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Scandals Remind Us Generals Are Not Infallible The investigation that forced the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus has ensnared Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The two cases raise questions about the relationship between top officers and their civilian boss. It can be awkward but on occasion the president must disregard the counsel of military commanders.
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The investigation that forced the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus has ensnared Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The two cases raise questions about the relationship between top officers and their civilian boss. It can be awkward but on occasion the president must disregard the counsel of military commanders.
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And I'm Linda Wertheimer. We've steadily been learning more about the people at the center of a military scandal. Retired general - and CIA director - David Petraeus resigned because of an affair.
INSKEEP: The affair was discovered when his mistress confronted another woman.
WERTHEIMER: That woman, Jill Kelley, was a socialite linked to the U.S. military in Tampa. She also proved to have had many communications with General John Allen, the commander in Afghanistan; who has denied having an affair, but is being investigated by the Pentagon.
INSKEEP: All of this, and more, prompts NPR's Tom Gjelten to report on the relations between generals and civilians.
TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: Officers in Afghanistan are talking about a commander's curse. Commanding generals David McKiernan and Stanley McChrystal both ran into trouble with their civilian superiors. David Petraeus did go on to lead the CIA, but his tenure there lasted just 14 months. And now Petraeus' successor, John Allen, is facing a possible early end to his military career.
As with Petraeus, it's General Allen's connection to a woman, that is under scrutiny. White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked yesterday whether the president is at all worried about an inappropriate culture at the highest levels of the U.S. military.
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JAY CARNEY: I really would ask you to not extrapolate broadly. The president has great confidence in the military, great confidence in his commanders; and will continue to have that confidence.
GJELTEN: In the past, U.S. presidents have survived sex scandals. So why the fuss over allegedly inappropriate behavior by generals Petraeus and Allen? Richard Kohn is an expert on civilian-military relations, at the University of North Carolina. He thinks we put military leaders on a pedestal.
RICHARD KOHN: They have to have higher standards because of their need to trust each other, and to lead people in very dangerous circumstances. But it's gotten to the point, I think, of being unreasonable expectations on a lot of these people.
GJELTEN: Kohn says this tendency goes back at least 20 years. David Petraeus was hardly the first general to be seen in heroic terms. There's General Norman Schwarzkopf, in the first Gulf War. General Colin Powell's fans wanted him to run for president. But there's nothing like a sex scandal to remind us that four-star generals are human. Eliot Cohen, of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, wrote a famous book on the power relations between presidents and generals. He says the David Petraeus and John Allen stories drive home the point, don't demand too much from your generals.
ELIOT COHEN: They may accomplish tremendous things, but nobody should pretend that they are a different order of human being. They are absolutely not. We can still admire them and be grateful for the things that they've accomplished, but also have some perspective on them as being fallible. In the same way one shouldn't fall in love with politicians, one shouldn't fall in love with generals, either.
GJELTEN: That's advice even for presidents, or presidential candidates. When asked what they would do in Afghanistan or Iraq, both President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, at one time or another, said that they'd listen to what their generals recommended.
In the coming months, the speed of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, will be a pressing issue for the Obama administration. Eliot Cohen - who advised Governor Romney on national security issues - says presidents, in the end, have to make up their own mind.
COHEN: It's very important to remember, military advice is just that - it's advice. No politician should ever feel compelled to accept it. So by all means, listen to the generals. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you do what they advise you to do.
GJELTEN: It can be awkward for a president to disregard the counsel of military commanders. But on occasion, it can be necessary. Eliot Cohen has said that before, and he says it again now. If the scandals now surrounding David Petraeus, and John Allen, remind Americans that generals are not infallible, he says, that could be a silver lining to what is generally, a sad story.
Tom Gjelten, NPR News, Washington.


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Monkeypox Is In the United States
Kendall Mason
Prior to this year, there were no reported cases of monkeypox in the United States since 2003. This all changed when a Texas man brought the rare disease back with him from a trip to Nigeria. Now, there are more than 200 American citizens being tracked for monkeypox across 27 states. Luckily, no new cases have been found.
According to the CDC, the first human case of monkeypox was recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo back in 1970. As time has passed, more cases have been reported throughout the world, such as in countries in central and western Africa. Only four countries outside of this continent have reported cases of the disease: the US, the UK, Israel, and Singapore.
Monkeypox is the result of the Orthopoxvirus poxviridae virus, but medical professionals do not know what the virus' natural reservoir is. They do have a suspicion that certain rodents could play a role. In terms of transmission, monkeypox can be passed through infected animals, materials, or humans, entering through a break in the skin, mucous membranes, or respiratory tract. Regardless of the way one is infected with this virus, they can experience symptoms anywhere from five to 21 days afterward. Symptoms include fever, exhaustion, chills, backache, headache, swollen lymph nodes, rash, and lesions. They can last for up to four weeks and become severe enough that up to one of every ten patients dies. There is no treatment specific to monkeypox; it is symptomatic.
Monkeypox in the US
The Texas man was identified as the source of the infection within the United States, and it is believed that he exposed passengers on two different flights. On July 9th, he flew from Lagos, Nigeria to Atlanta, before transferring to a flight to Dallas. It was in Dallas that he went to the hospital, and he has since reached stable condition.
In order to fully assess the situation, the CDC is working with the airlines, along with local and state health departments. While they have their attention on the issue, they do not believe that the risk is severe. Because passengers on the planes were wearing masks, the chances that monkeypox was transmitted through respiratory droplets is low. The CDC declared that none of the 200 people who were exposed are considered "high risk."
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Sorbian literature refers to the literature written by the Western Slavic people of Central Europe called the Sorbs in Sorbian languages (Upper Sorbian language and Lower Sorbian language).

Sorbian literature began with the Reformation and the translations of religious texts. The first translation of the New Testament was made in 1549 by M. Jakubica and the first printed book in 1574 was Albin Moller's Zpevnik a Katechism (hymnal and catechism). See also Bible translations into Sorbian.

The British Library houses many copies of early Sorbian literature, the earliest being a copy of the Lord's Prayer dating from 1603. Sorbian is also noted in one of the first multilingual dictionaries: Megiser's Thesaurus Polyglottus, published in Frankfurt in 1603.

Around twenty books were available by 1700, mostly about religion. Little from that early period has survived.

