Whoever told you to drain your pool did you a grave disservice. If your pool walls didn't collapse in on themselves after doing so, then you're one of the few lucky ones. But even letting your waters drop below water level can cause irreparable damage to the structure of your pool, which can cost you in ways which you can't even imagine over the next many years. So in case you were wondering, draining your pool is not and should never be part of a regular maintenance routine. The construction of your pool walls is dependent upon that constant and continuous water pressure.
Even if you've closed up your pool during the winter, you should still be out there every week testing the water and maintaining water levels. Neglect to do so and you'll undoubtedly be left with a lot of time consuming (and possibly costly!) maintenance duties once you decide to take a dip!


Lovely bottle-form silver overlay decanter. The chased overlay in interlacing Art Nouveau design has robust wheat and foliates about the tall vessel. An all- silver-covered stopper rests upon the top. Marks for the Alvin Silver Workshop of Rhode Island, known for their fine overlay work, circa 1905. 12 3/8" H.


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Court: Bumper Car Injuries Not Amusement Parks' Fault
A lawsuit against Great America over bumper cars was tossed Monday
By Chris Roberts
Published Dec 31, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Buy the ticket, ride the bumper cars, and get hurt -- it's on you.
Great America and other California amusement parks can't be sued for injuries that occur as a result of "jostling" on rides like bumper cars, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The court threw out by a 6-1 ruling a case made by a South Bay doctor who claimed she broke her wrist on a Great America bumper car ride in 2005. A lower court had ruled that patrons can sue in the situation of such injuries.
The court ruled that the risk of injuries is "inherent" on such rides like Great America's "Rue Le Dodge Ride," according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Last Stop Before Burning Man
The San Jose doctor, Smriti Nalwa, was one of "55 people" injured on the bumper car ride over a two-year period, but the only one to suffer a broken bone.
After the accident, the owners of Great America added an island in the middle of the bumper car track to cut down on head-on collisions.
The court has in the past thrown out lawsuits brought on by football players and skiers, arguing that such activities are inherently risky, the newspaper reported. However, the court has also found that roller coaster operators are bound to ensure safety, but made a clear distinction and ruled that bumper cars are like skiing and football in that regard.
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Sombat Boonngam-Anong
On trial in Court of First Instance
On bail
Sombat or Bor Kor Lai Jood was charged under Section 116 of Criminal Code and Computer-related Crime Act after he was arrested on 5 June 2014. He did not cimply with NCPO order and posted messages on Facebook urging people to protest against the coup.
Sombat Boonngam-Anong, "Nuling", who is widely known by his internet pseudonym "Bor Kor Lai Jud". He was a former committee chairman of the Mirror Foundation and served as a webmaster of many social service-related websites. Furthermore, he has been the leader of the Red Sunday group.
Sombat had been working in the field of social service. However, since the military seized the power in 2006, he distinctively expressed his opposing standpoint against the junta and became a leader of "Pollamuang Piwat Group" and "19 September Network Against Coup." Besides, Sombat and his friends founded another anti-coup groups named "Democratic Alliance Against Dictatorship " (DAAD) in order to oppose the coup and call for a new election.
In 2010, the DAAD changed its name to "United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship" (UDD) and organized several symbolic activities such as tying up red ribbons at the Ratchaprasong intersection in order to call for responsibilities from the military government over its operation, namely "tighten the area" around the protest which resulted in numerous casualties.
Offence against security, Sedition
Charge filed, Threats by police / military
Bangkok Military Court
Court: ศาลทหารกรุงเทพ No: 24 ก./2557 Date: 2014-07-29
After the National Intelligence Agency tracked down Sombat's IP address that he used to post defying messages on the internet, Sombat was arrested during the night at his residence in Phan Thong District, Chonburi Province on June 5, 2014. The arrest was a joint operation between a chief of the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) and the 21st Infantry Regiment officials. Afterwards, he was detained for questioning at the 21st Infantry Regiment before being brought to the Military Court.
Shortly before being arrested, he posted the message on his personal Facebook: "I've been arrested already." After that, Sombat has been sent to unidentified military camp for further investigation.
Sombat's wife, Ketsuda Boonngam-Anong, submitted a request to visit her husband because she was informed earlier that her husband was detained at the Army Auditorium on Thewet Road. However, the officer told her that her husband has never been brought there. Later, after hearing the news reporting Sombat was confined at the 21st Infantry Regiment, Queen's Guard in Chonburi province, Ketsuda, along with officials from the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand, went to the battalion asking if they could visit Sombat, but the answer they received was that he has never been sent there either. Deprived rights to see her husband, Ketsuda called on NCPO to be more concerned over her husband's basic rights by allowing the detainee's relatives to know a place of detention.
At 10.00 am, the military officers sent Sombat to the Crime Suppression Division for more interrogation, including notifying him all allegations.
Around 12.10 pm, Sombat was taked to the Military Court with 3 charges against him. The first charge comprised 2 counts of defying an order of the NCPO, which twice summoned him to report to the military. The second charge was filed under Section 116 of the Criminal Code, while the third charge was under Section 14(3) of the Computer-related Crimes Act which prohibits any offence involving importing of any computer data related with an offence against the National security. Sombat had his lawyer filed a request to bail him out; however, the petition was opposed by an investigation officer. Subsequently, Sombat was taken to detain at the Bangkok Remand Prison.
At 10.45 am, the Military Court has considered a police request to further detain Sombat for a second 12-day period, from 24 June to 5 July. The investigation officer stated that the detention extension was of the essence as the police has to scrutinize the criminal record determined from his fingerprint as well as to find additional evidence to support the computer-related offence.
Meanwhile, Sombat objected to the provisional detention request saying that the investigation procedures could be carried out without additional interrogation; he thus viewed that the second detention period was unnecessary. However, the court approved the police's request. His lawyer, Anon Nampa, immediately requested for temporary release.
His lawyer then submitted 400,000 baht bail with a pledge that if the bail was granted, not only Sombat would refrain from political activity and fully cooperate with civil officers but he would get back to continue social service work and take care of his daughter and family. Or if the court imposed any restrictive conditions, Sombat would be willing to comply with terms uncompromisingly.
At 2.20 pm, Anon said that the court dismissed the bail request as they were afraid that Sombat would flee. The lawyer and his team would discuss another way to persuade the court to release Sombat, which would be done by either offering higher bail amount or finding a witness to guarantee that Sombat would not flee.
Bangkok Military Court granted a permission to remand Sombat on his third provisional detention since the investigation officer had to hear another witness and verify his criminal record, then, a conclusion report could be submitted to its chief. The 12-day period of detention would start from 7 July to 16 July.
The court approved the bail request with the agreement which prohibit him from making any political moves and from leaving the country. Sombat assured that after he was freed, he would continue his work at Mirror Foundation and stop participating any political activities or any movements against the coup. He also said that the detention at Bangkok Remand Prison has allowed him to exchange political opinions with other detainees who have different standpoints and provided a good opportunity to understand each other in a broader dimension. However, his attitude remains unchanged.
Sombat also expressed his viewpoint over the current political issue, saying that the military seizure of power was completed therefore the public should rather develop a vision for the future and come up with some middle-of-the-road solutions. He admitted that his political role would end from then on, and he would cooperate with the government sectors. Furthermore, he claimed to the journalists that he would like to call for an end to anti-coup protest as the history has already been recorded how much people have roared their opposition against the junta. Hence, he wanted to encourage people to wear red shirts on Sunday as symbol of their intention instead of protesting, and he further urged them to concentrate on examining a pending process of reconciliation and political reform.
In addition, Sombat said that he was ready to take part in reconciliation process as he could manage his way to nonviolent movements; meanwhile, the opportunity to participate in the national reconciliation process should be granted for nonviolent activists as well, he added.
Reference: Prachatai
As the latest provisional detention was due to expire on that day, the investigation officer has filed another request for the fourth-phase detention of Sombat starting from 18 to 29 July. Due to the incompletion of the witness interrogation and evidence gathering, the court has set the bail at 600,000 baht with the previous conditions that during the provisional release, he must not get involved in political activities and was prohibited to leave the country unless permission was granted.
Bangkok Military Court, the Court scheduled for preliminary hearing. The Court started reading accusation that the judge advocate accused the defendant for wrongdoings under Section 116 of Criminal Code and Section 14(3) of Thai Computer Crimes Act B.E. 2550 (2007).
The defendant's accusation was committed from 30 May 2014 to 4 June 2014 and during daytime and nighttime. It was the period that National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) deposed the government and took control the power in order to maintain peace and order. To solve social and political crisis, the NCPO issued an order to ban political gatherings of more than five people. The defendant acknowledged the order but he still published messages in Thai language on his Facebook and Twitter for provoking. The defendant called for general public to challenge and rally against the NCPO in order to deny its authority to govern the country. This could cause confusion and resistance among the public, which would lead to disorder in the country.
Mr. Sombat, nonetheless, denied all accusations and asked for fighting the lawsuit. The Court scheduled for pre-trial evidence examination on 25 November 2014.
Pre-trial evidence examination
The Bangkok Military Court, representatives from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Embassy of France came to observe the procedure.
The defense lawyer asked the Military Court for rendering the case to Constitutional Court to consider whether the NCPO announcement No. 37/2557 and No. 38/2557, which stated that legal cases were to be trialed by the Military Court, was against Section 4 of 2014 interim constitution of Thailand or not.
Thailand is a member of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). ICCPR states that courts must be independent, and any defendant in any criminal case must have a right to appeal the ruling. For this case, a civilian was trialed at a military court during the martial law and the military court's decision was the final, which could not be appealed. This was against the ICCPR's obligations.
The military court granted the defense lawyer's complaint. However the judge advocate rejected and stated that the Announcement was not against the constitution. So the court ordered the judge advocate to file a petition against it within 30 days and scheduled for hearing the complaint's result and examining the pre-trial evidence on 23 January 2015.


