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Agbeshie Pulls Over 5,000 Crowd For Play Africa BonFire Night With The Stars In Agbozume.
Fast Rising Rapper, Agbeshie, pulled over 5,000 audience in Agbozume at the Play Africa BonFire Night With The Stars on Saturday night, September 15, 2018. It was a day worth remembering; Agbeshie and his huge fanbase at the Southern Volta showed a lot of support for Play Africa Team and their artiste.
Agbeshie's song 'God' which featured Bhimnation signee, Kelvyn Boy is currently No. 6 on the Top 10 of the most Played songs on Play Africa music app and this qualified him to be on the BonFIRE night. The event, which was hosted at Agbozume EP Church Park, is the biggest BonFIRE night so far being hosted by the Play Africa team.
The event manager for Play Africa, Mr. Kay Bentley, remarked that the crowd was huge that they were uncontrollable irrespective of the number of security personnel's available. "We could not manage the crowd especially when the Play Africa team surprisingly presented a cake to celebrate the birthday of the superstar" Mr. Bentley remarked.
The show due to close at 10:00pm run into early hours of the next day around 3:00am – the crowd were enjoying themselves and wouldn't go home unless Agbeshie and the other home acts signed to Play Africa app performed for longer hours.
Agbeshie, the "Ewe Rap God' as the people of Volta called him, shared tears of joy upon seeing the crowd and the love that was shown during the event. His big hit song "Agbozume" has been an anthem in the town and every single person in the town could sing the entire song.
He reveled during the event that he is actually not from Agbozume but rather from Denu but the loved from Agbozume is overwhelming which sometimes makes him question his mum why she did not give birth to him at Agbozume.
During the interactive sessions of the event, Agbeshie noted, "some of the artiste gives out their songs for free due to poor Artiste management.' 'There are some managers who lack basic ideas about music industry and this makes us the growing ones live to accept the norms of posting songs for free download." He also explained that he knows it will be a heartbreaking for most of his fans, as soon and very soon, people can only pay to download songs from musicians. He also explained to the people present that 'buying my songs from Play Africa shows how much you love me as an artiste and that will give me more funds to do more great music.'
He also explained that he recorded the song 'God' because of the surprised award he received for being the Artiste of the Year during VMA18. 'I am very grateful to God for how far he has brought me and this gave me the inspiration to write and perform that song.'
In the middle of the event, Agbeshie introduced a 14-year-old boy called 'Kpesese' who can rap shoulders with most Ghanaian rappers. The infusion of English, Twi and Ewe on his bars and the energy he possesses makes him unique. The event also experienced performances from the talented and best performer at VMA 2018 Nuh Prince and Afeke Foster.
The BonFIRE night with the stars is an event that Play Africa management team is using to educate musicians and music fans about the importance of buying records and the importance of ending free music downloads.
The event was supported by EventicGH, the organizer of Volta Music Awards, Kwamivi Ashiaby aka Ex Doggy.
Play Africa is available on Google Play store and can be installed with this direct link to stream all songs from Agbeshie. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playafricaonline.android
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» Another Florida theater faces closing curtain due to debt
Another Florida theater faces closing curtain due to debt
On Behalf of Law Office of Paul L. Urich, P.A. | Mar 20, 2012 | Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Firm News
A Florida bank filed a lawsuit claiming a local theater company has failed to pay on two notes. The lawsuit is a foreclosure claim against the business. The lawsuit is the result of the theater company's supposed failure to pay approximately $6 million dollars of debt owed to the Florida bank. The company has made comments regarding a potential Chapter 11 or Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
It has been reported that the Florida theater has been going through financial difficulties. Its leaders have reviewed the business' financial status and are considering and hoping for a reorganization of its debt. The company has considered reorganization under Chapter 11 bankruptcy but says is not considering liquidation through Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
The lawsuit claims the company has defaulted on two notes. A bank note is a contract between parties to repay an amount of money within the specific dates stated in the contract. One of the notes was for $2.88 million dollars and the second note was approximately $3 million dollars. The bank is seeking repayment and it was reported that the bank has made arrangements to work with the company in the past. The bank claims it allowed the company to modify the loan for easier repayment.
The theater has been in business for 37 seasons and claims it is the longest-running theater in its area. The potential bankruptcy status of this artistic venue isn't the first of its kind in Florida. Another theater, as we shared in a past bankruptcy post, closed last year after filing bankruptcy under Chapter 7.
Sadly, the arts, an escape from reality, are not immune from the stark reality of Florida's economy.
Sun Sentinel, "Legacy Bank files to foreclose on Caldwell Theater," Alexandra Clough, Feb. 14, 2012

