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The short but tumultuous NBL career of Glen Rice Jnr is over, with the NZ Breakers saying they will part ways with the former NBA star no matter the result of assault charges against him. The Kiwi club said in a statement it would "indefinitely suspend" Rice after his early morning arrest last week following an incident at an Auckland bar. It is effectively a sacking as Breakers owner Walsh said the 28-year-old wouldn't play for the club again. Walsh said the club would support Rice at a court hearing on Wednesday in Auckland, but would then release the ex-NBA player, who arrived in New Zealand with a chequered background. He said new information about the incident had come to his attention on Monday which left Rice's future in an untenable position as far as the Breakers were concerned. "I respect our legal process in New Zealand and firmly believe that you are innocent until proven guilty," Walsh said. "However, regardless of the outcome of Glen's court appearance, there is no denying he has let down the club, our fans and the New Zealand public after we gave him this lifeline. "I feel it is my duty to assist Glen in paying his accommodation, legal and medical costs while he remains in our country to settle his business. "But I also have no option but to remove him from the team." Walsh was criticised earlier this month when signing Rice because of his history off the court, including several brushes with law in the United States. The deal was initially defended by Walsh, who said he wanted to give the former Washington Wizards' player a shot at redemption, noting Rice had previously forged a close bond with Breakers coach Dan Shamir. The one-time Wizards' shooting guard, son of three-time NBA All-Star Glen Rice Snr, showed signs of his class in two games. However, news of the alleged assault shocked the club. "I put structures in place, which I thought would prevent any problems happening, but I was wrong," Walsh said. "In many ways, I feel responsible in a situation where there are no winners. "Glen is a tremendously talented basketballer, but I expect our players to be professional both on and off the court." The Breakers said Rice had accepted an offer from Walsh for "professional medical help" and the player had his first appointment after arriving in Auckland on Monday morning from Perth. An 88-77 loss to Perth on Sunday - without Rice, who had been ordered to pull out by the NBL - continued a disastrous start to the season for the four-time champion Breakers. They have slumped to the bottom of the ladder with a 2-7 record. Walsh was the subject of negative headlines himself last week when fined $5000 and banned for two weeks for a verbal altercation with NBL commissioner Jeremy Loeliger during their previous game away to South East Melbourne. Walsh had the suspension reduced to one game and part of his fine suspended on appeal. Australian Associated Press
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NZ Breakers sack NBL import Rice Jnr
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The NZ Breakers have sacked NBL import guard Glen Rice Jnr after his assault charge in Auckland.
The short but tumultuous NBL career of Glen Rice Jnr is over, with the NZ Breakers saying they will part ways with the former NBA star no matter the result of assault charges against him.
The Kiwi club said in a statement it would "indefinitely suspend" Rice after his early morning arrest last week following an incident at an Auckland bar.
It is effectively a sacking as Breakers owner Walsh said the 28-year-old wouldn't play for the club again.
Walsh said the club would support Rice at a court hearing on Wednesday in Auckland, but would then release the ex-NBA player, who arrived in New Zealand with a chequered background.
He said new information about the incident had come to his attention on Monday which left Rice's future in an untenable position as far as the Breakers were concerned.
"I respect our legal process in New Zealand and firmly believe that you are innocent until proven guilty," Walsh said.
"However, regardless of the outcome of Glen's court appearance, there is no denying he has let down the club, our fans and the New Zealand public after we gave him this lifeline.
"I feel it is my duty to assist Glen in paying his accommodation, legal and medical costs while he remains in our country to settle his business.
"But I also have no option but to remove him from the team."
Walsh was criticised earlier this month when signing Rice because of his history off the court, including several brushes with law in the United States.
The deal was initially defended by Walsh, who said he wanted to give the former Washington Wizards' player a shot at redemption, noting Rice had previously forged a close bond with Breakers coach Dan Shamir.
The one-time Wizards' shooting guard, son of three-time NBA All-Star Glen Rice Snr, showed signs of his class in two games.
However, news of the alleged assault shocked the club.
"I put structures in place, which I thought would prevent any problems happening, but I was wrong," Walsh said.
"In many ways, I feel responsible in a situation where there are no winners.
"Glen is a tremendously talented basketballer, but I expect our players to be professional both on and off the court."
The Breakers said Rice had accepted an offer from Walsh for "professional medical help" and the player had his first appointment after arriving in Auckland on Monday morning from Perth.
An 88-77 loss to Perth on Sunday - without Rice, who had been ordered to pull out by the NBL - continued a disastrous start to the season for the four-time champion Breakers. They have slumped to the bottom of the ladder with a 2-7 record.
Walsh was the subject of negative headlines himself last week when fined $5000 and banned for two weeks for a verbal altercation with NBL commissioner Jeremy Loeliger during their previous game away to South East Melbourne.
Walsh had the suspension reduced to one game and part of his fine suspended on appeal.
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WILLOWS — A Bella Vista man was arrested Thursday when California Highway Patrol officers investigating his crash into a tree determined he was driving under the influence of drugs.
According to investigators, Leon E. Dean Jr., 50, was driving north on Interstate 5 at about 5 p.m., when his 2001 Toyota Solara ran into a tree near the Highway 162 offramp.
Dean told the CHP he lost control when he braked and swerved to avoid hitting a slower moving car in front of him. It was raining heavily at the time of the crash, according to the CHP.
Dean was transported to Glenn Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries, then released for booking into the Glenn County Jail. He was arrested on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance, possessing drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence and possessing a hypodermic needle.
His bail was set at $32,000.


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The 37th Chess Olympiad (), organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between May 20 and June 4, 2006, in Turin, Italy. There were 148 teams in the open event and 103 in the women's event. In total, 1307 players were registered.

Both tournament sections were officiated by international arbiter Geurt Gijssen (Netherlands). Teams were paired across the 13 rounds of competition according to the Swiss system. The open division was played over four boards per round, while the women's was played over three. In the event of a draw, the tie-break was decided by 1. The Buchholz system; 2. Match points; 3. The Sonneborn-Berger system; and 4. The Median Buchholz system.

The time control for each game permitted each player 90 minutes for all their moves, with an additional 30 seconds increment for each player after each move, beginning with the first.

Open event

The open division was contested by 148 teams representing 143 nations. Italy, as hosts, fielded three teams, while the International Braille Chess Association (IBCA), the International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA), and the International Committee of Silent Chess (ICSC) each provided one squad. Somalia and Sierra Leone were signed up, but never arrived.

Led by first board Levon Aronian, the second highest-rated player at the Olympiad, and first reserve Gabriel Sargissian, who scored 10 points in 11 games, Armenia improved on their third-place performance at the 36th Olympiad, claiming their first ever gold medals by a full two points over the silver medallists China, whose fourth board Wang Yue went undefeated, winning eight games and drawing four. Armenia ended the tournament without having lost a match, winning 10 and drawing three, including in the final round against Hungary, when four draws were cursorily recorded. Aronian was the only Armenian player to lose a game during the tournament, falling in the fifth round to Vladimir Kramnik of Russia.

Reigning classical World Champion Kramnik, playing internationally for the first time in six months, scored 6½ points in his nine games, recording the best rating performance of any player. His Russian team, though, did not perform as expected; fielding six of the tournament's 17 strongest players on  rating  , Russia held second place, just behind Armenia, through the seventh round but lost matches to France (1½-2½), the United States (1½-2½), and, in the final round, Israel (1-3), and ultimately finished sixth; the worst Olympic result ever for a Soviet or Russian side.

