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Man dies trying to save woman who fell from London Bridge
Two men jumped into River Thames in midnight rescue effort, but one was later found dead by police
The woman who fell into the Thames was rescued, along with one of the men who tried to save her. Photograph: Loop Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
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Sat 24 Apr 2021 10.29 EDT Last modified on Sat 24 Apr 2021 10.31 EDT
A man has died after jumping into the River Thames in an attempt to rescue a woman who fell from London Bridge.
Two men saw the woman fall into the river just after midnight in the early hours of Saturday morning and jumped in to save her.
Emergency services, including the coastguard and police marine units, attended the scene and tried to rescue all three people, but could only save the woman and one of the men.
After an "extensive search" for the missing man, a body was found about six hours later.
A City of London police spokesperson said: "We were called at 00.12am on Saturday 24 April to reports of a woman in the River Thames close to London Bridge.
"Two men, who had witnessed the woman fall from the bridge, entered the river to try and save her.
"The coastguard and Metropolitan police marine units were able to rescue the woman and one of the men.
"Sadly, following an extensive search involving police helicopters, marine units, London Fire Brigade, London Ambulance Service and City police officers, the missing man was not located.
"At 06.00 the same morning, a body was found believed to be that of the missing man.
"His next of kin have been made aware and are being supported by officers from the City of London police."
The news comes as the search for a missing 13-year-old schoolboy who fell into the Thames from Tower Bridge continues.
The pupil at Ark Globe academy in Elephant and Castle, south London, was reported to have been on his way to school with a friend on Tuesday morning when he fell into the river, according to his headteacher.
A woman who witnessed the fall jumped in seconds later but could only retrieve the child's school bag.
Last year, police and rescue workers warned against jumping from Tower Bridge into the notoriously dangerous River Thames after a man understood to be making a film had to be rescued from the water by two bystanders.


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Eglantina's Story
Twenty-eight year old Eglantina Likollari has been in the Nehemiah Gateway family for over twenty years now. She was born in Maline, a remote mountain village near Pogradec, Albania, in 1988, with a serious heart defect that could not be treated in Albania.
When she was just seven years old, Nehemiah Gateway coworkers met Egla in her village during an outreach mission. They worked quickly, partnering with the humanitarian organization Terre des Hommes to arrange for the little girl to travel to Switzerland for life-saving surgery. Egla chose to study nursing when she finished school. "I just wanted to help people who are in need, just as there were people helping me when I needed them," she says.
Eglantina has been working as a nurse at Nehemiah Gateway's medical services facility in Pogradec for five years now. Her own childhood experiences have given her a special empathy for the people she cares for now in her work for NG. "To be close to the patient in such situations is a wonderful feeling," she says.
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Euler is fine, but why him?
Have in mind that I asked "who is the scientist YOU are most indebted to?"
I feel indebted to Ibn Sina particularly because of his contributions in the medicine world. He carried out a lot of research and compiled them into significant writings, in which I'm mainly referring to these;'Al Qanun fit Tib' (The Canon of Medicine) and also 'As-Shifa fil Hikmah' (The Book of Healing). Although, the Book of Healing is a compilation of more than just focusing on the medicine aspect. Because of his writings, doctors nowadays can continue doing amazing researches- and even come out with further development in the world of science. Ibn Sina discovered Rubella, Tubercolosis (TB), and also mental illnesses. He even discovered special threads for surgery and the medical syringe. In his book called The Canon of Medicine, he discussed further the pulse diagnosis introduced by the Chinese (and add on his commentary as well)- even Galen admitted that it was hard to master the pulse diagnosis. He even introduced the scientific method of 'asking, experimentation, analysis'. He described the nature of diseases very clearly as well.
His works have aspired many people- it's like an important textbook being translated in the medicine world!
Charles Darwin - I studied evolutionary biology at undergrad and postgrad level, and I use his theories almost every day at work. Came up with the second most successful idea anyone has ever had.
Isaac Newton - used mathematics brilliantly to explain the clockwork universe.
Thales - one of the earliest philosophers to see naturalistic rather than supernatural explanations for everything, the first step towards science.
Albert Hofmann. A true genius.
This is tough. Part of me wants to say Newton for kick starting modern science, another thinks Maxwell or Faraday for laying the foundations for the electric generator. On the other hand there's a good chance I would have known someone who died of smallpox without Jenner.
Why would electric generator be so important to you, rather than something else?
Virtually everything in my life (and indeed almost everyone in a developed country) is reliant on technology which at some point uses electricity, either to make it work or to manufacture it.
Although since writing that first post I also remembered that Shockley helped develop the transistor which is arguably just as important as the electric generator for making modern life possible. There is an alternative to transistors (valves) but they're much larger and more expensive to manufacture. It's an interesting discussion to debate whether the wheel, fire, flint/wooden tools or the transistor has had more impact on humanity.


When you're looking for that golden golf internship prepared to be faced with adult challenges that take you out of the classroom and into the budding stages of a career.
You're competing against other qualified candidates for a coveted position, so it's imperative to bring your A game, especially during an interview.
The interview is where you meet your potential employer face-to-face. It's your moment to shine, make a phenomenal first impression and show what makes you different from the rest.
An interview can be nerve-wracking, but even if you don't know what to expect, you can still be prepared to avoid certain rookie mistakes. Here are 4 big ones to dodge with stealth.
Rolling out of bed, throwing on a pair of jeans and heading to your interview won't make the best first impression. It's always a huge plus to present yourself as clean and well-put together. Business casual is recommended. If necessary, get a hair trim beforehand and don't overdo it with the perfume or cologne!
One of the biggest no no's is arriving late for an interview. Play it safe and instead, opt to arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled time. Those who arrive late demonstrate poor time management skills in the eyes of the employer, which isn't savvy for exemplary work behavior. Take traffic and routes into consideration. If you've never been to the location before, a test drive beforehand will smooth any risks of getting lost the day of the interview. Set an alarm and make sure your car has enough gasoline in the tank.
Smartphones are attached to the hip nowadays, so it's second nature to bring it with you everywhere without another thought. For an interview, you want to tread lightly with this one. Make sure your phone is turned off before you go in or better yet, tuck it safely inside the glove department of your car. The last thing you want is for the ringtone to go off during the big moment.
One mistake you want to avoid is going in without knowing anything about the company. Sure, you might've Googled the most commonly asked interview questions, but it makes sense that you should know about the company you wish to work for, right? Pull up their website and read everything! What's their mission statement? When did the company form and why? Who runs the company? Knowing about the unique persona of a business can help you shape ideal questions and answers that show how you can benefit them specifically and how they can benefit your career as a solid match.


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Soccer: Eagles weather wind, Raptors for 2-0 win
May 5, 2010 at 2:18 p.m.
LONGMONT — Caitlin Updyke on Tuesday showed how strong defense leads to good offense.
The keeper for seventh-ranked Broomfield weathered an early onslaught by No. 8 Silver Creek, leading to her team's 2-0 win. The first 20 minutes of the game, when the Raptors were on the hunt and Broomfield could not find its attack, Updyke towered in the Eagles' backfield.
The keeper turned away three hard shots — one a rocket that should have slipped into the upper corner of the frame — jumping, sliding and becoming an all-around wall in the net.
"They wanted to come and punish us and we stuffed them," Updyke said.
The Broomfield (12-2, 12-1) keeper's stand did not stop there. Silver Creek (11-3, 10-3) regrouped coming out of halftime, after Sydney Kern and Hayli LaBadie gave the Eagles their two-goal lead.
Despite Broomfield's defense forcing the Raptors' attack into the westerly wind, Kelli Drobney was twice able to get up the other side of the field to put the gales at her back. But the freshman forward's pair of shots, while on the mark, suffered the same fate as the Raptors' earlier attempts.
"Caitlin was a difference," Broomfield coach Jim Davidson said. "We thought in this kind of match she was going to have to make a really big play, and I thought she made three or four."
Updyke even drew praise from Silver Creek's coach, who named her, along with the wind, as the two factors that stymied his team.
"She always comes out strong," Raptors' coach Merv Johnson said.
Defense was not the only factor keeping Broomfield in the hunt for a share of the Northern League title. What the Eagles' offense lacked in volume of attack, it made up for in opportunism.
Kern and LaBadie sparked their team's offense in a blink of an eye, giving their team a commanding lead in the final 3 minutes of the first half.
Kern started the onslaught in the 37th minute, when Silver Creek's keeper left the frame to challenge her. She put the right touch on the ball, chipping it over the goalie's head an allowing the wind from the west to do the rest. Then LaBadie, with the wind at her back, pulled the trigger in the 38th minute, connecting on a strong cross-goal shot.
"We had a couple of chances and took them," said Kern, whose attack was only her team's second shot on goal. "I think that put us over."
Silver Creek's best opportunity came early in the match, before Broomfield got on the board.
CC Rinehart was the spearhead of the Raptors' attack, cutting through the Eagles' defense in the first 20 minutes of play. The striker never put a shot on frame, but set up her teammates for a number of quality attempts.
"Once they scored, we just got taken back," Rinehart said. "And we didn't know what to do."


