The first of the sights in Dubrovnik we've chosen, are city walls which have surrounded and protected the city and citizens of Croatia from imposters and are a major landmark of the city and the country. They have suffered a lot of modifications and additions through the history and because of that they are considered as one of the great fortification systems in the Middle Ages. These are a major attraction in this town, which attract a lot of visitors because it is one of the most preserved fortification complexes in Europe. The walls are long 1940 meters on which are located sixteen towers and five forts.
Here you can also find bastions. On these walls is also the second most attractive museum which is in open air. These walls are open for visitors in all periods of the year. The walls have three entrances the first is next to the St Lukes Church located on the east, the second is next to St. Saviors Church at the Pile entrance to the old city and the last is next to the Maritime Museum which is located at St John's Fort. If you take a walk along these city walls you will see the wonderful forts which were used to defend the Republic of Dubrovnik.
In Dubrovnik were built five forts Bokar, Minceta and St John in the complex of the city walls, while the other two were built outside the walls like Revelin in the east and Lovrjenac in the west. The fort Minceta, located on the highest point of Dubrovnik protected this city from the north. It was a symbol of defense and the flag here was waved all the time. In the southwest is the fort Bokar which is in the corner of the city walls turned towards the Lovernjac. It was built in the 15th century for protecting the small City harbor from the west: the Pile Bridge and the moat.
Nowadays here you can find collections of stone fragments. St John's Fort is a fort built in 1346 for protection of the southeast. On the ground of the fort is located an aquarium while on the first and second floor is the Maritime Museum. Also this fort also has a lighthouse on the top called Porporela- meeting place of lovers and also bathing place for the residents. From this lighthouse we can see the Fort Revelin stinting in the eastern, outside the city walls. One wooden bridge and a stone connect this fort with the land and another stone bridge connects it with the city. Surrounded with the wall, forts and the sea Dubrovnik was difficult to take over.
Although Revelin was constructed very early it has not been as big as it is nowadays. Today's enormous dimensions were reached in the 16th century. The interiors of the forts and also their terraces are important for Dubrovnik Symphony, Orchestra and also for the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. The city walls have been preserved even to today note because they were constructed by good workers but because of the constant care from the dwellers of the city that maintained and rebuilt the walls when it was needed. These walls were preserved mainly due to the diplomacy of Dubrovnik that did not allow these walls to be taken down by enemies.
This fort is located in the west of the Old City on a tock with 37 meter high. It is a strong symbol of the survival and freedom of Dubrovnik, because it was used for the defense of the city. It is located outside the city walls and it is one of the most visible places of the city, because you can see it from the old city, tourist information square and the bus shops. It is considered as one of the most impressive sites in Dubrovnik, which is had been of prime importance due to its defense from the west and also from attracts from both the sea and the land. On the entrance there is a framed inscription saying: Freedom is not sold for all gold in the world but written in Latin.
The construction of this fort it is believed to have started in 1301. Today Lovernjac is known for the Dubrovnik Summer Festival open venues suitable for works from W. Shakespeare. In search for a suitable place for theatre productions, this fortes was perfect for that. This tower is especially suitable for plays like Hamlet, and its performance on these fortes is unforgettable. It is between the two entrances of the city, from the land and from the sea. There has been a beautiful legend about the construction of these fortes. In the 11th century Venetians tried to build a fort on this same place but they did not succeeded because they were beat by the Croatians.
If Venetians managed to build their fort they would have taken Dubrovnik under their power. From its construction this forts has been constantly under reconstruction. This fort has triangular shape and has three terraces offering a view of the sea. From this fort the view is breathtaking; you look toward the city walls. A lot of scenes of Game of Thrones have been filmed here. It is worth to pay a visit but the only problem is there are a lot of stairs and to manage to get there you need to be fit and to have good knees. The best view is in the afternoon, beside the city walls it can also be seen some part of the old town and the island of Lokrum. In the past Lovrijenac had been defended with 10 enormous cannons, the largest being the Lizard. It was beautifully carved and decorated and from it, it was never fired a shot.
Nowadays the Lizard is lost under the sea below the fort. A safe mechanism was designed into this forest because it was dominant fortes whose capture could mean the capture of Dubrovnik and the inhabitants. The walls near the sea are 12 meters thick but those on the side of the city are not more than 60 centimeters. In a case of a trouble the wall on the side of the city could not hold against firepower. The Commander of the fortes had always been selected from the nobility every month. It is interesting to walk through the storage rooms and fantasize about what some rooms and structures had been used for. You can also go at the highest platform of the tower but you have to pay 30 kuna. When you go to visit the city walls make sure on the same day you visit this tower, because you will get a free entry. But if you buy fists the ticket for these fortes you will get a discount on the ticket for the city walls.
If you visit Dubrovnik for a few days, you must attend one of the most beautiful ancient churches, where you will undoubtedly find the peace you were looking and enjoy in the beautiful smell of the flowers and frankincense. Although it is a long way to get here, when you finally arrive you will be enchanted with the interior of the church. You can go and light a candle made from yellow wax but it you are lucky enough you can enter the church when someone is playing on the church organ while the sun rays shine through the windows of the church and light the dark spaces.
This baroque church dedicated to the patron Saint Blaise had been constructed according to the design of a Venetian Marino Gropelli on the same place where the previous church was built in Romanesque style dedicated to this same saint. On the altar there is a valuable Gothic statue of 15th century, which was the work of the goldsmith's school in Dubrovnik. Aside from the artistic value the statue has documentary value. The saint holds in his left hand the old city model, where can be seen the buildings that were once destroyed by the great earthquake. St Blaise Church is located in the old city centre. The small church of St Saviour is located at the beginning of the Stradun between the Franciscan Monastery and the Pile Gate. This church was built due to a decision made from the Dubrovnik senate to express a gratitude to the saviours, who have spared the city from destruction made from the great earthquake.
In this church is also a monumental tablet constructed by Petar Andrijic, which was as a reminder to the disastrous earthquake that happened in 1667. This church is a perfect example for Renaissance building, Nowadays the church is used for exhibitions and concerts. In the past, as a few documents tell this was a monastery for sick Franciscan friars, and later was used for humanitarian purposes and then became a pharmacy. Nowadays the pharmacy is still in function and it has products made according to old- age recipes. The church has a picturesque hall from with Renaissance style, library, music archives and silver and gold objects.
The Cathedral of the Assumption of Virgin Mary exists even today, which dated in the 18th century. The historic records tell us that the former cathedral had been a luxurious church with a cupola, decorated with statues. A legend says that it was build with the money that English king Richard-the Lionheart had donated because he survived a shipwreck near the island of Lokrum on his way home from the Crusade. In the time when the Cathedral was restored in 1981 a remains of another cathedral have been found. According to its architectural features determine its origins from the 6th century. This great discovery gave a new dimension to the history of the sites in Dubrovnik and in general of Dubrovnik because now it had evidence that the city has been developed urban community from the 7th century.
Dubrovnik has numerous squares, just a walk on the city streets or Stradun will take you in some of this squares. In front of the Cathedral is located Martin Drzic square which leads to the city harbour, the Aquarium and the city district of Karmen. The inhabitants once called it "in front of Our Ladies Church". This square was named after Martin Drzic-Vidra who was poet, play writer and church organist. He had studied in Italy and Dubrovnik and later it was appointed to be vice-chancellor of Sienna University. His works were about universal themes: love, youth, misery.
In his comedy Uncle Maroje Drzic he conjured up a vision of equality with no difference between the poor and rich, good and bad. Another square is the Grundulic square where also his statue is located. He was a poet, educated in his native city. He was appointed to be Rector of Konavle for two times. He was also a senator, member of the minor Council and envoy to a Bosnian pasha. Grundulic is the major Baroque representative in Dubrovnik. He wrote works about the spirit of the Catholic reformation. His main themes were realizations about the transition of the human life. When he died, he was buried in the Franciscan Church and one of his oldest copies from Osman, which was printed in Dubrovnik, is kept in the library of the Franciscan Church.
Apart from the square and the statue of Gundulic here is also a small Amerling Fountain that stands in the middle of the square and which was damaged during the aggression but then it was reconstructed after the big earthquake. This square is venue of green marked, where the nearby villagers sell their products. The Baroque stairs located in the southern part of the Grundilic square lead to the next square called Ruder Boakovic Square. On the square are situated a few buildings like the Jesuit Church of St Ignatius, Dubrovnik Jesuit School and the Collegium Ragusinum. Many people consider this square to be the finest, most beautiful baroque complex in all Dalmatia. St Ignatius Church was completely built in 1725 according to the design of the famous Jesuit architect I. Pozzo.
In the church are magnificent baroque frescos painted by the famous painter Gaetano Garcia in which are portrayed scenes from the everyday life of St Ignatius, who was the founder of the Jesuit order. Here is also located the building of Jesuit Collegium, whose hard and neutral lines give special design to the baroque façade of the church and also the baroque steps that go into the city. The designer of the beautiful baroque steps is Roman architect Pietro Passalacqua. He designed it in 1738 and these magnificent steps are reminiscent of the famous steps that led to Trinit dei Monti Crurch in Rome the Piazza di Spagna.
Lokrum is an island located in the Adriatic Sea on 600 meters. It is stretched from the northwest to the southeast and it receives regular ferry service, from Dubrovnik. The first records about this island date from the 1023 and say that it was a venue of the foundation of Benedictine Abbey and that it was also a monastery. There is one legend that says Richard the Lionheart after a shipwreck on his way home from the Crusade in Palestine he found a shelter on these islands, and that's how he survived the shipwreck. As a sign of gratitude he made a vow to build a church on the first earth place that he will step. He had built his summer residents on the ruins of the monastery.
Near this residence there was a beautiful garden, promenades and wonderful walking paths. The tradition of cultivating exotic plants from this time till today is perceived. The majority of plants were brought from South America and Australia and there was a collection of cactuses, succulent plants as a special attraction. The island of Lokrum in 1964 was declared as a Natural Reserve and then in 1973 was declared to be a Special Forestry Reserve. On this island is also a small lake called Dead Sea, which is connected to the open sea and it is suitable for children and for people who don't know to swim.
The star-shaped Fort Royal, located on the elevation offers a magnificent view over Dubrovnik, the islands and Cavatat. If you want to go on the island of Lokrum you need to go to the Old City Harbour and a boat will take you first to the exclusive place called the Island of Love. Below the monastery there is a large meadow with olive groves. Here you can see a volleyball and football fields. Here are also areas for small children to play games while the trees make shadows to protect them exposure on sun. One interesting thing on this island is that here are peacocks brought from the Canary Islands. For the last 150 years they have adjusted to this place and decorate it with exotic colours walking freely around the island.
They also jump on people, so if you come here do not be surprised or scared. The main attraction of this island is the Purple Cave, which is named after the purple flowers that cover the rocks. This Cave is hidden far away in the end of the island and it can only be reached by boat or by the path through the forest where there is also nudist beach. Local people sometimes want to scare tourists and tell them the curse of the Lokrum islands which is that people who go on this island at night are never seen again. A lot of fishermen boats have been swallowed by the sea near this island. So be careful, don't go alone at night on this island or better do not go at all. If you want to be friend with the locals ask them about this curse and discover more about it. Most of them love retelling this curse and make from it a scaring horror story.


