Yuan Xikun, a sculptor born in Kunming in 1944, made 2.1 million yuan earlier this year at an auction. But that's not what captured people's attention. It's what he did with the money that made news.
He donated all of it to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for use in marine protection projects.
At a WWF charity auction called "Save Our Oceans, Save Our Future," Yuan's glazed sculpture "The Urgency of the Polar" was auctioned off for 900,000 yuan. The sculpture features a mother polar bear standing on a dangerously small piece of thawed ice with her terrified cubs.
At the same event, a bronze sculpture, "Confucius," claimed 1.2 million yuan. It features Confucius greeting others while on a lecture tour in the Eastern Zhou kingdoms. The philosopher has a broad forehead and a face brimming vividly with willpower and humility.
"Yuan is saving nature with his art," critics have said. He is credited as having achieved the greatest success in combining art with environmental protection.
Yuan, a rare artist equally versed in painting and sculpture, started his career as a painter for a zoological institute and an art editor for a publishing house. He pioneered painting techniques that incorporated Chinese elements into western oil painting.
He inherited his sculpture skills from his father, who was a student of Xu Beihong, one of the most influential painters in 20th century China.
Yuan, a member of the National Standing Committee of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, has always been passionate about preserving the world's ecology and the environment. In 2007 he sculpted "Tiger, the God of the Forests," a 25 meter-long and 13-meter-tall work that now stands at the Beijing Zoo.
He also holds a Guinness world record for mass on-the-spot drawing. He led 300 Beijing residents in drawing tigers on a 150-meter-long piece of paper to highlight the importance of protecting tigers, which are on the verge of extinction.
In early 2008, he finished "The Urgency of the Polar," made of copper-nickel alloy. It was sent to the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Geneva and set up at the square in front of the office.
His designs were chosen by the agency to appear on cups for Champions of the Earth in 2009 and 2010. UNEP named Yuan an environmental protection artistic master. He held a solo exhibition, Man and Nature, at UN headquarters in New York and at the Berlin Museum.
This is only part of Yuan's extraordinary zeal for public good. He donated more than 60,000 yuan to Anhui Province when it was devastated by a major flood in 1991. He donated a sculpture as a way to help tsunami-afflicted people of Asia in early 2004. And he sent 216,666 yuan to his ancestral home province of Guizhou when southern China was hit by a once-in-a-100-years snowstorm in March 2007.
He has established a fund of nearly 10 million yuan for work on a group of international sculptures in Beijing, a fund of 5 million yuan for scholarships in Yunnan with a sale of his picture "Tiger," and a fund of nearly 10 million yuan for the welfare of the elderly. The sale of his bronze sculpture, "Zhao Puchu, a Buddhist Leader and Calligrapher," was used to help the poor.


A new arrival in the family… Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes… Perfect. But what's life like when you're looking at twenty of each, or thirty, or more?
It's the first question that anyone seems to ask when faced with twin babies even if, like ours, they are clearly different sexes. I'm always tempted to point out that if they did indeed look the same, I'd either have a very butch girl or a very feminine boy.
Tamba represents 24,000 multiple birth families in the UK and 140 local Twins Clubs. It concerns itself not only with the day-to-day challenges of having one pair of hands and two or more babies, but also campaigns to change government policy to reflect the unique needs of its members.
…until the letter arrived announcing that 'due to over-capacity' my twins had been allocated places at two different nursery schools a village apart. And I wasn't alone; all over the country parents were faced with the prospect of cloning themselves to be at two school gates simultaneously or of putting their four year olds on public transport, pocket money in hand.
Fourteen years – and multiple letters to the Education Authorities – later, and the previous Secretary of State for Education finally had the Ed Balls to change policy so that such a ridiculous state of affairs could no longer prevail.
…and believe me there's nothing more frustrating – and guaranteed to generate paranoia – than living with two tiny people who are permanently sharing an in-joke.
For many parents, the answer is not just Speech Therapy, but something far more drastic.
Ironically, while I was fighting to get my two into the same school other mothers were choosing to keep their twins apart..
Eleven-year-old twins Laura and Josie Haddan are identical, and, on the advice of Tamba, were also sent to separate Primary Schools.
And they prefer it. As Laura explains, "I like going to a different school because I'm not with Josie all the time and you have different friends." Her sister agrees with her. "Everybody thinks you're the same person, but you're not, you're different, so it's better to be at a different school to Laura." Whereas many twins rely on each other to the exclusion of everyone else, Laura adds cheerfully, "I think it's made me more confident, because I've done something without Josie".
Certainly, in the long term, many twins show a degree of resourcefulness and adaptability that many single children lack.
One of the main topics of conversation at Twins Clubs is family dynamics. Is it best to have twins as your first children or your second, third or even fourth? All my friends and I had our first babies together, and everyone seemed to find motherhood a nightmare, so I thought that having two was clearly not that much different… until I had my third and I wanted to ring them all up and tell them I'd discovered the truth – life with just one baby was so much easier!
These sort of conversations are what bonds parents of multiples. There's also the ribbing between the mothers of twins and triplets, and the mothers of triplets and quads, as we all compare notes. We have one mum of triplets who, as well as ringing the fantastic Tamba helpline, also logs onto a blog from a mum of quads – to cheer herself up!
The friends I made at Twins Club remain some of my closest. We clung together in those early days, filling our houses with our multiple babies as we drank strong coffee and grilled fish fingers by the tray full.
As other mothers with single children went to Mum and Toddler Groups and Baby Massage classes, we were simply too exhausted to contemplate getting ourselves and two or more children out of the door by 10am. And anyway it was impossible to do 'Row, Row, Row the Boat' with two pairs of eager toddler hands – and trying to massage two babies always resulted in two people in tears – usually the mother and one of them.
We also didn't have the money to go on adventurous days out. Double the joy also means double the cost. 'Buy one, get one free' doesn't work with multiple births.
The recent Government Welfare reforms will hit multiple birth families more than most, according to Keith Reed at Tamba, who says "They will be disproportionately affected by these reforms including the freeze on child benefit".
For some multiple births, the outcome is rather bleaker, though. What those cute advertising posters of shiny smiley twins in neat matching outfits don't show is the high percentage of health problems. A spokeswoman from the MBF explains, "Although there are many joys, far less well known are the higher risk for mothers and babies. Prematurity and low birth weight are the main reason for increased mortality and disability for these children".
It's for this reason that the Foundation, along with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has been looking seriously at the whole issue of fertility treatment and its influence on multiple births. The triplet rate in the UK, for example, used to be about one in 10,000 pregnancies – but between 1970 and 1998 this more than quadrupled, due to fertility treatment. It has fallen annually since then, however, due to a reduction in the number of embryos which can now be transferred in an IVF cycle, and that's really a very good thing. To desperate would-be parents it may seem cruel, as it's reducing the already slim odds of getting pregnant even more – but it is also increasing their chance of having one or two healthy babies rather than three with serious problems.


