Walk through one of the most picturesque valleys in Slovenia, not far from the capital Ljubljana, whilst experiencing some of the local traditions & food. You stay in one hotel the whole time.
Day 2 : Day trip to the unique, beautifully preserved herdsmen settlement on Velika Planina. Mountain with its unique architecture is a sort of open-air museum and offers unforgettable mountain views and experiences. Together we will discover the story of Trnič – cheese of Love and try to make "trnič" cheese of our own together with a herdman. To reach the mountain we will either use cable car or have a walking day; 12 km hiking gaining 1200 m altitude. In the afternoon you can use our horse carriage service and have a ride in picturesque countryside. After you will have a guided tour of Kamnik, 800 years old Alpine town (20 km from capital Ljubljana).
Day 3 : Third day we will discover alpine valley of Kamniška Bistrica. We could reach it by bikes! Together with a guide we will get to know some natural features from the ice age and see natural heritage; such as Kamniška Bistrica River Spring, gorges of Veliki and Mali Predaselj, as well as cultural heritage: Plečnik Hunting Lodge and Memorial Park – memorial for all who died in the mountains boulders. In the afternoon it will be time for picnic!
Day 4: After breakfast we walk (about 2 hrs. ) to Budnar museum house with an open-fire smoke kitchen where we will have a special experience. First we will get old recipes, start to look for ingredients and cook in the old kitchen. You will make your Typical Slovene meal on your own. In the afternoon there will be time for relaxing at Snovik spa resort that is 3 km from our hotel.
Day 5 : It is time for hiking in the Alps. The trail begins in the heart of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, in the glacier valley Kamniška Bistrica. The starting point is the mountain hut Dom in Kamniška Bistrica, from where a well-marked trail will lead you to Kamnik saddle (1864 m). The trail is pleasant and safe and is considered one of the most popular mountain trails in the Kamnik- Savinja Alps. The first part of the trail runs through the woods. The second part offers views all the way to Kamnik, Ljubljana basin and beyond. Once you arrive to the Kamnik hut on the Kamnik saddle, we recommend that you climb a bit higher, where you can enjoy a great view of the north side all the way to the Logar Valley. If you want, you can continue to Brana (2253 m).
Day 6: Sixth day it is going to be a time for discovering Kamnik-Savinja Alps. We will drive to Logarska dolina – Solčavsko where is one of the most beautiful alpine valleys in Europe. We will take a walk and visit major attractions such as: Rinka waterfall: one of the highest waterfalls in Slovenia, fossils from the Middle Triassic, zijalka cave – an archeological site from ancient time. Lunch we will have at one of the local restaurants well known for their trout from Savinja River..


