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Team Liquid Add zai To Its Dota 2 Roster
Team Liquid announced the signing of Ludwig "zai" Wåhlberg, who joins the European Dota 2 roster as their sixth member.
Ryan Knuppel
Team Liquid announced the signing of Ludwig "zai" Wåhlberg, who joins the European Dota 2 roster as their sixth member. The news surfaced on Wednesday, November 3, marking Liquid's first signing of the year.
Liquid Bolster Its Roster
Team Liquid bolstered its Dota 2 esports roster on Tuesday, with the addition of zai. The 24-year-old up-and-coming offlaner joins the North American esports organization from Team Secret.
The signing of zai comes amid the post-The International roster shuffle in Europe and sends out a strong message from one of the most storied organizations. Although adding zai is the only roster change Liquid has made so far this season, it shows the team's commitment to compete for top spots in the 2022 season.
Zai joins a stacked roster of Michael "miCKe" Vu, Max "qojqva" Bröcker, Samuel "Boxi" Svahn, Tommy "Taiga" Le, and Aydin "iNSaNiA" Sarkohi. Liquid's current core members joined the organization in October 2019 after its former roster left for Team Nigma.
Team Liquid will hope that the 24-year-old addition will help the team reach new heights in 2022, having failed to achieve much last term.
Liquid' started the 2021 Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) season with a fourth-place finish at DreamLeague Season 14 DPC EU Upper Division and improved in the 15th season, placing second. However, despite their relative domestic success, Liquid haven't achieved much on the international stage.
In April, Liquid attended ONE Esports Singapore Major 2021 but failed to show up. Even though Liquid made it out of the group stage, they slipped in the first round of the playoffs, losing to ViCi Gaming.
The team would qualify for WePlay AniMajor, but once again, Liquid failed to deliver as they finished in 13th place.
Things did not improve in the latter stages of the season, as Liquid managed only top-12 and top-10 place finishes at ESL One Summer 2021 and ESL One Fall 2021. However, the most painful performance came in July, when Liquid failed to qualify for The International 10.
Zai Could Be A Solution
Zai joins Team Liquid from their regional rivals, Team Secret, where he has spent 38 months. The 24-year-old started his Dota 2 esports career in 2013 with Stay Free and has since played for Super Strong Dinosaurs and S A D B O Y S before joining Evil Geniuses in February 2014.
During his stay with EG, zai placed fourth at The International 2014 but left the team to join Team Secret in January 2015. After that, however, he returned back to Evil Geniuses, where he has remained until August 2017.
Zai later represented OpTic Gaming for one year and returned to Team Secret in September 2018, where he has remained ever since.
Throughout his career, zai has won several Major tournaments and has three bronze medals from TI. He won his first two TI bronze medals with Evil Geniuses in 2014 and 2016 and one with Team Secret from 2021.
With the addition of zai, Team Liquid got their hands on one of the best European Dota 2 players, making it clear that the organization has high ambitions for the next season. However, Liquid have yet to announce whether there will be any departures from the team.
Regardless of who will leave the team to make room for zai, the addition of the Swedish Dota 2 pro effectively spells the end of Liquid's current roster joint journey. The roster has been together since November 2017, when they joined Alliance, before signing for Liquid in 2019.
Unfortunately, changes had to be made as Liquid failed to achieve anything noteworthy with the ex-Alliance core. Their sole achievement came in November 2020, when Liquid won ESL One Germany 2020, but success has been hard to come by ever since.
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In this activity children consolidate their understanding of the water cycle through discussion and decision making.
Extreme weather conditions are in the news every summer, whether too wet or too hot. The question is are these isolated incidences, or is there a connection with global warming? The weather has always varied a lot from year to year, so it's difficult to decide. However, scientists predict that global warming will increase the volume of water that is evaporated and condensed each year which could make both floods and droughts more common. This is the context for a series of discussion, decision-making, numeracy and literacy activities aimed at consolidating understanding of the water cycle.
To use their knowledge of the water cycle to explore 'what if' questions about possible causes of increased rainfall.
To analyse rainfall data from the last ten years and judge whether or not there is an overall trend in the data.


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*The compare between communism and capitalism which is in table form will not appear here. Please download the doc. version. The begin of Cold War "Cold" means no direct military conflict between two superpowers, Unites States (US) and Soviet Union (USSR). Their ideological differences between US (capitalism) and USSR(communism). As they were superpowers, they had large land area, strong industry, large population, nuclear weapon, wealth, stable political system, natural resources, well foreign trade, strong armed forces and worldwide influence. The two bloc -- capitalist bloc included US, western Europe and some other country. Communist bloc included USSR, eastern Europe, China and some other country. They fear attack, thought, nuclear weapon and mistrust intentions each others → Cold War started. 1) Soviet expansion -- After the end of WWII, UUSR started to control countries in eastern Europe that librated from Nazis and become it's satellites. As a result, "Iron Curtain" had descended across Europe and separated the communist countries and the western democratic nations. 2) Truman Doctrine -- The president that time, Truman, thought that any communist revolution threatens US, and providing financial aid prevent those revolution. In Mar 1947, he stated that US could help all countries that felt threatened by communism. Meanwhile in the same year, Marshall Plan was going to offer financial aid to European nations. Then, USSR also proposed the Molotov Plan the help eastern Europe nation's finance. 3) Berlin Crisis -- Germany was settled into four part after WWII to USSR, British, French and American zone. Berlin is divided Into four part also but Berlin is under Soviet's zone. USSR wants to control the whole Berlin, so that in 1948, USSR stopped all land traffic from Berlin to western zones and the western provide supplies western Berlin by air everyday (successfully). At last USSR lifted the blockade in 1949. E and W Germany and Berlin were created and lots of East Germany people went into west Berlin. Berlin wall was built up in 1961 and block communication between them. 4) Capitalist countries formed a military alliance Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization"(NATO) in 1949 while USSR and it's satellites set up Warsaw Treaty Organization in 1955. 5) Korean War (1950 - 1953), after WWII, Korean was divided into N and S Korea. Capitalist representatives: H.Truman (US) and Rhee Synman (S Korea) Communist representatives: Kim Il Sung (N Korea), Mao Zedong (PRC), .J.Stalin (USSR). After the WWII, N Korea "believed in communism" and S Korea "believed in capitalism". Both country wanted to control the whole Korea. N Korea stacked S Korea in 1950, then US helped S Korea and over US troops went over the 38N line, PRC helps N Korea and attacks back. After sometime, those representatives were affected by various reason(fear of NATO, change of president, not enough troops) and a truce was signed in 1953 but the war has not end until now. 6) The Cuban Missile Crisis(1962), between US, Cuba and USSR. Capitalist representatives: John Kennedy (US president) and communist representatives Nikita Khrushchev(First secretary of USSR), Fidel Castro (Cuba president) US claimed that Cuba is a communist country. USSR wanted to help Cuba and gave some nuclear missile without fuel to Cuba and US was afraid of it because Cuba is near to US. US put troops in Florida, and USSR required US to respect Cuba. After some days, both of them don't want to fight and USSR agreed to remove missile in Cuba. 7) Vietnam War (1961 - 1975) -- the only event that US "lost" Just like Korea, it was torn into two part, N and S Vietnam and they also want to unify their countries. At that time, the "capitalist" (in fact, people there believed in communist) government had a problem of serious corruption. People in S Vietnam became anti-government. Ho Chi Minh, the president of N Vietnam, attacked S Vietnam. US helped S Vietnam but it's useless. N Vietnam attacks Saigon underground or via other countries. At last US people didn't want to fight and in 1975, US retreated troops. The communist controlled the whole Vietnam. After the "lost" of USSR in Cuban Missile Crisis and US in Vietnam War, the relation between the two bloc started to ease. In 1963, an emergency communication line(hot line) from Washington to Moscow was set up. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was set up between Soviet Union, US and Britain. In 1985, M.Gorbachev became the general secretary of USSR and he worked to improve relations with US. He signed treaties to destroy nuclear weapons with President Reagan and bigger Bush. He relaxed control to the satellites reduced armed forces in eastern Europe and refused to intervene the democratic movements in 1989-1991. He was remarkable for the end of Cold War. As a result, 1989, the communist eastern Europe nations overthrown their communist government. Berlin wall was torn down. In 1990, the two Germany became one. In 1991, communist state under USSR declared their independence and formed Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This marked the end of cold war. The impacts of Cold War 1) Cold War is a chance for US and USSR to extend their influence within their bloc and they tried to gain influence over the developing countries. 2) The European nations realized that cooperation is important in 1951. They set up European Economic Community(EEC,1957), European Community (EC,1993) and developed into European Union now. 3) During the Cold War, US and USSR competed in developing nuclear and chemical weapons and created tension in the international relation until the end of Cold War. 4) After the Cold War, nation started to solve problem through communication more than military conflict and improve way of cooperation. For example, in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991, USSR cooperated with US to force Iraq to remove troops from Kuwait. US called for the end of Cold War during the presidency of George Bush.
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Neil Martin got in touch offering to write up his experiences of setting up Pro Tools so that it can be installed and setup automatically on lots of computers as you find in 'labs' in colleges etc. Although this is a specilist area for those that need this solution it is a serious time saver and also makes sure that every installation is the same. Let me hand over to Neil….
Part 1 – The challenge.
I work in a university. My job is to look after the specialist technical needs of our music and music technology courses, including the Apple Mac network in our building. That's 50 iMacs in 2 labs, 4 iMacs in edit suites, 2 Mac Pros in recording studio control rooms and 30 iMacs used by fellow technicians and academic staff. We need Pro Tools on all of them.
We use a tool called Munki to manage the installation of our software so that Macs on our network can install it automatically. We use it in conjunction with DeployStudio to form an agile and automated way to set up our Macs from scratch to exactly how we want. We do this because having to manually install software by hand on any more than a few machines is not feasible and it costs precious time and money.
The details of setting up software management systems are beyond the scope of this series of articles, which will focus on actually getting Pro Tools into them, but I'll provide some links at the end that will help if you're starting from scratch. If you don't already manage the software on your Macs, you owe it to yourself and your institution to investigate the possibilities open to you.
From this point forward, I will assume you have a way of managing your software in place and you want to get Pro Tools to join the party. My experience is with Munki and that's what I'll write about, but you can probably apply the methods to your solution if you're using something else.
We need to make these things happen as part of the installation process, preventing the user from being stopped in their tracks when they run Pro Tools for the first time.
This DMG also includes packages for the HD Driver and some Avid codecs that can be imported into Munki easily.
It contains a single package that will not import into Munki. You'll get an unhelpful error saying 'talk to the vendor'. This suggests there's something unusual going on from Avid's side of things. Furthermore, the installer will only successfully complete if run from the DMG. You can't copy it to another folder. We must get it into Munki whilst ensuring it still works properly.
This is an appeal to Avid: Please distribute your software in ways that allow for straightforward automated deployment. We love Pro Tools and want our students to use it because it's great. Our students are the artists, producers and engineers of the future and they will buy your software because they had a fantastic experience with it while they were learning. Help us help them to help you!
Stay tuned for part 2 where we will tackle the challenges with the Pro Tools Installer DMG.