Jurij Brězan published books both in Upper Sorbian and German  and Jurij Koch in Lower Sorbian and German.

Sorbian Poetry
Sorbian poetry flourished in the late 1800s with one of the most notable poets being Handrij Zejler, who published between 1883 and 1891.

Sorbian Journals
The longest running of various Sorbian journals is called the Casopis Macicy Serbskeje, published between 1848 and 1918.

List of writers
List of Sorbian-language writers
List of Sorbian-language poets

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European literature
West Slavic history

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I work on enabling operating systems extend the best possible performance to emerging parallel and multiprogrammed workloads by leveraging the use of hardware performance counters and in-depth understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the underlying hardware architecture. My advisor is Prof.Sandhya Dwarakadas . Below is a brief summary of my career so far.
I am Sharanyan Srikanthan and I pursued my undergraduation in Electronics and Communication Engineering in National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India. At the undergraduate level, I started working on hardware design with a couple of projects in VHDL and later moved on to the more specific field of computer architecture. I have worked on processor simulators, memory hierarchy designs and more recently on parallel and high performance computing. The work mostly comprised of various adapting compute intensive programs for real time application on GPGPUs. I am enthused by the problem of effectively build a good architecture and also in using it using with tailor made, highly optimized programs that interact closely with the underlying hardware and thus extract maximum performance from it. This problem become a bit more complex when using interconnects are involved between various compute nodes with non-uniform memory accesses.
Currently, I am working on intelligent scheduling solutions for modern day parallel workloads that have threads competiting for and sharing resources. The aim is to run the right threads together such that they minimize the reduction in performance due to resource contention but also minimize communication over shared data thereby maximizing performance.
I worked for two years before joining grad school for pursuing my doctorate in computer science. During this time, I was lucky to get the chance to work with the BrahMos Aerospace, one of the best missile weapon systems India has produced. I was working adapting intensive algorithms on an NVIDIA GPU/FPGA/PowerPC platform so that it could be deployed for real time use. The work was successful and involved restructuring algorithms, build an effective hardware architecture for different types of algorithms while being constrained by time, space and power. Partitioning workload and minimising communication between the various modules in the embedded system added another dimension to the problem.
Sharanyan Srikanthan, Arvind Kumar, "An Optimized Checkpointing Based Learning Algorithm for Single Event Upsets", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications-2010, Seoul, 19-23 July 2010.
Gupta, S.; Sharanyan, S.; Mukherjee, A.;, "Performance analysis of Support Vector Machine as classifier for voiced and unvoiced speech," Proc. IEEE 2010 International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT) 2010, vol., no., pp.397-401, 17-19 Sept. 2010.
Srikanthan, S.; Krishnan, V.; Kumar, A.;, "Online accelerated implementation of the Fuzzy C-means algorithm with the use of the GPU platform," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT), 2011, vol., no., pp.385-388, 15-17 Sept. 2011.
Srikanthan, S.; Kumar, A.; Krishnan, V.;, "Accelerating the Euclidean distance matrix computation using GPUs," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Electronics Computer Technology (ICECT), 2011, vol.4, no., pp.422-426, 8-10 April 2011.
Srikanthan, S.; Kumar, A.; Gupta, R.;, "Implementing the dynamic time warping algorithm in multithreaded environments for real time and unsupervised pattern discovery," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT), vol., no., pp.394-398, 15-17 Sept. 2011.
Worked with Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Advanced Missile Technology, BrahMos Aerospace, Pune. The project was on Real-time implementation of SAR image formation (range and azimuth compression) and the results obtained resulted in speeding up the algorithm by 30-fold and thereby feasible for real time deployment.
September 2011 : Interfacing of radar target data with the BrahMos missile system using MIL STD 1553B protocol, BrahMos Aerospace, Hyderabad.
Interfacing missile fire control system with active radar link for uploading target information to missile prior to launch.
Worked with Prof. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Restructured algorithm for SIMD architecture of GPUs. Speedup of about 35 times achieved with NVIDIA Tesla C1060 over Xeon processors.
Worked with Asst Prof. Arvind Kumar, National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. Fuzzy C-Means, K-Means and Euclidean Distance Matrix were restructured and adapted for real-time execution on GPUs. Reduced branches, more data parallelism, memory access in bursts were objectives for restructuring of algorithm. Algorithm was faster by 40-50 times over state of the dual quad core Xeon processors.
Worked under Dr. Shankar Balachandran, IIT Madras. SEU effect on hardware and different instructions was analyzed. Based on analyzed, software was profiled for resilience to SEUs and a dynamic partitioning based checkpoint method was used to eliminate SEUs. Code was analyzed as various graphs (control and data) and integer linear programming was used for dynamic partitioning.
Worked with Prof. Ranjini Parthasarathy, Anna University, Madras. Studied the effects of cache and varied various aspects to see the variation in performance of a processor. As a part of this study, I implemented an additional level (3rd Level) of cache and the improvement it can offer.
September - December 2009 : A Hybrid Classifier with Linear Predictive Coding and Bayesian, with Bayesian for error classification" in MNNIT, Allahabad.
Analyzed performance of various classifiers to classify speech. Introduced a novel idea of an error classifier and achieved an improved classification accuracy of 4% from a previously achieved accuracy of 14%.
Worked under Asst Prof. Arvind Kumar, MNNIT, Allahabad. 5 stage deep pipelined processor with 32 basic instructions with control for hazard management and data forwarding.
Worked under Asst Prof. Arvind Kumar, MNNIT. Studied various hardware components and hardware design procedures. Implemented a basic DDR SDRAM controller on an FPGA using VHDL.


