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How to Deal with a Declining Russia
Joseph S. Nye Professor, Harvard University
The Kremlin is on a roll. Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has replaced the United States in Syria, continues to intervene in Eastern Ukraine, and recently hosted an African summit in Sochi. Appearances, however, can be deceptive. True, Russia retains a vast nuclear arsenal, equal in size to that of the US, and it used force effectively against Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014; provided military assistance to save Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria; and has used cyber means to disrupt US and other elections. But Russia can only be an international spoiler. Behind the adventurism, it is a country in decline.
China-US-Russia Relations
The New Strategic Context of China-US Relations
Zheng Yu Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Signaling that it has less need for strategic cooperation with China on the world stage, the United States has rendered bilateral relations less resilient. And it's hard to bridge the gap.
US China PolicyUS-China Rivalry
Pence Speech Sent Confusing Signals
Zhao Minghao Research Fellow, Charhar Institute
There's a disconnect between the stance of America's China policy elites and the views of the general public. Most people want cooperation, not major-power competition. The White House should face that reality.
US China PolicyChina's RiseUS-China Rivalry
The Emergence of Sino-Indian "Frenemy" Relations: How the Titans of Corporations Drive Geopolitics
Patrick Mendis Visiting Professor of Global Affairs, National Chengchi University
Joey Wang Defense Analyst
China and India both recognize the need to address the issues in their respective countries and it is of mutual interest to incrementally get their relationship back on track.
China-India Relations
China Adjusts to the New World Order
Xiao Geng President of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance
On October 1, the People's Republic of China celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with impressive military and civilian parades meant to showcase the extraordinary progress the country has made under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Formidable challenges lie ahead. But China's record so far, and the resources it has at its disposal, indicate that it may well be up to the task.
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Tung Chee Hwa: Securing Our Global Future
"On US-China Relations: A Conversation with C.H. Tung" is a new series by China-US Focus that features highlights of a conversation between Editor-at-Large James Chau and Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's First Chief Executive.
Observations on Mike Pence's Second Speech about China
An Gang Research Fellow, Center for International Strategy and Security, Tsinghua University
US vice president reprises wide-ranging attack, indicating that structural divergences have yet to be resolved and critical pressure is about to be reached.
Research and Development: Will the US Fund its Future?
Leonardo Dinic NYU Alumnus with a Master's Degree in International Relations
As during the Cold War, the US must 'forge ahead' by cultivating top-tier talent and preserving its central national security and geo-economic interests through expanded federal funding programs. Otherwise, Beijing will spend its way to global supremacy.
US-China RivalryUS China PolicyChina's Rise
CTW: Weaponizing Diplomacy
U.S.-China relations faces new obstacles as visa process and travels of diplomats are tightening.
Unexpected Turn: A Future of 'Guarded Globalization'
Zhang Yun Associate Professor, National Niigata University in Japan
To prevent countries' interdependence from becoming a competitive weapon, countries should regard restraint and consensus as the hallmarks of a new framework in trade relations.
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From trade to conflict, diplomacy to humanitarianism, China-US Focus traces the lines that connect the world's nations. Reflecting our belief that the Chinese-American partnership is the most important bilateral relationship in the world, we produce close examinations of the events that shape the foreign policies of these countries. >>>
As the power balance of the world tips away from the unipolar Pax Americana of the late 20th century and towards a more complex, multi-polar landscape, we help track the evolution of the foreign policy of both China and United States towards each other, their neighbours and the broader international community. Every dialogue, every conference, every conflict and every piece of news is thoughtfully analysed, explained and contextualised with help from our commentary team. See our most recent articles below.
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China-US Focus provides the clarification and expert commentary you need to make sense of an increasingly complicated world. As the United States and China both go through internal transformations, their foreign policy and the international landscape will change proportionally. Guided an extensive commentary team composed of experts including diplomats, academics, policy researchers and more, we provide the breadth and depth of analysis you need to cultivate informed, worldly opinions in this uncertain but exciting time. With articles posted daily on news and events as it happens, we ensure you're always abreast of every development in this crucial relationship.
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Home First Spin
NAO Puts Her Stamp On A Classic With 'I Need Your Lovin"
D-Money
June 20, 2018 | 11:00 am
On its face, Uncle Drew looks like it will either be a hilariously ridiculous sports movie filled with our favorite basketball stars or a forgettable moment at the cineplex. Uncle Drew's soundtrack, on the other hand, is stacking up to be something to remember. It features several familiar names, including Khalid, GoldLink, Leikeli47 and H.E.R. One of the most notable inclusions, however, is our girl NAO and her bold choice to cover Teena Marie's 1980s classic "I Need Your Lovin'."
NAO, who just recently released the first single from her upcoming second album, doesn't go for a straightforward, note-for-note cover of the song. Instead, she filters Teena's classic through her own unique filter, reinterpreting it for a new generation. That being said, she does hew close to the original's funky feel. The bass and rhythm guitar licks are reimagined through skillful synth playing, as are the soulful horns. The sweet-voiced NAO sounds right at home in the revamped surroundings. She aims for the rafters with her performance but doesn't try to imitate Teena, rolling naturally with the groove and attacking the song with a verve all her own. In other words, she did that!
You can stream NAO's take on "I Need Your Lovin'" on Spotify below and give the entire soundtrack, which was released this past Friday, a listen on your favorite streaming service.
TAGS: audio, GoldLink, H.E.R., Khalid, Leikeli47, Nao, teena marie
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Der Grammy Award for Video of the Year, auf Deutsch "Grammy-Auszeichnung für das Video des Jahres", ist ein Musikpreis, der 1982 und 1983 von der amerikanischen Recording Academy im Bereich Musikvideo verliehen wurde.

Geschichte und Hintergrund
Die seit 1959 verliehenen Grammy Awards werden jährlich in zahlreichen Kategorien von der Recording Academy in den Vereinigten Staaten vergeben, um künstlerische Leistung, technische Kompetenz und hervorragende Gesamtleistung ohne Rücksicht auf die Album-Verkäufe oder Chart-Position zu würdigen.

Eine dieser Kategorien war der Grammy Award for Video of the Year. Der Preis wurde 1982 an Michael Nesmith für das Video Elephant Parts und 1983 an Olivia Newton-John für das Video Olivia Physical vergeben. Die Kategorie Grammy Award for Video of the Year wurde mit der Einrichtung der MTV Video Music Awards im Jahr 1984 eingestellt, deren höchste Auszeichnung auch für das Video des Jahres verliehen wird. Die Recording Academy ersetzte die Kategorie Grammy Award for Video of the Year durch die Kategorien Grammy Award for Best Video, Short Form und Grammy Award for Best Video Album. Für die Auszeichnungen der Jahre 1988 und 1989 wurden die Kriterien erneut geändert und Auszeichnungen in den Kategorien Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video und Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video verliehen. Die Recording Academy kehrte 1990 zum vorherigen Format zurück, jetzt unter den Kategoriebezeichnungen Grammy Award for Best Music Video und Grammy Award for Best Music Film.

Gewinner und Nominierte

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website der Grammy Awards – Recording Academy, Los Angeles (englisch)
Gewinner des Grammy Award for Video of the Year bei grammy.com (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Grammy Awards
Erstverleihung 1982

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Q: is there a way to programatically "select all" in a mobile web input textbox or contenteditable area? I'd like to select all in an input textbox or contenteditable span so the user doesn't have to backspace or delete an input text to overwrite.
It works on desktop but mobile web seems to ignore the select all.  Is this possible on mobile web viewable on ios or android?

