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World Cup weekend recap
Weekend Review...
Japan 0 - 1 Costa Rica
Belgium 0 - 2 Morocco
Croatia 4 - 1 Canada
Spain 1 - 1 Germany
MITCH DUKE celebrates his match-winning goal v Tunisia
It was a famous weekend in Australian football as Australia defeated Tunisia on Saturday night.
Fans all around the country were going berserk when Mitch Duke's header brought the Socceroos the lead.
With the win now giving Australia a very real chance of qualifying for the knockout stages, let's check in on how the state of play is after an exciting weekend of football in this year's World Cup.
Here are five things we learned and a look ahead to tonight's games.
Australia Has Biggest Opportunity to Reach Knockout Stages Since 2006
What a win it was for Australia on Saturday night as Mitch Duke's header gave the Socceroos their first win in the World Cup Finals since 2010.
It was an impressive performance from the Socceroos, who worked tirelessly throughout the game to earn, then maintain their lead.
Every one of the starting XI performed as well as they have in an Australian shirt for a very long time and although goalscorer Mitch Duke was Man of the Match Mitch, Aaron Mooy, Harry Souttar, or Matthew Leckie would all have been well justified in winning that award.
The win sets up Australia's best opportunity to qualify for the knockout stages since Lucas Neill and his team lost to eventual winners Italy in 2006.
Australia's last win in the World Cup came in 2010, but it was the third game of the group stage and they had little chance of qualifying. A 4 - 0 defeat to Germany in Australia's first game of the 2010 World Cup ensured that our inferior goal difference gave us very little chance of seeing the knockout stages.
This year, however, Australia now requires only a draw against Denmark to qualify for the Rounf of 16.
Denmark will have their own chance to qualify with a win over Australia and so will look to come out swinging in what could be their final game before they go home.
Denmark will also want to respond after a 2 - 1 defeat to France and if they can bring that level of competition to the game against Australia, the Socceroos will have a tough time holding them out for the full 90 minutes.
In saying that though, Australia has gone ahead in each of its two games at the World Cup this year and if they can do it again in the third game against Denmark, Australia's prospects of qualifying will be enhanced significantly.
England Hard to Get a Read On
England sent an ominous warning to the rest of the competition when they scored 6 goals in an impressive performance against Iran in their opening match. But the Three Lions then weren't able to find the back of the net for the entire 90 minutes against the USA.
English fans were quick to turn on Gareth Southgate who only used three of a possible five substitutions in his side's quest for a win against the Americans.
Many observers, including Newcastle United legend and BBC pundit Alan Shearer were calling for Manchester City's Phil Foden to be brought on for England, but he was left watching on as his side failed to gain more than a point from the game.
Foden has been one of the in-form players in the world this Premier League season for his side Manchester City and so many were left wondering why Foden, who only played 20 minutes against Iran, didn't see any game time against the Americans.
The potential for aplayer with the quality of Foden to come into the England side means that it's hard to get a read on just where England are heading into the final game of the group stage.
In terms of results, England only need to stay within 4 goals of Wales to ensure they qualify for the knockout stages, but anything less than a long run that reaches late into this tournament will not be seen as a success for Gareth Southgate's men.
After their first game against Iran, you could have considered England to be one of the better performed teams in the competition, with only Spain's seven surpassing their goal tally.
However, after their second game against USA, England has opened the door for the intense pressure to build that their fans and media create every major tournament.
England will be looking for a convincing performance against Wales so they can finish top of the group and face what is most likely to be Ecuador or Senegal in the next round. If they don't win, and Iran or USA win the other game, they will finish second and their likely path to the final will be Netherlands, Argentina and Brazil. If this happens, the pressure cooker will turn up even more on Gareth Southgate and his team.
Messi's Fairytale Isn't Over
It was reported that Lionel Messi and his Argentinian teammates celebrated for a full hour in the dressing room after their win against Mexico. Messi led his team with a goal and an assist to ensure that his fairytale dream of lifting the trophy in his last World Cup can still go on.
Messi has been in sparkling form for Argentina recently, having scored in six international matches in a row and his teammates will want to support him in his quest for an elusive World Cup title.
Despite an opening defeat to Saudi Arabia, Argentina can still finish top of Group C if they beat Poland in their final group game. Poland may have found form themselves though, with a 2 - 1 win in their second game against Saudi Arabia giving them top spot in the group.
Poland need only a draw against Argentina to go through and will be fired up after Robert Lewandowski, their star striker, scored his first ever goal in the World Cup Finals.
Having the monkey off the back could free up Lewandowski, who has been one of the best strikers in the world for the better part of the last decade, but had previously failed to score at the a World Cup finals tournament, with 2018 being his only appearance. It was a conspicuous failure for Lewandowski and he may now have a taste for scoring at the World Cup since netting his first goal.
Argentina will hope that they can turn to more than Messi for goals and assists in their final game as they've relied heavily on the little master so far. It's clear that Messi is single minded in his pursuit of World Cup glory and so you can be sure that it's going to be a special performance when Poland and Argentina meet on Thursday.
Spain and Germany Can Both Go Home Before the Knockout Stages
Group E is shaping up to be the most hotly contested group of this year's World Cup.
Each of the teams, Spain, Germany, Japan and Costa Rica will qualify if they win their final game. This means Spain and Germany could both be heading home if they lose.
If Costa Rica can scrape a draw against the Germans, they could progress after producing no shots in their 7 - 0 defeat to Spain and having only two touches in the penalty box against Japan. This would also rely on Spain beating Japan, but they will go into that game as heavy favourites.
Japan will hope they can replicate their performance from their first game against Germany after they were the talk of the tournament following their 2 - 1 win to Die Mannschaft. They would have been incredibly disappointed to lose to Costa Rica, whose single shot on target for the tournament so far delivered them the win against Japan.
After Germany equalised against Spain and rescued a point this morning, they gave themselves a slim chance of making the next round of the World Cup. If they can defeat Costa Rica and Spain beat Japan, the Germans will see themselves progress having avoided a huge scare after their defeat in the opening game.
Should Germany progress, the tournament could open up for them with a favourable draw. They could face Morocco and Portugal in the next stages if they finish 2nd in Group E, but they will need to defeat Costa Rica and hope the Japanese lose to Spain if they are any chance of progressing.
With so much riding on both results and with so many possible scenarios that could still play out, the final two games in Group E look like they'll be incredibly exciting affairs and both take place at the relative friendly time of 6am on Friday morning.
It will be interesting to see how many times the likely finishing order for Group E changes as both of those games play out simultaneously later this week.
Teams from Asia and Africa Are The Story So Far
According to people in Qatar for the World Cup, most of the tourists who are attending this year's World Cup are supporting teams in the Asian and African Confederations.
Traditionally, teams from Asia and Africa haven't enjoyed as much success at the World Cup Finals compared to the powerhouse nations from South America and Europe, but this year an increased level of support has translated to success on the pitch.
This year, we have already seen famous victories to six teams from Asia and Africa. This compares with only seven wins for the entire group stage at the 2018 tournament and there are still 12 games with Asian or African teams left to go in the group stage at the World Cup this year.
Each of the victories to teams from Asia or Africa have been famous wins that have sent their fans into raptures, both in the ground and across their respective nations back home.
Whether it was Saudi Arabia's come from behind win against Argentina, Japan's comeback against Germany, Iran's two late goals that saw them triumph against Wales, Australia's dour victory against Tunisia and Morocco's 2 - 0 against Belgium, the tournament has benefitted greatly from the success of these lower ranked nations. It was only Senegal's win against Qatar that one could have predicted fairly easily.
It shows that their has been great growth in the standard of football in teams from Asia and Africa.
With many of the world's top professional leagues taking players now from all around the world, it's a trend we're likely to see continue into the future.
9pm AEDT - CAMEROON v SERBIA
Cameroon and Serbia will both be looking to record their first points of this World Cup after suffering defeats to Switzerland and Cameroon respectively.
With Brazil so impressive in their opening performance, both these teams will know that they will need to win this game if they are any chance to qualify.
Cameroon were impressive in their opening game against Switzerland, but couldn't find the net despite recording more shots and more shots on target than their Swiss opponents.
Serbia were able to hold out Brazil for the opening 62 minutes in their first game, before a Richarlison double quickly ruined any chance they had of an upset win. Serbia was thoroughly outplayed by Brazil, but will feel they can give a much better account of themselves against Cameroon.
With this being one of those games that sees teams who will both feel they can win, both possessing conflicting styles of football, it's likely to be an exciting affair that should see several goals.
12am AEDT - SOUTH KOREA v GHANA
Late goals to André Ayew and Osman Bukari were not enough to give Ghana anything from the game against Portugal. But they will take comfort in the fact that their two goals was more than South Korea could manage in their opening game, with South Korea even failing to register a single shot on target.
The Koreans will feel that they have a great chance to bounce back against Ghana though and will feel that it's a matter of time before their superstar Son Heung-Min adds his name to the list of scorers at this year's tournament.
Games involving Ghana haven't ended in a nil-all draw since March, a stretch spanning 14 games, so it's unlikely that tonight's result will be a repeat of the relatively lacklustre nil-all draw that we saw in South Korea's first game
3am - AEDT - BRAZIL v SWITZERLAND
Brazil will have the opportunity to stamp their authority on this World Cup with a win against Switzerland tonight.
France are so far the only team to win both of their games so far and Brazil will be looking to add their names to that list when they take on Switzerland in tonight's third game.
The Swiss will be buoyed by a win against Cameroon, but they will need to be even better again against a Brazilian side that has arguably been the most impressive so far in this world cup, despite only scoring two goals in their opening game. The Brazilians showed in that first game that they have talent off the bench and can give a solid 90 minute performance. Switzerland will need to be at their very best if they're to emerge victories at the end of that period of time.
6am AEDT - PORTUGAL v URUGUAY
Portugal will be hoping that they can seal qualification to the knockout stages with a win against Uruguay in the final game of Day 8. Cristiano Ronaldo and his Portuguese teammates survived a scare against Ghana with two goals and very nearly a third nearly costing them the win in their opening game. Like Brazil, Portugal will feel that they are a good chance to go two wins from two games against Uruguay, but Luis Suarez's Uruguayan teammates nearly all play for big clubs in some of the biggest leagues around the world, so are unlikely to shy away from the challenge.
A defeat or a draw would see Uruguay needing a win in their last game to qualify for the knockout stages, so they will be fired up to avoid the pressure associated with that possibility.
Portugal will know that they can sure up qualification with a win in this game and Cristiano Ronaldo is in good form, having already found the net at this year's World Cup, albeit from the penalty spot.
This game, as well as the others that are on tonight, promise to be exciting, high scoring affairs that will form the final matches of the second round of the group stage. We will learn a lot more about how every team is going heading into their final game of the group stage once we've seen how these teams perform tonight.


