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Nie gab es eine bessere Zeit, das Hit-Musical mit Hirn, Herz und Mut mit zu erleben auf seinem Wege in ein weiteres faszinierendes Jahr am Apollo Victoria Theatre.
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Im Rolling Stone steht: 'Die Genies von South Park schlagen am Broadway ein, und Geschichte wird geschrieben. Mormon ist auf dem Weg zur Legende.
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The Covent Garden Comedy Club @ Heaven is celebrating 17 years of making London laugh in 2019 and is the biggest and most successful independent comedy club in Central London with the best acts in the business. We only book the best comedians from the international circuit, many of whom are television stars. The comedians only perform at the club a few times a year to ensure every show is different. There are 3-4 comedians and a compere in each show.
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Hollywood is a hell hole. Everything in Hollywood is for sale except the awards, which are for rent. Bitter Wheat is a play about a depraved Hollywood mogul.
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Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she's been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated. Adapted from Paula Hawkins' novel – an international phenomenon selling over twenty million copies worldwide – and starring Samantha Womack, this gripping new play will keep you guessing until the final moment. Samantha Womack has starred extensively in television, film and theatre. She is best known for playing Ronnie Mitchell in BBC1's EastEnders with leading roles in Mount Pleasant and Game On, and the hit films, The Kingsman series.
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In the vastness of the universe are we all just lonely souls under the same night sky? Hollywood star and multiple Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Matthew Broderick makes his West End debut in The Starry Messenger by Kenneth Lonergan, Academy Award-winning writer of Manchester-By-The-Sea.
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An outrageously quirky comedy about imperialism, cultural appropriation and tea drinking. Brighton, 1852. Sarah, an African girl adopted by Her Royal Highness Queen Victoria and brought up alongside royalty. After perfecting tea etiquette, Sarah is due to return to Africa. Will Sarah do as she's told? The Present. Sarah, a well-heeled middle-class black woman who lives with her husband and child in Cheshire. Their inquisitive white neighbours unexpectedly pay them a visit, armed with gluten-free muffins and some probing questions.
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Direct from its sold-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Tony and Olivier award-winning director Trevor Nunn's 'exuberant revival' (The Telegraph) of the classic Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof transfers to the West End for a strictly limited run. The Playhouse Theatre will be specially transformed into an immersive space for this 'shiveringly intimate chamber musical about family' (The Times).
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Move over Cats - It's time for a mole! This joyous new musical adaptation of Sue Townsend's best-selling book The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ -The Musical arrives in London for a strictly limited season! A timeless tale of teenage angst, family struggles and unrequited love, told through the eyes of tortured poet and misunderstood intellectual Adrian Mole. One of the most enduring comedy characters of all time, he's the hapless, hilarious, spotty teenager who captured the zeitgeist of 1980s Britain. With an infectious score and a script as sidesplittingly outrageous as the original novel, this critically acclaimed production brings Adrian's story to life for a new generation of theatregoers. Book and lyrics by Jake Brunger, music and lyrics by Pippa Cleary, directed by Luke Sheppard.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning play SWEAT by Lynn Nottage is transferring to the West End's Gielgud Theatre for 50 performances only following a sold-out run at the Donmar Warehouse. Based on interviews with residents of the rustbelt town of Reading, Pennsylvania, this 'breathtaking new play' (The Guardian) delivers 'a knock-out blow of theatrical force' (Daily Telegraph) as it examines the lives of factory workers facing de-industrialisation. As friendships strain under fear, anger and racial tensions, a devastating outcome awaits the divided community.
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'Now I see that love is selfish. It makes you a country of two. At war with the rest of the world.' An election looming. A country on the brink. A rabid press baying for blood. At the centre of the storm is Rosmersholm, the grand house of an influential dynasty. This is where the future will be decided by John Rosmer – a man torn between the idealised hope of the future and the ghosts of his past.
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Soul of Shaolin
A mother's love. A son's struggle. Playing in London for the first time, Soul of Shaolin is an action-packed theatrical experience featuring over 30 performers in a troupe direct from Shaolin, China. Combining dazzling martial arts expertise with a touching story of loss and redemption, Soul of Shaolin will amaze, excite and inspire the whole family.
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Her voice. His vision. Their story. Gloria and Emilio Estefan's smash-hit musical comes to London direct from Broadway for a strictly limited season. On Your Feet! is the inspiring true love story of Emilio and Gloria and charts their journey from its origins in Cuba, onto the streets of Miami and finally to international superstardom.
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From the Producers and Director of Riverdance, Heartbeat of Home is a tantalizing, high-octane, sexy music and dance extravaganza. This heart–stopping tour de force features the dynamic vibrant components of traditional Irish, Latin, Hip-Hop, Afro-Cuban and Contemporary music and dance combined in a new and exciting fusion. A live band plays music from the award-winning Irish composer, Brian Byrne (who has worked with Katy Perry and Barbara Streisand). State-of-the-art video projections round off this extraordinary music dance extravaganza. Following sold out performances at the London Palladium, Heartbeat of Home is delighted to be returning to the West End this September.
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"The honour would be entirely mine if you would attend my little party." It's the roaring twenties – an era of bootleg liquor, red hot jazz and hedonistic pleasures. Jay Gatsby has invited you to one of his infamous parties and that's not an invite you want to turn down. Step into a heart-racing immersive adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal jazz-age novel which puts you in the heart of the action. Slip on your dancing shoes and watch the story unfold around you in this unique theatrical performance. The cocktails are flowing, the music is playing, the party is in full swing and there's the chance of more than a little scandal. Immerse yourself in one of the greatest stories of the 20th Century.
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Thrown together for one eventful night that pulses with conflicting passions and a surprising edge of humour, a group of tourists including Shannon, a disgraced priest (Clive Owen), and a troubled artist Hannah (Lia Williams) arrive at a remote coastal Mexican hotel run by the beautifully sensual Maxine (Anna Gunn). Tennessee Williams's last great play THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA comes to the West End starring Clive Owen (Closer, Children of Men), Lia Williams (Kiri, Mary Stuart), Anna Gunn (Deadwood, Breaking Bad) and Julian Glover (Game of Thrones) directed by James Macdonald (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf). One night brings them together, and will leave them forever altered. What path will they choose?
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Our Lady of Kibeho
In 1981 at Kibeho College in Rwanda, a young girl claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary who warned her of the unimaginable: Rwanda becoming hell on earth. She was ignored by her friends and scolded by her school but then another student saw the vision, and another, and the impossible appeared to be true. Katori Hall's Our Lady Of Kibeho presents us with a haunting insight into the true events that captured the world's attention. A vibrantly theatrical meditation on faith and everyday miracles, it was hailed "the most important play of the year" by The Wall Street Journal when it premiered in New York in 2014. It is directed by Royal & Derngate Artistic Director James Dacre, who premiered Katori Hall's The Mountaintop which won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010. Featuring stirring original music, the London premiere of Our Lady Of Kibeho promises to be an epic event.
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Oli arrives at the door of Marianne, a now-forgotten sci-fi TV icon, impatient to make an impression, to make a friend. Marianne, a jobbing actress, knows about waiting – for the phone to ring, for her best friend to see her differently, for her turn at something more substantial than a half-remembered role on a cult TV show. He wants an autograph; she doesn't want anything from him - or so she thinks. Yet as they start to explore each other's worlds, they begin to discover what every good relationship needs: time and space.
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Brought to life by a ground-breaking all-female creative team, this irresistible new hit features original music and lyrics by 6-time Grammy® nominee Sara Bareilles (Brave, Love Song), a book by acclaimed screenwriter Jessie Nelson (I Am Sam) and direction by Tony Award® winner Diane Paulus (Pippin, Finding Neverland).
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YOU HAVE BEEN SUMMONED FOR JURY SERVICE... Step inside the magnificent surroundings of London County Hall and experience the intensity and drama of Agatha Christie's gripping story of justice, passion and betrayal in a unique courtroom setting.
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1981, South London. Thatcher's Britain. Jab. Double jab, cross. Jab, hook to body. Leon and Troy are best mates trying to figure out their place in the world amid mounting unemployment and simmering racial tensions. After finding solace in Charlie's gym, they start forging their path into the ruthless world of professional boxing. Roy Williams' bruising play examines what it was like to be a young black man in 1980s Britain and asks, how can you fight a system that's desperate to see you fail?
