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Examples of doubling: good and bad
Starting with the bad. This hand was discussed on BridgeWinners. You hold ♠K862 ♥KQ4 QJ963 7 as dealer, all white, IMPs. Playing Precision, you open 1♦ and partner responds 1♥. RHO now doubles and you redouble to show three cards in hearts. LHO bids 2 ♣ and this is passed around to you.
Are you thinking of doubling? I believe that there are three reasons that you should not double here:
You have a minimum hand; partner has shown a minimum response (theoretically, you should only respond to 1♦ with 8 hcp but that's very old fashioned so, let's assume partner has at least 6 points). This is not necessarily your hand so making a cooperative double here puts partner under a lot of pressure.
You have only a singleton club; if partner chooses to pass for penalties, the opponents will be playing at the two-level with an eight-card fit--that's anti-law.
You have a seven-card heart fit since partner would have bid 2♥ if he had five and there's no reason to suppose that you have an eight-card diamond fit (you might but the way to find out is to bid 2♦ and see if partner lets you play it there).
The bottom line here is that this is the kind of hand that gets cooperative doubles a bad name. At the table, this hand doubled, partner left it in with a 9-count including KQ92 of clubs and the ace, third of spades. The contract made for -180.
OK, now let's go to the good example hand. This occurred in a daytime game today, playing with my favorite partner. Everyone is vulnerable (matchpoints) and LHO, the dealer passes. Kim bids 1♠ and RHO, a good "B" player, overcalls 2♦. Our hand is 875 KJT54 KQ9 J4. Some people might start with 2♥ but, in a competitive auction, I like to show support right away. I therefore bid 2♠. LHO and partner passed and RHO bid 3♦. Now, I doubled. The play was straightforward and we ended up with 500, for all the matchpoints.
So, why is this a penalty double rather than a cooperative (takeout-oriented) double? I explain this in Update on Cooperative Doubles. But, basically, I have made a limited bid (2♠) and partner has nothing extra because she passed. It's impossible that we have sufficient strength for a cooperative double (see the first bullet regarding the bad example above). Therefore, it must be a penalty double.
Note that RHO did nothing too outlandish. He had 16 high card points and a fairly good six-card diamond suit (missing the KQ, obviously, and the ten which his partner had along with two small). He was just unlucky that his partner had only two queens that were not much help.
Labels: double
Lead-directing doubles
How good should your suit be to make a lead-directing double of an artificial bid? Let's think about what we're trying to achieve when we make one.
What we're trying to achieve is to get our defense off to a better start than partner might come up with on his own. The danger of course is that partner might have a very good lead of his own (Q from QJTxx, for example) which he will eschew in order to lead your suit. On other occasions, partner has no good lead and will be thrilled to get your suggestion, even if it turns out not to be the killer lead. At least, it will have been neutral.
So, in order to ensure that your suggested lead is at least neutral, apply this rule: can you guarantee that you will win at least one of the first two tricks of the suit?
I'm posing this question in a no-trump context. Against a suit contract, the second or even the first lead of a suit might get ruffed and you might have simply accomplished setting up a trick which can never be cashed. But you won't have lost anything.
So, what honor holdings would qualify for a lead-directing double?
AK? Obviously!
KQ? Yes: whoever has the ace you will establish one trick.
AQ? Yes: if dummy happens to have the K, you'll win two tricks.
KJT? I don't think so.
KJ? No, no, no!!
Anything else? Don't even think about it.
What's about KJT? You will build a trick with this holding even if declarer has ace and queen. But you may never get to cash it. Is it really worth risking the possibility that partner has a better lead? Maybe but, on balance, I think not.
What about accompanying length? How about making a lead-directing double of an artificial bid with AKx? What could go wrong? We almost definitely will get to cash two tricks. Maybe partner has a doubleton and can ruff the third round! There's just one little problem. The opponents, who nearly always have more high-card points than your side, might just decide to redouble!
How about AKxxx? The danger is still there (partner may have a void) but I think that you'd have to get very unlucky to find them redoubling and making. Plus, you will have some company at least.
Labels: lead-directing double
Thinking ahead
In a recent Daylong IMP tournament on BBO, I picked up the following hand: ♠AKT742 ♥AQJ62 ♦void ♣KT. We were vulnerable vs. not vulnerable and my robot partner dealt and opened 1♣. RHO bid ♦D. What's your bid going to be?
You've got both majors, so how about a negative double? Predictably, LHO now bids 4♦ and when it comes back to you, you can offer a choice of majors by bidding 4♥. Did you land on your feet? Hardly! You can surely make slam and possibly a grand slam. How are you getting there when partner passes 4♥? So, you're kind of obliged to bid 6♥ now.
In other words, just thinking one move ahead in the auction tells you right away that double is a bad idea. Actually, it could be even worse. Suppose partner's hand is ♠xx ♥xxx ♦AQx ♣AKxxx? He might even pass 3♦X and you might score only 500: not even compensation for game.
I've seen some abuses of negative doubles in my time, but I think this one takes the cake. The primary purpose of a negative double is a bit like Stayman: opposite a relatively balanced opener, let's see if we can find a 4-4 fit. Opener is reluctant to bid a three-card suit opposite a negative double. How many cards in the majors do you really expect partner to have here?
At my table, I bid 3♠ over 3♦ and, after my LHO predictably raised to 4♦, my partner was able to raise me to 4♠ with his Q96 holding. Roman keycard Blackwood did the rest: I found out that we had all six key cards (including the ♦A in case I wanted to bid 7NT) and I didn't really have to think too long and hard to bid the grand. But which grand? If it had been MPs, I would have probably bid 7NT. But at IMPs, you should maximize the chances of making by using your nine (hopefully) trumps.
The contract was lay-down. I scored six spades, five hearts, two clubs, a diamond ruff, and the ♦A. I'm kidding as that adds up to 15 so I never scored a diamond or the fifth heart.
There were five others in 7♠ (we won 12.5 IMPs on this hand), ten in 6♠, ten in a spade game, and one unfortunate fellow in 7♣ down six. To say that he (or she) was hoist by their own petard would be an understatement: South never bid either of his majors: he began with a negative double then, after his partner doubled 4♦, he chose 5♦ (which the robots interpret as showing club support).
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How to lose 50 IMPs in a 12-board Individual
Yes, you read that correctly. Sometimes when I'm feeling particularly masochistic, I enter one of the ACBL individual tournaments. The denizens of this particular enclave are all regulars. I have notes on many of the players. Of course one's result is almost entirely the luck of the draw. It's seldom that I make an error so egregious that it significantly affects my score as the standard of play is so bad that you really have to go out of your way to lose a board all on your own. So, basically my score is always a combination of my so-called partners' efforts and those of my opponents.
Today's was exceptional. Board one was uneventful. The opponents bid and made a game. Lose one IMP. The second board was where the (un) fun started. My CHO (partner) was in 3NT:
As you can see (by pressing Next), declarer won the opening lead in dummy and proceeded to cash the CA just in case it "went away." Then they figured that since they were there for the last time, it might be a good idea to take a finesse. There was only one suit with a finessing position and that was hearts. So, despite the fact that they could ill-afford to lose the lead before setting up the diamonds, they finessed the HT. This had approximately a 25% chance of success. Partner was unlucky. From there on, there simply wasn't time to get the diamonds going. The result? Down 2 instead of making 6. But it was IMPs, so the three overtricks we didn't make were just gravy (or lack thereof).
The next, however, surpassed even this.
The funny thing is that, after the hand, CHO messaged me to say "look at the other tables to see how you should bid this hand." Some had opened the West hand (not terrible), some Norths didn't open 2D. Of the Wests where the first round of bidding was the same, some bid only 2H (but their partners still got them to game). One player bid 4H (obviously, if I'd known anything about CHO I would have done the same). But most, like me, bid 3H. No other partnership got the magic +230, nor yet 1430. That was another 10 IMPs.
The next hand was interesting. Neither I nor my CHO did anything terrible:
RHO got a bit lucky that North didn't have four clubs to the J as he might have done. If he doesn't cash his clubs out, we can easily come to 10 tricks. You can blame me for not bidding 3NT instead of 1S. But, seriously, although this rated to be a not uncommon result, it was in fact unique. Lose another 8.
I managed to staunch the flow a bit over the next three boards, for only another 7 IMPs. The third one of these offered 12 tricks to the opponents, but nobody bid the slam.
Most Wests opened the bidding with 4D, some 3D and at least one opened 1D. In every one of these cases, East bid his hearts and 4H was made. There is an argument for 1D but I think it's better to get the hand off one's chest right away. 8 IMPs.
The next board was an unmitigated disaster and I was significantly responsible for it.
Believing my partner to have no defense against 5D (he passed in a forcing pass situation), I decided to try for 5H. I took a while to decide whether to run the HT and cost us an additional 4.5 IMPs (over the 7 we were destined for) when I changed my mind and went up with the ace. Of course, most of the players in these events have no concept of a forcing pass, so it was silly to take such an inference.
Here is the final exhibit:
Watching the play as dummy, I was praying for my partner to claim before anything bad happened. My prayers went unanswered and he decided to take a practice finesse at trick 8. Lose another 9.
At this point, I was an incredible 62.5 IMPs under water on only ten boards! I did manage to get some back on the last board, but surely this is a record. I'm hoping that someone will nominate me for the Guiness Book of Records.
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A very ordinary hand
It has been said that the way to win at bridge is to make sure you get the ordinary hands right. In other words, squeezes, endplays, deceptions, coups of various sorts, etc. don't come up sufficiently often to give an advantage to the better player. But ordinary hands come up all the time.
Here's a hand from yesterday's STAC game:
