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A Seleção Haitiana de Futebol representa o Haiti nas competições de futebol da FIFA.

História
Foi campeão do Campeonato da CONCACAF em 1973 e vice-campeão em 1971 e 1977. Nos Jogos Olímpicos da Juventude, conquistou a medalha de prata em 2010. Nos Jogos Pan-Americanos, seu melhor resultado foi o 4º lugar em 1959.

Informações sobre a seleção haitiana
Nome: Fédération Haïtienne of Football
Abreviação: Seleção do Haiti
Fundação: 1904
Filiação a FIFA: Desde 1934
Presidente: Yves Jean-Bart
Vice-presidente: Julio Cadet
Secretário Geral: Lionel Desir
Tecnico:Marc Village
Página Oficial: www.fhfhaiti.com

Jogos mais importantes:
1973:Haiti 2 x 2 México
1973:Estados Unidos 2 x 5 Haiti
1975:Haiti 1 x 0 Chile
2013:Haiti 2 x 2 Itália
2000:Haiti 0 x 6 Brasil

Elenco atual

Os seguintes jogadores foram convocados para a equipe na disputa da Copa Ouro da CONCACAF 2021.

Atualizado até 08 de Julho de 2021

Campanhas de destaque
Jogos Olímpicos da Juventude
medalha de prata: 2010
Jogos Pan-Americanos
4º lugar: 1959
Campeonato da CONCACAF
 2º lugar: 1971, 1977

Copa do Mundo
1930 - não entrou
1934 - não se qualificou
1938 - não entrou
1950 - não entrou
1954 - não se qualificou
1958 a 1966 - não entrou
1970 - não se qualificou
1974 - primeira fase
1978 a 1986 - não se qualificou
1990 - não entrou
1994 a 2018 - não se qualificou

Campeonato da CONCACAF
1963 - Não se classificou
1965 - 6º lugar
1967 - 5º lugar
1969 - Desqualificado
1971 - 2º lugar
1973 - Campeão
1977 - 2º lugar
1981 - 6º lugar
1985 - 1º fase
1989 - Não se classificou
1991 - Não se classificou
1993 - Não se classificou
1996 - Não se classificou
1998 - Desistiu
2000 - Primeira Fase
2002 - Quartas de Finais
2003 - Não se classificou
2005 - Repescagem
2007 - Primeira Fase
2009 - Primeira Fase
2011 - Quartas de Finais
2013 - Não se classificou
2015 - Primeira Fase
2017 - Não se classificou
2019 - Semifinal
2021 - Primeira Fase

Copa América
 2016 - Primeira Fase

Eliminatórias para a Copa do Mundo em 2014 no Brasil
Em 2014, após o sorteio das eliminatórias para a copa do mundo em 2014, a seleção Haitiana participou das eliminatórias da América do Norte/Central e Caribe, na qual a seleção do Haiti está no grupo F e teve pela frente as seleções da Antígua e Barbuda, Ilhas Virgens Americanas e a seleção do Curacão.

O Haiti não conseguiu se classificar para a Copa de 2014, sendo eliminado na 3°fase das eliminatórias.

De acordo com o site da FIFA, o Haiti enfrentou no seu primeiro jogo as Ilhas Virgens Americanas previsto para o dia 02/09 e tem seu ultimo jogo contra a Atígua Barbuda no dia 15/11, jogo realizado em casa, caso se classifique cairá no grupo A, pela terceira fase e pegara as seleções dos Estados Unidos e da Jamaica e outra seleção campeã do grupo E da segunda fase, na qual tem os Estados Unidos como uma pedreira, pois, para a seleção do Haiti tem uma seleção forte pela frente, no qual será um duelo entre a América do Norte e o Caribe. Sendo um grupo de pouca força o Haiti é um forte favorito para a classificação para a terceira fase, alias, por causa do terremoto em 2010 a seleção vem mandando os seus jogos em Miami nos Estados Unidos.

(Obs.:assunto pesquisado no site da FIFA, fifa.com")

Ranking da FIFA= 108º
Pontuação= 305 pts
Saldo= 8

(Obs.:assunto pesquisado no site da FIFA, pt.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/index.html'')

Ver também
Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo de Futebol de 2010
Ranking Mundial da FIFA Coca-Cola

O terremoto de 2010
Em 12 de Janeiro de 2010, um terremoto de magnitude 7 na escala Richter devastou o Haiti, e seu epicentro foi de 15 quilômetros da capital, Port-au-Prince. Seleccionador nacional do Haiti, o colombiano Jairo Rios, foi poupada porque ele iria viajar um dia depois de começar seu trabalho com a Federação. O DT não tem conhecimento se os seus jogadores estão na vida: "Eu não sei nada, a maioria dos jogadores estavam de férias, em casa, eu não sei se eles estão vivos ou mortos", disse ele.
Confrontado com as ruínas do edifício completamente em colapso, o presidente da FHF confirmou que 30 pessoas estavam lá no momento do terremoto. Todos morreram. Até segunda-feira 18 corpos mutilados foram vinte que permaneceram sob os escombros. As vítimas incluem administradores, árbitros, treinadores com vasta experiência internacional do futebol como o treinador do Sub-17.

Uniformes

Uniformes atuais
 1º - Camisa azul, calção vermelho e meias azuis;
 2º - Camisa vermelha, calção azul e meias vermelhas.

Uniformes dos goleiros
 Verde com detalhes pretas;
 Preto com detalhes vermelhas.

Uniformes anteriores
 2013-15

 2012-13

 2011-12

 2010-11

 2008-09

 2007-08

 2006-07

 2004-05 (Umbro)

 2004-05 (Nike)

