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South African Ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool on Obama, the Marikana Massacre and Confronting Islamophobia
Mass Murder of Miners and Neo-Liberalism in South Africa
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Justice for Marikana: Farlam Commission Not Up to the Task
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Labour Expert: This Could be Cosatu's Last Congress
The Smashing of a Strike
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South Africa's Economic Apartheid
The Lonmin miners' strike has entered its 4th week with no end in sight. As links between the mining companies and the ANC are exposed, there is growing frustration about poverty and inequality in South Africa, and anger at the growing class divide. Al Jazeera's Inside Story asks, "Is there a new kind of apartheid in South Africa?"
Shulie Ghosh speaks to Anthea Jeffrey of the South African Institute of Race Relations, Adam Habib from the University of Johannesburg and Tony Dykes of Action for Southern Africa.
South Africa runs the risk of violence unless we deal with inequality, contends Habib. The top three executives at Lonmin earn as much as all the miners earn. Business is not innocent. It is as guilty as the ANC, and that lesson has to be understood by everybody if we are going to fix this problem, he argues.
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As a very ordinary South African I am horrified by the greed of so many, whatever their colour or creed, captains of industry or politicians, who earn vast sums of money every month when so many people cannot feed their families. The greed is overwhelming. Who works that hard that they deserve to earn millions of rands each month or year? It is time we put a cap on the earnings of people, particularly public servants, politicians and heads of parastatals etc, but also to challenge the private sector. Shoprite/Checkers boasted of vast profits a couple of weeks ago - how can it be justified when so many cannot afford to eat properly? The cost of food in SA is higher than in some 1st world countries - it is simply appalling.
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H.S. Football: Pequannock duo runs past Madison
If Pequannock quarterback Dave Jachera can't beat you in the air he'll burn you on the ground.
H.S. Football: Pequannock duo runs past Madison If Pequannock quarterback Dave Jachera can't beat you in the air he'll burn you on the ground. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2yxRmhM
Nick Gantaifis, Staff Writer Published 10:06 a.m. ET Sept. 29, 2017 | Updated 11:43 a.m. ET Sept. 29, 2017
Golden Panthers move to 4-0 on the season
Senior quarterback Dave Jachera and the Pequannock football team improved to 4-0 on the season after rolling past visiting Madison on Thursday night in Pompton Plains. Jachera rushed for 178 yards on 10 carries and four touchdowns.(Photo: Anne-Marie Caruso)
POMPTON PLAINS – If Pequannock quarterback Dave Jachera can't beat you in the air, he'll burn you on the ground.
When the dual-threat quarterback didn't see many opportunities to throw in Thursday night's matchup against visiting Madison, the senior turned it up a notch and raced for four touchdowns to lead the Golden Panthers to a 42-14 victory in a key NJSFC American White game in Pompton Plains.
"I have to thank my offensive line, it was clicking tonight," said Jachera, who rushed for 178 yards on 10 carries. "But besides my offensive line I want to thank Sean Klimek, who forced the entire Madison defense to go towards him on the fake which left me wide-open holes with no one there. Our passing game comes, but when you realize that the defense can't stop the run game you have to keep going with it."
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Klimek was equally impressive when not selling the fake, rushing for 180 yards on 12 carries and 2 touchdowns. The shifty junior kept the Dodgers off-balance all night and set the tone early in the first quarter when he raced 64 yards for a touchdown on the Golden Panthers' first play from scrimmage.
Moments later and on the first play to open the second quarter, Jachera would score his first touchdown of the game when he took a keeper 25 yards down the left sideline to put Pequannock (4-0) up 14-0.
"It all starts with our offensive line doing an amazing job," said Pequannock head coach Ed Kopp, whose team has outscored its opponents 149-48 through the first four games of the season. "I thought we had a good game plan going in, but I never thought in a million years we would throw the ball only two times the entire game with one of them being an interception."
Pequannock would tack on two more touchdown before the half. Following a 46-yard run by Klimek to put the Golden Panthers in Madison (2-2) territory, Jachera finished the drive when he raced 22 yards for his second touchdown of the night and a 21-0 lead.
With just over five minutes remaining in the second quarter, Pequannock defender Octavius Scotton picked off Madison quarterback Ryan Schmitz, which set up Klimek's second touchdown when he dashed 75 yards to give the Golden Panthers a comfortable 28-0 halftime lead.
"My hats off to Dave [Jachera] and Sean [Klimek] tonight when they had the ball in their hands," said Kopp. "We gave them big holes tonight and they took advantage.
"My job is to keep this team in check and manage their emotions. It's about one day at a time at this point. But we do have to find a little more balance and get the passing game going again. We're going to watch some film from tonight's game and get better. We have Kinnelon up next and looking for a good week of practice."
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Jachera and Klimek rushed for a combined 358 yards on 22 carries and six rushing touchdowns. Klimek had touchdown runs of 64 and 75 yards and Jachera had scoring runs of 25, 22, 42 and 35 yards.
The game shifted direction when Madison fumbled and Pequannock recovered on the Dodgers' first possession to start the game. The Golden Panthers responded seconds later when Klimek raced 64 yards for a score to put Pequannock on the board first.
Pequannock is 4-0 for the first time since 2014 when they won their first seven games of the season. The team heads to Kinnelon next Friday night for a NJSFC-American White matchup. The Colts have dropped two-straight heading into this weekend's week 4 contest against Kittatinny. The Golden Panthers sit alone atop the division with a 2-0 record.
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Baumgarten's most significant work, written in Latin, was Aesthetica, 2 vol. ( –58). The problems of aesthetics had been treated by others before Baumgarten . BAUMGARTEN'S AESTHETICA. MARY J. GREGOR. Although the content of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's. Aesthetica1 seems to be familiar in German. Ästhetik Als Philosophie der Sinnlichen Erkenntnis Eine Interpretation der " Aesthetica" A. G. Baumgartens Mit Teilweiser Wiedergabe des Lateinischen Textes.
Be that as it may, Winckelmann writes:. Learn More in these related Britannica articles: Having published the textbooks for his metaphysics and ethics classes which Kant would still use decades later vaumgarten, Baumgarten then returned to aesthetics, and began working on a major treatise in Kant and Herder on Baumgarten's Aesthetica.
There he wrote the tragedy Emilia Galotti and his aesthrtica plea for religious tolerance in the form of Nathan the Wisea play inspired by Mendelssohn. Phil Stanfield Like Like.