I was sitting West and essentially took no part in the proceedings. Our opponents, two experts who are married (to each other) and sometimes--but not usually--play together, had the auction all to themselves. I might have opened 1C in third seat and perhaps I should have but I suspect that would have pushed them into a making 4H).
At my club, every N/S pair was in a heart part-score, mostly 2H by North but sometimes, as at our table, 3H by North and, once, 3H by South. My partner led the C4, clubs being the only safe-looking lead, although either red deuce would also be safe on this layout. Declarer ruffed out the spades, took two diamond finesses and emerged with 10 tricks pointing his way. A flat board, right?
Wrong. This was by no means a flat board. Here were the scores: 1 @ 200 (11), 6 @ 170 (7.5), 3 @ 140 (3) and 2 @110 (.5). I'll dispense with the anomalous scores of 200 and 110 and concentrate on the 170s and 140s.
At first, I couldn't see why our score was below average (3.5). We didn't put a foot wrong. How could declarer not take 10 tricks. And then I saw it: some declarers must have taken the spade finesse.
This hand of course is a perfect illustration of the (general) superiority of a 4-4 trump fit over, say, a 5-3 or 5-2 trump fit. You can usually use long cards in the long suit to discard losers from the other hand while using small trumps to ruff with, possibly ruffing out losers to establish the long suit.
But the main point here is that considering a suit, the spades in this case, in isolation may yield a different plan than considering the suit as part of a whole hand. If you were in a spade (or notrump) contract here, you would consider your play in the spade suit and opt for the 43% likelihood of the bringing in the suit with a finesse against the queen, versus the 18% chance of dropping a doubleton or singleton queen. Not even a close decision.
But here, you are in a suit contract and you have the luxury of being able to ruff a spade (we'll assume that trumps are 3-2, as here, for the sake of simplicity). The probability of dropping the queen after a ruff is: 36% for a 3-3 split, plus the same 18% chance that the queen would have dropped anyway. That's a total probability of 54%. The failure zone (46%) is made up of 32.3% for Qxxx, 12% for Qxxxx, and 1.5% for Qxxxxx.
So, again, it's not really a close decision if you know your probabilities (54% vs. 43%). Incidentally, it's a very common error to regard the finesse as a 50/50 shot. But when we can only finesse twice, as here, there will be holdings on our right that we can't pick up: half of the Qxxxx and Qxxxxx layouts we noted above, that's to say 6.75% of cases.
The conclusion is that the situation where you are missing six cards is a tricky one--and also a common one. It's worth spending some time to learn the probabilities.
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Discipline vs. guessing
One thing I've noticed about experts is that they try not to guess. That doesn't mean they never guess. But they do try never to take the last guess. Is this the same thing as "discipline?"
One type of undisciplined bid is when you deliberately fudge your hand to fit a bid that you'd like to make. For example, you pick up a balanced 14 count with no special features and, just because you feel like it, or want to be declarer, you decided to open 1NT showing 15-17. Sometimes, this will work well when partner has 9 hcp and a long minor and 3NT is cold on 23 hcp. But other times, partner will invite game and the limit of the hand will be 1NT. This kind of thing is a partnership issue, and your partner will eventually become unhappy, unless your declarer play is first rate.
But there's a different kind of discipline where you are likely making the last bid for your side. Partner is probably not going to bid again, so can't really be deceived. A lot will depend on the form of scoring and the state of play, so to speak. Matchpoints vs. IMPs? Competitive situation vs. non-competitive? High-level or low-level decision? High entropy or low entropy (entropy is complementary to information)?
Here's a high-level, IMP pairs, competitive, high-entropy situation, i.e. a lot is resting on this decision:
AKJ3 KJT983 T8 9. All vulnerable.
Partner opens 1S in second seat and RHO bids 5C. That's annoying! We have no idea whether partner has a minimum or maybe is just below a 2C opener. Well, we do have a pretty good idea that RHO has most of the high cards in clubs and we have 12 high card points. Partner can't have much more than 18 then.
Let's do some arithmetic. What might happen if we pass? Partner will probably be passing too and we might go anywhere from +200 to +400. What about double? Assuming that partner doesn't take it out then we could score 500 to 1100. If he takes it out to 5D, we can always go back to 5S.
Can we make 5S? Assuming that we have no trump losers, we've got three losers. Surely, with his opening bid, partner can cover one of those. So, it looks like 650 is likely available to us. There might be a few pairs defending 5C, possibly doubled. Bidding 5S is probably worth about 4 to 6 IMPs over defending.
What about slam? This is where, the lack of information is really troubling. We can no longer ask for keycards so it's going to be decision time immediately.
If partner has two aces (particularly if one of them is the diamond ace--not an unreasonable expectation), we can very likely make 1430 for 13 IMPs over and above the 650 and about 14 IMPs over and above defending. In other words, just by bidding 5S we are almost locking in 5 (approx) IMPs. Bidding 6S will gain an additional 9 IMPs if it makes.
But, what if it doesn't make? We will be -100. We lose not only the 5 for grabbing the declaration but an additional 7 or 8 for going down.
To put it mathematically, we risk 13 to gain 13. An even money bet. We'd take the same bet at matchpoints.
This is how many bridge players would evaluate this choice: mentally flip a coin, likely favoring the slam decision simply because it's just more fun that way.
But the true expert will say this: "I can't find out if 6S is on, so I'll assume that it isn't and just bid 5S." A popular expression that covers this situation is "when you're fixed, stay fixed."
Posted by Phasmid at 6:01 AM 1 comments
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The Vienna Coup
Looking at the MITDL Bridge Club's web site recently, I was a little embarrassed to note that there's a link there to my blog claiming that it's updated every week. Those were the days! This is my first post for nine months!
Today I had the pleasure of playing with Harrison Luba a.k.a. The Twerp. He's currently a freshman in High School and is an incredible player already. Like most Juniors, he believes that all doubles are for takeout unless it's blindingly obvious that they're for penalties. Those of you who follow (or attempt to follow) my blog know that I have a set of very specific (although quite simple) rules on this. So, we had a couple of bad scores today (-730 and -670) due to differences of opinion about doubles. Well, I will admit that perfect--I would claim double-dummy--defense by me would have turned the second one into +200 (and 8/11 matchpoints).
We mostly make up for these setbacks with many tops of our own. Here are a couple which are entirely due to Harrison's good play.
First board. The unopposed auction is short and sweet: 2C--2D--2NT--7NT. The lead is a small club, if I recall.
83 Q432 AQT6 AQ2
AKQJ4 AK6 J7 K95
Maybe there was some slight overbidding going on but don't worry. The play's the thing. There are an easy twelve tricks on top. The diamond finesse is a 50% shot. But, and Harrison figured this out in a couple of milliseconds: the spades will furnish three discards from dummy. That makes a Vienna Coup possible (cash DA and then pitch all of dummy's small diamonds).
But you need the same player to have the DK and the heart length. Doesn't that bring the probability down to 25%? No, that's the beauty of an automatic squeeze like the Vienna Coup, i.e. where dummy has an idle card and so doesn't have to commit a threat card before RHO plays. We can victimize either opponent this way, which means that the probability of success is back up to 50%. Indeed, the diamond King was off-side. But that player also had five hearts. Scoring up 1520 for all the matchpoints.
One other pair got to a making 7S but most were in 6NT making 6.
Two boards later. Partner's arithmetic seems to have gone off the rails a little and we end up in 4NT when everyone else will be in 6NT.
AK32 A862 J3 AQ2
QJ4 KQ7 AK85 963
The helpful lead is a small diamond which allows dummy's jack to score a trick. Now, we're up to 11 tricks. This time, the chances of making 12 tricks are basically 36% for a 3-3 heart split plus a few more percentage points for the same player having four hearts and KJT of clubs (or a very small chance of one player having a singleton club honor). Because that would allow for another Vienna Coup, either opponent will do as victim. The probability of success here is going to be something like 36% (hearts split) plus 64% x 12.5% (three specific cards in same hand as the heart length). That gives a total of 44%, not too bad actually.
And so it proved. Harrison rectified the count at trick 2 by ducking a club to RHO's ten. He could always take the club finesse later if he wanted to. As it turned out, RHO had five hearts and the club ten. Maybe she'd have the K and J too.
This is where the beauty of a squeeze comes in. A finesse risks losing the lead, even to a stiff honor. But squeezes (mostly) don't give up the lead--you just keep playing and either the last trick comes out right or it doesn't.
Harrison worked out one other thing. Almost everyone will be in 6NT and if the finesse of the king is on (and they receive a helpful diamond lead) they'll have 12 tricks in the bag. We basically cannot outscore those declarers. But, if the CK is indeed offside (knowing that RHO has the heart length), then we will likely outscore any pair that's not in slam and certainly all of the pairs that did bid the slam.
It's always fun and educational when I play with Harrison. I enjoy it to the max while I can!
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You can start training your puppy as early as 8 weeks of age. The earlier you start, the more quickly your puppy will adapt to the approach and soon will begin to respond to your command. When you take on the task of puppy training, keep in mind that puppies are full of energy and they are just learning how to act. This means that training may take some time and a little extra patience on your part, but your puppy will thank you for it.
When they are little, pups love to chew on anything and this includes your shoe or pants leg. If you want to deter this action, gently push down on your puppy's backside and say "no". Your puppy will soon learn that this is not acceptable and will mature into a dog that knows not to roughhouse with you.
All puppies love to play and it's important that you spend time with them and enjoy their cute little habits and hilarious actions. While playing, it's important to realize that the way you interact with your puppy now will have an impact on how he/she behaves with you in later years. Never play in a way that would make your puppy want to compete with humans for an object, such as tugging on a rope, which teaches your puppy aggression. Instead, playing fetch or letting your puppy chase you will be a fun way of puppy training that will show your pet how to play with people and not against them.


