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Hurricane Irma Inspires Stay-at-Home Church Services
As Floridians bunkered up on Sunday morning awaiting Hurricane Irma, pastors conducted services from home and streamed live messages of hope online.
Quandary for Alabama Pastors: What to Say About Roy Moore
Congregants at the Church of the Highlands in the Birmingham suburbs heard a sermon on Sunday about being lost and found by God, but the scandal roiling the Alabama Senate race did not come up.
In Trump's Remarks, Black Churches See a Nation Backsliding
Congregants at Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church in Miami expressed distress on Sunday at President Trump's remarks denigrating Haiti.
In Cuomo-Nixon Showdown, Black Votes Are an Early Flashpoint
In recent days, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has held news conferences to highlight deteriorating conditions at New York City Housing Authority properties, as he did two weeks ago in the Bronx.
'I Know I Will Be Criticized': The Latino Evangelical Who Advises Trump on Immigration
The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, center, preached as congregants linked hands during a service at the New Season Christian Worship Center in Sacramento, Calif.
Where Today's Black Church Leaders Stand on Activism
The Rev. Charles E. Blake giving his sermon during Sunday service at the West Angeles Church of God in Christ in Los Angeles.
Evangelical Leaders Lament Border Separations, but Stand Behind Trump
The evangelist Franklin Graham has criticized the family separations taking place at the border but has not blamed President Trump's administration.
The Christian Right Adopts a 50-State Strategy
Jim Domen, front row, left, holding a picture of his family at a protest in Sacramento on June 12. Domen has been leading Church United, a group he founded with the aim of "helping pastors transform
An ICE Raid Leaves an Iowa Town Divided Along Faith Lines
The president's immigration policies created a sharp, unexpected fracture in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, after federal agents raided a concrete plant in the town. "Relationships and everything are all of a
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Turkey Resists Pressure to Release American Pastor From Jail
Philip Kosnett, chargé d'affaires at the United States Embassy in Turkey, said Wednesday that there was no indication that an American pastor detained in Turkey, Andrew Brunson, was guilty "of any
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If G.O.P. Loses Hold on Congress, Trump Warns, Democrats Will Enact Change 'Quickly and Violently'
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Our Strategy: Improving Together
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, our vision is
'Working together to provide
outstanding care for our community'
In 2018 we produced our Vision 2025—a strategy aimed at driving and directing our work for a decade. It has served us well, especially when faced with the rapid and radical challenges presented by the Covid pandemic.
It's the changes brought about by the pandemic, coupled with the new more integrated and collaborative health care landscape enshrined in the Health and Social Care Act, which prompted our decision to refresh our strategy.
We still aspire to work together to deliver outstanding care. But there has been a transformation in the way we develop and deliver that care, and it's happening on a scale and at a speed not seen before in the NHS.
It is vital that as we tackle the complexities and pace of this healthcare revolution, we do not lose sight of the individual needs of our patients. Our Improving Together Strategy ensures that they remain at the heart of everything we do.
Clinical Services Strategy
Our Clinical Services Strategy commits us to delivering outstanding, flexible and inclusive care in partnership with a range of health and social care agencies.
The strategy which is the result of lengthy engagement and input from key stakeholders including staff and patients, comes at a time of huge change, learning and transformation within the NHS.
The strategy will help the Trust's planning and investment decisions over the next decade and aims to:
- meet the evolving needs of the diverse communities we serve, many of whom have complex physical and mental healthcare needs
- continue developing integrated care with our local partners
- help tackle health inequalities and access
- focus on health prevention
Through the strategy, the Trust commits to using digital solutions to enable patients to access care in the right place, at the right time. We also recognise the need to create a highly skilled, multidisciplinary workforce and to maximise the opportunities created by working in partnership with neighbouring health and social care organisations.
Further commitments include astute stewardship of resources, and continuous monitoring of trends to identify population health needs and opportunities early.
The Strategy will be robust and flexible enough to accommodate future challenges as and when the need arises, so we will continue to engage with key stakeholders and communities to ensure this strategy remains meaningful and relevant.


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Front-month WTI crude prices are down 0.9% at $63.30, earlier printing a one-week low at $63.23. This extends the correction from the 5-month high seen last Tuesday at $64.79.
This 5-day dip could be interpret so far as a correction in a bull market. Prices still up by over 8% from month-ago levels, and are up by 39.4% on the year-to-date following what was the biggest quarterly rise in crude prices in Q1 in over 10 years. OPEC-led supply curtailment, US sanctions against Iranian and Venezuelan oil exports along with still-strong global demand have been underpinning the market.
From the technical perspective, USOIL is held well above an increasing 20-day SMA, while 50-day SMA also extends further to the upside confirming the bullish momentum rise. The daily momentum indicators slipped slightly, however they hold at the high positive area, suggesting that this looks like a small pause of the 3-month steep rally.
Hence as for the past 3 months, every pullback was well supported by bulls, the overall sentiment stays bullish unless there is a strong breakout of the 200-day SMA at $61.10. Intraday Support is held at $63.00, while the medium term one is set at 20-day SMA, at $61.60.
A move to the upside above last week's high at $64.70, could retest the next Resistance at $66.60 (January 2018 peak) and $68.80 (76.4% Fibonacci retracement set by the downleg from 77 highs).


