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Mediterranean pen shell listed as critically endangered
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A fan mussel found only in the Mediterranean was officially added to the list of critically endangered species, after scientists recorded a dramatic decline in its population numbers caused by a newly discovered pathogen.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a press release this week that its updated Red List includes the noble pen shell, or Pinna nobilis, the Mediterranean's largest mollusk. The pen shell, which can grow to more than a meter (3 feet) tall, contributes to clear water by filtering out organic particulates. For centuries it provided humans with food and one of the world's rarest materials: sea silk spun from the fibers with which it secures itself to the seabed.
A protected species, the pen shell was already under pressure from pollution, illegal fishing, habitat loss, invasive species and climate change. "However, none of these threats have led to the extremely widespread and rapid population declines caused by the ongoing disease," the IUCN said.
The new pathogen first appeared in 2016 along the Spanish coast and has since spread across the Mediterranean, with an 80-100% death rate. Last year, when scientists discovered it had spread to Greek waters, they told The Associated Press the species was at risk of extinction.
The IUCN said there was an "urgent need" to set up a regional monitoring program for the pen shell, and that further research was needed to understand the disease and find ways of limiting its spread.
The IUCN's updated Red List, which includes threatened species worldwide, showed conservation efforts had led to an improvement in the status of two freshwater fish species and eight bird species, including a bird previously listed extinct in the wild, the flightless Guam Rail.
The Red List now includes 112,432 species, of which 30,178 are threatened with extinction.
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YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) —A massive elm treenicknamed Herbie is long gone, but it is going to live on, thanks to cloned trees that are being made available to the public.
At 110 feet and more than 200 years, Herbie was the tallest and oldest elm in New England and survived 14 bouts of Dutch elm disease because of the devotion of his centenarian caretaker, Frank Knight, the late tree warden of Yarmouth, Maine.

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+ How does this program relate to the Research Software calls?
The RDM program is separate from the Research Software program in that the RDM program is focused on software tools to support research data management, while the Research Software program is focused on software that supports the entire research workflow or portions of it. As RDM becomes more integrated into the research workflow (for example, as funding policies evolve), CANARIE is likely to coordinate more strongly between the RDM program and the Research Software program.
+ Is long-term storage of research data an appropriate example of something the RDM program is designed to support?
The first RDM call has a focus on software development projects. While these efforts could intersect with data storage, this call is not intended to fund long-term storage. Also, CANARIE does not itself provide data-hosting services, but works with stakeholders in the community to facilitate this service.
+ When referring to data, is it data in any form: numerical, text, audio, video etc.?
Yes. All forms of research output are of interest in this context. The CASRAI Dictionary definitions of data and research data are useful in considering the nature of data in this context.
+ Could a non-profit in the US partner with a Canadian organization/institution to submit a response?
Yes, but only if the submission is made by a Canadian institution. Other partners in the submission can be mentioned in the text of the submission, and/or as a CC in the distribution at the time of submission.
+ Is usage tracking considered important, for example, as it relates to papers and datasets that are changed/retracted?
Yes, tracking the creation and evolution of research outputs (e.g. scholarly articles and datasets) is an important part of the RDM ecosystem, whether it be maintaining a provenance record, or ensuring links between different version of the same/similar outputs, and a host of related functions.
+ Does a focus on supporting National Data Services mean that software with international importance is less favoured?
No, the key aspect of support for National Data Services is to deliver services that can function at a national level, across or within disciplines. As research is highly collaborative both nationally and internationally, software that integrates international RDM standards or that reflects the needs of an international research community will not be less favoured.
+ When thinking about a National Data Services Framework, is the audience restricted to researchers associated with higher education institutions and government, or is it assumed that services will be publicly available?
Access to services integrated into a National Data Services Framework should be accessible to any publicly-funded Canadian researcher, although we realize that some services may be accessible to only specific domains of research. Also, software developed with CANARIE funding must be made available via an open source license.
+ Are there other materials besides those linked to on the CANARIE website that might be important to consider in making a submission?
The Tri-Agencies' Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management, and Research Data Canada's Statement of Principles are useful documents. The RDC document Data Innovation in Canada: Context for a National Conversation, as well as outputs from the 1st National Data Services Summit held in September 2017 may also be of interest.
+ Can you provide more information on how my software must create or contribute to a national data service?
RDM Call 1 is intended to support the development of software components that implement RDM best practices in support of the National Data Services Framework (NDSF). View image.
In all cases the infrastructure that emerges from the funding program is intended to function at the level of a NDSF, which could mean across multiple disciplines, or within a specific domain. Development efforts that operate at an international level also fit the definition of a NDSF. Projects that develop pilot infrastructure that functions at a local or regional level, but are intended to eventually function at a national level, would also fit the designation of a NDS.
+ There is no funding limit for the $2.7M call: is there a soft target for the number of funded projects, budget ranges?
No. There is no target or budget range: projects will be assessed on a case by case basis and according to the criteria.
+ What are the reporting requirements?
CANARIE Finance will schedule audits. Each claim submitted will need background documentation. Status updates are required every 6 weeks via conference call with Program Manager, Mark Leggott.
+ Could you give an example of a National Data Services Framework?
There are two ways to consider the NDSF context: projects that bring RDM best practices to a national community of researchers, either all researchers regardless of institutional affiliation, or all researchers from a specific discipline; projects that facilitate adoption of the FAIR Principles at a national scale. One example of the latter is the Portage DMP Assistant, which provides a data management planning tool to any researcher in Canada. Examples of the former include domain-specific platforms that provide functionality to all Canadian researchers in a specific domain, such as the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre.
+ Will the evaluation criteria be published before the end of the call?
The evaluation criteria is currently posted online under the RDM Call.
+ How long after the call does the software have to be sustainable?
Software developed under CANARIE funding must be made available for other researchers to use at no cost, through the CANARIE Research Software Registry at: https://science.canarie.ca for a period of 3 years from the end of the funded development period. The Statement of Work does include a question regarding the "your maintenance and support plan for the proposed software post CANARIE funding", and this will be reviewed as part of the adjudication process.
+ Is collaboration with international colleagues possible?
Yes, although Principal Investigators (PIs) must be from a Canadian Institution, and funds must be spent on resources based in Canada. International partners may participate with their own resources.
+ Is it mandatory to have a Principal investigator?
Yes, someone denoted as the Principal Investigator is required, and must be identified as part of the application process. The PI must be employed by the Lead Contractor or a Participant to the Project Agreement. The selection committee will review the PI's bio during the evaluation and recommendation process.
+ What are the eligibility characteristics of the PI for the purposes of this competition, and will their qualifications form part of the criteria for evaluation?
The PI must be an employee of the lead contactor or of the participating organization, and their qualifications will be reviewed by the selection committee during the evaluation process.
+ Can the software development be subcontracted to an external company?
1. Work performed by Canadian sub-contractors or consultants to advance a Project to the extent it is identified in the Statement of Work. The fees charged must be reasonable and not exceed fair market value.2. The total cost of sub-contractors and consultants fees MUST not exceed 5% of the total of all eligible Project costs.3. Fee-for-service contracts with federal labs that have the authority to collect revenue.
4. The sub-contractor or consultant provides specialized guidance to the Project team.
5. Work performed by foreign sub-contractors or consultants to advance a Project to the extent it is identified in the Statement of Work and approved budget, and pre-approved in writing by CANARIE.
+ Can a project target only one theme, or it should address more than one?
Yes, the project can target just one theme, or as many as can be articulated in the proposal. Proposals will be judges on their merits, and the details provided in the Statement of Work, and will not receive additional consideration or weight based on the number of themes covered.
+ Must the institution receiving the funding be a university or research institute? Could it be a charity or for-profit company?
Yes, the Lead Contractor could be a charity, or for-profit institution, or any other legally recognized entity such as a university, college, or non-profit organization based in Canada. Federal government agencies are not eligible to receive funding.
+ Are the scoring criteria given numeric ratings and/or different weightings.
All criteria have the same scoring and weighting, except for the overall project assessment component, which has a higher weighting.
+ What degree of interoperability is intended, for example is the focus of the funding on syntactic or semantic interoperability?
Ideally both levels of interoperability are desirable. Syntactic interoperability is generally considered a prerequisite to semantic interoperability, and Interoperability in the FAIR Principles context would imply semantic interoperability.
+ Is there someone I can discuss my ideas with prior to developing a full application to make sure we are on the right track?
Yes, please contact CANARIE's RDM Program Manager, Mark Leggott at mark.leggott@canarie.ca or 613-220-7236. Project ideas will be held in confidence.
+ Will CANARIE permit funding that leverages a currently funded CANARIE grant?
Having an existing CANARIE project does not preclude you from submitting an application under this program.
+ Has CANARIE identified interoperability protocols or specifications, or will this call solicit recommendations?
No. CANARIE is looking to the community to identify international best practices in their projects, and does not have a specific pre-defined set of protocols or specifications.