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Ein wahrhaft schreckenerregendes Theatererlebnis, geschrieben und inszeniert von Jeremy Dyson, dem aus der Radio- und Fernsehserie The League of Gentlemen bekannten Meister des Makabren, und Andy Nyman, Mitschöpfer und Regisseur der Fernseh- und Bühnenshows des Magiers Derren Brown und Star von Dead Set, Severance – Ein blutiger Betriebsausflug und Kick-Ass 2.
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The heart-warming and hilarious Broadway show based on the classic movie starring Tom Hanks, comes to The Dominion Theatre for its West End premiere.
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Welcome to Iran
Ava is a twenty-something Londoner. Following the death of her estranged father, she journeys to Iran in search of his past and her extended family. Exploring the rich culture and thriving art scene of this oft misunderstood country, Ava is swept into a world of raves, raids and illicit love, all whilst negotiating family politics, Tehran traffic and the morality police. Based on real-life testimonials, this new play by Nadia Fall (Home, Dara) offers a tender and witty snapshot of modern life in Iran.
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& Juliet is the irreverent and fun-loving new West End musical that asks: what if Juliet's famous ending was really just her beginning? What if she decided to choose her own fate? This is Juliet's story now. So don't tell her how it ends... Soaring with pop anthems including ...Baby One More Time, Everybody (Backstreet's Back), Love Me Like You Do and Can't Feel My Face, & Juliet is a riotous blast of fun and glorious music that proves when it comes to love, there's always life after Romeo...
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Pint of Wine Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Michael John LaChiusa's Queen Of The Mist comes to the Charing Cross Theatre for a strictly limited seven-week season from 15 August to 5 October 2019.
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The Snail and the Whale
Join a tiny snail on her trip round the world in Tall Stories' magical, musical production inspired by the much loved picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Longing to see the world, a tiny snail hitches a lift on the tail of a humpback whale. Together they go on an amazing adventure - but when the whale gets beached, how will the snail save him? Follow the tiny snail's exciting journey, as seen through the eyes of an adventurous young girl and her seafaring father... Storytelling, live music and lots of laughs for everyone aged 4 and up, from the Olivier Award-nominated company that brought you 'The Gruffalo' and 'Room on the Broom' live on stage
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All children grow up. Except one. This summer, get set for an awfully big adventure as the National Theatre's "unforgettable and delightful" (Guardian) re-telling of JM Barrie's classic tale takes flight at Troubadour White City Theatre, a brand new theatre only minutes away from Westfield London.
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Amélie The Musical, based on the much-loved, five-time Oscar®-nominated film, will transfer to the West End this Christmas following its current UK tour, and its sell-out season premiere at the Watermill in Newbury in April. Starring French-Canadian stage and screen star Audrey Brisson as 'Amélie Poulain', and the original Watermill cast, this beloved story of an imaginative and shy romantic with a gift for helping others, in a vibrant re-conception with new orchestrations, has garnered critical and public acclaim and will play at The Other Palace from 29 Nov 2019 to 1 Feb 2020. Amélie is the story of an astonishing young woman who lives quietly in the world, but loudly in her mind. She secretly improvises small, but extraordinary acts of kindness that bring happiness to those around her. But when a chance at love comes her way, Amélie realises that to find her own contentment she'll have to risk everything and say what's in her heart. Although times are hard for dreamers, Amélie is someone to believe in…
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Issue #4: Programming, Art Or Science?
Happy 2019 and welcome to the fourth issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, dedicated to the subject of Programming, Art Or Science? In this edition Carola Nitz explores the boundaries between science and art, Roland Leth finds the contact point between both perspectives, Graham explores the art on Donald Knuth's classic book "The Art of Computer Programming", and in this issue's subscriber-only article, Adrian reviews some interesting moments in the "Science vs. Art" debate in literature and programming history.
When we think of Programming we might think of the creative process. We all know that, we will conclude here that programming is in some way both artful and scientific. Is there ever any doubt about it? In my book the proportion of what is science and what is art has shifted over the years, but let us take a closer look.


I think it's a real shame to let this go. Especially for reasons of narrow self interest and class jealousy.
It sounds as though people are jealous of private school students or don't want their idyllic waterfront privacy disturbed; that is, until it came time to cash in, subdivide the old farm and get out.
I am not a waterfront property owner, but I live within 100 feet of the lake, overlooking the lake, and have done so for 24 years.
I find it odd I wasn't surveyed. I have a feeling that waterfront property owners were surveyed. Can't blame them for not wanting to share.
There are no people out there floating around on tubes. Years go by without me seeing a sailboat, and only a handful of swimmers use the deep part of the lake. There's maybe a half dozen tiny fishing boats on the lake on a busy day.
No one swims out in the open in the shallow part with the creepy weeds grabbing at their ankles. And fish hang around the edges of the lake, where the shelter and food is, not out where the rowing lanes would be.
Power boats aren't allowed and it isn't a bird sanctuary. What better place? Don't want to use parkland? There's lots of waterfront private property that could be redeveloped at the St. Michaels University's expense.
The taxpayers have shelled out for a trail around the lake, fishing piers, dedicated parking, a lighted crosswalk, landscaped swimming beaches and a new $250,000 aerator. I'm shocked that Langford council, is letting a special interest group dictate the use of a community asset such as Langford Lake.
What we have here is a proposal to make rowing available to the public at no cost.


Yesterday I found myself so very grateful for the way God uses people in our lives as a vessel to point to Him. I had had a conversation my girlfriend in CA about our college kids. Her oldest and my oldest are going through some life lessons and it is SO hard not to jump in and be GOD in the situation - not that we could anyway. But the point that came up was that God has to get their hearts in this and/or the fact that He's after something in their heart. The next day our pastor's wife spoke on the very same issue - God is after your heart and we need to examine the idols and other loves in our hearts.
"...our focus on certain things eclipses our worship of God. John Calvin said that our hearts are idol factories." (SOLO devotional) An eclipse is a reduction or loss of splendor, status, reputation or obscuring the light. It comes from the Greek to leave out, forsake, fail to appear.
So this is what I heard him singing to me - the song I usually sing to him, but He said, "listen - this time it's for you."
I can hear Him singing to my son and my friend's daughter right now . . . because He's after their hearts, just like he is after yours and mine.


Paper proposals are invited for the Second Annual Illinois-Bologna conference on Constitutional History: Comparative Perspectives. The conference will be held in Chicago on April 12 & 13, 2016. It is sponsored by University of Illinois College of Law, University of Bologna School of Law, Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development, University of Illinois Law Review. The conference keynote speaker will be Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Accompanying the spread of constitutional government around the world has been a profound interest in the comparative aspects of constitutional law. Scholars have catalogued the differing features of national constitutions and examined how different constitutional systems resolve common legal issues. So, too, judges faced with legal questions have sought guidance in the decisions of constitutional courts of other nations. While comparative constitutional law is therefore a well-established field, less attention has been paid so far to the comparative dimensions of constitutional history. This international conference aims to address that shortcoming by energizing the study and analysis of constitutional history from comparative perspectives. The conference has several interrelated goals. It will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of current research on issues of constitutional history that crosses national boundaries. Relevant topics in this regard include such things as the origins of constitutional governments in different nations, changes in constitutional structures over time, comparative studies of the shifting roles of constitutional actors, the development of individual rights in different systems, and the legitimacy and longevity of constitutions in various nations. The conference will also bring together scholars who, at present, are working on constitutional histories of single jurisdictions—with the expectation that conversations among these scholars will allow for sharing of methodologies and point also to fresh areas of research that may transcend national boundaries. In addition, the conference has relevance to the task of judging. In some nations, notably the United States, constitutional history plays an important and sometimes decisive role in the resolution by courts of questions of constitutional law. The conference will take up the place of constitutional history in constitutional adjudication. By comparing the practices of courts around the world, the conference will trace the movement (or not) of constitutional history from the academy to the courthouse and examine the risks and benefits of modern practices.
