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Compressed Natural Gas
What if, instead of heading to the gas station when you needed to fuel up your car, you had a fuel line running to your house, ready whenever you needed it?
With a compressed natural gas (CNG) car, you already do (well, probably). Compressed natural gas is the same fuel you might use in your home for cooking and heating, and it runs to your home in a line supplied by the gas company. For a CNG vehicle, the gas is stored in high-pressure cylinders. When you have a compressed natural gas vehicle, there's actually a little more to the process than just hooking up to the nearest stove fitting. You'll also need a fueling station in your house that's capable of compressing the gas. The compressed gas is then stored in the car's fuel tank (or tanks), as CNG takes up a greater amount of space than gasoline does.
Honda introduced the Honda Civic GX in 1998. The Civic GX is a regular Honda Civic that runs on compressed natural gas. As CNG is cheaper and burns cleaner than gasoline, these types of cars may gain popularity -- especially if the initial expense of installing a fuel station in a home is offset by savings on fuel. One downside, however, is that there isn't yet a nationwide network of fuel stations offering compressed natural gas -- which means that if you run out of fuel when you're far from home, you're simply out of luck.


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Palat Khik ( honorrable surrogate penis). A large wooden amulet (33cm.) from Thaialnd. Good for protection, luck and fertility. Nice patina, early 20th century. A small penis is added with wooden pegs. It makes the sculpture clearly anthropomorfic. Probably from local shrine.
designed by hetty creemers
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Crimes Gone By: Essays by Albert Borowitz
Crimes Gone By: Essays by Albert Borowitz by Al Borowitz
Crimes Gone By is a collection of essays by Albert Borowitz, collector, historian and author in the field of true crime literature. A noted true-crime historian, he is the author of several books, including The Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case, The Woman Who Murdered Black Satin, and Terrorism for Self-Glorification.
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The Walt Disney Company made it an even dozen quarters in a row that its quarterly earnings beat Wall Street estimates. CEO Bob Iger reported that second quarter profit rose $1.13 billion for 58 cents a share, or 22%, based on its better than expected National Treasure sequel and theme park performance which wasn't hurt much by the recession. Also helping at the studio entertainment division were Enchanted DVD sales and the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds concert tour 3-D film that set a record for ticket sales per screen when it opened February 1st. Iger reported that, despite the writers strike, broadcast profit rose. Disney stock has been up 3+% this year
And analysts expect News Corp (Fox, FBN, 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight, etc) to report a higher fiscal third quarter profit tomorrow afternoon on improved revenues from the broadcast and cable television networks and a gain on the sale of DirecTV Group Inc to John Malone's Liberty Media. In other words, the company will be barely affected by the writers strike. News Corp even raised its forecast for 2008 operating profit in February…
Given this, it's awfully hard for these Big Media behemoths to continue to plead poverty during guild negotiations, like the ongoing talks with the big actors union SAG and the upcoming bargaining with the smaller actors union AFTRA. True, network TV viewership is down at the networks, and advertising was lost. But since these huge parent companies don't break out their studios and networks in financial reporting, it's hard to know exactly what's being covered up.
Last Friday, Viacom Inc's CEO Philippe Dauman said its first-quarter profit climbed 33% to $270 million, or 42 cents a share, on sales of the video game Rock Band and higher ratings at cable channels like MTV and Nickelodeon, while box office receipts for Cloverfield and The Spiderwick Chronicles helped narrow losses at the film unit. That company, too, weathered both the recession and the writers strike, the latter because most of its TV shows are unscripted reality programs and animation. Even so, the stock has dropped 13% this year.
Time Warner's stock also has fallen this year and its CEO Jeff Bewkes acknowledged that, even though first quarter net income fell 36%, or 21 cents a share, its content business in film and television was alive and well. What isn't is its cable systems unit which is why he wants to break up the world's biggest media company by focusing on the company's entertainment industries and shed its 84% stake in Time Warner Cable.
And despite bad news at General Electric, NBC Universal shined although not so brightly as it should have. Worse, the parent company didn't warn investors in advance of reporting earnings in mid-April that profit overall dropped 12%, or 44 cents a share. Still, NBC Universal profit growth of 3% looked good by comparison.
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Zuheir Altamimi
The 2013 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Zuheir Altamimi for his invaluable research in the development and continuous improvement of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame and for his important contributions to space geodetic research.
Zuheir Altamimi's major contribution to space geodesy is the continuous improvement of determining the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF). The ITRF is the metrological framework that has become indispensible for Earth science applications and for satellite navigation. For the past 30 years, Altamimi has constantly worked to improve the accuracy of the ITRF realisation: its origin, scale, and orientation and the temporal evolution of these defining parameters. Altamimi has been a leader in adopting rigorous mathematical methods to combine diverse multi-center and multi-technique geodetic solutions. His papers on this topic, particularly in the context of the ITRF2005 realisation, are among the most cited articles in space geodesy.
Other aspects of his algorithm development have also received attention, such as imposing inner constraints without distorting the geodetic network. Many geoscience applications, such as measuring sea level rise and its variability in space and time by satellite altimetry, require an accurate terrestrial reference frame at the 1mm level and stability at 0.1mm/yr. To realise this extremely demanding goal, it has been necessary for Altamimi and his group to continuously quantify the metrological performance of the techniques contributing to the ITRF and evaluate their systematic errors. As a result, Altamimi has often played the role of an unbiased referee among the various space geodetic technique services, which has well served the community, ITRF, and end user. Questions of special interest have included quantifying the stability of the satellite-laser-ranging (SLR) frame origin, i.e., the ITRF origin, and the relative scales of SLR and very-long-baseline interferometry frames, upon which the ITRF scale relies. Errors in the local site ties that inter-connect the technique observing networks have received critical attention. The end result has been steady progress in identifying and resolving many outstanding issues in space geodesy. It is easy to take for granted the work that goes into producing a precise and reliable ITRF despite the countless research that relies on the ITRF.
With this medal, the geodetic and geosciences communities recognise Altamimi's tireless contribution to geoscientific research.


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Brain Cancer Linked to Nerve Agent in Gulf War Vets
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
For the first time, a study has found an increase in brain cancer deaths among Gulf War veterans who might have been exposed to the nerve agent sarin by the destruction of Iraqi weapons in 1991.
About 100,000 of the 350,000 Army soldiers in the Persian Gulf could have been exposed to sarin after soldiers blew up two large ammunition caches in Khamisiyah, Iraq, in March 1991, according to a study commissioned by the military and performed by the Institute of Medicine. The institute advises the government on health policy.
At the time, the military didn't know that the destroyed Iraqi rockets contained sarin, says Michael Kilpatrick, deputy director for the Deployment Health Support Directorate in the Department of Defense. Soldiers showed no signs of exposure to chemical warfare.
