The Executive Board held a conference call this evening following today's meeting with Dwight Duncan, Finance Minister.
About fifteen unions and twelve employer groups attended Duncan's meeting.
Duncan wants you to accept a 0 and 0 % total compensation over two years. Meanwhile he will still allow huge bonuses for managers in the Public Service. A Deputy Minister's bonus is more than the average yearly wage for a Developmental Service or Children's Mental Health worker! Shame on the McGuinty government for interfering in free collective bargaining and demanding public sector workers take it on the chin (or somewhere else) for the corporate sectors indiscretions!
I urge our bargaining teams not to accept these Liberal Government's guidelines. This Liberal Government has the power to legislate, let them do it! Our bargaining teams will stand strong, and OPSEU will take all legal action necessary to fight this governments denial of free collective bargaining.
Bob Rae's social contract legislation worked out well for his government, didn't it!!!!!!!!
Duncan insisted the corporate tax cuts will proceed! Shame – allowing the corporate fat cats to continue to reap huge bonuses, when they were the ones who plunged us into recession!
He spoke for a total of eleven minutes and turned the meeting over to a Deputy Minister who quoted many statistics. That is what 1,000,000,000 public sector workers are worth to the finance minister, eleven minutes of his time!
Duncan requested that OPSEU meet with him August 9, 2010. The date has not been agreed to. When the date is confirmed, Brother Thomas, Sister Rout and Brother Franche will attend this meeting.
I urge our staff negotiators and bargaining teams to bargain the member's demands and not accept the Liberal guidelines!
Please see a cartoon, articles and the OPSEU Press Release below. I believe you will enjoy reading the first article.
The 2007-8 financial crash was, in terms of its global impact, the greatest in history. It was only prevented from immediately triggering another Great Depression by governments in so many countries taking on the enormous private debt of their banks.
Nevertheless, the economic fallout was immense. Even while tax revenues fell as businesses closed and workers were laid off, many governments felt compelled to maintain their spending. Looking for safety in numbers, the G20 (an entirely marginal group until George W. Bush convened it in late 2008) proved useful to coordinate a global stimulus.
Two years later, with the banks having dumped so much debt on the public sector and their profits on the rise, bond traders were feeling confident enough again to dispense the bankers' old orthodoxies on the evils of public debt.
Even though the growth in state deficits was directly the product of bailing out the banks, the loss of revenue and the emergency spending, governments were expected to shift their policy priorities to public sector austerity. The G20 was reconvened in Toronto to reassure financial markets that they heard the message.
All this serves as a better definition of chutzpah than the old joke about the kid who, after killing his parents, begs the judge for clemency on the grounds he is an orphan.
The hammer is about to hit right here in Ontario.
Despite the relative insulation of Bay Street from the financial collapse, the provincial economy took a major hit. With its deficit projected at $21.3 billion, the Liberal government's March budget focused almost entirely on debt reduction. Apart from putting on hold essential public transit expansion and reducing food assistance for the disabled (while keeping corporate tax cuts in place), it also imposed a two-year wage freeze on 350,000 non-unionized government workers.
This week, even though data on first quarter economic growth has shown the deficit projections were too high, the other shoe dropped. Finance Minister Dwight Duncan summoned public sector union representatives to Queen's Park to discuss a broader public sector freeze.
If implemented, the immediate effect of this can only be to cut the feet from under the economic growth that has occurred. Rather than cooperate in this, it is very much to be hoped that the unions will undertake a broad campaign to expose how unreasonable and irrational, let alone unimaginative and unjust, is public sector austerity in this crisis.
The possibility that the worst is not over, and we could yet face a long stagnation if not a global depression, does indeed make it incumbent on the Ontario government, like every other, to take the crisis very seriously indeed.
Its effect on government revenues is the real immediate problem, and since we are dealing with a crisis of once-in-a-life-time dimensions, the remedy should be an emergency once-in-a-life time emergency tax on those who accumulated the most wealth over the past quarter century from asset inflation while workers' incomes stagnated in both the public and private sectors.
The Ontario government should also be expected to take advantage of the lowest interest rates on public debt in memory and use its borrowing capacity to keep economic growth going in the face of the banks' hesitancy to lend to businesses and consumers, alongside industry's own reluctance to invest.
One would have thought that a government of a liberal stripe that was at all creative might want in this context to emulate Franklin Roosevelt and undertake the rebuilding of our public infrastructure through direct expansion of public employment.
This is all the more important given the demands of the environmental crisis and the closure of plants and waste of skills that could be converted and applied to productive use.
Rather than freezing the public sector, this moment should be an opportunity to address the crisis in the transportation sector that is so vital to Ontario's whole economy, as measured not only in auto industry shutdowns and layoffs but in notorious traffic congestion on our roads.
This would mean converting auto assembly and parts plants to the production of energy efficient mass transit vehicles and using the tax revenues from the jobs generated thereby to fund free public transit. If there was ever a time to use Ontario's capacity to raise funds in bond markets for this, it is now. Far from placing a burden on future generations, it would guarantee them a future.
Of course, one would expect a union campaign to set out a vision for what a more radical government would do. This crisis has proved — by the state's guarantee of deposits in Canada, and by its acting as lender of last resort almost everywhere — that finance effectively is a public utility. The argument that financing an economy is too important to be left to private banks is waiting to be heard.
What must be brought onto the agenda in face of the pressures that unelected bankers, with astonishing chutzpah, are putting on governments is the need for banking to be turned into a democratic public utility.
The money the people of Ontario entrust to their banking system could then be used to meet our society's real needs.
Leo Panitch is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Sam Gindin is the Packer Chair in Social Justice at York University. Their recent book, with Greg Albo, In and Out of Crisis, is available in Canada from Fernwood Books.
Ontario union leaders and other officials will sit down with Finance Minister Dwight Duncan on Tuesday to discuss a possible wage freeze for more than one million workers.
Duncan is faced with a $21 billion deficit and has already said some public-sector workers — bureaucrats, teachers and nurses — will face wages freezes when their collective agreements expire.
Now it appears Duncan wants to extend the freeze throughout the Ontario civil service.
Not only would 700,000 unionized workers face a wage freeze, but 350,000 managers would as well.
Union representatives don't appear ready to accept a freeze, saying the employees aren't responsible for the budget problem.
"The shortfall was never caused by people's wages," said Fred Hahn, president of CUPE Ontario, which represents 230,000 workers.
"The shortfall was caused by a global economic meltdown that workers in the province had nothing to do with,"
Hahn said his members have been anxious ever since Duncan hinted in his March budget that wage freezes might be coming.
"Why don't we have a bigger discussion about how do we invest to create jobs, get people back to work in various parts of the province?" Hahn asked.
Smokey Thomas, president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, has cut his vacation short to attend the meeting with Duncan. He said his 130,000 members would not accept a freeze.
Duncan has put the employees in a position where "our answer has got to be, 'No,'" he said.
Thomas said many of his members are part-time workers who would be disproportionately hurt by any wage freeze.
"I mean if you are only making $20,000 a year, a two per cent raise isn't much, but it certainly helps."
As many as 750 contracts would be affected.
Union leaders say they will listen to what Duncan has to say but they don't expect any decisions to come out of the two-hour meeting.
The government estimates it could save $750 million by next year if the wage freeze comes into effect.
Dwight Duncan, Ontario's Minister of Finance, is expected to send a blunt message to representatives of more than a million public-sector employees and managers gathered at a downtown Toronto hotel today: When it comes to wage hikes, provincial coffers are empty.
The spectre of a wage-and-benefit freeze for the public sector, which will affect nurses, teachers, police officers and bureaucrats, was first raised in March when Mr. Duncan warned in his budget that there would be "no net increase in compensation" for a period of two years in future collective agreements.
Faced with a $20-billion deficit this year, Mr. Duncan will use today's meeting with about 60 union leaders and management representatives at the Eaton Centre Marriott Hotel to outline his plans to contain public-sector salaries and wages, which currently make up more than half of all provincial expenditures.
"We're not ripping open collective agreements, but we do expect everybody to play a role," said a senior government source. "We've got a timeline to cut the deficit in five years and balance the budget in seven. You can't do that without addressing salaries."
The freeze would affect more than 700,000 unionized and 350,000 non-unionized employees and managers, and could last until 2014, since some current collective agreements do not expire for another two years.
"Regardless of whether an existing contract expires today, tomorrow or next year, the same mandate from the budget will apply, which is essentially a two-year freeze," said the source, adding that the freeze would allow $750-million to be redirected from salaries to front-line services next year alone.
Today's meeting comes just one week after the Liberal government abandoned its controversial "Supercorp"
initiative to merge four of the province's largest Crown corporations before selling off a chunk to raise money.
The plan would likely have seen the merging of Ontario Power Generation, Hydro One, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario into a $75-billion corporation, of which 20% would have been sold to investors. The approximately $15-billion in proceeds from the sale was to have been used to reduce the provincial debt and fund other Liberal campaign promises.
The plan was widely derided by labour leaders, who feared the consolidation would result in job losses, as well as the elimination of long-term revenue streams.
The failure of Supercorp leaves the government with one fewer option to raise cash and cut costs, leading some to believe Mr. Duncan will take a harder stance on restraining public-sector wages.
Details on how the freeze will unfold are scarce, but that hasn't stopped opposition parties and some of Ontario's most powerful unions from weighing in.
"We should be having a broader discussion on the economy, rather than wage constraints," said Fred Hahn, Ontario president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). "What do wage constraints do? They depress consumer spending because they take money out of the economy and that slows down economic growth."
Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak was more guarded in his comments, saying he has been calling for a meeting between the Liberal government and union leaders "to find ways to work towards a wage freeze or to try to find savings in the civil service" since the spring of 2009.
"We need to live within our means and when we face a $19-billion deficit, we have to ensure funding is going to front-line services, not unaccountable bureaucracies," he told reporters yesterday at Queen's Park.
NDP leader Andrea Horwath warned that Mr. Duncan will likely experience some pushback from union leaders today, in light of recent corporate tax cuts and controversy surrounding "out-of-control salaries" for public-sector chief executives.
TORONTO – Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan's plan to cut the province's budget deficit fails three key tests, the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says.
Thomas and other labour leaders met with Duncan today in Toronto to discuss deficit reduction plans, but the Minister announced nothing that was not already contained in the March 25 Ontario Budget. He hinted at further meetings with unions later this summer.
The government's austerity plan, which is intended to cut public sector salaries by the rate of inflation, is not fair to public employees who did nothing to create the economic crisis that caused the deficit, Thomas said.
The Minister has no plan to protect public services from deficit-cutting, Thomas added, noting that hundreds of layoffs are planned in the Ontario Public Service alone and hundreds more are happening in hospitals. Vital social services have been in crisis for more than a decade, he added.
Cutting public sector wages will harm the economic recovery at a critical time, Thomas said.
OPSEU is in favour of dialogue with the government, Thomas said, but any dialogue must respect the rules of free collective bargaining.


