These two parent courses provide the opportunity to prevent or reverse underachievement in gifted children.
Additionally the resources, skills and know how gained will allow parents to prepare their children for scholarship and competition level math and writing.
A program to reverse and prevent gifted underachievement, ideal preparation for scholarship or select school testing and to get girls interested in and achieving in math.
In this course Singapore Math is used to build understanding of how non-cognitive factors contribute to academic success and how to develop these skills in your own child. Parents are then able to ensure that their child develops interest, motivation and strong learning behaviours.
Acceleration, problem solving, critical thinking and strategy use.
Parents: Learn how to develop your child's writing skills. Writing is a challenging, complex and multi-faceted task which requires the development of higher order thinking skills whilst maintaining control over the lower order skills such as grammar and punctuation.
Followed by one-to-one instruction and modelled lessons.
Pinterest Board with readily accessible lessons.
To develop strategic meta-cognitive skills that develop self-regulation.
Self-Regulation will increase affective control so children learn how to focus, attend and apply effort to a task.
Self-regulation skills will allow responsibility for the application of skills to be transferred to the child: the key to longer term success.
Charts and lesson guides present skills incrementally and cumulatively: the student understands what to do and the parents knows what to mark. This control allows success and develops motivations.


Continuing on the promo tour, Ryan Reynolds & Shiori Kutsuna, was on hand for the premiere of 'Deadpool 2'today(May 29th) at Roppongi Hills Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
Ryan Reynolds wore a BRUNELLO CUCINELLI ensemble which featured a long sleeve grey button neck polo with a navy vest over it and grey trousers. Will most people would have worn brown shoes, I like that burgundy was the choice here which topped off his look.
Shiori Katsuna wore a VALENTINO PRE-FALL 2018 red & white sheer long sleeve polka dot layered gown with a pulled in waistband and a ruffle skirt. If this looks familiar, that's because we saw it on Mary Elizabeth Winstead in April 2018. Beauty wise, she went with an up-do with bangs & red lips which topped off her look along with red lips and CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN pumps.


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Q: What are good resources on Bayesian rating? I am figuring out how to build a ranking system for movies using IMDB data. My own dataset related exclusively to "art movies", so they would tend to have fewer reviews than the average IMDB movie (the mean is 3,000 for my own dataset). In particular, I've considered using the IMDB "Bayesian estimator" for its Top 250 list (shown below). The problem is that I don't understand how the $m$ (minimum votes) constant is calculated. I read somewhere that it is a rather arbitrary constant but it could be thought as the minimum number of reviews needed to "expect" a rating similar to a "true rating" (assuming all reviewers actually rated a given movie). But it is not entirely clear to me how to think about this $m$ constant for my own case.
Would choosing $m$ to be the average number of votes in my dataset a valid choice?
There are a lot of interesting discussions regarding Bayesian ratings here on CV, which themselves link to (what looks like it could be) great reading material to better understand Bayesian ratings (for example, a blog entry by Andrew Gelman), but most of the links are dead, so I can't read them.
Could you please recommend any good material on Bayesian ratings for me to get a better grasp of how to build one for my own? I have a good grasp of statistics and basic Bayesian probability, but I would prefer introductory material.
Weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C , where:

* R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
* v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
* m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 25,000)
* C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.9)

A: The Bayesian rating formula looks very simple to me.
Let me break it down and present an alternate view of the parameters involved.
WR = $\frac{v}{v+m}*R+\frac{m}{v+m}*C$
=P(enough evidence)*[Rating based on evidence]+P(no evidence)*[best guess when no evidence]
Say, a movie got v ratings and you have empiracally chosen m based on what you think is a good number of votes to rely on the rating based on votes.
Observe that the second term ($\frac{m}{v+m}*C$) in the sum goes to zero when v is large. The best guess for the rating, when there is no evidence is the average rating of all the movies.
I think choosing m as the average number of votes in the dataset is over-kill. I would start with the first quartile of the number of votes.
Thanks

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Los Angeles Sex Crimes Lawyer | Sexual Assault Attorney | Law Firm | Felony Charges
The Law Offices of Ramiro J. Lluis have been defending client's from sex offense charges for decades. From stalking on the internet to alleged rape and molestation charges, our office has strived to provide our clients with the best defense and preserve their rights to the fullest extent of the law.
Some of the Sex Crimes we have successfully represented our client's in, consist of:
Attempting to entice, lure, tempt, or persuade any child to enter, leave, or stay in any building, vehicle, or place if such act is done with the use of force or with the intent to commit rape, indecent assault, battery, dissemination of material harmful to children, unnatural and lascivious acts, indecent exposure, or other sexual offenses.
The hiring, employment, persuasion, inducement, or coercion of child to perform in obscene exhibitions and incident shows, whether live, on video or film, or to pose or act as a model in obscene or pornographic materials, or to sell or distribute said materials.
Any visual depiction of actual or simulated sexual conduct by an individual under the age of 18 or lascivious exhibition of the pubic area of such an individual. Courts have held that such material my be banned even if it is not legally obscene and does not involve nudity.
Child Procurement
The act of arranging or instigating a meeting with a child for the purpose of having sexual relations.
An offensive display of one's own body in public, especially of the genitals.
(1) The persecution or harassment of someone, as in the molestation of a witness.
(2) The act of making unwanted and indecent advances to or on someone, especially for sexual gratification.
Any indecent or sexual activity on, involving, or surrounding a child, usually under the age of 14.
Any form of expression, such as a book, painting, photograph, movie, or play, that deals with sex in a way that is regarded as so offensive as to be beyond the protection of the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech. Under the most recent of the Supreme Court's efforts to define obscenity, the term applies to material that appeals to prurient interest, depicts, or describes sexual conduct in a way that is patently offensive, and lacks "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."
The act or offense of recruiting a prostitute, finding a place of business for a prostitute, or soliciting customers for a prostitute. 2. The act or offense of selling or distributing textual or visual material openly advertised to appeal to the recipient's sexual interest
Pictures and/or writings of sexual activity intended solely to excite lascivious feelings of a particularly blatant and aberrational kind, such as acts involving children, animals, orgies, and all types of sexual intercourse.
The crime of engaging in sexual intercourse or other sexual activity for hire.
Unlawful sexual activity with a person without consent and usually by force or threat of injury.
(1) Date Rape
Rape committed by someone known to the victim, especially by the victim's social companion.
(2) Marital Rape
A husband's sexual intercourse with his wife by force or without her consent.
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Physical, sexual, or psychological abuse inflicted by one spouse on the other spouse.
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A term varying in meaning from state to state, but generally referring to any type of sex act regarded by a legislature as "unnatural" or "perverted" In the narrowest and most traditional sense, the term refers to anal sexual intercourse between men, but it may extend to those or other acts between men and women (sometimes exemption married couples, sometimes not), or women and women, or people and animals. Also called a crime against nature, or an unnatural act.
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Department of Ophthalmology /
Eye /
F. Hakan-Groen (Fahriye), W.D. Ramdas (Wishal), J. de Hoog (Joeri), J.R. Vingerling (Hans) and A. Rothová (Aniki)
Visual outcomes and ocular morbidity of patients with uveitis referred to a tertiary center during first year of follow-up
Eye , Volume 30 - Issue 3 p. 473- 480
Purpose: To describe the visual outcomes and morbidity of newly referred uveitis patients. Methods: Retrospective cohort study of 133 newly referred uveitis patients with active uveitis who required care in a tertiary center for at least 1 year. Main outcomes were best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) at referral and 1 year after referral, duration of visual impairment, systemic medications used, as well as all complications and surgeries during the first year of follow-up. Generalized estimating equation models was used to assess prognosticators for poor BCVA. Results: The mean age at onset of uveitis was 43 years. The proportion of patients with at least one eye with BCVA ≤0.3 decreased from 35% at referral to 26% (P=0.45) at 1-year follow-up. The mean duration of visual impairment in the first year after referral was 4 months per affected eye. At 1-year follow-up, bilateral visual impairment was observed in 4% but at least one ocular complication developed in 66% and 30% of patients required at least one intraocular surgery. Systemic immunosuppressive treatment was required in 35% of patients and the mean number of visits to ophthalmologist was 11 per year, while 8% of patients required hospital admission. Prognosticators for poor visual outcome included surgery undergone before referral (odds ratio (OR), 3; 95% CI, 1-11; P=0.047), visual impairment at referral (OR, 21; 95% CI, 8-54; P<0.001), and glaucoma before referral (OR, 7; 95% CI, 2-28; P=0.007). Conclusions: Patients with severe uveitis had a favorable BCVA 1 year after referral with only 4% of patients having bilateral visual impairment. This, in contrast to the prolonged duration of visual impairment during the first year of follow-up and the demanding care.
Persistent URL doi.org/10.1038/eye.2015.269, hdl.handle.net/1765/82224
Journal Eye
Organisation Department of Ophthalmology
Hakan-Groen, F, Ramdas, W.D, de Hoog, J, Vingerling, J.R, & Rothová, A. (2016). Visual outcomes and ocular morbidity of patients with uveitis referred to a tertiary center during first year of follow-up. Eye, 30(3), 473–480. doi:10.1038/eye.2015.269
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It's 2017 – a brand new year – and there's no time like the present to take a look around your home and to resolve to clean up and de-clutter. The holidays are over, winter is in full swing (ok, ok… it's not that bad here in FL), and there's plenty you can do to get on a better track long before the time comes for spring cleaning.
Cleaning is needed. Specially kitchen and bathroom tile floors. With the huge amount of pins on Pinterest and blog sites sharing about tile and grout floor cleaning DIY's is easy to get excited and start buying all the different products and trying all the different miraculous formulas people share online. But, a very important note is: Mixing certain cleaning products can be dangerous to you and your loved ones. And secondly, there's no magic solution, products clean but the manpower is the most important part of the work. What that means for you? It means that you can dedicate the requested amount of time to clean your tile floor and grout lines, however, the right question is: What could you be doing with that time instead?
Enjoying! That's what you could (and should) be doing instead. House cleaning is one of the top New Year's Resolution of a lot of people. However, lately, a different resolution has been getting to the top 10 resolution as well: Enjoying more time with family and friends.


