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"Mn!" Su Yan nodded happily, not even bothering to ask what that had to do with the experience stats and how it would bring them home. As long as he could become a cultivator for a while, it was certainly worth it!
Since Ziju An's study had spiritual artifacts that could help with cultivation lying around everywhere, the two of them just sat down where they were and closed their eyes. Su Yan even made the effort to get into the lotus position in case it would make his cultivation speed faster. If he could live like a cultivator for a few days, he wanted to be a good cultivator, after all.
Unfortunately, things turned out to be more difficult than he had thought they would. Sitting in the right position and closing your eyes obviously wasn't enough to become a great cultivator. The only thing Su Yan sensed … was darkness. And maybe it was even wrong to say he sensed it. It was just that there was only darkness around him since his eyes were closed.
"Hm." Su Yan wasn't that convinced. He wanted to ask further but the profile of his boyfriend distracted him. Uh, well, it was probably wrong to think of it like this. Right now, Nie Chang still looked like Ziju An. He had a hair full of white hair, equally white brows and lashes and his face was also a bit more elegant and refined than Nie Chang's real face. The resemblance was still quite big.
So this was how his boyfriend would look if they were real cultivators … He had to say he really had good eyesight. Such a handsome man! Thankfully, he had already become his boyfriend or he really would have missed out.
Su Yan smiled happily and continued to look at his boyfriend. Ah, cultivating together wasn't bad. If they had to stay here longer, they should probably do this more often. Although he had to say that he liked Nie Chang's original hair color a bit more than this white. It was certainly very cool in a novel but he didn't want to have such an ethereal-looking boyfriend. Wouldn't he look pathetic next to him then?
Nie Chang really wanted to ignore the stare that was directed at him and wait things out but just when he thought Su Yan had finally gone back to trying to sense the spiritual energy, his little darling started to rummage about.
Nie Chang cracked one eye open to make sure Su Yan wasn't doing anything harmful. It seemed he didn't need to worry. His little darling was indeed not doing anything harmful. He had gotten up though and was currently searching around in Ziju An's study as if looking for something. Nie Chang pondered if he should offer his help but he finally closed his eyes again and pretended he hadn't noticed anything. Who knew what his little darling was trying to do? If he didn't help, Su Yan might give up on his own.
Nie Chang opened his eyes, reached forward and picked up the mirror that stood on the table.
Su Yan blinked again. Huh? Oh. It seemed what Nie Chang said was true. They had used the mirror to have a look at the system. His cheeks flushed but he still hurried over to take the mirror from Nie Chang. He still had to take a look at his face, after all.
The system kept quiet but still disappeared from the surface of the mirror. Su Yan hurriedly took a look.
Then he lowered the mirror again and pursed his lips. This wasn't nice at all! How come his boyfriend was so handsome while he looked so ordinary? Had Dou Fang Hai not concentrated on cultivation at all?! When they got back, he would certainly change that troublemaker into a decent child that would awe the whole cultivation world with his endless talent and hardworking attitude! No way would he stay ugly while his boyfriend was so beautiful.


As a Syrian who has always identified politically with the left, I am particularly appalled by those men and women who call themselves left-wingers—and are therefore supposed to stand in solidarity with struggles for justice worldwide—and yet openly support the regime of the Assads, father and son, who are chiefly responsible for the Syrian disaster.
Following four months of intense bombardment by the Russian air force, Bashar Al-Assad's army, along with Shiite militias hailing from everywhere and mobilized by the Iranian mullahs, have now finished "liberating" Eastern Aleppo. Liberated from whom? From its inhabitants. More than 250,000 inhabitants were forced to flee their own city to escape massacres, as had the people of Zabadani and Daraya before them, and as will many more Syrians if systematic social and sectarian "cleansing" continues in their country under the cover of a massive media disinformation campaign.
That in Syria itself wealthy residents of Aleppo, belonging to all religious sects, rejoice over having been rid of the "scum"—meaning the poor classes who populated Eastern Aleppo—is not surprising at all. We are accustomed to it: the arrogance of dominant classes is universal.
But how could one fail to explode in anger when one reads statements in support of the regime of the Assads, father and son, issued by men and women who claim to stand on the left, and who should therefore sympathize with struggles for justice everywhere? How could one fail to become exasperated when one hears them praise the independence, secularism, progressive character, and even "socialism" of a lawless clan that took power in an army coup more than forty-five years ago and whose only concern is to keep exerting power forever? "Assad forever," "Assad or nobody," "Assad or we burn the country," chant Assad's partisans. And his "leftist" supporters nod approvingly under the pretext that there is no other choice: it's either him or ISIS.
Is this "Syria of Assad"—where Iran and Russia act as they please, together as well as separately, and whose future now relies exclusively on their agreements and disagreements—independent and anti-imperialist? Let left-wing admirers of the Assad regime read the unconscionable treaty that it signed on August 26, 2015, granting Russia exorbitant privileges as well as complete and permanent immunity regarding all damages caused by its air force.
Translated from the French by Joey Ayoub. Photo courtesy of Publishing Perspectives. Thanks to Danny Postel and the rest of the Pulse team for posting this article and their invaluable work in general.
Farouk Mardam-Bey is a Syrian historian, author, and editor who has been living in exile in France since 1965. He was Head of Arabic at the library for the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris (1972-1986), an editor and then director of a French journal of Palestinian studies (1981-2008), and a consultant for the Arab World Institute (1989-2008). Since 1995, he has been director of the Sindbad series, part of the publishing house Actes Sud, which aims at translating Arabic works into French. His co-authored/edited books include the two-volume Itineraries from Paris to Jerusalem: France and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1992-1993), Being Arab (2007), and Our France (2011). He has also edited and published a number of historical, political, literary and bibliographical texts and translated the works of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish into French.


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QUINA stacks up and the top prize reaches BRL 1.5 MILLION
01/15/2023 admin BRL, million, prize, Quina, reaches, Stacks, Top
Caixa Econômica Federal held 6,051 tenders this Saturday (14). Quina. In particular, the lottery could pay 700,000 BRL to the person who correctly guessed the five numbers drawn. However, no one managed to win the competition, and the main prize of the next drawing reached a million.
In one word, Caixa will be able to pay 1.5 million rials to those who match all ten drawn, but this amount may vary depending on the number of winners and the set of the competition.
The numbers drawn by Caixa Econômica this Saturday were: 01 – 07 – 49 – 59 – 61.
Although no one matched the five tens drawn and won the top prize, thousands of games were awarded. However, the amounts paid out were much smaller than the top prize.
Check out Quina's 6.051 contest winning tracks below:
4 strokes. 34 bets reached tens and will amount to 9191.40 BRL each;
3 strokes. 3,269 bets reach tens and will be R$91.04 each;
2 strokes. 92,067 bets reached tens and will be Rs 3.23 each.
According to Caixa Econômica, this Saturday's Quina contest raised more than R$6.8 million. This shows the considerable amount of money that the bank manages to collect, even if it pays high sums to winning bettors.
Learn how to play Quina
Quina is one of the most popular lotteries in the country. In short, those interested in betting in this way can go to an accredited Caixa lottery agency to play their games.
However, if one prefers to bet without leaving home, simply download and log in to the Caixa lottery app. Games can be played quickly and easily, offering much more convenience to users who do not have to queue at branches.
In particular, anyone who is interested in gambling and wants to bet on Quina via the Internet must be over 18 years of age, as determined by the Caixa Econômica.
In short, the bettor must register in the bank's own application. In this registration, the person must fill in the credit card number with which he will pay for the prepared game.
It is worth noting that it is not possible to play a simple game of Quina on the Internet. It is because The minimum online bet amount is R$30that is, the bettor will not be able to place a bet if his game does not reach this value.
Although this rule seems pretty bad, a bettor can get around it quite easily. To do this, it is enough for him to play a few simple Quina games and then reach the minimum amount determined by the Caixa Econômica. In addition, it is also possible to select a larger number of tens, per game, to reach the minimum value.
There is another way to reach R$30, but it involves other methods. In short, players who prefer to diversify their games can bet on other sports such as Mega-Sena and Lotofácil. That way, the person will be able to reach the minimum amount and place their bets without leaving the house.
The minimum bet is worth BRL 2.00
Betting on Quina is very simple. In short, the player has to choose five numbers from 80 lottery numbers from 1 to 80. In particular, the bets placed must have at least five numbers, but this amount is not mandatory. This is because players can choose up to 15 dozens per bet.
By the way, a single bet, on five numbers, gives you a chance to hit over 24 million, a very small number that reflects the difficulty of hitting. However, the game with 15 tens selected gives the opportunity to hit 6 thousand, which shows the increased chances that a person will have to hit the lottery.
See the value of each bet below.
5 selected dozen: R$ 2.00;
Selected 6 dozen: R$12.00;
7 selected dozen: R$42.00;
Selected 8 dozen: R$112.00;
9 selected dozen: BRL 252.00;
Selected 10 dozen: BRL 504.00;
11 dozen selected: BRL 924.00;
Selected 12 dozen: BRL 1,584.00;
13 dozen selected: BRL 2,574.00;
15 dozen selected, BRL 6,006.00.
Even though betting more tens gives the bettor a much higher chance of success, the payout is also much higher. Therefore, everyone needs to assess their financial circumstances and determine if the risk is really worth it. Otherwise, it's better to invest the money in something that doesn't need luck to work.
See what success is on the Internet.
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After a 20-year hiatus I recently returned, like Rip van Winkle, to the airwaves of WMFO, the College radio station of Tufts University. The difference between then and now is like day and night.
Back then the predominately liberal students I met were fearless and open minded. They enjoyed raucous and ribald on-air debate. My guests back then included such liberal luminaries as Noam Chomsky, the late Howard Zinn, Gloria Steinem and Barney Frank.
microscope. I've been notified by the station management that I am being monitored by the College thought police bias office.
The students today seem docile and cowed and I don't blame them. Why stick your neck out or even allow oneself to think independently when your parents are paying upwards of $60 Grand a year? Why risk running afoul of the of vaguely defined speech codes as defined by Tufts the Orwellian titled Declaration of freedom of Expression?
What is happening to me at Tufts is a microcosm of what happens when the authoritarian oriented left takes the cultural high-ground and implements cult-like group think often devoid of reality or genuine moral and ethical standards. This constitutes a significant rip in the fabric of free discourse and the American social contract.
Please feel free to contact me to set up an interview.


