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Monday 21 September 2020 19:27, UK
Image: Ilkay Gundogan will miss Manchester City's opening Premier League game against Wolves
Manchester City have confirmed that Ilkay Gundogan has tested positive for coronavirus following the latest round of testing.
The midfielder is observing a 10-day period of self-isolation in accordance with Premier League and UK Government protocol on quarantine.
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Gundogan is likely to miss three matches for City while he self-isolates, including Monday's Premier League clash against Wolverhampton Wanderers, live on Sky Sports, as well as Thursday's Carabao Cup game against Bournemouth and Sunday's league game against Leicester City.
The German is the third member of Pep Guardiola's squad to test positive for the virus, following winger Riyad Mahrez and defender Aymeric Laporte.
Both players returned to training last week but City boss Guardiola said only Mahrez would be available against Wolves.
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The 29-year-old is a regular starter in City's midfield and made 49 appearances in all competitions last term as well as being a key part of the treble-winning side the year before.
Gundogan also started this season on international duty with Germany - playing in both 1-1 Nations League draws against Spain and Switzerland, and scoring in the game against the latter.
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Manchester City gave no further details of Gundogan's condition, only adding: "Everyone at the club wishes Ilkay a speedy recovery."
Can Man City close the gap on Liverpool?
Manchester City begin their new Premier League campaign live on Monday Night Football when they travel to Wolves, aiming to close the 18-point gap that separated them from Liverpool last season.
After winning the Premier League for two successive seasons, City stumbled last year as Jurgen Klopp's side raced away with the title.
Ahead of Man City's trip to Wolves, live on Sky Sports, the pundits gave their own pre-season assessment of what Pep Guardiola's team need to compete and whether they can really challenge this season...
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How does Pep regain the title?
By Adam Bate
Pep Guardiola has never regained a league title in his coaching career. In fairness, he has never even attempted it before. The only previous occasion he surrendered the crown was in his final season at Barcelona prior to his sabbatical. This is new territory for him.
It is rare for anyone to accomplish it in the modern European game. The increased turnover in managers, coupled with the monopoly in existence in France, Germany and Italy, means that few find themselves in this position of being asked to win back something lost.
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There was a time when it was common. Stan Cullis and Matt Busby regained the English title. Don Revie did it and so did Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley. Howard Kendall and Kenny Dalglish traded the trophy, while George Graham regained it with Arsenal in 1991.
Only two managers have done that in the same stint at the same club during the Premier League era. Arsene Wenger managed it once with Arsenal. Sir Alex Ferguson did it no fewer than five times with Manchester United. Perhaps he is the man to defer to on such matters.
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Q: Using Bootstrap 3 how can I hide columns in my table? I'm trying to hide columns for my responsive design when in col-xs and col-sm.  I first attempted to use hidden-xs/hidden-sm classes, but this didn't work.  I also tried using visible-desktop as mentioned here: Twitter Bootstrap Responsive - Show Table Column only on Desktop
That also didn't work.  What is the best way to do this? I rather not make two separate tables and then hide one or the other.
Code I tried that's not currently working:

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        Hide in XS and SM

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A: I recently run into a similar issue, working on displaying a table differently, depending on screen size. The task for me was to hide one column when on a bigger screen and show it on a mobile device while hiding three other columns (the 'one' column is the sum of data in the 'three' columns. Like the response above, I used a media query, but disposed of bootstrap's pre-made views altogether. I added classes to the th and td tags involved.
Looks very much like this:
.full_view {
width: 50px;
  @media(max-width: 768px){
    display: none;
  }
}

.small_view {
  width: 50px;
  @media(min-width: 768px){
    display: none;
  }
}

A: It seems hidden-xs/hidden-sm has worked before since the accepted answer has many up votes, however the fiddle example does not work for me when I'm resizing the area. What works for me though is opposite logic using visible-md/visible-lg. I can't understand why because according to documentation Bootstrap should still support hidden-xs/hidden-sm.
Working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/h1ep8b4f/

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A: The code should work just fine. Bootstrap supports hiding/showing th and td with its responsive utility classes https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/less/mixins.less#L504:
// Responsive utilities
// -------------------------
// More easily include all the states for responsive-utilities.less.
.responsive-visibility() {
  display: block !important;
  tr& { display: table-row !important; }
  th&,
  td& { display: table-cell !important; }
}

.responsive-invisibility() {
  display: none !important;
  tr& { display: none !important; }
  th&,
  td& { display: none !important; }
}

The code works in this jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/A4fQP/

