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Mercedes-Benz Speeds up Electric Vehicle Development with $11 Billion Investment
By Paul Riegler on 29 March 2017
Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler said Wednesday it plans to increase the number of electric vehicles it offers in order to offset higher than expected emissions levels across its product line.
The Stuttgart-based automaker said it will develop ten new electric cars by 2022 and is investing €10 billion ($10.8 billion) in the effort. It had originally planned to develop ten new electric vehicles by 2025, a plan announced at the Paris Auto Show last September.
"If you want to stay ahead, you must continually invest in development," said Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche.
The transition to a large electric vehicle fleet will not be easy, acknowledged Daimler's chairman, Manfred Bischoff, at the company's shareholder meeting Wednesday, noting it will require "fundamental" change at the automaker.
This year automaker failed to lower its fleet-wide emissions for the first time since 2007. It attributed the increase to an increasing customer preference for sport utility vehicles, which tend to have higher emissions. European Union regulations require that all new cars produce 95 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer or less by the year 2020, compared to Mercedes' current average of 123 grams. The accelerated move to offer more electric vehicles should help the automaker reach that goal.
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Blu-ray Review "The Adventures of Tintin"
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Film: 4 out of 5 stars
Extras: 3.5 out of 5 stars
When I first saw "The Adventures of Tintin", I wasn't sure what to expect. The trailer looked "just-ok". Let me tell you, once I saw it I was blown away. Steven Spielberg's films have been hit and miss the last few years but this was a sure fire hit. I loved it so much and in fact was one of my favorites from 2011. The performance capture in the film was just so astounding. Some of the action scenes in the film were absolutely breathtaking. This film is not all action though it is also very funny as well. You can tell that a lot of time and effort when into making this film look amazing. I also originally saw it in 3D and I felt it really worked well with the film. If you have a chance to see the film in 3D, I would suggest you checking it out rather than this 2D version. The 2D version still works but the effects really get a lot of depth in 3D and just feels so much more exciting.
The film follows Tintin (Jamie Bell) a young reporter and his dog as they in pursuit for a mysterious model ship. The two travel from Europe to the Sahara and Morocco in hopes to solve the case. They meet up with drunken captain, Haddock (Andy Serkis), who aids them in their search. The team find that Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine (Daniel Craig), has plans to also find this model ship since it holds the key to finding a long lost treasure. Due to the lack of interest in the US for this film, I am not sure if there will be future additions to the series but I really hope so because this could make such a great franchise.
The film looks perfect in video and really shines. It also looks the best with its performance capture, easily the best that I have seen to date. The audio is beyond amazing DTS-HD MA 7.1 track. This is becoming a tradition for Paramount who has also included 7.1 for "Hugo" and "Puss in Boots". Besides the Blu-ray copy of the film, this release also includes a DVD Copy, an Ultraviolet digital copy and BD-Live. These are all great features and really gives many options for this film to watch.
The special features includes in this release are great but missing any commentary tracks from Steven Spielberg or Peter Jackson. There is a two part feature called "Toasting Tintin" which celebrates the beginning and the end of the film's production. "The Journey to Tintin" is a short feature with director Steven Spielberg chatting about his road to bringing "Tintin" to the big screen. "The World of Tintin" is a look into the character of Tintin himself. "The Who's Who of Tintin" focuses on the character and the performance capture in the film. "Tintin: Conceptual Design" focuses on how the film wanted to stay true to the original Hergé design. "Tintin: In the Volume" is a piece on shooting in 3D and focusing on the production. "Snowy: From Beginning to End" focuses on the dog from the page to the screen. "Animating Tintin" is an in depth look into the films animation. "Tintin: The Score" is a feature on composer John Williams Lastly "Collecting Tintin" is a short features on the films toys.
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Film Review "The Adventures of Tintin"
Starring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis and Daniel Craig
Rated: PG
Our Score: 5 out 5 stars
In 1981, after reading a review that compared his recent "Raiders of the Lost Ark" with the illustrated adventures of a young man named "Tintin," director Steven Spielberg began reading the various comics detailing the escapades of the diminutive Belgian investigative journalist. In 1983 he purchased the rights to make a film. The saying goes that all good things come to those who wait. After almost 30 years the wait is over. And well worth it.
While visiting the local market Tintin (Bell) is captivated by a model ship, the Unicorn, being offered for sale. The seller seems eager to move it and the sale is made for the whopping price of one pound. Moments later another buyer identifying himself as Mr. Sakharine (Craig) attempts to buy the ship, offering much more than the original asking price. But a sale is a sale and, despite his best offer, Mr. Sakharine watches Tintin walk off with the ship. Intrigued by Sakharine's urgent insistence on obtaining the model, Tintin, with the help of his dog Snowy, does what he does best. Investigate.
I will make no secret here that if Hollywood was heaven Steven Spielberg would be my god (little "g" of course). His film "Jaws" is the reason I began my interest in movies and that interest has guided me both personally and professionally, up to and including being able to write film reviews. That being said, I would be remiss if I didn't say that even if Steven Soderbergh had directed "The Adventures of Tintin" I would still rave about it.
Presented in the format known as motion capture, where the actions of the actors are digitally transferred to a computer, "The Adventures of Tintin" is an adventure film that carries you away in its magic. As Tintin and Snowy begin their quest they run into Captain Haddock (Serkis), whose ship has been chartered by Sakharine for a journey to Morocco. When Sakharine attempts to cause a mutiny, Haddock, Tintin and Snowy escape and make their way by land and air to the African country where they encounter another model of the Unicorn. And a clue that could lead them to a fantastic treasure!
I have never read a "Tintin" comic. In fact, if I hadn't grown up with a few friends that collected comic books I most likely wouldn't have heard of them. And I say this because, Tintin fan or not, if you like adventure you will like this film. Director Spielberg has given us sharks and U.F.Os and aliens and dinosaurs. His vision, of course, but helped by brilliant special effects people. And the same goes here. This is the best motion capture film I've ever seen. The attention to detail is incredible, so much so that you can even see the small flecks of dust when they are reflected by a flashlight. My biggest complaint about motion capture films had been that no matter how "natural" the characters appeared their eyes always looked creepy. Credit Spielberg and team, which includes "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson, for clearing up that problem. The characters appear as lifelike as a digitally created person can. Especially one who bears a striking resemblance to Spielberg. And, as he has for over twenty films with the director, John Williams provides a brilliant score that captures the on screen story beautifully.
Click here to check out our interview with Wayne Stables, Visual Effects Supervisor for "The Adventures of Tintin"
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"The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn" Comic Con Images
Check out the following images from Comic Con for "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn". The performance capture film is starring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Daniel Craig. The film is directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and also produced by Peter Jackson. It is set for release December 23, 2011.
Photo credit: WETA Digital Ltd. Left to right: Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), Snowy, and Tintin (Jamie Bell) in THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN, from Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures.
Photo credit: © Alex Berliner / ABImages THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Director/Producer Steven Spielberg and Producer Peter Jackson discuss their film at a panel in Hall H for Comic Con in San Diego, CA on Friday, July 22nd, 2011.
Photo credit: © Alex Berliner / ABImages THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Director/Producer Steven Spielberg shows off his Inkpot Award at Hall H in San Diego, CA on Friday, July 22nd, 2011.
Photo credit: © Alex Berliner / ABImages THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Actor Andy Serkis, Producer Peter Jackson, and Director/Producer Steven Spielberg (with his Inkpot Award) backstage at Hall H in San Diego, CA on Friday, July 22nd, 2011.
Photo credit: © Alex Berliner / ABImages Left to right: THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Producer Peter Jackson and Director/Producer Steven Spielberg discuss their film at Comic Con in San Diego, CA on Friday, July 22nd, 2011.
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WATCH: 'Historic day' as sod turned on site for new Limerick secondary school
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Mayor James Collins and Minister of State Patrick O'Donovan TD taking a selfie with student Shaena Cohen
WORK on the greenfield site where a state of the art secondary school will be constructed in County Limerick has officially commenced after a sod-turning event.
The construction of the new building for Coláiste Chiaráin in Croom will now get underway, after several hurdles over the last number of years delayed the long-awaited project.
This Friday, August 31, marked an important milestone for education in Croom as the work was officially launched by Minister of State, Patrick O'Donovan TD.
"I am immensely pleased to be here today on what is a historic day for Colaiste Chiarain and the town of Croom," he said.
Sod turned by @podonovan accompanied by @colaiste students William Dore and Leah Donnelly pic.twitter.com/IcLbzakoib
— Maria Flannery (@mariaflan) August 31, 2018
The beginning of the project was marked this Friday with a ceremonial tree-planting and turning of the sod by Mr O'Donovan and Coláiste Chiaráin students Leah Donnelly and William Dore.
The event also marked Matt Power's last day as acting principal of the school. The role will now be taken over by Gerard O'Sullivan, who was previously the deputy principal.
The contract for the new €20m Coláiste Chiaráin school, which is under the patronage of the Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board (LCETB) was awarded to Cork-based firm MMD Construction.
The major building project has been in the pipeline for well over a decade, and the "sub-standard" conditions at the current school building have been raised a number of times in the Dáil.
Opening today's ceremony, Chief Executive of the LCETB George O'Callaghan said: "Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board is delighted that at long last work can commence on the construction of a new building for Coláiste Chiaráin on this greenfield site."
George O'Callaghan, chief executive of LCETB says that many people may have thought the @colaiste project would never come to fruition pic.twitter.com/8CNlWh7mOC
"It has to be acknowledged that there have been long delays and twists and turns in getting to this point. At times I know that people felt that this project would never come to fruition. It is a testament to the patience, determination and perseverance of many people that the day has finally come when we can see at last the tangible progress on this development. This is indeed a special day for the Coláiste Chiaráin school community."
Mr O'Callaghan continued: "I would like to thank all those involved: staff, students and their parents, members of the Board of Management, local public representatives and the local community for their commitment and perseverance in ensuring that the project would happen."
The new school development on the 22 acre (8.9 hectares) site at Skagh, Croom, consists of a two-storey building of almost 10,000m² designed by Healy Partner Architects.
This is the plan for the new @colaiste campus in Croom. Lots of sporting facilities planned around the school on the 22 acre site pic.twitter.com/b2H7wHuP7P
Minister of State Patrick O'Donovan said: "For years I, together with my colleague Cllr Stephen Keary, have worked tirelessly with the Minister for Education and the Education and Training Board to secure this vital development for Croom."
"During that time there have been many disappointments and setbacks. While today feels like a new beginning, it was a long and often challenging journey to get here. However, we persevered, because Croom and its young people deserve nothing less than this outstanding development.
"Going forward I wish everyone involved in the construction phase of this mammoth project the very best of luck. Education is one of the most precious things in the world and to be part of something so important to this community is a great privilege," he added.
This will be "one of the biggest civil projects" in Limerick next year. @podonovan says construction process will be a boost to local economy pic.twitter.com/h4W2U3YgUs
"It is just one of a number of new school projects the government are delivering on across the county. In places like Doon, Abbeyfeale, Kilmallock and Newcastle West we have made substantial investments in our second level schools.Other secondary schools have also received funding for refurbishment and we have also provided significant resources for primary schools across Limerick including new schools, extensions and refurbishments," added Mr O'Donovan.
The Croom campus will incorporate over 60 teaching spaces which will facilitate delivery of the widest-possible curriculum to 850 students.
The incredibly talented @colaiste school choir singing at the site where their new long-awaited school will be built #ColáisteChiaráin pic.twitter.com/g56ZMvSr8D
The development of pitches and external play areas on the site, together with a full-sized PE Hall will enable a diverse range of extra-curricular activities on the new school campus.
In addition, the inclusion as part of the project of a Special Education Needs Unit aims to ensure that the educational needs of the entire school community are met.
Tony Brazil, board of management, says that @colaiste is an important part of the development of Croom pic.twitter.com/VhuZispj5r
Speaking at today's ceremony, Mayor of the City and County of Limerick, Cllr James Collins said: "I'm delighted to be with you today for the official sod turning for the new school for Coláiste Chiaráin.
There have been many false dawns and the planning regulations have been well-tested for this project, says Mayor @jamesjcollins pic.twitter.com/1RJVfESVnN
"There have been many false dawns in the quest for a new secondary school in Croom but it is now a reality. It is very important that our younger generation and future generations are taught well. We need excellent teachers but we also need excellent facilities. Today is an important day for the school and for Croom."
Construction is slated for completion in the final quarter of 2019.