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Simon A. Rodell, Antitrust Law: The Fall of The Morton Salt Rule in Secondary-Line Price Discrimination Cases
Antitrust & Trade LawCommercial LawEnergy & Utilities Law
American Oil Co. v. FTCAntitrustClaytonClayton Actcompetitive marketsfavored dealerFederal Trade CommissionFTC v. Morton Salt Co.Robinson-Patman Price Discrimination ActRodellRPAsecondary line price discriminationvolvo dealers
58 Fla. L. Rev. 967 (2006) | | | |
TEXT :: Petitioner manufactures and sells custom-made heavy-duty trucks. Respondent and other Volvo dealers bid on sales to specific retail customers. In preparing bids, Respondent and other dealers routinely ask Petitioner for wholesale price concessions, which Petitioner grants selectively. Respondent sued in district court under § 2 of the Clayton Act, as amended by the Robinson-Patman Price Discrimination Act (RPA), claiming Petitioner gave competing dealers better wholesale price concessions than it gave Respondent. The jury awarded Respondent damages of more than $ 1.3 million, trebled under the RPA, and Petitioner appealed unsuccessfully. The United States Supreme Court reversed and HELD that a dealer may recover under the RPA only after proof of lost sales to a "favored" dealer competing to resell products to the same retail customer.
In a capitalist society, competitive markets foster efficiency. In the early twentieth century, however, unregulated industries became extremely inefficient as large corporations exploited their market power to undercut their competitors and create monopolies and trusts. Congress passed the Clayton Act in 1914 to curb predatory pricing by these market-dominant corporations. The primary goals of the Clayton Act and other antitrust laws were to limit inefficiencies caused by monopolistic businesses, promote inter-brand competition, and protect consumers from unreasonably high prices. To further these goals, Congress passed the RPA in 1936 to curtail monopolistic practices by powerful buyers, particularly large chain retailers.
RPA claims are divided into three classes: primary-, secondary-, and tertiary- line competitive injury. A secondary-line claim requires that: "(1) the relevant . . . sales were made in interstate commerce;" (2) the goods sold were of "like grade and quality;" (3) the defendant "'discriminate[d] in price'" between two purchasers of the same goods; and (4) the price discrimination injured, destroyed, or prevented competition to the discriminator's advantage.
The circuit courts have split over how a claimant can prove the injury-to- competition element and have adopted two distinct approaches. Under the first approach, a court infers injury to competition from proof that a seller charged competing customers a substantially different price over a prolonged period. Alternatively, a court may require a detailed market analysis proving injury to competition.
Under the first approach, a court infers injury to competition directly from proof of prolonged price discrimination, essentially merging the last two elements of an RPA claim. In FTC v. Morton Salt Co., a manufacturer granted volume-specific discounts. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that the manufacturer's volume discounts violated the RPA and issued a cease-and-desist order. On appeal, the circuit court vacated the order, holding that the FTC failed to prove the volume discounts harmed competition.
The Supreme Court reversed and formulated the "Morton Salt inference": The requisite injury to competition could be inferred from evidence of price discrimination over time. The Court's ruling relied heavily on both the text and the legislative history of the RPA. The Court noted that the purpose of the RPA was to prevent injury to competition before it occurred and to protect smaller businesses. The Court stressed the purportedly "obvious" inference that competitors would always be injured if they were forced to pay their suppliers higher prices than their competition over a prolonged period.
Alternatively, a claimant may be required to present a detailed market analysis proving a seller's price discrimination injured competition. In American Oil Co. v. FTC, an oil company gave greater price concessions to retailers in a town where competing brands began a price war, but kept concessions in neighboring towns constant. As a result, dealers in the town affected by the price war paid lower prices for gas than dealers in the neighboring town over a seventeen-day period. The FTC found that the oil company had engaged in price discrimination in violation of the RPA and issued a cease-and-desist order.
The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated the FTC's order, asserting that, although the oil company's prices during the seventeen-day period were discriminatory, there was no evidence the discrimination actually harmed competition. The court emphasized that the RPA's primary concern was the preservation of competition and that the statute's concern for individual competitors was "incidental." The court analyzed the relevant market and lost profits of the disadvantaged retailers and determined that their actual economic losses were slight.
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Bedrock Multisite Skeleton
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A [WordPress Bedrock multisite](https://github.com/gwa/bedrock-multisite-skeleton) skeleton. This project is trying to simplify the way we're setting up a new WordPress project. [Don't repeat yourself](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself).

#
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/gwa/bedrock-multisite-skeleton.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/gwa/bedrock-multisite-skeleton)

Much of the philosophy behind Bedrock is inspired by the [Twelve-Factor App](http://12factor.net/) methodology including the [WordPress specific version](https://roots.io/twelve-factor-wordpress/).

## Features

* Dependency management with [Composer](http://getcomposer.org)
* Better folder structure
* Easy WordPress configuration with environment specific files
* Environment variables with [Dotenv](https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv)
* Whoops is a nice little library that helps you deal with errors and exceptions in a less painful way.
* Autoloader for mu-plugins (use regular plugins as mu-plugins)
* [Debug Bar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-bar/) Adds a debug menu to the admin bar that shows query, cache, and other helpful debugging information.
* [Developer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/developer/) A plugin, which helps WordPress developers develop.
* [Stage Switcher] Detects all the enviroments in WordPress.
* [MultisiteDirectoryResolver](https://github.com/gwa/WpMultisiteDirectoryResolver) Adds filters that correct directory paths in a Wordpress multisite install with the WordPress installation in a custom subfolder.
* Koodimonni composer lang support

## Plugins & Themes

We are using [WordPress Packagist](http://wpackagist.org/) for plugins. To add a plugin from the [WordPress Plugin Directory](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) add the to the required array in the [composer.json](composer.json) file. Specify them with `wpackagist-plugin` following by the plugin slug name. Example below.

```json
"wpackagist-plugin/plugin-name": "~1.0.1"
```

Please note that this also works with themes and WordPress multi-site plugins.

## Requirements

* PHP >= 5.4

## Installation

Install Bedrock Multisite by issuing the Composer `create-project` command in your terminal:

1. `composer create-project gwa/bedrock-multisite-skeleton`
2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env` and update environment variables:
  * `DB_NAME` - Database name
  * `DB_USER` - Database user
  * `DB_PASSWORD` - Database password
  * `DB_HOST` - Database host
  * `WP_ENV` - Set to environment (`development`, `staging`, `production`)
  * `WP_HOME` - Full URL to WordPress home (http://example.com)
  * `WP_SITEURL` - Full URL to WordPress including subdirectory (http://example.com/wp)
3. Access WP admin at `http://example.com/wp/wp-admin`

Read more about setting up `Bedrock Multisite` on our [installation documentation](https://github.com/gwa/bedrock-multisite-skeleton/wiki/Installation) page.

## Deploys

Any other deployment method can be used as well with one requirement:

`composer install` must be run as part of the deploy process.

## Documentation

* [Folder structure](https://github.com/gwa/bedrock-multisite-skeleton/wiki/Folder-structure)
* [Configuration files](https://github.com/gwa/bedrock-multisite-skeleton/wiki/Configuration-files)
* [Environment variables](https://github.com/roots/bedrock/wiki/Environment-variables)
* [Composer](https://github.com/roots/bedrock/wiki/Composer)
* [wp-cron](https://github.com/roots/bedrock/wiki/wp-cron)
* [mu-plugins autoloader](https://github.com/roots/bedrock/wiki/mu-plugins-autoloader)

## Contributing

Contributions are welcome from everyone. We have [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) to help you get started.

## Community

Keep track of development and community news.

* Participate on the [Roots Discourse](https://discourse.roots.io/)
* Follow [@rootswp on Twitter](https://twitter.com/rootswp)
* Read and subscribe to the [Roots Blog](https://roots.io/blog/)
* Subscribe to the [Roots Newsletter](https://roots.io/subscribe/)

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15 May 2008, at 11:42a.m.
US - An company has announced plans to take its product to a commercial level after recieving positive results on tests for an anti-viral compound.
The compound was administered to chicks that had been infected with Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV). The data from the study indicated that QR448(a) is efficacious against an IBV challenge in two week old specific pathogen free (SPF) chicks, confirming previous results indicating that treatment with QR448(a) before or after viral exposure has the potential to lessen or prevent disease.
"We believe this innovative, non-vaccine, broad spectrum antiviral has the potential to offer the poultry industry a natural base solution to this growing problem"
Preventing and treating infectious bronchitis caused by IBV is a worldwide concern of the poultry industry which calculates its loses due to this disease in lowered weight gains and feed efficiency in broilers, lowered production and quality of eggs in layers and breeders, mortality, clean-up costs and disruption to operations.
The Company initiated its investigations into the effectiveness of this compound based on feedback from poultry industry leaders who expressed an increasing need for additional products to combat Infectious Bronchitis (IBV).
Dr Richard Rosenbloom, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Quigley Pharma stated: "With the increased emphasis by the animal health community on prevention as well as treatment of disease, the results from our experiments in chickens have demonstrated that our QR448(a) compound can prevent as well as treat 2 week old SPF chicks from infection when challenged with IBV in a dose response experimental design. We believe this innovative, non-vaccine, broad spectrum antiviral has the potential to offer the poultry industry a natural base solution to this growing problem."
With the completion of this latest study and the current dossier of data the company plans to solicit the poultry industry for additional guidance and potential interest and opportunities for developing this compound jointly toward commercialization.


