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Isaku takes taiko to another place
Isaku Kageyama believes taiko must claim its legitimate place in the world of great music.
Japanese culture is beautiful.
But unless Japan can be part of the world and see its place in the true sense _ with all the duties, responsibilities as well as rewards involved _ it won't work.
Art is a way of facing up to that important and universal Question _ and maybe one of the few ways where there is a true Answer.
Luis Silva made this multicultural video statement in his gorgeous documentary for WeAllJapan, that says it all.
LONG LIVE GREAT JAPANESE TAIKO MUSIC.
ways of saying 'yes' in Japanese
"Hai!!"
That's the correct way of replying when spoken to in Japan for centuries, hai! the way people are taught in school, by their parents, what's right in society _
respect for the hierarchy, yes sir, thank you ma'am, hai hai hai, like hiccups, like hiphiphurray, hai! hai! hai! no pause, no hesitation, no thought,
following orders, quick, no questions, grunt it out, soldiers at attention, yelling, spitting, believing, say it with all your heart and mind,
"Haa~aai!"
That's the way people answer in Japan these says, haa~aai! the way people drop out of school, freeters, parents are just friends to follow only on Twitter _
flattening out the hierarchy, maybe yes, maybe not, haa~aai! like a mumble, like a whisper, a kiss on the ear, haa~aai, innocent, hurt only for others,
wind blowing in your hair, smiley faces heart icons in cell phones, improvise, imagine, immaculate, sing it without a care in the world,
hating weddings
I've never liked weddings. I find them frightening.
Weddings are a very expensive performance designed to present an image of a social category called "married couple" that is proper and desirable and safe.
People spend a lot of time planning this performance, putting together slide shows of their childhood, picking out a package of gifts of porcelain and other knickknacks no one wants (though some couples have gotten smarter and instead give a catalogue so guests can pick out what they want but there is really nothing in the catalogue you want either), lining up a list of people to give speeches (the boring ones by bosses and former teachers, the teary goofy ones by friends) or put on horrible amateur acts (that should stay in the karaoke box where they belong).
It is a transition into adulthood _ the straight life.
It is a capitulation to the social definitions of Husband, Wife, Marriage, Man, Woman, Life, Career, Success.
It is often an opportunity for a woman to be the star for once, defined by an alleged beauty in absurd formulaic outfits (white dress, red kimono, etc.) so people can sigh and say oooh, how pretty she is, with the understanding that as she ages she can never quite be as nice-to-look at (i.e., socially valuable) as she is on that blessed day.
To negate or even question any of these definitions of what happens at a wedding so carefully orchestrated at considerable costs would be totally un-Japanese.
Love or whatever it is that happens that culminates in marriage is highly individualistic, private and spiritual.
But you'd never know it from watching the couple descend from a gondola covered with fumes and walk around lighting candles at tables decked with weird flowers and funny food.
Weddings usually show where people are really at _ in the end _ even if they have claimed for years to be more liberated.
They may say they are doing it for their parents.
It is frightening because it means that in the end we can never win against all these definitions not only because they are so powerful as dictated by society, but because they are so close to people's deepest emotions and values (which what doing it for your parents means).
They are growing up.
They are getting married.
They are leaving me behind.
From Yuri To Yuri
From Yuri To Yuri _ Japanese Womanhood Across Borders Of Time
A Contemporary Renku Poem (a work in progress)
By Yuri Matsueda and Yuri Kageyama.
take this knife
lay it down on a round table of
rotting wood
a child trapped in a body with
big pale breasts
a lipstick mouth
listen to the end
a frog with a tadpole tail
a tadpole with frog legs
hope isn't good
you know what
when things never change
^___< (16)
hot roses vapored
became instant ash
left their reflection on his bones
highlighted in green
he is
as they say clean
to yuri from yuri
my solitary audience in blindness
i speak to you
our world sighs breathing in poem
a wilting whimper
a stabbing flash of sunflower
don't cry, don't die, don't lie
no one listens in deafness
but you speak to me
you are my solitary audience
preceding sections:
(1-6) _ where it all started, and which goes to show sometimes all you need is one person to connect with in a special way to create poetry.
Yuri and I are both women bilingual/bicultural poets/writers with what we feel is a special sensitivity.
It goes without saying we realize we are creating for a niche market. Just kidding.
It makes sense to us and that's what counts.
Noticing accents
I'd come home from international school, excited I had made a friend. I was puzzled one of the first questions my mother would ask was: What nationality is she? I had to think hard for an answer. I hadn't thought to ask. But she wouldn't stop probing: What color of hair does she have? Does she speak Japanese? What is her last name?
In hindsight, now that I am an adult, this sounds unbelievable. But I often couldn't remember what color hair she had _ maybe it was brownish? black? The most important thing _ the only thing that mattered, and I was maybe 10 years old, 8? _ was that I had found this person who for some reason liked me and was now my friend. Why didn't adults understand that this was what I wanted to talk about, not what nationality she was, or what color of eyes she had so we could figure out what nationality she was?
This may sound bizarre. But many people who attended international schools at a young age have the same experience. Of course, we knew that people came in different sizes and colors and had different preferences for what they liked to eat or do. But it was a mixed up blur of so many ways to distinguish people _ the tone of their voice, their laugh, their skills in coming up with games _ that big words like the Philippines, Iran, America, China, Zambia, whatever, were just tongue-twister that didn't seem half as interesting as the other, more fun ways to tell kids apart.
This is not as bizarre as it sounds. Scientists have found that Japanese babies learn very quickly not to pay attention to the difference between Rs and Ls. That doesn't matter in the Japanese language. For the same reason languages must be acquired early, a child learns what to pay attention to and what not to notice. The world is such a buzz of information, how we discriminate must be learned.
The innocent world, however transient or artificial, where nationality doesn't matter, felt so comfortable that when I learned it wasn't real _ or encountered cases when I had to finally face up to the fact that it wasn't ever real _ it was painful. It was more painful because I had gotten a taste of that innocent world. If I hadn't, I'd probably have accepted it with a shrug, the same way I wouldn't know the difference between Rs and Ls. I can roll my Rs like a salsa singer.
In Japan, a nation that prides itself on being homogeneous and harmonious, horror stories abound of children of Chinese or Korean ancestry routinely being harassed by Japanese, stalked daily, beaten, taunted. And they aren't even a different race.
Once acquired, the art of discrimination is something people thrive on, "ijime" that engrosses the masses.
I don't know why being discriminated for race or ethnicity or sex hurts so much more than being discriminated for performance or personal choices, even looks, another genetically determined feature. But it does. It makes me feel so vulnerable, as though I have been stripped naked, and I can't fight back. In Sociology, we learn race and sex are what we call "master traits." That means other qualities a person may acquire, such as education or career experience, can never ever ever override what is predetermined about that person by race and sex. It is more important in society that someone is black or yellow or white or that someone is male or female than that person happens to be an astronaut or a gangster. Can you imagine that? To me, that is ridiculously bizarre. I want everyone to learn from that child who rushes back to tell her mother she just found a friend _ never mind what nationality she is.
Neoteny Japan
Bejeweled gourds and intricately decorated dolls from Mayu Kikuchi make for yet another but superbly whimsical statement in Japanese neoteny art.
I asked her why so much of Japanese art looks this way, and she says that's so established these days, that's what sells and what art teachers steer you toward.
"Before, I used to do more grotesque pieces, like a knife stabbing the head," she motions with her hand toward her forehead, smiling, "and then things are spurting out."
She and her mother were selling her lovingly handmade works at an annual summer craft fair in Shiodome, Tokyo.
She has huge dolls, characters from strange tales in her mind, modern-day versions of Bunraku puppets.
Those weren't for sale because they had taken so long to make, said Kikuchi, 25.
Other works weren't quite so priceless.
And so one of her cloth fish and "kokeshi" madames now hang in our living room, swimming with joy and doubt about where they stand in the world of universal art.
Amanojaku LIVE at Harajuku Astro Hall
AMANOJAKU Tokyo's Top-Level Taiko
"SOUL BEAT/TAMASHII NO HIBIKI"
Harajuku ASTRO Hall
THU Aug. 20 7:30 p.m. (Admision starts 7 p.m.)
Advance tickets (includes one drink)
4,000 yen; at door 4,500 yen.
For more information, please call Amanojaku: 03-3904-1745.
Ticket Pia P-code: 330-019
Lawson Ticket L-code: 79754.
Amanojaku, led by master drummer Yoichi Watanabe, concocts an emotional and explosive experience of sound, pitting the best of taiko tradition with global ethnic rhythms and modern composition for a distinct World Music narrative that explores Japanese soul.
Amanojaku teaches taiko in the U.S., Brazil, Asia and Europe, and leads workshops and performs in festivals throughout Japan.
Last year, it led the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Japanese immigration to Brazil in a performance of 1,000 drummers at the samba venue.
Hiromi Ogawa and Mayumi Kawana are founding members of Amanojaku and the best women's duet taiko drummers in the world. They debunk any old-fashioned stereotypes the West may have about Japanese women, inspiring awe with their sheer brute strength and creative integrity.
Also appearing are Daisuke Watanabe, Hiromi Sekine, Chris Holland (from Denver Taiko) and Isaku Kageyama.
Reading the air
The idea of "reading the air" sounds absurd.
But Japanese talk about it and do it all the time _ the art of staying so in tune to social expectations that one fits in perfectly without ever being told anything at all.
It's all in the air, to be detected, if you are a proper Japanese.
There is no need for blatant threats, punishment, policing, even instructions.
The person who starts laughing when everyone is solemn, the person who says the wrong kind of joke, the person who doesn't get the joke, the person who is wearing the wrong shoes, the person who doesn't get it, the person who thinks the party is happening when everyone else wants it to end _ those are people who fail to read the air.
They are out of it, no way a proper Japanese, possibly criminally insane, surely a loser because he or she hasn't learned the art of reading the air _ what's invisible but everywhere and so so so necessary if one wants to survive, what's so plainly obvious to those who are aware of that waft, that scent, that billow in the air around us, but otherwise goes over the unknowing's heads like a gust of a thoughtless clueless wind.
Reading the air is crucial in this society that thrives on conformity and is ruthlessly cruel in setting boundaries on who is "in" and "out," seeking to protect its comfortable insularity from the challenges of individualism, assessment by performance and self-expression.
Its rules are so thorough, governing every detail of everyday life, the psyche of its participants, so subtle in its nuances, like a tea-ceremony dance, that no one can really create a manual comprehensible to the humble outsider.
So read the air, my friend, read the air.
There is even a sociological/demographic twist.
Japan is one of the most rapidly aging societies in the world, meaning that the birth rate has been so low here (partly because of the role of women, partly because child-care services are inadequate, partly because education costs are so high) for so long the numbers of old people are massive compared to the dwindling numbers of children and young adults.
This has reinforced air-reading.
A kid born in Japan finds him/herself in a world dominated by lots of adults well versed in air-reading.
This is a society where children by definition are a minority, possibly an endangered species.
They are outnumbered.
Pressures on them to read the air are enormous.
And they learn fast.
They figure out how to get over with the more numerous and more powerful elderly.
The young as defiant, carefree, dangerous _ not so in Japan.
Instead, they focus their energies on reading the air, on not doing the weird wrong wild thing, to win their untroubled place in the Adult Establishment.
Air-reading is so crucial chastising people for their inability to read the air is part of the modern Japanese colloquial lexicon.
Being labeled "kooki yomenai (unable to read the air)," like "nerd" or "wimp," is utterly uncool.
As in most such sweeping social trends, there's a backlash, even in Japan.
Those who refuse to read the air are now being seen as brave achievers _ but only if they are true undeniable winners like Kosuke Kitajima, the Gold Medal Olympian swimmer.
"Kooki nanka yomuna!" he declares in an ad for a burger chain.
Don't you go around reading the air!
Having the privilege of not having to run around reading airs, and not having to worry about the consequences, is the ultimate that proves you have truly risen to the top in Japan.
Being Japanese: Kakijun, Enryo and Iki
KAKIJUN is something that could have significance only in Japan.
Kakijun refers to the rules on properly writing kanji characters _ specifically the order in which each stroke (traditionally rendered in paintbrush sumi-ink) must be written.
If you mess up the order, then it's wrong _ even if it looks exactly the same as if it had been written in the correct order.
Kakijun highlights the essential importance of process _ as opposed to results.
If it's not done the right way, it's wrong.
Japanese society emphasizes the zenlike spiritual _ the virtue of what is happening within the individual _ form defining act _ not just Western-style pragmatism of getting things done, making money, winning status.
In another sense, kakijun is about fixating on regulations for the sake of appearances, not the substance of the action.
It penalizes deviations.
It discourages creativity.
It rewards conformity.
Still, kakijun can be a beautiful concept.
No wonder calligraphy looks a lot like abstract Western art.
It is forceful.
It is evidence of how the artist's individuality is expressed in form.
It is evidence of how Japanese art is defined as the beauty of the process.
Japanese rules of behavior _ how to enter a door, how to bow, how to drink tea _ are like Dance.
How you do something _ even everyday things _ is part of the definition of that person's value as a human being to all Japanese.
Pretty deep.
ENRYO is another super-Japanese concept.
Taken the bad way (let's start with that first this time), it's phony because it means: yup, you really want that second serving of cake but you don't want to look greedy so you act like you don't want it and say no, thanks, all the while hoping the host will realize you're just saying that and deep inside you want the cake and so will offer it again, no no no I insist, at which point you get to "give in" and eat the cake without feeling like a pig.
This is enryo.
And it's an everyday practice in Japan, even today.
This works only if the other party knows you are doing enryo.
It has been known to happen that if the other party for whatever reason fails to catch on and goes along with the preliminary refusal a la enryo-style, and doesn't persist in offering the cake, the originator of enryo can get quite resentful _ about not getting that cake after all _ and accuse the other person of all kinds of inadequacies, including not being a proper Japanese _ so delicate is this give-and-take interaction of enryo.
Enryo assumes that everyone is in the know.
Enryo evolved out of an insular small-village mindset.
But enryo is also soulful _ caring about the other person so much you're giving that person the chance to take his or her offer back, in case that person can't really afford to offer you that extra piece of cake.
Enryo is about self-sacrifice.
Enryo is about modesty.
It's about not being a totally egotistical and everyone-out-for-their-own kind of society.
It's about quiet graceful self-demeaning appearances taking precedence over who gets what and big egos and individualism.
Many other cultures besides Japan actually have enryo.
Americans may be a minority in not being hip to enryo at all, and in assuming that no one will be crazy enough to say, "No," to a desirable offer. Hey, why not? That's what a normal American would think.
And, well, why not?
If you have to ask, then forget about it.
That's what Enryo is.
IKI also sounds crazy if you try to explain it to a hard-core pragmatist.
Iki means you do the most cool things where people can't possibly notice.
That's what makes it totally cool.
It's adoration of the less obvious, all the while hoping that the hidden wonders will somehow accidentally be noticed, making them even more superlative like a secret gift.
One good example of iki is a plain dark coat that's the impeccable statement of understatement, which has as lining this ostentatious and intricate fabric.
The outer may be indigo but the innards would be an elaborate red and gold Hokusai-like manga design.
This is no joke, and some Edo Period "haori" coats are just like that.
Or a woman's kimono would be subdued but have this special lining at the collar that's only showing in a tiny, tiny bit.
It defies logic, and that's why it's so iki.
The goal of a labor-intensive item is not to show off.
It's in and of itself precious _ although the argument can be made that iki is showing off of the ultimate, perhaps most perverse, kind.
Even among Japanese, iki is supposed to be localized _ very Tokyo _ and some say down-home Osaka people don't value iki.
Iki means you never ask how much something costs.
Iki people would mix-and-match expensive items with weeds picked up off the road _ that kind of thing.
Like kakijun and enryo, iki is at once perception-oriented and arbitrary.
It's all about what people think but so specific it doesn't make any sense when you stop to think about it.
For those who swear by it, there are no gray areas.
And it is a good way to separate true Japanese from posers.
Amanojaku Taiko in Brazil
Video by someone who was at Amanojaku's June 19, 2008 concert in Brazil.
Thanks for the video!
Isaku's blog and entry from his end on the same concert.
The piece being performed is "Five Color Taiko," in which five players drum out music that is at once together and coherent in unison yet also individual, creative and unique, expressing the essence of the human spirit as interpreted by Amanojaku leader and composer Yoichi Watanabe.
Brazil, home to the biggest Japanese community outside Japan, is also home to a younthful and vibrant taiko culture.


