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Q: Is there a way to calculate a weighted sum with weights based on a WHERE expression? I wanted to know my Stack Overflow reputation excluding all the reputation gained or lost from asking and answering regex questions(—it feels like "dirty money" to me!)
Stack Exchange's Data Explorer would allow me to calculate this. But, I'd only ever programmed using proprietary databases and C++ wrapper classes, so I wasn't too confident about my SQL skills. Nonetheless, I gave it a shot, and eventually came up with a query that provided my answer:
-- (approximate) reputation gained/lost on a specified tag
-- only counts post upvotes and downvotes

DECLARE @UserId        int = ##UserId##
DECLARE @QuestionsUp   int = 0;
DECLARE @QuestionsDown int = 0;
DECLARE @AnswersUp     int = 0;
DECLARE @AnswersDown   int = 0;
DECLARE @Tag           nvarchar(25) = 'regex';

SELECT
    @QuestionsUp = COUNT(*)
FROM Tags
    INNER JOIN PostTags ON PostTags.TagId = Tags.id
    INNER JOIN Posts ON Posts.ParentId = PostTags.PostId
    INNER JOIN Votes ON Votes.PostId = Posts.Id and VoteTypeId = 2
WHERE
    Posts.OwnerUserId = @UserId and
    Posts.PostTypeId = 1 and
    Tags.TagName = @Tag

SELECT
    @QuestionsDown = COUNT(*)
FROM Tags
    INNER JOIN PostTags ON PostTags.TagId = Tags.id
    INNER JOIN Posts ON Posts.ParentId = PostTags.PostId
    INNER JOIN Votes ON Votes.PostId = Posts.Id and VoteTypeId = 3
WHERE
    Posts.OwnerUserId = @UserId and
    Posts.PostTypeId = 1 and
    Tags.TagName = @Tag

SELECT
    @AnswersUp = COUNT(*)
FROM Tags
    INNER JOIN PostTags ON PostTags.TagId = Tags.id
    INNER JOIN Posts ON Posts.ParentId = PostTags.PostId
    INNER JOIN Votes ON Votes.PostId = Posts.Id and VoteTypeId = 2
WHERE
    Posts.OwnerUserId = @UserId and
    Posts.PostTypeId = 2 and
    Tags.TagName = @Tag

SELECT
    @AnswersDown = COUNT(*)
FROM Tags
    INNER JOIN PostTags ON PostTags.TagId = Tags.id
    INNER JOIN Posts ON Posts.ParentId = PostTags.PostId
    INNER JOIN Votes ON Votes.PostId = Posts.Id and VoteTypeId = 3
WHERE
    Posts.OwnerUserId = @UserId and
    Posts.PostTypeId = 2 and
    Tags.TagName = @Tag

SELECT @QuestionsUp * 5 +
       @AnswersUp * 10 +
       (@QuestionsDown + @AnswersDown) * -2

This can't be the best one can do, though. Four separate queries just to weight upvoted questions by 5, upvoted answers by 10, and downvoted questions and answers by -2? Is there a way to compact this query to execute in a single run?
(Please feel free to comment if you have any auxiliary advice regarding syntax, formatting, good practices, and such. Also, please do comment if there are other ways to gain or lose reputation—specific to tags—that I haven't factored in.)

A: You could always try something like
SELECT
    SUM(
        CASE
            WHEN VoteTypeId = 2 AND Posts.PostTypeId = 1
                THEN 1
            ELSE 0
        END
    )   QuestionsUp,
    SUM(
        CASE
            WHEN VoteTypeId = 3 AND Posts.PostTypeId = 1
                THEN 1
            ELSE 0
        END
    )   QuestionsDown,
    SUM(
        CASE
            WHEN VoteTypeId = 2 AND Posts.PostTypeId = 2
                THEN 1
            ELSE 0
        END
    )   AnswersUp,
    SUM(
        CASE
            WHEN VoteTypeId = 3 AND Posts.PostTypeId = 2
                THEN 1
            ELSE 0
        END
    )   AnswersDown
FROM Tags
    INNER JOIN PostTags ON PostTags.TagId = Tags.id
    INNER JOIN Posts ON Posts.ParentId = PostTags.PostId
    INNER JOIN Votes ON Votes.PostId = Posts.Id
WHERE
    Posts.OwnerUserId = @UserId and
    Tags.TagName = @Tag

EDIT:
You could use a CTE and then used the columns in your calcs.
Something like
;WITH Vals AS (
        SELECT
            SUM(
                CASE
                    WHEN VoteTypeId = 2 AND Posts.PostTypeId = 1
                        THEN 1
                    ELSE 0
                END
            )   QuestionsUp,
            SUM(
                CASE
                    WHEN VoteTypeId = 3 AND Posts.PostTypeId = 1
                        THEN 1
                    ELSE 0
                END
            )   QuestionsDown,
            SUM(
                CASE
                    WHEN VoteTypeId = 2 AND Posts.PostTypeId = 2
                        THEN 1
                    ELSE 0
                END
            )   AnswersUp,
            SUM(
                CASE
                    WHEN VoteTypeId = 3 AND Posts.PostTypeId = 2
                        THEN 1
                    ELSE 0
                END
            )   AnswersDown
        FROM Tags
            INNER JOIN PostTags ON PostTags.TagId = Tags.id
            INNER JOIN Posts ON Posts.ParentId = PostTags.PostId
            INNER JOIN Votes ON Votes.PostId = Posts.Id
        WHERE
            Posts.OwnerUserId = @UserId and
            Tags.TagName = @Tag
        )
SELECT  QuestionsUp * 5 +
       AnswersUp * 10 +
       (QuestionsDown + AnswersDown) * -2
FROM    Vals


