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The Looming Refugee Coronavirus Disaster
Greece's camps were a public health menace already.
By Fahrinisa Campana and Patrick Strickland
Migrants arrive at the port of Mytilene in the Greek island of Lesbos on Friday. Manolis Laboutaris/Getty Images
ATHENS, Greece—On the Greek island of Lesbos, living conditions for the few thousand asylum-seekers in the notorious Moria refugee camp were already dismal when Mohsen first arrived in early 2017. The overcrowding, understaffing, and lack of adequate health care made the camp into a hub for illnesses.
Over the past three years, the 38-year-old Iranian asylum-seeker watched the camp's population swell around him. With Moria's residents now numbering an estimated 20,000, Mohsen fears that COVID-19 could eventually hit the camp, where, having fled war and economic devastation in countries from Syria to Somalia, thousands of people live in tents and makeshift shacks in the olive groves surrounding the camp's perimeter, exposed to the elements and all sorts of illnesses.
As the coronavirus spreads across Greece, Mohsen says the camp's shortage of doctors, supplies, and food could create a disastrous situation. "There are a lot of people in the [fields]," he said. "They don't have anything to keep them warm [or] clean, and there's no electricity."
Although none of the 695 confirmed cases in Greece have been refugees, many living in the camps fear it is only a matter of time.
According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, there are more than 42,000 refugees and asylum-seekers—two-thirds of whom are women and children—living on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos, Chios, Kos, and Leros in conditions that, even under normal circumstances, are deplorable.
In a global pandemic like the one the world is currently witnessing, these conditions could quickly become deadly. During a time when governments across the world are calling for social distancing and self-isolation, Moria residents are forced to live 15 to 20 people per 45 square meter (480 square feet) per container.
Understandably, news of the first COVID-19 case on Lesbos island last week sparked fear of a potential massive outbreak at Moria. Every day, the camp's residents find themselves standing in close proximity to one another: waiting in line for food distribution, to see the medical staff, to see the camp staff, and to use the toilets and showers.
"The food line is [still] happening and people are just too close to each other all the time," says Estelle Jean, director and founder of the nongovernmental organization Yoga and Sports for Refugees. "There's nothing: There isn't enough water, there isn't enough soap, the showers and the toilets are still in the same state," she continues.
Women and children endure especially "difficult conditions," Mohsen told us.
With very few options, refugees are often forced to find their own solutions to these problems. "I'm very late [going] to the food line," says 15-year-old Masoud Alizada from Afghanistan. While his strategy allows him less contact with others, it also means less food. Alizada is one of the more than 1,000 unaccompanied minors on Lesbos and one of an increasing number of asylum-seekers without access to Greece's public health care system.
In July 2019, the newly elected Greek government stopped issuing all newcomers with the unique social security numbers that had allowed them access to free-of-charge public health care. In February, the government made a decision to start a new program to grant access to social services for asylum-seekers; however, they have not given any indication as to when this will begin and how people will be able to register for it.
In the meantime, hundreds of asylum-seekers have been left stranded without health care, which would be concerning enough under normal circumstances.
"In some cases many people don't have access to health services unless it's an emergency," explains Boris Cheshirkov, a spokesperson for the UNHCR in Athens. Which is why the UNHCR is advocating for the full inclusion of asylum-seekers into the public health care system.
Signs about proper hygiene and social distancing have now been placed around Moria camp in Arabic, Farsi, French, English, and Greek, and a general lockdown has been implemented under which only a certain number of refugees can leave the camp at a given time to do their shopping in town—after signing up on a list—and can only leave between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
But as the Greek government has strongly advised its citizens to remain home as much as possible with the hashtag #μένουμε_σπίτι (#StayHome) that went viral this week, many wonder what that means for refugees and asylum-seekers who have only a tent to call home, or who don't have a home at all.
"Imagine if you are living in a tent and you cannot go outside because you are scared of getting the virus, but then you also have to get food for your family [standing] in a line where you might get the virus and you have nothing to do just to wait," says Jean, the Yoga and Sports for Refugees director.
Jean fears that incidents like the early morning fire that broke out in Moria last Monday, killing one child and leaving many more without shelter, will occur more often. "It's getting really bad in terms of security and the safety level, if people have to stay in the camp and they cannot go out because of this, it's going to be worse," she says, especially for the most vulnerable.
Meanwhile, the panic has afforded some right-wing politicians the opportunity to drum up fear over the refugee population.
In early February, the government announced plans to build closed detention centers on five Aegean islands, which will replace refugee camps on the islands and function more like prisons for new arrivals. At the time, the announcement sparked condemnation from human rights organizations and advocacy groups, while some local populations protested and rioted. Yet, the government is now pointing to the pandemic as justification for warehousing asylum-seekers in the closed centers.
On Kos island, the mayor vowed to strip refugees of their freedom of movement as a "precautionary" measure.
The situation isn't much better for refugees living outside of the camps, either. Since coming to power in snap elections last July, the right-wing New Democracy government led a campaign of evicting refugees and migrants from squats in Athens and elsewhere, many of whom ended up sleeping in the streets or were relocated to the camps.
For those living in Athens and other large cities, the lockdown has left them unable to access valuable resources and support networks.
Along with other volunteers in the Our House humanitarian group, Arash Hampay operates a café in central Athens where refugees and migrants can get a free meal and a coffee. Earlier this month, when the government ordered all restaurants, bars, and cafés to close, the café also had to shut down.
"We [humanitarian groups] cannot do anything, and on the other hand, I'm worried about the refugees," he told us, expressing concern that not enough is being done to provide asylum-seekers in Athens with reliable information, shelter, and access to medical supplies, such as masks and gloves.
Noah, a Syrian refugee who fled war-torn Idlib last year, worries that the coronavirus could reach the refugees and migrants currently held in closed detention centers such as Amygdaleza, where he has been locked up for more than three months.
In early March, even as news of COVID-19's spread reached Greece, Noah said that the staff at Amygdaleza had not started implementing proper health checks for new arrivals. Stuck living in a cramped container with 17 others, he complained that the often broken showers and toilets put the camp's detainees at even greater risk. "In Greece, there is no such thing as law," he told us. "They treat us like animals."


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Giant Tar Spot
What are those ugly black spots on the leaves of my tree and what can I do about it? That is an often asked question in a year such as this. The answer is giant tar spot and there is little to worry about and little to do about it.
Giant tar spot is caused by the fungus Rhytisima acerinum. The species name of this fungus (acerinum) gives a clue about which trees it infects. Acer is the genus for maples, and this fungus primarily affects maples and sycamores; but especially Norway maples. Giant tar spot and Norway maples are both from Europe. In late summer it becomes more apparent on the leaves until they fall in autumn. At that point there is something that can be done about it, which will be addressed later.
First, the fact that it is so widespread and apparent in Concord this year is at least partially due to the wet weather the town has experienced this summer and earlier in the spring. All fungi like moist conditions. If you looked closely in the spring, evidence of giant tar spot could be seen as lighter colored, yellow green blotches. I noticed a lot of these this spring in Concord on a large Norway maple that had to be removed because a crack had made the tree too risky to retain. This light green is referred to as chlorosis and those spots have less chlorophyll than the non-infected parts of the leaves. When the spots turn black in the summer, they retain a yellow border. These blotches can grow to an inch or more and sometimes coalesce into larger, irregular shapes. In extreme infestations giant tar spot can cause the leaves to drop earlier than normal.
Occasionally, in years with sustained wet conditions that are favorable, giant tar spot can be joined by other fungi that attack the leaves and petioles and cause the leaves to drop in July. Trees are great at storing energy, but if this is repeated in subsequent years it can eventually affect the overall health of the tree. If the leaves are still on at this point, in early August, the trees have already stored enough energy to maintain their vigor.
So what can be done about giant tar spot? The fungus overwinters in the fallen leaves. When the weather warms up in the spring, spores are released which infect new leaves on the trees and the cycle begins all over again. One method of control is sanitation. Simply raking up the fallen leaves and disposing of them will eliminate the source of giant tar spot for the following growing season. Thoroughly composting the leaf debris can break the cycle.
It was once thought that the presence of giant tar spot meant a lack of air pollution. This was because giant tar spot was sometimes absent in urban areas. It is likely that the leaves were simply disposed of more consistently in cities. There was a time when it was customary in places to rake the leaves to the curb and burn them. That was both a source of air pollution (even if it smelled nice) and a way to kill the fungus.
Andrew Hillman
Senior Urban Forestry Consultant
Cicada Killer Wasp
Emerald Ash Borer Feb. 2021
Public Shade Tree Planting
Setback Tree Planting Program
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Winter Moth

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Adeline Records was an American record label that was formed in Oakland, California in late 1997 and closed in August 2017.

