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Waiting with bated breath
By RASHVINJEET S. BEDI
Bend It Like Bedi
6:54 AM MYT
The whole nation will be waiting with bated breath when a Malaysian badminton player's "B" urine sample is opened this Wednesday in Oslo, Norway and tested.
The results of that test will be known the same day.
The shuttler's first urine sample, tested on Oct 1, was found to have traces of the banned substance dexamethasone – a steroid commonly used to aid an athlete's rehabilitation process.
But while it is on the list of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) most important medications needed in a basic health system, it is a banned substance on the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) list of prohibited substances.
According to Wada, a substance or method can make it to its list if it meets any two of the three criteria: That it has the potential to enhance or enhances sport performance; that it represents an actual or potential health risk to the athlete; that it violates the spirit of sport.
The substances are divided into various categories such as stimulants, anabolic agents, diuretics, narcotics and others.
This prohibited list is updated every year. So certain substances can appear on the list one year but be taken out the next year.
It all depends on the review committee of Wada who will take into account the opinions of various medical experts. The list for a specified year is completed by October of the previous year.
Dexamethesone comes under the category of Glucocorticoids and is banned in competition only. That means if it's detected in the off season or before a competition, it wouldn't have been considered unlawful.
Tan Sri Dr Mani Jegathesan, the chairman of the Medical and Anti-doping Committee of the Olympic Council of Asia said that the substance is considered to affect performances indirectly.
"It might not directly affect performances like an anabolic steroid or EPO, but rather indirectly," he said.
According to Dr Jegathesan, there are three categories of those who test positive for doping – deliberate, victim and innocent/ignorant.
A victim could have been given the drugs by their coach or official while those who fall under the innocent/ignorant category could have consumed the substance unknowingly.
Under a strict liability rule, they will definitely be disqualified from the competition they participated in. What is more important, however, is the suspension they will receive from the sport.
Those who are victims or ignorant can plead their case with the authorities.
"Each case would have its own merits," said Dr Jegathesan.
In the Malaysia shutller's case, lets hope that the second test comes back negative. Former national player Sairul Amar Ayob also tested positive for the substance back in 2006, although his second text proved otherwise.
So there is still hope ...
> The views expressed are entirely the writer's own.
RASHVINJEET S. BEDI
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SILENCING OUR LADY
This is a sad article to write but it is a fact that Our Lady has always had opposition from Satan. Unfortunately, Satan has his cohorts working within the Catholic Church. They have infiltrated and we, Church Militant, should defend Our Lord, Our Lady and the Church - but we do not.
Michael Matt, editor for The Remnant Newspaper, has just recently made a trip to Japan to meet up with the "remnant" there. Upon his visit to Akita, Japan where Sr. Agnes Sasagawa received Church approved messages from Our Lady in the 1970's; Mr. Matt has witnessed a great silencing of this message. In fact, Sr. Agnes Sasagawa is not even at this location but is exiled to a place south of Tokyo. No Sr. Agnes, no brochures, no special bill boards, no one there to explain these messages - NOTHING! Our Lady of Akita with a very serious message and wept 101 times from the image you see in this article. (links below)
What about Fatima? Everything today is silenced from the Church on Fatima. Sr. Lucia is believed to have been replaced during the reign of Pope Paul VI because the real Sr. Lucia would not have approve of the changes, nor the new Mass, nor the decision to NOT do the Consecration. The false Lucia agreed to compromise and smiled her way through. Why would a person give her life to do this? Well, as Bella Dodd claims - she herself put in 1100 communist infiltrators into the seminaries. There were more operatives that put in thousands more. Why would they willingly give up their lives for this destruction?
If we analyze all the apparitions, we can see resistance to some degree. If Rome was concerned about the state of the souls within the Church, they would listen to Our Lady and be obedient to Her. What about Lourdes, LaSalette and Rue de Bac. Were not all of these in France where Freemasonry was reigning? Yes, they too met with resistance, but thanks be to God, these messages did get out.
May Our Lady continue to help us, warn us and pray for us! May Her Immaculate Heart Triumph! God bless
Akita Japan
Two Lucias
Communist Infiltration
Akita Message

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Not going home for a solid two years makes a place not feel like home anymore, in a lot of ways. The varied emotional states of spending extended time with family doesn't really make me miss living in the same state, if ya know what I mean, nudge nudge. But I miss them! Of course I miss them. The other weird thing about being home is that unlike most children my age (that would be thirty) who visit their parents for a day by driving to their house in the morning/afternoon and then leaving in the evening, I end up being super infantilized and spending days on end at one of my parents' houses, sleeping on couches and being cooked for and stuff. It makes me feel young, and dumb, particularly since my last two visits have been without my Jon. But being with friends back in Ohio, checking out places new and old, gives me a weird sense of loss for the life that I'm not living there. The place where I could be living or working or socializing, not just with Jon but with all the other people I love that aren't living in the UK. A weird parallel life that some other Ashley is living; a wispy ghost of an existence that could have happened had my life taken a different turn or two, somewhere along the line.


Helen Clark was the first elected female prime minister of NZ, the first female head of the UNDP and during her time at the UN was the most powerful woman there.
Her government brought in several important economic and social initiatives including the establishment of Kiwibank, the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and KiwiSaver.
Since her unsuccessful bid to be the Secretary General at the UN, (revealing yet another entrenched glass ceiling), she has been active internationally speaking on issues of gender equality and social and health reforms, including now being one of the members of the Global Fund, an international organisation which aims to reform drug policy to reduce societal harm.


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The Kiwis Are Coming! Australia Offers Permanent Residency To 60,000 New Zealanders
The Australian government has announced a new pathway for New Zealanders living in Australia to apply for Australian citizenship. The new option for permanent residency will be available to tens of thousands of New Zealand expats currently living and working Down Under. Here's what kiwis need to know.
Flagship Battle: The Google Nexus 6P Vs. The OnePlus 2
There are a ton of Android flagships to choose from, but if you want one that puts you in control of your experience — and when you get updates — you have two big choices: Google's Nexus 6P and the OnePlus 2. Specs aside, which should you buy? Well, here's how they compare, after long-term use.
5 Things You Should Know Before Going To See Deadpool
After years of development, and almost exactly 25 years after the character first appeared on the pages of Marvel comics, Deadpool finally found its way onto cinema screens. So the pressure is on for it to do well. But before you head down to the cinema to see Marvel's Merc-With-A-Mouth in action, there are a few things you should probably know.
The Best Tech Deals From Target's Massive Ebay Sale [Updated]Following on the heels of eBay's huge Valentine's Day promotion, Target has followed suit with an eBay sale of its own. Until 21 February, you can get 20 per cent off everything in store — including items that were already heavily discounted. Read on for the best video games, consoles and tech goodies from the sale. Prices start at under $7!
Google Chromecast (2016): Australian Review
As of today, the new Google Chromecast is on sale in Australia. It's a significant improvement in several small but notable ways from the original model — which is an impressive feat, considering how useful it was and still is.
Can You Solve This Children's Maths Puzzle?
If you were on Facebook today, there's a pretty good chance you came across this fruit-based brain teaser. The internet is going crazy for it. What seems like a simple maths equation is actually a bit more complex than it first appears. Can you solve it?
Which Australian ISP Provides The Best Netflix Speeds?
The quality of your Netflix experience is largely dependent on the speed of your internet connection. If things get too slow, you'll be plagued with crappy resolution and streaming interruptions. The Netflix ISP Speed Index lists Australia's major internet providers according to Netflix speeds. The overall rankings might surprise you.
Eight Sneaky Car Insurance Loopholes Designed To Screw You Over
Most Australian drivers have the intelligence and foresight to get comprehensive car insurance. Unfortunately, even the costliest premiums don't necessarily cover you for everything. There are certain accidents and vehicular misfortunes that will cause insurers to leave you in the lurch. Here are eight grey areas that every insured driver needs to know about, from bumbling valets to the lure of ridesharing.
Seven Ways To Prevent Hair Loss [Infographic]
Losing your hair must really, really suck. I often spot baldies staring at me sadly as I run my fingers through my thick mane of lustrous curls. It's a majestic sight, so who can blame them? Fortunately, it's possible to combat hair loss via a range of natural hacks and treatments. This infographic explains seven common causes of baldness and how to fix them.
What Actually Happens When You Sign Up For One Of Those 'Work From Home' Scams
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A Rewind of 2022 – For Indian Film Industry
India is a country of diversity, here we get different religions, cultures, languages, and traditions but apart from this India is a load of movies lover. We have options for many types of movies such as romantic, thriller, action, tragedy, and comedy.
The topmost movies of 2022 are:
RRR: This is a Telugu film directed by SS Ragamauli that deals with patriotism, friendship, love, treachery, and sacrifice. It is the story of friend sacrifices and fill with action, drama, songs, and dance.
KGF chapter 2: This is a story of Kolar gold fields where Rockey takes control of Kolar gold fields where his power makes everyone agitated. This film is directed by Prashanth Neel. The overall budget of this film is 100 crore INR. The movie is full of violence. Yash, Samridhi Shetty, Sanjay Dutt, and Raveena Tandon plays the lead role.
Kantara: This story is about the time when the king granted the forest land to the local tribes in exchange for peace and protection by their God-The Panjurli. There are Kannada movies dubbed in many other languages as Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. It is directed by Rishab Shetty and uses a budget of 16 crores.
Good Bye: This movie is filled with drama, emotions, comedy, and conservative thinking. It is a story about the sudden death of their mother, All siblings return to their house to take part in the funeral activities of their mother at the conservative father's house. Amitabh Bacchan and Neena Gupta played a lead roles. The movie is directed by Vikas Bahl and uses a 30 crores budget.
Lal Singh Chaddha: This is the story of a simple man whose extraordinary journey is filled with love and emotions. The movie is a remake of the classic forest Gump film. This movie is released under the Amir Khan production and he and Kareena Kapoor play a lead roles in this.
Gangubai Kathiawadi: This is a story of a small-town girl who wants to become an actress she is tricked by her boyfriend, who sold her to a kamathipur brothel and she is allured to the underworld. The film is based on the true story of Ganga Jagjivandas Kathewadi, popularly known as Gangubai Kothewali. This is one of the most famous movies of Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The actress Alia Bhatt plays her amazing part.
Brahmastra Part 1-Shiva: This is an action, fantasy, and adventurer Hindi film under the direction of Ayan Mukherji. It has lots of visual effects. This is a story of a boy who has the power to control fire and connections with Astra. This movie uses a budget of 400 crores and earns 431 crores at the box office.
Kashmir Files: The story catches the pain, suffering, and struggle of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990. The budget uses 25 crores and earns nearly 304 crores at the box office. It is directed by Vivek Agnihotri.