 2002-03

Futebol do Haiti

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ChrisS: Welcome to the last week of Jazz Guitar, This week we will be wrapping up with an in-depth look at pentatonic scales and their application. Most of us are very familiar with the standard major and minor pentatonic, but there are several others available. We will take a look at how the scale is constructed and how to apply it over chord changes.
ChrisS: Major pentatonic: 1,2,3,5,6, that means that you are playing only those scale tones when you play a major pentatonic. Minor pentatonic: 1,b3,4,5,b7 Is everybody familiar with these shapes?
ChrisS: thought so...Actually, we can boil this down to one basic scale. Notice that the same notes are in both the C major pentatonic and the A minor pentatonic. It's actually the same scale we simply move the root around. So C minor pentatonic has the same notes as Eb major pentatonic.
ChrisS: Right MB! If we take this one step further we can add more color to the chords. For instance, if we want to use a pentatonic over a dominant seventh chord like C7 we could use the C major pentatonic. However, the b7 scale degree in a dominant seventh chord is pretty significant and the C major pentatonic doesn't include that note. So we substitute the b7 for the sixth.
ChrisS: Here is a pentatonic for a dominant seventh chord.
ChrisS: Use sound clip 2 to check out the mixo pentatonic.
Steve: can you use 6th and b7?
ChrisS: Yes, but then you have left the realm of 5 note scales.
ChrisS: yes thats right. In fact you will see that you can make a pentatonic work over any chord if you make the right changes. Here is a lick for you to try.
ChrisS: Its kind of tricky, you have learn to roll your fingers. If it is real easy, speed it up a bit until it is a challenge. The same idea would apply to other chords. For a minor 6th pentatonic we substitute a b3 into a regular major pentatonic.
Steve: why does that C mixo pent scale not contain the root note?
ChrisS: Well we have to eliminate something in order to keep it a pentatonic. So we get rid of the root, If you think about it, the root is probably already being played somewhere within the rhythm section.
MB: I was just wondering the same thing.
ChrisS: So it isn't as necessary and doesn't contribute to defining the chord sound.
ChrisS: lets look at the min 6 stuff. Here is a minor 6 pentatonic and jam track.
ChrisS: Minor 6 pentatonic: 1,2,b3,5,6, Notice that we altered a major pentatonic to get to a minor, it just works out to be easier that way. Now lets look at some more interesting chord sounds using a similar approach. A common chord in jazz is the half-diminished, also known as the "minor seventh with a flatted fifth" [minor7(b5)]. If we take the ordinary minor pentatonic and lower that 5th by half a step, it will work just fine. Here is the half diminished pentatonic.
ChrisS: ...and a looping sound clip.
ChrisS: Lets look at this Cm7b5 pentatonic, Minor 7(b5) pentatonic: 1,b3,4,b5,b7, So we took a regular minor pentatonic and flatted the fifth to get a very interesting sound.
Steve: is Cm7b5 the same as half diminished scale?
ChrisS: Yup, you got it.
ChrisS: How about an altered pentatonic..? Well, in order to get the altered notes in, you have to make sacrifices.
Ted: what are the chords for that last looping clip?
ChrisS: so here's an altered pentatonic with a jam loop.
ChrisS: Altered dominant pentatonic: b9,#9,3,b13,b7 or: b2,b3,3,b6,b7, The first description is theoretically more correct, although you may want to look at the second description to put things in perspective. This pentatonic is coming out of the altered dominant scale borrowed from melodic minor. Now you might be thinking that this would be way to difficult to remember while you are soloing. Here's a much easier way of looking at both the half-diminished and altered dominant pentatonics. Remember the minor 6 pentatonic scale a couple examples ago? Well lets look at that scale from some different perspectives. Just like we extracted the minor pentatonic from the major pentatonic we can derive the half-diminished and altered pentatonics from the minor 6 pentatonic. If we move the root to the last note in the scale (the sixth degree) we have a half-diminished or min7(b5) sound. For example, the C minor 6 pentatonic you just learned has an A for its sixth degree. That means that the C minor 6 pentatonic is the same as an Amin7(b5) pentatonic. So if we apply this to the C-7(b5) that you just learned, it would be the same as Eb-6. Now lets move the root to a note outside of the five-note scale (I know this is a stretch, but believe me, it will be worth the effort!). If we move the root down a halfstep to what would be the seventh degree, we have the altered dominant sound that we just covered. So the C minor 6 pentatonic is the same as a B7alt pentatonic. If you can memorize these two transpositions you will find they work together over a minor II -V progression. Lets put this into context, here is an incredibly common chord progression: D-7(b5) - G7alt - Cmin, D-7(b5) = F-6 pentatonic G7alt = Ab-6 pentatonic Cmin = C-6 pentatonic. We can apply a minor 6 pentatonic shape to all three of those chords. They have different roots, but because we are guitarists it's not a problem. We just slide the same shape around the neck. Listen to the opening clip again, it has minor 6 pentatonics all over it. If you get this stuff happening, it will open up a world of ideas for you.
Ted: would you say you mostly use pentatonics, or full 8 note scales?
LR: Do most jazz musician's know this stuff or do they play by ear?
ChrisS: LR: Well, I think most of the guys that play this type of harmony have studied it, gotten it under their fingers, and then let their ears do the leading.
LR: even in the early days of jazz?
ChrisS: In the early days the harmony wasn't at this level. So they were playing more melodically with their ear instead of their brain.
BT: when did they start to use this?
ChrisS: It really started to emerge after the Bebop era, late fifties early sixties. Here are some other pentatonics that you may find useful. Unfortunately, we can't relate them directly to another pentatonic.
ChrisS: Dominant 7 (b9) pentatonic: b9,#9,3,13,b7. This one is almost the same as the altered dominant that you learned earlier. It has a natural 13 instead of a flatted 13. It is tough to play, but sounds great once you get it under your fingers. And that's about it folks. thanks everybody!


