Arduino is an inexpensive and easy-to-learn combination of software and hardware that lets students, artist, tinkerers,and hobbyists, add intelligence to their projects. In this class we'll be cover the basics of getting started with Arduino and guide you through three introductory projects.
Students needs to bring their own computer with them to this class. We will be downloading and installing software used to program your Arduino. **PLEASE NOTE**: Arduino units and other programming materials will be provided by the instructor, but will remain at HammerSpace after the class.
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We're totes into Jai Waetford's sweet voice, and he's just released his new EP Shy! TG's Erin got to chat with Jai about starting a career in music and what to expect from the new EP.
What's your favourite song on the new EP?
Probably 'Shy', just because it's an original. The other four songs are covers that I really like.
Tell me about the writing process of 'Shy'.
What advice would you give to anyone wanting to write their own music?
Just write something down, like a story. Then just put a melody behind it, whatever you think sounds nice. If you can play an instrument it makes it a lot easier, it flows a lot easier.
How do you beat nerves on stage?
I turn it into an excited and positive vibe and just take it out on stage.
What's your dream for the future?
I hope to be overseas and worldwide – I don't want to be a huge superstar, as long as people find joy in my music from all different reaches and all aspects of life.
What's the craziest thing a fan's ever done for you?
A fan flew in from Japan overnight just to come and see one of my shows. She couldn't speak English at all but her friend could and she told me that she'd flown from Japan. That's an expensive flight to come and see me! I asked her if she enjoyed the show and she just started crying!
Jai and TG's Erin hanging out!
Shy is out now through Sony Music Entertainment Australia.


Congratulations, you are now about to create and configure your own event. This article will guide you through the process of step by step.
Log in here to the Paylogic Backoffice with the username and password sent to you by e-mail.
Start with creating your own event by clicking on the 'Create a new event' link under the 'Manage' tab.
Note: All the information you are about to fill out is still editable after the event is made.
The points of sale are the channels that will be used to sell tickets. Online is for the sale through the Paylogic Frontoffice (ticketshop).
'Online' is for sales through the Paylogic Frontoffice.
'Offline' sales are being handled by Primera.
'Third' party offers the possibility to offer tickets via third parties or plug-ins. Please contact your accountmanager for more information.
If all the preferred points of sale are checked off, please continue to the next step.
When all the fiels above are filled out, please continue to the next step.
You are now able to configure the sales period for this event and for the individual products. This way you can plan when your products should go on sale and when it should end. Event sales period is leading over product sales periods. This means if the event sales period has expired, sales period ends for all products.
Note: If you want to continue sales during the event, it is necessary to run the scanning software Online. For more information please visit the Online Scanning manual.
When all the fields are filled out, please continue to the next step.
'Fulfillment types' provides the option to configure fulfillment settings, such as fulfillment fees.
The input fields for Added Order fee and Added Ticket Fee are intended for an additional fulfillment fee only. In general use, this is set to 0 EUR.
For further information on custom fulfillment types, please contact your Paylogic accountmanager.
In the 'Payment' tab you will be able to configure which payment methods you want to offer your customer. You can also set a minimum required payment and the valuta per method.
If you configured the Payment methods click on the 'Finish >' button.
Note: Please take chargeback risks of certain payment methods into account. Not all payment methods will payout ticket funds at the same time. Please be aware of specific conditions for PayPal.
The set up of your event is done! The ticket shop is not accessable for customers, yet. To start your ticket sale you have to pusblish the event. Please do this by clicking the 'Publish event' button.
Once you pressed the button you will get to the confirmation screen. Please check if the details of your event are correct and press 'Yes, go ahead'.
Note: After publishing your event, all the data is still editable!
In the tab 'Frontoffice URL' you can find the sales URL(s).
Please keep in mind to always use the link out of the Backoffice when communicating it with your customers. The link in the web adress border will change into a flowlink once you use it which is only usable for 20 minutes.
Congratulations! You have created and published your new event. For a instruction how to set up and use the Paylogic Frontoffice, read this article.
For the integration of the Frontoffice URL (Ticketshop) please see this article.


The Speed of the Wave will not be affected by the increased wavelength.
The Frequency of the waves will decrease start to decrease after it has been ejected out for the source.
The Speed of the wave depends on it medium properties which it is travelling on.
The medium that the wave is travelling through plays a major role on how the wave acts.
If the there are both sets of the same medium, no matter how different in lenght they are, if you send a wave down the 2 of them, they will arrive to the end both at the same time.
When Light hits a rough surface, the light will scatter across everywhere, making the thing that It's scattering from not transparent.
Light Moves around 49% slower in Glass then vacuum or air.
Why does light move slower in Glass?
When the photons go through something transparent like glass, when the light enters the light will create rappels causing the other atoms that is it the glass to create it's own rappels.
The superposition of both waves is slower than the original wave so it slows down in the glass.
When 2 waves oppose each other, when it opposes each other they either make more and louder sounds (Super position), or either conceal out each other (Cancellation).
When the waves are seen to be standing or 'Stationary travelling'.
The Oscillation are parallel to the direction of energy transfer.
The Escalation are perpendicular to the direction of energy transfer.
Sound Waves can also move through solid objects, such as Wood and even Metal.
If you somehow manage to break the sound barrier, then you will create something called a "Sonic Boom".
A loud explosion of force and is dangerous to the human eyes if heard up close.


The Oldest Stone House Museum houses a rich collection of cultural artifacts, not limited to those of the Honam homestead, that reflect the broad depth of Lakewood's history. The museum is furnished in the style of a middle class pioneer and early settler home that would have fit the standing of the Honams and the surrounding area.
The house also houses many artifacts from the Nicholson Family, a prominent family that lived in the house on Detroit Ave. which is also managed by the historical society. Items such as the family spinning wheel and storage chests are on display.
Also on display in the front parlor are items which were recovered from Whippoorwill, the former residence of Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland. Dr. Kirtland was Lakewood's most celebrated 19th century citizen and was a naturalist, botanist, doctor, legislator, teacher and writer.
He is credited with originating 26 varieties of cherries and six of pears, and held the distinction of giving his name to a warbler, water snake mollusk, raspberry, strawberry and fossilized plant.
Behind the house is a garden with an original grapevine from the Nicholson fruit farm which stood on Detroit Ave. A centuries old English rose bush grows there which was brought from England by the Hall family when they emigrated to Rockport Township in the 19th century.
In a corner of the garden are tombstones for early Rockport Township citizens, abandoned from the relocation of the old Wagar cemetery on Detroit Rd.
The Oldest Stone House shortly after moving to Lakewood Park in 1952. Margaret Manor Butler, founder of the Lakewood Historical Society, is pictured in the foreground.
Lakewood's Oldest Stone House, built in 1834, contains a treasure trove of memorabilia that unlocks the pioneer past of the city.
Today the Oldest Stone House sits in Lakewood Park, moved there in 1952 by the founder of the Lakewood Historical Society, Margaret Manor Butler. Today the house serves as a museum of Rockport Township and Lakewood history, still sitting on the Honam farm's original property.


Mark Almond is responsible for the day-to-day activities of the business and has been a part of the Star Uretech family since 2004 when the company was based in Manchester. Originally employed as the Sales Co-ordinator, Mark has risen through the ranks as the Production Manger, Quality Manager and Operations Manager. In his personal time Mark is somewhat of a geek and enjoys science fiction, fantasy, astronomy, science and all things Middle Earth.
I enjoy working with my team. I couldn't ask for a more dedicated, hard working and skilled group to work with.
I enjoy 'GOT', 'University Challenge' and the 'Wonders of' series by Brian Cox but without a doubt, my favorite is Firefly. (Still waiting for Season 2).
Well this changes but currently it is Welcome to Love by Young Ejecta (or any 90s dance) (including 2 Unlimited).
A sleepy village on one of the Greek islands.
Black coffee, Peroni or maybe Vodka & Red Bull.
Simply because they are the best. We take great pride in the quality of our products and always develop products based on the highest possible performance.


