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Q: Implementing gallery with images from the web I am trying to implement a gallery with images loaded from the web as per this tutorial.
But i am having a null pointer error.The image urls are successfully fetched from the database.
Heres my main class
List<String> photos;

Gallery gallery;
ImageView image;

private static final String url_photos = "http://xxxxxxxxx/get_photos.php";

// JSON Node names
private static final String TAG_PHOTO = "name";
private static final String TAG_SUCCESS = "success";
private static final String TAG_RESPONSE = "photos";

private static final String KEY_DESCRIPTION = "advert_description";
private static final String KEY_ID = "advert_id";
private static final String KEY_RATE = "advert_rate";
private static final String KEY_LOCATION = "advert_location";
private static final String KEY_FUEL = "advert_fuel";
private static final String KEY_ENGINE = "advert_engine";
private static final String KEY_MODEL = "advert_model";
private static final String KEY_MAKE = "advert_make";
private static final String KEY_TRANSMISSION = "advert_transmission";

public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_cardetails,
            container, false);
    photos = new ArrayList<>();

    make = (TextView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.cardetails_textView_make);
    model = (TextView) rootView
            .findViewById(R.id.cardetails_textView_model);
    transmission = (TextView) rootView
            .findViewById(R.id.cardetails_textView_transmission);
    engine = (TextView) rootView
            .findViewById(R.id.cardetails_textView_engine);
    seating = (TextView) rootView
            .findViewById(R.id.cardetails_textView_seating);
    location = (TextView) rootView
            .findViewById(R.id.cardetails_textView_location);
    rates = (TextView) rootView
            .findViewById(R.id.cardetails_textView_rates);
    description = (TextView) rootView
            .findViewById(R.id.cardetails_textView_description);
    fuel = (TextView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.cardetails_textView_fuel);

    gallery = (Gallery) rootView
            .findViewById(R.id.cardetails_gallery_photos);
    image = (ImageView) rootView
            .findViewById(R.id.cardetails_imageView_image);

    new GetImages().execute();

    Bundle bundle = this.getArguments();
    if (bundle != null) {
        advert_description = bundle.getString(KEY_DESCRIPTION);
        advert_price = bundle.getString(KEY_RATE);
        advert_location = bundle.getString(KEY_LOCATION);
        advert_id = bundle.getInt(KEY_ID);
        advert_transmission = bundle.getString(KEY_TRANSMISSION);
        advert_fuel = bundle.getString(KEY_FUEL);
        advert_engine = bundle.getString(KEY_ENGINE);
        advert_model = bundle.getString(KEY_MODEL);
        advert_make = bundle.getString(KEY_MAKE);
    }

    description.setText(advert_description);
    rates.setText(advert_price);
    location.setText(advert_location);
    make.setText(advert_make);
    model.setText(advert_model);
    fuel.setText(advert_fuel);
    engine.setText(advert_engine);
    transmission.setText(advert_transmission);
    rates.setText(advert_price);

    return rootView;
}

protected class GetImages extends
        AsyncTask<CarDetailsFragment, Void, CarDetailsFragment> {
    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        super.onPreExecute();
        progressDialog = new ProgressDialog(getActivity());
        progressDialog.setMessage("");
        progressDialog.show();
    }

    @Override
    protected CarDetailsFragment doInBackground(
            CarDetailsFragment... params) {
        photos = getPhotos(advert_id);
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(CarDetailsFragment params) {
        super.onPostExecute(params);
        progressDialog.dismiss();
        Log.i("", photos.size() + "");
        gallery.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(getActivity()
                .getApplicationContext(), photos));
    }
}

public List<String> getPhotos(int id) {
    InputStream is = null;
    String result = "";

    List<String> photos_url = new ArrayList<>();
    ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("advert_id", String
            .valueOf(id)));
    // http post
    try {
        HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url_photos);
        httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
        HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        is = entity.getContent();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("log_tag", "Error in connection " + e.toString());
        // results.setText("Error in connection");
    }
    // convert response to string
    try {
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        String line = null;
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line + "\n");
        }
        is.close();
        result = sb.toString();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
    }
    Log.i("", result);

    try {
        JSONObject json = new JSONObject(result);

        // Checking for SUCCESS TAGlistener
        int success = json.getInt(TAG_SUCCESS);
        if (success == 1) {
            // products found
            // Getting Array of Products
            JSONArray urls = json.getJSONArray(TAG_RESPONSE);

            // looping through All Products
            for (int i = 0; i < urls.length(); i++) {
                JSONObject c = urls.getJSONObject(i);
                // Storing each json item in variable
                String url = c.getString(TAG_PHOTO);

                photos_url.add(url);
            }
        }
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        Log.e("log_tag", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
    }

    return photos_url;
}

And the ImageAdapter class
public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
private List<?> listData;
ImageLoader imageLoader;
private LayoutInflater layoutInflater;
private Context mContext;

private static final String URL = "http://safirisha.co.ke/photos/";

public ImageAdapter(Context context, List<?> listData) {
    this.listData = listData;
    layoutInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
    imageLoader = new ImageLoader(context);
    mContext = context;
}

@Override
public int getCount() {
    return listData.size();
}

@Override
public Object getItem(int position) {
    return listData.get(position);
}

@Override
public long getItemId(int position) {
    return position;
}

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    ImageView image = new ImageView(mContext);
    // i.setImageResource(mThumbIds[position]);
    image.setAdjustViewBounds(true);
    image.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(50, 50));
    // i.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.picture_frame);
    imageLoader.DisplayImage(URL + listData.get(position), image);
    return null;
}

}

And my logcat
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603): java.lang.NullPointerException
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.Gallery.setUpChild(Gallery.java:868)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.Gallery.makeAndAddView(Gallery.java:847)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.Gallery.layout(Gallery.java:645)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.Gallery.onLayout(Gallery.java:346)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onLayout(RelativeLayout.java:925)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1628)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1486)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1399)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:431)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:431)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout.onLayout(DrawerLayout.java:743)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:431)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1628)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1486)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1399)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:431)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1489)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2442)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4440)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:787)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:554)
07-17 20:18:33.286: E/AndroidRuntime(23603):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

ImageLoader class is for lazyloading the image.Where am i be going wrong?

A: First, try to return the view in the method getView:
@Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    ImageView image = new ImageView(mContext);
    // i.setImageResource(mThumbIds[position]);
    image.setAdjustViewBounds(true);
    image.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(50, 50));
    // i.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.picture_frame);
    imageLoader.DisplayImage(URL + listData.get(position), image);
    return image;
}

A: Your method
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)

must not return null.

A: protected CarDetailsFragment doInBackground(
            CarDetailsFragment... params) {
        photos = getPhotos(advert_id);
        return null;
    }
why your returning null??

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Q: How to find hierarchical tree last nodes c# I want to find last items of hierarchical tree.
class Node
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public int ParentId { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

    var list = new List<Node> {
        new Node {Id = 1, ParentId = 0, Name = "N 1"},
        new Node {Id = 2, ParentId = 1, Name = "N 1.1"},
        new Node {Id = 3, ParentId = 1, Name = "N 1.2"},
        new Node {Id = 4, ParentId = 2, Name = "N 1.1.1"},
        new Node {Id = 5, ParentId = 2, Name = "N 1.1.2"},
        new Node {Id = 6, ParentId = 2, Name = "N 1.1.3"}
    };

is this possible with c# or linq query?

