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Institute of Veterinary Medicine
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Research Training Center for Animal Disease Diagnostics
Laboratory of anthrax
Laboratory of leptospirosis with museum of microorganisms
Laboratoty of neuroinfections
Laboratory of anaerobic infections after Ryzhenko V.P.
Laboratory of Myсotoxicology
Laboratory of bacterial animal diseases
Ternopil Research Station
Rivne Research Station of Epizootology of the IVM NAAS
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Institute of Veterinary Medicine » Laboratory of Myсotoxicology
Fields of research:
The main scientific direction of the laboratory is the study of spreading toxicogenic fungi-producing mycotoxins in feed and food.
In the laboratory mycotoxicology developed technology for producing the most common mycotoxin standards. Developed methods for identifying these mycotoxins using thin layer chromatography, carried out experiments on animal mycotoxicoses. Methods for determination of mycotoxins in animal feed. One of the reliable prevention of fodder stress and subclinical mycotoxicosis that cause significant economic damage to livestock and poultry – is to find means of reducing the negative impact of mycotoxins.
Laboratory works on State scientific subjects in 2014–2015 32.02.02.06 P "Study of phytosanitary condition of feed grains and animal feed." Program 32. Scientific support program epizootic welfare, biosecurity, animal health and veterinary-sanitary quality of animal products ("Biological safety and animal health"). Subprogramme 2. Scientific and methodological support of monitoring, control methods and animal health measures on the quality and safety of animal products.
The main achievements of the laboratory
Allocated a considerable amount of different toxicogenic fungi-producing mycotoxins and studied the optimal parameters toxic appearance in these fungi. Methods for determining mycotoxins in feeds and methods for isolating them in pure form. Experimentally reproduced patulinotoxicosis, zearalenontoxicosis, sterigmatocistintoxicosis, ohratoxicosis (1984–1988). At the same time studied the sensitivity of animals to toxins, clinical, haematological and pathological changes in acute and chronic toxicity within. Installed LD50 toxins for animals in acute experiments; chronic maximal ineffective, subthreshold and threshold dose. Studied cumulative properties and reasonable maximum allowable levels (MRLs) toxins in feed for fattening pigs.
Developed a screening method for the simultaneous detection of aflatoxin B1 in feed, patulin, Sterigmatocystin, zearalenone, T-2 toxin and deoxynivalenol. Published "Guidelines for the sanitary and mycological evaluation and improvement of the quality of feed".
Laboratory staff developed specifications for standards 11 mycotoxins and established their manufacturing to provide a variety of scientific and industrial laboratories, for use as substances witnesses during trials micotoxicological feed and food:
Zearalenone TU – 46. 15. 22 – 93
Patulin TU – 46. 15. 20 – 94
Sterigmatocystin TU – 46.15.28 – 94
T-2 toxin TU – 46.15.035 – 94
Aflatoxin B1 TU – 46.15. 061 – 95
Kojic acid TU – 46.15.060 – 95
Aflatoxin B2 TU – 46.15.299 – 98
Aflatoxin G1 TU – 46.15.298 – 98
Deoxynivalenol TU – 46.15.367 – 99
Ochratoxin A TU – 10.07.017 – 88
Citrinin TU – 10.07.019 – 88
Established and reasonable maximum allowable levels (MRLs) of T-2 toxin in feed for chickens, calves and cattle for fattening, which facilitates diagnosis, develop more targeted preventive measures and decide on the use of animal products and animal feed.
The substantiation of the maximum allowable levels:
Justification of the maximum allowable levels (MRLs) of patulin in feed for pigs for fattening (17.06.1985).
Justification of the maximum allowable levels (MRLs) of zearalenone in feed for pigs (09.10.1985).
Justification of the maximum allowable levels (MRLs) for pigs Sterigmatocystin group feeding (25.10.1990).
Justification of the maximum allowable levels (MRLs) Ochratoxin A in feed for pigs feeding groups (25.12.1990).
Temporary MPC T-2 toxin in feed and water (02.02.1990).
Justification of the maximum allowable levels (MRLs) of T-2 toxin in feed for calves and cattle for fattening (09.12.1997).
Justification of the maximum allowable levels (MRLs) of T-2 toxin in feed for chickens (09.12.1997).
The laboratory has developed a number of techniques:
Preparation procedure of cojic acid, the toxic metabolite of fungi (01.10.1991),
Method of determination of aflatoxin B1 in silage and haylage (22.03.1995),
Method of determining the miktoksinu Koev acid in silage and silage (02.1994),
Method of determination of zearalenone in silage and haylage (10.02.1994),
Method of determination of patulin in silage and haylage (02.08.1995),
The rules for determining mycotoxin patulin in feed and food (09.04.1996),
Terms of simultaneous detection of aflatoxin B1, patulin, Sterigmatocystin, T-2 toxin and zearalenone in different feeds (09.04.1996),
Method of determining the Sterigmatocystin in feed and food (10.06.1997),
The rules for determining aflatoxin B1 in feeds (10.06.1997),
The rules for determining zearalenone in feed (10.06.1997),
Method of determining the sorption activity of prevention of mycotoxicosis (21.12.2012),
Specifications feed additive (Vitakorm) TU – 15.7 – 3125325 – 001: 2011.
Lab work repeatedly represented at the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology. In 2005, the Presidium of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences said first prize laboratory staff and its achievements.
The plan of seminars and conferences in 2019.
Annual international scientific conference "CURRENT EPIDEMIC CHALLENGES IN ONE HEALTH APPROACH" (April 15-17, 2019)
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For the people in a tiny Serbian village there is nothing sexy or romantic about a vampire. In fact, they are terrified that one of the most feared vampires of the area has been roused back to life.
Rather than 'Twilight's' Edward, the people of Zorazje fear that Sava Savanovic is lurking in their forested mountains of western Serbia.
They believe that he is on the move because the home he occupied for so long, a former water mill, recently collapsed. Savanovic is believed to be looking for a new home.
"People are very worried. Everybody knows the legend of this vampire and the thought that he is now homeless and looking for somewhere else and possibly other victims is terrifying people," Miodrag Vujetic, local municipal assembly member, told ABC News. "We are all frightened."
Vujetic said villagers "are all taking precautions by having holy crosses and icons placed above the entrance to the house, rubbing our hands with garlic, and having a hawthorn stake or thorn."
"I understand that people who live elsewhere in Serbia are laughing at our fears, but here most people have no doubt that vampires exist," he says.
According to legend, Savanovic would kill and drink the blood of the peasants who came to grind their grain at his watermill on the Rogacica River. Tour groups from around the Balkans would come to see the mill. But even tourism had its limits.
"We were welcoming tourists, but only during the day. Nobody ever overnighted there," said Slobodan Jagodic, whose family owned the mill for over 60 years.
"We were too scared to repair it, not to disturb Sava Savanovic," says Jagodic. "It's even worse now that it collapsed due to lack of repair."
Traditions die slowly in this part of the world. "In the dark forested mountains of Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Croatia, many people still believe in vampires and take them quite seriously," says Dr. James Lyon, Ph.D, a noted Balkan historian who has done extensive research on the folklore behind vampires.
"In local folklore, vampires are not potential boyfriends. Rather, they are hideous, blood thirsty creatures with red eyes and iron teeth that bloat when they feed, and are able to shift their shape," says Lyon, author of "Kiss of the Butterfly," a historical thriller about vampires in the Serbia.
Savanovic has maintained his notoriety in modern Serbia. He was featured in a 19th century book "Ninety Years Later" written by Milovan Glisic, whose book inspired a 1972 horror film "Leptirica" (Butterfly), widely watched throughout all of former Yugoslavia. More recently, Savanovic appeared in an award winning book "Fear and Its Servant" written by Mirjana Novakovic.
The Balkans have long established itself as Ground Zero for vampires when it comes to fanged folklore, and Serbia is a leader in this, according to Lyon.
"Vampires originated in Serbia, not Romania," says Lyon. "The word vampire entered western languages from Serbia in the late 1720s."
Austrian forces returning from conquests in Ottoman Serbia in the early 1700s brought back vampire stories, which circulated throughout Europe, later inspiring Byron, Keats and Coleridge, he claims.
"In 1730-31 the Austrian Army sent a military surgeon into Serbia to conduct autopsies on suspected vampires. He and other Austrian Army officers wrote of their experiences, and these records still exist today," Lyons said.
Documented reports of vampire-related activity continue to this day throughout the Balkans, the most recent having occurred in 2011 in Serbia.
Back in Zarozje, villagers will have to be on their guard for at least seven more months, because local legend holds that vampires are most active between Christmas and the Feast of the Ascension on June 7.
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A touch of madness
In the game, insanity is induced by traumatic experiences and ghastly comprehensions connected to the Cthulhu Mythos. The duration of the insane state depends upon the number or proportion of Sanity points lost. Three states – temporary insanity, indefinite insanity, and permanent insanity -can result.
Playing Insanity