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Q: Почему не обрабатывается событие MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN? Здравствуйте!
Столкнулся с проблемой, переопределяю листание scrollview, и чтобы определить куда мы листаем, отлавливаю событие нажатия и поднятия пальца, но событие нажатия не обрабатывается  по неизвестной мне причине.

scrollView.setOnTouchListener( new View.OnTouchListener()
        {
            @Override
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event)
            {

                if( MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN == event.getAction())
                {
                    oldCY = event.getY();//в эту ветку вообще не заходит
                    Toast.makeText(choseDate.this,"down",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                }
                else
                {
                    if(MotionEvent.ACTION_UP == event.getAction())
                    {
                        newCY = event.getY();
                        //если мы пролистали вниз, то перелистнем на страницу
                        if(newCY - oldCY > 0)
                        {
                            //сделаем проверку, что мы можешь еще листать
                            if((scrollTo - 72*4)>=0)
                            {
                                scrollTo -=72*4;
                                PostScroller ps = new PostScroller(scrollView,0,scrollTo);
                                scrollView.post(ps);
                            }

                        }
                        if(newCY - oldCY < 0)
                        {
                            //сделаем проверку, что мы можешь еще листать
                            if((scrollTo + 72*4)<=((createdate.MAXYEAR/4)-1)*72)
                            {
                                scrollTo += 72*4;
                                PostScroller ps = new PostScroller(scrollView,0,scrollTo);
                                scrollView.post(ps);
                            }

                        }
                    }
                }

                return true;
            }
        });

A: Ну поскольку scrollview это контейнер и сам не обрабатывает ивенты (а только его дочерние), то нужно наследовать субкласс и переопределить метод
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent (MotionEvent ev)
И еще: может тут всё таки подойдёт переопределение onScroll?
@Override
public boolean onScroll(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float distanceX,
                        float distanceY) {
    return super.onScroll(e1, e2, distanceX, distanceY);
}

A: Если у Вас в xml разметки что то вроде такого
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/parent"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >
</RelativeLayout>

</ScrollView>
То тут вы должны обрабатывать нажатия на RelativeLayout, так как он перекрывает ScrollView

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Small note: Universal divides the theme park into three categories: the Upper Lot, Lower Lot and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. For more on the layout of the park, please check out our Start Here guide.
Wizarding World of Harry Potter Attractions
Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey
Universal's most advanced attraction to date, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey takes you on a magical adventure through the world of Harry Potter!
Flight of the Hippogriff
Universal's first outdoor coaster, Flight of Hippogriff takes you on a journey on how to properly greet the temperamental hippogriff.
Upper Lot Attractions
The world famous Universal Studio Tour – the very heart and soul of Universal Studios Hollywood. Witness how a full-fledged movie studio operates and get the chance to see actual sets from your favorite movies and television shows.
Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem
A 3D motion-simulator based attraction, Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem takes you on a whirlwind adventure with Gru, his three kids and his lovable yellow assistants.
Super Silly Fun Land
A spectacular play area modeled after the Despicable Me films, Super Silly Fun Land features a wet play area, playground, games and more.
Silly Swirly
A spinner overlooking the San Fernando Valley, Silly Swirly takes families on a fun spin.
Special Effects Show
Continuing a long lineage of behind-the-scenes shows, the Special Effects Show gives guests a stunt-filled interactive look at some of Hollywood's oldest and newest tricks.
WaterWorld: A Live Sea War Spectacular
A live-action stunt show, WaterWorld: A Live Sea War Spectacular takes you on a whirlwind adventure as you watch Helen and the Mariner flee from the evil Smokers in hopes of finding dry land.
Universal's Animal Actors
A live outdoor stage show, Universal's Animal Actors gives guests an insider's view on how animals work alongside some of Hollywood's biggest stars. Who knows, you might even be cast in a production!
The Simpsons Ride
Join the Simpsons in another fun, immersive motion-simulator journey as you wander through the captivating world of Krusty the Clown on the Simpsons Ride!
Shrek 4D
Do you like waffles? If so, join Shrek, Fiona and Donkey as they yet again escape from the clutches of the evil Lordquaad in Shrek 4D!
Lower Lot Attractions
Jurassic Park…The Ride
Take a peaceful boat journey in the land of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park…The Ride!
Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride
Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride is a thrilling indoor roller coaster that brings the successful Mummy franchise to life.
Transformers: The Ride – 3D
Based off the successful Transformers franchise, Transformers: The Ride 3D is one of Universal's biggest thrills to date, featuring an advanced multi-story motion simulator!
Dino Play
Head on over to the Dino Play playground for a fun prehistoric experience!

