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// Reference implementation of the DebugLog() function that's required for a
// platform to support the TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers library. This is
// the only function that's absolutely required to be available on a target
// device, since it's used for communicating test results back to the host so
// that we can verify the implementation is working correctly.
// It's designed to be as easy as possible to supply an implementation though.
// On platforms that have a POSIX stack or C library, it can be written as a
// single call to `fprintf(stderr, "%s", s)` to output a string to the error
// stream of the console, but if there's no OS or C library available, there's
// almost always an equivalent way to write out a string to some serial
// interface that can be used instead. For example on Arm M-series MCUs, calling
// the `bkpt #0xAB` assembler instruction will output the string in r1 to
// whatever debug serial connection is available. If you're running mbed, you
// can do the same by creating `Serial pc(USBTX, USBRX)` and then calling
// `pc.printf("%s", s)`.
// To add an equivalent function for your own platform, create your own
// implementation file, and place it in a subfolder with named after the OS
// you're targeting. For example, see the Cortex M bare metal version in
// tensorflow/lite/micro/bluepill/debug_log.cc or the mbed one on
// tensorflow/lite/micro/mbed/debug_log.cc.

#include "tensorflow/lite/micro/debug_log.h"

#ifndef TF_LITE_STRIP_ERROR_STRINGS
// CFU-Playground: this function declared in includes/base/console.h
// but that file is not friendly to C++.
extern "C" void putsnonl(const char *s);
#endif

extern "C" void DebugLog(const char* s) {
#ifndef TF_LITE_STRIP_ERROR_STRINGS
  // Reusing TF_LITE_STRIP_ERROR_STRINGS to disable DebugLog completely to get
  // maximum reduction in binary size. This is because we have DebugLog calls
  // via TF_LITE_CHECK that are not stubbed out by TF_LITE_REPORT_ERROR.

  // CFU-Playground: put to stdout
  putsnonl(s);
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Chris Janson Ryman Show
CHRIS JANSON PACKS RYMAN AUDITORIUM WITH REAL FRIENDS
FOR SOLD-OUT SHOW
Special Guests Jamey Johnson, Charles Esten Join Janson On Stage
"Good Vibes" Nearing Top 5 at Country Radio, Album Due Oct. 18
Photo ID (Top Right, L to R): John Esposito (Chairman & CEO, WMN); Chris Janson; Ben Kline (EVP / GM, WMN); Matt Signore (COO, WMN)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (September 26, 2019) – With upwards of 2,000 Real Friends in attendance, Chris Janson celebrated his second sold-out, headlining show last night (9/25) at the Ryman Auditorium. The Tennessean has theorized that the high-octane entertainer shoots "out of a cannon from side stage" leading into his performances, and the same was true last night at the hallowed venue. He also welcomed special guest Jamey Johnson to the stage for a rendition of Merle Haggard's "Footlights," while Charles Esten joined him for a chorus of his 2x Platinum No. 1 smash "Buy Me A Boat."
Janson brought last night's crowd to their feet with fan favorites as well as songs from his new album Real Friends, including his current single "Good Vibes." The "electric, juiced-up anthem" (Billboard) is currently approaching Top 5 at country radio as the October 18 album release approaches. He co-wrote and co-produced the song, along with the rest of the thirteen tracks on the upcoming project, with some of the paramount musicians in the industry – who happen to be among his closest friends. Janson also teams up with label-mate and fellow Grand Ole Opry member Blake Shelton to perform the record's title track. Real Friends is available now for pre-order (click HERE).
Fans who pre-order the album will also have instant access to download four tracks. This month he revealed the romantic "Done" and its music video (watch HERE). The decorated songwriter and award-winning recording artist has previously released the "high-energy but… soft-edged" (The New York Times) track "Say About Me," the "blue-collar rocker" (Taste of Country) "Waitin' on Five" and the "electric, juiced-up anthem" (Billboard) "Good Vibes."
Janson recently announced his Real Friends – Fall 2019 tour, which will see him bring his explosive and charismatic live set from coast to coast. For tickets and more information, go to https://www.chrisjanson.com/tour.
Real Friends Track Listing
1. Good Vibes* (Chris Janson, Zach Crowell, Ashley Gorley)
2. Check (Chris Janson, Tommy Cecil, Greylan James, James McNair, Mitch Oglesby)
3. Done (Chris Janson, Mitch Oglesby, Jamie Paulin, Matt Roy)
4. Normal People* (Chris Janson, Zach Crowell, Tommy Cecil)
5. Say About Me (Chris Janson, Shy Carter, Tommy Cecil)
6. Waitin' on 5 (Chris Janson, Shy Carter, Tommy Cecil, Craig Wiseman)
7. Hawaii on Me (Chris Janson, Kelly Roland, Will Nance)
8. Mine Does (Chris Janson, Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip)
9. God's Gotta Be a Good Ole Boy (Chris Janson, Brock Berryhill, Brad Clawson, Greylan James, Mitch Oglesby)
10. Real Friends (feat. Blake Shelton) (Chris Janson, Brad Clawson, Greylan James, Mitch Oglesby)
11. Everybody's Going Through Something (Chris Janson, Tom Douglas, Tony Lane)
12. Beer Me** (Chris Janson, Brock Berryhill, Jason Blaine, Jay Brunswick, Mitch Oglesby)
13. Country USA (Chris Janson, David Lee Murphy, Mitch Oglesby)
Produced by Chris Janson and Tommy Cecil
*Produced by Zach Crowell / Co-Produced by Chris Janson
**Produced by Chris Janson and Brock Berryhill
About Chris Janson
Who is Chris Janson? He's a "live legacy in the making" (Rolling Stone). Breakout country star Janson is a platinum-selling recording artist, high-octane entertainer, multi-instrumentalist, and award-winning singer/songwriter. In the four years since the release of his debut album, the three-time CMA nominee has collected prestigious accolades that place him amongst country music greats, including two No. 1 singles. He most recently took home the trophy for ACM Video of the Year for his Gold-certified, inspiring hit song "Drunk Girl," which also earned the Song of the Year title at the 2018 MusicRow Awards and was named one of the "Ten Songs I Wish I'd Written" by NSAI. His chart-topping, double-Platinum smash "Buy Me A Boat" earned the same NSAI honor, making him one in a handful of the industry's most elite artists to earn the title multiple times, as well as the iHeartRadio Music Awards Country Song of the Year. Now it's onto new music for Janson: "Good Vibes," the flagship single from his forthcoming album Real Friends, due October 18, is nearing Top 5 at country radio. In addition to his own successes, the talented songwriter has lent his pen to industry peers including Tim McGraw ("Truck Yeah," "How I'll Always Be"), LOCASH ("I Love This Life") and the legendary Hank Williams Jr. ("God Fearin' Man," "Those Days Are Gone").
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Samantha has been dancing since the age of 3 and began teaching in high school. She has performed at the Amesbury Playhouse and the North Shore Music Theatre, as well as at Radio City Music Hall with the Rockettes. In 2014 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance Pedagogy from the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA.
While living in Pittsburgh, Samantha taught at a performing arts school with special needs students. She fell in love with her job and wanted to continue teaching performing arts to special needs back at home in Massachusetts. Samantha opened Special Stars in October 2014. Her goal for Special Stars is for it to always be a place where life can become more special for the individuals.
Tom Kuczun started volunteering and assisting with Special Stars in January 2015, but has been behind the scenes since day one. He currently works at Xpress Natural Gas in Stratham, NH as a project engineer, but loves being able to volunteer and help his wife during classes at Special Stars. He enjoys seeing how proud individuals become of their accomplishments and loves seeing the joy on their faces.
Kathy Manson started volunteering and assisting with Special Stars in May 2016. She owned Kathy's Tumbleweed School of Dance for 35 years and has now closed down to start a new journey. She is looking forward to helping her daughter, Samantha Kuczun, with the Special Stars Program. Kathy enjoys helping the individuals learn to be confident and feel special. Nothing pleases her more than seeing the students' excitement and improvement over the course of a session.
Melanie is a lifetime resident of Salisbury and a mother of three. She works at the Institution for Savings and is very involved in the community. Melanie was the first assistant for Special Stars and we are very lucky to have her. She loves spending time with the indivuals, helping during class, and watching the students shine.
Katherine has worked in several different fields, but her true passion is in assisting individuals with disabilities. She was very excited when she saw that Special Stars was a new program at the studio. She enjoys watching all of the indivduals as they learn new skills and work on old skills. Being able to watch them enjoy their time with us is amazing!
Katelin Murphy has 10 years of dance experience. She recently graduated from Utica college with a Master's Degree in Occupational Therapy and is hoping to begin working in August helping children to succeed in their own environment. Katelin loves working with individuals with a variety of abilities. Special Stars is a great opportunity for her to continue developing her skills working with many individuals.
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From the Diary of Anastas Mikoyan: Telegram about Mikoyan Conversation with Jawaharlal Nehru
A month after visiting Hungary, Mikoyan is in India, on a mission to improve relations with this critically important Asian nation, but also to explain the outcomes of the landmark XX Party Congress, where Nikita Khrushchev denounced the many excesses of Joseph Stalin. After Mikoyan informs the Indian leader about the substance of Khrushchev's secret speech to the congress, Nehru asks several key questions, including whether the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was the result of Stalin's cult of personality. Nehru and Mikoyan talk about changing Soviet views on the need for revolutionary violence and the nature of socialism in different countries. Listening to Mikoyan's explanations, Nehru concludes that "the final picture of socialism should represent a variety of systems, and not complete uniformity," to which Mikoyan agrees and cites variations in reforms and economic policies in the countries of the socialist bloc. To Nehru's question about the break-up of Soviet relations with Yugoslavia, Mikoyan responds that "it was Stalin's whim, that other government members did not share that opinion, but they could not do anything."
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Georgia Today is an English language newspaper published in Georgia. The paper is published twice a week in two different versions - Georgia Today and Georgia Today Business.

