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President Rouhani: US Can Impose Neither Negotiations, Nor War on Iran
Iranian President Hassan Rohani lashed out at the US unilateral sanctions against the Iranian nation, saying Washington lacks the power to impose its will on Iran.
The full text of President Rouhani's speech is as follwos:
Statement by H.E. Dr. Hassan Rouhani, the Honorable President of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 75th General Assembly of the United Nations, 2020
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
All praise belongs to the Almighty God and peace and blessing upon His prophet and his household and companions
I am delighted to congratulate you, as the representative of our fraternal neighbor, Turkey, on your well-deserved election as the President of the Seventy-Fifth Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Allow me to wish every success for you, the honorable Secretary General and all your colleagues in your efforts to realize the goals and objectives of the United Nations.
Excellencies
The people of the world, having taken God-given blessings of health and security for-granted, were suddenly shaken by the outbreak of Covid-19. In spite of its tiny size, COVID 19 managed to challenge global management and national governance so seriously that the world's most significant assembly is convening virtually through videoconference.
Covid-19 is now a "common pain" for humanity—thanks to the rapid growth of science, technology and the media. This common pain has demonstrated that despite all progress, our ignorance as humans far outweighs our knowledge. Covid-19 is calling us to more humility and humbleness before the Almighty and the Truth of Creation. It is guiding human societies towards civil piety in promoting social and individual ethics as well as preventing environmental degradation and manipulation of nature and unhindered interference in the Creation. This universal plague that has crossed over the fabricated boundaries of power and wealth reminds us, once again as members of human society, that it would be impossible to confront common global issues without global participation.
All of us across the globe are experiencing difficult times during the pandemic. However, my nation, the resilient people of Iran, instead of enjoying global partnership and cooperation, is grappling with the harshest sanctions in history imposed in blatant and gross violation of the Charter of the United Nations, international agreements and Security Council Resolution 2231.
The footage broadcast to the world concerning the treatment of an African American by the U.S. police is reminiscent of our own experience. We instantly recognize the feet kneeling on the neck as the feet of arrogance on the neck of independent nations. For decades, the valiant Iranian nation has paid a similar high price for its quest for freedom and liberation from domination and despotism. However, the Iranian nation has not only resisted the pressure, but flourished and advanced while persistently pursuing its historical and civilizational role as the axis of peace and stability, the harbinger of dialog and tolerance and the champion of the fight against occupation and extremism:
We stood with the people of Afghanistan against Soviet occupiers, domestic warlords, extremists, Al-Qaeda terrorists and American occupiers. And we played a pivotal role in all peace and reconciliation processes, be it the 2001 Bonn Conference or regional initiatives.
In the Mid 1980's, we called for collective security arrangements in the Persian Gulf, even as all global and regional powers were backing Saddam Hussein's "tanker war". In 2013, we proposed World Against Violence and Extremism (WAVE), which was unanimously adopted by this Assembly. In 2018, we offered a non-aggression pact to our neighbors and in 2019 we presented HOPE (Hormuz Peace Endeavor) to this General Assembly in an effort to enhance peace and stability in the Persian Gulf.
We were the first country in the region to stand with the people and government of Kuwait against occupation by Saddam; and it was Iran that foiled his dream of dominating all his former Arab allies.
We stood with the people of Iraq against Saddam tyranny, U.S. occupation and Daesh savagery. We supported all Iraqi—whether Kurd or Arab, Sunni or Shia, Yazidi or Christian—and supported democratic achievements of Iraqi people from the Governing Council in 2003 to all elected governments since.
We stood alongside the people of Syria against tens of terrorist Takfiri groups, separatists and foreign fighters. We presented our four-point peace plan—centered on self-determination by the Syrian people—in 2013 when others were seeking a military solution. In 2016, we formed the Astana process—in partnership with Russia and Turkey—aimed at achieving peace and political stability in Syria.
We stood with the people and government of Lebanon against Zionist occupiers, domestic warmongers and foreign plotters.
We never ignored occupation, genocide, forced displacement and racism in Palestine and we never made a deal over the Holy Quds and the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people. And in 2012, we presented a democratic solution through referendum in Palestine.
We vociferously called for justice against aggression for the besieged people of Yemen and presented a four-point peace plan at the outset of hostilities in 2015.
We fought alone against extremists and Daesh terrorists—who claimed to be fighting for Islam—in this sensitive region of the world; so that the international community would recognize the true face of Islam: the moderate and rational Islam; and not extremism and demagoguery. Our assassinated hero, Martyred General Soleimani, was the champion of the fight against violent extremism in the Middle East and fought to protect all citizens of this region—religious or secular, Muslim or Christian, Shia or Sunni—against medieval reactionaries.
And in 2015, we achieved the JCPOA as one of the biggest accomplishments of the history of diplomacy and remained faithful to it in spite of persistent violations by the United States.
Such a nation does not deserve sanctions. The response to peace is not war. The reward for combatting extremism is not assassination. The reaction to the choice of people through the ballot box in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon is not outside agitation and support for non-democratic processes and street riots.
Words and claims are not our yardstick. Actions are:
They claimed they came to our region to fight Saddam Hussein—the very monster they had themselves created, nurtured, and financed in his imposed war against Iran, equipping him with chemical weapons and the most sophisticated war machine.
They boast to be fighting terrorism and Daesh, while it is, they themselves, who created this terror network. And they have the audacity to expect regional gratitude for such behavior.
They accuse us—without any foundation—of trying to build nuclear weapons, and they impose sanctions on others under the pretext of nuclear proliferation. This is while they have the infamy of being the sole user of atomic bombs in the history of humanity; and while the only possessor of nuclear weapons in West Asia is running their non-proliferation theatre.
They speak of human rights, while they have targeted—through their "maximum pressure"—heath, welfare and even the right to life of all Iranians.
They are directly involved—along with their regional accomplices—in every single case of occupation, war, and aggression—be it in Palestine, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, or Somalia. Yet they blame Iran for their own inevitable defeats in confronting the will of the people of the region.
They have sold hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons to their clients turning our region into a powder keg. Yet, they try in vain to deprive Iran of its minimum defense requirements, and disregard international law and global consensus in order to extend arms restrictions against Iran in contravention of the letter of UNSCR 2231.
Here, I should express our appreciation to the presidents of the Security Council for the months of August and September 2020, as well as to thirteen of its members—especially Russia and China—who twice said a decisive and resounding "NO" to the unlawful US attempt to exploit the Council and its Resolution 2231.
This is a victory not just for Iran, but for the global community—during the transitional international order in the post-Western world—that an aspirant of hegemony is humiliated in such self-created isolation.
Where can you find precedent for a government to renege, without any reason, on the outcome of 13 years of multilateral talks—also attended by its predecessor, shamelessly violate a resolution of the Security Council and even punish others for abiding by a UNSC resolution? And simultaneously claim to be seeking negotiations and a "big deal"?
The United States can impose neither negotiations, nor war on us.
Life is hard under sanctions. However, harder, is life without independence.
Political freedom at home is important. We—as the oldest democracy in the Middle East—are proud of our people determining their destiny and will not trade domestic freedom with foreign interference.
Democracy is the sovereign right of a nation, and not the right of interference by an outsider—let alone a terrorist and interventionist outsider that remains captive to the illusions of 19 August 1953, when its predecessors overthrew the only democracy in the Middle East through a coup d'état.
Dignity and prosperity of our nation are essential for us; and they are attained through diplomacy relying on national will coupled with resilience.
We are not a bargaining chip in U.S. elections and domestic policy.
Any U.S. administration after the upcoming elections will have no choice but to surrender to the resilience of the Iranian nation.
And for the world: Today is the time to say "no" to bullying and arrogance. The era of dominance and hegemony is long over. Our nations and children deserve a better and safer world based on the rule of law.
Now is the time for the right choice.
I thank you for your attention.
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On Monday, presidential historian Douglas Brinkley slammed President Donald Trump for having little knowledge on Native American history after he tweeted insults about the trail of tears.
"Our whole country could use education history courses on the native history and particularly, how ugly and grim the trail of tears was, "Brinkley told CNN's Brooke Baldwin.
"It was insensitive and when you have the word savage from his son, it leads to that impression. Demonizing Elizabeth Warren as 'Pocahontas' constantly. He is a president that doesn't know anything about Native American history and is just trying get bar room laughs using his Twitter feed," he said.