Mathematics is very important to every individual from primary level to adulthood. It helps to build number sense, or the basics of learning about numbers, is the first vital math skill a child must develop. Children must learn to count forwards and backwards early in childhood to learn the relationship between numbers in the future. Number sense is a vital skill that early childhood educators should focus on teaching them from an early stage.


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The Train Robbers
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Suburban Commando
Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers and the like.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Return of the Seven
Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.
Country: Spain, United States of America, USA
Genre: Action, Western
Support Your Local Gunfighter
A quick-witted drifter wanders into a lawless town in the midst of a gold rush. Shocked by the prices of food and meals he reluctantly takes the job of sheriff by amazing the Mayor with his lightning quick, dead eye pistol accuracy. He makes the town council know that he is really just passing through on his way to Australia and he will pull up and leave anytime he chooses (including at the first sign of real trouble). His first day on the job he takes on the biggest, meanest ranching family and meets his klutzy love interest.
Young Billy Young
A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lords, in the old West. Kane is no lawman, but he accepts the badge because he has an old score to settle with the town's chief trouble-maker. Once on the job, Kane must also deal with a young sharpshooter named Billy Young and a sharp and sassy saloon dancer, Lily.
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Canadian film where in ex-marine Steiger, unhinged by the death of his son in Vietnam, terrorizes a young couple
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
A cop turns to crime to keep his spoiled sexy young wife happy. When the money starts coming in his partner was in on the action.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Hannie Caulder
Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western


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The Merck & Co., Inc., (Merck) Flint River Plant located in Albany, Georgia, produces active pharmaceutical ingredients in bulk form. The products manufactured at the site include two diuretic products, ZOCOR for the treatment of high cholesterol, PRILOSEC, for the treatment of ulcers, COZAAR for the treatment of high blood pressure and among others CRIXIVAN for the treatment of HIV infection and AIDS. The actual operating area is approximately 90 acres and is located on an approximately 800 acre site. The Merck, Flint River Plant employs approximately 560 full time employees. In the pharmaceutical manufacturing processes at the site, various compounds and raw materials are used including acids, bases, flammables and water reactive materials.
ring of diuretics. Methyl formate is used in the manufacture of an ulcer medication.
The concepts of the Risk Management Plan regulations, which are prevention, detection and response, are not new to the Merck, Flint River Plant. It has been and is Mercks policy to implement effective programs to prevent releases of the compounds that we use. Further, our policy is to maintain equipment and procedures to quickly detect a release if one were to occur, and to maintain trained emergency response personnel and the necessary equipment to effectively respond to a release that might occur. Our management and our employees have been focusing on these activities for many years. In 1987 we began a formal process safety management program at the plant which was five years before this same type of program was required by OSHA. Our process safety management program involves a detailed, step-by-step evaluation of every process.
program. Other areas include operator training, detailed operating procedures, management of change, hazardous work permits, auditing, incident investigation and pre-startup safety reviews. All of these areas of process safety management work together to result in pharmaceutical manufacturing processes which are designed with safety in mind. They also ensure that we have multiple layers of protection to prevent a problem from happening in every process.
he operation of specific equipment, the potential hazards involved and what to do in an emergency. They know what to look for and what actions to take if they see something that is not consistent with standard operating procedures. Additional monitoring and detection systems include the computer controls and instrumentation at the site, and around the clock video monitoring of specific areas and operations. All these people, procedures, equipment and systems combine to ensure that if a release were to occur, it would be detected and addressed quickly.
epartments in the state that meets all the requirements of municipal fire departments such as the City of Albany or the City of Atlanta. This is a significant accomplishment and one that took many hours of training and work for our volunteers to achieve. This high level of training and preparedness of our responders combined with some of the best fixed and mobile fire-fighting and emergency response equipment anywhere in Southwest Georgia make for an excellent on-site emergency response capability.
ee in the mid 1980s. Back then and still today, Merck personnel are active in the leadership of the LEPC. From time to time we participate in LEPC emergency drills to test the plants and the communitys emergency response plans and coordination among agencies. Between drills, we conduct our own in-plant drills and "table top" exercises to further improve the plants readiness and ability to respond to an emergency.
ty we build into our operations.
In addition to the process safety management aspects of the Risk Management Plan regulations, the regulations also require a facility to perform two types of evaluations related to potential offsite effects of a release of a regulated compound. The first is what is frequently called the "worst case scenario." This evaluation is prescribed in detail by the RMP regulations and requires the assumption that the largest tank in the RMP covered process releases its entire contents in a very short period (instantaneously for liquids and within 10 minutes for compressed gasses). It also requires a facility to assume that none of the active layers of protection are there. Finally, the RMP regulations require that a facility assume that all this happens at a time of the worst possible weather conditions. Even though highly unlikely, this scenario can be used as a screening tool for emergency response planning.
at the Merck, Flint River Plant have used the EPA recommended RMP*Comp software for all worst case scenario and alternate case scenario modeling. RMP*Comp is an electronic version of EPAs Offsite Consequence Analysis Guidance and was chosen because it was provided by EPA for the purposes of preparing Risk Management Plans.
One of our RMP regulated compounds, methyl formate, shows no offsite effects even under the worst case scenario evaluations. Therefore, the lower concern for the risk posed by this compound at the site is reflected in the few requirements in the RMP regulations beyond the analysis of the worst case scenario. This Risk Management Plan contains information regarding the methyl formate storage system and the worst case analysis performed.
e case release scenarios. It is important to include the beneficial effects of systems such as alarm and interlock systems, water curtains, fixed fire protection, effective emergency response teams and well trained operators. When these factors are considered the greatly reduced potential offsite effects of a release are more accurately reflected. Third, the alternate case release scenario evaluations are performed using more typical weather conditions. Weather conditions frequently have the greatest single effect on a release of toxic or flammable compounds. Evaluations at more commonly occurring weather conditions provide scenarios that emergency responders are much more likely to encounter.
irst quarter of 2000. Therefore, we have indicated in the Registration Information of this Risk Management Plan (question 1.16) that this RMP will involve a predictive filling. This means that this Risk Management Plan reflects the storage facilities and maximum anhydrous inventories that will be at the site when production resumes.
s better in the long run.
The second major improvement is that the new smaller tank facilitates the installation of a state-of-the-art water curtain that will totally encompass the ammonia storage tank during a release event. This system, which can be remotely activated, will be installed before anhydrous ammonia is stored again on site. If a release of anhydrous ammonia were to occur from the storage tank, the water curtain can be activated from one of several locations to effectively scrub ammonia vapors from the air before they leave the area. This fixed protection system, along with our mobile fire truck and other fixed fire cannons combine to form a solid wall of protection in the event of a release of anhydrous ammonia. The alternate case release scenario evaluation includes these improvements.
n in place, resulted in an offsite effect. These layers of protection include, trained operators who can quickly detect a release, ammonia sensors that can also detect a release, safety interlocks that are triggered on pressure sensors that can detect a drop in line pressure and automatically shut off flow of ammonia, high flow shutoff valves that limit the release of ammonia if a transfer line were to break, a remotely operated water curtain which will effectively scrub an ammonia release once activated, and emergency response personnel who can further assist in controlling an ammonia release. The fact that no alternate case release scenario resulted in offsite impacts is a very good indication that the multiple layers of protection are ample and appropriate prevention, detection and response measures for our anhydrous ammonia storage and transfer system.
esulting in a leak at just below setpoint of the high flow shutoff valves. This scenario was chosen because it involves the largest release of anhydrous ammonia. The layers of protection considered in this evaluation were: an interlock which prevents a release of this kind from occurring outside of the area protected by the water curtain; a concrete dike which contains the released anhydrous ammonia while it evaporates and reduces the evaporation rate of the released pool; a water curtain which, once activated, effectively scrubs vapors coming from the pool of released ammonia; and trained personnel who can stop the leak of ammonia once the released vapors are controlled. Using the EPA recommended release evaluation software RMP*Comp and considering the layers of protection listed above, it was determined that this release scenario resulted in no offsite effects.
to protect our workers and our community. We will also continue our involvement in organizations like the Local Emergency Planing Committee (LEPC) to ensure that our emergency response activities are fully coordinated with community responders.
As listed elsewhere in this Risk Management Plan, for more information on our safety activities please call Arthur C. Darden, Assistant Safety Manager, at (912) 420-2276. For information on our plan or for other questions you might have please call David R. Orr, Environmental Services Supervisor, at (912) 420-2271.