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Crew of crashed Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737MAX used the prescribed Stabilator Trim Cut-Out switches to stop the MCAS system but it re-engaged.
The crew of Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737MAX8 which crashed with 157 people on board, used the prescribed Stabilator Trim Cut-Out switches to stop MCAS system according to an article by Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street article sites information coming from the investigation. By it, we can now reveal how it's possible the aircraft can crash despite using the Cut-Out switches.
According to Reuters, the MCAS re-engaged as many as four times after the crew initially turned it off due to suspect data from an airflow sensor, two people familiar with the matter said.
It was not immediately clear whether the crew had chosen to re-deploy the system, which pushes the nose of the Boeing 737MAX downwards, but one person with knowledge of the matter said investigators were studying the possibility that the software had kicked in again without human intervention.


It's not often that I can say that an app has changed my life! Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I love this app! A few weeks ago I discovered Stocard – an app that lets you get rid of all your reward and membership cards out of your wallet or handbag and onto your phone.
I had a lot of cards, which I used to keep either in my wallet or in a business card flip wallet in my handbag. Every time I wanted to find a card I used to have to try to find it amongst all the others, and half the time I'd give up and not bother, which meant I was missing out of loyalty points.
Now my wallet and handbag have lost a lot of weight and I can find the card I want instantly!
Select the retailer from the list shown. If you have a card that isn't shown, select Other Card, and type in the name.
Scan the barcode on the back of your card using Stocard's built-in scanner. If it doesn't scan (I only had one that wouldn't) just press your back button and type in the number.
When you're in a store you just open the Stocard app on your phone, tap the card you want and hand your phone to the assistant to scan. If it won't scan they can type in the number. Usually the only reason they won't scan is due to the age of the shop's scanner. I've been using Stocard for a few weeks now and I've only had one shop that had to type it in – that was my FlyBuys card at a smaller Coles supermarket. I had no trouble using my Woolworths Everyday Rewards card at Caltex; FlyBuys at Kmart; Ikea Family Card; Fusion Card buying my sons' school shoes at Mathers, and a few more.
Stocard is available for free for both iOS and Android. If you're downloading for iOS you need to select the Stocard app to suit your region. Stocard on Android is optimised for Australia, UK and Canada, and once loaded you select your region. Both have over 200 preset cards for Australia with more being added all the time.
There was a major update in December, which I think has fixed any initial glitches. I'm using it on an Android phone, but that shouldn't make any difference. Let me know how it goes if you try it again.
yes, I have an android - Galaxy S4 - now. I am looking forward to giving it a go when at the shops!
I've just stumbled on this app and have got to say scanning the cards is easy. I often decline joining some loyalty cards, as I don't want to carry them around, now I can join them all.
If you create an account with Stocard your cards are stored for you. So when you get a new phone you just have to download the app and sign in and there are all your cards again.


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Chambers 2021 recognizes four KATS' lawyers
Chambers and Partners, KATS, Lawyers
The 2021 Edition of Chambers and Partners Global Guide to the World's Leading Law Firms ranked four KATS' lawyers as notable practioners: Senior Statesmen John Katende and Professor Edward Ssempebwa, Sim Katende and Alice Namuli Blazevic.
Chambers released it's global legal rankings on 18th February 2021:
Co-founding partner John Katende has amassed a wealth of legal and business experience over his many years of practice. He continues to utilise this experience to the benefit of the firm's clients.
Co-founding partner Edward Frederick Ssempebwa is held in high regard in Uganda. He has been at the fore of the country's legal market for decades and has been actively involved in the development of the country's legislature.
Chambers notes that commentators are quick to praise Sim Katende as a "very strong practitioner, knowledgeable of the market and technically skilled." He is a distinguished corporate lawyer with extensive M&A and capital markets transactional credentials and expertise spanning the energy, oil and gas, and TMT industry sectors.
Alice Namuli Blazevic continues to enhance her standing in the market, with particular recognition for her work in the TMT sector. She is also respected for her experience of cryptocurrency and blockchain mandates
Chambers ranks individual lawyers in their practice area(s) based on their legal knowledge and experience, their ability, their effectiveness and their client service.
Chambers Global ranks KATS as a Band 1 Firm
Alice wins 'Legal Services Innovation of the year' at ULS Awards 2021
Twitter – @katslaw1
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Is Coloring Any Type Of Good To Your Child? You bet!
First off, tinting is a creative process per se. Many parents really did not recognize that tinting fosters imagination – lots of thought that it is a dull as well as mechanical way to spend a long time on the eating table while mama is seriously preparing supper. No, it's not only a convenient method to keep your kid safely inhabited, and no, it is not just an option to watching TV.
Tinting motivates creative thinking due to the fact that it allows the kids to choose the shade they desire, as well as to experience the blending, blending as well as contrasting the colors in its gorgeous as well as endless spectrum.
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Coloring is not simply fun for the youngsters; it is an instructional experience. For instance, it stimulates the children to keep an eye out for colors in real things as well as be a lot more conscious of the world around them.
The tinting sheet is likewise an exceptional platform for children to discover science: the distinction in between the pastels (solid) as well as water colors (fluid), or that the color can obtain completely dry and also stick completely on the sheet of paper … the list continues. If we observe thoroughly, we could see the kids draw and quit for a minute, and attract once again. The "time out" is most likely the time when they have actually observed as well as found out something fascinating, and their minds are active at the office.
Just what is wonderful regarding this educational experience is that the youngsters are discovering through exploration, as well as this is a much extra effective means than lecturing or any sort of spoon feeding of details that may happen in the classroom at later stage of the kid's life.
I am not recommending that your youngster needs any treatment; yet it holds true that in the 21st century, many of us are pushing our children to the restrictions by giving really replicating tasks and also enrolling all type of "fun" classes for your valuable little ones. I do believe the children are obtaining smarter, however in a way they get burnt out a lot more conveniently, bring about outbursts as well as in some cases rebellious behavior.
Coloring is available in useful due to the fact that it creates an important quiet time for the children. Throughout this break, the kids can actually do whatever they want on the tinting sheet, working on something by themselves pace and also their very own style, as well as accomplishing a job all on their own. I think everybody people requires a break, and also occasionally we fail to remember that our own kids require one also, due to the fact that playing is help them, not to mention attending all those tasks as well as classes.
So all in all, I really believe that coloring is an innovative, education as well as healthy and balanced task for all our children. Next time when you have to do something with your kid, take out the pastels, pens and coloring pencils and also shade away. You need to sign up with in also – I am certain you will certainly find it loosening up and really pleasurable!