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SNP Governance Causes Decade of Disinvestment for Scotland's Universities – Iain Gray
Scottish Labour analysis, based on figures provided by SPICe, shows that the SNP has not yet restored years of underinvestment to Scotland's universities.
Cumulatively, cuts to Higher Education Resource funding total over £700 million worth of lost investment since 2010-11.
The Higher Education Capital budget has also reduced by almost 60% over the same period.
Audit Scotland highlighted last year that government funding for universities has decreased at a faster rate than the Scottish Government's own budget, and Universities Scotland subsequently said that this suggests university funding has been deprioritised.
Universities Scotland have also since highlighted that every Scottish domiciled student at university in 2019/20 has almost £700 less government funding invested in their education in real terms than was the case before Nicola Sturgeon came to power.
Following the Scottish Government's 2020-21 budget announcement last week, Professor Andrea Nolan, Convener of Universities Scotland said : "The reality is that universities have no more money, in real terms, to spend on students and staff than they had last year…what they need now is for this to be a turning point, with significant new investment to follow, so that universities get to a sustainable funding position and can fully support Scotland's success."
Scottish Labour said that the Scottish Government needs to urgently reprioritise and reinvest in our universities and the students that attend them.
Scottish Labour's Education Spokesperson, Iain Gray MSP, said :
"Investing in education is investing in our people and our economy, it should be the top priority for any government, and Nicola Sturgeon promised it would be hers.
"Yet under the SNP's stewardship, Scotland's universities have been deprioritised, which has led to a real terms lack of investment totalling over £700 million since 2010-11.
"As Universities Scotland have said, what the sector needs is "significant new investment so that universities get to a sustainable funding position".
"Unfortunately, the budget statement from the SNP, published last Thursday, shows no sign that they have decided to reprioritise our universities.
"That's bad for students in Scotland and for the future of the Scottish economy.
"Scottish Labour would reprioritise and reinvest in our universities and the students that attend them."


The man accused of carrying out a series of savage attacks against homeless men in the Los Angeles area was sent to federal prison for illegally crossing the Texas border on multiple occasions, according to a review of court records that also raised questions about his mental health history.
Ramon Escobar, a Salvadoran national, was deported from the U.S. six times from 1997 to 2011, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The agency said he was first ordered deported in 1997, and federal court records show he was accused of illegal reentry to the U.S. in November 2001. He was sentenced to 23 months in prison, according to records. It was unclear when Escobar was deported again, but he was arrested for illegal reentry a second time in Texas in 2004, records show. Court records show at least three other illegal reentries — in 2007, 2012 and 2016.
During the 2012 case, a judge ordered Escobar be sent to a prison medical facility after questions about his mental health were raised by attorneys and jail staff, records show.
Escobar, 47, was formally charged Wednesday with three counts of murder, five counts of attempted murder and four counts of robbery in connection with a string of vicious beatings that targeted men sleeping outside in areas of Los Angeles and Santa Monica this month, prosecutors said.
Wearing blue jail scrubs, Escobar did not enter a plea during a brief court appearance in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Escobar, who is due back in court Nov. 8, could face the death penalty if convicted.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo also said Wednesday that Escobar is now "suspected of foul play" in the disappearance of his aunt and uncle in Texas last month.
Investigators say Escobar fled to Southern California from Houston after Dina Escobar, 60, and Rogelio Escobar, 65, went missing in late August. The charred remains of Dina Escobar's car were found on a beach in Galveston, Texas, in early September, police have said.
Houston detectives will travel to Los Angeles and want to interview Escobar.
Escobar arrived in Santa Monica on Sept. 5. Police said he did not have any acquaintances in Southern California, and they are not sure why he fled here.
Days later, police allege, he carried out the first of eight assaults that left three men dead and five others seriously injured. One of his surviving victims remains comatose, and three others are in critical condition, police said.
Kelvin Williams, 59, and Braden Ridout, 34, were beaten to death with a wooden baseball bat as they slept outside in downtown Los Angeles' Financial District on Sept. 16. Another man sleeping nearby, Tievon Harmon, 23, was critically injured in those attacks, police said.
Four days later, police allege, Escobar beat 39-year-old San Gabriel resident Steven Ray Cruze Jr. to death as he slept under the Santa Monica Pier after an overnight fishing trip.
On Wednesday, Los Angeles police officials also revealed the existence of an eighth victim who was battered near Sawtelle and Venice boulevards on Sept. 22. The victim, who was homeless, was struck in the head with bolt cutters, Capt. Billy Hayes of the LAPD's Robbery-Homicide Division said.
Despite fears that someone was specifically trying to hurt members of the area's sprawling homeless population, investigators believe Escobar was targeting people who appeared to be isolated so he could rob them.
A review of state and federal court records in Texas showed Escobar was no stranger to a courtroom, facing arrest multiple times from 1992 to 2018.
Many of Escobar's court appearances involved his immigration status. Despite his past removals from the country, Escobar was granted an appeal of his deportation order in December 2016 and released from federal custody in January of last year, according to ICE, which did not respond to inquires about the nature of his appeal or other questions posed by The Times on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Department said Escobar had been deported but was allowed to reenter the country on an asylum claim, though police did not know when or why. Court records relating to asylum cases are not open to the public.
A judge ordered a hearing on Escobar's competency at the time, but the records were sealed. Casas did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday.
Escobar was convicted of burglary and sentenced to five years in prison in 1995. According to a 2007 complaint filed in Brownsville, Texas, Escobar claimed he was a U.S. citizen born in Houston when trying to cross the border but later admitted he was a citizen of El Salvador.
The pattern repeated in 2012, according to court records. At that time, Casas raised the question of Escobar's prior diagnosis of schizophrenia. A judge transferred him to a prison medical facility in Springfield, Mo., but all reports on his mental health were sealed. Escobar was returned to Brownsville in October 2013 and sentenced to two years in federal prison.
ICE said Escobar illegally reentered the country once again in 2016 before being granted the appeal of his deportation order.
Connie Williams, a Houston-based defense attorney who represented Escobar against trespassing and misdemeanor assault allegations this year, said he was shocked by the vicious nature of the crimes of which Escobar is accused.
9:45 p.m.: This article was updated throughout with additional information about Escobar's criminal history and immigration status, comments from Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo and details from a court proceeding in Los Angeles.