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Four key findings to promote good health and well-being for all
The 17 ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which put the well-being of the global population at their center, were adopted by 194 countries in September 2015. With a specific focus on health, SDG #3 will influence the achievement of many of the other 16 SDGs, just as the progress toward these other goals will have a direct impact on health.
In these early days of SDG implementation, it is crucial to set the foundation for success to achieve these goals by 2030. Five IDRC-supported regional consultations in 2016 and 2017 have explored the role of think tanks and academic institutions in the implementation and monitoring of these goals, specifically those that relate to health. The discussions were diverse, but participants converged around four priority focus areas.
Actions must be guided by accessible and quality data
The most frequently raised concern across the five consultations was the need for accessible and quality data and tracking mechanisms to understand SDG successes and failures at the local, national, and regional levels. Researchers, policy research institutions, and policymakers need comprehensive data and evidence to recommend and draft policies. Equally important are mechanisms to track outcomes of policy impacts.
An intersectoral approach is key
An analysis of the SDG targets and indicators reveals that the 17 goals are interwoven and cannot be tackled in isolation. Therefore, to attain healthy lives for all, other goals that tackle the social determinants of health such as income, social environment, education, gender, and food security must also meet their targets. This is only possible when different sectors collaborate around the common goal of improving well-being for all.
It is critical to engage civil society and citizens to solve health challenges
Critics of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the predecessor of the SDGs, have argued that the decision-making process was too exclusive. Learning from the MDGs, participants at the IDRC consultations emphasized the importance of citizen engagement to address health challenges, especially those faced by the most marginalized. Citizens need a voice and the space to participate in decision-making processes to take charge of their health.
We are at our most effective [as a society] when citizens' voices are brought out and into policy debates.
A participant at the Vancouver consultation, 2016
Robust and effective institutions are key players
SDG stakeholders such as policy research institutions are important contributors to achieving the health-related SDG goals. They are capable of combining rigorous research with contextual knowledge and citizen engagement to influence policy development.
Following the consultations, and under the banner of IDRC's new Think Health Initiative, policy research institutions are organizing regional working groups and conducting scoping studies on SDG implementation in South Asia, East Africa, Latin America, and West Africa. Through national and regional scoping studies, they are identifying the actors who are implementing the health-related goals, the integration of these goals into national development plans, and how to best track progress toward success.
Together with the Graduate Institute, Geneva, IDRC is supporting THINK_SDGs, a new global network that facilitates cross-regional knowledge sharing and collaboration by connecting these and other policy research institutions with ongoing global SDG dialogues.
Each of the five IDRC consultations drew at least 50 participants from ministries of health, civil society organizations, and academic and policy research institutions. Forty countries were represented over the course of the consultations.
Read the consultation reports:
Kampala 2016 (PDF, 1.24MB)
Rio de Janeiro 2016 (PDF, 583KB)
Vancouver 2016 (PDF, 534KB)
Islamabad 2016 (PDF, 2.08MB)
Dakar 2017 (PDF, 375.75KB)
Contact the Think Health Initiative to find out more: healthTTI@idrc.ca
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Couple charged after horse is tied, dragged behind moving truck on snowy road
By Faith Karimi
Warning: Some may find the video above graphic or disturbing.A Colorado couple has been charged with animal cruelty after a video surfaced of their horse tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a snow-covered road.The video of the horse, which CNN affiliate KCNC said is named Trigger, was posted on Facebook and drew widespread attention Sunday, sparking outrage nationwide. It shows the horse tied by its halter as the truck drives away, its hooves slipping in the snow near Grand Lake. It's unclear who originally posted the video.John and Amber Saldate have both been charged with one count of animal cruelty, the Grand County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. It said Trigger has been taken from its home and is safe."Cases involving kids and animals are obviously very emotional," Grand County Sheriff Brett Schroetlin said. "We need to do our part of the investigation which sometimes takes a little bit longer than what the community is hoping."CNN has reached out to the couple for comment. A woman who described herself as the horse's owner told KCNC on Monday she understands why people are upset."You make one bad decision sometimes and it can destroy your life," she said. "I've lost my job over this; I've upset a lot of people, and I made our horse go through something that he shouldn't have. You know, I was wrong."The couple is scheduled to appear in court in late January.
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Warning: Some may find the video above graphic or disturbing.
A Colorado couple has been charged with animal cruelty after a video surfaced of their horse tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a snow-covered road.
The video of the horse, which CNN affiliate KCNC said is named Trigger, was posted on Facebook and drew widespread attention Sunday, sparking outrage nationwide. It shows the horse tied by its halter as the truck drives away, its hooves slipping in the snow near Grand Lake. It's unclear who originally posted the video.
John and Amber Saldate have both been charged with one count of animal cruelty, the Grand County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. It said Trigger has been taken from its home and is safe.
"Cases involving kids and animals are obviously very emotional," Grand County Sheriff Brett Schroetlin said. "We need to do our part of the investigation which sometimes takes a little bit longer than what the community is hoping."
CNN has reached out to the couple for comment. A woman who described herself as the horse's owner told KCNC on Monday she understands why people are upset.
"You make one bad decision sometimes and it can destroy your life," she said. "I've lost my job over this; I've upset a lot of people, and I made our horse go through something that he shouldn't have. You know, I was wrong."
The couple is scheduled to appear in court in late January.


Louis Pasteur says that science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
Louis Pasteur demonstrated that the fermentation process is caused by the growth of microorganisms. Wine contamination led Pasteur to conclude that microorganisms infected animals and humans as well.
Louis Pasteur produced the first vaccine for rabies by growing the virus in rabbits and then weakening it by drying the affected nerve tissue. This vaccine was first used on 9-year old Joseph Meister on July 6, 1885 after the boy was badly mauled by a rabid dog. Louis Pasteur was not a licensed physician and could have faced prosecution but the treatment proved to be a spectacular success.