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"Gangster Squad" Trailer Promises a Neo Noir True Crime Spectacle
The LAPD goes to war with mobster Mickey Cohen
By Scott Ross
Published Jul 11, 2012 at 10:15 AM
"Gangster Squad"
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/entertainment/movies/Gangster-Squad-Trailer-a-Pulp-Novel-Come-to-Life-With-Guns-Ablazing-162058345.html
New "Gangster Squad"
Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Anthony Mackie, Michael Pena and Giovanni Ribisi stars as a special unit of the LAPD tasked with taking down notorious mob boss Mickey Cohen, played by Sean Penn, in this neo noir true-crime thriller from director Ruben Fleischer. Co-stars Nick Nolte and Emma Stone, opens Sept. 7. (Published Friday, July 13, 2012)
"Gangster Squad" boasts about as good a cast as you could hope for: Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Anthony Mackie, Michael Pena and Giovanni Ribisi. Surely you can find a few names on that list that will pique your interest in this true-crime actioner set in post-WW II Los Angeles about the LAPD's war with East Coast gangster Mickey Cohen.
Penn stars as Cohen, the boxer-turned-gangster who made his bones in NYC before being sent west to take over the City of Angels. Brolin, Gosling and Nolte are the cos who head up a secret team of police working on the gray fringes of the law, doing whatever they can to keep Cohen and his men at bay.
And in true noir fashion, Stone appears to play the femme fatale, a gangster's girlfriend who catches Gosling's eye. If Stone and Gosling keep falling into bed together, people are gonna talk.
Based on the book by Paul Lieberman, the screenplay was adapted by Will Beal for director Ruben Fleischer, of "Zombieland" fame.
"Gangster Squad" opens Sept. 7.