But Baumgarten's denomination of the field was an adult baptism: The aim of aesthetics is the perfection of sensible cognition as such, that is, beauty, while its imperfection as such, that baumbarten, ugliness, is to be avoided. He expands upon this contrast in the essay on Sculpture:. To be sure, he often emphasizes the latter aspect of the value of art more than the former; for example, he writes.
The most general rule is simply that art should imitate nature, so that in order to be beautiful art must imitate what is beautiful in nature. He wants rather to make the ideas he awakens in us so vivid that at the moment we believe that we feel the real impressions which the objects of these ideas would produce in us.
Vorreden zur Metaphysikp. As a determination of the soul, many a representation can have something pleasant about it although, as a picture of the object, it is accompanied by disapproval and a feeling of repugnance. He further insists baumgqrten there is an essential difference within the so-called visual arts that Lessing fails to capture, namely that painting is concerned strictly with with the sense of sight whereas the aesthetics of sculpture in fact derive primarily from the sense of touch.
The last paragraph of this is somewhat contorted: Some variant of this response to Plato was aeathetica core of aesthetics through much baumgrten subsequent philosophical history, and indeed continued to be central to aesthetics through much of the twentieth century.
In explaining this source of pleasure, Mendelssohn also makes another aesfhetica to the traditional theory that it aestheticaa resemblance alone that is the source of our pleasure in imitation, because resemblance is easily produced by means far less complex and admirable than all of the faculties that go into artistry—a point that Plato had already made when he had Socrates argue that if it is mere imitation that the artist were after, he could just go around with a mirror Plato, RepublicBook X, d—e:.
Kant's selection of the Jewish student for the defense of his inaugural dissertation in was not accepted happily by some members of the faculty, but Kant supported Herz then and always remained loyal to him, even as the student's views diverged from his own. When he mentions or discusses specific arts, Wolff invokes more specific conceptions of perfection and thus of the beauties of those arts.
In the first aestheticw he argued that the contemplation of natural beauty has a calming and moderating influence on our passions. Wolff next defines clarity and distinctness and indistinctness in cognition. And art became, not the important thing it was intended to be, but the empty amusement of idle people.
In the next section, we shall see how Johann Gottfried Herder reasserted yet refined an aesthetics aesthetic truth beginning with a response to Lessing, while Johann Georg Sulzer attempted to combine an aesthetics of truth with an aesthetics of play. Both painting—which Herder is thus far, like Lessing, using as a generic term for the visual arts comprising both painting proper and sculpture—and music use natural signs, that is, signs that communicate the thought of their objects to us by means of resemblance between their own fundamental properties and the fundamental properties of their objects.
He accepted Wolff's explanation that pleasure arises in the sensible perception of perfection, but also Baumgarten's transformation of that formula into the explanation of beauty as the perfection of sensible cognition: Lessing does not appeal baummgarten any philosophical theory to back up this baumgaarten.
The living, embodied truth of the three-dimensional space of angles, of form and volume, is not something we can learn through sight. Bajmgarten art aims to produce pleasure both by setting our cognitive powers into activity through the formal and material beauties of its products and by arousing our deepest feelings. ArtLark Post author May 2, Aesthetica aesthetics Alexander Baumgarten beauty immanuel kant.
In the midst of this controversy he died of a stroke in January,at the age of fifty-six. Materialism and scientific discovery architecture In architecture: By introducing this faculty, he wants to emphasize that the experience of beauty or other aesthetic qualities is not actual knowledge, nor does it lead to specific desires and actions except perhaps the desire to be able to continue contemplating an object already found to have been beautiful.
He certainly does, but what he aims to do is to show that the perfections baumgartn can be realized in aesthetic experience are both more positive and more complicated than those recognized by Baumgarten. He was working on a revision of it when he was murdered in Trieste in June ofwhile returning to Rome from Vienna, where the Empress Maria Theresa had awarded him a collection of gold and silver medallions.
But for Wolff our ability to produce works of art is another manifestation of the perfection of the world—of which we are a part—and in turn of God. Wolff's discussion of architecture makes it clear that in order for us to perceive it as beautiful, a building must display both the formal perfection of coherence as well as aestheyica substantive perfection of being suitable, indeed comfortable for its intended use.
This is why adsthetica engages Lessing in such detail, for example, and why some of his most important claims in aesthetics are contained in the essays on Baumgartten and Shakespeare. What would he not do to transform his sight into touch, to make his seeing into a form of touching that feels in the dark…. But this is only the first step of Herder's argument. In this instant everything must be rich in thoughts and so full of meaning that every accompanying concept makes its own contribution to the required meaning.
Wolff's collected works over thirty volumes in German and forty in Latin include German versions of his logic, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, and teleology as well as a four-volume encyclopedia of mathematical subjects. The next year he became a village vicar and was able to devote himself to natural history and archaeology. A poet is a skilled imitator of all natural things; and this he has in common with painters, connoisseurs of music, etc.
It seems to be a particular mark of beauty that we contemplate it with quiet satisfaction; that it pleases, even if we do not possess it, and that is remote assthetica the urge to possess it. Yet Mendelssohn no more rejects the idea that works baugarten art do arouse our emotions and that they are, at least in many cases, imitations of nature than he rejects the idea that the perception of perfection and the perfection of perception is central to our experience of beauty and other aesthetic properties.
The next year he published Thoughts on Probability and a translation of Rousseau's second discourse On the Origins of Inequality. In fact, Mendelssohn's analysis of our mixed emotions in the experience of tragedy is even more subtle than this, for a further aspect of it is that our knowledge that we are experiencing represented rather than real people allows us to enjoy sympathy with the perfections of the noble characters who are depicted rather than pity at their aestheitca or at the fate that overcomes them.
It must be joyous when it aesfhetica as much as it can. With his soul he seeks to grasp the image that arouse from the arm and the soul of the artist.