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PSA: Magicka is barely playable
25Aug 2016 22 Nov 2020
Today I was supposed to do a review on Magicka, a comedy RPG from 2011 that I was surprised to see actually garnered quite a fanbase. The reason for that surprise is that I found the game to be riddled with bugs, even years after release, and the developers seem to have no intent to fix that. In fact, rather than assure a playable game, they instead developed tons of premium DLC. Oh boy…
First off, a little introduction: this game is about a group of wizards embarking on a quest to save the citizens of a fantasy land from monsters. The central appeal is that you map various magic spells to your keyboard and combine them on the fly to create even more devastating ones. Add in a chaotic multiplayer mode and it's not that hard to see why this game had people excited. Personally I would have recommended Castle Crashers for a chaotic multiplayer game with lots of comedy, but there you go.
A few bugs might not seem like much of an issue, but we aren't talking about a massive open-world game with infinite gameplay possibilities; this is a largely linear action-RPG where the mere act of moving seems to cause trouble. Here is a list of everything that went wrong for me in the first 15 minutes of the game:
The tutorial required that I heal myself, but I had chosen a character that is immune to healing. This bugged out the tutorial and I couldn't proceed without skipping it. This game was a little too complex to just jump into without proper explanation, so I had to start again.
Finished the tutorial, walked through the door, and immediately fell through the floor into endless void. No way to get back (no snapping back into boundaries?) had to restart the whole chapter over again.
Game didn't check a checkpoint, so after I died I had to restart the game again.
Game randomly opened up a window mid-gameplay that showed me all the extra stuff I could buy via Steam. I was in combat at the time.
After finishing the first level the game opened up a black window with explanation on it. This could not be closed and the game continued to run even though I couldn't see. Was killed by goblins.
On top of all that, this rather ugly-looking game from 2011 was trucking along at a sluggish 20fps and I had to play it in windowed mode at 640*480 to get another 10 out of it. This issue the developers actually addressed in a lengthy FAQ where they blame mobile GPU's for the problem, citing they have less engineers to optimize the game than the likes of Crytek and Blizzard, so even if your system can run Wolfenstein: The New Order with no problems, it's perfectly fine that Magicka goes at a snail's pace.
In a disgusting attempt to make this sound pro-consumer; the developer argues that when the choice came between optimization and hiring people to design actual content, they chose for the latter. While an argument can be made for that, it kind of assumes you mean "free" content, as in on-going support. With more than $60 worth of DLC available, this is not a noble choice to provide your fans with more stuff, but a very ignoble one to harass them with premium extras without ever bothering to finish the base product.
Don't buy Magicka. Even if it works for you, I urge you not to get it. For all its potential and despite its actual merits as a game, this is not an attitude we should be promoting.
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Breakthrough Philanthropy - Thiel Foundation event
I've been asked by a lot of people both inside and outside Benetech lately to not only talk about the what we do, but the why we do it: the thinking behind it. I met with a very senior nonprofit leader last week in New York who explicitly asked us to talk more about what we're thinking. So, I hope to have more Beneblogs that give a window onto our thought processes (even when raw and not quite baked)! So, after I do my readout on what happened, I'll try to inject the way it got me thinking at the end of this post.
Last night I had the privilege of attending the Breakthough Philanthropy event put on by Peter Thiel's foundation, covered in the local press with articles like "Silicon Valley billionaire backs futuristic philanthropy" from the San Jose Mercury News.
The foundation spotlighted eight unusual nonprofit groups. I knew of a fair number of the groups already. The Santa Fe Institute is probably the best known: a research institute dedicated to studying complex problems. Benetech's chief scientist, Dr. Patrick Ball, has spent time there working on the scientific challenges of our work studying large scale human rights violations. We and Santa Fe also share a common board member: Dr. Leighton Read (founder of Aviron, the original makers of the FluMist nasal spray vaccine, author of Total Engagement, etc.). SFI had Dr. Murray Gell-Mann there, the Caltech Nobel Physics laureate, in person as well with a bobble-head doll!
Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute has been a leading proponent of the nanotechnology field (and expected revolution). I got to meet Christine when I was part of the private rocket field in the early 80s (I recently discovered the best article about my brief rocket science period online: The Wrong Stuff).
Three of the groups were loosely affiliated with Ray Kurzweil and his ideas around human uploading and the Singularity. There was a group called the Seasteading Institute: they want to experiment with new political forms by starting new countries on the high seas. The SENS Foundation wants to advance "Rejuvenation Biotechnologies." Their thesis is that we have to study the progressive development of aging to get ahead of treating pathology: sort of studying how to fix it before it's broken. And the last group is well known to tech people, the X PRIZE Foundation.
So, I was initially kind of skeptical about this eclectic group. I've not been a huge fan of Ray's somewhat dystopian ideas of the future of mankind. I also don't think the X Prize approach is applicable to most of the social challenges I see, although I loved the Ansari X Prize as driving space flight through Burt Rutan's winning entry.
The groups each had four minutes to pitch their ideas. They all had big picture goals, and some of them made explicit funding asks during their lightning presentations. These were much more effective than I expected, and even two of the three Kurzweil-inspired groups were convincing enough (Singularity U and Humanity+). Only one didn't work at all for me: Singularity Institute.
But, Peter Thiel did a good job of setting up the framing for these investments in brief final comments. He acknowledged that many of these ideas struck many in the philanthropy field as weird. But, he drew a distinction between incremental change and breakthrough change (he used the words "extensive" and "intensive"). Extensive change is going from something that works at one scale and bringing it up to a larger scale. He pointed out that it's much harder to go from zero to one, than it is to go from one to many. He's looking for those breakthrough opportunities that will have a major impact. But, that means you have to bet on a lot of unusual, "weird" ideas, to see one or two that have that kind of revolutionary impact.
There aren't many philanthropists that explicitly endorse a strategy where the majority of their grants are likely to not be successful. But, if you have a heightened appetite for risk, the frame changes. What if only one of these groups gets revolutionary change going that changes society on a big scale? Probably a pretty good return on investment. Of course, we might not know that for a decade or two or three, and any change at the scale will require far more groups helping make it happen. But, through the lens of one home run justifies all of the other efforts, it makes sense.
I see the same kind of energy present in these groups that I saw in the early days of the private rocket business in the 1980s (and to be honest, in the social entrepreneurship movement of today!). Being a rocket scientist (even though my rocket admittedly blew up) was the catalyst for me to go in a completely different career direction and helped make me into what turned into a social entrepreneur. So, even if I don't buy the Ray Kurzweil vision of the singularity happening in the next century, I can imagine that a bunch of brilliant young people excited by that vision will invent the future after going through Singularity U. As one VC put it to me after the talks, you don't have to become a Jesuit to benefit from a Jesuit education! And, if a one in ten chance of Ray's vision coming true in the next 50 years is acceptable odds, investing in guiding that transition makes a lot more sense than if your standard is certainty.
Finally, I also took away that this is not an either-or proposition from Thiel's standpoint. We need investments both in breakthrough opportunities and in scaling up great ideas that have already been proven.
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The Siemens Norwood Large Drives motor factory reduced setup times and met customer demand by purchasing a WFL M80 mill-turn capable of fluting, a process that can remove 60 percent more material with each pass than existing machines' welding capabilities.
The new CNC machine performs bores, taps, turns, mills and drills on five axes sequentially in a faster time and with less supervision, also eliminating former waste and potential risks.
The WFL M80 mill-turn is 52 feet long, weighs 58 tons and contains a 72-tool magazine that automatically connects and calibrates to the turning, boring and milling (TBM) unit.
The Siemens Sinumerik 840D controller and HMI controls the mill-turn.
The TBM unit arm can perform 20 distinct CNC operations across five axes.
The Siemens Large Drives motor factory in Norwood, Ohio, recently upgraded its manufacturing capabilities at the 117-year-old facility by purchasing a WFL MillTurn Technologies M80 mill-turn. The CNC machine will aid in the manufacturing of steel rotor shafts to be used in Above NEMA electric motors and, in turn, enable Siemens Norwood to fill a major gap in the market and meet customers' needs.
Compared with many of the company's existing machines that are more than 30 years old and have required increased maintenance over their lifetime, this new machine saves time and uses less manpower.
When shafts arrive in the facility as raw material, several modifications, including full-penetration welding, must be made before they can withstand the extreme torques inside a motor. The welding procedure for full-penetration welds requires three or four weeks of time-intensive, internal and external labor and quality checking. Almost all shafts require turning, milling, drilling and tapping procedures, which were historically performed on separate machines. The transitioning between those multiple machines adds setup time, creates transportation waste and increases risk of scheduling conflicts.
However, with the M80 mill-turn, all of those procedures can be performed sequentially in a faster time and with less supervision. The CNC machine also eliminates former waste and potential risks in a new process called "fluting." Fluting is subtractive manufacturing that mills out material from a larger starting radius versus the previous additive manufacturing that welds more material from a smaller radius. This process takes less than one day versus several weeks in the previous process.
The need for this new CNC machine follows the recent market change that has required larger frame sizes, higher speeds and, thus, larger and stiffer rotor shafts. Traditionally, the volume for larger rotor shafts—the size which is best suited to run on the M80 mill-turn—has been low, but increased customer use of variable frequency drives has shifted the industrial motor business to invest in new manufacturing technology.
The WFL M80 mill-turn is 16 feet wide, 13 feet tall and 52 feet long, weighing in at 58 tons. In fact, the machine is so large that it could not fit through the existing door to the facility, so part of the garage frame had to be removed and then replaced once the machine was inside.
Once set up, the Norwood team was faced with learning a WFL coding language to operate the new machine, requiring intensive training to overcome a steep learning curve. Not only is the programming new to Norwood, but the logistics of installation and the release to production demanded constant cross-functional teamwork. There were several weeks of preparation and manual labor to finish the installation, followed by machine calibration and training that had to take place before the first production part was created and released.
Regardless of the obstacles that came with purchasing the machine, the positives far outweigh the negatives. The new CNC machine uses 72 tool heads, each of which is automatically selected and calibrated by the internal tool measuring system and software, with a Siemens Sinumerik 840D CNC controller on the machine, as well. The mill-turn can do more in less time, removing 60 percent more material with each pass compared with the existing machines. In addition, the length of the capable shafts for CNC milling has increased to 220 inches, as compared with the previous machine's 117-inch maximum limit. All of these aspects make the new mill-turn a highly valued asset to Norwood's rotor manufacturing process.
The implementation of the WFL M80 has been a success. With it, Siemens Norwood aims to significantly improve its lead time and reduce manufacturing costs, as well as gain valuable experience for other manufacturing equipment coming to the facility in the future.