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Jaco Pastorius died 30 years ago today: 21st September 1987. He was beaten up outside the Midnight Bottle nightclub in Wilton Manors, Florida.
Jaco fans like me had particularly meagre pickings in the late 1980s. You gleaned whatever info you could from magazines like Bass Player and The Wire or swapped gossip with muso pals. I'm not even sure I knew he had passed away when I got my hands on import albums like Stuttgart Aria and Live In Italy, both recorded with the brilliant French guitarist Bireli Lagrene, or heard his guest spot on Mike Stern's Upside Downside.
Then my dad came home from work one day around 1989, excitedly talking about a Jaco concert movie he had secured the rights for, eventually broadcast on Channel Four as part of the 'Sounds Of Surprise' series of jazz films. Sure enough, the 1982 Montreal Jazz Festival show was a whole new insight into this master musician, shot at a time when he was firing on all cylinders and one of the biggest 'jazz' stars on the planet.
He was ostensibly touring his Word Of Mouth album at the time, but didn't play one tune from it. Starting with his old 'sweetener', Pee Wee Ellis's 'The Chicken', Jaco led his superb band (Peter Erskine on drums, Bob Mintzer on reeds, Randy Brecker on trumpet, Othello Molineaux on steel pans, Don Alias on percussion) through a tasty combo of jazz, R'n'B, blues and Caribbean influences.
Particularly notable are a breezy 'Donna Lee' and brilliant version of Mintzer's 'Mr Fone Bone', starting at 27:40. Jaco's soloing throughout the gig is beautiful – emotional, nuanced, dramatic. On the closer 'Fannie Mae', he plays the blues with as much feeling as Alberts King or Collins.
So here it is in all its glory. July 1982, Montreal, Canada. RIP Jaco.


