating any Disorder of Gait and Movement as well as the various forms of headaches and back pain. Due to her broad knowledge and qualification as pain specialist, she is well equipped to deal with all diseases of the nerves and muscles, including Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson´s Disease, Alzheimer´s disease as well as all other kinds of dementia. She is also skilled in all kinds of psychiatric disorders, especially as concomitant diseases.
Beside her commitment to her professional highly qualified and outstanding medical career, Dr. Marquardt also cares for her family with two children who are both grown-ups today. Dr. Marquardt and her whole family always took an intensive interest in foreign countries and people of all nationalities which brought them to travelling the world in their spare time. Thus Dr. Marquardt became acquainted with the UAE and especially Dubai some years ago, liking the city and way of living in Dubai very much which then contributed to her wish of joining the GNC as a specialized doctor.
Dr. Jutta Marquardt acquired her Medical License in DHCC in September 2011 and is since 2014 as Medical Director working at the GNC German Neuroscience Center in DHCC, Dubai. Dr. Jutta Marquardt is a devoted medical doctor and a charming person who takes intensive interest in her patients and their social environment, directed by the aim to achieve the most satisfying medical and personal results for all. | c4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfk7xaKgQZUmnaQEX | Russian prominent economist Guriyev does not want to be political refugee in France
Former head of the New Economic School (NES) Sergei Guriyev said that the reasons due to which he left Russia were personal and he did not intend to get the political refugee status in France.
Related: New wave of Russian emigration: Leave or stay?
"I am not a political emigrant. I simply do not want to live in Russia. I repeat once again: [Russian President] Vladimir Putin said correctly that I left over personal circumstances. My personal circumstances are that I do not want to serve time in prison," Guriyev said in an interview with Vedomosti newspaper published on Tuesday.
The newspaper reported that Guriyev went to France with an ordinary Schengen visa, however the teaching position at the Sciences Po University he had been offered gave him the right to a long-term residence permit.
"I do not have the opportunity to participate in Russian public discussion anymore and this is dangerous for me. I do not live in Russia and do not know what exactly interests my fellow citizens. So I will start with a clean slate here," Guriyev said.
Guriyev, his wife and their two children currently live in Paris.
Guriyev said that his situation was on edge: "Further deterioration of relations between me and the Investigative Committee would mean travel restrictions. And probably, something even worse."
More: Number of Russians eager to leave the country almost doubled since 2009
Guriyev is a member of the expert council under the Russian government and of the council on personnel policy under the Moscow Mayor's Office. The Russian Presidential Council for Human Rights engaged Guriyev as an expert over the second case against former Yukos executives. Guriyev said after the performed analysis that former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky did not deserve to be sentenced.
Sources said on May 28 that Guriyev resigned as NES head. It emerged later that Guriyev had been questioned in connection with the Yukos case and then had gone abroad.
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"I have never read anything quite like Uncharted. I was captured on page 1 and captivated to the very end. Margaret Heffernan shook my core beliefs and made me look at the world - and myself - differently. It doesn't get any better than that."
UNCHARTED: How to Map the Future Together was first published in 2020.
Updated and revised for 2021.
In February 2020, just as Covid-19 took hold in the UK, Uncharted by Margaret Heffernan was initially released. The coincidence was extraordinary. Here was a book which outlined how society, business and government were perilously unprepared to deal with uncertainty, just as one of the most disruptive events of a generation – a global pandemic – hit, throwing plans, predictions, systems and entire ways of thinking into utter chaos. Like so many risks in life the pandemic was "generally certain, but specifically ambiguous"; we knew that a new virus would likely emerge, but we did not know where or when, and we failed to adapt our thinking to prepare us adequately.
Uncertainty about everything – from the nature of the virus to food supply chains, remote working and schooling to the very survival of businesses and entire sectors – gripped the world. Just as Heffernan had pinpointed in Uncharted, we had been relying on the false promises of technology to predict every eventuality. Covid painfully exposed the perils of doing so; businesses, hospitals and supermarkets were working at 100% capacity with zero room to pivot when everything changed overnight; not the most highly developed algorithm or accomplished super-forecaster envisaged the pandemic or provided a credible path out of it.
In the book, some embraced this uncertainty, using it as an opportunity to explore new ways of thinking and radically change their modus operandi. From automotive giant Ford collaborating with designers and manufacturers to produce 17,000 ventilators in a few months, to the Designers and Artists' Collection Society (DACS) reconfiguring itself to use intellectual property law and tech to support the livelihoods of artists – Covid put us all to the test, but those with the courage to experiment and the imagination to see how and where, thrived.
However, as Uncharted reveals, the pandemic is just one illustration of a wider problem that humanity is facing; we are now living in a world where so much is unpredictable that we need radically to rethink how we work and live, and who we need to be. Ranging freely through history and from business to science, government to friendships, visual arts to quantum physics, Uncharted is full of sharp insight and inspirational examples of how people adapt and flourish by thinking humanely and creatively in the face of uncertainty.
Timely, captivating and "appealingly human" (FT), Uncharted challenges our "prediction addiction". The book explores how preparedness – doing everything today that you might need for tomorrow – provides the antidote to passivity and prediction. Updated and revised for 2021, Uncharted is a powerful retrospective about how the world changed in a year, and a captivating exploration of how to radically change how we think, plan, react and live.
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"We want to know the future. But the complexity of modern life won't provide that. Forecasters g can't see more than 400 days out. History doesn't repeat itself; even genetics won't tell you everything it promises. This refreshing book challenges us to resist the false promises of technology and efficiency and instead to mine our own creativity and humanity and create the future we want."
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Margaret Heffernan's Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future is an original and beautifully written look into how the events that have the most profound effect on humanity cannot be predicted.