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Home » New York – Orly Genger, 'Red, Yellow and Blue,' at Madison Square Park through September 8
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New York – Orly Genger, 'Red, Yellow and Blue,' at Madison Square Park through September 8
Orly Genger, Red, Yellow and Blue (2013) via Madison Square Park
On view in Madison Square Park through September 8, Orly Genger's Red, Yellow and Blue is an astounding yet whimsical feat of sculpture. Commissioned by Madison Square Art, Red, Yellow and Blue is constructed from 1.4 million feet of rope from repurposed lobster traps, crochet stitched into braids, covered with over 3,500 gallons of paint and stacked and twisted into over 100,000 pounds of colorful and continuous wave-like shapes.
Genger, 34, is known for pushing the limits of sculpture using rope and found materials. Her large-scale installations play with the language of the Minimalist, Post-Minimalist and Feminist art historical canon, often utilizing massive installations of repurposed materials. Past works have referenced Tony Smith, Donald Judd and Walter de Maria, and 2010's Big Boss at Mass MoCA included 100 miles of red rope that suggested a play on abstract painting. Though executed in a vocabulary all her own, Genger's Red, Yellow and Blue also recalls the monumental forms of Richard Serra and the pop textures of Claes Oldenburg.
Assembled, cleaned and braided over two years, Red, Yellow and Blue is Genger's largest and most labor-intensive project to date, covering about 4,500 square feet over three of the park's lawns. The bright undulating forms respond to the curves of the landscape and trees, suggesting waves in water, perhaps a reference to the ropes' former purpose, and New York's past and present interconnectedness with the Atlantic.
The exhibition is just one more entry in an extremely popular series of installations at Madison Square Park, and will continue through next month, when Genger's installations will be replaced by the sculptures of Giuseppe Penone.
—K. Shahi
Exhibition Site [Madison Square Park Conservancy]
"The Rope Wrangler, Ideas Unfurling: Orly Genger, in Madison Square Park." [The New York Times]
Associated Press. "NYC artist creates installation with lobster rope." [The Wall Street Journal]
"Orly Genger: Red, Yellow and Blue, in Madison Square Park." [Artinfo.com via YouTube.com].
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Preview | LAFC vs Houston Dynamo 9/25/19
September 24, 20199:18AM PDT
Vince La Rosa
It's the business end of the MLS season. And there are trophies to be won.
Three matches remain in LAFC's 2019 season. In the midst of a five-match winless run, the Black & Gold are sputtering as of late. Especially, when you consider the torrid pace they were setting heading into the season's final month. But despite the struggles, there are still two items to consider - even if you're not naturally inclined to look on the bright side.
First, despite the run of five matches without a win, LAFC also hasn't lost much. In that time, the Black & Gold has amassed four draws, each in comeback fashion. In the context of the aforementioned torrid pace to start the season, LAFC's ability to avoid losing won't mask all the ails Bob Bradley's side as of now. But there is something to be said for a side that despite struggling refuses to give in to defeat.
And the second and more appealing item of note, LAFC can raise its first trophy before even kicking a ball against the Houston Dynamo on Wednesday.
Let's preview what could be a historic night in Club history at Banc of California Stadium between LAFC and the Houston Dynamo:
LAFC vs Houston Dynamo | Sept. 25 at 7:30pm PT
TV: YouTube TV, KVMD
Radio: ESPNLA 710, KFWB 980
Opponent Form
The Houston Dynamo are very much on the outside looking in. They haven't been eliminated from playoff contention as of yet but with seven points separating them from the playoff line and three matches remaining, it doesn't look good. In spite of that though, they've won two of their last three matches and were unlucky not to escape an away contest in Vancouver with a draw. Former LAFC striker Christian Ramirez has settled in to his new digs in Houston, scoring in each of the team's last two wins.
What The Team Is Saying
Eduard Atuesta on the team's mindset heading into Wednesday's match: "It's an important game for us. I think it's a very emotional game because we can win the first title for LAFC. And for the fans, it's special. We want to win the game [Wednesday] to win that title."
Walker Zimmerman on how important it is to win the Supporters' Shield at home: "We understand what a win does for us, what that means for this Club. The conversation has been around the past few weeks, even months, about winning the first trophy and raising the Supporters' Shield at our home stadium in front of our fans and supporters. So the conversation has ultimately been, let's make sure our mentality is right to go out there to fight for our Club, fight for each other, and hopefully we make it a celebration tomorrow as a moment that can encapsulate everything we've done this season."
LAFC Projected Starting XI
(4-3-3): Tyler Miller; Jordan Harvey, Eddie Segura, Walker Zimmerman, Steven Beitashour; Eduard Atuesta, Mark-Anthony Kaye, Latif Blessing; Diego Rossi, Carlos Vela, Brian Rodríguez.
Supporters' Shield At The Ready: The first trophy in Club history is waiting to be claimed. LAFC knows the situation - an NYCFC draw or loss OR an LAFC win and the Shield is Black & Gold. Because NYCFC plays before LAFC on Wednesday, there's a chance the Shield could have a new home before kickoff between LAFC and Houston. Celebrating on the trophy with a win, regardless of what happens in the earlier match, would be the ideal situation for the Club and the Supporters though.
Creeping Up On The Record: Carlos Vela scored his 29th goal of the season in the 1-1 draw with Toronto FC. He's two goals shy of Josef Martinez's single-season MLS record of 31 goals. Vela has scored in six straight matches and 15 of his last 17. With three matches remaining, the record is very much insight. But others are also gaining on Vela in the race to the Golden Boot. Zlatan Ibrahimovic is two goals back at 27 on the season.
The Return Of Superman: For the second week in a row, LAFC welcomes back a former player in the opposition's colors. Christian Ramirez was traded to the Houston Dynamo back in August and has since scored three goals in five starts. Despite no longer being with the Black & Gold, he'll be fondly remembered for scoring one of the two Houston goals that led to LAFC securing the No. 1 spot in the Western Conference as a result of Minnesota United's loss on Sept. 11.


