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Castles, mansions for sale at price of Sydney house MANSIONS, castles and luxury estates all have a place in our real estate day dreams, but most of us assume that's just where these prestigious properties will stay. However for homeowners in Sydney, or those looking to buy in one of the world's priciest cities, the million dollars it takes to secure a house could score you a pretty sweet pad almost anywhere else. Sydney's 12-month median house price now sits at $904,000, according to CoreLogic statistics, but the average freestanding house will set struggling buyers back even more than that. So if Sydney won't give you much change out of a million, then maybe it's time to widen the house hunting field. From the grand chateaus of rural France to the nouveau riche residences of upstate New York, and everywhere in between, here is what we found for the cost of a Sydney dwelling. Fetteresso Caste, Scotland Price: More than £475,000 ($AUD 768,978) Close to the Scottish city of Aberdeen, this four-bedroom modernised castle has some elements dating back to the 15th century. It has a drawing room, dining room, original vaulted cellars and fireplaces. St Honore Les Bains, Burgundy, France
Incredibly the price of this 19th century chateau has been slashed from 940,000. The bonus with this 15-bedroom property is that is a fully functioning Bed and Breakfast so it will earn its keep. It is in a small spa town of Burgundy near a grand national park so the guests will keep on coming. Charles LaDow House, Albany, New York $799,000 ($AUD 1.039 million) Designed by Ernst Hoffman in the Romanesque style, this 11-bedroom mansion has plenty of old world charm even if it isn't a European castle. Built in the late 1800s, the gorgeous residence in upstate New York has 789sq m of living space. Morbihan Castle, Brittany, France
At half the price of a Sydney pad, this chateau does need a little TLC, but still features great bones. There are 12 bedrooms, 550sq m of living space and plenty of entertainment space. The piece de resistance for this French home is the surrounding woods and proximity to the coast. Sainte-Julie, Quebec, Canada $CAD 1.079 million ($AUD 1.092 million) What it lacks in history, this modern castle makes up for in multiple wow factors. The seven-bedroom, five-bathroom near new home in French Canada has all the bells and whistles from a state of the art kitchen, to sleek bathrooms and even a pool out the back. Morningside, Johannesburg, South Africa Rand 10.5 million ($AUD1.0661 million) Forget finding a designer five-bedroom home with pool and parking in Sydney for this price, but in Johannesburg you get a lot of bang for your buck. This contemporary palace on 2000sq m has four bathrooms, maid's quarters, a gym, poolside cabana and a guest studio. Rhodes, Greece €650,000 ($AUD 1.002 million) So, not really a castle, but this brand new villa is fit for a king despite being the same price as a well-placed inner Sydney apartment. The four-bedroom home on the infamous Greek island of Rhodes features four bathrooms, a private pool, designer interiors all within a stone's throw of Lindos village.
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Akania Rasulpur is a village in Chandpur District in the Chittagong Division of eastern Bangladesh. ==References==
Populated places in Chandpur District
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Democratic debate accents risks of losing black voters Even as the Democratic presidential field seems to be narrowing to four top contenders, Wednesday night's debate highlighted a question the party had hoped not to face: How much do Democrats risk if they offer voters an all-white set of top candidates? With the first balloting now a bit more than two months away, former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg continue to dominate polls and the attention of primary voters. That emerging "Final Four" does offer an important measure of diversity: A woman, an openly gay man; two of the oldest men ever to run for president, as well as the youngest. As the debate underscored, the top candidates also represent a wide spectrum of other choices facing the party: Between those who would make big structural changes and advocates of a more incremental approach; between an advocate of a strong U.S. role in the world and those with more limited ambitions; between a millennial who brings a new style of leadership and a septuagenarian touting his long government career. But missing is any candidate of color, at a time when African American and Latino voters have become some of the most important constituencies of the Democratic Party and are crucial to its hopes of defeating President Trump. Wednesday's debate in Atlanta included six other candidates - including two African Americans, Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California - who are still struggling to find a way to break into the top tier. Booker, in particular, made a powerful case for widening the field. "Black voters are pissed off, and they're worried," he said. "We don't want to see people miss this opportunity and lose because we are nominating someone that isn't trusted." Noting that Trump won the crucial state of Wisconsin in 2016 in part because black turnout dropped in Milwaukee, he added, "We need to have someone who can inspire... African American voters to the polls in record numbers." The emergence of an all-white top tier points to a surprising dynamic in how the Democratic primary contest has unfolded. Biden, who benefits from his established reputation and the goodwill engendered by his years as President Obama's vice president, has consistently topped national and many early-state polls largely because of his commanding lead among black voters. Several of his rivals based their strategies on the assumption that Biden's polling lead would dwindle. Booker and Harris believed they would have a chance to pick up his black supporters. But while Biden has seen his support fade, the decline has come mostly among white voters, especially college-educated liberals who have moved to Warren and Buttigieg. His backing among black voters remains strong, giving him a political firewall in the South, starting with South Carolina, the fourth state to vote in the primaries, where blacks make up more than 60% of the Democratic electorate. The latest poll in South Carolina, by Quinnipiac University, found Biden leading overall with 33% among likely Democratic primary voters. Among black voters, he drew support from 44%; trailing far behind him was Sanders with 10%, Warren with 8%, Harris with 6% and Booker with 2%. Buttigieg had no black support in the state. In an apparent shot at Buttigieg during the debate, Booker said, "No one on stage should need a focus group to listen to black voters." Harris declined an invitation from one of the debate moderators to critique Buttigieg's record on race, but spoke broadly of the party's failure to tend to the needs of black voters. "For too long candidates have taken for granted the constituency that has been the backbone of the Democratic Party," she said. "They show up when it's close to election time." Each of the four leading candidates sought to address that problem. Buttigieg argued that, as a gay man, he understands the experience of suffering from discrimination. "I welcome the challenge of connecting with black voters in America who don't yet know me," he said. He also defended himself against the accusation that he lacks experience for the job. "Washington experience is not the only experience that matters," he said. "There's more than 100 years of Washington experience on this stage, and where are we as a country?" Warren, who has been making a particular effort to connect with black women, said that her policies on housing and eliminating student debt would reduce discrimination against blacks. Sanders" closing statement emphasized his experience during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and his roots as the son of an immigrant. He touted his commitment to helping the nation's undocumented migrants. "I will lead an administration that will look like America," he said. Biden, responding to Harris" call to rebuild the Obama coalition, reasserted his claim to be Obama's heir.
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Christopher 'Big Black' Boykin of MTV's 'Rob and Big' dead at 45
Christopher "Big Black" Boykin, who co-starred in the MTV series 'Rob & Big,' has died at 45, MTV said in a press release Tuesday night. "MTV is deeply saddened to learn the news of Christopher 'Big Black' Boykin's passing," the network said. "He was a long time and beloved member of the MTV family and will be greatly missed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends at this time." Boykin rose to fame in 2006 as the bodyguard and best friend of skateboarder Rob Dyrdek on the reality series, which ran until 2008, when, Variety reports, Boykin had a child and stopped living with Dyrdek. Dyrdek took to Twitter to mark his friend's passing, tweeting: "My heart is broken. I don't want write this post. I don't want to believe that this is reality. I am so thankful for you. Along with his words, Dyrdek posted a picture of himself with Boykin. He added in another tweet, "We truly were brothers that lived an unexpected unforgettable adventure. I just can't fathom that it would end so suddenly." Boykin also founded a clothing line in 2007 and, before reality show fame, served a stint in the Navy. According to Variety, he is survived by a nine-year-old daughter, Isis.
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There's also the question of companies acting responsibly. In the same year, the ASA upheld a complaint about an ad that ought to have won an award for its chutzpah if nothing else. The company in question was Cash Lady, a payday loans company, which put out two TV ads featuring former Atomic Kitten (and veteran of the advertising scene, especially frozen-food purveyor Iceland), Kerry Katona. The only problem was, Katona - seen with a laptop pointing to the Cash Lady site and the promise of a £300 loan at an eye-watering APR - had a couple of years earlier been made bankrupt. The tag-line was "Fast cash for fast lives." The ASA judgement said: "We considered that because, for many consumers, Kerry Katona was synonymous with debt, viewers who empathised with her personal circumstances could be influenced by her endorsement and make a decision about resolving their own financial shortfalls by obtaining a payday loan product that may not be suitable for them and therefore, potentially harmful." Aside from dubious claims and unsuitable endorsements, the fact is that by and large we just don't buy celebrity endorsements, unless they hit exactly the right note. Take Gary Lineker and his long-running contract to promote Walkers Crisps. He's one of the few celebs we suffer to flog us stuff, and that's mainly to do with his ability to poke fun at himself in the ads, distracting us from even questioning the fact a former world-class athlete is stuffing himself full of calorific, high-fat snacks. In Britain, it seems the main qualifier for an acceptable celebrity ad is a bit of self-deprecation (PA) Go to Lineker's Twitter feed at any given time and you'll find abuse levelled at him for the Walkers ads, but it's usually a by-product of attacks on him which are really for his former footballing career, his TV punditry, or his often liberal views. Even when a Walkers social media campaign classically backfired, Lineker was stoic. The company had invited people to upload selfies to their website which automatically tweeted them out as if Lineker was holding a big photo of them. Unfortunately, some wags uploaded pictures of serial killers such as Fred West and Dr Harold Shipman. Classic Walkers Crisps "Welcome Home" advert starring Gary Lineker "Had an unusual day in some very strange company. I'm sure we'll wave goodbye to them all by tomorrow," Lineker tweeted ruefully - and engagingly - when the stunt backfired last May. Do we believe Gary Lineker sits around all day scoffing prawn cocktail crisps? Well, he's not a professional footballer any more, so presumably there's nothing to stop him. Do we believe that former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger spends her time eating Muller Light yoghurt? Well, I suppose we must, as that's what the ads show us. But it'll be a cold day in hell before I accept that every time she eats one she ends up falling off her chair with a curiously sexual splash of yoghurt on her pert nose, or that these really aren't the worst ever kinds of celebrity ads. The farce is forced, the comedy is choreographed, there's simply not enough of a post-modern wink and nudge to make them anything but bum-clenchingly annoying. David Beckham advertising the Motorola Motorazr in Japan in 2006 (Rex) Speaking of bum-clenchingly annoying, that can actually work, but only if everyone's in on the joke, like Michael Winner's Esure car insurance ads. So infuriating that they passed into popular culture, purely because they were crap and they knew they were. They variously featured Winner, who died in 2013, bumbling into some minor prang generally involving a woman driver, just so he could wind down his window and belittlingly issue a verbal pat on the head with the immortal phrase: "Calm down, dear, it's only a commercial," a line which was infamously parroted by then Prime Minister David Cameron to a female MP in 2011. One of the most successful celeb ad campaigns has been mobile phone operator EE's partnership with the actor Kevin Bacon. It's difficult to put your finger on just what makes them not terrible... perhaps it's the almost post-modern, meta aspect of them, similar in a way to Winner breaking the illusion of his ads by declaring it's a commercial, that sees Bacon ramping up his celebrity status yet being a personal friend of everyone he meets on his overly enthusiastic data-fuelled journey around the UK. Hollywood star Kevin Bacon stars in EE 4G advert
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Savage twins aim for another championship at Anaheim Western High Caine Savage likes to work quick, whether it's his burst to try to catch a ball in the air, his ability to shake a defender trying to tackle tackle him or his opening to the 2019 season for Anaheim Western High. Savage ran the season-opening kickoff back for a touchdown. He added 10 catches for 125 yards in that game against Pasadena John Muir and has 23 receptions for 382 yards in the three games since, according to MaxPreps. It has been a continuation of Savage's monster junior season when he had more than 2,100 yards receiving and scored 34 total touchdowns. His 32 touchdown receptions set a Southern Section record for a season. He scored multiple touchdowns in 11 of 15 games, leading Western to its first section title. Quarterback Anthony Munoz, who tied JT Daniels" Southern Section record with 61 touchdown passes is gone, so it took Western a little bit of time to get rolling under senior Isaiah Del Toro. Savage's kickoff return touchdown was the Pioneers" only score against Muir, but he quickly learned getting the ball to Caine and his twin Cassius was the key to success. "John Muir was blitzing every play and he wasn't used to it yet," Caine said of Del Toro. "He was overwhelmed that game. The Monday we came in after John Muir, we didn't want to lose any more games throughout the season, so we came in hard, on everybody. After practice, we go out, run routes and catch balls and do whatever we can do to get better as a team." Western (3-1) has outscored its last three opponents 104-0. Cassius is second on the team with 332 all-purpose yards and in scoring with three touchdown receptions and a two-point conversion catch. The brothers also play important roles on defense. Cassius is a rangy, 6-foot-1 safety while Caine often takes on the opposition's best receiver at cornerback. Caine's athleticism, versatility and big-play ability drew attention and scholarship offers from several colleges. Some schools like him as an offensive weapon. Others see the 5-foot-11, 175-pound playmaker as a future defensive back. Arizona State's coaches want the whole package. "They said they like everything that I do, that I can play pretty much any position on the field - kick return, punt return, receiver, DB, pretty much an athlete," Caine said. "I took a visit there. I got to meet some of the coaches. All the coaches up there are cool. I had a strong connection with them as soon as I met them." Caine committed to the Sun Devils in June, but this wasn't a decision he could quickly make like his moves on the field. He chose Arizona State over offers from Oregon State, Utah and Washington State as well as offers to five FCS and Group of Five schools. On the same day Caine announced his commitment, Cassius chose San Diego State from a trio of Mountain West offers. The twins, who have the same classes at Western, do everything together and are always with each other, agreed to go their separate ways. "I wanted to play in the Pac-12," Caine said. "Most of the offers he had, I had, but he didn't have any Pac-12 offers, so we kind of did it based off that. He was fine with it. He's just waiting on a Pac-12 [offer]." While both made commitments, they are still keeping their options open on the chance that a Pac-12 school extends a scholarship opportunity to Cassius. Caine still wants to take all five of his official visits, including trips to Utah and Washington State along with Arizona State. Cassius could join him on those trips, but per NCAA rules, the school isn't allowed to pay for the travel and lodging expenses for anyone outside of the student-athlete and his parents on the visit. "We haven't really signed any letter of intent or anything," Caine said. "If somebody does come up and gives us a better [option], like a deal together, then that'll probably be an option for us."
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Dumb deluded Democrats screech impeachment, Trump's firing up the US economy landslide Economic experts don't get much more expert than Paul Krugman. The current "Distinguished Professor of Economics at City University of New York" is so eminent in his field that he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008. He's written 27 books on economic matters, published over 200 scholarly articles, and penned several hundred more columns for the New York Times, Fortune and Slate. So it's probably fair to surmise, as many do, that Mr Krugman might be the smartest economist in the world. That's why people were so desperate to know his immediate reaction to Donald Trump winning the 2016 election. He was unequivocal: this was a catastrophe of almost Biblical proportions. "It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump," Krugman wrote in a blog for the NYT posted at 12.42am, "and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover? Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my speciality. The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear. Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never." Poor Krugman, whose sneering loathing for Trump knows no bounds, was almost inconsolable as he predicted financial Armageddon: "Under any circumstances, putting an irresponsible, ignorant man who takes his advice from all the wrong people in charge of the nation with the world's most important economy would be very bad news. What makes it especially bad right now, however, is the fundamentally fragile state much of the world is still in, eight years after the financial crisis. Now comes the mother of all adverse effects and what it brings with it is a regime that will be ignorant of economic policy and hostile to any effort to make it work. So we are probably looking at global recession, with no end in sight." Other economic experts agreed with Krugman. "Under Trump, I would expect a protracted recession to begin within 18 months," declared former Clinton and Obama chief economist Larry Summers. "Trump would likely cause the stock market to crash and plunge the world into recession," asserted Simon Johnson, MIT economics professor. The Washington Post entitled an editorial: "A President Trump could destroy the world economy." As predictions go, these are now all right up there with the ones confidently insisting Special Counsel Robert Mueller would find Trump guilty of Russian collusion. Because none of them actually transpired. Indeed, the complete opposite has happened. After two-and-a-half years of President Trump, the US economy is in fact powering away and smashing records as it surges. Today, it was revealed that 263,000 new jobs were added in April, massively higher than what was forecast. Unemployment fell to 3.6%, the lowest number since 1969. America now has record low African America, Hispanic and Asian unemployment, the lowest unemployment rate for women since 1953, and the quickest wage growth for workers in 10 years. This comes after a whole week of other stunningly good economic news for Trump. Last Friday, it was announced that first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 3.2%, after widespread predictions of just 2.3%. On Wednesday, the US stock markets that Paul Krugman said would never recover hit record highs. And yesterday, CNN published a new poll revealing Trump's economic approval rating had hit a new high of 56% including double digit increases amongst those under 35 (up 16 points) non-whites (up 13pts), independents (up 11pts) women (up 10pts) and even Democrats (up 10pts). With today's jobs results, it's reasonable to expect all Trump's economic approval ratings to soar even higher. And all this spells very BAD news for the Democrats, because good economies win elections as reliably as bad economies lose them. It was Bill Clinton's former strategist James Carville who famously planned his boss's 1992 win over sitting president George H. Bush with the words: "The economy, stupid." America was in recession in 1992, and Clinton unseated Bush by promising to bring the country back out of it. Like Ronald Reagan before him, Clinton then won re-election on the back of a strong economy - despite both presidencies being engulfed by scandal in their first terms. The message is clear: get the economy right and Americans will forgive you almost anything. Get it wrong, and they'll kick you out. Right now, with just 18 months until the 2020 election, President Trump is on an undeniable economic roll that supports his election promise to "Make America Great Again." And that should put the fear of God into Democrats, who are still reeling from Trump being cleared of collusion.
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She added: 'It was completely intentional, and I have never been so sure of anything in my life.' The juror questionnaire document (pictured) asked potential jury members if they were fans of Taylor Swift and her music A photograph taken on the day is expected to form part of the evidence against Mueller and shows him posing with the singer and Melcher. In it, Mueller's hand is hidden behind the singer near her bottom but he claims the only physical contact they had was when their arms brushed as they took their positions. The DJ says as many as 20 other people could have been in the room at the time and insists the security guard present did not react to anything during the meet and greet. Mueller claims he was later confronted by one of Swift's security guards over the allegation and told the man he should call the police. He and Melcher were then escorted out of the Pepsi Center and he was fired two days later, after Swift's radio promotions manager Frank Bell told Mueller's bosses about the incident. The police were not called because of Swift's wish to keep the situation 'discreet and quiet and confidential', according to her attorney Douglas Baldridge. Mueller's lawyer, Gabriel McFarland, has argued in previous hearings that he could be the victim of mistaken identity. Baldridge, meanwhile, has said Swift is upset by Mueller's claim that 'for some reason she might have some incentive to actually fabricate this story.' A number of fans are expected to attend the trial, with 32 seats in the public gallery being made available each day. The trial continues tomorrow and the singer is expected to take to the witness stand herself on Wednesday.
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Succeeded by the Army Cross (CM) of the Republic of South Africa. Official national order of precedence:
Preceded by the Medal for Valour in the Prisons Service of the Republic of Bophuthatswana. Succeeded by the Army Cross (CM) of the Republic of South Africa. South African National Defence Force from 27 April 2003:
Official SANDF order of precedence:
Preceded by the Nkwe ya Boronse (NB) of the Republic of South Africa. Succeeded by the Army Cross (CM) of the Republic of South Africa. Official national order of precedence:
Preceded by the Mendi Decoration for Bravery, Bronze (MDB) of the Republic of South Africa. Succeeded by the Army Cross (CM) of the Republic of South Africa. ==Description==
Obverse
The Ad Astra Decoration is a five-pointed star in silver-gilt, to fit in a circle 45 millimetres in diameter, with the South African Air Force castle roundel raised in the centre, all struck in one piece, 5 millimetres thick at the centre of the castle, with the star points tapering down to 2 millimetres at the edges. The suspender is an eagle in flight. Reverse
The reverse has the pre-1994 South African Coat of Arms, with the words "AD ASTRA" underneath, with an impressed or engraved decoration number. Ribbon
The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide, with diagonal 4 millimetres wide light blue and white lines, slanted upwards from left to right toward the left shoulder of the recipient. The direction of the slant of the lines was purposely the opposite of that of the British DFC and AFC, at the specific request of the Chief of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Jan van Loggerenberg. Bar
The bar is silver-gilt and has a Protea emblem embossed in the centre. The same bar was used to indicate multiple awards of the Pro Virtute Decoration, Southern Cross Decoration, Pro Merito Decoration and Ad Astra Decoration. ==Discontinuation==
Conferment of the decoration was discontinued in respect of services performed on or after 27 April 2003. No suitable new honour was instituted to replace it. ==References==
Military decorations and medals of South Africa
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Courage awards
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==Post-revolution==
After the October Revolution (1917), Malevich became a member of the Collegium on the Arts of Narkompros, the Commission for the Protection of Monuments and the Museums Commission (all from 1918–1919). He taught at the Vitebsk Practical Art School in Belarus (1919–1922) alongside Marc Chagall, the Leningrad Academy of Arts (1922–1927), the Kiev State Art Institute (1927–1929), and the House of the Arts in Leningrad (1930). He wrote the book The World as Non-Objectivity, which was published in Munich in 1926 and translated into English in 1959. In it, he outlines his Suprematist theories. In 1923, Malevich was appointed director of Petrograd State Institute of Artistic Culture, which was forced to close in 1926 after a Communist party newspaper called it "a government-supported monastery" rife with "counterrevolutionary sermonizing and artistic debauchery." The Soviet state was by then heavily promoting an idealized, propagandistic style of art called Socialist Realism—a style Malevich had spent his entire career repudiating. Nevertheless, he swam with the current, and was quietly tolerated by the Communists. ==International recognition and banning==
In 1927, Malevich traveled to Warsaw where he was given a hero's welcome. There he met with artists and former students Władysław Strzemiński and Katarzyna Kobro, whose own movement, Unism, was highly influenced by Malevich. He held his first foreign exhibit in the Hotel Polonia Palace. From there the painter ventured on to Berlin and Munich for a retrospective which finally brought him international recognition. He arranged to leave most of the paintings behind when he returned to the Soviet Union. Malevich's assumption that a shifting in the attitudes of the Soviet authorities toward the modernist art movement would take place after the death of Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky's fall from power was proven correct in a couple of years, when the government of Joseph Stalin turned against forms of abstraction, considering them a type of "bourgeois" art, that could not express social realities. As a consequence, many of his works were confiscated and he was banned from creating and exhibiting similar art. In autumn 1930 he was arrested interrogated by the KGB in Leningrad, accused of Polish espionage, and threatened with execution. He was released from imprisonment In early December. Critics derided Malevich's art as a negation of everything good and pure: love of life and love of nature. The Westernizer artist and art historian Alexandre Benois was one such critic. Malevich responded that art can advance and develop for art's sake alone, saying that "art does not need us, and it never did". ==Death==
When Malevich died of cancer at the age of fifty-seven, in Leningrad on 15 May 1935, his friends and disciples buried his ashes in a grave marked with a black square. They didn't fulfill his stated wish to have the grave topped with an "architekton"—one of his skyscraper-like maquettes of abstract forms, equipped with a telescope through which visitors were to gaze at Jupiter. On his deathbed Malevich had been exhibited with the Black Square above him, and mourners at his funeral rally were permitted to wave a banner bearing a black square. Malevich had asked to be buried under an oak tree on the outskirts of Nemchinovka, a place to which he felt a special bond. His ashes were sent to Nemchinovka, and buried in a field near his dacha. Nikolai Suetin, a friend of Malevich's and a fellow artist, designed a white cube with a black square to mark the burial site. The memorial was destroyed during World War II. The city of Leningrad bestowed a pension on Malevich's mother and daughter. In 2013, an apartment block was built on the place of the tomb and burial site of Kazimir Malevich. Another nearby monument to Malevich, put up in 1988, is now also situated on the grounds of a gated community. ==Polish ethnicity==
Malevich's family was one of the millions of Poles who lived within the Russian Empire following the Partitions of Poland. Kazimir Malevich was born near Kiev on lands that had previously been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of parents who were ethnic Poles. Both Polish and Russian were native languages of Malevich, who would sign his artwork in the Polish form of his name as Kazimierz Malewicz. In a visa application to travel to France, Malewicz claimed Polish as his nationality.
