The cab-and-chassis trucks, designed for "unforgiving" duty cycles, efficiency and upfitter friendliness, boast a segment-leading towing capacity up to 35,220 pounds, the highest Gross Combined Weight Rating of 43,000 lbs and payload up to 12,510 lbs.
The new line of halo-capability trucks also offers an optional comfort level with the new Limited model, exclusive in-cab features, and all the latest driver-assistance technology, including adaptive cruise control, Forward Collision Warning, Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB), and AEB with trailer brakes on all trim levels.
"Ram Chassis Cab operators work their trucks at maximum capability in the harshest drive cycles every day," said Reid Bigland, head of Ram Brand for FCA. "By offering 35,220 pounds of towing capacity, 12,510 pounds of payload and a Gross Combined Weight Rating of 43,000 pounds, our 2019 Ram Chassis Cabs take segment leadership in areas most important to customers and upfitters alike.
The standard Ram Chassis Cab engine is a 6.4-liter HEMI V8 with up to 410 horsepower and 429 pound-feet of torque. The 3500 employs exclusive Fuel Saver Technology (FST) cylinder deactivation for increasing fuel economy. When paired with the optional Aisin AS66RC six-speed automatic transmission with Power Take-Off (PTO), FST functions under light load while in stationary PTO mode to reduce fuel consumption.
In the Ram 4500 and 5500 Chassis Cab, the 6.4-liter HEMI V8, paired with the AS66RC electronically controlled six-speed automatic transmission with optional PTO capability delivers 370 hp and 429 lb-ft of torque.
A revised Cummins 6.7-liter inline-six turbo diesel is optional on all three models. Paired with the Aisin AS69RC electronically controlled six-speed automatic transmission with optional PTO capability, the Cummins engine delivers 360 horsepower and the highest available torque in Class 4 and 5 at 800 lb-ft.
Changes to the Cummins engine include a cylinder block made from compacted graphite iron that is stronger and better able to dampen vibrations. A new cast-iron cylinder head builds on the new block with changes that include new exhaust valves and springs, and new rocker arms driven by a hollow camshaft, contributing to the weight savings.
The Chassis Cab trucks come in four industry-standard frame lengths measured in inches from the cab to the rear axle (CA): CA 60, CA 84, CA 108 and CA 120. Frame rail width also follows industry guidelines at 34-inch spacing. All 2019 frames are built with up to 97% high-strength steel and eight separate cross members.
With upfits in mind, Ram Chassis Cab rear frame sections feature a C-channel design with flat mounting surface—zero component interference above the rails, making upfit and accessory design/installation easy, cost-effective and reliable. Additionally, pre-drilled holes are designed throughout the structure to route upfit lines or mount hardware related to the upfit.
Ram expects its 2019 Chassis Cabs, built at the Saltillo truck assembly plant in Coahuila, Mexico, to be available in the second quarter of 2019.


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Central League MVP Hayato Sakamoto (left) of the Yomiuri Giants and Pacific League MVP Tomoya Mori of the Seibu Lions pose for photos at a Tokyo news conference after the NPB Awards on Tuesday. | KAZ NAGATSUKA
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Hayato Sakamoto, Tomoya Mori named league MVPs
by Jason Coskrey
It was pretty apparent early in the NPB season that it might be a special year for the Yomiuri Giants' Hayato Sakamoto and the Seibu Lions' Tomoya Mori.
Eight months later, that was proven true as they stood side-by-side as the top players in their respective leagues.
Sakamoto was named the 2019 Central League MVP and Mori took home the award in the Pacific League on Tuesday night at the NPB Awards in Tokyo.
"Even when I became a pro baseball player, even in my dreams, I never thought I would win this type of award," Sakamoto said. "It's really great to get this so I'm really happy."
The vote wasn't close in either league.
Sakamoto ended up with 1,403 total points, finishing far ahead of teammates pitcher Shun Yamaguchi, the runner-up with 665, and outfielder Yoshihiro Maru, who had 306.
Sakamoto got 261 first-place votes, with Yamaguchi second with 24.
Sakamoto is the first shortstop to be named MVP.
The Top 3 was an all-Seibu affair in the PL, with Mori finishing with 1,189 points, third baseman Takeya Nakamura second with 485 and first baseman Hotaka Yamakawa third with 214.
"I exceeded the goals I set before the season in terms of hitting," Mori said. "So I think it was great. Defensively, there were a lot of issues and I found out what I need to do going forward."
Mori was given 222 first-place votes. Nakamura garnered 21. Mori is the third catcher to win the award joining Katsuya Nomura and Kenji Johjima.
Sakamoto helped lead Yomiuri to its first pennant since 2014, the club's first title since he succeeded catcher Shinnosuke Abe as captain in 2015.
"There was a period I thought we weren't going to win (the pennant)," Sakamoto said. "But whether it was our young players or our veteran players, everybody was pulling in the same direction. That's how we got closer to the championship."
Sakamoto hit a career-high 40 home runs, second-most in the CL, while batting .312 with 94 RBIs and a .971 on-base plus slugging percentage. The 30-year-old batted .325 with runners in scoring position.
He was also the Golden Glove winner at shortstop this season.
Mori, the Lions' 24-year-old catcher, joined some elite company with the numbers he put up in 2019.
He led the PL with a .329 batting average and joined Nomura (1965), Atsuya Furuta (1991) and Abe (2011) as the only backstops to win a batting title. Mori and Nomura each did it in the Pacific League.
"The first thing was my batting average," Mori said when asked what he focused on at the plate before and during the season. "That was my theme this year. I really worked on going the other way. I tried to hit the ball hard the other way. Once we entered the season I could hit the ball hard and hit home runs to the opposite field.
"There was nothing I was satisfied about in terms of defense."
Mori hit 23 homers and was third in the Pa League with 105 RBIs. He was a key piece of a Seibu offense that dominated NPB for the second straight season.
Mori was in the thick of things for Seibu all year as the Lions won their second straight PL pennant.
The one blank spot on both players' resumes this year is a Japan Series title. Mori's Lions were swept on the field by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks during the Pacific League Climax Series Final Stage.
"We were able to win (the pennant) for the second straight time, but we lost to SoftBank for the second straight year in the Climax Series," Mori said. "So it was kind of a difficult season."
Sakamoto and the Giants were then swept away by SoftBank in the Japan Series.
Japanese baseball's top rookies were also unveiled on Tuesday.
Tokyo Yakult Swallows infielder Munetaka Murakami earned Rookie of the Year honors in the Central League, beating out Hanshin Tigers outfielder Koji Chikamoto. Murakami received 168 votes to Chikamoto's 129.
The 19-year-old played in all 143 games for Yakult and set an NPB record for home runs by a teenager with 36. Kazuhiro Kiyohara set the previous mark of 31 in 1986.
Murakami finished third in the CL in both home runs and RBIs (96) for Yakult. His year wasn't without some growing pains, with a .231 average and an NPB-high 184 strikeouts.
"I didn't do it alone," Murakami said. "I'm just grateful to everyone and I want to keep doing my best next year."
Murakami is the first Swallows player to win the award since pitcher Yasuhiro "Ryan" Ogawa in 2013. Norichika Aoki was the last Yakult fielder, winning in 2005.
Pitcher Rei Takahashi beat out Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks teammate Hiroshi Kaino for the award in the Pa. League. Takahashi won in a landslide with 206 votes. Kaino was second with 39.
"From the start, I was really conscious of trying to have a winning record," Takahashi said. "I made an impression on enough people to be the top rookie, so I'm really happy."
Takahashi was 12-6 with a 3.34 ERA in 23 starts during the regular season. His big year continued into the postseason, where he threw seven scoreless innings to win Game 2 of the Japan Series against the Yomiuri Giants.
"I was able to win 12 games thanks to all the fielders and the relievers who backed me up," Takahashi said.
Staff writer Kaz Nagatsuka contributed to this report
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I have never understood how a Catholic politician could be a good Catholic and still support abortion. I mean, the Catholic Church says that's a really bad thing. But most Catholic politicians are able to dance around the issue. Some said that their religion didn't apply to their politics and their politics didn't apply to their religion. Apparently, now that Ted Kennedy is pinin' for the fjords, the Providence bishop has barred Representative Patrick Kennedy from receiving communion because of his stand on abortion.
I say that's a good thing. You can't have on morality in public and one on Sunday. You should walk the talk you talk.
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Now that's some damn fine propaganda! Can someone create a film about how many polar bears Al Gore kills when he takes his private jet to Europe to speak at some air conditioned Climate Change event?
Set Denial Beams on FULL!
Evolution sighted in humans! Someone check the Bible for a sufficiently vague quote to refute this.
The US Preventative Services Task Force, a government board, has recommended that women over 40 stop having mammograms. Let me restate this: A government board has suggested that women stop getting mammograms because they aren't needed.
And we're going to let the government run health care.