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Inflation Adjusted Household Median Income Up About 17% Since 1975
The U.S. Census Bureau currently publishes household median income and household mean income data from 1975 to 2008.
The U.S. Census Bureau includes the information in "current dollars" (not adjusted for inflation) and "2008 dollars" (adjusted for inflation). Note: data for 2009 has not been published as of yet.
It's interesting to look at the trend of median household income in the United States from 1975 until now.
From 1975 to 2008, you have had multiple wars, multiple recessions, multiple unemployment rate spikes of over 10%, the greatest economic boom in the history of the United States, the greatest real estate boom in the history of the United States, stagflation, multiple presidents, etc. The list goes on and on.
It's interesting to look at, between 1975 and 2008, how the median household income in the United States has fluctuated.
In 1975, the inflation-adjusted median household income in the United States was $42,936.
That means that, from 1975 until 2008, the median household income in the United States has increased 17%.
When you factor in the 2009 numbers, which will almost certainly dip below the $50,000 mark for the first time since 1997, the percentage is even smaller.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that recessions result in lower median household incomes.
Median household income in the United States dropped in 1979, and continued to trend lower until 1984.
From there, median household income slowly trended higher, only to take a breather in the early '90s (Gulf War, recession).
After that, median household income surged higher, peaking at $52,587 in 1999 (the height of the dot com bubble).
When the dot com bubble popped, median household income numbers dropped in the United States. Couple that with 9/11 and the recession that followed, and median household income numbers dropped for five years straight (2000 to 2004).
In 2007, median household income surged to $52,163 before dropping off a cliff in 2008.
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Scientists Unearth a Ginormous Triassic Sea Monster That Once Roamed The 'Superocean'
A sea monster that lived during the early dinosaur age is so unexpectedly colossal, it reveals that its kind grew to gigantic sizes extremely quickly, evolutionarily speaking at least.
The discovery suggests that such ichthyosaurs – a group of fish-shaped marine reptiles that inhabited the dinosaur-era seas – grew to enormous sizes in a span of only 2.5 million years, the new study finds.
To put that in context, it took whales about 90 percent of their 55 million-year history to reach the huge sizes that ichthyosaurs evolved to in the first 1 percent of their 150 million-year history, the researchers said.
"We have discovered that ichthyosaurs evolved gigantism much faster than whales, in a time where the world was recovering from devastating extinction [at the end of the Permian period]," study senior researcher Lars Schmitz, an associate professor of biology at Scripps College in Claremont, California, told Live Science in an email.
"It is a nice glimmer of hope and a sign of the resilience of life – if environmental conditions are right, evolution can happen very fast, and life can bounce back."
(Lars Schmitz)
Above: Ichthyosaurs evolved their large body sizes much quicker than whales. The curves depict the trajectory of the largest body size, expressed in percentage of the largest size ever reached, for ichthyosaurs and whales. The ichthyosaur curve is initially much steeper than the corresponding curve for whales.
Researchers first noticed the ancient ichthyosaur's fossils in 1998, embedded in the rocks of the Augusta Mountains of northwestern Nevada.
"Only a few vertebrae were sticking out of the rock, but it was clear the animal was large," Schmitz said.
But it wasn't until 2015, with the help of a helicopter, that they were able to fully excavate the individual – whose surviving fossils include a skull, shoulder, and flipper-like appendage – and airlift it to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, where it was prepared and analyzed.
The team named the new species Cymbospondylus youngorum, they reported online Thursday (Dec. 23) in the journal Science. This big-jawed marine reptile lived 247 million years ago during the Triassic period. Like other creatures from that time, it was weird.
The new ichthyosaurs skull with a human for scale. (Martin Sander)
"Imagine a sea-dragon-like animal: streamlined body, quite long, with limbs modified to fins, and a long tail," Schmitz said. With a nearly 6.5-foot-long (2 meters) skull, this full-grown C. youngorum would have measured over 55 feet (17 m), or longer than a semitrailer, the researchers found.
When the 45-ton (41 metric tons) C. youngorum was alive, C. youngorum would have lived in the Panthalassic Ocean, a so-called superocean, off the west coast of North America, Schmitz said.
Based on its size and tooth shape, C. youngorum likely ate smaller ichthyosaurs, fish, and possibly squid, he added.
(Georg Oleschinski, courtesy of the University of Bonn)
Above: The Fossil Hill fauna of Nevada not only includes the new giant species but also a number of other ichthyosaurs, such as this small (=30 cm skull length) Phalarodon. This specimen also includes examples of the very abundant ammonite fossils that are associated with the ichthyosaurs.
There are many huge beasts that lived during the dinosaur era, but C. youngorum stands out for several reasons. For instance, C. youngorum lived just 5 million years after "the Great Dying," a mass extinction event that occurred 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian period, which killed about 90 percent of the world's species.
That makes the ichthyosaur's huge size all the more impressive, as it took about 9 million years for life on Earth to recover from that extinction, a 2012 study in the journal Nature Geoscience found.
However, there was a diversification boom of marine mollusks known as ammonoids within 1 million to 3 million years of the mass extinction, the 2012 study found.
It appears that ichthyosaurs' venture into gigantism was, in part, due to chowing down on the early Triassic boom of ammonites, as well as jawless eel-like conodonts that filled the ecological void following the mass extinction, the researchers of the new study said.
In contrast, whales got big by eating highly productive primary producers, such as plankton; but these were absent in dinosaur-age food webs, study co-author Eva Maria Griebeler, an evolutionary ecologist at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany, said in a statement.
(Stephanie Abramowicz/Natural History Museum)
Above: Direct comparison of two ocean giants from different epochs side by side: The Triassic C. youngorum (the new species described in the paper) versus. today's sperm whale, with a human for scale.
Despite the whales' and ichthyosaurs' different paths and timetables toward achieving gigantism, the groups have a few similarities. For instance, there is a connection between large size and raptorial hunting, just like sperm whales dive to hunt giant squid, as well as a connection between large size and tooth loss, just like the giant filter-feeding whales that are toothless, the researchers said.
"This new fossil impressively documents the fast-track evolution of gigantism in ichthyosaurs," Schmitz said. In contrast, whales "took a different route to gigantism, much more prolonged and not nearly as fast.
"Ichthyosaur history tells us ocean giants are not guaranteed features of marine ecosystems, which is a valuable lesson for all of us in the Anthropocene," paleontologists Lene Delsett and Nicholas Pyenson, who weren't involved with the research wrote in a related Perspective published in the same issue of Science.


A Shorten Labor Government will create 200 permanent full time Department of Human Services jobs in Townsville.
These 200 new and secure jobs will inject up to $14.4 million into the local economy each and every year.
This announcement will further cement Townsville as a national hub for Commonwealth Government service delivery and administration.
The 200 jobs will include local service delivery and call centre roles that will provide support for people across Australia.
Regional centres like Townsville have been ignored when it comes to decentralising Government service delivery.
The Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government has turned its back on North Queensland, with a campaign of cuts to DHS and Centrelink that are leaving Townsville residents waiting longer to receive support.
Medicare and Centrelink services help the Townsville community when they need it the most – when people are sick, processing aged care pensions, child care support, disability support pensions and carers allowance payments.
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The Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government has cut and outsourced over 2,700 staff from DHS and Centrelink and cut thousands of public sector jobs in regional Australia.
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Sometimes it's good to take a step back and really examine your daily habits. Are you spinning your wheels doing things that aren't absolutely necessary? If so, it's time to build your essential routine.
Is anyone else just feeling totally overwhelmed by all of the stuff that needs to be done? I don't know what it is, but the end-of-school season is giving me a major case of senioritis. It's like we've all been pushed to the limit, and school just needs to be OVER.
Unfortunately, we still have a good three weeks of school left. My feelings of senioritis have made me really start to look at what's essential to keep everything running semi-smoothly.
I cut out a lot of things, and figured out ways to simplify what was already a fairly simple routine. After a week of being on my essential routine, I'm convinced (again) that easier is better.
Write down all of the stuff you have to do on a regular basis. Seriously, write down everything. Driving, packing lunches, cleaning, grocery shopping, getting gas in the car – it all takes time.
Write down the stuff you're not doing that you really need to be doing. I had to write down things like picking up the mail, going on a walk (for exercise), and sweeping the kitchen floor.
Look at your list, and start getting rid of stuff. If it's not essential, get rid of it.
When you're super-tired, look at the list again and get rid of more stuff. Exhaustion can help you find the unnecessary in your schedule.
Group like-items together. Maybe you can consolidate all of your errands into one trip. When you come home from a walk or a run, you can swing by the mailbox and pick up your mail before heading home.
Automate all that you can. Here's five ways you can automate your errands.
Now, look at your list, and see if you can find someone else to do some things for you. My five-year-olds are now responsible for sweeping our kitchen floor. It's not done perfectly, but they love to use the little vacuum, they're learning, and I don't have to stress about the how I procrastinate in cleaning up the continual accumulation of Cheerio crumbs on the floor.
If you're really in a tough position, consider paying someone to help you. This week my back has been in terrible shape, and I've been to the doctor a couple of times for it. Meanwhile, our house is filthy. I found a cleaning service that was willing to come in and clean just our bathrooms and kitchen (for a lower price than cleaning the whole house), and I was able to cross "cleaning" off the list for a week while my back recovers. I used part of my earnings from selling old clothes on ThredUp to pay for it.
Chart out your new essential routine. I used a 7-day calendar, and I wrote in all of the stuff that needed to get done, and spread it out over the course of a week. I factored in activities, driving time, and how much energy I anticipated having on certain days. On days when I work, I tried to make my home routine a little easier.
Make yourself an essential routine to-do list. This is what I've been using to help keep myself on track. To make the routine less overwhelming, I didn't add in the stuff I would never be able to forget to do (like drive kids to school, make breakfast, etc.). I did add stuff I would put off (laundry, meal prep, calling to make appointments, etc.).
Follow your new routine. Even if it seems silly. Some days our kitchen isn't very dirty (okay, this only happens if don't eat at home). On those days, I'm tempted not to follow through with the routine of cleaning up the kitchen and running the dishwasher. But, by sticking to it, things don't get out of control as easily, and I feel like I'm accomplishing more, even though I might be doing less.
Resist the temptation to add new stuff to your routine. Keep it simple. Protect your time.
What goes in your essential routine? What can you cut out? Let us know about it in the comments!