History
In 1997, Adeline Records was founded by Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, Screw 32's Doug Sangalang, Green Day guitarist Jason White, and professional skateboarder Jim Thiebaud. It was named after a street (Adeline Street) that runs from The Port of Oakland through West Oakland and Emeryville, terminating at Ward St and Shattuck Ave in Berkeley.

Green Day's management company, Pat Magnarella Management, took over ownership of the label and ran it from the company's office in San Diego for many years.

The label was closed in 2017. In July 2017, Pat Magnarella split from Green Day having managed them for over 21 years. Shortly thereafter Adeline Records abruptly closed down.

Merchandise
Adeline Records also sold clothing for men and women as well as other clothing, providing advertising for the label. The range was called Adeline Street and included clothes (skirts, tops, underwear, dresses, hats, hoodies, jackets), accessories and jewellery for men, women, and children. The Adeline street logo is a skull and crossbones with a heart in the center of the crossed bones in pink for women and khaki for men. The clothing line ceased trading in 2008. The company posted the following statement at the time: "Adeline Street has decided not to move forward with future designs while Billie Joe and the guys are working hard on their follow up to 'American Idiot.'"

Bands

The Frustrators
Green Day (vinyl releases only)
Stickup Kid
Jesse Malin
Living with Lions
Look Mexico
One Time Angels
One Man Army
Pinhead Gunpowder
Timmy Curran
White Wives
AFI
Agent 51
Broadway Calls
Fetish
Fleshies
The Frisk
The Hours
The Influents
The Living End
The Network
The Soviettes
The Thumbs
Emily's Army

See also

 List of record labels

References

External links

American record labels
Vanity record labels
Record labels established in 1997
Punk record labels
1997 establishments in California

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SCCC offers a variety of pre-professional programs including pre-dentistry, pre-engineering, pre-med, pre-pharmacy, pre-physical therapy, and pre-veterinary options. Students are able to choose between associate degree and transfer options, focusing on a broad knowledge base in the sciences, mathematics, and communications areas. The rigor and challenge of a pre-professional track are evident in the types of courses, course load, and time-management skills required of students in the program. Working closely with faculty and staff in the Math, Science and HPERD Division, along with the SCCC Transfer Coordinator, graduates of the SCCC pre-professional programs are prepared to pursue a variety of options for careers and continuing education.
Engineers apply the theories and principals of science and mathematics to research and develop economical solutions to technical problems. At Seward County, Community College students can take the fundamental science and math courses as well as other general education requirements before transferring to a university to complete an engineering degree.
A Medical Practitioner is someone who looks out for the well-being and health of people. Medical Practitioners treat sick and injured people, as well as, advise patients on health and wellness. In addition to working at a hospital, clinic, or private-practice, Medical Practitioners may also work for universities, research labs, or government. At Seward County, Community College students can take the fundamental science and math courses as well as other general education requirements before transferring to a university to complete a bachelor's degree and continuing into their chosen field of medicine.