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Will Trump Pay The Price For What He Wants From Iran?
Authored by Tom Luongo,
"We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost." – Rush, "Bravado"
Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal could spark a major reset of foreign relations. Is this a mistake or the right course of action?
That depends on your perspective. It depends on whether you believe, as the Israelis do, that Iran is ready to build a nuclear weapon to point at them.
But the bigger question to me is whether Trump is willing to put on the table what he needs to get what he wants, a secure Israel and an Iran without nukes. Tearing up the deal may be the first step towards that end, but not in the way he's thinking.
Where's the Beef?
Now, thousands of column inches have been spilled detailing how inordinately stupid it would be for either Israel or Iran to lob nukes at one another. No matter who starts it, the ending will be tragic for much of the world.
So, no sane person would do this right? The narrative has been spun up that Israel is rational and Iran is not. Pure and simple. That's the narrative. That justifies taking away Iran's ultimate right to defend itself against aggression from foreign powers.
Both sides of this conflict can rightly point fingers at the other as to their adventures beyond their own borders. And here I break with my libertarian brethren. It does little good today to say who is more justified. To argue about who started it. Because we are well beyond that point.
So, what does Donald Trump want? What's his main beef with the JCPOA?
The sunset clause.
He wants a guarantee in writing from Iran to forever stop development of a nuclear weapon. Israel has been pushing for this policy point since the end of the Iran/Iraq war, which is where all of this likely started.
Iran, in response to Saddam Hussein's own tactical nuclear weapons development, began work on theirs. After this the whole thing gets murky. But, let's assume that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is right about one thing; that Iran is year or two away from a nuclear weapon.
So, to Trump the sunset clause is moronic.
And, rightly so. But, that's not the whole story.
The Price of the Deal
Now let's go back to 2012. The U.S. and its partners – Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey – begin the regime change operation in Syria.
We use the financial equivalent of a nuclear strike, cutting them from the SWIFT electronic payment network. We freeze hundreds of billions in Iranian assets.
The U.S. cuts Iran out of the global financial system to effect regime change. The Iranian Rial devalues 50% overnight.
Syria's biggest ally other than Russia is neutralized through financial warfare.
Nuclear weapons are only effective as a deterrent to behavior. They cannot actually be used. Obama's first mistake was going to this option weaponizing SWIFT. We'd used it successfully on Switzerland in 2010 to hunt down tax evaders. But everyone watching this play out knew it was a bad idea.
I remember Jim Sinclair saying this over and over again. You can't go to the nuclear well. Because if it doesn't work, you have nothing left to threaten anyone with. Financial wars eventually become hot wars.
In short, Iran survived, with the help of a lot of people, including Turkey who altered its banking regulations to re-monetize gold as a bank asset to help Iran process international oil payments through Turkish banks.
Now, fast forward to 2015. The Syria operation is nearly over. Assad is hanging on by a thread.
The Sunni animals we used as proxies were about to take power.
Hezbollah would be isolated in Lebanon. Russia's access to the Mediterranean would be blocked, especially after thwarting our attempt to take Sevastopol and Crimea.
Negotiating a deal to let Iran back into the world market had little downside. In fact, at that point, opening up Iran to international capital would hasten the overthrow of the theocracy.
U.S. and European oil contractors wanted access to Iran. With Syria destroyed, pipelines coming in from Saudi Arabia and Qatar through Turkey into Europe would hurt Gazprom and Russia.
At that point letting Iran back into the world would have been a win for the West. Isolated and alone, with radical Sunnis in power all through the region Iran would never become the kind of power that could threaten Israeli and Saudi dominance.
So, the JCPOA was a pantomime. Iran agrees to a moratorium on nuclear development it may or may not have been engaging in and in return, it gets sanctions relief and its stolen assets returned.
If Syria fell to the Wahabists then Iran would need that nuclear capability to defend itself. So, getting that moratorium in writing, the thinking likely went, would be enough because in 10 years the current Iranian government wouldn't exist.
The threat would be moot.
Looking at it this way, 10 years was as good as forever.
The Bear Trap
Now, here's the rub. In July of 2015 when the deal was being finalized, were Iran and Russia negotiating the sunset clause in 'bad faith' because they knew Putin would militarily intervene in Syria three months later?
If so, then I fully understand the frustration coming from Israel and the U.S., particularly Trump. It's a bad deal because the sunset clause solves nothing permanently. The return of Iranian capital has allowed them to support winning the war in Syria.
But, at the end of the day, that's Monday morning quarterbacking. The Obama administration and the entire geopolitical sphere didn't expect Russia to intervene militarily, and if they did they would be bogged down in a nightmarish quagmire.
That was the thinking in 2015.
Trump's analysis of this situation is that the JCPOA got the U.S. nothing but heartache and Iran won the deal. But, this was an outcome no one expected. No one expected Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and China to stand up to the U.S. in Syria.
Maybe Netanyahu, but I doubt it.
And if you think that Iran's money has been the game changer I say nonsense. The real financial backer of Assad has been the silent partner, China.
China threatened to send troops into Syria in an uncharacteristic display of partisanship. They ultimately didn't, but don't take that to mean they haven't provided a lot of soft support to those fighting in Syria.
The rest, after that, is history. And the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia have been scrambling ever since.
This Syrian Cross
Syria is the U.S.'s Rubicon.
It's the line we should have never crossed. To win we engaged in tactics and strategies that laid bare to the world the depth of our foreign policy depravity.
Moreover, it exposed us as far weaker than was previously thought. Iran's successful resistance to the 2012 sanctions, no matter how painful, created responses that today have changed the game completely.
The emperor is only powerful as long as no one challenges his authority. First the mullahs, then Putin, then Xi and now Kim. They have all defied the U.S. and won to some extent and each small victory exposes a little bit more of the emperor's nudity.
The Syrian Operation has failed in any geopolitical sense of the term. The basic goal of removing Assad and isolating Iran and Hezbollah were not achieved. Russia is stronger, with operational experience for its troops using some of its best weapons against U.S.-backed forces.
When an operation like this fails those that instigated it wind up losing the most. Qatar and Turkey cut bait in 2016. Any support from Egypt is also gone.
But the U.S., Israel and the Saudis are pot-committed. And so now they have to salvage what they can. And that means getting rid of the deal to regain some control over the situation.
But, Syria and Afghanistan will be the U.S. empire's graveyard. I only hope that Trump gets past his blind hatred of Iran to see this clearly after he pulls out of the JCPOA.
What Can Trump Salvage?
By tearing up the JCPOA Trump is trying to force the situation back to 2012 to gain some leverage. But, it's 2018. Oil prices are $70 a barrel, which the Saudis desperately need. The EU is teetering on the edge of political and financial collapse.
Russia survived the ruble crisis and China is the world's largest economy from a purchasing-power-parity perspective (the only perspective with any validity). Both have SWIFT-compliant internal financial communications networks that can assist Iran if sanctions are put back on.
Hell, there are blockchains out there that can help Iran get paid for its oil.
The EU signatories want to continue the deal and could very well defy Trump on this, not adhering to new sanctions.
Today, Trump tries to force wins on trade policy that will only destroy global trade and harm U.S. producers in the long run. He wants a guarantee from Iran that they will remain without nukes to threaten Israel or Saudi Arabia with.
It's a noble goal.
He won't get that without giving up something substantial. Obama traded Iran's money back to them, which he stole, for a moratorium on nuclear development at a time when he felt the U.S. was winning on every front. He gave up little to get what looked like a lot at the time.
Again, was this a classic Russian cauldron? Invite your enemy in, let them over-extend themselves and then encircle? Possibly. We'll only know after Putin retires and writes his memoirs.
Today the deal looks like the reverse. Obama gave up everything for nothing solid. But, given what he was willing to put on the table that was all he was going to get.
When Trump tears up this deal to negotiate a new one he's going to sell Iran and Russia the same false value that Obama did in 2015. The U.S. will give up trying to oust Assad if you guarantee to never develop nukes.
But, that deal is a non-starter. Because the U.S. will eventually be routed from Syria lest we move to a hot war with Russia, which no one wants.
The U.S. has to swear off regime change by removing its troops from both Syria and Afghanistan as a starting point and guaranteeing that the Saudis never get nuclear weapons. Iran may also demand Israel finally sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty. I'm sure that deal is a non-starter as well.
But, our military commitments in these places is gutting the U.S. budget. Trump thinks that he can pull a Reagan and grow his way out of the deficits he's encumbering us with. But, he can't. The situation is too dire. We're not at the beginning of the dollar reserve standard, we're at the end of it.
So, Russia, China and Iran will all hold their water and negotiate knowing that the war of financial attrition is theirs to win.
Just like it was in 2012. And, deal or no deal, the bigger threat to the U.S. is the further deterioration of diplomatic respect we have with the rest of the world.
Since taking office all Trump's done is betray his base by doubling down in Afghanistan, striking Syria over false flags, selling weapons to Ukraine and further entrenching us in a nightmarish war in Yemen.
None of these things screams 'no regime change.'
They all scream war with Iran which has been his position since day one. The Koreas are forcing his hand on peace there over the objections of his foreign policy team.
So, if this is his way of keeping a foreign policy promise to his base, to satisfy them politically before the mid-terms, he has only himself to blame. No matter how much he tries to blame Obama.
This whole affair highlights the most important axiom about war, 'the only way to win is not to play.'
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Architects whose work is included here range from Basil Spence and Edward Maufe, designers of major cathedrals, to the radical Gillespie, Kidd and Coia whose brutalist seminary lies abandoned near Dumbarton. The book provides biographies of major designers; articles on glass, fittings, and on the synagogues, mosques and temples that play an intrinsic and important part in worship in Britain today. Contributors include architectural historians Elain Harwood, Alan Powers and Clare Price.
Beautiful photography throughout showcases the very best of British church design, whether it is the minimal symmetry of a timber-framed altar, or light streaming in through a multi-coloured stained glass panel.
The Twentieth Century Society is a British charity that campaigns for the preservation of architectural heritage from 1914 onwards. They provide support and advice to architects and planning authorities to protect the best twentieth-century architecture and design, whether through listing or sympathetic development and management.


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Q: Firefox - default colour scheme for inputs/forms?
I am using Linux Mint 18.3 with a dark theme. thus the default text colour (for the linux system) is light grey and the background dark grey.
Firefox uses these colours for text inputs/forms (light grey) and checkboxes (dark grey).
However Chromium has it's own standard colours. This is what I want for Firefox.
I know that you can set custom css-settings in the userContent.css but this overwrites it for all input forms, not just the ones which are not styled by the website itself.
Is there a way to make Firefox also use other default colours like Chromium for elements that are not styled otherwise?