In an effort to speed the assessment of new medicines while maintaining the quality of the regulatory review, facilitated regulatory pathways (FRPs) have been introduced in many countries. In this study, the effects of FRPs (expedited and conditional reviews) were investigated in terms of their influence on timing.
First health technology assessment (HTA) recommendations issued between 2014 and 2016 were collected from the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH), Haute Autorité de santé (HAS; France), Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (IQWIG; Germany), Scottish Medicine Consortium (SMC) and Tandvårds-och läkemedelsförmånsverket (TLV; Sweden) for 90 internationalised medicines (new active substances approved between 2012 and 2016 by all five regulatory agencies).
Of this cohort of internationalised medicines that received a HTA recommendation, 31% in Canada and 28% in Europe were approved via a FRP. With the exception of Scotland, expedited medicines were more likely to be appraised within a year from regulatory approval and had a shorter median time between regulatory approval to HTA recommendation than standard medicines. The largest difference was seen in Sweden, where medicines undergoing expedited regulatory review received a first HTA recommendation 66.5 days faster than those using standard pathways.
Medicines designated for an expedited review pathway show a reduced time from regulatory approval to first HTA recommendation. Although this finding suggests an alignment between regulators and health technology assessors regarding the identification of medicines for which there is a need to expedite HTA recommendation, it cannot be assessed from these data whether the reduced time from approval to HTA recommendation is attributed to the sponsoring company strategy, HTA review time or both and further investigation would be required.


This looks copper, does it match the GrandinRoad copper riveted drum side table?
Thank you for your interest in the Kimora Brass Pendant. This pendant is brass not copper. It might coordinate with that item but it will not match.
Thank you for your interest in the Kimora Brass Pendant. This pendant is crafted from iron with a brass finish.


Home Posters and Prints Japanese troops in Siberia.
Title Japanese troops in Siberia.
Summary Item is composed of 4 postcards glued to a cardboard sheet. The postcards all depict a Japanese uniformed soldier in a snowy landscape. The words "Japanese Troops in Siberia" are handwritten on all 4 postcards.
Notes The artist's name is on 3 of the 4 postcards. It isn't legible but appears to be S. Tojo.; Title is derived from caption on all 4 postcards. The caption is handwritten and isn't original to the postcards.; The back of the postcards have Japanese script so it is assumed they were published in Japan.; The date of publication is unknown but could not be before the Japanese Intervention in Siberia in 1918.; Each individual postcard measures 14 x 9 cm.; The Japanese Siberian Intervention of 1918-1922 was the dispatch of Japanese military forces to the Russian Maritime Provinces as part of a larger effort by western powers and Japan to support White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
LC Subject Headings Japan. Rikugun.
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Q: Dealing with parallel flux in Reactor I have created a parallet flux from iterable. And on each iterable I have to make a rest call. But while executing even if any of the request fails , all the remaining requests also fail. I want all the requests to be executed irrespective of failure or success.
I am currently using Flux.fromIterable and using runOn operator
Flux.fromIterable(actions)
.parallel()
.runOn(Schedulars.elastic())
.flatMap(request -> someRemoteCall)
.sequential()
.subscribe();

I want all the requests in iterable to be executed , irrespective of the failure or success. But as of now some gets executed and some gets failed.

A: There's three possible ways I generally use to achieve this:

*

*Use the 3 argument version of flatMap(), the second of which is a mapperOnError -eg. .flatMap(request -> someRemoteCall(), x->Mono.empty(), null);

*Use onErrorResume(x -> Mono.empty()) as a separate call to ignore any error;

*Use .onErrorResume(MyException.class, x -> Mono.empty())) to just ignore errors of a certain type.

The second is what I tend to use by default, as I find that clearest.

A: Because of .parallel().runOn(...) usage you can't use onErrorContinue as below:
.parallel()
.runOn(...)
.flatMap(request -> someRemoteCall)
.onErrorContinue(...)

but you might be able to use it like this:
.parallel().runOn(...)
.flatMap(request -> someRemoteCall
        .onErrorContinue((t, o) -> log.error("Skipped error: {}", t.getMessage()))
)

provided that someRemoteCall is a Mono or Flux not itself run on .parallel().runOn(...) rails.
But when you don't have a someRemoteCall you can do the trick below (see NOT_MONO_AND_NOT_FLUX) to ignore the unsafe processing run on .parallel().runOn(...) rails:
Optional<List<String>> foundImageNames =
    Flux.fromStream(this.fileStoreService.walk(path))
        .parallel(cpus, cpus)
        .runOn(Schedulers.newBoundedElastic(cpus, Integer.MAX_VALUE, "import"), 1)

        .flatMap(NOT_MONO_AND_NOT_FLUX -> Mono
            .just(NOT_MONO_AND_NOT_FLUX)
            .map(path -> sneak(() -> unsafeLocalSimpleProcessingReturningString(path)))
            .onErrorContinue(FileNotFoundException.class,
                (t, o) -> log.error("File missing:\n{}", t.getMessage()))
        )

        .collectSortedList(Comparator.naturalOrder())
        .blockOptional();

A: I'm still in the process of learning WebFlux and Reactor, but try one of the onErrorContinue directly after flatMap (REST call) to drop (and potentially log) errors.

A: There are delay error operators in Reactor. You could write your code as follows:
Flux.fromIterable(actions)
    .flatMapDelayError(request -> someRemoteCall(request).subscribeOn(Schedulers.elastic()), 256, 32)
    .doOnNext(System.out::println)
    .subscribe();

Note that this will still fail your flux in case of any inside publisher emits error, however, it will wait for all inner publishers to finish before doing that.
These operators also require to specify the concurrency and prefetch parameters. In the example I've set them to their default values which is used in regular flatMap calls.

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Somehow get content that is unavailable. This is problematic with inotify, since we only get an event once the user has tried (and failed) to read from the file. This is only needed if all the files in the directory are not kept synced, but in some situations (ie, low disk space phones), that is likely.
Perhaps automatically dropunused files that have been deleted, although I cannot see a way to do that, since by the time the inotify deletion event arrives, the file is deleted, and we cannot see what its symlink pointed to! Alternatively, perhaps automatically do an expensive unused/dropunused cleanup process.
I think the automatic dropunused part is handled by the assistant already anyway, but in case it's not: The git repo still knows where the symlink pointed to so it should not be a problem to get that info from the last commit that was 'actively' locally and which contained said symlink.


What started off as an e-commerce experiment, has grown to become one of the most popular imitation jewelry brands in India. Think jewelry, think Voylla. Think amazing craftsmanship, think Voylla again!
Birthdays, anniversaries, dates and so many more! The list is endless when it comes to jotting down the special days in our customers' lives. Regardless of what or where they may celebrate, buying something from Voylla has always played a pivotal part in the merrymaking.
What makes Voylla jewelry so spark-tacular?
A painful skin rash is perhaps the biggest disaster when it comes to buying jewelry. Voylla jewelry, which has been allergy-tested, makes sure your skin breathes easy, while you dazzle in all that bling.
"I've seen that before" is something you wouldn't say while browsing for your favorite trinkets on Voylla's website. Our designs are one of a kind in every way and imbibe different perceptions of Indian culture and heritage.
Conceptualised and created by a team of exceptional designers, Voylla features jewelry pieces that are the perfect pick for those who have inherent style, and don't follow fashion trends for the sake of it.
200+ stores and going strong! From our flagship store in Delhi's Rajouri Garden, to shop-in-shops in Pune and Bangalore – Voylla has been spreading its sparkling footprint far and wide.


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use Adduc\Memoize\Apc;

class ApcTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    const APC_KEY = 'AdducMemoizeApcTest';
    const MOCK_METHOD = 'expensive_method';

    public function testCacheFail()
    {
        apc_delete(static::APC_KEY);

        $mock = $this->getMockBuilder('stdClass')
            ->setMethods(array(static::MOCK_METHOD))
            ->getMock();

        $mock
            ->expects($this->once())
            ->method(static::MOCK_METHOD);

        $apc = new Apc();
        $callable = array($mock, static::MOCK_METHOD);
        $apc->memoizeCallable(static::APC_KEY, $callable);
    }

    public function testCacheHit()
    {
        $expected = 'a';
        apc_store(static::APC_KEY, $expected);

        $mock = $this->getMockBuilder('stdClass')
            ->setMethods(array(static::MOCK_METHOD))
            ->getMock();

        $mock
            ->expects($this->never())
            ->method(static::MOCK_METHOD);

        $apc = new Apc();
        $callable = array($mock, static::MOCK_METHOD);
        $result = $apc->memoizeCallable(static::APC_KEY, $callable);
        $this->assertEquals($expected, $result);
    }
}

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Q: Retrieve original message sent to bot We've currently implemented a bot using the Bot Framework and are using BotBuilder.Azure to log messages to an Azure table.
We have multilingual requirements so we're currently detecting the language when a user types in a message and are then translating the messages so that we can send the English version to our English-based NLP.
What's happening now is that our Azure tables have now logged the messages in English instead of in the original language.
We're currently doing the translation within the MessageController class
MessageController.cs
...
public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> Post([FromBody] Activity activity) {
   if (activity.Type == ActivityTypes.Message) {
      activity.Text = DetectAndTranslateActivityText(activity);
   }
}
...

