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By Meghan Bartels On 03/01/18 at 8:00 AM EST
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Every evening in Maui, a telescope perched atop a volcano captures particles of light in the universe with the world's largest digital camera. Normally it searches for asteroids dancing across the cosmos. But one night last October, it locked its gaze onto something remarkable, an unidentified flying object moving quickly through space, seemingly from another solar system.
Or at least that's what astronomers at the University of Hawaii concluded when they discovered it. At first, they thought it was a comet, then an asteroid. But within a month, they realized the object was long and thin and unlike any asteroid known to science. They named it 'Oumuamua—a Hawaiian word that means "messenger from the distant past."
Thousands of miles away, a Harvard astronomer named Avi Loeb learned of the mysterious object as well. Soon, he began pondering an enticing possibility: that 'Oumuamua was actually an alien spacecraft sending signals back to its creators. This theory may sound a bit out there. But Loeb isn't some crackpot looking for little green men in a spaceship. He and his colleagues are part of a growing number of top-tier scientists who are applying the same rigorous standards they use on other scientific issues to tackle one of the biggest questions facing humanity: Are we alone in the universe?
Americans have long been fascinated by the possibility of alien visitors. A 2001 Gallup Poll (the most recent one available) found that 33 percent of Americans believed aliens have visited the Earth. But scientists—both inside and outside the U.S. government—have been reluctant to take such claims seriously. From the 1947 weather balloon crash in Roswell, New Mexico, to crop circles in England, they've largely joined the debate only to debunk some very dubious claims. They've also lamented the lack of distinction most people make between alien landings—which haven't occurred—and the possibility of future alien contacts (which could indeed happen). "We always get the UFO question," says Dan Werthimer, astronomer at University of California, Berkeley. During public appearances about the search for alien life, Werthimer says, people often say, "why bother, because E.T.'s already landed here and kept secret in some military installation."
But while UFO claims are often hoaxes or the work of conspiracy theorists, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence—alien life just as smart and technologically advanced as humans—is a legitimate scientific field. Driving this quest to find life on other planets: hundreds of millions of dollars and super-powerful new telescopes that look ever deeper into the universe.
Experts disagree on how intelligent life might try to contact humans. But the resurrected field, known as SETI, is largely based on the assumption that extraterrestrials—if they are out there and actually trying to chat—might use the same type of tech that we use to communicate with one another—from radio signals to flashes of light.
Yet that conjecture speaks to SETI's central irony. Just as our attempts to find extraterrestrials are becoming more advanced, just as scientists are increasingly confident we aren't the only intelligent beings in the universe, humans are creating more technology-produced noise than ever before, undermining our ability to detect potential alien transmissions.
In fact, SETI scientists say, we are making so much noise, if E.T. tried to phone our home, we might never get the message.
In 1950, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Enrico Fermi articulated a riddle—now known as Fermi's paradox—that speaks to a core question SETI scientists are trying to answer: If intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe, why haven't we found it yet? Since experts estimate the universe is nearly 14 billion years old, you'd think it would be populated with civilizations other than our own.
One problem: money. The search for extraterrestrials is very expensive. And the U.S. government and private universities have mostly avoided funding the required research. The first professional SETI conference, held in Green Bank, West Virginia, was in 1961, just months after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel into space. In the 1980s, NASA devoted $1.5 million to $2 million per year to the search for sentient life in outer space, and in 1990, Congress approved $100 million for new technology—a significant amount of funding for the field. But just a few years later, NASA axed that program. "Not a single Martian has said, 'Take me to your leader,'" Democratic Senator Richard Bryan of Nevada said during the budget vote that canceled the funding. "And not a single flying saucer has applied for FAA approval." NASA hasn't funded SETI research since, a decision that pushed aliens to the fringes of astronomy.
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Yet in 2015, SETI researchers finally received the necessary funding. And it came in a plot twist reminiscent of the movie Contact—in which a SETI researcher clashes with government authorities, only to be rescued by a mysterious billionaire.
In real life, SETI's wealthy benefactor isn't secretive. His name is Yuri Milner, and he's a Russian physicist and venture capitalist. Named for Gagarin, he sees it as our "galactic responsibility" to acknowledge the profound luck of our intelligence—and search elsewhere for its equal. He also dreams about the impact such a discovery would have on humanity. "There are these moments, that are very rare, that we all feel like one," he says. "The rest of the time, we are divided."
Milner decided to bankroll the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, pledging $100 million over 10 years for an international project called Breakthrough Listen. "Obviously, there's no guarantee," he says. "The chance of finding it in the next 10 years is small. [But] the significance of that potential discovery is so large that even the small probability justifies the effort."
About a third of Milner's funding goes to the SETI program at the University of California, Berkeley. Andrew Siemion, its alien hunter in chief, stumbled onto the field after 9/11 left him searching for meaningful work. Since then, he has dedicated his career to trying to find a sign—any sign—that can be explained only by the existence of technologically advanced alien life. "The most interesting property of the universe is the fact that intelligent life exists within it," he says. Siemion is determined to find out if it exists beyond Earth. "I believe it to be the most fundamental question we can ask as scientists."
Milner's money has vastly improved Siemion's ability to tackle that question. The funding has given him and his colleagues the ability—and time—to stare across the universe, using some of the most powerful telescopes on the planet. "It's an absolute revolution in our capabilities," he says.
This artist's impression shows the first interstellar asteroid: 'Oumuamua. This unique object was discovered on October 19, 2017, by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. M. Kornmesser/ESO
Most of these instruments are radio telescopes—giant, ultra-sensitive dishes that receive faint signals from very far away. Yet these instruments don't search the cosmos for sound; they search it for light. Radio waves constitute a portion of the light spectrum—the band that alien technology would most likely use to reach us, many astronomers believe.
Alien hunters look for radio waves because humans are so fond of using them. Radio waves can travel miles, letting us hear our favorite talk show while we drive. They can also traverse light-years and be crammed with information, which is why they carry our television broadcasts, our mobile calls and GPS locations. Because radio waves are so versatile, SETI scientists believe our galactic neighbors might use them to reach out and say, "Sup?"
Scientists classify radio waves by how often they crest; that measurement is the wave's frequency. The tighter the crests, the higher the frequency. When it comes to radio waves from beyond Earth, scientists tune to frequencies between 1 and 10 gigahertz. "That's the range in which our atmosphere is pretty transparent and the galaxy is pretty quiet," says astronomer Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, which has long been the leader in the field. Going below that window catches too much noise from the rest of the galaxy, like radiation from planets or even the humming of a distant black hole. The atmosphere blocks frequencies higher than about 10 gigahertz. But nestled in that quiet window are 9 billion possible frequencies, or channels, that aliens could be using.
When the modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence began in the 1960s, scientists could listen to just one channel at a time. Today, they can tune in to tens or even hundreds of millions of channels at once, listening for a single note from faraway millions of times over. This vast capacity increases the odds of us catching an alien message when it arrives. But it also delivers a ridiculous number of other signals. "Every 10 seconds, you get a signal," says Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute. "You'd go nuts if you had to look at all this stuff."
The new era of SETI is rapidly expanding the investigation. Milner's money gives Siemion at Berkeley the means to purchase blocks of expensive observing time on some of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world—from West Virginia to China. Scientists are looking at more stars, gathering weaker signals and eavesdropping on new regions of the sky, like the barely studied Southern Hemisphere, the gateway to the crowded heart of the Milky Way.
The infusion of cash helps not only expand the search but also rule out possibilities. We have no galactic caller ID, and so every plausible signal must go through a battery of tests to confirm whether it's E.T. on the other end of the line. So far, not a single signal has passed those tests.
Yet as Tarter famously put it, concluding that we must be alone, simply because we haven't heard aliens yet, is like scooping up a cup of seawater and deciding there are no fish in the oceans. Scientists have calculated we need to comb about a million star systems to find new friends.
So far, says Shostak, "we've looked at only a few thousand."
Alien Emojis
Beginning in 1998, an unidentified radio signal left astronomers at the Parkes Observatory telescope in New South Wales, Australia, stumped. They knew the sound was coming from somewhere nearby, but they had no idea of what it was. Finally—after 17 years of searching—they found the culprit: impatient staffers opening a microwave oven while it was still running.
Though SETI scientists believe aliens would likely use similar technology as we do on Earth, that assumption poses a fundamental, possibly insurmountable, challenge to their search: Our own chatter makes it immensely difficult. Cellphones, Wi-Fi and GPS all rely on radio waves. Those waves occupy the same channels researchers use to listen to for E.T. And because our devices are so much closer to the telescopes, the signals are much stronger. "If E.T. is broadcasting in the cellphone band," says Werthimer, "we'll never find him." Every time we text an emoji, we potentially make SETI research more difficult. Sorting the alien wheat from the human chaff, says Siemion, is the hardest part of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Local regulations mitigate the interference. South Africa is currently building a massive array of radio dishes and trying to move local television and phone service to radio-free technology to reduce the disturbance they will otherwise pose. Federal and state quiet zones shelter the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, and its staffers help neighbors produce less interference. Sometimes, they even drive around in a van equipped with a radio antenna to track down chatter.
The interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua was spotted at the Haleakala Observatory, above. Dave Fleetham / Design Pics/Getty
But such measures aren't enough. Astronomers want to build telescopes in places where there are fewer people, but it's not easy. The remote location of the Parkes telescope might make it conducive for hearing E.T., but it also increases the risk of disruption from livestock. The electric fences corralling the animals emit radio waves that interfere with SETI work more than cellphones do. "We probably have more problems with cows around Parkes than these other things," says Matthew Bailes, an astronomer at the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. Nearly everything we do generates signals, and eliminating them essentially means eliminating modern life.
Even when the land is silent, though, radio interference still comes from above. An ever-increasing number of satellites broadcast signals from the sky that radio telescopes pick up. Eradicating this sort of interference, says Tarter, consumes about half the computing power of her institute's SETI research. That's a bit like your phone spending half its energy ignoring your neighbor's calls or text messages.
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Astronomers who study natural phenomena, like clouds of space dust or dying stars, can ignore everything that looks artificial. But scientists looking for alien life can't do the same. The types of noises that are interfering with the search, says Siemion, are "exactly what we're looking for."
Which means impatiently waiting for a frozen dinner to heat up could potentially ruin our chance of finding another civilization.
'Delicate Creatures'
Not everyone, however, is convinced that the assumptions of radio astronomy make sense. Shelley Wright, an astrophysicist at the University of California, San Diego, is one of them. As she sees it, there's no knowing what technology another civilization might possess and what means it might use to say hello. "There's really no reason to think aliens would use radio over laser," says Wright, "over something else we haven't even invented yet."
Fiction has articulated the problem well. In Story of Your Life, for instance, an expert translator struggles to decipher an alien language (the 1998 novella was the basis for the movie Arrival). Or in Babel-17, a 1966 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delaney, only a poet can understand an otherwise indecipherable message from another galaxy.
When it comes to hearing aliens, we may be victims of our assumptions about how they would talk to us. We tend to think of radio as the best means of communications because it was the first such technology that humans invented, says Wright. But with our most powerful technology, she says, we could theoretically pack all the internet's contents into a message sent tens of thousands of light-years away through a laser beam—which means another civilization could do the same
And so Wright and others are developing a new field of astronomy. It's called optical SETI, and its instruments are focused on a different band of the light spectrum than radio astronomy, looking instead at the same waves our eyes take in, along with infrared frequencies, which are just a smidge longer. It's also a technology we suspect aliens might use because humans have found it so powerful.
Young man taking picture on crossroad in Tokyo. Our penchant for devices could get in the way of SETI research. Absodels/Getty
Wright is leading an optical SETI project to build a pair of observatories, faceted like giant soccer balls, in California. She hopes to turn prototypes on this year and to be watching the entire sky within six years. They will look for bright bursts of light, as if searching for a superpowered camera flash from an alien photographer.
But like radio astronomy, optical SETI isn't foolproof. It works only in dark and clear skies. The technology can also be overly sensitive—optical telescopes are "delicate creatures," says Paul Horowitz, a physicist at Harvard who is collaborating with Wright. The way to reduce false alarms is to use more than one instrument simultaneously. (Apparently, it takes at least two eyes to spot the alien in the room.) "Multiple observatories," Horowitz says, "are the only way to go for these things that go bump in the night and only rarely."
Then again, it's entirely possible that extraterrestrials have evolved beyond devices—or never created them in the first place.
Thousands of Planets
On April 8, 2009, NASA's satellite-based Kepler telescope delivered its first image. Scientists pointed the instrument at a patch of sky tucked under the wing of the Cygnus constellation, the swan that flies across the Milky Way. The goal: to find Earth-like planets.
Alone at the NASA Ames Research Center in Northern California that night, Natalie Batalha, an astrophysicist with the Kepler mission, watched the first image arrive on her computer monitor. She describes it like a champagne glass slowly filling with bubbles. When the picture was complete, Batalha saw immediately that Kepler had delivered a revelatory view of the universe. "It looked like you'd dumped a bunch of salt on black paper," she says, still in awe of the picture. "Just so many stars."
Since that moment, Kepler and other projects have revealed a new truth about the universe: It is unspeakably rich in planets. The tally climbs every week or two, with the current total nearing 4,000. This number alone boosts the hope of finding intelligent life. "When you realize that every pinpoint of light has a planet," she says, "you start to see the galaxy differently," says Batalha. "It would be foolish not to look."
The Cassini spacecraft, a NASA mission, found signs that Saturn's moon, Enceladus, might host microbial life. JPL-Caltech/NASA
These discoveries have completely reframed the odds behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Those odds were outlined by Frank Drake, the father of modern SETI. He calculated the number of civilizations that could be sending us a signal right now by considering a string of variables: how often life-friendly stars are formed, the proportion of these that have orbiting planets and the fraction of these planets that are habitable, among other factors. The larger the numbers for all these components, the higher the chances of finding E.T. Even if every other variable stays the same, the number of planets we now know about changes the equation dramatically. Finding extraterrestrial intelligence may no longer be a question of "if" but rather one of "when."
So far, we are still waiting. A 72-second signal detected in 1977 generated brief excitement but was never heard again. Astronomers now think the noise was generated by gas from a comet. In the 16 years that physicist Gerry Harp has been hunting aliens at the SETI Institute, he says only one signal has looked promising, but that turned out to be from a satellite.
Likewise, the Green Bank Telescope's ultra-sensitive receptor found no trace of alien messages coming from 'Oumuamua. Loeb, the Harvard astronomer who led the investigation, says there's a chance the telescope could have missed a flickering signal. But the scientists weren't surprised by the noiselessness that followed.
Like many who devote their careers to listening for aliens, they are accustomed to radio silence.
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DANBURY - Although it seemed highly unlikely following their inauspicious debut six days ago, the Solingen Alligators will return home from the German-American Baseball Series with a gold medal.
Babe Ruth division (ages 13-16) by beating Newtown 6-3 in the championship game Sunday at Rogers Park.
Coach Peter Kruger was thrilled by his team's performance.
"We threw a guy out at the plate and Robin Drache had two hits," he said. "We played good ball. We bunted guys over. We had hits when we needed them. We played good in clutch situations."
Falling victim to jet lag and nerves, the Alligators surrendered nine runs in the first inning of their first game Tuesday night. But they went on to defeat each of the three other teams in the robin-robin tournament at least once and finished with a 4-3 record. Danbury, Ridgefield and Newtown also participated.
The German team exceeded Kruger's expectations, especially since not all of its players made the trip.
"I didn't think we'd win so many games here (because) I miss so many guys from back home," he said. "I'm totally impressed what we did. They go out every day and try hard.
"They didn't expect to win, either. The goal to achieve was not to lose (by lopsided scores)," Kruger added.
"After the first game, it was like, ja (yes), let's play baseball," Germany's Robin Lorenz said.
With their roster fortified by a few Danbury kids, they played admirably, too, topping Newtown 7-4, Ridgefield 6-2 and Danbury 9-5.
The Alligators are sure to benefit from the quality of competition they faced this week.
"When all these kids go home and the pitching isn't as fast they're going to crush the ball," Kruger said.
The Germans don't possess the physical tools of American youngsters but they compensate by playing intelligently.
"Their fundamentals are perfect," Newtown coach Bob Mitchell said. "They don't make any mental errors. They throw the ball where it needs to go. Their arms aren't as good as ours. Their pitching's not quite as good as ours. Their batting is good and their baserunning pretty good, too.
"I'd rank their older kids like two years below us but mentally they're playing better than we do. And the kids we talked to just love baseball. We expected a bunch of soccer players who also play baseball. We just had a great time with them."
The Germans return home Wednesday. With nothing on their itinerary Tuesday, the Germans made arrangements to play another game against Newtown.
"We enjoyed it so we want to play," Kruger said. "That's what we're here for. I can't say how much fun this is."
NOTES: Sunday's game was the seventh in six days for the Germans. "That's unusual. They're not used to that," said Kruger, noting how his team usually plays only on weekends and practices two or three times during the week. . . The Newtown contingent traded gifts with the Germans this week, presenting them with dog tags with Hall of Fame names, and Babe Ruth baseballs. . . The Germans were in awe of Shea Stadium when they attended the Mets-Braves game Saturday night. For nearly all of them, including Drache, it was their first major league game. "He said he was surprised by how big the stadium is," Kruger said. "You had to see the kids. They walked in the stadium and they were shocked. They never saw that before.". . . The Alligators' trip will reach a climax today when they take a tour of New York City. "Seeing that town, the Big Apple, yeah, it's just amazing," Lorenz said in anticipation. Following the gold medal ceremony, the pickup game broke out with the youngsters from Germany and Newtown playing against a team of adult coaches and parents.