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Consumption of public cloud is way ahead of the ability to secure it
As companies need to build applications to cater for distributed workforces, the use of public cloud is a no-brainer, but as the parade of companies failing to secure S3 buckets shows, cloud customers are failing to secure it properly.
"What we've seen across the board is most customers consumption of public cloud is way ahead of their ability to secure it," Barracuda senior vice president of data protection, network and application security Tim Jefferson told ZDNet.
"They haven't figured out how to use the native services securely and how to instrument the controls because in many of those cases they're very developer focus, so you'd have to essentially be a software developer to really understand how the application teams are using the native services, and then get your head around the best way [of] architecting controls."
For Jefferson, he believes the solution is sitting right there on the cloud platforms themselves.
"The magic of public cloud is all the instrumentation and monitoring is done, it's sitting there for free, which is historically the most expensive and hard part to do on premise," he said.
"The trick now is just knowing how to call those APIs and suck in that telemetry and make it more actionable which companies like us have … we can identify within seconds, every resource that's deployed, who deployed it, what its configuration state is, and how does that compare against best practice and then you can automate remediation."
See also: Cybersecurity starts with the network fundamentals
Siran Eren, founder and CEO of zero trust access provider Fyde until November when the company was purchased by Barracuda, added it is possible to keep an eye on multiple clouds through a single interface.
"If you have Azure deployments, if you have a hybrid environment with AWS and GCP in the mix, you might have SaaS solutions like Office 365, Salesforce, you now have a control plane for security controls that basically covers all of them from a single poison policy point of view," the now-vice president of zero trust access said.
"From this platform, you get a single control plane that spans over all your applications and you can define very broad yet granular policies from a single point. That's what I think we're in the business for, not point products any more, something that spans across cloud service providers and SaaS solutions."
As the shift to working from home at the start of the year began, the old reliance on the VPN showed itself to be a potential bottleneck to employees being able to do what they are paid for.
"I think the new mechanism that we've been sitting on — everyone's been doing for 20 years around VPN as a way of segmentation — and then the zero trust access model is relatively new, I think that mechanism is really intriguing because [it] is so extensible to so many different problems in use cases that VPN's didn't solve, and then other use cases that people didn't even consider because there was no mechanism to do it," Jefferson said.
Going a step further, Eren thinks VPN usage between client and sites is on life support, but VPNs themselves are not going away.
"I would say to client-to-site VPN is gone — that's going to be replaced with zero trust — but site-to-site VPN is actually going to remain and zero trust is going to be on top of it," he said. "They're complementary."
Another effect from needing to handle a dispersed workforce has been the collapse of what was formerly a fairly-well defined corporate network perimeter.
According to Jefferson, the new best practice is to push security controls as far out to the edge as possible, which undermines the role of traditional appliances like firewalls to be able to enforce security, and people are having to work out the best place for their controls in the new working environment.
"I used to be pretty comfortable. This guy, he had 10,000 lines of code written on my Palo Alto or Cisco and every time we did a firewall refresh every 10 years, we had to worry about the 47,000 ACLs [access control list] on the firewall, and now that gets highly distributed," he said.
"We even saw that in web application firewalls where instead of having a single web application firewall across many applications, now you tie [a] single web application firewall rule set per app, which makes it loosely coupled and then you can scale independent with the individual application, you can tune the rules in.
"I think that's been a big shift … getting away from the tightly coupled centralised policy enforcement to highly distributed push out to the edge loosely coupled architecture."
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You can start by writing your articles as well. People will give you comments and suggestion accordingly. "Medium" works for people. It believes in serving quality and original ideas from the users itself. It is a great place to discuss thousands of ideas on just a single topic.
Medium believes in giving the clean reading experiences and engagement with other users in depth. Everyone here is free to present their viewpoint.
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Since the Medium allows no ad, no popups and respects the talent of the sincere writer, reader, storytellers, etc., efficiently spread the new ideas of ideologists, it has paid functioning.
The user needs to pay $5/month to have access to "medium." This will only allow serious readers to come over and explore as not everyone will be able to access.


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6 ROMANTIC THINGS TO DO IN NEW YORK THAT YOU SHOULD NOT MISS
New York City is known more for ambition and hustle than romance, but there's something magical in the glittering lights of the city that never sleeps. That's why I'm so excited to share these romantic things to do in NYC!
1. Chamber Magic by Steve Cohen
Without a doubt, one of the most unforgettable date nights in New York City is an evening with the Millionaire's Magician.
2. Dizzy's Jazz Club
features world-class jazz musicians with an epic view overlooking Central Park. If you love music, then enjoy a show here.
3. Sail to the Statue of Liberty at sunset.
offers an incredible view of the skyscrapers, the sunset and the Statue of Liberty. Complete with cocktails, it's one of the most romantic dates in the city.
4. Visit Museum Hack
They take you through the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Natural History Museum with the strangest, wildest and sexiest stories hidden in the exhibits.
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package br.ufsc.lehmann.classifier;

import br.ufsc.core.IMeasureDistance;
import br.ufsc.core.trajectory.SemanticTrajectory;
import br.ufsc.lehmann.EnumProblem;
import br.ufsc.lehmann.method.SMSMTemporalDurationTest;
import br.ufsc.lehmann.msm.artigo.Problem;

public class SMSMTemporalDurationClassifierTest extends AbstractClassifierTest implements SMSMTemporalDurationTest {

	public SMSMTemporalDurationClassifierTest(EnumProblem problemDescriptor) {
		super(problemDescriptor);
	}

	@Override
	public IMeasureDistance<SemanticTrajectory> measurer(Problem problem) {
		return SMSMTemporalDurationTest.super.measurer(problem);
	}

