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Me and the Little Rascals: Imaginisce February Challenge!
So, here's the challenge for this month. It's an inspiration/colour challenge. Doesn't it look yummy?!!
Hope you are enjoying the blog hop so far! Your next stop is Marielle Leblanc. Now, don't forget to leave a comment on each blog, as well as on the Imaginisce Blog, and for another chance to win a great prize, make sure you give the challenge a go yourself!
Super cute. Love your flowers.
Too cute! Great flowers too.
Such a pretty girly frame Sam. Love that fabric flower and a gorgeous photo of your daughter. Thank you so much for spying my layout last week and putting it on the Imaginisce blog. I was so excited!
I LOVE altered projects and this is one sweet frame with a beautiful girl smiling big. Thanks for sharing.
Adorable frame! I love the rolled flower on it too!
so sweet, the girl and the frame! love that flower!
Such a sweet frame, love those flowers!!
Gorgeous! And your Jack's 10th birthday looks like SO much fun!
What a sweet frame. Love the flowers.
Such a pretty frame!!! Love your flowers and your take on the challenge!
Adorable frame for an adorable little girl! So sweet!!!
What a cutie she is ! And I am LOVING those flowers you have here!
Gorgeous Sam...love that lollipop felt flower!!!
Sweet picture of your daughter Sam! Love how you altered the frame and I spy some Purple Pumpkin!
Love the different touches taken from the layout!
Beautiful Sam!! Love that sweet photo of your DD and the flowers are devine.
Love the frame! That rolled flower is fab!!!
Love the altered frame! Beautiful Photo!
Very cute frame and little girl as well.
Love the frame, very cute!
what a fabulous frame! Perfect to showcase that adorable photo!
What a perfect layout for such a perfect sweet little face!! I LOVE IT!
Great layout Sam!! Thanks for posting my giveaway on your blog!!
What a darling little girl you have! And the frame is cute too!
What a lovely photo frame!
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What Happens When Parents Talk to Kids Frankly About Sex?
Parents who worry about discussing sex with their kids can relax: New research shows it leads teens to adopt safer practices and doesn't make them more likely to become sexually active.
That's the upshot of an analysis of 31 studies on the effectiveness of parent-based sexual health interventions. The research included nearly 12,500 9- to 18-year-olds.
These interventions work with parents, and often their children, in areas such as communicating about sex, providing sexual health information, and encouraging safe sex.
One finding was that teens whose parents participated in an intervention were more likely to use condoms.
Certain types of interventions had a greater effect in this regard than others: those aimed at children 14 and younger; those designed for black or Hispanic youth; those that targeted parents and children equally; and those that lasted 10 hours or more.
"These are variables that make sense intuitively: reaching kids when they're younger and, often, more willing to listen; involving both parents and adolescents; spending more time on the subject matter -- none of those are particularly surprising," said study first author Laura Widman. She's an assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh.
Her team also found that the interventions didn't affect the age at which children became sexually active.
"In other words, the kids who were taught about sexual health did not become sexually active any earlier than kids who were not part of the interventions -- but kids who were part of the interventions were more likely to use condoms when they did become sexually active," Widman said in a university news release.
The study was published July 29 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
"This highlights the value of parent-based interventions, and makes clear that certain features are especially valuable when developing interventions," study co-author Reina Evans said in the news release. She's a doctoral student at NCSU.
The American Academy of Family Physicians has more on talking to your children about sex.
SOURCE: North Carolina State University, news release, July 29, 2019
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If you drive on the dual carriageway on the Southside of the city, the chances are you'll have spotted this house while stuck in traffic, just between Donnybrook church and RTÉ.
You can now rent the unique one-bedroom for a staggering €2,250 a month, which must be some sort of record for a house that small, especially when you consider that stepping out the front door will put you on one of the busiest roads in the country.
The property crisis in Dublin shows no signs of slowing down and, although you could say that this place is in the much sought after D4, you'd have to wonder who'd pay that much to live on a main road.
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'Destiny 2' PC beta: Everything Bungie changed since the console beta
A few years ago, when Bungie rolled out the first public beta for Destiny, nobody really knew that the game was going to look like. Bungie packed the beta with a massive amount of content, including access to one of four open world areas that would be available in the retail release. For the Destiny 2 beta, the developer didn't have to prove anything — the goal was just to make sure the game would run.
But just because the Destiny 2 console beta was a technical test doesn't mean that Bungie isn't changing content and balancing combat as well. In fact, on Thursday, Bungie community manager DeeJ took to the Bungie blog to highlight some of the changes that are being made for the upcoming PC beta.
Some of the most significant changes are coming to the player vs. player mode — the Crucible — where Bungie has decided to tune Quickplay and Competitive matchmaking separately going forward:
Quickplay: Matchmaking times will be shorter, with less emphasis on Skill. This is the fastest route to a game, but you may face opponents outside of your comfort zone. The winning score in Control has been extended from 75 to 100 to allow for more time to play and use your abilities. Because too many matches were shorter than we expected (some Guardians weren't even able charge their Super) we've extended the trigger for the Mercy rule so it will come into play less often.
Competitive: Matchmaking takes more time to introduce you to players that are closer to you in skill with a good connection. These matchmaking settings may take longer, but we feel that the quality of the gameplay experience will be worth the wait. We have also made improvements to the way we calculate your skill in Countdown to better reflect how you'll perform against your opponents.
Beyond the new approach to the Crucible, Bungie also fixed and tweaked a wide variety of issues that players encountered during the console beta. PC beta players will have the chance to check out the following fixes and adjustments when they jump into the game at the end of the month:
FIXED: Infinite Super Glitch
Infinite Supers are all well and good until someone loses an eye.
FIXED: Warlock Glide Glitch
This bug was awesome… So awesome it hurt us a little bit to kill it. Thanks to those in the console Beta who helped us track this down.
FIXED: Infinite Grenades Glitch
Another issue found with the help of our friends in the console Beta. (Thank you!)
FIXED: Warlocks now have the same Melee Range as all other classes
With the exception of where perks directly increase their range, Warlocks will punch like the rest of us. Our PC friends will get a chance to experience a world with consistent base melee ranges. So will the rest of you, when the game launches.
TWEAKED: Globally reduced the time it takes to charge your Super
This was a big change that came directly from your feedback during the console beta. We agree it was taking a bit too long to cook up a Super.
TWEAKED: Increased Grenade Damage in PvE
Increased damage helps Grenades feel as powerful as they should facing hordes of alien combatants and, more specifically, makes the longer cooldowns more palatable. We want abilities to be slightly more rare, but worth it. In the console Beta, the "worth it" part wasn't quite there yet.
TWEAKED: Increased Power Ammo drops in PvE
This is something we had felt internally and have been slowly tuning up over the last several weeks. The PC beta has been updated with our new values and will provide much more Power ammo in PvE than what was found before. Power ammo can also be directly farmed from all Yellow Bar Combatants. Go big, Guardians!
If you want to participate in the Destiny 2 PC beta, you can preorder the game from Bungie or participating retailers to join during the early access period on August 28th. The beta will then open up to anyone who wants to give it a try on the 29th and will conclude on the 31st. Destiny 2 launches on PS4 and Xbox One on September 6th, with a PC release planned for October 24th.
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Tags: Bungie, Destiny 2
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Q: Why doesn't jquery work? I followed a tutorial and created a simple web page. Here is the html part:
$(document).ready(function() {
//when mouse rolls over
$("li").mouseover(function() {
$(this).stop().animate({
height: '150px'
}, {
queue: false.duration: 600,
easing: 'easeOutBounce'
})
});
//when mouse went away
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height: '50px'
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duration: 600,
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font-family: "Lucida Grande", arial. sans-serif;
background: #f3f3f3;
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margin: 0;
padding: 0;
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li {
width: 100px;
height: 50px;
float: left;
color: #191919;
text-align: center;
overflow: hidden;
}
a {
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
}
p {
padding: 0px 5px;
}
.subtext {
padding-top: 15px;
}
.green {
background: #6AA63B;
}
.yellow {
background: yellow;
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background: #D52100;
}
.purple {
background: #5122B4;
}
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background: #0292c0;
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title> Does this suit for title</title>
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<script src="js/jquery.easing.1.3.js"></script>
<script src="njmt-menu.js"></script>
</head>
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<p class="subtext">The front page</p>
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<li class="yellow">
<p><a href="#">about</a></p>
<p class="subtext">more info</p>
</li>
<li class="red">
<p><a href="#">contact</a></p>
<p class="subtext">get in touch</p>
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<li class="blue">
<p><a href="#">SBMT</a></p>
<p class="subtext">Send us your Mary Jane</p>
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Somewhy when I put mouse over the areas of "red","yellow" etc objects,nothing happens. All the routes to the js files are correct.
A: There was two errors in your code and your code was not getting jQuery.easing.js. Look here:
$(document).ready(function() {
//when mouse rolls over
$("li").mouseover(function() {
$(this).stop().animate({
height: '150px'
}, {
queue: false, //removed . and added , after queue: false
duration: 600,
easing: 'easeOutBounce'
})
});
//when mouse went away
$("li").mouseout(function() {
$(this).stop().animate({ //added ) after $(this
height: '50px'
}, {
queue: false,
duration: 600,
easing: 'easeOutBounce'
});
});
});
body { font-family: "Lucida Grande", arial. sans-serif; background: #f3f3f3; }
ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
li { width: 100px; height: 50px; float: left; color: #191919; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; }
a { color: #fff; text-decoration: none; }
p { padding: 0px 5px; }
.subtext { padding-top: 15px; }
.green { background: #6AA63B; }
.yellow { background: yellow; }
.red { background: #D52100; }
.purple { background: #5122B4; }
.blue { background: #0292c0; }
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-easing/1.4.1/jquery.easing.min.js"></script>
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<p>Rollover a menu item to expand it</p>
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<li class = "green">
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<p class="subtext">The front page</p>
</li>
<li class = "yellow">
<p><a href="#">about</a></p>
<p class="subtext">more info</p>
</li>
<li class = "red">
<p><a href="#">contact</a></p>
<p class="subtext">get in touch</p>
</li>
<li class = "blue">
<p><a href="#">SBMT</a></p>
<p class="subtext">Send us your Mary Jane</p>
</li>
<li class = "purple">
<p><a href="#">TRMS</a></p>
<p class="subtext">LGLTY</p>
</li>
</ul>
You can see working fiddle here.
A: Have you tried to check the console for any error messages? Seems like you mistyped "js/jquert.easing.1.3.js"
It should be "js/jquery.easing.1.3.js"
A: Please replace . with , from this function $("li").mouseover(function(){
Instead of:
{queue:false. duration:600, easing:'easeOutBounce'})
Should be:
{queue:false, duration:600, easing:'easeOutBounce'})
A: Put your script inside your body tag and you are calling jQuery script twice remove that and try again sometimes these improper initialization may be the reason
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<p><a href="#">SBMT</a></p>
<p class="subtext">Send us your Mary Jane</p>
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<p><a href="#">TRMS</a></p>
<p class="subtext">LGLTY</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/jquert.easing.1.3.js"></script>
<script src="njmt-menu.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
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Is it realistic? Hell no. Is it original? With its rehashing of just about every film trope in its genre, definitely not. Does it make one lick of sense? Negative. It should come as no surprise that 'London Has Fallen' is not a good movie and has numerous issues, including embarrassingly cheesy dialogue, extreme predictability, and a requirement to suspend your disbelief to a ridiculous level. But, I dare say, it could have been worse. If corny 90's action flicks are your thing, this might be enjoyable in some way and, to be quite fair, it does have a couple of epic moments and some kick-arse lines of dialogue hidden amongst the rubble. Mostly, though, this is one that you could easily skip.
OK, this movie was crap, and I usually appreciate a good shoot-em-up. The plot was inane. Honestly, I felt like I was watching another film and this was the ridiculous background movie that was on the main character's TV. Like the Machete trailer in Grindhouse, but nowhere near as fun. The dialogue was so completely absurd, I was spouting lines before the actors said them based on thinking "what would be the most stereotypical, vulgar, and ridiculous thing for this character to say right now?" I can honestly say this was the worst film I've seen in about a decade and a half, and it wasn't even bad-good (like Plan 9 from Outer Space) it was just bad-bad.
As the first one came across to me as an underrated well cast stand alone action flick with well planted elements to carry itself I found myself wanting more especially arfter seeing butler as the strong ruthless mike banning however more was not a good idea its plays and relies on everything that made the first great to me and despite a new setting it's not enough to save the film from its copy cat style the villain is boring the action is taken down the story is predictable and lacks the great values and freshness the first one gave and made me loving despite carrying over to its sequel
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Best of 2017: Top 50 Albums
Oh the album is dead, we hear you say. In which case you can kindly fuck off because this clearly ain't the article for you. For everyone else, the next in our Best of 2017 series is the not-so-humble album. In an age of streaming and disposable singles with about six features, there's still so damn much to be said for a complete body of work that resonates across double-figure tracks without losing pace, heart, or meaning.
So with that in mind we give you our Top 50 Albums of 2017 (with our detailed reviews linked to each name). Some records you can dip into, some you won't want to dip out of, and all very much worth your time. You know, if you have about 50+ hours to spare.
Call us cynical, but well played Jay-Z and Bey. Of course marital strife seems to be a very real thing even for multi-millionaires, but to let it play out so publicly and openly is the shrewdest decision this power couple have made. 4:44 was by far the best thing Hov has done for some time… but he's not on Spotify (and ain't nobody got time for Tidal) so we've replaced him with Ronika instead, who suffered from oversight by releasing her album Lose My Cool back in January. A shame, really, because it really is rather good. Anyway, rounding up this first set are, surprisingly, mainstream pop-rock trio PVRIS who made us recall a more innocent time in the genre despite its teen-aimed spike, Zak Abel who grooved his way to our hearts with the endlessly charismatic Only When We're Naked, and finally some profound alt-folk from both sides of the Pond in the form of Lucy Rose and Julie Byrne. Underrated, the lot of them.
British indie desperately needs new heroes, and thank fuck that Wolf Alice are leading that charge. Visions Of A Life truly separated them from the pack, a mix of spiky rock and more esoteric musings in between. London Grammar offered us more of their M.O. with admittedly diminishing returns on Truth Is A Beautiful Thing, and then it's over to St Vincent who ended a bizarre campaign with a sticky and wonderful account of the state of herself and the world on MASSEDUCTION. 'More of the same' also seemed to work well for Lana Del Rey, who somehow managed to craft one of her best albums through all the usual gloom on Lust For Life, and Washed Out, who made all our hipster electronic chillwave label-making dreams come true on the sunny Mister Mellow.
Get acquainted with the name Brent Faiyaz, because judging by his Sonder Son album there's an exciting future in the world of kinetic R&B from this lad. Goldfrapp bounced back big-time as they sought refuge in electronica for Silver Eye, and while The xx may have marched further away from their shadowed beginnings on I See You, they still sounded as essential as ever. James Vincent McMorrow also built on his huge fanbase with the breathtaking future-soul of True Care, and of course hipsters all over the world circle-jerked over the return of LCD Soundsystem… which was fine by us, given American Dream was certainly worth the wait. For the album, we mean. Not people circle-jerking.
If Bey and Jay were fighting on one side, then Pitchfork's own royal couple were at it too. One edged out the other though, as Amber Coffman's gentler missives on City Of No Reply were just a fraction more relatable than Dirty Projectors' viscous (but still excellent) self-titled electronica. And of course, everyone's favourite crockery-botherer Bjork returned and felt more liberated than ever on Utopia, bringing in a shit-tonne of flutes for a verdant soundscape. Throwback vibes found two new champions this year: Joe Goddard served us an NY timeline across genre on Electric Lines, while Mr Jukes (aka Jack Steadman of Bombay Bicycle Club) delivered the warmest and most refined jazz-soul you could ask for with God First.
There are people out there who are sick of Tove Lo's endless talk about getting high and fucking, but we are not among those… which, of course, is why Blue Lips' tour of pop bangers makes it on to this list. And while we're on the subject of female empowerment, Marika Hackman's gritty I'm Not Your Man might well have been the most deliciously emasculating record of the year. Niia brought us a softer side on the simply-titled I, showing us a New York soul cityscape that teemed with talent; meanwhile Daniel Caesar was the name on several lips as he brought back a bit of class to R&B with his expert Freudian. Rounding off this lot is Kanye protegee Kacy Hill and her debut Like A Woman, which mixed cinematic scale and soaring vocal for something truly memorable.
Some surprise entries here, some not at all. In the latter category: Yumi Zouma, continuing their effortless ascent into the higher rungs of dream-pop with Willowbank, and of course everyone's favourite Perfume Genius and the stellar baroque-pop of No Shape. But both Elli Ingram and Tei Shi surprised us all with their albums Love You Really and Crawl Space respectively, but both were tremendously confident statements of personality and sound in fields of soul and electronic-pop that are becoming saturated. And of course, least surprising in this batch was Mura Masa's debut album, with a self-titled and star-studded collection that cemented him as the hottest producer in the game.
Ooh we're in the top 20 now. Shit is getting real, but shit is also getting convenient for us as we get to pair a couple of people up: Lydia Ainsworth and Hundred Waters flew the flag for leftfield pop, the former taking in an almost Tori Amos vibe on Darling Of The Afterglow and the latter's Communicating had eccentric electronica pulsing through our veins like adrenaline. Also occupying a similar space are George Maple and Verite, using exceptional production for the basis of their pop and R&B respectively. Maple's Lover evoked something dark, sensual, and classic, while V's Somewhere In Between was the best independent pop record of the year. Leading us into the top 15 are Fleet Foxes, who may have delivered an initially-impenetrable record with Crack-Up, but it was one we kept on finding ourselves returning to for greater rewards.
A stunning quartet of debuts here: Muna, Sampha, Bedouine, and Anna of The North. Muna deserved every bit of praise heaped on them for About U, which provided a generation with both queer anthems and a safe space in music. Sampha made good on his promise by taking home the Mercury Prize thanks to his delicately rendered Process. Meanwhile Bedouine's fantastic collection of Americana recalled a new-age Dylan, while synth-pop's finest champions were Anna of The North and the pristine missives on Lovers. Finally, just outside the top 10… well, Kendrick Lamar's like that kid at the top of the class whose success you just stop being surprised at, right? Having said that, DAMN. was one hell of an album that nowhere near slowed his roll. In any other year it may have been higher, but as always we prefer to give the spotlight to less obvious moments, but that doesn't make this record any less essential.
Top 10 time, and of course the hardest lot to decide between. But we've opted for Wilsen to begin with: both live and on debut record I Go Missing In My Sleep, they're breathtakingly good, giving us a muted take on the world in a way we didn't know we needed. Australia's Gordi chucked in a fuck-tonne of heart for her robotic-pop opus Reservoir, and of course our deepest faves Grizzly Bear reminded us why exactly they're one of the biggest bands in the world thanks to Painted Ruins. A proper strong female R&B double-header sitting outside the top five: Syd, who proved that she's just as big a draw outside The Internet with Fin, and of course the woman of the moment SZA. It may have been long in the making, but Ctrl dazzled everyone to give her the spotlight she so deserves.
5. Lorde – Melodrama
What we said: "Lorde epitomises this new movement of millennials who could not give less of a fuck about what you might think, doing what they need to and getting their point across in ways that would only seem diluted with the interference of tradition. It could have gone either way thanks to her early success, but rather than caving under the pressure of major label too-much-too-soon stardom, she sticks to her guns as an auteur and cements herself as the pop voice of a generation.
"Lorde conveys the very essence of what it means to be young at the moment, living an entire life in the space of a weekend with no apologies, waiting to find Perfect Places or the next crescendo and exciting flourish that'll change the course of the whole conversation. That's the definition of Melodrama though, isn't it? Larger-than-life emotions that we can all relate to, with the occasional moment of cringe and plenty of cinematic wallowing. And whatever unfolds, one thing is always certain: you won't be able to take your eyes off it."
4. Moses Sumney – Aromanticism
What we said: "Essentially, being so removed from the world allows Sumney to present the truest version of himself and leave it to us whether we accept it or not. Don't Bother Calling is an initial push-away, but the way his falsetto rings, the way strings delicately fill the spaces between his yearning, reveal a heart that still beckons. Run the gauntlet, says Sumney, and look all you want. Being tactile is down to his discretion, but there's no doubt his music will touch you.
"Flute goes hand-in-hand with clicks like some sort of beguiling witchcraft, like a touch of his lips means the world has shifted slightly. That might sound a little bit exaggerated on our count, but Aromanticism is an album that deserves to be showered with special attention; wait for nightfall, close your eyes, and enjoy the most romantic love letter to the self you could possibly hear."
3. The Weather Station – The Weather Station
What we said: "There are stirrings of Joni Mitchell apparent throughout the album, both with the vocals and musicality which are executed successfully with Lindeman's own unique take. It's all over Thirty as well as You and I (On The Other Side Of The World), the use of strings in the latter adding a warmth and depth to her storytelling. They're the strongest shades in an album that makes few mistakes, with Lindeman introspective yet never exclusive. Not a bad way to be when you're creating a self-titled masterpiece.
From the very first track all the way through to gentle trot of Black Flies or the piano-and-strings marvel I Don't Know What To Say, this is an album that speaks to personal experiences of all kind, that finds comfort in the mundane and relatable, and in no way waivers or loses direction from the simplicity of both life or sound. Out of all the albums to name after the artist herself, The Weather Station certainly made the right decision to put her name to this immaculate statement."
2. Kelela – Take Me Apart
What we said: "It is, without doubt, the R&B record of the year. Collaborators may be big in name (Arca, The xx's Romy Madley Croft, Boots, Ariel Rechtshaid, among others) but they only add small shades to what is very obviously Kelela's show all the way. Waitin further explores the melodic structure she set up on the Hallucinogen EP, but it gives way to stunning, viscous flurry of beats on the title track that ensures we're aware this ain't no retread.
"It's a hard act to manage – especially with the weight of expectation – but Kelela simply astounds at every turn, and with how easy she makes everything look. There's not a moment of boredom here, not a single song that doesn't fit or hold your gaze even as we hit the final leg of Onanon and the gentle acceptance of Altadena. Kelela has deconstructed her sense of self to make a larger whole, and she's given us a glorious window into this confessional. To be honest, it's one of those rare music occasions that feels like an absolute privilege."
1. Tyler, The Creator – Flower Boy
What we said: "There's a delicateness of touch here this time that only rings out sincerity in his words. It's a rounding of character, almost a flowery fuck-you to everyone who has a certain image of him, of black men, of hip-hop. In that respect, it's probably a more important album than even Tyler himself realises – the dreamscape of See You Again (with Kali Uchis on luminous form) is the love song we never realised we needed, delivered with a heart that seems, well, mired in self-pitying solitude.
"But the thing with Tyler is that he seems like the sort to complain about his situation while being someone who'd refuse an opportunity to change it, content in wallowing through the status quo. In his words it's often frustrating, at times questionable or too obvious. But in today's genre landscape, Flower Boy is certainly nothing less than admirable in so many, many ways – for that he deserves one hell of a salute."
Adeel Amini
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Gropello Cairoli ist eine norditalienische Gemeinde (comune) mit Einwohnern (Stand ) in der Provinz Pavia in der Lombardei. Die Gemeinde liegt etwa 12 Kilometer westlich von Pavia am Rand des Parco naturale lombardo della Valle del Ticino.
Geschichte
Ab dem 9. Jahrhundert wird Graupellum oder Ripelium bekannt, das unmittelbar an der Via Francigena liegt. Der Zusatz Cairoli entstammt dem 19. Jahrhundert in Erinnerung an die Gebrüder Cairoli, die während des Risorgimentos eine wichtige Rolle spielten.
Verkehr
Durch die Gemeinde führen die Autostrada A7 von Mailand nach Genua und die Strada Statale 596 dei Caroli von Pavia nach Mortara. Die Bahnstation von Gropelli Carioli liegt an der Bahnstrecke Vercelli–Pavia.
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Q: Image in inputtext with border in css
IF you see the below picture you can see that the input text consists of image as background.But I want to keep a line in between the text and image.Either by applying image border...or any other trick.Im unable to found exact example or tutorial or trick.Because I applying image as background.So Im unable to apply border...
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background-size: 20px 20px;
A: The solution for the icons in inputs is using a label element with for="" attribute
the for attribute needs to have the id of the input as a value so when you click this element the input get focused
Check this fiddle
A: In my guessing you can do it by using border-right:1px solid #333 like,
<div>
<span style="border-right:1px solid #333"><img src="path-to-image" alt=""/></span>
<input type="text" />
</div>
Alternatively, you can add a separator or border in you images like,
CSS
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border-right:1px solid #333;
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A: you could do
input { background-image: url.jpg; box-shadow: 0 4px 0 4px black; }
this should create a solid 4px black right hand side border. Adjust accordingly
A: you can place image in span and set its right border only ... you can change the span height according to wish, the tag containing span should be applied with the property of overflow: hidden; in order to work in bit proper way,
or simply you can add line to your image.
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written in "Internet Guide to Birds and Birding"
and "Redlands Parkway." Please don't be confused that exit 28 is really for 24 Road!
3.4 miles = turn left at fifth traffic light onto C-340, also named Broadway.
with red-brown brick on the lower half and white ship-board on the upper half.
Take the Horizon exit from I-70 and go through downtown Grand Junction.
point and begins to climb a gradual slope and at the crest bends to the right.
but our house is on the right (southwest) side of the street.
the gate closed so deer won't get trapped in our fenced-in area.
please note any interesting behaviors like interactions with other species.
If you get lost and need help please call us at 970-263-0115.
NOTE: Our yard is open to birders from dawn to dusk.
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take the Highway 287 Exit (Wadsworth Blvd).
Travel approx. 1.3 miles North on Hwy 287 to Miramonte Blvd.
Drive approx. 0.5 miles West on Miramonte Blvd to Park.
From Interstate 25, take Highway 392 Exit 262.
Drive East on Hwy 392 to County Road 3.
Travel North on CR 3 to CR 32E.
Drive East on CR 32E to Poudre River Bridge.
Great Crested Flycatcher 10/18: East of LaFarge Gates.
From Interstate 25, take East Harmony Road Exit 265.
Travel approximately 1.4 miles West on Harmony Road to Larimer County Road 9.
Drive 2.0 miles North on CR 9 to E. Drake Road and LaFarge Plant and Pond.
Turn North (Left), Isabelle Road is 1.5 miles North.
View carefully from shoulder of Highway 287.
Turn South on Highway 287, Jasper Road is approx. 2.5 miles.
Turn South on Highway 287, Isabelle Road is in approximately 3.5 miles.
Travel North past Northwest Parkway.
0.5 miles north of Northwest Parkway.
From Interstate 25, take Highway 7, Exit 229.
Travel West on Hwy 7 approximately 9.0 miles to North 95th Street.
Drive North approx. 0.5 miles on N. 95th Street to Lake Meadow Drive.
Travel East approx. 0.4 miles on Lake Meadow Drive to Cul de Sac.
From the Boulder Turnpike (Hwy 36) drive to Arapahoe Road.
Drive East approx. 6.5 miles on Arapahoe Road to Lake Meadow Drive.
Travel East approx. 0.4 miles on Lake Meadow Drive to Cul deee Sac.
Take trail at south end of street.
Walk to "T" intersection and take Right trail.
Red-eyed Vireo singing about a block west of Intersection.
In approximately 5.0 =miles, turn west on West South Boulder Road.
Travel approx. 0.9 miles on S. Boulder Road to Centaur Village Drive.
Drive 0.2 miles North on Centaur Village Drive to Carla Drive.
Travel West on Carla Drive to Doric Drive.
Drive North on Doric Drive to Yard.
Black-and-white Warbler 4/25/2009 could be seen from Ceres Drive.
Tomas will allow going in their yard if home.
Drive West on Niwot Road for 0.25 miles to North 73rd Street.
Travel North 2.5 miles on N. 73rd Street (becomes 75th St) to CR 24.
Turn West on CR 24 (Pike Road); 0.5 miles to parking lot for Reservoir.
Park at the corner where the dirt road turns north.
Continue West on Highway 74 to Lair o' the Bear Park (less than 2 miles).
Will Burt: "Cross west bridge, then left-east on Castor cutoff 33 paces.
Arrow in dirt on trail to shrubs 20 yards off trail.
From Monte Vista, go 20 miles South on Highway 15 to access road.
Then drive 10 miles West to property.
From Capulin, travel 11.0 miles southwest on CR D to property.
