Iran and major powers will seek Monday to put the finishing touches to a historic nuclear deal, with both sides saying an accord ending a 13-year standoff lies tantalisingly within reach.
(AFP) Iran and major powers will seek Monday to put the finishing touches to a historic nuclear deal, with both sides saying an accord ending a 13-year standoff lies tantalisingly within reach.
The talks, the latest set of which have dragged on for more than two weeks, aim to nail down an agreement curbing Iran's nuclear activities to make it extremely difficult for Tehran -- which denies any such goal -- to develop the atomic bomb.
There had been optimism that a deal would be clinched over the weekend, but finalising a framework accord struck in April has proved difficult, with talks stumbling on the exact timing of sanctions relief and Iran's desire to have a UN conventional arms embargo lifted.
"We have come a long way. We need to reach a peak and we're very close," President Hassan Rouhani said in Iran Sunday, quoted by the ISNA news agency on a 16th day of talks in Vienna.
"We are so close that if you look down from below you feel as if we have got there, but when you do get there you know there are still some steps to take."
A German diplomatic source warned the talks "could yet fail".
"But we really are nearly there. The decisive moment has arrived. If Tehran is ready to take the final steps then things can go very quickly," the source said late Sunday.
Such an accord, if it can be agreed, approved and upheld by all concerned, would draw a line under 13 years of failed diplomacy and threats of military action.
In return Iran will be granted staggered relief from painful sanctions, although the six powers -- the so-called P5+1 of the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China -- insist on the option of reimposing the restrictions if Tehran breaches the agreement.
Foreign ministers from all seven countries -- with the possible exception of China -- were expected to be present in Vienna on Monday.
"I hope we are finally entering the final phase of these marathon negotiations. I believe it," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who cancelled a trip to Africa to stay at the talks, said Sunday.
The current diplomatic effort dates back to Rouhani's coming to power in 2013.
He sought a rapprochement with the West and an end to his country's diplomatic and economic isolation.
The prospect of a thawing of relations between Iran and the United States unsettles many in the Middle East, however, not least Tehran's rivals Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies.
Israel, widely assumed to have nuclear weapons itself, is also deeply concerned, complaining that the mooted deal will fail to stop its arch foe getting the bomb.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov returned to the Austrian capital on Sunday, joining US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif, Fabius, Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, who left Vienna on Sunday afternoon, was expected back on Monday morning. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Vienna on Sunday, the country's official Xinhua news agency reported.
Several deadlines have been missed over the past more than two weeks of talks, although diplomats insist that the technical aspects of what will be a highly complex agreement are as good as sewn up.
On Monday the terms of a 2013 interim deal freezing parts of Iran's nuclear programme in return for minor sanctions relief expire, although this has been extended several times already.
The deal, if it can be sealed, will however prove a "hard sell" in the US Congress, top Republican and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
"It appears as if the administration's approach to this was to reach whatever agreement the Iranians are willing to enter into," he told Fox News Sunday.


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Marg (Pathway) is a quarterly Indian art magazine and a publisher of books on the arts, based in Mumbai. It began in 1946, with writer Mulk Raj Anand as its founding editor. He intended it to be a loose encyclopaedia of the arts of India and related civilizations.

The magazine was mainly funded by J.R.D. Tata of the Tata Group at its inception. Later on, after 1951 and until 1986, it was mostly funded by the Tata Group companies; then the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) was formed as a trust with Marg as a division of NCPA. Since 2010 it has been functioning as an independent not-for-profit organization, The Marg Foundation.

Currently the editors are Jyotindra Jain and Naman Ahuja. Marg is one of the oldest and most respected art book publishers in India. It seeks corporate and private sponsorship to subsidize the cost of its publications.

Each year, apart from its four magazine issues it also publishes a book every quarter, and a few special publications on the subject of Indian and related art and heritage. It has also produced a series of documentary films on heritage sites and a film on Bombay/Mumbai.

History

In the 1930s, Mulk Raj Anand had moved to England, to a flourishing literary career. After World War II, he returned to India, at the juncture of its independence and started Marg magazine with "seven ads and two rooms" provided by J. R. D. Tata and with Anil de Silva from Sri Lanka as assistant editor and art historian, Karl J. Khandalavala as an advisor. The aim was to bring Indian art into world focus

It was in the pages of the magazine that architect Charles Correa and his colleagues first presented their proposal for a dream city in Mumbai, then Bombay, "New Bombay", later translated into policy.

Its offices are situated in the historic Army & Navy Building in Kala Ghoda, Mumbai's premier art district.

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External links
  Marg, Official website
 Marg at Tata Group website