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Father: Ramesh, do you like your friends?
Ramesh: Daddy everybody likes their friends.
Ramesh: Because, all friends love each other. If my friends know that I need help, they will help me. Daddy would you tell me how I can make more friends?
Father: Son, you like those who help you and love you. Similarly other kids are looking for help and love. When you meet kids in your school or in the neighborhood, you should be nice to them. You should help them. Then, they will become your friends. It is not always necessary that you have to help someone so they will be your friend. Even if you praise the good work that they have done, you can also make new friends. You should not badmouth anyone, and you should not be jealous of anyone. You should always wish goodness for everyone.
If you see a kid in your neighborhood who is sad or depressed, you should comfort him and offer him your help. If your classmate is doing bad in school, you should help him bring his grades up. These are some things that will help you make more friends. But you have to be careful when you make friends.
Ramesh: Daddy, what should I be careful about?
Father: You should be careful about selecting your friends. For example, you do not want to have a friendship with people who use drugs, who are bullies, or who are arrogant. We should not hate these people, but we should not be friends with them either. We should stay away from people who have bad habits.
Ramesh: Can you tell me what a good friend is?
Father: A good friend helps his friends in need. He loves and admires his friends. He appreciates the good work done by his friends, and whenever he gets a chance he praises it. A good friend keeps his friends away from bad activities. He only supports things which are beneficial to others. A good friend does not keep secrets from other friends. A good friend forgives others for their mistakes. He wishes good for everybody. So make sure that you are such a friend and stay in the company of good friends.
Ramesh: Yes, father. I will try to be a good friend to everyone.
1) What does friendship mean?
2) What are some different things that you can do to make a friends?
3) What kind of friends do you not want to have?
4) What are the qualities of a good friend?


The Welsh were originally bred from two off colored Khaki Campbells. They are a very diversified bird: Being an excellent egg producer, forager and also dress out nicely. They have a calm personality and will sit and hatch a clutch of eggs.


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Atletico Loss Final Nail In Mourinho's Real Madrid Coffin?
On Friday night in the Copa Del Rey final, Atletico Madrid beat their arch rivals in the form of Real Madrid 2-1. The match was indicative of Real's season, as they were clearly the better side, creating numerous chances and hitting the woodwork 3 times but could not make their superiority count. The match went into extra time and Atletico nicked the winner despite Real's dominance.
The loss by Real was their first to cross-town rivals Atletico since 1999 and Mourinho will not have been pleased that this happened on his watch. He usually has good things for fans to remember his spell in charge of a club by. In fairness, at Real Madrid, Mourinho won the Copa Del Rey in his first year in charge and came second in the League; in his second year in charge he directed Real to the La Liga title; and this year he steered his side to the semi-finals of the Champions League, second place in La Liga and the final of the Copa Del Rey but for the first time in his managerial career he has not won a trophy.
The loss in the Copa Del Rey to Atletico has now surely sealed his departure from Real Madrid and thus made his reappointment at Chelsea just a matter of time. We can't wait to be writing about Jose Mourinho, Chelsea manager, and covering Chelsea Football Club as they reassert their dominance in world football.
there are many coaches in d world not mourinho alone let take bayern munich assistant coach hermann Gerland with good assistant man like reserve team coach or matinez of wigan .chelsea will go glory to glory.
Uduak or udeme shut up ur mouth b/c u dont how to talk football. The fans have already said dis is what they want not even u can change it man. Mou all the way.