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by Ryan, Pam Munoz
HPB Staff
An inspiring story of kids who never give up hope.
Echo follows the story of three extraordinary children around the time of World War II. Friedrich is a young boy in Germany, who is growing up with a "disfigurement" while Hitler is gaining power. Mike is an orphan with his brother, Frankie, who has been through much hardship in an orphanage in America. Ivy is a Mexican-American in California who unexpectedly has to leave everything and must move for her father's job. While the vast majority of the book tells their stories separately (and cuts off just when the story climaxes!), at the end everything comes together perfectly through their love and passion for music. Because of their differences, all three children are told that they cannot be who they want to be or do what they want to do. But these three kids do not give up hope. This book is one of those books that makes me wish I had never rated another book 5 stars, because to give this book the same amount of stars as the others seems unjustified. I cannot express how amazing this book is. Echo evokes so much emotion, both happiness and sadness, throughout the entire book. It is perfect for anyone middle grade through adult to learn more about the injustices that were committed, not only by the Germans but also the Americans, during this time period.
Decades after a man is entwined in a prophecy-based quest involving three mysterious sisters and a harmonica, three individuals from different areas of the world confront daunting challenges involving the same harmonica. By the award-winning author of Paint the Wind. Simultaneous eBook.
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Cardiac arrest situations represent an enormous clinical challenge to the physicians involved. Research suggests that the utilization on transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) may provide important diagnostic information and allows for institution of more specific treatment, while not hampering resuscitation efforts.
In this review, we highlight the usefulness of TEE in cardiac arrest situations in the orthopedic setting, by presenting two perioperative cases. In one case, TEE was used to diagnose intraoperative pulmonary embolism and guide thrombolytic therapy. The second case highlights the use of TEE in management of hemodynamic instability in a patient with aortic stenosis.
Memtsoudis et al. showed that in 19 of 22 cardiac arrests, an underlying pathological process could be established with TEE, leading to specific interventions beyond the institution of advanced cardiac life support measures.
TEE can provide rapid diagnostic information guiding treatment in patients with hemodynamic compromise. The use is expanding beyond the cardiac operating theater and given the potential clinical impact consideration should be given to utilizing this valuable imaging modality in appropriate clinical situation.


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package com.stratio.connector.elasticsearch.core.engine.utils;

import com.stratio.connector.elasticsearch.core.engine.metadata.ESIndexType;
import com.stratio.crossdata.common.data.ColumnName;
import com.stratio.crossdata.common.exceptions.ExecutionException;
import com.stratio.crossdata.common.metadata.ColumnMetadata;
import com.stratio.crossdata.common.metadata.ColumnType;
import com.stratio.crossdata.common.metadata.TableMetadata;
import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentFactory;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * This class is responsible to create ContentBuilders. Created by jmgomez on 11/09/14.
 */
public class ContentBuilderCreator {

    // Logger
    private final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());

    // Elasticsearch mapping properties
    private static final String PROPERTIES = "properties";
    private static final String TYPE = "type";
    private static final String FIELDS = "fields";
    private static final String INDEX = "index";
    private static final String DYNAMIC = "dynamic";
    private static final String ANALYZER = "analyzer";

    // Elasticsearch specific fields
    //private static final String ID = "_id";

    // Crossdata parsing properties
    private static final String ANALYZER_FIELDS = "analyzer";

    // Other
    /*
       private static final String FORMAT_FIELD = "format";
       private static final String STORE = "store";
       */

   /**
     * This method creates the XContentBuilder defining the mapping associated to an elasticsearch type.
     *
     * @param typeMetadata object that defines the different fields and properties that define the elasticsearch type.
     * @return the XContentBuilder that represent the type.
     * @throws ExecutionException if an error happen.
     */
    public XContentBuilder createTypeSource(TableMetadata typeMetadata) throws ExecutionException {

        XContentBuilder xContentBuilder;
        try {
            // Creates the XContentBuilder that defines the type mapping
            xContentBuilder = XContentFactory.jsonBuilder().startObject();
            createFieldOptions(typeMetadata, xContentBuilder);
            xContentBuilder.endObject();

            if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                logger.debug("Created type [" + typeMetadata.getName().getName() + "] in index ["
                        + typeMetadata.getName().getCatalogName() + "]");
                logger.debug("Mapping : " + xContentBuilder.string());
            }

        } catch (IOException e) {
            String msg = "Error creating type crossdata. " + e.getMessage();
            logger.error(msg);
            throw new ExecutionException(msg, e);
        }

        return xContentBuilder;
    }

   /**
     * This calls the methods necessary to add both generic and field specific properties to the mapping.
     *
     * @param tableMetadata the table metadata.
     * @throws IOException        if an error happen creating the ContentBuilder.
     * @throws ExecutionException if an error happen
     */
    private void createFieldOptions(TableMetadata tableMetadata, XContentBuilder xContentBuilder) throws IOException, ExecutionException {

        // Adds generic properties to the mapping
        configureIndex(xContentBuilder);

        // For every defined field the specific properties are added to the mapping by calling the appropriate method
        Map<ColumnName, ColumnMetadata> columns = tableMetadata.getColumns();
        if (columns != null && !columns.isEmpty()) {
            xContentBuilder.startObject(PROPERTIES);
            for (Map.Entry<ColumnName, ColumnMetadata> column : columns.entrySet()) {
                String name = column.getKey().getName();

                xContentBuilder = xContentBuilder.startObject(name);
                xContentBuilder = processColumnProperties(xContentBuilder, column.getValue());
            }
            xContentBuilder.endObject();
        }
    }

   /**
     * This method adds generic properties to the mapping.
     *
     * @param xContentBuilder   object defining the mapping
     * @throws IOException if an error happen creating the ContentBuilder.
     */
    private void configureIndex(XContentBuilder xContentBuilder) throws IOException {
        // Sets "dynamic" property to "false" in order to avoid fields not defined through the mappings being indexed
        xContentBuilder.field(DYNAMIC, "strict");
    }

   /**
     * Method that creates the mapping configurations for an specific field. Sets the type, any optional properties and, if the field has analyzers,
     * creates the appropriate sub-fields in order to support multiple field analysis
     *
     * @param xContentBuilder   object defining the mapping
     * @param columnMetadata    object defining the properties for each field
     * @return  modified XContentBuilder object
     * @throws ExecutionException
     * @throws IOException
     */
    private XContentBuilder processColumnProperties(XContentBuilder xContentBuilder, ColumnMetadata columnMetadata)
            throws ExecutionException, IOException {
        ColumnType columnType =  columnMetadata.getColumnType();
        Map<String, List<String>> columnTypeProperties = columnType.getColumnProperties();
        String columnTypeName = TypeConverter.convert(columnType);

        // Creates base field type
        xContentBuilder = xContentBuilder.field(TYPE, columnTypeName);

        // Apply specific properties for the given field
        if (columnTypeProperties != null) {
            // Retrieves any possible analyzers in order to be processed apart
            List<String> analyzers = columnTypeProperties.remove(ANALYZER_FIELDS);