The threat of insanity in the Call of Cthulhu rules characterizes the Mythos in a way which allows no compromise. Exposed to it, few sane humans freely choose the Mythos, for the Mythos is intrinsically loathsome and foul. The connection of Sanity points and Cthulhu Mythos points emphasized the power of the Mythos, which corrupts and ruins by proximity and association. The sanity rules prove to use our own fragility, All that which we thought strong becomes delusory and false, while madness sometimes becomes a necessary condition for truth. Humor and laughter around the game table become vital counterbalances. Good feelings promote harmony and cohesion during the darkest moments in the game.
Dealing with the Verge
If an investigator has even one point of Sanity remaining, the player has form control. The aesthetics of how the player chooses to present a nearly-mad investigator represents the essence of roleplaying. As the investigator weakens, evidence of the weakening should become apparent. Thus near-insanity call for stronger roleplaying, not for less player control.
Such an investigator should speak about his mental condition, so that the others understand the situation, and can act with due regard and sympathy. It is not good roleplaying to murmur "My guy's Sanity Points are low." Such a statement is dull and makes nothing happen. But a player who can vividly describe his investigator's anxiety or terror, and relate the affects the game, deserves applause.
If an investigator has ten or fewer Sanity Points, he or she certainly knows the situation is serious. In such straits in real life, most people would pull back from the action and perhaps put themselves in sanitariums. So should investigators.
The Quality of Insanity
Investigator insanity characterizes the power of the Mythos by causing the investigator to adopt behavior which is limited in what it can achieve, yet expressive and interesting to roleplay. Even as indefinitely-insane investigator does not always have to be parked in a sanitarium, if a good alternative can be negotiated with the keeper. The choice can be serious, or conceivably eccentric and twisted, or even ridiculous, but is should not upset the tenor of the game.
As a minor example, suppose that an investigator shows insanity by obsessively insisting on wearing two hats day and night. He argues that were he not to do so, his head would be unprotected if he tipped his hat to a lady while the sky was falling. Since hats can be seen, keeper characters freely notice the comment or criticize the foible. In defense, perhaps all the investigators begin to wear two hats. No restaurant will seat them, since their behavior is so uncouth. That two-hatted madman never left the game – the game widened to accommodate him.
A player may try to act out too many elements of his investigator's insanity. If that gets in the way of the game, the keeper must quash the interruption. Not to do so would be unfair to the other players.
This edition of the rules offers a more realistic version of the gamut of insanity. That is useful information from which to start, but information should not control the direction of the game. Waste no time trying to reproduce a particular disorder: let the way your investigator handles lengthy insanity evolve. it will, over time.
Treatment of Insanity
Temporary insanity ends quickly enough that schedules of treatment are entirely pointless. On the other hand, treatment of permanent insanity mostly has no meaning, since by definition the character will never recover. No matter how good the facility. Temporary insanity concludes soon enough that one merely need protect the sufferer from further upset or harm. Similarly, permanent insanity is essentially beyond treatment because its boundaries and duration are determined solely by the keeper. Only indefinite insanity offers real scope for intervention and treatment.
After 1D6 game months, therefore, safe from further trauma and with the agreement of the keeper, the indefinitely insane character find enough mental balance to re-enter the world. Three sorts of care might have helped to get the character to this point. In choosing among them, keeper and player should consider the character's resources, his/her friends and relatives, and how wisely he or she behaved in the past.
The best care available is at home or in some friendly place where nursing can be tender, considerate, and undistracted by the needs of competing patients. If Psychoanalysis or Psychiatric Medications are available, roll D100 for each game month that one or the other is used. A result of 01 – 95 is a success; add 1D3 Sanity Points for Psychoanalysis or Psychiatric Medications, whichever (but not both) is used. On a result of 96-00, the analyst fumbles or the character rebels against taking the drugs. The character loses 1D6 Sanity points, and no progress is made during teh next game month.
The next-best care is commitment to an insane asylum. Asylums may be said to have an advantage over home care in that they are relatively cheap or even a free service provided by the state. But in any of the game eras, these institutions are of uneven quality, and some may be potentially harmful. Some are creative places of experiment and advanced therapy, while other merely offer rude confinement. Presently, in the United States, most institutions are full or accessible only to the criminally insane. In any era, concentrated and nourishing treatment by strangers is rare.
Supervised activity, manual therapy, psychiatric medications, and hydrotherapy are frequent, as in electroconvulsive treatment today. Psychoanalysis is unavailable , and some time an institution can convey an uncaring sense that undermines the useful effects of psychiatric medications, leaving teh character with a sense of anger and loss, and likely to be distrustful of outpatient support once he or she has left the institution. Roll D100. A result of 01-95 is a success: add 1D3 Sanity points for psychiatric medications. On a result of 96-00, the character rebels against taking drugs. He or she loses 1D6 Sanity points, and no progress can be made during the next game month.
Wandering and Homeless
The Investigator becomes a wandering derelict, struggling for survival. The wanderer gains no Sanity points unless able to join a group of the homeless, and finds at least one friend among them. To find a friend, roll equal to or less than current Sanity + POW on D100 each game month. If a friend appears, add 1 Sanity point per game.
Each game month, roll D100 for survival. On a result of 01-95, the character survives. On a result of 96-100, the character dies of disease, exposure, or murder.
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Archaeologists in Poland made a startling discovery: a group of vampire graves.
Archaeologists in Poland believe they've made a startling discovery: a group of vampire graves.
The graves were discovered during the construction of a roadway near the Polish town of Gliwice, where archaeologists are more accustomed to finding the remains of World War II soldiers, according to The Telegraph.
But instead of soldiers, the graves contained skeletons whose heads had been severed and placed on their legs. This indicated to the archaeologists that the bodies had been subject to a ritualized execution designed to ensure the dead stayed dead, The Telegraph reports.
By keeping the head separated from the body, according to ancient superstition, the "undead" wouldn't be able to rise from the grave to terrorize the living. Decapitation was one way of achieving that; another way was hanging the person by a rope attached to the neck until, over time, the decaying body simply separated from the head.
There were other, equally bizarre ways of dealing with vampire burials, according to research published by forensic anthropologist Matteo Borrini. He cites the case of a woman who died during a 16th-century plague in Venice, Italy. The woman was apparently buried with a brick wedged tightly in her open mouth, a popular medieval method of keeping suspected vampires from returning to feed on the blood of the living. The woman's grave might be the earliest known vampire burial ever found.
Hers was a typical case of an accusation of vampirism following some calamity, such as a plague or a devastating crop failure. Accusing an individual of being a vampire was a not-uncommon way of finding a scapegoat for an otherwise unexplained disaster.
In other cases, the body of a suspected vampire might be staked to the ground, pinning the corpse into place with a stake made of metal or wood. In 2012, archaeologists in Bulgaria found two skeletons with iron rods piercing their chests, indicating they may have been considered vampires.
The practice of decapitating the bodies of suspected vampires before burial was common in Slavic countries during the early Christian era, when pagan beliefs were still widespread.
In fact, their belief in vampires stemmed from both superstition about death and lack of knowledge about decomposition. Most vampire stories of history tend to follow a certain pattern where an individual or family dies of some unfortunate event or disease; before science could explain such deaths, the people chose to blame them on "vampires."
Villagers have also mistaken ordinary decomposition processes for the supernatural. "For example, though laypeople might assume that a body would decompose immediately, if the coffin is well sealed and buried in winter, putrefaction might be delayed by weeks or months; intestinal decomposition creates bloating which can force blood up into the mouth, making it look like a dead body has recently sucked blood," writes LiveScience's Bad Science columnist Benjamin Radford. "These processes are well understood by modern doctors and morticians, but in medieval Europe were taken as unmistakable signs that vampires were real and existed among them."
There's no consensus yet on when the bodies found in Poland were buried. According to Jacek Pierzak, one of the archaeologists on the site, the skeletons were found with no jewelry, belt buckles, buttons or any other artifacts that might assist in providing a burial date.
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La Sexta Sinfonía en Do mayor D. 589 de Franz Schubert fue escrita entre octubre de 1817 (fecha que figura a la cabeza del manuscrito) y febrero de 1818. Es conocida como la pequeña do mayor, para diferenciarla de la Gran Sinfonía en do mayor (D. 944) del mismo compositor.

