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Travel Restrictions On Foreign Residents Lifted
Travel restrictions preventing entry into North Cyprus from countries with a serious outbreak of the mutated strain of Covid-19 for everyone with the exception of TRNC citizen have been eased, enabling foreign nationals with TRNC residency to return, it was reported last week.
The TRNC authorities reacting to pressure from foreign residents' groups will allow foreigners with permanent residency in the TRNC, travelling from the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Brazil and South Africa to enter North Cyprus.
The decision was ratified last week, and confirmed in a NOTAM (formal notification) issued by the TRNC Transport Ministry to airlines and air and sea ports on Saturday, 30 January.
The TRNC, along with many other countries had imposed travel restrictions, after details of the more contagious variant of the coronavirus were discovered in December. Flights and travellers from countries with the mutation were banned.
Some countries, like Turkey, applied exemptions allowing their own citizens and foreigners with residency permits to enter. The Turkish Cypriot authorities, however, opted to permit TRNC citizens only to travel from these high risk countries.
There are considerable numbers of foreign residents, including a large British community living in North Cyprus. Many residents returned to the UK for Christmas, only to find that they were unable to return after new travel restrictions were imposed on December 23.
The British Residents Society and the Foreign Residents (TFR), online support group North Cyprus Expats Uncut Version, and two foreign resident's associations based in North Cyprus, got involved, raising awareness of the situation and lobbied the TRNC government to enable the residents to return.
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Published 9:43 am Friday, January 20, 2023
By Stephen Hemelt
Vidor head coach Jeff Mathews (Van Wade/Orange Leader)
VIDOR — Long-time Vidor football coach Jeff Mathews informed his players in athletics class Friday morning that he would no longer be their football coach.
He worked the student athletes out and then looked on his phone an hour later and had more than 200 text messages as news of his decision spread across Southeast Texas and beyond.
"I've cried about eight times," Mathews joked with Orange Newsmedia Friday morning. "I got to get away. I am tired of people seeing me cry."
Head Pirates football coach since 1999, Mathews is walking away from coaching to start something new.
Matthews is also accepting a job with BSN Sports (bsnsports.com), an apparel, footwear, uniform and equipment company.
"I can't 100 percent say that I am through coaching," he added. "I don't know. I am going to try something new and see how I like it. I still have a passion. I love the relationships with the kids and watching them grow up, seeing how they change over their six years with us. This is a get away, I guess. I don't know if I can stand retirement."
In the immediate timeline, Mathews plans on being on the sideline of every game, though he stressed he would not interfere with the new coach.
He just wants to high five, hug or get on players if they are doing less then he thinks they are capable of.
"I will work at Vidor for the rest of the year," he said. "I'm going to show up and work the kids out everyday until they hire somebody new and then help them get adjusted to it. I'm not going to leave the kids shorthanded. I am going to make sure they are ready to go for when the new guy gets here. They are not going to miss a beat."
According to Mathews, he never promised a state title or win total, but said every student in the football program would be a better father, husband, son and Christian for their efforts.
Vidor's Brayden Root gets a big gain on an end-around play against Lindale in the playoffs. (Tommy Mann, Jr./Orange Leader)
He also promised to relentlessly pursue a district championship every year.
"Obviously, we didn't win as many as we wanted to win, but I feel like the program is in better shape now then what it was," he said. "Winning and losing has never been the most important thing to me. Seeing a guy I coached in 1999 walk up and introduce his son to me and say, 'boy, I hope you get to coach him,' has always been more important.
"My biggest moment is seeing kids that I coached and knowing we had a chance to better their lives. That is far more greater than any win or district championship."
The Pirates finished 2022 with a 6-5 record.
They lost their first three non-district games as turnovers and penalties hampered their play.
However, Vidor rebounded, winning six of their last seven regular season games, including going 4-1 in District 10-4A Division I play, to nail down the district's second-place playoff seed.
The season ended in the Class 4A Region III Division I bi-district round of the playoffs, where Vidor fell to the Lindale Eagles 45-23.
Editor's note: Stay with Orange Newsmedia for continuing coverage of Mathews' decision to step down from Vidor, his favorite moments and the school district's next moves.