Vaping: The Big Question- Is it Safe?
The vaping industry is one which has grown exponentially in recent years as more and more people are turning to e-cigarettes instead of smoking tobacco. Vaping has become so common, that some people even have started using e-cigarettes even though they did not previously smoke. Despite this growth, there is still a lot of debate as to whether or not it is safe.
Vaping: The Big Question – Is it Safe?
There is still a lot of research to be done on vaping, but studies currently show that it is a much healthier alternative to smoking tobacco. In fact, a study from Public Health England in 2015 revealed that it was a staggering 95% safer than smoking. As a result, the UK has endorsed these products as cessation aids. However, it is important to note that vaping is not entirely risk-free.
In order to understand what vaping does to the body, it is first important to define exactly what it is. Vaping is inhaling and exhaling water vapour produced from an electronic cigarette. This device contains an e-liquid that nicotine travels through, resulting in the user inhaling nicotine and an odorless vapour, as opposed to nicotine and the toxic chemicals that are produced as a result of smoking tobacco.
So, what does vaping do to your body? Although safer, you are still inhaling nicotine which is a cardiovascular stimulant. The good thing about e-cigarettes is that you can control the amount of nicotine, which allows people to gradually reduce the amount that they intake until they stop completely.
It is still not entirely clear about the vapour and chemicals emitted, but the current consensus is that it is a much healthier alternative but not entirely safe. This is why they are promoted as a cessation aid, much like a nicotine patch or gum.
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Whilst there is still research to be carried out, the majority agree that vaping is much safer than smoking tobacco and an excellent tool for helping people to gradually quit.