Courtney Hall is the vice president of marketing & culture at Buxton. In this role, she manages the company's marketing presence across its retail, healthcare and public sector divisions and also oversees its recruitment and training efforts. Courtney joined Buxton in 2007 and held a number of roles within marketing and business development before transitioning to her current leadership position.
Before joining Buxton, Courtney worked in the advertising industry as an account executive and media buyer. She holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Texas Tech University.


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Annamarie Dzendrowskyj
Annamarie Dzendrowskyj seeks to examine the indeterminate nature of 'ways of seeing' and 'being' by exploring fleeting moments of a world in constant flux. These moments in time she sees as suggesting a space, rather than defining a space, one that exists between what is seen and unseen.
Twilight - Murano VI - Oil on linen 23 x 40 cm
Annamarie Dzendrowskyj trained as a classical ballet dancer followed by a career as a PADI Scuba Diving Instructor/Examiner. She holds a BA Hons Degree in Philosophy (Lancaster University UK) - specialty subjects in existentialism and aesthetics, a BA in Fine Art and BA Honours Degree in Painting (National Art School, Sydney, Australia). Based in London, she travels in search of new inspiration.
"If the world were clear, art would not exist." - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Dzendrowskyj seeks to examine the indeterminate nature of 'ways of seeing' and 'ways of being.' She considers the ambiguous 'grey area' between presence and absence by exploring fleeting moments of a world in constant flux. Moments in time she sees as suggesting a space, rather than defining a space, one that exists between what is seen and unseen, a zone of indiscernibility.
Indiscernible zones and spaces have been at the heart of Dzendrowskyj's life experiences which act as a catalyst for her work, bringing her empirical experience of the underwater environment to the surface. What is seen underwater is affected by interference - movement, light, weather conditions and in this sense, nothing appears clearly defined. This is reflected in her work which presents the emergence and dissolution of forms and settings in ethereal landscapes.
Offering the viewer an experience of the unsettled, a subtle sensory disorientation and dislocation. Employing a process of creation and erasure, concealing and revealing, her work evokes the sense of a netherworld that conflates time, place, vision and memory. Exploring the tension between figuration and abstraction, this invites the viewer to challenge their perception of time, place and space.
Dzendrowskyj's work has been exhibited internationally, nominated for and received a number of art prizes and is held in public and private collections.
Twilight - Bruges X - Oil on linen 40 x 23 cm
Twilight - Murano III - Oil on linen 23 x 40 cm
Twilight - Bruges IX - Oil on linen 40 x 23 cm
Twilight - Murano II - Oil on linen 23 x 40 cm
Contact Annamarie Dzendrowskyj
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Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and founded on January 2nd, 1908, The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) has been producing Canada's circulation coins as well as coinage for other countries for approximately 110 years. Being a "Crown Corporation", the Royal Canadian Mint is under control of the Government of Canada or more officially know as "Her Majesty's Government" and headed by current President and CEO Jennifer Camelon (2018). Shares of the Royal Canadian Mint are in trust of the Crown in right of Canada.
Though the RCM is under Government control and supervision it still operates like a standard commercial, for-profit, company and competes to rely on sustaining itself through profits rather than taxpayer dollars. Since this likeness to a private-sector company the RCM maintains a Board of Directors. Of these members are the "Master of the Mint" and "Chair". The Chair is answerable to Canada's Minister of Finance, the person linking the Mint to Parliament and Cabinet.
The denominations of coins circulating in Canada are based similarly to United States coinage with the exception of the $2 coin. Many of which are very close with the actual sizes of American coins. With all circulation coins minted from the Royal Canadian Mint is a representation of the Monarch, some having a mint mark. Along with the circulated coins, the RCM produces other products such as medals, tokens, bars, jewelry-quality grain, bullion coins and an array of commemorative coins including Disney® and Star Wars® coins. Many of the commemorative coins are limited in release creating a demand that is easily met by collectors worldwide. Some coins feature colored paint for added aesthetics. The first colored coins to circulate within the Canadian economy were struck in the year of 2004. This set a historical landmark for numismatic pieces created by a government. In addition to these beautifully struck coins and medals are services rendered for refining and assaying precious metals.
Among striking coinage for Canada, the Royal Canadian Mint has issued coins to many other countries. Dominican Republic, Singapore, Cuba, Norway, Thailand, Uganda, and New Zealand are some of the countries that comprise a large list of countries the RCM has contracted with to create high quality, government coins.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on over 30 different countries currencies.
There are many styles of coins made by the Royal Canadian Mint like King George V, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II, and iconic Maple Leaf designs. Here at Investor Crate, we supply Maple Leaf design coins in .999% Fine Silver form. Keep an eye out for these wonderful coins in your Silver Crate or on our Fire-Sale page today!
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RPCVS' TREE MEMORIALS OF KATE JEANS-GAIL AND TOM TOLEN
In Unclassified
Letter from HAF's President to former Peace Corps Volunteers of Morocco
I am writing to you from Mohammedia where the High Atlas Foundation created in partnership with Hassan II University the Center for Community Consensus-Building and Sustainable Development. From here we manage the different field projects of HAF and conduct participatory training workshops with students, local government representatives, and civil and community leaders. For each of us and in as many ways, the Peace Corps and Morocco have come to mean so much.
Yet with the rises and falls of life, not all of us have been so incredibly fortunate to have made it this day. The High Atlas Foundation has memorialized two from among us who have passed too soon, too young, and with so much love left behind. In December 2003, RPCV Kate Jeans-Gail '03 passed with her mom, Victoria, in a car accident in Oregon. This past February 11th, RPCV Tom Tolen '82 left us suddenly in his home in Antioch, California. Their families know that the RPCV Morocco community shares in their loss and grief.
The Kate Jeans-Gail Tree Nursery Memorial was created in 2006 to embody her ideals. Her Memorial is currently building its third community-managed nursery with villages neighboring the Toubkal National Park in the High Atlas Mountains between Marrakech and Ouarzazate (Kate served near Ouarzazate). Most of the saplings for the nurseries now come from fruit trees (walnut and cherry) from earlier HAF distributions – and they have taken root, which means that local people can replenish their orchards without any additional purchases. Our next goal is to do the same with almond and fig (with a nursery of 80,000 saplings) – and achieve community self-sufficiency with trees that do not require the application of pesticides. In Kate's memory and example, HAF and its Moroccan and U.S. friends and partners are building a model for the country.
The Tom Tolen Tree Nursery Memorial is created to socio-economically and environmentally benefit the villages neighboring the Tazekka National Park, near where Tom served. Building on experiences and lessons learned, the initial launching of an 80,000 cherry and walnut saplings planted in Tom's Memorial will on average double household incomes after 8 years, benefitting approximately 10,000 people. His Memorial will strengthen the environment – an abiding ethic of Tom's – by preventing soil erosion, offsetting carbon emissions, and decreasing local people's dependence on the fragile natural resources of the Tazekka National Park by creating new and efficient income sources.
The investment of $50,000 is required for each Memorial to achieve its goals. On average, $25 from each of the approximately 4,000 RPCVs from Morocco will make it happen. Let's do it, and give thanks again to Morocco, the Peace Corps, for all that we have every day, and for the bond we have with each other from shared experience that we can yet make stronger in the face of loss.
As you may know, I and other RPCVs who served in Morocco began the High Atlas Foundation in 2000 as a way to utilize relationships and knowledge gained during Peace Corps service for the continued benefit of the Moroccan people. I am proud to say that HAF's outside audit last year showed a mere 6 percent of its budget went to its overhead. HAF is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and a registered Moroccan association. We are here to serve.
How to Contribute to Kate's and Tom's Memorials
Your contribution to the Kate Jeans-Gail Memorial and the Tom Tolen Memorial helps local communities purchase almond, cherry, fig, and walnut saplings for the nursery and supports workshops that transfer important technical skills in fruit tree agriculture.
You can make a secure online donation or by sending a check to the address below. When donating online please send us an email to let us know the Memorial you would like your donation directed to, and when donating by check simply indicate the same information on the check memo line.In 2006, HAF launched its One Million Tree Campaign and has planted with its community partners 310,000 fruit trees and saplings in five provinces of Morocco. HAF's trees and saplings have an approximate survival rate of 80 percent. A key partnership of HAF is with Morocco's High Commission of Waters and Forests to work with villages neighboring the country's ten national parks. Here you can read about HAF's 2011 community initiatives.
On behalf of the High Atlas Foundation, a heartfelt thank you to the family and friends of Kate Jeans-Gail and Tom Tolen for your confidence in us by bestowing this most significant responsibility.
In friendship born from Peace Corps Morocco,
Yossef Ben-Meir '95
President of the High Atlas Foundation
www.highatlasfoundation.org
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HAF'S PICTURE-PERFECT EAT.DRINK.SHARE IN DC
A picture-perfect Sunday morning welcomed HAF's March Eat-Drink-Share, set in Washington, D.C. at Georgetown's Puro Cafe. A delicious brunch united ten Americans and their shared passion for Morocco. …
1ST DC EAT.DRINK.SHARE IN 2011
The 2011 planting season in Morocco is coming to an end and HAF and its partners planted 120,000 fruit saplings – almost five times the number of trees…