History and profile
Georgia Today was launched in 2000. The paper, headquartered in Tbilisi, is distributed both nationally and internationally.

In November 2015 the newspaper underwent a re-branding. With the consultation and major design input of awarding winning (European Newspaper of the Year 2015) newspaper designer Kevin Loftus, the layout of Georgia Today was redesigned and a new logo was created. Thereafter, it is published twice a week in two different versions - Georgia Today, with articles on politics, society and culture, and GT Business which focuses on business, economy and law. As of 29 December 2015, Georgian Journal was merged with Georgia Today.

Georgia Today Education
On 26 February 2016 Georgia Today Group announced the release of another version of GT - Georgia Today Education. The paper is issued monthly and is mostly focused on education, technology, innovative business, international events and language learning. The main target audience of Georgia Today Education are teenagers and university students.

See also
List of newspapers in Georgia

References

External links
 Official website

2000 establishments in Georgia (country)
Business newspapers
English-language newspapers published in Europe
Mass media in Tbilisi
Newspapers published in Georgia (country)
Newspapers established in 2000

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A funny little fella, he'd been drawing quite a crowd.
Though they didn't think it was – the right place for hogs.
Which didn't get them anywhere – so wasn't any good.
As little pig was getting thin and burning in the sun.
And they got him into a horse-box, without to much of a fight.
It wasn't very long before he was arriving here at F.A.I.T.H.
Where they found an internal abscess, that nobody did know.
But he made a full recovery on all his medication.
Rather topically they chose, Murry, the winner from Dunblane.
"I've seen them too in Silk and Gloss, but the Matt is not so nice!
One should choose a dog that suits their lifestyle best.
I still remember my Dad's words, they were very wise.
Who wants to come in and once in go out.
As they both behave so differently.
Cat takes a message and gets back to you.
Cat's on your work with intention to sleep.
If cat's on your lap – you can't move, what a shame.
If it's not good – cat sees straight through.
Cat looks down from somewhere above.
But what an honour to be owned by a Mog!


We've spent decades as Alexandria and Fairfax family lawyers providing sound and well-considered guidance on child custody matters.
In particularly contentious and difficult custody cases, a parent might remove or retain a child in a foreign country. We have successfully litigated such cases, and have worked with the State Department (the U.S. is a signatory to the Hague Convention) and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, as they are indispensable resources for tracking abducted children and for providing evidence and expert testimony about the risk factors and effects of abduction on children.
Two of our attorneys — who have met Virginia's special qualifications — serve as Guardians ad Litem in applicable Virginia courts. A guardian ad litem is a court-appointed attorney who provides independent recommendations to the court about a child's best interests in an abuse or neglect case or in a contested custody case (usually only if there are abuse allegations and/or one or both of the parents are not represented by counsel).


