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Q: Cannot implicitly convert type class to java.lang.object in xamarin android listadapter class I am using an expandablelistadapter in my android application. Actually as per my requirement I am displaying a group header and each child of that group containing 3 textviews.
But I am not able to run my application as I am getting errors near GetChild, GetChildView and GetGroup,GetGroupView.
The error message is below (I mentioned in bold)
I tried to explicitly convert type but it did not work. Please help me in this regard as my work is getting delayed due to this.
public override Java.Lang.Object GetGroup(int groupPosition)
        {
            return groups[groupPosition]; - > Cannot implicitly convert type DiningGroup to Java.Lang.Object

        }

public override Java.Lang.Object GetChild(int groupPosition, int childPosition)
        {
            List<DiningChild> chList = groups[groupPosition].Items;
            return chList[childPosition];  - > Cannot implicitly convert type DiningChild to Java.Lang.Object

        }

  public override View GetChildView(int groupPosition, int childPosition,
                bool isLastChild, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
        {

            DiningChild child = (DiningChild)GetChild(groupPosition, childPosition);  - > cannot convert type Java.lang.Object to DiningChild

            if (convertView == null)
            {

                convertView = _activity.LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.Dining_ListControl_ChildItem, null);

            }
            var tvfooditem = convertView.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.txtfooditem);
            var tvfooddesc = convertView.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.txtfooddesc);
            var tvfoodprice = convertView.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.txtfoodprice);

            tvfooditem.SetText(child.FoodItemName, TextView.BufferType.Normal);
            tvfooddesc.SetText(child.FoodDescription, TextView.BufferType.Normal);
            tvfoodprice.SetText(child.FoodPrice, TextView.BufferType.Normal);

            return convertView;
        }

      public override View GetGroupView(int groupPosition, bool isExpanded,
                View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
        {
            DiningGroup group = (DiningGroup)GetGroup(groupPosition); - > cannot convert type Java.lang.Object to DiningGroup
            if (convertView == null)
            {
                convertView = _activity.LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.Dining_ListControl_Group, null);
            }

            var tvcategoryname = convertView.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.txtCategory);

            tvcategoryname.SetText(group.Name, TextView.BufferType.Normal);

            return convertView;

        }

A: As noted in the comments, for the methods which return Java.Lang.Object, throw a NotImplementedException.  Add your own method to get the DiningChild using the specified arguments.
public override Java.Lang.Object GetGroup(int groupPosition)
{
    throw new NotImplementedException();
}

public override Java.Lang.Object GetChild(int groupPosition, int childPosition)
{
    throw new NotImplementedException();
}

protected GetDiningChild GetDiningChild(int groupPosition, int childPosition)
{
    List<DiningChild> chList = groups[groupPosition].Items;
    return chList[childPosition];
}

protected GetDiningGroup GetDiningGroup(int groupPosition)
{
    return groups[groupPosition];
}

public override View GetChildView(int groupPosition, int childPosition, bool isLastChild, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
{

    DiningChild child = GetDiningChild(groupPosition, childPosition);
    if (convertView == null)
    {

        convertView = _activity.LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.Dining_ListControl_ChildItem, null);
    }

    var tvfooditem = convertView.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.txtfooditem);
    var tvfooddesc = convertView.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.txtfooddesc);
    var tvfoodprice = convertView.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.txtfoodprice);

    tvfooditem.SetText(child.FoodItemName, TextView.BufferType.Normal);
    tvfooddesc.SetText(child.FoodDescription, TextView.BufferType.Normal);
    tvfoodprice.SetText(child.FoodPrice, TextView.BufferType.Normal);

    return convertView;
}

public override View GetGroupView(int groupPosition, bool isExpanded, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
{
    DiningGroup group = GetDiningGroup(groupPosition);
    if (convertView == null)
    {
        convertView = _activity.LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.Dining_ListControl_Group, null);
    }

    var tvcategoryname = convertView.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.txtCategory);

    tvcategoryname.SetText(group.Name, TextView.BufferType.Normal);

    return convertView;
}

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Personalization is a key part of Internet search, providing more relevant results and gaining loyal customers in the process. But new research highlights the privacy risks that this kind of personalization can bring. A team of European researchers, working with a researcher from the University of California, Irvine, found that they were able to hijack Google's personalized search suggestions to reconstruct users' Web search histories.
The researchers got hold of personal information by taking advantage of the fact that Google uses two different protocols to communicate with its users' browsers. Google protects sensitive information, such as passwords, by using a protocol called "https" that encrypts the data as it's communicated. Other times, when dealing with search queries for example, Google uses the ordinary "http" protocol, which sends information back and forth in the clear. The researchers say this mixed design can inadvertently reveal information.
Google offers a variety of Web services, including Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar. A less well-known service is Google Web History, which records searches made by a user while she is signed in to her Google Account. At the time the researchers were investigating it, Web History was also the source of personalized suggestions that Google offered users on its search page.
The researchers were able to get access to users' Web History by intercepting cookies–files stored on a person's computer that hold useful bits of information such as authentication credentials or the contents of a shopping cart. For many services, such as Gmail, this information is encrypted before it is sent. At the time, Web History sent its cookies in the clear. By eavesdropping on an unsecured network, such as a public Wi-Fi hotspot, an attacker can intercept Web cookies. The researchers determined that intercepted Web History cookies could provide access to that user's Web History account.
History repeating: Google's Web History was used to create personalized search suggestions, such as those shown above, until researchers discovered that personal information could be captured by hijacking communications with users.
The researchers also found another way to reconstruct users' search history. Another cookie–the one that authenticates a user to Google's search service–is also sent in the clear. By capturing this cookie and impersonating the user in communications with the search service, they were able to run algorithms that quickly reconstructed large portions of a user's Web search history.
Google responded to the researchers by changing its Web History so that it does always use encrypted communications. The company also temporarily suspended its search suggestion service. And suggestions for Google Maps, which the researchers were also able to access, are now encrypted, too.
Alma Whitten, software engineer for Google's Security and Privacy arm, said in a statement that Google increased its use of https in response to the researchers. "Google has been and continues to be an industry leader in providing support for encryption in our services, which is designed to address precisely the issues that all major websites face when transmitting information over http to users connecting via an unsecured network channel," she said.