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hi im Jon T, 17 years old from england. i first got into war of the worlds when i was about 7, when my dad showed me his vinyl version of the musical. i was fascinated by the artwork. when he bought the cd version we sat down and listened to it. for a 7 year old it was probably the most scary thing ever. i remember having nightmares of martians and tripods attackin me!

i read the book in my first year of secondary school and from then on i was hooked, i did an entire project on it and my teacher was impressed that i had read such an advanced book. i was really excited when my dad bought me the pc game and i was hooked on it for months, actually controlling the tripods!!!

when i found out there was a film (1953), i was gobsmacked, and i watched it at the first chance, i was a bit disapointed that it had altered from the book so much, but i still really enjoyed it and still do.

well anyway that is a bried account of my obsession with war of the worlds.
Welcome Jon, nice to have you here!


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The Liverpool MND Support Group brings together carers and people living with MND who are all going through, or have gone through similar experiences, to share personal experiences and feelings, coping strategies, or any helpful information about MND that they have found beneficial.
All those diagnosed with MND, or caring for someone with MND, are very welcome to attend. There is on site parking for Blue Badge holders and a cafe available at The Brain Charity.
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From time to time we like to invite one of our followers to be a Guest Designer for a month and our Challenge prize is to be our Guest Designer for a month. Martina was our winner and today we want to introduce you to this great source of inspiration. Please join us in welcoming Martina Stoycheva to the Canvas Corp Brands blog.
I`m from Bulgaria and I live in a town named Burgas on Black Sea coast.
I think that my style is light and a bit shabby. I don`t create dark projects often. Still I`m a messy girl who loves mixed media from the bottom of her heart.
I`m creating since 2015. But I`m in mixed media world since end of 2016. That`s when I started my personal blog.
My go to product is gesso and some paste. I`m not doing anything without them.
I would say splaters are my signature touch, but if I think again it`s not on all my Projects.
Get out and have some fun. Have a walk. Enjoy your life and stop thinking about projects. When I`m in that place I`m getting away from my scrap place and it always helps. It revives me. It dosen`t matter that we love what we do, it could be overwhelming sometimes.
I don`t remember any odd inspiration. Most of the time I`m inspired by other crafters or just something clicks in my mind.
That I was a passionate smoker until 2011. Then I start training Tae bo and quit smoking. I haven`t touched cigarette since 3rd april 2011 and I`m absolutly happy and proud of myself.
I create when I`m inspired. It can be every day or just once a week. If a lot of ideas are fighting in my head it`s time to get them out of there.
No. I don`t jot down. Just creating when I have time.
Please follow Martina in social media for more inspiering Projects.
Martina, welcome and enjoy your time with us here at Canvas Corp!!!
Fabulous style and welcome to CCB!!!!


Tampico is planning an exciting refresh to its brand later this spring, so in honor of its near 30-year history, we're taking a look back with them on the past few decades and reliving our favorite moments. Join in with the nostalgia and fun and let us know what games, tv shows, foods and more you loved from your childhood in the comments!
One of my favorite things to do during the winter is cuddle on the couch with my family. I love introducing them to the movies and television shows of my childhood (80s/90s) and winter is the perfect time to do this! We try to have movie nights every weekend, or every other weekend, so we have our list of movie night necessities ready to go before we press play.
I was not even two years old when this movie came out, so I didn't see it until years later, but it's one of the best movies from the decade in my opinion (and one of the few sci-fi movies I'm a fan of). The movie is all about time travel, which is an exciting concept at any age. The boys have not seen this one yet, but it will be one of the next classic movies they watch!
Having two boys that play baseball, this movie was a must-watch for our family. It's about a group of friends who play pick-up games of baseball together and fear "the beast" on the other side of the fence.
This one is a holiday classic that we watch at least a couple times a year at Christmas time. Kevin comes up with some pretty epic ways to keep his home from being robbed as he outsmarts the "wet bandits." My kids can't believe Kevin's parents would forget him, while I sit and wonder how Kevin's dad afforded the home his family lived in and a vacation to Paris for the whole extended family lol.
Richie Rich looks like the luckiest kid in the world because he has all the toys he could want. What he doesn't have though? Friends. That must be so lonely to live like that. Though my boys wished they had all the money to buy anything they wanted, I think they realized, by the end of the movie, that all the material goods in the world can't make a person happy if they don't have friends to share it with!
This movie is based on the book and completely different than anything my boys would usually watch. It's a touching story about an orphan girl who discovers a secret garden and a sick cousin, and, throughout the movie, she finds a way to bring the garden back to life and heal a family.
This is another movie that came out around the time I was born, but this is one of the few movies I remember watching as a child in the 80's. This movie is complete fantasy but it stirs imaginations and kids will get a kick out of it.
The Princess Bride is my favorite movie on this list. Although my boys don't like the kissing part (just like the little boy listening to his grandpa tell the story in the movie) they like the action part of it! Personally I love this movie for it's fairytale romance and comedy.
Though this movie is extremely far-fetched, I love that it shows a different perspective on life (literally!) These kids, now shrunk down to a size smaller than ants, must survive the dangerous trek back to their home and get the attention of their parents. This is just a fun movie to watch!
I haven't watched the original with my boys yet, but recently, we watched a newer version of this movie (the 2010 one) when my little sister was in town. I knew my boys would like it, especially because my oldest is in karate himself. They thought all the moves were pretty cool and I caught them trying them out afterwards. The original is on our list to watch this winter.
I love movies about the underdogs overcoming obstacles so it's no surprise that this movie made my list of favorites. I also like that it shows my sports playing boys the value of hard work!
I love this version of Peter Pan much more than I enjoyed the cartoon version of the movie. I'm not sure if it's because the cast includes Robin Williams and Julia Roberts, I like the idea of a grown man discovering the magic of his childhood, or the Lost Boys' reactions upon Peter's return, but this movie is one of my favorite Disney stories brought to life.
So technically E.T. is not from my childhood, since it came out the year before I was born, but I could not leave this classic off the list! This story about a sweet alien befriending a boy was one of the first throwback movies I showed my kids. Watching it as an adult I couldn't help but wonder how the mom didn't realize an alien was living in her home, but as a child I didn't think much about it.
As a kid, the movie Ghostbusters was a bit scary but was still a fun movie to watch. With all the new remakes of the movie since the original one came out, this is probably the most well-known movie on the list and one we've watched at least half a dozen times.
My boys are a bit old for this animated movie now, but it's perfect for little ones, especially those that are into dinosaurs. It's about an orphaned dinosaur who makes new dinosaur friends on his journey to find the land his mother told him about.
This movie is my favorite holiday movie that I look forward to watching with the boys each Christmas. The sequel and third movie in the series are good as well, but the first one is definitely our favorite. It just gets us in the holiday spirit during the most magical time of the year.
If you have tweens or teens I'd also suggest Mrs. Doubtfire and Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead. A Little Princess (the 1995 version) is also a favorite of mine! There are so many great movies to choose from, so I'm wondering what you'd add to my list? Sinisa insists that Goonies should have made my list as well since he thinks it's an iconic film, but I'm not a huge fan of it (<gasp>).
Whichever movie you choose to watch with your kids, don't forget the snacks! We can't have movie night at home without them! Popcorn is a favorite snack and Tampico juice always tops the list of drink options.
We tried the Blue Raspberry flavor this past movie night because it's a favorite flavor from my childhood, so I thought it would be the perfect juice to go with our throwback movie night. I put it in cups with fun polka dot straws. Tampico tends to be our go-to for family fun nights, whether we are crafting, playing games, or watching movies.
I'd love to hear what your favorite "Splash From the Past" movie is so let me know, either in the comments below or on social (find me on Twitter at @aliciamarie112)!
Back to the Future is one of my personal favs. My kids love the Sandlot.
My daughter is only two so she's not quite into movies yet (still trying to get her interested in cartoons from my child hood like Winnie the Pooh) but, as a child of those decades, I'm excited to re-watch 80's/90's movies with her in a few years.
I have seen all of these movies (Now I have totally dated myself LOL). When I was a kid "The Neverending Story" was my all time favorite movie!
This list is everything! I love so many of these movies. And oh my, The Neverending Story – I haven't seen it in so long!
I showed my kids a lot of these movies and I'm proud to say that it was a success! They loved them – a lot of these titles are timeless classics.
So many great throwback movies on this list. We always liked Land Before Time.
I love them all! The Sandlot was my absolute favorite movie of all time!
Oh my gosh, I can't believe how long some of these movies have been around. I have seen them all. One of my favorite movies not listed is The Great Outdoors with John Candy and Dan Aykroyd.
Oh my gosh hook is so amazing. I still get chills watching that one!
I love so many of these movies! A lot of them we do watch with the kids. We just saw Sandlot.
I love all these movies and I'm sure my kids will love them, too! Brings back a lot of memories!
Sandlot!! Love this whole list and it's bringing ALL the nostalgia.