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Apple Provides Technical Support via Twitter for the First Time
By: Todd R. Weiss | March 04, 2016
Apple customers are now able to ask for help from Apple Support by posting an inquiry on Twitter. The company began the service on March 3.
Apple has been providing technical support to its customers for years on its Website, by phone and inside its Apple Stores, but until now Twitter was not a place where users could find help.
That changed on March 3 when Apple unveiled its @AppleSupport page on Twitter, which by 12 p.m. EST on March 4 already had more than 2,800 tweets and was being followed by more than 131,000 people.
The first tweet posted on the page was a simple introduction and welcome message to users, followed by a "Let's get started" message aimed at Apple users.
"We're here to provide tips, tricks and helpful information when you need it most," the page continued. "We're available every day to answer your questions, from 5am-8pm PST."
Users can find "Tips and tutorials from the same Apple Advisors you know and trust—now available on Twitter," the page explained.
Apple did not respond to several emails from eWEEK about the new Twitter support page.
Interestingly, Apple is a bit late to the game in providing customer service via Twitter. Many companies, from airlines to consumer product makers, have been using Twitter for several years to respond to consumer complaints or comments and to tout their own wares and services.
Among the first questions asked by Apple customers on the new Twitter page were inquiries involving a kext bug that prevents new laptops from booting and Magic Mouse 2 scrolling problems after reinstalling OS X 10.10 and Windows 8.1 on a machine, according to the posts.
Also posted were issues regarding battery problems in Apple devices and how to get a machine started after forgetting the answers to security questions, as well as inquiries about disk space messages that are not accurate, Bluetooth connection problems and how to recover critical files that somehow went missing.
In February, Apple's support team responded to reports from owners of iPhone 6 smartphones that were displaying an "Error 53" message and disabling their phones, according to an earlier eWEEK story. After looking into the issue, Apple began advising owners of damaged iPhone 6 smartphones that have been repaired by third-party service centers to contact Apple Support if their phones are now displaying the error message.
The Error 53 messages appeared on late-model iPhones if the handset's home button, with its fingerprint ID mechanism built-in, was replaced by a non-Apple service center or if the home button cable was replaced with a non-Apple part.
Apple acknowledged the issue and said the error message is part of the phone's security system checks meant to protect customers. The iOS operating system is designed to check that the Touch ID sensor in an iPhone or iPad correctly matches the device's other components. If iOS finds a mismatch, the check fails and Touch ID, including for Apple Pay use, is disabled. This security measure is meant to protect a device and prevent a fraudulent Touch ID sensor from being used, according to the company.
Apple recently announced that customers can now trade in damaged iPhones toward the purchase of new iPhones, replacing Apple's long-standing policy of not accepting damaged iPhones on trade. Under the rules, Apple will accept late model broken iPhones that have damaged screens, cameras or buttons and will credit customers $50 for an iPhone 5s, $200 for an iPhone 6 and $250 for an iPhone 6 Plus.
Under the previous Apple Store Reuse and Recycle iPhone trade-in program, older iPhones with cracked displays or broken cameras and buttons were not eligible for trade-ins. The updated trade-in program now allows Apple Stores to credit customers for damaged iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus handsets.
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Sung Hyun Park's 9-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole won the 2018 KPMG Women's PGA Championship at Kemper Lakes Golf Club in Kildeer, Illinois. Park carded a 3-under 69 and emerged from a three-player playoff with So Yeon Ryu and Nasa Hataoka, who bowed out on the first playoff hole. Park erased a 4-shot deficit entering the day, thanks in part to a bogey-free round that extended to 20 flawless holes with the playoff. Ryu's 20-footer for birdie on the 16th hole gave her a 2-shot cushion, but an errant tee shot on No. 17 found water and ultimately rendered a double-bogey and the playoff. Park and Ryu were named co-recipients of the 2017 Rolex Player of the Year, and thus, Park is the first reigning Rolex LPGA Player of the Year to win this Championship since Inbee Park in 2014.
Sung Hyun Park became a two-time major winner with her victory today at Kemper Lakes. She previously won the 2017 U.S. Women's Open. Park becomes the sixth South Korean to win multiple majors, joining Inbee Park (7), Se Ri Pak (5), So Yeon Ryu (2), In Gee Chun (2) and Jiyai Shin (2).
For the first time since 2006, each of the LPGA's first three majors of the season have been decided in a playoff. Sung Hyun Park, Nasa Hataoka and So Yeon Ryu were knotted up after 72 holes at 278 at Kemper Lakes.
Dating to 1998, the year Se Ri Pak won this Championship for the first time, South Koreans have won seven of 21 KPMG Women's PGA Championships. In that same span, the United States and Sweden are tied for second with four victories apiece.
Including this week at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, Sung Hyun Park has made 12 starts in major championships. She has six top 10s, including four top-3 finishes.
For the first time, three players advanced to a playoff in the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Today also marked the 13th time the Championship has gone to extra holes and the second in three years (Brooke Henderson defeated Lydia Ko on the first hole in 2016).
As the 2018 KPMG Women's PGA Champion, Sung Hyun Park has now won majors in consecutive seasons; she claimed the U.S. Women's Open in July 2017. Park is now the first player to win a major in consecutive seasons since Lydia Ko (2015 Evian Championship, 2016 ANA Inspiration) and In Gee Chun (2015 U.S. Women's Open, 2016 Evian Championship) did so in both 2015 and 2016.
Japan's Nasa Hataoka, 19, established the KPMG Women's PGA Championship final-round 18-hole record with an 8-under-par 64. Making her second career start in the Championship, Hataoka recorded two eagles, five birdies and had a lone bogey at No. 10.
Hataoka surpassed a record that was shared by 10 players, most recently by Brooke Henderson in 2016. Last week, Hataoka posted a closing 63 to win the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.
She was given the birth name "Nasa" by outer space-loving parents in Ibaraki, Japan. Following her victory in Arkansas, Hataoka explained her family's intent about her name. They used the inspiration of NASA (the National Aeronautic Space Administration), the International Space Station and humans traveling into space and landing on the moon.
"My parents named me that so that I can achieve something not so easy to attain," said Hataoka.
In consecutive weeks, Nasa Hataoka has posted final-round, 8-under par scores: a 63 at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship and a 64 on Sunday at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship.
Entering the 2018 KPMG Women's PGA Championship, Nasa Hataoka ranked 46th on the LPGA Tour in average putts per round with 29.59. She bettered this by more than three strokes at Kemper Lakes, finishing the Championship with an average of 26.5 (106 total), which was second in the field to Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras (26.2).
With her victory, Sung Hyun Park takes home $547,500.