Just a quick update as internet is very sparse out here. Since we have arrived in French Polynesia, we have cruised through the breathtaking and rather wet Marquesas and are now in the Tuamotu. The underwater life here is just incredible! It is absolutely alive below the surface. Friendly and not so friendly sharks circle our back steps. Coral is abundant. And the fish are the most plentiful and vibrant we have ever seen.
We've been taking some amazing footage and would love to share it with you but that will have to wait. For now, just a little teaser until we arrive in Tahiti where we're told there is fast internet.
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Adam opens the show with Doug Benson on stage, and starts complaining about how disappointing certain Olympic sports are. He also talks with Doug about the drive down to Irvine, and how crazy it was that Adam's car would brake on its own. The guys then take a couple audience questions, and play a round of Totally Topical Tivo Trivia Time. Alison begins the news by discussing the disqualification of several badminton teams for not playing their Olympic best. The guys also discuss whether or not Olympic swimmers pee in the pool, and Adam tells a story about the kids peeing at home. Also in the news, Sandusky is upset about the sanctions against Penn State, and the Brady Bunch is coming back as a rebooted TV series. As the show wraps up, the guys talk about some experiences that all men should have, and a new Facebook app that will swap out all those baby pics you don't want to see.
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Dapchi School Attack Is A 'National Disaster' – President Buhari
Lekan Paul Posted On Feb 24, 2018
President Muhammadu Buhari has described the abduction of schoolgirls from the Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe, as a national disaster.
Buhari also apologised to Nigerians over the incident.
The president said this in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday.
"This is a national disaster. We are sorry that this could have happened and share your pain,'' he said.
Buhari assured the families of the victims that no effort would be spared to bring succour to them.
"When I received the devastating news of the attack on the school and the fact that the local authorities could not account for all the students, I immediately dispatched a high-level delegation on a fact-finding visit to the town.
"I also instructed the security agencies to deploy in full and not spare any effort to ensure that all the girls are returned safely, and the attackers arrested and made to face justice.
"The entire country stands as one with the girls' families, the government and the people of Yobe State.
President Buhari expressed optimism that the armed forces would locate and safely return the missing girls to their respective families.
He revealed that more troops and surveillance aircraft were being deployed to the affected area to hasten the rescue of the girls.
"Our government is sending more troops and surveillance aircraft to keep an eye on all movements in the entire territory on a 24-hour basis, in the hope that all the missing girls will be found,'' the president said.
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E. coli bacteria offer path to improving photosynthesis
By Krishna Ramanujan |
Scientists have engineered a key plant enzyme and introduced it in Escherichia coli bacteria in order to create an optimal experimental environment for studying how to speed up photosynthesis, a holy grail for improving crop yields.
The method is described in a paper, "Small subunits can determine enzyme kinetics of tobacco Rubisco expressed in Escherichia coli," published Sept. 14 in the journal Nature Plants.
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Maureen Hanson, left, professor of molecular biology and genetics and plant biology and Myat Lin, research associate, in the Weill Plant Transformation Facility.
Scientists have known that crop yields would increase if they could accelerate the photosynthesis process, where plants convert carbon dioxide (CO2), water and light into oxygen and eventually into sucrose, a sugar used for energy and for building new plant tissue.
Researchers have focused on Rubisco, a slow enzyme that pulls (or fixes) carbon from carbon dioxide to create sucrose. Along with CO2, Rubisco sometimes catalyzes a reaction with oxygen from the air, and when it does, it creates a toxic byproduct and wastes energy, thereby making photosynthesis inefficient.
"You would like Rubisco to not interact with oxygen and to also work faster," said Maureen Hanson, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Molecular Biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
In an effort to achieve that, the researchers took Rubisco from tobacco plants and engineered it into E. coli. Tobacco serves as a common model plant in research. "We can now make mutations to try to improve the enzyme and then test it in E. coli," Hanson said.
The advantage is that since bacteria reproduce so rapidly, researchers may test an altered Rubisco in E. coli and get results the next day. "If you introduce a new Rubisco into a plant, you have to wait a few months" to get results, she said.
Initial work by another group that engineered tobacco Rubisco into E. coli led to very weak expression of the enzyme. In plants, Rubisco is composed of eight large and eight small subunits. A single gene encodes each large subunit, but many genes encode each small subunit. The complex process of enzyme assembly and the presence of multiple versions of the enzyme in plants has made it very hard to experiment with Rubisco.
Led by Myat Lin, a postdoctoral research associate in Hanson's lab and the paper's first author, the researchers were able to break down the process and express a single type of large subunit and a single type of small subunit together in E. coli, to understand the enzyme's properties. By doing this, they attained expression of the enzyme in E. coli that matched what was found in plants.
They also discovered that a Rubisco subunit found in trichomes (tiny hairs on plant leaves) worked faster than any of the subunits found in leaf cells.
"We now have the ability to engineer new versions of plant Rubisco in E. coli and find out whether the properties of an enzyme are better," Hanson said. "Then, we can take the enzyme that's improved and put that into a crop plant."
Co-authors included undergraduate researcher William Stone '18 and Vishalsingh Chaudhari, a postdoctoral associate, both from Hanson's lab.
In the Hanson lab, Lin and Stone were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop the E. coli expression system and test enzyme kinetics, and Chaudhari was funded by the National Science Foundation to examine expression of individual small subunits in tobacco.
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It was a big day when Facebook, Plaxo, and Google joined the Data Portability workgroup in the immediate aftermath of "Scoblegate." Stories are circulating today that Microsoft is joining, too. This bodes well for the movement. Let's all hope these companies, all rivals, can come to agreeement on ways to let users take their data and content with them, all over the social web!
Fortunately, this fits into a broader trend, like the growing embrace of OpenID, including most recently by Yahoo!