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Regional Science Fair Ethics Committees
3. Programs
Regional Science Fairs
Sun, Mar 7, 2004
Wed, Aug 1, 2018
National Judge in Chief
1 Role and Membership
1.1 Youth Science Canada encourages each affiliated Regional Science Fair (RSF) to form an Ethics Committee of between one and three people, who will become familiar with the ethical and legal issues involved in science research by young scientists.
1.2 Ideally, at least one member of the committee should have a background in health care such as a nurse, occupational therapist or medical doctor, and one in the care of animals such as a veterinarian.
2 Approval of Projects
2.1 All affiliated Regional Science Fairs are encouraged to adopt a policy requiring prior approval by an Ethics Committee of projects involving humans or animals where there is non-trivial or substantial risk. The purpose of such a policy is to educate young scientists in the ethical issues involved, and to ensure that the project meets the Youth Science Canada rules for science fairs. Such a policy will also ensure that, in most cases, appropriate guidance is provided before experimentation begins and that the Regional Fair or CWSF Chief Judge is not often required to deal with a project that is in serious violation of the rules. A sample policy statement follows:
All projects involving the participation of humans or the use of animals require approval by the RSF Ethics Committee before experimentation is started.
All projects must have an adult supervisor who will ensure that appropriate safety precautions are taken at all times to ensure the safety of the student scientist.
3 Difficult or Unclear Situations
3.1 In situations where an approval decision is more challenging or where the policy is unclear, the Regional Science Fair, but not the student(s), may refer the project to the National Ethics and Safety Committee who, after seeking appropriate professional advice, will make a ruling as to whether the project is eligible for science fair competition.

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Q: Using VBA to create a dynamic query after importing a SQL database table in MS Excel This is a problem that has stumped me for a couple of days, and one I've been trying to work on. Unfortunately I very new to working on this stuff, and don't have a lot of resources trying to solve this problem, so if I am unclear or you have a question please post a comment about it.
The problem I am trying to tackle is this:
After getting external data from a SQL Server and having a table in a spreadsheet, say the is called Products, and has columns for productid (column A), productname (column B), supplierid (column C), and categoryname (column D). Is there a way to define a cell, say E1 where you use  can use VBA to create a dynamic query. In this dynamic query you would enter some value of categoryname where it would query the table, and give you the results?

A: It is possible to perform a dynamic query without using any VBA.
Base your table on "From Microsoft Query" (under the "Get External Data" group on the Data tab). Build your query using the Query Wizard, selecting the table columns of interest. On the "Query Wizard - Filter Data" tab, where you would normally say a particular column must have a specific value, instead of the specific value, use just a question mark (for any and all columns that need to be used to filter). When you return your data to Excel, you will be prompted to "Enter Parameter Value" for each ? you used. Just click OK at this stage.
When the Excel "Import Data" dialog appears, click "Properties...". On the Definition tab click the button labelled "Parameters...". For each parameter, choose to "Get the value from the following cell" and to "Refresh automatically when cell value changes". Click the red arrow button (to select a cell) and click in the cell where each parameter will get its value from.
It's a good idea to have a label alongside each cell, and maybe special formatting for the data entry cell. The results table can be on the same worksheet as the parameter entry cells, when you enter a value in the entry cell, a new query will be run and the result will be displayed.

A: Here is a link that might help.
It goes into using VBA to filter.
I found it a while ago when I looked for something similar, hope it helps.

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Home > News > U.S. > LA Koreans pay respects to Kim Young-sam
LA Koreans pay respects to Kim Young-sam
Los Angeles Korean American community leaders pay their respects to former President Kim Young-sam inside the Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles. (Park Sang-hyuk/Korea Times)
By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff
Footsteps of Los Angeles Korean Americans never ceased yesterday at memorial altars for former South Korean President Kim Young-sam set up inside the local diplomatic office and the community association.
Community leaders, including Korean American Federation President James Ahn and Southern California Korean Ministerial Association President Um Kyu-seo, were among those paying their respects.
A flow of civilians made their way to the association center following work hours.
Kim, who formally ended decades-long military rule to champion democracy in Korea when he took office from 1993 to 1998, died Sunday in a Seoul hospital. He was 87.
"We've seen a lot of older locals come to pay their respects," the association said. "We will try our best to make sure the visit is comfortable for those who come to the altar."
Inside the Korean Consulate General, where another altar was installed, more visitors — Los Angeles Peru Consul General Lilian Cino, former Korean Consul General Kim Jae-soo, Vietnam War veterans — came by.
Memorial altars will be open until Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Consulate General and until Friday at KAFLA.
Los Angeles Korean American community leaders pay their respects to former President Kim Young-sam inside the local association center. (Park Sang-hyuk/Korea Times)
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Here we breakdown the biggest misconceptions surrounding the report, including the role of individual action and the fate of the Great Barrier Reef.
The six species of sea lion and and seal shown here either breed in Australia or are occasional visitors to our waters.
Love letters, shootouts and bank robberies – Andrew George Scott's life and relationship to James Nesbitt has left historians intrigued.
Six antennas huddle on the grassy 147ha site at Paddys River in the Tidbinbilla Valley, just under an hour's drive from Canberra. One is a landscape-dwarfing dish as wide as a 22-story building is tall. Dotted around are three working 34m dishes and one under construction. The CDSCC is owned by NASA, but it is run through the innovation centre at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, as well as by the CSIRO. It is one of three deep-space tracking stations in NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) – the others are in Goldstone, California, and Madrid, Spain. The tracking stations are strategically placed around the globe, so that, as the Earth rotates, they can stay in touch with interplanetary spacecraft 24 hours a day. The DSN provides the vital link to the spacecraft of many nations travelling between the planets and beyond.
Young Aussie Lachlan Smart is attempting to become the youngest person to fly solo around the world.
The wearable 'Shark Shield' is almost 100 per cent effective at deterring great white sharks, according to new research.