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Was Cain born before or after Adam and Eve were evicted from the garden of Eden?
Did diseases, parasites, and predators exist in the Garden of Eden before the fall of man?
Did Adam and Eve have children before the fall?
Why were Adam and Even driven out of the Garden of Eden?
Is it possible that Adam and Eve spoke with the serpent before he deceived them in the garden?
Were Adam and Eve saved? How many children did Adam and Eve have? When were Adam and Eve created?
How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before the Fall?
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It may have lasted less than a week based on the following Biblical standpoints.
✿ We read about "tree of the lives" Gen. 2:9. In the garden of Eden. Literally, "tree of the lives," because each one eating of it would live forever. When Adam and Eve were sinned, God expelled them from the garden of Eden. This tree being a pledge of that immortal life with which obedience should be rewarded, man lost, on his fall, all claim to this tree; and therefore, that he might not eat of it or delude himself with the idea that eating of it would restore what he had forfeited, the Lord sent him forth from the garden.
✿ It has an inherent virtue in the tree of life to preserve life indefinitely. If man was created to live forever should he not sin, then he lost eternal life in the fall. Christ brings it back to him (2Tim. 1:10). The tree of life would have caused even sinful man to live forever physically; hence, the action of Gen. 3:22-24. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
✿ Based on Satan's dealings today, he tried to cause the fall of man immediately. It may have lasted less than a week, for we have no record of God resting after His first sabbath. Man had not yet visited and eaten of the tree of life when the fall came (Gen. 3:22-24). Hence Adam and Eve stay was ended before man had offspring (Gen. 2:21-25; 4:1).
✿ Preservation of life for the natural, earthly nations, as well as for the resurrected saints (Rev. 2:7; 22:2). There will be no sickness, so no healing from disease, but eternal health and life will come from the leaves of the trees (Rev. 21:4; 22:2-21 cp. Gen. 3:22-24).
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Daniel Dwayne Sizemore
I'm thinking that Adam's "age" did not start until "the fall." He could have been in the garden for thousands of years before he had sinned, perhaps even a long time before Eve. He named all the animals after all. There was no reason to count his years until he had sinned and took on death as it were. Just a thought. God Bless and keep reading His Eternal Word!
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However long Adam and Eve may have been in the garden, one thing is certain: they were not there for any time period that exceeded Adam's life span of 930 years. But there is additional information that must be considered as well. Genesis 4:25 explains that Seth was born after Cain slew Abel. Since the biblical account makes it clear that Seth was born outside the garden, and since Genesis 5:3 informs us that Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born, it is obvious that Adam and Eve could not have been in the Garden of Eden any longer than 130 years!
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I would say that Adam and Eve lived thousands, millions of years, maybe even more than that. The Bible clearly shows that GOD, created Adam and Eve and all Creation to be for Ever. After all God created Adam in He's own Image.
The Bible does not say how much time went by before the fall. Adams age starts to count after the fall.
Then God said to Adam, the day you eat from that fruit that Day you will surely die.
Adam died in the spirit that same moment that he touched that fruit, but physically he started to die slowly. That is why it took 930 years for Adam to die.
That's the price he had to pay for his disobedience.
Lee Desouza. I was dead in my sins. But in 1978 I was Born Again, now living for ever....
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My thoughts, opinions, and speculations:
I don't know how long Adam and Even lived in the garden before the fall but going by what scripture says I assumed they were there for a number of years before the fall. God walked with Adam in the cool of the day. To me, that establishes a pattern; a routine and relationship; something they did daily.
God also gave Adam the job of tending to the garden and naming all the animals that were in it and that's definitely NOT a one day job. I allowed my imagination to go a little wild when thinking about it and i can picture Adam working in the Garden and along comes a spider. He's never seen one before so he's fascinated by it. He picks it up, studies it, examines it's features and possibly even writes down what he see's maybe even sketching a drawing or two of the animal and then finally gives it a name.
This would be something he did whenever he came across a new creature in the garden and like an excited child who wants to share what he's found with his parents, Adam would also share what he found with Eve and with God while they walked together in the cool of the day (I love that phrase).
I've also wondered if Adam and Eve had children BEFORE the fall? We know of Cain and Abel and it would make since to document their birth since everything in the Bible pertains to and leads to Jesus and the gift of salvation which went in to effect immediately when Adam and Eve disobeyed God.
But what about before the fall? God gave everything in the garden the ability to reproduce after it's own kind and when he created woman and gave her to man, Adam was pleased with what he saw in Eve; a suitable helper and life partner that was of his own flesh; a very unique and precious gift to him from the Almighty Creator to be cherished, respected, and most importantly loved.
God also told Adam and Eve to be "fruitful and multiply" so it seems a little far fetched, to me, that the two of them would wait until AFTER the fall to have children. I said previously about Adam naming the animals in the garden and sharing what he had discovered with Eve. Maybe he passed that knowledge and information along to the children they had before the fall as well (again just speculation).
After the fall, God said that Eve would bring forth children in pain. Did she birth children before the fall without pain? Was the adding of pain a result of sin and if so, maybe she birthed children before the fall without pain.
Cain had a wife. Where did she come from? Where did the other inhabitants of the earth come from if Cain, Abel, and Seth were Adam and Eve's only children? And Cain slew Abel so that really complicates things.
Although I don't have scripture to support this I think that Adam and Eve conceived children while in the garden before the fall and those children went out in to the world, followed the command to be "fruitful and multiply",
and established families of their own and so on and so on. This would account for "the wives" that were taken after the fall and the origins of the other inhabitants on the earth.
Like I said before this is all speculation and maybe wild imaginations but it's kind of fun to think about as long as we don't become dogmatic about our opinions (especially if you we don't have scripture to back up those opinions) and we should never lose sight of the Bibles true message which is: God loves us so much that he sent His only son to die in our place and extend to us the gift of salvation.
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I believe Adam and Eve were in the garden for two or three days at the most. Adam was there longer, because he was busy naming animals, and after he was done God created Eve. Satan then saw his chance to get Adam, and Eve in her natural innocence succumbed to the temptation.
As a side note God did not command Adam to not eat from the Tree of Life and it is totally possible they did eat from the tree prior to the fall, but not after the fall, as God put the barrier in place to stop them.


Start off your visit on the 4th (Mon): tour the pleasant surroundings at Ocho Rios Bay Beach and then relax and rejuvenate at some of the top local wellness centers.
For where to stay, other places to visit, reviews, and tourist information, go to the Ocho Rios journey tool .
Miami, USA to Ocho Rios is an approximately 7-hour combination of tram, flight, and bus. You can also do a combination of train, flight, and bus. Expect a bit warmer temperatures when traveling from Miami in March; daily highs in Ocho Rios reach 36°C and lows reach 27°C. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 4th (Mon) early enough to drive to Saint Elizabeth Parish.
On the 5th (Tue), admire the sheer force of YS Falls, then take a stroll through Bamboo Avenue, and then view the masterpieces at The Mud Palace Gallery. On your second day here, brush up on your knowledge of spirits at Appleton Estate and then tour the pleasant surroundings at Bluefields Beach.
To see photos, where to stay, other places to visit, and more tourist information, go to the Saint Elizabeth Parish trip itinerary app .
Traveling by car from Ocho Rios to Saint Elizabeth Parish takes 2.5 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of bus and taxi; or take a bus. March in Saint Elizabeth Parish sees daily highs of 36°C and lows of 26°C at night. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 7th (Thu) early enough to drive to Negril.
We've included these beaches for you: Seven Mile Beach and Bloody Bay. You'll discover tucked-away gems like Barney's Flower & Hummingbird Garden Jamaica and Distillery Tours. Step out of Negril to go to Pennycooke and see Original Mayfield Falls Jamaica, which is approximately 1h 05 min away. And it doesn't end there: pause for some serene contemplation at Mary, Gate of Heaven Catholic Church, look for gifts at Irie Art, take a memorable tour with Tours, and take in the dramatic natural features at Negril Cliffs.
To find more things to do, photos, ratings, and more tourist information, refer to the Negril trip itinerary app .
You can drive from Saint Elizabeth Parish to Negril in 2 hours. Another option is to take a bus. Expect a daytime high around 36°C in March, and nighttime lows around 26°C. Finish your sightseeing early on the 10th (Sun) so you can drive to Montego Bay.
Start off your visit on the 10th (Sun): surround yourself with nature on a nature and wildlife tour, then don't miss a visit to Hip Strip, and then stroll through Doctor's Cave Beach. Get ready for a full day of sightseeing on the next day: tee off at Half Moon Golf, Tennis & Beach Club, then kick back and relax at Burwood Beach, and then stop by Tropicana Jewelers.
To find where to stay, ratings, and more tourist information, use the Montego Bay trip itinerary maker website .
Getting from Negril to Montego Bay by car takes about 1.5 hours. Other options: take a bus. In March, daytime highs in Montego Bay are 36°C, while nighttime lows are 26°C. Wrap up your sightseeing by early afternoon on the 12th (Tue) to allow enough time to travel back home.