VicRoads acting Chief Executive Peter Todd has announced he will depart the Victorian roads authority to commence an opportunity in the private sector.
According to a VicRoads news release, Transport for Victoria Deputy Secretary Kerry Thompson will step into the role while the recruitment process for a permanent CEO is underway.
Mr. Todd joined the organisation as Regional Director in 2012 and has taken up a number of leadership roles, including on the Executive Board as Deputy Chief Executive, and most recently acting CEO, following John Merritt's departure at the end of 2017.
"I've had 30 fascinating years in government road infrastructure agencies in South Australia, Tasmania and here in Victoria and now is the right time to take my next professional step into the private sector," Mr. Todd said in a news release on the VicRoads website.
Ms. Thompson, who commences the role on 3 March, has significant previous leadership experience, including as chief executive at Wyndham City Council and at the City of Maribyrnong.
She has also served as Chair of the Western Transport Alliance and as Director City Services and Assets at Melbourne City Council.
"From major infrastructure projects to road upgrades and maintenance on country roads, VicRoads is doing more road works than ever before," Ms Thompson said in the news release.


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Three very interesting reports are on my desk in this moment. I'm very slow at reading them, but I think they are a must for whoever wants to work on service design, especially in the public sector.
The only one I managed to read so far is "the Journey to the Interface", by Sophia Parker and John Heapy (Engine) (Parker and Heapy 2006). The other two are "Designing for Services – Multidisciplinary Perspectives "(Kimbell and Seidel 2008) and "Innovation by Design" edited by Emily Thomas (Thomas and Grace 2008). In fact there are many interesting reports on public services coming out almost every week and mainly from UK (Damn!!! How comes the other countries are so late in this?) Therefore I created a new page in the service design wiki on recent reports on service design.
The report by Sophia Parker and John Heapy is VERY interesting. In fact the report was written in 2006 and things seem to change very fast in UK, but probably this document was a good step towards the most recent announce of a design council program for the development of innovative public services in UK.
Initially, the reference to the journey and the interface made me think that this was yet another report on experience design. In fact the report doesn't go very deep in the question of how to design the "mechanism" of a service, but it considers the whole strategic and political framework for the development of innovative services. The report considers the shift from fordism to mass customization and to new needs for services to be co-produced, thus it emphasizes the importance of designing the point of contact in a way that supports individual needs and local solutions.
Also part 4 – on the politics of service design – Considers the main assumptions in the existing public service system (about efficiency, personalisation and devolution] and analyses those assumptions in a service design perspective. By focusing on the relationship between services and people, rather than on organizational efficiency, service designers can really think of improving services on a day-to day basis. This can be done thourhg harnessing users' participation, feedbacks and insight generation.
In such interstitial spaces the wisdom and creativity of people emerge, harnessing this wisdom would be a big resource for innovation in services. Of course the intervention in those places requires a very delicate approach. In fact the authors pose the question of how can the government invest in those spaces without legislating for everything that takes places within them.
Kimbell, L. and V. P. Seidel (2008). Designing for Services – Multidisciplinary Perspectives: Proceedings from the Exploratory Project on Designing for Services in Science and Technology-based Enterprises. Oxford, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford: 56.
Parker, S. and J. Heapy (2006). The Journey to the Interface – How public service design can connect users to reform, Demos.
Thomas, E. and C. Grace (2008). Innovation by design in public services, Design Council – Solace Foundation inprint – The Guardian: 64.


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Apple announced a plan to preserve forests and used Medium to do it
by Mic Wright — in Apple
Apple's collaborating with environmental non-profit The Conservation Fund in an effort to protect America's working forests. That's a commendable goal, but where it chose to announce it is also interesting – not with a press release on its site, but with a post on Medium.
The company has loosened its previously iron grip on the way it communicates with the world in recent years, but it's still unusual for it to make an announcement through a channel it doesn't completely control.
Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice-president of Environmental Initiatives, and Larry Selzer, President and CEO of the Conservation Fund, used the blogging platform to introduce what they say will be the start of a "worldwide effort" by Apple to "[reassess] its impact on the world's paper supply chain."
The company wants to source 100 percent of virgin fibers used in its paper and packaging from sustainably managed forests or controlled wood sources. It's starting by working with The Conservation Fund to protect 36,000 acres of working forest in the eastern US.
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Occasionally brash yet usually revered, Rizzo Sr. continues to appeal to South Philadelphians nearly 22 years after his death. The native of the 2300 block of South Rosewood Street sought to uphold order as the Philadelphia Police Department's commissioner from 1967 to '71 and furthered his civic adoration as the city's 93rd mayor from '72 to '80.
The Girard Estate product, an alumnus of then-Edwin H. Vare School, 2100 S. 24th St., belonged to St. Monica Church for the first 17 years of his life and aided the site's restoration following a '71 fire. Once he became a political powerhouse, Rizzo called on his faith for guidance and looked to dish out his brand of tough love whenever necessary, thus becoming a polarizing official. Succumbing to a heart attack at age 70, Rizzo remains artistically apparent through a statue outside of Center City's Municipal Services Building and a Bella Vista mural.