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Who is responsible for collecting and processing data on our website?
Data on our website are collected and processed by the website owner, RSM, whose contact details are in the legal notice entitled imprint of this website.
At first your data are collected by your having disclosed them to us, such as by hav-ing filled out and sent us a contact form.
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A portion of your data is collected in order to ensure that our website is available error free. Other data can be used to analyse your user behaviour.
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At any time you may, free of charge, obtain information on the origin, recipients and purpose of any data relating to your person stored by us. Moreover, you have the right to demand that your data be rectified, restricted or erased. For this purpose as well as for any other questions on data protection, you may at any time contact us at the address indicated in our imprint. Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint to the responsible supervisory authority.
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The owner of this website takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data with utmost confidentiality and strictly in line with legal data protection regulations as well as in accordance with this data protection declaration.
When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data are data with which you can be personally identified. The data protection declaration at hand explains which data we collect and the purpose for which we use them. This declaration also explains how and for what purpose this takes place.
We point out that data transmitted through the internet (e.g. email communication) may have security gaps. It is not possible to provide complete protection from third parties gaining access to data.
Responsible body
The responsible body for processing data on this website lies with:
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A responsible body is a natural or legal person that alone or jointly with others makes decisions on the purpose and the means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).
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Many data processing transactions are solely possible with your express consent. At any time you may withdraw any consent already given. It is sufficient to send us an informal request by email. The legality of data having been processed prior to your consent being withdrawn remains unaffected.
In the event of an infringement of the data protection law, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority. The superviso-ry authority responsible for questions concerning the data protection law is the state data protection officer of the German federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia, in which our Company is legally seated. A list of data protection officers as well as of their contact data is available through the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html
You have the right to transmit data, which we have automatically processed on the basis of either your consent or of having fulfilled a contract, to yourself or to a third party in a commonly used and machine-readable format. Should you request to have such data directly transmitted to another controller, a responsible party having control over the data, it may only be carried out as far as technically possible.
Information, restriction, erasure
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This officer may be contacted via email: datenschutz[at]rsm.de
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On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services related to website and Internet use.
The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
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The recipient of the collected data is Google.
Transfer to Third Countries
Personal data will be transferred to the USA under the EU-US Privacy Shield on the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision. You can download the certificate here.
Duration of Data Storage
The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user-identifiers (e.g. User-IDs) or advertising-identifiers are automatically deleted after 14 months. Data whose retention period has been reached is automatically deleted once a month.
Rights of the Persons affected
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by blocking the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functionalities of this website to their full extent.
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When you make queries through our contact form, the information you provide on this form, including the contact data you indicate therein, is stored for the purpose of our processing your query and in case any follow-up questions arise. We do not transmit such data without your consent.
Therefore, data entered into the contact form are solely processed on the basis of your consent as described in Article 6 (1) letter a of the GDPR. You may withdraw this consent at any time. It is sufficient to send us an informal request by email. The legality of data having been processed prior to your consent being withdrawn remains unaffected.
Data you have entered on the contact form remain with us until either you request they be erased, you withdraw your consent for their storage or the purpose of stor-ing the data storage is no longer necessary (e.g. after completely processing your query). Mandatory legal regulations – in particular data retention schedules – remain unaffected.
Job applicant data
We collect and process the personal data of job applicants for the purpose of im-plementing our job application procedures. Processing may also be done by electronic means.
This is particularly the case when an applicant transmits relevant job application documents to us by electronic means, such as by email or through a web form on our website.
Should an employment contract ensue from a job application, the data transmitted for the purpose of processing the employment relationship are stored in compliance with legal regulations.
Should no employment contract ensue from a job application, the job application documents are erased six months after the job vacancy has been filled, to the extent the person responsible for processing the data has no other legitimate interests that speak against their erasure. An example of another legitimate interest in this sense is the duty of burden of proof in legal proceedings in accordance with the General Equal Treatment Act [Allgemeinen Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (AGG)]. By consent of the job applicant, such data may also be stored for a longer period.
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On our website pages plug-ins are integrated into the social network, Facebook, owned by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can recognise Facebook plug-ins by the Facebook logo or the "like" button on our website. You can find an overview of Facebook plug-ins here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plug-ins/
When you visit our website pages via a plug-in, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server. By this means, Facebook receives the information that you have visited our website with your IP address. When you press the Facebook "like" button while being logged on to your Facebook account, you are able to link the content of our website pages with your Facebook profile. By this means, Facebook is able to allocate your visit to our website to your user account. Please note that we, as the provider of the website, receive no knowledge either of the content of the data transmitted nor of their use by Facebook. You can find further information on this in the data policy of Facebook under: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php
Should you not wish Facebook to be able to allocate your visit to our website to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.
Should you wish to subscribe to the newsletter offered on our website, we require an email address from you as well as information allowing us to check whether you are the owner of the email address indicated and whether you are in agreement with receiving the newsletter. No other data are collected unless on a voluntary ba-sis. We solely use these data for transmitting the information requested and do not transmit them to any third parties.
Data entered into the newsletter subscription form are solely processed on the ba-sis of your consent (Article 6 (1) letter a of the GDPR). At any time you may withdraw your consent given for storing data and the email address as well as for their use in transmitting the newsletter by using the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter. The legality of data having been processed prior to your consent being withdrawn remains unaffected.
Data you have given to us for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us until you have unsubscribed to the newsletter, upon which they will then be erased. Data stored for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the members area) are unaffected by this activity.
7. Plug-ins and tools
Our website uses plug-ins from the YouTube website operated by Google. YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, owns this website.
When you visit one of our website pages with a YouTube plug-in, a connection will be established with YouTube servers. By this means, the YouTube server is in-formed about which of our website pages you have visited.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to allocate your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
The purpose of our using YouTube lies in our interest in attractively presenting our online offerings. This is a legitimate interest in line with Article 6 (1) letter f of the GDPR.
You can find further information on the handling of user data in the privacy policy of YouTube under: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy
Our website uses plug-ins from the video portal, Vimeo, owned by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.
When you visit one of our website pages equipped with a Vimeo plug-in, a connec-tion will be established with Vimeo servers. By this means, a Vimeo server is in-formed of which of our website pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo obtains your IP address. This also holds true even if you are not logged on to Vimeo or do not even have a Vimeo account. Information collected by Vimeo is transmitted to Vimeo servers in the USA.
If you are logged into your Vimeo account, you allow Vimeo to allocate your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.
You can find further information on the handling of user data in the privacy policy of Vimeo under: vimeo.com/privacy
Via an application programming interface (API), this website uses the map service, Google Maps, owned by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
In order to use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to have your IP address stored. As a rule, this information is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. RSM, as the owner of this website, has no influence on this data transmission.
The purpose of our using Google Maps lies in our interest in attractively presenting our online offerings and in wanting our viewers to more easily find the locations of our offices on our website. This is a legitimate interest in line with Article 6 (1) letter f of the GDPR.
You can find further information on the handling of user data in the privacy policy of Google: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
Data protection declaration for the use of LinkedIn
Our website uses functions of the network, LinkedIn, owned by LinkedIn Corpora-tion, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time you open one of our website pages containing functions provided by LinkedIn, a connection is set up with LinkedIn servers. LinkedIn is informed of your visit to our internet pages with your IP address. When you press the LinkedIn "recommend" button and are logged into your LinkedIn account, it is possible for LinkedIn to allocate your visit to our website and to your user account. Please note that we, as the owner of this web-site, receive no knowledge either of the content of the data transmitted nor of their use by LinkedIn. You can find further information in the privacy policy of LinkedIn under: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Data protection declaration for the use of XING
Our website uses functions of the network, XING, owned by XING AG, Dammtor-straße 29-32, D 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Each time you open one of our website pages containing functions provided by XING, a connection is established with XING servers. To our knowledge, personal data are not stored by doing this. In par-ticular, neither IP addresses are stored nor is user behaviour analysed.
You can find further information on data protection and the XING "share" button in the data protection notice of XING under: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection
Data protection declaration for the use of Facebook plug-ins ("like" button)
Our website contains plug-ins integrated with the social network, Facebook, owned by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can rec-ognise Facebook plug-ins by the Facebook logo or the "like" button on our website.
You can find an overview of Facebook plug-ins under: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plug-ins/
When you visit our website via the plug-in, a direct connection is established be-tween your browser and the Facebook server. By this means, Facebook receives the information that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you press the Facebook "like" button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you are able to link the content of our website with your Facebook profile. Facebook is thereby able to allocate the visit to our website to your user account. Please note that we, as the provider of this website, receive no knowledge either of the content of the data transmitted nor of their use by Facebook. You can find further information on this in the policy of Facebook under: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php
Data protection declaration for the use of Twitter
On our website plug-ins are integrated into the service, Twitter. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the "re-tweet" function, your Twitter account is linked with the website you have visited and other users are informed of this activity. Data are thereby also transmitted to Twitter. Please note that we, as the provider of this web-site, receive no knowledge either of the content of the data transmitted nor of their use by Twitter. You can find further information on this in the privacy policy of Twitter under https://twitter.com/privacy
You are able to change the data protection settings on your Twitter account under: https://twitter.com/account/settings
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A patient young boy instructs his attentive canine friend in this poignant Italian School sculpture by Antonio Piazza. Crafted of pristine Carrara marble, this enchanting work is both highly detailed and endearingly emotive. The turn of the century was a time of incredible creativity in the marble arts, and sculptors like Piazza produced masterpieces that rivaled the most beautiful Neoclassical and Art Nouveau bronzes. Piazza (1875 - 1925) was known for his beautifully detailed pieces carved of Carrara marble. His works are housed at the Musée de Montpellier.
Throughout history, marble has been used for architectural decoration, building and sculpture named Imhotep (2667 BC - 2648 BC), the first architect on record, used marble for the pyramids he designed noting that it was the most suitable material for immortalizing the art of construction. Carrara (or white) marble is the most admired due to its luminous, nearly flawless characteristics. First quarried in the 1st century, B.C., it is obtained from the Apuan Alps near Tuscany and has been used not only for statuary marble, but for building stone, vases, paneling and flooring, and was the favorite marble of Michaelangelo. Alluring beauty and costliness in production make marble works like these sculptures the ultimate symbols of luxury and wealth.