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MASS Design Builds With Beauty, Dignity, and Hope in Rwanda and Beyond
by Cindy Glass
Architecture - Jan 29 2015 - 6 min read
Ilima Primary School. Courtesy MASS Design.
MASS Design Group is a business, a model, and a movement. Founded by Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks, who met while students at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society), was borne from their first major project together: a hospital in a remote region of Rwanda with 340,000 people but no public hospital.
So, how do students shift from going to class to designing a hospital in one of the most under-resourced, war-ravaged places in the world? In this case, it started with a question. In 2006, Murphy asked global health activist, physician, and founder of Partners in Health, Dr. Paul Farmer, which architecture firms he used for his development projects in poor communities. According to the The New York Times recounting of this conversation, Dr. Farmer replied, "I drew the last clinic on a napkin." Soon after, Murphy and Ricks were on a plane to Rwanda, and the seeds of MASS Design were planted.
Butaro Hospital, designed with AutoCAD. Courtesy Iwan Baan.
The result is a stunning facility capable of delivering superior health outcomes, a status Rwanda as a nation is starting to deliver. An intentional side effect has also been its impact on the community it serves. The Butaro Hospital facility uses materials found or made locally to lower costs, improve local engagement and employment stats, and ensure sustainability in times of change and repair.
The design itself strives to lower hospital-acquired infections—a serious health issue for even developed and resourced areas like the U.S.—by leveraging fresh air and inexpensive ventilation techniques to improve airflow. The natural setting provides patients ample settings for private visits with families. Simple changes—like shifting the orientation for patients in the wards from looking at other sick people to looking outside onto the stunning landscape—offer compassion and privacy that no doubt influence well-being. And it is, in a word, beautiful.
Butaro Hospital. Courtesy Iwan Baan.
"Beautiful" is a word that appears frequently on the firm's website regarding its projects. But, for regions that lack basics—hospitals, schools, roads—does beauty matter? Well, yes. A lot.
"Beauty is what allows a building to transcend into architecture," Murphy says. "It's what allows a place to become not just a setting, but a kind of arena for hope, for aspiration, for reflection. The difference between bare-minimum facilities and creating a place that actually inspires us is that [a well-designed space] allows us to aspire to something greater in our lives. That transitional incision of beauty provides dignity to people. It reminds people that they deserve more from the world, and great architecture offers that."
He credits the aesthetic care and respect put into the Butaro design as a reason why people in the community value it enough to spend their free time caring for it through volunteer gardening and other caretaking services. "I think [Pritzker Prize–winning Japanese architect] Shigeru Ban—when asked why people are maintaining temporary homes that were built in the face of disaster for almost 20 years—said people maintain things that they love. People take care of what they value, and they're not going to value things that don't value them. So beauty does matter, because it insists that it values the community that uses it."
GHESKIO Tuberculosis Hospital. Courtesy MASS Design.
Murphy and Ricks have taken threads of this thinking and begun weaving plans for something much bigger. They are striving to completely redefine architecture's business model, and shift design's role from a decorative luxury to a necessary catalyst for broader social change and justice.
"Remember, we started in 2008 when every architect was basically losing their job," Murphy says. "So the kind of typical model of practice is obviously an evident failure. It doesn't necessarily serve the community it needs to serve, and when times are hardest, it becomes the first thing that gets cut. There is a need for a multiplicity of a new practice model, but that doesn't reject completely the way things were done before. It just forces the evolution of the industry to be toward impact, toward service of who it serves, and… to not give up on its key transcendent potential, which is to create amazing environments for people to live in and to be a part of."
Although MASS is organized as a non-profit, Ricks says his team is agnostic in regard to corporate structuring. "But what we've seen is that what we can do as a non-profit is open up these markets for the broader architectural community," he says. "So what we're doing is going into places that don't value architecture, and showing—through our work—that it can add value and can contribute to the mission of our clients and their constituents with the idea that once that's been established, then it becomes affordable. Once people can point to the value add of design, then they can make an argument to pay designers to do this."
Maternity Waiting Village in Malawi. Courtesy MASS Design.
MASS Design uses its non-profit model to create a kind of R&D lab to use as proof of concept for later paid work. The two donated their time to the Butaro Hospital project and, today, MASS is working on full-fee projects for the Rwandan government to continue to raise the bar on health infrastructure once again. "[Butaro] was a hospital built for a community that didn't even have a doctor at the time," Ricks says, "but now Rwanda has some of the strongest health outcomes anywhere in the world…. They see architecture as vital to that.
Lessons learned from Butaro continue to bear fruit across the 20 other projects MASS Design has in various stages of development—from schools in partnership with the African Wildlife Foundation (such as the Ilima Primary School) to a cholera treatment center in Haiti. And they are bringing critical learning back to the U.S. In particular, MASS is helping the Family Partnership Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., which had recently been devastated by Hurricane Irene. While federal funds were readily available to rebuild, Brian Doyle, CEO of the parent organization, started asking bigger questions about whether a more meaningful investment could trigger broader change for the economically challenged community it intended to serve.
MASS Design helped Poughkeepsie think about the project in multiple levels—creating a safe, energy-efficient, affordable structure; ensuring that it is an amenity to the community; and catalyzing change in the broader region itself. Design elements, as reported in The Poughkeepsie Journal, include creating an asset out of the creek that triggered the flood in the first place, and adding a rooftop garden that could provide food year-round.
Their work feels like the beginning of something new and very good for the world in terms of how design needs to and will happen in the future. "Even though we're a non-profit, we work really closely with other for-profits in order to work together to carve out new markets," Murphy says. "We welcome the partnership of vendors, of other designers, of architecture firms, and the building trade to join this movement to build an environment that overall improves our lives, improves our health. All of the players are needed at the table in order to do that, to make that paradigm shift, and we hope to be both a partner as well as a convener for this discussion to really make resonant and transcendent change in our industry in general."
MASS Design Group is a member of the Autodesk Foundation, the first foundation to focus investment exclusively on the people and organizations using design for impact. To learn more about MASS Design Group, see Alan Ricks' recent talk at Autodesk University.
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College basketball rankings: Undefeated Gonzaga and Baylor still on top of Top 25 And 1
The Zags and Bears haven't lost a game this season and continue to lead our daily updated rankings
By Gary Parrish
USATSI
We are now more than 40% through the regular season and, remarkably, the teams that were No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 in the CBS Sports Preseason Top 25 And 1 are also No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 in Monday morning's updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings.
Their combined record is 31-1.
That means two of them haven't lost. And those two — No. 1 Gonzaga and No. 2 Baylor — have noticeably separated from the pack. The Zags' adjusted efficiency margin is currently +31.89, according to KenPom. The Bears' is +31.85. The next highest is +27.31, which shows that while there's no real difference between Gonzaga and Baylor in terms of quality, nobody else belongs in the same conversation with them. They are clearly the nation's two best teams. It's impossible to make an intelligent counterargument.
Will either lose before Selection Sunday?
Almost certainly, yes.
But it likely won't be Gonzaga, if only because the Zags play in the West Coast Conference, where anything close to comparable competition just does not exist. The highest-rated team left on Gonzaga's schedule, according to the NET, is BYU — and Gonzaga just beat BYU by 17 points last week. Furthermore, KenPom projects the Zags to be at least 12-point favorites in every remaining game and is now suggesting that it's more likely than not that they enter the WCC Tournament undefeated. Obviously, Baylor's path through the Big 12 is more challenging thanks to road games at Kansas, Texas, West Virginia and Texas Tech. But, for what it's worth, KenPom also projects Baylor to be favored in every remaining game.
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Monday's Top 25 And 1 rankings
1 Michigan
7 Illinois
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Gonzaga Gonzaga's perfect record is highlighted by wins over Iowa, Kansas, West Virginia and Virginia. The Zags are the first team to score at least 85 points in each of their first 12 games since Loyola Marymount in the 1990-91 season. -- 15-2
Baylor Baylor has won every game it has played by double-digits. The Bears' perfect record is highlighted by a 13-point neutral-court victory over Illinois. -- 16-2
Villanova Villanova's resume features wins over Texas, Marquette and Arizona State. The Wildcats have not played since Dec. 23 because of COVID-19 issues inside the program. -- 13-5
Texas Texas owns victories over Kansas, West Virginia, Indiana and North Carolina. The Longhorns will take a six-game winning streak into Wednesday's game with Texas Tech. -- 13-5
Kansas Kansas' resume features wins over Creighton, Texas Tech and West Virginia. The Jayhawks' only losses are to Gonzaga and Texas. -- 15-2
Creighton Creighton's resume features four wins over teams ranked in the top 80 of the NET. The Bluejays will take a six-game winning streak into Saturday's game at Butler. -- 11-5
Michigan Hunter Dickinson finished with 28 points and eight rebounds in Wednesday's 82-57 victory over Minnesota. The Wolverines' perfect record also includes victories over Northwestern, Maryland and Penn State. 1 8-7
Iowa Iowa's resume features wins over seven top-100 KenPom teams - among them Minnesota, Rutgers and North Carolina. The Hawkeyes will take a four-game winning streak into Thursday's game with Michigan State. 1 13-5
Tennessee Tennessee's resume features four wins over teams ranked in the top 80 of the NET. The Vols will take a two-game winning streak into Tuesday's game at South Carolina. 1 12-5
West Virginia Six of West Virginia's nine wins have come against top-100 KenPom teams. All four of the Mountaineers' losses are considered Quadrant 1 losses. 1 13-4
Houston Houston's resume features wins over Texas Tech, SMU and South Carolina. The Cougars will take a three-game winning streak into Thursday's game at South Florida. 1 16-2
Texas Tech Texas Tech is 4-1 with three double-digit wins since losing to Kansas. The Red Raiders will take a two-game winning streak into Wednesday's game at Texas. 1 14-4
Wisconsin D'Mitrik Trice finished with 21 points and seven assists in Thursday's 80-73 double-overtime victory over Indiana. The Badgers' resume also includes wins over Minnesota, Louisville and Michigan State. 1 15-2
Illinois Maryland snapped Illinois' four-game winning streak on Sunday. The Illini still own six wins over top-100 KenPom teams - among them victories over Duke, Minnesota, Indiana and Purdue. 7 13-4
Minnesota Minnesota's resume includes victories over Iowa, Ohio State and Saint Louis. All four of the Golden Gophers' losses are to teams ranked in the top 10 at KenPom. -- 10-5
Duke Duke has won three consecutive games since losing to Illinois. The Blue Devils will have a chance to get their first Quadrant 1 win Tuesday at Virginia Tech. -- 14-3
Ohio St. Ohio State's resume is highlighted by wins over Rutgers and UCLA. All three of the Buckeyes' losses are considered Quadrant 1 losses. -- 12-4
Louisville David Johnson finished with 17 points and five rebounds in Wednesday's 73-71 victory over Virginia Tech. The Cardinals' lone loss is a shorthanded loss at Wisconsin. -- 11-7
Saint Louis Saint Louis' resume features wins over NC State and LSU. The Billikens have not played since Dec. 23 because of COVID-19 issues inside the program. -- 11-6
Clemson Nick Honor made five 3-pointers and finished with 21 points in Tuesday's 74-70 overtime victory over NC State. The Tigers have seven victories over teams ranked in the top 100 at KenPom. -- 10-8
Oregon Oregon improved to 4-1 in the Pac-12 via Saturday's 79-73 victory at Utah. The Ducks' resume also includes wins over Stanford and Seton Hall. -- 11-6
Connecticut UConn's resume features wins over USC, Marquette and Butler. The Huskies' lone loss is an overtime loss to Creighton. -- 13-4
UCLA UCLA's resume features wins over Colorado, Arizona and Marquette. The Bruins will take a four-game winning streak into Thursday's game with Washington State. -- 12-2
Rutgers Rutgers has gone from 6-0 to 7-4 by losing four of its past five games, three of them by double-digits. The Scarlet Knights are 4-4 in Quadrant 1/Quadrant 2 opportunities with zero losses outside of the first two quadrants. -- 11-6
Colorado Colorado's resume features wins over Oregon and USC. All three of the Buffaloes' losses are considered Quadrant-1 defeats. -- 12-5
USC USC improved to 3-1 in the Pac-12 via Saturday's 73-64 victory at Arizona State. The Trojans' only losses are to Connecticut and Colorado. -- 15-2
Top 25 And 1: Gonzaga remains on top