}

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Pet owners may soon have a channel to call their own.
A cable advertising and promotion company plans to launch PetNet TV for both digital-basic and on-demand platforms later this year.
American Ingenuity Inc. -- which has developed on-air promotional campaigns for such programmers as Turner Broadcasting System Inc., Discovery Networks U.S. and National Geographic Channel -- is preparing to unleash a PetNet TV on-demand service this fall, with the full-fledged digital service slated to bow at year-end, according to network president Jeffrey Grimshaw.
Other start-up animal-based networks, like The Puppy Channel, have failed to gain traction. But Grimshaw believes PetNet TV will appeal to a significant portion of cable's subscriber base.
With more than 400 million pets in the United States and more than 100 million pet owners -- or one out of every two U.S. homes -- Grimshaw said the network is targeting a very large and virtually untapped niche.
PetNet TV's programming will revolve around health, instruction, entertainment, shopping and news. The network even plans to present a block of programming dubbed "Playtime and Relaxation," which could feature a bird's eye view of a live fish tank or parrot cage. "It's everything imaginable for pets and pet parents," Grimshaw said.
He noted that the ad-supported network has yet to approach operators about carriage, although he believes the value and breadth of the potential audience -- consumers spent $35 billion on pets and related products last year -- and its willingness to work with operators will garner significant distribution opportunities.
"It's going to be whatever the industry will yield," he added, declining to be more specific about its rate card.
Along with original programming, the network will offer an online-shopping element.
For more on PetNet TV, please see R. Thomas Umstead's story on page 16 of Monday's issue of Multichannel News.
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Free Leonard Peltier: Obama Urged to Grant Clemency to Native American Activist Jailed for 40 Years | Democracy Now!
survivor of the 1975 Pine Ridge shootout.
As President Obama's last month in office begins, Amnesty International and other groups are calling on the president to grant clemency to Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who has been imprisoned for 40 years. The former member of the American Indian Movement was convicted of killing two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. Leonard Peltier has long maintained his innocence. The shootout occurred two years after the American Indian Movement occupied the village of Wounded Knee for 71 days. The occupation of Wounded Knee is considered the beginning of what Oglala people refer to as the "Reign of Terror." We speak to Peltier's attorney, Martin Garbus, and Norman Patrick Brown, a longtime friend of Leonard Peltier's. He survived the 1975 Pine Ridge shootout.
AMY GOODMAN: On Monday, President Obama granted clemency to 231 prisoners—the most individual acts of clemency granted in a single day by any president in U.S. history. Obama pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentences of 153 others convicted of federal crimes. He has now pardoned a total of 148 people during his presidency and has shortened the sentences of 1,176 people, including 395 serving life sentences. Most of the cases have involved people serving long sentences for nonviolent drug offenses. According to the White House, Obama has commuted more sentences than the last 11 presidents combined.
But Obama has taken no action on several of the most high-profile prisoners seeking pardons or clemency. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed petitions asking President Obama to release Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera, Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning and Native American activist Leonard Peltier. We'll look at Manning's case later in the show and Oscar López Rivera's later in the week, but first we turn to the case of Leonard Peltier. This is a video from Amnesty International, which has been pushing for President Obama to grant Leonard Peltier clemency. This video is narrated by actor Peter Coyote.
LEONARD PELTIER: I am everyone who ever died without a voice or a prayer or a hope or a chance.
PETER COYOTE: Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist who has been in prison for 40 years, serving two consecutive life terms for a crime he maintains he did not commit. In 1977, he was convicted of killing two FBI agents, Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, during a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement, AIM, founded in 1968 during the civil rights movement to advocate for the rights of Native Americans. The murders occurred at a time when AIM supporters and residents of Pine Ridge were being intimidated and killed, allegedly by paramilitaries connected to the government. A climate of fear and terror prevailed. After two AIM members were acquitted of the killings, witnesses were coerced by the FBI into saying they saw Peltier shoot the agents. Ballistics evidence that could have aided Leonard's defense was hidden from his lawyers.
LEONARD PELTIER: The only thing I'm guilty of is struggling for my people. I didn't kill those agents.
PETER COYOTE: It was not a fair trial—the conclusion reached by Federal Appeals Judge Gerald Heaney, who stated, "[T]he prosecution withheld evidence" favorable to the defendant, and "[T]he FBI used improper tactics" in extraditing Peltier and otherwise in investigating and trying Peltier's case.
LEONARD PELTIER: I'll be an old man when I get out—if I get out.
PETER COYOTE: Leonard Peltier has spent 40 years in federal penitentiaries, often in solitary confinement. He is now 71 years old and in rapidly declining health. There are concerns that he's not receiving adequate medical treatment and his condition could be fatal.
BRUCE SMITH: They're giving him the death penalty by leaving him in that type of an environment. The man needs medical treatment. He needs to have access to medical treatment. If they're not going to give medical treatment to him, they need to release him as soon as possible.
AMY GOODMAN: That's a video from Amnesty International, which is calling for President Obama to grant Leonard Peltier clemency. That last voice was Bruce Smith, a former prison guard who worked at Leavenworth federal prison, where he met Leonard Peltier. Peltier is now imprisoned in Florida.
To talk more about the case of Leonard Peltier, we're joined by two guests. Martin Garbus is one of the country's leading trial lawyers and lead counsel for Leonard Peltier. Norman Patrick Brown is a longtime friend of Leonard Peltier's. He survived the 1975 Pine Ridge shootout. He's joining us from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Martin Garbus, lay out the case. You have asked President Obama, or the White House, for a pardon for Leonard Peltier, or clemency.
MARTIN GARBUS: He was convicted in 1975. He was involved in the Wounded—shortly after the Wounded Knee shootout. The evidence in the case, acknowledged by the government and acknowledged by the federal judges, is that the FBI does not know who shot the two people, that the ballistics do not support the argument that Leonard Peltier did it.
AMY GOODMAN: And explain what that conduct was.
MARTIN GARBUS: The wrongful conduct was not producing at the trial the ballistics, which show that it could not have been Peltier's gun that did the shooting. The wrongful conduct was—and the government acknowledges at this point—using false affidavits, both in the case and to extradite him from Canada, where he had been led. In this particular case, two other people were charged for the case, convicted—murder. Both of those people were found innocent.
AMY GOODMAN: And he would have been tried alongside them, but he had fled to Canada.
AMY GOODMAN: So he was extradited and tried separately.
AMY GOODMAN: And what was that wrongful conduct?
MARTIN GARBUS: The withholding of ballistics, the refusal—they didn't turn the ballistics over to the U.S. attorney. The other wrongful conduct was it was they who got the false affidavits, acknowledged to be false and found by the court to be false. So, the only reason he was convicted was, A, the political atmosphere of the time, and, two, they succeeded, the government, in having the case tried before a judge, a very anti-Indian judge, rather than the judge who was involved in the acquittal of the other two defendants.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to turn to Leonard Peltier in his own words, describing what happened at Pine Ridge on June 26, 1975, the day when the two FBI agents were shot dead.
LEONARD PELTIER: That next day, when it came down, I was down into the camp, and I heard some shooting going on up over by the ranch house. At first I didn't pay no attention to it, because there was some—there's a dam, of course, by there, about a mile away. I used to hear shooting there. We used to hear shooting there every day. Somebody used to be practicing there with automatic weapons. We think it was some of the GOON squads. You know, we don't know for sure. But at first, that's what we thought it was. And then, all of a sudden, we heard people screaming and hollering, and so we ran up there. And I—we see what was happening: There's a shootout going on. So, I ran into the houses, because there was little babies there and women and children and stuff like this here. And I got them out of there and told them to get out of there. By this time, we were surrounded, and the shootout lasted for about—well, from about 11:00 that morning 'til about 7:00 that night.
AMY GOODMAN: So, that was Leonard Peltier in his own words. Norman Patrick Brown, you were there that day in Pine Ridge. You survived the 1975 Pine Ridge shootout. Can you describe what happened?
NORMAN PATRICK BROWN: Yeah, Amy. It was a—it was a horrific day. It was a tragic day, for we lost three good men that day. And my role there was as the youngest fighter there of a group of people who were encamped there. We were a spiritual encampment, there to protect the Oglala people, the traditional people, and AIM members from their brutality, of the BIA police GOON squad, which were armed and trained by the FBI.
To this day, it's been a tough life for many of us. I just want to state that, from that day that the agents lost their lives, we've prayed for them continuously, and we feel for their families. And we're not happy about that day. I'm not happy of that day.
So, you know, I guess what I did that day is, the shooting happened, and I ran up there, and immediately we were surrounded. And we exchanged gunfire. And I was not there at the time that the agents lost their life and Joe lost their life. To this day, I don't want to know, and I do not know.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask Martin Garbus about the presence of the FBI on the Pine Ridge Reservation that day.
MARTIN GARBUS: Well, the United States Civil Rights Commission afterwards concluded that the FBI was an occupying force on the reservation, that they had free rein and were arresting people and beating people. And that was the situation when Wounded Knee started.
There's one other thing I'd like to mention. This was the time of Nixon. This was the time of Alexander Haig. And they called out the military. It's called a posse comitatus. They called out the military to shoot at the Wounded Knee Indians, who were encircled, so that you had—by the way, President Clinton, we understand, was about to grant clemency. And when that happened, the FBI staged a demonstration outside of the White House, 500 men with guns—first time that has ever been done. Clinton withdrew back.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go to that interview that I did with President Clinton and asked him about clemency. It was back in 2000. Many of Leonard Peltier's supporters had high hopes that outgoing President Bill Clinton would pardon him before the end of his second term. On Election Day, which was November 7, 2000, I got a chance to question President Clinton and asked him if he had any intention of issuing a pardon for Leonard Peltier.
AMY GOODMAN: What is your position on granting Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist, executive clemency?
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Well, I don't—I don't have a position I can announce yet. I think if—I believe there is a new application for him in there. And when I have time, after the election is over, I'm going to review all the remaining executive clemency applications and, you know, see what the merits dictate. I will try to do what I think the right thing to do is based on the evidence. And I've never had the time actually to sit down myself and review that case. I know it's very important to a lot of people, maybe on both sides of the issue. And I think I owe it to them to give it an honest look-see. So, part of my responsibilities in the last 10 weeks of office after the election will be to review the requests for pardons and executive clemencies and give them a fair hearing. And I pledge to do that.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Oh, yeah, I'll decide one way or the other.
AMY GOODMAN: So, that was President Clinton, Election Day 2000. And we know which way he decided. Mass protests by the FBI.
MARTIN GARBUS: And he pardoned Marc Rich.
MARTIN GARBUS: Well, he had a whole bunch of pardons. Marc Rich was a corrupt person, involved heavily with Clinton, someone who had been a donor to his campaigns, no question about the rightness of his conviction.
AMY GOODMAN: A millionaire financier, fugitive from justice, living in Switzerland.
MARTIN GARBUS: No support at all for his granting pardon and clemency. And then he denied it to Peltier. He told us—Clinton—within the period before he was going to step down, because of the election in 2000, that he would grant clemency to Leonard Peltier. And it was clear that it was the FBI demonstration. And the FBI opposes now, and they have started a letter-writing campaign to Obama saying, "Do not release him, do not release him." That's why it's so important that your viewers respond, either by going to the Amnesty International site, but by themselves writing to the president.
AMY GOODMAN: I mean, we see the FBI director is extremely powerful, James Comey, who may have tipped the election for Donald Trump.
MARTIN GARBUS: Surely. The other thing I want to mention is, if it's not done now, President Trump is highly unlikely. The next pardon is 2014 [sic, next eligible for parole in 2024]. Leonard is sick now. He won't make it to his next pardon. He won't make it through a Trump presidency, I fear.
AMY GOODMAN: What word have you gotten from the White House?
MARTIN GARBUS: No word. Well, we have submitted it to the pardon attorneys, who then have to send it on to the president. We understand that it has left the pardon office and is now on the president's desk.
AMY GOODMAN: And I want to thank Norman Patrick Brown for joining us from Albuquerque. Martin Garbus, one of the leading trial lawyers in this country. This is Democracy Now! We will continue to follow the call for clemency for Leonard Peltier, as we do a series on high-profile prisoners that President Obama is weighing their clemency. This is Democracy Now! When we come back, we're going to look at the case of Chelsea Manning. Stay with us.
AMY GOODMAN: Water protectors from Standing Rock praying with a sacred song with the Ta Oyate Olowan drum from Wounded Knee, here in Democracy Now!'s studio. A group of the water protectors were holding up a sign for Leonard Peltier. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.


