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From Davos (3)
January 26th was the busiest day in Davos. In the morning, we had a panel discussion, "Who Funds Research and Innovation?" and I was a facilitator. The eight panelists were as follows:
? Carol Bartz, Executive Chairman, Autodesk, USA
? Seth Berkeley, President and CEO, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, USA
? Alexander Bradshaw, Scientific Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Plamsa Physics, Germany
? James Fruchterman, President and CEO, The Benetech Initiative, USA: Social Entrepreneur
? Thomas Insel, Director, National Institute of Mental Health, USA
? Linda Lomier, Vice-President, Yale University, USA
? Neelie Kroes, Commissioner, Competition, European Commission, Brussels
? Xu Zhihong, President, Peking University, People's Republic of China
They are all preeminent people and we had a great discussion. I think we all have different opinions, although sharing a mutual understanding and a common goal is very important in the process of having an open discussion.
At the same time of my panel discussion, Dr. Yoko Ishikura and Mr. Thomas Stewart, the Editor Managing Director of Harvard Business Review co-chaired a panel discussion: "How Cities Drive Innovation." Of course I couldn't attend it.
In the afternoon, a very interesting panel discussion "How Much Should World Spend on Healthcare?" was held and the facilitator was my friend, James Kondo. Dr. Michael Porter, who has risen in the field medical policy as of late, was one of the panelists. He attended the panel discussion of the same theme with me last year.
I was not able to attend Dr Kondo's discussion, because I was invited to another closed-door, unofficial discussion, "The Meeting of the Chemical Industry's Presidents." Mr. Sadayuki Sakakibara, the president of Toray Industries Inc. and Mr. Hiromasa Yonekura, the president of Sumitomo Chemical (Picture 1) were also invited. Dr. Daniel Esty (Yale University) was present as well (Picture 2).
Picture 1 Mr. Yonekura, the president of Sumitomo Chemical (second from the right).
Picture 2 Dr. Esty, myself, and Dr. Siwei, Chinese big-name. You can see the book, Green to Gold.
I got along with Dr. Etsy very well and he gave me his recent book, Green to Gold. This book will be very helpful in explaining how companies should function in the future. Dr. Etsy wrote with clarity on companies and their environmental responsibility. I want many Japanese corporate workers to read this book. I believe the book helps to predict upcoming world business trends. Actually, in this year's Davos Forum, the panel discussions which attracted the largest number of people were those on environment and climate change. Over ten such discussions were held. In the area of energy policy, Dr. Steven Chu projected his strong presence.
From 4:15 in the afternoon, I went to attend a panel discussion, "Scaling Innovation in Foreign Aid." Panelists were Mr. Bill Gates, Dr. Paul Wolfowitz (a neoconservative in the first Bush administration and currently the President of the World Bank), Dr. William Easterly, a professor of Economics at New York University, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia (Picture 3). The facilitator was Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International (he's always willing to ask the tough questions and is unafraid of authority. I thought he is a model journalist). I saw Dr. Tachi Yamada, who became the Executive Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health program and my friend from UCLA. Dr. Yamada introduced me to Mrs. Melinda Gates. While I was listening to this panel discussion, I thought Mr. Bill Gates was very insightful.
Picture 3 From the left, Mr. Bill Gates, Prof. Easterly, and Dr. Wolfowitz, the President of the World Bank.
Afterwards, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bono from U2, and Mr. Gates were the panelists of the discussion, "Delivering on the Promise of Africa." Ms. Sadako Ogata is always a panelist in this kind of theme panel discussions. Whenever I see Ms. Ogata, I feel proud of that she is Japanese.
In the evening, I was invited to a discussion of space project in the future. I was with my sworn friend Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society and Master of Trinity College. I had a great time there. Dr. Yoko Ishikura was present and sat next to Load Rees. I went back to the hotel with Dr. Ishikura and Ms. Tsubouchi (Picture 4).
Tomorrow morning I will leave Davos for Japan. This year Ms. Sadako Ogata and Mr. Heizo Takenaka attended many panel discussions and showed great charisma. I feel that as the world's second strongest economy, Japan needs more people who have such an outstanding presence. I would like to thank everyone who was involved in this Forum.
Picture 4 From the right Dr. Ishikura, myself and Ms. Tsubouchi.
I was busy the whole day today. I attended a session called "Islam/South East Asia" in which my old acquaintance, Dr. Jusuf Wanandi, was one of the panelists. The panelists include those from Malaysia and The Philippines. At the same time, another panel focused on Japanese economic trends, entitled 'Japan: Beyond the Recovery" was held (obviously I could not listened to); my associate James Kondo, whom I mentioned in yesterday's column, was the moderator. Dr Heizo Takenaka, Dr Takatoshi Ito and Mr Kakutaro Kitashiro, Chairman of the Board of Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai-Doyu-Kai), were panelists among others. I was told Dr Takenaka concluded the session very well.
In the afternoon, I attended a session Madame Yuriko Koike, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Security Affairs (Picture 1) was a panelist. Afterwards, I had a preliminary discussion with the person in charge of the panel discussion tomorrow, which I will be moderating. I also saw Shri Kamal Nath, the Minister for Commerce and Industry for the Government of India. I met him in India last November. I saw Dr Hirotaka Takeuchi, Dean of Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University and his wife. They said they hadn't visited Davos for a few years. I met with Mr Yoishi Funabashi, a well known journalist whom I last saw almost three years ago (he had already written two columns in Asahi News and elsewhere about Davos Forum of this year…impressive!).
In the evening, there was a reception 'Japan Night'. The Japan Water Forum hosted this reception but I thought it was a bit strange: more official bodies or corporate sector should organize this kind of gathering. The Japan Water Forum is an NPO and the president is former Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshiro Mori. This NPO is working on solving water problems around the world. Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, whom I met in Geneva when I visited the WHO last week attended the reception. Hiroshi Komiyama, the president of the University of Tokyo, Yuichiro Anzai, the President of Keio University and his wife, Haruhiko Kuroda, the President of Asian Development Bank, and Hiroyoshi Watanabe, President of JETRO were attendees of Japan among many others. The founders of Google, Mr Larry Page and Mr Sergey Brin, also showed up among many guests. I have posted a picture with Mr. Page; Mr. Brin was near us too. If you check the history of Google, you can find many interesting things. I heard Ms. Koike attended a panel discussion, 'Military/ Asia' that began eight o'clock that night.
From eight o'clock at Japan Night, 'Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story' (45 minutes movie) was screened. Everyone watched until the end and was touched by the movie. My appreciation to those individuals that came all the way from Japan for the movie.
From ten o'clock, I went to the reception by 'McKeinsey Global' and met Professor Michael E. Porter of Harvard and few others. Today was indeed a long day was for me.
Picture 1 With Ms. Yuriko Koike, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Security Affairs.
Picture 2 With Prof Heizo Takenaka.
Picture 3 With Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki and Prof Yoko Ishikura.
Picture 4 From the right, ProfHirotaka Takeuch, me, Prof Hiroshi Komiyama, Mrs. Anzai, Prof Murasawa (Special Advisor to the President of University of Tokyo), and Prof Yuichiro Anzai.
Picture 5 Mr. Larry Page, one of the founders of Google.
I have returned to Davos, Switzerland again this year. I arrived on the evening of January 23, after climbing into a plane around noon in London to fly out to Zurich. It's my seventh year in a row to attend the annual conference in Davos officially known as the World Economic Forum. I have posted on this blog what took place at past conferences in 2003, 2004 and 2006. The scenery on the way looked a lot less wintery than in previous years, with only some patches of snow on the roads and mountains. Other cities I've visited since the beginning of the year like Washington DC, Geneva and London have also been warm.
Right after arriving I completed my conference registration and checked into my hotel room. It's always difficult to choose which session to attend with so many interesting workshops and panels on the program. I decided to rest and skip the evening reception held by the conference chairman, Dr. Klaus Schwab, to prepare myself for a full day tomorrow.
On January 24, I started out going around conference halls, doing the routine of shaking hands and saying, "Hey, what's up?" as I bumped into friends and acquaintances like Dr. Lester Brown. I met so many other people too.
At 10 AM I attended a session under the inspiring title "Make Green Pay." (I think the naming is very clever.) The debate hosted by CNBC was being recorded for broadcast. A panel debated whether a free market solution is the right way for energy and other policies amid climate change, or if there should be greater government intervention. Members of the panel were split into Pros vs Cons. Each person was given 5 minutes to argue over one question, then one minute to drill an opponent, and finally opened up the floor to questions.
Q1. Nuclear energy and clean coal are the only viable alternatives to oil: Yes or No
Q2. Markets are superior to regulation in leading corporations towards "greener" operations: Yes or No
Q3. A global carbon tax will do more harm than good?
Very interesting questions, and so were the panelists. They include Dr. Daniel Esty, Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and Sir Nicholas Stern who is author of the "Stern Report." I sent an email later to Sir Nicholas whom I was supposed to see in London. The green debate seemed to signal how the issue of climate change and global warming will be high on the agenda for world business leaders this year. Did anyone catch the program? It was apparently aired in Europe, North America and Asia some time between January 26 and 28.
I met many other people during the lunch buffet too. Dr. Heizo Takenaka says he will be at the conference this year for 4 or 5 days. It was encouraging to hear that. Also on this day, Dr. Yoko Ishikura who is my co-author of the book "Sekai-kyu no kyaria no tsukurikata (How to Build a World Class Career)" and Dr. James Kondo who is a colleague of mine at the Health Policy Institute, Japan served as moderators of panels. Unfortunately I was unable to attend either one due to schedule conflict.
In my next posting on this blog, I intend to put up some images from the conference. I would like to start off here with a photo from a session with former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami. On his left is Princess Lolwah Al Faisal. The person on the far left is three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman who is a NY Times columnist known for books like "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century (2005)" and "The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (1999)."
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From WHO Headquarter in Geneva
As those of you who have visited this website before may know, I serve as a Commissioner of the Commission for Social Determinations of Health (CSDH) of the WHO (World Health Organization). Thus far I have visited Santiago de Chile, Cairo, Nairobi. This time the Commission was held at its headquarter in Geneva. I had planned to leave Tokyo at 9:55PM on January 16th by Air France, but I had some work to do for the Cabinet Office. Therefore, I left in the morning of 17th and missed the first day of the CSDH conference.
You can see the picture of all the Commissioners on the WHO website. It is a commemorative photo with Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director-General (in the center). Can you find where I am? You can also see a picture of Dr. Chan, Dr. Amartya Sen, and Sir Michael Marmot and myself on the report of "Commissioners meeting in Geneva, 17-19 January"
Dr. Amartya Sen attended this conference for the first time. When I met him in Tokyo two years ago, I asked him to come to more conferences. I'm sure you know Dr. Amartya Sen. He is one of today's greatest contemporary philosophers. In 1998, Dr. Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. He used to be Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University and three years ago, he returned to Harvard University. I introduced him in Dokusyo Manyu, in my article "Reaching the Depth of India and Rethinking Japan," so please read it. Dr. Amartya Sen was a mentor to Kotaro Suzumura, current Vice-President of the Science Council of Japan whom I respect very much; he is a professor at Hitotsubashi University.
Dr. Sen made pointed remarks during the conference and I had a nice chat with him at the evening reception. I also found out that I have many mutual acquaintances with not only Dr Suzumura, but Dr. Hirofumi Uzawa, Dr. Masahiko Aoki, Lord Martin Rees, Dr. Monte Cassim of Asia Pacific University and others. Dr. Sen is indeed an extraordinary person.
My opinion in the conference was that social inequities occurred because of historical male-oriented societies. In any society, except for a few exceptions, half are men and half are women. Therefore, no matter if you are rich or poor, in every country and every community and civilization, people should aim for social equality between men and women. I think this is an extremely worthy goal. Many female commissioners told me that they agreed with my opinion and many women (even Commissioners!) hesitate to make such remarks in this kind of 'official' meetings. They thanked me for voicing it to the conference members.
As you see in the picture above, I met Dr. Margaret Chan, the new Director-General of the WHO. (I'm sorry for Dr Shigeru Omi who lost the election; He is a very good and competent man). It was a matter of political will of a nation.
Thank you so much for your hospitality, Dr Shibuya, Mr. Mochizuki, Dr Tamura from Tokai University and Dr Enami form Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. At night, I had dinner with Dr Shinozaki, former Director of Health Policy Bureau of Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and Mr. Tsuchiya, working for World Economic Forum in Geneva Headquarters: I had a really good time.
Tomorrow I have to leave for London, but the weather is quite stormy in northern Europe. I am a bit worried about my flight out tomorrow.
Okinawa, Reuters, and Interaction with Canada
As I wrote from Washington, DC, and back to Japan on 10th. On the 11th, I went to work in the morning and in the afternoon I left for Okinawa. In the evening, I had dinner with Hirokazu Nakaima, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture. On the 12th, I visited the new Graduate University of Science and Technology. Hakuun sou, an old building in Onna village, is in the area where the university is planning to be built. The Hakuun-so building has been renovated and has become quite beautiful. I hope this building with additional facilities on this site will become a showcase of the university. Within this calendar year, construction of research institutes will start. In constructing such buildings, we need to consider environmental impact assessments and civil engineering work of the land.
I also visited the transitional research laboratories and had lunch with some scientists. As I reported in the last blog, "Jenelia Farm" in Washington DC, would well serve as a good model for this university. Design of the new University buildings will be great too. I am really looking forward to seeing them.
In the afternoon of that day, I gave a lecture for senior staff of Okinawa prefecture. I spoke about how Okinawa should use its strength. Although geological and historical problems exist, Okinawa can take advantage of the special information-communication and financial business zones, while working to create more. Okinawa can also use an international personal network by using ICT (I think largest number of immigrants to the United States and elsewhere are from Okinawa and Hiroshima). The Graduate University of Science and Technology will play an important role in developing human resources for the future of the world. Okinawa has produced world-class golf players. Developing and producing world-class human resources who can make the future in a mid to long-term prospective is important. In addition Okinawa is a popular clinical training place. I have introduced in this website that Okinawa is really popular for the young doctors and produces many great doctors.
Furthermore, Okinawa has the advantage of tourism resources, such as an exotic atmosphere of the tropical islands, beaches, and scuba diving spots in Kerama Islands. The annual income from tourism is 400 billion yen or almost 3.5 billion US dollars. About five-million Japanese tourists visit Okinawa in a year but only 150 thousand from overseas. Direct flights to Okinawa airport are from Manila, Taipei, Seoul, and Beijing. I heard these flights are only once a day, so I suggested advertising in the north and inland China such as Shenyang, Dalian, Beijing, Nanjing, Xian which have opposite climates from Okinawa, which will be very attractive to come throughout the year. I also recommended having two to three direct flights (even chartered at least initially) in a week to those Asian cities. I think they can start with two to three charter flights in a week. The tour in warm Okinawa will be attractive for Chinese people especially in fall and cold winter. I suggest thinking about what kind of tourists Okinawa will attract. What do you think?
January 13th was Saturday, but I had an interview with Ms. Waki from London, a Reuters journalist whom I met last year at the Davos conference. We had a nice chat about what kind of people can acquire an international way of thinking even subconsciously.
In the afternoon of 13th, I met Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar of University of Toronto. Her research discipline is geochemistry, but we had a great talk. She came to Japan as a part of "Japan-Canada Woman Scientists Exchange Program," which the Science Council of Japan and Canadian Academy started three years ago. The purpose of this program is to have seminars in high schools in each host country. (However, when Japanese scientists go to Canada, seminars can be with elementary school students because of little language barrier.) Although the visits lasted for only for one week, everyone had a great time. I heard the workshops went very well because she received great feedback and many questions from the students. I also met Dr. Kato of Ochanomizu University who visited Canada last year in the program. You can read reports by Dr. Kato and Dr. Honma on the efforts of Canadian Universities' science education. (Japan-Canada Woman Scientists Exchange Program), who visited Canada last year. You might notice that there is something wrong with Japan's science education for students.
In an era of globalization, I want people to go, see, and feel the world from their earlier years. I want to increase those opportunities. In the future all the world is for the young people. This is what I think is most important to put into practice.
On January 16th the "Innovation 25" committee meeting was held. On the 17th, I will leave for Geneva for the WHO HQ.
Early in the new year from Washington DC
Happy New Year! Time has passed so quickly. I have been in Washington, DC since January 6th. The daytime temperature is almost 23-5℃ here. This is unusual weather. I can see people are drinking coffee on terraces in half sleeve shirts. In winter, I've heard that this is the first time in the past hundred years that the temperature has reached low 20℃ in the winter in Washington, DC.
I had an opportunity to have lunch with Dr Harvey Fineberg, president of Institute of Medicine. We had a highly productive discussion about many challenging problems. That night, I accidentally received an e-mail from an official of the Gates Foundation. It was an inquiry about the "Disease Control Priority Project, 2nd edition," of which I am involved and had spoken about with Dr. Fineberg during lunch. What a coincidence!
I also had a great time with Dr. Zerhouni, director of National Institutes of Health (NIH). We had such a fruitful discussion session that we overran our schedule. Afterwards, I was able to visit Janelia Farm, to which I was really looking forward. Janelia Farm is a completely different institute with a new concept. Dr. Gerald M. Rubin, director of the institute, is a great person too. Only 30% of the whole building was built, but I could see that it has a wonderful construction. I received useful information that I could implement at the new graduate university in Okinawa, where I am working as a founding member. While I was in Washington, DC, I also visited National Association for Manufacturing (NAM).
I met Dr George Atkinson, the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of States (STAS) for an hour. I also had a great time with Ralph J. Cicerone, director of National Academy of Science and John Boright, Excective Diretor of International Affairs at the US National Academy of Science and in the meeting we covered a great number of topics. At night, I got an e-mail from Jeffrey Sachs about his visit to Japan in March for Millennium Village Project. I spoke with him as he was in New York.
Anyway, the people I met during this visit were all at the top of each of their important institutes or holding key posts. Their perspectives and ambitions are international, and I felt my level of intellectual stimulation is slightly different from when I meet Japanese people holding the same kind of posts. I imagine you have same kind of experience.
I would like to thank young staffs of Japanese embassy that made my visit truly eventful. I hope they can play an important role in the future. Each of them was really great. Please try to use your individual strengths, since overall strength cannot be brought out only by an organization.
I came back to Japan on 10th. This was a really busy but fulfilling trip.