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Take a first look at Riverside's Rose Parade…
Take a first look at Riverside's Rose Parade float celebrating the Festival of Lights
Courtesy of the City of Riverside
Riverside's 2018 Rose Parade float will salute the Mission Inn and the Festival of Lights.
By Alicia Robinson | arobinson@scng.com | The Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: September 20, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. | UPDATED: September 21, 2017 at 6:15 a.m.
Come January, millions of Rose Parade viewers will see a 23-ton tribute to Riverside's Mission Inn and its renowned Festival of Lights.
On Wednesday morning, Sept. 20, city and Mission Inn officials unveiled the Rose parade float's design. It depicts iconic features of the inn such as the colorfully-tiled Amistad Dome and the arched entry wall that holds numerous bells.
"This is a thank you and an homage, if you will, to Duane and Kelly Roberts for having turned around the Mission Inn and preserved it and protected it," Riverside City Manager John Russo said.
Duane Roberts bought the inn in 1992. The following year, the Robertses created the Festival of Lights as a holiday spectacle, decorating the inn with strings of lights and characters.
The event has since grown to include more than 5 million lights, live entertainment, food vendors and other attractions, and it draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to downtown Riverside during its six-week run.
Riverside floats Rose Parade plans to celebrate 25th anniversary of Festival of Lights
Corona's Santiago High band will play in 2018 Rose Parade
The float will showcase some of the inn's architectural features as well as the raincross, Riverside's symbol designed by inn founder Frank Miller, and orange trees recalling the city's citrus heritage.
The finished product will be covered with "a multitude of different types of materials" such as seeds, bark, corn husks, orchids, carnations, and of course, roses, said Tim Estes, president of Irwindale-based Fiesta Parade Floats. The company designed and is building Riverside's float.
The $320,000 for the float and related costs was raised privately and doesn't include city dollars, Russo said.
Residents and community groups will have the chance to help decorate the float at Fiesta's Irwindale facility or in Riverside. Russo said Festival of Lights visitors will be able to sign vials that will hold flowers on the finished float.
At the public unveiling of the design Wednesday, Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey, Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce Vice Chairman Andrew Walcker and Mission Inn General Manager Stan Kantowski praised the Robertses for their philanthropy, community spirit, and most of all, their investment in the Mission Inn, which had been closed and fenced off for years before they became the owners.
"In that regard, the (Robertses) planted the seed for downtown's rebirth more than 20 years ago," Bailey said.
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FLOAT FACTS
Riverside's float celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Mission Inn's Festival of Lights.
Dimensions: 55 feet long, 18 feet wide, 25 feet high at tallest point
Weight: 46,000 pounds
Frame's structure: Steel, plywood and mesh screening
Decorations: Roses, carnations, Gerbera daisies, orchids, palm fiber, corn husks, oats and other natural materials
Construction: It takes about 7,000 hours to decorate a float this size
Workers: A handful of florists will direct dozens of volunteers
Source: Fiesta Parade Floats
ROSE PARADE REPRESENTATION
Inland residents take part in the Rose Parade every year, but it's been a decade since a city from the region sponsored a float. Here are some notable Inland entries.
2018: Riverside float, marking the 25th anniversary of the Mission Inn's Festival of Lights
2015: Fontana's United Sikh Mission float
2008: Historic San Bernardino Fire Department wagon
2007: University of Redlands float to celebrate the school's centennial, Ontario city float
1950s: Riverside sponsored floats from 1950 to 1959, including a 1951 entry with a buggy.
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Ontario QB Ethan Snyder honored for historic 2020 season
Jake Furr
ONTARIO — It started with a phone call and Ethan Snyder did the rest.
The Ontario senior quarterback saw the name of his coach, Chris Miller, pop up on his cell phone and he quickly answered. Miller was calling to inform Snyder he would be the starting quarterback for the Warriors for the 2020 season, a decision that wasn't made until a few weeks before the start of two-a-days.
"I remember the phone call I made telling him the job was his," Miller said. "I debated on even making that call, but he has worked so hard and earned that knowledge and I am glad I bluntly told him. He turned up his level of focus and was always the first out there warming up at practice and did all that extra work to be a leader. This is just the fruit of the labor."
It turned out to be the right call for the coach as Snyder put up a historic season in 2020, breaking five single-season passing records as he led the Warriors to a 6-4 record. On Thursday morning at the Ontario High School library, Snyder was honored for those accomplishments with a plaque presentation.
"We just want to say thank you to Ethan for his dedication and hard work to the Ontario football program, to this community, to his parents and teammates and also to Ontario football alumni who played before him," Miller said during the presentation.
Snyder split time at quarterback since he was a sophomore before finally taking over the job full-time last season.
"He entered the summer unsure of what position he was going to be playing," Miller said. "But we gave him the opportunity to play quarterback and he took it and ran."
Well maybe took it and threw would be more accurate.
Snyder's season stat line was incredible. He was 148-for-233 passing, a 63.5% completion percentage, for 1,882 yards and 21 touchdowns. He broke the single-season record in all five categories.
"It is cool to write myself into history," Snyder said. "I stayed at Ontario my whole life — I've never gone to two different schools — so it is great to know my name will be here forever."
Despite the historic season individually, Snyder admits it was never his intention.
"This was never my goal," Snyder said. "Our goals were never to break records; it was only to win games. And we did that so that is something I will always be proud of, but this honor is pretty cool, too."
The Warriors did some special things as a team this year as well. They had their first winning season since 2014 and won a playoff game, a 62-0 drubbing of Vermilion, for the first time since 2001.
But Miller didn't exactly know how historic of a season Snyder was having at the time. Not until he started doing some digging.
"The record books here at Ontario were never really kept up with," Miller said. "We had one that was all the way through to the '90s and there were always stats laying around, but nothing was ever formalized. We knew, as a coaching staff, that Ethan would be up there in the record books because he had such a great season, we just didn't know where.
"So we embarked on that endeavor and finally got everything collected and realized he broke every record. We went through it again and again just to verify and, in fact, he did and that is special."
But Miller admitted there was an even more special moment during the season when he knew Snyder was going to do great things during his senior season.
"What was more special was a conversation we had Week 4 or 5 and [I] told him he was going to start to get a lot of attention because we were winning and he was playing really well," Miller said. "He was going to be in the paper and I just told him to keep his head about him and he was just like, 'What are you talking about, coach? I just want to win football games.' And that was the approach he took. It was never about Ethan."
But Thursday morning was about him because it was what he deserved. Along with setting the five single-season passing records, Snyder also put himself in the Top 3 in all five passing categories with his career numbers. He is No. 3 in passing touchdowns with 25, No. 3 in attempts with 363, No. 2 in competitions with 213, No. 2 in yards with 2,614 and No. 1 in completion percentage at 61%.
Snyder also received a special message from 1995 Ontario grad Mike Murray, who has three career records in the program.
"You may be wondering why an old bald guy is sending you a message," Murray said in the video. "I used to play the position you played a long time ago back when neck rolls and big shoulder pads were a thing. I heard you rewrote the record books this year except I think I still own the record for most incompletions and interceptions. You didn't get me there. 1,800 yards is amazing so congratulations again and welcome to the record books."
Miller reached out to Murray during his research into the records and the two talked football.
"I called Mike Murray, who lives out in Colorado, and we were talking about Ethan's numbers and just taking trip down memory lane," Miller said. "One of the questions he asked was with all of those passing yards, how many of our wide receivers broke records? And there weren't any. We had one really close but two, three and four were all really close to each other.
"He thought it was incredible that we had that much talent on the edge and we were able to spread the ball around, so it speaks volumes to his receiving corps."
That receiving group was on hand for the presentation as Griffin Shaver, Kolten Kurtz, Nolan Payne and Jon Nagel all were there to support their quarterback. Snyder took the podium and thanked each of them along with his family, siblings and coaches.
And it was all made possible by a short preseason phone call.
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Ontario single-season passing records
Ethan Snyder, 21, 2020
Jake Mochoskay, 17, 2007
Ben Perry, 13, 2001
Cameron Todd, 13, 2017
Eric Wendling, 12, 2010
Ethan Snyder, 233, 2020
Tyler Boatwright, 230, 2013
Pete Anderson, 212, 1999
Mike Murray, 211, 1994
Eric Wendling, 199, 2010
Mike Murray, 93, 1994
1,000-yard passing club
Ethan Snyder, 1,882, 2020
Tyler Boatwright, 1,848, 2013
Mike Murray, 1,391, 1994
Pete Anderson, 1,309, 1999
Eric Wendling, 1,243, 2010
Ben Perry, 1,179, 2002
Jake Mochoskay, 1,159, 2007
Scott Baughman, 1,058, 1997
Completion Percentage
Ethan Snyder, 63.5%, 2020
Ben Perry, 60.2%, 2002
Tyler Boatwright, 57.4%
Jeremy Muncy, 56.2%, 2000
Jake Mochoskay, 51%, 2007
Ontario Career Passing Records
Jake Mochoskay, 354, 2007
Keith Strickler, 331, 1989
Ethan Snyder, 60.9%, 2019-20
Tyler Boatwright, 54.4%, 2012-13
Jake Mochoskay, 50.3%, 2006-07
Ben Perry, 49.3%, 2002-03
Eric Wendling, 48.7%, 2009-10