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Karel Hanika WSBK wild card at Brno and remains at the Endurance World Championship
Karel Hanika will compete in the Superbike World Championship in Czech Republic as a wild card by the IVRacing BMW CSEU, at the controls of a BMW S1000RR. The event is scheduled for Brno on the weekend of June 8th to 10th, marking the return of the championship to czech soil.
After leaving the Moto3 World Championship definitively in 2016, last year he competed for two rounds of the Endurance World Championship (EWC) integrated in the IVRacing BMW CSEU. In addition to the wild card of Brno in the WSBK, reported by the website speedweek.com, Hanika will also play again the EWC.
According to a statement now revealed by the czech formation, this rider joins compatriots Jakub Smrz and Matej Smrz, as well as Sylvain Barrier. Hanika said: 'I am very pleased to be able to continue with IVRacing Team in 2018. I think we had some great races last year as a team, but we had a lot of bad luck and technical problems. In the first race of the season we showed that we can fight for the top positions'.
The czech added: 'Each of the riders in the team works 100 percent, so I think adding three very fast riders in the 2018 season can continue along the same lines as the Bol d'Or where we fought for the podium and finished fifth. I will continue to do my best and contribute great results. I'm looking forward to the start of the season'.
Karel Hanika
IVRacing BMW
Toprak Razgatlioglu in the lead on day two of WSBK tests


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FMC Corp. (FMC) News
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FMC News Highlights
FMC's 30 day story count now stands at 7.
Over the past 19 days, the trend for FMC's stories per day has been choppy and unclear. It has oscillated between 1 and 2.
BEAT, BKR and DE are the most mentioned tickers in articles about FMC.
Latest FMC News From Around the Web
Below are the latest news stories about FMC CORP that investors may wish to consider to help them evaluate FMC as an investment opportunity.
Nucor's (NUE) Elcyon to Aid Offshore Wind Energy Applications
Nucor (NUE) launches Elcyon, a feasible engineered steel plate product for offshore wind energy applications, to strengthen its position as a sustainability leader.
Why Should You Add FMC Corp (FMC) Stock to Your Portfolio?
FMC Corp (FMC) benefits from higher demand for its products, its portfolio strength and new product launches.
Why FMC (FMC) is Poised to Beat Earnings Estimates Again
FMC (FMC) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.
FMC Corp (FMC) Shares Rally 28% in 6 Months: What's Driving It?
FMC Corp (FMC) gains on healthy demand for its products, price hike actions, acquisitions and efforts to strengthen its product portfolio.
FMC's (NYSE:FMC) investors will be pleased with their favorable 61% return over the last five years
The main point of investing for the long term is to make money. Better yet, you'd like to see the share price move up...
The 7 Best Fertilizer Stocks to Buy for 2023
With geopolitical flashpoints creating grave uncertainties in food production, these are the best fertilizer stocks to buy.
Josh Enomoto on InvestorPlace | January 4, 2023
These 3 Stocks Have Plenty of Room to Run
Oil equipment and services company Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR), insecticide and herbicide manufacturer FMC (NYSE: FMC), and automation company Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR) have plenty of upside potential in 2023. Despite the stock's 21% rise in 2022, there's a feeling that it could have done better -- peers Schlumberger and Halliburton both rose over 70%. In addition, the restructuring of the company in 2022 is de facto an admission that Baker Hughes hasn't executed as well as it could.
Should You Increase Your Position in FMC Corporation (FMC)?
TimesSquare Capital Management, an equity investment management company, released its "U.S. Mid Cap Growth Strategy" third-quarter investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. In the third quarter, the strategy returned -0.21% (net), compared to -0.65% for the Russell Midcap Growth Index. Strength in Consumer Discretionary, Energy, Financials, Industrials, Information Technology, and Materials […]
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11 Best Farmland and Agriculture Stocks To Buy Heading Into 2023
In this article, we discuss 11 best farmland and agriculture stocks to buy heading into 2023. If you want to see more stocks in this selection, check out 5 Best Farmland and Agriculture Stocks to Buy. Kenneth Scott Zuckerberg, lead analyst and senior economist with CoBank's Knowledge Exchange division, told S&P Global Commodities Insights in […]
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Is your phpBB board being overridden by spam? Most people may recommend that you go to their support forums and install a couple modifications, but what if they don't work? The answer to that question is simple. All common solutions will not work. If someone puts out a common solution, the spam bots will adapt to it. Spam bots have adapted to captacha images, email verification, and other common defenses. Fortunately, the answer is simple, all you have to do is be unique. I will give you one tip on how you can do that and keep the spam bots at bay.
It is my best guess that the image verifications are the hardest to crack, so in theory, if you tweak that, the bots will not be able to adapt to it.
Preview as you tweak to make sure the images are still readable, yet make sure you are making noticeable changes.
I tweaked the $width variable on line 87 to the point where some of the letters were getting squished together and getting cut off by a few pixels, and that was enough for me.
I tried this method on a board that was getting 10-15 spam registrations a day. It's been spam free for almost a month now.
If you find a method that woks, post it, but generalize it. If you get too many people start copying you exactly, it will make it work the spammer's time to adapt to it. Remember, the key is to make your board different from all the others.
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by Joel Hruska — Thursday, April 28, 2011, 03:43 PM EDT
AMD's Q1 Financial Results
AMD has released its Q1 financials, giving us a look into the company's execution through what is normally considered a down quarter, as well as an opportunity to judge the impact of Brazos on the company's bottom line. The results are quite good relative to AMD's financial performance these past few years.
The company reports revenue of $1.61B (up two percent from Q1 2010), a net income of $510 million, and an operating income of $54 million. AMD, therefore, is in the black—even if just barely. According to acting CEO Thomas Seifert, Llano is "the most impressive processor in history."
Overall sales in Q1 were driven by demand for Llano products. "First quarter operating results were highlighted by strong demand for our first generation of AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs'). "APU shipments greatly exceeded our expectations, and we are excited to build on that momentum now that we are shipping our Llano APU."
Brazos was similarly praised; Seifert noted that it accounted for nearly half of AMD's mobile shipments in Q1. Llano-based systems are expected to arrive this quarter, presumably in laptops first. Gross margins held steady at ~43 percent. Computing Solutions revenue decreased two percent from Q1 (always a down quarter) but rose three percent year-on-year, thanks to strong sales in channel (retail). The company is also now shipping Llano to multiple partners, including Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Sony, and Toshiba.
Sunnyvale's server space has been under attack for years, but there was a small victory here, too—both Lockhead Martin and the University of Sao Paulo are building advanced HPC clusters using AMD hardware. (Overall server market share for the company was guesstimated at 5-6 percent.
Llano has largely been overshadowed by Bulldozer, but it's no less important.
Overall, Seifert admitted being disappointed with Opteron's sales performance in Q1, but affirmed that Bulldozer-based products were on target for the end of the summer. (that's server 'dozer, not client 'dozer.) GPU revenue fell by three percent quarterly due to a decreased number of console shipments and was flat year-on-year. GPU ASPs also fell slightly year-on-year, but Sunnyvale was crowing over the launch of the Radeon 6990 and Apple's decision to use Radeon HD 64690M nd HD 6750M in some of its Macbook Pro systems. No explanation was given for why GPU revenue also fell compared to March 2010 (from 47 million to 19 million).
AMD expects strong volume demand for Llano beginning this quarter. According to Rick Bergman, OEMs responded very positively to the Brazos platform AMD launched earlier this year; Sunnyvale expects many of these companies to enthusiastically support Llano as well. Both Bergman and Seifert referenced Brazos' strong debut, but opted not to give details on where the APU was seeing the greatest level of success. Llano's introduction timeline is also a bit muddled. Bergman refers to volume and production ramps occurring in Q2, but then says "our key for Llano is to hit the critical cycle in the industry, which is the 2C [ph] or the back-to-school cycle."
AMD's Q&A guidance generally implies that the company expects strong launches for all of its new products and may be able to strengthen its market share in multiple segments in the back half of 2011. If such statements are somewhat vague, it's actually a good thing—the company needs 'business-as-usual' quarters much more than last-minute saves and Hail Mary passes.
These next few months are some of the most important in AMD's history, with both Llano and Bulldozer dropping in the next few months. The long, long, wait is almost over.
Tags: Intel, Lenovo, Dell, Asus, MSI, Sony, GPU, CPU, Acer, Toshiba, phenom II, Fusion, Bulldozer, Bobcat, Ontario, Brazos, Zacate