Scholars interested in presenting a paper at the conference should e-mail a title and summary of the proposed paper along with a CV to Professor Jason Mazzone at mazzonej[@]illinois.edu. Proposals received by November 1, 2015 will receive priority. After that date, submitted proposals will be considered only if space remains.
Papers from the conference will be published in the University of Illinois Law Review. Conference participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses.


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Senate Passes USA Freedom Act, Ushering In A Kindler, Gentler Era Of NSA Snooping
6.2.15 5:35 PM EDT By Chris Morran@themorrancave
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As expected following the June 1 expiration of one of the PATRIOT Act's most controversial privacy-invading provisions, the Senate today passed a substitute bill, the USA FREEDOM Act (or rather, deep breath… the Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015) that prohibits the sort of mass data collection the National Security Agency enjoyed under the recently sunset Patriot provisions, but still leaves in place many concerns for privacy advocates.
After voting to get over the filibuster hump on Sunday afternoon, the Senate today considered a trio of amendments today by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had been a staunch advocate for approving a straightforward extension of the provisions rather than passing this new law.
One amendment would have doubled the FREEDOM Act's transition period, during which telephone companies are to build out systems that will let the NSA make warranted searches of specific individuals, from six months to a year. McConnell said this would "ensure that there is adequate time… to build and test a system that doesn't yet exist."
The second McConnell amendment would have required the director of national intelligence certify that these new systems will suffice. Finally, McConnell wanted to require the telecoms to notify the government of any changes to their data-retention policies.
All three of the amendments fell short of approval by the Senate.
In the end, when the unamended bill went up for a vote, it passed with a large majority, 67-32. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was the only senator to not vote. On Twitter, the recent entry into the 2016 presidential election says he would have been a "no" vote. All signs point to the FREEDOM Act being signed by President Obama.
Assuming the bill is enacted as is, it will mark the most significant restriction on NSA surveillance in decades.
Even so, we're celebrating. We're celebrating because, however small, this bill marks a day that some said could never happen—a day when the NSA saw its surveillance power reduced by Congress. And we're hoping that this could be a turning point in the fight to rein in the NSA.
But for privacy advocates, there is still much to be done in terms of limiting the government's ability to pry into the private lives of Americans.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation points to a number of troublesome ways in which our online communications are still vulnerable.
For example, there's Sec. 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which allows the bulk communications of Internet communications if at least one end of that communication is outside the U.S.
The loophole there, according to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, is that the NSA can use Sec. 702 surveillance to snoop on e-mail communications in the U.S. if that e-mail leaves the country at any point in its journey to the recipient.
"Even if you're sending to someone within the United States, your wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go from New York to London and back and get caught up in the database," he explained recently to John Oliver.
Sec. 702 is scheduled to sunset in 2017 and the EFF and others will undoubtedly campaign to ask Congress to let it expire.
Then there's Executive Order 123333, which isn't just a horrible e-mail password, but a 1984 executive order signed by President Reagan, authorizing the intelligence community to expand its data collection operations.
The NSA relies on E.O. 12333 to justify most of its digital surveillance, including its efforts to secretly collect e-mail data from servers at Google and others. The order has been the subject of calls from privacy advocates for more transparency and for reform to limit its application.
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Los Hevelios o Hevelianos fueron una tribu de los eslavos polabios, que se asentaron alrededor del río Havel, actualmente en el estado de Brandeburgo en Alemania a partir del siglo .

Las tribus eslavas occidentales (Wendos) se establecieron en la región Germania Slavica desde el siglo . Los Hehfeldi como los llamó el Geógrafo Bávaro, construyeron alrededor de 850 su principal fortificación en Brenna (que más tarde se convertiría en Brandeburgo) y una posición fortificada importante en el actual emplazamiento de Spandau. En 906 la princesa hevelia Drahomíra se casó con el duque Bratislao I de Bohemia de la dinastía Premislida.

Brenna fue ocupada por los germanos en su campaña eslava de 928/29 e incorporada por el rey de Alemania Enrique I de Sajonia a la Marca Geronis. El sucesor de Enrique, Otón I, estableció en 948 el obispado de Brandeburgo para cristianizar a la población pagana. Estos esfuerzos se interrumpieron durante la gran revuelta eslava de 983 en la Marca del Norte, que de nuevo desafió el control alemán sobre la región. Junto con los esprevanos vecinos al este, los hevelios combatieron no sólo contra los sajones, sino también contra otras tribus eslavas.

El príncipe hevelio Pribislau, muerto en 1150, legó finalmente sus tierras al conde ascanio Alberto I. Alberto no pudo reconquistar el territorio de la antigua Marca del Norte hasta 1157, donde estableció el margraviato de Brandeburgo. Los eslavos hevelios fueron asimilados gradualmente por colonos alemanes en el curso de la Ostsiedlung.

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Historia de Sajonia
Historia de Mecklemburgo-Pomerania Occidental
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Reliance Jio Infocomm Eyes Europe Through Estonian E-Solutions
Navanwita Bora Sachdev Posted On May 24, 2018
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, after having disrupted the Indian telecoms market, is now planning to expand into Europe–Estonia to be specific–according to a report by Livemint.
The report further states that Reliance Industries Ltd.'s (RIL) wholly-owned subsidiary, the investment holding company, Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings Ltd. will issue a loan of INR 12.20 crore (€1.5 million) to the unit in Estonia, so that operations can begin.
Estonia's attractive e-solutions are drawing in businesses who want to enter the lucrative European market, while handling operations digitally. The latest suitor of Estonia's e-governance solutions seems to be Jio.
Estonia Opens Digital Doors to Indian Startups
An IANS news agency report of 13th March had said that, while meeting an Estonian government delegation, Mukesh Ambani had voiced an intention to partner with Estonia in e-governance solutions.
"A statement from the company said Ambani envisaged to make lives better for millions in India by replicating innovative solutions offered by Estonia into the Indian context, adding that the e-residency programme of Estonia will empower him with easy access to the entire European Union (EU) for his existing business while sitting in India," the IANS report said.
"Reliance Jio would want to diversify because, like it's competitors, it too is under great pressure in the Indian market. There is every reason to believe that the company may be running operations below cost," the Livemint quoted Mahesh Uppal, director at communications consulting firm ComFirst India.
"In such an environment, it makes sense for any company to diversify in markets where the margins may be better. Besides, the European Union has long worked for a single telecom market. Being in Estonia does give you a foothold to expand further in Europe and helps Jio to mitigate some of the risks in the Indian market," said Uppal.
Estonia announced its readiness to accept over 200 Indian entrepreneurs through its e-Residency program. That means, with the help of an Estonian government-issued digital ID, a businessperson in India can set up shop in a secure, digital space in Estonia whilst operating from India. Such a person would also have access to selling products to all of Europe. Ambani clearly wants to take advantage of the Baltic country's openness to secure a foothold in the European market.
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The news comes in the wake of reports that pressure in the Indian telecom industry are driving telco giants like Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone India to seek solutions that can cut costs while hiking revenues. Jio's introduction to the industry will always be remembered because of the price war it dragged its competitors into by offering throw away prices and freebies.
The Economic Survey of 2018 said, "A new entrant has disrupted the market with low-cost data services and the revenue of incumbent players has fallen. The crisis has also severely impacted investors, lenders, partners and vendors of these telecom companies."
The Republic of Estonia's Entrepreneurship and IT Minister Urve Palo visited India in March to strengthen bilateral cooperation and talk about the digital society of Estonia. In March itself, India already had more than 1,200 citizens who became Estonian e-residents and the figure has been rising. Estonia's e-Residency program was launched as early as December 2014, and currently, Estonia has over 30,000 e-residents from 154 countries.
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Anti-violence group hosts national conference in Baltimore, says city is 'moving in the right direction'
As Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott works to implement an ambitious plan for curbing the city's rampant gun violence, his strategy has caught the attention of a national organization dedicated to promoting a public health approach to anti-violence work.
Cities United chose Baltimore as the site of its ninth annual conference focused on re-imagining public safety that organizers said will draw more than 450 attendees, including local government leaders and community-based, philanthropic, public safety and faith-based organizations from more than 75 cities. The conference will take place this week at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor, Scott announced Wednesday afternoon.