            // Any property not being an analyzer is applied to the main field
            for ( Map.Entry<String, List<String>> entry: columnTypeProperties.entrySet()){
                if (entry.getValue().size() > 1){
                    xContentBuilder = xContentBuilder.field( entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
                }
                else if (columnTypeProperties.get(entry.getKey()).size() == 1){
                    xContentBuilder = xContentBuilder.field(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue().get(0));
                }
            }

            // Once every property for the main field has been processed analyzers are checked in order to create specific sub-fields
            if (null != analyzers && !analyzers.isEmpty()){
                xContentBuilder.startObject(FIELDS);
                // For each defined analyzer a sub-field is created named the same as the analyzer and having the same type as the parent field.
                for (String analyzer : analyzers) {
                    xContentBuilder.startObject(analyzer);
                    xContentBuilder = xContentBuilder.field(TYPE, columnTypeName);
                    xContentBuilder = xContentBuilder.field(ANALYZER, analyzer);
                    xContentBuilder.endObject();
                }
                xContentBuilder.endObject();
            }
        }

        return xContentBuilder.endObject();
    }

    /**
     * This method creates the XContenBuilder that defines a mapping for a specific index and type.
     *
     * @param columnMetadata the column meta data.
     * @return the XContentBuilder.
     * @throws IOException        if a IO excetion happens.
     * @throws ExecutionException if an error happen.
     */
    public XContentBuilder addColumn(ColumnMetadata columnMetadata) throws IOException, ExecutionException {
        XContentBuilder mapping;

        // Adds the information about the index and type
        mapping = XContentFactory.jsonBuilder().startObject()
                .startObject(columnMetadata.getName().getTableName().getName()).startObject(PROPERTIES)
                .startObject(columnMetadata.getName().getName())
                .field(TYPE, TypeConverter.convert(columnMetadata.getColumnType()))
                .field(INDEX, ESIndexType.getDefault().getCode()).endObject().endObject().endObject()
                .endObject();

        return mapping;
    }
}

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Rhinoplasty, also called nose surgery, is a popular plastic surgery procedure performed to improve the nose or appearance of the nose. There are a number of aesthetic complaints people have about the nose they were born with from overall nose size, bumps or indentations in the bridge of the nose, the tip of the nose being upturned, downturned, too wide or narrow, etc. Rhinoplasty is performed through either an open or closed technique–meaning the incision is made either inside the nose or outside the nose.
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 Explain Me Have You Done Any Running Or Work Experience For TV Before?
Explain me have you done any running or work experience for TV before?
You may have made this clear on the CV but I may ask anyway! The answer 'no' is fine but follow up with a 'but' – "but I have had several holidays jobs/worked on a college media course/helped my dad set up his new sandwich-making business/organised the school play/etc requiring me to think on my feet and support a team".
Tell me what Are Some Famous "w" Calls And Their Meanings? Tell me how is the job market now in your field? How do you think it will be in five years?


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gosh! easyPlay smart robotic pet toy launches on Indiegogo
Press Releases / Tech
We miss our pets when we're at work, and they miss us and get bored just as easily while we're gone.
Anyone who owns a pet understands the special relationship that we feel. Anyone who doesn't probably thinks pet owners are crazy for the amount of attention we give to our fur babies on a regular basis. The reality is, pets very quickly become important members of the family. We miss them when we're at work, and they miss us and get bored just as easily while we're gone. gosh! is a company that understands the relationship that we have with our pets, and they've built products to help enhance that relationship. Today the gosh! easyPlay smart robotic pet toy launched on Indiegogo, allowing pet owners to entertain and monitor their pets even when they're away from home.
The easyPlay combines several entertainment options for you and your pet into one package. The easyPlay ball can be remotely controlled via your iPhone or Android phone, or it can roll about on its own to draw the attention of your pet. The top reservoir can be filled with treats, which can be dispensed at a specific interval, or manually via the app. A user-recorded voice prompt is played when it's time for treats, and your pet needs to actually roll the ball around to get the treats to dispense. This helps keep them active rather than just sitting next to the ball waiting for the next treat to be dispensed.
You can keep an eye on your pet with the integrated 720P camera, and listen in or even talk to your pet with two-way audio support. Easily take photos or videos of your pet via the app and share to various social networks, or just watch your pet having fun while you're somewhere else.
easyPlay has launched on Indiegogo today, and early backers have an opportunity to grab one at a pretty steep discount. easyPlay is expected to retail for $249 USD, though backers on the Indiegogo campaign can get in for only $99 USD.
Take a look at the project video below, and then head to the campaign link just after that to back the project. You can get more information either at the Indiegogo page, or in the full press release at the bottom of this article. Tell us what you think about easyPlay in the comments below or on Google+, Twitter, or Facebook.
Purchase on Indiegogo
easyPlay—New Interactive Ball Designed to Engage Pets and Improve Interactions with Pet Guardians—Launches Indiegogo Campaign with Early Bird Backers Receiving 60% Discount
Features include treat dispensing, app remote control, and camera with 2-way audio support that allows pet parents to connect with their dog or cat from anywhere
Santa Barbara, Calif.—May 16, 2017—gosh!, developer of unique, premium IT accessories that amplify life's moments, today announced the launch of a 30-day Indiegogo campaign that will feature its latest product—easyPlay.
The concept for easyPlay was born from the desire to connect pet parents with their pets while away from home—keeping dogs and cats engaged and alleviating boredom. Features of the easyPlay include:
Ability to set up to three treat/feeding times—notifying the pet with a pre-set voice recording that their treat or food is ready.
Camera with 2-way audio support allowing for communication between pets and their owners.
Remote control through app, allowing user to move ball and engage pet.
Activity tracker that reports on how active the pet is using a G-sensor.
Engages pet on its own in random movements using Automatic Play mode.
Ability to take photos or video with the app and share on Instagram or Facebook.
All features operate via Wi-Fi.
Pet parents can pre-load hard treats or kibble into three different sections of the ball through an easy to unscrew top. Once a treat or feeding time has begun, easyPlay self-reloads a new portion of treats with an internal rotating motor, and plays a personalized voice recording to alert the dog or cat to play. The pet has to move the ball to get his/her treats out—treat dispensing during play is an important element of the toy to keep a pet active and engaged.
"It's difficult to leave our pets home alone all day," said Adam Anderson, managing director for gosh! "We've designed easyPlay to make it simple for pet parents to interact with their dog or cat from anywhere."
The easyPlay will retail for $249 but early bird Indiegogo campaign contributors can acquire an easyPlay for a promotional price of $99.00. Information on the campaign can be found at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/easyplay-smartest-robotic-pet-toy-cat-dog#/
About gosh!
gosh! is a brand created and wholly owned by Appcessory Pte Ltd, an IT accessories company based in Singapore with offices in the U.S. and Asia that was established by a team of Apple specialists who have been involved in the tech industry since the late 1990's. Every product is born out of a passion for design excellence. The gosh! team understands the pleasure of having a smart phone, laptop or any other electronic product doesn't end by just owning it. It is about 'accessorizing' and scaling up the experience with affordable, thoughtful and reliable accessories. For information on gosh!, please visit: http://www.GetGosh.com.
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Roy Halladay took to the hill yesterday, against the Natinals, and the results were encouraging. HLH continues to work things back into rhythm, and is not overextending, which I think key this spring as our hero prepares for what surely will be a "return to form" season, both individually and for the team.
Doc's excellence was even osmotic! Catching prospect Tommy Joseph, one of whose five tools is permeability, used Roy's cutters as fuel for a 3 for 4 effort at the plate, inclusive of a stone-cold gunning down of an attempted base-stealer.
"BUT ZWR, WHAT WAS THE LINE? WE NEED TO KNOW, WE NEED TO KNOW, TELL US ZEE DUB ARR CAUSE WE NEED TO KNOW!!!"
Besides throwing four scoreless innings?
"DID ROY SEND ANY MESSAGES?! DID HE DO ANYTHING THAT MAY IN SOME WAY SIGNAL A MINDSET TO ANTICIPATE THIS SEASON? OR PERHAPS PARTICIPATE IN SOME SORT OF EVENT THAT MEANT MORE THAN THE MERE CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD NORMALLY DICTATE?!"
4 IP, 0 (zero) R, 2 K (1C/1SC), 1 BB (ump's fault), 1 scrub scared to death, 1 heart of Chase Utley's warmed.
About the pitch behind whatever that guy's name is, my colleague in professional mainstream media journalism-- David "HIGH CHEESE" Murphy-- posted a fine pictorial recap.
"That one slipped a little bit"
If that one *really* slipped the whole world would have felt it.