Later, however, United Nations inspectors found that some of the weapons contained sarin, which can cause convulsions and death. The military has since contacted about 300,000 veterans who were in or near areas that might have been affected. The potential "hazard area," where shifting winds could have carried traces of chemicals, extended at times as far as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
According to the study, soldiers inside the "hazard area" were about twice as likely as those outside it to die from brain cancer. Because the actual number of brain cancer cases was small, the overall mortality rate was the same for veterans in the hazard area and outside the area, according to the study, published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Among unexposed soldiers, researchers found a brain cancer death rate of 12 per 100,000 from 1991 to 2000, says William Page, director of the study. Over the same period, researchers found 25 brain cancer deaths per 100,000 veterans who were exposed.
"It's a doubling of risk, but it's still a pretty small risk," says Page, a senior program officer at the Institute of Medicine.
The study did not address "Gulf War syndrome," as some have called the collection of ailments experienced by returning veterans. It examined whether soldiers possibly exposed to the destruction of Iraqi weapons were more likely to die for any reason. They also singled out specific diseases: breathing problems, infections, circulatory problems, digestive ailments, accidents and suicides, as well as four types of cancer.
The study's authors note that sarin has never been shown to cause cancer. Page suggests that researchers follow veterans to see whether the risk of brain cancer, which is believed to develop over 10 to 20 years, changes over time. Page also notes that the study doesn't prove that being in the hazard area caused brain cancer.
Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 27th APRIL 2010
Tags: alls fair in love and war, gov hides death truths, gulf war cancers, live and let die, military deaths, nerve gasses and poisons, poisons in war, stormtroopers die, war is hell


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Baar Baar Dekho 1st Day Box Office Collection
The latest release Baar Baar Dekho has an average opening day. Baar Baar Dekho 1st day collection will be 6.81 crore. It has not lived up to the high expectations.
It has a decent to a good start in the morning shows at selected multiplexes. The overall occupancy was 35%. The opening was best in Delhi and East Punjab due to the hit song Kala Chashma. It had a decent run in selected multiplexes and remained dull in single screens and small centers. However, it did not pick up at most of the places. The youth at metros did not really come up which means it should also show growth in mass centers on Saturday which can be tough.
Baar Baar Dekho 1st day collection will be 14th highest opening day of 2016. The film has not crossed films of other young stars like Dishoom, Baaghi and Udta Punjab. The opening is similar to Kapoor and Sons but that film has excellent word of mouth.
The film needs a good jump on Saturday and Sunday to survive. The word of mouth is mixed and it will be interesting to see how it fares over the weekend.
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This barman skips Tales of the Cocktail for tales from the grapevine
Some of the Napa valley hills are golden brown and bone dry from the drought that's been afflicting sunny California the past three years. Still, there are rows of lush green grapevines filling the land making one vineyard indistinguishable from another. It is mesmerizing.
"We're going to need some Pedialyte," says my girlfriend, Nicole. She wants to have a bartender's favorite cure on hand, anticipating tomorrow's hangover.
The plan? Vacation as reward for finishing graduate school last May and celebrate an upcoming birthday. I'd never encountered the cult of the grape on Napa's scale. I imagine joining armies of tanned winos stumbling up to every tasting room every day like the walking dead. But I ask myself, what is Napa really about?
Lunch at Auberge du Soleil one day. Birthday dinner at Thomas Keller's Bouchon on another. Accommodations at Silverado Resort northeast of downtown Napa. Fall asleep at a pool. Visit at least two wineries. Worry about nothing at all. Simple goals.
Darioush reflects middle eastern opulence and grandeur. Tall, iconic Persian columns are topped with double horses. The entrance is flanked by small fountains dotted with blooming water lilies. They serve pistachios inside.
The 2012 chardonnay is the kind of grape juice I can latch onto. It's no "butter bomb" but also not strictly crisp or fruity. The wine leaves just enough lactic acid to be interesting. Fresh red fruit, minerals and creme brulee — it's in there and delicious.
Our wine guys, Benjamin Stowe and Frank Damante, pour a few sips. Stowe explains their protocol includes a lighter bâtonage (stirring) of the lees than usual for this wine. Once a week to be exact as opposed to once a day. This interval renders just a trace of creaminess. We purchase two bottles.
The Stag's Leap chateau is rustic and simple. Our wineman, Vic Simpson, explains that the tasting room we were in is being refashioned. The upgrade will bring a view of the vineyards that recline into the side of the mountain. It's a view that is certainly going to impress future visitors of the 1973 Paris Tasting winner.
Simpson tastes us on the 2011 Artemis, 2011 Fay and the 2011 S.L.V. cabernet sauvignon. All three wines are rich with red fruit and spice in their aromas and taste. The S.L.V. has more body that grips the tongue. Simpson calls it a "velvet glove" versus the Fay. (Where have I heard that expression used before?)
He then reaches for the 2010 Cask 23 and pours us a sip. That cigar box nose catches my attention. In one glass you get a playful flavor and a smooth finish. In the end, we purchase a bottle of Artemis because it's almost as pleasing as the Cask 23 and is within our price range.
Napa Over NOLA?
There's nothing like The Big Easy particularly during Tales of the Cocktail but California wine country was a blessing. City dwelling boozers looking for an inner quiet will find respite in Napa. It's the kind of place that reminds you that life is good — especially with a glass of vino by your side.


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Place/Event: Des Moines Community Playhouse Tour
Location: 831 42nd Street, Des Moines lA 50312
Cost: Free
Grade/age range: All ages are welcome but older students will gain more from the tour. Special tours can be arranged for preschool age.
Group size: Tour groups are split into groups of 25 or less.
Hands-on: No
Stroller friendly: No. Uneven walk ways and stairs make it challenging to use a stroller. Parents can wear a baby in carrier. If a special needs student attends the tour, accommodations can be made.
Bathrooms: Yes
Food: No
The first time I ever experienced the grandeur of the Des Moines Community Theatre was during the performance of Mary Poppins. Sitting in the front row, the curtain lifted before me and there was what I thought was a beautiful curtain backdrop of No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane. As the cast began the performance, the "curtain" started to move forward and then open from the middle like a giant dollhouse showcasing the home's interior setting. After two more hours of astonishing entertainment, I was hooked. We have now been attending performances at the playhouse for a few years and inviting friends along with us.
The Tour
To our delight, we were able to take a behind-the-scenes tour. The playhouse staff are excellent with children and can accommodate large or small tour groups.
During the tour, students are engaged in discussion and encouraged to ask lots of questions. In the Children's Theatre, a crew member was building the set for the A Little House Christmas performance.
The Costume Shop was absolutely fabulous. The children became so excited as they spotted the costumes for their favorite characters in the upcoming performance of The Little Mermaid.
We learned about the fun history of the Green Room, which actually isn't green. Originally, the rooms that performers waited in were typically painted green and the name has stuck ever since.