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Chasing Phil by David Howard
Tags: non-fiction, true-crime,
David Howard's Chasing Phil follows the story of two agents from the FBI's Gary, Indiana office who go undercover to infiltrate a ring of stunningly audacious and startlingly successful con men in the mid-1970s. When agents Jack Brennan and J.J. Wedick get a tip about a guy who ripped off a pizza store owner with bogus loan papers, they ask permission from their supervisor to go undercover. The idea was to record the con man, Phil Kitzer, making incriminating statements and possibly mentioning the names of other scammers the FBI could pursue. The scope of the operation was expected to cover one or two meetings.
At the time, the FBI had no history of running undercover operations. J. Edgar Hooover had prohibited them out of fear that his agents would become corrupted by associating too closely with the criminals they were supposed to be arresting. But this was 1976-1977, and with Hoover recently gone, the FBI was beginning to change its ways.
Unfortunately for Brennan and Wedick, neither man had been chosen to attend the Bureau's first class in undercover training. Not only did they have to go in cold for their initial meeting with Kitzer, they had to use their real names and IDs. They had to charge incidentals on their personal credit cards and hope to be reimbursed. The FBI didn't even have rules for what an undercover agent could and could not do, which would lead them to have to make a number of increasingly difficult spur of the moment decisions.
Brennan and Wedick's informant introduced them to Kitzer by phone. After a number of calls, Kitzer asked them to meet him in the bar of a motel near Minneapolis. The agents, having no disguise, were so unprepared that Kitzer's first comment on meeting them was, "Christ, you guys look like a couple of feds."
The three men had a few drinks, chatted about ways to acquire and sell stolen government bonds, and generally hit it off. Kitzer, then drunk, told them to get in his car for a ride. Brennan and Wedick looked at each other, unsure what to do, since there was no protocol for what an undercover agent should do in this situation, and they had no backup to bail them out if things got dicey. The agents got into the car and hoped everything would be OK.
As they talked, they began to understand that Kitzer was no two-bit con man. Nor was he the type to go in and rob a bank of a few thousand dollars. Kitzer and his international ring of co-conspirators would literally steal entire banks by forging papers that guaranteed millions of dollars in funds and getting the bank's owners to turn over the entire operation to them. Then they'd empty out the depositor accounts, sell fake certificates of deposit and fake loan guarantees that would never be honored.
They didn't just do this to banks. They did it to hotels, land development projects, insurance companies, and all sorts of other businesses. Some of their scams were so large, they put the economies of small countries at risk.
When Brennan and Wedick returned to the office, they tried to explain to their supervisors the magnitude of what they had uncovered. It took them months to get the higher-ups in the Bureau to understand the scope and complexity of the operations these two agents had stumbled into.
For much of the book, the agents and the few above them who understand what's going on spend an enormous amount of time and sweat just pushing requests through the FBI bureaucracy to allow Brennan and Wedick to follow Kitzer to his next destination. The scammers fly from airport to airport on the spur of the moment, while the agents have to get on the phone and ask headquarters if it's OK to break diplomatic protocols by pursuing the operation into another country without officially warning the other country that they're coming. In some cases, the agents find themselves working in other countries, unacknowledged and unprotected. Other times, they're in countries with no working phones (yes, that was a thing in the Carribbean of the 1970s) and the FBI has no idea where they are or even if they're still alive.
In one incident, the only plane tickets Brennan and Wedick can get on an hour's notice have GTR (Government Transport Request) stamped across the top–a dead giveaway that they're feds traveling on government orders–and they have to try to hide their tickets from the crooks who they're chatting with as they board. And all this is happening while one agent has to travel the world with a tape recorder the size of a brick strapped to his back.
Phil Kitzer turns out to be a fascinating character. He's intelligent, charismatic, and persuasive. Because he has a deep knowledge of banking, finance, insurance, and law, he is often the lynchpin on which the scams of other con men depend.
Kitzer also has a thorough knowledge of the criminal justice system, which he has easily outwitted before. When the government brought its best lawyers to take him down after a massive insurance fraud in the 1960's, he not only got himself acquitted of all charges (though he was clearly guilty), but he humiliated the prosecutors in the process.
During their months of travel together, Brennan, Wedick, and Kitzer develop a strong friendship and a deep mutual respect. Though Kitzer may be on the wrong side of the law, he's an extraordinary person by any measure, and a hard guy not to like.
In one scene, when Kitzer still has no idea that Brennan and Wedick are undercover agents, he explains to them in chilling detail the inner workings of the FBI's decision-making process, which he's managed to infer by simple observation. He then goes on to analyze the tactics and shortcomings of federal prosecutors, and describes how he can easily outmaneuver them. Brennan and Wedick know he's not just talking. He's actually done all the things he describes.
The FBI finally comes fully onboard with the operation when some of Kitzer's associates connect with members of the Mafia in New York. Then the operation that the Gary, Indiana office has spent so many months just trying to keep afloat becomes the FBI's number one priority. As one agent remarked decades later, Brennan and Wedick's undercover work exposed so many criminals, the FBI could still have been working on the cases in the 1990's if they chose.
Things get dicey for the agents as the operation moves to New York. With the involvement of the Mafia, the agents face their first threat of real violence. At that point, they're still working under their real names. Anyone can look up their families in the phone book. They've even had to turn over their social security numbers to some particularly paranoid criminals who wanted to check their credit records.
The amazing thing about this book is that it keeps getting better as it goes on. I won't spoil what happens when the agents finally reveal themselves. The book takes an unexpected turn there, and it's a good one. It's rare to find a non-fiction book in which the story and the primary characters deepen unexpectedly at the end, but this one, and it's well worth the read.
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You can get started with simple and free charting libraries like Chart.js, Echarts, Chartist, N3-charts, EJS Charts and JScharts etc or go ahead with commercial products like Highcharts.js, Fusion charts, ZingChart or AmCharts.
The answer to this question depends on many factors including your liking, skill level, learning curve, input data formats, chart types required, interactivity level required, performance, 2D or 3D, targeted browsers, targeted platforms, and of course budget at hand.
If your requirements are limited to embedding few simple charts on your website or blog, or if you are a student working on some university report project etc, the answer gets very simple – go for an open source and free library like Chart.js, JScharts, D3.js or Google Charts, and there are many more.
While libraries like D3.js, Echarts and Google charts are free, they are real powerful and feature rich and are widely used for enterprise grade projects too.
On the other side, if you are working for a large organization, chances are that you won't have much of a constraint on the budget. If that is so, there are few good options including names like Highcharts, Fusion Charts, ZingChart and AmCharts.
D3.js is more of a library for developers than designers, data scientists or business analysts. D3 is modular and extensible, and there are many modules and ready to use charts built on top of D3, by community of developers. You can check out the list of D3 npm Modules here.
D3 utilizes web standards like SVG, CSS, HTML and Canvas to the fullest to offer maximum performance and flexibility. With D3 you can bind data with the DOM and then apply transformation to the documents for interactivity.
Read more about D3.js here - d3js.org.
HighCharts is the #1 in commercial space and offers most sophisticated data visualization solutions to enterprises of all sizes and scale. Highsoft is the company behind Highcharts, based out of Norway and operating worldwide.
Apart from Highcharts, HighSoft offers two more products in the data visualization named HighMaps and HighStocks, used for dynamic maps and interactive representation of stocks.
The power of Highcharts can be gauged from the fact that 72 out of the 100 largest companies in the world use Highcharts for one or other of their visualization projects, at the time of writing. Some of the big names include Facebook, City, Visa, Groupon, IBM, Mastercard, Verizon and AT&T.
An interesting feature from HighSoft is the HighCharts Cloud that lets you create interactive visualizations to embed in social media feeds, blogs or websites, all without the need to do any coding. Non-programmers can also download Highcharts Editor that offers wizard style UI to easily create and publish charts of all types.
You can read more about HighCharts at - Highcharts.com.
Like any other product from the house of Google, Google charts is for the masses and one of my go to libraries for creating and embedding charts in websites and blogs that I run. It is very easy to add zoom and pan functionality to embedded charts, more features can be used, as required.
HTML5/SVG based, and for that reason, cross browser and cross platform compatible, including iOS and Android.
Collection of charts ranging from simple scatter plots to hierarchical tree maps.
Real time data representation via webservices/SQL connection to data sources.
When you use Google charts for data visualization, the possibilities are nearly endless, you can always use out of the box charts, customize and develop your own charts or use community contributed charts.
More about Google charts here – Google Charts.
Chart.js is another open source and free to use library that is used by masses, thanks to Nick Downie – the creator. With over 30K stars on GitHub, continuous improvements and updates by the community, chart.js ranks much higher than many commercial products.
Chart.js offers 8 different chart types, all of which are responsive and fit on devices of all sizes. It is a perfect solution for designers and developers looking forward to use out of the box charts without getting into development. To get started, you can either download the source from Github or use the chart.js CDN.
Chart.js renders lightning fast charts with HTML5 Canvas under the hood, charts can be animated and further extended with custom code, as required.
You can get more details on Charts.JS at - Chartjs.org or download it from GitHub.
A big advantage of using Fusion Charts is an easy start, there are tons of live examples hosted on JSFiddle with full source code, that can be downloaded and used as it is.
The ready to use examples include charts that are relevant to many industries and domains including manufacturing, education, sales, marketing, healthcare, government, IT and the most common chart types that are fit for all.
Another good thing is Fusion charts integrate well with various libraries, frameworks and languages including jQuery, React, Angular, PHP and ASP.Net, it means that Fusion Charts seamlessly fit into your current stack.
Charts can be exported to various formats like PDF, JPEG, PNG and SVG, which makes it easier to embed/include charts in reports and documents.
Elegant and lightweight is the tag I would use for Chartist.js. With an enthusiastic and intelligent community of developers, Chartist has grown in popularity and features in a very short span of time, and offers a responsive and DPI independent charting solution.
Chartist.js is built with SASS and can be customized and extended with additional plugins. In fact, there are many ready to use plugins like Axis title, tooltip, fill donut and zoom etc.
Read more about Chartist.js here at - Chartist-js.
If Google has Google Charts, Baidu has Echarts. Echarts is an open source chart library from Baidu that offers highly customizable & interactive charting and data visualization features.
Echarts is the latest one to see the boom and uses modern technologies including zrender, which is a lightweight canvas library. You can enhance the capabilities of Echarts further by using Echarts GL, which provides webGL acceleration, globe visualization and 3D plots.
For sure, Echarts should be the most used charting library in China, but is not limited to china only. You can download Echarts from GitHub and start using in your projects, free of cost.
ZingChart is another commercial product in the market that is doing great. ZingChart offers integration with many third-party tools including React, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, Angular, jQuery, Backbone, Angular and more.
ZingChart also has a solid customer base with names like Telefonica, Nasdaq, Fidelity, Cisco and Microsoft. ZingChart, Inc. is based out of San Diego, USA and is known for its fantastic customer support.
ZingChart comes packed with dozens of ready to use charts including, Radar, Word cloud, Treemap, Cone, 3D Cylinder, Gauge, Stepped, Pareto, Venn, Maps, Stock, Heatmap, Scatter and many more.
To start using ZingChart, you can use npm module or include ZingChart from CDN. You can download and use ZingChart for free but "Powered by ZingChart" watermark appears on all charts. You need to subscribe to one of their plans to remove the watermark.
Read more about ZingChart here - Zingchart.com.
Vega is the recent entrant in the game and is growing at a very rapid pace. Vega comes with a different approach and provides a set of declarative language specifications for visual encoding rules, data transformations and much more for creating visualizations.
While you can use Vega as is, it is a perfect base tool for creating your own visualization libraries and ready to use interactive charts. The building blocks included in the Vega core include designs for map projections, legends, plotting symbols, lines, scales, rectangles and much more.
Datawrapper provides Data tables, maps, column charts, stacked bar charts and line charts, these are all fully responsive and can easily be embedded in the leading content management systems and websites. Datawrapper charts adapt to the styling of the blog or news websites and fits in seamlessly.
AMCharts is another commercial library that competes with top three commercial players - HighCharts, ZingChart and Fusion charts. Some of its renowned customers include names like SAP, RBS, DOW, Audi, Yandex and Pfizer.
Amcharts is an advanced charting library and can be used to create beautiful charts and interactive maps. Apart from the basic graphs like bar, line, area, pie and donut, it also offers step, smoothed line, candlestick, OHLC, Radar, Pola, Bubble, Funnel/Pyramid and Gauges etc.
Read more about Amcharts here - Amcharts.com.
Plotly can be used for creating charts, presentations and dashboards, its customers include names like Google, Siemens, P&G, NASA, Goji and Simple Bio. Plotly has four plans that include a free community edition, personal edition at a very nominal price, professional edition and an on-premise model.
Plotly comes with many enterprise grade features that include integration with LDAP and Active Directory groups, API support for Matlab, R and Python, exporting options to SVG, EPS, HTML, PDF, and it can connect to 18 different data sources (out of the box) including Excel, SQL, CSV files and many more.
The recent release of AnyChart offers additional charts like Mekko chart, Venn Diagram, Mosaic Chart, waterfall chart, bar stock chart, tag cloud and many more options.
Canvasjs offers very simple API that can be used to create dashboards that render across devices including windows Phone, Android, iPad, iPhone and Desktops etc.
Read more here at – Canvasjs.com.
EJSchart used to be a commercial library but has recently gone open source, and for that reason, it is now available as free to use for anyone. EJSchart.js is an advanced library and offers smooth user experience and interactivity with features like mouse tracking, scrolling, crosshairs, key tracking hints, on the fly data loading from XMLs, stackable multiple chart series etc. and much more.
Another cool feature of EJSchart.js is axis locking, wherein user can lock one axis and scale across the other one. Some of the key chart types supported include areas series, function series, line series, pie series, doughnut series, floating bar series, analogue gauges series and stacked bar series.
Read more about EJSchart at - Ejschart.com.
They prefer to call it graphs theory library, and rightly so. Cytoscape contains many useful functions in graph theory and is used heavily by data scientists, students and professors for creation and analysis of graphs and diagrams.
The library was originally developed at Donnelley Centre and university of Toronto and is backed by funding from the likes of NRNB, NIH and Agilent to name a few.
Angular has an ecosystem of its own and N3-charts represent a charting library in that ecosystem. Built using D3.js, N3-charts is for Angular lovers and can be used to create interactive, simple yet beautiful charts. It supports basic features like panning, zooming etc.
As with most of the charting libraries built on top of D3.js, N3-charts too takes way the efforts required to work with D3.js and offers an easy to use framework for rendering charts in web pages.
Read more about N3-charts here - n3-charts.
The library is not that actively upgraded but is an easy to use option for Ember lovers who just want some simple charts like pie, scatter, bar charts, time series etc. without getting into any other framework or library beyond Ember itself.
Read more about Ember Charts here - ember-charts.
Go for Chartkick.js if you are looking at simple to use library without all the jazz, well suited for basic data visualization needs.
ShieldUI takes your graphing and data visualization needs to an all new level, apart from the regular charts, it offers various Barcode rendering options, QR code rendering, tag clouds, tree maps, grid, accordion, autocomplete and many other UI components.
C3.Js is D3 based reusable charts library, it gives high level wrappers to generate D3 based charts without the need to write D3 code. It lets you customize the style with easy mark-up. The state of the chart can be controlled using C3 APIS to bring in interactivity.
Read more about C3 here at - http://c3js.org/.
Recent advancements in the web technologies have given real powers in the hands of designers and developers to create interactive, engaging, lightweight, fast and smooth charts, and of course, most of the top charting libraries incorporate and offer latest and greatest in the world of data visualizations.
The libraries covered in this article are among the most popular in free as well as commercial tier and are fit for individuals, small scale organizations as well as for large enterprises.
As per your requirements, narrow down to 2-3 libraries from the above list, subscribe for trial version (in case its commercial), play around with the library for a while and then close on to one that you like.
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namespace Sylius\Migrations;