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Batgirl Solo Film is Back On With Bumblebee Scribe, Christina Hodson
By Teresa JusinoApr 9th, 2018, 6:19 pm
Whether Joss Whedon fans or not, most of us breathed a sigh of relief when Joss Whedon was no longer attached to the live-action solo Batgirl film. For so many reasons, it seemed like a misguided choice. For those who worried about the fate of the project without Whedon's attachment, there's great news today! Batgirl has a new, female screenwriter.
Warner Bros. has hired Christina Hodson, writer of the upcoming Transformers spin-off, Bumblebee, to take on writing duties on the film. Apparently she, unlike Whedon, will have no problem coming up with a story. In addition to being a member of the Transformers writers' room (which is how she got the Bumblebee script), she also wrote the 2017 Warner Bros. thriller Unforgettable, starring Rosario Dawson and Katherine Heigl, and Ology, the franchise Paramount is developing based on the YA fictional encyclopedias from Templar Publishing.
Whereas Whedon was taking on both writing and directing duties, it's unclear as to whether Hodson will be directing as well, or if they will find a director to work with her. My hope, as always, is that they find a woman to take this on. It would be the first time that we'd have a filmed version of Batgirl through a completely female lens, and that's the Batgirl we need right now.
Thoughts? Are you excited for a new take on Batgirl?
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HOUSTON -- Houston Texans running back Lamar Miller said he plans to play Sunday against the Detroit Lions despite his bruised shoulder.
Even if he plays, Miller said he is not sure how many carries he will get in the game.
Miller was limited Monday night in a loss to the Denver Broncos after he injured his shoulder on a first-quarter rush. Miller said he was just trying to brace himself after a 25-yard run, but he got hit on his shoulder. He said he had the same injury two years ago.
"My shoulder felt kind of numb," Miller said.
Miller said it just became an issue of pain management throughout the rest of the game. His MRI came back negative and he said all his ligaments are intact. Miller played just 44 percent of the Texans' offensive snaps; fellow back Alfred Blue played 51.
Miller was a limited participant in practice on Thursday. He said he has felt better every morning as the week has progressed.
In seven games this season, Miller has run for 581 yards and a touchdown on 136 carries. He also has 20 catches for 117 yards and a touchdown.
The Texans' running game has improved as the offensive line has become healthier, and as Miller has grown more comfortable in Houston's offense. The Texans are now tied for the 11th-best rushing offense per game in the league.
"I give the guy a lot of credit," head coach Bill O'Brien said. "He's a tough guy. He's a pro football player. He really came back and kept wanting to play [on Monday night], and I think that's good."


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Migration and the Myth of the Pull-Factor in the Mediterranean
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The European Union's Operation EUNAVFOR MED "Sophia" will end this March, to be replaced by a different operation altogether. First much vaunted, then much taunted, Operation Sophia is the perfect symbol of how poisonous the debate around rescuing lives at sea in the Mediterranean has become over the past few years. And it is also a symbol of something larger: the failure of EU Member States to come to an agreement on how to manage migration in a sensible, rational, and evidence-based way.
Between May 2015, when it was launched, and July 2018, the day of its last rescue in the Central Mediterranean, Operation EUNAVFOR MED saved around 43,000 migrants. The Operation was nicknamed "Sophia" after a rescued woman gave birth to a girl aboard a ship posted to the operation, in August 2015. The ship was a German frigate, and the baby girl was the first child to have ever been born aboard a German military ship.
The EU operation, based in Italy and with an Italian commander right from the start, was not born with the specific mandate to rescue migrants at sea, but to counter smuggling and trafficking. But international law mandates that people aboard boats in distress should always be rescued and brought to a place of safety. Obviously, persons aboard rickety dinghies, often without a functioning engine, half-deflated and in the middle of the Mediterranean do qualify for rescue, and that's what the operation has done for more than three years. It then proceeded to disable boats so that smugglers or traffickers could not re-use them: in the years, the operation disabled over 550 boats.
Increasingly, however, the operation came under fire, for two reasons. First, in Italy there was mounting criticism that an EU-wide operation would always disembark migrants in a single member state. Suddenly, what appeared to be a reasonable assumption – that the operation would disembark migrants in the closest port of a sufficiently large EU country (Malta, with its small territory and a population of less than 500,000, certainly does not qualify) – became part of a conspiration theory that claimed that then-Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had traded disembarking migrants in Italy for more budgetary flexibility.
Second, since at least late 2016 the operation became embroiled in the larger context of the war against private rescuers on NGO boats. In particular, rescue ships were increasingly accused to be acting as a "pull factor" for migrants departing from Libya. According to the claim, the closer and more frequently rescue ships operated to the Libyan coast, the likelier that migrants would attempt to cross from Libya to Europe. This claim felt so perfectly logical that few questioned it, feeling that the evidence would no doubt corroborate it. Most strikingly, one of the first official claims along the "pull factor" argument came from a confidential report by Frontex, the EU border agency. And to top it off, even Frontex had its own naval operation at the time of the accusations: called Triton then (2014-2018), it is now named Themis (2018-ongoing).
So, while private rescue ships operated by NGOs were also accused of being complicit of smugglers and traffickers (a claim that has never been proven after over three years and over 18 separate investigations), Operation Sophia was simply accused of being an unintentional magnet. Slowly but surely, many political parties in Europe started to turn against rescuers in the Central Mediterranean, and therefore against Sophia as well. In Italy, both Matteo Salvini's right-wing League and the populist Five Star Movement advocated for its closure.
EU Member States have held differing positions on the operation. For example, German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended it multiple times. But even within her party, the CDU, her position has gradually lost support. An indication that not many countries in Europe supported Sophia came as soon as a new Italian government was inaugurated in June 2018. Led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and supported by the League and the Five Star Movement, the Italian government advocated for the removal of Sophia's ships from day one. And the support for the EU's naval mission from the other 27 countries was so low that, in just one month, almost all of Sophia's ships had disappeared from the Central Mediterranean despite the mandate remaining the same. After July 2018, Operation Sophia did not carry out any single rescue anymore, nor did it disrupt any smuggling or trafficking operation.
EU Member States' compliance with Italy's requests came several months before the naval part of Operation Sophia's mission was formally terminated, in March 2019. On that month, the paradox of a naval mission with no ships became reality: Sophia was only left with aerial and satellite assets.
In all this time, the claim that public and private rescue missions acted as a pull factor has seldom been put to the test. Anecdotal evidence seemed to support the existence of a "pull factor": after Italy launched its Operation "Mare Nostrum" in response to one of the biggest shipwrecks of all time, in October 2013, departures from Libya skyrocketed. But such evidence could be paired with opposite evidence: in and after July 2017, with two EU-wide naval operations ongoing (Sophia and Triton), departures from Libya plummeted by 75%, and by mid-2018 they were 95% lower than in 2016: irregular arrivals to Italy went back to "normal" despite ships ready to rescue migrants at sea.
In absence of a public test, me and my colleague Eugenio Cusumano had an idea. In 2019, after a campaign against NGOs and EU-wide naval assets by Italy's Conte government, all public rescue ships had been removed from the Central Mediterranean. All that was left off Libya were either no rescue ships, or NGOs. We therefore asked: does the arrival of NGOs very close to Libya's coast increase irregular migrant departures from Libya?
We collected data for the best part of 2019, and published a paper that found that it was not so. We found that NGOs' rescue activities did not increase migrant departures from Libya, which remained almost exactly identical to when no ship was present in the area. Departures seemed to be affected by meteorological conditions – with rising temperatures slowly increasing departures, and strong winds sharply decreasing them – and political conditions in Libya, not the arrival of rescue boats. We continue to collect data up to this day, and in the period between January 2019 and mid-February 2020 no "pull factor" can be found.
All this shows where the EU is failing. It would be naïve to argue that policy-makers should not be wary of a "pull factor". However, our findings show that even what seems logical at first might end up being biased. They calls for a more cautious, evidence-based approach to migration. Today, we have the data and the tools to test our beliefs, in order to strike the right balance between ethics and security concerns. A reasonable strategy would be to start with a small number of ships, and test out whether they increase migrant departures in a significant way. If they don't, then the situation is "win-win": we can rescue more lives without running the risk of going back to a situation of high arrivals.
Sadly, this is not the road chosen by the EU. Last week, EU foreign ministers chose to wind down Operation Sophia and launch a different operation altogether. With the explicit goal to "avoid a pull factor", the new operation is expected to operate more to the east, close to a section of Libya's coast (Cyrenaica) where no migrants have departed since at least 2017. Also, EU leaders are so scared that they said that if the operation shows any sign of acting as a "pull factor" anyway, they will suspend it. They did not say how they will certify that the operation is encouraging migrants to depart. This leaves the new operation weaker, and more subject to the political whims of riotous member states.
As the debate on Sophia shows, despite low irregular arrivals to Europe seas remain rough on migration policy. But our aim, at least, should be not to navigate in the wrong direction.
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Yeşilköy is a village in the Kovancılar District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Its population is 73 (2021). The village is populated by Kurds.