The tour is roughly 45 minutes long, but ours lasted an hour because the children had so many questions. Robin, the Education Director, was happy to answer all the questions and engage the students in dialogue.
The costume and prop storage room is mind-boggling. Kept very well organized, this room spans the length of the new lobby addition. Racks and racks of costumes are categorized to be reused in new performances. The theatre does accept donations of unique costumes or props, but they have to be very limited in what they keep.
The backstage area for the main stage theatre wasn't like anything I expected. Housing a workshop and more prop storage, the theatre uses this space well. The backstage curtain is actually white and can be lit up with lights to showcase a variety of moods or designs.
It's exciting to understand how the set scenes are lowered and raised using a complex pulley system. The main stage is smaller than it appears but can hold a large cast.
Going on the Des Moines Community Playhouse Tour didn't take the magic away from enjoying future productions. If anything, our visits to the theatre are enhanced and we pay closer attention to some details we missed before.
Be Involved
The Des Moines Community Theatre is just that…community driven. Volunteers play a key role in all aspects of the theatre and on stage. Children can begin auditioning as young as eight years old.
"The Playhouse's mission is to partner with volunteers to create and deliver extraordinary theatre and education programs for communities in Central Iowa through high-quality entertainment with special emphasis on issues of social significance; programs which allow for the development of individual self-expression and self-esteem; and programs which identify and encourage individuals to pursue professional theatre development."
Consider how your family or class can partner with the theatre and be involved in this unique community.
If you are not from central Iowa, search through this thorough list and find a community theatre near you!


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Art Glass Bowl
Created by Helen Rudy
Fused and blown glass bowl in the signature design of the artist. By making glass tiles in the kilnforming studio, the artist then works with a glass blower and picks up the tile on a bubble of furnace glass in the hotshop. The result is a series of vessels and bowls with intense colors and carefully controlled designs that are unlike anything previously achieved through either kilnforming or blowing alone.


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Solon volleyball preview
SOLON– Even after a lifetime devoted to the sport, it's taken a year for Sarah Ferin to get her bearings as head coach of the Solon varsity volleyball team.
"I think last year with just coming in and having a large amount of seniors and playing people in different spots, it took the entire season for people to start trusting me," she shared. "Now it's night and day from last year already. The girls are having fun."
Ferin acquired the team last year from Peter Gustin, who took a coaching position at the University of Iowa. Gustin led the Lady Spartans to three state appearances and a Class 3A championship title– the first in school history– against Mount Vernon before his final 10-23 season in 2015.
The Solon girls didn't improve much last fall under Ferin's leadership, ending her premiere season with an 8-27 record. Ferin said the team will be working on small goals this year.
"We always want to go to state; that's the end goal," said Ferin. "But we're really looking to just improve our record at this point."
She said poor tournament performance was a major contributing factor to last year's less-than-stellar season.
"Leaving a tournament 1-4 or 0-4 on the day really hurt our record," she said. "Our main focus is to get our conference wins and clean it up at the tournaments and come home with more wins."
The girls started doing open gyms twice a week in January and kicked it up to three times during the summer, Ferin said.
"I told them that we're going to have to dig in and learn everything about each other and how we function and do well with each other," she shared. "This summer has been a lot easier knowing the girls' cues, when they're tired or frustrated. Now I know when to push and when to give in a little."
A .500 season would make her happy, she admitted.
"If I could get to like a 20-10 or 15-14 record, that would be a large improvement," she said. "I think with who we have now, and just everybody knowing each other after the season we should be able to do that."
The squad lost six seniors to graduation, including key hitter Jessica Heick, who led her teammates in kills (188), aces (48) and digs (175). Others who graduated were Dani Carter, Ali Diersen, Paige Gallagher, Tara Lance and Grace McCarty.
Returning starters include seniors Grace Keith and Ashley Ford, as well as juniors Abby Smith, Rachael Nelson, Raysa Garbes and Taylor Noonan. Keith drove the Lady Spartans last season alongside Heick, with 172 kills, 28 aces, 148 digs, 23 blocks and a serving percentage of 92 percent.
"She really likes high balls, so we're working to pull them down," Ferin said about Keith. "She'll be a big leader."
Smith excelled as a middle hitter last season, with 28 blocks, but will transition to the outside this year. Nelson and Garbes are both returning setters, who led in assists, with 313 and 184, respectively.
"We're trying to get our offense quicker," said Ferin. "We've been hitting that hard."
The addition of junior Kate Benzing and freshman Lauren Schrock, both 6-foot-tall middle hitters, should add to that objective, she added.
"Obviously we gain height," she said. "Everyone has grown this summer, gotten taller and strong. That will fill us out."
The Lady Spartans will be changing up their defense as well, she added.
"We're going to a perimeter defense instead of a rotation defense," she explained. "We've been working out the kinks, figuring out who needs to go where."
However, she noted, junior Taylor Moore– the team's libero– will most definitely stick to her position as a defensive specialist.
"She's quick and reads the ball well," said Ferin. "She's a big playmaker in our back row."
Rounding out the roster are seniors Lauren Roeder (setter), Chloe Thole (right side hitter) and Makayla Suchomel (defensive specialist), junior Elli Becicka (outside/right side hitter), and sophomore Katie Yi (middle/right side hitter).
"The team saying is 'give to get' this season," said Ferin. "They are really focusing attention on the team and what each player brings to every practice. We're lucky enough to have five seniors on our roster this year and they have all shown great leadership."
The Lady Spartans play their first match Tuesday, Aug. 22, at 7 p.m. against the Liberty Lightning at Liberty High in North Liberty, followed by a quad with Center Point-Urbana and Clear Creek Amana at Mount Vernon on Thursday, Aug. 24, at 6 p.m.
Solon Varsity Volleyball 2017 Schedule
Tuesday, Aug. 22 at Liberty High 7 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 24 quad at Mt. Vernon with Center Point-Urbana and CCA 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 29 at Williamsburg 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 31 vs. Anamosa at home 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 2 CR Washington invitational 9 a.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 5 at Mt. Vernon 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 9 Linn-Mar invitational 9 a.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 12 at West Delaware 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 19 at Maquoketa 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 26 vs. Beckman Catholic at home 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 30 tournament at Waverly-Shell Rock 9 a.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 3 vs. Western Dubuque-Epworth at home 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 5 at Central DeWitt 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 7 tournament at Center Point-Urbana 8:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 10 WaMaC pool play at Maquoketa or South Tama 4 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 12 WaMaC tournament at Marion 4 p.m.


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Author and poet Rita Mae Reese reflects on her tentative first steps into the lesbian community via the conduit of the written word, and the importance of those connections even now.
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Historian Dick Wagner explores the voices of gay liberation through the words of Wisconsin poets.
East High student Daniel Gengenbach discovered a new self-confidence and a community of support through the world of slam poetry, Proud Theater, and an accepting environment.