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Teatro Rosalía de Castro puede hacer referencia a:
Teatro Rosalía de Castro (Caracas)
Teatro Rosalía de Castro (Vigo)
Teatro Rosalía de Castro (La Coruña)


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One of the stressful parts of travelling is 'planning', and if I may add, 'booking a flight' is even more so. Air travel is expensive, and the fluctuation in air-fares makes it more difficult to ascertain the right time to book the flight so as to land in cheap air-tickets. What if the prices drop? What if the prices go up? Can I get a better rate? All these concerns are legit.
Instead of leaving your ticket prices up to chance, use these practical tips to get an upper hand on your air ticket purchase. If you apply these tips wisely enough, you could end up saving hundreds or thousands on your travel around the world!
Search at the right time.
You may have heard a lot 'Timing is everything' and it holds true for landing in cheap air-tickets too! Yes, turns out, there is a best time to search for flights. If you are looking for a cheaper fare, make sure you book your flight tickets on a Tuesday afternoon or on a Thursday, because that is when the air fares drop a little. Also, whenever you are browsing an airline or a travel website for flight details, turn your browser's "incognito mode" ON (Ctrl+shift+N (chrome users), Ctrl+shift+P (Firefox users)) which ensures that these websites do not track your activity and change their prices accordingly.
Use search engines and airline website to compare air-fares.
Begin your research with scouting multiple search engines and airline websites. The comparison will give you a fair idea about the average price of the route you are looking to travel on. Search engines help in hunting the cheapest fares amongst the small or large airlines, and zero in on the cheap flight amongst various flight options available. Try looking up matrix.itasoftware.com, skyscanner.net, Momondo.com etc.
Also, the feature 'google alert' comes quite handy during this time. When you are hunting for cheap air-fares on google flights, it gives you an option of setting an alert to notify the user when the fare prices go down (or up!).
Looking up airfare search engine is great, but once in a while, make sure you visit the airline's website as some airlines reserve their finest, exclusive deals for people who book their flight tickers from their sites. They come up with exclusive deals, coupons or sales which run for a limited amount of time and on each specific carrier's site only. Do not miss out on checking them, before you make your bookings.
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Single, non-stop flights are easy and trouble-free. Agreed! But they do not necessarily translate into cheap airfares. You might want to take one airline to your destination, and a separate one from or include a layover with another airline mid-flight. More often than not splitting in between carriers is likely to save you some money. And, mind the amount you end up saving is worth the extra time and hassle.
Book multiple items at once.
Rather than booking the various elements, flight, hotel, a shuttle to and from etc., separately try booking all of them in one go and from one vendor. Firstly, because you are making a bulk purchase, chances of negotiations (Read: getting discounts!) get better. Secondly, studies show that you actually save money by booking multiple travel items in a single package deal.
Last but not the least, being flexible with your travel plans, helps you cut costs considerably. Peak season travel during weekends; or say a festival will attract extra costs. Also, the mid-morning flights (11pm onwards) to mid-evening flights (up to 6pm) have heavy influx of travellers. So, the prices of air-tickets are steepest then. If you are flexible when it comes to dates and timings, you can surely land into a cheap flight deal and thus, save a lot of money.
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Dash Responds to 'Confusion' After Closing its Latin America Affiliate
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The founder of Colombia-based affiliate Dash Latam says that Dash has decided to pull the plug on it – ending the affiliate's activities in the Latin American and Caribbean regions, as well as Spain. However, Dash has retorted with a claim that its Latin American journey is not over yet.
In a somewhat strongly worded blog post Dash Latam founder George Donnelly wrote,
"Dash's head office has informed us that Dash Latam operations are definitely not going to continue. That means that there will be no more promotions, events, buybacks, support and so on in the eight countries and 20 cities where Dash Latam was active, including Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, Brazil, Spain and Trinidad and Tobago."
Donnelly added that Dash's HQ was "abandoning Dash Latam's work."
He remarked that Dash's central office "left its Latin American teams, in a very poor condition about six weeks ago and we could not continue."
Donnelly added, "We were forced to make drastic cuts, and had to fire 80 people," before eventually halting operations.
He wrote,
"Dash headquarters has decided that marketing is useless for now, and that the work [Dash Latam] has done and that the relationships we have forged have no value."
Dash has confirmed the closure in a letter, but says it will "continue its operations as normal in the Latin America region," and was quick to remark that its "30 Latin American teams supported by its network of Dash masternodes" remain operational.
The company pointed out that its Dash Help Support Center remains open for anyone in the affected countries seeking clarification.
Comunicado oficial sobre la CONTINUACION NORMAL de las operaciones del equipo de Dash Help, y de los muchos otros p… https://t.co/NyTWiJcCNN
— Dash Help - Support Center (@dashhelpme)
Dash says concerned users have been in touch, stating that they have received emails about the closure of Dash Latam. Indeed, it appears that Donnelly's and Dash's messages have left many in the area confused, with questions posted on Twitter and other platforms.
As recently as last month, Donnelly was enthusing about the progress Dash and Dash Latam was making in the eight countries in which it was active, in an interview posted on Dash's official website on September 21.
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Last week as everyone knows, I divulged one of my deepest and darkest secrets, namely that I am hopelessly addicted to cheeseball Hallmark Movie Channel Christmas movies, most of which seem to star Lacey Chabert. It was a soul-cleansing moment for me and I certainly appreciate the support of the blog community that I have received.
Little did I know however that upon revealing myself so openly to everyone that I was soon to take part in a real-life Christmas movie of my own.
It happened while I was doing a little Christmas shopping of my own. There I was at an antique book store picking up a first edition of the Hobbit for my wife when I noticed a binder sitting on the bookshelf that seemed oddly out of place – mainly because some fat guy in a red suit and white beard had put it down to pour himself a cup of tea. Anyway, while this guy's attention was not on his property, I quickly gathered up the binder and dashed off to my car, so I could see what was in the binder.
To my great surprise (not really, I've seen enough Christmas movies to know exactly what it was I had stolen), inside the binder was a whole bunch of names and stuff – all separated into, you guessed it, two categories. Naughty and Nice.
Ouch. I'd stolen the actual naughty list from Santa Claus. Fairly sure I will never live this down with my kids and I probably have a permanent spot on it, but I ask you, how many of you could have resisted that temptation?
Anyway, back to the binder. In addition to category, each name on the list had a really informative narrative which I guess is the big guy's way of rationalizing why someone is on one side of the ledger or the other one and what gifts are associated with it either way, which was an unexpected wrinkle. As an aside, it was interesting to see so many subscribers on the list as well – don't worry, all the naughties were changed to nice before I was done with the binder.
Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to share some of the names that were on the list – a few were surprising.
This is the 23rd year in a row on the naughty list for young Donald. While gifting him the Presidency last year was part of our plan to get him onto the Nice list, it clearly hasn't worked. This year Donald will get a modified tax plan, so he can at least say some of his agenda has been implemented and a Made in Canada Blackberry (now with Apps!) so that he can continue Tweeting his followers and a new TV for the White House that gets more than one channel. Finally, in a special dose of irony, Donald gets a great big lump of coal, which is good because Donald loves coal. Bigly.
There was a lot of debate on this one. Where does he fit? Great socks, fabulous selfies, a glowing profile in Rolling Stone magazine, recently selected as the second leading global influencer by Linked In (really? How?) but… a giant mess when it comes to policy implementation, no pipelines under construction, an energy sector wondering which way is up with carbon taxes and renewables, military procurement gone totally sideways, free trade negotiations with China, the rest of Asia and the U.S. completely off the rails and the most ineptly handled changes to how small business are taxed that has been seen in recent memory. Yeesh! This year Justin gets an economics textbook to help him figure out how the world works and a back brace to stiffen his spine for dealing with BC and the TransMountain Pipeline. And we are for sure taking away that smartphone we gave him last year. Enough with the preening.