Margaret Heffernan was born in Texas but has spent most of her life in the U.K. She is a TED speaker and has had many successful careers that include thirteen years as a producer of documentaries for the BBC and as a serial entrepreneur and CEO of several tech companies in the United States. She is currently a professor at the University of Bath. Margaret has written four internationally-acclaimed books on business and how to live a meaningful life that meets the challenges of our time.
According to Heffernan, modern society operates under a false belief that you can predict the future if you have complete data and a good model for how a complex system works. But Heffernan points out that by trying to simplify complexity, we miss seeing all the forces at work that produce a particular result. This misdirection is amplified by relying on data that are typically incomplete, full of error and bias.
Heffernan explores how this folly plays out in many areas such as financial forecasting and DNA profiling, which she describes as a "chemical horoscope full of potential and possibilities but little certainty." The genes that determine something as simple as hair color are incredibly complex. Even if science were at the point to confidently create designer babies, how do we know which traits will matter in the future?
Our technology is advanced but incomplete and suffers from the same prediction compulsion. We have become reliant on invisible systems that we do not understand. As a result of outsourcing major areas of our lives to apps, we have lost human skills, such as the ability to direct our attention, form memories, read a paper map, deal with ambiguity, and deal with people who are different from us. The way we are profiled by technology and algorithms impacts our ability to get jobs or loans or gain access to other opportunities. Apps that show us how to raise our children diminish our ability to trust our own judgment. The algorithms are invisible—we do not know how they work or the value system that is embedded in them. But one thing is certain—they are designed to serve the interests of their creators and not the average person.
Rather than closing our minds, predictions should stimulate fresh thinking and be used to "broaden and navigate our conceptual and imaginative horizons." Heffernan shows how we can reclaim our power as individuals and collectively as a group. For example, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has developed a four-pronged approach to defending against future epidemics. First, realize that epidemics come without warning. They move fast because of international travel and can spread across the globe within sixty days. Since the 1970s, new pathogens appear at the rate of one or more each year and no two epidemics are alike. The CEPI framework considers the messy and unpredictable forces that play into a pandemic such as politics, culture, and individual choice. By using the framework, epidemiologists can develop a more effective response.
Huge problems cannot be solved by expertise alone. Scenario planning exercises help stakeholders explore the forces at work when dealing with a complex system. As Heffernan says, "Scenarios illuminate the contingencies, contradictions, and trade-offs of the real world, where no one interest or perspective is in control. That's why they produce conflict but also epiphanies." When running this type of experiment, it is important to recruit a diverse pool of participants.
Work needs to be recast from hierarchical command-and-control structures into egalitarian "Cathedral Projects" where each person has a defined role and contributes to their full ability. Cathedral Projects, such as CERN and the building of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, are based on the pursuit of knowledge, powered by the energy and commitment of participants, and last beyond a single lifetime.
From beginning to end, this is a wonderful and timely book that eloquently describes the challenges we face in our time and the skills we need to develop to thrive in the future.
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Antimatter, substance composed of subatomic particles that have the mass, electric charge, and magnetic moment of the electrons, protons, and neutrons of ordinary matter but for which the electric charge and magnetic moment are opposite in sign. The antimatter particles corresponding to electrons, protons, and neutrons are called positrons (e+), antiprotons (p), and antineutrons (n); collectively they are referred to as antiparticles. The electrical properties of antimatter being opposite to those of ordinary matter, the positron has a positive charge and the antiproton a negative charge; the antineutron, though electrically neutral, has a magnetic moment opposite in sign to that of the neutron. Matter and antimatter cannot coexist at close range for more than a small fraction of a second because they collide with and annihilate each other, releasing large quantities of energy in the form of gamma rays or elementary particles.
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The concept of antimatter first arose in theoretical analysis of the duality between positive and negative charge. The work of P.A.M. Dirac on the energy states of the electron implied the existence of a particle identical in every respect but one—that is, with positive instead of negative charge. Such a particle, called the positron, is not to be found in ordinary stable matter. However, it was discovered in 1932 among particles produced in the interactions of cosmic rays in matter and thus provided experimental confirmation of Dirac's theory.
The life expectancy or duration of the positron in ordinary matter is very short. Unless the positron is moving extremely fast, it will be drawn close to an ordinary electron by the attraction between opposite charges. A collision between the positron and the electron results in their simultaneous disappearance, their masses (m) being converted into energy (E) in accordance with the Einstein mass-energy relation E = mc2, where c is the velocity of light. This process is called annihilation, and the resultant energy is emitted in the form of gamma rays (γ), high-energy quanta of electromagnetic radiation. The inverse reaction γ → e+ + e− can also proceed under appropriate conditions, and the process is called electron-positron creation, or pair production.
The Dirac theory predicts that an electron and a positron, because of Coulomb attraction of their opposite charges, will combine to form an intermediate bound state, just as an electron and a proton combine to form a hydrogen atom. The e+e− bound system is called positronium. The annihilation of positronium into gamma rays has been observed. Its measured lifetime depends on the orientation of the two particles and is on the order of 10−10–10−7 second, in agreement with that computed from Dirac's theory.
The Dirac wave equation also describes the behaviour of both protons and neutrons and thus predicts the existence of their antiparticles. Antiprotons can be produced by bombarding protons with protons. If enough energy is available—that is, if the incident proton has a kinetic energy of at least 5.6 gigaelectron volts (GeV; 109 eV)—extra particles of proton mass will appear according to the formula E = mc2. Such energies became available in the 1950s at the Bevatron particle accelerator at Berkeley, California. In 1955 a team of physicists led by Owen Chamberlain and Emilio Segrè observed that antiprotons are produced by high-energy collisions. Antineutrons also were discovered at the Bevatron by observing their annihilation in matter with a consequent release of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.