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1628 Ltd. Announces Expansion, Coworking Benefits
by Sara Sybert - May 13, 2019
A locally owned coworking space just announced its second expansion and other major benefits (pssst that's a hint).
1628's Founder and CEO, Tamara Schwarting
Co-working is the office of the future and 1628 Ltd. wants to offer its clients the amenities of a modern office space combined with the backdrop of an inspirational art gallery.
"Our goal is to remove the chaos from the day so members can focus on their work," explains Founder and CEO Tamara Schwarting. "1628 offers daily, weekly, and monthly passes for individuals who need coworking flexibility, without a long-term commitment."
There are multiple core offerings from 1628, which include:
● Private offices, dedicated desks, and communal coworking for individuals and teams
● Daily, weekly, and monthly access to our coworking space with no long-term commitment
● 6,000 sq/ft available private events and business meetings. With 8 conference rooms and 2 large-scale rooms with open floor plans, 1628 can accommodate groups of all sizes from 2 to 200.
Here's an idea of who might be interested in working at 1628:
● Independent workers and entrepreneurs without a HQ or home office
● Fortune 100 & 500 companies looking to establish a presence in Cincinnati with the flexibility to scale operations before committing to commercial real estate lease
● Vendors or clients of companies who need access to a business center to stay productive while in Cincinnati for business
● Individuals traveling to Cincinnati for business or leisure during the work week who need to plug-in and stay connected
● Anyone who needs an office oasis to provide inspiration to bring big ideas to life
Schwarting was inspired to launch 1628 Ltd. following a 15-year career at P&G when she opened her own consulting firm. It was then that she quickly learned that there were very few options available to meet with clients, and coffee shops and other public places aren't always the best place to do business.
"I was familiar with coworking from the East coast, but very few options existed in Cincinnati," she says. "After doing market research, I decided to open a coworking space that would meet my needs and other independent professionals in a similar situation."
The concept behind 1628 Ltd. began in late 2015 before 1628 Ltd. was formed 9 months later, and then opened for business in late 2016.
Since it first opened back in 2016, 1628 Ltd. has already expanded twice, with this second expansion expected to be completed in late summer.
The new office is located at 11 Garfield Place in the historic Doctor's building. 1628 Ltd. currently occupies 13,000 square feet of space on the first and second floors, with the expansion moving up to the third floor.
Schwarting says that the expansion is about more than just offering new space for clients.
"Where you work should work for you and at 1628, we strive to make sure we're putting our members and guests first as we continue to evolve and meet the needs of a modern workforce," she says. "We'll bring the same visual aesthetic to our newest expansion – think posh boutique hotel with all the amenities you expect in a modern office."
Once the expansion is complete, 1628 Ltd. will offer 25,000 square feet of coworking space. "In addition to this, we just announced this week that we'll be expanding our members' services to offer HR benefits through TriNet," says Schwarting. "The benefits available through this partnership are typically only offered at Fortune 500 companies. We're excited to bring healthcare and HR benefits to our members, especially as access to quality HR benefits are not often available to small businesses due to cost."
To learn more about 1628 Ltd., visit 1628ltd.com or follow along on Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/1628ltd/> and Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/1628ltd/>.
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Fitness app Fitlov raises $500,000 pre-Series A
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The UAE-based fitness app Fitlov has raised $500,000 in a pre-Series A fundraise through angel investment.
Founded in February 2018 by Alberto Pardo, Alvaro Zapata and Zena Hamdan, Fitlov is a one-stop-shop app that connects users with personal trainers, nutritionists, and physiotherapists.
Fitlov will utilise its newly acquired funds to fuel its expansion into other regions as part of a possible long-term strategy. It will also further develop its platform and tech stack, expanding beyond being a service marketplace by leveraging AI to provide personalised assessment and recommendations for each user.
The UAE-based fitness startup and on-demand personal training platform Fitlov has successfully raised $500,000 through angel investment in its latest pre-Series A fundraise. In doing so, Fitlov joins the latest streak of investments backing sports & fitness startups in the UAE.
Founded in February 2018, by childhood friends and fitness enthusiasts Alberto Pardo and Alvaro Zapata along with their partner Zena Hamdan, Fitlov launched as a 'super app' for fitness providing "a one-stop-shop app to get fit and build a healthy lifestyle". The app connects users with personal trainers, nutritionists, and physiotherapists instantly. It not only allows users to get satisfy their physical needs and hit requirements, but it also provides them with a consolidated platform to track their progress and activity.
We continue to observe a gradual trajectory towards later-stage deals in the UAE, as most recently recorded in our UAE Q3 2021 Venture Investment Report. Even though the early-stage deal (<$500,000) share of total transactions dropped by more than 60 per cent YoY, deals ranging between $500,000 and $3 million were observed an impressive 114 per cent in Q3 2021 compared to full-year 2020. This is in light of the UAE's 34 per cent YoY drop in total funding rounds in 2021. The funding round closed by Fitlov follows a series of investments in the sports & fitness sector which included Enhance Fitness, Steppi, and Padel 26.
Fitlov has been in the market for 3 years making significant progress. Today Fitlov has 13 full-time employees, a renowned regional angel investor, a full in-house tech team, and multiple partnerships with big corporates. Fitlov revenues grew 10x during 2020 despite COVID; in 2021 they continue to grow quickly. The simplicity, yet comprehensiveness of the platform, was at the core of their success as founder and CEO Alberto Pardo stated, "We follow a holistic approach in which our clients get paired with one trainer and one nutritionist to ensure they achieve their fitness/health results. Our fitness professionals are freelancers that choose to work with Fitlov because of the ease of working and good conditions."
The UAE-based startup plans to utilise its newly acquired funds to fuel its expansion into other regions as part of a possible long-term strategy. This latest investment enables Fitlov to further develop its platform and tech stack, expanding beyond being a service marketplace by leveraging AI to provide personalised assessment and recommendations for each user. "We are concentrating our efforts on our new technology which we expect to launch in October 2021. We picked this idea because we believe there is a big gap in today's fitness & wellness offering, and people are more interested in fitness & wellness than ever before. We live in the age of the platform economy, however, there is no established platform connecting the best fitness & wellness specialists in a seamless manner. So we believe we can make a difference and help users live their healthiest version of life, and help the fitness & wellness professionals grow with the help of tech," co-founder Zena Hamdan concluded.
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Tennis elbow earned its name because playing tennis used to be the main cause. These days it is much more commonly caused by computer usage. There are many recommended practices to heal your tennis elbow. Unfortunately, many of these recommendations do not get at the root cause of tennis elbow. In this blog, I would like to address these common recommendations and give you my own "Gold Approved" recommendations for healing your elbow pain.
Tennis elbow is a classic repetitive strain injury (RSI): that affects the muscles and tendons on the back of the arm and the outside of the elbow. Tennis elbow is a form of "tendinopathy," which is a fancy way of saying there is something wrong with your tendon. In a 2008 scientific paper by Andres et al, tendinopathy is "any painful condition occurring in and around tendons in response to overuse." Furthermore, "little or no inflammation is present in these conditions." With little to no inflammation, your standard anti-inflammatory regimen of icing and ibuprofen will help with the short term pain/swelling but won't work miracles in healing tennis elbow.
Rest. Many doctors will tell you to avoid activities that aggravate your elbow pain. However, the condition might improve with rest but typically comes back shortly after resuming the activity that caused it.
Pain relievers. Over-the-counter pain relievers, such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB) or naproxen (Aleve) are another common doctor recommendation. These medications might help you make it through your match, however, they are not a great long term solution because they don't treat the root cause of the condition.
Ice. Your typical primary care doctor and myself, may tell you to apply ice or a cold pack for 10 minutes three to four times a day. This is fantastic for reducing any immediate inflammation and will reduce your pain. However, this again will not treat the root cause of your condition.
Alter your technique. Consult a coach to improve/change your swing.
Reduce scar tissue and painful nerve endings formed by your activity which is reducing blood flow. We can achieve this by using rapid release technology, Graston technique or Gwa-Sha, or deep tissue myofascial release.
Adjust the elbow, shoulder and wrist. This is best done by a Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner (C.C.E.P).
Cold laser; a medical device that increases the amount of energy delivered to the tissue to speed up the healing process and reduce inflammation. It increases ATP production and cellular transport (cold laser is a couple of steps above therapeutic ultrasound).
Tennis elbow support brace, similar to the Mueller Hg80 Tennis Elbow brace. Wearing a forearm strap or brace will change the fulcrum of the muscle slightly, thus reduce stress on the injured tissue.


