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The World Bank announces a US$1.2 billion package to fight the global food crisis including $200 million in grants for those most at risk in Third World countries. //afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gwyZX9Ed95L7WVDGnxFGgbdpCsuw (AFP via Google News)
Sidoarjo mud flow - World's biggest mud volcano was created by the blowout of a natural gas well being drilled in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia. This has resulted in displacement of more than 11,000 persons from eight villages as well as damage to road and power infrastructures. Several (Twenty-five) factories were also abandoned.{{cite web|url=//www.stormchaser.ca/Environmental_Disasters/Sidoarjo_Mud_Flow/Sidoarjo.html|title=Sidoarjo Mud Flow Disaster July, 2008 - Indonesia| accessdate= 10 November 2011 !DASHBot}}
The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC.
Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
24 Pakistani troops in the UN forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for Democracy in Burundi. The next day's legislative election sees his party win with an overwhelming majority.
President of Guatemala Jorge Serrano Elías is forced to flee the country after an attempted self-coup.
Large protests erupt against Slobodan Milošević's regime in Belgrade opposition leader Vuk Drašković and his wife Danica are arrested.
Following the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement's victory, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada becomes president of Bolivia.
The National Assembly of Venezuela designates Ramón José Velásquez as successor of suspended President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
The first Life Ball takes place in Vienna, Austria. In 2011, the event is named the largest public-charity on HIV and AIDS in Europe.
Heysel Disaster: 38 spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the European Cup final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.
Ali Soilih is found dead in the Comoros, allegedly shot when trying to escape.
A bloodless coup installs France Albert Rene as President of the Seychelles.
The Portland Trail Blazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109–107 to win the National Basketball Association finals four games to two. Bill Walton is selected as the MVP of the series.
The first Apple II series computers go on sale.
Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times.
Football: Manchester United wins the European Cup Final, becoming the first English team to do so.
A mining accident in Dhanbad, India kills 274.
Negotiations between the OAS and the FLA lead to a real armistice in Algeria.
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
"St. Roch", the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Norman Rockwell's illustration of "Rosie the Riveter" first appears on the cover of the "Saturday Evening Post".
Weather Bureau transferred to the Department of Commerce.
WWII: Winston Churchill tells the British House of Commons, We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight on the beaches... on the landing grounds... in the fields and the streets.... We shall never surrender.
WWII: Paris is bombed by the Luftwaffe for the first time.
WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation ends ndash British and Dutch forces complete evacuating 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France to England.
The Holocaust: Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan.
The Vought XF4U-1, prototype of the F4U Corsair U.S. fighter later used in WWII, makes its first flight.
Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
May 31 ndash The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration.
The British explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.
British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is jailed for seven years for fraud.
The Great Louth Flood kills 23.
Teófilo Braga becomes president of Portugal.
The ocean liner RMS "Empress of Ireland" sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 1,012 lives are lost.
The ocean liner RMS ''Empress of Ireland'' sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 1,012 lives are lost.
The ballet "The Rite of Spring", with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Chs-Élysées in Paris its modernism provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history.//www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/21 Radio Lab, Show 202: Musical Language, New York: WNYC (21 April 2006). Host/Producer: Jad Abumrad, Co-Host: Robert Krulwich, Producer: Ellen Horne, Production Executives: Dean Capello and Mikel Ellcessor.
Lord Rosebery opens London School of Economics.
N'Djamena, the capital city of Chad, is founded as "Fort-Lamy" by French commander Émile Gentil.
Pharmacist John Pemberton begins to advertise "Coca-Cola" (ad in the "Atlanta Journal").
The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Capital Punishment Amendment Act, thus ending public hanging.
American Civil War: U. S. President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation of general amnesty for most citizens of the former Confederacy.
Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
Rhode Island ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the last of the 13 original states to do so.
American Revolutionary War: Loyalist forces under Col. Banastre Tarleton kill surrendering American soldiers in the Waxhaw Massacre.
The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec.
Pope Benedict XIII, born Pierro Orsini, succeeds Pope Innocent XIII as the 245th pope.