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Kayla Nicole Net Worth: How Rich is Travis Kelce's Girlfriend?
Kayla Nicole is a reporter, entrepreneur, and model who has worked for NBA and BET as well as been a part of several beauty pageants. She is also the founder of the fitness brand called Strong is Sexy. As of 2022, Kayla Nicole net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.
Full Name Kayla Nicole
Birth Date November 2, 1991
Profession Reporter, Entrepreneur, &, Model
Relationship Status Engaged
Kayla Nicole Net Worth and Career
Kayla Nicole Net Worth
Kayla Nicole News
Kayla Nicole was born on November 2, 1991. She studied at Pepperdine University where she graduated with a degree in journalism. Not much is known about her early years including her family and siblings.
Kayla Nicole has worked as a reporter for the NBA as well as BET. Recently, she also worked in collaboration with Ball is Life to host the show called Heat Check which is a Youtube show that focuses on basketball. She is also involved with the website called HotNewHipHop where she has signed a deal as a resident tastemaker.
Previously, she has also been part of several beauty pageants. She managed to be in the Top 20 of the Miss CA in 2013. Furthermore, she was the 2nd runner-up during the Miss Southern Coast Regional that was held in 2012.
Because of her gorgeous looks and beautiful body, Kayla Nicole is also approached for modeling projects. She has modeled for the lingerie brand called Fenty X Savage which is started by Rihanna.
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Kayla believes in the notion that Strong is Sexy and in order to communicate this belief, she had started Strong is Sexy as a fitness brand. In order for promoting the brand, she is actively seen on Youtube with workout videos as well as on social media feeds such as Instagram where the fitness brand page has more than 75k followers. Her personal page has more than 570k followers too.
Kayla Nicole is currently in a relationship with Travis Kelce who is a pro-bowler who plays for the Kansas City Chiefs with their team being among the dominant ones in the Super Bowl. He was the main star of the reality dating show called Catching Kelce where women from all of the 50 states would compete to win his heart. However, Travis and the winner he chose named Maya Benberry did not date for long.
Later on, he met Kayla Nicole and the two instantly clicked with each other. Kayla mentioned how Travis had stalked her on Instagram which led to her sending him a direct message. They have been together since announcing their relationship publicly in 2017.
As of 2022, Kayla Nicole has an estimated net worth of $1 million. Kayla Nicole recently got questioned by fans after she criticized the influences on how they can afford so many designer items without becoming broke as she mentions that she can barely afford to shop at Zara.
Her fiancé Travis Kelce has a $57 million deal which made fans think that Travis doesn't look after her girl. However, he later mentioned in a tweet how she is an independent woman.
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Q: What is "velocity of the boundary" in this Evan's PDE book?
Consider a family of smooth, boundary regions $U(\tau)\subset
 \mathbb{R}^n$ that depend smoothly upon the parameter
$\tau\in\mathbb{R}$. Write $v$ for the velocity of the moving boundary
$dU(\tau)$ and $\nu $ for the outward pointing unit normal.
If $f=f(x,\tau)$ is a smooth function, then
$\frac{d}{d\tau}\int_{U(\tau)} fdx=\int_{\partial U(\tau)}fv\cdot\nu
 dS+\int_{U(\tau)}f_\tau dx$.

How is "velocity of the moving boundary" defined? Plus, can you explain the intuition of the formula in words ? thanks!

A: I interpret the velocity of the boundary here to be a vector field.  Pick a point $x_0\in U(\tau_0)$, then consider the quantity
$$\varphi(\tau)=\frac{U(\tau+\tau_0)-U(\tau_0)}{\tau}$$
$\varphi$ is smooth by assumption so we can take a limit and interpret this as a vector field defined on the boundary of $U(\tau)$.  It carries with it information about how the point $x_0$ will evolve with $\tau$. As for the formula, I am not entirely sure what he means by $dU(\tau)$, I think it's supposed to be the manifolds map between tangent spaces.  You can think of $U$ as a map between manifolds I suppose.  Anyway, I think the intuition is that two contributions will cause a change in the value of the integral: the changes in $U$ and the changes in $f$.  The first integral is integrating the flux of the vector field $f\vec{v}$ where $\vec{v}$ is the velocity of $U$ like we discussed.  Hope this helps.