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The implications of a 'No Deal' Brexit by end-March
Hugh Jones
As the March 29th deadline for Brexit looms ever closer, there are implications for organisations to consider in the event of a 'no-deal' outcome, whether those firms are located in the UK, within the EU, or elsewhere in the world.
In short, a 'no-deal' Brexit will have the following data management implications:
There will be no formal trade agreement between the UK and the remaining 27 member states of the European Union from 23:00 (GMT) on the evening of March 29th 2019, and for the foreseeable future. In such circumstances, the UK will be considered a 'third country', equivalent, in EU data processing terms, to India, Australia or China;
From that date onwards, the UK will not be considered an 'adequate' state from the perspective of its data management regime, until such time as the UK formally applies for such status, and it is granted by the remaining states of the EU. Such a process can take up to 3-4 years, based on the recent experiences of Israel and Japan when seeking such status;
UK firms to continue to abide by GDPR
It should be noted that the UK Information Commissioner has recently reiterated her position that, from end-March onwards, UK-based organisations will continue to comply with the GDPR. This is because, while no longer an EU Member State, UK firms which continue to offer products or services to individuals within the EU must ensure that such processing complies with the GDPR principles.
Additionally, the UK Commissioner has confirmed that the GDPR, combined with the UK Data Protection Act (2018) will form the basis for any processing of personal data by organisations within the UK until further notice.
Appropriate Transfer Mechanisms
Any transfer of personal data after March 29th 2019, by an EU-based organisation to an organisation based in the UK which is acting either as a Data Controller or as a Data Processor, must be protected by one of the following, formal legal mechanisms:
The EU-based Controller will need to enter into a formal contractual arrangement with the UK entity, using one of the pre-drafted Special Contractual Clauses (SCC's) available on the web-site of the European Commission here.
An EU-based entity sharing data with a UK organisation which is a subsidiary within the same group of companies may be able to avail of the Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) mechanism, as long as this status has already been evaluated and granted by the European Commission.
The EU-based entity must manage the transfer of personal data within the terms of a formal Code of Practice or certification mechanism which might be in place among organisations which operate within a particular industry or sector – here again, the Code of Practice or certification standard must already be defined and in place among the members of that sector or industry.
As ever, certain exemptions and alternative solutions for data transfers between Member States and 'third countries' will remain in place, and these can be viewed on the web-site of the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) or can be read here.
Organisations should refer to this set of options when considering the lawfulness of their intended data transfers.
Unfortunately, if the March 29th 2019 deadline remains (as seems likely), then these transfer mechanisms must be put in place within the coming weeks. Any transfers of personal data by an EU firm to a UK-based entity without these mechanisms in place are at risk of being found non-compliant, and a breach of the GDPR.
The Challenge of Increased Public Awareness
Given the increased publicity and attention which the whole Brexit scenario has received, it is highly likely that customers, donors and members of the public will be raising questions in the coming weeks about the processing of their personal data, particularly where they are aware that their data is being shared with a subsidiary or service provider within the UK. Irish and other EU-based organisations need to be prepared to explain the provisions they have put in place, and to confirm that their continued engagement of UK-based partner organisations is compliant and appropriately secure.
EU and UK Nominated Representation
Regardless of whether March 29th 2019 passes with a Brexit 'Deal' or 'No Deal' in place, the departure of the UK from the EU will have other implications for both UK- and EU-based organisations.
Article 27 of the GDPR requires that organisations established outside of the EU, but wishing to provide products and services within the EU which involve the processing of personal data, must have a Nominated Representative within at least one EU Member State. The GDPR requires that this entity will "represent the (non-EU) Controller or Processor with regard to their respective obligations under this Regulation."
By extension, organisations from anywhere in the world, including the EU, will need to have a legal entity within the UK in order to continue processing personal data of UK citizens after March 29th 2019.
(1) Non-EU firms
Many such international organisations who are aware of this obligation have, up to now, nominated a representative organisation established within the UK. Post-Brexit, this will no longer comply with the obligation, since the EU Nominated Representative must be established within a Member State of the Union. Therefore, where organisations may already have a UK-based Nominated Representative, they will also need to nominate another entity within one of the remaining 27 Member States on or by March 29th 2019 in order to continue to comply with this obligation.
(2) UK Firms
As a further consequence, the obligation to have a Nominated Representative will apply, from March 29th 2019, to all UK firms which continue to offer products and services within the remaining 27 EU Member States. The unimpeded movement of personal data which was one of the benefits of being an EU Member will no longer be available to UK firms from that date.
Therefore, since they will now belong to a jurisdiction which has the same Data Protection status as India or China, UK firms who meet the criteria should really start looking for a legal entity within one of the remaining EU jurisdictions which will represent their Article 27 obligations by the end of the month.
(3) EU Firms
As a final consequence, organisations established within the EU which offer products and services within the UK jurisdiction will, from end-March, need to have a legal entity established within the UK to represent their interests for such data processing activities. This is a mirror of the EU Nominated Representative, but ensures that UK citizens and the Supervisory Authority will have an entity established within the jurisdiction which will represent the interests (and liabilities) of any non-UK firm which is processing their personal data.
(4) GDPR "Stragglers"
As we have seen from recent half-year and year-end reports from several EU Supervisory Authorities, many organisations are still struggling to implement GDPR-compliant solutions which meet the obligations of the Regulation – the failure to appoint a Nominated Representative, where required to do so, is just one manifestation of that decision. Given the increased public and commercial awareness of the Brexit implications, such organisations will have very little excuse for non-compliance by the end of March 2019.
Brexit Options still available!
As we have seen in recent days, some uncertainty still remains in this context – not only with the form and duration of the Withdrawal Agreement, the final terms of the Back-Stop arrangement, the post-Brexit status of the UK and its territories, but also with the March 29th 2019 date itself.
All of the observations and recommendations outlined above will apply on whatever date is finally agreed by the interested parties – whether that is March 29th 2019, or some future date towards which this particular "can" is "kicked".
It is difficult to envisage any comprehensive round of negotiations which might take place in the coming weeks or months which would render any of this moot, other than (dare we whisper) we have a 'Dallas' moment, wake up, step out of the shower and find that the whole thing was just an entertaining, disconcerting, extremely worrying dream.
Regardless of what transpires, Sytorus, through our offices in Ireland, the UK, Germany and Sweden is available to provide every support we can to our clients as we all prepare for the changes in the coming weeks.

