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import { async, ComponentFixture, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { Comp3715Component } from './comp-3715.component';
describe('Comp3715Component', () => {
let component: Comp3715Component;
let fixture: ComponentFixture<Comp3715Component>;
beforeEach(async(() => {
TestBed.configureTestingModule({
declarations: [ Comp3715Component ]
})
.compileComponents();
}));
beforeEach(() => {
fixture = TestBed.createComponent(Comp3715Component);
component = fixture.componentInstance;
fixture.detectChanges();
});
it('should create', () => {
expect(component).toBeTruthy();
});
});
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Humberside Fire & Rescue Service
Six fire engines called to smoke logged east Hull tower block
Crews spent more than an hour dealing with the fire at the flats in Valiant Drive
10:14, 2 APR 2018
Six fire engines attended a block of flats in east Hull after a blaze broke out in a rubbish chute.
Crews were sent to the flats in Valiant Drive just after 1am on Monday.
There was smoke logging on all floors of the tower block and six firefighters entered the building.
The building was not evacuated and no one was hurt, but crews spent more than an hour dealing with the blaze and using fans to clear away the smoke.
It is unclear at this stage how the fire started but investigations are taking place.
Tower blocks in Valiant Drive, east Hull
The latest tower block fire comes after a number of call outs to flats in Great Thornton Street.
Crews were sent out again at around 11pm to one of the blocks in the west Hull estate off Anlaby Road after food was left unattended on the grill, causing a small blaze.
Firefighters called to Great Thornton Street flats AGAIN after second fire in four days
On Friday firefighters raced to the Great Thornton Street high-rise flats after a fire broke out in the rubbish chute on the sixth floor.
Some residents were seen spitting on crews as they tried to tackle the fire.
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2023 Suzuki V-Strom 1050DE
New Motorcycles • Adventure
2023 Suzuki V-Strom 1050DE • $15,999
Pearl Vigor Blue / Pearl Brilliant White
The 2023 V-STROM 1050 models are Engineered for the Unexpected. Suzuki further enhanced these legendary Adventure motorcycles so you can conquer the unexpected. Continuing the reputation of a reliable sports adventure tourer, these models deliver a stronger connection between rider and machine. Thanks to an updated Suzuki Intelligent Ride System (S.I.R.S.), V-STROM 1050 riders have even more comfort and control over varied terrain and conditions.
The 2023 V-STROM 1050, the V-STROM 1050DE, and V-STROM 1050DE Adventure let riders easily escape into the great outdoors and explore to their heart’s content, whether that’s long-distance pavement-oriented touring or exploring gravel roads and country trails.
Advanced Electronics Features
INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT (IMU): Essential to Suzuki Intelligent Ride System (S.I.R.S.) operation, the V-STROM 1050DE’s IMU measures six directions of movement along three axes (as compared to the five directions measured by the prior V-Strom 1000). The IMU detects pitch, roll, and yaw movement based on the motorcycle’s position, movement, and acceleration. This high-performance six-direction IMU, supplied by Bosch, combines a three-axis angular rate sensor (gyrometer) and a three-axis acceleration sensor in a single compact unit.
CAN (CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK) TECHNOLOGY: Also key to the operation of the S.I.R.S., the V-STROM 1050DE uses an interconnected information network instead of a conventional wiring harness. Because it requires fewer wires, this CAN-wiring lets the vehicle be lighter and simpler and provides a way for the advanced components – such as the cruise control – to have faster data transmission with the ECM. The CAN-wiring also provides a single connection point for diagnosing any errors that may occur throughout the entire network.
ENGINE CONTROL MODULE (ECM): The 32-bit ECM has a fast processor and new programming to efficiently operate the fuel-injection system, Ride-by-Wire throttle bodies, ignition, and other electrical features on the V-STROM 1050DE.
ABS UNIT: The V-STROM 1050DE is equipped with a new Anti-lock Brake System (ABS)** control unit that is more compact and lighter in weight than the prior unit. Working in conjunction with the IMU, the ABS control unit is key to the operation of the Motion Track Brake System, Slope Dependent Control System, Load Dependent Control System, and Hill Hold Control System. (**Depending on road surface conditions, such as wet, loose, or uneven roads, braking distance for an ABS-equipped vehicle may be longer than for a vehicle not equipped with ABS. ABS cannot prevent wheel skidding caused by braking while cornering. Please ride carefully and do not overly rely on ABS.)
For the 2023 V-STROM 1050 models, Suzuki decided to create a new variation on proven chassis architecture to offer riders a choice of optimization geared toward their intended use or riding preferences. Specifically, the V-STROM 1050 retains its great all-round adventure touring setup with a focus more on comfort and riding pleasure for long-distance on-road outings. In contrast, the V-STROM 1050DE aims to provide even better performance and control for those who wish to spend more of their time exploring gravel roads and flat dirt trails. The V-STROM 1050DE and 1050DE Adventure models receive their own dedicated chassis geometry with a longer wheelbase, longer rake, more ground clearance and a wider handlebar grip. The purpose is to improve stability and controllability when riding on unpaved surfaces and to provide a comfortable riding position that effectively distributes weight to the front and rear.
The V-STROM 1050DE continues the trim, distinctive styling that incorporates elements of both Suzuki’s legendary DR-Z Dakar racer and the large DualSport DR-Big. Since its introduction by Suzuki, the characteristic off-road beak design has become an integral feature of a modern Adventure-style motorcycle.
Augmented by new body colors and graphics, the V-STROM’s beak flows into a vertically stacked LED headlight with a unique rectangular shape, then upward to a new, shorter windscreen. The headlight effectively illuminates the road surfaces and surrounding areas, so the rider has an excellent view of what is ahead.
The V-STROM 1050DE receives a unique, smaller windscreen designed to maximize visibility when riding on dirt trails and on gravel roads. Over three inches (80 mm) shorter and slightly narrower than the V-STROM 1050 windscreen, it has been developed to reduce wind buffeting to the rider’s helmet. The height of the windscreen is adjustable using basic hand tools. Suzuki accessory kits to add a higher windscreen or quick-release height adjustment are available.
The V-STROM 1050DE has a new 1.57-inch wider (40 mm overall, 20 mm per side) tapered aluminum handlebar. Cast in thicker tubing from a softer grade of aluminum than the V-STROM 1050 handlebar, this construction allows more flex when riding on unpaved surfaces and better shock absorption for greater comfort. In addition, the wider grip position provides enhanced control, particularly when standing on the foot pegs to negotiate rough terrain.
Both the clutch and front brake levers have adjustment knobs so the rider can quickly set them to a comfortable reach. The shifter and rear brake pedal can also be adjusted to the rider’s preference.
The mirrors feature a design that complements the V-STROM 1050DE’s styling while proving an excellent view of objects behind the rider.
Wide, steel footrests help the rider comfortably maneuver the V-STROM 1050DE on diverse types of roads. Rubber inserts damp vibration but can be removed so the rider’s boots can have even more grip of the pegs.
The slender chassis, thanks to the narrow V-twin engine design, fuel tank and trim seat, helps the rider’s legs reach the ground more easily than other models in the V-STROM 1050DE’s category.
The fuel tank has a generous 5.3-gallon capacity and its shape and protective cover have been designed for a slim tank-and-seat junction for rider comfort.
A sizable portion of the V-Strom legacy is its durable, twin-spar aluminum frame that balances weight and rigidity for optimal handling on all types of roads. The V-STROM 1050DE's aluminum alloy frame incorporates cast sections along with extruded sections that deliver the proper amount of suppleness and strength to the chassis.
The V-STROM 1050DE uses a new sub-frame with stronger seat rails and battery and rear fender brackets that better withstand the shocks from riding on unpaved surfaces.
The rider’s seat features a fixed-height design with a new bottom shape that increases rigidity while reducing weight by 1.5 lbs. (706 g, a 37% reduction in mass). Designed for durability, this new seat is more durable for riding on unpaved surfaces, as well as to weight shifts as the rider changes position. The rider and pillion seats provide a comfortable upright riding position that reduces fatigue, even when riding for long distances. The sides of both seats are covered with high-grip texture material to help the rider and passenger stay connected to the motorcycle.
The 43mm KYB inverted front fork delivers a controlled, yet plush ride in diverse conditions. The fork legs have adjustable spring preload plus compression and rebound-damping force adjusters. The front and rear suspension spring rates, damping force valving, and piston settings were custom-tuned for the V-STROM 1050DE to maximize performance and comfort when riding on unpaved surfaces. The updates to the front suspension result in a longer 6.7 in. (170 mm) fork stroke. This is an increase of 0.4 in. (10 mm) over the prior V-STROM 1050XT fork stroke.
The V-STROM 1050DE uses a new three-piece front fender assembly that combines the effectiveness of a conventional V-STROM fender with the protection of fork guards like those used on an MX bike. This Suzuki-unique structure yields a stronger connection to the fork legs that can better withstand the shocks encountered when riding on unpaved surfaces. An added aesthetic benefit of this front fender assembly is the fork guards are color coordinated to other body parts.
Movement of the new cast aluminum swingarm is controlled by a single rear shock with remote, hydraulic spring preload adjustment so adjusting for cargo or a passenger takes just seconds. The single-shock, link-style rear suspension also features rebound-damping force adjustment. The V-STROM 1050DE has a new longer version of the proven V-STROM 1050 swingarm. To retain nimble handling, this new swingarm has the same vertical and lateral rigidity with 10% increased torsional rigidity that complements the V-STROM 1050DE’s chassis geometry and longer wheelbase, resulting in superb straight-line stability. Updates to the rear suspension result in longer 6.6 in. (168 mm) rear wheel travel. This is an increase of 0.3 in. (8 mm) over the prior V-STROM 1050XT rear wheel travel.
Because of the suspension changes, front wheel diameter, and chassis geometry, the V-STROM 1050DE ground clearance is 1.0 in. more than the V-STROM 1050. This helps the motorcycle ride over uneven terrain without touching the bottom of the frame to the ground.
Radial-mounted Tokico four-piston front brake calipers are mated with 310mm floating-mount dual discs. These efficient calipers are connected to the Motion Track Anti-lock** and Combination Brake System for strong stopping performance. (**Depending on road surface conditions, such as wet, loose, or uneven roads, braking distance for an ABS-equipped vehicle may be longer than for a vehicle not equipped with ABS. ABS cannot prevent wheel skidding caused by braking while cornering. Please ride carefully and do not overly rely on ABS.)
The rear brake combines a 260mm outer diameter disc with a NISSIN-supplied single-piston caliper that provides fine braking control at all road speeds.
The V-STROM 1050DE rides on spoke-style wheels and adopts a 21-inch aluminum, tube-type front rim for greater stability and control when riding on unpaved surfaces (the rear wheel is a tubeless type). The 90/90-21 Dunlop TRAILMAX MIXTOUR tire in the front and 150/70R17 Dunlop TRAILMAX MIXTOUR tire in the rear feature a semi-block pattern and an internal structure designed exclusively for aggressive adventure riding. A specific version of these new adventure tires were developed for the V-STROM 1050DE to provide solid performance on the road, as well as good grip and nimble handling when exploring gravel roads and dirt trails.
Because of the V-STROM 1050DE higher stance chassis, it is equipped with longer, model-unique side- and center-stands. The sturdy center-stand is a standard feature that aids the rider when servicing the motorcycle or loading luggage.
A large, resin luggage rack incorporates passenger grab handles while providing a flat and level platform for cargo or the mounting of Suzuki accessory top cases.
Ready for mounting auxiliary lights, or reducing damage in a tip-over, a sturdy accessory bar is mounted to the V-STROM 1050DE.
Especially designed for off-pavement use, a new engine protector constructed of 3 mm (0.12 in.) aluminum plate shields the front and bottom of the frame, exhaust header, and engine from trail debris.
Electrical Features
The 2023 V-STROM 1050DE’s instrument panel uses a new-generation 5-inch, full-color TFT LCD screen. This TFT display is the first of its kind on a Suzuki Adventure motorcycle.
This high-quality instrument panel is set into the upper fairing above the handlebars, for good visibility and protection from road debris. The TFT panel, itself, features a scratch-resistant surface, and an anti-reflective coating that improves visibility in bright light.
The brightness adjustable TFT display delivers a wide range of useful information, keeping the rider fully aware of all the bike’s systems, settings, and real-time operating status. The display can be set for manual or automatic switching between Day Mode (white background) and Night Mode (black background). The display’s general brightness can be set to automatically adjust to the ambient light-level, or manually set to suit the rider’s preference.
The TFT panel provides operational information in an easily recognizable way: The left side of the panel has an analog tachometer animation with a sweeping red needle that accurately shows engine speed all the way up to the 9,250 RPM redline. To the left, center of the panel is a digital speedometer, quick-shift system status indicator, and gear position indicator. Directly below the speed display is a fuel level gauge. The upper right portion of the panel displays the clock and S.I.R.S. feature information such as the Traction Control*, plus the S-DMS and ABS** settings. Depending upon the rider’s selection, the lower portion of the right side of the panel can display coolant temperature, ambient air temperature, odometer, dual tripmeters, fuel consumption, and riding range. (*The Traction Control System is not a substitute for the rider's throttle control. It cannot prevent loss of traction due to excessive speed when the rider enters a turn and/or applies the brakes. Neither can it prevent the front wheel from losing grip.) (**Depending on road surface conditions, such as wet, loose, or uneven roads, braking distance for an ABS-equipped vehicle may be longer than for a vehicle not equipped with ABS. ABS cannot prevent wheel skidding caused by braking while cornering. Please ride carefully and do not overly rely on ABS.)
The main TFT panel is flanked by LED indicators, including: Left-turn signal indicator, MIL (Malfunction Indication Lamp), neutral indicator light, master warning indicator, high-beam indicator light, right-turn signal indicator, TC (Traction Control)* indicator, low oil pressure warning light, ABS** indicator, and coolant temperature warning light. (*The Traction Control System is not a substitute for the rider's throttle control. It cannot prevent loss of traction due to excessive speed when the rider enters a turn and/or applies the brakes. Neither can it prevent the front wheel from losing grip.) (**Depending on road surface conditions, such as wet, loose, or uneven roads, braking distance for an ABS-equipped vehicle may be longer than for a vehicle not equipped with ABS. ABS cannot prevent wheel skidding caused by braking while cornering. Please ride carefully and do not overly rely on ABS.)
The charging system uses a durable, three-phase stator with an open-style regulator/rectifier that reduces mechanical drag and heat while producing higher output at lower engine speeds. A high-capacity, maintenance-free style battery and fuses are easily accessible under the seat.
The V-STROM 1050DE’s fairing features a stacked, rectangular LED headlight for excellent road and trail illumination while matching Suzuki’s Dakar Rally bike styling.
The V-STROM 1050 has lightweight and low-draw LED turn signals that are brighter than the signals used on the prior generation V-Strom models.
The rear tail and brake light is an LED type with a clear lens that offers higher visibility, low electrical draw, and excellent durability.
The liquid-cooled, DOHC, 1037cc, 90-degree, V-twin engine delivers more horsepower with the same level of torque and fuel economy while achieving worldwide emissions compliance.
The perfect primary balance provided by the 90-degree V-twin design negates the need for any balancer shafts or rubber mounting, as the engine has smooth power pulses.
The large-bore, high-compression pistons were engineered with the use of FEM analysis to achieve ideal rigidity, weight, and improved durability.
These pistons move within Suzuki Composite Electrochemical Material (SCEM)–plated cylinder bores that are integrated into the upper crankcase for low weight, increased durability, reduced friction, and excellent heat dissipation.
Both the exhaust and intake camshafts have increased valve lift timing with less overlap to boost engine power while reducing fuel consumption.
The V-STROM 1050DE is the first Suzuki motorcycle to employ hollow sodium-filled exhaust valves. These valves help reduce temperature in the combustion chamber, improving flow efficiency and durability.
The Ride-by-Wire electronic throttle system is updated to take advantage of the powerful 32-bit ECM to control the action of the throttle valves with more finely tuned settings that better balance the relationship between throttle action and engine output characteristics.
The V-STROM’s electronic throttle system precisely maintains a stable engine idle under all conditions.
Each cylinder has a 10-hole fuel injector, located downstream of the throttle body on the intake manifold, which creates good fuel atomization for superior combustion efficiency and low fuel consumption.
The air cleaner box uses specially designed, elongated intake funnels to boost torque at lower engine speeds to help achieve the V-Twin engine’s unique power characteristics.
The transistorized digital ignition system independently fires the dual spark plugs in each cylinder head for more complete combustion by igniting the mixture at the ideal moment.
The single-silencer exhaust configuration reduces weight and has a low center of gravity to aid handling, maneuverability, and luggage mounting.
Matched to the efficient exhaust, the Suzuki Pulsed Secondary Air Injection (PAIR) system injects fresh air into the exhaust ports to satisfy a variety of US and international emission standards without sacrificing performance.
The V-STROM’s radiator has 15% increased cooling capacity (compared to prior generation V-Strom 1000) to accommodate high engine output. Coolant temperature is stabilized via a thermostatically controlled cooling fan.
A liquid-cooled oil cooler is located where the oil filter is attached to the engine. This compact, lightweight cooler takes up less space than a conventional oil cooler while reducing lubrication oil temperature.
A durable bronze finish paint is applied to the cylinder head covers, clutch cover, magneto cover, and water pump case for a striking contrast with the black crankcase.
Replaceable plastic shields protect engine parts, such as the clutch cover, from scuffs from the rider’s boots.
The V-STROM 1050DE’s ADV-themed styling retains Suzuki’s original rally-beak look, paying homage to past Suzuki Dakar Rally bikes and the DR-Big large-displacement DualSport.
Versatile for any ride, the 1037cc, V-twin engine produces more horsepower than ever before, retaining its strong pull in the lower-rpm range and good fuel economy while complying with worldwide emissions standards.
Ready to go off-pavement, the Suzuki Intelligent Ride System (S.I.R.S.) now includes a bi-directional quick shift system, a new Gravel (G) mode to the Suzuki Traction Control System* and the ability to switch off the rear ABS**. (*The Traction Control System is not a substitute for the rider's throttle control. It cannot prevent loss of traction due to excessive speed when the rider enters a turn and/or applies the brakes. Neither can it prevent the front wheel from losing grip.) (**Depending on road surface conditions, such as wet, loose, or uneven roads, braking distance for an ABS-equipped vehicle may be longer than for a vehicle not equipped with ABS. ABS cannot prevent wheel skidding caused by braking while cornering. Please ride carefully and do not overly rely on ABS.)
An all-new, 5-inch color TFT LCD multi-function instrument panel features a display that is clearly legible at nighttime or in bright sun. A USB port to the side of the instrument panel supplies power for smartphones or other accessories like a GPS.
The V-Strom’s narrow and nimble chassis legacy continues with a durable, twin-spar aluminum frame coupled to a new, longer more rigid swingarm that supports the new longer suspension resulting in more ground clearance.
The longer, fully adjustable, inverted fork holds radially mounted four-piston brake calipers that grasp dual brake rotors mounted to a 21-inch spoke-style front wheel carrying an aggressive Dunlop TRAILMAX MIXTOUR Adventure tire.
A wide variety of Genuine Suzuki Accessories for V-STROM 1050DE owners are available, including aluminum or plastic luggage, heated grips, low-profile seats, accessory bar, auxiliary lights, tank bags, body & chassis protectors, graphics kits & rim decals, and a wide selection of Suzuki logo apparel. Suzuki’s rugged plastic side and top cases now include locks that can be set by your Suzuki dealer to match the bike’s ignition key for true, one key operation.
12-month limited warranty. Longer coverage periods with other benefits available through Suzuki Extended Protection (SEP).* (*Subject to separate coverage for certain parts and the exclusions and limitations described in the New On-Road Motorcycle Limited Warranty.)
The 2023 V-STROM 1050DE has an updated version of the Suzuki Intelligent Ride System (S.I.R.S.) that includes the Motion Track Anti-lock** & Combination Brake System, Hill Hold Control System, Slope Dependent Control System, and Load Dependent Control System that assists braking performance in a variety of conditions. Unique to the V-STROM 1050DE and 1050DE Adventure models is a new, additional Gravel (G) mode in the Suzuki Traction Control System* that retards ignition timing to help the rider better negotiate gravel roads by allowing some slip when riding on unpaved surfaces. Also unique to the V-STROM 1050DE/Adventure models is the ability to switch off the rear ABS for improved performance on gravel and other unpaved surfaces. S.I.R.S. also includes the Suzuki Drive Mode Selector (S-DMS), and new Cruise Control and Bi-Directional Quick Shift systems. Each element of S.I.R.S. provides V-STROM 1050DE riders stress-free use and convenience while riding. (*The Traction Control System is not a substitute for the rider's throttle control. It cannot prevent loss of traction due to excessive speed when the rider enters a turn and/or applies the brakes. Neither can it prevent the front wheel from losing grip.) (**Depending on road surface conditions, such as wet, loose, or uneven roads, braking distance for an ABS-equipped vehicle may be longer than for a vehicle not equipped with ABS. ABS cannot prevent wheel skidding caused by braking while cornering. Please ride carefully and do not overly rely on ABS.)
CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM: The cruise control system maintains the selected road speed without the rider having to hold the throttle open – a welcome feature that can reduce rider fatigue. More advanced than the system used on the 2022 V-STROM 1050XT, cruising speed can be set when riding in second gear or higher at engine speed of 2,000 to 7,000 RPM or when riding between 30 MPH to 100 MPH in fourth gear or higher. This translates to cruising speed range options of approximately 15 to 100 MPH (25 to 160 km/h). A button on the right handlebar switch assembly can be pressed to put cruise control into standby, and a rocker-style selector switch on the left handlebar switch assembly lets the rider set the cruising speed, adjust the speed up or down, or resume to the preset speed. Cruise control function icons and indicators are located on the TFT instrument panel. A unique, new shift position sensor sends shifter movement data to the ECM, so the Bi-directional Quick Shift system precisely responds to the rider’s actions.
The new Bi-directional Quick Shift System (QS) allows the V-STROM 1050DE rider to shift up or down quickly and easily, without operating the clutch or throttle. To ensure smooth upshifts, QS automatically interrupts power delivery just long enough to produce smooth, almost uninterrupted acceleration. When decelerating, the system automatically opens the throttle valves just enough to increase rpm and match engine speed to the next-lower gear. The result is that this hands-free, automatic function combines seamlessly with engine braking to create a highly satisfying experience when downshifting.
SUZUKI DRIVE MODE SELECTOR (S-DMS): The V-STROM 1050DE includes a three-mode S-DMS system that lets the rider select the engine’s power delivery characteristic to match riding ability and conditions. Working in concert with the Traction Control System*, S-DMS permits peak power in each mode while changing the nature of the power delivery. (*The Traction Control System is not a substitute for the rider's throttle control. It cannot prevent loss of traction due to excessive speed when the rider enters a turn and/or applies the brakes. Neither can it prevent the front wheel from losing grip.) (**Depending on road surface conditions, such as wet, loose, or uneven roads, braking distance for an ABS-equipped vehicle may be longer than for a vehicle not equipped with ABS. ABS cannot prevent wheel skidding caused by braking while cornering. Please ride carefully and do not overly rely on ABS.)
MOTION TRACK ANTI-LOCK & COMBINATION BRAKE SYSTEM (ABS): The Motion Track Anti-lock** and Combination Brake System combines IMU-measured, spatial information of the motorcycle’s posture in conjunction with front and rear wheel speeds. This allows the ABS** to not only activate in a straight line but also when the vehicle is leaning or turning. V-STROM 1050DE riders can select between two levels of ABS activation sensitivity. ABS function and modes are displayed on the multifunction instrument panel. (**Depending on road surface conditions, such as wet, loose, or uneven roads, braking distance for an ABS-equipped vehicle may be longer than for a vehicle not equipped with ABS. ABS cannot prevent wheel skidding caused by braking while cornering. Please ride carefully and do not overly rely on ABS.)
TRACTION CONTROL SYSTEM: Suzuki debuted its first motorcycle Traction Control System* on the 2014 V-Strom 1000, and the five-mode system on the 2023 V-STROM 1050DE lets the rider control the throttle with more confidence by limiting rear wheel spin in a variety of riding conditions. The Traction Control System* continuously monitors front and rear wheel speeds, throttle opening, engine speed, and transmission gear. It quickly reduces engine output when it detects wheel spin by adjusting ignition timing and air delivery. The rider can select one of five modes (1, 2, 3, G and OFF). The four active modes differ in terms of rear wheel spin sensitivity. (*The Traction Control System is not a substitute for the rider's throttle control. It cannot prevent loss of traction due to excessive speed when the rider enters a turn and/or applies the brakes. Neither can it prevent the front wheel from losing grip.)
HILL HOLD CONTROL SYSTEM: When stopping upward on a hill and applying the brakes, this system automatically operates the rear brake for around 30 seconds to prevent the motorcycle from rolling back down the hill even if the rider releases the brake lever or pedal. This allows the rider to focus on a smoother takeoff when on the hill side. When the rider releases the brake lever or foot pedal, the ECM detects the rider’s intention to ride forward and releases the rear brake pressure smoothly. The rider can also disengage the Hill Hold System by squeezing the front brake lever twice or use the left handlebar control and the instrument panel with the system off.
SLOPE DEPENDENT CONTROL SYSTEM: The Slope Dependent Control System constantly monitors the posture of the vehicle even when the vehicle is traveling downhill. When the rider operates a brake lever or pedal when riding downhill, the electronic control unit adjusts brake pressure to prevent rear wheel lift.
LOAD DEPENDENT CONTROL SYSTEM: This system helps the rider to achieve optimal braking in response to the load on the motorcycle (passenger and/or cargo). Through continual measurement of IMU information and hydraulic brake pressure, the system constantly learns about braking deceleration as the load’s weight increases or decreases when riding with cargo or a passenger. The system retains this information to improve braking performance by adjusting rear brake hydraulic pressure as the load on the motorcycle increases.
THE SUZUKI EASY START SYSTEM: Easy Start allows the rider to easily start the engine with a single, momentary press of the starter button. In any weather conditions or with any engine temperature, there is no need to hold down the starter button until the engine fires. Easy Start is managed by the ECM so that the starter motor automatically stops once the engine has started.
LOW RPM ASSIST SYSTEM: Low RPM Assist seamlessly increases engine speed to smooth the power delivery when launching from a standing start or riding at low speeds, which helps ensure better control and operation in stop-and-go traffic. The system also minimizes the possibility of the rider stalling the motorcycle during take-off.
Transmission & Driveline Features
The six-speed, close-ratio transmission is updated with higher gear ratios in first and sixth gear that smooth the shift action into second and higher gears. This also increases the sensation of acceleration to the rider when opening the throttle. The updated gear ratios also contribute to the smooth operation of the new Bi-directional Quick Shift system.
The transmission’s output is managed by the Suzuki Clutch Assist System (SCAS). This system works like a slipper clutch by allowing a small amount of clutch slip to enable smooth downshifts. It also works as an assist clutch, making the clutch lever pull light and precise.
Riding on durable steel sprockets, a new stronger and longer O-ring style drive chain (RK525 x 120L) contains lubrication pre-packed between the pins and rollers for quiet, reliable operation.
V-Strom 1050DE
Front - Tokico, 4-piston calipers, twin disc
Rear - Nissin, 2-piston, single disc
Front - 90 / 90-21 M / C (54H), tube type
Rear - 150 / 70R17 M / C (69H), tubeless
RK-supplied O-ring type drive chain (525 x 120 l)
Headlight / Tail light - LED
CAN (Controller Area Network) Technology, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), Cruise Control System, Motion Track Anti-lock and Combination Brake System (ABS), Suzuki Drive Mode Selector (S-DMS), Traction Control System, Hill Hold Control System, Slope Dependent Control System, Load Dependent Control System
4-stroke, DOHC, 90˚ V-twin
1,037 cc (63.3 ci.)
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Collegedale és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Tennessee. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 6.514 habitants.
Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Collegedale tenia 6.514 habitants, 2.049 habitatges, i 1.528 famílies. La densitat de població era de 301,9 habitants/km².
Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 19,8% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 25,2% entre 18 i 24, un 25,4% entre 25 i 44, un 16,7% de 45 a 60 i un 13% 65 anys o més.
L'edat mediana era de 29 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 85,6 homes.
La renda mediana per habitatge era de 42.270 $ i la renda mediana per família de 52.337 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 37.819 $ mentre que les dones 28.345 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 18.604 $. Entorn del 5,3% de les famílies i el 7,4% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.
Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.
Referències
Entitats de població de Tennessee | {'title': 'Collegedale', 'url': 'https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegedale', 'language': 'ca', 'timestamp': '20230320'} |
Dutch artist Blaudzun released Heavy Flowers in the U.S. today (purchase it here), an album that is satisfyingly experimental as it is naturally beautiful. With an appearance at SXSW around the corner, we'll be hearing more from Blaudzun in the coming months, and don't be surprised if "Elephants" creates a few major waves across the States. Check out the video below, and listen to Heavy Flowers via NPR or Spotify. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-25T00:15:15Z', 'url': 'http://www.speakersincode.com/2013/01/video-blaudzun-elephants.html', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
Seahouses lifeboat assists two cut off at Budle Bay
At 2:14pm on Wednesday 8 September 2021, UK Coastguard requested the launch of Seahouses inshore lifeboat, to go to the assistance of two people cut off by the rising tide, on sandbanks at Budle Bay.
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Seahouses Inshore Lifeboat on service
The Coastguard were concerned for their welfare as they were described as panicking.
The inshore lifeboat was launched and made best speed to Budle Bay, where the two were located and taken aboard the lifeboat. They were transported to the shore, and handed into the care of the local Coastguard Rescue Team. They did not require any medical assistance.
Seahouses Lifeboat Operations Manager Ian Clayton commented: 'The RNLI are becoming concerned at the number of calls for people cut off by the tide at Budle Bay. Like many shallow sandy bays with sand banks, the tide can come in very quickly and encircle the unwary. We urge visitors not to attempt to cross the sand flats on an incoming tide, and very high tides are expected later this month.'
For more information please contact RNLI Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer, Ian Clayton: ian_clayton@rnli.org.uk
Ian Clayton, RNLI Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer
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JENNY HOLZER, HURT EARTH
ART FOR YOUR WORLD | WWF | 2021
JENNY HOLZER, HURT EARTH: ART FOR YOUR WORLD | WWF | 2021
During October and November 2021 artist Jenny Holzer launched HURT EARTH, a powerful series of light projections illuminating landmarks across the UK to draw attention to the climate crisis and mark COP26, the 26th annual United Nations summit on climate change.
Co-curated and produced by Artwise and Shore Art Advisory and in collaboration with Art For Your World, the artwork launched at Tate Modern in London bathing the building's iconic chimney in a collection of aching, inspiring and expert testimony from more than 40 activists, leaders and many others addressing the climate crisis. The artwork went on to Scotland to light Edinburgh Castle as well as the SEC Armadillo, located in the official Blue Zone of COP26 in Glasgow, followed by MET Tower in Glasgow and finally a series of pop-up locations in Edinburgh including Jupiter Artland.
HURT EARTH, 2021. Light Projection. Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Text: Greta Thunberg, “There are no real climate leaders yet – who will step up at Cop26?,” The Guardian, October 21, 2021. Used with permission of the author. © 2021 Jenny Holzer, ARS. Video: Pete Doris. Animation: Seth Brau | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7780055999755859, "wiki_prob": 0.7780055999755859, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line202930"} |
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Universal Studios Hollywood ushers in 2020 with EVE, Hollywood’s biggest party, featuring live music, dancing, fireworks and a night of thrills on all rides, attractions
EVE is Included in Theme Park Admission or Guests Can Upgrade to the Ultimate EVE Package, Offering Exclusive VIP Lounge Access, Gourmet Buffet Dinner, Private DJ Entertainment,Reserved Fireworks Viewing Area, Preferred Parking and Unlimited Universal Express Access
Click Here to Purchase Tickets for EVE or Ultimate EVE
Annual Pass Members Can Click Here to Purchase Tickets
Universal Studios Hollywood invites guests to ring in 2020 with EVE,Hollywood’s biggest party of the year, on December 31, with extended theme park hours to 2:00 a.m.