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Uterine cancer added to WTC Health Program
69th cancer added and first in 9 years
NYPD officers near City Hall on Sept. 11, 2001. The World Trade Center Health Program has added uterine cancer to its list of WTC-related health conditions, meaning that program members with certified uterine cancer, including endometrial cancer, can now receive free treatment.
Mark Lennihan/AP photo
Posted Friday, January 27, 2023 12:00 am
BY DUNCAN FREEMAN
First responders to the 9/11 attacks and survivors who have since developed uterine cancer are now eligible for free care under the World Trade Center Health Program.
Eligible members of the program will also qualify for monitoring, some cancer screenings and benefits counseling.
More than 200 women already enrolled in the WTC Health Program have uterine cancer and more are expected to join now that the new rule is in place. Unlike other federal rulings, there is no waiting period for those suffering from uterine cancer to join the program, and those interested in applying can find more information on the WTC program's page on the Center for Disease Control's website.
"It has been a long time coming," said Sara Director, a partner at the law firm Barasch and McGarry who represents more than 90 women diagnosed with 9/11-related uterine cancer. "I'm thrilled that the government has finally lived up to their pledge to never forget and to provide free health care and compensation to all 9/11 first responders and survivors including those women who have uterine and endometrial cancer."
Director said that patients and their doctors were the first to sound the alarm about the growing rates of uterine cancer in the community of 9/11 first responders and survivors and that doctors then began the push to have the cancer join the list of official 9/11-related diseases.
But the program rejected uterine cancer as a covered condition in September 2019, with the program administrator citing a lack of evidence establishing a connection between uterine cancer and 9/11 exposures.
A coalition of elected officials, scientists, physicians and female survivors and first responders who were at Ground Zero pushed for reconsideration. Because women were not well-represented in the occupational studies analyzing the health effects of 9/11 exposure, advocates argued there were gaps in the research.
Provides recognition for women
As of May 2022, just 9 percent of the 79,366 first responders enrolled in the program were women. And while nearly half of the 32,499 survivors enrolled in the program are women, the bar for civilians to participate in the program is much higher because they must exhibit symptoms in order to qualify.
In November 2021, the program's Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee voted to recommend that uterine cancer be added to the list after it reviewed research indicating that exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals — which were found in WTC dust — may contribute to uterine cancer risk.
The addition of uterine cancer was then again proposed by the WTC Health Program's administrator in May 2022 after which the program commissioned peer reviews, studied costs associated with treatment and received public comments before finalizing the rule Jan. 18.
"This rule is significant as it not only provides access to life-saving care and treatment, but also recognition for the women who sacrificed so much on and after 9/11 that their diagnosed uterine cancer is a WTC-related health condition," the administrator, Dr. John Howard, said in a statement.
"With the publication of this rule, a critical gap in coverage for women in the Program has been eliminated. All types of cancer, if determined to be related to 9/11 exposures, are now covered by the World Trade Center Health Program, providing women equal access to the treatment they deserve."
The program estimates that medical care to treat uterine cancer in the first year after a diagnosis costs, on average, $41,283, with annual costs after that of just over $2000. Costs in the final year of treatment average a stunning $122,954 according to the program. Like thousands of other 9/11 survivors and first responders, patients who are approved to join the program will no longer have to pay out-of-pocket for life saving health care.
Paying for uterine cancer treatments will cost the WTC Program between $1.7 and $3.8 million annually through 2026, according to the ruling.
It's unknown how many women have already died of 9/11-related uterine cancer. "Members with certified WTC-related uterine cancer are expected to experience better treatment outcomes with WTC Health Program physicians as compared to receiving care outside of the WTC Health Program," part of the new federal rule reads.
Uterine cancer, including endometrial cancer, is the 69th to be included on the list of WTC-related health conditions and the first added to the program in nine years.
The WTC Health Program does not have authority to reimburse members or health care providers for the costs of uterine cancer treatments received prior to Jan. 18, when the cancer was added to the WTC list. But the cancer's designation as a 9/11-related disease could entitle victims and representatives of deceased persons to receive compensation for past uterine/endometrial cancer treatment costs through the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which is separate from the WTC Health Program.
Director expects that with the rule in place, many more women will come forward and join the program. "The cancer-causing toxins don't care if you're male or female, they will make you equally sick," she said. "So it's about time that women are on equal footing as the men are, and to have all cancers in reproductive organs covered."