Cary's Rebellion: Governor Edward Hyde's forces reach Thomas Cary's plantation and find it deserted. Cary's troops fortify a Colonel Daniels' plantation a few miles away. Hyde's forces march to Colonel Daniels' plantation but do not attack.
The Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.
King Charles II of England arrives in London and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the English Restoration.ref name=CBH/
First Anglo-Dutch War: The opening battle is fought off Dover, between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into 2 squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.
Peter Stuyvesant is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.
The New Model Army marches to London.
The Rhode Island General Assembly drafts a constitution that separates church and state, and permits public referendums and initiatives on legislation.{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}}
Thirty Years' War: Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Lutheran administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Verden, is expelled by the Catholic League as a result of the Edict of Restitution. He is replaced by the staunch catholic Francis of Wartenberg.
Thirty Years\\\\\\' War: Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Lutheran administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Verden, is expelled by the Catholic League as a result of the Edict of Restitution. He is replaced by the staunch catholic Francis of Wartenberg.
Essex takes Cahir Castle, supposedly the strongest in Ireland, after a short siege.
Wednesday, May 20, 1405 (Julianian calendar)
Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, meets Archbishop Richard le Scrope of York and Earl of Norfolk Thomas Mowbray in Shipton Moor, tricks them to send their rebellious army home and then imprisons them.
Saturday, May 21, 1379 (Julianian calendar)
John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.
King Philip VI of France is crowned, founding the Valois Dynasty after the death of King Charles IV of France, who has no sons to inherit.
Tuesday, May 21, 1303 (Julianian calendar)
Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to the English.
Battle of Legnano: Frederick Barbarossa is defeated by the Lombard League, leading to the "pactum Anagninum" (the Agreement of Anagni).
Monday, May 22, 1167 (Julianian calendar)
Absalon, archbishop of Denmark, leads the first Danish synod at Lund.
Battle of Monte Porzio: The army of the Commune of Rome is defeated by the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor and the local princes Pope Alexander III leaves Rome.{{cite book|first=Jean-Claude Maire|last=Vigueur|year=2010|title=L'autre Rome: Une histoire des Romains à l'époque communale (XIIe-XIVe siècle)|location=Paris|publisher=Tallandier|isbn=978-2-84734-719-7|page=315}}
Henry II prohibits English students from attending the University of Paris many settle at the University of Oxford.{{cite book|last=Sager|first=Peter|year=2005|title=Oxford and Cambridge: An Uncommon History|location=London|publisher=Thames Hudson|isbn=0500512493|page=36}}
Oath of Pontida marks the foundation of the Lombard League
Absalon fortifies Copenhagen.
Amalric I of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invades Egypt.
Taira no Kiyomori becomes the first samurai to be appointed "Daijo Daijin", chief minister of the government of Japan./onlyinclude
William of Tyre becomes archdeacon of Tyre.
William Marshal, described as the greatest knight that ever lived, is knighted in England.
Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily.
Afonso I of Portugal is defeated by the Kingdom of Leon.
Wednesday, May 25, 757 (Julianian calendar)
Pope Paul I succeeds Pope Stephen II as the 93rd pope.
Battle of Ctesiphon: Julian reaches the vicinity of the strongly fortified capital Ctesiphon. King Shapur II in charge of a large Persian army adopts a scorched earth policy, leaving the Romans desperately short of supplies.
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The Free-Market Approach to This Pandemic Isn't Working
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Benjamin Mazer
The US health care system has always been unequal, but Covid-19 has revealed it to be absurd.
America's health care system has always been bizarre. During the Covid-19 pandemic, it's become absurd. I am a laboratory medicine physician, and one of the most difficult parts of my job is giving patients bad diagnoses—bad not just because of the disease but because of the unaffordable medical bills that often follow. I regularly have patients whose condition progresses unchecked because they don't have the resources to address it. As an individual doctor, though, I don't control the distribution and cost of medical care. The truth is that no one is controlling the health care system. American health care is a free market affair. It's an endless fight between individuals, hospitals, and insurers over who gets treatment and who pays for it.
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Free markets are powerful tools to efficiently distribute resources. But they are not magic—especially right now. A functional market can't spring up overnight for a disease that didn't even exist last year. Worse still, markets have no concern for the public good. The US health care system may be a free market, but it's not a fair one. Covid makes this terribly clear.