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Der Bezirk Oberrheintal war bis 2003 eine Verwaltungseinheit des Kantons St. Gallen in der Schweiz. Er entstand 1831 durch Aufteilung des Bezirks Rheintal in den Bezirk Oberrheintal und den Bezirk Unterrheintal. Zusammen mit dem Bezirk Unterrheintal bildete er den Teil des St. Galler Rheintal zwischen Rheineck und Rüthi.

Seit 2003 ist der Bezirk Oberrheintal ein Teil des Wahlkreises Rheintal. Das Oberrheintal bildet eine Subregion des St. Galler Rheintals.Siehe auch: Abschnitt Subregionen im Artikel St. Galler Rheintal

Die Gemeinden des ehemaligen Bezirks Oberrheintal

Das Bundesamt für Statistik führte den Bezirk unter der BFS-Nr. 1705.

Veränderungen im Gemeindebestand

 1994: Namensänderung von Rüthi (Rheintal) → Rüthi (SG)

Siehe auch
 St. Galler Rheintal

Oberrheintal
Geschichte (Kanton St. Gallen)
St. Galler Rheintal
Oberrheintal

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`STEALTH' CANDIDATES CRUISE TO COURT BENCH
Ken Armstrong and Tara Gruzen, Tribune Staff WritersCHICAGO TRIBUNE
Vanessa A. Hopkins is 39 years old and has been licensed to practice law in Illinois for less than two years. Beyond that, her experience as a lawyer is something of a mystery.
Bar groups do not know what kind of law she practices, where she practices or whether she practices it well.
But they do know one thing: Hopkins was elected to be a judge Tuesday.
Hopkins is what has become known as a "stealth candidate"--lawyers who run for judge without submitting their qualifications to key bar groups for evaluation. On Tuesday, at least five such candidates managed to fly under the profession's radar screen and land on the bench of the Cook County Circuit Court, despite ignoring the review process of the Chicago Bar Association and the Chicago Council of Lawyers.
A sixth stealth candidate also won her Democratic primary Tuesday, but unlike the others, she will face a Republican challenge in the general election, so her taking the bench is not a given.
Judges and lawyers say a favorable review by a bar group does not guarantee another Oliver Wendell Holmes. Nor will every bad evaluation mean a bad judge. But for now, such evaluations are the best way to offer voters some means to judge a candidate's legal skills.
Rene A. Torrado Jr., president of the Chicago Bar Association, said Tuesday's results reflect the need for Illinois to switch from judicial elections to merit selection.
"I think we ought to stop this madness of, in essence, having this lottery in the voting booth," he said.
"The people who sit on that bench and wear those robes make decisions about one's freedom, about one's children, about the disposition of one's property. Those are decisions that should be made only by those who have experience and whose qualifications have been reviewed by some competent body."
Besides Hopkins, the other stealth candidates who won primaries Tuesday were James J. Jorzak, a 31-year-old lawyer who has been practicing for less than six years; Rickey Jones, an assistant state's attorney so little known to one bar group that it referred to him as a her; Bettina Gembala, a Riverside resident licensed to practice law in 1981; Jane Louise Stuart, an attorney since 1985; and Patricia M. Martin, an attorney since 1986.
All six won primaries for judicial subcircuits, which are designed to give minorities and Republicans a greater chance of being elected by concentrating voting blocs. Winners of the subcircuit races have as much power as those Circuit Court judges elected countywide.
On Tuesday, there were 38 subcircuit races and 13 countywide. All of the countywide winners had been found qualified by at least one local bar group.
"It appears the subcircuit system may have a propensity toward attracting candidates with less experience than other methods of selection," said Donald O'Connell, chief judge of the Cook County Circuit Court.
O'Connell said he would favor a merit selection system so long as it placed a value on diversity among judges and allowed a broad-based coalition to make appointments rather than a single politician such as the governor.
Gembala said Wednesday that after serving on the Chicago Bar Association's judicial evaluation committee for several years, she knew what the committee looks for in a judicial candidate.
And she did not think she had it.
That is why Gembala, executive director of court operations for the clerk of Cook County Circuit Court, decided not to submit her credentials for review. The bar association wants extensive trial experience, she said, and with most of her years spent in administration, she thought her chances of receiving a recommendation were slim.
"I didn't want to risk it," she said.
Instead, Gembala decided to tackle the election by highlighting her heritage. She made sure voters knew of her Irish and Polish bloodlines and of her participation in a Polish attorney's association. Because the elections came on the heels of St. Patrick's Day, Gembala said, many families felt especially close to their Irish roots.
Gembala, a 48-year-old Riverside resident, is the lone winner among the stealth candidates who will face a Republican challenge.
Some candidates have expressed skepticism about various bar groups' evaluations, believing those groups can be biased for or against candidates based on race or gender.
Stuart, an assistant Cook County state's attorney, shunned the Chicago Bar Association's evaluation procedures.
"I just didn't have faith in their process," she said. "I'm too familiar with their pattern of results."
Instead, she visited churches, spoke to community groups and ran radio commercials and newspaper advertisements. Stuart worked for 10 years as a secondary school art teacher before turning to law at the age of 40.
Jones, another of the stealth candidates, has had a complaint filed against him with the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. A lawyer representing his opponent alleges that Jones does not live in the subcircuit where he ran. Jones could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
The losing candidates in Tuesday's races included two candidates whose law licenses have previously been suspended by the Illinois Supreme Court.
Casandra Watson was suspended for four months in 1992 for a conflict of interest, according to state records. She defended one client against a murder charge while representing a key witness against that client. The client facing a murder charge was sentenced to death, but the conviction was reversed because of Watson's conflict. On Tuesday, Watson won about 40 percent of the vote, finishing about 6 percentage points behind the winner.
The court yanked Ronald S. Samuels' law license for one year in 1989, excoriating him for mistreating four clients in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He lied to clients, neglected their cases and then belittled them afterward, according to the court's written opinion. In a countywide race Tuesday, Samuels collected more than 32,000 votes, finishing sixth in an eight-candidate field.
As for Hopkins, the candidate with an Illinois law license for less than two years, she could not be reached Wednesday. Her campaign manager, Stan Howard, said Hopkins was out of town.


EngageSportMode likes cars that are painted orange. It also likes the Dodge SRT Hellcat twins. Someone, somewhere, has been listening to our prayers it would seem. Thank you!
We're not sure which sacrifice, offering or blessing it was that made this happen – we're just pleased one of them worked. Joking aside, the option to purchase a 707hp Challenger or Charger SRT Hellcat in a classic Dodge colour makes us rather happy. The wonderfully named 'Go Mango' orange paint option was first introduced on the 1970 Dodge Challenger, producing one of the greatest muscle car colour combinations ever.
We saw Dodge offer 'Plum Crazy' on the Challenger and Charger models last year, but orange was always going to be our favourite. You don't have to be ordering a supercharged 6.2-litre Hellcat model to live out your tangerine dreams, as it can also be specified for the SRT 392 models. But, let's be realistic here. You're buying a ridiculous bright-orange muscle car. You need to buy the one with a 707hp 6.2-litre supercharged V8 engine, not the one with only 485hp.
You'd never have to worry about losing your car in a parking lot.
Or worry about friends asking for a lift home.
If you're lucky enough to be in the United States, you can head on down to your local Dodge dealer and order one of these bad boys right now. Hopefully it'll arrive before Donald Trump ends up as President as, by that point, he'll be the most important orange-coloured thing in the USA. We'll leave you with that frankly terrifying thought.