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End of the Road Movie: Release Date & Everything we know
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Netflix users will be excited to know that there's a new thriller film arriving on the platform this year. It is titled End of the Road.
The End of the Road movie is a high-octane action thriller with Millicent Shelton as the director and Tracey Edmonds as the producer.
It follows the story of a widowed woman named Brenda, played by Latifah. After getting fired from her job she decides to take her family cross-country to start a new life.
To know more about the movie, you should give this post a read.
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While the screenplay owes to David Loughery, it was Christopher Moore who wrote the original draft.
Now that the trailer is out, we can expect the movie to release soon. You will be excited to know that movie will arrive on Friday 9th September 2022, sharp at 12:00 AM PT/3:00 AM ET.
Mark the End of the Road Movie release date on your calendar because you wouldn't want to miss this one.
End of the Road Movie cast is confirmed with Latifah as the protagonist. Check out the cast details below.
Queen Latifah as Brenda
Ludacris as Reggie
Jesse Luken as Harvey Ruck
Frances Lee McCain as Val
Travis Hammer as Skinny
Tabatha Shaun as Shelby
Keith Jardine as Mace
Shaun Dixon as Cam
Aaron Valentine as Zach
Mychala Lee as Kelly Freeman
Efrain Villa as Pepe Ochoa
Amie MacKenzie as Lucy
End of the Road movie trailer came out just a few days ago on 15th August 2022. You can watch it here:
Since the movie trailer is already released, we don't think there's a need for an End of the Road movie teaser any more. Teasers are usually released to reveal the first look of the film/series. In this case, the trailer has already done that.
Talking about the End of the Road movie plot follows the story of a recently widowed woman named Brenda. She gets kicked out of her job and decides to move her family cross-country to start a new life.
While on their way, they get stuck in the New Mexico desert without any help. Soon they are targeted by a mysterious killer. Brenda must fight back to survive and protect her family.
For those who are wondering End of the Road movie where to watch, Netflix is the answer for you. The movie is set to release on 9th September 2022. Since this is a Netflix film, you won't find it on any other streaming platform.
If you are excited to watch this film, make sure to get your Netflix subscription ready. By doing so you can stream the movie in HD format.
End of the Road movie countdown is on! The release date of the film is 9th September, which means we are just a month away from getting the movie on our screens.
This film is a treat for everyone who loves watching thriller movies.
The directors have revealed only the synopsis of the movie along with few other details. Therefore, we don't have any End of the Road movie spoilers at the moment.
According to End of the Road movie news, the film is currently in the last leg of post-production. They are soon going to wrap up the production work as the release is getting closer.
For more new updates, you should follow End of the Road movie Twitter page.
The End of the Road movie poster for promotional release is out. You can check it out here:
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Who is the protagonist in End of the Road?
Queen Latifah is playing the role of Brenda, who is the protagonist at the End of the Road movie.
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End of the Road movie will be released on Netflix on 9th September.
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The movie is scheduled to release on 9th September 2022, only on Netflix.
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End of the Road movie is directed by Millicent Shelton.
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Home / Previous guests / Hon Kris Faafoi
Kris was born in 1976 to recent immigrants to Christchurch from Tokelau. His mother worked in a manufacturing plant and his father trained, then worked as a primary school teacher.
Originally following his father's path into teaching, Kris left his university career after a couple of years to train in journalism at the Broadcasting School in Christchurch. Kris went on to work for TVNZ and eventually the BBC as a television journalist.
Kris moved sideways into politics, working as Phil Goff's press secretary before becoming an MP in the Mana electorate by-election in 2010. In the current Labour-led coalition government, Kris has become Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media, and Government Digital Services as well as Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing).
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La «Rivista di filosofia», che ha celebrato nel 2009 il centesimo anniversario, è pubblicata da il Mulino di Bologna e diretta da Massimo Mori; ha nel comitato di direzione Andrea Cantini, Ettore Casari, Paolo Casini, Massimo Ferrari, Luca Fonnesu, Simone Gozzano, Antonello La Vergata, Eugenio Lecaldano, Alberto Pasquinelli, Paolo Rossi, Pietro Rossi, Salvatore Veca e Carlo Augusto Viano.