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Arguably the greatest theatre in the world, the Royal National Theatre is also one of London's most recognisable landmarks and perhaps this country's foremost example of brutalist architecture. It boasts three auditoriums – the epic, ampitheatre-style Olivier, the substantial end-on space Lyttelton and the Dorfman, a smaller venue for edgier work. It's got a firm foothold on the West End, thanks to transferring shows like 'War Horse' and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'. In summer, it spills out onto Southbank with its River Stage line-up of outdoor events. And its NT Live programme beams its greatest hits to cinemas across the globe. NT Live is just one of the initiatives to issue forth from the golden reign of former artistic director Nicholas Hytner, which saw a canny mix of modernised classics, popular new writing, and a splash of hip experimental work fill out the houses night after night. These days, Hytner's successor Rufus Norris calls the shots, with a programme that's stuck with many Hytner fundamentals but offered an edgier, more international spin, with a run of ambitious, experimental and often divisive works. The NT is a popular hangout for theatre fans, thanks to its warren-like array of spots to work and play. The theatre's busy Kitchen churns out an impressively quirky, delicious array of seasonal baked goods, and there are pre-theatre dinners on offer at flagship restaurant House. But the real insider's hangout is The Understudy, a rough
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Much like the Millenium Dome – or, as its known to those who don't remember the twentieth century, the O2 Arena – the London Eye was built to celebrate the year 2000. But unlike the ill-fated Dome, the Eye was a resounding success, and it's hard to picture London's skyline without it. Actually, this astonishingly popular attraction boasts a mouthful of a title: the highest cantilevered observation wheel in the world. It's hardly any surprise that tourists arrive in their hordes to climb on. Queues are generally pretty hefty; the ovular pods each carry a maximum of 25 people to a height of 135 metres. It rarely ever comes to a full halt – except for upkeep and to allow visitors who are elderly or have mobility issues on – so you won't be standing on ceremony when you get on! Before you know it, you're halfway into the sky and taking in the sweeping vistas of the Thames and wider London. Before that, though, you begin with a brief 4D film in County Hall to witness a series of dazzling aerial shots of the capital – a nice prologue to what you'll see first-hand. The pods themselves are surprisingly spacious, which means you'll be able to roam and find a decent view. And on a clear day, you can even catch sight of Windsor Castle in the distance. Oh, and if the Queen's opened the curtains at Buck House. Thirty minutes later you'll find yourselves back on the ground as the wheel completes one full rotation. The ride is smooth and steady, so any age will enjoy the trip – so long a
Like a crowd-pleasing superhero, it's Southbank Centre to the rescue when you need something to do in London and you're out of ideas. An astounding programme of cultural events – from visual art and music to literature workshops and performance – views over the Thames, and slap bang in the centre of London - no wonder it's so many people's trump card. The lively arts and entertainment centre is the UK's largest, putting on over 5,000 events a year. Expect a well-curated line-up that straddles world-class artists, niche poetry, music festivals and everything inbetween. The London Literature Festival, for example, brings together the greatest literary minds for 11 days of talks, readings, poetry and performance. Meanwhile the annual WOW - Women of the World festival sees a killer line-up that champions everything good and great going on in the world of women. Events take place in multiple venues perfectly poised on the bank of the Thames. The Grade I listed Royal Festival Hall is at the heart of the complex, where you'll find - among many other things - a 2,700 seater auditorium and the National Poetry Library. The neighbouring Hayward Gallery is a stunning piece of brutalist architecture, and plays host to a range of inspiring and adventurous artists. And it's not just culture vultures that flock here, food fans circle the food market for their weekly helping of inspired street food, booze, coffee and artisan produce. The Southbank Centre restaurants are incredibly popular
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Waterloo's Leake Street is a dank hide out for aerosol-wielding graffiti artists, who cover the walls of this old railway passage with layer on layer of technicoloured designs. Make it through the painty fug and you'll discover The Vaults, a surprisingly huge arts venue hidden behind an unassuming door. The Vaults is at its busiest each February and March, when hundreds of new shows take over this ramshackle collection of theatre spaces and bars, under the umbrella of Vault Festival. You'll find autobiographical solo shows, interactive adventures and installations, new plays, themed parties and hordes of tipsy theatregoers settling into the venue's many whimsically decorated bar spaces, which come alive with late night weekend events. But there are plenty of reasons to venture to The Vaults at warmer times of year. It's become the go-to venue for ambitious immersive shows, most notably the venue's big 2015 hit 'Alice's Adventures Underground'. And it also holds dining theatre experiences a-plenty, jazz nights, gigs, and nights out which make the most of the venue's brick-walled, cavernous atmosphere. The Vaults came into life in 2013 with its first event, a full album play of a Daft Punk album. It took over the space formerly known as The Old Vic Tunnels, which from 2009-2013 held an impressive array of pop-up theatre shows under the auspices of the theatre down the road. Today, it's got one permanent 160-seater auditorium, The Vault Theatre, plus a host more temporary gal
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Continents are generally defined as large masses of land, all of them are… but Europe and Asia. Africa is a clearly defined continent, so are the Americas, Antartica, but are Europe and Asia a Continent in a geographic sense or in a cultural/ethnic sense? The more I look at the concept of Asia for example, the more flawed I think it is. As you can see from the Wikipedia, Asia is really part of the same land mass as Europe so they should be one continent: Eurasia. Why do we then have two continents made of one land mass? Probably because in this case it is not geography that prevailed in the definition but a cultural construct in which Europeans who were drawing the maps decided that Europe ended wherever people did not look like Europeans or did not practice the same religion as the cartographers.
So where does Europe end and Asia begin? Either when European looking people meet non European looking people or Christians meet Muslims. But now that building FON I spend a lot of time in Asia I believe that if it is culture and not geography that defines continents then Asia should not be one continent but at least three. The first one should be the area that uses some Chinese characters or has significant Chinese populations and influence, including China, Japan and Korea and South East Asia. Secondly India which seems to be a cultural continent on its own, but could also include Nepal, Burma and maybe Thailand. And third the Muslim world that should include parts of what is seen as South East Asia, Pakistan, to Turkey and North Africa could all be part of this concept of cultural continent.
In terms of cultural proximities, if we did conceive of these three continents namely the Chinese world, the Muslim world and the Indian world we would see that some of these cultural continents have more in common with other continents than with their neighbors in Asia. Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong for example are in my view closer to Europe in their way of life than anywhere else in Asia. To me a Japanese has much more in common with a French than with a Pakistani even though Pakistan and Japan are both seen as Asian countries. Personally I have abandoned the concept of the geographic continent as pretty much useless in business, and I think more and more in cultural continents populated by different cultures who while diverse among themselves, say the Japanese and the Chinese, have more in common than other cultures who do not belong to the same continent, say the Chinese and the Iranians. That works better in many respects including more concretely for us at FON in understanding how to grow the FON Movement around the world. At FON we see Europe, North America which for us does not include Mexico, then Latin America, Africa, the Muslim World, the Indian world, Australia/New Zeland, and the Chinese/Japanese/Korean World. But this is how I see the world when I have to generalize and I am very willing to change my view which may also be affected by the same prejudice that I accused the original cartographers of having.
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Martin, just wander if you see Russia (well, the ex-USSR) as Asia or Europe or you "do not see" this region as an interesting location for FON movement?
P.S. Thank you for this great Blog! I am always reading you before all the other things I have in my Agregator tool.
Mediterannea is also a strange point of the world, composed mostly of countries and cultures which define themself as mediterreanean, not african, not european, not arabic.
In a time where we are connected, web2.0, FON, I am sure that we will let the word "continent" to geographs.
But you are right Martin, cultures are leading the way we perceive the world, which also explain the small enthusiams of Europeans to see Turkey being integrated within EU, the culture seems too far from the European one.
There is a new continent. The continent of the mobile people. They might be migrants, third generation, or business people, they can be bi-national, bi-cultural, bi or tri-lingual. Founding cultures you describe are so interwoven one is at loss to pick what belongs to whom. But this new continent is quite extraordinary, and in the making. If I had a business I would focus on them. I atttended a citizen journalism forum in Korea this summer. I met an Indian born in California, another living temporaly in Australia, a Japanese lady from Tel Aviv, a Korean girl from Singapore, a Palestinian from Borneo….There, this is the new invisibile and fascinating continent.
Quizás el Mundo, se divide en Desarrollado y Sub-desarrollado, ese gran invento de la posguerra, que busca la transformación y sometimiento total de las culturas y formaciones sociales de tres continentes, de acuerdo con los dictados del llamado Primer Mundo.
Creo que otra división, de momento no es necesaria, pues el concepto de Desarrollo, es impuesto y aceptado por todas las naciones del Planeta y su búsqueda, hace invisibles a las tradiciones, religiones y culturas.
You are right tech bee, I am one of them. Have approximately lived a third of my life in Argentina, a third US, a third Europe.
If I understand, there is a new continent of people, migrants, cyber-nomads, disonnected from all notion of land and territory ?
Doesn't a continent, by definition must be a land ? Does every migrant have the same identity, defining themself only as migrants ? Where we come from and we go is important, even if travelers have things to share.
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George sang praises to the NTRC on Thursday, April 25, at the Biabou Learning Resource Centre, where the NTRC was hosting one of its computer and Internet sensitization campaign sessions.
The education officer stressed that this aspect of the NTRC's policy is in direct keeping with the mandate of the Adult and Continuing Education arm of the Ministry of Education, which usually holds classes at the Biabou Centre and other centres.
"What the NTRC is doing is very good, because these skills that they are exposing persons to are very important", said George, who stressed that anything to do with computer literacy is important as these days it is important, that persons gravitate towards computers.
"Exposing people to the functions of the NTRC and how to manipulate the Internet is very good and we are very pleased to be cooperating and collaborating with the NTRC", George said.
Meanwhile, the NTRC's Biabou session was attended by the NTRC's Universal Service Fund administrator Kyron Duncan, acting accountant at the NTRC Mishka Quashie and adult educator at the ACE Department John Erjavec.
A number of persons from the surrounding districts, including Stubbs, Georgetown and Colonaire, attended and received instructions on Internet and computer use. Among the attendees were Monika Maloney, Janice Miller, Verone Hillocks and Andre Cain.
Maloney, who is from Stubbs, said that it is good to be able to come to the centre at Biabou and receive instructions on computer use. She said that she usually visits the centre on Mondays and Wednesdays.
"I have learnt a lot, including how to send emails, use the Internet, Facebook and today, I heard about the NTRC and it was good to meet them face to face".
Miller, also from Stubbs, stressed that she was also taught a lot as the day's course was very interesting.
"I'm glad to come and learn, because we have learnt a lot about the Internet and I am now able to email friends and relatives. We live in a computerized world, so knowing about the computer is important and now I know about the NTRC and I have a place where I can take by problems with the telecommunications providers".
Hillocks is from Georgetown and described the training available at the centre as, "the best thing that ever happened to me".
She said that visiting on that Thursday alone, she learnt "a lot of stuff and I don't regret as I can do stuff and I can also teach people". She said that the free training made available by the NTRC and at the centre is something that she would not have been able to pay for if she had to, so she is very grateful.
"I intend to learn all I can and I need a job and without being computer literate, I can't get a job", said Hillocks.
Cain is from Biabou and he described the sessions at the centre as informative and exceptional. He said that the teachers are usually very helpful. He added that, like Hillocks, he is hoping to get a job and, "it is important that I find myself able to manoeuvre around a computer".
Meanwhile, George said that the ACE set-up has several programmes (over 60) of varying types, both academic and practical.
He said that in most cases needs assessment have been carried out and the programmes are demand driven, in that people have to ask for them. Tutoring is available in computer literacy, Internet skills, plumbing, carpentry, welding, electrical installation, while there is also a full range of academic programmes (CSEC programme level and basic literacy).
"Our main aim is to provide access to persons who have otherwise been disadvantaged and would not have had the chance to be in an educational institution", said George.
He said that the programmes are free and persons can contact the ACE zonal coordinators in the nine zones throughout the country or the central office at the Ministry of Education.
that people always believe that we are talking about illiterate persons. It's much more than that, it is about empowering persons at whatever stage or level they are at along the education continuum, so that they can be empowered, because nobody can be literate in all the different fields, so we help persons gain access to all the different fields", said George.
Also, Erjavec said that currently he is training persons who will go out into the various communities and give computer training to parents specifically, on how to use computers.
He said that the persons he is currently training will use the Government issued net books to teach parents about the different uses of the laptops.
This training for parents will take place starting this month in Fancy, Colonarie and Chester Cottage and Erjavec is encouraging persons to take part.