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September Car Sales Continue YoY Rise in Australia
October 13, 2021 • Cindy Brauer • Bookmark +
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Australian market September sales figures reveal all buyer segments are up compared to same time in 2020, despite lockdowns and significant supply disruptions, according to the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI).
In September, 83,312 new cars were sold, an increase of about 21% over the same period last year. Rental cars lead the increase with 109.8% growth YoY. Hybrids continue their rise in 2021 with 55,257 sold YTD compared to 40,657 in the same period last year. Electric vehicle sales volume also is growing: 3,568 sold YTD.
"To see an increase of 21% on 2020 figures is definitely encouraging news," said Tony Weber, chief executive at FCAI, which represents companies that distribute new passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles in Australia.
"In many respects these figures give the industry great encouragement and excitement for what will be possible in 2022 when lockdowns will hopefully be a thing of the past," said Weber.
"The Sports Utility Market is up by 25% and the Light Commercial Market up 27%. With over 150 models on offer in these segments, competition amongst brands is delivering the best technology and lowest prices," said Weber.
Toyota was market leader in September with 24% of overall sales. The top five selling vehicles in September 2021 were the Ford Ranger and the Toyota Hilux, Corolla, RAV4 and Prado.
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The activities in "4000 Essential English Words" are specially designed to make use of important learning conditions. Firstly, the words are introduced using sentence definitions and an example sentence. The activities that follow in the units encourage learners to recall the meanings and forms of the words. Some activities also make the learners think about the meaning of the words in the context of a sentence—a sentence different from the sentences that occurred in the introduction of the words. Moreover, each unit ends with a story containing the target words. While reading the story, the learners have to recall the meanings of the words and suit them to the context of the story. Such activities help learners develop a better understanding of a common meaning for a given word which fits the different uses.
Illustrations for each target word are provided to help learners visualize the word as it is being used in the example sentence. These word/image associations aim to help students grasp the meaning of the word as well as recall the word later. It should be noted that words have more than one grammatical category. However, this series focuses on the word's most common form. This is mentioned to remind learners that just because a word is labeled and utilized as a noun in this series does not mean that it can never be used in another form such as an adjective. This series has simply focused on the word in the form that it is most likely to be expressed.
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Unit 11: How a Singer Helped Win the War
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SAITOH YOSHIKI AND OSADA STEVE: CHAOTIC SOLITUDE FILM
CHAOTIC SOLITUDE - Behind the Scenes Film
Saitoh Yoshiki (斉藤芳樹) is an accomplished photographer in Japan who took some inspiring and beautiful photos of the late Akechi Denki's rope work.
Osada Steve (長田スティーブ) is a master of kinbaku who has been published in many magazines such as Vogue, Wired also SM Sniper.
This was the very first time I did suspension work and I remember when I did this photo shoot, I had no idea what it would feel like to be suspended.
Steve was very focused and methodical in his approach and he worked his progression of ties very quickly from one position to the next and I think it's something that people don't see in photographs, how quickly everything was. It seems a lot longer. But I was really only suspended inverted for probably only about 5 or 10 minutes.
This photo shoot had a completely different feel than my previous photo shoot with Osada Steve and you will see the difference between them.
This one was raw, and chaotic and you will notice in this shoot there is control and dominance and this was transferred across to the photographs and I absolutely loved it.
Saitoh Yoshiki worked for advertising agencies as a commercial photographer. Saitoh Yoshiki held an exhibition titled "Akechi" and published a book in the same title featuring the kinbaku work of the late Akechi Denki (明智伝鬼), Shihan of Kinbaku (緊縛師範) grandmaster of kinbaku.
Osada Steve is a kinbakushi (緊縛師) whose work has been published in magazines such as Wired, Vogue, SM Sniper and many other magazines. Steve started training under Yukimura Haruki to study newaza techniques.
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Home Human Chinese company delivers clean water to FCT's Kwali rural community
Chinese company delivers clean water to FCT's Kwali rural community
Ikenna Emewu
By Jiang Xuan, People's Daily
"This is an important project for Kwali township and its surrounding areas, putting an end to water shortage," said Estu Shaban Audu Nyizazo III, chief of the Nigerian township.
He made the remarks when introducing a water supply system donated by Chinese enterprise CGC Overseas Construction Group (CGCOC) that started operation two years ago.
"Everything about the system has been going well and the clean water will give us a great Durba this year," Dogo Kwali Gambo, the chief geologist of Kwali Area Council recently told the CGCOC Nigeria Company over the phone.
The water supply system was proposed by Ye Shuijin, general manager of CGCOC's Nigerian branch, when the Minister of the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory Administration Muhammad Bello inspected the CGCOC Water Co., Ltd. three years ago.
The town of Kwali had two small water plants built in the late 1980s. However, they weren't able to offer constant water supply due to poor maintenance and became abandoned because of sand production and tube breakage.
The 600,000 residents in Kwali had lost their fixed source of drinking water ever since, and the water shortage was even more severe in the dry season, said a Nigerian employee of the CGCOC in charge of public relations, adding that water supply became the most pressing problem for the town.
Nyizazo III introduced that most of the privately drilled wells were shallow, so the water was always easily contaminated in the rainy season. Besides, the high maintenance and diesel price for generators were also a problem, he added.
To offer clean water for local residents as soon as possible, the CGCOC decided to transform the two existing water plants and upgraded them with an automatic solar-power system. The company also installed new tubes to connect villages and opened more stations for residents to fetch water.
In just 45 days, the project, commencing in early October, 2017, installed 4,400 meters of tubes, drilled 5 wells, built 5 automatic solar-power impounding reservoir, and established 29 water-fetching stations in major places and main roads.
The new system supplies 160 cubic meters of water each day, which is able to meet the demand of 10,000 people. It needs no manual operation and consumes no material, even in regular intensity of sunlight, which is both environmentally friendly and energy-saving.
"This is a special gift to Kwali by the CGCOC," said Bello during the completion ceremony of the project, after taking a sip of the water that ran out of the system.
"We had to pay at least 300 naira ($0.78) for a bucket of water before, which made it 50,000 naira a year for a thrift family of seven, or my monthly salary," said a man surnamed Emmanuel from Kwali. "Now we all have clean and healthy water," he added.
Umar, another resident in his 50s is disabled due to polio, which makes it hard for him to fetch water from afar. "We never thought we could have clean water in the past, and now we are helped by the Chinese company. What runs in the water is the friendship from the Chinese people," he told the People's Daily.
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Le Père Goriot est un film français réalisé par Robert Vernay, sorti en 1945.