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Architecture and art

Designed by Jean-Maurice Dubé, it is a normal side platform station, built in a deep open cut necessitated by the surrounding Utica shale formation. The ticket hall is located at transept level, and both the mezzanine and platforms are surmounted by high volumes. The volume over the tracks and platforms has a forced perspective; the ceiling lowers and the platform width shortens on the western end of the station. Accesses are located on either side of rue de Verdun.

The artwork running throughout the station consists of concrete walls with bas-reliefs in the upper parts and painted motifs on the lower, which were designed by Claude Théberge and Antoine D. Lamarche.

Origin of the name
This station is named for rue de Verdun and for the borough (formerly the city) of Verdun, in front of whose borough office the station is located. The land that would later constitute the borough was granted as a concession to Zacharie Dupuis in 1671; he named it Fief-de-Verdun for his birthplace at Saverdun in the south of France.

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Verdun borough office
Régie du logement
Centre communautaire Marcel-Giroux
St. Willibrord Hospitality Centre

References

External links
Verdun Metro Station— Official site
Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com — Photos, information, and trivia
 2011 STM System Map

Green Line (Montreal Metro)
Railway stations in Canada opened in 1978
Verdun, Quebec

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Published: Dec. 1, 2009 • By Paul Danish
Scott Carpenter (Aero'49, HonDocSci'00)
By the time President John F. Kennedy gave his Sept. 12, 1962, speech making the case for America to go boldly into space, one CU alum had already been there and done that.
Scott Carpenter (Aero'49, HonDocSci'00) shot into orbit on May 24, 1962. He made three orbits in his Mercury spacecraft named the Aurora 7 — his childhood home was located at 7th and Aurora streets in Boulder — and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.
Carpenter was CU's first astronaut alum but hardly the last. Sixteen more followed. Two — Ellison Onizuka (Aero'69, MS'69, HonDocSci'03) and Kalpana Chawla (MAero, PhD'88, HonDocSci'03) — died in separate space shuttle disasters. A third, Jack Swigert (MechEngr'53), had a near-death experience. He piloted the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth in what may have been the single most exciting ride in history.
Why so many Buffs in space? I have a theory about that.
The most memorable line in JFK's 1962 speech was, "We choose to go to the moon . . . not because it is easy but because it is hard."
But I think there's more to it than that.
We usually think the space age began on Oct. 4, 1957, when the Russians put Sputnik into orbit, but in a sense it really began in 1893 when historian Frederick Jackson Turner pronounced the American frontier closed.
Americans have never entirely gotten over it. We've been looking for another one ever since.
Sure, we keep telling ourselves today's frontiers are found by looking inward — the frontiers of the spirit and the mind — but I'm not convinced we believe it.
The dreams that sustain the space program are ones NASA rarely talks about — finding new lands, getting second chances, creating new civilizations and escaping from old ones. These things brought most of our ancestors to America and beckoned them to go West.
Colorado was one of the last frontier states, and when CU opened its doors in 1877, it was a very lonely frontier outpost. So three-quarters of a century later when Sputnik launched, our ears pricked up. And when NASA needed astronauts, Buffs jumped on board.
Being a pioneer is the real attraction of the space program. What Kennedy should have said was, "We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy but because it is hard — and because we intend to make it easy. Not just for the few but for all humankind."
Paul Danish (Hist'65) has wanted to be an astronaut ever since Scott Carpenter (Aero'49, HonDocSci'00) got out of taking a final exam by orbiting the Earth three times. At the time, Danish was working for the Colorado Daily and recalls he and the rest of the newspaper staff stayed up all night awaiting news that Carpenter was in orbit. Danish laid out the front page, and the Daily was the first paper in the country with the news.
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By Tess Posthumus
Published: 05 May, 2022
Tipping can be a difficult subject in the bar industry. As a bar owner, bartender and regular consumer, I see it from every perspective and it can be tricky to get right.
It's a subjective area as to how much you should tip in different situations and different countries around the world, and everyone has a different view.
Personally I always tip because I work in hospitality and I know that most people are on a basic salary. In the Netherlands we don't have much of a tipping culture compared to the US, where it's a necessity because of the wage structure, but here it's a bonus.
From the perspective of a bar owner, if I'm in one of my bars but o duty and I give a friend or business partner a free drink, then I love it if they say thank you by giving a generous tip. That way I don't feel I'm cheating my staff out of tips by giving away free drinks.
However. the real dilemma comes when the bar owner isn't present and a bartender offers free drinks. In a way it's the , because they're giving away something which isn't theirs and expecting more tips in return. That's why we have guidelines in place for free drinks too.
As an operator it's important to have a clear tipping structure. We pay our staff a full-time wage and divide all the tips each night among the bar staff on shift. We don't share it with the cleaners or cooks because, for me, they're being paid to do their job, whereas I believe tips should go to the customer-facing bartenders who have to smile on demand and go the extra mile to make the guests feel welcome. The tips are also shared relative to the hours each member of bar staff has worked that evening to make it as fair as possible, while rotating them so they aren't always working Mondays or busy Saturdays.
Many bar owners don't take tips and, while I understand this, I disagree. Yes I'm a bar owner, but I'm also a bartender and if I've worked a full shift behind the bar then I feel I've earned the right to that money. The other issue is, if I don't take tips then the bar staff I've worked with that night will get a much bigger share of the pot, which isn't fair on the others and then I end up with staff only wanting to work shifts when I'm behind the bar.
From a regular consumer's perspective, tipping is a simple equation – add the percentage if you're satisfied with the service and add extra if you've had a great time. But as a member of the industry it's different. When we visit other bars and get free drinks should you not tip because you're both industry, or do you overtip because you got something for free? I think it ultimately depends on how well you know the bartender and whether they're independent or not. But one thing I don't like is a showoff – someone who likes to make a point of tipping over the top, because it creates a vicious cycle and puts pressure on others to do the same.
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Watch Harry's resignation pledge. CC BY 4.0
Since 2013, Defective by Design has been fighting Encrypted Media Extensions, a plan to add a universal DRM system to the Web. In March, as an element of this campaign, we led the first-ever protest rally at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which designs official standards for the Web. Afterwards, noted technology activists Joi Ito, Danny O'Brien, and Richard Stallman held a public roundtable to discuss the issue. After the speakers finished, the moderator, Harry Halpin (a W3C staff member), made this unexpected announcement:
"In every person's life, we're going to have to say to ourselves, I'm going to have to draw a line. It is not correct, it is the wrong thing to do, to cross this line. For me, inside W3C, that line is Encrypted Media Extensions becoming a W3C Recommendation (Recommendation is the final form of a W3C standard - Ed.)...
It is not a Recommendation. It is still a Working Draft -- it has not been officially made a W3C standard. I myself believe the Web that we want does not include DRM, and this is a responsibility to our children, that the Web they inherit should allow and enable sharing. Thus if W3C's Encrypted Media Extensions does reach Recommendation status, I will resign."
Harry's pledge adds to the pressure brought by Defective by Design, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others against the W3C to reject Encrypted Media Extensions. You can join the protest by taking a protest selfie (a Web-native form of expression), signing the petition, or scheduling a meeting at a W3C office near you to meet with a representative about the threat of DRM in Web standards.
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Our morning excursion was to Punta Moreno. We found a fairly large tidal pool with mangrove trees on one side. Mangroves are interesting because God designed them to handle the stresses of living so close to the water. Salt spray inhibits the growth of most plants because it dries out the tissues. (Ever use a saline nasal spray?) God enabled the mangroves to handle the salty conditions, and to actually grow in salt water, because their leaves have special glands that excrete the salt.
On the other side of the mangrove trees, the tidal pool appeared much more desolate. We encountered a green sea turtle, approximately four or five white-tipped sharks, a half dozen puffer fish, and assorted other fish trapped until high tide.
We were able to observe and photograph the sharks from overhanging lava cliffs that were perhaps 10 feet directly above the sharks.
A couple of white-tipped sharks.
Punta Moreno was some of the most barren landscape we saw, and the tugged lava rock made for exceptionally difficult hiking.
I wish I had my hiking boots, but we had to observe weight limits for our luggage, and the hiking boots didn't make the cut. If I'm ever able to go again, there are two things I would be sure to bring: hiking boots and a personal tape recorder for the mini-lectures from the tour guides along the way during each excursion.
The black and white stick is the trail marker--unlike other kinds of trails, this one doesn't get worn down by foot traffic!
About a quarter mile inland we found a fairly large brackish pool that was harboring approximately seven flamingoes.
Flamingoes are not born pink; their pink color comes from the food they eat. We were struck by how much pinker the flamingoes were here, in the wild, compared to ones we've seen in zoos and other parks.
Flamingoes are a Caribbean bird. The original population was probably blown to the Galapagos by a strong wind. This is one of the amazing things about the Galapagos Islands: you can see tropical flamingoes living not far from penguins originally from the Antartic!
The flamingo with its head under water is feeding. It scoops up mud from the bottom, filtering out the food from the mud with baleen, the same filter system some whales have.
Just beyond this area here is a stark lava landscape. All this vegetation is on the very edges of it. It is brackish water, which is what flamingoes require. The water has been higher--you can see the salt encrustation on the vegetation.
There are now 830 flamingos throughout islands, up from 600 several years ago. This is an effect of El Nino, which brings huge amounts of rain, and brings in warmer waters from a change in current. The warmer waters cut off the flow of nutrients from the cold deep-sea waters, so El Nino drastically cuts back marine life. Since there's a drop in the number of fish to eat, seabirds and sea lions have a population crash during El Nino years. But it's a huge boon to land creatures since they get lots of water in the form of rain, which allows the vegetation to grow and gives them more food to eat. Their populations rise, as we can see in the change in the number of flamingoes.
Because the morning hike was so rigorous, the Legend guides offered an alternative extended dinghy ride in Punta Moreno for the people who weren't up to the difficult terrain. Since the other group on our ship was an Elderhostel tour, the riders filled two dinghies. Sue was intrigued by the huge marine iguanas sunning themselves at the water's edge.
Punta Moreno means "dark point," taking its name from the very dark, new rocks formed by the lava flow from a fairly recent volcano eruption. The volcano was several miles away (you can see it in the distance), and it was staggering to think of lava flowing several miles down the volcano to get to the sea, where it immediately cooled and hardened. The catastrophic special effects didn't require a Hollywood studio to produce, either!