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An end of year, early morning, walk. We park up in the car park on Chipperfield Common. It's grey today as we set out and doesn't get any better during the walk. Nevertheless, it's been a while since we were last walking and it's good to get out.
There's nothing much to report about this walk, really. An easy, undemanding walk. Fields and woods, with the occasional village (Bovingdon & Feldon) thrown in for added interest…and flat. Typical of this part of the Chilterns. We complete the 7.3 miles in the morning and are back in time for the afternoon's 'entertainment'…Watford losing to Swansea, having led until the 85th minute…on reflection, the walk was the highlight of the day!


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It was June 5 on the evening of the first State of Origin. Our party of 8 had come from all parts of Sydney so we decided to meet in a Surry Hills bar before heading out to Homebush. The mood was upbeat and there was a feeling in the air that we just might win this one. With every beer the confidence of a NSW win grew. But then the ANZZZZ mood killer kicked in. With time slipping away we quickly grabbed a final beer and started the painful journey to ANZ stadium. A train ride and forty minutes later we arrived at Homebush. Every passing minute on the train had sucked the exuberance from our souls. The vibe had dropped and all we wanted to do was get to toilets and take our seats.
Once we entered a staff member dressed in heavy duty trekking boots and an oxygen cylinder around his neck offered to take us to our seats.
'He smiled, placed two tampons in his nose and said right this way'.
My confusion was quickly replaced with complete understanding as we began making the ascent. When we finally arrived at our seats, some of us were suffering from altitude sickness, nose bleeds and the acute side- effects of sobering up. Since leaving Surry Hills our experience had been painful, only to be compounded by having to summit Everest to take out seats. Obviously I have taken a bit of poetic license in the previous paragraph but the truth is our seats were so high up that you literally couldn't make out the players on the field. We were forced to watch the big screens to make out what was happening.
Regardless the blues played like champions and due to the latest advancements in LED big screen technology we didn't miss a second of it. Despite all of this a win is a win.
Our tyres pumped again we made our way out of the stadium on high, only to walk out into a sea of nothingness. Tumbled weeds rolled past and apart from a few shouts of triumph the place was completely soulless. The home side had just won the first origin in convincing fashion and it seemed everyone was looking for a way out. The one bar closes an hour after the final whistle and nobody wants to be stuck in Homebush after closing.
But I wasn't beaten. Just like big Gal I wanted to put in a whole 80 minutes.
So I joined the huge queue for the train to make my way back to the city. Trying to stay positive I was told by a few punters in the line that I would be lucky to make it into the city within an hour.
'My mum said she could pick us up if we needed it'.
It was over. Even Big Gal has to concede to injury sometime.
So three grown men between 35-40 years of age piled into the back of mum's car and we made our way out of the stadium.
'Mrs. Johnson can we stop at McDonalds?
With that sad but unanimously supported request I knew our night was over.
As I ate my McChicken in the back seat, I reflected on past origins and grand finals I had attended at the Sydney Football Stadium.
The excitement started when you would meet after work for a beer at the Captain Cook, Bat and ball or any number of other bars near the stadium. Banter would start with friends and foes and continue until 10 minutes from kick off. Everyone would stream out of the pubs and filter into the stadium without concern. Even if you had the worst seats in the house they still had a great view of the action and you didn't have to rely on the big screen.
Regardless of the result there would be a flood of supporters walking across Moore Park and into the nearest pubs and restaurants with the atmosphere of the game still in the air.
Having our major sporting arenas located in the City is a no brainer. Look at Melbourne and Brisbane. Attending sporting events in these cities is a pleasure because they are convenient. You leave Suncorp Stadium and walk straight onto Caxton Street. You leave the MCG and it's a short walk or tram to the city. They are located in the city and egress is simple. ANZ has none of this.
I have not met anyone that actually enjoys the trip to and from ANZ. ANZ is the 'Canberra' of football arenas. There is no vibe, no soul and it isn't close to anywhere. Melbourne and Brisbane are known for their sporting faithful. I don't believe it's because they care more about sport it is just because their experience is more enjoyable.
I loved the Sydney Olympics but the down side is that we are now stuck with facilities that we are being forced to use. Homebush will never be convenient. Period! It doesn't matter how much the NSW government put into redevelopment of Homebush. You simply can't polish a turd.
Why wouldn't you redevelop Moore Park? I tell you why. They over invested in ANZ stadium and now we are all suffering.
I will not attend another sporting event at ANZ stadium anytime soon and on the eve of Origin 3 I will be watching from my living room safe in the fact that I am not missing out on a brilliant experience. I will be content to stay at home and I don't think I am alone in this thinking. In Australia's best city this shouldn't happen.
The NSW government should bite the bullet and redevelop the Sydney Football Stadium. Increase the seating capacity, put a roof on it and bring the crowds back to the City.
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Mercedes' Vettel interest not lip service - Wolff
The German's future is up in the air.
Toto Wolff said Mercedes "owe it" to Sebastian Vettel to consider the four-time Formula One® world champion if they have a seat to fill next season.
Vettel will leave Ferrari at the end of this season and his future is up in the air.
Silver Arrows duo Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas are only contracted until December, although talks with the defending champion are expected to be held once the season starts and the Finn is also tipped to stay on.
Mercedes boss Wolff said it would be remiss of the constructors champions to dismiss the prospect of signing Vettel, however, citing Nico Rosberg's sudden retirement in 2016 as proof that anything can happen.
He said: "It's not lip service, but we owe it to a four-time champion not to come out and say straight away, 'No'. You need to think about it.
"On the other side, we have a fantastic line-up and I've very happy with both our pilots and George [Russell], but you never know. One of them may decide he doesn't want to go racing anymore and suddenly you have a vacant spot.
"This is why I don't want to come out in June and say, 'No chance, Sebastian is not racing for us'.
"I wouldn't do it to him as a driver, to be that blunt, and on the otherwise side, I've seen black swans appearing when nobody suspected - remember Nico Rosberg.
"In that respect, we're just keeping our options open but of course concentrating our discussions with our current drivers."
Carlos Sainz was confirmed as Vettel's replacement and it was announced last month that Daniel Ricciardo will take the Spaniard's seat at McLaren.
Wolff did not expect deals to be confirmed before the first race of the campaign, which is due to start in Austria on July 5, and says Mercedes are keeping their options open.
BREAKING: The opening 8 races of a revised 2020 calendar are now confirmed
All 8 are currently set to be closed events, operating under the strongest safety procedures
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"We were quite surprised with the early movements because you need to start the season with a driver that you know you're going to lose," the German added.
"It's very tricky to develop a car without having that driver be part of it, and every single driver needs to be a team player as well, and that becomes second priority in my opinion for the relevant guy. For us, we want to take our time.
"Our priority lies on the Mercedes drivers, Valtteri and Lewis, and then obviously George and the Williams situation we're looking at with interest. Beyond that, you do not discount any driver.
"This is why I said I don't want to discount Sebastian as a four-time world champion, because who knows what happens in the next months?
"If I had told you in January that we would not have any racing in the first half of the year, nobody would have believed it. So, in that respect, we are just keeping our options open at this stage."
Sainz: I haven't joined Ferrari as second driver
Horner says Austrian grands prix will be 'blueprint for all other races'
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This primary resource introduces children to Ancient Greek life and culture. Discover the influence of Ancient Greece on the western world and what life was like for Ancient Greek citizens. What were the Ancient Greeks known for? What made them so successful? What beliefs did they have?
Pupils will learn about how and where the Greek Empire started, who the great thinkers of Ancient Greece were and what went on in the famous Greek theatres in our National Geographic Kids' Ancient Greeks primary resource sheet.
The teaching resource can be used in study group tasks for understanding aspects of Ancient Greek life, as a printed handout for each pupil to review and highlight key information, or for display on the interactive whiteboard for class discussion.
Activity: Ask children to choose one of the subheadings in the resource and use the information and their own research to create their own comic strip based on that topic. They could also design their own statues of the Ancient Greek monsters mentioned in the resource, or construct a piece of creative writing about these mythical creatures.