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Fair Trials Abroad
Fair Trials Abroad / Justice à l'étranger (FTA) is a London-based charity that works to promote fair trials according to international standards of justice and to defend the rights of those facing criminal charges in a country other than their own
Welcome to Fair Trials Abroad. If your fundamental rights have been abused under a foreign criminal justice system, please download our questionnaire, or go to the Need Help section for further information regarding the services we provide.
Fair Trials Abroad/Justice à l'étranger (FTA) works to ensure that those accused of a crime in a country other than their home country receive a just and fair trial.
FTA pursues its mission through individual casework and research at a strategic level, using patterns of discrimination and injustice that repeatedly arise in cases.
FTA is regularly invited to advise the European Union on matters of international justice and discrimination against EU citizens in a foreign country.
We actively campaign for:
Basic standards of justice according to Art. 5 and 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights to be applied throughout the European Union
Basic conditions of justice to be introduced and applied worldwide according to Art. 2 and 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The availability of state subsidy for effective legal assistance and a higher standard of interpretation or translation services for all EU citizens facing trial.
We also advocate:
An end to discrimination between national and non-national citizens by having a Eurobail system whereby nationals and non-nationals are offered provisional liberty on an identical basis.
Competent collection of evidence for all cases. Travellers continue to be convicted in the absence of substantive incriminating evidence.
We try to help you:
If you are having problems making contact with an effective lawyer, or seeing your consular representative
If you have not been brought to trial within a reasonable period
If you cannot understand what the authorities are saying to you or you are not given translations of all vital documents.
FTA aims to:
Advise and assist citizens to assert their legal rights under international law at all stages from arrest and investigation to conclusion of the trial process.
Protect the rights of EU citizens caught up in breaches of justice in a foreign country by raising the issues with national and EU authorities so that the miscarriage of justice may be addressed.
Advise democratically elected representatives( e.g. Member of Parliament, Member of the European Parliament) on policy and individual constituency case-work).
Assist and advise on pardons and other means of obtaining the victim's release in cases where there has been a breach of their legal rights.
FTA was launched by British lawyer Stephen Jakobi OBE in 1994
Fair Trials Abroad is a Registered Charity No. 1079079
This page explains the ways in which Fair Trials Abroad/ Justice à l'étranger (FTA) can help prisoners and their families in an emergency.
If you are a European citizen facing a criminal conviction abroad and you believe the accusations against you are unfounded we would like to hear more about your case. Simply print off the Online Client Questionnaire, complete it and send it to the address on the questionnaire by fax or post. We cannot accept e-mailed copies unless your signature has been scanned in. We will then assess if and how we can help you.
If you are an EU citizen and have been arrested or charged with a crime in any country other than your own, and if your legal rights have been or are in danger of being violated;
FTA can:
Help you find an effective criminal defence lawyer
Liaise with the lawyer on your behalf
Give general advice on international law and procedures
Monitor procedures and developments in your case
FTA cannot:
Find money for prisoners
Pay for services for them
Tackle welfare problems on prisoners' behalf.*
*For this you should contact your local Consul. You may also contact specialist prisoner-welfare agencies such as Prisoners Abroad (UK), or Españoles en el Mundo (Spain). Your Ministry of Foreign Affairs will also provide information.
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If you own an empty garage and wondering how you can make use of it, we have found a few ideas that you may want to consider. For example, a relaxing and fun environment could be the solution, especially for families. Your garage can be turned into a bar, pool game, cinema or whatever you desire! To help you transform your garage, we have provided the following DIY tips to help you create the perfect garage space.
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Most garage space tends to have cold surroundings. So it is important that insulation is in place as this will keep your space warm and cosy especially during the winter. Be aware that insulation can be costly, however, you can still save a lot of money in the longer run.
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Roulette is played by the dealer spinning a wheel with 37 or 38 numbered slots in which a ball may land. Players can place a variety of bets based on the ball's final resting place.
As we said above, a European roulette wheel has 37 slots numbered from 0 to 36 (an American roulette wheel has an extra slot – the double zero). Each number from 1 to 36 also has a colour, either red or black (zero is green). When the dealer spins the wheel, a ball bounces around until it falls into one of the slots. This is then the winning number for that game.
Quick start – jump straight in!
There are many ways to play roulette online but why not get right in there – choose red or black, or odd or even to double your stack, or go for your lucky number and it's on for the big win! (All numbers pay out 35-1 if you hit).
Roulette bets are placed by putting chips on the betting area next to the wheel. You'll see all the numbers in a grid together with other boxes around the outside. These all represent the different bets you can make.
So what other bets can I place?
In roulette, there are two main kinds of bet – outside bets, and inside bets.
Red or black – an even money bet where you bet on the colour of the number where the ball rests.
Odd or Even – an even money bet where you bet on whether the winning number is odd or even.
High or Low – the final even money bet where you bet on the whether the winning number is high (19 to 36) or low (1 to 18).
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> News > Sierra Leone Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes partnership with American EPA
Sierra Leone Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes partnership with American EPA
The Executive Chairman of the Environment Protection Agency, Sierra Leone, Prof. Foday Moriba Jaward, last week met with officials of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in a move to establish a strong partnership between the two institutions.
The meeting took place in the third regional office of the United States Environment Protection Agency in Philadelphia. The idea behind such a plausible venture is to seek international support in the area of capacity building to address some of the many challenges facing the EPA-SL.
Prof. Jaward spoke about the environmental governance framework in Sierra Leone and possible areas of intervention and the important strides the government of Sierra Leone is making to improve environmental protection and management in the country.He informed his US counterparts that Sierra Leone's environmental protection was saddled with enormous challenges and that the government of president Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio was working hard to ameliorate these challenges.
The Sierra Leone EPA Jaward said, is in dire need of staff capacity building in the form of training and equipment – particularly in the area of air, water, waste management and pesticide control. He further intimated the US EPA that training materials are inadequate, and for which urgent attention is required.
The Chairman added that further training is also required on key environmental issues at the local level, so that the public would be better positioned to contribute meaningfully to sound environmental management in the country.
Professor Jaward further noted that, given the high rate of illiteracy in the country, environmental education and awareness would form a key priority during his tenure as head of the EPA-SL. He stated that the president's unwavering commitment to ensuring quality education for all Sierra Leoneans is an important step towards sustainable environmental management in Sierra Leone.
Mr. John Armstead of the US Environmental Protection Agency Region 3, spoke about the structural and legal framework of the US EPA, noting that the US EPA's mission is to "protect public health and environment".
Mr. Armstead went on to state that the US EPA was created in 1970 and that the institution has ten regional offices across the country that mirrors its headquarters in Washington.
He said that the US Congress has given USEPA the authority to implement environmental laws and provide funding for the implementation of those laws; and that the US-EPA works with state governments to implement its programmes across the United States.
Mr. John Armstead added that the US EPA has conducted training programmes at international level and that their focus is on waste, air and water pollution. He noted that "heightening awareness without having capacity will be failure", adding that " there should be equal investment in public education and capacity building in the same area, so that there is a response (on the part of the public) as the awareness increases".
An official of the US EPA Headquarters, Office of International and Tribal Affairs, Ms. Theresa Kuklinski, promised to avail the EPA-SL a "public participation toolkit" that would be very instrumental in promoting public cooperation and awareness.
Ms. Theresa Kuklinski admonished the Executive Chairman of the SLEPA to involve Peace Corp volunteers in Sierra Leone in EPA-SL projects, since Peace Corps have established strong ties with local communities in the country. She also intimated Prof Jaward that the US EPA currently has projects in major cities in some African countries – including Ethiopia and Ghana.
A partnership with such a leading environmental institution in the US would no doubt be beneficial to the EPA-SL and to the country as a whole, which Prof. Jaward is poised to achieve.
Since he took over as Executive Chairman of the EPA-SL, Prof. Jaward has engaged several development partners including multilateral environmental agencies, with a view to foster cooperation and improve Sierra Leone's environmental landscape, a move that is germane to development and the promotion of the objectives of the New Direction.
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Microsoft's latest interoperability pledge: How free is 'open' now?
By Tarun,
February 24, 2008 in Backpage News