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Die Jungen vom Kranichsee is an East German film. It was released in 1950. ==External links==
1950 films
East German films
German-language films
Films set in schools
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Mario Balotelli's agent Mino Raiola claims he is challenging Sepp Blatter for Fifa presidency Like the other 'novelty' candidate David Ginola, who is being paid £250,000 by a bookmaker to try to launch a challenge to Blatter, Raiola's chances even of getting the required endorsement to run - the support of five national associations by next Thursday - appear non-existent. "Fifa should be there for the fans, professional players and amateur players, but they don't do anything for these three groups. "How dare you organise a World Cup in South Africa and then ask €150 for a ticket? It's a disgrace. Fifa wants to organise a party in someone else's house and then demands a huge entrance fee, but the owner of the house does not get anything. This has got to stop. "It's incomprehensible that some FAs still vote for Blatter. If people vote Blatter, they vote North Korea, if they vote me, they vote South Korea." "If I don't manage to be a candidate this time around, I will give it another try in four years" time. I will find five FAs to back me. Which ones? I cannot say that just yet. A lot of things could change until the election." The other candidates looking to dethrone Blatter are Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein, Jerome Champagne and Ginola.
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Gyasi Zardes' trade leaves huge void in Hawthorne community he inspired Not as much value as Zardes holds for the kids in Hawthorne who, for the past two years, have looked to him as a source of pride and inspiration. Zardes grew up here, in a first-floor apartment in a tan, 42-unit complex on Kornblum Avenue, the center of a 40-block area known as Moneta Gardens, where the sound of gunfire and the din of police helicopters are part of the daily soundtrack.
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Asked about the EU negotiating guidelines, which say that the transition deal must be thrashed out before talks can move on to our future trading relationship, he said: 'I think we will have to work out the transition deal.' Mrs May this afternoon vowed to 'deliver on the will of the British people' and said she would get the 'best Brexit deal for our country'
EU leaders have given the green light for the second stage of the Brexit negotiations to begin, what happens next? December 19 - The Cabinet will discuss what sort of long-term relationship they want Britain to have with the EU after it has withdrawn from the bloc. December 20 - Ministers face the prospect of a second Commons rebellion on the EU (Withdrawal) Bill over writing the Brexit date into law.
Winter/spring - Negotiations on the transition to future EU/UK relations, along with 'exploratory talks' on a possible free trade agreement. March 22-23 - European Council summit in Brussels. An opportunity to assess what kind of trade deal can be expected. May - English local government elections will provide the Prime Minister Theresa May with her first widespread electoral test since the disastrous snap election of June 8 2017. October - A final treaty on withdrawal and transition should be ready by this point in order to allow time for ratification before the end of the two-year Article 50 deadline.
Winter/spring - Ratification process involving as many as 38 national and regional parliaments, with any of them effectively holding a veto. Brexit Secretary David Davis has promised that Parliament will have to approve any deal in a Withdrawal Agreement and Implementation Bill, although this will be on a 'take it or leave it' basis. MPs will consider the legislation before MEPs in the European Parliament carry out the final vote on any agreement. March 29 - Two years after the invocation of Article 50, the UK ceases to be a member of the EU and is no longer subject to its treaties, whether or not a withdrawal agreement has been reached.
December 31 - Britain ceases payments into the EU budget. 2021 - If a two-year 'implementation period' is agreed, Britain will finally move to its new relationship with the EU in the spring of 2021, ceasing to observe EU rules and regulations. 2027 - Expected end of the European Court of Justice's role in the oversight of the rights of EU citizens living in the UK. Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable renewed calls for a referendum on the final deal. 'Now comes the hard part,' he said. 'The outcome of these talks will affect jobs, living standards and prices for years to come. 'Yet with just over a year to go, the Cabinet still can't even agree on what they want the final deal to look like. 'The people must have a say on the terms of any deal, including the option of an exit from Brexit.' Arriving back at the summit today, Mr Juncker warned there were no easy solutions to the talks. Asked if there would be trade talks, he said: 'I have extraordinary faith in the British Prime Minister. 'She has agreed with me and Mr Barnier that the withdrawal agreement will first be formalized and will be voted on and then we will see. 'The second phase will be significantly harder than the first and the first was very difficult.' He added: 'It is a difficult process and I'm still sad that our British friends are leaving the European Union.' Returning to the summit this morning, Irish premier Leo Varadkar said Mrs May had received a warm reception, telling reporters'some people offered some good luck, merry Christmas remarks and there was a light round of applause after that'. Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said Mrs May was a'very tough lady'. After last night's dinner, which ended at 1am after the leaders dined on Thursday on roasted langoustines followed by a main course of capon and a dessert of festive log 'with a twist', German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised the divorce deal. 'Theresa May has made good offers that imply that the 27 will see sufficient progress tomorrow. But there remain many issues to be solved and we don't have much time,' Merkel said. As she left Brussels last night, Mrs May told reporters 'we've had very good discussions. 'I'm looking forward to discussions on the future trade relationship and security relationship.' A British official said May was 'clear about wanting to move onto trade talks as quickly as possible' when she spoke to the other leaders, telling them she wanted to approach the next phase with 'ambition and creativity'. Sources told the Sun today that British ministers would not now meet to discuss what they would ask for in the the trade talks.
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California boat fire victims likely died of smoke inhalation LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 34 people killed when a dive boat caught fire and sank off the California coast likely died from smoke inhalation and may have been dead before flames consumed their bunk area, the local sheriff said on Friday. A 75-foot (23-meter) vessel burns during a rescue operation off Santa Cruz Island, California, U.S. September 2, 2019. Santa Barbara County Fire Department/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC14E102EE20 The disclosure raises questions over whether crew members, who told investigators they tried desperately to rescue the passengers in their below-decks sleeping quarters, were already too late to save them by the time they were alerted to the blaze. Divers have so far recovered the burned remains of 33 victims, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown told a news conference. Crews hoped to find the final body when the 75-foot (23-meter) Conception was raised from the floor of the Pacific Ocean as early as Friday. "We will continue working tenaciously to recover all the victims, to determine how they died and investigate the cause of this terrible fire and loss of life with the hope that future such tragedies can be prevented," Brown said. The Conception erupted in flames at about 3:15 a.m. (1015 GMT) on Monday off Santa Cruz Island, killing 33 passengers and a crew member in one of California's worst maritime disasters. The five surviving crew members, who were above deck when the fire broke out, have told investigators the flames kept them from climbing down a narrow ladder into the bunk room or gaining access through a window. A coroner's pathologist was "convinced" the victims died due to smoke inhalation, Brown said, but his analysis was considered preliminary pending toxicology tests. The sheriff stopped short of saying the findings meant the crew's efforts would have been too late to save the victims, cautioning that more investigation was required.
Officials have decided against conducting autopsies on the victims, a move aimed at more quickly releasing the remains to family members, some of whom had traveled to California from as far away as India. The coroner's office has identified 18 of the recovered bodies and officials released the names of nine victims, saying the rest awaited notifications of next of kin, who have been asked to provide DNA samples. The FBI had been assisting in contacting loved ones of the dead. One victim's mother was notified in Japan and another family was found in Singapore, Brown said. The passengers had signed up for a three-day scuba diving trip aboard the Conception, and were sleeping below deck along with one crew member when the fire erupted. That crew member, who perished in the accident, was identified on Friday as 26-year-old Alexandra Kurtz. The eight deceased passengers whose names were released on Friday were: Raymond "Scott" Chan, 59; Justin Carroll Dignam, 58; Daniel Garcia, 46; Marybeth Guiney, 51; Yulia Krashennaya, 40; Caroline McLaughlin, 35; Ted Strom, 62; and Wei Tan, 26. The owner of the dive ship, Truth Aquatics, filed a petition in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday seeking to avoid liability in the incident by invoking a 19th-century law that has been used in such disasters as the 1915 sinking of the Titanic. That action appears to be pre-emptive as no lawsuits have yet been filed against Truth Aquatics over the accident. Slideshow (2 Images) The Los Angeles Times, citing unnamed sources, reported that investigators had already found safety issues on the Conception, including the lack of a night watchman who was assigned to be on duty while the rest of the crew and passengers were sleeping. Officials declined to comment on that report at the news briefing, but U.S. Coast Guard Captain Monica Rochester confirmed that a night watchman or "rover" was stipulated by the boat's inspection certificate. The Conception, which rests upside down on the ocean floor some 65 feet (20 meters) below the surface, could be raised as early as Friday depending on weather conditions, Rochester said. Reporting by Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles and Barbara Goldberg in New York; Editing by Bill Tarrant, Jonathan Oatis and Chris Reese
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When will state pension age rise again? Steve Webb replies Every government leaflet or statement that I have read states that the retirement age will go up from 65 to 66 by October 2020. I was born in March 1955 but I am told that my pension age is 66. Have they bought the date forward again without telling us?
Steve Webb replies: To check your state pension age based on the law as it currently stands you can enter your date of birth on the gov.uk site here. In your case, being born in March 1955 means that your pension age will be 66. This is in line with the timetable set out in the 2011 Pensions Act. Share this article Share 92 shares
Under the terms of that Act, pension ages will be equalised for men and women at 65 by November 2018 (when you will be aged roughly sixty three and a half) and will rise gradually for both men and women to 66 by October 2020 (when you will be aged sixty five and a half).
Read a This is Money guide to the state pension age here. One reason for confusion is that pension ages are generally increased not in whole years but in months. For example, those born between 6th December 1953 and 5 January 1954 can draw a pension from 6 March 2019 when they will be 65 years and 3 months old, whilst those born between 6 January 1954 and 5 February 1954 can draw a pension from 6th May 2019, when they will be 65 years and four months old. A full table of dates of birth and pension ages can be found here. In effect, what is happening is that although as you get older you get nearer state pension age, state pension age itself is moving up, so you are not getting there as quickly as you might have expected. However, a big word of caution is that for those in their mid-fifties and below, there is still a chance of further change to their state pension age. Under current legislation, the age at which you can draw a state pension will rise from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028, but it is not scheduled to rise to reach 68 until 2046. It seems highly likely that the date at which the pension age reaches 68 will be brought forward. For example, a recent independent review set up by the Government and led by Sir John Cridland, recommended that a pension age of 68 should apply from the late 2030s. If the general election had not intervened, we would probably know by now the government's latest thinking on pension ages. This is because they are required by law to hold a review every Parliament to take account of the latest information on how long we are all living. They were due to report their plans based on that review by 7 May 2017, but the election meant that deadline was missed. As they are technically now in breach of the law, we should expect the new Department for Work and Pensions ministers to announce their plans before too long. As increases in pension ages can be politically contentious it may mean that the government decides to leave things as they are for now, but sooner or later we can expect to see pension ages rising to 69 or even 70 for today's youngest workers.
Former Pensions Minister Steve Webb is This Is Money's Agony Uncle. He is ready to answer your questions, whether you are still saving, in the process of stopping work, or juggling your finances in retirement. Since leaving the Department of Work and Pensions after the May 2015 election, Steve has joined pension firm Royal London as director of policy. If you would like to ask Steve a question about pensions, please email him at [email protected] Steve will do his best to reply to your message in a forthcoming column, but he won't be able to answer everyone or correspond privately with readers. Nothing in his replies constitutes regulated financial advice. Published questions are sometimes edited for brevity or other reasons. Please include a daytime contact number with your message - this will be kept confidential and not used for marketing purposes. If Steve is unable to answer your question, you can also contact The Pensions Advisory Service, a Government-backed organisation which gives free help to the public. TPAS can be found here and its number is 0300 123 1047. Steve receives many questions about state pension forecasts and COPE - the Contracted Out Pension Equivalent. If you are writing to Steve on this topic, he responds to a typical reader question here. It includes links to Steve's several earlier columns about state pension forecasts and contracting out, which might be helpful.
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"I love you so very much my love," he wrote. "You are my one and only, and I promise. I love you so so so much and we will have a life filled with love and happiness. To my pretty gypsy, from your love, Samuel." He didn't know what else to say. The legal system bewildered him, and he found it hard to think in concrete terms, beyond that he had to leave. Outside the prison, his new lawyer, Richard Winter, was preparing an appeal. Winter had agreed to represent Siatta in late 2015, between the conviction and the sentencing. A partner at Holland & Knight, an international firm, he specialized in commercial and antitrust litigation from his 30th-floor office in downtown Chicago. He had no experience in criminal law and had taken Siatta as a client via a peculiar impulse. Holland & Knight offers pro bono representation to clients who cannot otherwise afford it. Over the years, Winter had helped autistic children in court fights against school districts in and around Chicago and had worked on Hague Convention cases, trying to reunite children with parents in international custody disputes. In November 2015, he had just read "Rogue Lawyer," a novel by John Grisham about Sebastian Rudd, a bourbon-drinking, gun-carrying lawyer with a bulletproof van who fights for justice for unappealing clients. Winter was amused by Rudd, a cartoonish figure. He was also impressed by his legal tactics, which he thought were able. Soon after finishing the book, Winter received an officewide email describing Siatta's case and asking if anyone wanted to step in. He figured this was a case for someone of Rudd's talents, and it looked interesting on the merits. He volunteered to try. Two weeks later, he met Siatta and his mother at a rest stop on Interstate 294. Siatta impressed him. He was in his last weeks of freedom before an expected prison term and was on his way home from PTSD counseling. Winter read the case file, looking for a basis for appeal. He attended the sentencing hearing in January and watched his new client depart for prison. The judge allowed Siatta about a minute with his mother, and after he was gone Maureen lingered in the courtroom, then in the hallway. She looked numb. Winter told her, "I'll see what I can do." Winter knew the appeal would consume much of 2016. He also figured that while he might persuade the appellate court to consider a retrial, allowing a judge to instruct jurors to consider an involuntary-intoxication defense, the chances were probably slim. And even if the judges granted a new trial, he knew, Siatta would still need to prevail before a jury, of which there was no guarantee. Winter's backup plan was to seek a pardon from the Illinois governor after the appeals process was exhausted. Either way, Siatta was not coming home anytime soon. By March, the state had moved Siatta from Stateville to Shawnee, where inmates lived in two-story X-shaped buildings, called houses, each with a central station from which guards watched over the population. Siatta was assigned to a cell in 4-House. It was a drab and musty place with missing floor tiles, an upper and lower bunk, a toilet and a small steel sink. His cellmate, a moody man with a thin mustache, was doing time for failing to register as a sex offender. Early each morning, the locks would click open. Inmates could step into the cellblock corridor and file into the darkness and cold for a short walk to the cafeteria for breakfast and a cup of water. The routine was repeated for lunch and dinner. The schedule also allowed for about an hour of "day room" time - to lift weights in the open-air yard, use telephones in a call center or buy food and toiletries in the commissary with money their families added to their prison accounts. Buying extra food drew attention. In the cash-free ecosystem of prison, purchases became currency. A T-shirt, a coffee cup, a package of cookies - these could be traded or gambled. They also attracted thieves. The guards tended to cluster in the central section of each house, and they ventured only occasionally into the cellblock corridors. This meant that when the locks were released, there was a moment in which inmates could furtively enter one another's cells. Siatta returned from one meal to find about $50 worth of food stolen. His cellmate was enraged at the breach of turf. He told other inmates that he would find the thief and punish him.
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Press Club of Western PA Announces 2017 Golden Quill Winners Spot News Photography:
Winner: Stephanie Strasburg, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Trump Defeats Odds to Reach the White House" Finalists:
Roberto Esquivel, The Herald-Standard, "I Can't Believe My Eyes"
Matt Freed, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Hillary Clinton Hugs President Obama"
Thomas Slusser, Tribune-Democrat, "Trump Rally Coverage: Your Jobs Will Come Back" News Videography
Winner: L. David Colabine, KDKA-TV, "Canonsburg Funeral" Finalists:
Steve Mellon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Journeys Out of Darkness: Navigating the Landscape of Loss"
Steve Mellon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Voter Voices"
Katie Roupe, Observer-Reporter, "Saying Goodbye to Scott Bashioum" Spot/Breaking News, Radio
Winner: Staff, KDKA Radio, "Wilkinsburg Mass Shooting" Spot/Breaking News, Digital
Winner: Dan Majors and Molly Born, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Multiple People Shot in Wilkinsburg" Finalists:
Aaron Aupperlee and Nate Smallwood, Tribune-Review, "West Virginia Floods"
Liz Navratil and Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Two Police Officers Shot in Canonsburg"
Staff, WPXI, "Canonsburg Officers Shot" Spot/Breaking News, Television
Winner: Staff, WTAE-TV, "Psychiatric Clinic Stabbing Rampage" Finalists:
Marlisa Goldsmith, Aaron Saks and Ryan Minutello, WPXI-TV, "Kidnapping Suspect Standoff"
Moe Jetter and Jennifer Tomazic, WPXI-TV, "Canonsburg Officers Shot"
Amy Wadas, KDKA-TV, "Mental Health Facility Stabbing" News Illustration
Winner: Daniel Marsula, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "The Left Won the Culture War" Finalists:
Daniel Marsula, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Will Technology Drive Us to the Burbs?"
Daniel Marsula, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "The U.S. Is Riding Europe's Superpower Coattails"
Daniel Marsula, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Six Dead in Wilkinsburg" Feature Illustration
Winner: Daniel Marsula, Pittsburgh Quarterly, "The Internet of Things" Finalists:
Daniel Marsula, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Fall Arts Preview
Daniel Marsula, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Tracy Morgan: Picking Up the Pieces"
Ed Yozwick, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Countdown to College" Editorial Cartoon
Winner: Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Too Late" Finalists:
Tim Menees, Pittsburgh Quarterly, "Gloaming"
Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "News Hole"
Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Trump Olympics" Best Cover Design, Magazines
Winner: Chuck Beard, Pittsburgh Magazine, July 2016 - Best of the 'Burgh Finalists:
Chuck Beard, Pittsburgh Magazine, August 2016 - The New Downtown
Mark Bender and Jennifer McNulty, Pittsburgh Quarterly, "Pittsburgh Showers, Warhol Flowers"
Brian Butko, Liz Simpson and Bryan Vorp, Western Pennsylvania History Magazine, Winter 2016-17 #Pixburgh Special Edition Page Design, Daily Newspapers (Circulation Under 45,000)
Winner: Mary Beth Eastman, Beaver County Times, "There's More Than One Way to be Strong" Finalists:
Mary Beth Eastman, Beaver County Times, "Who Says It Ain't No Thing?"
Jon Hodge, Altoona Mirror, "Ace in the Hole"
Lindsey Shinn, Altoona Mirror, "It's Been a Journey" Page Design, Daily Newspapers (Circulation 45,000 and Over)
Winner: Steve Ziants, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Arnold Palmer: A Royal Legacy" Finalists:
Daniel Marsula, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Here Come the Young"
Tyler Pecyna, Diane Juravich and Ben Howard, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Men Who Made Moments"
Tyler Pecyna, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Wilkinsburg Mourning" Feature, Magazines
Winner: Douglas Heuck, Pittsburgh Quarterly, "The Death of a Homeless Man"
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George Rudolph McMahon (May 30, 1929 – January 25, 2019) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of 5th Prince in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1976 to 1987. He was a member of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party. Born in Kensington, Prince Edward Island, McMahon was educated at St. Dunstan's University and Dalhousie University, and worked as a crown prosecutor in Summerside before his election to the legislature. He was elected as assemblyman for 5th Prince in a by-election on November 8, 1976, and was re-elected in the general elections of 1978, 1979, 1982 and 1986. He served in the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island during the governments of Angus MacLean and James Lee, holding the roles of Minister of Highways, Minister of Industry and Commerce, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Minister of Labour and Minister of Community and Cultural Affairs. Following the resignation of Peter Pope from the legislature, McMahon assumed the title of councillor for 5th Prince, and was succeeded as the district's assemblyman by Andy Walker. McMahon, in turn, resigned his seat in 1987 to accept an appointment to the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island, and was succeeded as the district's councillor by Nancy Guptill. He died at a hospital in Charlottetown in 2019. ==References==
1929 births
2019 deaths
Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island MLAs
People from Prince County, Prince Edward Island
Members of the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island
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Woman's head filmed crawling with bugs in Mexico A woman on a bus in Mexico has been filmed with a head full of crawling bugs Stomach churning footage sees insects crawling in and out of the woman's hair The bugs aren't bothered by the bumpy bus ride, slithering in her unwashed hair By Catherine Chapman For Mailonline
A woman's hair crawling with lice was a horrifying ride for one bus passenger in Mexico, video can reveal. Video filmed by an unidentified bus passenger shows the back of a woman's head filled with squirming insects, assumed to be head lice. The stomach churning clip, which is believed to have been shot in Mexico, sees the camera focus on the woman's brown hair, that's tied back in a bun. Bugs are seen slithering out of her hair. The woman's hair looks like it is in a beehive that hasn't been washed in weeks. She appears unaware that the back of her head is being filmed. The bus passenger, who also hasn't been identified, moves the camera closer to the woman's head while on the bumpy ride. More bugs can be seen in what is likely a severe hygiene problem. Share or comment on this article REVEALED: Evil fishermen who tortured shark in horrifying... Philippine mayor on President Rodrigo Duterte's list of... Tourist who teased a bear by dangling food in its jaws is... PICTURED: Man, 27, charged with raping a schoolgirl, 14,... 'I hope you choke on your olives... you're a c***':... Vlad the Impaler: Russian man severs his genitals after... Brazen couple are filmed having sex at a bus stop 'on... Father films mystery flesh-eating sea bugs devouring a... Girl, six, out magnet fishing with her parents reels in... 'We will slaughter you in your own houses!': ISIS fighter... Rapist, 41, who attacked and murdered a three-year-old... Father jailed for 17 years after setting his... Fashion chain White Stuff apologises to colitis-stricken... Disturbing footage shows a Toronto woman hitting and... Student, 23, who spent £5,000 on a nose job is left... Group behind British model's kidnapping boast of their... Single mother has given up shopping at supermarkets and... Handcuffed model, 27, 'forced to strip naked' in a...
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Blue-Green Deployment
==Background==
Blue-green deployment is one of the techniques used in continuous delivery, which is a software engineering method to release a usable software in a fast speed, as well as continuous integration. == Definition ==
Blue-green deployment is a release strategy that can be utilized by developers for deploying software in a production environment. Blue can be one particular production environment whereas green can define an identical production environment. Under blue-green deployment strategy, software developers are able to minimize downtime and reduce risk
. The following diagram displays Blue Green Deployment in a software deployment scenario. From a technical perspective, Blue-green deployment can be viewed as a process where two sets of machines alternate traffic between each other..