Take testing, for instance. The number of tests being done has increased by more than an order of magnitude since last spring, yet we still don't have enough to meet demand. The privileged and connected, however, don't seem to be having any problems. Billionaire Elon Musk recently tweeted that he had taken four rapid antigen tests for Covid in succession, and then sent off multiple PCR tests (with an enviable 24-hour turnaround) for confirmation. In the beginning, labs were hampered by a slow-to-respond Food and Drug Administration. Now the problem is lack of resources. PCR testing—the gold standard for Covid diagnosis—relies on expensive machines, multiple chemical reagents, highly trained staff, and a pile of cheap plastic "consumables." All of these are still in short supply. The US can run millions of Covid-19 PCR tests every day, but it's just not enough given the ongoing outbreak. Many of these supplies are used for testing other infectious diseases, too—so the delays are not limited to Covid.
Musk may be an eccentric example of how the wealthy and powerful cut to the front of the testing line, but he's not the biggest offender. More uncomfortable is the use of widespread testing to keep college campuses and professional sports open. Schools like the University of Illinois can run more than 10,000 tests per day, while nursing homes—the places hardest hit by the disease—struggle to keep their turnaround times acceptable. This is America's free market health care system at work: If you can pay more or have the right connections, you get what you need; if you don't, you suffer.
We might well end up with gold-standard PCR tests for the privileged, and jankier antigen tests for the masses.
The pandemic didn't have to go like this. With no time for "market wisdom" to develop, the government could have jumped in to coordinate and ration testing resources. Instead, the list of market failures seems to grow daily. Testing capacity is not evenly distributed, so some labs are sitting idle while others are crushed under the volume. Because no one's sure how long the pandemic will last, labs don't want to invest too much money in expensive equipment that will be useless in a year or two. Providers are left to their own devices to figure out where to send tests. Many struggle to identify which labs will provide the quickest turnarounds, lowest prices, and most reliable results.
The federal government has taken some half-hearted steps to intervene. When test manufacturer Abbott's rapid antigen test was authorized, the Trump administration immediately purchased almost the entire supply. The feds have since attempted to distribute these tests by need rather than wealth (though nursing homes remain reluctant to use them). The government also utilized the Defense Production Act to expedite and coordinate testing and protective equipment, but experts suggest this could be done far more aggressively, with even the Congressional Research Service calling Trump's use of the act "sporadic and relatively narrow."
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In a free market pandemic, labs, hospitals, and patients are actually competitors. Profit may be prioritized over need. Hospitals and laboratories have taken huge financial losses as the pandemic cut into lucrative elective procedures. The quick expansion of Covid testing has, despite its challenges, provided income to ameliorate this damage, but it's not enough. Universities, fearing an existential loss of tuition revenue, will do anything possible to keep their students from the supposed indignity of Zoom classes.
Despite these failures, the Trump administration is still relying on free market approaches. After a public outcry over testing delays, Medicare announced it would cut reimbursement if results take longer than two days. Normally, a financial incentive like this would make a difference—but these aren't normal times. This does nothing to fix global supply-chain shortages. Seniors who rely on Medicare will become less "competitive" in our perverse testing market. Reducing reimbursement may even drive some labs out of the market entirely, leading to a decreased availability of tests.
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The incoming Biden administration offers an opportunity for a new approach. The president-elect's plan calls for more instant and at-home testing. Rapid antigen tests will be crucial, given that we may never be able to scale up PCR testing to meet demand. But they remain a less reliable alternative, and I worry that their spread could exacerbate the testing divide that already separates the haves and have-nots: We might well end up with gold-standard PCR tests for the privileged, and jankier antigen tests for the masses. Antigen tests also face their own supply chain constraints. There will still be a need for coordinated rationing. Abbott has only promised to produce 50 million of its antigen tests per month—far short of the tens of millions per day for which some experts have been advocating. If our free market health care system can't produce enough plastic tips and nasal swabs for PCR, then it's unlikely to produce enough material for rapid tests.