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Implementing the FRAND Standard in China
Jyh-An Lee
The modern world relies on technical standards, most of which involve standard-essential patents (SEPs). To balance SEP holders'fair compensation with standard implementers' access to standardized technologies, standard-setting organizations (SSOs) generally require that their members commit to license their SEPs on a fair, reasonable,and non-discriminatory (FRAND) basis. In recent years, the communications industry has seen a growing amount of litigation concerning SEPs and FRAND in many jurisdictions. As China has grown into a major player and market in the worldwide communications business, its public policy, court decisions, and private business strategies concerning SEPs and FRAND are likely to have a huge global impact in the high-technology sector. The high-profile Huawei v. IDC is the first Chinese court decision ruling on FRAND-encumbered SEPs issues. This is also the first Asian case in which the court determined a FRAND royalty rate to calculate the fee paid by the standard implementer to the SEP holder. Based on the Chinese government's policy toward technical standards and the case of Huawei, this Article identifies two distinguishing features in China's encounter with standard-related issues. The first is the active role played by the government in domestic standard-setting activities, while the second is Chinese courts' civil law approach, associated with good faith, to the enforcement of FRAND commitments. Based on a comparative and critical viewpoint, this Article uses Huawei as an example to illustrate the challenges and perplexities for the judicial determination of a FRAND rate. The reasoning in Huawei is far from sufficient and satisfactory, and it is unclear whether the Chinese courts are tasked to implement the government's industrial policy. Nonetheless, Huawei did identify some crucial factors concerning FRAND and SEPs, and it has had a significant impact on Chinese related standard-setting activities.
Jyh-An Lee, Implementing the FRAND Standard in China, 19 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 37 (2020)
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Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill (H.R. 695)
Senator Warren: (12:14 p.m)
Spoke on the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General.
"It helped sink the nomination of Jeff Sessions for the federal judgeship for which he'd been nominated back in the 1980's, and I hoped by reminding the Senate of its bipartisan rejection of Sessions in the 1980's, that letter might help us once again come together in a bipartisan way to say that this kind of bigotry shouldn't be allowed in our criminal justice system. That was my plan. But for reading those words, the words of an icon of the civil rights movement, I was booted off the Senate floor. Every one of my Republican colleagues present that night voted to shut me up for reading Mrs. King's words. And the next day every single Republican voted to confirm Jeff Sessions, a man deemed too racist to hold a federal court judgeship in 1986."
Senator Barrasso: (12:19 p.m)
Spoke on infrastructure investment.
"Five years. That's just one type of review that the construction projects have to go through before workers can put a shovel in the ground. Regulations and red tape have become unreasonable. They have become excessive. There was a study recently that looked at all of these regulatory delays and the cost of the delays. It found that the cost of delaying the start of all of these public infrastructure projects in this country by doing it by six-year delay is over $3 trillion. Not millions. Not billions. $3.7 trillion. So think of how much we could actually accomplish, how much we could save if we could cut out these delays just a little bit. That's what's possible. In 2011, the Obama Administration picked 14 infrastructure "
Senator Klobuchar: (12:38 p.m)
Spoke on interference in the 2016 elections.
"That's why senators Lankford, Harris, graham, and I have introduced legislation that will bring state and local election officials, cybersecurity experts, and national security personnel together to provide resources and guidance on how states can best protect themselves from cyber attacks. Second, we need reliable backup measures in place when something goes wrong. Each state administers its own elections. Our decentralized election process is both a strength and a weakness. It's a strength to have multiple states using multiple systems. Then there can never be one centralized place to hack. We saw this in 2016. Russian hackers attempted to breach the systems in many states but were only successful in one."
Senator McConnell: (12:43 p.m)
Spoke on government funding legislation.
"The compromise we have reached will ensure that for the first time in years, our armed forces will have more of the resources they need to keep America safe. It will help us serve the veterans who bravely served us. And it will ensure funding for important efforts such as disaster relief, infrastructure, and building on our work to fight opioid abuse and drug addiction. This bill is the product of extensive negotiations among congressional leaders and the white house. No one would suggest it is perfect, but we worked hard to find common ground and stay focused on serving the American people. First and foremost, this bipartisan agreement will unwind the sequestration cuts that have hamstrung our armed forces and jeopardized our national security."
Spoke on DACA.
"Now on one final matter, as I said publicly many times, our upcoming debate on DACA, border security, and other issues will be a process that is fair to all sides. The bill I move to, which will not have underlying immigration text, will have an amendment process that will ensure a level playing field at the outset. The amendment process will be fair to all sides, allowing the sides to alternate proposals for consideration and for votes."