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CiF gives voice to South Africa's most famous Theobald Jew, Ronnie Kasrils
Theobald Jew Ronnie Kasrils is the most high-profile and prolific slanderer of Israel in South Africa and, therefore, was given a platform by the Guardian in support of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against the Jewish state. Specifically, Kasrils promoted a termination of the relationship between University of Johannesburg and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev – a proposal which the University of Johannesburg subsequently rejected.
Kasrils' position on Israel can be summed up be this quote, from a two-part essay "David and Goliath: Who is Who in the Middle East" published in the ANC's theoretical journal Umrabulo in late 2006 and early 2007. Parts of the essay were published in the S. African paper, Mail&Guardian, in a summarised form under the title "Rage of the Elephant: Israel in Lebanon." Kasrils, commenting on the results of civilian deaths following the Second Lebanon War, and referring to the Israeli leadership, noted:
"[Regarding Israel] we must call baby killers "baby killers" and declare that those using methods reminiscent of the Nazis be told that they are behaving like Nazis. May Israelis wake up and see reason, as happened in South Africa, and negotiate peace. And finally, yes, let us learn from what helped open white South African eyes: the combination of a just struggle reinforced by international solidarity utilising the weapons of boycott and sanctions."
His CiF piece, not surprisingly, elicited these comments:
Categories: BDS
Tagged as: BDS, Ronnie Kasrils, South Africa, Theobald Jews
Palestinian munchausen syndrome
At Harvard, Groupthink About Islam (The appalling hypocrisy of Martin Peretz's critics)
Ariadne says:
I don't think any of these unctuous gits would be capable of reading The Campaign to Delegitimize Israel with the False Charge of Apartheid
(It's too long and too factual).
http://www.jcpa.org/text/apartheid.pdf
A loathsome creature,he and that hideous looking witch doctor,desmond tutu.
I wonder why the Guardian didn't post a current photograph of him,the guy is 74 years old.
Instead they have a 30 year old photograph of him in the Guardian
He looks like one of the Hamas leaders with that kaffiyeh that is a symbol of violence and terrorism around his neck.
Gerald Kreeve says:
The Praesidio question about whether the right of return is religious or racial made me wonder whether inherited refugeeship (refugeedom?) is religious or racial or whether you can get it gratis and for nothing by sending a reply to an email address.
amie says:
benorr: Kasrils is indeed a loathsome creature and I have reason to loath him more than most. But Tutu from my own personal experience I place in the same category as Christopher Hitchins- courageous and principled in so much of their lives, with this one baffling painful and grotesque blind spot about Israel. To use the kind of language you do about Tutu is irrelevant to these moral issues. I hesitate to use the word racist to describe it as it is the most misused and abused word, but it is unavoidable, it is just plain mindlessly racist language and sullies this fine site.
Gerald, maybe all you need is an old key.
I hadn't realized just how repulsive is Mr. Kasrils. In 2007 he visited Iran and praised Ahmadinejad's nuclear program.
HairShirt says:
Amie, did Hitler not have blind splots, and particularly about Jews? I, too, believe Tutu is dishonest and a faux-Christian, indeed I am disgusted by his pretence and lack of authenticity.
Tutu suffered at the hands of apartheid in South Africa and he knows full well what apartheid is. He is not unintelligent so he also knows full well how different Israel is from South Africa and yet he uses the apartheid canard against Israel. He's a no-account, a little man who is thirsty for attention and probably has sympathy with the revision theologists who try to sever Jews' links with Israel.
I'd say that this and his behaviour generally given his status, is one hell of a lot more dangerous than a mere blind spot.
Repeatedly using the hateful term "Theobald Jew" severely compromises your position.
benorr
… that hideous looking witch doctor,desmond tutu.
How enlightening.
And HairShirt mentions Hitler and Tutu in the same breath!
Theobald Jews are those who betray their own people, as did a certain Theobald in early medieval England; I first encountered the term on CiF Watch.
http://www.thejc.com/blogpost/the-vile-tasting-poison-tribe-theobald
Congratulations, CiF Watch, on establishing a term practically nobody had ever heard of before!!!
Yvetta Bagel says:
yes, Pretzel, but it's now a household name!
Hairshirt; The comparison of Tutu and Hitler is just plain stupid. The parallel would be if I claimed that aside from his blind spot about Jews, Hitler was a principled and courageous person. It is not the same as people who try and find the one good point in Hitler's favour in his (allegedly) being a vegetarian.
faux-Christian, indeed I am disgusted by his pretence and lack of authenticity.
actually that is the most false thing anyone could say about Tutu. No, make that 2 if you add your remark that he is thirsty for attention. I happen to have closely witnessed something he did during the worst days of the Struggle. Iwas something very brave, something completely out of the public eye, and that made him very unpopular with his comrades. He also demonstrated convincingly to me that he did this out of a deep Christian conviction. It was the only time in my Jewish life I saw what being a deeply authentic Christian meant.
that doesn't mean that what he says now is not harmful and deplorable
No it isn't amie. You could argue with a lot of justification that Jews and others constituted a significant blind spot for Hitler. I stand by what I said.
Tutu is a moral coward and ignorant to boot, otherwise he would not fall into parroting the sort of rubbish he does, apparently without thinking. He lived under apartheid so he must know what that was like. He should inform himself more about what actually goes on in Israel before he opens his mouth.
He bleats "apartheid" because it's a buzz word for the delegitimisers and detractors of Israel and you have to ask yourself why an allegedly educated man should fail to inform himself about the Jewish state. I wonder what atavistic hatred the existence of the Jewish state awakens in him.
And with all respect one swallow does not a summer make and one act of kindness does not this man a true Christian make. His words, coupled with the power he has, have long ago undone that. He's a disgrace to the all the devout and kind Christians I know, (not all of whom I may add agree with my views about Israel but none of whom are as hypocritical as Tutu), the more so because of the power he has.
And is he still a "deeply authentic Christian" amie?
Desmond Tutu is no holy man,he is a fake,and a hypocrite,he has got to where he is by clinging to Nelson Mandelas coattails.And basking in the warmth of Nelson Mandelas glory.
A repugnant hypocrite.
Good old Desmond,he preaches warmth for the palestinians,and brimstone for the Israeli's.
AKUS says:
I just heard from South Africa that "According to yesterday's Cape Times, Johannesburg University has severed ties with Ben Gurion University".
I shall be working on a letter for US citizens to send US Congressmen (and women) asking that they support a ban on all the signatories from entering the USA.
H/T to a couple of commentors on CiF for the idea.
South African Universities checked their data bases to see whether they had any other ties with Israeli universities and found to their relief that they were free of this connection with some of the world's leading universities. http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-10-01-more-varsities-check-israel-links
Akus. Not quite correct. This is the accurate story.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/south-african-academics-reject-call-to-boycott-israeli-university-1.316403
benorr: I am not here to fly a flag for Tutu, but flinging prefabricated one size fits all arrows like benorr's
" he has got to where he is by clinging to Nelson Mandelas coattails.And basking in the warmth of Nelson Mandelas glory."
is just ineffectual ignorant flailing and has nothing to do with the history and trajectory of either Tutu's or Mandela's standing in SA.
I am all for sharply targeted accurate critiques but flailing is counterproductive, and just discredits accurate attacks.
In Tutu's case, I am not talking about wishy washy acts of kindness. I am talking major personal sacrifice and humiliation to save a man's life, as he had to bear witness to his Christian belief that even the most evil of men's hearts can be changed by the spirit of god. He was not successful in his mission, but it was his choices that were impressive.
SA Reader says:
Hi amie, that link Gerald posted is the story we got in SA, eg. the Cape Times (AKUS) and which was broadcast on the ANC-controlled SABC news, so I can't help but wonder if things were sugarcoated when they spoke to Associated Press (amie's Haaretz link).
From Gerald's M&G link:
"The senate delegated the matter to a nine-member subcommittee, headed by deputy vice-chancellor Adam Habib. Wednesday's senate meeting debated its report for more than four hours."
HABIB. Do you understand now?
The ANC is very close with muslims from all over. I'm not surprised about Tutu praising Iran. The ANC are protecting Mugabe who wants to sell URANIUM to IRAN and earlier this year, they in fact praised him and said they've "progressed so well in Zimbabwe, in SA we're just getting started".
Pres Zuma's "financial advisor", Schabir SHAIK was found guilty of fraud and corruption in connection with a $4.8bn arms deal and the judge said that payments made by Shaik to Zuma indicated a "generally corrupt relationship.
Actually, Tutu is a bit of a racist and has also made some racist comments as recently as a couple of months ago which were reported in SA newspapers.
Also, when Nelson Mandela was writing his autobiography, he made notes about his own infidelity and affairs he had. However, when it was published, it turned out that Tutu had taken that unflattering stuff out. This was also in the SA news the other day.
No wonder they now want to kill press freedom in SA.
Ronnie Kasrils was the Commander of the ANC's armed wing uMkhonto we Sizwe, which was responsible for the Church Street car bombing which killed 19 and injured 219 during peak traffic in Pretoria in 1983.
Mandela signed off on this from jail (he admits this in his book) and Oliver Tambo, who was the next in command while Mandela was in jail, gave the final order.
BBC's original report on this car bomb:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/20/newsid_4326000/4326975.stm
So basically Ronnie Kasrils is a car bomber.
So for those who do not understand this yet, here's a summary of what's going on.
Israel is in the same shoes that South Africa was before Mandela was released in 1990.
A couple of days before the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident, the SA Deputy President returned from a state visit to Turkey…
The way I see it, the flotilla attack against the IDF soldiers was Israel's Sharpville.
Those IDF soldiers were put in an extremely difficult situation and were very much outnumbered and surprised. And yet, it was turned around against them to make Israel look bad. It's also textbook ANC tactics.
Like the ANC used propaganda, violence, taqiyya ("holy deception") and anything else at their disposal to make all white South Africans look bad (and still does), so has this incident been turned around and lied about (despite evidence in Israel's defense) in order TO ISOLATE ISRAEL.
For some truth about Sharpville, please read this page:
http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=2931&
Israel is being targeted in the same way that white South Africans were (and are) being targeted. This flotilla thing is being used to "divide and conquer" Israel and its Western support base, as part of jihad.
If you've ever read the Hamas Charter, you'd know it states that their goal is to crush Israel: "Israel will rise and remain erect until Islam crushes it as it has done in the past".
Don't be too quick to talk about Apartheid. I'm not defending it, there were lots of bad things about it, but what the world was told for decades by the ANC and other "liberation" terrorists such as the PAC etc., was not necessarily true. Do yourself a favour and go learn about the Islamic principles of kitman and taqiyyah.
The ANC's goal was not necessarily freedom, it also had to do with wanting power and overthrowing a government. This suits the muslims, because the whites are an obstacle for countrywide shariah in SA. In the same way that the ANC used these tactics to put international pressure on SA, so Palestine, Turkey, Iran etc are using these tactics to weaken Israel.
Mark my words. Been there, got the t-shirt. So Israel, please watch your back.
Oh and I forgot to mention that the ANC government was the only country other than Turkey to recall its ambassador in Israel following the flotilla incident.
There's a well-known video about a former terrorist who now speaks out against Palestine. He says Islam always goes after human rights first and that Israel must never give in to these terrorists. I agree with him, because SA gave in to terrorists and now there are elderly women being carved up and tortured to death for hours with beer bottles so that "kill the boer" can be written on their farm house walls as in the case of Alice and Helen Lotter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2wvqDfitLY (please watch this)
I don't think there will ever be peace in the Middle East as long as Islam is there, because the whole basis of Islam is that all unbelievers should be killed. Well, either that or they must convert or pay jizya (infidel tax to further fund jihad). If you take these aspects away from Islam, there probably won't be much left of the Koran (or Sunnah).
Positions on Israel/Palestine conflict
Kasrils is known for his strong criticisms of the government of Israel and for his sympathies towards Palestinian political struggles.[5] He rose to international prominence after penning a "Declaration of Conscience by South Africans of Jewish Descent" in 2001 against Israeli policies in the occupied territories.[6] He has participated in events in the Palestinian Territories with all elected Palestinian parties and endorses a two-state solution premised on the 1967 borders.[7]
In a two part essay "David and Goliath: Who is Who in the Middle East"[8][9] published in the ANC's theoretical journal Umrabulo in late 2006 and early 2007, Kasrils outlined a history of Israel-Palestine since 1948 very critical of Israeli governments and military actions. Parts of the essay were published in the Mail&Guardian in a summarised form under the title "Rage of the Elephant: Israel in Lebanon."[10] The article caused considerable controversy,[11] when Kasrils, commenting on the results of civilian deaths following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in July 2006, and referring to the Israeli leadership, noted: "…we must call baby killers 'baby killers' and declare that those using methods reminiscent of the Nazis be told that they are behaving like Nazis."[12]
In November 2006, the South African Jewish Report lodged a complaint of hate speech against Kasrils with the South African Human Rights Commission on the basis that the articles in Umrabulo and the Mail&Guardian violated Constitional protections (viz. Section 16(2)(c) of the Bill of Rights).[13] On 29 March 2007, the Commission ruled that Kasrils had not engaged in hate speech,[14] and noted: "Mr Kasrils' call for peaceful negotiations is not compatible with the interpretation that he is calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. Neither can his comments reasonably be associated with Holocaust denials."[15]
In May 2007, during a visit to the Palestinian Territories, Kasrils met with Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and invited him to make his first visit outside the Muslim world to South Africa. South Africa's Jewish Board of Deputies criticised the invitation, saying the "racist ideology" of Haniyeh's Hamas organisation, which led the Palestinian unity government at that time, stood in contrast to South Africa's own post-apartheid ideals. In response to criticism of the invitation Kasrils was quoted (Haaretz, 7 May 2007) as stating: "Those who myopically object to such invitations merely show that they have learnt nothing from South Africa's transition".[16]
SA Reader: As someone who with my husband, was closely involved with the legal defence of many UDF and ANC leaders during the Struggle, I am quite aware of the the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of the Struggle. I have also had very close experience of the evil of the previous regime, who assassinated colleagues, both white and black who were never involved in violence, on the basis of paranoid whims. We ourselves received death threats, just for carrying out our professional duties to our clients as officers of the court, often in the form of midnight phone calls from the security police, which took the form of "we are coming to get you, you fucking Jews". And they did.
"Israel is in the same shoes that South Africa was before Mandela was released in 1990." you say.
YOur attempt at putting Israel in the same boat as this previous regime is miserably misguided and demeaning of Israel.
There is plenty more to say about Kasrils, including the Goldstone report (not that one, another one) condemning Kasrils actions during the Bisho massacre, his more recent involvement during the Bongani Masuku furore, including burning an Israeli flag outside the shul my grandparents built, etc etc as well as more personal anecdotes I could relate.
There is plenty of bad stuff to say about the current ANC administration including the threat to press freedom, but you ruin your case by trying to say that the reason White south africa was viewed in a bad light was owing to deception and propaganda by the ANC.
The regime needed no propoganda tricks against it for people to have experienced the full force of its murderous injustice. This was a favourite ploy of the regime to crush opposition by saying that any black complaints of suffering and oppression was just communist "agitation" whereas the suffering was plain to see if you didn't shut your eyes and retreat into your bunker.
SA Reader: You say that Israel is in SA's shoes with regard to the flotilla which is like Sharpeville.
The basic facts of Sharpville are "On 21 March 1960 at least 180 black Africans were injured (there are claims of as many as 300) and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on approximately 300 demonstrators, who were protesting against the pass laws, at the township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging in the Transvaal. ".
I see no resemblance to the reluctant killing of nine terrorist agitators in self defence by soldiers who attempted peaceful means at first.
Surely the most important thing to say about Ronnie Kasrils is that his line has come down the decades from his lifelong dedicated membership of the South African Communist Party, of which he was a member of the Central Executive for many years.
Most significantly, he was trained in the Soviet Union in the sixties by the KGB at Odessa Military College and graduated as an intelligence specialist, graduating at Brigadier rank, as summarized here:
Alongside the late Joe Modise, then MK Commander, and Commissar Moses Mabhida, Kasrils completed a general military course and a military engineering specialist course, graduating from the Odessa Military College in the Soviet Union at the end of 1964. He then went on to complete a specialist course in intelligence and a general officers course at Brigadier level. Therefore in 1983, Kasrils was appointed Chief of MK Intelligence.
Kasrils very proudly celebrates his experience of this training, including marching goose-step to the instructors' training in his autobiography "Armed and Dangerous". In order to get that far, and even to qualify for the training he had, he would have had to show himself an ideological conformist with every twist and turn of Soviet Party lines on every subject.
This is the Party Line on zionism of the time (Pravda editorial of 1983), which Kasrils follows to the letter to this day:
"…By its nature, Zionism concentrates ultra-nationalism, chauvinism and racial intolerance, excuse for territorial occupation and annexation, military opportunism, cult of political promiscuousness and irresponsibility, demagogy and ideological diversion, dirty tactics and perfidy… Absurd are attempts of Zionist ideologists to present criticizing them, or condemning the aggressive politics of the Israel's ruling circles, as antisemitic… We call on all Soviet citizens: workers, peasants, representatives of intelligentsia: take active part in exposing Zionism, strongly rebuke its endeavors; social scientists: activate scientific research to criticize reactionary core of that ideology and aggressive character of its political practice; writers, artists, journalists: fuller expose anti-populace and anti-humane diversionary character of propaganda and politics of Zionism…"
Only these days, Kasrils doesn't tell you where his ideology comes from– he represents himself as just a guy who came to his "anti-zionist"= anti-semitic politics through his own sense of right and wrong and his own experience.
This article gives what seems to me a very good take on why Kasrils is so prominent these days in leading extreme anti-zionist BDS campaigns against Israel. It's just like the case of the British Trade Unions and minority left newspapers like the Guardian. Their power and their constituency are vanishing. They achieve increasingly little. So here's a stage which gets them lots of attention and the prospect of recruiting a new constituency:
These three detractors – Tutu, Kasrils and Dugard-share two traits. One is their neglect of human rights elsewhere. They behave as though human rights violations and terror do not matter unless there is an Israeli nearby on whom the crime can be blamed. Indeed, Tutu was present last year when Carter declared that the word "genocide" had a narrow "legal definition" which the Sudanese government-sponsored onslaught in Darfur did not meet.[21]
Just as Carter lost his sense of moral indignation when talking about horrors perpetrated in Darfur, so did Dugard when talking about Palestinian suicide bombings. Speaking to students at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, he declared: "Without justifying it [suicide bombing], I think one can understand it."[22]
Kasrils is similarly hypocritical on the question of human rights. In his book and speeches, he frequently glorifies Josef Stalin's Soviet Union-one of the most repressive and murderous regimes in human history. As Intelligence Minister, he signed an agreement to cooperate with Zimbabwe on defense and security matters and crudely scolded a journalist who raised questions about Zimbabwe's record on human rights under the regime of Robert Mugabe.
The second trait common to these self-appointed prophets of apartheid is that they have been sidelined in the new South Africa. Kasrils, for example, was recently voted off the ANC's national executive. His anti-Israel activity is the only way for him to preserve his diminishing political relevance. Nobel laureate Tutu has similarly used the issue to maintain his political relevance on the international scene. He has been sidelined in South Africa ever since President Thabo Mbeki publicly questioned his anti-apartheid credentials and accused him of dishonesty in comments made in 2004.
Kasrils is a vain, self-serving, unrepentant and unreconstructed self-serving KGB tool. His adventurism and vanity cost quite a few of the lives of African strugglers and demonstrators against apartheid. His anti-zionist posturing should be exposed for what it is and where it comes from.
Meanwhile, I wish amie would write a book about her experience and take on South African politics then and now.
Judy: regarding the book- there have been attempts, but the publishers in SA wimped out, we suspect because it didn't present a version of certain events the current dispensation was comfortable with hearing.
I take issue with the lumping of the 3 regarding other human rights abuses- Tutu has been vocal about Zimbabwe and I think Darfur and many other places. Dugard on the other hand is another bitter let down for me, having been my International law prof whom we looked up to and admired. He was very bitter about being sidelined under the New SA and went off to Leyden where we met him when he was starting out as Rapporteur on Palestine. I had no idea the vicious line he was going to take.
Amie, I can accept that Tutu has pursued other causes than Israel, but that in my view doesn't mitigate the fact that he derives much of his current world status from his virulent anti-Israel campaigns, and I do think myself that there's something of the demagogue in his political positioning and that he's also making a continuing international career (as is Carter) out of being a Travelling World Conscience for Hire.
It's a side issue, anyway, here. The issue is Kasrils' continuing peddling of the classic Brezhnev era Soviet anti-semitic anti-zionist party line (including the Nazi analogies) whilst presenting it as arising out of his own insights.
Perhaps you could try finding a publisher in the UK. I know a literary agent if you think that would be useful. I think a good book on the real history of "the current dispensation" would be invaluable.
Judy: I agree with everything you say in this comment.
My only issue is with inaccurate attacks which misdirect the real sting of the case against people like Tutu. Lazy assumptions instead of sound research detracts from the credibility of the Israel activist cause.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will be in touch.