A: I use mint, and I had the exact same issue. This worked for me:
Go to ~/.mozilla/firefox/randomName.default. Create a new folder named chrome (If there is a chrome folder already present rename it to old-chrome). Within the chrome folder create a new file named userContent.css and paste the following code.

@-moz-document url-prefix(about:blank) {*{background-color:#202020;}}
/*
* Use this css file to eliminate problems in Firefox
* when using dark themes that create dark on dark
* input boxes, selection menus and buttons. Put this
* in the ../firefox/default/chrome folder or your
* individual user firefox profile chrome folder.
*/
input {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
textarea {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
select {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
input[type="radio"],
input[type="checkbox"] {
border: 2px inset white !important;
background-color: white !important;
color: ThreeDFace !important;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
*|*::-moz-radio {
background-color: white;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
button,
input[type="reset"],
input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"] {
border: 2px outset white;
background-color: #eeeeee;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
body {
background-color: white;
color: black;
display: block;
margin: 8px;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}

save the file and restart Firefox. Your problem should be fixed. Good luck.
In case you need to change it back, just delete the chrome folder and restart Firefox again.

A: the answer from @VishnuVS really is the only practical/working solution I tested so far. I added some styling (source: https://www.inserthtml.com/2012/06/custom-form-radio-checkbox/) as the check boxes and radio buttons where not working properly (for me).

@-moz-document url-prefix(about:blank) {*{background-color:#202020;}}
/*
* Use this css file to eliminate problems in Firefox
* when using dark themes that create dark on dark
* input boxes, selection menus and buttons. Put this
* in the ../firefox/default/chrome folder or your
* individual user firefox profile chrome folder.
*/
input {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
textarea {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
select {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
input[type="radio"],
input[type="checkbox"] {
border: 2px inset white !important;
background-color: white !important;
color: ThreeDFace !important;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
*|*::-moz-radio {
background-color: white;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
button,
input[type="reset"],
input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"] {
border: 2px outset white;
background-color: #eeeeee;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
body {
background-color: white;
color: black;
display: block;
margin: 8px;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}
input[type="checkbox"],input[type="radio"] {
appearance:none;
}
input[type="checkbox"] {
-webkit-appearance: none;
background-color: #fafafa;
border: 1px solid #cacece;
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.05), inset 0px -15px 10px -12px rgba(0,0,0,0.05);
padding: 9px;
border-radius: 3px;
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
}
input[type="checkbox"]:active, input[type="checkbox"]:checked:active {
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.05), inset 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
input[type="checkbox"]:checked {
background-color: #e9ecee;
border: 1px solid #adb8c0;
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.05), inset 0px -15px 10px -12px rgba(0,0,0,0.05), inset 15px 10px -12px rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
color: #99a1a7;
}
input[type="checkbox"]:checked:after {
content: '\2714';
font-size: 14px;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 3px;
color: #99a1a7;
}
input[type="radio"] {
-webkit-appearance: none;
background-color: #fafafa;
border: 1px solid #cacece;
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.05), inset 0px -15px 10px -12px rgba(0,0,0,0.05);
padding: 9px;
border-radius: 50px;
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
}
input[type="radio"]:checked:after {
content: ' ';
width: 12px;
height: 12px;
border-radius: 50px;
position: absolute;
top: 3px;
background: #99a1a7;
box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
text-shadow: 0px;
left: 3px;
font-size: 32px;
}
input[type="radio"]:checked {
background-color: #e9ecee;
color: #99a1a7;
border: 1px solid #adb8c0;
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.05), inset 0px -15px 10px -12px rgba(0,0,0,0.05), inset 15px 10px -12px rgba(255,255,255,0.1), inset 0px 0px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
input[type="radio"]:active, input[type="radio"]:checked:active {
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.05), inset 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}

A: You can choose in Firefox any color you like in:
3-bar menu (or 'Tools') > Add-ons > Themes.
Or you could change the system colors in system settings.
If this does not help then read the Firefox support answer:

Change Font Color
To change the font color:

*

*Click the menu button and choose Options > Preferences.

*Select the Content General panel.

*Under Fonts & Colors, click the Colors… button.

*Clicking on any of the colored rectangles will show you the possible colors you can choose from. Select the color you want by
  clicking one of the colored rectangles.

*Click OK to close the Colors window.

*Close the about:preferences page. Any changes you've made will automatically be saved.

  Custom Font Color
Some websites have custom font colors, to disable them:

*

*Click the menu button and choose Options > Preferences.

*Select the ContentGeneral panel.

*Under Fonts & Colors, click the Colors… button.

*In the window that opens, set Override the colors specified by the page with my selections above to Always.

*Click OK to close the Colors window.

*Close the about:preferences page. Any changes you've made will automatically be saved.

  Other settings for Colors
Text and Background: Here you can change the default text and background color to be used on web pages that haven't specified that
  information. Click on the color samples to select colors.

*

*Use system colors: Check this optionpreference to use the colors defined in your operating system settings instead of the colors
  specified above.

  Link Colors: Here you can change the default colors for Web links. Click on the color samples to select colors.

*

*Underline links: By default, links are underlined on web pages. Uncheck this optionpreference to disable this. Note that many sites
  specify their own styling rules and this optionpreference has no
  effect on those sites.

*Override the colors specified by the page with your selections above:

*

*Always: Select this optionpreference to force all sites to use your default colors.

*Only with High Contrast themes: This optionpreference will make Firefox use the colors specified by the web page author, except
  when you are using a High Contrast WindowsLinux theme.

*Never: Select this optionpreference to make Firefox use the colors specified by the web page author.

Note: If you later want to restore the default colors:

*

*In the address bar, type about:config and press Enter Return.

*

*The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I'll be careful, I promise!I accept the risk!
    to continue to the about:config page.

*Enter browser*color in the Search field.

*Right-click Hold down the Ctrl key while you click on the user setmodified preferences.

*Select Reset.

A: A much simpler approach, which also produces more aesthetically pleasing results, is to ask Firefox to use the light version of the GTK scheme for rendering form inputs.
To do that, navigate to about:config, promise to be careful by clicking "I accept the risk!" and then create a new string parameter widget.content.gtk-theme-override. Use the name of your favorite "light" theme as the value (in my case, it's Yaru). This configuration change will take effect after the next restart of Firefox.
Problem solved!