Ogni anno sul primo fascicolo viene ospitata una conferenza, affidata a studiosi scelti, detta «Lettura Martinetti», in ricordo di uno dei padri illustri della rivista Piero Martinetti.

Storia
La «Rivista di filosofia» fu fondata nel 1909 come organo della Società filosofica italiana e in continuazione della «Rivista filosofica» già di Carlo Cantoni, neocriticista, e della «Rivista di filosofia e scienze affini» di Giovanni Marchesini, di orientamento positivista, entrambe cessate nel 1908 e per così dire confluite nella nuova rivista. Il primo editore fu A.F. Formiggini a Modena. Nel comitato di redazione figuravano Adolfo Faggi, Erminio Juvalta, Giovanni Vailati, Alessandro Levi, Giovanni Marchesini, Luigi Valli, Bernardino Varisco. La prima annata uscì in tre fascicoli bimestrali e due trimestrali.

Dal 1926 alla seconda guerra mondiale l'ispiratore principale, sebbene non ne fosse ufficialmente il direttore, fu Piero Martinetti. Vi collaboravano Cesare Goretti, Giulio Grasselli, Ennio Carando e soprattutto Gioele Solari, che vi introdusse i giovani neoilluministi Norberto Bobbio e Ludovico Geymonat. La direzione venne poi assunta nel 1952 da Nicola Abbagnano e Norberto Bobbio. Dal 2006 il direttore è Massimo Mori.

Bibliografia
Massimo Mori, «Rivista di filosofia». L'eredità del neoilluminismo, in: Piero Di Giovanni (a cura di), La cultura filosofica italiana attraverso le riviste. 1945-2000, [vol. I], Milano, F. Angeli, 2006
Mariantonella Portale,  Giovanni Marchesini e la «Rivista di filosofia e scienze affini». La crisi del positivismo italiano, Milano, F. Angeli, 2010
Piero Di Giovanni (a cura di), Un secolo di filosofia italiana attraverso le riviste (1870-1960), Milano, F. Angeli, 2012

Collegamenti esterni
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma: «Rivista di filosofia» (raccolta digitalizzata, annate dal 1909 al 1938)

Riviste di filosofia italiane
Quadrimestrali italiani
Periodici fondati nel 1909

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Why do we let these people do this to us? Daylight Saving Time is ridiculous. As someone who can only easily get up once the sun's come up, I think I'd just live on standard time year round and to hell with everyone else. Except I have kids still in school so that's not exactly feasible. But someday, I tell you! Someday!


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Learn the groundbreaking significance beyond the boundaries of the game of the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur for not only the competitors and their families, but also fans and the future of golf.
Wait, what? Tiger the fourth best player of all time?


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Bechowiec-2 – polski pistolet maszynowy wzorowany na STEN-ie opracowany przez Jana Swata ps. "Orzeł", członka Batalionów Chłopskich. Zasada działania oparta była na odrzucie zamka swobodnego. Magazynek był umieszczony z boku broni. Twórca przed śmiercią pod koniec czerwca 1944 roku zmontował 2 pistolety. Bechowiec-2 przekazany w 1945 przez brata konstruktora UB nie zachował się.

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Photo: Palms overhead on Koh Tonsay.
Better known as Rabbit Island, Koh Tonsay is a lovely little island about 25 minutes away from Kep by hired boat, making it one of the most easily accessible of all the islands. It is also one of the least-developed, with no motor vehicles, no mains electricity and few residents, making it an ideal getaway from the grind. Definitely not flashpacking, Koh Tonsay will float your boat if you appreciate a good sunset.
Boats leave the ferry port regularly throughout the day — a return ticket will cost $8 or pay $30 for a boat with enough seating for six to eight people. Travel agencies near the bus stop can organise tuk tuk collections, boat tickets and accommodation. Or just turn up at the jetty in the morning to make your own boat arrangements and find somewhere to sleep when you arrive. Weekends and public holidays get busy and may require booking ahead, but on a normal weekday the island will be beautifully peaceful.
The main beach where the boats anchor is about 600 metres long, and lined with coconut palms, hammocks and lazy chairs, a few dozen huts and a handful of fresh seafood joints serving up some outstanding seafood.
There are eight "resorts", each with its own beachside restaurant shack and a collection of stilted bungalows arranged around a lawn with coconut palms. Accommodation runs the length of the beach, with a choice of single or duplex huts. The cheapest, at $6, do not have their own bathroom. Pay up to $15 for a sit-down toilet and cold shower, or between $8-$12 for a squat toilet, bucket shower and tap. Forget complementary toothbrushes and air-con — rooms come with a bed, a fan and a mosquito net. And that's about it.
Many nights are quiet, but on weekends and holidays all it takes is a group of young Cambodians with a karaoke machine to change the vibe. Mostly, though, the beach is uncrowded. We found the owners at the first and fourth group of bungalows to be the most helpful and forthcoming when we spoke to them, especially Tong at Chay Sokheng (the fourth resort along). Reservations are unlikely to be required here, but if you're feeling an excess of caution, you could contact Khim Vouch Lay on (077) 288 844 (the first group of bungalows), or Chay Sokheng on (097) 886 9123.
This is Tong. We love Tong.
Lights go out at 22:00, when the generators are switched off, so don't forget to bring a torch for those midnight toilet trips.
There are opportunities for walks to other little bays on the island and the swimming straight off the main beach is excellent. You can hike around the entire island in about three hours.
If you want to get more active, you're on a fishing village island remember, so look into trying to rustle up a fishing trip — either through the boatman who brought you in the first place, or else through just about anybody else on the island. Snorkels and masks are available to hire for $1 per day and plenty of colourful fish swim in the warm shallow water.
But then, you do wake up and walk straight out to this.
It's also worth keeping an eye out for occasional jellyfish and spiky sea anemones that will spoil your fun (although your friends will probably love an opportunity to try out pee-related first aid remedies).
The beach on Koh Pos.
You can also head out to Koh Svay (Mango Island) or Koh Pos (Snake Island). Koh Pos has a white sandy beach flanked by a small Cambodian fishing village. If you want to escape the crowds on Koh Tonsay, which does get busy, this is a nice retreat. It is, like many Cambodian beaches, quite litter-strewn however. You can hire snorkelling gear on Koh Tonsay to bring along, and we're told that the snorkelling here is lovely.
Koh Svay's charms are less apparent. A mango orchard (hence the name!) climbs up the small hill from the top of which you can get some nice views of Kep. Other than that, we're not really sure why you'd go. You can get to both from Koh Tonsay for $30 per boat, or from the mainland for $50 per boat.
Last updated on 24th February, 2016.
Planning on riding a scooter in Koh Tonsay? Please read this.
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Q: PHP multilingual site with mo I want to make a site available in three languages, in my knowledge I can use three way to achieve this.