A: Last nodes are those which are not other nodes parent.
Use this query:
var q = list.Where(x => list.All(y => y.ParentId != x.Id));

A: This is what you want
var hasChild = list.Select(n => n.ParentId);
var lastNodes = list.Where(n => !hasChild.Contain(n.Id));


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McDonald's has pulled an ad which used the words "Sundae Bloody Sundae" to promote a Halloween dessert, apologizing for "any offense or distress" it may have caused.
Bloody Sunday is the name for the day in 1972 on which British soldiers shot unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles -- resulting in 14 deaths.
The Irish band U2 famously wrote about the horrors of that day in a song called "Sunday Bloody Sunday".
An image of the ad, for a two-for-one dessert offer, was posted on Twitter by an Irish user who spotted it in a McDonald's in Portugal.
Related video: McDonald's apologizes for inappropriate Halloween decorations
After a backlash, McDonald's Portugal took down all promotional material featuring the slogan.
In a statement, McDonald's Portugal said it had developed a "local market activation for a small number of its restaurants in Portugal" -- attempting to celebrate Halloween, not "to upset or insult anyone in any way."
It added: "We sincerely apologize for any offense or distress this may have caused."
In 2013, a London bar apologized after an outcry over a cocktail named "Sundae Bloody Sundae," which was served with a small toy soldier.
In 2012, Nike released a trainer called the "Black and Tan," which caused outrage because it brought back memories of the Black and Tans, a paramilitary force known for its violence during the Irish War of Independence.
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Q: The directional derivative of a given function $w = f (x, y)$ at point $Po (1, 2) $ The directional derivative of a given function $w = f (x, y)$ at point $Po (1, 2) $in the
direction toward $P1 (2, 3)$ is $2\sqrt2$ and in the direction toward $P2 (1, 0)$ is $(-3)$. What is
the value of$\frac{dw}{ds}$
 at Po in the direction toward the origin?
I don't understand what the question wants and how to solve, but I know that the topic is "Directional Derivative" so it contains partial derivatives and vectors, please tell me some tips and hints, where should I start?

A: If the function $f(x,y)$ is differentiable at x,y, then the directional derivative along a vector $\vec{v}$ can be found using
$$
\nabla_{\vec{v}} f(x,y) = \vec{\nabla} f(x,y) \cdot \vec{v}.
$$
The vectors $\vec{v}$ you can find using the given points. You also know the values of two of these directional derivatives. This should allow you to find the components of the vector $\vec{\nabla} f(x,y) = (a,b), \quad \forall a,b \in \mathbb{R} $.
I hope this helps.


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Louis Leonor Hammerich (* 31. Juli 1892 in Kopenhagen; † 1. November 1975 in Hillerød) war ein dänischer Germanist.

Hammerich studierte von 1910 bis 1915 Germanistik, Nordistik und Latein in Kopenhagen, wurde 1915 promoviert und habilitierte sich 1918. Von 1922 bis 1958 hatte er eine Professur an der Universität Kopenhagen inne.

1959 erhielt er den Brüder-Grimm-Preis der Philipps-Universität Marburg.

Schriften
 Der Ackermann aus Böhmen. Bd. 1: Bibliographie. Philologische Einleitung. Kritischer Text mit Apparat. Glossar. Munksgaard, Kopenhagen 1951.
 Heinrich Heine: Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen. Branner, Kopenhagen 1946.
 Clamor. Eine rechtsgeschichtliche Studie. Munksgaard, Kopenhagen 1941.
 The beginning of the strife between Richard Fritzraph and the mendicants. With an edition of his autogbiographical prayer and his proposition unusquisque. Levin u. Munksgaard, Kopenhagen 1938.
 Personalendungen und Verbalsystem im Eskimoischen. Munksgaard, Kopenhagen 1936.
 (Hrsg.): Klaus Groth: Quickborn. Volksleben in plattdeutschen Gedichten dithmarscher Mundart. Levin u. Munksgaard, Kopenhagen 1935.
 Visiones Georgii. Visiones quas in purgatorio Sancti Patricii vidit Georgius miles de Ungaria a. D. MCCCLIII. Høst u. Søn, Kopenhagen 1930.
 Zur deutschen Akzentuation. Høst u. Søn, Kopenhagen 1921.

Literatur
 Vibeke Winge: Hammerich, Louis. In: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Bd. 2: H–Q, hrsg. von Christoph König, de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4, S. 661–663.

Germanist
Hochschullehrer (Universität Kopenhagen)
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Geboren 1892
Gestorben 1975
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TENNIS NEWS • DJOKOVIC TAKES DOWN DEL POTRO IN U.S. OPEN FINAL TO COMPLETE RESURGENT SUMMER
Written by: Staff on 9th September 2018
epa07009416 Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates with the championship trophy after defeating Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in the men's final on the fourteenth day of the US Open Tennis Championships the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 09 September 2018. The US Open runs from 27 August through 09 September. EPA-EFE/JUSTIN LANE |
Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates with the championship trophy after defeating Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in the men's final on the fourteenth day of the US Open Tennis Championships the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 09 September 2018. The US Open runs from 27 August through 09 September. EPA-EFE/JUSTIN LANE
By Ricky Dimon
In a major final that was a tale of two comebacks, Novak Djokovic defeated Juan Martin Del Potro 6-3, 7-6(4), 6-3 on Sunday at the U.S. Open. Djokovic lifted the trophy in New York City for a third time and secured his 14th career Grand Slam title after three hours and 16 minutes.
The 31-year-old took control with a service break from out of nowhere (40-0 down to be exact) at 4-3 in the opening set. That allowed him to serve things out in the ninth game, which he did in mostly routine fashion.
This title tilt packed most of its drama into an amazing second set, in which Del Potro bounced back from a 3-1 hole to lead 4-3 before coming tantalizingly close to taking a 5-3 lead. Djokovic, however, survived a wild service game that lasted more than 20 minutes to hold for 4-4. The world No. 6 (No. 3 on Monday) eventually forced a tiebreaker and from a quick mini-break deficit to take it 7-4.
Del Potro–as usual–did not go down without a fight, as he broke back for 2-3 in the third set. But Djokovic still had all of the momentum and a gas tank closer to full than that of his opponent, so he was quick to regain the upper hand. It was all but over for the Argentine when he dropped serve one more time at 3-4, and Djokovic's hold one game later propelled him past the finish line.
Making a comeback from various physical problems, Djokovic has raised game to unreal heights after missing the second half of 2017 and struggling through the first four months of 2018. He has now captured back-to-back major titles (also at Wimbledon) to go along with his first-ever Cincinnati Masters shield.
"If you told me in February this year when I got the surgery that I'll win Wimbledon, U.S. Open, and Cincinnati, (it) would be hard to believe," the Serb said. "But at the same time there was always part of me that imagined and believed and hoped that I can get back on the desired level of tennis very soon. I expected, to be honest, after surgery that I'll be back on a high level quite fast. But it took me actually four months. In that process, I learned a lot about myself, learned to be patient–which was never really a stronger side of me.
"But at the same time, life showed me that it takes time for good things; it takes time to really build them, for things to fall into place, so you can center yourself, balance yourself, and thrive. The last two months have been terrific."
Del Potro, meanwhile, found himself back in a Grand Slam final for the first time since winning the 2009 U.S. Open–a triumph that preceded serious wrist issues.
"I'm very sad for being a loser today," the 31-year-old admitted. "But Novak deserved to take the trophy. He played a great match; very smart game. I had my opportunities during (the) second and third set.
"But I was playing almost at the limit all the time, looking for winners with my forehands, backhands, and I couldn't make it because Novak [was] there every time. He's a great champion, so I'm glad for him."
Ricky contributes to 10sballs.com and also maintains his own tennis website, The Grandstand. You can follow him on twitter at @TennGrand.
Topics: 10sballs, 2018 US Open, Atp, Flushing Meadows, Juan Martin Del Potro, New York, Novak Djokovic, Sports, Tennis, US Open final, US Open tennis


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Riding down Sunset Blvd. recently, watching old haunts turn to mixed-use residential, I looked for a burger joint I used to love. It's gone now—another casualty of a world I once lived in that I can no longer afford. Only three things are constant in Los Angeles: real estate development, greed and film noir.
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Das Municipio San Miguel ist ein Landkreis im Departamento Santa Cruz im südamerikanischen Anden-Staat Bolivien.