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Portable and light laptop with long-lasting battery life
Toshiba's computers were rebranded as Dynabook after the Japanese electronics giant sold its PC business to Sharp in 2018.
But judging from the latest Dynabook Portege X30L-G, not much has changed besides the branding.
For one thing, it still looks more functional than stylish, though in a nod to modernity, Dynabook has reduced the thickness of the screen bezels.
But the Portege's functional slant is par for the course for a business laptop. More importantly, the latest iteration is, like its predecessors, one of the most portable notebooks in the market.
In fact, Dynabook says the X30L-G is the world's lightest 13.3-inch laptop with a 10th-generation Intel Core processor.
At around 870g, the Portege is indeed remarkably light. Just as impressive is the bundled charger, which fits in my palm and is almost as small as a smartphone charger.
But Dynabook's claim is disingenuous because while it is technically accurate, the Asus ExpertBook B9450 I reviewed earlier in May has the same weight, albeit with a larger 14-inch display.
As is often the case with ultra-light notebooks, the Portege is so handy because it uses a magnesium-alloy chassis.
While the lid exhibits a fair amount of flex, the palm rest and the chassis feel fairly rigid, because of an internal honeycomb structure. Dynabook says the laptop has passed several military-grade tests (MIL-STD-810G) for durability.
Also making the case for durability is the spill-resistant backlit keyboard. But the keyboard feels cramped – the keys are shorter than average while the Function keys are especially small. The keyboard is also shallow, though a light tap is sufficient to trigger a key press.
The touchpad is small by today's standards. And further reducing its usable area, a fingerprint sensor is located at the top-left corner.
• Bright matt screen
• Very portable
• Excellent battery life
• Lacks Thunderbolt 3
• Keyboard takes some getting used to
• Small touchpad
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i7-10510U (1.8GHz)
GRAPHICS: Intel UHD Graphics
RAM: 8GB DDR4
SCREEN SIZE: 13.3 inches, 1,920 x 1,080 pixels
CONNECTIVITY: USB 3.1 Type-C Gen 1, 2 x USB 3.0, HDMI, Ethernet, microSD card reader, audio jack
BATTERY: 42 watt-hour
FEATURES: 4/5
DESIGN: 4/5
PERFORMANCE: 4/5
VALUE FOR MONEY: 3.5/5
BATTERY LIFE: 5/5
The Portege, though, also comes with an infrared facial recognition camera, which I prefer over the fingerprint sensor because of its speed. But having a privacy shutter, like the ones found in some business notebooks, to block the camera when it is not in use, would have been nice.
Unsurprisingly, the Portege uses a Sharp IGZO screen that is rated at 470nits, which is very bright for a laptop display. Coupled with the screen's matt finish, I could read the contents of the screen even in an outdoor sunlit setting.
There is no need to carry a dongle with the Portege. It comes with two full-size USB Type-A ports, an HDMI port and even an Ethernet port. There is also a USB Type-C port, which can be used to recharge the laptop. A Thunderbolt 3 port would have been the icing on the cake, but it is unfortunately not included.
With its low-voltage Intel Core i7-10510U processor, 8GB of system memory and a 512GB solid-state drive, the Portege is more than capable at everyday computing tasks such as e-mailing, video conferencing and document editing. It scored 4,036 in the PCMark 10 benchmark, slightly lower than the Microsoft Surface Pro 7 (4,233), which has a slightly better graphics chip.
More importantly, for a business notebook, the Portege has excellent battery life. It lasted eight hours and 15 minutes in The Straits Times video-loop battery test with the screen set to the maximum brightness.
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HOMEGROWN BLUES ROYALTY: SEASICK STEVE
>> HOMEGROWN BLUES ROYALTY: SEASICK STEVE
Very little is known about Seasick Steve. Most people may not even know his name. Today, we take a closer look at one of Oakland CA's blues champions.
Born as Steven Gene Wold, he is commonly known as Seasick Steve. He is also a rather talented American blues musician. When Steve was young, his father played boogie-woogie (a popular offshoot of Blues) on piano. As much as Seasick Steve would have loved to learn the same craft, he was not able to do so. He thought that maybe he didn't have the talent or the aptitude to play. However, that impression changed when a worker in his grandfather's garage taught him the guitar.
This worker was no one else than the very talented K. C. Douglas. This was when the young Steve would realize that he did have an affinity for Blues—just not with the same instrument as his father.
In his teens, he left home to escape an abusive stepfather. It is this time of his life that he credits for most of his passion and inspiration for Blues and his latter songs. He lived on the road until the latter part of 1973. He travelled by sneaking unto freight trains and survived by taking odd jobs all over the country. It was probably these experiences that fueled much of his material.
Musical Journey
It was around the 60s that Steve had begun to really practice his music. He toured and performed with some other blues musicians. Most of his time was spent in San Francisco, a city with a large Blues following.
It was not until 2001 that he released his first ever album entitled "Cheap". The album was recorded in Norway and had The Level Devils as his rhythm support, Jo Husmo on bass, and Kai Christoffersen on the drums. His solo album did not grace the world until 2006.
Popularity in the UK
It was on a New Year's Eve BBC TV 20016 special that truly helped to launch Seasick Steve's career. He had performed a live version of "Dog House Boogie". It was only after this show that his popularity truly came around.
He was generally well-liked in the UK and even won the 2007 MOJO Award for Best Breakthrough Act. Following that, he went on to perform in large UK festivals. The following year, he kicked off a massive UK tour schedule. Continuing his initial success in the UK, all of his tours were sold out.
To this day, he enjoys success in the UK.
The Three-String Trance Wonder
Arguably, the most well-known of Seasick Steve's equipment is his trusty old guitar named The Three-String Trance Wonder. While there are many versions of the tale about how this guitar came into his possession, there is no doubt that it is his most iconic possession.
Present Day Activities
Seasick Steve is still in the United Kingdom. While it may be a little odd that he has yet to return to the USA for long-term durations, it does not stop him from being one of Oakland's beloved blues figures.
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8 Tips to Attract International Students to Your Post-Secondary School
How solid multicultural marketing strategy can increase student enrollment
Tim Trull , Managing Director, Strategy
Building and maintaining an internationally diverse student body doesn't happen without effort—especially at a time when new enrollments are down for international students at all but the most elite schools.
Fortunately, international students who are already here are remaining stateside to complete their undergraduate programs of study. And, afterward, many are enrolling in graduate school during the three-year window they have to complete an Optional Practical Training (OPT) internship.