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Oxford COVID-19 vaccine programme opens for clinical trial recruitment
University of Oxford researchers working in an unprecedented vaccine development effort to prevent COVID-19 have started screening healthy volunteers (aged 18-55) today for their upcoming ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine trial in the Thames Valley Region. The vaccine based on an adenovirus vaccine vector and the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is already in production but won't be ready for some weeks still.
Our vaccine work is progressing quickly. To ensure you have the latest information or to find out more about the trial, please check our latest COVID-19 research news or visit the COVID-19 trial website.
The team will enrol healthy volunteers aged between 18 – 55, who, if they pass screening, will be the first humans to test the new vaccine, called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19. The trial will provide valuable information on the safety aspects of the vaccine, as well as its ability to generate an immune response against the virus. Interested individuals can volunteer to participate on the COVID-19 vaccine website.
The trial, a collaboration between the University's Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group clinical teams, will recruit up to 510 volunteers, who will receive either the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine or a control injection for comparison. Whilst the team will start screening people now to see if they are eligible to take part in the study, participants will not receive the vaccine for some weeks. Detailed preclinical work is being done and the vaccine is being manufactured to clinical grade standard at the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at Oxford University. The trial has been approved by UK regulators and ethical reviewers. Researchers are working as quickly as possible to get the vaccine ready to be used in the trial, which includes further preclinical investigations and production of a larger number of doses of the vaccine.
Professor Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford, said, 'The Oxford team had exceptional experience of a rapid vaccine response, such as to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014. This is an even greater challenge. Vaccines are being designed from scratch and progressed at an unprecedented rate. The upcoming trial will be critical for assessing the feasibility of vaccination against COVID-19 and could lead to early deployment.'
Professor Andrew Pollard, Chief Investigator on the study, said, 'Starting the clinical trials is the first step in the efforts to find out whether the new vaccine being developed at Oxford University works and could safely play a central role in controlling the pandemic coronavirus that is sweeping the globe.'
Scientists around the world are working hard to develop a vaccine to prevent COVID-19, but there is a lot to be done. The Oxford team led by Professor Sarah Gilbert, Professor Andrew Pollard, Professor Teresa Lambe, Dr Sandy Douglas and Professor Adrian Hill started work designing a vaccine on Friday 10th January 2020.
The vaccine is an adenovirus vaccine vector (ChAdOx1) and was developed at Oxford's Jenner Institute. It was chosen as the most suitable vaccine technology for a SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) vaccine as it can generate a strong immune response from one dose and it is not a replicating virus, so it cannot cause an ongoing infection in the vaccinated individual. This also makes it safer to give to children, the elderly and anyone with a pre-existing condition such as diabetes. Adenoviral vectors are a very well-studied vaccine type, having been used safely in thousands of subjects, from 1 week to 90 years of age, in vaccines targeting over 10 different diseases.
Coronaviruses have club-shaped spikes on their outer coats. Immune responses from other coronavirus studies suggest that these are a good target for a vaccine. The Oxford vaccine contains the genetic sequence of this surface spike protein inside the ChAdOx1 construct. After vaccination, the surface spike protein of the coronavirus is produced, which primes the immune system to attack the coronavirus if it later infects the body. Professor Gilbert and team have previously developed a vaccine for another human coronavirus disease, which is Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and this has shown promise in early clinical trials.
Professor Gilbert, lead researcher of the vaccine development programme, said, 'Since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, my research team has been working on new approaches to vaccine development to protect the population of the world against an outbreak of infectious disease or a pandemic. We are now working with a much larger team to bring these plans to fruition.'
At the same time as conducting the first clinical trial, production of the vaccine is being scaled up ready for larger trials, and potentially, future deployment. By starting vaccine manufacturing scale-up immediately, the team can ensure that enough vaccine doses are available as soon as possible – especially for NHS workers, the elderly, and those with underlying health conditions – if the trials prove that the vaccine is safe and effective.
Dr Sandy Douglas, who is leading on the vaccine manufacturing scale-up project, said, 'The scale of this epidemic poses a huge challenge for vaccine manufacturing. We need to follow rigorous safety standards and that takes time. By starting work on large-scale manufacturing immediately, we hope to accelerate the availability of high quality, safe vaccine.'
Professor Teresa Lambe leading the early stages of our vaccine development said, 'The commitment, compassion and helpfulness felt throughout the whole effort from everyone we have been working with has been amazing. We deeply appreciate the support of all our collaborators, funders and the teams around us in getting to this stage with the speed we have.'
We received a high volume of applications and are not accepting any more at this moment. Please do keep checking our website, https://covid19vaccinetrial.co.uk, for future COVID-19 vaccine studies.
Preclinical work on the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine is being conducted in collaboration with our partners: Rocky Mountain Laboratories (NIH/NIAID); The 'CSIROxbridge Consortium'; Public Health England; The Pirbright Institute; Professor Dr. Stephen Becker at the Institut für Virologie, Philipps‐Universität Marburg. Manufacturing is being conducted in collaboration with Prof Cath Green and the University of Oxford Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility, the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (Oxford), Advent Srl (Italy), Pall Biotech (Portsmouth), Cobra Biologics (Staffordshire), and Halix BV (Netherlands).
This study is a collaborative project which would not have been possible without the support of our partners. This work receives funding from the rapid research response funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and by the Department of Health and Social Care through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR have also provided funding for the set-up of the project through the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The study has received funding from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) as part of an urgent call to expand the number of COVID-19 vaccine candidates in development. Funding has also been received from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) Innovation Fund for Medical Science (CIFMS). The 'CSIROxbridge Consortium' (Principal Investigator Professor S. S. Vasan) is led by Australia's science agency CSIRO for 'High Containment Studies to Support Product Development' for CEPI.
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Franklin and Winston
By Jon Meacham
Genre: United States
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The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.
Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations—yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR's affections—which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides—and Winston Churchill.
Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history.
Meacham's new sources—including unpublished letters of FDR' s great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill's joint company—shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle.
Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.
French phrases should always be translated and shown in brackets as was done in The Last Lion. Suggest you adopt this as a policy in your publications. R. Ronald Calkins, Indianapolis.
History on a personal level
By DDundon
Franklin and Winston is a wonderful attempt to tell the story of WWII through the eyes of two men and their wives. It's interesting to learn how much the two men at once had great affection for one another and other times were engaged in deceit and deception. One comes away with the feeling that had two different men been in these powerful positions at the time the outcome of the war could have been quite different.
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Know what you mow - wild or cultivated, common or not-so-common. Here is a wonderfully clear, concise guide to over 370 species of grasses, rushes and sedges of the United States Each entry includes the common and botanical name of the species -its habitat, height, color, description and a line drawing of plant and spikelet. A book for the mower, the grower, the amateur botanist, or anyone who simply wants to know the grasses.