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Football La Liga Top 15 Uncategorized
Top 15 Barcelona Signings Of All Time
January 7, 2018 January 9, 2018 Depanjan Dutta 0 Comments Barcelona
Barcelona has seen many legends donning their famous jersey. Although many of them emerged from their youth system called La Masia, including Lionel Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Fabregas and David Villa. Still ,there have been many transfer negotiations too which proved pivotal in the team framework.
Let us have a look at the Top 15 Barcelona Signings Of All Time –
15. Hristo Stoichkov
Stoichkov was the original 'El Pistolero', A legend in the eyes of Barcelona fans, Stoichkov began his career in the Catalan side in the summer of 1990. He came from CSKA Sofia for a fee about €1.6m (£1.4m). He spent five brilliant seasons at Camp Nou and again he came back for a second spell between 1996 and 1998.
This Bulgarian forward was one of the major parts of the Cruyff's 'Dream Team', which made history by winning four Liga titles in a row between 1991 and 1994, as well as first-ever European Cup in 1992.
A clean finisher scoring around 84 goals in his two spells at Camp Nou. He was twice runner-up in the FIFA World Player of the Year and clinched the Ballon d'Or in 1994.
14. Migueli
A defender with immense physical power, also known as Tarzan. A humongous 391 appearances in 15 seasons at Camp Nou, he was the wall in the deep, long before Carles Puyol. He played 32 times for Spain and was a regular guy in the Catalan side throughout the late 1970s and most of the 1980s.
Regarded as one of the best defenders of Barcelona, Migueli was signed from Segunda side Cadiz. With two La Liga and four Copa del Rey, he has two Best Spanish Player in 1977-78 and 1984-85 season.
13. Luis Enrique
This guy was in Bernabeu for five years between 1991 and 1996 but maybe was all destined for Camp Nou.
The Austrian scored 18 times for Madrid but netted the same amount I'm his debut campaign at Barcelona.
This midfielder scored more than 100 goals in his eight seasons in the Catalan side and won seven major trophies.
He also gave the Blaugrana fanbase a splendid Managerial spell between 2014 and 2017 as he led the club to the treble and claimed a total of nine trophies. Really, A Barca Man!
12. Luis Figo
Renowned for his creativity and ability to cut inside the defenders as a Winger, Figo is regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of the generation. Though many of the Barcelona fans don't possess any good memory of Figo after his controversial Real Madrid move back in 2000.
Figo was delicate and impressive in his five-year career in Barcelona. He came from Sporting CP in 1995 for €3.5m and helped the Blaugrana side to win seven major trophies. 45 goals and setting up more, he received Ballon d'Or in 2000 for his performance in Barcelona. Though he had already moved to Madrid by that time, as Florentino Perez paid his release clause of €60m shocking the world.
11. Luis Suarez (old)
Though he played more than 250 matches for Inter Milan, Spaniard Suarez will remain in the heart of Barcelona fans for his prolific midfield work.
Being the only Spanish player to win the Ballon d'Or, Suarez was bought for a cut-price fee of around €3,300 (£2,900) in 1954 from Deportivo La Coruna in a deal that also included Uruguayan winger Dagoberto Moll.
Six major trophies and a world record fee £142,000 (around €160,000) to help pay for the Camp Nou, a loyal Barca man the Catalan fans would never forget.
10. Neymar Junior
And the 'Wonder Kid' of the era. In the eyes of Barcelona fans, maybe he is the traitor, he left the family when he was needed the most. He was expected to be the future proceeding of Barcelona kingdom after Ronaldinho and Messi but destiny may have written a different story for him. He left Barcelona for a history-making €222 million deal and joined PSG.
For a controversial €86.2m deal including €40m payment in wages to his parents, Neymar moved in Barca from Santos. In his 4 years at Camp Nou, he was spectacular in all aspect. Build the greatest attacking force alongside Messi and Suarez. Whatever he did cost, but every Catalan fans will remember for his contribution in winning the eight trophies.
9. Ronald Koeman
Barcelona fans will never forget his match-winning a strike against Sampdoria in 1992 to hand their Maiden European Cup!
He came from PSV €5m (£4.43m) in 1989 and achieved one of the crucial roles in Cruyff's Dream Team. Spent six seasons in Spain, appearing in gigantic 264 appearances for Barca with 88 goals, he was the saviour of the early period at Camp Nou. Ten major league titles, including four consecutive, this former Everton Manager still considers, "It was my happiest time of my life in Barcelona."
8. Luis Suarez
The second most expensive signing of Barcelona till date. A €81m (£65m) deal from Liverpool, this Uruguay striker has proven himself as one of the best strikers at Camp Nou.
After initially set back for a couple of months due to ban for biting Chiellini at World Cup, Suarez was in the trio of one of the greatest football attack in the history, MSN (Messi – Suarez – Neymar)
Suarez helped the Catalan side to have the treble that season and nine trophies after that since now. With 121 goals in 149 matches, he has been a star, where 59 came in that stunning second season. Though the last few months have been tough for him, Barcelona believes in Suarez, the beast within.
7. Samuel Eto'o
Started at Bernabeu as a youngster, but due to lack of chances, he moved to Mallorca on loan and ultimately signed for the Islanders permanently. This Cameroon international moved to Camp Nou in a €24m deal after a hectic three-way negotiations including Madrid (wanted him back seeing his stunning spell in Mallorca).
He was fast, strong, and energetic forward, who was known for his stamina, work-rate, ability in the air, and his accurate finishing ability both with his head and feet. 130 goals in 199 appearances. And two Champions League final clincher in 2006 and 2009.
6. Gerard Pique
Pique is a La Masia graduate, but his career kicked off in the Premier League giant Manchester United. This Spanish defender is one of the best signings of the Catalan side when they swapped him for a €5m deal.
Alongside Puyol, he proved the wall of Barcelona invincible. A modern defender, who combines strength with good technique and passing. Due to his height and physical attributes, he is good in the air.
Nicknamed as Piquénbauer, due to his sweeping ability like Beckenbauer, he has won 25 trophies for Barca, as well as a World Cup and a European Championship with Spain.
5. Rivaldo
Rivaldo joined Barcelona from Deportivo La Coruna for around €24m and proved himself one of the best forward in the history of Barcelona helping them winning back to back titles. A powerful and creative player, known for his dribbling ability, use of feints, balance, and close ball control. A dead ball specialist with bending free kicks ability, Rivaldo is one of the legends of Brazilian Football.
A Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year in 1999, he spent his finest football at Camp Nou. Though his bitter relationship with Van Gaal in the last season lead his move to AC Milan.
4. Dani Alves
The Brazilian has been treated Godlike for the Catalans since his arrival from Sevilla in 2008. A €35m deal and it resulted in twenty-three titles. Three Champions League, six La Liga and four Copa del Rey and with other many personal achievements he was a star in his eight-year season.
Mostly appeared at the right back, Alves also played many times in the centre – back, proving his versatility and ability of adaptation. His toughness and 'never give up' mentality is a boost for his side. With Messi, he established a brilliant right-wing attack scoring numerous goals.
3. Laszlo Kubala
And the man himself needs no introduction. The old Grandfather of Barcelona, for whom the Blaugrana nation got his new stadium. If you ever visited Camp Nou, you would have noticed the statue of Kubala stands proudly.
The popularity of the Hungarian legend forced the management to build a new stadium in the first place after their old ground at Les Corts became too small for all the fans wanting to watch the brilliant forward.
It was actually Real Madrid close to sign the Hungarian forward, but Barcelona interrupted negotiations and pulled the talks towards them. It was also the revenge of Madrid's capture of Di Stefano under the nose.
Four league titles and a new stadium , Kubala was the Goodluck for the Catalan Giant.
2. Ronaldinho
In the late 90's Barcelona was in search of a playmaker who could build a strong string between deep and forward. David Beckham was the primary choice, but that search ended with signing Ronaldinho.
Ronaldinho came from Paris Saint-Germain to €30m and changed the history of the side forever. Two La Liga, one Champions League and the Ballon d'Or in 2005, he was sensational in his traditional No. 10 jersey. He was not only a player, a guide and philosopher too. He led Messi to become the greatest and gifted him that No. 10 jersey before he left for AC Milan. His five years was not only a journey it was a memory for the Blaugrana nation.
"Skillful by nature, his tricks are unparalleled and he is wonderful with the ball at his feet. One of the coolest players in pressure situations" and a "fast, brash, skilful, tricky, an uninhibited playmaker" who provides "a mix of goals, assists, skills and a large repertoire of crafty moves". : ESPN on Ronaldinho
1. Johan Cruyff
A player, a coach and an adviser Johan Cruyff has been the biggest name in the history of Barcelona ever. Barcelona targeted Gerd Muller and got this Dutchman instead. Cruyff arrived for around €2m (£1.77m) in 1973 in what was a world record transfer fee at that time.
Cruyff leads to the first Liga title in 14 years in his impressive debut season and also won the Copa del Rey in his five years at Camp Nou. Later, he returned as a coach and delivered four league titles in a row. He also played a pivotal role in the appointments of Frank Rijkaard and Pep Guardiola – as well as the development of La Masia.
"Football consists of different elements: technique, tactics and stamina. There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust and daring. In the tactical area, I think I just have more than most other players. : Cruyff in 'Ajax, Barcelona, Cruyff'.
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Dragons Continue to Improve at Lake Orion Tournament
The Dragons went 1-2 Saturday at the Lake Orion Tournament, but continue to improve. The defense is where the most progress is being made and hitting is expected to come around through the season as well. Pitching has been solid all year. The games had time limits, which prevented them from going the full 7 innings.
Oxford 6 Swartz Creek 0
The Dragons ran into an exceptional pitcher from Oxford who threw a 6-inning no-hitter against them. Kylee Pierce was the lone player to reach base for Creek with a walk in the 4th inning. Madisen Henry pitched the complete game for the Dragons with 7 strikeouts. The defense only committed one error, which was their season best.
Goodrich 12 Swartz Creek 2
The second game of the day didn't go well for Creek losing by the run rule in 5 innings. 3 errors and mental mistakes really kept them out of the game. For the Dragons Ella Sinclair had 2 hits. Allison Dusseau had 2 hits and scored. Madisen Henry had a hit and RBI. Kylee Pierce had a hit and scored. Natalie Oldrham and Madison Majestic had a hit apiece. Jessica Verran had a hit and pitched the complete game with a couple strikeouts.
Swartz Creek 8 Waterford Mott 5
This game was pretty one-sided until the last inning (6th) with Creek ahead 5-0. Mott came back and scored 5 runs in the top of the 6th to tie the game. After a couple singles and fielders choice, the big hit came with a base clearing triple on a misplayed ball to left field. And just like that it was tied. In the bottom of the 6th and final inning Ella Sinclair led off with a single, which was followed by Kylee Pierce reaching base on an error. Then, it was the Freshman Jessica Verran who crushed the ball over the center field fence for her first career varsity home run and walk off game winner.
Ella Sinclair had 3 hits and scored. Jess Verran had 2 hits including the Home Run, 3 RBIs and scored twice. Natalie Oldrham had 2 hits, an RBI and scored. Kylee Pierce had a hit and scored twice. Madison Majestic had a hit and scored. Sydney Scott had a hit with 2 RBIs. Allison Dusseau had a Double and RBI. Madisen Henry had a hit and scored. She also pitched the game with 7 strikeouts.
Although technically the Dragons had no errors in the game, they did have some misplayed balls and mental mistakes which led to runs. It is the first game that they were not charged an error. The 3 games were the best they've played defensively with player positioning becoming more solidified.
They will host the Linden Eagles Monday night at 4pm in a Metro League double-header.