Lage im Nahraum
Das Municipio San Miguel ist eines von drei Municipios der Provinz José Miguel de Velasco und grenzt im Westen an die Provinz Ñuflo de Chávez, im Süden an die Provinz Chiquitos, im Südosten an das Municipio San Rafael, und im Nordosten und Osten an das Municipio San Ignacio de Velasco.

Das Municipio erstreckt sich zwischen etwa 16° 12' und 17° 19' südlicher Breite und 60° 44' und 61° 50' westlicher Länge, seine Ausdehnung von Westen nach Osten und von Norden nach Süden beträgt bis zu 120 Kilometer.

Das Municipio umfasst sechzig Gemeinden (localidades), zentraler Ort des Municipio ist die Kleinstadt San Miguel mit 3.464 Einwohnern im zentralen östlichen Teil des Landkreises.(Volkszählung 2012)

Geographie
Das Municipio San Miguel liegt im bolivianischen Tiefland in der Region Chiquitanía, einer teilweise noch unberührten Landschaft zwischen Santa Cruz und der brasilianischen Grenze.

Das Klima der Region ist ein semi-humides Klima der warmen Tropen. Die monatlichen Durchschnittstemperaturen schwanken im Jahresverlauf nur geringfügig zwischen 20,8 °C im Juni und 26,8 °C im Oktober, wobei sie zwischen September und März fast konstant um 26 °C liegen. Das Temperatur-Jahresmittel beträgt 24,5 °C (siehe Klimadiagramm San Ignacio).

Die jährliche Niederschlagsmenge liegt im langjährigen Mittel bei 1257 mm. Drei Viertel des Niederschlags fallen in der Regenzeit von November bis März, während in der Trockenzeit in den ariden Monaten Juni, Juli und August kaum je 30 mm pro Monat fallen.

Bevölkerung
Die Einwohnerzahl des Municipios ist in den vergangenen beiden Jahrzehnten um mehr als ein Drittel angestiegen:

Die Bevölkerungsdichte des Landkreises bei der letzten Volkszählung von 2012 betrug 1,3 Einwohner/km², der Anteil der städtischen Bevölkerung war 30,6 Prozent. Der Alphabetisierungsgrad bei den über 15-Jährigen war von 77,8 Prozent (1992) auf 85,5 Prozent im Jahr 2001 angestiegen. Die Lebenserwartung der Neugeborenen betrug 68,0 Jahre, die Säuglingssterblichkeit war von 5,6 Prozent (1992) auf 4,6 Prozent im Jahr 2001 zurückgegangen.

99,7 Prozent der Bevölkerung sprechen Spanisch, 0,7 Prozent sprechen Quechua, je 0,1 Prozent Aymara und Guaraní, und 4,2 Prozent andere indigene Sprachen. (2001)

69,6 Prozent der Bevölkerung haben keinen Zugang zu Elektrizität, 17,4 Prozent leben ohne sanitäre Einrichtung (2001).

59,5 Prozent der 1.873 Haushalte besitzen ein Radio, 22,3 Prozent einen Fernseher, 53,6 Prozent ein Fahrrad, 5,2 Prozent ein Motorrad, 4,8 Prozent ein Auto, 8,3 Prozent einen Kühlschrank, und 2,7 Prozent ein Telefon. (2001)

Politik
Ergebnis der Regionalwahlen (concejales del municipio) vom 4. April 2010:

Ergebnis der Regionalwahlen (elecciones de autoridades políticas) vom 7. März 2021:

Gliederung
Das Municipio San Miguel untergliedert sich nicht weiter in Kantone, es umfasst insgesamt 37 Subkantone (vicecantones).

Ortschaften
 Kanton San Miguel de Velasco
 San Miguel 3464 Einw. – San Miguel de Velasco 880 Einw. – Altamira 507 Einw. – San Juan de Lomerío 398 Einw.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Indocumentación en las comunidades indígenas de la provincia Velasco Fundación TIERRA. Santa Cruz 2005 (PDF; 1,3 MB) (spanisch)
 Municipio San Miguel – Übersichtskarten Nr. 70302
 Municipio San Miguel – Detailkarte und Bevölkerungsdaten (PDF; 1,3 MB) (spanisch)
 Departamento Santa Cruz – Sozialdaten der Municipios (PDF; 5 MB) (spanisch)


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Bartolomé Cairasco de Figueroa,  född den 8 oktober 1538, död 1610, var en spansk författare.

de Figueira, som var kanik vid domen på Gran Canaria, var mycket ansedd av sina samtida skaldebröder. Hans huvudverk är Templo militante, triunfos y virtudes, festividades y vidas de Santos (4 band, 1602–1615) om alla i katolska kalendern intagna helgons liv. Hans daktyliskt rimmade Versos esdrújulos väckte samtidens beundran. de Figueira gav även en politisk skildring av Kanarieöarna och översatte "Gerusalemme liberata" till spanska.

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1 Design and construction
Amorina (ship)
Builder: Jotaverken Shipyard in Gothenburg
Completed: 1934
IMO number: 1000655
MMSI number: 225366000
Callsign: ECEZ
General characteristics as Amorina
Type: Barquentine (former lightvessel
Length: 34.3 metres (113 ft)
Beam: 7.7 metres (25 ft)
Height: Mast height 34 metres (112 ft)
Draught: 4.5 metres (15 ft)
Ice class: Lloyds' Ice Class A1
Propulsion: Auxiliary Deutch 500 horsepower (370 kW) diesel, 6.5 knots (12.0 km/h; 7.5 mph)
Sail plan: Barquentine-rigged
Amorina was built as a lightship in 1934 for the Swedish maritime authorities then designated as lightship 33. It was bought by private parties in 1979, converted to have masts installed and competed in the 1983 Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race.
The vessel was designed as a lightvessel for use by Swedish maritime authorities.[1] Lightship 33 was constructed in 1934 at Jotaverken Shipyard in Gothenburg.[1] The hull was built to Lloyds' Ice Class A1, with an icebreaker bow and 170-millimetre (6.7 in)-thick riveted hull plates.[1]
From completion until the late 1960s, Lightship 33 was usually moored on station in the Baltic Sea: either at Sydostbrotten or Nordströmsgrund.[1] During the 1960s, the lightships were replaced by the prefabricated Kasun Light Houses.[1] Lightship 33 was laid up in 1970.[1] A group of Swedish sailors, who had lost their vessel in the Mediterranean, formed the company Amorina Cruises, and purchased the lightvessel in 1979.[1] Renamed Amorina, the vessel was refitted into a barquentine at Aveiro, Portugal.[1] Three steel masts were installed and the wheelhouse was relocated, while increased accommodation and a saloon were fitted belowedecks.[1] After refitting, the vessel was 34.3 metres (113 ft) in length, with a beam of 7.7 metres (25 ft), and a draught of 4.5 metres (15 ft).[2] She had a mast height of 34 metres (112 ft), and a total sail area of 650 square metres (7,000 sq ft).[2] Auxiliary propulsion was provided by a Deutch 500 horsepower (370 kW) diesel, with a service speed of 6.5 knots (12.0 km/h; 7.5 mph).[2]
The conversion was completed in 1983, and Amorina participated in that year's Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race.[1] The vessel was based in Stockholm during 1985 and early 1986.[1] In March, Amorina sailed to England and joined the First Fleet Re-enactment Voyage: a historical re-enactment for the Australian Bicentenary.[1] She left England for Australia in May 1987, and sailed with the fleet via Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Mauritius, and Fremantle before arriving in Sydney on Australia Day (26 January) 1988.[3]
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Clarke, Malcolm; Iggulden, David (1988). Sailing Home: a pictorial record of the First Fleet Re-enactment voyage. North Ryde, NSW: Angus and Robertson. ISBN 0207159653. OCLC 21041747.
King, Jonathan (1987). Australia's First Fleet: the voyage and the re-enactment, 1788/1988. North Sydney, NSW and Waterloo, NSW: Robertsbridge Limited and Fairfax Magazines. ISBN 0947178163. OCLC 23869501.