Le film est une adaptation du roman Le Père Goriot d'Honoré de Balzac.

Synopsis
Le père Goriot aime ses deux filles à la folie, au point de n'être heureux que de leur bonheur. Enrichi dans le commerce des pâtes, il leur a donné d'énormes dots, ce qui leur a permis d'épouser des hommes titrés et bien en vue dans le tout Paris. Pour elles, il se prive de tout, allant jusqu'à vendre ses couverts en argent pour payer leurs dettes. Pensionnaire bourgeois à la pension Vauquer, il s'appauvrit et finit par habiter une sordide mansarde où il ne mange que du pain. Au moment où, mourant, il attend la visite de ses filles, Eugène de Rastignac, son voisin chez madame Vauquer et Horace Bianchon, un étudiant en médecine, sont les deux seules personnes à l'assister. Goriot ne verra pas ses filles avant de mourir : elles sont au bal.

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 Pierre Larquey : Jean-Joachim Goriot, un ancien commerçant et riche rentier, qui ne vit que pour le bonheur de ses deux filles
 Pierre Renoir : Vautrin, un pensionnaire, mystérieux et équivoque, de madame Vauquer
 Claude Génia : Delphine Goriot, épouse de Nucingen, la fille aînée du père Goriot, qui se marie avec un banquier
 Lise Delamare : la vicomtesse de Beauséant, l'une des femmes les plus influentes de Paris
 Georges Rollin : Eugène de Rastignac, un jeune ambitieux, pensionnaire de madame Vauquer
 Léonce Corne : le baron Frédéric de Nucingen, qui épouse Delphine
 Jean Desailly : Horace Bianchon, un étudiant en médecine, pensionnaire de madame Vauquer
 Suzet Maïs ; Anastasie Goriot, épouse de Restaud, la fille cadette du père Goriot
 Maurice Escande : le comte de Restaud, qui épouse Anastasie
 Cécilia Paroldi : Victorine Taillefer, une pensionnaire de madame Vauquer
 Marcelle Praince : madame Vauquer, la propriétaire et tenancière d'une pension miteuse
 Raymond Rognoni : Poiret, pensionnaire de madame Vauquer
 Pierre Vernet : Maxime de Trailles
 François Viguier : Jean-Esther van Gobseck
 Sylvie : mademoiselle Michonneau, une pensionnaire de madame Vauquer
 Made Siamé : madame Couture, une pensionnaire de madame Vauquer
 Denise Nast : Sylvie
 Marcel Delaître : un policier
 Henri Coutet : Christophe
 Rivers Cadet : l'employé du muséum
 Jean Diener : le valet de pied
 Edmond Beauchamp
 Maurice Devienne
 André Marnay
 Georges Péclet
 Camille Beuve

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Film français sorti en 1945
Film dramatique français
Film réalisé par Robert Vernay
Film scénarisé par Charles Spaak
Film avec une musique composée par Jean Wiéner
Adaptation d'un roman français au cinéma
Film tiré d'une œuvre d'Honoré de Balzac
Le Père Goriot
Film français en noir et blanc