By the time the antiproton was discovered, a host of new subatomic particles had also been discovered; all these particles are now known to have corresponding antiparticles. Thus, there are positive and negative muons, positive and negative pi-mesons, and the K-meson and the anti-K-meson, plus a long list of baryons and antibaryons. Most of these newly discovered particles have too short a lifetime to be able to combine with electrons. The exception is the positive muon, which, together with an electron, has been observed to form a muonium atom.
In 1995 physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva created the first antiatom, the antimatter counterpart of an ordinary atom—in this case, antihydrogen, the simplest antiatom, consisting of a positron in orbit around an antiproton nucleus. They did so by firing antiprotons through a xenon-gas jet. In the strong electric fields surrounding the xenon nuclei, some antiprotons created pairs of electrons and positrons; a few of the positrons thus produced then combined with the antiprotons to form antihydrogen. Each antiatom survived for only about 40-billionths of a second before it came into contact with ordinary matter and was annihilated. CERN has since produced larger amounts of antihydrogen that can last 1,000 seconds. A comparison of the spectrum of the antihydrogen atom with the well-studied spectrum of hydrogen could reveal small differences between matter and antimatter, which would have important implications for theories of how matter formed in the early universe.
In 2010 physicists using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, used a billion collisions between gold ions to create 18 instances of the heaviest antiatom, the nucleus of antihelium-4, which consists of two antiprotons and two antineutrons. Since antihelium-4 is produced so rarely in nuclear collisions, its detection in space by an instrument such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station would imply the existence of large amounts of antimatter in the universe.
Although positrons are readily created in the collisions of cosmic rays, there is no evidence for the existence of large amounts of antimatter in the universe. The Milky Way Galaxy appears to consist entirely of matter, as there are no indications for regions where matter and antimatter meet and annihilate to produce characteristic gamma rays. The implication that matter completely dominates antimatter in the universe appears to be in contradiction to Dirac's theory, which, supported by experiment, shows that particles and antiparticles are always created in equal numbers from energy. (See electron-positron pair production.) The energetic conditions of the early universe should have created equal numbers of particles and antiparticles; mutual annihilation of particle-antiparticle pairs, however, would have left nothing but energy. In the universe today, photons (energy) outnumber protons (matter) by a factor of one billion. This suggests that most of the particles created in the early universe were indeed annihilated by antiparticles, while one in a billion particles had no matching antiparticle and so survived to form the matter observed today in stars and galaxies. The tiny imbalance between particles and antiparticles in the early universe is referred to as matter-antimatter asymmetry, and its cause remains a major unsolved puzzle for cosmology and particle physics. One possible explanation is that it involves a phenomenon known as CP violation, which gives rise to a small but significant difference in the behaviour of particles called K-mesons and their antiparticles. This explanation for the asymmetry gained credence in 2010, when CP violation was seen in the decay of B-mesons, particles that are heavier than K-mesons and thus able to account for more of the asymmetry.
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BkiUcGTxK3xgpbERCTbr | Владимир Иванович Шемшученко (род. 11 февраля 1956, Караганда) — российский поэт, прозаик, публицист. Член Союза писателей России. Лауреат Всероссийской литературной премий имени Михаила Юрьевича Лермонтова (2012), лауреат международных премий «Поэзия», С. Полоцкого, им. Тарковских, им. М. Матусовского; всероссийских премий им. Н. Гумилёва, Хрустальной розы В. Розова, А. Прокофьева, «Югра», А. Дельвига.
Биография
Родился 11 февраля 1956 году в городе Караганде Казахской ССР. Его отец ветеран Великой Отечественной войны, а мать работала учителем истории в школе. Писатель уверен, что является потомком старинного казачьего рода гетманской малороссии.
В 1974 году стал студентом Киевского политехнического института, который окончил в 1979 году и сразу же переехал в Норильск. В Норильске успешно прошёл обучение в индустриальном институте. Позже прошёл обучение и закончил Литературный институт имени А. М. Горького. Свою трудовую деятельность осуществлял в Заполярье, на Украине, в Казахстане. Прошёл трудовой путь от ученика слесаря до руководителя промышленного предприятия.
В 1987 году в журнале "Простор" были опубликованы первые его литературные труды. В дальнейшем было издано 15 его авторских книг. участник шести антологий поэзии. Действительный член Петровской академии наук и искусств. В газете "Небесный всадник" работает главным редактором. Также трудился главным редактором журнала "Всерусскiй Соборъ", являлся собственным корреспондентом "Литературной газеты", редактором отдела "Политика и экономика" газеты "Всеволожские вести".
Является членом Союза писателей России, а также членом Союза писателей Казахстана. В 2010 году, в доме музее Игоря Северянина, на всероссийском открытом конкурсе поэзии был провозглашен Королем Поэтов.
Проживает в городе Всеволожск Ленинградской области.
Библиография
Поэтические сборники:
Владимир Шемшученко "Арифметика смерти" (1990);
Владимир Шемшученко "Русская школа" (1991);
Владимир Шемшученко "Родиной пахнет ковыль" (1999);
Владимир Шемшученко "Продолжение" (2000);
Владимир Шемшученко "Передозировка" (2000);
Владимир Шемшученко "По чёрному ― красным" (2002);
Владимир Шемшученко "Исповедь" (2005);
Владимир Шемшученко "Неподсуден" (2007);
Владимир Шемшученко "И рука превратится в крыло" (2009);
Владимир Шемшученко "За три минуты до рассвета" (2012),
Владимир Шемшученко "Слышащий – да услышит!" (2013),
Владимир Шемшученко "Избранное" (2016),
Владимир Шемшученко "Как земля и трава" (2017).
Награды и премии
Медаль Пушкина (27 июня 2017 года) — за заслуги в развитии отечественной культуры и искусства, средств массовой информации, многолетнюю плодотворную деятельность.