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Small steps for Dahlgren in V8 transition
By Speedcafe.com
Sunday 9th March, 2014 - 4:00am
Robert Dahlgren
Swede Robert Dahlgren says he's itching to return to the wheel of his Volvo V8 Supercar at Albert Park after a challenging debut at the Clipsal 500.
While team-mate Scott McLaughlin starred in the impressive S60 package, Dahlgren spent his Adelaide weekend adjusting to a foreign car and circuit, while suffering more than his fair share of mechanical maladies.
Switching from Polestar's Scandinavian Touring Car Championship program this season, Dahlgren had enjoyed just a single, weather-hit, day in the V8 Supercar at Sydney Motorsport Park's pre-season test ahead of Adelaide.
The 34-year-old chalked up 21st and 23rd place finishes in Saturday's two Clipsal races before a split oil tank spelt the end of his Sunday.
Dahlgren had earlier been 1.2s and 1.3s adrift of McLaughlin in the respective Friday qualifying sessions, while engine problems ensured he did not turn a lap in Sunday's Race 3 qualifying.
"(Adelaide was) difficult because I've had to change my driving style quite a bit," Dahlgren told Speedcafe.com.
"It was small steps and I just tried to change a few things trying to put a lap together, but I got quicker and quicker all the time.
"The biggest challenge was that the car moves around a lot after being on the kerb and also with the spool you have to work with it. I've not raced with a spool since karting.
"The way you brake into a corner there is a lot higher pressure than you would with a car with higher downforce, so there is a little bit more trail braking in some corners.
"It is a lot rougher in transition from straight to turning so you need to work with that and not against that.
"There is a lot of fine tuning to be able to get that last little bit out of it. But we will be there."
Sitting 24th in points ahead of the non-championship AGP support races, Dahlgren believes he showed enough across the Adelaide weekend to head to Albert Park encouraged.
"I think I made big steps that I couldn't really prove (in Adelaide)," he said.
"I think I improved a lot from the first two races, obviously not as big as top 10 but I'm really looking forward to the Grand Prix.
"The engine is really good and solid and the driveability is very, very good. The Volvo has shown that it can be quick."
Team owner Garry Rogers added that Dahlgren will be "bloody good" once he has had the chance to adjust to the cars.
"Robert really showed some very good speed on his splits," Rogers told Speedcafe.com..
"He's just trying to feel his way and I think maybe he's probably a bit overcautious because he doesn't want to do anything wrong.
"When I say wrong, I don't think he wants to run into anybody like an idiot, crashing and banging.
"I think that on the speed he's showed, it's not yet consistent enough, but it's all new.
"With a bit more confidence over the next few events he'll be bloody good."
Dahlgren has joined GRM in place of Frenchman Alexandre Premat, who will return to the team for the Pirtek Enduro Cup later in the year.
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It's a sad day for Minnesota, and music in general. Prince indelibly changed the face of not only music, but fashion, culture, and even perception itself. Here, Prince holds court over First Ave, debuting what may be his most famous song right here for your viewing pleasure (at least as long as the lawyers allow it).