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Crumbs, Shmums: Cupcakes as Big as Ever, Says Sprinkles Founder
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The sudden collapse on July 7 of the Crumbs Bake Shop empire and shuttering of its 49 locations has many ringing the death knell for the cupcake industrial complex. But as the chain files Chapter 11 in a last-minute bid to save it from extinction, another frosting powerhouse, the Los Angeles-based Sprinkles, shows no signs of slowing down.
The brand founded in 2003 out of a West Hollywood home by Candace and Charles Nelson, a married team from the world of investment banking, is expanding faster than the waistlines of its hopelessly addicted customers. Over the next 12 months, the number of U.S. storefronts will increase from 20 to 30, with plans next in the works to open 34 locations in the Middle East.
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A too-rapid expansion is often cited as what did the publicly traded Crumbs in, but Nelson — who tells The Hollywood Reporter he has no plans to bring Sprinkles to Wall Street (unless you mean the new location at the World Financial Center) — is riding on a sugar high when it comes to his company's future.
In this exclusive conversation with THR, Charles Nelson reveals what's next for the cupcake colossus (and no, it's not becoming the Apple or Starbucks of cupcakes).
The Hollywood Reporter: What was your initial reaction when you heard that all the Crumbs stores were going out of business?
Charles Nelson: I don't know the specifics of their business, so I wouldn't say I had a specific reaction. I just don't know what's going on inside their company.
There wasn't a sense of relief at all that one of your major competitors was off the map?
We just opened our 20th unit in downtown New York at the World Financial Center about three weeks ago. We've always stayed really internally focused on what we're doing. Our focus since we started out of our West Hollywood home in 2003 and launched [our first storefront] in Beverly Hills in 2005 has been to really be innovators.
We were the first bakery to serve nothing else but cupcakes, like a 15-flavor rotating menu of them. We had the first cupcake truck back around the time Kogi came out. We launched a cupcake ATM a couple years ago. And we've since come out with our own homemade, all-organic ice cream that we have in six locations. Like I said, we really look internally when we think about what's going on and what's the next thing for us.
Since the Crumbs news hit, a lot of people are saying the cupcake trend is on the wane or fading out. How do you respond to that? What have you found to be the case with your own business?
When we started Sprinkles in 2003, there was no cupcake craze. One of the chief investment ideas for us is that cake is the number one celebratory dessert in almost every culture around the world — especially in the U.S., where cake is used to celebrate for birthdays, for weddings, for showers, [and that's on top of being] just a sweet indulgence you might have.
In the last 10 or 15 years, we've become such a more customized society. Cupcakes allow a group of 12 people to show their own individuality. Our goal is to become the premium made-from-scratch dessert company in the U.S. We just signed a 10-country deal with 34 units in the Middle East with the group M.H. Alshaya Co., who [brought] Shake Shack, Starbucks, P.F. Chang's and Cheesecake Factory [overseas]. We're slated to open 10 more units [in the U.S.] in the next 12 months. We just opened two of our new flagship units in Las Vegas and Atlanta that have ice cream, cookies and the ATM all under one roof.
Is the ATM more about the novelty of it and the press you get from it than the actual ATM-based cupcake sales?
Oh no, the cupcake sales are pretty compelling. We have people typically on a Friday and Saturday night that will be 20 or 30 deep at midnight wanting to get a treat. The machines hold over 700 cupcakes and are very large revenue generators.
What makes a perfect location? Do you take into account things like whether there's a gym next door?
[Laughs.] It's a complex choice. There are a lot of things that we take into account. Density is one.
A newspaper reported that you were planning on taking over the Crumbs in Glendale. Is that true?
No. Somebody might have gleaned that. Crumbs closed a location at [the Americana in] Glendale, and we're taking another location there.
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So you're not targeting shuttered Crumbs locations?
No. They've been closed at the Americana for nine months, I think. We just took our place over a couple months ago and started construction. We're right by the concierge desk next to Apple, and they were on the far corner over by the Nordstrom. Not even close.
Speaking of Apple, it's always struck me that there's something distinctly Apple-esque about your brand — in the streamlined way the cupcakes look, their coded sugar-buttons and the minimal storefronts. Is Apple an inspiration to Sprinkles?
I wouldn't say so. I'd say that we have been very inspired by clean, modern design, and that's [inspired by] a lot of places. Our inspiration was this: If we were going to reinvent the cupcake using great ingredients and to kind of take it out of the grocery store, we were going to have to reinvent the bakery experience. It couldn't be that same second- or third-generation bakery with the rundown bakery case and not a lot of money invested in it.
We laugh because when we started Sprinkles, we looked at Entrepreneur magazine, and they had one of those, you know, four-quadrant graphs, and a retail bakery was in the quadrant where it was in the lowest chances of success and the lowest return if it was successful. The top right was like "Internet search engine." We were like, "Wow, this is where our MBA is taking us?" But to answer your original question, we have been very inspired by clean, modern aesthetics and trying to bring something completely different to the bakery and dessert business.
You and your wife are both health-conscious Angelenos. Have you taken notice at all of the proliferation of high-end juicing stores opening around the city and elsewhere?
[Laughs.] It would be hard to miss them.
Do you buy their product?
I personally do not. My wife does. I'm not a juice person, but she shops at them.
Have you thought about expanding into juicing?
No, no. It doesn't fit. We want to be the premium made-from-scratch dessert brand. It's a different mindset. Though, I would bet that there's a huge crossover between juice people and cupcake people but at different times of the day. My wife eats all of Sprinkles' desserts, but she may have a juice after she works out. She doesn't grab a cupcake or ice cream when she's done exercising. Clearly, it's an amazing business. The proliferation — it is impressive.
But you're sticking to decadent treats.
We're a dessert brand. People don't come to us every day. We're not a coffee place or even a juice place. Their frequency of visitors is so much higher than ours. We're a special-occasion place. We're an "Oh my gosh, my son got an A on his test," "Oh, it's your birthday," or "We got this big account, let's order cupcakes for the whole office." We're that infrequent celebration that you want to say thank you or have a little fun.
And it seems that you're not looking to have customers linger.
It's a place to buy the cupcake and take it elsewhere to wherever the celebration or break time is meant to be. The cupcake's very portable. We're in high-rent districts. I can't afford to create a third place like Starbucks-style in some of these locations. People buy their cupcakes and go somewhere else. But a lot of people unwrap their cupcakes right there and go for it. You can walk down the street and not stop moving and enjoy it.
But I don't typically see chairs and tables in your stores.
It depends. In Beverly Hills, we have four seats inside and four seats outside. In Newport Beach, there's a whole bunch of seating out front. We don't have as much [in downtown L.A.]. We're always trying to work in small spaces — most of our spaces are under 1,000 square feet, a lot of times under 700.
What's your all-time best-seller?
Red velvet. It far outsells all the other ones.
Would you ever go the way of the IPO?
As a former investment banker, I would never say never. But I think in the food business, it's challenging to be a public company in any business you're in. We're happy being privately held. I would never say never, but I wouldn't say it's at the top of our list.
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PSIPSE partner, Educate!'s work in Rwanda is one of 19 innovative projects profiled in a new publication by Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE). The report highlights Educate!'s model in Rwanda for supporting young entrepreneurs to generate socially responsible business ideas that factor in their community's needs and opportunities.
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S4YE is a multi-stakeholder coalition comprised of actors like the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, and Microsoft, which work together to provide leadership and resources for catalytic action to increase the number of young people engaged in productive work.
A Population Council report examines the experiences of girls entering secondary education in Gujarat, India, with a focus on the lack of supportive family, school, and community environments. The report finds that poor academic performance is linked to teacher absenteeism, requirements that girls work in the home, and low aspirations and expectations for girls' education among the girls and their families.
A report by the Learning Metrics Task Force offers recommendations for a holistic and innovative framework to help countries and international organizations measure and improve learning outcomes for children and youth worldwide. The Task Force, convened by UNESCO and the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education, outlines how the measurement of learning outcomes can help to ensure quality education and calls for a shift in global focus and investment from universal access to "access plus learning."


For one of my textboxes, I need the font to look like a handwriting, like cursive. I tried searching online for css solutions but some people were saying there is no way to do this perfectly because not all computers have the fonts and they may work on PC but not in Mac or something like that?
Do you know how I can make the font in one of the textboxes look cursive?
Try Google Font instead. We have this guide: http://www.jotform.com/help/100-Beautify-your-Form-with-Google-Web-Fonts. Just look for Cursive like font and use it in the textboxes.
Let us know if you need any further assistance about this matter.
I followed the instructions but I found them extremely confusing. Usually instructions on this site are easy to follow. But this one is written in a very confusing way.
by the way, this is something I should have mentioned in my first post. I want the input for ONE textbox to be cursive, not EVERY textbox.
You can also just use the Form Designer to setup the correct CSS code for the preferred font on the specific Textbox.
Take note that on the screenshot image/steps, I was targeting only the "Please Print Name" Textbox. So, it will be the only Textbox that will be affected by the custom font.
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Our health and social health services are at crisis point. It is a credit to our NHS staff that they continue to care for millions of us every year.
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Q: Unable to delete Microsoft Azure Service Bus Namespace I have two junk Service Bus Namespaces that are cluttering up my screen that I created on my Free Trial account and are now in a Disabled state. Now that I have a paid account I cannot delete them, and cannot figure out why.
On the dashboard I select the item, click the Delete icon, and see the pop-up. I type in exactly as it says to confirm namespace name but cannot click the check-mark for all it says is "Failed to retrieve namespace details."

A: You can delete service bus namespaces from the management portal:
https://manage.windowsazure.com
You have to go to the 'ALL ITEMS' tab and then select the service bus namespace (don't click on the name column) from there and you should see a delete option at the bottom of the page

A: I have had this happen before.  The only way you'll get this resolve is via Microsoft (Azure) Support.  See http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/faq/

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(Oslo) – Defend International condemns the decision taken by the government of Pakistan to put the renowned journalist, Mr. Cyril Almeida, on the Exit Control List and calls on the authorities to refrain from imposing any restrictions on media freedom.
DI stresses that the government's decision is contrary to the freedom of movement, which is a universal human right. We condemn the practice of labelling journalists as "threats to national security," which is an example of the Pakistani government's increasing efforts to silence journalists and civil society activists alike. The authorities must refrain from imposing any restrictions on media freedom.
Update: DI defenders were informed on October 15th that the ban on Mr. Cyril Almeida was revoked and that his name was deleted from the ECL. We thank the authorities for their collaboration.