From Interstate 25, take Mountain Vista Road Exit 271.
Drive West 2.0 miles on Mountain Vista Road (CR 50) to North CR 11.
Travel North 0.5 miles on CR 11 to Country Club Road.
Drive West 1.9 miles on Country Club Road, turns into CR 50E.
Follow Country Club Road until it runs into Colorado Hwy 1.
Travel south 0.4 miles on Hwy 1 to Hwy 287.
Junior High School is south of Hwy 287.
From the Boulder Turnpike, Highway 36, Take the Sheridan Blvd Exit.
Travel approximately 1.3 miles South on Sheridan Blvd to West 80th Avenue.
Drive approx. 0.7 miles West on W. 80th Avenue to Lamar.
Lake Arbor accessed North from Lamar Street.
Turn East on CR 8 and drive 19 miles to Lake Avery.
Drive west on highway 165 through Colorado City approx. 3.5 miles.
Turn north at Cuerna Verde (mile or so west of town) and drive to lake.
Catamount is located south of Steamboat Springs.
Turn East on Routt County Road 18 to Catamount Reservoir.
Drive North up Sugarite Canyon 5.0 miles to property.
From I25 near Trinidad, take Exit 13B, Highway 350.
Travel approximately 7.3 miles Northeast to the fork of Hwy 350 to Hwy 160.
Drive southeast on Hwy 160 approx. 150 yards to Las Animas County Road 81.5.
Travel southward approx. 6.8 miles on CR 81.5 to CR 85.5.
Continue South on CR 85.5 to property.
This is not the recommended route to Lake Dorothey Wildlife Area.
the gate at the base of the road, it was very vocal"
Travel West approx. 21.7 miles on Hwy 50 to Lake City Cutoff Road (CR 26).
Drive South 6.2 miles on CR 26 to Intersection with CR 26A. Grouse seen just north of intersection of CR 26 & CR 26A.
From Interstate 70, take Chambers Road Exit.
Travel North on Chambers Road to 40th Avenue.
Drive East on 40th Avenue to Kittredge Street.
Travel North on Kittredge Street to Emerald Strand Park.
North from 40th Avenue. Park in mailbox area (not on roads).
From Interstate 70 at Dillon, take exit 205.
Drive north on highway 6, approximately 0.8 miles to CO 7.
Turn right on CO 7 to Lake Dillon.
From Highway 40 in Steamboat Springs, drive to 7th Street.
Travel 0.4 miles East on 7th Street to Missouri Avenue.
(Road Changes Name to North Park Road) to 36 Road.
Travel North 1.7 miles on 36 Road to 38 Road (60 Road).
Drive east approx. 11.0 miles on 38 Road to Forest Road 310.
(Buffalo Pass is just east of this intersection).
Travel South on FR 310.
Lake Dinosaur is 1.9 miles South of Intersection.
Fish Creek Reservoir is 6.4 miles farther South.
(NOTE: mileage approximate, determined by Microsoft Streets).
Matthews-Reeser Bird Sanctuary: Located on south side of Lake Estes.
From Lake City, travel 7.0 miles north on Hwy 149 to property.
located just south of Gunnison County Line.
From Colorado Springs, take highway 24 west past Woodland Park to Lake George.
Lake is just south of this small mountain town.
Drive northeast on Highway 34 past Lake Granby approximately 14 miles.
Turn onto the main road that leads to Grand Lake.
Shadow Mountain Reservoir is connected to Grand Lake by a channel.
At the first opportunity, turn right and pass the post office and a school.
At the stop sign by the school, turn right, then left onto Lakeside Drive.
Follow this street as it parallels Shadow Mountain Reservoir on your right.
a large area of open water on the right in Shadow Mountain Reservoir.
Point Park. Park here and walk a short distance to the foot bridge.
a large area of open water here.
Continued north to USFS Road 826 and drive 1.5 miles to lake.
Drive 7.0 miles north on CR 7 to property.
From Ridgway, travel approx. 8.0 miles south on Hwy 550 to CR 14.
Drive East on CR 14 to property.
about a half mile west of US 287 (approx. 5.5 miles west of I25).
North Lake Park is just North of Lake Loveland.
Take Taft Avenue approx, 0.9 miles North to Parking Area.
From Fort Lyons, take Hwy 50 to CO 71 and drive north on CO 71.
road 2.5 miles to the area near a rickey, swinging foot bridge over the canal.
(road before highway 96) and turning east.
From Interstate 25, take Northern Avenue, Exit 97.
Drive approximately 0.7 miles West on West Northern Avenue to Lake Avenue.
Travel approx. 1.0 miles South on Lake Avenue to Minnequa Park.
From Lake City; travel south on highway 149 to property.
From South Fork; travel north on highway 149 through Creede to property.
From Interstate 25 in Pueblo, take Exit 99B, Highway 96.
Travel 39.0 miles West on Highway 96 to Highway 165.
Drive 18.5 miles South on Hwy 165 to Lake San Isabel.
Interstate 25, take highway 165 Exit 74 (Colorado City).
Drive 18.3 miles west & North on Hwy 165 to Lake.
From Northern Boulder, take Highway 36 North.
Turn East on Neva Turnoff Road (4.2 miles North of Jay Road).
1.5 miles East of Highway 36.
From Interstate 25, take Monument Exit 161.
Loop (0.5 miles) around to Hwy 105.
Take Hwy 105 across I25 (0.1 miles).
Turn North on Woodmoor Drive.
Then East on Cashmere Point.
Drive East on Cashmere Point to Lower Lake Road.
Travel North On Lower Lake Road to Lake Woodmoor.
Private lake, scope needed to see from Lower Lake Road.
From Highway 50 in Canon City, drive to west side of town.
Travel 1.2 miles South on South 9th Street.
Turn East on Elm Avenue, Cemetery to South.
Drive West on Hwy 86 for 3/4 miles.
Travel North on Walker Road until road turns left.
View pond from this point.
Drive East/South until you meet Highway 86 (not far).
(About 0.75 miles East of Community Baptist Church.
Turn South on Kipling Avenue and travel 0.7 miles to park.
Travel 51 miles on Hwy 14 to Laramie River Road (Larimer County Road 103).
Drive North and West approximately 1.6 miles on Laramie River Road to Lost Lake turnoff.
Travel North to Laramie Lake.
From Highway 50 in Lamar, drive north on Highway 287.
Pond on East side of Hwy 287.
Drive West on Highway 14 (Mulberry Street) 4.0 miles to College Avenue.
Continue of Hwy 14 (Hwy 287) to Larimer County Road 19.
Drive North on County Road 19 pass CR 56 in 2.0 miles.
Take first left North of CR 56 (0.8 miles).
Continue West to North to West to end of Road (in 1.9 miles).
Drive South on Railroad Avenue (S. Roosevelt) to Old Larimer County Fairgrounds.
Ball Fields are between Railroad Avenue and Highway 287.
Drive South on Taft Hill Road 2.0 miles to Landfill on west side.
Call 970-498-5770 for seasonal changes.
Check in at office (left turn beyond weigh-in entrance stations).
NOTE: Christmas eve closes at 2:30 pm; Closed Christmas and New Year Days!
Drive North on CR 19 to Landfill on west side.
(or the main office) and follow instructions for parking from landfill employees.
The gyr was first seen chasing gulls and perched on a telephone pole yesterday afternoon around 3:30 pm.
and the landfill one mile north. The gyr came and landed atop the tall rusty power line poles twice between 7 and 7:30 this morning.
3. Taft Hill Rd is unsafe to park on, or even to drive slowly. Vehicle and truck traffic move at 70 mph on this two lane road.
4. Hidden Springs road west of the landfill is a private gated community.
metal poles that could serve as perch. To get there drive north past landfill and turn left on Harmony Road.
To access the Reservoir recreational area a fee is required. There are some free roadside pullouts as well.
From Hwy 14 and CR 1, continue west 58.7 miles on Hwy 14 to Laramine River Road.
Drive 20.0 miles North on Laramine River Road (FR 190) to Browns Park Campgrounds.
Drive to Beaver Pond in campgrounds at end of the circle drive.
which is 5.0 miles north of Hwy 14 & Laramine River Road.
From Northeast Las Animas, drive West on Highway 194.
Travel 4.0 miles North on CR 5.5 to Property.
From Las Animas travel South on Highway 101.
then west from just south of the Purgatorie River Crossing.
you will reach Fairmount Cemetery (pass Willow Valley Subdivision).
From Interstate 25, take Exit 281.
Travel 4.4 miles West on County Road 70 to CR 15.
Drive North 2.0 to 3.0 miles on CR 15.
Snow Bunting 1/15 was reported between CR 74 & 76.
From Interstate 25, north of Fort Collins, Take Exit 281.
Travel less than 2.8 miles West on County Road 70 to pond.
Travel approximately 5.5 miles West on Larimer County Road 70 to CR 17.
Drive approx. 6.0 miles North on CR 17 to CR 80.
Travel approx. 1.0 miles West on CR 80 to CR 19.
Then turn West on 6th street.
Rest Stop is located in the southwest corner of Highways 71 & 36.
From Denver (I70 & I225), take Interstate 70 approximately 34 miles to the Byers Exit 316.
Travel approximately 35 miles East on Highway 36 to Last Chance.
Travel approximately 10.8 miles west on Hwy 160 to Hesperus.
Just west of Hesperus, take La Plata County Road 124 North.
Check house about 1.0 miles north of Hwy 160 for Rosy Finches.
Woods Lake is to the Southeast!
Angel Lake is just west of CR 74 & CR 27.
Franklin Lake is 1.4 miles west of Woods Lake.
Law Reservoir is 0.5 miles South of CR 74 & CR 23.
Swanson Lake is 0.5 miles South of CR 74 & CR 25.
From Interstate 25, take Walsenburg Exit 52.
Drive 14.0 miles West on Highway 160 to Highway 12.
Travel South approximately 5.0 miles on Hwy 12 to East Grand Street.
Drive 0.1 miles East on E. Grand Street to Birch Street.
Reservoirs are on West Side of CR 360.
mile markers 17.5 to 16.0 of Moffat County Road 17.
Drive approximately 8.0 miles to Forest Road 102.
Drive North approximately 4.3 miles on Highway 36 to Neva Road.
Travel East approx. 1.0 miles on Neva Road to Trailhead parking to right (south).
that this is the same area where they were found in 2009.
From Boulder drive North on Highway 36.
Lefthand Canyon Drive is 6.3 miles North of Jay Road.
From Interstate 25, take Exit 243.
Drive West 14.0 miles on Highway 66 to Highway 36.
Turn South on Hwy 36 and drive 6.0 miles to Lefthand Canyon.
Travel North approximately 6.3 miles on Hwy 36 to Left Hand Canyon Drive.
(At intersection of Left Hand Canyon Drive & Old Stage Road.
Continue another 1.9 miles to pullover (signed 1.9 miles to Buckingham Park).
Wren was moving upstream along Left Hand Creek.
pedestrian underpass, and check the creek bed just as you exit.
in some shrubbery at the north entrance to the underpass."
From Interstate 25, take East Mulberry Street (Hwy 14), Exit 269.
Travel approx. 4.2 miles West on E. Mulberry Street to South College Avenue (Hwy 287).
Drive approx. 1.1 miles North to Woodlawn Drive.
Travel West to Parking Lot.
Travel West approximately 4.8 miles on Hwy 50 to South Purcell Blvd.
Drive South on S. Purcell Blvd.
Turns into S. Liberty Point Blvd in 3.1 miles.
Continue approx. 0.2 miles to end of road.
Chris Knight: "Take the trail off to the right before the flag pole and memorial.
pass in the cliff. The first arroyo with slab rocks is where the sparrows were.
specialty species here including Northern Mockingbird, Curve-billed Thrashers, Canyon Towhees and Scaled Quail.
is somewhat greater, but the grade is much less physically demanding.
Not in Rocky Mountain National Park Proper!
Lily Lake is 5.6 miles from hwy 7 & hwy 36).
Travel 5.2 miles East on Woodmen Road to Powers Road.
Drive South 7.0 miles on Powers Road to Highway 24/94.
Travel 40.0 miles East on Hwy 94 (stay on Hwy 94 at fork) to Lincoln CR 5.
Drive North a short distance on CR 5 to Sod Fields.
Take Exit 37, Business Hwy 6/Hwy 70.
Travel approx. 6.6 miles south and west on hwy 6/hwy 70 to split of hwy 6 and hwy 70.
Continue approx. 0.9 miles west on Business Hwy 6 to South 12th Street.
Drive North approx. 0.5 miles on S. 12th Street to Park.
Western Screech-Owls are found in Owl boxes along park and golf course.
Turn North (Right) on CR 11 and drive 0.5 miles to Country Club Road.
After 1.0 miles turn South on North Lemay Avenue.
Drive 0.3 miles South on Lemay to Linden Lake Drive.
Travel East on Linden Lake Drive to Lakes.
Drive 21.5 miles East on Hwy 392 through Windsor to Weld County Road 51.
Lake is on the Southeast corner of CR 51 & Hwy 392.
Turn Right (North) on CR 51 in 1.0 miles and travel 3.5 miles North to Lake.
From Interstate 25, take Highway 34 (Exit 257).
Turn north and travel approx. 1.7 miles on Hwy 85 to East 18th Street.
Drive east on E. 18th Street approx. 1.0 miles to Cedar Avenue.
Turn North on Cedar Avenue and drive to Cemetery on East side.
Drive approximately 26.0 miles West on Highway 50 (Exit 101) to Highway 115.
Travel South approx. 6.5 miles on Hwy 115 Gumaer Avenue in Florence.
Drive North approx. 0.2 miles on Gumaer Avenue to East 5th Street.
Travel West approx. 0.2 miles on E. 5th Street to Park.
Drive South approximately 0.3 miles on N. Overland Trail to Park.
From Interstate 70 at Rifle, take Exit 90.
Drive North on Garfield County Road 13 to Lion's Park Circle.
From Durango, drive 40 miles North along Highway 550 to Molas Pass.
Hike 0.7 miles west on road just north of summit to Little Molas Lake.
From Silverton, drive 6.0 miles south on Hwy 550 to Pass.
From C470 and Broadway Blvd, Travel approximately 2.0 miles north to West Sterne Parkway.
Drive West on W. Sterne Parkway to Little's Creek Park.
Two Blocks East of Windermere, take South Gallup to the south.
In three blocks, take West Shepperd to the east.
(This is just North of Ketring Park; which has no water).
In four blocks, take South Lakeview to the south.
In two blocks when S. Lakeview turns sharply east, continue south to parking area.
From Interstate 470, go North on Santa Fe to West Bowles.
Travel East on W. Bowles which turns into West Alamo and then West Littleton Blvd.
Continue two blocks east of Windermere to South Gallup.
Turn South on Gallup and follow as above.
Drive 12.0 miles southwest on Highway 145 to Lizzard Head Pass.
(Forest Road 626 goes southeast near Summit).
Travel east approximately 4.4 miles on G Road (CR M) to Bridge.
Travel approximately 1.1 miles west on Hwy 138 to CR 58.
Drive approx. 5.7 miles west on CR 58 to CR 67.5.
Drive approximately 0.5 miles South on North 63rd Street to Spine Road.
Travel west and south on Spine Road to Wellington Road.
Drive east on Wellington (past Brandywine, approx. 1.2 miles).
Look for trail going west about a block after Brandywine.
50 yards up Lobo Trail heading West.
From I76, take get off on Highway 144 Exit 79.
Loloff Reservoir is East of Lower Latham Reservoir.
From Intersection of CR 48 & CR 49, drive 5.0 miles east to CR 57.
Turn North (Left) on CR 57 and travel 1.0 miles to CR 50.
Loloff is at the northeast corner of CR 57 & CR 50.
From Norwood travel 2.0 miles East on Highway 145 to CR 44Z.
Drive 10.0 miles South on CR 44Z to Forest Road 642.
Drive a couple of miles west on FR 642.
(Check Pine Trees here for birds).
Then return to CR 44Z and drive north 0.5 miles to CR 45M.
Drive East on CR 45M to Lone Cone.
From Cortez, take highway 666 North for 18.0 miles.
Continue North on Montezuma County Road 16.
After 4.7 miles, turn East on Dolores County Road S.
Follow CR S to Recreation Area.
Turn North (Right) on CR 7 and go one mile to highway 60 again.
Highway 60 (CR 14) to Lonetree Drive (CR 21).
Turn south on Lonetree Drive and drive 1 mile on access road to property.
Travel South on Hwy 109 to Las Animas CR 197.6.
6/22/2010: Seven Gray Vireos found by dropping down into canyon.
Before first windmill in the valley bottom.
From Gunnison, take Highway 50 east.
past a farmstead on your left and into the open sage country!
From La Junta, take Highway 109 North approximately 20.1 miles to Hwy 96.
Travel northeast approx. 10.3 miles on Hwy 96 to Kiowa County Road E.
Drive east approx. 9.5 miles on CR E to CR 19.
Travel north on CR 19 approx. 2.5 miles to Long Lake.
Travel West approximately 8.0 miles on Hwy 66 to Hover Street.
Drive South approx. 1.5 miles on Hover Street to Mountain View Avenue.
Travel approx. 0.5 miles West on Mountain View Avenue to Harvard Street.
Drive North approx. 0.1 miles on Harvard St. to Northwestern Road.
Take Northwestern Road, northwest approx. 0.5 miles to School.
From Interstate 25, take Highway 119, Exit 240.
Travel West on Hwy 119 to Hwy 287.
Drive South on Hwy 287 to Quail Road.
Burrowing Owl 4/4: west of Museum.
From Interstate 25, take Longmont Exit 243.
Travel West approx. 8.0 miles on Highway 66 (past Hover Street) to Lake Park Drive.
Drive approx. 0.1 miles South on Lake Park Drive to Lake Park Way.
They move around much, check neighborhood.
From Interstate 25, take Longmont Exit 240.
Travel West on Highway 119.
Continue west to southwest to South Fordham Street.
Drive North on Fordham St. to Cover Basin Drive.
Drive West on Hwy 119 to Main Street in the City of Longmont.
At Main Street, turn North (Right) and drive 0.3 miles to 1st Street.
Turn East (Left) and travel 5 blocks East on 1st Street.
(Trailhead before when 1st turns North into Martin).
From Boulder, take the Diagonal Highway (Hwy 119) toward Longmont.
Get off at Jay Road and Drive approximately 3.0 miles East to 75th Street.
At Sunset Road, turn Right (North), continue 1.7 miles to 11th Avenue & park.
From Boulder, take Diagonal Highway 119 to Hover Road.
Turn North on Hover Blvd and drive 2.5 miles to 11th street.
Turn East and drive 0.7 miles to Sunset Street & Park.
Loop Lake is an off and on again flooded field.
From Interstate 25, take Highway 14, Exit 269.
Travel approximately 8.0 miles East to Weld CR 23.
Drive South on CR 23 to County Road 78.
From Interstate 76, take Hudson Exit 25.
Travel East on Highway 52, 10.3 miles to Weld CR 65.
Reservoir and Prairie Dog Village is North of this intersection.
From C470 and Santa Fe Avenue, drive 6.5 miles North on Santa Fe to Hampden Blvd.
Travel approximately 1.3 miles West on Hampden Blvd to Federal Blvd.
Drive North 0.6 miles on Federal Blvd to Dartmouth Avenue.
Continue west 2.7 miles on CR 54G through LaPorte to Rist Canyon Road.
Travel 1.5 miles south on CR 23 to CR 25G. Drive 1.0 miles on CR 25G to park entrance.
From Interstate 70, take Central City Parkway, Exit 243.
Travel approximately 11.6 miles North on Central City Parkway to Highway 119.
Drive approx. 14.7 miles North on Hwy 119 to Los Lagos Reservoir #3.
Ketty Dahl Campgrounds are on the east side of Hwy 119.
Los Lagos Reservoir #2 and #1 are west up Sayre Road.
From I225 and Parker Road, drive 0.8 miles South to East Hampden Avenue.
Travel east 1.1 miles on E. Hampden Avenue to South Chambers Road.
Drive 0.6 miles south on S. Chambers Road to East Nassau Drive.
Travel East 0.2 miles on E. Nassau Drive (stay right) to South Idalia Street.
north of 3904 South Idalia Street.
From Crested Butte, take County Road 12 (Whiterock Avenue) West.
After approximately 16.0 miles, turn south on Forest Road 706.
Travel 2.3 miles South on FR 706 to Campgrounds for lake.
Beckwith Pass Trail (at northeast end of campground loop).
hikers past Lost Lake, Dollar Lake and a waterfall.
From Interstate 70, take Exit 176 (West side of Denver is Exit 260).
Drive along the North Frontage Road approx. 0.7 miles to Red Sandstone Road (FR 700).
Continue approx. 6.6 miles on Forest Road 700 (Piney Lake Road) to Forest Road 701.
Trail begins to right of parking area.
Three-toed Woodpecker 6/28 was about a mile up on north side of the trail.
From Lake City, Travel approximately 8.6 miles on Highway 149 to Slumgullion Pass.
Drive northeast approx. 15.0 miles on Forest Road 788 (Turns into Hinsdale CR 5) to Cathedral Junction.
At Cathedral Junction, travel southeast on 15 Road to Los Pinos Pass Road (KK-14).
Drive northeast on Los Pinos Pass Road to Summit (Summit is 5.7 miles from Cathedral).
From Highway 40 in Craig, take Ranney Street south to Park.
(Park is just south of the Yampa River, west of Ranney).
Best birding is Kiwanis Nature Trail inside the Yampa River oxbow.
The Nature Trail is reached by making the first right after entering park.
It's about 1/4 mile to the Yampa River.
Drive 0.5 miles North on McCaslin Blvd to West Cherry Street.
Travel approx. 0.2 East on W. Cherry Street to W. Dahlia Street.
Drive North and East 0.8 miles on W. Dahlia St. to West Hackberry Street.
Travel South on W. Hackberry St. to South Tyler Street.
Drive South on S. Tyler Street to West Fir Way.
Yard address is 545 W. Fir Way.
Please Stay in Car to not disturb birds.
From Interstate 25, take Highway 85 Exit.
Drive 0.3 miles west and take Hwy 85 North.
Travel 5.0 miles northwest on Hwy 85 to signed left turn to Louviers.
Small town, Post Office & Library easy to find.
Park in area for Library next and walk up and down First Street.
Also try alley between First & Second Street.
usually around 3:00 PM in the afternoon.
Travel west and north on Hwy 85 (past Sedalia) to West Airport Road.
Drive West on W. Airport Road to first left (N. Peterson Road).
Then drive South on N. Peterson Road for 0.6 miles.
Park in pullover next to slanted Ponderosa Pine Tree.
Woodpeckers come to snag and also fly to snag to south.
Travel west approximately 5.5 miles west to Taft Avenue.
Drive South approx. 0.8 miles to Big Thompson River and Trail.
Walk between Taft Avenue & Wilson Avenue.
about a half mile west of US 287.
Continue past Hwy 287 for 2.0 miles to North Wilson Avenue.
South of Hwy 34. The Recycle Center is just North of 1st Street.
Turn right (north) on County Road 17 to reservoir.
At end of ramp, turn left and go under I70 bridge.
Then turn right and follow Hwy 6 west.
(you'll pass through about 5 traffic lights) until you come to the stop sign.
and left on Hay Wagon Ct. our number is 4778. We are the middle house.
Please call 970-622-9710 ONLY for directions if you get lost.
I'll be at work after 9 and won't be able to be on my cell. "
From Interstate 70, take Exit 271B.
Drive West approximately 0.2 miles on West 48th Avenue to Lowell Blvd.
Travel North approx. 1.0 miles on Lowell Blvd to Property.
Ponds are on the West side of Lowell Blvd and just south of I76.
Colorado State Wildlife Pass required (Purchase at any sporting goods, also Wal-Mart).
take the Hwy 287/Wadsworth Blvd Exit.
Travel South approx. 2.8 miles on Wadsworth Blvd (Hwy 121) to Church Ranch Blvd.
Drive East approx. 1.0 miles on Church Ranch Blvd to Old Wadsworth Blvd.
Then travel North less than a 1.0 miles on Old Wadsworth Blvd to Lake.
Take I70 to exit 180, exit here and turn right onto the south frontage road.
just before the Gore Creek Campground.
Trail Highlights: There are 2 trailheads starting at this location.
heads north before curving and heading northeast the rest of the way.
Travel West approximately 3.2 miles on Hwy 34 to North Boise Avenue.
Drive North approx. 0.8 miles on N. Boise Avenue to Park Drive.
Travel East on Park Drive approx. 0.5 miles to Lower Hoffman Lake (south of Seven Lakes Park).
Upper Hoffman Lake is north, off of Mt. Evans Court (approx. 0.4 miles from Boise Avenue).
Travel 22.0 miles West on Highway 160 to Forest Road 621.
(Grace's Warblers, sometimes Hooded Warblers).
From Interstate 225, take Alameda Avenue, Exit 8.
Travel 3.6 miles West on Alameda Avenue to Fairmount Drive.
Drive North on Fairmount to Lowry Blvd.
Travel 0.8 miles east on Lowry Blvd to Yosemite.
Drive 0.2 miles south on Yosemite to Sports Park Drive.
Travel 0.1 miles west to parking for area.
9/10/2009; location for American Bittern, north along creek.
Trail to Reservoir to south.
From Interstate 225, take 6th Avenue Exit 9.
Continue West 3.6 miles on E. Lowry Blvd/6th Avenue to North Uinta Way.
Drive North on N. Uinta Way less than a mile to just South of 11th Avenue.
Wetlands on East side of Uinta, South of 11th.
Geese in area wander wetlands to Mira Vista Golf Course to southeast.
Check along Alameda Blvd, west of Havana Street for wandering birds.
about a tenth of a mile, continually looking and listening to the area north of the social trail. "
Continue East on Baca CR G for 1.2 miles.
Turn South on two-wheel dirt road.
LEPC have been seen 1.0-2.0 miles from CR G.
From Steamboat, take County Road 129 north.
At Forest Road 550, turn east (right).
I usually camp at intersection of FR 550& FR 500.
Solomon Creek is just east of this intersection.
CR 19 runs through property.
From Interstate 76 travel northeast to Lochbuie Exit 25.
County Road 2 divides Weld County to the North, Adams County to the South.
From Interstate 25, take Highway 402 Exit 255.
Drive 7.5 miles West on Hwy 402 to CR 21S.
Travel 0.5 miles South on CR 21S to Property.
From Interstate 25, take the East Harmony Road, Exit 265.
Travel approximately 2.0 miles West on E. Harmony Road.
LSI Logic Building on North side of E. Harmony.
Drive North on Hwy 119 approximately 12.7 miles to Lump Gulch Road.
(Lump Gulch Road is approx. 1.3 miles south of Rollinsville).
From Interstate 25, take Highway 7 (Exit 229) and head East.
Follow CR 2 up slope until you can scope lake to the right (East).
Property Property, please stay on Public Road.
Take McWethy Drive approximately 0.6 miles North to Turquoise Lake Road.
Turquoise Lake Road changes to Lake County Road 105.
Continue on CR 105 (CR 4, also Hagerman Pass Road) to Summit.
Continue on to Lyle Lake Trailhead (TR 1919). Trailhead approximately 18.4 miles from McWethy Road.
to your left (follow the signs to Hagerman Pass).
to your left and you will see a sign for Hagerman Pass.
the gate to Hagerman Pass.
Travel approx. 15.8 miles West on Hwy 66 to 3rd Avenue in Lyons.
Drive approx. 0.4 miles North on 3rd Avenue to Cemetery.
Drive West approximately 22.0 miles on Hwy 66.
Pond is south of McConnell Drive and Hwy 66.
Travel South and West approximately 4.4 miles on Hw2y 115 to Gumaer Avenue in Florence.
Drive North approximately 0.2 miles on Gumaer Avenue to East 5th Street.
Travel West approximtely 0.2 miles on E. 5th Street to Park. | {
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Facts about China
Surface area: 9 596 969 km2
Capital: Beijing, formerly Peking (Pei-ching)
Population: 1.3 billion
Ethnic structure: Han Chinese 91.6%, 55 ethnic minorities, all together 8.1%, of which the largest are Zhuangs, Uigurs, Huis, Yis, Tibetans, Miaos, Mantchus, Mongols, Buyis and Koreans.