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"Death Is Callin" for Mozzy in new video
The track will appear on the upcoming album 'Occupational Hazard.'
Mere months after the release of his latest LP Beyond Bulletproof, Mozzy took to social media to announce that his next album, Occupational Hazard, will be making landfall this month. Added to the announcement is a new single titled "Death Is Callin," which is produced by Jay P Bangz and sees the Sacramento rapper continuing his stories of gang life and the streets:
"Big dawg, my circumference is full of those, I'm uncomfortable 'round these h*** 'cause I know they gave 'em the drop, my dawg facin' murder, they think I gave him the chop, paid attorney service, they think I gave him the guap…/"
The accompanying visual sees Mozzy with a few cohorts, riding around the city in a beat up Civic. By the clip's end, they execute an attack by running into an apparent enemy house, with gun shots seen going off through the window. The group then hops into the car and get away as quickly as they arrived — a dark situation that perfectly matches the realism in Mozzy's rhymes.
Prior to "Death Is Callin," Mozzy released Beyond Bulletproof in May, which boasted 13 tracks and additional appearances from Shordie Shordie, G Herbo, King Von, Eric Bellinger, Polo G, his brother E Mozzy, and more. That album earned him a top 50 spot on the Billboard 200 during its first week of release.
In a recent interview with REVOLT, Mozzy spoke on how he's been faring during the quarantine:
"I'm loving it. I've always been a social distance type of person, so this is right up my alley. I hate that there's no malls I could walk through and feel the love from the people. I also hate that we can't sit down inside of a restaurant and buss down. Outside of that, I'm enjoying it."
Press play on "Death Is Callin" below. Occupational Hazard is set to be released September 22.
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BMW cuts the glare with M3 Matte Edition for China
Mar 29th 2011 at 6:31PM
BMW M3 Matte Edition – Click above for high-res images
Automakers have all sorts of different ways of celebrating milestone anniversaries. In the case of the M3, which turns 25 years old this year, BMW opted to roll out a series of special editions for individual markets. Japan, for example, got the Competition Fire Orange Edition. Here in the United States, we got the Frozen Gray edition. Australia got the Pure edition, and in China they got the Tiger edition. The latter proved so popular that BMW has opted to roll out a second special edition for the People's Republic.
Called the Matte Edition, its defining feature, as you might have guessed, is the matte black paint job, complimented by black chrome trim, high-gloss 19-inch alloys to contrast with the low-gloss body, red brake calipers and an interior decked out with carbon fiber trim and red stitching. Mechanically, the Matte Edition is exactly the same as a stock M3, but the color scheme is one of the most attractive we've seen yet. Follow the jump for the official press release (translated into English).
[Source: BMW]
BMW M3 Coupe scrub limited edition on sale in China
2010, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the birth of the legendary model M3, the BMW Group were introduced in markets around the world commemorate the M3 cars. In mid-June, the U.S. has created in 12 minutes 30 M3 version of the gray matte finish of the hot-selling book on record. The end of August, the Chinese market listing 30 M3 25 Anniversary Limited Edition model - Tiger Edition also became an instant sold out. Then staged in the country "BMW M Experience Day Legend" is aroused more extraordinary BMW M enthusiasts of sports car driving passion and unique culture, love, personalized version of the more urgent the demand for M3, BMW decided to introduce the Chinese firm Matte Edition models.
Compared with the normal M3, M3 Matte version of the appearance of the bright spots are obvious. Body color with matte gray or matte version version of black metal paint spraying, in the ordinary metallic paint over the primer coating by adding a special BMW ColorSystem silky matte clear coat. Production process due to sophisticated, matte version of the daily output can only be single digits. Body diffuse out in the sun a low-key luxury gloss, highlights the M3 Coupé athletes like tight, strong contour. Upgrade 19 "black high-gloss alloy wheels extremely light weight. Black chrome side air intakes and exhaust pipes and vehicle color texture of harmony. Red brake calipers in the car is moving the process but also demonstrates the movement of its DNA.
Interior M fans also will not disappoint. M3 Coupe M3 Matte Edition adds general do not have the appearance of the black carbon fiber leather, front and rear seat edge, door armrests are decorated with red stitching. Strong color contrast of the visual impact, I believe M fans can bring the greatest degree of movement experience.
In power, BMW M3 Coupé scrub naturally aspirated V8 version with high-speed engine, typical of BMW M tradition of high-speed engine concept, the development of a direct reference Formula One technology and experience. 3,999 cc engine displacement, the engine speed is 8,300 rev / time-sharing maximum output power of 309 kilowatts / 420 horsepower; in the engine speed is 3,900 rev / time-sharing to achieve maximum torque of 400 Newton meters. Hundred kilometers in just 4.6 seconds. Transmission system is designed for high-speed power unit developed Drivelogic 7-speed dual clutch transmission, shift more direct, precise, power output without the slightest delay and disruption.
BMW M3 Matte version of the EDC damping control system, able to provide the best personalized vehicle suspension tuned into sports, normal and comfortable three models, which model called the unique selling point. BMW M3 Coupe frosted version of high-strength lightweight structure, lightweight suspension as a supplement, vehicles equipped with power steering can be adjusted according to the speed Servotronic power steering, ventilated brake discs all-high-performance system dynamic systems and the latest generation of Dynamic Stability Control (DSC). Love sports-style driver can also M Drive system and electronic damping control (EDC), personalized settings for dynamic driving control parameters.
Family in the BMW M, M3 bright star is well deserved. BMW M3 is more than just a car, it is a brand of faith, honor and development process in miniature. BMW M3 first came in 1985, after four generations of innovation, two-door coupe, convertible coupe, sedan, GTR and other models followed. Performance data with each passing day, the only constant is 25 years, BMW M3 on the relentless pursuit of excellence. BMW M3 is recognized in any case able to express and impart enthusiasm for the ideal high-performance cars, is to emphasize the unique philosophy of the letter M the perfect expression.