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This Day in Crime History: AUGUST 29, 2007 : HERO SECURITY GUARD WRONGLY ACCUSED AS BOMBING SUSPECT DIES
Richard Jewell, the hero security guard turned Olympic bombing suspect, dies at age 44 of natural causes at his Georgia home.
On July 27, 1996, during the Summer Games in Atlanta, a pipe bomb with nails went off in crowded Centennial Olympic Park, killing one woman and injuring 111 other people. Shortly before the explosion, Richard Jewell, who was working as a temporary security guard in the area, discovered a suspicious-looking backpack abandoned beneath a park bench. Jewell alerted police to the backpack, which held a bomb, and moved people out of harm's way before it exploded. In the aftermath of the bombing, Jewell was praised as a hero for his actions. However, three days later, the media reported that Jewell was being investigated as a suspect in the case. Although he was never arrested or charged with any crime, for the next three months, Jewell faced intense scrutiny from both law enforcement officials and the media, who combed through his background and tracked his movements. Even after the Justice Department officially cleared Jewell of any involvement in the bombing in late October 1996, some people still viewed him with suspicion.
Jewell later filed libel lawsuits against several major media companies and reached settlements with CNN and NBC, among others. Before his death on August 29, 2007, Jewell, who suffered from diabetes and other health problems, worked as a sheriff's deputy in Georgia. In 2006, during the 10-year anniversary of the Atlanta Olympics, Georgia governor Sonny Perdue publicly commended Jewell for saving lives at Centennial Park.
In May 2003, police in North Carolina captured Eric Rudolph, the real person responsible for the Olympic bombing, as well as the bombings of several abortion clinics and a gay bar. Rudolph, who eluded law enforcement authorities for years by living in the Appalachian wilderness, eventually pled guilty to his crimes and was sentenced to life in prison.
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August 29, 2007 : Hero security guard wrongly accused as bombing suspect dies
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This Day in Crime History: AUGUST 01, 1966 : AN EX-MARINE GOES ON A KILLING SPREE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
Charles Whitman takes a stockpile of guns and ammunition to the observatory platform atop a 300-foot tower at the University of Texas and proceeds to shoot 46 people, killing 14 people and wounding 31. A fifteenth died in 2001 because of his injuries. Whitman, who had killed both his wife and mother the night before, was eventually shot to death after courageous Austin police officers, including Ramiro Martinez, charged up the stairs of the tower to subdue the attacker.
Whitman, a former Eagle Scout and Marine, began to suffer serious mental problems after his mother left his father inMarch 1966. On March 29, he told a psychiatrist that he was having uncontrollable fits of anger. He purportedly even told this doctor that he was thinking about going up to the tower with a rifle and shooting people. Unfortunately, the doctor didn't follow up on this red flag.
On July 31, Whitman wrote a note about his violent impulses, saying, "After my death, I wish an autopsy on me be performed to see if there's any mental disorders." The note then described his hatred for his family and his intent to kill them. That night, Whitman went to his mother's home, where he stabbed and shot her. Upon returning to his own home, he then stabbed his wife to death.
The following morning, Whitman headed for the tower with several pistols and a rifle after stopping off at a gun store to buy boxes of ammunition and a carbine. Packing food and other supplies, he proceeded to the observation platform, killing the receptionist and two tourists before unpacking his rifle and telescope and hunting the people below.
An expert marksman, Whitman was able to hit people as far away as 500 yards. For 90 minutes, he continued firing while officers searched for a chance to get a shot at him. By the end of his rampage, 16 people were dead and another 30 were injured.
The University of Texas tower remained closed for 25 years before reopening in 1999.
August 01, 1966 : An ex-Marine goes on a killing spree at the University of Texas
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The dysregulation of important signaling pathways in malignant cells leads to the upregulation of genes that promote immune evasion. PD-L1 is a major protein that promotes immune evasion by tumor cells via the inhibition of T-cell activation, proliferation and interleukin-2 production, promotion of anergy and initiation of T-cell apoptosis. Although previous studies have focused on the development of PD-L1 blocking agents for the treatment of multiple cancers, the low response rates of the use of these therapeutic agents have established the need to gain a better understanding of the immunobiology of breast cancer and the cellular networks that affect the expression of PD-L1 in multiple cancers. Even though many studies have reported the major role of the Hippo pathway in the development of cancer, few of these have documented the role of YAP and its paralog TAZ, two core components of the Hippo pathway, in regulation of anticancer responses. Furthermore, there is a paucity of information on the relationship between Hippo signaling and the immune system and the effects of dysregulated Hippo signaling on the polarization of immune response against breast cancer.
Queen's University scientists led by Professor Xiaolong Yang at the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine demonstrated the critical roles of the Hippo pathway in the modulation of the immune system and promotion of human cancer immune evasion.
The authors observed TAZ upregulated 25 immune-related genes and downregulated 34 immune-related genes while YAP upregulated 17 immune-related genes and downregulated 19 immune-related genes. TAZ and YAP induced the expression of PD-L1 at the protein level in MCF10A. Moreover, overexpression of YAP induced the expression of PD-L2 at the protein level.
The Canadian research team also found that the transient knockdown of MST1/2 or LATS1/2, major upstream inhibitors of YAP/TAZ in the Hippo pathway, in wild-type MCF10A mammary cells suppressed the inhibitory effect of YAP-S127 phosphorylation, enhanced the expression of PD-L1 at the protein and mRNA levels. In addition, overexpression of LATS2 in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells increased the phosphorylation of YAP-S127 and reduced the expression of PD-L1. Moreover, datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) showed a correlation between the expression levels of TAZ and PDL-1 in multiple breast cell lines and lung cell lines (weak correlation) while fewer datasets from TCGA showed an association between YAP and PD-L1 mRNA expression.
Additionally, the authors reported that the knockout of TAZ decreased PD-L1 protein in Hs578T and MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell lines. The overexpression of a TEAD-binding mutant form of TAZ (TAZ-S89A-F52/53A) in MCF10A and knockdown of TEAD transcription factor in MCF10A-TAZ-S89A also diminished the expression of PD-L1. Also, they discovered that the use of PD-L1 blocking antibody suppressed T-cell apoptosis induced by TAZ-S89A and the overexpression of TAZ-S89A suppressed IL2 production by T-cells in A549. Multiple genes were found to be differentially regulated by the TAZ constructs in human and mouse cells.
This novel study by Helena J. Janse van Rensburg (MD/PhD candidate) and her colleagues provides compelling evidence that the Hippo pathway and TAZ are major players in the promotion of human cancer immune evasion and multiple differences exist in the transcriptional regulation of PD-L1 expression in human and mouse cells. These findings will advance further studies on the roles of the Hippo pathway in the modulation of the immune system and promotion of human cancer immune evasion.
Figure 1. Proposed mechanism of how palmitic acid, the most abundant dietary saturated fat, contributes to deleterious effects on blood vessel health.
Ellen received her BSc with honours in Molecular Biology and Genetics at McMaster University in 2013. After graduation, she entered the combined Doctor of Medicine (MD)/Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at Queen's University. During her PhD study, Ellen focuses on the roles of TAZ transcriptional co-activator in mammary tumorigenesis. She discovered that insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS1) and PD-L1 as major downstream molecules mediating TAZ function in breast cancer progression and immune response. During her PhD study, she has published 9 international peer-review journal papers and won many awards such as the Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship Award and Gold Medal of Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) National Student Research Poster Competition.
Dr. Yang is a Professor of Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University, Canada. Prof. Yang did his PhD in molecular biology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), Prof. Yang started his Post-Doctoral studies at Yale University School of Medicine in 1999. Upon completion of his Post-Doctoral training in 2004, Prof. Yang established his research lab at Queen's University, and was appointed as a full-Professor in 2016.
Since starting his CIHR-supported postdoc in 1999 in the Department of Genetics at Yale University School of Medicine, Prof. Yang has focused on the role of the Hippo signalling pathway in cancer. He was the first scientist to work on the human homolog of Drosophila lats (LATS1), the founding member and core component of the Hippo pathway, in cancer. Since establishing his own research lab in 2004, he has done pioneering work on the role of the Hippo pathway in breast and lung cancer development, metastasis, immune response, and drug resistance. He has published 63 papers including 43 as first or senior authors in excellent biomedical journals such as Nat Cell Biol., Nat Commun, Cell Res., PNAS, Cancer Res., and Oncogene.
Dr. Yang's research work is supported by the CIHR, Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Cancer Research Society, and CQDM.
Janse van Rensburg, H.J. Azad, T., Ling, M., Hao, Y., Snetsinger, B., Khanal, P., Minassian, L.M., Graham, C.H., Rauh, M.J., and Yang, X. The Hippo Pathway Component TAZ Promotes Immune Evasion in Human Cancer through PD-L1, Cancer Research (2018), 78 (6), 1457-1470.