Although they defeated the United States (2½-1½) in the penultimate round, Israel had to settle for a tie for third place; the Americans claimed the bronze medals on Buchholz tiebreaks. Hungary, seeded 16th, finished fifth, thanks to strong performances from third board Ferenc Berkes and fourth board Csaba Balogh, while India, who entered the tournament seeded second, finished in 30th place, with first board Viswanathan Anand (former and future World Champion) and fourth board Surya Shekhar Ganguly both scoring just 50%. Even without FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov, Bulgaria still managed to clinch a top ten result, finishing in ninth place.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Open event
! # !! Country !! Players !! Averagerating !! Points !! Buchholz
|-
| style="background:gold;"|1 ||  || Aronian, Akopian, Asrian, Lputian, Sargissian, Minasian || 2682 || 36 ||
|-
| style="background:silver;"|2 ||  || Bu Xiangzhi, Zhang Zhong, Zhang Pengxiang, Wang Yue, Ni Hua, Zhao Jun || 2628 || 34 ||
|-
| style="background:#cc9966;"|3 ||  || Kamsky, Onischuk, Nakamura, Ibragimov, Kaidanov, Akobian || 2656 || 33 || 392.5
|-
| 4 ||  || Gelfand, Smirin, Sutovsky, Avrukh, Huzman, Mikhalevski || 2663 || 33 || 380.5
|-
| 5 ||  || Almási, Gyimesi, Berkes, Balogh, Ruck, Horváth || 2610 || 32½ ||
|-
| 6 ||  || Kramnik, Svidler, Grischuk, Morozevich, Bareev, Rublevsky || 2730 || 32 || 410.5
|-
| 7 ||  || Bacrot, Lautier, Sokolov, Fressinet, Vachier-Lagrave, Bauer || 2665 || 32 || 396.0
|-
| 8 ||  || Ivanchuk, Volokitin, Karjakin, Eljanov, Moiseenko, Efimenko || 2680 || 32 || 390.5
|-
| 9 ||  || Georgiev, Cheparinov, Delchev, Spasov, Petkov, Iotov || 2633 || 32 || 385.0
|-
| 10 ||  || Shirov, Vallejo Pons, Illescas Córdoba,Arizmendi Martinez, San Segundo Carrillo, Narciso Dublan || 2628 || 32 || 377.5
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! # !! Country !! Averagerating !! Points !! Buchholz !! MP
|+ class="nowrap" |Final Ranking - Open
|-
| 11 ||  || 2596 || 31 || 399.0 ||
|-
| 12 ||  || 2646 || 31 || 396.0 ||
|-
| 13 ||  || 2554 || 31 || 389.5 ||
|-
| 14 ||  || 2610 || 31 || 388.0 ||
|-
| 15 ||  || 2621 || 31 || 381.0 ||
|-
| 16 ||  || 2598 || 30½ || 386.0 ||
|-
| 17 ||  || 2549 || 30½ || 381.0 ||
|-
| 18 ||  || 2578 || 30½ || 376.5 ||
|-
| 19 ||  || 2627 || 30½ || 366.0 ||
|-
| 20 ||  || 2577 || 30 || 396.0 ||
|-
| 21 ||  || 2593 || 30 || 381.0 ||
|-
| 22 ||  || 2582 || 30 || 379.0 ||
|-
| 23 ||  || 2547 || 30 || 378.5 ||
|-
| 24 ||  || 2643 || 30 || 377.5 ||
|-
| 25 ||  || 2559 || 30 || 373.5 ||
|-
| 26 ||  || 2610 || 30 || 372.0 ||
|-
| 27 ||  || 2555 || 30 || 367.5 ||
|-
| 28 ||  || 2516 || 30 || 357.5 ||
|-
| 29 ||  || 2479 || 30 || 351.0 ||
|-
| 30 ||  || 2688 || 29½ || 391.5 ||
|-
| 31 ||  || 2577 || 29½ || 376.0 ||
|-
| 32 ||  || 2573 || 29½ || 371.5 ||
|-
| 33 ||  || 2517 || 29½ || 366.0 ||
|-
| 34 ||  || 2482 || 29½ || 357.0 ||
|-
| 35 ||  || 2493 || 29½ || 354.5 ||
|-
| 36 ||  || 2598 || 29 || 381.0 ||
|-
| 37 ||  || 2542 || 29 || 376.0 ||
|-
| 38 ||  || 2540 || 29 || 372.5 ||
|-
| 39 ||  || 2533 || 29 || 372.0 ||
|-
| 40 ||  || 2489 || 29 || 369.5 ||
|-
| 41 ||  || 2521 || 29 || 367.5 ||
|-
| 42 ||  || 2530 || 29 || 360.5 ||
|-
| 43 ||  || 2536 || 28½ || 373.5 ||
|-
| 44 ||  || 2538 || 28½ || 369.5 ||
|-
| 45 ||  || 2560 || 28½ || 368.0 ||
|-
| 46 ||  || 2487 || 28½ || 355.0 ||
|-
| 47 ||  || 2449 || 28½ || 354.0 ||
|-
| 48 ||  "B" || 2375 || 28½ || 353.5 ||
|-
| 49 ||  || 2472 || 28 || 375.5 ||
|-
| 50 ||  || 2481 || 28 || 362.5 ||
|-
| 51 ||  || 2532 || 28 || 361.5 ||
|-
| 52 ||  || 2479 || 28 || 358.0 ||
|-
| 53 ||  || 2348 || 28 || 345.5 ||
|-
| 54 ||  || 2165 || 28 || 331.0 ||
|-
| 55 ||  || 2472 || 27½ || 354.0 ||
|-
| 56 ||  || 2455 || 27½ || 352.0 ||
|-
| 57 ||  || 2437 || 27 || 362.5 ||
|-
| 58 ||  || 2448 || 27 || 360.0 ||
|-
| 59 ||  || 2332 || 27 || 358.5 ||
|-
| 60 ||  || 2493 || 27 || 352.0 ||
|-
| 61 ||  || 2439 || 27 || 351.5 || 14
|-
| 62 ||  || 2466 || 27 || 351.5 || 12
|-
| 63 ||  || 2314 || 27 || 351.0 ||
|-
| 64 ||  || 2342 || 27 || 349.0 ||
|-
| 65 ||  || 2438 || 27 || 340.5 ||
|-
| 66 ||  || 2327 || 27 || 324.0 ||
|-
| 67 ||  || 2420 || 26½ || 354.5 ||
|-
| 68 ||  || 2348 || 26½ || 353.5 ||
|-
| 69 ||  || 2291 || 26½ || 347.0 ||
|-
| 70 ||  || 2438 || 26½ || 342.0 ||
|-
| 71 ||  || 2336 || 26½ || 327.5 ||
|-
| 72 ||  || 2362 || 26½ || 324.0 ||
|-
| 73 ||  || 2404 || 26 || 362.5 ||
|-
| 74 ||  || 2439 || 26 || 349.5 ||
|-
| 75 ||  || 2444 || 26 || 348.0 ||
|-
| 76 || ICSC || 2308 || 26 || 333.5 ||
|-
| 77 ||  || 2410 || 26 || 332.5 ||
|-
| 78 ||  || 2388 || 26 || 330.5 ||
|-
| 79 ||  || 2237 || 26 || 320.5 ||
|-
| 80 ||  || 2331 || 25½ || 364.5 ||
|-
| 81 ||  || 2424 || 25½ || 350.5 ||
|-
| 82 ||  || 2333 || 25½ || 345.0 ||
|-
| 83 ||  "C" || 2366 || 25½ || 337.5 ||
|-
| 84 ||  || 2321 || 25½ || 334.5 ||
|-
| 85 ||  || 2315 || 25½ || 329.0 ||
|-
| 86 ||  || 2310 || 25½ || 326.0 ||
|-
| 87 ||  || 2400 || 25½ || 316.5 ||
|-
| 88 ||  || 2139 || 25½ || 314.5 ||
|-
| 89 ||  || 2332 || 25 || 347.0 ||
|-
| 90 ||  || 2383 || 25 || 341.0 ||
|-
| 91 ||  || 2284 || 25 || 333.5 ||
|-
| 92 ||  || 2335 || 24½ || 342.5 ||
|-
| 93 ||  || 2275 || 24½ || 341.5 ||
|-
| 94 ||  || 2329 || 24½ || 338.5 ||
|-
| 95 ||  || 2279 || 24½ || 334.0 ||
|-
| 96 ||  || 2255 || 24½ || 325.0 ||
|-
| 97 ||  || 2248 || 24½ || 320.5 ||
|-
| 98 ||  || 2268 || 24½ || 319.0 ||
|-
| 99 ||  || 2074 || 24½ || 206.5 ||
|-
| 100 ||  || 2274 || 24 || 333.0 ||
|-
| 101 ||  || 2217 || 24 || 314.5 ||
|-
| 102 ||  || 2191 || 24 || 312.0 ||
|-
| 103 ||  || 2212 || 24 || 305.0 ||
|-
| 104 ||  || 2126 || 24 || 297.0 ||
|-
| 105 ||  || 2227 || 23½ || 329.0 ||
|-
| 106 ||  || 2257 || 23½ || 328.0 ||
|-
| 107 || IPCA || 2339 || 23½ || 322.0 ||
|-
| 108 ||  || 2187 || 23½ || 304.0 ||
|-
| 109 ||  || 1968 || 23½ || 299.5 ||
|-
| 110 ||  || 2052 || 23½ || 222.5 ||
|-
| 111 || IBCA || 2339 || 23 || 322.0 ||
|-
| 112 ||  || 2052 || 23 || 304.0 ||
|-
| 113 ||  || 2172 || 23 || 303.5 ||
|-
| 114 ||  || 2199 || 23 || 303.0 ||
|-
| 115 ||  || 2079 || 23 || 273.5 ||
|-
| 116 ||  || 2276 || 22½ || 325.0 ||
|-
| 117 ||  || 2245 || 22½ || 320.5 ||
|-
| 118 ||  || 2181 || 22½ || 303.5 ||
|-
| 119 ||  || 2244 || 22½ || 291.0 ||
|-
| 120 ||  || 2115 || 22 || 307.5 ||
|-
| 121 ||  || 2152 || 22 || 301.5 ||
|-
| 122 ||  || 2175 || 22 || 300.5 ||
|-
| 123 ||  || 2112 || 22 || 279.0 ||
|-
| 124 ||  || 2120 || 22 || 274.5 ||
|-
| 125 ||  || 2188 || 21½ || 297.0 ||
|-
| 126 ||  || 1400 || 21½ || 295.5 ||
|-
| 127 ||  || 2165 || 21½ || 291.5 ||
|-
| 128 ||  || 1587 || 21½ || 289.5 ||
|-
| 129 ||  || 2089 || 21½ || 288.5 ||
|-
| 130 ||  || 2187 || 21½ || 270.0 ||
|-
| 131 ||  || 1576 || 21 || 296.5 ||
|-
| 132 ||  || 2147 || 21 || 292.5 ||
|-
| 133 ||  || 2140 || 21 || 289.0 ||
|-
| 134 ||  || 1771 || 21 || 286.0 ||
|-
| 135 ||  || 2117 || 21 || 281.0 ||
|-
| 136 ||  || 1572 || 21 || 259.5 ||
|-
| 137 ||  || 1707 || 20½ || 297.0 ||
|-
| 138 ||  || 2194 || 20½ || 290.5 ||
|-
| 139 ||  || 2017 || 20 || 280.0 ||
|-
| 140 ||  || 1793 || 20 || 259.0 ||
|-
| 141 ||  || 1400 || 19½ || 277.5 ||
|-
| 142 ||  || 1766 || 19½ || 263.0 ||
|-
| 143 ||  || 1910 || 19 || 288.0 ||
|-
| 144 ||  || 1967 || 19 || 268.5 ||
|-
| 145 ||  || 2017 || 18 ||  ||
|-
| 146 ||  || 1986 || 15½ ||  ||
|-
| 147 ||  || 1470 || 12 ||  ||
|-
| 148 ||  || 1753 || 10½ ||  ||
|}

Group prizes

In addition to the overall medals, prizes were given out to the best teams in five different seeding groups—in other words, the teams who exceeded their seeding the most. Overall medal winners were not eligible for group prizes.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Group Prizes
! Group !! Seedingrange !! Team !! Seed !! Overallfinish
|-
| A || 1–30 ||  || 6 || 4
|-
| B || 31–60 ||  || 31 || 17
|-
| C || 61–89 ||  "B" || 70 || 48
|-
| D || 90–120 ||  || 106 || 54
|-
| E || 121–147 ||  || 121 || 87
|}

Individual medals

 Performance rating:  Vladimir Kramnik 2847
 Board 1:  Tunveer Mohyuddin Gillani 7 / 8 = 87.5%
 Board 2:  Josep Oms Pallise 9 / 11 = 81.8%
 Board 3:  Gustavo Manuel Larrea Llorca 7 / 8 = 87.5%
 Board 4:  Wang Yue 10 / 12 = 83.3%
 1st reserve:  Basheer Al Qudaimi 7 / 7 = 100.0%
 2nd reserve:  Richmond Phiri 6½ / 7 = 92.9%

Women's event

The women's division was contested by 103 teams representing 99 nations. Italy, as hosts, fielded two teams, whilst the International Braille Chess Association (IBCA) and the International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA) each provided one squad. Somalia and Sudan had registered but never showed up. Afghanistan, Uganda, and Rwanda all withdrew after forfeiting their first round matches.