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25 Iconic Images From The Works Of Santosh Sivan
Ahead of the star cinematographer's birthday, we deconstruct some of the timeless visuals from his films
by Vishal Menon
For a culture that devours cinema and the discussions that follow, we've been unkind to the visual quality of films. Most of us can, at any time, rattle off a hundred punch dialogues from the films we've watched. The same goes for music and background scores. A single beat would suffice for some of our friends to start air-drumming the entire history of an instrument and how they've been used in our films.
Yet this devotion we find so commonly with reference to the aural arts, have not always been associated with the visual. Though it's impossible to find a film lover who isn't a fan of a music director, we know so many people who can't name a single cinematographer. And for all the songs we've collected in the form of cassettes, CDs and MP3s, it's not like we've taken the trouble to create a folder of JPEGS to save some of the most beautiful frames we've seen.
But if you're willing to start such a catalogue, Santosh Sivan would be a fitting title for the first folder. One of the few stars of his field and the only Indian cinematographer to be inducted into the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), the man has created timeless images that are as powerful as they are pretty, as deep as they are vast. Below is a list with a few such images, classified film-wise, even though these screenshots fail to do justice to their real beauty.
Raakh
The DOP's first Hindi film has an obvious visual quality that's unlike any other, especially in the portions before the opening credits. Most shots have just one (key) light illuminating the face of a very young Aamir Khan, while everything else is pitch dark. The high-contrast mis-en-scene, the play with shadows and Aamir's voiceovers make Raakh one of the 'purest' of Indian noirs.
Perumthachan
For a film about a sculptor, it is incredible to see how Sivan sculpts sunlight to reveal its million forms. A favorite is a shot of the Perumthachan (Thilakan) shown chiseling a stone to find the statue beneath. With every blow, see how light splinters through the thatched wall to fill the room, giving the master a divine glow. Equally impressive is the film's study of profiles through a series of close-ups, not just of the actors but also of the sculptures.
Thalapathy
A lot has been already been written about the sun-bathed visuals of Thalapathy. For the story of Karna, the son of Surya, isn't it fitting to see the Sun make timely appearances, like that NRI uncle who makes it just in time for his son's graduation?
But my favorite is an excellent example of frame-within-a-frame photography. See how the walls of the train frame not only the gorgeous mountains and fields in the background but also a desperate mother struggling to retrieve her son after a change of mind.
You may revisit Roja for its music but you stay there for its images. The landscapes, covering the entire length of the country, are devastatingly beautiful. They needed to be…for Roja is a story about people who are willing to die (and kill) for their land.
Pavithram
This is where his images take a poetic form. Meenakshi waits for her young friend to return with glass bangles and bindis from the market. Framed among tall white attu vanchi flowers, wearing a white pattu pavada, the adolescent Meenakshi cannot hold back her excitement to try out her new gifts.
As she settles on the riverside, she finds a broken shard of mirror floating next to her. She picks it up and uses it to put on her bindi when a new kind of pain engulfs her. That's when she drops the red bindi, which stains her pure white skirt. The next shot is that of her puberty ceremony as we see her wearing pink. Can you think of another coming-of-age sequence that's as touching?
Kaalapani
Despite being a massive film mounted on a huge canvas, it's the extreme close-ups of inanimate objects that defines the film's jail portions. Now, this can probably be the crew showing off the abilities of the film's art director, Sabu Cyril. It may even be an emphasis on the devices that mark a bureaucracy which treated Indian prisoners as mere numbers. "An Indian's back is not a footboard yo!"
The cutest of Sivan's films, Halo opens with a low-angle shot of a teacher in a convent school "looking down" on her students. We learn right then that we're going to witness a film through the eyes of children. Also, notice the "halo" around the dog created by the horn of the record player? What a tribute to the HMV logo, no?
Lastly, I have never been able to get over the image of the bald kid combing.
The Terrorist
Arguably, the most powerful film Sivan has directed. Usually, this form of a close-up has only embarrassed the Telugu and Tamil film industries and its culture of making item numbers. But this is a shot we can be proud of. Commonly referred to as the "navel shot" see how effectively it has been shown in The Terrorist. Observe the shot as Malli looks at the mirror to see herself for that one last time.
We then cut to a close up of her navel as it is getting covered when a bomb gets strapped on. Notice how this symbol of childbirth is being hidden by a device that is meant to cause death?
Iruvar
If you listen closely, you can hear a hundred keyboards clicking and clacking to describe the amazing cinematography of this masterpiece. They write about the iconic balcony scene, or the two levels of the Nayakar Mahal conversation between Prakash Raj and Mohanlal. They may even write about the close-ups, usually reserved for one person, being used to capture two people (Iruvar) throughout the film. But this image of Aishwarya Rai is my favourite. This too is a close-up, during the song 'Hello Mister Ethir Katchi'. And like other close-ups in the film, this one too is of two people (Pushpavalli and Kalpana). One face looks away, while the other, almost hauntingly, stares back at you. That look is for Anandan. Is she real or is it an illusion of his deceased wife?
Again, there's an entire series of books that are just waiting to be written about the visuals of Dil Se. But let's start with this one. The line goes, "Mujhe maut ki god mein sone de, teri rooh mein jism dubone de," in this visual which almost forewarns us of the film's ending. But is the ending a tragedy or the ultimate stage of love? See how it's a mirror image of Michaelangelo's Pieta. If someone's already written the book, do send me a copy.
How can a massive film, starring a superstar like Shah Rukh Khan, ending with him winning a massive battle, be an anti-war film? Have a look at this image. The film opens with Asoka's guru giving him a sword, explaining how it can only see blood.
Later, after seeing the devastation he has caused in the war, see how the sword blinds him? It is when he throws it away that he begins his journey into Bhuddism.
Vanaprastham
It's not new to show a tear in the blanket as a sign of poverty or a family heading towards ruin. But when a group of people come to book Kunjikuttan for a kathakali performance, we see them through this tear. Indicative of Kunjikuttan's shrinking worldview, he agrees to perform and a bottle of alcohol is inserted into this blanket. His worried daughter is then framed through the same hole as we cut to the visual of a falling coconut tree branch, another sign of where this family is headed.
Anandhabhadram
It is obvious that this song from the Malayalam film is a tribute to Ravi Varma's paintings. Painstakingly recreated, even the casting of the actress was influenced by her similarity to Varma's models. Each of these shots has already been created inside what looks like the wooden frames of paintings. But these shots also zoom into them, as though we too are being transported into their respective worlds.
This article is not to say to that these images are his alone. Of course, the directors, writers, and art directors too have played a part in creating them. Honorable mentions include a dozen other films such as Urumi, Raavanan, Thuppaki and dare I say it, Anjaan. But that's for another JPEG folder after a few more films.
Vishal Menon
Vishal dropped out of law school to focus on his fondness for film, particularly mainstream Indian cinema. He is a film critic, previously with The Hindu after a stint at Deccan Chronicle and Reuters News. If you thought the book was better than the movie, don't tell Vishal.
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A Soumaya Múzeum (spanyolul Museo Soumaya) Mexikóváros egyik híres művészeti múzeuma. Két telephelyen működik: a régebbi épület Álvaro Obregón, az újabb, különleges formatervezésű modern épület Miguel Hidalgo kerületben található. Ingyenesen látogatható.