Townhouse in the Zenia of 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. American kitchen. Private residence. Communal swimming pool. Garden and space for the vehicle inside the plot. The property is furnished. Perfect condition to move into. Close to all types of services. Distance to sea 900m. Very quiet area and ideal to reside all year round.


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Announcing a growing team
We are pleased to announce the addition of two new members to the Global Alliance Coordinating Secretariat.
Patty Fong joins us as Program Director, Climate and Health & Well-being, working alongside Lauren Baker, who will take the lead on agroecology and true cost accounting. Based in The Hague, Netherlands, and from the European Climate Foundation, Patty brings two decades of experience with strategic philanthropy in climate and sustainability. She has been Program Director at the European Climate Foundation (ECF), as the lead on the strategy development and implementation for ECF's portfolio on Energy Efficiency, and more recently on Buildings and Urban Systems, which includes a focus on the social justice and human rights dimensions of the clean energy transition, as well as the potential of the circular economy to systemically address decarbonization and resource use.
Before her work at ECF she co-founded the EU Coalition for Energy Savings, which unites business, professional, local authorities, and civil society organizations to make energy efficiency and savings the foundation of energy policies in Europe; co-founded the Buildings Performance Institute Europe, the first pan-European think tank dedicated to energy performance in buildings; and helped launch and manage the Energy Foundation's China Sustainable Energy Program (now EF China), the first major philanthropic initiative on climate and energy in China. Patty enjoys cooking, eating, learning about new cultures, exploring local markets and spending time with her family.
Amanda Jekums joins the Global Alliance as Program Coordinator from her base in Toronto, Canada, working most closely with Lauren Baker in support of the Global Alliance's agroecology and true cost accounting impact areas, as well as the Global Alliance's communications and engagement, and research functions. With over a decade of experience accelerating the work of various organizations by helping them to effectively leverage their knowledge, resources, and networks, Amanda brings with her a strong background in food systems, communications, design, and project management.
Most recently, Amanda supported the work of Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to develop better relationships with their stakeholders using behavioural insights, design thinking, and collaborative engagement. Prior to that, Amanda was the program coordinator of Ryerson University's Centre for Studies in Food Security; worked to increase civic engagement and political action with the Toronto Food Policy Council; partnered with food policy advocacy stakeholder organizations to plan Food Secure Canada's 2016 Assembly; informed FoodShare Toronto's strategic planning; worked with Dietitians of Canada to disseminate current research on sustainable diets; and researched levers and opportunities to increase local food procurement in public institutions. Amanda is passionate about finding creative solutions to complex issues through meaningful collaboration and innovation. You will find her crafting simple meals with quality ingredients and enjoying them with family and friends.
We are thrilled to add this capacity and the rich experience and expertise of both Amanda and Patty to the Global Alliance and its critical agenda of food systems transformation.


Omni Hotels announced today that it has added another crown jewel to its portfolio of four-star luxury hotel properties—the Crowne Plaza Majestic Hotel in St. Louis to be renamed the Omni Majestic Hotel. The purchase of the Omni Majestic Hotel marks the re-entry of the four-star hotel chain into the St. Louis market since its presence in 1989 with the Omni Hotel at Union Station. Omni Hotels will officially take ownership of the property Oct. 29, 1997.
Constructed in 1914, the 72,000 square foot, nine-story structure underwent a major restoration in 1996. Each of the hotel's 91 oversized guest rooms are elegantly appointed with Italian marble, chintz fabrics, detailed millwork and classical furnishings, including chaise lounges and 19th century four poster beds. To accommodate business travelers, rooms are equipped with dual telephone lines with voice mail and modem capabilities. The Omni Majestic Hotel also provides an on-site health club, complimentary valet parking, evening turndown service and 24-hour concierge service.


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Good and firm instructor. Suitable for intermediate level. Very neat and simple studio.
Very attentive instructor. Session is fun, instructive and challenging at the right pace.
Monica is such a wonderful instructor. She really did go through in details for each pose that we learned and practice. I'm going to go again !
reconmendation: bring your own yoga mat. same row with Artisan Roast Coffee, look for the sign Inner Glow Yoga instead.
Full on Saturday but it was nice.
Seems like a traditional indian-styled yoga suitable for beginners.
Awesome flow session with Stacey. Moment I stepped in to this yoga place, it set me straight into a yoga practice mindset, minimalist decor , good soothing lighting and lots of space. Instructor was super attentive, corrected each and every of our posture. Ended the session knowing that I'll have a good knock out sleep tonight. Parking is tough but Grab or uber lor ?
Hatha Yoga class. Quite traditional with pranayama (breathing exercises), Sun salutations and random asanas (postures).
A class of 8. Just right. The instructor was good.
I didn't get to go as I was not feeling well.
Fantastic instructor who assists people all the time and gives clear instructions. She always concerns on whether our postures are hurting ourselves. It was an eye opening experience.
No receptionist, which is fine. But Might need a sign that say for people should wait until the door will be opened.
Plenty of parking nearby for the evening class. There's a cute dog on the vicinity. Classroom kind of smell like dogs too.
The teacher arranged for custom poses for me to do because of lower back pains I was experiencing. Very personalised experience.
great class! instructor was guide me personally so I'm engaging the correct muscles. recommended!
i appreciate that the instructor paid close attention to how my body responded to particular poses.
hanim was excellent. broke down the poses so well, made us hold each pose for a good 7 breaths and we broke a whole bucket of sweat each. amazing traditional yoga!
Great start to the day - excellent for beginners!
Astangha yoga - good class!
Claire was good corrected my posture and poses. Feedback, pls lock the gate I don't want to worry about being robbed or injured by robbers. Windows should be opened wider.
joined the core, alignment, vinyasa level 1 class on weekday. only 2 of us there. instructor was patient and explained each pose clearly. she corrected our posture as well. we also got a taste of some more advanced moves. parking may be hard to find on a weekday night.
Instructor was very attentive to each individual. She was very helpful to beginners too, and was able to identify if our postures were incorrect.
Unfortunately class was cancelled, but usually a great studio!
Monika is a really good instructor. If you're a beginner and want to learn techniques on doing the poses right, you should come for her classes. If there was any partner I'd sign up for, it'll definitely be Samkkya.
Good as always. Easy parking.
Great morning Hatha Yoga session on Sunday morning for beginners like me. Hanim is very detailed and focuses on technique and ensures our poses are accurate.
The instructor gave excellent and challenging instruction. No wonder why the class was PACKED!
Ashtanga level 1- Valerie is a extremely natural teacher and she has the most soothing voice .
Very clear explanations by Monica on how to get into the poses. As many of us were of different levels, it was great that she managed to make the class do-able for all.
very good and patient instructor.
I loved that our teacher was so supportive! Yet I still feel challenged! Looking forward for more.
I've been for both the asana class and the vinyasah class. Go for the vinyasah class if you want a bit more of a challenge!
Yvonne who is a replacement instructor is great.
Monika's class as good as always.
Always awesome. Best place to practice in pj! I can't describe the place in writing, but you have to go over and check out this studio. The environment is minimalist but very conducive for yoga.
Monika's alignment & vinyasa is awesome!
I enjoyed the morning Hatha Yoga session, which was quite popular. It was also very convenient with plenty of parking spots and breakfast options nearby.
Another enjoyable class by Monika!
Monika is the #2 on my yoga list. She starts off explaining to us about what is impermanence and permanent. Although there were 8 of us and a mix of yoga experience she gave us clear instructions and did not isolate any of us.
Monika gave clear instructions. The poses were as they were meant to do: align your spine & body. Excellent start to resuming yoga!
Check out the place. Love the vibrant ambience.
Just few of us. Very well taken care of.
Good class. she makes her rounds even with a big class. windows prefer to open wider for better ventilation.
Very helpful instructor Monika. Minimum pressure in getting into perfect pose but also effective. Uses yoga blocks, blanket and strap. Makes you feel connected and aware of your body. Cosy no frills place.
Monika really thought the basics today, something we tend to forget.
Flow class - Relaxing. Good for beginners.
Great stretch. Feel relaxed and calm after class.
The flow class is easy to follow at your own pace guided by a wonderful, experienced teacher.
stretched and energized. Instructor goes step by step, good flow.
Suitable for beginners. Need not bring your own kit - mats, blankets, straps & blocks, are all provided and in very good condition. As it is located on a busy road (especially on a Saturday morning) the traffic noise from outside the studio could be a tad distracting.
Great instructor. Would highly recommend to all Kfitters doing yoga.
I enjoyed the class. The instructor was patient and caring. She helped and guide me through to cope with my back problem. I definitely want to be back for more classes.
13 pax in the class and Hanim makes her rounds to correct our posses. Good class as always.
Hatha yoga 8am class was okay. The place is a little noisy, and occasionally can smell cigarette smoke from people downstairs. But the class was good. The teacher pushed us further than our comfort, which was great.
the windows should be shut during the evening to avoid the cigarette smell from the pubs downstairs.
Always a great class at Samkkya!
It was an excellent first class, totally coming back for more!
Enjoyed the real basics of yoga practice by Monika!
The instructor, Valarie is very good. guiding us properly and giving useful tips and infos on the asanas.
Hanim comes round to correct postures. Love it.
Instructor went all around to correct our postures and help deepening our stretches ! great !
Monika came around often to correct postures. Good!
Awesome class with Hanim! Took the time to explain how postures should be done better.
It was only me so I've had a private class. nice!!
Good class by Monika. Thanks for helping me on the shoulder stand.
some students reluctant to pair up that makes the last 20mins rather pointless. other than that a good class by Monika.
Great class, clean studio. A bit hard to find parking around tho.
I always feel energised and relax after Monika's class.
Yoga Hive is a yoga studio located in TTDI, offering classical and contemporary styles of yoga. They believe that the path to health and wellness lies in establishing oneself in a state of yoga: to know and understand your own body, mind, and heart, and integrating the three to desire and work towards the same goal. Yoga Hive houses certified and qualified instructors, and will provide you with the experience of Yoga at its most traditional authentic form. Classes are offered to students of all skill levels, beginners and advanced alike.