Even though the "November Rain" music video is 26 years old in 2018, nothing is slowing this Guns N' Roses staple down.
The GnR ballad is the first music video from the '90s to pass the billion-view threshold on YouTube, according to Forbes. It achieved this result by hitting an average of 560,000 views per day in 2017.
The majority of the views aren't coming from the United States, or Canada: 83 per cent of the views come from Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina.
No '80s video has yet to hit the billion-view mark, but Guns N' Roses could be the first band to hit that record too: "Sweet Child O' Mine" leads the pack with 696 million views.
Are you shocked that "November Rain" was the music video to break the record? Let us know in the comments below!


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Maverix Metals Inc (CVE:MMX) told investors Thursday it had closed its previously announced acquisition of a silver stream on the operating Moss mine in northwest Arizona, USA.
The stream has been bought from a wholly owned subsidiary of Northern Vertex Mining Corp.
As reported on December 6, in exchange for an up-front cash payment of US$20 million, Maverix can now buy 100% of the silver produced from the Moss mine, which is operated by Golden Vertex Corp, a subsidiary of Northern Vertex.
Once Maverix has purchased 3.5 million ounces of silver, the company will have the right to purchase 50% of the life-of-mine silver produced from the Moss mine.
With Moss seeing commercial production in September this year, the silver stream will generate immediate revenue for Maverix.
Maverix aims to give shareholders significant low-risk leverage to the gold price and to increase underlying per-share value.