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The 2020–21 Leicester City W.F.C. season was the club's 17th season and their third in the FA Women's Championship, the second level of the women's football pyramid. Outside of the league, the club also contested two domestic cup competitions: the FA Cup and the League Cup.

It was their first under the official ownership of Leicester City F.C. parent group, King Power, having previously been an independent club with a formal affiliation to the Foxes. The takeover was confirmed on 22 August 2020 with the club immediately becoming fully-professional in the process. On 22 December 2020, the club announced the women's team would move in to the Belvoir Drive training ground before the end of the year after the men's team vacated the facility and relocated to a newly-constructed complex in Seagrave.

On 4 April 2021, Leicester City clinched the league title with a 2–0 win over London City Lionesses, their twelfth consecutive league victory dating back to 4–1 defeat at the hands of the same opposition on 1 November 2020. The result earned Leicester their first ever promotion to the top-flight FA WSL.

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FA Women's Championship

Results summary

Results

League table

Women's FA Cup

As a member of the top two tiers, Leicester City will enter the FA Cup in the fourth round proper. Originally scheduled to take place on 31 January 2021, it was delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions. Due to the delay, the competition only reached the fifth round before the end of the season. It resumed the following season at the quarter-final stage on 29 September 2021.

FA Women's League Cup

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Knockout stage
For the first time in club history, Leicester City reached the knockout stage of the League Cup.

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Starting appearances are listed first, followed by substitute appearances after the + symbol where applicable.

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This class is for entrepreneurs who create videos or video classes and therefore need thumbnails but do not want to bother with software like photoshop or canva.
Powerpoint: almost everyone knows it and almost everyone has it. But most people think of boring presentations when thinking of powerpoint. But thus they are under-estimating what this software can do!
In this course I will show you how you can create cool thumbnails for your video or video class – just in powerpoint!
Some knowledge of powerpoint is of advantage but not necessary.


Being an urban lifestyle blogger, it is my responsibility to be well informed and do research on what's the newest happening in the lifestyle industry, including travel and food!
And I was so happy that our friends from Lonely Planet Foodie never fails to keep us updated, when they recently sent me a complimentary copy of their newest book release, the "Lonely Planet's Ultimate Eatlist" a new food-based travel guide which features the TOP 500 best food experiences in the world.
And of course as a Philippine-based blogger, I was so excited to see that they included Philippines in the list!
Are you excited to know which local Filipino foods are included?
Filipino food doesn't get a lot of play internationally compared with other Asian cuisines. And that's unfortunate, as anyone who has tasted sisig knows. The magic of this salty and tart pork dish is the mix of textures – crispy fried skin, sticky cartilaginous ears, silky smooth liver. Ears? Liver? Trust us. To make the dish, pig jowls and ears are finely chopped, simmered, and then fried, along with fatty bits of pork belly and unctuous liver. It's all seasoned with chillies and the tart juice of the calamansi, a small round citrus fruit that's green on the outside and golden on the inside, before being brought to the table with a flourish, on a sizzling cast iron plate. It's a killer complement to a cold beer on a hot Luzon night.
Try the Aling Lucing Sisig, in Angeles City (corner G. Valdez and Agapito del Rosario Streets) where Lucia Cunanan, "the Sisig Queen", made the dish famous.
In the depleting heat of a Filipino summer there's nothing more refreshing than the wacky, Willy Wonka-style shaved-ice dessert, halo-halo. This colourful concoction is a combo of sweet red and white beans, jackfruit, coconut, sago, tapioca, sweet plantains, banana, and gulaman (a type of agar jelly), covered in shaved ice and finished with sweet evaporated milk. Topped with a scoop of purple yam ice-cream, it's an ideal distraction from the tropical heat.
At the popular Chowking chain of restaurants, all over Metro Manila and entire Philippines.
A thick, dark stew, seasoned with only a few spices, might not be what you're expecting from Filipino cuisine; Southeast Asian food has a reputation for multi-ingredient curry pastes and dishes stacked with spices. But there's a hint in the word adobo, from the Spanish 'adobar', meaning to marinate, so perhaps it's the Spanish influence that inspired this succulent dish. Or perhaps the Spanish just applied the name to the dish when they saw hot it was cooked. Either way, it's a national culinary icon that every household knows how to prepare. Traditionally the meal is made with belly and shoulder of pork, marinated in vinegar, soy, garlic, ginger, bay leaf and black peppercorns, before being simmered gently. It's served with fluffy white rice. The best way to taste authentic pork adobo is at home, because every home cook in the Philippines is proud of their adobo recipe and preparation, so to taste the best, you're going to need to snap an invite to a Filipino mate's house. Failing that, any good restaurant in Manila will offer a more-than-passable version.
Try it from Aristocrat Restaurant, 432 San Andreas Street, Malate, Manila or to any Aristocrat branches in the Metro.
The culinary recommendations in the book came from experts, including world-renowned chefs like Elena Arzak and Eric Ripert, television chef Andrew Zimmern, as well as BBC MasterChef judge Monica Galetti. Staff and contributors around the world were also asked to nominate their favourites, which were then narrowed down to the final 500.
Where to grab this book?
Have you tried our famous Filipino cuisine? I would love to read your thoughts below!
Wooow. I am honngo visit this place for sure. This dish us looking cerv tempting.
Thank you! And if you search for its recipes, its not complicated to prepare and cook.
I'll definately remmeber this down... use this as guide, when i visit ph... time to find foodie..
Oh yum, I 've never had Filipino food and looks really good also this is new to me when it comes to ph foods and all.
Halo halo looks tempting. By its look and by its name both.
Oh yeah its soo cool and yummylicious!
I went to Cebu many years ago and fallen in love with how Filipino cooked the pork. You are right, Filipino food doen't get a lot of share internationally compared with other Asian cuisines, such as Thai and Vietnamese or Japanese and Korean. I am glad to learn more your Filipino cuisine here and would wanted to try Sizzling snout-to-tail out.
I'm not a pig eater but I won't lie - you make that pig ear and jowels dish look GOOD!
Filipino Moms can do it right! Yummy!
Sisig and Halo-halo! huhuhu. I shouldn't read stuff like this in this hour. Sudden cravings for two of my favorites! Still, I am glad that my faves made it on the list!
This dish is looking certainly tempting. I would love to try it as I am a foodie.
Oh try this no-brainer adobo :D And you can add your original spice to it.
How cool is this!!! I love trying new and different foods, and this book looks really nice! I live collecting cookbooks and recipes!
Although this book is no-recipe book, but a travel and foodie guide, it is always awesome to discover what every places has to offer.
I have never tried Filipino food before, but it looks amazing. The recipes look fairly easy!
I agree! You should visit any Filipino restaurants near you!
I love this for sure! These are all my favorite food!!!!
Oh I bet you will enjoy our original halo-halo!
I would say Sisig is the best among them! I highly recommend the Sisig in Lechon Haus. For Halohalo, I like Razon's because the shaved ice tastes so good. For Adobo, I haven't tried Aristocrat's - I think it's too expensive there.
At Aristocrat's it reasonable. I love dining in that place whenever I'm in Manila area.
I have not tried Filipo foods before but how wonderful hat they have been featured in lonely planet.
at least we got 3 spots!
I never been to the Phillipines but would love to visit one day. I have only had Phillipino food in the US from Phillipino friends. One day.
Ask your Pinoy friend about halo-halo!
The dishes look yummy, I have no experience in Filipino cuisine, I bet my partner will love it as he loves pork.
Oh he will love adobo, the recipe is very easy.
The interesting about Filipino food, is that you can do the same dish by using alternatives like, instead of using pork for adobo, you can use chicken, duck, or even make a veggie adobo!
What a great to show us about the culinary traditions of the Filipinas! Love it!
Oh thank you babe! I will share others soon!
I love halo halo!! No wonder it made it's way to the list.
Hehehe, I love its milky sweet and chill!
Looks like great food collection I need to try Halo Halo. I love Filipinio cuisine though.
Mixed every sweets and desserts you have and add ice and milk, then you have your own version.
I've never tried Filipino food. I'm obviously missing out.
It is never late, try it!
This is such a treat to see these different places offering such cuisines.
Yeah, and thanks for visiting!
That is so awesome you were able to get a complimentary copy of their book. I've never had Filipino food before but all these meals look so delicious, I would love to try them one day.
thanks Alot for sharing !!
hahaha hope you can try our halo-halo!
You're right you don't hear much about Pjilipino food compared to Korean, Thai or Chinese food. Which is a shame, the only thing I am really familiar with is adobo.
Well to be frank, Filipinos per se doesn't believe for our own dishes. We still need assurance from others that we can do. Not confident in the kitchen.
This looks like a great book. Those dishes look delicious. They are similar to the Hispanic dishes.
I agree, that is because we have colonized for 300-years by the Spanish regime.
That book looks like its filled with Filipino goodies!
Well only 3 Pinoy goodies, and glad these three got in!
Ah, this is the kind of list that helps me in my food quest. Not yet visit PH but will definitely come in handy when I do fly there!! Wait for me!
Hahaha that will be awesome Emily!
It Looks really yummy. Thanks for sharing this. I would love to try the Filipino food. Hey that was fun to get the complimentary copy for you.
Thank you Bushra, yeah and I love collecting these books!
These are all definitely tempting. Since I am vegan, I would like to see if I can veganize them. Otherwise great info. Thanks for sharing.
Instead of using meat, alter it with vegetable and use the same cooking technique. Works as well, coz we do that!
Our halo-halo is something that you will enjoy! It's quite similar to bingsu.
Which Filipino food is your most favorite?