That's why, in today's market, it makes sense to tweak your marketing efforts to retain your international undergraduate students and to target international graduates of competing American schools for your advanced-degree programs.
Let's take a look at the nuances which can make your outreach successful.
International students respond to cultural cues more than language
We know. It's tempting to reach out to multicultural audiences by quickly translating your school's marketing materials into different languages, switching out an image or two and calling it good.
Even for domestic students whose first language is anything other than English, it's just not that simple. Hispanic immigrant families, for example, tend to become English-first by the third or fourth generation. Using their family's ancestral language without putting it into the proper cultural context isn't effective. Similarly, differences among international students aren't found in language. They come in cultural cues.
And that's where your marketing differentiation should focus.
Add an international flavor to your school's programs
One way to compete internationally is by offering and promoting a global, cross-cultural curriculum. Consider making changes that will add value to your programs in addition to making international students feel more at home.
The following are worth considering:
Do you have an international student union? If not, what cultural activities and support systems are in place for your international students to connect with each other?
What supports do you have in place to reassure parents who are interested in keeping up with what's new on campus but aren't able to attend local parent or family days?
Do your cafeteria and other on-campus dining options cater to a variety of international preferences and tastes?
Do your courses include topics of global interest?
Will graduates leave prepared to succeed anywhere in the world?
Do you offer housing options for those who share a first language other than English?
Even the artwork and architectural choices for campus classrooms, student housing buildings, and other school structures can be planned with an eye toward being inclusive and welcoming people of many cultures.
Appeal to international student motivations
Reasons why students decide to study abroad can vary widely. One motivator is to earn a degree to prepare for a career in the United States. This could include making connections with American companies while attending school so they have employment options when it's time to graduate.
Others come to American universities or other educational institutions to develop skills they can take back home. They might have a goal to improve conditions in their hometown. They might also just want to have learning experiences they wouldn't otherwise.
Some students, much like U.S. students who choose to study abroad, are in search of a challenge. They don't always know what to expect when they get here or what obstacles they might face along the way but are excited to try. For them, provide information on what they'd need to know when traveling to a new country, especially when it comes to support for those who don't speak English well.
If you provide mentor buddies, say so. If you have programs to connect students with host families who can show them around, tout that as well. Let them know they won't need to experience their adventure alone.
Tailor your marketing messages to them to speak to those motivations, and you'll have far more success than you would otherwise.
Extend your reach beyond the beaten path
Just because every other school recruits heavily from a select pool of cities in India and China doesn't mean yours should do the same.
In fact, changing things up a bit can boost your chances of reaching international students whom traditional recruiting tactics might miss. Running digital ad campaigns in less-targeted cities will get your brand in front of many potential students who might otherwise not know who you are or what you offer.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't run any ads or have recruitment events in the larger cities. Because every other U.S.-based college or university is doing the same thing, however, your ads need to stand out.
Demonstrate global thought leadership
International outreach should include publishing articles in foreign publications and sending representatives to speak at strategic events.
Your university's president or instructors who are tied to breaking research or well-known programs and studies, for example, can speak at industry events which would attract those interested in enrolling in your programs. Knowing that a representative of your school cares enough to make a personal appearance in their hometown can make a significant positive impression.
Make financial-aid information readily available
A major reason for declining new international student enrollment is a corresponding decline in the availability of government funding in some areas.
Unless you advertise that financial assistance is available, you might miss out on some great students who don't have the resources to find alternative funding on their own.
Make it affordable. Make that information findable, and make them feel confident in their chances of being awarded relevant scholarships, grants or loans.
Enlist the help of your international alumni
Hearing positive testimonials from those who have gone before them can be immensely encouraging to potential students and their parents, alike.
If you have alumni who live abroad in an area where you plan to recruit, reach out to them. Consider organizing alumni chapters if they don't already exist. Encourage them to invite potential new students to their meetings or to reach out to them in other ways.
Streamline your application process
Applying for college can seem daunting for anyone. For those coming from outside of the United States, find ways to make the process as easy and straight-forward as possible.
Leverage current international students on campus for feedback on ways to make applying more user-friendly, and provide important financial and program materials in their native language to avoid possible confusion.
A leading Phoenix-based multicultural ad agency, LAVIDGE has worked with traditional schools from universities to community colleges. We also represent non-degree post-secondary education providers and non-profit organizations which support the education industry. We can help you too.
To learn more, give us a call at 480.998.2600 or send email to [email protected].
International Student Enrollment Has Been On the Rise for Decades
Figure 1. International Students in U.S. Colleges and Universities and Share of Total Enrollment, (%), School Year (SY) 1949–50 to 2016–17
Source: Institute of International Education (IIE), "International Student Enrollment Trends, 1948/49-2016/17," Open Doors: Report on International Educational Exchange (Washington, DC: IIE, 2017), available online.
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Mosco sentenced to ten years for impersonating Assistant State Attorneys, filing a false court document
Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:52AM
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State of Florida v. Christian Mosco