1946 establishments in India
English-language magazines published in India
Visual arts magazines published in India
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Rumour: Vodafone To Launch The Nexus One In April
According to initial reports, Google's Nexus One device is due to be released in the UK sometime in April with mobile operator Vodafone.
The device will be available solely via the ofiical Google Phone site, where T-Mobile already provide a subsidized tariff for US customers. It is thought that Google had cleared Vodafone to sell the smartphone in the UK in January but for some reason the launch was delayed.
The Nexus One smartphone, manufactured by HTC, is seen to be Google's attempt at highlighting the technical ability of the Android operating system whilst making inroads into the market share enjoyed by Apple with it's iPhone device.
The iPhone is already available to Vodafone customers after o2 lost it's exclusivity to sell the Apple smartphone late last year. Vodafone will hope by offering both the iPhone and the Nexus One smartphones, they can make inroads into o2's considerable market share.
HTC are also set to release a new smartphone called the HTC Desire in April, a clone of the Nexus One but incorporating the well received Sense UI. It remains to be seen what device the European market will choose, a handset endorsed by one of the world's most recognizable brands or a handset that will be available in shops and across different networks.
Thee are no indications on pricing but it is thought that the Nexus One will be competivitly priced to compete with other smartphones on the market. It is likely that Vodafone will offer a lower handset price with a 18-24 month contract, possibly around the £100-£150 mark, attracting consumers who don't want to pay £500+ for a SIM free handset.
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Congo-Brazzaville: Kick-off of the electoral campaign for the presidential election of March 21
March 5, 2021 Geraldine Boechat News 0
Congo-Brazzaville, which on Thursday, March 4, commemorated the ninth anniversary of the deadly explosions of a military camp in 2012, starts this Saturday, March 5, the electoral campaign for the presidential election of March 21, which will oppose seven candidates including the outgoing president, Denis Sassou-Nguesso. The National Independent Electoral Commission (CNEI) said Thursday that it was taking all measures to hold a peaceful election.
During the press conference that lasted more than an hour, Henri Bouka, President of the CNEI, indicated that the Commission was taking all the necessary steps to distribute, for example, voter cards in a timely manner. He said that after the most recent revision of the voters' list, the next elections should involve more than 2.5 million voters who will vote in more than 5,700 offices throughout the country.
The police force was called to the polls shortly before the rest of the population, on March 17. They will vote in the ordinary polling stations and not in the barracks, Henri Bouka said. The president of the CNEI rejected accusations that he would be a judge and left, because he is also the first president of the Supreme Court.
"There is no incompatibility between the functions of the judicial judge and those of the president of the body in charge of managing the elections. Because the litigation of the presidential election, legislative and senatorial elections is devolved by the constitution of Congo to the Constitutional Court," he defended.
This magistrate also affirmed that the election will be organized under the supervision of national and international observers.
At the age of 77, and after already 36 years of cumulative power, Denis Sassou-Nguesso is once again on the starting line. He is running for a fourth consecutive term. On the opposition side, Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas, declared second in the last presidential election, is once again trying his luck, as is Mathias Dzon. The 73-year-old former finance minister had already stood as a presidential candidate in 2009, before calling for a boycott of the elections at the last moment. He promises that this time he will go all the way.
Notably absent in this race: Pascal Tasty Mabiala. The leader of the opposition recognized by the government is not a candidate. His party, UPADS, the only one with a parliamentary group in the Assembly, has decided not to participate, citing shortcomings in the organization of the election. The independent, Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mbougou, a former UPADS dissident, is running for the fourth time, alongside former army officer Albert Oniangué, customs inspector Anguios Nganguia Engambé, and Dave Mafoula, 38, the youngest in the race.
As for the opponents Clément Mierassa and Paulin Mkaya, they call for a boycott, denounce even before the vote an attempt at "electoral hold up", and demand in particular the release of two former candidates for the 2016 presidential election: General Mokoko and André Okombi Salissa, two major players on the Congolese political scene, who are still in prison.
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The Hourglass Reaches the Tipping Point
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How Charlie Might Have Got His Groove Back (After Eight Years of Waiting To Exhale)
I sat down today to write something short about the election for this journal. As it developed, though, I started to see it would be a better fit for Bad Subjects: Political Education For Everyday Life, for which I have written far too little in recent years. So I reshaped it for that setting and, wonder of wonders, was able to post it successfully as an editorial, which I invite you to read at your harried leisure.
After I was done, I felt a strange sense of relief. And then I realized, with the sudden clarity that comes with wiping fog from a window, that it was actually my depression over the state of this country that had led, counter-productively, to my struggles to come up with material for the publication I've cared about more than anything else in my intellectual existence. More specifically, it was in attempting to write something about parenting and the 2004 Presidential election -- a piece that, while still not finished, now runs some 25,000 words -- that I felt my voice suddenly paralyzed.
While it's true that I've managed to write pieces for other publications in the interim, each assignment has been excruciatingly difficult for me. The words, which used to come so easily, have been absurdly hard for me to extract, like small objects at the bottom of a glass jar into which my fingers don't quite reach far enough. Even writing here has grown to be a chore, more often than not.
Who knows whether my sudden productivity today heralds a change for the better or not. I suspect that the results of tomorrow's Presidential election will factor significantly in how I feel about myself and the world in the months to come. What I do know, though, is that it felt good to find my groove this afternoon, however briefly.
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Political Morphology: Part I of III
In 1992, the last time a Democrat was elected President of the United States after years of Republican control of the White House, the hottest special effect in filmmaking was called "morphing", the use of high-end computer graphics to make one item seamlessly transform into another. Terminator 2: Judgement Day represented its biggest box-office success. But it was in Michael Jackson's music video for "Black or White," debuted that same year in a relentlessly hyped network television premiere, that the technology's political implications were most starkly illuminated. The image of one face dissolving into another, blurring racial distinctions to the point where they appeared irrelevant, showcased the promise of a brave new world in which surfaces, their mutability made clear, no longer mattered.
When Time magazine published a special issue the following year in which similar technology was self-consciously deployed, not to dazzle us with a series of metamorphoses, but to help us imagine the end to which they might be leading, the logic behind the Michael Jackson video -- as well as the singer's own career, many would add -- was laid bare with breathtaking clarity:
Although this vision of technological miscegenation does not undo prejudices surrounding the literal sort, it certainly calls their basis into question. As my friend Ron Alcalay ably argued in his discussion of the "Black or White" video in a 1995 piece for Bad Subjects, the reminder that color is only skin deep that such morphing and merging conveys might itself appear to be superficial. But that doesn't mean that it is insignificant. "This is not bad, this is not dangerous; in fact, it's lots of fun, perhaps even therapeutic for a bigot who might ordinarily change the channel when images of racial others invade her home."
At the same time, it's hard not see the apparent breakthroughs that went hand in hand with the 1992 Presidential campaign and the early days of Bill Clinton's Presidency as a prelude to 1994. The backlash against his Administration and the hopes it unleashed, which was led by right-wing media personalities like Rush Limbaugh, was surely a backlash against the promise of morphing as well. The outrage they stoked over Clinton's initial pledge to redress the plight of gays in the military and his wife's attempt to develop a universal heathcare initiative was an outrage built on the foundation of several years of university-centered conservative resistance to "political correctness" and cultural theories that promoted fluidity, hybridity and heterogeneity in contrast to the fixities of yore. Nor was it a surprise that conservative complaints about excessive tolerance in popular culture -- think of Dan Qualye's attack on the character Murphy Brown's desire to have a child without having a husband -- translated into a critique of the Democrats' excessive permissiveness, whether in cultural or financial matters.
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Political Morphology: Part II of III
The minute I saw the 2006 Time cover below, I thought of the magazine's 1993 cover -- see my preceding entry -- featuring a computer-generated person composed of several different ethnicities' characteristic features. I don't know whether the folks at Time were consciously seeking to refer to the earlier cover or the contents of the issue it graced, but they certainly seem to have been thinking along the same lines:
Like most Americans, when I first saw the title of the cover story I thought, "President is a long shot. But next President? Please." But once I had dug the 1993 cover out of my archives for the purposes of comparison, I found myself rethinking the rapidity of my initial reaction. After all, if Time was presenting Obama as a computer generated composite à la the multicultural simulation -- notice the similarity between her expression and Obama's, as well as the way their eyes look -- perhaps they were onto something.
The rave notices garnered by Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention had already suggested that he was a politician with an exceptionally bright future. And they had also moved more skeptical individuals like myself to wonder whether the packaging wasn't being put before the package. Still I was impressed, as I wrote in an entry at the time:
I taped the Democratic National Convention for proto-Tivo viewing today. Hearing from several progressive sources -- some of whom are good friends -- that Barack Obama's keynote address kicked serious ass, I cued it up this morning for me and Kim to watch before she went to work. Skylar was antsy and made the watching difficult, but we still got through it.
It was a good speech and good to see a person of color on stage. All the advance praise, though, had me wanting something a bit less safe. I suppose he was asked to be as centrist as possible, though, so I shouldn't fault him on that score. He's clearly going to be a big deal in American politics. He certainly has the vita and teaching experience for it. And the lines about "blue" and "red" states were as powerful as advertised:
John Kerry believes in America. And he knows that it's not enough for just some of us to prosper. For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga, a belief that we are all connected as one people.
If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child.
If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription and having to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent.
If there's an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.
It is that fundamental belief -- it is that fundamental belief -- I am my brother's keeper, I am my sisters' keeper -- that makes this country work.
It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family: "E pluribus unum," out of many, one.
Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.
Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America.
There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.
The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue States: red states for Republicans, blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.
We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we've got some gay friends in the red states.
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq, and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq.
We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?
After Kim went to take her shower, Skylar asked me why he was talking about "blue states" and "red states," which necessitated coming up with a five-year-old-friendly description of both the federalist electoral college system and what happened during the 2000 Presidential election.
"Was Arizona a blue state?," Skylar asked.
"No, it was a red state. We're hoping it will be a blue state this year. But George W. Bush has a good chance of winning again," I replied. "California and New York will probably be blue states, though. And Texas will be a red state, because Bush is from Texas and lots of people -- but not all of them -- like him there."
From there we moved on to a discussion of the convention whereby people say, "I don't like George W. Bush," when they really mean that they don't like what he has done as President. I then taught her the word "policy."
As I tried to capture the essence of Obama's speech for her, I realized that it did have the virtues of simplicity and optimism that resonate with five-year-olds. And, as I suggested in my recent entry about the Olympics, that's definitely a good thing. Whether we should worry that most grown-ups in the United States understand little more about politics than Skylar has already learned in 2004 is another question.
I do think the nation would be better off if voters realized that they were acting on the basis of a five-year-old's grasp of the issues, rather than pretending to themselves and others that they have a "mature" understanding of them. And that goes for the civics-deprived pundits on Fox News too.
I suppose that many of the complaints that have been made about the diffuse quality of Obama's rhetoric can be traced back to his preference for imagery that a five-year-old can comprehend. One of the things I have learned as a parent is that small children are a lot more abstract than their grown-up counterparts. For the most part, the maturation process, if you can call it that, involves learning to second guess our impulse to draw sweeping conclusions, even when it's precisely those sort of conclusions that need to be drawn.
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Political Morphology: Part III of III
I had already been considering an entry on the connection I had perceived between the 1993 Time cover featuring the computer-generated multicultural woman's face and the 2006 Time one that presented Barack Obama as if he were her relative. Then I saw this on the newsstand:
Now surely this wasn't an accident, the fact that this latest cover played off the presentation of the two I discussed in my previous entries this evening. Indeed, the split, not only down Obama's face, but also in the Time logo itself powerfully recalled the video for Michael Jackson's "Black or White" I mention in my entry on the 1993 cover.
It's intriguing, then to see that the seamless morphing of that cover, not to mention its implicit correlate in the 2006 one featuring Obama, has been replaced by a visually stark divide, even if the purpose of the story it sells is to discount the notion that race is playing a huge factor in the 2008 Presidential campaign. Here, the implication is not that the future will be neither black or white, but that it will force people to choose. For my part, I see that as a considerably more conservative point of view than the one indicated in the 1993 cover. What remains to be seen is whether voters tomorrow will see the world the way this cover suggests, in an explicitly high-contrast manner, or whether they will instead let their hearts direct their vision, discerning a world in which the content of one's character always trumps the color of one's skin.