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Neil Patrick Harris Is Looking Forward To Britney's Return To HIMYM ... I Think
While doing promo for his new movie Harold and Kumar 2: Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Neil Patrick Harris was asked by Extra TV about his feelings concerning the report that Britney Spears will be making another guest appearance on his TV show, How I Met Your Mother. NPH wants to make sure that everyone knows that he didn't make any disparaging remarks about Britney's guest stint the first time around and says that he is looking forward to welcoming her back to the set:
"Extra" sat down with How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris who spoke about Britney Spears' rumored return to the hit show, making the sequel to cult classic Harold and Kumar Goes to White Castle and whether he's made plans to return to Broadway. As for whether or not Britney Spears will reprise her role as Abby on HIMYM, Harris responded, "I don't know if it's true or not actually. I read it online as well, so nothing has been confirmed to me in any way, but we would be so lucky to have her. She was great fun the first time." When asked to set the record straight about the rumored negative comments he made regarding Spears, Harris explained, "I made no comments about her that I needed to correct. I've said all along that she was great on the show and she was and she was fun to be around ... We're very protective of her while we're making the show so there's not a lot of dirt to be said ... I think it was a slow news day ... It's interesting for me to see how the media's game of telephone, especially on the internet, plays out."
When asked the same thing by MTV News, NPH reiterated his lurve for Brit Brit:
It's been a long, long time since anyone asked Britney Spears for an encore, but the singer is reportedly planning on taking a second bow in her role as a ditzy receptionist on the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother." After her first appearance on March 24 catapulted the comedy to its best ratings ever among viewers ages 18-to-49, Spears is scheduled to return to the show for another episode, according to People magazine. "The show is ecstatic, and so is Britney," an unnamed source told the magazine. "She had so much fun the first time around, she really wanted to come back. It was a mutual decision to work together more." ... co-star Neil Patrick Harris seemed to confirm the news to MTV News on Sunday at the New York Comic-Con. "She's coming back again, so I hear, so it should be fun," the "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" actor said. He added that his enthusiasm is not exactly a reversal from the comments he made two weeks after Spears first appearance on the show, when he said he doubted that Spears, 26, would join the ensemble as a recurring character. "The media takes things out of context and makes other stories out of them, which was pretty much that in a nutshell," he said in reference to his previous statement. "She's not an actress," he told MTV News earlier this month. "She played a role for a week, and did a really nice job, but the workload involved with doing memorization and the purging of comedy over and over is really, really hard. I mean, it takes a strong skill set to do that every week."
It's not that I don't believe Neil's sincerity but I really don't hear that much geniuneness from his comments. I'm sure the last thing he wants to do is talk about Britney Spears when he's promoting one of his movies but the mantle has fallen on his shoulders to do so. Britney Spears gave HIMYM such stellar ratings, of course they are going to have her back ... I don't know that I'd be happy to be overshadowed by that kind of attention on my TV show so ... I can understand if folks aren't all that excited about her guest stints. All in all, if more folks are watching the show, for whatever reason, then any attention is positive attention. In the end, I'm sure that all the HIMYM cast members will be happy to have Britney back on the set ... son long as she keeps doing guest stints and doesn't become a series regular ;) [Source, Source]
Better The Devil You Know Wears Prada
Here are a few pics of Kylie Minogue doing a bit of shopping at the Prada store on Sloane Street in London, England this weekend obvs in the mood to pick up a hot new pair of shoes:
Photo credit: Bauer-Griffin
Kylie Minogue always has such a big smile on her face but I think this one is extra big since she's shopping for shoes ... I know the feeling :) [Source]
Fruit Filled
While making his way to Walt Disney Studios on his motorcycle here in SoCal over the weekend, Brad Pitt showed off which brand of undies he prefers to wrap his goodies in:
While David Beckham is an Armani underwear man, Brad prefers to secure the family jewels in a good ol' fashioned, tighty whitey, pair of Fruit of the Loom briefs. On most anyone else that would be such a turn off ... but on Brad, well, it sounds kinda hot ... am I right? [Source]
Pete Doherty Makes A Pen Pal While In The Pen
Pete Doherty is clearing up at least one rumor while he cools his heels behind bars in a UK jail cell. Writing to an NME reader, Pete penned a short note back to the fan revealing that reports of his drug use while behind bars are wrong. Pete failed to address the news that he has been evicted from his home in this short note but perhaps we'll be getting a new note tomorrow. Here is a pic of the note that Pete sent to his fan (along with a clear translation) and the Daily Mirror report on his eviction:
"Watcha Jenny! All the best from The Scrubs. Tell 'em I'm clean, countin' the days until the next freedom gig! Yours, Pete D."
Well, that settles it. No drugs for Pete. Here's the report:
He's broke, banged up in jail and now Pete Doherty has been kicked out of his house after spraying blood all over the walls. The jailed junkie is thousands of pounds in debt. Now he has been evicted from his sprawling nine-bedroom mansion after wrecking the place over the past year. Popping over to check on the place the landlord was horrified to find that his beautiful country pad had become a stinking hovel. The walls, floor and even some of the windows have been daubed with human blood. And we're told the stench from his abandoned nine cats is so strong it would turn the strongest stomach. After taking one look at the carnage, the landlord cancelled Doherty's tenancy.
Now really, is anyone at all surprised by this news? Surely not I ... but OMG ... I can't wait for Pete's next Letter of Truth from behind bars. Someone get the man a blog, post haste! [Source, Source]
The Promise Of A New Day ... The New Cast Of 24 Revealed
Pink reader Rawa, who hails all the way from Sweden, sends in an amazing promo photo of the cast of season 7 of 24. As you can see from this kickass photo, Jack Bauer and the gang are back for action ... there are some familiar faces as well as some new faces ... check it out:
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OMG ... I'm dying, this photo rules! Chloe O'Brien looks great as does a very facial-hairy Bill Buchanan ... and is that the bespeckled Janeane Garofalo, in a very smart suit, I see among the other new CTU agents? Madam President stands with her aides to the right but we still don't know if she's gonna be a good prez or a bad prez. I am SO dying ... what a great tease for the new season to come. I know I am not alone with my excitement ... enjoy!! [thanks Rawa]
The TV Guide: All Danced Out
Welp, I've made my way back home to LA after my quick trip home to Detroit this weekend ... which was really fun and deffo worth the time. I had a late flight out of Detroit yesterday which allowed me to spend some time with my parents (since I spent a lot of my other time at home with various friends). The flight home wasn't one of my better flights ... there was a poor, screaming baby sitting right across the aisle from me and before I could get really angry I started to feel so bad for her parents. It can't be easy traveling, let alone taking care of a young child so I just put my headphones on and read/slept for most of the trip. I'm telling you, positivity works much better than negativity ... the cute little girl ended up falling asleep too and everyone was very happy she was getting some rest.
I have to send out much love to my friend Mike who happily picked me up from LAX Airport last night ... you can really tell who your friends are when you need to move or be picked up from the airport.
It's good to be home, that's for sure ... the sun is shining and it looks like it's going to be a pretty nice week. This afternoon I have a *very cool* appointment that I'd like to keep under wraps for now. If everything works out well, I'll have some great news soon :) The rest of the week looks chill ... hopefully I'll get to see some friends who I haven't been able to see for some time now. David comes back to town later on in the week for our friend Gillian's wedding next Saturday -- that should be a lot of fun too. And so ... I hope this fine Monday is treatin' all y'all very well -- I'm having a pretty decent one myself.
Les News: An American Idol Silenced, Pete Gets Evicted, Madonna Delays
The Forbidden Kingdom was the #1 movie at the box office this weekend.
Geri Halliwell reveals that motherhood helped heal the rift that grew among the Spice Girls.
Madonna announces her first new live UK date.
Weezer are streaming their new single online for free; announce album tracklisting.
Hells Angels founder to sue HBO.
There is a God, who is not an American Idol fan.
Somewhere, the owners of Threadless are quaking in their boots.
Maybe Pete Doherty smoked his maid?
The mayor of London really <3s the gays.
Colin Farrell is really late to the whole pirate-look thing.
Fergie Ferg hits the beach.
UH OH ... good girl Emma Watson has her first up-skirt moment on her 18th birthday. (NSFW)
Ryan Phillippe takes the kids shopping, opens up about his paparazzi anxiety issues.
And just what do YOU do when YOU'RE behind the dumpsters?
James McAvoy is 29, John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) is 45, Robert Smith of The Cure is 49, Tony Danza is 57 and Iggy Pop is 61 years old today. Click HERE to see who else is celebrating a birthday today.
GWB to appear on Deal or No Deal ... clearly his commitments as Commander in Chief aren't as pressing as one would imagine.
Madonna gets a delay in her adoption case so she can keep her album promotion commitments.
It has been a few months since the sad passing of Heath Ledger and it would seem that Michelle Williams and his daughter Matilda Rose are doing OK ... well, about as OK as they can be in the wake of their loss. Here are a couple of really supercute pics of Michelle and Matilda enjoying the lovely Spring weather in Brooklyn, NY as the pair went for nice stroll this past Saturday afternoon:
It is really remarkable how much Matilda Rose looks like her late father Heath Ledger. While it is incredibly sad that Heath passed away at such a young age, it is clear that he lives on in his baby girl. Michelle has been back into the swing of things lately ... she has long since resumed work on her new projects (her latest movie Deception opens in theaters this Friday) and has been staying very active with her little girl. I do not imagine that the pain of their loss has completely gone away but it is comforting to see that both Michelle and Matilda are doing well so soon after Heath's death. Matilda just looks so much like him ... it's very nice that she will be a constant reminder of her very talented father. [Source]
The Perfect Afternoon
Before Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale made their way out to Santa Monica, CA last night to dine with Les Beckhams and her famous friends, the happy couple spent their Saturday afternoon with their first born son Kingston James. The happy family made their way to the El Capitan Theater on Hollywood Blvd. for an afternoon showing of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian before heading off to a nearby park afterwards to play together on the playground ... capping off the perfect Saturday afternoon for the perfect Hollywood family ... here are a few pics:
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OMG ... seriously ... the cuteness never ends with this family! You've got daddy Gavin at the top of the slide and mommy Gwen at the bottom of the slide so that little prince Kingston doesn't get hurt by going down the slide (tho, if they don't let the kid toughen up a bit, he's bound to suffer thru some ass-beatings once he starts going to school ... Zahara Jolie-Pitt would deffo be the one to whip his ass). I've mentioned before how the Stefani-Rossdale cuteness borders on nausea from time to time but I can't really hate on them at all. They are the pefect model for the perfect family and I just love them. [Source]
Hyperbole, Thy Name Is New York Magazine