Clerk Number: 2019 307132 CFDB
DAYTONA – This morning, a Daytona Beach man was sentenced to ten years in a state prison facility for several charges, including: two counts of falsely impersonating an officer, a third-degree felony, practicing law without proper authority, a third-degree felony, two counts of fraudulent use of personal identification information, a third-degree felony, criminal process under color of law, a third-degree felony, and uttering a forgery, a third-degree felony.
On September 26, 2019, Christian Mosco used the personal identification information of two Assistant State Attorneys to file a 'no information' in an attempt to drop charges against himself. The Volusia County Clerk of Court's office noticed the suspicious document and contacted the Office of the State Attorney. Upon investigation, it was determined that the document was fraudulent. The Daytona Beach Police Department obtained a search warrant of Mosco's computer and found the fraudulent document.
Assistant State Attorney Sarah Thomas prosecuted the case before Judge Dennis Craig. The agreed-to plea also included previous charges of threats of extortion (2019 303095 CFDB) and burglary and petit theft (2019 305618 CFDB.)
State Attorney R.J. Larizza had this to say about the case: "The defendant employed threats, scams and theft in an attempt to further his criminal plans. As a result he received a ten (10) year prison sentence. Had he used his talents for positive and law-abiding activities, he would not be on his way to the State Prison System."
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Begging to differ with the government
Posted on January 13, 2015 by biglychee
An old joke: 'How do you know when a politician is lying? Answer – his mouth is open'. It reflects the cynicism of people living in established democracies. In fairness, statesmen do not spend that much time trying to blatantly mislead. More usually, they spout falsehoods to pander to voters' own misconceptions; mostly, they just state obvious inanities as profound and original.
In non-democratic Hong Kong, however, senior officials today are required to insist categorically and repeatedly that total untruths and fictions are facts. With little in the way of a competent opposition to hold them to account, they get away with it. Thus many people believe that we have a shortage of space for housing, or that tourism benefits us all. But occasionally, someone will stand up and question them, or just call them out for talking rubbish.
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy than Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen. And, as if to pile on the cruelty, fate decreed that he had to be wearing a ridiculous-looking wig at the time – the opening of the new legal year.
He pronounced at length how Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy protests had attacked and damaged the city's rule of law, and how the ongoing round-up of leading activists was not politically motivated persecution. But then the Chief Justice stepped up to mildly and more or less implicitly disagree that participants in recent events lacked respect for rule of law; he also stated, without pointing any fingers, that the law applied to the government and everyone else equally. And to finish things off, Bar Association chairman Paul Shieh criticized officials for misleading the public by blurring the difference between obedience of the law (which applies to all of us) and rule of law (which is about how rulers use or abuse the law).
Some half-clever spin doctor in government decided some time ago to portray the civil disobedience planned by pro-democrats as an assault on the 'rule of law', which the Hong Kong public instinctively cherish. Officials have managed to get away with repeating this lie over and again during the last year, not least because compliant media ignored critics' objections. The Chief Justice's words are harder to sweep aside.
The even-handed and impartial judiciary will soon be in the public eye again as the system deals with pro-democrats charged with 'instigating' protests. As participants in civil disobedience, the activists have by definition committed offenses, so the courts presumably have no choice but to punish them. But in a city where the authorities have for years gone easy on people organizing unauthorized protests, the decision to prosecute in these cases will obviously appear selective – as in 'made under pressure from Beijing to kill chickens to scare monkeys'. To the extent that the government 'wins', the rule of law will lose.
(You can see Rimsky looking as well as sounding idiotic in his wig here, as well as a mace bearer, police bagpipers and other strange rituals that must be awkward to explain to Beijing officials.)
If the government hopes for support or sympathy from the American Chamber of Commerce, it seems it will be disappointed. At the opening of the new non-wig-wearing year, the Chamber's chairman describes the Occupy protests as political and no big deal to business, when as a pro-establishment loyalist he should in fact be screeching that it is a great threat to civilization. Instead, he says Occupy 'raised issues' with companies, which we could interpret to mean it was a pain because officials were bullying businessmen into signing stupid petitions backing the embarrassing party line (though it could mean anything). He also warns that the main threat would be 'any deviation' from rule of law, freedom of speech or freedom of the press – which happen to be just the things many suspect Beijing wants to diminish in order to bring Hong Kong into line. Most shocking of all, he is quoted as saying: "We're glad that Occupy is over but…"
What he says after 'but' is irrelevant. Occupy was an evil foreign-backed plot by brainwashed Killer School Kids to topple the Chinese government – end of story. There can be no 'but'.
(As it happens, the Amcham boss essentially calls for the government to sit and talk with pro-democrats, when of course the government is currently working on putting the activists in chains and locking them up in cold, damp, rat-infested dungeons for decades. So, Amcham off-message again.)
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gumshoe says:
I never understood how rule of law got so twisted. You said it correctly: obeying the law is part of citizens' responsibility, enforcing rule of law is completely up to the government. After years of letting traffic offenders run wild, blocked sidewalks in front of pharmacies, and vertical supply chains (which isn't illegal yet, but would be in any other civilized country) squeezing literally everyone except those at the top, where does the buck stop?
PD says:
The rule of law is not operating in many of the villages, where civil servants and their subcontractors are reluctant to go in groups of less than four, where irate mobs wielding hob-nailed staves patrol, where outsiders are made to feel most unwelcome and where land regulations are systematically flouted.
reductio says:
@PD
Exactly. When the government starts to really enforce the rule of law north of Lion Rock (and Lantau; O boy, especially in Lantau) and clamps down on all the shenanigans in the NT, then I'll pay some interest to what they're saying.
Cassowary says:
The courts will give the Occupiers a slap on the wrist. Their real punishment will be extra-judicial.
NIMBY says:
The host and some of the guest host of Backchat (RTHK-3) hopefully will read the points on rule of law, though to be fair I doubt CY even gives a damn what anyone listening to that channel thinks. The Putonghua Channel is more important to CY.
Rim-job Yuan looked like he was taking an unlubricated one up the back-side during his speech.
However, when judges going on about impartiality, after making sure it's a human speaking have a good laugh. David Webb has quite a few posts about how a surname, nationality, the shared golf club membership of the barrister and judge, or even venal money trend with the severity of sentencing in our beloved Hong Kong. Naturally it's all coincidence, correlation not equating causation and all that. Our fine judges don't have a racist, snobbish, greedy bone in their bodies -being sharks they just have cartilage.
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Bystander says:
Rimsky Yuen – complete disinformation and what you would expect from Legal Department, oops, Dept of 'Justice.' (Legal Dept rode roughshod over Bill of Rights claims that localisation was unlawful as discriminatory. A bit of history.)
Sometimes civil disobedience is required in democracies if the Govt, repeat Govt, is not getting it right. Rosa Parks broke the 'law' by not sitting in the back of the bus, and thus events rolled on to what we have today, Prez Obama (assuming he is more black than white.)
Don't blame the USA today on Rosa Parks, she tried her best.
Scotty Dotty says:
1) Rimsky's public speaking is not improving with age. Whoever rammed that banana up Rimsky's rim, as it were, please remove.
2) I agree, the Hong Kong government are abusing "rule of law" to mean "obey Beijing". Sneaky.
PS: Old lawyer joke, but appropriate:
Q: Why did God invent lawyers?
A: So there would be someone for estate agents to look down on
PCC says:
Man walks into a bar and says loudly, "All lawyers are arseholes!"
Man sitting at the end of the bar says, "Hey, mister, I resent that."
Man who walked in says, "Why? You a lawyer?"
Man at bar says, "No, I'm an arsehole."
reductio (ad absurdum?), Thanks — of course the NT lawlessness may have been there for centuries, but I do get the impression it's getting worse.
I in turn have appreciated your posts (and Cassowary's and many others') — keep them coming!
Monkey Reborn says:
One wonders the extent to which the Hong Kong political legal establishment and judiciary have been the target of Zhou Enlai's "termite strategy". It is sad to note that among Ludwig's cabinet members, the best case scenario is that said member is a political opportunist, pursuing money and power and influence at the expense of personal honour and integrity; worst case scenario said member is a card carrying member of the CCP's United Front. Given the rather murky, personal loyalty-driven nature of secret revolutionary organizations like the UF, there are two distinct possibilities in regard to the UF's activities in Hong Kong: (1) they are executing the agreed policy/strategy of a united politburo in Beijing; (2) they are sabotaging efforts to implement such policy/strategy in order to discredit or damage the faction currently in power.
Traditionally, Hong Kong's UF organizations have been under the purview of Jiang Zemin and his henchman, particularly Zeng Qinghong (see Christine Loh's great book on the CCP in Hong Kong as source). Given there is strong anecdotal and other evidence that the current CCP faction in power is strongly and actively against any form of conflagration or political demonstration in Hong Kong (for manifold reasons, not least the fear of contagion to social discontents in eastern Chinese cities – a very conservative estimate of 1~3% of 400 million is still a hell of a lot of people), a theory can be posited that many of the actions of HK Gov leaders during OC were deliberately intended to deepen social division and cause greater "chaos", thereby undermining and discrediting the current leadership in Beijing and furthering the agenda of Jiang's faction.
If this theory is accurate, the trials of the OC "instigators" can provide us some insight into the state of affairs between factions in the CCP. If the trials are kept low-key and sentences are light, then we can safely assume that Xi Jinping's faction has brought the United Front in Hong Kong into line and under some semblance of control by the current leadership. On the other hand, if Ludwig and other Exco members continue to actively create social division and conflict, putting gasoline on the fire whilst talking putting the fire out – as was obvious during the course of OC 1.0 – then we can deduce that the factional power struggle continues in earnest, and underneath the surface media image of a united CCP, there remains an endemic factional struggle with one faction intent on undermining the current leadership.
As always, I watch what they do, and if I pay attention to what is said – as Hemmers rightly points out – I seek to understand it within the context of the social (or "mass") forces and contradictions of our unique political situation (because this is how senior CCP leaders think – a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist social cosmology).
p.s. the only true sign of the political liberalization of China, and IMHO this is the only path of political transformation through which the CCP has a viable future as part of the political landscape in China, is when the UF is mothballed as the obsolete, counterproductive organization that it is.
If I remember correctly, and I think I do, during the localisation back stabbing in the 90s in Hong Kong, Martin Lee remarked that the concept of the rule of law was not deeply ingrained in the Chinese psyche, referring to HK Chinese at that time. He got that right !
As Emperor Claudius said (in the TV series), all the poisons that lurk in the mud eventually hatch out. I see the present malaise as a continuation of addled thinking over the decades.
Paul Sheh is slightly off on there not being a definition of the rule of law, rather there is no definition of the rule of law within the common law system. There are however several political science definitions, the most recognised can be found here:
http://worldjusticeproject.org/what-rule-law
What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?
A good start.
Teeheehee, How will Rim-job deal with this bit of failure to conform to Rule of Law, or even Rule by Law.
http://webb-site.com/articles/schoolorders.asp
Alright, one more lawyer joke.
Q: What' the difference between lawyer and liar?
A: The spelling.
(Ed: That's enough lawyer jokes)
Monkey Reborn, I hope that you are right that Xi's faction is on the side of sanity and moderation, but given the sabre rattling in the South China Sea and the seemingly deliberate antagonisation of Tibetans and Uighurs, I am not so sure. He looks like a man on a power trip, and that is dangerous.
It's hard to know anything that's going on inside the Chinese government, but one thing we can assume is that it is full of perverse incentives. The ghost towns and mathematically impossible GDP figures are proof enough. The pressures to tell superiors what they want to hear must be enormous, and when that goes wrong, it goes really wrong. Democracies have their perverse incentives too, with their inability to think beyond the next election cycle, but on the whole I much prefer them.