Languages: Mandarin Chinese (putonghua) and its dialects 94%, several minority languages, all together 6%, Tai languages, Tibetan languages, Miao-Yao languages, and Altaic languages
Religions: Atheistic state, traditionally Taoists, Buddhists, Muslims 2–3%, Christians 1%
In a giant country like China with its cultural continuity of several Millennia, there have understandably been and still are countless different forms of the performing arts. Many of the basic elements of Chinese theatre, i.e. poetry, music, dance, and martial arts, are known to have flourished already during the first Millennium BC. By approximately 1000 AD these early genres intermingled with each other and evolved towards a sung theatre form with fixed role categories. It was characterised by a tendency to combine dance-like movements and also sometimes movements from the martial arts with sung text. So in the West it is usually called Chinese "opera".
In the early centuries AD play scripts were written. In the beginning they were based on an oral story-telling tradition and didactic Buddhist stories (bianwen). These archaic "dramas" heralded the rich tradition of Chinese drama literature with its heydays in the Yuan (Yüan) dynasty (1279–1368) and the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
In different parts of China local opera forms evolved with their own characteristic dialects and types of melody. A division into two major cultural regions, the northern and the southern, occurred around 1000 AD, which led to a kind of competition between the northern and the southern operatic styles. It was the southern kunqu or Kun Opera (K'un-ch'ü) which regained the status of a "national" style among the educated elite during the 16th and 17th centuries. The status was inherited in the middle of the Qing dynasty (Ch'ing) (1644–1911) by a new, more popular form of opera, the Peking Opera.
The western impact started to be felt in theatrical life in the Republic of China (1912–1949). During the early periods of the People's Republic (1949–) traditional opera was still performed, although the emphasis was on its didactic use and propaganda value. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) all traditional arts were banned and a new form of theatre was created and propagated by the Communist Party. It was the Revolutionary Model Opera.
After the Cultural Revolution traditional theatre forms were revived and now China has an abundance of theatrical forms, starting from Kun and Peking Operas to hundreds of local opera forms, to spoken theatre and to western-style opera and ballet groups, as well as, more recently, to experimental theatre and dance.
The Early History of Chinese Theatre | {
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Mapping the Abyss with AUV Photography
April 9, 2015 - via National Oceanography Centre
The NOC Autosub6000 being recovered onto the deck after a successful mission. (Credit: : K. Morris)
Despite being one of the largest habitats on Earth occupying around 60% of the surface, the deep-sea environment remains largely enigmatic. It was only in the late 1960's that the abyssal plains were recognized to contain rich, complex habitats and play an important role in global carbon cycling. The technological and operational challenges that come with studying deep-sea environments have previously restricted research into the inhabiting species and ecosystem structure. The development of a novel photographic method for deep-diving Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), hails major advancements in deep-sea research, enabling scientists to map entire communities of benthic megafauna on remarkable scales.
The evolution of underwater vehicles and imaging technology has amplified efforts in seafloor mapping over the last decade. Only in recent years has more significance been placed on the location of species and the factors that influence ecosystem dynamics and biodiversity.
The intensification of industrial movements within the deep-sea setting creates the potential for loss in species abundance and many ecosystem services. Additionally, climate change can cause unexpectedly large changes to the deep-sea environment. As such, research into how these factors will impact deep-sea ecosystems has become a priority for many scientists. This can only be achieved however by understanding how these habitats work at present, which is critical for the ability to manage and conserve deep-sea environments in the future.
"If we wish to understand how the oceans work and what impact climate change may have on the function of the oceans, it is vital we understand the abundance, distribution and biodiversity of animals in the deep-sea," said Dr. Kirsty Morris, Seabed Image Analyst at the UK's National Oceanography Center (NOC) and the lead author of this research, published in 'Limnology and Oceanography: Methods.' "Only by knowing this, will we be able to begin to understand what impact climate change may have on the oceans productivity and carbon sequestration ability as a whole. It will also allow us to assess the impact of human activities such as deep-sea mining, oil and gas exploration, and the increasing presence of litter."
Deepsea Survey Methods
Conventional methods for the study of deep-sea megafauna include trawl sampling and photographic and video surveys. Deep-sea trawling has often been used to assess diversity and density of species, but this method poses some technical issues and can only be used over a relatively small area. Scientific trawling can also be time consuming and does not provide spatial information on how the individuals were distributed. Furthermore, some species can be destroyed altogether in the process and often considerably under represented.
Towed cameras have much the same issues. While off-bottom towed cameras are able to provide within-transect spatial data, the tethered systems can be effected by swell causing difficulties in controlling the position, altitude, and speed of the camera. On-bottom towed camera sleds do have better stability but can damage the seabed and consequently the induced turbidity can cause issues with the image quality.
Remote Operated Vehicles (ROVs) are seeing an increasing use in deep-sea underwater exploration, and can now reach depths of up to 6,000 meters. ROVs are valuable in deep-sea studies as they are able to retrieve samples and provide researchers with high resolution imagery. The limitations however are that they once again cannot be used for large survey areas and require a lot of dedicated ship time, limiting the other science that can occur in conjunction.
AUVs can act as stable imaging platforms and cover large survey areas with little environmental impact in the form of noise pollution and disturbance. Additionally, AUVs do not require continuous lighting and can also collect large volumes of data efficiently without consuming ship resources. The species that are regularly under represented by other sampling methods can be observed and identified. At the same time, local environmental data such as habitat and resource availability can be recorded along with spatial and quantitative data. As such, it is recognized that AUVs have the potential to unlock previously inaccessible areas and rapidly increase our knowledge of species distribution across survey areas reaching up to landscape scales.
New Method for Deepsea Mapping
A new photographic processing technique developed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (UK), used a camera on the Autosub6000 AUV to enable them to take a continuous stream of high resolution photographs of life on the sea floor. This method was developed and tested as part of the NERC funded AESA (Autonomous Ecological Surveying of the Abyss) project and revealed a tenfold increase in the precision of deep-sea ecosystem diversity estimates, relative to the use of scientific trawling.
"We have developed a method where we are able to take a continuous image of the seafloor over scales not previously achieved. This was done by using an AUV to take images every 0.87 seconds with an overlap between each of the images," said Dr. Morris. "This data can then be used to create maps of the seabed, detailing how many animals are present, where they are present in relation to one another and in relation to any features on the sea-bed, such as hills."
Dr. Kirsty Morris was part of the team of scientists who developed an automated program where each of the images were corrected for non-uniform illumination (where one side of the image is darker than the other). A color correction also had to be applied where the red, blue and green light was 'lost' through the water column from the AUV to the seafloor. Each image was then geo-referenced using the heading, pitch and roll, recorded from the vehicle and re-scaled so that each pixel within each image represented the same area.
Using the positions of the images, it was then possible to work out the overlap and place them together in 10 image segments called tiles. Once these tiles were annotated for the presence and size of animals, the positions, length and identification of individual animals were recorded, creating a map of biodiversity on the seafloor.
"This technology is important because it allows us to create an image of the deep-sea over large areas, almost like a google street view. This is done in a cost effective manner using the AUV, meaning that the ship can be collecting other samples at the same time," Dr. Morris said. "From these images, we get an insight into the deep-sea environment on scales not previously possible, which will enhance our understanding of that environment and our impact on it."
The Future of AUV Photography
As climate change and growing human activity intensifies the pressure on seafloor resources, it is increasingly important to better document deep sea marine biodiversity and ecosystems. Technological advances such as deep-sea ROV and AUV systems have allowed us to begin accessing areas which were previously not possible. As these systems advance, there is an increased ability to cover even larger areas and develop more advanced mapping tools.
"It is hoped that there will be an increase in automation both in the image processing and in the image annotation. Automated annotation is something that would allow us to process the images and obtain results quicker; this is currently being worked on by some colleagues in Germany," said Dr. Morris.
While this technique was developed to map the distribution and biodiversity of remote deep-sea communities, there are many applications which would benefit from AUV photography, with the potential to increase along with improved automation.
"I am currently working on a system to automatically detect and measure phytodetritus (organic particulate matter resulting from phytoplankton and other organic material in surface waters falling to the seabed) aggregation on the seabed using these images," said Dr. Morris, "This will allow us to discern any link between the distribution of these aggregates with the topography of the seafloor and the animals that are in that area."
The distribution, abundance and biodiversity of communities within any habitat is particularly important when establishing marine conservation areas. The method developed by NOC is currently being used to assess changes within community structure over a three year period within a marine conservation zone, Haig-Fras, in the Celtic sea.
A project called Shelfseas Biogeochemistry (SSB), will also utilize this technique to map out four different transect areas with various seafloor substrate (mud versus sand), assessing species composition in each area and if this changes following the plankton bloom in the spring.
In the future, advancements in automated technology and image processing will allow larger areas of the deep-sea to be mapped, increasing our understanding of the distribution of species, their abundance and biodiversity. This will allow researchers to better predict the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and the consequent implications this would have for carbon sequestration, impacting the ocean ecosystem as a whole. Accurate environmental assessments of the impacts of human activities, such as deep-sea mining and oil exploration, will also become increasingly vital over the coming years. Not only can this technology accurately assess impacts in the direct vicinity of the activity, it will also be able to assess impacts over areas far larger, which is not economically viable with conventional deep-sea survey methods.
(As published in the March 2015 edition of Marine Technology Reporter - http://www.marinetechnologynews.com/Magazine)
External link: http://www.marinetechnologynews.com/news/mapping-abyss-photography-512176
National Oceanography Centre
Autosub6000
Author: Kira Coley | {
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Ashwin, Iyer star as India clinch 2-0 Test series victory against Bangladesh
India avoided a shock defeat in the second Test against Bangladesh in Mirpur as Ravichandran Ashwin and Shreyas Iyer guided the Men in Blue to victory with a priceless unbeaten 71-run stand for the eighth wicket. The pair came together with India reeling at 74 for seven in their chase of 145 but handled the […]
India wrap up 2-0 Test series victory to finish unbeaten home season
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India extended their advantage on day two of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Mohali as the hosts put up a mammoth first innings score of 574 for 8 declared. Ravindra Jadeja led the charge for India with the bat, sharing century partnerships with Ravichandran Ashwin and Mohammed Shami on his way to scoring […]
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The highly-anticipated mega IPL Auction returns to our TV screens in 2022 for the first time in four years on the 12th and 13th of February in Bengaluru. 590 players will go under the hammer across the two days of bidding, and here are the five Indian stars who could earn the biggest payday at the 2022 […]
3 Things We Learned from the India New Zealand Test Series
After the nail-biting finish in the fading light in Kanpur, India landed the knockout punch and wrapped up the series victory in style in Mumbai, handing New Zealand their heaviest Test defeat by 372 runs. This win takes the hosts back above the Blackcaps in the ICC rankings as the world's number one Test team, […]
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While India dominated the proceedings on Day two of the second Test in Mumbai, the headlines were stolen by New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel, who became only the third bowler in the history of the game after Jim Laker and Anil Kumble to take 10 wickets in an innings. In the city of his birth […]
Delhi sneak past CSK to take top spot
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India have announced their squad for the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup in UAE and Oman, with the biggest surprise being the inclusion of Ravichandran Ashwin four years after he played his last T20I for India. The 15-man squad led by Virat Kohli will also be accompanied by MS Dhoni – who will act as […]
Ravichandran Ashwin joins the 400 Club
Amidst all the madness that ensued on Day 2 in Ahmedabad, one of India's finest cricketers went past a special milestone. Ravichandran Ashwin has been India's premier matchwinner in Test Match cricket in recent times and in the third test in Ahmedabad, he became the 4th Indian player to pick up 400 wickets in Test […] | {
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package org.xander.behavioral.command.commandusinglambda;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class Macro {
private final List<Action> actions;
public Macro() {
actions = new ArrayList<>();
}
public void record(Action action) {
actions.add(action);
}
public void run() {
actions.forEach(Action::perform);
}
} | {
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Urban Dialogues. Media Interventions as Assembling Devices.
Every three months Design Column stages an exhibition and features new perspectives by artists and designers on a topical issue.
Design Column #5 'Body Building' is on view in Boijmans until October 13. Meanwhile, new projects and ideas about the modification of the body can be found at www.designcolumn.nl. News will be posted to Facebook and Twitter as well. | {
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<?php
use yii\db\Migration;
class m161217_170149_create_exam_student_foreign_key extends Migration
{
public function up()
{
$this->addForeignKey('examination_log_fk', '{{%examination_log}}', 'student_id', '{{%student_information}}', 'id', 'CASCADE', 'CASCADE');
}
public function down()
{
$this->dropForeignKey('examination_log_fk', '{{%examination_log}}');
}
} | {
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Have you always wanted to go to Baltimore? Whether you want to make it your next weekend getaway or the city you retire to, the city is full of charm and history. Just walk down its cobble-stoned streets to one of its boutiques, shops, or restaurants and see for yourself. If you are a seafood lover, then you are in luck. The crab houses go on for miles.
More than being the perfect home for history buffs and foodies, Baltimore's harbors host some of the most breathtaking views. It also happens to be conveniently located close to other large cities. Baltimore is within 100 miles of Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Therefore, taking a trip to one these cities is not out of the question.
If you are thinking about moving to Baltimore but are still on the fence about it, we understand. Moving should be an exciting time in your life, but it can also be very stressful. There is much that goes into moving to a new city. Not only must you pack up all your belongings, but you must also think about how to get your car to your new home.
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The city has a lot to offer. Baltimore gives its residents that small-town feel with many of the perks of a bigger city. You get that sense of community through its annual festivals and events. In addition, its great school system makes for a great place to raise a family.
Food. Baltimore residents are very particular about how their famous crabs are eaten. They should be steamed, covered in Old Bay, and piled high. If you are not willing to eat crabs by hand, they suggest you stick to crab cakes.
Entertainment. Several hit television shows and movies were filmed in Baltimore, even though the shows were not set there.
Sports. Baltimore residents love their baseball, lacrosse, and football. Babe Ruth was even from Baltimore. Residents celebrate this by watching sports and drinking beer.
Science. Baltimore is big on STEM. About a quarter of all of the jobs in Baltimore are science, technology, engineering, or math-related.
Music. Baltimore has a lively music scene. They have a lot of orchestras, rock bands, hip-hop artists, and jazz musicians.
In Baltimore, residents experience all four seasons. Summer can range from mild to hot with some humidity. However, the average tends to stay in the mid-70s and very rarely reaches above 90 degrees. Winters come with bouts of cold rain and snow, but typically stay within the mid-30s to low 40s. Spring and fall bring sunny days and cool nights but can change at the drop of a hat. Baltimore is known for being a comfortable state to live in, with more sunny days than the national average.
The cost of living, in Baltimore, is lower than several surrounding metropolitan areas and just slightly under the national average, making it a great area for people who want to live in the city but cannot or do not want to pay for places like Washington D.C. or New York.
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Hi, lovely readers! I wanted to ask you all if you know of any YA book clubs that are held online, because I would love to join one! Feel free to leave the name or link to the book club in the Comments Section!
Hello, fellow readers! It's been a while since I've done this, but I'm going to share what I've been reading in this post, "It's Monday! What Are You Reading?" hosted by Kathryn @ Book Date.
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Lecture by Andy Zhu from Citrix Systems, Inc.
TIME: 15:00-17:00pm, Jun. 21, 2011
SUBJECT: The Tower and the Cloud
REPORTER: Andy Zhu, Citrix Systems, Inc., Florida, USA
Cloud computing provides ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources with minimal management effort. As a result, businesses are moving applications and infrastructures to the cloud to realize the huge benefits of cloud computing. But what do all these mean for higher educations? Should higher educations adopt cloud computing? In this presentation, the basic definition, important benefits and risks of cloud computing will be covered first, followed by whether and how higher educations should adopt cloud computing. In the end, live demos of private cloud and Desktop-as-a-Service will be demonstrated.
Andy Zhu
Citrix Systems, Inc., Florida, USA
Andy Zhu, a senior engineer of Citrix Systems, Inc. In 1997, Mr. Zhu received M.S. of Computer Engineering from Florida Atlantic University. After graduate, Mr. Zhu spent his career as system administrator for a Florida based financial trading company, in charge of company's overall IT infrastructure. In late 2001, he joined Citrix Systems, Inc. as a senior engineer. During his tenure with Citrix, Mr. Zhu lead the team of dozen engineers focusing on the scalability of the company's products in large enterprise environment. Two years ago, Mr. Zhu orchestrated the company's first private cloud. Build on Citrix XenServer virtualization platform, the private cloud provided a self-service, on-demand and scalable environment for company's development and test team, saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars since its inception.
Citrix Systems, Inc.: More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT environments enabling virtual work styles for users and virtual datacenters for IT. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989, annual revenue in 2010 was $1.87 billion.
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Q: Is this joke grammatically correct? I am from Hungary, I translate jokes into English
Of course, the jokes are jokes in every language.
A: Mit fogsz csinálni ma? B: Semmit
A: De hát teggnap is azt csináltad! B: Hja, de nem lettem kész vele…
I'd like to know if my translation is grammatically correct:
A: What are u about to do today, bro? B: Nothing.
A: But you did it yesterday too. B: Yeahhh, but I have not complete it yet.
Please send me a better variant if all is ok.
A: I think that I understand the humor perfectly and I guess it's kind of funny. Your translation is totally comprehensible, but it does contain one very serious grammatical mistake. You forgot to add an ed on the end of completed. Since the verb complete is supposed to be used as part of a present perfect tense form, it's absolutely got to have it. Also, what's the point of writing some of the words in there in all caps? Please, don't do that. Having said that, here's my take on your joke:
— What are you gonna do today?
— Nothing.
— But isn't that what you were doing yesterday?
— Yep, but I haven't finished it yet.
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Rockstar Games, crunch, and the great shame of the video games biz
Image: Rockstar Games
By Adam Rosenberg 2018-10-17 13:10:22 UTC
Building a video game ain't easy.
A great game looks effortless when you sit down and play it, but few people really consider just how much went into making it that way. Lots of people have been ooo-ing and ahh-ing over all the tiny details in Red Dead Redemption 2 from Rockstar Games, but the revelation this week that those details may have been fueled by 100-hour work weeks prompted shocked and horrified responses.
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It's also gotten a lot of people talking about a troubling pattern of inhumane working conditions in the game development scene. Overwork is common, and once you couple that with the studio downsizing that follows the completion of many projects, you're left with people working themselves to death with little reward.
To be clear, this is not a new conversation. Developers have been working unhealthy amounts of hours in the name of finishing a game for a long time, but in recent years players in the media and fan community both have started to push back, and ask why this needs to be a thing.
The ticking clock of gamedev
Here's a good thought exercise. Pick any popular game, the sort that gets mainstream coverage and sells for $60 new.
Got one in mind? Good. That game took at least three years to make. For sure that long, and possibly longer. Over the life of its development, more than 100 people — and probably multiple hundreds — worked on it.
Three years is a long time. Three years ago, no one could seriously entertain the idea of a President Trump. In lots of games, if you watch the credits all the way through you'll typically see a section titled "development babies" — literally, the babies that were born while the game was in development. Building a modern video game is a lengthy process.
It's also a process that works on a deadline. Because of the way the video game biz is wired, the biggest "AAA" games tend to be propelled by a major (and costly) marketing push that lays out a release date many months in advance.
That game you're thinking of took at least three years to make.
Changing that release date is even more costly — people continue their work during that whole time, and then there are all the attendant costs of re-tooling the marketing campaign on top of that — so once the date is out, the studio is working against a ticking clock to deliver a stable and playable finished video game. For the biggest games, like Call of Duty, it's a holiday release or bust.
All of which means that when something goes wrong during development, there's no ideal solution. Pushing the release date sometimes works — you'll see that happen a lot around the holidays (when the biggest games typically come out), with developers often citing the need for "more polish."
But delays aren't financially viable every time. A new Call of Duty gets released every fall. It doesn't miss that window. So when development on 2018's edition, Black Ops 4, started lagging, people behind the scenes made the decision to cut the story mode out of the game — a first for the series.
(Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 doesn't suffer at all for that change, to be clear, but lots of other games aren't so fortunate.)
For games that can't get away with either a release delay or a narrowed scope on the project, there's really only one alternative: work harder. This scenario, often referred to as the "crunch" phase of development, involves large portions of the dev team working above and beyond their normal (or even legally allowable) hours, typically with no overtime pay.
Video game development is a competitive job market, and it's largely filled with people who do what they do because they love it. So when crunch rolls around, you get a situation where people willingly, even enthusiastically, plunge themselves into an unhealthy work dynamic simply in the hopes of impressing the top brass and getting ahead.
Not all crunch is equal
That's not always a bad thing. Working hard, going above and beyond — to get ahead in most fields, it's a good idea to sometimes say "Hours be damned, I'm gonna get this thing done." A perceptive employer acknowledges that and rewards it appropriately, while also openly encouraging moderation and healthy choices.
In the case of game development, the best studios plan for crunch ahead of time to ensure it's handled in a healthy way. Because of the way game development works — or, really, any project-based, deadline-oriented job — putting in extra hours is just a requirement sometimes.
"I think it needs to be kept short," said Ron Gilbert, creator of the Monkey Island series, in an interview from longtime industry pro Michael Futter's book, The GameDev Business Handbook.
"Crunching, to me, is a sprint for the finish line. It's like, 'We're gonna ship this game in a month and these are the things we need to do. We're just gonna crunch and we're gonna get them done to make that deadline."
"Everyone knows that crunch is linked to burnout. That's basic stuff."
This is true for lots of games as they're coming into the home stretch. Those final months are some of the busiest, as developers try to polish off their creation and stamp out bugs while also figuring out other easy ways to make the day one experience even better for players.
It's not a situation where throwing more bodies at the problem is necessarily helpful, even. Each game has its own needs and processes, and introducing newcomers to an otherwise well-oiled machine in the latest stages of a project can be more of a burden than a benefit.
So in the end, you've got a short timeline under which a game needs to be finished and a locked team of people available to work on it. Say there are 10 people, roughly 10,000 hours of work to go, and 10 weeks left to finish. Those 10 people are going to work 100-hour weeks for 10 straight weeks — two and a half months — to get the job done.
That's awful. There's no advance planning that can fix such a situation; it's just unhealthy. Futter, in the same chapter, points to a 2017 talk at the annual Game Developer's Conference in which Dr. Jennifer Hazel, founder of the mental health organization Check Point, talked about crunch.
"[Crunch] works for about two weeks, and then, after that, you reduce your productivity, you reduce your financial benefit, and you burn out your employees," Futter quotes Hazel saying. "Everyone knows that crunch is linked to burnout. That's basic stuff."
Talking is only the first step
One important thing to understand here: Crunch periods have become the norm in game development over a long period of time. It's why Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser seemed to mark the studio's 100-hour work weeks on Red Dead Redemption 2 as something to be proud of, and probably why the reporter on that story didn't challenge the notion in the moment.
(It should be noted here that Houser clarified his remarks on Monday, stating that the 100-hour week comment applied specifically to the senior writing team, which he's a part of. That clarification has drawn a range of responses, ranging from support to disbelief, but that's a subject for a different discussion. For our purposes here, the original remark is what kicked off the conversation this week.)
Crunch periods have become the norm in game development over a long period of time.
No one is really sure how to solve this problem, but most seem to agree it's going to require some degree of norm-shattering. The deadline-driven nature of game development could be curtailed by less of a focus — at least far out from launch — on release dates. And the industry as a whole could stand to cool it on prioritizing the holiday season as some idealized release window for all the biggest games.
An industry-wide unionization of game development talents would also help when it comes to negotiating and enforcing fair employment practices.
Outside of gamedev, critics ought to spend more time thinking about the human cost behind the games they're covering. Reporters should push back against claims that hold up crunch as a positive. And fans can use the power of social media to let studios know they're not happy. If a small squad of bad faith trolls can get someone fired, a larger group of concerned fans can certainly be heard — and listened to — as well.
Beyond all of that, it's important to take the time to listen to people who know better. The issues surrounding crunch are pervasive all throughout the games industry, and lots of veteran developers have spoken about it openly.
Sift through some of these threads to get more of a firsthand glimpse at exactly what crunch entails and what the human cost looks like. (Note: These are all Twitter threads, so make sure to click through and read the full stories.)
Thread: I worked at a AAA company once. When I started everyone looked so miserable after literally years of hard work & crunch. So late one night after work I baked 2 cakes for the office. I sent out a mass email & we all took 30 minutes to eat cake and talk.
— Jenn Sandercock (@JennSandercock) October 16, 2018
In my career, I have...
...worked 36 consecutive hours over a weekend in the midst of working 80+ 7 day weeks for several months straight. My sleep schedule didn't recover for 5 years. One of our teammates who pushed himself further went on 6 months medical leave.
— Andrew 👻Game Development👻 Weldon (@kungfusquirrel) October 15, 2018
My first job in Games we had a leaderboard where we tracked who worked the most hours in one week on the project.
I made it to 3rd place...
with 118 hours.
— ᴀᴅᴀᴍ ʙᴏʏᴇs (@amboyes) October 15, 2018
hi, so, as a contractor I end up crunching because like, I have no steady employment or support structures (because I can't get employment beyond contracting) and nobody wants to pay the REAL rates that enable me to Not Crunch
— canon reylo (on hiatus) (@Wanderlustin) October 16, 2018
One of the reasons I'm so loud about this topic is bc I've gone through it in full time employment and freelance situations. Like 5-7 years years ago I remember a LOT of us in freelance art/design/mograph talking about these abuses. Or at least that's when I was around for it.
— Tweet, Lazarus, Tweet!!! (@bombsfall) October 16, 2018
This is a serious problem. The more you educate yourself on what actually goes into all those great games you play, the better equipped you'll be to let business leaders know that unhealthy work practices aren't tolerable.
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10 Stunning Shots of Abandoned Places Around the World
By Cornelia Kumfert, Reader's Digest International & Rosie Long Decter, readersdigest.caUpdated: Oct. 28, 2019
From Bulgaria to Alaska to Namibia, these rare photos capture the eerie souls of places forgotten by time.
A Sinking Desert Town
Once the richest town in Africa, today Kolmanskop is sinking into the Namibian desert. The discovery of diamonds here around 100 years ago caused this remote place to undergo a boom, and in no time at all, an entire town emerged out of the sand. To visitors it must have had an almost decadent air. Not only was there a hospital, a power plant and a theatre, but also an ice factory and a swimming pool—all in the middle of the desert!
Let these stunning travel photos inspire your wanderlust.
A Japanese-Russian Lighthouse
Built by the Japanese on a small island between Japan and Russia, the Aniva lighthouse and its island went to the Russians after the Second World War. The seven-storey building has lain abandoned for years. Where once noisy diesel generators kept the machinery running, today there's only the sound of waves pounding the rocks.
Check out these essential tips for everyone planning a trip to Japan.
A Mangrove Ship
Weighing in at more than 1000 tons, the SS Ayrfield was due to be scrapped in Homebush Bay in Sydney in 1972, but that never happened. Shortly after the ship arrived, the breakers yard in the bay closed down. The Ayrfield has lain there at anchor ever since and is gradually being reclaimed by nature. The rusty remains of the hull are now home to a small mangrove forest.
These are the world's spookiest travel destinations.
A Bulgarian Communist Monument
The futuristic Buzludzha monument is sinking into the ice and snow. Once the opulent assembly hall of the Bulgarian Communist Party, it wasn't in use for long. Just eight years after its inauguration came the fall of the Eastern bloc and with it the Communist regime.
Find out what the world's most famous landmarks looked like under construction.
Photo: Joe Nafis/Shutterstock
A Chinese Fishing Village
Houtouwan on Shengshan Island was once home to around 2000 fishermen and their families. Today most of the people you meet in this Chinese village are tourists. The majority of the inhabitants left for the mainland in the early 90s. Reasons for the near total abandonment include problems with food delivery.
Discover the country everyone wants to travel to.
An Anchor Cemetery
Cemitério das Âncoras—the Anchor Graveyard on the beach at Barril in Portugal is a memorial to the tradition of bluefin tuna fishing off the Algarve. The anchors were used to fix giant nets down on the seabed. Nowadays the fish are very scarce and the 248 anchors are just a reminder of days gone by.
Your jaw will drop at these amazing photos of the world's most beautiful trees.
Photo: Max Lindenthaler/Shutterstock
A British Columbia Ghost Town
Canada has its fair share of deserted spots—take Sandon, B.C., for example. This Kootenay town was a business hub in the early 20th century before a flood caused residents to abandon it in 1955. Today, Sandon is notable as a home to decades-old, decommissioned Vancouver city buses, which sit in a vacant lot, awaiting potential refurbishment or total decay.