It is with mixed feelings that I write my last e-newsletter for the Alumni Mentoring Program. While I'm excited about the next chapter in my life after retirement June 30, I will greatly miss HHD alumni and students!
I was with HHD when the Alumni Mentoring Program was created in 2002 and supported Abby Diehl in creating a program where both alumni mentors and student protégés could thrive. I was fortunate to become the coordinator of the program in 2005. I truly appreciate the dedication of over 1,400 alumni who have volunteered their time to mentor HHD students and to the more than 1,600 students who took advantage of the opportunity to learn more about their chosen career path.
It has been an honor and privilege to serve our dedicated HHD alumni and students. Your enthusiasm and willingness to participate in this program has been very rewarding. Each of you have contributed to the success of the program and I know you will continue to support each other and the program in the future.
The new coordinator is Jennifer Charney. Please direct questions to her at jmc69@psu.edu or Abby Diehl at abbyd@psu.edu or 814-863-2207. I know she will do an outstanding job in connecting alumni and students in the years to come.
Again, thank you for allowing me the privilege of meeting and working with you. I will certainly miss seeing all of you at the mentoring lunches and dinners and the enthusiasm you bring to the table.


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Heartbeat è una serie televisiva inglese ambientata nello Yorkshire degli anni Sessanta e trasmessa su ITV1 dal 1992 al 2010, anno in cui si è conclusa con la diciottesima stagione. È stata prodotta da ITV (in precedenza Yorkshire Television) e girata presso i Leeds Studios. La serie, tratta dai libri di Peter Walker scritti con il nome d'arte Nicholas Rhea, ruota attorno a un gruppo di ufficiali di polizia nella città fittizia di Ashfordly ed è stata distribuita in diversi paesi nel mondo.

Episodi

Distribuzioni internazionali

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Speed and Velocity in One Dimension
In the previous sections on Position, Distance, and Displacement, we explored how coordinate systems are used to describe the position of an object in space at a given time, and were introduced to the position function. Now, we would like to go beyond that and begin describing the behaviour of that object as it moves through space and time.
Naturally, as an object moves through space, we would like to know what distance an object would move over a given period of time. In other words, we would like to know the rate at which its position per unit of time. This is known as the speed of the object, and allows us to describe how fast an object is moving.
For example, an object that is moving at a speed of
$$ 10 \ \frac{m}{s} $$
will move 10 metres every second.
Average and Constant Speed
If we take the total distance travelled by an object and divide it by the time that it took for the object to travel that distance, we would get the average speed of that object:
$$ average \ speed = \frac{p_2 - p_1}{t_2 - t_1} = \frac{ \Delta p }{ \Delta t } $$
With average speed, we only know the total distance travelled, and the time that it took to travel that distance. We do not know any information about the speed of the object at any specific point in time. An object may have constant speed throughout that time interval, or variable speed, and it is possible for two different objects to have the same average speed, but different speeds throughout the periods of time that they were travelling.
On the left, we can see two particles travelling to the left. Initially, they travel at the same speed. At around a distance of 1 from the origin, the grey particle beings moving faster, before slowing down to match the speed of the black particle. They both reach a distance of 4 units from the origin at the same time. Although their speeds are different between units 0 - 4, the calculation of their average speeds returns the same result.
Instantaneous Speed
In order to capture the full picture of how an object moves from its starting position to its final position within a period of time, we consider what we call instantaneous speed, which is a snapshot of what an object's speed is at any specific point in time.
In the case of constant speed, the object's instantaneous speed will be the same at every point in time. In the case of variable speed, the object's instantaneous speed may be different at different points in time, as we see in the visualization above.
Through instantaneous speeds, we are able to capture a more complete picture of an object's displacement in time.
When we refer only to the speed of an object, we do not include any information on the direction in which the object is travelling. When we know both the speed and direction of an object, we call this value the velocity of the object.
Unlike speed - which will always be positive - values of velocity can be either positive or negative. In one dimension, this tells us the direction that the object is travelling in, as there are only two directions in which the object may move in. We consider positive velocities one direction, and negative velocities the opposite direction. If we ignore the direction of velocity (i.e. take the magnitude of velocity), we get the speed.
For example, on the left we see one object moving to the right, which we consider the positive direction, and another object moving to the left, which we consider the negative direction.
Average and Constant Velocity
Average velocity is the total dispacement of an object divided by the interval of time that it took for the object to be displaced:
$$ v_{average} = \frac{p_2 - p_1}{t_2 - t_1} = \frac{\Delta p}{\Delta t} $$
Similar to average speed, it is possible for the velocity of an object to be either constant, or variable through the time interval that is used to calculate its average velocity.
When we graph the position function of an object moving with constant velocity, it will appear as a straight line, which shows that the change in position is the same for each change in unit of time. Notice that calculating slope of the graph is the same as calculating the average velocity:
When we graph the position function of an object moving with variable velocity, it will appear as a curve on the graph. However, if the starting and ending points are the same as another object moving with constant velocity, then their average velocities will be the same:
Instantaneous Velocity
Similar to instantaneous speed, instantaneous velocity is a snapshot of what an object's velocity is at a specific point in time.
More formally, the velocity of an object is defined as the derivative of its position function:
$$ v(t) = \lim_{\Delta t \to 0} \frac{\Delta p}{\Delta t} = \frac{d p(t)}{dt} $$
This describes how fast something moves, and in which direction it is moving at any point in time. On a graph, the instantaneous velocity of an object is equal to the tangent of the position function at a point in time.


Slovenské Elektrárne (Slovak Power Plants), Inc., plans to invest 1.5 billion Sk ($43 m) this year into security measures at the Jaslovské Bohunice nuclear power plant, which is more than total amount of investment in 1994-1996 (1.374 billion Sk).
The gradual reconstruction, which will allow the plant to function until 2005 - 2007, will require 5.5 billion Sk. In 1999, the nuclear plant is planned to meet Western safety levels.


the text in your sig should stay longer before faiding to the next.
speaking of sorrow, i wonder how Sarrow's doing... good i hope.
such sarrow in the world today. teh sigh.
but wait! he isn't dead!
oh no, but aeg is! will majic kill himself to stop the agony? tune in next week [or whenever majic nexts posts in this thread... =\] to find out!
/me is rotting in the bowels of the earth.


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Q: SWT / JFace Scrollview not scrolling I have two tabs with their own respective views. The tabview itself is in a scrollview. For some reason, the scrollbars don't appear for the larger tab. I set up the (working) tabview like so:
public CustomerTab(Composite arg1, int arg2) throws SQLException {
    super(arg1, arg2);

    layout = new org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridLayout(GridData.FILL_BOTH, false);
    layout.numColumns = 1;
    this.setLayout(layout);

The one, that's not causing the scrollbars to appear, starts like so:
public InvoiceTab(Composite parent, int arg2) throws Exception {

    super(parent, arg2);

    // new gridlayout and asign to this tab
    gridLayout = new org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridLayout(GridData.FILL_BOTH, false);
    gridLayout.numColumns = 3;
    this.setLayout(gridLayout);

In my application, I configure the shell:
@Override protected void configureShell(Shell shell) {

    super.configureShell(shell);
    shell.setSize(1130, 530);
    setShellStyle(SWT.SHELL_TRIM & (~SWT.RESIZE));
}

and create the scrollview this way:
@Override protected Control createContents (Composite parent) {

    scrolledComp = new ScrolledComposite(parent, SWT.H_SCROLL | SWT.V_SCROLL);
    mainContent = new Composite(scrolledComp, SWT.NONE);
    mainContent.setLayout(new FillLayout());

    mainTabView = null;
    mainTabView = new MainTabView(mainContent);

    scrolledComp.setContent(mainContent);
    scrolledComp.setExpandHorizontal(true);
    scrolledComp.setExpandVertical(true);
    scrolledComp.setMinSize(1100, 500);

    return mainTabView;
}

What happens, is that the scrollview just displays as far the 500 go, but no content below, no scrollbars. Can anybody see, what I'm doing wrong?
Thanx in advance,
Marcus

A: Since you set you minimum height manually to 500, the ScrolledComposite doesn't know better.
You should use the "real" size of the content as minimum size. You can use the following code:
scrolledComp.setContent(mainContent);
scrolledComp.setExpandHorizontal(true);
scrolledComp.setExpandVertical(true);
scrolledComp.setMinSize(mainContent.computeSize(SWT.DEFAULT, SWT.DEFAULT));

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Yhonatan Herrand
Signed: Int. FA, Pittsburgh Pirates
How Acquired: Int. FA
Birthplace: Dominican Republic
Herrand has very good stuff but is still very raw and erratic. His fastball can be anywhere from the upper 80s to 96-97. In fact, he apparently has hit 100. He also has a good curve, but he has severe control problems.
Struggled to throw strikes in his debut in the DSL, walking more than he fanned.
Despite the struggles in 2010, the Pirates brought him to the GCL. Unfortunately, he was injured and unable to debut until late July. Once he could pitch he continued struggling with his control.
R: 1-2-0, 8.10 ERA, 2.15 WHIP, 20.0 IP, 14.4 BB/9, 5.8 K/9
Herrand allowed only 11 hits in 20 innings, but he just couldn't throw strikes. Apart from 32 walks, he hit seven and threw a dozen wild pitches.
Herrand has a great arm, but his control problems aren't getting any better. He'll probably return to the GCL in 2013.
March 4, 2010: Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an international free agent.