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Ukraine conflict: New Ukrainian refugee sponsorship scheme sees 2,700 visas granted
There have been 2,700 visas granted to people wanting to come to the UK under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, latest figures show.
By Amy Gibbons
30th Mar 2022, 11:03am - 2 min read
Julia, 34, cries next to her daughter Veronika, 6, while talking to a group of journalists in Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
The scheme opened on March 14, with the aim of allowing individuals, charities, community groups and businesses to bring Ukrainians – including those with no family ties to the UK – to safety.
However, Britain retains a visa requirement on security grounds while other European countries have waived checks in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion.
The total number of applications from Ukrainians wanting to come to the UK was 59,500 as of March 29, the Home Office said.
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This includes 28,300 under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme and 31,200 under the separate Ukraine Family Scheme, which allows Ukrainians to join relatives living in the UK.
There have been 25,500 visas issued altogether, including 2,700 under the sponsorship scheme and 22,800 under the family scheme.
The Local Government Association (LGA) said some Ukrainian refugees have been "presenting as homeless", despite being part of the UK Government resettlement schemes.
Chairman Councillor James Jamieson told MPs on the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee: "One of the big issues we're all worried about is people presenting as homeless.
"The LGA did a survey last week of councils – we had 190 responses from councils with housing responsibilities, which is around two-thirds of authorities, of which 57 of the 190 said they already had people presenting as homeless.
"That is 144 cases of homelessness – that's 57 councils, 144 cases. I will make sure the data is correct and get that sent to you, but I'll give it to you verbally.
"Forty-four of which were from the family scheme, 36 of which were from the sponsorship scheme and 64 were from unknown or other.
"We believe there is an element of people presenting as homeless because they are coming to Ireland and then, with the free movement, able to come to the UK, so that maybe an element of the unknown."
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has warned that Russia's announcement that it is scaling back operations around the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, should be treated with caution.
The Russians said the move was intended to "increase mutual trust" in face-to-face peace talks which resumed in Istanbul on Tuesday.
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SPANISH STUDENTS HONOR HOLY CROSS BROTHERS WITH DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR
Mrs. Lisa Hardin's Spanish 2 students created an altar honoring the late brothers of Holy Cross to celebrate Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a traditional Mexican holiday. The altar, referred to as an ofrenda in Spanish, featured Blessed Fr. Basil Moreau, C.S.C., St. Br. André Bessette, C.S.C., Br. Bennet Nettleton, C.S.C., Br. Leo Geiger, C.S.C., Br. Joseph Chvala, C.S.C., Br. Guy Eckels, C.S.C., and Br. James Everett, C.S.C. with photos and objects that honored their lives. Students were very thoughtful about what they placed next to each brother's photo. They included novels, pens and paper next to Br. Joseph's photo to honor him as a former English teacher at St. Ed's and placed gardening gloves and informational sheets on ADHD next to Br. James' photo to remember his love for keeping the St. Ed's grounds beautiful and his dedication to helping Edsmen with ADHD. They also added Br. Bennet's Crystal Apple Award for Teaching Excellence and, thanks to science teacher Mr. James Barnewall, a piece of Br. Guy's cactus plant that still remains here at St. Ed's.
Traditionally, ofrendas built for Dia de los Muertos must display an example of the four elements in addition to a dish of salt. It is believed that a dish of salt, which symbolizes the zest for life, and a glass of water are placed on the ofrenda so that when the dead return to earth, they'll have something to nourish themselves after their long journey. As for the other natural elements, students displayed candles to represent fire, plants and flowers to represent earth and papel picado (tiny, intricately cut pieces of paper that blow in the breeze) to represent wind. The timing of this holiday fell perfectly on Mrs. Hardin's scheduled lesson to teach the Spanish past tense. To connect their ofrenda to Mrs. Hardin's lesson, students made their own papel picado with written messages, using the Spanish past tense, about each of the brothers. To mimic how papel picado banners are hung in the streets of Mexico, students hung their own papel picado banner above the altar and across the windows of their classroom.
El Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of loved ones rather than a solemn memorial mainly because the Mexican culture believes that death is just the next phase of our overall existence. Therefore, skulls and skeletons aren't perceived as morbid, but rather as playful decoration to remember those who have passed. Students dressed skulls and skeletons as musicians, soldiers and even as a bride and groom that accompanied other figurines and decorations that Mrs. Hardin has collected over the years. Once the ofrenda was completed, students were also able to showcase their ofrenda to prospective students and families at last weekend's Open House. "Their ofrenda symbolized St. Ed's connection to the history of the brothers of Holy Cross. At the Open House, the students' ofrenda provided a chance for our alums to reconnect with the brothers they might have had as students at St. Ed's and be able to share that experience with their own sons," says Mrs. Hardin. By honoring the departed brothers of Holy Cross with a Dia de los Muertos tradition, students created a physical representation of St. Ed's greater connection with faith, culture and family.


For sale: Nice piece of land in Poljine, only 5 km from the very centre of the city, surrounded by beautiful nature. The entire land has 2500 sq.m. and it can be devided into two parts. Along the road, on the north side, land is 40 m long.
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Picking your domain name is extremely important and after it is done it is not reversible. Of course, you can always pay for another domain to be registered, but that is a great way to waste money. If you aren't sure what to pick, leave it for a day or so and get it right the first time. If you want to cancel a domain order early, a lot of the time there is a fee of around $20.


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Q: Android Studio Classes Could be Instantiated content_main.xml
activity_main.xml
I was trying to following an online youtube android beginner class tutorial, but when I create a new blank activity, the 3 dot on the right top overflow menu does not show and this rendering problem happened. I've tried to change the API to 22, 21, 19 and also tried changing the style.xml method, both doesn't work for me. Please help. Thanks.