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Efficiency is Key to Canada's GDP
Let's talk about stats. It is common knowledge to most people that Canada's productivity is severely lagging behind the United States and several other countries, and this downward trend continues. So why and how does this continue to happen? Let's look at the stats
If you look at the link provided above, you will see that Canada is consistently behind in GDP per capita, lagging at 36% less than our southern neighbours. This has everything to do with labour productivity in our country and the monetary value of the goods and services we provide. Canada has a lot to offer the world, so why does this happen?
There is something called "Capital Intensity." Canada is the second-largest geographical landmass globally, but when it comes to population size, we hover around the 39th marker. The United States, for example, is right after us as the third-largest country in the world, as well as the third-largest population. The ratio is evident. There is so much value in the untouched biodiverse land that Canada possesses. However, when it comes to labour production, we are stretched thin. So how can we preserve the natural beauty of our country and still generate enough wealth to turn our GDP trends upwards?
It comes down to the process. While we are a small collective of people in vast land space, there are many habits we can curve to generate productivity. Our labour wages and the cost of real estate have increased. Still, we lack the manufacturing and processing facilities to improve the sustainability and capacity of our market. As a result, Canadian businesses need to focus on the efficiency of production and processes and concentrate on quantitative efforts. We don't just need more production; we need better.
It's not going to be an easy job. We know that saying it and putting it out in the world is easier said than done. However, the GDP per capita increase is both a long-term and a short-term goal. When we think long-term, the small efforts we make now will have consequentially positive impacts on the generations of Canadians to come. Our short-term goal is to make the economy as accessible and productive as possible, leaving behind long-term benefits for every Canadian.
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I have the original Dario Argento film (and a few other of his films) on DVD, and watched it recently. It does have flaws, but the use of color, music, and mounting suspense, along with a good payoff at the end, make it a favorite horror film of mine. I have no real interest in the remake, other than to read reviews of it.
It was creepy for sure. But also a little too bloated and ambitious for its own good. Nice review Nate.
I know there's a good movie somewhere in there. It just needs to be cut out.


"... to live in a new way - it means to live freely in such a political system that guarantees the rights and freedoms of man and nation."
"Developing the critical infrastructure protection system in Ukraine"
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Regarding the information-psychological component of aggression of Russian Federation against Ukraine (according to the results of events during 1-2 March 2014).


Like the crazed killer in a campy horror film, cable boxes refuse to die. Sure, the number of cord-cutters continues to grow, but the cable box remains a stalwart in millions of homes across the country, despite repeated reports of its death. There have been plenty of valiant attempts from would-be hero devices like Roku, Chromecast, and Apple TV, as well as from live TV streaming services like Sling TV and PlayStation Vue. But sequel after sequel, the cable box just keeps coming back.
So rather than killing the cable box, Amazon aims to embrace it. Officially announced today, the new Amazon Fire TV Cube is your cable box's best friend, while bringing complete Alexa functionality to your entire home theater setup. Plug it in and you can start your TV, cable box, sound bar, and A/V receiver with just a simple voice command: "Alexa, turn on the TV." Add in hands-free 4K streaming media via Netflix, Hulu, Amazon's own service, and all those other apps and Bezos and Co. seem to have a winner.
Ahead of the Fire TV Cube's launch, Digital Trends sat down with Jen Prenner, Global Head of Marketing for Amazon Fire TV, to walk through the device, which combines the smart-home power of Alexa with Amazon Fire TV.
"We are super excited to in essence take the best of everything you love about Echo, including Alexa, make it very visual, and bring it together with Fire TV," she told us.
The Cube (which we've been waiting for since last fall) can talk to the other devices in your home theater through HDMI CEC, a common multimedia spec that lets various AV devices communicate with each other. It also leans on multi-directional infrared technology to send signals to your boxes. It ships with an IR extender cable and Ethernet adapter, should you opt to hardwire it to your network. Amazon has worked closely with Netflix to build support for voice into its app, as well as content providers such as Hulu, ESPN, FOX, Showtime, STARZ, CBS, and NBC.
Oh, and 4K and HDR? Yeah, the Cube supports both.
The Cube aims to solve the coffee table control crisis: Most cable box owners have enough remotes to fill Batman's utility belt. There's one for the cable, one for the TV, one for the sound system, one for some streaming gizmo, and so on. Voice controls can replace nearly all of those – for the most part. For example, it's a cinch to turn on the TV to a recent channel, specific show, or whatever. And by setting up a routine, those with smart home setups can dim the lights and maybe even close the curtains at the same time.
The Cube's interface is similar to that seen on the Echo Show but it's expanded out and designed for a larger screen. Most streaming devices today have similar ones – strips of icons that recommend shows, popular series, content surfaced just for you, and so on. Because the Fire TV Cube works with your cable system, it also shows you what's playing now on TV, including spotlights for premium channels like Showtime or HBO. Hints about commands you might use pop-up throughout the interface, a useful reminder of how to interact with the Fire TV Cube.
But some things work better with a remote than with voice, of course. You can say "Alexa, jump forward 10 minutes" — but let's be honest you wouldn't want to. Pressing the fast-forward button is just easier. And searching through new releases or skimming through recommended TV shows is simpler with the arrow keys on a remote control. Sure, you can do that with commands Amazon has created for the Fire Cube, such as "Alexa, show me more," but it's better with a remote. So, of course, the Fire TV Cube comes with its own remote – but for the most part, you won't have to use it. For example, you can select items from menus relatively easily by saying "select number 7" or simply "play Grey's Anatomy" – Amazon's saving you a click, it seems.
To get voice to work well with a device that sits on a shelf rather than at head level or ear level, Amazon built "far-field voice recognition" into the Fire TV Cube. There are eight separate microphones and beam-forming technology that can pinpoint voices in a room. The Cube can't recognize individual voices yet, but this is likely something in the works.
We tried to be thoughtful about when she speaks back to you instead of just doing what you've asked her to do.
Adding a new device to listen in on you at home may turn some people off after Amazon did the one thing it can never do last month: Accidentally recording a conversation and sending it to someone. Amazon assures that this was an edge case that should never happen again. We'll see.
By the way, anyone familiar with Alexa knows she can be a little chatty. Amazon has tried to reduce the call-and-response aspect of the device, so you won't always hear Alexa telling you she's changed the channel or dimmed the lights or cued up the next item in your playlist.
"We tried to be thoughtful about when she speaks back to you instead of just doing what you've asked her to do. Sometimes she may talk back, sometimes she will say 'okay,' sometimes she may try to disambiguate what you're trying to do," Prenner told Digital Trends.
Got an Amazon device already? The company says it's been working to ensure that the right device responds when you ask Alexa for something. If you're closer to the Echo Spot in the kitchen, for example, only that device will reply, and in an appropriate way. Ask for CNN and Alexa will start playing it in the kitchen on TuneIn Radio, not turning the living room TV on and tuning to CNN. We'll be interested to see how well this works in practice.
Interestingly enough, the Fire TV Cube has some brand new competition on the audio side of things in Sonos' slick and smart new soundbar, the Sonos Beam. Unveiled on June 6, the $399 Beam also offers Alexa at launch with voice control for select TV commands as well as select streaming services on Fire TV, and it will also add both Apple AirPlay 2 and Google Assistant down the road. It does not offer cable box integration, however, so those hungry for expanded voice control have some choices to make.
Amazon's Fire TV Cube is available for order today at $119.99 and will ship on June 21. As an introductory offer, Prime members can order on June 7 and 8 for a special price of $89.99—a $30 savings. Plus, for a limited time, customers can pre-order Fire TV Cube and Amazon Cloud Cam together for $199.98 – a $40 savings.