As anyone with eyes knows (due to the media commercial onslaught which launched in recent weeks), Gossip Girl returns with all new episodes starting tonight on The CW after being off the air for far too many months due to that heinous Writer's Strike that pretty much ruined this TV season (despite the fact that a few shows have managed to roll with the punches and have made the most of the situation). Seemingly overnight (well actually, not overnight but since the show aired its last new episode), Gossip Girl has turned into a huge sensation. I don't recall the show being quite this popular when it was airing last Fall but suddenly, it has become (to quote New York magazine) the Best.Show.Ever. Here is the cover of the new issue of New York magazine which features the white pajama-clad principal Gossip Girl cast and a few photos from the coverstory (titled The Genius of Gossip Girl) that rambles on and on and on (page after page after page) about how Gossip Girl is now suddenly the most important thing that has ever graced the television screen ... like, EVER:
The coverstory begins with a cute little narrative about how young girl fans of Gossip Girl have been going apeshizz over the filming of new eps of the show all over Manhattan and how the writers of the story identify with those young fans ... then the article goes on to explain just exactly why the show is worthy of this devotion and makes the case for its "geniusness":
[T]here should be no shame in a love of Gossip Girl. After all, it is (and we have come to this conclusion honestly) the most awesomely awesome show ever. And so on the eve of the show's return from writers'-strike limbo, we are here to give you the six best reasons you should openly love Gossip Girl, even if you've never seen it before. Why waste so much time writing about something so insipid? Because, dear readers, it's not.
And here are the 6 best reasons to openly love Gossip Girl, according to New York magazine:
Reason No. 1 Because 'Gossip Girl' is the Greatest Teen Drama of All Time. Reason No. 2 Because offscreen, the drama continues. Reason No. 3 Because 'Gossip Girl' is changing the very model of a successful TV show. Reason No. 4 Because of Blake and Leighton. Reason No. 5 Because there may really be a Gossip Girl. Reason No. 6 Because, against all odds, it offers profound social commentary.
At least the magazine offers up a substantial case for their argument, as I said, the article is a very long one. Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of Gossip Girl and I am among the throngs of eager folks waiting in anticipation of the new eps which start airing tonight but I'm afraid this bit of over-exaggeration just does nothing for me. To proclaim the show "genius" is taking things a bit far but to make the bold statement right on the cover page that it is the Best.Show.Ever. with all seriousness is just too much. It's a good show, it may be better than most but IMHO it is by far from the best show ever ... it's not even the best teen show ever. While GG is very contemporary and it really highlights all the things about teenage culture that are so popular right now (technology, blogging, high fashion), I fail to see how it is at all revolutionary. Had the iPhone been around during the days of Brenda Walsh and Dylan McKay's reign, you better believe Brenda would've been txting death threats to Kelly Taylor that she better stay away from Dylan "or else" by way of her touch-screen keypad (while Donna Martin blogs away the lonely nights about how her chastity is killing her relationship with David Silver). For me, over-reaching hype like this ridiculous fawning by New York magazine is the surest first step towards killing a fun show like Gossip Girl. Yes, it may help promote the show in the long run but as soon as you tell teenagers what is the "cool" thing they immediately become uninterested and end up proving you wrong ... just because they can. If Gossip Girl is going to be successful (and it very well may be hugely successful), it's not going to be because of platitudes like this from NY mag ... as long as the show keeps giving the teen angst, the sexy hook-ups and the fabulous bitchiness (just like all teenage dramas have been doing for years), it'll remain a very popular TV show ... for about as long as it takes for the next Best.Show.Ever. to come along. Even the reign of Beverly Hills, 90210 (arguably the most successful teenage drama of all time) came to an end eventually ... my only hope is that we're not forced to have to follow the GG kids to college and beyond -- that would most likely make it the worst.show.ever. [Source]
Jesse's Bringing HairyBack To His Front
The once and former beefcake Jesse Metcalfe has posted photos on his official My Space profile from a newish beach photoshoot. Gone are his silky smooth pecs since, it would seem that, chest hair is making a comeback. Here are a few of Jesse's new photos:
I'm not usually a fan of the overwaxed look on guys so I'm happy to see that Jesse has returned to his natural look (just as long as he keeps things under control ... manscaping is a duty that should not be taken lightly). I believe that Jess is going for that tough-guy bravado that tries to say, You don't want to eff with me. Clearly, British rapper Mims wasn't really feeling his bravado when he beat Jesse's ass a couple of months ago ... but maybe Jesse was still waxing back then. In any regard, I have to say that I kinda like this look on Jesse. He doesn't really have much else going on right now so I guess making a return to the beefcake look is what he has to resort to these days. Trust me, I'm not complaining. I'd much prefer more half-nekkid pics like these and less John Tucker Must Dies. [Source via Source]
Sporty Spice-lings
In other Beckham news today, David Beckham and the LA Galaxy managed to pull out a 2-2 tie against the, thus far, winless Houston Dynamo at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA this past Saturday evening. Working in concert with his Galaxy teammate Landon Donovan, Becks provided 2 of his trademark passes to tie up the score and save the Galaxy from suffering another loss -- dare I say they are on a winning unlosing streak? To celebrate the tie, David Beckham stripped off his jersey (as he usually does at the end of soccer matches) and managed to give us a peek of his world-famous Armani Undies ... which is really cause for celebration for us, too:
David Beckham supplied two trademark passes for a Landon Donovan brace as the Los Angeles Galaxy held two-time defending champions Houston Dynamos to a 2-2 home draw in Major League soccer action on Saturday night. Donovan took advantage of a right wing cross to level for the second time in the 84th minute. A similar pin-point cross enabled him to make it 1-1 in the 67th minute with a diving header. Houston, who were twice ahead through Brad Davis and Argentine Franco Caaraccio, are still looking for a first win of the season after four games. "I've always said my game is about getting assists. It was great for Landon (Donovan) to get two goals," Beckham told the Associated Press. He smiled and added, "Goal scorers want to score, so it's good to make them go home happy."
Yay! The Galaxy may not be winning all their games but at least they aren't losing games either. I'm happy with the tie ... it adds to the momentum that the team has built up over the last few games. This is exactly the sort of news that Galaxy fans have been praying for since Becks' arrival on the team ... the season has a very hopeful outlook thus far. I'm just glad whenever Galaxy games end on a happy note ... sure, Becks still strips off his clothes whether he wins or loses but I think he gives off a little extra oomph when he is celebrating a win. Oomph away, Becks, oomph away!! [Source, Source]
Yesterday afternoon, before Becks and Vicki B. met up with their group of famous friends for another VB birthday dinner at Via Veneto in Santa Monica last night, Becks took his eldest sons Brooklyn and Romeo to watch the LA Lakers defeat the Denver Nuggets with a final score of 128-114 at the Staples Center in downtown LA. The Beckham boys were all wearing Lakers colors as they sat courtside while cheering on their team ... and you will note that Becks was on his best behavior yesterday, he managed to keep his eyes OFF the Laker Girl Cheerleaders and on the game at hand:
Last week he was caught sizing up a cheerleader at an NBA game, but this time David Beckham was taking no chances. The football star, accompanied by his eldest sons Brooklyn and Romeo, appeared to be making every effort to keep his eyes planted firmly on the ball as he sat front row at the Los Angeles Staples Centre yesterday. He managed to resist the temptation of a cheeky sideways glance, instead turning his full attention on court as the LA Lakers defeated Denver 128-114.
LOL! I bet Vicki B. didn't take too kindly to seeing photos of her husband gawking at other younger women (click HERE for a reminder of Becks's wandering eye) so Becks decided to be good at yesterday's game. Maybe that was his birthday gift to her? At any rate, I always love it when Becks takes his sons out for events like this ... he looks so loving ... The Beckhams really do make an adorable family -- VB's obscenely oversized silicone breasts, superplumped lips and vapid, uncaring stare notwithstanding. [Source]
The Party Don't Stop
Victoria Beckham must be really thrilled to be turning 34 years old this year because she just can't seem to stop all the celebratin'. On the eve of her 34th year last Wednesday, VB and hubby David Beckham enjoyed an intimate birthday dinner with Kate Beckinsale and Eva Longoria at Longoria's new restaurant Beso and then on her actual birthday this past Thursday, VB celebrated with just her family at Pink Taco in Centry City. Last night, in Santa Monica, CA, Vicki B. got herself all glammed up for a more star-studded birthday dinner at Via Veneto ... this time, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes came out for the celebration ...
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... along with a host of other famous celeb friends, like Eva Longoria, P. Diddy, Gwen Stefani & Gavin Rossdale, Elton John & David Furnish and Kate Beckinsale:
Well, at least this birthday celebration was a bit more worthy of a Posh birthday party. Hopefully now VB got all the partying out of her system and she can go back to ... well, doing whatever it is that she does on a regular day-to-day basis. Once again, Happy Birthday, Vicki B.
OH yes, one more bit of VBness ... Ms. Vicki was spotted enjoying a nice, relaxing afternoon at a pool in Beverly Hills, CA over the weekend and was snapped drying off and wrapping herself up in a lovely American flag beach towel:
Photo credit: X17
It appears that VB is acclimating herself nicely to American culture. There was some talk that she was getting tired of living in the US already (just under a year since Les Beckhams arrived last July) but I don't think that is the case. With the exchange rage between British pounds and the American dollar in the state it's in ... I bet VB is very happy to be living full-time here in the US of A where everything she likes to shop for is basically 50% off. God Bless America, indeed.
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Production Area: The area where Terre d'Otranto PDO Extra Virgin Olive Oil is produced and packed is the heel of the Italy's boot: the South of Puglia. Provinces involved are Lecce, Taranto and Brindisi.
Appearance and Taste: It has a green or yellow color with hints of green. The aroma is moderately fruity with a hint of leaf. The taste is also fruity, with light touches of bitterness and spice.
Origins: The production of olive oil in Southern Puglia is very old, dating back about 8000 years ago. Oil was put on the market since the Middle Age. During the Renaissance, this oil, famous for its quality, was sold upon the borders of the Ottoman Empire.
Production: The harvesting process has to be done not later than the end of January and the maximum production of olives may not exceed 12 tons per hectare. The maximum yield of olives in terms of oil may not exceed 20%.
Gastronomy: The fruity taste of the Terre d'Otranto PDO Extra Virgin Olive Oil is very good to enrich pasta, vegetables, meat and fish. This oil must be stored far from heat sources, in a temperature between 14°C/57°F and 18°C/64°F.
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Background: Type II Diabetes Mellitus patients can develop complications over a prolonged period of time. The alterations in lipid indices can be associated with these complications. Aims:To identify changes in lipid metabolism in type 2 DM in context with the glycemic status, its relative impact on the macro & micro vascular events, and the effects of insulin therapy on the lipid indices. Methods and Material: 158 Type II diabetics were selected as cases and 30 subjects without any coincidental illness as controls were selected for the study. Total cholesterol, Triglyceride, HDL-C, Cholesterol/ HDL-C ratio and Atherogenic Index (AI) were estimated and the data was statistically analyzed. Results: Atherogenic index and CHOL/HDL-C levels were significantly higher in diabetics than in controls. Both the indices were also found to be lowered in patients on treatment with insulin. The AI in patients with complications was also significantly higher than those without complications; however CHOL/HDL-C was not significantly different. Thus using the best cutoff values AI can be used as a better indicator for complications than using the ratio of CHOL/HDL-C. Conclusion: AI can be used to indicate the presence of increased cardiovascular risk in patients with type II DM, and as a guide for the aggressive therapeutic approach.