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Thanks to the coronavirus response measures adopted by Belarus and Russia, we can expect full resumption of passenger transport communication between the two countries, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko told journalists after the talks with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow on 26 January, BelTA has learned.
The parties discussed plans to increase the number of flights between Belarus and Russia. "As the situation with COVID-19 has stabilized thanks to the response measures, including vaccination, we are approaching the point when we can fully resume passenger transport service," Roman Golovchenko said.
The final decision has not been made yet, he stressed. According to Roman Golovchenko, shutting down the Belarusian-Russian border was not politically motivated. "This matter is directly linked with the coronavirus. We expect the border to reopen soon. This is why we discussed the resumption of transport service. These matters are interconnected," Roman Golovchenko stressed.
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Although a normal varied diet should provide sufficient vital omega-3, studies clearly show that fewer and fewer people are eating enough fish to meet the body's need for this essential fatty acid.
Expanding global health awareness is contributing to a rapidly growing and profitable omega-3 market, and intensified demand for environmental sustainability and traceable production mean that algae oil has an increasing advantage. Omega-3 supplements, which are the largest and most profitable segment in the omega-3 market, are traditionally sold through the specialist health trade and on the dietary supplement shelves of supermarkets.
"We are focusing on the new wellness category emerging at the intersection of fashion, beauty, health and fitness, where there is strong demand for unique new brands that are sophisticated enough to fit on the more exclusive store shelves," says Fredrika Gullfot.
Simris Alg's omega-3 products are categorised as novel foods under EU regulations, and the company has not yet been able to launch its range in Europe. Instead, it has set its sights on the international market, and especially the United States, where its sales of omega-3 are growing rapidly. It announced in a press release this summer that online orders had increased by 322 percent in July, with a sustained increase in sales. The products are sold through trend-setting retailers such as actress Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop, and through the company's own online outlets. The commercial breakthrough during the summer gives a clear indication that Simris seems to have found the right strategy. In addition to sales in the US, Simris has a distributor in South Korea with a sales agreement worth SEK 7 million over three years.
The initiatives in cosmeceuticals and pharma are at an earlier phase and could possibly reach the market in other ways, such as through out-licensing to other companies and brands. This means that the company's research projects and collaborations are an important indicator for determining its long-term performance.
More and more investors in the international financial markets seem to have opened their eyes in recent times to completely plant-based or vegan companies. According to market researcher Data Bridge, the global market for algae products is expected to show average annual growth of 7 percent by 2027, and according to Coherent Market Insights, the global algae market will turn over close to USD 6 billion in 2027. With just over four years on the stock market, Simris Alg is one of very few listed investments that provide pure exposure to the algae industry.
Simris Algs CEO Fredrika Gullfot presenting the Simris' production facility to HRH Crown princess Victoria of Sweden in August 2019.
HRH Crown princess Victoria visiting Simris Alg's facility in August 2019.
However, there are plenty of algae start-ups outside the stock market. In January this year, for example, Edinburgh-based MiAlgae raised SEK 12 million for its product aimed at, among other things, dog food. Sweden has Gothenburg-based Swedish Algae Factory, which aims to improve the efficiency of solar cells and also offers skin-care creams. To date, Swedish Algae has raised SEK 78 million in venture capital, and in the past year venture capitalists have invested heavily in the algae industry globally, but few companies have reached a commercial phase.
Following its rights issue this summer, which provided Simris Alg with SEK 29 million before costs, the company is well capitalised to support its development projects in cosmeceuticals and pharma while continuing the international rollout of its omega-3 products. With market capitalisation of approximately SEK 46 million, this corresponds to an operating value of around SEK 20 million.
MSEK
Source: Emergers
Simris Alg has two listed warrant programmes: TO3B in October could contribute up to SEK 13 million before costs, and TO2B, which expires in December, has a subscription price of SEK 2.47 per share. Beyond this, there are two unlisted option programmes with subscription prices significantly higher than the current share price.
The revenue outlook for Simris is challenging to forecast, other than to say that the ongoing breakthrough in the United States can be expected to boost revenues from omega-3. These revenues alone correspond to an enterprise valuation (EV/sales) of just under 4x Emerger's estimated revenues in 2020, which can be expected to fall closer to 1x by 2023 without particularly aggressive forecasts. In addition, out-licensing or new product verticals in cosmeceuticals and pharma offer significant revenue potential within a few years, although these arms are much more difficult to predict. What is clear is that the VC industry, which often invests with much deeper insight and understanding than the generalists of the stock market, attributes a considerably higher value to the algal industry than the price of the Swedish stock exchange's only algal company would currently suggest.
johan@emergers.se
DISCLAIMER: Emerger's analysts have no shareholdings in the listed companies we write about. The content of this website is not investment advice. For full terms see here.