EVE is included in the price of theme park admission, or guest can enhance their celebration with the popular Ultimate EVE package.
Guests can visit Universal Studios Hollywood on December 31, 2019 and leave on January 1, 2020 enjoying a full day and night of fun experiencing the park’s many thrill rides and attractions, including the all-new “Jurassic World—The Ride.”
EVE officially kicks off with a special park-wide celebration at 9:00 p.m., featuring multiple DJs and live music areas, that culminates at midnight with a traditional New Year’s Eve countdown and spectacular fireworks display.
Giant, spirited photo op locations add to the festive environment, offering bragging rights to share with friends on social media.
To purchase tickets for EVE or the Ultimate EVE package, guests can click here.
Annual Pass members can also benefit from a variety of special incentives devised especially for these valued ticket holders.
To learn more and to purchase tickets, Annual Pass members canclick here.
The Ultimate EVE package takes the celebration to a whole new level.
Package highlights include theme park admission starting at 6:00 p.m., VIP Lounge access with gourmet buffet dining and cash bars with specialty cocktails, private DJ and dance floor, reserved VIP viewing area for the dazzling fireworks display, a complimentary midnight champagne toast, commemorative 2020 party favors, preferred parking and unlimited Universal Express access to all rides and attractions.
At a glance, EVE begins at 9:00 p.m. with Universal Plaza, Simpsons Plaza located in Springfield™ and an area near “Revenge of the Mummy – The Ride” transformed into three uniquely-themed party areas, featuring a variety of music, from rock ‘n’ roll to electronic dance music to Latin pop, and the celebration will continue with enhanced DJ shows and after-party entertainment until 2:00 a.m.
A selection of food and beverages, including desserts, champagne, beer, wine and cocktails, as well as 2020 memorabilia will be available for purchase.
More information, including special EVE Preferred Hotel Packages, is available at UniversalStudiosHollywood.com. Like Universal Studios Hollywood on Facebook and follow @UniStudios on Instagram and Twitter.
With so much to see and do at Universal Studios Hollywood, an Annual Pass makes the perfect holiday gift, providing guests with the opportunity to experience the theme park’s thrills and adventures again and again.
Visit UniversalStudiosHollywood.com for more details and to save up to $60 on an Annual Pass when purchased online. Offer valid through March 2, 2020; restrictions apply.
More information is available at UniversalStudiosHollywood.com. Like Universal Studios Hollywood on Facebook and follow @UniStudios on Instagram and Twitter.
Admission to Universal CityWalk is free.
About Universal Studios Hollywood
Universal Studios Hollywood is The Entertainment Capital of L.A. and includes a full-day, movie-based theme park and Studio Tour. As a leading global entertainment destination, Universal Studios Hollywood delivers highly themed immersive lands that translate to real-life interpretations of iconic movie and television shows. Attractions include “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™” which features a bustling Hogsmeade village and such critically-acclaimed rides as “Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey” and “Flight of the Hippogriff™”, and the new mega attraction “Jurassic World—The Ride.” Other immersive lands include “Despicable Me Minion Mayhem” and “Super Silly Fun Land” as well as “Springfield,” hometown of America’s favorite TV family, located adjacent to the award-winning “The Simpsons Ride™” and DreamWorks Theatre featuring “Kung Fu Panda Adventure.” The world-renowned Studio Tour is Universal Studios Hollywood’s signature attraction, inviting guests behind-the-scenes of the world’s biggest and busiest movie and television production studio where they can also experience such thrill rides as “Fast & Furious—Supercharged” and “King Kong 360 3D.” The adjacent Universal CityWalk entertainment, shopping and dining complex also includes the all-new multi-million dollar, redesigned Universal CityWalk Cinema, featuring deluxe recliner seating in screening room quality theatres, and the “5 Towers” state-of-the-art outdoor concert stage.
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Braving crocodile fear, kids attend classes in Bhadrak school
Bhadrak: Come rainy season, the students of Karanjadia Majhisahi Primary School have to wade through knee-deep water to reach school in Basudevpur area in Bhadrak. The school which is situated on the banks of Mantei river remains flooded for four months every year. As a result, the students are forced to attend classes by risking […]
Sharmili Mallick
Published: Sunday, 19 August 2018
Last updated: 19 August 2018, 10:48 AM IST
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Bhadrak: Come rainy season, the students of Karanjadia Majhisahi Primary School have to wade through knee-deep water to reach school in Basudevpur area in Bhadrak.
The school which is situated on the banks of Mantei river remains flooded for four months every year. As a result, the students are forced to attend classes by risking their lives as the spot is vulnerable to crocodile attacks.
"The river is barely few meters away from the school and as flood water enters the premises, snakes can be often spotted in and around the school building. On the other hand, crocodile threat also looms large," said Ranjita Majhi, a guardian
President of School Management Committee, Prafulla Kumar Tarai said,"When the current is high in the river, water enters the school premises making it prone to mishaps".
On the other hand, it is being alleged that despite repeated complaints regarding the plight of the school, the officials are yet to take any concrete measures to resolve such issues.
"There are 136 students and we also having sufficient teachers for the school. But there is no adequate number of classrooms. As there is no kitchen, mid-day-meal is cooked outside," informed Headmaster of the school, Himanshi Sekhar Katha.
The school remains inundated with flood water for which snakes, scorpions often enter the premises, he added.
"We have written letter to the administration and once funds are allocated, new rooms will be constructed," informed Block Education Officer (BEO), Rabindra Narayan Mallick.
Mallick further said that as the school is situated on the banks of Mantei river, water entering the school during high current in the river is natural.
However, the height of the school needs to be increased for which we cannot do anything at our level. But we will certainly inform the concerned officials for appropriate action, Mallick added.
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David Myles to perform in Waynesboro
Monique Calello
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WAYNESBORO – David Myles has always been attracted to another time.
“You know when you’re a teenager and you have that moment and you find a record that kind of feels like it’s just yours?” he said. “For me, that was Miles Davis. I played trumpet so I got a Miles Davis record and I was like, ‘Whoa. This is awesome.’”
Somewhere on the spectrum between James Taylor and Justin Timberlake, he has forged his own path by embracing modern and vintage pop, folk and soul music. Inspired by such legends as The Platters, Frankie Valli, The Four Seasons and Jackie Wilson, Myles is an artist who knows how to entertain an audience with everything he’s got.
He brings his music to First Presbyterian Church in Waynesboro on Saturday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the concert series lineup from Waynesboro Concert Association.
“I like sitting somewhere between Chuck Berry and Chet Baker,” he said. “I kind of think of my sound as acoustic crooner."
Myles grew up in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on the east coast of Canada, the youngest of four brothers to two public high school teachers. His parents were avid music lovers, and the entire family played an instrument.
The Waynesboro Concert Association is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization which has presented live entertainment to the Waynesboro area since the 1950s. Each year, the WCA has featured an array of genres including Broadway, classical, folk, pop and jazz. The association offers a high caliber of performers at affordable, family friendly prices, making a winning combination.
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What David Myles concert
When 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27
Where First Presbyterian Church (Sanctuary), 249 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro
Cost Single tickets are available at the door for $25 (students $5). Season subscription for the three remaining concerts is $45 (students $10) and includes reciprocity for concerts in Staunton and Culpeper.
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Consumer Reports, infamous for its independence when it come to auto reviews, has singled out four car models as representing the worst of the lot for 2015.
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• Chrysler 200. It's now dead last among its midsize car rankings. When it was introduced, the new 200 was considered a vast improvement over the one it replaced.
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• Land Rover Discovery Sport. The SUV has a "flat footed" engine and a transmission that's unrefined. Handling is "lumbering," and the entertainment system seems to be from another age.
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More primary care physicians in the U.S. may prolong lifespans, study says
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Between 2005 and 2015, for every 10 additional primary care physicians per 100,000 residents, life expectancy rose by nearly 52 days. File Photo by piotr_pabijan/Shutterstock
Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Having more doctors may lead to seeing longer lifespans in the United States, new findings show.
Between 2005 and 2015, for every 10 additional primary care physicians per 100,000 residents, life expectancy rose by nearly 52 days, according to research published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Specifically, these numbers led to an almost one percent reduction in cardiovascular mortality, a 1 percent reduction in cancer mortality and a 1.4 percent decline in respiratory mortality.
"Greater primary care physician supply was associated with improved population mortality, suggesting that observed decreases in primary care physician supply may have important consequences for population health," researchers wrote in the study.
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The study shows that the nationwide number of primary care physicians has risen. Still, U.S. population growth has also thinned out the density of primary care physicians per 100,000 people from 46.6 to 41.4 per between 2005 to 2015. Also, the gains are lopsided, with primary care physicians fleeing rural areas over the same period.
"We tried to test whether this is just an 'association' at the area level, or more likely to be a causal connection," Sanjay Basu, assistant professor of medicine and of health research and policy at Stanford, said in a news release. "We looked at people who moved between ZIP codes and compared how their survival changed when moving to higher-primary care physicians ZIP codes versus lower, controlling for other individual and area characteristics."
When people moved to zip codes with more doctors, they added up to 114.2 days per decade for every 10 additional primary care physicians per 100,000 people in the community.
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The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts that by 2030, the U.S. will experience a big decrease in primary care physicians.
"Primary care physicians serve as the primary point of contact for most of the population and often perform preventive care, cancer screening and early diagnosis," Basu said.
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Q: Sort dates in Perl I need help sorting in perl. I have an array of dates in this format. DD-MMM-YY. Example 19-FEB-12.
I have spent quite a lot of time already, but couldn't get it work. I'm very new to perl as well. Any amount of help is appreciated. Thanks!!
A: An easy way is to convert the dates to YYYYMMDD format that can be sorted lexicographically.
Note that MM should be the month represented as a two digit number.
A: You could use the core module Time::Piece to convert the DD-MMM-YY (or any input format) to an ISO 8601 form. This allows simple sorting. This example builds up an array of raw data which includes the ISO value as a sort key; sorts it; and returns the data in sorted order:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Piece;
my $t;
my @data;
while (<DATA>) {
chomp;
$t = Time::Piece->strptime( $_, "%d %b %y" );
push @data, [ $t->datetime, $_ ]; #...ISO 8601 format...
}
my @sorteddata = sort { $a->[0] cmp $b->[0] } @data;
for my $value (@sorteddata) {
print $value->[1], "\n";
}
__DATA__
19 Feb 12
17 Aug 11
31 Mar 10
01 Aug 11
08 Apr 11
29 Feb 11
A: This can be done using the Time::Piece core module's strptime method to decode the dates and sorting them according to the resulting epoch seconds.
This program demonstrates the idea.
use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Piece;
my @dates = <DATA>;
chomp @dates;
my @sorted = sort {
Time::Piece->strptime($a, '%d-%b-%y') <=> Time::Piece->strptime($b, '%d-%b-%y')
} @dates;
print "$_\n" for @sorted;
__DATA__
05-FEB-12
10-MAR-11
22-AUG-11
26-FEB-12
10-NOV-12
07-JUN-11
20-APR-12
19-DEC-12
17-JAN-11
25-NOV-11
28-FEB-11
04-SEP-11
03-DEC-12
16-SEP-12
31-DEC-11
08-JUN-11
22-JUN-12
02-AUG-12
23-SEP-11
14-MAY-11
output
17-JAN-11
28-FEB-11
10-MAR-11
14-MAY-11
07-JUN-11
08-JUN-11
22-AUG-11
04-SEP-11
23-SEP-11
25-NOV-11
31-DEC-11
05-FEB-12
26-FEB-12
20-APR-12
22-JUN-12
02-AUG-12
16-SEP-12
10-NOV-12
03-DEC-12
19-DEC-12
A: Here's a possible way to do this using only basic Perl (no modules):
#! perl -w
use strict;
my @dates = ( '19-FEB-12', '15-APR-12', '13-JAN-11' );
# map month names to numbers
my %monthnum = (
'JAN' => 1, 'FEB' => 2, 'MAR' => 3, 'APR' => 4,
'MAY' => 5, 'JUN' => 6, 'JUL' => 7, 'AUG' => 8,
'SEP' => 9, 'OCT' => 10, 'NOV' => 11, 'DEC' => 12
);
# sort the array using a helper function
my @sorted_dates = sort { convert_date($a) cmp convert_date($b) } @dates;
print join(", ", @sorted_dates), "\n";
# outputs: 13-JAN-11, 19-FEB-12, 15-APR-12
exit(0);
# THE END
# converts from 19-FEB-12 to 120219, for sorting
sub convert_date
{
my $d1 = shift;
my $d2;
if ($d1 =~ /(\d{2})-([A-Z]{3})-(\d{2})/)
{
$d2 = sprintf( "%02d%02d%2d", $3, $monthnum{$2}, $1 );
}
else
{
die "Unrecognized format: $d1";
}
return $d2;
}
This relies on your dates being formatted correctly, but it should be trivial to add more validation.
A: Using DateTime module;
or use sort command with month option (*nix);
or transform dd-mmm-yyyy to yyyymmdd and then sort;
A: Totally from scratch:
Printed Output:
Unsorted:
14-OCT-06
15-OCT-06
13-OCT-06
19-FEB-12
29-DEC-02
15-JAN-02
Sorted (Least recent to most recent):
15-JAN-02
29-DEC-02
13-OCT-06
14-OCT-06
15-OCT-06
19-FEB-12
Code:
#!C:\Perl64
#Input Strings
@inputs = ('14-OCT-06','15-OCT-06','13-OCT-06', '19-FEB-12', '29-DEC-02', '15-JAN-02');
print "Unsorted:\n";
foreach(@inputs){
print $_."\n";
}
# Hash for Month : Number
%months = ('JAN' => '01',
'FEB' => '02',
'MAR' => '03',
'APR' => '04',
'MAY' => '05',
'JUN' => '06',
'JUL' => '07',
'AUG' => '08',
'SEP' => '09',
'OCT' => '10',
'NOV' => '11',
'DEC' => '12');
# Hash for Number : Month
%revmonths = ('01'=>'JAN',
'02' => 'FEB',
'03' => 'MAR',
'04' => 'APR',
'05' => 'MAY',
'06' => 'JUN',
'07' => 'JUL',
'08' => 'AUG',
'09' => 'SEP',
'10' => 'OCT',
'11' => 'NOV',
'12' => 'DEC');
# Rearrange the order to 'Year-Month-Day'
@dates = ();
foreach(@inputs){
my @split = split('-',$_);
my @rearranged = reverse(@split);
@rearranged[1] = $months{$rearranged[1]};
push(@dates, \@rearranged);
}
# Sort based on these three fields
@sorted = sort { $a->[2] <=> $b->[2] } @dates;
@sorted = sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } @sorted;
@sorted = sort { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] } @sorted;
# Replace Month Number with Month name
$size = @sorted;
for $counter (0..$size-1){
my $ref = $sorted[$counter];
my @array = @$ref;
my $num = $array[1];
$array[1] = $revmonths{$array[1]};
my @array = reverse(@array);
$sorted[$counter] = \@array;
}
print "\nSorted (Least recent to most recent):\n";
foreach(@sorted){
my @temp = @$_;
my $day = $temp[0];
my $month = $temp[1];
my $year = $temp[2];
print $day."-".$month."-".$year;
print "\n";
}
| {'language': 'en', 'url': 'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10987507', 'timestamp': '2023-03-29', 'source': 'stackexchange', 'question_score': '0'} |
CBN.com – Have you ever heard of a Revival happening at an entire school? Well, it did, recently, in the Philippines.
On February 18 at a Christian school in the Philippines, children were down on their knees, deep in prayer. It started in a 4th grade classroom during regular morning devotions. Suddenly, students fell on their knees and were consumed with a spirit of intense prayer that eventually spread throughout the whole school.
School chaplain, Pastor Emilio Henares, said the experience was ‘a first’ for Destiny Christian Academy.
He explained, "The presence of God was unusually strong, in such a way that many kids started to repent. Kids, maybe 6- years-old, started to prophesy. Many of them started to see visions. As in Acts, Chapter 2, where it says, ‘In the last days, I will pour out my Spirit and your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions; your old men shall see dream dreams.’"
Some of the kids from Destiny Christian Academy who say the Holy Spirit visited them in February spoke with CBN News.
Nine-year-old John Algora, who is in the 5th grade, said, "I saw Satan and God fighting for me. Satan said, 'He's my child. He's not yours.' God said, 'No. He's mine, I created him.'"
Johnny Dubouzet is a 14-year-old in his third year of high school. "I saw this vision. Fire came down from heaven and struck this church. The fire spread, and tidal waves of flame consumed the city. People just started to weep, to repent of their sins."
Apart from seeing visions, the children said they received messages from God.
Jeroel Lyble, 15, said, "God was saying to me - if you are ashamed of Me, I will be ashamed of you in Heaven. God was saying to me that I should speak up, I should be a voice."
According to the school’s teachers, the students' performance in school has remarkably improved since that significant day.
"They became more obedient,” said Destiny Christian Academy teacher, Cleffe Limsiaco. “Now, they are excellent in every way inside the learning center. They have better grades now. And in our devotions, they became more hungry for the Lord." | {'timestamp': '2019-04-23T11:57:25Z', 'url': 'http://www.1cubed.com/display.php?ID=20§ionID=32', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
(1) CREATIVAS, registered in the Trade Registry of Paris as number 840 148 878, with its head office at
CREATIVAS,
9 rue des colonnes
represented by Hichem Jouini in his capacity as Chief executive officer, duly authorised for the purpose thereof (hereafter referred to as the “Licensor”); and
(2) The “Licensee” which is the entity entering into the present software license agreement (hereafter referred to as the “License Agreement”) with the Licensor.
The Licensor and the Licensee shall be referred to herein either individually as a “Party” and together as the “Parties”.
(A) The Licensor has developed and provided easy-to-use add-ons that bring powerful new features to Atlassian company’s JIRA software.
(B) The Licensee wishes to use the Licensor’s products (hereafter the “Software” as more precisely defined in clause 1.1) as an on-premise solution in its business operations or for its personal use.
(C) The Licensor has agreed to grant to the Licensee a non-exclusive and non-sublicensable license to use the Software under the terms and conditions of this License Agreement.
IT IS HEREBY AGREED
1.1. In this License Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:
Atlassian means the company Atlassian Corporation Plc;
Atlassian Marketplace means the platform managed by Atlassian where the Licensee purchases the Software and related Support and Maintenance Services;
Charges mean the fees payable by the Licensee to Atlassian pursuant to the Atlassian Marketplace Terms of Use;
Intellectual Property Rights means any intellectual property rights according to the French intellectual property Code, particularly:
Any copyright on any original work, and particularly copyright on computer programs, software and all other property rights relating to the use of computer systems;
Any property rights on databases, including the sui generis right within the meaning of articles L. 341-1 and following of the French intellectual property Code and copyrights;
Any methods, tools, processes, technical and/or scientific information, files, patterns, formulas, protected or protectable by intellectual property;
Any know-how, business secrets, trade secrets, patents and any other industrial property rights, registered or unregistered;
License means the Software license granted by the Licensor under the conditions described in Clause 7 “Scope of Use of the Software”;
License Term means the term of the License, whether it is:
A Server License which entitles the Licensee to use the Software for the duration of the author’s rights on the Software and includes (i) twelve (12) months; or (ii) twenty-four (24) months of Support and Maintenance Services starting from the Effective Date;
A Data Center License which entitles the Licensee to use the Software for an initial period of twelve (12) months (hereafter the “Initial Term”) tacitly renewable for a period of twelve (12) months (hereafter the “Extended Term”) at the end of the Initial Term and at the end of the Extended Term, and includes related Support and Maintenance Services;
Notification Email Address means the email address the Licensee used to subscribe to the Software. It is the Licensee’s responsibility to keep the email address valid and current so that the Licensor is able to send license keys, notices, statements, and other information to the Licensee;
Personal Data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier;
Scope of Use means the authorized use of the Software as described in Clause 7 “Scope of Use of the Software” of the License Agreement;
Software means any and all Licensor’s add-on (app) and/or extension proprietary software offerings developed by the Licensor and provided to the Licensee. Third-party apps that are not from the Licensor are not Software and remain subject to their own applicable vendor terms;
Support and Maintenance Services means any corrective, update or upgrade services of the Software provided by the Licensor under the conditions described in the Licensor’s Support platform terms and conditions;
Termination Date means the date of termination of this License Agreement, howsoever arising;
User means any Licensee’s user who is entitled to use the Software pursuant to Clause 7 “Scope of Use of the Software” to this License Agreement;
Virus means any thing or device (including any software, code, file or programme) which may prevent, impair or otherwise adversely affect the operation of any computer software, hardware or network, any telecommunications service, equipment or network or any other service or device; prevent, impair or otherwise adversely affect access to or the operation of any programme or data, including the reliability of any programme or data (whether by re-arranging, altering or erasing the programme or data in whole or part or otherwise); or adversely affect the user experience, including worms, trojan horses, viruses and other similar things or devices; the operation of any programme or data, including the reliability of any programme or data (whether by re-arranging, altering or erasing the programme or data in whole or part of otherwise); or adversely affect the user experience, including worms, trojan horses, viruses and other similar things or devices.
Year: the period from the Effective Date to the first-anniversary date of the Effective Date.
2.1. This License Agreement governs the Licensee’s initial purchase of the Software and future purchases by the Licensee.
2.2. This License Agreement does not apply to cloud-based solutions which are governed by a separate agreement with the Licensor (i.e. Cloud terms of use).
3. Headings
3.1. Clause and paragraph headings shall not affect the interpretation of this License Agreement.
3.2. If there is an inconsistency between any of the provisions in the main body of this License Agreement and the headings, the provisions in the main body of the License Agreement shall prevail.
4. License Term and consent
4.1. The License Agreement is effective as of the date the Licensee first click “I agree” (or similar button) or use or access the Software (hereafter referred to as the “Effective Date”). The License Agreement does not have to be signed in order to be binding. By clicking “I agree” (or similar button) at the time (a) the Licensee first access to or use of the Software, or (b) the Licensee places an order of the Software on the Atlassian Marketplace, the Licensee accepts to be bound by this License Agreement.
4.2. This License shall commence on the Effective Date and shall continue in full force and effect during the License Term.
4.3. The Licensee is engaged since the employee or any representative of the Licensee accepts the present License Agreement and then agreed that: (i) he has full legal authority to bind the Licensee or such entity to this License Agreement; (ii) he has read and understood this License Agreement; and (iii) he agrees to this License Agreement on behalf of the Party that he represents. If he doesn’t have the legal authority to bind the Licensee or the applicable entity, it is forbidden to click “I agree” (or similar button or checkbox) that is presented.
4.4. The Licensee agrees that if an employee or any representative of the Licensee purchases the Software using an email address from the Licensee or another entity, then (a) he will be deemed to represent such Party, (b) his click to accept will bind the Licensee or that entity to this License Agreement.
5. Modification of the License Agreement
5.1. The Licensor may modify the terms and conditions of this License Agreement from time to time, with notice through the Licensee’s Notification Email Address and through the Licensor’s website.
5.2. In the event of a modification of the License Agreement, the Licensee shall accept the modified License Agreement to continue using the Software. If the Licensee objects to the modifications, the Licensee exclusive remedy is to cease using the Software.
To take into account Atlassian Marketplace technical constraints, the annual renewal of the license constitutes the most natural way for the moment for the Licensee to accept or refuse the modified license.
6.1. After the reception of the applicable Charges by Atlassian pursuant to Article 2 “Your Orders” of the Atlassian Marketplace Terms of Use, the Licensor will deliver the Software to the Licensee by either making the Software available to the Licensee or providing the applicable license keys to the Licensee’s Notification Email Address.
7. Scope of Use of the Software
7.1. As of the Effective Date, the Licensor grants the Licensee a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable License to use the Software for its internal business purposes or personal use in relation to the License Agreement for the License Term and for up to the number of Users as purchased on the Atlassian Marketplace.
7.2. The Licensee may not, without the express written authorization of the Licensor, copy, reproduce, change, adapt, disassemble, translate or reverse-engineer the Software, other than as required to ensure the interoperability of the Software with other software developed independently by the Licensee.
7.3. No ownership right is conveyed to the Licensee, irrespective of the use of terms such as “purchase” or “sale”. The Licensor has and retains all right, title and interest, including all Intellectual Property Rights.
7.4. In relation to the Software, any rights provided under this License Agreement are only granted to the Licensee and shall not be considered granted to any subsidiary or holding company of the Licensee.
7.5. For each Software that the Licensee purchases, the Licensee may install one production instance of the Software on systems owned or operated by itself or one of its Users.
7.6. The Licensee is responsible for compliance of the Licensee and all its Users with this License Agreement. All use of Software must be solely for the benefit of the Licensee and must be within the Scope of Use.
7.7. During the License Term, the Licensee may increase the Scope of Use (e.g., adding Users) by placing a new order on the Atlassian Marketplace or, if available, directly through the applicable Software. Any increases to the Scope of Use will be subject to additional charges, as set forth in the Atlassian Marketplace Terms of Use.
8. Licensor’s Obligations
8.1. During the License Term, the Licensor shall provide the Software to the Licensee in a competent and professional manner with reasonable skill and ability conforming to generally accepted software standards.
9. Licensee’s Obligations
9.1. The Licensee shall use the Software in accordance with the License and comply with the terms of the License Agreement and any other referenced policies and terms of this License Agreement.
9.2. The Licensee shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations with respect to its activities under this License Agreement.
9.3. The Licensee shall use reasonable endeavors to prevent any unauthorized access to, or use of, the Software and notify the Licensor promptly of any such unauthorized access or use.
9.4. The Licensee acknowledges and agrees that the Licensor has no support, warranty, indemnification or other obligation or liability with respect to the modifications the Licensee could operate on the licensed Software or their combination, interaction or use with the Software. Any modification of the Software by the Licensee constitutes an infringement of the License Agreement and the Licensee does so at its own risk and peril.
9.5. The Licensee will defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Licensor from and against any loss, cost, liability or damage (including attorney’s fees) arising from or relating to any claim brought against the Licensor arising from or related to Licensee’s breach of the License Agreement, especially any claims or disputes brought (a) by a third party related to the use of the materials of the Licensee in the context of the License Agreement; or (b) by a third party relating to any content or data used by the Licensee in connection with the Software and not provided by the Licensor.
10. Support and Maintenance Services
10.1. During the License Term, the Licensor will provide the Licensee with Support and Maintenance Services for the Software pursuant to the conditions described in the Licensor’s Support Platform Terms and Conditions.
11. Fees and payment
11.1. The Licensee agrees that all payments are submitted to the provisions of Article 2 “Your orders” of the Atlassian Marketplace Terms of Use.
11.2. The Licensee agrees that in the application of Article D. 441-5 of the French Commercial Code, any late payment of the Charges shall result in the payment of a forty-euro indemnity as compensation for recovery costs.
12. Intellectual Property Rights
12.1. The Parties retain the exclusivity of their Intellectual Property Rights prior to the conclusion of the License Agreement.
12.2. The Licensee shall not:
Reproduce, duplicate, modify, adapt or create, or attempt to reproduce, duplicate, modify, adapt or create derivative works from or distribute all or any portion of the Software;
Reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, translate, or otherwise seek to obtain or derive the source code, underlying ideas, algorithms, file formats or non-public APIs to the Software or attempt to reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form all or any part of the Software;
Transfer, temporarily or permanently, any of its rights under this License Agreement,
Rent, lease, distribute, sell, sublicense, transfer, or provide access or attempt to obtain, or assist third parties in obtaining, access to the Software;
Use the Software for the benefit of any third party;
Incorporate the Software into a product or service that the Licensee provides to a third party;
Interfere with any license key mechanism in the Software or otherwise circumvent mechanisms in the Software intended to limit the use;
Remove or obscure any proprietary or other notices contained in the Software;
Use the Software for competitive analysis or to build competitive products;
Publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Software; or
Encourage or assist any third party to do any of the foregoing.
12.3. The Licensor will retain all right, title, and interest in and to any software, materials, add-ons, deliverables, derivative works or developments that the Licensor would provide the Licensee in connection with any additional services.
12.4. The Software may include code and libraries licensed to the Licensor by third parties, including open-source software. Their use is submitted to their own software license and the Licensee shall comply with the relevant open-source licenses. The Licensee shall read and respect the provisions of Third Party Code in Atlassian Products regarding the use of third-party code.
13.1. Each Party (hereafter referred to as the “Receiving Party”) acknowledges that they may access information, that have been disclosed to the Receiving Party or its affiliates by the other Party (hereafter referred to as the “Disclosing Party”) or its agents or affiliates, which are of a confidential nature, in whatever form (including, without limitation, in written, oral, visual or electronic form or on any magnetic or optical disk or memory and wherever located) relating to the business, Licensees, products, affairs, and finances of either Party for the time being which is confidential to that Party and trade secrets including, without limitation, technical data and know-how relating to the business of that Party or any of its Licensors, Licensees, agents, distributors, shareholders, management or business contacts (hereafter referred to as “Confidential Information”).
13.2. The Receiving Party shall keep in strict confidence all Confidential Information and any other Confidential Information concerning the Disclosing Party’s business or its products which the Receiving Party may obtain. The Receiving Party shall restrict disclosure of such confidential material to such of its or its affiliates’ employees, agents or sub-contractors as need to know it for the purpose of discharging the Receiving Party’s obligations to the Disclosing Party, and shall ensure that such employees, agents or sub-contractors are subject to obligations of confidentiality corresponding to those which bind the Disclosing Party.
13.3. All materials, equipment and tools, drawings, specifications and data supplied by the Disclosing Party to the Receiving Party shall at all times be and remain the exclusive property of the Disclosing Party, but shall be held by the Receiving Party in safe custody at its own risk and maintained and kept in good condition by the Receiving Party until returned to the Disclosing Party, and shall not be disposed of or used other than in accordance with the Disclosing Party’s written instructions or authorization.
13.4. The obligations in this clause shall not apply in relation to:
Information which is or has become public knowledge other than as a result of a breach of Clause 13.1;
Information which the Receiving Party using or disclosing the information either knew prior to the Disclosing Party’s first disclosure of it or received from a third party entitled to disclose the same; or
Information that either Party is required to disclose by law any court of competent jurisdiction, any Government agency or any regulatory body lawfully requesting the same.
13.5. To the extent that any Confidential Information of the other Party is stored within a computer system or is stored in machine-readable form, the Receiving Party shall ensure that such Confidential Information is secured so that access may not be gained, and copies may not be made other than in accordance with this License Agreement.
13.6. Subject always to the Receiving Party’s right to retain (for such purposes only) one copy of any Confidential Information of the other Party which the Receiving Party requires to retain to satisfy any applicable audit or regulatory requirements, the Receiving Party shall as soon as reasonably practicable on the written request of the Disclosing Party return all documents and materials containing the Confidential Information or if so required shall at the request of the Disclosing Party destroy all documents and materials containing the Confidential Information (including any copies, analysis, memoranda or other notes made by the Receiving Party) in its possession or under its custody or control and shall in addition (so far as reasonably practicable) remove any such Confidential Information stored within any computer or word processing system whether or not in machine-readable form and certify in writing to the other that all such documents and materials have been destroyed.
13.7. The Parties shall use reasonable endeavors to ensure that their employees, agents and sub-contractors comply with this clause.
13.8. From time to time, the Licensee may choose to send feedback to the Licensor while suggested. No feedback will be considered as confidential information and the Licensor reserves the right to use, develop, evaluate, or market products or services on the basis of the Licensee’s feedback or with the incorporation of the Licensee’s feedback or otherwise. Without prejudice to Clause 12 “Intellectual Property Rights”, the Licensor may in connection with any of its products or services freely use, copy, disclose, license, distribute and exploit any Feedback in any manner without any obligation, royalty or restriction based on Intellectual Property Rights or otherwise.
14.1. The Licensor may collect Personal Data from the Licensee in connection with this License Agreement.
14.2. The Licensee hereby acknowledges and accepts the rights and obligations of the Licensor’s privacy policy that he has read and understood and accessible at the following link: Privacy Policy.