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GENERATION REWEAR tells the stories of innovative designers, companies and ordinary people tackling fashion's environmental crisis.
Vanish has partnered with the British Fashion Council (BFC) to create a documentary series shining a light on a new generation at the forefront of sustainable fashion. GENERATION REWEAR, which runs across Amazon properties, addresses consumers' excessive consumption of clothing and the culture of extreme disposability at its heart, while simultaneously celebrating the innovative designers, companies and ordinary people seeking to reduce fashion's impact on the environment.
In recent years, our love of fashion has contributed to an environmental crisis – with the sector responsible for a staggering 4% of the world's total carbon emissions. Globally, there are enough clothes already in existence to dress the next six generations, and in the UK, we send 350,000 tonnes of clothing to landfill annually.
Clearly, this is unsustainable – and it's why Vanish is on a mission to promote responsible clothing consumption by helping clothes live longer.
This three-part series, created by Havas London and directed by Richard Bullock at Hungry Man, aims to inspire consumers into adopting environmentally conscious behaviours in the buying, wearing, caring and disposing of clothes. Cinematic, candid and authentic, it does so through revealing, first-hand accounts from those on the front line of fashion's fight to become more sustainable.
Episode one, released today, invites viewers into the studios of three of the UK's brightest, most innovative young designers – Phoebe English, Liam Hodges and Olubiyi Thomas – to reveal how they are rethinking their approaches to the industry they love.
Episode two turns its lens toward the pioneering businesses helping consumers approach fashion in a more sustainable way, including Sojo, 'the Deliveroo of clothing repairs', Oxwash, a laundry start-up that is aiming to disrupt traditional but environmentally costly washing and dry-cleaning processes, and Petit Pli, a wearable tech brand that creates continuously size-adjusting clothes for growing children.
Finally, episode three seeks out Britain's 'Rewear heroes' – the ordinary people already doing extraordinary things to get the most out of their clothes. The series is narrated by Clare Press, VOGUE's first-ever Sustainability Editor and founder of the sustainable fashion platform THE WARDROBE CRISIS.
GENERATION REWEAR will debut exclusively via Amazon – with promotions including an Amazon Fire TV takeover, trailers on the Amazon.com homepage and social media support contributing to a reach of more than 12 million people. The documentary will also be available to view on the London Fashion Week platform (www.londonfashionweek.co.uk), and there will be an on-schedule moment as part of London Fashion Week in June.
Cigdem Kurtulus, Chief Marketing and Digital Officer at Vanish says: "As the environmental impact of our culture of extreme disposability becomes clear, the need to care for our clothes has never been greater. It's why Vanish is committing to helping clothes live longer. We believe that every garment you own should bring you joy again and again – and with this documentary series, we wanted to celebrate the remarkable people and companies who, like Vanish, are driving fashion's sustainable revolution."
Nick Rowland, Creative Director at Havas London, says: "The culture of disposability enabled and encouraged by fast fashion is a scourge on our planet. But the blame shouldn't be shouldered exclusively by the retailers – it's us, as consumers, who are ultimately buying and disposing of clothes at this dangerous, unsustainable rate. In GENERATION REWEAR, we set out not to point fingers, but to educate – shining a light on some of the inspiring, innovative and just downright interesting things already happening as the fashion industry grapples with its impact."
Caroline Rush CBE, Chief Executive, British Fashion Council, adds: "We are delighted to support this series as part of our wider partnership with Vanish, bringing together the BFC's collective power of the fashion industry with Vanish's insight into consumer behaviours. We all have a part to play in creating a more sustainable future and we hope the documentary will encourage designers, retailers and consumers alike to adopt more environmentally conscious behaviours."
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ahalbert
Re: Down on the Farm
How a bunch of posters are saying Tatis can come up and make his struggles, yet I see the same posters bashing other players almost immediately upon struggling in the majors.
Tatis will definitely struggle considering he just turned 20 and will likely make his debut this season.
That's expected to be honest, of pretty much all players. It's how he adjusts that is key.
I think the one thing with Renfroe was that we all knew his issues ever since he joined the organization. He simply never adjusted until last season and was very hard headed by most accounts in doing so. It took them demoting him for him to really have it set in that his approach at the plate doesn't work.
Margot turned into a train wreck last season. No clue what the hell happened there.
Back in SD
Age definitely comes into play, but sample size is also a factor for young players.
Originally posted by dannyboy View Post
Agreed. Renfroe was also a college player, he was supposed to be more advanced.
I think in general, most people expect college players to have a shorter leash.
Then again, I'm also expecting an Arod type age 20 season lol.
Doesn't hurt to have lofty expectations for Tatis.
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I think Tatis will initially struggle in terms of production for a couple of weeks and then go on a tear before settling in.
krthompson24
I was thinking about a month but historically he's struggled initially at most levels and then figured it out and went on a tear from what I recall.
Renfroe wasn't regarded as high, so it's fair that he has more struggles. I feel like giving up on players like Renfroe is how Dodgers keep finding players like Muncy and Turner.
Stergios
Guys, a .750 OPS for a shortstop is good. That OPS would have made him one of our top offensive players last year.
I don't know man, I just don't want to get my hopes up...
padres15
Originally posted by Stergios View Post
It's outside the top 10 for shortstops.
Tatis has the tools to be a legitimate perennial all star/MVP type player. Obviously the chances of him reaching that ceiling is far from gauranteed, but it is a potential outcome. A.750 OPS would make for a fine player, but I have higher hopes for him.
If we can't get our hopes up about Tatis, there is no hope at all.
Carl Spackler
Major Domo
Originally posted by ahalbert View Post
I don't necessarily disagree, but both those guys changed their swings.
Henry Silvestre
Master of my Domain
Originally posted by Carl Spackler View Post
I don't see much wrong with Renfroes swing... I see a lot to improve on his pitch selectivity ...if he could draw 20 more BBs and cut down 20 SOs per season he is a perennial AS..
MLB Pipeline Top 100...10 Padres ... 7 in Top 50.
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15. Gore
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34. Paddack
48. Patino
49. Morejon
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74. L.Allen
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You can read more about us on this website, join us on the live stream, come see us at the Ellerbe Road Campus for worship or join us in service at Common Ground. We look forward to meeting you soon.
While we enjoy a great deal of variety in our time of worship, there are a few things that can be expected every weekend. There is hot coffee and cold water in the Gathering Area and we invite you to pour a cup or grab a bottle and bring it into worship. There are classes for elementary students during every service, and classes for middle and high school students during the 9:30am service Sunday. There are members of the welcome team stationed around the gathering and worship areas to provide assistance as needed. No one will call you out in the middle of service or try to pin a big "I'm new here" bow on you.
We have services Saturday evening at 5:30 and Sunday morning at 9:00 and 11:11am. Our middle hour classes begin at 10:00am.
Well, that is entirely up to you. We have a staffed nursery that you are welcome to use or you can keep your little ones with you in service. On Sunday mornings there is Grace Place for pre-k-kindergarteners downstairs and The Crossing for 5th and 6th graders upstairs. Grace Land is for 1st through 4th graders and is a part of every service; this group actually starts out in service and then leave together after a time of shared worship. There are volunteers seated down in the front center section that the children can sit with until they leave or they can stay with their parents until the time to go upstairs. (The welcome team members can direct you.) Again, we have a multigenerational worship mindset. We love having our children worship with us and want you to feel comfortable to have them participate in the children's ministries or to stay in worhsip with you.
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The Shi Qiang pan (史墻盤; "Basin of Scribe Qiang"), also called the Qiang pan (), is an ancient Chinese bronze pan vessel (basin). Dated to the end of the 10th century BCE, it is inscribed with a text that has been described as "the first conscious attempt in China to write history."

Low and round with two handles, the vessel is 16.2 cm tall, with a diameter of 47.3 cm. Its exterior is cast with a taotie design. It is regarded as a national treasure, and in 2002 it was listed as one of sixty-four cultural relics prohibited from leaving Chinese soil. The basin is kept at the Baoji Bronze Ware Museum.

History
The Shi Qiang pan was cast sometime during the reign of King Gong of Zhou (r. 917/15 to 900 BC) for a member of the Wēi clan (𢼸, modern 微), whose name was Qiáng (). Some time later it was buried along with over 100 other vessels belonging to the family, and only unearthed in 1976, in Fufeng County, Baoji, Shaanxi.

Inscription

The interior of the vessel is inscribed with 284 characters divided into eighteen lines. The content praises the previous and current rulers of the Zhou state, extolling their virtues and deeds, and then recounts the history of the family of the caster, culminating with Scribe Qiang himself. This is in contrast to most inscriptions which detail only immediate events.

The inscription recounts how King Wen of Zhou "joined the ten thousand states", King Wu of Zhou "campaigned through the four quarters", King Zhao of Zhou "tamed Chu and Jing". In all the inscription records the virtues and highlights of the first seven Zhou kings. Slightly before the midpoint of the passage, the inscription begins describing the caster's own family, beginning with how his high ancestor had been moved from a more eastern location to the Zhou homeland at the time of the conquest of Shang by Zhou. The account touches on such subjects as the appropriateness of Qiang's grandfather's sacrifices, as well as the agricultural success of Qiang's father.

The language of the inscription is difficult both graphically and lexically. Transcriptions are available, but most are incomplete due to font constraints. The fullest treatment can be found in Shirakawa's Complete Explanations of Bronze Inscriptions. Edward Shaughnessy has translated the passage into English.

The hagiographical intent of the inscription is demonstrated by positive spin on historical fact: the inscription claims King Zhao "tamed Chu and Jing", while in reality the campaign was defeated and the king killed, within living memory of the casting of the vessel.

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In keeping with today's trends towards making our mobile phones bigger and bigger, Huawei recently introduced their Ascend Mate into the Australian marketplace. This is large phone – that's the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 with it in the photo – and as you can see, this is not tiny.
Being a big phone carries with it a number of advantages, and especially so for those of us whose eyesight is no longer what it used to be. The extra screen real estate means that details and images can be and are displayed in larger sizes on the larger screen. This, in turn, can make text messages, names, addresses and phone numbers etc much easier to read. Websites can be easier to see and read, and also to navigate through.
Size can, and does, matter.
But the larger size needs to be balanced: will the larger phone fit comfortably in your pocket or purse? As much as I'm a fan of the larger phone sizes, I think that Huawei have gone a little bit too far here: this phone did not fit comfortably in my jeans pocket. While I wasn't concerned about it breaking – build quality is excellent – I did get the feeling that it was digging into my not insubstantial girth, and that made it a little less comfortable when walking around, and especially when sitting.
And there has to be more to a phone than just its size: the implementation and hardware must be right too. It's a phone, and one therefore has a reasonable expectation that it should be able to make and receive phone calls.
Therein lies a problem: where many phones today are coming in as 4G, this is just 3G. But that's not the problem; rather, I found that when making or receiving calls, the people on the other end of the phone were spending their time asking me what it was that I was saying. For a phone, not being able to be clearly heard by the party on the other end of the line is a serious problem. Now, I don't know if that was an issue with just the phone sample I was given, or whether it's indicative of a more general problem, I don't know, but that was certainly my experience.
The Ascend Mate is an Android phone, but it seems to me that Huawei, being a budget manufacturer, have not taken the same effort to give their users the full richness of the whole Android experience. Apps that I have installed through my Google account (on other phones) were not automatically installed, as happens with some other Android phones. I could find no way to install widgets onto the home screen. Network connection parameters were not automatically imported into the phone's settings.
I even – for the first time in a very long time now – found an app where the app was not compatible with the device.
And the phone is somewhat slow. When touching an icon on the screen, there was no immediate indication that the selected app was being loaded; it might have taken several seconds between touching the screen and loading and display of the app's screen would have occurred.
OK, so let's get back to basics: this is a budget phone costing around half that of the Samsung Note 2. Is it fair to compare them with one another, based upon the pricing?
I believe that it's important to point out that, because of the size factor, many people will compare them, and so it's very important that we highlight the pricing differential and that these two phones are very much targeted at different markets.
If your looking at the Ascend Mate and expecting a cheaper version of the Note 2, then expect to be disappointed.
But if you have realistic expectations, and understand that this is a budget phone in which some design and hardware compromises have been made, then you should not be disappointed: it is what it is.