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Multimodality is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication and representation to be more than about language.
Multimodality provides complex fine grained analysis to get at the details of texts and interactions in which meaning is understood as being realized in the iterative connection between the meaning potential of a material semiotic artefact/text, the meaning potential of the social/cultural environment it is encountered in, and the resources and knowledge that people bring to these. Speech and writing continue to be seen as significant but are seen as parts of a multimodal ensemble with an emphasis on situated action: the importance of context and the sign maker in shaping the resources available for meaning making and how these are selected and designed focus on people's situated choice of resources rather than emphasizing the system of available resources.
One thing I regularly notice, having come from a visual arts background, is how often images, sound and environmental elements are overlooked in educational settings. And though things have started to change with the increased availability of resources, text and writing still often rule in school, even if the greater availability of digital imagery now makes it possible to add depth of understanding to all the things we teach and learn.
I was first struck by the outlook on images that educators still have these days, when in one of my graduate classes I had to exchange a 'technology curriculum design' with other teachers in one of my classes. One enthusiastic teacher had designed a great lesson for her elementary students about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill that began in 2010. The lesson was, in my opinion extremely brave, exposing her students to positives and negatives you don't always see at the elementary level. She didn't water down the material because the students were young and I truly admired her approach, but in my mind there was something missing: where were images or video of the spill?
These days students (and adults) do not have to just rely on the written word or a remote video shot to understand or describe something deep below the surface of the water or in some far away corner of the world, but instead can SEE it in completely new ways we never had access to before. In 30 seconds all of us can do a Google search that adds to the depth of our understanding on just about any topic, still instructors don't always search for these kinds of resources or require image inclusion by students turning in written research papers or projects.
So, perhaps the question for many people is, how do we think about, include or even support the inclusion of other modalities in education? One step in my process has been to read some of the great work by the scholar, Dr. Carey Jewitt.


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es una comedia romántica shojo manga de Kyousuke Motomi publicada en Kioto, Japón en la revista Betsucomi, con once volúmenes tankōbon, el último en 24 de enero de 2014. La serie ha sido licenciada para el lanzamiento en América del Norte por Viz Media, con el primer volumen publicado el 6 de julio de 2010.

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Cuando el hermano mayor de Teru murió, ella se quedó con una pequeña herencia y un móvil que le permite contactar exclusivamente por correo electrónico a un personaje misterioso que se hace llamar DAISY, de quien el hermano de Teru había dicho que sería "su apoyo cuando él ya no fuera capaz de hacerlo". DAISY efectivamente se convirtió en el apoyo de Teru, a quien ya le envió palabras de aliento a través del teléfono, ya que ella se enfrenta a su vida sola.

Una tarde, Teru rompe accidentalmente una ventana de la escuela, y como resultado ha de realizar labores para el cruel y malhumorado portero de la escuela Tasuku Kurosaki. La relación entre ambos empiezan a superar a la de "amo y criado" y las burlas mutuas, y ella empieza a cuestionar la verdadera identidad de DAISY. ¿Podría ser Kurosaki su amado DAISY?

Mientras tanto, Kurosaki se encuentra a sí mismo constantemente atraído por Teru. ¿Conseguirá alcanzarla?

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Personajes principales

Estudiante de 17 años. Teru posee un carácter fuerte, divertida y es una chica amable y con un fuerte sentimiento de defender la justicia, que esta sola desde la muerte de su hermano mayor. Ella hereda algo de dinero y un móvil que su hermano le dio y que la conecta con DAISY, el cual se convierte en su fuente de ánimo y la protege desde lejos, con mensajes de correo electrónico y ocasionalmente, a través de una intervención más activa, aunque sin ser visto. A pesar de no encontrarse con él cara a cara, Teru tiene absoluta confianza en él.

La historia parte cuando Teru rompe accidentalmente una ventana, tras defender a un amigo,y se ve obligada a convertirse en la "sierva" del portero de la escuela, Kurosaki Tasuku, para pagarla. A medida que el manga avanza, los sentimientos negativos que una vez Teru tenía hacia Kurosaki empiezan a convertirse en algo más romántico. Sin embargo, ella comienza a sospechar que Kurosaki es de hecho DAISY, y que el teléfono que su hermano le dejó, podría ser más de lo que parece.

Respecto al aspecto físico de Teru, encontramos que es una chica de ojos verdes, pelo largo (aunque al inicio del manga solo lo lleva hasta los hombros y vemos como a medida que avanza la historia va creciendo). Destacamos su escasa altura frente a Kurosaki, ya que mide apenas 1.56 cm.