== Principle ==
1. Two environments need to be identical so that a development team can easily switch between both environments. Either or environment can function as a backup while the other environment is live. 2. If the green environment has not been deployed, one should make sure to test the complete green environment in its entirety. This will ensure fully functionality when the green environment replaces the blue environment in production
== Implementation ==
As defined, the implementation of blue-green environment therefore is concerned with Amazon Web Services, IIS, Tomcat and Cloud foundry. AWS: (Amazon Web Services)
In a traditional environment, since two versions of the same software often run in the same server, the environment should always be prepared for switching from two version. Therefore developers should be extra cautious when they update their production environment as it may cause problem when reverting the server between two version. Another advantage to this approach is you now have a really easy rollback, as the other folder contains the previous version of your website. IIS: (Internet Information Services)
IIS on the remote server to find out what the “active” home directory is (maybe the “Green” folder). the package file into the inactive folder (“Blue”). the IIS home directory on the website to point to the updated slice (“Blue”). Tomcat Server:
Tomcat Server is primarily a Java based server. The Tomcat environment involves shutting down the services, uninstalling old versions of Tomcat and re-installing newer versions of Tomcat. Parallel development is the term used to describe the blue-green deployment. Cloud foundry:
For cloud foundry the following illustrates a perfect example:
Step 1: Push an App
Step 2: Update App and Push
Step 3: Map Original Route to Green
Step 4: Unmap Route to Blue
Step 5: Remove Temporary Route to Green
== Benefits and Challenge ==
Benefits:
1. Minimizes downtime by switching between blue and green environments. 2. Provides developers a fast way to rollback, if one of the environments becomes corrupted or fails in production. 3. Allows developer to test disaster-recovery. This allows the developer to accommodate a situation where there is a so-called "disaster" occurs. Challenge:
Adhering to the blue-green deployment methodology in a database migration is one of the biggest issues:
Often times a new release of software may involve changes in the schema of the database. Two separate databases, one serving as the other’s duplicate database is the underlying out-liar in database migration. To implement blue-green deployment, changes have to be performed in a way that maintain existing behavioral and informational semantics within the database. It is important that all the deployment and test process for the database creation is performed before deploying the new software. This helps maintain consistency of the database and ensure a backup is supported through blue-green deployment. == External Links==
Also see:
Continuous Delivery
Blue-green deployment in Octopus Deploy
Simple 0-Downtime Blue Green Deployments
== References ==
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Virginia being the No. 1 seed in the Midwest seemed a little odd on selection Sunday. So why again was Kansas placed in the South and Louisville and Virginia in the Midwest? - Jay Cohen reporting from Chicago.
6:30 p.m. The second-round of the Sweet 16 is about 40 minutes away and here's hoping it's better than Thursday's games, when each was decided by a double-digit margin. The action starts in Chicago with a contrast in styles in the Midwest region. Top-seeded Virginia, which plays at a methodical pace, faces No. 4 Iowa State, which likes to run. In Philadelphia, No. 6 seed Notre Dame faces seventh-seeded Wisconsin in the East Region. Both teams got here with last-second, game-winning shots. The second game in Chicago is No. 10 Syracuse against No. 11 Gonzaga, the closest thing the Sweet 16 has to underdog teams. The main event in Philadelphia is top-seeded North Carolina against No. 5 seed Indiana. Ten national titles between the Tar Heels and Hoosiers
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England staring at New Zealand defeat after losing late Joe Root wicket on day four England hopes of saving this first Test against New Zealand were dealt a severe blow when they lost captain Joe Root to the final ball of the fourth day at Eden Park. Root had batted superbly to register his 38th Test half-century before being hit on the right index finger by Trent Boult in the last over. However, the very next ball, he edged Boult behind to wicketkeeper BJ Watling to send England into the final day on 132 for three, still 237 runs behind and realistically needing to bat out the majority of the remaining 98 overs to save the game. Despite being bowled out for 58 in the first session of the match, England's chances of heading into next week's final Test in Christchurch level in the series were greatly enhanced firstly by the rain that has blighted this match and then a much-improved batting display on this fourth day. Root went with the final ball (Getty Images) In total, they have been tasked with surviving 148 overs to avoid defeat after New Zealand declared their first innings on 427 for eight - a lead of 369. Fifty of those have now been chalked off for the loss of three wickets, Root following Alastair Cook, whose poor form continued when he was dismissed by Boult for two, and Mark Stoneman. Yet despite the late blow of losing Root, the 38th time he has failed to convert a Test half-century, England will still be hopeful they can escape defeat. Five years ago at this ground, they memorably salvaged a draw in the final Test of the series after heading into the final day with just six wickets in hand. It will still be a big ask, though, to repeat that great escape in this day-night Test, especially as New Zealand have a second new ball due in 40 overs and will also have one session under lights if needed to finish off their opponents. Tent Boult was again England's tormenter (AFP/Getty Images) The torrential rain that had seen just 26 overs bowled in the previous days had given what was shaping up to be a non-contest an edge it really shouldn't have had. Yet New Zealand, resuming 229 for four, still dominated proceedings as they added to their lead of 175 with a minimum of fuss. England did at least take four wickets but they were powerless to prevent Henry Nicholls making his highest Test score of 145. Nicholls, who batted on all of the first four days, ended the innings unbeaten when the home declaration came halfway through the second session. Broad, dismissing BJ Watling and Todd Astle, Craig Overton, having Colin De Grandhomme caught behind, and Root, removing Southee with a smart return catch, did at least take wickets. But this was another example of just how toothless this one-dimensional England bowling attack have been this winter. Root hurt his hand during the dismissal (Getty Images) Including the Ashes, Root's side have so far spent 1,143 overs in the field across six Tests, bowling out the opposition on just three occasions. During the 141 overs of this New Zealand innings, Chris Woakes, Moeen Ali and Overton returned combined figures of one wicket for 236 runs. It simply isn't good enough. If Mark Wood, a bowler with a genuine point of difference thanks to his extra pace, does not play in the second Test in Christchurch then you really do have to wonder what the point of selecting him in the first place was. England's hopes of saving this game suffered an immediate setback when they lost Cook in the third over of their second innings, the former captain caught behind after chasing a Boult delivery down the legside. That saw Root come to the crease on a pair but either side of the dinner interval he steadied the innings with an 88-run stand with Stoneman. The Durham opener had reached his fourth Test fifty - and first since being hit on the helmet by Australia's Josh Hazelwood in the third Ashes Test in Perth - with a pulled six off Neil Wagner. Stoneman made 55 (Getty Images) Stoneman had a brain fade, though the next ball, as Wagner came around the wicket, attempting the same shot despite the change of angle and picking out Boult in the deep. Despite the reckless nature of the shot, Stoneman could probably point to the fact that his 55 almost matched England's first-innings total. Still, it left his team, now 94 for two, up against it and relying on Root and Dawid Malan to see them through to the close without any further damage. Unfortunately, those hopes were scuppered right at the death.
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Foster Farms Suspends 5 Employees After Video Uncovers Animal Abuse TIME U.S. Animal Rights Foster Farms Suspends Five Employees After Graphic Video Uncovers Animal Abuse Warning: The video contains graphic content, which some viewers may find disturbing Poultry producer Foster Farms suspended five employees Wednesday after an undercover video appeared to show inhumane treatment of chickens at the company's Fresno slaughterhouse. The Fresno County Sherriff's Office has opened a criminal investigation after animal-rights group Mercy for Animals released graphic footage showing workers throwing, punching and plucking live birds and slamming boxes of chicks onto the ground, reports the Los Angeles Times. The footage shows some birds unable to move after being thrown around. The video also appears to show, according to the rights group, the bodies of chickens that were scalded alive in the plucking tank after missing the slaughter knife. TIME has not been able to independently verify the footage. Foster Farms said it was complying with the police investigation and is "reinforcing animal-welfare training companywide." Mercy for Animals says it conducted the undercover investigation in March and April at a Foster Farms slaughterhouse and at a company plant where chicks are raised. The organization found "an ongoing pattern of criminal animal cruelty that was permitted to go unchecked and uncorrected by Foster Farms management." The investigation comes amid a campaign by Mercy for Animals against the American Humane Association (AHA), which has certified some Foster Farms chicken. The rights group alleges the association's standards fail to protect animals from cruelty. AHA spokesperson Mark Stubis said, "In the three years that we've been working with them, they have never failed an audit. This is an extremely rare situation for us."
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Distribution Of Zantac Halted Worldwide After FDA Raises Cancer Concerns - CBS Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) - Novartis, the maker of Zantac, is stopping the distribution of the popular heartburn medication worldwide. The halt comes after an FDA warning of low levels of N-nitrosodimethylamine or NDMA, a probable cancer-causing chemical found in Zantac and other heartburn medications. The federal agency said NDMA is dangerous in large quantities, but the amount found in the heartburn drugs barely exceeds levels found in common foods. For now, U.S. health officials said patients can continue to take Zantac and similar heartburn medications, but for prescription patients to consult their doctors if they want to switch to other treatments. Related
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Adam Schiff rejects reports that Mueller indictments are over House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff has said that he believes there will likely be further indictments from Robert Mueller as the full contents of his report are looked at in closer detail. Schiff suggested he would call the special counsel before a House panel if necessary to learn what is contained in the long-awaited document. 'If necessary, we will call Bob Mueller or others before our committee, I would imagine the judiciary committee may call the attorney general if necessary,' the California Democrat said during an interview Friday on CNN. Scroll down for video 'At the end of the day, the department is under a statutory obligation to provide our committee with any information regarding significant intelligence activities, including counterintelligence. And it's hard to imagine anything more significant than what Bob Mueller has been investigating. 'We have a right to be informed, and we will demand to be informed about it.' Schiff was asked by Wolf Blitzer if he would be satisfied if 'the most sensitive information' obtained by Mueller was only shared with the so-called 'gang of eight'. 'No, it would not suffice. Now, there may be a select sub-section of information they feel they can only share because of the very sensitive sources which derived the information, but the volumes of information that has been found needs to be shared with the whole committee so we can evaluate what steps have to be taken to protect the country. 'We're going to need to have the same sort of discovery that we saw during the last Congress, and indeed it may be far more extensive than that, to make sure that U.S. policy is driven by U.S. interest and not because the president or anyone around him is looking to make money from the Kremlin on a tower or anything else.' In another interview with MSNBC, Schiff said that it is entirely likely that more indictments could be forthcoming, saying instead it is 'entirely possible, if not likely, that there will be' more. Share this article Share 2k shares 'Well, what it means is that the office of the special counsel, which is essentially a contract attorney to the Justice Department, that that office won't be bringing any further indictments,' he said. 'It doesn't mean, of course, that main justice or the Seventh District of New York and the Eastern District or others may not bring indictments. 'In fact, given the lengthy redactions in many of the pleadings of the special counsel eluding to other investigations, I think it's entirely possible if not likely that there will be other indictments. 'Now, how central or peripheral they'll be to the core issues of potential conspiracy is yet to be determined.' Though Trump himself has said the report should be made public, it's not clear whether the administration would fight subpoenas for testimony or block the transmission of grand jury material. If the administration decides to fight, lawmakers could ask federal courts to step in and enforce a subpoena. A court fight could, in theory, reach the Supreme Court. But few tussles between Congress and the White House get that far. They often are resolved through negotiation. The Democrats, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, could also formally ask Mueller to send his committee evidence that could be used in possible impeachment proceedings against Trump, as suggested by Benjamin Wittes, a senior Brookings Institution fellow and editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog. With Attorney General William Barr vowing to rush out information on the report's 'principal conclusions' as soon as this weekend, Democrats were insisting they see both the complete document and the evidence in its entirety. 'It is imperative for Mr. Barr to make the full report public and provide its underlying documentation and findings to Congress,' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said in a joint statement. 'Attorney General Barr must not give President Trump, his lawyers or his staff any'sneak preview' of Special Counsel Mueller's findings or evidence, and the White House must not be allowed to interfere in decisions about what parts of those findings or evidence are made public,' the leaders said. 'The American people have a right to the truth. The watchword is transparency,' they said. Speaking to reporters Friday, Schumer said: 'The American people have a right to the truth. The watchword is transparency.' He added: 'The president himself has called without qualification or the report to be made public. There is no reason on God's green earth why Attorney General Barr should do any less.' Schumer predicted the effort ultimately would prevail due to public sentiment. 'The demand of the public is overwhelming to see the report when it's on such a serious matter and it will be made public. Public pressure will force it to be,' he said.
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Oil gains on tighter U.S. supply, Venezuela sanctions NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose about $1 a barrel on Wednesday, boosted by U.S. government data that showed signs of tightening supply, as investors remained concerned about supply disruptions following U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's oil industry. U.S. crude futures rose $1.37 to $54.68 a barrel, a 2.6 percent gain, by 1:11 p.m. EST (1811 GMT). Brent crude futures gained 88 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $62.20 a barrel. Prices extended gains after government data showed U.S. crude oil stockpiles rose less than expected last week due to a drop in imports, while gasoline inventories fell from record highs as refiners slowed down production. Crude inventories rose 919,000 barrels, the Energy Information Administration said, compared with analysts" expectations in a Reuters poll for an increase of 3.2 million barrels. After eight straight weeks of builds to a record high, gasoline stocks fell 2.2 million barrels last week, versus forecasts for a 1.9 million-barrel gain. "Because we had a huge drop in gasoline inventories, that gave a bullish tint to the entire report," said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago. The market has been supported since Washington announced export sanctions against Venezuela on Monday, limiting transactions between U.S. companies and the state-owned oil firm PDVSA. The fight to control Venezuela, which has the world's largest oil reserves, has intensified with the new sanctions aimed at driving President Nicolas Maduro from power, the strongest U.S. measures yet against the socialist president who has overseen economic collapse and an exodus of millions of Venezuelans in recent years. The sanctions aim to freeze sale proceeds from PDVSA's exports of roughly 500,000 barrels per day of crude to the United States, the OPEC member's largest crude importer. Traders who sell Venezuelan crude to the United States are looking for avenues to keep crude flowing during the sanctions, according to people familiar with the discussions, while U.S. companies who buy Venezuelan oil have also been looking for work-arounds, seeking counsel for instance on whether the use of third party intermediaries, such as commodity merchants, can continue. "The main risks for supply could come from a violent confrontation within the country, damaging the oil infrastructure," analyst Carsten Menke at Julius Baer said. "Yet the risks of such an event seem very low," he added. "This oil will find its way to the market." GRAPHIC: Venezuela vs U.S. crude oil production - tmsnrt.rs/2HH4Otd FILE PHOTO - Oil facilities are seen on Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela January 29, 2019. REUTERS/Isaac Urrutia Market participants remained worried about global economic growth, which has shown signs of slowing amid a trade dispute between the United States and China, the world's two biggest economies. Officials from Washington and Beijing are set to launch a new round of trade talks on Wednesday. The two sides have slapped hefty import tariffs on each other's goods. China reported its lowest annual economic growth in nearly 30 years last week, adding to a litany of worrying economic data from Europe and East Asia. Additional reporting by Noah Browning in London and Henning Gloystein in Singapore; Editing by Dale Hudson and Marguerita Choy
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The year 1801 in architecture involved some significant events. ==Buildings and structures==
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April 21 – The Teatro Nuovo in Trieste, an opera house designed by Gian Antonio Selva (interior) and Matteo Pertsch (exterior), is inaugurated. The New London Harbor Lighthouse in New London, Connecticut is completed. ==Awards==
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown). ==Births==
May 11 – Henri Labrouste, French architect of the École des Beaux Arts (died 1875)
June 4 – James Pennethorne, London architect and planner (died 1871)
date unknown – John Semple, Irish architect (died 1882)
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September 6 – William Tyler, sculptor and architect, co-founder of the Royal Academy (born 1728)
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The hot new fashion trend? One mile wear (that's clothes you can wear to pop to the shops) Few people understand how British women dress as well as Jo Hooper does. You might not recognise her name, but as a buyer for some of the biggest fashion retailers of the past three decades, she's played a huge role in what you and I wear. Most recently, she was head buyer for John Lewis womenswear. During her 2008-2014 tenure, she injected much-needed designer sparkle, introducing diffusion lines from the likes of Alice Temperley and Paul & Joe, and turning the neglected fashion division into a powerhouse responsible for a third of John Lewis's business. Before that, she ran womenswear at Debenhams, helping to mastermind the successful "Designers At" collection. Hooper has lived and breathed womenswear ever since she started out in retail back in the booming Eighties. She has developed an instinct for what women want. So when Hooper, now 55, with three grown-up sons, announced she was launching her own brand, the industry paid attention: what would this High Street fashion whisperer come up with? The result is NRBY (as in "nearby"), an expertly edited collection of shirts, tunic dresses, jumpsuits and knitwear. Hooper was inspired when a friend mentioned the Japanese concept of "one-mile wear," i.e. clothes that aren't OTT when it's just you at home, but don't feel slobby when you're popping round the corner to do errands or grabbing a coffee. We are in her London pop-up store, on a very smart street, but the store doesn't feel intimidating. It's bright and welcoming, like Hooper herself, who zips through the collection. "Women's lives have changed - more of us work from home, or have flexible hours. At the same time, we've seen a rise in informality in how we dress, how we socialise and do business," she says. Her goal is that NRBY occupies the magic three inches of clothing in your wardrobe that you actually wear: "Your favourites; the things you go back to." Working with a designer, she's stuck to timeless shapes and easy, wearable cuts. "It started with trying to come up with the perfect shirt," she says. The Chrissie poplin shirt (£59) has a flattering V-neck, small collar and is a pull-on style. "Shirts often gape over the bust. You're always looking down to check. So: no buttons." A key pillar of NRBY is using natural fabrics. Washed linens, soft jersey, natural cotton with five per cent cashmere. Hooper is wearing the Lucy jumpsuit (£150) made from lyocell, that "looks like denim but feels like silk." She styles it with white trainers and a striped sweater (£99) knotted around her waist. It strikes the perfect note: cool but not try-hard; casual but not sloppy. The most popular piece is the Sleepy Joe knitted sweater (£99). It has a generous scoop neck that sits just below your collarbones - always nice to show off. The debut NRBY collection may be meticulously thought through, but who in their right mind would want to launch a fashion brand right now? "The big guys are struggling; the little guys are where it's at," says Hooper. "There's a move towards curation. You walk into shops and see all this stock, where do you start?" The NRBY shopper (anywhere from 30 to 60 years old) wants "to buy less and better. Their attitude is, "Why do I need this in my life?" They're more discerning than they used to be." Successful brands, she says, know what they stand for. "When you go too broad and try to be all things to all people, that's when the consumer goes, "I don't get it," and moves on." Hooper has worked hard to create a "streamlined edit. If you want something glittery and sparkly, NRBY isn't for you. If you want contemporary clothes that you'll be happy to put on every morning, then it is." Hooper's suppliers certainly have confidence that NRBY will succeed. Anthropologie will host a NRBY pop-up in its King's Road store in London. And John Lewis & Partners will stock the range nationwide from August. It all sounds very exciting - and exhausting. After a full-on career, most people have their eye on early retirement. Why do it to herself? "Because it's fun," she enthuses. "I love fashion. I wasn't ready to let that go."
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Older workers helped fuel recent U.S. growth. Can it last? MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Reuters) - As a record-breaking economic expansion nears the decade mark, people like Marty Groth may determine whether it is forced into a lower gear. Not long ago, the 60-year-old Groth found himself out of a job and considered retiring on a pension built over a career of maintaining computer servers and printers. Instead, he returned to school to update his computer skills and will soon join a Wisconsin labor force that is decidedly short of workers. "I could retire now if I wanted," Groth said. "But I am thinking, I like working." Over the last three years, around 3 million Americans over 55 joined or rejoined the workforce, federal data show. The addition of these older workers not only contributed to economic growth, experts say, but helped stop a national decline in the share of adults working or looking for work. The trend may have run its course. After adding 5 million new and returning workers of all ages from 2016 to 2018, the U.S. labor force shrank during the first three months of this year. (Graphic: tmsnrt.rs/2IpdXGq) From healthcare to manufacturing, companies in places like Wisconsin are taking longer to hire as they struggle to find workers; some have delayed projects, others have become more willing to hire ex-convicts and less experienced workers bypassed when labor markets were looser, local officials say. Blue-collar workers are putting in more hours, data show, while overall labor productivity is increasing. Nationally, wages are rising. The upshot, according to policymakers, business executives and labor experts interviewed by Reuters, is that the labor market may be nearing its limits. Over a long enough period, labor shortages can spark investment and raise productivity as companies retool. They can also improve opportunities for minorities with unemployment rates higher than those for whites. But in the short run they pose a drag. "Any employer, if they are willing to raise wages enough, at some point will get all the workers they need," said Gad Levanon, chief economist at the Conference Board and author of a recent report on labor market constraints. "But it is coming at a higher cost... Projects that were profitable in a lower wage environment are not profitable anymore."
The corridor connecting Chicago to Milwaukee is a testament to the long-running economic expansion. This is not the Wisconsin of pastures and dairy farms, but a landscape brimming with fulfillment centers and factories. A new interstate lane will allow autonomous trucks to deliver supplies for a high-tech plant being built by China's Foxconn. But the combination of low unemployment and an older population puts Wisconsin at the leading edge of where the country's workforce as a whole is heading. It is also a political battleground state, meaning the health of its economy will likely have consequences for the 2020 presidential election. Democrats will hold their convention in Milwaukee next summer. Wages in Wisconsin rose 5 percent in 2018, compared to around 3 percent nationally, and the unemployment rate hit a record low 2.9 percent for several months in 2018 and again in February. As chief economist at the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Dennis Winters keeps close tabs on the state's hiring. The labor shortage, he says, "is real, and people are trying to deal with it day in and day out." Patrick McHugh lectures to an information technology class at the Milwaukee Area Technical College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Howard Schneider Sarah Condella, senior vice president for human resources at Exact Sciences Corp, is among them. She joined the Madison-based company in 2012 when it employed 50 people and oversaw its growth to roughly 2,000 workers as doctors expanded use of its colorectal cancer test. Along the way, Exact Sciences lifted starting pay to $15 an hour, roughly double the state's minimum wage. It added perks like bus passes and flexible shifts and has plans for food service at its expanding campus. Still, it has more than 400 vacancies, and the time to hire entry-level workers has grown from fewer than 30 days to around 45. Finding them requires radio ads, billboards and other tools not typical for a life sciences company. It is a story repeated across Wisconsin. Banking officials say deals are being delayed because supply chains are clogged and service companies booked, nipping the financial sector's potential. Half of respondents to a survey by the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce trade group cited labor shortage as the top issue facing companies and the state, ahead of healthcare and regulation. A majority said they planned to increase wages at least 3 percent as they add headcount this year.
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Merge. Agree with that a merged page should not be deleted, in order to preserve the attribution history per Wikipedia's copyright policy. — Cirt (talk)
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Australia vs India, fourth Test, day four from Dharamsala After a hard-fought tour, Steve Smith's men face a near impossible task stopping their hosts from seizing the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Ravichandran Ashwin and Matthew Wade share moment on a tense third day in Dharamsala. Photos: AP Smith - one of the best series I have played in Australian captain Steve Smith said the series had been one of the best he had played in. "I thought we played some very good cricket throughout the series. We had our opportunity at times but, credit to India... if you give them a sniff, they are going to take it." Smith lamented the batting collapse in the middle session on Monday. "That middle session when we lost 5-70, when you do that, you put yourself behind the eight-ball," he said. "I thought this wicket was a good one. It had good pace and bounce. If you were willing to apply yourself, you could score runs. "I wanted to lead from the front with my performance. I have really enjoyed playing in this series. It's been a great learning curve for me as an individual and as a captain. "I think the way we have been able to compete this series. A lot of of people wrote us off, that we were going to lose... we have learned a lot out of this series." Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja was named man of the series for his 25 wickets at 18.56. To wrap up, Australia won by 333 runs in Pune, India responded by 75 runs in Bengaluru, the third Test in Ranchi was drawn, and India prevailed here in the decider by eight wickets. This has been one of the best series of the past decade. Pujara says India wanted to regain the No.1 Test ranking and that's been the focus this summer. Rahul with six half-centuries was a plank Australia couldn't break. Teams shaking hands on the field. India deserve the trophy, having rebounded from losing the opening clash in Pune. Plus skipper Virat Kohli was injured and didn't play in the decider. That he was a non-factor to that point with the bat highlighted the depth of the Indian batting line-up. Australia lacked support for Steve Smith. David Warner was a disappointment, Shaun Marsh didn't get going, while Matt Renshaw and Peter Handscomb showed signs but were raw. Back to top India reclaim Border-Gavaskar Trophy It's over - India wins by eight wickets. India 2-106 off 23.5 overs. This has been a great series. Plenty of fire on and off the field. Lyon appeals for an lbw - but this is over. Six runs needed for India to claim a 2-1 series win. Next ball - bang. Rahane swipes and this cannons over cover for six. Rahane takes to Cummins, who has gone around the wicket and pulls the quick for six. That's fighting fire with fire. India need 29 to win. The Big Show is back in the action - direct hit from cover again. This time Rahul safe. Back to top
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Dalai Lama makes time for jokes among political issues at Council of Europe The Dalai Lama today held made an address followed by a question-and-answer session at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Tibet's exiled spiritual leader praised the European Union, stating that despite the needs of sovereign states, "common interest is more important." He also addressed his struggle with the Chinese authorities (who have criticised his visit) saying that the People's Republic of China "must respect our unique culture, including language and rich Buddhist philosophy," but underlined that Tibet was not seeking independence. Among the political issues addressed in his speech he also made time for jokes, at one point showing the audience how he liked to cool down by putting a wet towel on his head.