It's been a tough year for Rachel. On the one hand, she has been relentless in her defence of the TransMountain Pipeline and at least part of her seems to want to see the energy sector in the province to succeed – which is nice. On the other hand, the carbon tax is going to double, provincial finances are a mess and this constant demonizing of the opposition so far in advance of the election (May 2019!) is a bit unseemly and, I feel, a bit out of character and naughty. So, Rachel gets two types of gifts this year. For good behaviour an "I love Alberta Oil" hard hat and a micro wind farm in her back yard. For bad behaviour a mini-coal plant to provide back-up power to her micro wind farm and a copy of Stephen Harper's hockey book.
I know a lot of people won't be happy with this, but it was debated pretty intensely. As the now duly-elected to the legislature leader of the United Conservative Party, the Leader of the Opposition and the presumptive next Premier of Alberta, Jason has a lot of responsibility. He has accomplished a tremendous amount in a very short time to reposition the right side of Alberta's political spectrum in a manner where defeating the NDP seems a very real possibility. If elected, I'm sure he will make a fine premier. But the path there has been littered with not so nice shenanigans and so much of what is going on seems so mean-spirited and tone-deaf. The gifts this year for Jason and his party will try to address that. First is a Tickle-Me Elmo to cheer everyone up and, maybe, a "platform" so the NDP can stop defining one for him. A little humility might help too. As to the angry Twitter-trolls Kenney army, each one is going to get a fidget spinner – if they're playing with those, they cannot tweet. This can only help his campaign.
This one is fairly obvious but needs to be said. Super rich guy introduces changes to how small businesses are taxed that will disproportionately punish the very middle class he pretends to support, all while sitting on an ethical time bomb regarding how he addressed his own tax-sheltered assets upon being elected to Parliament and assuming the most powerful cabinet seat in the country. Gift for Bill? A book – "everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten". Specific themes he will be encouraged to study? "Play fair" and "Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody".
Ordinarily I don't spend a lot of time giving gifts to people who don't celebrate my holiday, but MBS (as he is popularly known) has had a pretty good year (well, aside from that whole Yemen thing) with some (by Saudi standards – it's all relative right?) progressive moves for the population and the overt championing of the OPEC cuts which have helped stabilize the oil supply. To MBS, the gift is a successful IPO of Saudi Aramco, if only because that means the oil price is doing great!
Can we talk about this whole shale oil thing? I mean it's getting out of hand. The amount of money – good after bad – that gets thrown into tight oil is ridiculous. And it keeps coming. Don't get me wrong, there are some great tight oil prospects and the Permian is going to be rocking for years to come. But the alternate reality is that. Shale's gift? A little capital discipline, some humility and a smidgeon of free cash flow – that stuff you get when you make money.
Seriously, some of these people need to calm down. Find something else to invest in. I hear Bitcoin is doing OK.
I think the environmental movement does a lot of valuable work in drawing attention to wanton degradation of the world, pollution, climate change, wildlife and the preservation of our encroached upon natural spaces. But when they engage in the spurious spreading of false narratives, allow themselves to be coopted by financial and commercial special interests and allow the movement to become bigger than the job there is a problem. For single-minded opposition to a pipeline shipping Canadian oil to the seeming exclusion of all else while accepting documented funding from American special interests, you get coal, lots of it. Plus, your heat is cut off.
I don't think we need to over-analyze this one, but here in the North we think the media needs to really just take a deep breath and get perspective. Not everything is "the most important thing ever" and sometimes we can live with more facts and less hype. The gift for media this year? Perspective, sober second thought and a reprieve from fake news accusations from the Tweeter in Chief (see above, he got a Blackberry so it's sure to slow things down).
OPEC did a fine job this year being respectful of the so-called "cuts" they made to oil production in their largely self-serving goal of raising prices by stopping shooting themselves in the foot via over-production. Because their actions have nice spill-over effects in the rest of the world (including North America) OPEC must be included on the nice list. An appropriate gift in return? Decades of high oil prices, 10 gold-plated Ferrari's and a six-month reprieve from civil unrest and popular uprisings.
Has anyone been more deserving of the naughty list this year than the leadership in Venezuela? A once great South American success story reduced to a debt defaulting failed state puppet of both Russia and China. These guys don't even deserve a lump of coal because that has at least some intrinsic value they could benefit from. They deserve to be marched out of power. To the long-suffering people of Venezuela, unfortunately we can't give anything more than hope. But we do send that.
Seriously. This is a bit of a side-track, but with all the news these days, it needs to be said. What is with men these days? Guys, it's pretty simple – respect, no means no, just because you're famous or powerful doesn't mean the rules you were taught don't apply to you and if you weren't taught the rules why aren't you self-educated? And what's with all the exposure? No one wants to see that. Like seriously – no one. A great big lump of coal. A pictorial guidebook on how to interact with women. And if that doesn't work, some saltpeter – that will solve the problem pretty darn quick.
Generally, here in the North Pole we are OK with pipelines, after all there is a secret one that gathers, processes and delivers all the Christmas spirit we need to the North Pole. But, for the love of Rudolph, can we just stop with all the marginal spills that seem to inevitably pop up just before some new project is about to pass some regulatory milestone? All that does is provide a gift to the opposition (see how I did that?). So, this year, if you are a natural gas or oil pipeline, you will be receiving some free cathodic protection, a smart pig and the latest coating and sleeving technology to make sure that these nasty accidents stop – think of it as a pipeline diaper.
Unlike the misbehaving brother, pipeline projects in general have been nice this year, especially if you measure niceness as a function of patience. I don't know how you can file an application for a project, spend a billion dollars, get denied for political reasons, spend another billion, become a political football, get denigrated, demonized, misrepresented and otherwise vilified for years and still be at the table with a smile on your face, ready to spend your own capital to create jobs, opportunity and prosperity for the biggest set of ingrates I've ever seen. Your present this year? Simple. A shovel.
OK, I get it, his Vladness is a despot, but has he really done anything this year to merit a spot on the naughty list? Not really. In fact, it's arguable that his ability to control Russian oil production has been a crucial shot in the arm for the energy industry. Look, the naughty list is all about redemption – every year is a fresh start. So, for Christmas this year Vlad gets to be President of Russia for another 6 years, a couple more billion dollars in his non-existent secret bank account, a World Cup and an Olympic Ban. Plus, a lifetime supply of tear-away t-shirts and a horse so he can do the bare-chest/bare-back thing on a moment's notice.
It's been a long three years. We can't give you another boom, but I think it's fair to day we can give you a bit of a recovery. Seriously, cautious optimism folks! Things are looking up!
Can't believe that guy took my binder! If I ever catch up to him there's gonna be….
- Natural gas cratered during the week – primarily on weather – c'mon gas, you'll be on the naughty list for sure!
- As at December 8, 2017, US crude oil supplies were at 443.0 million barrels, a decrease of 5.1 million barrels from the previous week and 40.2 million barrels below last year.
- The number of days oil supply in storage was 26.1 behind last year's 29.5.
- Production was up for the week by 73,000 barrels a day at 9.780 million barrels per day. Production last year at the same time was 8.796 million barrels per day. The change in production this week came from an increase in Alaska deliveries and a rise in Lower 48 production.
- Imports rose from 7.202 million barrels a day to 7.363 compared to 7.360 million barrels per day last year.
- As at December 8, 2017, US natural gas in storage was 3.626 billion cubic feet (Bcf), which is 1% lower than the 5-year average and about 5% less than last year's level, following an implied net withdrawal of 69 Bcf during the report week.
- Production for the week was flat. Imports from Canada were up 8% compared to the week before. Exports to Mexico were up 4%.
- LNG exports totalled 14.8 Bcf.
- As of December 5, the Canadian rig count was 235 – 167 Alberta, 20 BC, 43 Saskatchewan, 5 Manitoba. Rig count for the same period last year was about 185.
- U.S. Onshore Oil rig count at December 8 was at 747, 4 down from the week prior.
- Natural gas rigs drilling in the United States was up 3 at 183.
- Cenovus announced upcoming layoffs of 15% of its workforce as it pursues streamlining and cost cuts to manage its high leverage.
- The "Forties" pipeline in the North Sea was shut down for maintenance taking some 450k bpd off line for an undetermined amount of time. Good for prices!
- Trump Watch: Trump's candidate for the Senate was defeated in Alabama. While the margin was small, the victory was crushing since no Democrat had been elected to the Senate in Alabama in 25 years.
We don't need filthy, rupturing tar sands pipelines. Invest in more solar and wind.