Ukraine had finished in 18th place at the previous Olympiad but entered the tournament seeded second. They trailed top-seeds Russia half a point through the seventh round, despite having taken defeated the Russians in the fifth round (2-1), but took the lead in round eight, defeating Hungary while Russia managed only to draw their match with the United States. Ukraine never gave up their lead for the remainder of the tournament and all but secured the gold medals and the Vera Menchik Trophy with a twelfth round win over India (2½-½), eventually finishing 1½ points ahead of silver medallists Russia. The Ukrainian team was led by Natalia Zhukova, who scored 7½ points in her nine games, defeating the top- and second-rated players, Humpy Koneru of India and Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia. Third board Inna Gaponenko won six games, drew two, and lost only one.

Defending champions China were missing newly crowned World Champion Xu Yuhua, but still claimed the bronze medals by three points over the United States with whom they drew in the penultimate round Their third-place finish was in no small part due to top board Zhao Xue, who entered the tournament seeded 22nd yet, having played in every round, went through the Olympiad undefeated, conceding only six draws in her 13 games.

The American team took fourth place on tiebreaks, just ahead of Hungary, Georgia, and the Netherlands - the Dutch team being seeded only 18th.

{| class="wikitable"
! # !! Country !! Players !! Averagerating !! Points !! Buchholz
|-
| style="background:gold;"|1 ||  || Zhukova, Lahno, Yanovska-Gaponenko, Ushenina || 2441 || 29½ ||
|-
| style="background:silver;"|2 ||  || Kosteniuk, T. Kosintseva, N. Kosintseva, Kovalevskaya || 2499 || 28 ||
|-
| style="background:#cc9966;"|3 ||  || Zhao Xue, Wang Yu, Shen Yang, Hou Yifan || 2408 || 27½ ||
|-
| 4 ||  || Zatonskih, Krush, Goletiani, Baginskaite || 2414 || 24½ || 307.0
|-
| 5 ||  || Hoang Thanh Trang, Mádl, Vajda, Gara || 2426 || 24½ || 306.0
|-
| 6 ||  || Khurtsidze, Dzagnidze, Javakhishvili, Lomineishvili || 2430 || 24½ || 305.5
|-
| 7 ||  || Peng Zhaoqin, Bosboom-Lanchava, Schuurman, Muhren || 2344 || 24½ || 276.5
|-
| 8 ||  || Mkrtchian, Danielian, Aginian, Andriasian || 2402 || 24 || 299.0
|-
| 9 ||  || A. Muzychuk, Srebrnič, Krivec, Novak|| 2348 || 24 || 286.0
|-
| 10 ||  || Jacková, Čedíková, Sikorová, Blažková || 2302 || 24 || 270.5
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! # !! Country !! Averagerating !! Points !! Buchholz !! MP !! S-B
|+ class="nowrap" |Final Ranking - Women
|-
| 11 ||  || 2399 || 23½ ||  ||  ||
|-
| 12 ||  || 2389 || 23 || 305.0 ||  ||
|-
| 13 ||  || 2378 || 23 || 302.0 ||  ||
|-
| 14 ||  || 2375 || 23 || 294.0 ||  ||
|-
| 15 ||  || 2302 || 23 || 283.5 ||  ||
|-
| 16 ||  || 2289 || 23 || 279.0 ||  ||
|-
| 17 ||  || 2292 || 23 || 263.0 ||  ||
|-
| 18 ||  || 2366 || 22½ || 299.5 ||  ||
|-
| 19 ||  || 2370 || 22½ || 297.0 ||  ||
|-
| 20 ||  || 2375 || 22½ || 293.0 ||  ||
|-
| 21 ||  || 2262 || 22½ || 293.0 ||  ||
|-
| 22 ||  || 2354 || 22½ || 292.0 ||  ||
|-
| 23 ||  || 2374 || 22 || 286.5 ||  ||
|-
| 24 ||  || 2189 || 22 || 273.0 ||  ||
|-
| 25 ||  || 2343 || 22 || 272.5 ||  ||
|-
| 26 ||  || 2083 || 22 || 271.5 ||  ||
|-
| 27 ||  || 2222 || 22 || 271.0 ||  ||
|-
| 28 ||  || 2296 || 21½ || 286.0 ||  ||
|-
| 29 ||  || 2329 || 21½ || 281.5 ||  ||
|-
| 30 ||  || 2227 || 21½ || 281.0 ||  ||
|-
| 31 ||  || 2191 || 21½ || 260.0 ||  ||
|-
| 32 ||  || 2200 || 21½ || 257.0 ||  ||
|-
| 33 ||  || 2246 || 21 || 285.5 ||  ||
|-
| 34 ||  || 2264 || 21 || 282.5 ||  ||
|-
| 35 ||  || 2265 || 21 || 273.5 ||  ||
|-
| 36 ||  || 2182 || 21 || 266.5 ||  ||
|-
| 37 ||  || 2304 || 21 || 266.0 ||  ||
|-
| 38 ||  || 2262 || 21 || 265.5 ||  ||
|-
| 39 ||  || 2262 || 21 || 262.5 ||  ||
|-
| 40 ||  || 1919 || 21 || 257.5 ||  ||
|-
| 41 ||  || 2132 || 21 || 252.5 ||  ||
|-
| 42 ||  || 2231 || 20½ || 271.5 ||  ||
|-
| 43 ||  || 1874 || 20½ || 264.5 ||  ||
|-
| 44 ||  || 2089 || 20½ || 259.5 ||  ||
|-
| 45 ||  || 2262 || 20 || 283.5 ||  ||
|-
| 46 ||  || 2269 || 20 || 280.0 ||  ||
|-
| 47 ||  || 2117 || 20 || 258.0 ||  ||
|-
| 48 ||  || 2137 || 20 || 256.0 ||  ||
|-
| 49 ||  || 2058 || 20 || 254.0 ||  ||
|-
| 50 ||  || 2111 || 20 || 249.0 ||  ||
|-
| 51 ||  || 2123 || 20 || 244.0 ||  ||
|-
| 52 ||  || 2081 || 20 || 238.0 ||  ||
|-
| 53 ||  || 2137 || 19½ || 250.0 ||  ||
|-
| 54 ||  || 2210 || 19½ || 256.0 ||  ||
|-
| 55 ||  || 2085 || 19½ || 254.5 ||  ||
|-
| 56 ||  || 2134 || 19½ || 247.5 ||  ||
|-
| 57 ||  || 2165 || 19 || 260.0 ||  ||
|-
| 58 ||  || 2092 || 19 || 259.0 ||  ||
|-
| 59 ||  || 2182 || 19 || 258.5 ||  ||
|-
| 60 ||  || 2136 || 19 || 255.0 ||  ||
|-
| 61 ||  || 2137 || 19 || 254.0 ||  ||
|-
| 62 ||  || 1812 || 19 || 241.5 ||  ||
|-
| 63 ||  || 1802 || 19 || 223.0 ||  ||
|-
| 64 ||  || 2137 || 18½ || 252.5 ||  ||
|-
| 65 ||  "B" || 1945 || 18½ || 242.0 ||  ||
|-
| 66 ||  || 1900 || 18½ || 236.5 ||  ||
|-
| 67 || IPCA || 2056 || 18½ || 229.5 ||  ||
|-
| 68 ||  || 2090 || 18 || 260.5 ||  ||
|-
| 69 ||  || 2054 || 18 || 248.5 ||  ||
|-
| 70 ||  || 2079 || 18 || 239.5 ||  ||
|-
| 71 ||  || 2030 || 18 || 236.0 ||  ||
|-
| 72 || IBCA || 2113 || 17½ || 248.0 ||  ||
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| 73 ||  || 1834 || 17½ || 240.0 ||  ||
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| 74 ||  || 1629 || 17½ || 236.0 ||  ||
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| 75 ||  || 1947 || 17½ || 234.5 ||  ||
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| 76 ||  || 1791 || 17½ || 232.0 || 10 || 82.75
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| 77 ||  || 1863 || 17½ || 232.0 || 10 || 80.50
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| 78 ||  || 1747 || 17½ || 231.5 ||  ||
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| 79 ||  || 1588 || 17½ || 227.5 ||  ||
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| 80 ||  || 1692 || 17½ || 226.0 ||  ||
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| 81 ||  || 1805 || 17 || 247.0 ||  ||
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| 82 ||  || 1590 || 17 || 233.0 ||  ||
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| 83 ||  || 1617 || 17 || 209.0 ||  ||
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| 84 ||  || 1584 || 16½ || 231.5 ||  ||
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| 85 ||  || 1581 || 16½ || 211.5 ||  ||
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| 86 ||  || 1400 || 16½ || 198.0 ||  ||
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| 87 || ICSC || 2008 || 16 || 234.0 ||  ||
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| 88 ||  || 1826 || 16 || 233.5 ||  ||
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| 89 ||  || 1853 || 16 || 211.0 ||  ||
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| 90 ||  || 1400 || 15½ ||  ||  ||
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| 91 ||  || 1400 || 15 || 193.5 ||  ||
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| 92 ||  || 1400 || 15 || 182.5 ||  ||
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| 93 ||  || 1400 || 14½ || 184.5 ||  ||
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| 94 ||  || 1469 || 14½ || 182.0 ||  ||
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| 95 ||  || 1400 || 14 || 205.5 ||  ||
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| 96 ||  || 1400 || 14 || 192.0 ||  ||
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| 97 ||  || 1400 || 14 || 179.5 ||  ||
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| 98 ||  || 1400 || 13½ || 176.0 ||  ||
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| 99 ||  || 1467 || 13½ || 174.5 ||  ||
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| 100 ||  || 1400 || 13 ||  ||  ||
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| 101 ||  || 1400 || 12½ ||  ||  ||
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| 102 ||  || 1400 || 12 ||  ||  ||
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| 103 ||  || 1400 || 9 ||  ||  ||
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Group prizes

In addition to the overall medals, prizes were given out to the best teams in five different seeding groups—in other words, the teams who exceeded their seeding the most. Overall medal winners were not eligible for group prizes.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Group Prizes
! Group !! Seedingrange !! Team !! Seed !! Overallfinish
|-
| A || 1–20 ||  || 5 || 4
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| B || 21–42 ||  || 22 || 10
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| C || 43–64 ||  || 60 || 26
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| D || 65–86 ||  || 68 || 40
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| E || 87–103 ||  || 87 || 79
|}

Individual medals

 Performance rating:  Zhao Xue 2617
 Board 1: Lubov Zsiltzova-Lisenko (IBCA) 9 / 10 = 90.0%
 Board 2:  Fiona Steil-Antoni 10 / 12 = 83.3%
 Board 3:  Nora Mohd Saleh 7 / 8 = 87.5%
 Reserve:  Tatiana Berlin 7 / 8 = 87.5%

Overall title

The Nona Gaprindashvili Trophy is awarded to the nation that has the highest toal number of game points in the open and women's divisions combined. Where two or more teams are tied, they are ordered by best single finish in either division and then by total number of points scored.