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Professor Glaser's book, Rational Theory of International Politics was published by Princeton University Press in 2010. His research on international relations theory has focused on the security dilemma, defensive realism, the offense-defense balance, and arms races, including most recently "When Are Arms Races Dangerous?" in International Security (2004). His recent publications on U.S. nuclear weapons policy include "Counterforce Revisited" (with Steve Fetter), International Security (2005), and "National Missile Defense and the Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy" (with Fetter) International Security (2001). Professor Glaser's work on American Cold War nuclear weapons policy culminated in his book, Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy (Princeton 1990).
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A-Z of the 2000s: Michael Ballack
25/11/2019 by Edd Norval
Some players have their year. Others maybe a couple. But 'Little Kaiser' had a decade. The Little Emperor – "little" only compared to the big, original Der Kaiser, Franz Beckenbauer – was an ironclad fixture of German football, a player who held aloft that tired and faltering stereotype of cruel and efficient. Michael Ballack also embodied a type of player on the precipice of a changing game, with a personality and style of play that was difficult to figure out. During his career, this made him largely misunderstood and ultimately, his legacy overlooked.
If you know, you know. There were others playing at that time, players with more flair, like Zinedine Zidane, whose feet glided across the finest patches of grass on earth, or the more glamorous and media-friendly David Beckham, or more ruthless Roy Keane. Yet, even amongst that small compendium of midfield icons he played alongside and against, few were able to master the multitude of roles like Ballack did. Fewer still managed to singlehandedly and single-mindedly pursue victory against all odds, after repeated shortcomings.
Assessing the impact of Ballack, as personality and player, can be broken down into the simplest dichotomy of good and bad. He was loved and lauded, but also received lukewarmly. He was a champion, both individually and collectively, yet is best defined by what he didn't win. His career summation is multifaceted, whose genetics comprise geography, era and expectation. In amongst all of the opinions and troubled relationships are many objective facts, though, and in these facts we can find solace when asserting his place as one of the best midfielders of all time.
A good place to start in understanding the commanding midfielder is his being given the captain's armband for the German national team in 2004, succeeding the same-but-different school of leadership presided over by goalkeeper Oliver Kahn. Debuting in the World Cup, wearing the signifier of authority around his bicep two years later, he led his team to a third-place finish. It was a good showing that was widely panned as a failure.
Perhaps it stung so much as it was served as a dessert to Germany's previous competition in 2002, when heroic efforts from Ballack and Khan dragged Germany through to the final against eventual champions Brazil. Just like the selfless efforts of Roy Keane and Paul Scholes in Manchester United's 1999 final, Ballack guided his team to a shot at tournament glory, making a tactical foul that meant he'd miss the final from suspension. They were hailed as heroes (they won), yet his act was forgotten (he didn't).
On the field he was imperious, poster-boy handsome and competed with an assertive bravery that pleased the traditionalists. Still, after that ill-fated final, Ballack candidly admitted to breaking down in tears when he met the changing rooms, its warmth and privacy enough to shatter his valiant façade. Goals in the quarter and semi-finals, despite captaining one of Germany's poorest sides in recent memory, gave his nation a sniff at their first trophy since unification – with an East German as captain. Yet, performance, leadership and enviable selflessness couldn't appease.
He retained the honour with dignity up until an injury blindsided his chance to make it to the 2010 finals, and a captaincy quarrel, defined by plenty of politicking within the squad, led to a public dispute. Ballack was painted as quarrelsome and petty in a dispute that we the public would never fully understand. It was these traits, though, that seemed to supersede the positive ones in his international record. You're only as good as your last training ground bust-up.
As a youngster, Ballack emerged at a fairly mediocre Chemnitzer FC, where early flashes of promise, which earned him his 'Little Kaiser' nickname, couldn't stop his team's ultimate relegation from 2. Bundesliga in his first season. Still, the lower level gave him a stage upon which he duly impressed, soon making the jump to Kaiserslautern, a side on the up, having just secured promotion to the Bundesliga.
Virtually unused for the first half of the season, a first full appearance at the tail-end of March 1998 against Bayer Leverkusen was the entry point into a position he would rarely relinquish for the rest of his career. Coming into the season's crescendo, eccentric coach Otto Rehhagel's profound understanding of German football intuited Ballack's services. His resilience under pressure and instinctive tactical awareness helped his side clinch the title, the first newly promoted side ever to do so.
After another season with Kaiserslautern – wherein Ballack established himself as a leading name in German football as his side made it into the 1998/99 Champions League quarter-finals – came a move to Bayer Leverkusen, for a spell of mixed success, setting the tone for his complicated legacy.
Going into the final game of their 1999/2000 campaign, Leverkusen looked set to snare the Bundesliga title, facing Unterhaching and requiring only a single point against the minnows. Nearest rivals Bayern Munich were up against Werder Breman, who they brushed aside and subsequently claimed another title as it was a tragic Ballack own-goal that killed Leverkusen's hopes.
It didn't take long for a chance at vindication to arise, though. Leverkusen were in a similar position, although stronger as a whole, pushing towards the final three games of the 2001/02 season, five points ahead in the league. Set for a historic treble, they were also in the Champions League final and the same stage of the DFB-Pokal. Seemingly swallowed whole by the pressure, they gave up their lead, losing out on the title at the death for a second successive season. They also lost both finals and earned, for their troubles, a media rebrand: Bayer Neverkusen.
In spite of the collective failure, punctuated by three seasons of disappointment, Ballack had gone from strength-to-strength personally. Devastating losses in the league, Champions League final, Pokal final and even the 2002 World Cup final absorbed, Ballack was crowned UEFA Club Midfielder of the Year, German Footballer of the Year and named as part of both UEFA's Team of the Year and the FIFA XI. It stands to reason that, had he won even one of these trophies, Ballack would be remembered very differently, indeed.
Heartbreak under the world's gaze can have a deleterious effect. It casts a large shadow, a consuming and cold spectre that haunts many great players. Unsurprisingly, his lead-by-example fortitude withstood. Upgrading to Bayern Munich, Ballack won the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal double in 2003, 2005 and 2006, whilst being named German Player of the Year in two of those campaigns, before then moving on to Chelsea and winning two FA Cups, the Premier League and a reasonable second-place spot in the Champions League over his four years there.
On evidence alone, Ballack is a far cry from the never-guy some see him as. Rather, he is a storied athlete and a German icon, though many of his countrymen didn't see it that way. Although not quite a 'Marmite man', Ballack definitely polarised audiences. Viewed upon by many as arrogant, even in the face of failure, his perpetual shortcomings in large matches, combined with his coolness in talking and play, limited his appeal.
Similar to the infamous 'Neverkusen' spell, his time at Chelsea cast up old demons. In their 2007/08 campaign, the London side finished runners-up in the League Cup, the Champions League and marginally lost out on the league. Prescribing more bitter pills, that summer, at Euro 2008, Ballack captained Germany to yet another painful final loss. Despite being named in that tournament's best XI and runner-up for Germany's Player of the Year, it didn't seem to matter. It was his so-called "curse" that made the news.
Still, his position in world football, particularly in Germany as captain, is even more admirable considering where he's from. This small factor might also go a little way to explaining his at times lukewarm reception and understanding that geopolitical and footballing tensions run deep, even on a subconscious level, makes it all a bit clearer.
Born in East Germany's Görlitz, a small Saxon town, Ballack wouldn't have been announced on the biggest stage of football had he been born a decade earlier. Torsten Gütschow, a prolific scorer and Görlitz boy, born a decade earlier is the prime example of exposure limited by passport. Gütschow still holds Dynamo Dresden's Bundesliga goalscoring record, despite only playing in the league for one-and-a-half seasons after reunification, yet never managed to enjoy the profile, nationally or internationally, that Ballack did.
