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Todashev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and the Waltham Triple Murders
Posted By: MaryMaxwell
by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
The appeal of the convict of Dzhokhar (Jahar) Tsarnaev is taking place at the Circuit of the US Court, Boson, with Oral Argument scheduled to begin on December 11, 2019. I am, officially, an amicus curiae in the appeal. I am wondering how many hours, or days, I will have to sit through the discussion of "the Waltham murders."
It is my guess that "the Waltham murders routine" has been brought in to this case in order that time could be spent on something that looks in some way relevant, even though it tis entirely irrelevant and is yet another trick for thwarting justice.
Allow me to explain.
A bombing of some sort took place near the finish line of the Boston Marathon race on Monday April 15, 2013 — six and a half years ago. On the eighteenth of April ("hardly a man is now alive who remembers that fateful day and year"), the FBI announced that it had two suspects, with photos shown on TV but no names given. The photos were said to have been taken from a surveillance video.
After that TV announcement at 5pm, several events took place, the result of which was that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, then age 26, and hos brother Jahar, then age 19, were chased after and caught, with Tamerlan being proclaimed dead some time before 6am Friday, and Jahar being located about 13 hours later in a boat — say, 7pm on Friday. Jahar was arrested, charged, and tried. He is still alive (at least allegedly) in Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado.
Blaming the Bro
As you cannot arrest, charge, try, or convict a dead man, such as Tamerlan, it was only Jahar whose case ever reached a courtroom. The prosecution accused Jahar of doing such things as planting a bomb, murdering a cop, carjacking, stealing from an ATM, shooting at cops, and throwing an IED.
The prosecution produced witnesses (I use the word "produced" in two senses) to back up its allegations. The Public Defenders did not challenge Jahar's participation in any of those things though they surely must have seen that the evidence was from hunger. As we say.
Later in the trial, the Defenders tried to persuade the jury to be merciful to Jahar on the grounds that he had been led into a life of religious zealotry by his older brother. I guess this went to motive — yet the judge did not allow information about Tamerlan to be entered into the trial.
So there is no evidentiary record of Tamerlan's having been a jihadist or a terrorist. It is my guess that TT was not a terrorist, but without seeing any evidence I mustn't claim to have the ability to say for sure.
The appeal "work" has mainly emphasized due-process problems of the trial (such as the bias of jury based on location of trial in a city, Boston, that had had a manhunt) and the allegation that Jahar was influenced by the older bro. This would not mean that the appeal is claiming Jahar is innocent, but that his responsibility for what he did ("It was him") can be reduced somewhat.
The Waltham Murders
For some months, when the defenders were asking the court for time extensions, it was hinted that they had found something of note in relation to a 2011 triple murder. I have not chased this down, as I cannot see how it contributes to the Jahar's appeal (in which I am serving as an amicus curiae). The only Tsarnaev person they are claiming to connect with the Waltham murders is Tamerlan.
Thus even if there were clear video evidence that Tamerlan did the Waltham murders, it would not signify. By the way, it was noted years ago that the three men who were killed had gangland-style wounds. Tamerlan's expertise was as a boxer.
Again, I am speaking as an amateur in the matter, but it seems to me that any "gangland slayings" would be done by experts in knife-wounding or gun shooting. According to Wikipedia (retrieved November 21, 2019):
"Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman, and Raphael Teken were murdered in Mess's apartment. All had their throats slit from ear to ear with such great force that they were nearly decapitated. Thousands of dollars' worth of marijuana and money were left covering their mutilated bodies; in all, $5,000 was left in the apartment."
My beef is with the media for trumpeting lately that an unsealed "affidavit" implicates Tamerlan. The media gives strong indication that such affidavit is the famous "statement" "written" by a guy in Florida, namely Ibragim Todashev. No it is not. But let us review the Todashev story for a minute here.
Ibragim Todashev
The current story (it changes a lot) is that the FBI went to the home of Todashev at 7.30pm on May 21, 2013 to interrogate him about Tamerlan who was his pal, his fellow Chechen immigrant, and colleague in mixed martial arts. After many hours the host attacked the visitors. That is, Ibragim picked up a coffee table and bopped it on the head of the FBI man, injuring him seriously.
The FBI man then — admittedly — shot Todashev dead. As far as I know, the FBI man and the accompanying state trooper from Massachusetts could have defended themselves by a non-lethal shot at Todashev, but that was not attempted. Note: the FBI man was later "investigated". and found to not have acted unethically or whatever you call it.
The death of Tamerlan occurred on April 19, 2019 (I shall pass over the fact that that day is Beltaine in the occult calendar, calling for blood), and the death of Todashev in Florida occurred a month later on May 22, 2019. My suspicion is that Todashev, age 27, was "taken out" as he may have been of value to Jahar's defense.
I've seen two contemporaneous articles at CNN, the first one stating that Todashev pulled a knife, not a coffee table on the FBI man, and the second showing that a friend, Musa Khadjimuradov of Manchester New Hampshire, believed Todashev had no radicalism up his sleeve: CNN asked Musa why the FBI quizzed him in late April (2 weeks after the Marathon).
"'So he [Tamerlan] bought fireworks here, from New Hampshire, you know? And he buy some ammunition for guns here in New Hampshire. And before the attack, like three or four weeks, he came to my house,' he said.
"He told Voice of America that he met Tamerlan Tsarnaev at a Chechen Society gathering in Boston in 2006, he had seen him only three times in three years, and the discussions were never about religion or politics. 'Nothing. Never. He never talking about the religious, politics or anything like that to me,' [Musa Khadjimuradov] said.
"Khadjimuradov, who relocated to the United States in 2004 as a refugee, has said he served as one of the bodyguards for Akhmed Zakayev, a Chechen separatist leader wanted by Russia. Zakayev, who now lives in London, did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment."
What Is the Hot New Affidavit?
The judge in Jahar's trial, Judge George O'Toole, and possibly also the appellate judge, Judge Juan Torruella, agreed to keep under seal the "affidavit" that is believed to implicate Tamerlan in the Waltham murders.
I got a Google alert this week, relaying an item from DailyWire.com, which carries the headline:
"Boston Marathon Bomber's Friend Confessed To 2011 Triple Murder Before Being Killed, Affidavit States"
Hello? Does this mean that Ibragim Todashev, before reaching for that knife, or coffee table, or whatever, had committed to paper the "truth" of his involvement in the gangland-style slayings (where he incidentally left $5000 onsite for the heck of it)? Good old Ibragim was willing to tighten the screws on Jahar a bit by "coming clean" about events two years before the Marathon bombing?
Most crims don't confess unless they are offered immunity or a plea deal that can't refuse. Media and FBI didn't say anything about that. (Maybe their script writer is Grade B.)
Anyway, if you bother to invest in reading the rest of that headlined piece, you find that the affidavit that says "We confess to Waltham" is not an affidavit by Todashev. So what is it? Please wait and I will tell you shortly. For now I want to show you what was printed on October 23, 2013, in the very respectable Christian Science Monitor.
An article there, by Katherine Jacobsen, starts with the headline "Marathon bombing: Elder Tsarnaev a suspect in triple slaying, documents show". It reads:
"Tamerlan Tsarnaev was involved in a triple homicide outside Boston in 2011, an acquaintance told investigators before being fatally shot, say court documents in the Boston Marathon bombing case against his younger brother.
"Court documents filed this week in the case against alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev provide the first official confirmation that authorities consider his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed while fleeing law enforcement officials days after the deadly April bombing, a suspect in a triple homicide outside Boston on Sept. 11, 2011.
"According to the documents, Ibragim Todashev, an acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev who was fatally shot at his Orlando home in May while being questioned by an FBI agent and two Massachusetts state troopers, said Tamerlan took part in the 2011 killings in Waltham, a Boston suburb. Authorities said Mr. Todashev became violent during questioning."
Dear Readers, you need to become skilled at finding the weasel words. I shall now repeat those three paragraphs with the weasel words underlined, and you will get quite a different impression. Poor dear Bostonians were saturated with such stuff before the 2015 trial, and would have believed the case was tightly wrapped.
Ready? Here it is:
"Court documents filed this week in the case against alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev provide the first official [see that means "official" because it was conveyed by a DoJ person, probably Carmen Ortiz] confirmation [What? No, it does not "confirm"] that authorities consider his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed while fleeing law enforcement officials days after the deadly April bombing, a suspect in a triple homicide…. [Oh, OK, all that was confirmed — THAT AUTHORITIES CONSIDER TAMERLAN A SUSPECT AT WALTHAM. OK, OK.]
See? "The documents" are documents written by the DoJ, or probably its baby the FBI. There's no indication (innuendo, but not indication) that old shot-in-the-head Todashev "turned state's witness."
Thank you for walking through that most unenlightening quote. It was, sadly, from the Christian Science Monitor, which, I opine, was the finest of newspapers in the 1980s. How the mighty have fallen!
The Honda
Finally, I reveal the great secret. What is the newly unsealed item in Jahar's appeal? It's just some silly piece of an affidavit by an unnamed official who called, in 2011, for an inspection of the Honda owned by Tamerlan, as that unnamed official (why unnamed, Folks?) considered, rather presciently, that there might be findings in the Honda to match up with something or other at the scene of the gangland slayings (in good Quantico fashion).
Oh, wait a minute. I don't rest my case till I mention that the date of death of the three murdered men — it is September 11, 2011. Good heavens that is the very day on which Jahar got his American citizenship.
Wouldn't the family have been having a celebration that day? Isn't it likely that there is an alibi for Tamerlan?
Not that it matters, though. Taxpayer dollars are paying for an excursion into an event that could not possibly work toward an acquittal, at next month's appeal, for Jahar Tsarnaev. Nor could it work for a worse punishment of him, since execution is traditionally as far as we go in this country.
Mary Maxwell, PhD, LLB, is a registered Republican candidate for the New Hampshire presidential primary. See the article linked below for her competition with Tulsi Gabbard.
Please watch this video of citizens questioning me about the Tsarnaev situation at my lecture in the Watertown Public Library on January 23, 2018.
Mary and Tulsi -- calisthenics