Con 24 años de edad, Kurosaki es un joven rubio que trabaja como conserje de la escuela de Teru. Kurosaki se muestra a menudo fumando su marca favorita Philip Morris, bebiendo y tomando una actitud burlona hacia Teru. A pesar de su actitud desagradable, se preocupa profundamente por Teru, actuando hacia ella con amabilidad genuina y es muy protector con ella.

Teru en un principio no sabe con seguridad si Kurosaki es DAISY, un pirata informático que trabajó con su hermano, Souichirou, y al cual le ha confiado el cuidado de ella.

Es descrito por los amigos de Teru como muy atractivo, aunque este no suele mostrar sus emociones. Muy a su pesar, a menudo sus amigos bromean describiéndolo como un lolicón y pervertido y que entre sus compañeros más cercanos están de acuerdo en pensar que tiene fuertes sentimientos románticos por Teru. Kurosaki ha convertido en su misión el atender a Teru a petición de su amigo moribundo, Souichirou, aunque recientemente ha optado por protegerla directamente y no solo con su Alter Ego. A pesar de sus fuertes sentimientos por ella, Kurosaki no cree tener derecho a amar a Teru dado que considera que "llevó a su hermano a la muerte". A lo largo del manga se debate entre sus sentimientos hacia ella y sus propios recuerdos contradictorios con respecto a su pasado complicado como un hacker.

Personajes secundarios

Es el encargado de Ohanabatake, una casa de té al estilo occidental, que a menudo es visto llevando un pañuelo y delantal. Tanto Kurosaki como Riko y otros personajes se refieren a él como "maestro". A pesar de su actitud cordial y tendencia a burlarse de Kurosaki sobre su relación con Teru, el Maestro puede ser sorprendentemente aterrador. Él es plenamente consciente de las actividades de Kurosaki como DAISY y ha velado por Kurosaki, incluso antes de que cualquiera de ellos conocieran a Souchirou Kurebayashi.

Era un miembro del equipo de diseño que llevó el hermano de Teru, así como la novia de este. Como resultado, ella se refiere a Teru como joven hermana y ellas viven juntas como compañeras de casa y vecinas de Kurosaki. Riko es amiga de Kurosaki y, a menudo actúa sutilmente como su consejera en su situación con Teru, con frecuencia burlándose de él o actuando violentamente contra Kurosaki si piensa que él ha actuado de manera inapropiada a Teru. Ella es también consejera en la escuela secundaria de Teru. Tiene 30 años.

El mejor amigo de Teru y compañero de clase. Trató de averiguar más acerca de por qué Teru quedó tan empobrecida después de la muerte de su hermano, a pesar de la reputación de Souichirou como un brillante ingeniero. Sin embargo, terminó por poner en peligro a sí mismo y a Teru, hasta que es salvado por Kurosaki. Un chico inteligente y discreto, el Maestro le revela la verdadera identidad de Kiyoshi como un gesto de confianza. Posteriormente, Kurosaki emplea a Kiyoshi como su segundo "siervo" y otro par de ojos para proteger a Teru, aunque Kiyoshi no duda en burlarse de afecto que tiene Kurosaki hacia Teru.

Director de la escuela secundaria de Teru y donde trabaja Kurosaki. Andou es un excolega de DAISY y del hermano de Teru. Al principio aparece como el portero sustituto de Kurosaki. Mientras que él aparece como un personaje cómico que se muestra a menudo en lugares extraños, como los pequeños oscuros respiraderos y los botes de basura, y disfruta de ser golpeado; Andou es serio cada vez que surgen cuestiones relativas a DAISY y actúa como el líder del grupo durante las investigaciones. Su apodo, Andy, se lo dio Souichirou.

Otros personajes
Akira (アキラ)

Un chico misterioso, que tiene un asombroso parecido con el hermano mayor de Teru, Souchirou. Utiliza una sudadera con capucha para ocultar su apariencia y que frecuentemente lleva un yoyo. Tiene un comportamiento irregular y suele ser despiadado, a pesar de estar conectado afectuosamente con Chiharu Mori, quien trabaja como cómplice de este. A lo largo del manga se demuestra que es un hacker súper dotado, constantemente recibe un tratamiento especial debido a su estado emocional. Culpa a Kurosaki de cosas desconocidas en su pasado. Más tarde se revela que es nieto del profesor Mirodikawa.

Chiharu Mori (森 千春 Mori Chiharu)

Enferma de la escuela, al ser descubierta su identidad, desaparece de la escuela. Es culpable de diversos ataques a Teru y Kurosaki, para obtener el Jack Frost un virus creado por Kurosaki tiempo atrás.

Kuwagata

De Origen desconocido, hasta ahora está relacionado con la activación del virus Jack Frost. Cómplice de Chiharu y Akira

Manga
La serie está escrita e ilustrada por Kyousuke Motomi y es publicada por Shogakukan en el mensual shōjo manga magazine Betsucomi. Los capítulos han sido recopilados en 11 volúmenes tankōbon volúmenes publicados hasta abril de 2011; siendo el primero lanzado el 26 de octubre de 2007, y el undécimo y por ahora último el 26 de abril de 2011.

Recepción
La serie fue votada como el mejor nuevo manga shojo de 2010 por los fanes estadounidenses en los Premios "About.com Manga Readers Choice Awards."

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sitio en la web de betsucomi de Dengeki Daisy

Manga de 2007
Anime y manga romántico
Shōjo
Series de manga


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Q: Am I breaking any log rules? Suppose I have the inequality $(\frac{A}{B})^X < (\frac{C}{D})\cdot(\frac{E}{F})^Y$ and I want X by itself.
Can I do this $X\cdot \log(\frac{A}{B}) < \log(\frac{C}{D})\cdot(Y\cdot \log(\frac{E}{F}))$?
Am I breaking any rules on the right-hand side?

A: It should be
$$X\log \left(\frac{A}{B}\right)=\log \left(\frac{C}{D}\right)+Y\log \left(\frac{E}{F}\right)$$
You did not break the log into addition as $\log xy =\log x +\log y$

A: Yes!!! You need to apply the rule of addition for logarithmic functions.
Right hand side should be log(C / D) + (Y * log(E / F)).

A: One of the logarithm rules is $\log (ab)=\log a + \log b$. Therefore, on the right, it should be $\log (\frac{C}{D}) + Y \log (\frac{E}{F})$.

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The Call of Duty Endowment announced Thursday $1,110,000 in grants to launch its new 'chapterization' model, a funding strategy whereby grants will be provided to organizations that have the ability to scale their operations by opening new, regional offices—or chapters—that offer employment services to veterans.
The Call of Duty Endowment's announcement comes on the heels of new veterans' unemployment numbers released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which found that the unemployment rate for the youngest veterans (aged 18-24) remained over 5 percent higher than for their nonveteran counterparts (20.4 percent and 15 percent, respectively).
While the annual report demonstrates a positive trend nationally for the overall veteran unemployment rate, there is much work to be done, especially for youngest veterans.
"Since its inception, The Call of Duty Endowment has been focused on providing grants to organizations that have proven to be the most effective and efficient in finding jobs for veterans," said Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard and founder and co-chairman of the Call of Duty Endowment.
The Call of Duty Endowment will be making five initial grants in support of its chapterization strategy. These grants will be provided to: Atlanta, Georgia-based Hire Heroes USA; Denver, Colorado-based Veterans Green Jobs; Lanham, Maryland-based AMVETS; Huntsville, Alabama-based Still Serving Veterans; and the Washington, D.C.-based National Chamber Foundation.
The Call of Duty Endowment (CODE) is a non-profit, public benefit corporation conceived by Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard. CODE seeks to help organizations that provide job placement and training services for veterans.