Former England wicketkeeper Geraint Jones says he is ready for his career finale at Lord's on Saturday when he plays his final game before retirement.
Jones, 39, will lead Gloucestershire out against Surrey in the One-Day Cup final.
"To think this will be my last professional game in England, I must admit, I'm ready for it," Jones told BBC Radio Bristol.
"The fact it is a final at Lord's, is helping with that."
Jones, who was part of England's 2005 Ashes-winning side, says he is determined to end his career with a trophy for Gloucestershire - who he joined this year after more than 10 seasons at Kent.
His last domestic final was the Friends Provident Trophy final in 2008 when Kent were beaten by Essex, and he says the team are desperate to end the campaign with some silverware.
"When I spoke to Richard Dawson mid-season and said my plans and thoughts of retirement I would never have thought there was a chance of doing it this way," he added. "I'm going to make sure I enjoy it on Saturday.
"I'm not going to do any big Churchillian speech, because I don't need to. These lads grew up on a diet of watching Gloucester in One-Day finals at Lord's so they know the importance and meaning."
Jones admitted Saturday will be an emotional day for him and his family.
"I could be a blubbering mess," he said. "My family will be there, my two boys are coming up on the train to London.
"It will be a nice little honour but ultimately the day is not about me, it is about Gloucester, and I want to walk off that field lifting the trophy together."


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Plymouth Crown Court reopens after coronavirus scare
Crown and County Courts cases were halted after a defendant attended trial with flu-like symptoms
Stuart AbelCourt Reporter
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Plymouth's court complex is to reopen today after a coronavirus scare.
Civil and criminal cases at the Crown and County courts were halted on Monday after a defendant turned up for a trial with flu-like symptoms in the morning.
The 58-year-old was told to self-isolate after calling NHS 111 from the courts in the city centre.
He was sent home and no further cases were heard.
Managers this afternoon decided to close public areas, though some staff continued to work in offices.
The Crown and County Courts building is expected to be deep-cleaned overnight.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: "The court is going to run as normal tomorrow. All necessary precautions have been taken."
The defendant was due to face a jury on theft and fraud charges but was sent home. The trial has now been put off to a date to be fixed.
Barristers outside the crown court building after it was evacuated (file image) (Image: Stuart Abel)
The man is on bail and mingled freely with others at the court complex this morning.
A trial would have seen the defendant spending three days in a room with a 12-strong jury, judge, barristers, custody and court staff.
Hand sanitiser has been available at the entrance to the building for some time.
The closure comes on the same day the number of positive cases in the South West reached 38, with two more confirmed in Cornwall.
No-one in Plymouth has tested positive for COVID-19 at this stage.
A student at City College Plymouth is self-isolating after a member of their household tested positive for COVID-19.
Woodlands School in Whitleigh has been shut all day for a deep clean as a member of staff had potentially come into contact with someone undergoing tests.
As of 9am on March 9, 24,960 people have been tested in the UK, of which 24,641 were confirmed negative and 319 were confirmed as positive.


I used the HTML Tidy CVS source, using the instructions from http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=27659. Initially I was confused by the fact that the root only contains folders, but I found what I was looking for in the 'build' directory. As the readme.txt in there advise there are several options.
I chose the gnuauto, using GNU autoconf, which supports shared libraries, which is what I wanted ... but maybe gmake and/or rpm folders also support this. Before leaving this build/readme.txt I also noted that I could add some options, like SUPPORT_ACCESSIBILITY_CHECKS, but I will deal with this later.


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3X55 Trener in 3X47 Ultra sta dvosedežni visokokrilni ultralahki letali poljskega proizvajalca 3Xtrim Aircraft Factory. Številka 55 označuje vzletno težo 550 kilogramov, 47 pa 470 kilogramov.

Opcije motorjev na 3X55 so 80-konjski Rotax 912UL, 100-konjski 912ULS ali pa 80-konjski Jabiru 2200. Motor deluje na avtomobilski bencin lahko pa tudi na letalski bencin 100LL.

Verzija 3X55 je v ZDA znana kot Navigator in spada v kategorijo LSA.

Specifikacije(550 Trener)

Glej tudi
 Flight Design CT
 Jabiru Aircraft
 Fantasy Air Allegro 2000
 Pipistrel Virus

Sklici

Bibliografija
 Hunt, Adam: Flying the 3Xtrim 3X55, COPA Flight, October 2006

 3Xtrim 3x55 & 3X47 aircraft line brochure 2006

Zunanje povezave

3Xtrim stran
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Rainbow Sport Aviation website accessed 23 Sep 2006

Ultralahka letala
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Firstly – have confidence today, by letting someone know you have spoken to God.
Share with them about the Life Line Prayer you have prayed.
Start attending a Bible believing church, and keep in regular Christian fellowship.
Try talking to God on a daily basis, and make an effort to read the Bible as often as you can.
Pour your life into it and you will never be the same again.
Be encouraged this day and every day, because every day with Jesus is a new day!


How Do Digital Zoom Cameras Function?
Digital cameras come in so many shapes and sizes that they can be literally called custom made for the consumer. One of those variations is the digital zoom camera. It is important to know about a few aspects of it to totally understand the working of this type of camera better.
Very often we take photographs and then try to adjust the focus of the picture. We either try to concentrate on a certain area or enlarge other areas. This can be done in two ways, either by using our hands and physically moving closer to the object, or by using the camera features and changing the dimensions of the object electronically. This gives rise to the two categories of zoom in the digital zoom cameras.
This is always a better option in the digital camera as compared to digital zoom. This allows us to move the lens of the camera closer to the object and hence works by changing the focal length of the camera mechanically. The result is that the picture quality is not distorted and can be printed in many different sizes. This quality is similar to those offered in the normal film cameras but should be insisted upon while purchasing the digital zoom camera as well.
This method of changing the attributes of a picture is utilized by defining the portion of interest in the picture and making changes on it using the software in the camera itself. It is done automatically by the camera and the chosen area is defined and enlarged to fit the frame. This method is known as extrapolation. However, extrapolation comes at the cost of interpolation and is said to harm the picture quality. Digital zoom cameras that are equipped with this feature are usable by customers who are amateurs and not too keen on changing the dimensions of pictures. Since the changes in dimensions are often done by compromising on the other portions of the picture, the quality is reduced.
It is pretty obvious that the better choice would be to go in for an optical zoom as opposed to a digital zoom since the image quality is not lost. However, sometimes the digital zoom produces better pictures than manual cropping. In these cases it can preserve the image quality and detail by performing interpolation before compression. It is advisable to check the type of zoom for the camera you're considering. Often digital zoom is marketed off to the laymen as beneficial, thus knowledge in this field would be greatly helpful for someone intending to buy a digital zoom camera.