Кавалер ордена Святого благоверного князя Александра Невского «За заслуги и большой личный вклад в развитие и укрепление государства Российского».
Лауреат Международной премии «Поэзия»,
Лауреат международной премии Симеона Полоцкого,
Лауреат международной премии имени Михаила Матусовского,
лауреат международной премии имени Арсения и Андрея Тарковских,
победитель Первого, Второго, Третьего и Четвёртого международного конкурса поэзии в городе Москве.
Лауреат Всероссийской премии имени Н. Гумилёва,
лауреат Всероссийской премии А. Прокофьева,
лауреат Всероссийской премии Хрустальной розы Виктора Розова,
лауреат Всероссийской премии «Югра»,
лауреат Всероссийской премии имени А. Дельвига,
2012 - лауреат Всероссийской литературной премией имени Михаила Юрьевича Лермонтова (за книгу стихов «За три минуты до рассвета»),
лауреат Первого Всероссийского Православного конкурса поэзии имени А. Невского,
2007 - лауреат премии журнала «Наш современник»,
2008 - лауреат премии журнала «Москва»,
2010 - лауреат премии журнала «Сура»,
обладатель «Золотого пера Московии»,
победитель международного фестиваля поэзии «Славянские традиции» 2010 года,
дипломант премии имени А. И. Бунина,
лауреат литературной премии «Высокий стиль - 2013»,
лауреат литературной премии «Славянские традиции -2015».
золотой медалью Сергия Радонежского I степени.
Примечания
Ссылки
Владимир Шемшученко. Русская поэзия
Владимир Шемшученко - поэт
Шемшученко Владимир
Члены Союза писателей России
Выпускники Киевского политехнического института
Выпускники Литературного института имени А. М. Горького
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BkiUenTxK4tBViZLG1Fp | This website will provide you with information about your studies as an exchange student at Ludwigsburg University of Education (LUE).
Ludwigsburg University of Education implements the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) to organise both its internal and external study programs.
Being an exchange student here means that you participate either in the ERASMUS program or in another bilateral agreement program between LUE and one of our many partner universities. In both cases you can study between 1 and 3 semesters at our institution. During that time you pay no tuition fees to LUE, only a small contribution to the Social Services.
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BkiUdI04uzlhsl0arWhd | Victor Medina: Everybody, welcome back to Make It Last. I'm your host, Victor Medina. I'm so glad you could join us this Saturday morning. I am excited to share with you the information on today's show.
Although, it's linked to not a great fun topic, it's actually important for you to get ahead of this. We're going to learn a little bit more about the lessons that are being taught with Buzz Aldrin, his two children, and the craziness that's happening over there. You're going to listen to this show. You're going to learn stuff from that so that you don't get involved in the same scenario.
It's related to trusts again and why trust‑based planning is so important. It gets me excited. Of course, that's all I like to talk about as an estate planning attorney. Let's talk about more and more trusts.
Before I get to that, I want to spend the first part of this show going over a couple of different things. The first is this is the last week for you to register for an upcoming seminar that we have on legal planning.
What we're doing is we're hosting a workshop at the College of New Jersey on July 18th. We've got two sessions. We've got a session at 12:30. We have a session at 5:30. They're absolutely free.
What they'll do is help you understand a little bit more about what essential core estate planning looks like. Specifically, how to make sure that you protect assets if you're in a situation in which you might need long‑term care in the future.
If you're somebody that is in retirement, nearing retirement, you want to make sure that your ducks are in a row. You want to make sure, if something were to happen to you, if you happen to be sick, if you need long‑term care, need to go into a nursing home, diagnosed with Alzheimer's, something like that, that you have the proper planning in place.
This free workshop will help you do that. No obligation, no sales pressure, no nothing. Just education in the community. It is going to be at the College of New Jersey. It's going to be at two times 12:30, 5:30 on July 18th. You do need to pre‑register. We have limited space in the rooms. We are starting to fill up. Only a few days left with this. I would like to see you there.
If you are interested in going, I need you to contact my law firm by sending an email to info@medinalawgroup.com or calling our number at 609‑818‑0068. Call the number and let us know that you're interested in the seminar. Somebody on my team will make sure that you get there. Something you don't want to miss.
We do them, I don't know, every so often. I don't want to say it's once a month. I don't have anything really on the calendar for August. This is something you want to take advantage in the low parts of the summer, get out of the summer heat, sit in a nice air‑conditioned college room, you can do that and learn about something important at the same time.
I promise you it is an educational and fun, interactive workshop. It is not just sitting and listening to a boring lawyer. You already know that or else you wouldn't be listening to the show. I'm not a boring lawyer, that's why I have a radio show or podcast. If you happen to listen to the podcast, or whatever the crazy kids are calling these shows these days.
The other topic I wanted to cover with you is the absolute death of the fiduciary rule but more importantly, the celebration by the insurance industry and the commission‑based advisors.
I was struck by this. I ended up getting an email from an organization that tries to get you to use their insurance products. Basically, it's a sales pitch. They're there with the skull and crossbones, with the parade in the streets because the fiduciary rule has died.
You people don't understand this because you're not in the industry. The people who work in financial services and are not fiduciaries or they're looking to milk their clients for as much as is humanly possible, they are celebrating the death of this fiduciary rule.
Why do you think that is? Well, it's because it allows them to continue to hide up, basically, make sure that they can sell you something that is theoretically OK but doesn't work in your best interest. I see this all the time, specifically in the areas, let's say, variable annuities.
I had a client come in where we were reviewing their financial picture. They had this variable annuity, and they had it with Thrivent Financial. If you don't know anything about Thrivent, Thrivent is religiously‑affiliated to Lutheran Church.