A: For Menu u have to override the below functions.
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
    // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
    // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
    int id = item.getItemId();

    //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
    if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
        return true;
    }

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

Even though menu is not available in preview,just test it in emulator or real device.It works perfectly.

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Wash the sago and soak in a cup of milk for half an hour.
Soak the saffron in a little warm milk.
Take the milk in a heavy saucepan and bring to boil.
Change the heat to medium and add the bay leaves.
Also add the sago granules and stir occasionally.
After about 10 minutes change the heat to minimum..
When it is of desired consistency add the sugar and lemon peel.
Keep upon low fire for 5 more minutes stirring in between.
Switch off the gas and stir for awhile. Cool.
Tasty to eat if served chill.
Notes: Can also add chopped dry fruits of your choice. But I like it plain.


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Philip Williams (7 September 1824 – 18 November 1899) was an English cleric and cricketer.

He was educated at Winchester College, where he played cricket for the school 1840–42, and New College, Oxford, matriculating in 1841. There he played for the University 1844–47 and also played for Nottinghamshire in 1845.

Williams was a Fellow of New College from 1844 to 1851, when he graduated B.C.L. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's inn the same year, but did not practise as a barrister. He instead became a Church of England priest. He was rector of Rewe, Devon, 1860–92.

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Rukum, one of the hotbeds of the decade-long Maoist insurgency that left behind a bloody trail of death and devastation and pushed the country decades back in terms of development, is quite busy with development works these days.
Leaving behind its blood-soaked past, in which 668 people died, 505 got abducted and 162 got disabled during the war, this Mid-Western district, where Nepal Army conducted Khara and Sisne search operations and where the Maoists' landmark Chunwang meeting took place, is trying hard to catch up with the lost decade pretty fast, if not on war footing.
The 134-km-long Rapti Lokmarg, which connects Dang, Salyan and Rukum (this district accounts for 33 km of the highway), is already complete, while construction of the Mid-Hill Highway section is underway in the district, according to Bharat Kumar Sharma, local development officer. While returning late in the evenings after inspecting climate-resilient development initiatives of Nepal Climate Change Support Program Rukum in June, the UNDP-media team on the inspection mission would often find earthmoving equipment operating till late in the evening for the construction of the Mid-Hill Highway with a well-lit Musikot—the result of the Rukum Ujyalo program consisting of 95 micro-hydels—in the background.
The fate of the highway project, which aims to connect Nepal's hilly districts, hinges on the pace of development work in this district as a 136-km section of this lifeline passes through Rukum.
This district has made strides in road connectivity, if Sharma's words are anything to go by. Thirty-four out of 43 VDCs of this district are now accessible by road, according to Sharma.
Post-war, most of the Musikot-based government office buildings, which were destroyed during the insurgency, have been reconstructed. Call it peace dividend or result of post-war reconstruction boom, land prices are going up in Musikot, the district headquarters.
Every monsoon, there's this rush in Rukum, when hundreds of people head towards the highlands at the foot of the Sisne peak to collect yarshagumba (the caterpillar fungus), a prized aphrodisiac on high demand in the national and international markets.
And Rukum has something to offer for war historians and others, who want to better understand what this district went through during the decade-long conflict, the Janayuddha in Maoist parlance. It now offers a trek along the war trail, with fond hope to attract domestic and international tourists from far and wide.
During a short visit to Rukum, the team had glimpses suggesting that the district was on the recovery path.
At Ghetma-1, the team inspected and interacted with the beneficiaries of the Bankejiula irrigation project, which, according to NCCSP Rukum, irrigates 400 hectares of fertile fields, benefiting 300 people from 48 households.
While at Bhandarban, Purtimkanda-8, the team conversed with some members of the 26 households that would benefit from the just-constructed irrigation canal. And it inspected a 60-KW hydropower project in the same village that was contributing to electrification of the water resources-rich district that boasts of Baunna Pokhari, Tripanna Taal—altogether 52 ponds and 53 lakes—as well as the mega river system called Bheri.
The list of places where we could not go and things we could not do would be pretty long, for time was short.
Trekking all the way to the highlands to do a story on yarsha collectors after the end of the inspection visit was impossible, for chores in Kathmandu were making emergency calls.
It meant returning to the hotel at the end of the day after going places and pondering over the trails not taken—those leading to Sisne, Gotamkot, Chunwang, and more. All this meant gazing at distant stars from the small opening left by an outcrop of buildings at the district headquarters and pondering the next station in life. It meant exploring the horizon from atop the hotel building and thinking if you will ever be able to manage time to visit those idyllic villages just below overhanging clouds.
It meant chatting with friends over meal and making fun of what some well-travelled friends would jokingly call a five-star address in Rukum, complaining about minor inconveniences like lack of hot water and mosquitoes that would sing for you and sting you at night.
After a visit to the district, there are reasons to be optimistic, to believe that Rukum's nightmare is over with the war and all it has is a future as bright as stars that twinkle in its clear skies. At a time when the world is taking mountains as a source of prosperity, all that this mountainous district needs is faith in its boundless potential and a little help from the state and other development partners to make it rise and shine.


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This is what feminists can teach the world about fighting for climate justice
In this race against time, we must learn from global women's movements and use human rights to halt climate catastrophe.
Yifat Susskind
Protest against Amazon rainforest fires outside Brazilian embassy in London, UK. 2019.
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Climate catastrophe isn't looming – it's already here. The fires raging in the Amazon and the devastation in the Bahamas are only the most recent reminders of this.
What's at risk is all that we need to survive: clean air and water, food, a healthy environment. Our rights to these resources are also enshrined in international law. Yet, too often, we neglect the potential of this rights framework to hold governments accountable to create and implement sustainable policy, shape the law to uphold our moral vision, and provide local activists with tools to turn those rights into reality.
To achieve climate justice, the architecture of human rights that already exists is a critical but under-utilised asset. In this race against time, we must learn from global women's movements and leverage human rights to address the climate crisis.
Significantly, feminists over generations refused to let the rights framework remain static. They fought to fundamentally expand it, for example, by winning groundbreaking legal protections that guaranteed reproductive choice and named rape as a war crime for the first time. They made the once-radical claim that "women's rights are human rights" seem obvious.
Twenty-five years after feminists made this declaration at the 1995 Beijing conference on gender equality, we live in a different world. Today, the majority of countries ban domestic violence and most constitutions guarantee gender equality, for example. Local feminist advocates and movements have used these legal gains to protect lives and make those rights real.
We can do the same to tackle climate catastrophe. We can turn the barely-imagined into the self-evident: that we have a fundamental right to a liveable planet, that nature itself has rights, and that governments are obligated to protect those rights.
We have a fundamental right to a liveable planet, and nature itself has rights
Feminists also disrupted the false distinction between the 'public' and 'private' spheres that once pervaded human rights law. They asked: why was it a violation for an interrogator to beat a detainee, but merely a private family matter if he beat his wife? In doing so, they created new norms and legal obligations that require states to prevent abuses by "private actors".
The climate movement can use this precedent to hold other private actors, namely, carbon-polluting corporations, accountable for their actions – by recognising them as human rights abuses.
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Throughout, women's movements have seized moments of global political turmoil to forge new gains. Amidst tectonic shifts in global relations that followed the Cold War in the 1990s, women's rights advocates secured some of their biggest wins. They used the human rights system as a unifying framework, transcending national boundaries and allowing advocates to organise globally on the basis of local experience.
Today, we're in another moment of global turmoil, with right-wing governments on the rise and hard at work to destabilise the human rights system. While this instability poses threats, it also creates strategic openings. Rather than follow the worst impulses of US policymakers and abandon or attack multilateral spaces like the United Nations, climate activists can do the opposite: double down and engage.
That means using action in international human rights spaces to advance a just climate policy locally. Some activists have already begun to employ this tactic. Just this week, 16 young people filed a legal complaint with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, stating that countries' failures to curb emissions violated children's human rights.
Empowered social movements, not states, are the true guarantor of rights
In this way, climate activists can learn and build upon the most valuable lesson of all from the women's movement: that human rights can be a powerful tool for change – if we realise that empowered social movements, not states, are the true guarantor of rights. This is how feminists secured vital policies like constitutional prohibitions on domestic violence in Colombia and laws to end impunity for rape in Tunisia.
Similarly, by merging political mobilisation with human rights advocacy, climate activists can build pressure on governments to live up to their international obligations and translate universal human rights into domestic policy. This can help ensure a Green New Deal that accounts for the global implications of US climate policy, for example, and centres the rights of women, people of colour, LGBTIQ and Indigenous Peoples in the US and worldwide – a vision advanced by feminist climate justice activists in the recently launched initiative for a Feminist Green New Deal.
As we race against the clock to prevent the worst impacts of cascading climate breakdown, these lessons from the women's movement can strengthen our strategies for global climate justice.
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Krst Pod Triglavom-Baptism - album zespołu Laibach, wydany w 1987 roku.