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South Broadway Median Closures Effective immediately the median on South Broadway will be closed at 15th St, 20th St, 20th Terr, 21st St and 22nd St. Left turns from all directions will not be allowed at these intersections. The median will be closed for approximately three weeks.
20th Street, 20th Terrace, 21st Street, 22nd Street.
The southbound lane of Broadway will be used for cement trucks. The traffic flow will use the east side of Broadway for both north and southbound traffic. Drivers in this area should maintain close attention to work crews and the possibility of vehicles approaching them from the opposite direction, in case a car slips past the flagging crews who will be stationed in the area.
14th Streets. These flaggers will be directing the traffic flow while additional lanes are being poured.
On Thursday, October 2nd crews will be pouring from 25th St to the south end of the project. Lane closure and flagging will be required for this operation.
These street closures and the use of flaggers are being put to use to decrease the time used to complete the rest of lane pouring & thereby in the near future, open all driving lanes on new pavement.
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Manchester Baby
June 21, 1948: The Manchester Baby works. The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), or The Baby, was produced at Victoria University of Manchester. It was the world's first stored-program computer. Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill fired up the machine and observed the effect. The machine was built to test the Williams Tube (also called the Williams-Kilburn Tube). The cathode ray tube stored 500-1,000 bits of binary data. There are 8 bits to a byte of data and 1,024 bytes in one kilobyte (KB). There are 8,589,934,592 bits in a gigabyte (GB), our normal measurement for storing information today.
The Small Scale machine took up a whole wall of space. It was not built as a functional computer, but only to test the viability of the tube design. There were three programs written for The Baby. The first one was to find the highest proper factor of 218. It took 17 instructions to get to the answer. Baby took 52 minutes and performed 3.5 million operations before arriving at the solution. The device led to the development of the Manchester Mark 1 which in turn directly led to the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially available general computer.
Professor Sir F. C. Williams, educated at the University of Manchester and Oxford University, was interested in engineering and worked with electronics. He visited the US and worked with scientists on the ENIAC project. That early computer used cathode ray tubes, but could not store programs. A rebuild of the hardware, sometimes taking days of work, was needed to change the program. Sir Williams concentrated on designing a tube capable of storing data. He returned to Manchester and he and Kilburn developed a tube able to store data over a period of hours, using standard equipment, and housed in a room without harsh temperature restrictions.
Tom Kilburn, a 25-year-old inexperienced scholar, first met Williams during World War II. Kilburn was working with the Telecommunications Research Establishment when he was assigned to work with the older man. After the war, the two continued to work together and finally they developed a specialized tube. They built the SSEM to prove the efficacy and Kilburn wrote the program for the first test. He went on to work with others in creating ever-improved devices leading us into the future – the Age of the Computer.
"… the most exciting time was June 1948 when the first machine worked. Without question. Nothing could ever compare with that." – Tom Kilburn
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry." – adage
"Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes…. I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys." – Doug Heffernan
"Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin." – Robert A. Heinlein
This article first appeared at Examiner.com in 2009. Editor's update: The Ferranti Mark 1 debuted in February 1951 at the University of Manchester, a month ahead of UNIVAC I arriving at the US Census Bureau. The main improvements of the Mark 1 over its predecessor were the size of the primary and secondary storage as well as a faster multiplier. It also could carry additional instructions. It used a 20-bit word stored as a single line of dots. As electric charges fell to the surface of the Williams tube display, each cathode tube stored 64 rows of dots. Instructions were stored as one word and numbers were stored as two words. Other tubes stored others pieces to the puzzle, including accumulators and registers. There were 4,050 vacuum tubes for the multiplier alone, which was about a quarter of the total number of tubes.
Also on this day: Job Insecurity – In 1919, the Winnipeg Strike goes horribly wrong.
SpaceShipOne – In 2004, the first privately funded ship makes it into space.
Long – In 1948, the first LP album was demonstrated.
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Expansion of immigration hall to get underway at Bristol Airport
By Helen Norman on	 January 13, 2017 Airport, Construction & Architecture
Bristol Airport in southwest England has announced that work will commence on a £2.3m (US$2.8m) project to enlarge and enhance the immigration hall on Monday, January 16, 2017.
On completion in April 2017, it will take the number of passport control points from the current 10 to a total of 17, including 10 of the latest ePassport gates, which provide a fast alternative to the conventional border control process.
As well as introducing new equipment, the work will enlarge the immigration hall, which will be redesigned to create a more welcoming environment and streamlined border process for passengers.
To enable the new technology to be installed, existing equipment has to be removed first. As a result, ePassport gates will be unavailable to passengers for a period of three months until the installation is complete.
Alison Roberts, head of customer operations at Bristol Airport, said, "These new facilities will be in place for passengers from April onward, in time for the busy summer holiday season, and will make a big difference to the airport experience. In the meantime, we will be working closely with Border Force to keep any inconvenience to passengers during the improvement works to a minimum."
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New findings suggest why patients with early-stage tumours and EGFR mutations have worse outcomes with erlotinib
Home/Uncategorized/New findings suggest why patients with early-stage tumours and EGFR mutations have worse outcomes with erlotinib
Topic: Translational research / Lung and other thoracic tumours / Anticancer agents & Biologic therapy
David Carbone
Mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) are the most common actionable genetic abnormalities yet discovered in lung cancer. However, targeting these mutations with kinase inhibitors is not curative in advanced disease and has yet to demonstrate an impact on potentially curable, early-stage disease, with some data suggesting adverse outcomes.
The drug erlotinib is routinely used to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancers with a mutation in EGFR, but when the same drug is used for patients with early-stage tumours with mutation in the same gene, they actually fare worse. A study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) and at Cincinnati Children's Hospital might show why.
The study shows that while erlotinib effectively causes tumours to shrink, this drug also increases the aggressiveness of the tumour so that growth is accelerated when therapy ends. This study finds that this is due to a secondary and previously unknown effect of inhibiting EGFR.
The researchers found that when erlotinib blocks EGFR, it activates a second signaling molecule, Notch3. Activation of that pathway leads to increased development of cancer stem cells among the surviving tumour cells and to accelerated tumour growth.
"Our findings might explain why erlotinib in clinical trials seems to worsen survival in patients with early-stage lung cancer," says one of corresponding authors Dr David Carbone, professor of medicine, Division of Medical Oncology at the OSUCCC – James. "They also suggest that combining an EGFR inhibitor with a Notch inhibitor should overcome the effect."
The study was published in the journal Cancer Research.
Dr Carbone and colleagues conducted the study using several cell lines of non-small cell lung cancer. "We found that the activated, mutated EGFR directly inhibits Notch signaling, and that inhibiting EGFR with erlotinib removes this restraint and activates Notch signaling," says Dr Carbone. "It suggests that specific dual targeting might overcome this adverse effect."
In this study:
•In two non-small cell lung cancer cell lines, treatment with erlotinib killed 84% and 75% of cells; of the surviving cells, 23% and 70% were stem-like cells, respectively (versus 4% and 18% of control cells);
•Erlotinib treatment increased the potential for growth of surviving lung cancer cells;
•Erlotinib treatment increased the number of stem-like cells through activation of the Notch3 receptor.
This research was supported by funding from the USA NIH/National Cancer Institute (grant CA090949).
Rao Arasada R, Amann JM, Rahman MA,et al.EGFR Blockade Enriches for Lung Cancer Stem–like Cells through Notch3-Dependent Signaling. Cancer Res 2014; 74(19): 5572–84.
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There are a couple of other problems–can one set the Visual tab to be the default? I am sure that many users would appreciate that. Also, in Visual mode, a return inserts an extra line–can one turn that off? For my purposes (posting poetry) that is a real killer.
Also, in Visual mode, a return inserts an extra line–can one turn that off?
For this, you can hold "Shift + Enter" to get a single carriage return in the visual editor.
Simply hitting "Enter" results in a double return.
Thanks–is there anyway to switch the behaviors, so that "return" is a single carriage return, and "Shift return" is double?
This is standard keyboard behaviour, so…no. Unless, of course, you created a new keyboard mapping file, but then it would operate that way in all your applications.
Thanks–it doesn't seem to be that way in the html mode, only in the visual mode.
The serious issue is the link issue–am I the only one seeing this problem? In visual mode, the link button is grayed out and doesn't work, and in html mode, it creates bad code.
I talked to a local WP expert and found out that I was misusing "link"; a newbie mistake.
For other newbies: I thought that "title" was the text that the link should display; it is not. You type the text, select it and click on "link"; then you enter the url, and an optional title, and all is well.
"Title" is what appears when you hover over a link. It can be a powerful tool if used correctly.
Thanks, yes, that is what was explained to me here. I understand. It might be a bit more intuitive if the panel had three things to fill in, the url, the link display, and the title. But it's a wordpress thing, so it's not likely to be changed.