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Dr. Chuck Gibbs will present a discussion of how the rise of Napoleon and his conquest of the Italian states shaped not only politics but relition, art and culture in the early 19th century. In addition, Dr. Gibbs will review how these battles enter the plot of the opera "Tosca" to be performed by the Kansas City Lyric Opera, April 18-26.
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Oona Out of Order
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"With its countless epiphanies and surprises, Oona proves difficult to put down." —USA Today
"By turns tragic and triumphant, heartbreakingly poignant and joyful, this is ultimately an uplifting and redemptive read." —The Guardian
A remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even if those moments are out of order.
It's New Year's Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she's told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order...
Hopping through decades, pop culture fads, and much-needed stock tips, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveler? Wife to a man she's never met? Surprising, magical, and heart-wrenching, Margarita Montimore has crafted an unforgettable story about the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the power of family.
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What if youth wasn't wasted on the young? That's the question at the center of Margarita Montimore's irresistible novel. Beginning in 1983, when she is just 19, Oona Lockhart finds herself transported every single New Year's Day to a random year of her adult existence. Initially, she visits her life in 2015, as a wealthy, middle-aged woman in New York City, before jumping backward to the early-'90s hedonism of her club kid days. Montimore has a lot of fun with the time travel genre, inviting us to revel in the popularity of grunge music and anticipate the advent of Instagram. As Oona reckons with her foreknowledge of the future, her personal choices become potentially fate altering. Oona Out of Order is as delightful as it is impossible to put down.
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In Montimore's whimsical second novel (after Asleep from Day), a woman experiences the unsettling effects of time travel. In Brooklyn on New Year's Eve, 1982, the day before college student Oona Lockhart's 19th birthday, Oona is more interested in the rock band she has just joined, and particularly its guitarist, Dale. As the ball drops, Oona feels an odd sensation ("Escalating heat stirred within her as particles scrambled to escape and rearrange, but not now and not here"), and then finds herself in the body of her 51-year-old self in 2015, surprised to be living in a brownstone instead of the SoHo loft she'd imagined sharing with Dale. There, a personal assistant recites a message from Oona's younger self explaining that she will be bouncing around in time through all the years of her life, hitting each only once, always making the change as the new year begins. As the years flash forward and back, Oona comes to life as a reckless club kid, a grieving older woman, and a wife who has no memory of her husband. Montimore sustains the concept by rooting the story in Oona's relationships, employing sparkling humor as Oona struggles to make sense of each year's new circumstances. This witty, fantastical exploration of life's inevitable changes is surprising and touching.
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Isotogastruroidea is een superfamilie van springstaarten en telt 7 soorten.

Taxonomie
Familie Isotogastruridae - Thibaud J-M & Najt J, 1992, i.s.
Geslacht Isotogastrura - Thibaud, J-M et Najt, J, 1992
Isotogastrura ahuizotli - Palacios-Vargas, JG et Thibaud, J-M, 1998
Isotogastrura arenicola - Thibaud, J-M et Najt, J, 1992
Isotogastrura atuberculata - Palacios & Thibaud, 2001
Isotogastrura coronata - Fjellberg, 1995
Isotogastrura litoralis - Thibaud, J-M et Weiner, WM in Najt, J et Matile, L, 1997
Isotogastrura madagascariensis - Thibaud, J-M, 2008
Isotogastrura veracruzana - Palacios-Vargas, JG et Thibaud, J-M, 1998

Springstaarten

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


A rare opportunity to rent the beautiful split level penthouse apartment set within the exclusive Woodberry Park development. The property is arranged over the ninth and tenth floors and comprises a spacious open plan living room / kitchen opening onto a roof terrace. The tenth floor has three spacious bedrooms (two en-suite) and a family bathroom.
Woodberry Park is one of the biggest regeneration development projects in London. There are two large lakes for watersports plus a large natural landscape. Residents will also benefit from a swimming pool, a residential fitness suite, and a 24-hour concierge.


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International weekly journal of science
Nature | Editorial
Gender progress (?)
Despite some success, the proportions of women in Nature's pages and as referees are still too low.
There are many obstacles to diversity in science. In any nation, there will be cultural and societal factors — often intersecting — that prevent the full research potential of one population group or another being fulfilled. One manifestation is discussed on page 211.
We at Nature have attempted to put our own house in order, and have produced just a scratch on the surface of one particular challenge — the low proportion of women contributing to our own content. That scratch is there thanks to actions taken since we focused on this issue in an Editorial a little over a year ago (see Nature 491, 495; 2012).
So what have we achieved? In the visibility of women in our pages, progress has indeed been made.
In the News & Views section, the proportion of female authors has increased from 12% in 2011 to 19% in 2013.
The proportion of women appearing in profiles by our journalists has increased from 18% in 2011 to 40% in 2013. That does not include the four profiles in our 'Women in science' special issue early this year (see nature.com/women).
The number of articles by women in our World View section, which is driven by current topics, has remained low, now running at 12%. By contrast in 2013, 33% of Comment articles had at least one female author (27% of them had a woman as the first author). The combined total of World View and Comment articles with at least one woman author in 2013 is 26% — an improvement on 19% in 2011–12.
In our Editorial a year ago, we highlighted the need for a 'gender loop' — a conscious step in which an editor deliberately identifies several female candidates before selecting authors and profile subjects in our magazine sections, and referees for our research papers.
In this last category, the result has been disappointing — the number of women referees has remained all too low. From 14% in 2011, the proportion of women fell to 12% in 2012 and then rose to 13% in 2013. Taking into account uncertainties resulting from ambiguities in some names, these numbers are essentially on a plateau.
Efforts have been made by research editors, when visiting labs and meetings, and when surveying the literature, to increase the number of women invited to act as reviewers. Women already make up only a small proportion of the potential referees, owing to the demographics of the research community. And our efforts have made us all the more aware that a higher proportion of women than men decline our invitations to referee. We have not investigated this with a survey, but informal comments indicate that women tend to be that much more busy.
The lesson in this tale is: we must try harder.
( 12 December 2013 )
doi:10.1038/504188a
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«Общение» () — фильм 1989 года по одноимённой книге Уитли Стрибера с Кристофером Уокеном и Фрэнсис Стернхаген в главных ролях. Картина рассказывает историю семейства, находящегося на отдыхе в уединённом доме в безлюдной местности, и столкнувшегося с внеземным разумом. Если верить Стриберу, это история из реальной жизни о его собственной встрече с «пришельцами». Уокен играет роль самого автора.

Сюжет
Писатель Уитли Стрибер на праздники едет со своей семьёй в загородный дом, расположенный в уединённом месте. Приехав, они видят в небе серию странных огней и слышат тревожные звуки. Все решают быстро вернуться в город, но по возвращении писателю кажется, будто его похищали инопланетяне и что-то сделали с ним. Родные же полагают, что он сходит с ума, и по их настоянию мужчина обследуется у психиатра, чтобы попытаться при помощи гипноза установить, что же было на самом деле.

В ролях
 Кристофер Уокен — Уитли Стрибер
 Линдсэй Кроус — Энни Стрибер
 Фрэнсис Стернхаген — доктор Джанет Даффи
 Андреас Кацулас — Алекс
 Терри Ханауэр — Сара
 Джоел Карлсон — Эндрю Стрибер
 Джон Деннис Джонстон — пожарный
 Ди-ди Ришер — миссис Гринберг
 Эйлин Фицпатрик — мать
 Р. Дж. Миллер — отец
 Холли Филдс — молящаяся Богу девушка
 Паула Шоу — женщина из квартиры
 Джульет Сорчи — девушка второклассница
 Тифни Твитчелл — учитель
 Джошуа Миллер — высокий парень
 Кейт Стерн — женщина в автобусе
 Джонни Дак — лаборант
 Джонатан Фромдэйл — Уитли (5 лет)
 Эндрю Магариан — человек в прихожей
 Бэзил Хоффман — доктор Фридман
 Пол Клеменс — Патрик
 Мэгги Иган — Нэнси
 Ирен Форрест — Салли
 Салли Кемп — Лори
 Винс Мак-Кевин — Боб
 Маделейн Мора — похищенная пришельцами
 Ингрид Волд — ассистентка фокусника

Награды и номинации
В 1990 году фильм номинировался на премию «молодому артисту» в номинации лучшему молодому артисту, сыгравшему в кинокартине.