use Doctrine\DBAL\Schema\Schema;
use Sylius\Bundle\CoreBundle\Doctrine\Migrations\AbstractMigration;

final class Version20200916093101 extends AbstractMigration
{
    public function getDescription(): string
    {
        return 'Make a price on channel pricing nullable';
    }

    public function up(Schema $schema): void
    {
        // this up() migration is auto-generated, please modify it to your needs
        $this->addSql('ALTER TABLE sylius_channel_pricing CHANGE price price INT DEFAULT NULL');
    }

    public function down(Schema $schema): void
    {
        // this down() migration is auto-generated, please modify it to your needs
        $this->addSql('ALTER TABLE sylius_channel_pricing CHANGE price price INT NOT NULL');
    }
}

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Central Vermont Construction came to us with an outdated website that was badly infected with malware. To make matters worse, the website had been hacked and was being used to broadcast fake spam messages. Fortunately, the website owners contacted us in the nick of time. As we started work on their new website, the old one totally crashed from malware and was declared an unsafe website by Google.
Within just a couple days, we had Central Vermont Construction up and running with an all new, state of the art, WordPress website moved to our web hosting with all security patches in place. Within hours, the new website was indexed by Google and the "unsafe website" notice removed.


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Guest Blogs for Mary E. Twomey, author of Saga of the Spheres.
Writing is a strange monster. Gorgeous, unpredictable, terrifying, and precious. One moment you love what you're into, the next you're swearing you should scrap it all and declare yourself an illiterate just so expectations can be lowered. Learning to spell your name would become a note-worthy feat. "Wow! You did it yourself? Amazing! Sit down and take a rest. Have a cookie, you smart bunny." Alas, with an English degree, more is expected of you when the pen hits the paper. If it's not Shakespeare, and if you don't use fanciful words like "alas", then it must simply not be worth anyone's time, lease of all yours.
This kind of thinking led me to deleted documents, trashed notebooks, abandoned plots and a total tailspin. If it wasn't completely hatched and grown gracefully into an adult by the end of the page, it was obviously a failure. A plot that wasn't complete before the first word was scribbled was a waste. Being a notorious math class disappointment led me to the conclusion that if you don't have the right answer – all the right answers – it's best to keep your mouth shut and your head down. Mistakes are for people who will never find the solution, and wrong guesses are for people who should find a new calling.
Oh, you reader. Silly you.
Fortunately for all of us, today is a new day. Today we will be different. We will be kind to ourselves. We will look in the mirror and believe the things our loved ones say about us. We will trust our ridiculous ideas and not shoot them down just because they are ours. Today we take ourselves seriously and give an honest effort to becoming that person who can see the possibilities.
A funny thing dawned on me in the midst of writing and editing the Saga of the Spheres. I allowed the ink to flow for fun. I did not write for other people. I did not plot for the masses. I wrote, laughed, swooned, and bit my lip as an unknown world shifted into focus on the page. I'm very excited to share the keepers, the seers, the spheres and the wombats with you. My hope is that you find your own possibility, take the first step, and then start running.
Behind the scenes of our spinning earth are keepers of the elements who make sure that tornadoes don't destroy cities, fires don't ravage forests, earthquakes don't decimate towns, and floods don't take out humanity. They wrestle with the natural elements to ensure that the world keeps spinning smoothly on its axis.


The Dragous, a great way to discover traditional sailing.
Depending on the wind, the Dragous sets a course for either Fort la Latte or the Ebihens Islands. Whatever the wind, you'll see some fabulous sights.
For a full day or just half a day, go back in time on board this old-fashioned trawler. With its squat shape and magnificent sails, the Dragous has a picturesque charm. Its curved lines create a fine impression of power in all who see it. Settled in its oak hull, let the wind take you where it will. Its shallow draught and sheer strength, which have won it the nickname 'Barnacle Scraper', mean it can get really close to the islets scattered along the Emerald Coast. It's an opportunity to treat yourself to a magnificent view of the coastline from the sea. Able to accommodate eight people and an instructor, the boat quickly creates a team spirit and sense of affection. In twos or threes, you are invited to rig the sails. Put simply, it's 'a breath of fresh air that does you good'.