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Founded in 2000, Tellart is an Experience Design studio that uniquely combines future foresight, design craft and emerging technology to create new ways for people to explore, understand and enjoy our world.
We are a global team of strategists, architects, industrial and graphic designers, electronics and software engineers, writers and filmmakers.
We believe that real invention is sparked not just by human needs and business opportunities, but also by discovering the unique strengths of raw materials. We treat emerging technologies as materials, conducting our own R&D to understand their inherent qualities and what they make newly possible.
For 20 years we have worked to transform digital technologies into visible, tangible materials in our prototyping workshops. Today we are layering in a new wave of technologies including artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and advanced robotics. These have the potential to become not just sophisticated materials and tools, but active "partners" in the design process that can inspire us to work in new ways and create new forms of cultural experience.
As technology becomes more complex and opaque, we feel a calling as designers to give individuals and organisations an imagination for the future and how we can live better together. Our goal as a team is to create work that is forward-looking in its form as well as its social, environmental and cultural impact.
As an independently owned studio, we are driven to partner with clients in multiple industries whose work brings meaningful and positive change to the world.
We take on projects at the highest level of difficulty that challenge us to grow and push the boundaries of our discipline.
Learn more about our culture.
Matt Cottam - Founder and Chief Design Officer
As Chief Design Officer, Matt shapes Tellart's strategic direction and creative practice. He is an internationally recognised speaker and professor of design. He is a member of the Core Faculty at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID, Denmark) and was previously an Adjunct Professor at Umeå Institute of Design (UID, Sweden), and a member of the Rhode Island School of Design faculty for ten years (RISD, USA).
Matt holds both Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Industrial Design degrees from RISD, as well as a Masters of Fine Arts in Interaction Design from Umeå University. In addition to his design education and practice, Matt has been an Advanced Life Support Paramedic on the United States' federal disaster medical team and National Ski Patrol. He is also an Ocean Yachtmaster (RYA) and Rescue Diver (PADI), and is a member of Royal Ocean Racing Club, the General Society of Mayflower Descendants and Sons of the American Revolution. Matt is an avid sailor and has made several trans-Atlantic ocean races.
Nick Scappaticci - Founder and Chief Executive Officer
As Chief Executive Officer, Nick leads Tellart in high-level operational and strategic decisions, while still being involved in details of project development and execution. He is responsible for leading a staff of strategists, designers and technologists, and for creating a cohesive cultural environment for Tellart that enables project and career success.
Nick studied Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He is currently a member of the Adjunct Faculty at RISD where he teaches interface design and senior studio.
Paul Skinner - Managing Director
As Managing Director, Paul works closely with clients, partners, and Tellart's own design and engineering teams. From concept development through to delivery, he ensures projects develop creatively through each stage of the design process. Paul brings to bear many years of experience, and a passion for creativity in technology; his ability to deeply understand business, brand and project strategies informs his work developing creative concepts, and getting knee-deep in code and electronics.
Paul graduated in 2006 with first class honors in MediaLab Arts, which formed part of i-DAT, the University of Plymouth's lab for creative research, experimentation and innovation across the fields of digital art, science and technology. During this time his main area of inquiry was embodied interaction, and the philosophical teleologies that underpin embodied interaction.
Maia Garau - Strategy Director
As Strategy Director, Maia helps to define what each project needs to communicate, and why. Her core focus is on finding the heart of the story and working closely with the team to interpret this into meaningful form and experience. She has a background in user research and information design, and is passionate about turning complex data into clear insights that spark our collective imagination for the future.
Maia has a BA in comparative literature from Brown University (honors, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), an MSc in virtual environments from the Bartlett School of Architecture (Distinction) and a PhD in computer science from University College London (Finalist, 2004 British Computer Society/Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing Distinguished Dissertation Awards). She is trained as a Montessori Assistant to Infancy (age 0-3) by Association Montessori Internationale.
Bjørn Karmann - Senior Designer
As a Senior Designer at Tellart, Bjørn combines his curiosity for new and emerging technologies with his love for physical and human interactions. Bjørn is an open-source maker and hacker at heart whose work manifests between physical and virtual space. With experience in design, production, robotics and physical computing, he works across multiple stages in Tellart's projects.
He describes his passion as finding a balance between nature and technology, whether it is making drawing machines, designing typefaces or creating more humanistic technologies.
Bjørn is from Denmark and holds a Master's Degree in Interaction Design from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and a Bachelor's degree in Communication design from Kolding Design School, shaping his Scandinavian aesthetics. Graduating from CIID with highest honor, his graduation project has won multiple awards and pushed the thinking of machine learning as a means of prototyping and enriching spatial interaction.
Selena McKenzie - Creative Director
As Creative Director, Selena works holistically on strategic planning and concept development. She is obsessed with disruptive technology, storytelling and emergent behaviors in service of making positive change in the world. She has now turned her attention to Experience Design after generating iconic and category-changing campaigns for some of the world's biggest brands at the best Ad agencies in the world. She works nomadically between Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam and Melbourne.
Selena is Australian and holds a BA(Design) from Curtin University. She was headhunted to London, which started a highly awarded 13-year journey at Wieden+Kennedy, Fallon and Clemenger BBDO. She has picked up Cannes Lion, D&AD and One Show awards. She complements her professional work with continuing research into the future of brands and has a conceptual art practice involving sculpture, films and immersive installations.
Jack Lenk - Production Director
Working closely with Tellart's team of producers, Jack coordinates the multidisciplinary teams responsible for each project at the company. He has a background in industrial design, visual communication, and two decades of experience in producing narrative and interactive multimedia. Jack is also a seasoned photographer and filmmaker, regularly contributing to Tellart's communication initiatives.
Jack graduated from the Industrial Design department at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he also pursued studies in Graphic Design and Photography. Jack has taught workshops and courses at RISD, focused on media production and design for civic engagement.
Laila Aukee - Senior Designer
As a Senior Designer at Tellart, Laila works to understand and communicate complex systems through diagramming, mapping, and other documentation tools. She works across a wide variety of client and internal projects in order to better frame project challenges and solutions. With strong analytic and conceptual skills, Laila is also involved with new concept development brainstorms, early project research, interface layouts and inventories, and interpretation of system and software architectures.
Laila graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied Industrial Design and took courses at Brown and MIT. As a student at RISD, Laila embraced the idea of design with a focus on end user usability, and particularly enjoyed applying that philosophy to the design of intangible interactions for new technologies.
Ries Straver - Executive Producer
As Executive Producer at Tellart, Ries combines his deep knowledge of the design and media production pipeline with his unstoppable drive to bring ideas to life. Having managed some of Tellart's largest and most ambitious projects to date, he is a motivational powerhouse. In addition, over the last 20 years Ries has written, produced and directed dozens of independent and commissioned films. This passion and affinity for filmmaking lends itself naturally to Tellart's multi-sensory projects, where audiovisual production and storytelling are critical.
Ries holds a bachelor degree from the Design Academy, Eindhoven. His graduation project, which ended up in the San Francisco MoMA, reflected on something he's always been fascinated by: The relationship between man and technology. Prior to joining Tellart, Ries led the video department at Fabrica, Benetton's communication research center.
Fernando Diaz Smith - Senior Technologist
As a Senior Technologist at Tellart, Fernando works with hardware to construct and actualize clients' visions. Fernando prototypes solutions and effectively implements adjustments and improvements along the way. On Tellart's Research and Development team, he draws upon his design training as well as skills honed in his previous work at Maryann Thompson Architects, Decor Craft, Inc., and as the Art Director for Providence's TEDx 2012 events. His work has been featured in international publications such as Contagious magazine, and in 2011 was featured as part of an installation at Japan Society.
Fernando is a graduate of the Industrial Design program at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Sabrina Verhage - Senior Technologist
Sabrina designs and develops immersive interactive environments that synthesize architecture with media technology. As a media artist Sabrina has created and exhibited several interactive installations and generative artworks. She is particularly interested in integrations of digital technologies into our physical world. Highly fascinated by the influence of modern technology on human behavior, she strives to create engaging experiences that enable social interaction and change.
Sabrina is co-founder of Creative Coding Amsterdam, a monthly meetup for creative coding enthusiasts. She is actively engaged in the creative coding community and frequently visits and volunteers at media art and technology events throughout Europe.
Sabrina earned her Bachelor of Architecture from Delft University of Technology, after which she spent a year in Los Angeles pursuing MediaSCAPES at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). After this introduction to emerging relationships within technology, media and architecture, she moved her focus from architecture towards interactive environments, and she achieved her Master's Degree in Media Technology at Leiden University, combining creativity and technology with scientific research.
Luca Zander - Producer
As a Producer at Tellart, Luca is responsible for the production and design of media content for both internal and client projects. Creative technologist by training, Luca combines his passion for graphic design, motion graphics, and video production with strong strategic and organisational skills, to bring vast experience in developing interactive applications.
Luca received his Bachelor's degree in Creative Technology from the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands. His minor in Industrial Design focused on the interaction between humans and their physical world.
Lukas Valiauga - Designer
Whether it's measuring the blue of the sky or designing objects that talk, Lukas' work focuses on exploring how we use technology to interact with the world around us. Drawing from his broad experience in interactive media, Lukas works to find unique ways to tell a story, provoke users or bring new and exciting functions to everyday life.
At Tellart Lukas works throughout the project lifecycle to formulate and interpret concepts, iterate forms and give shape to new experiences. He combines a principled approach to design with a broad skill set, ranging across everything from sketching to coding.
Lukas holds a Bachelor's degree in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London. Before graduating, Lukas was already listed among British Council's 'Ones to Watch', an annual pick of promising young designers.
Since then, Lukas' work has been exhibited in Venice, Milan, Istanbul, and Vilnius.
Lea Lemaire - Designer
As a Designer at Tellart, Lea's work ranges from strategy to concept development to hands-on prototyping. She brings to the team an insatiable curiosity that drives her to constantly explore emerging trends in culture and technology. As an industrial and interaction designer she contributes to projects from both a physical and digital perspective, drawing on her prior experience in advertising and exhibition design.
Lea holds a Master's Degree in Interaction Design from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, where her graduation project investigated online identities, privacy patterns, and the future of work. She also has a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from the University of Montreal.
Joanna Roman - Producer
With a strategic mind, strong organisational skills and problem solving abilities, Joanna's true passion lies in supporting creative minds to express their full potential. Her prior experience in film production for advertising led her to work across various industries including fashion, sports and interactive games. Her growing interest in emerging technologies led her to Tellart, where she guides the production of digital + physical experience design projects.
Joanna graduated from the Digital Media Creative Program at Hyper Island, in Sweden, where she practiced modules included team building, workshop facilitation, business strategy, marketing and an array of design skills such as coding and UX wireframing. Prior to Hyper Island, Joanna studied Analogue photography at the Art Academy of Gothenburg.
Martinique Kamphuis - Studio Manager (AMS)
As Studio Manager, Martinique ensures that Tellart's Amsterdam office runs like a well-oiled machine. Martinique oversees financial management and logistics for the studio, and supports the Tellart team in their day to day activities. Martinique has lived in Amsterdam, Taipei and Munich, and loves the international team and culture of Tellart.
Martinique was involved in a number of entrepreneurial ventures before joining Tellart. Most recently she founded and ran Landladies, a concierge business for Airbnb. Prior to this she established and managed operations for a property investment company and managed the production of large events for a major brewery in Amsterdam.
Brian Hinch - Production Consultant
As Production Consultant, Brian contributes to complex production projects at many different stages, from planning, through concept development and design, to implementation and deployment. Brian believes deeply in the value of cross-disciplinary collaboration, and that by constantly reconsidering the design of the design process itself we will see more genuinely beneficial things in the world. Brian combines formal training at Rhode Island School of Design with years building software and hardware—internally and for clients—and loves systems that are meaningful, extensible, and sustainable.
Brian graduated from the Graphic Design department of the Rhode Island School of Design, and has taught or led many courses and workshops at institutions and conferences internationally.
Zaza Zuilhof - Senior Design Consultant
As Senior Design Consultant, Zaza works closely with Tellart's internal team, to give form to strategies, installations and exhibitions. Building on a background in industrial and interaction design Zaza is a hybrid working across the digital and physical, virtual and real. In an age where information is so accessible, but filtering, assessing and sense making is so hard, she is particularly passionate about new formats for storytelling and informal education.
Zaza holds a Masters from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and a Bachelors in Industrial Design from the Technical University of Eindhoven. She regularly speaks and leads workshops at institutions and conferences internationally.
We have been awarded numerous top international prizes for our work including the SXSW Experimental Award, Cannes Lions, Webby, Core77, D&AD Yellow Pencil and our work is featured in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Design Museum.
In 2016, Tellart was honored with the National Design Award in Interaction Design, Smithsonian Museum's top national honor for outstanding achievement in design through excellence, innovation, and enhancement of the quality of life.