There were a lot of Christian‑based people who do business with Thrivent thinking that they're doing business with somebody that is credible, God‑like, is a God fearing organization. Therefore, they're going to treat you the right way.
I am a big Christian. I go to church. I believe what I'm supposed to believe in that area, and I'm acting that way. I don't think that having something that's religiously affiliated is necessarily bad, but this organization was not doing well by their client.
They were not acting like a good Christian. When I looked through their account, what they had was this variable annuity that was invested entirely in a mutual money market. Basically, it was making a fixed amount. The fixed amount was one and a half percent and in today's environment one and a half percent on a fixed amount with zero risk, that's not bad.
You can't get CDs with that much money and you already know they're going to change the numbers. One and a half percent was great, but here's the trick. It was wrapped in a variable annuity and when we read the contract private was taking 1.35 percent as an annual risk charge, a risk charge.
A charge that was there to help reduce the risk of the insurance company possibly losing money and having to pay out a death claim on money that was in a fixed account. Are you following me here? Essentially, this couple was only making 0.15 percent a year on their fixed account because of the embedded cost of the sales charge, risk charge, mortality expense charge, whatever you want to call it.
The contract was costing 1.35. Their guarantee was 0.05. They only made 0.15 percent annually on this money. That's worse than what you can get out there. Of course, they didn't know about it and they trusted that this was going on. I could tell you something. There's no way that someone would've sold them that in an environment where they had to be a fiduciary.
If they had to be a fiduciary there is no way that that contract would've been sold to that client. Here I am. I am ranting once again. You've listened to another segment of me ranting about this fiduciary rule. The need for people to be working with a fiduciary because this is still information that you need to hear.
Maybe you are already working with our firm and you know that we work as fiduciaries and we're held to a fiduciary standard, but I know you got friends that are not working with us and I know you know people. I don't want them necessarily to come and work with us.
They may not be appropriate for us, we may not be appropriate for them, but I want you to share this information because they need to be working with somebody who is a fiduciary regardless of who that particular person is whether it's me or somebody else.
They need to move away from that because this world that sells these commissionable products that are out there with free rein now, because this fiduciary rule is dead, dead, dead, are celebrating their opportunity to keep milking you for more money than they would otherwise be welcomed to get for not a lot of performance and here comes back my client with 0.15 percent.
I want you to be aware. I want you to be aware for your friends. I want you to share this episode again with them, share this show and show this concept because they need to know about it in order to help them protect themselves in the future.
Victor: When we come back I'm going to talk to you little bit about what's going on with Buzz Aldrin and why that's important for you to be engaging in trust‑based planning and hold those two things are linked. Stick with us. We'll be right back on Make It Last.
Victor: Welcome back to Make It Last. We're talking today a little bit about Buzz Aldrin, what's going on with him, his battle, his two kids and how it relates to you and your estate planning. I'm not sure if you're aware but Buzz Aldrin is 88 years old. Buzz Aldrin was one of the people that walked on the moon in the 1969 Apollo 11 Mission.
You probably remember that, but he has gone to court to try to prevent two of his children and a former business manager from taking control of his assets and his financial responsibility. According to published reports, the children, both in their 60s, are arguing that the father is suffering from dementia and should not oversee his own financial affairs.
These are messy family conflicts. They are there because there's no clear set of instructions about what to do when there's a scenario where people are disagreeing. What the children are trying to do is, essentially remove Buzz Aldrin's legal rights to make decisions on his own, and that is called a guardianship.
When you're going through a guardianship, it's essentially a mini legal lawsuit, where somebody is coming in and saying that you no longer have the ability to make decisions on your own, and therefore, you should be stripped of that right. If you're in New Jersey, laws are a little different in every state.
Every state is going to run a guardianship, because guardianship is a state‑run process. It's not a federal process. There's no federal laws on incapacity or anything like that. There's no structure for it.
Remember, this whole concept of federalism. That, which is not reserved by the federal government for its own decisions, is left to the states and states' rights. That's how we get different states' rules on stuff. Guardianship is one of those things. It's left to the state, and so, each state's going to run a little bit different.
Here's how it works in New Jersey. If you're in New Jersey, you go through a guardianship by having your loved one, or a state agency, or something like that, start a guardianship against you.
The State of New Jersey has got a hierarchy for people who can serve in that capacity. It starts with your spouse, then it's children, then it's other family members, and then it's a state agency. If you had an order of priority, if you had two competing people, you say, just your spouse and your kids, essentially, your spouse would win.
If you're not married and it was between your kids and the state, your kids would end up having priority. When a little lawsuit is filed…it's not a little lawsuit, it's a major lawsuit. When the lawsuit is filed in New Jersey, what the judge does is appoint you your own lawyer.
This person is appointed to represent your best interest. If you want to contest the guardianship, it will do that. That person will do that for you. If you want to, that person will review your medical records.
That person, that lawyer, excuse me, is going to file their own report saying whether or not they agree that you're incapacitated, whether or not they agree that the person who's being nominated is the right person to be your agent. When that's done, and that report is filed, the judge ultimately makes the decision.
What do we have happening here? We took the decision out of your hands, out of your hands, and we put it in a judge's hands. Look, the judge is trying to do the right thing. They're not there looking to make your life worse. They're there looking out for your best interest, but they might not always know what your best interests are.
Look, there can be a battle. You could be trying to contest a guardianship saying, "You don't need a guardian." Then, there's a medical report that says maybe you need a guardian. Then your kids are testifying, and this judge is trying to make sense of this mess that's there, trying to make sense of it.
It may not be able to, may not resolve it the way that you want. Maybe they're going to appoint somebody that you don't want to be your guardian. Maybe you've got a preference if you have multiple kids on there. I told you the order of priority.
It doesn't distinguish between the kids. It doesn't say that the oldest has got better, more priority than the youngest. Maybe the judge is going to make a decision that's not in line with what you want to have happened.