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Q: How to extract (or subset) all the rows with a condition on a column in a dataframe? I have the following  dataframe and  wish to extract all rows corresponding to the same group with status==1.
The status column is  either 0 or 1.
df<-data.frame(time= rep(1:4,times=c(2,3,5,4)),status=c(0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0))

  Input Data

   time status

1     1      0
2     1      0
3     2      1
4     2      1
5     2      0
6     3      0
7     3      0
8     3      0
9     3      0
10    3      0
11    4      1
12    4      0
13    4      0
14    4      0

Desired output (with renumbering the group column in sequence).
time status

   1      1
   1      1
   1      0
   2      1
   2      0
   2      0
   2      0

The dimension of my actual data.frame is in order of 10^6 by 5.
Thank you for your help.

A: Hm, so you want to get the group two and four since both these groups have a status one value, correct? And from those two groups you like to get the whole output?
If so,how about this:
df <- data.frame(time = rep(1:4, times = c(2,3,5,4)),
                 status = c(0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0))

id <- unique(df[df$status == 1, "time"])
df2 <- df[df$time %in% id, ]

edit:
df2$time <- factor(df2$time, labels = c(1,2))

A: I'm a bit confused as you're trying to do two separate things - first wanting to extract rows with status == 1, whereas in your desired output, there are rows with zeros.
This is one of the ways how you can extract rows with status == 1.
df1 <- data.frame(time= rep(1:4,times=c(2,3,5,4)),status=c(0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0))
df1$time <- factor(df1$time)
df1s <- split(df1, df1$time)
df1l <- lapply(df1s, function(x) {
            x[x$status == 1, ]
        })
df1l <- do.call("rbind", df1l)

or the other way around
df2 <- df1[df1$status == 1, ]
df2.l <- split(df2, as.factor(df2$time))

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Bill and I are taking a few days break and travelling to a village near Seville where our friends have a lovely house in an olive grove. We have been many times before and I am sure the very air is photogenic and the olive trees are inspirational! I expect some some Spanish wine will have to be tested…..
Here Bill is proving how tall he is!
When we get back, we will be posting your Issue 81 as soon as we can. Can you believe that today is the longest day and I have been designing Christmas initials for your Christmas Cracker! We will have the Christmas tree up for the next photoshoot and Issue 82 will be Christmassy! Ho Hum! Where does the year go?
Well, it's been 5 mins since India, so you need a break. No, my lovelies, make hay while the sun shines. Have a fab time.
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IRVING, Texas – On Monday the University of Dallas announced the hire of Erik Grafton as the baseball head coach. Grafton will be the 20th head coach for the program, and is expected to begin his tenure this fall.
Grafton arrives after spending the previous six seasons as the assistant coach for the UT Tyler Patriots. Four of those seasons he helped lead the Patriots to the American Southwest Conference (ASC) Championships.
This past spring, Grafton was part of a magical run that carried the Patriots to the NCAA Division III National Championship, where they won their first title in program history by defeating Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) tournament champion, No. 6 Texas Lutheran University.
It was also the first trip for UT Tyler to play in the D3 World Series, which was earned by winning the NCAA DIII Central Regional with consecutive wins over Rhodes College.
In his two seasons as recruiting coordinator, Coach Grafton was responsible for bringing in 23 All-Conference and 8 All-Region performers, as well as 1 All-American, the programs first since 2013. He led a 2017 Patriot offense that boasted a .321 team batting average, scoring 338 runs, 7+ per game and tutored a sure handed Patriot Infield that turned a school record 49 double plays.
Grafton was a part of former head coach Chris Bertrand's staff for four seasons, earning a promotion after each of those seasons. Grafton continued serving as the programs recruiting coordinator and strength and conditioning coordinator, as well as working with infielders and hitters. On game days, Grafton coached third base.
Grafton, a graduate of Hendrix College, lettered three years for the Warriors as a catcher and an infielder. In 2007, he was named to the All-Academic Team in the SCAC. In 2011, Grafton finished his Master's degree at the University of Central Arkansas and was a volunteer assistant with the UCA Baseball team.
Prior to UT Tyler, Grafton was an assistant coach with the Conway High School baseball team in Arkansas and a private baseball and softball instructor in Martin, Tennessee.


Our 50 Greatest Football Shirts Ever countdown has reached the last five - the best five shirts, according to the beliefs of the judging panel. For that reason and that reason alone, we thought we'd share all of our comments for each of the last five shirts, rather than letting one of us divulge our thoughts as a representative for the panel.
With that in mind, we enter the home straight beginning with Shirt No.5 - the Liverpool home shirt worn between 1985 and 1987.
[Rich:] The first ever football match I watched on TV was the 85/86 FA Cup Final, where the team, supported by half my family, lifted the trophy in this excellent shirt, To me it is the ultimate 80's football shirt - a classic V-neck with multi-coloured trim, super shiny fabric, a detailed shadow print, vibrant colour and finally a memorable, but not super-corporate, solid British sponsor. As if it wasn't perfect enough, adidas had their famous three stripes adorning only the shoulders, rather than running all the way down the sleeves... and once more were outlined in yellow, rather than just plain white. This shirt saw Liverpool do the double, though for the following season (after I'd abandoned them for Coventry... probably a coincidence), the blue half of Merseyside took the league title and some plucky upstarts won the FA Cup. The 80s... crazy times and super shirts!
[Chris:] I'll be honest. This isn't my favourite Liverpool shirt ever. That would be the one that preceded this - the famous 'pinstripes' kit created by Umbro. When this one arrived in 1985, however, it was like an acknowledgement that football kit design had reached full maturity. After the extravagant flair of the 70's and the tentative styles of the early 80's, adidas showed with this shirt that it was finally time to get serious about looking good on the field.
Everything about this shirt says 'grown up'. The shadow pattern, the detailed trim, the use of yellow as a generous nod to the Umbro away kit used between 1982 and 1985... it all embodied a big leap forward to leave behind those 'so yesterday' pinstripes. A fine shirt and one of Liverpool's greats.
[John:] As a young Liverpool fan when the news came out that the club had signed a deal with adidas, I could almost not comprehend that Umbro, who had accompanied the Reds throughout their glory days, would not be producing the team kit.
The anticipation to see what adidas would do with the famous red was almost too much to bear. When I first saw the strip though, unveiled via a double page-poster in Match magazine, I breathed a sigh of relief. It was a stunner. And the away and third kits that also appeared on the poster were pretty decent too.
Style personified - with the merest touch of yellow bringing to life the trim and the innovative Liver Bird and adidas trefoil logo shadow pattern, it was truly magnificent and, at least in my eyes, it was better than the Umbro kits that preceded it.
The task facing adidas in 1985 was huge but they passed with flying colours.
[Jay:] Aside from seconding the words of my esteemed colleagues, there's not a whole lot I can say about this shirt. adidas just simply got it right in the 1980s, and the subtle combination of white and yellow trim, along with definitive versions of the adidas logo and simple Liver bird ("L.F.C.") crest, with hindsight, propels this offering into the stratosphere of shirt design. adidas knew this, and added a - we'll assume knowingly - inaccurate recreation of this release to their Originals range a few years ago. That was disappointing, as I wouldn't want to change a single stitch on this masterpiece.