March 2nd is recognized as Texas Independence Day. On that day in 1836, 59 "Texians" as they styled themselves, gave birth to a dream. They declared Texas, then a province of Mexico, to be a sovereign nation – the Republic of Texas. They did so even as a battle was raging in San Antonio de Bexar at a mission called the Alamo. Four days later, on March 6, the Alamo fell with the loss of the entire garrison, some 180-odd men. (The exact number of Alamo defenders has never been established). Four of those men were Scots.
The names of four Scots, Richard W. Ballantine, Isaac Robinson, David L. Wilson, and "Alamo John" McGregor, who died that day have slipped slowly and surely into the mists of time.
Yet time has a way of changing history, or at least our perception and understanding of it. Still far from being a household name like Travis, Bowie, and Crockett, McGregor is becoming the best known of the Scots, as he was the "piper at the Alamo." He is said to have entertained the troops by engaging in musical duets/duels with Davy Crocket – he on the pipes and Crockett on the fiddle. Presumably McGregor won those melodic skirmishes by the very nature of the volume of the pipes.
It's been assumed that these musical interludes were meant to lift the spirits of the embattled garrison, and no doubt there is truth in that assumption. However, to position McGregor's piping in this context alone, as that of an early "morale officer", is believed by a growing number to disregard the more traditional role of the piper in battle.
"A pity Texas' historians have never recognized the significance of McGregor's role on that day; that what appears to them as a quaint whimsy on his part, was really dead serious duty, and he saw that duty through – "to the deid." What a different story it would have made, if they had realized that the custom of playing the pipes in battle is forever meshed with Scottish tradition, for the piper was to Celtic warfare what the drummer and bugler were in later wars – and more. He was the heartbeat of the Clan, the keeper of their collective spirit, the recorder of their deeds, victories and tragedies. The tunes he played had special meaning to his people, and could rally men and stir their emotions like nothing else. Further, he went into battle expecting to die – and knowing his value to the battle tactics and spirits of his Clansmen, the enemy were generally eager to oblige. Even the soldiers of Mexico, who'd never heard the squall of the bagpipe, instinctively knew this man, McGregor, could not be allowed to live.
The 1960 movie has become a cult classic despite glaring historical inaccuracies. The 2004 remake of "The Alamo" acknowledged piper John McGregor with a fleeting appearance at approximately 40 minutes into the film.
Then, visiting Texas in 2009, Scot journalist Kevin McKenna learned the story of McGregor and his fellow Scots. McKenna questioned why the Scots' contribution was ignored in a short film shown at the Texas shrine and then wrote an article about their role in the historic battle for "The Observer." This renewed public attention began a process that culminated a year later in a ceremony at the Alamo on April 8, 2010, to honor the memory and the contribution of McGregor and his fellow Scotsmen.
all the nations represented by its defenders, never before had there been a memorial to the dead of a single nation. Scotland would be the first to be so honored.
Texas and Scotland share a history of birth on the battlefield and from those battles emerged heroic characters whose names remain larger than life. John McGregor's name has not yet reached such lofty heights.
While Texas' Independence was declared as the battle at the Alamo was raging (13 Days of Glory), independence was not won until more than a month later, when the Texian army defeated Santa Anna at a place near present day Houston, Texas, called San Jacinto. That battle lasted a mere 18 minutes. "Remember the Alamo" was one of the battle cries of the day.