Is there a way to log the original text instead of the translated version or is there another recommended approach to translate the messages?

A: LogPostToBot is registered as a keyed type: DialogModule.cs line 349
This enables overriding it with a custom implementation:
Conversation.UpdateContainer(
    builder =>
    {
        builder.RegisterType<ActivityLogger>().AsImplementedInterfaces().InstancePerDependency();

        builder
            .RegisterType<InterceptLogPostToBot>()
            .Keyed<IPostToBot>(typeof(LogPostToBot));

    });

public class InterceptLogPostToBot: IPostToBot
{
    private readonly IPostToBot inner;
    private readonly IActivityLogger logger;
    public InterceptLogPostToBot(IPostToBot inner, IActivityLogger logger)
    {
        SetField.NotNull(out this.inner, nameof(inner), inner);
        SetField.NotNull(out this.logger, nameof(logger), logger);
    }

    async Task IPostToBot.PostAsync(IActivity activity, CancellationToken token)
    {
        await this.logger.LogAsync(activity);

        //translate here, after the logging is complete

        await inner.PostAsync(activity, token);
    }
}


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5 Questions with Jacob Greenwood, Director of Business Development in CRB's Maryland Office · BioBuzz
"5 Questions With……" is a weekly BioBuzz series where we reach out to interesting people in the BioHealth Capital Region to share a little about themselves, their work, and maybe something completely unrelated. This edition features 5 Questions with Jacob Greenwood is the Director of Business Development in CRB's Maryland office.
Jacob Greenwood is the Director of Business Development in CRB's Maryland office. Born and raised in Northeast Baltimore City, he is a life-long Marylander devoted to seeing his state prosper. He earned a BA in Biology in 2008 from Goucher College and has spent the last 12 years working in the Life Sciences industry. During that time, he has transitioned from the benchtop to the sales office. He is passionate about networking and is doing his part to improve the BioHealth Capital Region's ecosystem.
1. What was your first job/role in the biotech/pharma/life-sciences industry? Tell us about it. (How you ended up there. About the role and company).
After graduating from Goucher College with a bachelor's in Biology, I couldn't find a job! I was not interested in pursuing a further degree in research and I really wasn't sure what type of jobs were available. I just knew that I did not want to continue selling windows door-to-door. Lucky for me, my dad, a home inspector, was inspecting a house for an HR representative at SoBran Bioscience. They got to talking and I was told to give SoBran a call the next day.
My first role in the Life Science industry was working in the cagewash of an NIH animal research facility. SoBran is a government contractor that specializes in staffing and managing animal research programs and I was hired by them to be a "floater". Floater's were taught various roles in the animal care facility so they could be moved around to fill positions on various NIH contracts as needed. I worked for SoBran from 2008 to 2019 working my way up the management chain to a Program Manager and then finishing my career there as Business Development Manager.
2. Tell us about your current role and company/org? (highlight what the company is working on, maybe career opportunities there, location, history)
In the summer of 2019, I was approached about an opportunity to join CRB. Ben Skowronski was moving into the Office Leader position for CRB's Maryland operations and I was brought in to back-fill his previous role as the Director of Business Development for the Maryland Office. CRB is an Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Consulting firm that focuses on the Life Science and Advanced Technology industries. With 19 offices and over 1,200 employees, we are fortunate enough to work with many of the leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the world. We established our Rockville, MD office in 2014 and chose this location because we could see that the BioHealth Capital Region was poised for healthy, long-term growth. That decision turned out to be a great one and has allowed us to design and build some of the premier manufacturing facilities in the area, including the Catalent/Paragon BWI Expansion Building and the Emergent Biosolutions Bayview expansion in 2017. This facility was specifically designed with the flexibility to pivot during a pandemic response like we are seeing with COVID-19 today.
3. What is something about CRB that most people in biotech don't know?
CRB has a corporate-wide initiative to support the Ronald McDonald House Charity. All CRB employees are encouraged to volunteer time and donate money to the charity if they feel inclined. The mission of RMHC is to create, find and support programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and their families. That mission is right in line with why CRBers come to work every day in the Life Sciences, to play our part in the improvement of patients' lives. CRB employees have volunteered over 7,000 hours at the Ronald McDonald House and we are excited that this number continues to grow in the current climate.
4. How are you and CRB navigating the COVID-19 to continue being productive for yourselves and your clients?
From an internal standpoint, we are focused on keeping our employees safe, healthy, productive, and of course, employed! While a lot of companies and individuals have suffered since March, we have been fortunate enough to grow our staff during that time. We have taken a cautious approach to re-opening offices and our architectural team has been working hard to research, develop, and implement the best features for our new socially distant working environment.
We have not missed a beat in staying productive for our clients. Well prior to COVID-19, CRB had put a lot of resources into our technological capabilities for both our design and construction teams. However, while many of us can design state of the art facilities from our kid's playroom or the dining room table, we still haven't figured out how to construct the facilities from home. I was really proud to see how quickly our team was able to implement the changes needed to keep our staff and our subcontractors safe on job sites without sacrificing quality.
For me personally there have been challenges to working in quarantine. As anyone who follows my #WannaGoWednesday video series on LinkedIn knows, I LOVE attending networking events. I believe strongly in the value of face-to-face conversations when building new relationships. While I have spent my entire career in the Maryland Life Sciences industry, there is a never-ending list of new people to meet and new friends to make!
5. What is the more interesting thing you've read or seen this week, and what makes it so interesting?
The most interesting thing I read this week was an interview with Rayssa Leal. Most people will not know who that is, but she is one of the best female skateboarders in the world… and she is only TWELVE. I started skateboarding when I was twelve and it has been a huge part of my life. It was rare to see a girl skateboarding at all back then, but that has been changing for the better over the last ten years. Rayssa has been in the spotlight for years now and she just continues to get better and better. For someone with two daughters, it's fun to watch Rayssa excel in a male-heavy sport, especially at such a young age. Keep an eye out for her in the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, where skateboarding will be an Olympic sport for the first time in history.
Thank you to Jacob Greenwood for participating in the '5 Questions with BioBuzz' series and stay tuned for more interviews with others from across the BioHealth Capital Region.
Andy has worked with BioBuzz for the last decade to help spread the word of the BioHealth Capital Region even before it was branded with that name. His background includes years at MedImmune supporting the Commercial Operations Organization before becoming a BioHealth Nomad working with various clients in Operations, Communications and Strategic Services.
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Let Down by the Care System? A Good Lawyer Will See Justice Done!
Local authorities owe wide-ranging duties to children in care and, with the right legal advice, they can be sued for compensation if they fail to meet them. In a striking example, a woman whose youth was blighted by sexual abuse at the hands of her adoptive father won the right to substantial damages.
By the time that she was about seven, the woman had been sexually abused by at least two members of her birth family. After she was taken into care by the local authority, she was placed with a couple who fostered her and eventually adopted her. She had merely moved from the frying pan into the fire, however, and her adoptive father was some years later convicted of a number of serious sexual offences against her, receiving a lengthy prison sentence.
After lawyers launched proceedings on her behalf against the adoptive father, the High Court noted that the couple had not been trained to act as foster parents before she was placed with them, nor had their suitability for the role been assessed. Prior to her adoption, she had told a social worker that the adoptive father tended to kiss her inappropriately, but her complaint was dismissed and no action was taken.
In upholding her claim, the Court had no hesitation in accepting her consistent and convincing evidence. Despite the adoptive father's protestations of innocence, the Court found that the jury's verdicts at his criminal trial were correct. Never having enjoyed a stable and happy life, she had suffered depression and anxiety, self-harmed and developed post-traumatic stress disorder due to the abuse.
The woman's claim was motivated primarily by a desire to hold the local authority to account for her mistreatment and it had been established in previous proceedings that the council bore vicarious liability for the adoptive father's wrongdoing. The long delay in her bringing proceedings was readily explicable and the Court exercised its discretion to extend the time limit that usually applies to such cases. The council and the adoptive father were found jointly and severally liable to pay her compensation, the amount of which has yet to be assessed, but is bound to be substantial.


Discovery Networks Latin America/US Hispanic has claimed the highest ratings ever in Latin America, driven by leading factual network Discovery Channel.
The Kantar and Nielsen figures published by the company show that Discovery Channel remains Latin America's most watched factual network in 2017, particularly among viewers aged 25-54, and in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil.
The media giant has also reported that Discovery Kids is the most watched preschool pay-TV network among children aged 4-11 and women aged 25-49. Discovery Home & Health was also the most watched lifestyle signal among women aged 18-49.
Discovery's second-line channels saw important growth last year. Discovery Turbo delivered its highest ratings ever among those aged 25-54, delivering an 83% audience growth in Brazil and 60% in Colombia.
In addition, Investigation Discovery's audience grew by 24% among people aged 25-54 and TLC delivered a 20% growth among women aged 18-49.
"We're proud to continue reaching record audience levels for our channel portfolio, proving our leading position among factual, preschool and lifestyle networks," said Carolina Lightcap, EVP and CCO, Discovery Networks Latin America/US Hispanic.