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Sleepover Wages (Settlement) (The Chequer's Trust) Order 2012
Sleepover Wages (Settlement) (The Chequer's Trust) Order 2012: revoked, on the close of 18 October 2016, pursuant to section 7(2) of the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Act 2011 (2011 No 98).
Sleepover Wages (Settlement) (The Chequer's Trust) Order 2012
This order is administered by the Ministry of Health.
Pursuant to section 24 of the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Act 2011, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, and on the recommendation of the Minister of Health (made after consultation with the Minister of Labour), makes the following order.
Settlement relating to The Chequer's Trust
5 Extension of subpart 2 of Part 2 to The Chequer's Trust
6 Modification of section 21 (entitlements for sleepovers performed immediately before 18 October 2011)
7 Modification of section 22(1) (entitlement to be paid minimum hourly rates for sleepovers performed on and after 18 October 2011)
This order is the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) (The Chequer's Trust) Order 2012.
transitional formula 1 means—
(((a × b) + c) × 0.50) – d = e
is the applicable minimum hourly rate
is the number of hours in the sleepover
in relation to the sleepover, is the difference between—
the amount The Chequer's Trust would have paid in respect of annual holidays taken by the employee had the applicable minimum hourly rate been paid for the sleepover; and
the amount actually paid by The Chequer's Trust to the employee in respect of annual holidays taken by the employee
is the amount of taxable allowances for the sleepover that was actually payable by The Chequer's Trust to the employee at the time the employee performed the sleepover
is the amount payable for the sleepover
is the amount payable for the sleepover.
Subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Act, as modified and extended by this Part, applies to—
The Chequer's Trust (as employer); and
each employee of The Chequer's Trust who performs or performed a sleepover.
This clause applies instead of section 21 of the Act in relation to the entitlements of employees of The Chequer's Trust for sleepovers performed immediately before 18 October 2011.
In relation to a sleepover performed by an employee during the period beginning on 1 July 2011 and ending with the close of 17 October 2011, The Chequer's Trust must pay the employee the greater of—
the amount calculated in accordance with transitional formula 1:
The Chequer's Trust must pay any amount payable to an employee under subclause (2) no later than 2 months after the date of commencement of this order.
This clause applies instead of section 22(1) of the Act in relation to the entitlements of employees of The Chequer's Trust for sleepovers performed on and after 18 October 2011.
In relation to a sleepover performed by an employee on or after 18 October 2011, The Chequer's Trust must pay the employee the greater of—
the amount specified in subclause (3):
The amount payable for each sleepover that an employee performs during the period specified in the first column of the following table is the amount calculated in accordance with the method set out opposite that period in the second column of the following table:
Amount payable
Period beginning on 18 October 2011 and ending with the close of 30 June 2012 The amount calculated in accordance with transitional formula 1
Period beginning on 1 July 2012 and ending with the close of 30 June 2013 The amount calculated in accordance with transitional formula 2
This order, which comes into force on 14 December 2012, modifies and extends the operation of the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Act 2011 (the Act) to give effect to a settlement agreement reached between The Chequer's Trust and certain of its employees. The settlement relates to the payment of wages to employees who are permitted to sleep overnight at their workplace while on duty (sleepover wages).
The Act implements a settlement of litigation between Idea Services Limited and Timata Hou Limited and their employees (the Idea settlement) relating to the payment of sleepover wages. Subpart 1 of Part 2 of the Act extinguishes certain claims for sleepover wages in the health and disability sector, and subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Act implements the terms of the Idea settlement.
Subpart 1 of Part 2 of Act: Extinguishing claims for sleepover wages
Subpart 1 of Part 2 of the Act already applies to The Chequer's Trust, because it applies to all employers in the health and disability sector funded through Vote Health. It extinguishes claims relating to sleepovers performed before the Act commenced, if those claims were lodged after 5 pm on 2 September 2011. Claims filed before that time are preserved. Section 9 of the Act extinguishes claims by employees of Idea Services Limited and Timata Hou Limited for sleepover wages. It is not necessary to extend the application of this section to The Chequer's Trust and its employees, because no employees lodged claims regarding sleepover wages before the specified time.
Subpart 2 of Part 2 of Act: Settlement relating to The Chequer's Trust
Clause 5 extends the effect of subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Act (which implements the Idea settlement) to The Chequer's Trust and its employees, but with certain modifications that are set out in clauses 6 and 7.
Sections 21 and 22 of the Act provide for a staged progression towards the minimum hourly wage payable under the Minimum Wage Act 1983. Clause 6 modifies section 21 of the Act, which sets out an employee's entitlements for sleepovers performed between 1 July 2011 and 17 October 2011 (being the date immediately before commencement of the Act), and when those entitlements must be paid. The modification provides that the amount payable to employees of The Chequer's Trust for sleepovers performed during this time is either an amount calculated in accordance with transitional formula 1 (defined in clause 4) or the amount the employee would have received immediately before the date of commencement of this order, whichever is greater. Transitional formula 1 reflects the agreement reached between the parties. It differs from the formula set out in the Act for calculating the wages payable for sleepovers performed during this period in 2 respects as follows:
it uses a variable to reflect the number of hours in the sleepover:
the order in which the operations are performed produces a lower result.
Clause 6(3) provides that the amount payable for sleepovers performed in the period between 1 July 2011 and 17 October 2011 must be paid no later than 2 months after the date of commencement of this order. Section 28(c) of the Act permits this modification of the date on which payment is due only if the relevant Minister is satisfied that the proposed period has been agreed to by a simple majority of the employer's employees. The Minister has indicated that he is so satisfied.
Clause 7 modifies section 22(1) of the Act, which sets out how sleepover wages are to be calculated for sleepovers performed after commencement of the Act by those employees to whom subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Act applies. The section implements a staged progression towards payment of the full minimum hourly wage payable under the Minimum Wage Act 1983. The effect of clause 7 is to modify the staged progression set out in the Act in the following ways:
for sleepovers performed in the period between 18 October 2011 to 30 June 2012, an employee of The Chequer's Trust must be paid an amount calculated in accordance with transitional formula 1 (defined in clause 4), rather than in accordance with the Act:
for sleepovers performed in the period 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013, an employee of The Chequer's Trust must be paid an amount calculated in accordance with transitional formula 2 (defined in clause 4), rather than in accordance with the Act:
the period of time during which an employee of The Chequer's Trust may be paid at less than 100% of the applicable minimum hourly rate is extended to the close of 30 June 2013:
if, before the commencement of this order, an employee of The Chequer's Trust would have received an amount greater than that specified in this order, he or she will be entitled to be paid that greater amount.
This is a reprint of the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) (The Chequer's Trust) Order 2012 that incorporates all the amendments to that order as at the date of the last amendment to it.