I loved this color from the 2″ sample and WOW these countertops turned out better than imagined! Always wonderful when things installed look better than the sample!
For all those out there on livemodern.com with the ongoing discussions of the best sink, ours is a "Blanco Spex Plus" with equal 14x16x8 1/2 bowls. For the baths we ordered a rectangular American Standard sink in white also from faucet.com. I looked at the "Blancoprecis" double bowl sink- love it. But hum- $1,277 for the kitchen sink versus $300? We went with the less expensive one and I think we will be ok. But that square edged Blancoprecis sure is attractive!
Also a bit more on our cabinets (ongoing discussions on livemodern.com for those followers). We did alot of research on these before making our final decision to go with a local cabinet maker. We shopped at IKEA which is in Atlanta and would require a long distance trip for us if we went with this option. Their cabinets are a great price and ok in quality. We looked around in a Scavolini store in Miami. Very fancy Italian cabinets with all kinds of cool stuff. Those were never in our budget but were fun to look at and know they were out there. None of the high end European lines have a retail store in our area. We also shopped at the local hardware stores, looked at the Venicia line by KraftMaid, and some of the local kitchen cabinet retailers. Our builder suggested we use HY Construction in Millington to make the cabinets. Before his suggestion, I had never really thought about going with a custom made option. We looked at their work and liked what we saw. Also we could customize the sizes to exactly what we wanted but still stay within our budget. This is less of an option with store bought cabinets although some of the higher end cabinets allow for customization. Dave found a source for walnut fibercore plywood at a good price and this really set the look we were after. Our design with slab front doors is straightforward. I designed the kitchen, bath, and utility room cabinet layout and another local architect that works with HY Construction took my drawings and fine tuned them into shop drawings. Everything turned out beautifully. I highly recommend the local custom made cabinets if this is an option in your area. It takes a little more patience, but you end up getting just what you want if you find the right people to make them.
The island cabinets are on site but are not in their final place as the concrete floor finishing work begins. The countertop on the island is also not installed yet. More photo updates as these get finished.
Master shower with AAC wall still exposed. My understanding is that they are going to install the tile over the AAC here and over the durarock board on the stud framed walls. I like this photo because it's one of the last remaining places where the AAC is still visible. This other place is the exterior wall of the mechanical closet. This will remain uncovered both because it just doesn't need a layer of sheetrock and because it serves as a window into how our house is built long after all the other walls are sheathed in other materials.
Master shower soap enclosure framed.
The above photo is in the upper bath with a tub where some of the tile work has started. We are using basic 3×6 white tiles for the tub enclosure and downstairs shower enclosure. The upper soap opening was cut and installed and we just decided to leave it and put a lower one in also to be easier to access from the tub.


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Theatre fans will have fun choosing which West End show to go to and have the comfort of being able to walk back to the hotel and avoid the busy tubes, while those looking for a late night can head over to Piccadilly's popular clubs. Offering a top location and great low-cost rooms, choosing London accommodation near Piccadilly will ensure that you have a great time in the heart of London.
Grosvenor House Studios offer great two-star accommodation from just £75 each. Part of the London School of Economics, these studios have a kitchenette so you can make your own meals and the flexibility to come and go as you choose.
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On the Capital Gang, the public affairs talkshow on Capital FM this past Saturday, missiles jutted from the hip and mouth of Democratic Party president (DP), Norbert Mao. Understandable considering that days before, Mao had been in the trenches with Butambala Member of Parliament Mwanga Kivumbu who he blitzkrieged as a ''meal-card'' politician.
On the Gang, it seemed like the DP man had carried his war mood in the studios; he mowed whoever and whatever crossed his path. In a pound- for-pound encounter with NRM woman Lydia Wanyato, Mao gave her a sucker punch wrapped in a velvet glove by ''threatening'' that he would ask Gayaza, Wanyoto's former school, to return her fees. Your guess on the meaning of that is as good as mine. The hard blow in a velvet glove left Wanyoto grumbling and off balance till the end of the show.
Nancy, another Gangster then attempted a shot at Mao by claiming he was using too much English (paraphrased). Mao shot down her missile before it could take off by countering that he should not be accused of taking advantage of those with limited vocabulary!
If he were a fighter jet, Mao would be the type that can attack and defend like the Sukhois our Old Man bought from Comrade Vladimir Putin of Russia.
Without pretending to be exhaustive, this short essay is an attempt to use Mao to illustrate the skillful art that is the deployment of language.
To start with, you cannot flawlessly communicate if you do not have a degree of intelligence. Secondly, language on its own is ineffective in communication. Imagine the horror of encountering a lawyer with some language skills but with no law in his head. Or a teacher with some English but with no content. Both can't be said to be good in what they do.
It would therefore seem that to be a Mao, one needs to strike a balance between language skills, content and a good understanding of the target which may determine the language to deploy. Quick thinking is another skill a good speaker must have. It is beautiful to be quick-footed in a counterattack like how Nancy of the Gang was jolted with: Don't blame me for your lack of vocabulary.
A good speaker must be a constant and wide reader. One of the texts that must be read is the Bible because it's a rich literary text.
The opposite of Mao without the flowery tongue but with lethal capabilities is President Museveni. I don't find him a particularly electrifying speaker but he compensates his inadequacy in flawless speech with depth in history, politics, culture, psychology, humour and the Bible.
One does not need to use ''big'' words to communicate. Mao does not use complicated words whether he's speaking English, Acholi or Luganda. He's just skillful in sentence construction and deft at use and deployment of figures of speech. At the beginning of the Capital Gang show, he said however big a tree President Museveni is, he should not think he is a forest. Now, Museveni is so powerful in Uganda. Probably more powerful than the institution of the presidency. More powerful than parliament. More powerful than his NRM. The temptation for him to think he is a tree bigger than a forest is therefore real and high.