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It's crazy, it's been 50 years that I am passionate about magic, so that I could have been born with a magic wand in his hands.
There have been great men, but to me there are also Robert Houdin, Harry Houdini for older but let's not forget Gérard Majax (a big "magic" thank you to him for his TV shows), and Garcimore his derisive humor, Dany Larry David Copperfield and his "mega illusions" Siegfried and Roy, David Blaine, and I could cite many yet so there. In any case, rather devouring passion led me in 1995 to the seasons in the markets with magic stand that had the slogan "Become a Magician in 5 minutes," which, needless to say, not necessarily liked all the magicians.
Share my passion by learning easy and automatic lathes other became as obvious to me.
This is how, in 1998, I opened my store "Magic Passion", and there, my happiness was at its height, I could live my passion and share it with both insiders with beginners. This allowed me to do wonderful meeting and I want to thank Philippe, Thierry Laurent, Jean-Pierre, Louis, Thierry Joachim, Roman, Jacques, Jeremy (I apologize to those I n ' have not mentioned, but I have to say that there too many of you) with whom I shared unforgettable moments of happiness in this small shop hidden in a quiet street in the 12th district of Paris.
In 2002, the shows always taking me more time and energy, I dedicate myself only to magic performances and decided to say goodbye with regret my little corner of paradise ... The "Magic Passion" spirit exists always in my heart and it is not said that one day ... I opened another store ...
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Hoagland: President's Proposed Budget a Question of Fairness
Washington, D.C.– President Trump's budget blueprint for Fiscal Year 2018 seeks to balance the budget over the next 10 years and includes increased defense spending and deep cuts to social programs.
It does not touch the two largest federal programs—Medicare and the non-disability portion of Social Security—and proposes major tax reform that could reduce taxes on upper income families. Consequently, about one-third of all federal spending primarily benefiting low- and middle-income recipients would bear the burden of achieving a balanced budget.
"This is a question of fairness in setting fiscal policy," G. William Hoagland, senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center, said.
The proposed reductions focus on programs such as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, food stamps, child nutrition programs, and the Earned Income Tax Credit. The budget also proposes additional cuts to Medicaid, over $600 billion in addition to the more than $800 billion included in the American Health Care Act passed by the House of Representatives last month.
"Many of these programs need reform, and the goal of reducing public debt is laudable, but there is a level of unfairness in the president's budget proposal that would be devastating to low-income families and states struggling to provide critical public services," Hoagland said. "Some programs if not completely eliminated such as the Community Development Block Grant could face as much as a 40 percent reduction at the end of 10 years."
In addition, programs in science, technology, and education that would face cuts are considered essential to maintaining healthy future economic growth.
Many of these programs need reform, and the goal of reducing public debt is laudable, but there is a level of unfairness in the president's budget proposal.
"These are the programs that we need to increase economic growth in the future," Hoagland said. "This budget recognizes the need to reduce debt and deficits to create long-term growth, but the ability to achieve those goals will be problematic if critical public investments are reduced from their already low level of support."
A key factor that leads to a balanced budget in the president's proposal is an estimate of around 3 percent GDP growth by 2027, which is stronger than independent analysts project. The Congressional Budget Office projects a growth rate of 1.9 percent by the same year.
A president's initial budget is generally viewed as a blueprint that informs Congress of the administration's priorities rather than legislation that will be enacted exactly as proposed. Some of the key proposals in Trump's budget include:
- Defense Spending Boost: $54 billion in additional defense spending in 2018, bringing defense spending closer to historic levels and providing additional funds for additional military personnel and equipment investment
- Welfare Reform: $274 billion in cuts over 10 years from welfare programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and others
- Tax Reform: A tax system overhaul for both personal and corporate rates, reducing the number of tax brackets to 10 percent, 25 percent, and 35 percent, and reducing the corporate rate to 15 percent
These proposals are expected to face strong resistance, especially among Democrats and even many Republicans who support many of the programs facing reductions. Complicating the picture is the need to address the debt limit, which according to BPC projections policymakers will need to raise by October or November to avoid a default on the federal government's obligations.
"This is just the opening bid in what will be a very contentious debate over the next several months on the budget and other competing priorities," Hoagland said.
"We will face the music as the new fiscal year approaches when Congress and the administration will have to produce a budget to fund the government. To avoid a train wreck of massive proportions we need to find a bipartisan solution," he said.
William Hoagland is available for comment.
Watch Facebook Live at 2 p.m. today for a discussion on the president's budget.


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War of the Vikings due in early 2014
Paradox Interactive and Fatshark have announced War of the Vikings, a new multiplayer close quarters combat game in the spirit of War of the Roses.
A standalone entry in the new War series, War of the Vikings is built on a refined version of the engine that powers War of the Roses.
Players choose between Saxon and Viking factions, customise their warrior and weapons, and battle it out on 9th and 10th Century English soil in up to 64-player battles.
"We've been inspired many times over by the possibilities of the close-combat genre. It's clear to us that that there are many more experiences we can share with our players, and War of the Vikings is our next step in establishing Paradox and Fatshark as leaders in the art of online war," War franchise executive producer Gordon Van Dyke said in a statement.
Speaking to VG247 at a closed doors event in Sydney today, Van Dyke confirmed that female warriors will be available in both factions; after consulting with an archaeological expert in viking warfare, Fatshark was delighted to learn that women fighters are historically justifiable.
The producer stressed that War of the Vikings will continue the franchise's traditions of emphasising skill over unlocks, but there will be plenty for veterans to collect, including more elaborate beard and hair styles and symbols of wealth. Although some interpretative allowances have been made, Van Dyke said he's aiming for historical accuracy and a realistic portrayal of the viking profession, which has had some pretty poor PR for the last millennium.
We'll have a full report from out chat with Van Dyke in the coming weeks.
War of the Vikings is coming exclusively to PC in the first quarter of 2014. It will be on show at gamescom, PAX Prime and the Tokyo Game Show, and if you're keen, you can sign up for the beta now.
Here's the features list from the announcement press release:
- History Comes to Life (and then you kill it) – Historically inspired content from the Viking Age, including levels and environments, weapons, helmets, shields, and heraldry
- Close Combat and Ranged Ravaging – Skill-driven fighting blends swinging, blocking, and dodging with intense ranged combat, including arrows, spears, and throwing axes
- Mod Your Squad – Enhanced squad features allow players to define a role for their warriors in battle using custom squad perks to buff your hirdmen
- A Viking to Your Liking – Design your own Viking or Saxon warrior, choosing everything from weapons and armor to battle perks, customized taunts to unhinge your foes, and a variety of beard options
- Pick Your Battles – Game modes include up to 64-player epic battles, new hardcore "Pitched Arena" mode with 32 players and no respawns, and a Training Ground to test out new character builds


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The Midwest has long been known for quality beef production, but profitable beef production has not been the automatic right of Midwestern farmers. Let's look at a bit of history and try to learn lessons that will help us produce quality beef at a profit.