Lista utworów
Wersja winylowa składająca się z dwóch płyt zawiera następujące utwory:

819-822:
 "Jezero/Der See"
 "Valjhun/Waldung"
 "Delak"
 "Koza/Die Haut"
1095-1270:
 "Jägerspiel"
 "Bogomila - Verfuhrung"
 "Wienerblut"
1961-1982:
 "Crtomir, Jelengar"
 "Apologija Laibach/Laibach-Apologie"
1983-1987:
 "Krst/Die Taufe, Germania"
 "Rdeci Pilot/Der Rote Pilot"

Wersja CD lista utworów:

 "Jezero/Valjhun/Delak" – 11:00
 "Koža" – 3:57
 "Jägerspiel" – 7:25
 "Bogomila - Verführung" – 3:54
 "Wienerblut" – 7:00
 "Črtomir" – 4:51
 "Jelengar" – 2:41
 "Apologija Laibach" – 12:24
 "Herzfeld" – 4:48
 "Krst, Germania" – 12:50
 "Rdeči Pilot" – 1:00

Albumy Laibach
Albumy muzyczne wydane w roku 1988


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Home » News » Electric Vans Roll Off Line That Once Made Gas-Guzzling Hummers
Electric Vans Roll Off Line That Once Made Gas-Guzzling Hummers
Source: By Ira Boudway, Bloomberg • Posted: Thursday, September 30, 2021
The Indiana factory is producing a fully electric, light-duty delivery vehicle.
Electric Last Mile Solutions Inc. delivery vans on the production floor of the company's plant in Mishawaka, Indiana. Photographer: Taylor Glascock/Bloomberg
When the first snub-nosed, electric van rolled off the assembly line yesterday at the Electric Last Mile Solutions Inc. plant in Mishawaka, Indiana, it was a proud moment for the company's co-founder and chief executive officer, Jim Taylor. The van, one in a run of 1,000 scheduled for this year, is among the first of its kind in the U.S. market: a fully electric, light-duty vehicle meant for delivery workers, contractors and other commercial fleets.
"Who else is starting up this month?" asks Taylor, checking through the list of major auto manufactures and startups, from Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. to Arrival Ltd. and Canoo Inc., that have announced plans to build electric vans.
Delivery vans and other light commercial vehicles offer fertile ground for electric vehicle makers, according to James Martin, a consulting associate director at the research house IHS Markit. Buyers aren't commuters, concerned about range estimates and how to handle the occasional long road trip. Instead, they're fleet managers who know precisely how far their vehicles will travel each day and where they plan to recharge them during off-duty hours. "We think it's going to be swifter than the ramp-up of electrification in personal vehicles," says Martin.
ELMS co-founder Jim Taylor. Photographer: Taylor Glascock/Bloomberg
IHS expects North American commercial-van production to grow from around 400,000 units this year to nearly 600,000 by 2028, with electric vehicles growing from almost nonexistent to nearly 40% of the market in that span. Electric Last Mile Solutions, known as ELMS, is aiming for the bottom end via a bare-bones vehicle with relatively low range that's ideal for customers who carry light packages on short, repetitive routes. The segment has exploded with the rise of e-commerce.
ELMS began in August 2020 as a plan B for the Chinese auto manufacturer Chongqing Sokon Industry Group. In 2017, Sokon subsidiary SF Motors bought the Mishawaka plant from contract manufacturer AM General with a plan to build an electric SUV called the SF5. But the SF5 never came to Mishawaka, a city of 50,000 on the eastern edge of South Bend. When Sokon hired Taylor, a 30-year GM veteran, to take over as CEO at SF Motors in the summer of 2019, he reviewed the business plan and concluded that it was doomed. Launching an electric SUV brand in the U.S. would be far more expensive than Sokon anticipated, Taylor told the company's leadership, and it would land them in a brutal competition with some very large players. Sokon heeded his advice and abandoned its U.S. plans for the vehicle.
This left the question of what to do with the Mishawaka plant. Taylor suggested pivoting to electric delivery vans, which Sokon already was producing in Asia. Sokon, however, didn't want to spend more in the U.S. market, so Taylor offered to start a new company that would raise the funds to buy the Mishawaka plant.
Taylor, 64, knows the 675,000-square-foot space well: Two decades ago, when he was an executive in the truck group at GM, he outfitted it to assemble Hummers. In 1999, GM bought the Hummer brand from AM General and contracted with them to build a mass-market version of the SUV. AM General built a plant for the job next door to the one where it makes Humvees for the military. Taylor, who oversaw purchasing for GM trucks, chose the equipment.
The first 1,000 ELMS vans off the production line are headed to Randy Marion Automotive Group in North Carolina. Photographer: Taylor Glascock/Bloomberg
By 2005, 1,000 workers were building tens of thousands of Hummers per year in Mishawaka. When the financial crisis arrived three years later, the fad was fading and GM, forced into bankruptcy, decided to shutter the money-losing brand. The plant revived in 2015, when Daimler AG hired AM General to build Mercedes-Benz minivans there for the Chinese market. But Mercedes walked away two years later and AM General announced plans to close the plant, a demise that was seemingly averted with the arrival of SF Motors.
In the summer of 2020, Taylor and his co-founder Jason Luo, a longtime auto executive who briefly ran Ford China, began trying to raise money for ELMS. This was during the rise of SPAC fever. In the six months before ELMS's founding, electric vehicle startups Nikola Corp., Fisker Inc., Lordstown Motors Corp. and Canoo all had announced plans to enter the public markets via mergers with special purpose acquisition companies.
SPACs intrigued Taylor. Since leaving GM in 2010, he had done stints at a pair of electric vehicle companies — what are now Workhorse Group and Karma Automotive — and seen enough of the traditional fundraising process to know that he'd be happy to fast-forward through it. "This allows you to get the money much quicker," he says, "and it arrives in a gigantic trainload."
In fall 2020, Taylor and Luo began discussing a merger with a SPAC called Forum Merger III, which recently had raised $250 million. By late October, they were ready to approach private equity firms, hedge funds and investment banks about adding to this pool of funds through a so-called private investment in public equities, or PIPE. In December, Forum announced the planned merger, which valued ELMS at $1.4 billion. With $155 million in PIPE money, the deal was set to generate nearly $380 million in gross proceeds for ELMS.
The companies originally hoped to close the deal in the first three months of 2021, but that was delayed after the Securities and Exchange Commission began to scrutinize SPACs more closely. The EV companies that preceded ELMS into the public markets had illustrated the downside to giving startups a big bucket of money all at once: Few live up to their hype. After refiling paperwork to meet new SEC guidance, ELMS completed the merger and began trading on the Nasdaq at the end of June. As soon as the funds were in the bank, Taylor made a $30 million down payment on the $145 million purchase of the Mishawaka plant and beginning outfitting it to assemble electric vans.
ELMS is taking a crawl-before-you-walk approach to production. For now, the vans arrive in Indiana from factories in China as "pushers," complete with chassis, frames, battery packs and wheels. At Mishawaka, a couple of dozen hourly workers spread across a handful of stations add steering wheels and a few electronic components. It's a comedown from the Hummer days, but if all goes according to plan ELMS could bring the plant back to something approximating that scale.
Over time, the company plans to buy more parts from U.S. suppliers and do more assembly in Mishawaka. ELMS told the Indiana Economic Development Corp., a public-private partnership, that it expects to create up to 960 new jobs building 100,000 vehicles per year by the end of 2024. If it does, IEDC will grant $10 million in tax credits.
ELMS plant manager Bryan Tam. Photographer: Taylor Glascock/Bloomberg
"Everyone here is just excited that the doors are getting opened up," says Bryan Tam, a 62-year-old plant manager for ELMS who has been at Mishawaka through its 20-year history.
The initial 1,000 ELMS vans are headed to Randy Marion Automotive Group, a collection of dealerships in North Carolina whose namesake and founder was in Mishawaka on Tuesday for a ceremonial handing over of keys. His first few hundred vans are destined for campuses, airports and other spaces where they won't encounter public roads, which saves ELMS from having to meet full safety standards until it scales up production.
The vans are basically breadboxes on wheels. But the company is not trying to turn heads on the sidewalk. It's hoping to get the attention of fleet managers with a simple proposition: save money by converting to electric. The vehicles have a range of 100 to 120 miles, 171 cubic feet of cargo space (enough to carry several hundred shoe boxes) and a cost of about $27,000 after a $7,500 federal tax credit. By ELMS estimates, the total cost of ownership, including fuel and maintenance, is 35% cheaper than comparable gas-powered vans.
While ELMS is betting on gaining an edge by being first, the competition isn't far behind. Ford, Daimler and General Motors all have plans to introduce commercial electric vans to the U.S. by 2023. Earlier this week, GM unveiled a midsized cargo hauler and announced that it has signed up Verizon Communications Inc. as its first customer. Rivian Automotive, meanwhile, has already taken an order for 100,000 vans for Amazon.com Inc., with the first expected to arrive this year.
"It's an incredibly short window," says Reilly Brennan, founding partner at the San Francisco venture capital fund Trucks. "The clock is ticking."