We've rounded up the most quirky roadside attractions across Canada.
Photo: Karsten Jung/Shutterstock
An Empty Amusement Park
Lying in the centre of Berlin but virtually forgotten: welcome to the Spreepark! In the former East Germany thousands of visitors enjoyed wandering around the fairground rides and stalls here. In those days it was known as Culture Park, and was the only amusement park in East Germany. Nearly 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the big wheel and carousels have long stood still.
These abandoned amusement parks will give you the creeps.
Photo: melissamn/Shutterstock
An Alaskan Resort
This resort has never seen a paying guest! The Igloo Hotel in Alaska in the USA was primarily meant to attract visitors from the nearby Denali National Park. However, the builder didn't abide by official building regulations and also chose a location that was too remote. So the hotel was never completed. The half-finished building however, continues to defy wind and weather a half a century later.
Forget fancy hotels—these are the gorgeous castles you can rent on Airbnb.
Photo: CrackerClips/Shutterstock
An Aircraft Graveyard
The world's largest aircraft graveyard, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, can be found in the US Arizona Desert, where the low levels of rainfall and humidity help preserve the planes for scavenging parts, sale to other countries or even recommissioning in times of crisis. Not only aviation enthusiasts are able to come by for a look at the old B-52 bombers and other aircraft stored here, even the Russians are said to have the occasional look via satellite to keep count of the number of aircraft on display.
Next, check out more beautiful travel photos from around the world.
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When the Jubilee Administration was taking over the reins back in 2013, one of the things they promised Kenyans to accomplish in the first 100 days in office was free maternity services in all public hospitals.
Ironically, it appears that Maasai women were unmoved by the government's pledge of bettering women maternity services and remained rooted to their traditional culture as majority sought the services of traditional midwives to deliver in their homes.
However, it is a relief to women in Ng'atataek area of Kajiado County after the county government in conjunction with a Good Samaritan has turned a traditional Manyatta into a modern maternity facility.
In a bid to encourage more women in the county to seek modern maternity services, the manyatta in Ng'atataek is well furnished with the relevant equipment that is available in a modern facility including medicinal drugs, spacious room, warm beds, proper ventilation, mosquito nets as well as ready blood banks and an ambulance from the nearby Ng'atataek Health Center.
According to the County Executive in charge (CEC) of Health in the county, Gladys Marima, they decided to fund the manyatta because many women were not ready to deliver their babies in hospitals citing the cold conditions in such facilities, and the fact that older women are uncomfortable with young nurses attending to them since it is taboo for them to see their nakedness.
Just how exactly did the drought catch the Gov't by surprise?
"We realized women were not coming to the Ng'atataek facility because of their perception that the hospital environment is cold and the fact they were not comfortable in a solely modern maternity facility, so we decided to create a warmer space and a place where they could feel at home, and that is when we came up with this manyatta," said the CEC.
Gladys Lepapa, the Good Samaritan, says that they saw the struggles endured by women seeking maternity services in Kajiado and decided to give them a unique safr facility that they will be comfortable with.
"We saw our women delivering at home yet that is so dangerous for their lives, so we decided to come up with an improved manyatta where they will be willing to visit with ease," narrated Ms Lepapa.
Recently, the county government of Kajiado decided to recruit traditional birth attendants to help educate women on the need to seek assistance from the county facilities. Eventually, these will be the initiative the devolved government will adopt to ensure that the 'Beyond Zero Campaign's' mission of zero maternal mortality has been achieved. | {
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If you are a firefighter, your work vehicle has been especially designed for the work that you do. The same is true for paramedic trucks, military vehicles, shipping companies and just about every other profession out there. Police officers are the exception to that rule.
A standard police vehicle with a 'police package' has a more durable suspension and brakes than versions of those cars at the car dealership selling those models. Further, lots of police-specific equipment is added.
A typical agency can — and will — add just about any aftermarket equipment available from hundreds of different manufacturers. The vehicle tests — including crash data — were all done without this added equipment, and thus don't truly reflect the patrol vehicle's safety as it actually exists out there on the road. We need to remedy this.
Other than Ford, Chevy, or Dodge, it is safe to say that the final product that two different departments place on the street will never be the exact same. Carbon Motors attempted to manufacture a car just for law enforcement — and had they been successful, many of our concerns may have been solved — but ultimately the high cost of production and department budgets left a good idea on paper.
Economics indeed is a priority and it will always be cheaper to take an existing civilian car, add a few features and sell to law enforcement. I'm confident none of this will change,so it's time our profession adjusts our behavior so we are placing the safest vehicle we can in the hands of our heroes.
We all have a similar story: My friend has $30,000 of new teeth thanks to a radar device mounted with Velcro. It could have been worse and I fear it has been worse. I was contacted several years ago from the wife of an officer. Her husband had suffered a traumatic brain injury due to police equipment in a car. He could no longer work or function by himself. His wife was left with questions and unfortunately I had no answers.
Our profession has done a terrible job regarding car interior safety. We've suffered injuries — and likely deaths — because of this and we don't discuss it. Maybe we don't have the discussion because we don't see viable alternatives but it has to start somewhere.
Here are six ways we can immediately make the interior of our police cars safer.
1. Limit Equipment: This will definitely not be a popular step but if we truly want a safer vehicle, the issue becomes what is absolutely necessary inside the vehicle. Even a radio microphone could potentially be unsafe but we absolutely need that inside the car. If something is inside your car and you haven't used it in six months then get it out. We need to get back to what is necessary to do our job.
2. "What If" the Inside the Car: On a daily basis, we should look at the contents of our car and think what would happen in a collision. How will that metal ticket book feel hitting me at 60 mph? Could it cause serious injury or death at collision speeds?
If the answer is yes, we need to secure it — and do so using a hard mount when needed. Equipment no doubt will need to be placed inside police vehicles but when it does, Velcro is the enemy and mounting with hardware is a necessity.
3. If You Cannot Secure, Then Relocate Loose Items: If the item isn't critical and timely, it should go where it can't hurt you…in the trunk.
4. Wear a Seatbelt: Unfortunately we can't assume this is being done in our profession. With studies suggesting that half of our officers in fatality crashes were not wearing a seatbelt, we need to also understand that the seatbelt is designed to keep you in the seat and the way to keep mounted equipment away from you in a crash is to stay in your seat. A seatbelt is the only way to ensure this.
5. Integrate Equipment: We need to work on integrating our equipment into our car versus mounting the equipment. Havis has been leading the way on this and their computer screen configurations are being tested in agencies across the country.
Cost has no doubt been an issue on why we haven't done this sooner but it is time for costs to take a back seat to safety.
The United States Military and the National Football League are two organizations that have studied the effects of Brain Trauma and it is time that law enforcement does the same. Currently, we have no idea of how many officers are affected and what caused the injury. To improve safety we have to know this information and it has to start now. Do you have any ideas or suggestions? Let's make it happen and together we can work towards a safer profession. | {
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This month, we have a lot to share about how the Howard Tech Advisors Team is giving back to our community.
Our Field Engineer, Alex Rubenstein, will be supported by others at HTA at the second annual George Wilson Jr. Memorial Scholarship 5k Fun Run & Walk on May 20th in Gaithersburg. Alex and other attendees will be honoring and celebrating the life of George, Alex's stepfather who passed away in November 2015. George was known for his "passion for life." His family, friends, and colleagues valued "his expertise in information technology, and appreciated and benefitted from his vision for the seamless integration of business, information technology, and accounting." All of the proceeds will be donated to the George W. Wilson, Jr. Scholarship Fund that embraces his vision for the future of information technology by supporting deserving students who wish to become CPAs and share George's vision for the profession.
If you would like to join Alex, HTA, and others on May 20th, register or donate here.
At the end of this month, HopeWorks (formerly the Domestic Violence Center of Howard County) is hosting their 10th Annual Hope Bowl to raise awareness and money for victims of sexual and domestic violence.
On April 29th from 7 to 9 p.m. at Brunswick Bowling in Columbia, fundraising teams will bowl, enjoy live music, refreshments, raffles and contests. This is a family-friendly event and you can still register your team here.
HopeWorks is Howard County Maryland's Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Center. Since 1978, the Domestic Violence Center of Howard County has been providing critical services to families affected by domestic violence and raising awareness in the community. In 2010, they added to their mission comprehensive services for survivors of sexual assault and sexual abuse. Learn more about HopeWorks here.
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Tillerson Hitchhiking to Save Money.
(Washington D.C.) Unconfirmed Sources reports that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been spotted hitchhiking home from his latest trip overseas. Due to budget cuts at the State Department, Tillerson could only fly to Los Angelas before running out of money. The Secretary decided to hitch back to Washington to report on the progress of his Asia trip.
Pitchfield said that he and the Secretary spent many hours talking about the difficulties of starting a new job and working for a difficult boss. Tillerson fretted about budget cuts and openly wondered if he would be able to keep his job.
State Department budget cuts are causing much belt-tightening in Washington and posts overseas. On one occasion during the latest trip, Tillerson and his staff decided to stay in the hotel, rather than go out to dinner with leaders of South Korea. The sub caused a bit of confusion as each party told a different story surrounding the events.
There is still no sign of Tillerson at the State Department, but if gets a few more good rides he will be back ina few days. | {
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I urge you to vote against any kind of military attack on Syria as considered by our Administration. Absent of an attack on our land, the use of military force without approval from the UN Security Council is in violation of international law. Furthermore, the US government, which used Agent Orange in Vietnam and depleted uranium in Iraq, simply has no moral standing for punishing other governments for possible similar violations. An attack on Syria will undoubtedly result in serious repercussions: it may destabilize larger regions of the Middle East, degrade the relationship with Russia to Cold War lows, halt diplomatic efforts toward a nuclear-free Iran, and all the while not ending the civil war.
When the UN investigation is complete, the international community should try the perpetrators of the attack, whoever they are, in the International Criminal Court. If our Administration is interested in building peace, it should lead by example, ending the arms supply to the opposition forces and getting out of the Middle East altogether.
This is a violation of international law under the United Nations. We are a signatory to the UN. Syria has done nothing to us. Instead of bombing them based on flimsy "evidence" we should provide humanitarian aid through the United Nations. | {
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ACADEMY: Introducing Rob Williams
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Shrewsbury Town's Academy have appointed Rob Williams as their new Head of Academy Coach Development.
The position has been vacant since Dan Copnall moved to work in the Premier League. Rob has been doing a similar Head of Coaching role at Walsall FC and brings a wealth of experience with him.
Rob has been in the job for a couple of weeks and has been busy getting to see how things work at Shrewsbury Town and seeing how he can support the Academy coaches.
"I've been in the post for a couple of weeks now and have joined as Head of Academy Coach Development, having done exactly the same role at Walsall for the last two years", said Rob.
"This was a really fantastic opportunity to come to Shrewsbury, a well-resourced club and a job that will help me develop.
"The role is Premier League funded, and our job is to primarily to support staff within the Academy whether that be newly qualified coaches or experienced coaches.
"Both of those may need different types of support depending on where they are in their journey, but the role is predominantly about how I can support the coaches.
"The theory is that the better the coaches we have then, the better the players we can bring through the academy."
The Shrewsbury Town Academy has coaches working with players from U7s right up to the U18s. Rob's role is to help support and develop the coaches to help them improve.
"The role is very much about embedding the philosophy and the model that the Academy works to", said Rob.
"The coaches are working in a structured manner, working around the same principles and themes, but the support can be tailored because what one coach needs might be different from what another needs.
"I'm in the process at the moment of meeting with coaches and seeing where they are at, seeing what they think they need and how we are going to put that into place to support them."
David Longwell has been in the role of Academy Manager for since early February. He has been looking at ways of continuing the improvement of the Academy and Rob believes his role will help David achieve that.
"David is very driven and has a clear idea of what he wants and how he wants the Academy to look", said Rob.
"That in itself has brought about a lot of change since he's been in the post.
"My job is also to support David and make sure those changes are happening.
"It's a challenge for him and with Dan moving on from this position a while ago, and now with me joining I feel that will give him the ability offload some thins to me so he can get back to focusing on the bigger picture."
Another of Rob's aims is to continue to improve the relationship between the Academy and Grassroots coaches in Shropshire. The link between the club and these coaches is vital, and Rob is looking to help these coaches develop as well.
"I think there is a real opportunity or us on how we link and support with grassroots coaches", said Rob.
"They are our lifeblood as that is where the players come from, they are the coaches who do the first work on players who may come to work with us in the Academy.
"The more we can support them will help us break down some barriers to help players come, but also help us to recruit new coaches.
"The challenge is to build those relationships and work with coaches, whether than be them coming to observe what we are doing or us doing workshops to help them at their clubs.
"Hopefully it will mean that in a year we will have a succession plan should coaches move then we have got other coaches who can potentially come into the programme and take on those opportunities."
The first Coach Development Workshop will take place on Tuesday 22nd October at the Shrewsbury Sports Village. The event starts at 6:30 pm and runs until 7:45 pm, contact [email protected] to book or for more information. | {
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The STEAM4U project aims to promote equity in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) education by enhancing 10-14-year-old students' self-efficacy (perception of their own capabilities) in these fields, and particularly targeting those students in disadvantaged situations in STEAM. According to the literature in the field, discrepancies between youths' own identity and STEAM careers' identity (male, white and brainy), family "science capital" (science-related qualifications, knowledge about science, etc.) and students' self-efficacy in STEAM (their believes on their own capacity and competence in the field) are three major causes of students disinterest for STEAM subjects (Macdonald, 2014). This situation triggers off serious inequalities because generates an homogeneous profile of those who go on to study STEAM subjects (those who highly identify themselves with the STEAM identity), silencing the voice of diverse actors, like women, working-class groups and other under-represented collectives not only into STEAM fields, but also as full-citizens (Archer et al., 2013; Kearney, 2016).
lower than their actual performance) (Everis 2015). Self-efficacy, however, is not that easy to raise, as it has been constructed over years. Possible actions in this direction are providing students with experiences of success in STEAM-related activities from early years and increasing their own knowledge on the concept of self-efficacy to empower them to better assess their capacities.
(c) Evaluate the affordances and limitations of the identified and proposed strategies for enhancing students' self-efficacy.
(b) Offer to students of ages 10-14 and their families, empowering resources to know about self-efficacy and its effect on their life choices.
The project will gather together representatives of several European organizations in charge of initiatives focused on empowering young people in the STEAM fields within an equity perspective. These organisations have a wide experience promoting unique initiatives in the STEAM field that have potential regarding the promotion of self-efficacy of students due to its pedagogical characteristics: an interdisciplinary approach to education that integrates STEAM, use of innovative pedagogical methodologies, inclusion of interesting strategies to promote equity… The exchange and cooperative work between these different organisations is expected to enrich each of the existing initiatives and also to develop a common European framework to promote self-efficacy in STEAM-related activities.
Miembros del CRECIM participantes: Digna Couso Largarón (IP), Carme Grimalt Álvaro, Maria Isabel Hernández Rodríguez, Víctor López Simó, Cristina Simarro Rodríguez, Anna Garrido Espeja. | {
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Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force Issues Aircraft Painting
March 18, 2020 May 1, 2020 by admin
The Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) issued Regulations on Air Force Aircraft Painting and Marking (Trial) recently (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations). It is known that the low visibility of aircraft painting and marking in the air is a practical requirement and development trend for actual combat, so as to reduce the probability of visual discovery. The newly issued Regulations fully correspond to such a requirement and set clear standards for the painting and marking of various aircraft of the PLA Air Force. The new Regulations will be implemented in 2020 in a gradual manner, the PLA Daily reported on Friday.
The Regulations consist of five chapters and 16 articles, which require newly-developed combat aircraft to be fully painted with low-visibility coating, and those old aircraft on active duty to apply unified marking painting. Requirements for special markings, such as national flag, "Chinese Air Force" and "Red Cross" are also included. It is informed that in order to make sure the new Regulations scientific, targeted and operable, the drafting team of the Regulations has carried out in-depth analysis on domestic and foreign air forces' aircraft painting and marking cases, and fully drew on the opinions of all parties.
Paintings and markings can help protect an aircraft from corrosions and allow others to identify an aircraft's country of origin. Using similar sky colors, usually gray, light blue, and silver, also makes human eye detection difficult for the enemy. It is a combat requirement and development trend that military aircraft have low observable paintings to reduce visible detection, which also indicate combat capabilities, according to the regulation.
Besides the J-20 stealth fighter jet that focuses on low observability for both the human eye and radars, China has been experimenting with low observable coatings on its J-16 fighter jet since 2018. The J-16, based on the non-stealth fighter jet Su-27, now features a dark gray coat instead of its original bluish-gray tone and has replaced its original Air Force insignia with a light gray design. The new coat will provide the J-16 a level of stealth capabilities not only against the naked eye but also with electromagnetic devices. Having tested the new coatings and markings on the J-20 stealth and J-16, the PLAAF is ready to expand their use on fighter jets, bombers, cargo planes, and special mission aircraft.
Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Shenyang J-11 Air superiority fighter taxies on the tarmac in speed before takeoff for a real combat flight training exercise on March 10, 2020. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Fu Gan)
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New Testament scholar Scot McKnight writes, "Hell inspires the abusive tongue." (McKnight, James, 286) Words that tear down rather than build up, words of hatred rather than love, words showing favoritism of one person over another, all rise up out of a heart in touch with hell.
James ramps up the intensity when he writes: "With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God's likeness."
For James this is crazy because it means blessing a person with your words and then cursing the same person with your words. This is some kind of evil schizophrenia. How so?
2. I curse God (via cursing people who are made in the image of God).
This is the incongruous "double-mindedness" James warns about. James describes Christians who praise God with their mouths on Sunday mornings and are brutal towards other people in their homes or in their work places.
Cursing is tearing down the image of God in other people. N. T. Wright says if "someone turns out to be pouring out curses – cursing other humans who are made in God's likeness – then one must at least question whether their heart has been properly cleansed, rinsed by God's powerful spirit. And if that isn't the case, that person is getting their real inspiration from hell itself."
We cannot get at the springs of our natural life by common sense and Jesus is teaching that growth in spiritual life does not depend on our watching it, but on concentration on our Father in heaven. Our heavenly Father knows the circumstances we are in, and if we keep concentrated on Him we will grow spiritually as the lilies."
The message of James 3:3-12 is that, while humanity has failed to tame the human tongue, God can as we abide in him. | {
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This accession consists of records documenting the research of Miles Roberts, a specialist in mammals and Deputy Head of the Department of Zoological Research. Animals documented in this research include kangaroo rats, raccoons, gibbons, langurs, sloth bears, spectacled bears, polar bears, red pandas, opossums, giant pandas, bandicoots, e...
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This accession consists of records created and maintained by Devra G. Kleiman, documenting research and breeding programs at the National Zoological Park as well as programs in which the National Zoological Park was partially involved. The majority of the records document behavioral studies of giant pandas, the mating of Hsing-Hsing and L...
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Under Secretary for Science
This accession consists of records documenting the SIguide and the assets that were used in its design and creation. The SIguide project was intended to deliver museum content and information through wireless, handheld mobile devices to Smithsonian visitors at five museums: the National Postal Museum; the Smithsonian Institution Building; ...
Frederick Vernon Coville Papers
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This accession consists of exhibition records related to "George Washington: A National Treasure," a traveling exhibition which included the recently acquired Lansdowne portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796. This traveling exhibition went to the following venues: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (February 15-June ...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Exhibition Manager
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Private detective Agency in Kiev FAQ.
1/ Why do we need the private detectives and private investigators in Kiev Ukraine, if there exist Criminal Police, Court, Public Prosecutor?
Yes, they exist and fulfill the incumbent duties of State control and Justice, but state detectives and investigators of Ukraine are not authorized, for example, verify the devotion of married couple, clarify what fiance or fiance are doing being not together. Criminal Police will not search for the addresses and telephone numbers of the old friends or relatives, it will not clarify reliability and reputation of business partners as Criminal Police and Court are called up to keep observance of justice, lawfulness and maintenance in Ukraine, and not to preserve morality and personal relations of the citizens. Such problems can be solved exactly by private detectives and investigators.
2/ What is the geography of the functioning of our detective and investigation agency, in what regions of Ukraine and Kiev do we realize our detective and investigating activity?
Kiev Detective Agency realizes its detective and investigating activity on the whole territory of Ukraine and Kiev region, irrespective of the region we are ready to help any person referred to our agency in our office which located in Kiev region. This does not influence the price of the service - price policy is equal in any corner of our country. We have the subdivisions in different parts of Ukraine and Crimea, despite the other agencies.
3/ How much does the service of the private detective and private investigator cost in Ukraine?
We have fixed the nominal value of every kind of detective or investigation service, which we render, but exact value is possible to be determined only when the person referred to our agency states his case. After this, we are able to define the complexity of fulfilling the errand, we will elaborate the plan of actions, we will appoint the official on this case, we will define what technical devices and gadgets will be used in the course of the case and other questions. In many cases we allow a discount on the nominal value – firstly for our patrons, and also for large order (batched job, complex orders), and in some other situations.
4/ How is made the payment for the private detective and investigation service?
Entries for payment can be found on our site in the section "Payment". Our detective agency does not work under the scheme "payment for service of private detective and private investigator only after acquiring the result". We do not undertake those obligatory expenses that have to be paid by clients, such as fuel for vehicles and amortization of technical devices, fare, payment for lodging and feeding of our officials while fulfilling the errand and other necessary expenses. None of the businessmen having self-esteem will spend money in vain – when you are taking plane or train, firstly it is necessary to buy a ticket for its overall value, and then you are provided with service. Nobody allows to use their service on credit. We also are not exception. At the beginning of our activity we came across the situations when the client refused to pay, as having received the result of our work client declared it as not wanted. That is why we had to assume the appropriate measures - refuse to work on prepayment. | {
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> - If C:\Users\janic is intended to be a project, it might be that you forgot to list AppData/Local/Temp/rncli-init-template-eIz0rX in its
> workspace configuration.
> - Finally, if C:\Users\janic is fine and you intend AppData/Local/Temp/rncli-init-template-eIz0rX to be treated as a
> completely separate project (not even a workspace), create an empty
> yarn.lock file in it.
>
> $ yarn add [--json] [-E,--exact] [-T,--tilde] [-C,--caret] [-D,--dev]
> [-P,--peer] [-O,--optional] [--prefer-dev] [-i,--interactive]
> [--cached] [--mode #0] ...
I have already uninstalled the globall @react-native-community/cli and react-native-cli
A: Updating NodeJs globally to the latest LTS version did the fix.
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I mean, it's a Tarzan movie. There's gonna be lots of swinging around anyway. But if you needed a reminder that Tarzan loves to swing around the jungle, this "final" trailer (before the deluge of TV spots, that is) for The Legend of Tarzan lets you know: there's gonna be a lot of swinging around in this movie.
That said, we also get a few new shots of Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, and Djimon Hounsou, and Christoph Waltz in here too—as well as some really amazing looking shots of the gorillas in action as Tarzan brawls with one he calls his former "brother." Oh, and the petrifying stampede of wildebeest for no particular reason also returns to hilarious/awesome effect.
The Legend of Tarzan hits theatres July 1st. | {
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Google Cloud is one of the fastest growing parts of Google's global business. Its annual Google Cloud Next event brings the global cloud community together to learn from each other, build new solutions, and get hands-on with Cloud services. For Next '18, we accelerated delivery of a holistic web and mobile customer experience that played an important role in attendees' overall experience. Our goal was simple: Provide a seamless and integrated digital experience. We did it by designing and developing native iOS and Android event-specific apps, a multi-event website, and an independent backend serving the API to all three platforms.
Google Cloud wanted to provide a more immersive digital experience for Next '18, including robust session booking functionality, simple navigation for hundreds of speakers and sessions, a multi-channel livestream, and for the first time, a mobile app. We earned a seat at the table with their stakeholders from the beginning to greenfield the mobile experience on multiple platforms. The Google Cloud team focused on delivering a customer first experience, giving attendees the personalized information they needed, when they needed it and designing the website and mobile applications to support this goal.
Our shared objective for Next '18 was to build a scalable digital experience on both mobile and web that would delight users, showcase the information they needed, when they needed it, and ensure the product could be built upon year-over-year. We partnered with Google to leverage our experience design and software engineering teams to ensure that the solution proposed and executed delivered on the important client goals of improving the attendee experience and increasing attendance.
Working closely with the Google Cloud team, we took the lead on technical design and development, gaining silo-free collaborative efficiencies in understanding technical feasibility and seamlessly implementing features – working fast with little revision needed.
Based on years of experience, our team has a deep understanding of Google Cloud's brand, products, design and code standards, tech infrastructure with security processes and commitment to accessibility. Our shared obsession for clean code as a baseline security measure has helped us routinely pass security and accessibility tests.
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In this chapter we shed some light onto widely unknown features. Parts like the operator precedence unconsciously are exploited in every-day programming by all of us. Others like the use of function variables are truly unknown, at least to the average Scilab user. So, read on and become a Yedi^H^H^H^HScilab master.
Strange but true, there is no listing of the precedence and associativity of neither class of Scilab's operators anywhere in the documentation. So, we discuss the operator precedence and associativity in detail.
Table 4-1 displays a list of all numeric operators up to digraphs , sorted in descending order of their precedence. An equal precedence value (column 1) means the operators are evaluated following the given associativity (column 3).
The table is generated with a Scilab script, i.e. we had the interpreter determine its own precedence rules, which is neat. These scripts are listed in Chapter 9.
One line asks for an additional warning, and that's the unary minus at level 19. It looses against the power operator, ^. Therefore, -1^2 gives -1 and not 1. In other words Scilab sees -1^2 as -(1^2).
The association rules follow those of standard algebra. Thus, nobody should be surprised that a^b^c is interpreted as a^(b^c).
just with much less line-noise.
Table 4-2 shows the complete list of Scilab's logical (also known as boolean) operators sorted according to decreasing precedence.
Scilab always evaluates boolean expressions completely. No operator is defined with short-circuit evaluation semantics.
The trigraph operators .*., ./., and .\. are left out. | {
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Develop yourself! Time to learn something new?
Ever wondered why TV quiz shows are so popular? If it's not Bradley Walsh's charm on The Chase, or Alexander and Richard's witty exchanges on Pointless, then what else could be drawing us to the telly every night?
Could it be that we enjoy these shows because we get to put our knowledge to the test and learn new things? We shout out answers from our sofas like we're part of the panel, and we get that fist- pump-feeling when we correctly answer what the capital of Lithuania is.
Got some leftover annual leave? Don't waste it! Use the time to learn a skill, or achieve something you've always dreamt of achieving! A better you is just around the corner and your journey begins with answering three simple questions: What? Why? And How?
First up, what exactly do you want to achieve – what's your vision? This will be something that's been on your to-do list for years, but you've put it off by saying you'll get round to it "one day…" Well, guess what? 'One day' is today!
Perhaps you want to become très bon at speaking French, you enjoy woodwork or you want to perfect your tennis serve. Maybe you've wanted to do your bit for a charity close to your heart, but there's never been an opportune time to do so.
Whatever it is you hope to learn, do or achieve, there must be a reason behind it. This reason could be personal, emotional, practical or financial, or perhaps a mix of all four. You want to learn French because you've just invested in a timeshare in the Côte d'Azur, but you also know that adding the skill to your CV will make you more desirable to prospective employers.
Having a reason behind learning a new skill will help you stay focused, motivated, and committed to achieving it. So, when you face your first hurdle and ask "why am I doing this again?" you'll be able to answer your question and keep going!
Here comes the practical – and most complex – step. To really embrace learning a new skill you need to have a structured and well thought-out route to get there; consider it your personal business plan. And like a business plan, you need to consult the people around you, explain what you're doing to them and the reasons behind it, and listen to their feedback.
Making a plan requires you to answer questions such as: What do I need to learn this new skill? What arrangements/sacrifices do I need to make? What barriers might I need to overcome, and how will I overcome them?
The two most important factors to consider are money and time. Sit down with those closest to you to discuss the financial implications of your plan – is it feasible in your current situation, or would it be best to save for a few more months? Are there ways to limit costs, by, for example, signing-up to a free online course?
According to online research, price isn't the only benefit of an online course; 58% also opted for this method because it allowed them to complete it at their own pace. As well as online courses, there are also plenty of blogs, websites and even apps to get you started.
When it comes to choosing the best course or club for you, make sure you enter into something that truly excites you and that you think would enhance your life; that way, you'll be motivated to stay with it. From first aid courses, which could prove invaluable, to scuba diving lessons, video editing, yoga, coding, public speaking workshops and foreign language classes, the options are endless. If you've already used up your annual leave, how are you going to make time to dedicate yourself?