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Documentary from Australia features organizers and clients of youth-oriented groups that deal with domestic violence. They recognize youth often don't want to hear about domestic violence, that many of them grew up with such violence, and that they often don't want to leave the relationship. Help to recognize the elements of good relationships and practice them can sometimes be effective....
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Amid Explosions and Clashes, Volatile Turkey-Syria Border Gets More Dangerous
By Piotr Zalewski / Antakya, Turkey @p_zalewskiSept. 16, 2013
Smoke rises from the Syrian side of the border after a Turkish air force jet downed a Syrian military helicopter at the Turkey-Syria border near Hatay province, Turkey, Sept. 16, 2013.
It's far from what the Turks had in mind. In late 2009, at the height of its detente with Syria, the Ankara government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan lifted visa requirements for Syrian nationals and floated plans for future energy cooperation, investments, as well a free trade zone. Less then four years later, with its southern neighbor gripped by war, and with Turkey openly calling for the US to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, the border has become a flashpoint. The area — expected to be a crossroads for traders, business people and tourists — now teems with refugees, smugglers and insurgents.
According to the International Crisis Group (ICG), a Brussels-based think tank, 75 people have died in violence along the border since June 2012, when Syrian air defenses shot down a Turkish fighter jet over the Mediterranean. The threat of further bloodshed may be around the corner. On Monday, a pair of Turkish F-16s downed a Syrian helicopter that had crossed into Turkish airspace. "Nobody will dare to violate Turkey's borders again," the country's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced. "The necessary measures have been taken."
Earlier this year, a car bombing that Erdogan's government believes to have been the work of Syrian intelligence agents claimed 53 lives in Reyhanli, a border town in Turkey's southern Hatay province. Having contained the fallout from the attack — in days that followed the attack, groups of young men harassed and attacked Syrian refugees, whom they blamed for the bloodshed — local authorities have since had to confront an entirely different menace. In Reyhanli, smuggling has always been part of the local economy. Over the past few months, however, it has turned into a plague. The Turkish General Staff has described a number of incidents in which its troops have had to fire tear gas and warning shots to push back waves of as many as 3,000 Syrian smugglers, who often storm the border by car or on horseback. In Kusakli, a hilltop village less than ten minutes by car from Reyhanli, a group of armed smugglers recently kidnapped a local farmer and held him hostage in Syria until the man's family paid a 13,000 lira ($6000) ransom.
In nearby Antakya, the war in Syria has fueled both sectarian tensions and dissent against Erdogan's government. On the night of Sept. 9, a 22-year-old man, Ahmet Atakan, died during a protest held to commemorate the earlier death of a local anti-government demonstrator. Atakan was a member of the area's Arab Alawite minority whose ethnic kinsmen, including Assad, form the core of Syria's ruling elite. The extent to which the fallout from Syria had been driving the protests became clear on the day of his funeral as momentum built toward violent clashes that would erupt later that evening. "We're afraid of problems with Sunnis," Khatifa Capar, an elderly Alawite woman, told me on the way back from the cemetery. "Why does he want war so badly, this mullah, this Davutoglu," she asked, referring to Turkey's pious Foreign Minister.
Back in Armutlu, the Alawite neighborhood where Atakan lived and died, a young biology graduate, Okan Yolcu, complained that Turkey, by giving Sunni insurgents and foreign jihadists free rein in the border areas, was not only waging a proxy war against Syria but also deliberately stoking tensions with local Alawites. "The government wants to involve us in a religious war in the Middle East, but we want no part of their game." Conspiracy theories abound. "It's Erdogan who staged the Reyhanli bombing," another man told me. "Why? To pin the blame on the Alawites, to provoke clashes with Sunnis."
About 200 miles east, in Ceylanpinar, the war in Syria has struck with alarming intensity. Since late July, four Turkish civilians have died and dozens have been left wounded by shrapnel and stray bullets from clashes between Kurdish militias and the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al Nusra on the other side of the border. According to media reports, hospitals in Ceylanpinar routinely receive wounded Nusra fighters.
At airports like the one in Hatay, bearded young men donning military-style duffel bags are a regular sight, as are the minibuses that whisk them off to the border, part of what Hugh Pope, the ICG's Turkey expert, calls an "over-ground railway of jihadists to Syria." There's little that Turkey can do to turn the foreign fighters away. Local authorities, says Pope, insist that the young men have legitimate travel documents and carry no weapons, "so there are no grounds on which to detain them."
Still, the jihadist threat to Turkey might not be as big as it is made out to be, says Pope. Syria in the 2010s might be the new destination for global jihad, just like Afghanistan was in the 1980s, but Turkey — a cohesive, strong state — is not another Pakistan. "The government is fully in control of its resources and able to prevent the kind of problems in the south that Pakistan had in its tribal areas," he says. "The army and security forces are able to react with full flexibility to specific threats."
A more insidious problem, says Pope, is the threat of "fifth columnists" among the Syrians in Turkey. By most accounts, Turkey has done a remarkable job housing and feeding some 200,000 Syrian refugees in tent camps and container cities scattered along the border. (As many as 300,000 more live outside the camps, mostly in towns like Reyhanli.) But Ankara's open-door policy has also allowed certain dangerous elements, including Kurdish militants and Assad regime agents, to cross into Turkey with relative ease. With this, the risk of violence in the border regions remains constant, says Pope, as does the threat of sectarian and ethnic clashes that might follow any further attacks on Turkish soil. "Given the way Syria has operated in the past you have to assume that it has elements that can create a lot of trouble for Turkey, as we saw in Reyhanli," says Pope.
In Sunni-majority Reyhanli, tensions between locals and Syrian newcomers may have subsided and sympathy for the rebels endures, but there is palpable exasperation with the fallout from Syria, including the burdens of the refugee influx, as well as with Turkey's policies. "The world needs to negotiate to the end with the Bashar, but there are limits," Suleyman Soker, a stationery shop owner, told me. "If nothing changes, me might need war. We don't want it, but we don't want the Syrians either."
The day before, a mortar fired from Syria had fallen on the outskirts of town, Soker said. No one was injured.