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Protesters and riot police clash before Philippine president's address Leftwing protesters have clashed with riot police as they tried to breach a barricade of barbed wire and shipping containers before the Philippine president's final state of the nation address. Some of the approximately 4,000 protesters, soaked by heavy rain, started to push away the metal cargo containers and iron railings that stopped them from getting close to the House of Representatives in suburban Quezon City, where Benigno Aquino III is to deliver his speech later on Monday, police said. Protesters burn an effigy of Aquino after they are blocked by police. Photograph: Ezra Acayan/Reuters At least three police officers and 16 protesters were injured when authorities used water cannon to push back the activists, who threw rocks and bottles at the officers, according to police and Red Cross volunteers. Aquino, whose six-year term ends next June, is expected to report on the progress of his fight against corruption and poverty, the centrepiece of the campaign that landed him a landslide victory. But problems have persisted in the south-east Asian country, where one-in-four people live in poverty. Communist and Muslim insurgencies raging on and off for more than four decades have combined with law and order problems and natural disasters in the typhoon-prone archipelago to make governance very complicated.
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This is my first ever wikipedia submission, so thank you for your help. I hope I did it right. Thanks,
Duke —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.21.10.222 (talk)
Humm... I think it's worthy of being undeleted; this is your site? It certainly needs a fix-up, though. Can I get a third opinion? Xavexgoem (talk)
The article was deleted through the proposed deletion process and as such, requests to undelete are usually done upon any request so I have restored the article. Cheers. thanks for your help guys, if you need anything from me, my email address is email address removed. == How do I contact the editor who deleted my link? ==
Hi, can you please tell me how to contact the editor who deleted my link? I don't see a way to do so but it seems only fair that I should be able to explain myself in hopes that the editor agrees. Arbitrarily deleting links is not in the best interests of this site and I have been a reader and editor of wiki for many years now. Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boaznb (talk • contribs)
Boaznb appears to have made contact via the editor's talk page. JohnInDC (talk)
== Help with Cygnus Business Media page ==
I would like some third party assistance, please. Over the past several months, I have been trying to provide facts on Wikipedia's Cygnus Business Media page. One former employee - Rich Handley - continues to add commentary and misrepresent facts. There is also a person called "The Truth Please" that you'll note has ONLY edited the Cygnus Business Media page and consistently adds editorial. In this:
This was a private sale and ONLY the principals know the exact price. I edited out the amount and now it continues to show up. It is not fact and I wrote that in the comment section. This is misrepresented and is inflammatory:
Paul and Rich did not leave because of the Standard and Poor's report which looks at debt and other things when it makes its reports. It has nothing to do with operations. Other problems:
Companies reorganize all the time, I'm sure Bob and Paul would not like to be used in this way, quotes should be take n away from "brand directors"
Again, estimated. This is just another way for our former employees and competitors to paint us in a bad light. The bloggers all remained anonymous so it is unfair to state this. This memo below was done as "tongue and cheek"
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.32.213 (talk)
The passages above are cited, with the exception of the sale amount, but I found and added a citation for that. You've obviously admitted a COI here; while that editor may indeed be a disgruntled employee, they're only echoing what's already been published in other sources. I did remove the last part, as the source didn't mention any kind of backlash. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs)
== Artichoker keeps deleting and undoing my contribution to a article ==
I have tried to contribute to the Kanto (Pokémon) article over and over. Artichoker keep undoing my contribution calling it speculation and non notable when I have provided proof on the matter. The dispute is over a small easter egg or feature in the Pokémon Games where in Vermilion City has a Truck located in the port. Though it has had many false rumors about the truck, the truck is real and is one of the only vehicles I know of in the Pokemon games except for the moving van in Sapphire, Rubby, and Emerald. The user has continued to say the information is speculation despite the many references i have posted, even putting a picture of the truck up I have been exploring Snail Shell Cave since 1963 and had much original material to contribute. I would like to have this material restored. I certainly don't want to spend a lot of time adding it, again, only to have it deleted for no good reason. Next time, be polite. Ask questions first. Larry E. Matthews (talk)
If I understand correctly, and the material you quoted is in the public domain as a US Govt publication, then you should be able to include it in the relevant article. However, from the edit summary of the edit that hid your text, the other editor felt that your addition looked like a mass copy-and-paste from the textbook.
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Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 Reuters
A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Reuters
Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo. The Connected company is a part of seven Toyota in-house companies that was created in April 2016 Getty
A Toyota Motors employee demonstrates a smartphone app with the company's pocket plug-in hybrid (PHV) service on the cockpit of the latest Prius hybrid vehicle during Toyota's "connected strategy" press briefing in Tokyo Getty
An exhibitor charges the battery cells of AnyWalker, an ultra-mobile chasis robot which is able to move in any kind of environment during Singapore International Robo Expo Getty
A robot with a touch-screen information apps stroll down the pavillon at the Singapore International Robo Expo Getty
An exhibitor demonstrates the AnyWalker, an ultra-mobile chasis robot which is able to move in any kind of environment during Singapore International Robo Expo Getty
Robotic fishes swim in a water glass tank displayed at the Korea pavillon during Singapore International Robo Expo Getty
An employee shows a Samsung Electronics' Gear S3 Classic during Korea Electronics Show 2016 in Seoul, South Korea Reuters
Visitors experience Samsung Electronics' Gear VR during the Korea Electronics Grand Fair at an exhibition hall in Seoul, South Korea Getty
Amy Rimmer, Research Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, demonstrates the car manufacturer's Advanced Highway Assist in a Range Rover, which drives the vehicle, overtakes and can detect vehicles in the blind spot, during the first demonstrations of the UK Autodrive Project at HORIBA MIRA Proving Ground in Nuneaton, Warwickshire PA wire
Chris Burbridge, Autonomous Driving Software Engineer for Tata Motors European Technical Centre, demonstrates the car manufacturer's GLOSA V2X functionality, which is connected to the traffic lights and shares information with the driver, during the first demonstrations of the UK Autodrive Project at HORIBA MIRA Proving Ground in Nuneaton, Warwickshire PA wire
Ford EEBL Emergency Electronic Brake Lights is demonstrated during the first demonstrations of the UK Autodrive Project at HORIBA MIRA Proving Ground in Nuneaton, Warwickshire Full-scale model of 'Kibo' on display at the Space Dome exhibition hall of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Tsukuba Space Center, in Tsukuba, north-east of Tokyo, Japan Miniatures on display at the Space Dome exhibition hall of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Tsukuba Space Center, in Tsukuba, north-east of Tokyo, Japan. In its facilities, JAXA develop satellites and analyse their observation data, train astronauts for utilization in the Japanese Experiment Module 'Kibo' of the International Space Station (ISS) and develop launch vehicles The robot developed by Seed Solutions sings and dances to the music during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight. At this biennial event, the participating companies exhibit their latest service robotic technologies and components Getty
The robot developed by Seed Solutions sings and dances to music during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight Getty
Government and industry are working together on a robot-like autopilot system that could eliminate the need for a second human pilot in the cockpit Aurora Flight Sciences' technicians work on an Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automantion System (ALIAS) device in the firm's Centaur aircraft at Manassas Airport in Manassas, Va.
43/43 Flight Simulator Stefan Schwart and Udo Klingenberg preparing a self-built flight simulator to land at Hong Kong airport, from Rostock, Germany
The details that were stolen included names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and driving licence numbers. Together, that's more than enough for criminals to steal people's identities, potentially wreaking havoc, stealing vast amounts of money and ruining people's lives. "On a scale of one to 10, this is a 10 in terms of potential identity theft," said Gartner security analyst Avivah Litan. "Credit bureaus keep so much data about us that affects almost everything we do." Lenders rely on the information collected by the credit bureaus to help them decide whether to approve financing for homes, cars and credit cards. Credit checks are even sometimes done by employers when deciding whom to hire for a job.
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Qantas airline's sale today: L.A.-Australia for just $100 each way Feeling lucky? Qantas Airways is offering $100 one-way airfares between Los Angeles and Sydney or Melbourne starting at 2 p.m. Pacific time Nov. 18. The catch: There are only 100 tickets offered at that price, so you have to act quickly. To get the deal, travelers must buy round-trip coach tickets from L.A. You can reserve starting at 2 p.m. at the airline's birthday sale website. Travel dates are limited to Feb. 23 and 24, and March 1, 2 and 8. The sale ends when the 100 tickets sell out. If you miss out, the airline also is offering round-trip fares from L.A. starting at $699 in coach seats between Nov. 18 and Nov. 26 for travel between Jan. 27 and April 8. Premium economy, business and first-class seats also are on sale. Qantas plans the same promotion for the next three days, featuring a different city each day. San Francisco, Dallas/Fort Worth and Chicago will be up next. Sale starts each day at 2 p.m. Pacific time. The airline began its 100th year on Saturday. What was called Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd. (QANTAS) was created Nov. 16, 1920, by World War I veterans Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness. By 1922, the airline had flown its first scheduled mail and passenger flights, according to the carrier's website. Soon, "flying doctor" service went into operation to help people in Australia's far-flung areas. Today Qantas operates more than 40 direct flights a week between Australia and the U.S. Info: Qantas 100th Birthday Year Sale
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North Korea tells of'very important' test at rocket launch site The test results will have "an important effect on changing the strategic position of (North Korea) once again in the near future," KCNA reported. Loading The Sohae launching centre in Tongchang-ri, a seaside region in western North Korea, is where the North has carried out satellite launches in recent years, resulting in worldwide condemnation and UN sanctions over claims that they were disguised tests of banned missile technology. North Korea has said its satellite launches are part of its peaceful space development program. But many outside experts say ballistic missiles and rockets used in satellite launches share similar bodies, engines and other technology. After North Korea entered nuclear talks with the US last year, Washington and Seoul said North Korea had dismantled parts of its Tongchang-ri facility. But South Korea's spy agency and some US experts said in March that North Korea was restoring the facility, the assessments that rose doubts over whether North Korea is committed to denuclerisation. US-North Korea diplomacy largely remains deadlocked since the second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in February due to disputes over how much sanctions relief the North must get in return for dismantling its key nuclear complex - a limited disarmament step. North Korea has since demanded the US to come up with new acceptable proposals by the end of this year. In recent months, North Korea has performed a slew of short-range missile and other weapons launches and hinted at lifting its moratorium on bigger weapons tests, such as nuclear and long-range missiles. KCNA said the North's Academy of the National Defence Science submitted a report on "the successful test of great significance" to the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party. The North said last week that the Central Committee will hold a meeting in late December to discuss unspecified "crucial issues" in line with "the changed situation at home and abroad." North Korea's state news agency recently released photographs of leader Kim Jong-un on snow covered mountains. Credit:KCNA At the United Nations, a statement released by North Korea's UN ambassador, Kim Song, said that denuclearisation had "already gone out of the negotiation table." It said North Korea does not need to have lengthy talks with the United States as the end-of-year deadline set by Kim for substantial US concessions in nuclear diplomacy looms. The statement accused the Trump administration of persistently pursuing a "hostile policy" toward the country "in its attempt to stifle it." The ambassador also said Washington's claims it is engaged in a "sustained and substantial dialogue" with Pyongyang solely for "its domestic political agenda." "We do not need to have lengthy talks with the US now and the denuclearisation is already gone out of the negotiation table," he said. Song's statement was a response to Wednesday's condemnation by six European countries of North Korea's 13 ballistic missile launches since May. He accused the Europeans - France, Germany, Britain, Belgium, Poland and Estonia - of playing "the role of pet dog of the United States in recent months." He called their statement "yet another serious provocation" against North Korea's "righteous measures of strengthening national defence capabilities." "We regard their behaviour as nothing more than a despicable act of intentionally flattering the United States," Song said.
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Iran says Trump cannot bring oil prices down by 'bullying' U.S. President Donald Trump cannot bring oil prices down by "bullying" other nations, Iran's oil minister said on Tuesday, adding that the market was suffering from short supply. U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports are due to kick in on Nov. 4. The U.S. administration has been pushing its allies to cut Iranian oil imports and encouraging Saudi Arabia, other OPEC states and Russia to pump more oil to meet any shortfall. "The oil market is suffering from short supply and this cannot be resolved by words. Trump thinks he can bring the oil prices down by bullying," Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said, according to the semi-official news agency ILNA. Benchmark Brent crude has been trading above $80 a barrel. Zanganeh said the rise of oil prices was a "self-inflicted pain" caused by U.S. sanctions against Iranian energy exports, and could be resolved by lifting the measures. "Everyone is worried and Trump has failed to reassure them. That's why the market is in turmoil," he said. Zanganeh also said the United States "has done most of the things it could do, and there is not much left to do against Iran," according to comments reported by Iran's ISNA agency.
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Benedict Cumberbatch makes rare outing with wife Sophie They are known for keeping their relationship notoriously private. But enjoying a rare date night together, Benedict Cumberbatch, 41, and Sophie Hunter, 39, stepped out together to attend the Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris Gala evening held in Switzerland on Monday night. The married couple looked picture perfect on their arrival, as Sherlock actor Benedict cut a dapper figure in a three-piece suit, while his wife Sophie stunned in a floor-length gown. Scroll down for video All eyes were on the pair at the bash, with Benedict cutting a suave figure in his tailored all-black ensemble. He made sure to wrap an arm around his partner as they posed for photographs together, while Sophie looked simply sensational in her red carpet attire. The brunette beauty, who gave birth just ten months ago, slipped into a floor-length lace gown that skimmed over her slender frame and billowed out around her legs. The ice grey number boasted a demure high neckline and letting her frock take centre stage, Sophie swept her tresses back from her face into a chic up-do, leaving her fringe down to frame her face. She completed her look with subtle make-up that made sure to accentuate her natural beauty, including blusher-swept cheeks and a dark pink lipstick across her lips. Sophie finished off her look with a glitzy pair of diamond drop earrings and flashed a a smile in the direction of waiting photographers as she cuddled up to her beau. She and Benedict are proud parents to two children sons, Christopher, two, and Hal, but enjoyed a night away from their parenting duties to rub shoulders with some of Hollywood's elite, including Ellie Bamber, Diego Luna and the Deputy CEO of Jaeger Geoffroy Lefebvre. Their appearance at the gala comes after Benedict was recently announced as the new president of LAMDA, the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, the school which he graduated from back in 2000. Speaking of the honour, Benedict said in a statement: 'Having trained at LAMDA, I am thrilled to have been appointed as its new President and would like to thank my predecessor, the great Timothy West for his remarkable and steadfast tenure. 'It will be an honour to watch the next generation of actors, directors and technicians blossom and grow into outstanding creative artists and theatre professionals through the exceptional training provided by LAMDA.' Benedict has been busy filming for new Sky Atlantic mini-series Patrick Melrose that is set to air this year. Patrick Melrose follows the fictional and infamous playboy based on the novel series penned by Edward St. Aubyn. It details the character's deterioration into substance abuse after a difficult childhood. Each book will play out in one episode of the five-part series, set to air some time next year in 2018, and, framed around several intense days in Melrose's life, the series will jump from 1960s South France to 1980s New York to early 2000s Britain. As well as starring in the series, Cumberbatch is also an executive producer and had previously expressed his desire to take on the role of Melrose. Cumberbatch has enjoyed a number of major roles throughout his career including Marvel's Doctor Strange and Sherlock Holmes in the hit BBC series Sherlock. The Oscar-nominated acting talent also has a stellar career in theatre to his name, but he has insisted in a recent chat with Interview magazine that while he is fully focused on any role he takes on, he makes sure to separate his work from his home life. Asked whether he brings his work home, Benedict replied: 'When I walk through that door, it's about home. If I didn't do that, I'd become consumed by one thing only and damage the people who love me... and it would damage the work.
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Sarab Rural District (دهستان سراب) is a rural district (dehestan) in the Central District of Sonqor County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 5,926, in 1,428 families. The rural district has 23 villages. == References ==
Rural Districts of Kermanshah Province
Sonqor County
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Universities to tackle "pressing problem" of BAME students being less likely to qualify with top degrees Universities admit they need to tackle the "pressing problem" that means black and minority ethnic students are less likely to qualify with top degrees than their white peers with the same A level grades. A call for evidence has been launched by university and student leaders to help understand what barriers BAME students face in an attempt to close the attainment gap in higher education. Almost four in five (78 per cent) of white students received a first or a 2:1 in 2015/16, compared to 66 per cent of Asian and 53 per cent of black students, Equality Challenge Unit data shows. Black students 50% more likely to drop out of university, new figures And qualifications achieved before attending university do not wholly explain the difference between ethnic groups, Universities UK (UUK) - which represents higher education institutions - said. Consistently lower proportions of black or Asian students that achieved the same A Level results as their white peers go on to achieve a first or 2:1 at all grade boundaries, the data suggests. Progress on the issue has been inconsistent across the sector, the report said. But now the UUK and the National Union of Students (NUS) have launched a joint initiative to identify best practice. A series of evidence gathering sessions and online survey data from students and staff will inform the recommendations which will be published in December this year. Baroness Valerie Amos, director of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, said: "This is a pressing problem. Too many students from BME backgrounds who get into university have a challenging experience. Many drop out and all the evidence points to an attainment gap." She added: "We need to understand the barriers to BME student success so we can eliminate these gaps. We must ensure that students from all backgrounds can succeed." Student news in pictures
South Korean policemen detain a student demonstrator during a protest against South Korean President Park Geun-Hye South Korean policemen detain student protestors during a protest against South Korean President Park Geun-Hye outside the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. The protesters demanded that the parliament takes steps to impeach President Park Geun-Hye Filipino demonstrators face off with anti-riot police during a protest near the US Embassy in Manila, Philippine Hundreds of protesters including Indigenous People, students and militant groups marched towards the US Embassy to protest against the presence of US military troops and condemning the violent dispersal which left at least forty people hurt including twenty police officers and three people who were run over by a police van A federal judge in Mexico has ordered that a once-fugitive police chief be held on charges of kidnapping in the disappearance of 43 students
A man holds up a photograph of a missing student with a caption reading 'We are missing 43,' during a meeting marking the 25-month anniversary of the disappearances of 43 students in the southern state of Guerrero, in Mexico City. A federal judge in Mexico has ordered that a once-fugitive police chief be held on charges of kidnapping in the disappearance of 43 students Miguel Perez, an intern student from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, puts away his cell phone before walking into the operating room at the Dr. Isaac Gonzalez MartÌnez Oncological Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Once they complete their general surgery training, many residents are moving to the United States in search of better wages, one of the main factors linked to the current shortage of specialists in the Island
Fewer EU students have applied to start university courses in the UK next autumn. There was a 9% fall in the numbers who had applied for courses, according to admissions service UCAS. PA wire
University students protest against President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela. Masses of protesters jammed the streets of Venezuela's capital on the heels of a move by congress to open a political trial against Maduro, whose allies have blocked moves for a recall election University students protest against President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela Thousands, most of them high school students, march during a demonstration in Madrid, Spain, on a one day strike to protest about the country's education law that increases the number of annual exams Students gather on the west mall to confront the Young Conservatives of Texas student organization over a controversial bake sale on The University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas. The Young Conservatives of Texas chapter at the University of Texas-Austin sparked the protest with an affirmative action bake sale. The club encouraged students to buy a cookie and talk about the disastrous policy that is affirmative action
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"Life is actually easier if you assume that others are acting in good faith, even when they take actions you disagree with. "—JamesBWatson hundred thousand edits you reach,
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Car hire firms caught charging DOUBLE the going rate for repairs Car hire firms are charging customers more than double the going rate for repairs, with one customer overcharged by almost £1,000, an investigation has found. Consumer group Which? collected photographic evidence of damage from hire car customers across Europe who believed they had been charged more than they should have. The images were then shown to three trusted trader garages, who were asked how much they would have charged for the repairs. And the Which? investigation found that in eight out of the 12 cases, all three garages quoted less than the amount levied by the car hire companies. And in four of these cases, the car hire company charged more than double the average cost suggested by the Which? Trusted Trader mechanics. Share this article Share 50 shares Of the 36 quotes received from the garages, only eight were equal to or higher than the rental firm's charge. In one case, Europcar billed a customer renting a car in France £1,154 for a small windscreen chip that could have been fixed for as little as £35. At best, Europcar applied a markup of more than 300 per cent, and at worst the bill equated to more than 30 times the actual cost of repair.
Which? say there are a number of ways you can try to avoid being hit with extra charges when hiring a car. They include: Buying excess reimbursement insurance from another company before you travel; On picking the car, always complete a thorough check inspection of the inside and outside of the vehicle with the car hire company. Here you should always report any scratches, scuffs or stains, no matter how small. If the inspection takes place at night, check the vehicle again early the next day and immediately report any concerns; Try not to return your hire car during out of hours when nobody from your car hire firm is available to check the vehicle with you. When you carry out the final inspection, get a receipt and take a picture of the signed damage report. Never feel forced to sign for anything you don't believe you caused; Always check your bank statement when you return home to see if the car hire company has taken additional charges. Firms are meant to show how the charges have been calculated before taking additional money from a customer. If there has been charges, demand evidence repairs have been carried out; If you do end up being charged for disputed damage, you can complain to the car hire company within two weeks. If it isn't resolved, you can claim against your excess insurance on your credit card. Another driver was charged £854 for a minor door dent and bumper scratch after hiring a car from Green Motion at Stansted Airport. But one of the experts Which? spoke to said the damage could have been fixed for £186. A separate survey of more than 150 Which? readers who'd been charged for car hire damage pointed to unfairness around consumer perception of overcharging. More than four in 10 told Which? researchers that they had been hit with an excessive charge and almost two in five said they had been charged for damage they knew nothing about. Nearly three in five customers who had been charged for damage said they had never received any evidence of how the charge was calculated from their car hire company. Some drivers said they suspected car hire firms may have been charging multiple customers for the same minor damage to a vehicle. Major car hire firms - including Avis, Budget and Hertz - all have different practices when it comes to dealing with repairs. But some say they may delay repairs until a later date, allowing them to fix several problems at once, or simply leave the damage - taking a hit on the vehicle's resale value. They say that the bill a customer receives may be purely theoretical. It's based on what is known as a "damage matrix" of charges - essentially an estimate. Industry insiders have told Which? that a drastic drop in profit margins has led some car hire companies to look for new ways to make money from their customers. There are also allegations of upselling overpriced insurance, excessive repair bills and topping up takings with an additional admin fee when repairs are needed (as much as £129 in these case studies) and a "loss-of-use" charge (up to £42 per day). Rory Boland, Which? Travel editor, said: 'It's outrageous that car hire customers are being made to pay extortionate amounts for repairs that never take place. 'If repairs are required, customers should be sent clear evidence of how costs were calculated. 'Car hire firms now need to clean up their act and be upfront about the real cost of renting a car instead of offering too-good-to-be-true prices, then clawing back profits via ridiculous repair bills.'