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[via press release from CBS]
"Christine" Posts Across-the-Board Growth Over Its Premiere
"The Unit" Remains the Season's Number One New Program With a Solid Showing Against an Extended "American Idol"
"Criminal Minds" Finishes In Its Closest Competitive Position to a First Run "Lost" in Viewers and Key Demographics
"CSI: NY" Dominates Its New Time Period Competition
"60 Minutes" Has Its Best Deliveries in Viewers and Demos Since January
CBS's mid-season hits THE UNIT and THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE, CRIMINAL MINDS, CSI: NY and 60 MINUTES, along with CBS Sports coverage of the NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT, paced the Network to first place finish in viewers and second in key demographics, according to Nielsen ratings for the week ending March 26, week 27 of the 2005-2006 television season.
For the week in viewers, CBS (11.98m) topped FOX (11.88m), ABC (9.68m) and NBC (9.48m). Season-to-date, CBS (12.66m) leads, followed by ABC (11.37m), NBC (9.97m) and FOX (9.76m).
For the week in households, CBS (7.8/13) was +8% ahead of FOX (7.2/11) and +26% ahead of both NBC and ABC (6.2/10, each). Season-to-date, CBS is first in households (8.2/13), outpacing ABC by +14% (7.2/12), NBC by +26% (6.5/10) and FOX by +37% (6.0/10).
For the week in key demographics, CBS was second in adults 25-54 (4.7/11) and adults 18-49 (3.8/10) even with time period winning dramas CSI, WITHOUT A TRACE, GHOST WHISPERER and NUM3BERS as well as SURVIVIOR being preempted on Thursday and Friday due to basketball.
� TWO AND A HALF MEN won its time period in households (10.5/15), viewers (16.72m), adults 25-54 (7.0/15) and second in adults 18-49 (5.4/13, -0.1 behind FOX).
� THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE was first in households (9.7/14), viewers (15.13m), adults 25-54 (6.6/14) and second in adults 18-49 (5.1/12, -0.3 behind FOX).
This is the time period's best delivery this season in viewers and adults 25-54 and matches the best adults 18-49 delivery.
-- Compared to last week's premiere, THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE was up slightly in viewers (from 15.09m), +10% in adults 25-54 (from 6.0/13), +6% in adults 18-49 (from 4.8/11) and +3% in adults 18-34 (3.4/09 from 3.3/08). Of the three sitcoms in this time slot this season, this is the first series to improve in its second week.
� CSI: MIAMI won its time period in households (13.0/21), viewers (19.86m), adults 25-54 (8.2/20), adults 18-49 (6.6/17) and adults 18-34 (4.7/14). CSI: MIAMI beat NBC and ABC combined in viewers (vs. 14.78m, +34%), adults 18-34 (vs. 4.2/13, +12%), adults 18-49 (vs. 5.4/14, +22%) and adults 25-54 (vs. 6.5/16, +26%).
� NCIS (R) was second in households (7.5/11), viewers (11.48m), adults 25-54 (3.7/08) and adults 18-49 (2.6/07), all behind FOX's "American Idol" and against mostly first run programming on the competition.
� THE UNIT was second in households (9.8/14), viewers (15.50m), adults 25-54 (5.7/12) and adults 18-49 (4.2/09). Compared to last week, THE UNIT retained 89% of its households (from 11.0/16), 86% of both viewers (from 18.07m) and adults 18-49 (from 4.9/11) and 85% of adults 25-54 (from 6.7/14). Note: Last week's episode had a first run NCIS as a lead-in.
� THE AMAZING RACE 9 (6.0/10, 9.40m) was second in adults 25-54 (4.6/11), adults 18-49 (3.9/10) and adults 18-34 (3.0/09).
� CRIMINAL MINDS, against NBC's "Law & Order" (which just moved to the time period), topped the long running NBC drama by +24% in households (7.8/12 vs. 6.3/09), +35% in viewers (12.10m vs. 9.00m), +36% in adults 25-54 (4.5/09 vs. 3.3/07), +35% in adults 18-49 (3.5/08 vs. 2.6/06) and +16% in adults 18-34 (2.2/06 vs. 1.9/05).
� CRIMINAL MINDS finished in its best competitive position behind a first run "Lost" in viewers (-3.95m), adults 25-54 (-3.2), adults 18-49 (-3.1) and adults 18-34 (-3.3). This is the first time a first run CRIMINAL MINDS trailed a first run "Lost" by less than 4 million viewers. In their first head-to-head match up, CRIMINAL MINDS trailed "Lost" by -12.56m viewers.
� CSI: NY was first in households (9.1/15), viewers (13.93m), adults 25-54 (5.5/13), adults 18-49 (4.4/12) and adults 18-34 (3.0/09). CSI: NY dominated the series premiere of "Heist" in households (vs. 5.9/10, +54%), viewers (vs. 8.75m, +59%), adults 25-54 (vs. 3.7/09, +49%), adults 18-49 (vs. 3.0/08, +47%) and adults 18-34 (vs. 2.4/07, +25%). CSI: NY easily topped the premiere of "Evidence" in households (vs. 6.2/10, +47%), viewers (vs. 9.10m, +53%), adults 25-54 (vs. 4.1/10, +34%), adults 18-49 (vs. 3.4/09, +29%) and adults 18-34 (vs. 2.4/07, +25%).
� CBS NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP THURSDAY 1 (S) (7:00PM-10:01PM) posted a 7.6/13 in households with 11.57m viewers. CBS scored a 4.4/12 in adults 25-54, 6.0/17 in men 25-54, 3.8/12 in adults 18-49, 5.1/17 in men 18-49, 3.6/13 in adults 18-34 and 4.8/18 in men 18-34. CBS was first in households, viewers and key men, adults 18-34 and tied for first in both adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 from 8:00-10:00PM. This is CBS's best delivery with the NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP in this window since March 21, 2002.
� CBS NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP THURSDAY 2 (S) (10:01PM-12:30AM) scored a 7.1/13 in households with 10.45m viewers. CBS posted a 4.3/12 in adults 25-54, 6.2/18 in men 25-54, 3.9/12 in adults 18-49, 5.6/17 in men 18-49, 3.8/13 in adults 18-34 and 5.3/18 in men 18-34. CBS was first in men 25-54, men 18-49 and men 18-34.
� CBS NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP EVENING FRIDAY 1 (S) (7:00PM-10:09PM) posted a 6.2/11 in households with 9.34m viewers. CBS scored a 3.6/11 in adults 25-54, 4.9/16 in men 25-54, 3.2/11 in adults 18-49, 4.2/16 in men 18-49, 2.7/11 in adults 18-34 and 3.5/16 in men 18-34. CBS was first in households, viewers, key adults and men demos from 8:00-10:00PM.
� CBS NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP EVENING FRIDAY 2 (S) (10:09PM-12:58AM) scored a 6.5/13 in households with 9.79m viewers. CBS posted a 4.2/13 in adults 25-54, 5.8/18 in men 25-54, 3.9/13 in adults 18-49, 5.4/18 in men 18-49, 3.6/14 in adults 18-34 and 4.6/18 in men 18-34. CBS was first in households, viewers and key adults and men demos from 10:00-11:00PM.
� CBS NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY 2 (S) (7:04-9:38PM) posted a 6.9/13 in households with 10.38m viewers. CBS scored a 4.2/13 in adults 25-54, 5.8/19 in men 25-54, 3.6/13 in adults 18-49, 5.0/18 in men 18-49, 3.2/14 in adults 18-34 and 4.1/18 in men 18-34. CBS was first from 8:00-9:30PM in households, viewers and key demos
� CBS NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY 2 (S) from 7:00-7:31PM posted a 9.6/17 with 14.64m viewers.
� 60 MINUTES (7:39-8:39 PM) delivered a 11.0/17 with 17.09m viewers, 5.6/13 in adults 25-54 and 4.3/11 in adults 18-49. 60 MINUTES was first in households, viewers and key demos from 7:30-8:30PM. This is 60 MINUTES's best delivery in households, viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 since January 8, 2006.
CBS top programs of the week: #4 CSI: MIAMI (an average of 19.86m viewers), #5 60 MINUTES (17.09m), #7 TWO AND A HALF MEN (16.72m), #10 THE UNIT (15.50m), #11 THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE (15.13m), #14 COLD CASE (14.64m), #15 CSI: NY (13.93m), #21 CBS NCAA POST GAME SUNDAY 2 (12.85m), #23 CRIMINAL MINDS (12.10m), #24 CBS NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP THURSDAY 1 (S) (11.57m), #25 NCIS (R) (11.48m) and #30 THE KING OF QUEENS (10.75m).
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Greg Monroe will sign with the Boston Celtics, league source tells ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 2, 2018
Monroe will sign a one-year, $5M deal with Celtics, league sources tell ESPN. Pelicans could only offer $2.2M.
WOJ BOMB! After a lot of speculation, Adrian Wojnarowski just reported that Greg Monroe will sign with the Boston Celtics. It's going to be a 1-year deal for $5M, which wipes out the $8M DPE the C's were rewarded when Gordon Hayward went down. Even though they didn't use the full $8M, they can't go back and use the rest on somebody else.
So if you don't know, here's a little background on how Monroe got here. He was traded from the Milwaukee Bucks to the Phoenix Suns as part of the Eric Bledsoe deal at the beginning of the year. Immediately after the Suns got him there were rumors that he would be bought out, as he was scheduled to earn around $17M this season. And those rumors eventually came true when Monroe was bought out earlier this week, allowing him to become a free agent. I think you can figure the rest out.
Personally, I love this move because it will give the Celtics some much-needed bench scoring down low. Baynes and Theis have been fantastic this season, but they have shown they aren't going to put up big numbers every night. I'm not expecting Monroe to post huge numbers by any means, but at least you know that you're going to get maybe 10 points a night from the guy, which I would consider a win. This is mainly a depth move and I'm very satisfied with it.
I also don't see it being the last move that Danny Ainge makes before the deadline. I know they're hesitant to move any first round picks, but I really think they should try to swing a deal for Tyreke Evans. I've noticed a big tick in Abdel Nader & Guerschon Yabusele's minutes as of late, which could be an indicator of them trying to showcase those two guys and potentially make them part of a trade. I would send Memphis the both of them and their own first-rounder if it meant getting Tyreke Evans in the building for the remainder of the season. I think a different first-rounder or anything more than that would be too much.
But the biggest story-line here might be that Woj could finally be back to his old ways. He's had a pretty good stretch recently in terms of breaking the Boogie Cousins injury, the Nikola Mirotic trade, and now this. Shams has owned him since he left for ESPN, but Woj is on a hot streak. If Shams doesn't step his game up Woj might own the Spring & the Summer.
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Q: How to handle multi-line rules for gor parsing bnf grammar using boost spirit qi Assuming I have a BNF grammar like this
   ::=  <letter><digit> | <letter><digit>
<letter> ::= a | b | c | d | e
             | f | g | h | i
<digit>  ::= 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
             4