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A Trillion Tonnes of Antarctica Fell into the Sea
Posted on September 10, 2018 by rolyred
NASA/John Sonntag
Antarctica, Earth's coldest continent, is known for its remoteness, its unique fauna, and its frigid surface of ice. Around Antarctica's periphery, dozens of ice shelves (that is, masses of glacier-fed floating ice that are attached to land) project outward into the Southern Ocean. The two largest ice shelves, the Ross Ice Shelfand the Ronne Ice Shelf, span a combined area of nearly 350,000 square km (about 135,000 square miles)—an area roughly equivalent to Venezuela—but Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf, the continent's fourth largest, has received the bulk of the attention over the last 25 years because it is slowly coming apart. The latest episode in this saga occurred between July 10 and July 12, 2017, when a one-trillion-metric-ton chunk of ice—possibly critical to holding back a large section of the remaining shelf—calved (that is, broke away).
The Larsen Ice Shelf is located on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula and juts out into the Weddell Sea. It originally covered an area of 86,000 square km (33,000 square miles), but its footprint has declined dramatically, possibly as a result of warming air temperatures over the Antarctic Peninsula during the second half of the 20th century. In January 1995 the northern portion (known as Larsen A) disintegrated, and a giant iceberg calved from the middle section (Larsen B). Larsen B steadily retreated until February–March 2002, when it too collapsed and disintegrated. The southern portion (Larsen C) made up two-thirds of the ice shelf's original extent, covering an area of about 50,000 square km (19,300 square miles) alone. Its thickness ranges from 200 to 600 meters (about 660 to 1,970 feet). Sometime between July 10 and July 12, 2017, a 5,800-square-km- (~2,240-square-mile-) section—some 12% of the Larsen C—broke away. Signs of Larsen C's impending fracture date back to 2012, when satellite monitoring detected a steadily growing crack near the Joerg Peninsula at the southern end of the shelf. NASA and ESA satellites tracked the rift as it grew to more than 200 km (124 miles) in length and the huge iceberg separated from the continent.
Although some 88% of Larsen C remains, many scientists worry that it will fall apart like Larsen A and Larsen B, because the loss of such a huge area of the shelf's ice front may make the remainder of the ice shelf less stable. The shelf's mass, along with the fact that it is pinned behind shallow undersea outcrops of rock below, creates a natural dam that significantly slows the flow of the ice into the Weddell Sea. Scientists note that the section that calved was not held back by rock, so they are less worried that the loss of the calved section will result in the shelf's wholesale disintegration in the near term. Some scientists even concede that the calved area could regrow to form a new ice dam that reinforces the shelf. However, the results of ice-calving and glacier-flow models predict that the shelf will continue to break apart over the course of years and decades.
Calving is a natural process driven, in part, by seasonal changes in temperature and the pressures associated with the build-up of compressional stress on the ice. Some studies argue that spring and summer foehns (warm dry gusty winds that periodically descend the leeward slopes of mountain ranges) have also contributed to the weakening of the ice. As investigations into ice shelf dynamics continue, such large iceberg calving events are often regarded as symptoms of climate changeassociated with global warming. While global warming may turn out to play a part in ice shelf calving events, scientists disagree on the role, if any, the phenomenon has played in recent developments on Larsen C.
Disintegration of Larsen Ice ShelfThe map shows the section of Larsen C that calved in July 2017. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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Antarctica: A journey to the edge of a frozen continent
Posted on April 6, 2018 by rolyred
In early 2018 Reuters photojournalist Alexandre Meneghini travelled to the beautiful and vulnerable world of Antarctica.
The trip, organised by Greenpeace, was to raise awareness of a European Union proposal to create a protected area in Antarctica, promoting a safe haven where marine life can thrive.
After a four-day voyage to reach the icy continent, the expedition encountered whales, penguins and enormous glaciers.
The proposed Weddell Sea Marine Protected Area (MPA) would cover some 1.8 million sq km (1.1 million square miles) of natural habitat for whales, seals, penguins and many kinds of fish.
If successful, it would be the largest protected area on the planet.
Starting in Punta Arenas, Chile, the crew set out to document the effects of climate change, pollution and fishing on native wildlife.
"Antarctica itself is currently protected under the Antarctic Treaty, but there is a lot of scope for abuse of the waters around Antarctica," said Tom Foreman, Greenpeace expedition leader. "So, the chance to protect these areas, which are so vital to such a huge number of species in so many ways, can't be missed."
As well as penguins, the group also encountered seals, seen here from a helicopter.
The islands, bays and harbours visited by the group included: Curverville Island, Half Moon Bay, Danco Island, Neko Harbour and Hero Bay.
The crew also visited Deception Island, which is the caldera of an active volcano in Antarctica. A caldera is a large cauldron-like depression in the landscape that formed when the volcano previously emitted magma.
On the island were the remains of an old whaling factory and a small cemetery.
"Contrary to what some may think, the Antarctic is full of life. Penguins, seabirds, and different species of seals and whales could be seen at all times," said Alexandre Meneghini.
"My encounters with the penguins were wonderful and joined my list of unforgettable moments.
"They do not see humans as predators and can surround you for hours if you do not move much. Along with my dog, I think they are the sweetest things in this world."
"As my long trip proved, Antarctica is remote from civilization. But it is not untouched. I hope my pictures reveal some of the region's beauty."
He added: "None of my pictures do justice to the experience of seeing these places first-hand."
All photos: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters
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Penguin super-colony spotted from space
Posted on March 3, 2018 by rolyred
By Jonathan Amos and Victoria Gill Science correspondents, BBC News
Media caption Largest population of penguins found in Antarctic Peninsula
Scientists have stumbled across a huge group of previously unknown Adélie penguins on the most northerly point of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Numbering more than 1.5 million birds, they were first noticed when great patches of their poo, or guano, showed up in pictures taken from space.
The animals are crammed on to a rocky archipelago called the Danger Islands.
The researchers, who detail the discovery in the journal Scientific Reports, say it is a total surprise.
"It's a classic case of finding something where no-one really looked! The Danger Islands are hard to reach, so people didn't really try that hard," team-member Dr Tom Hart from Oxford University, UK, told BBC News.
King penguins face warming challenge
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Image copyrightT.S.MCCHORD/H.SINGH/NU/WHOI
Image captionDrone pictures were one of the most efficient means of counting
The scientists used an algorithm to search images from the American Landsat spacecraft for sites of possible penguin activity.
Landsat does not return especially high-resolution pictures and so when the system flagged potential colonies, they had to be followed up with much sharper pictures for confirmation.
"And the sheer size of what we were looking at took our breath away," said Dr Heather Lynch from Stony Brook University, New York.
"We thought, 'Wow! If what we're seeing is true, these are going to be some of the largest Adélie penguin colonies in the world, and it's going to be well worth our while sending in an expedition to count them properly."
Image copyrightC.YOUNGFLESH/SBU
Image captionThe drones flew grid lines over the penguin nests
But, as the name implies, the Danger Islands are notoriously difficult to reach.
Even in the austral summer, the ocean surrounding the archipelago is filled with the kind of thick sea-ice that ships try to avoid.
However, in December 2015, the team did manage to get on the ground to begin its count. And one of the most effective techniques was to deploy drones, which flew above the birds to make large mosaics of their nesting sites.
"The drone lets you fly in a grid over the island, taking pictures once per second. You can then stitch them together into a huge collage that shows the entire landmass in 2D and 3D," explained Prof Hanumant Singh from Northeastern University.
Image copyrightT.HART/OXFORD
Image captionThese are dangerous waters – hence the name of the islands
Once again, trained software was called upon to do the actual counting.
The survey revealed that the Danger Islands host in total 751,527 pairs of Adélie penguins, including the third and fourth largest colonies in the world.
The result is of major significance because it would appear the archipelago has somehow avoided the recent Adélie declines documented elsewhere on the peninsula, particularly on its western side.
Scientists suspect that decline has something to do with reductions in sea-ice, which is an important habitat for krill, the small crustaceans that form a key part of the penguin diet.
Image copyrightR.HERMAN/LSU/SBU
Image captionSea-ice is important to these birds because it is a recruitment habitat for krill
Dr Hart commented: "On the West Antarctic Peninsula, Adelie and chinstrap penguins are declining pretty fast, while Gentoo penguins are increasing.
"It's hard to know the causes. Clearly climate change and reduction in ice and krill play a part, but a decline in sea-ice also allows in shipping – fisheries in particular – which may exacerbate the problem.
"In the past we've looked at this on the West Antarctic Peninsula versus places like Elephant Island (further to the north). Finally getting into the Danger Islands and counting the penguins shows how robust populations are where the ice is intact."
And Dr Lynch added: "The other point worth making is that these islands are right in the mix for a couple of marine protected areas that are being proposed.
"Whether they'll be in or out, we don't know but at least now the people making those decisions will understand how important this area is," she told BBC News.
Dr Peter Fretwell from the British Antarctic Survey knows the team but was not involved in this study. He also uses satellites to identify and count animal groups.
"Despite our modern technologically advanced world there are still remote corners that we know very little about – usually because they are extremely difficult to get to," he said.
"Modern satellites are fantastic tools for exploring and studying these hard-to-access places. I am sure that there are many other natural discoveries to be made using these 'eyes in the sky'."
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In 1977 Argentina sent a pregnant woman to Antarctica in an attempt to claim partial possession of the continent
Since 1940 Argentina and Chile have been in competition for ownership of Antarctica. Many other countries are involved in this "competition" for the territory, but no one truly owns the land or has actual sovereignty. Almost everyone dropped their claims after the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 was signed by 45 countries, which blocked any one nation from trying to take over the winter wonderland.
Argentina and Chile remained in this competition even after the Antarctic Treaty was signed. Both claim that the Antarctic Peninsula is a continuation of the Andes Mountains.