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Finally, as their children grow up, we asked parents about the issues on which they'd like some more advice. Bullying and mental health, as well as discipline, were clearly the biggest concerns.
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Sheriffs asks armed group in Oregon to leave. Will it listen? Burns, Ore. - Three Oregon sheriffs met Thursday with the leader of an armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge and asked them to leave, after residents made it clear they wanted them to go home. Harney County Sheriff David Ward said via Twitter that he asked Ammon Bundy to respect the wishes of residents. He said sheriffs from two other counties were with him. Sheriff Ward said the two sides planned to talk again Friday. The Oregonian reported that Ward offered to provide Mr. Bundy and his group a safe escort out of the refuge. "I'm here to offer safe escort out," the newspaper reported the sheriff telling Bundy. "Go back and kick it around with your folks." On Wednesday night, residents attended a community meeting to air their views about the two dozen or so armed men hold up at the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge south of Burns. Locals said they sympathized with the armed group's complaints about federal land management policies but disagreed with their tactics. On Thursday, LaVoy Finicum, a leader of the armed group, told reporters, "We want all people to be safe. We want all law enforcement to be safe. We want our lives to be safe." Ward said he hoped residents would put up a united front to peacefully resolve the conflict with the group. "I'm here today to ask those folks to go home and let us get back to our lives," Ward said. Schools were closed following the seizure of the refuge because of safety concerns in the small town in eastern Oregon's high desert. The group, calling itself Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, says it wants an inquiry into whether the government is forcing ranchers off their land. Participants came from as far away as Arizona and Michigan. Bundy came to Burns to rally support for two local ranchers who were sentenced to prison on arson charges. The ranchers - Dwight Hammond and his son Steven Hammond - distanced themselves from Bundy's group and reported to prison on Monday. The Hammonds were convicted of arson three years ago and served no more than a year. A judge later ruled that the terms fell short of minimum sentences requiring them to serve about four more years.
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New York Today: Our State of the Union The president's plans for infrastructure spending have so far largely left New York up in the air, so it's something to pay attention to. Immigration "Immigration is an issue that is not specific solely to New York," Mr. Shear said, "but on the other hand, New York is a diverse city and, like other big cities, is struggling against the Trump administration's efforts to round up immigrants." New York is also a sanctuary city - protecting immigrants is one thing that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio actually see eye-to-eye on. But during the recent heated debate over immigration policy, sanctuary cities have come under scrutiny from the Justice Department. In addition, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, withdrew his offer to fund the president's efforts to build a wall at the Mexican border. The wall offer was part of a larger set of immigration proposals (which would help DACA recipients, among other measures), but when President Trump rejected parts of that broader deal, Mr. Schumer said that "the offer is off the table." Where to Watch You can tune in to the address at 9 p.m. on any major television network or on the White House YouTube channel, where it will be streamed. There will also be watch parties across the city. The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is hosting one at Caveat on the Lower East Side; the Metropolitan Republican Club is hosting on the Upper East Side; and the Queens County Young Democrats are hosting in Jackson Heights. Here's what else is happening: Weather Flurries off and on, but they won't add up to much, with a high around 35. Down to the low 20s tonight, with wind chills in the teens. In the News • A Manhattan judge ordered the immediate release of the immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir, calling his detention unconstitutional and cruel. [New York Times] Photo Ravi Ragbir, center, with the City Council members Jumaane Williams, left, and Ydanis Rodriguez in March after a check-in with immigration officials. Credit Kevin Hagen for The New York Times • City officials want to crack down on luxury suite entertaining at Madison Square Garden affecting closing costs for home buyers. [New York Times] • United States Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen, a New Jersey Republican and the chairman of the appropriations committee, announced that he would not seek re-election. [New York Times] • A Bronx woman in the grip of a psychotic episode was shot and killed by a police sergeant. A judge will have to determine whether he acted in self-defense. [New York Times] • The police are investigating the death of a Bronx man who died after he was handcuffed by officers responding to his father's 911 call. [New York Times] • Some policymakers want building owners to pay for the financial benefits the subway provides. [New York Times] • An instructor and two teenagers were flying in a small plane when it lost power and made an emergency landing on a Long Island beach. No passengers were injured. [New York Times] • Fifty years ago, 1,800 families were forced out of their Lower East Side buildings for an urban renewal project. Last month, the first of 14 original tenants moving into new buildings on the site entered his new home. [New York Times] Photo In 1967, David Santiago's family was among 1,800 forced out of their homes on the Lower East Side for an urban renewal project that stalled for decades. Now he is moving back. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times • Even after a top Cuomo aide resigned from his government post, prosecutors said, he continued to peddle his influence in Albany in exchange for bribes. [New York Times] • A new black-owned bookstore and cafe serves feminist fare in Crown Heights. [AM New York] • A look at the best and worst times to sign a new lease in New York City. [Curbed] • Members of the Facebook group Long Island FAILroad have organized to take their gripes about the train service to social media. [CBS New York] • Today's Metropolitan Diary: "Another Missed Connection" • For a global look at what's happening, see Your Morning Briefing. Coming Up Today • "Undesign the Red Line," an exhibit exploring how housing segregation has affected communities of color, opens with a reception at the Bronx Neighborhood Health Action Center on Arthur Avenue. 5 p.m. [Free] • "The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office," a discussion tracing the evolution of the president's role, at the New-York Historical Society on the Upper West Side. 6:30 p.m. [$38]
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Incoming House Judiciary chair: 'I don't think' Whitaker appointment is legal Video Transcript for Incoming House Judiciary chair: 'I don't think' Whitaker appointment is legal
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Robots serve up food and fun in Budapest cafe A robot waiter serves customers at a cafe in Budapest, Hungary, January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The robots at the Enjoy Budapest Cafe can do it all - they can serve up food and drink, tell jokes, dance with the kids or just hang out for a chat with customers. The cafe, opened by IT company E-Szoftverfejlesztő in the Hungarian capital, is staffed by a whole team of robots that aim to help familiarize the public with the technological revolution in automation and artificial intelligence. The robot waiters follow fixed paths to deliver food and drink orders to customers, who are asked to keep out of the robots" way. Others serve up entertainment, such as Pepper, a "receptionist" robot that can hold a conversation and also dance with customers. Developed by Japanese company Softbank, Pepper needed to be modified to be able to hear customers in the noisy environment of a cafe, owner Tibor Csizmadia says. From online reviews customers appear to be charmed by Pepper's antics and were forgiving of the laborious service style of her "waiter" colleagues. Despite fears that increasing automation and artificial intelligence will take away employment from humans, Enjoy Budapest Cafe's robots aren't putting anyone out of a job yet. "We actually employ twice as many people as before, because to operate 16 to 20 robots from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. we need to have IT specialists in the background," Csizmadia says. Reporting by Krisztina Fenyo; Writing by Lewis Macdonald; Editing by Hugh Lawson
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Newcastle was a 44-gun fourth-rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the Commonwealth of England by Phineas Pett the Younger at Ratcliffe, and launched in May 1653. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 54 guns. Her first action came in 1655 when, along with fourteen other warships, she sailed into Porto Farina in Algiers to engage Barbary Pirates. This action resulted in the destruction of the entire pirate fleet, which won the Newcastle lineage its first battle honour. In 1657 she took part in Admiral Blake's daring attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and in 1665, she fought at the Battle of Lowestoft. On 14 March 1674, Newcastle, under the command of Sir John Wetwang, captured the Dutch East India ship Wapen van Rotterdam in the Battle of Ronas Voe. Prior to the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, George Churchill assumed command and Newcastle was assigned to the Channel. Shortly before Plymouth declared for William III on 18 November, Churchill entered the port for repairs but this appears to have been an excuse; Newcastle was the first significant naval defection and the rest of the fleet soon followed. Newcastle was wrecked at Spithead in the Great Storm of 1703 with the loss of 229 of her crew. ==Notes==
==References==
Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press.. Winfield, Rif (2009) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing,. Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
1650s ships
Shipwrecks in the Solent
Maritime incidents in 1703
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How do rugby bonus points work and is rule used in the World Cup? "It could be after the World Cup, at the end of that season when my contract ends, or the season after that. If I'm still fit and putting the performances in then why stop?" Owens has just landed from Paris after refereeing South Africa's victory over France and is off to Twickenham for the Autumn International today. "If my life wasn't so busy, I don't know how things would be," he says. "Will I start to feel a bit lonely and start overthinking things, slip back into depression? I don't know the answer yet, and hopefully experiences of the past will help prepare for if something like that triggers again."
Owens worries about the future but he has the tools to deal with mental health nowCredit: SWNS:South West News Service
If you, or anyone you know, needs help dealing with mental health problems, the following organisations provide support: CALM, www.thecalmzone.net, 0800 585 858 Heads Together, www.headstogether.org.uk Hector's House, www.hectorshouse.org.uk Mind, www.mind.org.uk, 0300 123 3393 Papyrus, www.papyrus-uk.org, 0800 068 41 41 Samaritans, www.samaritans.org, 116 123 Owens has bought some land to keep beef cattle. He has done television work, speaks at after-dinner events on rugby and does talks on mental health. He is passionate and opinionated, a trait that will see him appear on the BBC's political debate show Question Time in the coming weeks. "It's up to me now to think about what I'm going to do," Owens says. "If I do nothing and I'm thinking, "What am I going to do?" then I've contributed to the problem." But Owens is now an expert in dealing with these problems. Now, he wants to help others. England take on Japan in the Autumn Internationals - live on Sky Sports
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Gabriel Álvarez Saborio (born May 3, 1969) is a Costa Rican slalom canoer. ==Career==
Álavarez competed in the early 1990s. He finished 43rd in the K-1 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. ==References==
1969 births
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The island maintained its own self-government in several forms until 1715, when King Philip V of Spain abolished the local government's autonomy. The arrival of democracy in the late 1970s led to the Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands. Today, the island is part of the Balearic Autonomous Community, along with Majorca, Menorca, and Formentera. ==World Heritage Site==
Though primarily known for its party scene, large portions of the island are registered as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and thus protected from the development and commercialization of the main cities. A notable example includes the Renaissance walls of the old town of Ibiza City which were awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status in 1999, they are one of the few world's Renaissance walls that were not demolished, and part of the medieval wall is still visible. At "God's Finger" in the Benirràs Bay there are some of the more traditional Ibizan cultural sites such as the remains of the first Phoenician settlement at Sa Caleta. Other sites are still under threat from the developers, such as Ses Feixes Wetlands, but this site has now been recognised as a threatened environment, and it is expected that steps will be taken to preserve this wetland. ==Geography==
Ibiza is a rock island covering an area of, almost six times smaller than Majorca, but over five times larger than Mykonos (in the Greek Isles) or 10 times larger than Manhattan in New York City. Ibiza is the larger of a group of the western Balearic archipelago called the "Pitiusas" or "Pine Islands" composed of itself and Formentera. The Balearic island chain includes over 50 islands, many of which are uninhabited. The highest point of the island is Sa Talaiassa, also known as Sa Talaia or Sa Talaia de Sant Josep at. ==Administration==
Ibiza is administratively part of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands, whose capital is Palma, on the island of Majorca. Ibiza comprises 5 of the community's 67 municipalities. Clockwise from the south coast, these are:
Sant Josep de sa Talaia (Spanish: San José)
Sant Antoni de Portmany (San Antonio Abad)
Sant Joan de Labritja (San Juan Bautista)
Santa Eulària des Riu (Santa Eulalia del Río)
Vila d'Eivissa ("Ibiza Town"; known simply as Vila, "Town")
At the 2001 census these municipalities had a total population of 88,076 inhabitants, which had risen to an estimated 143,856 by the start of 2017, and have a land area of. ==Climate==
Ibiza has a Hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa) bordering on a Hot semi-arid climate (BSh). The average annual temperature of Ibiza is, being warm and mild throughout the whole year. Ibiza lies at the same latitude as Atlantic City, yet it is much warmer for its location in the Mediterranean Basin. The climate of Ibiza is typically warm, sunny and dry, with low variation between highs and lows. The sunshine hours of Ibiza are 2700-2800 per year, while the yearly rain amount goes from. The average high temperature is, while the average low is. Winters are slightly rainy and mild, from November to April normally the whole island turns green for the seasonal rains. Summers are hot and very dry, with few rainy days, often accompanied by thunderstorms. During the coldest month, January, the average high temperature is, while the average low is. In the warmest month, August, the average high temperature is, while the low is. Extreme temperatures are rare for the influence of the sea. The average temperature of the sea in Ibiza is and beach weather usually lasts 7 months, from May to November.
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The epic hypocrisy of Republicans' sudden distaste for Steve King My, how things change so quickly these days among Republican friends. Just a few weeks ago Senator Joni Ernst and Representative Steve King of Iowa shared a warm embrace - there are photos of it all over the internet since Ernst condemned King last weekend for wondering whatever happened to good old white supremacy. And then the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, was going to take King out to the woodshed on Monday for a good talking-to about his latest utterances, the likes of which Ernst and McCarthy ignored over the past 16 years. The House Democrats, who never shed a dime trying to unseat King, now want to censure him. The hypocrisy is epic and comic. King, 69, has talked redneck since he ran for the Iowa senate from Kiron. Nothing new there. It got him so popular with the base to become Governor Kim Reynolds" campaign chairman in November. Ted Cruz, who also last weekend gave King the Judas kiss with that new beard of his, used to pick off pheasants on a dude ranch near Akron with the Sage of North-west Iowa. Cruz once so admired King that the Texan said that Chuck Norris sleeps in Steve King pajamas. This as Cruz was telling a Dreamer from Storm Lake that he would deport her first thing if he were running this show. Sign up to receive the latest US opinion pieces every weekday Pining for the good old days when Mexicans kept their heads down picking lettuce, nobody raised an objection when King and Trump repeat that Latino teens are a bunch of drug-runner-good-for-nothings. But when it allows a Democrat to come close in this little slice of Texas that is western Iowa, well, that is another matter entirely. Dawn came on the Wednesday following the midterm election to reveal that it was not a dream: Democrat JD Scholten had come within three points of King with almost no funds. A used Winnebago camper was his campaign centerpiece and home on the road. The entire GOP establishment was shaken in its boots: voters were getting fed up with institutional racism. The money in Des Moines talked state senator Randy Feenstra of Hull into running. He is a darling of radical conservatives, a Dordt College professor who is more polite about plans to deport millions of immigrants and turn back desperate asylum seekers. Feenstra proclaims that he walks every step with Trump but is not as "caustic" as King. That is, not as frank. King's brand always has been a straight shooter not afraid of what anyone thinks. He showed Trump the way to The Wall. Right after Feenstra announced, King was berating him on Twitter for disloyalty. After he was stripped of his agriculture and judiciary committee assignments by McCarthy, King declared defiantly that he had been denied his free-speech rights and that he was the victim of "a political decision that ignores the truth." King will tell the base that he and Trump walk the lonely path alone to recovering our greatness. Feenstra and McCarthy and the rest of them are afraid of what he represents, and what is so wrong with white nationalism anyhow? Other challengers gather. One is a popular county supervisor from populous Story county (Ames, home of Iowa State University), another a businessman from rural Shelby county. One could imagine others, and how that clears an easy path for a King renomination. Which leaves many of us confused, chief among them Scholten. He thinks he can beat King, but he has not fully sized up Feenstra. "They really like him up there," Scholten said of Sioux and surrounding counties, which we call Dutch country for all the conservative Hollanders. That's 80% of the GOP in the 39-county fourth district. King does not need the judiciary committee to give him voice when Fox News is standing by Yet Scholten is scheduled to speak with the Sioux county Democrats. If Republicans could clear the field for a Feenstra-King showdown (which they can't, really), would the people who have loved King for so long abandon him for a nicer and seemingly less nutty version in Feenstra? If Trump be our guide, then no. King will not back down. Losing a committee assignment from a minority backbench is liberating to King, certainly not punishing. He does not need the judiciary committee to give him voice when Fox News is standing by - and they will stand by. He never needed the congressional campaign money before. Why would he need it now when he earns so much publicity for nothing? He knows the wingnuts will come through for him, from Austria to Alabama.
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Paul Bissegger, «Henri de Geymüller versus E.-E. Viollet-le-Duc: le monument historique comme document et œuvre d'art. Avec un choix de textes relatifs à la conservation patrimoniale dans le canton de Vaud vers 1900», Monuments vaudois 2010, p. 5-40. ==External links==
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Sheldon effortlessly steals rebaked cake The humour, after all, is as innuendo-laden as a Carry On movie, and time has hardly been kind to the songs, many of which were always trashy. These were rammed into the story any which way because a musical needed songs, and, when they do aspire to greater pertinence, mawkishness usually seeps out. David Harris plays Tick, the drag queen who instigates the technicolour road trip to Alice Springs to meet his estranged young son, taking with him Bernadette and Felicia (Euan Doidge). Alas the gulf between Sheldon's charisma and that of Harris and Doidge undermines a show that really needs the three leads to be of comparable interest and appeal. Robert Grubb does a shrewdly understated job of making Bob the mechanic worthy of Bernadette's affections, Blake Appelqvist shines as Miss Understanding, and Lena Cruz has a ball with Cynthia, Bob's wife. Ross Coleman and Andrew Hallsworth's choreography is mostly sharply rendered, Brian Thompson's sets remain a flashy delight, and the band and sound are excellent. Less consistent is the singing, the notable exceptions being Angelique Cassimatis, Samm Hagen and Cle Morgan as the Divas. The Divas are also blessed with some of Chappel and Gardiner's most stupendous costumes, including the angels-and-gum-leaves creations for the finale. So, in a shower of charms and flaws, Priscilla is once more rolling proudly on, with the MacArthur Park gag the icing on her cake.
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A pieing or pie attack is the act of throwing a pie at a person. In pieing, the goal is usually to humiliate the victim while avoiding actual injury. For this reason the pie is traditionally of the cream variety without a top crust, and is rarely if ever a hot pie. In Britain, a pie in the context of throwing is traditionally referred to as a custard pie. An aluminium pie pan or paper plate filled with whipped cream can substitute for a real pie. Although pieing is often a harmless practical joke, it can be a political action when the target is an authority figure, politician, industrialist, or celebrity and can be used as a means of protesting against the target's political beliefs, or against perceived arrogance or vanity. Perpetrators generally regard the act as a form of ridicule to embarrass and humiliate the victim. Non-consensual pieing is a punishable offence in criminal law, and depending on jurisdiction is a battery but may also constitute an assault. Non-consensual pieing may also be actionable as a civil wrong (tort) resulting in the victim of the pieing to recover damages in a lawsuit from the tortfeasor. Pieing and pie fights are a staple of slapstick comedy, and pie "tosses" are also common charity fundraising events, especially in schools. ==Slapstick==
Pieing has its origins in the "pie in the face" gag from slapstick comedy. It appears on stage in the music hall sketches of the English theatre impresario Fred Karno. It was first seen in film in the 1909 Essanay Studios silent film Mr. Flip starring Ben Turpin. In the story, Turpin has a pie pushed into his face for taking liberties with a woman. Beginning in 1913 with That Ragtime Band and A Noise from the Deep, filmmaker Mack Sennett became known for using one or two thrown pies in many of his comedy shorts. Sennett had a personal rule about who received the pies: "A mother never gets hit with a custard pie ... Mothers-in-law, yes. But mothers? Never." At least a half dozen films have been made incorporating extended pie-throwing battles. The first was Charlie Chaplin's Behind the Screen released in 1916. The definitive pie fight in film occurs in The Battle of the Century (1927) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, using 3,000 pies. Our Gang's Shivering Shakespeare (1930) winds up with an auditorium full of people throwing pies. The 1935 short subject Keystone Hotel featured a large pie-fight ending with the camera taking a pie. Another major pie-fight film appeared (their first one ever): The Three Stooges' In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941). Pieing had become such an established gag in Hollywood comedy that the song "Make 'Em Laugh" from Singin' In The Rain (1952) concludes with the line "And then you get a great big custard pie in the face!" A film involving pies was the comedy, The Great Race (1965); known for having the largest pie fight in cinematic history. Its $200,000 pie-fight scene used 4,000 pies and one large cake, and took five days to shoot. Pie fights also featured in Beach Party (1963), Smashing Time (1967) and Blazing Saddles (1974). In Bugsy Malone (1976), the "splurge guns" resembled spud guns which fired custard. Original plans called for Dr. Strangelove (1964) to end with a pie fight; the scene, though filmed, was ultimately deemed excessively farcical by director Stanley Kubrick and removed from the final cut. Surviving stills from the excised pie fight have appeared online. There are many instances in the Looney Tunes series of cartoons where characters "pie" each other in the face. Bugs Bunny repeatedly hits Elmer Fudd with cream pies during a scene in Slick Hare (1947), and also shoves one in Elmer's face in Hare Do. In Shishkabugs (1962), Bugs Bunny releases a spring-loaded pie into the face of the king, causing the royal cook Yosemite Sam to be led away to a dungeon. Daffy Dilly (1948) has Daffy Duck trying to cure a dying millionaire by getting him to laugh. After he achieves this inadvertently, by landing in a cake, Daffy is hired as a sort of household jester and ends the cartoon by getting repeatedly pelted with cakes and pies. Bugs himself gets pied in Case of the Missing Hare, provoking him to spend the rest of the short wreaking revenge.
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Bulgaria to Set up Checkpoints on Minor Roads to Thwart Migrant Smuggling Bulgaria's Ministry of the Interior will set up checkpoints inside the country to counter the smuggling of irregular migrants, a senior police official has said. New checkpoints will be built on minor roads as well as forest roads used by people smugglers to transport migrants who have illegally crossed into Bulgaria, the head of National Police, Chief Commissioner Hristo Terziyski, told public radio broadcaster BNR on Monday. The idea is to thwart attempts of smugglers to transport irregular migrants from Bulgaria's border with Turkey to the border with Serbia. The land route across Bulgaria has been increasingly used by people smugglers after Greece, Macedonia and Serbia closed the so-called Western Balkan route for migrants and refugees trying to reach western Europe earlier this year. Additional checkpoints will be set up initially in Burgas Region bordering Turkey, Terziyski said. Migration pressure in Burgas Region has increased in summer months with police thwarting people smuggling attempts on roads inside the region almost daily. In most cases people smugglers currently use passenger cars, vans and SUVs to transport migrants, Terziyski said. Several years ago they used buses and bigger vans, he added.