I'm all set up for the 50th Annual East Lansing Art Festival in East Lansing MI. In a way, it is like going home as I graduated from Michigan State in 2000. The Art Festival is a very short walk from campus, just off Grand River and the campus is as beautiful as I always remember. I may sneak over to the MSU Dairy Store a little later in the day! I will be here today and tomorrow until six, if you are near Lansing stop by and see me. Booth 145!
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Subject: Is my analysis flawed?
After reading all the advice on TMF about putting emergency fund in Bank or Money Market, I made up my own mind and ignored the advice.
Although the NAV of the index fluctuates it only appears to do so within a few percent (I think the difference between the highest and lowest in 5 years is around 12% and over 10 years is <20%). Ignoring capital movement the yield seems to be 6%-7% which is 2%-4% better than I can get at the bank or money market. As I intend to leave the money as a permanent emergency fund (until I retire in 20 years) it would seem after 3 or 4 years the extra yield will have compensated for any future capital risk (and that includes me buying at the top of the market). I can get immediate access to short term use of part of the fund and replace it as needed.
But, it occurs to me that if it was that easy then why isn't it espoused by TMF. I have the uncomfortable feeling I have missed something glaringly obvious to the Foolish on this board?


The ATV SRO 700 Vacuum Solder Reflow Oven is a small-footprint, bench-top system, ideal for R&D or low to medium volume production. The system produces high-quality results and is designed for multiple solder reflow processes, including: fluxless, eutectic die attach, gold tin soldering, void free soldering, hermetic lid sealing, formic acid processing and flip chip soldering etc.
Reflow profiles are created simply using ATV's WIN-ATV software, which allows the user to program up to 100 process steps to create the ideal profile. Products are then reflowed via IR lamps in the polished stainless steel cold-walled reflow chamber, in a controlled environment, resulting in excellent void free solder joints.
Die attach, Power Module Assembly, IGBT/DBC Soldering, high vacuum encapsulation, MEMS package sealing, IR sensor/Crystal package sealing, wafer level packaging, thermo-electric cooler/Peltier, low moisture package sealing, high power LED, laser bar, Getter activation, alloying, wafer bump/solder ball reflow, pin fin heat sink, backing, flip chip, 3 D-CSP, diffusion bonding, CPV, thermo-compression bonding, pin fin soldering, Hybrid assembly, MMIC die attachment, brazing etc.


2. portfolio_efficient_asset_allocation - functions to make application of Harry Markowitz portfollio optimization quick and easy. Calculate a vector of portfollio weights that minimize risk for a given return. To use this code first load the tseries and quantmod library.


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Дубко́ — фамилия. Известные носители:
 Дубко, Александр Иосифович (1938—2001) — Герой Социалистического Труда, Герой Беларуси.
 Дубко, Виталий Фёдорович (род. 1936) — российский тренер по прыжкам на батуте.


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Q: Defining both post and get method under same request handler I'm using python to develop a web app.
I defined both "get" and "post" method in the same request handler to serve different purpose. That is, I use "get" method to present a form to user, and "post" method to handle the submitted form.
It works fine, but is this approach appropriate? Or should I better define get and post separately in different request handler? Thanks!

A: Your approach is appropriate. According to the newest documentation you can even define post and get as functions outside request handler and just as other functions in your module and that's a way I would choose since it eliminates problems that can happen when instanciating request handlers.
If starting a new app from scratch I probably would try to put my get and post function outside of request handler with the new python 2.7 runtime that according to docs supports that.


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The deadline for New Establishment: Innovators is almost here
Tomorrow is the last day to nominate trailblazers from across the industry.
Anyone hoping to toss their hat into the ring (or the hat of a deserving co-worker) to be considered one of the New Establishment: Innovators for 2021 has little more than a day to do so.
The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. (EST) on Friday, Dec. 18.
The New Establishment recognizes marketing, advertising and media professionals who are rising through the ranks and making a mark at their companies and the industry at large. The program celebrates the best and brightest at the junior and mid-level, and is not bound to an age limit.
Entrants in the Innovators category can be pioneers and outside-the-box thinkers from any side of the business, whether they come from agencies, brands, vendors, media companies, tech companies and more.
We're talking about people who have gone beyond their job description to create new solutions to challenges, built things from the ground up, have had the courage to buck the status quo and have tried things differently – with big results. We're considering entrants from all kinds of professional backgrounds, but one thing should unite them: they should be exceptional.
To get an idea of where the bar is set, read about our last round of honourees in the Innovators category, or those who have been recognized across other New Establishment categories like Brand and Media.
You can nominate co-workers, bosses, employees, rivals or even yourself. Our editorial team will review all of the applications and once we've narrowed it down, we'll be contacting co-workers, managers, clients and partners to get a better sense of how the nominee stands out.
For more details and to submit someone for the The New Establishment: Innovator award, click here.
The winner will be featured in the Spring issue of strategy magazine and awarded at the AToMiC Awards, which will take place in April 2021.
New Establishment, New Establishment Innovators, The New Establishment
The 2022 Marketing Awards kicks off centennial edition
ZGM takes Best of Show at Anvil Awards
Zulu Alpha Kilo is the top Canadian agency at Epica
Campbell's and CDSS campaigns win Best of Show at MIAs
Ogilvy, FCB and BBDO land on WARC's Creative 100