I needed surgery due to endometriosis. I have subsidies to help my pay for insurance premiums but still had over $1500 in medical bills after. What makes anyone think I can afford this? If I have subsidies it's apparent I needs help financially as a single Mom with 3 kids. I couldn't afford my premiums so what makes anyone think I have $1500 laying around? As a result of this, even though I have insurance, I often do not go to the doctors because I'm worried about bills I cannot pay.


Jordan Baker is a professional golfer of some fame – the 1920s was an era when golf became extremely popular amongst both sexes. She was originally from Louisville and a friend of Daisy's from 'girlhood'. She now lives with an aged aunt but spends much of her time at the Buchanans' house. She must be aged 21 during the events of the novel, having told Nick she was 16 in 1917.
a slender, small-breasted girl with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet. Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming, discontented face.
Jordan is often described as tanned, with 'golden arms', 'her face the same brown tint as the fingerless glove on her knee', 'her brown hand waved a jaunty salute. The words 'jaunty', jauntily' and 'jauntiness' are used repeatedly, and exclusively, about her.
Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.
It seems that Jordan wants to exploit the code that does not question the morals of a 'lady', whilst enjoying the life of an emancipated woman. Jordan is associated with cheating at golf, lying when she damages a car, and is also described by Nick as a 'rotten driver' leading to a discussion about being 'careless'.
Jordan reveals that she believes others will take responsibility for driving safely, as 'it takes two to make an accident'. She retains her detachment from difficult emotional situations and is described as a 'clean, hard, limited person, who dealt in universal scepticism.' Her comment about driving is revisited in Chapter 9, when Jordan tells Nick that she considers him to be a 'bad driver', clearly referring to his conduct in their relationship.
Nick expands the terms of reference for this metaphor to include irresponsibility at every level. Jordan is not guilty of causing Myrtle's death, except in unwittingly being misidentified as Tom's wife. However, she is far less deeply affected than Nick, inviting Nick into the Buchanans' house as if nothing had happened - 'it's only half past nine', she says. Just like Tom and Daisy, Jordan distances herself from involvement in trauma, by moving away and failing to attend Gatsby's funeral. In her later conversation with Nick she does not reflect on the accident and Gatsby's death, but is more concerned with Nick's treatment of herself on the night Myrtle was killed.


Soon after a spinal cord injury many of us start getting that sneaking suspicion that we're missing out on life. Whether it's an event we can't attend because it not accessible or an activity we can't do because of our paralysis, they begin to stack up. Joanna Bonilla, paralyzed by Lupus, put a temporary halt to that growing list – if just for one night – when she attended SPINALpedia's Adaptive Indoor Skydiving Event at iFLY in Loudon, Virginia last month.
"I was excited because I was finally able to do something on my bucket list. Excited because the dare devil in me was like FINALLY! Finally, that I was able to do something I wanted to do before my injury." A resident of Springfield, Virginia, which is not far from iFLY, Joanna signed up for our event when she saw our online flier.
The psychological benefits of the wind tunnel in particular, which makes the indoor skydiving experience possible, were especially awesome to Joanna. "After I got over the shock feeling and I took in a deep breathe. I was able to relax and loved the feeling of feeling FREE. I was allowed to have FUN and let go. In my wheelchair, I over analyze everything ("Can I get in that way?," "Is it wheelchair friendly?," "Will I be able to do this?").
"At DPI, I was able to get my confidence back little by little. I am now stronger than I've ever been. I was able to do IFLY and every other adaptive activity because of DPI. She has also tried rock climbing and adaptive skiing in Colorado since becoming injured, but this 34 year old loves how easy it is to just get in some indoor skydiving in her own hometown.
This entry was posted in Feature stories, News & Updates and tagged adaptive adventures, iFLY all-abilities night, indoor skydiving all-abilities, joanna bonilla on June 8, 2018 by Tiffiny.
Annette wearing her creation. Note: It may look like the leg protector is touching the ground, but it does not touch the ground. Each leg protector is made to order.
It would be fair to say that nature isn't the most wheelchair friendly, and especially when it comes to the rain. From bulky raincoats to umbrellas that just don't reach everywhere (leaving knees and shoes wet!), what's a wheelchair-user to do?
Annette Flowe, a paraplegic from Germany, was sick of getting wet every time it rained at her beloved annual music festival each summer. But it was this experience that inspired her to come up with her ingenious idea. It may seem simple on face value, but it took someone like Annette with her German sensibility to realize that it was high time a quality waterproof leg protector was created for wheelchair-users.
"For over 15 years, I have been going to the same music festival in East Germany, which takes place on the first weekend of July. There are a lot of open air stages and although the weather is usually good, almost every year there is at least one heavy rain shower during the weekend," says Annette.
To create the perfect covering for a wheelchair-user's legs in the rain, Dr. Eugene Emmer went on Reddit to poll wheelchair-users if they would appreciate such a product to keep them dry in the rain. Astonishingly, over 80% of people polled said they do not have an adequate way of staying dry in the rain.
To understand what wheelchair-users needed even more OF, Dr. Emmer put together a group of 10 testers who use wheelchairs from around the world, including USA, Scotland, England, Germany and Lithuania. He sent a sample leg protector to each tester to get feedback. They received a lot of responses, from helping wheelchair-users find better ways to keep the protector on their legs to finding a better way to keep it on their lower legs.
After the testing was completed, they decided to call it Rayne Shield. It can fold compactly into its carrying case as well so it can be stored safely and securely with you whenever it starts to rain. It also is available six different colors, including camouflage. The cost is $65, plus shipping to the United States. Look for the Rayne Shield to be available online late this summer.
This entry was posted in Feature stories, News & Updates and tagged rayne shield, waterproof leg protector, wheelchair waterproof leg covering on June 7, 2018 by Tiffiny.