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Candidates can download maha-agriadmission.in Merit List 2018 for the DTE Maharashtra Scholarship. Students can get DTE Maharashtra Scholarship benefits from Mahaagri Admission 2018. All you have to do is to download DTE Maharashtra PG Merit List 2018 to ensure admission in the college. MCAER DTE Maharashtra Counselling process will soon start online for students. You can download www.mcaer.org Merit list 2018 of postgraduate and undergraduate courses offered by DTE Maharashtra.
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Valorant Champions 2022 Format And Groups Revealed
Riot Games revealed the group seeding and format for the upcoming Valorant Champions 2022, which is slated to kick off on August 31.
Riot Games revealed the group seeding and format for the upcoming Valorant Champions 2022, which is slated to kick off on August 31. However, the season-culminating event announcement was met with disagreement from the esports community.
Groups And Format Revealed
Riot Games announced the full schedule, a group draw, and format for the Valorant Champions 2022 tournament, which will take place in Turkey from August to September. As the final event of the Valorant season, it will welcome some of the best teams in the world, who will compete for the eternal glory that is winning the world championship title.
As revealed, the Valorant Champions will feature a GSL-style group play, where the 16 participating teams will be divided into four groups of four. All matches will be played as best-of-three, with the top two squads advancing into the next stage.
Eight-team double elimination playoffs will follow the group stage, with all matches – except for the lower bracket finals and the grand finals – played as best-of-three, while the latter two will use a Bo5 format.
According to the announced group seeding, Group A will welcome Paper Rex, EDward Gaming, Leviatan, and Team Liquid. Meanwhile, Group B will feature OpTic Gaming, BOOM Esports, ZETA DIVISION, and LOUD.
Over in Group C, we will see the defending Masters champions FunPlus Phoenix take on KRU Esports, XSET, and XERXIA. But all the attention will be on Group D, billed as the group of death, featuring FURIA Esports, Fnatic, 100 Thieves, and DRX.
Once the group stage ends, the top two teams from each group will proceed into the double-elimination bracket playoffs, where group winners will play the second-placed team from another random group. The knockout stage will proceed until September 18, when the top two teams will duke it out in the grand finals for the trophy and the lion's share of the prize pool.
Notably, this year's tournament does not include last year's finalists in Acend and Gambit Esports, as both failed to make it through the Last Chance Qualifiers.
Backlash From Esports Community
Shortly after Riot Games announced a new and revamped format for the Valorant Champions, the esports community, mainly the League of Legends fans, expressed its dissatisfaction with the company.
The main complaint is Riot's unwillingness to adapt the LoL World Championship format, which many fans believe is missing a double-elimination bracket. Although Riot has said that it would consider introducing a double-elimination knockout stage for the LoL event, it has yet to do so.
As noted by the community, a double-elimination format is fairer and creates more hype and the opportunity to create incredible storylines through the lower bracket. Notably, G2 Esports won the LEC 2022 Spring via the lower bracket and would then go on to reach the 2022 MSI finals.
Although fans have been complaining about the lack of a double elimination format in LoL's premier event, seeing Riot introduce it for Valorant Champions and not for LoL Worlds was hard to swallow.
Interestingly, every LoL region follows the format through its playoffs, which has proven to be highly entertaining for the fans.
The fans also complained about LoL Worlds having a one-week break in the middle of the tournament and the lack of cross-regional play since the LoL World Championship will have only seven best-of series at the event. Meanwhile, Valorant Champions will use a best-of format through the group stage and into the knockout stage, giving the fans a lot more action to look forward to.
It's highly unlikely that Riot Games will change the LoL World Championship format now, albeit it's reasonable to see the community outrage, seeing how it promised changes to LoL Worlds format last year. Yet those never came.


The American public has allowed one of our two major political parties to gloss over a blatant violation of the Constitution. I refer to the events that unfolded after the sudden passing in February 2016 of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a situation in which then-President Barack Obama should have been allowed to nominate Scalia's replacement with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Obama had about a year left in his second term. The Republican-controlled Senate blocked Obama's choice, in clear violation of the process laid out in the U.S. Constitution. This awful episode has slipped into a hazy past.
Why is this matter still important? Most things that have happened since are matters of good taste or petty attempts by one president to undo vestiges of his predecessor. These are items for debate or reasons to patiently await the next election.
But we only have two dominant political parties in our country. Both have always paid service to the concepts of honor, honesty and faithfulness to our founding documents. There are turning points like this episode in the lives of people and nations. While we can survive a president with some bad traits, our democratic system may be unable to survive a Republican Party unmoored from its principles.


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La Revue critique de législation et de jurisprudence du Canada, Volume 1
Too much prominence cannot be given to this statement, as Magistrates might infer from the remarks of the author in his preface, where he says: "In annotating the sections of the different statutes now in force, the writer has striven to collect from the English works everything that seemed likely to be of use," . . . that the work was more comprehensive than it is. Being thus limited in so far as the jurisdiction of Magistrates in summary convictions and orders under Dominion Acts is concerned, it becomes necessary to show the principal points of difference in the law, as affecting the exercise of their jurisdiction under acts of Local Legislatures. The law as respects subjects falling within the jurisdiction of the Legislatures of Quebec and Ontario is still governed by chap. 103, Consolidated Statutes of Canada, and it is important to know that it differs materially from the Dominion Act annotated by Mr. Kerr. For instance, by the latter Act it is enacted that, "In all cases of complaint upon which a Justice or Justices of the Peace may make an order for the payment of money or otherwise, it shall not be necessary that such a complaint be in writing unless it be required to be so by some particular Act or Law, upon which such complaint is framed ;" whereas, the very reverse is enacted by sec. 20, chap. 103, C. S. C, which requires that the complaint "shall be in writing and on oath," unless otherwise provided by the particular Act. In the same way, section 2-4 of the Dominion Act declares that the complaint or information may be made or laid without any oath or affirmation; whereas sec. 24 of chap. 103 expressly requires that they should be made or laid on oath or affirmation.
Then, again, there exists a marked distinction between these two Acts, in relation to the all-important matter of appeals. Sections G5, C6, 67, 08, and 09 of the Dominion Act relating to Appeals, amended by chap. 27 of the Dominion Acts of 1870, are entirely new provisions not to be found in chap. 103, C. S. C. If the Magistrate is acting under a Dominion Act, the provisions of the Amending Act relating to appeals, will apply, which allows an appeal, not "in every case" generally, as might be inferred from the author's remarks at page 387, but "to any person who thinks himself aggrieved by any such conviction or order," thereby limiting the right of appeal to the defendant; the unsuccessful prosecutor having no such right.
But let us suppose a Magistrate in the Province of Quebec or Ontario is exercising his jurisdiction under an Act of the Local Parliament; how stands the law relating to appeals? Chapter 103, C. S. C, now regulating in both Provinces the exercise of the jurisdiction of Justices in summary convictions and orders under local Acts, contains no provision conferring a right of appeal; but simply contains some enactments as to enforcing convictions or orders appealed from, decided in favour of the Respondents. In Ontario several statutory provisions existed on this subject. By the 2nd Wm. IV., ch. 6, sec. 18, an appeal was conferred in the cases mentioned in the Act determinable by a jury; and the 13 & 14 Vict., ch. 54, conferred a general power of appeal in every case wherein a decision had been rendered by a Justice of the Peace, Mayor, or Police Magistrate in any matter "not being a crime," and such appeal at the request of either party might be determined by a jury to be empanelled for that purpose. This is now the law of Ontario, in virtue of ehap. 114, Consolidated Statutes of Upper Canada.
The law of Ontario, applicable to local Acts, differs materially from the laws of England, and from the laws of Quebec in this, that it confers a right of appeal generally in all cases, even to the unsuccessful prosecutor. Archbold, Quarter Sessions, page 85, it is stated: "There is no general statute giving an appeal in all cases against the orders or convictions of Justices out of sessions; but the power of appealing to the Sessions is given by different statutes in particnlar instances. Saunders on Convictions, pp. 54 and 55, says: "The power of appealing to the sessions is not of general, but of particular right, and exists only in those cases in which it is specially given." This is the law of England.
In the Province of Quebec the same rule prevails. There is no law giving a right of appeal in all cases. It can only exist under particular Acts. The most comprehensive provision is sec. 117, chap. 99, C. S. C., .which enacts, "In case any person thinks himself aggrieved by any summary conviction or decision under any of the foregoing criminal Acts," then in case such person complies with its requirements as to notice and entering into a recognizance, he may appeal to the Sessions. The provisions of these criminal Acts so referred to are the following:
1. Chap. 90, sec. 26, 27, 28, 31 and 32. Eelating to the offences of
importing or manufacturing coin in contravention of this Act, and the uttering of coin other than that mentioned in the Act.
2. Chap. 91, sec. 37. Common assault and battery.
3. Chap. 92, sec. 18, disturbing persons assembled for religious wor
ship; sec. 31, offering shipwreck goods for sale which have been unlawfully taken; sec. 33, dog stealing; sec. 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40, stealing tress, fences, plants in gardens and vegetables, &e.
4. Chap. 93, sec. 25, 2G, 27 and 28. Malicious injuries to property.
5. Chap. 95. Lotteries, the making and publishing thereof, and the
buying and receiving lottery tickets.
6. Chap. 96. Cruelty to animals.—Constables or peace officers re
fusing or neglecting to serve any summons or warrant issued under the provisions of that act.
In the above cases an appeal is given; and this shews how different is the law in both Provinces, with reference to appeals from conviction under local Acts. The above observations are made in the interest of Magistrates generally, and to remind thein that Mr. Kerr's work does not profess to deal with the law as applicable to their summary jurisdiction in general, but simply in so far as that jurisdiction in relation to summary convictions and orders under Dominion Acts, is concerned. No doubt, the author intended to simplify his work, by annotating Acts of the Dominion of general application.
Before concluding this review of so important a work, we consider it to be our duty, and one we wish to exercise impartially, to take exception to Mr. Kerr's annotations on the 5th section of the 32 & 33 Vict., ch. 31, at pages 154 and 155. The section adverted to. is as follows:
"No objection shall be allowed to any information, complaint, or summons, for any alleged defect therein, in substance or in form, or for any variance between such information, complaint or summons, and the evidence adduced on the part of the informant or complainant, at the hearing of such information or complaint; but if any such variance appears to the Justice or Justices present and acting at such hearing to be such, that the person summoned and appearing, has been thereby deceived or misled, such Justice or Justices, may upon such terms as he or they may think fit, adjourn the hearing of the case to a future day."
The objections we have to make to the author's notes on this section are two in number, and have reference to the following annotations. The author first remarks upon the comprehensive nature of this clause, and adds: "In other words, however defective in substance or in form an information, complaint, or summons may be, still that to the two first the defendant must plead to the merits, and to the last urge no objection." We give in italics the objectionable portion, as implying that no plea other than one to the merits, can be urged by a defendant, however defective in substance or in form the information or complaint may be. The question arises, is this the law? Observe, that the clause does not state that no objection shall be made as to substance or to form, but simply that no objection shall be allowed; whilst the 67 sect, of the same Act enacts: "No judgment shall be given in favour of the appellant if the appeal is based on an objection to any information, complaint, or summons, or to any warrant to apprehend a defendant, issued upon any such information, complaint, or summons, for any alleged defect therein in substance or in form, or for any variance between such information, complaint, summons or warrant, and the evidence adduced in support thereof at the hearing of such information or complaint, unless it shall be proved before the Court hearing the appeal that such objection- was made before the Justice or Justices of the Peace before whom the case teas tried, and by whom such correction, judgment, or decision was given," &c.
This latter clause establishes the converse of the rule laid down by the author, that a defendant is precluded from urging any objections in substance or as to form, against the information or complaint, by declaring that no such objections shall avail in appeal, unless it appears that they were made before the Justice upon the hearing of the case. At first sight, the practitioner might imagine that there is a contradiction between thtse two clauses. But mature reflection will lead to the conviction that they are to be reconciled, by due consideration of the powers vested in Justices exercising original jurisdiction, who are prohibited from allowing such objections to prevail, and the Court exercising appellate jurisdiction, which under section 67 of that Act, is vested with an important discretionary power of giving effect to such objections.
The remarks of the author may be consistent with the observations of English authors on the clause of the Imperial Act, from which section 5 is copied; but where we differ from the author is, that he has apparently overlooked the fact, that he will not find in the Imperial Acts any clause similar to section 67. It is essentially Canadian legislation, and a reproduction of our Provincial Act, 18 Vict. ch. 97, sec. 12 subsequently made law in Lower Canada, by chap. 98 of the Consolidated Statutes of Lower Canada.
Our next objection to the author's annotation of sec. 5, is to be found at page 155, where he says: "But now a days it seems to be admitted that the powers of [amendment do not extend to the substitution of one offence for another, or to the dealing with a case under another statute than the one upon which the information was laid."
The inference that might be drawn by Magistrates is, that they possess the power of amending the information, provided one offence be not substituted for another. The authorities quoted by the author do not support any such doctrine, and we must do the author the justice of saying that he does not distinctly affirm that principle. We deem it our duty, however, to remind Magistrates that they must not infer from the remarks of the author, that they possess any such power.
Justices of the Peace possess no such power unless specially conferred upon them by some particular Act. One instance might be mentioned where that power is given. In chap. 6, C. S. L. C. sec. 41, we find that with reference to prosecutions under that Act, the power of amendment before plea to the merits, is specially given. But in no other case, nor by any general law, does such a power exist. No clearer proof is needed of the correctness of our opinion, than the fact that the Dominion Act, by section 68, vests the power of amendment, not in Justices of the Peace but in the Court of appellate jurisdiction, by enacting with reference to convictions and orders that "the Court shall amend the same if necessary, and any conviction or order so affirmed, or affirmed and amended, shall be enforced in the same manner as convictions or orders affirmed in appeal."
This legislation is not new. In England a similar power was vested by 12 & 13 Vict., ch. 45, sec. 7, in the Court of Quarter Sessions appealed to, and in the Court before which the conviction or order might be removed by certiorari. Many defects in informations have been, in England, held to be cured by the defendant appearing and not objecting. But as to the power of Magistrates to allow amendments, we assert that under their commission they possess no such power; that no general law confers such power, and no amendment can be made without the consent of the defendant. In 2 Chitty's General Practice, p. 204, we read: "If the original information was defective, and the defendant upon