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Ding Ding Ting Che parking locks use Nordic Semiconductor's nRF51822 SoC
Wireless smart occupancy platform employs Nordic Bluetooth LE technology
Retail and Payment
The Ding Ding Ting Che parking locks use Nordic Semiconductor's nRF51822 SoC to provide wireless connectivity to devices running the parking finder and navigation app.
Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Beijing Tong Yu Dao Technology Co., Ltd, a Chinese intelligent parking solutions company, has selected Nordic's multiple award-winning nRF51822 Bluetooth® Low Energy System-on-Chip (SoC) for its parking space occupancy platform, 'Ding Ding Ting Che'. The platform allows owners of parking spaces to rent and share their vacant spaces with drivers looking for an available parking spot via the Ding Ding Ting Che app. The app allows drivers to view available parking spaces, and navigate to them, in real-time.
In operation, a 6V 7Ah lead acid battery-powered 'smart' parking lock device is bolted into the parking space and can be raised and lowered automatically to prevent unauthorized access to the space, or to grant access to a driver paying to use the parking space via the app. When a driver approaches a vacant parking space they can lower the locking mechanism via the app on their device, allowing them to access the space and triggering payment to the parking spot owner.
The smart parking lock employs Nordic's nRF51822 SoC to provide Bluetooth LE wireless connectivity between the ground lock and the driver's iOS- or Android-compatible Bluetooth 4.0 (and later) smartphone or tablet.
After considering other low power wide area networks as wireless connectivity options, we decided Bluetooth Low Energy was the best option.
Shen Ao, Beijing Tong Yu Dao Technology Co., Ltd.
Ding Ding Ting Che also supports WeChat, a cross-platform messaging, content sharing, and online payment solution with over 700 million active users, available on almost all smartphones in China. When integrated with WeChat, Ding Ding Ting Che enables social media sharing of available parking spaces.
Nordic's nRF51822 is a powerful and flexible multiprotocol SoC ideally suited for Bluetooth LE and 2.4GHz ultra low-power wireless applications. The nRF51822 SoC is built around a 32-bit ARM® Cortex™ M0 CPU with 256kB/128kB flash and 32kB/16kB RAM. The embedded 2.4GHz transceiver is fully compliant with Bluetooth 4.2.
"After considering other low power wide area networks as wireless connectivity options, we decided Bluetooth LE was the best option," says Shen Ao, founder and CEO of Beijing Tong Yu Dao Technology Co., Ltd. "We selected Nordic's nRF51822 SoC partly because of its ability to perform secure over-the-air updates and because it supports WeChat hardware. On top of which the support we received from Nordic's local distributor, and the Nordic Developer Zone really helped us in development."
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Contactless payment options save time, are less prone to wear and tear and can improve overall security of payment systems. Both Bluetooth Low energy and NFC have roles to play in these systems. NFC offers the inherent security of very short range communication making eavesdropping and attacks very difficult. Bluetooth Low Energy offers more scope and when combined with NFC for secure connections brings scope for the next generation of payment-on-the-go. the nRF52 Series SoCs offer multiprotocol support for a range of wireless technologies, including Bluetooth Low Energy and NFC. Additionally they are equiped with comprehensive on-chip security features for encryption and cryptography.


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Gannarve skeppssättning ligger i Fröjels socken söder om Klintehamn på Gotland. Den 29 meter långa och 5 meter breda skeppssättningen ligger i ett naturskönt landskap på ett fält nära Gannarve gård och med vidsträckt utsikt över Karlsöarna. Gannarveskeppet är ett gravmonument från yngre bronsåldern (1100-500 f.Kr.).

När Carl Gustav Gottfried Hilfeling 1799 besökte Gotland och då tecknade av skeppssättningen hade den sällskap av ännu en skeppssättning. Pehr Arvid Säve beskriver dock 1852 skeppssättningarna som förstörda. 1909 fanns bara stävstenarna till ett av skeppen kvar. Skeppet rekonstruerades 1959 efter en undersökning av stenarnas antal och läge.