Esta sinfonía es una de las menos conocidas e interpretadas de Schubert. Su escritura se vio muy influenciada por Beethoven (el Scherzo presto recuerda en gran parte al Presto - Assai meno presto de su Séptima Sinfonía), pero también por Rossini. Schubert compuso al mismo tiempo dos oberturas en estilo italiano (D. 590 y D. 591).

La sinfonía se presentó por primera vez en público pocos meses después de la muerte de Schubert en el Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde el 14 de diciembre de 1828.

Esta sexta sinfonía está incluida en un primer ciclo de composición sinfónica, iniciado en 1813 y que durará hasta 1818 con la sexta, no retomada después hasta 1826 con la novena (las séptima y octava están incompletas).

Movimientos
 I. Adagio - Allegro
 II. Andante, en fa mayor
 III. Scherzo: Presto. Trio: piu lento; el trío, en mi mayor
 IV. Allegro moderato

Véase también
Anexo:Composiciones de Franz Schubert

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Notas

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Sinfonías de Franz Schubert
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Irwin Winkler will be honored with the Producers Guild of America's 2017 David O. Selznick Achievement Award, the PGA announced today. The award recognizes a body of work that includes such modern classics as Raging Bull, Goodfellas and the Oscar-winning Rocky.
"I am honored to receive what is truly the trifecta of recognition: from the legacy of David O. Selznick, from the institution of the Producers Guild of America, and from my esteemed colleagues," Winkler said. "It is both a humbling and inspiring experience to be included alongside this list of our most accomplished filmmakers of today."
The award will be presented to Winkler at the 28th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony on January 28, 2017 at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.
In addition to the Martin Scorsese films (including The Wolf of Wall Street) and the Rocky franchise, Winkler lengthy roster of producing credits include The Right Stuff and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? He's producing Scorsese's upcoming film Silence starring Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver, and is the only producer with three films on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films (Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Rocky).
"Irwin Winkler's movies have come to define Hollywood storytelling, and the gallery of iconic characters and classic scenes from his work remains a touchstone for all motion picture producers," said Producers Guild Awards chairs Donald De Line and Amy Pascal. "It's an honor to give Irwin this award this season, as he continues to release some of the most vital work of his storied career."
Previous recipients of the David O. Selznick Award include David Heyman, Stanley Kramer, Billy Wilder, Clint Eastwood, Jerry Bruckheimer, Brian Grazer, Laura Ziskin, Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall, Scott Rudin and Steven Spielberg.
This article was printed from	https://deadline.com/2016/11/irwin-winkler-producers-guild-selznick-award-1201854572/


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Ronaldo to retire
SAO PAULO, February 14- Brazilian football legend Ronaldo, who helped his country to two World Cup trophies and is still the tournament's top scorer, is to retire Monday, Brazilian media reported.
"I can't take any more," the 34-year-old star told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.
"I wanted to continue, but I can't do it any more. I think of an action, but I can't do it the way I want to. It's time."
"It's the body that's hurting me," he told Globo television. "The head wants to go on, but the body can't take any more."
Ronaldo had already spoken in terms of retiring at the end of the year.
But a succession of injuries and the elimination of his club, Corinthians, from the Copa Libertadores, South America's most prestigious club tournament, appears to have pushed the date forward.
The Copa trophy, the equivalent of Europe's Champions League trophy, was the only one Ronaldo had not won in what has been a spectacular career.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, the player known as 'El Fenomeno' during his prime had held out hopes of one last World Cup in South Africa last year.
He had, after all, shrugged off injury in the 2002 tournament to help Brazil to the trophy, ending the tournament as top scorer on 15 goals, a total that has not yet been bettered.
In the end though, he had to accept that his injuries and lack of match fitness had ruled him out.
Ronaldo had already fought back to fitness from three career-threatening injuries.
Along the way he picked up a string of honours, including the FIFA Player of the Year three times: in 1996, 1997 and 2002.
His career took him to some of Europe's top clubs, including FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain, and Inter Milan and AC Milan in Italy.
But he was sidelined while playing for Inter by a knee injury in 1999 only to damage the same knee in his comeback for the club in February 2000, effectively keeping him out of action until March 2002.
Ronaldo was a favourite with fans at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium during a prolific spell with Real Madrid, helping them to the Spanish title in 2003, his debut season.
That year he also scored a hat-trick in the Champions League quarter-final, second leg win over Manchester United. But injuries and his failure to control his weight led to his departure in 2007 for AC MIlan.
In February 2008 he ruptured a tendon in his right knee playing for the club against Livorno, an injury that ended his career with the Italian club.
That triggered his return to Brazil in 2009 where he signed for Corinthians last year after a long battle to regain form.
In 2008 Ronaldo was the centre of controversy when he was caught in the middle of a drugs and sex scandal with three transvestites after nightclubbing in Rio de Janeiro.
And in December he admitted to being the father of a five-year-old boy born in Japan and living in Singapore, following the result of a DNA test, after a long battle by the boy's mother.
Ronaldo has other three children: a son with his ex-wife Milene Dominguez, and two daughters with his current wife, Bia Anthony.
The striker has already expressed an interest in one day becoming chairman of Corinthians.


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request.getServerName() gives me the name of the reverse proxy server. How do I get the name of the server on which my application is deployed?
For starters, everything seems to be functioning as it should... you don't want folks accessing your apps to get the real server name whenever they request it. They should always get the RP name, that's one of the reasons you use RPs.
You've said "I have an app..." and "...my app is deployed" Are you the app developer? Lacking further details, I see a very simple solution... how do you deploy your applications? Whatever tool you're using must be connected to that application host to deploy your app so a quick examination of that tool's settings should give you the host name. Alternatively, there must be a member of the Basis or Network Security teams at your office that support those reverse proxies who could quickly examine the rewrite statements in use and give you the host name and port of the application host.
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Mikel Merino, född 22 juni 1996, är en spansk fotbollsspelare som spelar för Real Sociedad.

Karriär
2014 slog Merino igenom i Osasuna. 2016 värvades Merino till Borussia Dortmund, där han inte riktigt lyckades slå igenom och blev året därpå utlånad till Newcastle United. I oktober 2017 värvades Merino av Newcastle efter en utköpsklausul som aktiverades efter 7 matcher spelade.

Den 12 juli 2018 värvades Merino av Real Sociedad.