Suzlon – Are you listening?
My first encounter with wind mills was some 15 years back near Kayathar in South India. It was a spectacular sight at that age to see a line of giant fans running with the speed of the wind. But over the years design of the wind mill remains the same and i haven't seen any change in it's basic structure.
I saw this cool design in the net while surfing here. This flower arrangement with wind mills design concept is very much attractive. More than the look, it can be cost effective also as it occupies less floor space, hence more profitable.
With the kind of energy needs that is growing, a tree a home is no longer enough to keep the pollution at bay. May be we need to have this kind of flower power plant every home some day….. Wind turbine manufacturers like Suzlon have to be more proactive and put in more into their research to really usher us the greener tomorrow.


Unplug for the day and take a step into the past at Monmouth Park's Seabrook Classic Car Show & Oldies Day! Bring the whole family out for an experience like no other! It'll feel like a true classic with close to 150 antique cars to admire and old-school entertainment for the whole family!
Enjoy a Classic Car Show & Oldies Day that's fun for every age, plus bring your family along for Family Fun Day! While you enjoy the cars, music, and of course the racing, the kids can remember their day full of FREE pony rides, face painting, a bounce house, and more!
While you remember some old traditions, let your kids make new ones!
To enter your classic car, please fill out the registration form.


What if you haven't experienced the situtation in question? Need to know how to handle this!
1) Practice a lot of Behavioral Interview Questions so that you have a large bank of anecdotes fresh in your mind, so that there will be a lot of questions for which you have already thought of an answer and a lot of different memories to choose from when you're trying to think back.
Hope that helps! Good luck out there!
I just had my first behavioral interview. It was nerve wrecking. I got stuck with a question like this " Tell us about a situation in the work place where you agreed to disagreed". My mind went blank. I could not think of anything. I responded with an answer that now that I think about it does not make sense. I went on to say that the staff requested the CEO for staff meetings and he said no and everyone was find with his answer. The panel interviewing me would immediately write down something on their note pads. How much weight does this carry in the hiring process since I have the experience?
I have not been on a STAR interview and I'm a bus operator and nervous about the questions that the interviewer will ask and I would like to answer the questions with no problem. Can you give me some advice?
If you have worked customer service either on the telephone or in person, you have had this situation happen! It does not matter what the issue was, you had to have handled it one way or another, just keep this in the forefront when you are interviewing. Try to remember the When, Where, Why and What! When and where it happened, why would be the reason and the whay is the the solution you gave them.