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The Definitive top 10 Horror Movies of 2016
OK, the year is ending and we've made a list of what we liked the most. If you agree or if you don't please comment your opinion here or in the Horror Galore facebook page. 10. The Autopsy of Jane Doe Cox and Hirsch play father and son coroners who receive a mysterious homicide victim with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to identify the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets. 9. Don't Breathe In Detroit, the burglars Money, Rocky and Alex plot a heist... Read More
The House of "Amityville Horror" movie is sold?
This past June iHorror broke the news that The real Amityville Horror House had been put up for sale. A week ago {November 13th} marked the anniversary of the grisly murders at what was then known as 112 Ocean Avenue. Ronald DeFeo, Jr. shot and killed the members of his family in the large Dutch Colonial house situated in a suburban neighborhood in Amityville. DeFeo Jr. was convicted of second-degree murder in November 1975. Over the years speculation grew as to if Defeo Jr. acted out this heinous crime with an accomplice, or two. With the countless... Read More
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Title: Johnny Depp To Resurrect The Invisible Man When Universal first released The Invisible Man back in 1933, the material was actually somewhat fresh. It was based on a sci-fi/horror novel by H.G. Wells that had been published in 1897, meaning it was really among the first mainstream book-to-screen adaptations of old Hollywood. The film, which you can actually find in its entirety online, was a success, viewed both as an artful interpretation of Wells's work and as a strong standalone movie. It also fit in with Universal's broader tendency to produce... Read More
William Friedkin talks about Special FX in Movies
William Friedkin, the famous director of The Exorcist, introduced the opening of the Lucca Film Festival with a fantastic speech about cinema, music, Giacomo Puccini and the impact of special effects in cinema. Friedkin came to Lucca with his wonderful wife Sherry Lansing (former manager for Paramount and Fox) and presented his old film "Sorcerer" that was really successful to the audience. Afterwards the director spent several minutes to talk about his love about Giacomo Puccini and his music and how modern it is. William Friedkin was a... Read More
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How Putin Is Pushing Back Against the West
November 15, 2021 Topic: Russia Region: Europe Tags: RussiaBelarusMigrant CrisisNord Stream IINATOUkraineVladimir Putin
The various crises now springing up in Eastern Europe are meant as warnings against assumptions that Russia will simply accept whatever state of affairs the Western alliance decrees.
by Nikolas K. Gvosdev
At the end of 2020, I was conferring with colleagues about the likely trajectory of relations between Russia and the West. One was quite optimistic that things were about to "break our way." Russia was coping with the collapse of energy prices and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Expectations were high that opposition leader Svetlana Tikhonovskaya and mass protests would send Alexander Lukashenko on the same pathway into obscurity in Russian exile as his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, and that Belarus would belatedly start down the same pro-Western course as its larger neighbor to the south. Despite the impeachment distraction, Ukraine was set to benefit from new U.S. weapons and training that would contain and roll back the separatists in the east by using the same techniques so adeptly wielded by Azerbaijan in its clash with Armenia. In addition, hopes were high that promised reforms might solidify Ukraine's entrance into Euro-Atlantic institutions, starting with NATO. Eleventh hour U.S. sanctions would also deal the death blow to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, forcing Russia to continue using Ukraine as a transit country for energy exports to Europe, while new sources of energy and new infrastructure projects would further reduce Russian sales. Deprived of income and coping with domestic challenges, the Kremlin would have to become much more accommodating of Washington's preferences.
The Russian calculation was to assume that, in the end, they could regulate their relations with the West on the basis of pragmatic transactionalism. And events for much of 2021 seemed to confirm this prediction. The Nord Stream 2 line was completed, and the Biden administration reluctantly reached an understanding with Germany over the conditions under which Russian gas might flow directly to Germany, bypassing Ukraine. President Joe Biden, during his trip to Europe, publicly threw cold water on Ukraine's rapid entry into NATO, maintaining that the country was nowhere near fulfilling the conditions needed for consideration. Tikhonovskaya was becoming the European equivalent of Venezuela's Juan Guaidó. Moreover, the Russian government withstood public criticism of its treatment of opposition figures like Alexei Navalny or the Ryanair incident in Belarus, where a flight was diverted to Minsk in order for security forces to arrest Belarusian dissidents. Finally, in the name of fighting climate change and environmental protection, there was talk about how "green energy" projects in Russia might be exempted from existing or future U.S. and EU sanctions.
But what frustrates the Russian foreign policy establishment is that it can never get guarantees that these pragmatic bargains will be ratified and respected. And exhibit number one, from the Kremlin's point of view, has been the continuing saga of Nord Stream. At the proverbial five minutes to midnight, the "Hail Mary" pass for stopping Nord Stream rests on drawing out the certification process for the pipeline by German regulators (which includes review at the level of the European Union) to give time for a new round of U.S. sanctions and the hopes that a new coalition government in Germany will provide the coup de grace to the project.
My sense is that the various crises now springing up in Eastern Europe—the deployment of Russian forces on the Ukrainian border, the efforts to use migration from Belarus into the European Union as a tool of pressure, the decision by Gazprom to stick to strict fulfillment of its gas contracts and not to send on additional supplies for the European spot markets, even the recent anti-satellite test which created a debris field which increased risks to the International Space Station—are meant as warnings that assuming that Russia will simply accept whatever state of affairs the Western alliance decrees (the fate of Nord Stream, the future of Lukashenko's government, Ukraine's future trajectory) is a highly risky endeavor.
This is a form of stress test: that the migration crisis exposes divisions within the EU and NATO and that increases in energy prices and possible shortages will lead to higher prices from everything from heat to groceries (since limits on natural gas impact not only electricity generation but things like the production of fertilizer). With domestic politics in European states (and even in the United States) already brittle and stressed, the thinking is that domestic opinion will be less concerned with changing the geopolitical balance in Eastern Europe and more on reaching these transactional arrangements to get supplies increased and prices lowered. Moreover, markets have taken off the table the proposals advanced during the Trump administration that Europeans should be prepared to purchase more energy from North American allies—even at a higher price—as Chinese and Japanese firms seek to lock down a larger portion of the Western Hemisphere's bounty for their own needs (while Russia also pivots some of its energy deliveries eastward as well).
Yet so far, this gamble may not be succeeding. The German regulators have formally invited Ukraine's state energy company to consult on the Nord Stream certification process; both the EU and NATO are looking at ways of strengthening the eastern border—with the narrative of Poland changing from a country at odds with the liberal values of the West to Poland as a bastion of the Euro-Atlantic alliance; and French president Emmanuel Macron has reaffirmed France's commitment to ensuring Ukraine's territorial integrity.
But what are the next steps? Russian president Vladimir Putin's calls with the outgoing German chancellor Angela Merkel suggest that, having made its point, the Kremlin will want to talk and return to the bargaining table to avoid further escalation—and ideally return to the series of de facto compromises that existed over the summer (toleration of Lukashenko's hold on power, indefinite postponement of the question of Ukraine's membership in NATO, and acceptance of the Nord Stream 2 line with a guarantee that some energy transit will continue through Ukraine). Yet as the situation deteriorates, Western governments may be less willing to entertain these compromises. The choice would then be whether Russia would choose to escalate further or decide that further steps would be counterproductive.
It is within this zone of uncertainty that all sides now exist.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a contributing editor at the National Interest.
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How Secure Is AJAX?
Don Kiely | Oct 30, 2009
In this age of malware and constant attacks on our computer systems, we have to evaluate every new technology for security and the potential new vulnerabilities each introduces. No matter how cool it is, any technology that doesn t meet strict security requirements is best left to keynote demonstrations.
AJAX is certainly one of the cooler technologies propagating throughout the Web today. Unlike other new technologies, it really isn t new. After all, we ve been using JavaScript and XML for years on the Web, even asynchronously. But how does AJAX measure up for security? Is it something that you should consider putting on a Web site, or is it best left to sites where security isn t a concern (if there are any such Web sites)?
I recently got a copy of Secure ASP.NET AJAX Development, an e-book by Jason Schmitt. I love books like this: it s short (92 pages, including front and back material) and to the point, focused on a single topic. I ll happily pay the $9.99 cost for books like this, even though it s likely to be more money per page than a typical 1,200-page tome that claims to cover everything I ll ever need to know about some subject.
On the surface, it is reasonable to assume that ASP.NET AJAX is reasonably secure because of its close integration with ASP.NET and IIS on the server and JavaScript on the client. If, of course, ASP.NET, IIS, and JavaScript are in fact secure. A discussion to reach that conclusion is outside the scope of both the book and this article, so for our purposes here we will assume they are indeed secure and are not the source of AJAX vulnerabilities.