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It was closer than many may have thought, with the table topping Sharks needing to pull out all stops to get the better of a determined Manly side last Sunday.
The Sea Eagles had an upset on their minds against the table-topping Sharks, with the 34-30 final score line an accurate indication of a game that went down to the last few minutes.
This week the young Sharks travel to Gosford to play a Roosters team battling to find their best form.
Traditionally amongst the leading teams in the NRL competition, the Roosters are languishing in 12th and needing a win over the Sharks to stay in touch with the top eight.
The Sharks v Roosters Holden Cup match will be the first of three games at Central Coast Stadium on Saturday, with kick-off at 10.45am.
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Presidential Campaign 2020: Turning Radically Left?
A long list of White House challengers favor policies that would advance moral and sexual depravity—all in the name of 'freedom'
by Jerry Pierce | May 1, 2019 | Features
Almost uniformly, the 2020 challengers for the presidency support abortion rights in the broadest terms, nearly unfettered sexual freedom and gender politics, and liberalized views on such things as recreational marijuana, even as opioids ravage communities. Will America rediscover its Judeo-Christian foundation, or continue headlong into cultural collapse?
On Feb. 25, 44 U.S. senators bowed down in religious-like devotion to the big abortion lobby. A sizable segment of the nation rightly recoiled.
Up for debate was the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would have given prosecutorial teeth to a 2002 law that recognized the personhood of a baby born alive in an abortion procedure. That day, senators had an opportunity to seize a moment of human decency by requiring medical workers to give life-saving care to babies born alive during
abortion procedures.
The bill, opposed by Planned Parenthood and other abortion interests, needed 60 votes to advance. It received 53, with three Democrats crossing the aisle to support it.
Six senators with eyes on the presidency in 2020 were present that day. All six—Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Amy Klobuchar—voted it down.
"[The radical progressives] don't get that only 13 percent of Americans agree with abortion of partially delivered babies or full-term babies."
—Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary
That same month, on the heels of several states passing the most egregious late-term abortion bills ever, the percentage of Americans calling themselves pro-life shot up. According to a Marist poll conducted on behalf of the Catholic Knights of Columbus, the percentage of Democrats self-identifying as "pro-life" increased 14 percent in one month. Similar changes were observed in pro-choice voters under the age of 45 who began identifying as pro-life, according to the polling data. A survey released a week earlier by Americans United for Life showed similar numbers.
Increasingly, the crowded field of 2020 challengers—and the powerful lobbies that fund them—seem to be pushing past the values of mainstream Democrat voters in ways unimaginable even a decade or two ago.
These who seek to lead this nation seem intent on doing the very thing God warns against in Isaiah 5:20—"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness" (ESV).
Same-sex marriage, for example, has gone from a fringe idea (remember that President Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996) to a step too far (President Obama claimed he opposed gay marriage in his first term) to what has become a progressive standard that no public liberal would dare question, not to mention many floral shop owners or wedding photographers. As presidential challengers line up, most if not all support the major policy goals advanced by the LGBTQ activists, even to the point of prosecuting religiously motivated business owners whose values collide with the demands of the sexual revolution.
Another looming threat to religious liberty—the so-called Equality Act—is cosponsored by the three U.S. House members vying for the White House, Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, Tim Ryan, D-Ohio and Eric Swalwell, D-California.
The bill would make sexual orientation and gender identity protected categories and would attempt to override any state conscience protections for people of faith.
Add to this what seems to be the brazen expansion of abortion rights, an aggressive marijuana legalization movement, support for morally fraught bioethical research, and even talk of legalizing the sex trade under the guise of sex workers organizing as a labor bloc or destigmatizing a transaction between so-called consenting adults.
"So many of these proposals aren't just overly extreme," says Doreen Denny, senior director of government relations for Concerned Women for America (CWA) who served under President George H.W. Bush, "they're completely irresponsible. And what's troubling is there seems to be no accountability in the mainstream media for challenging the extremism of these ideas or their impact to our country. If you just go down the list, it's really remarkable how far the candidates for president at the present time are pushing the envelope. … These are not ideas for human flourishing. These are proposals to increase human suffering, and I think anyone who's not seeing that right now is not paying attention and needs to wake up."
Yet the radical tilt among progressives in Washington, in the entertainment business, in big technology companies and in academia, didn't appear out of nowhere. It's been building for decades, Denny notes.
"When something becomes so extreme and it's exposed so clearly, as with these issues among the presidential contenders, maybe this is the time that will lead to change. We need to embrace that opportunity. As Christians, we cannot afford to separate from the public square."
Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary and former head of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, says the left tends to live in an echo chamber, pushing them further out of touch with many voters.
"When you look at what is happening in our national life, you have one of the two major parties that is in the thrall of radical progressivism," Land says. "But they only listen to their supporters. … For instance, they don't get that only 13 percent of Americans agree with abortion of partially delivered babies or full-term babies. That even people who consider themselves pro-choice—the majority of people who consider themselves pro-choice—do not support legal abortion of viable third-trimester babies."
Going to Pot?
But it's not only abortion and gay marriage that the progressive left is using as wedge issues; an upsurge in the percentage of Americans who favor marijuana legalization is at an all-time high: 66 percent.
According to Gallup, only about 12 percent supported legalized marijuana in 1969, and support stayed relatively low until 2000. Since then, a steady increase has occurred, and progressives are eager to make a final push for legalization.
John Stonestreet and David Carlson write at BreakPoint.org: "The legalization wave says a lot about the worldview of our culture—one in which the state wishes to aid and abet the inability of people to deny themselves any pleasure. That's called state-sponsored hedonism."
In the same article, Stonestreet and Carlson note the increasing science showing that pot is much more damaging than previously thought, not the harmless high it is often characterized as. For example, an American Journal of Psychiatry study showed those who smoke pot are more likely to eventually use opioids. Stonestreet and Carlson also note that the potency of today's marijuana is significantly stronger than 30 or 40 years ago. THC levels were around 5 percent in the 1970s and '80s, but today's dispensaries sell marijuana that averages about 25 percent THC potency.
Sen. Cory Booker, a candidate for the Democratic nomination, has introduced legislation that would legalize marijuana on the federal level even as more states legalize recreational use. Among the co-sponsors are fellow senators and presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders.
The Fallacy of Sexual 'Freedom'
Another social woe in the fallout of the sexual revolution has been the proliferation of online pornography and the commercial sex trade that it helps fuel. Many Christian ministries have joined the battle against sex trafficking, domestically and abroad. For years feminists have rightly decried the objectification of women in pop culture. The #MeToo movement continues to reverberate.
Yet there is a movement to remove the stigma of the sex trade through legal means. Rolling Stone magazine even devoted an article to the subject: "Sex Work Decriminalization Is Becoming an Issue For 2020."
At least one of the presidential candidates believes the legalization of the sex trade might be a good thing.
In an interview with the online publication The Root, Harris, who as San Francisco district attorney and later California attorney general prosecuted sex traffickers and has supported legislation aimed at protecting those trafficked, argued that no one who exploits others for profit should be free of criminal prosecution, "but when you're talking about consenting adults, then, yes, we should really consider that we can't criminalize consensual behavior, because no one's being harmed."
CWA's Denny says one of the problems with Harris' reasoning is that legalizing prostitution means legitimizing it as a line of work, which is damaging to women (and men) on many levels.
"Is this the kind of idea that we want to promote in our culture—that selling your body is somehow consistent with human dignity? Any kind of legalization would only mainstream and normalize further exploitation."
And rarely is the arrangement between two consenting adults, Denny notes. "They're desperate women looking for a means of getting by, being promised something, and they're held hostage and in bondage by that. What's not to see clearly here about the damage that this does to our culture?"
Elections Have Consequences
"Our message to America," Denny says, "is that elections have consequences for life, and if you do not engage, you are literally abdicating our future to what we see coming down the road from an extreme left-wing agenda. We can't be apathetic."
Land believes the next presidential election could set the course for which cultural orthodoxy America eventually follows: Either the "reassertion of Judeo-Christian orthodoxy" as the norm for public values, or "full-blown neo-pagan orthodoxy," which will be far less tolerant of Christians than Christians have been of competing views.
If the latter occurs, Land warns that withdrawing from society is not a Biblical option because it doesn't square with Jesus' command to be salt and light.
And, Land adds, "these pagans will be far more bloodthirsty and intolerant than were the Visigoths who sacked Rome in the Middle Ages. They won't leave us alone in our monastery. They'll come after us even there and seek to take our children, because they'll claim we're making our children mentally ill by teaching them traditional Judeo-Christian morality."
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By Josh Marshall
I'd been waiting for the day when Tony Snow would slip into full wing-nut claptrap overdrive. And today I think we've got it.
Here's what Snow said today when he got backed into a corner about the dismal failure of the administration's Korea policy …
I understand what the Clinton administration wanted to do. They wanted to talk reason to the government of Pyongyang, and they engaged in bilateral conversations. And Bill Richardson went with flowers and chocolates, and he went with light water nuclear reactors, and he went with promises of heavy oil and a basketball signed by Michael Jordan, and many other inducements for the dear leader to try to agree not to develop nuclear weapons, and it failed.
You know Snow felt deeply under the gun here, because this claptrap comes from deep in the 'winger brain stem.
Let's review a few salient, uncontested facts.
Back in 1994, the US came close to war over its nuclear activities and particularly the reactor complex at Yongbyon. War was averted with the so-called 'Agreed Framework' in which North Korea suspended its production of plutonium (and put the facility under international inspections) in exchange for assistance building light water nuclear reactors (the kind that don't help you make bombs) and fuel oil for energy generation.
There are all sorts of details to what was going to be in exchange for what, who exactly would be doing the giving, and lots of other details you can see here. But that is the essence of it. And it shut down the North Koreans' plutonium reprocessing activities for close to a decade.
The agreement began to come apart in 1998 when the North Koreans did an unnannounced test firing of one of their missiles, which went over Japan and crashed into the Pacific. There was also, by the end of the Clinton administration, evidence that the North Koreans were attempting to enrich uranium, something not explicitly covered in the Agreed Framework, but certainly a violation of the spirit of the agreement.
There's a fairly detailed explanation of the US reaction and the efforts to arrive at a new agreement during the late Clinton administration. It's a Times , oped written by two of the policy makers at the time, Bill Perry and Ashton Carter.
The Bush administration came to office convinced that this entire process was one of appeasement and set in motion a series of events that led to a complete breakdown of the initial agreement. In response, the North Koreans started reprocessing plutonium again.
Now, most agree, the North Koreans probably have enough for several nuclear warheads.
Now, the premise of the Bush administration's North Korea policy was that North Korea was a bad acting state that had to be dealt with through force, not negotiation. That didn't necessarily mean going to war. The goal was to intimidate the North Koreans into better behavior if possible and resort to force if necessary.
Yet, when the North Koreans called the White House's bluff and starting reprocessing plutonium, the White House's response was … well, nothing.
That was three years ago.
Rather than talk softly and carry a big stick it was a policy of talk tough and do nothing.
The bomb making plutonium keeps coming off the conveyor belt. And the White House policy is to say they won't negotiate and also ask the Chinese to get the North Koreans to behave.
The remaining conceit of the Bush administration is that the Clintonites met with the North Koreans in bilateral talks while they insist on multilateral talks.
That's the policy, which is to say, they have no policy. The salient fact is that under Clinton plutonium reprocessing stopped and under Bush it restarted. The Bushies angle was that you don't coddle bad actors like the North Koreans. You deal with them in the language they understand: force. But the NKs called their bluff, they weren't prepared to use force. So they decided to forget about the whole thing.
That's the record. That's the policy. A total failure.
Tony Snow knows it. That's why he went into overdrive. The truth hurts.
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SLAVES, PEARLS AND THE BRITISH IN THE GULF IN THE LATE COLONIAL TIME
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Slaves were imported to the Persian Gulf mainly from East Africa. The largest number of male slaves sent to the region was absorbed in the pearl fisheries industry. At the turn of the 20th century, it was the British Government who played a principal role in the repression of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. The position of the British Government in regard to slavery in these regions can be described as uncompromisingly hostile to the slave trade and adverse to slavery as an institution. The British Agents in the Persian Gulf were authorized to manumit slaves. Giving a statement was a prerequisite of manumission, the slaves were applying for in front of the British officials. Between 1907 and 1949 949 statements were made and they shed a light on various aspects of the social, economic and political life in the Gulf in this period.
BRITISH COLONY PERSIAN GULF SLAVES
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All school students ought to know about popular help and advice with regards to essay types. Certainly, you have at least once been allocated a job to prep a narrative essay. Alternatively, it doesn't denote you won't get worries at the same time perfecting it. A different normal product is to come up with a descriptive essay, therefore you will probably are up against it too. A further category, the attributes in which young people should likewise know, is definitely argumentative essay. Let's say last night your educator astonished you by asking you to focus on an exemplification essay. In most of examples, this fact result in some misunderstanding or even just outright be scared. So, let's see how to create an exemplification essay and what are the wants are. This fast guide will allow you to focus on your following compiled assignments.
As soon as you receive the thing and your own teacher's instructions, you will continue to be asking: What is an exemplification essay? You might have perhaps handled some shopping since you also want to find out more concerning it. This sort of style is referred to as an exemplification essay since it offers distinct the most common capabilities with argumentative making, i.e., you can be to grant authentic and responsible info to help your misunderstandings and become your aspect. To put it simply, an exemplification essay description will be a more detailed and incredibly well-revealed type of any argumentative essay. Which means your work would likely be to produce readers with additional cement suggestions to produce your stage. These odd capabilities benefit deciding on a exemplification essay creative ideas, as it has to be according to valuable cases, e.g., fresh truth, computer data, and research.
Choosing a suitable matter are probably the valuable options in resulting in a strong and effectual exemplification essay describe, that will make your task overall look completed. When your coach has recently offered you with a problem, you can start brainstorming and preparation. Of course, fairly often enrollees have got to find a change anything them, in addition they deal with lots of troubles with it. If your second option is the case, have a look at guidelines and pointers which your educator supplied you and pay attention to these pointers accurately.
Step One – pick and choose your area of interest. When deciding on it, please remember you might be motivated to corroborate or disprove a selected assertion by supplying much of reports and information. This is why your concept could sound like a statement which ought to be established or clarified.
Factor Two – jot down an introduction. Don't tend to forget to add in a thesis impression (the most crucial practice) that is utilized over the whole entire essay.
Factor Three – write a name for that 1st section. Incorporate sub-lines if you believe it must be more descriptive. Once you are done with it, go ahead and feature a brief description for each corresponding element of the textual content.
Stage 4 – be able to write titles among the just after overall body lines. (See your teacher's information). Generally speaking, like essays have two to three body paragraphs.
Move Five – be able to write a conclusions. Its title could define the purpose you mentioned inside the thesis document, but make sure not to ever work with the corresponding sentences.
The presentation of exemplification essay may lure the reader's concentration. This is why you can think about other strategies whilst article writing it. Beginning from an anecdote may well make your history strong more and more exclusive and excite the reader's involvement with the topic of your essay more efficiently than normal methods. Your second preference is using well-known estimates. A really good price will add even more appeal in your report, creating the complete tonality, or point out the principal agenda on the essay. A subsequent worthwhile thought is to try to get started is trustmypaper good in your launch which includes a inquiry (or several issues). Why does it services? To tell the truth, examining a subject from the outset can get you considering it, arouse your fascination and inspire you to carry on perusing. The last of all is utilizing statistics. It assists individuals keep on their concentrate and never remove their fascination with the papers.
As we've mentioned above, the exemplification essay thesis will have to speak for your job. Use straight forward-to-find out vernacular and ensure it looks sound and describes your main tips. This is the major reason why the exemplification essay thesis statement really should be designed in a correct way.
Certainly, there are additional things that should be taken into account, one of them getting the primary lines. So, how to construct shape paragraphs in exemplification essay? To start with, schedule each and every divisions inside the rational and cohesive fashion. Up coming, get started with every different paragraph making use of subject phrase which is related to the fundamental thought of your entire passing. Other advantageous strategy could be to take up a section using a fact or example. In this case, subsequent to inserting within the to start with sentence, you need to expound on how this phrase is connected to the thesis declaration. To connect your thoughts and start making them pass efficiently from a passing to a new one t, you need to use a range of changeover thoughts. Using only terminology like "at the same time," "additionally," "where," "producing that" and so forth is certainly not the only method to indicate coherent hints, also you can do it again primary facts through the essay by way of synonyms.
Our very last suggestions concentrates on the ways to produce a bottom line for an exemplification essay. There are plenty of simple ways so it will be specific towards the audience they are just about to achieve the in conclusion component. First of all, you could mention your initial paragraph of our essay or something you have in the number one section. Additionally you can put together a beneficial judgment by citing very much the same insurance quote or inescapable fact you outlined http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~deangeli/applets/Multimedia/ExplrSci/dswmedia/mirrors.htm before. These guidelines can certainly help the followers choose the feel that they're nearing the end on the essay. An appropriate judgment would have to be logical and reference the thesis and examples you present inside of pieces of paper. Still, just be sure to don't overdo it whenever restate the thesis. 1-2 phrases should be sufficient. Rather, sum up your primary tips to point out to the target audience what you have understand of the papers and the way each of these specifics are interconnected.
As you've possibly grasped, a high quality exemplification essay should be about developing the thesis declaration. What ideas are perfect for an exemplification essay? How does one create some contemporary suggestions? Let's make an effort to provide answers to these concerns! Keep in mind such type of essay involves that you prove to be a idea, which is why this issue ought to reveal this time. Pick out a area of interest where you could are able to provide particular suggestions, including verified particulars, results, etcetera. Sensible themes for exemplification essay should have at a minimum a great many arguable points in this way providing the publisher with adequate probability to actions basic research, seek out significant facts and promoting good ideas including them within their business. Whether your subject does not have these characteristics, you should have a hard time accomplishing a good quality effect and may also wind up without essay, wasting lots of time and energy.
Ever wondered what the objective of a write-up feedback is, and why is it that your instructors would like you to fork out very much focus to this kind of project? Indeed, consumer reviews are everywhere – it is best to just seem more complicated. What do you yahoo and google to begin with any time a new film is revealed? Evidently, you ought to have a friend else's view to fix it, and you're scouring the online marketplace correctly. You might need to peruse business critics' assessments, but usually we try to read the general opinion from the visitors or our buddies. An identical will happen when you need to obtain more information about guides, songs, singers, new video games, certain areas, facilities, etcetera. Commentary report necessitates people to give your belief related to a particular published portion, but you should do it at the somewhat more "scholastic" look and backup your impression with samples. So, don't get dejected! Herein, we are going to clarify how to write a post summary to ensure that it looks healthier plus more substantive. So, let's not holdback and initiate learning to analysis a post currently.
So what is an article assess?
This instruction is organised during a such a way as to make it much easier in the readers to discover the necessary information incredibly immediate. Listed here possibly the most quite often requested doubts which all university students, and this includes you, in general inquire when perfecting much the same duties.
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Articles review report is a bit of scholastic simply writing which offers a summary of any written piece and its particular review.