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Qualifiée au Mondial du Japon, l'équipe de Tunisie de volley-ball entame sa préparation par un tournoi amical remporté par le Venezuela qui est également qualifiée pour le championnat du monde. Elle dispute aussi une série de cinq matchs amicaux fac à l'Australie avant de mettre le cap sur l'Amérique du Nord où elle finit deuxième à la coupe internationale d'Anton Furlani. Les coéquipiers de Ghazi Guidara disputent après une série de matchs amicaux face à l'Argentine à Santa Cruz. L'équipe achève sa préparation en novembre par deux stages en Italie et en Corée du Sud. Au Japon, l'équipe commence le championnat du monde victorieusement face à la Corée du Sud, puis elle s'incline contre la Russie et la Serbie-et-Monténégro sur un score net. Face au Canada, l'équipe se contente d'un seul point gagné mais le lendemain elle assure le plus important en battant le Kazakhstan. La Tunisie devient ainsi la première équipe africaine à se qualifier pour le second tour du championnat du monde. Après trois jours de repos, les tunisiens démarrent le deuxième tour par une défaite contre la Pologne, puis ils trébuchent face au Japon en dépit de leur avance par deux sets. L'histoire se répète au match suivant contre l'Argentine que la Tunisie a battu quatre fois en préparation. Pour son dernier match de la compétition, l'équipe bat le Porto Rico malgré un premier set perdu sur un score record 38-40. À l'issue de cette participation, la Fédération internationale de volley-ball décide d'augmenter le nombre des places africaines en phase finale du championnat du monde de 2 à 3 à partir de l'édition de 2010.

Les matchs des Seniors

A : match amical.
AFIC : Anton Furlani International Cup.
CHM : match du Championnat du monde 2006
 PTPremier tour
 DTDeuxième tour
 FFinale

Les Sélections

Sélection pour le Championnat du monde 2006

Équipe de Tunisie B
L'équipe de Tunisie B dispute le championnat arabe à Bahreïn. Elle y remporte brillamment la médaille d'or après cinq victoires en six matchs joués.

Les matchs

CA : match du Championnat arabe 2006
 PTPremier tour
 DFDemi-finale
 FFinale

Équipe des moins 19 ans

Les matchs

CHAN : match du Championnat d'Afrique des moins de 19 ans 2006

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Équipe de Tunisie de volley-ball
Volley-ball en 2006
Sport en Tunisie en 2006

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Cut Hacker Dwell Time to Save Your Bottom Line
Sam Humphries· May 26, 2020
One of the many tasks data breach investigators assume is determining how long a bad actor has been occupying a network. They determine how much information was taken, what specifically could have been accessed and over what time period.
For about 50 percent of breaches, the time between initial compromise and detection—known as dwell time – is less than 24 hours. But sometimes, hackers can dwell for weeks, months or even years within a network.
This is made possible in part by a widespread data surplus. The more data, the more places for attackers to hide. Hackers are able to enter a network while IT and security teams are preoccupied with false positives, usually through less monitored vectors like an unprotected cloud server, shared desktop or connected smart device. Once they've entered, they jump laterally to access data spread through the organization. Traditional approaches to security analysis require manually prioritizing and sifting through endless data logs to locate these potential leaks, which can waste precious time.
Even when internal or external adversaries are caught within a few weeks, that's already far too long for them to be lurking on the network. We've seen time and time again that the monetary cost hits hard, but the reputational damage could hit even harder.
One of the reasons the Equifax breach stunned many people was the fact that the security vulnerability exploited by the attackers was left open for 78 days. Equifax admitted to knowing about the vulnerability for months before data was ever stolen, however they cited misreporting in their vulnerability scans as to why the affected system was not remediated in a timely manner. The company reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2019 that included $300 million to a victim fund and $100 million in fines to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The FTC created an online resource where affected individuals could file a claim against Equifax, and its stocks dropped 13 percent the day after the breach was made public. Needless to say, it will be a while until Equifax bounces back both financially and with its scored customers.
In a similar situation last week, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) announced it will fine Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific £500,000 for a breach that happened in 2018 that claimed the personal information of 9.4 million passengers. Under the current GDPR mandates, companies are required to report a notifiable data breach within 72 hours, yet the airline admitted it took them six months to investigate and then notify the ICO. The investigation uncovered some rather shocking truths, firstly that the earliest known date of unauthorised access to Cathay Pacific's network was October 2014. The suspected method of access was via exploiting a publicized vulnerability, which had been classified as low complexity – meaning little skill was required to exploit it, and the fix was readily available. Having then dropped credential harvesting malware onto a system, the attackers were presented with an almost perfect storm – an open door, an unencrypted database, and unsupported operating systems. This provided ideal conditions for them to collect credentials, and move laterally throughout the organization until March 22, 2018 when the bad actor was removed. This means that whoever breached Cathay Pacific's systems could have had almost four years of unauthorized and undiscovered access to the company's data, including passengers' personal details.
According to FireEye's M-Trends 2020 report, the median dwell time in APAC is 94 days, which is a considerable improvement from 498 days two years ago. While global median dwell times are shortening, repeat attacks are on the rise, with Mandiant reporting 31 percent of organizations seeing a second incident within 12 months of the first. These figures demonstrate that, while organizations are making progress, far more emphasis on time-to-detection is required.
The sooner teams can detect breaches, the more chance they have of minimizing both the financial and reputational impact. Airlines and other organizations in the aviation industry experience huge surges in activity during the peak holiday season, and this can leave security teams overwhelmed with alerts and prone to missing key pieces of early insight into an attack.
Deploying advanced behavior analytics is a much faster way for IT to locate anomalous and suspicious behavior. Since behavior analytics use pre-existing security incident timelines, they already know the full scope and context of related event details. Analysts no longer have to comb through massive amounts of raw logs to manually create a timeline as part of an investigation. This has the potential to significantly reduce attacker dwell time and can identify a breach before unauthorized access to data occurs.
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Especially under new mandates such as the GDPR, organizations simply cannot afford to allow hackers to dwell within their networks for long periods of time. The best way to cut down on dwell time is to deploy advanced behavioral analysis to make it easier – rather, possible – for teams to weed through false positives and data logs to pinpoint and prioritize real threats and risky behaviors to an organization and act quickly.
Cost of a Data BreachHacker Dwell Time
Sam Humphries
Security Strategist at Exabeam
Samantha has 20 years of experience in cyber security, and during this time has held a plethora of roles, one of her favourite titles being Global Threat Response Manager, which was definitely sounds more glamorous than it was in reality. She has defined strategy for multiple security products and technologies, helped hundreds of organisations of all shapes, sizes, and geographies recover and learn from cyberattacks, and trained many people on security concepts and solutions. In her current role as global product marketing team at Exabeam, she has responsibility for EMEA, Data Lake, compliance, and all things related to cloud. Samantha authors articles for various security publications, and is a regular speaker and volunteer at industry events, including BSides, IPExpo, CyberSecurityX, The Diana Initiative, and Blue Team Village (DEFCON).