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Recreation of the interiors of the Maple Drawing Room in the Alexander Palace
Posted on March 11, 2021 by Paul Gilbert
PHOTO: view of the sofa, recreated for the Maple Drawing Room
© Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Reserve
This is the second of two articles on the recreation of the Maple Drawing Room, one of the personal rooms of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna situated in the eastern wing of the Alexander Palace. The first article The History and Restoration of the Maple Drawing Room in the Alexander Palace, was published on 25th November 2020.
PHOTO: view of the recreated Maple Drawing Room
The recreation of the textile decoration for the Maple Drawing Room in the Alexander Palace is nearing completion, The craftsmen relied on small fragments of fabrics and historical photographs which had been preserved in the storerooms of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum.
The interior decoration of the Maple Living Room is a classic example of Art Nouveau. The room features: moulding, carving, stained glass framed by a fireplace mirror and artistic textiles, which are best described as a "vividly manifested synthesis of the arts".
The Art Nouveau style is also reflected in the design of the fabric textiles: curtains on the windows and the doorway to the adjacent Pallisander (Rosewood) Drawing Room, furniture upholstery, in particular, on the corner sofa under the mezzanine and the bracket-shaped sofa – elements which add elegance to this room..
The corner sofa under the mezzanine is covered with greenish-olive moire silk with a pattern of stylized lilies and leaves in the form of hearts. The same fabric upholstered the panel of the wall under the mezzanine with a jardiniere [flower box].
The brace-shaped sofa, situated in the center of the room is covered with a pink silk lampas fabric decorated with a fawn pattern of plant shoots and roses.
PHOTO: recreated knurled white silk curtains with lace ornaments
On the windows are knurled white silk curtains with lace ornaments and pink silk curtains with gold ornaments, made at the Sapozhnikov brothers factory in Moscow. Fabulous motifs in fabric ornamentation are highlighted with lily branches, rose bushes, and sirin-birds.
The floor in Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's Maple Drawing Room was covered with a stitched gray-green beaver carpet. This design made it possible to replace individual elements of the carpet, which over time wore thin. The recreated stitched carpet of New Zealand wool covers an area of 182 m2 and weighs 400 kg. A fragment of the reseda-green carpet from the early 20th century, which had been preserved in the palace storerooms, allowed experts to recreate the carpet.
PHOTO: recreated fabric for the Maple Drawing Room
The fabrics for curtains and upholstery were made by RUBELLI in Italy. Models were made from the recreated fabrics and the curtains were sewn at the "Le Lux" factory in St. Petersburg. The carpet, metallic braid and lace inserts were made at the "RE KON ART" factory in Poland.
Various pillows for the sofas and armchairs complemented the upholstered furniture for this room. The brocade pillows were made by the Sapozhnikov brothers' manufactory, and velvet pillows decorated with peacock feather ornaments, are the works of students of the Stroganov School, as well as a purple pillow made of a veil-type shawl.
In the future, various pieces of furniture will be recreated for the Maple Drawing Room, with fabrics made according to historical patterns.
© Paul Gilbert. 11 March 2021
Fifteen interiors situated in the eastern wing of the palace, are now scheduled to open to visitors in 2021. Among the recreated interiors are the New Study of Nicholas II, Moorish Bathroom of Nicholas II, Working Study of Nicholas II, Reception Room of Nicholas II, Pallisander (Rosewood) Living Room, Mauve (Lilac) Boudoir, Maple Drawing Room, Alexandra's Corner Reception Room, the Imperial Bedroom, among others.
Dear Reader: If you enjoy my articles on the history and restoration of the Alexander Palace, then please help support my research by making a donation in US or Canadian dollars to my project The Truth About Nicholas II – please note that donations can be made by GoFundMe, PayPal, credit card, personal check or money order. The net proceeds help fund my work, including research, translations, etc. Thank you for your consideration – PG
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Mr. Rein Kasela is one of the old-school sommeliers who has been bringing wines from small cellars and producers for some time now. I have been buying wine from him for many years and we have established a good relationship.
His selection is one of the most special here. A wide choice, exquisite brands and gems that you did not know about before. He regularly organises tasting events, invites the producers' representatives and throws small parties in his shop.
The shop itself is situated in the new Rotermann quarter of the centre, between the old town and harbour. I suggest you pop by and grab some of the bubbly he suggests before visiting someone and you can be sure to surprise everyone with the unheard and untasted names and flavors. The shop has now moved to a new restaurant R14 that is nearby the old shop. So the address is updated.
I do that trick when I have someone special whose birthday I have nearly forgotten. "I need something special" is the the keyword and you can be sure that the gift won't disappoint. Check it for tasting events as well, those can be organised for your company anytime. They have a new location, a bit around the corner, to the old town side of the red buildings. Ask around if you're having difficulty finding him.


The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu, on Tuesday said there would be no automatic waivers to all politicians who are defecting from other parties to the PDP.
Rather, he urged all defectors to apply for waivers on their individual capacity and that such waivers would be granted once they applied for it.
Also, the Secretary of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jubrin, reacted as to why the reconciliation committee of the party that visited Sokoto State no longer invited the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambawal, to its reconciliatory meeting in the North-west.
Speaking when PDP formally received the former Governor of Borno State, Modu Sheriif, to the party as a member, the national chairman said: "Though there are no longer new comers or discrimination between new and old members, the fact remains that the returnee members who want to contest elections in whatever capacity must apply for waivers before they are allowed to contest.
"We don't give automatic waivers. Any returning member must apply for waiver and it shall be granted based on individual capacity. There shall be no blank waivers," the PDP national chairman said.
He told the returnees to ensure that they follow the due democratic process within the party, urging them to ensure that PDP wins the governorship election in Borno State, while calling for cooperation among all members of the party in the state.
Earlier in his speech, Sheriff pledged to ensure that the PDP wins the next year governorship election in the state.
Sherriff said he made a mistake when PDP did not win up to 25 per cent of the votes cast in 2011, but explained that this time around, the party would not only win the governorship election, but that President Goodluck Jonathan will win the election in the state.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of the PDP BoT, Jubrin, yesterday said the party did not invite Tambawal to the party's reconciliatory meeting in Sokoto because they learnt that the Speaker was attending a meeting with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto State.
According to Jibrin, "Pictures don't lie. He was at the APC stakeholders meeting and the pictures are in the newspapers and he has not denied them. Though, he is has not returned the PDP membership card, it would be futile to invite him to our reconciliatory meeting.
Also, the leadership of the PDP Tuesday held separate meeting at the Legacy House of the party in Abuja to consider the report that Tambawal attended the APC meeting in Sokoto.
Though, it was not clear on the outcome of the meeting, a source told THISDAY that PDP might take necessary action on what it considered anti-party activities against the speaker.
The PDP National Working Committee (NWC) is expected to officially meet on Wednesday to take action on Tambawal attending the APC meeting, which the source described as 'anti-party activity' against the Speaker of the House of Representatives.