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|preceded by = ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball]]''
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An unnamed '''15th book''' in the [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)|''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' series]] is scheduled for release on October 27, 2020. It succeeds ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball]]''. This book was confirmed via Amazon on February 13, 2020.<ref name="Amazon">[https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Wimpy-Kid-Book-15/dp/1419748688/ref=sr_1_2 Amazon]</ref>
'''''Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End''''' is the 15th book in the [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)|''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' series]]. It is scheduled for release on October 27, 2020. It succeeds ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball]]''. This book was confirmed via Amazon on February 13, 2020.<ref name="Amazon">[https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Wimpy-Kid-Book-15/dp/1419748688/ref=sr_1_2 Amazon]</ref>
==Plot==
''Is Greg Heffley in over his head? Find out in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Book 15, the newest book by #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney!''<ref name="Amazon" />
''In The Deep End, book 15 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, ready for the adventure of a lifetime.
But things take an unexpected turn, and they find themselves stranded at an RV park that's not exactly a summertime paradise. When the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation—or if they're already in too deep.''<ref name="Amazon" />
==Development==
Book 15 was announced on February 13, 2020, when a listing for it appeared on Amazon with a pre-release cover.<ref name="Amazon" />. On April 13, 2020, Kinney confirmed that he was finalizing the book's cover.<ref>[https://twitter.com/wimpykid/status/1249873545464877058 Jeff Kinney on Twitter]</ref>
''The Deep End'' was announced on February 13, 2020, when a listing for it appeared on Amazon with a pre-release cover.<ref name="Amazon" /> On April 13, 2020, Kinney confirmed that he was finalizing the book's cover.<ref>[https://twitter.com/wimpykid/status/1249873545464877058 Jeff Kinney on Twitter]</ref> The cover and title of ''The Deep End'' were announced by Jeff Kinney on Twitter on May 26, 2020.<ref>[https://twitter.com/wimpykid/status/1265314180032352256 Tweet by Jeff Kinney]</ref>
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End
Author Jeff Kinney
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Preceded by Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball
Succeeded by Book 16
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End is the 15th book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. It is scheduled for release on October 27, 2020. It succeeds Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball. This book was confirmed via Amazon on February 13, 2020.[1]
In The Deep End, book 15 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, ready for the adventure of a lifetime.
But things take an unexpected turn, and they find themselves stranded at an RV park that's not exactly a summertime paradise. When the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation—or if they're already in too deep.[1]
The Deep End was announced on February 13, 2020, when a listing for it appeared on Amazon with a pre-release cover.[1] On April 13, 2020, Kinney confirmed that he was finalizing the book's cover.[2] The cover and title of The Deep End were announced by Jeff Kinney on Twitter on May 26, 2020.[3]
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Italian thriller "THE GIRL THE FOG" Out on 8/6 from Distrib Films
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Based on the internationally acclaimed novel of the same name, THE GIRL IN THE FOG follows the sudden disappearance of Anna Lou, a 16-year-old girl from a small mountain village in the Italian Alps. Called to investigate the mystery is the enigmatic Detective Vogel (Toni Servillo, GOMORRAH), who soon realizes that this case is far from simple. Working against the clock and amidst an unprecedented media frenzy, Vogel must make use of his unconventional methods to uncover the truth, in a town where motives are obscure, facts are distorted – and everyone could be a suspect.
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WHSmith to temp online customers back with Angel
Web sites are all very well for selling stuff, but consumers have to visit your site first before they find out what great deals you offer.
Not so at...
Fiona Harvey
Published: 07 Dec 2000 0:00
Not so at WHSmith. The book seller's online unit has been equipping users with an application that follows them around the Internet, popping up on screens whenever they visit Web sites of competitors, and cheekily suggesting they might pay less if they jumped to the WHSmith site.
This sales application, dubbed Net Angel by WHSmith, comes from the British software company Meltingpoint. It was launched to the general public last week under the name Mirazo after a short pilot with the bookseller.
Meltingpoint claims the software could be used, not just by retailers looking for Internet sales, but also in enterprise environments to bring together best-of-breed applications from several vendors into a single user interface.
Visitors to www.whsmith.co.uk register, giving basic demographic details, and download the 500k Net Angel application. It will sit invisibly in the background every time they log on to the Internet.
Each time they land on the Web site of one of the competing sites targeted by WHSmith, the application keeps watch on the pages being read and sends back information to Meltingpoint's server, which runs the Web pages through a rules-based system to decide whether Net Angel should respond. If the page contains information about a product WHSmith is also selling but at a lower price, the application might pop up a floating window to alert the user to this offer, and invite them to go to the relevant WHSmith sales page.
Rick Latham, managing director of WHSmith online, said the company does not disclose subscriber figures for the service, but claims the response has been encouraging.
"I view it like a piece of elastic, for grabbing people when they have moved off to another site and bringing them back to our site," he explains. Julian Graham-Rack, chief executive of Meltingpoint, said: "Normally, Web sites are static. Customers have to make the effort to go and find a site. We make customers static, and let Web sites move around them."
WHSmith first started talking to Meltingpoint a year ago, in December 1999. In January, the pair began development of the Net Angel application. The first version of the product was ready in May, and it has been broadly available to WHSmith customers since late September. The project cost less than £1m to complete, but WHSmith declined to be more specific on price.
What the user sees when Net Angel is activated is a Dynamic HTML window floating in front of the Web browser on the screen. The window is little bigger than a business card, containing text, links and images. It can be quickly turned off if the message is irrelevant. The client only works on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5, so Netscape users are out of luck.
At the back end, the Net Angel client, which is an ActiveX control, intercepts in real time the URL requests entered by the user and sends them to the host NT server cluster at MeltingpointÕs offices. There the URL is checked against a database of 30 sites, mostly competitors, that WHSmith has programmed in. If the URL is not among these sites, the client remains invisible. If it is, the software springs into action at the server end.
Meltingpoint sends its Mirazo software, independently of the user, pelting off across the Internet to the page the user is reading. It grabs the content from the page. Meltingpoint has already analysed the HTML structure of the pages of all the chosen sites and holds that structure in a configuration file. By consulting that file, the software can quickly decide which pieces of the user's page contain which type of content.
If the user had landed on a page on the Amazon site referring to the book Lord of the Flies, Meltingpoint would know which section of the page contained the price of the book, which section contained information on availability, and which contained a book review. Configuration files are also updated.
Meltingpoint extracts relevant information and deposits it into a template made up by WHSmith. Depending on content, this could be text telling the user that the same book can be found £1 cheaper on the WHSmith site, or suggesting other books by the same author and giving hyperlinks to reviews of them on the WHSmith site, or holding information about how to buy the video of the book. The filled-in template is sent to the user, where it pops up on his screen. The whole process should take no more than a few seconds.
Similar applications to Mirazo are already available, but Meltingpoint claims its software allows retailers more control over messages they send to users.
Alexa, from a company of the same name, is a program developed in the US can follow users around sites, acting as a browsing companion to suggest other sites that may be of interest.
Autonomy also launched its Kenjin product to fanfare this March. It is deployed by Tesco.com, though it has failed to make an impact elsewhere. Kenjin sits at the bottom of the userÕs browser screen and, as they surf the Internet, suggests related topics and Web sites based on lateral relations between key words.
So, if a user was reading an article about BSE, it might bring up links to sites about pathology of prion diseases. Either of these programs could be adapted to the e-commerce purpose Melt-ingpoint envisages for its software. As this application is still in its early days, it is difficult to judge whether users will adopt it with glee, or view it as an unwelcome intrusion into surfing and turn it off.
Meltingpoint has another market in mind beyond
e-commerce. The company was spun out from the universities of Kent and Brunel in 1996, from a research project that attempted to find new ways of integrating heterogeneous applications without changing inherent structure. That could be achieved, the researchers realised, using HTML.
Peter Maude, chief technology officer at Melting-point, explained: ÒIf you wanted to pull together some best-of-breed enterprise applications, you could use Mirazo software to pull together different functionalities and present them in an integrated form, looking like a single user interface."