I started drawing as soon as I could failishly hold a pencil really. I was probably 3 or 4 when I actually remember drawing cats. I drew cats with fur that stood on end. I also would fill in the space between their four legs with additional legs because I thought the space looked weird.
Interestingly enough, it hasn't changed much, =I I just call them tentacles now.
Simply put, I've been drawing cats all my life since I could hold a pencil badly. They were terrifying most of the time.
I started drawing the Qwuedeviv about a year and a half ago or so now. I keep forgetting that they haven't been around long X3 cause I've done so much more with them in a shorter timespan than anything of my other projects.
Totally accurate representation of present day me btw. One sock on, one off =I Yup.


India has registered tremendous growth in terms of the population of HNWIs and their wealth ie. Ultra-HNWI & Family Offices in India, especially after the recent economic crisis. It has also given rise to new class of wealthy individuals known as Ultra high net worth individuals which possess huge amount of untapped wealth.
The need for managing family issues through a professional organization like family office is rapidly growing in India with various players such as banks, brokerage firms, asset management firms gaining a foothold in the Indian family office space. Single family offices serve only single family and look after the individual needs of the family but they are costlier than multiple family offices. In India, single family office owners are Azim Premji (Premji invest), Ajit Khimji (Khimji family office), N.R. Narayana Murthy (Cataraman), and the Ambani family.
Products and services offerings to an Ultra high net worth individual are just not confined to asset management and financial planning. They also include estate planning, trust planning, succession planning, and governance. Equities, and real estate products are most favored destination for their investment. Financial and tax planning is the important need for setting up family office by Ultra high individual and philanthropy is the next important services that is demanded by Ultra-high families.
Globally, the minimum qualifying amount of invest able assets is around $50 million to $100 billion but it varies by country to country and by company to company. In India various companies have their own qualifying amount for providing service. Client associates have set it minimum to Rs.10 crore for the service while Kotak, with international firms DSP Merrill lynch and Barclays have a minimum amount of Rs100 crore.
Many established firms which have already into this segment are Kotak bank, DSP Merrill lynch, BNP Paribas but it has also given rise to boutique firms which have a market share of around 47% in the family office space. It includes firms such as Altamount capital, client associates.
Family offices and intergenerational transfers: Trends and Needs behavior analysis of Ultra-HNWI (2010-2015) report focuses on the trends and needs behavior analysis on Ultra high net worth individual. It shows the market opportunity created by them in terms of untapped market and huge intergenerational transfer in the coming decade. It analyzes various players on parameters such as market share in wealth management; along with the qualifying amount for availing family offices services.
Investment in equities and real is most favored among Ultra HNWI.
5.78 lakh crore ($128 billion) is on the brink of transfer in the coming decade.
This chapter talks about Ultra- HNWIs and families in India. It also talks about the emergence of family offices in India. It deeply analyzes the segregation advisory services on the basis of wealth in India.
This section analyzes the various products and services offered to Ultra HNWIs and families in India. It talks about the opportunities the Ultra-HNWIs present to the industry players. Various drivers that are affecting the family offices in India and the forecast of family offices on the basis of various factors are also explained.
This section discusses in detail the process of intergenerational transfer taking place in the coming decade.
This chapter provides in depth analysis on various needs and behavior of Ultra-HNWIs in India. Behavior analysis is done on various parameters such as risk appetite, decision making power, knowledge of financial products.
This section discusses the various players in the wealth management industry and their market share. It also talks about different trends in the family offices, players involved, and the qualifying amount for availing the family office services in India.
This section describes companies offering wealth management and family offices services in India, and includes an overview, primary business, wealth management operations in India, strategies followed by them, and recent developments related to wealth management operations in India.
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I'd tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we're going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone.


GeoSonic Lowland League | Spartans face Shire showdown in penultimate weekend | The Spartans FC Official Website – Live together. Play together. Win together.
Spartans head to Falkirk Stadium in a crucial encounter that sees them face East Stirlingshire in a must win game in the battle for fourth place in the GeoSonic Lowland League.
After a disappointing defeat midweek against Stirling University, Spartans manager Dougie Samuel will ensure his charges put the events of Wednesday truly in the past and channel their collective energies into their final two matches, starting with Derek Ure's side on Saturday.
Both sides go into the game having scored the same amount of goals however – and potentially crucial come 4.45pm – Spartans have a significantly better defensive record and still the joint second best in the table.
With a handful of key players unavailable at Forthbank plus skipper Michael Herd now suspended, it will be a changed Spartans side who take to the synthetic surface of Falkirk FC seeking three points and potentially fourth spot depending on results elsewhere.
This is the third season where the sides have locked horns.
Last time out saw an incredible seven goal thriller at Ainslie Park, where Blair Atkinson's hat-trick and a David Greenhill goal were enough to hold off an East Stirlingshire comeback to win 4-3.


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Ibrahimovic facing Fantasy exodus
The Scout 6 Mar 2017
Manchester United striker is the victim of most FPL sales after a -1pt return in Old Trafford draw
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The Bonus Points
Denying Zlatan Ibrahimovic (£11.5m) with a penalty save, AFC Bournemouth goalkeeper Artur Boruc (£4.5m) claimed the maximum Fantasy Premier League bonus points from Saturday's 1-1 draw at Manchester United.
The Pole earned 36 in the Bonus Points System (BPS) with six stops, including the second-half save from the spot.
AFC Bournemouth goalscorer Josh King (£5.4m) picked up two bonus points with a total of 32 in the BPS.
Deployed as a No 10, King converted a first-half penalty and contributed eight clearances, blocks and interceptions (CBI) and nine recoveries as his 10-man team hung on for the draw.
Artur Boruc made his second penalty save of the season on his way to 12 FPL points
United's Antonio Valencia (£5.7m) got the single bonus point.
Recording 31 in the BPS, the right-back's assist for Marco Rojo's (£5.2m) goal was his third in the last six Gameweeks and one of two big chances he supplied in Saturday's contest.
The ICT Index
With 20 goal attempts to AFC Bournemouth's three, United's key attackers dominated the ICT Index.
Paul Pogba (£8.3m) claimed top spot with a tally of 12.8, producing the biggest Creativity score on show.
The Frenchman failed to return a goal or an assist for a seventh successive Gameweek, but not for want of trying, laying on four chances and firing in three shots.
Antonio Valencia recorded his third assist in the last six Gameweeks
Ibrahimovic had a difficult afternoon, but still topped the ranks for Threat in the ICT Index.
The striker registered seven shots, the most in Gameweek 27 so far. Five of his efforts came from inside the box, although only one hit the target, the penalty saved by Boruc.
The Scout Notes
With his penalty miss delivering a -1pt return and, with United missing Gameweek 28 due to their FA Cup quarter-final tie with Chelsea, Ibrahimovic's stock is in steep decline among FPL managers.
More than 46,000 of his 1.6 million owners have sold him, almost double that of any other player since Saturday's deadline.
Some may have been influenced by media reports that Ibrahimovic may face an FA charge and ban after a clash with AFC Bournemouth's Tyrone Mings (£4.5m).
While United's assets are off the agenda, AFC Bournemouth have short-term appeal due to their Gameweek 28 home match with West Ham United.
Josh King has scored five goals from his last six Gameweek starts
Eddie Howe's men are one of only eight teams to play in the Premier League next weekend.
But Andrew Surman (£4.6m) will miss out after two bookable offences on Saturday. He will return for Swansea City's visit to the Vitality Stadium in Gameweek 29.
The top FPL priority in Howe's ranks looks to be King. Having started six successive matches, the FPL midfielder had led the attack prior to Benik Afobe's (£5.4m) recall as the lone striker on Saturday.
King has scored five goals over those starts, including two spot-kicks, with regular takers Callum Wilson (£6.1m) out injured and Junior Stanislas (£5.0m) out of favour.