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A múzeum két telephelyen működik. Az első a Loreto tér: ez a terület a 16. században Hernán Cortés encomiendájának részét képezte, fia, Martín pedig egy gabonaőrlő malmot építtetett fel itt. A malmot a 19. században papírgyárrá alakították, de egy 1905-ös tűzvész után akkori tulajdonosai, José Sordo és Agustín Rueda 1905. október 13-án eladták a német származású Alberto Lenznek. 1906-ban az újranyitott gyár Fábrica de Papel de Loreto y Peña Pobre néven kezdte meg működését. 1940 körül itt nyílt meg Latin-Amerika első szulfátos eljárást alkalmazó cellulózgyára. Az 1980-as években ismét tűz pusztított a gyárban, aminek következtében az üzem mexikóvárosi tevékenységét beszüntette, és Tlaxcala államban nyílt meg újra. A romos épületek felhasználásával kezdte meg kialakítani az 1990-es évek elején a Grupo Carso a mai Loreto teret, ahol 1994-ben megnyílt a múzeum.

A Carso téri modern épületet Fernando Romero tervezte, a kivitelezés költsége körülbelül 47 millió euró volt. Megnyitására négy és fél év munka után, 2011. március 29-én került sor. Az avatáson részt vett maga Felipe Calderón államfő és Gabriel García Márquez író is. A Soumaya nevet az intézmény tulajdonosának és fő támogatójának, Carlos Slim milliárdos üzletembernek az 1999-ben elhunyt felesége, Soumaya Domit Gemayel után kapta.

Leírás

Loreto tér
A Loreto tér Mexikóváros nyugati részén, Álvaro Obregón kerületben található, egy régi papírgyár épületét alakították át. Állandó kiállításai közül a 3-as és a 4-es teremben régi, 20. századi mexikói reklámplakátok tekinthetők meg. Időszakos kiállításai között előfordult már Beatles- és Salvador Dalí-kiállítás is.

Carso tér
A Miguel Hidalgo kerületben, Nuevo Polanco városrészben található modern épület teljes területe 17 000 m², ebből 6000-et hasznosítanak a kiállítások céljára. Külső felületét fémesen csillogó kis hatszögek hálózata alkotja.

Az előcsarnokban két híres szobor: Michelangelo Piétájának és Auguste Rodin A gondolkodójának bronzmásolata látható. Ugyanitt található Diego Rivera utolsó nagy alkotása, a Río Juchitán, valamint Rufino Tamayo El día y la noche ("a nappal és az éjszaka") és Naturaleza muerta ("halott természet") című munkája. Az előcsarnokból érhető el a könyvtár, a gyermekkönyvtár, pihenőhelyiségek, az Aula Digital Telmex, egy emléktárgybolt és egy 320 férőhelyes konferenciaterem is. A múzeum termeiben a következő állandó kiállítások láthatók:
1. terem: Aranyból és ezüstből készült, illetve ezekkel a nemesfémekkel díszített tárgyak gyűjteménye. Megtalálhatók itt például miniatúrák, egyházi tárgyak, textilek, ékszerek, medálok, La Granja-i üvegtárgyak, kanalak, órák, makettek, coco chocolaterónak nevezett poharak és ládikák is. Egyik részében Mexikó pénzérméi és bankjegyei tekinthetők meg.
2. terem: Ázsia kultúráját bemutató elefántcsont tárgyak: a múzeum eredeti gyűjteményét 2012-ben Laura Fernández MacGregor több mint 600 darabos gyűjteménye gazdagította tovább. Láthatók itt például embereket, sárkányokat, feng-huangokat, elefántokat, teknősöket, és Buddha oroszlánjait ábrázoló darabok is, de kereszténységgel kapcsolatos alkotások is, például egy olyan is, amely Szűz Mária és Kannon "összevegyítését" ábrázolja.
3. terem: Régi európai és új-spanyolországi mesterek alkotásai.
4. terem: Impresszionista és avantgárd művek.
5. terem: "Rodin kora" gyűjtemény: itt található Auguste Rodin műveinek Franciaországon kívüli legjelentősebb gyűjteménye.

Képek

Jegyzetek

Mexikó múzeumai
Mexikóváros építményei
Mexikóváros kultúrája
Miguel Hidalgo (kerület)