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package org.apereo.cas.web.flow.actions;

import org.apereo.cas.CasProtocolConstants;
import org.apereo.cas.authentication.AuthenticationServiceSelectionPlan;
import org.apereo.cas.config.CasCoreNotificationsConfiguration;
import org.apereo.cas.config.CasCoreServicesConfiguration;
import org.apereo.cas.config.CasCoreUtilConfiguration;
import org.apereo.cas.configuration.CasConfigurationProperties;
import org.apereo.cas.services.ServicesManager;
import org.apereo.cas.ticket.registry.TicketRegistrySupport;
import org.apereo.cas.util.MockServletContext;
import org.apereo.cas.web.flow.CasWebflowConstants;
import org.apereo.cas.web.flow.DefaultSingleSignOnParticipationStrategy;

import lombok.val;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Tag;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.EnableConfigurationProperties;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.cloud.autoconfigure.RefreshAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletRequest;
import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletResponse;
import org.springframework.webflow.context.servlet.ServletExternalContext;
import org.springframework.webflow.test.MockRequestContext;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

/**
 * This is {@link RenewAuthenticationRequestCheckActionTests}.
 *
 * @author Misagh Moayyed
 * @since 6.3.0
 */
@Tag("WebflowActions")
@SpringBootTest(classes = {
    RefreshAutoConfiguration.class,
    CasCoreNotificationsConfiguration.class,
    CasCoreServicesConfiguration.class,
    CasCoreUtilConfiguration.class
})
@EnableConfigurationProperties(CasConfigurationProperties.class)
public class RenewAuthenticationRequestCheckActionTests {
    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("servicesManager")
    private ServicesManager servicesManager;

    @Autowired
    private CasConfigurationProperties casProperties;

    @Test
    public void verifyProceed() throws Exception {
        val context = new MockRequestContext();
        val request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
        val response = new MockHttpServletResponse();
        context.setExternalContext(new ServletExternalContext(new MockServletContext(), request, response));
        val strategy = new DefaultSingleSignOnParticipationStrategy(servicesManager, casProperties.getSso(),
            mock(TicketRegistrySupport.class), mock(AuthenticationServiceSelectionPlan.class));
        val action = new RenewAuthenticationRequestCheckAction(strategy);
        assertEquals(CasWebflowConstants.TRANSITION_ID_PROCEED, action.execute(context).getId());
    }

    @Test
    public void verifyRenew() throws Exception {
        val context = new MockRequestContext();
        val request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
        request.addParameter(CasProtocolConstants.PARAMETER_RENEW, "true");
        val response = new MockHttpServletResponse();
        context.setExternalContext(new ServletExternalContext(new MockServletContext(), request, response));
        val strategy = new DefaultSingleSignOnParticipationStrategy(servicesManager, casProperties.getSso(),
            mock(TicketRegistrySupport.class), mock(AuthenticationServiceSelectionPlan.class));
        val action = new RenewAuthenticationRequestCheckAction(strategy);
        assertEquals(CasWebflowConstants.TRANSITION_ID_RENEW, action.execute(context).getId());
    }

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


This arrangement of "1517" for orchestra, boys choir, and narrator is from Dr. R.C. Sproul's sacred music project Glory to the Holy One. A collection of beautiful hymns written by Dr. Sproul and award-winning composer, Jeff Lippencott, Glory to the Holy One provides the church with an offering of that which is good, true, and beautiful in the Christian faith.
The download includes a conductor's score and orchestral parts. The conductor's score prints best on legal-sized paper. The other pieces can be printed on standard letter-sized paper.


If you want to know how to attack Hillary Clinton and blame her for the Obama administration's decrepit foreign policy (blame that is well-deserved), look no further than this video from the America Rising PAC.
A summary of what you have just seen is here.
You know in Sotah, one of the simanim that Moshiach is coming is that government will have the "face of a dog". What does that mean? Just like a dog walks in front of the master, but is constantly looking backwards, the govt will essentially, "lead from behind".
Brazil: No longer safe for Jews?