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U.S. judge throws out many metals price-fixing claims By Reuters
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, March 28 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday significantly narrowed private litigation accusing several big banks and German chemical giant BASF SE of conspiring to suppress platinum and palladium prices. U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods in Manhattan dismissed claims against BASF, Switzerland's UBS Group AG, South Africa's Standard Bank Group Ltd and the London Platinum and Palladium Fixing Co. In a 104-page decision in the proposed class-action case, Woods said dismissal was appropriate because of a lack of proof these defendants conspired to fix prices, had sufficient ties to the United States, or both. The judge also dismissed claims that Goldman Sachs Group Inc and HSBC Holdings Plc violated the U.S. antitrust law known as the Sherman Act, saying the plaintiffs were not "efficient enforcers" of that law. Woods said the plaintiffs may pursue some price manipulation claims against Goldman and HSBC under the Commodities Exchange Act, citing their allegations that the defendants "engaged in conscious misbehavior or, at least, acted with recklessness." Merrill Davidoff, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, in an email declined immediate comment, citing a need to review the decision. Platinum and palladium are used in catalytic converters to curb vehicle emissions, and are also used in dentistry and jewelry. The U.S. lawsuit is one of many where private plaintiffs have sought to hold banks and other defendants liable for rigging interest rates, commodities and currencies, separate from any punishments that regulators might seek to impose. Purchasers of platinum, palladium and futures contracts for the metals accused the defendants of having from Jan. 1, 2008 to Nov. 30, 2014 conspired to rig the twice-daily platinum and palladium "fixings" and the prices of futures and options based on those fixings. According to the complaint, the alleged misconduct included illegal sharing of customer data, using that data to engage in "front-running" of expected price moves, and manufacturing phantom "spoof" orders. While the London Metal Exchange launched a new electronic fixing process on Dec. 1, 2014, the plaintiffs said this did not excuse the defendants from owing unspecified millions of dollars for their earlier losses. The case is In re: Platinum and Palladium Antitrust Litigation, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 14-09391. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Andrew Hay) Share or comment on this article Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
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Aviation Professionals Warn of Dire Risk Amid Shutdown The unions that represent the nation's air traffic controllers, pilots and flight attendants issued a dire warning on Wednesday, calling the government shutdown an "unprecedented" and "unconscionable" safety threat that is growing by the day and must end. In a joint statement, the heads of the unions, which represent more than 130,000 aviation professionals, said that on Day 33 of the shutdown, major airports were already seeing security checkpoints close, and more closings could follow; safety inspectors were not back on the job at pre-shutdown levels; and analysts" ability to process safety reporting data and take critical corrective action had been weakened. "We have a growing concern for the safety and security of our members, our airlines and the traveling public due to the government shutdown," the joint statement said. "In our risk averse industry, we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break." [Here is our guide to the government shutdown and updates on where things stand.] The admonition came as the partial shutdown continued to put extraordinary pressure on the nation's air-travel system. Already, as many as one of every 10 transportation security officers is not showing up for work and reserve workers are being flown in to bolster depleted ranks at some airports - a point the union presidents raised in their statement. In the meantime, workers who are being ordered to report for duty have no idea when they will be paid for their labor. Airlines are losing more than $100 million a month in revenue; and travelers are wondering how long it will take to get through airports - and whether it is still safe to fly. The union presidents - Paul Rinaldi of National Air Traffic Controllers Association, Joe DePete of the Air Line Pilots Association and Sara Nelson of the Association of Flight Attendants - did little to assuage those concerns in their statement, saying that the "air safety environment" is "deteriorating by the day." They noted that "staffing in our air traffic control facilities is already at a 30-year low and controllers are only able to maintain the system's efficiency and capacity by working overtime." They also warned that almost 20 percent of certified professional controllers were eligible to retire, and if they chose to do so, "the National Airspace System will be crippled." "To avoid disruption to our aviation system, we urge Congress and the White House to take all necessary steps to end this shutdown immediately," they said.
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A static electric field can be described in terms of an electric potential (voltage) that is defined at every point in space, and in practical work it is conventional to take the Earth as a physical reference that defines the zero level of the potential, or ground. But only differences in potential are physically measurable, which is the reason that a voltmeter must have two probes, and can only report the voltage difference between them. Thus one could choose to define all voltage differences relative to some other standard, rather than the Earth, resulting in the addition of a constant offset. If the potential V is a solution to Maxwell's equations then, after this gauge transformation, the new potential V \rightarrow V+C is also a solution to Maxwell's equations and no experiment can distinguish between these two solutions. In other words, the laws of physics governing electricity and magnetism (that is, Maxwell equations) are invariant under gauge transformation. Maxwell's equations have a gauge symmetry. Generalizing from static electricity to electromagnetism, we have a second potential, the magnetic vector potential A, which can also undergo gauge transformations. These transformations may be local. That is, rather than adding a constant onto V, one can add a function that takes on different values at different points in space and time. If A is also changed in certain corresponding ways, then the same E and B fields result. The detailed mathematical relationship between the fields E and B and the potentials V and A is given in the article Gauge fixing, along with the precise statement of the nature of the gauge transformation. The relevant point here is that the fields remain the same under the gauge transformation, and therefore Maxwell's equations are still satisfied. Gauge symmetry is closely related to charge conservation. Suppose that there existed some process by which one could briefly violate conservation of charge by creating a charge q at a certain point in space, 1, moving it to some other point 2, and then destroying it. We might imagine that this process was consistent with conservation of energy. We could posit a rule stating that creating the charge required an input of energy E1=qV1 and destroying it released E2=qV2, which would seem natural since qV measures the extra energy stored in the electric field because of the existence of a charge at a certain point. Outside of the interval during which the particle exists, conservation of energy would be satisfied, because the net energy released by creation and destruction of the particle, qV2-qV1, would be equal to the work done in moving the particle from 1 to 2, qV2-qV1. But although this scenario salvages conservation of energy, it violates gauge symmetry. Gauge symmetry requires that the laws of physics be invariant under the transformation V \rightarrow V+C, which implies that no experiment should be able to measure the absolute potential, without reference to some external standard such as an electrical ground. But the proposed rules E1=qV1 and E2=qV2 for the energies of creation and destruction would allow an experimenter to determine the absolute potential, simply by comparing the energy input required to create the charge q at a particular point in space in the case where the potential is V and V+C respectively. The conclusion is that if gauge symmetry holds, and energy is conserved, then charge must be conserved. ===General relativity===
As discussed above, the gauge transformations for classical (i.e., non-quantum mechanical) general relativity are arbitrary coordinate transformations. Technically, the transformations must be invertible, and both the transformation and its inverse must be smooth, in the sense of being differentiable an arbitrary number of times. ====An example of a symmetry in a physical theory: translation invariance====
Some global symmetries under changes of coordinate predate both general relativity and the concept of a gauge. For example, Galileo and Newton introduced the notion of translation invariance, an advancement from the Aristotelian concept that different places in space, such as the earth versus the heavens, obeyed different physical rules. Suppose, for example, that one observer examines the properties of a hydrogen atom on Earth, the other—on the Moon (or any other place in the universe), the observer will find that their hydrogen atoms exhibit completely identical properties. Again, if one observer had examined a hydrogen atom today and the other—100 years ago (or any other time in the past or in the future), the two experiments would again produce completely identical results. The invariance of the properties of a hydrogen atom with respect to the time and place where these properties were investigated is called translation invariance. Recalling our two observers from different ages: the time in their experiments is shifted by 100 years.
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Liverpool star Firmino referee did NOT hear any race slur The FA are going to make contact with Roberto Firmino and Mason Holgate Holgate has complained that he was racially abused by Liverpool's Firmino The FA will interview both the players and the officials from Friday's match Ref Bobby Madley did not hear Firmino use offensive language towards Holgate By Matt Lawton for the Daily Mail
Roberto Firmino's defence against racism allegations could be strengthened by the fact that referee Bobby Madley did not hear him use offensive language towards Everton's Mason Holgate at Anfield last Friday. The FA are investigating the accusation made by Holgate after the heated FA Cup clash and intend to interview both players as well as match officials this week. But Sportsmail understands that Madley stated in his report that he was unaware that Liverpool's Brazilian forward had used racist language, which could be significant as he was positioned between the two players at the time. Firmino was clearly upset after being shoved into the advertising hoardings by Holgate, with TV evidence prompting lip-reading experts to claim the Brazilian appeared to say: 'Es maluco, filho da puta?' Translated that means: 'Are you crazy, you son of a b***h?' Holgate, however, then responded angrily to something Firmino seemed to say, the complication being that another player had by then blocked the TV camera's view. Share this article Share 1.9k shares Accompanied after the game by manager Sam Allardyce and director of football Steve Walsh, Holgate complained to Madley that Firmino had used the word 'negro'. But if Firmino does dispute the claims, his defence is sure to highlight that Madley was perfectly placed and did not take action. The FA are also understood to be investigating allegedly homophobic tweets posted by Holgate in 2012 and 2013, for which the defender could face a suspension. Share this article Share 1.9k shares Share or comment on this article
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Liverpool vs Leicester, Premier League: What time does it start, where can I watch it and what are the odds? Liverpool host Claude Puel's Leicester at Anfield in a game that promises plenty of goals, with 14 in the last three Premier League meetings between the sides. Leicester have become something of an Achilles heel for Liverpool in recent years, with Leicester's counter-attacking style exploiting Liverpool's slow and vulnerable defence. Liverpool enter the game in good form after beating Swansea 5-0 in the week, though Jurgen Klopp's side have failed to win two on the bounce since beating Brighton in early December with draws against Everton, West Brom and Arsenal halting their advances in the table. Leicester's promising winter form that saw them win four games in a row, with away victories against Newcastle and Southampton, seems to have dissipated after confidence shattering losses to Crystal Palace and Watford. Puel will be eager to see his side leave Anfield with a share of the spoils against a side that leave themselves exposed at the back. The pace of Jamie Vardy, Demarai Gray and Riyad Mahrez will be a key feature in the game. Claude Puel is still without Robert Huth and Matty James, though the pair are thought to be nearing a return to action. Signed too late to be eligible to play the first half of the season, Sporting Lisbon midfielder Adrien Silva will complete his move to Leicester once the January window opens, a boost for the side heading into a hectic fixture list in the New Year. Liverpool have been dealt a significant blow with captain Jordan Henderson suffering a hamstring injury against Arsenal, which is set to keep him out until February. Alberto Moreno is also still sidelined with an ankle injury while Nathaniel Clyne and Danny Ward both remain unavailable for selection. What time does it start? Liverpool vs Leicester is at 15:00 on Saturday. Where can I watch it? The game will not be televised but highlights will be available on Match of the Day at 22:30 on Saturday on BBC1. It's a big game for... Liverpool's centre-backs. Following the announcement that Virgil van Dijk will finally make the switch from St Mary's to Anfield in January, all eyes will be on Liverpool's notoriously shaky defence. The Dutch international will certainly be given a starting berth at the heart of Liverpool's defence -the question is who will partner the 26-year-old in the New Year. Liverpool's first-choice centre-back pairing for much of the season - Dejan Lovren and Joel Matip - have both struggled at times. The two players will be desperate to avoid repeating the sort of mistakes that have seen come under criticism this season and will feel the pressure today knowing that one of them will be making way for van Dijk next month. Lovren has endured a difficult season so far (Getty Images) Best stat... Jamie Vardy has scored six times in seven appearances against Liverpool, his best record against any top flight side. Player to watch... Roberto Firmino. The lively Brazilian has impressed in recent weeks, scoring four goals and providing two assists in his last three games. Firmino has now been involved in more goals than any other Liverpool player since the start of the 2015/16 season, scoring 28 goals and creating 18. Often overlooked due to the form of Philippe Coutinho and Mohamed Salah, Firmino's work rate and ability to create space for his teammates is finally receiving the recognition it deserves. Roberto Firmino celebrates scoring Liverpool's second goal against Swansea (Getty) Previous three meetings... Leicester 2 Liverpool 3, Premier League, 23 September 2017 Leicester 2 Liverpool 0, League Cup, 19 September 2017 Leicester 3 Liverpool 1, Premier League, 27 February 2017 Form guide... Liverpool: DDWDW Leicester: WLDDL Odds... Liverpool: 3/10 Leicester: 15/2 Draw: 9/2 Reuse content
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Federal judge awards legal fees in Iowa ag gag lawsuit case A federal judge has awarded more than $181,000 in legal fees to seven lawyers who successfully fought a 2012 Iowa law that made it illegal to get a job at a livestock farm to conduct an animal cruelty undercover investigation. Animal rights and civil rights organizations, including the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Iowa Citizens For Community Improvement, sued Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and others over the so-called ag gag law. In January, U.S. District Court Judge James Gritzner concluded the law violated the constitutional right to free speech. The state has appealed to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week, Gritzner approved animal rights groups' attorney fees, which the state must pay. Additional costs are mounting for the appeal.
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Remni (Ремни) is a rural locality (a village) in Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. == References ==
Rural localities in Vladimir Oblast
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Ayriclytus simoni is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Lameere in 1893. ==References==
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The research has focused on different types of cells called macrophages, and how they work when bacteria are present -- ScienceDaily Affecting around 115,000 people in the UK alone, Crohn's Disease is a lifelong condition which sees parts of the digestive system become inflamed. There is no precise cure and causes are believed to vary. But one indicator of the condition -- an abnormal reaction of the immune system to certain bacteria in the intestines -- has had new light shed on it thanks to scientists at the University of Plymouth. The research has focused on different types of cells called macrophages, which are part of our immune system and are found in most tissues, where they patrol for potential harmful organisms and destroy them. In inflammatory diseases, like Crohn's, macrophages mediate the inflammatory destruction of the gut. Just how the tissue reacts (inflammation or suppression) is dependent on the type of macrophage cell present, and how it is stimulated -- and scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of this. The new research has shown how different types of macrophage -- one type being pro-inflammatory and the other being anti-inflammatory -- exhibit quite different molecular mechanisms involved in switching off their functional behaviour when bacteria are present. And this difference, as study author Dr Andrew Foey explains, highlights the possibility of targeting and selectively suppressing the pro-inflammatory cells that drive diseases such as Crohn's Disease. "This small step in understanding of differential off-signalling of macrophage type may go hand-in-hand with understanding the relapsing/remitting presentation of Crohn's Disease," he said. "It is suggestive of future research endeavours in targeting macrophage responses in the treatment of inflammatory diseases -- and it's a really positive step." The full study, entitled 'Macrophage subsets exhibit distinct E. coli-LPS tolerisable cytokines associated with the negative regulators, IRAK-M and Tollip' is available to view in the journal PLOS ONE. The research was led by Dr Andrew Foey with Dr Khalid AlShaghdali and PhD student Barbara Durante from the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Plymouth, in collaboration with Dr Jane Beal, from the School of Biological and Marine Sciences. Infection, Immunity and Inflammation is one of the key research themes in the Institute of Translational and Stratified Medicine (ITSMed) at the University of Plymouth. The work was funded by University of Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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NRL 2015: Retiring, departing players SAYING Goodbye is never easy. And 2015 won't be any different as we once again prepare to farewell a host of rugby league warriors for various reasons. For some their career has been cut short by injury, others are leaving for an opportunity overseas, while a select few have simply reached the end of the line in what has been a long and illustrious time in the game. David Simmons scores a try. Brisbane Broncos' road to the 2015 Grand Final
NRL: Zac Bailey looks back at Brisbane's road to the 2015 NRL Grand Final, where they will take on North Queensland. Kurt Gidley looks for support. Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett sledges journalist
NRL: Brisbane Broncos coach Wayne Bennett sledges a curious journalist at the Grand Final press conference in Sydney. Tigers Keith Galloway celebrates his 200th NRL game. Paul Green's simple approach to coaching
NRL 360: Cowboys coach Paul Green discusses his simple approach to coaching. Sunday's NRL grand final between North Queensland and Brisbane will bring an end to the season and thus closing the curtain on over 35 careers. We've run our eye over the list of players who will either hang up the boots or leave the NRL, creating a team we've dubbed the NRL's departing 17. This week on the Market Watch podcast Broncos recruitment officer Peter Nolan and Cowboys assistant coach David Furner join Brett Kimmorley, Ben Glover and Nathan Ryan for a grand final special, discussing how both clubs" rosters were built. Fullback: Sam Tomkins When he arrived in New Zealand in 2014 he came with a lot of fan fare. He joined the Warriors as one of the Super League's best and brightest. The English international's arrival saw Kevin Locke leave the club with supporters thrilled to see what a combination of Shaun Johnson and Tomkins could produce. But never fully settling into his new surroundings, the fullback didn't quite live up to the hype. Cutting his stint with the Warriors short by a year due to homesickness, he returns to Wigan next year but hasn't ruled out returning to the NRL again one day. Wing: David Simmons One of the genuine nice guys in the game, the 30-year-old enjoyed a 13-year career in the top grade. Debuting for Cronulla in 2003, the winger spent seven years in the shire before moving west and linking with Penrith. A versatile outside back, the one time City Origin representative, Simmons has finished the season as the NRL's top try scorer on two occasions. Simmons captained the Panthers in his 200th NRL game in round 26, leading his team to a win over Newcastle. A Christian, Simmons will now focus on his religious work, studying Theology at university. Centre: Justin Hodges No retiree this year has a better decorated career than the Brisbane skipper. At 33, Hodges has pulled on a Queensland Origin jumper 24 times and donned the green and gold on 13 occasions. Making his NRL debut for the Broncos in 2000, his time at the club was short lived when he signed a lucrative deal with the Roosters as a 19-year-old and subsequently fell out with coach Wayne Bennett. After three years and a premiership with the Tri Colours in 2002, Hodges returned home having mended the fence with Bennett. The pair won a premiership together in 2006 while Hodges was appointed the club's captain almost a decade later. Centre: Beau Champion A South Sydney junior, Champion realised his childhood dream of playing in the NRL in 2005 when he pulled on the green and red jumper for the first time. After six seasons with the Bunnies, the centre left to make way for his cousin Greg Inglis to join the club and ease some salary cap pressure. After one year at the Storm, taking Inglis" centre spot, he moved to the Gold Coast. Again, Champion had a one-year stint and returned to Redfern in 2013. After two-years back at the Rabbitohs where the 2014 premiership year was spent on the sidelines with injury, the 28-year-old was offered a career lifeline by Brad Arthur at Parramatta. He played just two games for the Eels before snapping his ACL. Forced into retirement due to the knee injury, Champion is now focused on his indigenous youth work and fitness studio. Wing: Pat Richards When Richards first left the Wests Tigers at the end of 2005 he was known as the man who took "that Benji Marshall flick pass" in the grand final. But returning for a second stint with the club he leaves as the man responsible for some of the craziest and most difficult to catch kick restarts in the history of the game.
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NMC Health shares rebound as it promises independent review of books (Reuters) - NMC Health shares leapt about a third in value on Monday, recouping some of their recent losses, after the healthcare group said it would launch an independent review of its finances following criticism by short-selling firm Muddy Waters. NMC (NMC.L), the largest private healthcare provider in the United Arab Emirates, said the review would be undertaken by an unidentified accounting firm and overseen by a committee of independent NMC non-executive directors. Muddy Waters took a short position in NMC last week and questioned the value of its assets and cash balance, as well as reported profits and debts, triggering a plunge in NMC's shares from over 26 pounds to less than 13 pounds. The stock was last up 35% at about 17.40 pounds, on track for its biggest ever daily gain. Short selling involves borrowing an asset and selling it with the aim of buying it back at a cheaper price and making a profit. About 10% of NMC's outstanding shares were part of short positions as of Dec. 13, according to FIS data. "We are confident that this review, when complete, will be entirely confirmatory of the disclosures provided by the company to date," NMC said. Muddy Waters said in a statement that NMC should also engage a law firm as part of its review, and make both the scope of the review and the full report by the investigation firm public. NMC, which in 2012 became the first from Abu Dhabi to list on the London Stock Exchange, last week stood by its 2019 and 2020 forecasts, and issued a detailed response to the allegations from Muddy Waters. Muddy Waters, founded by American Carson Block, is known in financial markets for declaring short equity positions on the basis of its in-house research. Reporting by Pushkala Aripaka in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Maiya Keidan, Abhinav Ramnarayan and Iain Withers; Editing by Mark Potter and Susan Fenton
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Dundee United's wage to turnover ratio is a mammoth 133 per cent What is the price of promotion - or at least what is the price of seeking to guarantee it? It will be spelled out in stark detail on Tuesday when Dundee United hold their latest annual general meeting at Tannadice Park. In the view of one supporter, United are "sleep walking into a very concerning scenario." Others, meanwhile, are more comfortable with the situation, arguing that American owner Mark Ogren has been more than supportive and indeed is pushing the boat out to try to ensure promotion in what is the club's fourth season of exile from the Premiership. There's little doubt he's been doing that. Lawrence Shankland was convinced to stay in the Scottish Championship when top-flight clubs and those in England were circling. Persuasion of that sort does not come cheaply. The new accounts released in a brochure to shareholders show that the wage to turnover ratio is currently a mammoth 133 per cent. Many will surely have blanched upon reading this. Dundee United were once renowned for their fiscal prudence. The accounts are to the end of June this year so the Shankland deal - he signed in July and is believed to be the costliest player at the club since Derek McInnes - is not even included in the latest financial statement. To give some perspective, this time last year Rangers were spending 74 per cent of their turnover on their playing and coaching staff, a figure described as "eye watering" at the time. Anything below 60 per cent of turnover being spent on players" wages is generally felt to be a satisfactory situation. The Dundee United wage bill is currently around £4 million, while turnover - in these latest figures - is £3.12m (it was £3.19m the previous year). The authorities need to look again at a play-off format so heavily loaded in favour of the 11th placed Premiership team and which almost demands this need to gamble. Robbie Neilson is being backed to the hilt. Over 31 days in January, United signed 11 new players, with five arriving on deadline day. The manager has recently agreed a contract extension to 2022. Some wonder what he's done - yet - to deserve this. As is the way of these things, United slumped to a 4-0 defeat to Queen of the South a few days later. Since the 6-2 win over Dundee at Tannadice, they have failed to find the net in four of six outings, including games against Arbroath (in the Tunnock's Caramel Wafer Challenge Cup) and Alloa Athletic, against whom they lost 2-0. United aim to get back on track against Dunfermline today, when Minnesota-based Ogren will be watching from the stand along with his son, Scott, who is a director. They will hope to witness some return on this outlay of over £4m on wages. It is certainly a substantial increase on last year, when wages totalled around £3m. The operating loss is £3.8m - the highest in the club's history. Last year it was £1.6m. United can bank on getting money for Shankland, preferably after he has done what he's been signed to do - fire the team to the title and, more importantly, to the Premiership. As it stands, his maiden Scotland goal notwithstanding, he hasn't scored since a hat-trick in the 6-0 win over Morton that sealed his international call-up. There are no guarantees in this game, and, it seems, in this particular division, where it's becoming an increasingly perilous business.