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The biggest pharma merger and acquisition deals of 2019
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The pharmaceutical industry saw some notable mergers and acquisitions in 2019; this article lists the top 10 by transaction size.
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Shire on Haemophilia: How to treat a bleeding disorder
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The market for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across the seven major markets (7MM) of the US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and Japan, is set to experience an increase from approximately $6.1 billion in 2014 to $13.9 billion by 2024, at a compound annual growth rate of 8.5%,…
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Shire Plc has announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for SHP626 (volixibat) for an investigational treatment of adults with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with liver fibrosis.
Onivyde receives positive CHMP opinion for pancreatic cancer treatment
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The positive opinion is based on a pivotal Phase 3 study showing that Onivyde combined with chemotherapy significantly increased overall survival in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer...
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With this approval, Xiidra is the only prescription eye drop indicated for the treatment of both signs and symptoms of this condition...
Shire gets extended Marketing Authorisation for Revestive
7 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The EC has granted an extension of the Market Authorisation for Revestive for the treatment of patients aged one year and above with Short Bowel Syndrome...
Topline results from Phase II study of SHP607 in extremely premature infants
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While the study did not meet its primary endpoint of reducing severity of ROP, it did produce encouraging secondary endpoints related to lung and brain...
Shire to license global rights for PF-00547659 from Pfizer
PF-00547659 is an investigational biologic being evaluated for the treatment of moderate-to-severe inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)...
Shire and Baxalta combine to create a global leader in rare diseases
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Shire and Baxalta have combined businesses, creating a leading global company focused on rare diseases and other highly specialised conditions...
CHMP positive opinion for teduglutide in paediatric patients
27 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The CHMP has adopted a positive opinion of Shire's Revestive (teduglutide) solution for injection in paediatric patients with short bowel syndrome...


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Ship orders slump 50% with owners unsure over green fuel
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Ship owners facing looming deadlines to use less-polluting fuels have slashed the number of new vessels on order because they don't know which alternative technology to switch to.
Ammonia, hydrogen, biofuels and electrification are some of the many contenders to power the world's future merchant fleet, but most are only in the trial stage and won't be scalable for at least a decade. With the life of a commercial ship averaging around 20 years, opting for a technology that doesn't take off could be very costly.
But owners are running out of time to make the choice. In 2018 the International Maritime Organization (IMO) set a target to cut shipping's greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2050 from 2008 levels. The deadline prompted some ship owners to hold off on new orders until it became clearer which new fuels would be the best option — a
decline that has turned into a slump with the subsequent global trade disputes and the pandemic. Orders fell almost 10% in 2019 and then more than 50% in 2020 to the lowest in at least two decades, IHS Markit data show.
If activity doesn't pick up, that could lead to a dearth of vessels and a spike in freight rates in a few years.
"People aren't ordering ships because we don't know what to fuel them with," said Morten Aarup, head of market research at Danish vessel owner D/S Norden A/S. "Engineers, ship designers need to come together" urgently to find the best solution, he said in a recent panel discussion on shipping trends.
Ship owners who fail to switch to new, cleaner vessels could find themselves at a competitive disadvantage as more customers demand environmentally-friendly transport. About 12.3% of vessels on order have alternative-fuel propulsion, compared with just 0.6% of the current global fleet, according to data from Drewry Maritime Services.
But the use of alternative fuels in shipping is still in its infancy, with many of the big ship owners pursuing different alternatives. Trafigura Group, one of the world's biggest energy traders, has a stake in a company selling marine biofuels, vessel classification society Lloyd's Register has given approval in principle to several ammonia-fueled ship projects and Swedish tanker line Stena Bulk AB is planning to run some of its vessels on used cooking oil.
A worker passes a propeller during repair work on dredging vessel 'Daniel Leval' in a dry dock at the Port of Rouen in Rouen, France, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Over half of Europe's small and medium-sized businesses say they face bankruptcy in the next year if revenues don't pick up, underscoring the breadth of damage wrought by the Covid-19 crisis.
The IMO's targets in 2018 called for a 40% reduction in the carbon intensity of international shipping by 2030 and a 70% drop by 2050 from 2008 levels. Carbon intensity compares the amount of emissions to a unit of economic output. Those goals may become even more ambitious when the United Nations agency reviews them in 2023.
The IMO also introduced rules at the start of 2020 that banned marine fuel containing more than 0.5% sulfur for ships not fitted with pollution-reducing scrubbers.
The targets have contributed to the drop in new vessel orders, said Jayendu Krishna, a director at Drewry. While several alternative fuel projects have begun, it's unclear which ones will be scalable, he said.
LNG is a lead contender for a transition fuel on the way to full decarbonization, just as it is in electricity generation. Royal Dutch Shell Plc is set to charter 40 dual-fuel barges for use on the Rhine river that can run on it. While the gas is still a fossil fuel, it's CO2 emissions are lower than conventional marine fuel and it's readily available. LNG-fueled ships already make up 8% of new vessel orders, said Krispen Atkinson, a principal consultant at IHS Markit.
Using LNG would cut greenhouse gas emissions for shipping companies by almost 20% compared with fuel oil, said Christos Chryssakis, business development manager at DNV GL, a maritime advisory and verification provider.
A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world's biggest container line, takes a different view. "There is no time for so-called transitional fuels," said Chief Technical Officer Palle Laursen.
The Danish company is instead aiming for net-zero-emission fuel solutions only and sees fuels based on ammonia, alcohols and alcohol-lignin blends as the most promising, he said. Maersk has kept its fleet capacity flat since 2018 and hasn't invested in large new vessels recently, Laursen said.
Ammonia and hydrogen are probably the clean-fuel favorites at the moment, according to IHS's Atkinson. Electrification of ships is another possibility, although due to power-to-weight ratios it will probably only be practical for vessels operating on shorter routes, he said.
"When owners are considering newbuildings, they're very confused," DNV GL's Chryssakis said. Future fuels won't be available at scale until at least 2030 and, while all solutions need to be explored, the industry can't afford to wait, he said.
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This gimmick is a revolutionary concept in magic for productions of items. As with your standard "thumb tip" style techniques which you're already familiar, you can produce, transform or vanish many items. These could include large silks, a stack of coins, large quantities of salt, and several live goldfish!
On the stage, this gimmick is invisible, yet you have secret container in your hand. During close-up work, it's also your powerful weapon.