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Home » Community » Issues » Community Issues » Center For Neighborhoods names new Executive Director
Center For Neighborhoods names new Executive Director
This entry was posted in Community Issues on March 24, 2015 by updtadmn
The fourth executive director in organization's 43 year history
LOUISVILLE, KY. (Feb. 26, 2015): Founded in 1972, the Center For Neighborhoods (CFN) has had steady leadership throughout its 43 year history. CFN recently named Tom Stephens as the new Executive Director, the fourth director in the organization's history.
In June 2013, Jack Trawick announced his retirement after 33 years of service to CFN. The Board of Directors hired Rosanne Kruzich to serve as the Interim Executive Director while they organized a search committee, prepared a new job description and launched a nationwide search for new leadership.
"This position is so crucial to the success of our mission that we took our time to find the perfect candidate. That time resulted in CFN hiring a dynamic leader that will be a community builder for our entire region." Said Gordon Garner, the Chair of the CFN Board of Directors.
Tom Stephens will serve as the next Executive Director of the Louisville-based nonprofit Center For Neighborhoods. Tom has experience in public sector and nonprofit neighborhood revitalization planning. He has extensive experience in grassroots community efforts and local economic development planning in Louisville, Philadelphia, PA, Richmond, VA and Savannah, GA. Tom's experience includes comprehensive neighborhood planning, affordable housing initiatives, commercial corridor renewal, community assessment & data analysis and micro-enterprise development. He holds a Bachelor of Urban Planning & Development from Ball State University and a M.S. in Urban Economic Development from Eastern University. Tom enjoys sports, the outdoors and spending time with his wife and four children.
"Tom hit the ground running. He attended our South Louisville Business Association (SLBA) meeting in January when he had just taken the Executive Director position and only been in town a week. SLBA wanted to learn more about how our business association could make stronger connections to the neighbors who are our customers and the neighborhood association. Tom shared some strategies for our business association to explore. I believe he will be a huge asset to capacity building in our community," said Mary Anne Tinnell, with the South Louisville Business Association.
Currently, CFN is holding the 28th class of their flagship training program called the Neighborhood Institute. The Neighborhood Institute is a 12-week course that helps grassroots leaders learn how to build healthy, sustainable and attractive neighborhoods through engaged, informed and committed neighbors. One of the current class members, Debbie Maize, introduced Tom Stephens to Louisville neighborhoods and to his wife in 2002. "Tom is a gifted urban planner and a natural community builder. During our Neighborhood Institute sessions, I value Tom's expressed notes of insight and appreciate him for making strong connections with the attendees as well as the presenters," said Maize.
This month Tom met with Metro Council President David Tandy to share his vision for Louisville's neighborhoods. "The city is fortunate to have attracted this very talented leader back to Louisville," said the President. "Many of our neighborhoods continue to retain their uniqueness and offer stability as a safe place to live and raise a family. My colleagues and I look forward to working with Tom in his new position as we partner with our neighborhoods to move our entire city forward."
Tom understands the importance of neighborhoods and the role the Center For Neighborhoods has played in strengthening our neighborhoods. "I am so thankful for the legacy of great neighborhood leadership in Louisville, from Jack Trawick to resident leaders city-wide. I am incredibly exited for the future of Louisville's neighborhoods thanks to the existing and emerging leaders we have in neighborhoods, businesses, non-profits and government today. Great neighborhoods are the building blocks of great cities. Louisville has wonderful neighborhoods and even greater potential. That is why my family and I came back to Louisville and that is why the work of the Center For Neighborhoods matters more now than ever before," said Tom Stephens.
Gordon Garner, CFN Board Chair, said "The CFN search committee wanted to choose a candidate who could hit the ground running on day one. Tom certainly has done that. Within the first two months of his leadership, Tom developed a new web site for the organization
(www.centerforneighborhoods.org). He also wrote and designed the 2014 CFN Annual Report (http://bit.do/cfnlouisville). With a leader like Tom Stephens in place, the Center For Neighborhoods is poised to build healthy, sustainable and attractive Neighborhoods through engaged, informed and committed neighbors for another 40 years."
About the Center for Neighborhoods
For over 40 years the Center For Neighborhoods (formerly the Louisville Community Design Center) has cultivated grassroots leadership, facilitated civic dialogue amongst stakeholders, provided leadership education, partnered with neighborhoods in community planning efforts and actively participated in neighborhood-based development & improvement projects.
We envision a greater Louisville community with caring and empowered people and civic institutions working in partnership with local government to renew and build neighborhoods that are healthy, sustainable and attractive. CFN's work is more important today than ever before as long-term and relocating residents and businesses seek out economically, physically and socially sustainable neighborhoods to call home.
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Albert "Al" Ely Edwards (* 19. März 1937 in Houston, Texas; † 29. April 2020 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Demokratischen Partei. Er war von Januar 1978 bis Januar 2007 und von Januar 2009 bis Januar 2011 Abgeordneter im Repräsentantenhaus von Texas. Er vertrat die Bürger des Distrikts 146. Er gehörte drei einflussreichen Ausschüssen (Committees) an: als Vorsitzender des Rules and Resolutions Committee und des Budget and Oversight of the Ways and Means Committee, als Mitglied des Appropriations Committee (Investitionsausschuss).
Borris Miles (* 1965) war von Januar 2011 bis Januar 2017 sein Nachfolger als Abgeordneter; seitdem sitzt er im Senat von Texas.

Er war in der Bürgerrechtsbewegung stark engagiert. Bereits 1979, in seiner ersten Legislaturperiode, erreichte er die Verabschiedung eines Gesetzes, das den Juneteenth zu einem bezahlten Feiertag in Texas macht. Texas war der erste US-Bundesstaat mit einem solchen Gesetz. Seit Juni 2021 ist er in den gesamten USA Feiertag.

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A pill to boost motivation would have a profound impact on our society as a whole.
When recently asked if we could ever come up with a pill to stimulate our sense of motivation, I had to pause. It's an interesting thought experiment to help us understand what motivation actually is, but it's very difficult to get at the biology of motivation. I think we can start to crack the problem by breaking it down into components and looking at the way it generally manifests in people. This strategy of "reductionism" is often criticized, for better worse, as being problematic, because it isolates every component away from the system without evaluating them as a whole system. This is true, but we need a place to start! And any system we choose is bound to have drawbacks.
So for starters, motivation seems to be characterized by a general lack of satisfaction with your current state. Rather than appreciating the current "goodness" in things around you, you appreciate the potential of your situation to be somehow better than it currently is. Alright, well, we can start our Motivation Pill with some sort of serotonin inhibitor. Something that binds to serotonin, blocks its receptors, or just inhibits the biochemical pathway. Great. Off to a good start.
You'll also need to derive less satisfaction from day-to-day pleasures and distractions. Something to steer you away from hedonism and toward goal-directed behaviors that require sustained effort. OK, the serotonin inhibitor should also help with that. You should generally experience less satisfaction from everything in life. Awesome.
Seriously, imagine if you could make yourself work this hard every day. At, like, regular stuff.
You'll need a mind that will focus on the pertinent information of your goal without getting too distracted with extraneous information. Alright, we'll add an alkaloid in there, like caffeine. Something that substantially improves focus.
You'll also need enough energy to do the things you plan to do. Unfortunately, there's really no way around it, you'll need a good diet (and ideally a little exercise). OK, so we have to take our pill with certain dietary restrictions. Fine.
There's also the issue of confidence. We need to eliminate things that can, consciously or unconsciously, stop you from pursuing your goals. This one's more complicated. We might try to inhibit GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid). This won't do anything to help your confidence, but it will stop you from stopping yourself, because GABA is major inhibitory neurotransmitter. It will also have widespread unforeseen effects, since GABA is one of the main molecules used to inhibit neural systems, and to thus keep your behavior under control. But every pill has side effects, so, you know, YOLO.
Well, we've gotten part of the way there, and anything that even slightly improves the chances of an effect over the course of your life is a good start. But now we're into the intangibles. For example, we'll need to give you a perspective that focuses on long-term but attainable goals. You can't want something that's too daunting to ever achieve. You also can't want to just clean your room once, you need to want to clean it every … single … day. Why? Well, that's the harder part.
How do we affect your perception of importance? You're more likely to be motivated to action in a matter of life and death than by a long-term goal that feels like it has an infinite amount of time to accomplish. So we'll need to also study the biochemistry of how to rouse yourself to action but without completely ignoring everything else in your life. And, while we're at it, an understanding of the biochemistry of your perception of how valuable your time is.
Where's the fire? It wouldn't matter if you were on a pill of pure motivation. You'd be on, all the time.
But no pill can achieve everything, there will always be some aspect untouched. So this is probably a good place to stop and start planning which charities to give some of the billions of dollars we're sure to earn with this pill. It's also a good place to stop before we plunge into unabashed social engineering.
Ultimately, the problem with the biology of motivation is that it's the biology of what you find interesting. That's probably not something we really want to tamper with, since it's part of who you really are. Why do you find certain topics interesting and not others? Do we really want to be able to force someone to get fired up about something they would not otherwise be excited for?
An enormous component of motivation is the social component. What might elevate you in the eyes of your peers and family, for example? This is a complex system we use to shape each other's interests. For better or worse, if you find something interesting and no one else does, it has a real effect on your perception of its importance. If we circumvented this system with a pill that could get you amped for something you really don't care about, we might lose our ability as a society to pivot and rethink what actually is important.
The closest thing to a motivation pill, for most people, is their paycheck. This is the level of social engineering most of us have come to accept: working for money that does buy interesting and valuable things, even when we would otherwise listen to our boredom and move on to something that truly excites us.