What new vulnerabilities, then, does AJAX present? I love this quote from the book at the start of section 2, AJAX Security Pitfalls: The security of AJAX applications is a similar reversal of fortunes in that many developers will introduce old, familiar security vulnerabilities into their applications with new, unfamiliar development approaches. That summarizes quite well the potential problem with using AJAX. Although the book is nominally about ASP.NET AJAX, section 2 covers vulnerabilities in just about any flavor of AJAX.
The author begins this section by making the point that there is nothing inherently insecure about AJAX. Instead, the vulnerabilities arise from how developers implement the technology, and there are plenty of ways to introduce vulnerabilities to a Web site. Then he goes on to talk about the increased attack surface, primarily through greatly increased interactions between browser and server; increasingly complex client-side code and the ability of an attacker accessing and modifying that code; attacking through bypassing client validation; and several other things.
There isn t much depth to the technical discussion of AJAX security vulnerabilities. There doesn t really need to be, since none of the vulnerabilities are new or completely unique to AJAX. But there is plenty enough depth to both make you aware of the risks and to get you thinking about the implications of using AJAX.
Section 3, Securing ASP.NET AJAX, provides the cure to the pain introduced in section 2. Once again, there is nothing radically new here, with sections about general ASP.NET AJAX security principles, including validating user input, protecting client resources, authenticating requests, protecting Web services, and securing data access. Those principles apply to all Web security development, but the author presents them in the context of AJAX, once again providing fodder for thought about securing AJAX applications. The book concludes with a section about testing AJAX security and a security checklist.
It is too early in the lifecycle of AJAX to tell whether the book identifies all the security vulnerabilities presented by AJAX. It s almost certain that it doesn t, not because of a flaw in the book but because of the energy and creativity that some people spend attempting to discover the security flaws in any technology.
One warning: the book makes heavy use of DRM, digital rights management, to protect against copying. I didn t have any problem accessing the content, and it allows accessing the book on at least one other computer. It seems to phone home to validate access to the file, but at least I didn t have to install anything that required administrative rights on my local machine.
You can never be too secure, but it is all too easy to be insecure with the application complexity introduced with AJAX. But by understanding the risks, you can make intelligent decisions about how to use AJAX securely.
Don Kiely, MVP, MCSD, is a senior technology consultant, building custom applications as well as providing business and technology consulting services. His development work involves tools such as SQL Server, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, and Microsoft Office. He writes regularly for several trade journals, and trains developers in database and .NET technologies. You can reach Don at mailto:[email protected] and read his blog at http://www.sqljunkies.com/weblog/donkiely/.
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Robot revolution: 1.5 Million jobs in the U.K. "in danger" of being taken over by robots
08/26/2019 / By Melissa Smith
Robots are continuously taking over humans, particularly in the workplace. In fact, 1.5 million people in the U.K. may lose their jobs to automation, according to a new survey by the U.K.'s Office of National Statistics (ONS).
The ONS looked at the jobs of 20 million people from 2011 to 2017 in England and found that 7.4 percent of jobs are at high risk of automation. The ONS defined automation as tasks currently carried out by human workers being replaced with technology, such as algorithms, computer programs, or robots.
The survey showed that 70 percent of the roles at high risk of being taken over by robots are currently held by women. After them, part-timers and young people are the most at risk.
The survey also looked at the jobs across the whole labor market to evaluate the probability that some of these could be replaced with automation.
Waiters and waitresses, shelf fillers, and elementary sales occupations are the three jobs that are at the highest risk of automation. All these jobs are low-skilled or routine. On the other hand, jobs that are least likely to be taken over by robots are medical practitioners, higher education teaching professionals, and senior professionals in educational establishments.
The ONS explained that the possible reason why the risk of automation is higher for lower-skilled roles is that "routine and repetitive tasks can be carried out more quickly and efficiently by an algorithm written by a human, or a machine designed for one specific function."
Additionally, the ONS found that the risk of job automation declines as workers get older. It is the lowest for workers aged 35 to 39.
The reason behind this pattern could be because workers become more knowledgeable in their field as they progress further in their careers. When young workers enter the labor market, they typically enter part-time roles and are employed in industries like sales, retail, and other jobs where the degree of automation is high.
The ONS also reported that there are fewer jobs at risk of automation now than what was thought back in 2011. The exact reasons for this decline have not been determined, but it is possible that automation of some jobs has already occurred, such as supermarket self-checkouts.
The results of the survey are important because the automation of jobs can affect the labor market, economy, and society. In one study, researchers at Cornell University also found that when humans were put in direct competition with robots, they felt disheartened, stressed, and less competent.
Robots may take over sports, too
Robots are excelling at sports, too. Toyota employees built an A.I. robot that can shoot better than professional basketball players. The humanoid robot, which is identified as CUE, stands six feet and two inches tall. The A.I. can't move and only hits nothing but net from the free-throw line. Its A.I. programming enables it to pick up and polish certain basic basketball skills better than professional players. It is only programmed to take the ball and shoot.
CUE is the brainchild of the Toyota Engineering Society (TES), a group of 17 employees who used their free time to build the robot. They drew inspiration from "Slam Dunk," a popular Japanese sports manga and anime.
The Toyota robot is not the only A.I.-driven robot intruding into sports. Other robots developed in recent years can ski, kick soccer balls, and box.
Read more articles on how robots are taking over different aspects of human life at Robots.news.
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Self-driving tanks and attack drones: Russia claims they have a new killer robot army
08/26/2019 / By Edsel Cook
CNN publishes article claiming people are racist to non-white robots
New robot arms are "as flexible as an elephant's trunk"
Creepy stalkers: Robots can now track moving objects with extreme accuracy
Latest B.S. science hype from Elon Musk claims upcoming launch of "brain-computer interface" called Neuralink
Release the hounds: Are four-legged robot "dogs" the future of package delivery?
Robots now capable of inspecting aircraft… are we going to lose more jobs to machines?
"Expert" recommends AUTOMATED FASCISM: Says humans should relinquish control to robots
Grab and sort: Can "ambidextrous" robots expedite package sorting systems?
What's phase-change memory? It could be the future of smart devices and AI
In two decades half of all jobs predicted to be lost to automation
03/13/2019 / By Jude Henry
Game theory can significantly improve human-robot interaction, say researchers
Drones can take birdwatching to the next level
New drone can retract its propeller arms in flight to make itself fit through narrow gaps and holes
02/27/2019 / By Jose Lopez
AI expert warns that military robots could go off the rails and wipe out the very people they are supposed to protect
MIT's cyborg houseplant robot blurs the line between robotics and nature
Edible robots being tested to deliver drugs into the stomach
02/14/2019 / By Daniel Barker
Japanese researchers create a more expressive android child face
Scientists study how flies fly to build better-balanced drones
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The Minnesota Vikings lost left tackle Jake Long to a potentially season-ending Achilles tendon injury during Sunday's 26-20 loss to the Washington Redskins.
It was tough day for the Vikings. They also lost linebacker Eric Kendricks to a hip injury and cornerback Xavier Rhodes was evaluated for a concussion.
The Chicago Bears lost the right side of their offensive line in the first half of a 36-10 loss to Tampa Bay. Guard Kyle Long left with an ankle injury and tackle Bobby Massie suffered a concussion. Defensive lineman Will Sutton left early in the third quarter with an ankle injury.
Tampa Bay's starting left guard Kevin Phamphile did not play because he is still in concussion protocol.
Philadelphia cornerback Nolan Carroll left late in the first half after sustaining a concussion in the Eagles' 24-15 win over Atlanta. Falcons cornerback Desmond Trufant, running back Tevin Coleman and tight end Jacob Tamme sat out with injuries. Eagles left guard Allen Barbre missed his second straight game.
Kansas City cornerback Phillip Gaines left with a neck injury in the third quarter of the Chiefs' 20-17 win over Carolina. Panthers kicker Graham Gano was forced to handle punting duties in the first quarter after Andy Lee injured his hamstring. Gano's first punt since 2010 went for 42 yards but he struggled while trying to pin the Chiefs inside the 20.
Green Bay lost two players in the first five minutes of its 47-25 loss to Tennessee to ankle injuries. Both linebacker Jake Ryan and starting right guard T.J. Lang were questionable to return before being ruled out early in the third quarter. Also, Packers left tackle David Bakhtiari hurt a knee and was replaced by rookie Jason Spriggs late in the third quarter.
Dallas tight end Geoff Swaim left with a pectoral injury and did not return in the Cowboys' 35-30 win over Pittsburgh. Steelers backup linebacker Steven Johnson left with an ankle injury in the first quarter.
San Diego cornerback Brandon Flowers left late in the third quarter of his team's 31-24 loss to Miami and was being evaluated for a concussion. Miami defensive end Mario Williams left with an ankle injury.