"We all know this work is not easy. It cannot be done in a vacuum and it won't change what we're seeing overnight," he said during a news conference. "But together, we can create the change that will help change the trajectory of younger generations."
Scott, who has made anti-violence work central to his mayoral platform, presented a detailed plan to address Baltimore's persistent gun violence last year, pledging to reduce shootings by 15% annually.
The city remains on pace to surpass 300 homicides for the eighth year running, though recent months have seen a notable reduction in shootings. The city has recorded 277 homicides so far in 2022, compared to 272 this time last year.
Anthony Smith, executive director of Cities United, said the group chose Baltimore for their conference because organizers believe other cities can learn from its ongoing efforts, which he said bode well for the future.
"I'm not saying Baltimore has got it all figured out," he said, describing a promising combination of innovation and investment. "I think they're moving in the right direction and we'll start seeing the impact of the work over the next couple years."
Among other things, the conference will include site visits to several Baltimore organizations involved in Scott's anti-violence strategy.
"We are building an ecosystem that integrates each critical part of community violence intervention," said Shantay Jackson, director of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, which oversees the strategy. "I am proud that Baltimore is leading the way in this work."
Central to the strategy is Safe Streets, a program that employs "credible messengers" to de-escalate conflicts and discourage interpersonal beefs. City officials recently announced a restructuring of the program to increase oversight by consolidating management of its 10 Baltimore sites.
Scott also has relaunched a "focused deterrence" program meant to target a small group of at-risk people by offering them services to help them avoid becoming involved in crime. That intervention model, which is widely known and has been previously implemented in Baltimore with little success, was launched on a pilot basis in the Western District early this year.
Other efforts currently underway include expanding hospital-based and school-based violence intervention programs.
Baltimore is one of 16 jurisdictions participating in a White House initiative launched last year to address rising gun violence using money from the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill that Congress passed in March 2021.
Taking a holistic approach to curbing violence — and addressing its root causes by expanding access to various opportunities, especially for young Black men — suggests a promising path forward in Baltimore, Smith said, and adequate investment is key.
"Some of these programs are not new, but they haven't previously been funded at this capacity," he said.
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Hi I'm Aki (just Aki) and semi-experienced player here. Still i'm one of stronger if not strongest pvp player at 100 and 300 DP brackets known for bruteforce and gimmick decks. Today we gonna deal with pure bruteforce deck.
What do you eat cookers with?
Primarily Cook Club deck is subfactioned deck. This means you gonna play followers of 1 faction (in this case Vita) and moreover only those named with specific prefix. This of course leaves less variety of possible pick ups but don't worry Cook Club has all you need. The deck is build around size 1/2/3 followers and idea of placing them with double or even in some cases tripple spells. Yeah sure, but why particulary cook club than you may ask. Answer it that those creepy little things have possibilities which other subfaction doesn't. Mainly we are talking about 4 message combos, very strong cheap buffing spells and so-called minority attack (description in next paragraph). All together this makes Cook Club one of fastest buffing subfactions in game.
It's a combo setup named after spell Minority Report. Even though itmay suggest you attack your opponent with lower number of followers actuall effect is opposite. Not many knows it but it's best buffing spell in the game if used wisely. Minority Report spell replaces skills and sizes of your Cook Club followers for skill of the second Cook Club follower on field. This means you want as many Cookers as possible to get bigger effect. Which skill you aim for than?
Well... mainly the Cook Club Member rare version. With 3 Cook Club followers on field it gives +2/+3/+3 buff for every follower on the field with 4 Cookers it's +2/+4/+4. But if you copy skill and have 4 followers on field effect is quadrupled: +8/+16/+16 buff for 4 followers!!
However this needs some prerequisites which makes Minority attack hard to trigger. First you need of course a spell, second you need Cook Club Member rare (and you may have only 2 in the deck) and thirdly you need at least 2 other Cookers. There is of course also downside of such pure power and this is size. Cook Club Member is size 3 and spell is also copying size of follower which means that after Minority Attack you gonna be locked (size 9 or 12 field). For PvE with weaker npces this doesn't matter as it's already game over - you won. Similar at 100 dp bracket as is very rare to recover after opponent is faced with Minority. But against strong opponents in 300 DP pvp sometimes it may backfire due to very, very high def of your followers.
Second skill you may aim for is Unlucky Member skill. It gives +2/0/+2 buff in defense and than jumps to another follower on your field if there is any. It also happens when follower dies which allows you to accumulate skill on the last standing cooker on the field (if things go wrong) with final effect of +6/0/+6 in defense. This is less preferable option of using Minority Attack but also very viable. As a promp it doesn't leave you self-locked.
There is also an option of using Minority as a defense resource. When met with sth having very nasty defense u can use Minority for copying Cook Club Ace or Cook Club Advisor (ex4) skill which will deal with very high def opponents as well as (in second case) some nastieses like Lukif for example.
Awful hand case. If you happen to be very unlucky with your hand and down on shuffles you may also try to cut down loses with Minority. You can lower size of your followers this way or give them a little bit of size-based buff if you play Poplar or Jaimie.
Mania Layna - Awesome +1/0/+4 prebuff for every follower in your deck. If you somehow manage to get into battle longer than 10 turns you will get additional +1/0/+4 buff on turn 11, 21 and so on. Your little beasties are initially weak having even 4 or 5 sta so this prebuff makes things a lot easier. Best.
Child Helena - Best prebuffing char in the game, having in addition only 1 DP cost (if you are PVP oriented). Same thing as with Mania altough is not Vita faction so has some downside with it. Still almost as good.
Santa Sita - antideckout option with counter to burns. 1 point char in addition and mediocore buff. Strong pick up but somewhat weaker unless you want to be safe against deckout and burn. Little bit more expensive.
Tea Time Sita - strong buffing option. Somewhat cheaper. Allows to use feast and heartless blow if you willing to (similar to Santa Sita).
Here we are coming into fun part of guide. Our little beasties!
Cook Club Member rare - Minority Queen. As the flavor text goes "make sure you definitely stop by the Cook Club!" Well idk how i feel stoping at her but she definitely may stop a lot of things! Whenever you see her in your hand consider going for the Minority attack with shuffles. Must be follower.
Ritafarit - another prime jewel. As any ep.9 rare it's very strong with her effect and being a cooker makes things even better. Her second skill is refreshing one which means if you put Ritafarit, Cook Club Member and some 1 size Cooker with skill you will not only get on Rita +6/+6/+9 buff but also she will have her antibuff skill and moreover will recover +1/+2 skill in next turn. Beast.
Poplar - if you haven't seen her in action you never would believe how creepy she can be. She is 5-1-4 which is average even for 1 sizers but none experienced player will underestimate her. Her skill reverse the size effect making it advantage rather than downside. And if still not convienced imagine situation (which actually quite often happens) 2x poplar, 4 message spell and cooking failure spell with Mania Layna char. 5-1-4, +6/3/6 from 4 message (no size increase, +3/0/+3 additional buff), +3/1/4 from failure (again) and +1/0/4 from prebuff which leaves us at 13-5-18 1-sizer at cost of 1 point and 3 point spells. Ouch! And in addition she is delicious Minority filler as antistall follower. What more do you want?
Jamie ep 11 - somehwat weaker sister of Poplar. Has extra +1/0/+1 buff from her skills but doesn't get as much from 4 messages. At Minority Combo she will get 4 size instead of 3 which depending on circumstances may be advantage or disadvantage. Still must be.
Advisor ep.0 - definitely not the hotest follower but she has that sturdy +2 sta, is 2 sizer only, posses a skill (again Minority) and has very slightly better stats than similar followers. Decent, simple pickup with low DP cost.
Unlucky - second minority target. She would be awesome if only her Sta would be bigger. Mania and Helena helps here a lot. Otherwise she might be get killed by spells before your buffing spells will act. Her skill is very strong one but somewhat unpredictable. Even if not top tier pick up still very strong contender.
Ace - kinda safety button against high def followers. She might be used in Minority but downside is that most of Cook Club buffs has defense buff involved. With minority will kill any def you may encounter. Still viable option though may be best to have only 1 or 2 of her.