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1930's Vauxhall car sales agency in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Homepage. This page: Attractively illustrated invoice for a 1930's Vauxhall garage, art deco in style.
J.J. Greenfield - Vauxhall car agents in the 1930s & 1940s.
World War Two was well and truly underway when this invoice, issued by J. J. Greenfield & Co. Ltd. (Motor and Electrical Engineers), was posted to their customer, Messrs Dickson, Archer & Thorp (Alnwick), for repair work done to a vehicle's dynamo. As electrical engineers, such work would have been second nature to Greenfield's, the invoice describes the stripdown and repair work undertaken to the dynamo for which a total cost of £10 was billed, £3 of which was for two lorry journeys made by the garage.
In addition to being motor engineers, Greenfield's was also a Vauxhall sales agency. An illustration at the top left shows the art deco-inspired design of their showroom, with a mid-sized Vauxhall driving through the entrance. The garage's address is given as 11 Carliol Square, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Contact with the garage could be in-person, via telephone (24479) or by telegram sent to "Dynamo" Newcastle.
Dickson, Archer & Thorp was a firm of solicitors in Alnwick that only closed in 2003, nearly 300 years after opening its doors. Apparently the contents of their premises was a real treasure trove of old documents, shedding light on local people and businesses over the years. Chances are that this invoice had been stashed away at their office since 1940, and only came to light on the firm's closure.
J.J. Greenfield's garage was, as already mentioned, located on Carliol Square in Newcastle Upon Tyne. A photograph of their building, taken in 1969, can be seen on Newcastle Libraries' Flickr page: J.J. Greenfield garage (external link). The building survives, alongside an entrance to a local bus station, but looks pretty sorry for itself if the image on Google streetview is anything to go by (link - RHS of photo).
An invoice relating to another pre-war Vauxhall garage, this time in Alnwick, can be found on the W.Wilson Motor Engineer page.