15. Warranties and Disclaimer
15.1. IMPORTANT: It is agreed between the Parties that the Licensee is solely responsible for ensuring that its systems meet the hardware, software and any other applicable system requirements for the Software. Without prejudice to the Licensor’s obligations provided in Clause 8 “Licensor’s Obligations” of this License Agreement, the Licensee is fully responsible for the choice of the Software. In case of doubt, the Licensee is invited to contact the support before any purchase.
15.2. Each Party represents and warrants that it has the legal power and authority to enter into this License Agreement. If the Licensee is an entity, he warrants that this License Agreement and each Purchase Order is entered into by an employee or agent of such entity with all necessary authority to bind such entity to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement.
15.3. The Licensor warrants that it will take reasonable commercial efforts to ensure that the Software, in the form and when provided to the Licensee, will be free of any viruses, malware, or other harmful code.
15.4. The Licensor warrants that the Software will not violate the Intellectual Property Rights of any third parties and, therefore, guarantees the Licensee against any legal action or claims brought by third parties (hereafter referred to as “Third Party Claims”) alleging that the use of the Software by the Licensee infringes or violates the rights of the third party under applicable laws. Under this warranty, the Licensor shall bear reasonable lawyers’ fees and other reasonable legal fees which the Licensee may be required to incur or suffer as a result of such legal action or claim, as well as all the direct damages the Licensee may be sentenced to pay by a binding court decision.
15.5. On becoming aware of a Third Party Claim, the Licensee shall (i) promptly notify the Licensor of such Third-Party Claim (ii) provide the Licensor with the sole control over the defense and/or settlement of such Third-Party Claim (with the Licensee retaining the right to participate in such Third-Party Claim (but not control) with its own legal counsel, at its own expense), and (iii) give reasonable cooperation and assistance to the Licensor, at the Licensor’s cost, with regard to such Third-Party Claim.
15.6. This warranty will not be applicable if the Third-Party Claim arises from (i) an allegation that does not state with specificity that the Software is the basis of the Third Party Claim, (ii) the use or combination of the Software with any other material not developed by the Licensor, (iii) the use of the Software not in accordance with this License Agreement or the Documentation, (iv) a modification of the Software by any other Party than the Licensor.
15.7. to the maximum extent permitted by law, and except as set forth in the foregoing limited warranty, the licensor and its suppliers expressly disclaim any and all warranties and representations of any kind, including any warranty of title, fitness for a particular purpose, functionality, or merchantability, whether express, implied, or statutory. the licensor will not be liable for delays, interruptions, service failures or other problems inherent in use of the internet and electronic communications or other systems outside the reasonable control of the licensor. to the maximum extent permitted by law, neither the licensor nor any of its third-party suppliers makes any representation, warranty, or guarantee as to the reliability, timeliness, quality, suitability, truth, availability, accuracy, or completeness of any software or any content therein or generated therewith, or that: (a) the use of any software will be secure, timely, uninterrupted or error-free; (b) the software will operate in combination with any other hardware, software, system, or data; (c) the software (or any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you through the software) will meet your requirements or expectations); (d) errors or defects will be corrected; or (e) the software is free of viruses or other harmful components. you may have other statutory rights, but the duration of statutorily required warranties, if any, will be limited to the shortest period permitted by law.
16.1. The Licensor shall be liable to the Licensee for the foreseeable and direct damages in connection with this License Agreement, to the exclusion of indirect damages such as loss of profits, loss of sales or business, loss of agreements or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of use or corruption of Software, data or information, failure of security mechanism, interruption of business, costs of delay or for any indirect or consequential damage of any kind.
16.2. Except as expressly and specifically provided in this License Agreement, the Licensee assumes sole responsibility for results obtained from the use of the Software by the Licensee, and for conclusions drawn from such use. The Licensor shall have no liability for any damage caused by errors or omissions in any information, instructions or scripts provided to the Licensor by the Licensee; or in the case, the Licensee does not implement the required actions.
16.3. In any event and without prejudice to the Licensee’s obligation to pay the Charges, the total liability of the Licensor to the Licensee arising under or in connection with this License Agreement shall not in respect of any Year, exceed the amount actually paid or payable by the Licensee under this License Agreement in the six (6) months immediately preceding the claim.
16.4. Nothing in this License Agreement shall limit or exclude either Party’s liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, gross negligence or wilful or deliberate misconduct, or any other liability which cannot be limited or excluded by applicable law.
16.5. Without prejudice to the Licensee’s obligation to pay the Fees (including any expenses), the Licensee’s total liability to the Licensor arising under or in connection with this License Agreement shall not, in respect of any Year, exceed the amount actually paid or payable by the Licensee under this License Agreement in the six (6) months immediately preceding the claim.
16.6. The Licensor will have no obligations or responsibility under this License Agreement for issues caused by the use of any third-party hardware or Software not provided by itself.
16.7. If the Licensee enables or uses third-party products or services with the Software, the Licensee acknowledges that the third-party providers may access or use the data of the Licensee as required for the interoperation of their products and services with the Software. The Licensee is solely responsible for the decision to permit any third-party provider or third-party product or service to use the data of the Licensee. It is Licensee’s responsibility to carefully review the License Agreement between itself and the third-party provider, as provided by the applicable third-party provider. THE LICENSOR DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES (WHETHER SUPPORT, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY OR OTHERWISE) OR FOR THE ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF ANY THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OR VENDORS.
17. Sub-licensing
17.1. The Licensee acknowledges and agrees that the Licensor may engage subcontractors without any prior written consent for the execution of the License Agreement.
18.1. This License Agreement is effective as of the Effective Date and expire on the date of expiration or termination of the License Term.
18.2. The Licensor may terminate the License Agreement if the Licensee uses the Software not in accordance with this License Agreement.
18.3. Upon any expiration or termination of the License Agreement, the License terminates and the Licensee is not authorized to use the Software. Except where an exclusive remedy may be specified in the License Agreement, the exercise by either party of any remedy, including termination, will be without prejudice to any other remedies it may have under the License Agreement, by law, or otherwise.
18.4. On termination or expiry of the License Agreement, the Licensor shall delete any information relating to the business of the Licensee stored on any magnetic or optical disk or memory and all matter derived from such sources which is in its possession or under its control outside the premises of the Licensee, except the information the Licensor shall keep complying with laws, regulations or contractual obligations.
18.5. The following sections will survive any termination or expiration of the License Agreement: Clause 11 “Fees and payment”, Clause 12 “Intellectual Property Rights”, Clause 13 “Confidentiality, Clause 15 “Warranties and Disclaimer”, Clause 16 “Limitation of liability”, Clause 20 “Governing Law – Dispute Resolution”, Clause 21 “Miscellaneous and General”.
18.6. Any rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities of the Parties that have accrued up to the Termination Date or expiry, including the right to claim damages in respect of any breach of this License Agreement which existed at or before the Termination Date or expiry, shall not be affected.
19. Publicity Rights
19.1. The Licensor may identify the Licensee as a customer in its promotional materials unless the Licensee asks for stopping doing so using the contact form.
20. Governing Law – Dispute Resolution
20.1. The License Agreement and any disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (including without limitation non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by and interpreted under French law.
20.2. If either Party (hereafter referred to as the “First Party”) believes in good faith that the other Party (hereafter referred to as the ”Other Party”) has breached any term of this License Agreement, then the First Party shall notify the Other Party, in writing setting forth in reasonable detail the nature of the alleged breach (hereafter referred to as the “Notice of Breach”). If the Other Party does not dispute the validity of the Notice of Breach, then it shall promptly undertake to cure the breach. If, however, the Other Party disputes the validity of the Notice of Breach, then the Parties shall comply with the following provisions in order to expedite the review, verification, cure and remedy of any such breach.
20.3. Any dispute to be resolved pursuant to this License Agreement shall first be submitted for resolution to the authorized contacts of each Party. If such authorized contacts are unable to resolve the dispute within fourteen (14) days after the date on which the Notice of Breach is received by the Other Party (or such longer time as it mutually agreed in writing), then each Party shall be free to pursue whatever remedies hereunder, at law or in equity may be available to it in respect of the subject matter of the dispute as provided in Clause 20.4 hereunder.
20.4. Each Party irrevocably agrees that the courts of Paris, France, shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with this License Agreement or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims), not already settled amicably by the Parties under Clauses 20.2 or 20.3.
21. Miscellaneous and General
21.1. Parties must for the duration of this License Agreement maintain appropriate insurance cover with a reputable insurance company against all relevant liabilities and indemnities that may arise under this License Agreement.
21.2. Nothing in this License Agreement is intended to or shall operate to, create a partnership between the Parties, or to authorize either Party to act as agent for the other, and neither Party shall have authority to act in the name or on behalf of or otherwise to bind the other in any way.
21.3. Each Party shall not be liable for any delay or breach in any of its obligations pursuant to this License Agreement which originates from a force majeure event within the meaning of Article 1218 of the French Civil Code.
21.4. If any provision of this License Agreement (or part of any provision) is found by any court or other authority of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, the other provisions shall remain in force. If any such invalid, unenforceable or illegal provision would be valid, enforceable and legal if some part of it were modified in any way, the Parties shall negotiate in good faith to modify such provision so that, as modified, it is legal, valid and enforceable, and, to the greatest extent possible, achieves the intended commercial result of the original provision.
21.5. No failure or delay by a Party to exercise any right or remedy provided under this License Agreement or by law shall constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of such right or remedy shall prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy.
21.6. The rights and remedies provided under this License Agreement are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law.
21.7. Neither Party may assign (except by way of security), transfer, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of this License Agreement and any of its rights or obligations thereunder, without the prior written consent of the other Party.
21.8. The License Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the Parties relating to its subject matter and supersedes any previous agreement between them relating thereto. In entering into this License Agreement neither Party has relied on any undertaking, promise, assurance, statement, representation, warranty or understanding (whether made innocently or negligently and whether or not made in writing) of any person (whether or not party to this License Agreement) which is not expressly set out in this License Agreement.
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How did an unknowing kid make her way from her first dance class in a strip mall in Colorado to becoming a #1 hit recording artist with 5 consecutive hits worldwide? Armed with only the joy and life's purpose she found in dance and music, Sarah set out to New York City on her determined path to figure out how to become her passion. Slammed with struggles and rejection along the way, Sarah continued to pursue her artistic vision and tear through the barriers to get her music out to the world. Sarah is blessed every day as people send her wonderful messages of how she inspires them.
Sarah tells the story of a particularly moving moment: “I was in Africa on my birthday at a BBQ. I was there as a tourist, not a performer. A guest at the party asked what I did for a living. I said I was a singer. She asked the name of my songs. It turned out she knew them and raved wildly how she goes crazy dancing to them in the clubs! Here I was in Africa, where I had never “officially” released my music, and a woman I had just met had been touched by my music half a world away from where I lived. It was overwhelming powerful to realize that all my hard work, perseverance and belief in myself had such wide-reaching and personal impact.”
Sarah's single, “Without You,” recently hit #1 in the UK. "Without You" marks Sarah’s 5th consecutive hit worldwide. This Music Week, Billboard and DMC Chart queen’s latest slice of beautiful dance floor action roars into clubs and radio all over the world, as did like her previous hits, “It Doesn’t Take Much,” “Fade Away,” “Out Of My Mind” and “You Wouldn’t Know How”.
Sarah has been the cover issue of Radio & Records Magazine, named The Future Face of 2012 in MusicWeek (one of only four artists in the world) and a charting recording artist in Billboard Magazine and DJ Times.
Sarah is proud to be the face of Until.org, along with Kevin Bacon, Jessica Alba and Michael Phelps.
Renowned for her unique writer’s voice and sultry vocal style. Sarah writes or co-writes every one of her songs. Her lyrics are at once profound and graceful with a keen intellect and elegant musicality. To see Sarah onstage is to see charisma in motion.
As an in-demand expert and inspirational leader on pursing a life of passion, purpose and personal greatness, she has been the guest speaker at such prestigious institutions the Jack Welch's School of Business at Sacred Heart University.
Sarah's single, "Fade Away," debuted at #1 on the UK charts, unseating Deep Dish’s remix of Stevie Nicks' "Dreams".
"Fade Away" was the #1 most played song on XM Satellite Radio's bpm station. With "Fade Away," Sarah became a Top 40 Mainstream charting recording artist as reported by Radio & Records. She again charted on CHR/Mainstream with her follow up single, “You Wouldn’t Know How”.
You Wouldn’t Know How” hit #3 on the DJ Times National Dance/Crossover Chart as it set the clubs and radio on fire.
Every single song Sarah has ever released has charted on Billboard or hit #1 on Music Week UK. Every single song Sarah has released to Top 40 radio has charted on CHR/Mainstream radio.
Remixed and supported by the biggest DJs in the world, such as Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Tracy Young and Tony Moran, writer Chris S. Witwer exclaims when listening to Sarah’s music, “You’ll find yourself wanting to spin and bop around the dance floor or across your own living room with the volume blasting on the stereo!”
Sarah was nominated twice for the prestigious Winter Music Conference IDMA award for Best Breakthrough artist.
Sarah has worked with top musicians and producers including Bryan Adams, Rick Chertoff (Cyndi Lauper) and Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith).
While completing her degree at Columbia University, Sarah immersed herself in New York City’s art scene. She studied voice with revered faculty of the Juilliard School and dance with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Masters.
Sarah was thrilled to have performed twice in the NYC Pride Parade to over 1 million people. and was honored to take the stage at the celebrated Night Of A Thousand Gowns in NYC.
Sarah has always stood her own ground. Sarah co-founded her own record label, Beguile Records as a vehicle to provide Sarah the opportunity to retain her artistic integrity.
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Schwarzersdorf ist ein Kirchdorf und Ortsteil der Gemeinde Mauern im Landkreis Freising, Bayern.
Geschichte
Der Ort wird 754 unter dem Namen „Swarzolfesdorf“ in einer Schenkungsurkunde an die Kirche in Thulbach genannt. Die Filiale Schwarzersdorf ist am 25. April 1878 aus der Pfarrei Margarethenried, in der sie bereits 1315 erwähnt wurde, in die Pfarrei Mauern umgepfarrt worden. Die jetzige dem Patrozinium des heiligen Erzengel Michael unterstellte Kirche ist um 1716/1717 nach dem Plan des Gerichtsbaumeisters in Moosburg erbaut worden.
Der Ort war bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts Sitz einer Obmannschaft im Landgericht Moosburg an der Isar. Zu ihr gehörten neben dem Hauptort auch Dürnseiboldsdorf und Weihern. Die politische Gemeinde Reichersdorf, zu der Schwarzersdorf ursprünglich gehörte, entstand mit dem Gemeindeedikt von 1818. Am 1. Januar 1971 wurde die Gemeinde Reichersdorf mit dem Kirchdorf Gelbersdorf nach Gammelsdorf eingemeindet, Schwarzersdorf kam zu Mauern.
Literatur
Franz Hagl: Dorfgeschichte von Mauern, 1980.
Einzelnachweise
Geographie (Mauern)
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El blog de Miss Aoki: Happy New Year!
Espero que 2010 sea un año próspero y feliz para todos.
These days i have been very busy, but i would´t miss the opportunity to congrulate you.
I hope 2010 will be a happy and prosperus year for everybody.
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The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Monday, Jan. 4, 2021
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Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a portable game console that was developed and distributed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the first portable installment in the PlayStation series of consoles. It became very popular among the youth of the time and it still continues to be.
The PSP also offered a wide range of multimedia features, including video playback, and was thus classified as a portable media player. The PSP is the only handheld system that uses the optical disc format Universal Media Disc (UMD) as its primary storage media, the format has been used to deliver both games and movies.
For the question, how to put games on PSP? There are two methods usually used for installing games on the PSP.
The first and most recommended method is to purchase original UMDs and plug them into your PSP to play your game. Sony’s Universal Media Disc (UMD) is a discontinued optical disc format that was designed for use with their PlayStation Portable handheld gaming and multimedia platform. It has a storage capacity of 1.8 gigabytes and can store video games, feature films, and music. Sony Computer Entertainment’s optical disc cartridges were known as UMDs.
Another method is to modify/Jailbreak your PSP by installing modified firmware, downloading games from the internet, placing them on your PSP memory stick, and playing PS games. A modified PSP game console can add extra capabilities and graphics to the PSP and more screen settings, such as the opening screen, icons, colour palette, and fonts.
It can also improve the PSP’s performance. You can play any game for free as it’s currently quite difficult to buy UMDs. You can add plugins and modify hardware settings. Modded PSP consoles can do a lot and add a dozen new features such as Emulators and ROMs can be used to play games, playing PlayStation 1 games, making PSP game backups from a memory card, reading games that have been patched, making changes to the home screen, boosting the PSP’s performance, taking screen captures and using the PSP to control a computer.
In my opinion jailbreaking is better as it unlocks the true potential of a PSP, also since UMDs have gone obsolete and their access is rare.
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Chapter-3 You Take Care Of Yourself (Part-1)
Ji Yao Guang’s hand froze, and she didn’t dare to move her hands.
She saw Chang Yu sat up on the bed and stared angrily at her. Yao Guang pretended to be innocent and quietly withdrew her hand.
Damn her conscience.
She only wanted to smooth Chang Yu’s brows, and it wasn’t meant anything else.
But Chang Yu was looking so angry, she must have thought she was here to take advantage of her.
After a moment, Ji Yao Guang heard Chang Yu’s consciously pressed her voice, and spoke, “Get lost!”
This was her bedroom too.
But of course, Ji Yao Guang didn’t dare to say it out loud.
This would only irritate Chang Yu more, so she had to leave the room while closing the door quietly.
Chang Yu had a shallow sleep. She had already woken up when Ji Yao Guang entered the bedroom.
Chang Yu held her breath without knowing what Ji Yao Guang was trying to do.
She waited and saw Yao Guang stretching out her hand to turn on the light of the room.
When the light brightened the room, she saw the love, perseverance, and conflict in Ji Yao Guang’s eyes.
They knew Yao Guang loved her, but she was exhausted now. The indifference in Chang Yu’s heart was just a disguise, but the tiredness was real.
She sighed and with a helpless smile turned off the light.
Ji Yao Guang wasn’t able to guard against her fatigue and fell asleep on the sofa
The first thing, she did after waking up the next morning was to locate her phone and check the date.
The date shown on the mobile phone was still three years ago. So what happened to her after the divorce was a dream?
She frowned while looking at the phone, and tried to no longer thought about it.
She looked around the house, only to find that Chang Yu had left. Chang Yu was occupied with a shooting of an advertisement recently.
After their divorce, Chang Yu resigned from the entertainment circle.
She checked her phone and found eight missed calls from her agent Su Ci on her mobile phone.
“Hello-” Ji Yao Guang wasn’t able to greet her before the cannon blasted from the other side.
“Ji Yao Guang, you were planning to play me and get disappeared, right? What’s wrong with you, you didn’t even pick up my calls? And what is going on with you and Chang Yu? Take a look at what the media has written about you. Look at your portfolio, which one of the works can be handed out? I know from the starting that you are not good at acting, why don’t you try your luck at singing?”
Ji Yao Guang didn’t even remember, how many times Su Ci had advised her this.
She was discovered by the company through a singing competition ‘The Voice of All’ in the college. They wanted to launch her as a singer, but she declined and took the acting path.
With her beautiful face, there was no objection to her choice in the company.
Yao Guang moved away from her phone from her ears, and waited for Su Ci to calm down, then slowly replied, “Don’t accept any scripts or advertisements for me in upcoming days.”
Su Ci was an excellent agent. Even though there were many problems between them because of their differences in opinion, she would still give her enough respect.
“What are trying to do? The senior management of the company has some problems with you. If not for Chang Yu, you would have been-” Su Ci helplessly told her without continuing further.
When Su Ci spoke of Chang Yu, she suddenly remembered something, and asked, “I have heard from somewhere that Chang Yu’s contract is expiring soon, and she didn’t plan to renew it with the company. Do you know about it?”
Was it because she wanted to quit the entertainment circle?
Ji Yao Guang shivered, anxiously asked, “Sister Su, I have no idea about it. What is going on, Chang Yu doesn’t want to act anymore?”
“Ji Yao Guang, Chang Yu is your wife, how could I know about it? So is it true that you have fallen out with her?”
A moment later, Su Ci again said, “It doesn’t look like that Chang Yu doesn’t want to act anymore. She has recently received a script. I heard that she wanted to leave the company to create her personnel studio.”
Ji Yao Guang’s dream, Chang Yu had fully quit the entertainment circle after their divorce.
Was it possible that things could change?
Yao Guang threw away all her negative emotions and tried to peacefully accept her fate.
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The Yuthok Nyingthig (Tib. གཡུ་ཐོག་སྙིང་ཐིག་), the ‘Heart Essence of Yuthok’, composed by the master physician and meditation adept, Yuthok the Younger is a complete cycle of Vajrayana Buddhist practice, beginning with the preliminary practices (Tib. སྔོན་འགྲོ་ “ngöndro”) and progressing through the development and completion stage practices to the highest practices of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. It is characterized by its non-sectarianism, and its concise and simple methods which bring about both worldly benefits, including improved health and longevity, as well as the ultimate benefit of complete spiritual liberation. The Yuthok Nyingthig is the main spiritual practice of Tibetan physicians and contains many unique techniques to heighten the intuition and healing capacities of the doctor, and is particularly suited to today's modern and busy lifestyle. It's unique characteristics can be read about here.
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A Selected History of Sam Jackson’s The New York Times Reviews
A Selected History of Sam Jackson's The New York Times Reviews
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By now you’ve probably heard about the little dust-up between Samuel L. Jackson and A.O. Scott, sparked by Scott’s negative review of “The Avengers” in The New York Times, fueled by Jackson’s angry tweet about it, and largely extinguished by Scott’s measured, classy response. Righteous indigination doesn’t seem out of character for Sam Jackson — or for Nick Fury — but the timing was surprising. “The Avengers” is getting massive critical support from just about everyone but A.O. Scott. It’s going to make a gabillion dollars at the box office this weekend — dig this picture I took last night of all the sold-out midnight showings at just one theater in New York City. A.O. Scott’s one review isn’t going to hurt this movie half as badly as it hurt Jackson’s feelings. It didn’t seem to be about the movie at all — it almost felt personal.
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That’s why Criticwire Assistant Editor Steve Greene went digging through the Times‘ archive to see what it had to say about Jackson in the past. Maybe Scott’s “Avengers” review wasn’t the real problem; maybe it was just the straw that broke the camel’s back or, in this case, the super-hero’s eyeball. Here are a few notable mentions of Jackson in Times reviews that he found. All reviews by A.O. Scott, except where noted:
Thor:
“‘Thor’ is an example of the programmed triumph of commercial calculation over imagination. A post-credits teaser gives viewers who have lingered in the theater a taste of ‘The Avengers,’ which at some future date will braid together the ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Incredible Hulk’ and ‘Thor’ franchises under the eye-patched aegis of Samuel L. Jackson. Or something. This is franchise building of the kind that has long been practiced by comic book publishers to keep their long-running serials fresh and their readership hooked. Translated into the hugely expensive, culture-dominating realm of big-budget moviemaking, however, the tactic of treating the price of a ticket as an installment-plan payment has more in common with a Ponzi scheme. The purpose of putting this movie in theaters is to make sure you and all your friends go to the next one, and then the one after that.”
The Other Guys:
“When it operates in this nonsensical zone of verbal riffing and broad slapstick (the most inspired example of which is a brawl at a funeral conducted in respectful whispers), ‘The Other Guys’ provides some pretty good laughs. Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson make fun of their action-hero personae and then step aside to let Mr. Ferrell and Mr. Wahlberg do their thing. Those two are gracious enough to cede a little room to Michael Keaton, as the leathery precinct captain, and to Rob Riggle and Damon Wayans Jr., as Gamble and Hoitz’s obnoxious squad room rivals.”
Iron Man 2:
“Such preparation is one reason that Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson show up here, though there are of course others. Mr. Jackson looks good in an eye patch, as Ms. Johansson does in tight skirts and tighter body suits. So you might say that the movie has something for everyone, which is fine but also, in the end, not quite enough. You’re left wanting more, but not quite the “more” ‘Iron Man 2’ works so hard to supply.”
The Spirit:
“I’m just trying to figure out why, somewhere in the middle of ‘The Spirit,’ Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson arrive on screen decked out in swastikas and jackboots. Nothing in the logic of the film explains it, but then, to use the phrase ‘the logic of the film’ when talking about ‘The Spirit’ may be to take the ‘oxy’ out of ‘oxymoronic.’ …Mr. Jackson and Ms. Johansson at least seem to enjoy themselves, which is their prerogative since they are the villains…The 108 overstuffed, interminable minutes of ‘The Spirit’ yield exactly two memorable moments: when one of Mr. Jackson’s genetically engineered minions (all played by Louis Lombardi) appears as a tiny, hopping foot with a head grafted on to it, supplying an odd, creepy morsel of Surrealism; and when Eva Mendes, playing a character called Sand Saref, sits on a copy machine and presses the button. She produces what may be the only true-to-life image in the movie, as well as the most interesting.”
Soul Men:
“‘Soul Men’ not only allows him room to explore the nuances and inflections of profanity, but it also pairs him with Samuel L. Jackson (as Louis Hinds, Floyd’s onetime singing partner), certainly no slouch when it comes to wringing poetry out of the blue Anglo-Saxon linguistic heritage. To say that the chief pleasure of ‘Soul Men’ is watching these two men swear at each other is in no way to sell it short. There is also some hitting and gunplay, but that’s pretty superfluous. Once these guys start yelling at each other, all Mr. Lee really has to do is keep the camera running. They also sing, which is riskier but still pretty good fun…The story is a hectic and haphazard affair, but the soundtrack of well-made soul covers and the cruder music of Mr. Jackson and Mr. Mac’s foulmouthed one-upmanship provide a measure of satisfaction.”
Lakeview Terrace:
“The twist in this tired scenario — a variation that allows Mr. LaBute, not for the first time, to assume the posture of social provocateur — is that Abel is not your average white bigot but rather a righteously angry, or at least seriously crazy, black one, played by (who else?) Samuel L. Jackson. Abel finds various pretexts for abusing and humiliating Chris, but it’s clear from the start that this white man’s marriage to a black woman is the main source of his animus. His fury might be interesting if it were rooted in anything more than the filmmakers’ glib desire to play with the audience’s assumptions. The hostility of a middle-age, middle-class African-American man toward a younger, more privileged, racially mixed couple is a potentially interesting subject, fraught with bitter history and complicated sexual politics. But Bernie Mac did more with the topic in a few throwaway moments of the lamebrain comedy ‘Guess Who’ than Mr. Jackson manages in all of ‘Lakeview Terrace.’ Abel’s resentment of Chris and Lisa exists in a political and cultural vacuum, and turns out in any case to be explained by an episode from Abel’s past that will make your jaw drop (or ache from laughter) when it is revealed. Mr. Jackson’s glowering, bellowing performance is so close to self-parody that I had to check the end credits to make sure I hadn’t been watching Dave Chappelle doing an extended version of his Comedy Central impersonation.”
Jumper:
“Then, you know, something happens. In this case, the something is mostly Samuel L. Jackson, who, as a mysterioso avenger, arrives barking his lines and wearing the latest addition to what has become a notorious collection of extreme hairpieces and looks. Snow white and close cropped, Mr. Jackson’s hair in this film dominates its every scene (it’s louder than the predictably voluble actor), rising out of the visual and narrative clutter like a beacon. It glows. It shouts. It entertains. (It earns its keep.)” [Manohla Dargis]
Black Snake Moan:
“Really, though, the character, played with his usual fearsome wit by Samuel L. Jackson, is a tried-and-true Hollywood stock figure: the selfless, spiritually minded African-American who seems to have been put on the earth to help white people work out their self-esteem issues…To their great credit, Mr. Jackson and Ms. Ricci understand that the relationship between Lazarus and his prisoner has its comic side, and some of their scenes together — as when he takes her for a walk in his garden, using the chain as a leash, or when she is reeled in across the porch like an angry wide-mouthed bass — play out like kinky screwball… Mr. Jackson, rarely bothered by characters that make no sense — he was the star of both John Singleton’s ‘Shaft’ remake and ‘Snakes on a Plane’ after all — redeems Lazarus with his wily professionalism, much as Terrence Howard redeemed DJay in ‘Hustle & Flow.'”
Snakes on a Plane:
“At once hard-working and hardly working, Mr. Jackson turns in one of his customary performances, meaning that he glowers, barks and periodically unleashes a 13-letter epithet the way only he can.” [Dargis]
Coach Carter:
“Mr. Jackson acts with his usual steely authority – his Coach Carter is so convinced of his righteousness that he never needs to be nice – leaving it to the younger cast members to supply warmth and levity as they absorb his stern lessons.”
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones:
“After sitting through ‘Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones,’ I’m tempted to quote an evergreen Public Enemy song: don’t believe the hype. Only Mr. Jackson, Frank Oz (the voice of Yoda) and, later, the formidable Christopher Lee seem comfortable in their performances, perhaps because they know better than to take the proceedings too seriously.”
Around the time of “Attack of the Clones” you start to see fewer and fewer of the current Times bylines on Sam Jackson movie reviews; it seems like Elvis Mitchell was assigned the Sam Jackson beat in the early 2000s, reviewing everything from “Changing Lanes” to “xXx” to “S.W.A.T.,” and he hasn’t been at the paper in many years. If Jackson were holding a grudge against him or anyone else from that period, it’d be pretty odd to air it out now, and in this way.
Is there enough here to warrant a public flogging? That depends; how short is your temper? There are more than a few negative reviews in his filmography, but when Jackson himself is criticized in the Times — which isn’t all that often — it’s more for his taste in material than for his performances. But maybe that’s what pissed Jackson off. One might assume he only does movies like “The Avengers” and “Star Wars” and “Jumper” because those are the ones that come with the biggest paychecks. Perhaps that is true. Or perhaps beneath the macho bluster and the badass swagger, Jackson is actually a giant sci-fi nerd like the rest of us. And, as we well know, sci-fi nerds can often have very thin skin.
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The proposed research outlined in the application as part of the internship must be part of the scientific program of the strategic cluster. In a first step, the strategic cluster recommends a candidate and then the candidate can apply for the scholarship.
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a presentation of collaborations and potential impacts for the strategic cluster that have been developed, if applicable
The clusters, whose student will be in default of having submitted the internship report according to the rules, cannot file new applications to the international internship program as long as the situation is not rectified.
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Q: How to create this in flutter enter image description here
I have tried different ways like transform and rotation but not able do it
A: I think you've been getting some downvotes because you didn't share any of your previous attempts, on which the solution could be built.
I think what you might want to do is use a CustomClipper to create the desired shape. I wrote you a simple one that makes a wedged shape with just 4 points, but you can use Path.arc to make it more like the image you provided:
class WedgeClipper extends CustomClipper<Path> {
final bool isRight;
WedgeClipper({this.isRight = false});
@override
Path getClip(Size size) {
Path path = Path();
// mirror the clip accordingly when it's left or right aligned
if (isRight) {
path.addPolygon([
Offset(0, size.height / 4),
Offset(size.width, 0),
Offset(size.width, size.height),
Offset(0, 3 * size.height / 4)
], true);
} else {
path.addPolygon([
Offset(0, 0),
Offset(size.width, size.height / 4),
Offset(size.width, 3 * size.height / 4),
Offset(0, size.height)
], true);
}
return path;
}
@override
bool shouldReclip(covariant CustomClipper<Path> oldClipper) {
return true;
}
}
Then to use it in your code, you can do something like:
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Scaffold(
appBar: AppBar(
title: const Text('Wedge List View'),
),
body: ListView.builder(
itemBuilder: (context, index) {
bool isRightAligned = index % 2 == 0;
return Padding(
child: ClipPath(
child: Material(
child: SizedBox(
height: 80,
width: double.maxFinite,
child: Row(
mainAxisAlignment: isRightAligned ? MainAxisAlignment.end : MainAxisAlignment.start,
children: isRightAligned ? [
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Titans Edge Pioneers With Win In Last Event
UW-Oshkosh won the meet's 13th and final event to pull out a 118-112 victory over the Carroll University women's swimming & diving team on Saturday (Oct. 27) in Albee Hall.