No move by Microsoft to share information with its competitors will ever be taken at face value, and certainly yesterday's new Interoperability Principle will come under very close scrutiny. Is this the opening of the floodgates the EC has been demanding?
In incremental, measured, if slow steps, Microsoft has made some efforts to comply with directives from the European Commission to make its software and protocols more interoperable with products from other manufacturers. Yesterday, the company surrendered one more boundary between its interoperability policy and the EC's dream situation, making a huge chunk of the information it published in response to the EC's order available to developers free of charge.
"We're announcing that developers will not need to take a license, or pay a royalty, or other fee to access any of that information," revealed CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday (according to Microsoft's transcript). "As an immediate first step to apply the principles today we're publishing to the Web over 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows client and server protocols that were previously available only under a 4D trade secret license. In addition, protocol documents for additional products like Office 2007 will be published in the upcoming months."
The company's newly published Interoperability Principle spells out the terms to which Ballmer referred: "Microsoft will publish its documentation for these Open Protocols and Open APIs on its website so that all developers will have the benefit of this technical information in a manner that takes advantage of the nature of open discussion on the web. Microsoft will not require developers to obtain a license, or to pay a royalty or other fee, to have access to all this information."
But free access, the Principle makes clear, does not mean free use. While Microsoft will no longer charge fees or royalties for parties seeking information on how to make their software interoperable, it may yet charge royalties for the way others use that information.
"Some of Microsoft's Open Protocols are covered by patents," reads the Principle. "Microsoft will indicate on its website which protocols are covered by Microsoft patents and will license all of these patents on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, at low royalty rates. To assist developers in clearly understanding whether or not Microsoft patents may apply to any of the protocols, Microsoft will make available a list of the specific Microsoft patents and patent applications that cover each protocol."
The use of APIs to access those protocols, however, will not require a license, even if the service with which software is communicating is itself protected by Microsoft patents. So the company is making it clear, interoperability will not require licenses or incur fees, but like operability (building a product using a design inspired by Microsoft's patented IP) may very well.
The Principle does specify the products to which it applies: "Windows Vista including the .NET Framework, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007, and future versions of these products." Previous editions of those products were not listed.
But while Ballmer and others referred to Office 2007 interoperability yesterday, there actually was no mention of Open Document Format, the basis of competing applications suites and the first such format to receive international standardization. Microsoft did open up access -- or at least, open it up somewhat more -- to its principal current products, so it did specify the "to what" part of the change argument, to borrow Rep. Barbara Jordan's famous phrase once again. But it did not specify the "from what."
Thus the status of an ODF plug-in for Office 2007 was not clarified yesterday, even though some got the impression that's what Ballmer was referring to.
More calls on Microsoft to open up even more.
The absence of any such mention was not lost on Red Hat chief counsel Michael Cunningham, in a response posted to his company's Web site yesterday afternoon.
"Rather than pushing forward its proprietary, Windows-based formats for document processing, OOXML," Cunningham wrote, "Microsoft should embrace the existing ISO-approved, cross-platform industry standard for document processing, Open Document Format (ODF) at the International Standards Organization's meeting next week in Geneva. Microsoft, please demonstrate implementation of an existing international open standard now rather than make press announcements about intentions of future standards support."
But Linux Foundation board member and attorney Andrew Updegrove thought yesterday's announcement was about ODF, in a sense...for the way in which it skillfully omitted mention of it.
"With respect to ODF, it will be important to see what kind of plug ins are made available, how they may be deployed, and also how effective (or ineffective) those translators may be," Updegrove said yesterday, in a statement shared with BetaNews. "If they are not easy for individual Office users to install, or if their results are less than satisfactory, then this promise will sound hopeful but deliver little. I am disappointed that the press release does not, as I read it, indicate that Microsoft will ship Office with a 'save to' ODF option already installed. This means that ODF will continue to be virtually the only important document format that Office will not support 'out of the box."'
The fact that Microsoft's making any movement in this direction at all, Updegrove added, is an indication to him that "multiple market forces" -- which, he said, included the EC investigation and the popular uprising of ODF support -- "are pushing and pulling Microsoft in a direction that it would have been highly unlikely to travel otherwise."
Yesterday's statement from the European Commission apparently was intended to serve as a reminder to everyone, including Microsoft, that its definition of "interoperability" is deeper than the mere dissemination of APIs. It said its current investigations are focused on "the alleged illegal refusal by Microsoft to disclose sufficient interoperability information across a broad range of products, including information related to its Office suite, a number of its server products, and also in relation to the so called .NET Framework and on the question whether Microsoft's new file format Office Open XML, as implemented in Office, is sufficiently interoperable with competitors' products."
Microsoft's APIs, as defined yesterday, provide open access by software with other software for the purposes of sharing information and functionality -- which is actually the way professional developers typically understand APIs and interoperability to work. But the legal definition is often fuzzier, as indicated by the EC's reminder yesterday that Microsoft needs to make its OOXML file format -- as opposed to Office 2007, the software which utilizes the format -- "sufficiently interoperable."
That would require not an API as Ballmer describes it but a plug-in as Updegrove describes it. Microsoft has said it is participating with open, community efforts to produce such plug-ins, though critics continue to question why the company doesn't just produce one on its own. Backers of Microsoft's efforts pose the counter-argument that it shouldn't be Microsoft's responsibility to ensure one-to-one correlation between its own format and every other one that comes along, whether or not it's an international standard.
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Microsoft is trying todo the least possible.
It doesn't want to be open, it is just being forced to comply with European Commission. So it tries to comply, but just barely enough to get passed.'
Often to get the open specifications, you cant just read them on the internet on Microsoft's website, no you have to purchase them in papercopies for a large sum of money.
It is supposed to be open, but you have to agree to a license. That license often forbids open source implementations.
Zxian
I'm with the "Backers of Microsoft's efforts" here. Has anyone asked the makers of Wordperfect to stand up to interoperability scrutiny? Anyone asked Apple to make the Quicktime format interoperable (I'd love to see the day...)?
You can't just jump on the back of the giant demanding that they comply with the world.
Because nobody uses or cares about WordPerfect.
I am sure there are people who are not happy with QuickTime, among them - me.
Of course, people will will demand more from giants with products that are well known.
Yes, you can jump on the back of the giant demanding that they comply with the world.
People should be able to choose what software they use, there should be many products and people should be able to choose the one they want. There should be open formats and open protocols built upon open standards without vendor lock-in.
Software should be interoperable so that people can have a free choice of what to use. Anything else is anti-competitive and wrong.
The European Commission is doing the right thing. I hope they put more pressure and harder demands to ensure a healthy market with free competition, free choice, open standards and interoperability.
Actually... making these formats interoperable is making things less competitive. A file format has just as much impact on a product's performance as the program that runs it. When I moved over to Office 2007, I took a 150 page report that I had written in Word 2003 (came to about 4.7MB) and resaved it in .docx format. The result - 1.8MB. If you can release a product that saves over 60% in terms of disk space - that's your doing, and not something that you should be forced to share with the rest of the world.
Competition is what helps keep prices down and production quality up. By forcing the playing field to be level, you're infact going to end up driving costs up and productivity down. There's less reason for developers to make the best possible product.
Let me put this another way. What if we were to go to Coca-Cola and demand that they release the formula for what I believe is the world's most popular soft drink? What about WD-40? These companies would be absolutely destroyed, since their primary secret (and the only reason why they're in business) can now be made by just about anyone.
No, interoperability doesn't make things less competitive. When the whole world uses a file format, it becomes impossible for someone else to compete with a product that has its own file format and is unable to read the commonly most known file format. When someone sends you a file, you would be required to install that program, so it wouldn't be very possible for someone to live without for example Microsoft Office, if there were no other software that could read that file format. And if you had a software with another file format, then it would be very difficult for you to send it to others, since they wouldn't be able to view it, without installing additional software, which they most likely would be reluctant todo.
You can't compare it with Coca-Cola because anybody can make a softdrink and sell it, there is no vendor lock-in effect.
Proprietary file formats actually harm competition. Thinking that it benefit competition is just absurd.