Following surgery, the ears may throb or ache a little for a few days, but this can be relieved by medication. Stitches are usually removed, or will dissolve, in about a week. You will also wear an elastic headband for two to four weeks after surgery.


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High Speed Police Chase Takes Surprising Turn
We sat through this whole thing video of a high-speed police pursuit in Inglewood, Calif., waiting for something horrible to happen, because it's the internet. Magically, nothing horrible does happen. We aren't going to give away the surprise ending...
Heads Up! Watch a Low-Hanging Bridge Defeat Numerous Trucks
Unless you're driving a truck or bus, you can pretty much ignore the signs which warn how tall upcoming bridges are. But it turns out that many truck drivers also ignore these signs, and as you'll see in this video compilation, they often pay a price for it!
Man Reunited With Car Two Years After Forgetting Where He Parked It
Forgetting where you parked your car always gives you a sinking feeling. However, it may have been for the best that this German man lost track of where he'd left his vehicle in December of 2010...
Dad and Son Trick Out a Lightning McQueen Powerwheel
When five-year-old Evan wore the wheels on his Lightning McQueen Powerwheel down to plastic nubbins, his dad saw an opportunity for a father/son project. This video shows how they slicked up the tiny car with features like "an aluminum back half chassis, dual sealed gel batteries with an output of 24 volts, a 500 watt .66 horsepower electric motor, disk brake, throttle modulated variable sp
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Russian Driver Gets the Ultimate Road Rage Revenge
At one point or another, we've all encountered a rude driver who refuses to yield the road. Well, in this video, a motorist in Russia gets sweet revenge after another car inconsiderately prevents him from merging. It's the most diabolically calculated and satisfying example of road rage payback we've ever seen.
Go for a Ride in a Formula One Race Car Without Leaving Your Living Room
Going for a ride in a high performance race car might look like a blast, but it's quite dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. These are powerful, fuel injected vehicles that respond to the slightest movements and reactions. One slight turn or brake can mean the different between setting a world record for the fastest lap on the Circuits of the Americas or the most compound fractures susta
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10 Funny Photos of Cars Stuck In Swimming Pools
There's one place that cars definitely do not belong, and that is a swimming pool. As swimming pools are rarely sitting in the middle of the road, it takes extreme circumstances for a car to fall in, which is why the following pictures are utterly ridiculous, a little pathetic and definitely hilarious.
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eBay Reunites a Man With His Long-Lost Stolen Car of 42 Years
It was 1970 when a thief stole Robert Russell's 1967 Austin Healey from in front of his Philadelphia home. Even as the decades came and went, Russell never gave up hope of getting back his cherished vehicle. Then, after a recent bout of insomnia, Russell took to eBay and started searching for the sports car.
Watch Time-Lapse Video of an Engine Being Stripped
The first thought that comes to us watching this is: "This guy had a lot of time on his hands!" But what came out of it was actually something fascinating, a two minute video of him fully stripping an engine he purchased from eBay in order to replace his old one. It's a collection of snaps that represent the process.
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It's the bane of driver's ed classes and people with bad spatial relations across the world: parallel parking. And nothing's worse than a tiny spot that you can barely fit into, making a thousand-point turn to wiggle your car in. Unless you're Chinese stunt driver Han Yue, then you just spin into the spot and walk away, probably with a metal solo playing in the background.