1. Sit on the mat with your knees bent and lean your torso back.
2. While keeping your knees bent, lift both feet until your legs are parallel to the floor and reach your arms toward the feet.
3. Stay in half boat pose for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Keeps your core engage and maintain your back flat at all times. Face front as you actively reach your arms toward the feet without arching the back. Breathe out as you release the pose.
The half boat pose strengthens your abs, back, and thighs, and improves your core balance and posture. This pose also helps to boost your focus and concentration, improves digestion and tones your whole body.
Start in bridge pose or downward facing dog and then progress to half boat pose. Follow-up with boat pose, bound angle pose or extended puppy pose.


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4th Conference »WWII: MYTHS AND TRUTHS«
12. February, 2019 by MRC Maribor in Activities, Past events 1
The main topic of discussion at International Research Centre's February 2019 conference was "WWII: Myths and Truths". The embassy, which works for the institution, recommended a central topic that would tie well to the upcoming 80th anniversary of WWII's beginning, namely the tense and tumultuous political history of the late 1930s, which up led to the bloodiest conflict in human history.
Conference attendees included renowned historians, researchers, archivists, and political scientists from 15 countries across Europe (Austria, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Spain, Macedonia, Moldavia, Poland, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, France, and Montenegro), as well as representatives from Maribor's city council, Slovenian academics and experts, professors and students from the University of Maribor's history department, immigrants and compatriots, and journalists from Russian and Slovenian online and print media.
The International Research Centre's exhibits viewed by (front row, from left to right) D.G. Zavgayev, Russian ambassador to Slovenia, E.I. Pivovar, president of the Russian State University for the Humanities, M.V. Lomonosova, head of the Faculty of History, and S.P. Karpov of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
At the conference's opening, D.G. Zavgayev, Russian ambassador to Slovenia, stressed the importance of keeping the right tone in discussions and the need for an objective treatment of the preconditions and reasons behind the beginnings of WWII, and the importance of the decisive role and responsibility taken by our country in combatting fascism and standing resolutely against Nazism and criminal ideologies.
Those last topics were thoroughly and extensively developed in the thoughtful speeches given by historians from the Russian Historical Society, M.V. Lomonosova, head of the Faculty of History at Moscow State University, SP. Karpov, Russian Academy of Sciences, E.I. Pivovar, director of the Russian State University for the Humanities and Russian Academy of Sciences member, K.I. Mogilevski, executive director of the "History of the Homeland" fund, and E.M. Kozhokin, vice-rector for research, professor at the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia. All of their speeches illuminated modern scientific approaches to researching the causes and factors leading up to WWII, the role the Munich Agreement played in 1938, and the circumstances that brought about the Soviet and German non-aggression pact of 1939. Conference attendees resoundingly agreed upon the importance of a good historical education, especially for young people. Much interest was attracted by an analysis of historiography from the era, including information on new collections found in Russia waiting for experts to pore over.
(from right to left) At a conference session. K.I. Mogilevski, executive director of the "History of the Homeland" fund, G.A. Shepelev, professor at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Paris), D.G. Zavgayev, Russian ambassador to Slovenia, G.I. Zamyatina, consultant at the Russian embassy in Slovenia, E.A. Breskvar, president of the coordination committee for organisations of Russian speaking immigrants in Slovenia.
K.I. Mogilevski, executive director of the "History of the Homeland" fund and member of the board of the Russian Historical Society (left), and Gregor Reichenberg, deputy mayor of Maribor.
Part of the conference saw the signing of a cooperation agreement the International Research Centre and the humanities department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maribor.
Many topics introduced by the speakers deserve further treatment in the future. Among these included methodology used to find in contemporary history myths spreading about the "good occupier" (G.A. Shepelev, professor at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Paris)), "humane conditions" in Nazi "working camps" among the Baltic countries (E. Zakarite, Ireland), and "aggressive Soviet politics on the eve of the war" (S. Vukovič, Montenegro). M. Kulbačevskaja, a reporter from Poland, talked about specific incidents showing today's false slander of Warsaw's "historical policy", the hidden role of leftist forces in the anti-fascist resistance. I. Vasileska, University of Skopje, Macedonia, and I. Baeva, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, outlined in their speeches direct parallels between contemporary attempts from leading Western powers to put pressure on their "younger partners" as regards how the "Balkan Entente" came to be, and as regards the conclusion of the Munich agreement.
At a conference session (front row, from right to left) S. Vukovič, researcher, Montenegro, G. Deni, assistant professor at Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest, T. Kancler, member of the Maribor city council, E. Vedernjak, local historian, Maribor, and others.
(from left to right) Mezej Balint, researcher at the University of Budapest, Helena Aleksandrova, WWII researcher (Spain), journalist Elena Zakarite (Ireland)
Speeches from J. Esser (Austria), A. Petrovič (Moldavia), and F. Afanasov (Romania) were also very well received, as they contributed to a rich exchange of opinions on the methods and forms of organizational investigation of information in various European countries. Proposals for collaborative efforts were met with constructive discussion, including on the establishment of common databases on the fate and names of Soviet citizens of former Yugoslavia that fought in the national liberation movement (G. Bajc, University of Maribor, Slovenia, A. Životič, University of Belgrade, Serbia), and of those that died in Nazi prison camps throughout Europe (V. Guska, Great Britain). S. Radovanovič, Slovenian researcher and archivist, meticulously collected information from archives on prisoners of war at the Maribor concentration camp. H. Aleksandrova's (Spain) speech focused on the fate of foreigners who fought among the ranks of the Red Army.
The conference's great reception provided opportunities to begin conversations with Russia's greatest history sleuths and leading figures at Russian universities.
(front row, from right to left) At a conference session. F. Afanasov, public figure from Romania, A. Petrovič, director of the "August" research group in Moldavia, M.V. Lomonosov, head of the Department of History, Moscow State University, S.P. Karpov, scientist from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
At a conference session (from left to right), E.I. Pivovar, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, presiding member of the Russian Historical Society, E.M. Kozhokin, Vice-Rector for research, professor at the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, doctor of history.
D.G. Zavgayev, Russian ambassador to Slovenia, gave an interview to both Russian and Slovenian journalists, highlighting the international conference.
Russian conference attendees traditionally laid flowers at the Monument to the Sons of Russia and the Soviet Union who fell within Slovenian lands, which was unveiled by Russian president, V.V. Putin, July 2016, Ljubljana.


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Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 includes Secure Data Input (Virtual keyboard and Secure Keyboard Input).
To start using Secure Data Input, reboot the computer after installation of Kaspersky Internet Security 2014.
Secure Data Input cannot protect your personal data if the website requiring the entry of such data has been hacked, because in this case the information is obtained directly by the intruders.
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If you (do not) want to open the virtual keyboard using the keys combination, then clear/ check the box Open Virtual Keyboard by typing CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+P.
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The Secure keyboard input mode is launched by default after the application installation and computer reboot.
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Password entry fields on all websites.
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I am more like a flat person,I wear heels occasionally and the reason why is because I feel more comfortable in flats or trainers than in heels but you know sometimes you have to go out of your comfort zone. So I don't know why but this couple of weeks I have had this obsession for heels that I have never had before.Here are some of my Heels crush of the moment.
Are you more a flats or heels person ?
Like the black strappy ones even though I am definitely not a heel wearing gal myself! I live in cowboy boots!
I love boots with a heel as they make me feel so much more confident!
i love the 2 last pairs!! :D so chic!
Love the Dior and Giuseppe Zanotti heels.
I'm 100% a heels person :). Love all of these choices, but in particular #2 and #6!
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AHH LOVE LOVE! Now I'm going to go buy like 5 new pairs of shoes!
love the black booties! so perfect!
I'm more of a heels person, I realized it's because I don't do a lot of walking in my daily life. When it's time to though, I have a real shortage of cute flats, so I really need to step it up. hehe. Love that last pair of heels.
Love all of these. The tan strappy one at the bottom is my favorite.
I looove a good pair of heel and I have quite a few in my shoe collection! I love finding an occasion to wear them but lets be honest, flats are just so comfy and practical!