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Reading: Caesarstone shortlisted for 'Best Surface' award
Caesarstone has been shortlisted for an ek&bbusiness award in the 'Best Surface' category for its innovative Rugged Concrete material.
Jonathan Stanley, VP Marketing for Caesarstone UK says: "We are renowned for having the best colours in the industry so with 4033 Rugged Concrete we wanted to really push boundaries and deliver a material with all the aesthetic qualities, charm, even imperfections of poured concrete, but without any of the shortcomings. We are thrilled to have been shortlisted for this award which recognises the efforts of our design team."
The concrete trend has been around for some years, featured on TV and in high-end architectural and interior design magazines. Poured concrete kitchen worktops are becoming highly fashionable, but there are shortcomings with the real thing. A specialist is required, it is costly, can be messy and time-consuming to make; prone to cracking, staining and bacterial growth. It also needs considerable maintenance.
A true virtue of 4033 Rugged Concrete is its tactile texture; it has a coarse appearance that authentically emulates the randomly pitted finish of concrete, whilst remaining smooth to the touch. The Caesarstone design team explain: "We wanted our new material to have the right mix of colours, along with an authentic texture. The feel of it was just as important as the look. The inspiration for the design was a water colour painting of the moon which captured the rugged nature of the moon's surface. A 2D surface brought to life in 3D through the use of the most wonderful, deft, technical brush strokes. It really informed our thinking with 4033 Rugged Concrete and helped set the benchmark for what we wanted to achieve."
In addition to 'Best Surface', Caesarstone is also shortlisted in the 'Best PR Campaign' category for the launch of its direct business in the UK at the start of 2017. The winners of the ek&bbusiness awards will be announced in a ceremony on 30th November 2017 in front of more than 400 industry guests at The Brewery in London.