If you look at the <letter> rule, its continuation starts with the | but that of the <digit> rule starts with the production with | appearing at the end of the previous line. I also don't want to use a particular symbol to represent the end of a rule.
How do check if a rule as ended using the Boost Spirit Qi for implementation.
I have just gone through the tutorial on the boost page and wondering how I am going to handle this.

A: Wikipedia

BNF syntax can only represent a rule in one line, whereas in EBNF a terminating character, the semicolon character ";" marks the end of a rule.

So the simple answer is: the input isn't BNF.
Iff you want to support it anyways (at your own peril :)) you'll have to make it so. So, let's write a simplistic BFN grammar, literally mapping from Wikipedia BNF
<syntax>         ::= <rule> | <rule> <syntax>
<rule>           ::= <opt-whitespace> "<" <rule-name> ">" <opt-whitespace> "::=" <opt-whitespace> <expression> <line-end>
<opt-whitespace> ::= " " <opt-whitespace> | ""
<expression>     ::= <list> | <list> <opt-whitespace> "|" <opt-whitespace> <expression>
<line-end>       ::= <opt-whitespace> <EOL> | <line-end> <line-end>
<list>           ::= <term> | <term> <opt-whitespace> <list>
<term>           ::= <literal> | "<" <rule-name> ">"
<literal>        ::= '"' <text1> '"' | "'" <text2> "'"
<text1>          ::= "" | <character1> <text1>
<text2>          ::= '' | <character2> <text2>
<character>      ::= <letter> | <digit> | <symbol>
<letter>         ::= "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" | "G" | "H" | "I" | "J" | "K" | "L" | "M" | "N" | "O" | "P" | "Q" | "R" | "S" | "T" | "U" | "V" | "W" | "X" | "Y" | "Z" | "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f" | "g" | "h" | "i" | "j" | "k" | "l" | "m" | "n" | "o" | "p" | "q" | "r" | "s" | "t" | "u" | "v" | "w" | "x" | "y" | "z"
<digit>          ::= "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | "6" | "7" | "8" | "9"
<symbol>         ::=  "|" | " " | "!" | "#" | "$" | "%" | "&" | "(" | ")" | "*" | "+" | "," | "-" | "." | "/" | ":" | ";" | ">" | "=" | "<" | "?" | "@" | "[" | "\" | "]" | "^" | "_" | "`" | "{" | "}" | "~"
<character1>     ::= <character> | "'"
<character2>     ::= <character> | '"'
<rule-name>      ::= <letter> | <rule-name> <rule-char>
<rule-char>      ::= <letter> | <digit> | "-"

It could look like this:
template <typename Iterator>
struct BNF: qi::grammar<Iterator, Ast::Syntax()> {
    BNF(): BNF::base_type(start) {
        using namespace qi;
        start = skip(blank) [ _rule % +eol ];

        _rule       = _rule_name >> "::=" >> _expression;
        _expression = _list % '|';
        _list       = +_term;
        _term       = _literal | _rule_name;
        _literal    = '"' >> *(_character - '"') >> '"'
                    | "'" >> *(_character - "'") >> "'";
        _character  = alnum | char_("\"'| !#$%&()*+,./:;>=<?@]\\^_`{}~[-");
        _rule_name  = '<' >> (alpha >> *(alnum | char_('-'))) >> '>';

        BOOST_SPIRIT_DEBUG_NODES(
            (_rule)(_expression)(_list)(_term)
            (_literal)(_character)
            (_rule_name))
    }

  private:
    qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::Syntax()>     start;
    qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::Rule(),       qi::blank_type> _rule;
    qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::Expression(), qi::blank_type> _expression;
    qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::List(),       qi::blank_type> _list;
    // lexemes
    qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::Term()>       _term;
    qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::Name()>       _rule_name;
    qi::rule<Iterator, std::string()>     _literal;
    qi::rule<Iterator, char()>            _character;
};

Now it will parse your sample (corrected to be BNF):
    std::string const input = R"(   ::=  <letter><digit> | <letter><digit>
<letter> ::= "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f" | "g" | "h" | "i"
<digit>  ::= "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "4"
    )";

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Prints:
code ::= {<letter>, <digit>} | {<letter>, <digit>, }
letter ::= {a} | {b} | {c} | {d} | {e} | {f} | {g} | {h} | {i}
digit ::= {0} | {1} | {2} | {3} | {4}
Remaining: "
    "

Support Line-Wrapped Rules
The best way is to not accept them - since the grammar wasn't designed for it unlike e.g. EBNF.
You can force the issue by doing a negative look-ahead in the skipper:
_skipper = blank | (eol >> !_rule);
start = skip(_skipper) [ _rule % +eol ];

For technical reasons (Boost spirit skipper issues) that doesn't compile, so we need to feed it a placeholder skipper inside the look-ahead:
_blank = blank;
_skipper = blank | (eol >> !skip(_blank.alias()) [ _rule ]);
start = skip(_skipper.alias()) [ _rule % +eol ];

Now it parses the same but with various line-breaks:
    std::string const input = R"(   ::=  <letter><digit> | <letter><digit>
<letter> ::= "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e"
           | "f" | "g" | "h" | "i"
<digit>  ::= "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" |
             "4"
    )";

Printing:
code ::= {<letter>, <digit>} | {<letter>, <digit>, }
letter ::= {a} | {b} | {c} | {d} | {e} | {f} | {g} | {h} | {i}
digit ::= {0} | {1} | {2} | {3} | {4}