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A Unique Perspective on Curaçao's Coral Reefs
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Curious about our kunuku ("garden") below the surface? Then follow 'The Suit' for ten days from August 30 onwards as they enter the water at the easternmost point of Curaçao and snorkel to the westernmost tip of the island.
'The Suit' LLDS (short for: Longitude & Latitude Divers & Swimmers) represents a large group of volunteers and institutions who love Curaçao and want to make a tangible contribution to the promotion of our coral reef. 'The Suit' will snorkel approximately 100 kilometers while filming our beautiful underwater kunuku and the southern coastline.
The objective: Produce a special documentary about Curaçao's underwater world with emphasis on the fact that Curaçao is a World Class Destination located in the heart of the Dutch Caribbean. Additionally, this will also serve to highlight the fact that the plentiful marine biodiversity is not only attractive and available to scuba divers, but also to swimmers equipped the basic equipment of just a mask and a snorkel. This documentary in turn then can be used for promotional and for scientific research purposes.
The Curaçao Tourist Board (CTB) will premier the documentary this year in Orlando, Florida at DEMA 2019 where the CTB in partnership with the Curaçao Hospitality and Tourism Association's (CHATA) Dive Task Force will have a spectacular pavilion to welcome the world and to reinforce Curaçao as a World Class Scuba Diving and Vacation Destination.
Dive in and Join "The Suit"
The snorkel trip starts on Friday August 30 at Oostpunt (Eastpoint) where 'The Suit' will jump off the Pelican Express into the sea. 'The Suit' will then cover a distance of 10km to Fuik Bay.
Saturday August 31st is an off day for 'The Suit'. That day will be used to evaluate the first leg after which the itinerary will be adapted if and where necessary.
Sunday September 1 the voyage continues from Fuik to Marichi Beach (in Punda).
On Monday 'The Suit' will snorkel from Marichi to Carmabi in Piscadera, making a little detour through the Anna Bay. Curaçao Ports Authority will cooperate by barring marine traffic in and around the harbor and thus ensure the safety of 'The Suit'.
Tuesday 'The Suit' goes on to swim from Carmabi to Vaersenbaai (Kokomo).
Wednesday September 4 they will take another break.
Thursday September 5 'The Suit' will reenter the water at Kokomo and swim towards Karakter at Rif St Marie.
September 6, the snorkel trip will start at Rif St. Marie following the reef with destination Sta Martha and from there the voyage continues to Lagun.
September 7 will be a day off to prepare for the final day.
The final part of the trip, from Lagun to the westernmost point, which is also the northernmost point of Curaçao, will take place on Sunday September 8.
On their way from east to west 'The Suit' will receive special guests at certain moments.
Bob the flamingo, together with his caretaker, veterinarian Odette Doest, will keep 'The Suit' company for a bit along the way.
'The Suit' is provided with a tracking system so they can be followed along all of the route. In addition, 'The Suit' carries bodycams as well as a handheld camera that aim to provide stunning vertical images of our underwater kunuku. Moreover, a camera team will swim along to collect the horizontal images for the documentary along the drop off and the blue edge as well as recording the progress of The Suit.
In this project, which has taken a couple of months to prepare, a large number of individuals and organizations have been involved among which: the Coral Restoration Foundation, the Sea Turtle Conservation, Carmabi, Bob the Flamingo, Kids for Coral, Foundation Uniek Curaçao, Bedrijven Platform Milieu, Coral Reef Game & Sinuhe Oomen, in order to bring the kunukus above and below the surface together and stimulate unity.
Except for the objective of producing a beautiful documentary about the Curaçao Underwater Kunuku that can be used as a marketing product by organizations such as CTB and CHATA, parts of the raw footage will also be placed at the disposal of Carmabi for scientific research as well as educational purposes.
Next to press releases by the communication team of 'The Suit', and interviews on radio and TV that will be conducted by their representative Frits Terborg. LOYALS will take care of the marketing and communication of this project and will provide information on a daily basis via the Facebook and Instagram accounts of 'The Suit'.
All photography and videography supplied by Turtle and Ray Productions HD.
For the press, email of the representative of the project: fritsterborg@gmail.com


El Paso Electric is looking to provide real-world work experience to college students in hopes of attracting local talent to return to their hometown after they graduate. El Paso Electric is launching a summer internship program specifically tailored for college students from our area attending a school out-of-town. This program was created to provide students with an internship opportunity while they are home for the summer. To apply, click here. The deadline to apply is Friday, April, 3, 2015.
Students must be currently enrolled in an accredited college or university in the United Sates and have completed at least two (2) semesters.
Accredited college or university must be outside of El Paso, Texas or Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Students must have an overall G.P.A of 3.0 or above.
For a full list of requirements, click here.
As a participant of the El Paso Electric Company Summer College Internship Program, you'll gain valuable on-the-job experience in one of our corporate divisions, and advance your leadership and professional competencies through challenging work projects and development training. This unique program allows participants to network with executives and business leaders in the Company, gain electrical utility work experience, and build transferable skills such as problem-solving, teamwork, and effective communication.
COMPENSATION: $15 - $20 /hr Commensurate with major and classification level.


Pharmaceuticals Trade Shows in Dubai - Pharmaceuticals Trade Fairs, Conferences, Events & Business Exhibitions in Dubai.
Find out comprehensive information on Pharmaceuticals trade shows, trade fairs, conferences, events & business exhibitions to be held in Dubai.
Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Middle East (PABME 2010) is the only event of its kind here in the region, dedicated to Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology.
Clinical Trials MENA is a leading summit for the pharmaceutical industry in the Middle East.
Cold Chain MENA is the most inclusive event that will focus on broad spectrum of pharmaceutical sector.
Pharma Sales Force MENA 2010 is the prime event devoted to pharmaceutical sales sector, in the MENA region.
Arab Health 2012 is the most premier event for the Middle East regions will bring together leading health care manufacturers, wholesalers, dealers and distributors along with some of the most important and influential decision-makers in the Arab world.
The 4th International Conference on Drug Discovery and Therapy 2012 is a leading event dedicated to pharmaceutical sector.
DUPHAT - Dubai International Pharmaceuticals and Technologies Conference and Exhibition is one of the leading and significant annual pharmaceutical event, in UAE.


A special Thank You to @Urban Magazine from Fort Smith, Arkansas for featuring my story and insight on this year's drought and its impact on the farming community. Be sure to check out the original story and leave a comment on the @Urban Magazine website.
Ryan Goodman is tracking the extreme drought from his home in Tennessee. He watches closely, the statistics that show eighty percent of the Arkansas' pastureland scorched beneath the brutal sun, hay prices spiking, and estimates that the fallout of historic drought could be as high as billions of dollars.
His interest is two-fold. As a twenty-three-year-old grad student studying animal science, he's studying the effects of the worst drought Arkansas has seen in fifty years. And as the son of a Searcy rancher and cattle auctioneer, he has a personal interest in what's unfolding here.
Ryan is stoic about the current condition. Ice storms, floods, drought. The rancher's life is hinged with weather. But this summer has been extraordinary. No rain, sweltering heat, no rain, the cycle like a song set on repeat. And then NOAA released word that in July the U.S. broke a heat record that hadn't been surpassed the Dust Bowl summer of 1936.
The weather is driving many of the ranchers who come to his father's Arkansas Cattle Auction in Searcy to sell their stock. Two to three times as many cows have gone to market as in a typical summer, and when they sell mature cows this year, they'll have fewer calves next year. The dilemma drew the attention of CBS News. They came to see the weathered ranchers pulling up in big trucks, their trailers filled with cattle they wouldn't otherwise be selling. The stories stung. A rancher whose wife was too brokenhearted to attend, another rancher from Oklahoma who was buying this year because his own herd was hit by the crippling drought last year, a cattleman worried because his stock pond is all but gone. It's hard for Ryan's father, who is friends with many in the crowd. He knows this year will mark the last for some of them, and many of those dropping out will be the older cattlemen. In a state where there are 49,300 farms and 1.7 million head of cattle, it's bound to have an impact.
When Ryan talks about his father, he grows nostalgic. He learned at his father's feet, trailing him in the pastures early after school, driving a tractor to check cows when he was ten. His father is a self-made man; he doesn't come from a long line of cattle owners, but when he landed a job managing a 3,500 acre ranch in Searcy, raising Angus cattle, he knew he was where he was supposed to be.
"I love the lifestyle, working with the land," Ryan says. "The animals depend on us for everything. Growing up, my holidays were spent taking care of cattle. I was the oldest of five, and on Christmas, we'd either get up early and open gifts or we'd be up at the break of dawn feeding cattle, so we could get to the grandparents' house to eat dinner.
Ryan has spent his whole life making the connection. While attending Oklahoma State University, he spent summers at places like the Texas feed yards, where he helped bring food to 60,000 head of cattle. It took a million pounds of feed to get the job done each day, which came from the feed mill on site.
He also worked at a ranch in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming, a place he still loves. While he was there, he started to blog, sharing his experiences with friends and family and city folks who were fascinated to follow a young cowboy on his great adventure.
When he's finished with his graduate degree at the University of Tennessee, Ryan plans to work in several parts of the country, learning different farming techniques. But he'll probably end up back home in Arkansas one day. His roots run deep. And he likes working with his father. He calls his life blessed.
It's all you can do at times like these. Hope for the best. Next year could be better. The rains could fall and the fields overflow with hay. It's a rancher's right to imagine it. Let's just hope he's right.
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Episode 3: Less Than Rent's "Little Mac, Little Mac, You're the Very Man;" Richard K. Weems' "The Way Of It"
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The setting for the "Women and Political Theory (19th-20th c.): Vernon Lee and Radical Circles" Conference 17-19 October 2013 at Université de Paris-Descartes was the Salle du Conseil, an exquisite room lined with tapestries and displaying desktops of gold embossed red leather.
My paper compared the wide differences in the lives and writings of three 19th c. philosophers, Julia Ward Howe, Voltairine de Cleyre, and Vernon Lee, and at the same time the similar subject matters they embraced—peace, feminism, aesthetics, and political theory.
Christa Zorn spoke about her book soon to be published which discusses the 800 letters sent between French Vernon Lee and German Irene Forbes-Mosse during World War I.
Among the important business conducted at the conference was the initiating of the International Vernon Lee Society. We all left knowing there was much still to learn about this remarkable woman and much to share with the world.