If we agree, king of Julian Alps is Triglav, then 110 m / 360 ft lower Jôf di Montasio (2 754 m / 9 035 ft) must be the prince. Few years ago I have spend night in Bivacco Luca Vuerich. At that time I promise to myself, I will come back to this summit.
I already get used to weather at beginning of summer. After rainy days usually come Monday. This summer it is basically the same. Find location for hiking is not that easy. Everywhere in Austria is weather forecast quite bad, so I am forced to check Slovenia and Italy. In Julian alps, where borders all of three countries meet should be nice weather and I have unfinished job here. My friends are going to already mentioned bivouac and me and my girlfriend are going to Jôf di Montasio – Montasch in German.
Friday afternoon after after work, we have to travel to Lago di Predil lake, where we spent night in tent. For this hike I am not well prepared, but based on the maps we should be able to do circle. About hour later rest of the group is coming. Martin has printed article fromt he web, where is recommended path up and whole trip should take about 6 hours. In this case we have plenty of time and do not need to hurry early in the morning. Guys plans to leave really early, they want to be in bivouac first.
Near G. di Brazz hut (1 660 m / 5 446 ft) the sign says it is 4 hours to Jôf di Montasio summit. What a stupid information. Whole hike takes about 6 hours and we already did small part of it. Without stopping and wondering we continue thru meadow to saddle. At the beginning it is a lovely path but it is getting steeper and steeper as we are getting close to the saddle. We need to gain about 600 m / 2 000 ft in altitude. Jôf di Montasio is directly above us.
Based on Martin instruction we should go by bottom path via Pipan rock and ladder which is here since World War I. It is easy ascend and nothing dramatic. Below first via ferrata we put on all needed gear. However it is not needed. All the part are really easy and short. I am bit surprised by the direction which we are going. Jôf di Montasio is behind our back and we keep going further and further.
Quick chat with local hikers solve the issue. We are going good direction and to the Pipan we need to go up and left. Their English is much worse then mine, but at least we know which way to go. We need to cross snow field and walk left. Thanks to the guys we know which way we should go. We turn left, go thru few rocks and find our self`s under gravel part. On the other side we can see couple of people.
Walking up directly stupidity. In better case we will do two steps forward and one we slide back. Where gravel should meet rock is snow field. This is also no way. Lets go on the rock with easy climbing. Terrain is dry, it is easy to climb but it takes a bit of time. In half way up a see ladder, which brings us to the ridge.
Under the ladder we have to wait a bit. About 15 hikers are descending. It is time to take a short break and rest a bit. At the end we have spend there about 30 minutes waiting. Other hikers come in the meantime and start descending. Finally we can start climbing up. There is lot of room where we can pass with last 3 hikers.
Ladder brings us to the ridge. We need to ascent few more meters and then it is almost flat to the summit. Anyway it takes about 30 minutes to reach summit. It is about 2:00 pm, when we reach summit. There is nobody. I mean just two of us and one ibex, which is licking the rock. Wind is giving us hard time to find nice place to sit, relax and have something to eat. Summit picture is taken by timer. At home we have noticed that camera was focused on the rock not on us. Anyway original summit picutre from Jôf di Montasio :) .
Four hikers from Austria are coming to summit, when we want to descent. They ask us to take the picture of them. In the mean time I am asking about the way down. They plan to go down via same way. I prefer to do the circle, so we are going opposite direction. After couple of minutes it is clear this is going to be lots of "fun". We need to go around one rock, path is covered by snow. Wrong step, could by my last step in my whole live. We managed to go thru.
After few more steps I see couple of people far below us. Because of this steep descent I am thinking if this is the way we want to descent. Everyone know, it is much easier to go up, than down. However this looks really bad. I look at Lucka`s face and it is decided. This is no way.
We are back to Jof di Montasio summit. Luckily we did not descent to much a could get back to summit within couple of minutes. I hate to go up and down taking same path, but sometimes there is no other choice. Descent is much faster, because we do not need to look for the path. We are quite quickly near via ferrata.
From up here I can clearly see how we should go thru gravel part. Descent is much faster and bit more technical part is in front of us. On some places we need to hold rock, on other places we need to go backwards – facing to the wall. Both of us enjoy this type of hike. In one place we got stuck for a while, because path has disappeared. In those moment I often think about marked hiking path in Slovakia. They are just brilliant. Finally we can see a bit of iron rope, and we know how to descent.
We are back to saddle, where two different routes to summits meet. It is time to sit down to grass, enjoy the view and relax. Lots of ibexes are going up from the meadows to the rock, where they are going to spend the night. I don`t want to go down, but I have to. Before we start descending, I check opposite ridge. This is the place, where I would like to go once.
Shortly after five and we are only one on the hiking path. Austrian guys are already down. Hikers, who climb up thru Findeneggs couloir are somewhere on the ridge. Besides ibexes we meet lot of marmots. I am surprised how close we can get to them.
Last part of the hike is descent thru dry river bed. I wanted to go up this way, however I could not find the path in the morning. We lost it also on the way down. Luckily from up here we can see, where we need to get. I am glad we are close to the parking place.
Ascent to Jôf di Montasio and descent took us about 10 hours. If I do not could looking for path at the beginning and long break under the ladder it was about 9 hours. Faster hikers can do it in 8. It is really important to be clear which way you want to go. Easiest way is the path we took. Take ladder for both ways. More experienced hikers can take Findenegg couloir as way up and descent via Pipan path. Most of the hikers took this path today.
For me it was clear lesson, that I have to prepare my self much better for the hiked. Information which I got was not complete and correct or I misunderstood them. If I would do my "homework" properly I would go as most of the hikers.