First Edition of Downtown News, hot off the presses, April 2018. Raul Guerrero, Editor.
It is with great pleasure that we bring you this April Anniversary Issue. It's been one year since we published our first edition of Downtown NEWS. When we first sat to develop the idea, we decided to focus exclusively on Downtown Miami, and maintain a nonpartisan stance — if anything, following the philosophical dictates of the Downtown Neighbors Alliance DNA, our publisher, we aspire to be a pressure force for Downtown, for our evolving neighborhood.
I remember how excited I was when our first published article reached 50 readers, and then it was 600, and 10,000. Perseverance and commitment paid off, not only ours but all our collaborators'. This is a community endeavor, and the downtown community has responded with their commentaries, opinions, letters, with profound investigative articles, and photos.
I invite you to read from the current Anniversary Issue, the incisive and well-researched cover story by Joy Prevor, Schools? A Case of Taxation without Representation? For the section Our Streets, Rethinking Biscayne Boulevard by a young urban planner, Aaron DeMayo. A writer who has become a fixture of Talk of Downtown, Matilda Kalaveshi, brings us her business acumen in Retail is Detail. One of the collaborators since day one, Terrell Fritz, returns with his take on the evolution of Miami's iconic street, A View of Flagler Street. And we invited Frank Steslow, President, Frost Science Museum, to define the role of a science museum in Miami.
Thanks, County-Commissioner Eileen Higgins for taking time from your busy schedule to talk to us for this issue about the importance of local newspapering. And thank you, City of Miami Commissioner Ken Russell for you thoughtful congratulatory message and you commentaries throughout the year.
DNA Attorney Sam Dubbin arguing for downtown residents' right to enjoy Bayfront Park.
Downtown News has chronicled fierce battles residents fought to safeguard our parks, to curb noise pollution, to improve pedestrian safety, to find solutions for the complex issue of homelessness… Democracy can't work without an informed electorate and Downtown NEWS is committed to foster civic engagement through information relevant to the neighborhood.
"Downtown News is serious, but also playful, social," said Commissioner Higgins. One popular feature is Cultural Compass, guiding our readers to the neighborhood's offerings, from our world-class institutions, PAMM, Frost, HistoryMiami, MDC, and the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, to smaller neighborhood gems. Credit goes to our Culturist in Residence, Islara Souto. And the no less popular Eat & Drink Column showcasing the neighborhood bars and restaurants by Aurea Veras.
Not for nothing, they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Responsible for Downtown News photography is Niels Johansen. And no respectable publication can prescind of an authoritarian copyeditor, thanks, Professor Martha Otis.
DNA President, Amal Solh Kabbani, addressing the City Commission. Photo Niels Johansen.
A newspaper, no matter how small, requires many hands and minds. Backstage, we had the essential support of people not too fond of spotlights. And, of course, couldn't have done it without DNA President Amal Solh Kabbani, a force that needs no explanation. Don't miss her Sunday Editorial on redistricting.
For the table of contents, please click here. Some articles are online now, and others will be posted in the course of the week. The Anniversary Print Edition is coming out next week.
Enjoy it, and thanks for your support!


ST. Special Specific Upgrades Changes For TX Ships.
New upgrades are still being actively balanced and may yet receive quite a few changes. The aim of those changes is similar to the main point of new upgrades - increase gameplay variability for the existing ships.


(New Item) Tire Repair Kit. Includes T-Bone Handle w/ spiral probe,T-Bone Handle w/ 4" open eye needle, spare 4" open eye needle, screwdriver with reversible shaft & valve core tool, hex wrench, specially formulated lube, razor blade and 40 repairs ( 20 4" large dia., 20 4" small dia.) in a custom form fitted case.


Not every home has a pantry but if you do, it may be challenging to organize it, so this roundup is to help you. The main idea is to organize the shelving right so that it could accommodate all you need, so go for open shelves or shelving units. Drawers and rotating compartments are amazing for any kind of pantry as they allow you to separate things right and make excess to them easier. Big labeled jars will be perfect for storing various food; you can also use baskets for all kinds of things. If the shelves are too high, put a stairs or a stool to get everything you need. Get inspired by more cool ideas below!


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<?php

namespace Hampus\Tests\Stack;

use Hampus\Stack\File;
use Stack\CallableHttpKernel;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\HeaderBag;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use DateTime;

class FileTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    public function testServeFiles()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/static/test");
        $response = $app->handle($request);

        $this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());
        $this->assertContains('php', $response->getContent());
    }

    public function testLastModifiedHeader()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/static/test");
        $response = $app->handle($request);

        $path = realpath(implode('/', array(__DIR__, '/static/test')));

        $this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());
        $this->assertEquals(DateTime::createFromFormat('U', filemtime($path)), $response->getLastModified());
    }

    public function testIfNotModifiedSince()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $path = realpath(implode('/', array(__DIR__, '/static/test')));
        $date = DateTime::createFromFormat('U', filemtime($path));

        $request = Request::create("/static/test");
        $request->headers->set('If-Modified-Since', $date->format('D, d M Y H:i:s').' GMT');
        $response = $app->handle($request);

        $this->assertEquals(304, $response->getStatusCode());
        $this->assertEmpty($response->getContent());
    }

    public function testIfModifiedSince()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $path = realpath(implode('/', array(__DIR__, '/static/test')));
        $date = DateTime::createFromFormat('U', filemtime($path) - 100);

        $request = Request::create("/static/test");
        $request->headers->set('If-Modified-Since', $date->format('D, d M Y H:i:s').' GMT');
        $response = $app->handle($request);

        $this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());
    }

    public function testUrlEncodedFilenames()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/static/%74%65%73%74");
        $response = $app->handle($request);

        $this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());
        $this->assertContains('php', $response->getContent());
    }

    public function testSafeDirectoryTraversal()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/static/../static/test");
        $response = $app->handle($request);
        $this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());

        $request = Request::create(".");
        $response = $app->handle($request);
        $this->assertEquals(404, $response->getStatusCode());

        $request = Request::create("test/..");
        $response = $app->handle($request);
        $this->assertEquals(404, $response->getStatusCode());
    }

    public function testUnsafeDirectoryTraversal()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/../README.md");
        $response = $app->handle($request);
        $this->assertTrue($response->isClientError());

        $request = Request::create("/../tests/StaticFileTest.php");
        $response = $app->handle($request);
        $this->assertTrue($response->isClientError());

        $request = Request::create("../README.md");
        $response = $app->handle($request);
        $this->assertTrue($response->isClientError());
    }

    public function testAllowFilesWithDotDot()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/static/..test");
        $response = $app->handle($request);
        $this->assertTrue($response->isNotFound());

        $request = Request::create("/static/test..");
        $response = $app->handle($request);
        $this->assertTrue($response->isNotFound());

        $request = Request::create("/static../test..");
        $response = $app->handle($request);
        $this->assertTrue($response->isNotFound());
    }

    public function testUnsafeDirectoryTraversalWithEncodedPeriods()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/%2E%2E/README.md");
        $response = $app->handle($request);
        $this->assertTrue($response->isClientError());
        $this->assertTrue($response->isNotFound());
    }

    public function testFileNotFound()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/static/blubb");
        $response = $app->handle($request);
        $this->assertTrue($response->isNotFound());
    }

    public function testCorrectByteRangeInBody()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/static/test");
        $request->headers->set('Range', 'bytes=21-31');
        $response = $app->handle($request);

        $this->assertEquals(206, $response->getStatusCode());
        $this->assertEquals(11, $response->headers->get('Content-Length'));
        $this->assertEquals('bytes 21-31/61', $response->headers->get('Content-Range'));
        $this->assertEquals('-*- php -*-', $response->getContent());
    }

    public function testUnsatisfiableByteRange()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/static/test");
        $request->headers->set('Range', 'bytes=1234-5678');
        $response = $app->handle($request);

        $this->assertEquals(416, $response->getStatusCode());
        $this->assertEquals('bytes */61', $response->headers->get('Content-Range'));
    }

    public function testCustomHeaders()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp(array(
            'Cache-Control' => 'public, max-age=38',
            'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' => '*',
        ));

        $request = Request::create("/static/test");
        $response = $app->handle($request);

        $this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());
        $this->assertEquals(38, $response->getMaxAge());
        $this->assertEquals('*', $response->headers->get('Access-Control-Allow-Origin'));
    }

    /**
     * @dataProvider verbsProvider
     */
    public function testAllowedVerbs($method, $successful)
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/static/test", $method);
        $response = $app->handle($request);

        $this->assertEquals($successful, $response->isSuccessful());

        if (!$successful) {
            $this->assertEquals(Response::HTTP_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED, $response->getStatusCode());
        }
    }

    public function testAllowHeader()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/static/test", 'OPTIONS');
        $response = $app->handle($request);

        $this->assertEquals(array('GET', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS'), explode(', ', $response->headers->get('Allow')));
    }

    public function verbsProvider()
    {
        return array(
            array('POST', false),
            array('PUT', false),
            array('PATCH', false),
            array('DELETE', false),
            array('GET', true),
            array('HEAD', true),
            array('OPTIONS', true),
        );
    }

    /**
     * @dataProvider byteRangeProvider
     */
    public function testByteRanges($range, $size, $expected)
    {
        $app = $this->getMock('Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernelInterface');
        $file = new File($app, __DIR__);
        $headers = new HeaderBag(array('Range' => $range));

        $ranges = $file->byteRanges($headers, $size);
        $this->assertEquals($expected, $ranges);
    }

    public function byteRangeProvider()
    {
        return array(
            // ignore missing or syntactically invalid byte ranges.
            array('foobar', 500, null),
            array('furlongs=123-456', 500, null),
            array('bytes=', 500, null),
            array('bytes=-', 500, null),
            array('bytes=123,456', 500, null),
            array('bytes=456-123', 500, null),
            array('bytes=456-455', 500, null),