The Titans trailed the Pioneers, 108-107, after 12 events and needed a win in the 400-yard freestyle relay to celebrate a triumph in their first home meet of the season. UW-Oshkosh was successful in answering the challenge as Hannah Cunningham, Rachel Jaworski, Alexandra Schuster and Tessa Shorten combined to win the relay with a time of 3:49.49.
UW-Oshkosh had six other first-place finishes, including two by Sydney Challoner and one each by Cunningham, Schuster, Shorten and Rebecca Birriel.
Challoner won the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:10.93 and the 100-yard butterfly with a swim of 1:01.81. She also helped Birriel, Schuster and Jennifer Lutz post a second-place time of 4:23.16 in the 400-yard medley relay.
Birriel won the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:26.41 while Cunningham placed first in the 100-yard freestyle with a performance of 56.82 seconds. Schuster took the top finish in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 26.11 seconds and Shorten the highest ranking in the 200-yard freestyle with an effort of 2:07.14.
Cunningham and Shorten also finished second in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events with times of 26.53 and 58.66 seconds, respectively.
UW-Oshkosh's Johnna Seelman contributed a pair of second-place finishes in the diving after totaling 160.30 points off the 1-meter board and 163.90 off the 3-meter plank.
The Titans recorded seven third-place finishes, including times of 58.94 seconds in the 100-yard freestyle and 2:10.75 in the 200-yard freestyle by Jaworski and times of 6:07.24 in the 500-yard freestyle and 20:55.74 in the 1,650-yard freestyle by Lexi Gray.
Other Titans finishing third were Birriel in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:15.33, Lutz in the 100-yard butterfly with a performance of 1:04.61 and Alyssa Hassel in the 200-yard individual medley with an effort of 2:30.46. Lutz also finished fourth in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:09.19.
UW-Oshkosh's Jennifer Anderson and Brianna Beseler both achieved a pair of fourth-place finishes. Anderson marked times of 1:19.85 in the 100-yard breaststroke and 2:33.13 in the 200-yard individual medley while Beseler registered times of 6:09.27 in the 500- and 21:21.52 in the 1,650-yard freestyle events.
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I really like the delicate features of this display. Although I also do a lot of men’s hats I still think that it work well to photograph all of my hats. I have included measurements in the written part of my review but I feel like this is pretty close to a standard head size if not a little smaller.
My only complaint is that when it arrived there were already some gouges on it, mostly under the neck, and then a couple of smaller ones here and there. Since it is lightweight styrofoam I understand that this will happen but I was hoping that I would have it a little while and used it a bit before having to deal with that.
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Posted on February 5, 2012 by Jim Wheeler
As a retired military officer I note with both interest and alarm that our armed forces are becoming ever more top-heavy and expensive. A USA Today front-page article says that pension benefits are now so lavish that some of the brass are making more in retirement than they made on active duty. The justification for this is retention of expertise. However, an independent watchdog organization, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), points out that,
Star Creep
“for the first time in the more than 200 years that the U.S. has had a standing military, there are fewer than five enlisted personnel for every officer. In other words, today’s military is the most top-heavy force in U.S. history.”
In recent Congressional testimony , a POGO official had this to say,
“This progression towards a more top-heavy force is a burden for taxpayers and military commanders. The cost of officers increases markedly with their rank, so taxpayers are overpaying whenever a general or flag officer is in a position that could be filled by a lower ranking officer. The costs involved are more than just compensation for that officer; the subordinate personnel assigned to and overhead associated with a general or flag officer, particularly three- and four-star positions, are the greatest additional expense. Additionally, some military personnel experts say unnecessarily top-heavy organizations with excessive layers of “middle management” hinder military effectiveness as they slow decision cycles. (SecDef Robert) Gates claimed that “in some cases the gap between me and an action officer may be as high as 30 layers,” and this results in a “bureaucracy which has the fine motor skills of a dinosaur.”
How many Generals and Admirals does it take to wage war? I know of no way to quantify an answer to this question but I do know from my own service career that there has always been a clear distinction between “General” officers and “Field-grade” officers. The latter operate in the field where the action is, and the top brass generally (pun intended) set broad strategy, manage resources, and otherwise push paper.
Personally I would have thought that the the brass in the Pentagon would have reached a critical mass of diminishing returns under the Peter Principle a long time ago, but there appears to be no limit in sight. I wonder, will there someday be one General officer for every enlisted person? (Even in my time, over 30 years ago, we in the field referred to the Pentagon as the “Puzzle Palace” for its apparent disconnect from our realities.) Seems to me the situation is redolent of the recent book, Top Secret America which details the explosion without apparent limit of the military industrial complex that General Eisenhower warned of.
General of the Army Eisenhower, via Wikipedia
POGO calls the phenomenon “Star Creep”, a subset of Brass Creep. (How many Generals and Admirals does it take to catch underwear bombers? Possible answer: a lot fewer than to rebuild hopelessly backward Islamic countries in our own political image.) Will the President address the problem, assuming his re-election and successful withdrawal from Afghanistan? I’ve heard nothing about it, if so. Would any of the GOP nominee field do so? My impression is that only Ron Paul wouldn’t make it even worse.
I submit Star Creep is something the electorate needs to be aware of. George Patton, not to mention the unassuming Ike, would be astounded at what has happened.
Ike’s Nightmare (my.firedoglake.com)
The Man Of Peace (huffingtonpost.com)
Imperial Overstretch: Is A Bloated Defense Budget Weakening the U.S.? (ibtimes.com)
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I’m really disappointed to hear this, but not surprised. It sounds like every corporation in America, and a lot of smaller organizations, too.
Exactly, Pied, it is the same phenomenon. I believe that technology is a factor in both military and civilian organizations – there are more complexities to manage. There is a huge industry in the D.C. beltway massaging, tweaking and lobbying endlessly for all manner of weapons systems and their peripherals, such as training. Like cancer, it will grow without limit as long as it’s fed.
I agree, whole heartedly with the thrust of your blog, that we have too many general/flag officers for our force size. But I do not agree that it is technology driven. It is driven by politics.
There are 10’s of thousands of “questions” today, inside and outside Washington about defense related issues. But no one in Wash can address those issues except for general or flag officers. Send a knowlegdable Navy Captain or Army Colonel to brief Congressional staffers and he/she is ignored. Has to be a flag officer to do the briefing/sign the letter in response to issues, any issues.
Take a man out of the fleet, a man that has been making life and death decisions (during wartime at least) for years and send him to Wash. He cannot make ANY decisions without them being “chopped” time and time again on ANYTHING.
We now have Admiral billets in Wash for simply crazy things, like overseeing “diversity”, etc. My guess is a flag officer will soon be assigned to oversee relations in the fleet related to homosexuality for example.
The job of an Admiral is to command groups of ships AT SEA in wartime, or it used to be so. Now we have almost as many Admirals in the Navy as we have ships, in total. The real numbers are slightly over 200 in each category, ships and flag officers in the Navy, as I recall. Crazy, expensive and clogs up the decision making pipeline for EVERYTHING, even the trivial things, really trivial things.
There is a VERY easy fix for this situation. Clean house in the Pentagon and surrounding Wash offices. And I mean really clean house. The Joint Chiefs should be 4 star billets for sure, making 5 4 star billets, total in DC. Each of those “chiefs” is also the head of their respective services plus the Chairman.
Now tell me why we need ANYMORE flag or general officers anywhere else in Wash DC?
How many FLEETS or DIVISIONS do we have? Obviously each one should be commanded by a flag or general officer. Not sure what the “fleet” equivalent might be in the Air Force but the same logic would apply.
Then we have the “joint” commands that should be COMMANDED by general/flag officers.
Bottom line is general and flag officers should COMMAND men and equipment. They should NOT command “policies”. Need a better policy, fine, go ask a COMMANDER what he needs not a staff officer.
But my God, can you imagine the SHOCK to the system with such ideas!!!
We agree on this topic, apparently, except for the role of technology, and I remain convinced that it leverages the star creep. I just can’t see human-resources needs, or perceived needs, being persuasive of adding much brass. But the mysteries of technology are what Top Secret America (TSA) feeds on and so does the Puzzle Palace. BTW, for any other readers who might not be familiar with TSA, the link in the post is worth a look – it’s short and describes it well.
To answer Pied’s concern about corporations, I provide my somewhat limited experience on that matter. I worked in/for two major Fortune 500 corporations as a senior executive in both companies. I was a former Navy $750 million annual budget. I did fine, had all the authority needed to make decisions and operate my own company. The corporate “big wigs” NEVER got down to day to day things. They only watched the “bottom line” and held me responsible for it.
The equivalent level of responsibility in the Navy would have had at least a 3 star in such a position and he would have done no better or worse, in my view, than I did as a civilian. And you can be sure that I did NOT have all the “horse holders” required of a 3 star on his staff!!
My experence is corporations are not that top heavy simply because of the cost involved.
Opps, should have read above “former Navy Captain with a civilian budget of $750 million per year”
Jim,.
OK, why does technology require a flag officer to direct. Take a well educated Captain, maybe a Phd in a particular field, or a Master’s with extensive experience, and let him run the technology efforts. DARPA for example is headed (or used to be) by an 0-6 (Navy Captain/Army Colonel for you landlubbers reading this).
I also of course only address my comments to Navy Line Officers, not specialty officer communities.
But Navy line officers at the flag level should be doing what they have proven they can do, COMMAND men and equipment, now large groups of men and equipment. The submarine force USED to do exactly that. When I first started serving in submarines the FIRST flag officer in my chain of command was Commander Submarines, Atlantic Fleet. EVERYONE else in that whole chain of command was a Navy Captain or below.
That 3 star flag reported directily to the 4 star Fleet commander. Two flag officers between me as an Ensign, and Washington DC. Sure is not that way today!
That’s just the point, Anson. It doesn’t require a flag officer, but nevertheless that’s how they justify using a flag officer. But, you made me think some more on this – technology equates to money, does it not? The more money involved, the pricier the management required. Same for military as civilian in that regard.
Nope Jim,
I don’t think it is money either. The extra money made by flags over senior “field grade” officers is not that big a difference. People in the military aspire to flag/general officer ranks as a matter of prestige or status or more likely, POWER. RHIP (rank has its privileges) means a lot to military folks, career folks. And to “fail” to achieve flag rank is a sign of just that, failure, to many military officers.
What really motivates a senior Navy Captain to “hang in there”, maybe in an assignment that he detests? The ones that I knew did so simply to wait for the flag list to come out the next year to see if they were on it. Money did not motivate them, it was the “star” that did so.
I am sure that is hard to understand for civilians, the meaning of a simple collar device. But for men and women in the military in the senior field grade ranks, that collar device is almost everything to them and their egos, again not the money.
Money itself does not motivate a man to run for President. No way. It is RHIP with POWER being the “p” in such a case. Look at Romney as a simple example, a man with more money than he could possibly spend.
I never encountered a military officer that aspired to becoming the President. But I knew a LOT of them that aspired to flag/general officer rank. THAT motivated them, at least in the later stages of their careers.
To enhance that motivation, DOD thus created more and more billets, slots for you landlubbers, to fill with flag officers. And look at what we have today.
I will also provide an observation from my two years in the puzzle palace. The MOST dangerous thing in that building was NOt an enraged 3 or 4 star on the E-ring of the Pentagon. It instead was the TERRIFIED 1 star that went from his cubby hole in the D-ring to the office of the 3/4 star and got his butt chewed out, again and again. That poor 1 star would come around the corner back onto the D-ring and look for the first 0-6 head to take off.
And any aspiring 0-6 would simply cower under his desk and wait for the 1 star to cool off.
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The Maltese market closed in the green on Monday, with MSE Equity Total Return Index ending the session 0.08% higher, to 9,413.128 points. Best performer was Main Street Complex plc by adding 1.59% to close at 0.64, followed by Bank of Valletta plc adding 1.45% to 1.40. BMIT Technologies plc rose 0.96% to close at 0.525. Closing list of gainers Malta International Airport plc and RS2 Software plc with 0.76% and 0.71% increase to close at 6.65 and 1.42 respectively. International Hotel Investments plc showed biggest fall with 2.6% change to close at 0.75, followed by Lombard Bank Malta plc and Go plc, which shed 0.85% and 0.41% to close at 2.34 and 4.88 respectively. HSBC Bank Malta, Mapfre Middlesea, Simonds Farsons Cisk, Medserv, MaltaPost and MIDI plc were active but closed unchanged.
European shares started the second quarter strongly on Monday, posting their biggest daily gain in a month and a half, as unexpectedly strong factory data from China and signs of progress in its trade talks with Washington boosted risk appetite. The pan-European share index closed up 1.2% to 383.67. Germany’s DAX added 1.35% to 11681.99 and France’s CAC rose 1.2% to close at 5407.54.
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French aerospace and defense giant Thales SA announced on Tuesday that it has completed the acquisition of Dutch digital security company Gemalto after a 15-month approval process. The deal worth €4.8 billion will create an 80,000 employees-strong security firm and bolsters its research and development of the electronic security solutions.
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Russell Packer
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Having played rugby union growing up, Russell Packer made the switch to rugby league just before becoming a teenager — quickly earning selection in New Zealand junior representative sides with both the U/16's in 2005 and U/18's in 2007.
After captaining the Junior Kiwis side, Packer joined the New Zealand Warriors squad in 2007 before making his first-grade debut the following year. He would play just four games in his rookie season; instead featuring primarily for the Junior Warriors in the Toyota Cup where he was named in the 2008 Toyota Cup Team of the Year alongside teammate Ben Matulino.
Packer played for New Zealand Maori in 2010 before cracking the national team in 2011 as part of the Four Nations. He would continue to thrive at the Warriors — helping the side to the Grand Final, which they would loss to the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, before spending another two seasons in New Zealand. From his six seasons at the Warriors, Packer would play 110 games and scored six tries.
Signing a contract with the Newcastle Knights ahead of the 2014 season, Packer was convicted of assault which saw him remain out of the game until midway through the 2015 season. He would return to the game through the St. George-Illawarra Dragons NSW Cup side Illawarra, and was named in the NSW Cup Team of the Year that season after several impressive performances.
Approved to return to the NRL in 2016, Packer would play 41 games in his two seasons at the Dragons that saw him also return to career-best form. He would find himself back on the international arena with selection in the 2017 ANZAC Test and World Cup squads for New Zealand in what would be his final games for the Kiwis — retiring from international football the following year.
Joining Wests Tigers on a long-term deal in 2018, the talented prop was named one of five co-captains for the year ahead and continued to show his importance to the side both on and off the field with 19 games.
After a strong first month of the season, Packer succumb to a foot injury that would unfortunately rule the prop out for the remainder of the season following surgery — limiting him to just six games in 2019. He would continue to work tirelessly off the field in that time, however, claiming the NRL Male Academic Player of the Year Award for his work in completing a Masters of Business Administration.
Packer is signed through at Wests Tigers until the end of the 2021 season.
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At NASA's robot challenge, don't mistake trouble for failure
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After years of research and late nights, a team of scientists set up their robot Thursday to take on a NASA-funded autonomous robotics challenge.
Teams struggle in autonomous robotics challenge but advances are made
By Sharon Gaudin |Computerworld US | 12 Jun 2014
They switched on their robot, stood back and waited for the machine to begin its two-hour effort.
But the robot failed.
Without ever moving off its platform or moving an inch, the robot's challenge was over for this year.
Members of Team Survey, a group independent researchers in Los Angeles, follow their robot through a field as they show what it can do during NASA's Sample Return Robot Challenge at WPI in Worcester, Mass. (Photo: Sharon Gaudin/Computerworld)
"We knew immediately," said Fred Zyda, a software developer on Team Survey, a group of individual scientists from Los Angeles. "That was quite disappointing. There's a speaker on the robot that announces what it's doing. We turned it on and it said, "Cameras failed." We knew."
Team Survey was participating in NASA's Sample Return Robot Challenge at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass. In its third year, 18 teams took on the challenge to build a fully autonomous robot that can traverse an area the size of one and a half football fields, find objects and retrieve them.
NASA is looking for technologies that can help build improved robots that would eventually be used on Mars or on asteroids.
Larry Cooper, NASA's program executive for the challenge, said the space agency isn't likely to use any of the technology demonstrated at this week's challenge, but the teams are heading in the right direction.
"I'm sure we won't use any of these on Mars, though some of the people who worked on the robots may put something on Mars some day," he added.
At the end of the day Thursday, the second day of the contest, not one of the teams had successfully completed the challenge. Most of the teams will have a second try at the tasks on Friday, when rain is in the forecast. Their first official attempts were unsuccessful.
Don't mistake these problems for failure, though, said Jascha Little, a mechanical engineer on Team Survey.
"It's hard to appreciate how difficult this is," he told Computerworld. "That's just development. We definitely learned a lot of things."
It's been a long road for Team Survey, which successfully passed through Phase One of the challenge last year and was tackling Phase Two this year. The robot was supposed to be searching for objects, which ranged from a blue rock to a red hockey puck and an orange PVC pipe.
To get ready, the team's seven members worked nights and weekends, totaling nearly 40-hour weeks, on top of their full-time jobs, in the past few months leading up to this week's challenge.
Zyda said he didn't mind the long hours because he loves working on interesting problems. Building an autonomous robot -- the hardware and the software to run it -- qualified.
The team used some off-the-shelf software for the three-wheeled robot, which has nine onboard cameras. For instance, they used the Robot Operating System, also known as ROS, open source software that provides basic robotics functioning.
Team Survey's five software programmers also wrote a lot of their own code. Over the past three years, they've probably written about 10,000 lines of code, estimated Zyda. Most of them used C++ programming language. Little, the mechanical engineer, also wanted to try some of the coding so he learned to use Python, a programming language geared more for beginners.
The programmers, for instance, created custom code for the robot's three independently moving wheels.
Many three-wheeled robots use the back wheel as a castor, meaning that it drags along instead of driving. Team Survey's robot, though, has three wheel pods, each with its own steering motor, which is a wheel motor and two encoders that monitor the machine's steering angle and judge the distance the wheel has rolled.
The programmers needed to write code that would enable the robot to control all of its wheels.
So what caused Team Survey's trouble that knocked them out of the official competition?
It was a Firewire interface for the robot's nine cameras.
"One out of 100 times it doesn't connect when we start it up," Zyda said. "We started it today and the cameras didn't come up. If you can't see, you can't go anywhere."
While the robot failed its challenge, NASA and WPI challenge officials allowed the team to fire it up again and run as a demonstration, but out of contention for any award money this year.
The robot started up on the second try and spent two hours maneuvering around the field, motoring easily and fairly swiftly over the course. Zyda noted that their robot found several objects but was unable to pick up any of them without assistance.
"It shows a lot of promise," added Zyda. "It didn't hit anything. It didn't slip its wheels ... Its motions were a lot smoother this year.
Team Survey plans on competing again next year.
To do that, they'll do more testing and will focus on system integration, one of the biggest challenges for robotics at this level. With so many sensors, cameras and other systems, it's a lot to link together into a seamless operation.
This article, At NASA's robot challenge, don't mistake trouble for failure, was originally published at Computerworld.com.
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J Neurophysiol. 2002 May;87(5):2307-23.
Mechanisms underlying fictive feeding in aplysia: coupling between a large neuron with plateau potentials activity and a spiking neuron.
Susswein AJ1, Hurwitz I, Thorne R, Byrne JH, Baxter DA.
Faculty of Life Sciences, Gonda (Goldschmied) Medical Diagnostic Research Center, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel.
The buccal ganglia of Aplysia contain a central pattern generator (CPG) that organizes the rhythmic movements of the radula and buccal mass during feeding. Many of the cellular and synaptic elements of this CPG have been identified and characterized. However, the roles that specific cellular and synaptic properties play in generating patterns of activity are not well understood. To examine these issues, the present study developed computational models of a portion of this CPG and used simulations to investigate processes underlying the initiation of patterned activity. Simulations were done with the SNNAP software package. The simulated network contained two neurons, B31/B32 and B63. The development of the model was guided and constrained by the available current-clamp data that describe the properties of these two protraction-phase interneurons B31/B32 and B63, which are coupled via electrical and chemical synapses. Several configurations of the model were examined. In one configuration, a fast excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP) from B63 to B31/B32 was implemented in combination with an endogenous plateau-like potential in B31/B32. In a second configuration, the excitatory synaptic connection from B63 to B31/B32 produced both fast and slow EPSPs in B31/B32 and the plateau-like potential was removed from B31/B32. Simulations indicated that the former configuration (i.e., electrical and fast chemical coupling in combination with a plateau-like potential) gave rise to a circuit that was robust to changes in parameter values and stochastic fluctuations, that closely mimicked empirical observations, and that was extremely sensitive to inputs controlling the onset of a burst. The coupling between the two simulated neurons served to amplify exogenous depolarizations via a positive feedback loop and the subthreshold activation of the plateau-like potential. Once a burst was initiated, the circuit produced the program in an all-or-none fashion. The slow kinetics of the simulated plateau-like potential played important roles in both initiating and maintaining the burst activity. Thus the present study identified cellular and network properties that contribute to the ability of the simulated network to integrate information over an extended period before a decision is made to initiate a burst of activity and suggests that similar mechanisms may operate in the buccal ganglia in initiating feeding movements.
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This acrylic painting over carving on a wood board by Charles Gillam Sr., depicts Fats Domino (February 26, 1928–October 24, 2017) playing the piano on the roof of his flooded New Orleans studio during the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. It is in the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. (Click image for more information)
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The French government Wednesday unveiled a package worth more than €600 million ($655 million) for farmers, after days of protests that have blocked cities, roads and tourist sites. Some farmers have threatened to continue blockades.
The measures sparked a mixed reaction, with some farmers stopping their protests but others vowing to step up their blockades.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared: "We hear the anguish of the farmers," many of whom say they are on the brink of bankruptcy due to falling prices and increased competition.
"We have seen a fear of the future but also the desire to do a job that is more than a job: being a farmer means making a lot of sacrifices ... and contributing to the unique job of feeding the French people," Valls told reporters.
Valls said the government would waive around €100 million in taxes and set aside a further €500 millionto give farmers more time to pay various debts and taxes.
In addition, France's public investment bank will guarantee €500 million in loans for farmers to ease their cashflow crisis.
In recent days, farmers have dumped manure in cities, blocked access roads and motorways and hindered tourists from reaching Mont St-Michel in northern France, one of the country's most visited sites.
Overnight Tuesday, farmers briefly blocked the A1 motorway, a key artery between Paris and northern France, with around 500 tractors.
In the flashpoint city of Caen, farmers decided to lift their blockade after the measures were announced, letting through heavy goods vehicles, some of which had been stuck since Monday morning.
However, some militant farmers in the south vowed to block access to Lyon, France's second city.
Dominique Despras, who added it would be an "unprecedented" action.
Retailers and food industry chiefs promised to raise prices on meat and dairy after meeting farmers last month, but the farmers say price hikes in supermarkets have yet to filter down to them.
Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll has said around 10 percent of farms in France (approximately 22,000 operations) are on the brink of bankruptcy with a combined debt of €1.0 billion, according to the FNSEA farming union.
While the farmers' actions have grown more violent over the past few days, anger has been mounting since the beginning of the month, with around 12,000 farmers in total protesting across the country.
"There is a sort of exasperation and anger that has been rising for weeks. You can't say you weren't warned," stressed the head of the powerful FNSEA, Xavier Beulin.
Although agriculture only accounts for two percent of French gross domestic product, farming provides nearly one million jobs directly or indirectly and politicians pay close heed to the industry's mood.
The dairy industry has suffered a triple shock from the Russian embargo on Western products over the Ukraine crisis, a dip in Chinese demand and the end in April of European milk quotas.
According to recent figures from the French agriculture ministry, the price of milk bought from the producer plunged by 12 percent in May compared with the same month the previous year -- to €303 per 1,000 litres.
Meat producers have also been hit by the Russian embargo and are battling strong competition from neighbouring countries such as Spain, Germany and the Netherlands.
Valls has also stressed that "the government cannot act alone". He called on "everyone to live up to their responsibilities", including retailers and the food processing industry.
Hollande has also insisted that consumers play their role, calling on them to "eat French-produced food as much as possible."
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Google is adding something called Emergency Location Service to Android. It will be rolling out through Google Play Services (which automatically updates in the background, so you don't have to do anything to get it). With the huge reach that Play Services has, this means that theoretically Emergency Location Service is supported by 99% of Android devices out there.
However, this can't just be turned on by Google - the company first has to talk to mobile network operators and emergency infrastructure providers in each country in order to enable support. So the worldwide rollout is sure to take some time. For now, the new feature is available in the UK and Estonia, through partnerships Google's forged with the carriers and emergency services listed in the picture below.
Here's how it works. When you place an emergency call from your Android device (and if you're on a supported carrier in a supported country), your location will automatically be sent to the emergency services. The information goes straight from your phone to the emergency operator, bypassing Google entirely. Obviously this uses the same location tech available to apps on your phone, and so Wi-Fi, GPS, and cell towers can all be involved in order to produce a reliable location both indoors and outdoors.
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They can already track you, there's no need for them to implement this in order to know your location, however, this will help emergency services to also know your location so the next time you're in trouble, you won't need to waste valuable minutes ...
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Is not that from ¨1986¨? :D
This already worked in Estonia, but only by cell. This left some room for errors. Estonian myself.
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Vestbo, S. (Stine), Hindberg, C. (Claus), M. Forbes (Mark), Mallory, M.L. (Mark L.), Merkel, F. (Flemming), Steenweg, R.J. (Rolanda J.), Funch, P. (Peter), H.G. Gilchrist (Hugh Grant), Robertson, G.J. (Gregory J.) and Provencher, J.F. (Jennifer F.)
Helminths in common eiders (Somateria mollissima): Sex, age, and migration have differential effects on parasite loads
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife , Volume 9 p. 184- 194
In birds, parasites cause detrimental effects to the individual host, including reduced survival and reproductive output. The level of parasitic infection can vary with a range of factors, including migratory status, body size, sex, and age of hosts, or season. Understanding this baseline variation is important in order to identify the effects of external changes such as climate change on the parasitic load and potential impacts to individuals and populations. In this study, we compared the infection level (prevalence, intensity, and abundance) of gastrointestinal parasites in a total of 457 common eiders (Somateria mollissima) from four different sampling locations (Belcher Islands, Cape Dorset, West Greenland and Newfoundland), and explored the effects of migration, sex and age on levels of parasitism. Across all samples, eiders were infected with one nematode genus, two acanthocephalan genera, three genera of cestodes, and three trematode genera. Migratory phase and status alone did not explain the observed variation in infection levels; the expectation that post-migratory eiders would be more parasitized than pre-migratory eiders, due to the energetic cost of migration, did not fit our results. No effect of age was detected, whereas effects of sex and body size were only detected for certain parasitic taxa and was inconsistent with location. Since gastrointestinal helminths are trophically-transmitted, future studies of the regional and temporal variation in the diet of eiders and the associated variation and infestation level of intermediate hosts might further explain the observed variation of the parasitic load in eiders in different regions.
Keywords Arctic parasitology, Body size, Gastrointestinal parasites, Migration, Seabird
Persistent URL dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2019.05.004
Journal International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
Vestbo, S. (Stine), Hindberg, C. (Claus), Forbes, M, Mallory, M.L. (Mark L.), Merkel, F. (Flemming), Steenweg, R.J. (Rolanda J.), … Provencher, J.F. (Jennifer F.). (2019). Helminths in common eiders (Somateria mollissima): Sex, age, and migration have differential effects on parasite loads. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 9, 184–194. doi:10.1016/j.ijppaw.2019.05.004
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High-intensity strength training may lead to a potentially deadly condition called aortic dissection, in which the heart's major artery tears.
That's the conclusion of new research by a team of Yale University experts that appears in the Dec. 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Dissection in the blink of an eye
Dissection happens in a split second, says Dr John Elefteriades, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital and the lead author of the report, which is contained in a letter to the journal.
In those who lift weights and already have an enlarged aorta, the elevated blood pressure that occurs during weight training may lead to the dissection, Elefteriades says.
How the study was conducted
Using a Yale database, Elefteriades and his colleagues identified five people who suffered acute dissection of the aorta during high-intensity weight training or other strenuous exercise. At the moment the dissection occurred, two of the people were weight training, one was trying to move a heavy granite structure, and two were doing pushups, the researchers say.
All were found to have an enlarged aorta, but not at a level expected to present a high risk of dissection, Elefteriades says.
Three patients who had surgical repair survived; the other two died before surgery could be attempted.
Prevalence of aortic dissection
The condition of aortic dissection is uncommon but not rare, says Elefteriades, adding that it is what killed actor John Ritter earlier this year and has been declared the cause of death of many athletes who died suddenly.
Aortic dissection strikes about two of every 10 000 people, according to the American National Institutes of Health. While it can affect anyone, it's most often seen in men ages 40 to 70, the NIH says.
We're not saying stop weight training, says Elefteriades, a long-time weight trainer himself. It's a wonderful activity and a very important activity. It can help maintain muscle mass as you age, for instance, and help maintain strength for everyday chores such as carrying groceries.
Who should be cautious?
But Elefteriades does recommend caution in certain people, including those with known aortic aneurysms - a widening or ballooning of the vessel caused by disease or a weakening of the vessel wall. Also, those with a family history of aneurysm or dissection, underlying high blood pressure, and those at or beyond middle age should be cautious, he says, because the aorta stiffens with age. Those with connective tissue disease - such as rheumatoid arthritis - are also at higher risk, he says.
I think there has to be this underlying enlargement [of the aorta] before the dissection happens, Elefteriades says.
But we wanted to sound this warning bell that strength training and weight lifting can cause these dissections in people who already have a mild enlargement of the aorta, he adds.
The problem, Elefteriades says, is that many people with an enlargement don't know they have it. An echocardiogram - an ultrasound evaluation of the heart - can determine whether the aorta is enlarged, he says.
When dissection of the aorta occurs, the aorta splits into two layers, Elefteriades says. It splits in such a way that it becomes a double-barreled tube instead of a single-barreled one. You can quickly lose blood internally and die.
What are trainers to do?
Until more research is done, what should weight lifters who may be at risk do? Avoid weight training so strenuous that your blood pressure rises excessively, Elefteriades says.
We do know that levels of blood pressure that are high are dangerous, he says. Serious weight trainers, who often bench press 300 or 400 pounds (136 or 181 kg), may get blood pressures that are dangerously elevated, even up to 370 millimeters of mercury systolic, he says. Normal systolic pressure, measured as the heart beats, is below 120; normal diastolic pressure, measured as the heart rests between beats, is below 80, Elefteriades says.
While it's difficult to pinpoint how much weight is too much, Elefteriades suggests that for upper body weight training, above half your body weight you are starting to get into the high pressure zone. For the lower body, the legs are stronger, so you could probably lift more than half your body weight [safely].
Serious weight trainers should consider having an echocardiogram, he says.
Another important message
The other take-home advice from the report is very obvious for weight lifters or would-be weight lifters, says Dr Craig Miller, the Doelger Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Stanford University Medical School.
If they have dilation or aneurysm of the thoracic aorta or a connective tissue disorder or a family history of premature aortic catastroiphic complications, do not weight lift, Miller says. - (HealthDayNews)
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Universities adopt national measures to combat threats against scientists
Scientists are increasingly facing threats, harassment and hate speech in response to their media participation and other public appearances. The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) is now adopting a number of national measures intended to be a source of support for every university and employee. These guidelines for ‘Addressing threats to and harassment of scientists’ also include examples of best practices which universities can implement in order to support employees who have received threats. VSNU President Pieter Duisenberg: ‘We applaud the fact that our scientists are applying their knowledge and insights for the benefit of society. But when those efforts are met with harassment and threats, we consider it a direct attack on both academic freedom and freedom of expression. Through these measures, we want to protect and support our scientists and make a statement against such threats .’
The guidelines include a number of best practices that can be applied, as well as a number of measures to be implemented at the national level:
Universities will maintain a zero-tolerance policy in connection with threats and harassment aimed at scientists. Cases involving threats, physical or sexual violence, stalking or unlawful entry will be reported to the police.
All universities will strive to enact broader support measures, both preventative and reactive. These measures may include online resilience training, for example, or providing psychosocial assistance.
The universities will establish a joint platform: WetenschapVeilig. This platform will be structured as an independent charitable foundation (comparable to PersVeilig) and is aimed at improving the collection and provision of information, measures and the interaction with the justice system and the police at a national level.