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Spanska fotbollsspelare
Spanska landslagsspelare i fotboll
Spelare i CA Osasuna
Spelare i Borussia Dortmund
Spelare i Newcastle United FC
Spelare i Real Sociedad
Spelare i La Liga
Spelare i Segunda División
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title: Visite du président de la République française au Luxembourg
subtitle: À l'occasion de la visite du président de la République française au Luxembourg, le comité de soutien exprime ses espoirs d'une discussion pour la justice fiscale et l'arrêt des poursuites contre Antoine Deltour.
author: Comité de soutien à Antoine
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## Communiqué de Presse

_Épinal, le 5 mars 2015_

Le Comité de soutien à Antoine Deltour souhaite que la visite officielle du président de la République française au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg le vendredi 6 mars 2015 soit l'occasion d'aborder sans tabou, avec les autorités luxembourgeoises, le sujet de la justice fiscale entre pays européens. Les pratiques d'optimisation fiscale aggressive menées par de nombreuses multinationales avec l'accord de certains pays, et pas uniquement le Luxembourg, doivent en effet être rapidement abandonnées.

Sans l'action de lanceur d'alerte menée par Antoine Deltour, le sujet de l'harmonisation fiscale ne serait pas actuellement à l'ordre du jour de nombreuses négociations et réflexions au sein des instances européennes et entre les États membres. Or, Antoine Deltour, qui a agi de façon totalement désintéressée et en citoyen européen responsable, est aujourd'hui poursuivi par la justice luxembourgeoise.

Le Comité de soutien espère que le président de la République française et les autorités luxembourgeoises conviendront de l'injustice flagrante que constituent les poursuites à l'encontre d'Antoine Deltour. L'arrêt de ces poursuites serait un marqueur de l'engagement européen vers plus de transparence et de justice fiscale, démarche souhaitée impatiemment par les peuples européens.

L'action du lanceur d'alerte Antoine Deltour est présentée sur le site du Comité de soutien : [https://support- antoine.org/](https://support- antoine.org/)

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Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 er supergruppen Traveling Wilburys debutplade og blev indspillet og udgivet i 1988 hvor den blev en stor kommerciel og kritikerrost succes.

Baggrund

Efter George Harrison havde fået sit comeback med albummet Cloud Nine fra 1987, begyndte han de følgende år at jamme sammen med vennerne Bob Dylan, Tom Petty og Jeff Lynne. Lynne var indblandet i produceringen af Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl album og inviterede ham med. De fik den ide at de ville indspille et enkelt album sammen under navnet Traveling Wilburys. Forklædt som Wilbury brødrene, blev medlemmerne kendt som Nelson (Harrison), Otis (Lynne), Lucky (Dylan), Lefty (Orbison) og Charlie T. Jnr (Petty).

Harrison skrev på bandets vegne kontrakt med Warner Bros. Records, som han også selv havde kontrakt med, og inkorporerede deres eget pladeselskab Wilbury Records, udover at producere for Lynne samme forår.

Albummet
I oktober blev Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (navnet fik det på grund af usandsynligheden for at der ville komme endnu et) udgivet. Sangen "Handle With Care" fra albummet havde i forvejen været udgivet som single. Selvom singlen ikke kom op i toppen af hitlisterne (i USA stoppede den på #45), gjorde albummet, og nåede #16 i Storbritannien og  #3 i USA. Efter at have været på hitlisterne i mere end fyrre uger opnåede albummet dobbelt-platin. Mens Harrison og Petty havde haft nylige succeser, havde Dylan, Orbison og Lynne ikke haft et album som nåede så højt i flere år. På det tidspunkt havde intet Dylan album nået to millioner solgte plader. Som en kritiker sagde, var det "et af årtiets største kommercielle kup."

Alle gruppens medlemmer har mindst 1 sang hvor de selv synger for. Numrenes musikstil bærer ofte præg af personen der synger den. Dermed virker Handle with Care f.eks. meget som samtidige George Harrison-numre, Tweeter and the Monkey Man har det samme "historiefortællende" aspekt som flere andre Dylan-sange, Rattled leder tankerne tilbage på ELO og Not Alone Any More minder meget om flere af Roy Orbisons tidligere kærlighedssange. På End Of The Line synger alle fem medlemmer et vers hver – Harrison synger to. Sangen Margarita er et specielt instrumentalnummer, muligvis inspireret af Harrisons Electric Sound eksperimenterende album.

De fleste kritikere sagde, at gruppens beskedne ambitioner var friske og afslappende. Gennem 1989 og 1990 høstede albummet mange anerkendelser, ikke mindst en Grammy for "Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group".

Orbison døde meget pludseligt af en blodprop  6. december 1988, hvilket kom som en chok for store dele af musikindustrien og pressen. Pladeomslaget til "End Of The Line", gruppens anden single, blev fotograferet fire dage efter Orbisons død. Det forestiller en guitar i Orbisons gyngestol, det blev taget som en hyldest – musikvideoen til sangen viser ligeledes gyngestolen ved det vers, Orbison synger. Hvad angår Orbison, blev dette  album udgivet samtidig som hans eget Mystery Girl album i 1989, og begge deres succeser har gjort Orbison til en af kun to sangere, som har haft to albums på hitlisterne posthumt (den anden er Elvis Presley).

Både Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 og dens uventede efterfølger, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, fra 1990 udgik i midten af 1990'erne, dermed tilfaldt alle rettigheder senere Harrisons efterladte efter hans død i 2001. Efter at alle hans soloudgivelser er hjemfaldet til EMI efter næsten tyve år med Warner Bros. Records, som distribuerede hans Dark Horse Records pladeselskab, lader det til at begge Traveling Wilburys albums vil blive udsendt på ny gennem EMI. Tom Petty er blevet citeret for at sige at de ville blive genudgivet sent i 2005, men de blev først genudgivet i Juni 2007.

Spor
Alle sange er skrevet af Traveling Wilburys.
 "Handle with Care" – 3:20
 "Dirty World" – 3:30
 "Rattled" – 3:00
 "Last Night" – 3:48
 "Not Alone Any More" – 3:24
 "Congratulations" – 3:30
 "Heading for the Light" – 3:37
 "Margarita" – 3:15
 "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" – 5:30
 "End Of The Line" – 3:30

Medlemmer
 Otis Wilbury – keyboards, guitarer, sang, kor
 Nelson Wilbury – guitarer, sang, kor
 Charlie T. Jnr – akustisk guitar, sang, kor
 Lefty Wilbury – akustisk guitar, sang, kor
 Lucky Wilbury – akustisk guitar, sang, kor

Andre medvirkende
 Jim Keltner – trommer
 Jim Horn – saxofoner
 Ray Cooper – slagtøj
 Ian Wallace – tam tam på spor 1

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Iran: Major Explosions at Mahshahr Petrochemical Plant
Written by Mohsen Aboutalebi on April 5, 2022 . Posted in NEWS
The chemical waste warehouse of Hamour Company, which is located in the Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Zone, caught fire in August 2021.
On Thursday, March 31, two members of the unit were severely injured after an explosion and fire at the Kavoshgaran Petroleum Refining Company, one of the Mahshahr Petrochemical Complex's sites in southwestern Iran. The official state news agency, IRNA, confirmed the incident and stated that the fire was extinguished and under control. It was reported that two workers from this petrochemical plant had suffered severe burns and had been transferred to Mahshahr's Hajieh Narges Hospital. According to IRNA, firefighters were able to put out the fire.
In an interview with IRNA, a spokesman for the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone said, "The cause of the accident is being investigated by HSE experts of the Special Economic Zone Organization."
The recent fires and explosions in petrochemical companies and units in Iran, particularly in the Mahshahr economic zone, are not unusual. Similar incidents occurred at Mahshahr's Tondgouyan Petrochemical, Ilam Petrochemical, Khark Island Petrochemical Complex, and Kangan Petroleum Refinery. The chemical waste warehouse of Hamour Company, which is located in the Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Zone, caught fire in August 2021.
The most widespread and destructive fire at an oil facility occurred at the Tehran oil refinery in June of last year, killing one person and injuring another. While some of these incidents are suspected to be deliberate, poor condition and worn-out equipment are also major factors.
#BREAKING#Khuzestan, SW #Iran—"Fearsome explosions at #Mahshahr Petrochemical Plant," state-run Borna website reported a few minutes ago.
Two days earlier, official websites reported a fire at this facility's parking. "The fire's perpetrators were armed and arrested." pic.twitter.com/7hhJueYPR0
— Iran News Update (@IranNewsUpdate1) March 31, 2022
The cause of the accident is being investigated by experts from the Special Economic Zone Organization, according to Mohsen Adibi, a spokesman for the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone.
This came just three days after the IRNA news agency reported that "the perpetrators of the fire parked in the parking lot of the guest house of Rah-e Avaran Fanun Petrochemical Company in Mahshahr" and had been arrested by police.
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Q: Jquery enlarge image without plugins I am having difficulties to code a simple jquery enlarge image feature on a image however i do not want plugins. So when you click on a image it pops up and enlarges the image size and when you click on "x" it closes the enlarge image.