This is one of the reasons why you need to have your planning, not only, of course, done ahead of time, but thorough enough to consider these different circumstances. One of the documents that we talk about all the time, of course, is the power of attorney. We want a power of attorney.
A power of attorney is one of these documents that needs to be filed in a guardianship if you have one, because the power of attorney, if you have to go through a guardianship, will at least indicate what you were interested in, in terms of who you would name as a fiduciary, somebody who can make decisions for you.
It is a piece of evidence. If you've got an effective power of attorney, you might avoid a guardianship altogether. The other tool that you can use, the tool that we like to use, in addition to a power of attorney, is, of course, a trust.
A trust that includes an independent cotrustee, like a distant relative or a nonfamily member. Basically, somebody who is a more cold, dispassionate observer, that is not going to be self‑interested in what's going on there.
If there's any potential at all for children, or a second spouse to try to seize control of assets or business interests, basically, our recommendations is you put it into a revocable trust with a cotrustee. What is a revocable trust?
A revocable trust is a contract, an agreement between you and yourself, where you have the authority to amend it over your lifetime. That's what a revocable trust means compared to an irrevocable trust.
A cotrustee or even a successor trustee is basically the person that you name in charge of this thing once you become incapacitated, or when you die. For tax purposes, for estate tax purposes, this revocable trust is basically ignored. It doesn't do really a lot of planning in that area, but for purposes of who's in legal control, this trust is respected.
To go back to Buzz Aldrin. Buzz Aldrin has got three kids, and he's been married, and divorced three times. He has filed a lawsuit accusing his son, and his former business manager of misusing credit cards, and transferring hundreds of thousands of dollars from his business into their own accounts.
Last month, another one of his sons and daughter requested to be appointed as co‑guardians of his estate, basically, saying that he had had diminished mental capacity, or he had become incapacitated. My experience is that money brings out the worst in everyone. Everyone.
If you're anxious about something, money will be like pouring gasoline onto the fire about it. One of the things that you want to make sure is that you've got instructions in place.
If you've got money, and you've got that access to that money, that using that money you think is going to bring out the worst in people, or you suspected, you want to bring somebody independent into that role, because that will help remove the conflict of interest that exists, by having that person involved in your planning.
Victor: I'm going to give you some additional tips on that, including how to determine whether or not that trust is going to be working when you need it. We're going to do it when we come back from the break. Stick with this. We'll be right back on Make it Last.
Victor: Welcome back to Make it Last. We're talking today about Buzz Aldrin and the fight that's going on right now between him and his family about access to his money and who can control it. We left that last segment talking about a revocable trust and why one would be appropriate.
It's been, historically at least, the case on TV that if you have somebody who's rich, they've got a trust. A trust fund has been created for them. I'm here to tell you that that's not really the case for a lot of different planning.
If they become incapacitated, if they move to a different state depending on the assets they have, making sure their kids receive something that's protected in form of an inheritance. Who's going to be in charge afterwards? These are all control elements. They've really nothing to do with the amount of money that's being protected.
If you're having a hard time wrapping your head around what a trust is, I've got a couple of different analogies for you. You might want to think about a trust sort of like a bucket or I've got a new one for you. Trust is your refrigerator.
The refrigerator is there to keep things from spoiling and you want to make sure that you've got instructions for what happens on the inside of that refrigerator if you've got a recipe for what's going to be done and who can access that.
Basically, the trust is a container. It's a container. Because it's a container it can be as big or as small as your assets. Maybe it just holds a home and your checking account. If that's all that you've got, well, then the container is that size. It's there to hold it.
The reason why you use one is as an organizational tool. If you put the stuff in the container, well, then your instructions about what happens to that container control any of the circumstances. You might say, "Look, maybe it's a bucket." Your buckets got a handle, OK? Maybe you give instructions about who can carry the bucket at any point in time. That would be helpful.
If you put in there the independent cotrustee you may get a harder for somebody that might become self‑interested to pick up that bucket and start pulling stuff out of it willy nilly, however they think is appropriate.
If we have that container that's being carried by somebody else, it makes it easier for you to control or ensure that something won't go wrong when you have somebody else dealing with that asset trying to help you.
My answer is I don't know. I don't know about your kids but let me tell you what I do know. I do know that whoever's going to be in that role is going to have an awesome responsibility to manage money to your best interest if you're incapacitated. They're going to have access to your life in that scenario, so choose wisely.
You want to make sure that you're choosing somebody that is going to be responsible with this money. You're going to want to choose somebody that is trustworthy and financially savvy.
I don't care if they're somebody that is your age, younger, they live close by. I don't even care if they're related to you at all, all right? I don't think that it's important for that to be the case. That they be related to you or collocated with you or anything like that.
What I do think is important though, what I think is important that you're comfortable with that person. Don't make a decision out of a sense of an obligation because, "Oh, well they're my kid and they're the oldest." Look, maybe they're an idiot. I don't know. You know. You know whether or not they're great people to be in that role, but I don't know that.
What I want to make sure it that we choose people that are responsible. They're the kind of person that's going to find a wallet outside the store and return the wallet back inside and say, "Hey, somebody lost some money." By the way, they didn't go through the wallet and see if there's any cash that they can take out. That's the kind of person that I want in the role.
You know instinctively when you're about to nominate somebody in these positions whether or not that person that you're going to nominate fits the bill or not. You're going to know that. You're going to know and get comfortable about whether or not that's going to be somebody right for that role.
That's why in the case of somebody like Buzz Aldrin where you've got…I've got another client and he runs a company. He's got a trustee that he's in the family for one set of assets, but he actually has a different independent special trustee for his business assets.