In 2014 Chitose Ohchi, producer of the contemporary jewelry gallery O-jewel, organized Holland x Japonism, an exhibit of twelve Netherlands-based artists that create jewelry with Japanese paper. The exhibit traveled through Tokyo, Hokkaido, Nagano and Kyoto and will finally arrive in the Netherlands this year. I'd like to focus on three of these artists.
First we have Katja Prins. After graduating Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 1997 she participated in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Taiwan, Europe and other countries.
Her recent works explore the relationship between human beings, human bodies(1) and technology as seen in her collection Hybrids (2014). The materials make this collection look more like medical instruments than pieces of jewelry. Here she substitutes her usual silver for dental resin and chrome plated brass.
The most interesting aspect of this collection might be the fact that the pieces are jewelry. The decorative elements we usually expect from jewelry - precious metals, colored stones, and so on - are suspiciously absent. This foreignness forces the viewer to wonder -what kind of person would wear this? How will it feel to wear? What does the piece say about the wearer?
The lack of jewelryness conjures up such fundamental questions and stirs your curiosity to give this collection a highly intellectual aspect.
Papilio pulmo are three necklaces exhibited in Holland x Japonism derived from the Hybrids collection. The phrase is an odd combination of the Latin words for "Butterfly" and "Lung," respectively. The association was intuitive to the artist(2). I believe it will also be intuitive to the viewer as soon as you look at their three-dimensional symmetrical shapes. Furthermore the layer of thin, delicate Japanese paper that covers the surface adds a decorative element while revealing the sensual shape that was somewhat hidden by the strong materials used in the Hybrids collection. It is interesting to see how a layer of paper revitalized the jewelryness that was absent in Hybrids. This is a fine example of how a new material can bring an unexpected chemistry to an artistic expression.
Our next artist is Gitte Nygaard. The scope of her work expands beyond jewelry to include relational aesthetic projects such as installations or collaborative works in public spaces.
Recently she and collaborator Josephine Winther held a mobile jewelry workshop called Makers Move. For this project they walked around in Copenhagen, Paris, Cape Town and Gothenburg with a stall where they molded the objects of passers-by into pendants. This project won them the 2013 Design and Craft Biennale in Copenhagen.
According to the artist, she is constantly trying to elaborate on jewelry as a product and a medium, be it through the process of creation or the qualities of material(3). The exhibited pieces, Tangible Territories, are a good example of the latter, with the artist exploring the best possible approach for each material.
Tangible Territories consists of four brooches. The idea is based on the exhibition title, Holland x Japonism, and Japanese paper. One brooch is a Y-shaped piece made by stitching together multiple layers of thin paper. The stitch outlines a map of the Netherlands and Japan that were overlapped then flipped horizontally into a symmetrical shape. To create the other three brooches she first burned sheets of paper, then layered them to create a contoured pattern that she wrapped and secured around a steel oval frame.
This series draws the viewer's attention to the way the artist uses the Japanese paper according to a concept perfectly matched to the exhibition theme. Japanese paper is expressive--see its layered translucency, the slight irregularity of the surface caused by the pressure of stitches, the rich variety of edges, some linear, some ragged, others burned. Although works made from paper often become fragile and fail to possess power as an artwork, she succeeds in making strong pieces while keeping other materials to a minimum. This reveals that she is an artist who excels not only at conceptual or relational aesthetic work, but also at drawing out various aspects of materials to make them into beautiful art. These quiet and poetic works sublimely invite the viewer into serene contemplation.
The third and final artist is Nina Sajet. Since graduating from ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem in 2011 she has made jewelry and objects with porcelain as her main material.
Porcelain and Japanese paper appear to be two completely different materials, but the way Japanese paper is both thin and strong resembles porcelain(4). She took part in White for Japan(5), an exhibit that preceded Holland x Japonism, with a necklace entitled Paper Pearls(6) that focused on the strength of the material. In contrast her new work looks to feature the delicacy of material. Sunny Ruff, a piece from this exhibition, takes its inspiration from a ruff seen in a Rembrandt painting. Historically, a ruff is a ruffled collar popular among the wealthy from the 16th to 17th century. Her version keeps the impression of the traditional ruff while interpreting it in more modern and democratic way.
Both her paper and porcelain works speak to the viewers' imagination and senses, bringing with them the possibility of a new world. According to Nina, she sees each new object and project as part of a new reality to which she wants to take the audience(7). This new reality stimulates our imagination while conjuring up our memories alongside a new story. For instance, for her Tablearu Vivrant collection(8) she used porcelain to craft a cabbage sprout-inspired necklace and earrings, along with a bird-shaped pipe and containers. The pieces evolved into a short movie where each served an impressive role.
Sunny Ruff inspired friend and performer, Toru Fujimoto, to create an imaginary conversation between Rembrandt and Toru that was performed during the 2014 Tokyo Art Fair(9).
It's possible for such stories to arise from her work, perhaps because she keeps the shape as close to the original material as possible while leaving room for the viewers' imagination. From here the work serves as a building block for another reality that spreads beyond the work. The place where this new reality overlaps with the memories and stories of the viewer forms the birthplace of a new story.
I visited the Kyoto installment set in Lakuyohsou, a traditional Japanese inn. The jewelry exhibited in a spacious tatami room served as the backdrop for an opera concert. As a whole, everything looked to serve as a stage to Ohchi's own concept – the story of how Japanese paper met the West, primitive human desire as a common thread between singing and wearing jewelry, the feminine, and so on. This led me to contemplate one question – does incorporating a piece of art into a grand concept turn the art into a prop?
Ohchi calls herself an artist who creates something unique by collecting and assembling various objects instead of making her own items. The way she approaches this stance will be a major factor for her to consider as a curator on future projects. The space manages to become more than a simple Japanese-European hybrid that unites twelve artists of significantly different styles through the theme of Japanese paper thanks to her aesthetic sense and profound understanding and modern interpretation of Japanese. How she uses these strengths will be key to her success.
(1) Interview with Susan Cummins.
(2) Email from Katja Prins, 13 December 2014.
(3) Document from Gitte Nygaard, 14 December 2014.
(4) Email from Nina Sajet, 23 December 2014.
(5) Exhibition White for Japan.
(6) Scroll down page for her work.
(7) Quote from artist's website.
(9) Performance by Toru Fujimoto at 2014 Tokyo Art Fair.
Makiko Akiyama was born in 1979 in Osaka, Japan. She works as a writer and a translator. In 2013 she launched a newsletter for Japanese readers that regularly features translated articles from Art Jewelry Forum, Klimt02 and so forth.


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Q: Whatif Analysis with Measure I have created a What-if analysis where i am deciding the Threshold value to it.
I have an margin% and Actual Margin % and i need to compare both these value with the value of the Threshold.
Like, Threshold= 20%
         margin= 3.90%
         Actual Margin %= 0.65%
So, i have created a measure where i am calculating the Actual Margin % with Threshold value i.e. x=0.65*20%
Now i need to compare it(x) with the margin i.e. if(margin

I am able to get this both the measure in place but unable to get the final measure with color code.
Note: Threshold level can be changed and the x value should be changed accordingly with the final color code as well.

A: Create a Parameter called Threshold: min 1 max 100 step 1 (create also the slider by setting the radio button)
Threshold = GENERATESERIES(0; 100; 1)

Create a measure:
Measure = if (SUM('Values'[ Value]) > Threshold[Parameter Value];"Green";"Red")

Add the measure to the table visual and go to the format tool. Go to conditional formatting. select the measure from the combo and set the Background color on.
Now you get a popup. Set to field value and the column to measure.
Result: when sliding your values will change:

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Grace is the latest hero to be hitting the Halcyon Fold. Before update 2.6 is released on Wednesday June 21st I wanted to give everyone a little preview of her kit from the PBE.
Now, this game was just for fun and may not be how you really want build her so keep that in mind when you try her out in the upcoming Vainglory update.
Thanks for watching and stay positive!