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David Brind
PhD Student at University of Birmingham
david.brind@hdruk.ac.uk
The HDRUK-Turing Wellcome PhD programme ensures that students gain a breadth of experience and are prepared for a successful future.
At the end of his foundation year David Brind was able to pause the start of his three-year thesis project to take up a six-month internship with the innovation branch of the NHSX analytics unit.
He said: "The main reason I wanted to do it was to see what it was like to work in an environment that had more of a business than a research style – it was great experience."
The programme team regularly shares details of internship opportunities, encouraging students to experience environments and approaches that would not occur naturally as part of their studies.
David's thesis project (which you can read about here) is a study of multimodal deep representation learning for cardiac risk stratification.
He says: "What that means is, we're looking at multiple data sources. So I'm starting on cardiac ultrasounds, and then we're going to be looking at electrocardiograms ECGs and then patient level electronic health records. The aim is to find features within the data sources which are potentially overlooked by clinicians."
The research is exciting because there could be a wealth of untapped patient data readily available that can be used for other purposes – like identifying which patients might be at risk of other diseases.
David says: "We want to try and get as much value out of the data as we can. There's a lot of data, but we don't know whether it's been fully leveraged."
This sense of value is fundamental for David.
He says: "It's very much geared towards yielding a practical outcome that's going to benefit healthcare. It is a big point for me that my research has a meaningful impact. I didn't want it to just be just a thesis on a shelf somewhere.
"The hope is that there'll be an impact, maybe on ultrasound in the future. So there might be new measurements that we find that are useful for clinical practice."
David is from a physics background so found that the foundational year helpful in building his understanding of health data science before he committed to a thesis project.
He says: "The foundational year allowed me to get exposure to different elements, whether that was risk analysis or looking at imaging. You could explore the whole field of health data science and it's vast, with loads of niche areas.
"The main benefit was understanding what interested you, so for your thesis research years you could home in on that rather than being confused, or reaching year three and thinking you would rather have gone down another avenue."
David's background
David has a background in physics from the University of Manchester and experience in healthcare data science from his master's degree project.
During his PhD foundation year he was part of a small group using anonymised NHS patient data to carry out a large-scale survival analysis of COVID-19 patients.
He is an avid supporter of his local football team, Wolverhampton Wanderers, and is a regular gym goer.
Our PhD students come from a wide range of backgrounds - discover who they are and what their experiences have been as part of the PhD programme


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I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Permission To Land
Givin' Up
Heart Explodes
Easter is Cancelled (Deluxe)
Easter is Cancelled
Live at Hammersmith
Pinewood Smile
Pinewood Smile (Deluxe)
Last of Our Kind (Deluxe Edition)
Last Of Our Kind
100 Greatest 00s: The Best Songs from the Decade
100 Greatest Ballads
Raskit
Must Be Nice
Jabee
About The Darkness
Great Britain's finest export since Oasis, the Darkness took American rock culture by storm with the release of their extravagant, indulgent and unapologetically rocking 2003 debut, Permission to Land. With their unitard-wearing frontman, Justin Hawkins, singing like he's in front of a mirror and no one's watching, the Darkness became an immediate sensation -- not Britney-sized but pretty damn big for a rock band. Hipsters, indie kids, and MTV viewers were united by the band's ridiculous antics and impressive ability to combine the economy of AC/DC's best riffs with the best conceits from metal-through-the-ages. The best part is that their music is actually good, and with all the ironic references to Queen, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest -- you name it -- the Darkness manage to cut their own identity out of it. Mike McGuirk
3 Inches Of Blood, Bigelf, Horisont, Steel Panther, Sweet Apple, The Last Vegas
Great Britain's finest export since Oasis, the Darkness took American rock culture by storm with the release of their extravagant, indulgent and unapologetically rocking 2003 debut, Permission to Land. With their unitard-wearing frontman, Justin Hawkins, singing like he's in front of a mirror and no one's watching, the Darkness became an immediate sensation -- not Britney-sized but pretty damn big for a rock band. Hipsters, indie kids, and MTV viewers were united by the band's ridiculous antics and impressive ability to combine the economy of AC/DC's best riffs with the best conceits from metal-through-the-ages. The best part is that their music is actually good, and with all the ironic references to Queen, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest -- you name it -- the Darkness manage to cut their own identity out of it.
Mike McGuirk
Contemporary Hard Rock
Hot Cakes (Deluxe Edition)
Rock and Roll Deserves to Die
Rock Mood Boost
Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) (Live)
Motivation Mix (Songs for When You Need a Boost)