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Q: Play framework file hierarchy on Heroku I'm trying to download a file  from my app, when I'm running on localhost  everything is fine  and in using this path in order to download the file
../myapp/public/files/67784.pdf

But on Heroku I'm getting java.io.FileNotFoundException.  How can I find location of the file on Heroku?
Thanks!

A: Public assets in Play are packaged in the Jar on compilation (makes it very convenient for moving everything around, and get them from a plugin or whatever). So you have to get them from you app Jar.
I think that you can use the Play's resource helper (http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2-SNAPSHOT/api/java/play/Application.html), but I haven't tried.
Play.Application.resource("public/filename")

Note that on Heroku, any file modification/addition on the server is lost whenever you redeploy, or restart or add an instance... The only files that persist are the ones in your Git repo.

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Q: Check if array element appears on line I'm going through a file line by line and I want to check if that line contains any element from an array. for instance if I have:
myArray = ["cat", "dog", "fish"]

and the current line said:

I love my pet dog

The output would say

Found a line containing array string

Here's what I have but it doesn't work.
myArray = ["cat", "dog", "fish"]
File.open('file.txt').each_line { |line|
  puts "Found a line containing array string" if line =~ myArray  #need to fix this logic
}

I've tried include? and any? but don't know if I'm using them right.
UPDATE::
An important part i left out. I need exact matches! so i don't want the statement to return true if it isn't exact. For instance- if my line says "I love my pet doggie" this statement should return false since "dog" is in the array. Not "Doggie"
My mistake on the poor clarification

A: You have to check each string in the array separately, and use \b to match word boundaries to ensure you only get whole words:
strings = ["cat", "dog", "fish"].map { |s| Regexp.quote(s) }

File.open('file.txt').each_line do |line|
  strings.each do |string|
    puts "Found a line containing array string" if line =~ /\b#{string}\b/
  end
end

Alternatively build a Regex:
strings = ["cat", "dog", "fish"].map { |s| Regexp.quote(s) }
pattern = /\b(#{strings.join('|')})\b/

File.open('file.txt').each_line do |line|
  puts "Found a line containing array string" if line =~ pattern
end

Calling Regexp.quote prevents characters that have meaning in regular expressions from having an unexpected effect.

A: You could create a regex using your array
myArray = ["cat", "dog", "fish"]
File.open('file.txt').each_line { |line|
  puts "Found a line containing array string" if %r(#{myArray.join('|')}) === line
}

A: arr = ['cat', 'dog', 'fish']

File.open('file.txt').each_line do |line|
  puts 'Found a line containing key word' if arr.any? { |e| line.include? e }
end

For detecting as word not as substring:
line =~ /(#{e}|.*\s#{e})([\s.,:;-].*|\n)/
Also there is an interesting solution:
arr = ['cat', 'dog', 'fish']

File.open('file.txt').each_line do |line|
  puts 'Found a line containing array string' if !(line.split(/[\s,.:;-]/) & arr).empty?
end

A: myArray = ["cat", "dog", "fish"]
File.open('file.txt').each_line { |line|
  puts "Found a line containing array string" if myArray.any? { |word| /.*#{word}.*/.match? line}
}

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package com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis;

import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;

import com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis.util.BuildViewTestCase;
import com.google.devtools.build.lib.vfs.PathFragment;
import com.google.devtools.common.options.Options;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;

/**
 * Unit tests for {@link ShellConfiguration}.
 */
@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class ShellConfigurationTest extends BuildViewTestCase {

  @Test
  public void optionsAlsoApplyToHost() {
    ShellConfiguration.Options o = Options.getDefaults(ShellConfiguration.Options.class);
    o.shellExecutable = PathFragment.create("/my/shell/binary");
    ShellConfiguration.Options h = o.getHost();
    assertThat(h.shellExecutable).isEqualTo(PathFragment.create("/my/shell/binary"));
  }
}

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Find an accessibility contractor who can make several small adjustments around your house. This is called retrofitting. When you hire a pro to retrofit your home, you can get modifications done according to your loved one's needs.
Or, hire a home modification pro to create a design plan that goes a step further to tailor your home specifically for your family. These alterations or additions help your loved one navigate their home safely and feel like the space more naturally embraces what makes them special. Meanwhile, you can also support them as they continue to live as independently as possible.
The bathroom is known as a place of privacy and comfort, but it is also known as the room most likely to have unpredictable hazards. For example, an able-bodied person may have no trouble steadying him or herself while getting out of the tub, but for someone who uses a walker or wheelchair, there is an alarmingly elevated risk of injury from a slip or fall.
Wheelchair Access: First, you need to ensure there is enough room for wheelchair maneuverability. Your loved one needs easy access to enter and exit the room, which widening narrow doorways and increasing square footage of the bathroom itself. A low sink with room for knees underneath can help them independently conduct tasks like brushing teeth and washing hands. Installing handrails beside the tub and toilet also empower them to use every element in the bathroom on their own without needing to ask a family member for help each time.
Vision Impairment: For someone with low vision or blindness, the bathroom can be a dreadful experience. Be sure to use contrasting colors and textures to help them navigate the room safely. Handrails, no-slip mats and flooring are also essential safety precautions. To help them stay independent, be sure to label items they will need and use often. For low vision, brightly colored tape might be enough — but you'll then want to install bright lighting — or for people with blindness, using textured tape or even braille might have a better impact.
Cognitive Disabilities: When a person with dementia enters a bathroom, he or she could forget their purpose in a matter of minutes. They can misremember how specific items work, like confusing the sink's cold-water knob for the hot water one. That's why it's important that you consider installing special faucets that check temperature. As with vision impairment, labeling items and areas can help them remember their usefulness. Balance is also an issue with dementia and Alzheimer's, so handrails and no-slip surfaces can be fundamental in reducing injury and promoting self-care.
For many families, the kitchen is the heart of the home. Families often prepare and share meals and memories together here. But for a person with a disability, the kitchen can feel unwelcoming, cold and even forbidden. How can someone with low vision cook for the family? How can a person in a wheelchair help clean up after dinner?
Wheelchair Access: Low counters with space underneath for a wheelchair is key for helping a family member with mobility issues with independence in the kitchen. Low cabinets, side-hinged oven doors, and sinks with drains toward the back help make the kitchen a place that a person in a wheelchair can maneuver in with ease and comfort.
Vision Impairment: Make sure everything that your loved one needs is labeled and stored in a regular place. Put hazardous materials, like cleaning products, out of reach, and make sure the fire extinguisher is in an accessible spot. Timers that count down out loud can help them keep track of dishes in the oven, while painting cabinets with contrasting colors or lining them with varying textures can help them navigate spaces to prepare food.
Cognitive Disabilities: As with the bathroom, the kitchen can be a perilous place for slips and falls. Installing no-slip flooring and mats can help when water splashes from the sink, freezer or dishwasher. Keeping all hazardous chemicals out of reach is vital to safety. Consider keeping a special drawer for snacks so that your loved one can help him or herself when they are hungry. Since dementia is a progressive disease, meaning it can get worse over time, supervised kitchen activities are encouraged. You can have them help you prepare meals or clean-up, but whether they should navigate the kitchen alone depends on the severity of their specific situation.
Wheelchair Access: Create walkways that are level and clear of debris. If there are even a few steps, build ramps to make those doorways and paths accessible. Ensure outside seating areas have tables at positions and levels where a wheelchair can easily navigate. Consider adding a accessibility lift if you have a pool. Install doorknobs and locks at levels that are easy for them to open, close and secure.
Vision Impairment: Line walkways with bright lights. Trim shrubs and tree branches to create a clear path. Use texture to inform a person with vision impairment of potentially dangerous areas, like a grill or a fire pit.
Cognitive Disabilities: Wandering away is a genuine concern for those living with someone suffering from dementia. Always lock doors with a deadbolt. Going outside with your loved one to enjoy activities like reading, gardening or eating is fine, but if they venture out alone, make sure your property is surrounded by secure, locked gates. If you have a pool or spa, be sure those areas are secure and off-limits as well.
When you live with someone with a disability, making sure your home is comfortable, accessible and safe are your top priorities. However, it can be just as important that you ensure that the living environment is also empowering and stimulating. Homes that focus on enhancing abilities — as well as protecting for disabilities — are homes where your loved ones can thrive.