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Q: SQL Child relation query help I have a one to many relation that looks like this:
| Parent |  | Child  |
|   id   |  |   id   |
|        |  |parentID|
|        |  |  date  |

And I am trying to structure a query such that I get all of the parents who have children records which ALL have a date before a specified date.
Something like this
SELECT * FROM parent
JOIN child on child.parentid = parent.id
WHERE child.date <= '10/13/2010'

But the problem with this is I get parents that have children with a date before the date specified and have child records with a date after the date specified, when I want ONLY the parents of children with a date before the given date.
Does anyone have some suggestions on how to handle this case?
Thanks!

A: Use:
SELECT p.*
  FROM PARENT p
 WHERE EXISTS(SELECT NULL
                FROM CHILD c
               WHERE c.parentid = p.id
                 AND c.date <= '2010-10-13')
   AND NOT EXISTS(SELECT NULL
                    FROM CHILD c
                   WHERE c.parentid = p.id
                     AND c.date > '2010-10-13')

Everyone will tell you to use JOINs "because they're faster", but typically they aren't aware of the impact of using them -- if you don't need the information from a supporting table, you shouldn't be joining to it.  That's because more than one child in this situation would produce duplicate PARENT records.  The trade-off between a JOIN and DISTINCT or GROUP BY vs IN or EXISTS is probably par, but without the hassle of dealing with the duplicated data properly.

A: SELECT
  *
FROM
  Parent
WHERE
  EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Child WHERE Child.ParentId = Parent.Id AND [date] <= '2010-10-13')
  AND
  NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Child WHERE Child.ParentId = Parent.Id AND [date] > '2010-10-13')

A: I read your question thoroughly and summarized below:

*

*Child rows may exist before, on, or after Date X

*I want all Parents who's children all have a date on/before Date X

See code below.  We use the HAVING statement to make sure children do not have a date after X.
SELECT P.*
FROM Parent P
WHERE P.id IN
(
    SELECT C.parentID
    FROM Child C
    GROUP BY C.parentID
    HAVING MAX(CASE WHEN date > '2010-10-13' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) = 0
    /* do not return children that have a date after 2010-10-13 */
)

Sample Schema for those who want to play along.  (SQL Server)
("date" is called "mydate" to avoid having to escape the reserved word.)
CREATE TABLE Parent (id INT PRIMARY KEY);
CREATE TABLE Child (id INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY, parentID INT NOT NULL REFERENCES Parent(id), mydate DATE );

INSERT INTO Parent VALUES (1);
INSERT INTO Parent VALUES (2);
INSERT INTO Parent VALUES (3);
INSERT INTO Parent VALUES (4);

INSERT INTO Child (parentID, mydate) VALUES (1,'2010-10-11')
INSERT INTO Child (parentID, mydate) VALUES (1,'2010-10-12')
INSERT INTO Child (parentID, mydate) VALUES (1,'2010-10-13')

INSERT INTO Child (parentID, mydate) VALUES (2,'2010-10-12')
INSERT INTO Child (parentID, mydate) VALUES (2,'2010-10-13')
INSERT INTO Child (parentID, mydate) VALUES (2,'2010-10-14')

INSERT INTO Child (parentID, mydate) VALUES (3,'2010-10-14')
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Whew. What a weekend! We were hit with a stomach bug, PLUS we had family fly in for Oliver's party. So we adjusted and were still able to have the party. I saw the Where The Wild Things Are party idea on Pinterest. I loved it. And I came up with lots of decor ideas, but finding all of the things for the decor was a little on the hard side. I still think it turned out adorable.
Remember how I made this craft? I recycled my leaves to make a long vine to decorate with! Winning! I just used some hemp twine and wound it around the intact loops. Next I used my hot glue gun to glue at least one more leaf to the others and sometimes a third leaf. I love the way it turned out.
I found a couple of fun banners to hang up too. One was gold sparkly crowns and the other was a cute little pennant that looked like wood. I used the crowns to decorate three little evergreen trees. The one that looked like wood was placed around the bay windows just below the vine I made.
I asked Scott to make a "boat" for decor! He used our wagon as a frame and a lot of cardboard. He spray painted lines on for planks of wood. And then he drew a Wild Thing on cardstock to add as a finishing touch to the boat.
For Oliver's cake I bought a cute live edge wood platter.
I put some cute little Where The Wild Things Are quotes on my letterboard and light boxes.
We served Hawaiian Haystacks for dinner before we did cake. Look for a recipe soon! I didn't get photos of everything laid out because everyone started eating SO FAST!
But here is sweet Oliver with his cake. He was not a fan of the attention at all! He kept saying "ooohhhh" as he ate the cake.


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The Schlern Formation, also known as Schlern Dolomite, and Sciliar Formation or Sciliar Dolomite in Italy, is a limestone, marl and dolomite formation in the Southern Limestone Alps in Kärnten, Austria and South Tyrol, Italy.

Description

It preserves fossils dating back to the Middle Triassic period (late Anisian-middle Ladinian), or Illyrian to Longobardian in the regional stratigraphy. The formation correlates with the Wetterstein Formation of the Northern Limestone Alps. The formation is also coeval with the Livinallongo or Buchenstein Formation. The Schlern Formation is unconformably overlain by the Cassian Dolomite, and overlies the Contrin Formation separated by another unconformity. Deposition of the formation took place between the Pelsonian Humid Interval and the Ladinian Humid Interval, that preceded the better known Carnian Pluvial Event (CPE).

In Italy, the unit is recognized in the Civetta and Latemar reef buildups, and in Austria at the Gartnerkofel.

Fossil content
Among others, the following fossils have been described from the Schlern Formation:
Bivalves
 Daonella esinensis
Gastropods

 Cassianopsis decussata
 Coelostylina conica
 Fedaiella neritacea
 Hologyra alpina
 H. elevata
 Hologyra (Vernelia) dissimilis
 Loxonema aequale
 Neritaria plicatilis
 Palaeonarica concentrica
 Promathildia pygmaea
 Pustulifer alpina
 Tyrsoecus (Stephanocosmia)
 Zygopleura spinosa

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Austria
 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Italy
 Bletterbach

References

Bibliography

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Further reading
 A. Emmerich, V. Zamparelli, T. Bechstädt and R. Zühlke. 2005. The reefal margin and slope of a Middle Triassic carbonate platform: the Latemar (Dolomites, Italy). Facies 50(3-4):573-614
 J. Pfeiffer. 1988. Paleontology and microfacies of a platform margin in the Carnic Alps (Austria, Middle Triassic). Facies 19:33-60
 E. Fois and M. Gaetani. 1981. The northern margin of the Civetta buildup. Evolution during the Ladinian and the Carnian. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e stratigrafia 86(3):469-542
 E. Fois. 1981. The Sass da Putia carbonate buildup (western Dolomites): biofacies succession and marginal development during the Ladinian. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 87(4):565-598