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UNICS Puts CSKA Away, Sets Sights On 1st Place
UNICS Kazan defeated CSKA Moscow on the road, 83-73 (17-19, 24-12, 15-23, 27-19).
CSKA: Nando De Colo (20), Sergio Rodriguez (11), Kyle Hines (9 + 7 reb)
UNICS: Jamar Smith (15), Maurice Ndour (13 + 5 reb), Melvin Ejim (13 + 7 reb), Raymar Morgan (10)
UNICS swept the defending champions, closing the game on a 12-2 run, and now controls its own destiny in the race for the regular season title.
Kazan had not won in Moscow since 2011, but a win over CSKA at home in February instilled confidence and the visitors blazed to a 41-31 lead at halftime.
With plenty of time to prepare after being eliminated from the EuroCup, UNICS harried the home team into 3-14 shooting from beyond the arc in the first half.
Trailing by as much as a dozen early in the 3rd quarter, CSKA battled back with a pair of Sergio Rodriguez 3-pointers late in the period that cut the deficit to (54-50), before Ivan Ukhov added a layup that forced Dimitris Priftis to call a timeout.
Trailing by two entering the 4th quarter, the Army Men eventually regained the lead on a Daniel Hackett jumper (69-67) and looked likely to close out a victory at home.
But UNICS would not let a rare opportunity to sweep CSKA slip away. After trading baskets over the next two minutes, Kazan's Melvin Ejim scored five quick points to put the visitors on top, 76-71, including a clutch triple after a Nando De Colo turnover.
Maurice Ndour added two more points to stretch the UNICS lead to seven and CSKA never got closer than five down the stretch, dropping its first game of the season at home.
CSKA still leads UNICS by two wins in the standings (19-4 vs. 17-4), but the Tatar club can guarantee 1st place by winning its final five games, given the superior head-to-head record with Moscow.
1 – UNICS won the season series with CSKA (2-0) for the first time and now holds the head-to-head tiebreaker. If the two teams finish tied at the end of the season, Kazan will have the higher seed in the playoffs.
Melvin Ejim. The forward was very productive for the visitors with 13 points and seven rebounds. He also had two big baskets down the stretch which gave UNICS the lead for good.
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CSKA head coach Dimitris Itoudis: "Congratulations to UNICS. Our opponent deserved to win. They were the better team today. We tried to battle, but played below our potential. We didn't let UNICS pull away at the end. Our opponent seized the win by hitting some big shots."
UNICS head coach Dimitris Priftis: "Congratulations to my team. I'm happy with how we played today. We have injuries, but the entire team fought. They played great and controlled the game, except for a few stretches when we gave up stupid baskets. I want to dedicate this win to our president Evgeny Bogachev. I don't know what happened in the situation with Ponkrashov. Sometimes you need a little spark to make a flame."


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What is the corporate income tax rate in Oman?
The corporate income tax rate in Oman is 15%.
What are the prerequisites to start an LLC company in Oman?
To start an LLC company in Oman, at least 2 shareholders, 1 director and a minimum share capital of OR 150,000 is required.
How long does it take to form a company in Oman?
If all documents and other prerequisites are in order, company formation in Oman takes about 8 to 10 days.
If the taxpayer needs a tax clearance certificate, whom should they contact in Oman?
A taxpayer can contact the Department of Taxpayers Services to obtain a tax clearance certificate in Oman.
What are the consequences of failure to pay tax within the due date in Oman?
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A New Office, a New Chapter for TBC-World
0 comments Setting up operations in India, Business Promotion
After four fruitful years in an office located in Ulsoor, TBC-World Group moved to its latest location in the bustling and cosmopolitan locality of Indiranagar in East Bangalore. A three storied, spacious building, with ample sunlight and greenery just across the glass walls was picked. The open-office plan lends a great working energy, as both the Gaja Digital Agency team and ...
Greenberg TreeHouse Gets a Palmex Thatch Roof
On the 28 of July, Palmex, eco-friendly thatch roof solutions headquartered in Canada, completed its first corporate project in India. The client was the Greenberg Resorts located in the picturesque and pristine hills of the Western Ghats in Idukki, Kerala. A place far from the maddening crowd, lush with tea plantations, meadows, and trees, dotted with waterbodies. Its serenity ...
Gujarat attracts the largest Canadian Delegation to India
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Canada will be one of the partner countries in the next Vibrant Gujarat Summit and has committed to showing up with the largest number of Canadian Delegates so far to India. Canada's High Commissioner to India Nadir Patel announced his pleasure to be part of the biennial event that is to be held in January 2017. Patel made the announcement after a meeting with the chief Minist ...
Handmade in India: Reviving the Indian Handloom Industry
India's textile minister, Smriti Irani recently took to social media to launch the "IWearHandloom" campaign. This was in a run to India's second Handloom Day celebrations on August 7. Her efforts to create a buzz around handwoven fabrics of India were met with unprecedented social media support. Celebrities and lay people alike tweeted pictures of themselves wearing handloom cl ...
Time for Indian Online Retailers to Reinvent
Indian online retailers have been wooing customers, for years, with their attractive deep discounts and predatory pricing. On April 1st, however, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) in India restricted the freedom of ecommerce companies to offer discounts to buyers. Earlier this year, the government banned etailers from offering any discounts or cash back ...
India Finds Myriad Uses for Drones
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones have seen multiple uses in various sectors across the globe including military, goods delivery, surveillance, conservation etc. Their compact sizes, reach and convenience in handling means they can be tailored to be valuable resources in many sectors. In India too, UAVs are beginning to be used in diverse fields in areas where their acc ...
GST Tax Reform Will Make the Manufacturing Industry More Competitive
In a major step towards unified tax system to stimulate the economic activity in India and contribute to the ease of doing business, Indian Parliament recently cleared a landmark tax reform bill, the Goods and Services Tax Bill or GST Bill that will pave the way for a new national sales tax and the creation of a common market across the country for the first time. Under the pro ...
In its latest move to make the export process faster and easier, Indian government has introduced a welcoming change in its export policy. From January 1st 2017, a so-called self-certification system by exporters will come into force. The registered exporter system (REX) will replace the certificate of origin which is issued by accreditation agencies. Using this system, exporte ...
How France is Helping India Build Smart Cities
India's cities are swelling and getting bigger than ever before at an unstoppable pace. The country's urban growth in the last two decades has been rising. Nearly 50% of India's population will live in its cities by 2050. Urban India is predicted to have 70 per cent of all jobs and be home to 590 million people by 2030. Given this relentless growth and migration towards urba ...
Solar Power in India has Brighter Days Ahead
India enjoys 300 days of sunshine in a year and seems to be pacing faster than ever towards its commitment of improving solar energy generation.A boost to India's plans to make the best of its sunshine has been its recent agreement with the World Bank Group. The country will receive $1 billion to take forward its plans in solar power generation. Last year, India and France laun ...