Google are aiming to shake up the tablet market with the launch of the Asus-built Nexus 7. As with every Google I/O developer conference each year, a significant release of the company's mobile OS, Android, has come to signal the simultaneous announcement of a new piece of hardware designed with each new release in mind. Hugo Barra and friends were on hand to talk Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and all of the features that come with it, but it was the developers who really had something to shout about when they were told they'd be walking away from the convention centre with all of Google's latest and greatest hardware, including the Nexus 7.
The tablet which was on stage just yesterday, has fortunately arrived in our laps today. As such we're able to go hands-on with the Google Nexus 7 to really understand what it's all about. For those who missed out yesterday, the Asus-made tablet is a 7-inch Android 4.1 Jelly Bean running device which makes use a of a beautiful 1280×800 HD display, features a front-facing 1.2 megapixel camera and promises up to 9 hours of video playback. What's more it's the first Tegra 3 powered device of its size and the first Asus/Google collaboration, with previous products produced by the likes of HTC, Motorola and Samsung.
The appeal of this small but powerful tablet is only boosted by its price point, as the 8GB version will retail for £159 and the 16GB version at £199. Users can expect to receive a £15 voucher for the Google Play store on purchase too, meaning you can fill it with new content immediately. Asus told us that although the 8GB model is available for pre-order now and will remain available for purchase online from Google directly, the larger 16GB capacity model will only be sold via retailers such as Carphone Warehouse, at least in the UK.
As you can see, its tactile design and mix of metal and plastics, instil the Nexus 7 with an air of simplicity. Paired with the improvements over ICS brought on by 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Nexus 7 is one of the nicest Android tablets on the scene, rivalled only by Asus' own brand Transformer products, with which the 7 shares its design philosophy.
Special thanks to Three for providing us with a Galaxy Nexus.