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Orbital Liability and Insurance – Upcoming Changes
space industry act 2018
Now is an exciting time for the UK space industry, with the announcement that a date has been set for the first ever orbital satellite launch from UK soil, due to take place next week. The launch is a key step in realising the ambitions of the National Space Strategy and, behind the scenes, the regulatory landscape has had to adapt rapidly to accommodate the expansion of the industry in this way, with the introduction of the Space Industry Act 2018, and its associated regulations following in 2021.
Now, more legislative and policy changes are on the horizon - back in June, the Government published its response to a number of key liability and insurance issues raised by industry in a series of consultations, primarily concerning:
- in-orbit operator liability limits; and
- alternatives to third party liability insurance.
The intention was that, following publication of the response, the Government would work in conjunction with sector stakeholders to develop a formal set of proposals for further consultation. The response indicated that these proposals would be published in late 2022 or early 2023 and, assuming this activity is still on schedule, we should see that output imminently.
So what changes can we expect to see in the formal proposals when they arrive? Based on the Government's consultation response, the key points are likely to include:
In-orbit operator liability limit
Variable Limit on Liability
In response to clear support from industry, the Government has proposed a move from the current fixed €60m operator liability limit to a variable limit, where risk is assessed on a case by case basis using a selection of pre-defined outcome criteria, with missions placed into one of a limited number of liability bands with a maximum recommended value of £50m. A range of fixed minimum required insurance values would then be set to reflect each band
The Government is also exploring whether it is appropriate to expand its waiver of insurance policy, currently only applied to the lowest risk satellites operating below the International Space Station (ISS), to include a wider set of circumstances in which a waiver could be applied, with the aim of supporting growth and innovation in the sector.
Legislative certainty
The Government has also confirmed that, in line with its policy that operator liability to indemnify the government in respect of third party claims will always be limited, it will explore options for amending section 12(2) of the Space Industry Act 2018 to make it clear that the limit on liability is mandatory not optional, giving prospective licensees the comfort that the policy on capping liability has legislative weight.
Euros to Pounds
The Government has also confirmed its intention to implement the proposed change to set orbital operator liability limits in Pounds sterling rather than Euros, with insurance purchased in non-sterling currencies assessed against the requirement using the Bank of England exchange rate on 1 April.
Alternatives to insurance
Alternative insurance models
The review also considered industry views on alternatives to the traditional method of insuring for third-party liability in light of suggestions made in response to earlier consultations relating to establishing an industry mutual approach. This would involve a not-for-profit operator-owned and run mutual to provide an insurance facility, the aim of which would be to increase the availability of and reduce the cost of insurance, in particular for operators of small satellites.
This proposal gained significant support from the sector (despite insurers perhaps unsurprisingly voicing concerns as to the viability of the approach) and, as such, is one of the options the Government stated it was planning to explore further, along with looking at the potential for a collective insurance policy for the whole sector involving a single policy to cover all licensees, and in the longer term, a government Space Bond which operators would be required to invest in as a licence condition in order to establish a resource to meet liability claims.
Watch this *space* for more updates when the formal detailed proposals on liability and insurance are released.
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Médinit Expo – Italian exhibition of design and technology for the interior design and construction is an event where companies representing the excellence of Made in Italy of the different sectors of construction, design and technology for the interior decoration, have the opportunity to meet and develop business to business relationships exclusively with professional such as: technical construction, architects, engineers and building contractors, entrepreneurs in the trade of building materials, distributors and retailers. The 7th Edition of Médinit Expo will be held 27 – 29 October 2016, at the Parc d'Expositios Office des Changes Casablanca, prestigious location in the heart of the economic capital of the country.
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TRUSSVILLE — Both boys and girls bowling teams for Hewitt-Trussville qualified for the state championship, which will be held at Oak Mountain Lanes in Pelham on Jan. 24 and 25. On Thursday, all 16 teams will bowl to determine seeding, and the following day the teams will compete in head to head matches to advance through the bracket.
At the AHSAA North Regionals, the boys finished second overall. The Huskies were the top seed after qualifying and met #16 seed Pinson Valley in the opening round. The Huskies secured their spot in the state final with a 1576-1005 win over the Indians. Jordan Faggard led the way as he bowled a 236. In the quarterfinal round, Hewitt-Trussville defeated eighth seeded Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa 1469-1223. Cole McCarty led the way with a 233.
In the semifinals, the Huskies faced fifth seeded Gadsden City and defeated them with a 1582-1412 win. In the final round, the Huskies came up short, falling to East Limestone 1603-1489.
The girls team entered as the 10th seed in the regional bracket. In the opening round, the Huskies started strong and upset seventh seeded Hazel Green by the score of 1041-961 to advance to the state tournament. Taniya Horton led the way as she bowled a 188. In the quarterfinal matchup, the Huskies fell to defending state champion Southside-Gadsden 1,311-1,021.
Husky girls' bowling team all smiles after qualifying for the state championship tournament.


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Developing 'Rights Based' Approaches
Work with a range of organisations to consider 'rights based' approaches in relation to specific interventions or areas of policy/ practice has included:
Rights-based Approaches to Children 'At Risk of Offending'
Feedback to staff and managers of the five projects delivering the 'Early Intervention for the Prevention of Offending' Programme
Child Rights Indicators
Developing Child Rights Indicators (Save the Children NI) 2006-2007
While part-time Policy and Strategy Adviser at Save the Children NI, I developed an overview of the child rights work undertaken by Save the Children in the Southern Area and with the Children and Young People's Unit of OFMDFM (including interviews with key partners) …
Periodic Reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
2008 Northern Ireland NGO Alternative Report and Additional Information (Save the Children NI/ Children's Law Centre) 2008
Part-time 'Children's Human Rights Adviser: UNCRC' to develop the Save the Children NI/ Children's Law Centre partnership's contribution to the process of periodic reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child about implementation of the UNCRC in Northern Ireland.
Children's Rights in Northern Ireland
Children's Rights in Northern Ireland: Children's Report (Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People) 2005
Production of a children's version of the 304-page report detailing research conducted by a team of academics about the state of children's rights in Northern Ireland in 2004 for the first Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People [NICCY].
Review of NICCY Legislation
Independent Review of the Commissioner for Children and Young People (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (Putting Children First Alliance, Northern Ireland) 2006
Commission by the Putting Children First [PCF] Alliance to independently review the Commissioner for Children and Young People (Northern Ireland) Order 2003.
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Darren Oliver (born 1 November 1971) is a former English  footballer who played as a defender.

Oliver spent 6 years at Burnden Park before moving to Rochdale for £30,000 in 1993.

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1. It is Sunnah to dress in the best clothes we have on Eid.
2. It is a must (Waajib) to pray Eid Al-Adha Prayer.
It is not from the Sunnah to say Takbeer collectively in a chanting style.
4. The Sunnah for Eid Prayers is to pray in the Musalla (in an uncovered place) and not in the Masjid.
5. Neither Adhaan nor Iqaamah are pronounced for Eid Prayer.
6. The Prophet (Sallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) prayed two Raka'ahs for the Eid prayer and did not pray before it or after it.
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[Monday 11 June 2018] I'm finally putting my roots in my motherland, after years of wondering. I'd not found a reason to bring me back until I met my now fiencé and I chose to return to his home town. t's been a long journey of travel, from one part of the world to another. Full of adventure, a roller coaster of emotion and a journey of faith. I've been here over four years, four months and I'm here to stay.
I give Slimming World the credit for my weight loss.
Nov 25th, 2018 Homeward Bound!


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Grown Ups 2: Living or Dead?
Which cast members of 2013 film by Dennis Dugan Grown Ups 2 have died?
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About Grown Ups 2
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The following people were involved in the making of Grown Ups 2:
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Friedrich Karl Waechter (3 November 1937 in Danzig – 16 September 2005 in Frankfurt) was a renowned German cartoonist, author, and playwright.

Life
Waechter was born in Danzig as a son of a teacher. His family fled over the Baltic Sea after World War II and settled in Sahms (Schleswig-Holstein).

Waechter attended the Lauenburg Scholar School in Ratzeburg, where his graphic talents became apparent. He then studied graphic art in Hamburg.  In 1962, he moved to Frankfurt and took a job drawing cartoons in an advertisement magazine Die Zeit.  His work attracted the attention of the editors of the soon-to-be satire magazine, Pardon.  They gave Waechter a preliminary copy and asked for his suggestions.  Waechter's constructive criticism earned him a job with the fledgling magazine.