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Jamila Johnson-Small's formal training is in dance and, since graduating in 2009, she has been finding ways to 'upset' this training as a statement about expectations of the performing body and its audience. With this approach, she presents work that acknowledges and mobilises the body as a site of politics, trying to destabilise and unsettle illusions of knowledge, achievement or development by incorporating work with forms in which she is an amateur.
Her work navigates states of overwhelm and alienation, utilising density and simultaneity to create environments, i ride in colour and soft focus, no longer anywhere (Fierce Festival, 2017) was the beginning of this practice of working with and through intensities: 'a meditation on…the responsibilities of blackness and queerness, the pressure to 'take space', the feeling of being possessed by other people's fantasies'.
Johnson-Small is interested in using the concept of a choreographic space to facilitate 'immersive spaces of potential' for both performer and spectator, considering it to be a certain kind of social space, for exchange and not-necessarily-verbal communication.
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Pairings Announced for MGM Resorts Main Event at T-Mobile Arena on November 24 and 26
Tickets for sixth-annual tournament on sale Friday, Aug. 16 at 10 a.m.
LAS VEGAS (August 14, 2019) – The battle for the Heavyweight Championship belt of the MGM Resorts Main Event will tip-off with Colorado vs. Wyoming and TCU vs. Clemson in first-round match-ups on Sunday, Nov. 24 at T-Mobile Arena. The sixth-annual men's college basketball tournament, being played on a weekend for the first time, tips at 5 p.m. PT with CU-Wyoming followed by TCU-Clemson at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the two-day tournament go on public sale on this Friday at 10 a.m. PT.
"The quality of our fields for the MGM Resorts Main Event has continued to grow in each of our past five years and we saw three of our teams play in the NCAA Tournament last season," said Brooks Downing, President and CEO of bdG Sports. "This may be our best field yet as excitement is extremely high at Clemson and TCU heading into the new season. Colorado is expected to be among the top three in the Pac-12 for next season. And having known Wyoming coach Allen Edwards for 25 years since he played at Kentucky, I'm certain that he will have the Cowboys ready to play in Vegas."
The consolation and championship games will be played on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. PT, respectively.
Colorado finished 23-13 last season and returns virtually every contributor, including junior guard McKinley Wright whom played the latter half of last season with an injured shoulder. The Buffs will have two first-team All-Pac-12 players in their lineup in Wright and forward Tyler Bey and count on a strong supporting cast that includes four players that started late in the 2018-19 season. Wyoming returns six players that started multiple games last season, including Las Vegas native A.J. Banks. The Cheyenne High School alum started 18 games for the Cowboys and will be a key contributor at the guard position as Wyoming looks to replace NBA Draft pick Justin James.
TCU coach Jamie Dixon has quickly revitalized the Horned Frogs program which finished 23-14 last season. TCU will be led by senior Desmond Bane, a second-team All-Big 12 selection last year, as well as sophomore center Kevin Samuel. Dixon has now won 21+ games in each of his three seasons in Fort Worth, a feat last accomplished by the Horned Frogs 20 years ago under Coach Billy Tubbs. Clemson already has one championship entering the season as the Tigers represented the United States in the World University Games in Italy this summer. Coach Brad Brownell led the Tigers to a 6-0 record and the United States' first gold medal since 2015 and second since 2005 at the biennial event.
Tickets will go on-sale on Friday, Aug. 16 at 10 a.m. PT at AXS.com or by calling 888-9AXSTIX. Ticket information and hotel room information for the MGM Resorts Main Event can also be found at www.mgmresortsmainevent.com and on social media at @NeonHoopsLV.
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Steep climbing. Start inside the arch and climb the arch. Monos, long reaches, slaps, underclings, kneebars, powerfull and pumpy. Great route though short.
View of The Travesty from the West.
No Travesty here. This is a fun climb!
Travis Kemp sending The Travesty.
Travis Kemp working the start of The Travesty.
Ooooo! Good thing that kneebar is so good.


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You will also need to complete the Coastal Skipper Theory element and exam. This can be completed online with our partners Navathome, a recognised training centre specialising in online training. Courses are fully comprehensive making sure you are ready for the examination. The course and examination is 100% online.
The RYA Day Skipper qualification provides you with the necessary skills to Skipper a yacht in familiar waters by day, testing your basic navigation, pilotage and sailing skills whilst taking charge of the yacht and crew. Perfect for anyone looking to charter a yacht or aspiring to purchase their own boat in the near future.
The Day Skipper training week is a 5 day residential sailing course. Whilst learning to sail at our sailing school in Spain you will gain a greater understanding of navigation, buoyage, colregs (IRPCS) and passage planning. To achieve this, your sailing theory must already be at Day Skipper level and remember – good Skippers lead by example and to earn the respect of your crew you will need to have basic skills in sail handling, trimming, wind awareness and the ability to tack and gybe efficiently. It is these skills that are taught in the RYA Start Yachting and Competent Crew courses providing secure foundations to your sailing career.


The debate about the U.S. Census in 2020 and the Trump administration's oversight of it is overly focused on the political implications — it's coming across like a football game, with one side on the offense while the other side scrambles to find a weak point.
The census is not the NFL. It's a requirement established in the Constitution, and a precious, quantitative-based method for knowing who lives in our country with significant implications for the way we do business. If we allow the census to be politicized and treat it like a political football, we could throw away the goodwill it has built for generations.
Opponents armed with a big ad budget already are going after Thomas Brunell. He's a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas who apparently will be appointed to serve as deputy director of the Census Bureau. He has set himself up for trouble by arguing that competitive elections aren't ideal, which seems bizarre in a country with such close popular vote totals in presidential elections, and where the right to vote is established in both the federal constitution and by state law.
Even before the Brunell news broke, The Atlantic reported that the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and other civil rights advocates were concerned that an online census option would result in undercounting. The administration's effort to stop counting LGBT citizens was also met with opposition.
To all sides, let me try to suggest some common ground: The census provides education policymakers and administrators with vital information, so getting it right is critically important.
We also know that Americans have consistently agreed on one topic: 71 percent of parents give their own child's public school an A or B grade, a result that has remained the same since pollsters began asking this question decades ago. This result shows us Americans value the work of their local schools.
Thanks to the census, we also know that three years ago the population of children in U.S. public schools became majority non-white. Furthermore, the census models predict America's foreign-born population will make up 20 percent of the U.S. population by 2060. To put that in context, the previous high was about 15 percent foreign-born more than a century ago, in 1910. The census helps us understand the ways that our population is changing.
A major goal of education policymakers is striving for education equity. Note the word "equity," which is different from "equality." We may never create an equal world, but we can give students more help when they require it to create an equitable world.
The census is essential in this effort; more accurate data reveal who is attending schools and universities, open the door for a better understanding of student needs, and aid in more narrowly focusing attention on supporting those needs. After all, it's hard to argue with cold, hard numbers.
The Racial Heterogeneity Project, organized by the Institute for Immigration, Globalization and Education at the University of California, Los Angeles, with support from the ACT Center for Equity in Learning, has been at the forefront of these education concerns regarding the census.
The project shows that current data practices and policies don't accurately reflect the nation's diverse demographics and have led to the harmful oversight of many underserved groups, who are among the most in need of recognition and resources.
Data should be collected in a manner that accurately reflects the heterogeneity of different racial populations. The new census racial category Middle Eastern or North African, for example, reflects the responsiveness of the government to capture the changing demography.
Disaggregated data must be made more widely accessible, and effective models for reporting and using these data are needed. Results from studies using disaggregated data should also be shared widely to show the utility of these data for informing practice, policy, and advocacy, especially for subgroups that are particularly marginalized and vulnerable.
Broad, bipartisan public concern about education, and the role the census plays in informing improvements in education, give us a way to increase the aperture in the debate. To do otherwise is to take the shortsighted view that all we need is an umbrella during a severe rainstorm, while ignoring that the water is rising around us, ruining crops and flooding streets.
There's still time to the improve the 2020 Census. Starting with an education focus that reflects the backgrounds and experiences of our country's diverse population is a commonsense way forward.