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Manhattan by Sail is the Ultimate Way to See the New York Skyline
Megan Roche July 8, 2019
The New York City skyline is just one of those pictures that you must get anytime you visit. Whether it's through an observation deck or through the tiny airplane window as you land, it's a coveted free souvenir of your trip to the Big Apple. Have you ever thought about checking out the skyline by sea? You can with Manhattan by Sail. And 365Tickets Canada has some tips and tickets to make this the best experience!
The Shearwater Classic Schooner
Take a trip on Shearwater Classic Schooner and you'll be transported back to the time of sailboats. While you will motor out of the dock, once you hit the waters of the Hudson, up go the sails.
Manhattan by Sail offers many different cruises for all customers. There are, of course, the classic sightseeing cruises to the Statue of Liberty and a chance to see the New York City Skyline from the waters. However, their most popular cruises are the
Champagne Brunch & the Statue of Liberty
The Champagne Brunch Sail is offered Saturday's and Sunday's, setting off at 11:00 AM. Boarding begins approximately 30 mins before sail time. The sail lasts for two hours and offers a brunch buffet.
Nosh on granola and yogurt, smoked salmon, brioche sandwiches, tea, coffee, unlimited champagne, muffins, and more. You'll get to see the Statue of Liberty up close and fully enjoy all that the Shearwater has to offer. You can enjoy this cruise for $98 for adults and $66 for children.
New York City at Night
You've seen the city by day, but of course, you need to see it at night. What better way than a City Lights Sail?
Available on Friday and Saturday at 9:30 PM, this 90 minute cruise will allow you the breathtaking views that only Manhattan can provide with its city light glow. The team also has non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages for sale on the cruise. Set sail with this option for $42.19 for adults and $23.44 for children.
Looking to just see the sights? Manhattan by Sail offers that opportunity as well. With a Daytime Statue Sail, you'll get as close as possible to the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the New Jersey and New York skylines and bridges. The 90 minute sightseeing cruise is available Monday through Friday at 12:30 and 2:15 and Saturday and Sunday at 1:45 PM.
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Waze could drive better social tools at Google, experts say
By Zach Miners
PCWorld Jun 10, 2013 2:35 pm PDT
Waze's crowdsourced traffic and navigation app is attractive to Google, which is said to be a serious suitor for the app, because of the wealth of mapping data it offers. But Waze's biggest draw may be social, some experts say.
The eponymous mobile app is designed to offer "smarter," real-time navigation by letting users share road reports on accidents, police check points or other hazards along any given route.
Getting a better driving route via Waze
The idea is to give other users in the area a "heads-up" about what's to come on the road, says Waze, which claims to have 30 million people using its app, on its website—a number that is boosted to 50 million at the Google Play store.
Waze also lets users create and join groups that allow members to view each other on a map and communicate with one another while on the road.
Google's interest
Google is reportedly close to finalizing a deal to acquire the company for $1.3 billion.
If Google ends up making the buy, Waze's "social sharing" business model, and the technology supporting it, could help to boost Google's own social-networking services, some observers say.
"Social is the unique thing about Waze," said management instructor Brian Proffitt, who teaches at the University of Notre Dames Mendoza College of Business.
"Google is not very strong in social right now. They can't seem to get Google+ going," which right now functions more as a forum for early adopters and techies, he said.
During the company's I/O developers conference last month, Google unveiled some new social and customization features for Google Maps, such as letting users filter restaurant search results based on ratings and reviews from their friends, but Waze's app could add more personalization tools to Maps, others said.
"Personalization of map data and context are the most interesting things here with Waze," said Chris Silva, an analyst with Altimeter. Waze's larger strategy "epitomizes" the changes that were outlined last month at Google I/O, by offering routes tailored to individual users and also customized advertising, he said. Waze lets users adjust their preferences to receive more fine-tuned advertising on the app.
Navigating with Waze
The deal would also make sense for Google given the importance of location-based data on mobile devices and would bolster its dominance in the mobile navigation space, others say.
"The Waze technology is a good fit for Google and a natural acquisition to keep Google's platform at the forefront," said Erik Gordon, of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
But, "you never know what will happen to a company that is ingested by Google," he added.
Keep away?
There is the possibility that Google just wants to keep Waze away from other suitors like Facebook and Apple, which were also rumored to be interested in acquiring the company.
"The hefty price tag speaks to that mentality," said Altimeter's Silva.
"[Google] has to think hard about whether it wants the game changed, or is willing to make a big offer that lets it keep the lead," said Michigan's Gordon. "It usually takes about 15 minutes to decide."
The potential deal was first reported by Israeli business site Globes, followed by The Wall Street Journal, and others.
Waze is currently available on the iPhone, Android, and select Blackberry, Nokia, and Windows mobile devices.
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Dominotes® teaches musical values while the participants have fun. Students quickly learn note and rest values as they play this unique adaptation of a traditional game. Musicians and non-musicians alike will enjoy this game! Two to four players can play. This set of 28 standard size dominoes (1" x 2" x 3/8") is imprinted with notes and rests. The precision tiles are made of high impact plastic. Instructions included.