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Kris Nelscott
About Kris Nelscott
Thin Walls
Smokey Dalton and Jimmy, the young boy he protects, have settled into a new life on Chicago's South Side. But when Smokey gets hired to investigate the death of a black man in a local park, he realizes that the murder might not be an isolated case.
The Chicago Police Department doesn't really investigate black deaths, particularly near the South Side. Smokey thinks the case easy, until he digs deeper into the history of the area, a history that includes gangs, racism, and secrets so dark they threaten his very existence.
Chosen as one of the top ten mystery novels of the year by the Chicago Tribune, Thin Walls shows why Publisher's Weekly gave it a starred review, and Booklist calls it "another fine entry in an outstanding series."
Paperback available from your favorite bookseller, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others. Audiobook available from Audible, iTunes and others.
Ebook available from your favorite ebook store, Amazon, B&N, iTunes, Kobo, Omnilit, Smashwords, and more.
Praise for Thin Walls
"Nelscott doesn't use a specific historical moment to frame the action this time, but she still puts the late-sixties setting to good use, showing how nearly every move Smokey makes, both professionally and personally, is constrained by the racial climate of the times. Another fine entry in an outstanding series."
"Nelscott handles this busy plot with aplomb and convincingly portrays the frustrations of various groups of whites and blacks as inexorable changes create friction. Dalton is a strong, compelling hero facing a tough case and an equally tough fight to protect his son and survive."
starred review
"The sheer audacity of starting a mystery series set in 1968—using the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis and then the Democratic National Convention in Chicago as backdrops—gives way to another kind of courage in Kris Nelscott's third book in her triumphant series about black private investigator Smokey Dalton."
"The Dalton books are fast, realistic, full of powerful atmosphere, compelling characters and telling analysis of American history and what it means to be black in the land of the free. They get better every time."
—The Statesman Journal
[Salem, Oregon]
"Thin Walls can't hide an engaging murder mystery."
"More densely plotted than Walter Mosley's recent Easy Rawlins novels, Thin Walls is equally stimulating."
"The third Dalton historical mystery, Thin Walls, is a fabulous tale that brings to life the turbulent sixties through the frustrations of various groups. This technique could have proven fatally stereotyped, but instead Kris Nelscott makes each group distinct in their rage at their inability to truly matter. The mystery is first class and Smokey's efforts to keep Jimmy clean feel genuine and makes him humanly like most caring parents. The series is as big a winner as the Detroit Tiger's World Series (Jets Superbowl was still a few weeks away) victory."
—Bookbrowser.com
"…a great Smokey Dalton entry."
—The Best Reviews
"Thin Walls is a gripping, true-to-life mystery and description of the social fabric of Chicago in December of 1968."
"[Thin Walls] is very enjoyable, with lots of real life twists and tensions. It reminds us of where we have been as a society and how far we still need to go."
"The plot is compelling, but it's the astringent insight on the lives of African-Americans trapped by racism both overt and covert that makes this book fascinating."
—Rocky Mountain News
"This is the third in this award-winning series by Nelscott…If you're new to the series, Thin Walls will make you want to go back and read the first two."
"When Kris Nelscott's first novel, 'A Dangerous Road,' came out three years ago, the mystery writer Loren D. Estleman called her 'a Ross Macdonald for the black experience in America.' That's a large claim. For a lot of people, and I'm one of them, Macdonald's Lew Archer novels are the pinnacle of American detective fiction…Now, with 'Thin Walls,' the third book in Nelscott's Smokey Dalton series, Estleman's claim feels more than ever on its way to being justified."
"Somebody needs to say that Kris Nelscott is engaged in an ongoing fictional study of a thorny era in American political and racial history. If that's not enough to get 'serious' critics and readers to pay attention to her, it's their loss."
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Smokey Dalton Series Reading Order
A Dangerous Road (A Smokey Dalton Novel)
Smoke-Filled Rooms (A Smokey Dalton Novel)
Thin Walls (A Smokey Dalton Novel)
Stone Cribs (A Smokey Dalton Novel)
War at Home (A Smokey Dalton Novel)
Days of Rage (A Smokey Dalton Novel)
"Guarding Lacey" (A Smokey Dalton Story)
Street Justice (A Smokey Dalton Novel)
"Family Affair" (A Smokey Dalton Story)
Protectors Series Reading Order
"Blaming the Arsonist" (short story)
"Combat Medic" (short story)
Protectors (novel)
"Special Delivery" (short story)
"Family Affair" (short story)
"Sob Sisters" (short story)
"The Monster in Our Midst"
"Still Life 1931"


Tal Boldo is a self-published award-winning novelist and audio book reader and producer. She likes to write under pseudonyms that relate to her stories. Her love story, Looking Glass Friends, was published under E. L. Neve, an anagrammatic tribute to the real letters which inspired the novel. The novel is a 2017 New York Book Festival winner, a 2017 Los Angeles Book Festival winner, and a 2017 Pacific Book Award Finalist. Her middle grade fantasy, The Sound and the Echoes, was published under Dew Pellucid (Tal being the Hebrew word for Dew). The novel was a 2013 Juvenile Fiction Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, and an Honorable Mention recipient in the 2012 Los Angeles Book Festival. Her production of Looking Glass Friends is her first foray into the world of audio books.
Looking Glass Friends: A Novel Inspired by Real Love Letters by E.L. Neve is the story of Ellie and Neil who fell in love with one another over email. They started off very simply talking about the novel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. The question for them becomes can two people fall in love with one another, heart and soul, before they actually look at one another? More importantly, it looks at all the different facets of love - the good and bad and everything else.
This is a great book. We live in an age where dating and the idea of how to date has changed and yet there are some things that we find are still the same. Courtships often used to happen through letters; now they can sometimes happen by email. These relationships tend to be looked at in a strange light. Why should they, though, in this day of technology? There are many things that are expressed through these letters, and I found the book to be an enjoyable read overall. If you want to feel inspired and also ask yourself some questions of yourself and love in general, this is the book for you. I enjoyed every moment that I spent with this book and I think you will too. This book is about more than just one story, although it is enjoyable. Seeing two people who find their soul mate, and yet it never is that easy, is it? Sometimes the easiest part of love and soul mates is finding them. The hard part is making it all work in this crazy world of ours.