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Catoptria europaeica is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It is found in France and Italy.
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Raleigh man charged with sexual assault of a minor
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Raleigh man is behind bars after being arrested in connection with sexual assault of a minor.
The Wake County Sheriff's Office arrested Leobardo Silverio-Chavez. He is charged with statutory sex offense with a child by an adult.
The alleged assaults have taken place during the past several years, the sheriff's office said.
The minor first reported the alleged assaults late last year.
Silverio-Chavez is being held at the Wake County Detention Center under a $1.5 million bond.
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Your credit or debit card number and details are your most valuable possessions. You'd never give them out to a stranger because credit card fraud is way too easy to fall into these days.
But it's now become even easier for fraudsters to steal your credit card information. Now, they can get it simply by standing next to you.
Well, while it might sound farfetched, if you carry around a credit card with a RFID chip embedded in it, you're making yourself more vulnerable. But you don't have to be if you invest in a RFID blocking sleeve.
How Do RFID chips work?
Credit cards with RFID chips can make payments simply by swiping or tapping over a card machine rather than having to be inserted into the terminal.
Known as 'Contactless' payments, they're designed for convenience but can actually make you more vulnerable.
Contactless payments work by using scanning technologies that rely on radio frequency signals.
These technologies have been used for around 10 years to track packages and items in inventories. They're also used for passports and travel cards issued from 2006 onwards to track your information.
RFID chips are used in more ways than you know. They're everywhere.
How Can People Get Access To My Details Without Knowing?
It's possible to intercept the radio frequencies used to make contactless payments happen. It's even possible for fraudsters and hackers to scan your card details from through your pocket or wallet.
Hackers only need to be standing 6 inches away to be able to do this. They can pick up and store your data in seconds without you knowing, and even replicate it.
How Does A RFID Blocking Sleeve Work?
Thankfully, while the radio waves are easy to intercept by fraudsters, you can also block them out from your end, too.
This is what a RFID blocking sleeve works. The material they're made from encases your credit cards and prevents hackers from scanning them by interfering with the radio waves.
A proper, well-made RFID blocking card sleeve will counter any communication between your credit cards and any card machines with RFID scanners. It also blocks all electromagnetic fields.
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Secure your credit card details and money today; invest in a RFID Blocking Sleeve , easily one of the most simple yet important security products made in the past ten years. And while you're at it… check out the other really cool free survival gear and tools on our website. | {
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Why United pair are crucial for Brazil
Adam Marshall
Monday 28 November 2022 13:02
Former World Cup winner Gilberto Silva believes Casemiro and Fred are key to Brazil's hopes of going all the way at Qatar 2022.
The Manchester United pair are tipped to start the Selecao's game with Switzerland later today (16:00 GMT kick-off), as the tournament favourites look to clinch a place in the knockout stages with a game to spare.
Fred was only introduced off the bench in the 2-0 win over Serbia but is reportedly poised to come into Tite's XI.
Fred's secret weapon with Brazil
Our midfield man says he is able to get advice on what it is like to lift the World Cup.
Former Arsenal midfielder Gilberto Silva, who lifted the trophy in 2002 and is now Fred's agent, is in no doubt about the influence the Reds duo can exert on the biggest stage.
"Casemiro started alongside Lucas Paqueta in Brazil's first group game," he told BBC Sport. "But he finished the game alongside his usual partner for the national team, his Manchester United team-mate Fred. I have watched them play many matches together now and, for Brazil, they have lost only once - the 2021 Copa America final against Argentina.
"It works very well because Casemiro sits at the back, like I did, and Fred is more mobile, like Kleberson was when he was next to me in our midfield at the 2002 World Cup. But Fred is also defensively strong. He is not just in front of Casemiro, he plays alongside him too and helps him do his job. They have an understanding now and I'm hoping this partnership will work well again at this World Cup. If we are going to win it, it will play such an important part."
Casemiro was outstanding in the victory over Serbia but Gilberto Silva believes United's summer signing's performances can go under the radar, particularly considering the dazzling array of attacking talent at Brazil's disposal.
"My job when Brazil won the 2002 World Cup was to be invisible on the pitch," he added. "If I did it right, it made things easier for the players in front of me, as well as for myself. It is the same situation now for Casemiro, the defensive midfielder, who is at the heart of this Brazil team trying to end our 20-year wait to win it again. He has a great responsibility in my old position.
"You have to be smart to play as a holding midfielder for an attack-minded side like Brazil, and you also have to be patient. Let me explain why.
"It is not just about being the tough player, the one who tackles everyone. That is only one small part of the whole role, and even then you have to be clever to choose the right time to actually put a challenge in. Instead, you have to read the game and understand where you should be, which is usually in the middle of everything.
"Your position is the most important thing. If you choose the right line on the pitch then, from there, you can see everything and spot any danger - well, most of the time. For me with Brazil, that usually meant having a few attacking guys further forward and only the centre-backs behind me, with the full-backs in a line between them. If you watch Casemiro, that is where he is too.
"From there, you are the one controlling things. You are in control when the ball goes from one side to another - even if you don't touch it - simply because you are where you need to be.
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"Against Serbia, it would have been easy for him to go forward in a game where we had lots of possession, but he only touched the ball once in the final third of the field - when Brazil were 2-0 up with 12 minutes to go, and he hit the bar with a shot from outside the area.
"Instead he kept his discipline, held his territory and was always ready in case we lost the ball. Even when he got it back, he knew that, in his position, he did not need to run with it.
"I was the same. I always thought that at some point the guys up front would lose the ball and that is the time when I would have to run - to get it back, and give it to them to try again!"
Victor Lindelof is on a mission with UNICEF
Our defender has been to The Gambia to help the young people of the African country.
Rashford feeling close to his best again
Marcus is in good shape as he hunts another World Cup goal, when England take on Wales.
What does the World Cup mean to Dalot?
Later today, Diogo could potentially make his debut in a tournament he has had a long-standing admiration for.
Who is United's Player of the Season so far?
Our writers offer their picks for the Red who has impressed the most in the first part of the campaign.
What's happening at United this week? | {
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Defy Me
The breath-taking and heart-pounding fifth instalment in the incredible New York Times and UK kindle bestselling SHATTER ME series. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Aveyard and Leigh Bardugo.
She was never meant for you.
She was never meant for any of this.
That girl was sentenced to death the moment I named her Juliette.
Juliette Ferrars isn't who she thinks she is.
Nothing in her world is what it seemed. She thought she'd defeated The Reestablishment. She thought she'd finally taken control of her life, her power, her pain. But a lifetime of lies unravelling before her has changed all that.
Stronger, braver, and more resilient than ever, Juliette must fight for life and love. But first she has to survive the war being raged against her mind.
She has to remember who she was.
Tahereh Mafi is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series which has been published in over 30 languages around the world. She is also the author of the ravely reviewed A Very Large Expanse of Sea. he was born in a small city somewhere in Connecticut and currently resides in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, Ransom Riggs, fellow bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, and their young daughter. She can usually be found overcaffeinated and stuck in a book. You can find her online just about anywhere at @TaherehMafi.
Praise for the Shatter Me series:
"Dangerous, sexy, romantic, and intense. I dare you to stop reading." – Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series
"Addictive, intense, and oozing with romance. I'm envious. I couldn't put it down." – Lauren Kate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series
"Tahereh Mafi's bold, inventive prose crackles with raw emotion. A thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love, the Shatter Me series is a must-read for fans of dystopian young adult literature – or any literature!" -Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Praise for A Very Large Expanse of Sea:
'This is a gorgeous book. It's tender and fierce, beautiful even as it depicts some ugly truths. The prose is passionate and honest, unsentimental and big-hearted. The very best books move you to reconsider the world around you and this is one of those. I truly loved it.' – Nicola Yoon, bestselling author of Everything, Everything
'A raw yet astoundingly elegant examination of identity, loneliness and family that is unflinching in its honesty and power. Tahereh Mafi holds nothing back – and the reader is better for it.' – Sabaa Tahir, New York Times bestselling author of Ember in the Ashes
'A Very Large Expanse of Sea reads like a beautiful heart – one that shines and aches and yearns, and above all else, one that loves fiercely against all odds. Years from now, you will remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you experienced this. A transcendent story about truth, love and finding joy.' – Marie Lu, New York Times bestselling author of the Legend series.'
Author: Tahereh Mafi, Read by Kate Simses, James Fouhey and Vikas Adam
Format: Audio-Book
Ageband: From 12
Detailed Edition: Unabridged edition
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At the production and vineyard level, where quality begins, Michele Chiarlo has for thirty years pursued an endless search for control over the finest vineyard sites in each of the zones from which he produces his wines. Perhaps the crown jewel among these is the vineyard of Fornace di Tassarolo in the Rovereto area of Gavi, a small parcel planted in 1910 which yields a brilliant and intense Gavi of exquisite refinement. He also has long-term agreements with the owners of two spectacular vineyards in the Castiglione Falleto and Serralunga crus of Barolo, from which he produces Barolo Riserva Rocche di Castiglione and Barolo Riserva Vigna Rionda di Serralunga. In addition to these contracts, he has also purchased the Antico Podere Averame in the Cerequio cru of Barolo, considered one of the zone's finest Nebbiolo vineyards; and an estate, also in Barolo in the cru of Cannubi, which due to its extremely sharp gradient had never been cultivated. With considerable capital investment, this vineyard has been terraced and brought into production, the first time such a project has ever been undertaken in Piedmont.
In 1995, Michele Chiarlo acquired the estate of Azienda Agricola Aluffi in Castelnuovo Calcea, considered to the most beautiful and prestigious property in the heart of the classic Barbera d'Asti zone. The estate is comprised of two separate vineyard holdings, La Court and Il Castello, with a total area of 62 acres of which 50 are planted in Barbera vines, quite extensive for this area. The principally southwest and easterly-exposed slopes support superb, calcium and mineral rich soils which are of ideal composition for the production of great Barbera d'Asti.
Michele Chiarlo directly manages or personally oversees every aspect in the production of his wines. Eminently qualified through the expertise acquired through his involvement with the company under his father, he also holds a degree from the prestigious School of Enology at Alba. His ceaseless innovation, both in production and in marketing, has gained him the respesct of his industry.
"Creamy, fragrant, with a pleasant fine bubble and a finish which is particularly fresh."
Concentrated, chary black fruit, smoky oak and mocha on the nose of this robust red wine. This northern Italian red wine is designated Superiore and is aged for 8 months in oak barrels and then another 4 months in the bottle before it's released from the winery to the market.
This sweet, fragrant, lightly sparkling wine has vivid aromas and flavors of peach and apricot on a light body with a delicate finish typical of Moscato d'Asti. | {
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TODO: generalize LeftIdentity, RightIdentity, and Associative so that we can use them here.
We map the objects and arrows onto types and relations in some kind of structure-preserving ways.
We can specialize cat_sim_trans to account for situations where either e12 or e23 are id, in which case the goal does not need to be of the form sim (_ ∘ _).
HTransitive (sim e12) (sim id) (sim e12) | 2.
intros a b c Hab Hbc.
HTransitive (sim id) (sim e12) (sim e12) | 2.
∀ v, @PreOrder (T v) (sim id).
× intros x y z Hxy Hyz.
We write sim id as (≤).
sim e is compatible with sim id.
∀ v1 v2 e, Proper (sim id --> sim id ++> impl) (simRR v1 v2 e).
intros v1 v2 e x1 x2 Hx y1 y2 Hy Hxy.
sim e is compatible with ≡.
∀ v1 v2 e, Proper ((≡) ==> (≡) ==> impl) (simRR v1 v2 e).
intros v1 v2 e x1 x2 [Hx12 Hx21] y1 y2 [Hy12 Hy21] Hxy. | {
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Павел Александрович Арский (Афанасьев; , д. Королёво Юхновского уезда Смоленской губернии ― 20 апреля 1967, Москва) ― поэт, драматург.
Биография
Родился в крестьянской семье. Учился в церковно-приходской школе в Полтаве (1896—1898), далее рассыльный, фабричный рабочий, каменщик. С 1904 года моряк Черноморского флота, за революционную деятельность осуждён, бежал, жил на нелегальном положении. Сослан в поселок Дрек под Казанью. В 1915 году призван в армию, служил в Павловском полку. Участвовал в солдатских волнениях в Петрограде 3—5 июля 1917 года. Избран заместителем председателя полкового комитета.
С 1918 года сотрудник большевистской газеты «Псковский Набат», затем работал в ленинградском Пролеткульте, очеркистом в газете «Правда», вступил в большевистскую партию.
Награды
2 ордена Трудового Красного Знамени (11.07.1956; 12.11.1966)
медали
Творчество
Первое стихотворение «Красное знамя» (1905) написано Арским в тюрьме. Стихотворение в четыре строки, напечатанное в газете «Правда» стало популярным: «Царь испугался, издал манифест: мёртвым свобода! Живых под арест!».
В 1917 году в «Правде» публикует стихи «Солдатская баллада», «Встреча Ленина»:
Встаньте, заводы,/В огне баррикад,/Ленин приехал/В родной Петроград!
В 1919 году Пролеткульт выпустил первый сборник его стихов «Песни борьбы». Написаны они в стихотворной традиционной манере, без особых изысков. Поэт воспевает торжество революции, победу рабочего класса.
Далее им изданы: драматический этюд «За Красные Советы» (1920), две книги рассказов — «Метла революции» (1922) и «Кровь рабочего», трагедия «Голгофа» (1924) ― из времён Парижской Коммуны, стихи «Серп и молот» (1925), «Даешь кооперацию» (1925), комедия «Мокрое дело» (1927), роман «Человек у конвейера» (1929), пьеса «Атаман Булак-Балахович» (1929), «Годы грозовые» (1958) и др. Писал тексты песен, сценки, скетчи, инсценировки.
Все эти произведения забыты, кроме непритязательного лирического стихотворения «В парке Чаир», на которое композитор Константин Листов написал песню, ставшую популярной.
Похоронен на .
Семья - сын Александр, погиб в ВОВ, внучка - писательница Наталья Арская.
Примечания
Литература
Трофимов И. Писатели Смоленщины: Биобиблиографический справочник. ― Смоленск, 1959.
Ссылки
Наталия Арская. Родные лица
Аркадий Погодин. В парке Чаир распускаются розы
Поэты-песенники
Члены РСДРП
Члены КПСС
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Daz Cameron Tigers Prospect We Hope To See In Detroit In 2019
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As the Detroit Tigers continue their rebuild, one of the players making a case to be in Detroit is future outfielder, Daz Cameron.
Cameron is one of the players that was a part of the Justin Verlander trade back in 2017. Since the trade he has made his way up the Tigers minor league system playing in West Michigan, Lakeland, Erie and now Toledo.
Son of former Major League Outfielder, Mike Cameron, Daz has an exciting future. He is one of the upcoming Tigers that hopefully fans will get to see up at Comerica Park sometime in 2019.
He has had some great plays in Spring Training this year, including hitting a Grand Slam against the Blue Jays.
Unfortunately the team wants to give him more time in Triple A Toledo. He will play there for most of this season. Hopefully later in the year fans will get a chance to see him in Comerica Park for either an injury call up or call up in September.
He is close and it will be exciting when he finally makes the leap to the majors.
COMERICA PARK TO HAVE NEW P.A. ANNOUNCER FOR THIS YEAR
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Is Mychal Mulder a two-way contract candidate?
Would the Warriors demote Mulder and, if so, would he accept?
By Brady Klopfer@BradyKlopferNBA Sep 30, 2021, 11:22pm PDT
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It's a bit of an odd question to ask. Mychal Mulder appeared in 60 games for the Golden State Warriors last year, and started six of them. He averaged 12.8 minutes per contest. He scored more points per game than Kevon Looney, and made more threes than Damion Lee and Kent Bazemore.
He was a key contributor, especially down the stretch as the Dubs caught fire in the final month of the season.
But could Golden State try to demote him to a two-way contract this season? And if they do, would he accept, or would he field a better offer elsewhere?
The Warriors are in their first week of training camp, and currently have two spots available: the 15th spot on the roster, as well as a second two-way contract next to point guard Chris Chiozza.
Five players are in camp fighting for the 15th spot. The favorites are Mulder, Gary Payton II, and Avery Bradley, with journeymen Langston Galloway and Jordan Bell also in the mix. Of those five, Mulder — who has just two years of NBA experience — is the only one eligible for a two-way contract, which is limited to players entering one of their first four years in the league.
That fact alone puts Mulder at a disadvantage for earning the final roster spot, unless Bob Myers and Co. think Mulder wouldn't accept a two-way contract.
It's not a coincidence that all of the camp invites are veteran players, rather than youngsters trying to find their footing in the NBA. With roster spots already allocated to James Wiseman, Jonathan Kuminga, and Moses Moody, the Warriors are only interested in players who can contribute immediately for their final spots.
It's why you see Mulder, Payton, Bradley, Galloway, and Bell, instead of a roster populated with players from Summer League. It's why trusty Chiozza occupies a two-way spot, instead of a Chris Boucher or Marcus Derrickson, as in prior seasons.
As such, the player or players that the Warriors add — they have been open about potentially keeping the final roster spot unfilled to start the year — will be ones who the Dubs feel confident can contribute.
Halfway through the 2020-21 season, Mulder didn't look like that player. But as injuries and trades mounted, and Mulder's opportunity expanded, he quickly started to look like a player ready to contribute to a playoff team.
Now we find out how much the Warriors, and perhaps the rest of the league, value that.
If the Dubs opt for defense over offense — an understandable choice, given Jordan Poole's emergence and Klay Thompson's impending return — then Payton or Bradley will likely earn the spot. If that happens, Golden State will almost surely offer Mulder a two-way contract. And given that two-way contracts can now be active for 50 games, and travel with the team all year, that would allow Mulder to spend the season with Golden State, rather than bopping down to Santa Cruz.
Would he accept? It's an interesting question. Two-way contracts no longer make a tiny fraction of an NBA salary — now it's a flat rate of half the minimum. Any actual NBA contract will still tower over that sum (a little over $450,000), but Mulder is unlikely to receive anything other than a non-guaranteed or partially-guaranteed contract this late in the year. It could be that a two-way contract is the best offer he gets.
It would feel a little harsh after his strong 2020-21, but the NBA is a harsh world. Mulder on a two-way contract is an affordable way to add NBA-caliber shooting to a team that is facing a few months without Thompson, and perhaps 41 games without Andrew Wiggins. | {
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Clay guns aren't cheap, so protecting your gear is essential!
This new item from one of the world's finest quality outdoor brands, Harkila, is attracting a lot of attention. It is made of 100 per cent waxed, distressed leather with a padded shoulder strap and a reliable YKK zip. At 135cm long, it is plenty big enough to hold those long Trap-shotgun barrels, and there is a matching cartridge bag available to buy for £119.99 if you're into your gear looking sharp.
This lightweight gun slip features water resistant canvas and natural leather trim. The design incorporates a hand stitched blocked end while a fleece lining encases the gun. It has a robust coil zip, fully adjustable sling and brass fittings. The slips have a total inside length 50 inches and are available in forest green and desert sand colour schemes.
Browning's Defender range of safes comes in sizes with capacity for 10 to 23 guns. All models other than the 10-gun safe have a removable, lockable ammunition box. The Defender has an electronic lock and is fire resistant, offering 30 minutes protection against temperatures up to 760°C. Its body is plated with 3mm thick steel, while the door is 3.5mm thick. Browning safes have nine one-inch diameter locking bolts, six outer and three inner. And pre-drilled mounting holes aid installation in your home.
These durable hammer grey cabinets feature a fully welded construction made from 2mm thick steel and seven lever action locks with anti-jemmy return. The double skinned door has a concealed hinge and an anti-lever flange. Inside is a floor mat for gun protection and foam rubber dividers. Plus 24-hour direct delivery to the customer can be arranged upon request.
Brattonsound Gunsafes are built and independently tested to British Standard BS 7558/92 for gun security. The SL5+ model is designed to fit four or five guns and also includes an internal lockable safe for ammunition or other valuables. The safe measures 1515cm x 268cm x 271cm and weighs 38kg. All Brattonsound Gunsafes are covered by a three-year warranty.
Balindore's bespoke, hand built gun safes can be designed to any cabinet style, housing a stainless steel gun safe with an electronic locking system. The leather-lined safes are mainly built in walnut, but can be constructed from a selection of woods to match the aesthetic character of the room where they are installed. The largest versions can house up to 180 guns for the keenest of shooters.
Having a large, metal bulk taking room out of your much-needed cupboard space is unsightly and frustrating, but 21st Century Antiques has, for the past 45 years, been protecting valuable guns in unique ways. Disguised as useful furniture, the Model 302 known as the Escritoire is one example that has been designed as an 18th century writing bureau. It can accommodate 12 guns and the cabinets boast 3mm thick steel, lined using green soft fabric.
Made by British clay shooter Mike Bartlett, a long, 12 or 20-bore rod is wrapped in cleaning material, with a custom-made phosphor bronze brush on the end that is tipped with a rounded, plastic end to avoid touching the inside of your barrel with any metal parts. At the other end of the rod is an aluminum handle so you never have to directly touch the rod, meaning you will stay clean throughout the gun-cleaning process.
This shotgun care kit from John Shooter is made from distressed tan leather, held closed by 3mm leather straps with thick brass buckles. Inside is a removable leather bag held in place by Velcro, and a complete cleaning kit comprising a three-piece rod, jag, mop, oil and brush.
This gunslip from new company ShootGear has been carefully thought through. The outer is constructed to make the slip waterproof, lightweight and durable. It is lined with foam to offer protection to your gun and carry hands and shoulder strap make it easy and versatile to carry. It also comes with a 10-year guarantee. | {
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Our work is grounded in Interpeace's core principles, realized through a range of practical methods, and practiced through an array of skills. IPAT Advisers and Associates share Interpeace's own inclusive, collaborative, and participatory approach to ensure legitimacy, and enhance relationships across all levels of society. We combine Interpeace's local peacebuilding knowledge with the latest international thinking and help you enhance the quality of your local engagement.
All stakeholders across society need to be engaged in a process of change, including individuals and groups that are often overlooked or seen as difficult to engage with. This ensures that society collectively builds peace and has a shared sense of ownership and responsibility.
Peace must be built from within societies, making sure that concerns are defined from the local perspective and that peacebuilding priorities are determined locally. This guarantees that peace is built in locally effective ways and that the responsibility lies with all local stakeholders.
All individuals and groups in society need to achieve mutual understanding and a common vision, on issues both small and large, and build relationships of trust. This ensures that all local stakeholders remain engaged together and committed to building lasting peace.
Stakeholders need to have a role in decision-making throughout the peacebuilding process. How to engage and empower stakeholders in such processes is crucial.
Building lasting peace requires a long-term commitment to supporting society to transform the way it manages conflict. Peace is a process that requires both time and commitment.
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Elevate your bed with a set of medallion patterned sheets and comfy pillowcases. These black and white pieces bring tons of style and comfort to your bedroom or guest room. Embroidered pillowcases add that extra touch of detail for even more charm. The beginning of comfort on your bed, this soft set comes with four pillowcases so you can always have a fresh pair on hand. This set of sheets and pillowcases are comfortable, wrinkle resistant and get you ready for sweet dreams. | {
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The combination of two double DeLuxe rooms is called DBL Deluxe.
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The artist William Luker Jr devoted quite a few pictures to Kensington Gardens as his contribution to W J Loftie's Kensington: Picturesque and Historical. Miss Charlotte Green, from this post, did not of course exist in the strictest sense of the word, but nevertheless for today's purposes we know she travelled abroad, never married, but brought a child back to live in Kensington with her in the 1880s. Miss Miranda Green had a darker complexion than her mother but this was never remarked upon in Kensington. Mrs Green, as she was known, was now wealthy enough for people to ignore any questions about Miranda's father. It must be said however that as Miranda grew up she seemed to prefer her own company and often walked alone through the familiar places her mother had shown her.
She and her mother may have lived in Sheffield Terrace, near to Mr Luker's house so they may have seen some of his work in progress.
They may have known why the artist included a broken ladder in this pictures of the Round Pond frozen at the height of winter, and why the ladder seems to have offered a way out of, or into, the picture. Miranda and her mother walked by the pond all year round.
As a child she learned all the secret places of the park.
As she grew older and walked out on her own she favoured other secluded places.
She liked to stand in the shadows away from view, but when she became a young woman she walked more boldly.
Sometimes she imagined the Gardens as they were in the 18th century.
The past seemed to offer an exotic destination, if a way could be found to reach it.
Perhaps through Mr Luker, Miranda met a sympathetic companion.
He may have been another artist, or an academic, or a writer. The two of them walked through the Gardens often.
Stopping at some of the unusual sights that could be found.
Allowing the Gardens to fill their imaginations.
She imagined that one day she would take her own daughter through a small side entrance.
Out of the Gardens, or out of the picture altogether.
This post is dedicated to my friend Camilla , who liked the last outing of the Green family.
This post should have been published already, but I've been busy with the London History Festival which finishes tonight. I thought it would be a good idea to get a post in before December. Pretty soon Christmas will be on us and there will be the usual short posts for the week before Christmas.
Death has taken this opportunity to add another name to his tally. Nicholas Roeg, director of Performance, Don't look now, the Man who fell to Earth, Bad Timing, Insignificance and many other unconventional films which I have enjoyed over the years. He was one of the UK's true auteurs and we should be grateful for his life and work. Obituary writers have also mentioned his film Eureka as an unacknowledged classic, but I would also mention one more, Cold heaven (1991) which I have a fondness for (another of one the films which featured his third wife, the iconic Theresa Russell). Roeg, of course lived in Kensington for part of his life so we can count him as a local man.
Isabel and I have been discussing future blog posts, and she has more ideas than I do. But you'll probably have to wait until next year for those. In the meantime I have no idea what I'm doing next week. | {
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The "Battle of the North Cape" campaign is a historical, staged campaign based around the Battle of the North Cape in December 1943. It requires a player to have ships of at least Tier V in order to complete, and is comprised of 30 different tasks spread out over 5 missions. There are achievements for both completing the campaign and completing all tasks in the campaign.
The Battle of the North Cape (26 December 1943) was a naval battle during World War II, in the course of which the Royal Navy ships sank the German battleship Scharnhorst. This battle is considered to be the northernmost naval engagement in history.
This operation, aimed at disrupting the Allied supply chain destined for the U.S.S.R through the Arctic waters by destroying one of the convoys, was given the title "Ostfront" (in German, "The Eastern Front") for a reason. On 22 December 1943, the Germans detected a group of transport ships sailing along the Norwegian coast. After a long period of hesitation and reconnaissance, the British escorting squadron was never found, so the Kriegsmarine Command decided to take a chance. On the night of 25 December 1943, the battleship Scharnhorst set sail, escorted by the 4th Destroyer Flotilla (flotilla leader: Z-29). The combination of the freezing polar night, a violent storm, mistakes made by German admirals and excellent British radars meant that Scharnhorst, who had by that time "lost" her destroyers, encountered the British squadron (consisting of three cruisers led by HMS Belfast) alone. The first salvos fired by the British took the Germans totally by surprise. Shells fired from HMS Norfolk destroyed the battleship's main radar, but Scharnhorst had no intention of engaging the cruisers, and evaded the pursuit by taking advantage of her superior speed in stormy weather to continue her hunt for the convoy.
Final Task - earn (5) from Mission 1 tasks to unlock; complete to grant access to Mission 2.
Vice Admiral Burnett's squadron of British cruisers continued in their duty of defending the transport ships while Scharnhorst spent several hours searching for the convoy, largely in vain. A flotilla of destroyers, comprised of HMS Matchless, HMS Musketeer, HMS Opportune, and HMS Virago, joined forces with Burnett's fleet. Meanwhile, British admirals were becoming increasingly concerned that the battleship had managed to slip through their fingers. However, in the Arctic night and with a crippled radar, Scharnhorst was effectively blind, while the radar equipment aboard the British fleet remained fully operational. At around midday on 26 December, HMS Belfast picked up Scharnhorst on radar once again. A fierce battle ensued with the German battleship hitting back hard. The British had a rough time of it: 283 mm shells from Scharnhorst disabled one of HMS Norfolk's main battery turrets, inflicting extensive damage on the ship's hull; HMS Sheffield was riddled with shrapnel, and destroyer Virago was nearly sunk by the battleship's main battery salvo.