Many still wonder why is it both countries want to own the Antarctic Peninsula. There are some reserves of coal, oil and other minerals, but no one knows exactly how much, and the mining and extracting of coal and oil is illegal.
In 1977 the Chilean President Augusto Pinochet visited the Antarctica to assert his country's dominance in the region. This was perfectly normal compared to what the Argentinians did in retaliation. They used the most extreme action, and sent a pregnant woman to the barren and unpopulated continent of Antarctica in an attempt to stake a land claim there. She was supposed to give birth on the continent after being dropped at the Argentinian Esperanza Base.
Silvia Morello de Palma became the first woman in recorded history to give birth on the continent. On January 7, 1978, Emilio Palma was born in Antarctica, the first person to be born there. After his birth, the Argentine government passed a law banning any maps of Argentina that didn't include Antarctica.
Chile decided to play along and make this dispute even more absurd than it was. They sent recently married couples to their own Antarctic base in order to claim the first baby both conceived and born in the territory.
That started the baby boom in Antarctica. By 2009, eleven children had been born in Antarctica. Eight of them were born at the Argentinian Esperanza Base, while the other three were born at Chile's Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva. Chile's first official Antarctican is Juan Pablo Camacho Martino, born on November 21, 1984.
The countries both sent couples a year at a time in their bids to secure their Antarctic territory.
By Goran Blazeski
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The 106-year-old mystery of Antarctica's Blood Falls finally unveiled: Living organisms found frozen in a lake hidden beneath the glacier
Scientists throughout the world have been deeply puzzled for some time as to why the Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land of Eastern Antarctica gives the gruesome impression of what appears to be bleeding.
Named after its discoverer Griffith Taylor, who, during his expedition in 1911, first spotted this peculiar sight, the glacier is spread across the Taylor Valley. From time to time something rather strange occurs: an outflow of reddish water appears at its very end, pouring into West Lake Bonney below.
At first, scientists believed this strange phenomenon to be a direct result of tiny red algae that might be present in the water. However, further expeditions and scientific studies were carried out and water samples obtained from the "Blood Falls".
Still, with expeditions being rather rare due the location being situated in one of the most remote and geologically exotic places in the world, and the results from them somewhat limited because samples often ended up lost or contaminated, nothing conclusive was reliably proved. That is until, in 2003, one study proved that the redness is due to the high amount of iron oxides, sulfates and salt present in the water.
Furthermore, the saltiness of the water led scientists to a conclusion that there must be free flowing salt water trapped somewhere beneath the huge plate of ice.
And as it turns out, there was. Hidden 400 meters deep beneath the glacier, a subglacial lake of unknown size containing extremely salty water was discovered. Located several kilometers from the outflow, the lake had been completely isolated from the outside world for almost two million years.
A team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Colorado College developed a new theory based on the findings and later conclusively proved its existence. They confirmed that not only did the glacier have a lake underneath it but also a free-flowing water system which allows the captive iron-containing liquid seawater to emerge through small cracks in the ice cascade, oxidize instantly and giving the water its bloody color.
The team concluded that somehow, due to an impressive perpetual hydraulic system which sees heat energy released by water freezing which in turn melts the surrounding ice, the water in the lake never really froze. They managed to confirm this using echolocation to track the water flow, kind of like the way bats use it in order to 'see' things around them.
At last, during the expedition of US National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Taylor Valley, fresh and uncontaminated samples were taken once again from Blood Falls to enable further studies of the water in the subglacial lake. And the results were simply astonishing.
Chemical and microbial analyses found that a rare subglacial ecosystem of autotrophic bacteria metabolizing sulfate and ferric ions instead of oxygen had developed into 17 different types of microbes, evolving completely independently, isolated from the outside world and any external evolutionary processes. According to geomicrobiologist Jill Mikucki from the University of Tennessee, the lead scientist of the project, such a metabolic process had never before been observed in nature.
Separated for an adequately long enough time, the ancient microbial population evolved in an entirely different way compared to similar marine organisms. This now offers to science one concrete explanation of how other microorganisms endured when the Earth was frozen in its entirety.
Not only that, the uniqueness of this evolutionary process, in a lake serving as a "time capsule" for life to evolve without oxygen for millions and millions of years, is spurring scientists to question the range of conditions in which life can exist. It also gives them a way to study the possibility of life in places such as Mars or Europa, the ice-covered moon of Jupiter, where till now the extremes of the temperatures on these planets excluded that possibility.
The NASA Astrobiology Institute hypothesizes that other planets could contain subglacial liquid water environments such as this. Moreover, they are enthusiastic about the prospect that those environments could be favorable enough for some elementary forms of life to start evolving or be preserved from times when conditions on those worlds were not so extreme. With this discovery, science can now rely on the premise that some forms of life might be better off at extreme depths, completely protected from ultraviolet and cosmic radiation, than exposed on the upper surface, and dig deeper in the search for life that might exist out there in the vastness of the universe.
Dec 16, 2017 Martin Chalakoski
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The baffling Piri Reis Map of 1513: It showed Antarctica centuries before discovery, but without its ice cap
Posted on October 29, 2017 by rolyred
Late in 1929, Gustav Deissmann, a German theologian, was working in Istanbul at the Topkapi Palace Library. While cataloging antique items he found a gazelle-skin parchment in a stack of discarded items. This parchment had a map drawn on it, and Deissmann was amazed to see that it appeared to show the outline of South America. He rescued the parchment, which is now known as the Piri Reis Map.
The map he studied had been drawn and signed in 1513 by Turkish cartographer Hagii Ahmed Muhiddin Piri, also known as Piri Reis. In addition to being a cartographer, Piri Reis served in the Turkish navy, for which he held the rank of admiral. He stated that he had used 20 different maps and charts as his source documents. Eight of them were Ptolemaic maps (maps of the known world according to the 2nd century Hellenistic or Greek society), four were Portuguese maps, one was an Arabic map, and one was drawn by Christopher Columbus.
Fragment of the Piri Reis map.
World map of Cosa (1500). Cuba already appears as an island.
This simple piece of preserved gazelle skin has been the basis of intense controversy in the world of cartography. For one thing, the map appears to show Antarctica almost 300 years before it was discovered. Not only does it show Antarctica, but the continent is drawn as a land mass as it would have appeared before it was covered with its ice cap over 6,000 years ago.
Another hypothesis, less accepted, which attempts to correlate the American outline map of Piri Reis with coastal Venezuela and Brazil.
This controversy was precipitated when Professor Charles Hapgood published, in 1965, his theory about Antarctica in the book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings. Professor Hapgood, based at the University of New Hampshire, had studied the Piri Reis Map with his students and found several things that they could not explain. Not only was there the issue of Antarctica without its ice cap, but they noticed that the map was drawn using the Mercator Projection, a methodology not used by European cartographers until the late 16th century.
Hypothesis that attempts to correlate the lower boundary of the Piri Reis map of the coast of Argentine Patagonia and the Falkland Islands.
Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator devised the cylindrical map projection in 1569. The Greeks had the ability to create cylindrical maps utilizing their knowledge of the Earth as a sphere, along with the astrological and geometric skills to calculate latitude and longitude. The accuracy of the Mercator Projection was not absolute until the chronometer was invented in 1760.
The use of Mercator Projection on the Piri Reis Map could possibly be explained by his use of Greek maps in the creation of his drawing, but there was no explanation for the inclusion of Antarctica without the ice cap. Professor Hapgood and his students theorized that the Piri Reis map had to have been based on information older than 4,000 BCE. This is long before any known sophisticated civilizations or any well-defined languages; the map introduces the theory of an ancient civilization that had the skills to navigate the world's oceans, and accurately chart the lands they visited.
Professor Hapgood went on to state that the topographical representation of the area inland from the coast was so accurate that this ancient super-civilization had to have aerial capabilities in addition to their nautical and cartographic abilities. This naturally led to a theory of an alien civilization or one based on the lost city of Atlantis.
Cristóbal Colom landed on Hispaniola.
Those skeptical of the Piri Reis theories point out that the map is a fair representation of the coastline of South America, with modern features of the coast and interior shown. If this is not simply the coast of South America, that would mean South America and Antarctica were joined at Uruguay and that Argentina is a recent addition to the land mass. This argument infers that what is thought to be Antarctica on the Piri Reis Map is the lower portion of the South American continent.
Professor Hapgood then theorized that the Earth underwent a shift in its axis around 9,500 BC, which displaced Antarctica and moved it thousands of miles to the south, where it became covered in ice. Evidence shows that this phenomenon would have been impossible and did not happen.
The jury is still out on the question of whether the Piri Reis Map shows Antarctica or not. If you subscribe to the idea that this portion of the map is Antarctica without its ice cap (which has appeared on other maps), then you must believe that an ancient civilization that had advanced navigational skills existed and produced accurate maps of the globe. If you believe that this depiction is of the lower coast of South America, then you will probably scoff at the idea of an ancient advanced civilization. Until there is absolute proof to support one or the other theory, the arguments will continue.
By Ian Harvey
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The repeal of prohibition happened more than 80 years ago with the passage of the 21st Amendment, and St. Louis hasn't stopped celebrating since. Schlafly recognized the milestone with its annual Repeal of Prohibition Festival April 12, 2014, at its Bottleworks location. With more than 30 tasty samples -- including guest brews from Washington (Bale Breaker Brewing Company, Elysian Brewing, Epic Ales and No-Li Brewhouse) -- Schlafly gave hundreds of beer connoisseurs something to toast.