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Каражар () — упразднённое село в Мендыкаринском районе Костанайской области Казахстана. Входило в состав Ломоносовского сельского округа. Исключено из учётных данных в 2017 году. Код КАТО — 395653280.

Население
В 1999 году население села составляло 391 человек (208 мужчин и 183 женщины). По данным переписи 2009 года, в селе проживал 371 человек (197 мужчин и 174 женщины).

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Selective Amnesia of #NotInMyName & #Lynchistan Campaigners
TOPICS:beefCow VigilantismFalse NarrativesLiberal HypocrisyMedia BiasNotInMyNamesecularism
Author: Vikram June 29, 2017
The tragic murder of a Muslim youth in an argument over a train seat in Haryana, has resulted in a social media campaign #NotInMyName and protests in a few cities across Bharat. The protesters, led by film-maker Saba Dewan, call it a 'citizens protest against the recent spate of targeted lynchings of Muslims in India'. They further add –
'These attacks on Muslims are part of a pattern of other incidents that involve Dalits, Adivasis, and other disadvantaged and minority groups across the country. Through all these heinous crimes the Government has maintained a brazen silence, a gesture that is being read as the acquiescence of Indians'
The protest appears to be inspired by a 2015 'Not In My Name' campaign carried out by some Muslim groups 'to show how ISIS misrepresents Islam' in the wake of a terror attack in Paris, France.
In this article we will look to analyze the protesters' chilling message that Muslims in Bharat are under threat from blood-thirsty Hindu mobs who have the backing of the NDA Government.
Mob Lynchings in Bharat
That mob justice is an ugly reality of life in Bharat will not be disputed by anyone. Colonial-era laws, lumbering judiciary, and a heavily politicized and underfunded police force inspire no confidence in ordinary citizens and embolden criminals. Add to that, social strife spawned by the #IdeaOfIndia intelligentsia who have encouraged sectarian identities under the garb of secularism and diversity – and you have a combustible mixture.
Bharat is a democracy and every citizen has a right to protest for issues that affect her/him. But any objective observer for the last 3 years (since the Modi Government was sworn in) will tell you this – the idea that Muslims and other minorities are being lynched and attacked as part of a targeted campaign by 'Hindutva extremists' with the tacit approval of the NDA Government is at best a distortion, and at worst sheer propaganda.
MSM (Mainstream media) through its Rising Intolerance, Church Attacks, Award Wapsi narratives has played a key role in embedding this perception in the minds of some urbanites. But in the day & age of social media, where MSM lies are routinely called out, there really is no excuse to fall for their agenda if one is willing to look at things dispassionately and with an open mind.
We do not have the resources to conduct detailed research like a media house or Delhi think-tanks. But crowd-sourced databases like this, our own repository of articles from the last 18 months, and research by twitterati like @ARanganathan72 and @audit_uscirf, clearly show that –
1.) Lynchings of Hindus at hands of Muslims are far more common. Islamists also threaten Muslim atheists or those they consider munafiq (hypocrites)
2.) Mob lynchings are, sadly, not a new phenomenon – they occurred before 2014 too.
3.) The latest #NotInMyName campaign is a selective portrayal of facts to project a false narrative.
Our aim is not to gloss over the murders of Junaid, Pehlu Khan and Akhlaq, but to bring about a sense of balance when such sensitive issues are being debated, and to make us all think about why other victims of mob violence like Sawan Rathod, Pankaj Narang, Ramesh Jadhav, Mohammed Ayub Pandith, Kaushik Purkait, Rohit Tanti and many more barely register with us?
Below is a sampling of recent lynching incidents that the #NotInMyName protesters are silent on –
1.) J&K, 2017– Senior Police Officer Lynched at Srinagar Mosque – Mob Suspected he was a Kashmiri Pandit
2.) Uttar Pradesh, 2017 – Hindu youth shot dead, father critical in clash over water splashed on clothes of Muslim man enroute to namaz in Muzaffarnagar, UP
3.) West Bengal, 2016 – Indrajit Dutta from Birbhum was lynched to death for refusing to contribute for Moharram observance.
4.) West Bengal, 2016 – Minor Dalit Youth Rohit Tanti Killed by gang of Muslims in Gole Bazaar, Kharagpur.
5.) West Bengal 2016 – 22-year-old ITI student Kaushik Purkait was beaten to death in Diamond Harbour by a TMC leader-led mob that mistook him for a buffalo thief
6.) Maharashtra, 2016 – 17-year-old rag picker Sawan Rathod was burnt alive by 3 Muslims after they asked him 'Are you Hindu?'
7.) Maharashtra, 2016 – Mumbai Police constable Vilas Shinde (52) was battered to death by Ahmed Qureshi (21) for stopping Qureshi's 16 year old brother who was driving without a helmet
8.) Delhi, 2016 – 40 year old dentist Dr. Pankaj Narang was beaten to death by a mob led by Nasir Khan (22), his mother Mesar, and brother Amir Khan (21).
9.) Uttar Pradesh, 2015 – Gaurav #lynched in communal clash in Aligarh on Diwali night over bursting crackers.
10.) West Bengal, 2015 – 5 Hindus from OBC community were lynched when they crossed a mosque while returning from a Dharmic religious function.
11.) Maharashtra, 2014 – Ramesh Jadhav was lynched in his home by 5 Muslim men after he tried to stop them from harassing and attacking a woman in the neighborhood.
There have been dozens of brutal hackings of Hindu activists in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and other states such as the brazen daylight murder of RSS worker Rudresh R in central Bengaluru by a fanatical Muslim gang. But these lynchings are brushed away as 'routine political violence' by left-liberals.
Here is a list of lynchings reported from 2013, when UPA was in power – data gathered by @ARanganathan72 –
Ranganathan further digs into NCRB data to find that 'From 2009 to 2013, Crime against Dalits rose by 17.94%. 1 crime every 15 minutes. For 5 years running.' He questions why no one back then asked if intolerance against Dalits was rising under Man Mohan Singh, or whether UPA mainstreamed violence against Dalits?
This excellent analysis shows how the current #NotInMyName has clear political undertones and appears to be a successor to the #GrowingIntolerance campaign that started in 2015 to guilt trip the Hindus who had voted for Narendra Modi.
The hidden hate-soaked agenda of these 'protesters' can be seen through anti-Hindu banners, directed against 'Hindu terrorism' and 'Brahminism'. They want to make this an international issue and there have also been calls for foreign investors to refrain from investing in Bharat over this issue.
As I pointed out #NotInMyName is a communal campaign organised by bigots… pic.twitter.com/qbyQ7tPNCc
— Abhinav Prakash (@Abhina_Prakash) June 29, 2017
Another giveaway of the global NGO lobby pulling the strings behind the scenes in this #NotInMyName campaign is this excerpt from an Indian Express report –
"16-year-old Vipin Kumar and his friends held on to signs that read: 'Muslim Lives Matter, All Lives Matter'.
"Our teacher told us about a boy who was killed on a train last week. We never thought twice about not showing up here today," said Kumar.
Inspired by the 'Black Lives Matters' movement in the US, Kumar's teacher Azad Khan, who teaches "life skills" to the boys in an NGO in Mehrauli, got the group to paint signs. "We need to be inspired by other such movements from around the world," said Khan."
But this fight is not between those who support Narendra Modi and those who oppose him. It is a fight for the Hindu mind – will the Hindu finally learn to see things as they are, or will he/she again fall for the irrational self-loathing which vested interests want to trigger within?
The #NotInMyName campaign has succeeded in one part of their mission, which was to gain credibility by eliciting a response from the PM.
Killing people in the name of Gau Bhakti is not acceptable. This is not something Mahatma Gandhi would approve: PM @narendramodi
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) June 29, 2017
This statement all but confirms the theory that Junaid was murdered by 'gau bhakts' whereas the facts at hand show that it was a tragic outcome of a squabble over a train seat. Unfortunately, this will be used by propagandists who want to push their narrative that 'cow vigilantes' are running amok in Bharat.
But, the PM's statement is also a wake-up call for Hindus. Modi surely understands that he came to power on the back of a Hindu vote against the apathy, corruption, lethargy and anti-Hindu actions of the 'secular' front. Yet, he felt compelled by the agenda-setting power of the left-liberal coterie to blame a large section of Hindu society (gau bhakts – i.e. those who adore the cow) for a crime they did not commit.
This clearly shows that despite the advent of social media, the Hindu voice is still not heard or taken seriously in the corridors of power. Instead of feeling helpless and breast-beating, this is the challenge that all Hindus of this generation must take head-on over the next decade. Re-electing Modi in 2019 is just one of the things we need to do, but creating space for the Hindu voice in bureaucracy, academia and policy spheres is as important.
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Preacher Witting is a minor character in BioShock Infinite. Witting is first seen in the Welcome Center, offering Booker DeWitt baptism and thereby passage into the city of Columbia.
As Booker enters the circle of devotees at the exit of the Welcome Center, Preacher Witting appears to be blind, asking, "Is it someone new?", a reference to the first Spider Splicer from the original BioShock, as seen here.
Spoiler Warning: Would you kindly avoid the following section until you've finished BioShock Infinite?
As minor of a character as he may seem throughout most of the game, keen observers will notice that Preacher Witting is also the same preacher present at Booker DeWitt's optional baptism at the very end of the game.
This appearance would lead one to believe that, in the alternate dimension wherein Booker accepted the baptism and was reborn as Father Comstock, Comstock took Witting in as a close confidant and recruited the preacher to help found his new "religion".
As for when Witting's blindness occurred, one can only speculate. However, being blind was oddly convenient for Booker as Witting would have surely recognized DeWitt in the Welcome Center. Perhaps Booker blinded the man in one of his previous attempts to enter Columbia to give himself a stealthy entrance into the city.