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Fair Value Accounting for Financial Instruments: Some Implications for Bank Regulation
BIS Working Paper No. 209
See all articles by Wayne R. Landsman
Wayne R. Landsman
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
Date Written: August 2006
I identify issues that bank regulators need to consider if fair value accounting is used for determining bank regulatory capital and when making regulatory decisions. In financial reporting, US and international accounting standard setters have issued several disclosure and measurement and recognition standards for financial instruments and all indications are that both standard setters will mandate recognition of all financial instruments at fair value. To help identify important issues for bank regulators, I briefly review capital market studies that examine the usefulness of fair value accounting to investors, and discuss marking-to-market implementation issues of determining financial instruments' fair values. In doing so, I identify several key issues. First, regulators need to consider how to let managers reveal private information in their fair value estimates while minimising strategic manipulation of model inputs to manage income and regulatory capital. Second, regulators need to consider how best to minimise measurement error in fair values to maximise their usefulness to investors and creditors when making investment decisions, and to ensure bank managers have incentives to select investments that maximise economic efficiency of the banking system. Third, cross-country institutional differences are likely to play an important role in determining the effectiveness of using mark-to-market accounting for financial reporting and bank regulation.
Keywords: Fair values, financial instruments, information asymmetry
JEL Classification: E58, G15, G21, G28, M41, M44
Landsman, Wayne R., Fair Value Accounting for Financial Instruments: Some Implications for Bank Regulation (August 2006). BIS Working Paper No. 209 . Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=947569 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.947569
Wayne R. Landsman (Contact Author)
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School ( email )
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Mrs Dudley, with her stoical loyalty and obsessive adherence to a strict routine, provides a solid, even humorous counterpoint to the elusive, but often predictable and at times childishly silly things that go bump in the night. All that blood on the clothes in the wardrobe that is seen by four people but disappears when their backs are turned leaving everything as it was, and the banging and shaking of walls and doors, so severe that the house should have been torn apart, would have been more credible if some small, but consistent, mark had been left behind as evidence.
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This story is intriguing, but it lost me at the end.


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Home Sports News PBR Rock Bar and Rockhouse are your March Mayhem Headquarters
PBR Rock Bar and Rockhouse are your March Mayhem Headquarters
PBR Rock Bar & Grill, located at the Miracle Mile Shops inside Planet Hollywood, and Rockhouse, located at the Grand Canal Shoppes, will be Vegas' top picks for watching all of the action on the basketball court this March Mayhem season.
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From Thursday, March 17 to Sunday, March 20, guests get a guaranteed seat to watch the madness of March at PBR Rock Bar & Grill, with food and beverage minimum (either $125 for a half day, or $200 for a full day.) Full-day tickets run from 8 a.m. to end of the last game, and the half-day tickets run from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. or 4 p.m. to end of the last game. Guests are able to choose their own seats via the restaurant's online reservation system. Fans can enjoy signature game-day ready fare such as Fried Pickles, PBR Nachos and Signature Wings. With PBR Rock Bar's 120 HDTVs, you'll never miss a second of the March Mayhem action. Seating reservations can be made online here, or guests can call the restaurant at 702.750.1685.
From Thursday, March 17 to Sunday, March 20, guests get a guaranteed seat to watch the madness of March at Rockhouse, with food and beverage minimum (either $125 for a half day, or $200 for a full day.) Full-day tickets run from 8 a.m. to end of the last game, and the half-day tickets run from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. or 4 p.m. to end of the last game. Guests are able to choose their own seats via the restaurant's online reservation system. Enjoy the restaurant's new selection of craft beers and game-day ready fare like Jalapeno Poppers, Buffalo Chicken Sliders and Carne Asada Tacos. With Rockhouse's 80 HDTVs, you'll never miss any of the March Mayhem excitement. Seating reservations can be made online here, or guests can call the restaurant at 702.731.9683.
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The extensive nature of Paul Manafort's indictment for failing to report tens of millions in offshore accounts means an investigation may have started well before Special Counsel Robert Mueller took it over, a criminal tax attorney told Bloomberg Tax.
Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, and his business partner Richard Gates III were indicted Oct. 27, the first charges filed in Mueller's investigation of Russia's ties to the 2016 presidential election. The election wasn't mentioned in the 31-page indictment ( United States v. Manafort , D.D.C., No. 1:17-cr-00201, indictment 10/27/17 ).
"It's a very detailed indictment and not all indictments are that detailed. It's a signal that they've been working on this for quite some time," Steven Toscher of Hochman Salkin Rettig Toscher & Perez P.C., said Oct. 30.
Manafort and Gates surrendered to authorities Oct. 30 on tax and conspiracy charges, and later pleaded not guilty to all charges. Both were placed under house arrest.
The indictment alleges that Manafort "unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly" failed to file Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) forms for 2011 to 2014. The accounts were used to launder money he earned working for Ukrainian politicians with ties to Russia in undisclosed lobbying efforts, it says.
Toscher said the document shows that the government is taking its nine-year crackdown on Americans hiding money overseas to a new dimension.
According to the indictment, Manafort and Gates engaged in schemes to use the offshore accounts—through which more than $75 million passed—without paying taxes on the money. It says millions of dollars in wire transfers were made to the U.S. Manafort is accused of laundering more than $18 million, allegedly to buy property, goods, and services.
The document alleges that Manafort failed to file the required FBARs—on which taxpayers must report foreign accounts of $10,000 or more. Gates didn't file the required disclosures for 2011 to 2013, the indictment says.
In addition to the charges for failing to file FBARs, the indictment includes allegations of conspiracy, money laundering, being an unregistered agent of a foreign principal, and making false and misleading statements.
Although she couldn't comment directly on the Manafort case, Ciraolo warned that the government "has gained a tremendous amount of expertise. The landscape has changed dramatically." She emphasized recent comments by Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Chief Don Fort that his division is forming a unit that specializes in international tax crimes.
A spokesman for the special counsel's office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
With assistance from Andrew Harris in Washington (Bloomberg).
Text of the indictment is at http://src.bna.com/tMV.


Spring has sprung and the fun has begun.
Oh, I got to tell you how much I love documenting elopements! Santorini is one of the most amazing places in the world to elope actually! The island is so romantic that you need not give it a second thought. Ana & Anthony are two of the sweetest people I've met and they chose one of the best hotels in Santorini to celebrate their love. Perivolas hotel has a magical view of Oia and words are not enough to describe the sunset view from there. September is one of the months with the highest demand for wedding photography and for good reason. The weather is just perfect in Greece. The natural light is the best it can get, like in May. The couple got ready and we had a nice walk in Santorini's most picturesque places. Oia is full of them after all! The reason that I'm a huge fan of elopements is that actually, the couple has all the time to relax and be themselves. In every elopement in Santorini, I have documented, I can honestly say that I am being a witness to true love. Being a Santorini photographer, I'm grateful to all the couples that have given me the chance to visit this Greek island so often!
Mykonos is surely a well sought after wedding destination. And for the right reasons. The sun, the vibes, the colors of this greek island are majestic! When you manage to find an isolated beach at one of the most cosmopolitan greek islands and you have a couple so much in love as these two, then… magic happens! I just love love love having couple's sessions before or after the wedding day! Couple sessions are the best practice to have beautiful, relaxed and long-lasting images of just the two of you. Especially at destination weddings on the greek islands like Mykonos, it's the perfect chance to explore the hidden gems.
A honeymoon in the Mediterranean. Such a romantic idea! Santorini is always a thing on the bucket list for many couples. And for good reasons that is. A trip planning to view the volcano, the white churches with the characteristic blue domes, the sunset in Oia is something many desire. Keith & Ivy are originally from Hong Kong and had recently get married there. They chose the picturesque Greek island of Santorini as their honeymoon destination and I was honored to be their professional photographer. We had an amazing time going through the popular spots of Santorini but also having time to go off the beaten path. The light in Santorini is so beautiful and makes every image unique. Check out the last image of the post to see what colors the sunset in Oia had. Out of this world! Many of the couples that are choosing Santorini for their honeymoon, select an all-inclusive package. Well, make you sure you include a honeymoon photography session, as its the best romantic thing to do in Santorini!
An elegant wedding in Venetsanos winery, Santorini with the most breath-taking view!
An oh-so perfect wedding in Sifnos!
A 3day luxury wedding in Mykonos!
An engagement session in London is always a good chance for beautiful images! Avoid the cliches and find the love!
This shoot was vintaged themed and its purpose was to make a save the date card!
Santorini is one of the few places in the world that can take your breath away! A perfect destination for wedding, elopement, honeymoon or an engagement session! Enjoy the images of Neil & Nancy!
Beach wedding in Greece. When italian romance meets spanish temperament, things ignite! That's the story of Cristian & Melania. Cristian is Spanish and Melania is Italian and they live in Switzerland.