A: Just us www.fancybox.net. If you really not want to use any plugin you will still endup with the samecode as one plugin.
Do something like this if you really want not to use a plugin.
$(document).ready(function () {
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$('#myImage').css({zoom: '200%'})

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For over a year now I've been hearing the name Andy Tauer. It began with a fellow blending partner, Ylva Rubensson. She had been intrigued by Andy's particular methodology for making perfume. Then, my friend and mentor, Gail Adrian highly recommended I experience his perfumes. Well, this past Saturday, I finally had the opportunity to meet Andy and see what Andymania is all about.
I arrived at the Lucky Scent Bar to witness two men taking photos, one on each side of the counter...was it of each other? The blonde, wavy haired young man in the blue suit I recognized immediately. Andy is much more magnetic and charismatic than the photo on his website suggests. I found him super funny and charming with that underlying sensitivity found in artistic souls. The owners of Lucky Scent, Adam Eastwood and Franco Wright are a delight with a terrific aesthetic. In a past life they both worked as graphic designers.
Andy began his presentation with samples of two types of frankincense. One was a Boswellia carteri from Somalia and a distilled Frankincense Resin from India. I must say the distilled Frankincense was absolutely stunning! He also shared a Boswellia serrata CO2 found in both Incense Extrême and Incense Rosé at almost the same concentration.We experienced a fresh and spicy Coriander and the citrusy Petitgrain, both of which are contained in Incense Extrême. Andy works with both of natural and synthetic materials. He teased about this saying he was neither Catholic nor Protestant. He also passed around some of the expensive, synthetic notes he incorporates including Irone alpha, based on Orris and Ambroxide, a molecule found in Ambergris. For Lonestar Memories he used a rectified version of the woody Texas Cedarwood, Juniperus mexicana, combined with the Ambroxide. All the materials just mentioned are the major scents found in Incense Extrême . Incense Rosé contains 40 different ingredients, both natural and synthetic: the sweet, flowery synthetic phenyl ethyl, damascenone (in minute quantities with phenyl ethyl), geraniol, Bulgarian rose absolute, myrrh and labdanum.
Andy also brought along two of the scents currently in process a Rose Chypre and a Vetiver based fragrance. Rose chypre trial version 3.5: He followed Luca Turin's definition of chypre, which combines bergamot, oakmoss, and labdanum. The Rose chypre 3.5 utilizes both the Bulgarian rose absolute and the steam-distilled rose oil. Vetiver trial version 8 is an earthy vetiver based fragrance that unfortunately I did not get to smell. Maria B, one of Andy's biggest fans and a trusted "nose" for Tauer Perfumes tells me it is lovely.
When sharing how he works, I was stunned to hear that his process begins by typing a formula on his computer. This is so different from me and got me thinking that each perfumer probably has a very unique path to achieving there final perfume orchestration. Some of this of course is revealed in the Perfume Inside a Poem project created by Heather Ettlinger.
One of the wonders of these types of events is that you get to hang with other scent obsessed folk. The event made me think of the last LA Sniffapalooza. In fact, I recognized many faces. It was a pleasure to finally meet Justine Crane of The Scented Djinn and Le Parfumeur Rebelle. The lovely and gracious Maria B, was in attendance with her husband Kurt. The tiny Scent Bar space was packed. I noticed some filming taking place and look forward to seeing the footage.
Andy was a fellow participant in the Memory and Desire, Perfume Inside a Poem project. We had the delight to sample his contribution. The freshly dipped scent strip smelled of fresh, crystalline flowers to me.
There is quite a lot of written reviews out on Andy's perfumes, below are a few links where you can read about his fragrances and seek them out.
Thank You to Maria B for the use of her fantastic notes and her husband Kurt for his warmth and smile. Many thanks also to Franco for sending along their photos from the special event.
To purchase Andy's perfumes check out the The Scent Bar on Beverly or their online store. Sign up for the Lucky Scent newsletter to hear about other upcoming events, like this one with Andy.
All those smiling faces--that's how wonderful the event was. I enjoyed seeing Andy again, and I'm very glad I met you. Perfume people are so nice. It's heavenly being around them.
Andy is a fascinating perfumer.
you look lovely and your smile is so lovely.
Justine is in the first photograph, in the background, wearing her pink Le Parfumeur Rebelle t-shirt.
Roxana, I enjoyed hearing about this so much. How I would have loved to have been there so I could meet you both! Fantastic pictures, and a great introduction to Andy. Thank you so much!
The event was indeed wonder filled and we are all smiling because Andy is such a joy, really. His radiant spirit filled that little space.
Heather, it would have been a great thrill to have you in attendance. Enjoy the Sniffapalooza Spring Fling and know that I will be there in spirit!


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Usain Bolt qualifies for finals ! what a statement and he is no. 4 !! 100M finals at Rio tomorrow
Is this man bigger than the Sports itself ! ~ and that sports lasts barely less than 10 seconds !! Just like any other mother in India, this champion's mother too has an eye on the future. "I would hope he'll settle down, get married and start his family," Jennifer told CNN's Don Riddell as she talked about the hopes she has for her son once he stops competing.
Nothing ordinary one may think, but, she is mother of Usain Bolt, the legend. Bolt might have estimated annual earnings of $30 million -- he ranks 32nd of Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid athletes -- but as he has accrued all those gold medals and the ensuing financial success, a smile has never disappeared from the sprinter's face.
The countdown to 'the fastest legs' in history has already begun. The heats are over and the most watched man ran a rather slow race in heat 7 completing in 10.07 secs .. and I never thought that the finals would have a competitor from Cote d'Ivoire, China and 2 from Bahrain. !!
Olympics at Beijing in 2008 was all about Usain Bolt. In the Olympic 100 m final, Bolt broke new ground, winning in 9.69 seconds. He has since cut a few more seconds out of that. 9.58 is the World Record. At the 2012 London Olympics, he won the 100 metres gold medal with a time of 9.63 seconds, improving upon his own Olympic record and defending his gold medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He took 200 metres title with a time of 19.32 seconds, and on the final day of the 2012 Olympic athletics, Bolt participated in Jamaica's gold medal-winning 4×100 metres relay team consisting of Bolt, Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Blake. With a time of 36.84 seconds, they knocked two tenths of a second from their previous world record from 2011.
Always the crown jewel in the Olympic athletics programme, the Rio 100 metres final is shaping up to be extraordinary for many reasons. When Usain Bolt and company enter the Olympic stadium on Sunday, this will be it. The last Olympic 100 metres final for the greatest sprinter the sport has known. With victory, Jamaican Bolt would become the first man to win three consecutive 100 metres titles at the Games. American rival Justin Gatlin, at the age of 34, would make a mark of his own with a podium finish. No man that old has ever medalled in an Olympic 100 metres final.
Of the 8 Bolt is at 4. Justin Gatlin (USA 10.01S); Ben Youssef Meite (Cote d'Ivoire 10.03; Andre De Grasse (Canada 10.04); Usain Bolt (Jamaica, 10.07); Xie Zhenye (China 10.08); Yohan Blake (Jamaica 10.11); Andrew Fisher (Bahrain 10.12); Kemarley Brown (Bahrain, 10.13)
There are to be 3 Semi-finals and 8 of them would go to the finals, which are to be held on 15th Aug 2016, IST.
13th Aug 2016.
Posted by Srinivasan Sampathkumar at Saturday, August 13, 2016
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The Tate and Lyle Local Fund was launched last week for the second year running. Our own Joan Tardiel was invited to present the project that was supported by Tate and Lyle last year: a street wise map created with local school students, the SubCo trust and local police officers.
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The his genitive is a means of forming a genitive construction by linking two nouns with a possessive pronoun such as "his" (e.g. "my friend his car" instead of "my friend's car").  This construction enjoyed only a brief heyday in English in the late 16th century and the 17th century, but is common in some varieties of a number of Germanic languages, and standard in Afrikaans.