Biden's team could do a lot more to address our unequal and incoherent response. First, they ought to reverse reimbursement cuts for tests that take too long. We should be increasing payments for testing across the board. Economists have warned us that nickel-and-diming labs during an infectious disease outbreak will cost us far more in the long run. Second, they should ensure that the people who need the most accurate tests can access them. Colleges and sports can make do with rapid antigen tests. Nursing homes need PCR tests with 24-hour turnaround times to keep their vulnerable residents and staff safe. Third, the Biden administration must be careful not to leave non-Covid patients behind. As we marshal resources to fight the pandemic, we can't have people go untested for other dangerous conditions or without a hospital bed when they get sick. Later on, when a vaccine becomes available and recovery begins, hospitals must not prioritize the most lucrative elective procedures over less profitable but essential care that has been delayed for so long.
I am in awe of the many individuals in the health care system and otherwise who have been going above and beyond to help each other. But their sweat and altruism do not add up to a successful national strategy. Markets work through knowledge and time. In a pandemic, we don't have enough of either.
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We have so much inspiration and stimulation of enthusiasm out there in sewing blogland. and like a lot of things, it can be a blessing and/or a curse, depending on your own personality.
With a mind that darts about like a mosquito [with a brain size to match sometimes!] it can be a bit much for me not to be led astray, but the best bit is when someone out there crystalises what you have been thinking about and wanting to do for absolutely yonks.
Carolyn Smith of http://www.handmadebycarolyn.com has just such an effect on me. She made it feasible to me that it is not only perfectly acceptable to make your own clothes but to wear every day only those clothes you have made yourself. True, others have made pledges to go on a Ready To Wear fast, sometimes for a year or maybe two, but then they yen for the buzz shopping for RTW gives them and their wardrobes share both once again. In my case it wasn't a crusade or a pledge of any kind, it just gradually crept in and RTW items phased out and now three years on I don't even give it a thought, wearing my own handmades every day is perfectly natural and I find I really don't own more than one or two RTW items other than shoes! So here we come to it, my Everest.
Now be patient, in Everest terms I am barely at base-camp. I have a long, long way to go. I'm enthused for the journey by Carolyn's own productions, especially her paprika suede boots. [ http://www.handmadebycarolyn.com.au/2016/03/paprika-suede-desert-boots.html -you must go and look] but painfully aware that I am such a novice, but hey, one that is willing and eager to learn. The rest here is in picture form of my first attempts with just captions. Be kind!
First you make a pattern by taping over a shoe or a boot as in my case. Carolyn explains the process very clearly on her blog. Then the design is drawn and the taped pattern is cut off the shoe.
I used fabric glue to first glue the pieces together in my prototype shoe before stitching.
I then decided that I wanted a more finished look and decided to line and edge the trainer shoe [for that is what it is supposed to be just so you know] with blue/white polka dot cotton and used the same for bias binding the edges. I cut new pieces from the same pattern.
4. I used a foam play mat for the soles, glued an inner sole of denim onto a piece of cardboard and glued them to the foam sole. I used a craft knife to carefully cut the foam on a cutting mat and was surprised how easy it was. I then sanded down the sides smoothly into shape.
5. I inserted metal lace holes with a punch tool, then cut and applied a foam heel, shaping it first with a craft knife and then finishing with sanding.
This was my prototype and it fits snuggly and with a bit of finessing and with a left shoe to match – will prove to be a perfectly wearable and comfortable pair of trainers. But already I have drafted an improved version, and plan to use some suede leather and faux suede and pleather I have in my stash for some more shoes. I plan to make Summer shoes and sandals, but I am already running ahead of myself with ideas. So, as ever, I am having to rein myself in, calm down and learn, learn, learn, then practice, etc. I learned long ago that there is no substitute for hard slog if you really want to do something, but this is enjoyable slog I have to say. Oh, yes, and tools. You quickly learn that as in sewing, you can't get very far without some tools for the job to make the work easier. Oh joy, I love tools.
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in the amphitheatre took a minute to catch their breath.
of his usual size. The devil returned to his faith.
ready to kick the Reaper from his throne.
spitting and popping. Disease had a long fight ahead.
supported by love in a green light instead.
Forgot to mention on, Friday, Stevie that I enjoyed that poem.