Today is a big day for me. My bedroom is empty, my car is going to storage, my bags are packed, my kitchen empty. It's an odd feeling. In a way it feels like going on vacation. When I leave tomorrow, for the last time, I'll be leaving for NYC, not my new home. There will be a duffle bag on my shoulder and air mattress waiting for me, just like all my other trips to visit my friends in NYC. It is strange to think I'm not coming "home" from this vacation. I'll get back to DC and go to another friend's house.
I'm incredibly worried that one day I will go on auto pilot. I'll get on the metro, go home, get there and realize I have no keys! It's not my house anymore.
Tonight is my last night in the house. When I get up and head to work I'll be leaving a key behind. I knew this was coming but there was no way to be fully prepared. I'm packed and "ready" but I'm completely scared out of my wits. I guess that's normal for being homeless for a few weeks and buying a house. So many life changes all at once!
In my haste to pack and move and get going....I forgot I was supposed to post two daring bakers recipes in one post! My apologies. Here are my second candies for our challenge: a basic chocolate truffle.
Finely chop or grate the chocolate. Place in a heatproof bowl.
In a saucepan, heat cream until just about to boil (it will start bubbling around the edges of the pot).
Pour the cream over the chocolate. Gently stir the mixture until all the chocolate has melted and it is smooth. Allow the ganache to firm up in a container of choice, preferably deep rather than shallow.
Using a teaspoon or melon baller, scoop up room temperature ganache.
Roll in various ingredients like cocoa or chopped nuts as desired.


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Urge Senate Support of Resolution Securing Annual Holiday Cherished by Italian Americans
Columbus Day is a federal and state holiday marked on Oct. 11 this year and an annual celebration of Italian American heritage.
Senators Joe Pennacchio and Anthony M. Bucco are fighting to ensure the long-standing Columbus Day legacy is continued and sponsor a resolution supporting the preservation of the annual federal and state holiday. (Wikimedia)
Senator Joe Pennacchio and Senator Anthony M. Bucco are dedicated to ensuring the long-standing legacy is continued and sponsor a resolution (SR-50) supporting the preservation of Columbus Day as a federal and state holiday.
"We're talking about a holiday that Italian-Americans value very much, and it is important to preserve it for future generations," said Pennacchio (R-26). "There are extremists who seek to revise history, to tear up the past and rewrite it to fit a new narrative. The fact is that the second Christopher Columbus stepped on to our shores, it was an existential moment in human history. It marked the end of the old world and the beginning of the new.
"Our resolution would defend Columbus Day from future attempts to bleach it out of the nation's fabric," said Pennacchio. "This bill was first introduced in 2017. My colleagues march in Columbus Day parades, they pursue the Italian American vote, but they have been unwilling to defend this holiday. I don't see any reason why this resolution has not received enthusiastic support from the Legislature."
Recently, dozens of Columbus statues have been removed in cities across the nation, including Chicago, Columbus, Ohio, and Chester, Pa. Only a judge's decision prevented the planned razing of a Christopher Columbus likeness that has stood for 144 years in a park in Philadelphia.
"As a proud Italian-American, I know how cherished Columbus Day is by those of us who have family roots back to Italy," said Bucco (R-25). "The Columbus holiday and the granite busts are as much or more tributes to the contribution of Italian immigrants to American society as to Christopher Columbus the man. When Italians emigrated here, they faced a gauntlet of challenges. They were forced to endure prejudice and hatred, and to work twice as hard to prove themselves in the workplace and the community."
Earlier this year, Bucco spearheaded a successful effort to prevent a local school district from replacing Columbus Day on the school calendar with Indigenous People's Day. The Randolph Township board of education voted to approve the change in May, joining a half-dozen states and many municipalities.
The Senator, who represents Randolph, spoke at the board meeting in June as the school board voted to remove all holiday names from the calendar in response to an onslaught of complaints from the public. After a boisterous meeting that lasted almost four hours, the panel adopted a motion to restore the calendar to the way it was, reinstating Columbus Day.
"Their attempt to address diversity backfired, and instead created division," said Bucco. "By trying to make everything vanilla, you lose that sense of diversity. Nobody benefits by destroying a legacy. Progress is made only when we all advance together.
"I am humbled to continue the work of my father, the late Senator Bucco, who sponsored the bill designating every October as Italian-American Heritage Month and fought to fund Italian American heritage cultural and educations programs for the state's school children," Bucco continued.
Pennacchio cited the history behind the holiday day, noting that the first Columbus Day was declared by President Benjamin Harrison in 1892, the year after a mob of thousands lynched 11 Italian immigrants in New Orleans and on the 400th anniversary of the explorer's voyage in search of a direct route from Europe to Asia.
"We all need to realize there are prejudices in our society – prejudices against everybody," said Pennacchio. "We have to be cautious not to polarize our nation by targeting one group to elevate another.
"Instead of trying to erase and re-write history, we should focus on challenging ourselves to create a better history for ourselves and our future generations," Pennacchio emphasized.
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Home Kensington Palace has announced A VERY Special Tribute to Princess Diana from Prince William and Prince Harry The brothers said It is clear the significance of her work is still felt by many in the UK and across the world even 20 years after her death.
The brothers said It is clear the significance of her work is still felt by many in the UK and across the world even 20 years after her death.


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Lunchbox "In Negotiations" to Be On Amy's Sister's Show 'Building Roots'
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A few weeks ago, Lunchbox tricked Amy's sister into giving him her number so that he could call and talk to her about an opportunity.
He believed that he could have the best of both worlds to get his roof fixed at his house and get on television. All he needed to do was convince Amy's sister that he would be a great guest for their show Building Roots on HGTV. Now the first season is already over and the show has yet to find out if it will be renewed for a second season. So Lunchbox thought if they could get a guaranteed celebrity guest, then it would help their chances of getting a second season. So it would be a win-win for both of them. The Bobby Bones Show gave him a hard time for the way he reached out to her and for his idea. Turns out, one of the executive producers of Building Roots heard the segment and emailed Amy. She told Amy that the segment made her laugh and if her and Lunchbox were serious about getting their houses worked on, then she would like to pitch a traveling Nashville episode of Building Roots to the network.
Since this conversation happened, we got an update this morning (August 18) that Lunchbox has been in some negotiations with the casting director and producers of Building Roots for an episode. He believes it's actually going to happen now. Though him and Amy were arguing over who was going to have the bigger role during the show. Apparently there is a Block A and Block B for two different people to appear on an episode, and Lunchbox says he's definitely Block B which is the "bigger one."