In English
In Early Modern English, the orthographic practice developed of marking the genitive case by inserting the word "his" between the possessor noun, especially where it ended in -s, and the following possessed noun. The heyday of this construction, employed by John Lyly, Euphues His England (1508), the poem Willobie His Avisa (1594), in the travel accounts under the title Purchas His Pilgrimes (1602), Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall (1603) or John Donne's Ignatius His Conclave (1611), was the late 16th and early 17th  century. For example, in 1622, the Holy Roman Emperor's ambassador in London "ran at tilt in the Prince his company with Lord Montjoy". The term "his genitive" may refer either to marking genitives with "his" as a reflexive or intensifying marker or, much more precisely, the practice of using "his" instead of an -s.  Therefore, use of the "his" genitive in writing occurred throughout later Middle English and early modern English as an intensifier, but as a replacement marker only for a brief time.

Origins and history

In Old English, the genitive case was marked most often by an "-es" ending for masculine and neuter nouns, although it was marked with other suffixes or by umlaut with many nouns. There are no unassailable examples of the "his" genitive in Anglo-Saxon. Although a small number of examples were produced by earlier scholars to show that the "his" genitive can be traced back to Old English, Allen examines every putative example of the "his" genitive that has been presented from Old English and finds them all to be subject to other possible analyses. The first clear examples of the "his" genitive do not appear until  1250, when the -s ending had extended to all noun classes and NP-internal agreement had disappeared, making the -s ending the sole marker of genitive case.

The history of the "his" genitives in English is extensively covered in Allen (2008). There were two periods of "his" genitives. In the earliest period, only "his" (or some h-less form such as ys, is, or us) is found, even when the possessor was feminine, as in Margere ys dowghter ys past to Godd 'Margery's daughter has passed to God' (Cely letter from 1482) or plural, as in ...not borrowed of other men his lippes  'not borrowed from other men's lips' (Roger Asham, b. 1515). In 1546, however, we find Elizabeth Holland her howse 'Elizabeth Holland's house', and after this, the pronoun always agrees with a feminine or plural head. However, most examples involve singular masculine possessors and are therefore not diagnostic for agreement or the lack of it. Most examples in fact involve men's names.

Around 1680, the "his" genitive began to disappear, in contrast to the "-s" genitive. Before that period, both "his" and -s genitives occur in the writings of the same author, although the -s genitive is always dominant, except with men's names. Essentially, this meant writing, or saying, "Ned his house" instead of "Neds house." As Curme puts it, "The s-genitive was doubtless felt by many as a contraction of the his-genitive, which strengthened the tendency to place an apostrophe before the genitive endings" (as an indication of an elided "his"). The "his" genitive was not limited to masculine singular nouns in Middle English, but it is also found with feminine gender and plural number. It is only in the mid-sixteenth century, in Early Modern English that we find "agreeing" genitives like "Pallas her Glasse" from Sir Arthur Gorges's English translation of Francis Bacon's The Wisedome of the Ancients from the original Latin. These "agreeing" genitives were likely analogous. Furthermore, impersonal and lifeless, though linguistically masculine, nouns were rarely expressed with the "his" genitive.

An "agreeing" pronominal genitive is also present in other Germanic languages, while it died out quickly in English. Therefore, although there are analogous "his" genitives in Low German and other languages, no Old English "his" genitive is the source of the early Modern English form. It is possible that the "his" genitive derived instead from unstressed forms of the Middle English "-es" genitive, as, according to Baugh, "the -es of the genitive, being unaccented, was frequently written and pronounced -is, -ys". In other words, it was pronounced as "his" already, and "his" often lost its  when unstressed in speech. Therefore, it is likely that people were already saying "his" after a masculine noun in later Middle English by hypercorrection, and the "his" genitive may therefore have been an orthographic anomaly. Samuel Johnson, among others, recognized that the apostrophe possessive was not due to the contraction of "his".

The "his" genitive as a hypercorrection had a brief literary existence, whatever its prevalence in spoken English. Having only appeared around 1580, it was exceptionally rare by 1700. As printing became more widespread, and printed grammars informally standardized written English, the "-s" genitive (also known as the Saxon genitive) with an apostrophe (as if a "his" had been contracted) had gone to all nominal genders, including nouns that previously had an unmarked genitive (such as "Lady" in "Lady Day"). This remains the general form for creating possessives in English.

Parallels in other languages
Constructions parallel to the "his" genitive are found in other languages, especially Germanic.

Germanic
 In dialects of German, equivalent constructions like dem Mann sein Haus ("the man-dative his house" instead of genitive case: das Haus des Mannes, or des Mannes Haus, which is archaic) are found. The construction is deliberately used as a pun in the title of Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (lit. The dative is to the genitive its death instead of The dative is the genitive's death), a very popular series of five books of prescriptivist German language advice, critically acclaimed for their humour, by German journalist and author Bastian Sick.
The modern Saxon language, commonly known as Low German, developed this form of genitive as early as in the Middle Ages. Early stages included mixture forms of genitive and his-construction: Des fischers sin hus (the fisherman's his house). Later development brought forth two kinds of dative constructions existing alongside the proper genitive: Deme fischer sin hus (the fisherman his house) and dat hus van deme fischer (the house of the fisherman) next to des fischers hus (the fisherman's house). Not every class and dialect used both forms with equal part. Some of the German speakers making the aforementioned mistakes might trace this back to the time when Low German was the language of the lower classes, before High German (or Dutch) established itself as most common first language in all regions and classes.
 In Dutch the construction is common in the spoken language, and dependent on the gender of the possessor (and in most Belgian Dutch dialects on the gender of the object as well). In the Netherlands, the possessive pronouns are represented as they are spoken, in their informal, unstressed form: Jan z'n fiets, "Jan his bicycle" meaning Jan's bicycle; Anja d'r tas, "Anja her bag". In Belgian Dutch, the full form is common: Jan zijn fiets, Anja haar tas, and the standard form Jans fiets is not commonly used in spoken language. Although discouraged in written Dutch, the construction has found its way into literature as early as the mid-19th century poetry of Piet Paaltjens and in proverbs such as De een z'n dood is de ander z'n brood (lit. "One man's death is another man's bread", i.e. "One man's breath, another's death"/"One person's loss is another person's gain").
 In Afrikaans the construction die man se kinders ("the man's children") is standard. The possessive element se appears to derive from sy "his", but contrary to Dutch it is used with all genders and numbers: e.g. die vrouens se kinders "the women's children".
 Norwegian, especially colloquial such, uses reflexive possessive pronouns extensively. These pronouns agree with the possessor in number (third person but are also declined according to gender and number of the object (rather than that of the possessor), e.g. "Pål sine høner (Pål his hens); "Ola sin hund" ("Ola his dog"); "Per si(n) klokke" ("Per his clock"); "Hilde sitt hus" ("Hilde her house"); "Tina sine bøker" ("Tina her books"). In nynorsk one may also use "hans" and "hennar", e.g. "Klokka hans Per" ("The clock his Per"); "Huset hennar Hilde" ("The house her Hilde"); "Grauten hennar mor" ("The porridge her Mom").

An important difference between the early "his" genitives in Middle English and the other Germanic languages is that the early English "his" genitives agreed with neither the possessor nor the possessed thing; the possessive marker was always some form of "his" or "ys". In Early Modern English, however, the genitive marker was clearly a pronoun that agreed with the possessor.

Non-Germanic
His genitive contructions also occur in languages such as the Turkic family (including Turkish and Azerbaijani), Hungarian, and Indonesian, unlike Germanic, are marked by possessive affixes instead of separate pronouns.