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Q: AKS Query issue, Disk io per disk per node Facing issue while setting alert   to aks pod for disk read per second per node.
**InsightsMetrics
| where Namespace == 'container.azm.ms/diskio'
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| where Name == 'reads'
| extend Tags = todynamic(Tags)
| extend HostName = tostring(Tags.hostName), Device = Tags.name
| extend NodeDisk = strcat(Device, "/", HostName)
| order by NodeDisk asc, TimeGenerated asc
| serialize
| extend PrevVal = iif(prev(NodeDisk) != NodeDisk, 0.0, prev(Val)), PrevTimeGenerated = iif(prev(NodeDisk) != NodeDisk, datetime(null), prev(TimeGenerated))
| where isnotnull(PrevTimeGenerated) and PrevTimeGenerated != TimeGenerated
| extend Rate = iif(PrevVal > Val, Val / (datetime_diff('Second', TimeGenerated, PrevTimeGenerated) * 1), iif(PrevVal == Val, 0.0, (Val - PrevVal) / (datetime_diff('Second', TimeGenerated, PrevTimeGenerated) * 1)))
| where isnotnull(Rate)
| project TimeGenerated, NodeDisk, Rate
| render timechart**

Kinldy help

A: Doing it this way helped me create an alert successfully:

*

*Navigate to: Azure Portal > Kubernetes Services > {your cluster} > Logs

*Paste the query in the query editor

*Click on + New alert rule

*Configure other details (Condition, Action etc.) and create the alert

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Q: I want to Switch Time scrubber to do 15 min intervals Please Suggest me i want to go in 15 minute intervals.
ex: 4:00, 4:15, 4:30, 4:45 and so next.
 @IBAction func sliderMoved(sender: UISlider) {

       let slot = Double(sender.value)
       let slotDate = self.timeFromSlot(slot)

       print(timeFormatter.stringFromDate(slotDate!))
    }

    private func timeFromSlot(slot:Double) -> NSDate? {

        let cal = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
        let unit:NSCalendarUnit = [.Year, .Month, .Day, .Hour, .Minute, .Second]
        let comps = cal.components(unit, fromDate: NSDate())
        comps.hour = Int((slot % (24 * 3600)) / 3600)
        comps.minute = Int(slot % 3600 / 60)
        comps.second = 0

        let startedDate = cal.dateFromComponents(comps)!

        return startedDate
    }

I have sliderMoved that starting point is 8:00 AM and end point 9:00 PM i have set slider min value 28,800 and max value 75,600, When i slide the slider the value is change with my timeFromSlot method and the changed value i got in between 8:01 8:02 8:03.. and i want changed value 8:00 8:15 8:30 like this.

A: For you case, it's better to use some portions scaling. try this code below. I believe it's pretty straightforward.
import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var slider: UISlider!
    @IBOutlet weak var label: UILabel!

    let ticksCount: Float = 13*4 // 15mins intervals count from 8am till 9pm
    let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
    let todayDate = NSDate()

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        slider.minimumValue = 0
        slider.maximumValue = ticksCount
    }

    @IBAction func onValueChanged(slider: UISlider) {

        let minutesFromDayStart = 8 * 60 + Int(slider.value) * 15 // total minutes from day start, assuming we use intervals from 8am
        let timeSlotDate = dateWithTimeSlotForDate(todayDate, minutesFromDayStart: minutesFromDayStart)
        showDate(timeSlotDate)
    }

    private func showDate(date: NSDate) {
        let df = NSDateFormatter()
        df.dateStyle = .MediumStyle
        df.timeStyle = .MediumStyle

        label.text = df.stringFromDate(date)
    }

    private func dateWithTimeSlotForDate(date: NSDate, minutesFromDayStart: Int) -> NSDate {

        let dayStart = dayStartDateForDate(date)
        return calendar.dateByAddingUnit(.Minute, value: minutesFromDayStart, toDate: dayStart, options: NSCalendarOptions(rawValue: 0))!
    }

    private func dayStartDateForDate(date: NSDate) -> NSDate {
        return calendar.startOfDayForDate(date)
    }
}

A: It should be something like
  yourSlider.continuous = false

 @IBAction func sliderMoved(sender: UISlider) {

   let slot = Double(sender.value)
   let slotDate = self.timeFromSlot(slot)

   print(timeFormatter.stringFromDate(slotDate!))

   if (sender.value >= 28800 && sender.value < your next interval 1) {
       sender.value  = 28800
   } else if (sender.value >= your next interval 1 && sender.value < your next interval 2) {
       sender.value = your next interval 1
   } else if ....

}


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Attorney presents lecture on Montana stream access law
Montana stream access law helps thousands access public waterways
BOZEMAN — Bozeman attorney Jim Goetz will deliver a lecture, "The Waters Belong to Everyone: The Montana Stream Access Cases," at 7 p.m. April 7, at the Rialto in downtown Bozeman.
The event is part of the Montana State University Library's annual Trout Lecture and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.Goetz has litigated a variety of environmental cases over the years, including two seminal Montana stream access cases in the mid-1980s.
He was also instrumental in passing Montana's Stream Access Law, which protects public recreational use of Montana's rivers and streams. During the lecture, Goetz is expected to share information about key stream access cases, as well as information about the Montana Stream Access Law; later developments in stream access law; as well as tales of fishing on the Madison River and in the Tobacco Roots as a child.
"Mark Twain's famous aphorism, 'Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting,' aptly describes our epic fight for stream access in Montana," Goetz said.
Goetz grew up in Ennis and has a bachelor's degree in history from MSU and a law degree from Yale Law School. He founded a law firm in Bozeman, Goetz, Baldwin and Geddes, in 1972.Through the annual lecture, the library strives to address all aspects of trout and salmonids and to represent the diversity of angling culture.Event registration is available at https://www.montana.edu/calendar/events/31996. Individuals may also register by calling Ann Vinciguerra at 406-994-6857.Questions about the lecture may be directed to MSU Special Collections Librarian Jim Thull at jjthull@montana.edu or 406-994-5305.
For information on the MSU Library's Trout and Salmonid Collection, visit lib.montana.edu/trout/
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Q: Switch password visibility I am trying to hide password using this, but it is not working
 suffixIcon: IconButton(
                  onPressed: () {
                    controller.hidePassword.value =
                        !controller.hidePassword.value;
                  },
                  color: Theme.of(context).focusColor,
                  icon: Icon(controller.hidePassword.value
                      ? Icons.visibility_off_outlined
                      : Icons.visibility_outlined),
                ),