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The database may be increase with large amount of data.
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*gettext (using .po and .mo files) is the classic, stable, proven solution with a vibrant ecosystem, having been built up over years and years, designed for the exact purpose of translation, supporting virtually everything you will eventually figure out that you need (plurals, categories, asynchronous workflow, you name it).

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*Is 2. with the added disadvantage of not easily being able to version control your translations.

Use an established solution, the problem is not as trivial as it may seem initially. gettext is good, though you'll really need to get into the workflow, which may be a bit of an uphill battle in the beginning.

A: I think the best way is to have everything stored in files on your filesystem. This way, you can not only easily cache it, but it will also work when your database is down. It's also a lot easier to have changes in your VCS such as git or svn. There are several GUI programs available for several different file types to manage this.
Personally, I work with Symfony2 and they have a very easy solution:
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"When Australia's energy ministers meet tomorrow in Sydney, they should support the National Energy Guarantee," writes Ben Eade, Manufacturing Australia's Executive Director, in the Herald Sun. You can read the full piece here.
This month's "2030 Plan" from Innovation and Science Australia made many excellent recommendations about how Australia can seize a place among top-tier innovation nations.


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Jak pokochać centra handlowe (Wydawnictwo Wielka Litera), Natalia Fiedorczuk's literary debut, is about the woman experience and an unusual story about the transformation of w women into a mother. Natalia Fiedorczuk's prose is uncompromised, sincere, painfully true, an introverted story, mesmerizing, spanned between fiction and reportage. It is a poignant picture of becoming a parent and emotions accompanying this transition: anger, sorrow and uncertainty, all that written without coquetry or striking a false note. Jak pokochać centra handlowe is an insightful look about contemporary Poland. Incisive descriptions of suburbs, daily work and duties have the power of a manifesto of the precarious generation. Natalia Fiedorczuk's narration brings to light the difficult and the uncomfortable, situating her story in a range of powerful and authentic literary pictures of parenthood and depression like in Justyna Bargielska's Obsoletki or Kaja Malanowska's Drobne szaleństwa dnia codziennego.


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LawPulse
Rules committee hears proposals on divorce, criminal law, evidence issues
By Helen W. Gunnarsson
Proposals address financial disclosure in divorce, how judges describe defendants' decision not to testify, and how to handle inadvertent disclosure of documents.
As this issue of the IBJ was being prepared for publication, the Illinois Supreme Court's Rules Committee announced that it would hold a hearing on a number of proposals for new or modified rules.
Financial disclosure in divorce
Proposal 08-03, submitted by ISBA, would create a new supreme court rule regarding financial disclosure that would apply to all family law matters involving property or support, including those in which one party seeks an award of costs or attorney fees from the other party. With court permission, the parties might agree to opt out of the rule's coverage.
If adopted, the rule will require the parties to serve completed financial disclosure statements on each other on a form, published below the proposed rule, approved by the supreme court. The form calls for a listing of the parties' current circumstances, including not only current addresses and employment, but also a detailed listing of their income, health insurance, living expenses, unreimbursed business expenses, children's expenses, marital and claimed nonmarital assets, asset transfers, and liabilities, as well as potential areas of disagreement.
Additionally, the parties must exchange their most recent pay stubs, their last three years of tax returns with schedules and attached statements, records of any other income, and up-to-date statements of assets such as bank and brokerage accounts. The proposed rule requires the parties to sign their disclosure forms and to seasonably update them in the same manner as discovery. Like discovery, the forms are not to be filed with the court.
"Failure to testify" in criminal cases
In Proposal 11-03, Chicago criminal defense lawyer Robert Loeb offers an edit to the wording of SCR 431(b). In People v Zehr, 103 Ill 2d 474, 469 NE2d 1062 (1984), the Illinois Supreme Court held that judges must ask jurors whether they understand and accept four components of the presumption of innocence, including that the defendant's failure to testify in his own behalf cannot be held against him. The court codified those requirements in SCR 431(b). Loeb's amendment would substitute "fact that a defendant does not testify" for the phrase "defendant's failure to testify."
Charleston lawyer Jeremy Richey summarized the problem with the rule's current phrasing from the defense perspective. "This phrase, spoken by a judge, makes it sound like a defendant's lack of testimony is a moral failure on his part, but the jury should not hold that moral failure against the defendant. A defendant has no obligation at all to testify. Mr. Loeb's proposal corrects this problem." For his part, Loeb says, "Declining to testify should not be phrased in a negative way. The rule takes away the negative word 'failure.' It tweaks the language to reflect the spirit and intent of the rule."
Protection against inadvertent disclosure of documents
Proposals 11-01, submitted by the Special Supreme Court Committee on Illinois Evidence, and 11-02, submitted by Chicago lawyer Steven Puiszis, a past president of the Illinois Association of Defense Counsel, would create a new rule of evidence and a new supreme court rule. Together, the rules would address whether and to what extent a lawyer may assert that documents are covered by privilege or work product after disclosure and what procedure the parties and the court are to use to address those issues.
The committee's proposed rule mirrors most of the language of FRE 502. Puiszis's proposed rule is as follows:
If information produced in discovery is subject to a claim of privilege or of work product protection, the party making the claim may notify any party that received the information of the claim and the basis for it. After being notified, each receiving party must promptly return, sequester, or destroy the specified information and any copies; must not use or disclose the information until the claim is resolved; must take reasonable steps to retrieve the information if the receiving party disclosed the information to third parties before being notified; and may promptly present the information to the court under seal for a determination of the claim. The producing party must also preserve the information until the claim is resolved.
The proposed rules, Puiszis says, would give parties in state court proceedings substantially the same protection against inadvertent disclosure as they receive in federal court.
"These rules would create a means to assert privilege or work product after you've inadvertently produced documents that are protected. They also permit a court to enter an order which will provide each side with protection as against third parties, which would not be available if they simply entered into an agreement with one another."
Puiszis says his proposal is also consistent with a more collegial approach to litigation. "This rule dovetails nicely with RPC 4.4(b), which requires attorneys to notify the other side once they receive documents that they reasonably believe may be privileged or work product."
The hearing will address several other proposals, including Proposal 10-06, Offered by the IJC Committee on Criminal Law and Probation Administration. That proposal would amend SCR 402(d)(1) to authorize judges to participate in plea discussions within certain parameters. The hearing will be convened on January 23, 2012, at 10 a.m. at 160 N. LaSalle St., Room C-500, in Chicago.
Helen W. Gunnarsson is a lawyer and writer in Highland Park. She can be reached at <helengunnar@gmail.com>
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Ralph Branca's Least Favorite Record
Ralph Branca Probably Never Played This LP Record
Ralph Branca, the Brooklyn Dodgers hurler who gave up the 1951 home run known as the "Shot Heard Round The World" died at the age of 90 on Wednesday, November 23, 2016 in Rye Brook, NY.
After giving up the home run, Branca was unjustly made a poster boy for failure. A three time All-Star, Branca was a very good pitcher and had won 75 games by the age of 25. An injury in 1953 cut short his promising career.
The Giants Win The Pennant! 1952 Chesterfield cigarettes limited edition LP record
The home run that Bobby Thomson of the Giants hit off Branca to win the third and deciding playoff game, was very likely a pitch that Thomson knew was coming.
The Giants had been stealing signs from opposing teams catchers and relaying them to their hitters with a telescope and a buzzer system at home games at the Polo Grounds during the season. It was confirmed years later that the Giants had tipped batters during the playoff game as well. Thomson though never admitted to having been tipped to what the pitch would be that won the game.
When Thomson hit his home run, Giants announcer Russ Hodges Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Baseball, New York, Obituary and tagged 1950s, Bobby Thomson, Brooklyn Dodgers, Entertainment, New York Giants, Polo Grounds, Radio, Ralph Branca on November 24, 2016 by B.P..
October 3, 1951 A Day Brooklyn Dodgers Fans Would Love To Forget
The Moment Bobby Thomson Hit His "Shot Heard Round The World"
Bobby Thomson connects, Oct. 3, 1951, catcher is Rube Walker, umpire is Lou Jorda photo: Wide World
This article is titled "A Day Brooklyn Dodgers Fans Would Love To Forget" but in actuality Brooklyn Dodgers fans are dwindling in number.
You'd have to be at least 60 years old to have any memory of "dem bums" playing at that great ballpark known as Ebbets Field. The team moved to Los Angeles in 1958, breaking everyone in Brooklyn's hearts.
The day the Dodgers left Brooklyn for smoggy L.A. was a horrible moment, but no moment was as painful for Dodgers fans as the Giants bottom of the ninth inning comeback of a best two out of three playoff series with the Dodgers.
On Wednesday October 3, 1951 one of the most memorable events in all of baseball history occurred. A seen in the photo above, Dodgers fans were devastated when the New York Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson hit a one out, three run home run to left field off of Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to give the Giants a 5-4 miracle win at the Polo Grounds and propel them into the World Series against the Yankees. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Baseball, Movies, New York, Photography and tagged 1950s, Bobby Thomson, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, News - Press Photo, Polo Grounds, Ralph Branca on October 3, 2014 by Max.
When Ballplayers Spent Time With The Fans
Bobby Thomson and A Young Fan
Sure it's just a posed publicity photo, but there was a time when ballplayers actually did interact with fans. At the New York Giants' spring training home in Phoenix, Arizona, Bobby Thomson demonstrates to a little cowboy, Dennis Filan age five, the proper way to grip a baseball bat on March 6, 1953.
Thomson, who will forever occupy a spot in every Giants fans heart for hitting the most famous homerun in baseball history the "shot heard 'round the world" in 1951, was typical of many ballplayers before astronomical salaries became the norm for baseball. These players spent time among the fans.
Not only that, most players worked other jobs in the off-season to make ends meet. They lived among regular people, who went to the ballgames and had daily interactions with them. In New York and many other major league cities, most players took public transportation or walked to the ballpark from their homes. The players were an integral part of the community they played in.
It's one of the reasons baseball is so screwed up today. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Baseball, Commentary, Photography and tagged 1950s, Bobby Thomson, New York Giants, News - Press Photo on April 2, 2012 by B.P..