i is fine, it doesn't make any difference but they should be the same.
Then you expand this expression, this way, if it's a fair coin.
Then you have 0.5 times the log of 0.5 plus 0.5 times the log of 0.5.
This representing heads and this representing tails.
And if you compute that, the answer is 1.
gives us exactly one bit of information.
It tells us the result of one 50/50 choice, okay?
So things are either on or they're off.
And when you tell me the answer, I've learned one bit of information.
All right, so now consider for rolling a die.
There are six outcomes, each having a probability of one over six.
and you get entropy of 2.58.
This is less predictable, more unpredictable.
More unpredictable than flipping a coin, which agrees with our intuition.
So now imagine rolling a weighted die that had these probabilities.
it had a 50% chance of rolling a six every time.
Well, we can do the same thing.
And there's that bug again.
10% times 5 + 0.5 log 0.5.
And so here you get 2.16.
less unpredictable than a fair die.
Right, which again agrees with our intuition.
you would bet on that a six would be rolled.
So, how do you apply entropy to a data set as opposed to a random variable?
Well, you can do it with respect to the class labels.
342 of them survived, then you can compute entropy from the set.
so on, gives you an entropy of 0.96.
So this is almost one bit of information.
And this makes sense because 342 is about half of 891, right?
So it's about you learned a lot by.
Identifying someone as having lived or died.
But then say there are only 50 survivors.
The data set is inherently more predictable, right?
Because most people did not survive and that's reflected in this calculation.
So fine, so that's entropy, going back to decision trees.
Now, which attribute do we want to choose at each level?
we have to make a choice of which attribute we're gonna use to split on.
we're gonna use entropy to compute the information gain.


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Solar telescope
The Swedish 1-Meter Solar Telescope on the Canary Island of La Palma.
Monika Rüger, Munich
Tracking the Sun
With the help of a new solar telescope astronomers have discovered properties of the sun's surface that have been unknown up to now.
As the central star of our solar system the sun plays a special role in astronomy. No other star is as close to the planet Earth as the sun. No other celestial body appears to us so bright and so hot. Special solar telescopes have to be constructed to observe the sun, and they are fundamentally different from other telescopes. At present, the most powerful is the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) located on La Palma, one of the Canary Islands. The Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has been operating it since 2002. With this telescope it was possible for the first time ever to detect structures of just 75 kilometers in size on the sun's surface.
Sunspots with fascinating details
Sunspots represent darker, cooler areas on the sun's surface. They occur primarily in times of increased solar activity and can grow to diameters as large as planets. The center of a sunspot, the umbra, is surrounded by a brighter outer part called the penumbra. This penumbra consists of long filaments that are wrapped around the center like hair. With the help of the Swedish Solar Telescope, astronomers discovered for the first time that many of these filaments have a dark inner core. According to Professor Göran Scharmer, Director of the Swedish Institute for Solar Physics, these cores are between 150 and 180 kilometers wide and possibly originate from magnetic flux tubes that transport hot plasma. However, scientists are still unclear about their exact explanation.
Mountains several hundred kilometers high
The sun, the object of thousands of years of observation and research, still holds many secrets.
One task of the new telescope is to examine the origin of the dark cores that occur in some of the thin filaments surrounding the centers of the sunspots.
Using an oblique angle, spectacular images have also been obtained of the areas at the solar limb. Due to the large observation angle to the sun's surface, objects can be viewed there from a different perspective. The images show for the first time ever three- dimensional structures of the sun's surface: for example, mountains and valleys of hot plasma with differences in height of up to 450 kilometers. The sunspots appear as dark cavities surrounded by mountains. Scientists used to see them only as darker areas that could not be differentiated as flat, deep or high. Furthermore, many bright spots called faculae, which extend above the sun's surface, can also be observed. These faculae are hotter than their surroundings and release an especially large amount of energy.
Special features of solar telescope constructions
SCHOTT manufactured two flat adaptive mirrors with a diameter of 1.4 meters from "ZERODUR®" glass ceramic for the main optical system of the solar telescope.
The many new discoveries are even more surprising considering that the Swedish Solar Telescope is not even the largest. However, it has a highly advanced design with adaptive optics and thus produces sharper and more detailed images than all other solar telescopes.
With adaptive optics the flickering of the image caused by differences in density of the Earth's atmosphere is corrected by a selective deformation of a mirror. This principle is widely established in large modern night-time telescopes, but not in solar telescopes. The reason for this is that no other stars can be used as reference points with a solar telescope. Instead one has to make use of fine structures on the sun's surface, and this requires far more computation capacity. The Swedish Solar Telescope is the first one to be designed from the beginning with adaptive optics. Its adaptive mirror corrects the image 1,000 times per second.
Another fundamental difference between night-time telescopes and solar telescopes is the fact that the latter suffer not only under the influence of the Earth's atmosphere, but also under the sun's extreme heat. Both the optical system and the air inside the telescope heat up. For the optical element it is possible to solve this problem by choosing materials that have a very low thermal expansion, for example the lenses are made from fused silica and the mirrors from "ZERODUR®" glass ceramic. The heated up air that causes the image to become blurred – a phenomenon that can be seen above hot asphalt – can be avoided by evacuating the telescope, thus the name vacuum telescope. In the case of the Swedish Solar Telescope, this problem is solved in a particularly ingenious way. Instead of the usual flat vacuum window, a 1-meter lens made from fused silica takes care of this function as well, thus eliminating an optical component. Together with two 1.4-meter flat deflecting mirrors made from "ZERODUR®" glass ceramic, the 1-meter lens forms the main optical system. It is movable as a whole in order to track the sun during its orbit. Like an arm it extends 17 meters above the tower, which contains the other optical components and the detectors.
At present the Swedish Solar Telescope is the largest in Europe and the second largest in the world after the McMath-Pierce Telescope in Arizona. However, three new projects are planned or are already under construction. On the island of Tenerife the 1.5-meter solar telescope GREGOR of the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) in Freiburg, Germany, will start operations in 2004. A solar telescope with a 1.7-meter mirror made from "ZERODUR®" is set to be built at the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in California by the year 2006. SCHOTT has already supplied the mirror blank for this project. And a 4-meter telescope (ATST = Advanced Technology Solar Telescope), which will probably be the basis for the next generation of solar telescopes, is currently under consideration. Due to their size, none of these future observatories can be constructed as a vacuum telescope. Their design will instead require open mirror systems with a special cooling method.
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Q: Rd files with different encoding How do I specify encoding for rd file correctly? I'm trying to add the following help file documenting dummy function to my package:
\name{dummy}
\encoding{ISO-8859-2}
\alias{dummy}
\title{Příšerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.}
\usage{
  dummy(x)
}
\arguments{
  \item{x}{Příšerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské
  ódy.Příšerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.}
}
\description{
  Příšerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.Příšerně
  žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.
}
\examples{
dummy(x="Příšerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.Příšerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.")
}