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Book Birthdays: New Titles This Week (2)
I keep a google calendar of all the books releasing each week that are on my radar. With all of the many books I am excited about it is so easy to lose track of when things come out. Since I'm already doing this research for myself, I thought you guys might like it if I shared.
Releasing 9/17-9/23
The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson
Girl of Fire and Thorns #2
In the sequel to the acclaimed The Girl of Fire and Thorns, a seventeen-year-old princess turned war queen faces sorcery, adventure, untold power, and romance as she fulfills her epic destiny.
Elisa is the hero of her country. She led her people to victory against a terrifying enemy, and now she is their queen. But she is only seventeen years old. Her rivals may have simply retreated, choosing stealth over battle. And no one within her court trusts her-except Hector, the commander of the royal guard, and her companions. As the country begins to crumble beneath her and her enemies emerge from the shadows, Elisa will take another journey. With a one-eyed warrior, a loyal friend, an enemy defector, and the man she is falling in love with, Elisa crosses the ocean in search of the perilous, uncharted, and mythical source of the Godstone's power. That is not all she finds. A breathtaking, romantic, and dangerous second volume in the Fire and Thorns trilogy.
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Glass Heart by Amy Garvey
Cold Kiss #2
Wren can do things that other people can only dream of. Make it snow on a clear, crisp day. Fly through an abandoned tunnel. Bring a paper bird to life.
Wren knows her abilities are tinged with danger—knows how easy it is to lose control—but she can't resist the intoxicating rush. And now that she has Gabriel by her side, someone who knows what she can do—what she has done—she finally feels free to be herself.
But as Wren explores the possibilities of her simmering powers, Gabriel starts pushing her away. Telling her to be careful. Telling her to stop. The more he cautions her, the more determined Wren becomes to prove that she can handle things on her own. And by the time she realizes that Gabriel may be right, it could be too late to bring him back to her side.
Incarnation by Emma Cornwall
In the steampunk world of Victorian London, a beautiful vampire seeks out the author of Dracula–to set the record straight . . . If one is to believe Bram Stoker's legendary vampire tale, Lucy Weston is Dracula's most wanton creation, a sexual creature of the night who preys on innocent boys. But the real-life Lucy is nothing like her fictional counterpart—and she demands to know why the Victorian author deliberately lied. With Stoker's reluctant help, she's determined to track down the very fiend who transformed her—from the sensual underworld where humans vie to become vampires, to a hidden cell beneath a temple to madness, and finally into the glittering Crystal Palace where death reigns supreme.
Haunted by fragmentary memories of her lost life and love, Lucy must battle her thirst for blood as she struggles to stop a catastrophic war that will doom vampires and humans alike. Ultimately, she must make a choice that illuminates for her—and for us—what it means to be human.
Mark of the Witch by Maggie Shayne
The Portal #1
From New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne comes the first novel in her thrilling new trilogy, THE PORTAL She was born to save what he is sworn to destroy...
A lapsed Wiccan, Indira Simon doesn't believe in magic anymore. But when strange dreams of being sacrificed to an ancient Babylonian god have her waking up with real rope burns on her wrists, she's forced to acknowledge that she may have been too hasty in her rejection of the unknown. Then she meets mysterious and handsome Father Tomas. Emerging from the secrecy of an obscure Gnostic sect, he arrives with stories of a demon, a trio of warrior witches-and Indira's sacred calling. Yet there's something even Tomas doesn't know, an inescapable truth that will force him to choose between saving the life of the woman he's come to love-and saving the world.
Raven Cycle #1
"There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve," Neeve said. "Either you're his true love . . . or you killed him."
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he's looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.
From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we've never been before.
Stormdancer by Jay Krsitoff
The Lotus War #1
A DYING LAND
The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse; an island nation once rich in tradition and myth, now decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshipers of the Lotus Guild. The skies are red as blood, the land is choked with toxic pollution, and the great spirit animals that once roamed its wilds have departed forever.
AN IMPOSSIBLE QUEST
The hunters of Shima's imperial court are charged by their Shōgun to capture a thunder tiger—a legendary creature, half-eagle, half-tiger. But any fool knows the beasts have been extinct for more than a century, and the price of failing the Shōgun is death.
A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL
Yukiko is a child of the Fox clan, possessed of a talent that if discovered, would see her executed by the Lotus Guild. Accompanying her father on the Shōgun's hunt, she finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in Shima's last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled thunder tiger for company. Even though she can hear his thoughts, even though she saved his life, all she knows for certain is he'd rather see her dead than help her.
But together, the pair will form an indomitable friendship, and rise to challenge the might of an empire.
What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang
The Hybrid Chronicles #1
Eva and Addie started out the same way as everyone else—two souls woven together in one body, taking turns controlling their movements as they learned how to walk, how to sing, how to dance. But as they grew, so did the worried whispers. Why aren't they settling? Why isn't one of them fading? The doctors ran tests, the neighbors shied away, and their parents begged for more time. Finally Addie was pronounced healthy and Eva was declared gone. Except, she wasn't…
For the past three years, Eva has clung to the remnants of her life. Only Addie knows she's still there, trapped inside their body. Then one day, they discover there may be a way for Eva to move again. The risks are unimaginable–hybrids are considered a threat to society, so if they are caught, Addie and Eva will be locked away with the others. And yet…for a chance to smile, to twirl, to speak, Eva will do anything.
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The papers of Xavier Gonzalez, a New York and Massachusetts painter, sculptor, educator, and owner of the Wellfleet Art Gallery, measure 14.1 linear feet and date from 1908 to 1997. The collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, writings, project files, business records, printed materials, scrapbooks, photographs, and artwork.
The papers of Xavier Gonzalez, a New York and Massachusetts painter, sculptor, educator, and owner of the Wellfleet Art Gallery, measure 14.1 linear feet and date from 1908 to 1997. The collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, writings, commission project files, business records, printed materials, scrapbooks, photographs, and artwork.
Biographical materials include an address book and calendars, awards, passports, resumes, student rosters, and legal documents. Correspondence is with family, friends, and colleagues regarding Gonzalez's work and art school in Wellfleet, his uncle and artist Jose Arpa, and other personal and professional activities. Manuscripts for Notes About Painting, unpublished books, and various essays by Gonzalez, along with manuscripts by other authors are in writings.
Commission project files are found for a U.S. Bicentennial monument, murals in New York and Texas, paintings commissioned by the Department of the Interior and Life magazine, and educational aids for the U.S. Navy.
Business records include sales and inventory records for Gonzalez's Wellfleet Art Gallery, The Spanish Institute, and other galleries. Printed materials consist of printed representations of artwork, clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, invitations, press releases, and books including He Who Saw Everything, The Epic of Gilgamesh, illustrated by Gonzalez.
The collection also includes 72 numbered scrapbooks that contain sketches, printed materials, project plans, photographs, writings, correspondence, and business records. One of the scrapbooks contains a notebook labeled "Notes of Paris, Visits with Picasso, 1936-1938". Photographs are of Gonzalez, his artwork and studio, his family and friends, Ethel Edwards, student artwork, composer Aaron Copeland, museum director Philip R. Adams, and Art Students League director Stewart Klonis. Artwork includes illustrated notes to Ethel Edwards, folded and cutout paper projects, and pencil and painted sketches.
Xavier Gonzalez (1898-1993) was a painter, sculptor, and educator who was active in New York, NY and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
Gonzalez was born in Almeria, Spain and came to the United States at the age of 19. While working odd jobs in Chicago, he attended the Chicago Art Institute. Throughout his career, Gonzalez completed numerous commissions including murals in Texas and New York, a monument for the 1976 bicentennial celebration in New York, paintings for the Department of the Interior, and paintings of Egypt's Old Kingdom for Life magazine. During World War II, he designed posters and maps for the Navy. After the war, Gonzalez opened the Wellfleet Art Gallery with his wife, artist Ethel Edwards, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The gallery served as an exhibition space, studio, and art school where Gonzalez taught summer classes.
Gonzalez died in New York in 1993.
Also found at the Archives of American Art are the papers of Xavier Gonzalez's wife, Ethel Edwards.
Material lent for microfilming by Xavier Gonzalez from 1968 to 1969 which was not included in the 1999 donation is available on microfilm reels N68-113, N69-42, N69-43, and N70-53. Some of this material may have been included in later gifts, but a comparison of the film and papers was not completed.
A small amount of the Xavier Gonzalez papers were donated by Gonzalez in 1971. Additional papers were donated by the George Arents Research Library at Syracuse University in 1984 and 1992, and by the estate of Ethel Edwards Gonzalez in 1999.
The Xavier Gonzalez papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Xavier Gonzalez Papers, 1908-1997. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.