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Are you at a loss of what the menu should be for your next dinner? Or are you planning to lose those extra pounds and eat healthy this summer? Most people love to have salads in their meals either as starters, full meals or as side dishes. Also salads are greatly loved by vegetarians as they are full of various fruits and vegetables. These sorts of foods not only enable your stomach to get filled up instantly but also help in getting rid of extra fat on your body.
Broad bean salad is a flavorsome dish that is prepared in no time. You can give several variations to this recipe by adding different ingredients or can serve it as a chilled salad. You can also serve it at room temperature and can even add more spices in it depending upon your taste and requirement.
Utensils: Salad Serving Bowl, Salad Serving Spoon, Standard Chopping Knife, Chopping Board.
Before getting started, it is important to make sure that all the vegetables are fresh and are washed properly.
Combine all the ingredients including broad beans, chopped tomatoes, onion rings, chopped cucumber and mashed garlic and add lime juice. Let all the ingredients marinate together and mix them well.
Season it mint, parsley, salt and grounded black pepper. The salad is ready to be served.
But before that, make sure you have put it in a nice, presentable bowl to complement the taste with its presentation.


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Пісенний конкурс Євробачення 1958 став 3-м конкурсом пісні Євробачення. Він пройшов 12 березня 1958 року в Гілверсумі, Нідерланди. Як і минулого року участь взяло 10 країн, однак Велика Британія цього разу не брала участі. Єдиним новачком стала Швеція, а виграла конкурс Франція з піснею Dors mon amour у виконанні Андре Клаво.

Як і в 1956 році, на конкурсі не було виконано жодної пісні англійською.

Переможниця першого конкурсу Ліз Ассія брала участь в «Євробаченні» в третій раз, посівши друге місце. Торішня переможниця Коррі Броккен, також беручи участь в третій раз, зайняла лише останнє місце.

Представник Італії Доменіко Модуньо, який виступав із згодом знаменитою піснею «Nel blu dipinto di blu» («Volare»), був змушений виконати свій номер двічі, так як під час його першого виходу на сцену в деяких країнах виникли проблеми з прийомом телесигналу.

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Журі не перебували в студії, як це було в 1956-му, а як в 1957 — залишалося в своїх країнах. Після кожної пісні журі відправляли результати голосування за допомогою телефону. Представнику Італії Доменіко Модуньо довелося виконати свою пісню двічі через проблеми з прийомом телесигналу.

Кожна країна мала по 10 суддів, кожен з яких міг віддати один голос пісні, що сподобалася.

 — пісня переможця.

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Місце проведення
Гілверсум (нід. Hilversum — громада і місто в Нідерландах, на сході провінції Північна Голландія, в місцевості Ет-Хой (нід. Het Gooi). На території громади знаходиться перша телевізійна станція країни — Nederland 1.

Гілверсум складається з 15 районів: Centrum, Trompenberg, Boomberg, Nimrodpark, Hilversum-Noord (часто просто називається «За залізницею» і включає De Lieberg, Erfgooiersbuurt, Wetenschapsbuurt, Astronomische buurt), de Kerkelanden / Zeverijn, Hilversum-Zuid, Bloemenbuurt, de Schrijversbuurt, de Schildersbuurt, de Indische buurt, De Hoorneboeg, Crailo, Van Riebeeckkwartier і Hilversumse Meent. На південному заході знаходяться озерний порт і аеродром, біля нього — колишня тренувальна база Військово-Морського флоту, зараз передана медичним військам.

Хільверсюм лежить в піщаній горбистій частині Ет-Хою серед вересових пусток. Станція Хільверсюм розташована на залізничній гілці Амстердам — аеропорт Схіпгол — Амерсфорт, від якої тут відгалужується гілка на Утрехт. Крім центральної станції (нід. Hilversum (Centraal)), в межах міста розташовані також платформи Гілверсум Норд (нід. Hilversum Noord) і Гілверсум Спортпарк (нід. Hilversum Sportpark). Місто лежить поблизу перетину Емнес (нід. Eemnes) автострад А1 і А27.

Вибір місця проведення чергового Євробачення припав на студію «АВРО» (нід. Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep)

Посилання

 http://www.esctoday.com
 http://www.eurovision.tv

Євробачення
1958 у телебаченні
1958 у Європі
Березень 1958
Культура Північної Голландії

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Q: Logstash with XML file We are using logstash to read an xml file. This xml file is generated when a Jenkins pipeline build commences and is written to with build data during the pipeline execution. We use file input mode 'read'.
CURRENT BEHAVIOR:
The xml file is created when the Jenkins pipeline starts. Logstash discovers this xml file, reads it, logs it, and does not return to the xml file again.
PROBLEM:
Logstash has read the xml file prematurely and misses all the subsequent data that is written to it.
DESIRED BEHAVIOR:
Logstash allows us to apply some condition to tell it when to read the xml file. Ideally a trigger would tell logstash the xml file is completed and ready to be read and logged.
We want this to work with file input mode 'read'. The xml file is written to for around 1.5 hours.
Is there a filter, plugin or some other functionally that will allow logstash to return to the xml file when it is modified?