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Phil Simmons: West Indies will be ready and looking to defend our trophy
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Head coach says lack of home crowds and preparation time could work against England
Alan Gardner13-Jun-2020
Alzarri Joseph bowls in the nets CWI Media
Not since their 1980s heyday have West Indies won a Test series in England, but two aspects of the forthcoming three-match encounter could work in their favour, according to head coach Phil Simmons. First, due to the behind-closed-doors nature of the Tests, in response to Covid-19, there will be no supporters in the stands to cheer the home side on; and second, instead of being halfway through their summer, England have not played competitive cricket for several months.
That might "even things out a little bit", Simmons said via video conference from the team's training base in Manchester, where West Indies are currently serving a 14-day quarantine period and continuing their preparations for the rescheduled tour, after agreeing to ECB proposals for staging "bio-secure" Test matches.
As well as the absence of crowds, there will be significant departures from normal playing conditions - including a ban on using saliva to shine the ball, and the possibility of Covid replacements for players who display symptoms of the disease. The first international series to be contested since the coronavirus pandemic escalated in mid-March promises to be a trip into the unknown for all involved.
ALSO READ: World must 'come together', says Holder, as West Indies arrive for historic tour
"I don't know if it will increase our chances, because both teams are under the same umbrella - for want of a better word," Simmons said. "The nice part for us is that 20,000 Englishmen raving for England, and that crowd support, it's not there for them. So that in a way will help us, so it's good from that point of view."
Asked about the standing start for both teams, he added: "It's a plus, because England hasn't come from a tour recently, and we've just been playing cricket at home. Because in a normal situation we would have been coming from camps and England would have been halfway through their season and the series would have been going on right now. So I think that is a plus for us, because it evens out things a little bit, with the fact they haven't been playing competitive cricket for a while also."
Having beaten England 2-1 in the Caribbean 18 months ago, a draw would be enough for West Indies to retain the Wisden Trophy. And while they travelled to the UK earlier this week without three players who took park in that 2018-19 victory - batsmen Darren Bravo and Shimron Hetmyer, and allrounder Keemo Paul - Simmons was happy with the players at his disposal.
"I think we have the best squad we can have," he said. "Unfortunately a few guys decided not to come but we are here with the best squad that we can have here. And from the way we've started our work, the guys have been putting in, I think we'll be ready and looking to defend our trophy.
"Even with everything around and having to be conscious of the whole situation and the way the world is now, we still have to be mindful that we are preparing for a Test series against one of the top Test nations in the world. So we still have to put everything in place and do everything correctly."
West Indies fielding coach Rayon Griffith wears PPE while conducting a drill CWI Media
The absence of Bravo and Hetmyer will likely increase the focus on the tourists' batting line-up, in particular Kraigg Brathwaite and Shai Hope, whose runs were integral to victory at Headingley in 2017 - West Indies' first Test win in England for 17 years.
"There's a lot of pressure on the batsmen to perform because the bowling unit have been carrying the Test team for a while now," Simmons said. "It's something that we have been on a lot, not to put extra pressure on but we need to get that total of 400-450 in order to give this bowling unit - which I think is a top-class bowling unit, the fast bowlers especially. So we need to get that 400-50 on a regular basis in order to give ourselves a chance of winning Test matches.
"We understand the quality of these two individuals [Bravo and Hetmyer] and we know what we'll be missing. But in situations like this we have to work hard with the guys who are here and make sure that what we're doing is putting them in a position to fill those two shoes for the series. Hopefully whoever fills the shoes can go on and be as great as they want to be."
England well know the prowess of West Indies' pace-bowling resources, having been blown away for 77 in Barbados last year, and Simmons suggested his hand could yet be strengthened by the time the first Test begins on July 8. Although Shannon Gabriel is not officially part of the 14-man Test squad, he is among the back-up personnel on tour and could come into contention for selection if he can prove his recovery from an ankle injury over the coming weeks.
"Shannon as we know has come back from injury, and being a senior member of the squad in the past, I think we would definitely have a look at him coming into the [squad] if he's up to that fitness level leading into the first Test."
Phil Simmons
Shannon Gabriel
West Indies in England
Alan Gardner is a deputy editor at ESPNcricinfo. @alanroderick


April 28, 2009 Sony Electronics has launched the GreenFill recycling service, an extension of its Take Back program using in-store, drop-boxes for the collection of unwanted portable electronics good - around 80% of which currently end up in landfill.
All brands of small electronic goods like cameras, portable music devices, small laptops, cell phones and portable gaming devices can be dropped off free of charge at participating outlets in the Greenfill program - 81 retail stores are on board so far. For larger electronic goods, Sony's Take Back Program has 270+ participating recycling depots which accept its own brand no charge and add a small fee for other brands. According to Sony, more than 14 million pounds of electronic waste has been collected since the commencement of the Take Back Program, but sadly that's just a tiny fraction of what's out there. In the US it's estimated that 18% of the hundreds of thousands of tons of electronics waste in accumulated storage is recycled - a figure that has jumped 3% since 2006 on the back of mandatory collection and recycling programs for electronics in several states.
There has been an increase in momentum in the USA particularly since 2008, with several significant organizations taking responsibility for responsible electronic waste (e-waste) recycling and ensuring any associated hazardous wastes are not exported to developing countries.
The Basel Convention was established to provide control of the transboundary movements of Hazardous wastes and their disposal. In 2008, Waste Management Recycle America (WM Recycle America) announced its commitment to adopt the Electronics Recycler's Pledge of True Stewardship for the dismantling and recycling of e-waste. Sony Electronics is in partnership with WM Recycling America and has also signed the Basel Action Network Manufacturers Commitment to responsible e-waste.
More information the GreenFill program can be found at Sony Green.
Related article: Samsung launches electronics recycling program.


TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 803, December 19, 2003.
December 19, 2003, 9:00 AM ET, Alert No. 803.
12/18. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released a report [73 pages in PDF] titled "2003 Report To Congress On China's WTO Compliance".
12/18. The California Court of Appeal (4/2) issued its opinion [MS Word] in Williams v. Riverside, a case regarding a California city's attempt to exact monopoly rents from a company installing a fiber optic network using the city's local rights of way. The company paid under protest, built its network, and then sued the city. The Superior Court upheld the city's scheme. The Court of Appeal, applying California's public utilities and government codes, reversed.
Williams Communications installed conduit, fiber optic cable, and related equipment in streets in the City of Riverside, in southern California. Riverside required Williams to pay $750,000, calculated at the rate of $1.50 per foot, to build these facilities. Williams paid under protest, and built the facilities.
Williams then filed a complaint in Superior Court for Riverside County arguing that the mandated payment was in excess of Riverside's reasonable costs, and therefore illegal under California's Public Utilities Code section 7901 and Government Code section 50030. Williams further argued that the payment was coerced and that it had the right to recover the illegal payment under the California Mitigation Fee Act, codified at Gov. Code, § 66000, et seq.
Riverside argued that it did not require the payment. Rather, it was negotiated. However, it did not assert that $750,000 represented its costs.
The trial court ruled in favor of Riverside, and ordered Williams to pay Riverside an additional $212,861, as attorneys fees.
Section 7901 provides that "Telegraph or telephone corporations may construct lines of telegraph or telephone lines along and upon any public road or highway, along or across any of the waters or lands within this State, and may erect poles, posts, piers, or abutments for supporting the insulators, wires, and other necessary fixtures of their lines, in such manner and at such points as not to incommode the public use of the road or highway or interrupt the navigation of the waters."
Riverside argued that section 7901 is inapplicable because Williams failed to show that it is a telephone corporation which will use the right of way on Riverside to provide telephone services. The gist of its argument was that Williams does not provide telephone services within the meaning of this section because it is building a digital fiber optic network that that provides voice, data, video, and internet transmission services.
The trial court adopted this argument. The Court of Appeal did not. It wrote that "The fundamental issue, therefore, is whether the City may levy charges for use of the City streets to a telephone company when the telephone company lines may carry signals which are not telephone signals." It concluded that "Williams established that it is a telephone company which provides telephone services. The bulk of its income is derived from telephone transmission services. The fact that other data is transmitted over the telephone lines does not deprive Williams of the protection afforded by section 7901."
Section 50030 provides that "Any permit fee imposed by a city, including a chartered city, a county, or a city and county, for the placement, installation, repair, or upgrading of telecommunications facilities such as lines, poles, or antennas by a telephone corporation that has obtained all required authorizations to provide telecommunications services from the Public Utilities Commission and the Federal Communications Commission, shall not exceed the reasonable costs of providing the service for which the fee is charged and shall not be levied for general revenue purposes."
The Court of Appeal held that the payment was in excess of "reasonable costs" under section 50030, and hence, illegal.
The Court of Appeal construed sections 7901 and 50030. However, it also referred to the legislative history of section 50030, which was enacted in 1996. It addresses the policy of promoting emerging technologies, and hence, economic growth and social benefits.
The Court of Appeal quoted from the state legislature's findings and declarations: "(1) Connecting all California homes and businesses to the information superhighway has the potential to position the state on the leading edge of the telecommunications revolution. The emerging technologies will encourage economic growth and provide social benefits to all Californians, as well as allow California businesses and residents to compete in national and international markets. [¶] (2) Congress and the Legislature of the State of California have enacted telecommunications policies that include provisions to encourage the development and deployment of new technologies, and the equitable provision of services in a way that efficiently meets consumer need and encourages the ubiquitous availability of a wide choice of state-of-the-art services, and to promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits that will result from the rapid implementation of advanced information and communications technologies. [¶] (3) New technologies require investment and expansion of telecommunications networks in order to bring greater choice to consumers by encouraging universally available telecommunications service. [¶] (b) The Legislature further finds and declares that this act does not constitute a change in existing law."
The Court of Appeal also rejected Riverside's argument that it did not require the payment. It wrote that "The evidence established, however, that the City would not grant the necessary permits without a license agreement, and would not enter into a license agreement without payment of the fee".
The Court of Appeal also reversed the trial court's holding that the California Mitigation Fee Act does not apply.
Finally, the Court of Appeals reversed the award of attorneys fees to Riverside, because Williams is the prevailing party.
This case is Williams Communications LLC v. City of Riverside, Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, No. E032661, an appeal from the Superior Court for Riverside County, Super. Ct. No. RIC354749.
12/18. Kurt Schroeder, Deputy Chief of the Telecommunications Consumers Division of the Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wrote a letter [4 pages in PDF] to CPM Funding, Inc., d/b/a California Pacific Mortgage, regarding its alleged failure to comply with the FCC's national do not call rules.
FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief David Solomon stated in a release [PDF] that "This is a landmark enforcement step -- the first FCC action to enforce our new National Do Not Call rules. This citation demonstrates our resolve to ensure that consumers are not bothered by unwanted, intrusive calls to their homes. Do Not Call enforcement is the FCC's top consumer protection priority and we, along with our partners at the FTC, will continue to be vigilant in this area on behalf of the American public."
TLJ experienced technical difficulties yesterday and today with e-mail delivery, resulting in delays. Some subscribers also received multiple identical copies yesterday. TLJ apologizes for this. In the event that any subscribers did not receive yesterday's issue, it is now in the TLJ web site. See, TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 802, December 18, 2003.
The TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert will not be published on Wednesday, December 24, Thursday, December 25, or Friday, December 26.
12/18. The General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report [427 pages in PDF] titled "Information Technology: Leadership Remains Key to Agencies Making Progress on Enterprise Architecture Efforts".
This report, which was prepared for the House Government Reform Committee, finds that federal agencies' progress toward effective enterprise architecture management is limited. Of the agencies studied by the GAO, only the Executive Office of the President reported performing all of the management practices that are indicative of effective enterprise architecture management. In contrast, the Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) both performed only one of five such practices.
In addition, the report states that "when agencies are assessed against the recent update of our maturity framework (Version 1.1), the percentage that have established at least a foundation for enterprise architecture management drops to 21 percent; only one agency (1 percent), the Executive Office of the President, reported performing all of the management practices that are indicative of effective enterprise architecture management.
The report concludes that "This limited progress can be attributed in part to long-standing enterprise architecture challenges that have yet to be addressed. In particular, since 2001, more agencies now report that agency executive understanding of enterprise architecture and the scarcity of skilled architecture staff are significant challenges. Until agencies have and use well-defined enterprise architectures, their ability to effectively leverage IT in transforming mission operations will be impaired."
12/18. The U.S. Court of Appeals (7thCir) issued its opinion [PDF] in Primeco Personal Communications v. City of Mequon, a cell tower construction case. The city denied a permit. The District Court granted summary judgment to the service provider. The Appeals Court affirmed.
The City of Mequon, in the state of Wisconsin, denied Primeco's (dba Verizon Wireless) request to build a cell tower. Primeco then filed a complaint in U.S. District Court (EDWisc) against Mequon alleging violation of 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7).
Section 332(c)(7)(B)(iii) requires that "Any decision by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof to deny a request to place, construct, or modify personal wireless service facilities shall be in writing and supported by substantial evidence contained in a written record."
The Appeals Court wrote that Mequon's decision was made "without opinion, so that the only written record of the evidence and reasoning supporting denial is the transcript of the planning commission's deliberations". Nevertheless, the Appeals Court gave a detailed review of the statute and precedent, analyzed the planning commission's members' statements, and concluded that Mequon had violated the statute.
The Court wrote, in the end, that "It is doubtful that the planning commission's decision can be said to be supported by any evidence at all; certainly it cannot be said to be supported by substantial evidence."
Judge Richard Posner wrote the opinion of the Court, in which Judges Kanne and Rovner joined.
This case is Primeco Personal Communications, Limited Partnership, d/b/a Verizon Wireless v. City of Mequon, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, Nos. 03-1514 and 03-1548, appeals from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, D.C. No. 01-C-1205, Judge Lynn Adelman presiding.
12/18. Timothy Donahue, P/CEO of Nextel Communications, will be the chairman of the newly re-chartered Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC VII). See, FCC release [PDF].
12/18. The Members of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) elected Bradley Smith as Chairman and Ellen Weintraub as Vice Chair for 2004. See, FEC release. Smith is best known for taking seriously First Amendment protections of political speech. Before his appointment to the FEC in 2000, Smith was a law professor at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio.
12/18. Howard Griboff was named Assistant Chief of the Policy Division of the International Bureau (IB) of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC stated in a release that Griboff will "manage projects and provide policy and legal expertise, including regarding spectrum policy rulemaking items. He also will oversee certain licensing activities, including mergers." Griboff has worked in the IB since 1998. From 1996-1998, he worked in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Before that, he worked for the law firm of Fisher Wayland Cooper Leader & Zaragoza.
12/18. Paul Locke was named Assistant Chief -- Engineering of the Policy Division of the International Bureau (IB) of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC stated in a release that he will "provide engineering management expertise and contribute to the technical aspects of spectrum policy rulemaking items". He has worked for the FCC since 2000.
12/18. Real Networks filed a complaint in U.S. District Court (NDCal) against Microsoft alleging violation of federal and state antitrust laws. Real stated in a release that Microsoft has "illegally used its monopoly power to restrict competition, limit consumer choice and attempt to monopolize the growing field of digital media". Microsoft responded in a release that "this is a case where a leading firm is seeking to use the antitrust laws to protect and increase its marketplace share and to limit the competition it must face". Microsoft added that "These issues are a rehash of the same issues that have already been the subject of extensive litigation and a tough but fair resolution of the government antitrust lawsuit."
12/18. Microsoft filed six complaints on December 17, 2003 in King County Superior Court in the state of Washington against numerous individuals, corporations, and unknown parties, alleging violation of anti-spam laws of the states of New York and Washington by sending deceptive spam messages that contained forged sender names, false subject lines, fake server names, inaccurate and misrepresented sender addresses, or obscured transmission paths. See, Microsoft release and list of cases. Much of the spam was routed through compromised internet protocol (IP) addresses located in the state of New York. Eliot Spitzer (Attorney General of New York), Brad Smith (SVP/GC of Microsoft), and Tim Cranton (Senior Corporate Attorney for Microsoft) held a press conference on December 18 to announce the lawsuits. See, transcript.
12/18. The Department of Justice's (DOJ) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that they will jointly hold a three day workshop on February 17-19, 2004 on application of the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Also, February 10, 2004 is the deadline to submit comments to the DOJ and FTC regarding this workshop. See, notice. The DOJ and FTC also released a report titled "Merger Challenges Data, Fiscal Years 1999-2003". See also, DOJ release.
Christmas. Executive branch agencies will be closed.
Executive branch agencies will be closed. See, Executive Order.
Deadline to submit reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) regarding digital low power television and television translator stations. This is FCC 03-198, in MB Docket No. 03-185. See, notice in the Federal Register, September 26, 2003, Vol. 68, No. 187, at Pages 55566 - 55573.
Deadline to submit comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) pertaining to promoting spectrum based services in rural areas. See, notice in the Federal Register summarizing this NPRM, and story titled "FCC Announces NPRM Regarding Regulations Affecting the Use of Spectrum in Rural Areas" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 739, September 15, 2003. This NPRM is FCC 03-222 in WT Docket Nos. 02-381, 01-14, and 03-202. The FCC adopted this NPRM on September 10, 2003, and released it on October 6, 2003. See, Federal Register, November 12, 2003, Vol. 68, No. 218, at Pages 64050-64072.