            // parse simple byte ranges.
            array('bytes=123-456', 500, array(array(123, 456))),
            array('bytes=123-', 500, array(array(123, 499))),
            array('bytes=-100', 500, array(array(400, 499))),
            array('bytes=0-0', 500, array(array(0, 0))),
            array('bytes=499-499', 500, array(array(499, 499))),

            // parse several byte ranges.
            array('bytes=500-600,601-999', 1000, array(array(500, 600), array(601, 999))),

            // truncate byte ranges.
            array('bytes=123-999', 500, array(array(123, 499))),
            array('bytes=600-999', 500, array()),
            array('bytes=-999', 500, array(array(0, 499))),

            // ignore unsatisfiable byte ranges.
            array('bytes=500-501', 500, array()),
            array('bytes=500-', 500, array()),
            array('bytes=999-', 500, array()),
            array('bytes=-0', 500, array()),

            // handle byte ranges of empty files.
            array('bytes=bytes=123-456', 0, array()),
            array('bytes=bytes=0-', 0, array()),
            array('bytes=bytes=-100', 0, array()),
            array('bytes=bytes=0-0', 0, array()),
            array('bytes=bytes=-0', 0, array()),
        );
    }

    public function testHeadContentLength()
    {
        $app = $this->getApp();

        $request = Request::create("/static/test", 'HEAD');
        $response = $app->handle($request);

        $this->assertTrue($response->isSuccessful());
        $this->assertEquals('61', $response->headers->get('Content-Length'));
    }

    protected function getApp(array $headers = array())
    {
        $app = new CallableHttpKernel(function (Request $request) {
            return new Response('Hello World!');
        });

        $app = new File($app, __DIR__, $headers);

        return $app;
    }
}


Tonight millions of viewers will be tuning into what is already being called "the best NBA finals ever." And while some will be watching because they are die hard fans or for sheer entertainment, other marketing or PR nerds (like myself) can't help but marvel at the brand powerhouses.
The NBA Finals is one of the biggest sporting events of the year, and brands have an opportunity to create awareness that will carry momentum into next year. Even better, a championship victory means rising tides could lift any brand that is in tow. We created an interactive report to determine which team and brands are best positioned to walk away with a win and possibly a championship ring.
It doesn't matter how you slice it; this year features a dream matchup between two all-star players. Stephen Curry won his second MVP award this season with unanimous votes -- something no other player, including four-time winner Lebron James, had ever achieved. Not to mention, both signed highly publicized deals with two of the biggest brand names in sports -- Nike and Under Armour.
James inked a lifetime deal with Nike that has become the largest single-athlete guarantee in company history. Nike and James have made 13 versions of James' signature shoe, and annual sales in 2015 for his line was estimated to top $400 million. Meanwhile, Curry signed with competitor Under Armour that has turned an underdog story into huge profits.
Nike has maintained a healthy lead as the top brand mentioned in the media in conjunction with the NBA playoffs, but Under Armour has not been far behind. As the finals progress and when a champion is crowned, one of these brands will reap enormous benefits.
Another Golden Year for the Warriors?
The Warriors entered the regular season as reigning NBA champions, and the momentum has helped them complete a historic regular season. Their success has created a media storm around the team that has eclipsed all others and positioned them as favorites to win it all. The Warriors currently own 62% of the share of voice in the media as the finals are set to begin.
The Warriors fan base also continues to help amplify any news surrounding the team with over 8 million shares. The Cavaliers saw over 3 million shares. When also examining coverage types, the Warriors received more featured articles and tier 1 mentions (publications with 250K+ daily readership) than the Cavaliers.
Make sure to check out the full PR interactive report here to dive deeper into more great stories surrounding the 2016 NBA Finals.


The DF Multi is the perfect solution for flat screen systems. They can be wired as either a single LCR in one speaker, or as a single centre channel. Standard sizes are available for 42", 50" and 60" screens, with a bespoke options from Artcoustic Custom enabling the DF Multi to be made to the specific size of you screen if desired, right up to 103" screens!


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Peter Jul Hoffenzits Nielsen, född 11 mars 1996, är en dansk fotbollsspelare som spelar för Fremad Amager.

Karriär
Nielsens moderklubb är Esbjerg fB. I april 2015 värvades Nielsen av FC Vestsjælland, där han skrev på ett tvåårskontrakt. I januari 2016 värvades Nielsen av IFK Värnamo. Han debuterade i Superettan den 4 april 2016 mot Trelleborgs FF (0–0).

I januari 2017 gick Nielsen till Middelfart. I april 2018 förlängde han sitt kontrakt fram till sommaren 2019. I juli 2019 förlängde Nielsen sitt kontrakt med ytterligare ett år. I september 2020 värvades Nielsen av norska Brattvåg IL, där han skrev på ett kontrakt över resten av året. I februari 2021 förlängde Nielsen sitt kontrakt i klubben med ett år.

I januari 2022 skrev Nielsen på ett ettårskontrakt med danska Fremad Amager.

Källor

Peter Jul Nielsen på transfermarkt.com

Noter

Danska fotbollsspelare
Spelare i Esbjerg fB
Spelare i FC Vestsjælland
Spelare i IFK Värnamo
Spelare i Fremad Amager
Spelare i Superettan
Födda 1996
Levande personer
Män

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Alumni Highlight — Today's post features Bianca Lovdahl class of 2008.
Bianca graduated from Trinity in 2008 and went on to attend the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Upon graduation in 2012, she earned a B.S. in Naval Architecture and was commissioned as a Surface Warfare Officer. Bianca was assigned to the USS FARRAGUT (DDG 99) (homeported in Mayport, FL) for the next four years where she served as the Electrical Officer and, later, the Training Officer. She deployed twice with FARRAGUT to the 5th and 6th fleet areas of responsibility and stood watch on the Bridge, in the Combat Information Center, and in the engineering Central Control Station. After completing her time onboard FARRAGUT, Bianca redesignated as an Engineering Duty Officer and reported to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. There, she earned a M.S. in Astronautical Engineering. She is now stationed back in Northern VA and works in program management and acquisition for the Navy.
Bianca first found her interest and confidence in math and science at Trinity. She was also challenged and stretched in her writing abilities in Humane Letters. Those especially demanding literature classes prepared her for writing numerous fitness reports, evaluations, instructions, and press releases as required by her time onboard FARRAGUT. Later, she used those skills again to write her graduate school thesis "Software-Defined Radio Payload Design for CubeSat and X-Band Communications." She attributes her passion for learning, especially in the STEM fields, and her willingness to wear a uniform daily (haha) to her days as a high school student. Bianca is very grateful for the professors, friends, and the love for learning she found at Trinity School!


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"unsuspecting British troops" found Bergen-Belsen in the Spring of 1945
Filed under: Germany, Holocaust, World War II — Tags: Bergen-Belsen, British "liberaton" of Belse, Josef Kramer — furtherglory @ 2:12 pm
After visiting the Bergen-Belsen Memorial Site several years ago, I wrote about the camp on my website at http://www.scrapbookpages.com/BergenBelsen/ConcentrationCamp.html
Apparently, I was completely wrong in what I wrote on my website. The YouTube video tells the truth about what really happened.
The video above starts off by saying that "unsuspecting British troops" found the Belsen camp on a "spring morning." It seems that the Germans had not made an agreement with the British to turn the camp over to them, as I reported on my website.
The early part of the video shows a photo of a fence, obviously taken at Auschwitz-Birkenau, which we are led to believe was taken at Belsen. Then we see one of the fake guard towers that were put up by the Allies at Birkenau after the camp was no longer in operation.
At 1:23 minutes into the video, the true story the lies begin: According to the video, the truth is that there were no negotiations between the Germans and the British to turn the camp over to the British. No, what really happened is that a lone German soldier came out of the camp, and met the "unsuspecting" British troops, who knew nothing about the Belsen camp up to this point.
Children in Bergen-Belsen camp who came out to meet the British "liberators." (click on photo to enlarge)
This quote is from my website page about the Belsen camp, which was voluntarily turned over to the British:
The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was voluntarily turned over to the Allied 21st Army Group, a combined British-Canadian unit, on April 15, 1945 by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the man who was in charge of all the concentration camps. Bergen-Belsen was in the middle of the war zone where British and German troops were fighting in the last days of World War II and there was a danger that the typhus epidemic in the camp would spread to the troops on both sides.
Hungarian soldiers in the Germany Army, who had been sent to keep order while the camp was transferred to the British, were in fact shot by the British, according to British soldiers who participated in the liberation.
Negotiations for the transfer of the Bergen-Belsen camp to the British took several days. Then on the night of April 12, 1945, a cease-fire agreement was signed between the local German Military Commander and the British Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Taylor-Balfour, according to Eberhard Kolb in his book, "Bergen-Belsen from 1943 to 1945."
An area of 48 square kilometers around Bergen-Belsen was declared a neutral zone. The neutral zone was 8 kilometers long and 6 kilometers wide. Until British troops could take over, the agreement specified that the camp would be guarded by a unit of Hungarian soldiers and soldiers from the German Wehrmacht (the regular army as opposed to the SS). They were assured that they would be allowed free return passage to the German lines within six days after the British arrived. The SS soldiers who made up the staff of the camp were to remain at their posts and carry on their duties until the British arrived to take over. There was no specific stipulation in the agreement about what their fate would be, according to Eberhard Kolb.
On the afternoon of Sunday, April 15th, British soldiers arrived at the German Army training garrison, next door to the concentration camp, and the transfer of the neutral territory of the Bergen-Belsen camp was made. A short time later, a group of British officers entered the concentration camp, which was right next to the garrison, although the distance by road was about 1.5 kilometers.
According to Michael Berenbaum in his book "The World Must Know," Commandant Josef Kramer greeted British officer Derrick Sington at the entrance to the camp, wearing a fresh uniform. Berenbaum wrote that Kramer expressed his desire for an orderly transition and his hopes of collaborating with British. He dealt with them as equals, one officer to another, even offering advice as to how to deal with the "unpleasant situation." That same day, Commandant Kramer was arrested by the British; five months later he was brought before a British Military Tribunal as a war criminal.
On April 8, 1945, around 25,000 to 30,000 prisoners had arrived at Bergen-Belsen from other concentration camps in the Neuengamme area. On that date, there were over 60,000 prisoners in the camp and some had to be housed in the barracks of the adjacent Army Training Center. The Geneva Convention specified that civilian prisoners were to be evacuated from a war zone, and up until this time, the Nazi concentration camps had been either evacuated or abandoned as the war progressed. But because of the typhus epidemic, it was impossible to evacuate all the prisoners from Bergen-Belsen. The camp could not be abandoned for fear that the epidemic would spread to the soldiers of both sides.
At 2:13 minutes into the video, a British officer named Bob Daniels tells what really happened when the British first arrived at Belsen. Daniels saw "a desperate looking man [Commandant Joseph Kramer] "getting rid of reams of paper." According to Bob Daniels, there was "total fear among every single German there. "They realized that we had arrived."
The story about Joseph Kramer "getting rid of reams of paper" could be a reference to the number of deaths in the Belsen camp and the small number of death certificates. I previously blogged about this at https://furtherglory.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/50000-deaths-at-bergen-belsen-but-only-6851-death-certificates-issued/
Later on, in the video, we learn that even while the camp was being liberated by the British, the Germans went on killing. At 4:27 minutes into the video we learn that "even while the camp was being liberated, the Germans kept on killing the prisoners." At 4:40 minutes into the video, we learn that "the SS youth" [Hitlerjungend] were killing the prisoners, "shooting them in the balls, and the women in the crotch."
Moving right along, we learn at 5:38 minutes, what kind of people were sent to Bergen-Belsen. Belsen was NOT an exchange camp for Jews. No-Oh. It was a camp for "Communists, trade unionists, homosexuals, priests and Jews"; it was "one of the earliest work camps set up in 1933." In other words, this video describes the Dachau camp, not Belsen.
The narrator goes on the say that Belsen had the words "Arbeit macht Frei" over the gate. Belsen did not have this sign on the gate because it was NOT a "work camp," but an EXCHANGE CAMP. The words "exchange camp" are never spoken in this video.
A couple of the photos in the video look like photos taken at the liberation of the Wöbbelin camp but are purported to be prisoners at Belsen.