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//#define BOOST_SPIRIT_DEBUG
#include <boost/spirit/include/qi.hpp>
#include <boost/fusion/adapted.hpp>
#include <fmt/ranges.h>
#include <fmt/ostream.h>
#include <iomanip>
namespace qi = boost::spirit::qi;

namespace Ast {
    struct Name : std::string {
        using std::string::string;
        using std::string::operator=;

        friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, Name const& n) {
            return os << '<' << n.c_str() << '>';
        }
    };

    using Term = boost::variant<Name, std::string>;
    using List = std::list<Term>;
    using Expression = std::list<List>;

    struct Rule {
        Name name; // lhs
        Expression rhs;
    };

    using Syntax = std::list<Rule>;
}

BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_STRUCT(Ast::Rule, name, rhs)

namespace Parser {
    template <typename Iterator>
    struct BNF: qi::grammar<Iterator, Ast::Syntax()> {
        BNF(): BNF::base_type(start) {
            using namespace qi;
            _blank = blank;
            _skipper = blank | (eol >> !skip(_blank.alias()) [ _rule ]);
            start = skip(_skipper.alias()) [ _rule % +eol ];

            _rule       = _rule_name >> "::=" >> _expression;
            _expression = _list % '|';
            _list       = +_term;
            _term       = _literal | _rule_name;
            _literal    = '"' >> *(_character - '"') >> '"'
                        | "'" >> *(_character - "'") >> "'";
            _character  = alnum | char_("\"'| !#$%&()*+,./:;>=<?@]\\^_`{}~[-");
            _rule_name  = '<' >> (alpha >> *(alnum | char_('-'))) >> '>';

            BOOST_SPIRIT_DEBUG_NODES(
                (_rule)(_expression)(_list)(_term)
                (_literal)(_character)
                (_rule_name))
        }

      private:
        using Skipper = qi::rule<Iterator>;
        Skipper _skipper, _blank;

        qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::Syntax()>     start;
        qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::Rule(),       Skipper> _rule;
        qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::Expression(), Skipper> _expression;
        qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::List(),       Skipper> _list;
        // lexemes
        qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::Term()>       _term;
        qi::rule<Iterator, Ast::Name()>       _rule_name;
        qi::rule<Iterator, std::string()>     _literal;
        qi::rule<Iterator, char()>            _character;
    };
}

int main() {
    Parser::BNF<std::string::const_iterator> const parser;

    std::string const input = R"(   ::=  <letter><digit> | <letter><digit>
<letter> ::= "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e"
           | "f" | "g" | "h" | "i"
<digit>  ::= "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" |
             "4"
    )";

    auto it = input.begin(), itEnd = input.end();

    Ast::Syntax syntax;
    if (parse(it, itEnd, parser, syntax)) {
        for (auto& rule : syntax)
            fmt::print("{} ::= {}\n", rule.name, fmt::join(rule.rhs, " | "));
    } else {
        std::cout << "Failed\n";
    }

    if (it != itEnd)
        std::cout << "Remaining: " << std::quoted(std::string(it, itEnd)) << "\n";
}

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Kim North
Times Leader Sports Writer
MOUNDSVILLE — Travis "The Terror" Clark's return to the ring after a year off was a successful Saturday night inside the jam-packed former West Virginia State Penitentiary.
Clark (14-2) earned a 6-round unanimous decision over Thad Berkhousen (5-7-1) in the main event of Revolution Combat Sports 'Judgment Day' card. It was his second victory over Berkhousen, who hails from Michigan. The first fight went all 10 rounds with Clark also posting a unanimous nod.
However, Saturday night was a different story.
It was a great fight. It was a great night," Clark said. "I dropped him in the first round and all I came out of the fight with was a little black eye that resulted from a head butt."
Clark said he learned a few things from the first fight that helped him.
"I used more head movement this time around," he explained. "I also used three levels of jabs that really hurt him. I went to the body, the chest and the chin."
The fight was the first for Clark since he sustained a torn right bicep in his last outing.
"I felt fine. No complaints," he stressed.
As for the future, he said it's too early to tell, but his phone will probably start ringing this week.
Other local fighters recording victories in the squared-circle were Clark's stepson, Abhay Horvath (4-0-1); Bellaire's Richie Loew and Cameron's Roger Kupfer (2-0).
Kupfer defeated Jon Cruz in a pro mixed martial arts 185-pound bout.
Horvath won over Leon Fowlkes by unanimous decision in an amateur boxing match at 155-160 pounds, while Lowe won by TKO in the first round of his amateur 145-150 pound bout.
Another local fighter, Stacy Sikole, lost a unanimous decision to Mary Hawes in the co-main event, which was a 125-pound female amateur MMA bout.
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Our residential complex can boast of being one of the safest places where you can stay. Despite having never had any incidence, we don´t rely on it and continue to work every day to make this aspect a priority in our center.
Fire safety is one of the most important concerns of Residencia & Rehabilitación Ciudad Patricia. The active and passive systems are globally designed and are constantly updated according to the current regulations. This system is an uninterrupted and highly effective protection for its occupants and also for the building itself.
The fire alarm is immediately received by our control center. Following our protocol, we verify the incidence, analyze it and communicate directly with the Fire Department of Benidorm.
The center has security cameras throughout the residence. In addition, we have a private surveillance service in the complex also.
In common areas, it provides information about any incident, avoiding subsequent conflicts that might bring doubts and suspicions about the autothorship of the facts.
Prevent unauthorized personnel wander about certain areas, keeping a record of reliable images.
Strengthens control over external concierges.
Every resident has an assistive call device which, if necessary, must only press the button and the system will locate its location anywhere in the residence. For ease of use, this device will always be worn as a pendant.
Every resident becomes a system for care assistance. If necessary, one must just press the botton of the device you´ll have to wear as a necklace and the system knows your location anywhere in the Residence.
We always try to be at the forefront of technology and strive for a continous improvement and provide our clients the highest quality in all our services, always conveying a sense of security.
Our goal is to make the Residencial center of Ciudad Patricia a unique place for everyone, an extension of your home, a place where you feel to be cared for, looked after and protected.


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Dragged up the stairs for my hospital appointment in Venezuela – BBC News
December 2, 2021 by News Desk
BBC News published this video item, entitled "Dragged up the stairs for my hospital appointment in Venezuela – BBC News" – below is their description.
Venezuela's healthcare system has, for several years now, been in a state of collapse.
President Maduro blames sanctions for the country's economic problems, government mismanagement and corruption have also pushed Venezuela towards the edge.
Hospitals lack equipment, healthcare workers have either left in search of better lives or are paid so poorly many can't afford to eat – and the buildings are crumbling.
With the Covid pandemic, all of those pressures were tested to the limit.
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Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences Articles & Blogs
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How Might Blockchain Impact the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain?
Distributed ledger technologies have continued to attract a great amount of interest from governments, businesses and consumers in 2021.
New Vaccine Hub Heralds Exciting New Era in India-UK Life Sciences Relations
Following Brexit, the UK is looking for new international trade opportunities. In life sciences as well as other sectors, where better to push on than with India? That seems to be the UK Government's view.
Articles & Blogs Brexit Pharma & Life Sciences
New UK-EU Deal - What Does It Mean for Life Sciences?
Well, it finally happened. After months of complex negotiations and stand-offs that took Europe to the brink and back, the EU and UK finally agreed a trade and co-operation deal on Christmas Eve.
Articles & Blogs Information Law Pharma & Life Sciences
European Commission Publishes Draft Model Clauses for Controller / Processor Contracts
The European Commission has published draft standard contractual clauses for inclusion in contracts between controllers and processors.
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The End of Privacy Shield and New Requirements For Standard Contractual Clauses: What 'Schrems II' Means For Your International Data Transfers
In July 2020, the European Court of Justice dealt a major blow to organisations that transfer personal data to the US and other jurisdictions, primarily with the striking down of the EU-US Privacy Shield.
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Coronavirus Hits UK Pharma Sales
Many industries have been hit by coronavirus (COVID-19). To some people's surprise, this has also been in pharma, as can be seen from the latest results from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and AstraZeneca (AZ).
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The UK is leading the way when it comes to advanced therapies, as we heard recently at the 2020 PING Conference - Britain's Great Life Sciences Future: Genomics Personalised Medicine and AI.
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John Bethune (5 de enero de 1791 - 22 de agosto de 1872) fue un clérigo anglicano canadiense y director de la Universidad McGill desde 1835 a 1846.