The trophy, named after the former women's World Champion (1961–78), was created by FIDE in 1997.

Participating teams
Squads representing 133 nations, three international organizations, three constituent countries, two autonomous entities, two crown dependencies, two special administrative regions, two insular areas, and one associated state were entered into the Olympiad, comprising a total of 1307 registered players (some of which did not play).

FIDE Congress
Concurrent with the chess competition, the 77th FIDE Congress was held in Turin, where delegates from all the national chess federations met to transact business. Incumbent FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov faced criticisms for alleged mismanagement and corruption, primarily from Western federations, including those of the United States, England, France, and Canada, but, with the support of most Asian and African delegates, notably those representing Russia and Singapore, he staved off a challenge from Dutch businessman Bessel Kok to retain his position through 2010, winning by 96 votes to Kok's 54.

The general assembly also awarded the 38th Chess Olympiad, to be held in 2010, to Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, the site of the Chess World Cup 2005 and one of five candidates that had submitted bids. The city led after every round of the runoff voting, eventually beating Budva, Montenegro by 71–64.

Associated events
Held in conjunction with the Olympiad, though not officially sponsored by FIDE, were two computer chess events: the 14th World Computer Chess Championship, played at classical time controls, and the 14th World Computer Speed Chess Championship. The computer Junior won its fifth championship and third in five years in the slower event, while newcomer Ikarus defeated quadruple defending champion Shredder to win the blitz event.

Notes

External links

 37th Chess Olympiad: Turin 2006 OlimpBase
 Turin Olympiad 2006 official homepage
 FIDE press release on Olympiad results
 Detailed Olympiad results
 This Week in Chess round-by-round Olympiad summaries

Chess Olympiads
Women's Chess Olympiads
Olympiad 2006
Chess Olympiad 2006
Olympiad 2006
Chess Olympiad 2006
May 2006 sports events in Europe
July 2006 sports events in Europe
2000s in Turin

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Q: Bring BackSpace back to nautilus (3.18+) once and for all! With regards to this question, the solution provide to get backspace for going back in nautilus does not function any longer. I would like to know if there is a functioning workaround for nautilus 3.18.4?
With "going back in nautilus" I me to go up the path, i. e. from ~/.config/nautilus to ~/config.
Neither
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ShellActions/Back" "BackSpace")

nor
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ShellActions/Up" "BackSpace")

in ~/.config/nautilus/accels and a subsequent killall nautilus does the trick.
EDIT:
As can be found in this and this thread, Nautilus (since 3.15.4) no longer uses GtkAction, but GAction. A fact not known to me. Is there a way know how to edit GAction, without patching it as proposed here?

A: Workaround
1) Install Nautilus Python
(apt-get install python-nautilus)
2) Download Backspace-Back.py  from Nautilus-backspace and put it here:
~/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions/
(you might have to create this directory first)
3) Restart Nautilus (killall nautilus)

A: Nautilus Shortcuts
You can use Alt-Left and Alt-Right to move through your location history.
Alt-Left has the same functionality as Backspace.
Similarly, Alt-Up and Alt-Down move your location up and down the directory branch visible on the address bar.
Example:

In the example above Alt-Up would move you to /etc/.
Likewise, Alt-Down would move you to /etc/apache2/mods-available/.

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Sylvia Georgieva je bulharská varhanice, cembalistka a publicistka, působící v Praze. Studovala Hudební a taneční fakultu Akademie múzických umění (HAMU), kde byli jejími pedagogy profesor Milan Šlechta na varhany a profesorka Zuzana Růžičková na cembalo. Koncertovala jak v Evropě (Bulharsko, Rusko, Německo, Rakousko, Francie, Itálie či Švýcarsko), tak také ve Spojených státech amerických. Vystupovala také na mezinárodních soutěžích a hudebních festivalech.

V roce 1997 nahrála v kostele U Jákobova žebříku kompaktní disk s biblickými sonátami Johanna Kuhnaua. Další disk vydala v roce 2007, který obsahoval sonáty pro cembalo od Jiřího Antonína Bendy. Coby host vystoupila na albu Větší než malé množství lásky skupiny Lucie.

Georgieva je též předsedkyní "Bulharské kulturně osvětové organizace Svatého Cyrila a Metoděje v Praze". Tato společnost v roce 2012 pořádala v Praze "Výstava k poctě romskému básníku PhDr. Vlado Oláhovi", jejímiž kurátorkami vedle Georgievy byla též malířka Inka Delevová.

Roku 2013 jí vyšla její disertační práce ve formě publikace nazvané Barokní afektová teorie. Její součástí jsou i dva kompaktní disky.

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Cuor di selvaggio (The Savage) è un film muto del 1917 diretto da Rupert Julian che ha come interpreti Ruth Clifford, Colleen Moore (qui al suo debutto sullo schermo), Monroe Salisbury, Allan Sears, W.H. Bainbridge, Arthur Tavares, George Franklin e Duke R. Lee. Prodotto e distribuito dalla Bluebird Photoplays, il film viene citato nel documentario The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors del 1993.

Trama

Nei territori del Nord-Ovest, Julio Sandoval, un mezzo sangue, nutre una passione ossessiva per la bella Marie Louise, una ragazza già fidanzata con un altro, un capitano della polizia a cavallo. Incontrandola un giorno nel bosco da sola, Sandoval non riesce a frenare i suoi sentimenti e rapisce la ragazza, portandola con sé nella sua capanna in mezzo alla foresta. Forse a causa dell'eccessivo sforzo, l'uomo è colpito da un violento attacco di febbre di montagna che lo fa crollare. Marie Louise, preda da compassione, si mette a curarlo con abnegazione, riportandolo presto in salute. E, quando arriva la squadra di soccorso, lei non lo tradisce. Ritornata in città, Marie Louise viene a sapere che McKeever, il suo fidanzato è stato catturato da un fuorilegge, tale Joe Bedotte. Non sapendo che fare per aiutare l'amato, la ragazza si rivolge a Sandoval, supplicandolo di salvare il capitano. Sandoval, in segno di gratitudine, va sulle montagne dove, dopo aver ritrovato McKeever, lo libera. Il suo gesto coraggioso e altruista gli costerà, però, la vita.

Produzione
Il film, prodotto dalla Bluebird Photoplays (Universal Film Manufacturing Company), fu girato a Foothills, Seven Oaks in California. Le riprese iniziarono nell'agosto del 1917. Il 25 agosto, Motion Picture News annunciava che gli esterni del film Julio Sandoval sarebbero stati girati ai piedi di Seven Oaks, a sud di Big Bear Lake.

Distribuzione
Il copyright del film, richiesto dalla Bluebird Photoplays, Inc., fu registrato il 20 ottobre 1917 con il numero LP11613.
Distribuito dall'Universal Film Manufacturing Company (con il nome Bluebird Photoplays), il film uscì nelle sale cinematografiche statunitensi il 19 novembre 1917. Dopo l'uscita del film (che aveva cambiato il suo titolo da Julio Sandoval in The Savage, la Darcy & Walford, Inc. citò la Bluebird Photoplays sostenendo di possedere i diritti di The Savage, lavoro teatrale di Hutcheson Boyd. Non si conosce l'esito della vertenza.

In Italia, con il visto di censura numero 16886, il film venne distribuito nel 1922 dalla Transatlantic.

Non si conoscono copie ancora esistenti della pellicola che viene considerata presumibilmente perduta.

Note

Bibliografia
 The American Film Institute Catalog, Features Films 1911-1920, University of California Press 1988 ISBN 0-520-06301-5
 Clive Hirschhorn, The Universal Story, Octopus Books - London, 1983 ISBN 0-7064-1873-5

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Film ambientati in Canada
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With spring season fast approaching, The Male Grooming Review delves deep into the world of men's beauty, style and grooming, to bring you the five hottest and most sought-after trends of 2016.
Love it or hate it, the man-bun is totally in at the moment, and it's set to stay for the remainder of the year, at least. The man-bun craze started at the end of 2015, and has since grown popular with all kinds of men - even celebrities. Be warned, it does take a type of guy to pull of a man-bun, as Gareth Bale seems eluded to.
The beard trend has been around for quite some time now, and it continues to grow in popularity. For guys who are blessed enough to be able to grow a beard - wear it proud and loud - oh, and don't forget to shape and groom it every so often, as you don't want to be looking like a street bum.
Glasses seem to go in and out of fashion, but the retro glasses look is totally in at the moment, and men seem to be opting for bigger frames than ever. Wearing glasses gives the impression one is stylish and smart, with a hint of mystery.
Fake tanning and tinted moisturisers have never been so popular with men as they currently are, and so to get ahead of your competition on a night out, get your skin tinted and glowing so you stand out from the pack. Darker skin gives the illusion you are more toned, healthier and just over all better looking.
With most guys depending on their phone to keep track of the time, watches have become rather surplus to requirements in recent years. Don't be fooled though, as watches are making a huge comeback, and it's set to become one of the most popular style habits of 2016. Wearing a nice watch can make a man look smart, organised and wealthy.


Schweitzer has recently gained further recognition: The professor of English was awarded the Modern Language Association's Division for American Literature Before 1800 Lifetime Achievement Award. For her mentorship, scholarship, and teaching, Schweitzer became the first recipient of the award since 2009 and the third female winner ever. The award was presented this month at a conference in Savannah, Ga.
"It's something I never expected," she says.