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In this photo provided by Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation members of Archipelagos institute carry a dead dolphin at a beach of Samos island, Aegean sea, Greece, on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019.
Fifteen dead dolphins have washed up on Greece's Aegean coastline, compared to "one or two" in the same period last year.
The Aegean Sea has seen a "very unusual" spike in dolphin deaths over the past few weeks, a Greek marine conservation group said Monday.
The Archipelagos Institute said while it's still unclear what caused the deaths, the spike followed Turkey's largest-ever navy drills in the region — the Feb. 27-March 8 "Blue Homeland" exercises that made constant use of sonar and practiced with live ammunition.
Fifteen dead dolphins have washed up on the eastern island of Samos and other parts of Greece's Aegean coastline since late February, the group said. Its head of research, Anastassia Miliou, told The Associated Press that 15 is a worryingly high number compared to "one or two" in the same period last year.
The deafening noise of sonar, used by warships to detect enemy submarines, can injure dolphins and whales, driving them to surface too fast or to beach themselves — with sometimes fatal consequences — as they try to escape the underwater din.
"We can't say that the Turkish exercises killed the dolphins, but the fact that we had such an unusual increase in the number washed up dead — and what we have seen must be a small percentage of the total, because the Aegean has a long coastline — coincided with exercises that used more than 100 ships," Miliou said.
After several mass beachings of whales, NATO, to which both Turkey and Greece belong, adopted a code of conduct for using sonar to better protect marine mammals.
Miliou said the alliance's rules are respected by the U.S. Navy and the Greek navy but said it was unclear whether Turkey has implemented the guidelines. She urged the Greek government to raise the issue in talks with Ankara.
"With these giant exercises ... strain is placed on the entire marine ecosystem, including fish and plankton, because (they) cause intense noise pollution from which marine life can't escape," she said.
Turkey did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the issue.
Miliou also said the Aegean "can barely handle" other strains humans are putting on the sea, such as pollution, overfishing and heavy marine traffic.


Published 10 times between 1965 and 1971, Aspen billed itself as the first three-dimensional magazine. Most issues arrived in a notebook-size box stuffed with articles that had been printed individually rather than stapled together. But it was the nature of its contents that made Aspen magazine stand out like a ski lift in a cornfield. Each issue was as likely to hold postcards, posters and phonograph records as essays. And among the magazine's 235 contributors were many prominent figures on the 60's cultural landscape, including Roland Barthes, John Lennon, Marshall McLuhan, Lou Reed and Andy Warhol.
Thirty years after Aspen ceased publication, copies of the actual magazines are rarely found outside museum libraries and dusty flea-market bins. Now, though, Aspen can be viewed on the Internet, where the three-dimensional magazine has been digitally reproduced for the two-dimensional computer screen with remarkable verve. The material was put online last month at Ubu.com/aspen.
Given Aspen's historical importance, one might assume that a digital re-creation of the magazine would become the work of a museum. Instead, the online version is a labor of love by Andrew Stafford, 48, a San Francisco bookseller who gradually amassed a set of the magazines during the 1990's. He wanted to share his collection.
''As an example of creative publishing, Aspen is just stunning,'' he said.
Mr. Stafford's project provides a primer in the pleasures and pitfalls of putting real-world materials on the Internet. But there is no denying that Aspen is an ideal candidate for online presentation. At a time when magazines are routinely accompanied by compact disks with music or computer software, it is easy to overlook how progressive Aspen was in packing its issues with the thin plastic records called flexidiscs and, in one instance, a reel of 8-millimeter film: a truly multimedia magazine.
Adapting the magazine for the Web's multimedia capabilities became irresistible to Mr. Stafford. In 1999 he started digitizing some of the magazine's printed pages. He converted the flexidisc recordings into sound files that could be played on a computer and also asked a friend with a movie projector to transfer a reel of short abstract films by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Robert Rauschenberg and two other artists into video files.
Mr. Stafford completed his digitizing effort in 2000, just as lawsuits over copyright violations involving online song files were reaching the courts. He said, ''I became totally intimidated by the prospect of breaking about 150 copyrights.'' Deterred by the amount of work that would be needed to acquire permission to republish all the Aspen materials online, he put the project in a drawer. Instead he created a free tutorial about Marcel Duchamp, which he put online last August at UnderstandingDuchamp.com.
He was soon contacted by the artist's vigilant and unhappy rights administrators. So far, he said, he is dodging their demand for several thousand dollars. While researching the problem, he approached Kenneth Goldsmith, a New York poet who has operated UbuWeb, an Internet-based archive of experimental poetry and avant-garde works, since 1996. The site is at Ubu.com.
Mr. Goldsmith volunteered to put the Aspen project on his site, which he did last month.
Despite Mr. Stafford's experience with the Duchamp tutorial, Mr. Goldsmith said: ''Over the years I've found that people only come after you for rights when you're making money. Since UbuWeb is completely free, nobody has ever really bothered us about rights.'' He said he removes entries when living artists complain, but that rarely happens.
The ultimate arbiter would probably be Phyllis Johnson, a former intimate-apparel editor of Women's Wear Daily who created Aspen. But her contributors have lost touch with her, and she could not be reached for comment.
Ms. Wye of the Museum of Modern Art was enthusiastic about Mr. Stafford's Web site, saying that it achieved the same goal as the original magazine: making art available to a larger public. (The magazine's circulation was 15,000 to 20,000.) She also appreciated having the audio and video entries online, noting that even an institution like the Modern does not always have turntables and movie projectors around.
On the other hand, the Web site does not convey the tactile qualities of the real magazines. ''You can't imagine how beautiful these flexidiscs are in person,'' Mr. Goldsmith said. ''An audio file is no substitute for the sensuality of vinyl.'' And Mr. Stafford's straightforward site design encourages online visitors to go through each issue in a linear fashion, losing the treasure-chest element.
There is one gap in Mr. Stafford's collection, the last of Aspen's 10 issues. Recently a book dealer with a complete set (asking price: $10,000) offered to mail him color copies of its pages. Mr. Stafford said the issue should be online by Christmas.