However, when I try to install my package (using install from devtools) I get:
Warning messages:
1: In fetch(key) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1
2: In strsplit(msg, "\n") : input string 1 is invalid in this locale

When I try help(dummy) I get:
Error in fetch(key) : lazy-load database '�' is corrupt

Any advice?

A: I suspect this encoding might not be well handled by R.
If I copy paste your function in a fake package, remove the mention to your encoding in the Rd file and save it with encoding UTF-8 and add
    Encoding: UTF-8

To the DESCRIPTION file it works fine (under linux, with UTF-8 local).

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Russia Accuses U.S. Of 'Iron Curtain' Policies In Ukraine
McClatchy Tribune News Service National News World
AFP April 29, 2014
Moscow (AFP) – Moscow accused Washington of bringing back "Iron Curtain" policies in the showdown over Ukraine on Tuesday, as the West imposed fresh sanctions against key figures including Russia's military chief.
The Russian foreign ministry warned the sanctions were "absolutely counterproductive" and driving the crisis towards "a dead end."
The sharp language underlined the Cold War echoes of the crisis swirling around Ukraine, which has opened diplomatic and economic fronts between East and West.
The increasing geopolitical tensions were doing nothing to ease the situation on the ground in east Ukraine, where sporadic violence was unabated and negotiations to free seven OSCE inspectors held by rebels continued.
A Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, tore into the United States for leading the sanctions charge on Monday, especially for its decision to curb hi-tech exports to Russia that could have military uses.
"All of that is a blow to our high-tech enterprises and industries," Ryabkov said in an interview with online newspaper Gazeta.ru.
"This is a revival of a system created in 1949 when Western countries essentially lowered an 'Iron Curtain', cutting off supplies of high-tech goods to the USSR and other countries."
Russia's foreign ministry also slammed the European Union for "doing Washington's bidding with new unfriendly gestures towards Russia."
The EU on Tuesday revealed that General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia's armed forces and the country's deputy defence minister, was one of 15 Russians and Ukrainians targeted by a new asset freeze and travel ban.
The EU's top foreign policy official, Catherine Ashton, announced the measure in a statement expressing alarm at "the downward spiral of violence and intimidation" in Ukraine.
The EU blacklist was part of a Group of Seven sanctions assault against Moscow led by Washington on Monday, when the White House slapped sanctions on seven Russian officials and 17 companies close to President Vladimir Putin.
Canada has targeted nine people and two banks, while Japan said it was denying visas to 23 targeted Russians.
Russia has vowed "painful" retaliation against Washington for the coordinated sanctions.
"We already have something and something will be introduced shortly," said Ryabkov.
Ukraine and EU countries dependent on Russian gas were worried a reprisal could hit the vital energy supply.
For all the outrage from Moscow, there was no sign that the sanctions were having an immediate effect on getting Russia to use its influence to defuse the crisis in Ukraine.
Kalashnikov-toting militants on Monday seized the town hall of Kostyantynivka — the latest of more than a dozen towns held by pro-Russian rebels.
Fourteen people were also seriously hurt when pro-Moscow militants wielding bricks, bats and knives attacked their march for Ukrainian unity in the city of Donetsk.
And a mayor in east Ukraine's biggest city of Kharkiv, Gennady Kernes, was shot in the back by an unknown gunman, leaving him in a critical condition.
Kernes, who is Jewish, was flown Tuesday to Israel for medical treatment, his spokesman said. It was not known if the shooting was linked to the political crisis.
Russia, which has massed tens of thousands of troops on the border with Ukraine, has repeatedly said it has no plans to invade the ex-Soviet republic.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu repeated that assurance in a telephone conversation with his U.S. counterpart Chuck Hagel, the Pentagon said.
Shoigu again denied U.S. accusations that covert Russian forces were already deployed in Ukraine to sow unrest, and urged Washington to tone down its rhetoric on the crisis.
Hagel in turn called for an end to Russia's "destabilizing influence inside Ukraine and warned that continued aggression would further isolate Russia and result in more diplomatic and economic pressure."
The U.S. defense secretary also asked for Moscow's help in securing the release of the seven OSCE inspectors held by pro-Russian militants in Slavyansk.
An AFP journalist in Slavyansk said early Tuesday there was still no sign of the captive inspectors leaving the occupied town hall, where they were being kept under armed guard.
The OSCE has been negotiating for several days to free the seven Europeans, who were seized on Friday. An eighth inspector, a Swede, was released on Sunday because he suffers from diabetes.
The local rebel leader has given the OSCE a list of pro-Russian militants detained by Ukrainian authorities he demands be freed in a prisoner swap.
Kiev's soldiers are surrounding the flashpoint town in a bid to prevent reinforcements reaching militants there.
Washington insists Moscow is behind the insurgency in Ukraine and U.S. President Barack Obama has warned of "still greater costs" on Russia if it does not cease its "illegal intervention."
The fresh Western sanctions are a response to Russia's perceived failure to implement an April 17 deal struck in Geneva to defuse the crisis by disarming militias and having them vacate occupied public buildings.
"Russia has so far failed to implement any part of the Geneva agreement," said British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who plans to visit Ukraine as well as Moldova and Georgia next week.
Among those targeted by the U.S. sanctions is the president of Rosneft, Russia's top petroleum company and one of the world's largest publicly traded oil companies.
Standard and Poor's swiftly cut its credit ratings for Rosneft and Russian state gas giant Gazprom.
The EU said talks with Russia and Ukraine will take place in Warsaw Friday to try resolve a $3.5 billion gas bill Gazprom calculates Kiev owes. Putin has threatened to cut off the gas flow to Ukraine if it is not quickly paid.
The crisis has accelerated since November, when pro-Western protesters in Kiev demonstrated against Kremlin-backed then-president Viktor Yanukovych after he rejected an agreement to bring Ukraine closer to the European Union.
After four months of protests that turned deadly, Yanukovych was forced from power.
In response, Moscow launched a blitz annexation of the peninsula of Crimea and stepped up troop deployments on the border.
AFP Photo/Kirill Kudryavtsev
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John Goddard and Ellen Hazelkorn examine the policy and leadership challenges of higher education's engagement with the outside world.
Across the US and much of Europe there is a growing populist backlash against globalisation. Almost everywhere there is a decline in public trust, and less public tolerance of institutions, such as universities, which are perceived to be promotors and beneficiaries of this process. This is exemplified by international mobility of students and academics and their fostering of cultural diversity and cosmopolitanism over national identity. This backlash is reflected in support for Donald Trump, various populist parties in national and European parliamentary elections, and most notably in the English (as distinct from UK) vote in favour of Brexit.
As one analyst has noted: "The vote for Brexit was delivered by the "left behind" – social groups that are united by a general sense of insecurity, pessimism and marginalisation, who do not feel as though elites, in Brussels and Westminster, share their values, represent their interests and genuinely empathise with their intense angst about rapid change. Thus support for remain ranged from 18% of those with no formal education, to 57% among with those with a degree and 64% of those with a postgraduate qualification to 88% for academic staff.
Not surprisingly university towns were islands of remain in a sea of Brexit.
In US counties with a leading university, Hillary Clinton was 11 points on average higher than her state-wide percentage. For example in Orange County the home of the University of North Carolina she received 74% of the vote but lost the state with a 48% score. People with lower geographic mobility who had not moved around the US or had an international experience were also more likely to vote for Trump.
For the Brexiteers university lobbying before the vote was interpreted as narrow, self-interest in terms of access to research funding, "foreign" EU students and academics. During the US presidential election politicians frequently rubbished the knowledge and wisdom of academic "experts", not least their stance in relation to global environmental challenges. As one of the leading Brexit campaigners, a former minister of education in the UK observed "I think people in this country have had enough of experts". For them "the people" of a nation are deemed to know what is right and wrong intuitively.
This turbulent environment poses major challenges for universities and their leaders. Disregarding party political interpretations, the electoral maps in the UK and US highlights an enormous gap between universities and university towns, and their publics. It raises fundamental questions for universities about how best to engage with local civil society as well as competing in the global higher education market place. There is both a necessity and opportunity to develop new frameworks and processes, to re-assert the "public good" role of HE and to reconnect the university with its multiple publics.
Seeking to widening participation in higher education, addressing social exclusion through student-community action and promoting economic development through university-business research links is not enough. Rather the underlying institutional structures of the established university need to be transformed so that civic engagement is embedded across the whole institution.
In The Civic University: The Policy and Leadership Challenges we seek to address this challenge by developing a normative model of the university contributing to the public good and from this model draw out practical lessons for university management on how to embed engagement with civil society in the heartland of teaching and research rather than as an inferior "third mission". We codify the extensive academic literature in this field and review higher education and other public policies that both drive and inhibit civic engagement both globally and locally and report on a developmental process guided by us in eight institutions in four northern European countries: University College London and Newcastle University in the UK, Amsterdam and Groningen Universities in the Netherlands, Aalto and Tampere Universities in Finland, and Trinity College Dublin and the Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland.
Key questions addressed include: What is the Civic University, and how can we use this concept to understand higher education's engagement with the outside world in varying institutional and geographical contexts? What are the appropriate internal structures and mechanisms required for a university to effectively encourage and support civic engagement activity for the greatest societal impact? How can embedding civic engagement in individual institutions and the steering of higher education systems be facilitated by changes in higher education and related policies at the sub-national, national and European level?
This last question is particularly important given the policy silos that exist between higher education, research and innovation and city and regional development in many countries and in international organisations like the European Commission. All of these stakeholders need to recognise the changing nature of innovation – underpinned by the widespread adoption of digital technologies – from a linear process to one requiring co-production of knowledge with users including business and citizens working together in particular places to address grand societal challenges like climate change, demographic ageing and migration flows. Leading universities all too often receive funding for upstream scientific research with no attention being paid to societal needs, impacts and benefits or the development of downstream absorptive capacity. Higher education policies and metrics like citation indices and other performance metrics simply reinforce practises within universities that reward the academic community in a very narrow way and do not incentivise engagement with civil society.
In this context, the concept of the "civic university" is especially timely. Historically, of course, it formed the bedrock of higher education – the great Victorian foundations in the north and midlands of England, the land-grant universities in the United States. But more recently they (or, more accurately, their values) have been shouted down by the drumbeat discourse of "world-class" universities driving a schism between local, regional, national and global responsibilities and priorities. Some people may argue that this is not higher education's purpose. We disagree.
Higher education needs to make itself relevant to the global
challenges that threaten the future of humankind.
Universities need to rethink what it means to be a public institution in the 21st century, in part because the publics which support higher education through taxation need to believe that they are getting value. But also, higher education needs to make itself relevant to the global challenges that threaten the future of humankind. This reformulation of an old idea, the civic university, challenges us to ensure that through teaching, research and engagement, universities place themselves at the centre of the local-regional-global nexus, working multi-laterally and multi-dimensionally, to make a difference. The civic university is a value statement as much as a new way of organising higher education; it is about encouraging universities to have souls, to nurture a normative commitment to improve the lives of communities, regions and nations and the world at large.
John Goddard is Emeritus Professor and former Deputy Vice Chancellor at Newcastle University, UK.
Ellen Hazelkorn is Policy Advisor to the Higher Education Authority (Ireland) and Emeritus Professor and Director, Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin Institute of Technology.
The Civic University. The Policy and Leadership Challenges edited by John Goddard, Ellen Hazelkorn, Louise Kempton and Paul Vallance is available now.
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Q: Display two column by row bootstrap angular I have an arrayData with 4 datas in my component file and i want to display it with two columns in two rows.