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SPORTS | 19-11-2019 13:28
Argentina beat Chile to open new-look Davis Cup Finals
Argentina comfortably defeated their Latin rivals 3-0 to open its campaign in the Davis Cup Finals on Tuesday.
Argentina's Diego Schwartzman (left) celebrates with captain Gastón Gaudio after winning his singles tennis match against Chile's Cristian Garin at the Davis Cup Madrid Finals 2019 in Madrid on November 19, 2019. | AFP/Gabriel Bouys
Argentina comfortably defeated Chile 3-0 to open its campaign in the new-style Davis Cup Finals on Tuesday.
Guido Pella beat Nicolás Jarry 6-4, 6-3 and Diego Schwartzman defeated Cristian Garín 6-2, 6-2, to give the 2016 champions the opening win in Group C.
Argentina later won a third point after their doubles duo Máximo González and Leonardo Mayer won 6-3, 7-5 against Jarry and his doubles partner Hans Podlipnik-Castillo.
"The game was good, I'm very happy to play with Leo, the first time I play and we did very well," Gonzalez said after the final match.
In the new-style Davis Cup, teams are playing only two singles and a doubles in each tie, with the group winners advancing to the knock-out stage.
France and Japan were tied after Jo-Wilfried Tsonga cruised past Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-2, 6-1 and Yoshihito Nishioka defeated Gael Monfils 7-5, 6-2.
Kazakhstan was leading the Netherlands after Mikhail Kukushkin beat Botic van de Zanschulp 6-2, 6-2.
Santos beat Boca to secure all-Brazil Copa Libertadores final
Hosts Spain opens against Russia later Tuesday with top-ranked Rafael Nadal likely playing.
Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Britain's Andy Murray will make their first appearance in the revamped competition on Wednesday.
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The new Davis Cup is being played in World Cup-style with all 18 teams playing in a single venue in the same week. It is the result of a 25-year partnership between the International Tennis Federation and Kosmos, a group co-founded by Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué.
It will looks nothing like the first one in 1900, nor any other edition after that. Organisers hope the new format will be more attractive — and lucrative — than the head-to-head confrontations that took place in the past.
There will be more attractions for fans off the court, too, with high-profile artists providing entertainment at the "Caja Mágica" ("Magic Box") tennis complex, including Colombian singer Shakira — Piqué's wife.
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"To tell you the truth, I'm a bit nervous," said Piqué last week.
"I want everything to go well, and I know that everything will go well. I'm a very optimistic and positive person," he added.
Eighteen nations and 90 players — including top-ranked Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray — will be in the Spanish capital for the inaugural Davis Cup Finals.
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"It will be a spectacle," Spain player Feliciano López said. "We have to thank everybody for making this happen. The atmosphere will be incredible this week."
Organisers said 100,000 tickets have been sold for the season-ending tournament that will attract more than 700 journalists to Madrid and will be broadcast to more than 170 countries.
"The competition will be much easier to follow for all kinds of audiences as the title will be decided in just one week," Kosmos Tennis CEO Javier Alonso told The Associated Press.
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The 18 teams will play in six groups of three, with the group winners advancing to the knockout stage along with the two best second-place teams. The nations will play within their groups Monday-Thursday, with the knock-out rounds Friday-Sunday. The matches will take place on hard courts in three stadiums in morning and afternoon sessions that will include two singles matches and a doubles match.
In past years, the competition featured head-to-head matchups played at varied sites over four weekends throughout the year, a tradition some critics — and some players — didn't want to see changed.
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But the ITF said the 25-year partnership with Kosmos was key to increasing revenue and aiding the local tennis federations worldwide.
Having the new competition condensed into a single week and one venue helped attract new sponsors, and made it easier for top players to include the Davis Cup in their busy schedules. Prize money of US$20 million in total, rivalling those awarded in Grand Slams, also helped attract players.
"People can expect of course a big event with the best tennis players of the world representing their countries, and also a new entertainment concept for the competition, with big stars taking part in the opening and closing ceremony such as Shakira and Alan Walker," Alonso said. "With this new formula new audiences will also get involved in Davis Cup."
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The new formula should bring new life to the event, but it also added some unprecedented logistical challenges, with organisers having to build 18 separate changing rooms for each team at the Caja Mágica, which usually hosts the Madrid Open. Seven additional training courts also had to be built to accommodate all teams.
Twelve nations made it to the finals through a qualifying round, while last year's Davis Cup semi-finalists — Croatia, France, Spain and the United States — were given automatic spots. Britain and Argentina received wild-card berths. The seeded teams will be France, Croatia, Argentina, Belgium, Britain and the United States.
Home-crowd favourites Spain, featuring the top-ranked Nadal, will be in the toughest group along with Russia and defending champion Croatia. Murray, trying to make a comeback from injury, will lead Britain's team, while Australia will feature the hot-tempered Nick Kyrgios. Among those missing because of injury are Japan's Key Nishikori and Canada's Milos Raonic. Roger Federer is not playing because Switzerland didn't qualify.
– TIMES/AFP/AP
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Last week the FCC unanimously adopted a new member to the Emergency Alert Systems (EAS) family: the "Blue Alert." Transmitted through the broadcast EAS and Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) systems, the Blue Alert is a voluntary alert code that can be used by state and local authorities to alert the public of credible "threats to law enforcement and to help apprehend dangerous suspects." See it as an Amber Alert for law enforcement.
The Report and Order was approved after an emotional testimony by the family members of Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu from the New York Police Department, who were gunned down while on duty and whose deaths lead to the 2015 Blue Alert Act. This FCC approval will allow for more states to adopt the new EAS code.
This new alert can be disseminated through television, radio, satellite, and wireless phones using the three character code BLU. On a voluntary basis, all EAS Participants can upgrade their software to include the BLU event code. However, those wishing to upgrade will have to bear the cost for installation, downloading the software updates, and any other clerical work necessary.
For those wishing to welcome Blue Alert into their EAS system, the FCC has provided a 12-month implementation period for broadcast EAS and an 18-month implementation period for WEA via people's phones. These timelines are designed to ensure that those choosing to deliver EAS Blue Alert can have the sufficient training, resources, and time available to address any technical issues that arise to ensure the successful delivery of Blue Alerts. The Commission also believes that by upgrading the EAS with Blue Alert on a rolling, voluntary basis that it will cut down on significant costs to EAS Participants.
If your arms are wide open to welcome Blue Alert into your EAS system, contact us about how we can help you.