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New China Social Credit System Regulation Takes Effect: Chinese citizens must pass a facial-recognition test to use the internet
China has stepped up its internet censorship by demanding its citizens pass a facial-recognition test to be able to use web services.
People who want to have the internet installed at home or on their phones must have their faces scanned by the Chinese authority to prove their identities, according to a new regulation.
The rule, which will take effect on December 1, is said to be part of the social credit system which rates the Chinese citizens based on their daily behaviour.
Chinese citizens need to show his or her ID card while applying for a landline or the internet.
The facial-recognition test is set to verify that the ID card belongs to the applicant.
The directive was issued by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in September 2019 to take effect December 1st.
The Ministry claimed the move would help improve the country's internet security and combat terrorism.
Chinese citizens are also banned from re-selling their SIM cards by the regulation to prevent unregistered users from making calls from mobile phones.
China has been building the world's largest facial-recognition surveillance system.
The Big-Brother-style scheme is powered by hundreds of millions of AI street cameras aiming to identify any of the country's citizens within three seconds.
The country's 1.4 billion population are set to be carefully watched by 626 million CCTV monitors – many having facial-recognition functions – as early as next year, a recent study revealed.
That's one camera for every two people.
The most-surveilled city in China, Chongqing, is equipped with more than 2.5 million street cameras, or one for every six people.
Critics, however, have voiced concerns over the system, claiming it's a way for the government to invade citizens' privacy and restrict their freedom.
Many have also compared it to a dystopian system run by a fictional state leader, Big Brother, in George Orwell's novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.
Read more at The Daily Mail
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When Hurricane Harvey hit the U.S. in August 2017, it had a devastating impact on homes and businesses throughout the southern and eastern portions of the country.
Zarsky Lumber Co., which has eight locations in Texas, was one of those businesses. Its Port Aransas, Texas, store, which is located about 180 miles from San Antonio, sustained serious damage.
The team had its work cut out for them as it set out to rebuild, and they had a close eye on their timeline. After Hurricane Harvey, the staff was working out of an 18-wheeler and a separate mobile unit and selling only a limited selection of products, so they were eager to get into their new store.
Fortunately, the construction process moved quickly, beginning in February of 2018 and finishing in September of that same year.
Cano says Orgill was a tremendous help throughout the rebuilding process.
As the store was being rebuilt from the ground up, Cano had some ideas about what he thought it should look like. He wanted a style of building that would more closely match the other businesses in Port Aransas. One of Zarsky's customers, a home designer, even helped them draft a plan for the new building.
There were changes inside the store, too. Cano says they chose to get rid of the paint department, which took up a quite a bit of space and was full of slow-moving inventory. And they invested in other categories, like outdoor living.
In September 2018, a grand reopening event was held to celebrate its new beginning.
With food, live music and more than 250 people in attendance, the event was a successful one, Cano says.
Over time, he says, the staff continues to tweak the changes it made during the rebuild. They're brought in more outdoor kitchen products and continue to change up their plumbing and electrical sets.
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Q: Get list of sums of many to many relationship with linq Sorry for the bad title.  I have two tables with a many to many relationship to each other. Wedding and User (it's an RSVP thing).  I need to get the count of User's for each Wedding.  I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this.
public class User{
        [Key]
        public int id{get;set;}
        [Required]
        [MinLength(2)]
        public string FirstName{get;set;}
        [Required]
        [MinLength(2)]
        public string LastName{get;set;}
        [Required]
        [EmailAddress]
        public string Email{get;set;}
        [Required]
        [MinLength(8)]
        public string Password{get;set;}