References

Genitive construction
History of the English language

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Schechter, strikes and halakhah
By GUEST BLOGS
(By Rabbi Jill Jacobs)
During the year that I spent in Jerusalem, at the Schechter Institute as part of my rabbinical studies, in 2000-2001, I learned that Schechter - the Masorti Movement's academic institution in Israel - prides itself on the seriousness with which it approaches halakhah (Jewish law). I am surprised, then, to see the Schechter administration act in direct contradiction of halakhah.
A few weeks ago, the Schechter faculty returned to work from a partial, week-long strike after contract negotiations between employees and the administration broke down. A year earlier, the institution had unilaterally imposed pay cuts of 5-11 percent on employees, citing these measures as a necessary response to the financial crisis and more specifically, the death of the institution's largest donor. Even while cutting employees' pay, the institution continued with the construction of new academic buildings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. After the cuts, employees decided to organize a union.
According to Dr. Paul Mandel, a faculty member and union leader, Schechter did everything possible to stop the union. When employees sought to gather employee signatures to form a union, they used an employee list provided by the administration. But when they reported that they had reached the necessary percentage to form a union, Schechter produced new employee lists with names of former workers who were no longer on the payroll. The administration also publicly disparaged the union in an effort to dissuade employees from joining. And once the union was formed, Schechter allegedly paid tens of thousands of shekels per month to an consulting firm charged with breaking the union.
The major issue in the current negotiations is the attempt by Schechter to force workers to accept a contract that would restrict the workers' right to strike in the future. Such a contract would strip the union of its essential, defining power and therefore amounts to curtailing the employees' ability to unionize at all.
Virtually every major modern Jewish legal authority who has written about unions has supported the right of workers to organize and of unions to strike. Rabbi Ben-Tzion Meir Chai Uziel, the Sephardi chief rabbi of Palestine/Israel from 1939 until 1953, ruled:
The law allows [unions], so that the individual worker will not be left on his own, to the point that he hires himself out for a low wage in order to satisfy his hunger and that of his family with a bit of bread and water and with a dark and dingy home. . . Therefore, the Torah gave the Jewish people the full and legal right to organize these, even though it is possible that [such unions] will result in a financial loss for the employers. (Mishpetei Uziel, Choshen Mishpat 52:6)
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef declared that unions may "make use of strikes in order to raise wages, or to ease work conditions, or other such things" (Yechaveh Da'at 4:58).
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, a preeminent 20th-century American rabbi, even concluded that if a majority of workers goes out on strike, the minority may not cross the picket line to work. Furthermore, he wrote, the company may not hire non-union replacement workers. He based this decision on the principle of "ka paskat lei l''hiyuti" –one person (the replacement) may not take away the livelihood of another (the striker) (Igg'rot Moshe Choshen Mishpat 59).
However, Feinstein approached teachers' strikes more cautiously, allowing them only if the teachers "do not have enough for their needs, so that as a result, it becomes difficult for them to teach the students well, and if it is clear that if they do not teach for a day or two, then the employers will pay them on time or raise their salaries" (ibid). By beginning with a short-term strike that did not include full-time faculty of the rabbinical school, the Schechter employees successfully balanced the tension between defending their own rights and letting the students continue their Torah studies.
By fighting the formation of the union, and by trying to deny employees the power of striking in the future, the Schechter Institute is acting in opposition both to major halakhic authorities and to an official position of the Conservative Movement, of which the Masorti Movement is the Israeli branch.
In 2008, the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards passed a teshuvah (legal position) that I wrote, which obliges institutions affiliated with the movement to comply with a series of Jewish labor laws.. Among these, employers must pay a living wage and "may not interfere in any way with organizing drives." Those voting in favor of the teshuvah included the Israeli Masorti Movement's representative to the committee.
What now? The Schechter Institute should move quickly to offer a contract that pays employees a living wage and maintains the union's right to bring complaints and even to strike. In accordance with authorities including Rabbi Moshe Findling (Chukat Ha'avodah 61-62) and Rabbi Katriel Fischel Tschorch (Keter Efrayim 5727 18-19), Schechter must also pay workers any back wages lost during the strike. If negotiations break down to the point that employees undertake a full strike, Schechter employees and students may not cross the picket line. Doing so would be tantamount to "taking away the livelihood of another."
The Schechter Institute has based its identity on a fidelity to halakhah. I hope that the administration will bring this dedication also to matters concerning the employees who work hard every day to make the institution a center of Torah.
Rabbi Jill Jacobs is the author of There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law and Tradition (Jewish Lights, 2009).