A: You can simply create a bool _showPassword to handle password visibility.
Then use TextFiled inside StatefullWidget and use setState to have change effect on UI.
TextField(
              obscureText: _showPassword,
              decoration: InputDecoration(
                suffixIcon: IconButton(
                  onPressed: () {
                    setState(() {
                      _showPassword = !_showPassword;
                    });
                  },
                  color: Theme.of(context).focusColor,
                  icon: Icon(
                    _showPassword
                        ? Icons.visibility_off_outlined
                        : Icons.visibility_outlined,
                  ),
                ),
              ),
            ),


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Q: Jenkins Windows slave: No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE rather than a JDK I just setup a new jenkins slave which is running Windows server 2012. I already installed jdk-8u221-windows-x64 and set Java_home, Path like below
C:\Users\Administrator>echo %JAVA_HOME%
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_221\

C:\Users\Administrator>echo %PATH%
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows\system32;C:\
Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\
Program Files\Amazon\cfn-bootstrap\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Ja
va\jdk1.8.0_221\\bin;C:\maven\bin;C:\maven\bin

However,build job running in this slave always complain that:

No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE rather than a JDK

Any idea of what might be causing this?
Update Sep 11th, 2019
I configure the slave node as method 2 of Technext's suggestion

In a Job build configuration, I selected (System) in JDK option. If I choose JDK 8 update 221, this build job run successfully, but I want to use a (System) JDK which will get from environment variable in this node, so I can switch to another slave node without changing the JDK option.

However, when I remote to this server, and open command prompt, move on to workspace folder of this project, let say: C:\jenkins_slave\workspace\project01\, then type the command: mvn clean install, it run without complain about jdk or jre as run from Jenkins.

A: You may use any of these methods depending on what suits you:

Method 1)
Please configure your Windows' Node to point it to the JDK you want to use by following these steps:

*

*Go to Manage Jenkins > Global Tool Configuration > JDK > Add JDK
Since you already have Java installed, uncheck the box Install automatically
In Name section, just provide some meaningful identifier, not necessarily JAVA_HOME. Now in the JAVA_HOME text box, you can provide any value that you wish because you are anyways going to use a different value for your Windows node.

*Now go to Manage Jenkins > Manage Nodes > (Go to Configure section of your Windows node) > Node Properties
Now enable the check-box that says Tool Locations. Click Add > From the drop-down, select the name you provided to your JDK in Global Tool Configuration section
Now here you have to provide the JAVA_HOME path for your Windows node. So wherever it is, just mention that path in the Home text box as shown below:

Method 2)
Go to Manage Jenkins > Manage Nodes > (Go to Configure section of your Windows node) > Node Properties
Now enable the check-box that says Environment variables > Add

*

*In Name text box, write Path (not PATH)

*In Value text box, write the path of your JDK installation till bin as shown below.

In your case, add the following: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_221\bin;C:\Windows\System32;C:\maven-3.6.1\bin;%PATH%
I was not having Maven set in PATH so i added it to Node's configuration as shown above.
Note: In the Value text box, use semi-colon (;) as separator not comma (,)
Job's JDK config:

Job's command:

Job's output:

Method 3)
In your Windows Node's configuration, enable Environment variables and add below variable with the relevant value
Name:  java.home
Value: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_221\jre
Note: It's java.home (all in small letters as shown below)

JAVA_HOME needs to point to a JDK installation (maven needs the tools.jar) but Maven actually uses the JRE within the JDK to run itself.
When using mvn -version, Maven uses Java's internal java.home property. This property is not the same thing as JAVA_HOME environment setting so it might fool you. It is actually a dynamic property showing you which JRE is running your code.
Ref: Java_home in Maven


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A widowed mother must help her teenage daughter escape a life of crime after she becomes embroiled in a dangerous scheme to steal luxury cars for her high school teacher.
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British commando, Captain Curry, is hired by President Ubi of war-torn Congo, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds from a time-locked vault before the separatist Simba army that's fighting Ubi's forces and the UN peacekeepers overruns the remote town where the bank that holds the vault is located. Curry teams up with his friend Ruffo, Doctor Wreid, who's an alcoholic, and Henlein, a sadistic Nazi who left Germany after WWII to work as a mercenary. The mercenaries reach the town by Ubi's train after surviving an attack from the UN peacekeepers, only to find a number of terrified Westerners who were driven out from their homes by force, including torture, rape and murder, by the Simba rebels. They agree to help them leave town and befriend one of them, a pretty widow called Claire whose husband was murdered by the rebels. As their mission nears completion everything suddenly goes horribly wrong and the story culminates in an orgy of sadistic graphic violence as Henlein betrays the ...
RIDE is a cautionary tale aimed at a technology-obsessed society. When James, a Lyft driver, and his passenger, Jessica, pick up the charismatic but manipulative Bruno, a normal night out in LA becomes a psychological war for survival.
21 Grams (2003)
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.
Panic Room (2002)
Recently divorced Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah have bought a new home in New York. On their tour around the mansion, they come across the panic room. A room so secure, that no one can get in. When three burglars break in, Meg makes a move to the panic room. But all her troubles don't stop there. The criminals know where she is, and what they require the most in the house is in that very room.