Ссылки
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 Сравнение картины с фильмом «Fire in the Sky» на сайте Movie Smackdown

Фильмы о Нью-Йорке
Фильмы-биографии Великобритании
Экранизации произведений Уитли Стрибера
Фильмы-биографии США
Фильмы-драмы Великобритании
Фильмы-драмы США
Фильмы ужасов Великобритании
Фильмы ужасов США
Фантастические фильмы Великобритании
Научно-фантастические фильмы США
Фильмы-триллеры Великобритании
Фильмы-триллеры США
Фильмы на английском языке
Независимые фильмы США
Независимые фильмы Великобритании
Фильмы Филиппа Мора
Фильмы США 1989 года
Фильмы Великобритании 1989 года


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As high-quality bentonite reserves become scarcer, it is common practice to add a small amount of polymer to the ore during milling, in order to guarantee that the bentonite will meet the API specification of minimum barrel yield without compromising fluid loss control.
Long-chained anionic polymers will increase mud viscosity by linking clay platelets together, thus these polymers are used as dry extenders to improve the yield of bentonite to API and OCMA specification; or as wet-extenders for use in low-solids, freshwater non-dispersed mud systems. Wet extension is particularly useful when spudding a well or prior to logging operations when extra carrying capacity is required.
Alcomer® 1771 brings additional benefits due to its superior bead form, which gives easy mixing, less dust, good solubility and reliable efficient performance.
Alcomer® 1771 is a low-medium molecular weight, fully anionic polyacrylate produced in BASF's unique microbead form. The microbead form exhibits excellent handling characteristics and rapid dissolution. It is used primarily in low-solids, non-dispersed fluids to extend the yield of bentonite.
Alcomer® 180 provides bentonite extension and can be more efficient on some clays, but should not be used on low grade ores and is in powder form.


Since 1970, the average time to fill the 15 Supreme Court vacancies that have occurred has been 55 days, far shorter than the minimum time it will take for the Senate to fill the late Antonin Scalia's seat if the upper chamber waits for the next president (342 days minimum).
Part of this is because retiring justices have made the confirmation of a successor a contingency on their retirement — the only real waits have come from seats filled because of a justice's death.
While we live in a hyper-partisan era of American politics, 19th century vacancies generally took much longer than any other period in American history — often because of various extreme partisanship (including the Civil War) making compromise impossible.
Justice Henry Baldwin died in 1844, but the absolute hatred between President Tyler and Whigs controlling the Senate (his own former party–though expelled) kept the seat vacant until the next presidency, making it the longest vacancy at 841 days.
While we live in a hyper-partisan era of American politics, 19th century vacancies generally took much longer than any other period in American history.
President Lincoln didn't have problems with the Senate, the 37th Congress was dominated by Republicans (61 percent in the Senate), but he sat on nominating three vacancies — two from death and one Civil War resignation –for over a year.
It takes 5 members of the Supreme Court to form a quorum. At times, because of the failing health of other justices, the court could not even meet because of a lack of quorum.
It's not completely evident why Lincoln waited, especially since many of his war-time orders and practices eventually worked their way up to SCOTUS — having it loaded with sympathetic justices would have helped his own cause. Possibly he waited until there was simply no chance for reconciliation between the North and South, not wanting to antagonize the situation any more than needed.
When Chief Justice Salmon Chase died, President Grant was left with a conundrum. It seemed like nobody wanted the job. His first three offers were turned down, then the Senate rejected several more.
Even with all the troubles, the seat only stayed vacant for 301 days.
Only 72 days into the wait on Justice Scalia's replacement, it's not been a completely popular or consequence-free political tactic.
Almost all votes are coming down to Justice Kennedy's crucial swing vote, so far siding with the liberal justices in the majority of cases. Essentially, they have placed the entire power of SCOTUS in the hands of the most moderate member of the bench.
With the balance of power in the hands of a moderate, the court has handed down some significant losses to businesses. Dow Chemical, for instance, chose to settle for almost $1 billion rather than face the moderate court.
This waiting game is probably hurting the immediate conservative cause more than liberal, but with life-tenure at stake, Senate leaders are hoping to sway the future of Supreme Court precedent if a Republican president wins in November — or at least force a moderate if the Democrats win.
While the Republican-led Senate is doing a disservice to their calling by not even holding confirmation hearings (they have the power to reject almost anyone they want to), this is still the separation of powers at it's finest, using the system to ensure your own platform and agenda.
While they probably should give the famous Bush-era 'up-or-down vote' to President Obama's nominations, the Senate is really highlighting the importance of the president's power to nominate SCOTUS vacancies in this election year, something all voters should be considering in each presidential election.


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package hudson.plugins.perforce;

import hudson.Extension;
import hudson.model.AbstractProject;
import hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor;
import hudson.tasks.Notifier;
import hudson.model.BuildListener;
import org.kohsuke.stapler.DataBoundConstructor;
import hudson.Launcher;
import hudson.model.Hudson;
import hudson.model.Result;
import hudson.model.AbstractBuild;
import hudson.tasks.BuildStepDescriptor;
import hudson.tasks.Publisher;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 * PerforceTagNotifier
 * Adds the option to automatically tag a build upon build completion.
 *
 * @author rpetti
 */
public class PerforceTagNotifier extends Notifier {
    protected static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(PerforceTagNotifier.class.getName());

    public String rawLabelName;
    public boolean onlyOnSuccess = true;

    public boolean isOnlyOnSuccess() {
        return onlyOnSuccess;
    }

    public void setOnlyOnSuccess(boolean onlyOnSuccess) {
        this.onlyOnSuccess = onlyOnSuccess;
    }

    public String getRawLabelName() {
        return rawLabelName;
    }

    public void setRawLabelName(String rawLabelName) {
        this.rawLabelName = rawLabelName;
    }

    @DataBoundConstructor
    public PerforceTagNotifier(String rawLabelName, boolean onlyOnSuccess){
        this.rawLabelName = rawLabelName;
        this.onlyOnSuccess = onlyOnSuccess;
    }

    public BuildStepMonitor getRequiredMonitorService() {
        return BuildStepMonitor.NONE;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean perform(AbstractBuild<?,?> build, Launcher launcher, BuildListener listener) throws InterruptedException {
        if(!onlyOnSuccess || build.getResult() == Result.SUCCESS){

            listener.getLogger().println("Labelling Build in Perforce using " + rawLabelName);

            String labelName = PerforceSCM.substituteParameters(rawLabelName, build);

            if(labelName == null || labelName.equals("")){
                listener.getLogger().println("Label Name is empty, cannot label.");
                return false;
            }
            PerforceTagAction tagAction = (PerforceTagAction) build.getAction(PerforceTagAction.class);

            if(tagAction == null){
                listener.getLogger().println("Could not label build in perforce; is it a valid perforce job?");
                return false;
            }

            try {
                tagAction.tagBuild(labelName, "Label automatically generated by Hudson Perforce Plugin.");
            } catch (IOException e) {
                listener.getLogger().println(e.getMessage());
                return false;
            }

            listener.getLogger().println("Label '" + labelName + "' successfully generated.");
        }

        return true;
    }

    public static DescriptorImpl descriptor() {
        return Hudson.getInstance().getDescriptorByType(PerforceTagNotifier.DescriptorImpl.class);
    }

    @Extension
    public static final class DescriptorImpl extends BuildStepDescriptor<Publisher> {

        @Override
        public boolean isApplicable(Class<? extends AbstractProject> jobType) {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public String getDisplayName() {
            return "Create or Update Label in Perforce";
        }

    }

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


We have all been victim to lost, or runaway, keys. In your home country you probably know exactly what to do and who to call to resolve the issue but if it happened to you here in Dubai, would you know who to call for assistance?
Any situation involving lost keys is inevitably stressful and always inconvenient. Factor in the hot weather experienced in Dubai throughout much of the year, apply Murphy's Law and you can almost guarantee that if ever you were to misplace your keys it will happen amid the throes of a Dubai summer.
Truer words were never spoken as just last week I stumbled upon a very distressed lady who had lost her keys whilst shopping and was now stranded in the car park with her three young children. Needless to say the car park felt like an oven and everyone was getting increasingly uncomfortable.
I had to make a few phone calls before I found someone that could understand what I was trying to say. I eventually called a company called Prince Lock & Key Trading. Specialists in master keys, electronic keys, digital keys for cars and all sorts of other locks – not to mention they work round the clock, 24/7. Abdulla spoke perfect English and was very kind and helpful.
I highly recommend them. If you want to take my advice, save their number to your phone – preparedness is the antidote to Murphy's Law (just don't lock your phone inside but if you do don't worry, just remember the name and ask a passer-by to call for you).
New to Dubai and Keep Getting Lost?