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Book Review: Outsourcing Web Projects.
This books is written from the viewpoint of buyers, but as a vendor, I have some insights (IMO) from the other side.
It starts with these chapters.
How to Have Vendors Competing for your Job.
How to Find the Perfect Outsourcing Partner.
How to Get the Best Price for your Project.
How to Get it All on Paper.
How to Keep the Project on Track.
How to Turn your Vendor into a Long-term Partner.
Getting vendors is easy, getting the perfect vendor for you is harder. This chapter tells you how.
This chapter is pretty spot on. Nothing turns of a vendor like a client who seems like he doesn't know the scope of work, or is going to be a pain to be working with. If you look like one, and get a quote, you are getting a "Painful Customer price".
This chapter provides step by step guide to pare down the big list of Vendors you must have got in chapter 1.
Eliminate the lowball offers, they probably don't understand the complexity.
Eliminate the too high prices, you probably got the "Painful Customer price".
Eliminate those who do not have references and portfolios for type of work you need.
Eliminate those who can not prove and justify claims in their portfolios.
Overall another spot on chapter.
After chapter 2, you have a small list of vendors who all have expertise. You can get the best price for you from these vendors.
Prove again that you are a non painful client.
Use info you have gained from talking to multiple vendors to see if any of the vendors will sweeten the deal.
You have now selected a vendor and need to get the Payment and legal structure. This chapter explain the legal terms.
It provides guidelines on choosing between fixed and hourly bid. (If your project is complex go with hourly). For fixed bids, it recommends tying payments to a milestone based structure, another which I agree with.
Keep realistic expectation, and expectations in sync.
Have communication but not too much.
This chapter is fairly basic, and if you are the person keeping track of progress, you would probably know everything this chapter explains, but this good as an overview.
Getting new vendors is hard and time consuming, so you want trusted people you have worked with.
Just do what you claimed when choosing the vendor in step 1, and they would be glad to work with you again.
Again a spot on chapter. There are people who we have worked with for years, and who we give massive discounts to work with them. There are people who I wont want to work with in any price. This chapter gets the difference completely.
Overall I think this is a very well written book, and if you are looking to hire a vendor for a web project this is a must read book. Buy it here.
Thank you for reading the Agiliq blog. This article was written by shabda on Dec 24, 2010 in reviews .


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Carnley holds slim majority in Senate race
Published 11:55 am Wednesday, May 25, 2022
By Huck Treadwell
Josh Carnley may have garnered enough votes to win the Republican primary for Senate District 31 outright.
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Carnley was involved in a three-way race with incumbent House Rep. Mike Jones, R-Andalusia, and Stormin Norman Horton. All three were vying for retiring Sen. Jimmy Holley's seat. Jones vacated his seat in the House to run for Senate.
The Alabama Secretary of State's unofficial results had Carnley leading the race with 12,413 votes (50.2 percent) followed by Jones with 9,987 votes (40.39 percent) and Horton with 2,328 votes (9.41 percent).
Voters who cast provisional ballots have until Friday at 5 p.m. to present their voter identification to the board of registrars. The race is too close to call until provisionals are counted. The election will be canvased by noon on Tuesday, May 31. Election results will be finalized next Tuesday for federal, state, county and local elections.
Republican Wes Allen vacated his seat in House District 89 to seek the Republication nomination for secretary of state. Allen was in a four-way race for the nomination along with term-limited State Auditor Jim Zeigler, Ed Packard and Christian Horne. Zeigler led the primary with 237,044 votes, but only accumulated 42.68 percent of the vote. That put Zeigler and Allen in a runoff. Allen received 220,395 votes and 39.69 percent of the total ballots cast. Horn received 9.81 percent of the total votes and Packard received the remaining 7.82 percent.
Allen will square off against Zeigler in the Tuesday, June 21, run-off election.
Troy City Council President Marcus Paramore ran for Allen's seat in the House and the election was uncontested. Paramore also had no Democratic opposition, and will be the next representative for District 89.
In the state's top federal race, Katie Boyd Britt and incumbent U.S. Congressman Mo Brooks emerged as the top contenders and will face each other in the June 21 run-off election. Britt led the field with 288,745 votes, followed by Brooks with 188,142 votes and Mike Durant with 150,529 votes. Other candidates receiving votes were Karla M. Dupriest with 5,818, Jake Schafer with 7,451 and Lillie Boddie with 4,885 votes.
Will Boyd won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator with 107,344 votes, or 63.69 percent of the total ballots cast. Boyd defeated Brandaun Dean (32,843 votes) and Lanny Jackson (28,348 votes) to secure the Democratic nomination.
In statewide races, incumbent Gov. Kay Ivey ran away with the field. Ivey faced eight challengers and received more votes than all other challengers combined. Ivey received 356,319 votes out of 654,741 ballots cast (54.42 percent). Lindy Blanchard followed with 125,913 votes (19.23 percent) and Tim James finished third with 105,972 votes (16.19 percent).
The Democratic nomination for governor will be decided in the June 21 run-off. Yolanda Rochell Flowers led the field with 56,859 votes (33.83 percent) and was followed closely by Malika Sanders Fortier with 54,635 votes (32.51 percent).
Ivey will face the Democratic nominee in the November General Election.
Incumbent Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall defeated Harry Bartlett Still III in a landslide. Marshall received 517,880 votes (89.81 percent) to Still's 58,745 (10.19 percent).
In the State Auditor's race Republicans Andrew Sorrell and Stan Cooke will be in the June 21 run-off election.


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INCLUSION IS LONG-TERM VALUE - The pandemic accelerates D&I at Generali
By the Editorial Staff
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of our lives from work to social interactions and it has taken a toll on the community - families, employees, working parents and caregivers. In these difficul times Generali believes that inclusion is more important than ever. Indeed, we believe that it is our differences that make the difference and that D&I means creating long-term value for our people, our customers and our communities. Through constant communication and virtual training, we support our people to understand the impact of inclusion and build strategies to mitigate bias, particularly in a remote working environment. We believe every crisis hides an opportunity. We can support our people building their virtual work muscles, promoting mindsets, behaviours and practices that leverage on differences and remove barriers. Our work on Inclusion, LGBTQI+, People with Disability and Gender workstreams will be further accelerated during the next months. The Group D&I Team is active more than ever to create an environment where it is safe for every employee in the world to be heard, propose new ideas, step up as allies and come up with collective innovative solutions.
Building solid foundations
Covid-19 has been for the D&I in the corporate world what a tornado is for the area it strikes. All of a sudden D&I could potentially be downgraded to "not a priority". Yet, this is not what happened at Generali. Five years ago, when the Group started the D&I journey, we invested a lot on laying the right foundations of what has turned out to be a tornadoproof house. Our model of governance has allowed us to be resilient, by reassessing and reshaping our strategy, taking into consideration our 50+ country specificities, yet taking the commitment together to keep D&I high on Leaders' agenda in 2020 -21.
Our prime enabler is a strong governance which consists of:
Our Group D&I Council, it is made up of our Senior Leadership Team - business leaders from each Business Unit are responsible for setting up the Group D&I strategy, linking it to our Business strategy and steering D&I initiatives locally
Our network of D&I Specialists consisting of dedicated HR from each business unit that are responsible for implementing D&I initiatives locally in their respective Business Units
Our D&I Community of Practice (CoP) that enables us to leverage on collective intelligence of champions (all volunteers) across the Group to promote awareness on D&I-related topics, launch new initiatives and scale up existing local actions
In 2019 Generali won the "Champion of Diversity Employer" award, part of the "Women in Finance 2019 Italy Awards" program by the Italian Stock Exchange, thanks to its D&I Governance and strategy.
Accelerating the pace of inclusion
Amidst this crisis, we are not relenting our efforts or letting the crisis deflate our energy. We feel this situation should rather spur us to accelerate and deepen our efforts to build a fairer, healthier and inclusive organization. We will start by being more explicit about what we mean by D&I and what its main obstacles are with our over 70,000 employees, continuing our journey into unconscious bias, by bringing them into life and offering strategies to cope with them. We have designed and created learning journeys where professional actors play typical work situations where biases emerge (promotions, request for smart working, cross cultural projects, etc.). By seeing themselves in the mirror, our people will become aware of some of the assumptions they unconsciously make which lead to inefficient and unfair decisions, as well as learn some mechanisms to mitigate them, thus becoming more inclusive in practical terms. The current crisis has boosted the adoption of smart working globally, thus accelerating the achievement of one of our D&I ambitions (100% of our entities with smart working in 2021).
It is very important to focus on the cultural transformation behind it, to ensure its sustainable adoption, supporting our people to work inclusively and to manage their daily schedules having in mind also their psychological safety (an increasing feeling of isolation) and a healthy work-life balance. Such a cultural transition cannot happen overnight. We will support it with ad hoc communication, training and support initiatives, particularly for working parents who have the additional burden of home schooling. Inclusion is now more important than ever and we are committed to work on two specific streams in the coming months: People with disabilities and LGBTQI+. On disability, our challenge is yet again a cultural one. We want to focus on the diverse "abilities" that people bring. As employers we have the opportunity to identify and leverage on hidden talents of people with disabilities, let's think of problem solving, creativity and resilience, among others. We have come up with a structured plan which is based on three main pillars:
• Culture – we want to shift the paradigm through training and communication, mainly leveraging on our leaders' ownership and accountability. Will communicate with our people and share the right positive and inclusive messages
• Processes – we will assess and adjust our processes with hard and soft lenses, to ensure inclusion, to eliminate biases and to identify talents in the global market
• Right partnerships – given the common needs, we want to share best practices and leverage on the right partners to scale up expertise, technology, network and job placement tools.
On LGBTQI+, we have another unique opportunity which is promoting a real inclusion of this type of diversity by embracing a non-binary culture. We will do so by increasing awarness on this topic, supporting LGBTQI+ people rights, making sure the challanges they face are known. We will soon launch the first Global LGBTQI+ - Ally Network which will support our Group in this journey of inclusion. This will be the first of a series of initiatives to promote LGBTQI+ inclusion in the workplace and in the ecosystem. Last but not least, we believe that the physical distance we are experiencing is particularly challenging for women, who are mainly impacted by Covid-19 from a personal and socio-economic point of view. For this reason, we want to strengthen our commitment to supporting our internal pipeline because our goal is to achieve a more-gender balanced workplace. That's why we have decided to dedicate a substantial part of our resources to support our female managers worldwide through an interactive online program and are continuing to advance our female senior leaders worldwide through an 18-month journey (Lioness Acceleration Program) aimed at accelerating their development to step into C-suite roles. Generali believes that now more than ever it is time to be bold for inclusion as we have a unique opportunity to shape a better future for our people, our customers and our communities.