Rescue teams and police search for Jenni River's plane.
The plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground in a nose-dive at a speed that may have exceeded 600 miles per hour, Mexico's top transportation official said Tuesday.
In the first detailed account of the moments leading up to the crash that killed Rivera and six other people, Secretary of Communications and Transportation Gerardo Ruiz Esparza told Radio Formula that the twin-engine turbojet hit the ground 1.2 miles from where it began falling.
"The plane practically nose-dived," he said. "The impact must have been terrible."
Ruiz did not offer any explanation of what may have caused the plane to plummet, saying only that "The plane fell from an altitude of 28,000 feet ... It may have hit a speed higher than 1,000 kph (621 mph)."
Ruiz said the pilot of the plane, Miguel Perez Soto, had a valid Mexican pilot's license that would have expired in January. Photos of a temporary pilot's certificate issued by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and found amid the wreckage said that Perez was 78.
Ruiz said there is no age limit for flying a civil aviation aircraft, though for commercial flights it's 65. In the United States it's unusual for a pilot to be 78.
The extremely high speeds at which Learjets can fly — close to the speed of sound — make them especially challenging to fly, pilots and safety experts said.
"These aircraft require an awful lot of skill to fly and don't leave a lot of margin for error," said Lee Collins, a cargo airline pilot and executive vice president of the Coalition of Airline Pilot Associations in Washington.
He said that in situations in which a pilot loses control of an aircraft, the plane could "get into a high-speed dive and inadvertently go through the speed of sound." Collins said.
One possible cause for a nose dive like the one described by Mexican officials would be a drastic failure of the flight controls — the ailerons, elevators and stabilizers, said former NTSB board member John Goglia, an aviation safety expert.
"High performance airplanes by their nature have issues," Goglia said. "The airplane flies faster than the human mind (can keep up) sometimes. ... It takes a lot of skill to stay in front of that airplane."
"We're in the process of picking up the fragments and we have to find all the parts," Argudin told reporters on Monday. "Depending on weather conditions it would take us at least 10 days to have a first report and many more days to have a report by experts."
In an interview on Radio Formula, Alejandro Argudin, head of Mexico's civil aviation agency, said Mexican investigators weren't sure yet if the Learjet had been equipped with flight data recorders. He also said there had been no emergency call from the plane before the crash. In the U.S., the plane would not have been required to have a flight data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder.
"I still trust God that perhaps the body isn't hers," Saavedra said in a press conference Tuesday, adding that she could have been kidnapped and another woman was at the crash site. "We're hoping it's not true, that perhaps someone took her and left another woman there."
The 43-year-old California-born Rivera known as the "Diva de la Banda" died as her career peaked. She was perhaps the most successful female singer in grupero, a male-dominated Mexico regional style, and had branched out into acting and reality television.
Besides being a singer, she appeared in the indie film Filly Brown, which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, and was filming the third season of "I love Jenni," which followed her as she shared special moments with her children and as she toured through Mexico and the United States.
Aviation website FlightAware.com shows that the plane flew from Houston to Toluca on August 31 and had not returned to the U.S. since then. Ruiz said Mexican officials are investigating why the U.S. plane was carrying passengers between two Mexican destinations, something that's against regulation. U.S- registered planes can only fly paying passengers internationally into Mexico. He said the plane's owner, Starwood Management of Las Vegas, said Rivera was not renting the jet, but was receiving a free flight because Starwood thought it would promote the aircraft, which was for sale.
That would be allowed under Mexican law, Ruiz said.
"The Civil Aviation Department has instructions to investigate this point specifically," he said, adding that he's also asking other authorities to verify the company's story about why one of its planes was flying between Mexican destinations.
According to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, the same plane was substantially damaged in a 2005 landing mishap at Amarillo International Airport in Texas. It hit a runway distance marker after losing directional control. There were four aboard but no injuries. It was registered to a company in Houston, Texas, as the time.
QBE, based in New York, said the DEA also seized a Starwood-owned Gulfstream G-1159A — insured by another company — when it landed in Tucson from Mexico in February. Starwood said in its court filing that it didn't have enough information to address the allegation.
Nevada secretary of state records list only one Starwood officer — Norma Gonzalez — but QBE alleges that the company is owned and managed by Ed Nunez, who, according to the lawsuit, is also known as Christian Esquino and had a long criminal history.


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Delhi High Court in Coke Studio v Cook Studio trademark case has ordered that a trademark infringement case be referred to mediation
The Delhi high court comprising Justice Prathiba M Singh in Coke studio v Cook Studio trademark case has said that an attempt should be made to amicably resolve the dispute through mediation first.
A trademark infringement issue between multinational music brand 'Coke Studio' and food website 'Cook Studio' has been referred to mediation by the Delhi High Court.
Justice Prathiba M Singh has stated that an attempt to resolve the dispute peacefully through mediation should be made first. He has designated Senior Advocate Rajeev Virmani as the mediator in the case and has requested that both parties come before him on May 31, 2022.
Nikhil Chawla filed a lawsuit alleging that he is the owner of a company known as 'The Chawla Group,' which operates a popular online platform known as 'Cook Studio,' which engages in the activities of blogging, producing video films, and training, all of which are related to cooking.
The plaintiff got notification from the defendant (The Coca-Cola Company) ordering him to stop using the mark COOK STUDIO for his culinary-related blog, according to the High Court.
Coca Cola's counsel also claimed that using the term "Cook Studio" would be a violation of the company's trademark "Coke Studio."
The plaintiff, on the other hand, claims that the two marks' logos and colour combinations are completely different, and that the words 'Cook' and 'Studio' are both generic terms.
The Court ordered both parties to attend mediation after hearing their arguments.
"It appears to this Court that an attempt ought to be made to amicably resolve this dispute through mediation in the first place. Accordingly, both parties are referred to the Delhi High Court Mediation and Conciliation Centre on 31st May, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. Mr. Rajeev Virmani, ld. Senior Counsel is appointed to act as the Mediator in this matter,"
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Meanwhile, summons have also been issued to the Coca Cola Company asking it to file its written statement within 30 days. Liberty was given to the plaintiff to file its replication within 15 days.
The matter will be placed before Joint Registrar for marking of exhibits on July 28 and the Court will deal with it on September 12.
The plaintiff was represented by advocates Adarsh Ramanujan and Lzafeer Ahmad.
Advocates Anuradha Salhotra, Naval Kastia, Naval Bhardwaj, and Priyanka Anand defended the defendant.
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The railway through Barnehurst in South London is due to reopen today, after it was hit by a 200t landslip on Monday night.
At around 10pm the trees, soil and debris slid onto the tracks, dislodging signalling equipment. Engineers from Network Rail and Costain have been clearing the site and planning repairs.
Network Rail's route managing director Alasdair Coates said: "Passengers have been very patient and I am sorry for the disruption they have endured. We have a plan in place to bring the railway back into use in time for rush hour on Thursday morning, and meanwhile we are working to stabilise the sides of the railway and stop any further landslips.
An Oxford MP has proposed a rail link between Heathrow Airport and Oxford.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for a rail line connecting the West Country with London and by-passing Dawlish.