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Register of Deeds-
Services » Register of Deeds
Document Recording Standards (State Law)
All documents recorded on or after July 1, 2002 must meet the following requirements of NC General Statute 161.14(b) as follows:
Be 8.5" X 11" or 8.5" X 14" in size
Have a 3-inch blank margin at the top of the first page and a quarter-inch blank margin on all remaining sides of the first page and on all sides of subsequent pages
Use black ink on white paper
Use a font size no smaller than 9 points (fill-in-the-blank areas on instruments may be completed in pen and corrections to instruments may be made in pen)
Use only one-sided typed or printed text
Provide the type of instrument at the top of the first page below the blank margin
Deeds and deeds of trust must have a prepared by statement on the first page (cannot be in the margin areas.
All documents must have a return to statement on the first page with the name and address to return the document to after recording (cannot be in the margin areas).
If any instrument (document) does not meet the requirements outlined above, the Register of Deeds shall register the document after collecting a $25.00 fee for non-standard documents as required by General Statute 161-10(a)(19).


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Ламмерс () — тауншип в округе Белтрами, Миннесота, США. На 2000 год его население составило 492 человека.

География
По данным Бюро переписи населения США площадь тауншипа составляет 90,8 км², из которых 90,1 км² занимает суша, а 0,7 км² — вода (0,77 %).

Демография
По данным переписи населения 2000 года здесь находились 492 человека, 179 домохозяйств и 131 семья. Плотность населения —  5,5 чел./км². На территории тауншипа расположено 190 построек со средней плотностью 2,1 построек на один квадратный километр. Расовый состав населения: 94,72 % белых, 2,44 % коренных американцев, 0,20 % азиатов, 0,20 % c Тихоокеанских островов и 2,44 % приходится на две или более других рас. Испанцы или латиноамериканцы любой расы составляли 1,83 % от популяции тауншипа.

Из 179 домохозяйств в 41,3 % воспитывались дети до 18 лет, в 58,7 % проживали супружеские пары, в 10,6 % проживали незамужние женщины и в 26,3 % домохозяйств проживали несемейные люди. 21,2 % домохозяйств состояли из одного человека, при том 8,9 % из — одиноких пожилых людей старше 65 лет. Средний размер домохозяйства — 2,75, а семьи — 3,24 человека.

31,5 % населения — младше 18 лет, 7,9 % — в возрасте от 18 до 24 лет, 27,6 % — от 25 до 44, 22,2 % — от 45 до 64, и 10,8 % — старше 65 лет. Средний возраст — 36 лет. На каждые 100 женщин приходилось 100,8 мужчин. На каждые 100 женщин старше 18 приходилось 98,2 мужчин.

Средний доход мужчин —  30 250  долларов, в то время как у женщин — 21 250. Доход на душу населения составил 16 894 доллара. За чертой бедности находились 9,4 % семей и 12,1 % всего населения тауншипа, из которых 16,2 % младше 18 и 13,5 % старше 65 лет.

Примечания

Тауншипы округа Белтрами


Director – Craig William MacNeill, Screenplay – Clay McLeod Chapman & Craig William MacNeill, Based on the Chapter The Henley Road Motel from the Novel Miss Corpus by Clay McLeod Chapman, Producers – Douglas T. Brown, Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller & Elijah Wood, Photography – Noah Greenberg, Music – Hauschka, Visual Effects – Space Monkey, Inc. (Supervisor – John DiValerio), Special Effects Supervisor – Gabriele Porter, Makeup Effects/Creature Design – Illusion Industries, Makeup Effects Supervisor – Todd Tucker, Production Design – Thomas William Hallbauer. Production Company – Chiller Films/Spectrevision.
1989. John Henley manages the Mtn. Vista Motel on a backroad in the middle of nowhere, while raising his eleven year-old son Ted on his own. The motel is financially struggling due to a lack of customers. In between helping his father, Ted relieves the boredom by collecting roadkill from the highway. He then leaves food scraps on the road so that more animals can be killed. After spotting a deer nearby, he leaves food to lure it to the road – only for this to cause William Colby to crash when he hits the deer in his car. Afterwards, Colby takes a room at the motel where Ted befriends him, learning how Colby was travelling with a box containing his wife's ashes. In trying to deal with the boredom of life and various frustrations, Ted's fascination with death leads him to start thinking about killing people.
The Boy was a production from Spectrevision, the horror producing company headed by actor Elijah Wood. (See below for Spectrevision's other films). Craig William MacNeill had previously co-directed the little seen horror film The Afterlight (2009) and went on to produce/direct the horror tv series Channel Zero (2016) and direct the Lizzie Borden film Lizzie (2018). The Boy played at several international film festivals, although did not receive wide release despite having a surprising number of well-known names in its cast. Possible reasons for this are confusion with the much higher profiled (although far less interesting) The Boy (2016) by William Brent Bell that came out ten months after.
The Boy is based on a single chapter from Miss Corpus (2006), the debut novel of Clay McLeod Chapman who also co-writes the script. The novel has parallel plots that concern two men, one being Colby (played by Rainn Wilson in the film) who returns home to find his wife dead, the other a father who finds his son's dead body. Both set out on road journeys, encountering bizarre characters along the way. The Henley Road Motel was one of these chapters in which Colby stops off at the motel on his journey and this has been expanded as a full-length film here.
The Boy is a variation on the evil child thriller that we have seen numerous examples of with the likes of The Bad Seed (1956), Village of the Damned (1960), Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), The Godsend (1980), Bloody Birthday (1981), Mikey (1992), The Good Son (1993), Relative Fear (1994), Daddy's Girl (1996), Joshua (2007), The Children (2008), Case 39 (2009) and We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011).
Most of these others are slasher film/psycho-thrillers usually about a child creating a trail of dead bodies as the story progresses. Not to say that doesn't happen here either but rather Craig William MacNeill gives us more a portrait of a place – an isolated backroads motel, a setting that is undeniably reminiscent of Psycho (1960). There is also something similar to the subsequent My Friend Dahmer (2017) in the portrait of the socially isolated kid collecting roadkill – both films open with scenes of the kid doing so – being obsessed with death and progressing on to next killing humans.
Craig William McNeill creates a slow burn film. It is a film as much about the location, the nowhere landscape (in actuality shot in Colombia) and the slow, dull buzz of summer as it is about the psychopathology of the central character. This is something that makes it immediately different to almost any other psycho child film, let alone psycho film. The first twenty minutes of the film come with barely half-a-dozen lines of dialogue, for instance. As we watch the business of the motel and Jared Breeze collecting roadkill from the nearby road, things start to seem not right – like when he deliberately places some of his chips on the road in order to kill more animals, leading to the scene where he spots a deer and then litters the road so as to lure it out there.
The chill of the film comes in the impassive blankness of Jared Breeze's performance. You watch him not sure what he is going to do next. Equally, Craig William McNeill sits watching at a cool distance, not dramatically hyping anything. We see Jared splashing around in the swimming pool with the visiting boy before he abruptly but with calmly understated effect tries to hold the other boy's head under the water. Or the disturbing scene where Jared, following a contretemps with his father David Morse, storms away to the chicken coop and is seen (it implied solely with sound effects) kicking one of the chickens to death. The film builds to an undeniably disturbing climax.
Spectrevision have also produced other horror films such as Toad Road (2012), Cooties (2014), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), Open Windows (2014), The Greasy Strangler (2016) and Mandy (2018).


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Q: Extract Common Name from incoming https request in golang My api is behind a gateway and the gateway terminates the ssl handshake from client and initiate a separate handshake with my api. No client should call my api directly. My requirement is that I have to extract the Common Name from incoming https request and validate it against a list.
I am new to go and used this example https://venilnoronha.io/a-step-by-step-guide-to-mtls-in-go as my starting point to build a go server using https.
But not sure how can I move further to to extract COMMON NAME from the leaf certificate of the certificate chain.
package main

import (
    "crypto/tls"
    "crypto/x509"
    "io"
    "io/ioutil"
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

func helloHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    // Write "Hello, world!" to the response body
    io.WriteString(w, "Hello, world!\n")
}

func main() {
    // Set up a /hello resource handler
    http.HandleFunc("/hello", helloHandler)

    // Create a CA certificate pool and add cert.pem to it
    caCert, err := ioutil.ReadFile("cert.pem")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    caCertPool := x509.NewCertPool()
    caCertPool.AppendCertsFromPEM(caCert)

    // Create the TLS Config with the CA pool and enable Client certificate validation
    tlsConfig := &tls.Config{
        ClientCAs:  caCertPool,
        ClientAuth: tls.RequireAndVerifyClientCert,
    }
    tlsConfig.BuildNameToCertificate()

    // Create a Server instance to listen on port 8443 with the TLS config
    server := &http.Server{
        Addr:      ":8443",
        TLSConfig: tlsConfig,
    }

    // Listen to HTTPS connections with the server certificate and wait
    log.Fatal(server.ListenAndServeTLS("cert.pem", "key.pem"))

}

I should be able to print the Common Name of the leaf certificate coming in the certificate chain.