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Productive exchanges are interdependent and this high degree of nonseparability generates the strongest emotions. Reciprocal exchanges are separable which reduces the perceptions of shared responsibility. The exchange produces little emotional response, but individuals instead express emotions in response to the asymmetrical transaction. Generalized exchanges do not occur directly, but interdependence is still high and coordination between partners is difficult. Because there is no direct emotional foundation, emotions produced are low. Negotiated exchanges may produce conflicting emotions due to the mixed-motive nature of negotiations; even when transactions are successful, individuals may feel like they had the ability to do better, creating emotional ambivalence. Overall, productive exchanges produce the strongest attributions of emotions, generalized (indirect) exchange the weakest, with negotiated and reciprocal exchanges in between. The attribution of emotions resulting from different exchange modes impact the solidarity felt with partners or groups
The different types of exchange (productive, reciprocal, and generalized) also impact the solidarity or identification that an individual will feel with their exchange partners or group. The different exchange types help dictate the target of felt emotions and influences an individual's attachment. Affective attachment occurs when a social unit (partner or group) is the target of positive feelings from exchange; affective detachment (alienation) occurs when a social unit is the target of negative feelings from failure to exchange. Affective attachment increases solidarity. Similar to the attribution of emotion, productive exchange produces the strongest affective attachments, generalized exchange the weakest, and negotiated and reciprocal exchange are in between. One condition for how social (partner or group) attributions can increase solidarity is by reducing self-serving attributions of credit or blame for the success or failure of the exchange. When individuals have group attributions for positive emotions stemming from success, this eliminates any self-serving biases and enhances both pride in the self and gratitude to the partner. However, group attributions for negative emotions stemming from failure do not eliminate self-serving biases, resulting in more anger toward the partner or group than shame in the self. Lawler also proposes that the persistence (stability) and ability to control acts by the exchange partner (controllability) provide conditions for affective attachment by attributing credit or blame for the success or failure of the exchange. Following Weiner (1985) affect theory of social exchange extrapolates that the combinations of stability and uncontrollability elicit different emotions. In social exchange, social connections can be sources of stability and controllability. For example, if an exchange partner is perceived as a stable source of positive feelings, and the exchange partner has control in the acts that elicit those positive feelings, this will strengthen affective attachment. Therefore, affect theory of social exchange proposes that stable and controllable sources of positive feelings (i.e. pleasantness, pride, gratitude) will elicit affective attachments while stable and uncontrollable sources of negative feelings (i.e. unpleasantness, shame, anger) will elicit affective detachment. Through these emotional processes, networks can develop group properties
Repeated exchanges allow a network to evolve into a group. Affect theory highlights the contributions of emotions in producing group properties. Successful interactions generate positive feelings for the involved individuals, which motivates them to interact with the same partners in the future. As exchanges repeat, the strong relationships become visible to other parties, making salient their role as a group and helping to generate a group identity that continues to bind the partners together in a network. Affect theory predicts that networks of negotiated and reciprocal exchange will tend to promote stronger relational ties within partners; productive or generalized exchange will promote stronger network or group-level ties. ==See also==
==References==
==Further reading==
Ekeh, Peter Palmer. (1974). Social Exchange Theory : the two Traditions. London: Heinemann Educational. ==External links==
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"You add up everybody working on every campaign on the Republican side -- all, I think, 14 candidates -- and it does not add up to what just Bernie Sanders has here on the ground in New Hampshire," said Ray Murphy, chair of the state Democratic Party, in an interview the day before the number of GOP candidates fell to a clean baker's dozen. Neither campaign is getting overconfident. Trying to predict the outcome in New Hampshire is perilous. Voters are notoriously picky, and they are renowned for waiting until the last possible moment. Some 17% of Democratic primary voters -- roughly 40,000 -- said they made their choice within 24 hours of primary day in 2008, the year Clinton was seriously trailing in the polls even as ballots were cast, but nonetheless won. The 43% of voters not registered with either party can choose to participate in either party's primary, and they can pick at the last minute, leaving candidates and pollsters in the dark about whom to target. Amid all the door-knocking last weekend, most of what voters did was hem and haw. Patton, the Clinton volunteer, had a tendency to nod politely, then warn that Sanders threatens to be the party's next George McGovern, the liberal nominee who lost 49 states to Richard Nixon in 1972. Only Sanders would likely lose all 50, Patton warned. That was not in the talking points distributed to volunteers by the campaign. "I could sit down and listen to a Bernie speech and agree with every single thing he says," said Patton. "But the question is, how is he going to get it done?" Join the conversation on Facebook >> Linda Martin, an undecided voter intrigued by Sanders, didn't disagree as the two chatted among the array of potted plants on her small property behind the town library. "I like that Bernie is bringing up these other issues," Martin said. "I wish [Clinton] would pull in more of his stuff." Twitter: @evanhalper
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Lexi Thompson and Her Mother Focus on Each Other, and Survival Thompson was at the dental office where she works processing insurance claims when she started hemorrhaging. A subsequent biopsy revealed a malignant tumor in her uterus. She battled breast cancer 11 years ago and had lived in fear every day since that the disease would return. She said she had not been shocked by the diagnosis. The startling part, Thompson said, was being told she would have to wait at least a month for an appointment with an oncologist, and another month after that for a consultation with a radiologist. She said it would have been "mentally damaging" to sit in medical limbo for that long. In desperation, she phoned Pressel, who started a foundation 10 years ago to raise awareness and money to fight breast cancer, which claimed the life of Pressel's mother when Pressel was 15. Pressel connected Thompson with an oncologist who saw her the next day. Within a week, Thompson had surgery to remove her uterus. She insisted that Lexi, the youngest of her three children and her only daughter, stick with her competitive schedule rather than peel away from the L.P.G.A. Tour during her convalescence. "I want all my children to continue with what their dreams are," Judy Thompson said. "Life can't stop." Lexi Thompson, who on Tuesday described her mother as her "best friend," did as she was told. But it was not easy. "It's been an emotional few months," Thompson said after her round, where she found only five of 14 fairways. She did not know where her drives were going, but she kept close tabs on her mother. On the uphill fifth, Thompson's 14th hole of the day, she made eye contact with her mother, who had already walked more than five miles. Thompson strongly advised her mother to stay in the shade of the trees next to the fifth tee box, a spot from which she could watch Thompson putt on the sixth green and play the par-3 seventh. Judy Thompson did as she was told. But it was not easy. She sat down in a white folding chair that was not being used by any volunteers and fidgeted until she was able to rejoin her daughter on the eighth tee box. Lexi Thompson called her mother "the strongest woman I know." Her mother returned to work shortly after her operation because she needed to log a certain number of hours a week to maintain the family's insurance - and also because she was going stir crazy at home. As she sat in the shade by the fifth tee, Judy Thompson revealed the source of her strength. On her smartphone, she keeps the video of her daughter's news conference in April after the final round of the ANA Inspiration, where she lost on the first extra hole after being assessed a four-stroke penalty mid-round for an infraction she committed the day before. Thompson said she watches the video whenever she is in need of inspiration. She said, "How strong she was makes me be strong, too." Continue reading the main story
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The probability generating function of the probability mass is,
G_Y(s) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty p_n s^n = \exp(a_1(s-1)+a_2(s^2-1))
=== Notation ===
When a random variable Y = X1 + 2X2 is distributed by an Hermite distribution, where X1 and X2 are two independent Poisson variables with parameters a1 and a2, we write
Y\ \sim \operatorname{Herm}(a_1,a_2)\,
== Properties ==
=== Moment and cumulant generating functions ===
The moment generating function of a random variable X is defined as the expected value of et, as a function of the real parameter t. For an Hermite distribution with parameters X1 and X2, the moment generating function exists and is equal to
M(t) = G (e^t) = \exp(a_1(e^t-1)+a_2(e^{2t}-1))
The cumulant generating function is the logarithm of the moment generating function and is equal to
K(t) = \log(M(t)) = a_1(e^t-1)+a_2(e^{2t}-1)
If we consider the coefficient of (it)rr! in the expansion of K(t) we obtain the r-cumulant
k_n = a_1 +2^n a_2
Hence the mean and the succeeding three moments about it are
=== Skewness ===
The skewness is the third moment centered around the mean divided by the 3/2 power of the standard deviation, and for the hermite distribution is,
\gamma_1 = \frac{\mu_3}{\mu_2^{3/2}} = \frac{a_1+8a_2}{(a_1+4a_2)^{3/2}}
Always \gamma_1>0, so the mass of the distribution is concentrated on the left. === Kurtosis ===
The kurtosis is the fourth moment centered around the mean, divided by the square of the variance, and for the Hermite distribution is,
\beta_2= \frac{\mu_4}{\mu_2^2} = \frac{a_1+16a_2+3(a_1+4a_2)^2}{(a_1+4a_2)^2} = \frac {a_1+16a_2}{(a_1+4a_2)^2}+3
The excess kurtosis is just a correction to make the kurtosis of the normal distribution equal to zero, and it is the following,
\gamma_2= \frac{\mu_4}{\mu_2^2}-3 = \frac {a_1+16a_2}{(a_1+4a_2)^2}
Always \beta_2 >3, or \gamma_2 >0 the distribution has a high acute peak around the mean and fatter tails. === Characteristic function ===
In a discrete distribution the characteristic function of any real-valued random variable is defined as the expected value of e^{itX}, where i is the imaginary unit and t ∈ R
\phi(t)= E = \sum_{j=0}^\infty e^{ijt}P
This function is related to the moment-generating function via \phi_x(t) = M_X(it). Hence for this distribution the characteristic function is,
\phi_x(t) = \exp(a_1(e^{it}-1)+a_2(e^{2it}-1))
=== Cumulative distribution function ===
The cumulative distribution function is,
\begin{align}
F(x;a_1,a_2)& = P(X \leq x)\\
& = \exp (-(a_1+a_2)) \sum_{i=0}^{\lfloor x\rfloor} \sum_{j=0}^{} \frac{a_1^{i-2j}a_2^j}{(i-2j)!j!} \end{align}
=== Other properties ===
This distribution can have any number of modes.
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The Works is an interactive children's museum in Bloomington, Minnesota that focuses on technology and engineering. The museum was conceived by Rebecca Schatz, a software engineer who was inspired by a visit to the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and by the hands-on technical education for children that she observed during a year as a Luce Scholar in Japan in 1984. The Works first opened as a gallery exhibition within the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota in 1995, then moved to a series of temporary locations in shopping centers and to the community center in Edina (Ridgedale - 1995-1997, Eden Prairie Center 1997-1999, Southdale 1999-2002, and Edina Cmty. Center 2003-2011), before finding a larger, permanent home with 40,000 square feet of space in Bloomington in 2011. In 2011 the museum reported annual attendance of 50,000 visitors. Since 2003, The Works has sponsored an annual "Tech Fest". ==References==
==External links==
Official website
Rebecca Schatz, "Focus and Balance for the Small Museum", in
Museums established in 1995
Science museums in Minnesota
Buildings and structures in Bloomington, Minnesota
Museums in Hennepin County, Minnesota
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Drone footage reveals scale of devastation after Wirral explosion (VIDEOS) - RT UK Published time: 26 Mar, 2017 13:17 A local photographer has captured a bird's eye view of Wirral, England, after a suspected gas explosion flattened a dance studio and row of commercial properties in the borough. Drone footage from a Wirral-based cameraman, who goes by the name Pixels In The Sky, reveals large scale devastation around Boundary Road and Circular Drive, New Ferry after the explosion on Saturday night. Footage from the scene shows the collapsed remains of the Complete Works dance studios with debris strewn across a residential block. READ MORE: "People under rubble": Over 30 injured in huge "gas explosion" in NW England (VIDEOS, PHOTOS) Significant damage was also inflicted on surrounding buildings, as the blast sent missiles of brick and wood flying towards the facades of nearby properties. According to Wirral Council, at least 30 people were injured in the blast, which destroyed "several buildings" at around 9pm on Saturday. A number of road closures in the area also remain in place as authorities from the local council and emergency services continue to pick through the debris. Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, local resident Martin Lennon described the scenes as something from a "war zone." "It sort of happened in slow motion. The curtains just lifted up and then the windows and the doors came in... [There was] debris everywhere. Basically we had to evacuate the house and it was just like a warzone outside," Lennon said. In the wake of the explosion, Labour MP Alison McGovern thanked the emergency services as well as Life Church, which gave shelter to a number of evacuees. "The consequences of this event are devastating," McGovern added in a statement. READ MORE: House destroyed by explosion in Manchester "The buildings affected are central to the shopping area in New Ferry. I will be working with Cllr Phil Davies, leader of Wirral Council, and local ward councillors to understand how the community can move forward from this terrible blast," the MP said.
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France unveils landmark tax on internet giants President Emmanuel Macron came to power in 2017 promising to increase levies on global tech and internet groups, seeing their often minimal tax rates as part of a backlash in France and Europe against globalisation. Having failed to persuade his European partners to introduce an EU-wide tax -- because of objections from low-tax jurisdictions such as Ireland and fears of provoking US President Donald Trump -- France is to go it alone with its own new mechanism. Under a proposal set to be discussed by cabinet ministers and submitted to parliament, large companies operating in France would face a tax of three percent on their digital sales in the country. "The amount obtained from this three percent tax on digital gross sales in France from January 1, 2019 should soon reach 500 million euros ($566 million)," Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire told the French daily Le Parisien at the weekend.
Photo: AFP The new levy is known as the "GAFA tax" in France -- an acronym for US giants Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon -- who have until now routed their sales in France through subsidiaries in low-tax EU members. In one of the most best known cases, the European Commission concluded that Apple had paid an effective corporate tax rate of just 0.005 percent on its European profits in 2014 -- equivalent to just 50 euros for every million. In 2016, it was ordered by the European Commission to pay 13 billion euros in back taxes to Ireland which were judged to amount to illegal state aid. Under EU law, internet giants can choose to report their income in any member state, prompting them to choose low-tax nations such as Ireland, the Netherlands or Luxembourg. Fiscal justice Under the draft legislation set to be presented by Le Maire on Wednesday, only digital companies with global annual sales of more than 750 million euros and sales in France of at least 25 million euros would be taxed. "If these two criteria are not met, the taxes will not be imposed," Le Maire said. About 30 companies from the US, China, Germany, Spain and Britain as well as France would be affected, he said. For Le Maire, taxing the companies "is a question of fiscal justice" as "digital giants pay 14 percent less tax than small- and medium-sized European companies." Photo: AFP Ireland, Denmark and Sweden have blocked EU efforts to devise a new tax for fear of detering investment, and Germany has proved lukewarm on the issue, fearing US retaliation against its car industry. Despite the failure to reach consensus at the European level, France is still hoping an agreement can be reached globally by 2020. Paris says it is seeking "common ground" on the issue with fellow members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a group of the world's advanced economies. Low-tax nations Britain, Spain and Italy are also working on national versions of a new digital tax, while Japan, Singapore and India are planning schemes of their own. France's move to legislate comes after aggressive action from tax authorities to pursue the companies in the courts, with mixed results. Apple said last month it had reached an agreement to settle 10 years of back taxes, reportedly for nearly 500 million euros. In 2017, however, France's tax collection drive suffered a setback with a local court ruling that Google was not liable to pay 1.1 billion euros in taxes claimed on revenues transferred from France to Ireland. Raphael Pradeau from the anti-globalisation Attac lobby group said the proposed French tax is "symbolic and does not solve the problem of massive fiscal evasion." "It's as if we accept that such firms can practice tax evasion in return for a few crumbs," he said.
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The file types allowed to be uploaded has expanded past images now and I think the policy should be broader in this regard to include those file types. This will reduce the risk of there ever being a problem. Technical 13 (talk)
: We aren't saying there is a problem now. The proposed change simply preempts anyone from placing other files in their sig and saying "Hey, it's technically not against the rules". Technical is correct that my purpose in making the change was to include all files. I agree with Micheal's edit, because:
#simpler/clearer is better (until the complex becomes necessary)
#avoiding instruction creep is a major priority in our Help pages. They're labyrinthine already...
#if anyone does start to wikilawyer about the exact wording used here, then common sense dictates giving them a trout and getting back to work. We should never make the system overcomplex, just to prevent Point-Gaming idiots (especially hypothetical ones!) Hope that helps. –Quiddity (talk)
I'm not sure how changing the term "images" to "files" makes it more complex. If anything, I think it makes it less complex to say all files instead of just images. Also, as a note, Currently there is a no consensus on this approval which is tending to make me think this "might" need an RfC so that more people can get involved and help find a consensus. If no-one beats me to it, or this discussion doesn't seem to be moving in a couple more days, I'll draft up the "paperwork"... Technical 13 (talk)
:Less than two days' discussion is not enough to declare a need for outside help. WhatamIdoing (talk)
:: 13 April 2013 to 2 May 2013 is not two days by my calculations... Technical 13 (talk)
We appear to have three separate issues in the reversion:
Michael prefers using the harsher "do not" to the informal "don't". Michael does not want to use the word file in any instance, because in one instance (image scaling) it is less sensible than image. Michael disagrees with this addition: "As an alternative to images, you may include Unicode characters in your signature for decoration. However, depending on which characters you use, the result may not appear consistent to all users on all operating systems." Here are my thoughts:
I don't care. Either works. I'd use file in every instance except the one, mostly because someone might include non-image files and because've already stated in discussion above, so I've not much interest in discussing that again, but if others care to re-visit the idea I'm not opposed. Technical 13 (talk)
Atlantima and you propose a solution. Where is the problem? I thought my lead in was clear. The current wording opens the door to conflict. I'm sure when that section was initially worded, other file types weren't supported and couldn't have been an issue. The file types allowed to be uploaded has expanded past images now and I think the policy should be broader in this regard to include those file types. This will reduce the risk of there ever being a problem. Technical 13 (talk)
: We aren't saying there is a problem now. The proposed change simply preempts anyone from placing other files in their sig and saying "Hey, it's technically not against the rules". Technical is correct that my purpose in making the change was to include all files. I agree with Micheal's edit, because:
#simpler/clearer is better (until the complex becomes necessary)
#avoiding instruction creep is a major priority in our Help pages. They're labyrinthine already...
#if anyone does start to wikilawyer about the exact wording used here, then common sense dictates giving them a trout and getting back to work. We should never make the system overcomplex, just to prevent Point-Gaming idiots (especially hypothetical ones!) Hope that helps. –Quiddity (talk)
I'm not sure how changing the term "images" to "files" makes it more complex. If anything, I think it makes it less complex to say all files instead of just images. Also, as a note, Currently there is a no consensus on this approval which is tending to make me think this "might" need an RfC so that more people can get involved and help find a consensus. If no-one beats me to it, or this discussion doesn't seem to be moving in a couple more days, I'll draft up the "paperwork"... Technical 13 (talk)
:Less than two days' discussion is not enough to declare a need for outside help.
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Moreover, it can also be shown that it is enough to verify the sheaf axioms above relative to the open sets of a covering. Thus a sheaf can often be defined by giving its values on the open sets of a basis, and verifying the sheaf axioms relative to the basis. (see.) === Morphisms ===
Heuristically speaking, a morphism of sheaves is analogous to a function between them. However, because sheaves contain data relative to every open set of a topological space, a morphism of sheaves is defined as a collection of functions, one for each open set, that satisfy a compatibility condition. Let F and G be two sheaves on X with values in the category C. A morphism \varphi:G\to F consists of a morphism \varphi_U:G(U)\to F(U) for each open set of, subject to the condition that this morphism is compatible with restrictions. In other words, for every open subset V of an open set U, the following diagram is commutative. \begin{array}{rcl}
G(U) & \xrightarrow{\quad\varphi_U\quad} & F(U)\\
r_{V,U}\Biggl\downarrow & & \Biggl\downarrow r_{V,U}\\
G(V) & \xrightarrow{} & F(V)
\end{array}
Recall that we could also express a sheaf as a special kind of functor. In this language, a morphism of sheaves is a natural transformation of the corresponding functors. With this notion of morphism, there is a category of C-valued sheaves on X for any C. The objects are the C-valued sheaves on X, and the morphisms are morphisms of sheaves on X. An isomorphism of sheaves is an isomorphism in this category. It can be proved that an isomorphism of sheaves is an isomorphism on each open set U. In other words, φ is an isomorphism if and only if for each U, \varphi_U is an isomorphism. It is also true that a morphism of sheaves φ is an isomorphism if and only if there exists an open cover \{U_\alpha\} such that \varphi|_{U_\alpha} are isomorphisms of sheaves for all \alpha. The same facts are true for monomorphisms. However, they are false for epimorphisms, and their failure is measured by sheaf cohomology. Notice that we used neither the locality nor the gluing axiom in defining a morphism of sheaves. Consequently, the above definition makes sense for presheaves as well. The category of C-valued presheaves on X is then a functor category, the category of contravariant functors from O(X) to C.
== Examples ==
Because sheaves encode exactly the data needed to pass between local and global situations, there are many examples of sheaves occurring throughout mathematics. Here are some additional examples of sheaves:
Any continuous map of topological spaces determines a sheaf of sets. Let f : Y → X be a continuous map. We define a sheaf Γ(Y/X) on X by setting Γ(Y/X)(U) equal to the sections U → Y, that is, Γ(Y/X)(U) is the set of all continuous functions s : U → Y such that f ∘ s = idU. Restriction is given by restriction of functions. This sheaf is called the sheaf of sections of f, and it is especially important when f is the projection of a fiber bundle onto its base space. Notice that if the image of f does not contain U, then Γ(Y/X)(U) is empty. For a concrete example, take X = C \ {0}, Y = C, and f(z) = exp(z). Γ(Y/X)(U) is the set of branches of the logarithm on U.
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Tiffany earnings Q3 2019 miss expectations A shopper carries a Tiffany & Co. retail bag on Fifth Avenue in New York, May 30, 2019.
Luxury jeweler Tiffany on Thursday reported earnings and revenue that fell short of analyst expectations. Here's what Tiffany reported compared with what analysts were expecting, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv: Earnings per share, adjusted: 65 cents vs. 85 cents expected Revenue: $1.015 billion vs. $1.037 billion expected Same store sales: unchanged vs. expected 1.4% gain Tiffany stock initially fell more than 1% in the premarket but regained nearly all of the losses by the first hour of the trading session. In the third quarter ended Oct. 31, Tiffany said net income decreased by 17% to $78 million, or 65 cents per share, from $95 million, or 77 cents per share, a year earlier. Analysts were expecting Tiffany to earn 85 cents per share in the quarter. Revenue was unchanged at $1.015 billion from a year earlier, but lower than the $1.037 billion analysts were expecting. Same store sales were also unchanged from a year earlier, compared with the growth of 1.4% analysts were expecting. Excluding Hong Kong, where anti-government protests has disrupted commerce, Tiffany said worldwide net sales and sales at stores open at least a year increased by 4% and 3%, respectively, from the prior year. "Our underlying business remains healthy with sales attributed to local customers on a global basis growing in the third quarter, led by strong double-digit growth in the Chinese Mainland offset in part by softness in domestic sales in the Americas," Tiffany CEO Alessandro Bogliolo said in a statement. The earnings report came a week after French luxury giant LVMH reached a deal to acquire Tiffany for $16.2 billion, or $135 a share, in cash. The boards of both companies approved the deal and the transaction is expected to close in the middle of 2020, subject to approval from Tiffany's shareholders and regulatory approvals. The move, announced Nov. 25, will give LVMH greater access to U.S. luxury consumers and strengthen its position in the jewelry space. LVMH's brands include Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon, Givenchy and Louis Vuitton. Tiffany, founded in New York in 1837, has struggled with growth in recent years. The company had falling annual sales and profit since 2015 before a revenue turnaround in 2017. "We are very excited about the recently announced transaction with LVMH and, pending the required approvals, look forward to becoming part of the LVMH family of exceptional luxury brands," Bogliolo said. In its second quarter, Tiffany reported earnings that topped analysts' expectations, but its revenue fell as protests in Hong Kong disrupted sales and tourists spent less across the U.S. Management said in the last earnings report that if the situation worsened in Hong Kong, its fourth largest market, full-year sales results could fall closer to the lower end of its forecast. For its fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2020, Tiffany was originally calling for net sales globally to increase by a low-single-digit percentage, and for net earnings per share to increase by a low-to-mid-single-digit percentage. However, after the luxury jeweler reached the deal with LVMH, it said in an SEC filing it would no longer be providing guidance and that its most updated projection would no longer be in effect. Tiffany is also renovating its New York flagship store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue with an anticipated completion in the fourth quarter of 2021. The company said it expects to spend 1% to 2% of worldwide net sales each year on the project. The iconic flagship store accounts for as much as 10% of annual sales. Tiffany had a market cap of $16 billion at Wednesday's close. Read the company's full earnings release here. -CNBC's Holly Ellyatt and Lauren Thomas contributed to this report.