The starting line, to hear the gun again.
Now we've already sprinted to the wars.
Shooting angry bullets from our tongue.
If you'll only promise to do the same.
Only admit you were wrong once again.
Helpless grip, and struggles even to breathe.
Words to make you fall in love with me.
Wow Tom, I love it!! Well done!!
Thanks. I was going to call it "Fight" until I realised you'd used that title for your last poem.
And thanks to you too, Sergio.
To be honest Tom, I have a notebook & the title of it is actually "Aunt Margaret", for the purpose of this forum, that's the quickie title I threw it, ha!
I'm sure I'd be able to think of a title more meaningful than "Argument" when it comes to ammending that poem for the book I'm supposed to be doing.
Seriously shagger, what is the deal with that?? You're taknig FOREVER!!
I told you I shelved mine because I was too busy trying to move home (this also seems to have fallen through) and getting my jiggy on!
Those are better reasons for than mine. I just forget about it, or can't be bothered to sort it out.
Ah lad, you really should. What a buzz you'll get once it's ready for distribution.
My mate Dave still speaks to me about "Limelight" and "Dirty Numb Angel Boy", and its such a thrill when people have their own interpretations, or get a buzz from your work. You know that. It's worth it, but you have to be sure it's definitely the best you have to offer, and I guess if you aren't fully focussed on it, then perhaps it is best to take a back seat until you are fully engaged in the project.
I just know I can do better than what I've got at the moment.
Anyway, I've not really done anything about it for a few months now, so I may start to work on it again actually. I'm feeling a little more inspired lately.


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Be it public-funded institution like IIT, NIT, NSIT or an institute being run under public-private partnership mode, Delhi boasts of some of the best engineering Colleges in Delhi the country, The national capital also offers students various advantages when it comes to doing internship, projects, attending seminars, conferences, connecting with alumni. Some of the best faculties of the country also work here as it not only offers them a better pay package but also keeps them updated with the latest developments as well as a better lifestyle
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New firm reuniting Bernstein vets
Evercore Asset Management to focus on institutional value equity
Mark Bruno
NEW YORK — Four former Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. veterans have reunited to form an institutional value equity boutique.
Evercore Asset Management, New York, will be led by Gregory Sawers, Andrew Moloff, Gail Landis and Margot Nones. They will hold a majority stake in the firm; Evercore Partners Inc., a New York-based private equity and advisory firm, will take a minority stake. The sizes of the respective holdings were not disclosed.
The founders worked together for years at Bernstein until shortly after Alliance Capital Management LP completed its acquisition of the firm, and each left for brief stints at other asset managers in New York,.
In an interview at their new midtown office, the four said they began working last summer to launch their own investment management operation so they could focus exclusively on managing money for institutional investors, without the distractions that can come with being part of a large financial institution.
The firm's investment operations will be steered by Mr. Sawers, chief executive officer of Evercore Asset Management, and Mr. Moloff, chief investment officer. Mr. Sawers was managing director and global co-head of equities and global head of research at Credit Suisse Asset Management and the former director of buy-side equity research at Sanford C. Bernstein. Mr. Moloff was managing director and head of global equity research and head of U.S. equity portfolio management at Citigroup Asset Management and former chief investment officer and director of research for small-cap and midcap equities at Bernstein.
Ms. Landis, EAM's senior managing director, will head the firm's marketing. She was managing director and head of Americas distribution for Credit Suisse Asset Management, and former senior portfolio manager and head of global consultant relations at Sanford C. Bernstein.
Ms. Nones is EAM's chief operating officer. She was managing director and head of operations for the Americas at UBS Global Asset Management after leaving her position as head of investment operations at Bernstein.
The firm is adding analyst and sales positions and plans to have a staff of 12 to 14 employees in the next few months.
First offering
Mr. Sawers said he anticipates the firm will launch its first institutional offering, an active domestic small-cap value strategy, by the end of March, pending approval of its registration application by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm is seeking to raise $1 billion before closing the strategy, which will be managed by Messrs. Sawers and Moloff.