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ARIZONA — The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) is still evaluating whether to buy the F-35 fighter jets from the United States and it is in "no hurry" to make a decision, said Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen today (Dec 12), following a visit the previous day to the Luke Air Force Base where he was briefed on the F-35's capabilities. It was announced in 2013 that the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) was considering buying the F-35s.
Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen meeting personnel involved in Exercise Forging Sabre at Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field in Arizona. Photo:Raj Nadarajan
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Touted as one of the world's most advanced warplane, the F-35 comes in three variants: F-35A, which operates on a conventional runway; F-35B, which is optimised for short takeoffs and vertical landings; and F-35C, which is configured for the US Navy's aircraft carriers. An F-35A bought in 2018 and delivered in 2020 will cost US$85 million, for example.
Dr Ng said he was "very pleased" with the progress of the F-35 programme. "Two years ago when we were here, these hangars were not filled (with the F-35s).… within a year and a half, they've clocked in more than 3000 sorties, 5000 hours - that's a lot of flying hours. And that gives us confidence that the programme is progressing on track," he said. "So the more mature the programme is, the more steady the production lines for (the F-35s), the more boxes are ticked when we evaluate it but you know we are in no hurry to decide," said Dr Ng.
Dr Ng stressed that the SAF will "buy what we need". It is the "integration of the various aspects... the ability to find precise options for specific targets and needs, is what will define our SAF", he said. "So I think we're progressing very well and we'll just keep doing that," he added.
The SAF's ability to keep up training "at high tempo and with complex scenarios" is boosted by "steady" defence expenditure, said Dr Ng who was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a visit to the SAF's Exercise Forging Sabre, which is taking place from Dec 1 to 16.
"We don't have ups and downs, we don't cancel programmes… We (have) a very strong defence technology community, very strong maintenance, so all round, I think that provides us the kind of robustness and resilient system to be able to, in each exercise, learn something and… improve on it," he said.
The ongoing biennal war games held at the Arizona desert are the largest and most complex to date. Dr Ng witnessed an integrated live-firing mission for 90 minutes from the cockpit of an F-15SG fighter jet flown 18,000 ft above ground. The mission entailed F-15SG and F-16 fighter jets destroying two mobile rocket launchers detected by two Heron-1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Dr Ng said: "Ten years ago, our F-15 programme was in its infancy… We have come a long way. Things are working like clockwork, and it is not always (what) happens… It's because we do it constantly, just with regularity and the access to the training that makes a difference."