In the recent period, scientists who made public appearances have encountered more frequent and more overt instances of threats and harassment. Scientists have had strangers show up at their homes, members of the OMT have received threats in response to extended measures and scientists are frequently subjected to virulent verbal attacks on social media or by email after taking part in sensitive debates.
Meanwhile, universities encourage their scientists to actively participate in the public domain and to initiate and engage in debate. These threats are placing increasing pressure on that natural engagement. Duisenberg: ‘Academics must be able to carry out their work in safety. With these guidelines, we are taking concrete steps to prevent and respond adequately during and after incidents involving threats against scientists.’
At 14:00 on Monday 11 October, the guidelines were presented to Minister Van Engelshoven and to scientists Roland Pierik (UvA), Afshin Ellian (Leiden University) and Aya Ezawa (Leiden University), all three of whom frequently deal with threats and harassment. All fourteen Dutch universities have pledged to adopt the guidelines.
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Description: Tape recording of a press conference announcing the plans for $14,325,000 Performing Arts Center at the University, including introductory and concluding remarks and comment by President David D. Henry, remarks and recollections by principal donor Herman Krannert '08 and a description of the facilities by architect Max Abramovitz. Mr. Krannert's remarks relate to his special interest in broadening cultural facilities at Illinois by giving a memorial "to what can be accomplished through our free enterprise system," and his recollections of his student years at Illinois. Mr. Abramovitz's remarks relate to the music auditorium, music theatre, drama school theatre, experimental theatre, outdoor theatre, production areas, classrooms and parking facilities to be included in the Center.
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In the early days Engecie gloves were exported directly to retailers who would the advertise and sometimes 'announce' their arrival in local newspapers. Below are some such adverts from the 20s.
All the way from New Zealand this advert from The Wellington Evening Post of November 11th 1920 highlights the reach and fame the The National Glove Company had in the early days. Clearly Carter & Co in Wellington were delighted to have landed a consignment of Engecie fabric gloves. An export market that continued to be good for the company over many years.
Way down under this advert comes from The Western Australian newspaper of January 7th 1924 and is advertising Engecie imitation suede gloves available at The Economic Stores in Perth. Their headline reads 'Great Annual Summer Fair! Seasonable goods almost given away at superbly generous prices! Be early'.
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Microduino Core (Atmega328P@8M,3.3V)
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.. contents::
Hardware
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Platform :ref:`platform_atmelavr`: Atmel AVR 8-bit MCUs deliver a unique combination of performance, power efficiency and design flexibility. Optimized to speed time to market-and easily adapt to new ones-they are based on the industry's most code-efficient architecture for C and assembly programming
.. list-table::
* - **Microcontroller**
- ATMEGA328P
* - **Frequency**
- 8MHz
* - **Flash**
- 31.50KB
* - **RAM**
- 2KB
* - **Vendor**
- `Microduino <http://wiki.microduinoinc.com/Microduino-Module_Core?utm_source=platformio.org&utm_medium=docs>`__
Configuration
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Please use ``328p8m`` ID for :ref:`projectconf_env_board` option in :ref:`projectconf`:
.. code-block:: ini
[env:328p8m]
platform = atmelavr
board = 328p8m
You can override default Microduino Core (Atmega328P@8M,3.3V) settings per build environment using
``board_***`` option, where ``***`` is a JSON object path from
board manifest `328p8m.json <https://github.com/platformio/platform-atmelavr/blob/master/boards/328p8m.json>`_. For example,
``board_build.mcu``, ``board_build.f_cpu``, etc.
.. code-block:: ini
[env:328p8m]
platform = atmelavr
board = 328p8m
; change microcontroller
board_build.mcu = atmega328p
; change MCU frequency
board_build.f_cpu = 8000000L
Debugging
---------
:ref:`piodebug` - "1-click" solution for debugging with a zero configuration.
.. warning::
You will need to install debug tool drivers depending on your system.
Please click on compatible debug tool below for the further
instructions and configuration information.
You can switch between debugging :ref:`debugging_tools` using
:ref:`projectconf_debug_tool` option in :ref:`projectconf`.
Microduino Core (Atmega328P@8M,3.3V) has on-board debug probe and **IS READY** for debugging. You don't need to use/buy external debug probe.
.. list-table::
:header-rows: 1
* - Compatible Tools
- On-board
- Default
* - :ref:`debugging_tool_avr-stub`
- Yes
- Yes
* - :ref:`debugging_tool_simavr`
- Yes
-
Frameworks
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.. list-table::
:header-rows: 1
* - Name
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Vonnegut's Firefight Fuzz Box
Goodwin, Mitch (2011) Vonnegut's Firefight Fuzz Box. [Creative Work]
Video (MP4) (Compressed DVPAL Version) - Published Version
Image (JPEG) (Playtime Exhibition Image) - Supplemental Material
PDF (Didactic) - Published Version
Image (JPEG) (Play Time Exhibition Poster) - Supplemental Material
Image (PNG) (QR Code) - Published Version
Image (JPEG) (Dark Euphoria Exhibition Image 1) - Supplemental Material
View at Publisher Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azoiNzgW...
This video installation was first exhibited in the Playtime exhibition held in May 2011 at the Cereal Box artist run space in Townsville, Australia. Was later featured in the Dark Euphoria exhibition at the eMerge Media Space in October 2011.
From the original didactic: "Competing screens and competing time slots keep the fuzz box busy. When computer screens are used to recruit instruments of war, 4 year olds in plastic tiaras pull off booty slaps and the world's most wanted channel flicker is caught catching up with the BBC World Service you know that times are tough – and weird. So, as it has been 10 years since the befuddled distraction of Story Time with George it's probably best to see if Uncle Kurt can guide as through the hills and furrows of this very 21st C coming of age story... Ladies & Gentlemen: Vonnegut’s Firefight Fuzz Box."
Structurally the most applicable reference that can be used to describe the technical approach to Vonnegut's Firefight Fuzz Box (VFFFB) installation is the methodology of the video assemblage or more classically, visual collage. This is a genre of video art practice going back to the late 1960s and pioneered by artists such as Nam June Paik and Bill Viola and more recently Craig Baldwin.
Research Contribution
VFFFB was designed to explore the visual media environment on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of September 11. The work is a continuation of Goodwin's earlier politically motivated social commentary films: George WDC, Johnny's Parade and Musafari which dealt with issues pertaining to the war in Iraq, Australia's treatment of refugees and the broader concerns surrounding freedom of speech and government sanctioned surveillance.
Research Significance
The media and its ancillary content providers have a major influence on how society is shaped and how culture morphs with and against its various agendas and narrative constructions. By repositioning pre-recorded images of classical cultural tropes and accepted historical constructions new meaning can be derived from broadcast ephemera which may, in some small part, help to get closer to our feelings about - and our interpretation of - notions of truth and fiction.
Creative Work (Recorded/Rendered Work - Audio/visual recording - NTRO)
Media of Output:
DV PAL video, Analogue TV, DVD Player, vintage leather office chair, assorted fluffy toys, Australian Defence Force artillery case (x2)
kurt vonnegut, elmo, george bush, osama bin laden, iraq, wikileaks, battlefield 3, america's army, red alert, evan wood, toddlers & tiaras
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L.A.’s Berserktown III Festival lineup ft. Psychic TV, Inga Copeland, Container, Jason Lescalleet, and more L.A.’s Berserktown III Festival lineup ft. Psychic TV, Inga Copeland, Container, Jason Lescalleet, and more
By Liz Louche https://www.tinymixtapes.com//writer/liz+louche · April 7, 2016 2016-04-07T13:28:53-04:00
Like the mysterious carnival of pleasures in Ray Bradbury’s fiction classic Something Wicked This Way Comes, underground punk/metal/electronic/whatever festival Berserktown comes but once a year to Los Angeles to transform the dull lives of its citizens in fantastical, darkly beautiful, hard rockin’ ways. (Except for it’s not evil, presumably, and there are definitely no juggalo connotations.) This year, the fest rolls into downtown L.A.’s Teragram Ballroom from August 12-14.
For the fest’s third year, the lineup goes increasingly diverse, with performances from Psychic TV (and special guests!) doing Force the Hand of Chance in, of course, its entirety, as well as Inga Copeland, Powell, Destruction Unit + Friends, Pop. 1280, Croation Amor, Gorilla Angreb, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, The Kids, Container, Marshstepper, Murean Humanos, Cold Showers, Rezzett, Personable, Rixe, Urochromes, Drapetomania, Honey, Vial, Jason Lescalleet, Nandas, Cold Beat, Angels In America, Horoscope, Criminal, Chain of Flowers, CC Dust, First Hate, Belgrado, La Misma, Wall, Drab Majesty, Warthog, Muerte, Mommy, Cheena, Shopping, Caja De Ritmos, and of course…. more.
The good people at Berserktown will also be hosting a few afterparties and related shows in the L.A. area throughout the course of the fest. More info on everything here.
More about: ANGELS IN AMERICA, Belgrado, Caja De Ritmos, CC Dust, Chain of Flowers, Cheena, Cold Beat, Cold Showers, Container, Criminal, Croation Amor, Destruction Unit, Drab Majesty, Drapetomania, First Hate, Gorilla Angreb, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, Honey, Horoscope, Jason Lescalleet, La Misma, Lolina, Marshstepper, Mommy, Muerte, Murean Humanos, Nandas, Personable, Pop. 1280, Powell, Psychic TV, Rezzett, Rixe, Shopping, The Kids, Urochromes, Vial, Wall, Warthog
2010s: Deception Music
Demonic listening in diabolical times
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Jason Lescalleet releases some “20th Century Music” on No Rent Records
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Halls of Greatness
The food halls have arrived and downtowns's dining options increased dramatically as a result.
by Greg Horton| November 6, 2019
Photos provided
The food halls have arrived, and downtown’s dining options increased dramatically as a result. The Collective and Parlor opened about a month apart—the former in August and the latter in September. The Collective occupies the old automotive repair facility on the southwest corner of NW 10th and Harvey, while Parlor is east of Broadway on NE 6th. Both have limited parking, but that hasn’t slowed the response noticeably.
With an interior capacity of 487, The Collective can easily host well over 500 guests, thanks to two outdoor seating areas. (Outdoor seating is not counted in fire safety assessments, for obvious reasons.) Operating partner Truong Le said their initial numbers on Friday and Saturday nights show that OKC has turned out in staggering numbers.
“We’re turning the seating three times,” he said, meaning that upwards of 1,500 diners, drinkers or both are coming through on weekend evenings. “We won’t have hard numbers until we get through all four seasons to see how it affects traffic, though.”
The Mother Clucker, at Parlor
Given that a popular restaurant might serve 200-225 customers on a Friday night, these numbers are astounding—more in line with an outdoor venue like Bleu Garten. The trajectory of a restaurant’s life can include a burst of new customers, but the new eventually wears off. Both food halls are taking steps to keep things fresh. Parlor concepts have contracts that last from one to three years, depending on circumstances, and The Collective plans to rotate concepts every year.
“We want people to have new choices, to get excited about new options here,” Le said. “We can also make changes as necessary, because everything won’t necessarily work.”
In fact, The Collective closed its coffee shop concept in less than two months. That kind of flexibility gives customers confidence that they’re getting the best options available, and it provides more opportunities for concepts waiting to incubate their business ideas. Already, Bowls & Berries, a new smoothie and acai berry bowl concept is set to go into The Collective next to Theo’s Donuts.
Giving customers multiple options, and giving local eateries an incubator space makes the food halls a solid choice for both groups, and both the food halls have strong local representation. Parlor has three Kansas City concepts and four locals, while The Collective has only one non-local, a waffle concept from Dallas. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6273587942123413, "wiki_prob": 0.6273587942123413, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0065.json.gz/line1551745"} |
Anne Heche's Son Requests to 'Expand His Authority' Over Late Mom's Estate
Homer Laffoon asks for a bond of $800,000 as part of his 'ex-parte application' with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County to extend his control as special administrator of the estate.
AceShowbiz - Anne Heche's son is bidding to "expand his authority" over his late mum's estate. Homer Laffoon, 20, asked for a bond of $800,000 (£703,000) as part of his "ex-parte application" with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County to extend his control as special administrator of the estate.
Documents obtained by Entertainment Tonight lodged on Thursday, October 20, and reported on Sunday, October 23, show the 20-year-old asserts the expansion is "necessary" as the "tangible personal property of the estate" located in Anne's apartment needs to be moved as soon as possible in order to "avoid additional fees, costs and possible loss".
Homer also claims cheques made payable to the late actress need to be negotiated, endorsed and deposited into a bank account in the name of the estate as soon as possible so they are not voided. He said permission to give him more control would let him "collect all claims, rents and other income belonging to the estate; commence and maintain or defend suits and other legal proceedings" as well as "request and receive copies of (the estate's) financial records".
It would also allow him to "manage, perform and enforce the rights and interests" related to Anne's book, "Call Me Anne", due for release in January 2023. The request comes two weeks after a judge ruled Homer can for now oversee Anne's estate.
Ahead of the hearing next week about the late actress' estate, Homer claimed Anne had $400,000 (£351,000) to her name at the time of her death and said she lived in an apartment and did not own any property. Anne's ex James Tupper, and their 13-year-old son, Atlas, also attended the October 11 hearing at an LA court, with James saying he believes his son and Homer's relationship will be strained if a neutral party is not present to help mediate the estate manners.
James was told he could file an objection to his ruling that Homer is fit to oversee the estate, with the next hearing scheduled for November 30. Anne, who died after suffering a "severe anoxic brain injury" as a result of a fireball car crash in August, did not leave a will. She had Homer with ex-husband Coleman Laffoon, 48, to whom she was married from 2001 to 2009, and had Atlas, 13, with actor James Tupper, 57, who she was with from 2007 to 2018.
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CWF and NWF’s South Park Comments to BLM’s Draft Env. Assessment
On September 17, 2012, CWF and NWF submitted comments to the BLM re its Royal Gorge Field Office’s Draft Environmental Assessment. We confined our comments to opposing inclusion of 6 parcels in South Park in the February 2013 lease auction.
The comment letter appears below:
BLM Royal Gorge Field Office
3028 East Main
Canon City, Colorado 81212
Transmitted by email to: [email protected]
Re: Parcels 6484, 6485, 6486, 6487, 6488, 6489
The following comments are submitted on behalf of the Colorado Wildlife Federation (CWF) and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). CWF is Colorado’s oldest statewide wildlife conservation organization, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose members consist of hunters, anglers, viewers, birders, and other wildlife enthusiasts. CWF’s mission is to promote the conservation, sound management and sustainable use and enjoyment of Colorado’s wildlife and habitat through education and advocacy. CWF understands that wildlife habitat is critical to conserving Colorado’s unique wildlife, fishing and hunting heritage, and wildlife viewing opportunities. These wildlife-related recreation pursuits enrich the well-being of residents and visitors and form a substantial segment of Colorado’s economy. As an organization, NWF represents the power and commitment of four million members and supporters joined by affiliated organizations in 47 states and territories. NWF and its affiliates have a long history of working to conserve the wildlife and wild places on federal public lands in the West. Many members of CWF and NWF use the lands and resources that will be impacted in South Park.
We thank you for the opportunity to review and provide comment on the Royal Gorge Field Office (RGFO) Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA). CWF opposes inclusion of each of the six parcels in South Park in the DEA. As to these parcels, we urge that BLM adopt the No Action Alternative.
South Park offers big game, prized fisheries, mountain plover, and other wildlife. It includes the communities of Fairplay, Alma, Como, Jefferson, Hartsel and Tarryall.
CWF, joined by other organizations and more than 200 residents, requested on November 4, that the BLM undertake a master leasing planning (MLP) process for South Park under 2011 Instruction Memorandum No. 2010-117. (The number of residents who added their support grew to more than 400 by early January 2012.) The MLP application addressed in detail the numerous shortcomings in continuing to apply the1996 resource management plan to leasing decisions in 2011, as well as to potential future lease sales. BLM rejected the application on February 7, 2012. In its letter to CWF, BLM stated that it does not meet the third criterion: ”The oil and gas industry has expressed a specific interest in leasing, and there is moderate or high potential for oil and gas as confirmed by the discovery of oil and gas in the general area.” BLM had also acknowledged in its South Park Land Tenure Adjustment EA that South Park contains “favorable source and reservoir rocks” for development and that what is limiting development is the “lack of infrastructure” (and not lack of industry interest or development potential). The Decision Record To Amend the South Park Land Tenure Designations in the Royal Gorge Resource Management Plan was signed on May 18, 2009. Only four months after rejecting the application for master leasing planning, BLM announced its scoping period to identify issues for its February 2013 lease sale that included six parcels in South Park. BLM’s proposed inclusion of the six parcels in the February 2013 lease sale appears to undercut its reasoning that there was little interest in leasing and developing South Park.
In this draft Environmental Assessment for the February 2013 Oil and Gas Lease Sale issued on August 17, 2012, BLM presents its rationale for offering leases in February: if BLM does not offer leases as soon as possible it would “set up situations in which reservoirs could not be adequately developed and public minerals would be drained by nearby private or state wells, resulting in a loss of revenue due to drainage situations that could be resolved by timely leasing.”
This is not a persuasive reason for including the six South Park parcels in this lease sale. The chart in the DEA shows no activity in South Park. Further, in its February 7 letter rejecting the master leasing plan application referenced above, BLM stated, “… there are no producing oil and gas wells in the South Park Basin. Oil and gas development in South Park is still in the exploratory stage and highly speculative.”
Five of the parcels are only ½ mile from Spinney Mountain Reservoir and Spinney Mountain State Park. Spinney Mountain Reservoir is a gold medal fishery, accessible within a drive of two hours or less from a major metropolitan area. BLM notes on page 61 that “there would begin to be cumulative changes that could detract from the peaceful and serene stated management objectives of the state park by introducing a variety of human intrusions such as roads, equipment, facilities, and workers.” BLM also states that its objective concerning parcels in its VRM class III area is to “partially retain existing character of the landscape… the level of change should be moderate….” (Page 56.)
Although various lease stipulations would be imposed, BLM makes clear that it intends to address very complex, difficult resource questions at the application for permit to drill (APD) stage. They include specific geologic formations; potential impacts to the site specific water quality associated with any exploration and development; and wildlife (beyond lease stipulations).
BLM must look at the cumulative (and direct/indirect impacts) of leasing now, and may not wait until the APD stage. “Under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), the BLM must “take a hard look at the impacts of a proposed action.” Wyoming v. Dep’t of Agric., 661 F.3d 1209, 1263 (10th Cir. 2011; see also Pennaco Energy, Inc. v. U.S. Dep’t of Interior, 377 F.3d 1147, 1159 (10th Cir. 2004) (requiring a “hard look” at the impacts of oil and gas leasing). “Impacts” under NEPA include indirect and cumulative impacts, as well as direct impacts. See 40 C.F.R. §§ 1502.16, 1508.7, 1508.5 (establishing duty to evaluate direct, indirect and cumulative impacts). Further, these issues should be addressed on a landscape level using the MLP tools provided to BLM in May 2010.
Water Resources, Geology, Wetlands/Riparian Zones
Water resources in South Park are extremely important to its economy. It is essential that BLM assess impacts to the South Platte River watershed and its water quality before offering any more leases. This watershed supplies drinking water to the major metropolitan areas of the Front Range.
The South Platte River is renowned throughout the State and among anglers nationally as some of the finest trout fisheries in the country. In addition to many prized fisheries along the South Platte River, the following reaches have been designated as gold medal waters by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW):
Ø From the confluence of the Middle and South Forks to Spinney Mountain Reservoir inlet
Ø From Spinney Mountain Reservoir outlet to Eleven Mile Reservoir inlet
Ø Middle Fork, from the Hwy. 9 bridge to the South Fork confluence
The Reservoirs, too, are jewels for fishing recreation, and Spinney Mountain Reservoir is designated as a gold medal lake.
Serious impacts to the general public and to recreational economic segment of the economy will result if South Park’s water quality becomes degraded. To our knowledge, BLM has not undertaken any modeling to understand the important interaction of groundwater and surface water in South Park. In fact, BLM acknowledged during a meeting of the Park County Board of Commissioners on February 25, 2012 that it knows little concerning the South Park water basin. Section 3.2.5 Water, devotes one general paragraph to surface water and to groundwater, respectively. BLM does not address the water table or known natural radioactivity found in Park County’s water quality assessment samples, to date. Further, the components of the hydrofracturing fluids and the methods used for hydrofracturing involve risks to surface water and to groundwater quality.
Park County is in the process of conducting baseline water quality testing. Testing already has been conducted near Parcels 6484 and 6486. Instead of waiting until the study is completed, BLM states in the DEA at page 26 in reference to both surface water and to groundwater, “… activities at the exploration and development stage could have impacts to water quality. The magnitude and location of direct and indirect effects cannot be predicted until the site-specific APD stage of development…. Potential impacts to the site specific water quality associated with any exploration and development activities would be assessed for each location during specific project proposals.”
As to the geology, on page 22, Section 3.2.2, BLM states, “The South Park Basin is a wide faulted syncline sitting between the Front Range to the east and the Saguache Uplift to the west.” The DEA does not make reference to the USGS reports and the relationship of fault to the parcels (such as a quaternary fault running through parcel 6487). It defers an analysis to the APD stage, simply stating, “Site specific geology would need to be analyzed during the APD NEPA process to determine if a separate permit would be required for use of federal minerals in the construction of roads, pad building, or for any other construction needs.”
In Section 3.3.4, BLM discussed wetlands and riparian zones. It states at page 40, “At the APD stage, the RGFO “will need to evaluate if location stipulations are sufficient by themselves to protect wetland resources, or if in addition to location modification, are [sic] other protective measures are necessary. RGFO will need to incorporate appropriate oil and gas development BMP’s to limit and buffer overland runoff from being accelerated into drainages.”
BLM must not defer this analysis until the leasing stage. NEPA requires that when there “is incomplete or unavailable information” about “reasonable foreseeable adverse effects,” BLM must do one of the following:·
OObtain the information if the information is “essential to a reasoned choice among alternatives” and “the overall costs of obtaining it are not exorbitant. . . .” 40 C.F.R. § 1502.22(a)
I If costs are exorbitant, then include a statement:
o that the information is “incomplete or unavailable;”
o describing the “relevance” of the missing information to understanding impacts;
o summarizing “existing credible scientific evidence” relevant to evaluating the impacts; and
o the agency’s “evaluation” of impacts “based upon theoretical approaches or research methods. . . .” 40 C.F.R. § 1502.22.
This regulation requires that BLM either obtain missing information about foreseeable impacts or if that information cannot be obtained, then it must develop a “theoretical” model or approach to evaluating impacts. Also, IM 2010-117 says that when evaluating parcels for lease, the BLM must “determine the need for additional information and develop strategies to obtain any data that may be required to support a leasing decision. Generally speaking, it is anticipated that this information will have been developed at the land use planning stage or subsequently, such as through an MLP process, if any has been conducted. However, in some circumstances it may be necessary to defer parcels from leasing while additional resource information is collected and analyzed.”
Each of the six of the parcels contains mapped mountain plover habitat, as noted by the BLM. On page 35, Threatened, Endangered and Sensitive Species, as to Mountain Plover, BLM states, “Oil and gas extraction activities may be compatible with Mountain Plover needs. In Utah, disturbed areas around oil well pads create open habitat with high amounts of bare ground suitable for Mountain Plovers (Day 1994). Ball (1996) recommended curtailing or prohibiting activities during the peak breeding period (April-July); however, Mountain Plovers in southeastern Wyoming did not seem to be disturbed by nearby mining activity (Parrish 1988).”
It turns out, though, that the bird population cited in the study was extirpated in the early 2000’s. This single, pivotal fact teaches that the BLM must conduct its own evaluation, and must not base its thinking and conclusions — in a blithe and facile (if convenient) manner — upon materials that have been demonstrated, after scrutiny, to be unsound. BLM goes on to note appropriately, “Mountain plovers nest on nearby level ground (often near roads), adults and chicks often feed on or near roads, and make plovers susceptible to being killed by vehicles.”
BLM must consider the best available science on direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts of leasing and development on the habitat of this species. CPW designated the mountain plover as a state species of concern. It is important that the BLM view its habitat area on a landscape level rather than a parcel by parcel basis.
Socio-Economic Impacts
The DEA does not provide consideration of the importance of the aquatic resources and their habitats within the watershed, as noted above. The document also does not discuss the importance of recreational fisheries to anglers and to the local economy. BLM’s presentation of statistical data is confined to population and to average annual production and revenue from fluid minerals in the vicinity of Spinney. The DEA does not address economic impacts to fishing, other outdoor recreation and tourism in section 3.4.4, Environmental Justice and Socioeconomics; in 3.4.5, Visual Resources, or in 3.5.1, Land Resources – Recreation. There is no mention of the contribution of recreation to the local economy or to the number of visitor days at Spinney Mountain Reservoir and Spinney Mountain State Park.
Located within a two-hour drive from the Denver Metro area, recreational use and the accompanying economic contribution to the County and State cannot be underestimated. Angling in Colorado’s gold medal waters in South Park is an important economic and tourism driver and consideration of this importance must be provided. Colorado’s gold medal waters of the Middle Fork of the South Platte River and to Spinney Mountain Reservoir could be impacted by spills in future development of the proposed leases.
It is essential that BLM consider the economic contribution that fish and wildlife, other outdoor recreation and tourism in South Park make to the County and to the State. As hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers, we expect our federal agencies to recognize the importance of wildlife-based recreation to local economies and to our Western heritage and traditions. Wildlife-based recreation contributes more than $17,790,000 annually to the Park County economy (BBC Research & Consulting study – 2007 statistics), an impressive amount for a county with a population of only 16,206 residents (an 11.6 percent population increase since 2000 according to the 2010 Census). The economic impacts of healthy wildlife populations will grow in importance, as well as tourism in general, provided we act as stewards of the land.
In 2009, the South Park National Heritage Area designation was approved by the US Congress and signed by the President. According to Park County, the designation “opens the door” to obtain grants and matching funds “to help Park County preserve its valuable history and natural resources and to help others learn to appreciate our preservation of the past.” It will promote strongly tourism, ranching, and mining. It also has been designated in 2006 as a Preserve America Community, a national honor awarded by the First Lady to communities that demonstrate strong efforts in preservation, education and tourism programs. The DEA does not mention the South Park National Heritage Area designation in its section 3.4 Heritage Resources and Human Environment.
NEPA requires analysis of “economic or social effects” which are aspects of the “human environment” that must be fully discussed in the EA. 40 C.F.R. § 1508.14. Effects also include “growth inducing effects and other effects related to induce changes in the patterns of land use, population density or growth rate”, effects on “aesthetic, historic, cultural, economic, social or health” resources/values and those “resulting from actions which may have both beneficial and detrimental effects. . . .” 40 C.F.R. § 1508.8(b).
Suzanne O’Neill
Colorado Wildlife Federation
Bill Dvorak
Public Lands Organizer
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Last evening, our brother in Christ, fellow-discipler, and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Tom Craig, left the night here to enter into that eternal day. He left behind the weeping and entered into morning joy (Psalm 30:5). He exchanged the crushing pain of cancer for the cheerful presence of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:1,6-8). And, not too very long from now, we too will join him and the millions in the presence of our Lord (Philippians 1:23; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). In the meantime, please intercede for his wife, Kim, his daughters, Aimee, Allie and Anna, and the dear folks of Oak Ridge Baptist Church.
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BORN AND RAISED IN IOWA CITY
Terry Swails was born and raised in Coralville, Iowa. He grew up an avid Iowa fan and graduated from Iowa City West high school in 1974. With his love of sports he played baseball and basketball for some highly ranked teams.
When he wasn't participating in sports, he was watching the local weather on TV. His favorite weatherman was Conrad Johnson, a legend at WMT-TV (now KGAN). After high school, Terry went off to the University of Northern Iowa where an instructor recommended him for a weekend weather opening at KWWL-TV. Just 19, Terry interviewed and was hired for the position. In 2 months he was on the air and has never looked back. This February he starts his 41st year in television. Aside from KWWL, Terry has been employed at KDUB, KWQC, WQAD, and now KGAN.
Having worked and lived in Eastern Iowa his entire life,he's seen and been a part of some remarkable weather events. He rates the Parkersburg EF5 tornado and the Cedar Rapids flood of 2008 as the most impactful events of his career. He adds, "I saw things I never thought I would see in Iowa and I pray that I never do again"!
An avid storm chaser, Terry spent a week with legendary forecaster Tom Skilling in search of tornadoes in 2010. They saw their first tornado together (a violent multi vortex EF3) outside Wakita, Oklahoma. Terry and well known storm chaser Jim Reed also watched the eye of Hurricane Irene go directly overhead on the shores of Coney, Island in 2011.
With his vast knowledge of weather and unique perspective, Terry is also the author of several books. His first Superstorms was completed in 2005. He followed that up with Un-Natural disasters in 2008, and All I want to for Christmas is to see a Tornado in 2011. Terry collaborated with his wife Carolyn Wettstone on the last 2 books and has utilized her experience as a writer and former television anchor in a number of weather related projects.
Terry says he hasn't met a storm he didn't like. Tornadoes and snowstorms are his bread and butter and predicting the atmosphere is a challenge that never gets old.
Terry says this web site is a compilation of his life long love affair with weather. He points out "I put everything I would want as a meteorologist into the site. It's fun, informative, and even educational." He also adds, "I hope you find it enjoyable as well!"
THE VOICE OF REASON
Carolyn is an award-winning broadcast journalist and former news anchor. She’s won numerous awards for her reporting including a Regional Emmy during her tenure at KCCI-TV in Des Moines.
Carolyn is also a published author with two books including a children’s book on storm chasing entitled All I Want For Christmas Is To See A Tornado!
As a documentary producer, Carolyn presented a full-length documentary on domestic violence for the IMAX Theater in Davenport, Iowa. She’s also documented humanitarian efforts in Guatemala and led a cultural/educational exchange in Germany for a month.
As a storm chaser, Carolyn has captured a number of tornadoes but her most memorable event was watching the eye of Hurricane Irene pass over New York City while standing on a pier off Coney Island. Carolyn is excited about this latest adventure and will be handling all the social media providing photographs, videos, and blogs on the trip.
FROM SUNSHINE TO SNOW
Rebecca Kopelman moved to the Midwest in January of 2016. Before moving to Cedar Rapids, Rebecca was a forecaster for WRUF and WUFT in Gainesville, Florida.
She started forecasting in 2013 on WRUF-TV, a 24-hour weather, sports, and news station. Rebecca did evening updates before anchoring Mornings Live, a two hour live morning show. In the fall of 2015, Rebecca became the lead forecaster on WUFT-TV's First at Five flagship newscast, forecasting for North Florida 5 days a week.
Rebecca was born and raised in South Florida in the city of Plantation. She attended the University of Florida where she graduated with a B.S. in Telecommunications, a minor in Geography and a certificate of Meteorology and Climatology. She is currently enrolled in Mississippi State University's Master of Geosciences program with a concentration in Applied Meteorology.
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World’s Highest Battlefield Siachen Is Now Open To Tourists
Radhakrishna
The Siachen Glacier at the height of around 20,000 feet (ft) in the Karakoram range is known as the highest militarised zone in the world where the soldiers have to battle frostbite and high winds (Photo: ANNIRUDHA MOOKERJEE/AFP via Getty Images).
By: Radhakrishna NS
THE Indian government on Monday (21) announced that the Siachen area, the world’s highest battlefield, is now open to tourists.
Country’s defence minister Rajnath Singh said the government has decided to open the entire area from Siachen base camp to Kumar Post for tourism purposes.
The step has been taken to boost tourism in Ladakh and give people a window to appreciate the tough work done by soldiers and engineers in extreme weather and inhospitable terrains, he said.
Singh was addressing a function in eastern Ladakh to inaugurate Col Chewang Rinchin Bridge on Shyok River, located about 45 kilometres from the county’s border with China.
“The Ladakh MP in his address, mentioned about opening this area to tourism. And, I am happy to share that the government has decided to open a route from Siachen Base Camp to Kumar Post for tourists,” the minister said.