Final Task - earn (5) from Mission 2 tasks to unlock; complete to grant access to Mission 3.
Although unaware of it, the next time Scharnhorst encountered the convoy, she was a mere 12 to 15 miles away. But Rear Admiral Bey, who flew his flag on the battleship, decided to abandon the operation, sending Scharnhorst and the destroyers that were desperately searching for their prey towards the Norwegian coast. Burnett's fleet continued to pursue Scharnhorst at maximum speed, keeping her in the sights of the radar while remaining beyond the battleship's line-of-sight. The damaged British cruisers struggled through the severe storm and eventually had to drop back, one-by-one, until HMS Belfast was left alone in her pursuit of Scharnhorst. The British ship continuously transmitted the whereabouts of Scharnhorst to the forces of Admiral Fraser, who was hurrying to the rendezvous point. The German destroyers, led by Z-29, were too far away to be of any assistance or serve as their flagship's "eyes". Meanwhile, Scharnhorst, with disabled radar, was heading straight into the trap: the battleship Duke of York, the cruiser Jamaica, and four destroyers (HMS Savage, HMS Saumarez, HMS Scorpion, and Norwegian destroyer Stord) which were steaming at full speed to intercept the German "predator". The British flag officer, Vice Admiral Fraser, gave the order to open fire as late as possible, surprising the enemy ship at the shortest possible distance. Finally, at 16:47, the blindsided German battleship was illuminated by a volley of British star shells, and Duke of York immediately began the bombardment with a salvo from all ten of her 356mm guns. The fire coming from the British ships was surprisingly accurate — one of the first hits on Scharnhorst wrecked her main battery tower.
Final Task - earn (5) from Mission 3 tasks to unlock; complete to grant access to Mission 4.
Trapped, Scharnhorst immediately set on a course to shake off the enemy ships, steaming at full speed and returning fire in defense. At this point, the British cruisers joined the battle: Belfast, and later Norfolk, were closing in from the north and Jamaica from the south. Scharnhorst found herself in a dire situation. Duke of York fired a deluge of shells at the enemy ship, scoring hit after hit, knocking down artillery and destroying the ship's superstructures. Nevertheless, the thick armor belt of the German battleship protected her from critical damage, and Scharnhorst, steaming at a speed of over 30 knots, was gradually breaking away from the British ships, reaching a point where she was beyond the reach of the enemy cruisers. Soon after, the British flagship ceased fire, too. However, shortly before that, a 356mm shell fired by Duke of York pierced the thin upper armor belt of the German battleship and exploded in the boiler room. Scharnhorst's speed dropped, and with this critical hit the ship's fortunes took a dramatic turn for the worse.
The British ships were approaching the heavily damaged, yet still formidable, German battleship. Admiral Fraser ordered the destroyers to mount a torpedo attack. Savage, Saumarez, Scorpion, and Stord pressed ahead, closing in on the target and, despite counterfire, launched 28 torpedoes scoring four hits. Despite the damage, Scharnhorst demonstrated excellent survivability, maneuvering and firing her remaining guns. HMS Duke of York closed in again and fired at the German battleship. Scharnhorst lost all control of her steering and almost ground to a halt. Cruisers Belfast, Jamaica, and the remaining destroyers dashed forward to finish the enemy ship off. HMS Musketeer fired her four torpedoes at the desperate Scharnhorst from a distance of several hundred meters. The German battleship sustained a total of at least 11 hits. At around 19:45, Scharnhorst disappeared under the waves amid clouds of smoke and fire.
Final Task - earn (6) from Mission 5 tasks to unlock; complete to finish "Battle of the North Cape" campaign.
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Notice of Annual General Meeting of Medivir AB (publ)
HUDDINGE, Sweden, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The shareholders of Medivir AB are hereby summoned to the annual general meeting on Tuesday 5 May 2020 at 2 p.m. at Tändstickspalatset, Västra Trädgårdsgatan 15, Stockholm.
Shareholders who wish to participate in the meeting must (a) be recorded in the share register maintained by Euroclear Sweden AB on Tuesday 28 April 2020, and (b), notify the company of their intention to participate in the meeting not later than on Tuesday 28 April 2020 in writing to Medivir AB, c/o Euroclear Sweden, P.O. Box 191, SE-101 23 Stockholm, Sweden. Such notification can also be made by telephone +46 (0)8-402 92 37 or via the company's website at www.medivir.se. The notification shall set forth the name, address, telephone number (daytime), personal/corporate identity number, the number of shares held and, when applicable, information about representatives and assistants.
As per the day of this notice there are 24,287,818 series B shares corresponding to an equal number of votes in the company. The company holds 11,413 treasury series B shares.
Shareholders represented by proxy shall issue a written and dated power of attorney for the proxy or, should the right to vote for the shares be divided among different representatives, the representatives, together with information on the number of shares each representative is entitled to vote for. If the power of attorney is issued on behalf of a legal entity, a certified copy of a registration certificate for the legal entity (or corresponding document), evidencing the authority to issue the power of attorney, shall be appended. The original of the power of attorney and, when applicable, the registration certificate should be sent to the company at the address indicated above, well before the meeting. A proxy form is available at the company's website, www.medivir.se, and is sent to shareholders who so request.
Shareholders whose shares are registered in the name of a nominee through a bank or a securities institution must re-register their shares in their own names to be entitled to participate in the meeting. Such registration, which may be temporary, must be duly effected in the share register maintained by Euroclear Sweden AB on Tuesday 28 April 2020, and the shareholders must therefore advise their nominees well in advance of this date.
The shareholders are reminded of their right to request information in accordance with Chapter 7, Section 32 of the Swedish Companies Act (Sw. aktiebolagslagen).
Information relating to the Corona virus
As a result of the Corona virus, Medivir has, to the extent possible, taken certain precautionary measures to limit the physical presence at the meeting. Therefore, Medivir encourages shareholders to carefully consider the possibility of participating in the meeting by way of proxy. Euroclear Sweden AB has informed that Euroclear Sweden, at no cost, offers a possibility for shareholders, who wishes to be represented by proxy, to appoint a proxy designated by Euroclear Sweden, to vote for the shares in accordance with the shareholder's instructions. Further information is available at www.euroclearproxy.se. Any questions to be raised by shareholders at the meeting can be sent to the company by e-mail to [email protected] in advance of the meeting.
The board of Medivir has decided on the following measures to reduce the risks:
Registration will take place starting at 1.45 p.m.
No food or refreshments will be served.
No external guests will be invited.
The reports will be shortened in order to limit the length of the meeting.
Kindly review the information and recommendations issued by the Swedish Public Health Authority. Medivir is closely following developments and authorities' recommendations and will, if needed, update the information on the annual general meeting on the company's website, www.medivir.se.
Proposed agenda
Opening of the meeting.
Election of chairman of the meeting (see below).
Preparation and approval of the voting list.
Approval of the agenda.
Election of two persons to approve the minutes of the meeting.
Determination of whether the meeting has been duly convened.
Reports from the managing director and the chairman of the board.
Presentation of the annual report and the auditor's report as well as the consolidated annual accounts and the auditor's report for the group.
Resolution on approval of the profit and loss account and balance sheet as well as the consolidated profit and loss account and consolidated balance sheet.
Resolution on approval of allocations of the company's profits or losses according to the adopted balance sheet (see below).
Resolution on discharge from liability of the members of the board of directors and the managing director.
Determination of the number of directors, deputy directors, auditors and deputy auditors (see below).
Determination of fees to be paid to the directors and the auditor (see below).
Election of the directors, chairman of the board and auditor (see below).
The nomination committee's proposal concerning nomination committee (see below).
The board's proposal on guidelines for remuneration to the executive management (see below).
The board's proposal regarding amendments to the articles of association (see below).
The board's proposal regarding authorization for the board to resolve on new share issues (see below).
The board's proposal for resolution on the issue of warrants of series 2020:1 (see below).
Allocation of the company's balance (item 10)
The board of directors proposes that the company's results shall be carried forward.
Board of directors etc (items 2 and 12-14)
The nomination committee, comprising Jan Särlvik (Nordea Fonder, chairman), Karl Tobieson (Linc AB),
Bo Öberg (founder and shareholder) and the chairman of the board of directors, Helena Levander, proposes the following:
Chairman of the board of directors, Helena Levander, to be appointed chairman of the meeting (item 2).
The board of directors shall consist of six members with no deputies. The company shall have one auditor without deputy auditors (item 12).
The remuneration to the board of directors shall be paid in a total amount of not more than SEK 1,850,000 annually allocated as follows. The chairman shall receive SEK 650,000 and other board members not employed by the company shall receive SEK 240,000 each. No remuneration for work performed in relation to committees shall be paid (item 13).
Remuneration to the auditor shall be paid in accordance with approved invoices within the auditor's quotation (item 13).
Re-election of members of the board Uli Hacksell, Lennart Hansson, Bengt Julander, Helena Levander, An van Es Johansson and Bengt Westermark (item 14).
Re-election of Helena Levander as chairman of the board (item 14).
Re-election of the auditing company Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers AB. The proposition is in accordance with the audit committee's recommendation (item 14).
Further information on the proposed members of the board is available at www.medivir.se.
Nomination committee (item 15)
The nomination committee proposes that the meeting shall resolve to appoint a nomination committee for the annual general meeting 2021 mainly in accordance with the same procedure as the preceding year.
The chairman of the board shall contact the three largest shareholders in respect of voting power by the end of the third quarter. These three shareholders are offered to appoint one representative each for the nomination committee. In addition, the chairman of the board shall be a member of the nomination committee. If a shareholder chooses not to exercise the right to appoint a representative, the right shall pass on to the shareholder that, after these three shareholders, has the largest shareholding. The nomination committee is to elect a chairman among its members to lead the work of the committee.
If any of the shareholders who has appointed a member of the nomination committee sells a not insignificant part of its shareholding during the nomination committees' term or for any other reason ceases to be a larger shareholder with right to appoint a member of the nomination committee, the member appointed by such shareholder should resign from the nomination committee. This member shall then be replaced by a member appointed by the shareholder who, based on voting power following the sale, instead is one of the three largest shareholders in the company. If such shareholder does not utilize its right to appoint a member of the nomination committee, the above described procedure shall be applied.
In the event a member no longer represents the shareholder who appointed him or her, or otherwise resigns from the nomination committee prior to the completion of the nomination committee's work, the shareholder shall be given the opportunity to appoint a new member of the nomination committee.
The nomination committee shall pursue the tasks that, according to the Swedish Corporate Governance Code, are the responsibility of the nomination committee.
Guidelines for remuneration to the executive management (item 16)
The board proposes that the meeting resolves on the following remuneration guidelines for the executive management in Medivir. The guidelines are forward-looking, i.e. they are applicable to remuneration agreed, and amendments to remuneration already agreed, after adoption of the guidelines by the annual general meeting 2020. These guidelines do not apply to any remuneration decided or approved by the general meeting. These guidelines essentially correspond to the guidelines that were adopted by the annual general meeting 2019 but are described in further detail due to new legal requirements.
The guidelines' promotion of Medivir's business strategy, long-term interests and sustainability
Medivir creates shareholder value through the development of innovative pharmaceuticals for the treatment of cancer of high unmet medical need, either on its own or in partnership. For more information regarding Medivir's business strategy, please see www.medivir.se.
A prerequisite for the successful implementation of the business strategy and safeguarding of Medivir's long-term interests, including its sustainability, is that Medivir is able to recruit and retain qualified personnel who are working to achieve the maximum amount of shareholder- and customer value. To this end, it is necessary that Medivir offers competitive remuneration. These guidelines enable Medivir to offer the executive management a competitive total remuneration.
Types of remuneration, etc.
The remuneration to the executive management shall be on market terms and may consist of the following components: fixed cash salary, variable cash remuneration, pension benefits and other benefits. Additionally, the general meeting may - irrespective of these guidelines - resolve on, among other things, share-related or share price-related remuneration. The total remuneration to the executive shall comprise a balanced mix of the above-mentioned components and conditions upon notice. The board of directors shall annually evaluate whether share-related or share price-related long-term incentive programs shall be proposed to the general meeting.
The fixed cash salary shall be individual and relate to the relevant person's responsibilities and experience.
The variable cash remuneration may amount to not more than 50 per cent of the total fixed annual cash salary.
For the executive management, pension benefits shall be premium defined unless the individual concerned is subject to defined benefit pension under mandatory collective agreement provisions. Variable cash remuneration shall qualify for pension benefits. The pension premiums for premium defined pension shall amount to not more than 25 per cent of the fixed annual cash salary. Notwithstanding the above, the board of directors is entitled to offer other solutions than the above-mentioned ones, that are equivalent for the company in terms of costs.
Other benefits may include, for example, company car and health services. Such benefits shall be of limited value in relation to other compensation and shall correspond to customary market terms in each geographic market. Other benefits may amount to not more than 15 per cent of the fixed annual cash salary.
A notice period may not exceed six months. Fixed cash salary shall be disbursed during the period of notice. From a starting point, no severance pay, or the equivalent, shall be disbursed.
Criteria for awarding variable cash remuneration, etc.
Variable cash remuneration shall be linked to predetermined and measurable criteria, which can be financial or non-financial, designed to contribute to the company's long-term value creation. The criteria shall relate to the development of the company's projects and the partnerships the company enters into for acceleration of the clinical development and future commercialization, as well as the remuneration (such as upfront fees when the agreement is entered into, milestone payments, remuneration paid during the term of the agreement for a set number of full-time equivalent research positions (FTEs), or royalties) resulting from this development. Furthermore, the criteria shall be designed so as to contribute to Medivir's business strategy and long-term interests, including its sustainability.
The satisfaction of criteria for awarding variable cash remuneration shall be measured over a period of one year. To which extent the criteria for awarding variable cash remuneration has been satisfied shall be determined when the measurement period has ended. The board of directors is responsible for the evaluation concerning the variable remuneration to the executive management. For financial objectives, the evaluation shall be based on the latest financial information made public by the company.
Salary and employment conditions for employees
In the preparation of the board of directors' proposal for these remuneration guidelines, salary and employment conditions for employees of the company have been taken into account by including information on the employees' total income, the components of the remuneration and increase and growth rate over time, in the board of directors' basis of decision when evaluating whether the guidelines and the limitations set out herein are reasonable.
The decision-making process to determine, review and implement the guidelines
The board of directors has not established a remuneration committee. Instead, the board of directors fulfill the tasks incumbent upon such a committee. The committee's tasks include preparing the board of directors' decision to propose guidelines for executive management remuneration. The board of directors shall prepare a proposal for new guidelines at least every fourth year and submit it to the general meeting. The guidelines shall be in force until new guidelines are adopted by the general meeting. A remuneration committee shall also monitor and evaluate programs for variable remuneration for the executive management, the application of the guidelines for executive remuneration as well as the current remuneration structures and compensation levels in the group. The managing director and other members of the executive management do not participate in the board of directors' processing of and resolutions regarding remuneration-related matters in so far as they are affected by such matters.
Derogation from the guidelines
The board of directors may temporarily resolve to derogate from the guidelines, in whole or in part, if in a specific case there is special cause for the derogation and a derogation is necessary to serve Medivir's long-term interests, including its sustainability, or to ensure Medivir's financial viability.
Further information on the executive remuneration is available in Medivir's annual report.
Amendments of the articles of association (item 17)
The board of directors proposes that the annual general meeting, as a result of statutory amendments, resolves to amend the articles of association as follows.
Current wording
Proposed wording
The company's shares shall be registered in a securities register in accordance with the Swedish Financial Instruments (Accounts) Act (SFS 1998:1479).
The company's shares shall be registered in a securities register in accordance with the Swedish Central Securities Depositories and Financial Instruments (Accounts) Act (SFS 1998:1479).
A shareholder that wishes to participate in a general meeting must be recorded in a printout or other transcript of the share ledger as of five weekdays before the meeting, and notify the company of his or her intention to attend the meeting no later than at 4 p.m. on the date stated in the notice of the meeting. Such a date may not be a Sunday, other public holiday, Saturday, Midsummer Eve, Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve and may not occur earlier than the fifth weekday prior to the meeting.A shareholder or a proxy may be accompanied by not more than two advisors at a general meeting only where he or she has given the company notice of the number of advisors in the manner stated in the section above.
Share issue authorization (item 18)
The board proposes that the annual general meeting resolves to authorize to the board, up and until the next annual general meeting, on one or several occasions and with or without pre-emptive rights for shareholders, to resolve on the issue of new shares of series B, comprising a total of not more than 20 per cent of the total number of outstanding shares in the company after the utilization of the authorization. It shall also be possible to make such an issue resolution stipulating in-kind payment, the right to offset debt or other conditions referred to in Chapter 13 Section 5 first paragraph item 6 in the Swedish Companies Act.
The purpose of the authorization is to provide flexibility to the board in its work to ensure that the company can appropriately raise capital for the financing of the business. Issuances of new shares under the authorization shall be made on market terms.
The board's proposal for resolution on the issue of warrants of series 2020:1 (item 19)
The board proposes that the meeting resolves to issue warrants and to approve of transfer of the warrants in accordance with the following.
Issue of warrants
The board proposes that the general meeting resolves to carry out a directed issue of not more than 600,000 warrants, entailing an increase in the share capital of not more than approximately SEK 4,656,511.64 at full subscription. The resolution shall otherwise be governed by the following terms and conditions.
The right to subscribe for the warrants shall, with deviation from the shareholders' pre-emptive rights, be vested in the company's wholly owned subsidiary Medivir Personal AB, 556598-2823 (the "Subsidiary"), with the right and obligation for the Subsidiary to transfer the warrants to employees pursuant to the below. Over-subscription is not possible.
The reasons for the deviation from the shareholders' pre-emptive rights are to stimulate shareholding in the company by virtue of an incentive program through which employees can take part of and contribute to a positive value increase of the company's share during the period of the proposed program, and that the company shall be able to retain and recruit competent and dedicated staff.
The warrants shall be issued at no consideration. Subscription must be completed no later than three weeks after the resolution on issue of warrants. The board shall be entitled to extend the subscription period.
Each warrant entitles a right to subscribe for one share of series B in the company. The warrants may be exercised to subscribe for new series B shares during the period from and including 1 December 2023 up to and including 15 December 2023. The new shares which may be issued due to subscription are not subject to any restrictive provisions.
The subscription price (strike price) shall correspond to 200 per cent of the volume weighted average price of the series B share according the official share list of Nasdaq Stockholm during the period from and including 6 May 2020 up to and including 19 May 2020.
Shares which are newly issued following subscription by virtue of the warrants shall carry an entitlement to participate in dividends for the first time on the next record date for dividends which occurs after subscription for shares by virtue of the utilization of the warrants is effected.
The company may, by means of a board resolution and with the consent from the board of directors in the Subsidiary, cancel the Subsidiary's warrants that are not transferred in accordance with the below or that have been re-purchased from participants. Cancellation shall be registered with the Swedish Companies Registration Office.
The board of directors, or a person appointed by the board of directors, is authorized to make such minor adjustments to the resolution which may prove necessary in order to register the resolution with the Swedish Companies Registration Office.
Approval of transfer of warrants
The board proposes that the general meeting approves of the Subsidiary's transfer of warrants on the following conditions.
The right to subscribe for share warrants from the Subsidiary shall vest in the following categories of employees:
Maximum number of warrants per person
Maximum number of warrants per category
A. Managing director (not more than 1 person)
B. Other members of the executive management (not more than 4 persons)
C. Other employees (not more than 5 persons)
The right to purchase warrants from the Subsidiary shall only vest in employees who, at the end of the application period, have not terminated their employment, have not had their employment terminated or otherwise have given notice, or been notified, of employment termination.
Warrants may also be offered to future employees. For such acquisitions, the conditions shall be the same or equivalent to what is stated in this resolution. This means, inter alia, that acquisitions shall be made to the market value at the time of the acquisition.
Transfer of warrants to participants is conditional upon it being legally possible to purchase the warrants, and that such transfers can be done using reasonable administrative and financial resources according to the assessment of the board.
Application and allotment
Application for acquisition of warrants shall be made during the period from and including 15 May 2020 up until and including 22 May 2020. The board of the company shall however be entitled to extend the application period for acquisitions and to set a corresponding application period for new employees whose acquisitions are made after the expiration of the initial application period.
Should warrants of a certain category remain with the Subsidiary after all applications within the category have been satisfied, the remaining warrants shall be available for allotment to participants in that same or another category whereby the board shall determine the distribution based on participant category, employment category and the number of warrants applied for. However, such distribution must not result in the maximum amount of warrants per person in a certain category being exceeded by more than 50 per cent.
The board of the company shall determine the final allotment.
Price and payment etc.
The warrants shall be transferred on market terms at a price (premium) established on the basis of a market value of the warrants calculated by an independent valuation institute using the Black & Scholes valuation model. A new market value shall be established in an equivalent way for acquisitions made by new employees after the expiration of the initial application period. The value has preliminary been calculated to be SEK 1.30 per warrant based on a share price of SEK 13.14.
Payment for the allocated warrants shall be made in cash no later than five days following the application for acquisition. The board shall establish a corresponding date of payment for acquisitions made by new employees.
Medivir will partly subsidize the participant's acquisition of warrants. The subsidy shall be paid in connection with the allocation of warrants to the participants. The total subsidy, prior to any payroll tax and including social security contributions on the subsidy, shall correspond to half of the participants' investment. The total cost for the subsidy, based on the above preliminary value of the warrants, is estimated at SEK 1,191,949 including social security contributions, for the entire term of the warrant programme of three years. Accrued payroll taxes due to the bonus shall be paid by each participant.
In order to be eligible for the subsidy, the participant must, at the time of the payment of the bonus, not have terminated its employment, not have been dismissed from its employment, or in any other way, given notice or been notified of employment termination. The participant must also remain employed in the company for three years, the subsidy will otherwise be prorated, and must not have transferred its warrants.
Further information on the warrant program
Upon full exercise of all warrants, 600,000 new shares can be issued, which corresponds to a dilution of approximately 2.41 per cent of the total number of shares and votes in the company, however, subject to any potential adjustment which may occur under the terms and conditions for the warrants. Accordingly, the program offers the employees the possibility to increase their shareholding in the company to the corresponding figure.
Impact of financial ratio and costs for the company etc.
The company's earnings per share are not affected by the issue of the warrants as the present value of the warrants' strike price exceeds the current market value of the share at the date of issue. Since the warrants are transferred to the participants at market value it is not expected that the company will incur any personnel costs. The warrant program may incur certain limited costs in terms of external consulting fees and costs relating to the administration of the warrant program.
Preparation of the matter
The principles of the warrant program have been prepared by the board of the company and are based on the warrant programs adopted by the annual general meetings 2017 and 2018. The board has thereafter decided to submit this proposal to the annual general meeting. Except for the officials who prepared the matter pursuant to instructions from the board, no employee that may be included in the program has taken part in the drafting thereof.
Other share related incentive programs etc.
Except from the current proposal to issue warrants and the warrant programs resolved upon at the annual general meetings 2017 and 2018, the company has no outstanding share related incentive programs. It is the board's intention that the program shall recur annually, albeit in varying sizes.
Authorization for the board of directors
The board proposes that the meeting authorizes the board to execute the resolution in accordance with the above and to ensure that the Subsidiary's board of directors carries out the transfer of the warrants in accordance with the above.
Decision rules
In order for a resolution in accordance with this item to be valid, the resolution must be supported by shareholders representing at least nine-tenths of the votes cast and the shares represented at the general meeting.
The annual report and other supporting documentation for resolutions will be available at the company's offices, Medivir AB, Lunastigen 7, SE-141 22 Huddinge, Sweden, and on www.medivir.se, no later than three weeks prior to the meeting and will be sent to shareholders who so request and provide their postal address. This notice is a translation of a Swedish notice and in case of any deviations between the both language versions, the Swedish version shall prevail.
For information about the processing of your personal data, see the integrity policy that is available at Euroclear's website www.euroclear.com/dam/ESw/Legal/Privacy-notice-bolagsstammor-engelska.pdf. Medivir's AB (publ) corporate registration number is 556238-4361 and its registered office is in Huddinge, Sweden.
Huddinge, April 2020
Medivir AB (publ)
https://news.cision.com/medivir/r/notice-of-annual-general-meeting-of-medivir-ab--publ-,c3082081
https://mb.cision.com/Main/652/3082081/1225022.pdf
Notice of Annual General Meeting (PDF)
Uli Hacksell
CEO, Medivir AB
phone: +46(0)8-5468-3100
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Tom Parker Bowles wife: Camilla's son's split from Sara Buys laid bare after 'problems'
TOM PARKER BOWLES split from his wife Sara Buys three years ago after "problems" in the relationship, according to an unearthed report.
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The food writer, 46, is the eldest child of Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, who is married to Prince Charles. Tom and his sister Laura Lopes are both children from Camilla's previous marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles. A well-known foodie, Tom has demonstrated his skills in the kitchen in a string of TV appearances over the years, such as BBC2's 'MasterChef: The Professionals'.
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Prince Charles' step-son also penned several cookbooks, including 'The Cook Book' for the Fortnum & Mason department store, which has long been associated with the Royal Family.
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The TV chef also welcomes comedian John Bishop, food writer Georgina Hayden and wine expert Olly Smith.
The year after Tom's 'MasterChef' appearance, he and his wife, fashion writer Sara, separated.
The couple had "problems" for "some time", according to an unearthed report by The Sun from 2018.
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The newspaper quoted a source close to Tom and Sara, who tied the knot in 2005 and have two children together.
They said: "They are being very clear the separation is not final and they are not getting divorced.
"There is no one else involved.
"The concern of both Tom and Sara is for the stability and happiness of their children."
The paper reported that Tom had left the home the couple shared together and had moved into a rented property in West London.
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Despite their separation, the pair did still attend the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle together in 2018.
In March of this year, Tom's girlfriend, former journalist Alice Procope, died of cancer, aged 42.
Tom was reported to be "devastated" by her death, which came after the couple were together for almost two years.
A friend of Tom's told the Daily Mail that he had been "blissfully happy" in his relationship with Ms Procope.
Tom was born in 1974 to Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles, who decided to divorce in 1995.
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Charles, whose own divorce with Princess Diana was finalised the following year, had been having a highly publicised on-off affair with Camilla.
Camilla and Charles' romance drew major controversy in 1993, when newspapers published the transcript of an intimate conversation between the pair.
Tom opened up about the scandal – dubbed 'Camillagate' – in a 2014 interview.
Speaking to the Times, Camilla's son said: "I sort of remember not looking at the paper.
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"Because, you know, Jesus, the things that we've all said to people that we love … that you wouldn't want the world reading.
"I just felt p***** off. I wasn't going to read that sort of stuff about my mother, just as much as she wouldn't want to read it about me or my kids certainly wouldn't want to read it about me."
Several years after Charles and Camilla's divorces, and Diana's death in 1997, they eventually married at a small ceremony in 2005.
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What not to do: 10 rules for game developers
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Top ten lists always devolve into nine losers and one winner (the "best" or "greatest" or whatever). But this list isn't so much about winning as it is about whining. So let's get right into it and see some rules that, if followed, might give us some (slightly) better games.
10. The combat rule.
Guns are better than swords. They're faster, deadlier, and they take less effort to use than a giant sword. I think The Last Samurai proved that if you bring a sword to a gun fight (and you're not Tom Cruise), you're dead.
Games don't like to adhere to this rule. They often have futuristic settings where armies have standard-issue submachine guns and giant robots that shoot lasers, but the protagonists fight with swords, fists, boomerangs, spears, and for some reason, a jacket.
If games did follow this rule, there would be no excuse for a person to not use his gunblade exclusively as a gun.
Don't worry, I'll distract the machine-gun-toting soldiers with the scarf stuffed down my pants, then I'll hit them with my jacket. That'll work, right?
9. The "Can I please have my body back?" rule.
Every first-person shooter starts out after some horrific event in which the main character loses his enitre body and has turned into two floating hands hell-bent on getting the rest of their body back.
Wait…they don't start like that? Then where the hell is the rest of my body? Last time I looked down, I could see my legs and my torso. If I look down in a first-person shooter, I see nothing. No legs, no torso. What are my incredibly-stiff-arms-that-always-hold-guns-up-to-my-face supposed to be connected to?
8. The affirmative-action rule.
Games are seriously lacking in racial diversity. Why won't they at least let me make a non-white character?
In Dragon Age: Origins, starting as a human noble, I was able to make a black-ish character. Then I met my very white parents and brother, meaning I was either adopted or a douche who liked to walk around in blackface.