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Mayor says indoor dining in New York City is off the table as Phase 3 of reopening approaches
By Bronx Times Posted on July 1, 2020
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BY ALEJANDRA O'CONNELL-DOMENECH
Indoor dining will be postponed in New York City to prevent a spike in novel coronavirus infections, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday.
Initially, indoor dining was scheduled to return on July 6 as a part of New York state's Phase 3 reopening plan but was scrapped due to multiple states linking alarming jumps in new cases to gatherings at indoor bars and restaurants.
"We know a lot of other parts of this country have very sadly made decisions based on something other than the data in the heat of the moment," de Blasio said during a Wednesday press conference. "The news that we have gotten around the country gets worse and worse all the time."
Yesterday, Michigan health officials linked 85 new coronavirus cases to one bar in East Lansing. Earlier this week, California Governor Gavin Newsom order bars and restaurants closed in seven counties where the infection rates of the virus were growing rapidly. Bar owners in Florida and Texas are closing their doors again because of a surge in virus cases.
Instead, the city will expand its current outdoor dining plan launched in mid-June as part of Phase 2 reopening. The de Blasio administration's daily coronavirus numbers remain low. On Wednesday, the mayor's office reported that 61 people were admitted to a city public hospital with suspected COVID-19 cases on June 29, a slight uptick from June 27 data.
There are 293 people in a public hospital intensive care unit suffering from possible COVID-19 complications and the number of city residents testing positive for the virus bumped up to 2%. On June 27, the city reached an all-time low rate of infection. Only 1% of New Yorkers tested positive for the virus.
Governor Andrew Cuomo confirmed the decision during a press briefing on Wednesday morning.
This story first appeared on amny.com.
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You Can Say That Again: The Substantial Right Doctrine Is More Easily Stated Than Applied
By Beth Scherer
There is perhaps no truer aphorism of appellate jurisdiction than this: The substantial right doctrine is more easily stated than applied. In light of the Court of Appeals' opinion last Tuesday in Beasley v. Beasley, litigants should consider how (or even whether) the substantial right test interacts with other jurisdictional statutes authorizing interlocutory appellate review.
By way of background, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-19.1 permits interlocutory appeals for a range of domestic orders. Are the grounds for interlocutory review set out in this statute exclusive? Does an order that completely disposes of some, but not all, of the issues on appeal affect a substantial right? When does an interlocutory order that awards over $48k in attorney's fees affect a substantial right? These are just some of the questions the Court of Appeals grappled with in Beasley.
Expressio Unius Est Exclusio Alterius?
Since 2013, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-19.1 has provided that certain types of "quasi-interlocutory" domestic orders that would appear final if "considered in isolation" from other claims are subject to immediate appellate review. Beasley holds that even when an interlocutory domestic order is not explicitly covered by the terms of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-19.1, appellate review may still exist if the appellant can demonstrate that the order affects a substantial right.
In reaching its holding, Beasley distinguished Comstock v. Comstock, 240 N.C. App. 304, 771 S.E.2d 602 (2015). The majority characterized Comstock as using the doctrine of expressio unius est exclusio alterius to imply that only the domestic orders specifically listed in section 50-19.1 are subject to immediate appellate review. While I do not read Comstock as necessarily extending that far, Beasley's central holding clearly aligns with the structure of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-27 (the main statute governing appeals from the trial courts).
Section 7A-27 broadly gives the Court of Appeals jurisdiction to review "any interlocutory order" that does "any of the following:"
a. Affects a substantial right.
e. Determines a claim prosecuted under G.S. 50-19.1.
Id. (emphasis added). Latin doctrines notwithstanding, when a statute uses the word "any" (twice) and then lists seven separate grounds for interlocutory appellate review, it seems clear that section 50-19.1 and the substantial right doctrine represent independent paths to appellate review.
Rather than saying this directly, however, practitioners and appellate opinions (including Beasley) sometimes quote the oft-repeated mantra that an interlocutory order is subject to immediate appellate review "only" when
the trial court certifies the order for immediate appellate review under Rule 54(b), or
the order affects a substantial right of the appellant that would be lost without immediate review.
True, these are two of the most common grounds for obtaining interlocutory appellate review. However, the General Assembly has authorized several additional grounds for interlocutory appellate review—including those delineated in section 50-19.1. See, e.g., N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-569.28; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-27(b)(3)(f); N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50-19.1; N.C. R. Civ. P. 62(h). There is a temptation to interweave the substantial right doctrine with other interlocutory jurisdiction doctrines to find a way for the "only two grounds" quote to make sense. However, doing so unnecessarily entangles what should be distinct and separate jurisdictional tests.
IMHO, further complication of our beloved, but byzantine, substantial right test should be avoided. The quote might be replaced by a declaration that "an interlocutory order is subject to immediate appellate review when authorized by one or more statutory provisions—and there are definitely more than two." See N.C. Gen. Stat. 7A-27(b)(4).
Appellant's failure to recognize this distinction is likely what precipitated a dissenting opinion in this case (discussed below). Thus, it is important that appellants proactively investigate and identify in their initial appellate briefs any and all statutory provisions that could arguably support interlocutory appellate review.
When does an Interlocutory Attorney's Fees Order Affect a Substantial Right?
As the interlocutory order in Beasley fell outside of section 50-19.1, appellant was required to demonstrate that interlocutory review was proper under some other statutory provision (e.g., the substantial right test, Rule 54(b), or some other statute).
The interlocutory order being challenged in Beasley required appellant-husband to pay over $48k in attorney's fees incurred by his ex-wife while pursuing child custody and support claims. The underlying custody and support claims had been resolved by the trial tribunal several months before the attorney's fee order. Per Duncan, a pending motion for attorney's fees does not prevent entry of a final judgment (or a quasi-final judgment). In addition, claims for equitable distribution (as well as additional attorney's fees) remained pending in the trial tribunal—meaning there was no final judgment.
Before affirming the attorney's fees order on its merits, the Beasley court concluded that interlocutory review was appropriate under the substantial right test because:
the order "effectively (and completely) disposed of" the support and custody issues, and
the husband was required to "pay a not-insignificant amount" in attorney's fees.
Judge Berger concurred in results only while Judge Murphy dissented. Judge Murphy did not appear to disagree with the key holding that the substantial right and 50-19.1 doctrines are independent tests. However, he would have dismissed the appeal because
appellant had failed to raise the substantial right theory until his reply brief, a defect that frustrated the adversarial process; and
appellant had not explained why the attorney's fees award was significant in relation to husband's financial resources, or why payment of a $48k fee award would cause husband irreparable harm.
Both the majority and dissenting opinions raise interesting questions. Does permitting an interlocutory appeal to proceed under the substantial right theory on the ground that the order "completely dispose[s] of one of several issues" encourage interlocutory appeals of orders that resolve one or more, but fewer than all, claims without a Rule 54(b) certification? Under what circumstances would the amount of money at stake constitute adequate grounds for obtaining interlocutory appellate review? Because the substantial right test is an appellate jurisdiction doctrine, the trial tribunal's record may not fully flesh out the factual evidence that could support that argument. What if the trial tribunal record in Beasley did not contain adequate evidence regarding the husband's financial position or his risk of irreparable harm? What strategies should have been utilized to get this type of information before the appellate court?
Alternatively, was a substantial right implicated because execution could have proceeded absent interlocutory review? See Wachovia Realty Investments v. Hous., Inc., 292 N.C. 93, 108, 232 S.E.2d 667, 676 (1977). Section 1-289 protects the financial interests of both the appellant and the appellees in final judgment appeals. The appellant can stay execution by obtaining an appeal bond or depositing the sum owed with the trial tribunal. See N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-289. But do the same protections apply to interlocutory orders requiring payment of attorneys' fees? Absent immediate appellate review, would the husband have been required to pay the entire fee award now, wait several more years until final judgment was entered, and then pursue recovery of the fee from his ex-wife if he prevailed on appeal? Does Civil Rule 62 or some other provision prevent the prevailing party from executing on an attorney's fee award until final judgment is entered?
Unfortunately, these issues are unlikely to journey to the Supreme Court—despite the dissenting opinion. Husband would have to change his position on appeal and argue that interlocutory appellate review was improper. True, jurisdictional arguments are technically not subject to waiver defenses. However, I would think there would be a toxic awkwardness in swapping that horse before the Supreme Court . . . but who knows.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
–Beth Scherer
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This cottage is a two bedroom, one bath. Cottage provides a queen bed, 2 twin beds and a pull out couch. Within walking distance to Health Center.
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I'm a co-founding member of West Hollywood Aquatics (WH2O).
West Hollywood Aquatics (WH2O) is a Masters swimming and water polo club based in West Hollywood, Calif. The club currently has a roster of over 180 members including gay, lesbian and straight athletes and fitness enthusiasts from Los Angeles, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Silverlake and the San Fernando Valley as well as West Hollywood.