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Malaria Makes a Break for It
By Kate Wong on December 12, 2000
Although the basic biology of the malaria parasite was described more than a century ago, scientists today still struggle to understand its insidious details. An estimated 300 to 500 million people suffer from malaria, making it one of the most devastating diseases known. Research reported today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds an important new piece to the puzzle, revealing a potential mechanism whereby the parasites, having multiplied in their host's red blood cells, break free in order to invade more red blood cells.
While inside a red blood cell, the malaria parasite produces so-called "merozoites," which go on to infect other cells. Suspecting that protein-degrading enzymes, or proteases, might play a role in rupturing the blood cells and freeing the merozoites, researchers from Washington University studied the effects of a protease-blocking drug dubbed E64 on merozoite escape. Although the red blood cell membrane gave way, the drug appeared to thwart the rupture of a second membrane, which encases clusters of merozoites. The team thus proposes that parasite release is a two-step process in which encased clusters of merozoites exit the blood cells, and subsequently escape from their own membrane by way of a protein-degrading mechanism. Although understanding the exact mechanism will require further study, the findings may eventually offer anti-malarial drug developers a new target.
Kate Wong
Kate Wong is a senior editor for evolution and ecology at Scientific American.
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Q: Remove words that are less than two characters long AND don't contain a vowel You can remove words less than length 2 with
sed -e 's/ [a-zA-Z0-9]\{1\} / /g'
although I'm not sure how remove only words that don't contain a vowel AND are less than length 2, in one command.
Thus a sentence
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A: Could you please try following.
awk '
{
  val=""
  for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){
    if($i!~/[aieou]/ && length($i)<2){ a="" }
    else{ val=(val?val OFS:"")$i            }
  }
  print val
}
' Input_file

Explanation: Adding detailed explanation for above.
awk '                                             ##Starting an awk program from here.
{
  val=""                                          ##Nullifying val value here.
  for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){                             ##Starting a for loop from here.
    if($i!~/[aieou]/ && length($i)<2){ a="" }     ##Checking condition if field is NOT containing any vowels and length is lesser than 2 then do nothing.
    else{ val=(val?val OFS:"")$i            }     ##Else(in case above condition is FALSE) create val which contains current field value.
  }
  print val                                       ##Printing val here.
}
' Input_file                                      ##Mentioning Input_file name here.

A: With a GNU sed, you can use
LC_ALL=C sed 's/[ \t]*\b[b-df-hj-np-tv-zB-DF-HJ-NP-TV-Z]\b//g' file
# Or
LC_ALL=C sed 's/[ \t]*\b[b-df-hj-np-tv-z]\b//gI' file

It matches zero or more spaces or tabs, then a consonant word consisting of a single letter where \b mark word boundaries. LC_ALL=C is used to make sure the bracket expression ranges are compliant with the ASCII table codes.
See an online demo.

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I am attempting to port a plugin that uses pygments from Python2 to Python3 and I am running into several issues in the pygments source. There are several syntax errors that appear to be related to Python 3 changes that have not been updated in pygments.
Does Python3 support require something like 2to3?
in pygments/lexers/_mapping.py:322 The print statement is missing parens.
These issues occur in multiple places and are easy enough to fix. However, now I'm getting a syntax error in latex.py:309 that I assume has something to do with changes to the behavior of backslashes in literal strings.
I am sure others are using Python 3. Is there something special I need to do before importing pygments?
I see that the setup script uses 2to3. I will use that for my purposes.


Dear members, Please find attached the programme for the 11th MOISA meeting (Reading, 20th - 22nd July 2018).
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1. The lack of a contract authorizing the exchange of work for free or reduced rent.
The lack of a contract authorizing an exchange of rent for labor is the single biggest indicator of a good apartment resident manager wage claim. In order for an employer to give a rent credit to a resident apartment manager, the employer and the resident manager should have a written agreement stating that the employer will provide free or reduced rent in exchange for labor. If there is no such contract or agreement, any rent credit given by the employer is likely invalid. What this means is that, even though the employer may have been giving free or reduced rent to the resident apartment manager, the resident manager can likely go after the employer for the full amount of any unpaid hours that he or she may have worked, plus additional penalties, interest, and attorney's fees. If you do not have a contract with your landlord or apartment owner or apartment management company, and yet you get free or reduced rent in exchange for your labor as a resident apartment manager, you may have a great claim for unpaid wages.
2. The existence of accurate time records.
You may remember having worked many hours as an apartment manager, but unless you have some records showing how many hours you worked, you may have a tough time proving your case. The best records that we see are those kept contemporaneously by managers. Records made up weeks, months, even years after the work was performed are not as valuable as records kept on the day that the work was done. The very best records record work by the minute. If your employer does not keep records, it is likely a great idea to do so on your own. The US Department of Labor even has an iPhone app that can be used for this very purpose.
3. The size of the apartment complex that you manage.
If you don't have time records, you will have to use circumstantial evidence to prove your hours. In that event, bigger may be better for resident apartment manager wage claims. The bigger the complex that you manage, the more work you likely have to do. These cases are all about how many hours you worked, and it is a good bet that you would work more as an apartment manager in a complex of 50 units than you would in a complex of 15 units. That is not to say that managers of smaller complexes do not have a case; it just means that the larger the complex you manage, the more likely you worked longer hours managing that complex.
4. Clear and organized employment records.
We see it every day: an employee may have a great wage claim, but his or her records are in tatters, with pages missing and handwriting all over them. If you plan on filing a wage claim, get your information organized — and do not write on it, because it's evidence! So keep your employee handbook, lease, payroll records, receipts, and other evidence of work performed or expenses incurred organized and easily accessible.
5. Work performed up until the recent past.
A wage claimant can go back as many as four years for unpaid wages in California. But the measurement goes backward from the date you file your claim or lawsuit. So, for example, if you file your lawsuit today (and it has the correct legal allegations), you can try to recover wages going back four years from today. So if your last day of work was yesterday, you can recover your unpaid wages for almost the entire four-year period. But if your last day of work was two years ago, you'll only be able to go after unpaid wages for two years. So if you have a claim for unpaid wages, don't sit on your claim!
If your wage claim has any of these five ingredients, your odds of a good outcome are likely better. Contact Strauss & Strauss now for a free case evaluation and see if you really do have a good wage claim.
Learn more about resident apartment manager wage claims here.
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Prime Bank Cricket Club beat Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League (DPDCL) defending champions Abahani by 16 runs on Friday riding on Anamul Haque's century.
Abahani tasted the first loss of the season coming into the fifth round of the league. But they are still at number one on the points table with four wins in five matches.
Prime Bank also won four matches in five games and are at number two on the points table because of lower run rate.
In the day's match, the defending champions won the toss and decided to bowl first at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium. Prime Bank posted 302/5 in 50 overs, riding on Anamul's 102 - his third consecutive century in the league.
Abhimanyu Easwaran (85) and Ariful Haque (51) played some quality cricket to help the team post a big total.
For Abahani, Rubel Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, Nazmul Islam, Soumya Sarkar and Sunzamul Islam bagged one wicket each.
The champions tumbled for 286 in 48.5 overs despite some good efforts from Wasim Jaffer (94), Najmul Islam Shanto (73) and Mosaddek Hossain (52).
Abahani suffered a big blow at the start of their innings when Jahurul Islam was removed by Mohor Sheikh. They lost the second wicket on 63 runs.
However, in the third-wicket stand, Wasim Jaffer and Najmul Hossain added 132 runs. But, Mohammad Mithun (2) and Sabbir Rahman (10) disappointed.
Nahidul Islam, Abdur Razzak and Al Amin took three wickets each for Prime Bank.