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Democracy promotion
This editable Main Article is under development and subject to a disclaimer.
[edit intro]
1 Institutions
2 WWII Occupation
3 Cold War democracy encouragement
4 Criticism of democracy promotion
5 Regional activity
Democracy promotion is the range of policies, assistance, external organizations and even military action that contribute to the formation of democratic societies in previously authoritarian states. While democracies obviously formed in the 18th century, the deliberate creation of a democracy, or the reversal of a possible trend away from democracy, is much more recent. The first examples dealt with reconstruction of Germany and Japan from fascist rule. Next, there was a concern, largely clandestine, that some democracies, such as Italy, might become Communist after World War II. There has been another surge, in Eastern Europe, since the fall of the Soviet Union, with Polish Solidarity (solidarnosc) being one of the most indigenous and visible. Most recently, in America, it has been a neoconservative belief that displacing totalitarian regimes in the Middle East will lead quickly to liberal democracy.
Fukuyama agrees that there is a broad societal trend toward liberal democracy, but insists that institutions must be in place before a democracy can emerge in a specific time and place. He also observes that good governance is even more important than abstract democracy. [1]
There are world, regional, and national democracy promotion organizations; they may be governmental, QUANGO, or nongovernmental. At the official world level, there is the United Nations Development Programme. [2] The Programme receives support from the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF).[3]
The issues are being examined at a public-private world level. [4]
Fukuyama argues that where democracy did emerge, it had external support that focused on building institutions. In Serbia, for example, opposition groups were aided by the National Endowment for Democracy, as had been the institutions in Ukraine. Successful democracy promotion requires, in his view:[5]
An initiative from within
Sufficient freedom to organize, which did not exist in Saddam's Iraq
A type of nationalism conducive to external engagement, such as the Eastern European countries eager to join Western Europe, rather than tribes forced together by a colonial power
He agrees with the principle that there is a moral imperative to liberate population under tyranny, while the classic realist regards the internal character of a state as its own concern. This imperative goes well back in American tradition; the motto of United States Army Special Forces is de oppresso liber, which they translate as "to liberate the oppressed."[6]
Cautioning that effective democracy depends on both economic development and social institutions, he points out, agreeing with an argument from Fareed Zakaria that a rule of law is more important to economic development than pure democracy. It may, in some cases, be more important to modernize the institutions of authoritarian societies than immediately moving to "feckless democracy". Doing so, however, is not a generally useful strategy; liberal authoritarianism tends to be rare, mostly seen in East Asia.
Social institutions, internal to a country, may include independent political parties, trade unions, or interest groups. A practical argument to otherwise authoritarian governments, China being cited as an example, is
societies that allow their citizens to express their concerns freely and participate in political parties, trades unions and civil society movements – are better placed to weather the economic storm than the non-democratic alternatives[7]
WWII Occupation
A structural model that did work came from the Federal Republic of Germany, which created "party foundations", called Stiftung (plural Stiftungen). each associated with a political party but receiving government funding, both to remove Nazi vestiges and to spread democratic models. , each aligned with one of the four German political parties, received funding from the West German treasury. "In the 1960's they began assisting their ideological counterparts abroad, and by the mid-70's were playing an important role in both of the democratic transitions taking place on the Iberian Peninsula."
The Stiftung model became the prototype, in 1977, for a proposed foundation based on the U.S. Democratic Party and the U.S. Republican Party, which was founded in 1980 as the American Political Foundation. The APF received funding from the Agency for International Development to design a more general model.
Stiftungen are now operating worldwide. [8]
The United States National Endowment on Democracy, operating worldwide, is based on the stiftung model, with the addition of organized business and labor to political parties. It was created from:
Business: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Democratic: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
Republican: National Republican Institute for International Affairs (later renamed the International Republican Institute or "IRI")
Organized labor: Free Trade Union Institute (FTUI) (later reorganized as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, also known as the "Solidarity Center.")
Cold War democracy encouragement
While the effort was clandestine, the U.S. government launched CIA influence on public opinion to support political and intellectual organizations, often of the left, as a counterbalance to Communist expansion in Western Europe, especially in Italy.[9] It also worked through U.S. organizations, such as the National Student Association.
When these efforts came to public attention, the U.S. political backlash was considerable; it was not felt appropriate for a clandestine effort. The National Endowment for Democracy was one of the responses.
Some tasks assigned to CIA really did not need to be clandestine, and having an overt organization support initiatives desired by the U.S. government has much less political risk. The United States Information Agency (USIA) has always been an overt white propaganda organization. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, as distinct from the Voice of America (VOA), had been clandestinely funded through the CIA, but, with the VOA, now all come under the authority of a quasi-public corporation, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). BBG was part of USIA until 1999.
The 1967 exposure, by Ramparts magazine, of CIA subsidies to the National Association, according to Time, led to the term "orphans", referring to nearly 100 private agencies that had been getting CIA money, and were affected by a Presidential order that support must end by the end of 1967. Time succinctly summarized the issue with "the question is whether, in a free society, it is right, wise—or necessary—for supposedly independent organizations to receive secret subsidies."
Whatever the merits or demerits of the CIA's methods, most of these groups served the U.S. well in its contest for the faith and understanding of the world's workers and thinkers, students and teachers, refugees from yesterday and leaders of tomorrow. This led to the appointment of a presidential commission, headed by Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach, to figure out how the gap left by the CIA should be filled. ... a politically ambitious former California newspaper publisher who served with the CIA between 1950 and 1954, added further details. In an article in the Saturday Evening Post, Braden indignantly defended the CIA against charges that it had been "immoral" by recording some of the extremely useful things it accomplished early in the cold war.[10]
Criticism of democracy promotion
A neoconservative view, partially underlying the Iraq War believe that democracy is so inherently attractive that even if it is imposed by force, people will adopt it. This view is not universally accepted. The WWII examples of Japan and Germany were considered special cases: Japan was hierarchical and homogeneous, willing to accept a top-down solution, and Germany had at least some experience with democratic ideas.
Paleoconservatives and libertarians in the U.S. do not see democracy promotion as a critical interest of the U.S. Some, such as Patrick Buchanan, see it as counterproductive. Citing Amy Chua's World on Fire he notes "in Third World countries there is almost always a "market-dominant minority" -- Indians in East Africa, whites in South Africa, overseas Chinese -- which, in a free-market, attains higher levels of income and controls a disproportionate share of the wealth.When democracy arrives, however, the racial, tribal or ethnic majority votes to dispossess these market-dominant minorities." Given this assumption, he then asks the question,
If racial and religious bonds and ancient animosities against the West trump any democratic solidarity with the West, of what benefit to America is democracy in the Third World? And if one-person, one-vote democracy in multiethnic countries leads to dispossession and persecution of the market-dominant minority, why would we promote democracy there?[11]
Regional activity
Buchanan argues from the perspective of what is best for the United States. Other powers or regional coalitions may have other reasons to believe democracy promotion is in their interest.
Europe has created a number of democracy promotion organization. At the formal level, among the largest is the European Endowment for Democracy and Human Rights of the European Union. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has an Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. [12]
Ending the Cold War also led to democratization in formerly authoritarian states in Latin America. Not only had states run nondemocratic governments based on arguments of national security, there was intergovernmental cooperation, to violate human rights, under Operation Condor. In the changing political climate of the region, there are democracy promotion initiatives under the Organization for American States.
A different aspect of neoconservatism cautions against social engineering, and changing societies in overly ambitious ways. He cites the "broken windows" urban policing model of James Q. Wilson: reducing crime starts with enforcement of minor social breakdown, rather than directly addressing societal issues such as poverty and racism. In the context of foreign policy, direct democratization of Arab societies might be overly ambitious. In the case of the Iraq War, Vice President Cheney told interviewer Tim Russert "I really believe we will be greeted as liberators."[13]
Fukuyama points out that the neoconservatives that pressed for the Iraq War ignored the mechanisms of building democratic institutions, such as the Agency for International Development or the World Bank. Instead, the Kristol and Kagan book Present Danger[14] emphasized military power projection and ballistic missile defense, while it was the editorial policy of the Weekly Standard, during the Clinton Administration, to encourage U.S. defense spending.
With the transition away from the apartheid government in South Africa, there was a strong desire for multiracial democratic institutions to replace it; the white-dominated government, indeed, was internally democratic. [15] Economic storms of apartheid were resisted by democratic institutions, specifically, trade unions, according to Edward Webster of the University of Witwatersrand. He described them "the only bulwark against authoritarianism" in Africa, as they
are virtually the only group representing the popular classes that has the continuing organizational influence at the national level and poses challenging questions about rights of mass access to public resources. [16]
↑ Francis Fukuyama (1992), The End of History and the Last Man, Free Press, ISBN 0029109752
↑ About Us, United Nations Development Programme
↑ UNDEF update, United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), August 2009
↑ The Century Foundation & Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (30 April 2009), Supporting Democracy: Pressing the Re-set Button on International Policy, The Century Foundation
↑ Fukuyama, The End of History, pp. 137-138
↑ Richard Gowand and Sara Batmanglich (2009), Democracy Support: a Fresh Start, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
↑ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) office in New York: About Us
↑ Saunders, Frances Stonor (1999). The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. New Press. ISBN 1-56584-664-8.
↑ "How to Care for the CIA Orphans", Time, 19 May 1967
↑ Patrick Buchanan (8 January 2010), "Another God That Failed", Human Events
↑ Marieke van Doorn, Roel von Meijenfeldt, ed. (2007), Democracy, Europe's core value? on the European profile in world-wide democracy assistance, Eburon Uitgeverij B.V., ISBN 9789059721340 , pp. 110-112
↑ Dick Cheney (16 March 2003), Meet the Press, NBC News
↑ William Kristol and Robert Kagan (2000), Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, Encounter , pp. 14-17
↑ Marina Ottaway, Thomas Carothers (2000), Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, ISBN 0870031783
↑ Edward Webster (2009), The Difficult Dilemma facing Democrats in the Global Crisis, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
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Rolf Harris trial: Artist accused of 'deliberate lie' over Cambridge TV show
Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris denies telling deliberate lie after footage emerged showing he visited Cambridge in the 1970s despite his claims to the contrary
Rolf Harris arrives at Southwark Crown Court with daughter Bindi (left) and wife Alwen Photo: ANDREW MATTHEWS/PA
By Miranda Prynne
12:17PM BST 02 Jun 2014
Rolf Harris has been accused of telling a deliberate lie when he claimed he had never been to Cambridge until a few years ago, after footage emerged of him taking part in a TV game in the town in the 1970s.
Jurors at Southwark Crown Court were shown clips of Harris competing in a TV show called Star Games, which was filmed in Cambridge in 1978.
The veteran entertainer had previously denied visiting Cambridge until three or four years ago after one of his alleged victims, then aged 14, claimed he groped her bottom outside what she thought was a celebrity It's a Knock Out event in Cambridge, on a date around 1975.
She described him acting up for a crowd by barking at a dog before he grabbed her.
The artist denied purposefully lying saying he had forgotten the show and did not know he was in Cambridge at the time.
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Harris, 84, faces 12 counts of indecent assault against four alleged victims between 1968 and 1986.
The court previously heard there was no independent evidence to put Harris in Cambridge in 1975, and the artist told the court he could not have committed the offence as he had not been to the city until a few years ago.
Giving evidence last week, he said: "I went once, a couple of years ago, for an art exhibition of my paintings and that's the first time I have ever been to Cambridge."
But today the court heard new evidence had emerged in the form of video footage of the 1978 Thames Television programme Star Games, filmed at Jesus Green in Cambridge, in which Harris took part as a team captain and also competed in a swimming race.
The jury of six men and six women was shown the beginning of the hour-long show, introduced by Michael Aspel as being in Cambridge, and describing Harris as a team captain.
Prosecutor Sasha Wass QC put to Harris that the event was the one that the alleged victim had described.
She said: "That video supports pretty much everything that (the alleged victim) said apart from the year, she has got the year wrong?"
He replied: "By three years, yes, she is out by three years."
Ms Wass said: "But when you told the jury with such confidence last week on Tuesday that you had never been to Cambridge until four years ago, that was a deliberate lie, wasn't it?"
He replied: "No, it wasn't. I didn't find out that it was in Cambridge until I saw the video played back and then at the very opening the voiceover introduced it over what I remember was a helicopter shot of the field.
"That was the first time I had heard the word Cambridge."
The veteran told jurors: "I had no idea. I don't think any of us knew."
Ms Wass asked: "Nobody knew they were in Cambridge?"
Harris replied: "None of the performers, none of the stars knew."
He told the court the performers had probably gone in a bus or coach to the green and he would not necessarily have known where he was.
He also said that what the alleged victim described as a marquee was not something he would have recognised as a marquee.
Harris said: "I was there but I didn't know it was Cambridge."
Ms Wass asked: "Are you saying that you entirely forgot that event?"
He said: "I did until I saw the video and then I remembered it all."
Pressed further by the prosecutor, the entertainer said: "I'm doing hundreds of events during the year, going to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa.
"This was 36 years ago you're talking about, 1978, not '75 as you stated earlier."
Putting it to Harris that he had suggested that the alleged victim lied, Ms Wass said: "I'm going to suggest that you are the one that has lied and that demonstrates it, and that there is no way you could have forgotten that event and you deliberately tried to mislead the jury when you told them that you had not been to Cambridge until four years ago."
Harris said: "I had forgotten that event until I saw that video"
He said he had not deliberately lied, but it was a "lapse of memory".
The jury was shown the opening scenes from the show, which introduced three teams, one led by captain Harris.
Other famous faces included singer Joe Brown, Monkee Davy Jones, actor Julian Holloway, On The Buses star Anna Karen, and actress Rula Lenska.
Harris was seen in one clip appearing to mimic a kangaroo.
Ms Wass went on to put other allegations to Harris, including from a woman who claimed she was groped repeatedly by Harris while she was working as a television make-up artist in the 1980s.
The star denied her claims, and added that it was unlikely she would have been applying powder to him because he was allergic to it.
He also dismissed claims by a mother and daughter who said he first assaulted the girl, then later rubbed himself against her mother, during an event at a small hardware shop in Australia.
Harris said he did not remember the mother stamping on his foot and telling him he was a "disgusting creature".
Ms Wass said that while Harris claimed his alleged victims were all making up their claims, the new evidence of the film showed that he had lied.
She said: "That film footage which has come to light very late in the day... will demonstrate that it is not these victims who have lied, it's you who have lied. And you hoped to get away with that lie when it came to (the alleged victim who claimed she was assaulted in Cambridge)."
Harris said: " I didn't realise it was a lie, I had no recollection of being in Cambridge until I saw that video."
Ms Wass said Harris "can't have failed to know" that he was in Cambridge and told the entertainer: "The footage shows that you have lied during this case as you have lied about every other victim."
He said: "No, not lying. I just had not remembered anything about it until I saw the video."
Asked by his own barrister, Sonia Woodley QC, if he deliberately lied or misled the court, Harris said: "Well, it wasn't a deliberate lie. As far as I remembered I had never been to Cambridge and, until I saw that opening couple of frames of that programme, I had no idea that programme was done in Cambridge."
Ms Woodley asked Harris if he had been accused by daughter Bindi of molesting her friend, one of the alleged victims in the case.
The entertainer said: "Not as far as I remember."
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Q: HTML5 Audios in different pages are playing independently I have two pages in my ionic mobile project.
Each page has html5 audio controls.
When I play audio in first page, I can navigate other apps without stopping music which is good.
And if I play any types of audio from other app, it will stop my audio in my first page which is also good.
The problem is that when I play audio in first page while I am playing audio in second page both audios are playing.
How can I stop or pause previous audio in other page when i play audio in different page?