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dictFeederParams – set the directory you created for "Person"
outputASName - the Lookup annotations are created in this set – "Person"
When the gazetteer initializes for the first time, it will look for a file named query.txt in the folder set in the dictFeederParams. The gazetteer will read the query from there and initialize its dictionary. Both SPARQL and SeRQL can be used. When you design your query, it is important to use the exact order and meaning of the query parameters - label, instance URI, direct class. The names are not important.
The outputASName is set to "Person". This means that the gazetteer will create its Lookup annotations in this annotation set. This is how you will differentiate between the recognized concepts by this gazetteer and other gazetteers.
Afterwards, save the application state to KIM/context/default/resources/IE.gapp.


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Farmer's Almanac Essay Contest – ALL ages!
Announcing the 2010 Farmer's Almanac Essay Contest Topic: The Kindest Thing Anyone Ever Did for Me.
In 200 words or less, please tell us about an act of kindness that you experienced.
Include your name, mailing address and em-mail address. Winners will be announced in The 2011 Old Farmer's Almanac and on Almanac.com/Contests.


Lovells is an unincorporated community in the township on the north branch of the Au Sable River. The elevation is 1162 feet above sea level. It is about 15 miles northeast of Grayling, although the trip via indirect county roads is considerably longer. The population was 626 at the 2010 census. It is home to the annual Lovells Bridge Walk event.


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Singapore's January annual inflation increases, exceeds expectations
RTT News
Singapore's annual inflation in January recorded highest growth since March 1982 and exceeded economists' expectations, official data showed Monday.
The Department of Statistics announced that annual inflation stood at 6.6% in January, up from 4.4% in December. Annual inflation far exceeded the 5.6% expected by economists.
Among the various factors affecting the increase in consumer prices, housing costs jumped 11.1% year-on-year in January, while transportation and communication charges were up 6.9%. Food prices, on the other hand, grew 5.8% in January.
Based on the report of the statistical department, consumer prices rose 1.3% month-on-month in January, while on a seasonally adjusted basis, the monthly increase in the CPI was 1.5%.
On a monthly basis, food prices had a 1.1% increase, which was largely due to greater demand for food items, especially pork, ahead of the Lunar New Year period in early February.
Housing costs marked a 4.1% increase over the month in January. Education and stationery costs grew 2.5%.
The 3-month moving average inflation rose 0.8% month-on-month in January, the report added.
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Singapore Jan CPI seen at new multi-year high as food, transport costs rise
Pearl Bantillo
Thomson Financial
Singapore's consumer price index likely rose to another multi-year high in January as costs of food and transportation escalated, economists said.
The 2-percentage point hike in the goods and services tax, which took effect July 2007, may have also continued to lift consumer prices.
Four economists polled by Thomson Financial had forecast annual inflation in the city-state to come in at between 4.5-5.6 percent for January. In December inflation accelerated to a 25-year high of 4.4 percent.
Consumer prices probably rose between 0.3-0.8 percent in January from the previous month, according to the poll.
The Department of Statistics will release the CPI data at midday.
'Little respite [is] expected on Singapore's inflation front in the near term, especially ahead of the Chinese New Year festive season,' said Selena Ling, economist at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp.
The Lunar New Year fell on the first week of Februay.
'We would have a lot of food price pressures coming from the region. China was hit,' said Vishnu Varathan, economist at Forecast. 'Food inflation in the region has been very persistent so that would be one prime source of inflation.'
China's CPI rose 7.1 percent in January from a year earlier, the highest in more than 11 years, largely due to food supply disruptions caused by snowstorms in the mainland.
Singapore's inflation last month may come in at 5.5 percent, on account of higher property tax payable that come with the revision of annual values of properties, said Alvin Liew, economist at Standard Chartered Bank.
The Singapore government recognized the strong inflationary pressures building in the economy, prompting it to raise its inflation forecast for this year to 4.5-5.5 percent from 3.5-4.5 percent. Inflation averaged 2.1 percent in 2007.
But the Monetary Authority of Singapore – the de facto central bank – has said its monetary policy of allowing a gradual and modest appreciation of the Singapore dollar's nominal effective exchange rate remains appropriate.
The MAS reins in inflation by managing the movement of the Singapore dollar nominal effective exchange rate against a basket of trade-weighted currencies. A policy of modest to gradual appreciation of the Singapore dollar has long been maintained, with a slight tightening bias adopted in October last year when inflation started creeping up.
Forecast's Varathan said while Singapore's inflation will likely peak above 6 percent and could even top 7 percent in April, the MAS is unlikely to tighten its monetary policy given the strong downside risks to the economy if the US economy significantly slows this year.
'While they may still play the Singapore dollar at the top end of the [trading] band to keep inflation in check, I do not see them raising the midpoint and I don't see them steepening the band just yet. They probably would want to have a good measure of caution and not want to tighten,' said Varathan.
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A modular, electrochemical water purification unit that utilizes redox-active electrodes to remove organic contaminants and salts from polluted streams.
High-quality, low-cost system powered by renewable energy providing potable water to communities in need.
Currently, a tenth of the global population lacks access to safe drinking water. There is, therefore, a need to invest in new water treatment technologies that are low‐cost and low‐energy‐consumption to make clean water accessible to resource constrained communities. We propose to develop a modular, electrochemical water purification unit that utilizes redox-active electrodes to remove organic contaminants and salts from polluted streams and treat the waste stream that can be powered by renewable energy sources. Our goal is to deliver a system that achieves significant performance and cost improvement compared to existing treatment systems, providing potable water to communities in need.