After two impressive sessions in a row (corn: +16c, soybeans: +20c since Thursday PM), not surprisingly there was some backfilling in the charts taking place last night as both corn and soybeans were trading a bit lower when I walked in this morning. That is probably healthy for the charts to see things take a step back after taking two steps forward. Be aware that if the $US is truly going to correct itself lower – the commodity markets should still have upside potential in them. The $US is down another .2% this morning.
Fundamentally, not much for new news. The weekly planting progress was out last night and of course is only relevant for the far South. Texas is showing 14% of its corn has been planted (vs 37% on average) while Louisiana corn is only 1% planted (vs 48% average). A nice rain system will be welcomed for dry parts of the Midwest, bringing moisture today and tomorrow.


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Act on clergy abuse cases or face a Tsunami
Threat of backlash maintains the silence around the issue of sex abuse
By Virginia Saldanha,Mumbai | India
While there are rays of hope for the advocates of survivors of sexual abuse in the Church to witness some concrete actions by Pope Francis in dealing with the cover up and protection of sex abusers, much more needs to be done to demonstrate the Church's resoluteness in protecting children and vulnerable adults from this crime.
In November 2012 the Australian government headed by Julia Gillard appointed a Royal Commission to look into responses by institutions to instances and allegations of child sexual abuse in Australia.
It was indeed a landmark decision aimed at putting an end to the covering up of the abuse of children in educational institutions, religious groups, sporting organisations, state institutions and youth organisations.
It was done following a number of localised government inquiries into the issue with the last straw being in New South Wales (NSW), where a bishop in the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese supported some form of public inquiry into the issue.
In November 2012, a senior officer of the NSW Police revealed that he was stood down from his investigation while he was compiling "explosive" evidence from a key witness and that "the church covers up, silences victims, hinders police investigations, alerts offenders, destroys evidence and moves priests to protect the good name of the church."
With two most senior prelates in the country being summoned to appear before the commission, and one being convicted, one can appreciate the tenacity with which the commission undertook its task to root out this crime from Australian society.
Strangely in the Catholic Church the crime of abuse of children is touted by some to be an issue that concerns only the English-speaking world. While, it did concern the English-speaking world, why has it not concerned the Church in the non-English speaking regions of the world?
Recently the Spanish speaking world was rocked by the issue when Pope Francis made Juan Barros bishop of Osorno in 2015, a time when it was were well known he had turned a blind eye to abuse claims.
The scandal blew up when the pope visited Chile in January during which he defended Barros. Subsequent 'firefighting' by Pope Francis doused the flames but was it enough?
Regarding my own region of Asia, where stories of abuse of children and women have been surfacing and astonishingly silenced with regularity, one wonders about the genuineness of the ministry to children, young people and women who are the most vulnerable in this staunchly patriarchal part of the world.
The Church could well be the light in the darkness of violence that is inflicted on these vulnerable groups but is incomprehensible when it becomes part of the problem.
We know of policies being adopted by a few bishops' conferences. However, intent is demonstrated when the policies are disseminated and explained widely to the faithful, clergy and all institutions in the Church.
Also necessary is putting in place a framework to address and do justice in cases of abuse. Publicizing the information of persons responsible or contactable for redressal is absolutely necessary. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan is the only one that has taken any concrete action.
Failure to take concrete action is rooted in the highly patriarchal and clericalized culture of impunity that thrives in the Asian Church. The priest is deified. Bringing accusations against him is equated to sinning against God. Generally Catholics are socialised to revere, trust and hang on every word that comes from a priest.
Whistle blowers are demonised and ostracised so that silence is maintained and a clear unspoken message sent out: "Take up the issue of abuse and your head is on the block!" The threat of backlash maintains the silence around the issue of sex abuse.
The silence behind sexual violence is the most pernicious outcome of this culture in Asia. It gives perpetrators the confidence to continue the sexual exploitation of children and women.
But the internet and social media platforms — where younger generations spend a lot of time — that have promoted the "Me Too" movement, are having an impact. I believe that the Spirit works and moves in most unexpected ways. In time this ugly cancer in the Church will be exposed and eradicated.
The Church in Asia has to decide sooner than later whether to take pre-emptive action or be taken the way of a tsunami and public embarrassment.
Pre-emptive action involves getting down to concrete action to deal with existing cases in a decisive and just way, thus restoring the faithful's trust in a Church that is rooted in justice and truth.
It would also involve creating and publicising a policy on the abuse of children and vulnerable adults and conducting awareness programs for all the stakeholders concerned which would include children and their parents as well as Church congregations to include all women.
The FABC Women's Desk, presently in the charge of a priest, should be turned over to a woman with courage to take up tough issues as well as the vision to create awareness for social change in the reality of women. Similar women should be appointed to National Commissions for Women.
These steps would have the effect of addressing concerns of abuse of children and women in families and society as well.
Virginia Saldanha is the former executive secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences Office of Laity and a freelance writer and advocate for women's issues based in Mumbai.
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Q: Find duplicate hashes I have a bunch of files (4800 files), that I believe contain many duplicates and triples. Problem is that they don't also have the same names. I already weeded out the easy ones with same names. The files are all in a tight range of size, so that's not helpful.
I thought maybe it might be possible to run a script to check the hashes of all files in a directory, and report duplicate hashes. Anyone know how to achieve such a thing?
Can do on Linux and Windows.
Thanks

A: Here's a Powershell command that will hash all of your files (in a given directory) and output the result to a CSV file.
Get-FileHash -Algorithm MD5 -Path (Get-ChildItem "\\Path\to\files\*.*" -Recurse) | Export-Csv C:\Temp\hashes.csv

After that, you can open the CSV file in Excel and root out the duplicates.
Note that the "Get-FileHash" cmdlet is only available in Powershell version 4 or higher.

A: I like Excel But PowerShell has got this covered.
$ChooseDeleteMe = Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\OpenShare" -Recurse -File | Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA1 | Group-Object -Property Hash | Where-Object Count -gt 1 | foreach {$_.Group | Select-Object Path, Hash} | Sort-Object Hash | Out-GridView -PassThru -Title "Select a Duplicate File OK to Delete (NO PROMPT NO UNDELETE)" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Path
If ($ChooseDeleteMe.Count -ge 1) {
    Foreach ($DeleteMe in $ChooseDeleteMe) {
        # Remove the WhatIF once outout looks sensible
        Remove-Item -LiteralPath $DeleteMe -WhatIf
    }
} else {
    Write-Warning "No Duplicate Files were Found using the SHA1 Algorithm."
}