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tod und auferstehung
Otto Dix, Tod und Auferstehung (1922) I. Der Selbstmörder (Erhängter)
Carnegie Hall Presents
Westminster Symphony Choir
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Katarina Karnéus, mezzo-soprano
Laura Claycomb, soprano
Mahler, Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
Ah, Mahler 2. I should put a disclaimer at the top of this review: it's almost my favorite piece ever (that goes to Opus 111, a story for another day).
Dix, Tod und Auferstehung II. Schwangerschaft
MTT has been perfecting his Mahler over the past decade in San Francisco, taking the best of Bernstein's interpretations and leaving some of the fatty excess behind. But before I delve into the performance, I want to talk briefly about something I saw at the Neue Galerie earlier Friday evening. Promenading through their pictures at the Otto Dix exhibition (see what I did there?) I discovered a series of drawings by Dix titled Tod und Auferstehung. Now, in 1888, the year of Mahler's Second, resurrection in Germany must have seemed like a pretty good deal. You die before the beginning of the symphony, get a certifiably dramatic funeral march, a gradual parade of nature and eternal light, and then an epic, half-hour Auferstehung. The hero comes back to live, everyone gives a standing ovation, we all go home happy. German spirits in the 1880s were high (Mahler was working primarily in Leipzig and Prague at the time), with the arrogance of Bismarck's unification and Prussian military dominance still in the air.
Dix, Tod und Auferstehung III. Lustmord
In the wake of humiliating defeat in World War I, the prospect of a heroic death and a mystical, quasi-Christian resurrection was not so simple (not that I am calling Mahler 2 simple). Instead we get Lustmord. I'm not sure if Dix's six drawings depict a specific narrative. But we have suicide (via hanging), pregnancy, sex murder, war, more war, and finally the hint of resurrection. Rather than a single, titanic hero put to death and brought back to life, Dix creates a collage of death representing the destruction of Europe, the wasteland of Germany, and the inanity of war. No life breathes in the belly of the pregnant woman, as she stands over a severed head. Dix is known for his utter crassness in detailing the most horrid visuals of wartime, and these six drawings are no exception. Death, as conceived by Dix, overturns Mahler's affirming tranfiguration. It's either a pathetic self-induced strangulation, a sadistic sex murder, or bloody and honor-less war. One can imagine Mahler's hero in some kind of heroic battle, or maybe even stabbed in the back like Siegfried; for Dix, there are no heroes.
Dix, Tod und Auferstehung IV. Die Barrikade
Most interesting is the final drawing of the set, depicting the funeral of Dix's protagonist (I use that term loosely), with his spirit floating above the processional. This is not the public resurrection of Mahler, with hundreds of voices intoning "Prepare yourself to live!" Instead, Dix gives us something more private, and more pathetic. It's not clear if the spirit is floating up to heaven, coming back to earth, or simply watching his funeral Tom Sawyer-style. But none of the mourners pay him or the coffin any attention; he is just one of the many dead, no special titan worthy of any particular resurrection. It's an eerie portrayal, the polar opposite of Mahler's rhapsodic Aufstehung.
Dix, Tod und Auferstehung V. Toter Soldat
Anyway, back to MTT and the SF Symphony. The orchestra played a rich and precise opening, with whiplash winds and growling low strings. MTT brought out each effect in the funeral march well, without going overboard--the huge "shock" effect right before the recap, with a moment of cataclysmic silence followed by the opening low-strings machine-gun attack, came across perfectly. And before the final build-up to the end of the movement, there was a beautiful moment where time stopped, with transparent and lithe string tremolos.
Dix, Tod und Auferstehung VI. Begräbnis
MTT phrased the second movement carefully, transforming the leisurely ländler into a kind of slow-motion Beethoven scherzo. At times it was a bit sluggish and could have used more lilt, but overall the style came across. San Francisco's orchestra is not quite at the level of those in Chicago or New York, as evidenced by the fuzzy and imprecise pizzicati section. The beginning the third movement was also rough but locked in quickly, with excellent violin solos by concertmaster Alexander Barantschnik, who played with lovingly old-skool slides. MTT created a massively chilling cry of despair, the huge deceptive cadence towards the end of the movement, one of those climactic and badass Mahler moments.
Mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus gave the weakest performance of the evening, in a rather forced and staid Urlicht--she did not capture the anguished, pre-Resurrection atmosphere of the folk song, and her vibrato was too wobbly for me. But the Resurrection itself was epic from the rumbling start. MTT finally went all-out, milking each climax without heading into the schamltz direction. The San Francisco brass were particularly impressive, with each chorale hushed and balanced just right (the woodwinds, though, had a number of weak moments, with disappointing oboe and piccolo solos).
Unfortunately, the sustained hum of the first choral entrance was matched in volume by our favorite New York coughing and rustling. It's amazing the sheer density of coughs this audience can put it in just a minute or two. But the last ten minutes were certifiably awesome, and the hero definitely got Resurrected. This is music that I can't describe because it moves me so deeply; I just cannot come up with the words. So I will simply say that MTT and the orchestra nailed it.
The Otto Dix paintings are courtesy of the Galerie Nierendorf website, and can be viewed fully here.
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finley/drake at zankel
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Drake sports $1M in Fashion and Accessories in 'How Much Is Your Outfit' Series
by Memphis Rap April 4, 2019, 2:26 pm 756 Views
Do you remember the phrase "You Look Like A Million Bucks" back in the day? Well, rapper and businessman Drake showed what a million dollars in fashion and accessories actually looks like in the special OVO edition of The Unknown Vlogs video series "How Much Is Your Outfit."
In the series, How Much Is Your Outfit, the OVO team shows off their outfits along with the prices of the fashion and accessories that they are wearing.
The series ends with Drake showing off his nearly $1M in fashion and accessories for his outfit which included a custom Brioni jacket valued at $11,000, a black Tom Ford turtleneck valued at $2,000, along with the Tom Ford Trousers valued at $1,000 and Tom Ford crocodile shoes topping the fashion list at $15,000.
Now the bulk of the outfit value is when the accessories come into the picture including a custom Jason of Beverley Hills diamond chain valued at $200,000 and the largest value coming from the Richard Mille rm69 luxury watch worth an outstanding $750,000. Along with those accessories, Drake also sported a couple of bracelets – one gifted from his son and another from a fan.
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There is a bunch of really great training on social media out there and at least a gazillion IG accounts that seem to be getting more followers than celebrities these days.
We all know them, follow them and COMPARE ourselves to them several times a day. Social Media anxiety IS a thing and we all are going to fall ill of it sooner or later...just accept it!
Nat from PapelnCo has some serious IG skills!
while you learn and build your tribe online go make money in the real world!
About 60% of my business income comes from good ol networking and face to face meetings. Not only that allows me to have clients and pay the bills (which I am so grateful for), it also means I don't have to freak out every time I get 10 followers and still show a total of 1518!!!
I sold more styling kits to people that know me in person than through social media efforts this far! You know why? Because people will always trust a thoughtful conversation, a recommendation or a beautiful business card.
This is the best way to book clients AND it will bring you so much joy to work with them. When I started designing photoshoots I had a list of people and items I loved working with and those were my first contacts!
Photographers for example should connect with local venues/planners and instead of putting together a photoshoot why not gift a couple a mini session at that venue. Or offer to photograph one of their mixers so you can connect with brides. There are plenty of ways you can get in front of the client and not have to give the elevator pitch.
You can print a portfolio and hand it to locations where you want to shoot or where you think your client hangs out. If you are a designer or florist make a sample of your work and gift to local stores that have your 'vibe'. If you are a good match, the perfect client will see your work first and book you!
This is big right now...everybody wants to collaborate and I hear more and more that people are frustrated and don't want to work for free and so on! Well, you are just not doing it right.
Collaborations were THE WAY I got my foot on the door and still gets me the most PROFITABLE clients.
WHO, WHY and WHAT in RETURN!
Do you want that person as a client?
Do you want to get in their IG feed?
Do you want that planner/dress shop/venue to recommend you to their brides?
Do you have what it takes to do an excelent job and profit from it?
How much am I investing?
Am I taking time from other activities?
Are we all in agreement? Do we all agree we want to work together so we can refer each other?
Have I communicated clearly all my vision, my expectations and everybody is like hell ya?!
and don't forget to send a friendly reminder, every now and then, that you are there for your vendors and down for more projects!


Niles West art students' work featured in the annual MLK assembly.
On the morning of Wed., Jan. 17, Niles West students and staff came together to celebrate the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through the annual MLK Day Assembly. The assembly was organized by West's Black Student Union (BSU) and featured performances by West's Symphonic Orchestra, Gospel Choir, Master Choir, and Orchesis.
The assembly opened with the choir's rendition of the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which emerged as the "Black National Anthem" in 1919. Originally a poem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a song of hope that reflects on a history of hardship and slavery and calls on African-Americans to continue to move forward. The audience was silent while the choir sang, and members of BSU slowly took the stage, displaying signs that read "Unity," the theme of this year's assembly, in several languages.
Opening remarks were made by BSU student leaders and seniors Kayla Lawrence and Kayla Scott. Then, two members of West's slam poetry team, A Tribe Called West, took the stage to perform a spoken word piece — senior Sarah Montes and sophomore Penelope Alegra performed an original piece, "Ropas Viejas," entirely in Spanish.
Senior and BSU member Simone Perrin then delivered a speech urging students to heed the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and promote unity, both at West and in the world around us.
Wells invited students to continue discussions of race in the Student Commons, and she challenged students to connect with a person of a different race sitting near them and share what they learned on a Google form.
Orchestra Director Dajuan Brooks introducing the final portion of the assembly, which included two musical performances. The first piece, composer Eric Whitacre's "October," was performed by the Symphonic Orchestra. The sentimental piece was accompanied by artwork from West's visual arts students that centered on themes of race, inequality, and the beauty of our differences.
The second and final piece was a collaborative performance that brought together the orchestra, choir, and members of Orchesis. The piece was a rendition of Beyoncé's "Freedom," and many students agree that it was both a powerful and beautiful way to end the day's performances.
Senior Sihah Reza, who performed with the orchestra at the assembly, had a similar perspective on the final song.