        public List<UserWedding> UserWeddings{get;set;}

        public DateTime CreatedAt{get;set;} = DateTime.Now;
        public DateTime UpdatedAt{get;set;} = DateTime.Now;

        [NotMapped]
        [Compare("Password")]
        [MinLength(8)]
        public string ConfirmPassword{get;set;}
    }

public class Wedding{
        [Key]
        public int id{get;set;}
        [Required]
        [MinLength(2)]
        public string PersonOne{get;set;}
        [Required]
        [MinLength(2)]
        public string PersonTwo{get;set;}
        [Required]
        public DateTime Date{get;set;}
        [Required]
        public string Address{get;set;}

        public List<UserWedding> UserWeddings{get;set;}

        public DateTime CreatedAt{get;set;} = DateTime.Now;
        public DateTime UpdatedAt{get;set;} = DateTime.Now;
    }

public class UserWedding{
        [Key]
        public int id{get;set;}

        public int UserId{get;set;}
        public int WeddingId{get;set;}

        public User User{get;set;}
        public Wedding Wedding{get;set;}
    }

#As far as I can get...
int[] sums = context.Users
                .Include(u => u.UserWeddings)
                .ThenInclude(uw => uw.Wedding)

I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get the sum of people for each wedding.  Any help would be appreciated. Also, good resources for working with Linq would be appreciated, practice or reading.  Linq is killing me.

A: try this, ill just minimize the DTO for easier understanding
public class Attendance
{
    public int WeddingId {get; set;}
    public int CountOfUsers {get; set;
}

var attendance = context.UserWeddings.GroupBy(c => c.WeddingId).Select(grp =>
                 new Attendance
                 {
                     WeddingId = grp.Key, //will be grouped by WeddingId,
                     CountOfUsers = grp.Select(c => c.UserId).Distinct().Count()
                     //added select userid and distinct to count unique users
                     //attending the wedding id
                 }).ToList();

A: In pseudo code it would look something like
var wedding_count = context.UserWeddings.GroupBy(x=> x.WeddingId); //Key is weddingId
foreach(var key in wedding_count.Keys)
{
//work on Key and Count from here
}

something like that?


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1.5 million potential voters go missing
By Bianca Hall
May 29, 2012 — 3.00am
THE number of Australians missing from the electoral roll is rapidly approaching the population of Perth, the Australian Electoral Commission says.
The commission says 1.5 million voters are absent - including one in two 18-to 19-year olds - and the problem is growing.
Underenrolment is most common in the 18 to 39 age group. The largest number of potential voters are missing from NSW (475,800) and Victoria (327,600). In the Northern Territory, an average of 16,550 people are missing per electorate, compared with 9900 per electorate in NSW.
The Electoral commissioner Ed Killesteyn told the Herald the number of missing voters had grown from 1.2 million in 2009 to 1.5 million this year, outstripping population growth.
Accepted wisdom traditionally held that 5 per cent of Australians do not vote. But this grew to 8 per cent last decade, and about 10 per cent this year, Mr Killesteyn said.
''What we're finding is that that number, that absolute number, is growing but as a percentage it's also growing.''
Of the 1.5 million people who are not enrolled, 600,000 had never been enrolled, and about 900,000 had dropped off the roll after moving or failing to update their details. There are provisions to help homeless Australians enrol to vote, by listing charities or shelters as their residential address, but prisoners serving sentences of more than three years are struck off the role.
Mr Killesteyn said Aboriginal Australians were less likely to be enrolled to vote. This was reflected in the higher rates of Queenslanders not enrolled, with an average 13,000 people not enrolled in each electorate, Western Australia, with an average 12,450 not enrolled in each electorate and the NT. The national average is 10,228.
This year marks 100 years of voting being compulsory, and 50 years since Aboriginal people won the right to vote.
The AEC will today launch a national campaign to find the 1.5 million Australians missing from the roll.
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Bianca Hall
Bianca Hall is City Editor for The Age. She has previously worked as a senior reporter, and in the Canberra federal politics bureau.


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Love the mantra – will adopt it for myself. So simple and pure. Thank you for sharing!
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Do you hold, or have you yet reached, any opinion on the worth of Jordan Peterson as a disruptor of the present ascendant group-think approach to society and society's worthwhile priorities?
I expect your first reaction might be, "well, kvd certainly appears to have made up his mind" 🙂 But I assure you this is not yet (just maybe fast approaching) the case.
I won't insult by asking if you know of him; I'm merely asking if you have formulated any thoughts you might share. All the very best!
[email protected] I will take the compliment. I am something of a fan of Jordan Peterson, but mainly of his science/post modernism stuff–I have not really delved into his "rules for living/maps of meaning" side. I like his approach (be extraordinarily well read and openly wrestle with the material) and his tone (it's about ideas, not people, and we are all wrestling with flaws). So I think he is a very effective and useful disruptor.
This piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education struck me as informative and fair on the Peterson phenomenon.
Thanks for that Lorenzo – particularly the link, which I had not read. For myself, I find increasing overlap between what I understand of his worldview and my own – despite my increasingly desperate attempts to review honest and respectful critiques of his work.
I'm getting thoroughly bored with the outrage unsupported by honest refutation. It seems we are reaching a point where both supporters and opponents think it sufficient to simply beat each other over the head with their own particular schtick – often (from both 'sides') quite divergent with what I've understood to be the man's actual views.
Anyway, I hope he gets allotted more than the normal 15 minutes of attention, because he is a voice worth preserving for honest review in a quieter time – to finish on an optimistic note.
[email protected] My pleasure. Here's another. And yes. I have some thoughts on why outrage replaces debate which I intend to discuss in the afterword to my forthcoming book.