“This step will make them appreciate the efforts put in by jawans, engineers and other workers,” he said.
Singh later tweeted, “The Siachen area is now open for tourists and Tourism. From Siachen Base to Kumar Post, the entire area has been opened for Tourism purposes”.
The Siachen Glacier at the height of around 20,000 feet (ft) in the Karakoram range is known as the highest militarised zone in the world where the soldiers have to battle frostbite and high winds
Avalanches and landslides are common at the glacier during the winters and temperatures can drop to as low as minus 60 degrees Celsius
At the bridge inauguration, Singh said only steel and concrete have not gone into its making, but “sweat and valour” of the engineers and workers of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) too.
They have toiled hard and people should know their stories, Singh said.
The 1400-ft long bridge is the highest altitude permanent bridge that will connect Durbuk and Daulat Beg Oldi and reduce travel time by about half.
The Indian Army had moved a proposal for opening up Siachen to tourists with a focus to showcase the working conditions of troops serving in the sector, and the government gave its nod, according to sources.
According to official figures, the Army lost 163 personnel at the world’s highest battlefield during the last 10 years.
India and Pakistan started deploying troops at the strategically key glacier in 1984 and mountaineering expeditions were allowed till then.
The Glacier came under the strategic control of India in 1984 following ‘Operation Meghdoot’.
Former northern command chief Lt Gen (retd) BS Jaswal, however, feels that environmental issues will be a matter of concern.
“Tourism and other activities will see a surge in waste dumping. This will hasten glacier retreat. Due to the presence of the Army, a lot of non-biodegradable waste is already present there and every day, about 1,000 kg is being added,” Lt Gen Jaswal said.
He said that while opportunities will open up the doors for revenue generation for locals as also the government, keeping the security in view, red lines will have to be drawn to restrict areas for visits.
This being a very sensitive area, security issues, especially concerning foreigners, will have to be factored in, he added.
At the same time, the former army commander said, it will also motivate the youngsters to join the Army.
“They will learn that the forces can operate and sustain in extreme climate and very hostile terrain…. It will be a capability demonstration to our countrymen,” he added.
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Q: In bash/sed, how do you match on a lowercase letter followed by the SAME letter in uppercase? I want to delete all instances of "aA", "bB" ... "zZ" from an input string.
e.g.
echo "foObar" |
sed -Ee 's/([a-z])\U\1//'
should output "fbar"
But the \U syntax works in the latter half (replacement part) of the sed expression - it fails to resolve in the matching clause.
I'm having difficulty converting the matched character to upper case to reuse in the matching clause.
If anyone could suggest a working regex which can be used in sed (or awk) that would be great.
Scripting solutions in pure shell are ok too (I'm trying to think of solving the problem this way).
Working PCRE (Perl-compatible regular expressions) are ok too but I have no idea how they work so it might be nice if you could provide an explanation to go with your answer.
Unfortunately, I don't have perl or python installed on the machine that I am working with.
A: You may use the following perl solution:
echo "foObar" | perl -pe 's/([a-z])(?!\1)(?i:\1)//g'
See the online demo.
Details
*
*([a-z]) - Group 1: a lowercase ASCII letter
*(?!\1) - a negative lookahead that fails the match if the next char is the same as captured with Group 1
*(?i:\1) - the same char as captured with Group 1 but in the different case (due to the lookahead before it).
The -e option allows you to define Perl code to be executed by the compiler and the -p option always prints the contents of $_ each time around the loop. See more here.
A: This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed -r 's/aA|bB|cC|dD|eE|fF|gG|hH|iI|jJ|kK|lL|mM|nN|oO|pP|qQ|rR|sS|tT|uU|vV|wW|xX|yY|zZ//g' file
A programmatic solution:
sed 's/[[:lower:]][[:upper:]]/\n&/g;s/\n\(.\)\1//ig;s/\n//g' file
This marks all pairs of lower-case characters followed by an upper-case character with a preceding newline. Then remove altogether such marker and pairs that match by a back reference irrespective of case. Any other newlines are removed thus leaving pairs untouched that are not the same.
A: Here is a verbose awk solution as OP doesn't have perl or python available:
echo "foObar" |
awk -v ORS= -v FS='' '{
for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {
if ($(i-1) == tolower($i) && $i ~ /[A-Z]/ && $(i-1) ~ /[a-z]/) {
i++
continue
}
print $(i-1)
}
print $(i-1)
}'
fbar
A: Note: This solution is (unsurprisingly) slow, based on OP's feedback:
"Unfortunately, due to the multiple passes - it makes it rather slow. "
If there is a character sequence¹ that you know won't ever appear in the input,you could use a 3-stage replacement to accomplish this with sed:
echo 'foObar foobAr' | sed -E -e 's/([a-z])([A-Z])/KEYWORD\1\l\2/g' -e 's/KEYWORD(.)\1//g' -e 's/KEYWORD(.)(.)/\1\u\2/g'
gives you: fbar foobAr
Replacement stages explained:
*
*Look for lowercase letters followed by ANY uppercase letter and replace them with both letters as lowercase with the KEYWORD in front of them foObar foobAr -> fKEYWORDoobar fooKEYWORDbar
*Remove KEYWORD followed by two identical characters (both are lowercase now, so the back-reference works) fKEYWORDoobar fooKEYWORDbar -> fbar fooKEYWORDbar
*Strip remaining² KEYWORD from the output and convert the second character after it back to it's original, uppercase version fbar fooKEYWORDbar -> fbar foobAr
¹ In this example I used KEYWORD for demonstration purposes. A single character or at least shorter character sequence would be better/faster. Just make sure to pick something that cannot possibly ever be in the input.
² The remaining occurances are those where the lowercase-versions of the letters were not identical, so we have to revert them back to their original state
A: There's an easy lex for this,
%option main 8bit
#include <ctype.h>
%%
[[:lower:]][[:upper:]] if ( toupper(yytext[0]) != yytext[1] ) ECHO;
(that's a tab before the #include, markdown loses those). Just put that in e.g. that.l and then make that. Easy-peasy lex's are a nice addition to your toolkit.
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The 2017 Listed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire’s Standard Open NHF Race - all the news & quotes
Press Release 19th November 2017 Cheltenham
HOBBS HAPPY WITH CROOKS
Trainer Philip Hobbs was delighted with the performance of Crooks Peak after the 4/1 shot produced a professional performance to land the Listed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire's Bumper by a length and a half at Cheltenham this afternoon.
The four-year-old came into this race on the back of a debut victory at Newton Abbot last month but his trainer was concerned that ground might be too soft for him this afternoon.
"The ground was a concern," said Hobbs.
"We didn't know if he'd handle it and, because he's a very good-moving horse, we thought it'd be an issue. He coped with it very well indeed though. He was actually too keen to begin with, which is understandable as he's only had the one run in his life. He was professional in front though. My first reaction is that we'll stay in bumpers now.
"I was in two minds after he'd won at Newton Abbot whether to send him over hurdles but, if we keep to bumpers this year, he'll probably be a stronger horse next year."
4.00pm High Sheriff of Gloucestershire's Standard Open NHF Race (Listed Race)
1 CROOKS PEAK (Andy Tilley) Philip Hobbs 4-11-00 Richard Johnson 4/1
2 Air Navigator (Lady Cobham & Doone Hulse) Tom George 6-11-00 Adrian Heskin 4/1
3 Woulduadamandeveit (Keith Harris & Tom Gardner) Susan Gardner 4-11-00 Lucy Gardner 25/1
3/1 Fav Vocarium (7th)
Distances: 1½, 1½
Tote Win: £5.00 Places:£2.00, £2.10, £5.50 Exacta:£22.80
PEAK CLIMBS HIGHEST FOR JOHNSON
Richard Johnson was delighted with the performance of 4/1 shot Crooks Peak who plundered the final race of the 2017 November Meeting, the High Sheriff Of Gloucestershire's Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race.
The four-year-old son of Arcadio kept on resolutely in the closing stages to master the Tom George-trained Air Navigator (4/1) to score by a length and a half.
Champion Jump jockey Johnson said: "We were a little bit concerned about the ground as we just weren't sure whether he would like the going as it was decent ground when he won at Newton Abbot and he is quite a light-framed horse, but he coped with the conditions well.
"He handled the ground well and he showed a good attitude in the closing stages. He is enthusiastic but did relax down the back-straight.
"Crooks Peak is only a young horse but he did it well.
"You never get a poor bumper at this meeting and I think sticking to bumpers this season before going novice hurdling next year is the sensible route."
HESKIN STEERS NAVIGATOR INTO SECOND
Air Navigator filled second place in the closing race of The November Meeting, the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire's Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race.
The six-year-old son of Yeats won on his only other appearance on a racecourse, at Exeter in February, and finished a length and a half behind winner Crooks Peak today at odds of 4/1.
Trainer Tom George said: "He's a beautiful horse. He has taken a long time to mature, and he was bred by [owner] Lady Cobham who has always said, 'Don't run him if you're not happy with him' and has given him loads of time to mature. But he's a real one for the future."
He was ridden by Adrian Heskin, who said: "Lovely horse. Tom has done very well to win a bumper with him and he'll go on now over hurdles, hopefully."
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When October arrives we know that summer is officially over. Dr. Elizabeth loves summer through and through, but she also recognizes the importance of each season. She used to dread Fall because it meant winter was right around the corner in the Minnesota — funny how our perspectives changes as we are ever evolving and changing. She now recognizes the importance of Fall and has come to love the season even though the warm summer days are no longer here. She loves how the leaves serve as a reminder to let go of what no longer serves you.
October is a month where we both reflect on anything that we are still holding onto from the summer and dive deep into why we are still clinging to it. It’s a month of self reflection and self love as we get ready for sweater weather and the colder nights. As the weather becomes chiller we either reach for Rishi’s hot turmeric ginger tea or for a warm lemon water in the morning to cleanse our liver after a restful night of sleep. We take our beloved Burrberry on morning walks before work to breathe in the cool crisp morning air. We get back to going to the sauna regularly, so that we can sweat our way to health. We sage our apartments more often as we are inside more than we were in the summer. We keep our immune systems healthy with our favorite holistic remedies this time of year — Flu tone, Elderberry Syrup, Ancient Fortress Essential Oil, and mushroom blends. We get back into reading more as the nights are getting shorter. Our current reads include: Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness and Open Wide.
Last but not least, we cannot forget to mention how Fall is really known as Pumpkin Spice Season! We have always been fans of pumpkin ever since we were little. We would go to the pumpkin patch and pick out our pumpkin along with getting a pumpkin snack. We both loved to carve pumpkins and bake the pumpkin seeds to eat. Now a days, we don’t carve pumpkins but rather cook and bake with them in every way possible. We both love making paleo pumpkin pancakes or paleo pumpkin muffins on the weekends. Dr. Erin especially loves her mother-in-laws gluten free dairy free pumpkin pie recipe whereas Dr. Elizabeth loves Pumpkin Spice Almond Milk Lattes from Whole Foods. With the slight sugar increase in our diets this time of year we both make sure to either eat extra foods that are high in zinc or take a high quality nutritional supplement because we do not store zinc and sugar depletes your zinc levels. Our favorite food high in zinc are oysters!
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By: Aimee Gargus/Staff Writer - Updated: 9 months ago
BUCKHANNON – Oscar Rivera is the kind of person you can’t help but like. His heart is big, his menu is small.
With a focus on quality coupled with fresh local ingredients he is looking to carve a niche into the Buckhannon restaurant world. He recently opened for business inside the Buckhannon County Club.
“Everyone is bragging about our food already,” Oscar said, “and I think it is great! I feel like I am bringing something to the area that has not been here before. We offer a casual restaurant experience where you will be treated like family, all while using the best ingredients possible.”
He describes his menu items as “American food with a touch of home-style.” “My restaurant vision is to start out small but make it all homemade,” Oscar states. There will be no jarred alfredo sauce in this restaurant. He is already partnering with local vendors and small farms to acquire local ingredients. “These ingredients are not only fresher,” Oscar says, “But they sustain our local economy.”
He is proud of the fact he has left the fried food almost entirely off his menu.
“I am focusing on healthy, not fried food,” he said. He was manager of Outback Steakhouse in Clarksburg for five years and Ryan’s Steakhouse in Bridgeport where he became very experienced in chain restaurant style. The downside of working with a large food corporation he says is, “Having no creativity with the food.” “There is one taste that’s supposed to fit everyone, and that just doesn’t work.” He also has experience in a golf club setting from working at the Pete Dye golf course. So, it has all come together to create Oscar on the Green.
Oscar moved to the area 28 years ago from California because of his wife. His wife had parents here and she wanted to come back home to help them out. He loves the people of Buckhannon, and says “This place feels like home to me.” “There is so much knowledge of good homemade food here, I really want to tap into that.” Oscar claims that his ultimate goal is to have Oscar on the Green become a community place. “Maybe I am a dreamer, he says, “but I just want to make a difference in people’s lives and in my employees’ lives.”
He then touched upon the fabulous service he will be providing at his restaurant. “My employees are kind, hard working, beautiful people,” he states. “I couldn’t ask for a better staff!” His goal is to make every customer feel happy and appreciated and to make his staff feel the same way. He knows a happy customer is one that will return and become part of his family, and is always interested in “listening to the customers.”
In summing up his restaurant mission Oscar proudly states, “The focus is small so we can make it right!” The hours of the restaurant operation are: Tues. through Thur., 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and closed on Mondays.
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Docu-Series Explores Various Aspects of Social Divide Over Race in the United States
Timothy Tau
Credit: We Gon' Be Alright
Timothy Tau recently had the chance to talk with filmmaker Bao Nguyen (who directed the documentary about SNL, Live From New York!) and author Jeff Chang (Can't Stop Won't Stop) about their new docu-series We Gon' Be Alright, which is based on Jeff's collection of essays and is viewable in its entirety for free at PBS's Indie Lens Storycast Youtube channel. The series is also a co-production of ITVS, with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) being a supporting partner.
The series essentially picks up on events and developments that have transpired in the United States since Chang’s book was published in 2016. Each of the four episodes examines a different aspect of the social divide over race in the United States — Silicon Valley resegregation, Hollywood images, Harvard admissions, privilege and marginalization — and how a nation of unprecedented diversity is becoming more divided and inequitable.
“We’ve reached this point of racial division in U.S. politics slowly — it’s been over five decades since the Civil Rights Act. Yet the last few years have quickly accelerated resegregation. So much of what we do in our daily lives actually obscures the reality of our separateness and we hope that the series helps us see what is happening and spark the difficult conversations about how we can move forward together,” said writer Jeff Chang.
“When I first read, We Gon’ Be Alright, I was drawn to how Jeff described some of today’s most pressing issues with such a keen sense of narrative,” says director Bao Nguyen. “In adapting it to docu-series, I wanted to make sure the issues and Jeff’s prose were salient in each episode while at the same time using the medium of documentary film to attract a new audience. Each episode takes a slightly different approach visually, but it’s Jeff’s voice that brings it all together. I’m really grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him on this meaningful project.”
Congrats on putting together this compelling digital docu-series. How did the idea of adapting Jeff's acclaimed essay collection for a documentary or video-based project initially come about?
BAO: It was a very rewarding experience finally working with Jeff as we have been planning this project for some time. In terms of how it all came about, Jeff and I have conflicting stories about that. Jeff claims it was my idea, but the initial idea was all Jeff. My version of the story is that he emailed me telling me he had a series idea and wanted to talk on the phone about it. I was based in Vietnam at the time and he was in Berkeley, so it took some time to coordinate a call between us. We chatted and he straight up told me that he thought the book would be great as a series. When I first read the book, I had some thoughts in the back of my mind that it would work well as a series considering how it was structured as a collection of essays, but I wasn't seriously thinking of adapting it into anything at the moment. We let the idea marinate a bit over time until Karim Ahmad from ITVS reached out to me six months later about series ideas and luckily we had this project in our back pocket already. Again, Jeff always claims I was the one with the initial idea, but I have the electronic trail to prove it was indeed him.
Bao mentions in the press release that he wanted to somehow integrate or make "salient" Jeff's prose to every episode. How did that work? Was Jeff involved in the screenwriting process? Was there a concerted effort to include text or voice-over segments straight from the book in every episode? Or was there an attempt to create something "new" from the base material?
BAO: Jeff was very much an equal creative partner on this project, so he did a majority of the writing process along with our co-producer Sahra V. Nguyen. However, the series is not a straight adaptation of the book, so all the writing in the series is different from the writing in the book. In adapting the book which came out in 2016, I wanted to make sure we kept the spirit of the book but made each episode stand on its own and have relevancy with today's issues and events. I knew in order to do this, we would rely a lot on Jeff's new writing for the series as a way to include Jeff's voice beyond his interview questions. It was all a very symbiotic relationship where the words came from Jeff and the visuals came from me.
JEFF: I was involved in writing all of the episodes and we chose to use both pieces from the book as well as to bring in fresh work. One of the important things for us was to bring the themes of the book up-to-date. The book was written and came out before the 2016 elections, and we both felt it was really important to be able to capture a sense of all that had happened since. In that regard, the series became a whole new thing based on the foundation of the book.
How were the interview subjects for the documentary decided/cast? Were some of them interview subjects from the book? Were you able to cover "new ground" by means of these documentary-based interviews that the book wasn't able to due to the differing capabilities of the two mediums of print vs. film?
JEFF: We wanted even the stories that are touched on in the book — Bay Area resegregation and Asian college admissions — to get a new kind of life. These were stories that were close to us in different kinds of ways. We got to explore Hollywood in Episode 2, which is the world Bao works in. For Episode 1, I’ve done educational work in East Palo Alto and have known Isaiah Phillips as a legendary Bay Area artist/dancer/organizer for a while and was surprised to learn from him that he had a story about displacement that literally hit so close to home. They also lent themselves to Bao’s poetry. I think that there are many parts of the book that are abstract, and we wanted to choose stories that lent themselves to Bao’s powerful visual drama and evocativeness. I especially love the way he approached “The In-Betweens.” The beautiful contrasts he draws between the grittiness of street protests and these abstract moments is something I’d love to achieve in my own writing.
BAO: For Episode 1, Jeff had known Isaiah beforehand and knew he had a very compelling story surrounding the effects of gentrification. He also happened to be in Kendrick Lamar's Alright music video, which helped make the connection deeper between the title of the book and the themes of Kendrick's song. Again, since we wanted to create something different but continue in the spirit of the book, most of the interview subjects didn't come directly from the book but were still affected by the issues discussed in it. We wanted to feature a wide range of voices from different racial backgrounds but also different generational backgrounds. Through the use of film, I think there is a deeper emotional resonance when you see someone telling their story on-camera and hearing their voice versus reading their story just through writing.
I feel all of these "modules" covered in the docu-series and the book are just as compelling as the next — e.g., resegregation in Silicon Valley, Hollywood diversity (or lack thereof), college admissions, privilege v. marginalization — but which one do you feel deserves particular mention or focus in this day and age (as well as presidency)? Is there a common thread that runs through each module and what do you feel that thread is?
JEFF: All of the stories are interrelated in that they are about this condition of American resegregation and what we need to do about it. We tackle the different dimensions of it — displacement, cultural equity and representation, educational opportunity and what we owe to future generations. We are living through a particularly divisive moment, and our argument is that resegregation is a large part of the reason why. I am particularly attached to the story of “The In-Betweens.” Bao and I both went through profound emotional loss during this project, and this episode became a real gift of healing from Bao to me and my family.
BAO: For me personally, I related the most with Episode 4 ("The In-Betweens"), which deals with, as you mentioned in the question, privilege vs. marginalization. In a way, this topic touches upon all the topics discussed throughout the whole series. Jeff's line about the "ethics of identity" is something I think about every day as I live my life, straddling the line between my experiences of being privileged and my experiences feeling marginalized. It's made me very self-aware of my status and responsibility in this world. In addition to privilege vs. marginalization as a common thread throughout, the idea of resegregation is prevalent through each episode, both in subtle and not so subtle ways.
Production-wise, how long did it take for all the episodes to be written, produced (i.e., cast) and finally shot? Were there any interesting challenges that arose during the filmmaking process that were unique to this distinct type of project? For example, did filming a docu-series based on a collection of essays present any challenges beyond the filming/production process for a normal documentary? Any crazy/hilarious/interesting stories from the set? Did you end up learning anything new after doing the project?
JEFF: There was a long incubation period in which we shot and finished Episode 1 and then we got the okay to go to series last year. We actually shot the episodes all in an intense two-week period in late December of last year. Then finished it all up earlier this year. It was a really easy process to work with Bao, who is the chillest of chill. He’s so chill sometimes he falls asleep. To be fair, he was often working on insane jet lag, commuting from Vietnam. I’m grateful everyone put up with me. As a journalist, it’s my job to ask questions, so I ask a lot of them. And since this was my first time actually being involved in the aspects of making a doc as opposed to just doing an interview for one, I asked a ton of questions. I’m very lucky that everyone — Bao, Kimmie our showrunner, Sahra our co-producer and Maleri our associate producer — was super patient with me. What’s that for? Where do I sit? What’s going on now? I was just bombarding them with questions all the time.
BAO: I believe from our first production meeting until we had our final delivery was a period of eight months. That's not including the discussions Jeff and I had about the genesis of the project. This is the second web series I've directed/produced, the first one being Employed Identity for PBS, but this was a much bigger undertaking. I should say that 8 months is pretty quick for a series like this, and we couldn't have done it without the amazing work of our producing team, in particular our showrunner/producer Kimmie Kim, co-producer Sahra V. Nguyen and associate producer Maleri Sevier. Our team was spread across two coasts and two continents but we really built a strong sense of camaraderie and purpose from the start. I think we all respect and admire Jeff's work so much, it really inspired us to come together and make it all work. I felt a huge responsibility to make something that Jeff felt respected and honored his work so that was my biggest challenge in adapting the series. There are a few funny stories but I might get in trouble from Kimmie if I shared …
I was also wondering or fascinated by the aesthetic choice to have most of the scenes shot in B&W, which somehow gives the interview scenes a grittier, more realistic feel — what were the motivations behind this stylistic decision?
JEFF: Bao has a great story about this he can tell. I can say that I really appreciated his choice to do it this way. The shots in color pertain both to a past and an imagined future. It was a brilliant move, aesthetically and philosophically. Also, here’s the thing about Bao — he always goes for the highest level of difficulty and makes it look easy as he pulls it off.
BAO: When you think of the word "resegregation," obviously the "segregation" part is what stands out the most. And for me when I think of segregation, I begin conjuring up the iconic black and white images during the 1950s-1960s period of racial segregation in America. So in the series, when we are talking about this idea of resegregation today in America, I wanted to have this aesthetic link between the two periods in time and allude to the notion that history can sometimes repeat itself.
After completing this project, would you be interested in doing similar ones? Where do you think storytelling (or maybe the unique type of storytelling you perform in this project) is going, especially after doing this type of hybrid between the print and film versions of the nonfiction form?
JEFF: I’d be very interested in doing more, and to explore a longer form. The Harvard admissions story could have especially benefited with a longer form — huge props to Hasan Minhaj, but we have so many other pieces to this story that need to be told, and especially after the huge admissions controversies this past school year, a lot more to say. With that said, I really loved that we were able to bring to each episode its own feel, style and sensibility. Even Episode 3, which has a newsmagazine style to it, begins and ends with a more experimental kind of format — and then of course there are echoes of this episode in “The In-Betweens.” I love that Bao was able to freak the form. I’ve tried to do that in my writing, from Can’t Stop Won’t Stop all the way up to now. It has been a blessing to be able to write long enough to be able to be involved with someone of Bao’s genius. As I said, I aspire to trying to achieve the kind of effortless mix of abstraction and realism he does in some of these brief sequences. And I would love to explore what that looks like in a longer form.
BAO: I really loved the process of collaborating with Jeff and adapting his writings into the visual form so I would love to adapt more of his books in the future. I don't know if the storytelling in this project is unique but I would say that Jeff and I were focused on tackling big issues like gentrification, affirmative action, etc. on less didactic and academic terms and more on the human and personal level. I believe the biggest strength in storytelling is in its ability to break barriers and create empathy. By showcasing nonfiction stories around important issues like we hopefully did in this project, we can continue to play on this strength of stories and storytelling.
What are the next projects for the both of you, to the extent that you can or are allowed to disclose? Is Jeff planning to write (or already writing) a sequel?
JEFF: I’m working on a bio of a very famous Asian American. I’m also co-writing a young adult version of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop with Davey D and a 15th anniversary (!) edition of that book too. In publishing there is a trend toward shorter, more topical books and of course, there is so much material to write about. There may be a sequel. One never knows.
BAO: Jeff and I originally met through our mutual friend, Joy Yoon, who introduced us because we were working on projects with the same subject. Jeff was writing a book and I was developing a film. Four years later, I'm happy to say we are both in the later stages of completing our respective projects that deal with a very famous Asian American. As mentioned earlier, I would love to adapt some of Jeff's other books into film or TV so we are discussing that possibility at the moment as well.
Timothy Tau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker and was recently named by PolicyMic magazine as "6 Young Asian-American Filmmakers Who Are Shattering America's Asian Film Bias." His short story "The Understudy" won Grand Prize in the 2011 Hyphen Asian American Writer's Workshop Short Story Contest and is published in the 2011 Issue of Hyphen Magazine as well as online. His short story, "Land of Origin" also won 2nd Prize in the 2010 Playboy College Fiction Contest (See October 2010 Issue of Playboy Magazine). Both stories are being developed into feature film projects.
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Kennett Area Safer Active Transportation Routes ($915,000) — Construction of bicycle and pedestrian improvements along South Street and Walnut Street. The project proposes to make connections to Pennock Park and Anson B. Nixon Park in Kennett Township and Kennett Square Borough.
Paoli Trail, Segment A ($483,000) — Construction of a side path on the north side of Paoli Pike (SR 2014) between Airport Road (East Goshen Township line) and Ellis Lane. Segment A is one section of the overall Paoli Pike Trail network in East Goshen Township.
In a two-and-a-half-hour meeting, Delaware County Council had a heated back-and-forth between Republicans and Democrats when it came to videotaping meetings. Having run on a campaign of transparency in government, Democratic councilmen Brian Zidek and Kevin Madden were unwilling to wait one week to get more information on how such a process would be administered. The three Republican council members — Chairman John McBlain, Vice Chairman Colleen Morrone and Michael Culp — voted to table the motion. The topic of televising meetings has come up intermittently for decades. County Executive Director Marianne Grace said she reached out to Radnor, where meetings are videotaped, and found it more expensive than had anticipated. Grace said one of her concerns is whether the county has the infrastructure in place to handle it, as people lose internet service throughout the government center.
The Ridley Township Board of Commissioners is holding a public meeting to create a municipal authority known as the Waterfront Municipal Authority. The authority would be formed for the purposes of financing, improving, maintaining, operating, owning and leasing, either in the capacity of lessor or lessee, flood control projects, stormwater projects, stormwater planning, management and implementation, waterworks, water supply works and water distribution systems in the township and the surrounding region. The hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 6:30 p.m. at the township municipal building, 100 E. MacDade Blvd.
Mayor Hank Eberle gave his traditional State of The Borough address, marking the 21st year he detailed positive news in the community from the previous year. This year he began by stating that 2017 was a very good financial year for Ridley Park and fifth consecutive year without a tax increase. “A measure of financial excellence is our cash flow,” Eberle said. “We were able to pay our current operating expenses and to meet our short- and long-term obligations.” The mayor lauded the contributions to the community of the police department and the volunteer fire company, stating that the most important government responsibility is to provide for the safety, security and protection of its residents and visitors to the community. Turning his attention to 2018, Eberle said there is a “reasonable” possibility that both the Hillside Safe Schools project, which will add sidewalks on Hillside Road leading to Ridley Middle School, and the Sellers Avenue bridge replacement over Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor tracks, shared by SEPTA’s Chester Wilmington commuter line, will move from the drawing board to the construction phase. He also voiced the hope that dredging of the lake, with funding from Delaware County Council, will be done this year as well as an update of the master plan for the lake. The current plan is dated Dec. 31, 2001. “My goal, our goal, since my first year as mayor is to maintain and enhance Ridley Park as a quality residential community,” he said.
The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) has awarded $7.9 million to 10 local projects in southeastern Pennsylvania, including one in Haverford Township, through the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Program. The federal program funds community-based “non-traditional” projects designed to strengthen the cultural, aesthetic, and environmental aspects of the nation’s intermodal transportation system. Selected projects include trail, sidewalk, transit station and on-road bicycle improvements. “These 10 projects will enable communities to build multi-use trails, safe routes to school and pedestrian pathways, and bike lanes and bikeway projects, providing transportation options for a wide variety of users throughout our region,” said Barry Seymour, DVRPC executive director. “This is one more step in our ongoing efforts to advance the Circuit Trails, the region’s ambitious plan for an 800-mile network of connected trails.” The funding awarded in Delaware County will provide for Phase II improvements along the Pennsy Trail totaling $1.1 million. This will include the construction of an off-road multi-use trail to extend the existing Pennsy Trail to Vernon Road. The trail in Haverford Township proposes a bridge over Manoa Road.
The SEPTA Board of Directors officially approved a plan to extend the Norristown High Speed Line into King of Prussia. While a step forward for the plan, the project is not yet fully approved. An environmental impact statement must be presented, public hearings on the impact statement must be held, and a vote for final approval will need to be taken. The board approved the “Locally Preferred Alternative” route, also known as the PECO/1st Avenue route, that would extend the rail by 4.5 miles on an elevated platform from the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby or the Norristown Transportation Center. There will be five station stops, including one at Henderson Road, two at the mall and two in business parks. The final environmental impact statement is expected to be released in 2019, officials said. For more information, visit www.kingofprussiarail.com.
In October 2017, the North Penn School District school board unanimously approved a property tax rebate program. To qualify for the discount, applicants must: own a home as their primary residence in the North Penn School District and have a household income of no more than $35,000 annually; be 65 years of age or older; be a widow or widower aged 50 years or older; or be permanently disabled and 18 years of age or older. The property tax rebate program is based on the existing Pennsylvania Property Tax and Rental Rebate program, which has been in effect since 1971 and is funded by state lottery and slot machine proceeds. North Penn homeowners must qualify for the state rebate program to qualify for the district rebate program. Annual rebates, for those who qualify, range from $62.50 to $162.50. Click here for more information.
The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) has awarded just over $1.2 million in funding for two Montgomery County trail projects through its Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Program. The funding must be used for projects related to alternative types of transportation, such as walking and bicycling. The two Montgomery County trail projects awarded funding are: $715,000 for a trail linking Jenkintown to Pennypack Trail; and $534,000 for the Parkside Cynwyd Trail Extension in Lower Merion Township. The DVRPC Board also recommended a list of other projects to PennDOT for funding under their own statewide competitive alternatives program. Click here for more information about the trail projects and the PennDOT recommendation list.
The National Association of the Remodeling Industry and Building Industries Exchange (NARI-BIE) is sponsoring the annual Pottstown Family and Home Expo. The two-day expo with local remodeling and construction contractors has vendors specializing in kitchen and bath, roofing, painting and more. The expo will be held Saturday, March 3, and Sunday, March 4, at Coventry Mall, 351 W. Schuylkill Road in North Coventry. Click here for more information.
Toll Brothers has released new renderings of the controversial condo tower it plans to build in the middle of historic Jewelers’ Row. The Horsham-based development company presented a glassier, shorter vision of the luxury high-rise it first introduced almost exactly a year ago. The original 29-story, glass and brick tower received a chilly reception, panned by neighbors, preservations and Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron as an “awkward vertical sandwich” that will “disrupt the street’s ecosystem, with its distinctive mix of artisan workshops, wholesalers and jewelry stores.” Now the developer has come back with a new plan for a 24-story tower sheathed fully in glass. Instead of the 115 units first proposed, the building will include 85 units and more room for shops, with the project’s retail space increasing from 2,600 to 4,500 square feet. The older proposal depended on a complicated scheme to purchase development rights from surrounding properties. Without buying the properties themselves, Toll Brothers tried to argue there was a “unity of use” between the lots they owned and those where they had acquired development rights. The legalities of the concept were murky, however, and the company put the project on ice for much of the rest of 2017. Then in late December, Toll Brothers obtained a permit they needed to move forward with the project. The new plan allows the developer to use the air rights above the older low-rise building next door at 712-714 Sansom St.