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Regatta's Bayeaux II is a great price for a waterproof, lined jacket and with four colours to choose from, there will be one that works with your festival wardrobe. If you have a bit more to spend, we'd go for Seasalt or Petit Bateau's practical but stylish options. Read more:
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Gawker is making unionizing look easy Gawker readers were presented with some startling news on Thursday afternoon: The popular Web site's mostly 20-something staff is planning to join the Writers Guild of America. The post, entitled "Why we've decided to organize," came after a meeting of about 30 writers that convinced de facto leader Hamilton Nolan there was no way the decision could remain under wraps, so he might as well announce it first. "It would be easier to have this conversation internally," he wrote. "But Gawker Media is, for better or worse, a company with a rich history of gossip." The fact that what was essentially a press release about the union drive went out on the company's own substantial platform wasn't the only unusual thing about this organizing effort. It was also greeted by management with a decided... passivity. "I do not commit to neutrality and I will not be fighting anything," wrote Gawker managing editor Lacey Donohue in an e-mail, after tweeting that she was "deeply in love with a proud member of WGA West." In an all-hands meeting following the blog post, Nolan says that executive editor Tommy Craggs told the staff he had no problem with them forming a union. And most importantly, owner and CEO Nick Denton told Capital New York that he was "intensely relaxed" about the idea of having a union at his own company. That's led Nolan to believe that there won't be any kind of real resistance from on high. "This company is full of socialists," he said in an interview. "We just had a meeting with the whole company and everybody talked about it and that's okay, and nobody's afraid they're going to get fired for it." So is it possible that it's not so difficult to organize in new media as the paucity of unions there would seem to suggest? That while it might seem hard at first, ownership won't actually try to stand in workers' way? Well, there's no guarantee that other online outfits -- such as Vice, which Nolan has repeatedly dinged for its low salaries -- will react with the same sanguinity. But it's also possible that, just as many dated styles come back into vogue eventually, unions have taken on a kind of retro cool among the youth of today. And corporations that depend on attracting that demographic -- both as a workforce and as a readership -- might figure that trying to bust a union could pose too great a risk to their brand. Of course, the bigger thing holding back unions at Web publishers has been the desires of workers themselves, who often feel that they're in it together with the companies they work for, and that a union might drive a wedge through that happy camaraderie. But as Nolan pointed out in his post, those companies are growing up, and taking on the incentives of big media -- so it might be worth setting up some protection. Here's another important part of the nascent Gawker union: It doesn't have to look like the decades-old institutions that represent legacy journalism, which sometimes have trouble balancing the interests of long-time and newer employees. Rather, it can get buy-in from all the writers across Gawker's properties from the get-go, and create an organization that reflects the changes in media.
"One thing that everybody likes about this company is the freedom we have, the flexibility we have. We can write what we want, say what we want," Nolan says. "Most people at the union meeting said 'we like working here, and nobody wants a crazy bureaucracy laying down arcane rules about what we can and can't do.'"
If that's true, it's worth considering the implications for unionization more broadly, when the media outlets with the greatest reach among the youngest people have successfully organized. Movements need benchmarks that illustrate what's possible, like the $21-an-hour McDonalds salaries in Denmark that have fueled demands for better wages in the U.S., or the Seattle CEO who took a pay cut to boost all his employees at least $70,000 a year. If they can do it, the logic goes, then what's the hold up for everyone else? Lydia DePillis is a reporter focusing on labor, business, and housing. She previously worked at The New Republic and the Washington City Paper. She's from Seattle. Continue reading
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—Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.81.81 (talk)
All taken care of; I think Doc Holliday is less politically charged than Joseph Stalin. Flag-Waving American Patriot —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flag-Waving American Patriot (talk • contribs)
Nice one, cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.81.81 (talk)
Thanks! Flag-Waving American Patriot (talk)
== biological perspective ==
Hmm, no discussion about theories on the significance of the mustache in evolution, etc... Don't know if there are any sources for such anyway. I looked up this article hoping that it would have something on that. == Vandalism? ==
I'm removing both sections below, because for the first, I've found no evidence thereof anywhere else, and for the second, the text borders on racism and really isn't necessary. The moustache were invented by Jean Moustache and his wife Tra-la-la. (from History)
Some adolescents tend to try and grow a moustache before they are fully able to. This sometimes results in a "mexi-stache", or "dirt'stache" that appears unclean. (from The moustache in male adolescence)
Alex
I've also removed a reference to Michael Eccelston in the famous people section; it appears to be vandalism that has stuck for a while. I'd expect a famous moustache wearer to give at least one result on Google Images. Mrstonky (talk)
== lol wtf ==
In some countries, it was obligatory for soldiers to grow moustaches. The British Army, for instance, forbade the shaving of the upper lip by all ranks from the 19th century until the regulation was abolished by an Army Order dated 6 October 1916. This amusing piece of nonsense is going to be removed unless someone provides a citation. Drutt
== Intro line ==
Current intro line read:
A moustache (or mustache) is facial hair usually grown on the upper lip. "Usually"? Is there any context in which a moustache refers to non-upper-lip hair? Can I remove that bizarre qualifier? Kane5187
== Hitler ==
I'm surprised there is no mention or picture of Hitler in the article, seeing as he probably has the most famous mustache in history.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.219.161.13 (talk)
Oh, there is something about him. Check toothbrush moustache, and you'lle find it out! -The Bold Guy-
== Pier Gerlofs Donia ==
I illustrated the article with an image of Pier Gerlofs Donia (aka Grutte Pier). -The Bold Guy-
== Keti ==
The oldest portrait showing a shaved man with a mustache is a Keti, Sixth dynasty of Egypt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.34.175.196 (talk)
== Dali Citation ==
From his appearance on What's My Line, it appears that it was common knowledge that he used his mustache to paint. Go to 8:42:
== Too many pointless names ==
I have removed a few dozen musicians and sports people, plus a few other folks, who were listed as having mustaches without any particular significance attached to it. We can't list ever famous male who has had a mustache, after all! The article still needs to be tightened and de-trivia-ified, but that's a start. - DavidWBrooks (talk)
==Gay taches==
Nothing about moustaches in gay culture from the 1970s to 1990s? (for mainstream examples, see Village People, Freddie Mercury, etc) Matthau (talk)
Interesting idea - but it would have to be more than just "a few entertainers who were openly gay in the US had mustaches for a while"; it would need some context, sourcing. - DavidWBrooks (talk)
Tom of Finland, in his artistic depictions of (idealized) gay men, portrayed many of them, maybe a majority, with "horse shoe" or handlebar moustaches. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.212.80.149 (talk)
== Movember ==
I was watching a morning news show (GMA or TODAY... I can't recall) this week and they introduced a few men participating in "Movember" (). Perhaps something about what Movember does could/should be added to the moustache entry.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was Keep - Nomination withdrawn (Non-administrator closing). ===Legislature of the Marshall Islands===
– (View AfD)(View log)
This badly linked and superfluous article only repeates a few sentences from Politics_of_the_Marshall_Islands. Plus, a legislature of such small size and next to no international influence does not need a separate article. Targeman
Delete concur with nom. If much more is added to it to justify a separate article from Politics_of_the_Marshall_Islands, it could change, but for now it's unneeded. JJL
Keep. We have pages for every national legislature in the world, regardless of what you perceive as its "international influence" or lack of. Expanding an article is much more useful than deleting it. —Sesel
I agree, and I'm all in favor of an egalitarian approach towards all countries, however small. But as long as there just isn't enough to write about politics in microstates such as RMI, maintaining separate articles all stating the same is making readers walk in circles. I say expand only when needed, because such inevitably long-term stubs don't look good and are simply not informative. There is plenty of information. It takes effort to look for it, though. —Sesel
Keep. Deleting national legislatures just because the country is small is a recipe for extreme systematic bias. The Marshall Islands is a sovereign nation, and the legislative bodies of sovereign nations deserve an article just as much as the UK parliament or US congress. Sjakkalle (Check!) Keep Article needs expanding but it would be bias if this was the only state on which we do not have an article on the legislature. Davewild
OK guys, you win. For the sake of consistency, let's keep this article. The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
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Articles for deletion/Legislature of the Marshall Islands
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Keith Richards says his "88 solo album "Talk Is Cheap" made him appreciate Mick more While working with Berry on the film, Richards said, "I asked Chuck, "I hear Johnnie Johnson is still about?" I had no idea what their relationship was, or whether that was touchy ground or not. Chuck said, "Yeah, he's around, let's give him a call." It was all very casual. I was surprised, but once I heard Johnnie, I'm so glad that, through that, he found a career again."
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Savings accounts that pay 6 per cent still exist Regular savings accounts at M&S Bank and First Direct pay 6% interest Only accessible to current account customers Those who do not want to switch main bank account can open joint account in order to access regular saver By Amy Andrew for Thisismoney.co.uk
An interest rate of six per cent may sound too good to be true in today's rock-bottom savings environment. But savers searching for the best returns on cash deposits must look to current account providers, not just for competitive interest-paying current accounts, but also to access bolt-on regular saver products with higher rates. Banks are using these products to lure in new current account customers. As Andrew Haggar, of website Moneycomms, points out: 'Linked savings are proving popular among those who are looking to save regularly with First Direct, M&S Bank and HSBC (selected accounts) paying 6 per cent - that's four times as much as you'll get on a best-buy instant access account.' Nest egg: How to grow your cash with the best regular saver deals It's easy to get sucked into the rate - but you have to remember you only earn interest on the accumulated balance each month, and typically there are limits on how much you can stash away and on withdrawals. This is Money has put together a round-up of the best available deals. The best regular saver accounts M&S Bank recently launched a monthly savings account, which offers a headline grabbing 6 per cent interest bolted-on to its fee-free current account.
Often these accounts only last a year, and there are strict limits on the amount you can save. Banks often use them as advertising tools, promising eye-catching interest rates, to reel in new customers. Play the banks at their own game, however, and for those putting money aside every month they can pay off nicely. Once a regular saver's limited life ends, your cash sweeps into an ordinary account so you need to keep your wits about you you and switch to a new account with better rates. Remember to make a note of the date you opened the account so you know when to change. Interest rate-wise, regular savers can be unbeatable, but remember they are subject to tax so factor that in when comparing them to best cash Isa rates If you want to put more than £500 aside monthly, you could think about opening up more than one regular savings account. A good strategy if a regular saver beats all other rates, including Isas, is to fill it over the fixed period of say a year and then move the money into a cash Isa at the end of the period, making sure you use your Isa allowance every year. Customers will be able to save £250 a month into the regular saver account, earning a maximum of £97 interest, before tax, over a 12-month period. It already offers the account to premium current account customers who pay a monthly fee of £10. M&S Bank - which is owned by HSBC - launched its free current account offering in May last year, as it looked to attract new customers. As well as access to its regular savings account, perks include free withdrawals abroad, a £100 M&S gift card and rewards points. The First Direct Regular Saver is similar. It too offers a 6 per cent interest rate for regular deposits over a year from customers with its First Account. (New customers will be paid £100 to open the current account - which already puts them in a better position financially than any of the savings accounts currently available.) The regular saver allows deposits between £25 and £300 each month and does not allow any withdrawals. If you saved £300 per month for 12 months, you'd receive returns of approximately £117 gross (£93 net). The HSBC Regular Saver pays out 4 per cent if you have the normal bank account or graduate account with the bank. These accounts are fee-free, but you have to pay in at least £500 a month. You can from deposit £25 to £250 a month into the regular saver, up to a maximum of £3,000 a year. You are allowed to miss deposits. The maximum balance increases monthly by £250, which means if you deposit £50 in month one, you could add £450 in month two. If you have one HSBC's fee-paying accounts you'll be eligible for a 6 per cent regular saver. Usually it is best to be wary of fee-paying accounts, but if you are already paying, the 6 per cent rate is a good option. The Club Lloyds Monthly Saver pays 4 per cent if you have the normal Club Lloyds Bank Account, which is a free account, as long as you pay in at least £1,500 a month.
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Wall St. lower as Apple, Fed view weigh (Reuters) - The three major U.S. indexes were trading lower on Thursday, scaling back from their record levels, weighed down by Apple and the Federal Reserve's indication to raise interest rates for third time despite low inflation. Shares of Apple (AAPL.O) fell 1.3 percent and was on track to post its biggest two-day decline since June. The stock was the biggest drag on the three major indexes. Investors were also assessing the likely impact of the Fed's decision to start ending monetary stimulus by reducing its approximately $4.2 trillion in holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities from October. While the central bank left rates unchanged, it cited low unemployment, growth in business investment and an economic expansion that has been moderate but durable this year to build its case for another rate hike in 2017. Interest rate futures are now pricing in about a 70 percent chance of a December hike, according to CME's FedWatch tool, up from above 50 percent prior to the Fed meeting. Fed Chair Janet Yellen said the fall in inflation this year remained a mystery, adding that the central bank was ready to change the interest rate outlook if needed. "Today's movement is most likely a give back as people digest the Fed statement and press conference," said Michael Dowdall, investment strategist at BMO Global Asset Management. "Clearly the Fed doesn't have answers on the 2017 low inflation weakness but they're still very sensitive to falling behind the curve so they want to stay in front of the inflation curve." At 12:33 p.m. ET (1633 GMT), the Dow Jones Industrial Average.DJI was down 29.2 points, or 0.13 percent, at 22,383.39, the S&P.SPX was down 3.41 points, or 0.13 percent, at 2,504.83. The Nasdaq Composite.IXIC was down 19.91 points, or 0.31 percent, at 6,436.14. Five of the 11 major S&P sectors were lower, with the consumer staples index's.SPLRCS 0.74 percent fall leading the decliners. Shares of Nvidia (NVDA.O) pared losses to trade down 3.4 percent after GlobalFoundries, which fabricates chips for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O), said Tesla (TSLA.O) had not committed to working with the company to develop its own artificial intelligence chip for self-driving cars. Advanced Micro reversed course to trade down 2.9 percent and Tesla was off 1.6 percent. U.S. stocks have continued to climb this year, with the S&P up about 12 percent so far, helped by strong corporate profits and optimism that U.S. President Donald Trump will cut taxes for businesses. Valuations are stretched with the S&P trading near 17.6 times expected earnings, compared to its 10-year average of 14.3, according to Thomson Reuters Datastream. Shares of Calgon Carbon (CCC.N) soared 61.9 percent after Japanese chemical manufacturer Kuraray (3405.T) agreed to buy the carbon materials firm for $1.107 billion. Declining issues outnumbered advancers on the NYSE by 1,402 to 1,365. On the Nasdaq, 1,425 issues rose and 1,341 fell. Reporting by Tanya Agrawal; Editing by Arun Koyyur
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Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first. WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The July 2016 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page. Please nominate future articles for improvement at WikiProject Yorkshire. Please bear in mind... The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis. Monitoring is essentialUse the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible. MovesPlease be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly. Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...
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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2016 ==
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Aims
After discussion at WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008. Specific aims for the project are:-
To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised. Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first. Celebrations
Celebrations are in order this month as we reach a milestone in the project with 100 editions of the newsletter. It was way back in May 2008 when we introduced the monthly newsletter to project members and I hope that it is still useful to keep members informed of things that are going on in the project. Sometimes you wonder if there is any activity going on and what is happening to the articles in the scope of the project but slowly things are progressing. In May 2008 we only had 3,343 articles to look after, but today that is 12,795. Membership was 45 but is now 82, even though we had a cull of members who were no longer active during that period.
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Storye book/Archive 15
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David Mundell warns Boris Johnson of risk to Union from no-deal Brexit DAVID Mundell has warned Boris Johnson a no-deal Brexit could "play into the hands of Nicola Sturgeon" and undermine the Union in a parting shot after his sacking. The former Scottish Secretary, who opposed Mr Johnson's entering Downing Street, said the First Minister "craved a no-deal... to cause chaos and boost support for independence." Mr Mundell was sacked on Wednesday despite Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson advising Mr Johnson to keep him in the post he had held for four years. Mr Mundell's replacement, Alister Jack, this week downplayed the risk from a no-deal Brexit after signing up to Mr Johnson's "do or die" pledge to leave by October 31. Mr Jack said: "I don't think a no-deal Brexit would be seriously damaging if we prepare for it properly. I do think there will be bumps along the way." READ MORE: SNP say Ruth Davidson "humiliated" after David Mundell sacked against her advice However writing in the Scottish Daily Mail, Mr Mundell made it clear he believed a no-deal was a far more serious threat than Mr Johnson and Mr Jack made out. He wrote: "By far the most important thing I have to say to the new Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Scotland is this: deliver a Brexit that works for Scotland and the whole of the UK. Do that and the Scotland Office's core mission - to strengthen our place in the Union - becomes so much easier. "I have set out my concerns about a no-deal Brexit. During the Conservative leadership contest, I continued to highlight the difficulties it would present, especially for Scotland. "A disruptive Brexit threatens businesses and plays into the hands of Nicola Sturgeon." He said the First Minister had "consistently craved a no-deal Brexit in a bid to cause chaos and boost support for independence. "The new Prime Minister must work hard to ensure that does not happen. Having listened carefully to everything he has said over the past few weeks, I'm hopeful." READ MORE: Ruth Davidson urges Boris Johnson to keep David Mundell at Scotland Office as SNP brand Scottish Secretary'spineless' Reminding Mr Johnson he had named the Union as his top priority, ahead of Brexit, at the recent Tory leadership hustings in Perth, Mr Mundell indicated he did not wholly trust him. "I take the Prime Minister at his word, but I made clear I see my role as a backbench MP as holding him to account on his commitment to the Union - and I will not shirk from doing so." Mr Mundell, 57, admitted he had "significant" differences with Mr Johnson, felt it "inevitable" he would be ousted from the Scotland Office, and was "saddened" when it came to pass. "Despite my own disappointment, though, I'm not downbeat at all. I'm confident Mr John and Alister Jack will do a good job for Scotland. And I would like to think they have some solid foundations to build upon."
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==Validate (McAfee)==
A tag has been placed on Validate (McAfee), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is an article about a certain website, blog, forum, or other web content that does not indicate the importance or significance of that web location. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles, as well as notability guidelines for websites. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template to the page, and put a note on Validate (McAfee). Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Thanks. brewcrewer (yada, yada)
==Speedy deletion of Alphanumeric List of Known Microsoft Windows Registry Keys==
A tag has been placed on Alphanumeric List of Known Microsoft Windows Registry Keys requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. == Alphanumeric List of Known Microsoft Windows Registry Keys ==
I suspect that you contacted me from the IP 92.232.150.252. I left this message on the talk page for the IP address, but I wanted to make sure you receive this. (If you did not contact me you can ignore this message). Thank you for contacting me and explaining the context of the article. I am still not quite certain what kind of article you envision that is not already dealt with, or could be dealt with, in the article Windows Registry. If you envision fully documenting the windows registry, I think that is a very bad idea. Wikipedia does not seek to catalog all the information in the world; it is not a directory, or a guide book. However there is a sister project of wikipedia call wikibooks that is ideal for such a project and they could greatly use expertise in expanding the book Windows registry hacks. I would strongly recommend that you take your talents there. If you think I am mistaken in the deletion you are welcome to recreate the article with proper context. However, as I don't think that such a list would add to an encyclopedia, I would bring it to a wider community discussion to consider deletion. If you need any help or have any questions don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page. Jon513 (talk)
==Speedy deletion of Matrix Maths Extensions==
A tag has been placed on Matrix Maths Extensions requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
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Markhobley
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Rome Mayor's Troubled First 3 Months Raise Doubts on Her Five Star Movement The troubles in Rome have become an open wound for the movement, rippling out from the capital and tarnishing its image on the national stage. "Rome is an example of the limits of the Five Star Movement, and of the city of Rome per se," said Sergio Fabbrini, the director of the school of government at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome. "Winning the elections in Rome, paradoxically, was a defeat for the movement," he said. "It's showing how disorganized and divided they are." Even prominent members of the movement have criticized Ms. Raggi's close aides and chosen staff members as unfit to govern. Her lack of experience became more evident through the summer, during which questions were raised about her administrative skills as well as about transparency and honesty, two of the movement's main selling points. At the end of August, a snowball effect began after rumors about the large salary of Ms. Raggi's chief of cabinet led to her resignation. Soon after, another crucial member of Ms. Raggi's cabinet, her budget adviser, quit, lamenting a "transparency deficit." Then, in one day, top managers of Rome's transportation and garbage agencies resigned, too, reinforcing a sense of administrative paralysis. For weeks during the most intense summer heat, the city was the hostage of garbage collectors as trash bags piled up at street corners. Photo Beppe Grillo, a founder of the Five Star Movement, at a rally this month in Nettuno, near Rome. He reversed a vow to stay out of politics and stepped in to shore up Ms. Raggi amid speculation of an early resignation. Credit Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA, via Associated Press The garbage problem - the city's sanitation agency is heavily indebted, and it needs more sites to dispose of its waste - is certainly not Ms. Raggi's invention. Neither the previous mayor, the American-trained surgeon Ignazio Marino, elected as an outsider, nor the special commissioner who ran Rome before Ms. Raggi could find a solution, either. But the problem has grown so bad that early this summer, videos circulated of children playing at counting the dozens of rats surrounding Roman garbage bins. In what initially seemed like a hands-on approach, one of Ms. Raggi's strongest advisers, Paola Muraro, who is responsible for the environment, walked into the city-controlled garbage company and ostensibly forced top managers to lay out a plan to fix the dysfunction. It later emerged, however, that Ms. Muraro had been an adviser to that company for about a decade, and that she was under investigation for wrongdoing as part of an inquiry into waste management in Rome. At first, Ms. Raggi denied knowing of the investigation, but she and a national leader of the Five Star Movement conceded later that they had been aware of it for over a month, and the national leader said they had misunderstood the situation. Early this month, Ms. Raggi's newly appointed finance chief lasted only a few days, after it emerged that he, too, was under investigation, for abuse of office. The chaos in Rome set off such fierce criticism, as well as sparring among current and former members of the movement, that Mr. Grillo, one of the founders, stepped in to try to calm the situation. "We are demolishing a system that has been in place for 50 years," he said in a speech this month in Nettuno, near Rome. "And the system is compact against us." "Virginia will go on, and we'll monitor," he added, as he endorsed her. Mayors of Rome have historically attracted much attention. But it has not helped Mr. Raggi that the Five Star Movement's relationship with the news media has never been particularly warm. The storm around Ms. Raggi, as the first female mayor of Rome, has been especially intense and frosty. (Last week, Ms. Raggi posted a video of reporters stationed in front of her apartment in northern Rome with the comment, "I pity you.") Some say her every move is being unfairly scrutinized. "Just to compare, La Repubblica one day dedicated eight pages to Rome's crisis, the same they dedicated to the election of the pope," said Aldo Giannuli, a professor of contemporary history at the University of Milan and a prominent elector of the Five Star Movement who is often cited on Mr. Grillo's blog. The questions now are how lasting the damage will be, and whether it can be reversed. In one week, the movement lost more than four percentage points in approval ratings, according to some national polls. Still, some analysts argue that for now, the drop may not be all that consequential.
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THOUGHTS ON CITATIONS
This short essay expresses my thoughts on the problems I see with the requirements for citations or references in certain types of articles. As I have edited many articles since joining WP, I have noticed the difficulty in finding references for certain types of articles (e.g., places). These article just don't really lend themselves to referencing and therefore seems to fall outside the norm of standard editing rules. You can find hundreds of these articles under, that continue to build up and go uncorrected every year. When you comb the Internet for a souce, you can literally spend hours to no avail. I have attempted to discuss this issue on related Talk Pages, but everyone seems to find an excuse for supporting the status quo. It's frustrating that the rules of common sense cannot prevail within the large burocracy inside WP. I feel like a man in an echo chamber talking to himself, as though other people are impervious to the correctness of my arguments. It would be easy to give up, and move on; but these lists of unreferenced articles continue to build up unabated. The supposed control mechanism, which should stop the creation of an article without including a reference appears dysfunctional. My pleadings go unanswered in this impersonal world at WP. Instead of questioning the rule, the rule is defended. What happened to "breaking the rules" being the mantra, rather than protect the burocracy? Even this article is cannot hide for the secret citation police. See the hidden category, Articles lacking citations. POSSIBLY MORE TO COME...
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The Founders Intent/Thoughts on Citations
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