Geologic formations of Austria
Geologic formations of Italy
Triassic System of Europe
Triassic Austria
Triassic Italy
Anisian Stage
Ladinian Stage
Dolomite formations
Limestone formations
Marl formations
Reef deposits
Shallow marine deposits
Paleontology in Austria
Paleontology in Italy
Southern Limestone Alps
Geology of the Alps
Formations
Formations

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Dr. Ollibeth Reddix is a general dentist, motivational speaker and local politician. She graduated from St. Frederick High School where she served as co-salutatorian. She graduated with a BA in Chemistry from Case Western Reserve of Cleveland, Ohio and earned her DDS from UCLA School of Dentistry in 1979. Her journey led her back home where she practiced with her father until his retirement in 1999. As her mentor, her father (as well as her mother) taught by example that love of the community was paramount in the life of a servant. She shared her love by becoming a local minister, co-founding Southside Christian Academy, established two Boys Mentoring groups called Omenala and Project ESTEEM and finally by becoming a Police Juror.
She operates a full service dental clinic with an attached dental lab. She has trained extensively and added to her practice orthodontics, implantology and cosmetic dentistry. In 2012, she traveled to South America where she continued her training in implantology. Her goal is to make top level dentistry available to the average person. She believes in Stem Cell dentistry as well as common sense dentistry. Her motto "Special Care for Special People".
In 2009, she was elected as a Police Juror of Ouachita Parish and serves as Juror for District D where her objective is to enhance her community through economic Development, Beautification and fostering Corporate Endeavors between Ouachita Parish , Monroe and the town of Richwood for positive growth and stability. Her political motto is "Committed to Serve".
As a Juror, she believes her role is not only the enhancement of vital infrastructure such as roads, drainages and bridges but investing in the most valuable asset of Ouachita Parish: the citizens, themselves. Framed with this reference , she sees her priority as forming alliances with all Educational Institutions, both Chambers, Municipalities, the Military ,Work-force Investment and NOVA to create a supply of well trained work-force to met the high end demands of businesses who have invested or will invest in Ouachita Parish. She is proud to serve as a Juror where the team approach best serves Ouachita Parish through a well defined check and balance system.


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3 Reasons To Back Trinity Aeon's Kickstarter
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Right around twenty years ago I heard about an RPG that immediately caught my attention. This game was Aberrant. Produced by the original team at White Wolf Publishing, Aberrant was the Supers game I didn't even know I wanted. It was a new genre for the deep, gritty storytelling I'd fallen in love with and it reflected both the broken optimism of the '90s and the Iron Age of comics I loved. This was the first Trinity Universe game for me, but it wasn't the first game in that continuity. No, that game was Trinity (Aeon) and my friends that were into space opera, cyberpunk, transhumanist sci-fi, and space horror were big fans. It took me a few years to give it a shot, but when I started reading the books I saw the nuance, the layers, the texture of a game that offered something unlike other games I was playing.
Now Onyx Path Publishing is releasing a second edition using their storypath system. They are currently running a Kickstarter to bring a deluxe version to market, and I was one of the first 50 backers. Here are the reasons I think you need to get on this train.
1) The Continuum
In early releases that backers have access to we've learned more about what the new continuity, called The Trinity Continuum. Our universe is influenced by parallel universes causing Flux. Some people have the ability to tap into this Flux, which allows them to effect the world around them in subtle and un-subtle ways. In this Kickstarter we are being provided two time-frame settings for the Continuum, Aeon and Core. The Core setting is a modern day action adventure setting. If you imagine shows like Leverage, Agents of Shield, and Arrow you've got a general idea of the type of power levels most characters will display. They are super smart, maybe a tad more powerful than normal people, but they are still generally human.
Aeon is set in 2123, decades after the Aberrant War and the Nova era have ended. Those elements will be fleshed out in the upcoming new version of Aberrant, and I'm already salivating. Aeon is the space opera setting for the Continuum. Humanity has begun colonizing the solar system, and is just starting to edge outside of the solar system to investigate other worlds and rediscovering colonies where the Aberrants left and abandoned humanity during the Nova age. Players will take on the roles of Psions, individuals that have been awakened to powers through the Prometheus Chambers. In previous editions, Psions differed from Novas by manipulating sub-quantum particles, versus the quantum forces the Novas abused and destroyed their bodies by harnessing. I haven't been able to dig into how the new system approaches all of these elements, but the previews backers have seen seem super exciting and well crafted.
Future releases will include Aberrant, Adventure!, and possibly other setting options along the Continuum. Adventure! only had one book in the original run, and it deserves to have a lot more word count spent on it. I'm excited to see what the Continuum will bring us!
2) Storypath System
The underlying system behind most White Wolf Games was the Storyteller's System, which used d10 dice pools based on Attribute+Ability. In the older version of Aberrant the most effective way to show superhuman powers was through a Mega-Attribute system. You had Dexterity and Mega-Dexterity for example. This often created large dice-pools which wasn't impossibly unwieldy, but it wasn't perfect either.
The new system is a lot more streamlined, and honestly it is clearly better designed for Scion and Trinity gameplay (both games that are using the system). You can check out the Storypath System Preview for free. The core of the system is still dice pools, but these dice pools will likely not become quite so overwhelming with the new design. There is also information on player editing story elements, which is a feature of newer game design concepts and I think it works well for this type of setting.
3) Access To 1st Edition
One of the reasons I'm encouraging people to back the Kickstarter is that there is an option to get all of the 1st edition books if we hit enough stretch goals. You can purchase these books through DriveThruRPG right now, but it is helpful to get them for a huge discount. Some of these books look like they may not be as perfectly in sync with the new canon, but with the concept of parallel worlds being important to the setting… well… you can alter, adjust, and mess with the Continuum as you see fit. So, backing the Kickstarter will open more of these early books and open the creation of new books to supplement the new setting. This is a selfish reason to want you to back the Kickstarter. I have all of the Aberrant books already, I want to get all the Trinity Aeon ones cheaper… is that wrong?
Alright folks, those are the three major reasons that I think you should check out the Trinity Aeon Kickstarter. If and when you do so, take a look at the previews Onyx Path has released and let me know what you think. When you are ready to step into the future, shout.
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How can we ensure that international students stay in Germany?
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There are many reasons why these international students are interesting for German companies. Some characteristics might even make them more interesting than the "typical immigrants" moving to Germany after finishing their studies in their respective home countries. That is because those who studied in Germany have already overcome some barriers, which might stand in the way of "typical immigrants": Having their study certificates acknowledged, learning German, integrating themselves into the German culture, collecting first experiences in the labor market through internships or student jobs – all of this is no longer a problem for international students who studied in Germany. Furthermore, they mostly speak at least two languages fluently which makes them extremely valuable for internationally operating companies. To sum it up: They are a target group with huge potential. What drives them to stay and what drives them to leave Germany?
There is one rule in the war for international talents: Promotion and information win!
The report reveals that staying intentions are not influenced by many factors. The majority of international students want to stay in order to benefit from the good chances of success and to sharpen their own professional profile through international work experience. Also, international students wish for information concerning their legal options and boundaries – a thing that still does not happen a lot. In Germany, only 25% of the international students feel informed about their legal options. Furthermore, a lot of students don't really feel like their workforce is appreciated. This is exactly where German politics should start working on. They have already started doing so by agreeing upon the bill to realise the so called "EU guideline on highly qualified workers". This hasn't been fully realised yet though. This bill is a good step forward but in many points not extensive and far-sighted enough. And it is not only the job of German politics to ensure that international students stay in Germany. It is also up to companies to start doing something. They have to make sure that international talents feel welcome and appreciated. This could be achieved through career days and recruiting events at Universities which provide information, workshops in companies or dedicated contact persons within a company who help international employees with legal or political questions. After all, the winners of the war for talent will be those who promote and inform their target group!
Is recruiting "star performers" a guarantee for success?