A: You can retrieve it from the VerifiedChains member of the request's TLS field:
func helloHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    if r.TLS != nil && len(r.TLS.VerifiedChains) > 0 && len(r.TLS.VerifiedChains[0]) > 0 {
        var commonName = r.TLS.VerifiedChains[0][0].Subject.CommonName

        // Do what you want with the common name.
        io.WriteString(w, fmt.Sprintf("Hello, %s!\n", commonName))
    }

    // Write "Hello, world!" to the response body
    io.WriteString(w, "Hello, world!\n")
}

The leaf certificate is always the first one in the chain.


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UCServer
estos UCServer supports message dispatch for unanswered calls.
There are an array of new features for unanswered phone calls compared with estos UCServer 3.0. E-mails that were previously sent for missed phone calls from the client or server are now sent centrally via the server. It is configured in the server in which cases e-mails for missed phone calls are dispatched. The single user decides for himself whether he would like to receive them or not. Settings for missed phone calls are now configured separately for the journal and the e-mail dispatch.
The message is always sent to the line owner's address. This is identified via User administration
The contents of a notification can be customized with a template. The content of e-mails can be adapted with the help of XSL generate templates as html. View XSL templates.
Do not deliver
No e-mail notifications for missed phone calls are dispatched.
first participants, who have not answered the call
The first participant whose phone has rung receives the notification about the missed phone call.
last participants, who have not answered the call
The last participant whose phone has rung receives the notification about the missed phone call.
all participants, who have not answered the call
All participants whose phone has rung receive a notification about the unanswered phone call.
estos UCServer supports the recognition of parallel switchings, group calls, cyclic call distribution and redirection in the call phase. This helps prevent dual delivery of unanswered calls, even if the call rang on several phones.
Send an email even if the call is accepted by another party
If this option is enabled an Email is sent to the called party even if the call is accepted by another party (e.g. per pickup).
Use the caller's e-mail address as the sender
If this option is active, the e-mail notification has the caller as a sender. With this option you permit a direct contact with the caller.
If you use a Groupware solution for absence notifications, the caller receives a message with the absence note you provided. With this the caller is informed when the person can be contacted again or if specified in the absence note they can contact a colleague.
Attach caller contact details as a vCard to the e-mail
Contact information which was established via the Contact search can be automatically attached as vCard to the e-mail. This also permits access to all the caller's contact data if you are not in the office.
Assign the following prefix to telephony links
Activate this option, if a phone number should be formatted as a link when sending notifications of missed calls through email. The reference line will take the place of the HRef attribute of the introductory <a> tag. This reference line may be standardized with the help of a prefix. The following prefixes may be preset by you.
tel: (default settings for Android, Blackberry and iOS, for example)
callto:
Furthermore, you have the option of assigning an individualized prefix (up to 9 characters plus terminator). Please note that the prefix must be terminated by a colon. If you do not want to use prefixes then deactivate this option. In that case, phone numbers will not be formatted as links in notification messages.
With internal calls
No notifications are generated for internal calls.
Calls with hidden phone number
No notifications are generated for calls with hidden numbers.
If no contact data could be found
No notifications are generated for callers in which contact data couldn't be found.
With repeated phone calls on the same day
If the caller phones more then once in the same day no notifications are generated.
With repeated phone calls, as long as the user hasn't logged on
If the caller calls repeatedly and the user doesn't log onto the system, for example, because he is on vacation.
If the call rang for less than 2 seconds
If the caller rang for less than 2 seconds and you don't return calls from colleagues or customers who accidentally dialed your number.
If the calling number has been stored in this list
then you will be allowed to excluded certain extensions and phone numbers from the notification process. For example, the doorman's office may be stored in the list.
Use this language
You can set the language in which the e-mails are sent. The languages for which files exist in the languages directory are available.
Unanswered calls


Keen to know how that goes - the ckk compressor I have is pretty mean.
lovely guitars. i have one. love the full scale length.
what does yours weigh if you dont mind ?
Unfortunately the scales aren't working properly, unless I have lost 30Kg's in the last month. So not sure of the weight, but it is pretty light. From the serial number the guitar was made in July 2007. The guy I got it from said he bought it off the original owner, who bought it new in Japan, then relocated to NZ.
Single coil wrote: Keen to know how that goes - the ckk compressor I have is pretty mean.
I've played a few 120th Traditionals and despite the bad reputation of the '14s, they were all superb. The pickups are not dissimilar from the Custom Buckers in the R9s, so they're also pretty decent.
bought a second hand iPad. I used to have one which i broke, and it was actually an extremely useful device for music. Lyrics, setlists, charts, mixer control, all that stuff. So a nice wee slightly belated fathers days present from me to me.
What was the bad rep for the 2014s? I'm thinking about picking one of these up when I'm in Japan.
It was the year of the dreaded electronic tuners wasn't it?


It was a bitter sweet end for Team Opera last night. We had our annual team party to wrap up the ball season and of course, to see each other one last time before storing our gear away for the winter.
What's great about our team and what makes us play so well together is our bond. We spend time each season outside of our regularly scheduled games to catch up. We've grown into a bit of a summer family; so naturally, we had to throw ourselves a party to officially say our goodbyes until next Spring.
What makes a party a great party? Other than the people, the atmosphere can make or break a get together. Instead of going to a pub or restaurant where everyone is confined to their seats and conversation is limited to small groups within ear shot, we rented the party room in a teammate's condo building, enabling easy mingling. The boys gathered around the tiny television to watch the endless loop of highlights showcasing Doc's no hitter while the girls gathered around the tray of delectable veggies.
And what party is complete without great food? By providing our own food and beverages, we were able to cut costs and save money. We ordered wings from the local bar – the Richmond Rogue – (which turned out to be a great idea as they were delicious!) and pizza from Veronica's usual pizza joint, Pizzaiolo. With ten pounds of wings, veggie sticks and three party-size pizzas, we had enough to feed our small army and then some. The food was a great hit and was gobbled up within minutes.
How do you make a party more than just a party? The highlight of the night was the presentation of the much anticipated year end plaques. After the traditional MVP-esque awards our first year, we have started trying to appeal to the team on a more entertaining and personal level. This year's theme was Famous Movie Quotes! Ashley and Veronica had a great time reciting memorable movie quotes and trying to match them to each teammate.
The plaques and the party were, of course, well received by the entire team, wrapping up yet another exciting ball season. Cheers!