BETHESDA, Md. - Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) report in the October issue of Nature Genetics the development of the best mouse model yet of Huntington's disease (HD). The models are analogous to both the behavioral and pathological changes of the disease.
Since the discovery in 1993 of the gene alteration leading to HD, scientists have sought to understand why the abnormal protein produced by the altered gene leads to mid-life degeneration of specific brain cells, dramatic behavior changes and premature death for those who possess the alteration.
These new mouse models provide scientists a tool for studying the development of HD and other related diseases, and perhaps even the process of apoptosis (programmed cell death), which is essential to life.
Progress in treating HD has been slow in that tissues from the brains of HD patients are available for study only after death. With the brains of the new mice closely resembling those of HD patients, the researchers believe that methods of developing treatment should increase, and that scientists will now be able to delve far more deeply into the disease process.
The abnormal movements and behavior the mice display -- running in circles, performing backflips, engaging in other hyperkinetic behavior -- correlates with loss of neurons in the striatum, cortex and other brain regions where HD patients also lose brain cells.
The mice are expected to be useful for screening potential pharmacological treatments for HD, and for testing other therapies, including ones that might assist neuron survival.
"Current treatments for Huntington's disease only address the symptoms, and do nothing to slow the progress of neuronal cell death," said Dr. Danilo A. Tagle, head of NHGRI's Molecular Neurogenetics Section, and the paper's corresponding author. "If treatments can be developed, based on this animal model, to prevent or delay the cell death and the debilitating symptoms of HD, then that would be the best-case scenario."
HD is one of several genetic disorders known as the triplet-repeat diseases caused by excessive repetition of the CAG nucleotide sequences that code for glutamines. In these diseases and HD, however, more than just the repeated sequences appears to be necessary to produce the disease.
"We think the rest of the protein may have a role in dictating what populations of neurons die, and which ones survive," Tagle said.
The normal HD protein is found in nearly all body cells, but only specific brain cells die in HD. Why? The NHGRI researchers suspect the abnormal HD protein is interacting with other proteins found only in those cells, and that this interaction triggers cell death. Perhaps, the researchers speculate, the altered HD protein is shaped abnormally, and it clings to the other proteins, preventing them from conducting their assigned tasks.
NHGRI researchers are now trying to answer that question by studying the new mice to identify key proteins that interact with the HD proteins.
"These mice will be terrific models for examining the early events that occur in HD and how this ultimately leads to cell death; that's still a very open question at this point," Tagle said.


El Segundo. Salt Creek Grille will donate a portion of its proceeds to DonateLife.org as part of the restaurant's annual outdoor festival – Donate Life Day – scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Plaza El Segundo.
The festival features free food samplings from Salt Creek Grille, entertainment, a display of vintage cars and participation from other merchants in the center. Volunteers from nonprofit groups will be on hand to discuss organ and tissue donation and how to register. The event will be at 760 S. Sepulveda, El Segundo. Admission is free. Call 310-335-9288 for more details.