80. 汪暐宸、陳柏英、梁容輝。〈設計摩擦力 : 深度互動傳訊體驗〉,Chinese Institute of Design Annual Design Conference Proceedings, Taichung, May 27, 2017.
63. Yu-Shin Wang, Yuan-Yao Hsu, Wei-Lin Chen, Han Chen, and Rung-Huei Liang. 2015. Craft Consciousness: The Powerlessness of Traditional Embroidery. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2259-2264.
60. Hung-Chi Lee, Wenn-Chieh Tsai, Po-Hao Wang, Rung-Huei Liang, and Jane Hsu. 2014. The reflexive printer: embodying personal memory for social provocation. In Proceedings of the 2014 companion publication on Designing interactive systems (DIS Companion '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 97-100.
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Nigerians Are Mostly the Perpetrators of Their Own Oppression – Seun Kuti
Nigerian afrobeats singer and political activist, Seun Kuti has stated that Nigerians complain a lot about oppression against them, of which they are the biggest perpetrators.
The singer revealed this on the Rubbin Minds show with Ebuka on Sunday, the 27th of June 2021.
Ebuka asking him what he thinks Nigerians should do to make government accountable.
Replying him, Seun Kuti said Nigerians have to shed the spirit of their oppressor, and stop mimicking them.
He explained that Nigerians have oppressed each of other in different sectors of the society.
Seun concluded by saying majority of the oppression that Nigerians feel as a people are perpetrated by themselves.
He says;
In Nigeria, we as Motherland people, we need to shed the spirit of the oppressor. It is not a very easy thing to do because it takes a lot of self-reflection and some people end with self-doubt and they don't want to linger there. Because it takes a lot of energy to power through that doubt to get to clarity. We are all educated by our oppressors. They set themselves as examples of the society. So,we find ourselves, even though we're oppressed, mimicking the oppressors, There's no way in Nigeria today, our money can be laundered without the assistance of our bankers. There's no way people's homes can be displaced without the help of civil servants. There's no way people can be abused on the streets without the help of policemen and military men. There's no way our educational sector can be destroyed without the help and connivance of our lecturers and vice-chancellors. So, majority of the oppression that we feel as a people is actually perpetrated by us, on behalf of the oppressor. We so believe in the spirit, and we think if we just keep our head down, and we don't say anything, one day, we'll also become an oppressor. So, everybody is kind of an oppressor in waiting.
Apart from calling Nigerians out on their self-oppression, Seun Kuti has also been in the news recently after his spat with the popular Wizkid FC fanbase.
After saying that only 4 artists from Nigeria have ever been nominated for the Grammys, they have been on his case.
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Studio Woe presented Gruff at the inaugural PAX Unplugged. A tactical combat card game, Gruff features mutated monster goats. Based on the children's story, The Three Billy-Goats Gruff, where three goats defeated the troll that lived under a bridge. The shepherds came to realize that they had been using goats all wrong and used black magic and science to weaponize their goats. Thereby creating the fattest, weirdest goats around making them duel to the death whenever they could. Gruff is a self-contained card combat game with everything needed for up to four players to play. Available expansions simply add more to the world of the base game.
The brand-new expansion, Rage of the Trolls debuts at PAX Unplugged. This expansion adds coop and single-player modes. The backstory is that after the Troll were defeated they went into exile, now they have returned with a vengeance. Players can fight the trolls cooperatively with a friend or as a single player campaign. Rage of the Trolls may also be mixed in with the base game to be played competitively. The Trolls may also be played against the goats in the universe adding a whole new dimension. The next planned expansion is The Stuff of Nightmares adding a new faction of plushy nightmare goats called Stuffkin.
The idea is that nightmares can coalesce into your stuffed animals becoming these monster goats which then become part of your arsenal. Stuff of Nightmares will be coming to Kickstarter in the June or July of 2018. A new project from Studio Woe is coming to Kickstarter April or May of 2018 is Pirate Tanks of Skull Rock, a dexterity game of pirates that have acquired tanks. The story being that long ago in 2007, pirates seize a freighter full of Russian T-72 tanks and proceed to have an epic game of capture the flag. The pirate tank pawns are flicked around the board trying to capture the enemy flag and return it to their base.


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I realize now that this achievement "guide" is almost useless. I originally posted it because TA had not updated the achievement description from the original, so I wanted to let people know about the change of the requirement from the update. However, now that TA has been updated, there is no need to notify anyone of the change.
However, I'm not going to delete the solution since there are several comments where people seem to be asking for help in matching up, and I encourage you all to continue posting to find players and/or create a boosting session here on TA.
While the achievement should be relatively straight forward, TC appears to not have a ranking system programmed that makes it easy to match up with people, or sometimes makes it hard/impossible to find a match at all.
Unfortunately, the only advice I can provide is to keep trying with different game types and different times of the day. Also, a great time to go for this achievement is at the start of a new season when you know for a fact that people will be playing and everyone's rank is reset, thus theoretically making it easier to match up with other people.
As of the June 6, 2017 update, this achievement is even easier to get!
The original achievement tasked players with achieving a rank in ALL launch Core and Competitive game modes, but now players simply have to achieve a rank in ONE Core and ONE Competitive game type.
Simply choose your favorite game type (Warzone, Escalation, etc.) from each mode (Core and Competitive) and complete 5 matches in that game type (meaning you will have to complete a minimum of 10 total matches) and you will unlock this achievement.
Another thing to note is that your rank in each game type will be reset every time The Coalition introduces a new season. Therefore, you will need to complete all 10 matches within a single season to earn this achievement.
There are currently no gaming sessions for the Ranked and Filed achievements that you can join - why not register and make a new session?


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Topic: Microsoft Office
Expert Access 2007 Programming
Rob Cooper, Michael Tucker
Other Available Formats: E-book
Rob Cooper is a Test Lead on the Access team at Microsoft. He started at Microsoft as a support engineer in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1998 and joined the Access 2003 test team in Redmond in 2001. During the Access 2007 release, he led the security efforts across the test team and worked on several new features including disabled mode, database encryption, Office Trust Center, and sorting, grouping, and totals. Rob also led efforts around the Access object model and continues to provide direction around programmability and security in Access.
A long-time fan of Access, Rob is a frequent speaker at the Seattle Access Group and PNWADG meetings and has written for the Microsoft Knowledge Base and Access Advisor. Aside from writing code in Access and C#, he also enjoys spending time with his family watching movies, going to the zoo and aquarium, and hanging out in and around Seattle.
Michael Tucker is a Software Design Engineer on the Microsoft Access test team in Redmond. He joined Microsoft in 1993 as a Product Support Engineer supporting the very first release of Microsoft Access, and has been passionate about Access ever since. During the Access 2007 release, he worked on the new ACE database engine, and owned the complex data and SharePoint workflow integration features.
Michael designed and coordinated implementation of the test automation infrastructure used by the test team. He also has previous experience as a Test Lead and Program Manager on a variety of products at Microsoft. His specialties include SQL, data normalization, and object model design, and anything related to his passions for airplanes, airports, and traveling the world.