For a company to be successful, there are numerous requirements. Other experts will say that the marketing mix needs to be spot on. Or that the marketing strategy needs to be worked on and corrected regularly. Or more market research is needed. So on and so forth. With the rise of management as a field, the number of analysis reports have gone up as well.
Over analysis has affected us so much that managers and owners think 10 times before actually implementing any new plan. However, if you ask my view point, over analysis can be a problem as well. I believe there is one way, and one way only that companies can become successful. Everything else and all other plans and strategies of the company should surround these two words. And the words are BUSINESS EXPANSION.
Businesses exist to make profits. Profits can come from Business expansion. Companies need to manage risk. Risk can be lessened by expansion. Companies need better financial management. Finances can be planned and managed for proper expansion. However, if in today's competitive world, the company shifts its focus from business expansion, it will lose to other companies and competitors swiftly. Imitation is at its prime and every company gets old within a few years. The company has to keep expanding and re inventing itself to stay on top. Thus the focus has to be on business expansion.
I would like to explain the importance of business expansion with some real life examples of companies which were successful due to expanding their business rapidly.
Walmart was successful because of its expansion and economies of scale.
Windows was more successful than apple because of its network marketing and huge distribution.
Amazon and Ebay are still top of the E-commerce business because of the number of products that they offer.
Samsung is top of its smart phone business because of the expansion of product portfolio.
Nokia and Blackberry failed in their businesses because they did not expand properly.
So, the bottom line is, expand to prosper. Do as much analysis, research and development as u want. Or hold back funds, reduce risk and manage working capital. Ultimately there should be a single goal for your company – BUSINESS EXPANSION. Keep your eyes on that goal, and you are sure to succeed.


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Google's Mix-And-Match Project Ara Phone Due In 2017
Jospeh Palenchar ⋅ Published: May 23, 2016
Google's long-awaited modular Project Ara smartphone, announced in 2013 and later postponed, will be available to developers this fall and to consumers sometime in 2017, Google announced Friday at its I/O developers conference.
In a major design shift, the customizable phone will no longer be positioned as a future-proof phone that lets consumers upgrade the processor, cellular radio and other functions. Instead, Google will embed the processor and radio and will let users choose only such hardware features as cameras, speakers, add-on batteries, and third-party modules offering niche features that wouldn't normally be found on high-volume phones.
The company changed the phone's positioning because of user studies showing most consumers don't care about swapping out core functions such as processors and radios, executives said.
The phone will go a step farther than LG's modular premium G5, launched earlier this year, by offering six modular slots instead of one.
The developers' edition will ship with four modules: speaker, camera, E Ink display and expanded memory. But Google envisions niche modules created by third-part developers with such features as glucose meters, pico projectors, wireless car key fobs for keyless car starting, and the like.
Google will certify modules compatible with the phone, which won't be able to run uncertified modules. The company expects to create an online store to sell the modules.
When it becomes available to consumers, a basic version of the phone will cost about the same as premium smartphones and will offer similar performance, company executives said.
The device will be the first phone designed entirely by Google, which in the past has teamed up with companies such as LG and Huawei to build Google Nexus phones and tablets.
Last Wednesday at I/O, Google unveiled its response to the Amazon Echo wireless speaker, updates to its Android Wear OS and its Daydream VR platform, which includes the VR-optimized Android N smartphone OS due in the summer.
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BURG Launches First Smartwatch that's a Phone at Walmart – $199 Dick Tracy-Like Standalone Phone Also Pairs to all iPhones & Android Smartphones
Bosch's Werner Struth, Cisco's John Chambers and Comcast's Neil Smit to Discuss Fast Innovation as part of 2015 International CES Keynote
It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's … Steve Jobs?
OnePlus: My Phone's Better Than Your Phone, Samsung


95% of couples get together due to a simple musical chairs game. You're out there playing, dancing around and suddenly, the music stops, and this is it. You could have been fishing in Alaska, hiking in Nepal, diving near Bali, but you happen to be taking a class on Late Renaissance Philosophy in some college. The clock was ticking, the music stops and there he was.
Ok, the truth is, I have no idea if that's how it is and what the percentage is. For one, if I try to look up anything about dating, I get advertisements, articles promoting "free relationships" and info about archaeology and carbon 14 "dating".
So I made it up – in order to make a point.
How can it be? I am about to build G-d's house! Surely, that's more important than anything!! But not so. No Temple will survive the turmoils of history, but Shabbat will. Shabbat takes precedence and yet, they are closely related.
As has been said elsewhere, the Mishkan, and later the Temple, is in the dimension of space, what Shabbat is in time: a place to enter and connect. If Genesis was the story of a family, the Book of Exodus, which we're now ending, is about building a nation. What is needed in order to build such an entity, and by extension, a couple, a family, or an organization? We say we need a common past; we need a common future; we need a language and culture, but our history shows that all of those might be lost to us every so often. What we need to create and sustain a relationship are tools in the present – things to do together, places to be in, and times to meet.
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95% of couples get together due to a simple musical chairs game?
And where this statistics is coming from?