With a wealth of experience spanning over twenty-five years, and widely recognized by those in the know in the men's fashion trade for having manufactured millions of items of clothing while staying in the shadows, the Rhoum family launched the first IZAC collection in 2003, in their showroom located in the famous Marais district in Paris.
Even if the brand name was somewhat born of a pure chance, the Rhoum family take pride in their choice of fabrics, which are mostly Italian, and in the quality of the finishes, which are not the sole preserve of the large luxury fashion houses. It is upon this solid foundation and in this spirit that the brand is rooted, while positioning itself in an intermediate niche, somewhere between the very high end and the medium segment. While modernizing the formality of suits, or transforming urban fashion into casual chic, IZAC has taken ownership of the codes of elegance. As a man with a reassuring aura and a responsible attitude, he is eager to develop a lifestyle that combines both ambition and discretion.
Taking his cue from his multi-brand network, the first branded store opened its doors in September 2007 on Rue Auber, close to the large Parisian department stores, and was an immediate success. At the same time, a second one followed in Lyon city center, and then another on Rue de Rennes in May 2008.
Today, IZAC continues to drive itself onward into a world where only elegance itself never goes out of fashion.


The growing disparity between CPU speed and memory speed, known as the memory wall problem, has been one of the most critical and long-standing challenges in the computing industry. To address the memory wall problem, memory systems have been becoming increasingly complex in recent years. New memory technologies and architectures are introduced into conventional memory hierarchies. This newly added memory complexity plus the existing programming complexity and architecture heterogeneity make utilizing high performance computer systems extremely challenging. Performance optimization has thus shifted from computing to data access, especially for data-intensive applications. Significant amount of efforts of a user is often spent on optimizing local and shared data access regarding the memory hierarchy rather than for decomposing and mapping task parallelism onto hardware. This increase of memory optimization complexity also demands significant system support, from tools to compiler technologies, and from modeling to new programming paradigms. Explicitly or implicitly, to address the memory wall performance bottleneck, the development of programming interfaces, compiler tool chains, and applications are becoming memory oriented or memory centric.
The organization of this workshop believe it is important to elevate the notion of memory-centric programming to utilize the unprecedented and ever-elevating modern memory systems. Memory-centric programming refers to the notion and techniques of exposing the hardware memory system and its hierarchy, which include NUMA regions, shared and private caches, scratch pad, 3-D stack memory, and non-volatile memory, to the programmer for extreme performance programming via portable abstraction and APIs for explicit memory allocation, data movement and consistency enforcement between memories. The concept has been gradually adopted in main stream programming interfaces, for example and to name a few, the use of place in OpenMP and X10 and locale in Chapel to represent memory regions in a system, the use of shared modifier in CUDA or cache modifier in OpenACC for representing scratch-pad SRAM for GPUs, the memkind library and the recent effort for OpenMP memory management for supporting 3-D stack memory (HBM or HMC), and PMEM library for persistent memory programming. The MCHPC workshop aims to bring together computer and computational science researchers, from industry and academia, concerned with the programmability and performance of the existing and emerging memory systems. The term performance for memory system is general, which include latency, bandwidth, power consumption and reliability from the aspect of hardware memory technologies to what it is manifested in the application performance.
The challenges and existing solutions of programming 3-D stack memory, NVDIMM, memristor and other processor/compute-in-memory technologies.
Compiler and runtime techniques for optimizing data layout, movement and consistency enforcement for latency hiding and for improving bandwidth utilization and energy consumption of memory system that has different memory technologies.
Memory-centric programing interfaces or language extensions that improve the programmability of using emerging memory technologies and systems.
Modeling, evaluation, and case study of memory system behavior that reveals the limitation and characteristics of existing memory systems and programming tool chains.
Programming interface, library and tools for memory allocation, data movement and consistency control between memory of heterogeneous devices such as CPU, GPU and FPGA.
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers up to 8 pages or as short papers up to 5 pages, both of letter size (8.5in x 11in) and including figures, tables, and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Reference style files are available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop organizers for more information.
Papers should be submitted electronically at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mchpc2017.
It is widely recognized that a major disruption is under way in computer hardware as processors strive to extend, and go beyond, the end-game of Moore's Law. This disruption will include new forms of processor and memory hierarchies, including near-memory computation structures. In this talk, we summarize compiler and runtime challenges for memory centric programming, based on past experiences with the X10 project at IBM and the Habanero project at Rice University and Georgia Tech. A key insight in addressing compiler challenges is to expand the state-of-the-art in analyzing and transforming explicitly-parallel programs, so as to encourage programmers to write forward-scalable layout-independent code rather than hardwiring their programs to specific hardware platforms and specific data layouts. A key insight in addressing runtime challenges is to focus on asynchrony in both computation and data movement, while supporting both in a unified and integrated manner. A cross-cutting opportunity across compilers and runtimes is to broaden the class of computation and data mappings that can be considered for future systems. Based on these and other insights, we will discuss recent trends in compilers and runtime systems that point the way towards possible directions for addressing the challenges of memory centric programming.
Vivek Sarkar is a Professor in the School of Computer Science, and the Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications in the College of Computing at at Georgia Institute of Technology, since August 2017. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Sarkar was a Professor of Computer Science at Rice University, and the E.D. Butcher Chair in Engineering. During 2007 - 2017, Sarkar built Rice's Habanero Extreme Scale Software Research Group with the goal of unifying parallelism and concurrency elements of high-end computing, multicore, and embedded software stacks (http://habanero.rice.edu). He also served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Rice during 2013 - 2016.
Prior to joining Rice in 2007, Sarkar was Senior Manager of Programming Technologies at IBM Research. His research projects at IBM included the X10 programming language, the Jikes Research Virtual Machine for the Java language, the ASTI optimizer used in IBM's XL Fortran product compilers, and the PTRAN automatic parallelization system. Sarkar became a member of the IBM Academy of Technology in 1995, and was inducted as an ACM Fellow in 2008. He has been serving as a member of the US Department of Energy's Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) since 2009, and on CRA's Board of Directors since 2015.
In this talk, Andy will describe the emerging Persistent Memory technology and how it can be applied to HPC-related use cases. Andy will also discuss some of the challenges using Persistent Memory, and the ongoing work the ecosystem is doing to mitigate those challenges.
Given the recent resurgence of research into processing in or near memory systems, we find an ever increasing need to augment traditional system software tools in order to make efficient use of the PIM hardware abstractions. One such architecture, the Micron In-Memory Intelligence (IMI) DRAM, provides a unique processing capability within the sense amp stride of a traditional 2D DRAM architecture. This accumulator processing circuit has the ability to compute both horizontally and vertically on pitch within the array. This unique processing capability requires a memory allocator that provides physical bit locality in order to ensure numerical consistency.
In this work we introduce a new memory allocation methodology that provides bit contiguous allocation mechanisms for horizontal and vertical memory allocations for the Micron IMI DRAM device architecture. Our methodology drastically reduces the complexity by which to find new, unallocated memory blocks by combining a sparse matrix representation of the array with dense continuity vectors that represent the relative probability of finding candidate free blocks. We demonstrate our methodology using a set of pathological and standard benchmark applications in both horizontal and vertical memory modes.
Stencil computations are a key class of applications, widely used in the scientific computing community, and a class that has particularly benefited from performance improvements on architectures with high memory bandwidth. Unfortunately, such architectures come with a limited amount of fast memory, which is limiting the size of the problems that can be efficiently solved. In this paper, we address this challenge by applying the well-known cache-blocking tiling technique to large scale stencil codes implemented using the OPS domain specific language, such as CloverLeaf 2D, CloverLeaf 3D, and OpenSBLI. We introduce a number of techniques and optimisations to help manage data resident in fast memory, and minimise data movement. Evaluating our work on Intel's Knights Landing Platform as well as NVIDIA P100 GPUs, we demonstrate that it is possible to solve 3 times larger problems than the on-chip memory size with at most 15% loss in efficiency.
Experience with Intel Xeon Phi suggests that NUMA alone is inadequate for assignment of pages to devices in heterogeneous memory systems. We argue that this is because NUMA is based on a single distance metric between all domains (i.e., number of devices "in between" the domains), while relationships between heterogeneous domains can and should be characterized by multiple metrics (e.g., latency, bandwidth, capacity). We therefore propose elaborating the concept of NUMA distance to give better and more intuitive control of placement of pages, while retaining most of the simplicity of the NUMA abstraction. This can be based on minor modification of the Linux kernel, with the possibility for further development by hardware vendors.
General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) have become a popular platform to accelerate computing. However, while they provide additional computing powers, GPGPU have put even more pressure on the already behindhand memory systems. Memory performance is an identified performance killer of GPGPU. Evaluating, understanding, and improving GPGPU data access delay is an imperative research issue of high-performance computing. In this study, we utilize the newly proposed C-AMAT (Concurrent Average Memory Access Time) model to measure the memory performance of GPGPU. We first introduce a GPGPU-specialized measurement design of C-AMAT. Then the modern GPGPU simulator, GPGPU-Sim, is used to carry the performance study. Finally, the performance results are analyzed.