School of Theoretical Studies catalog › Details for: An elementary treatise on trilinear co-ordinates, the method of reciprocal polars, and the theory of projections.
Details for: An elementary treatise on trilinear co-ordinates, the method of reciprocal polars, and the theory of projections.
An elementary treatise on trilinear co-ordinates, the method of reciprocal polars, and the theory of projections.


Trine has a graduate degree in Physiotherapy from Sør-Trøndelag University College Norway and Masters and PhD degrees in human movement science and clinical medicine from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Trine's PhD thesis titled 'Aerobic exercise in coronary heart disease' (2010) produced three papers assessing the impact of exercise, especially exercise intensity, on improvement in aerobic capacity and survival in subjects with coronary heart disease.
Trine is the head of the Exercise, Cardiometabolic Health and Reproduction (EXCAR) research group in the Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at NTNU. Her main research interests are centred on exercise training as a therapeutic tool for preventing and treating cardiometabolic diseases, and for improved fertility or pregnancy outcome. In addition, Trine has extensive graduate and post-graduate teaching experience, and is a highly accomplished supervisor of post-graduate degree students at NTNU.
Trine has authored a large number of high impact papers and book chapters throughout her career and is a frequently invited speaker at international conferences. Trine is currently a reviewer for the Journal of Sports Sciences, Sports Medicine, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, International Journal of Sports Medicine, BMC Public Health, and Int J Environ Res Public Health.


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Q: jQuery Autocomplete returns all results (json) no matter what I write No matter what you type, jquery autocomplete displays all the results from the source, even when they have contain none of the characters in the input field.
Code is as follows.
$('input#project-name').autocomplete({
    source: "project-list.php",
    minLength: 2,
    autoFocus: true
});

And the source outputs json like this.
[{"value":"sdf"},{"value":"asdas"},{"value":"ANOTHERONE"}]

I've been googling around for a while now, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Update
Thanks for the replies guys, but I'm afraid I'm not getting it, sorry. I just recently started learning this stuff. My PHP currently looks like this.
$userID = $_SESSION['userID'];

$loggedIn = $mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE userID = '".$userID."'");
$getRow = "SELECT * FROM projects WHERE projectUserID = '".$userID."'";

if ($loggedIn->num_rows) { // if user is logged in

    $projects = array();
    if ($result = $mysqli->query("SELECT projectName FROM projects WHERE projectUserID = '".$userID."'")) {
        $placeholder = array();
        while($row = $result->fetch_object()) {
            $placeholder = $row;
            array_push($projects, $placeholder);
        }
        $json = json_encode($projects);
        $result = str_replace("projectName", "value", $json);
        echo $result;
    }

}

But as I understand it i need to include the term there somehow? Could I please get an example?
Update 2
if (!isset($_REQUEST['term']) )
    exit;
    $projects = array();
    if ($result = $mysqli->query("SELECT projectName FROM projects WHERE projectName = '".$mysqli->real_escape_string($_REQUEST["term"])."'")) {

and now it doesnt return all. In fact, it returns the correct one, but only after you spell it out completely, which defeats the purpose.

A: More information on my comment.  Please refer to the autocomplete documentation.
http://api.jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#option-source
Here is the key part, emphasis mine.

String: When a string is used, the Autocomplete plugin expects that string to point to a URL resource that will return JSON data. It can be on the same host or on a different one (must provide JSONP). The Autocomplete plugin does not filter the results, instead a query string is added with a term field, which the server-side script should use for filtering the results. For example, if the source option is set to "http://example.com" and the user types foo, a GET request would be made to http://example.com?term=foo. The data itself can be in the same format as the local data described above.


I have just bought some moisture posts to hang on my radiators to help with humidity. Does anyone know any essential oil that I could put in, that smells nice and will help not hinder by breathing?
It helps to combat the dryness that radiator heat can cause in indoor air. Some find this helps with their breathing.
In my home the moisture pots don't do the job on their own, I still have to use wet flannels on the radiator and a humidifier, usually I don't tolerate high humidity. But my room humidity has been as low as 38%, recently at the moment it is higher at 45% but the best would be 50 - 55% for comfort. (I have a humidity monitor just so I can have some control of the indoor air humidity) I add humidity when too low and remove it when too high.
I use, rosemary, lavender or peppermint myself, but it is down to personal preference and what the needs are. You might love the smell of lemons so lemon essential oil or orange might be good to use.
I always use the pure essential oils (ones that can be used in therapy, avoid ones that are artificial and whose origins are a product of several countries. Adulterated oils will be bound to make you cough and irritate airways. For some people even the pure essential oils can have this affect. Its important to chose an oil fragrance you like, no good getting lavender for relaxing and de-stressing if you hate the smell of lavender for instance.
I use 6 drops only in my ceramic water carriers on the radiators if using one essential oil or 3 drops each of two different oils. I find lavender and rosemary work really well together for me personally.
Check which ones stimulate, you might want to buy one for relaxing to use in the evening and one to stimulate to use on waking in the morning. High dose (too many drops above the recommended) could have an undesirable affect.
When shouldn't essential oils be used?
If you have a skin condition, are pregnant, have epilepsy or asthma, are on a course of treatment with prescribed medication, or are in doubt about any condition you may have, it is important that you seek the advice of a doctor or suitable practitioner before using essential oils.
I find that essential oils (even the pure ones) irritate my throat and make me cough).
I've got a hygrometer on the wall. It indicates 60% at the moment. so I don't find it dry.
I discovered a lovely smelling decongestant oil while just surfing from site Shop Holistic. It is called Decongestant Synergy Blend and I use it on my pillow at night and just in a basin of hot water. Hope this helps.


I was also privileged to take part in a Charity walk on 'wild' sections of the Great Wall of China – was I glad I'd taken the 16 week training programme seriously! For six+ hours per day we climbed up and down hundreds of uneven, irregular steps, through, round and over innumerable guard posts – I got stuck in one and had to be rescued – and navigated (with difficulty) the rough terrain on the sections where there was hardly any wall still in existence. It was an amazing week, the scenery was immense, and I could have stayed there, on what felt like the top of the world, for ever.
I am actually quite reserved, but people don't usually realise that, because in a new situation (such as a conference for example) I push myself to initiate conversations and to try to involve others who may be struggling on the fringes. However within my wider family I have a reputation for general jammy-dodgery, or as I prefer to say, serendipity, but I suspect that's because they're jealous of, for example, my free, for the asking, brand new bed settee from MFI, and loan (from a random stranger that I'd met for 10 minutes in a library) of a beautiful harbour-side apartment and Range Rover in Boston so that I could research possible relatives… I found them in a day and a half, and then had 3 weeks fabulous holiday with them in Boston, Maine and surrounding areas. Definitely a result.


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