For example, take a document management system and a billing system. Each might hold information on a sales contact, but in different forms. Without integration, the user would have to jump between the document management system and the billing system to view all data. With Mirazo, both types of information could be presented in a single browser window. "Today, that integration requires complex and intrusive software. Our approach gives power of integration at an interface level," said Maude.
For this application, however, Meltingpoint's software would require quite a high degree of customisation at the back end.
Fiona Harvey is former editor of business technology bible PC Week and business Internet monthly Internet World. She now writes for the Financial Times
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Girls from other worlds
It's easy to forget not only how fresh the girl-group sound was in the years leading up to the Beatles' arrival, but also how dominant it was, even during the British Invasion, as a commercial force.
The phenomenon is also representative of a very American theme I explore again and again here, a theme that underpins much of Office Naps; namely, the dissemination of a successful music phenomenon outwards, where, at its logical endpoints, it gets approximated on a local, independent level by a thousand different aspiring artists and groups.
Thousands of records were in fact released through the mid-'60s that were clearly inspired by the girl-group sound. And, of these iterations, there were many that did sound like the Crystals, the Chiffons, the Supremes, the Shangri-Las, et al. (Don't get me wrong, I love all of these groups.)
But decades of revisionist film treatments of the early '60s and, worse, restrictive oldies radio playlists, have shrunk our concept of what that sound represents. In reality, the spectrum of girl-group records (if you take them to include rock 'n' roll- or R&B-inspired pop records with females harmonizing, or, more broadly, females singing with a certain teen-pop sensitivity) is wider, weirder and more varied than one might otherwise realize. From raw R&B ballads and girl-band rockers to wall-of-sound folk-rock arrangements and early psychedelia, the girl-group aesthetic was reflected in myriad, fascinating ways in the early-to-mid-'60s.
This week's selections share more in what they lack – namely, the big, sweeping drama and teenage insouciance of the stereotypical girl-group sound. They're smaller productions but, along the way, they offer much in unusual atmosphere, otherworldly female vocals and a different, fresher narrative.
1. The Accents featuring Sandi, Better Watch Out Boy (Commerce C-5012)
The Accents weren't a girl-group in the traditional sense, as they featured just one female in the lead singer role, but they evoked the pop sensibilities of some contemporary girl-groups, especially on this haunting selection.
A San Diego outfit, the Accents were formed in 1962 by high school friends Frank Mannix, a bass player, and Don Lovas, guitarist, who'd already played together in the Shadows, a local combo. Precipitating out of other teenaged San Diego groups (including the Galaxies, the Nomads and the Valiants), the Accents would solidify, after a year's time and a few more line-up changes, with the addition of vocalist and keyboardist Gabe Lapano, saxophonist Doug Myers, drummer Tony Johnson and the group's new singer, Sandra "Sandi" Rouse.
The Accents, mid-'60s. From left to right: Tony Johnson, Don Lovas, Doug Myers, Sandra "Sandi" Rouse, Frank Mannix, Gabe Lapano. Photo courtesy of the Sandi & the Accents website.
Released in 1964, "Better Watch Out Boy" was the Accents' first record. Though something of an anomaly in terms of the group's normal repertoire, which was oriented towards danceable R&B and Motown-style pop, it is nonetheless pure magic, a stately song of love that, despite its release at the height of the British Invasion's first wave, seems to belong to some entirely separate, fascinating twilight zone of pop. Sandi's vocal performance (with Gabe Lapano providing some ghostly harmony support) is in particular a wonder of opposites here: commanding, restrained, cool, warm.
"Better Watch Out Boy" would prove the Accents' best-selling release, too, charting nationally after being picked up for re-release by the larger Challenge Records. The Accents remained a large live draw in Southern California, making television appearances and releasing a half-dozen other 45s, all consistently good, for Los Angeles-based labels over the next few years, before breaking up in the summer of 1966.
The Accents' story is beautifully documented by Tony Johnson, the band's drummer, at their website. You can also find a copy of their CD, which compiles some of their 45s along with live recordings from the era, there.
Sources: The Accents' website
2. The Santells, These Are Love (Courier CR 115B)
The Santells' "These Are Love" is a case of the locally-produced 45 where the story of the record label is better known than the group itself.
Courier Records was one of several labels operated in the northern Ohio town of Fremont, near Sandusky, by Robert Brown, a young music enthusiast and aspiring producer. (As an army serviceman, too, he would relocate his label operations to Aberdeen, Maryland for several years in the mid-'60s before returning, again, to Ohio.) Among the wide variety of styles Brown recorded between the early '60s and early '70s was some notable rock 'n' roll, pop and R&B, including this 1964 track by the Santells, the second of their two 45s on the label.
The Santells had already recorded and released a 45 earlier that year on Courier ("Why Are We Apart?" b/w "There's a Time and a Place"), with a slightly earlier-sounding R&B group sensibility. It gained little notice, but this 45's flipside, a cover of Johnny Otis's "So Fine," was quite successful, and was soon licensed for re-release in the United Kingdom on Sue Records.
The Santells were almost certainly an Ohio group. However, there is, strangely enough, a second pressing of this same 45, again on Courier, but with a Los Angeles address printed on the label, leading to some speculation that the Santells were a California group. It would have been unusual, but, from a purely stylistic standpoint, "These Are Love" does have a Los Angeles-type sound to it, especially its sparkling and very unusual instrumentation, the personification of '60s Pacific sunshine.
Sources: Buckeye Beat
3. The Results, I Might as Well Forget Him (Apt 45-25094)
From 1965, "I Might as Well Forget Him" is an unusual lament that comes through in all sorts of gorgeous guitar and hypnotic harmonies.
It is the first of two 45s by the Results. Despite its release by Apt Records, a subsidiary of the New York City-based ABC-Paramount label, the Results are likely a Southern group, and a Georgia-based at that, as its credits are closely tied to three Georgia-connected individuals: Joe South, at this point an aspiring producer, songwriter and session guitarist working out of Nashville and Muscle Shoals, his solo career still a year or two off; songwriter-turned-singer Tommy Roe, who would himself enjoy great chart success with hits "Sweet Pea," "Hooray for Hazel" and "Dizzy"; and Atlanta music impresario, DJ, publisher, producer and label operator Bill Lowery, who had a hand in many of the state's post-War commercial recordings.
The flipside of this 45 is "Untie Me," another Joe South composition that was a hit for Georgia R&B group the Tams in 1962. The Results' real story is, in fact, almost completely obscured by the credits on their records, as neither this 45 nor their 1966 follow-up 45 ("Funky" b/w "Need Your Love"), another Joe South production, offer any real clues as to personnel, though it seems likely that it's South himself heard playing guitar on this.
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The new BMW M8: Big, fast and entertaining but not exactly a sports car
Matt Bubbers
The BMW M8 Competition Convertible.BERNHARD_LIMBERGER/Handout
Pigs can't fly, but apparently nobody told the engineers at BMW. The new M8 coupe is positively soaring down the main straight of a racetrack at 230, 240, 250 kilometres an hour before rounding a series of tightening right-handers. The M8 hits the apex of every turn as if by sheer force of will, and a little help from 617 horsepower metered out just so by a smart all-wheel-drive system. Out on the road, in the real world, it's even more impressive. The full-size, four-seat luxury barge drives and feels like a smaller machine. It may be porky, but this car can fly.
After an absence of 20-odd years, BMW is bringing back the 8 Series to replace the 6 Series coupe and four-door Gran Coupe models. Why? Well, essentially because 8 is a higher number than 6, so it seems more impressive, which means BMW can charge higher prices. I'm not even joking. It's a belated response to Mercedes, which has a bigger lineup of high-end machines, including the S-Class Coupe, SL Roadster, GT sedan and GT coupe. BMW wasn't about to let its main rival own the top of the market.
The 8 Series comes in many flavours, the spiciest being the M8 Coupe and Convertible. The M850i Gran Coupe (BMW-speak for a four-door sedan with a rakish roofline) is less spicy, but more practical. The soon-to-be-unveiled M8 Gran Coupe combines the best of both worlds – high performance and four-door practicality, just like the Audi RS7 we recently tested.
Apologies for the alphanumeric hodgepodge there, but until car companies get back to giving cars cool names – such as Interceptor (Ford's reinterpretation of the classic muscle cars in the sixties) or Countach (Lamborghini) – car buyers are going to have to learn to crack these codes.
Uwe Greiner is the project manager for the four-door 8 Series, but before that, he worked on product strategy for BMW. He was adamant that the company should bring back the 8 Series and that it should be different. "The 6 Series, in the perception of the customer … wasn't so much seen as a sports car," Greiner says. "We were sure this wouldn't work again." To make it sportier, the M8 coupe is actually shorter overall than the old M6, he adds. Rear-seat space wasn't as much of a priority this time around. The carbon-fibre roof is a dead giveaway of sporty intent, like Spandex on a cyclist.
The M8 series is a belated response to Mercedes, which has a bigger lineup of high-end machines,Uwe Fischer
On Portuguese roads barely wide enough for two Fiats to pass safely, the M8 doesn't embarrass itself. The long hood stretches out in front of you as the car dives into corners with an easy flick of the steering wheel, resisting understeer and carving lines like a figure skater. The old M6 would have felt like an oil tanker here.
At higher speeds, on the Portimão racetrack, fighting understeer becomes an issue. Here, you can feel the full size and two-tonne heft of the machine. There's a lovely sense of balance, though, so drive it like a hooligan – slow in, power-slide out – and it'll put a big grin on your face. Just be prepared to burn through a lot of expensive tires and premium fuel.