A: There are 2 approaches to this:

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*Stop the audio in the first page when opening the second page

*Make yourself an audio service:

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   setAudioFromUrl(url: string){
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  pause(){
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}

Usage: Add the service to module providers. Inject it to the components that use it. set the file you want to play using this service in each component


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Inhabitants in 1990: 998
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WWD reports that she has also enlisted Nicolas Jebran, Fausto Puglisi, Prada, Miu Miu and Swarovski to provide looks for her worldwide concert tour which supports her 13th studio album of the same name. The Material Girl will also collaborate with her longtime friend and costume designer, Arianne Phillips, for some of her onstage outfits, which she's already been teasing on Instagram.
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In this case, we have a very affordable little accent to any collection of Colt firearms. I've been looking for photographs, autographs and letters of Samuel Colt and this little cutie popped up. It's a ca. 1860's-1870's stereoview of a Hartford, Connecticut church. If you look at the bottom of the card, you will see that "Memorial Church of the Good Shepherd" in Hartford was..."Erected by Mrs. Samuel Colt". How cool is that?
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Home ENTERTAINMENT & TOURISM Liberian Vice President adds steam to Carnival Calabar dry run
Liberian Vice President adds steam to Carnival Calabar dry run
Eme Offiong, Calabar
The Vice President of the Republic of Liberia, Senator Jewel Cianah Howard Taylor has flagged off the 3rd Carnival Calabar dry run in Cross River State, southern Nigeria.
Jewel Taylor, who described her visit to Calabar as a home-coming congratulated the people and governor Ben Ayade for carefully selecting 'Humanity' as the theme for this year's carnival.
The Liberian Vice President noted that the theme centered on an issue of concern to the world.
"The question is where is our humanity when we allow young men and women to be taken into slavery, trafficked across the Sahara, dying in our fields trying to get to Europe and America. When they get there, they are locked out; put in detention camps and treated as less than animals".
Be Humane
Speaking passionately about the ills Africans suffer, Senator Taylor asked "where is our humanity when women are still sidelined and not allowed to contribute to their community?", noting that humanity exist within the animal kingdom than among humans.
She charged Africans to, "return to our humanity. We must turn around from the path of wickedness or else it would lead to annihilation if we continue the way we are going. This carnival this year will showcase some of those ills; it will showcase how we can turn around and look back at the problems we faced and put humanity first".
According to the Vice President, Africans must deliberately return to the path of being humane by showing love, concern, and caring for one another so as to properly and collectively transform our abundant natural resources to wealth for all.
Speaking earlier, Governor Ayade said, the government thought it was essential to have a "prestigious daughter of Africa, an astute political icon and one of the continental champions of the African woman to flag off this dry run".
Personality Packed
Gabe Onah, in a remark with journalists in Calabar said that the third dry run was encompassing as it usually afforded the five carnival bands, bikers and others including security, to have a final test along the 12 kilometre route.
Onah stated "this particular dry run is the mother of all dry runs. At this particular event, the Vice President of a country, Liberia, flagged it off. Nigeria's own Conservator-General and Chief Executive Officer of the National Park Service, Ibrahim Musa Goni was on the entourage. The reason why he came here for this was to give the Carnival Calabar full backing".
"As a flagship tourism product of Cross River and Nigeria in general, tourist who come here also visit the national park. The service has always been our strong supporter and today, the Conservator-General has shown the world that indeed Nigeria is one", stated Ona.
He explained that other very important personalities, such as partners from Thailand, South Africa, the representative of the Nigeria's Minister of Women Affairs, and the President of Nigerian Association of Tour Operators, NATOP, Hajia Bilkisu Abdul.
Others, he noted included the Federation of Tourism Association, FTAN, representative, Badaki Aliyu; the Founder of African Women in Leadership Organization, AWLO, Dr. Elisha Attai and former Mrs Tourism UN/World, Mrs Ebele Enemchukwu.
Safe Celebration
In an earlier remark, Ken Aklah, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Events Management, said that "the dry run also afforded participants of the bikers carnival to do a final test on the route.
"This is also an opportunity for security operatives to perfect and strategize for effective crowd control. As you know, on the main carnival day, thousands of spectators will take over the streets. We are determined to give them the best of experience in the safest environment".
"We have all our security agencies collaborating as one big agency. So, during the super week, we expect all hands to be on deck as not only Nigerians, but people from across the world will converge on Calabar on December 28", stated Aklah.
Carnival Calabar first dry run was held on October 17, 2019 and was flagged-off by the Bangladeshi Consul-General to Nigeria, Shameem Ahsan.
The second rehearsal came up in November and the third, which rounds off the series of dry runs preparatory to the main event where the five original competing bands namely Masta Blasta, Bayside, Freedom, Seagull and Passion 4 will be contesting.
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