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NEW BRAUNFELS, TX -- Six-year-old Matthew Parker asked Santa this past Christmas to help him find someone who could give him a new kidney, and, amazingly, his wish came true.
After the Parkers searched the whole country to find Matt a kidney, they were shocked to find out that the perfect donor was in their own backyard. Matthew's donor is his first grade teacher, Lindsey Painter.
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Soccer? I Hardly Know Her
By Jarrett Bellini
If the names Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley, Brian McBride, and Eddie Johnson don't ring a bell, it only suggests that you are an average American. This is not to say, however, that you are average in every way – for all I know, you have talent for chewing glass. Which is cool… if that's your thing. But you are an average American when it comes to having an appreciation for soccer. To be more specific, you've probably heard of teen sensation, Freddie Adu, but at the utterance of the words Bruce Arena, you'd sooner picture a multi-purpose, downtown entertainment complex before considering it to be the name of the US national team's head coach.
Despite being popular with kids, few Americans have really caught on to this whole soccer thing. I, for one, am astonished, for it never ceases to amaze me how people will willingly sit down to a three-plus hour football, baseball, or basketball game, rife with commercials and pointless studio commentary by the likes of Bill Walton (who managed to leave his brain behind at the Grateful Dead's closing of Winterland in 1978), but can't find it within themselves to dedicate just over an hour and half to a soccer match with only one fifteen minute commercial break during halftime. It's almost as if Americans can't get through their day without being told, eleven-hundred times, which watered-down lager to drink after a hard day's work at the apple pie factory.
"But there's no scoring in soccer." I hear this all the time. Well, you know what, people go to trendy bars all the time and there's NO SCORING THERE EITHER. But everybody still goes. Why? Because it's sport. And when some guy, clad in his newest vertical-striped shirt, finally scores a girl's phone number, a jolt of energy is charged right through his spine. My friends, that is soccer. When a goal is scored, the fans become unglued because putting one in the net is difficult and it does mean something. But, hey, if you enjoy a 200-point, non-playoff NBA game that only really comes down to the last three minutes, have at it. You can find me at home doing just about anything else, perhaps staring at the wall.
So these names I mentioned: Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley, Brian McBride, and Eddie Johnson… who are they? Collectively, they are four of the biggest names in American soccer, today. Donovan, who came back to the states after playing in Germany, is widely considered to be the best player in the country. But, besides the fact that these guys haven't raped, stabbed, or murdered anyone, you haven't heard of them because they don't personally endorse your favorite cell-phone company, aftershave, or prescription boner pill.
Yes, the world of professional soccer is a little different from other American sports, and it breaks into two categories: club and national. The top American club teams play in MLS (Major League Soccer). Now in its tenth season of existence, consisting of twelve franchises, MLS has given its fans plenty to chew on over the years. In its evolution from crap to emerging mainstream coolness, the league went through some dark stages, perhaps the darkest being the day somebody decided to name the Kansas City club, clad in rainbow attire, the Wiz. While the intention may have been to pay homage to The Wizard of Oz, one couldn't help but associate the team with peeing on the side of the freeway. Another painful memory was when a particular team, now known simply as MetroStars, was once preceded by the ambiguously shared city-prefix of New York/New Jersey. It's almost as bad as baseball's Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. However, despite some healthy "Euro-snob" debate among American fans, appropriate measures have been taken, and teams now boast soccer-friendly names like FC Dallas, Réal Salt Lake, and CD Chivas USA. Though, in all fairness to Madrid supporters, Réal Salt Lake is just a cheap European knockoff due to the fact that there's nothing "royal" about the club. Anyway, consult your local purist for further explanation.
Now, while the bulk of America's best talent ventures over to Europe to play their club ball – McBride for Fulham of the English Premier League, Beasley with PSV Eindhoven in The Netherlands – more and more Americans are choosing to stay at home to compete in MLS. Competitive salaries, the emergence of soccer specific stadiums, and the promise of not having to call your fries "chips" are shaping MLS for a successful future. Additionally, the fact that the NHL recently went on strike, seemingly upsetting none but a lonely drunkard or two in faraway Ontario, is also helping the league by giving viewers another option when it comes to low-scoring sports. But even as MLS grows and evolves, successful recognition of American soccer will always come primarily from the other category: the national team.
With only twelve top soccer clubs in America, clearly not everyone will be able to develop an emotional attachment to a particular team. Whereas the other major sports in this country have about thirty teams peppered all over the nation, fat guys in football jerseys blowing giant beer farts in the bleachers in places like Green Bay, it's difficult to expect somebody in, say, Minneapolis, to get overly excited for any particular MLS club. However, the national team exists for everyone. And the competition is fierce.
If you haven't heard of soccer's World Cup, you need to be taken out into the backyard and shot. Undoubtedly, this tournament, which happens only every four years, is the biggest sporting event on the planet. Baseball, football, basketball, and hockey may declare their respective best teams in and around America as world champions, but this competition holds slightly more water when bestowing such a title… namely because soccer's World Cup actually has something to do with the world.
Leading up to the tournament, nations must compete in more globally-localized qualifying competitions. These are games for which every American should be piling into the tavern, ordering a dark pint, and cheering for the pursuit of world domination. Seriously, do some research on the web and watch just one game. Feel the intensity of professional soccer at its highest level. You'll be hooked. Or, I suppose, you could just stay at home on the couch and listen to Bill Walton add commentary during a televised basketball game:
"That guy has the ball. It is orange. He is dribbling. The floor is made of wood. There is a leprechaun sitting on the basket. It is waving at me and vomiting rainbows. The rainbows are turning into unicorns."
"Um… thanks, Bill. We'll be back with thirty more seconds of NBA action after this commercial break."
Wake up, America.


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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003
Related Topics Court Locations and Addresses - Crimes - Time Limits??? - Crimes Act 1961 - Criminal Law - Criminal Legal Aid - Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act 2003 - Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004 - Habeas Corpus - Harassment Act 1997 - Sentencing
What do you do if you are mentally disordered, short term or long term, and this is relevant to any criminal behaviour committed by you?
This topic is linked with three other topics involving mental health or disabilty.
We have the following three specialist topics:
Insanity as a Defence
Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act 2003
The Intellectual Disability Compulsory Treatment and Rehabilitation Act 2003 links to the Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act 2003 which gives the Court powers to order individuals with mental impairment who have been charged with or convicted of an imprisonable offence to accept compulsory care and rehabilitation under the Act, or in the case of people with a mental illness, under the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992.
Both Acts came into force on 1 September 2004. The Intellectual Disability Compulsory Treatment and Rehabilitation Act 2003 allows the Court to make a compulsory care order for up to three years, which can be renewed by the Family Court if the care recipient's behaviour still poses significant risk, and will direct whether the care recipient requires secure or supervised levels of care.
The Act also allows for the transfer of people from prison or mental health services where they meet the criteria for intellectual disability under the Act.
The framework for administering the Act has been adapted from the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992.
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I am an Australian with a Singapore permanent resident status, do I need a visa for Vietnam?
Yes you need a visa for Vietnam. Only Singapore passport holder can come to Vietnam for a 30 day visit without a visa (see full list of countries with visa exemption agreement with Vietnam).
Australians can get a visa to Vietnam in 2 ways: applying for one at the embassy in Canberra or consulate in Sydney. An alternative option is get one on arrival (read full instructions about how Australians can get a visa for Vietnam).
Where can I find the visa exemption form for Vietnamese overseas? What is the process?
Please visit our page on visa exemption for Vietnamese American where we explain in details the process of obtaining a visa exemption for Vietnamese overseas. You can follow the link next to the Application form to fill out an e-form and make a hard copy of the completed form. The rest of the process is also fully explained on the page.
I am from Malaysia and i will travel to Vietnam at the end of year. Do I require to apply for Vietnam Visa for Malaysia passport?
Thank you for your question. Malaysians do not require a visa to enter Vietnam, as long as they plan to stay for fewer than 21 days. If you stay longer than that, you can apply for a visa at the Vietnamese embassies or online for a visa-on-arrival.
How to get a Vietnam visa from Singapore?
If you are a citizen of a Southeast Asian or Nordic countries, Japan, South Korea, you do not need a visa to enter Vietnam for tourism purpose. If your nationality is different from what was mentioned above, you can obtain your visa from the embassy or opt for visa on arrival.
The second option takes only a maximum of 2 days but it applies to air travel only.
How do I get a Vietnam visa from Hong Kong?
Tel: (852) 2591 4517 or (852) 2591 4510.
Visa forms may be obtained by sending a self-addressed, pre-stamped envelope or faxing to the Number: (852) 2591 4524.
Fee and Duration: Tourist visas cost between $30-80, depending on the length and number of entry.
Option 2: Apply for a visa-on-arrival. Note that this type of visa applies to air travel only, and it costs $45 - 85, depending on the duration of stay ad number of entries. The process of applying online at a travel agency is very fast and you do not have to show up at the embassy to submit the application.
Where can I renew my visa in HCMC?
There are two options to renew your visa in HCMC. You can either have a travel agency do it for you or do it on your own. Some services charge you from $40 to $160 depending upon for how long you want to extend or renew your visa and what types of visas - multiple entry or single entry.
It often takes 5 working days to process. If you prefer to do it on your own, you first need to download the application form for visa renewal, replacement or modification, length of stay extension (Form N14/M). Then, fill in the form and attach it to your passport and bring both in person to the Immigration Office.
In case you are sponsored or invited to stay longer in Vietnam, a certification signature from the chief of the receiving, sponsoring agency/organization of the applicant or of the Chief Police of the Ward/Commune where the sponsor resides is required. It costs you from $25 up to $100 for renewing a visa depending upon your length of stay you want to renew. If you are not clear what to choose, you can ask the officers for explanation.
Don't forget to get a receipt when submitting your documents at the Immigration Office. On the due date, bring your receipt and personal ID to get back your passport with the new visa.