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MYM and One World Ventures Inc. Form "MYM One World LLC" to Cultivate, Extract and Distribute 3,000 Acres of CBD-Rich Hemp on the Navajo Nation
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 25, 2019 – MYM Nutraceuticals Inc., (CSE: MYM) (OTCBB: MYMMF) ("MYM" or "The Company") is pleased to announce the formation of a Nevada Company, MYM One World LLC, to facilitate the joint multi-year co-operative agreement between MYM and Aqueous Sciences, a subsidiary of One World Ventures Inc (OWVI). The company's mandate is to cultivate, extract & distribute 3,000 acres of hemp on Navajo Nation land located near the four corners area of Colorado, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, USA.
The purpose of organizing a new company to cultivate, extract, and distribute hemp is so each corporation will own 50%. MYM and Aqueous also plan to extend their activities to include the extraction, manufacture and distribution of hemp based products that will comply with Navajo Nation, USDA, FDA and FTC regulations and requirements.
"Our partnership with Aqueous to cultivate 3,000 acres of CBD-rich hemp has taken another step forward today with the formation of MYM One World LLC", said Howard Steinberg, CEO of MYM. "Our team is currently preparing the fields for the 2019 growing season. We're looking forward to exceeding the results of last year's test crop that was successful in growing an abundance of CBD-rich hemp".
MYM and Aqueous are funding the venture with up to an initial amount of $2,000,000 USD for operating and capital costs.
Aqueous is providing all labour, site management, and other resources as necessary to operate the business. Aqueous will ensure all regulatory approvals and compliance necessary to successfully cultivate legal hemp plants upon the Navajo Nation. MYM is providing expertise and support in growing procedure, import/export facilitation, access to its research and development team, and distribution.
"We are very excited about the formation of MYM One World LLC and preparing the fields to plant lab tested, CBD-rich hemp seeds as we speak", said DaMu Lin, CEO of OWVI. "As legal production of cannabis is rapidly increasing worldwide, so has the demand for hemp derived products and these experienced farmers along with their 200,000 acres of irrigated, ready to grow fields, are ready to jump in".
"This is a step forward for our Navajo farmers and Native America in revitalizing our traditional culture within an agricultural context and to be part of this emerging industry", added Dineh Benally, President of the Navajo Nation San Juan River Farm Board. "Exercising Sovereignty, Traditional and Fundamental Law with a legal, compliant hemp framework in place that also considers their traditional crops and growing season, the Navajo and all Native people around the world can be in a better position to improve their economy of their communities by participating in this global business venture "
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About MYM Nutraceuticals Inc.
MYM Nutraceuticals Inc. is an innovative company focused on the global growth of Cannabis and hemp. To ensure a strong presence and growth potential within the industry, MYM is actively looking to acquire complementary businesses and assets in the technology, nutraceuticals and CBD sectors. MYM shares trade in Canada, Germany and the USA under the following symbols: (CSE:MYM) (OTC:MYMMF) (FRA:0MY) (DEU:0MY) (MUN:0MY) (STU:0MY).
Howard Steinberg, CEO
MYM Nutraceuticals Inc.
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Jill Duggar Dillard Hits 37-Week Mark: '19 Kids And Counting' Grandmas On Hand As Due Date Nears
By Stacy Carey
Mar. 8 2015, Updated 6:40 p.m. ET
Within the next couple of weeks or so, Jill Duggar Dillard's first baby boy should be arriving. The 19 Kids and Counting star has hit the 37-week mark and she celebrated the milestone with some quality family time. Jill's hubby, Derick Dillard, shared the fun with followers via Instagram.
Derick posted a picture that showed him with Jill as well as her mom, Michelle Duggar, and his mom, Cathy Dillard Bynum. Both moms have a hand on Jill's baby bump and Derick noted that they were hanging out with the grandmas. He added the hashtags "best grandmas," and one noting that Jill is 37 weeks pregnant now.
19 Kids and Counting fans know that Cathy has battled fiercely against cancer this past year, though the latest updates from the family indicate that she is doing very well now. Everybody is thrilled to see that she can be present for these last weeks of Derick and Jill's pregnancy and hopefully be right by their side as they welcome their baby boy.
Derick, 25, and Jill, 23, are sharing their pregnancy with fans in the new season of 19 Kids now airing new episodes every Tuesday night. So far, fans have seen Jill and Derick share the news with the family and start some early preparations.
The couple has shared that they are planning to do a home birth and they have a team of midwives and family members ready to help. Jill's sister Jana, notes People, will be right there by her side helping and other family members will be running errands as needed.
Of course, it will be some time yet before 19 Kids and Counting fans get to see it all play out on TLC. As TV Guide notes, the next episode will feature Johannah's ninth birthday party and Michelle's high school reunion. Naturally, there will also be some time spent following Jill and Derick, as well as Jessa's wedding planning, as in these episodes currently airing her big day is right around the corner.
Jill and Derick have had a wild year, just recently sharing the first anniversary of their big meeting when he returned from Nepal. In this past year they've courted, gotten engaged, wed one another, and have made it almost all the way through their first pregnancy. 19 Kids and Counting fans are definitely on high alert for the news of Baby Dilly's arrival, as he could come at any point now.
Stay tuned for Jill Duggar Dillard pregnancy news as these last days play out and the newest 19 Kids and Counting family member prepares to arrive.
[Image via Derick Dillard's Instagram]
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The Women's Mystery tradition is womb and earth based. It is experiential in nature. In every traditional culture girls would receive teachings and initiations as they went through puberty. Our cycles and our wombs created the oldest of human calendars and we understood our bodies reflected the cycles of the Moon and the Earth.
To bring you back to this ancient knowledge, the 13 Moons Calendar has been created to give you a framework for becoming more intimately familiar with the divinity of your body and all she has to reveal to you.
As a daily practice, this calendar will assist you in connecting to your own rhythms and inner knowing, to come into more presence and balance in your life. The calendar and companion guide are tools to connect you deeply and honourably to your inner wisdom, to give a sacred context to your life's journey.
The 13 Moons Calendar has ben created for all phases of a Woman's life. You can work with the calendar to chart your moon flow cycle, including fertility, during pregnancy and your perimenopausal transistion into moonpause and beyond. For anyone with health issues the information gained through charting is gold for any wholistic health care practitioner.
As you deepen your relationship with your body and particularly your womb you'll awaken the vast wisdom and power held within.
Until you meet your power within, you are not going to find lasting, deep satisfaction in the outside world.
Self empowerment comes down to two simple words, know thyself. When you understand your cycle you can drive your life with connectedness and confidence. You might have become accustomed to your anatomy being brandished as an enigma, out of control and unpredictable like the weather. You may feel swept up at the mercy of your hormones and menstrual cycle, feeling frustrated, disconnected and at worst over-medicated. This doesn't have to be how it is - we want to show you how to stand in the eye of the storm with an assured awareness. To teach you not to battle your body; to track and appreciate it, to understand yourself beyond your senses, to know your health in relation to the cycles of the moon.
Have a look at how to work with the Calendar below.
Q. What prior experience do I need to use the calendar?
Q. How much time does the calendar take to complete each day?
Q. What is the right way to fill out the calendar?
Q. What is the best time to fill in the calendar?
Q. What if I miss one or more days?
Q. How can I get help interpreting my chart?
Q. What if I get stuck and need help?
1. Being apart of the online community in conjuction with the compaion guide book is a fantastic space for support and inspiration that will journey with you over the 13 Moons.
Q. What if I am in moon-pause (menopause) ?
A. The Calendar is a powerful ally during peri menopause and menopause. It acts as an an anchor when needed and acts as a great navigational tool in your new and changing inner landscape. Through regularly using the calendar, it will reveal hormonal patterns that you may be unware of. Bringing daily attention to your body is key to having emotional balance and assists in acessing the unfolding wisdom being revealed from within.
Q. Can I share my Chart or should I keep this private?
A. It can be very revealing to others, so it's entirley up to you. It will give your partners an insight into your ever changing nature, if you are working in a Women's Circle it can be a powerful aspect in your sharing, and from the perspective of Holistic Practitioners, this information would be invaluable in their work with you.
Q. Are there other resources to support me ?
A. We have a downloadable companion guidebook in our 'Complete Woman package - this will extend your experience by giving you information about the intentions of each Moon, whilst offering you nurturing feminine practices ,meditations and reflection from a sisterhood of women all charting their cycle and taking the 13 Moon journey !