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There are quite a few lotions, oils and creams that make your skin softer and not in creams and other products, but where you least expects it: on your plate! The unique three part system is designed to the burning and stinging of aftershaves, maybe you should try a balm instead. It removes excessive oil production effectively to prevent the occurrences of blackheads, body produces more stress hormones, which damage collagen fibers and causes sagging.
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Q: Custom Undo/Redo in WPF TextBox with proper caret-movement I have implemented a custom Undo/Redo stack and Im trying to get it to work with the WPF TextBox.
I have turned off the built in Undo-mechanism and hooked up my custom Undo on Ctrl+Z. Everything works fine accept that the caret in the TextBox is always being moved to index 0 on every undo/redo. The question is how to solve this?
I have tried having a custom behaviour on the TextBox which listens to TextChanged and is localizing the last change in the text-string. But this only works unless you start typing the same letter several times in a row. The my method breaks down.
What I ideally want is some kind of behaviour that only makes actual changes to the TextBox.Text-property. As it is now it is updated completely for every Undo, even if its only the last entered letter that is removed. This is of course no suprise since it listens to the Text-property on my PresentationModel which is triggering PropertyChanged on Undo.
But wouldnt it be great if there was some more fine-detailed way of telling exactly what had changed with the property-value, that only one or a couple of letters where inserted/removed in the string value. Then the TextBox could change only that without having to refresh its entire Text-value. Is there any such way of telling the TextBox this allready or could it be possible to make a custom TextBox that behaved in this way? Then it would be possible to pinpoint the exact location for the new caret without having it go straight back to 0 for every propertychange-update!

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Torture is torture, and waterboarding is not an exception – UN expert urges the US not to reinstate it
by UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights February 1, 2017
GENEVA, Jan. 30, 2017 – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, has appealed to US President Donald Trump not to reconsider the acceptability of waterboarding and other methods of torture used as interrogation techniques.
"Without any doubt, waterboarding amounts to torture," said the independent expert tasked by the Human Rights Council with monitoring and reporting on the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment around the world.
"Any tolerance, complacence or acquiescence with such practice, however exceptional and well-argued, will inevitably lead down a slippery slope towards complete arbitrariness and brute force," Mr. Melzer cautioned.
"I urgently appeal to President Trump to carefully consider not only US legal obligations, doctrine and tradition, but also the consolidated legal and moral views of the entire international community before allowing the re-introduction of methods or interrogation that are more closely associated with barbarism than with civilization. I remain open to engage in a direct and constructive dialogue with the President."
The Special Rapporteur noted that the US has always publicly affirmed its belief in the rule of law and respect for truth, and called on the Government to live up to the standards the nation has set both for itself and others.
"If the new Administration were to revive the use of torture, however, the consequences around the world would be catastrophic," he warned. "Should Mr. Trump follow through on all of his pledges, more countries are likely to follow his lead and get back into the torture business – an ultimate disgrace for all of humanity."
Three reasons why not to reinstate it
"First, waterboarding is a form of torture and, contrary to popular belief, torture simply does not work," Mr. Melzer emphasized.
"Torture is known to consistently produce false confessions and unreliable or misleading information," he said. "Faced with the imminent threat of excruciating pain or anguish, victims simply will say anything –regardless of whether it is true– to make the pain stop and try to stay alive."
The expert recalled the 2014 US Senate Intelligence Committee Report, which concluded that the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, was 'not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees', a conclusion echoed by countless law enforcement agencies and scientific studies worldwide.
"Second, even if torture did work, that does not make it legally or morally acceptable," he added. "Let us be clear: if you are looking for military advantage in war, you can argue that chemical weapons 'work', or terrorism 'works' as well."
"However, all civilized peoples of this world have stood together to outlaw such abhorrent practices because, just as torture, they irreparably destroy the humanity and integrity not only of the victim, but also of the perpetrator and, ultimately of society as a whole," Mr. Melzer underscored.
"Third", the expert stressed, "the use or incitement of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment has been absolutely prohibited in treaty law, such as the Convention against Torture, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Geneva Conventions."
The Special Rapporteur noted that the prohibition is absolute and breaches amount to internationally recognized crimes and, in armed conflict, even to war crimes.
"In my view", the human rights expert concluded, "the universal recognition of the absolute nature of this prohibition may well constitute the most fundamental achievement of mankind."
Mr. Nils Melzer (Switzerland) was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in November 2016. Mr. Melzer has previously worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and is currently the Human Rights Chair of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.
UN Human Rights, country page: United States


2:28 Introduction Dayna Hanlon-Pinkerton – experienced in yoga, yoga therapy and experiential education as a home educator for her children. Experiential education is very individualised similar to how a teacher/therapist develops a practice for either a yoga therapy client or a yoga student.
4:07 Testimonials on the website: Themes of intuition, meeting individual needs, "perfect amount of challenge". Dayna tunes into the energy of the room before beginning class, (doesn't plan her sequences before class). Starts with anchoring people and having fun with it, but with seriousness. Trying to teach them to hold space for two opposites – having fun and being serious – simultaneously. Teaching them to look at other viewpoints, not to be rigid, these are tools to help them.
11:49 Uses Pranyama as a tangible example of holding opposites. Feeling the fullness at the end of the inhalation and then the contrasting emptiness at the end of the exhalation. You can feel both of these opposites in your body within seconds of each other.
14:37 Dayna gave some presentations and mini-classes at a yoga festival, one of which she named "Way Clearing". Her purpose was to harness energy to get our "stuff" out of the way like attachment, shifting energies to help people make the changes they want to make.
16:25 Dayna gets her inspiration from many places but also nature. Develops themes based on the cycles of nature. This may connect with a student or client but using nature is a good way to encourage reflection.
17:55 Dayna works with those suffering from anxiety and depression. Through her own journey, she is aware that the seat of healing is in the mind. She combines the koshas and the gunas to help people find a balance. To reflect on: "how long have I felt this way", etc. (Gunas are three qualities that exist in nature – rajas: energy, passion, heightened end of emotions, tamas = darkness, inertia and then sattva = finding balance between these two extremes.
22:57 Look at yoga in the bigger picture; it is so much more than movement. Helps students/clients see themselves.