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The 20012-13 Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission has completed its mandate. In accordance with section 4(2) of the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Act, with the Commission's mandate, having been completed, it is now dissolved.
Who are the members of the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission?
The Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission was composed of 2 co-chairs plus 4 members, for a total of 6. The members are all New Brunswickers, from diverse areas and backgrounds.
How were the members of the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission chosen?
The Electoral Boundaries and Representation Act required that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council appoint the members of the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission on the recommendation of the Legislative Administration Committee (LAC). LAC is an all-party committee of the Legislative Assembly. It unanimously recommended the 6 members of the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission.
How long is the mandate of the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission?
The Electoral Boundaries and Representation Act set timeframes for the work of the Commission. The Commission had 150 days after its establishment to hold public hearings and prepare a preliminary report. After the filing of the preliminary report, the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission had another 90 days to hold a second series of public hearings and prepare its final report. This was followed by a 14-day period for written objections that had to be signed by two Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs). Thirty days after the period allotted for objections, the final report was to be filed with the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly and the Chief Electoral Officer.
The Commission is disbanded after it has completed its mandate.
How many electoral districts would there be?
The Electoral Boundaries and Representation Act prescribed that the number of electoral districts in the Province would be decreased from the existing 55 to 49.
What role do politicians have in the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission?
An all-party committee of the Legislative Assembly recommended the members of the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission. The MLAs were able to give their opinions to the Commission at the same time as the rest of the population of New Brunswick, by brief, by making a presentation at the public hearings, by fax, mail or online through the website. The Electoral Boundaries and Representation Act stated that after the Commission filed its final report, written objections which were signed by 2 MLAs would be considered.
The only changes that the Legislative Assembly could make to the final report were amendments to the name of an electoral district or to correct an error in the legal description of the boundary of an electoral district. The Commission therefore operated independently and it had the final say on the boundaries of each electoral district.
What is an electoral quotient?
The Electoral Boundaries and Representation Act described the electoral quotient as being established by dividing the total number of electors in all electoral districts in the Province, as determined by the register of electors, by the total number of electoral districts.
The total number of electors in the Province divided by 49 electoral districts provided an electoral quotient of 11,269. This number could be subject to some small adjustment before the work of the Commission was completed.
What was the deviation allowed in the drawing of the new boundaries?
Subsections 12(3) and 12(4) of the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Act prescribed that the population of each electoral district be as close as reasonably possible to the electoral quotient, 11,269. Electoral districts should not exceed the electoral quotient by more than 5%, or in extraordinary circumstances, the number of electors in the electoral district could deviate by no greater than 25% from the electoral quotient.
When will the new boundaries take effect?
After the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission filed its final report in June, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council made a regulation prescribing the boundary description and name for each of the electoral districts. The new boundaries would be used for the provincial general election of 2014.
What did the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission consider when drawing the new boundaries?
The Electoral Boundaries and Representation Act prescribed that the electoral boundaries had to be as close as possible to the electoral quotient of 11,269.
(g) any other considerations that the Commission considers appropriate.
The Commission had the authority to deviate from the electoral quotient by no more than 5% of the electoral quotient or, in extraordinary circumstances, by no more than 25% of the electoral quotient.
Is this the usual process the province has in reviewing the electoral districts?
Yes. The Electoral Boundaries and Representation Act came into effect in 2005. The current Commission was the second to be established under the Act. Another Commission will be established within 24 to 25 months before every second scheduled general election after September 2014. This means the next Commission will be established in August or September of 2020.