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[IMAGE]San-Diego-superloop-full.jpg[/IMAGE]On June 15, the Metropolitan Transit System and the San Diego Association of Governments launched the first phase of the new "SuperLoop" route in the University City area of San Diego. The launch consists of a 9-stop two-way loop, with two stops on the University of California, San Diego campus.
North University City houses a large number of students and includes a shopping mall, hospital and high-rise buildings. The majority of vehicles traveling in the area make internal trips, and the new route hopes to reduce the number of vehicles on the road. "The stops are designed to best serve that neighborhood and get them out of their cars and circulating to the places they need to go," said Rob Schupp, director of marketing and communications for MTS. Expected to be completed in fall 2010, SuperLoop will expand to 15 stops in an 8-mile loop.
Project cost is estimated at $16.2 million, which includes the purchase of 12 hybrid buses manufactured by New Flyer featuring ISE Corp. hybrid technology. Annual operating cost is expected to be $3.3 million, and all funding will come from a local half-cent sales tax approved by voters. MTS also expects to include sheltered stops, signs with real-time expected arrival time, green-light extension devices and bus-only lanes for faster service.
The SuperLoop will replace part of the discontinued route 86 that connected the shopping center with the hospital and medical center which, according to Sam Corbett, assistant director of UCSD Parking & Transportation Services, wasn't in heavy use. "The SuperLoop will be much more utilized than that route," he said.
UCSD already runs its own 50-vehicle shuttle service with nine routes. "Two of our most heavily utilized routes go into the same area that the SuperLoop will be traveling," said Corbett. He said the route will give students more transportation alternatives.


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The important details you may have missed from the live-action 'Mulan' trailer
The trailer of the new live-action Mulan just dropped—during the halftime break of the U.S.-Netherlands FIFA Women's World Cup soccer game, no less—and we have to talk about it.
Directed by Niki Caro and written by Elizabeth Martin, Lauren Hynek, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver, we recognize the familiar plot based on the legendary warrior Hua Mulan, as depicted in the original animated film. This time, Liu Yifei brings to life the beloved character as she portrays the headstrong woman who disguised herself as a male soldier to save her war veteran father from joining the Imperial military during the Hun invasion.
Set in China's Han dynasty, the 90-second teaser begins with Mulan's parents telling her about her expected duty to marry into a good family. While we didn't get a peek of her "Reflection" scene, they did give us a montage of Mulan showing off her sword-fighting skills, with a goosebump-inducing ending to, where Mulan said, "It is my duty to fight"—which has got me, a hardcore Mulan fan, saying it is my duty to watch this film.
This new adaptation is set to hit theaters in 2020. So while we wait, we will obviously obsess over the trailer. Here are some deets worthy of your attention.
The 1998 film was inarguably loved by fans more so for its soundtrack. "Reflection" and "I'll Make a Man Out of You" were especially iconic. But notably missing from the 90-second teaser was any singing—despite the fact that that Yifei Liu actually has a singing background.
In a previous interview with Moviefone, Niki actually said those songs won't make an appearance in the movie. However, Digital Spy notes that she later confirmed that "music would be a part of the film, even if it's not an all-out musical." She told The Hollywood Reporter, "The live-action is based on that inspirational Chinese ballad and on the animated Disney classic."
Vanity Fair pointed out, "The sneak peek footage downplays many musical or fantastical elements of the original animated adaptation, but does nod toward the classic 'Honor to Us All' song with a few notes playing over Mulan's conversation with her parents." So yep, in a way, the fan-favorite classics are still there.
This isn't the first Disney live-action remake to go with this route though. Entertainment Tonight stresses that both the remake of Cinderella and Dumbo excluded the music of their animated counterparts.
Missing characters
The singing isn't the only thing hardcore fans might miss in this adaptation. It has already been reported that some characters won't appear. Namely, Li Shang and Shan Yu. Notably absent from the trailer too are the animal duo Mushu and Cri-kee. But while Cri-Kee will reportedly be voiced by Jun Yu, outlets say Mushu won't make any appearance in the film.
However, we will see a lot of new characters. Namely, the witch and villain Xianniang, played by Gong Li; Mulan's sister named Hua Xiu, played by Xana Tang; and Mulan's love interest Chen Honghui played by Yoson. And instead of Li Shang, Mulan finds her mentor in Commander Tung, brought to life by Donnie Yen. Meanwhile we'll see Jason Scott Lee as Böri Khan, and Jet Li as the Emperor.
Vanity Fair notes that the original 1998 animated film directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft featured Ming-Na Wen in the title role (with Lea Salonga providing the singing voice), alongside Eddie Murphy as Mushu, B.D. Wong as Li Shang, and more.
A deviation from the original
It's clear from the teaser trailer, this is far from the Disney movie we remember from our childhood. Aside from the fact that the film deviated from the simple shot-for-shot remake of the original (in contrast to The Lion King trailer), this one has a remarkably more serious tone.
Mulan is undoubted my favorite Disney film of all time. The fact that Disney isn't relying on making another nostalgia filled shot-by-shot film intrigues me. It definitely looks like they're taking a more mature and authentic approach to her original story, which I fucking dig.
— Enrique Arellano (@ElmecoA) July 7, 2019
We have yet to see if the famous Mulan humor will be absent (I have a feeling that iconic demonstrate-a-sense-of-dignity scene did not make the cut.) This one's more like a historical epic than a musical. It's actually reminiscent of The Forbidden Kingdom, which incidentally, Liu starred in.
Massive budget
The original animated film had a $90 million budget and grossed $304 million worldwide. This new adaptation, featuring sweeping landscape shots and epic battle sequences, understandably required a much bigger budget. In fact, Gong Li previously revealed that over $300 million was used—which makes Niki Disney's second female director for a big budget film of this caliber.
The teaser shows the production team definitely didn't hold back with this adaptation. Shooting reportedly took place in China and New Zealand. Though this type of big production is not surprising for Disney, we are so glad Mulan, largely helmed by women, had the type of support it had from the company.
Martial arts epic
Prior to the release of the trailer, the live-action adaptation had already been dubbed as a "full-scale martial arts epic." The teaser did not disappoint, with scenes that clearly wants viewers to prep for adrenaline and action-packed moments.
This is great since the live-action obviously wants to stick closer to the real tale of Mulan. According to Blackbelt Mag, the real Hua Mulan was believed to be "an excellent seamstress and a skilled martial artist who was renowned for her archery expertise."
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I'm done reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, but I need to do my writeup. I am planning 2 blog posts for that. Maybe more if I feel like expounding more. Today, I want to talk about Scrivener, though.
I heard of Scrivener when I did NaNoWriMo in 2009. It looked interesting, but as it was only for Mac, I couldn't do anything with it. I may be in IT, but I haven't been able to justify getting a Mac yet.
Then, as NaNo 2010 was gearing up, I heard that there was a Windows Beta starting. Great! Except that I do most of my writing on a Dell Mini 9 netbook with Ubuntu Linux. As NaNo progressed, I noticed that they had a Linux version! Great! But I didn't want to take the time to figure out how to get it to work during NaNo, so I waited till afterwords. As I look back on it, I wish I had noticed that Linux port from the start. Its features make it a lot easier to work in for writing, as compared to Word or OpenOffice.