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Love Island's Greg O'Shea launches Just Eat awards with Cassie Stokes
by Rebecca Ryan 21/11/2019
written by Rebecca Ryan 21/11/2019
Love Island star Greg O'Shea has joined presenter Cassie Stokes to launch the popular Just Eat National Awards.
Now in its sixth year, a total of 25 awards will be up for grabs, and three new categories have been added to the 2019 ballot paper including Best Takeaway Sustainability, Best Takeaway Vegan and Best Takeaway Breakfast.
Having just finished a stint as a radio presenter on RTE 2FM breakfast, and taking a break from his pre-season schedule, popular professional rugby 7's player Greg O'Shea said he's excited to see more healthier takeaway options available.
"My schedule was always pretty hectic to be honest, but these days I'm on the go from 4.30am, so I'm delighted to help launch the Just Eat National Takeaway Awards and celebrate the great range of healthy takeaway options available to people that need convenience, but don't want to compromise their lifestyle.
"I'd certainly be partial to a more traditional takeaway treat at the weekend, particularly during the off-season, but I'm really looking forward to seeing who gets nominated for Best Takeaway Vegetarian, Healthy and Vegan this year."
Returning as the host of the glamourous awards, which will be taking place in Dublin's Number Twenty Two on Tuesday 21st January 2020, food enthusiast Cassie Stokes said: "Anyone who follows me on Instagram knows that I love my food, so I'm thrilled to be returning for the second year to host the Just Eat National Takeaway Awards.
"It really was a great night last year and a true celebration of the incredible range of delicious options we have at our fingertips from Breakfast Rolls to Poke Bowls, so get nominating!"
The shortlist of nominees will be announced on Tuesday 7 January 2020, with customers given the chance to vote for their winner.
To nominate your favourite local restaurant log onto just-eat.ie/takeawayawards2019 and you could be in with a chance to win free takeaway for a year!
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Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy.


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Vice-President REN Xiaomin Met With Makame Mnyaa Mbarawa, Minister of Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology of Tanzania
On October29 2013, Makame Mnyaa Mbarawa, Minister of Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology of Tanzania led a delegation to Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT),our vice-president REN Xiaomin warmly received the guests.
Firstly, Vice-President REN extended the cordial welcome to the delegation, and made a brief introduction to our university's latest development and major research areas. BUPT ranks in the first place in the discipline of Information and Communication Engineering according to the National Education Assessment 2013. BUPT cultivates many excellent talents in the field of telecommunications. Minister Mbarawa says that the infrastructure building and professional training in Tanzania are still the weak areas, and he wants to collaborate with BUPT in the cultivation of professional talents in telecommunication areas so as to build up and strengthen the telecommunication industries.Vice-President REN expressed his sincere hope that we can further our cooperation, not only in the area of professional talents cultivation, but also the cooperation of scientific research and staff exchanges.
After the meeting, led by the Director of International Office Ms REN, the delegation visited two National Key Labs which are State Key lab of Information Photonics and Optical Communication, and State Key Lab of Networking and Switching Technology.
Richard Adriano Mwanakulya, Secretary to the minister, Ms. XIN Lingling, Assistant to the President and Director of General Office, Ms. REN Chunxia, Director of International Office, ZHAO Nan, Vice-president of CITCC, LI Xiong, Vice-president of Overseas Development Division, CITCCalso took part in the meeting.