Now, in his case it's because the nature of his business is so sophisticated that he needs to name somebody that's not family in order to manage that because the other person's not going to be able to make good decisions about that. They're not savvy enough as to the business assets, so he has an independent special trustee.
I have another client still who's got a business. It's an alcohol distributor. The franchise off of it requires there to be an independent special trustee that is somebody that they have preapproved.
You're getting a brief glimpse at the idea that you can have different people in these roles. You can have multiple people in these roles. It's really just a matter of your creativity. Look, you don't want to overcomplicate your planning, but you'll know what circumstances are appropriate.
You might have one person in charge of a home, another person in charge of investment assets, or something like that. Maybe you don't have anything as complicated as a business, but you'll know when you need to have multiple people or when you need to have somebody that is completely independent from that. Somebody that's not a family member at all.
Here we get to the last way that you can approach this planning is remember that I said the trust is a bucket. I had a meeting with a client, actually, yesterday, where we talked about why it might be beneficial to have more than one bucket.
One of the ways that we can help ensure privacy is if you have one bucket for a home and another for investment assets. The people that are in charge of those can be completely different, and they're not allowed to see into the other person's bucket.
In that scenario we actually created multiple trusts. I know that's going to freak some of you out. You're going to be like, "Oh my goodness, one trust is complicated enough. I certainly don't need two or three or four." Really, you need as many buckets in your life as make sense.
Maybe you need a bucket that's there to protect assets. We might call that an irrevocable trust. I didn't even get into that today. Maybe you'll have a bucket that is for one set of assets and a bucket for another set of assets. Maybe you have a bucket for a particular beneficiary.
Maybe you've got a bucket for one of your kids. We use that kind of bucket a lot with a special needs trust or supplemental needs trust. When we've got somebody that's got special considerations, we create a bucket just for them.
That helps you understand how you can have multiple buckets. Then we can have different people in charge of them. Maybe we have the same person in charge but different people that are beneficiaries.
Well, somebody who's competent as an estate planning attorney will make this more straightforward for you. You'll council with them so that you can be able to understand what we're talking about. You're going to understand why you might need more than one, how those will all work together, and why it's important in your case to have more than one.
Even just having one and choosing the right people in it is going to give you leap frog advantage over somebody that just has a will and a power of attorney because as we're seeing in Buzz Aldrin's case that's being abused. You want an opportunity in which you've got greater certainty and control, and a trust is going to allow us to do that, so I'm making the case for it.
If you're interested in doing that and you're interested in doing that with my law firm, you contact Medina Law Group. We can help with that. Wherever you go I want you to make sure that you're in control of this planning and you can consider these concepts of a container or a bucket and who's in charge of it. You drive the planning to make sure that you're using that in your own planning. All right?
That's the topic for today. Before I let you go, remember we've got that seminar that's coming up on July 18th, 12:30 PM, 5:30 PM, at the College of New Jersey in Ewing. If you're interested in learning more about estate planning and asset planning protection as you get older, register for that.
It is limited seating. I need you to contact the firm. Send an email to info@medinalawgroup.com or call us at 609‑818‑0068. Let us know that you're interested. That is going to be on a Wednesday. We're almost at capacity, but we do have a few more spots. If you're interested, let us know about that.
If you know somebody that might need both a fiduciary working with their finances or this container‑based planning that we've been talking about, share this episode with them. You can go to iTunes. You can go to Spotify. You can go to any place you've got a podcast catcher and say, "OK, look, here's the link. Go back. Listen to the episode," and they'll be able to learn more about this.
Victor: This has been Make it Last where we help you keep your legal ducks in a row and your financial nest egg secure. I'm Victor Medina. I'll catch you next Saturday. Bye‑bye. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
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School Reimbursement Program
Hamilton County received $142 million from the Coronavirus Relief Fund of the CARES Act to combat the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 in the community. Many K-12 schools located in Hamilton County have experienced increased costs due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. To assist schools with unreimbursed necessary expenditures incurred due to the public health emergency, the Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners allocated up to $7 million to eligible schools as a part of its CARES Act Plan. An Eligible School includes a School District.
All applications will be reviewed for completeness and eligibility. If demand for this funding exceeds the applicable allocation(s), funding will be distributed, in a manner deemed appropriate by Board.
Applications were due on December 3, 2020, by 5:00 p.m.
The CARES Act restricts the use of Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) funds for costs that align with the following criteria:
The expenditures are necessary expenditures incurred due to the public health emergency with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic;
The expenses were not accounted for in the budget most recently approved as of March 27, 2020; and
The expenses were incurred during the period that begins on March 1, 2020 and ends on December 30, 2020.
Any Eligible School that receives CRF Funding hereunder, agrees to submit for reimbursement, only those costs and expenses that comply with the language of the CARES Act (set forth above) any Guidance, Frequently Asked Questions and Answers issued by the federal government or State of Ohio, which includes without limitation, U.S. Treasury, Office of Inspector General, the Ohio Auditor of State and the Ohio Office of Budget and Management ("Eligible Expenses"). Schools are cautioned that guidance changes frequently and later versions may become available.
In addition, the receipt and review of source documentation as well as the payment of funding by Board to an Eligible School shall in no way be construed as Board's determination or approval of the eligibility of the expenses being reimbursed. In all cases and under all circumstances, Eligible School is ultimately responsible for the determination of the eligibility of expenses it submits to the Board for reimbursement.
For assistance purposes only, US Department of Treasury's guidance on the Coronavirus Relief Fund follows:
Treasury Guidance to State and Local Governments page link:
https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Coronavirus-Relief-Fund-Guidance-for-State-Territorial-Local-and-Tribal-Governments.pdf
U.S. Treasury Guidance FAQ:
https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Coronavirus-Relief-Fund-Frequently-Asked-Questions.pdf
Based upon the available funding, Board is reimbursing K-12 schools, up to $50 per student, to assist an Eligible School with the Eligible Expenses experienced due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. All CRF Funding payments are conditioned on receipt of adequate source documentation from an Eligible School that demonstrates the payment of funding is for the reimbursement of Eligible Expenses. All requests must be for at least $1,000 and must be based on School/School District enrollment set forth in the Ohio Department of Education Pt 2019 Fall Enrollment Data: http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Data/Frequently-Requested-Data/Enrollment-Data.