That shouldn't come as a surprise, since the M8 is based on the M5 sedan, which is currently our favourite fast sedan. The M8 gets the same twin-turbo V-8 with 608 hp (617 in the Competition model). It'll do 0-100 km/h in 3.2 seconds.
It's undoubtedly more fun to drive than the old M6, but the M8 is still not exactly a sports car. If you want a sports car, a Porsche 911 is better. Greiner says the target was more akin to an Aston Martin or Maserati. If you want fast grand tourer though, the coming M8 Gran Coupe has two extra doors, similar performance and cooler style. Four-door coupes have made cars such as the M8 Coupe and Cabrio irrelevant. They exist in an odd no man's land now.
It doesn't help that there's not much to justify the enormous $20,000-$30,000 jump in price compared with the old M6. It's not surprising, then, that even though the M8 coupe is brand-new, its days appear numbered.
Cars like this – unnecessary cars – are at the mercy of the global economy. When things turn sour, these frivolous purchases are the first things to go. Automobile Magazine reports that BMW and Mercedes are killing off their big coupes once the current models have run their course. So, if you want a two-door flying pig like the M8 or S-Class, this may be your last shot.
It's undoubtedly more fun to drive than the old M6, but the M8 is still not exactly a sports car.BERNHARD_LIMBERGER
Base price: $151,000 (Coupe); $160,500 (Cabriolet)
Engine: 4.4-litre twin-turbo V-8
Transmission: eight-speed automatic
Fuel economy (litres/100 km): TBD
Drive: All-wheel drive
Alternatives: Porsche 911, Polestar 1, Mercedes S-Class Coupe and Convertible, Mercedes-AMG GT, Aston Martin Vantage, Maserati GranTurismo, BMW M8 Gran Coupe, Jaguar F-Type SVR.
One of BMW's better recent designs. The M8 looks so big it became a meme: #bigM8. It started at the 24 Hours of Le Mans when people began posting Photoshopped images of the M8 as a Godzilla-sized machine running over other cars and squashing the competition.
BMW's new seats are supremely comfortable.Uwe Fischer
BMW's new seats are supremely comfortable. The iDrive system is still among the easier infotainment setups to use.
Just know what you're getting into. Nice balanced chassis and steering, with the caveat: for a big heavy coupe.
There are more modes and settings than ever to fiddle with. Thankfully, you can program two custom drive settings, selectable from two buttons on the steering wheel.
Rear seats are for emergencies, or luggage. Trunk has plenty of space for a two-up road trip.
Big, fast and entertaining, but not exactly a true sports car. Wait for the four-door M8 Gran Coupe.
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Russia's rule on the newly occupied territories of Ukraine: terror, collaboration, resistance
Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Since February 24, Russia has occupied parts of the territory of Ukraine in the north, east and south. Meanwhile Ukraine's resistance and counterattacks has forced Russia to re-calibrate its goals and withdraw from the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts as well as from Kharkiv's surroundings. Russia, however, did not give up its attempts to seize the remaining parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and has recently conquered Mariupol after weeks of severe fights. In the Kherson and in parts of the Zaporizhzhia oblasts, Russian occupation has lasted already for three months. Yet military force alone is not enough to gain full control over a territory, let alone to integrate it in political and economic terms. What do we know about Russia's goals, political projects and policies on the newly occupied Ukrainian territories? How do the occupational authorities combine repression, propaganda and humanitarian aid to win the loyalty of the local population? How do local elites make choices between collaboration, resistance and survival? What dilemmas do Ukrainian municipal authorities, local business, institutions of education and healthcare face under Russian occupation?
Wednesday, June 15, 2022 - 1:00PM - Wednesday, June 15, 2022 - 2:30PM Add to Calendar 2022-06-15 13:00:00 2022-06-15 14:30:00 Russia's rule on the newly occupied territories of Ukraine: terror, collaboration, resistance Since February 24, Russia has occupied parts of the territory of Ukraine in the north, east and south. Meanwhile Ukraine's resistance and counterattacks has forced Russia to re-calibrate its goals and withdraw from the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts as well as from Kharkiv's surroundings. Russia, however, did not give up its attempts to seize the remaining parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and has recently conquered Mariupol after weeks of severe fights. In the Kherson and in parts of the Zaporizhzhia oblasts, Russian occupation has lasted already for three months. Yet military force alone is not enough to gain full control over a territory, let alone to integrate it in political and economic terms. What do we know about Russia's goals, political projects and policies on the newly occupied Ukrainian territories? How do the occupational authorities combine repression, propaganda and humanitarian aid to win the loyalty of the local population? How do local elites make choices between collaboration, resistance and survival? What dilemmas do Ukrainian municipal authorities, local business, institutions of education and healthcare face under Russian occupation? Tatiana Zhurzhenko UTC public
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VIDEO: James River power line case goes to Virginia Supreme Court
The utility wants to construct 17 towers across several miles of the James River
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over a proposed high-rise transmission line spanning the James River, a project opposed by historic preservationists who contend the towering lines would smudge the vista from Jamestown and the nation's founding river.
Dominion Virginia Power argues the 500-kV transmission line is needed to ensure reliable power in the region and to avoid power failures in the future. The argument held sufficient sway for Virginia utility regulators, whose approval in November 2013 is one of the bases of the appeal.
The justices are not expected to rule for a month or more.
The utility wants to construct 17 towers across several miles of the James River. They would rise above the river to a height ranging from 160 feet to 295 feet, nearly the same height of the Statue of Liberty.
The transmission line would serve an estimated 80,000 homes in the Tidewater region of the state, which is crowded with military bases, subdivisions and tourist attractions.
The proposal, however, has been opposed by preservation and conservation groups, some residents and local officials and attractions.
They contend the power line would not only be an eyesore from Jamestown Island, where Britain established its first successful permanent settlement in North America more than 400 years ago, but be within sight of many historic attractions.
The region includes Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown and Carter's Grove, a Colonial-era plantation that includes an 18,000-square-foot mansion and one mile of James River frontage.
Along the river and into Chesapeake Bay is the Capt. John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail, which retraces the journeys of the intrepid Jamestown settler.
"There is no worse place to put this," Rob Nieweg, field director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, said outside of the courtroom. The section of river, he said, includes views that largely remain unchanged since Smith and Native Americans sailed the James.
Dominion has said the transmission line's route reflects tighter U.S. regulations on pollution from power plants, requiring the retirement of coal-fired power plants and the shifting of energy generation to gas-fired plants.
Much of Tuesday's arguments focused on a procedural matter: Dominion argued that the appeal should be dismissed because opponents missed a deadline to file it.
James City County, one of several opponents heard by the justices, also contends it should have had a say on zoning for a 50-acre parcel being used for a generating substation.
Dominion said the substation is part of the transmission line and should not be considered separately.
The Army Corps of Engineers is also considering Dominion's application to build the transmission towers across the river.
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My voice clients range from complete beginners, working on basic skills and gathering confidence, to experienced speakers, looking to polish their prepared speech for a presentation or event. My job is to meet each client right where they are, and work with whatever's going on in their voice at that time. Each has vocal issues that we address with specific exercises and practice. Each has their own unique vocal qualities and strengths that can be brought out. Regardless of ability, every public speaker can benefit from improving one particular skill.
Quite often, when I'm coaching experienced speakers, I can hear that they've found a comfortable voice that makes sense to them. Their diction is crisp, their inflection is musical, and their tone is smooth. Yet something is lacking in their vocal presence, that elusive quality that makes a truly dynamic public speaker. This quality comes from breath support: being fully connected to the diaphragm muscle as it contracts and expands, and feeds breath to the vocal cords. Support is what gives the voice that extra energy and charisma.
If the vocal cords are not getting enough breath support they will start to get tense, and this tension will accumulate as you continue to talk. The result is that your voice will start to sound tight and strained. Think of the feeling of shouting across the street to someone, and imagine that feeling growing with every word you say. This is no way to deliver a public talk! Learning how to engage the diaphragm while relaxing the vocal cords takes awhile. As we begin to connect more with the physical action(s) of our breath, we can add more energy and power to our voice. Try this: sit up straight in your chair, and loosen any tight belt or waistband. Now close your eyes and point to your navel. Imagine that you are inhaling and exhaling through the navel, and practice this action with your mouth both closed and open. Breathe deeper, and feel your belly relax and expand. If you're doing it correctly, the belly will contract naturally on the exhale. By the way, I recommend meditation for this particular purpose (here's the one I created for my clients). This video will guide you further.


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