Member ep.0 - another starting follower! She has skill, is 1 sizer, cheap and her skill is decent against npc. For PvE deck great choice, for PvP somewhat questionable but playable (i'm running 1 myself in Mania setup).
Advisor ex4 - she has somewhat weak stats, is pretty expensive and has controversial skill. It may be as bad as -1 sta damage or as good as -6 if used with Minority. It's rather backup option. May be used.
Elsfi - bad stats for starters but has handy skill, is 3 sizer and very cheap. Mainly filler for 100 dp, highly unadviced in higher dp (both PvE PvP).
Gluttony - nice antideckout buffing skill but it's all good about her. She can't be used as Minority target at any case and is big. Stats are average. An option but i don't recommend her.
Cook Club Iri - it's rare follower but she somewhat lacks of power for this tier. May be used for decks with 300+ DP but i would be very careful with picking her for PVP.
Critic - similar to Elsfi, mainly filler. She has better stats in comparison, has nice synergy with uniform modification but it's bigger. An option for lower dp.
Unorthodox Cookers - Both Amanda and Linfield may be used in lower dp where Minority will get rid of their nasty skills (and getting a handy skill) leaving high initiall stats and low (1 or 2) size at cost of none buffs for turn. It's a sensible option and i used it with some succeses however it has downside: it's slow. Both has 3 def which makes them great uniform mod. targets. Great Zero Serve targets as well. Uninvented Guest may be used for some hillarious combo where you put 2x 1 sizers with her and Minority spell and receive 3x 6sizer field where when dieing each followers takes -3 life from opponent though it's extreme. May be used also with poplar or jaimie combo with 4 messages spell where she gets -2 size while second follower is buffed.
Non-Cookers - it is possible also to include other Vita followers, mainly in higher DP Cook Club decks but they have be choosen wisely as every non Club follower breaks quite seriously deck synergy. Possible followers are: Animal Suit Layna, Girl Detective Asmis, Head Researcher, Detective Linus and Asmis, Sanctuary Investigator Asmis. Library Spirit. If you gonna pick up 2-3 sizers you do same thing but you have to get rid off cooking failure and possibly zero serve in exchange for higher DP buffs. If you go for Library Researcher, Library Spirit and Uberchipper (Detective - if you used it you know what i mean ;) ) i advice to grab supplies transfer spell and include that low sizer - high sizer - supplies combo. If you gonna use Novic than you mas want to put as well Observer and Clothes Thieves (maybe Casey).
Here is where things get complicated. As the rule of thumb you should have followers size of at least 125-130% of your character possible life. This extra % over your char life is because of possible graving, last hand followers and so on. This means you should run followers with all together 38-39 size where almost all of your followers is 1/2/3 sizers. Moreover as the main plan involves playing at least half-half f/s besides minority you should have around equal number of spells and followers. Things get even more complicated when you include size opperations and possible deskills from opponent. And you need some followers to get Minority combo as well! Alltogether this makes question how many spells you need very tricky to answer. My advice is to forget about this basic rule and concentrate on followers/spell ratio which should be either 13/17 or 14/16. Alltogether size should aim for 25-35 bracket for pure cookers and 30-40 for slightly mixed decks with Vita big sizers.
This was one issue with spells, second is which one you should include and how many counters you should have. And for Cook Club you always have great number of spells you want and not enough space.
Minority Report - one of trump cards. Have seen Cookers without it (mainly because lack of spells slots and being hard to trigger) but they weren't especially succesful. Possible to run without but highly unadviced. You need all 3 of them.
4 messages - a must be. Incredible 6/3/6 buff for Poplar and 4/2/4 for Jaimie without downside. May be used also on others 1-2 sizers if needed, works very well with Uniform Modification.
Cooking Failure - very cheap and effective. 3/1/4 buff for Poplar and Jaimie without downside. 2/1/3 for other cookers with +1 size. Size 3 is usually not an issue. Highly recommended especially for lower DP. Fully playable at 300 DP.
Uniform Modification - creepy but tricky. It gives at buff at double value of def. with price of half def. sta debuff. Best is to use on odd def. values so 3 def and 5 def will give you 6 at - 1 sta and 10 at - 2 sta respectively. Very strong spell for it's cost. Using on leftovers of Minority Attack gives mayhem followers. Great to use 2 turn after ordinary buffs. Possible life-saver. Highly adviced.
!!!! - good, cheap all-around buff. 3/1/1 or 1/1/3 is decent and it gives def which is welcomed at Cook Club. Always worth considering.
Zero Serve - very tricky spell. It's 1 pointer, it's size 1 and effect varies from mediocore to superstrong. It copies stats from 2 follower on your field (it even doesn't have to be Vita!) to next 2 Cook Clubbers in your deck. Often how effective it gets decides pure luck with spell triggering and attack sequences. It's main downside is taking space for other spells, otherwise there are no disadvantages. May be used after tripple Minority. Gambling option but potentially ultrastrong. Recommended.
Warning - good pick up. Having low size followers allows for more empty slots in hand. Also kind of pseudoshuffle and Cookers like them.
Sage's - good all-around buff. Nothing special but good filler. Obtainable from Detective Agency dungeon. You may have only 1.
Vanishment - Very good pick up for low DP decks. It's very strong buff/debuff for common card and 4 size with Cookers doesn't hurt as much. Not recommended in higher DP.
String of Emotion - great buff for Coookers if it only would be 2 targets spell. It gives +4/2/4 for both Poplar and Jaimie without downside. Possibility for lower DP.
Jackpot - decent low DP buff spell. Nothing special but most often gives def.
New Student Orientation ex4 - good all-around 100 DP spell. Anti-Lukif and anti-passcode in terms of pvp. Decent at strike to strike in PvE. Only low DP.
Ward Rupture - often underestimated spell. May be very decent though when put on low sizer or high sizer depending of opponents deck. Worth considering on lower DP and probably a must when going with low DP unorthodox cookers deck.
Complete Control - works very nice with low size vita followers. Recommended with Mania or Child Helena setups for non-pvp decks.
Party Time - similar advantage as warning. Once again - Cookers like def. Somewhat offbeat but possible.
Exiled witch - decent pvp option. You may consider putting as first card some spell and count on lucky trigger sequence. Has the issue though it cuts down your deck by 1. Still better than mass recall.
Crackdown - definitely unorthodox choice. PvP possibility but usually you need Cook Club Katie for it as well as slightly higher number of followers. Very Risky pick up but has some point.
Feast - Tea time Sita and Santa Sita option. One of best life gain spells in the game. It serves a role of counter against burns and passcode decks. Solid choice. You probably want only 1 or 2 of them.
Heartless Blow - another Sita proposition. Handy filler at 100 DP.
Advent - good Child Helena option. Risky but not as much as bolt out of blue.
Misfit - another Child Helena possibility for PvP. Usually awesome, with cookers even slightly better due to low sizers.
Cook Club deck use a lot of 1 point and 3 point spells and little rare followers. This means you are guaranteed to use DR spells in any CC deck above 200 DP. In 300 DP is possible to have as much of those as three in the deck. It is wise to have at least one field clearer in DR spells.
Memory - simply best choice. Great prebuff with additional possibility of stronger Minority Attack. +1 shuffle also helps to achieve it.
Forced Return - best field clearer in the game. Highly recommended however it's hard to obtain. It requires clearing Kana's Altar Dungeon which is known of being a nightmare for beginners.
The Truth... - another great field clearer. And this one is much easier to obtain. Very strong contender.
Encounter with the Spirit - last possible field clearer. From easier to obtain d.rares i prefer The Truth but still viable option. Up to you.
Secret Exploration - another great brute force spell. With many 1 and 2 sizers you may put this with single follower so you have buffor in front of you. However it's risky because you may get it late in the battle. In CC you can't afford for Backup from another detective.
Relieve Post - laziest DR possible xdd Still worth putting in and recommended. Very easy to craft.
Devastation - great spell especially when you use one of Sita's char. Worth considering as well with other Vita characters.
Homing Instinct - very nice DR if only your char is Mania or Helena. Just as Nameless extremely expensive.
Child Helena additional DR possibilities: Hindered Scheme, Miracle, Vernika's World.