MMC has a team of committed professionals to take MMC to greater heights.
He holds a bachelor of pharmacy degree. He heads the company's production operations in two plants with 30 Years experience in pharmaceutical field. He is also an Executive committee member of Himachal Pradesh Drug Manufacturers Association and Executive committee member of Confederation of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry.
He holds a bachelor of pharmacy degree. He has vast international business experience in pharmaceutical field. His area of expertise includes indenting and Sourcing for pharmaceutical global businesses.
He holds a bachelor of pharmacy degree and he has a vast experience in the field of pharma sales and marketing. He heads MMC's strong marketing force and is the man behind the company's innovative and dynamic marketing strategies. He also heads the company's finance operations. He Is Holding The Position Of Chairman Of Indian Drug Manufacturers Association, Tamilnadu State Board and Executive Committee member of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, Tamilnadu and a Special invitee for IDMA, Mumbai.
He is academically strong with B.Pharm from JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty and MBA from IGNOU. Having 23 years of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Sales experience in various companies like USV, OTSIRA GENETICA,Dr.REDDY'S,ORDIAN HEALTHCARE and DELVIN FORMULATIONS. Besides Indian markets he has exposure in international marketing and worked in countries like UAE, SRILANKA and GHANA. His functional areas include SALES/MARKETING/TRAINING/PRODUCT MANAGEMENT/FIELD FORCE EFFECTIVENESS and FIELD FORCE AUTOMATION. Besides playing Badminton and Table Tennis his hobbies includes playing Drums,Drawing and Painting. Currently he joined as DGM-Sales in M/s. MMC HEALTHCARE LTD based at CHENNAI.
He is a science graduate with about 20 years of rich field experience in Companies like Eros Pharma, Emcee Pharma, etc. He was a MR with Eros Pharma, and then joined emcee Pharma as a first line manager incharge of South & Western Orissa, then joined MMC in 2001 as a business Executive, and going many awards for his best sales performances. Promoted as RSM for the State of Orissa in 2003, and then in 2005 as ZSM incharge of Orissa, Andhra, and Chatisgarh & Jharkand. In 2012 he got promoted as Sales Manager North & East, incharge of UP also, in addition to above states.
Mr. Shivakumar B. is a B.Com graduate with wide pharma experience of 12 years in various companies like M/s. Noel Pharmaceuticals, M/s. Pharmed etc., at the time of joining us in the year 2004 as Regional Sales Manager. During his period as Regional Sales Manager his region Karnataka has won All India Topper performer region twice. With his sheer efforts and performance recently in the year 2013-14 he has been promoted to the position as Sales Manager – South west.
He started his career in sales with M/s.BROKE BOND INDIA and fascinated to become a Medical Representative. Got a offer in M/s.CITADEL FINE PHARMACEUTICALS as a Medical Representative in Andra Pradesh. In Citadel awarded All India Topper in Sales and achieved Star performer Award for Continuous 7 Years. Worked in various HQ of Tamil Nadu and got promoted as ASM and RSM in Citadel.
Joined in MMC as BDM and based on the performances got promoted as SALES MANAGER based at CHENNAI.
Mr.Rakesh Kumar Mishra is an Honors in Economics and started his carrier as Medical Representative at AMBIKAPUR-Chhattisgarh HQ and for some time at Bilaspur HQ. In 2004 got opportunity to launch M/s.ALMET HEALTHCARE LTD in entire ODHISHA State. Promoted as RSM for Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand in the same company. Joined MMC in Dec 2009 and registered growth year after year. For his performance he was rewarded and promoted as Deputy Sales Manager based at Raipur looking after Madya Pradesh,Chhatisgarh and Jkarkhand.
A B.Sc (BIO) graduate having more than 15 years experience. Started his career as MR with M/s.UNIMARCK PHARMA and served companies like OVERSEAS, SEAGUL and KHANDELWAL.
Got a career growth as AREA SALES MANAGER with M/s.OCTANE BIOTECH at Varanasi HQ. Served M/s.Themis Medicare as ASM based at Varanasi HQ and awarded best ASM in UP with all HQ's and AREA achieving more than 100% of targets. With consistent performance got promoted as Regional Sales Manager based at Varanasi. In 2011 joined M/s.MMC HEALTHCARE LTD as RSM to launch the Company at UP. With consistent performances as a policy of rewarding people MMC promoted him as Zonal Sales Manager for entire UP. He was further promoted as DEPUTY SALES MANAGER based at Varanasi.
A B. Pharm graduate is a confident, and creative marketing professional with over 14 years of rich experience in Pharma Industry. He has worked as a MR with Torrent Pharma, was handling PMT in Companies like Mano Pharma, Grandix, and then in East West Pharma, before joining MMC three years ago. He is heading the product Management Department in MMC successfully. He is recognized for decisive leadership and proven ability to face challenges head-on and execute sound decisions while directing product launches.
A post graduate in science started career in Pharma selling in the year 1968. Had the opportunities to work in reputed pharma companies viz. Warner Hindustan, Glaxo, Concept, MJ pharmaceuticals and Citadel Fine Pharmaceuticals. After retiring as Zonal Sales Manager in Citadel for West zone, joined MMC Healthcare in 2006 and looking after Training & Development of people.
Mr.MEENAKSHI SUNDARAM has started his carrier as Medical Representative. Having more than 35 years experience in Pharma Industry. Worked in companies like GUFIC, MODI MUNDI PHARMA, ALBERT DAVID, AJANTHA and WALTER BUSHNELL. Currently he is looking after HR AND ADMIN.
Bachelor of Commerce graduate with MBA (HRM). About 8 years of working experience in Senior Executive level in Citadel Fine Pharmaceutical & Thomas Cook – Travel hospitality industry administration activities. Joined MMC Healthcare Limited as Administration & HR manager since 2006. Developed new HR activities and initiated HR policies motivating people to make the atmosphere a great place to work.
A science graduate with PG Diploma in material management and computer applications. He has a clean track record of experience in pharmaceutical distribution management. He has been working with us since 2007 and his contribution for the progress of sale is noteworthy.
Master degree in Pharmacy having 10 years experience in regulatory affairs, involved in all stages of drug development and also following act and rules in order to ensure safety and efficacy of the drug.
Master of Pharmacy specialized with Pharmaceutical chemistry. About 12 years working experience in Pharmaceutical analytical laboratories. Handling the sophisticated instruments like HPLC,GC, IR & UV-Visible Spectrophotometer. Developing analytical methods for various Pharmaceutical products.
Bachlor of Pharmacy graduate. About 15 years working experience in Pharmaceutical Production. Production experience in various dosage forms of Pharmaceutical products like Tablets, Capsules, Powders, Liquid Orals & Injectables.
Master degree in Pharmacy having 20 years experience in Pharmaceutical Formulation Research & Development of Solid oral (tablets, soft gelatin capsules, and hard gelatin capsules), Liquid oral, External (ointment, cream, lotion) dosage forms and developed many new products for Indian and International market. Winner of Scientific Excellence Award (SEA – Oct 09-Dec 09) for excellent performance in Formulation Development department in Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited. Experienced and developed herbal and neutraceutical products.
Mr. G.K. Venkateswaran Consultant – Company Affairs.
MMC has adopted a people oriented policy giving emphasis on productivity combined with appropriate rewards and recognition. The main slogan of the Company is "Let us grow together".