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Sterling stronger on latest poll
By Erin Harding December 3rd, 2019
Sterling saw a slight drop against the euro yesterday, as recent polls showed the Labour Party to be making gains against the Conservative Party, raising fears of a hung parliament. Poor manufacturing data also showed the sector shrank for the eight month, and factories are cutting jobs at the fastest rate since 2012. The pound is, however, stronger again this morning against the euro and the dollar, as the latest poll released shows a widening Conservative lead.
In the eurozone, manufacturing data came in relatively positively yesterday. The sector is still contracting, but at a slow rate than previous months.
In America, Donald Trump has announced a new wave of tariffs, this time on certain material imports from Argentina and Brazil.
There's so much going on that's completely unpredictable – a new poll or interview could easily cause a surprise movement in the pound, for instance. If you're making a transfer over the next few months, don't leave your business open to this risk. Use a forward contract to lock in the same rate for up to two years, so your money is worth the same. Speak to your Business Trader on 020 7898 0500 first.
GBP: Pound stronger after brief dip yesterday
Sterling dropped slightly against the euro yesterday as the possibility of a hung Parliament began to look more likely. The polls were showing that Conservative Party support was fairly static, whilst the Labour Party appeared to be moving upwards. However, the pound is stronger this morning against the euro and dollar as the latest poll by Kantar shows that the Conservative Party are leading by 12 points.
The pound may also have been affected yesterday by poor manufacturing PMI data, which showed that UK factories are cutting jobs at the fastest rate since 2012. The report found that manufacturing employment shrank for the eighth straight month, suggesting that political and economic uncertainty is having a negative impact. This morning, we await the release of Construction PMI.
The Bank of England will hold their Financial Policy Committee meeting today. In the last meeting, the committee voted to keep interest rates on hold by a majority of seven to two. It was significant that two officials voted for a rate cut and it will be interesting to see if there are any more votes in favour this time. The minutes will be released on the 17th of December.
The Nato summit will also take place in London today, and Boris Johnson is expected to reiterate the importance of Nato staying united amid tensions between members.
EUR: UK election polls put pressure on euro
Euro is down against the pound this morning, as the latest election polls in the UK show a widening lead gap between the Conservatives and Labour. It comes after several more positive days for the euro, making gains on the back of a perceived increase in the probability of a hung parliament in the UK. There was also a group of good manufacturing data releases yesterday morning. Although the eurozone saw its tenth month of contraction in the sector, it was at the slowest rate since August.
Although much political attention is focused on Brexit, there is also growing uncertainty in Germany. The Social Democrat Party surprised observers by electing Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken as the party's leaders, rather than the expected so-called 'continuity candidates', the more centrist Olaf Scholz and Klara Geywitz. As the SDP is in coalition with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, this could signal a change of direction towards the left. If this does not sit well with the conservative CDU, this could well weaken the coalition, which already took months of negotiations to form.
USD: Dollar weaker on poor data and new tariffs
The dollar was strong against the pound but weak against the euro yesterday, as it responded to poor economic data and the latest wave of tariffs.
America's factory output contracted in November for the fourth straight month according to the latest manufacturing PMI report. The figure came in at 48.1, missing expectations of 49.2 and falling from a previous reading of 48.3.
A separate report showed that US construction spending in October also dropped unexpectedly, as investment in private projects tumbled to the lowest level in three years. This has sparked expectations of another interest rate cut next year.
Meanwhile, President Trump has announced a new wave of tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from Brazil and Argentina. This comes as Brazil and Argentina's currencies have depreciated, making their exports to the US more competitive. As well as introducing tariffs, this has also prompted Trump to, once again, urge the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in order to weaken the dollar.


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Anantha means infinite. Lord Vishnu, a Hindu diety, was also known as Anantha.
Massages and stretches the spleen and the liver, promoting detoxification and stimulating the immune system.
Massages the abdominal and reproductive organs through Samana Vayu.
Rest your head on a pillow or on your shoulder, keeping your head in line with the rest of your spine if you have suffered from neck injury.
Begin by lying on your right side with your head resting on your bottom hand.
Lift your left leg overhead and hold onto the back of the hamstring or the back of the knee. If your hamstrings are very flexible, you can place your hand on the sole of your foot.
Activate your legs by lifting your kneecaps and allowing your muscles to embrace the bones of your legs.
Feel an opening in the ribs and liver on the right side of the body.
Enjoy a sense of detoxification as the liver is stretched.
Feel the massage of the pancreas, stomach, and spleen on the left side of the body.
Notice as your immune system stimulated by the massage of the spleen.
Feel the armpits lift up into their domes ever so subtly while you relax the shoulders down over the armpits.
Maintain length in the neck.
Keep the front and the back side of the shoulders equally wide.
Gently release the leg back to the ground.