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There are no lone rangers in conservation science. The challenges and complexities of figuring out what's going on, why, and what to do about it, are too much for any one person, no matter how brilliant and motivated. So, we look for opportunities to collaborate with other people so that we can all move toward our goals. It helps if they can carry a heavy backpack, swing a machete, and have a good sense of humor!
After several years collaborating with the Spectacled Bear Conservation Society in the dry forest of northwest Peru, we've achieved most of what we set out to do there and it's time to tackle another set of questions elsewhere. Because most Andean bears now live in humid montane forests, we've hoped to begin work back in the clouds and fog. We've found new collaborators working on the eastern slope of the Andes, above Cocha Cashu in the Manu landscape.
The Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group (ABERG) includes researchers and students from 12 universities who investigate the biodiversity and ecosystem functions in this area. To get our feet wet (hopefully not literally) as we begin figuring out the logistics of how to get from point A to point B without falling off cliff C, while engaging in worthwhile research, we've begun collaborating with a MS student in ABERG, Danny Lough.
Danny's working to replicate and expand a prior investigation of seed predation. Most seeds are eaten or damaged and very few ever germinate and grow into new plants. Those few survivors affect the ecology and behavior of a complex web of animals, including bears. Past research has shown that the survival of large seeds in this landscape generally increases from lower elevations to higher elevations but at intermediate elevations there's a big dip in survival of large seeds. Danny's interested in which animals take the seeds and why more seeds disappear at the middle elevations. There are about 60 different species of animals in this landscape that could take the seeds and there are various hypotheses for what could be going on.
For example, is there a greater diversity of seed predators at the intermediate elevations? Or, is there a particular animal species living at intermediate elevations that is a particularly lethal seed predator? One way to evaluate the possible explanations is to place seeds in the forest and then record which animals take them. For the past few months we've been working with Danny to use camera traps to record who takes the seeds and to start collecting data on the distribution of large mammals, including bears.
Working on the slopes of the Andes is, well, challenging. It requires not only collaborators, but also four working limbs, a strong heart, and clear lungs. Although I unfortunately sustained a shoulder injury that kept me out of the field for several months, Nick Pilfold was able to cover for me. Unfortunately for Nick, he's substantially taller than most Peruvians and so he learned quickly to look out for branches overhanging the trails.
Hopefully within the next few months Danny will learn what's happening to the seeds and we'll start learning which habitats the bears are using, at which elevations, all the way from high mountain grasslands down to the lowland forests. This is going to be quite an adventure!
Here's the ABERG website: www.andesconservation.org
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If you're claustrophobic, you may wish to avoid some parts of these forests! Photo by Russ Van Horn.
Sometimes the best route into the forest takes us over hill and dale. Photo by Russ Van Horn.
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Even heavy-weights like MCDONALD'S can lose trademark protection. Think of how much the BIG MAC trademark is worth in Europe and the associated financial loss.
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This deliberate action will tarnish the MCDONALD'S brand and reputation, and creates competitive edge for BURGER KING.
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Originally, my plan for Illustration Friday was to do something with the skyline of my city Rotterdam. With quite a few landmarks, beautiful bridges and great architecture, Rotterdam has got a spectacular skyline.
And frankly, I had nothing to add.
So I came up with this alternative; a buzzing bee leaving his own skyline.
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Cool concept that is quite different. I have a thing for bees so I especially liked your subject matter. :-) Thanks for your comment on my "skyline".
Lovely little bee – he must be a little dizzy, isn't he?
hola…me encanta la sencillez y la limpieza de tu trabajo…es una imagen super pregnante a pesar de contar con pocs elementos….me gusta…y me encanta la abejita.