Philadelphia is “significantly behind” peer cities in “protecting historic resources and incentivizing preservation,” according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Mayor Jim Kenney created the Historic Preservation Task Force last year in response to mounting conflicts as developers snap up more and more of the city’s historic building stock, charging the 33-member body with building "a stronger environment for preservation even as the city welcomes new growth and development.” The task force is at least making progress on one goal: creating a more open, inclusive and community-engaged conversation about what gets saved and what doesn’t. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-24T20:29:46Z', 'url': 'http://www.suburbanrealtorsalliance.com/news/news-briefs-archive-february-5-2018/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
Research stories from around the world
Our Project: Rising Stars
We believe that ECRs are the Rising Stars of the research community. This project is designed to emphasise this. Yet, there is a lot of literature on the struggles of ECRs. We acknowledge this, but for our project we wish to focus on what motivates you.
We are interested in hearing your Personal Story in approximately 1000 words. In this snap shot you can tell us, and the world, about what you are passionate about in your research. This includes how you got to where you are now.
All your stories will be shared on this website.
Of course, we have some research questions:
What is your personal (inside) story?
What has been your greatest achievement to date?
What is your long-term goal? Your preferred future?
These stories can be sources of inspiration for others, but also have the potential to act as extended ‘business cards’ for you in forging new connections with like-minded researchers globally.
Personal Stories can be written in your mother tongue. We do not wish language to be a barrier here. We will arrange for translation to English.
Collecting these stories is Phase 1 of this project.
Phase 2 is then for us make a selection that represents the diversity and range of ECR interests and move to inviting you (if selected) to write a 3000-word summary of your current research work. These research outlines, along with your 1000-word Personal Story, will be a chapter in an edited book dedicated to the aspirations of ECRs.
Of interest to us is the tension between the possibilities ECRs have of disrupting the dominant system of academic career pathways and of the deeply conditioning nature of academic institutions. In other words, is your cup half full or half empty?
Cup Half Full: Cup Half Empty
“It seems from the research that there are currently two contrasting views about the behaviour of ECRs. On the one hand, they are carrying through the new attitudes characteristic of digital natives into their research careers, which may eventually bring about fundamental changes in their behaviour too. These, in their turn, could result in the collapse of the whole current journal system (Laine, 2015). Others, on the other hand, have observed the way in which ECRs have recognized their position as apprentices and their reliance on the guidance of mentors, which tends to make them more conservative and less adventurous than established researchers (Jones, 2014; Harley, Acord, Earl-Novell, Lawrence, & King, 2010)” (Nicholas et al 2017: 158)
For more information and to submit your story –
Email: hello@risingstarstories.com
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Dear Blog Friends: Sorry this is late! We were out Karaoking last night!
Please watch/Listen to this Video before going further:Building My Life on the Bible!
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16: What nationality was Timothy’s father?
17: Why should a father not provoke a child to anger?
18: Who was the father of Saul?
19: What should you not do openly before men, otherwise you will have no reward of your Father in heaven?
20: Who was to be named Zacharias, after the name of his father, until his mother intervened?
Please watch/Listen to this Video before going further:What is a Christian?
13: Which of the following was used of God to mean Father?
14: Who does James say is the source of every good and every perfect gift?
15: Under the Mosaic law, what was the punishment for someone who hit their father?
Please watch/Listen to this Video before going further:Dream Church!
10: Which father came to Jesus to seek help for his little daughter who lay at the point of death?
11: Who was the father of James the disciple?
12: Who was Paul writing to when he wrote ‘I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty’?
Please watch/Listen to this Video before going further:Seared!
7: Why should children listen to ‘the instruction of a father’?
8: ‘Honour thy father and thy mother’ is one of the ten commandments. Which one?
9: Whose father was prepared to sacrifice him on an altar?
Please watch/Listen to this Video before going further:Playing With the Cards we are Dealt!
4: Whose father was so pleased to see him that he gave him the best robe and killed the fatted calf?
5: Who stole her father’s household gods?
6: Who was the father of Abraham?
Please watch/Listen to this Video before going further:Making it Personal!
1: Who was the father of David?
2: Whose name means ‘father of a great multitude’?
3: Why shouldn’t we give anyone the title of ‘Father’?
Please watch/Listen to this Video before going further:Prime Cut!
10: Aeneas was bedridden for __8__ years before Peter came and healed him.
I don’t know what your problem is today, but God already knows the answer.
Abraham thought he had a problem when he was going up to sacrifice Isaac. He didn’t know how his need was going to be met. But the moment Abraham started up one side of that mountain with Isaac, on the other side, a ram started up—the ram that was going to be the substitute for Isaac.
Abraham never saw the ram, but God saw it. And I want to tell you, God knows a way for you. God has a plan for you—a plan for all of us.
God’s children are never to panic. Worry is an insult to Almighty God. Trust God—He already knows.
Today we’re feeding on all sorts of depravity and filth. Do you know why millions of Americans are feeding on a depraved diet? Do you know why pornographic magazines are read by so many? Do you know why people are going to see these sick movies and so-called adult films? Why these dens of iniquity, these things they call night clubs, are filled with people? Because there’s a famine for the Word of God. And anytime a man, a woman, a boy or girl is not properly fed, he will have a depraved diet.
How do you change your diet and keep from doing these things? Not primarily by saying, “I’m going to be a good boy.” Load up on the Word of God. Feast on the honey, the milk, the meat of God’s Word. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-20T22:14:31Z', 'url': 'https://ourdailybread101.wordpress.com/2013/06/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
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Toyota debuts the ‘Prius Prime’ plug-in with an estimated 22 miles of EV range and Tesla-like screen [Gallery]
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Toyota debuted its next generation Prius plug-in hybrid, now called the ‘Prius Prime’ today at New York Auto Show. The vehicle is the second generation plug-in hybrid Prius and it’s built on the Japanese automaker’s fourth generation Prius platform unveiled last year.
The new version of Toyota’s flagship hybrid is expected to achieve 22 miles of range on a single charge and a 120+ MPGe rating. Those are company estimates and not verified by the EPA yet. expand full story | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7324360013008118, "wiki_prob": 0.7324360013008118, "source": "cc/2022-05/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line656542"} |
Synopsis: Emily Johnson, her boyfriend Bobby and their friends Clare and Jude are recent college grads driving cross-country, taking a last vacation together before they face the "real" world. An accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. When the ambulance arrives, it whisks them to Mercy Hospital. With minimal staff and many of its floors empty, the hospital is an eerie place - but that's only the beginning. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-22T04:19:44Z', 'url': 'https://api.mrqe.com/movie_reviews/autopsy-m100063141', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
I was very happy with the contractors and the way they worked. Not rushing and taking their time.
Everything as expected. Smooth rollout and installation. Easily contactable.
Alinta made it very easy to have solar panels installed. Alienta organised finance, installation the lot without fuzz. Very happy with it all. Thank you!
Lots of great communication from a lot of great people, I couldn't imagine the process being easier.
Non aggressive attitudes to sale.
Hassle free service which is timely, professional,courteous and cost effective. Also good back office support. .
The team and particulary Lindsay who made it all so easy. The installation team would also fantastic, on time and finished well within time. Thank you.
Just did a great job at the right price.
Very professional. Easy to deal with.
Great customer service, excellent communication and very professional.
That my experience was very positive, the whole process was simple and almost everyone I encountered was efficient and helpful. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-22T04:12:16Z', 'url': 'http://reviews.hummingbird.com.au/alintaenergy.com.au/wa/solar/solar-power-and-solar-energy', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
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Ormanözü is a village in the Amasya District, Amasya Province, Turkey. Its population is 304 (2021).
References
Villages in Amasya District | {'title': 'Ormanözü, Amasya', 'url': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orman%C3%B6z%C3%BC%2C%20Amasya', 'language': 'en', 'timestamp': '20230320'} |
At Farmhouse we try our best to provide not just great service but also exceptional and interesting products (and not just cheese!). In our quest for that special something every once in a while we come across a supplier that bears the very essence of artisinal craftsmanship to his business. David Schonberger, the owner and head craftsman at Otter Creek Woodworks right here in Ontario is just that person and we are thrilled to be able to offer up his exquisite pieces. So beautiful you can hang them on the wall as art or, of course, use them as a feasting or cheese board (feasting boards up to 4′ in length). New stock is coming in regularly and each piece is unique and hand crafted. We also sell Dave’s special brew of bees wax and mineral oil to protect your board investment. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-18T18:33:40Z', 'url': 'https://farmhouseartisancheese.com/cheese-boards-and-feasting-boards/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
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See to it that you will be looking into the different factors that you need to consider whenever you are also planning to construct a house or a building in order to ensure that it is safe. It is a usual practice for many people to see to it that they will e installing a fence or a security system to make sure that they are able to keep their property safe. There are even some that will be creating a panic room as a secondary form of defense. But you also have to know that it is also fire that is one of the things that you need to be careful about. And for this very reason that it is also important to see to it that your building is safe from it. To ensure that your property is protected from fire that you also have to have a fire sprinkler system. It is knowing where to start that you shod be determining whenever you will opt to have this system.
It is you that should be able to find a contractor when opting for this one. The one that will be able to provide your needs is the one that you should be able to find and that is why you also have to consider all the providers in your area. Whenever you are choosing a contractor that you have to see to it that they are the ones that can provide you with other services like inspections, maintenance, and repairs. When you will take a look at these services that they are the ones that you will need one way or the other and that is why it is also important to see to it that you will be able to find a contractor that provides them. It is also when they are able to provide these things that deciding to hire them is not that hard.
Specializing in installing a sprinkler system for larger buildings is what some companies will be doing. It is also these companies that will not be installing on house since they think that it is not that cost effective. If it installing in houses is what you will need that you also have to see to it that you will choose a company that will be able to do just that. It is the that will be able to provide your needs when it comes to a house sprinkler system. And that is why it is important to determine the type of project that you have and choose the right contractor from there.
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Click on “Photos” on the left-hand side of Facebook. This will take you to a page of photos of yourself, photos you’ve posted, and albums. Click on “Photos” near the top of the page. This will take you to a page of photos of yourself, photos you’ve posted, and albums. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-26T12:43:25Z', 'url': 'http://osaphilly.com/saskatchewan/how-to-delete-photos-on-facebook-chat.php', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
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Arguments Raised for First Time at Oral Argument Not Waived When Responsive to New Arguments Raised by Petitioner in Reply Brief
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
USA December 31 2019
In Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. One World Technologies, Inc., No. 2018-2112 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 17, 2019), the Court addressed whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board acted appropriately in disregarding an argument raised for the first time at the oral hearing.
In disputing the proper construction of a claim term in an inter partes review, the petitioner, One World, advanced a new argument for its claim construction for the first time in its reply brief. The patent owner, Chamberlain, responded to that argument at its first possible opportunity: the oral hearing. In the final written decision, the Board held that Chamberlain had waived its argument because the argument was not briefed and, per the Trial Practice Guide, new evidence or arguments may not be presented at the oral hearing.
The Federal Circuit disagreed. The Federal Circuit viewed Chamberlain’s argument as a clarification of arguments made in its response brief because the arguments were responsive to One World’s reply and tracked the arguments in its response. Because this clarification did not amount to a new issue or argument, the Federal Circuit determined that Chamberlain had not waived the argument.
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Beyond the Pill
South Africans’ stress levels have shot up by 56% since start of pandemic according to survey
A national survey conducted by a leading pharmaceutical firm and advocate for mental wellness has revealed a significant increase in psychological and emotional stress among South Africans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The results have been made public in October, which is recognised as Mental Health Awareness Month to address the mental health dimension of the pandemic.
More than 1 200 South African adults were polled across the country by Pharma Dynamics to gain an insight into how South Africans have been impacted by the pandemic.
Abdurahman Kenny, Mental Health Portfolio Manager at Pharma Dynamics says many people who previously coped well are now less able to manage due to multiple stressors generated by the pandemic, while those with pre-existing mental health conditions may have experienced a worsening of symptoms.
He says the survey assessed a broad range of psychosocial effects related to the pandemic, which affected a large majority of the population in the following ways:
• more than half (53%) of respondents either lost their job, had to take a pay-cut or was forced to close a business,
• 56% has higher levels of psychological and emotional distress than before the pandemic,
• 81% turned to unhealthy food, 20% to alcohol, 18% to cigarettes, 6% to smoking Cannabis and 22% to antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication to help them cope with the stressors of the last few months,
• 65% admitted to neglecting their health,
• 52% has trouble sleeping,
• 20% of couples are quarreling more than before, physical spousal abuse has also increased by 5%,
• 68% are worried about the impact of the pandemic on society and the economy,
• 44% struggle to relax and,
• 49% feel anxious, 48% frustrated, 31% depressed and a significant, 6%, have contemplated suicide.
To deal with the stress of the pandemic, many have resorted to junk food, alcohol, smoking and other addictive substances, which doesn’t bode well for physical or emotional well-being. Kenny says as the effects of the pandemic take hold on daily life in the coming months, mental health professionals need to be prepared for an increase in substance abuse.
He says the majority of respondents have also had personal experiences with COVID-19 that have exacerbated anxiety levels. The survey found that 6% caught the virus, among 27% a family member was diagnosed with COVID-19 and 50% knew someone who passed away from the Coronavirus.”
ymptoms typically associated with depression and anxiety were also found to be more common among respondents:
• 38% feel tired and complain of low energy levels
• 35% are easily annoyed and irritated
• 33% have trouble concentrating
• 28% feel restless and on edge
• 22% feel a sense of loss
• 19% are lonely
• 14% feel hopeless
Kenny says given the far-reaching emotional and financial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important that adequate attention is given to the mental health needs of the population as it could have long-term implications.
“The disruptions in routine and economic activity that the pandemic has caused, has had a devastating impact on mental health. Record high unemployment levels, economic uncertainty – both locally and abroad, having to social distance and isolate ourselves, taking on additional childcare responsibilities (home schooling) while juggling work and the constant fear of contracting the virus are all factors that increase anxiety and stress. We are likely to see much higher rates of mental illness among South Africans post the pandemic and need to increase psychosocial support efforts to avoid a COVID-19 related mental health crisis.
“The fact that nearly half (49%) of respondents wanted to reach out to a therapist for help during the pandemic, but couldn’t due to limited financial resources or access, highlights decades of neglect and underinvestment in mental health services in our country.
“Due to the sheer size of the problem, most mental health needs remain unaddressed and have been hindered by a lack of funds in mental health promotion, prevention and care. Much more needs to be done to protect those facing mounting mental pressure. The psychological well-being of our communities and society at large requires immediate attention,” comments Kenny.
Those who are most at risk include the elderly, frontline health workers, teens, women and those with pre-existing mental health illnesses.
“It’s important that the country builds the human resource capacity to deliver quality mental health and social care in communities,” emphasises Kenny.
“Through policy reform, a proper system can be put in place to ensure the widespread availability of health and psychosocial support services. Secondly, shifting care away from institutions to community services will improve access to care even in remote areas and thirdly, prioritising funds and research towards mental health will be central to successfully navigate the mental health consequences of the pandemic.
“However, it is encouraging to see that 33% have sought comfort from family and friends and made exercise a daily priority in order to fend off negative thoughts. While 40% have stayed home exclusively up until now, 26% are starting to venture out and resume normal societal activities, which is important,” he says.
If you feel weighed-down by the pandemic and don’t know who to turn to, contact Pharma Dynamics’ toll-free helpline on 0800 205 026, which is manned by trained counsellors who are on call from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week. For additional support, visit www.letstalkmh.co.za
Issued by Meropa Communications on behalf of Pharma Dynamics. For further information, contact Unity Ruiters from Meropa on 021 683 6464, 082 392 6006 or unityr@meropa.co.za.
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During the conference, Lee explains how fungibility is one of the key reasons why privacy is needed in our present world. Lee takes his point forward by saying that money is meant to be spent, however, the user chooses to spend it and not and this is what makes it valuable.
In a comparison between Monero and Bitcoin, Bitcoin is not fungible as it can always be traced back to where it came from, he said. Hence, the Bitcoins received are not ‘fresh’ and if these Bitcoins were involved in shady transactions, the address for those Bitcoins can be blacklisted for avoiding future transactions.
However, in the case of Monero, the blockchain is opaque, as in, the transaction history of the coins can’t be looked up.
He further explains saying fungibility is the one good things that is missing from Bitcoin. Charlie Lee explains fungibility as two $200 bills are essentially one and the same. He then compares it to Bitcoin, which, when transferred to a person, allows the person to see the amount of Bitcoins the user has. He says that it is not a good thing when it comes to privacy and one shouldn’t be able to know how much money a person makes.
Speaking of the bad side of privacy, Lee takes Monero’s Bulletproof update, which makes transaction size 90% smaller, but still larger than Bitcoin’s transaction size, concluding by saying that “it doesn’t scale as well as Bitcoin”.
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ApolloMD is a privately held, multispecialty group practice headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Clinicians practicing with ApolloMD enjoy quality of life, top income and ownership incentives that further their career goals while satisfying the patient care needs of hospitals and healthcare facilities nationwide.
As a physician-led practice driven by the best interests of our providers, we offer a different kind of partnership than traditional groups. Our physicians work with us because they want to—not out of obligation. Together, we nourish a commitment to continuously improve efficiency, quality and patient satisfaction.
Often, physicians worry that practicing with a national multispecialty group will result in medicine becoming “too corporate;” they want to ensure they maintain control over their own practice, their clinical decision-making and interactions. With ApolloMD, we believe that local leadership should be given authority and autonomy to manage their local practices as they see fit. The local teams understand the community, the facility, hospital administration and the patient population, and they are best positioned to meet the needs of the facility and community.
On the other hand, one major benefit of practicing with a national group is the level of operational support local practices receive. With access to clinical experts, best practices guides, access to the ApolloMD CareHub, regular developmental conferences, and dedicated support staff, the ApolloMD team provides the business backing local practices need to focus on their patients and operate successfully.
As value-based healthcare changes the scope of patient care delivery, many independent local practices struggle to compete. Experts in delivering outstanding patient care, they often lack the IT infrastructure and expertise needed to develop the advanced clinical metrics reports that today’s healthcare marketplace demands. ApolloMD’s corporate team includes a staff of dedicated data analysts who gather, monitor and report out data from each contract location. The clinical operations team shares findings with local medical directors and provides benchmarking data to compare results with other practice locations.
ApolloMD believes in promoting from within when it comes to clinical leadership. We also strongly believe that it takes more than outstanding clinical skills to excel as a medical director. In order to equip physicians for success as medical directors, we developed the ApolloMD Leadership Academy. A two-year program, the Academy provides physicians with the operational, communication, and leadership tools and techniques required to manage an outstanding department.
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The sensational new 'Photobooth', which illustrates a cosy meeting between the iconic Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe (and of course they had to get a selfie of the event because... if you didn't take a photo of it, did it really happen?!) This is another classic mix of the old and the new that JJ uses to keep his works fresh and relatable and plays on much of the speculation around whether or not Elvis and Marilyn ever really did cross paths all those years ago. In the work you will see the usual additions of piercings and tattoo's on Marilyn, including the quote 'Kiss Me Quick' peeking out from just below her neck. This is a reference to Elvis' classic song which was released as a single in the UK in 1962 - which interestingly is the same year of Marilyn's tragic passing. JJ has also recorded a date of the 'polaroid' on the bottom right hand corner of the image, but what exactly is the relevance in this period I hear you ask? Well, in actual fact - March 1956 was a pivotal month for both Marilyn and Elvis Presley, as this was the month that saw Elvis' career really take off when he released his first album 'Elvis Presley'. As for Marilyn - March was the month she legally changed her name from the former 'Norma Jeane Mortenson' to Monroe - and this was to become one of the most recognised names in the world. Of course, there is also much speculation to whether or not Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe ever actually met in person, although some have said that they did cross paths in the year of 1956, but nothing has ever been confirmed - at least now we can have some sort of visualisation of just what might have taken place with JJ's newest work! | {'timestamp': '2019-04-21T00:31:45Z', 'url': 'https://robertsonfineart.com/collections/new-releases-1/products/elvis-and-munroe-by-jj-adams', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
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churumuri
WHAT IS CHURUMURI?
A CITY LIKE NO OTHER
A. MADHAVAN
ALFRED SATISH JONES
BHAMY V. SHENOY
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN
GOURI SATYA
H. VENKATASUBBIAH
H.Y. SHARADA PRASAD
M V KRISHNASWAMY
R.K. NARAYAN
T.J.S. GEORGE
T.S. NAGARAJAN
T.S. SATYAN
U.R. ANANTHA MURTHY
VIKRAM SAMPATH
SUNAAD RAGHURAM
Posted on 5 February 2011 by churumuri
VHP & Bajrang Dal aren’t part of Sangh Parivar?
In the non-stop disgrace that Karnataka politics has been under the BJP, the disgrace of September 2008 when the State was held hostage by Hindutva Hitmen is now history, buried under the antics of the pygmies populating the State’s political landscape.
In 2008, in a part of the world where “jasmine flower grown on a Christian’s farm [used to be] bought by a Muslim trader and sold to Hindu women”, a brazen experiment to tamper with the State’s syncretic fabric was executed with clinical precision through attacks on churches, convents and prayer halls in seven districts.
The attacks came just four months after the BJP had come to power, the modern-day Neros in the gateway to the south blithely looking the other way.
As promptly as night follows day, a judicial commission was appointed by the B.S. Yediyurappa government, and as promptly as day follows night, the Justice Somasekhara panel has exonerated the sangh parivar and the State government, which is why the heat is building up for a CBI probe into the attacks.
Arvind Narrain of the alternative law forum, and B.N. Jagadeesha, an advocate, provide a critique of the Commission’s report, reprinted in full from the website Kafila.
By ARVIND NARRAIN and B.N. JAGADEESHA
When the Justice Somasekhara Commission was constituted to inquire into the church attacks in Karnataka in September 2008, it was seen as a move to ward of criticism of the BJP administration.
Today, well over two years after the attacks, when the key findings of the report have been made public by Justice Somasekhara himself, the findings prepare the ground for further action against the victims of the church attacks, while absolving the masterminds behind the crime of all blame.
Naomi Klein in her book Shock Doctrine analyses how the period of shock which a community experiences with the imposition of a military dictatorship is what is used to push through far-reaching changes such as radical free market policies.
Similarly, post the shock of the church attacks, the Christian community was hopeful of justice through the Commission but instead the proceedings and the findings of the Commission really prepare the way for continued harassment of the Christian community under the garb of law.
Persons and organizations responsible for the above incidents: On the fundamental question of who was behind the attacks, the Commission finds that, ‘there is no basis to the apprehension of Christian petitioners that the politicians, BJP, mainstream Sangh Parivar and State government, directly or indirectly, are involved in the attacks.’
However, later on, the report observes: ‘The plea of many Christian memorialists for taking action as per law against Mahendra Kumar, the then convenor of Bajrang Dal, who publicly sought to justify the attacks on churches is totally justified.’
The report then goes on to note that, ‘the plea that the organizations like Bajrang Dal needs identification and registration for legal control deserves acceptance.’
Further the annexure XLVII of the report, which lists 56 churches which were attacked, specifically names Hindu fundamentalist organisations which were involved in the attacks on the following churches:
1. Christian Believers Prayer Hall, Chikmagalore: Bajrang Dal
2. Jagadeshawara Church, Mudigere, Chikmagalore: Bajrang Dal
3. Carmel Mathe Devalaya, Kudremukh, Chikmagalore: Bajrang Dal
4. Adoration Monastery, Mangalore: Bajrang Dal
5. Mandyantar Mahima Prartana Mandir, Belthangady: Bajrang Dal
6. St Sebastian Church, Permanur: Bajrang Dal
7. DHM Pratana Mandira Nittuvali, Davangere: Hindu Jagarana Vedike
8. Eternal Life Church, Nittuvali, Davanagere: Hindu Jagarana Vedike
9. Full Gospel Assembly, Harapanahalli, Davanagere: Sangh Parivar
10. Jesus Prayer Hall, Davanagere: Hindu Jagran Vedike
11. New Life Fellowship, Udupi; Bajrang Dal
12. Life and Light Ministries, Shiroor, Udupi: Bajrang Dal
13. Kapitanio High School, Mangalore: Bajrang Dal
14. Anagodu Church, Davangere: Fundamentalist miscreants
15. Jesu Krupalaya, Bada Davangere: Hindu fundamentalists
In particular, Bajrang Dal has been named as being behind the attacks on nine churches, Hindu Jagarana Vedike as being behind the attacks on three churches, Sangh Parivar on one church and unnamed Hindu fundamentalists on two churches.
In the face of this annexure of his own report, as well as the detailed churchwise findings released by the commission, the question to ask is whether the commission is at all justified in giving a clean chit to the Sangh Parivar? The only way, the commission can do that is by concluding that neither the Bajrang Dal nor the Hindu Jagran Vedike are members of the Sangh Parivar.
The material before the Commission itself both in terms of submissions made before it as well as the cross examination of Mahendra Kumar indicates the linkages between the Bajrang Dal and the VHP and the link to the RSS.
What emerges clearly in the material before the Commission is that the Bajrang Dal does not act independently but is really a part of a larger parivar or family which controls and directs their actions. In the cross examination by Ibrahim, Mahendra Kumar, states that the Bajrang Dal is the youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and is a part of the VHP.
This admission by Mahendra Kumar, one of the key witnesses before the Commission, of the relationship between the Bajrang Dal and the VHP must be read in the context of the conclusions of the Liberhan Commission which were also placed before the Commission.
It should be noted that when the Liberhan Report was sought to be placed before the Commission by the counsel for the Christian priests, Justice Somasekhara vociferously objected that the report was not necessary as he was going to understand what happened in Karnataka as a sui generis event with no linkages or connections to any past events.
However the counsel for the Christian priests argued that one cannot understand the church attacks as a one-off event and it had to be seen as linked to the ideology of Hindutva and the organisational structure of the RSS. The extracts from the Liberhan Commission cited below were placed before the Commission in the form of written arguments.
The Liberhan Commission noted that:
“The RSS, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, BJP e.t.c, and their inter se relationship have been subjected to a detailed study in my report and their relationship with the de jure powers. These organisations are collectively an immense and awesome entity with a shrewd brain, a wide encompassing sweep and the crushing strength of the mob. The leadership provided by the RSS, BJP, VHP and the other mutating and constantly transforming organisations like the Hindu Mahasabha and the Jan Sangh, in furtherance of the suspect theories of the founders of these organisations was consistent and unabashed. The ends are all that matter to the core group of thinkers and the destruction of the disputed structure was only one victorious battle in their ongoing campaign against secularism and the multicultural society, clothed in the garb of religion etc…” (para 160.10)
In a specific chapter IX called, Organisations and their Inter Se links, J. Liberhan noted that:
Throughout this report the term Sangh Parivar has the same connotation and has been used interchangeably with the phrases, founders or authors or leaders etc of the temple construction movement. Some of the organisations which form a prominent part of the Parivar are:-
109.1.1 RSS
109.1.2 BJP
109.1.3 Rashriya Sevika Samithi
109.1.4 Vishwa Hindu Parishad
109.1.5 Bajrang Dal“
Based on the material placed before the commission as well as the content of the commission’s own report in the form of annexure XLVII and the churchwise finding, what is clear is the role of the Sangh Parivar in the attacks on churches.
Why then does the commission conclude that the Sangh Parivar has no role in the attacks?
What paralysed the commission from drawing what appear to be logical and necessary inferences?
The question of the responsibility of the government of Karnataka for the church attacks: On the question of state responsibility, the report concludes that, ‘the impression and allegation that the top police officers and the district administration had colluded with attackers in attacking the church or places of worship had no merit.’
The report also concludes that, ‘the police action against the Christian protesters in several incidents were justified except at St Sebastian Church, Permanur, unexplainably excessive and unreasonable and is in violation of the expected norms prescribed. But the same cannot be generalised for all police actions at different locations.’
However, in the very next para, the report states, ‘it was imprudent, unreasonable and inexperienced act on the part of the police to enter into the premises of some churches in Dakshina Kannada without following legal requirements amounting to violation of religious interests and human rights protected under the Constitution of India.’
The commission concedes that the district administration failed particularly in Davangere describing the actions of the district administration as ‘unreasonably cruel and illegal’ and recommended initiation of action against all top police officers above the rank of a police sub-inspector with respect to the actions on a church in Mangalore.
If the Commission can recognise, even if in a half hearted fashion, the failures of the district administration as well as the police, one fails to see how the Commission gives a clean chit to the state government.
Clearly, the district administration and the police are arms of the state administration and the State government is vicariously responsible for any dereliction of duty.
The significance of this cannot be overstated particularly as in Davangere, the first attacks began as early as 2007, and continued till the end of 2008 without any action by the state government despite numerous complaints. However, the commission refuses to attribute any vicarious liability to the state government.
In fact it should be noted that an application by an advocate for the Christian priests to summon the then home minister, V.S Acharya, before the commission was just kept pending and not decided upon by the commission. By not allowing this application, the commission did not give the counsel for the Christian priests an opportunity to establish the responsibility of the state government including the Home Minister for the attacks.
Thus the fact that the Christian community submitted many memorandums during the course of the attacks and the fact that neither the home minister or chief minister took any action to prevent the attacks could not be made a part of the evidence.
The Report also goes out of its way to explicitly state that neither the BJP nor the ruling party had any role in the attacks. Neither the state nor the BJP filed any affidavit before the commission and in-spite of allegations against the BJP as well as the ruling government, no BJP leader was issued summons by the commission.
The commission failed to utilize its investigative powers under Section 5 of the Commissions of Inquiry Act.
The scope of the inquiry under the Commission of Inquiry Act is wider than the scope of a normal trial with the judge being mandated to adopt a more inquisitorial role. However, this scope was woefully underused with the commission doing no investigative work to unearth the conspiracy which resulted in simultaneous attacks on churches across Karnataka.
In fact the failure to examine a single state authority and a single member of the RSS or the Bajrang Dal other than Mahendra Kumar, forms an instructive contrast to the proceedings before the Liberhan Commission.
The Liberhan Commission examined on oath a range of luminaries including the then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, the leader of the main opposition party L.K. Advani and the then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Kalyan Singh, as well as leaders of the Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
By contrast, the Justice Somasekhara Commission shied away from putting on the stand either the home minister, V.S. Acharya, or any of the top leaders of the RSS and the VHP in Karnataka.
Going after the innocent: Priests and human rights activists: The commission concluded that there were no instances of forcible or fraudulent conversion, however there were instances of conversion by inducements. The conclusion of the commission seems to be that it is conversion by inducements which may have resulted in the attacks.
For example, pastor Rajshekar of the Full Gospel Church at Harapanahalli’s activities require to be checked by the District Administration as, ‘there are indications of attempted conversion by Pastor Rajshekar under the guise of holding prayers attracting Hindus.
‘With respect to Chikballapur, the churchwise findings note that, ‘government may enquire and withdraw the privileges to every person who is indulging or getting converted in such illegal activities of conversion commercially.’
Conversion is manufactured as the reason for the attacks before the Commission, particularly by the lawyers representing Hindutva interests. (As an aside one should note that the strategy of the Hindutva groups is to ensure that Bajrang Dal, VHP, RSS were not officially represented, but their interests were effectively canvassed by lawyers claiming to represent individual Hindu petitioners.)
The question to be posed would be, was there material before the Commission to indicate that conversion was on such a large scale as to ignite spontaneous anger of Hindus to attack churches across the state on September 14 and September 15, 2008 and the months thereafter and continuing attacks at Davangere ever since 2007.
On a rigorous fact analysis what emerges is that in the affidavits before the commission, each allegation of conversion is a purely local affair with no larger ramifications.
Even within the terms of those making the allegation of conversion, the material before the commission does not indicate that there was incidents of conversion with district level ramifications let along state level ramifications, leave along the ability to incite spontaneous anger across the state resulting in the church attacks.
As such, the issue of conversion was a red herring, which plays no role in explaining the planned and targetted church attacks.