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Michael Salcman, A Prague Spring: Before and After, Reviewed by Christopher T. George
Michael Salcman, A Prague Spring: Before and After. Evening Street Press, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-937-34733-8, 98 pages. Price $25.00.
Michael Salcman, the son of Holocaust survivors, was born in 1946, the year following the end of the Second World War, in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. He emigrated to the United States with his parents three years later, in 1949. In this reflective book, Salcman confronts his past and not surprisingly, as he confesses in a note toward the end of the book, it "is an exorcism of sorts." He states in the essay included in the collection, "How I Missed the Prague Spring, A Sort of Memoir": "Now most of my poems are informed by the war years and the Czech struggle for freedom."
This is a book about doors and windows: Doors to do with the writer's family history, as explained below, and Windows with the peculiar and idiosyncratic history of the Czech nation, as related by the author in said essay, which is also revelatory because Salcman admits, "My father returned to Prague long before I did; I never found a medical or literary organization to sponsor me and when young, was too afraid of being taken captive."
As the author states, the Prague Spring of 1968 was that tantalizing window of freedom shown briefly to the Czech people under an enlightened Communist leader, Alexander Dubček—a mirage of possible release from the brutal stranglehold of Soviet control, snatched away just as suddenly as were the similar promises of the Hungarian Revolution of Fall 1956 and Tiananmen Square in Biejing, China, in April 1989.
Of course, history is full of such cruel teases and yet that Spring of 1968 was one more wrinkle to the tragic history of a nation that had known Soviet oppression following Nazi rule, the latter including the grotesque Nazi eradication of the village of Lidice as retribution for the assassination of Reichsprotektor Rudolph Heydrich by Czech partisans.
In the centuries before those twentieth century episodes of ugliness, the history of the Czech nation is significant for a history of defenestrations—the practice of throwing political opponents out of windows, beginning with the First Defenestration of Prague that occurred in 1419 during the Hussite Rebellion and the Second in 1618 during the Thirty Years War. The first instance proved bloodily fatal for a number of unfortunate souls and was part of a pattern of gruesome executions, although the Second Defrenestration, as Salcman notes proved "almost darkly comical": Protestants hurled two Catholic counselors from a window, only for them to be saved by the men landing in a dung heap. In the twentieth century, a fatal defenestration took place in 1948 when Czech democratic hero Jan Masaryk fell from an office window in the Foreign Ministry—a "suicide" according to the Communists, but a death believed to be murder by patriotic Czechs. From 1948 onward, the Soviets took over, leading twenty years later to the promise and tragedy of Spring 1968.
Happily, following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, democracy returned to Czechoslovakia, although at the cost of breaking into two nations: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Salcman writes, "Perhaps because they are so versed in the ironies of history, the Czechs have twice made writers (Tomas Masaryk, Václev Havel) President of their country. What other nation has been brave enough or foolish enough to do the same?"
An epigraph at the beginning of the book helps to set the tone for the entire collection and establish the theme of doors. Salcman explains in an end note: "I am indebted to my cousin Arnold Polak for the epigraph; I heard him say these words at his 80th birthday party in August 2007." The words are:
……When you knock on the door of strangers,
……There are three possibilities: they will send you away,
……They will take you in, they will report you.
The words repeat as the final tercet in the opening poem of the volume, one of a cycle of ten poems titled "Spring, 1944":
……(The Dead)
……These dead have no faces: Father's five brothers-in-law,
……all but one sister, his own father and mother,
……my mother's father, my little cousins.
……God knows why a family as large as a town
……was erased; smoke and fire belched
……from Moloch's mouth and the earth shook.
……After they were gone, I never looked again
……at the old brown photographs, nameless and worthless
……like the deeds of blown-up houses,
……without my father forcing me to,
……me forgetting the first while he spoke
……of the last. How dark a sun will set with him.
…… When you knock on the door of strangers,
…… There are three possibilities: they will send you away,
…… They will take you in, they will report you.
These words sound a sinister note at the outset, a tone maintained as poem after poem of the opening cycle resounds with episodes of death and near death, Jews betrayed and sent to their doom, or almost sent to their deaths. No wonder the poet repeats the same words in the ninth poem:
……(The Pinkas Synagogue)
……I didn't know where to find their names,
……the farmer and his wife, the two daughters,
……the righteous gentiles my cousin had them inscribe
……on the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue,
……close by the names of those they couldn't save.
……Then a flood came and wiped the walls clean
……for a bit as if God wished too to erase them.
……Outside this wall and old Jewish cemetery,
……the Czechs have built a Museum of Decorative Arts,
……the stacked stones and red letters like shards
……of Bohemian glass, cutting the soul. Like knives.
One of the most important poems in the collection is "Everything but the Ashes," about famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal (1908–2005), who Salcman correctly states in an end note "did what the nations refused to do." The poem is somewhat edgier than others of Salcman's poems, departing from the more languid, lyrical style which characterizes many of the poems in the book. I quote from the opening epigraph, the last lines from stanza one, and the last lines of the second and final stanza of this outstanding poem, as the poet describes what this outstanding man did:
…………If a man saves a single life
…………it's as if he saved the entire world—The Talmud
……. . . . I will repeat and repeat and repeat this year's inventory:
……bound for Berlin, twenty-five freight cars of women's hair,
……248 of clothing, a hundred boxcars filled with shoes
……and jewelry taken from the Jews;
……400,000 watches, four thousand carats of diamonds,
……one hundred and sixty tons of wedding rings—
……the Germans shipped everything but their ashes.
……He knew how a grand indictment like this might fit
……on a lading slip, how a number might hold a memory.
……. . . . All in all, he spent fifty years in Vienna,
……a city that hated him like a poke in the eye,
……surrounded by file cards and photos, affidavits and writs—
……not a scrap was wasted. This was the life he had to give
……and the metabolism of starvation its special gift.
……When he died in his sleep at ninety-six
……everything was shipped but the ashes.
In addition to poems inspired by the poet's family history and the Second World War, there are other poems on Czech history and a number of pieces written by the author's life in Brooklyn. Even here the poems can have a haunted quality, as when Salcman remembers being in a synagogue fifty years earlier, in a poem titled "Lech Lecha" which I partially quote:
……Fifty years ago today I set out, a small knit cap on my head,
……the curve of my skull echoed
……in the great bowl of the Talmud Torah's dome
……on Coney Island Avenue.
……I am creeping up on Abraham, almost as old as he was
……in Lech Lecha, my Torah portion, ready to set off with Lot
……and Sarah, and all their wealth, and the souls they had made
……in Haran, the place they were leaving for Canaan. . . .
……Fifty years ago this day, I gave a little speech about the awe I felt
……standing before the Ark and speaking directly to God.
……It was prettily done, without humility and without fear.
……But now I am counting souls, those made and unmade,
……those given and withheld, in the land to which I've been taken. Or led.
In addition to allusions in various poems to World War II Jewish history and Biblical passages, the poet makes passing references to such luminaries as Czech national hero and religious reformer Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415), Einstein, Kafka, Shakespeare, James Joyce, court painter Master Theodoric (active 1350–1370), known as "the Czech Giotto" who "decorated Karlstein Castle with jewel-encrusted portraits of saints," and German artist Gerhard Richter (born 1932), who "has used both realist and abstract paintings to critique photography." In short, this is an erudite and highly rewarding collection. For many reasons, it is arguably Michael Salcman's life work. And bravo for it.
A selection of subtly understated black and white photographs by Lynn Silverman are placed at strategic intervals throughout the book. They depict Czech streets and memorials often shown in shadow. Ms Silvermann's photos lend a noir and stark feel, forming a perfect counterpoint to Michael Salcman's engaging poetry and prose.
© Michael Salcman and Christopher T. George
Michael Salcman was born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia in 1946, the son of Holocaust survivors, and came to the United States in 1949. After finishing the Six-Year Combined Program in Liberal Arts and Medical Education at Boston University, he was a Fellow in Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health and trained in neurosurgery at Columbia University's Neurological Institute in New York Former chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, his early medical career was profiled by Jon Franklin and Alan Doelp in Not Quite A Miracle (Doubleday, 1983). Former president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore and the CityLit Project, Salcman lectures widely on art and the brain and on the brain and creativity. He currently serves as Special Lecturer in the Osher Institute at Towson University. He is a poetry editor at The Baltimore Review. Salcman is the author of five chapbooks, the most recent of which is Stones In Our Pockets (Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin, 2007), and two previous collections, The Clock Made of Confetti (Orchises Press, 2007), nominated for The Poet's Prize in 2009, The Enemy of Good Is Better (Orchises Press, 2011), and A Prague Spring: Before and After (Evening Street Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Sinclair Poetry Prize. Salcman has also published a widely-praised anthology of classic and contemporary poems on doctors, patients, illness and recovery, Poetry in Medicine (Persea Books, 2015).
Christopher T. George was born in Liverpool, England in 1948 but is a long-time resident of Maryland where he lives with his wife Donna and two cats. Chris recently retired as a medical editor in Washington, D.C. Besides being an editor of Loch Raven Review, Chris serves as editor at the on-line poetry workshop Desert Moon Review at http://www.thedesertmoonreview.com/. His poetry has appeared in publications worldwide. He is also a songwriter, artist, War of 1812 historian, and Ripperologist. With Northern Ireland historian Dr. John McCavitt, he recently published The Man Who Captured Washington: Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812 (Oklahoma University Press, 2016).