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OHIO WANTS TO MAKE SKITCHING ILLEGAL
February 12, 2018/ Nic Dobija-Nootens/ ARTICLES/ Comments: 30
Whenever I talk to older, non-skateboarders about the fact that I, A) skate in the street and B) never wear a helmet, they show a mom-type mixture of surprise, fear, and disappointment. People who have never skated assume that skateboarding is unavoidably dangerous, like playing chicken with a train or shooting a gun into a hurricane. But as a skateboarder, that assumption rings not only completely false, but irrelevant. Worrying about getting hurt on your skateboard goes against the carefree ethos that makes skateboarding enjoyable in the first place.
So when I saw recently that a politician in Ohio proposed a bill to penalize skateboarders for skitching — holding onto a moving car while riding your board — I wanted to find out what people think this rule might achieve, and whether it has any precedence.
For some context, the anti-skitching bill, a.k.a. the Dallas Swogger Act, is named after a sixteen-year-old Ohioan who died in a skitching accident last September. While holding onto a friend's car, Dallas fell off his board and hit his head on the ground. A few days later, he died in the hospital.
The bill intends to prevent future accidents like this by adding skateboards to the list of devices — bicycles, roller skates, toy vehicles, etc. — that Ohioans are already not allowed to ride while holding onto a moving vehicle. First time offenders, which can include the driver if they knowingly allow the skitch, would be ticketed up to $150, and repeat offenders could be charged with low-level misdemeanors.
The motivation for the Dallas Swogger Act is fine; nothing to fault about wanting to prevent death. But it's not really designed to protect skateboarders from the most common causes of skateboarding realted injuries.
source: google news alerts
Death by skitching is indeed rare. I have a Google Alert that notifies me every time an English language headline appears with variants of the words "skateboard" and "death." Not including Dallas Swogger, two people in the U.S. in 2017 died while skitching a car on their skateboards. The first, a 15-year-old, died in April, and the second, a 9-year-old, died in June. Both lived in California.
But in that same year, nine people in the U.S. were struck and killed by cars while riding skateboards. Clearly, the bigger danger to skateboarders isn't them deciding to skitch. It's drivers being inattentive and running over skateboarders. So if someone wants to stop skateboarding traffic deaths, they need to focus on the people inside the cars, not out.
The Dallas Swogger Act isn't the first legislative response to injured kids in the news. California's 2003 statewide helmet law, for instance, was enacted in response to a 9-year-old kid who hit his head after falling off his scooter. Granted, skateboarders shouldn't be punished for anything involving scooters, but it's a worthy reminder of the power of concerned citizens.
source: Rascal Rides
Helmet laws, like anti-skitching laws, are ways for non-skateboarders to feel like they can make skateboarders act more responsibly, and that logic is those laws' biggest flaw. Compared to other wheeled thingamajigs, like scooters — which out of all toys, cause the most injuries among kids annually — or bicycles — which as of 2016, the most recent data year, were involved in over 450,000 E.R. trips while skateboards were only involved in 113,000 trips — skateboards are already statistically much safer. Tightening laws on skateboarders feels like a disingenuous attempt to curb skating's already relatively low injury rate.
Ten years ago, researchers even studied whether or not skateboards were dangerous. Their conclusion? "Despite its negative image among the medical fraternity, the skateboard does not appear to be a dangerous sport with a low incidence and injuries encountered being not severe."
Bottom line: policing skitching more harshly won't make the act any safer, and any skaters who want to skitch will do so regardless of a law. A penalty isn't likely to deter even the brokest of skaters from doing what they want. Plenty cities already make it illegal to skate on sidewalks — arguably the safest place for skateboarders outside of skateparks — and instead force skateboarders into poorly constructed roads alongside inattentive drivers. That's dumb, and adding more anti-skating laws won't fix it.
Skateboarders aren't going to disappear or restrict themselves to skateparks as a result of harsher laws and fines. If the concern of local and state governments is genuinely to prevent skateboarding related injuries and deaths, what will make a difference is developing laws to keep skaters safer in the streets rather than penalize them in hope of their extinction.
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good article. thanks!
Pine St.
Lets be completely honest here. Skitching is incredibly dangerous and fun as shit, however we are skateboarders and couldn't give a shit less about the laws. Bombing hills is also incredibly dangerous and probably illegal and there isn't a better feeling surviving a fucked up hill.
The law seems reasonable, stitching is sketchy as fuck. Even Trasher magazine says it's sketchy. Hell, CARDIEL CAN'T SKATE ANYMORE BECAUSE OF SKITCHING.
So I can totally understand how non-skaters feel about it, and want to make even a small, ineffectual gesture like this law.
What is not reasonable is the author of this articles assumption that all the car-related deaths were automatically due to driver negligence. Seeing how skaters can be fucking idiots on the board (and I speak for myself as well), assuming it's not the skaters fault is myopic and prejudiced.
Fartknockula
I read this as "Ohio wants to make switch illegal"
Durdbird
Same, honestly that would stir a bigger pot of shit haha


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As President and CEO of Planetary Resources, Chris Lewicki is responsible for its strategic development of its mission and vision, engagement with customers and the scientific community, serves as technical compass, and leads day-to-day operations.
Chris was intimately involved with the lifecycle of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers and the Phoenix Mars Lander. He was part of the system engineering development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and served on the teams for assembly, test and launch operations for these missions. He now applies this "know-how" in his work at Planetary Resources.
Spaceoneers spoke to Chris at the Space Forum in Luxembourg about how Planetary Resources got started, the challenges it faced and where it is heading today.
Chris Lewicki: Planetary Resources is the asteroid mining company and we're developing technology to expand humanity's economic sphere of influence into the Solar System, using the resource of asteroids as a catalyst for that. Deploying technologies to manage and monitor resources will ultimately, of course, get them to asteroids but we're starting in Earth's orbit first, helping answer questions about our own planet along the way.
Spaceoneers: How did the idea for your business come about? What was the path?
Chris Lewicki: My co-founders, Peter Diamandis from the XPrize Foundation and Eric Anderson, who is well-known for his clients who buy a ticket to go into space; we've known each other for over twenty years. They were evaluating really, where was the next thing that is going to accelerate the development of space. The governments have done a wonderful job over 50 years, addressing hard challenges and making big strides forward. Technology, of course, has developed a lot as well. But government programmes aren't going to really take off and change anything in any great way. So, we need an economic engine that can bring entrepreneurs to the challenge that can get investors excited about risking some capital to make money and ultimately identifying the valuable problems to solve, which is different than what the governments do. The governments find the interesting problems to solve. The entrepreneurs look at where you can do something that's going to address a problem for someone. So whether it's information about resources or the technology to develop the resources themselves, that's really where the idea cane from and we've been pursuing it like a traditional mining company might do it, which is to find the right resources to start at, create the technology to understand them and of course, take the next step in actually extracting that.
Spaceoneers: How did you start? What did you do before you started your startup?
Chris Lewicki: I worked with NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for about 10 years. I was a system engineer there and I had the great opportunity to serve as flight director for the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Rovers, and helped design, build launch and then ultimately land and drive those two rovers. Opportunity is still with us today. I got the opportunity to do it all again with the next mission, the Mars Phoenix lander, which dug up water ice above the arctic circle of Mars. In doing that I gained a great amount of experience in technology to explore other planets, explore the Solar System but also met a lot of very bright people who ultimately brought with me when we founded Planetary Resources. And we're using that know-how from a government programme on how to solve these difficult problems but doing it in a way often the government can't. I'd like to say, 'when failure is not an option, success gets really expensive'. So we're looking at things that maybe are a little more risky and where things maybe might not always work out but if they do it's a tremendous breakthrough and an advance. We can use that, of course, to make a business opportunity from some of the progress we're making.
Spaceoneers: What were the major challenges you had to overcome when starting up the company?
Chris Lewicki: The biggest challenge we faced was people recognising that it's possible and that we know enough about space, we know enough about the asteroids themselves and that it is not only possible but it is inevitable this is the way it will develop. Of course, there are a lot of people who still don't think this was going to happen soon but there are enough people who do. Those people are employees; they are our advisors and our investors. Increasingly so, they are our customers. This is how you start with a big idea and make progress on it one day at a time.