My friend, Steve Wallace, Senior Forage Agronomist for Barenbrug USA, will tell us that in the 50's and 60's the Midwest not only finished most of the calves it produced, but also IMPORTED cattle from the West! The 70's and 80's however, saw this scenario reversed. By the 90's, many of our calves and the grain to feed them were being shipped to the West and Southwest. The Midwest is on the rise again. We have the feed right here, don't we?? Why not keep the industry here? Isn't finishing our own cattle a profit "slam dunk"? Beware though,finishing cattle can be very profitable, but if we are not prudent it can finish our bank account!
I would like to point out 4 mistakes many in the Midwest beef industry have made.
- Failure to provide quality pasture for brood cows and calves. This has caused poor herd health, lousy conception rates, and light, stunted calves. Not only have we fed poor quality forage [especially hay] but also fed our cattle tons of poisoned feed. Ever hear of fescue toxicity?? Our pastures are the most used, most important part of our beef operations and yet too often they receive the least attention.
- Failure to provide quality feed in July and August. Our cool season pastures often suffer from summer slump and many producers simply let their cows stumble through the drought even though there are many options such as warm season annuals and perennials to keep our cows in top shape.
- Failure to provide quality feed in the winter months. A diet consisting of mostly mature KY-31 is what the majority of beef cows exist on from October through March. This is a significant factor leading to a loss of profit!
- Failure to provide the quality feed program for weaned calves. Weaned calves need quality feed not unlike what a high producing Holstein cow needs. With a feed program like that we can background calves efficiently even if we do not finish them.
There are a growing number of highly successful beef producers from the Midwest.
What are they doing differently from the normal producers?
- They are taking or have taken definite steps to get rid of the choke hold of KY-31.Tell me one good reason to feed poison to any cow? There aren't any. These farmers are taking excellent care of their land. They maintain a better stand than most KY-31 farms have. They generally are increasing the organic matter content in their soil. They are better protectors of the land; more efficient in their use of resources.
- These successful farmers use good grassland management. They manage the production of pasture and hay ground as carefully as any cash cropper manages his corn. They use good grazing practices, fertilize judiciously, and do not abuse their pasture. They also use wisdom in selecting the right blend of forages for the need.
- They keep good forage available for their cattle at all times. Good farmers use a wide range of forages in pasture, hay, and stockpile as the need arises because their cattle deserve more than "junk" forage.
- They use quality forage to "background". This allows them to put hundreds of economical pounds on their calves before selling them or finishing them. A good backgrounding program is low risk and is an easy way to have value added cattle.
- These farmers also manage waste. Combining a grazing management program and good manure collection facilities, they can turn their waste into a good fertilizer program. The loss of animal waste on Midwest farm land has been one reason for the wide spread loss of soil organic matter.
- These cattlemen also often use quality forage to assist in an economical and safe finishing program for fat steers. Cattle were created to thrive on forage. When we use quality forages the entire life of the cattle we tap into a resource that we will not improve on.


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The british museum opens the most important exhibition of the year: shunga
Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese art. 3 October 2013 to 5 January 2014. Explicit and beautifully detailed, these works, produced between 1600 and 1900, have continued to influence manga, anime and Japanese tattoo art. The exhibition sheds new light on this taboo art form within Japanese social and cultural history. Parental guidance advised for visitors under 16. Tickets £7.00 More information here.
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Card types
Dominion cards are classified into several types, which determine how they can be used during gameplay and how they interact with other cards. Every card has at least one type, and all a card's types are listed on the bottom banner of the card.
The majority of cards have only one type, but some cards have two or three. Two cards have four types: Dame Josephine and Werewolf.
Cards with multiple types have membership in all of them for all purposes. For instance, Harem is a Treasure–Victory card; cards that have a special interaction with Treasure cards, such as Mine, and cards that have a special interaction with Victory cards, such as Crossroads, will both respond to Harem. Two cards, Courtier and Falconer, have abilities that are sensitive to how many types another card possesses.
A card is not a member of types that are not listed on the bottom banner of the card, even if they have abilities that resemble those of cards of that type. For instance, Masquerade can be used to put undesirable cards into an opponent's deck, or to trash desirable cards from it, but it is not an Attack card because it does not have "Attack" listed at the bottom of the card. However, there are a couple of abilities that can change cards' types for gameplay purposes: Inheritance causes Estates (normaliy just a Victory card) to also be Actions, and Capitalism causes some Action cards to also be Treasures.
Many card types are associated with a specific color; on cards of a given type, the background frame surrounding the card art and text are tinted in the appropriate color. Cards with certain combinations of types have two colors.
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Cards of these four types occur in all or almost all games of Dominion, and can appear as the only type on a card.
- Action. Action cards may be played during the Action phase of a player's turn. A player may play only one Action card unless some effect provides them with "+ Actions". Action cards may have a variety of different effects when played. The majority of Kingdom cards are Actions, but not all, so it is possible to play a game of Dominion with no Action cards (the probability of this happening by chance is on the order of 10–10). Action cards have white frames unless they are also Reactions, Durations, Ruins, or Reserves. Most Action card Kingdom piles contain 10 cards; Rats and Port contain 20 and 12 cards, respectively. Action-Victory card piles contain 8 or 12 cards.
- Treasure. Treasure cards may be played during the Buy phase of a player's turn. A player may play any number of Treasure cards one at a time, in any order. Black Market and Storyteller allow Treasures to be played during a player's Action phase. Most Treasure cards provide some amount of , and many have other effects when played. All games of Dominion include the basic Treasure cards: Copper, Silver, and Gold. Other basic Treasures are added under certain circumstances, and some Kingdom cards are Treasures as well. Treasure cards have yellow frames. Most Kingdom Treasure card piles contain 10 cards. Treasure-Victory card piles contain 8 or 12 cards.
- Victory. Victory cards are usually worth at the end of the game to a player who has them. All games of Dominion include the basic Victory cards Estate, Duchy, and Province. An additional basic Victory card, Colony, may be included in games using Kingdom cards from Prosperity, and some Kingdom cards are Victory cards as well. Victory cards have green frames. All Victory card piles contain 8 cards in a 2-player game and 12 in a 3- or 4-player game.
- Curse. Curses are worth –1 at the end of the game, and are the only card type to consist of only one card name. All games of Dominion include Curses in the supply, though in many games Curses will never be gained or otherwise interacted with. They have purple frames. The number of Curses in a game is equal to ten times the number of players after the first - 10 Curses for a 2-player game, 20 for a 3-player game, and so forth.
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Cards of these types appear in multiple Dominion expansions but never appear as the only type on a card.