Mr. Sawers launched Bernstein's small-cap value strategy, which returned a compound annualized 14.63% for the 12-year period from inception to Dec. 31, 2002, according to the eVestment Alliance database. In that same period of time, the Russell 2000 Value index produced an annualized return of 14.6%.
While the Evercore group cannot transport this track record to its new strategy, Ms. Landis said it can still be used to the firm's advantage when approaching institutional consultants and investors.
But some analysts and consultants said challenging markets may lie ahead for all small-cap managers, especially small-cap value.
"In some ways, investing in small-cap value right now could be like investing in a technology fund back in March 2000," said Laura Lutton, a small-cap equity analyst with Morningstar Inc., Chicago. "Small-cap value has done so well for so long, it has to end eventually."
The Russell 2000 Value index, which tracks small-cap value stocks, returned a compound annualized 24.89% and 15.18%, respectively, for the three- five-year periods ended Sept 30, compared with 16.71% and -1.49%, respectively, for the S&P 500, according to the Morningstar Separate Accounts Monitor.
Steve Wood, portfolio strategist with Russell Investment Group, Tacoma, said small-cap value is one his three "areas of caution" for Russell's clients (the others are energy funds and real estate investment trusts). "You can still generate outperformance in these areas, but you would have to be excellent stock pickers to do so," said Mr. Wood.
Factors in their favor
Mr. Sawers and Ms. Landis acknowledge the challenge, but say there are factors that will work in their favor. For one, Mr. Sawers said, the best-performing small-cap strategies have already been closed because of capacity constraints, creating an opportunity for new players to attract institutional assets.
Also, with many Wall Street firms scaling back their research coverage of small-cap companies, Evercore has the experience and the opportunity to focus on an area of the market that is now lacking coverage and expertise, Mr. Sawers added.
"Our goal is not to be benchmark sensitive," said Mr. Sawers. "We don't just want to wake up and say 'Let's beat the Russell 2000.' Our goal is to create concentrated, long-term portfolios of 40 to 60 companies that we think are really interesting investment ideas and which will over time deliver large absolute returns to our clients."
Ms. Landis said she believes there is still plenty of opportunity to generate new business. "Not every small-cap value manager has met expectations," she said. "A lot of searches are for replacement managers. The challenge for any manager is to perform in a way that is compelling enough to get you hired, making an individual manager's skill so critical."
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Time is running out to fight back against the proposed "gag rule" that prohibits doctors and other health care providers that participate in the nation's Title X family planning program from even talking about abortion care with their patients.
We need your help! Before the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services can issue a final rule, it is required to review every public comment submitted by the Tuesday July 31deadline.The anti-abortion activists have already submitted thousands of comments. Your voice needs to be heard too!!!
I am writing in strong opposition to the proposed changes to Title X regulations (HHS-OS-2018-0008). For nearly 50 years, Title X has been the sole federal grant program dedicated to advancing people's access to comprehensive contraceptive and related family planning services in the United States. If enacted, the "gag rule" would prohibit ANY Title X health care provider from referring patients for abortion or offering information about abortion. This is political interference in the patient-provider relationship at its worst.
Every year, millions of people with low incomes rely on Title X for basic, preventive reproductive health care, including birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing and treatment. In Louisiana, 53,190 individual patients were cared for through the Title X program in 2015. Over seventy-five percent of those patients were at or below the federal poverty line (FPL).
Louisiana faces many challenges in the way health care is accessed and delivered. If the clinics that currently provide this care are removed from Title X participation, these patients could lose access to this high-quality care and the ability to choose providers that meet their needs.
This proposed rule is an attack on women's autonomy, dignity, economic security and health. Information about and access to reproductive and preventive health services are essential to women's health and well-being, as well as to their ability to pursue an education, get and keep jobs, support their families, and function as free and equal members of society. This is a shameful proposed rule that would undermine the practice of medicine and jeopardize women's access to essential health care.
I urge you to rescind the "gag rule" today!


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STARRED QUESTION NO 21
Satyam Computers Scam.
SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR
Will the Minister of CORPORATE AFFAIRS be pleased to state:-
(a) whether any significant headway has been made into the Satyam Computers Scam;
(b) if so, the details thereof; indicating the extent of misappropriation of funds, the period of for which these irregularities have been going on;
(c) the extent of involvement of auditors and others in the Scam; and
(d) the steps taken/proposed to be taken to ensure to detect other cases of profit boosting and other corporate frauds?