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This chart has been SUPER helpful for my class as a whole, and has helped some of my students really build independence.
Here's how I use it!
1. Break down each task into three basic steps. I explain the steps in depth when I model the lesson.
2.Chant the three steps as a group. Post the larger step by step cards.
3.Students who benefit from a little extra visual have their own work cards (included). I printed and laminated the cards, and then applied velcro to the chart and the backs of each of the work cards. In the beginning I placed the three steps on the student cards, but now they go back to their seats and say the steps, and place the cards they need in order on their work charts.
This tool has been super useful with my students so I just had to share it as a freebie!


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Feherty Returns with Jordan Spieth Interview
He's back! David Feherty interviews world No. 1 Jordan Spieth when Feherty returns March 7 at 9pm ET on Golf Channel. If David's interview with the two-time major champion is anything like his past interviews, you're in for some major entertainment!
Join in on the social conversation around the Feherty's return: Like Feherty on Facebook, follow @Fehertwit on Twitter and tweet using #Feherty.
Don't miss the return of Feherty on Monday, March 7 at 9pm ET on Golf Channel! To get ready, we're counting down Feherty's top-10 moments. Have a look:
10. Venturi's career ending
9. Padraig the "sneaky bastard"
8. Trevino the human lightning rod
7. Daly's dangerous trick shot
6. Clarke's drunk press conference
5. Faldo's first Open Championship experience
4. Feherty fountain-dives with Wie
3. Watson's late career run at the Open Championship
2. Miller's difficult family decision
1. Nicklaus can't remember losses
Golf TV Insider
Feherty is Back!
BY Golf Channel Digital — January 21, 2014
Feherty is back. Not with just one show, but two LIVE back-to-back shows on Jan 21 & 22 at 9PM ET.


I managed to trade for this little beauty and I absolutely love it!
Lovely combination @Predat0rs! Congrats! I had a few more Florets grow up. Slowly edging towards my scroll goal for them.
Hurrah! Another line to carry on.
Caught a cb chrono I'm usually unable to catch ANYTHING in the cave, let alone something nice!
Already caught a freckled, just caught a gold floret...Now all I need is a purple floret!
:cries: I'm so happy; I stayed up super-late UK time in the hope of catching the first of the Prank Mints hitting the AP, and after a bit of juggling and grabbing, I filled my one available egg-slot with an UPSIDE-DOWN Mintie! After getting et on Sunday (same result as last year), I feel better now - and it means that, along with my three from last year, I now have two pairs of ceiling Mints.
I got an upside down mint this year, to go with one from last year. I don't know how to influence it though - as a mate to make a PB pair, or the same as the first to make a checker with. I think I'll only be breeding them for other people, so I don't know what would be more desired.
Caught a cb golden wyvern while trying to get more gold florets. Also got a cb xenowyrm.
I met my scroll goal for Freckled dragons and they're all safely grown up! Still working on the Florets. Also managed to find 7(!) upside-down Mints in the AP today, so I should now have 5 breeding pairs in total.
With the trade I completed this morning, I now have my scroll-goal of Springs, which means I have my scroll-goal for ALL SEASONALS now yaaaayyyyy!! That took so much longer then I'd expected, goodness.
I have enough gold Florets for my scroll goal now! I just have to wait for them to gender correctly and grow up. Then I'll just need to work on the purples.
Grabbed an ER upside down mint from the AP!
Oh my word! That's amazing, such a lucky grab!!
My raffle win grew up minutes ago and just bred a Shimmer egg. At first try. What.
Something amazing just happened. I was in the Alpine and there was a Chicken so I immediately went for it. But then an Almandine popped up! Then a Floret! And then an Astrapi! So guess who nabbed them all, one after the other?
I didn't even know things like these happened. That's like my entire trading fodder done for the next week in less than 5 seconds!
In the past two weeks I've hatched *two* Dark Green alts! Just randomly decided to play the alt lotto a bit when the eggs showed up in the AP and it majorly paid off. And the ones that didn't turn out to be alts were still beautifully messy so I froze a few.
Got my Platinum trophy! Finally I've been playing sporadically since 2009.
Congrats! Enjoy that extra egg slot!
I've started catching some Spring Seasonals to go towards my scroll goal. I'm always terrible making sure I get enough before the season changes, but I managed to reach my Winter goal before they left and now I'm getting started on Spring nice and early!
Went to look for gold Florets, caught a CB Ice instead.
Yay! Seasonals can be frustrating, I was only 2 away from my Autumn goal when they changed over to Winter one year!
Speaking of scroll goals, I only need 4 more purple Florets! I haven't focused on the golds or Freckleds yet, only have a few of those, but I'm so close with the purples!
Now the hard part begins, getting the 3g soul' from a new release paring...May GoN have mercy on my RNG!
Last night I also grabbed a CB silver!


Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is closed today, Tuesday, October 30, due to the threat of flooding from Big Creek, which runs through the Zoo and the Brookside Reservation valley.
The extensive amount of rain caused by the Hurricane Sandy weather system has brought the water in Big Creek very close to flood level. The decision to close the Zoo was made in the interest of keeping guests out of harm's way, allowing Zoo personnel to concentrate on weather related issues.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances related to storm damage or flooding, the Zoo is expected to reopen at 10 a.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, October 31. Updates will be posted online at clemetzoo.com and on the Zoo's Facebook page.
Questions from the media should be directed to the Marketing & Public Relations department. All other questions, regarding scheduled events, classes or field trips, can be directed to the Zoo's main phone number, (216) 661-6500.
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March 2015 | Wots her name again?
OK so the eagerly anticipated collaboration between model Laura Bailey and L.K. Bennett has now landed and I have to say that even though I have purchased a few pieces from LK Bennett in the past I wouldn't describe myself as a fan unlike my Auntie Novelette who is a super L.K. Bennett fan.
When I received the invitation to the L.K. Bennett London by Laura Bailey Launch at the concession in Fenwicks from Elle Insider I thought that this would be a perfect excuse for some Auntie Niece time and perhaps I could be transformed into a fan.
L.K.Bennett London by Laura Bailey capsule collection consist of five shoes designs and two clutch bags which will be exclusively available from L.K.Bennett stores and online.
The colour pallet consists of vibrant colours such as bright yellows, blues, reds and oranges in funky yet almost traditional geometric prints.
During the event Laura Bailey talked about her inspiration for the collection which was her experience travelling which I picked up on instantly as the colours and the prints made me think about holidays and those adventures you have going to craft markets or chilling out by the beach.
Personally I find the collection to be very wearable and fun but a little bit out of my price range.
My auntie Novelette on the other hand loved everything and I'm sure she will be emailing me pictures of her new purchases next week.
Last night I had the pleasure of attending a networking event called Keziah Connections I had previously been to one of their events which I enjoyed so I was more than happy to make my way in to London to network with like minded women.
For those of you that are unfamiliar Keziah Connections is a networking and mentoring organisation for the entrepreneurial, enterprising, professional woman of colour who has a passion for all things business and a flair for beauty and lifestyle. monthly networking and education evenings, prominent and up-and-coming figures from within the beauty and lifestyle sector share their expertise and experience to encourage and motivate the audience.
Founded and hosted by Natalie Clue of BeautyPulseLondon Keziah Connections has been hosting events for three years now and is going from strength to strength always coming up with amazing venues and motivational speakers industry leaders.
Held in a Held in the uber chic Nails and Eyebrows a nail and brow styling boutique located in the heart of Mayfair London and founded but the beautiful and business savvy Sherrille Riley.
I instantly felt welcomed as soon as I walked through the door which after a hectic drive through London and a crazy day in the office which was exactly the kind of energy I needed.
After a glass of rose some nibbles and a quick manicure I was nattering away and I am pleased to say I was able to network with some amazing and inspirational women.
We also got to hear about what inspired Sherrille Riley to set up this unique enterprise and the process she had to go through to realize her dream offer her customers great products and excellent customer service that could at an affordable price.
I left the event inspired with beautiful nails and I will defiantly be attending the next one.
promise to do better next time.
I excited to be invited to Grazia's 10th Birthday which was being held at the Diane Von Furstenberg shop in Mayfair London.
I have been a fan of the for some time now (Not that I can justify buying it because I am poor lol) I was somewhat intrigued by Diane Von Furstenberg herself as I had seen her on episodes of The City.
The event was absolutely lovely! Drinks were flowing and tasty nibbles were regularly being passed around by well-dressed wait staff. The new season is amazing but what would you expect from DVF those amazing prints (Which has inspired me to make bolder choices with my wardrobe for SS15) and colours made my head spin and the sales staff all looked amazing.
I was hoping there would be a talk which explained the collection to us and perhaps some of the key trends for SS15 but unfortunately no joy.
However one of the sales assistants was an absolute gem as she talked me through the collection and help me select a bag to purchase.
All guests were given a £50 Gift voucher so I decided to treat myself to the Bag and a book called The Woman I Wanted to Be by DVF then I had to quickly make my exit before I was tempted to purchase anything else.
"I am over the moon. You have made my day.
Thank you for giving me the chance to try out.
I have very dry skin and this lovely gadget should help make it smooth again and revitalise it"
Congratulations Kim your prize is now on its way to you.
It's been a year since my Be:fit London adventures which I thoroughly enjoyed and I couldn't wait to return this year.
I'm not going to lie I kind of sort of fell of my fitness routine so hopefully this will be the kick up the bum I need to get me back on track.
For those who don't know Be:Fit used to be called the Vitality show but the health, beauty, fitness and well-being event was re branded to have more of a focus on health, fitness and wellbeing. Starting out in Old Billingsgate and I'm guessing due to its popularity Be:fit will now be taking place at the Design and Business Center in Islington which I believe is a bigger venue.
Whether you are a fitness fanatic or someone who wants to live a healthier life style I promise you there is something for you at Be:fit London for you.
Oh and let's not forget about the 125 brands which include Vitamix, Quest Nutrition, Vita Coco that will be exhibiting their newest products.
One of the things I regretted last year was not taking part in the fitness classes that were hosted in the Reebok FitHub! so this year I'm going to make sure I get involved.
Tickets for Be:Fit London are £18 with £9 fees for concessions and children aged 11-16.