Biografía
Nacido en Williamstown, Condado de Glengarry, Alto Canadá, fue hijo de Véronique Waddin y el Reverendo John Bethune. Recibió su educación en la escuela del Reverendo Dr. John Strachan en Cornualles. Después de servir en la guerra de 1812, entró en el Ministerio de la Iglesia de Inglaterra y en 1814, fue ordenado por el obispo Jacob Mountain en la ciudad de Quebec. En 1818 fue nombrado Rector de la Iglesia de Cristo en Montreal, donde permaneció durante más de cincuenta años, llegando a ser Decano de la diócesis. Fue director interino de McGill desde noviembre de 1835 hasta mayo de 1846. Murió en 1872.

Fue parte de una prominente familia que incluía a cuatro hermanos; Alexander Neil, se convirtió en obispo de la Diócesis de Toronto, James Gray Bethune era un hombre de negocios, Angus Bethune fue destacado en el comercio de pieles y Donald Bethune fue un importante político en el Alto Canadá.

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Across the country, 100 choirs will be singing and spreading holiday cheer in support of Youth Music.
After the overwhelming success of 100 Choirs fundraising initiative in march that brought performances from 10 choirs at 10 train stations across England on one day, Youth Music is delighted to announce that it is doing it all again! Partnering with Network Rail once more, this next event will take place over the festive season on 1-2 December 2018.
Would you like to take part in this exciting opportunity to take your choir to a wider audience in support of this wonderful charity?
Spaces are limited, to reserve your spot you can fill in the expression of interest survey, call Kelly on 0207 902 1066, or send an email expressing your interest.
Youth Music helps over 75,000 children and young people in challenging circumstances access life-changing music-making every year through more than 350 projects.


Am in Onsite but Salary paid in India, What is the income tax process?
Living Allowance is taxable in India. The companies consider this as a perquisite and pays the tax on it. So it's not taxable in the hands of the employee. You need to check with your company, if they are paying tax for it.
I am sure you will not be spending all the 1000 USD. So when you remit back to India, you should be remitting through an Employee Reimbursement Account(ERA) account provided by your company.
Everybody says NRE FD is an excellent investment. For the truth is, its non-taxable only in India. For people residing in US, this is still a taxable income and the tax in US is much more than that of India. Its almost 40%-45%(depending on the state in US). So, for NRIs in US this is useless. Instead its better to keep in India FD and pay tax in India which will be straight 30%.
how is the tax slab for Kumar calculated? Since he is an NRI, is the tax slab for him same as others? I guess for NRIs, the Indian income is taxed at 30% straight.
Dear PK, as dear Kumar is earning his Indian income from Indian employer, the regular tax slabs as per his income 'll be applicable.
1. If you are out of India for more than 182 days, you become NRI for India but a resident for your respective country. Your global income then becomes taxable in the respective foreign country. Generally the Companies tend to shield employees from such Global taxation. In this case you would ideally need to pay tax on your entire Income in the foreign country.
2. Subsistence allowance is generally tax free in India. However in some cases it is taxable in India if you have unspent amounts.
3. You would need to file your return in India if your company is deducting tax and you believe that you may be eligible for a refund in India.
I would strongly recommend you to avoid asking this question on the forum and go to your Tax department of your Company with your case. You might be sitting on a heavy tax liability (outside India) if your company has not shielded you.
Ashal: For example if the total salary is $3500, out of $3500, am getting $2500 to my indian account and rest $1000 in hand for living expenses.
In this case what is the tax amount I need to pay in India provided am out of India for more than 182 days.
Dear Kumar, as the salary is paid in India by your Indian Employer, the indian part is taxable. The onsite allowance is tax free. So for your given example of $2500 yly salary, the converted Indian salary becomes 1.25L Rs. roughly @ 1$ = Rs. 50.
As this 1.25L Rs. amount is less than the taxable income limit, you are out of tax liability.
In case you are not comfortable to disclose full details about you on this open forum, you may contact on personal mail id for more info.
Dear Kumar, can you please elaborate what's your 70% salary? In my opinion, you are carrying a huge tax liability. Please send more details.
1) Your living allowance is not taxable in any location.
2) Your Indian salary will attract tax in India. If you have lived more than 182 days outside India last FY 2011-12 your taxation will be that of a NRI. You need to file returns if the amount earned is more than minimum taxable income (which I presume it is).


A generalized analytical solution to wave interaction with multi-layer submerged horizontal porous plate breakwaters has been derived in the context of linear potential theory. A two-dimensional problem with N horizontal porous plate layers in a finite water depth has been formulated, and the viscous effects of the porous plates are considered using Darcy's law. In solving the spatial velocity potentials using the matched eigenfunction expansion method, techniques based on artificial potential splitting are employed to avoid complex dispersion relations. The developed analytical solution is verified by comparison with results of previous research on single- and double-layer cases and validated with the results of physical model tests. The analytical solution gives scientific insights into wave interaction with the breakwater and provides an effective and practical tool for designing its parameters. The velocity fields are computed and the way the horizontal porous plates play their role in attenuating fluid motion is illustrated. The effects of various parameters (i.e., plate submergence, width, porosity, layer number, and wave parameter) on the overall hydrodynamic and wave dissipation performance are discussed. The results indicate that a breakwater with multi-layer horizontal porous plates exhibits improved performance.


Setup action returning thread's main, managed value, finalizer.
Fork managed computation in a new thread. See producer source for usage example.
The following example distils a sdl-based program into pure and impure components. This program will draw a white rectangle between every two mouse clicks.
Note that Managed is a Monad, so you can use do notation to combine multiple Managed resources into a single Managed resource.
The second half of the program contains the pure logic.
Run the program to verify that clicks create rectangles.
Equally important, you can formally prove properties about your model using equational reasoning because the model is IO-free and concurrency-free.


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Q: AWS CDK using MFA but without immediate expiration Update 2021-07-09:

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*Invested a bit more time for testing and narrowed the problem to AWS CDK and NOT AWS CLI.

*If I run aws s3 ls --profile dev a cache file is created under ~/.aws/cli/cache/<random_hash> and everything is working. So my question was misleading so far, as I never tested without CDK. I always used cdk synth --profile dev or another CDK command.

*Therefore, can you help in regards with CDK? Why is not behaving as the CLI itself?

Update 2021-07-09 +10min:

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*I found the following issue, and therefore close this question as it seems to be the mentioned.