- Attack. The "Attack" type has no special rules of its own, but several cards refer to the type and interact with Attack cards. For instance, several cards have special effects that are triggered when an Attack card is played. Attack cards usually inflict harmful effects on the opponents of the player who plays them, though not all cards that have the potential to harm opponents have the Attack type. Attack cards appear in all expansions, and are not associated with a color.
- Duration. Duration cards have effects that often last beyond the turn they are played; they are not discarded from play until the Clean-up phase of the last turn on which they do something. Duration cards were introduced in Seaside, and appear in later expansions beginning with Adventures.
- Reaction. Reaction cards have optional effects that are triggered by specified events (e.g., an Attack card being played or a card being gained) when the card is somewhere not visible to players other than its owner (usually its owner's hand). When a Reaction card is triggered, on any turn including the owner's own turn, the owner may reveal it and carry out whatever abilities it has. Reaction cards appear in most expansions, and have blue frames.
- Command. Command cards play a Non-Command Action from the Supply, leaving it there. They are not associated with a color. The type was introduced as part of the 2019 rules tweaks, and attached to a handful of cards that were introduced earlier.
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Cards of these types occur in only one Dominion expansion; except for Night, these do not appear as the only type on a card.
- Castle. Castles are a Split pile with eight differently-named Victory cards with various and interrelated effects. Castles appear in Empires and are not associated with a color.
- Doom. Doom cards have abilities that cause Hexes to be received. They appear in Nocturne and are not associated with a color.
- Fate. Fate cards have abilities that cause Boons to be received. They appear in Nocturne and are not associated with a color.
- Gathering. Gathering cards collect tokens on their Supply piles, which can be taken after a certain condition is met. Gathering cards appear in Empires and are not associated with a color.
- Heirloom. Heirlooms are Treasures that replace players' starting Coppers. Each Heirloom has an associated Kingdom card with a yellow banner across the bottom; when one of these Kingdom cards is being used, all players replace one starting Copper with the indicated Heirloom. Heirlooms appear in Nocturne and are not associated with a color.
- Knight. These are ten differently-named Action–Attack cards with similar but distinct effects. The Knights pile in the Supply is shuffled, so players do not know in what order the Knights will be available. Knights appear in Dark Ages and are not associated with a color.
- Looter. Looter cards have effects that can cause Ruins to be gained; in a game in which one or more Looters are present (in the Supply or via a Black Market deck), Ruins are included in the Supply. All Looters are Action cards. Looters appear in Dark Ages and are not associated with a color.
- Night. Night cards are played during a player's Night phase, which is after the Buy phase. Night cards appear in Nocturne, and have black frames with white text.
- Prize. Prizes are non-Supply cards and may be gained only as an effect of playing Tournament. Prizes appear in Cornucopia and are not associated with a color.
- Reserve. Reserve cards are set aside on a player's Tavern mat when played, and can usually be called back into play to have an additional effect at a later time. Reserves appear in Adventures, and have tan frames.
- Ruins. Ruins are Action cards with very weak (but not harmful) effects that are included in the Supply in games using Looters. There are five differently-named Ruins, but they are shuffled into a single Supply pile. The Supply includes the same number of Ruins as Curses; players do not know which specific Ruins are in the Supply, in what proportions, or in what order. Ruins appear in Dark Ages and have brown frames.
- Shelter. Shelters may replace Estates in players' starting decks in games using Kingdom cards from Dark Ages. There are three differently-named Shelters, and each player starts with one of each. Shelters do not appear in the supply and may not be gained from anywhere; the only Shelters in the game are the ones players start with. Shelters appear in Dark Ages and have red frames.
- Spirit. Spirits are non-Supply cards that can be gained by Exorcist and a few other sources. They appear in Nocturne and are not associated with a color.
- Traveller. Travellers, when discarded from play, can be exchanged for stronger cards. Travellers appear in Adventures and are not associated with a color, but are marked with a large arrow behind the card text.
- Zombie. Zombies are cards that start in the trash when Necromancer is being used. They appear in Nocturne and are not associated with a color.
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These types are not "cards" in a gameplay sense, but are printed on physical cards; they are sometimes informally referred to as "card-shaped things". To distinguish them from cards, they are printed in landscape orientation. They are sometimes collectively referred to as "landscapes" for this reason.
- Artifact. There are 5 different Artifacts that have unique effects that players may contest ownership of. They appear in Renaissance and have brown frames.
- Boon. There are 12 different Boons that each mark a beneficial effect. Fate cards cause players to receive a random Boon. Boons appear in Nocturne and have golden frames.
- Event. There are 54 different Events that mark effects that players can pay for. They appear in Adventures, Empires and Menagerie and have silver frames.
- Hex. There are 12 different Hexes that each mark a harmful effect. Doom cards cause players to receive a random Hex. Hexes appear in Nocturne and have dark purple frames.
- Landmark. There are 21 different Landmarks that mark effects that give players additional means to score (or lose) . They appear in Empires and have dark green frames.
- Project. There are 20 different Projects that mark permanent effects that players can pay to activate, marking this with one of two wooden cubes. They appear in Renaissance and have pink frames.
- State. There are 5 different States that mark a persistent effect, although some States can be removed. They appear in Nocturne and have rust frames.
- Way. There are 20 different Ways that have unique effects that players may choose to resolve instead of the main effect of the Action they are currently putting into play. They appear in Menagerie and have light blue frames.
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In early drafts of Dominion, there was a type called "Token", which included Curse and Confusion. When Confusion was cut from the game, the type was renamed after its only remaining member, Curse.
Early expansions rarely introduced new card types; later expansions have introduced multiple new card types in a single expansion. The numbers of card types introduced by each expansion are:
- Dominion: 6 (including the 4 basic card types) (Action, Attack, Curse, Reaction, Treasure, Victory)
- Intrigue: 0 (although Intrigue notably introduced cards with multiple basic card types)
- Seaside: 1 (Duration)
- Alchemy: 0
- Prosperity: 0
- Cornucopia: 1 (Prize)
- Hinterlands: 0
- Dark Ages: 5 (Command, Knight, Looter, Ruins, Shelter)
- Guilds: 0
- Adventures: 2 (+ 1 non-card type) (Reserve, Traveller) (Event)
- Empires: 2 (+ 1 non-card type) (Castle, Gathering) (Landmark)
- Nocturne: 6 (+ 3 non-card types) (Doom, Fate, Heirloom, Night, Spirit, Zombie) (Boon, Hex, State)
- Renaissance 0 (+ 2 non-card types) (Artifact, Project)
- Menagerie 0 (+ 1 non-card type) (Way)
Some statistics:
- There are 22 different card types and 49 different combinations of card types, including 32 combinations for Kingdom card pile types.
- There are 8 non-card types.
- 239 cards have one type, 134 cards have two types, 30 cards have three types, and 2 cards have four types.
- The most common type is Action; the least common type is Curse (see table below).