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Some people believe that Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a new diagnosis, or a neurological disorder of the modern era. It also seems as if over the past 10 to 15 years that there's been a surge in the prevalence of PD. There is some truth to both those statements. With the substantial percentage of the "baby-boomer" population entering their 6th decade, we are indeed observing a spike in all geriatric conditions, including PD. Currently in the United States, there are approximately 6.2 million individuals living with Parkinson's Disease, and there are about 630,000 new cases diagnosed each year. With an estimated cost of $22,800 per person per year, to maintain the condition, the total economic burden of Parkinson's is substantial, at approximated $14.4 billion annually. This amount is suspected to double by the year 2040.
However, Parkinson's disease is certainly not a modern day disease. As a matter of fact, Parkinson's disease had a much higher prevalence in the early 20th century following the influenza epidemic of 1916-1917.
The history of Parkinson's Disease is fairly well documented. As early as 1200 BCE, there was an ancient Egyptian papyrus written about how the Pharaoh was drooling out on the side of his mouth, had shaking hands, and stooped posture. Then in 185 CE, Galen of Pergamon, a physician to the Roman gladiators wrote about "the shaking palsy". He wrote about how he started to observe people in his community that were walking really slowly, and they had shaking of their hands.
About 2 centuries later, in the year 1817, Dr. James Parkinson wrote the essay on "The Shaken Palsy", as Galen called it. The essay on the Shaking Palsy was essentially a letter, or an essay, about how he observed six cases of different people, who had similar characteristics:
A shaking of body parts that decreased with voluntary movement
A bending of the trunk forward, or a stooped posture
Festinating, in which patients that try to walk forward, are forced to run
Preservation of intellect
Fifty years later, Professor Jean-Martin Charcot, who was the lead doctor at Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris and later known as "The Father of Neurology" later refined the disease and identified that a slowness of movement is another hallmark feature of Parkinson's Disease, and solidified the name of Parkinson's Disease. He became interested in this disorder where people had mask like faces is where they lose their ability to show expression, where they had slowness of movement, tremor, shuffling gait, and other signs that we'll talk about; all the features of Parkinson's disease.
For the following 80 years, intermittent research was performed in the field of Parkinson's disease. In the early 20th century, microscopic particles in the affected Parkinson's brain were discovered, which were later named Lewy bodies, after Fredrick Lewy. In 1919, a researcher by the name of Konstantin Tretiakoff identified the compacted portion of the substantia nigra as the main neurological structure affected by Parkinson's disease.
Substantia nigra pars compacta. Whoa! Big word. Let's dissect it. Substantia means, substance. Nigra means black, so it's a black substance. Pars means part. Compacta means compacted. So it's a black substance, in a part of our brain that is very compacted in our midbrain. This is a part of the brain mainly responsible for producing a neurotransmitter called dopamine.
Dopamine is, it's a very important neurotransmitter involved in controlling movement, motivation, emotion, learning, and all of the different types of activities that make humans, human.
In 1967, Levodopa, which is now the medication that is that kind of the gold standard for Parkinson's, entered into clinical practice for Parkinson's disease. Levodopa (or "L-Dopa") is a synthetic form of dopamine that aids in restoring some function as a consequence of having Parkinson's Disease. L-Dopa does not replenish or heal the neurons that have degnerated in the midbrain. It doesn't even help them to make more dopamine. What it does is just gives exogenous, or "outside", dopamine to the brain so that the motor system and the learning system and emotional system can function better. We'll talk about that in a future blog post.
In 1982, a very important thing happened by accident. In Santa Carla, California a group of six individuals that were admitted to the hospital around the age of 35 to 50 years old. They all were developing severe Parkinson's disease, tremor, all of the signs that Charcot and Parkinson discussed in relation to PD. All of the physicians at the hospital were baffled about how a group of individuals, so young, could all be developing Parkinsonism. They began running tests. In their blood they found a substance called MPTP. MPTP is a by-product of synthesizing a recreational opiop drug, similar to heroin, called MPPP. These individuals were making and consuming their own drugs. The story didn't end so well for them, but it was great for the scientific community. Now we have an agent that we can administer to rats and animals that allows us to study Parkinson's disease.
Well, that's a quick little history of Parkinson's disease, for now. I think I'm going to write a little more about the more modern-day physiological findings that we see associated with Parkinson's, and how that allows us to help individuals diagnosed, or suspecting that they may have Parkinson's Disease.
If you, or a loved one has Parkinson's disease, and are looking for a drug-free way to improve quality of life, function, and independence, contact Plasticity Brain Centers, or a chiropractic neurologist near you.
If you would like to learn more about the history of Parkinson's Disease, here is a couple resources for you:
http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/jnp.14.2.223
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234454/#A008862C58
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