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The Man From Vladivostok: Russia and the Asia-Pacific with Artyom Lukin
Episode | April 22nd, 2019 | Season 1 | 38 mins 14 secs
china, far east russia, foreign policy, international relations, north korea, politics
"In Russia, we don't see North Korea as a threat," says Dr. Artyom Lukin, an expert on Russian foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific region. A contributing writer to Washington Post, Huffington Post, and more, Dr. Lukin clears up American misconceptions about the Far East with some unique Russian perspective.
International Religious Freedom and the Case of Uzbekistan: Trading the Hammer-and-Sickle for the Moon and Star
human rights, post-communist countries, religious freedom, u.s. foreign policy, uzbekistan
Fourth-year-PhD student Ashlyn Hand dialogues with Matt about the super fun topic of religious freedom in U.S. foreign policy and the specific case of post-USSR Uzbekistan. And she says nobody wants her at the dinner table...
Black Widows of the Black Sea
azerbaijan, black widows, caucasus, chechen republic, chechnya, counterterrorism, ethnicity, female terrorism, georgia, religion, soviet union, twins of the caucasus
On this episode, Tom hosts half-Russian graduate student Lucia Winkeler as they talk all things Caucasus and how many times she has to explain to people that it's not Czechia, it's CHECHNYA as in the First and Second Chechen Wars.
Inside Dugin's Beard with Tom & Matt
alexander dugin, eurasianism, fourth political theory
On this installment of Matt and Tom (Tom and Matt) they talk about Eurasianism and Duginism. What exactly are these things? Well, it's kind of a long story... But hopefully this episode will help to break it down for you.
Сeва Новгорoдцев - Рyсская слyжба Би-би-си (на русском языке)
Episode | April 9th, 2019 | Season 1 | 31 mins 28 secs
cold war, communism, cultural icon, radio broadcasting, seva, soviet union
Our first episode in Russian features the legendary rock music DJ from the BBC, Seva Novgorodsev! Please visit our YouTube channel for the English-subtitled version.
Adventures in Communism with Susanne Sternthal
communism, dogs in russia, politics, soviet society
The indomitable Dr. Susanne Sternthal joins host Matt Orr in the studio to discuss her breadth of experience from New York to Moscow.
Turbofolk: The Music of Balkan Identity with Vladislav Beronja
Episode | April 4th, 2019 | Season 1 | 22 mins 4 secs
cultural identity, nostalgia, public history, turbofolk, yugoslavia, культурная идентичность, ностальгия, публичная история, турбофолк, югославия
Dr. Beronja talks about the fascinating musical genre of Turbofolk which emerged during the tumultuous 80s in the former Yugoslavia, expanded to mass popularity in the 90s under Slobodan Milošević, and aligned itself with Balkan identity. Listen for a few clips of some of the most popular songs of the era.
SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: Sevaoborot (Texas Edition) (по-русски)
Episode | April 2nd, 2019 | Season 1 | 53 mins 53 secs
seva novgorodsev, sevaoborot, сева новгородцев
Seva Novgorodsev reprises his long-running show "Sevaoborot" while at the University of Texas at Austin. He is joined by Harvard-alum Dr. Thomas Garza of the university who specializes in Russian Language and popular culture and directs the Texas Language Center. www.seva.ru
The Currency of Diplomacy and State Department "1.0" with (the one and only) John Gleb
Episode | March 30th, 2019 | Season 1 | 34 mins 10 secs
dollar diplomacy, foreign service, human rights, state department history
Straight from the University of California, Berkeley to the Forty Acres of UT Austin, John Gleb gives us a comparative development of diplomacy, foreign policy, and human rights in the U.S. and Europe pre-World War II.
Polls, Politics, and Presidents with Matt & Tom
Episode | March 23rd, 2019 | Season 1 | 28 mins 40 secs
corruption, elections, politics, russia, ukraine, united states
Beginning a new format, hosts Tom Rehnquist and Matt Orr bring to the studio current events and political debates ripe for discussion, and so today that means the Ukrainian presidential elections. Find out which candidate is Matt's chosen "horse" in this episode.
David Foster Wallace Goes to Russia... in Print
Episode | March 21st, 2019 | Season 1 | 12 mins 57 secs
literature, politics, social media, society
Matt & Tom talk about the late American author David Foster Wallace who for the first time is being published in Russia in Russian.
On Democracy in Eastern Europe with Austin Sappington
culture, czech, eastern europe, eastern ukraine, geopolitics, international relations
Czech-American Austin Sappington, a Clements Center Undergraduate Fellow for 2018-2019, talks about his identification with the local Austin Czech community, Russian influence in the EU, Ukrainian democracy, the Czech Republic, and threats to Ukraine's economic well-being.
Brexit: An EU Insider's Perspective with Lorinc Redei
brexit, british politics, current events, european union, josh tucker, uk, ukraine elections
Dr. Lorinc Redei, an expert on the foreign policy of the European Union, gives his insightful take on the current trajectory of the EU, the destructive influence of Brexit on the EU, and Ukraine's prospects of joining either the EU or NATO.
Connexion is happening... Thank you to our guests!
Article | March 13th, 2019
internet problems, production, professors, recording, student life, technology
A brief account of our progress and thank yous to our guests!
From Radio Free Europe to the US Russia Foundation with Mark Pomar
civics, democracy, education, elections, politics, putin, russia, trump, ukraine, voting
Dr. Pomar discourses on a full breadth of topics, including his experiences living in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev and the ideological bent of Radio Free Europe after the collapse of the USSR.
Baltics and Basketball with Audrius Rickus
basketball, current politics, history, lithuania
Grad student Audrius Rickus talks about the upcoming Lithuanian elections, his research, and... basketball.


The ceremony kicked off at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles with a bang when singer-songwriter Alicia Keys brought out four influential women on stage: Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith and Jennifer Lopez.
Each of them shared a personal story on how music changed their life, with Lady Gaga kicking it off by saying that music "took my ears, took my hands, my voice and my soul and led me to all of you" and J-Lo chiming in by sharing that music "kept me moving from the Bronx to the big screen and the even bigger screens".
Yet, it was the former US First Lady who brought down the house after her words were drowned by loud cheers and applause.
"Music has always helped me tell my story, and I know that's true for everybody here. Whether we like country or rap or rock, music helps us share ourselves, our dignity and sorrows, our hopes and joys. Music shows us that all of it matters, every story within every voice, every note within every song," said Michelle.


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Manager Keane to streess he is no quitter
ROY KEANE may be reviewing his future at Sunderland on a daily basis, but he insists he is no quitter.
James Hunter
Keane said after Saturday's miserable 4-1 home defeat against Bolton he asks himself every day if he is the right man for the Sunderland job.
While he clearly feels he IS the right man at present, his words suggested he would walk away if his opinion changes.
He said: "I ask myself about my future every day of the week.
"I don't think I'm a quitter. Ask anyone who has played with me or worked with me."
Keane's future was the talking point going into the weekend, with the Black Cats boss seemingly no closer to committing himself to the club beyond the end of this season.
His comments after Sunderland lost for the sixth time in seven games only added to the uncertainty.
He said: "I ask myself every day if I am the right man for Sunderland.
"I asked myself on Saturday, and I said I was.
"I will ask myself again and, if the answer is no, we will have to look at it.
"I have to be honest in my assessment.
"It is not about what's best for Roy Keane, for the players or chairman Niall Quinn. It is what is best for Sunderland Football Club."
Keane says his side have to show their character as they look to get their season back on track, but next up is a trip to Old Trafford to take on Keane's former club Manchester United – a daunting prospect at the best of times.
Keane added: "It is a test for everyone at the club now.
"Football is the best game in the world when you are winning, but when you are losing – and we have lost four in a row at home – it is about characters.
"We will find out if we have the right characters in the squad."
:: BOLTON boss Gary Megson insisted he had always had confidence in his side moving into the top half of the table after their third consecutive win lifted them up to seventh.
Megson said: "There is no secret and the only thing we are doing differently which we were not doing beforehand is scoring goals.
"Our performances are not much different except in terms of confident.
"When we score goals all the other aspects of our game come to the fore and people realise what we have."


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Motorola to launch new smartphones in India on September 5th, last stocks of Moto G 16GB on sale at Flipkart
Motorola India has started sending out press invites to the Indian tech press media for attending an event on September 5th. This invite comes days after Motorola revealed its Chicago event date which is September 4th, where the company is expected to unveil the Moto X+1 and the Moto G2 smartphones, along with the Moto 360 smartwatch.
The invite reads "Mark 05 September on your calendar" and is scheduled to happen in New Delhi. The look and feel of the India invite is similar to the U.S. one, hinting at the launch of Moto X+1, Moto G2 and most probably the Moto 360 smartwatch in the country.
No other details are available as of now, but in just fortnight everything will be cleared out.
In another news, Flipkart has announced that it is selling the last stocks of Moto G smartphones in the country and that it will no longer be available from the website once out of inventory. The 8GB variant of Moto G is already out of stock, while the 16GB variant is still available from Flipkart for Rs. 11,999. which is Rs. 2,000 less than the launch price.
This sudden move all but confirms that Motorola will indeed be debuting the Moto G2 on September 5th in India along with other smartphones and will go on sale soon after its unveiling.
Talking about the specifications, Moto G2 is said to come with a 5-inch HD display, 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, 1GB RAM, Android 4.4.4 KitKat, 8MP rear camera, 2MP front camera, 8GB / 16GB internal storage with microSD card support and 4G LTE support.
On the other hand, Moto X+1 is rumoured to arrive with a 5.2-inch Full HD display, 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, 2GB RAM, Android 4.4.4 KitKat, 12MP rear camera with dual-LED flash, 2MP front camera and 4G LTE support.
Budget Flipkart India Moto G Moto G2 Moto X Plus 1 Motorola Rs. 10000 - 12000 Rs. 10000 - 15000