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import java.util.Map;

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 * Represents the checkout of the online debit
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The March of the Penguins is an incredible movie. After watching it, I am amazed at how well a species can adapt to harsh conditions. Penguins walk for miles to their mating ground, pick a mate, and fertilize an egg. The male then holds the egg for months between its legs, without food, as the female goes to feed. When the baby is hatched, the male will provide it with one regurgitated meal and wait for the female to return. When she does, she will continue to feed the chick regurgitated fish for months out of her belly until it is old enough to go on its own. In this manner, the penguins survive in winters up to -80 degrees without shelter and go months without eating.
It is an amazing testament to the survival of one of the only land animals that continue to inhabit Antarctica. It is their collectivistic nature as a species that has saved them from the icy cold all these years. They hike en masse for 70 km and huddle together to keep from freezing.
Of all the species that existed in Antarctica before, from when it was a tropical place, only the resilient penguin was resourceful enough to survive. Will this be the same for humans once global warming (or nuclear war) hits us full-force? Will we be whittled down to a select minority of the lucky, hardy or adequately mutated? Or must we adapt equally elaborate and sensitive rituals to survive as well?


May 6, 2013 – International law firm Locke Lord continues to improve upon its global capabilities and expanded profile through the addition of several lawyers and a litigation practice to its Hong Kong office. Three lawyers – all Of Counsel – have joined Locke Lord's international office in Hong Kong recently, making a team of 11 experienced Locke Lord lawyers on the ground in Asia who provide depth and breadth in banking and finance, corporate, commercial litigation and dispute resolution, mergers and acquisition work.
The new lawyers join five Partners who became associated with Locke Lord in March: Balbir Bindra, Wing Cheung, Alfred Lee, Tej Mahil and Matthew Wong formed the initial core team of Locke Lord's expanded Hong Kong presence. Of Counsel King Hui and Roger Wong also joined the office within the last few weeks. The Hong Kong solicitors will collaborate with Locke Lord's 34-member London team as well as with the Firm's 11 U.S. offices to serve an increasingly global marketplace.
"Already our Hong Kong office is well-established and integrated with Firm offices in the United States and London," said Balbir Bindra, Managing Partner of the Hong Kong office. "Each well-chosen lawyer we add brings additional capabilities to our worldwide team, and our client service improves with each lateral hire."
Of Counsel King Hui focuses his practice in corporate/commercial, litigation and property. His wide-ranging experience in commercial matters includes advising both public and private companies with fundraising, debt restructuring, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and immigration matters.
Of Counsel Roger Wong is focused on corporate/commercial and company secretarial matters. He is experienced in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, matters concerning the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance and company secretarial matters, loan transactions and general commercial transactions.
"Our growing Hong Kong office brings a new dimension to our already strong international capabilities in banking and finance, corporate and commercial litigation practices," said Firm Chair Jerry Clements. "Our clients know they can count on us anywhere in the world. The Asian legal market is very busy and active, and we have the right lawyers with the right experience to handle all types of work."
Locke Lord's Hong Kong team will work closely with the Firm's established Asia and China practice, which includes U.S.-based lawyers who are already familiar with the Asian market and culture and many of whom speak the native languages. Locke Lord opened its Hong Kong office in January 2011 to provide needed services to U.S.-based clients working in Asia and to Asian-based clients with interests in the United States.
Locke Lord practices law in Hong Kong through Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell (HK) LLP in association with Cheung & Lee. Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell (HK) LLP is a registered foreign law firm in Hong Kong practicing the law of the U.S. It is affiliated with Locke Lord LLP. Cheung & Lee is a firm regulated by The Law Society of Hong Kong and in association with Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell (HK) LLP. Within the Locke Lord LLP group, partner is used to refer to a member, or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and/or qualifications as required, of Locke Lord LLP or of any of its affiliated or associated firms or entities.


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This weekend (26-27th of May) my in laws came down and we took a couple of trips out. You will have seen previous posts about these places but my in laws have never been so I thought it would be lovely to enjoy the fresh air, revisit these places and show the in laws some fabulous country side surrounding where I am from. On Saturday we took a trip to Pendle Hill, Barley (the second time in a week) and on the Sunday we again went to Bolton Abbey near skiptop and to the Yorkshire Dales ice cream parlour - though you've seen these areas before on my blog, I again took some great photos and thought I'd share our weekend, in photos with you.
The start of Bolton Abbey.
Another Easter egg from the in laws.
I cooked more brownies for the family.
All photo's are taken by me. Please do not take them, if you wish to use them send me an email which can be found above in the contact tab.
The place looks beautiful, I'd love to go for a really long walk in the countryside to take in the scenery.
I love the outdoors and visiting new places, but the weather usually puts me off!
Lovely photos, I like the penny tree :), xoxo.


I can't help but wonder if Danial Tosh really wears tighty whities, or if he just does it for skits; either way, he's awesome... You're awesome... Great picts Adam.
There's one episode where he unzips his pants to show a bruise on his leg and he's wearing pink American Apparel briefs. It seems possible either way, but I'd like to believe that indicates his actual preference.
Here is a good one. I think it is from some film called "Wild Honey".
The Overnight has Jason Scharztman in white briefs before stripping done to go skinny dipping. Final Girl has one of the actors strip down to blue briefs as well.


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 Bryan Verboom (1992-), un footballeur belge ;
 Hanna Verboom (1983-), une actrice et présentatrice d'émissions de télévision néerlandaise ;
 Georges-Prosper de Verboom (1665-1744), ingénieur militaire au service du roi d'Espagne.