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La La Anthony Has Always Had The Power
Sep 13, 2019 @ 3:00 pm By Ashley Uzer
If you're a 90s baby, it's almost like you got to watch La La Anthony's entertainment career unfold before your eyes, with the times.
You watched La La slay in the TRL days — when being a "VJ" was a highly sought after profession.
You also probably watched La La host reality TV shows like Flavor of Love—when MTV and other "music" channels were branching away from solely showing music videos.
Fast forward through some honestly iconic early 2000s movies (hello? You Got Served?) and now La La is acting in the type of shit you watch now — not music videos, not reality TV (okay, maybe a little), but dynamic and smart television shows like Power.
"I think people are really now seeing me as an actor," says La La of her role as Lakeisha on Power.
If you're a fan of Power, you know that La La's character is in a whirlwind romance with Tommy Egan, played by Joseph Sikora. We had Joseph interview La La all about Power, how she got started in the industry, and how she balances her career with everything else.
What were some of your first thoughts when Power came out and how did you end up getting the job?
I heard about Power before there was even a name. 50 [cent] was always telling me about the show he was going to create that was going to take over TV and change the face of TV. And one thing about 50, when he says something—he really does it. When they started casting, I was like, "I gotta get in on this show." I called him and said, "I don't want you to give me anything, I just wanna audition." And then I auditioned for this show a few times and that's when I was given the role of LaKeisha.
Did you originally audition for LaKeisha or did you audition for other roles as well?
I auditioned for other roles as well.
Are we keeping that on the DL?
I don't know…I think everything turns out the way it's supposed to. I've been honored to play Lakeisha. I've learned so much—you have forced me to grow so much as an actor and I tell you that all the time. I'm so grateful to you because I hope that some of the things I've learned from working with you will take me into my life after Power. I think people are really now seeing me as an actor, which is all I've really wanted. I think Power has really solidified that for me, and that's exciting.
LaKeisha kind of has been a slow burn, because she was around for so much of [the show]. Are you pleased with the evolution of the character?
Yeah. I think in life and in acting, all you want to do is grow. Who wants to stay the same? What's great about LaKeisha is she kind of started in the background and grew into a real power player, so to speak, and that's great as an audience to watch. It's one thing to come in strong and then you're just out of there. I've been consistently a part of the story until I finally became a major part of the story, and as an actor that's all you could ever want. I saw it with this character and it's been a great ride.
Tell me about you character's journey with Tommy this season. Where do we pick up with the characters and what does season six have in store for us?
I think she's really in love with Tommy and wants this relationship to work by any means necessary. She wants to prove that she's cut out for this lifestyle and she can be your ride or die chick. But in being that, a lot comes along with that. Being in Tommy's world, a lot comes along with that—and she'll quickly learn that as she's navigating the relationship. I think as women, when we are so in love, we're blinded by love and willing to do anything—and anything comes with consequences.
Being a mother yourself, how significant is it that she allows Tommy to be such an influence in Cash's life?
Yeah, that's a big deal. Anytime you introduce your child to someone new that's not their dad, you want to make sure it's someone you want around your kid, someone your kid would look to. So her doing that is a big step and any mom would know that and understand that.
What does LaKeisha know about Tommy that other people don't?
I definitely think she knows a side of him that people don't, which is that he's sensitive, he's loving, all he wants is to be loved and she wants to be that person for him. Just to show him that not everyone is out to get you. There's a sensitive kind of little boy inside Tommy that a lot of people don't know because you only see him being a boss, killing people, taking no shorts—but at the core he really just wants to be loved.
Let's take a quick jump back to what got you started in this business. Tell me a little about your first job in the entertainment industry?
My first job was an internship at a radio station in Atlanta, which is where I started. I was in high school and I went to the opening of the Wu-Tang clothing store in Atlanta—I loved Wu-Tang Clan as a young teen. I went and I saw people putting up posters and I said, "Oh, this is really cool, I wanna do it," and they said you had to be 18. I was 15, so I lied about my age and then I was able to get the job. It started as an internship and from there I became a radio personality and then a TV personality in the MTV days.
I remember, I watched you, I was crushing a little bit here and there.
Thank you. That was a fun time, I then continued on to acting and producing and kind of where I'm at now.
And what do you see after Power? Can you leak anything for us?
So I'm on 90210 now, it's the reboot, it's on FOX. I'm filming it right now in Vancouver and it's really exciting to see the original cast attempt to recreate the magic they had so many years ago. The fact that everyone agreed to come back is kind of crazy. I'm the only Hispanic African American cast member, which to me comes with great responsibility just to bring diversity and my perspective into that 90210 world. It's been a great ride.
You're one of the most busy people I've ever met in my life. How do you balance a career not only as a successful actor, but also as an entrepreneur, mother, and wife?
I think you just kind of figure it out. What's great for me is I have a great family and support system, my family steps in when I need them to.
Steps in? They can dance!
They can dance and they help me in many ways. What's great about my son, Kiyan, is he can come with me to set. He was just with me in Vancouver and on my days off we just explored all of Vancouver so he can feel like he's a part of what I'm doing, which is awesome to me.
Photographer: Jared Ryder
Makeup: Ryan Burke using Pat McGrath LABS and Krylon
Hair: @myssmonique
Styling: Jeremy Haynes
About The Author: Ashley Uzer
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He paid the men for tidying-up his garden at New Hey Road, Marsh.
But one of them took more money from a bedroom after using the toilet.
One man is described as white, 5ft 7in tall and about 40. He was medium build, clean shaven and wearing a brown casual jacket. His accent was possibly Liverpool or Lancashire.
The other, also white, was 6ft tall and had broad shoulders and a stocky build. He was 50 or perhaps older and clean shaven. He was wearing brownish work clothes.
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Today we updated the "Blog" section of our website with a new design.
In addition to providing the thought behind the update, I would also like to explain how the Blog fits into our overall communication strategy, and for this, we need to take a step back and get the overview.
The main way we communicate Ludwig Oechslin's watches is through the ochs und junior website. We also communicate his watches through newsletters, press releases, Facebook posts, speaking invitations around Lucerne, and the tiny 50mm font on the door of our workshop at Zürichstrasse 49 – we do no paid advertising or other marketing activities.
What ties the communication methods we use together?
They are all in a sense "passive". They all wait for the client (or an interested press member) to initiate contact with ochs und junior.
ochs und junior does not catch its customers, it is found by its customers.
Why do we approach communication in this oddly "unassertive" manner, which is 180 degrees opposite from the way other Swiss watch companies (both large and small) do it?
It starts, of course, with the product.
Ludwig Oechslin's watches are exactly how we see watchmaking. They are extreme in a way that is not brash or attention seeking. Intelligent reduction, not flashy complication. Truth to materials, not secondary surface treatments. No logo on the dial or case – and of course no descriptive text (the only exception is the required brand stamp for precious metals).
It turns out this isn't how most people see watchmaking – so it would make no sense to force our uncompromising viewpoint in front of a wider audience using the standard watch industry communication playbook: paid advertisements, event sponsorships, celebrity endorsements, contrived Instagram accounts, etc.
To all of that, we would much prefer the road less traveled.
But won't this lead to too slow of a growth rate for our company? Would it not at least make sense to do a little bit of "highly-targeted proactive marketing", in an attempt to expose more people to our niche product?
The main target of most Swiss watch companies is to grow in order to satisfy their backers. For small watch companies, these are usually private investors – perhaps it is someone who could have owned a vineyard or a restaurant with their name on it, but instead chose to have their "own" watch company. For larger watch brands, the investor is usually the public markets. The vast majority of luxury watch brands sold around the world are owned by large luxury groups which are traded on worldwide stock exchanges.
Whether the investor is large or small, whether the watch brand is large or small, the mandate is the same – grow!
A controlling stake in ochs und junior is owned by the cofounders, Ludwig Oechslin and Beat Weinmann.
Ludwig, Beat and I have no appetite even to test more aggressive marketing strategies, because for us, the pleasure is in making, selling, communicating and servicing ochs und junior watches in the uncompromsing way we can do it at our current scale: about 130 watches per year, not more than 300.
Our target is enough customers to continue working this way we do now for a long time. We would like to grow in terms of quality, not quantity.
Our radical target of "enough" is the fundamental reason why ochs und junior's communication strategy is different.
The benefit to those who do discover ochs und junior is the wonderful feeling of having found something – not the usual feeling a watch fan might get from our industry – something has found me.
The three links in the upper right corner ("watches", "blog", and "contact") represent the essence of ochs und junior.
"Watches" provides clear, factual descriptions of Ludwig Oechslin's creations.
"Contact" gives the direct personal contact information of cofounder Beat Weinman, who is responsible for production, sales and service.
"Blog" takes you behind the scenes. It contains a huge variety of musings, essays, and photos, ranging from custom-made watches, to how ochs und junior thinks about service, to Ludwig Oechslin explaining his approach to design, to a post on why we make our website secure. In short, the Blog is where you can learn how the people behind ochs und junior think. And there are now posts stretching back 8 years, all the way to 2008.
And now, the Blog section update.
You can now browse every post on a single page, and the posts themselves have a new layout. For the page layout, the most important things to us were large images (since 2012, every image is Retina resolution or higher) and to no longer use a "lightbox". The lighbox we were using had some benefits, but in our opinion, the downsides (breaking pinch/zoom, slower page load times, and an extra "mode" the site can exist in) were not worth it. Simplicity, we have decided, is the better option.
As might make sense for a company with an unconventional communications strategy, before I joined ochs und junior to handle communications, my work had nothing to do with marketing. In fact, I was a user experience researcher for Google in California, so of course, I welcome your feedback about the "Blog" section change. You can reach me at [email protected].