As girls, we have always spent o lot of time whitening our skin. And we have also searched for the methods of skin whitening. It seems that skin whitening is our lifetime work. Then how can we whiten our skin in a short time? Here is a method that we have to learn, it is an amazing method which can help us whiten our skin very quickly. It takes only a week. Now let's see what is it.
Day 1: Clear away the dirt, sebunr and the old cells. The dirt, seburn adn the old cells in the skin pores make the skin surface feels rough, not smooth and delicate. So in addition to the daily care, we should also clear away the dirt in the skin pores regularly so as to make the skin smooth and soft. This is the first step of beautifying the skin.
Day 2: Be active to care, calm and ease the skin. The skin needs care and break after the dirt has been cleared away so as to start the regeneration of the skin.
Day 3: It is very necessary to use moisturizing products. Water is the most important factor to skin. Moisturizing products can give the skin plenty of water.
Day 4: Massage can help to improve the flabby and bloated skin. Massage can help to remove the toxins in the skin and therefore promote the metabolism.
Day 5: Start with diluting the spots to whitening the skin. Spots serious affect the whitening of the skin. Once the spots are eliminate the skin will become much whiter.
Day 6: Get rid of the wrinkle. Apply to good products that can get rid of the wrinkle quickly.
Day 7: Do facial mask. Facial mask is a great way to whiten the skin.


This page contains notes as I read about malaria.
If swamp-draining and DDT were the methods used to eliminate malaria in the United States, why are LLINs what we hear about nowadays?
Why was DDT banned? What were the tradeoffs involved in the banning?
Regarding a 1953 WHO antimalarial program in Liberia, Wikipedia says "these projects encountered difficulties that foreshadowed the general retreat from malaria eradication efforts across tropical Africa by the mid-1960s." What happened? What were these difficulties?
DDT worked most effectively when sprayed on impermeable walls where it could continue to kill insects landing there for more than 3 months. But more than 50 percent of the interior house walls in Monrovia were constructed of laterite bricks, a natural hard claylike soil that is high in iron and aluminum. The DDT soaked through these walls, instead of staying on the surface, and thus was much less effective as a residual insecticide. At the time, there was no entomologist or chemist in Liberia who understood the issue, and work proceeded on an ad hoc basis. When the DDT seemed no longer to do the job—that is, to kill the mosquitoes inside the dwelling—the sprayers returned and sprayed again. The result was roughly a once-a-month spraying cycle with exceedingly high per capita costs.
DDT not used "because of concerns over its effectiveness in coastal Liberia".
For African adults, malaria was largely perceived as an annoyance, an unpleasant reality of life like the seasonal flu, rather than a vital problem to be tackled with scarce resources. At independence, most African states declined to take up the "pre-eradication" programs – in essence, malaria control programs that would be developed to build capacity – recommended by the WHO.
Malaria remains rampant because control efforts lack resources and political support, not because of the choice of insecticide. Where insect resistance to it is not yet widespread, DDT remains a legitimate weapon against malaria. However, DDT is not a panacea, and the limited restrictions imposed on its use are not a significant factor in the current deplorable state of affairs in malaria morbidity and mortality.
Knowledge of the role of mosquitoes in malaria transmission (11.8%) and cause of malaria (9.6%) was observed to be low among the study population. Comprehensive knowledge about malaria prevention measures was high (90%), but not reflecting in their practice (16%). They have good knowledge of mosquito behavior (breeding areas (64.5%), resting places (70%) and biting time (81%)). Seeking hospital care for a febrile child was a good practice (68.5%) observed. Attitudes regarding the best antimalarial therapy was limited (56.7%) to chloroquine.
This paper notes some sensitivities for mosquitoes to temperature.
Generally models of high mosquito infestation would involve differences in altitude, temperate, rainfall and time of year (seasonal variation). However, no one has been able to develop a general model that can predict well when an epidemic is likely to occur.
The details are provided by Yakob, Dunning and Yan (2011). They conclude that the most effective strategy is to treat as many houses as possible with bed nets and the remainder with IRS. It is not recommended to use both together. They act antagonistically. This recommendation comes after a rigorous testing experience of treating houses with combinations of IRS and INT in a controlled setting. Hopefully WHO and country officials will take note. It is also interesting to note that IRS has not been used in any of the countries with an epidemic of malaria as judged by the number of cases or deaths per annum.
To evaluate the impact of all the programs designed to reduce the incidence and mortality of malaria, UNICEF has constructed three maps of Africa with an estimated number of lives saved (see Figure 4.3). This is very good public relation and is certainly evidence of the overall success of malaria reduction in Africa. However, it does not give much detail about which program was responsible for how many lives saved and in which countries. Because all of these programs (bed nets, spraying and ACT) are relatively new, we are still at the evaluation stage. The effectiveness will have to be judged as they are evaluated over time. So far, as indicated in the analysis of mortality in the epidemic countries, there has been limited evidence of a decline in mortality.
Despite a lack of scientific evidence, DDT was banned in many countries in the early 1970s following concerns about its environmental and human health impacts. However, the negative impacts from DDT use in agriculture, which led to the concerns, are vastly different from the impacts of DDT used in health control.
More on the DDT debate at claims about DDT.
Goldsmith (Battling Malaria on the Front Lines) mentions climate change and land use as two reasons for reemergence of malaria (and not just any two reasons – she mentions these two first as she explains the reemergence).
The distribution of populations exposed to the risk of P. falciparum and P. vivax malaria is poorly understood at the global level. Considerable effort as part of MAP is required to improve our basic maps of malaria transmission intensity and help identify the global distribution of populations at risk of malaria. This will involve assembling the largest-ever collection of PR data and a significant parallel investment in establishing the required environmental, population, and malaria vector data.
Despite its impact on mosquito density and its contribution to reducing transmission, larviciding is not as effective as IRS and ITNs in reducing mosquito longevity (Najera and Zaim 2002).
Don't mosquitoes need swamps to breed? And isn't Africa full of desert regions? What gives?
Why are there no malaria vectors in parts of northern Africa? It's coastal so there can be mosquitoes, right? There must be some rainfall at least?
What about the Arabian and Kalahari Deserts? They're both deserts too, so why do we see malaria in countries located in those places?
Do non-mosquito vectors exist for malaria? If so why do we never hear about them?
What's up with the push toward mosquito extinction?
On the surface, malaria looks like an easier target to control and eradicate than HIV-, TB- or cholera-type diseases. This is because malaria is borne by mosquitoes and should be easier to track and control than humans whose behavior is hard to predict and control and who are not subject to eradication using chemicals.
So I heard the Romans used sheep to attract mosquitoes away from humans. Why don't we do that now? Can't we just make some artificial warm-bodied thing?
The CDC FAQ says "the eradication campaign never involved most of Africa, where malaria is the most common". Why was this the case?
What does the pie chart of spending within malaria look like?
What does the pie chart of spending on malaria, seen in terms of all of global health, look like?
Total spending on bednets? Total number of bednets?