Spicejet's ongoing sale is valid for tickets booked till 14 February 19.
SpiceJet has extended its previous sale. With domestic flights starting at Rs 899, and International flights starting at Rs 3699, SpiceJet's ongoing sale is valid for tickets booked till 14 February 2019. The travel period for the same is valid till 25 September 2019.
The fares for the domestic flights have been capped at Rs 1.75 per kilometre (inclusive of all taxes) and its International fares start at Rs 2.5 per kilometre, according to the airline's official site. Under the offer, a Delhi to Bengaluru flight was observed to be priced at Rs 2,899 for September 20th, the company's website showed. You can also fly for Rs 2,499 to Mumbai from Delhi during this ongoing sale. What more, all these prices are inclusive of all taxes.
Bookings made from SpiceJet's mobile app are applicable for an extra 5% discount. The same can be availed by using coupon/ promo code ADDON30.
Special offers are also available for senior citizens, personnel belonging to the Indian Armed Force and students and unaccompanied minors. Senior citizen offer is valid for persons aged 60 and above. Also, a valid photo ID is a requisite at the time of boarding.
The Indian Armed Force offer is applicable to all persons who are serving and retired. Paramilitary Forces personnel and their dependent families are also applicable to avail the offer.
Also, students who are aged 12 and above can also enjoy the exclusive offer by presenting a valid school/university ID card as well as a Photo ID card. Spicejet added that bookings under this offer are refundable.
A special Friends and Family discount is offered by SpiceJet for those who are travelling with the family consisting of more than 4 people (not inclusive of infants). The same can be availed by checking the Family and Friends tab under Departure city.
SpiceJet is also giving away a 25% discount on various add-ons like preferred seats and meals and Spicemax. Use code ADDON25 to avail it.
Note: These prices are indicative and subject to change for various dates.