All are choices we make internally, which cannot be made for us!
This is the the Status Quo. Circumstances happen to us that don't kill us, and we learn to join the masses and just survive. And maybe occasionally we can find small, fleeting amounts of happiness. But it's a choice we have made, so we will continue to survive. We live in our pain. We become angry and have outbursts of that anger that project our pain like a hockey puck to another. We all pass that hockey puck back and forth, because no one wants it.
When we devive, we transfer our pain to others. Suicide may end the pain for you, but it passes it to others.
Or there is one more option. Revive.
"Re" is a prefix meaning "again". A returning to an original state. Therefore, revival is a choice, not an achievement. When someone chooses to revive they are choosing to go back to the state of mind they had before the current state. For many of us, that may be childhood.
Childhood may be the last time you felt life. You felt feelings that go with life. Joy. Wonderment. Awe. Security. Freedom.
Sur- vive means to live (vive or viv) beyond or over (sur- or super) an event. You can physically survive a heart attack. A car accident. Typically, the term inherently implies a negative physical occurrence. However, you can also survive emotional occurrences. That is the "choice" I am referring to here.
Fact is, many of us get stuck in survival mode until we are ready to choose to move on into revival. There are comforts and rewards associated with survival. They differ with everyone. Someone may choose to stay in survival mode because they cannot forgive another person for emotional damage. Some choose survival because they are still connected somehow to victim mode and are receiving what they need for now to get through that.
You might be thinking, "Why would they want to stay there? Aren't they miserable?" And the answer is yes and no. They are miserable. But it's better than deviving, or ceasing to live. And they just don't know how to revive, or choose life again. It's been too long. They are a Career Survivor. And maybe in their minds they've assigned cult status to it and they believe that's as good as it gets.
Until they see someone revive.
And they know it's possible for them as well!
So for every heart out there reading these words, I want to encourage you. I know where you've been. I may not have had the same circumstances as you, but I have been in survival mode. I've seen a few devive– even into its eventual goal—suicide. And I somehow found something inside of me that caused revival! It is called me. The very core of me. My Truth. And now I see everyone else differently. I no longer see a bunch of people who are making "bad decisions" (like I was back when I saw it in others). I see everyone doing the best they can with what they've got. And I see that every person has their own story and I have no idea what is behind their eyes.
Now I see a goodness in humanity!
I do not know your path, but I know pain. All of us do. I'm done judging you for your decisions. I'm not joining the Conscious Masses Mindset in telling you who you are or what you are. I'm joining YOU. I'm sitting with you. And I know you will see it some day. That Godspark in you, that True Self that somehow got buried. I believe in you. You are worthy. You haven't done anything wrong. You aren't what anyone says you are! Live again! Maybe you don't even know who you are anymore- you've been what someone else wanted you to be for so long! Rediscover! Heck- rebirth if you have to!
As far as the choices you have made, none of us gets a do-over.
But we can get a do-differently!
Do something different right now! If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you always got.
Revival has been associated with sweeping movements. Masses of people. Join me in changing all that! Change the only person you possibly can. Yourself.


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Kanye West reveals the reason for interrupting Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV VMAs
By Savanna Young| 5 months ago
Kanye West has revealed the reason behind his famous stunt at the MTV VMAs back in 2009 — where he interrupted Taylor Swift who was receiving her award.
In a 45-minute interview for Nick Cannon's podcast, Cannon's Class, the rapper opened up about his 2016 hospitalisation, his presidential campaign and the controversy surrounding the notorious on-stage moment.
"Right now, God is giving me the information," he said. "If God ain't want me to run on stage and say Beyoncé had the best video, he wouldn't have sat me in the front row. I would've been sitting in the back."
Kanye West and Taylor Swift the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on September 13, 2009 in New York City. (Getty)
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At the MTV Video Music Awards in 2009, while Taylor Swift gave her acceptance speech after winning Best Female Video for 'You Belong With Me,' West got up on stage with a bottle of Hennessy and interrupted Swift; saying that Beyoncé deserved the award for her iconic 'Single Ladies' music video.
"It wouldn't have made it so ridiculous of an idea because I had never heard of this person before," West continued. "And 'Single Ladies' is, like, one of the greatest videos of all time. I was only drinking Hennessy because I didn't want to go to the awards show because it was a set-up."
West also talked about how he began reading the bible and learning about God after being hospitalised in 2016.
Kanye West also opened up to Nick Cannon about his presidential campaign. (YouTube)
"God brought me to my knees multiple times," he told Cannon. "The first time that I was put into the hospital in 2016, I actually started reading the bible. That was part of what God hit me with. You know, God has a calling on all of us and he uses us in different ways."
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The 'Stronger' rapper then went on to discuss the importance of family, as well as his thoughts on abortion — which he first mentioned during his first presidential rally in South Carolina.
"Family is just the key to the world, period—from our immediate family to our friends and family, our co-workers and family, our city and family, our state and family, our country and family, our world," he explained. The culture of humanity needs to be family. A culture of family. But the design of our cities, the design of our schools, there's a lot of things designed to not promote family; they're designed to create separation.
"It was my wife that said, 'This is a soul.' And the scariest thing is, she had the pills—you know, you take these pills, you take them and the next morning the baby's gone—she had the pills in her hand."
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Ferrari came away with three wins from rounds seven and eight of the SprintX Pirelli World Challenge championship.
The Prancing Horse also notched up four podium finishes that confirmed the competitiveness of the 488 GT3 and the professionalism of the teams fielding the cars, including the newcomer Vital Speed Motorsports.
Race-1. The 488 GT3 of R.Ferri Motorsport took the glory in the first race of the weekend. Toni Vilander and Miguel Molina topped the standings, reversing the starting order that saw them start second. Caesar Bacarella and Martin Fuentes continued to dominate this season in the Am class with yet another win. The duo monopolised their class and celebrated on the podium with the newcomers from Vital Speed Motorsport, Trevor and Rich Baek, behind the wheel of another 488 GT3. Also worth mentioning was the second place in the Pro-Am class of the 488 GT3 of TR3 Racing – Ferrari of Vancouver with Jeff Segal and Wei Lu, who finished behind the Audi of TruSpeed Autosport crewed by Parker Chase and Ryan Dalziel.
Race-2. Sunday's race saw a victory but also an unpleasant surprise for the R.Ferri Motorsport drivers. Vilander and Molina were penalised for a pitstop infringement, which frustrated any chance of a repeat win. In the end, the pair finished fourth in a race won by the Bentley of K-Pax Racing of Rodrigo Baptista and Maxime Soulet. Bacarella and Fuentes triumphed once again while the Baek family took third place. Wei Lu and Jeff Segal recorded another second in the Pro-Am class won by Chase-Dalziel.
Next race. The championship is back on track from 10 to 12 August in Utah.


Demetrius Knight wasn't bothered by not having a recruiting ranking from the likes of 247 Sports and Rivals, per se. But the quarterback from Strong Rock Christian School in Henry County acknowledged he got a little down seeing other quarterbacks he knew with rankings and stars by their names.
"I wasn't sure I had any (stars), but I tried not to think about that and tried not to look at that," Knight said.
He now has something more meaningful than recruiting stars – a spot in Georgia Tech's 2019 recruiting class. Knight committed to Tech on Monday just after receiving the scholarship offer. He described himself as "very excited" about the decision.
Knight is the rare prospect who committed to Tech without some level of presence in the world of recruiting rankings. Before his offer Monday, he had received an offer from Tennessee Tech, an FCS team that hasn't had a winning season since 2011, and was on the verge of receiving another from Georgia Southern, he said. As of Tuesday, 247 Sports had assigned ratings to at least 14 quarterbacks in the state of Georgia in the 2019 class.
Knight has been the starting quarterback at Strong Rock since he was a freshman. Coach Tommy Webb also has used him at wide receiver and running back. Last year, he ran for 1,025 yards and passed for 682 and was named to the all-region team for Region 5-A. His highlight video reveals a shotgun quarterback with elusiveness as a runner and an accurate arm. At 6-foot-2 and 218 pounds, he has good size for a Tech quarterback.
In his quest to play collegiately, Knight said he received particularly meaningful affirmation after a game last season from a coach at Our Lady of Mercy.
To help bring Knight attention, Webb said, he reached out to college coaches across multiple levels, but didn't get many nibbles at the game's higher echelons.
"It's funny, because we're a very small school – we're single-A and we play in a very good, competitive league – but sometimes, being small, certain players are overlooked," Webb said.
Before participating at Tech's camp June 3, Knight had also gone to camps at Miami, Florida State and Oklahoma. He came to Tech's camp at the invitation of assistant coach Joe Speed, Tech's area recruiter for Henry County, who had met Knight on a visit to the school. At the camp, he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.5 seconds and then took part in throwing drills, first without defenders and then to receivers against a defense.
He threw from the pocket and out of it. He recalled completing a deep post of about 30 yards. Coaches were noticing.
The performance evidently secured him a scholarship offer contingent on test scores. The feedback took him by surprise.
"It made me feel really good that I was doing something right to get some attention," Knight said.
To get his offer, Knight had to wait for his SAT scores to come back. They met Tech's satisfaction, and the offer came Monday. He became the eighth member of the recruiting class and its first quarterback. Tech may add another quarterback to the group.
Knight is considering enrolling early at Tech. For what it's worth, 247 Sports built a recruiting page for him Monday, although it has yet to assign him any stars. It likely doesn't matter to Knight.
"I just wanted to play at a collegiate level," Knight said.
Not only will he do that, but, provided he follows through and enrolls at Tech, he'll be Strong Rock's first football player at the FBS or FCS levels, Webb said. The school will be playing its 12th season this fall.
"Some kind of drop through the cracks, and I'm just glad that he did not because he's such a wonderful young man that we were going to do everything that we could to make sure that he got in front of as many people as we could and go from there," Webb said.