WH2O grew out of a group of swimmers training for Gay Games I in 1982. After returning from the Games, the participants started the West Hollywood Swim Club, which later was changed to incorporate Water Polo and was renamed West Hollywood Aquatics.
WH2O is one of the founding members of International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics (IGLA) and is sanctioned by United States Masters Swimming (USMS) and United States Water Polo (USWP).
Please visit www.wh2o.org for more information. What is your goal for Gay Games Chicago 2006?
I'd like to set a personal best and, hopefully, go for the gold. Breaking another record could be nice, too. I'm also there to support friends and teammates.
If you have attended a previous Gay Games, please explain the experience as an athlete, cultural participant, spectator or volunteer.
As with any first experience, the first Gay (Olympic) Games in 1982 were very special to me. There are many wonderful stories to share about them. Also Gay Games IV (1994) in New York. It was the first Games with a great number of European participants. Gay Games V (1998) in Amsterdam was my first trip to Europe. Gay Games VI (2002) in Sydney, Australia featured phenomenal, world-class facilities. There are too many stories about each of the Games to share here.
We have heard how the Gay Games changes people's lives. Can you tell us of any transformational experience you had? New friends, a sense of community?
Yes, empowerment, higher self esteem as an athlete and gay athlete, new friends, sense of family and community, unity, support, etc.
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Chinese event extraction uses word embedding to capture similarity, but suffers when handling previously unseen or rare words. From the test, we know that characters may provide some information that we cannot obtain in words, so we propose a novel architecture for combining word representations: character–word embedding based on attention and semantic features. By using an attention mechanism, our method is able to dynamically decide how much information to use from word or character level embedding. With the semantic feature, we can obtain some more information about a word from the sentence. We evaluate different methods on the CEC Corpus, and this method is found to improve performance.
Event extraction  is one of the tasks involved in Automatic Content Extraction (ACE). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sponsors ACE and aims to promote and develop relevant technologies for information extraction (IE). In 2005, ACE included event extraction tasks. The process of defining events in ACE is composed of event-trigger words (trigger) and event arguments (argument). The event extraction tasks include event recognition and event argument recognition. Event recognition is done to determine whether the event-trigger word relates to real-world events. Event argument recognition is done to recognize time, location, and participants. Table 1 is an example of the event arguments in the ACE Chinese Annotation Guidelines  for events.
Chinese has a lot of polysemy and cannot accurately represent word meaning with a single word embedding.
Chinese grammar is more complex and the same word has different affects in different sentences.
We use character-level embedding to generate word representation. By using an attention mechanism, our method can dynamically decide how much information to use from a word or character level embedding.
We represent the word semantic feature by multiple dimensions to obtain more information from the sentence and combine it with word embedding. This can improve the effect of the word representation.
The experimental results show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art Chinese event extraction method.
The existing event extraction methods are mainly based on rules and machine learning.
Regarding rules, almost all of the state-of-the-art methods focus on processing one sentence at a time. They use a set of elaborately designed features that are extracted by textual analysis and linguistic knowledge.
Ji  was inspired by the hypothesis of One Sense Per Discourse ; they extended the scope from a single document to a cluster of topic-related documents and employed a rule-based approach to propagate a consistent trigger classification and event arguments across sentences and documents. By combining global evidence from related documents with local decisions, they obtained an appreciable improvement in both event and event argument identification.
Liao  proposed document level cross-event inference to improve event extraction. This work does not limit itself to time information for events, but rather uses related events and event-type consistency to make predictions or resolve ambiguities regarding a given event.
Li  proposed a joint framework based on structured prediction, which extracts triggers and arguments together so that the local predictions can be mutually improved.
Machine learning focuses on the discovery, selection, and combination of classifier construction and features, and regards event identification as a classification problem.
Chieu  first introduced the maximum entropy classifier into event extraction, and used the classifier to complete the identification of events and their arguments.
Ahn  proposed classifying event factor identification as a multivariate classification problem, and adopted the method of classification learning to realize event identification and event factor identification on an ACE English corpus.
Fu  proposed an algorithm of event factor identification based on feature weighting. This algorithm firstly improves the Relief feature selection algorithm in the classification algorithm and then applies it to the clustering algorithm. The improved Relief algorithm (FWA) assigns different weights to different contributions of clustering according to each feature, and then USES the KMeans algorithm to cluster the event arguments.
Chen  proposed a dynamic multi-pool convolutional neural network using a dynamic multi-pool layer to capture the sentence-level information and the information that was missing from the multi-event sentence.
Zhang  proposed a deep belief network model with mixed supervision to identify the trigger words.
Nguyen  proposed that event extraction be done in a joint framework with bidirectional recurrent neural networks. This framework can not only automatically learn the hidden features from the data, but also can reduce the error propagation of the pipeline method.
Previous works have only considered the effect of word embedding. In addition, most studies have not considered the semantic features of words.
Therefore, we propose a Chinese event extraction model, which uses a bidirectional circular neural network and word–character embedding based on attention and semantic features. It explore the semantic feature generalization of event extraction and studies the role of deep semantic information in event extraction. In this paper, we represent the word semantic feature by multiple dimensions and combined with the word itself to generate a feature vector using a bidirectional neural network for feature extraction and using the CRF model to obtain the best prediction results of sentences.
Event mention: A phrase or sentence in which an event occurs, including one trigger and an arbitrary number of arguments.
Event trigger: The main word that most clearly expresses an event occurrence.
Event argument: An entity mention, temporal expression or value that servers as a participant or attribute with a specific role in an event mention.
ACE annotates 8 types and 33 subtypes (e.g., attack, die, start position) for event mentioned that also correspond to the types and subtypes of the event triggers. Each event subtype has its own set of roles to be filled by the event arguments.
Although an event extraction system needs to recognize event triggers with specific subtypes and their corresponding arguments with the roles for each sentence, in this paper, we only wanted to recognize the event trigger and three event arguments (event participants, event location and event time).
Let W = w 1 w 2 w 3 , … , w n be a sentence where n is the sentence length and w i is the i-th token. Additionally, let E = e 1 e 2 e 3 , … , e n be the labels in this sentence. We use the BIO annotation mode ("B-X" means the beginning of the X element, "I-X" means the middle (including the end) position of the X element, and "O" means not belonging to any type of elements).
For every token w i in the sentence, we need to predict its label (trigger, time, location, participator or O) and we must make the prediction as accurate as possible. Our method considers character embedding and word features in an effort to improve word embedding. Figure 1 presents the architecture of event trigger and arguments recognition, which primarily involves the following four components: (a) character–word embedding based on attention; (b) feature representation; (c) Bi-LSTM (Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory network); and (d) CRF (Conditional Random Field).
Most methods use the external context of the words in the large corpus to learn the embedding of words. However, in Chinese, a word is usually composed of multiple characters, each containing rich internal information, for example, the word "自行车" (bicycle). The CBOW model can be used to learn the meaning of a word, but it can also be learned by characters: "自" (auto), "行" (walk) and "车" (car). Because of the nature of semantics, the semantic meaning of internal characters may play an important role in semantic meaning. Therefore, an intuitive idea is to consider the internal characters for the embedding of learning words.
Because the word polysemy is more serious in Chinese, Chen  proposed the Position-based Character Embedding model. There are different representations according to the position of each character in the word (begin:(c B ); middle:(c M ); end:(c E )).
h * = [ h j * → , h 1 * ← ] ; m = t a n h ( W m h * ) .
We found that not all words are similar in meaning to their characters, and some foreign words are created from pronunciation, such as "巧克力" (chocolate), which is completely different from "巧" (artful), "克" (gram) and "力" (force). They only sound similar. At the same time, some characters may have different meanings but are in the same place.
where t is the word embedding, and W z 1 , W z 2 are weight matrices for calculating z. They decide how much information to use from the character level embedding or from the word embedding. σ () is the logistic function with values in the range [0;1]. z has the same dimensions as t or m. This operation can also expand the word embedding dictionary. For words that have regular suffixes (or prefixes), we can share some character level features; words that did not previously have word vectors can also use character level embedding.
Based on the results of semantic feature analysis, we defined three different feature abstraction layers. Feature representation mainly adopts the binary representation model. The characteristics of the three abstraction layers are the same as those of the value generation. The following describes the way in which each abstraction layer is represented and the way in which the eigenvalue is generated.