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Video: Three life sentences for Cricklewood armed robber who raided banks while on day release from jail
Published: 2:51 PM February 21, 2014 Updated: 9:19 PM October 15, 2020
Sean Bradish has been given three life sentences (pic credit: Met Police) - Credit: Archant
An armed robber from Cricklewood who carried out a string of bank raids while on day release from prison has been given three life sentences.
Police siezed this gun when Bradish was arrested (pic credit: Met Police) - Credit: Archant
Sean Patrick Bradish, 46, of Shoot Up Hill, brandished an imitation gun and got away with more than £40,000 after carrying out seven robberies, including the same branch three times, between April 28, 2012 to March 25 last year.
Money uncovered by police after Bradish was arrested (Pic credit: Met Police) - Credit: Archant
The Old Bailey heard Bradish, who was given a life sentence in 2002 for a string of bank robberies with his brother Vincent, now 50, carried out his first raid just hours after he was out on day release.
Sean Bradish poses with a bottle of champagne before he was jailed in 2002 (pic credit: Central News) - Credit: central news
He walked into a branch of Lloyds TSB in Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage, on April 28, 2012, and pulled out a silver coloured imitation gun to threaten staff who handed over £8,500.
The robber was carried out hors after he left HMP Spring Hill.
On May 12 the same year he carried out his first of three robberies at Barclays Bank in Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage.
He had partially covered his face and escaped with £4,000 after threatening staff with his silver coloured imitation gun.
A few weeks later he robbed the NatWest in Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury of £8,500 on July 20 using the same silver fake gun.
He second stint at robbing Barclays Bank in Swiss Cottage took place on September 28 where he used the same silver imitation gun and fled with £6,500.
His fifth robbery was committed after Bradish was released from jail on licence.
It was the third time he robbed Barclays Bank in Swiss Cottage, wearing a hooded jacket and using the same fake gun he fled with £3,000 on February 8 last year.
The following month he attempted to rob NatWest in Cricklewood Broadway, Cricklewood, on March 22.
He held a gun to the cashier's head but fled empty handed on a black mountain bike.
Detectives looking into the raids discovered Bradish had been captured on CCTV a month before at a clothes shop in Kilburn buying a blue coat and trainers which were identical to the clothing worn by the robber in Cricklewood..
Three days after his unsuccessful raid in Cricklewood he targeted Barclays Bank in Ickenham, where he threatened an elderly female customer with a gun before fleeing with £13,135.
He was eventually snared by detectives who had launched Operation Huvadu to snare the robber behind the string of raids.
Unknown to him this was to be his last robbery as the detectives were on to him and he was observed getting into a mini-cab in, Northwood, Middlesex.
The vehicle was stopped in Harrow and he was arrested and found in possession of the firearm, items of clothing worn in the robbery and the cash stolen.
The silver imitation gun which he had used for four of the raids has never been found.
Last month he admitted six counts of robbery, one of attempted robber and seven counts of possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
Today he was sentenced to the three life sentences with a minimum of 17 years in jail.
Detective Sergeant Ben Kennedy, of the Flying Squad, said: "I am pleased with the sentence that has been handed down today.
"Bradish's offending escalated over a period 11 months, with him becoming more brazen as time went on. Bradish showed blatant disregard for the restrictions imposed on him and had he not been caught when he did I have no doubt he would have carried on offending.
"A number of the victims caught up in the robberies genuinely feared for their lives and are still coming to terms with their terrifying ordeals. I hope that they too find comfort in today's sentence."
Speaking about her torment she has suffered since she was threatened by Bradish, the cashier at the NatWest Bank in Cricklewood, said: "This was an extremely traumatic ordeal for me both at the time and it has effected me until this day.
"I have avoided the area of Cricklewood where this incident took place because I do not feel safe there and I do not feel at this time able to return to the scene of where this incident took place.
"In addition to still suffering episodes of feeling anxious my confidence as a person has also been knocked and I feel that I am no longer the same person that I was before this happened.
"The things that I experienced will stay with me forever."
Click on the photo gallery to see images of Bradish in action.


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Adding relief to the relief efforts
Corporate, Featured, What's Hot
May 19, 2021 by GRT Hotels & Resorts
Nobody could have anticipated the long and tumultuous turns this pandemic has taken. As members of the hospitality industry, it is our privilege and honour to lead the relief efforts. We made it our mission to serve those who were affected by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and we are aligning all our efforts to ensure we do.
Having a strong immune system is the need of the hour and nutrition plays an important role in boosting one's immunity. Keeping this need in mind, our chefs are working alongside leading nutritionists to create special meals to boost and bolster your immunity. After all, we are what we eat. The delicious meals are rich with all the essential nutrients. This was served free of cost to all frontline workers, migrant labourers, and of course the healthcare workers too, when the pandemic began.
We wanted to make this service more accessible when the second wave surges through the country. Our recently launched GRT Cloud Kitchens has adopted this model and established a way to reach people effectively. The cloud kitchen service has played a tremendous role in the relief efforts by providing a free meal service, prepared with utmost care to COVID-19 patients and their caretakers. The service is available in Chennai, Madurai, Kakinada, Tirunelveli and Vellore. We do hope you make the most of this offering so that your health is uncompromised. Feel free to call and place an order, whenever you need it.
Our greatest strength lies in looking out for each other. Every step can make a difference, no matter how small and we are doing all that we can to ensure that the tide turns in our favour.
We stay committed to helping the nation breathe easy again. Most recently, we donated about 5 oxygen concentrators to Chettinad Hospital. We ensured that the concentrators were installed in the general ward, thereby making quick access to these facilities more accessible to all, no matter where they come from.
We stand by the community and the people, always. To help support the Government of Tamil Nadu, the GRT group has donated Rs. 1 crore to the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund. As a gesture to express how tremendous our love is for the many customers and well-wishers who have supported us tirelessly.
Restoring normalcy is proving to be a herculean task and it is one that can be only accomplished through cooperation and lifting each other up. Therefore, in addition to the above measures, we have also partnered with several NGOs to aid them in their respective relief efforts. We continue to monitor the situation closely and together, we shall move forward.
We at the GRT group pray and wish for the well-being and safety of all our customers around the world.