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How Activision Blizzard Is Using Nielsen to Cut Through Faulty Esports Numbers
Developers adopt simple math instead of misleading metrics
AMA is a crucial step to bringing big sponsors into the esports space. Blizzard Entertainment
By Mitch Reames
As esports experience massive growth and are thrust into the mainstream, statements like "League of Legends had more viewers than [major sporting event]" become more common.
Various esports events have been credited with dwarfing The NBA Finals, the Champions League and even the Super Bowl. These statements try to show that the esports industry—no matter what the reader might think about it—is massive and has the numbers to back it up.
The only problem? The stats can be incredibly misleading.
Indeed, esports is a massive global phenomenon with an audience of millions, but the numbers used to showcase the viewership have more holes than Swiss cheese. Online streaming platforms like Twitch count a viewer differently from how Nielsen tracks traditional sports viewership.
But that's about to change.
The developers behind the biggest esports in the world have been working with Nielsen to develop a metric to finally allow for apple-to-apple viewership comparisons. It's called AMA, average minute audience.
The math is simple: Take total minutes watched and divide it by total minutes broadcast to discern AMA. It's the same way Nielsen has been tracking viewership for decades, but now it's being extended to esports.
(This is a tale as old as time; every medium has struggled with an agreed-upon metric, if not also an agreed-upon measuring firm. Welcome to the club, esports.)
"The need for AMA really came from the use of other 'new' metrics that emerged from within the esports industry over time, a result of there being no single standard for viewership reporting and often rights holders themselves being accountable for their own performance read-outs," said Nicole Pike, the managing director of Nielsen Esports. "These metrics (such as "peak concurrents" or "uniques," for example) created confusion for marketers and ad buyers who were used to transacting on average audience figures."
She continued: "Furthermore, many of the non-AMA, esports-specific metrics used are at times leaned on as a way to report higher numbers than an average audience metric would represent—which unfortunately started to build distrust among brands who realized there were a lot of apples-to-oranges comparisons being made with respect to esports."
Some people in esports who wanted to bloat their viewership count would pick and choose statistics that shined favorably on them, and ad-buyers can pay a premium on inventory that may be more sizzle than steak. The esports industry is maturing quickly, and so are the sponsors getting involved.
Activision Blizzard's Overwatch League (OWL) brought on Coca-Cola as the official beverage and Toyota as the official North American automotive partner. Riot Games' League of Legends signed Mastercard as a global partner and Honda as the North American automotive partner.
When massive companies like these enter a space, they need to know what they are buying. For Activision Blizzard and Riot, AMA is a crucial step to bringing these companies into the esports space.
"When you talk to brands or agencies or investors, giving them the ability to directly compare Overwatch League with their other investments in traditional sports is extremely valuable," said Kasra Jafroodi, strategy and analytics lead at Activision Blizzard Esports. "It allows them to quickly understand how things are performing, and, when your story is positive, these numbers are even more valuable."
Here's what the numbers say about the Overwatch League. Opening week of the second season of the league saw an AMA of 440,000, a 14% increase over last year. As the season went on, that number dropped to an AMA of 313,000, which still represented an 18% year-over-year growth rate from the first season's average.
But those numbers aren't why so many companies are buying into esports. It's the demographics that have companies clamoring to get in.
Individuals aged 18-34 in the United States represented an AMA of 55,000, up 11% year-over-year. According to Activision Blizzard, all the major American sports leagues are down in that demographic.
"55,000 in the 18-34 U.S. demographic actually makes us bigger than the MLB and MLS in that demo," Jafroodi continued. "That's a very positive story. We're not bigger than the Super Bowl, but the fact that the Overwatch League in its second year is already bigger than two well-established leagues is a big deal."
To reach this point, Activision Blizzard had to make some concessions. Because of the faulty data, many people genuinely believed that esports was already outpacing the largest sporting events in the world. But the wool wasn't going to stay over their eyes forever, and Activision Blizzard needed to get out in front of the issue before investors began asking more questions.
"Esports wasn't going to magically overnight become the biggest sport in the U.S.," Jafroodi explained. "But if you can see that growth and you have good numbers, it's not very hard to see what the next 10 years are going to look like. It's when you have those bad numbers that you begin doubting what everything looks like."
Mitch Reames
Mitch Reames is a freelance writer based in southern Oregon. A 2017 graduate of the University of Oregon school of journalism and communications, Reames covers a wide range of industry topics including creativity, agencies, brands, esports and more.


Almost all design and development trend articles focus only on techniques and visual elements. This year, here at Zazzle Media we wanted to look at the wider industry and touch on different topics that don't always get the same level of attention. In this post, we'll cover the continued evolution of substance that we predict will happen throughout 2018.
Since its initial release in September 2010, Sketch has been steadily gaining ground in the design and development world due to a number of factors. While Sketch isn't here to directly replace the Adobe suite, it's certainly a design tool specifically built from the ground up with a clear focus to tackle the latest UX and UI problems that most digital designers encounter when designing for web or mobile apps.
Another tool worth mentioning is Figma, which brings something new to the table; collaborative design. Launched back in 2015, Figma has now firmly found its feet in the industry to give Sketch a healthy dose of competition.
It's no secret the overall performance of the Adobe suite has subjectively declined over the last few years. In comparison, Sketch and Figma are lightweight design tools built with performance at heart. Both apps are ideal for a range of projects ranging from websites to mobile apps with a focus on efficient workflows and key considerations for UX and UI.
Sketch also features a huge amount of plugin support with the incredibly useful companion app called Sketchpacks. Managing, finding and installing new plugins has never been easier.
If you haven't used Sketch or Figma yet, definitely give them a test run. Sketch is available with an annual licence purchase starting from £87.30 ($99). Meanwhile, Figma takes a different approach. While it's free for individuals and small projects (up to two editors), adding more collaborators comes in at $12/month per editor.
Rest assured, at Zazzle Media we've still got a soft spot for Adobe given the nostalgic memories we have with it. After all, we wouldn't be a very useful design and development team if we couldn't open a PSD, AI or EPS file sent from one of our clients, would we?
We're huge fans of InVision at Zazzle Media. After introducing the platform to our workflow around three years ago, it's safe to say it's made us more efficient as a team and as a business. InVision has helped us share creative and collate feedback from our clients much easier while also allowing us to create semi-interactive pitch mockups for prospective clients.
But while InVision has been making fans around the world, the company has bigger ambitions. After acquiring eight other organisations since 2016 including Macaw, InVision is now set to launch a new tool in the name of InVision Studio.
Yet to receive an official release date (rumours of Q2 2018), InVision Studio looks to build on an already solid platform by introducing a fully-fledged design app to rival the likes of Adobe, Sketch, and Figma. After witnessing the power of Sketch first-hand within our design team, we're eagerly awaiting the launch of InVision Studio to see whether the new tool can tie us firmly into the InVision eco-system.
Without dedicating an entire blog post to Sketch, it's worth discussing what the next milestone in the apps lifecycle may or may not bring. Sketch 48.2 (the current version) was released on December 20th, 2017. Taking a quick look at their handy update page, we can see that Bohemian Coding, the development team behind Sketch, typically release a major version every 45.7 days (on average).
Based on this rough timeline, we can assume Sketch 50 will be released some time toward the end of Q1 or possibly further into Q2 if we're looking at a substantial release.
What could we hope to see in Sketch 50?
Given that Figma and the next release will both include animation support, we'll take a reasonable punt that Sketch will look to include this as soon as possible to ensure they retain market share.
Designers around the world rejoiced when Adobe included an option to enable a dark UI for Photoshop and Illustrator back in 2012 for the latest CS6 release. There, is in fact, a plugin that introduces a dark theme to your Sketch UI, and while it does only cost $8 and is probably worth it, shouldn't it come as a standard feature?
While Figma tout collaborative design as a standout feature, it remains to be seen what level of integration InVision Studio will support. An in-app collaboration looks to be the next evolution of workflow efficiency. It would be wise for Bohemian Coding to look at implementing improved collaboration out of the box rather than a plugin-enable feature.
We long for the day where we can replicate shortcuts across applications using an easy import/export feature. This could be a great feature that allows designers to transition between apps seamlessly. Having dedicated countless hours to learning shortcuts within Adobe, it's frustrating that we can't easily replicate those shortcuts in Sketch. Sketch does allow custom shortcuts, but it's clunky at best and has to be configured via the keyboard settings within system preferences.
As mentioned earlier in this piece, the performance of Sketch is one of its strongest features. While all of the features above may sound great at first glance, it's essential that Bohemian Coding continue to focus on performance as a critical element to prevent the app from mutating into another bloated app cough Adobe cough.
Rather than make the same predictions likely covered by numerous other websites, this year we felt like taking a new approach. Here's a curated list of some of our favourite posts around 2018 trends to improve your creative.
Google AMP, or Accelerated Mobile Pages, is a push from Google to drastically speed up the web for mobile users while also encouraging site owners to always consider their mobile users. AMP pages aim to instantly render on mobile devices through a range of technical developments to offer huge performance gains over poorly built websites. Given that an estimated 96% of those aged 16-34 now own a smartphone in 2018, the AMP project has had a massive impact on mobile users.
Since 2014, Google has been on a crusade to improve the overall web experience by introducing the mobile-friendly tag in results pages. Fast forward to 2016, and things really started moving. May saw the release of their mobile friendly testing tool and shortly afterwards, Google announced interstitials would be penalised.
Only a couple of weeks passed before Google officially announced the AMP project on September 12th. A few months later, Google continued their conquest for a better mobile search experience. In November 2016, the Californian company announced their algorithm would start to primarily index mobile-first websites.
As of May 2017, over two billion AMP pages have been served with many heralding it as a huge success. The open-source project has been adopted by some heavy hitters including Bing, eBay, Pinterest, Reddit and Tumblr, among others. Even Weibo and Qzone, the Chinese social platforms with over one billion (with a b) accounts combined, have both joined the party.
It seems the quest for better performing websites has rustled quite a few jimmies within the digital community. This recently published open letter dated January 9th, 2018, specifically accuses AMP of keeping users locked within the Google domain ecosystem while diverting users and traffic away from other websites. Ultimately, the authors of the open letter feel the search giant is knowingly and intentionally trying to reinforce their dominance across the web.
Search engines are in a powerful position to wield influence to solve this problem. However, Google has chosen to create a premium position at the top of their search results (for articles) and a "lightning" icon (for all types of content). This is only accessible to publishers that use a Google-controlled technology, served by Google from their infrastructure, on a Google URL, and placed within a Google controlled user experience.
Within their letter, the authors recognise and understand that slow web pages are a problem for users. However, they aren't the only ones who take issue with the method Google has chosen to take to address the matter. Others have also echoed their concerns of ecosystem lock-in while also raising privacy, security and UX concerns.
At this point, given its huge adoption, it's highly unlikely the AMP project is going anywhere. While AMP itself is not a ranking factor, page speed certainly is. Google confirmed in 2010 that page speed is a ranking signal for desktop websites. However, only recently in January 2018 was it publicly announced that page speed is now a ranking factor for mobile websites.
Aside from some a few concerns within the web community, Google will look to address these issues in 2018. Already, there have been three announcements signalling the intent from Google to continue supporting the AMP project.
Soon, Google will soon show the full URL of the source website by dropping the google.com/amp prefix. In a move to possibly combat Snapchat, Google will soon bring AMP stories to a search result page near you. This will allow big name publishers like CNN, Mashable and Wired to create stories to better showcase written content in an interactive form.
On the very same day of the AMP stories announcement, thenextweb reported Google will soon looking to bring the AMP project to your Gmail inbox. With the stale state of email newsletters in 2018 and the restrictive nature of email newsletters, this exciting move should open up a new content avenue for marketers and publishers. Now that the AMP project has firmly established itself as a shortcut to performance, 2018 looks to see continued innovation from Google; for better or worse.
Maybe you witnessed first-hand the cryptocurrency hysteria toward the end of 2017 or maybe you live in a cave and completely missed it all. If it's the latter, here are three great TED talks to help you understand a little more about cryptocurrency and what's so revolutionary about the underlying technology - blockchain.
Only a few years ago, the demand for UX and UI jobs exploded. It's quite possible that the very same thing is about to happen with the cryptocurrency industry. Blockchain developers and consultants are in high demand at the moment and are being rewarded handsomely for it. As adoption of blockchain continues to proliferate, the demand for technical developers will only increase. At the moment, in early 2018, blockchain developers are attracting salaries between $180,000 to $250,000 but this is likely to fall once more talent is attracted to the industry.
What are the most in-demand programming languages for blockchain developers?
What jobs are most in-demand for the blockchain industry?
While there is no official release date pencilled in for WordPress 5.0, we know the latest version is in the works and will land sometime in 2018. We're also able to see a raft of potential enhancements and bug fixes listed on the public ticket tracker. However, the biggest change to the world's most popular CMS looks to come in the form of a new content editing experience. Enter Gutenberg. As part of the WordPress 5.0 release, the Gutenberg plugin will be merged into the core CMS package.
Gutenberg is a WordPress plugin named after Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press over 500 years ago. Gutenberg (the plugin), aims to bring an entirely new editing experience into WordPress by focusing on simplicity, content and rich media. If you've ever used Medium or Ghost, you'll know the entire UI for these platforms has a big focus on one thing - writing content.
To date, the plugin has amassed over 100,000 downloads since its release but a quick glance at the plugin reviews shows a different story - 47% of all reviews are one star. Within these reviews, there are several complaints around the issue that Gutenberg is not backwards-compatible with versions older than WordPress 4.9. While we always recommend keeping WordPress and any required plugins up to date for security purposes, this may not always be an option for site owners who lack technical experience.
While the backwards-compatibility issue may be an issue for many users, this could be a great incentive to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress to unlock the latest functionality and security benefits.
Back in 2014, Google announced that HTTPS would soon become a ranking factor. It's something that we've helped countless clients navigate but it's also something we wrote about shortly after the announcement.
It's official. Google has announced that any website without a HTTPS/SSL certificate will be rendered as 'unsafe' in Google Chrome. Given that Google Chrome has a market share just shy of 60%, it's quite a big deal. You may be surprised to learn that Firefox actually implemented the same policy back in early 2017.
If you're keen to learn more about this issue, we recently wrote a reactive step-by-step guide on how to migrate from HTTP to HTTPS over at Search Engine Watch.
As it stands, only around 50% of all websites are HTTPS encrypted with an SSL certificate. We predict 2018 will be a huge year for HTTPS and predict the 50% figure to drastically increase in the coming months.
Much like our 2017 predictions, this year looks to be another exciting one for those within the design and development industries. As technology progresses to a near-exponential rate, we'll be keeping a close eye on the latest developments within the digital sphere to keep our clients well informed and bring new ideas to the table.