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If diversity were a place, it would be Birmingham. People who visit here get a taste of that variety—in entertainment, cuisine, the arts, nightlife, the great outdoors—that brings them back time and again.
Birmingham was born out of iron and steel. Remnants of these early beginnings are preserved in places such as Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark. The city is also well-known for its prominent role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. A visit to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute gives visitors an in-depth look at that important era.
The area's antique shops are becoming places of legend in upscale lifestyle magazines around the country. Trendy malls have taken root all over the area, bringing tony, high-end shops to the state's retail giant. Dozens of new art galleries surprise enthusiasts and collectors with a wide variety of paintings, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics, fine and funk art.
Should you have us pigeonholed as serving only barbeque and fried pies, just remember that Birmingham is home to "the Oscars of dining" with James Beard Foundation Award winners and nominees. Anyone visiting the city should take in the beauty of down-home cooking as well. And visitors with an appetite for live music will find that it is the city's signature entertainment.
So it is diversity that is this city's greatest strength and strongest appeal. We are a spectrum of attitudes and cultures that are all a part of the charm and intrigue that is Birmingham.
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15 February 2018 — 3:42 pm
The Australian government has applauded the passage of a "game changer" financial services body which it says will help consumers get a fair deal.
The establishment of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has been green-lit, with the legislation passed yesterday.
The culmination of more than 20 months of public consultation and inquiry, AFCA will act as a one-stop shop for complaints about the banking and superannuation industries, credit providers and insurers.
The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O'Dwyer said yesterday that it will also limit the "expense, inconvenience and trauma associated with going to court". She called the successful passage a consumer win.
AFCA will amalgamate the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal and the Credit and Investments Ombudsman (CIO).
The CIO has however expressed vocal opposition to AFCA, arguing in a Treasury submission last year that it will be unfit for purpose and that: "It is clear from the [external dispute resolution] framework documents that AFCA will neither provide better consumer outcomes nor be able to address past, or prevent future, financial scandals."
However, Ms O'Dwyer last year responded to the criticisms by doubling down on her support and calling AFCA a "game changer".
She said at the time: "As it stands, having multiple schemes which compete with each other creates extra cost for industry and confusion for consumers.
"[AFCA] will combine the strengths of an industry ombudsman and statutory tribunal. This is a game changer."
Responding yesterday to the bill's successful passage, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's deputy chair Peter Kell said effective and fair dispute resolution is a critical element of the financial services consumer protection scheme.
"The combination of firms' internal dispute resolution procedures and access to a free independent external scheme currently provides redress for many tens of thousands of Australians each year. Strengthening these dispute resolution requirements will help deliver higher standards and better outcomes in the financial services market."
He continued: "The establishment of a single scheme for all financial services and superannuation complaints is a very positive development, building on the outcomes achieved over many years by the existing three schemes."
The Australian Bankers' Association (ABA) also welcomed the scheme, which it considers a "common sense reform".
Speaking to mark the bill's passing, CEO at the ABA, Anna Bligh said quick dispute resolutions are in "everyone's best interest".
"It's always the first preference for customers to resolve issues directly with their banks, who have been putting in place extra measures such as 'customer advocates' to improve how they handle complaints.
"When a complaint needs to go further, it's important the process is simple, fair and results in a speedy outcome."
ASIC will work in partnership with the government and stakeholders to carry out the transition and will retain oversight of the FOS and CIO.
The body will begin receiving complaints from 1 November 2018 at the latest and the scheme's operator will be authorised by the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services but subject to ASIC oversight.
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Formal Education:
Juris Doctor, Cornell Law School
Master of Urban Planning, University of Illinois
BA in Political Science, summa cum laude, Bradley University
I retired from competitive skating in 2006 in order to attend law school, although I continued to perform and coach until I graduated in 2009. After graduating, I spent over four years practicing law in the Boston area. I worked as a staff attorney at PTC Inc. in Needham until 2010, and then as an associate attorney at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP in Boston before deciding to return to coaching in 2014. When I'm not at the rink, I enjoy spending time at home and outdoors with my husband and our dog, Nutmeg.
Last 4 Years – Students' Competitive Achievements:
Regional and Sectional Competitors
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Free skating, skating skills, moves in the field and choreography
Awards / Accomplishments / Seminars:
Conducted club seminars and clinics in several midwestern and northeastern states
Holds U.S. Figure Skating Gold Test and sectional competition judging appointments (inactive) in singles and pairs skating
Affiliation with U.S. Figure Skating, PSA, ISU:
Member of U.S. Figure Skating and PSA
Athlete Member of the U.S. Figure Skating Sanctions and Eligibility Committee
Former ISU Single and Pairs Skating Technical Committee Member from 2006 to 2010
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Skating can impart discipline and inspire creativity that promotes excellence in school and other personal endeavors. I aim to help skaters of all ages and levels to appreciate our sport in this way, to mindfully balance skating goals with academic, family and other commitments and to find success and fulfillment in the sport based on their individual aspirations.
2006 U.S. Olympic Team Member
3-Time World Team Member (2002, 2004, and 2006)
3-Time U.S. Bronze Medalist (2001, 2004, and 2006)
2006 ISU Four Continents Championships Bronze Medalist
2000/2001 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Bronze Medalist
2000 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Bronze Medalist
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Soros Gift to Human Rights Watch
By Kenneth Anderson on September 7, 2010 11:58 pm
No doubt many readers have seen the press articles announcing George Soros' gift of $100 million to Human Rights Watch. Most interesting to me was that the gift is aimed, in part, at diversifying the organization, staff, and board away from its current US-centric arrangement. As the AP puts it:
But the money also is meant to make its donor base as international as its outlook. Plans call for Human Rights Watch to draw at least half its income and most of its board members from outside the U.S. within five years. Now, about 70 percent of the money and 80 percent of the board members are U.S.-based.
Soros considers that a liability — one he blamed on a frequent target of his, former President George W. Bush.
"They're basically an American organization advocating human rights all over the world. But the United States has lost the moral high ground, during the Bush administration, and, therefore, it runs into opposition because there's resentment of American interference," Soros said in an interview in his sleek office in a midtown Manhattan high-rise. " … It's a drawback, to be American in this context."
HRW agrees, although it already believes it is seen as independent of the US government.
"But it is helpful for our organization to personify the global values we promote," Executive Director Kenneth Roth said.
(Note: I have updated and considerably expanded what follows, picking up comments I made at Opinio Juris.)
I wonder if it is quite so easy to personify global values in that way, however. Multinational corporations, for example, often talk about how global they are, in outlook, in values, in all those ways. Query whether it actually works that way in MNEs. The Daimler-Benz model, for example, in which it was supposed to be a merger of equals between the American car company and the German one. Under a surface veneer of the "global" company, in fact the true owners of the enterprise, Daimler, quickly asserted itself, and for a simple reason – the post-merger was turning into a disaster, and the immediate response was for management to seek to reduce its internal transaction and agency costs by asserting a command and control decisionmaking model that relied upon one side of the enterprise. That is, a "mixed" culture inside an enterprise is a costly one in terms of many decisionmaking factors, because it invites much more negotiation inside.
An alternative model but with the same problem is something like Citicorp, in the glory days as it tried to become the global consumer banking firm; my wife worked for it in NY, and I had many friends who worked for its various units in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Anecdotally, they all told the same general story from different places over the past fifteen years – a "global" corporation that was in fact balkanized, sometimes viciously so, in its local business units around the world along ethnic, national, and similar lines. Management in NY would sing the praises of the "universal" company and its "universal" values – but there was only one matter in which there was general agreement about universals, and that was finance. Finance – quoting the extremely business-credentialed financial engineer spouse of a close friend – was the only truly common language among the various business units. Human resources, in her view, had the worst job of all, because the legal department believed (I assume correctly but it's not my field) that a single global company would be held accountable in US courts for a single standard on such things as sexual harassment or discrimination law – the US standard – but the global corporation had a nearly impossible task trying to make that real given the vast cultural divides.
The argument for the globalized company – a company that takes globalization internal, so to speak, rather than simply engaging with the global market – is that incorporating whatever exactly that is into a company, by diversifying and, in Ken Roth's term, personifying globalized values, they are incorporated into production and make for a more attractive product. As Coase pointed out a long time ago in theorizing the reason why firms, rather than mere markets, exist to organize production, however, simply replicating the market inside the firm produces sizable transaction costs. Maybe the transaction costs are justified by what it produces – or maybe it just makes it really, really hard to get anything done. My sense of the MNE world is that the only truly global firms, in an internal governance sense, are ones that deal in financial markets and are more like collections of professionals engaged in a mutual activity, almost like an internal market, rather than integrated and organized production. Finance provides a common measure of rationalization of the production process inside. The point of finance, seen in a certain way, after all, is to find the truly common denominators of the human experience, the ability to reduce things down to comparable present values so to be able to compare comparable cash flows. It is superficial with respect to the human experience, yes, but superficiality is what makes it possible to be global and universal.
In my experience of the global NGO world, like firms typically, they are rarely truly global in the sense that Soros seems to mean. They achieve effectiveness through cultural cohesion inside the firm in a way that allows the organization to be relentlessly and effectively focused on a external mission that it, and perhaps others, regard as universal and global, even if the organization is not. Because that seems somewhat parochial, organizations make moves to "diversify" and "globalize" (which are far from equivalent terms, but opposites in important ways), but smart organizations and smart leaders understand that this risks the internal culture of effectiveness. This is perhaps not obvious to Soros, because his formation is in finance and financial firms in which, as I suggested, there is a common denominator along with an objective that in many ways makes the internal financial firm closer to an internalized market than is ordinarily true of firms.
The intriguing question is whether human rights is, as a kind of parallel claim to universality, akin to finance as a common denominator. I have long thought that HRW was the Goldman Sachs of the NGO world – super-elite, highly rationalized, effective to the point that it appears to be able to make no mistakes, disciplined internally around a strictly rational objective shared by one and all in the firm. That's so despite the recent public relations (and more – upd.) mis-steps of both organizations. Universal human rights as the common denominator in the sense that GS takes finance as its common denominator. And yet … how to square that form of hyper-rationality as the basis for internal discipline and effectiveness with the equally strong sense that, in another way, both HRW and Goldman achieve their success in no small part because their internal culture, the non-rational part, is a shared and highly specific, indeed parochial, one of several generations of elite New York City Jews? A shared American Jewish culture of high achievement, a respect for education as simultaneously a means of culture and enlightenment and goodness but also worldly success, and all the many cultural things that make for the admirable success story of American Jewry?
And that combined with a particular culture of Jewish philanthropy across the generations in New York City, specifically. HRW has broadened its donor base, its base of support, its offices worldwide, all that stuff, over years and years, but one has to wonder whether, if Soros's gift has the intended effect, it has an unintended effect which can be described in two different ways. One is to say, in Coasean terms, that internal transaction and agency costs go up as the advantages of a uniform and shared internal business culture are diminished. The other way to put it – I'm quoting a former HRW executive board member from many years ago – what is lost when the organization, in support of its universal external mission, is no longer a "bunch of New York Jewish philanthropists and we all instinctively understand each other"?
This "shared cultural phenomenon," of course, is not simply a question for HRW and New York Jewish philanthropy. It comes up in many settings in the NGO world. A version of the same question, for example, is at the heart of the cultural identity of the International Committee of the Red Cross. It struggles with the same kinds of questions; universality in virtue of being a specific nationality that is itself characterized by its neutrality. And in the case of the ICRC, one can push the question back to "within" the Swiss identity, and the specifically Protestant and Genevan and haut bourgeois origins of the original committee (see Caroline Moorehead's excellent account of the origins of the ICRC, Dunant's Dream). The internal culture and the external mission; the specific interplay with ethnicity, nationality, and religion, and how these particularities and parochialisms influence the formation of the cultures of public service and philanthropy on which these organizations, with their universal missions, are so frequently founded and thrive – all of this plays out in many places and ways.
But in the case of the human rights movement, and HRW's hegemonic role within it … we gasp at Soros' generous $100 million gift; we should gasp, rather, at Ken Roth's ability to raise a $44 million annual budget year in and year out. The question of whether Soros' aim to transform HRW's internal culture will make the organization more effective or less in the long run is an important one. That leaves aside a whole different series of questions invoking many important controversies as to whether it properly conceives of its mission, what exactly it is today, and lots of other things, and focuses on one specific question, internal effectiveness to an external mission. I have many grounds of criticism of HRW which are left aside here. This narrow question of philanthropic effectiveness is important in its own right.
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