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Estonia power company joins European network for cyber-security to improve its cyber-resilience.
Elektrilevi, Estonia's largest network operator with around 475,000 customers, 64,000 kilometres of power lines and more than 24,000 substations, has joined the European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS) with the stated aim of improving its cyber-resilience.
Elektrilevi is the first Eastern European company to join ENCS which works to develop a consistent set of security requirements for operational technology, such as distribution automation or smart metering.
Jaanus Tiisvend, member of the board of Elektrilevi, announced: "As Estonia's network operator for approximately 90 percent of the households and businesses in the country, our role is to ensure the security of both our network and our customers' data. By joining ENCS and becoming part of a pan-European community, we will be able to share best practice and ensure that best in class security requirements are reflected in our procurement processes."
ENCS' Director of Consulting Services, Michael John, added in a release to press: "Collaboration between European utilities is fundamental to address cyber-security for critical infrastructure. Our role is to enable our members to share information and knowledge in a trusted environment. Through that, we aim to develop protocols and standards to protect both infrastructure and customers across Europe. We're very pleased that Elektrilevi will be participating in that process and we look forward to working with them."
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For those who wish to go it alone, like to have that deed in their name and be able to claim the spoils of victory for themselves, buy-to-let tends to be the first port of call. Since buy-to-let became a loss making industry in Ireland some years ago, buyers have moved abroad and the Irish are still active in the US and UK in particular, where they are to be found fishing for value. They have, in the recent past, also been active in places such as Spain, France Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Bulgaria with varying degrees of success.
The principle of buy-to-let is very simple and all in the name – purchasing a property, normally residential, so that you can rent it out – hopefully for a profit. As with guaranteed rental product, a good buy-to-let transaction necessitates a property in a desirable area and a supply of high quality tenants. It will also normally, but not always, involve a good management company as managing property abroad can be incredibly problematic. Again, knowledge of the value of property and the actual achievable rent is essential prior to purchase.
Buy-to-let is suffering somewhat of an identity crisis at the moment as property prices in many countries have meant that the figures don't add up. The closure of a number of buy-to-let 'investment clubs' in the UK has also left the industry there in turmoil. The lesson to be learned from this is that you need to do your own market research. Unless you do the legwork yourself you run a pretty high risk that you'll be in possession of a non-profitable unit.
Banks have cooled on the whole buy-to-let phenomenon considerably since the credit crisis has hit. They were pushing out 95% BTL loans not that long ago but these same loans are now nigh on impossible to achieve.
If you can get a property at the right price then buy-to-let can work very well. Working from overseas, however, one of the biggest problems is the cost of management which does eat into profits. Unless you have a number of units in close proximity where you can spread the management overhead it can prove a deal breaker.
You can find buy-to-let property from €100k (or even substantially less these days, whether property for less than €100k is worth the investment, however, is an article for another day) which, if you can get an 80% mortgage, will leave a cash investment of around €20k plus expenses.


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Q: Explanation of foldr implementation in Foldable Here is the implementaion of foldr :
foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> t a -> b
foldr f z t = appEndo (foldMap (Endo #. f) t) z

The part that I don't understand is that (#. f) should provide an endofunction x -> x
e.g foldr (:) [4,5] [1,2,3]
foldr (:) [4,5] [1,2,3] = appEndo (foldMap (Endo #. (:)) [1,2,3]) [4,5]
                        = appEndo (((Endo #. (:)) 1) <>
                                   ((Endo #. (:)) 2) <>
                                   ((Endo #. (:)) 3) ) [4,5]
                        = ???
                        = [1,2,3,4,5]

Could someone decompose that example?

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The part that I don't understand is that (#. f) that should provide an endofunction x -> x

Remember that Haskell functions are curried. So f :: a -> b -> b is a one-argument function which takes an a and returns an endomorphism b -> b. Endo #. f plumbs the result of f, which is a function b -> b, into Endo, which expects a function as an argument.
Here's how that works in detail:
First of all, note that (#.) is basically a synonym for (.). So you have
foldr f z t = appEndo (foldMap (Endo . f) t) z

After Skolemnising a and b (so f :: A -> B -> B for rigid types A and B), the expression (. f) has a type of
(. f) :: forall r. ((B -> B) -> r) -> A -> r

Setting Endo :: forall a. (a -> a) -> Endo a as (.)'s left argument, you get r ~ Endo B:
Endo . f :: A -> Endo B

And because foldMap :: Monoid m => (a -> m) -> t a -> m,
foldMap (Endo . f) :: Foldable t => t A -> Endo B

and the rest of the function writes itself.

That's how the types work out. Let's break down your example.
foldr (:) [1, 2, 3] [4, 5]
appEndo (foldMap (Endo . (:)) [1, 2, 3]) [4, 5]
appEndo (((Endo . (:)) 1) <> ((Endo . (:)) 2) <> ((Endo . (:)) 3) ) [4, 5]
appEndo (Endo (1:) <> Endo (2:) <> Endo (3:)) [4, 5]  -- beta reduce (.)
appEndo (Endo $ (1:) . (2:) . (3:)) [4, 5]  -- definition of (<>) for Endo
((1:) . (2:) . (3:)) [4, 5]  -- appEndo (Endo f) = f
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

A: It's not (. f), it's (Endo . f).
#. is just like . (for our purposes here), and Endo is just like any other function. For instance,
(Endo . (:)) 1 = Endo ((:) 1) = Endo (1:)    -- by definition of (.), (f . g) x = f (g x)

(1:) is indeed an endofunction, its type Num a => [a] -> [a] is a more specialized version of b -> b, so the expression Endo (1:) makes sense (or, "has a type", or "is a well typed expression" -- Endo 1, for example, is not).
So, if you accept that foldMap f [a,b,c] = f a <> f b <> f c,
foldr (:) [4,5] [1,2,3] = appEndo (foldMap (Endo #. (:)) [1,2,3]) [4,5]
                        = appEndo (((Endo #. (:)) 1) <>
                                   ((Endo #. (:)) 2) <>
                                   ((Endo #. (:)) 3) ) [4,5]
                        = ??

then, from this point on, it's just a straightforward application of the appropriate definitions / equations:
   -- #. is like .
                        = appEndo (((Endo  . (:)) 1) <>
                                   ((Endo  . (:)) 2) <>
                                   ((Endo  . (:)) 3) ) [4,5]
   -- (f . g) x = f (g x)
   -- (Endo . g) x = Endo (g x)
                        = appEndo (( Endo  ((:)  1)) <>
                                   ( Endo  ((:)  2)) <>
                                   ( Endo  ((:)  3)) ) [4,5]
                        = appEndo (( Endo  (1 :)   ) <>
                                   ( Endo  (2 :)   ) <>
                                   ( Endo  (3 :)   ) ) [4,5]
   -- (Endo f) <> (End g) = Endo (f . g)
                        = appEndo (( Endo  (1 :)   ) <>
                                   ( Endo ((2 :) . (3 :)) )) [4,5]
                        = appEndo (  Endo ((1 :) . ((2 :) . (3 :))) ) [4,5]
   -- appendo (Endo f) = f
                        =                 ((1 :) . ((2 :) . (3 :)))   [4,5]
                        =                  (1 :) (  (2 :) ( (3 :)     [4,5] ))
                        =                  (1 :     (2 :    (3 :      [4,5] )))
                        =                   1 :      2 :     3 :      [4,5]
                        = [1,2,3,4,5]


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Q: Unable to start a connection to signalr core hub with Angular 5 client I have a .Net Core 2.0 C# Web Api running a SignalR Core hub. I am unable to even start() my hubConnection from angular (5.0.1) receiving this error:

OPTIONS https://localhost:44301/hubs/sample 405 (Method Not Allowed)
Error: Failed to start the connection. Error: Method Not Allowed
Error while establishing connection :(
XHR failed loading: OPTIONS "https://localhost:44301/hubs/sample".
HttpError: Method Not Allowed
      at XMLHttpRequest.xhr.onload [as __zone_symbol__ON_PROPERTYload] (webpack-internal:///../../../../@aspnet/signalr-client/dist/src/HttpClient.js:30:28)
      at XMLHttpRequest.wrapFn (webpack-internal:///../../../../zone.js/dist/zone.js:1166:39)
      at ZoneDelegate.invokeTask (webpack-internal:///../../../../zone.js/dist/zone.js:425:31)
      at Object.onInvokeTask (webpack-internal:///../../../core/esm5/core.js:4816:33)
      at ZoneDelegate.invokeTask (webpack-internal:///../../../../zone.js/dist/zone.js:424:36)
      at Zone.runTask (webpack-internal:///../../../../zone.js/dist/zone.js:192:47)
      at ZoneTask.invokeTask [as invoke] (webpack-internal:///../../../../zone.js/dist/zone.js:499:34)
      at invokeTask (webpack-internal:///../../../../zone.js/dist/zone.js:1540:14)
      at XMLHttpRequest.globalZoneAwareCallback (webpack-internal:///../../../../zone.js/dist/zone.js:1566:17)

I am struggling to even debug this problem, even with the help of fiddler i'm not able to solve it. It does not appear to be a problem with my Api because the Kestrel console prints that the request to the hub came in, but does not print any error. And I am able to GET, PUT and POST to my controllers without issue.
Here is my StartUp.cs configuration (I have omitted code not relevant for brevity)
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddCors(options =>
    {
        options.AddPolicy(
            "CorsPolicy",
            builder =>
                builder
                .AllowAnyOrigin()
                .AllowAnyHeader()
                .AllowAnyMethod()
                .AllowCredentials()
        );
    });

    services.AddAuthentication();
    services.AddMvcCore()
        .AddAuthorization(options => {...});
    services.AddAuthentication("Bearer")
        .AddIdentityServerAuthentication(options => {...});

    services.AddSignalR();
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
{
    app.UseCors("CorsPolicy");
    app.UseAuthentication();

    app.UseSignalR(routes =>
    {
        routes.MapHub<SampleHub>("/hubs/sample");
    });

    app.UseMvc();
}

Here is my sample hub
public interface ISampleHubClient
{
    Task receiveMessage(SampleRequest msg);
}

public class SampleHub : Hub<ISampleHubClient>
{
    private static string _connectionId;

    public async Task Subscribe(string groupName)
    {
        await Groups.AddAsync(Context.ConnectionId, groupName);

        await Clients.Client(Context.ConnectionId).receiveMessage("Subscribed to " + groupName);
    }

    /// <inheritdoc />
    public Task Send(SampleRequest msg)
    {
        ConsoleColor.Green.WriteLine("Send : " + _connectionId);

        return Clients.Group(msg.Group).receiveMessage(msg);
    }
}

And here is my Angular component code:
import { HubConnection } from '@aspnet/signalr-client';

@Component({})
export class SignalRTestComponent implements OnInit {
    private hubConnection: HubConnection;

    ngOnInit() {
        this.initHub();
    }

    initHub()
    {
        let self = this;
        var signalrBaseUri = "https://localhost:44301/hubs/sample";

       this.hubConnection = new HubConnection(signalrBaseUri);

        this.hubConnection
        .start() // <- Failure here
        .then(() =>{
             self.hubConnection.invoke("Subscribe", this.groupName);
        })
        .catch(err => { console.log("INVOKE FAILED");console.error(err);});
    })
    .catch(err =>
    {
        console.log('Error while establishing connection :(');
        console.log(err);
    });

    this.hubConnection.on('receiveMessage', (receivedMessage: SampleMessage) => {
        console.log("Message received : ");
        console.log(sampleMessage);
    });
}
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated

A: The issue is, that the npm package has been renamed from @aspnet/signalr-client to @aspnet/signalr. Changing to this the new package and also fixing the imports worked for me (to at least get rid of the OPTIONS call error.
import { HubConnection } from '@aspnet/signalr'

A: Pawel's comment let me in the right direction to solve this problem.
Here are some posts which discuss the OPTIONS request and the decision to replace it.
https://github.com/aspnet/SignalR/issues/1107
https://github.com/aspnet/SignalR/issues/1111
My problem however, appears to have been solved by correcting a mistake with a nuget package version.
I realised that my SignalR Hub project had a reference to a preview release of Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR (2.1.0-preview1-27884). I changed it to use 1.0.0-alpha2-final. I also cleared down my node_modules directory,  verified my npm cache, and reinstalled everything again
npm cache verify
npm install

Now everything works correctly.


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Leiomyza scatophagina  is a species of fly in the family Asteiidae. It is found in the  Palearctic .

References

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Wrongfully convicted Michigan man freed after 38 years
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A man who was sentenced to life without parole in an arson fatality has been freed after 38 years in a Michigan prison after a woman admitted that she lied under oath during his 1983 trial.
Walter Forbes, 63, walked out of Kinross Correctional Facility on Nov. 20 after Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wilson overturned his arson and murder convictions earlier that month.
Annice Kennebrew was the only witness to implicate Forbes in the July 1982 fire at an apartment building in Jackson, Michigan. Dennis Hall was killed in the blaze. Kennebrew, who was 19 at the time, testified that she saw Forbes and two other men set the fire.
But she admitted during a May 14 evidentiary hearing that she lied about what she saw because two men threatened her, her two young children and other relatives, court records show.
Kennebrew's false testimony contradicted other evidence in the case. She claimed she saw gasoline being poured outside the apartment building, but no accelerants were found at the scene.
Charges were dropped against one of the men who Kennebrew identified in the fire, and the other was acquitted, said Imran J. Syed, a director of the Michigan Innocence Clinic and a lawyer for Forbes.
Suspicion fell on Forbes, of Jackson, because a month before the fire he stepped in to stop a fight involving Hall, then Hall shot Forbes the next day in a parking lot. Forbes testified against Hall following his release from a hospital, court records show.
Forbes carefully researched his case in prison, filed open-records requests, and continued to proclaim his innocence. He then reached out to the Michigan Innocence Clinic for help, Syed said.
Forbes said he was initially angry at the system but that he decided he had to focus on making his case for freedom.
"Anger would have affected me more than anyone else," he told The New York Times. "Being angry with everyone that had a hand in this wouldn't allow me to see with clarity what had to be done."
Students at the Michigan Innocence Clinic, which is part of the University of Michigan's Law School, started searching for Kennebrew in 2012, Syed said. She eventually agreed to come forward and admit to lying under oath.
After the fire that killed Hall, investigators received a tip that the building's owner paid someone to burn the place down in an insurance-fraud scheme. Students with the clinic found court documents that showed the same owner was convicted years later in an insurance scheme involving arson at a building in nearby Livingston County in which another man died. The building owner is now believed to be deceased, Syed said.
Evidentiary hearings were held virtually in May and June before Forbes' convictions were overturned in November.
"This is not a difficult case," Syed said. "This is not a case that should have taken 38 years. I have the sense of who could have done what to save Walter some years of his life. That's something I'll continue to think about. I hope that's something the prosecutor, the judge will think about."
Forbes is now adjusting to life in a world much different than when he was last a free man.
Syed said Forbes is expected to receive nearly $2 million for his incarceration. In Michigan, people who were wrongfully imprisoned are entitled to $50,000 for each year of their imprisonment, but it could take several months before he receives it, Syed said.


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Historical Commission sponsoring virtual tour of City Hall
By Peter Currier
WESTFIELD- A virtual tour of Westfield City Hall will soon be available after members of the Historical Commission completed a walk-through of the building and took photographs last week.
Historical Commission Chair Cindy Gaylord said March 25 that the online city hall tour was nearing completion. This comes less than a month after the Noble and Cooley Drum Factory virtual tour was completed.
Historical Commission member Michael Ingraham said during a recent commission meeting that he was putting together the vignettes and scripts for the tour.
The virtual tours function in a similar way to Google Street View. There are many stations throughout the tour that one can "walk" to by pressing arrows to move through the building and listen to the narration.
The photos were taken by Southwick photographer Fred Gore. The narrator has not been selected yet, according to Gaylord. Jay Pagluica of Gaslight Entertainment narrated the Noble and Cooley Drum Factory tour.
Westfield's City Hall offices have been located at 59 Court St. since 1958. The building was first constructed in 1889. It first served as the home to Westfield Normal School, now known as Westfield State University. At the time, women from across Massachusetts would come to Westfield State to intern as school teachers.
Previously, city business was conducted at Town Hall on Broad Street. City Hall once served as the location for the Westfield Police Headquarters beginning in 1958.
Gaylord did not announce an exact date for the online release of the tour, but she indicated that it would be completed soon.
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