While at Pardon, he co-founded the Neue Frankfurter Schule (New Frankfurt School), a group of eminent comic writers and cartoonists.  The name was a play on the Frankfurter Schule of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.  The group included Robert Gernhardt, F. W. Bernstein, Bernd Eilert, Eckhard Henscheid, Peter Knorr, Hans Traxler, and Chlodwig Poth.  Their work celebrated subversive nonsense, typified by Pardon's regular "Welt in Spiegel" ("In the Mirror") feature.

Waechter became a father and, by 1970, began writing children's books.  Many of these encouraged the reader to complete puzzles and drawings, write in the book, cut it up, or otherwise participate in the story.  The books appealed to both children and adults and showcased his artistic talents:  simple yet expressive cartoons, carefully cross-hatched pen and ink, collage, and realistic paintings.  He would write some forty books throughout his life.  They are typified by Anti-Struwwwelpeter ("Anti-Strawpeter," a parody of Heinrich Hoffman's popular German children's book, Struwwelpeter), Die Schoepfung (Waechter's re-telling of Biblical creation), and Der Kronenklauer ("The Crown Snatchers," an anti-authoritarian fable).

In 1979 he co-founded Titanic, another satirical magazine.  His cartoons featured regularly until 1992, when he began focusing on teaching, writing books, and writing and directing plays.

Waechter's final work was Vollmond ("Full Moon"), a fantastic tale of a space journey.  He completed it while undergoing treatment for lung cancer.  He died on September 16, 2005, at the age of 67, leaving behind a wife and three sons.

Honors
 1975: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Wir können noch viel zusammen machen
 1983: Brüder-Grimm-Preis des Landes Berlin
 1993: Hessischer Kulturpreis
 1999: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Der rote Wolf
 2003: Alex-Wedding-Preis
 2003: Preis der Binding-Kulturstiftung

Books
 Ich bin der Größte, 1966 (Frankfurt am Main: Bärmeier & Nikel)
 Die Wahrheit über Arnold Hau, 1966 (with F. W. Bernstein and Robert Gernhardt).
 Der kleine Zweckermann, 1969 (Frankfurt am Main: Bärmeier & Nikel)
 Der Anti-Struwwelpeter, 1970
 Die Kronenklauer, 1972 (with Bernd Eilert)
 Tischlein deck dich und Knüppel aus dem Sack, 1972 (Subtitle: Ein neues Märchen)
 Brülle ich zum Fenster raus, 1973
 Wir können noch viel zusammen machen, 1973 (picture book)
 So dumm waren die Hebräer, 1973
 Das Ungeheuer-Spiel, 1975
 Opa Huckes Mitmach-Kabinett, 1976
 Schule mit Clowns, Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren, Pustekuchen (1975/76 Ellermann Verlag, Verlag der Autoren)
 Die Bauern im Brunnen, 1978
 Wahrscheinlich guckt wieder kein Schwein, 1978
 Kiebich und Dutz, 1979
 Die Reise, 1980 (Subtitle: Eine schrecklich schöne Bildergeschichte, "A Terribly Beautiful Picture History")
 Es lebe die Freihei..., 1981
 Fühlmäuse, 1981
 Wer kommt mit auf die Lofoten?, 1982
 Das Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1982
 Männer auf verlorenem Posten, 1983
 Nur den Kopf nicht hängen lassen, 1983
 Glückliche Stunde, 1986
 Die Mondtücher, 1988
 Mich wundert, daß ich fröhlich bin, 1991
 Die letzten Dinge, 1992
 Da bin ich, 1997
 F. K. Waechters Erzähltheater, 1997
 Der rote Wolf, 1998
 Mein 1. Glas Bier, 1998
 Der Kleine im Glaspott, 1999
 Die Geschichte vom albernen Hans, 2000
 Der Frosch und das Mädchen, 2000
 Steinhauers Fuß, 2001
 Die Schöpfung, 2002
 Waechter, 2002
 Prinz Hamlet, 2005
 Vollmond, 2005

Plays (selection)
 Die Beinemacher (1974)
 Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren (1975)
 Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (1977)
 Die Reise nach Aschenfeld (1984)
 Ausflug mit Clowns (1985)
 F. K. Waechters Ixypsilonzett (1990)
 Die letzten Dinge (1992)
 Die Eisprinzessin (1993, in two versions)
 Prinz Hamlet (1995)
 Lysistrata (after Aristophanes, 1997)
 Die Aschenputtler ( 1998)
 Tristan und Isolde (2002)
 Karneval der Tiere (2002)
 Der Narr des Königs (Kwast) (2003)

Criticism
 Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche. Die Neue Frankfurter Schule in Wort und Strich und Bild, Oliver Maria Schmitt, Berlin: Alexander Fest Verlag 2001.

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1937 births
2005 deaths
Writers from Gdańsk
Naturalized citizens of Germany
People from the Free City of Danzig
Burials at Frankfurt Main Cemetery
German male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century German dramatists and playwrights
21st-century German dramatists and playwrights
German draughtsmen
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Ubu Imperator est un tableau peint par Max Ernst en 1923. Cette huile sur toile représente un Père Ubu rouge en forme de toupie.

Histoire
Max Ernst s'est installé à Paris, dans le quartier Montparnasse en 1922. Ses œuvres évoquent la situation politique en Allemagne dans l'après Première Guerre mondiale. Il est inquiet de l'évolution en cours.

Fondateur du groupe Dada de Cologne, intéressé par la psychanalyse freudienne, les rêves et les images de l'inconscient,ses créations à Paris annoncent le surréalisme. Il s'appuie aussi pour ce tableau sur une gravure d'Alfred Jarry, le Véritable portrait de Monsieur Ubu.

Il indiquera aussi ultérieurement dans une revue intitulée La Révolution surréaliste :

Présence en collection

Elle est conservée au musée national d'Art moderne, à Paris.