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Chigozie Obioma makes the Man Booker Prize 2015 shortlist
Published on September 15, 2015 June 9, 2020 by James Murua
The Fishermen by Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma and published by One/Pushkin Press has made the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize 2015. Also on the shortlist is A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James.
The Man Booker Prize is one of the richest in the world at US$50,000 with the winner being announced on 13th October. Some of the previous African winners of the Man Booker prize include Nadine Gordimer for The Conservationist in 1994, J.M. Coetzee twice for Life & Times of Michael K (1983), and Disgraced (1999) and Ben Okri for The Famished Road (1991). The most recent shortlist of an African at these awards was Noviolet Bulawayo for her book We Need New Names.
The full shortlist of six writers chosen by a very famous panel of judges including Ellah Allfrey, Michael Wood (Chair), Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton; John Burnside, prize-winning poet; Sam Leith, author and Literary Editor at The Spectator and Frances Osborne, author and biographer is;
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria) One/Pushkin Press.
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (UK) Jonathan Cape.
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Jamaica) Oneworld.
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (US) Chatto & Windus.
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (UK) Picador.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (US) Picador.
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25 November • yesterday
Optional Memorial of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr
Mary, more than martyr, was no less wounded by the sword of love than by that of sorrow. - Saint Ildefonsa
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Katherine, Ekaterina, Katharina, Katarina
Apocryphal. Born to the nobility. Learned in science and oratory. Converted to Christianity after receiving a vision. When she was 18 years old, during the persecution of Maximinus, she offered to debate the pagan philosophers. Many were converted by her arguments, and immediately martyred. Maximinus had her scourged and imprisoned. The empress and the leader of the army of Maximinus were amazed by the stories, went to see Catherine in prison. They converted and were martyred. Maximinus ordered her broken on the wheel, but she touched it and the wheel was destroyed. She was beheaded, and her body whisked away by angels.
Immensely popular during the Middle Ages, there were many chapels and churches devoted to her throughout western Europe, and she was reported as one of the divine advisors to Saint Joan of Arc. Her reputation for learning and wisdom led to her patronage of libaries, librarians, teachers, archivists, and anyone associated with wisdom or teaching. Her debating skill and persuasive language has led to her patronage of lawyers. And her torture on the wheel led to those who work with them asking for her intercession. One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
While there may well have been a noble, educated, virginal lady who swayed pagans with her rhetoric during the persecutions, the accretion of legend, romance and poetry has long since buried the real Catherine.
beheaded c.305 in Alexandria, Egypt
• apologists
• craftsmen who work with a wheel
• archivists
• attornies, barristers, lawyers, jurists
• dying people
• educators, teachers
• girls
• knife grinders, knife sharpeners
• librarians
• libraries
• maidens, unmarried girls and women
• mechanics
• nurses
• old maids
• philosophers
• potters
• preachers
• scholars
• schoolchildren, students
• scribes
• secretaries
• spinners
• stenographers
• tanners
• theologians
• turners
• University of Heidelberg
• University of Paris
• wheelwrights
• Dumaguete, Philippines, diocese of
• Saint Catharines, Ontario, diocese of
• spiked wheel
• woman strapped to the spiked wheel on which she was martyred
• woman arguing with pagan philosophers
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-catherine-of-alexandria/
Saint Peter of Alexandria
Suffered in the persecution of Decius, but survived. Renowned for his knowledge of science and the Bible. Head of the catechetical school at Alexandria, Egypt. Bishop of Alexandria in 300. Opposed extreme Origenism. May have been the first to deal with the Arian heresy.
During the Diocletian persecution, Peter fled the area with many of his flock. Criticized by many for being lenient and forgiving to Christians who had renounced their faith during the persecutions. However, when a rogue bishop usurped Peter's position, the Meletian schism broke out in his clergy, and Peter had to return from hiding to deal with it. Peter excommunicated Meletius and convened a synod of bishops to condemn the schism. His writings were used in the Council of Ephesus and the Council of Chalcedon.
Bishop Peter was martyred with Father Dio, Father Ammonius, and Father Faustus, three of his priests, in the persecutions of Gaius Valerius Galerius Maximinus. As he was the last Christian martyred in Alexandria by civil authorities, the Coptic Church calls him "the seal and complement of the martyrs".
at Alexandria, Egypt
• martyred in 311 at Alexandria, Egypt
• initially buried in an Alexandria martyr's cemetery
• most relics later enshrined in a church at Grasse, France
• embracing his executioner
• with Christ appearing to him as a child in rags (from a scene in the Acts of the Martyrdom of Saint Peter)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-peter-of-alexandria-25-november/
Blessed Beatrice d'Ornacieux
• Beatrice di Ornacieu
• Beatrice of Eymeu
• Beatrix...
• 27 November (diocese of Grenoble, France)
• 13 February (diocese of Valence, France)
In 1273, at the age of thirteen, Beatice joined the Carthusians at the Charterhouse of Parménie, France. In 1301, she and two others, Luisa Alleman of Grésivaudan and Margherita di Sassenaye, were sent to found the monastery of Eymeu in the diocese of Valance, France. Noted for her devotion to the Passion of Christ, offering herself to suffer for others and as penance for the world. Said to have driven a nail through her left hand to help realize the sufferings of the Crucifixion.
c.1260 in Ornacieu, Dauphine (in the southeastern area of modern France
• 25 November 1303 at the monastery of Eymeu, Valence (in modern France) of natural causes
• re-interred in Parménie, France
• re-interred in the Olivetan sanctury there in 1901
• relics enshrined in the church of Rancurel
15 April 1869 by Pope Pius XI (cultus confirmation)
nun holding a nail or with a nail piercing her hand
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-beatrice-dornacieux/
Blessed Elizabeth Achler
• Elizabeth Acheer
• Elizabeth Achlin
• Elizabeth Bona von Reute
• Elizabeth den Gode
• Elizabeth of Reute
• Elizabeth the Good
• Elizabeth the Recluse
• Elizabeth von Reute
• Betha, Elisabeth, Elsbeth
9 December (Franciscans)
Born poor, the daughter of John and Anne Achler. Franciscan tertiary at age 14, but found it hard to lead a religious life while living with her parents. At age 17 she joined four other tertiaries in a community in Reute, Germany; she lived there the rest of her life. For most of her life she was subject to ecstasies, and received visions of heaven, hell and purgatory. Stigmatist whose wounds hurt constantly, but which bled on Fridays and during Lent. Had the gift of inedia, eating nothing but the Eucharist for long periods.
25 November 1386 at Waldsee, Wurttemberg, Swabia, Germany
• 25 November 1420 at Reute, Germany of natural causes
• buried in the church at Reute
19 July 1766 by Pope Clement XIII (cultus confirmed)
Swabia, Germany
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-elizabeth-achler/
Saint Petrus Yi Ho-yong
Peteuro, Pietro, Peter
20 September as one of the Martyrs of Korea
Brother of Saint Agatha Yi So-sa. Layman catechist in the apostolic vicariate of Korea. Imprisoned for four years, regularly beaten, several bones broken, and he eventually died from his mistreatment. One of the earliest of the Martyrs of Korea.
1803 in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
25 November 1838 in Seoul Prison, South Korea of abuse received in prison
6 May 1984 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-petrus-yi-ho-yong/
Blessed Beatrix of Ornacieux
27 November in the diocese of Grenoble, France
Carthusian nun. Founded a Carthusian house at Eymieux, France. Known for her devotion to the Passion of Christ; said to have driven a nail through her left hand to help realize the sufferings of the Crucifixion.
c.1260 in Ornacieu, France
c.1306 at the monastery at Eymieux, France of natural causes
15 April 1869 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmed)
Saint Moses of Rome
May have been of Jewish ancestry. Imperial Roman citizen. Priest. Noted preacher. Adamant opponent of the heresy of Novatianism. Correspondent with Saint Cyprian at the beginning of the persecutions of Decius. After the execution of Pope saint Fabian under Emperor Decius, he administered the Church with the help of the priests and bishops who were in Rome. Helped reconcile repentant apostates who were sick and about to die. Imprisoned for nearly a year for his faith. Martyr.
c.251 from terrible conditions in prison
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-moses-of-rome/
Saint Mercurius of Caesarea
Scythian Christian soldier who distinguished himself against the barbarian invaders of the Roman empire, and gained the notice of Decius. However, he refused to sacrifice to the pagan god Artemis, and so was tortured and executed. Some versions of his story include angelic visions and messages received in dreams, but his being a soldier and martyr is all we really know.
• beheaded c.250 Caesarea, Cappadocia
• relics enshrined in several churches in southern Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-mercurius-of-caesarea/
Saint Audentius of Milan
Audenzio
Born to the imperial Roman nobility, and a sentator from Milan. When visited Saint Julius of Novara on the island of Orta he was so taken by Julius' obvious holiness that he gave him moral, spiritual and financial support in his evangelization work.
• buried on Isola San Giulio, Italy next to Saint Julius
Pettenasco, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-audentius-of-milan/
Blessed Ekbert of Muensterschwarzach
Egbert, Eckbert, Ekkbert
Monk at Gorze. Abbot of Mönsterschwarzach, Bavaria, Germany.
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-ekbert-of-muensterschwarzach/
Saint Imina of Würzburg
Imma, Immina
Daughter of Duke Hedan II of Thuringia. Donated Marienburg castle in Würzburg, Germany to Bishop Burkhard, and retired from public life to become a nun. Abbess at Karlburg, Franconia.
c.700 at Würzburg, Germany
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-imma-of-wurzburg/
Blessed Adalbert of Caramaico
Benedictine monk at Casauria, Abruzzi, Italy. He retired to live as a hermit in the Caramaico mountain area near Chieti, Italy. There he attracted so many would-be spiritual students that he founded the Saint Nicholas monastery for them.
c.1045 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-adalbert-of-caramaico/
Blessed Conrad of Heisterbach
Soldier. Ministered to the margraves of Thuringia until he was about 50 years old. He then became a Cistercian monk at Heisterbach Abbey in western Germany.
c.1200 at Heisterbach Abbey, Germany of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-conrad-of-heisterbach/
Blessed Jacinto Serrano López
Dominican priest. Martyred in the Spanish Civil War.
30 July 1901 in Urrea de Gaén, Teruel, Spain
25 November 1936 in Híjar, Teruel, Spain
11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-jacinto-serrano-lopez/
Blessed Santiago Meseguer Burillo
1 May 1885 in Híjar, Teruel, Spain
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-santiago-meseguer-burillo/
Saint Erasmus of Antioch
Priest. Bishop in Syria. During a period of persecution of Christians, he fled to Mount Linanus and lived as a hermit for 17 years. Martyred in the persecutions of Licinius.
Antioch, Syria
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-erasmus-of-antioch/
Saint Alanus of Lavaur
Alain, Ala
Seventh century founder and abbot of the monastery of Lavaur in Gascony (in modern France).
• relics preserved in the hospice of the house he founded
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-alanus-of-lavaur/
Blessed Garcia of Arlanza
Soldier. Monk. Abbot of Arlanza monastery, Burgos, Spain in 1039. Friend and counsellor of King Ferdinand I of Castile.
at Quintanilla, Old Castile (in modern Spain)
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-garcia-of-arlanza/
Saint Marculo of Numidia
Marcolo
Bishop. Murdered for his faith by a man named Macario in the reign of emperor Constantine. Martyr.
thrown from a rock in 347 in Numidia
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-marculo-of-numidia/
Saint Jucunda of Reggio Aemilia
Spiritual student of Saint Prosper of Reggio. Nun.
Reggio Aemilia, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-jucunda-of-reggio-aemilia/
Saint Bernold of Ottobeuren
Benedictine monk and priest of Ottobeuren in Bavaria, Germany. Known in his day as a "wonder worker".
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-bernold-of-ottobeuren/
Blessed Guido of Casauria
Benedictine monk at Farfa, Italy. Abbot of the monastery at Casauria, Abruzzi, Italy.
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-guido-of-casauria/
Saint Maurino of Agen
Maurin, Maurinus
Sixth century evangelist in the rural areas of Agen, Aquitaine (in modern France). Martyr.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-maurino-of-agen/
Martyrs of Africa
A group of 13 Christians murdered together for their faith in Africa, date unknown. The only details to have survived are their names - Claudian, Cyprian, Donatus, Felix, Januarius, Julian, Lucian, Marcian, Martialis, Peter, Quirianus, Victor and Vitalis.
https://catholicsaints.info/martyrs-of-africa-25-november/