At the tender age of six, Lindsey Rucks fell in love with a big-eared, brown-eyed, Brown Swiss calf Stormy Rain, the only Swiss baby in a sea of Black and White animals at the farm. Incredibly stubborn, the calf refused to drink from a bottle but Lindsey, equally determined, would not give up. Together they forged a deep bond and Lindsey's love for the Brown Swiss breed blossomed.
The Rucks Family LtoR: Garrett, Erin, Sutton, Kris, Lindsey & Buck. Photo supplied.
Now, Lindsey is the fourth generation to farm at the family farm, Milking R Dairy, which has been in the Rucks family since the 1930's. Owned by Lindsey's parents, Sutton & Kris Rucks, and along with her brother Garrett, they milk 1400 cows and farm 1200 acres in Okeechobee, FL, which is located right in between Miami and Orlando.
All of the Rucks' have a tremendous love for the dairy business and are 100% hands-on at Milking R. Sutton is the main overseer of the business and "would rather deal with cows than people," according to Lindsey. Kris takes care of all the bookkeeping and cow records and regularly fills in wherever she is needed. Garrett handles all the maintenance and crops, as well as managing the 1200-head beef cow herd. Lindsey looks after anything calf related from newborns to young stock, takes care of the transition cows and manages the herd health program. Lindsey's fiancé, Buck Owen, whom she met three years ago at Expo, takes care of the reproduction and milk quality on the farm. An additional 20 people are employed in various capacities, many of which have worked at Milking R for over 10 years.
Kris, Lindsey & Deanna with Peach Kist Total Tango – Reserve Intermediate Champion WDE 2017. Tango is also a 2x Reserve All-American winner and has daughter by Wizdom and Cadence. Photo by Cowsmo.
The herd at Milking R is predominately Holstein, but there are also 50 Brown Swiss cows and 100 crossbred animals. Lindsey's first 4-H project was that stubborn Brown Swiss calf Stormy Rain and her admiration for the breed has continued to grow. In the early 2000's, the Rucks' were introduced to Wayne Sliker of Top Acres Swiss, and a cow was purchased with his prefix. In 2006, a partnership with New View Swiss was formed when Dr. Kenny Manion visited the farm and a young cow named R&S Vances Joan caught his eye. Joan moved to Ohio shortly after and was 2nd 4 Year Old and Best Udder at World Dairy Expo that year.
In 2008 Vances Joan again graced the colored shavings, this time claiming Grand and Reserve Supreme Champion of the Junior Show. "It was a huge moment for us," says Lindsey, who fondly remembers watching her brother lead Joan to victory. That year Lindsey also purchased Kulp Terra TA Showgirl at the Midwest Revue Sale at the Ohio Spring Show. "My mom didn't know I was bidding," laughs Lindsey. "That money was supposed to be for college or a car!" The investment was a wise one, as many of Lindsey's current show herd can be traced back to Showgirl.
Rad-ical Goliath Good Luck was 1st Senior 2yr Old and pulled for Int. Champion for Terri Packard & Cindy Warner, MD, at this years Expo. Photo by Cowsmo.
A proud Deanna Bendig with Top Acres Braiden Wiza – Junior Champion WDE 2017. Photo by Cowsmo.
The Bo-Joy Ensign Gredel EX-94 5E (EX-94 MS) family brought Lindsey Top Acres Pilot Gaiety OCS EX-92 2E. Gaiety is an HM All-American with three records over 30,000lbs of milk. She was Grand Champion at the Southeast National Brown Swiss Show in Louisville, Kentucky in 2010, and 1st Aged Cow in Harrisburg & Nominated All-American in 2011. Gaiety is also the granddam of RAD-ical Goliath Good Luck VG-89 (EX MS) who was 1st Senior 2 Year Old & Best Udder at this year's Expo for owners, Terri Packard and Cindy Warner of Maryland.
Peach Kist Total Tango EX-91 (EX-92 MS max) has been a regular in the RAD-ical show string in the past 2 years. Her granddam is GS Ensign Tootie EX-94 3E, often a runner-up to Snickerdoodle, and nominated All-American multiple times. In 2016, Tango Reserve Intermediate Champion at the New York Spring Show and Honorable Mention Intermediate Champion at Expo, earning her Reserve All-American Senior 2 Year Old honors. She followed that up by capturing Intermediate and Grand Champion at the All-American Dairy Show in Harrisburg and Reserve Intermediate Champion at Expo in 2017, and was Reserve All-American Senior 3 Year Old. Tango's progeny include a March 2017 daughter by Cadence and September 2017 daughters by Wizdom.
Another favorite, Top Acres Braiden Wiza is a daughter of Top Acres Supreme Wizard EX-95 2E, who comes from the famous Whizzbang family. In 2017 Wiza won the 'triple crown' for Lindsey with Junior Champion victories at the New York Spring Show, Harrisburg and World Dairy Expo. She made Expo history that year after winning Junior Champion when her mother, Wizard, claimed Grand Champion honors as well. Wiza is now VG-87 and has exciting September 2018 Carter calves on the ground.
RAD-ical Showring Ready, 1st Senior 3yr Old & HM Int. Champion at WDE 2018. She was also Intermediate & Grand Champion at the 2018 NY Spring Show & Res. Iintermediate Champion at Harrisburg 2018 only 20 days fresh. Photo by Cowmso.
World Dairy Expo has been home to a lot of memories for the Rucks' family over the years and since their first trip to Expo in 2006 they have had All-American nominated animals each year. 2018 was no exception as Lindsey says it was fantastic to see two cows with the RAD-ical prefix pulled out in a lineup of four, for Intermediate Champion. "Bringing home two banners last year for Junior Champion and Reserve Intermediate Champion was an amazing moment for us," says Lindsey, "but having milking class winners with the RAD-ical prefix has been the goal." She admits that the ultimate dream is to breed an Expo Grand Champion and have more class winners along the way, as well as bringing out a string that is entirely home-bred. "I love Ken and Peter, but its sure nice to beat them once in a while," Lindsey says with a smile of fellow Expo competitors, Ken Main & Peter Vail of Elite Dairy, New York.
Lindsey looks after everything calf related at Milking R, from newborns to young stock. Photo supplied.
In order to achieve her goals, Lindsey continues to make the mating decisions for her herd, with some advice from Dale and Deanna. Service sires like Carter, Wizdom, Tequila, Cadence and Winning Formula are used, as well also older bulls like Supreme, Braiden and Total, who have worked well on her cows in the past. Striving to find the right combination of sire stacks and bulls from proven cow families, Lindsey aims to keep the strength that the Brown Swiss breed is known for. "I want clean boned, wide-pinned, flat-rumped heifers that are stylish and turn into cows with high, wide rear udders that produce in the tank as well as the show ring," says Lindsey.
Although she purchased a lot of genetics initially to build up the herd, outside purchases are rarer now. "I still make the odd exception because diversity is important," says Lindsey. "There can be new opportunities with new cow families." One of her more recent purchases was the 1st Milking Yearling at Expo this year, Round-Hill Braidn Wanita, who she owns with Jenna Hoffman.
Participation in a rigorous IVF program at Trans Ova in Maryland has also allowed Lindsey to advance her own genetics quickly. Recipients are sent up to Maryland and once they are confirmed pregnant, they head back to Florida to be raised on Milking R's automatic calf feeders, a first in the state. Once calves are on the ground Lindsey decides what to consign to various sales and what will head to Pennsylvania to enter the show herd.
With her Swiss herd thriving in Pennsylvania, Lindsey continues to focus her attention on her family's operation. "It's incredibly satisfying to be able to continue our farm with my family. Seeing a calf born or a sick cow get back up again never gets old for me," she says. At Milking R, plans are in the works to diversify the business by making ice cream and bottling their own milk, while continued emphasis is placed on cow comfort and "working for the cows, not the other way around!" Participation in the Fuel Up to Play 60 program and other initiatives to promote dairy products in Florida are a priority for the Rucks family as well.
Milking R has been in the Rucks' family for four generations and is located in Okeechobee, Florida.
Lindsey's continued goal of breeding quality animals to grow the Brown Swiss breed, coupled with her family's passion for dairying in Florida, is what drives the Rucks' family legacy. This will definitely not be the last time we hear about Milking R and RAD-ical Genetics.
Cows: TMR of corn silage & forages with added citrus bi-product (pulp from oranges, grapefruits, lemons and limes depending on the season). Citrus adds natural sugar, reduces need for molasses and makes the ration smell good!
Lindsey & Sutton, along with Miami Dolphins Defensive End, Cameron Wake, promote the Fuel Up To Play 60 program, a national dairy campaign that partners with the NFL to encourage school kids to get active and eat well. Photo supplied.


Music beyond boundaries, the search for new sounds, innovation in music seem sought-after goals in the EDM industry. After all, there is an endless supply of great tunes and decades of looking back onto the morphing of electronic music. Just over a decade ago, the Dutch hard dance music community garnered a genre unto their own that was deeply melodic, euphoric even, and especially demonstrative of the harder styles in electronic music.
As much of a wild tangent as this writing has been much of the music is created in the same way. The journey through meaning and music is especially significant here as B-Front and Phuture Noize wrangle the everchanging Hardstyle sounds and recreate them using deeply passionate melodies true to the genre's beginnings years ago. Have a listen to their collaborative single "The Solution", below.
For more insight into the Hardstyle community, view Hardstyle Producer Brennan Heart's documentary Evolution of Style. Also, for details on the Hardstyle legacy read more from the informative piece from Q-Dance. At that, the music is especially well suited to the genre. B-Front and Phuture Noize have a melodiously pleasing production, here, that is a sure track for any Hardstyle fan to add to his or her own playlist.
A strong force in the musical producing talents of the Dutch Hardstyle community. Recently, inducted into Q-Dance's distinguished Legends. The artist definitely packs an emotional punch into all of his tracks. These emanate from tracks that are heard as anthems, as in the Qapital 2013 event anthem "Worth Fighting For", and powerful productions such as "Dark Moon". Also, the textures of his lead melodies are extraordinarily rich and consistently so from one production to the next.
The Phuture Noize is now, and it sounds like hard dance. This Hardstyle producer gathering momentum and producing among the best in the industry here in this collaboration with B-Front. Q-Dance chose him to make the anthem for Qapital 2018 last Spring.
For EDM Releases and more one Electronic Dance Music check out OneEDM.