    myArrayData = [{id:1,pictureURL:'asset:mypict1.png'},{id:2,pictureURL:'asset:mypict2.png'},    {id:3,pictureURL:'asset:mypict3.png'},{id:4,pictureURL:'asset:mypict4.png'}]

but it doesn't work; i want to have two rows with two colums.
Any idea ?

A: Have you seen this example?
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/layout/grid/#equal-width-multi-row
Basically, you can "force" a new row by using the w-100 class.
I would approach it something like this, where you will insert a new row element every 2 records:

   <ng-container *ngFor="let cat of items; let index=index">

   </ng-container>


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Sports Memorabilia Company Slams Kobe Bryant Lawsuit
May. 28 2018, Updated 10:13 a.m. ET
By Radar Staff
Top sports memorabilia company Art of the Game are spitting mad at a lawsuit that was filed against them by Panini America, for trademark infringement, false advertising and federal unfair competition, over their use of Kobe Bryant's image.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported Panini filed suit on May 9 claiming that they have an exclusive licensing deal with Bryant and that Art of the Game had no right to use the NBA star's likeness.
EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Sports Memorabilia Company Fire Back At Bryant Suit
In addition, they claimed that photos and posters Art of the Game advertise as being signed by Bryant are in fact counterfeit, and that Bryant has never even heard of the company.
On Thursday Art of the Game filed a motion for sanctions against their competitor, requesting the court to award monetary sanctions jointly against Panini and their attorneys.
In the filing, which has been exclusively obtained by RadarOnline.com, Art of the Game include a number of exhibits as way of proof that Bryant had indeed knowingly signed posters and photos for them, as well as other evidence they believe proves Bryant knows the company and has worked with them in the past.
Included are two affidavits purportedly signed by Bryant verifying that a number of lithographs had indeed been signed by him and a check Bryant wrote to an artist employed by the company after commissioning a personal lithograph of his wife Vanessa and his mother together.
Keith Fink, attorney for Art of the game released an exclusive statement to RadarOnline.com: "Art of the Game's owners have impeccable reputations in the sports memorabilia world and have represented scores of athletes including Muhammad Ali, Sandy Koufax and Joe Namath. The allegations made by Panini are false and the signatures on the memorabilia are Kobe's.
"It is noteworthy that Kobe, while claiming to have no knowledge of Art of the Game, toured Art of the Game's store in Staples, signed 110 lithographs from Art of the Game's artist Stephen Holland, signed 23 lithographs by Art of the Game's artist Opie Otterstad and was so impressed with Mr. Holland's work that he commissioned a painting of his wife and mother together through Art of the Game. The declaration of Andrew Bennett makes it clear that Kobe signed the sports memorabilia that Panini claimed he didn't sign."
Art of the Game are requesting a trial by jury to determine the outcome.
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Slight decrease in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 cases in ICU a 'promising trend': MOH
Patient care in the Emergency Department at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
Jalelah Abu Baker
@JalelahCNA
16 Nov 2021 12:43PM (Updated: 16 Nov 2021 12:43PM)
SINGAPORE: The Health Ministry's director of medical services has described a slight decrease in the number of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 cases in the intensive care unit (ICU) as a "promising trend" that provides a "slight reprieve".
Speaking at a COVID-19 multi-ministry task force press conference on Monday (Nov 15), Associate Professor Kenneth Mak said the ratio of active COVID-19 cases in the ICU in the past week over the week before was 0.94, "a small decrease in the number of cases in the ICU".
He added that the overall number of active COVID-19 cases who were critically ill, intubated in the ICU or who were unstable and needed close monitoring was 121 as of Sunday, while there were 132 non-COVID-19 cases who were critically ill in the ICU.
The overall ICU utilisation rate was about 63.3 per cent, he said.
"It provides a slight reprieve, but we will need to see and watch the figures closely over the next few weeks to see if the trend is sustained," he said.
If that were to happen, Assoc Prof Mak said he looked forward to hospitals allowing more employees to take leave and get a "well-earned rest".
Singapore reports 2,069 new COVID-19 cases and 8 more deaths
Resignation rates among healthcare workers in Singapore up this year; MOH to increase ICU capacity
In the latest figures provided by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday night, as of noon on Monday, 51 cases were unstable and under close monitoring in the ICU and 72 were critically ill and intubated. The overall ICU utilisation rate was 63.6 per cent.
HIGHER PROPORTION OF UNVACCINATED IN ICU
At the press conference on Monday, Assoc Prof Mak also said that while Singapore's ICU capacity at this time remains sufficient to accommodate all severe cases, statistics showed that the benefits of vaccination among the elderly were clear.
Pointing to the seven-day moving average of active COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population - for those above the age of 60 years who are critically ill and intubated in the ICU - he said the proportion of cases who were not fully vaccinated "remains high" compared to those who were fully vaccinated.
For those older than 70, there were 45.8 per 100,000 who are not fully vaccinated, compared to 6.4 per 100,000 who were fully vaccinated.
For those between 60 and 69 years of age, 49.7 per 100,000 were not fully vaccinated, compared to 2.6 per 100,000, who were fully vaccinated, he added.
When considering the seven-day moving average for death per 100,000 population among those above 70 years old, the death rate was 13.7 per 100,000 in the group not fully vaccinated, compared to 1.6 in the fully vaccinated group, Assoc Prof Mak said.
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Q: Populate JSON data to ListView I am trying to display a retrieved data from MySQL database with the help of Volley, and populate it into a ListView.
So far as I tried every method I am unable to do it.
JsonArrayRequest req = new JsonArrayRequest(urlJsonArry, new Response.Listener<JSONArray>() {
    @Override
    public void onResponse(JSONArray response) {
        Log.d("TAG", response.toString());

        try {
            ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> authorList = new ArrayList<>();
            for (int i = 0; i < response.length(); i++) {
                JSONObject obj = (JSONObject) response.get(i);
                String username      = obj.getString("username");
                String email         = obj.getString("email");
                String password      = obj.getString("password");

                usernameAll += "UserName: " + username + "\n\n";
                emailAll    += "Email: "    + email + "\n\n";
                passwordAll += "Password: " + password + "\n\n";
        }

As I have retrieved 'username', 'email', and 'password' I can successfully show it in TextView by myTextView.setText(usernameAll + " " + ..);. But for now I just want to print/populate 'username' in Simple ListView
HashMap<String, String> myData = new HashMap<>();
myData.put("justKey", usernameAll);
adapter1 = new ArrayAdapter<String>(getApplicationContext(), android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, android.R.id.text1, myData);
listView.setAdapter(adapter1);

When I take some Array and call that array it works but why myData isn't working. Can you please help me understanding the actual problem.
My next step will be to use the Custom ListView but now I am eager "how actually stuff works"
I will really appreciate if you correct my approach of solving this problem.
Thank You.
PS: I am getting this error from Android Studio 2.1.2:

Cannot resolve constructor 'ArrayAdapter(android.content.Context, int,
  int, java.lang.String)'

A: u can't pass hashmap to the array adapter
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ArrayAdapter.html
convert it to the list as mentioned in the documentation also
//Code Getting Collection of values from HashMap

Collection<String> values = myData.values();

//Creating an ArrayList of values

ArrayList<String> listOfValues = new ArrayList<String>(values);

For details check out the link below
http://javaconceptoftheday.com/how-to-convert-hashmap-to-arraylist-in-java/


Air is a music duo from Versailles, France, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. From the name Air is derived the backronym Amour, Imagination, Rêve which translates to Love, Imagination, Dream.
Air's debut EP, Premiers Symptômes, was followed by the critically acclaimed album Moon Safari, the re-release of Premiers Symptômes, The Virgin Suicides score, and subsequently albums 10 000 Hz Legend, Everybody Hertz, Talkie Walkie, Pocket Symphony and Love 2. Nicolas Godin studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles whereas Jean-Benoît Dunckel studied mathematics before forming a band in 1995. Before founding Air, Dunckel and Godin played together in the band Orange, with others such as Alex Gopher, Xavier Jamaux, Éric LaCourt, and Étienne de Crécy. These musicians have subsequently contributed to remixes of tracks recorded by Air.
Initially Air was Nicholas Godin alone. He recorded a demo with members of Funkadelic as his backing band before releasing his first entirely solo effort 'Modular Mix', which featured production by Étienne de Crécy.


Activities have hundreds of fields and many might still be active if you only change a few.
Why so many poor schedules?
Schedule logic is not the issue, what makes our schedule models so poor is how we deal with resources. Without resources nothing is done. Schedules that do not take into account all resource constraints are incomplete and most probably wrong.
To keep baseline variance can be a monumental task in complex schedules. Is it worth it?
Adopting a product mindset is critical when transforming to an Agile development methodology, like Scrum. Shifting our thinking from project to product expands our view beyond the confines of the triple constraint—scope, cost, and time. The product mindset forces us to consider the larger, strategic roadmap and the value we want create.
When teaching classes on Agile and DevOps, I am always presented with the comment, "We've been Agile for years, but..." The student then continues to describe an organization rife with Agile ant-patterns.


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Charles Nungesser (Paris, 15 de março de 1892 — Oceano Atlântico ou América do Norte, 8 de maio de 1927) foi um aviador francês e ás da aviação da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Desapareceu durante uma tentativa da travessia Paris-Nova Iorque sem escala a bordo do L'Oiseau Blanc, com François Coli.

Carreira
Nungesser foi um ás de renome na França, ocupando o terceiro lugar no ranking do país, com 43 vitórias em combates aéreos durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial.

Após a guerra, Nungesser desapareceu misteriosamente em uma tentativa de fazer o primeiro vôo transatlântico sem escalas de Paris a Nova York, voando com o camarada de guerra François Coli em L'Oiseau Blanc (O Pássaro Branco). Sua aeronave decolou de Paris em 8 de maio de 1927, foi avistada mais uma vez sobre a Irlanda e nunca mais foi vista. A aeronave foi perdida sobre o Atlântico ou caiu em Newfoundland ou Maine. Duas semanas após a tentativa de Nungesser e Coli, Charles Lindbergh fez a viagem com sucesso, voando sozinho de Nova York a Paris no Spirit of St. Louis. Monumentos e museus em homenagem à tentativa de Nungesser e Coli existem no aeroporto de Le Bourget, em Paris, e nas falésias de Étretat, o local de onde seu avião foi avistado pela última vez na França.

Links externas

 List of victories and color profiles
 The life of C. Nungesser and a profile of his Nieuport 17 carrying The knight of Death heart painting
 The French ace C. Nungesser
 Charles Nungesser page at theaerodrome.com

Esquadrilha Lafayette
Aviadores da Primeira Guerra Mundial
Aviadores da França
Mortos em 1927
Condecorados com a Cruz de Serviço Distinto (Estados Unidos)
Pessoas desaparecidas
Mortes no mar
Ases da aviação da França