Scott Dam, 138 ft tall barrier to Steelhead, Chinook, Lamprey, and other migrating species.
Friends of the Eel River's Conservation Director Scott Greacen hosts a discussion about the cultural significance of the river and future of the Eel River Dams with guests from the Wiyot Tribe and CalTrout. Joining him are Ted Hernandez, Tribal Chair and Cultural Director for the Wiyot Tribe; Yolanda Latham, Wiyot Tribal Adniminstrator; Tim Nelson, Wiyot Tribal Natural Resources Director; and Darren Mierau, North Coast Director for California Trout.
Learn more about the latest updates on the Eel River Dams here.


Tilli Tansy is Reader in Modern Medical Science, UCL. Her published original contributions are many in number, high in quality and far ranging in their impact. Without her work, our understanding of the development of much of modern biomedical science, particularly physiology, pharmacology and neuroscience in general, and the pharmaceutical industry in particular, would be much weaker. The historical assessment and analysis of the role of animal experimentation in recent biomedical science also runs through much of her research. Of comparable importance is her success in stimulating new methods of research as leader of the History of Modern Medical Science group at the Wellcome Trust Centre at University College London. Significantly, she initiated an entirely new methodology, that of the Witness Seminar, to record aspects of modern biomedicine that would otherwise be lost. This technique has captured essential source material in more than forty wide-ranging areas of biomedical research and is now mirrored around the world. Without her unique methods we would have lost, and would continue to lose, a wealth of historical material.


On Sunday, March 4th at approximately 3:00 a.m. the Niagara Regional Police Service, the Niagara Emergency Medical Services and the St. Catharines Fire Services responded to a report of a single motor vehicle collision on Glenridge Avenue near Wychwood Road in St. Catharines.
Initial investigation showed that a 2008 Cadillac was being driven southbound on Glenridge Avenue by a 26-year-old St. Catharines male. This driver lost control of his vehicle, left the roadway and struck a large tree in the front yard of a private residence. People in this area called 911 and assisted the man.
The driver suffered life threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital before being flown to an out of region hospital in critical condition and the collision is still under investigation by Detectives of the Niagara Regional Police Services Collision Reconstruction Unit.


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Manager: Chris Avalos is 'ready to rock' vs. Carl Frampton
Chris Avalos will "dominate" IBF junior featherweight titleholder Carl Frampton on Feb. 28 at the Odyssey Arena in Frampton's hometown of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Avalos' manager, Mike Criscio insists.
"Chris is ready to rock," said Criscio of Avalos, who has been sparring twice weekly at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, Calif., as well as training at the Durango Boxing Club. "I think Chris will dominate Frampton. Chris is very tough, strong, has a lot of pride and is hungry to win a world championship."
RING No. 5-ranked junior featherweight Avalos (25-2, 19 knockouts) had been the mandatory challenger to the WBO belt held by RING champion Guillermo Rigondeaux, who also holds the WBA title. In September, however, Avalos declined a planned Nov. 22 bout against Rigondeaux that was targeted for either Miami or the Dominican Republic, according to a Tweet by WBO President Paco Valcarcel, doing so to pursue a shot at Frampton (19-0, 13 KOs).
"Carl Frampton is a terrific young champion but with Chris' punching power it really doesn't matter where the fight is. The partisan crowd won't affect Chris at all," said Carl Moretti, vice president of boxing operations for Top Rank Promotions. "He has one goal: to become the new IBF champion. There will be plenty of celebrating after the fight but it will be Chris and his team having the honors."
Avalos, 25, has won six consecutive fights, four by knockout, including stoppages in the past three since losing a split decision to Jhonatan Romero in Dec. 2011. Avalos is coming off November's fifth round knockout of Jose Cen Torres.
Avalos became the IBF's mandatory challenger with his eighth-round stoppage of Yasutaka Ishimoto in May at a time when the organization's beltholder still was Kiko Martinez.
Martinez secured an exception from the IBF to face Frampton rather than Avalos and lost his title to Frampton via unanimous decision in a September rematch of Frampton's ninth-round stoppage win from Feb. 2013.
Although RING No. 1-rated Frampton, 27, was injured in the bout with Martinez and was expected to be sidelined until November, IBF Championships Chairman Lindsey Tucker informed RingTV.com that he was contacted by Top Rank regarding its pursuit of a fight with Frampton.
"I've been working on using a lot of combinations," said Avalos. "I used to be straight-ahead brawling but we're boxing more, throwing more jabs, mixing it up."
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The successful candidate will be actively engaged with the on-going research at the Cyprus Institute in the Sustainability and Built Environment group of the Energy Division. They will be part of the research team working for the implementation of the 'Towards Zero Energy Hospitals in the Balkan Region (ZenH Balkan) research project. The project is funded by the Interreg Balkan-Med program and aims to facilitate the implementation of the EPBD by defining the characteristics and Standards for Zero Energy Hospitals in the South Balkan region and it will contribute towards improved energy efficiency in the building sector.
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The appointment will be for a fixed term period of seven (7) months.
Evaluation of Energy performance simulations of building(s).
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For full consideration, interested applicants should process their application at The Cyprus Institute JobBoard (http://jobboard.cyi.ac.cy/) based on the instructions given. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae including a letter of interest and a list of three references (including contact information) (all documentation should be in English and in PDF Format). For further information, please contact Prof Despina Serghides (d.serghides@cyi.ac.cy). Please note that applications which do not follow the announcement's guidelines will not be considered.


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Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > The Ahmed Bedier I Know - CAIR official leaves to continue fomenting radical Islam under guise of peace initiative
The Ahmed Bedier I Know - CAIR official leaves to continue fomenting radical Islam under guise of peace initiative
The Ahmed Bedier I Know
By Joe Kaufman
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Samar Jarrah: "It's fascinating that some people who are supposedly terrorism experts and are advising this country are spending time to write about you moving up and changing your career. I mean, it's not like belittling you in any way, but I thought they would have much more important things to do."
Ahmed Bedier: "Yeah, I mean, well, if they think you're a terrorist, then they want to watch your movement." (WMNF, True Talk, May 23, 2008)
After five long years, Ahmed Bedier is now gone from the Hamas-related Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR); forced out, according to the group, so that it could move in another direction; stepped down, according to him, in start of a new project. Whatever the real reason may be, while Bedier may have left CAIR, he continues to foment radical Islam.
Since the beginning of 2003, Ahmed Bedier has served in an official capacity for CAIR, holding positions as Communications Director of CAIR-Florida and Executive Director of CAIR-Tampa.
Throughout his tenure, Bedier acted as the voice of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian in the media. It had seemed as though that was the reason for his hiring at CAIR, to be CAIR's eyes and ears – and mouth – after Al-Arian's arrest in February of 2003. And that made sense, as Al-Arian was one of the founders of CAIR's now defunct parent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), and both Al-Arian and Bedier were located in the Tampa/St. Pete area.
In time, Bedier established himself as a leading voice in CAIR, even appearing on national television news programs, such as Fox News' Hannity & Colmes. However, while he was praised by the national CAIR office, the organization never granted Bedier a national position. Recently, that opportunity was given to the younger Ahmed Rehab, the Executive Director of CAIR's Chicago, Illinois office. Rehab, who like Bedier is an Egyptian, now holds the job as National Director of Communications Strategy.
According to Bedier, he left CAIR because he felt the desire to pursue new avenues of interest. He stated on his radio program, True Talk, on May 23, 2008, "I'm no longer with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which I've been there for the past five years – been volunteering even longer... As Executive Director I founded the chapter, here in Tampa. But, you know, there comes a time when you move on... CAIR is a great organization, but it's time to move on, pass on the torch. And now, I have an announcement... I'm working on a new project that will focus on peacemaking."
But as pointed out by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), CAIR has a different story. According to the Civil Rights Coordinator of CAIR-Tampa, Ramzy Kilic – who has helped Bedier defend two University of South Florida (USF) students, Youssef Samir Megahed and Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, accused by the U.S. government of transporting explosives – Bedier was retired by CAIR. Kilic stated, "CAIR-Florida decided to make a change and go into a new direction. We wish Ahmed the best"
Regardless of which story is true, though, with or without CAIR, Ahmed Bedier continues in his radical Islamist ways, this month, referring to the creation and sustaining of Israel as a "disaster" and a "catastrophe." He stated on his May 9th radio show, "At the end of the program, we want to dedicate some time to what they're calling the 60th Anniversary Celebration of Israel's Independence. I really don't know what they gained independence from. We call it the Nakba, a disaster occupation for 60 years."
He continued, "[S]peaking of the Nakba, the local Muslim community is having – which is being put on by the Muslim American Society in association with American Muslims for Palestine – They're presenting, memorializing 60 years of Al-Nakba, the catastrophe... Anyone that's interested in remembering the 60 years of catastrophe and the occupation, there's going to be an event coming up on Saturday, May 17th, from 3 to 11 PM."
These statements can easily be added to the long list of past extremist quotations from Bedier, including:
Comparing Catholic priests to Al-Qaeda: "Catholic priests pose more of a terrorism threat by having sex with young altar boys than those who flew planes into the World Trade Center."
About the consequences of exposing radical Muslims: "People, when you corner them, when you keep attacking them and demonizing them and treating them like animals, guess what? They're gonna snap. And one point, somebody's gonna retaliate, and then all hell's gonna break loose."
Questioned about whether it's immoral to associate with Palestinian Islamic Jihad: "To a certain degree. Now, before 1995 there was nothing immoral about it."
About the United States' designation of Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist groups: "Oftentimes people in the West oversimplify all the groups. Al-Qaida doesn't provide any social services. They just attack civilians. They're not into dialogue."
On bringing back the Caliphate and denouncing the West: "Yeah, well, we're looking for it still. Right now... Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire - that was the last major Muslim organized religion - we don't really have a hierarchy that's organized how the Catholics are organized. We're looking for that, and once we have that one voice, unified voice, we'll be able to speak up... [T]he Ottoman Empire fell because of the Allied Powers, and it was caused by colonialism and so on. Again, Western Allies going there and dividing the Ottoman Empire. That's what it is now."
Ahmed Bedier, many times, comes across as a non-threat, as he participates in numerous interfaith gatherings while cracking jokes and flashing a big smile. However, the man behind the smile is one that is infatuated with how the United States responds to terrorism and obsessed with Israel's very existence.
He is a man who has worked for and has attended a mosque, the Islamic Society of Pinellas County, that propagates material calling for the waging of violence against non-Muslims: "[S]o long as Kufr is present in this world, it is necessary to wage Jihad against it to finish it off, and so long as all the disbelievers do not openly accept Islam and adopt the Islamic way of life, Muslims are duty-bound to make Jihad against them."
He is a man very different from the "peacemaker" that has been portrayed by himself and the media. But the very fact that he was a leader of CAIR, a group that has ample ties to terrorists overseas, makes him someone to be wary of. And no, he is no longer with CAIR, but as witnessed above, his extremist jihad still goes on.
Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of Americans Against Hate, the founder of CAIR Watch, and the spokesman for Terror-Free Oil Initiative. http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1C1F6640-4B59-45F8-B084-2E2E2CE1E422