- The only types to appear in multiple sets are Action, Attack, Duration, Reaction, Treasure, and Victory. The only types to appear in every set are Action and Attack.
- Night is the only type other than the main four (Action, Treasure, Victory, Curse) that has appeared as the only type on a card.
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|Differently-named Cards
|Kingdom Card Piles (2E only)
|Differently-named Cards (2E only)
|286 (85.6%)
|326 (80.5%)
|274 (85.1%)
|314 (79.9%)
|51 (15.3%)
|64 (15.8%)
|48 (14.9%)
|61 (15.5%)
|27 (8.1%)
|45 (11.1%)
|27 (8.4%)
|45 (11.5%)
|27 (8.1%)
|29 (7.2%)
|27 (8.4%)
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On 15 February, the Council of the European Union decided to lift most of the sanctions against Belarus, thus, opening a new chapter in its policy towards Minsk. The decision follows several years of hard diplomatic work on both sides to overcome the tension after the 2010 Belarusian presidential elections and to soften mutual deficit of trust that resulted from the post-elections animosity. This is not the first time that Belarus-EU relations have entered the stage of rapprochement, yet this time hopes for a better result are high both in Brussels and Minsk.
Without sanctions, additional opportunities for more productive and systematic relations open up, which have implications beyond the bilateral track and which all stakeholders should benefit from. However, given the regional context and the peculiarities of Belarus' political system, the road ahead will be evolutionary and at times bumpy.
The Anticipated Decision
The outcome of the EU's foreign ministers meeting on 15 February was easy to predict. The Council agreed not to extend the restrictive measures for 170 individuals and three companies on the Belarusian "black list". At the same time, it agreed that 'the arms embargo and the restrictive measures related to the four individuals listed in connection with the unresolved disappearances of two opposition politicians, one businessman and one journalist, will be extended for a period of twelve months'.
Technically, the question on the Council's agenda was not about lifting the sanctions but rather about extending them. This procedural nuance was essential for forecasting the result. Back in October 2015, the Council had agreed on the extension of the restrictive measures against Belarus until the end of February 2016 and simultaneously on a four-month suspension of most of those measures. It meant that for the sanctions to survive beyond February, all the EU's 28 member states had to support them. Thus, it was enough for a single member state to say "no" – and most of the sanctions would anyway have been gone.
These procedural details notwithstanding, the decision of 15 February reflects a broad consensus in the EU capitals about the need to give the relations with Belarus a chance. A few member states remained hesitant on the day of the Council meeting, but the final decision to preserve the arms embargo and the restrictive measures against the four individuals formed a widely accepted compromise.
Heated Diplomatic Confrontation of 2011-2012
Belarus and the European Union have a relatively long history of sanctions and conflicting interactions. But the strained relations that followed the 2010 presidential elections can be said to symbolize their peak. In its conclusions of 31 January 2011, the Council of the EU deplored the election irregularities and the violence that then marred the election night. In reaction, it imposed travel restrictions and an asset freeze against persons whom the EU considered 'responsible for the fraudulent Presidential elections of 19 December 2010 and the subsequent violent crackdown on democratic opposition, civil society and representatives of independent mass media'. Also, the Council reinstated the restrictive measures that had previously been suspended.
That decision marked the beginning of a two-year long intense diplomatic confrontation, which saw the sanctions list grow and the Belarusian authorities retaliate in various ways. At certain points, the tension grew so high that several EU and Belarusian ambassadors had to leave for their respective capitals for consultations. The Swedish Embassy in Minsk was even expelled over a teddy bear row, while Belarus closed down its Embassy in Stockholm.
Needless to say, the level of cooperation and communication between Belarus and the EU, on the governmental as well as societal levels, dropped to all times low in those years. Various programs aimed at civil society exchanges and people-to-people contacts that the EU launched at the time could hardly compensate for the overall crisis in the relations. After 2012, the tension gradually started to subside, but some of its aftershocks, including the damage it did to the level of mutual trust on both sides, are still in the air.
Why Lifted and Why Now?
Why were the restrictive measures discontinued now?
In its conclusions of 15 February, the Council gave a hint at the reasons for not extending most of the sanctions. It 'acknowledged the steps taken by Belarus over the last two years that have contributed to improving EU-Belarus relations, such as the proactive participation of Belarus in the Eastern Partnership and in the Interim Phase on Modernization Issues, the resumption of the EU-Belarus Human Rights Dialogue, the start of negotiations on Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements and on a Mobility Partnership, the active pursuit cooperation in harmonization of digital markets and the signature of a Cooperation Arrangement on an Early Warning Mechanism in the energy sector'. The EU foreign ministers also emphasized the constructive role that Belarus had played in regional affairs.
Reading between the lines, two core factors seem to stand behind the decision.
Firstly, the sanctions did not work. Neither their introduction nor consecutive enlargements brought about intended changes in Belarus. And this is not surprising. For the sanctions to work, the Belarusian political spectrum needs a strong political or societal force that could transform the EU's external pressure into internal political capital and, thus, push the government to comply with the EU's conditionality. Such an actor has never been there and, therefore, the EU's restrictive measures never stood a chance of becoming anything more than mere symbolic gestures.
Under such circumstances, at the end of 2012, after almost two years of the diplomatic confrontation, Belarus-EU relations started slowly to take a turn towards more contacts and less tension. The bi-monthly Belarus Foreign Policy Index clearly registered the trend. By the way, that nearly coincided with the appointment of Uladzimir Makey as Belarus' foreign minister.
As the intensity of diplomatic contacts grew and the quality of communication slightly improved, Minsk and Brussels (and other EU capitals) gradually developed a somewhat shared vision of the challenges to their relations and a non-binding agenda to overcome those challenges. They started with cautious discussions about modernization issues, i.e. in what sectors the EU can help Belarus to modernize. Then, at the Vilnius summit of the Eastern Partnership, Belarus suggested launching visa liberalization negotiations. Later, the first round of the human rights dialogue took place. Finally, on 22 August 2015, the Belarusian authorities released all the individuals whom the EU regarded as political prisoners.
Thus, in all probability, the relations would in any way have arrived at today's stage. However, the Ukraine crisis became an important external stimulus. To be more precise, Minsk's position on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and, most of all, the Belarusian government's highly effective neutral strategy. The latter resulted in Minsk becoming the provider of good offices and even a sort of stabilizing element against the backdrop of the overall destabilization of regional security.
This is the second factor and it specifically explains the timing of the sanctions' removal.
The sanctions of 2011 were directly linked to the presidential elections' irregularities. Therefore, the EU kept reiterating the importance for the 2015 presidential campaign to develop in a different fashion. The Belarusian authorities did their best to demonstrate improvements, but the international monitors' assessment did not provide a good ground to conclude that fully-fledged progress had taken place. A day after the vote, international monitors presented their preliminary report. The following paragraph summarizes its gist:
The 11 October election once again indicated that Belarus still has a considerable way to go in meeting its OSCE commitments for democratic elections. This underscores the need for the political will to engage in a comprehensive reform process. Some specific improvements and a welcoming attitude were noted. Significant problems, particularly during the counting and tabulation, undermined the integrity of the election. The campaign and election day were peaceful.