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Five words: vintage, eclectic, thrifty, boho, comfortable. My entire wardrobe is a mish mashing of thrift store finds, hand-me-down vintage clothing, and brands like Free People or Anthropologie to throw in some statement pieces. Growing up in a thrifty, creative household, I have always been taught to think outside the box and be a good steward of my money by finding quality brand name pieces for inexpensive prices at Goodwill, various thrift stores, or even Etsy. When it comes to accessories, I like to mix it up. I think that jewelry, accessories, and nail polish are the components in any given outfit that really personalize and complete a look. On any given day, you can count on me wearing a variety of rings, simple or statement necklaces, and always finishing the look with a good pair or two of earrings.
Who says you have to pay full price for brand name, quality clothing? Don't be afraid or embarrassed to think outside the box and shop at a thrift store or look for those unique, good deals!


Quote: "I learned to play with my family at the kitchen table… Even at that point, I decided that there was a lot of skill involved in poker. When I was 13 and you asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, I might have said, 'Be a poker player.'" — Allen Cunningham (April 1, 2009 PokerPlayer interview).
Part of the "Original Crew" with John Juanda, Daniel Negreanu, Layne Flack, and Phil Ivey who met to talk poker.
Named 2005 WSOP Player of the Year as the first non-Main Event winner to earn $1,000,000 in one WSOP.
Quote: "Poker, poker, it's all skill, put your money in bad and go uphill." — Mike Matusow.
Also final tabled the WSOP Main Event 2005, finishing 9th.
Won the 2013 NBC Heads-Up Championship for $750,000.
Quote: "You can't let it get you down when somebody knocks you out of a tournament playing a hand they shouldn't have played. Without these types of players, nobody would win any amount of money, so sometimes you just have to take your medicine." — T.J. Cloutier.
Also final tabled the Main Event in 1988 (5th) and 1998 (3rd).
Played football for U.C. Berkeley in the 1949 Rose Bowl, and the Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League.
Other top Californians include Barbara Enright, Erick Lindgren, Gary Berland, and Phil Ivey, et al.
Stats current as of August 29, 2016.
See the first Poker Greats post for more information about these playing cards.
Quote: "Think your way through all situations. When things have gone badly, sit there just as tough as you were when you came in. That can be very discouraging to other players." — Erik Seidel.
Final tabled the WSOP Main Event in both 1988 (2nd) and 1999 (4th).
Recorded his first career live tournament cash in the 1988 WSOP Main Event.
Quote: "I got a little lucky. I was, like, the first celebrity who played in any of these tournaments. I did very well at the time. I was not really pursuing acting much so people say 'he's a poker player now'… I never considered myself to be a professional player." — Gabe Kaplan (2013 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin interview).
Finished sixth in the 1980 WSOP Main Event when only five places were paid.
Won Amarillo Slim's Superbowl of Poker in 1980 for $190,000.
Hosted High Stakes Poker for its first six seasons on television.
Quote: "[Winning the Main Event] will sort of make you known forever [and give you] respect among your peers, which is really what the player looks for." — Jay Heimowitz (All In, pp. 115-116).
Finished sixth in the 1981 WSOP Main Event and in the top 20 five times between 1987 and 1997.
With his fifth bracelet in 2000, became the first player to win a WSOP bracelet in four different decades.
Quote: "In 2004, I won a No Limit Hold 'Em tournament and also a stud tournament. In 1993, I won three tournaments. I guess I just win tournaments every ten years or so." — Ted Forrest (June 1, 2014 PokerNews interview after winning his sixth bracelet).
Is the Suicide King in Michael Craig's 2005 book, The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King.
Won a two million dollar weight loss bet with Mike Matusow by dropping 50 pounds in only two months in 2010.
Other top New Yorkers include Robert Varkonyi, et al.
Stats current as of July 30, 2016.
Quote: "I actually love to play all the different games because they help keep my mind sharp. But, if I could only play one game for the rest of my live, I'd go with No Limit Hold 'Em." — John Juanda (January 6, 2009 PokerNews interview).
Won the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event for $1,580,096.
Led the Bluff Power Ranking for its first four years beginning in 2004.
Goes by "John", but his full first name is "Johnson".
Quote: "I suppose the only regret I might have is that I didn't beat Phil Hellmuth in 1989 [for unparalleled third straight Main Event title]." — Johnny Chan (September 1, 2006 PokerPlayer interview. He also admitted to AskMen that he wakes up in a cold sweat thinking about the final hand).
Last player to win back-to-back WSOP Main Events, a feat that is very unlikely to be done again.
Was the first player to win ten WSOP bracelets, just four days before Doyle Brunson matched him in 2005.
Quote: "I never saw poker as gambling. It's about talent and patience and reading people. You don't play each hand; you weigh each hand." — Men Nguyen (May 15, 2003 L.A. Weekly interview).
Card Player Player of the Year in 1997, 2001, 2003, and 2005.
Has mentored several other successful pros, including his wife Van and his cousins David Pham and Minh Nguyen.
Other top Asians include David Chiu, J.C. Tran, Nani Dollison, et al.
Quote: "I spent a lot of my time drinking heavily, betting on a lotta sports and wasting my money on craps – the game that's always been my downfall. And when I'd play poker, I'd never bring my A-game." — Hoyt Corkins (explaining why he took a decade-long break from poker in a 2006 Bluff magazine interview).
Attended Troy State University for one year before dropping out to move to Las Vegas and play poker.
Returned from his hiatus to win the WPT $10,000 Main Event at Foxwoods on November 17, 2003 for $1,089,200.
Quote: "Yup. I'm one of those guys. My buddies and I watched Moneymaker win it, and we just started playing all the time. I know it sounds cliche, but that's how I found poker." — Jason Mercier (February 2012 Bluff magazine interview).
Won the 2008 EPT Sanremo Main Event for $1,138,929 in only his second major tournament.
Named 2009 Bluff magazine Player of the Year, having won five tournaments and $1.3 million.
Quote: "Making the final table again is a very big thing this year, but I wasn't letting it get to me. Just totally relaxed the whole way." — Mark Newhouse (July 23, 2014 PokerNews interview).
Was the first player to final table consecutive WSOP Main Events since Dan Harrington in 2003 and 2004.
Won the 2006 WPT Borgata Open Main Event for $1,519,020.
Quote: "Remember that it never hurts to sometimes lay down the best hand… Take your time, don't commit all your chips on a bluff, and just try to make sure every decision is a good one. Sometimes you have only one chance to make a decision, so make sure it's the right one." — Michael Mizrachi (AskMen interview).
Nicknamed "The Grinder" from his patience in cash games but plays much wilder in tournaments.
Won two WPT Main Events in less than a year, the 2005 L.A. Poker Classic and the 2006 Borgata Winter Open.
Other top Southerners include Billy Baxter, Chris Moneymaker, et al. (note that Texans have their own group).
Stats current as of June 6, 2016.