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Q: Deoplete is not working for Neovim So I've installed neovim and deoplete plugin. I did call :UpdateRemotePlugins afterwards. Now, when I write C/C++ code, its simply doesn't complete. It actually works for things like patht = ~/Desktop/, that actually gets the popup menu. Or Python code gets completions as well. But as for now I am mostly writing in C++, so I would like to make it work. I've got Python 3.6 and 2.7.x. I've did pip3 install neovim. I did call deoplete#enable() and I've even tried let g:deoplete#enable_at_startup = 1 (deoplete is working, but not for C/C++). I've tried deoplete_clang, doesn't complete as well. Where's the problem? This is the output from :CheckHealth:
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      2 health#deoplete#check
      3 ========================================================================
      4 ## deoplete.nvim
      5   - SUCCESS: has("nvim") was successful
      6   - SUCCESS: has("python3") was successful
      7   - INFO: If you're still having problems, try the following commands:
      8     $ export NVIM_PYTHON_LOG_FILE=/tmp/log
      9     $ export NVIM_PYTHON_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
     10     $ nvim
     11     $ cat /tmp/log_{PID}
     12     and then create an issue on github
     13
     14 health#deoplete#check
     15 ========================================================================
     16 ## deoplete.nvim
     17   - SUCCESS: has("nvim") was successful
     18   - SUCCESS: has("python3") was successful
     19   - INFO: If you're still having problems, try the following commands:
     20     $ export NVIM_PYTHON_LOG_FILE=/tmp/log
     21     $ export NVIM_PYTHON_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
     22     $ nvim
     23     $ cat /tmp/log_{PID}
     24     and then create an issue on github
     25
     26 health#nvim#check
     27 ========================================================================
     28 ## Configuration
     29   - SUCCESS: no issues found
     30
     31 ## Performance
     32   - SUCCESS: Build type: RelWithDebInfo
     33
     34 ## Remote Plugins
     35   - WARNING: "nvim" is not registered.
     36   - WARNING: Out of date
     37     - SUGGESTIONS:
     38       - Run `:UpdateRemotePlugins`
     39
     40 ## terminal
     41   - INFO: key_backspace (kbs) terminfo entry: key_backspace=\177
     42   - INFO: key_dc (kdch1) terminfo entry: key_dc=\E[3~
     43
     44 health#provider#check
     45 ========================================================================
     46 ## Clipboard (optional)
     47   - SUCCESS: Clipboard tool found: xsel
     48
     49 ## Python 2 provider (optional)
     50   - INFO: `g:python_host_prog` is not set.  Searching for python2 in the environment.
    [No Name]                                                                                1,0-1          Top
  - INFO: Executable: /usr/bin/python2
 52   - INFO: Python2 version: 2.7.13
 53   - INFO: python2-neovim version: 0.1.13
 54   - SUCCESS: Latest python2-neovim is installed: 0.1.13
 55
 56 ## Python 3 provider (optional)
 57   - INFO: `g:python3_host_prog` is not set.  Searching for python3 in the environment.
 58   - INFO: Executable: /usr/bin/python3
 59   - INFO: Python3 version: 3.6.1
 60   - INFO: python3-neovim version: 0.1.13
 61   - SUCCESS: Latest python3-neovim is installed: 0.1.13
 62
 63 ## Ruby provider (optional)
 64   - WARNING: `ruby` and `gem` must be in $PATH.
 65     - SUGGESTIONS:
 66       - Install Ruby and verify that `ruby` and `gem` commands work.