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Gumley Haft Kleier matriarch Michele prepares for the impending seasonal market shift by looking for a new agent to join the family business. When two candidates show promise, she realizes that it won't be an easy decision. Meanwhile, Core CEO Shaun Osher searches for a last minute rental deal in the Hamptons, hoping to find an appropriate house for his family's imminent vacation? before it's too late.
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The Office People is continuing to grow and is experiencing its second operation expansion in less than 2 years. The Office People purchased and is currently renovating the Former Fox Movie theater as an additional distribution center and smart office showroom in North Charleston.
Their Headquarters, currently located at 4991 Banco Road, has invested an additional $2 million in a 25,000 sqft. building located at 5601 Rivers Avenue. The massive renovation of the historic movie theater will give The Office People a total of five locations and 60,000 sqft. under roof in South Carolina and Georgia, allowing them to provide the fastest time from workplace design to installation.
The development is expected to create twenty (20) service, sales, and support jobs in the Lowcountry.
This new Technology Innovation Center will showcase products from LG, Sharp, and most of Foxconn's partners. Office Furniture from over 50+ vendors will allow customers to make easier decisions while viewing executive offices, open plan workstations, and resimercial layouts in person.
The building is expected to open to customers by the end of summer.
Mayor Summey stated, "The expansion of The Office People gives us confidence that North Charleston remains a ripe environment for businesses to flourish. We applaud the company's success and are thankful for the capital investment and job creation, which will greatly benefit our community."
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Urvashi Rautela starrer Hate Story 4 has been making waves ever since the trailer was released a few days ago. Fans seemed to love the trailer as it managed to clock over one million views within the first day.
The makers of the much-awaited movie after creating ripples with the trailer released the first song on Wednesday. The song which is the reprised version of Aashiq Banaya Aapne by Himesh Reshamiya has been viewed over 18 lakh times till now.
Movie buffs are eagerly waiting to see Urvashi in her boldest and sensuous avatar till date. The beautiful actress who debuted with 'Singh Sahab The Great' set the temperatures soaring with her sizzling dance in the song.
Urvashi Rautela simply looked stunning in the black dress and performed the pole dance with perfection. Fans have not been able to stop themselves from gushing over how sensuous the 'Pahadi' beauty is looking.
Unlike the previous version which was sung by Himesh Reshammiya, the new track is completely in female voice. Neha Kakkar has lent her beautiful voice to the song composed by Tanishk Bagchi.
Hate story has proved to be one of the most successful franchise in Bollywood. interestingly, every sequel has turned out to be a bigger hit than the previous film.
The fourth installment of the series also stars Vivan Bhathena and Karan Wahi in lead roles. The Vishal Pandya directorial is slated to hit the screens on March 9, 2018.


Retired Admiral Timothy Keating has joined the Board of Directors at ATAC, the US leader in outsourced tactical aviation services. During his Navy career, Admiral Keating served as commander of Carrier Group Five, the U.S. 5th Fleet, the U.S. Northern Command and NORAD, and U.S. Pacific Command retiring in 2009 after over 38 years of service. Admiral Keating will work with other senior military leaders on the board such as General Gregory "Speedy" Martin, USAF (Ret) to continue ATAC's development in tactical aviation training.
For over 25 years, the US Navy has increasingly relied on outsourced augmentation of their airborne training and readiness programs to provide tactical training to naval ship and air crews in place of front-line military assets. Saving an estimated $100 million per year while preserving hundreds of flight years on F/A-18's, ATAC has become an indispensable part of Naval Fleet training and readiness. ADM Keating joins ATAC after recent award of the US Navy 5-year next generation contract to provide approximately 1.5 times the flight hour equivalent of the average Navy fighter squadron in training services to Navy warfighters.


Oct 04, 2018 - 16 students on dual study programs have now completed their bachelor degrees at Rolls-Royce Power Systems and its subsidiary MTU Friedrichshafen.
Oct 01, 2018 - Rolls-Royce is investing in Berlin-based start-up company Qinous GmbH, a global provider of innovative energy storage and control systems, and adding turnkey microgrids to the portfolio.
Sep 20, 2018 - Rolls-Royce and Alpha Trains intend to jointly retrofit Alpha Train's Talent, Desiro and Lint fleets with MTU hybrid drives.
Sep 19, 2018 - Rolls-Royce and Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail, the state-owned railway of the Republic of Ireland, will jointly pioneer the use of MTU hybrid rail drives on the Irish railway network.


Research and development (R&D) is one of Global Road Technology's core strategic pillars. Our goal is to dominate through technical excellence. Towards this, all business units and processes feed back into the R&D development team allowing GRT to have directed and mission critical R&D objectives.
Our research team consists of experienced technologists and researchers in the fields of chemical engineering, geotechnical engineering, software engineering as well as civil engineering. They work closely with the sales and marketing teams who have regular contact with our customers. Our aim is to provide solutions to better satisfy our clients' needs.
GRT has state of the art chemistry and geotechnical laboratories as well as substantial research and development cooperation agreements with major universities such as Queensland University of Technology (QUT), University of Sydney and University of Queensland (UQ). The R&D team also have constant contact with relevant resources at MIT and Harvard.
GRT supports scientific research and is a keen subscriber to the latest technologies in the fields of organic chemistry, geotechnical engineering and civil engineering. GRT has committed to show its support by sponsoring postdoctoral research and funding a GRT Fellowship at QUT.
It is GRT's commitment to innovation and excellence that sets it apart from its competitors. GRT polymers are molecularly designed and tailor-made for specific soil types and environmental conditions with over 85 formula's currently in use. All products are extensively tested by ERM, a leading international third party environmental testing laboratory, and certified environmentally friendly.
This provides valuable scientific insight, not only into the chemical structure of GRT polymer formulations but also into the interaction of polymer formulations with specific soil types at macro as well as molecular level.
Scientific data is carefully documented in GRT's proprietary R&D module of the RMS information technology system. This allows GRT researchers to quickly cross-reference experimental results to identify key drivers for required outcomes.
Exploiting these key drivers allows GRT to create exciting new formulations directed at specific real life problem areas. All new formulations are tested in the GRT geotechnical laboratory in terms of unconfined compression strength (UCS), soaked and unsoaked Californian Bearing Ratio (CBR), Capillary rise, etc. to establish baseline suitability of the formulation to treat a particular soil type. Results are once again recorded in the GRT RMS system, providing GRT with an extensive database of polymer formations ideally suited to substantially improve specific soil types for specific environmental conditions.
The final stage of the R&D process is to perform field trials where the field performance is tested and recorded on a monthly basis from 6 months to a year, depending on test variability. Formulations that pass this vigorous process are either guarded as trade secrets or patented.


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Q: How to plot a changing linear equation (multiple stitched together) on one graph For this assignment I have I need to show several linear equations on one graph, but when one part of the x-axis is reached, it has to change which linear equation is portrayed. We aren't allowed to use anything outside of pylab and basic conditionals, arrays, loops etc.
Several things have been tried, simply plotting each line on the graph, the issue here is that the lines continue when they should not. I cannot seem to put a limit on each individual line as well. Additionally I've tried creating a loop for each part of the x-axis, and plotting the different lines for each one, to little success.
STemp = ((-22/90)*latitude)+24
Depth = arange(0,2000,10)
SSTemp = STemp*1+(0*Depth)
DTemp = 2*1+(0*Depth)
c = -((((2-STemp)/800)*200)-STemp)
TTemp = (((2-STemp)/800)*Depth)+c
xlabel("Depth (Meters)",fontsize="large")
ylabel("Temperature (\u00B0C)",fontsize="large")
title("Temperature of Water vs Depth",fontsize="large")
plot(Depth, TTemp, 'b-', linewidth = 2, label = 'Thermocline')
plot(Depth, DTemp, 'b-', linewidth = 2, label = 'Deep')
plot(Depth, SSTemp, 'b-', linewidth = 2, label = 'Surface')
grid(True)
show()

while Depth[0]:
    plot(Depth, SSTemp, 'b-', linewidth = 2, label = 'Surface')
while Depth[20]:
    plot(Depth, TTemp, 'b-', linewidth = 2, label = 'Thermocline')
while Depth[199]:
    plot(Depth, DTemp, 'b-', linewidth = 2, label = 'Deep')
show()

The first attempt yields a graph that has all the lines wanted, but that run for far too long (the angled line is meant to connect the two, while the others aren't meant to continue before the intersection).
The second one doesn't even show up anymore. I have tried so many things with that one that it's lost most of it's original code.