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Slack to the Future
Austin gets older; 'Slacker' stays forever young
By Marc Savlov, Fri., Jan. 21, 2011
Richard Linklater (l) with cinematographer Lee Daniel during filming in 1989
"Who's ever written a great work about the immense effort required in order not to create?"
– "Dostoyevsky Wannabe," Slacker
Everything can happen in 20 years, or nothing much. In a city like Austin (as if there were any other cities like Austin), the past two decades have witnessed a positively tectonic shift in culture, commerce, art, and identity that has left the once-drowsy Hill Country home of the Texas Longhorns and Charles Whitman, Janis Joplin and the Big Boys, Sound Exchange and Inner Sanctum Records, hugely changed. The skyline, the population, the sheer, overwhelming number of coffee shops and cafes and clubs and their attendant, insistent, midnight 4/4 beat, have all exploded – ferociously, gorgeously so. It's human nature to enshrine the past and lament the loss of imagined innocence, especially when that sunny nostalgia for those salad days is intricately wound into your own artistic inclinations, your own private cultural DNA. And Austin itself is locked in a sweaty and seemingly ceaseless battle between remembering what it was and discovering what it is, and, most importantly, what it wants to be. Two decades is a long time in the life of a city. Anything can happen.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Richard Linklater's Slacker, the best – and maybe the most important – little arthouse film ever to come out of the Lone Star State. (On Jan. 24, the Sundance Institute and its preservation arm, the Sundance Collection, will honor the film with a special screening in Park City, Utah, of a newly struck print.) Slacker was released, officially and nationally, on July 5, 1991, by Orion Classics, after having proved its box office viability (in Austin, anyway) via a run at the now-defunct Dobie Theatre during the summer of 1990.
Filmed in and around West Campus; the Drag; a then-barely breathing, sun-bleached Downtown; and assorted other locations, Linklater's disarmingly nontraditional narrative study of the slow life in the 512 was embraced, almost overnight, as a bellwether of artistic achievement. It gently, teasingly wandered among – or, more accurately, simply trained its omniscient gaze upon – the myriad artists, students, layabouts, conspiracy jonesers, and Austin outcasts young and old before the storm that was the past two decades.
Watching Slacker now, you're struck by just how revolutionary a film it was at the time and how obviously influential it remains. Cinematographer Lee Daniel's camera doesn't so much follow the (often nameless) characters and laconic or loquacious nonevents as flow around them, the way the water at Twin Falls breaks around and reveals or highlights the semisubmerged detritus poking up into the sunlight on a shady summer day. Nothing much happens in Slacker, but – and here's the secret to the film's initial appeal and lasting impact – anything can happen. Watching Slacker from the futuristic vantage point of today, you get the distinct sensation of awesomeness in potentia. Something's coming – something big, maybe – and you can feel it in the restless, caffeine-and-alcohol-fueled dialogue that sprawls out of Captain Quackenbush's, wanders up the Drag to Les Amis, and then tools up to Mount Bonnell, where Linklater's lovely cri de coeur finally, literally, takes flight and tumbles end over end into the unknown, into the future.
Slacker as time capsule. Slacker as cultural alarm clock, forever hitting snooze one last time before Austin-then (population 465,622) yawned, stretched, woke up, devoured one last Mad Dog-and-beans-and-Shiner Bock brunch, and became Austin-now (population 1.8 million). Slacker as American independent filmmaking's closest, truest artistic parallel to Godard's equally untraditional and cinematically electrifying Breathless. You take from it what you want, what you need: inspiration, memories, a deep and abiding sense of weird. It's all there. Just try to bear in mind that "the most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten."
"We had a screening last week here in Austin for cast, crew and friends (about 250) that went great. I knew local audiences would be naturally sympathetic but at the same time critical in there [sic] own way. (Texans aren't used to seeing themselves on the screen as much as LA/NY audiences.) I was a bit nervous at first, but the overwhelmingly positive reaction makes me think once again that SLACKER is a definite crowd-pleaser for a particular niche of the population. I'm enclosing a recent Time magazine article about this "Twentysomething" audience which I would further define as: urban, educated (anyone who made it past their sophomore year in college), and one that typically reads up on movies before they see them. I feel it can also attract a slightly older audience with beatnik or hippie sensibilities – basically anyone in the entire post World War II period that has felt at all marginalized or at odds with their society.
"... I think the film just might exist in that underground/anti world and respectable critical circles at the same time. And in the year of the 50 million dollar budgets, I can already feel people going out of their way to support this $23,000, out-of-left-field, genre and plot denying, first time film (that in reality wants to be liked)."
– Letter from Richard Linklater to John Pierson, July 23, 1990
INT. NEW WORLD CAFE – AUSTIN – PRESENT DAY
Director RICHARD LINKLATER and SLACKER producer's rep/University of Texas lecturer JOHN PIERSON are discussing the importance, influence, and history of the film with THE JOURNALIST.
There had been indie films prior to Slacker. Not a great number, but every couple of years, a UT grad would get together some money and make a movie, usually a horror film or some genre thing. I think Slacker's technical breakthrough was that you could make an indie film and get national distribution as an art film, you know? That's how Slacker was different. It was an art film. It wasn't a genre film, and it wasn't some version of the Texas archetypes. It wasn't Texans being cowboys. I remember being amazed that that would be accepted in New York City. I just didn't think anyone would ever be interested in a film from Texas with an extreme, formal design.
But the design – fluid, flowing – was always there, as part of the initial idea for the film? It works so well because it really mirrors the Austin vibe at that time. Just kind of wandering around, seeing what's up, what's going on ....
That was part of the plan. "We're not going to offer a story but at least we'll offer a comprehensive architecture that you can pass through and not feel completely disoriented." That was kind of the balance of making what makes no sense on paper somewhat audience-friendly.
JOHN PIERSON
There's not a single jump cut, and the passage from one scene to the next is always in a flow. There's not even a cut between scenes.
Richard Linklater (l) and John Pierson in early January (Photo by John Anderson)
The local geography was [inaccurate]. I remember people going to see it that first summer when we opened it ourselves at the Dobie, and it was selling out and everyone was talking about it. They were saying: "They're walking around Sound Exchange and then they walk around the corner and they're at Half Price Books! It doesn't make sense!" I remember trying to explain to some guy on the street that, "If you didn't know Austin, the film makes sense." They're still walking right to left. Syntactically, it works. It was just funny.
It really is like a time capsule of lost Austin. And it was released, oddly enough, in "1991: The Year Punk Broke," according to Dave Markey's music documentary of the same name.
Having lived here 27 years now, I've kind of battled that feeling of nostalgia, but there was really not much happening. You talk about the "Austin movie scene," but I didn't feel like there was much of a scene back then. The Film Society was four years old by the time we'd started shooting Slacker, but it was such a loose film scene. There were a lot of people sitting around wanting to make movies, a lot of film students talking about it, but I felt there was kind of a void there. I think it was a lot like any other town at that time. I'm sure that eventually technology would've come around and helped all that, but back then it was a big deal to make a film on film. That was good and bad. Bad, because it didn't happen much, and good, because when it did happen, it was like, "Wow, you made a film?!" Even if it wasn't very good, it got distribution. It's impossible to speculate where Slacker would fit in the film world of today. But back then it was such a big deal to have made and completed a film. It was such a rarity. And it was so expensive, too, that it just seemed prohibitive. When you talk to someone who's 21 today, they can't really understand just how prohibitive an art form it was.
You had that foundation that was already here, which, of course, you had helped to build.
Yeah, that's the thing. Slacker just sort of plugged into this infrastructure that the Austin Film Society had created. When we screened at the Dobie in the summer of 1990, we did that all ourselves, putting up fliers and treating it like a punk show. The social aspects of it, and a lot of the people who were in the movie, were just around. They were already part of the Austin vibe.
What sort of impact did it have on the Sundance Film Festival?
If you look at the narrative competition at Sundance by 1994, I swear to you 14 to 16 narrative competition films were made for less than $100,000, and some significantly less than $50,000. 1994 is the Clerks year, it's the Spanking the Monkey year, it's the year of What Happened Was ..., it's the year of Hoop Dreams on the doc side, it's Kelly Reichardt's first year. And it never happened like that again. By 1995 other things were happening, but from '91 to '94, I believe you had this sort of absolutely culminating moment on film, mostly 16-millimeter but not always, of the triumph of the under $100,000 film.
So much of Slacker is just a portrayal of this very social, very communal cafe culture that, let's face it, seems to have been supplanted by Austin's pseudo rebirth as a technological hub. You're more likely to hear about the latest conspiracy theories on the Internet or see the latest under $1,000 – or under $100 – digital movies on the Net. Madonna's pap smear would be on eBay today. And if you go to a coffee shop –
– it's people sitting alone with their laptop, yeah. I was sitting in a cafe talking to a friend about that the other day. There were eight other tables with people who were sitting together socially, but they were all focused on their laptops. My friend and I were the only two people actually talking face-to-face.
I can remember sitting at Quackenbush's on the Drag in the Eighties and just batting conversations around from table to table and then out the door and onto and up the Drag.
Oh yeah, of course! It was fun, and that was what the film kind of grew out of. There'd be that guy at Quack's who seemed like a really intelligent, intellectual guy, quoting things ... and then you'd realize, okay, he's some kind of mental patient on a loop, but still, so brilliant. You can't get that on the Internet. There's no place for that guy anymore.
Could you even do a film like Slacker today, with that sense of vital community, given that so much of that community/cafe-style discourse has gravitated to online?
I was thinking about that the other day, and, you know, it would be a different film. Slacker was that kind of film from the generation that was probably the first to have the TV remote. We were the first generation to begin creating our own narratives by watching five minutes of this and then one minute of that and then seven minutes of this. We were also the generation that, as a kid, got dropped off at the multitheatre, where there's eight movies, and you'd watch little bits of all these different films. That was in my head as a narrative possibility. I saw Slacker as you're either channel surfing or you're going in and out of different movies. And that was a really primitive version of what now would be exponentially more complex.
What is Slacker's legacy? To you?
I'm not sure, really, but ... I was always kind of pleased when I had people come up to me and [say] something like, "Hey, you know, seeing that film, it really kind of validated my life." Because it was, really, how a lot of us were living. You didn't have a lot to show for yourself, but you weren't an uninterested, unintelligent person, either. It sort of documented and maybe articulated, in some way, a lifestyle that wasn't unique in itself but had had a long continuum from the Beats and beyond. That kind of got lost in the go-go Eighties and the materialistic culture that sprang from out of that. You may have worked a busboy job but really you were in a band, you were a writer, you were an artist. That's how you defined yourself. And that sort of culture should always be that way, and to a large degree, it probably still is. Then again, I've had some people tell me that whenever they miss Austin, they put on Slacker and it reminds them of what they don't miss about Austin. It's very subjective, obviously.
"There's always something that was really cool and you should've seen it and it was the best thing in the world ... but it's gone, and now it's not here anymore."
– Newman Stribling, former owner of Les Amis, in Nancy Higgins' documentary Viva Les Amis
Say what you will about the fluxing nature of Austin, past and present, and the leapfrogging technological and economic advances that have resulted in a skyline unrecognizable from that which was captured on film in the summer of '89. Things change, sure, and cities shed their skins in favor of new ones periodically. But you could argue that Austin has, in many ways, stayed the same at its artistic, cinema-infused core. There are now more film festivals and more filmmakers and artisans in the city than ever before. Quite possibly the primary reason for that is Richard Linklater's Slacker, which in 1991 broke like punk across the land and set up something of a homing beacon for stray, broke, hopeful artists who (possibly finding Seattle rather crowded at the time) set their sights on the Texas capital and arrived, thrived, and set the stage for yet another wave of cinematic, theatrical, and general artistic creation. It's more difficult than ever to sneeze and not spatter a filmmaker, screenwriter, or actor who is in some small way indebted to Linklater's opening salvo (which itself, it must be said, came slightly over a decade past Eagle Pennell's The Whole Shootin' Match effectively both created the idea of Austin independent filmmaking and, as Robert Redford has stated, provided the impetus for the Sundance Film Festival itself). So there's something of a full circle from Slacker to now, or a maybe the overlapping sphericals of a Venn diagram, their diameters looping into decades. Whichever. Either one will fit perfectly within the borders of a coffeehouse/cafe cocktail napkin or a laptop's screen. Now go make your own film.
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KEYWORDS FOR THIS STORY
Slacker, Richard Linklater, John Pierson, Lee Daniels, Les Amis, Captain Quackenbush's, Madonna's pap smear, Viva Les Amis, Sundance Collection, Eagle Pennell, Spike Mike Slackers & Dykes