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Q: zero to one relationship entity framework I am trying to create a zero to one relationship with code first entity framework. With the sample code below, I am getting error message:
Unable to determine the principal end of an association between the types 'CompanyView' and 'MemberView'. The principal end of this association must be explicitly configured using either the relationship fluent API or data annotations.

With this error, I have tried added in a configuration to fix this.
modelBuilder.Entity<CompanyView>().HasOptional(x => x.MemberView).WithOptionalPrincipal(x => x.CompanyView);

Which ended up with another error message.
CompanyView_MemberView_Target: : Multiplicity is not valid in Role 'CompanyView_MemberView_Target' in relationship 'CompanyView_MemberView'. Because the Dependent Role properties are not the key properties, the upper bound of the multiplicity of the Dependent Role must be '*'.

Anyone have any idea on what is going one here?
Thanks.
public class CompanyView
{
    [Key]
    public Guid Id { get; private set; }

    public Guid? MemberId { get; private set; }

    [ForeignKey("MemberId")]
    public MemberView MemberView { get; private set; }
}

public class MemberView
{
    [Key]
    public Guid Id { get; private set; }

    public Guid? CompanyId { get; private set; }

    [ForeignKey("CompanyId")]
    public CompanyView CompanyView { get; private set; }
}

The end result I would expected is as below:
A MemberView can have 0 or 1 CompanyView, each CompanyView can have 0 to 1 MemberView.

A: Relationship as you specified is unusual (one or zero at both directions). You try to create foreign keys at both tables, as the result you have insoluble loop. You can easily create relation one or zero in case when one entity is principal and one is dependent. You can try to simulate desired relation via many to many relationship. Also you can to not annotate fields with foreign key attributes, as the result you will not have some benefits, but you will be able to flexible manipulate relationships manually on your own. At the end,  I demonstrate relation where, for example, MemberView is dependent table:
public class CompanyView
{
    [Key]
    public Guid Id { get; private set; }
    public MemberView MemberView { get; private set; }
}

public class MemberView
{
    [Key, ForeignKey("CompanyView")]
    public Guid CompanyId { get; private set; }
    public CompanyView CompanyView { get; private set; }
}

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Franciscan (8-12, 6-0 AMCC) earned 8-0, 8-2, and 8-0 wins in doubles to grab a 3-0 advantage by the end of the doubles segment of the match.
The Barons went on to win all six singles matches to earn the sweep.
Penn State Altoona men's tennis finishes its 2018-19 season with a 2-14 overall record, including a 1-5 AMCC mark.


It seems that the biggest companies, financial or otherwise, are in no hurry to get out of Britain. Over the past few years, barely any of the office jobs associated with the big financial companies have moved to the EU. While the companies are still keeping an eye out for the jobs, it seems that they are hoping for something. After all, the outlook on Brexit has been more and more leaning towards people believing it might not happen at all. The latestpredictions made by the bigger players in the financial fields only shows that more and more companies are expecting a more favorable outcome for the business.
Employment in the private sector has grown, as a result. Some may even believe this to be a positive sign, as the spending of the private sector increases. But this is positive only as so far as the ability of the people to save goes. The people being employed are the people who, in a more optimistic setting, would be spending their resources on starting new projects and businesses, and this is harmful to the economy. The simplest way to think about this is this – private investment has fallen in the UK over 2018. The rate of the fall has also been the most dramatic since the 2003 recession.
What is the result? All of this is going to cost the UK economy a lot of money. As large businesses refuse to prepare for the move and new businesses stall in creation, the economy is slowing down. If the no deal Brexit does happen it will be catastrophic for the country. The idea is simple – the day large businesses start letting people go, there will be no space for employment to shift, so the rate of unemployment will rise, dramatically. Savings will have to be dipped int and spending will decrease. Without new businesses to high skills workers, the unemployment rate will not recover for a while. In the end, Britain ends up with a highly skilled, unemployed workforce that is having trouble emigrating simply because Brexit has imposed restrictions on their travel. While some might call this speculation, there are indications that business has slowed down over the past year and that some of the worst predictions might be coming true. Let's hope not.


Trees, Earth, and Torah : A Tu B'Shevat Anthology, Paperback by Elon, Ari (EDT); Waskow, Arthur O. (EDT), ISBN 0827607172, ISBN-13 9780827607170Exploring childbirth from within a Jewish tradition, the author of New Lifedraws on folklore, prayers, folk remedies, and biblical, rabbinical, and mystical literature to discuss Jewish beliefs, values, and customs concerning the birth of a child. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Reprint.


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Deze lijst van voetbalinterlands is een overzicht van alle officiële voetbalwedstrijden tussen de nationale teams van Ecuador en Joegoslavië. De landen speelden één keer tegen elkaar: een vriendschappelijk duel dat werd gespeeld op 8 mei 2002 in East Rutherford (Verenigde Staten). Voor het Ecuadoraans voetbalelftal was dit een oefenwedstrijd in de voorbereiding op het Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 2002.

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Wedstrijden bepaald door strafschoppen worden, in lijn met de FIFA, als een gelijkspel gerekend.

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De eerste en enige ontmoeting tussen de nationale voetbalploegen van Ecuador en Joegoslavië vond plaats op 8 mei 2002. Het vriendschappelijk duel, bijgewoond door 36.540 toeschouwers, werd gespeeld in het Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, en stond onder leiding van scheidsrechter Richard Grady uit de Verenigde Staten. Hij deelde drie rode kaarten uit. Bij Joegoslavië maakte doelman Vukašin Poleksić zijn debuut voor de nationale ploeg.