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Las Misceláneas de Schott son una trilogía de libros escrita por Ben Schott. Consisten en una colección de curiosidades o trivialidades generalmente centradas en la cultura británica (y en menor medida en la europea y la de la Commonwealth). El primero de los libros tuvo un rotundo éxito, se publicó en 2002 por Bloomsbury y en España en 2004 por El Aleph Editores (Grupo 62). Los títulos de los tres libros son Schott's Original Miscellany (Miscelánea original de Schott), Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany (Miscelánea gastronómica de Schott), y Schott's Sporting, Gaming & Idling Miscellany. La trilogía en conjunto ha vendido más de dos millones de copias, y el primero de los libros ha sido traducido a más de trece idiomas. Schoot también ha escrito el Schott's Almanac 2006 y el Schott's Almanac 2007, una versión moderna de los tradicionales almanaques.

En diciembre de 2005, el periódico británico The Guardian, que había calificado a la Miscelánea original de Schott como "la sensación del año", publicó una edición especial de su suplemento G2 con una selección de curiosidades aparecidas en el libro.

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Chief Executive John Lee stated that the move comes when hundreds of thousands of residents have fled the city over the years. These people chose to leave because of the ongoing political situation and limited freedoms for the people, and strict national security laws.
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Lee told the media that Hong Kong needs to be more proactive and aggressive when competing for companies and talent. "In addition to actively fostering and retaining local talent, the government will be proactive in recruiting world talent," he added. Lee also proposed tax breaks and relaxed measures when hiring international employees to increase the city's competitiveness."
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Q: Print file name within generator of during Pandas Concat pd.concat I'm loading thousands of files that is supposed to have the same structure through pd.concat using a generator from the list of files in a given directory.
Is there anyway I can print f within this generator for debugging purpose? I'd like to know which file causes the failure. Thank you all in advance!
files   = glob.glob(input_dir + "/*.csv")
df      = pd.concat((pd.read_csv(f) for f in all_files))

A: You can use a try..except to properly handle loading the file and printing the potential error. Here's an example:
files   = glob.glob(input_dir + "/*.csv")

def load_file(f):
   """Loads a csv file into a dataframe"""
   try:
       # Load the file if there is no problem
       return pd.read_csv(f)
   except Exception as e:
       # If there is a problem
       # print an error message with the name of the file
       print("Loading file {} failed with error: {}"
             .format(f, e.message))
       # return an empty dataframe so the pd.concat won't fail.
       return pd.DataFrame()

df = pd.concat((load_file(f) for f in all_files))