In fact the cynical deployment of the trumped up charge of conversion as a justification for the church attacks bear close parallel to the Nazi manufacture of the Riechstag fire to unleash a pogrom upon the Communists and the Jews.
Closer home, it has been a well established practice of Hindutva groups to justify illegal actions carried out by them based upon the logic of an earlier harm which has supposedly been inflicted upon the Hindu community. The best illustration of this form of ex post factu reasoning is the justification for the demolition of the Babri masjid.
The roots of the justification lie is the historical hurt suffered by Hindus when the Babri masjid was supposedly erected after demolishing a Hindu shrine. The invocation of this historical hurt mitigates the patent illegality of the act of demolition. This method of reasoning is what is employed to justify the attacks on the churches with the supposed provocation being conversion.
Disregarding all the gaps in evidence and the fact that allegations of conversion remain unproved, the commission not only concludes that conversion has happened but goes on to pass severe strictures against priests in various districts, asking the police and district administration to monitor the activities of the priests and take appropriate action.
The commission also recommends that the financial activities of some of the petitioner priests be regulated.
In the case of the church at Yedavanahalli, the commission unreasonably concludes that the main culprits in the burning of the church are the parish priest, Father Santhosh and his men. While the commission is very severe on the priests, the Bajrang Dal and Hindu Jagran Vedike is let off easily with no questions as to where they get their funds from or recommendations to the state government to take stern action against these groups who are involved in the attacks on the churches.
The strictures passed by the Commission is not limited to priests whose churches were desecrated but also to public spirited individuals who filed affidavits alleging the serious violations of constitutional rights.
Melvil Pinto, a member of the PUCL Janadhwani, who filed an affidavit is accused of having a ‘cynical, cryptic and vilifying attitude towards the BJP and ruling government and the Commission recommends that the government should take ‘serious action against Melvil Pinto for his blasphemous expressions against them’. The Commission recommends that existing proceedings against Melvil Pinto under the Goondas Act be pursued or initiated.
Similarly, another public spirited citizen who produced detailed documentary evidence of the involvement of Mahendra Kumar in the church attacks, Anil Colaco, the one who produces evidence of the attacks on the churches by Mahendra Kumar, is perversely held jointly responsible for the attacks on Christian Believers Prayer Hall in Chikmagalore.
Of course similar harsh language is never employed when it comes to Mahendra Kumar, who openly proclaimed his role in the church attack before the TV cameras. The commission does not recommend that action be taken against Mahendra Kumar under the Goondas Act, though this was a measure recommended by the superintendent of police of Chikmagalore in a report to the district collector.
The commission launches a tirade against the two enemies of the Sangh Parivar, namely the Christian priests and the human rights activists. In effect the message being conveyed is that any criticism of the BJP government is akin to blasphemy and criticise at your own peril.
The equation of the criticism of the BJP to blasphemous expressions runs contrary to the observations of the Supreme Court in S.R. Bommai v. Union of India:
“Secularism is one of the basic features of the Constitution. While freedom of religion is guaranteed to all persons in India, from the point of view of the state, the religion, faith or belief of a person is immaterial. To the state, all are equal and are entitled to be treated equally. In matters of state, religion has no place. No political party can simultaneously be a religious party. Politics and religion cannot be mixed. Any state government which pursues unsecular policies or unsecular course of action acts contrary to the Constitutional mandate and renders itself amenable to action under Art 356 [i]”
In a context where all state authorities work within the framework of secularism as defined by the Supreme Court, criticising the BJP is a right of all citizens of India. Religion and politics are separate and by no stretch of imagination can be any criticism of the BJP be described as blasphemous.
While in a future constitution authored by the Sangh Parivar, criticism of the BJP may indeed be blasphemy, under the Indian Constitution, it would be a grievous error undermining the secular foundations of the state to describe criticism as blasphemous remarks. Such phrases are more suited to a theocracy rather than a secular democracy like India.
The final denouement of the report had its birth in the proceedings before the Commission.
The red herring of conversion, finances of the priests, and so called denigration of Hindu gods, formed the staple of the Commission hearings for over two years with pastors and priests who had suffered attacks being repeatedly and aggressively questioned on these points, almost making it seem that the attacks were justified.
What was stunning was the complete failure to put on the stand even one person other than Mahendra Kumar who were behind the attacks.
As such the Commission merely accepted affidavits and endlessly cross examining the victims as to conversion thereby furthering the RSS agenda of tarnishing the Christian community. The commission showed little inclination and in fact was quite resistant to examining both Hindutva ideology as well as the role of the RSS and its affiliates in the attack.
Flawed diagnosis and wrong medicine: The Commission fundamentally misdiagnoses the problem as a conflict between religions, with the reason for the attacks being the denigration of Hindu Gods as well as conversions. Based on this flawed understanding the commission makes a series of recommendations aimed at curbing religions expression.
The Commission proposes that the offences against religion chapter be enlarged with a special law with ‘stringent sentences of minimum period of punishment with no bail and no right of appeal’.
Similarly, the Commission recommends that ‘all organisations preaching any activity against any religion should be subject to stringent punishments as above.
The Commission also recommends that a new law to be called, ‘Prevention and punishments for atrocities on the religions and the faiths Act ,2011′ be passed.
There is also a proposal to set up a Commission of religions to ‘eliminate fraudulent methods of misusing a religious tag for selfish purposes detriment to the religious interests of the country’.
There are a couple of anodyne recommendations to make the district administration liable for all violations and to set up special police to deal with religious matters. As if to specifically address the victim priests, the Commission orders compensation to be paid by the District Authorities for the damages to person and property.
The tenor of the decidedly constitutional rights unfriendly recommendations,seems to buy into the theory of the Hindutva advocates before the Commission that it is the religious excesses of the Christian community which has resulted in the attacks. Therefore, the recommendations are tailored towards a greater control of religious expression with the implicit promise that then unconstitutional attacks will not happen.
This of course begs the question as to what is being done about those groups who took the law into their own hands and perpetrated the attacks?
Surely the Christian community cannot be implicitly held responsible for the attacks on their own churches and told to contain their religious expression? The report assumes that the hurt of the Christian community will be assuaged by compensation, fundamentally missing the point that the hurt of desecration cannot be assuaged by money, but only by recommendations of firm and impartial action to make the perpetrators accountable.
The recommendations also miss the point that what is needed is not new laws with serious constitutional infirmities but rather the impartial implementation of the laws which already exist on the statute books.
Conclusion: With all these criticisms, the one point which needs to be highlighted is that the Bajrang Dal, Hindu Jagran Vedike as well as Hindu fundamentalist groups do not as the media has reported get a ‘clean chit’ with the Commission finding that they were behind the attacks of fifteen churches.
The identified groups need to be made accountable for their criminal actions.
Where the Commission fails is in making the linkages between the various attacks, understanding the underlying pattern and pinning responsibility on the Sangh Parivar as well as the State government. The wilful blindness of the Commission to the pattern of attack, marks out the Commission as particularly unwilling to finding out the ‘truth’.
A summation of the contradictions that mark this report is available through the words of the commission itself in its clarificatory remarks:
“It has examined the truth or otherwise of the alleged attacks regarding each Church involved, identified the miscreants, indicated the failures of district administration and others, suggested action against them as per law and recommended reliefs to the victims in clear terms and equally exonerated the government and others on merits.”
As the clarification makes clear, the district administration has failed but not the state government, the miscreants have been identified as the Bajrang Dal and the Hindu Jagran Vedike but the Sangh Parivar has been explicitly exonerated.
The clarificatory note succinctly summarises the many failures of the report.
The public response to the findings of the Justice Somasekhara Commission has been harshly critical of its many failures.
The unfortunate response by the Commission to this joining of public debate on a matter of national importance is to try and stem the tide of public criticism by threatening action under Section 10 A of the Commissions of Inquiry Act for any words either spoken or statements which is calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute. This directly hits at the basic freedom of discussing issues without fear and favour and essential to a functioning democracy.
The report of a commission of inquiry is an exercise in persuading the public of the truth of what had actually happened. The mode of reasoning employed by the Commission, its ability to pay attention to historical patterns and its empathy for its victims even as it comes to its conclusions are all important for a report to make an impact as an example of ‘truth telling’.
If the Commission findings fail to persuade the public of the ‘truth’ of its claims, it should be a moment of self-reflection for the Commission as to the inconsistencies and contradictions in its own report and raise the question as to why its form of public reasoning fails to persuade that the Sangh Parivar had nothing to do with the church attacks or that the BJP administration is not criminally liable for allowing the attacks to happen.
File photograph: A woman sends up a prayer at the St Yagappa Church at Mariyannapalya in Bangalore which was attacked one Sunday morning in September 2008 (Karnataka Photo News)
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Naaneke Bareyuttene
5 February 2011 at 10:37 pm
Yawn…. Long articles like this are really boring. Only thing that caught my attention was the photo of this old woman who seems to be praying to her lord for a child. I wish her all the best as her “lord” is known to grant such wishes even to virgins.
Mysore Peshva
Narrain and Jagadisha’s article is well argued.
But what amuses me is Churumuri’s anti-Sangh Parivar rant. Such rants are necessary in a democracy, but I wish there was more frequently directed against India’s inept prime minister and his disgraceful cabinet ministers.
Churumuri, please get your priorities right! You are chasing chindi chor Yeddi and his irrelevant Sangh Parivar when India’s top two problems in every sphere are clearly (1) Corruption, and (2) Incompetence, which together have led us into (a) Severe breakdown of rule of law, (b) Severe inflation, and (c) Severe environmental degradation. Those are the issues I would like for us to discuss, not the small-time antics of Yeddi and his circus.
Why are you relatively silent on India’s most inept Prime Minister in two decades? The real and total disgrace is not the BJP in Karnataka, but the UPA in New Delhi. Come on, can’t you see that? — or do you have blinkers on?
Why do you not run a campaign to build pressure on the foodgrain scamster Shri. Sharad Pawar (operating under the protection of Nero Manmohan SIngh), telecom kalla Shri. A. Raja, (under protectiomn of Nero Manmohan Singh), CWG gang led by Shri. Suresh Kalmadi (also under protection of Nero Manmohan Singh), and a myriad other crooks in the Union cabinet? Those rascals have collectively destroyed the morale of the bureaucracy, and caused an increasingly cynical society. The criminality of UPA-II ministers is setting the stage for cynical politics and even a street revolution in some parts of India.
Similarly, when have you discussed the wonderful developmental progress in Gujarat under Narendra Modi? In Orissa under Naveen Patnaik? In Bihar under Nitish Kumar? Are there no lessons that Karnataka can learn from those progressive states?
As I said, you need to get your priorities right! Your selective critique targeting the Sangh Parivar — and relatively ignoring infinitely more dangerous communal crooks such as the Deve Gowda family — gives away your anti-BJP, anti-RSS agenda. It does not suggest any genuine interest in discussing hot political problems that are eroding India’s democracy.
Of course, Churumuri is welcome to have an agenda or bias if it does not care about credibility!
Thyampanna Shettru
ARVIND NARRAIN and B.N. JAGADEESHA are surely paid propagandists of the church. I see congress hand behind this propaganda, This is another attempt to malign the name of our CM Yeduvirappa. As all of us know that CM Yeduvirappa is a staunch religious guy, his administration was not certainly a part in this riots. Congress is cunning and was involved in the nefarious activity.
For the record, Kalifa is a Marxist rag that propounds theories such as, 26-11 was a Sangh conspiracy to malign the fair name of the religion of peace. Moderators/authors in Kalifa find kindred spirits in Kashmiri separatists, Maoists and post comments such as, long live the resistance. I had really enjoyed churmuri for objectively posting many interesting items. But over the years churmuri has taken on a far-left ideological taint.
Left-lib-secular perfidy knows no bounds. When Banerjee commission exonerates Muslim mobs for Godhra, its fine. When Nanavati commission reports to the contrary thats wrong. When Somasekhara panel reports Christian fanaticism for harvesting souls being the root cause of conflict that wrong. These modern day Jaichands are a bigger thread to country and civilization than all the Christian inquisitors and Islamic Jihadis who wish to harvest the heathen and kill the kafirs.
Usman Victor Puru Saamidurai
Silly Kostin Saar!!
Would it be possible to get such a well written and well researched thesis on the Christian Crusades on Native Cultures of the Dark Ages?
Is there a detailed analysis of how many times Mohammad of Ghajini(Murugadas saar…sorry) attacked Hindu Religious organizations and how much he plundered the “golden land”?
The Christian benefactors from the west came to our land and took away a few bus tickets in the 16th century. Can we get those tickets back today please?
Ivella bitbitru….yeno hindu terror ante hosa concept!!!
the colonel
maine socha:
‘ Chandan Bhai Ka Area Hai,
Lafda Nahi Karne Ka’
Lets Ban these terror organisation of VHP, RSS, Bhajrang Dal and leader of them all… the BJP who apparently is led by a Pakistani Advani. Who again spreads hatism against our Indian national leaders like MK Ghandhi and Nehru, but goes on praising Jinnah!
Charvaka
Yawn. Time to move on Churumuri.
A retired judge investigated and found BJP had no role. Suck it up and move on. No single person died in the whole drama where a state government was almost dismissed in midst of shrill attacks by media and opposition parties.
Just think about it – why on earth a government would support attacks on church when a hostile regime rules in Center (whose leader is from holy land of Italy/Vatican)?
We are supposed to believe Yeddy and team are so dumb that they will risk their government by planning these attacks?
Now, why not talk about Sikh massacre after Indira Gandhi attacks. Wait a minute – where are all reports? That was 1984 and now it is 2011?
Furious_Telangana
I don’t blame the hindu groups cause they only resorted to tit-for-tat. If a hindu group began spreading pamphlets about jesus being a “miracle performing baba” fooling the people then it would have made national headlines. The UN and the some other watchdog would have dropped in out of nowhere to sensationalise the whole thing.
I think hindus are too welcoming. They ignore trouble until it arrives on their doorsteps and resort to drastic measures. The christian groups occupy significant places in the media and the watchdog councils in the UN. They have great powers to influence public opinion. The hindus are fighting at a national level. The christian groups are raining at an international level.
You put lot of efforts to expose the state BJP government.
Where were you when Swami Lakshmanananda was murdered brutally by the extremist chritians? I didnt see such kind of blog during that time.
People like you are the most communal and spread hatredness in this world, harsh but true Mr.Krishna prasad aka Churumuri
Are right-wing groups involved in these incidents? : Yes
Do BJP guys accept the above fact?: No
Is conversion going on in Karnataka, by giving money? : Yes
Is conversion by offering money legally wrong?: No, it is right
Is it ethical?: No
Do christians accept that conversion is done by offering money: No
Is Justice Somashekhara impartial: No
Is Bharadwaj impartial? : No
Should the perpetrators be prosecuted? : Yes
Will they be? : No
Do people have any real power: No
Dr Y N I Anand
Mysore Peshva wrote,
“Why do you not run a campaign to build pressure on CWG gang led by Shri. Suresh Kalmadi (also under protection of Nero Manmohan Singh)”?
I did not expect even Mysore Peshwa to be so gullible as to name the “poor” Kalmadi who also made a few hundred crores of “Chillare” like Yeddi made. It is amazing that all have either forgotten or do not know the real beneficiaries of CWG. Consider this:
The total outlay of the CWG 2010 was of the order of 78,000 crores.
Of this, about half was given to Shiela Dik shit to improve the infrastructure of Delhi.
2% of the total or about 1600 cr was given to Kalmadi to manage the function and the related events.
The rest that is, 37000 Cr was spent by the Central Govt for various related “schemes”.
Now, it is estimated that Kalmadi could have made around 30% of the money allocated to him that is, 500 Cr.
Shiela’s son was the de facto sanctioning authority for all the contracts. The going rate of cut money is 3 around 30% to get a contract. At this rat, he would have made around 12,000 Cr.
The authorities who spent the balance 37,000 crores made another 11,000 cr.
Now you decide as to who is the real thief and why they are projecting the poor Kalmadi for all the ills of CWG.
Finally, the original article is too lengthy to have any patience to go through in full, and is worth a safe place in a non-retrievable & recyclable bin.
Karavali
Mysore Peshva,
I don’t think it is an either or situation.
Unless you were on a holiday you wouldn’t have missed plenty of articles in Churumuri regarding the stinking scams and mis-governance of Central Government in the last few months. I didn’t see you complaining about the deluge of that and lack of exposure on what’s happening in our immediate neighborhood.
That’s precisely what is needed at this point ie concern for our state and the way it’s run. In a federal structure like ours, most of the day-to-day governance is via the state Govt and local bodies. So while it’s good to have a concern for what’s happening in Delhi, our foremost worry should be how Yeddy and gang are ruining the state.
Nationalism is all fine but not at the cost of state. There are enough media houses and channels to go after what’s happening at Delhi. And they have been doing with gusto. Given the local flavor, I think Churumuri is right in focusing more on what’s rotten right in our immediate neighbourhood.
And unless your nose is blocked you wouldn’t have missed the godawful stink.
Some of the readers here want to focus the media attention on central government misdeeds. I agree with all of them as long as they are not supporting and talking about any political party. I believe we have to clean up our house before we look elsewhere. Please look at our home it’s completely rotten by our waste netas. (SSLC Nanna Makkalu – Reddys & Chindi Chor, Huchha & Moodha – Yedddy)
*Karavali* and *Dr Y N I Anand*
Your points are well taken, sirs. :) I cannot disagree…
come on guys know your history.
as long as the GANGA Maa flows, there is no challenge.
INDIA is A SPONGE everything gets absorbed and is neutralized.
we are all TERMINAL but not our CIVILIZATION in its UNACCOUNTED and MYRIAD forms.
if we are terminal hate also dies, what is IMMORTAL is UNDERSTANDING
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ex post facto syndrome seems to hit a lot of people nowadays. I think I’m going to dig up some crime committed by some person in the past against my ancestors and then take revenge on any person remotely representing the community of the original perpetrator. I’m sure the State Government will indulge me…
BHARTIYA
It’s become so fashionable bashing out Hindus and relevant groups! it’s sucking. Churumuri has proved itself just another secular communal force acting as propaganda machine funded by foreign agents. You suck!!!
laxminarayana v n
Hitler’s party was called National Socialist party which had the inverted swastik as its symbol. Rss means the same, translated as Rashtriya(national)Seva(socialist) sangha(organization). It is not an accident that sangh parivar has similar ideology which believes in Aryan supremacy and inequality of human beings. Many Hindu religious heads flock under pan Hindu banner and admit allegience to RSS though in so many cunning ways as ‘like minded’ people and organizations. Savithri Devi (a hinduized Greco-German and a stanch theorist of race supremacy) stood as a stong link between Hindu nationalism (tactically claiming great patriots like Subhas Chandra Bose and comrade Bhagat Singh as their own) and German Nazism. Things have changed since the death of Hitler, for good, bad and worse but the nazi mindset of Aryan/Hindu racism cum nationalism remains intact.
Sanjeeva
Narain and Jagadisha: Beautifully written. Bravo, Wah, Wah, Keep it up, Kudos, Well done, Cherio etc….. Err…. I am sure you have written similar essay when Mulayam said that SIMI is a cultural organization, when a former PM said that if there is another birth, I wish to be born as a Muslim, when Say Coolers wear caps and sit in Iftars. Oh Come on enough of this drama and cheap politics. Don’t paint a picture as if the whole state is burning. People continue to buy flowers and garland their respective gods without bothering to know, which caste grew it, which caste sold it, and the paper in which flowers are bundled belong to which caste etc….. You silly fellows you are more dangerous than the few thugs who indulge in vandalism.
Ho..hum….all on expected lines. In fact, it would have been surprising if Churumuri had published a piece by Dr. Chidanand Murthy on this topic :)
The jokers who wrote this piece are the same guys who were dealing with pink chaddis. Their credentials are well-known and so anything said by them has neither credibility nor acceptability.
kaangeya
This article from Kafila is tendentious disingenuous and meritricious. For a start, this passage, lifted from the Liberhan Report is full of innuendo and nothing else,
My comment on the Kafila duo
The RSS, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, BJP e.t.c, and their inter se relationship have been subjected to a detailed study in my report and their relationship with the de jure powers.
Don’t quote from some past report to make your point. That report isn’t a done deal yet.
These organisations are collectively an immense and awesome entity with a shrewd brain, a wide encompassing sweep and the crushing strength of the mob. The leadership provided by the RSS, BJP, VHP and the other mutating and constantly transforming organisations like the Hindu Mahasabha and the Jan Sangh, in furtherance of the suspect theories of the founders of these organisations was consistent and unabashed.
The Jan Sangh and Hindu Mahasabha are defunct, the former de jure, and the latter de facto. JS was a political party that contested elections and was never in its political history accused of any violence whatsoever. The Hindu Mahasabha’s Dr. SP Mookerjea was a brave India who dared to enter J&K in 1952 to challenge the notoriously discriminatory laws of the state that barred any person from the rest of India to enter the state without a permit. What is supposedly endowed with a shrewed brain, not an human or an animal or even one organization – it is an imagined conglomerate. This nonsense and borders on demonisation of 1000s of people.
The ends are all that matter to the core group of thinkers and the destruction of the disputed structure was only one victorious battle in their ongoing campaign against secularism and the multicultural society, clothed in the garb of religion etc
The dispute over the disputed structure is centuries old and was already long simmering dispute at the beginning of colonial rule in the early 19th century. FYI Kafila, spinners, the dispute was over a temple destroyed, not over the birthplace of Rama.
I will be writing more later today, and if the moderators permit me to continue I will have taken this Kafila invective laden report apart paragraph by paragraph.
@laxminarayana v n
RSS= Rashtriya( national) Swamsevak ( volunteer) Sangha ( association)
sometime having a keyboard is not reason enough to start writing nonsense
Laxminarayana! You have got it all wrong sir. RSS is not Rashtriya Seva Sangha, but Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Seva does not mean Socialist, but service. You dont even know the correct nomenclature, but you write as if you have seen the inside out of the organization. You are still living in Hitler’s time. Please wake up, it is 21st century now.
Commentors – answer the question – Are VHP and Bajrang Dal part of the Sangh or not? Further debate will unfurl from that pivotal answer.
Yes, they are
I dont think they are.
dear sanjeeva You are right and I am wrong in associating s with seva(k omitted) etc. my concern is, does this correction of spelling change the perspective and objectives of RSS? A volunteer (swayamsevak) in good faith believes he serves the society at large. Whose interest Sanghparivar in general and RSS in particular have been serving? And just watch the language of those who defend sanghparivar. They are simply intolerant of dissidence. What does it reflect? cruelty is not just physical, in its absence it manifests as verbal. Sadly this is the essence of what Hitler also stood for.
Whose interest Sanghparivar in general and RSS in particular have been serving? The interest of every Indian, nothing more, nothing less.
@laxminarayana
care to give any examples sir? Who, when, how?
Comparing Sangh to Hitler is so easy it just takes a few letters on the keyboard to do so. If there has been any Hitler in this country, it is Mrs.Ghandi and her descendants – they are the true Hitlers this country has seen.
And the so-called ‘liberals’ are the true Hitlers, who don’t have the tolerance to listen to anything that they don’t like. The Bharadwajs who have the gumption to deny Ph.D, only because the person concerned favours the Sangh – it is these characters who are the Hitlers….
Jagadish N
In our sixth decade after independence from the so-called colonial oppressors, we appear to be no better off, rather much worse off now. As long as we keep using religion, caste, community, language and skin colour as tools to get votes or discriminate, we are moving backwards.
The intent of our so-called leaders is to keep the people uninformed and uneducated, the worse off they are the better for the political parties.
No one exemplifies this better than the Nehru – Gandhi families who have been controlling this country since before independence by dividing, dis-informing and conquering.
Contrary to peoples’ beliefs, there is such a thing as too much democracy, as exemplified by this country. Any idiot can publish his rantings in a newsrag like Kafila and other idiots lap it up. Most rags are backed by some political or big business powers. This one sounds like the so-called secular socialist congress rantings – naming and shaming Hindu groups while treating muslim militant outfits and radical christian conversion groups with kid gloves, therefore not so subtly encouraging these two latter religions and their related extremist ideologies to propagate.
Jagdish N: Good analysis. And, with such articles, they are giving room to hatred than any sensible write up.
@Jagadish
Actually the Congress is as much pro-majoritarian as the Sangh. It just doesn’t indulge in crude display of colours.
@kaangeya
You are delusional. Interest of every Indian indeed. I think the Sangh knows what it is doing; it is calculating and scheming, like any other political establishment. It is not some fantastic humanitarian organisation acting merely to satisfy quixotc impulses. The Sangh is not a foolish hero. It is conscious and sapient political entity. It is this duplicity in appearances that irks many people. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5782493948936462, "wiki_prob": 0.5782493948936462, "source": "cc/2021-04/en_middle_0030.json.gz/line1498912"} |
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Midland has announced that they will be postponing their upcoming tour due to a medical emergency following the birth of bandmate Mark Wystrach's daughter.
Details regarding the specifics of the "medical emergency" have not been revealed, although the band has reassured fans on Instagram that "his daughter is expected to make a full recovery." They went on to explain that during the time of recovery, Mark is unable to be away from home.
"We are all incredibly saddened to delay the tour and are working hard to reschedule for next year," the message shared on Instagram says. "Mark and Ty will share more info when they feel comfortable. Further information on the rescheduled dates and refund details if unable to attend will be released next week."
Wystrach and his wife Ty Haney got engaged in May and officially tied the knot in October. The couple announced they were expecting a baby girl back in July of 2019. "I am beyond thrilled to be welcoming a girl, particularly since there are more strong women breaking barriers today than every before," Haney, the founder and CEO of activewear brand Outdoor Voices, said at the time.
"It's the most exciting thing that has happened in my life," added Wystrach. "Talk about something that makes you really take a step back and truthfully assess who you are and who you wanna be for this young little one. We're thrilled and terrified to go through this beautiful, life-changing experience and start a little beautiful family together."
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It has been said that more of the world's population has access to a cellphone than to a sanitary toilet. But of the planet's estimated 5 billion cellphone users, a privileged minority have smartphones; a paltry few, iPhones.
If you spend hours thumbing through pages of apps, scoffing at less-than-perfect software upgrades and grousing about screen resolution and pixel density, it's easy to forget that the very concept of a mobile phone is a miracle. It's a device that shrinks your day to day world into a single point, making you simultaneously accessible to and able to access nearly everyone you know, instantly and everywhere.
One summer in 2005, a man in Nigeria wanted in. He found a shop, put his money down on the counter, and left with a cellphone: a Nokia 1100, nearly identical to the model discontinued by AT&T that same year. Statistically, this was likely his first handset. He'd probably used a similar one through family or friends. Personal milestone or not, the tiny Clarkian miracle of that day represented a cold milestone for Nokia. It was their billionth phone sold.
In buying that phone, this man was joining a slightly smaller club. He became a Nokia 1100 user. Along with a staggering 250,000,000 others, he had traded up in the communications world, from little or no phone access at all to this little brick of a phone.
The 1100 is not pleasant to use. The keypad is too narrow for two-thumbed texting; it's thin enough that curling a thumb for one-handed use is strenuous. Tiny pedestal buttons are concealed behind a squishy rubber shield, and configured in such a way that learning how to use the phone is a process of rote memorization and habit-building rather than intuition.
The phone wasn't exactly a technological marvel, even by the standards of the time. (For perspective, in 2003 Gizmodo was writing breathlessly about the promise of the Palm Treo 600—a real smartphone.) The screen is small and the pixels large and monochrome. The ringer is both tinny and piercing. The whole assemblage feels suspiciously light.
I say this all as someone coddled by smartphones, touchscreens, and the results of years upon years of careful and expensive interface research, but also as someone who has used a hell of a lot of phones. For a few years years I carried a Nokia 3595—a not-so-distant relative of the 1100—so the 1100 doesn't feel exotic to me, nor should it to most anyone.
But I was never really meant to buy a Nokia 1100, and its designers never meant to impress me. The phone's small size makes its extremely portable, and easy to carry or stow. That narrow, squishy keypad is dustproof and water resistant, so a splash of rain or a drop in the sand won't ruin it. The phone's plasticky shell and light weight make perfect sense the first time you see it bounce off your tile floor, skittering to a stop unscathed. The menu system and button configuration might clash with my design sensibilities, but I was raised on PCs and Nintendo. I have expectations of polish, and can mistake brutal simplicity for lack of design.
This phone was meant to survive and to do; its only jobs are to call and to text and to create convenience for as long as possible, as cheaply as possible. "The way we get to those features is by spending a lot of time with consumers, with teams in their homes, interviewing them, seeing how they live," says Alex Lambeek, who, prior to becoming Nokia's VP of Phone Marketing, worked extensively with hardware design for the developing world. "Take for example a feature like a torch (flashlight), and you might think: Who cares about a torch? Well, for a consumer who lives in an area, let's say, of India or Indonesia or Africa, where there is either no power supply or power is intermittent, having a torch is pretty important."
Likewise, accessories and services aren't cast-offs from the Western world, but specifically adapted for their environments. Alongside new cellphones you'll see chargers that draw power from bikes, and by sending an SMS to a specific, Nokia-operated number, you can get a listing of local crop prices, or a weather forecast.
A phone sold in an outdoor market can't exactly be brought back for a warranty claim. Software updates are mostly out of the question, so the phone you buy is the phone you'll be stuck with. Customer service is complicated by language differences, literacy issues and simple lack of awareness, so a short sort of troubleshooting guide has to be included in the phone's software.
The lesson, basically, is that a company won't do well in the developing world simply by hawking cheap, out-of-date hardware after it's become obsolete in places like America. Companies like Nokia, LG and Samsung spend a lot of time and money developing new phones that you and I might consider old-fashioned or odd, and with good reason: Emerging markets are huge. The 8th, 9th and 10th largest phone seller in the world, by volume, are companies you've never heard of—ZTE, G-Five and Huawei—which have made heaps of money selling millions of customers their first phones. Nokia is actually losing share in India, largely due to a burgeoning domestic phone industry, led by companies whose spectacular sales volumes belie their newness. They'd be stupid to try to sell their cast-off dregs to hyper-competitive exploding markets like this.
The hardware demands of the developing world are different. That much is obvious. Making things even more difficult is the way people sell phones outside of the US and Europe. Surprise! It's also different. "In North America and many parts of Europe, operators typically subsidize handsets," says Lambeek. It's a familiar, unwieldy system of blood contracts and extravagant hardware. It's why we tend to loathe our carriers, and also why you can get a Droid for $150. But it's by no means universal. "That is quite rare in places like Africa, for the simple reason that the economics of subsidizing don't make sense. Either the money doesn't come, or it takes far too long." This means that the price of the phone isn't distorted by subsidies, and that the operators are barely involved in phone distribution at all.
This makes things less complicated in a lot of ways, and more complicated in others. Phones have to be cheap enough that people can buy them outright, which basically renders all high-end smartphones like BlackBerrys or iPhones, which can cost well over $500 unsubsidized, almost comically inaccessible. It also means that phones need to be standardized and network-neutral, or unlocked, and that they have to work with whatever services are popular or available, be they voice or text or internet.
The developing world has no interest in the iPhone. It's impractically delicate and expensive, and its battery lasts a day, if you're lucky. But the concept of a smartphone is in some ways as attractive in rural Nigeria as it is anywhere else.
Companies like Huwei are already refiguring the Android phone equation to suit second-time phone buyers, and bringing prices for unsubsidized touchscreen smartphones well under $200, edging ever closer to $100. Nokia's C3 series has Wi-Fi, a 2.0MP camera, a full, metal-keyed QWERTY keyboard, microSD storage and an App Store. It comes with Facebook and Twitter access out of the box. Depending on tariffs, it sells for around $100 worldwide. It's coming to America, soon making an appearance on Wal-Mart's shelves. The price? $80. It's the anti-N8: Fairly simple, very cheap, and so far, wildly popular.
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This is what the next generation of the mega-selling phone will look like. They'll be rough facsimiles of the high-end smartphones forged for well-heeled buyers, stripped of fat and excess—an embodiment of compromise. They'll be 90% of the phone for 20% of the price, with FM radios instead of digital music stores, and flashlights instead of LED flashes. This is how the other half will smartphone, if you want to be so generous as to call the developing world's users a half. We're not even close.
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