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Q: Python requests (Ubuntu): first requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool GET response VERY slow but every one after per session extremely fast This is a very weird problem and I am not sure how to fix it, but it's killing the performance of an app I am building.
In my python app, I use rpyc to start a threaded server that listens for requests.  When it gets a request, which in this case is just a passed URL, it takes the URL and downloads it to do some other stuff to it.
The download should be instantaneous (100M down/up connection) but it stalls for upwards of 20 seconds on what looks like some funky type of DNS timeout, but only the very first time within any python "session."  So if I load up iPython, load my libraries, attempt to download an article the first time, it stalls-- but if I do it again after the first, and every time after, it is as fast as it should be.
Very weird.
The base package is requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool (I'm using this via the newspaper library, but it does the same thing if I use the requests library directly) and the debug doesn't show anything but that it takes a long time to get that first GET.  So, I decided to run tcpdump in the background, and this is what it looks like.
The output for the first/initial one is here-- you can see that it takes 20 seconds from start to finish before the operation completes.  The weird thing is that resolver1-fs.opendns.com.domain response in there.  I have no idea where that's coming from.  But it looks like it's screwing something up.  You can see in the next snippet what I EXPECT to happen (and what happens every time thereafter.)
00:14:19.512317 IP 10.10.10.10.57771 > google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain: 27177+ A? www.huffingtonpost.com. (40)
00:14:19.512323 IP 10.10.10.10.57771 > google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain: 4945+ AAAA? www.huffingtonpost.com. (40)
00:14:19.516199 IP google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain > 10.10.10.10.57771: 4945 3/0/0 CNAME www.huffingtonpost.com.huffpost.akadns.net., CNAME cs593.adn.mucdn.net., AAAA 2606:2800:221:18cd:1493:1b94:ea5:557 (154)
00:14:19.622120 IP resolver1-fs.opendns.com.domain > 10.10.10.10.57771: 27177 3/0/0 CNAME www.huffingtonpost.com.huffpost.akadns.net., CNAME cs593.adn.mucdn.net., A 152.195.54.95 (142)
00:14:24.517261 IP 10.10.10.10.57771 > google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain: 27177+ A? www.huffingtonpost.com. (40)
00:14:29.522261 IP 10.10.10.10.57771 > google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain: 27177+ A? www.huffingtonpost.com. (40)
00:14:34.527351 IP 10.10.10.10.50963 > google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain: 44146+ A? www.huffingtonpost.com. (40)
00:14:34.529688 IP google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain > 10.10.10.10.50963: 44146 3/0/0 CNAME www.huffingtonpost.com.huffpost.akadns.net., CNAME cs593.adn.mucdn.net., A 152.195.54.95 (142)
00:14:34.529730 IP 10.10.10.10.50963 > google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain: 8868+ AAAA? www.huffingtonpost.com. (40)
00:14:39.531792 IP 10.10.10.10.47933 > google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain: 44146+ A? www.huffingtonpost.com. (40)
00:14:39.629774 IP google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain > 10.10.10.10.47933: 44146 3/0/0 CNAME www.huffingtonpost.com.huffpost.akadns.net., CNAME cs593.adn.mucdn.net., A 152.195.54.95 (142)
00:14:39.629841 IP 10.10.10.10.47451 > google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain: 8868+ AAAA? www.huffingtonpost.com. (40)
00:14:39.696671 IP google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain > 10.10.10.10.47451: 8868 3/0/0 CNAME www.huffingtonpost.com.huffpost.akadns.net., CNAME cs593.adn.mucdn.net., AAAA 2606:2800:221:18cd:1493:1b94:ea5:557 (154)

Here's the second tcpdump.  If I do it again immediately (it is the same no matter if it's a different domain name, I'm doing huffingtonpost again because of how the tcpdump filter I used is setup) the results are blazing fast:
00:15:09.575741 IP 10.10.10.10.47420 > google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain: 11015+ A? www.huffingtonpost.com. (40)
00:15:09.642151 IP google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain > 10.10.10.10.47420: 11015 3/0/0 CNAME www.huffingtonpost.com.huffpost.akadns.net., CNAME cs593.adn.mucdn.net., A 152.195.54.95 (142)
00:15:09.642229 IP 10.10.10.10.57342 > google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain: 40060+ AAAA? www.huffingtonpost.com. (40)
00:15:09.708198 IP google-public-dns-a.google.com.domain > 10.10.10.10.57342: 40060 3/0/0 CNAME www.huffingtonpost.com.huffpost.akadns.net., CNAME cs593.adn.mucdn.net., AAAA 2606:2800:221:18cd:1493:1b94:ea5:557 (154)

What the heck is the deal with this? It almost seems like a network error but I have no idea how to fix it.  This system is behind an ASUS router and /etc/resolv.conf uses the google DNS:
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 8.8.8.8

The problem is that every time my rpyc server thread is called, it's as if it's the first time it's calling this (as if it's got to initialized itself for every new threaded instance) so the response time is killing me.  This thing should respond in under a second and it's taking 20-30 seconds.
Anybody have any idea what the hell is going on?  It's not an rpyc thing because I can verify that running two seperate ipython sessions at the same time, it's insular to a single python 'instance.'
It did not used to work this way.  Something broke a few weeks ago, not sure what I did.  I did muck around with some php and apache for a site I host, but I can't imagine that would have caused this to behave so weird.
Thanks in advance, I'm at a loss.  I really am not sure what I did to break it.  The only thing I've done to the networking on this machine is to turn IPV6 off because it was REALLY slowing down all my network activity. That was a few months ago though, and up until fairly recently, this worked as expected.
Hodor.
EDIT: curl/wget are just as slow from the command line, as I was prompted to check.  Here's the output of wget on this page:
wget https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46232544/python-requests-ubuntu-first-requests-packages-urllib3-connectionpool-get-res
--2017-09-15 00:59:52--  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46232544/python-requests-ubuntu-first-requests-packages-urllib3-connectionpool-get-res
Resolving stackoverflow.com (stackoverflow.com)... 151.101.1.69, 151.101.65.69, 151.101.129.69, ...
Connecting to stackoverflow.com (stackoverflow.com)|151.101.1.69|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 98486 (96K) [text/html]
Saving to: 'python-requests-ubuntu-first-requests-packages-urllib3-connectionpool-get-res'

python-requests-ubuntu-first-requests-packages-u 100%[=======================================================================================================>]  96.18K  --.-KB/s    in 0.05s

2017-09-15 01:00:12 (1.94 MB/s) - 'python-requests-ubuntu-first-requests-packages-urllib3-connectionpool-get-res' saved [98486/98486]


Spread across 150 hectares, the Racecourse is used as training facility for the Hong Kong Jockey Club and is designed to house more than 660 horses with 20 paddocks, an equine swimming pool, horse walkers, farriery and a large equine clinic, all located around a 2000m circumference turf track. There is also a pair of 1800m and 1600m dirt tracks and a 1100m uphill turf gallop track.
Since 2014, WSP has provided professional engineering services on this unique project including servings as HKJC's independent checking engineer for the electrical and mechanical (M&E) systems for the entire Racecourse including the stabling areas. Subsequently, WSP is also serving as the design consultant for the security system of the 5km bio-security fence and corresponding electrical power supply systems, M&E systems alteration and additional works for the extended Phase 1 and Entrance Gate D. WSP also assisted the architect to carry out the feasibility study for the entire extended Phase 1 commercial areas with approx. 18,000 sq.m.
This is a local landmark overlooking the Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour.


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Canadian's don't bother hibernating in the winters, they embrace it and this country is the perfect place to enjoy an awesome winter getaway. Whether you live in Canada and are looking for somewhere to enjoy twinkling lights, outdoor activities and awesome festivals or you are visiting from out of the country and just want some of the down home hospitality Canadians are so well known for, there is a winter getaway for you. From one end of the country to the other, discover the top 8 winter getaways in Canada.
There is one famous activity that brings over one million people to Ottawa in the wintertime and that is the skating on the Rideau Canal. This famous 7.8 km long skateway takes place on the picture perfect Rideau Canal during the months of January and February. Slide, twirl and whisk your way along the ice while you take in views of the impressive parliament buildings and the beauty Chateau Laurier hotel. Weekends here in February are home to Winterlude, the capital's annual seasonal celebration where skaters will find chalets and stands selling everything from hot chocolate to Beaver Tails to delicious maple taffy. Ottawa gets lit up with Christmas lights and there is something magical about strolling the streets while the snow gently falls in this nations capital.