And this is my init.vim:
call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim/plugged')
Plug 'Shougo/deoplete.nvim', { 'do': ':UpdateRemotePlugins' }
" call PlugInstall to install new plugins
call plug#end()

call deoplete#enable()

filetype plugin indent on
set number
set nowrap
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set autoindent
syntax on
set noswapfile
set nobackup

Is there a way to make it work? I am sure that I have the latest neovim and deoplete as well. I am using Fedora 26.


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Nutanix Nets $101 Million in Funding
Converged Infrastructure solutions provider Nutanix has closed on a $101 million Series D financing, co-led by Riverwood Capital and SAP Ventures. The new funds will help accelerate the company's global expansion, and boost hiring and investments in research and development.
John Rath | Jan 15, 2014
Converged infrastructure solutions provider Nutanix has closed on a $101 million Series D financing, co-led by Riverwood Capital and SAP Ventures. The company has now raised a total of $172.2 million in four rounds of funding. Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey has said that this will be the last round of private funding, but a timetable has not yet been set for issuing an IPO.
The new funds will help accelerate the company's global expansion, boost investments in research and development, expand service delivery capabilities and grow the sales, marketing and support teams.
"Nutanix is one of a very small class of companies that is transforming the way enterprises deliver IT," said Jeff Parks, founding partner of Riverwood Capital. "We are very excited to partner with Dheeraj Pandey and his world-class management team as they build the next-generation enterprise computing company."
Nutanix is now well capitalized to service the needs of global enterprise customers with backing from top Silicon Valley venture capital firms and numerous strategic investments. Parks, a founding partner of Riverwood Capital and former executive at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., has been named to the Nutanix board of directors. In a separate appointment, industry veteran Mike Scarpelli, CFO of ServiceNow and former CFO of Data Domain, have also been named to Nutanix's board of directors.
Nutanix has won the business of 13 customers who have purchased more than $1 million of products within two years of launching its Virtual Computing Platform. Due to an aggressive global expansion strategy, international sales now account for 33 percent of the business and the company has shipped product to more than 30 countries in the last six months.
Leading enterprises including eBay, McKesson, Toyota, Orange Business Services and Hyundai Hysco have adopted Nutanix as their preferred infrastructure platform for running high-performance virtualized workloads. These organizations seek the simplicity, scalability and efficiency of web-scale data centers to power their private cloud environments.
"Nutanix represents a significant improvement to the simplicity of large scale datacenter architecture," said Drew Trieger, virtualization architect at eBay. "We had considered alternative solutions from established players as well as newer companies, but none could match the combination of performance, compact footprint, ease of use and flexibility of the Nutanix platform. Today's investment round validates our decision to choose Nutanix and ensures they will continue to deliver innovative solutions to our datacenter challenges for years to come."
"Adoption of web-scale computing, and Nutanix's Virtual Computing Platform in particular, has grown explosively over the last two years, yet we've only scratched the surface of this $100 billion hybrid computing market," said Dheeraj Pandey, CEO of Nutanix. "The additional support from such a high-quality investor group leaves us uniquely positioned to capitalize on the opportunity and build one of the elite companies of this decade."
TAGS: Hardware Storage


The owner of the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone was among the two men arrested in connection with the weekend's tragedy there.
Three teenagers died in an apparent crush outside the hotel as young people queued for a disco there on Sunday evening.
Michael McElhatton, 52, was one of two men arrested by the PSNI yesterday in connection with the tragedy, a spokesperson confirmed.
Mr McElhatton went voluntarily to speak to police, according to the Irish Mirror.
The PSNI announced yesterday evening that it had arrested a 52-year-old man and a 40-year-old man in relation to Sunday night's tragedy.
The other man is understood to be a member of the hotel's door staff.
The men are still in custody this morning on suspicion of manslaughter.
The teenagers who died in Sunday night's incident were Lauren Bullock (17), Connor Currie (16) and Morgan Barnard (17).
Lauren passed away at the scene while Connor and Morgan were pronounced dead in hospital.
Police have called for any witnesses who have not yet come forward to contact them, even if they are underage.
They are not seeking to prosecute anyone under 18 who was trying to get into the licensed premises but say they simply want answers for the families of the victims.
CCTV showed that around 400 people were trying to get into the hotel when pushing began and chaos broke out.


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Шанхайская академия международных исследований также ШАМИ () — исследовательское учреждение в Китае, основанное в 1960 г. Основной задачей является изучение мировой политики, экономики, безопасности и международных отношений между КНР и другими странами мира. ШАМИ также поддерживает тесное отношение и сотрудничает с отечественными и зарубежными исследовательскими организациями посредством совместного проведения научных конференций. На данный момент полностью перешла под непосредственное подчинение МИД КНР.

История
Создан в Шанхае под названием Шанхайский институт международных исследований в 1960 г. при непосредственном участии Чжоу Эньлая для проведения исследований в области международной и внешней политики Китая, экономики и безопасности. В 2009 г. был переименован в Шанхайскую академию международных исследований.

Руководство
Долгое время президентом ШАМИ являлся Ян Цземянь. Два года назад вместо него был назначен новый президент — относительно молодой Чэн Дунсяо.

Вице-президенты ШАМИ: Ян Анлин и Ян Цзиэн.