Spaceoneers: How do you go about getting your investors, customers and even your team together to work on something like asteroid mining?
Chris Lewicki: We're very fortunate to be supported by some very well known and wealthy entrepreneurs who really provided that seed capital to let an audacious idea come into reality – so, people like Larry Page, Richard Branson, Charles Simonyi, Ross Perot Jr., kind of well-known successful folks and they really laid the groundwork for more traditional investors. Whether they are individual investors or institutional investors like large companies such as the Bechtel Corporation or 3D Systems, or the venture funds that are now invested in the company, including the OS Fund who is investing in companies that are redefining the operating system of their industry. It's all about showing the plan and the long-term vision but also showing the steps of how you can get from here to there. And the flexibility to realise that you probably don't have it all figured out and you're going to learn things along the way, and you've got to be able to adapt.
Spaceoneers: Who and what were your influences to become a space entrepreneur?
Chris Lewicki: Well, my cofounders, Peter Diamandis and Eric Anderson have several times over established businesses, created activities and gotten other entrepreneurs to start companies in things that everyone knew was never going to work. You'd never be able to get a private company that can put a person into space and return him in a week, and get him above 100km. You'll never be able to convince the FAA that you can fly a 737 and do zero-gravity parabolas. But of course, those are two companies that exist today. A private person will never be able to go to the International Space Station. Realising that if you set your mind to it, truly anything that is not prevented by the laws of physics is possible. Eric and Peter are both my inspiration in doing that. I would say also my inspiration is a lot of people you have never heard of who are passionate about this industry or are passionate about the opportunity and have dedicated their lives. In some cases it's decades, in some cases it's multiple tries at a startup. Even if the last one didn't work, they are still eager about trying out the new idea. I saw that when I was working at NASA and I wanted to be part of that. I am happy to be doing that with the team at Planetary Resources.
Spaceoneers: The timescales are so grand, how do you keep motivated to keep behind the idea?
Chris Lewicki: We've had a lot of milestones and progress along the way. We've actually already delivered two satellites. One of them made it into space, the other one famously blew up on the launch pad but we were able to quickly rebuild it. And we have more technology and more satellites that are to be launched just a few months from now. So understanding it is a very long-term development plan. But we have progress that we are making every day and every week, every month, every year towards that and we get to do this everyday. We report to work in the morning at an asteroid mining company and we get to help create the future.
Spaceoneers: What technologies and trends do you think will drive the biggest changes in your industry over the next years?
Chris Lewicki: The technologies that I think are going to drive innovation in this industry are in a couple of different areas: the increasing availability of the access to space and its cost going down. Both those things are very helpful in accelerating innovation and iteration. I think a lot of what we are seeing in other industries in miniaturisation of electronics, in automation and algorithms, machine learning and even technology you might find in a self-driving car, actually, is about solving a lot of problems that you're going to have to solve when you are ten minutes away at the speed of light, at an asteroid 150 million km away. Those are all going to be critical in terms of a localised artificial intelligence and autonomy that can allow this to be a 50-person project rather than a 5000-person project. It's really the technology today that makes that possible; with our small team with 50 engineers and scientists in Planetary Resources we can do what it used to take a division of a government just a few decades ago. And that technology has allowed us to make the progress we have made already.
Spaceoneers: What important advice would you give to others who are interested in starting their own space startup?
Chris Lewicki: That you can make a difference. Even a single person can promote an idea. It's really about having an idea and being passionately committed to it, and also being open to changing your mind and your plan when new information comes out. At Planetary Resources we don't have all the answers but we're curious and we find ways to inform our opportunities and we update our plans when we learn new things. I would also say it's very important from an investor standpoint, from a technology standpoint to find a path that doesn't depend on eternally getting a grant from the government or an investment. The quickest path to revenue that you can find – this is advice for any entrepreneur, not just space – find a problem that is not being well-served by the market and solve that. Understand how by solving that problem can take you to the next step.
Spaceoneers: What makes you a spaceoneer?
Chris Lewicki: Ten years ago, or even five years ago if you would have asked anyone on the planet about asteroid mining or how soon it's going to happen, and if it's possible I think most people would say you're completely crazy. 'My grandchildren won't see that happen'. Today we have hardware in space; we have multiple companies pursuing this opportunity. We have laws in the United States that have been passed to help support the founding of the industry. More and more people are seeing it is possible and inevitable, maybe very risky but I am happy we are doing our part in creating an industry that is going to involve support a number of different companies, a number of different governments no doubt and even industries that are outside of space that will help support this. I am as proud of what we've done so far at Planetary Resources as all the hardware I have helped put on Mars. I am really looking forward to what's going to happen in the next couple of years.


She has the tuna and cheese ciabatta twice a week because that's her favourite. But she does she says it's probably the healthiest option that she has throughout the week. At 36 grams of fat per portion, this is NOT a healthy option so, DON'T try this at home!
Gizzi arrived at Dawn's house and said that she wanted to get a bit of an idea about how Dawn felt about her weight. She asked Dawn about her eating habits.
Gizzi had definitely got a challenge on her hands if she wanted to get Dawn away from the loaded fast food that she was used to eating! She was going to have to give her a real flavour hit to satisfy her appetite.
When Gizzi was mixing the filling together, everything went pink because of the beetroot. It made it look really pretty, especially with the pale pink of the trout and the green of the watercress.
The whole pitta was made in the time it would take Dawn to walk to the Deli but with a fraction of the calories Dawn would normally consume for lunch.
Just one of Dawn's Cheese and Tuna Melts comes in at a huge 855 calories per portion so, on the days she has two, she is having a massive 1710 calories – more than a whole day's worth of calories in one go!
Gizzi's Smoked Trout, Beetroot, New Potato and Watercress Pitta comes in at a very respectable 375 calories per portion. Less than half the calories in just one of the melts!
Dawn says it's all too much hard work for her. That has got to change! America has gone mad for the hula hoop! But, it's an easy workout that can burn the same amount of calories as an eight mile run.
There are three easy exercises that Dawn could do with a hula hoops.
While she is mastering the skill, she can still burn 100 calories in just ten minutes and keep her children, not to mention the whole park, entertained!
Gizzi told Dawn she was going to show her a Char Siu Pork recipe which Dawn was really happy with because she'd had it before at the Chinese. The cut that Gizzi was using was pork fillet because that it the leanest cut. Good tip for anyone out there who loves pork!
Char Siu is a marinated meat that is then roasted. The marinade Gizzi used included ginger, garlic and spring onions as the base, along with an old favourite of Gizzi's – Agave Nectar. Agave Nectar is the same sort of thing as honey or maple syrup and comes from the same plant as Tequila. It tastes sweet like sugar but with less calories. She also included Hoi Sin sauce (the Chinese version of BBQ sauce), a tiny bit of oil, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, brown sugar (for a lovely toffee taste), yellow bean sauce, white pepper and salt – mmmmmmmm sounds yummy!
To go with the Char Siu Pork, Gizzi said she was going to do some veggies and rice but, not the sweet corn that Dawn is used to because it has 'tons of sugar in it'. She used Choi Sum, similar to Pak Choi and looks a bit like broccoli.
Dawn's Spare Ribs with Mashed Potato and sweet corn had a massive 1208 calories per portion!
Gizzi's Char Siu Pork with Choi Sum and Rice had a mere 566 calories per portion. A lot less than half!
Gizzi asked Dawn if the dish tasted like health food or diet food and Dawn said it definitely didn't because of all the different flavours. She said she wouldn't notice that it didn't have the butter that she would normally have. She said it was delicious. Success!
To try and shock Dawn into giving up her chicken wings, Gizzi told Dawn that in her dish of wings, garlic bread, sweet corn and coleslaw there was the same amount of fat as 32 meatballs! 76.1 grams of fat in just one meal! To maintain her current weight, Dawn should only be having 70 grams of fat in one day and in just one meal, she is having more than that!
Once the meat had been marinated in the Jerk marinade, Gizzi took it out and wiped the marinade off it because she didn't want it to be too sticky. Then, out came the trusty oil pump and she spritzed the meat with a fine mist of oil for cooking. Gizzi said that if you're going to use a griddle you should oil the meat and not the pan. Good tip there!