POS (part of speech), as a generalization of the word, plays an important role in language recognition, syntactic analysis, and event extraction. In a sentence, the grammatical component has a strong restriction on the speech component. For example, a noun or pronoun can act as a subject in a sentence, but an interjection cannot. Therefore, POS, as an abstract feature, conforms to the expression characteristics of text semantic information and the basic cognition of human beings in the recognition of events. Based on the analysis of the part of speech in CEC (Chinese Emergency Corpus), we found that the event-trigger word is usually a verb or noun, while the location and the participant argument are both nouns. Therefore, it is possible to improve the accuracy of recognition based on the abstract feature layer.
As DP (dependency grammar) exactly describes the semantic role relationships between words, it has extremely high semantic performance. DP does not pay attention to the meaning of the word itself, but expresses the word through the grammatical relation of the word in the sentence, which can directly obtain the deep semantic information.
Containing the most information and having the clearest expression in a sentence, trigger words, in a certain sense, play the role of predicate verbs of dependency grammar. Based on the analysis of the trigger in the CEC corpus, we found that 62% of the trigger words in the sentence play the dependent grammatical role of the HEAD and 18% play the role of the verb object. The predicate verbs in the dependent grammar and the trigger words in the sentences are mostly consistent.
HEAD is the root node in dependency grammar, usually used to express the most important content in a sentence. The trigger is also used to express the core content in the event. Through the analysis of the CEC corpus, they are very close. Therefore, the distance from the HEAD can determine whether the word is a trigger or can recognize the event argument better.
Feature representation mainly uses a binary representation model. We describe all feature representations in detail below.
Feature representation of POS (part of speech): The 28 dimensions of POS feature vectors represent 28 types of POS. If the POS of a candidate word corresponds with that of a certain dimension representation of a feature vector, then the feature vector value of the word at the dimension is 1, whereas the feature vector value at the remaining 27 dimensions is 0.
Feature representation of DP (dependency grammar): On this feature layer, 15 vector dimensions exist, thus representing 15 kinds of DP.
Feature representation of DIS (distance from the HEAD): The vector dimension is 7, representing distance from 0 to 6. If it is greater than 6, then each feature vector value of the candidate word is 6.
Based on the above three features, we constructed the feature representation of a 50-dimensional vector.
Table 2 shows some examples of feature representation.
i = [ z ; f ] .
We now describe the Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory network for this paper. The model receives a sequence of tokens ( w 1 , w 2 , w 3 , … , w n ) as input and predicts a label corresponding to each of the input tokens.
First, a sequence of tokens ( w 1 , w 2 , w 3 , … , w n ) is obtained. The tokens are mapped to a distributed vector space, which we have explained, resulting in a sequence of word embeddings ( i 1 , i 2 , i 3 , … , i n ) .
Then, the results are mapped to the m dimension, resulting in a sequence of probability ( p 1 , p 2 , p 3 , … , p n ) . M is the number of entity types, and p i j describes how confident the network is that the label on the w i word is j.
s c o r e ( x , y ) = ∑ i = 1 n P i , y i + ∑ i = 1 n + 1 A y i − 1 , y i .
E = − s c o r e ( x , y ) + l o g ∑ y ∈ Y e s ( y ) .
Y is the set of all possible label sequences.
We used Chinese Corpus CEC  as the corpus (https://github.com/shijiebei2009/CEC-Corpus). CEC is an event ontology corpus developed by the Semantic Intelligence Laboratory of Shanghai University. It has 332 articles. Compared with the ACE and TimeBank corpus, CEC is smaller, but more comprehensive in the annotation of events and event arguments. Therefore, we used CEC as the experimental data for the event extraction. The text was divided into five categories: earthquake, fire, traffic accident, terrorist attack, food poisoning. In the experiment, the word segmentation and grammar analysis tools adopted the module provided by the LTP language technology platform of Harbin Institute of Technology. After pretreatment, there were 8804 sentences, 5853 trigger words, 1981 event participants, 1633 event locations, and 1388 event times. For the experiment, we divided the corpus into 20% test set, 64% training set, and 16% verification set.
This experiment mainly recognized the event trigger, event participants, event time, and event location. We used recall (R), precision (P) and the F-measure (F) to evaluate the results.
In the process of experimental preprocessing, we used Jieba (https://pypi.org/project/jieba/) as the tool for word segmentation and semantic analysis, and used the Sogou news data (http://www.sogou.com/labs/resource/ca.php) as the corpus to train the word embedding and the character embedding. There are many methods of training word embedding, which are introduced in the next chapter.
The unit number of LSTM was chosen to be 128, the size of word embedding was 300, that of character embedding was 300, that of feature representation embedding was 15, the maximum epoch was 20, the dropout was 0.5, and the batch size was 60. We used Adam (Kingma and Ba, 2014), with the learning rate of 0.001 for optimization.
SKIPGRAM: Mikolov  first proposed this model of training word embedding. The SKIPGRAM model is intended to predict the surrounding words in the sentence given the current word.
CWE: Chen  proposed Character-Enhanced Word Embedding. CWE considers character embedding in an effort to improve word embedding.
CWEP: Chen  proposed the Position-based Character Embedding model. In the position-based CWE, various embeddings of each character are differentiated by the character position in the word, and the embedding assignment for a specific character in a word can be automatically determined by the character position.
Char-BLSTM-CRF: Misawa  proposed a neural model for predicting a tag for each character using word and character information. This model is like Chen's CWE but with a different method to concatenate the word embedding and the character embedding.
Segment-Level Neural CRF: Sato  presented Segment-level Neural CRF, which combines neural networks with a linear chain CRF for segment-level sequence modeling tasks such as named entity recognition (NER) and syntactic chunking. According to this article, the effect is slightly better than xuezhe's LSTM-CNN-CRF model. The experimental parameters of the model refer to this article. In addition, this experiment also provides three methods, including the use of two additional dictionary features. However, due to the lack of a dictionary in Chinese, dictionary features cannot be added.
Table 3 compares several advanced methods with our methods. It is divided into two parts: Word-based and Word–Character-based.
Word-Based Models: Segment-level Neural CRF improved the CRF layer on the basis of LSTM-CNN-CRF, and then achieved a better effect. However, due to the relative complexity of the CRF model and the CNN layer, the time required was much longer than other models.
Word–Character-Based Models: The combination of word and character embedding is one of the main research directions at present. The four different methods are mainly due to the different combinations of word and character embedding. According to the last chapter, not all words are similar in meaning to their characters, so our method can achieve better performance. In addition, we considered the semantic feature of words in sentences, so the effect could be better than other methods. Of course, we used attention mechanisms when combining word embedding and character embedding and added a BLSTM layer when combining character embedding, so our method took about 10% more time than the Segment-level Neural CRF method.
Table 4 mainly analyzes the F1 value of each event argument in several methods. As we can see, the Segment-level Neural CRF method is the best method for identifying the location, while our method has the best effect on several dimensions: event time, trigger, and event participants.
Table 5 shows the averaged word length after splitting an event into event arguments. As we can see, trigger is the shortest and location is the longest. Therefore, CNN can extract more information from location. This is the reason why Segment-level Neural CRF (BLSTM-CNNs-CRF) performs better than BLSTM-CRF in location.
The effect of incorrect participles, for example, "住" (in hospital). This is an intransitive verb. However, according to traditional semantics, "住" (live) is a verb and "院" (hospital) is a noun. The presence of different semantic analysis results leads to mistakes. In this regard, the performance of the word segmentation tool needs to be improved.
The effect of semantic ambiguity. As we all know, a word can have different meanings in different contexts. This can be resolved by generating multiple word representations for the word. In additional, a word may become a different part of an event argument. For example, "酒店" (hotel) may be part of a location or a participant. Such problems require further integration of the dependencies between words and content. Our method provides an idea, but it may not be enough.
This paper proposes an effective Chinese event argument extraction model. The results show that our model is better than other models, but it uses much more time (about 10% more time). We propose an event extraction model that uses a bidirectional circular neural network and word–character embedding based on attention and semantic features. RNN has a natural sequence structure, so BLSTM-CRF is more widely used in natural language processing. Our future work will examine the reduction of redundancy in a character-based model by preparing and combining different BLSTMs for word and character inputs. In addition, we will focus more on marking the number of training sets with fewer problems in the future.
J.Z. wrote the paper; Y.W. revised the paper.
This research was funded by [the National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China] grant number .
We would like to thank our colleges for their suggestions and help.
Linguistic Data Consortium. ACE (Automatic Content Extraction) Chinese Annotation Guidelines for Events. 2005-05-05. Version 5.5. Available online: https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/collaborations/past-projects/ace/annotation-tasks-and-specifications (accessed on 20 September 2018).
Figure 1. The architecture for the event trigger and argument recognition in the event extraction.
Table 1. An example of event arguments.
Table 2. Examples of feature representation.
Table 3. Performance complexities.We used recall (R), precision (P) and the F-measure (F) to evaluate the results.
Table 4. F-measure of each event argument.
Table 5. Average length of Chinese event arguments.


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