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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a highly respected national policy institute, is seeking a Director of Research and Data Analysis – Health Policy. The Center's health policy division undertakes extensive work at both the state and federal levels to strengthen health coverage for low- and moderate-income people. Our work includes analyzing proposed changes in government policies, promoting effective approaches to covering low- and moderate-income families and individuals, providing technical assistance to federal and state policymakers, conducting research on the implications of health policy choices, and working with other federal and state nonprofits on these issues. Center analyses and experts are quoted frequently in the press and relied upon heavily by policymakers.
The Director of Research and Data Analysis will support the health team's work, with a particular focus on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces. This position is crucial to the team's effectiveness, providing the analytic grounding for much of our advocacy and technical assistance. The Director will work closely with the team's other senior analysts and also support the work of the Center's legislative affairs, communications, state campaigns, and other policy teams as relevant. The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver who will maintain high analytic standards and rigor while working to advance the Center's policy agenda of strengthening health coverage for low- and moderate-income people.
Analyzes survey and administrative data in Excel and Stata/R.
Monitors trends and changes in health insurance coverage, program enrollment, program costs, and other outcomes.
Develops strategies for using available data to assess the impact of policies, identify needed changes, and make the case for policy improvements.
Responds to information requests from policymakers and the media.
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Manages the work of a research assistant.
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Strong quantitative skills.
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Familiarity with Medicaid and marketplace policy.
Strong writing and presentation skills.
Proficiency with graphics applications such as Illustrator.
Experiencing using data analysis to support policy analysis and advocacy.
Experience managing staff.
This position reports to the Vice President for Health Policy
Bargaining Unit Status: This is not a bargaining unit position.
Compensation: Salary and title commensurate with experience; excellent benefits, including three health insurance options, dental and vision care, life and long-term disability insurance, retirement, and generous vacation leave, sick leave, and holiday schedules.
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An outstanding mixed-use development of 50 apartments and offices for technology start-ups and artist studios on the ground floor.
Acquired in 2007 in two locations in the City of London, Gracechurch Street and Ludgate Hill, these hotels were transformed to best serve a busy corporate clientele.
Acquired in 2006 in London's opulent Mayfair, this c.51,990 sqft operation was up-sized and re-styled into a seven-floor boutique hotel. It was sold in 2011.
Formerly Chelsfield's headquarters for over 26 years, the property was redeveloped despite the constraints of a Grade II listed building to become a first-class address in London's exclusive Mayfair. It was sold in 2014.
Set across a nine-acre site in North London, the world-famous Camden Market was acquired in 2005 and sold in 2014 for £400 million.
This site of over 1,399,308 sqft was the subject of London's largest ever planning application for a significant shopping centre, offices, residential and leisure facilities. In 2005, Westfield acquired the site and continued implementing the original vision. It later became a part of the athlete's village for the 2012 Olympics.
On the corner of Conduit Street and New Bond Street and adjacent to the Westbury Hotel, the building was acquired in 1995 and its ground floor transformed into a 16,146 sqft luxury brand store.
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I had Logan at our pediatrician's office today (Children's Physicians) when they presented something new and rather cool — so I thought! It's called Children's Connect — an internet-based way to communicate with your pediatrician. You can schedule appointments, access important information, manage medication and email your doctor. I thought this sounded cool, esp. since we would be the only ones who had access to the information, besides the doctor of course, because of login names and passwords.
The nurse came in to ask if I was done filling it out. I asked about the above statement and she said parents can still obtain the information, but they have to ask for it from the office to obtain a hard copy — not on the Children's Connect access. She said this was put into place in order to protect the confidentiality between the patient and the doctor. She said, "For example, let's say your child wants to discuss birth control options, and he/she doesn't want you to know." WHAT?!?!??!?!………………… We are talking about children ages 14-18 here!!!!
I told the doctor that I didn't like it and that a 14 year old should not have "confidentiality" without the parent being involved. HE AGREED! He said he didn't think confidentiality should begin until the child is 18. In my humble opinion, confidentiality between patient and physician should not start until the patient is paying for his/her own medical care!!!
To me whether Children's is aware of this or not, this is a direct subterfuge to drive a wedge between parents and children!!! I am glad that my pediatrician feels the same way I do about this. That's why I drive all the way to Papilllion to see him when I live on the opposite side of town.
Needless to say, I took the form back from the nurse and said I would not be signing it and I would be obtaining my child's medical information the old-fashioned way.