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A Cross-Strait Status Quo Ante
Part of the Taiwan and Cross-strait Relations Project
East Asia , China
By Jason Li
Despite Tsai's landslide victory, domestic politics in Taiwan will keep the waters in the Taiwan Strait relatively calm
Tsai Ing-wen's landslide victory over Han Kuo-yu in Taiwan's presidential elections on January 11 has at first glance given her and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) a robust mandate to shake up cross-strait relations. Foreign media coverage of Saturday's presidential election results raved of the victory being a "blow to Beijing," raising questions of whether Tsai will shift her cross-strait policy in the next four years.
A palpable wariness of economic and political ties with China loomed large over the presidential election and was undoubtedly a main contributor to Tsai's victory. Political unrest in Hong Kong, widespread opposition to the "one country, two systems" framework in Taiwan, and disgust with authoritarianism on the mainland all contributed to Tsai's momentous win.
However, it is important to distinguish Tsai's victory with other results of this month's election. A closer look at the legislative election results and current party dynamics suggests a continuation of Tsai's policy maintaining the current status quo. As large as Tsai's win in the presidential race was, a unilateral change of cross-strait policy by Taipei is unlikely.
First, while Tsai's win was record-breaking, the legislative races paint a different picture. The DPP lost seven seats in the Legislative Yuan (LY). While executive powers to conduct relations with the mainland rest with the president and the Executive Yuan, key cross-strait policy tools used by Tsai over the past four years have originated from the LY, such as the recently passed Anti-Infiltration Act. The president therefore requires support in the LY to pass hot-button cross-strait legislation. While Taiwanese voters overwhelmingly preferred Tsai to her beleaguered opponent and the DPP maintained a majority in the LY, the deep-green New Power Party and Ko Wen-je's more centrist Taiwan People's Party (TPP) chipped away at the DPP's seat share, cutting at her governing and policy-directing abilities.
Second, the election results also demonstrated that the variance of cross-strait positions among political parties has narrowed, and Tsai's current status-quo approach has become more mainstream. On the pro-China side of the spectrum, Han's Kuomintang (KMT) moved its cross-strait position closer to the pan-greens', largely due to the Hong Kong protests and widespread discomfort with Chinese positions on Taiwan. After the KMT's chairman suggested a KMT administration may sign a peace treaty with the mainland after 2020, for example, Han walked back the statement and conditioned peace talks on China's renunciation of the use of force.
On the independence-leaning left, Tsai's fending off and nomination of deep-green primary challenger Lai Ching-te as vice president has coopted a vocal pro-independence force in Taiwan. Having Lai in the Presidential Palace makes it easier for Tsai to manage the deep-greens and resist political pressures to move closer to formal independence. Sun Zi has two sayings: "擒賊擒王" (defeat the enemy by capturing their chief) and "關門捉賊" (shut the door to catch the enemy). With the current KMT position relatively close to the DPP's and Tsai having successfully coopted Lai, the political impetus for either pan-blues to push for closer China relations or the pan-greens to sharpen their anti-China rhetoric is very limited.
The election results, particularly in the LY, also portend a continuation of the cross-strait status quo because they have created a partisan environment where domestic policy questions will take precedent over "the China question." Any ruling party has a finite capacity to commit to so many policy issues, and the legislative competition between Taiwan's parties will renew focus on economic and governance issues in the foreseeable future.
There are early signs of this inward shift. The momentum gathered by Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je's TPP will likely shift some legislative debate toward the party's campaign focuses of "good governance" and "government transparency." The TPP won five legislative seats, with 11.2% of the party-list vote, an impressive win for a newly formed party. Ko, a speculated 2024 presidential candidate, is a rising political force with national media attention and an outsized ability to influence national discourse. With its refusal to formally align itself on the pro-/anti-China spectrum, the TPP may draw the legislative agenda closer to less-traditional, non-cross-strait policy issues.
Additionally, the election's split-ticket voting may force the DPP to reorient its strategy away to focus on local economic policies. Opposed to Tsai's vote share of 57%, the DPP earned only 34% in the party-list vote in the LY, a decrease of 10% from 2016 and nearly tying with the KMT at 33%. Tsai's landslide personal win was indicative of voters' trust in her to conduct cross-strait relations. However, the DPP's party-list vote share was indicative of its inability to maintain local support on domestic issues. In the shadow of the DPP's stunning losses in the 2018 local elections largely fueled by grievances at Tsai's domestic policies on pension and labor reform, party leaders will need to realign the party's priorities to prevent similar blowback in 2022. With this motivation, the DPP will have to—or it had better—refocus its energy on delivering on local issues–continuing economic growth, slowing rising housing costs, addressing anger at pension reforms—all of which would restrict the DPP's bandwidth to focus on cross-strait relations.
Despite a seemingly widespread perception in mainland China that Tsai will speed up her Taiwan independence campaign during her second term, Tsai's administration faces considerable political constraints and will experience pressure to reorient national policy discussions toward domestic issues. Major unilateral change in the Tsai administration's cross-strait policy is unlikely, and gradual recalibrations to cross-strait relations from either side will stay within the band of the status quo. In as tense a relationship as cross-strait relations, this "status quo ante electionem" may be welcome—at least reluctantly—by both sides and all parties interested in stability in Asia.


This delightful learning tool was in a thrift shop. Each door has a different key, keys are included. The child learns to find the key and open the door it belongs to. Or goes to the door to be opened, then finds the key to open it.. then lock it. If only I had picked it up when I saw it. I had never seen one before.
next… a window view of the alps below.
Enjoy your travels today. Walk through a few doors. Create your own adventure.
glad it brought back a happy memory.. waves hello!
For sure, a great learning tool! As a child I often had difficulty opening old doors, and remember calling one of my brothers for help (now I wonder what they had stashed in the small barn that warranted a lock!!) Great find!


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2017 NBA Draft Rumors: Josh Jackson cancels workout with Celtics, fueling more speculation about the Lakers
Something strange is afoot.
By Harrison Faigen@hmfaigen Jun 12, 2017, 8:45pm PDT
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Rumors about whether or not Kansas forward Josh Jackson has a promise from the Los Angeles Lakers to select him with the No. 2 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft ran rampant Monday.
First there was a report he "likely" had a promise from Los Angeles, and then a direct refutation of that report.
Clarity on the existence of Jackson's alleged promise doesn't seem likely to come any time soon, but it is worth noting that Jackson reportedly cancelled his workout with the Boston Celtics that was set for Monday, according to Jeff Goodman and Marc J. Spears of ESPN.
While this doesn't necessarily mean that Jackson has a promise from the Lakers, it doesn't exactly quell speculation on that front either. If the Lakers do draft him, he'll be their second lottery pick out of their last four to cancel a workout in Boston, following in Julius Randle's footsteps.
It's possible Jackson had a scheduling conflict, or that he had a promise from another team, or even that he just assumed the Celtics will do as expected and draft Markelle Fultz, but there seems to be enough smoke here that it can be safely assumed that something is going on.
Here is an updating list of every player the Lakers have worked out or met with. Harrison Faigen is co-host of the Locked on Lakers podcast (subscribe here), and you can follow him on Twitter at @hmfaigen.


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Plans to transform and modernise part of Canterbury have been released by the city council.
Officials are proposing work to redesign part of St George's Street, the main shopping street in the city. They say they want to create a flexible, attractive and vibrant open space that can be used to its full potential both in the daytime and in the evening.
Its width means it could accommodate a wide range of events, such as markets and performances.
Chairman of the council's Regeneration and Property Committee, Cllr Ben Fitter-Harding, said: "St George's Street is one of our busiest shopping areas and a key entrance to the city, but it has declined in recent years. It's now time to invest in improving its appearance and character.
A consultation is now open until 9 December. It can be found here www.canterbury.gov.uk/stgeorges.