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If you're one of the people who hate picking cars, street signs, and other objects in CAPTCHA image grids, get used to it, because the days of text-based alternatives are numbered.
CAPTCHA stands for "Fully Automated Public Turing Test to Differentiate Computers and People." CAPTCHA tests are used to separate bots from people, as many Internet users have discovered.
They do not work properly, so companies like Facebook are constantly cleaning up bad accounts. Ongoing research into machine learning and image recognition techniques makes it even more difficult to create puzzles that annoy software but not people.
Boffins from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, Northwest University in the US and Peking University in China have developed a system for creating text-based CAPTCHA solvers that automatically decrypt encrypted textual representations.
Researchers Guixin Ye, Zhanyong Tang, Dingyi Fang, Zhanxing Zhu, Yansong Feng, Pengfei Xu, Xiaojiang Chen and Zheng Wang describe their CAPTCHA cracking system in an article that will be presented at the 25th ACM Security Conference Computers and Communications was introduced in October and has now been released to the public.
Coincidentally, this is the year in which researchers from Google and Stanford published an article titled "The End is Nigh: Generic Solving of Text-based CAPTCHAs." Four years later, the speed thresholds became generic attacks limit, overcome.
Can we break it? Yes, we GAN!
A GAN lends itself to the efficient tra ining of data models. It allowed researchers to teach their CAPTCHA generation program to quickly create many synthetic text puzzles to train their basic puzzle solving model. They then refine it via transfer learning to defeat real text confusion with only a small set (~ 500 instead of millions) of actual samples.
Numerous attacks on text-based CAPTCHAs have been invented over the years, the researchers say But the need to train attack mechanisms to deal with certain text-monging techniques has limited the attackers' response to CAPTCHA changes.
"Attunement of attack heuristics or models requires a strong intervention of the expert and is labor intensive and time consuming process of data collection and identification," they explain in the work.
While some generic attacks have been suggested, they have worked on relatively simple security features such as noisy backgrounds and individual fonts.
Researchers claim that they are influenced by less human intervention and efforts to develop a CAPTCHA targeted solver. The attack poses "a particularly serious threat to text-based CAPTCHAs."
The Boffins tested 33 text-based CAPTCHA schemes, of which 11 were used by 32 of the Alexa Ranking Top 50 sites in April of this year. And they could crack them with a desktop GPU in less than 50 milliseconds.
Who in the know would still use text-based CAPTCHAs when image-based alternatives are available and Google revitalized its reCAPTCHA technology in October? It turns out that there are quite a few companies, including Baidu, eBay, Google, Microsoft and Wikipedia.


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class Object
  # Can you safely dup this object?
  #
  # False for method objects;
  # true otherwise.
  def duplicable?
    true
  end
end

class Method
  # Methods are not duplicable:
  #
  #   method(:puts).duplicable? # => false
  #   method(:puts).dup         # => TypeError: allocator undefined for Method
  def duplicable?
    false
  end
end

class UnboundMethod
  # Unbound methods are not duplicable:
  #
  #   method(:puts).unbind.duplicable? # => false
  #   method(:puts).unbind.dup         # => TypeError: allocator undefined for UnboundMethod
  def duplicable?
    false
  end
end

require "singleton"

module Singleton
  # Singleton instances are not duplicable:
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  #   Class.new.include(Singleton).instance.dup # TypeError (can't dup instance of singleton
  def duplicable?
    false
  end
end


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Home > News Articles > Angola to Increase Fuel Export Tax by 230%
Angola to Increase Fuel Export Tax by 230%
The Angolan government is considering updating the applicable tax on fuel exports. Secretary of State for Oil and Gas, José Alexandre Barroso's proposal to increase the tax rate to 230% was submitted to parliament for approval under the presidential decree.
In Angola, Africa's third-leading oil producer, domestic fuel prices are lower compared to other markets on the continent; a liter of gasoline is priced at 160 kwanzas ($ 0.25), and a liter of diesel costs 135 kwanzas ($0.21), whereas in neighboring countries prices for the same amount of fuel can reach $1 or higher, thus making Angola an attractive destination for smugglers. With the proposed tax increase and robust border control measures, the government is confident that it can provide much needed support to eradicate fuel smuggling from Angola to neighboring countries.
"We want to grow and become a strong industrial market in Africa, the first step to achieve these goals is to protect the national economy, we must take the right measures today to protect business and assure future investors that the government is committed to fair play and good practices that create a favorable business environment," Barroso said.
Angola imports 8o% of its domestic fuel consumption. In 2019, the country spent $1.7 billion to import three million metric tons of fuel.
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Sonangol Launches Privatization Program
The Angolan National Oil Company's 30% privatization will translate into more than $4 billion to Angola's financial resources.
Sonangol Confirms 35 Investment Proposals for Tendered Oil Blocks in the Kwanza Basin
The Angolan national oil company confirmed 35 investment proposals on the sale of its stake in seven oil blocks in the kwanza basin.
Sonangol, Eni, and ANPG to Cooperate in Renewable Energy Projects in Angola
Angola's National Oil company Sonangol, Italian Major Eni, and ANPG signed the historic memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will shape the future of Angola's energy industry.


I have a few family members who have recently gotten tattoos. I was wondering if there was any mention in the Bible about this being a good thing to do or a wrong thing to do? I thought that at one time I read something about it being wrong. And if it is wrong how can I address the issue in a decent way to people I love and care for who are not Christians?
If your loved ones are not Christians, they may or may not care that God specifically addressed this issue in the Bible. If they do, knowing God said not to do it might be enough. If not, you might mention that there must be a good reason for God to forbid His people to permanently mark their bodies this way, and it turns out there are several.
1. To quote my brother-in-law, who became enamored of "body art" when he was younger and sports seven large tatoos on his body—which he now despises—"Permanent is a long, long time." The majority of people who get tattoos regret it later.
2. Tattoos are exceedingly painful and expensive to have removed.
3. Some tattoo inks have metal in them, so if one's health is threatened, an MRI can be complicated (and there can be some discomfort) by a tattoo.
Now, the New Testament doesn't repeat this prohibition, and it's not a moral issue like sexual sin or lying or stealing which are still wrong and forever will be, so I don't think it's a sin anymore. Many people believe this is an area where we have Christian liberty, the freedom to do something that used to be prohibited.
I appreciate being shown the need to explain the fuller picture.
Dear Abby: You have printed letters about tattoos, so I thought you might get a kick out of my experience. Two summers ago, my sister "Julie" confided that her daughter, "Whitney," had decided to get a tattoo before returning to college. Julie was upset about it, but could not change her daughter's mind because Whitney is on a full scholarship and didn't need anyone's approval. Julie asked if I could talk Whitney out of it, and I racked my brain trying to think of something to say that would sway her. A few weeks later, our families got together to celebrate Julie's 50th birthday. Whitney was there with her boyfriend. After we all had enjoyed ice cream and cake, I took Whitney and her boyfriend into the living room and popped in a videotape of a party my husband and I had thrown during the disco craze of the 70s. There we were in our leisure suits, gold chains, permed hair, platform shoes and having a great time.
At that moment, Julie and her husband walked into the living room dressed in retro clothes and wigs. They were followed by Grandma and Grandpa, who had applied fake tattoos to their arms and shoulders. Whitney was stunned to see her conservative grandparents so out of character.
It was then that we reminded Whitney we had been able to buy different clothes and change our hairstyles when the fad was over, but tattoos are forever.
The look on Whitney's face: priceless!
Dear Creative: Your letter: a gem. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. You made your point with an object lesson that was far more effective than any lecture would have been.


Join us for God on Tap tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 23rd at 7:30pm, upstairs at Gypsy Blu in Ambler. We are going to be talking about the Eagles amazing playoff run and the delight and meaning we draw from sports.
As we have seen first hand over the last few weeks, sports has the power to galvanize a community, bridge differences, unite strangers, and provide an outlet in a time when the world can feel so difficult and dark. What is it about sports and our hometown teams that connect so deeply for us? Does it help us feel connected to each other? Does it evoke memories of growing up and going to games as a kid? Is it just a pure moment of stress relief (or maybe trading one kind of stress for another)?
Sports can also teach us valuable life lessons about playing as a team, working together, dealing with winning, losing, and adversity. Have you ever played a sport? What did it teach you?
Perhaps our feelings about sports, and football in particular, are complicated by what we know about concussions and the physical toll it takes on those who play the game, or because of the billions of dollars involved.
Sports have played an important role in my life. Some of my most vivid childhood memories are going to Orioles and even Colts games as I was growing up near Baltimore. When I moved to Boston, my first visit to Fenway Park was truly a religious experience. I also learned a great deal about life and about myself from playing individual and team sports growing up.
As we have seen this Eagles' season, you can't underestimate the power of sport. Let's jump in and share our excitement for the Super Bowl and share some stories about what sports mean to us.
Posted in God on Tap on Monday, 22 January 2018.
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