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Zeljko Ivanji for "Danas" newspapers: Poltrons are more appreciated than proffesionals
SPP: Everyone should clean its backyard
SPP Novi Sad: The Novi Sad raid should never be forgotten
SPP: Serbian property in Kosovo and Metohija should be imposed as urgent topic
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Zeljko Ivanji for "Danas" newspapers: Poltrons are more appreciated than proffesionals
In Serbian public sector there is no clear separation between politics and administration. Employees in the public sector do not have a proffesional career in true sense of the word. They depend on the political will of individuals who are…
We strongly advocate for the economic development of Belgrade, but development should not be at the expense of preservation of natural resources and environmental protection – Deputy Secretary General of the Serbian People's Party, Dusan Markovic said, on the occasion…
The Serbian People's Party delegation laid a wreath today, at the "Family" monument, at the Boulevard of the raid victims in Novi Sad, to mark the anniversary of the Novi Sad raid. Shadows of thousands of citizens of Novi Sad…
According to the World Bank (WB) estimates, the value of the mineral reserves, in the southern Serbian province amounts up to 13.5 billion Euros. Serbian officials should not be manipulated by tactical maneuver of authorities of the fake state of…
Cajetina successfully implements the "Waste is not garbage" project
The project of primary selection of waste "Waste is not garbage", which began in Cajetina and Zlatibor on January 29th last year, is successfully implemented. This is confirmed by the fact that in recent months about 70 tons of selected…
Jovan Palalic for TV K9: It is not in Serbia's interest to be a member of EU
The European Union's policy towards Serbia is such that Serbia does not have any political or economic interest to become a member, Jovan Palalic, secretary general of the Serbian People's Party, said for the TV K9 in Novi Sad. According…
SPP Belgrade – Old Town: The oldest citizens deserve our special care and assistance
Elderly citizens of Old Town municipality in Belgrade must be provided with the best conditions for a decent third age. They deserve our special care and assistance, coordinator of the Initiative Committee of the Serbian People's Party of Old Town…
Nenad Popovic: Kosovo and Metohija – Serbian acquis and legacy
In talks with the international community the highest Serbian officials have to persistently insist on verification of ownership of the assets of our country in Kosovo and Metohija, because, in the last five decades, Serbia has invested more than $…
Milan Stamatovic: A chance to export products from Zlatibor to the Russian market
Zlatibor manufacturers of cured meats have the greatest chance to export their products to the Russian Federation. In order to use that chance, manufacturers have to unite, member of SPP Presidency and Mayor of Cajetina, Milan Stamatovic said , at…
The SPP is now present in Kosovo and Metohija – An initiative Committee was formed in Strpce
The Serbian People's Party formed an initiative Committee in Strpce, in Kosovo and Metohija. Mr Slavisa Staletovic will be appointed to the post of the Coordinator of the Committee. – For the Serbian People's Party, Kosovo and Metohija has always…
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Redfearn hails great display as Leeds United do double over Boro
Leeds United players celebrate Alex Mowatt's goal against Middlesbrough. Picture Bruce Rollinson
Tony Harber
Published: 15:19 Saturday 21 February 2015
Leeds United clung onto an early goal by Alex Mowatt to stun Sky Bet Championship leaders Middlesbrough at The Riverside in the Saturday lunchtime game.
A 1-0 success saw the Whites climb into the top half of the table as they did the double over Middlesbrough, having also beaten them by the same margin at Elland Road earlier this season.
It was the first time in more than three years that Leeds have won three successive away games and it was a tribute to their improved defence as they came under big pressure from the team starting the day at the top of the pile.
But United did make the perfect start when just three minutes in Lewis Cook seized upon a throw out by home keeper Tomas Mejias and surged to the edge of the box before laying the ball inside for Alex Mowatt to power in a shot that deflected off defender Gibson into the corner of the net.
The rest of the first half, however, was something of a rearguard action as Middlesbrough created plenty of opportunities, but could not get the ball past Leeds keeper Marco Silvestri.
Kike was first to be denied by the Italian keeper after leaving Giuseppe Bellusci for dead in the box then Jelle Vossen's volley was well saved.
Silvestri just managed to get enough on another Vossen effort and Bellusci cleared the ball off the line.
Vossen could not believe it as his flick was kept out by Silvestri before Grant Leadbitter dragged a side wide when free at the edge of the box.
Silvestri's best save was still to come as he acrobatically tipped Kike's deflected shot over.
Leeds finally relieved the pressure when Sam Byram and Scott Wootton got in each other's way to get on the end of a Steve Morison cross to spoil a promising attack. But it was Boro in attack again with Adam Clayton's shot tipped away by Silvestri.
United did have a chance, however, in first half injury-time when Sol Bamba headed just wide from Luke Murphy's corner.
A fast start to the second half saw Kike's curling shot saved by Silvestri before Leeds came within inches of a doubling their lead with Wootton heading Murphy's free-kick against the crossbar.
Silvestri was soon back in the action, making more saves to deny Kike and Albert Adomah's driven cross.
Leeds United not concerned by four-goal beating from Manchester United in warm-up game
But United gradually eased the pressure and it needed Mejias to be alert to save at the feet of Morison.
Vossen's 20-yarder was tipped wide by Silvestri and George Friend blazed a shot high and wide soon after before a fantastic block by Bamba prevented Kike from getting a shot away.
But the hosts ran out of steam and went down to 10 men for the closing stages after Vossen was carried off with a head injury after they had already made their three substitutions.
Leeds were forced to play more than 10 minutes of added time, but defended stoutly and looked a threat on the break.
Late on Wootton made a mess of a good chance when meeting Mowatt's cross and Austin forced a save from Mejias with a strong drive from range.
Friend did have a header deflected over, but United held on well for their fifth win in six games. Remarkably they have now done the double over the top two in the table.
Proud Leeds head coach Redfearn said: "I thought the application and desire to win, the togetherness was top class.
"The football as well, we created some good chances.
"Middlesbrough are a top side and play some good football, but you could see we were not going to be beaten today. There was a resilience about us and it's gathering momentum.
"From one to 11 the application and desire to cover one another and block and get their bodies in the way when we were under pressure. And then have the presence of mind to play as well. I thought we played some good stuff. It was a great performance.
"The lads have been growing in confidence steadily week by week. We are on a good run.
"The lads have got the bit between their teeth. We've uncomplicated things and found a way of playing, you can see the lads believe in it."
Leeds United 1
(Mowatt 3)
Middlesbrough: Mejias, Nsue (Bamford 66), Kalas, Gibson, Friend, Leadbitter (Forshaw 80), Clayton, Adomah, Reach (Tomlin 57), Vossen (inj 88), Kike.
Leeds: Silvestri, Wootton, Bamba, Bellusci (Cooper 90), C Taylor, Byram, Austin, Murphy, Cook, Mowatt, Morison.
Referee: Andre Marriner.


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"The Steinway piano is as much a creation of genius as the great works that are written for it. Its voice has been the ideal for well over a century. It remains a masterpiece."
John Musto
Composer and pianist John Musto is that all too rare exemplar, the classical composer whose work is both critically acclaimed and widely performed, who has also distinguished himself as an instrumental soloist and chamber musician. His activities encompass virtually every genre: orchestral and operatic, solo, chamber and vocal music, concerti, and music for film and television. His music embraces many strains of contemporary American concert music, enriched by sophisticated inspirations from jazz, ragtime and the blues. These qualities lend a strong profile to his vocal music, which ranges from a series of operas – Volpone, Later the Same Evening, Bastianello and The Inspector – to a catalogue of art songs that is among the finest of any living American composer.
As pianist he has performed repertoire from Galuppi sonatas to Bolcom études, Bach keyboard concerti to Bernstein's Age of Anxiety, his own piano concerti, Schubert lieder to the Great American Songbook. He also performs frequently with his wife, soprano Amy Burton, in recital and cabaret.
Mr. Musto was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his orchestral song cycle Dove Sta Amore, and is a recipient of two Emmy awards, two CINE Awards, a Rockefeller Fellowship at Bellagio, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Distinguished Alumnus award from the Manhattan School of Music. He is currently Distinguished Lecturer on the piano faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, where he also serves as Co-ordinator of the D.M.A. Program in Music Performance.
Musto's work has been recorded by Bridge, Harmonia Mundi, Nonesuch, Centaur, Cedille, The Milken Archive, Naxos, Harbinger, CRI and EMI, Hyperion, MusicMasters, Innova, Channel Classics, Albany, and New World Records. He is published by Peermusic Classical.


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Q: How to force table header (and its column) to be smaller than its limit with CSS? I made a table and with 6 columns the first of which I have given "id = 'Day'" in the style sheet I made the width of it 50px but this is taking up too much space on the screen. When I try to change it to something smaller it will not get smaller than 50px. Is there a way to force it to be smaller than 50px? Code bellow.

th#Day {
    width: 20px;
}
table {
    width: 200px;
}

        Day
        Event
        Time
        Location
        Phone Number
        URL

The width of the table does not effect the width of the Day column but I am not able to make the Day column smaller than 50 px as mentioned above.
I have tried setting the min-width to be smaller but that does not change it and have not found any solutions on popular sites.