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High-grade 1981-S Anthony dollar a condition rarity
By Steve Roach
Published: Feb 12, 2016, 4 AM
Rarely found finer, this 1981-S Anthony dollar graded MS-66 sold for $309.10 at a Jan. 10 GreatCollections online auction.
Original images courtesy of GreatCollections
Images courtesy of GreatCollections
Below is the second of three posts from Steve Roach highlighting recently sold Anthony dollars:
The Anthony dollar was problematic as soon as it was issued. The small-sized dollar was easily mistaken for a quarter dollar and it shared the copper-nickel clad composition (and reverse design) of its predecessor, the Eisenhower dollar.
Frank Gasparro's obverse design featuring Susan B. Anthony was handsome, but certainly not pretty. The more than 500 million coins struck between 1979 and 1981 were sufficient to meet demand for nearly two decades, and a final run in 1999 to meet demand from the vending and transportation industry concluded the series.
The Coin
1981-S Anthony dollar, Mint State 66
Much like the Morgan dollar, which was revived for one year only in 1921 after years of dormancy, the short-lived Anthony dollar series ended in 1981 and was revived in 1999 for one year. The Anthony dollar would be replaced by the golden Sacagawea dollar and, later, by the Native American dollars that continue to be produced today.
Of the three U.S. Mints that struck dollars in 1981, Philadelphia Mint examples are the most common with a mintage of 3,492,000.
In top grades the 1981-S Anthony dollar is a condition rarity, with Professional Coin Grading Service noting 124 in MS-66, a single example graded MS-66+ and only two coins in MS-67.
At a Jan. 10 GreatCollections auction, a 1981-S dollar in PCGS MS-66 sold for $309.10, which is an impressive price considering that typical Mint State examples cost just a few dollars and PCGS MS-65 representatives regularly sell for less than $50.
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As if the latest development in the home foreclosure debacle (no documents, improper documents, forged or falsified documents, foreclosing on the wrong home) were not enough, we have seen an upswing in so called collection agencies ("scam artists") contacting business owner-creditors ("creditor"), offering to collect money owed by customer-debtors ("debtor"). Problem is, these collection agencies do collect money from the debtor, but the creditor never sees any of the money collected. To make matters worse, the debtor may have to pay the creditor again.
Contractors make especially attractive targets. The mechanic's liens they file in order to protect themselves are a matter of public record. The scam artist (almost always from another state) contacts the creditor with a very convincing story about how they are able to collect when the creditor hasn't been able to. The creditor may authorize the scam artist to collect on their behalf; some even sign contracts.
In other cases, the creditor may not authorize the scam artist to engage in collection work, but the scam artist now has enough information to be convincing when contacting the debtor. Many debtors pay the scam artist believing they are legitimately resolving a debt.
Months, maybe even years, go by with no word. The creditor then decides to attempt collection itself, or to resume collection if didn't authorize the scam artist. The creditor may file a lawsuit to collect, or may simply send a collection letter.
The debtor responds, claiming to have paid the debt, or to not owe the debt (meaning the debt has been paid). Of course, the creditor doubts this, as the creditor hasn't seen any funds. The debtor (assuming the debtor has kept the records) responds with copies of the settlement agreement, canceled check, money order, cashier's check, or wire transfer. Almost always, the settlement agreement accepts much, much less than was originally owed as payment in full. In some cases, the scam artist has actually committed the creditor to complete work which it never agreed to complete, causing the creditor to actually go out of pocket on the collection.
If the creditor did have an agreement with the scam artist or the debtor had good reason to believe the scam artist really did represent the creditor, the debtor is off the hook. Good for the debtor. Bad for the creditor.
The creditor now has to pursue the scam artist. In many instances, the scam artist admits they collected the funds. They then engage in a delay, stall, ignore and disappear tactic, so the creditor doesn't get paid. Too often, when the creditor contacts the scam artist, the phone numbers may be disconnected, the email accounts closed, and mail returned undeliverable.
Even if the scam artist can be found, if they are in another state, it may cost the creditor more than it's worth to pursue. In some instances, the creditor may be able to sue in the state where the creditor resides; in others they may have to go to the state where the scam artist resides. In any event, the creditor will have to use the courts in the state where the scam artist resides, even if they can get a judgment through their home state courts. This deprives the creditor of capital it could be using to pay its bills, provide jobs, and conduct business.
If the scam artist didn't have authority, even apparent authority, the debtor may end up paying the bill twice. While there have always been some debtors who poorly manage their credit or use the current economic climate to avoid paying legitimate bills, most don't pay because they simply cannot pay, perhaps because they are unexpectedly unemployed. They may have borrowed money from family members, friends, used title loans or other high interest sources of funds to resolve the debt because the discount offered by the scam artist made such things worthwhile. The last thing this genuinely financially distressed debtor needs is double the debt. But that can easily be exactly what they get.
Creditors. If you carry accounts receivable or have money owed to you, be very wary. Investigate any collection agency that contacts you with an offer to collect for you. Keep in mind that it is very simple to set up a corporate or limited liability company identity, including a website. It is very easy to look legitimate. Dig beneath the surface. Check with the Better Business Bureau®. Run an internet search, particularly on sites with consumer complaints. Check with your state's attorney general's office or consumer protection office. Make the same inquiries with the state where the collection agency is located.
Consider using only in-state collection agencies. Check references. Stay involved in the process, demand frequent updates. Do not give the collection agency authority to accept offers on your behalf without your express, written approval. Advise the debtor that their account has been turned over to a collection agency, identifying the agency and the collector assigned to your account. Let the debtor know you must approve all agreements accepting less than the full amount due as payment in full. If you have given a collection agency authority to act for you but don't feel they are getting the job done or that they are not legitimate, terminate their services in writing. Send a copy to the debtor.
Debtors. If you are contacted by a collection agency, you should ask the collection agency for written proof they have the authority to represent the creditor. You can also contact the creditor to verify that the right collector has contacted you; get phone numbers, fax numbers, email contacts, and a person's name. Get it in writing.
What if I've Already Been Scammed?
If you believe you have been scammed, whether you are a creditor or debtor, you should immediately contact your local state's attorney general or consumer protection agency. They may already be investigating and prosecuting; you can join in without additional cost to you (other than the time it takes to complete the inevitable forms). If your state isn't currently taking any action, check with the state where the collection agency is located. If neither is taking action, consult with an attorney to see if there is a cost effective solution for you. If not, or if advised to do so by your attorney, consider filing criminal charges in both states. You may not get your money back, but you may help to prevent someone else from getting ripped off.
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Храм Иоанна Златоуста — название христианских храмов, освящённых во имя святителя Иоанна Златоуста, архиепископа Константинопольского.

Обиходные названия: Златоустовская церковь, Иоанно-Златоустовская церковь, Златоустовский собор.

Россия
 Церковь Иоанна Златоуста — в Вологде.
 Церковь Иоанна Златоуста — в Воскресенске.
 Церковь Иоанна Златоуста — в Ельце.
 Храм Иоанна Златоуста — в Кинешме.
 Иоанно-Златоустовская церковь — в Костроме.
 Собор Иоанна Златоуста в Златоустовском монастыре — в Москве (разрушен).
 Церковь Иоанна Златоуста в Донском монастыре — в Москве.
 Церковь Иоанна Златоуста в Рождественском монастыре — в Москве.
 Храм Святого Иоанна Златоуста — в Новокузнецке (католический).
 Храм Иоанна Златоуста — в Туле.
 Церковь Иоанна Златоуста в Коровниках — в Ярославле.
 Церковь Иоанна Златоуста в Рубленом городе — в Ярославле (разрушена).
 Храм Святого Иоанна Златоуста — в Ялте.

Италия
 Сан-Джованни-Кризостомо — в Венеции (католическая).

Польша
 Церковь Святого Иоанна Златоуста — в селе Поляны Подкарпатского воеводства (католическая).

США
 Храм святителя Иоанна Златоуста — в Гранд-Рэпидс в Мичигане.

Украина
 Храм святителя Иоанна Златоуста — в Бахмуте.
 Церковь Иоанна Златоуста — в Киеве (разрушена).
 Храм Святого Иоанна Златоуста — во Львове.

См. также
 Иоанно-Златоустовский монастырь
 Храм Трёх Святителей


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Q: how to make a div go on top of a page I have created an auto suggest script that i will use on my site. The problem is that in the manual i created the auto suggest from, they use a div that will have the relevant results.
When i use the div it overrides all my page and corrupts its order.
I am looking for a way to make the DIV show on top of the page.
the code - has some pseudo code.
//function that uses jquery and ajax to update the autosuggest elements on key up
<input type="text" name="field1" />
<div name="auto_suggest"> </div>

Thanks in advance.
EDIT: here is the code:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.autosuggest').keyup(function(){

    var search_term = $(this).val();
    $.post('shit5.php', {search_term:search_term}, function(data){
        $('.result').html(data);

        $('.result li').click(function(){
            var result_value = $(this).text();
            $('.autosuggest').val(result_value);
            $('.result').html('');

        });
    });

});
});

A: On your edited question (with the $.post code) i see you have a keyup listener on the .autosuggest. I think it should be on the input instead:
$('input[name=field1]').keyup(function(){

And then just give a class to .autosuggest with the CSS you need.
If you want to do this with jQuery you can have:
$('div[name=auto_suggest]').css({
   'position' : 'absolute',
   top: '0px',
   left: '0px'
});

But the best is to make a class with that CSS and add/remove it to the div. The div should be hidden from the beginning I suppose.
EDIT:
To position it near the input field you can also use this:
$('input[name=field1]').keyup(function(){
    var thisposition = $(this).position();
    ...

and then assigne that position to .autosuggest like:
$('div[name=auto_suggest]').css({
   'position' : 'absolute',
   top: eval (thisposition.top - 15) + 'px',
   left:thisposition.left + 'px',
});

A: try this, it gives a bit animation for the page :
$('div[name=auto_suggest]').css({'position' : 'absolute'}).animate({top: '0px',left: '0px'}, 1000);