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Two cities in Washington State can prohibit cannabis businesses, just not for the reasons they have stated.
That's the position of the state's attorney general, who is looking to get involved in lawsuits tied to the bans.
The lawsuits challenge moves by Wenatchee and Fife to bar recreational cannabis businesses on the basis that marijuana is illegal federally.
The state's attorney general, Bob Ferguson, has asked the courts that his office be allowed to intervene in the lawsuits.
If permitted, Washington officials would reportedly back the general legality of bans, saying that I-502 – the state law allowing recreational sales of cannabis products to adults – allows municipalities to take such actions.
However, they would also argue that linking a ban to the federal prohibition of marijuana is not a permissible reason under state law.
Washington leaders worry that a court ruling in favor of federal laws over the state's marijuana legislation would undermine I-502 and have many unintended consequences.


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Ernst von Bayern ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Ernst (Bayern) (1373–1438), Herzog von Bayern-München
 Ernst von Bayern (1438–1460), Sohn von Herzog Albrecht III. von Bayern-München
 Ernst von Bayern (1500–1560), Prinz von Bayern, Administrator von Passau und Salzburg, Pfandherr der Grafschaft Glatz
 Ernst von Bayern (1554–1612), Prinz von Bayern, Erzbischof von Köln


The CPhI North America takes place from 30 April to 2 May 2019 in Chicago (IL).
The Bio International Convention takes place from 3-6 June 2019 in Philadelphia (PA).
The Outsourced Pharma Exhibition takes place on 7 May 2019 in Boston (MA).
The CPhI China takes places from 18-20 June 2019 in Shanghai, China.
ChemSpec Europe, the fine and speciality chemicals exhibition, takes place from 26-27 June 2019 in Basel, Switzerland.
The financial results for the first half year 2019 will be published on 21 August 2019.


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Prentice, John Murdoch (1886–1964)
by Andrew Moore
John Murdoch Prentice (1886-1964), army officer and broadcaster, was born on 10 March 1886 at Buangor, Victoria, fourth child of John Prentice, a Scottish-born farmer, and his wife Mary, née Usher, late Sands, who came from Mauritius. John grew up in an unassuming country family. He claimed that he had matriculated at the University of Melbourne in 1906 and worked as an accountant, but he did neither. By 1912 he was a salesman, living at Moonee Ponds. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 20 May 1915 and served in Egypt; by May 1916 he was a staff sergeant, handling records at A.I.F. Headquarters, France. Commissioned in June 1917, he was posted to the 39th Battalion on the Western Front in July and promoted lieutenant in September. On 30 August 1918 he was severely wounded in the right arm and admitted to hospital. He sailed for Australia in November. After his A.I.F. appointment terminated on 6 March 1919, he worked at Army Headquarters, Melbourne. He was mentioned in dispatches (1918), awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre and appointed to the Ordre de la Couronne (1919).
On 1 October 1919 Prentice rejoined the A.I.F. Eight days later he sailed from Sydney as adjutant in a transport which took German prisoners to Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Resigning his A.I.F. appointment in London on 20 April 1920, he returned to Australia via the United States of America. In the early 1920s he worked for the War Service Homes Commission in Hobart.
An influential figure in Sydney in the pioneering days of commercial radio, Prentice—as 'Uncle Jack'—hosted a programme for children from 1925 for Broadcasters Ltd's radio-station 2UW. He also presented grand operas and symphonies (without commercial breaks) and delivered foreign affairs and political commentaries, strident in their anti-communism, until the 1950s. Anti-communism became the centrepiece of his political life. His outlook was characterized by the extremist remedies popular with some of his generation. He wrote in 1931 that General Sir John Monash was 'the one man in Australia . . . I could have accepted and gladly served under . . . as a DICTATOR'. In the late 1930s Prentice was a prominent appeaser.
The brief time Prentice had spent in the U.S.A. convinced him of the evils of prohibition, which he opposed in Sydney in the late 1920s. Keenly interested in astrology and the occult, he had attended meetings of theosophists in London, but grown suspicious of Annie Besant and Anglo-Indian theosophy. Back in Sydney, he criticized Charles Leadbeater, took a prominent role in the split in the Theosophical Society in Australia and by 1938 presided over the Sydney branch of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society.
Prentice was called up on 7 September 1939 for intelligence duties in the Militia. Promoted major in July 1940, he was appointed general staff officer, 3rd grade, at Eastern Command, Sydney, in September; he became G.S.O.1 and temporary lieutenant colonel in February 1942. He served at Victoria Barracks, Paddington, and was placed on the Reserve of Officers in December 1946. On the one hand, he was an energetic spymaster who revelled in the hierarchies of military life and the status of his position, believing that such covert work—particularly on the home front—proved decisive in winning the war. On the other, he promoted an Australia First Movement internee to a sensitive position in ciphers. In 1946 he was a central, if unimpressive, witness in the treason case against the broadcaster Charles Cousens.
At the height of the Cold War Prentice wrote 'intelligence bulletins' for 'The Association', a proto-fascist auxiliary, and contributed to the magazine, Man, and the journal, Reveille. Apart from showing diligent research, his articles suggest ongoing connections with the intelligence services. In 1955 he gave evidence against A. J. Dalziel at the (Petrov) royal commission on espionage. Prentice attended conferences of the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League in Manila (1956) and Saigon (1957). He was treated as a 'bosom friend' of President Syngman Rhee who awarded him the Korean medal for 'Education and Culture'.
Prentice was fraught with contradictions. He worked hard to disguise his humble origins beneath a 'colonel blimp' persona, wearing a bow-tie, speaking in a sing-song, cultivated accent, and exaggerating his educational qualifications. Bespectacled and podgy, he enjoyed a large circle of well-connected friends, but was malicious and self-absorbed, 'a curious mixture of a sincere, upright, likeable man—and a phoney'. Unmarried and possibly homosexual, he lived in his Lavender Bay flat with his sister, but was often accompanied by a young mercantile marine engineer, whom he invariably introduced as his son. After suffering from diabetes mellitus for years, Prentice died on 4 November 1964 at the Repatriation General Hospital, Concord. His body was delivered to the University of Sydney, according to his will, and later cremated with Anglican rites.
I. Chapman, Tokyo Calling (Syd, 1990)
Australian Intelligence Corps Bulletin, 1, no 6, Dec 1957, p 27
A. Moore, 'Fascism Revived? The Association Stands Guard 1945-52', Labour History, no 74, May 1998, p 105
Sydney Morning Herald, 2 May, 24 Aug, 14 Sept 1928, 26 Nov 1932, 13 Aug 1934, 7 Sept 1935, 26 June 1941, 20 Aug 1943, 30 Jan 1948, 11 Jan 1950, 3 May, 27 June, 16 Aug 1951, 15 Apr, 24 Aug, 15 Nov 1955
A6122/40, item 2, A367, item C94121, Honours, A462, item 829/1/99, A1838, items 1516/6/15 (National Archives of Australia)
J. M. Prentice letters (Australian War Memorial)
Andrew Moore, 'Prentice, John Murdoch (1886–1964)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/prentice-john-murdoch-11454/text20417, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 16 January 2021.
Buangor, Victoria, Australia
Concord, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Theosophist
radio commentator
right-wing activist