According to provisional data released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT), the Greek economy started 2018 on strong footing, growing at the strongest rate since the third quarter of 2007. GDP expanded 2.4% annually in Q1, up from 1.8% in Q4 2017. The print signals a positive start to 2018, with the economy supported by healthy external demand and a recovering labor market.
The robust acceleration was driven by the external sector. Export growth sped up to 9.5% year-on-year in Q1, from 5.7% in Q4. Growth in exports is being buoyed by a robust tourism industry, which has benefitted from reform measures to improve competitiveness, as well as economic conditions that are suppressing prices. In contrast, import growth contracted 2.7% in the first quarter (Q4: +5.0% year-on-year), which was likely caused by a fall in investment.
Meanwhile, the domestic economy's performance was uneven in Q1. Fixed investment swung to the downside, contracting 9.9% in annual terms, contrasting Q4's robust 25.2% expansion. The contraction was partly due to a strong base effect from a double-digit expansion in the same quarter a year prior. Private consumption, on the other hand, rebounded and grew at a one-year high of 1.3% in Q1 (Q4: -1.3% yoy). Government spending, meanwhile, eased to 0.2% growth (Q4: +2.1% yoy). All told, overall consumption expenditure recovered in the quarter.
On a quarter-on-quarter basis, the economy expanded 0.8% in Q1 in seasonally-adjusted terms, which was above Q4's revised 0.2% increase (previously reported: +0.1% quarter-on-quarter) and the highest reading since Q2 2017. The print represented the fifth quarter of expansion in succession, suggesting a gradual recovery has taken hold.
Economic growth moving forward partially hinges on a smooth exit from the bailout program when it expires in August. Greece appears to be in a good position to do so, with favorable results from the banking sector stress tests and a better-than-expected primary surplus in Q1. Moreover, the economic recovery should gain momentum as investment returns to growth amid higher sentiment and improved financial conditions. Private consumption should also rise modestly as conditions in the labor market improve.
FocusEconomics analysts see GDP growing a moderate 1.9% in 2018, which is unchanged from last month's forecast. In 2019, the panel sees growth at 2.1%.


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Ajinomoto to Open "Gyoza" Restaurant Mainly for Foreigners
Tokyo- Ajinomoto Frozen Foods Co. on Monday unveiled to the media a "gyoza" pot sticker restaurant set to open in Tokyo's posh Akasaka district on Thursday, hoping to let more visitors to Japan enjoy the popular food. The menu at
Duty-Free store for arrivals in opens at Narita
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88 anime "pilgrimage" sites picked in Japan
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Severin Films is bringing more controversial Euroshockers to Blu-ray in August
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 | Blu-ray/DVD, News
By MICHAEL GINGOLD
Having done full hi-def justice to Alex de la Iglesia and Alejandro Jodorowsky this year, the genre-disc specialist is highlighting the works of another Spanish-language shock auteur.
Severin Films has announced the August 24 Blu-ray releases of five films by Eloy de la Iglesia (no releation to Alex), including a pair of '70s fright features and a trilogy of teen-crime movies from the early '80s. The horror films are the "video nasty" CANNIBAL MAN (pictured, a.k.a. WEEK OF THE KILLER and APARTMENT ON THE 13TH FLOOR), in which a slaughterhouse worker accidentally kills someone in a fight and develops a taste for killing, and NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM, about a woman who witnesses a crime and becomes the perpetrator's partner in depravity. The juvenile gang dramas, known as THE QUINQUI COLLECTION, are NAVAJEROS, EL PICO and EL PICO 2, highlight the brutality that ran rampant on the streets of post-Franco Spain–and led to the filmmaker's own downfall.
CANNIBAL MAN will include both the international and extended Spanish versions, newly scanned from the original negatives for the first time ever. NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM and THE QUINQUI COLLECTION will also be scanned in HD from the original negatives. Special features are:
CANNIBAL MAN
Exclusive slipcase
"Cinema At The Margins": Stephen Thrower and Dr. Shelagh Rowan-Legg on Eloy de la Iglesia
"The Sleazy And The Strange": Interview with Carlos Aguilar
NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM
"Eloy de la Iglesia And The Spanish Giallo": An Interview with Film Scholar Dr. Andy Willis
NAVAJEROS
"José Sacristán on Eloy de la Iglesia": Interview with Actor José Sacristán
EL PICO
"Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon": An interview with Quinqui Historians Mery Cuesta and Tom Whittaker
EL PICO 2
"Queerness, Crime, And The Basque Conflict In The Quinqui Films Of Eloy de la Iglesia": A Panel with Scholars Alejandro Melero and Paul Julian Smith, Moderated by Evan Purchell of Ask Any Buddy
CANNIBAL and SCREAM will also be issued on DVD; all these discs can now be pre-ordered at the Severin webstore.
Eloy de la Iglesia
THE QUINQUI COLLECTION
Michael Gingold
Michael Gingold (RUE MORGUE's Head Writer) has been covering the world of horror cinema for over three decades, and spent 28 years as a writer and editor for FANGORIA magazine and its website. In addition to RUE MORGUE, he currently writes for BIRTH.MOVIES.DEATH, SCREAM, IndieWire.com, TIME OUT, DELIRIUM and others. His book THE FRIGHTFEST GUIDE TO MONSTER MOVIES (FAB Press) is out this fall, and he has contributed liner notes and featurettes to a number of Blu-ray and DVD releases. Among his screenplay credits are SHADOW: DEAD RIOT and LEECHES!, and he is currently working on THE DOLL with director Dante Tomaselli.