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7 things Microsoft OneNote does that Evernote can't
By James A. Martin
CIO |
Rob Schultz
We're moving deeper into the modern "walled garden" of digital life. Generally speaking, you choose the garden you like best—be it Apple, Google or Microsoft—and the more time and money you invest, the more painful it is to leave that ecosystem.
Similarly, many people pick Evernote or Microsoft OneNote as their repository of choice for digital scraps, doodlings and scanned documents. Then they usually stick with that choice, because it's not easy to toggle between them or switch.
About a year ago, I chose Evernote over OneNote, and I started amassing my own digital archive. At the time, Evernote's Mac software was far superior to OneNote's Mac app. However, Microsoft has continually upgraded OneNote for Mac and iOS, and today it's a legitimate Evernote rival; if I were facing the Mac Evernote versus Mac OneNote decision today, it would be a different situation. If you're a Windows user, the choice is even more challenging, because the OneNote 2013 Windows desktop app has valuable features that aren't available in Evernote or OneNote for Mac.
To help you decide between these two notebook tools, I've come up with seven things OneNote does that Evernote can't. Of course, this is only one side of the story. For the flip side, read "6 things Evernote does that OneNote can't."
1) OneNote is a design-friendly, freeform canvas
Each OneNote note is a blank canvas, every element its own movable container. If you have a stylus, you can draw anywhere within the note, and you can insert handwriting, blocks of text, images or any other element wherever you want.
Each OneNote note is a blank canvas, every element its own movable container.
OneNote 2013 for Windows also lets you customize your notes. For example, you can change the "paper" color, add rule or grid lines, change the dimensions of notes, create new page templates or apply existing ones, and apply text styles.
Other versions of OneNote, including the iPad and Mac apps, offer some but not all, of these capabilities. Evernote notes are not "freeform canvases," and you cannot customize their looks.
2) OneNote Office integration
OneNote 2013 for Windows plays very nicely with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Instead of simply attaching files to notes, you can insert, say, new or existing Excel spreadsheets into OneNote notes. Any edits you make are automatically saved to the corresponding Excel file and the spreadsheet shown in your OneNote page.
You can also share OneNote content with the rest of your organization using SharePoint, and right-click on Outlook email messages to send them to specific OneNote notebooks. OneNote for Mac and Evernote both lack these features, but there are some workarounds, as detailed in this Evernote Excel user discussion.
3) OneNote simultaneous collaboration
OneNote for Mac and for Windows let you share notes and notebooks with other OneNote users for free. However, if your organization pays to use SharePoint for document sharing via OneNote, or if you use OneNote as part of a paid Office 365 subscription, sharing isn't really "free."
As you type or add content to shared OneNote pages, your collaborators see edits in near real-time. Evernote offers a "work chat" feature that lets you message collaborators but doesn't support simultaneous note-editing collaboration. The cloud service LiveMinutes is designed to fill that gap. A free plan lets you create up to 10 projects; paid plans let you create additional projects and cost $9 (for unlimited projects) or $39 month (as many as five users can create unlimited projects).
4) OneNote video recording
OneNote 2013 for Windows has a cool feature you won't find in Evernote or OneNote for Mac: It lets you add new video recordings to notes.
Say you're walking around a tradeshow with a Windows tablet, such as Microsoft's Surface Pro 3. You could easily record a product demonstration, type up some related notes, and share with your team. Evernote and OneNote for Mac both let you add audio annotations to notes, but not video.
5) OneNote's digital pen support
Microsoft has heavily pushed touch-screen input since it launched Windows 8, and it has a vested interest in stylus input, given the Surface pen that's designed to work with the company's Surface tablets. If you want to write notes by hand, draw circles or make other annotations on your notes, OneNote is the tool for you—unless you use a Mac. (Apple notebooks and desktops lack stylus support, presumably because they also lack touchscreens).
Evernote has some basic image-annotation tools, but they're not particularly useful. The company also released an app, Penultimate, for digital stylus input, but it doesn't integrate with Evernote notebooks.
OneNote can also use optical character recognition (OCR) on handwritten notes to make them keyword searchable, provided your handwriting is reasonably legible.
Microsoft came up with a slick way to start writing notes immediately in OneNote. A single tap of the Surface pen's top button launches the OneNote Windows app by default, and you can change that default to the OneNote 2013 Windows desktop application. (For more details, read "Microsoft Surface 3, OneNote and Surface pen are killer combo.")
OneNote can also use optical character recognition (OCR) on handwritten notes to make them keyword searchable, provided your handwriting is reasonably legible. On the other hand, Evernote can OCR handwriting on paper or whiteboards that you scan using Evernote or Scannable apps.
6) To-do lists for OneNote notes
You can add a variety of "sticky-note-like" elements to OneNote pages. They're called tags, and there's a relatively long list of default options, including "Remember for later," "Idea," "Website to visit," "Movie to see," and "Remember for blog." You can also create your own.
The tags make it easy to sort OneNote notes, but one specific tag is particularly useful: the "To Do" tag, which essentially lets you add checklists of to-do items to your notes. Using the previously mentioned example of recording video at a trade show, you might add a to-do list to a note—reminders to, say, follow up with the person who demonstrated the product or to research competitive products.
7) OneNote gives you (much) more free storage than Evernote
Another advantage of OneNote compared to Evernote is that you can use it for free and still get lots of features. For example, OneNote gives you 15GB of free storage that's available at all times via Microsoft's OneDrive. (Office 365 subscribers and enterprise users get even more storage.) By comparison, the free version of Evernote gives you only 60MB of data storage per month, and you need a $50-a-year Premium plan for unlimited storage. In other words, the more you use a free Evernote plan in a month, the more likely you are to blow past the storage limit.
Again, this post only addresses OneNote's strengths and Evernote's weaknesses. For the other side of the story, read, "6 things Evernote does that OneNote can't."
Editor's note: This article was originally published on CIO.com.
This story, "7 things Microsoft OneNote does that Evernote can't" was originally published by CIO.
James A. Martin is a seasoned tech journalist and blogger based in San Francisco and winner of the 2014 ASBPE National Gold award for his Living the Tech Life blog on CIO.com. James is also a content marketing consultant.


A full length concert from the recent Van halen 'A Different Kind Of Truth' has emerged online. The multi-camera fan filmed video shows the band midway through their ill-fated tour of which the majority of dates have been postponed. The band initially offered no explanation as to why the tour was to be put on hold.
A few days after the announcement, singer David Lee Roth explained the situation, saying "As usual, we bit off way more than we can chew when it came to scheduling. The band is winning, but our schedule has been sidelined for unnecessary roughness. If we continue past July 4th and all the way into Australia and Japan, then we're asking for the robot zombie tour."
"We're gonna take a break because this tour is gonna take us about two years," added Roth.
"The band is getting along famously, better than we have in quite some time, and I think the shows reveal that through the miracle of YouTube," Roth said. "I think we're one of the few bands who relishes you bringing whatever camera - if you can carry it in and pull the trigger on it yourself, then please do. And through the eye of YouTube, you can see that we're having ourselves a hell of a time, and I think that translates into the music."
Plenty of fans are taking the band up on the chance to film the 2012 shows, including the group's late March stop in Pittsburgh at the Consol Energy Center.
The setlist from the Pittsburg show is as follows. Watch it the video below.