This Hot Shot bottle was perfect other than the dirt on it, and it actually still had some in it. Until I run water over it and this was outcome... what should I have done?
ACLs are hard to preserve when they've been buried, I think the recommendation is generally to leave them to dry out for a couple of months before cleaning. Then when you do clean them wash the label gently, personally I use nothing but warm water and my finger, and maybe some dish soap if the label seems stable enough. Not sure if there's a better way than that or not.
I wouldn't beat myself up too much over this. If warm water alone wrecks it, it wasn't likely to survive long anyway. Kinda darwinism for bottles if you know what I mean. I wish you continued success out there.


Money well spent! Erie Inspection is very thorough. When one purchases a home, we want to know all the known's and unknown's and Erie Inspection did find a lot of unknowns. Would highly recommend them if your in the need of a home inspection.


The Mechanics of Wealth is an introduction to the second book of three in the 'Infinate Wealth Series' written by Paul Counsel.
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It's another outstanding opportunitiy to ask the burning questions you have always wanted to know answers for, directly to a self made millionaire who is interested in seeing you succeed!
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Before we begin though, it's important to know that wealth needs to be built on four important pillars so that over the long term the structures that you build remain strong. This is the cornerstone of the Mechanics of Wealth and Wealth Creation when you look to use both share trading and real estate as cornerstones.
Having committed yourself to a decision to be wealthy, your journey to wealth must include an understanding of economic cycles, finance, compounding and the skillful use of negotiation and you'll discover all that you need to know here in Book 2.
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Art For Everyone: Untitled: I'VE BEEN TAGGED!!!
1. my favorite breakfast meal is cereal,bananas and peanut butter sandwich's all smashed together.
2. my parents are from Haiti.
4. I started to vlog artwork for many reasons, one was to inspire myself and other artist. I fell like I have very little to share but I've been taught that no matter how small your portion you can always split it in half to share so that's what I'm doing.
5. I had a painting professor who would walk around with a whip shouting " Get to work!"
1. David Malan He is an wonderful artist.Be sure to check out his list of favorite artist. Its saved me the time and effort of doing it myself.
2. the extraordinary tourist. I love his painting plus hes hilarious!you got to see his videos.
4.M.Collier he has some of the best painting on the net.


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Home News Unites States 1966 Half Dollar realized $14,850
1966 Half Dollar realized $14,850
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On Jun 28, 2015, GreatCollections auctioned a 1966 Half Dollar, that was recently graded by PCGS as Specimen-68 DCAM. After spirited bidding, the coin realized $14,850, including the 10% buyer's fee, shattering the previous auction record for the coin.
Only 5 coins have been graded Specimen-68 DCAM by PCGS and the last to appear in auction realized $9,200 in 2009. The PCGS Price Guide is currently listed at $10,000.
The coin was recently discovered by a collector searching through thousands of Special Mint Sets.
The Kennedy half dollar, first minted in 1964, is a fifty-cent coin currently issued by the United States Mint. Intended as a memorial to the assassinated President John F. Kennedy, it was authorized by Congress just over a month after his death. Use of existing works by Mint sculptors Gilroy Roberts and Frank Gasparro allowed dies to be prepared quickly, and striking of the new coins began in January 1964.
GreatCollections is an auction and direct sale venue for PCGS, NGC and ANACS certified coins, as well as coins approved by CAC.
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All The World's a Stage – A Review of Plague Road
I have a lot of complicated feelings about Plague Road, which isn't what I expected going in, and why this review took so long to write after its launch. On its surface, the base game is accessible enough. It's a roguelike fantasy game with a relatively simple squad strategy layer that acts as the combat system. Not an entirely original concept, and your mileage will vary depending on your tolerance for that particular combination of genres. There's a warm sense of achievement and growth that only roguelikes can ever really give me; the crawl towards mere inches of gained ground is something I find soothing. Likewise, the light fantasy-strategy approach, while not something I play a lot of, is always a nice distraction that offers a decent level of depth to combat without being overwhelming and, therefore, frustrating.
For the most part, Plague Road succeeds at blending these two. It's a slow game to start, which suggests that it will be a duller, more difficult experience than it really is. For the first hour or so, combat is overly simple, with only a single character — the Plague Doctor protagonist — to use in encounters. This also makes it somewhat frustrating, which is largely because, upon first play, I didn't realise it was a roguelike. The repeated defeats and seeming lack of progress are something I always experience when beginning a game in this genre, so the sudden realisation helped place that opening hour into perspective. Sure enough, once I began encountering more survivors on the procedurally generated maps, the game opened up and the combat segments became both easier to deal with and more rewarding.
Plague Road's greatest strengths lie in its art style and story. The plot is basic, but more than serviceable for pushing the narrative. The world-building woven into this is compelling. It's a dark, steampunk-esque fantasy with a portentous, apocalyptic atmosphere that bleeds through every bit of writing and vocal performance. The art is highly stylised, almost painterly, and is in constant motion, closely reflecting the narrative by evoking a sense of passive hostility and alienation. It's very distinctive and doubtless the aspect of the game that will stick with most players the longest.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the art style is the ways that the game's sparse animation interacts with it. The actual number of animations allotted to game world's various moving parts is limited; most attacks use the same range of motions. Movement animations for both the player characters and enemies is limited to a few basic motions that are repeated a lot. Rather than detracting from the experience, however, this enhances the art style in a unique way. The stilted, repetitive movements give the sprites a marionette-like appearance that complements the tall, slim build of the humanoid figures and the few points of articulation on their models. The horizontal scrolling nature of the game world combined with the smooth, persistent swaying motion of the environmental details gives the impression of a theatre performance, a charmingly simple way of creating the illusion of a living but alien world.
Visually, Plague Road is a vibrant and thoughtful stage play that picks up on and highlights the narrative themes. The doctor's encounters with bizarre beasts and automatons connect neatly with the way that the game's art direction draws attention to its surreal simulations of life, pushing the player to think about how life in this world works and what the titular plague must mean for its inhabitants. In addition, the natural alienation that comes with this kind of visual aesthetic is used to heighten the sense of the fantastical without blunting the emotional impact.
All this would make for a wonderful game experience were there not some elements that feel undercooked. These problems are occasionally difficult ones to overlook. As I've already mentioned, the early stages of the game can be a frustrating grind. In addition, the enemies in these early stages lack variety; you'll see the same dogs and bandits over and over again for some time before things pick up. The sound and music, while interesting, are surprisingly sparse and so lack the impact that the visuals impart. The version I played (Steam) also had some minor but notable technical issues, such as text not formatting properly inside the text boxes and even one or two strange moments of missing information (the item name of a particular chest was just a garbled string of code, for example). These give it a distinctly unfinished feel. Though it is possible that they have been corrected or patched out of later versions/versions on other platforms, that they were still present after launch makes them worth mentioning.
My overall sense is of a project that has plenty of ambition for its scale, but with a development team that lacked either the resources or the time to fully realize it. The art and writing demonstrate a clear vision and a care for a unified aesthetic that's rare even amongst indie games, but this effort is undermined as a complete piece in other areas. The strangely quiet world, when a more consistent soundtrack and use of sound would go a long way to fully tying the experience together, is a particular irritation. Nonetheless, there is a very promising core to Plague Road that shines through the clumsy execution. Arcade Distillery's aesthetic is clearly a work in progress here, and their catalogue of upcoming games point to a commitment that suggests interesting things in their future as they continue to develop it.
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