Hamilton County School Maximum Reimbursements
The School District must apply on behalf of all public schools within its district seeking this funding.
To apply for funding, an eligible school must meet the following eligibility criteria:
Is an educational institution licensed by the Ohio Department of Education (ODE).
Operates a school(s) for grades K-12, although a school is not required to operate all grade levels to qualify for funding.
Enrolls K- 12 students who reside in Hamilton County, Ohio.
Is physically located within the geographical limits of Hamilton County, Ohio.
Will not use CRF Funding in place of or instead of federal, state, local government funds or private grants already designated for or anticipated to be used for the necessary expenditures incurred due to the public health emergency with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Is not delinquent on any federal, state, or local taxes or assessments, direct or guaranteed loans, leases, contracts, grants, or any other obligations .
Is currently in compliance with all Ohio laws and rules applicable to its type of organization including any audit findings by the Ohio Auditor of State.
Has a DUNS number prior to being awarded grant funding. A DUNS number can be requested at: https://fedgov.dnb.com/webform/displayHomePage.do.
Is registered with https://sam.gov/ prior to being awarded grant funding. This requirement is only applicable if requesting $50,000 or more in funding.
Has completed the Hamilton County vendor registration form prior to submission of the Application.
Must have at least $1,000 in Eligible Expenses.
Must agree with the terms and conditions included on Exhibit A or as a part of this application.
Requirement for School Districts
Must submit one application for all the public schools within the school district requesting CRF Funding through this program.
Under all circumstances, Schools/School Districts are ultimately responsible for the determination of the expense eligibility submitted for reimbursement.
By way of example only, the following may constitute Eligible Expenses:
Purchase of materials including personal protection equipment (PPE), disinfecting supplies, hand sanitizer;
Purchase and implementation of physical accommodations that are mitigation measures specifically in response to COVID-19. The costs for these accommodations (physical barriers and plexiglass protective screens, touchless fixtures and equipment such as faucets, toilets and water fountains, additional ventilation or other air filtering equipment; markers for social distancing) are considered eligible expenses. Please note: any related construction or installation costs are not eligible for reimbursement under this Program;
Purchase of computers and similar digital devices to allow for remote learning;
Additional costs for cleaning;
Expanding broadband capacity.
Ineligible Expenses
Revenue replacement;
Construction costs;
Any tax, license or fee obligations payable to any governmental entity businesses;
Costs for political activity, including lobbying;
Costs that were accounted in the organization's most recently approved budget as of March 27, 2020;
Fundraising;
Damages covered by insurance;
Reimbursement to donors for donated items or services;
Workforce bonuses;
Severance pay;
Legal settlements;
Prepayment of expenses for services that extend beyond December 30, 2020;
Assets not placed in service by December 30, 2020;
Expenses already covered by federal, state, local government funds or private grants already designated for or anticipated to be used for the necessary expenditures incurred due to the public health emergency with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic;
All costs which are ineligible per the most recent U.S. Treasury guidance and Frequently Asked Questions.
School/School District agrees it will only use CRF Funding provided hereunder for Eligible Expenses, as identified on Application. Any other use of CRF Funding, without prior written approval of the Board, shall be considered a non-allowable expenditure. If at any time, it is determined CRF Funding was used to reimburse School/School District for any ineligible expenses all of the CRF Funding shall be immediately repaid to Board.
School/School District will not use CRF Funding in place of or instead of federal, state, local government funds or private grants already designated for or anticipated to be used for that necessary expenditures incurred due to the public health emergency with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic.
School/School District warrants and represents that at the time it submitted this Application it met the Eligibility Criteria of the Program. If at any time, it is determined School/School District did not meet the Eligibility Criteria at the time it submitted this Application, all of the CRF Funding shall be immediately repaid to Board by School/School District.
School/School District warrants and represents that all statements, records and information submitted to Board in relation to this Application are true and accurate. School/School District understands and agrees that if at any time it is determined that such statements, records and inform School/School District.
School/School District shall keep all records, financial or otherwise, related to use of CRF Funding received pursuant to this Application for at least five (5) calendar year following receipt of such funds. Board shall at any reasonable time have the right of access to and right to review or audit any and all such records pertinent to the reimbursement of the Eligible Expenses and said records shall be maintained in a manner to facilitate such reviews and audits.
School/School District certifies it is an equal opportunity employer and shall remain in compliance with state and federal civil rights and nondiscrimination laws and regulations including but not limited to Title VI, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as amended, and the Ohio Civil Rights Law.
School/School District agrees to comply with all pertinent provisions of the Drug Free Workplace Act.
School/School District understands and agrees, to the extent applicable, it shall comply with the Single Audit Act (31 USC Sections 7501-7507); and 2 CFR Sections 200.303, 200.330 through 200.332, and subpart F.
Hamilton County Vendor Form .
Source Documentation for all Eligible Expenses incurred from March 1, 2020 — November 20, 2020. For all expenses, source documentation shall be in the form of paid invoices and canceled checks, bank statements, or similar documentation that evidences payment of Eligible Expenses, as described in the Eligible Expenses section. All source documentation shall be maintained by the School/School District for at least five (5) years from the date of receipt of such funding.
Questions regarding the application and documentation submitted may be directed to Jane Huesman at HCJFS: [email protected], or (513) 946-2063. | commoncrawl | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
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