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Enhancing Dynamic Vapor Sorption with Parallel Experiments, Ultrasonic Sensing and Raman Integration
From Surface Measurement Systems LtdJul 4 2017
Surface Measurement Systems have continued to be at the forefront of the field of dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) since they first developed the technique over fifty years ago. Recent innovations that they have introduced include instruments that facilitate parallel experiments, an ultrasonic sensor for direct vapor concentration measurements and integrated Raman spectroscopy for the observation of phase changes.
AZoM spoke to Vladimir Martis, Product Manager at Surface Measurement Systems, about the new tools that they are providing DVS scientists and the new breakthroughs their instruments are going to be part of.
How has the technique of DVS advanced since its invention over 25 years ago?
Although gravimetric dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) has been around for over two decades, it continues to develop in order to keep up with new research trends in the advanced characterization of materials.
The latest developments in DVS have been focused on the enhancement of hardware and software components to support real-time data collection, with superior quality, over a broad range of temperatures and partial pressures of water or organic vapors.
We at SMS are proud to use only high quality components (e.g.316 Stainless steel, Viton, Kalrez) in the construction of our gravimetric vapor sorption analyzers. Moisture, gas, organic vapors (or combinations of both) are controlled & measured at very high accuracy, reproducibility and repeatability by sophisticated hardware configurations.
Top of the range Ultra balances are the heart of any gravimetric technique and provide extremely low peak-to-peak noise and long-term baseline stability. In-house state of art DVS control software has been designed not only to automate and real-time visualize data collection but also fulfil the latest requirements introduced by different industries and regulatory bodies (e.g. CFR21 Part 11 for pharma). DVS control software is the final elegant solution to simplify and visualize complex experimental parameters and controls.
SMS has also recently introduced a sub-atmospheric pressure DVS (DVS Vacuum) for microporous materials characterization, in particular zeolites and MOFs. The system was developed to address the need for vapor and gas adsorption/desorption isotherms and isobars over a broad range of temperatures and relative pressures from 0.005 up to 1000 Torr. Pioneering coadsorption measurements using 2 vapors or 1 vapor and 1 gas allows for a deeper understanding of the competitive process of two probe molecules on the same solid surface of a material.
The DVS Resolution (Speed of Sound DVS) was introduced last autumn with great success in performing single and multicomponent sorption experiments at ambient pressures using water or organic solvents. This patent pending ultrasonic measurement technology is the first direct measurement of vapor concentration available anywhere.
We are the first to commercially integrate Raman spectrometry with our DVS analyzers as a turnkey solution to complex experimental problems involving sample form and phase changes. Synchronized and automated DVS-Raman experimental set-up and data collection can be performed simultaneously or sequentially.
Lastly, we introduced the DVS Endeavour (5X) with the ability to collect gravimetric vapor sorption isotherms in parallel mode for simultaneous 5 sample throughput.
DVS can be used to probe the strucutre of MOFs - tailor-made 3D strucutres that form important roles in designer catalysis and high volume gas storage. shutterstock.com | Adam Vilimek
The DVS Resolution and DVS Endeavour (5X) are both designed with parallel DVS experiments in mind. What are the benefits of running simultaneous DVS experiments?
Yes indeed, The DVS Resolution and DVS Endeavour (5X) perform parallel experiments, that is, a change in mass is recorded as a function of time at given partial pressure of solvent. The only difference between the DVS Resolution and Endeavour is number of Ultra-balances in the DVS analyzer.
The DVS Resolution has one Ultra-balance measuring changes in mass of a single sample exposed to different relative humidity or partial pressure of solvent, whereas the DVS Endeavour can weight up to 5 samples simultaneously exposed to identical relative humidity or partial pressure of solvent similar to the DVS Resolution.
Since the DVS Endeavour (5X) can handle 5 samples under identical conditions, an understanding of sample batch-to-batch variations, formulation studies and stability determinations are all possible in a single experiment.
What information can the ultrasonic sensor in your new DVS range be used to determine?
The Ultrasonic sensor (Speed of Sound DVS) is a sophisticated sensor that uses speed of sound measurements at constant temperature to directly measure the vapor concentration exposed to the sample during a sorption experiment.
The Ultrasonic sensor is used not only to measure but also control solvent concentrations delivered to a sample chamber in order to obtain correct mass uptakes of vapor by the sample. This technology is patent pending and will change how organic and moisture sorption isotherms are measured and controlled.
Speed of sound is the only method to directly measure solvent concentrations over a wide range of temperatures and partial pressures.
How will the direct measurement of organic vapor pressure be of use to researchers?
Direct measurement of vapor concentration of organic solvents is important for obtaining accurate organic vapor sorption isotherms over a broad range of temperatures because the number of molecules exposed to the sample is directly related to mass uptake.
It is noteworthy that there is no other sensor on the market that can routinely measure, reliably and repeatedly, vapor concentrations of organics over a broad range of temperatures that does not require long and expensive calibrations. Historically, researchers did not measure and control vapor concentration of organic solvents but relied on vapor pressure tables to produce the estimated concentration of solvents.
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Have all of these changes opened up any new applications to DVS?
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The recent advancement in our DVS technology has opened new applications in the field of materials research using the enhanced moisture, organic vapor and co-solvent measurement/control and superior balance performance.
Highlights applications are in new drug development; characterization of amorphous content of powders; moisture, solvent or co-solvent induced morphology changes; diffusion and permeability measurements in packaging and polymer materials; complex moisture adsorption/desorption in biological samples; moisture/solvent retention and drying kinetics; fuel cell component moisture characterization; adsorption capacity in microporous materials, zeolites, building materials and MOFs to name a few examples.
DVS plays an important role in the discovery and development of novel drugs. shutterstock.com | Looker_Studio
In what applications is the extremely accurate relative humidity of the DVS Resolution important?
The accurate relative humidity (RH) that is generated in DVS Resolution is important for all vapor sorption applications, particularly where small changes in RH have a large effect on product performance.
These include amorphous content determination, moisture sorption kinetics and moisture induced phase transition in materials. The RH generated in DVS Resolution is independently validated by measuring deliquescent points of saturated salt solutions.
How are samples in the DVS Resolution and DVS Endeavour (5X) prepared for analysis?
The preparation of samples for sorption measurements in DVS Resolution and DVS Endeavour (5X) are very similar. As-received samples can be directly loaded into DVS analyzers after a clean metal or glass pan is tared by the balance software.
The samples are subsequently loaded in a clean pan and placed on the balance assembly. Once the sample chamber is closed, a user defined experimental method is started. If the samples require elevated temperature or dry vapor degassing, a 300 ºC preheater and True Zero Rh are also available. This sample preparation can be included in the experimental method.
DVS Resolution Drying Kinetics with Microscopy Photograph overlay
How can Raman spectroscopy be integrated with the new instruments?
A Raman spectrometer can be added to the new DVS instruments using the advanced Raman probe holder fitted to the sample chamber. The DVS Raman holder is an essential part of an integrated DVS-Raman system and serves to maintain the optimal working distance between the Raman probe and sample.
This allows the Raman laser to be directly seen by the sample. The Raman spectrometer is controlled via DVS control software which synchronizes mass and Raman data collection either simultaneously or sequentially. A 200 x light microscope is also available for simultaneous DVS-Raman Spectroscopy-Microscopy experiments. The microscope is also valuable in aligning the sample with the laser path.
Integrating DVS with Raman spectroscopy allows the phase changes that occur during sorption to be observed and analysed.
What additional information does Raman spectroscopy bring to DVS experiments? How do the two techniques complement one another?
DVS measures the physical interaction of the vapor(s) with a solid surface and defines the method isotherm depicting the amount of vapor(s) adsorbed as a function of vapor concentration.
Raman spectroscopy looks at the structural and/or chemical changes the sample undergoes during interactions with the vapor(s) of interest. These interactions may result in formation of different chemical species, forms or phases and are not always visible or definable by the mass change.
The new range of DVS systems from Surface Measurement Systems
Where can our readers find out more about DVS, and the DVS systems provided by Surface Measurement Systems
AZo readers can find more information about DVS products on Surface Measurement Systems website, conferences or scientific posters presented at local or international meetings. DVS data is also published in peer reviewed scientific journals.
About Vladimir Martis
Vladimir Martis is the DVS product manager and vacuum products specialists for Surface Measurement Systems, Ltd located at SMS worldwide headquarters in London, UK. He received his Master's degree in Materials Engineering from Trencin University of Alexander Dubcek, Slovakia in 2004. He received his engineering doctorate degree (EngD) in Molecular Modeling and Materials Simulation from Chemistry department, University College London in 2012. The thesis title: "Synchrotron radiation studies of multicomponent metal oxides."
Since joining SMS in 2013, he has continued working on the development of advanced in-situ experimental surface science techniques using molecules as probes instead of X-rays for studying catalysts, zeolites, MOFs, polymers, freeze and spray dried materials, composites and glasses under relevant industrial conditions. Dr Martis has authored several papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented at several international conferences.
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In a June 2002 report, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) found that private school students scored higher on standardized tests, had more demanding graduation requirements and sent more graduates to college than public schools. The report said that students who had completed at least the eighth grade in a private school were twice as likely as other students to graduate from college as a young adult.
NCES statistics also showed that students in private schools are much more likely than others to take advanced-level high school courses. Students thrive when allowed to learn in a safe and supportive environment. Joint reports by the NCES and the Bureau of Justice Statistics and a private study by the Horatio Alger Association have found that private school students are significantly more likely than others to feel safe and be safe in their schools.
Choosing a school for their children is one of the most important decisions parents must make. Whether they move into a school district, apply to a private school or adjust family duties to make home schooling possible, most families want school choice.
For the parents of more than 6 million children, the choice is private education. They choose a private education for many reasons: quality academics, a safe and orderly environment and moral and ethical values being the common reasons cited. Choice makes them satisfied consumers.
The NCES reports that more than three-quarters of private school parents are "very satisfied" with their child's school compared with less than half of parents whose children were assigned to a public school. Parents often look to private schools as an extension of the home in promoting the values they embrace, and private schools respond. A recent NCES survey found that promoting religious or spiritual life was second only to academic excellence in the goals of private school principals.
Montessori is a type of private school that emphasizes learning through all five senses, not just through listening, watching or reading. More and more educators are turning to the child-centered Montessori approach of learning and schools to support this type of learning are popping-up around the country. In the Bay Area, there are more than 20 Montessori schools. Montessori classes place children in three-year age groups (3 to 6 and 6 to 9, for example), forming communities in which the older children spontaneously share their knowledge with the younger ones.
In California, charter schools rapidly are growing in popularity. Currently, 1,018 charter schools and 18 all-charter districts are operating in California. Approximately 16 percent of these are conversions of existing schools, and 84 percent are new start-up schools. Charter schools are located throughout the state in 49 of California's 58 counties and in rural, suburban and urban areas. Student populations are diverse and tend to reflect the student populations of the districts in which the charter schools are located. Approximately 438,475 students are enrolled in charter schools in California, according to the California Charter Schools Association.
An existing private school may not be converted to a charter school.
A charter school must be nonsectarian.
A charter school may not discriminate, nor can it charge tuition.
No pupil can be required to attend a charter school, nor can teachers be required to work in a charter public school.
A charter school must have highly qualified credentialed teachers in all core subjects.
Innovative charter schools are providing programs that offer everything from an emphasis on foreign languages to fine and performing arts. Some charter schools develop partnerships with other public agencies (such as the California Conservation Corps, county government agencies and local community colleges), and some provide specialized programs (such as a program to place students in work experience settings or a program of comprehensive family services).
While most charter school students attend site-based programs with the look and feel of a traditional classroom, other students participate in programs with research-based alternative learning modalities (such as the Montessori methods) or programs that are tailored to the needs of the individual student (such as nonclassroom-based or independent and virtual programs). In some cases, charter schools focus on dropout recovery, providing a second chance to students who wish to pursue a California high school diploma and who have not been successful in other settings.
All charter schools must participate in the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program and other state assessments. Charter schools receive an Academic Performance Indicator like all other public schools. An interactive Web-based map on the Charter Schools in California Counties website, which affords the public easy access to specific information on charter schools, can be found at www.cde.ca.gov/ds/si/cs/ap1/imagemap.aspx.