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The first real entry in the Pilgrim's Prize contest, Post-Apocalyptic Medieval Battle of Hogwarts and The Love of Maidens, is the product of contestant Bernard Knopper. It is Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" as told through a Harry Potter fan fiction re-imagining. Split into seven parts as to remain faithful to the format of Chaucer's original, the story sticks to the premise of the mother text well.
As depicted within The Canterbury Tales, "The Knight's Tale" opens with the great conqueror Theseus annexing more territories. The exact details aren't important; what is important, however, is that he quickly acquires Thebus and settles down for the ancient warrior-king equivalent of retirement. But while conquering Thebus, two royal knights by the name of Palamon and Arcita survive.
The gist of their story is that they are imprisoned. While imprisoned, they each lust after a beautiful maiden, Emily. But, after one day, it is arranged that Arcita should go into exile while Palamon remains imprisoned. After a while, Palamon escapes and encounters Arcita; the two fight, when, ho and behold, the king of Thebus finds them and offers to settle the dispute of their womanly conflict.
To make a long story short, Palamon and Arcita are told to each gathers a sum of men. In one year's time, they will duke it out in a stadium of the Lord's choosing and the winner will marry Emily. Fast forward a year, the battle happens. Before the battle, each of the three (Palamon, Arcita, and Emily) prays to a different god or goddess: but, one of the central Gods is left out, becomes angry, and kills Acrita, though he had the upper-hand in battle. Eventually, Palamon and Emily marry after some time has passed and Emily is not repulsed at the sight of Palamon. The end.
That is a super-fast gist of The Knight's Tale.
Narratively, the fan fiction sticks to the source material. Instead of Palamon and Acrita, though, we have Harry (Palamon) and Draco (Acrita). Instead of Gods, we have the founders of Hogwarts. Instead of Theseus, we have a fresh-from-the-dead Dumbledore. Instead of Emily, we have Ginny. Instead of royal knights, Harry and Draco are resistance fighters against an imperious Dumbledore's resurgent drive to conquest.
Centrally, the pieces remain the same. It is merely an aesthetic gloss which is different. An example of this: Harry and Draco, now best friends since Ron's death, have been captured by Dumbledore after begging him for mercy. Dumbledore imprisoned them in Hogwarts, the equivalent of the dungeon from Chaucer. While imprisoned, they gain affection over Ginny. Then, Draco is released into exile over a mistake made in the Ministry of Magic. Naturally, Harry gets fed up with being a prisoner and escapes, he then encounters Draco. They have a toss only to be interrupted by Dumbledore who thinks it is great fun that they should fight over a woman. He suggests a wizard battle tournament. Each of three pray to a Hogwarts founder, the battle begins, and the ghost of Helga Hufflepuff, sour at being left out, kills Draco. Harry wins the contest and after several years of sitting on his feet marries Ginny as he lives in Hagrid's hut. I guess he and Dumbledore found some common ground. The end.
As a modern response to Chaucer, I both enjoyed and reviled this fan fiction. On one hand, I admit that it was creative using Harry Potter as the aesthetic to revamp The Knight's Tale. On the other hand… I found much of the dynamics forced and cliched.
For instance, the relationship between Harry and Draco was obviously a wink to the Harry Potter fanfiction community, which has this love-affair in pairing them up in mildly cringe-inducing bromances. Such a move was especially iffy here since Harry and Ron would have been a less forced pair. Likewise, I feel Dumbledore was included merely for the sake of being included, the allusions to the Lord of the Rings ("Dumbledore the White") making it even more questionable. As a villain character, really anyone else would have been a better fit, though the absoluteness of villainy in Harry Potter makes any choice sort of strange.
That said, I do admire Knopper's rendition all the same. Aside from how the tone of the story changes between the beginning and end, which serve negative interests, the other pieces work remarkably well. Hogwarts founders instead of Gods, the Quidditch Stadium instead of an arena, Ginny instead of Emily (and so on). Once you have accepted the premise of Knopper's fan fiction and understand that they are grafting on a medieval tale onto a decidedly un-medieval property, it is neat delving into the source text and comparing and contrasting.
So, that being said, I would give this tale a 7.5/10. A well-earned score for a solid piece of work.
Knopper's story has made me anticipate the upcoming stories so I will be glad to see what future tale-tellers have in store for me.


Why wouldn't any us want the D3000?
Discussion in 'Nikon DX DSLR Forum' started by Superbaldguy, Aug 16, 2009.
I just got from shooting a bunch of files at a staff party, used the D40 and SB-600. I did he RAW + JPEG thing, the smaller files are fine for email and 4x6 prints and there will be some NEF's that will become larger prints.
I had this thought - what if I could have an entry-level type of camera that had the quick AF I am used to on the D80 and with a 10 MP sensor? What about the possibility of a 100K shutter life? The D3000 is the answer.
Seems like this little Nikon could/should become a big hit.
Except for the DOF preview and a few other features, I can't see why anyone would not want the D3000.
Does the D300 over all take a better qualitty photo than the D90? I am looking at upgrading from my D90 but am holding back at this moment.
A good D40 replacement, but no 1/500s flash sync, and I was hoping they'd shove the 12MP CMOS sensor in there rather than the 10MP CCD. If they'd done that I'd have one on pre-order. Looks like a nice camera otherwise though.
It just has a lot more features which may or may not make your life easier and help you get photos possibly without having to work so hard. The biggest difference is the 51-point AF system with 17 cross sensors as opposed to the 11 point system with only a center cross sensor in the D90. If you have situations that push the AF system to the limit then the D300 might work better for you. Technical image quality is just about the same though. From what I've read the D90 might actually have slightly better image quality.
......... I can't see why anyone would not want the D3000.
build Quality would stop me buying and using one.
I suspect like most cameras it is very capable of taking great photos.
I am becoming a bigger and bigger proponent of "great glass on a humble camera" philosophy, I'd bet the D3000's image quality at least matches that of my D80 - isn't that what it's all about? The build quality of these Nikon entry-level DSLR's is actually surprisigly good.
The loss of the hybrid shutter with fast flash sync is a bit disappointing, I suspect that only a small number of photographers needed it, alhough I certainly find it useful.
I have not used a D3000 so I will not make any comments. I can see it could be a limitation to those who use flash often.
A big difference among these new cameras and the old ones is the software. The new cameras use generation II colors that appear to be more vivid than previous cameras. I like the colors reproduced by the first generation, but that is only my taste.
I would say it will be very difficult to shoot with a Nikon camera and see a difference in image quality, using the same optics, compared to their other cameras. When it comes to megapixels I do not really know. I do not see a great difference in quality when I compare the files of my 4.2 megapixels D2H with the files of my other cameras with much more megapixels.
A good scan from a fine grain film negative also reproduces excellent quality and makes it tough to identify the camera that shot it.
Today, any Nikon entry body with a good lens shoots as beautiful pictures as a professional body when the photographer does his or her part. Although shutters are designed for a certain number of actuations, many photographers have noticed problems long before the supplied specs and others have gone beyond the number without issues. I have known of D70s that lasted over 80 thousand shots without any repairs.
I would say that entry level Nikon cameras have shown to be good buys offering good service and good image quality.
The above things might not mean anything to a beginner..and someone who just wants a great camera without planning to get "in-depth" with the hobby....it's not a bad camera (though I'd still argue the D40 would work just as well and get as good of images....better in some cases). However, anybody looking to get into the hobby and planning to learn a lot, spend alot of time on forums and increase the quality of their pictures with different photographic methods, I'd probably suggest a minimum of a D80 or D90. That's just my opinion though.
Because I think they took a step back with the CCD sensor. I would probably get it as a vacation SLR. Something light.
I don't want one because my D70 and D200 still take great pictures.
Unfortunately, for those people hoping that the D90 would effectively be a half-price D300, the RAW results appear consistent with those from the JPEGs. Although the underlying silicon is likely to be closely related, it's not necessarily safe to assume that it shares the D300's multi-channel read-out, or downstream processing componentry (Nikon's Expeed branding doesn't refer to a specific processor). Most importantly, there is nothing to suggest that the D90 shares the same low-pass filter assembly (which can be more expensive than the sensor itself and would be an obvious place to reduce costs for a camera in this price-bracket), which would explain the difference in per-pixel-sharpness we see here.
This is a comparison that does show something interesting, however. The processing settings from the D90 and D300 can be swapped between cameras, suggesting the output intent is the same. Yet, for all the similarities in publically announced sensor specifications and consistent color rendering, there are clear differences in per-pixel-sharpness and contrast. Both are shot with the same lens but no amount of re-shooting could get the D90 to match the D300's output.
Upgrading for a D90 to a D300 no. To me that would be like going from the D80 to the D200. Granted the D90/80 are the little brothers of the upper models. Now if the D300x has any good improvements to it maybe but, I would think the D700 would be a better upgrade, unless you are heavily invested in DX lenses.
I have two DX but the rest of mine are film/FX so going with the D700 is the natural progression. It is what Im saving for myself.
Okay but then go to DxOMark.com and compare the D90 and D300 and the D90 has 2/3rds of a stop better signal-to-noise, a full stop better dynamic range, and better tonal range and color sensitivity too. I've seen other results more or less back that up too.
I honestly have no idea what to believe.
I just didn't like it, the D40 had better fine detail then it did.


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