Структура
В состав ШАМИ входят 6 институтов:
 Институт международных стратегических исследований. Занимается изучением вопросов международной стратегии, международной стратегии Китая, стратегии сверхдержав, вопросы региональной и глобальной стратегии, безопасности, международного контроля над вооружениями.
 Институт глобальных проблем управления. Специализируется на двух основных направлениях исследований, связанных с глобальным управлением. Первое фокусируется на изучении глобальных политических институтов в области безопасности, развития, будущего развития, культуры и других важных проблем, их эволюции и институционального строительства в каждом субрегионе. Второе уделяет особое внимание вопросам энергетической безопасности, изменению климата и окружающей среды, международному сотрудничеству по борьбе с терроризмом, женскому вопросу и т. д. Большинство из них носит трансграничный характер и относится к проблемам нетрадиционной безопасности.
 Институт мировой экономики. Занимается компаративистским исследованием моделей экономического развития, функционированием и реформой международной финансовой и торговой систем, экономической политикой иностранных государств и взаимоотношениями между ведущими экономиками мира. Интерес представляет также изучение региональных и межрегиональных тенденций по углублению экономической интеграции в Азии, Европе и пр.
 Институт внешнеполитических исследований. Осуществляет изучение внешней политики Китая и мировых сверхдержав, в частности, внешнеполитической практики сверхдержав и взаимоотношений между ними, дипломатических отношений Китая с основными странами и регионами мира, критических и узловых точек китайской внешней политики, анализирует внешнеполитическую деятельность Китая и разрабатывает теоретические основы внешней политики с китайской спецификой.
 Институт Тайваня, Гонконга и Макао. Проводит исследование политического, экономического и социального развития Тайваня, Гонконга и Макао по двум направлениям. Первое рассматривает практические и теоретические аспекты политического и экономического взаимодействия Китая с Тайванем, Гонконгом и Макао с акцентом на изучение новых моментов в содержании формулы «одна страна, две системы» в новых условиях. Второе анализирует политику и отношения главных международных акторов по отношению к Тайваню, Гонконгу и Макао.
 Институт анализа и обработки данных. Выполняет функции издательства.
Кроме того, ШАМИ особенно уделяет внимание на региональное изучение международных проблем. ШАМИ включает в себя 11 научно-исследовательских центров по изучению разных регионов планеты и по важными тематикам международных отношений. Это именно:
 Центр международных организаций и международного права
 Центр мировой экономики
 Центр США
 Центр Европы
 Центр АТР
 Центр Японии
 Центр России и Центральной Азии
 Центр Южной Азии
 Центр Западной Азии и Африки
 Центр этнорелигиозных и культурных проблем
 Центр гендерных исследований

Деятельность
Шанхайская академия международных исследований является одним из наиболее крупных и авторитетных МЦ Китая, оказывающих влияние на правительство в вопросах международной политики. География исследований включает в первую очередь США, Японию, Европу, Россию и Центральную Азию, АТР, Ближний Восток. Проводит исследования по важным вопросам международной политики, экономики и безопасности, делает прогнозы развития ситуации, изучает отношения между ведущими сверхдержавами, политику государств, граничащих с Китаем.

О результатах своей деятельности информирует соответствующие государственные министерства и ведомства Китая. Консультирует политиков местного и центрального уровня по вопросам международных отношений. Дистанцируется от рассмотрения военных проблем. ШАМИ ежегодно проводит научные симпозиумы по разным тематикам.

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт
 http://www.rcit.su/inform-cn-mz-05.html

Организации Китая
Аналитические центры

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Last week many bloggers and website owners faced a sudden drop from 50 percent to 90 percent in their website traffic. Because Google Updates its Algorithm! The whole web was in a buzz for a couple of days as Google penalized many websites for their poor content. There is no doubt that webmasters are shocked yet surprised as the search engine giant changed its style.
Now, a lot of websites had a huge blow in facing absence in search engine result pages. Popular forums and discussion sites are filled with queries and sorrows as the websites are penalized due to obvious reasons.
One of the senior officials of Google, Gary Illyes, tweeted humorously that every Google update will now be known as Fred. The search engine giant has neither refused nor accepted the changes in the algorithm. They remarked that they are not making major changes in their algorithm as there are smaller changes which are making the whole search experience better.
The websites which are exempted from this massive unannounced update from Google, are having good link building. In other words, the websites which are having good dofollow backlinks from great authoritative websites are not penalized.
However, this update punishes the websites which have spammy and low-quality backlinks. Google considers such websites as not trustworthy because of their link building.
Also, advertisement drove and revenue motivated websites are punished by Google. Such websites who do hide or promote something in their content, have hidden ads, indirect affiliate links, poorly placed advertisements on the web page are deeply hurt by Fred update.
However, websites which focus on quality content, as well as proper advertisements' placements, have no effects on their search traffic. This is very beneficial in user's perspective. Often users visit some websites, they have to face popups, unwanted redirection, spam affiliate links.
The content which they were looking for is hidden or cannot be properly seen on the webpage. So this update will encourage webmasters to not place ads anywhere they like.
If your website is negatively affected due to changes in the Google's algorithm, you must get your link building strategies very seriously. Also, keep in mind that quality is the most dominating factor in building backlinks. One quality backlink over hundreds of common links can create a lot of impacts.
Here, always try to get relevant backlinks. Though links from high domain authority help, relevancy also plays the crucial role in getting organic traffic through link building.
This update will severely affect the activities like black hat SEO, using tools that create automatic backlinks, link exchange, and link purchase, etc.
There is no second thought in accepting that running and maintaining a website requires cost and energy from the owner's side. Hence, we cannot ignore the expense that an owner has to bear to keep the website running. To respect this point of view, it would be okay if you keep a fair amount of advertisement while not hurting the readability.
So modifying your placements and quantity of the ads on your website would help you in recovering.


What does being in a healthy relationship mean to you?
Our lives change on a constant basis whether this is with our friends, family or boyfriend/girlfriend. We communicate in many different ways and form new relationships online especially using social media. The lines can get blurred when social media becomes involved as to what a healthy relationship can look like and how we need to be safe online as well as what consent means, whether that is posting a picture or physical sexual consent.
To help with this topic The Towers Convent school and St Philip Howard Catholic school give their thoughts on what healthy relationships, consent and online safety mean to them as young people.
If your school would be interested in taking part in the conversation, get your school to contact Katrina Plum – katrina.plum@westsussex.gov.uk for more information.
For National CSE Awareness Day West Sussex Residents, young people and professionals have also been giving their pledges by joining in on social media. #StandAgainstCSE and #HelpingHands are two tags that you can use to get involved yourself. If you want us to show your pledges then please include #WSSS in your social media posts and we will add them to our current Flickr album.
Together we can help improve our relationships in the social and digital world as well as in the physical one.
If you need any further information or support visit our sexual exploitation page on Your Space.
For more information about National CSE Awareness Day visit YourSpace.
Your Space West Sussex – Blog What is a healthy relationship?


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News Articles > The Seemingly Pervasive Sinister Side of Algorythmic Screen Time for Children
The Seemingly Pervasive Sinister Side of Algorythmic Screen Time for Children
Tag: adaptable content, advertising, algorithms, children, dark, desensitisation, empathy decline, neuroplasticity, predictive programming, screen culture, screen time, social implications
Writer and artist James Bridle writes in Medium:
"Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatize, and abuse children, automatically and at scale, and it forces me to question my own beliefs about the internet, at every level.
To begin: Kid's YouTube is definitely and markedly weird. I've been aware of its weirdness for some time. Last year, there were a number of articles posted about the Surprise Egg craze. Surprise Eggs videos depict, often at excruciating length, the process of unwrapping Kinder and other egg toys. That's it, but kids are captivated by them. There are thousands and thousands of these videos and thousands and thousands, if not millions, of children watching them. […] What I find somewhat disturbing about the proliferation of even (relatively) normal kids videos is the impossibility of determining the degree of automation which is at work here; how to parse out the gap between human and machine."
Sapna Maheshwari also explores in The New York Times:
"Parents and children have flocked to Google-owned YouTube Kids since it was introduced in early 2015. The app's more than 11 million weekly viewers are drawn in by its seemingly infinite supply of clips, including those from popular shows by Disney and Nickelodeon, and the knowledge that the app is supposed to contain only child-friendly content that has been automatically filtered from the main YouTube site. But the app contains dark corners, too, as videos that are disturbing for children slip past its filters, either by mistake or because bad actors have found ways to fool the YouTube Kids algorithms. In recent months, parents like Ms. Burns have complained that their children have been shown videos with well-known characters in violent or lewd situations and other clips with disturbing imagery, sometimes set to nursery rhymes."
Very horrible and creepy.
Source: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-...