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Louisville to Honor Armed Forces during Veteran's Day Salute
Cards' Annual Military Appreciation Game on Nov. 12 will unveil POW/MIA Chair of Honor and debut new adidas "Young Patriot" Uniforms
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville and adidas today unveiled the 'Young Patriot' pack, featuring the Primeknit alternate football uniform and the adizero 5-Star 6.0 x KEVLAR® and FREAK x KEVLAR® cleats. The special edition pack pays homage to the nation's active duty members and veterans, while creating a bold alternate look for the Cardinals for their game against Wake Forest on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m.
The game serves as Louisville's annual Military Appreciation Game salute to honor those who serve and have served in the United States Armed Forces. Over 1,500 tickets have been generously donated by BAE Systems of Louisville and Humana to distribute to active duty soldiers, Veterans, and their families.
During the game, Papa John's Cardinal Stadium will dedicate an unoccupied chair that is to remain perpetually empty. The Chair of Honor will pay tribute to the more than 91,000 service members who are POW and MIA since World War I – including current POWs.
The Chair of Honor, which will be permanently installed on the east terrace, will be accompanied by a plaque that reads: "This unoccupied chair honors those who are Prisoners of War (POW) or Missing in Action (MIA) and symbolizes there will always be a place in this stadium awaiting their return. You will never be forgotten. Dedicated November 2016 by the University of Louisville Cardinals."
The chair symbolizes that those still listed as Prisoner of War or Missing in Action will always have a seat awaiting them at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium when they return home.
Other Military Appreciation Game tributes will include a special welcome to the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs, in-game recognition of UofL student veterans (current students at UofL who have or are currently serving), and fan interactions with the Kentucky National Guard display vehicles in Bud Light StreetFest. Additional activities throughout the game will be conducted.
http://www.gocards.com/news/2016/11/1/football-louisville-to-honor-armed-forces-during-veterans-day-salute.aspx
League Board Member, Cindy Stonebraker, presenting the POW/MIA flag to local businesses. The first is to the Kentucky New Era Media group, who print six different papers to include the Ft. Campbell Courier and The Eagle Post. Pictured are the Editor Taylor Hayes and Vice President Sheryl Ellis.
Next is to the New Hopkinsville Brewery, which is Veteran owned.
Also a flag was presented to Murph's Country Music Barn, in Cedar Hill Tennessee.
From Tommy Clack, President/Chairman of the Board WALK OF HEROES/Veterans War Memorial
9/10/16 POW/MIA Program, at our WALK OF HEROES/Veterans War Memorial, we and the GA Vietnam Vets/Legacy Vets Motorcycle Club provided the community with the opportunity to participate in a public POW/MIA Ceremony. Col. Wayne Waddell (Former Vietnam War POW) introduced our Key Note Speaker, Ms. JoAnne Shirley.
Additionally, we dedicated a 14″ x 18″ Bronze Plaque to honor JoAnne and Rudy Shirley and Christine Jones for their multi-decade of involvement in the POW/MIA Issue.
You can see more at:
WALK OF HEROES/Veterans War Memorial www.walkofheroes.org
League Family Member and Former League Board Member, Colleen Shine.
Virtual Tour of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Take a virtual tour of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to learn more about The Wall and all of the elements that make up the memorial.
Virtual Tour of the Vietnam Memorial