Robert Attey was born in 1839 and was raised by his father, John, Librarian to the Earl of Durham, at Lambton Castle, County Durham, England. After serving his apprenticeship with the nineteenth-century newspaper The Sunderland Herald, he established his own commercial printing company in 1885 with sons George and Ralph.
George Attey, pictured here, became President of the Sunderland & District Master Printers Association in 1906, and the company went from strength to strength. It's registered name is still Robert Attey & Sons Ltd, though we now trade as attey-group.com, reflecting the size of the company, the many services now offered in addition to commercial print, and our ability to integrate data management and communications into a total package that includes Internet solutions.
With a multi million GBP turnover and strong business partnerships with the North of England's leading Universities, the company is now run by Robert's Great Great Grandson, Chris Attey, who is Chief Executive and Managing Director.
attey-group is the trading name of Robert Attey & Sons Ltd.
and to it we have added a full range of other services. Several years ago we began to offer Data Services through an on-going partnership with the University of Newcastle. This started and continues in the field of Data Entry and Data Capture.
Following the success of this operation, further partnerships have been established with other major Universities, to strengthen, for example, our provision of data management. As these partnerships have developed we have further diversified and become a multi-functional, total communications and data management company, including and embracing Internet Solutions. We are also a member of Cimtech, the Centre for Information Management and Technology - University of Hertfordshire.
As well as our own expertise and equipment, we are able to draw on the outstanding facilities and in-depth, highly specialist knowledge of our University partners, and we have put this into a commercially driven and highly professional business operation. This allows for a rapid response to customer needs and provides, in many cases, a one stop shop giving true value for money. We have developed into a highly reputable supply source seeking to add value to your business and build long term, mutually beneficial relationships with our customers.
Current major contracts include, for example, a combined printing and data-entry project with the University of Durham worth several million GBP. This splits approximately 40% print to 60% data entry by value.


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Ernst Schowengerdt House is a historic home located at Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri.  The original section was built in 1866, as a two-story, five bay brick dwelling with two Classical Revival style porches.  It was extensively remodeled in the Queen Anne style in 1892–1893.  The remodeling added a three-story round tower emerging halfway through the main block of the house. The building houses the Warren County Historical Society.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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HomeMay-June 2014Can Ergogenic Aids Give Athletes an Edge?
Can Ergogenic Aids Give Athletes an Edge?
When the difference between first and last place is a matter of seconds, athletes are looking for ways to get an edge over their competition. Dietary supplements for athletes make big promises, but they're often not well-regulated and their health claims are sometimes dubious.
According to a study published in 2011 in the Journal of Sports Sciences, 5 percent to 20 percent of supplements marketed to athletes — even those marketed as "natural" — may contain banned substances that either are included intentionally or present via cross-contamination. These substances can show up in testing, which constitutes a serious ethics violation that may lead to medal forfeiture, disqualification or suspension.
Athletes are responsible for everything they put into their bodies and they cannot claim that they weren't aware of the risk of ingesting an illegal substance when taking performance-enhancing supplements.
Some ergogenic aids, however, do show promising results in studies. While the following ergogenic aids may help an athlete achieve performance goals, they are no substitute for a good training program and a tailored nutrition plan.
Beetroot juice is a potent source of dietary nitrate. It occurs naturally in vegetables such as arugula, rhubarb, butterhead lettuce, celery, spinach and red beetroot.
Dietary nitrate is reduced to nitrite and nitric oxide in the body, especially during times of low oxygen availability and acidosis, both of which can occur during exercise. The high nitrate content of vegetables recommended in the DASH diet may be partially responsible for the diet's ability to lower blood pressure.
Nitrate supplementation (usually about 200 milliliters to 500 milliliters per day) reduces the oxygen cost of exercise. This results in greater oxygen delivery to working muscles, which increases the capacity for high-intensity exercise. Several studies using well-trained cyclists and rowers show improved time trial results when beetroot juice was ingested in place of a placebo. A recent meta-analysis published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition showed a small performance benefit in laboratory-measured exercise tests when 500 milliliters of beetroot juice was ingested daily for six days prior to exercise.
Beetroot juice appears to be safe, and the only noted negative side effect is "beeturia" (red-hued urine), but researchers don't know yet if high intake of nitrates over a long period of time will have negative health consequences. More research is needed to fully understand the mechanism, the most effective dose and the types of athletes who might benefit most from beetroot juice supplementation. That said, encouraging athletes to eat more nitrate-rich vegetables, including beetroot, is a sound practice.
Beta-alanine is an important precursor to carnosine, a lactic acid buffer. During high-intensity exercise that lasts for a few seconds to a few minutes (such as sprints), muscles primarily rely on the anaerobic energy system. Acidosis limits an athlete's ability to exercise at very high intensity. Athletes have tried buffering lactic acid with various nutrition strategies, including ingesting bicarbonate (baking soda), but many suffer stomach upset. Beta-alanine has the potential to increase carnosine, which in turn reduces acidosis. In doses ranging from 3 grams to 6.5 grams per day for two to 12 days, beta-alanine has been shown to increase the buffering capacity of lactic acid, but whether this leads to improvement in performance remains to be seen. Some studies have shown improvement in sprint performance while others have not demonstrated any benefit. High doses may cause paraestheisa (flushing and tingling), but slow-release forms of the supplement do not. More research is needed to determine precise performance benefits in athletes.
Branched-chain amino acids, including leucine, isoleucine and valine, are used by endurance athletes as an energy source late in exercise when muscle carbohydrate stores are low. Research suggests that BCAA also may delay mental fatigue by altering brain neurotransmitters that contribute to fatigue. The theory is sound, but there is not enough evidence to show that BCAA supplementation can delay fatigue.
Eating foods rich in BCAA is a smart move for athletes, but for reasons other than delaying fatigue. Leucine has been identified as an anabolic trigger to stimulate muscle protein synthesis. Leucine is a key amino acid in whey, a protein in milk. Milk may have a muscle-building advantage over other protein sources because milk protein contains both whey and casein.
Whey is a "fast" protein that is rapidly digested and absorbed, leading to a rapid rise in amino acids in the blood, while casein, a "slow" protein, results in a slower release of amino acids. The combined fast and slow release of amino acids leads to a more sustained availability of amino acids to muscles.
Creatine is found in meat and fish; a typical meat eater ingests about 1 gram of creatine daily. In muscle, creatine combines with phosphate to create a high-energy compound that resynthesizes ATP to perform muscular work, which in turn increases muscle mass.
Athletes who supplement with creatine typically take it in the preseason, particularly when weight training. Supplementing with 20 grams to 25 grams of creatine monohydrate for five to seven days, followed by 5 grams to 10 grams daily for up to two months increases muscle creatine content by about 20 percent, according to a study published in 2012 in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. This can increase an athlete's ability to train, leading to improvements in strength and power.
Creatine monohydrate is the form used in research studies, but many other forms of creatine are marketed to athletes, claiming to provide advantages above and beyond creatine monohydrate. However, there is no evidence to support these claims.
Supplemental creatine has been around for about 20 years, and it is safe when used in the recommended doses. The supplement does not cause muscle cramping, nor has it been shown to cause kidney damage in healthy athletes, even among those following a high-protein diet.
Christine Rosenbloom, PHD, RDN, CSSD, FAND, is a nutrition professor emerita at Georgia State University. She has more than 30 years of experience in nutrition, with specialties in sports nutrition and gerontology.


Bring hope to the lives of the hearing impaired!
Sounds of Silence is India's first technology based NGO empowering the hearing impaired individuals to overcome the barriers to communication that they face, and providing them a new way to interact with the world.
We are dedicated towards the development of the Deaf community and also aim to promote social and cultural awareness. Since the past few years, we have been organizing volunteer sessions in various schools for the hearing impaired children.
All year round, we also try to organize as many events and awareness campaigns as possible. All these activities not only lead to a higher community engagement but also provide our hearing impaired students and employees a platform to express themselves confidently.
Now we're relaunching our volunteer engagement sessions in Mumbai, Delhi, and Pune. This year, we'll also be expanding India's first Hearing Impaired BPO, for which we seek your aid.
Around 6% of Indians suffer from some form of hearing loss. That's over 60 million, so the equation is pretty simple for SOS. We have this huge resource pool of hearing impaired job ready adults in India and SOS aims to bridge the gap through its own center for the hearing impaired.
Your little effort is worth a lot. Please join hands for this noble cause by donating and assisting the differently abled live a dignified life.
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Your share could be as good as a donation for Sounds of Silence Foundation!
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