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Golf fashion brand Duca del Cosma is launching into the US golf market with a vibrant new range of shoes for men and women golfers, supported by an experienced team led by former Reebok and Ashworth regional sales manager Steve Gray.
The premium brand, which sells in more than 30 countries around the world, specializes in producing bench-made leather shoes that offer style and comfort both on and off the golf course. They include a selection of distinctive spikeless styles and waterproof models designed in Italy and made in Portugal to the highest levels of footwear craftsmanship.
"The quality of the materials and construction of each shoe speaks to the fact that they are not just pretty to look at, but they do deliver performance," said Steve, who is in the process of building his sales team across the key golf markets in the US. "I've never seen such quality of craftsmanship in all the time I've spent working in the footwear business. The attention paid to detail across all aspects of the production, marks the Duca shoe. The workmanship and sewing detail in each model is exceptional. I'm very excited to be working with such a fast-growing and unique brand," he added.
A dedicated showroom and offices have been set up in Palm Beach, FL., to handle administration and sales, while a distribution centre has opened in Atlanta, GA. Sales representatives are in place in South Florida, Tennessee/Kentucky plus North and South Carolina, while several another are expected to join the sales team.
"We believe that the product line will appeal to golfers at the top golf courses and private country clubs, as well as destination resorts where our premium price points will deliver high margins," said Steve.
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Covid: Second national lockdown possible, says top UK scientist
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Liverpool is expected to be placed under the most severe set of restrictions in a new, three-tier system
Another national coronavirus lockdown is a possibility and we have to do what we can to avoid that at all costs, a leading UK scientist has said.
Prof Peter Horby said the UK was at a "precarious point" as Covid cases and hospital admissions continue to rise.
His comments echo those of England's deputy chief medical officer, who said more deaths would follow and urged people to limit social contact.
Ministers say their local approach to restrictions is the right way forward.
The prime minister is expected to announce tougher local restrictions on Monday.
In a statement to MPs, Boris Johnson will outline plans for a three-tier system, where each region in England is placed into a tier based on the severity of cases in the area.
He has spent Sunday afternoon updating cabinet ministers on the next steps.
The plans have already sparked opposition, with Labour MPs in Greater Manchester telling Mr Johnson they would not support being placed under the harshest level of restrictions.
Across the UK, the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - is now estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.5. Anything above 1.0 means cases are increasing.
On Sunday, 12,872 people in the UK were reported to have tested positive for coronavirus - some 2,294 fewer than on Saturday - according to the latest figures on the government's dashboard. There were a further 65 deaths - down from 81 on Saturday.
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Prof Horby, chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) and a government adviser, said the "critical mission" now was to protect the NHS to avoid non-essential hospital services being cancelled, as many were when the UK went into its first nationwide lockdown in March.
"We really need to provide care to everybody - those with Covid and those without," he said. "The way to do that is to keep the numbers down."
He warned that some hospitals in the north of England were already coming under pressure and it might not be long before intensive care beds fill up.
"I am afraid we are going to have to make some very difficult choices and act very quickly," he added.
Prof Horby said a surge in cases in the North was partly because people were coming into contact with more people than in other parts of the country.
He also told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that in the months before the increase in cases, numbers had not dropped to as low a level in the North as in other parts of England.
Prof Horby said the country must accept more stringent measures to drive down transmission of the virus.
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In an earlier statement, England's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said the UK has reached a "tipping point" in its epidemic, similar to that last seen in March.
The seasons were "against us" and the country was running into a "headwind" ahead of the winter months, he warned.
It is expected that parts of the north of England and the Midlands will be placed under tougher measures as part of the prime minister's announcement.
Liverpool, where there are currently 600 cases per 100,000 people, is expected to be placed under the most severe set of restrictions, with all the city's pubs forced to close.
Pubs and restaurants across the central belt of Scotland closed their doors for at least two weeks on Friday, to try to tackle a rise in cases.
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There is growing concern about the pressure on hospitals. But just how busy are they?
There are more than 600 new admissions for Covid each day in the UK with close to 4,000 patients in hospital. That means about 3% of beds are occupied by Covid patients overall.
At the peak, the numbers topped 20,000.
That may not seem too worrying, but the national picture masks the real pinch being felt in particular areas.
Hospitals in north-west England are caring for more than a quarter of those patients, including 132 in intensive care. On current trajectories they could hit the numbers seen during the spring peak within three weeks.
But what none of this tells us is what free capacity the NHS actually has, because neither the government nor the NHS is publishing this on a regular basis.
There were 30,000 beds free in the middle of summer - three times more than is normally the case, due to the slowdown in non-Covid care.
More detail about the current situation would allow us to properly judge the comments being made by ministers and their advisers.
Political leaders in the north of England fear harsher measures in their regions could damage local economies and leave some people struggling to survive.
They say Chancellor Rishi Sunak's announcement - to pay two-thirds of workers' wages for UK firms forced to close by law by coronavirus restrictions - is "insufficient".
David Greenhalgh, Conservative leader of Bolton Council, said: "The North feels like they are being treated differently.
"We know our rates are high, we are not underestimating that, but we cannot throw our local economy to the wall. I urge government to respect that."
Five Labour MPs in Greater Manchester have written to the prime minister, arguing pre-emptively against being placed in tier three, which will have the harshest restrictions.
They said in their constituencies, the virus was spreading among students and in private homes, and less so in the hospitality sector.
Closing all restaurants and pubs would therefore not have a "sizeable effect" on transmission rates yet would devastate businesses and livelihoods, they added.
Lisa Nandy: "It's very clear that we do need further restrictions"
Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy, who is MP for Wigan, agreed further restrictions were needed in many areas, but accused the government of treating people with contempt.
"I haven't felt anger like this since I was growing up in the 1980s. People feel that they haven't just been abandoned, they now feel that the government is actively working against us."
She said Labour would try to force a House of Commons vote on Mr Sunak's plans "so there is an opportunity to put forward an alternative support package".
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Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said the chancellor's proposals provided a "fair safety net" for people, but he accepted there were "hard choices" to be made.
"We can't do everything, there is a limit to what the state can do here but we are trying to support these communities," he added.
Responding to a question about anger in the North, Mr Jenrick told Andrew Marr the new measures would apply to the whole of the UK - and ministers would never bring in a change "that penalises one part of the country over another".
The huge variation in case numbers across the country meant a localised approach was right, he said, adding: "None of us want to see a return to blanket national measures."
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