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YOUR CAPRICORN ZODIAC STRESS HOROSCOPE
CAPRICORN - December 22nd - January 20th
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As a Capricorn you are ruled by the planet Saturn. This is the planet of discipline and caution. And that's why sometimes, when the future looks uncertain, or when things are going on that you feel are out of control, you might start to feel a degree of tension.
Capricorns aren't keen on change and it takes you a while to adapt to new situations. This is because when you step into the unknown, you don't want to let go of the things in the past that have become commonplace to you. Age and experience has a lot to do with how you accept change and deal with stress and tension. The older you get, the more you will grow to realise that nothing is so fixed that it can't be broken. Few things last forever and change really, is part of life and living.
Relationships and friendships change. Often being separated from folk who have become firm friends in the past is the most difficult part of changes. There will be a time of sorrow and sadness, but you mustn't wallow in self-pity. As one door closes, another opens. New people will enter your life and new friends will be made. You'll come to realise that there's plenty room in your life for lots of friends and new interests. You don't have to stick with the same old things ALL the time.
It's no good being stubborn and refusing to accept what has to be. If you feel stressed and if you feel under pressure then obviously things cannot remain as they are. Change is even more difficult to bear if you're fighting it every step of the way. Instead, try to flow with the tide. Go where it takes you and stop trying to swim against it. Often the result will be the same, no matter what you do. If you have no control over current events, and you know in your heart that eventually you're going to have to grin and bear it, then the sooner you do so, the better.
Capricorn, take things slowly and don't let your mind get carried away as you think of the future. When you feel under stress, you tend to worry a lot and you also tend to look on the dark side. But just think, you could be worrying about things that might never happen. While, on the other hand, sometimes, intuitively, you know that it's necessary to make some changes in your life. Maybe you don't want to do this, but how else can life get better? Wouldn't it be boring if there was nothing to look forward to tomorrow, the day after and the day after that, other than what you're doing today? People need change in order to build up on their experiences. So try to ignore those feelings of uncertainty - they're oh so natural and nothing to be ashamed of. Be courageous and be optimistic. Welcome change rather than fight against it, especially if it can't be avoided.
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The word tawakkul1 has been derived from وکالت (wakalat), meaning 'taking for oneself a representative', and a good representative generally possesses the following four characteristics: Awareness, Trustworthiness, Strength and Sympathy.
It might not appear necessary to mention that one selects a barrister for a task when the individual lacks the strength to defend himself. He therefore seeks the strength of another person and uses his assistance to solve his personal problem.
Accordingly tawakkul means that man, in the face of the difficulties of life, enmity and troubles of opponents, the tangles of existence which hinder his journey towards his objectives, and in instances wherein he finds himself unable to untie the knots, takes Allah (s.w.t.) as his support but, at the same time, does not stop his own efforts and endeavours. Rather, in those instances too, wherein he possesses the strength to perform the work, he looks upon Allah (s.w.t.) as the fundamental influencing force. This is because in the eyes of a (true) monotheist, He is the source of all strength and power.
Contrary to the attribute of 'relying on Allah (s.w.t.) ' is 'relying on other than Him' - meaning living dependently upon someone else and not possessing self independence.
Scholars of ethics state: Tawakkul is the direct outcome of 'Unity of Divine acts'; this is because, as we have mentioned previously, in the eyes of a monotheist every motion, endeavour, movement and occurrence that takes place in this world eventually finds a connection with the Primary Cause of this world i.e. Allah (s.w.t.); consequently, a monotheist regards every strength and power to originate from Him.
Firstly: Relying on Allah (s.w.t.) - the interminable Source of power and strength - causes man to become more resilient in the face of the troubles and adversities of life. An example of this is when the Muslims suffered a severe blow in the battle of Uhud and the enemies, after having abandoned the battlefield, decided to return once again midway from their journey (back home) with the aim of inflicting a final blow upon the Muslims.
Examples of such resistance, under the light of tawakkul, are observed in numerous verses, amongst them being verse 122 of Surat Ale 'Imran, in which the Qur'an says that reliance on Allah (s.w.t.) prevented the two groups of soldiers from being overcome with lassitude, in the battlefield.
In verse 12 of Surat Ibrahim it has been mentioned that tawakkul should be accompanied by patience in the face of the attacks of the enemy.
In verse 159 of Surat Ale 'Imran it has been ordered that when intending to perform an important task, initially consultation should take place; this should be followed up by a firm decision after which, one should place one's reliance on Allah (s.w.t.) (and proceed in accordance with the decision taken).
The Qur'an even says that only those, who possess faith and tawakkul, shall be able to exhibit resistance vis-à-vis satanic whisperings and not be influenced by them.
From the entire collection of these verses it can be concluded that tawakkul means that man, in the face of problems, does not experience a feeling of weakness and inferiority, but instead considers himself victorious by relying on the infinite power of Allah (s.w.t.). Thus, tawakkul is a hope-inspiring, energy-insuntiling and reinforcing factor which increases perseverance and resistance.
If the concept of tawakkul meant taking to a corner and sitting idle, it would be meaningless to attribute it to the soldiers and the likes of them.
And if some believe that resorting to various means and natural factors is not in conformity with the spirit of tawakkul, they are mistaken. This is because endeavouring to separate the effects of natural causes from the Will of Allah (s.w.t.) is a kind of polytheism. But is it not a fact that whatever the natural causes possess is from Him alone? And is it not that everything is in accordance with His Will and command? Yes, if we were to regard the causes and means to be an independent apparatus as opposed to Allah's Will, this would be incompatible with the spirit of tawakkul.
How is it possible to interpret tawakkul in this manner when the Noble Prophet (S), the leader of those who exhibited tawakkul, had never been heedless of utilizing every opportunity, appropriate plan and other exterior means for furthering his aims and objectives; all these only go to prove that the meaning of tawakkul does not have that negative dimension attached to it at all.
Secondly: Relying on Allah (s.w.t.) delivers man from being dependent (on others) - a state, which is the source of humiliation - and imparts freedom and self-confidence to him.
At this point we present some of the traditions in connection with tawakkul for the purpose of illuminating its actual meaning.
إِنَّ الْغِـنـى وَ الْعِزَّ يَجُولاَنِ فَإِذَا ظَفِرَا بِمَوْضِعِ التَّوَكُّلِ أَوْطَنَا.
In this tradition, tawakkul has been presented as being the actual dwelling place of independence and honour.
مَا حَدُّ التَّوَكُّلِ؟ فَقَالَ أَنْ لاَ تَخَافَ مَعَ اللٌّهِ أَحَداً.
7. For more explanations in connection 'tawakkul' and other such issues, refer the book Angizah-e-Paidaish-e-Madhhab.


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1 edition of Possession found in the catalog.
Devyn Quinn
by Devyn Quinn
Published 2009 by Aphrodisia in New York .
Statement Devyn Quinn
LC Classifications PS3617.U563 P67 2009
Pagination 266 p. ;
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This is a list of films which have placed number one at the box office in Australia during 2014. All amounts are in Australian dollars. The list below contains 53 weeks due to the first film gross tracking week of the year ending on January 1, and the last week ending on December 31.

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Q: Azure AD Premium Branding And OpenID I'm trying to secure my website using Azure AD and using the OpenID endpoints to redirect my users. I have been able so far to set up a custom branded login page (using a trial of Azure AD Premium) and been able to view my custom branding by adding a &whr=mydomain.onmicrosoft.com to the URL. Navigating to the site using the OpenID Connect flow does not show any custom branding.
Does Azure AD support OpenID flow with custom branding?

A: Yep. You simply need to specify your home realm using a different syntax. See http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2014/11/17/skipping-the-home-realm-discovery-page-in-azure-ad/


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