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Guilherme Castro Boulos (São Paulo, Brasil, 19 de juny de 1982) és un polític, activista i escriptor brasiler. És membre de la Coordinació Nacional del Moviment dels Treballadors Sense Sostre (MTST) i conegut per ser un dels principals líders d'extrema esquerra a Brasil. Fou el candidat presidencial del Partit Socialisme i Llibertat (PSOL) a la presidència de Brasil en les eleccions generals de 2018. Es va unir al PSOL l'any 2018.

Biografia

Guilherme Boulos és fill de Marcos Boulos, professor de medicina a la Universitat de São Paulo. Es va graduar en Filosofia el 2006 i va obtenir un postgrau en salut mental el 2017, ambdós a la Universitat de São Paulo. En la seva joventut i en els seus anys de formació, va participar en la Unió de Joves Comunistes. Va aparèixer de nou a la premsa després de les mobilitzacions socials entorn de la Copa del Món de Futbol de 2014, especialment en la invasió anomenada Copa de l'Ocupació de la Gent, organitzada per l'MTST a principis de maig. El 10 de juliol de 2018 va anunciar la seva candidatura presidencial amb el suport del Partit Socialisme i Llibertat, nogensmenys ha criticat en diverses ocasions les mesures reaccionàries del govern de Jair Bolsonaro.

Empresonament
Boulos ha estat arrestat diverses vegades a causa de la seva participació en accions directes i ha sofert diversos processos judicials com a resultat de danys a la propietat. El 17 de gener de 2017 va ser arrestat en una manifestació, en la qual van assistir al voltant de 3000 persones. Boulos va ser arrestat sota càrrecs de cometre desobediència judicial i incitació a la violència durant la demanda de recuperació d'una parcel·la al barri de São Mateus de São Paulo.

Llibres
 De que lado você está? Reflexões sobre a conjuntura política e urbana no Brasil (2015)
 Por que ocupamos? Uma introdução à luta dos Sem-Teto (2014)
 Brasil em jogo: O que fica da Copa e das Olimpíadas? (2014)

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Ghilerme Boulos a Twitter
 Entrevista al programa La Tuerka (18/1/2019, VOSE)

Escriptors de São Paulo
Polítics de São Paulo
Activistes brasilers
Alumnes de la Universitat de São Paulo
Alumnes de la Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Filòsofs brasilers
Activistes per la legalització de les drogues
Militants del Partit Socialisme i Llibertat


IN THE FALL OF 1740, a farmer near Hartford, Connecticut, heard life-changing news. Nathan Cole was a conventionally religious man whose conscience had been increasingly troubled by an unmet need for God. The news was that the young revivalist George Whitefield would be preaching twelve miles away in Middletown. Immediately, as Cole later wrote, "I . . . ran to my pasture for my horse with all my might," and with his wife hastened to Middletown "as if we were fleeing for our lives." They arrived just in time to see Whitefield mount the scaffold that had been erected for his sermon. To Nathan Cole the young British evangelist "lookt almost angelical." But it was Whitefield's message that changed his life: "My hearing him preach gave me a heart wound; by Gods blessing my old Foundation was broken up, and I saw that my righteousness would not save me." After several more months, Cole was confident that he had been reconciled to a gracious God.
Nathan Cole and his wife were among the thousands who thrilled to the message of George Whitefield at the high-water mark of America's Great Awakening. But the roots of this revival extended deep in time before Whitefield, and its fruits could be observed for generations. First stirrings occurred during the early decades of the eighteenth century. Preaching aimed at "awakening" the spiritually sluggish or "harvesting" those with a new interest in God's grace took place in New England Congregational churches, in Dutch Reformed congregations in New Jersey, and among scattered Presbyterians in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Solomon Stoddard (grandfather and predecessor of Jonathan Edwards as minister in Northampton, Massachusetts), Theodore Frelinghuysen (a Dutch minister trained by Continental Pietists), and several members of the Tennent family (Presbyterian immigrants from Northern Ireland) were the pioneers of this work.
Then, in the mid-1730s, the Northampton congregation that Edwards had inherited from his grandfather was deeply stirred by Edwards' dramatic preaching on justification by faith. His account of this stirring, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton (1737) was read widely in America and the British Isles and stimulated other ministers to look for similar renewal in their congregations.
General revival, however, awaited the arrival of Whitefield. This young Anglican had been a colleague of John and Charles Wesley and had already experimented with preaching out-of-doors in Britain. His nominal reason for being in America was to supervise an orphanage in Georgia. His real reason was to preach. A person of nearly overpowering charisma, Whitefield also intuited something about the changing circumstances of his day. Whitefield's dramatic appeal to individuals represented a Christian adaptation of the old gospel to the kind of free market that was speedily developing in trade and ideas. It was to the individual (not as positioned in a traditional hierarchy, not as bound by family constraints, not as member of a local congregation) that Whitefield made his appeal. Whitefield preached more than fifteen thousand sermons in his thirty-five-year career as an itinerant, but none were more effective than in 1740. On a New England preaching circuit in the fall of that year, when he was heard by Nathan Cole and his wife, Whitefield addressed crowds of up to eight thousand people nearly every day for over a month. That tour may have been the most sensational event in the history of American religion.
In his wake Whitefield left thousands asking "What must I do to be saved?" He also left some of the colonies' leaders wondering what such religious "enthusiasm" would do to the social fabric, and not a few ministers dismayed about this radical new approach. The attacks that eventually rose against Whitefield and his message led to lingering disputes. But they also prompted careful, discriminating defenses of awakened piety from Jonathan Edwards. Edwards' defense of the Awakening's revivalistic Calvinism became a major component of the theological work that sets him apart as America's most powerful Christian theologian.
Revivals like those promoted by Whitefield and defended by Edwards soon spread throughout the colonies. Some, like awakenings under Henry Alline in the Canadian Maritimes, rejected the Calvinism that had undergirded Whitefield's message. Others, like those encouraged by Isaac Backus in New England and Shubal Stearns in North Carolina, were led by Baptists, a group that grew in great numbers as a result of the Awakening. Still other currents of renewal helped prepare the way for the later expansion of the Methodists.
Dr. Mark A. Noll is professor of history at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and a member of the advisory board of Christian History.
In an epochal council, the Catholic Church undertook its most searching self-examination ever and renewed itself for a modern world.
A Baptist preacher had a dream that guided one of the most profound social movements of our times.
The finger of God evidenced in a spirit of love.


Join me at the Bucks County Aquarium Society, where I will be giving away all of my secrets on how to photograph planted aquarium layouts! I plan to cover the basics of how to deal with exposure compensation and white balance. I also plan to get into advanced topics like depth of field and how to create the very popular "white background!!"


Late for the Train is a modern string band that feels both fresh and familiar. Drawing heavily from bluegrass and old-time, the San Francisco-based 4-piece weaves elements of folk, funk, and jamgrass into powerful and articulate arrangements of original and traditional music.
Miss Moonshine is an alternative folk band based out of Petaluma, CA. What started as songwriter Cody Martin desiring to add other instrumentation to his songs, quickly turned into a greater ambition to create an album together. An eclectic grouping of instruments and influences gives the band a unique sound that reaches a wide array of audiences. Physical copies of Miss Moonshine's self titled, 12-track debut album was released July 29th, 2016. Digital Downloads are available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon etc.