It's not much different for the other origins in DA:O. You meet your family members in each of them (except for the mages), and they are all white. So I can make my character look like anything I want — so long as that character is white.
Bethesda had the right idea with Fallout 3 — your father's race changed with yours. Sure, it's kind of weird to hear Liam Neeson as a black guy…but then again, Kratos was voiced by a black guy.
7. The clothing rule.
Some game characters seem unable or unwilling to get dressed, and they just look ridiculous. Take Monkey from Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, or Nier from…Nier.
Remember, kids: Shirts are never a bad idea.
Put some pants on. You look stupid.
6. The Albedo rule.
Named after Albedo from the Xenosaga series, the rule is simple: If a game has to be censored, then the censorship has to make it more awesome. If a game is too bloody, replace blood with rainbows. When a guy gets his head shot off, have a unicorn pop out of it. It's not violent — it's a unicorn!
This rule specifically comes from one scene in Xenosaga wherein Albedo terrorized MOMO. In the Japanese version, he used a knife to cut off his arm and head. In the American version, he couldn't use a knife (because knives are violent), so he ripped his arm off and twisted his own head off. Sure, it's less bloody, but it amps up the crazy.
5. The genital rule.
Keep it in your pants, guys. Please, no more talking penises riding chariots or giant monsters with vagina faces. It's just weird. (Respectively, the offenders are: Mara [possibly NSFW] from Persona 3 and 4, and the Rakk Hive from Borderlands.)
Also, let's not take the term "cockpit" so literally, Zone of the Enders. It's distracting.
4. The patch rule.
If you encounter a major and very noticeable glitch within the first 30 seconds of playing, then the game is not finished and should be delayed.
Also, if a game is littered with glitches, like a giant worm emerging underneath my tank resulting in instant death (Mass Effect), or if I start with my main character in his underwear because a piece of free DLC didn't carry over (DA:O Awakening), don't ignore it. PATCH IT!
However, funny glitches, like the Cougar Man, can stay.
3. The title rule.
Square Enix recently revealed that Final Fantasy is going to fight 13 while also pondering Final Fantasy 13-2 (which is 11 if my math is correct). In addition, someone in Kingdom Hearts is going to give birth by going to sleep, and something is going to happen in 179 days.
While none of those titles make any sense (and two of them look like math problems), this problem isn't exclusive to Square Enix. Titles like Last Ranker, Monster Hunter Tri (because the number 3 was taken? or is the game about trying?), and Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together also exhibit odd, ridiculous titles.
This also includes games with horrendously long titles that abuse colons, such as Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army and The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth 2: The Rise of the Witch-King.
2. The star rule.
Whose game is this anyway? Stop changing protagonists halfway through games that feature a series star. It didn't work in Metal Gear Solid 2. It didn't work in Halo 2. It didn't work in Devil May Cry 4. Stop trying.
This also applies to games that ditch their series stars for a bland create-a-character. Tenchu Z was terrible, and Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy effectively killed the series.
Good luck, X-Men: Destiny!
1. The rule of kings.
There must always be a king of genre, a shining beacon that everyone aspires to be. World of WarCraft rules of MMOs, and Dynasty Warriors is lord of…Dynasty Warrior-like games. But there is one king that shows that path that no one should take: the king of vaporware.
With the imminent release of Duke Nukem Forever, the king has abdicated the throne, and there must be a new one to show the masses how things should not be done. Thankfully, Valve has continuously failed to release Half-Life 2: Episode 3. I think we have a new ruler.
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comic relief about cyber stalker Rick Martin, Japan-based "sports writer"
By Globalite Magazine November 11, 2011 joke
How cyber stalker Rick Martin in Japan became "the world's leading volleyball writer", and a key player in a smear campaign against an expelled journalist
by Christopher Johnson
Rick Martin (1rick.com) is a popular writer in Tokyo (or as he spells it on his blog: "Toyko").
He is such a naturally talented writer, he didn't even need to study journalism like thousands of other university and college students in Canada.
He never had to survive a weeding-out process just to enter journalism school, or to graduate. He didn't have to pass tests or evaluations. He didn't have to pay his dues working at small community newspapers in Canada, or work his way up through the ranks to establish his credentials. He didn't even have to endure the training (and punishment) of demanding professors or gruff editors. He never had to deal with sources calling his bosses demanding corrections, or angry letters-to-the-editor about his work.
No, Rick Martin is above all that.
All he had to do was move to China, and call himself a journalist.
Suddenly, thanks to the internet, he was indeed a journalist. Like Mark MacKinnon, the award-winning Beijing-based Asia correspondent for the Globe and Mail, Rick Martin was a foreign correspondent based in China, giving him status above the thousands of journalism school graduates slaving away back home in Canada.
From his base in Dalian, the media capital of northeastern China, Rick Martin didn't just stop there. He called himself an "author", an expert sought out by other media.
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Rick Martin, author of CNET Asia's Little Red Blog, was recently interviewed by the China Business Network, a podcasting powerhouse covering, well, business in China. Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13908_3-9871989-59.html#ixz1nT0ewACk
But, in truth, Rick Martin wasn't hacking it as a hack in China, even though he had studied at the prestigious Dongbei University, and was fluent in computer vocabulary in Mandarin. Fed up after 5 years in China, he looked around Asia for a more dynamic, growing economy.
He moved to Japan in 2008. He already knew Japanese, which he had studied in China, and he quickly gained friends and fans on Facebook and Twitter. After only a few years in Tokyo, he now calls himself a "columnist" for the Japan Times, CNNGO, and others. He also out-hustled other competitors to win the posting of Tokyo correspondent for Penn-Olson, a Singapore-based site with correspondents across Asia.
He trumpeted this achievement in a message to his fans:
By rickmartin on 10 Jun 2011
Some of you may have figured out by now that I'm blogging over on Penn-Olson.com, an up-and-coming blog focused on technology in Asia. Think Mashable or Techcrunch but with an Asian focus. It means that I get to cover China again, something I haven't done much of since moving leaving China for Japan back in 2008. But above all else it means that I get to experiment with new web publishing tools, something I seldom get to do when writing freelance for individual clients.
Those clients include CNNGO, a leading travel site in Asia, backed by Turner Broadcasting, which gave the world CNN, CNN International, CNN.com and other world-shaping news organizations that employ hundreds of the most trained and talented journalists in the world.
CNNGO's freelance contract specifically states that contributors should not use the name of "CNN" to gain favours.
Capitalizing on the prestige and fame of writing for CNN's website in Asia, Rick Martin got hired as a match reporter for the world volleyball championships in Japan from October 29 to November 14 2010, by telling officials at the Japan Volleyball Association that he was a sports writer "for CNN." In fact, an internet search finds no evidence that Rick Martin ever wrote a published sports article before his work was posted on the official site (www.fivb.org) of the world volleyball championships on November 3, 2010. His heavily-edited pieces appeared in CNNGO.com after the tournament was over on November 14. HIs feature on running appearedon Nov. 15, and his volleyball feature in CNNGO on Dec. 13, 2010, a month after the tournament was over.
Did Rick Martin lie to the JVA and FIVB about his credentials as a published sports writer? More importantly, did Rick Martin violate his freelancer agreement with CNNGO?
In one of Martin's first volleyball pieces for FIVB and JVA on November 3, (http://1rick.com/samples/resilient-poland-collect-third-win-against-winless-a…, he writes, according to his blog, a misspelled, acrobatic sentence: "The win represetned (sic) a good return of three wins on the trot for Poland after dropping their initial two matches to Japan and Serbia as they move into second round action which kicks off on Saturday."
As for his alleged knowledge of volleyball, the "sports section" (http://1rick.com/sports) of his own blog says:
By rickmartin on 24 Nov 2010
Having played a ton growing up, I still try to write about sports whenever possible.
An internet search finds no evidence that Rick Martin, who is perhaps not taller than 165 cm, played volleyball or any other sport for the Memorial University Seahawks in Newfoundland, or any other team.
Did Rick Martin lie on his own blog when he says "I still try to write about sports whenever possible."
Does this mean that Rick Martin "tried" to write about sports for much of his adult life, but couldn't complete a story?
Or has Rick Martin been so busy his whole life, that it never was "possible" to write about sports until after he got a job writing about volleyball for the world volleyball organizers in early November 2010?
Nevertheless, Rick Martin quickly rose through the world volleyball media ranks in 2010 and 2011, ahead of his colleagues including myself (a veteran published sports writer since age 19), Fred Varcoe (a leading sports writer in Japan for more than 20 years) and Jack Gallagher (longtime Japan Times sports editor, part-time contributor for the Associated Press.)
During the world volleyball championships in Japan in 2011, Rick Martin was often the only English-language writer accredited to cover matches involving teams from the US, Germany, Brazil, Russia and other nations.
Rick Martin alone was assigned to cover the most important matches. Noting his deep understanding of volleyball and his innate writing talent, press officers with the Japan Volleyball Association and the FIVB (the Lausanne-based international volleyball federation) relied on him to be the one and only source of volleyball information for millions of fans worldwide. (Disclosure: FIVB and JVA press officers, apparently satisfied with Rick Martin's coverage, forbid myself or other foreign journalists in Japan to cover the events, though in my case, I had done a story a year earlier for the New York Times.)
How did Rick Martin ascend to such heights of the global media industry so quickly?
It starts with his smug attitude, and disdain for trained, qualified professional reporters.
Since Rick Martin knows how to use other people's copyrighted intellectual property found on youtube and other websites, he considers himself superior to trained, professional journalists who have endured weeding-out processes in Canada. While those hard-working, old school reporters were out risking their lives in the field talking to people braving a hurricane in Newfoundland, the avant-garde Rick Martin had the competitive advantage of "covering it" from a computer in a cozy room on the other side of the world in Tokyo.
http://1rick.com/blog/japan-quake-map
Some of you may recall the Newfoundland Hurricane video map I made back last September. I was a little fed up at the time with what I thought was primarily story-based disaster reporting from local news orgs, when there was an enormous amount of user-generated YouTube clips of the storm that were not being taken advantage of.
http://1rick.com/projects/igor
But it's clear that regular people around the province with handheld cameras and phones have one-upped the local media this time, at least as far as online coverage goes. See the map below for more.
Canadians, who also endure disasters in other provinces, have long criticized Newfoundland for taking an inordinate share of public funds and transfer payments from wealthier provinces. Rick Martin, who is obliged to pay taxes in Japan, Canada and other countries, also championed the cause of Newfoundlanders hoping to evade taxes by using form RC4288. (http://1rick.com/projects/igor)
Showing his respect for privacy and media laws, Rick Martin has also championed the work of hackers.
RT @HacksHackers: Interested in journalism x technology? Subscribe to the @hackshackers jobs newsletter. Beta version. bit.ly/z5O8HU
— Rick Martin (@1rick) February 26, 2012
8:12 PM – 25 Feb 12
Let's see how Rick Martin's writing would compare with journalism students at a Canadian university such as Carleton, where I studied journalism for four years from 1983-87.
Firstly, let's check Rick Martin's volleyball story for CNNGO.com (http://1rick.com/samples/saori-kimura-japans-rising-volleyball-superstar-cnngo), also http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/life/infinite-saorin-kimura-japans-volleyball-star…
Despite the efforts of good editors in Tokyo and Hong Kong (who do excellent edits of my features for CNNGO), Rick Martin's story would have earned a grade of "F" in a first year journalism school assignment.
Why F?
Rick Martin mis-spells Tokyo and the name of the star athlete of his story.
He spells Tokyo "Toyko". (Martin also repeats this mistake in the first line of his own blog posting: When the Women's World Volleyball Championships came to Toyko last month.)
Then, he misspells the name of the story's main subject, Kimura Saori, one of Japan's most popular athletes. Saori is spelled Saorin.
Spiker Saori Kimura is the team's top scorer. Her nickname "Nippon no mirai Saorin Mugendai" or "Infinite Saorin" (Japan's future) tells us exactly how much she means to Japan volleyball.
The story ran almost a month after the tournament finished on November 14, 2010, making the info useless for anybody who wanted to check it out. (Nobody commented on this story, and there were zero tweets).
Lacking any news peg or timeliness, the CNNGO editor at that time (a successful journalist and entrepreneur in Japan) must have struggled to find a way to give Martin's writing some focus, since Martin mostly copied quotes and lines off the tournament's website. So the editor went with: SAORI KIMURA: Japan's Rising Volleyball Star.
The first three lines:
When the Women's World Volleyball Championships came to Toyko last month, hopes were high for the host side.
Ranked number five overall, a place on the podium would have been a great result, and the team would need its stars to raise them to such great heights.
Luckily for the host nation, Japan's best players are also among the world's best.
Unaware of the inverted pyramid structure of news writing, Rick Martin doesn't even tell us that Japan finished third (no small achievement) until half-way through the story. Why not put that at the top, to excite readers about Japan women's volleyball?
Like a high school paper reporter, Rick Martin's writing is pure cheerleading:
But driven by their two stars and an emotional boost from hometown fans throughout the tournament, Japan pulled off a well-earned bronze.
Even more remarkable was that Japan came within only a few points of doing even better, giving fans worldwide some of the most entertaining matches in the history of the sport.
That's right, in the history of the sport, a sport which Martin seemingly had never covered before weaseling his way into a job paying 30,000 yen per day (about $400) writing for the JVA and FIVB official site.
Next, the article digresses into how the tournament unfolded, and it veers off toward other players, instead of focusing on Saori (Saorin) Kimura. Rick Martin goes on to cobble quotes taken from FIVB's website, without crediting them or the reporters who got the quotes (including myself, Varcoe, Gallagher, and FIVB Press Director Richard Baker.)
Finally, after readers wade through muddy passages, Rick Martin's disclaimer appears at the end:
Disclosure: Rick Martin was a FIVB match reporter for the World Championships
More than a year later, Rick Martin is continuing to call himself a "columnist" for CNNGO.com, when in fact he has contributed just a handful of feature stories, mostly about technology.
CNNGO's author posts (http://www.cnngo.com/author/123892/articles) list only 3 stories by Rick Martin:
–50 ultimate trade apps … so far
–Japanese scientists creating lifelike human organs (It generated 5 "likes", 27 "tweets", and no comments)
–CTRL + ALT Tokyo: Tech news with attitude (also nobody bothered to comment)
Rick Martin's article "Japanese scientists creating lifelike human organs" generated 5 "likes", 27 "tweets", and no comments.
It features a Rick Martin original photo with a microphone blocking the mouth of GREE CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka. (another failing grade in journalism school)
HIs writing shows that his cheerleading goes beyond the world of sports:
Say what you want about the economy, but there's rarely a month that passes when we don't see some sort of astounding technology emerge from Japan.
July was no exception. The folks at Kobe University Hospital rolled out 3D printers that can create biological models of organs.
Meanwhile over at Kagawa University, researchers have created a faux human mouth capable of producing speech.
Suddenly, in mid-article, Rick Martin writes about something — sports — that has nothing to do with the topic:
"It was a good month for Japan abroad, however, as the Women's soccer team took the World Cup, knocking out the favored U.S. team on penalties.The moment was pretty sweet for Japan, a nation still struggling to get back on its feet post-quake, but that didn't stop a number of Twitturds from pooping on the parade.
Twitter's trending topics list, besides showing a classy "congrats Japan" also displayed "Japs" and "Pearl Harbor."
Yes, Rick Martin, showing his gift for language, calls people on twitter "twit-turds", and they are "pooping" on the parade. He also makes sure to include the war era racial slur "Japs" in a story about Japan's "astounding technology."
Then he goes further off topic, talking about criticism of the soccer team's coach. What does this have to do with "lifelike human organs"?
Speaking about organs, the article then digresses toward Lady Gag.
"As for foreigners visiting Japan, the most notable visitor in July was Lady Gaga."
Finally, Rick Martin has to get in a word supporting a hacker — a theme of his, as he thinks hackers and stalkers are good for free and open journalism.
In domestic hacking news, 28-year-old Masato Nakatsuji was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on charges of property destruction as a result of his "ika-tako" virus. The malware, once it took over a victim's computer, would replace files with cartoon pictures of squid and octopuses. It's creative, at least.
His interest in hackers also appears in another CNNGO "column" which garnered no comments: CTRL + ALT Tokyo: Tech news with attitude
He writes in the first paragraph: Sony's troubles continued this month, this time as hacker group Lulzsec breached Sony Pictures.
He also panders to a fellow contributor in the Japan Times, which is CNNGO's direct competitor: Brian Ashcraft had a great overview of Sony's situation in The Japan Times for anyone who's not up to speed.
Rick Martin's fascination with hackers and his disdain for old-school journalists showed through in his response to the detention and expulsion of this reporter after legally living and working in Japan on-and-off since 1989.
Though we are both Canadian freelance journalists living in Japan, and we share several friends on Facebook, Rick Martin did not write me to show his support or concern like dozens of other journalists did. Instead, I have strong reasons to suspect that Rick Martin used the smear campaign against me, on several hateful websites about Japan, to take out his grudge against old-school journalists and discredit a competitor in the industry.
For disclosure, I have only met Rick Martin once, during a press conference at a Tokyo hotel in late 2010. That day, the FIVB and JVA assigned me to write the official match report for the women's semi-finals and final matches, since I was perhaps the most experienced sportswriter in their roster.
Rick Martin, losing the assignment, appeared jealous. He did not respond to my calls or emails after that. He had a motive to badmouth me behind my back to our superiors in the JVA and FIVB, and this may have cost me paying work in 2011 worth about $10,000.
Other FIVB and JVA workers noted that Rick Martin was currying favour with his boss, a young Japanese woman named Hiromi Suzuki, in order to take their roles in future tournaments. Whatever happened behind the scenes, the result was that the FIVB and JVA decided not to hire me for any work in 2011, and they gave roles, which I had done in 2010, to a candidate with less experience and training — Rick Martin.
During the height of the character assassination aimed at me during January this year, Rick Martin badmouthed me in tweets to other Tokyo-based journalists.
When I asked him on twitter to explain why he was joining the smear campaign against me, he responded with a strange message on Feb. 3, 2012. He told me that he was digging up dirt about me and my work using "version tracker".
I thus have reason to believe that Rick Martin was behind the Japanprobe.com article on Feb. 8 defaming myself and the Washington Times over our coverage of Japan Tobacco targeting teenage Japanese girls by sponsoring the World Cup of Volleyball in Japan in 2011. (My stories also appeared in CNNGO.com and www.japantoday.com, a popular site among expats in Japan.)
Back in November 2011, I had posted a comedy piece, The Press Office from Hell, on this Globalite Magazine blog. It was meant as a joke story to cheer up a young reporter who had worked in the nuclear and tsunami disaster zones of Fukushima and northeastern Japan.
The reporter was distraught about the nasty way that Rick Martin and the Japan Volleyball Association and FIVB press officers treated her during her attempts to cover an international event for foreign media. JVA and FIVB press officers forbid her to enter a Tokyo arena to cover the international event, even though she was assigned to cover the US volleyball team. Instead of aiding a fellow young journalist, Rick Martin also refused to help her, and told her to stop "yelling from the porch". This was witnessed by other reporters, and Rick Martin also confirmed it in messages to me.
I believe that FIVB and JVA officers, and Rick Martin, were aiming to insult me for writing about the United Nations and anti-tobacco groups in Japan scolding the JVA, FIVB and Japan Tobacco over their market targeting of teenage girls in Japan.
My comedy story "The Press Office from Hell" was all true. Reporters taped conversations with the event's haughty officials, including Hiroshi Takeuchi. Mr. Takeuchi, a veteran employee of the Kyodo News agency, has also been the press attaché for the Japan Olympic team.
My comedy story, which never appeared elsewhere, was buried in my blog, and had only a few views by the time I removed it to make way for more important and popular stories (some stories have garnered between 3000 and 20,000 views).
Few people knew about this joke story other than people involved in it. I wrote briefly about Rick Martin, but not in a negative or attacking way. I mentioned that Martin, as the lone accredited foreign journalist in English, had the job of telling the whole world about the event.
It's possible that Martin felt offended by the story, and didn't enjoy its stated mission to provide comic relief.
During the smear campaign against me in January and February, I noticed Martin badmouthing me behind my back to others in Japan on twitter. When I asked Martin on twitter, "what's this?" Martin answered on Feb. 3:
It's a version tracker.
Rick Martin@1rick
@cjinasia It's a version tracker.
— Rick Martin (@1rick) February 4, 2012
7:57 PM – 3 Feb 12
About 5 days later, on Feb. 8, Japanprobe ran a story featuring a "version tracker" link to a photo capture of the Press Office from Hell story, which I had already removed from my own blog. The story appeared on Japanprobe at the height of the smear campaign, to discredit a journalist exposing inconvenient truths about the abuse of thousands of foreigners, including hundreds of westerners such as Canadians. The JP headline was: Washington Times Freelancer Slams Former Employer, Fails to Ethically Disclose Relationship?
Though he has falsely lambasted me for alleged lack of disclosure or transparency, the editor of Japanprobe does not list his real name on his site, only James: Editor-in-Chief. His twitter account is @jamesJPN, and his email is [email protected]. Though the site often attacks foreigners, called "flyjin" for leaving Japan after the March 11 disasters, Japanprobe claims it is not based in Japan, and thus not subject to Japan's laws against cyber bullying on online defamation.
At the end of the libellous article, Japanprobe praises anonymous "cyber sleuths" for digging up negative information about me.
I feel that Rick Martin is the cyber sleuth. Rick Martin is responsible for helping Japanprobe libel me and the Washington Times. Rick Martin has repeatedly shown a grudge against me and my colleagues, and therefore he has a motive for discrediting me. Rick Martin has repeatedly defended the practice of using "versionista" to dig up, and store, negative information about people, including me. He has defended Japanprobe's actions of using, without my consent, my copyrighted intellectual property, in an abusive way.
In a number of email exchanges with [email protected], I gave Rick Martin several chances to walk away clean from this situation.
Rick Martin denies that he is the "cyber sleuth" which Japanprobe praises for helping them find an article buried deep in my blog, which briefly mentions Rick Martin. However, during email exchanges on Feb. 21, Rick Martin repeatedly defended the practice of "version tracking", which I consider an illegal abuse of my copyrighted work.
I believe that Rick Martin was the only one with a motive to expose the story. Nobody else, other than Martin, could have cared about or found the article, which barely had any views, and was buried several pages inside a blog containing hundreds of feature stories with photos over the past decade. Another cyber-sleuth would have needed days to read every article to finally find something potentially useful as ammunition against me. Other cyber sleuths would have had no idea that I had briefly worked a few weeks for JVA in 2010, among several dozen employers over the past few years.
Thus I believe that Rick Martin dug up the Press Office from Hell story and sent it to Japanprobe, as a way of getting revenge on me.
Rick Martin appears to contradict himself, and cover up his relation with Japanprobe, in a series of emails on Feb. 21, listed in order of appearance.
1- "There's nothing illegal about versionista. See ProPublica's use/advocacy of it here: http://www.propublica.org/article/changetracker
It's an award-winning journalism tool: http://www.propublica.org/article/changetracker-wins-innovation-award-724 If you have doubts, @brianboyer would be happy to clarify.
2- "I have not participated in any smear campaign," he wrote. "But as you know, the repeated edits did raise some eyebrows."
3- "I assume you're referring to the Japan Probe article:
http://www.japanprobe.com/2012/02/08/washington-times-freelancer-slams-former-employer-fails-to-ethically-disclose-relationship/
…which refers to you not disclosing your JVA employment history in this Washington times piece (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/24/japan-tobacco-accused-of-marketing-to-girls-at-wor/).
4- In a following exchange, Rick Martin then admitted to "setting up a couple of version trackers on blog posts which interested me, one of which actually mentioned me (again, just preserving your own words, which you later deleted)."
5- I don't know Japan Probe, but they did point out your JVA rant post to me, not vice versa as you seem to think.
6- Given that you've been sending them (japanprobe) legal notices and threats, I don't plan getting involved further. But suffice it to say that I don't have anything further than a first name (of editors at Japanprobe).
7- I was pointed towards an article that mentioned me, and I put a tracker on it.
Rick Martin has refused to name who at Japanprobe allegedly "pointed" him toward the contentious article stored deep within my blog. Why is Rick Martin protecting Japanprobe, instead of a fellow Canadian journalist? If he had nothing to do with this, why wouldn't he reveal the name of the editor who allegedly "pointed" him toward the contentious article?
In summary, Rick Martin says he knows a first name of someone at Japanprobe. Rick Martin says somebody at Japanprobe pointed out the JVA rant which mentions Rick Martin. Rick Martin also contradicts himself, claiming "I don't know Japanprobe." Rick Martin repeatedly defends his right to track my copyrighted original work on "versionista", and says he has indeed tracked and stored my work. Rick Martin admits that he was hurt by a misunderstanding he had with me over something on Facebook several months ago. "But I haven't participated in any smear campaign," he claims.
Based on our personal and online interactions, I believe Tokyo-based Canadian freelancer journalist Rick Martin is partially responsible for libeling me and my employers, and Rick Martin has abused my copyrighted intellectual property without my consent, in violation of media laws in Japan, Canada and other countries.
Ultimately, the joke is on Rick Martin and Japanprobe. Though I have removed a post which makes fun of Rick Martin and FIVB and JVA press officers, Japanprobe is continuing to show it on the internet. Thus, in a twisted irony, Rick Martin and Japanprobe are now responsible for making fun of Rick Martin and his employers at the FIVB and Japan Volleyball Association. | {
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Artists to Watch: 17 Alternative & Indie Breakouts For 2019
By Chris Payne
Shervin Lainez
We just got done compiling what dominated last year commercially and critically; now it's time to look to the future. What new faces from the rock and alt worlds will populate 2019's year-end charts and best-of lists?
Last year, we tried our best and hit on a few emerging bands and artists that now appear to be sticking around for the long haul. Across alternative, punk, indie, folk, and beyond, here are 17 sure bets and deep cut candidates to level up significantly this year.
Baltimore's Angel Du$t features members of hardcore party-starters Turnstile and Trapped Under Ice and their last album, 2016's Rock the Fuck On Forever, was about as fun as its title suggests. For 2019, they signed up with Roadrunner Records -- and even better, enlisted producer Will Yip, who's introduced heavy bands like Turnstile, Code Orange, and Title Fight to dizzying new horizons. "The songs are very much Angel Du$t, while the production is some whole other shit," the band said in statement late last year. We tend to agree; see above. Expect a full-length release this year.
The Los Angeles garage rockers really should've gotten much bigger with 2016's Welcome the Worms, a hook-filled sophomore effort bursting with the best parts of the Ramones, Blondie, and early Wipers without sounding hopelessly retro or pastiche-like -- largely thanks to the emotional urgency of vocalist-guitarist Jennifer Clavin. But despite that album being largely slept on, Bleached kept the momentum with 2017's Can You Deal EP, which came accompanied by a zine featuring words and art from numerous forward-thinking female musicians. Then they toured Europe with freakin' Paramore. The band is currently recording a new album to be released later this year, and we think third time's the charm for a larger breakthrough.
The Florida-born Dominic Fike emerged out of nowhere last year, sparking an (alleged) major label bidding war behind his debut EP, Don't Forget About Me. He landed with Columbia, around the time his management at Tha Lights Global (who also rep Lil Pump) partnered with the label's parent company, Sony. Given the fuss around the Soundcloud crooner's guitar chops and Apple logo face tattoo, we'd expect a follow-up before long. And don't let the hypebeasty veneer fool you; Fike's Motown-tinged breakout track "3 Nights" is trend-proof and irresistible, swaying back and forth like a Hawaiian hula dash ornament into your subconscious.
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Rage Against the Machine for 2019? It's been some time since the originals had a chance to defend that title, but their fellow rap-rocking Angelenos are coming on strong. With police brutality, white nationalism, and general inequality in their crosshairs (see above), FEVER 333 blew up last year: Single "Walking In My Shoes" went top 10 at Mainstream Rock Songs, and its follow-up "Made An America" followed as a staple on the chart, even earning a 2019 Grammy nod for best rock performance. That's a tough act to follow for a debut full length, but STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS (out Jan. 18 on Roadrunner) again features production from Blink-182's Travis Barker and John Feldmann (who's worked too many commercial punk hits to count at this point), so look for their ascent to continue.