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El Equipo Olímpico de Atletas Refugiados (identificado con el código EOR) es una de las delegaciones participantes en los Juegos Olímpicos. Fue establecido por el Comité Ejecutivo del Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI) el día 2 de marzo de 2016, y participó por primera ocasión en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro.

El COI requirió a los comités olímpicos nacionales que identificaran a los atletas con potencial de participación en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro que se encontraran en calidad de refugiados debido a cualquier conflicto a nivel mundial. Hasta el día de su creación, 43 deportistas eran candidatos para formar parte de la delegación.

El Comité Ejecutivo anunció la lista del equipo el 3 de junio de 2016, el cual estaba conformado por diez atletas.

Requerimientos
Para formar parte del equipo de refugiados, se verifican los siguientes aspectos:
Nivel deportivo, que implica el cumplimiento de marcas mínimas
Calidad de refugiado verificado por la Naciones Unidas.
Otros aspectos personales.

Participación
El Equipo Olímpico de Atletas Refugiados se someterá a la normativa de los juegos como cualquier otra delegación. Sin embargo, el costo de la  preparación e indumentaria deportiva, correrán a cargo del COI a través de Solidaridad Olímpica Internacional. Además, su representación oficial será la bandera Olímpica, y en la ceremonia de apertura marchará antes de la representación local.

Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016

El equipo de atletas refugiados que participó en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016 fue revelado el día 3 de junio del mismo año. Estaba conformado por 10 atletas y además se nombró como jefa de la misión a la keniana Tegla Loroupe y como su delegada a la brasileña Isabela Mazão. La abanderada en la ceremonia de apertura fue Rose Lokonyen.

Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020
Durante la 133.ª sesión del COI en Buenos Aires en octubre de 2018 se aprobó la participación de un equipo de refugiados para los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020. Para Thomas Bach, presidente de la organización, se autorizó nuevamente dicha iniciativa, pese a que, según declaró: «En un mundo ideal, este equipo no debería existir. Pero, desafortunadamente, las razones por las que creamos este equipo antes de Río 2016 todavía persisten».

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Véase también
Participantes Independientes en los Juegos Olímpicos