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A Catholic church in San Diego, California distributed a bulletin that is causing controversy with its political statements, calling into question the separation of church and state.
A bulletin article written by the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church pastor suggests the devil is working through Hillary Clinton.
Two weeks ago the bulletin said it's a mortal sin to vote Democrat.
Protesters gathered outside the church argued it's not the church's place to weigh in on politics.
Father Dermot Rodgers is a pastor at St. Peter of Rome. He says the church is overstepping its boundaries, "This is an egregious violation, not only of the separation of church and state, but possibly of the IRS code."
Others say it's not an issue.
The pastor at Immaculate Conception said his parish is pleased with the article.


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Q: Power of function x86 Assembly Does anybody know how to find the power of a value in x86 assembly,
Is it possible to shift by the number of times in a value?
For example:
  mov x, 30

  shl eax, x

For my example I would like to find 2^32,2^31,2^30.....2^0.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

A: with a shx instruction you can only use 1 because rapresent the moviment of bit.
for shl you put out last bit on the left and insert a bit on the right.
for this you multiplay a byte per 2.
while shr you put out last bit on the right and insert a bit on the left.
for this you divide a byte per 2.
so if you want storage a powr you must move a calculate data into other register.
example 32bit assembler: 2^32
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mov ecx,number of power
xor ebx,ebx
loop_power: shl eax,1
add ebx,eax
loop loop_power $
you ha power of 2 in ebx


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Pseudotrichia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

Snails of this genus are native to Europe.

Species in this genus of snail create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

Species
Species within the genus Pseudotrichia include:
 Pseudotrichia memnonis (Sturany, 1904)
 Pseudotrichia rubiginosa (Rossmässler, 1838)

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Ah, Holy Trinity—I'm sure it's everyone's favorite feast, better than Christmas and Easter put together! We will have a Holy Trinity shamrock hunt for the kids after church, and then we will all decorate triangles, God's favorite shape. No?
Kristin and I were joking that today is the only feast of a "doctrine" in the Episcopal Church, a church not know for being exceedingly doctrinal— what we call an "idea feast." An "idea feast" sounds terrible, doesn't it— like celebrating the Feast of the theory of relativity. How can you make church even more boring? Celebrate an "idea feast"! While we are at it, let's have a Feast of the Nicene Creed— I'm sure it would be very popular.
Now you might think, that, sometimes being a heady crowd, we Episcopalians might like a good "idea feast." The Trinity is like a theological brainteaser: 3 = 1, 1 = 3 I have a feeling our Zen Buddhist friends would encourage us to meditate on the Trinity as a koan, a paradox or riddle meant to break our categories, and lead us to enlightenment, to help us see that the Trinity is not something meant to be "understood" at all. Our brains may not be very helpful here.
Even the scriptures today seem to invite us to get out of our heads. Isaiah's vision isn't rational at all: He responds with absolute terror to his vision of a cartoonishly large God, so big the hem of the holy robe fills the temple. And I don't think anyone in their right mind would put those creepy six-winged angels on a greeting card.
John's ever-cryptic Jesus confounds Nicodemus, "a teacher of Israel" who can't seem to understand that you have to be "born again" to receive Jesus' wisdom. Nicodemus tries to understand it, literally, and so he misses the point, completely.
Paul, too, when he describes life in the Spirit isn't talking about something intellectual: The ecstatic cry of "Abba! Father!" is the biblical equivalent of O-M-G—a mind-blowing moment of grace.
All of which suggests to me that on this "idea feast" it would be a good idea to turn off our brains for a minute, to remember that we can experience God not only in our heads, but, even more profoundly in our spirits, our bodies, our guts.
So let's take a moment to remember your own foundational experiences of God: those experiences of "something more" the ones that keep you coming to church, no matter what you think about the Trinity or the creed.
Maybe it was the first time you felt your child move within you, or that first intake of breath of a newborn followed by that first exhale and cry of life. Maybe it was the last breath of a loved one, when you could almost see their Spirit return from whence it came. How about the time someone told you they loved you, and you believed it, or you told someone else that you loved them, and meant it completely. Or that first time you felt it in their body and in yours, if you know what I mean. Or maybe it was the time you really were "born again" in that evangelical sense— overwhelmed by the saving love of God in Jesus, and yes, even Episcopalians have had that experience.
Or perhaps your experiences of God are more everyday: the wonder of beholding your garden begin to bloom, or the excitement of seeing that first tomato start to form. Maybe you see God every morning in the children you work with at school, or in your own children, or the times you notice the unshakeable faithfulness of your best friend or closest family member. Maybe it's the sense of pride you feel in knowing that you helped or healed someone today, or that by your work made the world a fairer or safer place. Perhaps there was a moment when you realized that by singing, or playing music, or repairing something, or making something beautiful, or cooking a meal, or serving it, or giving a gift to someone who asked, that you participated in the repair of God's creation, that you were God's partner today in bringing forth the reign of God.
Now let's turn our brains back on: I wonder if you notice what I am noticing about my own experience of God: that my feeling of "something more" that I call "God" involved another person, or another living thing, or some other part of what God has created. My experiences of God have always involved discovering myself in a relationship of love or joy or wonder or kindness or beauty or peace or justice or freedom, with something or someone else. How about you?
I wonder if that is why our Christian tradition has always insisted that our primary way of talking about God is not as some lone deity ruling over everything, but as a relationship, never one person without the other, and in the biblical tradition, never really God without creation. Even Isaiah's giant, terrifying God needs a prophet.
Perhaps that is why we Christians at our best are so concerned about those relational values, about love, which the very nature of God, about justice, which is love acting from a distance, about peace, which is the foundation of love and justice, about freedom, which makes possible relationships of love and justice and peace.
We are concerned about those things, not because God from on high has ordered them, but because for us God is that pattern of loving, just, peaceful, free relationships, into which we, the offspring of the Holy Trinity, are invited to take part, so that those divine patterns might be revealed more fully in the world God so loves.