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package org.fusesource.fabric.commands;

import org.apache.felix.gogo.commands.Argument;
import org.apache.felix.gogo.commands.Command;
import org.apache.felix.gogo.commands.Option;
import org.fusesource.fabric.api.CreateEnsembleOptions;
import org.fusesource.fabric.boot.commands.support.EnsembleCommandSupport;

import java.util.List;

import static org.fusesource.fabric.utils.FabricValidations.validateContainersName;

@Command(name = "ensemble-add", scope = "fabric", description = "Extend the current fabric ensemble by converting the specified containers into ensemble servers", detailedDescription = "classpath:ensembleAdd.txt")
public class EnsembleAdd extends EnsembleCommandSupport {

    @Option(name = "--generate-zookeeper-password", multiValued = false, description = "Flag to enable automatic generation of password")
    private boolean generateZookeeperPassword = false;

    @Option(name = "--new-zookeeper-password", multiValued = false, description = "The ensemble new password to use (defaults to the old one)")
    private String zookeeperPassword;

    @Option(name = "-f", aliases = "--force", multiValued = false, description = "Flag to force the addition without prompt")
    private boolean force = false;

    @Option(name = "--migration-timeout", multiValued = false, description = "Timeout to wait for containers to migrate to the new ensemble")
    private long migrationTimeout = CreateEnsembleOptions.DEFAULT_MIGRATION_TIMEOUT;

    @Argument(required = true, multiValued = true, description = "List of containers to be added")
    private List<String> containers;

    @Override
    protected Object doExecute() throws Exception {
        checkFabricAvailable();
        validateContainersName(containers);
        if (checkIfShouldModify(session, force)) {
            if (containers != null && !containers.isEmpty()) {
                StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
                builder.append("Adding containers:");
                for (String container : containers) {
                    builder.append(" ").append(container);
                }
                builder.append(" to the ensemble. This may take a while.");
                System.out.println(builder.toString());
                if (generateZookeeperPassword) {
                    CreateEnsembleOptions options = CreateEnsembleOptions.builder().build();
                    service.addToCluster(containers, options);
                } else if (zookeeperPassword == null || zookeeperPassword.isEmpty()) {
                    service.addToCluster(containers);
                } else {
                    CreateEnsembleOptions options = CreateEnsembleOptions.builder()
                            .zookeeperPassword(zookeeperPassword)
                            .migrationTimeout(migrationTimeout)
                            .build();
                    service.addToCluster(containers, options);
                }
            }
            System.out.println("Updated Zookeeper connection string: "+ service.getZooKeeperUrl());
        }
        return null;
    }

}

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My name is Erin and I live in Coastal Georgia. I am a stay-at-home-mom to 5 children. After 10 years of staying home, I decided to start a blog in an effort to have some intelligent, adult interaction. It's tough only having kids to talk to all day! Despite my embarrassing lack of computer skills, I managed to get momfog up and running. It's been a great experience and I'm amazed by every new page view and comment.
My love affair with books began at a very early age. I can't remember a time when I didn't love to read. I'm very excited to be part of We Heart Reading with noirciplume and jmcartee. I love talking about books with fellow bibliophiles. My interest spans all genres and I look forward to discovering new books with you!


Its a trap! Let your friends know when something is a trap. Your girl asks you where you were last night. That could be a trap. Your man wants to know how much you spent on something. That could be a trap. And fortunately, there's a sticker pack to help you identify these relationship traps. So next time you get a whiff of a text that feels like it could be off, add one of our many trap stickers to it: explosions, leg traps, hammers, machetes, mouse trap, bombs, money pits, spring traps, we got 'em all!


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package de.innosystec.unrar.unpack.decode;

/**
 * DOCUMENT ME
 *
 * @author $LastChangedBy$
 * @version $LastChangedRevision$
 */
public class LitDecode extends Decode
{
	/**
	 *
	 */
	public LitDecode()
	{
		decodeNum = new int[Compress.NC];
	}

}


The Whirl outdoor dining table is part of Gloster's avant-garde design, not so much in the use of innovative material but more in applying new techniques and interesting design to create furniture for the modern era. Whirl reminds us of an upside-down wine barrel with its slatted bottom. The tabletop features also natural finish, slatted teak. Whirl is the perfect outdoor dining table for your gatherings or community table for hospitality.
Looking for chairs that go well with Whirl? Please check out Gloster's modern dining chairs such as Azore, Curve, Dansk, Maze, Sway, Voyager, and William. Feel free to mix and match to find the configuration that perfectly fits both your style and your space.


Ramon R. Joseph, M.D., of Sun City West, Arizona, died Feb. 17, 2016, at age 85. Joseph was a professor emeritus of internal medicine at U-M, and served as assistant dean and chief of medicine at Wayne County General Hospital. Joseph received a B.S. degree from Manhattan College in New York. After receiving his M.D. from Cornell University, Joseph completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in gastroenterology at the Wayne County General Hospital. Soon after, he became a professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School. Joseph's professional biography is in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He published numerous scientific papers, established free clinics for indigent patients, and coauthored the K-12 curriculum for education on drug abuse in Michigan.
Joseph had three children with his wife of 50 years, Mary Ann: Ricardo Joseph (M.D. 1984); Maria Thompson, a graduate of the Ross School of Business; and Lisa Benson. Late in his life, he made his theatrical debut as a singer and actor in Theatre West, and was a member of HandiCapables and the Beardsley fitness facility.
This is an edited version of an obituary provided by Joseph's son, Ricardo Joseph (M.D. 1984).


The SF series of shifting skates are for moving heavy objects. The load should be lifted using either a roller crowbar, jack or similar – so that the skates can be safely positioned under the object.
These fixed type skates also have a rubber surface that helps to both grip and protect the object being moved.
SF25 has a 2.5 tonne / 2500kg capacity.


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A woman in Cocoa, Florida was attacked in her car — but it wasn't a human attack.
According to Florida Today, a cat jumped into the woman's car and attacked her, which led to the woman trying to escape the vehicle. She made it out of the car and away from the cat, but she forgot the car was in reverse.
Her car rolled backwards and ran her over, and it left her with critical injuries.
The Florida Highway Patrol said the car was parked in the grass in front of a house when the cat attacked the woman. Her first instinct was to leave the car, but she forgot to put the vehicle in park before she left.
"It's very unusual to have an animal leap into a car and bite somebody like this and then get run over by your own car. The car rolled into the street and did strike a parked vehicle as well," FHP Lt. Channing Taylor said.
Hopefully the woman is OK and recovers from the injuries. And hopefully she avoids that cat at all costs.


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Q: problem with this telethon code using Python I have this problem with this telethon code using Python, the situation is that I want the code to detect a specific message from a bot, below this message there is a button which I need to press once to unlock a link that the button gives you and then read that link and send a part of the link to another bot. The code actually hits the button once but doesn't send the message to the other bot. However, if I forward the message myself with the button already unlocked, it clicks and sends the link to the other bot.
async def mob_handler(event):
    client = event.client
    if 'aaaaaaa' in event.raw_text:
        await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
        async for message in client.iter_messages('aaaaaa', limit=1, from_user='aaaaaaa'):
            await message.click(0)
        await asyncio.sleep(1)
        url = event.message.buttons[0][0].url
        await event.client.send_message('aaaaaaa', url.split('=')[1]) ```

When it doesn't send the link, it returns this:
await event.client.send_message('aaaaaaaa', url.split('=')[1])


I love salads. I sometimes eat them daily. But today I decided to grill some chicken and have it for dinner. Craig has said he's been trying to eat better (yes, I really said that) and has been eating salads with chicken for lunch. So I decided to make it for dinner.
Might I say that this is the first time in almost 6 years that I've heard him say that he's even eaten a salad. I make them for dinner for the kids and I at times as a side salad and always ask him, and he always says no.
But tonight I fired up the grill, put 4 Lemon Chicken breast (after removing the fat) on the grill and cut them up and put it with our salads!!
The protein along with the greens filled us all up. I am so happy to hear that he'll eat this. We can now ALL enjoy a healthy meal together! Yay. This is not a special or fancy dinner. I felt the need to share that one of the picky people eaters has changed a bit in his ways.
Your choice of salad dressing.
Put the lettuce in the bowl and mix with all of your favorite salad toppings.
Enjoy the rest of the week. In the next couple of days I'll have a couple of Easter treats to share!!


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there is a little function called spell check, try it out. I'm not trying to be rude it is just impossible to understand anything you just said. Also when you have another problem give more detail please.
yes thank ye men before me open the emulaitor it closes and not workign!
Then give us all tht info again except it will all be more specific and better useful.
In b4 stickied for the lulz.
um... windows 98 ? Pentium 3? You're joking right... god I hope so. for your sake.
With a Pentium 3 you won't get very far, and with very far i mean more like if you manage to open Dolphin, that's it, however i highly doubt you got a Pentium 3, like someone said before google CPU Z and download the utility to give us accurate system info..
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