Références

Liens externes

Tableau de Max Ernst
Tableau réalisé en 1923
Ubu
Œuvre conservée au musée national d'Art moderne


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In the last 10 years, the digital landscape has changed significantly. People are phasing out desktop and laptop computers to search the web and interact with content. Instead, they are picking up their mobile phones and tablets. What's more, digital technology is cheaper today than it's ever been before; there are virtually no boundaries on how, when and where people can interact with content.
Now that you've attracted video viewers and website visitors, the next step is to convert these visitors into leads. With most inbound marketing content, this means collecting some sort of contact information via a form. Video can aid this process by visualizing a solution to the buyer's problem, whether that's before the form on a landing page or as the offer itself. Overall, the goal of this kind of video is to educate and excite.
More than three billion people in the world are active on the Internet. Over the years, the Internet has continually gained more and more users, jumping from 738 million in 2000 all the way to 3.2 billion in 2015.[9] Roughly 81% of the current population in the United States has some type of social media profile that they engage with frequently.[10] Mobile phone usage is beneficial for social media marketing because of their web browsing capabilities which allow individuals immediate access to social networking sites. Mobile phones have altered the path-to-purchase process by allowing consumers to easily obtain pricing and product information in real time[11]. They have also allowed companies to constantly remind and update their followers. Many companies are now putting QR (Quick Response) codes along with products for individuals to access the company website or online services with their smart phones. Retailers use QR codes to facilitate consumer interaction with brands by linking the code to brand websites, promotions, product information, and any other mobile-enabled content. In addition, Real-time bidding use in the mobile advertising industry is high and rising due to its value for on-the-go web browsing. In 2012, Nexage, a provider of real time bidding in mobile advertising reported a 37% increase in revenue each month. Adfonic, another mobile advertisement publishing platform, reported an increase of 22 billion ad requests that same year.[12]
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I am seeking to put all of this on one page, as in there is no scrollbar present on the browser when on that page. I have attempted to set the heights of the divs as a percentage via CSS but was unsuccessful.
I am also unable to remove the small white gap from between the div "footer" and div "banner" containing the image.

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            width: 100%;
            margin: 0px;
            background-color: #F5F5F5;
        }

        #container {
            height: 100%;
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        #navigation{
            color: white;
            background-color: #292526;
            width: 100%;
            position: fixed;
            top: 0px;
            padding: 0.5% 0.5%;
        }

        #navigationLeft {
            width: 24.5%;
            display: inline-block;
            vertical-align: middle;
            font-size: 180%;
        }

        #navigationRight {
            width: 74.5%;
            display: inline-block;
            vertical-align: middle;
        }

        #navigation ul{
            float: right;
        }

        #navigation ul li {
            display: inline;
        }

        #navigation a {
            font-size: 120%;
            color: white;
            text-decoration: none;
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        #footer{
            color: white;
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A: To remove the blank space above footer add this to your #banner element:
line-height: 0;

To remove the scrollbars add this to your css:
::-webkit-scrollbar {
  width: 0 !important
}

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To have the whole page fit within the viewport of the browser you can calculate the needed height of the banner since the footer and navigation elements have fixed heights:
height: calc(100vh - 133px);

The above gives the element 100% the height of the viewport, minus the combined height of the navigation and footer elements (approx 68.5px + 64.5px ~ 133px).
You can also remove the position: fixed to your navigation element since it will always be visible anyways.
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While the news is filled with commentaries about the economy going down, not growing fast enough or going overseas, CollegeComplete.com has continued its growth and plans to add 20% more staff this month. A special focus has been placed with hiring returning veterans and military personnel.
College Complete opened its office doors in Deerfield Beach, Florida in September 2010. In the year and a half since then, they have grown from 15 people to nearly 40 Education Advocates. Every Advocate goes through an internal training process to learn about the high standards that College Complete holds itself to, as well as about the schools and systems that are in place to ensure the each and every student is given the most accurate choices available.
By the time that training is complete, each Advocate is able to guide potential students through the process of identifying schools that fit their geographical and educational needs. This matching process is done at no cost to the student and is followed up with an email of recommended questions to ask once the student speaks with the individual school.
With such rapid hiring in its Florida Headquarters, CollegeComplete.com has turned to NASCAR driver Justin Lofton to help get the word out to the public about the benefits of continuing education as well as about openings at College Complete.
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Anthony Tuitavake
All Black #1072
Auckland-born Anthony Tuitavake burst onto the international national rugby scene as a fleet-footed 19-year-old in the All Blacks Sevens team in 2001,
A year later Tuitavake would be a Commonwealth Games Sevens Gold medallist in Manchester and his rise to the All Blacks seemed inevitable. He would go on to play six Tests for the All Blacks in 2008.
Blessed with an eye-catching side-step and explosive power off the mark, Tuitavake was equally as potent in the midfield or on the wing and feared for his fearless front on tackling.
He was a junior World Cup winner with the New Zealand Under 19s in 2001 and represented the New Zealand Under 21s in 2002 before making a seemingly inevitable rise through Super Rugby to the All Blacks.
He played Super Rugby, first for the Highlanders in 2005, then for the Blues from 2006 to 2010 and was rewarded for his consistent performances with his first Test cap in 2008.
Tuitavake also represented his province North Harbour 82 times and captained the side in his final season in 2009 before pursing his professional career in Japan and France.
New Zealand Representative Teams
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All Blacks Sevens 2002 (Manchester Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist)
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At Flowmingo we put a lot of effort into trying to make the site as secure as possible. Web security is not something that you can bolt on. You have to consider it throughout the site. It encompasses how you authenticate users, store their passwords & files, as well as how you encrypt the web session. It also is not something you can do once, it is constantly changing as new exploits are discovered and better techniques are invented. In this article I will focus particularly on SSL and how we utilize it at Flowmingo.
Firstly we force all session to use HTTPS for all traffic. This keeps your session secure from prying eyes especially those that would like to intercept your login credentials. Firesheep helped to expose the weakness in unencrypted web sessions by providing an easy method to hijack session cookies on open networks like public wifi networks.
HSTS provides a means to inform browsers to use a secure connection every time a connection is made to our site in the future. This prevents a man-in-the-middle attacks that leverage the initial insecure connection that is formed when you initially access the site without SSL.
After Edward Snowden let the world in on the fact that the NSA is actively sucking up Internet communications and forcing providers to hand over SSL keys it became clear that we needed PFS. We deployed Ciphers using Elliptic curve cryptography and Diffie Hellman Key Exchange to deliver our users forward secrecy. If you are interested in learning more about ECDHE you should check out this blog post. We regularly test our site at SSL Labs. This helps us ensure that we are keeping up with changes in cryptography, new exploits, and browser innovations.
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