The East's communism was starkly different to the West. It was a societal model that deeply hindered football's development, especially compared to the wealthy West. Regardless, Ballack emerged first as an exceptional player in, and then captain of, German football. Formational disadvantages in infrastructure and exposure, the ones that limited Güschow, didn't have the same effect on Ballack.
As Beckenbauer said of him: "Michael Ballack is a leader. He is a real captain, the man in the house, accepted by everyone, involved in the crucial situations." Eventually, though, Ballack was forced out of the Germany side, losing his captaincy through injury and seemed unable to return to the fray. He retired with just shy of 100 caps, with his national side even suggesting an organised tie against Brazil to make it 100. He shrugged the idea off as "a farce".
The story of Ballack's legacy is far more significant than most. By the very definition, he is success personified. Yet, his reception forces us to reflect on what we consider success and why. Granted, he could have been more successful but so could Ronaldo, George Best, Gabriel Batistuta and a host of other players who could only watch on as circumstance intervened on their behalf. When leading men, when redefining a role and offering hope where none was to be found, Ballack was king. He was not only the best of an era, he was unfortunately the last of one, too.
By Edd Norval @EddNorval
Tags: ballack, bayern, chelsea, germany, leverkusen
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Nominate a Time-keeper. This person will stay outside the circle.
Form a circle made up of 3 or more children.
The Time-keeper will cry 'next!' after 60 seconds. Whoever is telling the story must stop and the next person will continue from where they left off.
Keep going till you reach the end of the story. Or until the bell rings!
Listen - yes, listen to the story-teller.
Let your mind conjure up images and sensations.
Use logic (in your story-telling).
Insert 'telling' details into your story.
Leave out a Time-Keeper. A story-teller stops whenever they want, after a second, a minute...go with the flow.
A person can be chosen to 'act out' the story being told.
This is a powerful game. I have watched hesitant story-tellers transformed into magical bards after two tries! Why don't you give it a go and see where it takes you?
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Open Access in Germany
di Antonio Pilello
Pubblicato il 02/10/2013Read time: 3 mins
The Bundesrat, the Federal Council that represents the sixteen German Länder, announced the introduction of secondary exploitation rights for the authors of scientific articles in periodical works. This is an amendment to the Copyright Act, which implements the European Directive 2012/28/EU on certain permitted uses of orphan works in the German national law.
In the last months, the government – composed of CDU/CSU and FDP – has been pushed to address this issue following the requests of several scientific associations such as the Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the Wissenschaftsrat. In February 2013 the Federal Ministry of Justice submitted the first draft to guarantee the exploitation of secondary inalienable rights.
As reported on wisspub.net, the topic of open access was also included in the programs of all the parties during the last election campaign. The CDU wanted to develop an open access strategy with the science; the FDP intended to anchor the open access to the funding guidelines; the SPD required to continue to work on an educational and scientific friendly copyright; the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen wanted the promotion of opendata and the introduction of open access in science; the idea of Die Linke was to evaluate the openness as a paradigm of modern science and to make knowledge using the tax money generally available.
The authors of scientific articles should be allowed to publish their research results a second time online after the first publication in a scientific journal. Therefore, a broader public will have free access to these contents one year after the primary publication, independent of the publisher's agreement. However, the new law has some limitations, which are disapproved by the German science organisations.
As regards the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), the open access recommendation of the EU Commission stipulates a retention period of six months to sufficiently guarantee the publishers' economic interests. However, the new German legislation provides the application of this right from twelve months after the first commercial publication and is also applied only to certain formats of text, i.e. for magazine articles. Scientific essays, textbooks or monographs are excluded. Also, as an additional criterion, the secondary publication rights are adopted only for publications that arise at least half of publicly funded research and are published at least twice per year.
These limitations could be a disadvantage for the majority of scientists. In addition, the period of twelve months embargo is probably too long, especially for scientific and technical subjects. Therefore, the digital secondary publication is also possible only in the accepted manuscript version: this is a problem if somebody needs to quote the publication. Finally, the last part of this new copyright reform regulates the use of orphan works. If an author is not known or even untraceable, his works can be digitized and can be made available on Internet. However, only some selected public institutions can make use of such archives or libraries. Other knowledge portals, such as Wikipedia, are excluded.
National Agency for Research: what is there, what is missing
di Luca Carra
The Italian National Agency for Research is about to be established. Article 28 of the draft budget law for 2020, which will be discussed at the Chambers in the coming days (see below for the text) and by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, talks about it. It coordinates and directs the research of universities, public research institutes and bodies. The objectives are dictated by the programming that remains in political hands.
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This guy is my BC hero!! I can't say that I thought that the cattle kicked all that much, and I'm pretty sure that wasn't their first time being worked with dogs.
I looked at the freetoberanch website and didn't find any dates for 2010 so I will have to contact them and see when and if they are still having clinics. I know this goes against what ya'll believe but I have also just started letting my dog work without a professional trainer. I was interested in eventually trying trials but my dog is not register and I don't believe I will have him neutered. I think that since he will not be used in competition as long as I can control him, professional training will not be a giant benefit to me. I would still enjoy clinics however. And thank you for your advice and suggestions.
Well that turned out to be a huge bust. I was really excited about going to the clinic, and then 2 days before I found out I wasn't ever register to go. So it was a bum deal but I'm sure I'll find something else. Thanks for your help though. If anybody knows of any clinics in New Mexico I would like to try and find another one.
Thank you so much for your response it was the advice I was looking for! I have my dog (Emerson) around cows and he does very well. I got him when he was 8 weeks old and even then when he would try to work our livestock and I've always been able to call him off. I will for sure keep you updated on our progress and thank you again for your advice.
I have had dogs all my life, and used them on my families farm/ranch, however I have never had a working border collie. I now have a bc who is almost a year old and I have had him since he was 8 wks old. I have been able to teach him whats acceptable to work and whats not, and he responds very well. I would like very much for us to learn how to work cows, he has shown what I believe is a very high natural instinct to work. It has been very easy for me to teach him the very basics such as coming off when I call him, and approaching cattle when I tell him. I can also send him in a general direction but not at a specific target. He completely loves working and I don't want to spoil that for him. Since he is only a year I'm afraid that too much "correcting" on my part will discourage him. At this point I am completely lost however because I have always felt more comfortable training my own animals, but since I realize his great potential I don't want to waste any of his talent. We will be going to a clinic soon and will be spending time with a professional trainer. My question now is, what is the next step that we need to work on? What specifics should I ask, and what should information can I offer to the trainer to help our experience?
I would keep her on a leash for sure while she is learning to be around horses to begin with. For the safety of the horses as she might feel the instinct to bite and for her safety as some horses will attack dogs. Are you showing a huge reaction when she barks? If you become flustered, nervous, or scared your dog will pick up on that and think there is a reason to be scared. I've had horses and dogs all my life and what I have learned is bring them to the point that they feel the need to react but you need to stay calm and reassure your dog. When your dog becomes comfortable at this distance try getting closer. Also be sure that the horse that you are using for your training is used to dogs and isn't going to mind a barking dog. I hope this helps!