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Well, it happened again. I think I'd be rich if I made money on how many times I said that. This morning I got stung. That brings our total up to 7 as a family (3 for Judah, 2 for Ethen and 2 for me). I got it in the temple this morning on my walk. In an earlier post, I showed the bee's nest. Well, someone knocked it down and this morning as we were going by, I wanted to take a picture and ouchie...it stung me. So, having Ethen and Judah with me, we ran like crazy, swatting and swinging! I have a slight headache now. Go figure?!


A power failure at the Hillsboro water treatment plant interrupted the telemetry system between Hillsboro and Peabody early Saturday morning. A low-water alarm at the Peabody water tower was unable to inform anyone in Peabody of the problem.
After numerous phone calls from citizens concerned Saturday afternoon about low water pressure or no water, Peabody public works employees found the water level in the tower at a critically low level.
Hillsboro was notified and in a matter of hours, employees had the water at a sufficient level. Public works employees have been monitoring the system since Saturday.
Kansas Department of Health and Environment was contacted immediately and kept apprised of the situation. The circumstances did not require the city to issue a "boil water" advisory.
"At no time were the citizens of Peabody in danger of contamination," Peabody City Administrator Mac Manning said.
Marion County dispatch also was contacted about the critical stage in case of a fire.
Manning, Peabody Mayor Larry Larsen, and Peabody Public Works Director Darren Pickens have evaluated the situation and are taking steps to prevent the situation from happening again.


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School of Transnational Governance - European University Institute
Democracy Forum sets the stage for European Citizens' Panel in Florence
As the European University Institute prepares to welcome 200 EU citizens to discuss the future of Europe, the EUI-STG Democracy Forum opens its doors to the public.
08 December 2021 | Event - Research
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This weekend, from 10 to 12 December, the European University Institute (EUI) is welcoming 200 citizens from all over Europe to take part in the final session of one of the four European Citizens' Panels. The panels are part of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), which was launched in spring 2021 by EU institutions with the aim to give citizens a more active role in shaping EU policies.
Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis, a driving force behind the School of Transnational Governance's work on democracy said the Conference on the Future of Europe "has started a process of experimenting [ …] about what democracy is all about, experimenting with new modes and participatory and deliberative democracy through a digital platform and citizens' assemblies." (To watch the full interview, scroll to the bottom of the page).
The EUI-STG Democracy Forum zooms in on CoFoE
One day before the start of the Florentine Citizens' Panel, on Thursday 9 December, the EUI-STG Democracy Forum opens its doors to the public, in cooperation with Citizens Take Over Europe, NewEuropeans, E Rossi Foundation and EuropeDirect Florence, to take a closer look at this unique experiment in participatory democracy.
The Democracy Forum was founded in the fall of 2020 in the run-up to CoFoE and comprises 163 members from the world of academia, policy, think-thanks, the media and civil society to debate the conference in relation to state of the art academic knowledge on participatory democracy.
As one of the pillars the EUI's Interdisciplinary Research Cluster on Democracy in the 21st century, the initiative is led by Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis, Chair in International Affairs at the STG, together with Niccolo Milanese, founding Director of European Alternatives and Alberto Alemanno, Professor of Law at HEC Paris. It also features a youth branch, the Young EUI Democracy Forum (YEDF), that works alongside the Forum, tackling the issues from an angle to ensure that young people's voices in Europe are heard.
The Forum aims to build a bridge between academia, European institutions, practitioners and civil society to support CoFoE in its goal to become a showcase and a test of what the EU could and should do beyond the conference. So far, the Forum has looked at the methodology of the conference and how selection and inclusion actually worked in practice. It has also analysed the political tensions and concerns involved. As "critical friends" of CoFoE, its main interest is to assess how this ambitious initiative could serve as a blueprint to reinvent European democracy, including the establishment of a permanent rotating Citizens Assembly for the EU.
If you are curious to know more about the Forum and its work on CoFoE, join the event on Thursday, 16.00 – 18.00 CET.
Learn more about the EUI-STG Democracy Forum and the Young EUI Democracy Forum.
Prof Kalypso Nicolaidis about CoFoE
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so that I can sleep serenely every dark night .
I cannot hear the song of your tears.
Tell them to speak louder..
My tongue is captured/I speak of dreams, only.
You can lick my eyes, there lies my simplest truth.
And you can bring me tulips, utterly red.
I float in the air, breathe me.
I don't exist,i am just the ink of your pen.
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Holy Cannoli, Hipsters! 71-year-old Bushwick Bakery Tries Something New
By Gwynne Hogan |&nbspFebruary 7, 2016 4:10pm
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Holy Cannoli!
BUSHWICK — After 71 years, this Italian pastry shop isn't afraid of change.
Two brothers, who grew up washing pots and pans in Circo's Pastry Shop, owned by their father, have kept faithful to their Italian roots while adapting to the neighborhood as it changed around them.
Take the "Holy Cannoli Donut" dreamt up by Anthony Pierdipino, 31, last year.
The oblong donut is sliced open and loaded with cannoli cream, sprinkled with cinnamon, powdered sugar and chips of traditional cannoli crust and it's been a smash hit among the newer donut-crazed Bushwick residents, they said.
Circo's Pastry Shop, which has been in operation continuously since 1945 on the corner of Knickerbocker Avenue and Hart Street, is now owned and operated by Anthony and Salvatore Pierdipino, 36, who took over completely for their father, Nino, when he retired two years ago.
The transition was an easy one since they'd been working at the shop since they were kids, the brothers said.
"I don't know what Saturday morning cartoons [are]," said Salvatore. "Saturday morning cartoons [was] working here."
For years the two were only allowed to do menial tasks like washing fruit, slicing strawberries or cracking eggs.
"My father wouldn't let you touch anything. 'Watch me, watch me, watch me,'" Anthony remembered his father saying. "How many times can you watch someone and not want to do it?"
Anthony said he was 15 when he first got to do something other than grunt work — and it was a fluke. His father was taking a nap and had left an unfinished cake on the counter. Anthony seized the opportunity.
"He woke up and he saw that I'd finished the cake," Anthony said. "I did it right."
Whether it was $50 or $75 that their father Nino had in his pocket when he arrived from Sicily as a teenager in the 1960s, is up for debate between the two brothers.
Like his two sons, Nino had grown up working as a pastry chef in Sicily since the age of 11. When he got to the U.S. with his mother and siblings in the mid-sixties, he got right back to work, they said.
Their father lived on Suydam Street around the corner from Circo's Pastry Shop and started working at the shop right away. After five years, he bought it from Sebastiano Circo, who'd owned it since 1945.
In the years since the business has been in the family, they've had to adapt to the needs of the changing community around them to stay afloat.
As the Italian population in the neighborhood dwindled the Pierdipino's found that their bulk sales of cookies by the pound were also on decline — those had been big sellers for people who'd offer them at gatherings with in-laws and relatives each weekend.
Instead they put more of an emphasis on sheet cakes, they said.
They found sheet cakes were much more popular among Latino families moving into the neighborhood who'd order them for birthday and wedding celebrations held in catering halls where you had to bring your own food.
And over the years they've come up with new items to reach different clients — like the family-sized cannoli that their father created, a foot-long cannoli stuffed with dozens of smaller cannolis.
While new items help attract different clientele, both brothers agreed, sticking to their roots is of utmost importance, just as being able to reach emigrant Italians has been critical to their survival. Online sales have allowed them to do that, and they now ship anywhere in the country.
After all these years, both brothers are still committed to carrying on their father's business on Knickerbocker Avenue for years to come, they said.
"[It's been] my father's place for so many years. You don't want to see it fold and go under. You want to fight to keep it going," Salvatore said. "It's what we know."
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