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Dana1981 asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 1 decade ago
Will global warming deniers blame the potential global temperature record in 2010 on the Sun?
With the anthropogenic warming signal combining with the current moderate El Nino, there's a pretty good chance 2010 will become the new hottest year on record. It also appears that the next solar cycle may be starting, as there's been a surge in the number of observed sunspots.
http://spaceweather.com/
But as NASA GISS noted back in January '09,
"Because of the large thermal inertia of the ocean, the surface temperature response to the 10-12 year solar cycle lags the irradiance variation by 1-2 years. Thus, relative to the mean, i.e, the hypothetical case in which the sun had a constant average irradiance, actual solar irradiance will continue to provide a negative anomaly for the next 2-3 years."
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2008/
In other words, we're already locked in for a cooling solar effect in 2010 due to the thermal inertia lag. However, reality has never stopped deniers from making ridiculous claims. Several have been predicting cold global temperatures during the 2nd-hottest year on record due to the lack of sunspots. Do you think they'll blame the potentially record-setting heat of 2010 on the start of the next solar cycle?
jim z asks "Do you really believe that humans are responsible for the sunspots?"
No. Do you really believe the moon is made of cheese? I'm pretty sure it's not.
Don't bet on it. The hottest fifteen years were all since 1998, but year to year trends are noisy.
However, if it is, the denialists are ready. We shouldn't worry about warming because of the solar cooling trend, but if it does turn out hot, it's solar warming trend that's responsible.
See December 18 SCIENCE, free download
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/596...
http://www.sciencemag.org/
cgi/content/full/326/5960/1646
Presidential Address:
Reflections On: Our Planet and Its Life, Origins, and Futures
James J. McCarthy
James J. McCarthy is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University
I live within walking distance of the Pacific Ocean, and I have lived here when the alarmists/leftists were proclaiming global cooling. Over 30 years ago they started chanting global warming and predicted that where I live would have a serious rise in ocean levels, flooding lowlands, that would happen within twenty year or less. That was 25 years ago and I'm still waiting. Nothing has changed, not the ocean level, not the water temperature. The state climatologist, George Taylor, exposed the scam, and he is a real scientist, not a politician. The state governor read Taylor's report, and fired him, or tried to. Taylor wasn't politically correct. Also, I studied Earth Science in college as a minor. Also, I'm not new to science; I've spent my live working in Science and Technology. All my friends are scientists or technologists. So, don't repeat Al Gore's lies to me. This climate change hoax runs along leftist political lines, and it is fed by liars and morons. Believe it!
They will blame whatever they thinks makes sense at the time. As I'm sure you're already aware, they already alternately chose to believe that it's been cooling or warming depending on the excuses that they are bringing out to 'prove' their particular argument. And that's just the thing. For some reason, they believe that their uncertainty and inconsistency in understanding what's really going on is proof that there is no proof of AGW. And that of course falls right into any disinformation campaign's intentions.
Deniers will claim that the figures are fudged if it does prove to be a record year, and when they can't claim that, they will 'blame' solar activity, and when they can't claim that, they will claim that it's cooling. and when they can't claim that, they will claim it's a liberal conspiracy to implement the New World Order. It will be business as usual for the deniers no matter what the past data, current conditions or the forecast.
I am not surprised that the AGW religion would use the year that is going to come into new sun spot cycle as the hottest so far. Seeing as real scientists predict that it is going to be a doozy.
It is a pretty good bet but not a certainty so we will have to see.
Will their bet pay off. Ill offer 11/10 that the sun spots for 2010 are going to be in a pretty high range for a calendar year as well as the planet being one of the hottest.
Lets check the correlation between the two at the finish line.
No man it's the damn aliens!
They've been causing volcanic eruptions since the 1850's, they cause sunspots too, and Al Gore is one of them, but even though they've been doing that, the Earth hasn't warmed in the last 10 years.
pegminer
I think it's premature to talk about setting any records in a year that's barely started. If it sets a record it won't prove AGW, if it doesn't set a record it won't disprove it. I would bet against any records being set next year, not because I don't believe in AGW but because you need a significant deviation from the mean to set records, and I don't think the increase in forcing from 1998 to 2010 is so great that it will necessarily overcome the statistical fluctuation that results in a record. I would be much more comfortable taking a bet that the record will be broken in the next 5 or 10 years, or that 2010-2019 will be warmer than 2000-2009. It's hard to judge climate change on a year-to-year basis.
2010 is tomorrow and they are predicted this stuff already. The IPCC must be
changing the numbers already to show a hot spring instead of a cold spring like
Where do they buy their tarot cards?
12 years of CO2 emissions increasing at an increasing rate, and with respect to the temperature record being broken, you're still, like a Cubs fan, saying "wait 'til next year."
You insist that 12 years is a blip.
But then you insist that 20 (late 1970s-late 1990s warming) is a trend?
And you insist that WE have our heads in the sand?
JimZ
2009 is ending with a flurry of sunspots. Indeed, if sunspot 1039 holds together for the rest of today (prediction: it will), the month of December will accumulate a total of 22 spotted days and the final tally for the year will look like this:
Do you really believe that humans are responsible for the sunspots? It probably has more to do with H to He than from CO2.
Frankly I wouldn't count your chickens until they hatch. Even if it is a warm year, it will simply be a continuation of a beneficial trend.
They've blamed it on everything else except for rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases; that they'll blame the sun is a certainty.
Why do liberals get offended that not everyone agrees with them on their doomsday global warming cult?
Is Greta Thunberg the global leader of the special needs people?
More says we only have 4 years to save the Earth. Do you believe him?
Global warming regulars: what are your occupations?
Is is true that politicians want to get rid of all cars in 10 years because they say it pollutes the climate?
Hi, how r u today?
Why are the rich funding climate protests? Weren't the 1960s war/environmental protests grassroots and done by people who really cared?
Why do alarmists say "listen to the science," but then don't listen to the science and get poltical?
What does a tornado sound like?
Massholes use Church Nativity Scene to Make Statement on Climate Chang?


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USB 3.1 cables will see price drops as manufacturers prepare for demand
Vendors could be slower to adopt USB 3.1 due to its cost
Michael Kan (IDG News Service) 02 June, 2015 16:04
USB Type-C adapter cables shown at Computex.
With the PC industry starting to adopt USB 3.1 technology, prices for cables that can connect to these products are also expected to rapidly fall, according to manufacturers.
In March, Apple was among the first to come out with a laptop built with a single USB 3.1 port that used the Type-C connector.
The USB 3.1 standard promises data transfer speeds of 10Gbps (gigabits per second), two times faster than USB 3.0. But given that the technology is still new, prices for USB 3.1 cables with Type-C connectors are hovering between US$24 and $29.
More affordable cables, however, will start to arrive in next year's first half, said Lake Chang, a general manager with Wanshih Electronic, a maker of USB connectors. On Tuesday, the company was showing off its latest USB cables at the Computex trade show in Taipei.
"By next year, the prices could fall to $15," he added.
KaiJet Technology International, another maker of USB connectors at Computex, also expects prices to drop, but sooner and in this year's fourth quarter. The company plans to offer USB 3.1 Type-C cables at $24.99 in July.
Overall, the PC industry is moving to the USB Type-C connector, which does away with the older USB ports in favor of new reversible cables.
But even with Type-C adoption expected to take off this year, some PC vendors might be reluctant to include the faster USB 3.1 standard in some of their newest products.
On Monday, Asus showed an all-in-one, called the Zen AiO, which uses a USB 3.1 Type-C connector. But the Taiwanese vendor also unveiled an Android tablet built with a slower USB 3.0 Type-C port.
The USB 3.1 ports still cost more to manufacture, so vendors may hold off until the technology matures, Chang said. His company is, however, preparing to build USB Type-C adapters and cables for PC vendors, which will be available in the coming months.
"In the second half of this year, we expect to see big demand for Type-C adapters and cable lines," he added.
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