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Steroids now often used for slimming, not just sports
Congress hears testimony Wednesday on rising use of the drugs by young women
By Mark Sappenfield
During the two months of its wide-ranging inquiry into steroid abuse, Congress has come a long way from slugger Mark McGwire. When lawmakers opened a fourth hearing on the subject Wednesday, they were talking not about the batting averages and biceps of professional ballplayers, but the waistlines and weight of teenage girls.
It was an attempt to explore the growing concern nationwide about steroid abuse among young women. Yet in the process, it also laid bare perhaps a deeper and more overlooked trend in steroid abuse - one that goes beyond sport or sex. Many steroid users - both men and women - take the drug not to run faster, jump higher, or throw harder, but simply to look better.
Among boys, it has been called the "Adonis Complex" - a desire for the perfect body, as old as ancient Greece, now abetted by chemical means. Among girls, it is seen as part of a disorder akin to anorexia - a pathological desire to get the fit, toned figure of modern fashion. Indeed, to a growing number of scientists, steroids are no longer linked only to sports, but to a society fixated by the shape and size of the human body.
"There is a consensus that the problem is real," says Gary Wadler, a doctor of sports medicine and a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency. "[Steroid abuse] is not just about making the team, ...It goes significantly beyond that."
Getting a handle on the scope and nature of steroid abuse has long been difficult. Most scientists agree that surveys prove that a problem exists, even if researchers disagree on the numbers. One survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, suggests that 5 percent of high school girls have abused steroids - findings that in many ways led to Wednesday's hearings.
Although at least one panelist took issue with those numbers, suggesting they are high, there is convincing evidence - both statistical and anecdotal - that a significant percentage of those who do abuse steroids are not athletes. A survey of 13 high schools in Oregon found that, among boys, 4.5 percent of nonathletes took steroids. The figure is in the same ballpark as the one for athletes: 6.5 percent.
The data for girls were even more revealing. Some 2.1 percent of nonathletes took steroids, compared with 1 percent of athletes. For girls in particular, the trend is an outgrowth of the increased stakes of women's sports in the Title IX era, as well as shifting perceptions of what is considered to be physical perfection. In a rebellion against the waifish looks of past generations, today's girl power has increasingly embraced raw power and the more robust look that goes with it.
"It used to be bulimia was the fad choice, and most college women would go through it," says Amanda Gruber, a psychiatrist at Harvard University's McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. "This is the new thing.... Now it's attractive to be thin and toned."
In Wednesday's congressional hearing US sprinter Kelli White, who testified to her use of performance enhancing drugs to win races, also admitted to being seduced by the the glamorous effect the drugs had on her body.
"There are a lot of pressures to look a certain way," said Ms. White. "We need to teach women how to be comfortable with their bodies."
Clinicians certainly don't wish to discourage physical fitness. But any trend can be taken too far. One study by Dr. Gruber found some women so obsessed about maintaining their appearance that they "refused to eat out at restaurants or at friends' houses because of their need to be certain that they were ingesting the precise amounts of calories, protein, fat, and carbohydrates that they believed necessary to maintain their physique."
In this context, steroids can become just another tool in the chemical arsenal - like diet pills or protein shakes. "It's the easiest way for a woman to decrease body fat," adds Gruber. "No matter how much you diet, for many women to reach these increasing aesthetic ideals, they need to do something like take steroids."
To scientists, this represents a failure to adequately convey the serious medical side effects of steroid abuse for women and men - such as heart and liver damage. The percentage of people who feel that steroids are dangerous drugs fell from 71 percent in 1992 to 56 percent in 2004, according to a report by Monitoring the Future.
"That translates into a risk for increased usage," says Dr. Wadler. "If we get glib with this, then it is sowing the seeds for problems down the road, as we found out with the East Germans."
One response has been ATLAS and ATHENA, two gender-specific programs devised by the Oregon Health and Science University to counter the pressure from peers and coaches to turn to steroids and other body-shaping drugs.
"You don't talk about calories or unhealthy behavior," says Linn Goldberg, co-principal investigator for the programs. "You talk about what's healthy, and what you need."
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Once upon a time, back in the days when the MG Rover Group was alive and fairly hopeful for the future [...] in the hands of BMW, the Bavarian carmaker was dreaming up a new lineup for the British company. Among the plans was one for the development of a replacement for the outdated, fifth-generation Honda Civic-based, 200/400 series, later called the 25/45, positioned under the 75 in Rover's car lineup.
We remember many proposals and concept sketches for the car from the period, but the folks from "Aronline" managed to secure some exclusive photos of a full size clay model that we've never seen before. Named the R55, it's a design proposal for a compact sedan slightly larger than the BMW 3-Series said to have been completed back in the Spring of 1997.
The crew from the British blog talked to the designer of the car, Richard Woolley, who had this to say:
"Yes, I think it was shaping up well. Considering it went from sketch to clay to model in one shot, I think it still looks pretty good nearly 13 years on. But, of course, I may be a bit biased!"
"The car sat on a long wheelbase (c.2800mm), giving maximum rear accommodation, but with an overall length less than R75 – the North South installation enabled a much shorter front overhang. The clay model was completed in Gaydon, spring of 1997, and the composite model build was contracted out to Futura in Birmingham with completion that summer."
The R55 sported a dynamic design with very short overhangs, a clamshell-style bonnet and a relatively low roofline - something like a British flavored Chrysler 300. Only thing is the 300 was introduced as a concept model some six years later, at the 2003 NY Auto Show...
Sure the styling might be polarizing, but in our opinion (feel free to disagree) it still looks fresh today especially when compared to current offerings in the segment.
In any case, the R55, which was supposed to spearhead Rover's attack in the premium segment along with a slightly larger replacement for the 75 (think BMW 5 Series+) was ditched as where many other plans to revitalize Rover in the years to come.
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Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi (, ) is an urban-type settlement in Kupiansk Raion of Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine. It is located on the left bank of the Oskil, in the drainage basin of the Don. Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi belongs to Kupiansk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population:

History
The settlement was created in Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire to serve the eponymous railway station.

During World War II it was occupied by Axis troops from July 1942 to February 1943.

In 1956 a city club was built here.

In January 1989 the population was 13,196.

Until 18 July 2020, Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi belonged to Kupiansk Municipality. The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kharkiv Oblast to seven. The area of Kupiansk Municipality was merged into Kupiansk Raion.

In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and occupied Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi. On September 10, amidst Ukraine's offensive in Kharkiv Oblast, Russian forces retreated from Kupiansk after it was liberated by Ukraine. On September 16, Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi was also liberated.

Economy

Transportation
Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi railway station is a major railway junction which has connections with Kharkiv, Sviatohirsk, Sievierodonetsk, and, via Kupiansk to Stary Oskol in Russia. There are passenger trains along these directions.

The settlement has access to Highway H26 connecting Kharkiv with Sievierodonetsk, as well as by local roads to Borova and further to Izium.

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Urban-type settlements in Kupiansk Raion

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Enemies Committed Scandalous Miscalculations by Recent Riots
President Seyed Ebrahim Raisisaid on Thursday that the enemies of the Islamic Revolution of Iran who have been disappointed by the people of Kurdistan had committed a scandalous miscalculation.
TEHRAN (Iran News) –President Seyed Ebrahim Raisisaid on Thursday that the enemies of the Islamic Revolution of Iran who have been disappointed by the people of Kurdistan had committed a scandalous miscalculation.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Sanandaj Water Supply Project, Raisi said that the enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran had been disappointed by the People of Kurdistan.
He further said that these enemies had committed scandalous miscalculation to the extent that they thought they could deal Iran a blow by provoking unrests and riots.
"But they realized that such deep rooted tree could not be shaken by such fragile moves." he emphasized.
The President further said that every inch of Kurdistan province's soil witnesses the resistance of the people of Kurdistan.
He stated that the ongoing projects for the development of Kurdistan should be completed faster and noted that one of the demands of the people of this province is the operationalization of the Tehran-Hamadan-Sanandaj railway project, which is being followed seriously.
Raisi, in a meeting with different sections of the people in the Sanandaj Freedom Hall on Thursday, stated that success had been achieved. Today I will be friendly, warm-hearted, and diligent. Resistant people of Kurdistan province and Sanandaj said: The opening of the Hamedan-Sanandaj railway project will facilitate commuting, and we are trying to make it happen faster.
Referring to his visit to Saqqez airport a few months ago, he said: The backlog of this airport is being done, while I have emphasized that no new project should be defined or planned until these {unfinished} projects are completed.
The President also pointed to the inauguration of the water supply project in Sanandaj and said: "With the inauguration studious Minister of Energy, the Governor General of Kurdistan, the representative of the Leader in Kurdistan, the follow-up of parliament members, contractors, and the has ended, and we are happy that the dear people of Sanandaj can benefit from clean and fresh water."
Operating the Azad Dam water transfer system to the Sanandaj treatment plant, meeting with the people, and meeting with the clerics and elites of the province are the most important plans of the President's one-day trip to Kurdistan province.
Raisi, inaugurated the 'Azad Dam water transfer project in his provincial tour to Kurdistan. Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian also attended the ceremony.
The project to transfer water from Azad Dam to the Sanandaj plant is one of the government's major urban water supply projects, completed in 20 months.
The project's first phase kicked off in 2020 and was implemented in November of this year.
With the inauguration studious Minister of Energy, the Governor General of Kurdistan, the representative of the Leader in Kurdistan, the follow-up of parliament members, contractors, and has ended, and we are happy that the dear people of Sanandaj can benefit from clean and fresh water.
Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian called water the key to the development of Kurdistan Province.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Sanandaj Water Supply Project, Ali Akbar Mehrabian said that in Iran's Kurdistan Province, there are many exclusive capacities and potentials, including Agriculture, mining, gardening, natural resources, and different industries.
Despite the mountainous conditions, difficulties in transferring water from the Azad Dam to the plant, and the complex process of passing the steel pipeline through Heart of the Rocks, the transfer project ended with a favorable result.
The route of the water supply project from the water resources of Kurdistan province to the city of Sanandaj is about 60 km, among which 27 km of this route is branched with steel pipes with diameters of 1400 and 1200 mm.
The operationalization of this water supply network, for which 850 billion Tomans have been spent, will provide the possibility of transferring 57 million cubic meters of water to the Sanandaj water treatment plant for the population of 700,000 people in the year 1425(2046).
Azad Dam is located 60 km west of Sanandaj, and its reservoir volume is 300 million cubic meters.
Qeshlaq Dam, 12 km north of Sanandaj, has suffered from nutrition for several years, and this city's drinking water has an unpleasant taste and smell.
enemies IRAN riots
Iran's state oil company the NIOC has awarded some $500 million worth of contracts to domestic companies to revive low-production oil wells in the country.
The speaker of the Iranian parliament condemned on Tuesday Swedish lawmakers for their attempts to promote Islamophobia, emphasizing that they cannot conceal their agenda behind a phony claim of free speech.


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A Guide to LA Nightlife by DJ Lauren Lane
DJ Lauren Lane knows a thing or two about a good party having played some of the most notorious clubs and festivals across the globe. While she honed her craft on the New York house music scene, she now calls Los Angeles home. Here Lauren gives SUITCASE some of her favourite haunts in Los Angeles.
DJ DJ Lauren Lane knows a thing or two about a good party having played some of the most notorious clubs and festivals across the globe - think Coachella, Ibiza's legendary DC10 and Rio Music Conference. While she honed her craft on the New York house music scene, the DJ now calls Los Angeles home. With the city more renowned for its natural food scene than its nightlife, we were curious where the DJ could be found when the lights go down in the City of Angels. Here Lauren gives SUITCASE some of her favourite haunts in Los Angeles.
For a casual drink with friends:
Mama Shelter in Hollywood has a cool, kitchsy vibe. There are games at the bar and the food is yummy. The roof is a great spot to have a casual drink and take in the views from the heart of Hollywood. This place isn't fancy but it's fun.
To have a drink outdoors:
The garden terrace at Chateau Marmont is the best place for an outdoor drink. The chic vintage vibe provides the perfect setting to enjoy this legendary hotel.
If you want to dance but don't want to go to a club:
Tenants of the Trees in Silver Lake is a cool indoor/outdoor cocktail bar with space for dancing and even an outdoor movie theatre. It looks like a mid-century style home and focuses on music, film, art and cuisine making it more diverse than a regular club.
If you want to listen to techno:
Sound in Hollywood is a great place to hear the best tech-house, deep house and techno. I was actually one of the first residents on Friday nights when the club first opened 4 years ago. Check their schedule for the rotating list of international talent.
If you want to listen to house:
A Club Called Rhonda is the polysexual party that started in LA in 2010 and has now toured many cities throughout the world. From LA to Miami to NY, Berlin and a lot in between, Rhonda has become a benchmark in music and nightlife for inclusion, uninhibited self-expression and excellent taste in music.
If you want to listen to dancehall:
SHABBAAAAA. It's a reggae and dancehall night at Los Globos.
If you're out after hours:
DTLA warehouse parties or The Overpass (the after hours invite-only speakeasy) are both fun options that stay open later than the average 2am last call for "regular" bars and clubs in LA.
On a night out, you're most likely to find me at:
Dinner. I like to enjoy relaxing nights when I'm home in LA and not on tour.
You'd never find me at:
A BBQ restaurant (...I'm vegetarian)
Lauren's new EP 'Mantra 304' is out now on Saved record and available on Beatport
Nicole Fung: The Founder of That Food Cray !!! Shows Us Her Hong Kong


LOLO is the brainchild of mother and daughter coming together in life and work, driven by a combination of dream and reality. Simple but distinctive, synonymous with authentic femininity. A solar name reminiscent of Italy, Magali's origin and Barbara's roots, where the shoes are handcrafted.
The collection reflects the charm and elegance of it's designers. Barbara and Magali strive to capture the essence of a shoe and the purity of each style. A subtle play of contrasts is created with meticulously selected materials in a delicate rainbow of colours and extraordinary textures.


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Angélica Hinojosa, född 10 januari 1997, är en dominikansk  volleybollspelare (center).

Hinojosa spelar i Dominikanska republikens landslag och har med dem vunnit  Nordamerikanska mästerskapet 2021 och har tagit medalj i mästerskapet vid flera tillfällen. Hon har även spelat med landslaget vid VM 2022. På klubbnivå har hon spelat för klubbar i Domikanska republiken och Frankrike.

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Dominikanska idrottare under 2000-talet
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Volleybollspelare i Guerreras VC
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Q: praat to get a list of frequencies duration from a WAV file Is there a way to use the software praat to get a list of  from a WAV file ?

A: The documentation for this praat phonetics analysis package appears to say that it has the capability to read a wav file and print a pitch contour analysis.  Is that what you need?