A: Here it is a short script that addresses your stumbling block

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*Import pylab, get the points on the x-axis (I prefer linspace that keeps both ending points, you've used arange but basically it's the same)
from pylab import *
x = linspace(0,10,101)

*To define the linear functions use where, whose arguments, for this application, are a condition and two expressions, the value of y? is the first expression where the condition is true, the second one where the condition is false.
Another point is the use of NaN (Not a Number), that is the Python representation of the result of an undefined numerical expression (e.g., 0/0), that we use because in the context of plotting leads to a missing point in the line.
Lets's say that we want to have y = 2 x + 5 for x <=5 and y = 15 for x > 5, in code, using where and NaN
y1 = where(x<=5, 2*x+5, NaN)
y2 = where(x< 5, NaN, 15.)

*Eventually we plot the two functions, add the legend and a grid and finally show() our plot:
plot(x,y1,label='linear')
plot(x,y2,label='constant')
legend() ; grid() ; show()

Ooops, I forgot to mention that you can concatenate wheres, e.g.
from pylab import *
x = linspace(0,10,101)
x1, x2 = 4, 6
y1 = where(x<=x1, 2*x+2, NaN)
y2 = where(x< x1, NaN, where(x<=x2, 10, NaN))
y3 = where(x< x2, NaN, 22-2*x)
for y, label in ((y1,'$y=2x+2$'), (y2,'$y=10$'), (y3,'$y=22-2x$')):
    plot(x, y, label=label)
ylim((-0.2, 10.2)) ; legend() ; grid() ; show()


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Interview with a Photographer: Sarah Moon
Here's an interview I did with British-born, French photographer Sarah Moon about ten years ago.
Moon visited Toronto in spring 1999 to introduce a retrospective entitled Inventaire 1985-1999 at the Jane Corkin Gallery. It's funny, but the Moon's work still looks as fresh as it did in 1999 (and it looked as fresh in 1999 as it did in 1977). I've updated the story a little, but I'll let the links supply more recent information on Moon and her work.
Moon first gained notoriety for shooting a series of now-iconic Cacharel ads over 20 years ago. These spots featured sort of retro-'20s bohemian waifs and looked like the photographs were hand-tinted and covered in a sort of patina of nostalgia. They were also wholly original for their time.
By 1999, her most striking images are saturated with colour or are in richly toned black and white. Most importantly, her work is concerned with form over content. Models become the background and the shape of the clothing becomes the focus. In her 1999 spring/summer campaign for Hermès, the model is completely absent, replaced by a peacock wearing a watch around his long, skinny neck. like an Inuit sculptor discovering his subject in the soapstone, Moon said, "It's more the form of the clothing that makes these pictures exist." She noted that the works selected for the retrospective of her fashion and fine art photography – the images that can stand alone on the wall – tend toward the abstract. "I know vaguely what I'm looking for," she said, smiling, "but I don't always achieve it."
Speaking in rapid fire, clipped English, Moon was enchanting, truly at ease in her own skin. Dressed in a mix of Japanese and French designers, her small, fine boned face framed with owlish, tortoisehell glasses, she easily looked 10 years younger than her 58 years.
When asked if having a woman behind the camera changes the dynamic of fashion photography, Moon replied, "I think so. [Female photographers and models] don't work on the same terms of seduction. We work as a team. The camera enhances that dialogue. When I was a model there was not the same rapport [with male photographers]." With female shooters, she added, "there was a kind of complicity."
Moon's photographic work led to directing television commercials for Cacherel, among others. This, in turn, led to her co-writing and directing a feature-length film, Mississippi One in 1991 – a story about a father who kidnaps his daughter and which Moon describes as a love story that ended badly. "Between the moment I began writing the film, finding money and trying to make it exist," she said, "it took three years." Since then, Moon has filmed several documentaries about artists, and at the time of our interview was working on "a portrait with video" about photographer Lillian Bassman.
As Moon pays homage to artists who informed her work with her documentaries, she's also into working with forward designers such as Martin Margiela (when he was still designing for Hermès) and Alexander McQueen. Moon also admires the photography of American David LaChappelle. "I like the way he takes his job seriously," she said.
And, no nostalgia here, by 1999 Moon had embraced the digital age, editing her films on an AVID and tinkering with Photoshop. "I love the computer," she said, "I have nothing against it as long as you don't feel the machine. It's the same with the camera. I don't like to show the kitchen."
Photo: "Monette pour Commé des Garçons," from the book Sarah Moon 1 2 3 4 5 (2008).
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Tags : Alexander McQueen, Cacharel, David LaChappelle, Hermès, Lillian Bassman, Martin Margiela, Sarah Moon
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After a slog through a small section of tunnels near the kobold caves (the inhabitants of which they had cowed into submission during an earlier expedition), they were barely any richer. However, the Castellan's standing 10gp bounty for orc heads would make up for it, as they each had a half-dozen such grizzly decorations adorning a spear on their return to the Keep. "Tax these, you bastards!"
After a few days of recovery and recruiting new henchmen - made much easier by the party's growing fame and the recent caravan from the west, which brought with it numerous fortune seekers - they made their way back to the Caves with a small army all their own.
Things were quiet. A little too quiet.
And the newly formed goblinoid alliance had set a trap for the adventurers.
It looked bad for our - ahem! - heroes, but a well-placed sleep spell and a few charm person spells quickly leveled the playing field: The goblins' pet ogre suddenly turned on the little bastards, mowing down several ranks with a single swing of his massive club; the remaining goblins broke ranks and ran for the woods. The hobgoblin leader similarly turned on his men, creating a brief bout of chaos as he was laid low by his underlings and a successor found to take his place - only to suffer the same fate!
In the opening moments of the battle, the adventurers had managed to scatter the goblins on their left flank and render unconscious all of the orcs on their right. (Damn Hildy and her magnificent luck with the effects of that sleep spell!) That only left the hobgoblin horde - two score-soldiers strong - to deal with, and they were forced - thanks to some well-placed burning flasks of oil - to approach the party in narrow paths around the pit that now lay open between the two forces.
Despite this temporary advantage, a huge number of the goblinoids soon made it into melee and the battle was joined. Blacktome the magic user used his new levitate spell to gain a better vantage point from which to continue targeting the hobgoblin leadership, only to make himself a perfect target for their crossbow-wielding troops. Moments later, he lay in a bolt-laden heap on the ground.
He wasn't destined to do so alone, as his comrades began to fall around him. The battle wore on, at times looking desperate for the party. Ultimately, they managed to win the day, although at a terrible toll: nine of their eleven henchmen lay among the dead, and Blacktome had suffered a serious wound. Were it not for Rube, the charmed ogre, the battle would surely have been lost.
The survivors quickly scouted one of the other caves, which they found had once been home to a clan of bugbears. The creatures had apparently been disinclined to acquiesce to the hobgoblins' demands to join them, and had been murdered for their insolence.
Suffering from fatigue, injury, and lack of spell power, the adventurers decided not to attempt the return trip to the Keep, and instead locked themselves in a room within the orc caves that they had cleared out earlier... only to have the remaining goblins return in the middle of the night and attempt to burn them out. They managed to escape only thanks to a spell of fire resistance - from a scroll that had belonged to one of their deceased henchmen - cast on Rube, who bashed down the burning door and the barricade beyond. Hildy, Blacktome, and one of the henchmen succumbed to the smoke, but were dragged out of the cave by Brother Zogtavius, Rube and the other henchman (er, henchwoman - a lawful fighter named Elaine) - only to emerge into a dozen waiting goblin spears. Poor Rube, who had saved the party by turning on his previous employers, fell at the end of those spears before the two remaining conscious party members managed to drive off the foul creatures.
When all was said and done, another henchman was dead, and Hildy - miraculously unscathed in the earlier battle - and Blacktome were nearly dead from smoke inhalation. The party huddled at the mouth of the cave to await dawn.
Suddenly, from the darkness, a figured approached, calling out meekly. It was Mylor, new apprentice to Blacktome. Mylor, whom Brother Zogtavius swore he had seen split in twain by a hobgoblin's blade. It seemed impossible, but here he was. He claimed to have awoken among the dead at the canyon floor, and heard the party fighting the goblins. He told them he was so thankful they had not left the canyon, leaving him lost, injured, and unarmed in the dark.
The party was suspicious, but welcomed him back just the same.
Unsure of their situation, and wary of this person claiming to be the surely slain Mylor, Zogtavius made an executive decision, and the party quickly limped its way back to the Keep in the pre-dawn hour. Miraculously, they did so without further trouble.
When the group returned to their townhouse, Blacktome laid Mylor's spell book on a table - next to his own, and another he'd previously captured. He said he was unsure which was Mylor's - he could take whichever one was his. At first, the young apprentice looked confused, but then he said: "I've suffered a great blow to the head - I'm a little unsure right now which one -"
The festivities had barely begun when a shriek went up from the head of the Castellan's table. The adventurers rushed to the scene, where they saw that the ruler's chair lay tipped on its side, next to which the Lady of the Keep, wailing in anguish, knelt and cradled her husband's limp body in her arms.
The Castellan was dead. Poisoned, it would appear. But by whom...?
As the poison took hold he tried to describe the murderer, "Guard with 4 HP, chainmail and spear" but the onlookers just shook their heads in confusion. His last thought was how stupid he had been to give into his wife's silly suggestion, she had fallen in with followers of the nameless eastern god and gain favor with her he had outlawed names within the Keep.
How do you handle smoke inhalation?


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A woman walked up to a little old man rocking in a chair on his porch. "I couldn't help noticing how happy you look," she said. "What's your secret for a long happy life?" "I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day," he said. "I also drink a case of whiskey a week, eat fatty foods, and never exercise." "That's amazing," said the woman, "how old are you?" "Twenty-six," he said.
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Leslie V. Hosking
Les Hosking, currently managing director of the National Electricity Market Management Company, served as the chief executive and managing director of the Sydney Futures Exchange from 1985 to 2000. Hosking transformed SFE from a small domestic commodity exchange into a truly international financial futures market. Under his leadership, SFE was the first exchange out side of the U.S. to launch financial futures (1979), stock index futures (1983}, and individual share futures (1994). Hosking was also ahead of the curve in terms of the push from floor to screen-based trading. Under his leadership, SFE rolled out Sycom in 1989, making it one of the first exchanges anywhere in the world to offer screen trading as an alternative to open outcry. Ten years later, SFE was one of the first exchanges to permanently close its trading floor and convert to all-electronic trading. Hosking is also remembered for his "locals program"-an initiative to get Chicago-based traders to come to Australia and share their expertise during SFE's formative years-and his koala bears at FIA Futures & Options Expo. But most importantly, Hosking was more than the CEO of SFE. He was truly a founder of the whole futures industry in Australia.