Hatchie
What if the hooks of shoegaze gems weren't buried under reverb, but bursting loud and proud on the service? Australia's Harriette Pillbeam -- aka Hatchie -- mastered this experiment on last year's Sugar & Spice EP, which evoked turn-of-the-90s dream-pop, as well as the Cranberries at their brightest, and didn't feature a single track that would've sounded out of place on the Clueless soundtrack. Plenty of Hatchie's contemporaries are leaning into pop, but few are doing it this whole-heartedly, or this well. Her full-length debut awaits this summer via Double Double Whammy.
Singer-songwriter-producer Dexter Tortoriello has been releasing music as Houses since the start of the 2010s, alongside production and composition for a wide swath of artists including Lil Yachty, Kali Uchis, and Martin Garrix. On alternative radio, his solo work is starting to have a moment: "Fast Talk," the entrancing lead track from his drum-and-bass-influenced EP Drugstore Heaven, has held strong on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart for eight weeks. It's currently at its peak position of 17 and could become one of the chart's more unexpected top 10 entrants before long.
The Kenya-born, Minneapolis-based Ondara owns a striking singing voice, which ranges from a velvety croon to an immaculate upper-register. Really, you've just got to hear it yourself. Ondara is a longtime Dylan devotee whose modern take on Americana beckoned an all-star supporting cast: producer Mike Viola (Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis), Andrew Bird, and members of Dawes and Milk Carton Kids all contributed to his debut album, Tales of America (due Feb. 15 on Verve Forecast). Don't be surprised to hear Ondara all over Triple A radio soon. Did we mention this guy can sing?
With two Adult Alternative Songs top five hits already to her name, Jade Bird is set to release her debut album April 19 on Glassnote Records. Something American indeed reflects U.S. country-folk tradition; on those two early hits -- "Lottery" and "Uh Huh" -- the 21-year old singer-songwriter belts like Dolly and tells it like it is à la? Kacey Musgraves. ("Uh Huh" in particular just goes so hard.)
Nanami Ozone
Tiny Engines is coming off a such great year that punk, emo, and post-hardcore fans would be smart to follow everything in the pipeline for the Carolina-based indie label. That means venturing into the desert for Phoenix's Nanami Ozone, a dual-vocalist-wielding rock band whose sophomore album is due in early 2019. They've teased it would a two-song taste of both: "Alone Too" (sung by guitarist Sophie Opich) is equal parts nimble and punchy while "3 Mile Drive" (sung by Opich and guitarist Colson Miller) is 100 percent designed for the open road.
We premiered the Florida band's very catchy debut track back in November, and fortunately, "Dead Inside" won't be the lone song sitting on their Spotify page for long. They've signed to the punk and post-hardcore mainstay Equal Vision Records (Saves the Day, Waterparks, formerly Circa Survive) and plan to release their debut EP in the early months of 2019. Produced by Matt Squire, the man behind many of your favorite MySpace era rock hits (and a few pop stars), Never Loved's pop-punk sound is in strong, time-tested hands.
We've been psyched about Pronoun for a couple years, and this spring, the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter-producer-label founder Alyse Vellturo is set to release her debut album on Rhyme & Reason Records. As Pronoun, Vellturo has a knack for flipping heartbreak into sunbeam-lit, charismatic indie pop and the three-track teaser she released last October is really, really strong. Post-breakup anthems in the key of Metric and Tegan and Sara, Pronoun's songcraft would sound right at home on alternative radio or late night talk show stages.
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SHAED
Like Houses up above, SHAED is an electro-pop upstart gaining significant hype on alternative radio. Shortly after "Trampoline" appeared in a MacBook Air ad last fall, the chic single broke into our Alternative Songs chart, where it's since risen to 22. Out on tour promoting its debut EP MELT (released last year on the New York indie Photo Finish Records) the trio will try to stick on people's minds as much as "Trampoline" and its well-timed, whistled hook.
Stella Donnelly, a Fremantle, Western Australia-based singer-songwriter, made waves last year at SXSW alongside her debut EP, Thrush Metal. The 26-year old is a jarring storyteller with a beautiful voice and since that six-song collection was essentially just her and her guitar, those core elements were on full display. On her brand new track "Old Man," Donnelly introduces a jangly, full-band indie pop sound to go with her freshly-announced LP, Beware Of the Dogs (due March 8 on Secretly Canadian). Dig into her lyrics and you quickly uncover some compelling and urgent social messages.
Vagabon -- the project of Cameroon-born, New York City-based multi-instrumentalist Lætitia Tamko -- was one of 2017's biggest DIY success stories. It wasn't just that debut LP Infinite Worlds was great, it was how it was great in many different ways. It featured guitar-and-drums gut punches like "The Embers" and "Cold Apartment" -- written early in the process -- alongside the last track recorded, "Mal a? L'aise," a sun-kissed sound collage made entirely in Logic. There are numerous exciting directions Vagabon's second album could go in, and we're happy to report it's arriving later this year. Tamko mentioned Mitski as a particular inspiration in our 2017 interview; if you were one of the many who adored last year's Be the Cowboy, look out for Vagabon's latest as a kindred sonic spirit.
Westerman
A couple months removed from playing his first U.S. shows, we're anxious to hear from London artist Will Westerman, particularly his angelic voice. Lofty Nick Drake and Arthur Russell comparisons are well-earned, and in a modern sense, his dreamy, deeply emotional soundscapes echo Bon Iver, early James Blake, and the subtler moments of last year's acclaimed album by The 1975. His 2018 EP Ark was produced by Bullion, an electronic producer and fellow Londoner whose shown a knack for helping Westerman shine amongst his airy synth beds and skeletal guitars. There's a lot of promise here. Likewise, Westerman is currently working on his debut LP and plans to release it this fall.
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal
Remember those SoundCloud vs. Bandcamp memes that were kind of funny in 2017? Adam McIlwee sits a the center of that Venn diagram, easing the two worlds into peaceful equilibrium. Way back in 2005, he co-founded the Scranton, Penn. band Tigers Jaw, and helped carry the torch for emotional punk music through his departure in 2013. In the years that followed, he morphed into Wicca Phase Springs Eternal and co-founded the emo rap collective GOTHBOICLIQUE. Last year's "Stress" found him rapping alongside, then duetting with, Camp Cope vocalist Georgia Maq, over a beat from Lil Peep collaborator Fish Narc. It's a big mood, as they say, and just in time to prelude Wicca's sophomore album. Suffer On is due Feb. 15 on Run For Cover Records, Tigers Jaw's old label.
We're ending with one more from Tiny Engines Records. New York City's Wild Pink make panoramic rock music that's like the War on Drugs, but with more emphasis on poetic, storytelling lyrics, and a little alt-country thrown in. Their 2018 sophomore effort Yolk In the Fur is a downright spellbinding listen. If it arrived on one of the bigger indie labels, like say Matador or Sub Pop, it would have been all over last year's year-end lists. Tiny Engines suggests they've got more in store for 2019, so here's to hoping for their third LP in as many years.
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World Fire Breaks Out at Iranian Power Plant, Latest in Series of Incidents
Fire Breaks Out at Iranian Power Plant, Latest in Series of Incidents
Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 10:01 pm | י"ב תמוז תש"פ
This Friday satellite image from Planet Labs Inc., annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, shows a damaged building after a fire and explosion at Iran's Natanz nuclear site. (Planet Labs Inc., James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies via AP)
A fire broke out at a power station in southwestern Iran on Saturday, Iranian media reported, the latest in a string of fires and explosions, some of which have hit sensitive sites.
The blaze, which affected a transformer in the power station in the city of Ahvaz, was put out by firefighters and electricity was restored after partial outages, Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, a spokesman for state-run power company TAVANIR, told the semi-official news agency Tasnim.
There have been several other incidents at facilities across the country recently.
A chlorine gas leak occurred at a unit of the Karoon petrochemicals plant near the port of Bandar Imam Khomeini on the Gulf on Saturday, injuring dozens, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported.
"In this incident, 70 members of the personnel who were near the unit suffered slight injuries [due to chlorine inhalation] and were taken to a hospital with the help of rescue workers," the plant's spokesman, Massoud Shabanlou, told ILNA, adding that all but two had been released.
On Thursday, a fire broke out at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility but officials said operations were not affected.
A former official suggested the incident could have been an attempt to sabotage work at the plant, which has been involved in activities that breach an international nuclear deal.
On Tuesday, 19 people were killed in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the capital Tehran, which an official said was caused by a gas leak.
On June 26, an explosion occurred east of Tehran near the Parchin military and weapons development base that the authorities said was caused by a leak in a gas storage facility in an area outside the base.
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Agenda Focus of EU Summit Talks Shifted to Covid Response
Politics | March 25, 2021, Thursday // 12:48| views
The renewed focus on the COVID-19 crisis and delays with the European vaccination campaign are set to overshadow talks on how to align industrial policy with the EU's climate goals at an EU summit meeting on Thursday (25 March).
The EU is facing two crises – the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic – but while the European Commission has repeatedly said there is no vaccine for climate change, the topic is sorely lacking from the summit's March agenda.
In fact, the topic risks completely dropping off the agenda as EU leaders focus on COVID-19 and ongoing disputes with AstraZeneca despite significant milestones in climate policy coming up in the next few months.
"At the moment heads of state are definitely more focused on COVID-19, concerns about strategic dependencies in global supply chains and vaccine politics," warned Johanna Lehne, senior policy advisor at the climate think tank, E3G.
If climate policy is a top political item, it requires heads of state and finance ministers to be involved, she added.
Campaigners hoped this meeting would be the moment to align industry and climate policy, but while European leaders will exchange views on the single market, industrial policy and competition policy, the Commission's industrial strategy, which should have been released prior to the meeting, has been delayed until the end of April.
"Leaders should be discussing how to leverage the impact, size and integration of the EU's single market to drive the net-zero transition globally and ensure continued European competitiveness," said Lehne.
"As well as the climate imperative, there is a strong economic imperative to ensuring a better linkage of industrial policy and climate," said Lehne, pointing to competition on green technology from the US and China.
The Commission's upcoming June package of energy and climate laws will also have a significant impact on European industry, but there has been little discussion on this, campaigners say.
"So far, we've seen a handful of member states start to position themselves on key files but no discussion space at Heads of State level to ensure a strong consensus is built up on how to deliver the new target," said Lehne.
Important political decisions that should be discussed ahead of the June package are not on the summit's agenda, despite announcements to this effect in December 2020, warned Agora Energiewende, a think tank.
In a study published on Thursday (25 March), the German think tank said the EU is still far off track from reducing emissions by "at least -55%" before the end of the decade, its stated objective.
"The European Commission projects at least a 10% gap for emissions reductions in 2030 based on current scenarios. Quick and decisive action is thus needed across all sectors of the economy to meet the new 2030 target and to prepare for climate neutrality by 2050," says Agora Energiewende.
One of the key questions for the EU is how to incentivise a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and transport, which are currently not included in the EU's carbon market, the emissions trading scheme (EU ETS). While the Commission's June package will chart a way forward on how to do this, the report looks at four alternative options.
"Each option has its benefits and drawbacks, some of which must be dealt with in companion policies. However, for the framework to have environmental integrity and ensure target delivery, member states will have to clearly define who is accountable for reducing emissions, and who will be responsible if targets are not met," said Dr Patrick Graichen, executive director at Agora Energiewende.
"These issues are politically difficult, but EU leaders cannot shy away from taking decisions. Time is of essence, we need a bold 'Fit for 55' package in June this year," he added.
The poor are expected to be the most heavily impacted by a potential inclusion of transport or building emissions into the EU carbon market. "To ensure fairness, policy makers must not only consider the different income levels of households across the EU, but also the different levels of vulnerability to a rising carbon price," the report says.
One way to minimise impact on the poor is to redirect revenues from the carbon market to those affected, Agora Energiewende suggests. "Delivering the EU's climate target will only be successful if environmental integrity and social justice go hand in hand, in particular in the buildings and transport sectors," Graichen said./Euroactiv
Tags: EU Summit, covid response, agenda, climate change, economic recovery
COP26: 190 Countries have Pledged to Abandon Coal
Kristalina Georgieva Called for Faster Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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Holsbeek este o comună în provincia Brabantul Flamand, în Flandra, una dintre cele trei regiuni ale Belgiei. Comuna este formată din localitățile Holsbeek, Kortrijk-Dutsel, Nieuwrode și Sint-Pieters-Rode. Suprafața totală este de 38,50 km². Comuna Holsbeek este situată în zona flamandă vorbitoare de limba neerlandeză a Belgiei. La 1 ianuarie 2008 comuna avea o populație totală de 9.460 locuitori.
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So in this video, we'll take out about a half hour to design an animal / mascot logo; specifically one that's encased in an emblem. The approach I'm using is based on a random animal generator, where one is randomly selected, and my goal is to capture the "essence" of the character in a very simplistic, and circular logomark.
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Anyone else thinking that final result is more like rat?
Can u do a raptor?
What is better? Corel or ilustrator? And why?
Doesn't look like an opossum, especially not like the one you had for a reference. Still a cool little rat or something though.
Someone make me one please?
My C disk has allmost no bites left, I want to install Adobe Ilustrator on my D disk, how do I do it? It doesn't let me choose.
Thank you thank you thank you! I learned a ton!
can you design a weasel logo?
My teachers would ALWAYS stress how important sketching on paper is before taking to illustrator, but I've always worked better sketching in my head, then do it the best I can for a first draft then refining, I just work better that way, glad he did it the same way and just build an idea in his head and went straight to designing, makes me feel not so alone and "unprofessional".
"What the hell is Springbok?"
whats the name of the programme?
BTW Very Nice Video Though.
Hey, how much do you take for one mascot?
See my mascot for sale!
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Texas sheriff talks border wall security, government shutdown
HOUSTON – Andy Louderback has been the sheriff of Jackson County for 16 years and he has been to the White House several times to discuss border security and criminal justice issues.
Louderback was seen sitting next to President Trump on Friday as the president answered questions about the ongoing government shutdown and the border wall. Louderback is also the legislative director for the Sheriff's Association of Texas and he said a wall is needed along the border but maintains it is only a partial solution.
"The wall is simply a portion of what we've talked about for decades," said Louderback. "No country exists that doesn't have a border that's controlled."
Jackson County is a little over an hour south of Houston. The county is not on the border, but Louderback said Jackson is a corridor county. He explained what comes across Texas' border with Mexico eventually moves through his jurisdiction on the way to Houston.
"Virtually 100 percent of our narcotics problem is coming out of Mexico," said Louderback.
Louderback points to cocaine, ecstasy, Xanax, heroin and meth seized during recent arrests. He said none of those drugs are manufactured in the rural county and he said he is seeing an increase in meth.
"It's manufactured in laboratories in Mexico and shipped by the metric ton into this country," said Louderback.
Louderback said when he has spoken to President Trump about border security, it is to say a wall is not needed along every mile of the border. However, Louderback said he believes a wall in certain portions is necessary to help law enforcement have greater control over the drugs and other types of crime coming over the border.
"We need physical barrier structures in certain places, we need technology and we need manpower," said Louderback.
Louderback said border security is something he and his counterparts have discussed for decades because of the drugs, human trafficking and other crimes fueled by cartels.
"There's not a single law enforcement agency in this country who doesn't deal with what the cartel is bringing in to this country," said Louderback.
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Most of us take our ability to breathe effortlessly for granted. But those of us that suffer with the sinuses, well what can I say, it's pretty appalling. Headache, pain in the face, stuffed or runny nose, post nasal drip, sneezing, awful taste in the mouth, dizziness, upset stomach are only some of the symptoms of a sinus condition. So out comes the neurofen, the paracetamol, the nasal spray, the decongestants and many more over the counter products in the hope that they work immediately and allow you to continue your day in better form. If they don't then it's off to the Dr;s for an antibiotic. But, by this time perhaps a week has passed or more which has allowed the problem to go deeper into the body presenting itself perhaps as a chest infection aswell. Most cases presenting to an acupuncturist have been down this route time and time again. Interestingly, after receiving acupuncture for their sinuses they then opt for acupuncture as their first treatment preference. Why? Apart from the fact that it works, acupuncturists look for the cause, for the weakness or disharmony in the body that has allowed this to happen in the first place.
If we look at what happens anatomically we can better understand not just sinusitis but the terminology and system used by the Chinese to describe and therefore treat this condition. Sinusitis is simply an inflammation of the mucous membranes that line the sinus cavities. Acute or chronic inflammation causes the mucous membranes to secrete more mucous, sometimes to the point where the tissues in the nasal cavities can become swollen. This can then prevent drainage. So the nose becomes congested, you can loose your sense of smell (anosmia) and pain can develop in the face and head area. The drainage route can then move to the back of the nose to get a post nasal drip, a cough, sore throat and yellow or green production of mucous.
Acute sinusitis is usually due to a secondary bacterial infection following a prior viral chest infection or an allergic type reaction in the nasal area from the environment, better known as allergic rhinitis. Chronic sinusitis may have no signs of acute infection but over a period of weeks and months the signs include pain in the face, neck or head, loss of appetite, a cough that is usually worse at night with daytime fatigue or a general sense of malaise. A primary cause of chronic sinusitis is the fact that an acute sinusitis was treated ineffectively, which then leads to further attacks. Other causes are overuse of decongestant nasal sprays, smoking, swimming, diving, allergies, or as the Chinese say an underlying disharmony within the body that presents itself as sinusitis.
The pattern of disharmony identified by your acupuncturist can be varied and different to say your friend that also has the same problem. But that is the uniqueness of the Chinese perspective. For instance, overeating fats, hot spicy foods, sweets, or drinking alcohol, can engender or create what we say is 'damp' and 'heat' in the body. Damp then congeals or thickens to form phlegm while heat moves upwards (a bit like steam) and lodges in the orifices of the lungs, which include the nasal cavities. This damp and heat can be attributed to a weakness in the spleen energy system. But, how does a weakness in this spleen system develop? The spleen is nourished via the stomach, and as we know we eat to derive nourishment for the body overall. So eating or drinking excessively, irregularly and unhealthily damages this spleen energy. This reflects the Chinese thinking of yin and yang, of paired organs. The stomach is considered yin and paired with the spleen, its yang partner. In addition, the emotional aspect affects the spleen. Worry being the biggest factor. This is part of stress. Is there anyone that is not or never worried about something? Can you see how long-term worry affects you? Now if the spleen energy can be harmed, then this can affect the stomach energy or yin. Can you see then how stomach disorders can start and how the complexity of disharmonies arise within this system of thinking?
Apart from the spleen, heat that is considered latent or depressed in the liver system from emotional stress or frustration can also contribute towards developing sinusitis, particularly of a repetitive variety, or as western medicine describes it, chronic sinusitis.
The above patterns of disharmony all involve 'heat', but sinusitis can also be due to 'cold' or to be more precise 'empty cold'. The expression empty means it is a deficiency or weakness. This cold lodges in the body and interferes with the function of transforming and transporting fluids in the body. These fluids gather and transform into 'damp', which can congeal into phlegm if there long enough. Again this is associated with a weakness in the spleen energy system. Now the Chinese say, that the spleen is the mother of the lungs, so if the spleen is weak then the child, the lung, is weak. So if the function of the lung is to inspire and expire and there is fluid or phlegm impairing its downbearing function then these fluids accumulate and spill over into the nasal orifices. This results in a clear watery nasal discharge, nasal congestion, lethargy, loss of appetite, malaise and general lack of strength.
Is there anyone that has not had this variety of what was assumed to be a bit of a cold? A runny nose with no appetite or strength but over a few days or weeks the nasal discharge went but you were left feeling wrecked? But perhaps what you didn't know was, it was a sinusitis of the damp empty cold variety, and as the Chinese say, damp always turns to heat, as does cold.
So, sinusitis can develop from a variety of sources in Chinese medicine, but from a western perspective it is, bacterial, a chronic inflammation or environmental. It does not consider how fluids or heat act, or the present state of the body internally as a complete system with this condition unless of course it is your adenoids. If it is appropriate, these are then removed. Acupuncturists think differently, we look for a root cause and treat the root along with the presenting signs and symptoms. We also consider how one system affects the functioning of another, short term and long term. Ultimately, the intricacies of this system can help prevent long-term illnesses developing. So don't wait for the loss of appetite, the anosmia, the dizziness, the chronic condition, treat a sinus issue early, before it goes deeper and affects the body. And, if you do have an underlying disharmony, well, this will be treated too. | {
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Pakistan's Unrelenting Feminists
This is a behenchara, a sisterhood that grows stronger with each media attack or attempt to pull it down. Pakistani women have fought the patriarchy for so long and have suffered its consequences too many times. But like before, they have only reemerged stronger for next year.
Anmol Irfan
The Hidden Face of Nawal El Saadawi
The Egyptian writer was marginalized and misunderstood at home and abroad. In Egypt, she was labeled anti-religion and secular. But in the West, too, she was put in boxes: Arab, feminist, revolutionary. She was more than all those things: a universal writer who transcended boundaries and wrote of the human condition.
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Q: Is this module finitely generated? Suppose $M$ is a $A$-module, $A$ is a commutative ring with 1, such that for every countably generated submodule $N$ of $M$, there exists a finitely generated submodule $L$ which contains $N$.
Must $M$ be finitely generated?
(Maybe it should be tagged by set-theory? )
Thanks.
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*$F$ be a field,
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*$M$ be the left $A$-module of functions $X \to F$ which are zero except possibly on a countable subset of $X$.
Then every countably generated submodule of $M$ is in fact contained in a submodule generated by one element (given a sequence $m_1, m_2, ... \in M$, the submodule they generate is contained in the submodule generated by an $m$ which is nonzero whenever any of the $m_i$ is nonzero), but $M$ itself is uncountably generated. Both properties follow from the fact that a countable union of countable subsets of $X$ is countable.
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MEXICO town Mayor Teddy Tumang said they are now in the process of acquiring an eight-hectare land near the new North Luzon Expressway Bypass Road in a bid to transfer the municipal hall and other government and public structures of the town.
Tumang said the move will decongest the old town proper from traffic and enable the municipal government to build more vital structures needed by the town.
Tumang said the current location of the municipal hall and surrounding lands does not provide for space for new vital structures.
"We will also transfer the public market. This will enable us to fully develop the new area to fit standards on traffic management as well as development," Tumang said.
Tumang said the old municipal hall will become an office for other departments of the municipal government along with the old public market. The Sangguniang Bayan is also expected to still have their sessions at the old municipal hall.
Tumang said the move will effectively decongest the town center and also usher in new developments in other parts of the town.
The eight-hectare property will also house the new community college, buildings for the fire department as well as other structures for sectoral groups like senior citizens.
The mayor is confident of getting help from Rep. Aurelio "Dong" Gonzales. | {
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Faresmaathodaa är en ö i Huvadhuatollen i Maldiverna. Den ligger i administrativa atollen Gaafu Dhaalu atoll, i den södra delen av landet, km söder om huvudstaden Malé. Ön består av de tidigare öarna Fares och Maathodaa som förenades genom landåtervinning under 1990-talet.
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Article Deconstructing Activism
The subversive power of laughter
There's no incongruity in conducting serious business and having fun.
This week I've been reading a biography of Abbie Hoffman, the iconic American antiwar activist. (Sacha-Baren Cohen depicted him memorably in the film The Trial Of The Chicago 7, which I re-watched until 2am this morning.)
Hoffman co-founded the Youth International Party (Yippies), and he understood the power of humour as a political weapon like few others. Through outrageous stunts like nominating a pig for president, trying to levitate the Pentagon and threatening to dump LSD into Chicago's water supply, he manipulated the media into covering his cause. And in so doing, Hoffman helped to mobilise a generation against the injustice, militarism and political corruption of the 1960s and 70s.
A Yippie demonstration (source: Geocities)
Learning about this influentual, imaginative dissident has been inspiring. But also, if I'm honest, a little depressing. Because back here in 2023, I've been having some odd days, attending activist meetings that have been heavy affairs. With more energy dedicated to hand-wringing over the issues, deliberating over process, and resolving perceived slights between participants... than on how to get out there, to confront and campaign.
It's frustrating. And, I'm realising, far too common among activist groups today.
OK, the counterculture may have moved on from beards and flowers and public fornication1. But diving into the activist practices of 50 years ago, shows me that those of today may have lost something vital. The ability to laugh at the establishment, and at each other.
The plan to levitate the Pentagon was the perfect absurdly inspiring protest for the time
How many hippies does it take to make magic happen?
TimelineStephanie Buck
When did it all get so damn solemn?
Sociologists can chart the decline of the Joy Of Activism much better than I. But having seen it up close, I'd say 2016 was a tipping point.
(And let me be American-centric here, because its internet platforms are ubiquitous, and the US is still, today, the driver of global culture.)
2016 was the year Trump got elected, the polariser-in-chief. He exploded onto a landscape of political discourse governed by tech platforms, primed for polarisation and outrage.
This unleashed some dangerous dynamics. Would-be activists fell victim to the tug of tribalism. Meanwhile the establishment targeted them by stoking offence strategically, sometimes with outright lies. While keeping them fed on a daily diet of injustice and horror, splintering their attention, making it hard for them to see any dissident action through to its end.
Activism: today's religion
All this is well documented. But there's a missing piece that's easy to overlook. While these trends were taking shape around 2016, religiosity was at an all-time low.
And political engagement and civic activism stepped in to fill that void.
Once you notice the religiosity in today's mainstream activism, it's hard to unsee. All the hallmarks are there: An in-group and an out-group. A fear of being cast out, cancelled. Unquestionable beliefs; a lack of nuance. A duty to act. Rituals. Heresy. Moral panics. Witch-hunts. A coalescence around charismatic preachers.
And this, I think, is where our fear of laughter comes in.
Why we're afraid...
The Name Of The Rose, a novel about the tension between reason and faith, is one of the best-selling books ever published. In it, the priest Jorge de Burgos is asked what's so alarming about laughter. His reply is instructive:
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. Because without fear of the Devil, there is no more need of God.
A key debate on the tension between comedy and religion, from the film version of The Name Of The Rose
Something similar is happening in much of modern-day activism. In its pseudo-religious incarnation, the actions of individuals in activist projects are typically saying first to their peers, then to a wider group: don't worry I'm one of you. And in this way, betraying the solemnity of the cause, making light of Very Serious Things, is an offence worthy of ex-communication. It's a dog-whistle, problematic, uncaring, or unserious.
So activists grumpily push on and fall in line, slogging their way through traditional tactics and performative displays.
And just like that, it's goodbye lightness.
...and how it holds us back
Draining the lightness out of activism is self-defeating. And maddeningly unstrategic.
Lightness is a potent political weapon that Abbie Hoffman used to such great effect. Sure, a provocative stunt on its own won't achieve your political goal. And making light of the impact of the establishment's policies can turn out tasteless, and backfire.
But attacking their methods through humour, if done right, can rally people to your cause, grow your support base, get airtime for your solutions.
And since the establishment are a serious bunch who hate their work to be ridiculed, Hoffman-style tactics can increase the chance they'll over-react. That their masks will slip. That they'll do something you can exploit... to further increase support for your cause.
Meanwhile, inside activist projects, in the kinds of meetings I attended this week, lightness brings freedom. Freedom from judgment and expectation. Freedom to experiment; freedom to fail. It says: losing is not just conceivable, it's likely. But hey, let's give it a shot. And worst case, we'll have fun trying.
Activism without lightness, though, makes for rigid, dull responses to the problems of the world. And it raises the chance that the energy of your activist project will burn up over matters of process, purity and personal offence. It makes the prospect of collapsing into in-fighting – a common fate of activist groups – more likely.
Managing for meltdowns
Leading US activist groups are collapsing inwards. Don't make their mistakes.
SUBVRTMehran Khalili
It's not all bleak. Actually, we might be on the cusp of a sea change. Comedians have never been more popular as interpreters of political news – from Russell Brand to Joe Rogan to Konstantin Kisin – as trust in legacy media craters.
But, my activist citizen friend, the time to get ahead of this is now. Bring Abbie Hoffman into your toolkit. Deride the Establishment's methods, not their ends. Grieve over the heating of the Earth, while ridiculing the policies of our elites that keep it heating. Laugh at the audacity of their corruption. Satirise their fumbling, authoritarian actions, their petty tyranny, their own stifling humourlessness.
The world's elite has arrived in Davos on over 1000 private jets to lecture you about climate change. pic.twitter.com/2WyDiqLbV6
— DiEM25 (@DiEM_25) January 16, 2023
And never, ever lose the subversive power of laughter.
Abbie Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989)
1: I'm not sure what today's counterculture even is. But we have to be open to the possibility – as paradoxical as it sounds – that counterculture itself has become mainstream.
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