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Neptune VII - 1989N2, 1981N1
Larissa [LA-ree-suh] is only about 48,800 kilometers (30,300 miles) from Neptune's clouds, and circles the planet in 13 hours, 18 minutes. Its diameter is about 190 kilometers (120 miles). It is irregularly shaped and shows no sign of any geological modification. Larissa circles the planet in the same direction as Neptune rotates, and remains close to Neptune's equatorial plane.
Larissa Statistics
Discovered by Stephen Synnott
Radius (km) 104x89
Mean distance from Neptune (km) 73,600
Orbital period (days) 0.554654
Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 9.65
Orbital eccentricity 0.0014
Orbital inclination (degrees) 0.20
Visual geometric albedo 0.06
Views of Larissa
This image of Larissa was acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on August 24, 1989. (Credit: Calvin J. Hamilton)
Shaded Relief Map of Larissa
This image is a shaded relief map of Larissa, a small inner satellite of Neptune. As with all maps, it is the cartographer's interpretation and not all features are necessarily certain given the limited data available. This interpretation stretches the data as far as is feasible. The leading side faces forwards in the orbit of Larissa. The trailing side faces backwards along the orbit. Longitude 0 is at the righthand end of the leading side, and faces Neptune. As with all conformal (true shape) projections, the scale in these maps varies, increasing from the centre to the outer edge. (Courtesy Phil Stooke)
Neptune Galatea Proteus


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Q: Get-ExecutionPolicy y Get-ExecutionPolicy no funciona Estoy intentando utilizar el comando Get-ExecutionPolicy y Set-ExecutionPolicy en el cmd para poder habilitar la ejecución de scripts, pero me sale un mensaje que dice: "no se reconoce como comando interno o externo, programa o archivo por lotes ejecutable".
Siguiendo la guía de algunos sitios de internet he intentado agregar las siguientes variables de entorno al sistema:
%SystemRoot%\system32
%SystemRoot%
%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem
Pero no ha funcionado.
Agradecería mucho la ayuda de alguien a quien le haya pasado lo mismo y haya podido encontrar una solución.
Las características de mi sistema operativos son:
Windows 10 Pro
versión: 20H2
Compilación del sistema operativo: 19042.804

A: Set-ExecutionPolicy es un cmdlet de Powershell y tiene que ejecutarse en la consola de Powershell.  También es necesario que tengas el privilegio de administrador.

A: Antes tienes que ejecutar este comando
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
suerte!


Matick Auto Wash in Redford Township hosted the first Motor City Wheels for Meals fundraiser on May 21. All proceeds went to buy meals for seniors facing food insecurity. Detroit Mayor Michael Duggan and Wayne County Executive Warren Evans co-sponsored the event. The more than 800 Wheels on Meals volunteers enjoyed a recognition luncheon before the fundraiser.


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Remembering Diego Obregón (1971-2020)
By Jorge Arévalo Mateus
Born in Colombia's Pacific coastal town of Guapi, Maestro Diego Obregón (1971-2020) was an amazing multi-instrumentalist, instrument builder, composer, performer and educator. Best known as a virtuosic marimba player and maker, Maestro Obregón specialized in Afro-Colombian genres such as currulao, juga, and bunde, and he also performed on indigenous percussion instruments such as cununo and bombo. Obregon was a dear friend of CTMD, and with his Grupo Chonta, a featured artist in our FolkCOLOMBIA Musica y Danza program. His immense contributions to this unique music and cultural heritage will be sorely missed.
Diego has left an immeasurable mark on the community of Colombian musicians in New York City, where he worked so intensely on sharing his knowledge of Afro-Pacifico Colombian culture. In an interview back in 2010, I asked him how he saw himself within a community where he was the sole musician from the region. He replied:
"La contribución es dar a conocer los ritmos de la región pacífica colombiana los cuales corren por mis venas / The contribution is to share the rhythms of Colombia's Pacific region which runs in my veins."
As talented a virtuoso marimbista, multi-instrumentalist, instrument maker and composer as he was, he was an even better person. You gave New York City your heart and soul!
Please consider contributing to this Gofundme in honor of Diego to help his family in these difficult times: https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-el-maestro-diego-obregon?utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3QJW_vSiRgGHs4bBlwagB092g5lB52qf7Kx1NqNnfgfP9REanUx119jCE
Jorge Arévalo Mateus, PhD
Executive Director of the Association for Cultural Equity
Director of FolkCOLOMBIA: Escuela de Musica y Danza
Jorge Arévalo Mateus
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A TAL factory in Dongguan, China, in May 2013. The company claims to make one in every six dress shirts sold in the U.S.
The day after the Rana Plaza factory crumbled in suburban Dhaka, Bangladesh, the death toll numbered 225. In the immediate aftermath, a disaster specialist optimistically told the Los Angeles Times, "We were lucky; it could have been much worse." For three weeks volunteers combed through 600 tons of rubble and were occasionally pelted with rocks thrown by outraged crowds. When recovery halted, the final toll was not lucky at all: 1,127 bodies. You'd be hard-pressed to pick a lower point for outsourcing or a better example of the high cost of cheap labor.
The past two decades have provided plenty of reasons to believe that relying on low-wage workers overseas has made multinationals complacent about their safety, beginning with Nike's sweatshops in the early 1990s and continuing up to this past November, when a fire in another Bangladesh factory killed 112 workers, mostly young women, trapped behind locked doors. Some of the companies manufacturing in Bangladesh have rushed forward with promised improvements — H&M and Inditex (the parent company of Zara) signed an accord to improve laborers' safety and pay in the country. But what would real reform look like? If Rana Plaza represents the worst of outsourcing, is there any model that is best? What can the world learn from companies that get it right?
"Costs are rising everywhere we go. There's no running away from that," says Roger Lee, CEO of TAL Group, a manufacturing giant based in Hong Kong that has factories in China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia. TAL claims to make one out of every six dress shirts sold in the U.S. In the face of rising costs for labor and materials, Lee, the third generation in a family business, is looking for ways to make other gains. TAL manages some of J.C. Penney's supply chain, stocking shirt inventories in Penney retail stores from half a world away, thereby reducing inventory waste. The savings help prevent Penney from having to shave costs in other areas, such as labor and safety, so that Penney can continue sourcing to TAL, which at one China campus has a karaoke room and a library for workers.
A decade ago, Nike took a different tack to improve its manufacturing. The company was plagued by stories of poor working conditions and underpaid labor, so in 2004 it promoted Hannah Jones, a former reporter, to revamp its approach. After examining nearly 1,000 factories, Jones, who covered social action for the BBC, asked the board to publicly reveal online all of Nike's factories. "It was a pretty scary move for us," says Jones. Though Nike remains far from perfect, with its supply chain in plain view (at nikeinc.com/ pages/manufacturing), it is now accountable for all infractions. "Frankly, it allows civil society to do what they do best," Jones says: Observe, report, and keep the company in check.
Still, such large, systemic fixes can't grapple with the fact that most workers' fates remain tied to the laws (or lack thereof ) in their home countries. Richard Locke, a professor of political science and management at MIT, studied outsourcing for the past 10 years before concluding that private oversight isn't enough. "We need to bring government back in," he says, offering the example of Cambodia, a country reliant on the apparel industry after years of genocide and civil war. The U.S. allowed the country to expand its exports on the condition that labor standards show steady improvement. The Cambodian government has since replaced U.S. oversight, and it now licenses for export only factories that have met the standards of the International Labour Organization. Bangladesh, take note.


Curved Seams Are Made Easy With This Drunkard's Path Capsule Quilt!
We have covered curved seams before, so we obviously know that they can be a bit tricky (and we also know that many of you agree).
Needless to say, when we see a pattern like the one featured in the following tutorial from Fons & Porter — the Drunkard's Path Capsule Quilt — we're initially a little skeptical about whether we can do it or not. But then we watched the tutorial and realized that it's actually not too tough!
This quilt is great because you can really define the shapes based on the contrast of your fabric. Also, you can achieve this this complex-looking pattern using only two blocks! So check it out, and give it a try if you're feeling up to it. We think you'll love the results, and we'd love to see them, so don't forget to share photos of your finished quilt with us!


Two country music icons are coming to the Pee Dee this summer!
Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss are set to perform at the Florence Center on Monday, Aug. 12, at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m.
According to the Florence Center's website, ticket prices range from $26 to $246. They're available at the Florence Center box office, through Ticketmaster, or by calling (800) 745-3000.
The Florence Center is located at 3300 W. Radio Drive in Florence. Click here for more information about the show.