The two-day summit, formally inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II, saw in attendance 53 heads of Government including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event was held in London and Windsor.
This is the first time in a decade that an Indian Prime Minister is attending the event, which is held every two years, having skipped the Group summits in Perth, Colombo and Malta since 2009. This is also first CHOGM after UK decided to pull out of EU and is important for UK.
The theme of this year's summit was 'Towards a Common Future'. The main aim of the meeting was to build on the strengths of the Commonwealth nations, address shared global challenges including environmental ones and agree on actions on how to create a better future for all.
The ongoing summit is the 25th meeting of the heads of government of the Commonwealth of Nations. The summit was originally supposed to be hosted by Vanuatu at the end of 2017. However, it was moved to the United Kingdom as Vanuatu was no longer able to host the event due to the damage done by Cyclone Pam to the island nation's infrastructure.
The 2018 edition is widely regarded to be the Queen's last Heads of Government meeting. During the summit, the Queen relayed her wish that her son, Prince Charles, should carry on her work as leader of the Commonwealth.
CHOGM in London have adopted Commonwealth Cyber Declaration to take action on cybersecurity by 2020. The UK government has committed to provide up to £15m in funding to help strengthen cyber security in Commonwealth countries. The funding is also aimed at assisting efforts to tackle criminal groups and hostile state actors who pose a global threat to security, including in the UK. This is to be the world's largest and most geographically diverse inter-governmental commitment on cyber security cooperation.
The Commonwealth Cyber Declaration sets out, for the first time, a common vision for ensuring the internet remains free and open across the Commonwealth.
The Blue Charter on Ocean Governance has been adopted by the Commonwealth Heads of Government as they wrapped up their summit. The Blue Charter maps out efforts to protect oceans and marine environments throughout the Commonwealth, from threats such as climate change, pollution and over fishing.
Commonwealth nations also expressed their strong support for the multilateral trading system and adopted a six-point connectivity agenda to boost trade and investment links.
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The lower Naugatuck Valley was hit hard during the floods of 1955.
There was not as much loss of life in the Valley as other towns, but the financial and physical damage to the region was catastrophic.
Click the dots below to browse the data.
Financial Loss, Naugatuck Valley
Financial Loss, statewide
Total Homes Lost In Flood
Monetary Losses To The Naugatuck Valley
The financial losses to the Naugatuck Valley topped $46 million, in part because so much business, transportation and industry was located in the flood plains.
Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Monetary Losses Across Connecticut
Statewide, the financial cost of the floods was more than $185.5 million.
Source: Business and Defense Services Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Money For Roads
Source: "Rehabilitation of Flood Damaged Locally Maintained Highways and Bridges," a report to the State Highway Department. By Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergendoff. July 1, 1959
Destruction in Downtown Seymour
Downtown Seymour was hit particularly hard, as the raging waters of the Naugatuck River wiped out two city blocks, and everything in its path. The Bank Street bridge was damaged on the east side, making passage from one side of town to the other impossible. A cemetery was uprooted, sending caskets down river. And two women were killed, when the apartment building they were in was washed away by the raging waters.
Church Left Standing Amid Debris
Frank Haines can recall watching as water poured into his church at the corner of Broad Street and Derby Avenue in Seymour. The entire block was destroyed by the flood waters -- an entire library was leveled into a pile of bricks and wet books. Homes on the block were toppled. The road became mud. And yet, the First Congregational Church of Seymour remained standing. Here, Haines talks about the work involved in cleaning up the church.
Pulling Stranded To Safety
Charles Seccombe recalls working on Main Street in downtown Ansonia the day of the flood.
A Radio Dispatch
Radio dispatches from the flood, where a reporter catches up with the police chief in Derby.
'Water in the Streets of Ansonia'
Ansonia police officer describes the scene in Ansonia.
Two Die In Seymour
Seymour was annihilated by the flood waters.


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El barranc de Valaran és un barranc del Pallars Sobirà, que neix al vessant nord-est del Pic des Miques i desemboca a la Noguera Pallaresa.

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Bears Ink Trevor Scott to 1-Year Contract
The defensive end last played for Tampa Bay in 2013
By James Neveau
Published Mar 6, 2014 at 9:07 PM
The Chicago Bears boosted their defensive line with the signing of Jeremiah Ratliff to a two-year contract on Wednesday, and on Thursday they added another veteran player to that line, signing defensive end Trevor Scott to a one-year deal.
Scott last played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but has also played with the Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots. He has 94 tackles and 16.5 sacks in 76 career games, and he also has 20 tackles on the special teams. He was a sixth round pick in 2008 by the Raiders.
In all likelihood, Scott won't be a starter for the Bears, but with several players, including Corey Wootton, Nate Collins, and Julius Peppers still with their futures up in the air, there is a possibility that the Bears could ask Scott to take on a bigger role than he has in his other NFL stops.
NFL free agency officially begins on March 11th, and agents can begin negotiating with other teams on March 9th.


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Home / All / Harrington Saints - 1000 Pounds Of Oi! LP / CD
Format 12" Black Vinyl CD
They called us 1000 Pounds of Oi! when we first hit the stage. No one could have known the fire in our hearts. We play it hard. We play it true. It's all we wanna do. So, come along and we'll do it just for you! This remarkable band, who arguably were the biggest band in Oi!, couldn't have led off their final album with a more fitting synopsis of why they were so loved for so long. Relentless, they never gave up. They never gave in. This is their third proper full-length amidst a dozen singles and EP's and this in-your-face contribution to the world of streetpunk and Oi! is hands-down the feather in their cap. While some of the band members slimmed down a touch, their sound is bigger and fatter and hookier than on any of their previous releases! Never without a poignant message for the working class, these guys delivered in prime fashion one of the best Bay Area streetpunk albums released in a long time! These 10 songs are pulse-pounding, thought-provoking, scathing critiques of the status quo, and an empowering call-to-arms for people to come together as a community and society, to resist against all forms of oppression! An uplifting message to the working class is what fans of Harrington Saints expect and revel in - and with this album, they delivered 1000 POUNDS of it, and more!
1. 1000 lbs. of Oi!
2. Red State
3. Fremont Train
4. Pressure
5. State Of Emergency
6. Rock N Rolla
7. Broken Windows
8. Counter Attack
9. Rise Up
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Rockdale Archives
Legislators of the year
On Thursday, State Senators John Douglas and Jack Hill were presented the inaugural Jarnett Wigington Legislators of the Year award by Rockdale Cares for their work in promoting the issues and resources for persons with developmental disabilities. Douglas and Hill were taken on a tour of the Rockdale Cares men's and women's houses and the Our Place facility. The award is named after the late board member who passed away recently. Sheriff Jeff Wigintgton, his son, was on hand for the honor as well.
Left to right, Sen. John Douglas, Rockdale Cares Executive Director Barbara Kilpatrick, and Sen. Jack Hill. Lower left, State Rep. Randal Mangham.
Rockdale Cares is a non-profit that provides care for adults and children with developmental disabilities. Their facilities include the Men's and Women's Houses, Haven House respite home, and Our Place. For more information, go to www.rockdalecares.org or call 770-922-7272.
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Social Circle Fair returns


When you can't smile with confidence, many aspects of your life can be negatively affected. Not only will you lack self-assurance, you may also provide others with an inaccurate first impression of yourself. That's because people naturally react in a positive way to bright, friendly smiles. When you are afraid to show your teeth, you may be suggesting to people that you are less warm and engaging than you truly are. In contrast, a healthy and beautiful smile will draw people to you while enhancing your natural beauty and significantly boosting your confidence.
It's an unfortunate reality that teeth do not always grow or remain as straight and perfect as we would like. Also, even when we take good care of our teeth and mouth, dental problems may still arise. However, with the help of cosmetic dentistry, we can remedy medical and aesthetics flaws and enjoy beautiful, healthy, attractive smiles. Whether you have uneven spacing between your teeth, have lost a tooth due to trauma or decay or have another dental problem, cosmetic dentistry services can improve your health as well as your appearance and self-confidence by rejuvenating and revitalizing your smile.
Cosmetic dentistry involves the use of special reconstruction and restorative techniques to improve the appearance and functionality of teeth. Such procedures can be sought for both medical and purely aesthetic reasons and can be used to correct everything from minor flaws to major structural issues.
For example, cosmetic dentistry services include teeth whitening for the removal of stains and discoloration as well as porcelain veneers for badly discolored or chipped teeth. Cosmetic dentistry procedures used to correct more significant dental issues include non-metal restorations for the repair of damaged teeth, dental implants to replace missing teeth and full mouth reconstruction.