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A Strategic Approach to Public Diplomacy
Publications & Outreach > Publications > FSJ - May 2015 > A Strategic Approach to Public Diplomacy
BY JOE B. JOHNSON
In Santo Domingo, U.S. Ambassador Raul Yzaguirre believed that education was the key to economic development and social stability in the Dominican Republic, and that improvement in education required an increase in the country's budget. So Todd Haskell, the public affairs counselor, developed a strategic plan that included training and support for pro-education groups, a focused social media and traditional media campaign that supported education, and forward-leaning speeches and articles by Amb. Yzaguirre to endorse the efforts of a civic coalition.
The goal was to build political support for a long-ignored constitutional requirement that 4 percent of national income be devoted to education. Eventually, both major political party presidential candidates endorsed the concept; and after a closely fought election, the legislature enacted implementing legislation. One commentator called the ambassador's vocal support a "tipping point" for its passage.
In Algiers, Public Affairs Officer Tashawna Bethea used English study to cultivate young leaders throughout Algeria. Her strategy incorporated scholarships, educational exchange programs OUTand an alliance with Berlitz. She also opened the embassy's Information Resource Center to the public, gaining 1,100 members with cultural events, and proactively engaged with news organizations to publicize selected embassy initiatives in country.
Ambassador Henry Ensher said Bethea's work during a three-year assignment enhanced the overall political and commercial relationship between the United States and Algeria.
There should be no question that these examples demonstrate effective public diplomacy. Yet many in government are dissatisfied with how the global PD enterprise is measured and evaluated.
The Challenge of Measuring PD Work
The State Department and its predecessors have been trying various measurement and evaluation techniques for nearly a century. In 2006, the Office of Management and Budget rated public diplomacy field operations as "not performing—results not demonstrated." The first problem, according to OMB, was that there was no "master strategy" to evaluate. If you don't have clear objectives, how can you evaluate performance?
In September 2014, the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy issued a report, "Data-Driven Public Diplomacy," that analyzed this challenge and made specific recommendations on how the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors could use research to inform and evaluate PD campaigns and broadcasting programs.
The report reviewed major past projects like the "Advancing Public Diplomacy Impact Study," which a few years ago compared favorability toward the United States among PD program participants to that of nonparticipants in seven countries. It looked to future improvements in Web and social media analytics, and made concrete recommendations: more research staff and money, exemptions from laws that restrict government surveys and data collection, and systematic data sharing among State and other agencies, notably the Defense Department.
The report marks an important step forward, and its recommendations are compelling. However, I think it's fair to say that the commission's viewpoint is Washington-centric. In my estimation, one improvement also described and endorsed by the commission outweighs all the others: making public affairs sections more strategic.
Many in government are dissatisfied with how the global public diplomacy enterprise is measured and evaluated.
The heart of public diplomacy resides in U.S. embassies, advancing U.S. interests and improving bilateral relations. Yes, there are important cross-cutting global issues that appeal to multilateral audiences, and they are being addressed in Washington and in the field. But most key decisions are still made in the capitals and major cities of the 189 countries where the United States maintains embassies and consulates. Every mission has a specific list of priorities to protect American security and national interests, and most of those priorities require support from sectors of the national public.
In my work as an instructor at the Foreign Service Institute, I have been able to look at scores of public diplomacy projects and programs around the world. I've seen very impressive work. But too often, public affairs sections seem disconnected from specific policy initiatives.
Many PD staffers have trouble articulating the links between their work and policy advocacy. Media activities too often do little more than repeat generic messages from Washington and promote embassy events. PD professionals feel that the approach is too reactive, and some complain that their mission's front office changes priorities unexpectedly, appearing to be most interested in publicity and representational resources.
An Important Initiative
Harnessing public diplomacy more effectively to substantive mission priorities is the focus of an important initiative that is neither well known nor understood. In 2013, the under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs (called R on State's organization chart) asked all public affairs sections to draft a Public Diplomacy Implementation Plan. For its plan, each PA section is asked to:
• Select objectives from the mission's Integrated Country Strategy;
• Explain how the public affairs office will advance each chosen objective, using all resources—from social media and grants to educational exchanges; and
• Describe what results can be expected from the effort.
The mandate doesn't stop with a plan document, but involves reporting throughout the year. The Mission Activity Tracker, a companion Web-based data system, allows staff to record significant activities that follow from the plan, as well as results (e.g., audience feedback or favorable developments that can be linked to the event). The MAT has been around for more than 10 years, and has been improved to the point where it is intuitive and easily searchable. While there is no formal evaluation report, the implementation plan is to be reviewed and resubmitted annually.
Most posts submitted plans last year, and reaction from PD professionals has been constructive, judging from my interaction with FS and local staff. The great majority of them also feed data into the tracker.
The new system has the potential to provide Washington more granular and realistic evaluations at the same time that it makes public affairs sections more effective. Consider these benefits:
• Until now, most mission strategy papers have adopted broad PD goals about increasing mutual understanding or shaping the media narrative, without specifying which bilateral issues they address. The new document focuses on missionwide objectives.
• Both the planning documents and the activity tracker can be viewed by anyone who has access to State's unclassified but protected OpenNet network. This allows PAOs to compare notes with other posts or read in on a future assignment. Desk officers can search and analyze reported activities across one or many posts. Some bureaus already use MAT entries instead of cables or email for routine reporting.
• The entire MAT suite (including a couple of tools still in development) uses a standard set of categories for audiences, programs and topical themes. That imposes uniform standards of practice and promotes accountability. PD expenditures at posts are now coded by categories to indicate how outlays correlate with stated priorities.
• The plans enable Washington to know much more concretely what posts have prioritized. That sets up a basis for tactical decisions and evaluation, as well.
All good news. So what's the problem?
It's a campaign approach—setting a strategy to solve a problem and evaluating progress at regular intervals.
Nurturing Needed
The "strategic cycle" (Washington's term for the planning suite) is new and fragile, and it is planted on stony ground.
While compliance was good the first year, deeper buy-in is far from guaranteed. There is a school of thought that "you just can't measure success" when trying to change attitudes; so why try?
It is easy to treat the scheme as merely a paperwork exercise. Creating and following a strategy is a new discipline for most PAOs—one that has been neglected since State took over the PD function in 1999. Planning and logging activities involves the whole section—Foreign Service and local employees—and takes time, which is in scarce supply in the PD business.
The electronic tools are being improved, but will require further refinement. And that involves long-term budget support.
This second year of the initiative is critical. PAOs in the Near East and South Asia are only now submitting their first implementation plan. The Integrated Country Strategy exercise, a missionwide prerequisite for the PD Implementation Plan, was due last January for those regions. Public affairs officers will need incentives and training to adopt the new mindset. Regional bureaus will need to enforce compliance and use the system's capabilities. And R will need to continue providing both thought leadership and money. It will take several years for the new system to become the norm.
The payoff will be a more muscular public diplomacy. It's a campaign approach—setting a strategy to solve a problem and evaluating progress at regular intervals.
Instances of this new approach have been evident over the past few years. For example, the under secretary's office has allocated extra funds to posts on the basis of competitive proposals specifying desired outcomes. That rewarded strategic thinking. This past year, the Washington PD bureaus have been conducting campaigns to advance global policy issues and cultural exchange initiatives.
Public diplomacy is about more than getting people to like America. It is an instrument to promote change and sway audiences in ways that benefit the United States: an investment treaty, perhaps, or military cooperation, or action to combat disease or limit damage to the environment.
The entire country team has a stake in making PD more strategic. The public affairs section is meant to be a full partner with the political, economic and other mission elements. The new tools and approach of the PD strategic cycle enhance the capabilities of the embassy at large.
Leaders in Washington, and especially those posted abroad, should give public diplomacy's strategic cycle the support that it needs.
Joe B. Johnson teaches courses in public diplomacy at the Foreign Service Institute after a career in the Foreign Service and seven years with CSC, a global information technology and business services company.
Assessing U.S. Public Diplomacy: A Notional Model (The United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, September 2010)
Data-Driven Public Diplomacy (United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, Sept. 16, 2014)
Detailed Information on the Public Diplomacy Assessment (ExpectMore.gov, 2006)
Advancing Public Diplomacy Impact: A Multi-Method, Multi-Country Assessment (InterMedia)
2014 Comprehensive Annual Report On Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting (United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, Dec. 11, 2014)
Building a Foreign Service for 2025 and Beyond
FOCUS ON MANAGING RISK
Effective Diplomacy After Benghazi
Diplomatic Security Triage in a Dangerous World
Keeping Embassy Security in Perspective
Women Who Make a Difference: Reflections of a Foreign Service Wife in 1982
FS KNOW-HOW
Tips from the Belly of the Python
President's Views: Two Steps in Support of Career Development
Speaking Out: A Strategic Approach to Public Diplomacy
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Creatine monohydrate is widely considered to be one of the safest workout supplements, but after a bad experience, one writer sought to educate himself on the world of sports nutrition.
One evening in the fall of 2006 forever altered the way I view nutrition in the strength and conditioning world. While driving to fill-up my car with gas—not more than a mile from my home—I began to experience what felt like two claws seeping their talons into the center of my sternum, followed by a resting heart rate that soared to more than 150 beats per minute. My body was uncontrollably fighting to control an inevitable internal tailspin. But it was losing.
I admitted to ingesting the recommended loading doses of pure creatine monohydrate—what's sometimes thought to be one of the safest workout supplements—in the days prior to my medical condition.
After several blood tests, rounds of questioning, volcano-like blood pressure and lightheadedness that made a gargantuan hangover seem tolerable, it was determined that my condition was ultimately caused by toxicity, due to an excess of creatine in my system. This ailment caused an osmotic shift in the blood, leading to a flushing of essential electrolytes, especially cardiac-reliant potassium. Simply, I was falling into metabolic shock. Hard. And fast.
I was intravenously loaded with bags of electrolytes and fluids until the condition ultimately reversed itself. There were weeks of testing that followed, including a stress test, brain scan (shockingly, yes, they found one inside my cranium) and echocardiogram, but this experience led me in one direction—education. To learn more about the in-depth details of the multi-billion dollar nutritional and dietary supplement industry, along with its safety and research.
Even though there are those who have chosen to stay completely away from supplementation, many have opted to dabble with pills, powders and liquids in hope of productive and positive outcomes. I was one of those lab rats.
My experience with creatine toxicity rag-dolled me into a world of research. I attempted to find out the potential dangers—and/or benefits—of dietary supplementation. But because of 1994's Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), which made the Food and Drug Administration virtually powerless in the testing and regulation of nutritional and dietary supplements, it is difficult to have a clear understanding of their true effects.
Because of DSHEA, the FDA has very little say in the testing and setting of quality standards of dietary supplements. The manufacturers have no requirements to provide any information to FDA before their product is marketed, leaving those who try these substances to be left in a state of the unknown. Translation: If you walk in the dark without a nightlight, there's a solid chance you might stub your toe.
Since that fateful night a decade ago, I believe that I've molded into a smarter and wiser fitness fanatic, and have tried to instill the same in those around me. Not everyone will have the same experience I did with creatine or other supplements, but I feel obligated to share my story with others.
While dietary supplementation may still be appropriate in a handful of situations, such as medical-related ailments and uncontrollable dietary deficiencies, I believe a large part of the physically-motivated population can achieve their goals by concentrating more heavily on reliable dietary correction—increasing or decreasing the consumption of whole food products. Not everything can be found in a bottle.