Date: 16 March 10am -2.30pm. Cost: 20.00. Includes materials and refreshments.
Working in my well-lit studio, you will try various wax techniques on handmade papers (tissutex and mulberry) using found tools and the canting in a free, loose way. You will mix and paint with Procion dye, wax again and iron out. Pieces can then be selected with a window shape to cut out and use for cards. Participants can either bring their own blank cards or use mine at 20 pence each. (They are square and include an envelope). You will also use your experimental pieces as an inspiration for a picture. You can cut, tear and reassemble strips or shapes to create a small abstracted landscape picture, then glue the pieces down. It's great fun to create in this imaginative way. There will be time to make several pictures and/or cards. I will show how your pictures will look mounted and fitted into a standard frame.
The workshop will take place with a minimum of 2 participants. I would also welcome one or two accompanied children aged 10 + .


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Mengele
Paul Woodson
11h 34m 22s
Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. Aided by the role he has assumed in works of popular culture, Mengele has come to symbolize the Holocaust itself as well as the failure of justice that allowed countless Nazi murderers and their accomplices to escape justice.As chief of investigative research at the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations in the 1980s, David G. Marwell worked on the Mengele case. Drawing on his own experience as well as new scholarship and sources, Marwell examines Mengele's life and career. He chronicles Mengele's university studies; his wartime service both in frontline combat and at Auschwitz, where his "selections" sent innumerable innocents to their deaths and his "scientific" pursuits traumatized or killed countless more; and his postwar flight from Europe and refuge in South America.Mengele describes the international search for the Nazi doctor in 1985 that ended in a cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the dogged forensic investigation that produced overwhelming evidence that Mengele had died—but failed to convince those who, arguably, most wanted him dead. This is the riveting story of science without limits, escape without freedom, and resolution without justice.
Duración: 11h 34m 22s
Publicado por HighBridge Audio
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Q: PHP: How to convert string to WINDOWS-1252 entities/characters? I have the following string:
LONDON — Britain's unemployment rate held steady in the three months through January, reinforcing the Bank of England's case for keeping interest rates at a record low.
If I use something like htmlentities I get the following string:
LONDON — Britain's unemployment rate held steady in the three months through January, reinforcing the Bank of England's case for keeping interest rates at a record low.
However I want to get WINDOWS-1252 entities instead such as:
LONDON — Britain's unemployment rate held steady in the three months through January, reinforcing the Bank of England's case for keeping interest rates at a record low.
I've tried using different functions such as mb_convert_encoding, iconv, get_html_translation_table but I'm unable to find a way to do this.
Any help would be appreciated.

A: Basically the conversion is the &#ASCII; in format. So using the ascii value of those's special characters, you can easily implement it in preg_replace_callback function. Take a look at the following example:
$text = <<<EOT
LONDON — Britain's unemployment rate held steady in the three months through January, reinforcing the Bank of England's case for keeping interest rates at a record low.
EOT;

$text = preg_replace_callback(
    "/([—'])/",   // <-- place characters inside the [] if you need to change
    function ($m){ return "&#".ord($m[1]).";"; },
    $text
);

print "$text\n";

I have just used two(—') characters here inside []. if you need more, just add those one by one.


Fun For Everyone . . . We Have It!
Formal: Commodore's Ball, Ladies Association Cocktail Party, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Dinner.
Family: Easter Egg Hunt, Boo Boating at Halloween, Christmas Open House with Santa, Thanksgiving Buffet, Ragnot parties, Cardboard Boat Race, etc.
Fresh Air: Games, races and fireworks on July 4 weekend; pool parties and cook offs throughout the year; parties at Double Bayou; lobster and shrimp boils on the dock.
Casual: Happy hour on Fridays, jazz brunches, St. Patrick's and Derby Day parties, power and sailing cruises to Galveston and other fun destinations.
The Entertainment Committee, Yachting Committee, Youth Activities Program, Ladies Association, Mosquito Fleet and Women's Sailing Association all sponsor social events. To discover their offerings, click on the name of the respective group.


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Aashayein | Aashayein Movie Reviews | Aashayein Ratings | Aashayein Hindi Movie Review | Aashayein Movie Preview 2010 | Aashayein Movie Story | Aashayein Comments | Aashayein Hindi Movie Hit or Flop
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Music Director: Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant, Pritam Chakraborty
Lyricst: Sameer, Kumaar, Shakeel Sohail, Mir Ali Husain
Aashayein Movie Preview
Aashayein is an upcoming Hindi Bollywood Movie in which leading role is played by one and only dashing plus sexy guy John Abraham with a gorgeous actress Sonal Sehgal as a Heroin. The movie is directed and written by Nagesh Kukunoor. Percept Picture Company and T-Series is the production house of this movie. The film will release in the month of August.
The responsibilities Production Designer is performed by Devika Bahudhanan. Music director of the film is Salim Merchant. The starring crew composed of Sonal Sehgal, Anaitha Nair, Farida Jalal, John Abraham, Sharad Wagh, Girish Karnad, Vikram Inamdar, Prateeksha Lonkar,Sonali Sachdev and Ashwin Chitale.
The story of the movie is about a man who is an obsessive gambler and wins twenty million rupees during a bet. His name is Rahul Singh (role played by John Abraham). In order o celebrates his win he invites his friends on a grand party arranged buy him. In this party everyone enjoy and drink till late night. Meanwhile Rahul also purposes his dream girl Nafisa (role played by Sonal Sehgal). He makes announcement of his engagement with Nafisa on the party floor and after that suddenly he feels strange and then fell down on the floor.
His eyes open in a hospital where doctors told him that he has only ninety days to live after that he will die. This news hurts him a lot and his all future plans vanish away from his eyes. Finally he decided to move in a peaceful sanatorium for spending the remaining days of his life. He leaves everything behind so may the remaining days of his lives are away from the thoughts of his past life.
In this sanatorium he finds different people and develops relation with them. These people change his outlook on the life. There Rahul learns the way to live a life because the people around him still have courage after be in such miserable conditions. This movie is a journey about love, hate, hope and death.
AASHAYEIN SYNOPSIS
Aashayein movie story revolves around Rahul Singh (John Abraham), a compulsive gambler who wins Rs. 20 million from a bet and throws a party to celebrate. Everyone has a good time drinking and partying till late night during which Rahul proposes to Nafisa (Sonal Sehgal). He announces their engagement to all present, then collapses on the floor.
In hospital, he learns that he has only 90 days to live. Wanting to make the most of his last days, he leaves everything behind and moves into a soothing hospice. The inmates he meets change his outlook on life. As his relationships grow with each one of them, Rahul tries to rise above his own needs and live life to the fullest, learning from the courage of those around him.
The people he meets in the hospice add colour, both dark and bright, to his journey, which is one about love, hate, life, death and above all, hope.
Aashayein Movie Review
Aashayein begins with a promising track shot taking the audience from an old house to a den of bookies in an old and dilapidated courtyard. The opening shot is so fantastic that it raises your aashayein, only to have them dashed soon after.
The story of a compulsive gambler (we hardly see the obsession with gambling), Aashayein is a confused hotchpotch of many messages, none hard enough to hit you.
John Abraham as Rahul Sharma – An angry, drop-dead gorgeous, confused, compulsive gambler. Wishes to live the life he has been dreaming of. Sonal Sehgal as Nafisa – Doting, loving, loyal girlfriend. Wishes that love always wins.
Prateeksha Lonkar as Sister Grace – She will bend her principles for the greater good. Wishes to dedicate her life for the happiness of her inmates. Girish Karnad as Parthasarthi – Fun loving, "uncle" to everyone, stupidly stubborn on his principles. Wishes to be reunited with his family. Farida Jalal as Madhu – Intelligent, virtuous, loving. Wishes to just lead a normal life and not be ostracized. Ashwin Chitale as Govinda – Ten years old, loves comics, mangoes and tells stories. Wishes that everyones life be just like a comic book. Ashwin Chitale is child actor who starred in the Marathi film Shwaas. Anaitha Nair as Padma – She is impetuous, obnoxious, full of life. Wishes to experience love.
The film is devoid of any script and looks like the director (Kukunoor) had so much footage that he used every bit of it in the asha that some of it will make sense. We do see the good John can do when you manage to look away from the hunks dimples. In the first half he is an extension of his real-life image, while the second half sees his transformation into an actor. Towards the end you start doubting his acting skills again.
Aashayein, whose release was delayed by almost two years, is so hopeless that you wish it had remained in the cans forever
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