Nonetheless, the Council of the EU found it sufficient for suspending the restrictive measures back in October. At the same time, EU diplomats stressed that they would wait for the final OSCE/ODIHR report before making any further decisions on the sanctions. The report was released at the end of January and did not provide any more positive assessment of the presidential campaign. Thus, had it not been for the geopolitical Ukraine factor, the EU member states would have been prone to further suspend (not remove) the sanctions, at least, until the parliamentary elections in Belarus scheduled for 2016 in order to see how serious Minsk is about adhering to the OSCE recommendations.
Life after Sanctions
Now that most of the sanctions have been removed, a new chapter in Belarus-EU relations begins. Given the specific nature of Belarus' political system and the restrictive geopolitical context, there should be no exaggerated expectations. The normalization process remains fragile in many respects. However, the horizons are definitely broadening and new opportunities are opening up.
On the bilateral level, this further improves mutual trust and strengthens the pro-EU voices in the Belarusian government. President Lukashenka already made a statement that Minsk was fully satisfied with the EU's decision and instructed his ministers to step up work with EU institutions. Again, no breakthroughs will happen but the improved atmosphere looks conducive to a more systemic and dynamic relationship. It makes the conclusion of the negotiations on the Visa Facilitation Agreement, the Readmission Agreement and the Mobility Partnership more realistic. Sectoral dialogue and cooperation will become more rooted, especially given the EU's intention to start Twinning cooperation with Belarus and increase its financial assistance to the country. Interesting projects can be developed in the framework of Minsk's intensifying work with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank.
Also, serious discussions about a bilateral political agreement between Belarus and the EU are now ripe to kick-start. Today, the relations are still regulated by the agreement between the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community and the USSR on Trade and Commercial and Economic Cooperation signed in 1989. This legal status quo significantly limits the country's participation in the European Neighborhood Policy and inhibits further substantive progress in Belarus-EU relations.
Finally, the lifting of the sanctions has important implications beyond the bilateral track. Firstly, it props up Belarus' currently evolving neutral foreign policy strategy, which remains deficient as long as the country stays under sanctions. Secondly, it is read by many in Minsk as a step that can potentially open up a discussion about the relations between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union. Minsk is actively promoting the idea about cooperation between the two region-building projects as a way to lower geopolitical tension in Europe and facilitate mutually beneficial inter-regional exchanges. At a minimum, Belarus needs a normalized bilateral relationship with the EU for that.
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Northern pike often head to shallow areas of the lakes to hide in weeds during the warm days of summer, although some of the fish head for deeper, cooler water. This requires a boat to reach them. In the fall, pike follow schools of baitfish, often into deeper waters. In the spring, pike put up big fights that make those first days of warm weather exceptional for catching pike fresh from spawning.
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The provinces of Saskatchewan, Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec and the Northwest Territories boast hundreds of lakes loaded with northern pike. Lakes in northern Manitoba produce trophy-size catches, including Nejanilini Lake and Silsby Lake. Some of the lakes provide boat-launch areas. Many of the lakes, though, lie in remote areas only reachable by float plane, making stays at a nearby fishing lodge or camp the most practical way to enjoy your fishing excursion.
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Kurniawan, Insan Adi and Sutrisno, H. and Setiawan, Abdul Haris (2013) PERANCANGAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN TUTORIAL AUTO CAD 2D MENGGAMBAR TAMPAK DAN POTONGAN BANGUNAN. Pendidikan Teknik Bangunan FKIP, 1 (1).
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The purpose of this study is : Designing 2D AutoCAD tutorial learning media, particularly on the subject of drawing look and pieces of the building know the outcome of the process of making to AutoCAD tutorial video and produce learning media devices are valid and deserve to be used as a learning media AutoCAD. The research methodusedin this researchwas Research & Development (R&D) method. The research wasconductedon the di SMK N 5 Surakarta. Design done by taking a path that includes the development of assessment procedures subjects AutoCAD, user assessment of media types, the assessment of media makers, and create a storyboard. The circuit design includes the collection of products made with the object of media support, the design of video learning, revision, validation, revision, testing, and evaluation. Success criteria of this research refers to the successful developmen t and validation testing of products. The successful achievement of the design of products obtained from the use of media that includes: (1) the suitability aspects of substance experts, media specialists and experts intruksional learning. (2) The test is limited. (3) field test. The results showed that the AutoCAD 2D tutorial learning media drawing looks and pieces of the building proved to be fit for use as a AutoCAD media learning and can help students in understanding the material well. This is evident from the results of the test expert, limited testing and field testing. For media expert scoring (89,56%), a substance gives a score (90%), instructional specialists provide a score (90%), while the limited test data obtained by interviewing a few samples of students and one teacher stated greatly helped. Field test data obtained by questionnaires 31 respondents and interview some of the sample of students who declare helped as much as 85% and declared not helped as much as 15%. It means learning video is acceptable as a medium of teaching in subjects AutoCAD drawing particularly on the subject of looks and pieces on the building. Conclusion this study shows learning media products such as video tutorial learning model can help the delivery of content on the subjects AutoCAD particular on the subject of looks and pieces on the building. This learning video is an efficient, effective and precise media, so that the development model of learning video can be recommended as one of the new innovations in the learning media subjects AutoCAD particular on the subject of looks and pieces on the building.
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I have to prove that function $f(x) = x^Tx, x \in R^n$ is convex from definition.
Definition: Function $f: R^n \rightarrow R$ is convex over set $X \subseteq dom(f)$ if $X$ is convex and the following holds: $x,y \in X, 0 \leq \alpha \leq 1 \rightarrow f(\alpha x+(1-\alpha) y)) \leq \alpha f(x) + (1-\alpha)f(y)$.
I got this so far:
$(\alpha x + (1-\alpha)y)^T(\alpha x + (1-\alpha)y) \leq \alpha x^Tx + (1-\alpha)y^Ty$
$\alpha^2 x^Tx + 2\alpha(1-\alpha)x^Ty + (1-\alpha)^2y^Ty \leq \alpha x^Tx + (1-\alpha)y^Ty$
I don´t know how to prove this inequality. It is clear to me, that $\alpha^2 x^Tx \leq \alpha x^Tx$ and $(1-\alpha)^2y^Ty \leq (1-\alpha)y^Ty$, since $0 \leq\alpha \leq 1$, but what about $2\alpha(1-\alpha)x^Ty$?
I have to prove this using the above definition.
Note: In Czech, the words "convex" and "concave" may have opposite meaning as in some other languages ($x^2$ is a convex function for me!). Thanks for any help.


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