The dressing consisted chilli, salt, some pepper, lime juice and a little bit of coconut milk. So a little bit of fat there then. Gizzi also griddled some slices plantain to replace the mash. She served it all up and asked Dawn how she thought it looked. Dawn said it looked very pretty on the plate.
Dawn's Fried Chicken Wings, Garlic Bread, Corn on the Cob and Coleslaw stomped in at a massive 76 grams of fat per portion.
Gizzi's Caribbean Chicken Jerk with Coconut Salad and Griddled Plantain pirouetted in at just 13.5 grams of fat per portion. Five and a half times healthier!
If Dawn swaps her dishes with Gizzi's healthier options, and does 10 minutes of hula hooping everyday, she could lose two and a half stone in a year. Now that's how you cook yourself thin!


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Nuclear Attack Plans/ Bizarre Money Tales
Date Thursday - May 11, 2017
Host George Noory
Guests Garrett M Graff, Ann-Margaret Carrozza
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Garrett M. Graff has spent more than a dozen years covering politics, technology and national security. In the first half of the program, he revealed the elaborate procedures the U.S. Government has set in place to preserve the line of succession that will lead the nation following a catastrophic decimation of leadership. A few years ago, Graff was handed an ID badge that a government official had dropped in a parking lot. To his amazement, the back of the badge contained directions to a secret bunker outside of Washington, D.C. When Graff looked at the place on satellite photos, he saw "concrete doors on the side of a mountain." He found that facilities like this exist throughout the country in order to evacuate government officials in the event of a catastrophic event, particularly a nuclear war.
Graff says these bunkers are staffed 24 hours a day are either giant spaces that look like warehouses or, in the case of the facility called 'Raven Rock,' "parallel caverns with freestanding buildings inside them." Graff said that the genesis of these plans and facilities grew out of the post WWII world and the idea of limited nuclear exchanges, but early plans to save most of public were soon abandoned as impossible due to the increasing proliferation and strength of the weapons. An anonymous caller in the second hour claimed that he made deliveries to Raven Rock, and described constant armed escorts while he was inside, as well as extensive and well- lit "office building" type facilities. Graff said although there are many secret facilities that still exist, "a lot has been declassified over the years."
Ann-Margaret Carrozza is a practicing wealth and estate-planning attorney who served as a New York State assemblywoman for fourteen years. in the second half, she recalled horror stories related to money and offered advice to avoid disaster. She pointed out that laws, especially those covering marriages and relationships, are not as set in stone as we might think. For instance, those without prenuptial agreements may be at the mercy of a judge's decision on who receives the lions share of assets in states with so-called "equitable distribution" laws. There are also post-nuptial agreements that have gone awry. Carrozza recalled a case where a couple split up when the wife fell in love with a woman with whom they shared a threesome. The infidelity clause in their agreement did not apply since he was consenting.
Carrozza pointed out that even couples who are living together are not immune from financial legal issues. She related the story of a man who won the lottery and had registered at a hotel with his girlfriend as married in a state with common law marriage provisions on their books. The woman successfully sued him for divorce and got half of his winnings. Some believe that we are not giving children enough of a sense of responsibility, which Carrozza said deprives them of the "the joy of delayed gratification." She referred to an experiment involving schoolchildren who were tested on their patience when presented with a scenario of a greater reward if they waited. The children who showed better impulse control were eventually more successful in life. Carrozza also cautioned listeners not to sign any legal agreements when grieving or not otherwise in a sound state of mind.
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Commission constitutes team of experts to stabilise, revitalise Chad basin
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A team of experts from the Lake Chad Commission charged with proffering stabilisation and revitalisation strategies for the Lake Chad Basin on Wednesday, May 16, 2018 visited the headquarters of the Theatre Command in Maiduguri, Borno State.
Scientists say the Lake Chad, that borders Nigeria and some other countries, has shrunken by 95 percent over the past 50 years. They have also linked the Boko Haram insurgency to the lake's situation. Photo credit: AP/Christophe Ena
According to a statement by Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the spokesman of the command, the team was led by Dr Eleanor Nwadinobi, a gender adviser.
Nwachukwu said that it was constituted by the African Union (AU) in collaboration with the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF).
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Nwadinobi was quoted as saying that the team was mandated to research and work out strategies in the areas of "Humanitarian, Socio-economic, Educational, Governance, Gender as well as Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism to revitalise and stabilise the Lake Chad Basin.''
She said that, in carrying out its mandate, it was expedient for the team to visit the Lake Chad Basin Commission member states.
Nwadinobi lauded the troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole for the successes so far recorded in the counter terrorism and counter insurgency operations against the Boko Haram terrorists.
Responding, the theatre commander, Maj.-Gen. Rogers Nicholas, informed the team that the security situation in the North East theatre had remain calm as the terrorists had been degraded.
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Nicholas, however, noted that the terrorists had resorted to suicide bombing and attacks on vulnerable and soft targets.
He called on all stakeholders to play their roles in the multifaceted war to ensure total defeat of the terrorists.
The theatre command urged the team to be judicious in the execution of its mandate to facilitate the restoration of socio-economic development in the region.
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California man pleads guilty to driving heroin, fentanyl to Kansas
by: KSN News
Posted: Nov 30, 2020 / 11:33 AM CST / Updated: Nov 30, 2020 / 11:52 AM CST
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A 24-year-old California man pleaded guilty today to federal charges that officers found more than 9 pounds of fentanyl and more than 8 pounds of heroin when they stopped his car in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
Eduardo Arellano-Sanchez, Cathedral City, pleaded guilty to one count of interstate travel in furtherance of drug trafficking and one count of using a cell phone in furtherance of drug trafficking.
In his plea, Arellano-Sanchez admitted that on Aug. 21, 2019, officers stopped his car in Thomas County. They found the fentanyl and heroin in his car. He was using his cell phone to navigate to a drug transaction to take place in New York.
Sentencing is set for Feb. 16, 2021. Prosecutors are recommending a sentence of 96 months in federal prison.
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GARDEN CITY, Kan. (KSNW) - The Garden City Police Department announced Friday that they arrested 40-year-old suspect, Mose Joel Guerrero, who is wanted for first-degree murder
On Thursday, Garden City police asked for the public's help to locate Guerrero.
Kansas man gets prison time for poaching 60 deer
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) -- A judge has sentenced a Barber County man to 14 months in prison in a deer poaching case.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) - Wichita police said a 42-year-old man was shot and killed after he confrontation over dumped trash. It happened around 1:30 Thursday afternoon.
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Question: Can someone help me figure out how I can get rid of my cable and make the switch?
I am new to this and really dont know what to do next. I have four tv's in my house and currently have Fios with Verizon. I am spoiled and have HDTV. I can live without HD but would like to at least get Discovery,Nat Geo,History Channel, and my son wants ESPN. I dont know if this is possible but that is why I am here. I live near Hershey PA.
HDTV you can get with an antenna, for free. You may get ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, PBS, IonTV, and a host of other smaller networks, depending on your location.
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Milford Central School District » Our School » Middle » Mrs. Dibble AIS » Why do we have testing?
Why is state testing required?
A: State testing is required by state and federal laws.
Although testing may be stressful for some students, testing is a normal and expected way of assessing what students have learned. The purpose of state assessments required under No Child Left Behind is to provide an independent insight into each child's progress, as well as each school's. This information is essential for parents, schools, districts and states in their efforts to ensure that no child--regardless of race, ethnic group, gender or family income--is trapped in a consistently low-performing school.
No Child Left Behind(NCLB) required that, by the 2005-06 school year, each state must measure every child's progress in reading and math in each of grades 3 through 8 and at least once during grades 10 through 12.
NCLB also has in place science assessments to be administered at least once during grades 3-5; grades 6-9; and grades 10-12. New York State has set these assessments at grade 4 and 8 along with various Regents.
NCLB also states that we must ensure that districts administer tests of English proficiency--to measure oral language, reading and writing skills in English--to all limited English proficient students, as of the 2002-03 school year.
Students may still undergo state assessments in other subject areas (i.e., history, geography and writing skills), if and when the state requires it. No Child Left Behind, however, requires assessments only in the areas of reading/language arts, math and science.