"The languages of the world are the songs of the earth."
Africa is the second-largest continent in the world and home to over 50 nations with a combined total population twice the size of the United States. It is a vast and diverse land of waterfalls, deserts, rain forests and grasslands. The languages of Africa are also diverse with 800-1,000 different languages spoken among the people.
One of the most common languages spoken is Swahili (or Kiswahili, which is the proper way to identify the language.) Swahili is an Arabic word meaning "of the coast" or people of the coast." It is one of 80 Bantu (African) languages, and is the national language of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and is spoken in Burundi, Rwanda and Zaire, and other parts of central and eastern Africa.
Swahili was not a written language until after the arrival of British colonists. The British influence may explain why the pronunciation of the vowels and consonants found in Swahili and the Kiswahili alphabet is similar to American English. The Kiswahili alphabet consists of 24 letters, lacking the letters Q and X.
1. Students will gain an appreciation for Swahili as a language spoken in many parts of Africa.
3. Plain or colored paper cut into 8" squares or 1./2 sheet of 8"x11"
4. Variety of writing tools, crayons and markers.
6. World map or globe.
1. Greet each child as they arrive in the morning with "Jambo "(jahm-bow), or with "Karibu,' (kah-ree-boo), meaning hello or welcome. "Does anyone know what I was saying to you as you came into the room?" (Let the children guess.) "The language I was speaking was Swahili. Jambo means hello, and karibu means welcome."
2. "Swahili is spoken on the continent of Africa. That's quite far from where we live. Can anyone tell us what town we live in? Can anyone show us what state we live in on the map? (or globe) The continent our state is in is the North American continent. Can anyone show us where Africa is located? (Show where the continent of Africa is.) As you can see Africa is far from the North American continent and far from our state."
3. "Imagine if every state in the United States had its own language. We would have a lot of languages, but not as many as on the African continent." Explain that over 800 languages are spoken in Africa and Swahili is spoken in many parts of central and eastern Africa.
4. Show the class, Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book. "Today, we are going to learn some new words. They are words that are spoken in Africa. They are Swahili. Listen to the Swahili alphabet, notice if it is like ours or different. Listen to how the words sound and what the words mean. We will talk about our new words after I finish reading the book."
5. Read the story to the class.
6. Open a discussion with the children. "What did you notice about the Swahili alphabet? Was it like ours? Point out that the Swahili alphabet doesn't contain the letters Q or X. "Why do you think the author picked these words to share? What words did you like the best? Why?" (Students may respond they liked the sound or the meaning of the word.) Explain that words have meaning in every culture, and that the spoken language is one way that we communicate. "What are some words that are in this book that we would use...only we would say them in English. For example, do we use the word "hello" in our town? What about "father" or "school?" Help children notice that the words shared in Jambo Means Hello have meanings similar to words they use everyday. "Why do you think language is important? Why would it be important to know Swahili if you had an African friend or were traveling in central or eastern Africa?"
friends. We will each be able to contribute one word to our quilt. This will help them know something about us, just as we know more about them after learning about the Swahili alphabet.
1. "Take a few minutes and look at the words I have written on the chart. These are some words we could take to Africa and design into our quilt. The first word is written in English, the word right next to it is written in Swahili."
2. Say each word in English, then in Swahili.
3." Pick one word that is special to you. It's okay if someone chooses the same word. If you would like to think of another word that's fine too. I'll look up the word in Swahili and put it on a slip of paper for you to look at."
4. "Each of you has been given a piece of paper. Draw a picture that illustrates what your word means. Write on your drawing your English word and the Swahili word. That way we can share our English word and learn a new Swahili word at the same time."
5. "After you have written your words and drawn your picture, we will arrange the quilt squares under the border I've put on the wall labeled "English/Swahili: Sharing Languages with our African Friends."
6. Have children arrange quilt squares on the wall.
"When we learn Swahili, we find out that we have many things in common with people who live in Africa. The words may sound different, but we share the same meanings. Their words help us to understand the African culture better. What word did you find interesting today?"
Students will have selected a word to share in English and Swahili, correctly written it in English and Swahili, and illustrated it appropriately, for a word sharing quilt.
www.africaonline.con/AfricaOnline/kidsonly/languages/index.html (1997) Africa Online Inc.


Vince Carter stood his ground and took a charge against Wizard Gilbert Arenas with 7:07 left. Carter hit the deck, so Jason Kidd rushed to his aid. Kidd extended his hand, and promptly joined Carter on the floor as his feet went out. Kidd seemed to have suffered – pick one – a groin, back, ankle injury. The Nets coaching staff went deathly pale. The crowd went deathly silent.
"I wasn't really worried about the arena. I was worried if I had hurt something," Kidd said.
After a timeout, Kidd was back smiling and the Nets were back hurting the Wizards.
Kidd was in the forefront with a game containing a third-quarter stretch that was the stuff of fantasy. He accounted for 19 points in 3:09 with five 3-pointers and two assists. There was plenty of help all around, as the Nets set a franchise record with 16 3-pointers in a 113-101 victory over the shorthanded Wizards in the Meadowlands.
Vince Carter began the energizing for the Nets, now in a virtual three-way tie with Miami and Orlando for seventh place in the East. Carter scored 27 points, 13 of them in the first quarter when the Nets established early command. That command evaporated in the second quarter but returned via Kidd in the third and Bostjan Nachbar in the fourth. Nachbar scored 16 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter.
The Wizards were without Antawn Jamison (sprained left knee), All-Star Caron Butler (back spasms) and forward Michael Ruffin (dizziness). Arenas scored 26 points and Jarvis Hayes had 21 for the Wizards who all night were inundated by Nets' 3s.
And making shots. Like Kidd did in the third. In that 3:09 with the five 3-pointers (four straight) and two assists, Kidd (26 points, nine assists, eight rebounds, 6-of-9 on 3-pointers) directed the Nets to a 68-62 lead, after trailing 57-49.
Like Nachbar, who agreed his 16 fourth-quarter points were just peachy but then promptly credited Kidd.
"He set the tone. That's what's special about Jason. He's labeled as a non-shooter, but he can come out and make five 3s in a row and turn the game around," said Nachbar, part of a bench uprising that included 12 points each from Cliff Robinson and House.
Wizards coach Eddie Jordan couldn't watch tape of the Nets. He said it makes him too emotional watching his old team.
The Swamp can get you emotional. And something else when Kidd plays like last night. Opposing coaches can get pretty nauseous.


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Q: How to baseline align TextField and Text in HStack I have some trouble aligning TextFiled and Text in HStack.
The problem is with .lastTextBaseline alignment.
struct TextFieldCurrency: View {
    @State var value = "32"

    var body: some View {
         HStack(alignment: .lastTextBaseline) {
            TextField("price", text: $value)
                .background(Color.yellow)
                .modifier(TextFieldValueAppearance()) //font: 32
            Text("PLN")
                .background(Color.red)
                .modifier(TextFiledUnitAppearance()) //font: 16
         }.background(Color.green)
    }
}

Code above produces this which is totally wrong.

But the same code with Text instead TextField.

So, my questions are:

*

*Why this happen? How is TextField different from Text?

*What is solution to baseline alignment?

I have Xcode 11.2 and Mac OS Catalina 10.15.0

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Q: Dropdown menus in python / selenium Trying to autofill a form using python and selenium. Dropdown menu html is:
<select id="typeOfTeacher" class="chosen-select-no-single ng-untouched ng-dirty ng-valid-parse ng-valid ng-valid-required" required="" ng-class="{ 'has-error' : positionDetailForm.typeOfTeacher.$invalid && !positionDetailForm.typeOfTeacher.$pristine }" ng-change="vm.setRequired()" tabindex="-1" ng-model="vm.data.typeOfTeacher" name="typeOfTeacher" data-placeholder="Select" style="display: none;">
<option value="" disabled="" selected="">Select</option>
<option class="ng-binding ng-scope" value="1" ng-repeat="teacherType in vm.teacherTypes">No position at the moment</option>
<option class="ng-binding ng-scope" value="2" ng-repeat="teacherType in vm.teacherTypes">Supply</option>
<option class="ng-binding ng-scope" value="3" ng-repeat="teacherType in vm.teacherTypes">Permanent</option>
</select>

Python code is:
elem = Select(browser.find_element_by_id('typeOfTeacher'))
elem.select_by_value("1")

Error is "element is not currently visible and may not be interacted with".

A: I have not used the python Select method, but I would guess that the error message means that the menu is not being opened, and therefore an element in the menu is still hidden and cannot be interacted with.
Try something like this:
element = driver.find_element_by_id('typeOfTeacher').click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("[value=\"1\"]").click()

A: This would work
element = driver.find_element_by_id('typeOfTeacher').click()
element.find_element_by_xpath(".//option[@value='1']").click()

A: It looks like timing issue. You should try using Waits.
I would suggest you, use WebDriverWait to wait until dropdown visible before interaction as below :-
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "typeOfTeacher")))

select = Select(element)
select.select_by_value("1")


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Hevo Data Raises $30 Million in Series B
by Kay Aloha Villamor in Series B December 20th, 2021
Hevo Data, the San Francisco and Bengaluru-based SaaS startup focused on data management, has raised $30 million in a Series B round of funding led by Sequoia Capital India.
The other investors who participated in this round include Qualgro, Lachy Groom, Chiratae Ventures, and angel investors.
Hevo plans to use this funding round towards sales, and marketing initiatives, product development, and the hiring of teams in the US and Europe.
Company: Hevo Data, Inc.
Funding Month: December 2021
Lead Investors: Sequoia Capital India
Additional Investors: Qualgro, Lachy Groom, and Chiratae Ventures
Company Website: https://hevodata.com/
Software Category: Automated unified data platform
About the Company: Founded in 2017 by Manish and Sourabh Agarwal, Hevo is an Automated Unified Data Platform that helps companies understand their users and customers better. Hevo's no-code platform operated on a self-serve technology that can take data from disparate sources and provide a unified view. Using Hevo, companies can build a 360-degree view of their customers by combining data from multiple disparate data sources and applications including sales CRM, advertising channels, marketing tech, financial system software, and customer support products. Hevo has customers across 40-plus countries in the United States, Europe, and APAC regions. The startup claimed that it has grown its customer base by 5x and plans to add more features to its technology platform.
Source: https://yourstory.com/2021/12/funding-alert-saas-startup-hevo-data-no-code-platform/amp


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