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THE DIGITAL TRAVEL GUIDE FOR FOOTBALL FANS
It was a Glaswegian printer, James B Ferguson, who introduced football to Reykjavik in 1895. A keen sportsman, Ferguson founded the Reykjavik Gymnastics Club while working for the Ísafold printing company. Owner Björn Jónsson, later to introduce prohibition to Iceland, had hired Ferguson on account of his temperance – though the Scot would only stay a year by the Arctic Circle.
Welcome to Reykjavik/Mark Asch
Four years later his compatriot Frank McGregor, an engineer, founded Iceland's first football club, FC Reykjavik, later changed to the more Icelandic-sounding Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, or KR for short.
It would be another ten years before another club came along. Fram, was formed by young students around Tjarnargata. Today based east of the capital in Laugardalur, The Blues use the national stadium, Laugardalsvöllur, as their home ground. Fram, thought of as the people's team as opposed to the perceived superiority of KR, would later enjoy the best European runs, beating the Swedish champions Djurgården and leading Barcelona for most of the game in 1990.
Fram's rivalry with KR dates back to the inaugural three-team Icelandic championship of 1912. Fram then dominated the next decade as the Big Two were joined by city rivals Valur. The Reds enjoyed their own period of domination in the 1930s and 1940s, under Scottish coaches Murdo MacDougall, Robert Jack and Joe Devine. Around that time, the club acquired land at Hlidarendi, east of Reykjavik, where they are still based.
By 1918, the Big Three were joined by Víkingur, very much the fourth of Reykjavik's Big Four. Twice title-winners in the 1920s, and three times in the early 1980s and 1990s, Víkingur have the smallest fan base. Their one-stand, 1,100-capacity Víkin ground is on the south-eastern outskirts of the capital.
From 1912 to 1950, these four clubs held an absolute monopoly on the Icelandic championship. In 1951, ÍA from Akranes, 20km north of Reykjavik, broke the capital's stranglehold by claiming the first of 18 titles.
The Dubliner/Mark Asch
Although a league had been in place for 30 years, it wasn't until 1946 that a newly independent Iceland fielded a national side, against their old masters, Denmark. At the time, Reykjavik didn't have a proper stadium to speak of, so the game was played on gravel at Melavöllur in Melar, near today's National Museum in west Reykjavik. With an athletics track in summer and skating rink in winter, this was the city's main sports ground until 1957.
Having decided to make their World Cup debut in the 1958 tournament to take place in Sweden, Iceland needed a proper stadium to host qualifying matches. Set in Laugardalur, 'Laundry Valley', an area of hot springs east of town, the national stadium of Laugardalsvöllur was opened on National Day, June 17, 1957. That September, it hosted Iceland's two home matches, against Belgium and eventual semi-finalists France, over the course of four days.
Today, Laugardalsvöllur is home to the national team and Fram, and stages major derbies and European ties.
Currently there are six teams from Reykjavik in Iceland's top-flight Úrvalsdeild, and one each from the adjoining towns of Kópavogur, Gardabaer and Hafnarfjördur. Recently promoted Fjölnir play at the stadium of the same name in the far east of town. Ambitious Fylkir, with a modest European pedigree, proudly represent the district of Árbaer in south-east Reykjavik. Supporters, the Kiddi Tomm, gather at the Blásteinn bar before and after home games at the 5,000-capacity Fylkisvöllur.
Of the clubs just outside Reykjavik, Breidablik have recently appeared in Europe, while Stjarnan from Gardabaer enjoyed a memorable season in 2014-15, winning the league for the first time, and putting Bangor City, Motherwell and Lech Poznan to the sword in the Europa League. Glenavon met a similar fate at the hands of FH of Hafnarfjardar, champions six times since 2004. Dunfermline and Aston Villa fans may well remember tricky games against the portsiders.
Laugardalsvöllur national stadium: 64.143427, -21.879032
Fjölnir/Fjölnir stadium: 64.136412, -21.787691
Fylkir/Fylkisvöllur stadium: 64.113394, -21.792884
BSÍ bus Terminal: 64.137571, -21.931048
Reykjavik Lights Hotel: 64.139500, -21.882109
Hilton Reykjavik Nordica: 64.139841, -21.888809
Hlemmur Square: 64.143243, -21.915385
City Center Hotel: 64.147870, -21.940487
Reykjavik Backpackers: 64.145382, -21.927920
Bjarni Fel: 64.147370, -21.937951
Celtic Cross: 64.146569, -21.930297
The Dubliner: 64.148567, -21.940302
The English Pub: 64.147549, -21.939130
Glaumbar: 64.148881, -21.940549
Boston: 64.145342, -21.927714
Valur/Hlidarendi: 64.132929, -21.927032
Vikingur/Vikin: 64.117581, -21.847075
Stjarnan/Stjörnuvöllur: 64.087934, -21.928850
Laekjartorg station: 64.147563, -21.936501
Hlemmur station: 64.143288, -21.914201
Reykjavik's main international airport is at Keflavík, 50km (31 miles) south-west of the city. Buses to town take 45min. Flybus calls at Gardabaer on the way to the BSÍ Bus Terminal (from ISK1,950 online). Airport Express (ISK2,400/return ISK4,400) leaves downtown Laekjartorg bus terminal every 30-60min. Both leave 30-40min after flight arrivals and call at major hotels upon request.
Citytaxi charges €85/ISK13,000 for 1-4 persons to town, €110/ISK16,500 for 5-8.
Public transport comprises a network of yellow Straetó buses. Many pass through the main central stations of Laekjartorg and/or Hlemmur. A single ticket is ISK350, a one-day card ISK900, three-day ISK2,200. If paying on the bus, it's exact change only. Downtown Reykjavik is otherwise walkable.
Hilton Reykjavik Nordica/Mark Asch
Reykjavik tourist information has a comprehensive database of hotels.
The Reykjavik Lights is across the street from the Laugardalsvöllur and national sports complex and contains two lobby restaurants, including recommended pizzeria Eldsmidjan.
A ten-minute walk from the stadium, the Hilton Reykjavik Nordica is large and luxurious, with spa treatments.
Hlemmur Square stands opposite the Hlemmur bus terminal on the western edge of the town centre, a converted industrial space, upscale and boutique.
In the heart of town, the mid-priced City Center Hotel contains the Microbar, with Iceland's most extensive selection of domestic and imported beers.
On the budget end, Reykjavik Backpackers is a bustling downtown hostel with the funky Bunk Bar on the ground floor.
Bjarni Fel/Mark Asch
Drinking only became legally widespread in Reykjavik in 1989. If you factor how much it now costs to celebrate this fact, around ISK900/€6 a pint, and you can easily see why locals drink at home before going wild after midnight of a weekend. Bars serve beer, often local Egils, in familiar pint glasses.
Bjarni Fel (Austurstræti 20) is named after former KR defender and TV commentator Bjarni Felixson. Vintage black-and-white Icelandic sporting photos cover the wall space not occupied by numerous flat-screens. There's also a projector screen on the back semi-enclosed smoking deck for bigger events. Bar snacks are available, plus a full menu from the restaurant next door.
Of the expat pubs, Celtic Cross (Hverfisgata 26) offers one of downtown's later, cheaper and happier happy hours. Despite a distinct literary theme, several flat-screens face outward from the burnished-wood central bar for match action.
The Dubliner (Hafnarstræti 4) has a projector screen for big matches. You enter through the generous street-side outdoor space, past local regulars frantically engaging in the true national pastime of table football. Near Bjarni Fel, The English Pub has a projector screen out front even on normal match days. Basic bar snacks and supermarket pizzas complement nightly live music in the troubador vein and, behind the bar, spins one of Reykjavik's many wheels of beer fortune.
(Relatively) cheap beer and big screens are the main attractions at Glaumbar (Tryggvagata 18), which turns into a sweaty dance club later on. Upwards of a million viewers have seen the YouTube clip of Julian Assange dancing here.
Boston (Laugavegur 28B) doesn't really qualify as a sports or even theme bar, but attracts arty, bohemian types to a second-storey lounge, where a TV was installed for the World Cup to complement the Mexican kitchen.
Boston/Mark Asch
Glaumbar/Mark Asch
The Celtic Cross/Mark Asch
Reykjavik Backpackers/Mark Asch
City Center Hotel/Mark Asch
The English Pub/Mark Asch
Reykjavik Lights Hotel/Mark Asch
Hlemmur Square/Mark Asch
Laugardalsvöllur
Stjarnan FC


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Koza Karpacka
The Koza Karpacka, an old Polish breed, is raised only in the Carpathian Highlands, where it also comes from. The Carpathian goat is a breed developed in the 19th century in the Carpathian Mountains of Poland. The breed was once widely found. However, due to the introduction of more distinguished goats and changes in agriculture, it became almost extinct. It was only in 2005 that a tiny herd of Carpathian goats was spotted in Poland, and they were instantly moved to the National Research Institute of Animal Production. A conservation and recovery plan was developed from 2007 to 2013. In 2012, there were only 40 females registered. Nowadays, the number of these animals is still low and its risk of extinction is high.
The animals are medium sized, white in color, and have coarse hair with beards and long, narrow ears. Their horns are thin and grow in an upward and backward direction. Both male and female come with a distinct fringe right around the eyes. It has a well-built trunk and hindquarter that slopes. Adult males weigh on average 52 kg and females 42 kg with an average height of 60 cm and 50 cm respectively. The animals are very hardy and are extremely well adapted to live under severe highland conditions, having dense, long hair as well as some underfur. Carpathian goats are kept mainly for milk production.
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Q: What is physical meaning of an operator to applied on a wavefunction? we know that an eigen operator give the eigen value and keep the wavefunction in corresponding position. but what is the simple physical meaning of this process because the wavefunction represent the matter waves.

A: I'll answer with a question: What does the wave function $\psi$ itself mean? If you can't answer this concisely (and it's hard to!), you should not expect a short simple answer to the question what it means to apply an operator to the wave function.
Already the fact that a wave function multiplied by a phase factor $e^{i \varphi}$ describes the same physics should tell you that it's not simple.
You say $\psi$ represents the matter waves - yes, well, but that's a vague notion, in which way does it represent them? This depends on your preferred formulation of quantum mechanics. At least we can be sure that $|\psi|^2$ is the probability distribution for positions.
Usually, an operator $A$ applied to a wave function itself has no particular meaning. If you associate $A$ with an observable you are measuring, the important facts lie in the scalar products $\langle \phi, A \psi \rangle$, telling you the transition probabilities.

A: The Schrödinger momentum is $\vec p = \frac{\hbar}{i} \int {d^3x \psi \vec \nabla \psi }$. We can interpret this by defining the concept of the expectation value of an operator. Then we can do some interesting mathematics with operators. However all the physical meaning is represented by this expression.