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The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences recently announced inclusion standards to be eligible to win an Oscar for Best Picture. In order to be considered for a Best Picture award, films will now have to meet a minimum number of criteria as determined by an Academy task force. According to the academy, "The Standards are designed to encourage equitable representation on and off screen in order to better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience". In my opinion, this calls into question the fairness of setting such standards despite the Academy's claim its intent is to increase diverse representation in film.
We've occasionally mocked the very concept of the Academy Awards. Especially in today's world, the idea of having a forum where individuals who get paid relatively exuberant sums of money compete for the best in anything seems frivolous. What is more important, why do we even have awards in the first place. Isn't art subjective? Famously, Marisa Tomei, a white female, took home the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 1993 Academy Awards. Alfre Woodard and Rosie Perez weren't even nominated for their work that same year. Was Tomei worthy of the win? Was it discrimination by the Academy? Does it even matter?
In a previous blog, I wrote about Disney's live adaptation of Mulan. On a subsequent episode of Oh Brother, we made a point of acknowledging cultural issues with the film. Although Disney did the right thing casting mostly Chinese actors, they missed the mark with location shooting and other missteps of the Chinese culture. It sparked a great deal of debate and controversy even leading to the trending #boycottmulan. But isn't this for Disney to address and not the Academy? Shouldn't filmmakers be held accountable to such standards by the public deciding whether or not to see a film?
I'm reminded of playing little league baseball and instead of an award for best batting average or most home runs, they hand out trophies for just participating. Doesn't that make awards even more insignificant than they are already? And I don't recall ever receiving a little league swag bag for making it to the championship game.
The Academy of Motion Pictures used funding to put together a team of consultants charged with developing the new Best Picture inclusion standards. Filmmakers actually have a few years before the criteria take effect. For now, studios only have to fill out a form in a supposed effort to collect data until the rules take effect with the 2024 Oscars. To give you an example of what to expect, take a look at this article from Variety entitled "The New Oscars Inclusion Rules Explained". Clear as mud?
According to the new standards one criteria requires 30% of actors in secondary and more minor roles be from at least two underrepresented groups including Women, Racial or ethnic group, LGBTQ+, People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing. So you want to be a casting director?
This is, of course, not an endorsement of discrimination when it comes to movies or any other enterprise for that matter. However, is it the responsibility of the Academy to impose a set of standards upon filmmakers to remedy this issue or the filmmakers themselves? In fact, the Academy consists of people who are behind the very making of the films. It's not as though "we the people" choose the winners. That's why we have the highly esteemed People's Choice Awards. Thank goodness for that or Captain Jack Sparrow may not have taken home the coveted Favorite Motion Picture award in 2004 for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
There's no question, the film industry as with our country has much work to do in the area of inclusion. But is imposing a set of standards on filmmakers the way to accomplish this goal within the movie industry? Personal bias and prejudice is wrong in all forms, but the most damaging forms of discrimination are systemic in nature. It is practices and policies that are inherently bias and more likely to lead to the perpetuation of exclusion in terms of diversity. Establishing a set of criteria by which filmmakers will be held accountable, should they wish to be considered for the ultimate prize in movie-making, is certainly a noble idea. But will it lead to real change or end up just another box to check. Filmmakers should diversify their work because it is the right thing to do and not to satisfy an imposed set of criteria. In recent years, haven't we been moving in that direction? Parasite, Green Book, The Shape of Water, Moonlight (No not La La Land), Spotlight.
Previously, I mentioned playing sports as a kid and getting one of those "participation" awards. And you know what it meant to me? Nothing! The only award I ever cared about was the one we got for being the best team. A mandate to meet a set of standards feels a bit like manufactured inclusion. After all, shouldn't the audience decide at the box office? We don't get to choose the nominees for Best Picture, but if we didn't shell out our hard earned money there wouldn't be a picture in the first place. How about we dispense with the elitist costume balls, melt down those golden statues and donate the money to supporting small businesses owned by those from underrepresented groups, non-profit organizations or supplying secondary schools in lower socioeconomic areas with much needed supplies? Isn't that a more noble idea than a glorified pat on the back? We'll let you decide that one and NOT the academy.
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On this article highest youtube subscribers in the world, you and I know that youtube is a massive platform. It is the most-searched website, with over a billion users and countless hours spent there.
YouTubers have also used it as a platform to become celebrities in their own right. YouTube includes videos on every topic imaginable, from cookery shows to streamers.
However, Glass Suite, we've compiled a list of the most popular YouTube channels and YouTubers in the purpose of this article below to make it easy for you to enjoy although the list is quite diverse.
Estimate number of subscribers (60.2m)
Zee TV is indeed an Indian television channel that has sparked a lot of attention online. It's also not the only TV channel on the list.
The channel's material is similar to that of any other television network: trailers and excerpts from episodes, commercials, and interviews with celebrities, all designed to entice viewers.
Kondzilla Canal
Estimated number of subscribers (65.1m)
Back to music, this time we've got Canal KondZilla, a channel run by Konrad Cunha Dantas.
Dantas is a music video producer and the proprietor of KondZilla Records, and he uses his YouTube account to promote KondZilla's music and they are one of the highest youtube subscribers in the world.
The appeal of this music, which is centered on the funk ostentaço genre, has translated nicely to YouTube. The channel features a lot of music videos as well as some behind-the-scenes footage.
On YouTube, it's evident that pop gets you a long way. Next up on highest youtube subscribers in the world is Justin Bieber, a former child music sensation who is now a regular music sensation.
Bieber was found on YouTube, thus his position at the top of the list makes sense. Music videos, commercial material, interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage are all on his channel, as we've come to expect from musicians.
This is our first pop group on the list of highest youtube subscribers in the world, as well as our second K-pop group.
Introducing BLACKPINK, one of the most popular K-pop and pop acts on the planet. It's exactly what you'd expect from their channel. Music videos, interviews, and other video content about the band can all be found.
Mr Beast
Estimated number of subscribers (82.9m subscribers)
Mr. Beast is one of the highest youtube subscribers in the world known as the viral specialist and YouTube megastar, also has some of the most-watched and loved videos on the platform. Expect him to stay here for a while as he works to build his firm.
Vlad and Niki
Vlad and Niki, the first kid's channel on the list; highest youtube subscribers in the world. this channel includes two brothers.
The majority of the films show the two of them playing and engaged in typical children's activities. Because the channel has only been operational since 2018, its inclusion on the list is all the more noteworthy.
5-Minute Crafts
5-Minute Crafts, a DIY channel that covers a wide range of topics, has made it into the top ten. Since its inception in 2016, it has grown in popularity and is now the most subscribed channel of its kind.
5-Minute Crafts also features life hacks for every aspect of your life, as well as content for kids and parents, in addition to craft videos.
Like Nastya
The Russian Federation's most subscribed channel is introduced. It is aimed at children and includes Like Nastya and her parents, who manage the channel, recreating scenes from movies and television shows, singing songs and nursery rhymes, and going on adventures.
Nastya is among the highest youtube subscribers in the world it also has another channel with 15 million subscribers. It's simply known as 'Like Nastya,' and it produces videos that are similar to Nastya's, but with a focus on fun and excursions to amusement and activity parks.
Zee Music Company
Staying with music, we have Zee Music Company, an Indian channel. Music videos, some of which are from films and television shows, make up the channel's material. According to the channel, it has accumulated over 220k hours of video footage.
The most popular sports channel on the list is WWE or World Wrestling Entertainment. WWE is hugely popular all around the world, with tens of millions of subscribers from all corners of the globe.
The WWE channel offers highlights from recent matches, full contests, and a wealth of archive videos, including classic fights and interviews.
Kids Diana Show
On the list of highest youtube subscribers in the world, we noticed that children's channels are so popular on youtube, so we've included a few in our list.
This one is about a girl named Diana, and the story revolves around her life and what it's like to be a youngster.
Toy unboxings, challenges, outings, and other kid-friendly activities are featured in the videos. A thought that just a few years ago, would have seemed absurd, but here we are.
Estimated number of subscribers (110m subscribers)
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, best known as PewDiePie, is the final individual YouTuber on our list. He is by far the most well-known YouTuber in the world, thanks in part to a series of controversies and his rivalry with another channel, T-Series.
He is also one of the platform's highest earners. PewDiePie's major interest is gaming, which he demonstrates through live streams. He also does a lot of vlogging, as well as collaborations with other YouTubers and his own series of meme reviews.
SET India
Sony Entertainment Television, or SET, India, has advanced to the last three. This Hindi-language station is run by the same-named Indian television channel, which is clearly owned by Sony.
Full episodes of TV shows, teaser trailers, and episode clips are all available on the channel, which is what you'd expect from a TV station.
Cocomelon's high ranking reflects the amount of time young children spend watching YouTube videos. With its auto-play feature, the platform has become a convenient tool for parents to keep their children amused.
The channel itself includes a large library of nursery rhymes on a variety of topics, many of which feature CGI characters and settings in a cartoonish style.
PewDiePie was the most popular YouTube channel for 1,920 days. Then there was T-Series, an Indian record label and film production firm.
Despite his best efforts to keep up with T-Series, PewDiePie has fallen far behind. T-Series' creative output is represented by a large collection of music videos, films, clips, and trailers on the channel.
Only time will tell if PewDiePie can reclaim his position as the most popular YouTuber.


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Seeking friends that is honest, definately has a good sense of humour. Good values.
I am interesting in meeting new people. I am friendly and like to be with people most of the time. However I also need me time when needed. I believe what you put out comes back all the time, no matter what. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give. Just to be myself. Love the outdoors, hiking etc. Love animals. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Spontaan, vriendelik en hou daarvan om saam met familie en vriende te kuier.
Jesus is my anker in die lewe.
My ideal match must be a good friend. Friendship don't just happen. Love is a friendship that caught fire.
He must love the outdoors. Be content with himself.
Most important he must have a good relationship with the Creator.
Die vrugte van die gees moet sigbaar wees.
Twaney hasn't asked any friends to write a recommendation yet.