A: From the tests I have done, it seems that the problem is in the table's size. By commenting it is possible to modify the width of the columns (which cannot be less than its content, from what I am noticing, it's a new thing for me too) but otherwise, as you can see, it works
https://codepen.io/loremaru/pen/vYawPpq
#Day {
    width: 30px;
  border: 1px solid red;
}
#Event{
      width: 50px;
  border: 1px solid blue;
}
table {
/*     width: 200px; */
}

        Day
        Event
        Time
        Location
        Phone Number
        URL


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Tennis: Sloane Stephens backs on-court coaching
Former US Open champion Sloane Stephens has thrown her support behind a push for on-court coaching to be allowed at Grand Slams.
Patrick Mouratoglou, the coach of Serena Williams, has called for a rule change with on-court coaching currently banned in Grand Slams but allowed in WTA events.
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The Frenchman was at the centre of a firestorm after he was spotted making signals from the player's box during September's controversial US Open final between Williams and Naomi Osaka.
Mouratoglou later owned up to the gesture but Williams insisted that she had not seen the signal.
"Coaching is a vital component of any sporting performance. Yet banning it almost makes it look as if it had to be hidden or as if it was shameful," he wrote in a Twitter post on Thursday.
"Authorising coaching in competition and actually staging it so that the viewers can enjoy it as a show would ensure that it remains pivotal in the sport."
Sloane, who is in Singapore for the season-ending eight-player WTA Finals, echoed Mouratoglou's sentiments.
"I think that a lot of coaching does happen from the stands, anyway," she told reporters on Saturday. "Whether it's right, wrong, whatever, I think that coaching is a big part of tennis, and you're out there alone. You know, a lot goes into it behind the scenes, preparation and everything.
"So I think that I can't say definitely there should be or should not be, but I think there needs to be a little bit of a change to the rule, definitely."
Sloane said on-court coaching created a connection between players and fans.
"I think the on-court coaching brings in that aspect of you feel like you're more involved like with the player and coach, and I think that makes it more like a personal type of thing," she said.
"Whereas when they are off the court and you don't see the coach, don't see the interaction, don't see the team dynamic, it makes you distant."
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Categories: New Zealand politics
New Zealand Legislative Council
The Legislative Council of New Zealand was the upper house of the New Zealand Parliament from 1853 until 1951. Unlike the lower house, the House of Representatives, the Legislative Council was appointed rather than elected.
1 Role
2.1 Appointment and tenure
2.2 Number of members
2.3 Extent of representation
2.4 Proposals for election
3 Abolition
The Legislative Council was intended to act as a revising chamber, scrutinizing and amending bills which had been passed by the House of Representatives. It could not initiate bills, and was prohibited from amending money bills (pieces of legislation relating to finance and expenditure). The model for the Legislative Council's role was the House of Lords in the United Kingdom.
Appointment and tenure
The Constitution Act 1852 provided for councillors to be appointed for life terms by the Governor. As the power of the Governor over New Zealand politics gradually decreased, it became the convention that appointments were made on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, essentially meaning that councillors were selected by the government of the day.
However, the life term of councillors meant that the Legislative Council always lagged behind the House of Representatives — Prime Ministers were frequently hampered in their activities by a Legislative Council appointed by their predecessors. In 1891, life membership was replaced by a seven-year term by the new Liberal Party government of John Ballance. Part of the Liberal Party's motivation was probably ideological, but part was undoubtedly political — Ballance's conservative predecessor, Harry Atkinson, had stacked the council with conservatives shortly before leaving office. Ballance had considerable difficulty in achieving his reform of the Council, with major clashes occurring between him and the Governor — Ballance's victory is seen as establishing an important precedent in the relationship between Governor and Prime Minister.
The structure of the Legislative Council was therefore similar to that of the Canadian Senate, which continues as an appointed upper house, although senators are appointed to life terms, and must retire at the age of 75.
It was specified in the Constitution Act 1852 that the Council would consist of at least ten members. Although not actually a part of the Act, instructions were issued that the number of members should not exceed fifteen. One member was to be selected as Speaker of the Legislative Council , corresponding roughly to the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives. A quorum of five members was established. The first appointments to the Legislative Council were made in 1853, when thirteen members took their seats. Gradually, the maximum number of members was raised, and the limit was eventually abolished. The Council would eventually reach a peak of fifty-four members.
Extent of representation
The Legislative Council was generally less representative of the New Zealand public than was the House of Representatives. Women were not eligible to serve as councillors until 1941, and only five women were ever appointed. The first took their seats in 1946. Maori were slightly better represented — the first Maori councillors were appointed in 1872, not long after the creation of the Maori seats in the House, and a convention was established that there should aways be Maori representation on the Council.
Proposals for election
A number of proposals were made that the Legislative Council should be elected, not appointed. When responsible government had been granted at the beginning of the 2nd Parliament, the Governor, Thomas Gore Browne, was given sufficient authority to make the Legislative Council elective, but no action was taken. In 1914, a proposal implement proportional representation for the Council was made, but lapsed due to World War I.
By the middle of the 20th century, the Legislative Council was increasingly being looked on as ineffectual and making little difference to the legislative process. The Legislative Council rarely criticised bills sent to it by the House, and many believed that it was now obsolete. Some favoured its reform, while others favoured its abolition.
In 1950, Sidney Holland's National government passed a bill to abolish it, assisted by specially-appointed councillors known as the 'suicide squad'. To encourage co-operation from the Council, Holland also promised to use the money saved through abolition to set up a fund for retired members. A Statutes Revision Committee (now defunct) was established to carry out some of the scrutiny that the Legislative Council had been intended for. Although abolition was intended as an interim measure, no serious attempts were made to introduce a new second chamber, and the House of Representatives has been unicameral since.
Unicameralists in New Zealand, like former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer, argued that the country is a small and relatively homogeneous unitary state, and hence does not need the same arrangements as federal countries like Australia, although many smaller countries have retained bicameral systems. In addition, other political reforms in New Zealand such as the strengthening of the Select Committee system and the introduction of proportional representation are seen to provide adequate checks and balances.
Support for bicameralism is not completely absent, however, and there have been occasional proposals for a new upper house. The most recent was Jim Bolger's 1990 proposal for an elected Senate, an idea advanced partly as an alternative to New Zealand's electoral reform process.
Today, the Legislative Council Chamber is still used for the Speech from the Throne, as following the British tradition, the Sovereign may not enter the elected House. The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod summons the House of Representatives to attend the State Opening of Parliament in the Legislative Council Chamber, where the Speech is read usually by the Governor-General. It is also used for some Select Committee meetings, as well as meetings of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and other official functions.
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