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Países en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016
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This Japanese company is giving employees who don't smoke 6 extra vacation days
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Businessmen smoke cigarettes in Tokyo on March 13, 2013.
Those quick smoke breaks some employees take for a few minutes at a time throughout the day add up, giving them extra time outside of the office than nonsmoking employees.
One company in Japan, where smoking is deeply ingrained into culture, decided to do something about it. After a non-smoking employee submitted a complaint about how smoke breaks were affecting productivity, marketing firm Piala Inc. made a change to its paid time off policy.
The company granted non-smoking staff an additional six days off each year to make up for the time smokers take for cigarette breaks.
Hirotaka Matsushima, a spokesman for Piala Inc., told The Telegraph, "One of our non-smoking staff put a message in the company suggestion box earlier in the year saying that smoking breaks were causing problems."
After hearing about the complaint, the company's CEO, Takao Asuka, decided to give nonsmoking employees time off to compensate.
The frequent cigarette breaks meant many employees were away from their desks upwards of 15 minutes each day, Matsushima added.
"I hope to encourage employees to quit smoking through incentives rather than penalties or coercion." -Takao Asuka, CEO of Piala Inc.
The change in company policy is intended to encourage staff to quit smoking.
"I hope to encourage employees to quit smoking through incentives rather than penalties or coercion," Asuka told Kyodo News.
A higher percent of Japanese adults smoke than Americans. It was only this past year that the percentage of Japanese adults who smoke fell below 20 percent. According to the World Health Organization, Japanese men are three times more likely to smoke than Japanese women.
About 130,000 people die every year in Japan of smoking-related diseases, and an additional 15,000 die of secondhand smoke-related conditions, Susan Mercado, a WHO official tells The Japan Times.
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By comparison, 15 percent of American adults smoke, down from 20 percent in 2005. The decrease in American smokers is due in part to health initiatives and laws banning smoking in certain areas, major retailers no longer selling cigarettes and anti-smoking TV advertisements.
Earlier this year, Tokyo's governor Yuriko Koike said he planned to impose a smoking ban in public places across city ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics. But curbing tobacco use in Japan will likely be difficult, as it was in the U.S. Original efforts by the country's health ministry to ban indoor smoking in restaurants were scaled back after lobbyists pressured politicians.
So far, however, the measure taken by Piala Inc. seems to be working. Four of the company's 42 employees who smoke have already given up the habit.
One of those new non-smokers, Shun Shinbaba, 25, told CNNMoney he used to smoke a pack of cigarettes every two days, and that he plans to use his newfound vacation time to play tennis.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow -Daniel Kahneman
"A tour de force. . . Kahneman's book is a must read for anyone interested in either human behavior or investing. He clearly shows that while we like to think of ourselves as rational in our decision making, the truth is we are subject to many biases. At least being aware of them will give you a better chance of avoiding them, or at least making fewer of them." ―Larry Swedroe, CBS News
"Daniel Kahneman demonstrates forcefully in his new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, how easy it is for humans to swerve away from rationality." ―Christopher Shea, The Washington Post
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"Brilliant . . . It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Daniel Kahneman's contribution to the understanding of the way we think and choose. He stands among the giants, a weaver of the threads of Charles Darwin, Adam Smith and Sigmund Freud. Arguably the most important psychologist in history, Kahneman has reshaped cognitive psychology, the analysis of rationality and reason, the understanding of risk and the study of happiness and well-being . . . A magisterial work, stunning in its ambition, infused with knowledge, laced with wisdom, informed by modesty and deeply humane. If you can read only one book this year, read this one." ―Janice Gross Stein, The Globe and Mail
"A sweeping, compelling tale of just how easily our brains are bamboozled, bringing in both his own research and that of numerous psychologists, economists, and other experts...Kahneman has a remarkable ability to take decades worth of research and distill from it what would be important and interesting for a lay audience...Thinking, Fast and Slow is an immensely important book. Many science books are uneven, with a useful or interesting chapter too often followed by a dull one. Not so here. With rare exceptions, the entire span of this weighty book is fascinating and applicable to day-to-day life. Everyone should read Thinking, Fast and Slow." ―Jesse Singal, Boston Globe
"We must be grateful to Kahneman for giving us in this book a joyful understanding of the practical side of our personalities." ―Freeman Dyson, The New York Review of Books
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In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation―each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives―and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.
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Mixed Remixed Festival will present the annual Storyteller's Prizes to television and film star Taye Diggs and award-winning illustrator Shane W. Evans on June 11, 2016 at 6:30pm at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles, 100 N. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012. The prizes will be presented as part of a live event featuring music, comedy, and spoken word.
The Storyteller's Prizes are awarded each year to artists, scholars and activists who have shown a dedication to celebrating and illuminating the Mixed and multiracial experience. Past Storyteller's Prize honorees include Key & Peele, National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, The Daily Show's Al Madrigal, and best-selling author Jamie Ford as well as Cheerios and Honey Maid.
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On September 18, when Entertainment Weekly subscribers in Los Angeles and New York open the latest issue of the show business title they will see a CBS advert with a difference. Thanks to Video-in-Print technology, developed by Americhip, the first video advertisement incorporated in a paper magazine is to be published, showing clips of the broadcast network's upcoming programmes, interspersed with promotional videos for Pepsi.
Los Angeles headquartered Americhip, develops "multi-sensory marketing" and claims it has solutions that communicate with all five senses.
According to technology review site, CNET News, the screen has been under development for about two years. The one to be incorporated in the magazine is 2.7mm thick and has a resolution of 320x240. The battery lasts between 65 to 70 minutes but can be recharged with a mini USB cord via a jack. The screen uses TFT LCD technology and is enforced by protective polycarbonate.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is stepping up research into military drones as its arms industry looks to increase export volumes, hoping to gain traction with cheaper technology and a willingness to sell to countries Western states are reluctant to.
While its technology lags the United States and Israel, the biggest vendors of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), China is attracting a growing list of foreign buyers including Nigeria, Pakistan and Egypt.
China has previously had limited success exporting manned military aircraft but is hoping to do better with UAVs given they are cheaper and easier to manufacture.
"Research and development on drones in our country has now entered a phase of high-speed progress," said Xu Guangyu, a retired major general in the People's Liberation Army.
"We have some distance to catch up with developed countries — that's certain — but the export market is growing."
Market researcher Forecast International pegged the value of production for military drones worldwide at $942 million last year. It will grow to $2.3 billion by 2023, the firm said.
China's biggest drone maker, Aviation Industry Corp of China (Avic), is predicted by Forecast to become the world's largest maker of military drones by 2023.
Its Wing Loong drone sells for just $1 million according to Chinese media reports. The U.S.-made MQ-9 Reaper, to which it has sometimes been compared, is priced at around $30 million.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)estimates China became the second country in the world to openly export armed drones when it delivered five of them to Nigeria in 2014. Nigeria, which had vainly sought UAV from the U.S., has used them against the militant group Boko Haram.
The U.S. has only exported armed drones to Britain and says it considers a series of factors when agreeing to foreign sales including human rights and the regional power balance.
Though China is discreet about its weapons exports, it has sold various types of military drones to at least nine countries, according to state media reports, including Pakistan, Egypt and Nigeria.
China's weapons exports jumped 143 percent in the five years to 2014 compared to the previous five, though it still only accounts for around 5 percent of the global arms market according to SIPRI.
Military drones provide an opportunity for the country to gain more market share given dozens of governments are trying to gain access to the technology while the U.S. has strict export curbs on them.
The U.S. State Department said in February it would allow exports of armed U.S. military drones under strict conditions, including that sales must be made through government programs, and that recipient nations must agree to certain "end-use assurances".
China's Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the country's policy on drone exports.
Last month the ministry said China was "extremely cautious and responsible" with its weapons exports, and followed the principle of aiding countries that bought their weapons in building reasonable self-defence capabilities.
The growth of the market is proving a boon for Chinese arms makers.
Armed paramilitary policemen stand guard in front of the Guangzhou Railway Station.
Yun Jianfei, the Beijing-based chief of Beijing Heweiyongtai Science and Technology Co. Ltd., a private firm that sells police equipment, including drones, to domestic and foreign customers, said he had already sold surveillance UAVs to countries in the Middle East and Africa, without specifying which ones.
"We're placing high importance on them," said Yun.
"Demand for all of our products has shot up -- it's simply because the world has become more chaotic," he said.
Ma Hangzhong, director of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp.'s Unmanned Aircraft Research Institute, told the official China Daily this month that many of China's defense giants, including his own, are allocating "significant resources" to drone development.
"The industry has a very low entry threshold," he said, adding his company is focusing on military drones that can play a role in counter-terrorism and riot control operations.
Many defense firms also make and sell missiles and rockets to arm drones, heightening the appeal for international buyers, analysts said.
"Admittedly our technology is not first-rate compared with developed countries, but we don't want to be left behind," said Ni Lexiong, a naval expert at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law.


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Q: Can a pokemon go plus pair with multiple phones? I have only been able to successfully pair my pokemon go plus with one particular phone (a Note Edge). I've tried pairing the same pokemon go plus with other phones (not simultaneously but at different times) including a galaxy s6, and a number of other android phones and it fails to pair. So, this has me wondering whether a single pokemon go plus will pair with other phones.
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