I follow the advice from here and use the ~/.aws/config file to incorporate MFA in my authentication flow. The role (in 123456789123) has a maximum session duration of one hour, but still I'm prompted for an MFA token every time I run a command. How can I temporarily store the authentication and run a command without MFA interruption? I do not want to circumvent the MFA but store the sts-session for the configured hour - to at least work without interruption for this hour.
~/.aws/config
[default]
region = eu-central-1

[profile dev]
role_arn = arn:aws:iam::123456789123:role/my_admin_role
source_profile = corporation
mfa_serial = arn:aws:iam::023456789123:mfa/my_iam_user

~/.aws/credentials
[corporation]
aws_access_key_id = BLIBLABLUB
aws_secret_access_key = BLIBLABLUB


All About Women's Things: Why Is Your Cat Always Hungry?
There are some reasons if your cat is always hungry. One you have total control over, one you have no control over. So, although you can reduce this case, it is unlikely you can eliminate it completely.
And you may never want to, as a hungry animal does show they are still healthy enough to want to eat. Our worry begins when they don't want to. So annoying as it maybe, it is part of their charm.
One of carnivore animals is cat. It means wild cats have to find for their food. Hunting food for them can be hazardous and a poor success rate. So a carnivore can be injured during a hunt and it's not easily come by. This means that once a carnivore has made a success catch, they will hang on to it for dear life.
As fast as possible they will try to eat it, to ensure not someone else can get it. And they will be fierce if someone does try to approach them. Equally, they will be the ones trying to steal the catch, if someone else has been successful in catching their prey.
There are different in herbivores. They don't have their problem as their food in the ground or grow on trees. They don't have to fight over their blade of grass. There is plenty to go round.
Your domestic cat is just a hair's breadth from being wild.
So, you have to accept the reality that cats in general, do tend to be protective of their food and will happily steal from others, too.do tend to be protective of their food and will happily steal from others, too.
So that's the bad news, that's the part you can't control about why your cat is always hungry.
But the good news is that you can do a great deal to reduce this hunger.
Animals and human become hungry when our bodies need extra nutrition. Once we have partaken of a nutritious meal, the hunger subsides.
Nutrients are essential for a healthy body. And it is the same for your cat. The cat's system will keep kicking in the hunger trigger as long as they are not getting nutritious food.
And the vast majority of commercial cat food, whatever the price tag or professional assurances, is nutrient-poor. The manufacturers are, sadly, more interested in their profit than in the health of your cat. Whatever the label or advertising tells you, the ingredients are poorer quality than your cat needs to remain healthy.
You should give the good nutrient food for you cat to remain healthy. Once you start to feed your cat a nutrient-dense diet, from quality and natural ingredients, they will remain satisfied for a far longer period of time. Once you understand the reasons why a cat is always hungry, the solution becomes easy.
Discover a quality, natural diet for cats that even busy people can work with.
And these are some good quality foods for your cat.
Science Diet Indoor is available in canned.
At 7 years of age, transition your pet to a Science Diet Adult 7+ food, over 7-10 days.


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August 27, 2016 August 27, 2016 Brad Hubbard MLS, Soccer
The New Bidder When It Comes To Talent
Portland Timbers owner Merritt Paulson made some waves earlier this week in an interview in The Mirror saying "I think he would be a great signing for MLS – 100 per cent MLS would be attractive for him." That 'he' is Manchester United's Wayne Rooney. Paulson and MLS's competition, China.
As we all now, China has been a rising force economically for the last 15 years or so. Over the last several years they have started making waves with their signings in the Chinese Super League. Drogba, Anelka, Hulk, and Robinho are some of the big names that have made the move to China (if only briefly).
With growing wealth comes investments overseas. The Guardian recently did a piece on the new Chinese owners breaking into the English football. It also means that there is money to spend. It sounds eerily familiar to the early days of MLS in a lot of ways with the signing of big names if for nothing else but the publicity and ticket sales but with the long range goal of building a competitive league.
Rooney is a bit of a different animal. There is a lot of top level soccer left in him. While China may be able to offer an overly exuberant amount of money but MLS isn't exactly sitting on it's hands when it comes to spending money. Plus several of Rooney's former England teammates have made successful moves to MLS (Beckham, Gerrard, Cole).
MLS is over the big name signing for the sake of doing it. Now it's about how that player fits into what the team is already doing or what they want to do on the pitch. China may not have learned that lesson as of yet which could give MLS a key advantage over China when it comes to luring a player like Rooney.
Bottom line, could Rooney make his way to MLS? Absolutely but it will not be an easy decision to leave Manchester United no matter how much money someone like Paulson may throw at him. It's also clear that MLS and other leagues have a new bidder at the table when it comes to top flight talent and that is China.
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'Monty Python's Life of Brian' Comes to Blu-ray (UPDATED)
Posted Mon Aug 27, 2007 at 12:34 PM PDT by
Editor's Note: Since its original posting earlier today, this story has been updated with detailed info on this disc's specs and supplemental features.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced it will bring a new 'Immaculate Edition' of 'Monty Python's Life of Brian' to Blu-ray this November.
'Life of Brian' has been released in many past incarnations on disc, most notably a Criterion Collection laserdisc as well as a previous Collector's Edition from Sony on standard-def DVD.
Now, the studio is preparing yet another new anniversary edition for November 6, due day-and-date on Blu-ray and DVD.
Among the extras new to this release are "The Story of Brian," a 60-minute documentary, and "The Readthrough," an original illustrated 110-minute audio recording of the Pythons reading an early version of the film's screenplay. Also on the Blu-ray will be features from Sony's previous DVD release, including two audio commentaries with members of the Pythons, five deleted scenes and vintage radio spots.
Tech specs include a 1080p video transfer and uncompressed PCM 5.1 surround audio.
Sony has set a $28.99 list price for the Blu-ray.
'Life of Brian' will also become the second Monty Python film to hit high-def, following 'Monty Python's The Meaning of Life,' which Universal Studios Home Entertainment released exclusively on HD DVD earlier this year.
We've added a new listing for 'Life of Brian' to our Blu-ray Release Schedule, under November 6. Stay tuned for box art to be revealed soon.
Monty Python's Life of Brian (Blu-ray)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (HD DVD)


High school student Annabel C. was in middle school when she began receiving taunting, hurtful instant messages from an anonymous harasser when she was on her computer. After some sleuthing, the New Rochelle, N.Y., student realized that the instant messages were actually being written by someone she considered a friend.
Instead of responding online, she says, she approached the student in person, asked her to stop, and told her they were no longer friends. But she also emphasized they weren't enemies either. The online taunting stopped.
That experience, in part, prompted her to join her school's Teenangels group when she was a sophomore. The program, created in 1999 by Parry Aftab, a cyberbullying expert who founded the nonprofit Internet-safety group WiredSafety, has 16 chapters around the country. The school's Teenangels program has a policy that permits students to provide only their first names and the initials of their last names to the news media.
Teenangels trains middle and high school students on Internet safety, privacy, and security, and counsels them on how to deal with and prevent cyberbullying. The students then give presentations to other students, as well as to parents and other adults.
Clearly, there's a need for more education about cyberbullying, experts contend. According to a 2010 report on cyberbullying research from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, up to a third of teenagers say they have experienced some form of online harassment, and 26 percent say they have experienced harassment through voice or text messages on their cellphones.
Online harassment has an emotional impact, says Sameer Hinduja, the co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center, based in Jupiter, Fla., and an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Florida Atlantic University in Fort Lauderdale. Hinduja's research has shown that cyberbullying is related to low self-esteem, suicidal thoughts, anger, frustration, substance abuse, and delinquency in the victims.
Michael Nehring, a sophomore at New Jersey's Ridgewood High School who was a Teenangel during middle school (his high school does not have a chapter), says he joined the group after reading about teen suicides related to cyberbullying. He also was growing concerned about sexting—a practice in which students send sexually explicit photos of themselves via cellphone.
Watching some of his friends get bullied in both real life and cyberspace made him feel even more strongly that he needed to take a stand.
"You can't hide from cyberbullying," Nehring says.
"Does Student Free Speech Apply to Online Comments?," (Walt Garnder's Reality Check Blog) July 9, 2010.
"Raising a Generation of Digital Citizens," (Digital Education Blog) June 30, 2010.