THE MINISTER OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS
(SHRI PREM CHAND GUPTA)
(a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN ANSWER TO PARTS (a) to (d) OF RAJYA SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 21 FOR 17.02.2009 REGARDING SATYAM CMPUTERS SCAM
(a), (b) & (c): The Government has ordered investigation on 13.1.2009 under Sec. 235 of the Companies Act, 1956 into the affairs of M/s. Satyam Computer Service Ltd. To be carried out by Inspectors drawn from the office of Serious Fraud Investigation Office. In addition, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is also examining the role and the conduct of the statutory auditors of the Company with regard to the statutory functions required to be discharged by them. The said investigations and enquiries are currently under progress.
(d) Under the framework provided by the Companies Act, 1956, all companies are required to make statutory disclosures that reflect true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company. To facilitate making of such disclosures by companies and for easy viewing of the same by the stakeholders of the companies, general public and regulatory agencies, Government has set up an electronic registry with round – the – clock access through internet. Legal action is taken against such companies that do not comply with the requirement. In addition, the Act provides for appointment of independent, statutory auditors to audit the account s and report to the shareholders. Such audited accounts are also displayed on the electronic registry for general viewing. While the reporting requirements are regulated under the Companies Act, 1956, the conduct of auditors is regulated under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949. In addition, for listed companies, compliance with these statutory requirements is required to be certified by a company secretary in practice, who in turn is regulated under the Company Secretaries Act, 1980. The Act also provide s powers to the Government to undertake inspection/investigation of companies and for prosecution for false statements relating to the Company in the prospectus, the financial statements or otherwise. Subject to approvals by Company Law Board, the Government can also take action against mismanagement and o0ppression in companies by effecting changes in the management of the companies. Companies as are listed on stock exchanges are also subject to regulation by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Act, 1992. The Government and various regulatory agencies take appropriate action under the Companies Act, 1956 and other laws, as warranted, to detect and deal with cases of falsehoods or corporate fraud, as the case may be, through the application of the existing statutory framework.


Rule #9 Remember that children tend to exaggerate, both when praised and criticized.
Temper your reactions to the tales of woe or heroics they bring home. Don't cut your youngster down if you feel they're exaggerating—just take a look at the situation and try to be the voice of reason. Above all, don't over-react and rush off to the coach if you feel an injustice has been done. Investigate, but anticipate that the problem is not as it might appear.
Children, like adults, are prone to immediate and visceral reactions when they're involved in stressful activities. In spite of all of our efforts to make sports fun, there will be times when it causes anxiety for young players. As adults, we are supposed to have learned how to better cope with stress so we need to model balance and calm for our kids, to help them navigate the vicissitudes of youth, including competitive sport, and to prepare them for negotiating life as an adult. Since sports in general and, for Canadians, the hockey rink in particular, can be one of the most significant venues for experiencing stress and developing the skills to cope with it, it is essential that parents be a stabilizing force.
We need to help our young hockey players cope with extremely emotional situations. The last thing your sons and daughters needs is a parent who gets over-involved in the drama that all too often surrounds a team of young hockey players. Yelling from the stands during the game, whether at the players, coaches, referees, or other parents will not help your child learn how to cope with sports, or with life. Getting emotionally involved on the drive home or at the dinner table won't help either.
Remember to keep your negative emotions in check during a hockey game and file away your observations for constructive conversations sometime later.
Pay close attention to your young hockey players' feelings when you talk to them after the game. Make sure to celebrate success with them and help them cope with failure but try not to get too caught up in the excitement of the moment.
If a situation has arisen that's really disturbing them, listen and try to ease their worries without discounting their feelings.
Plan on continuing the discussion the next day. You'll probably find that they're more receptive to what you have to say and there's a good chance that something monumentally important during and immediately after the game is no longer deemed important and doesn't even need to be resolved. If there really is a serious issue that requires a meeting with the coach, both you, your child and the coach will be better equipped to deal with it rationally after a cooling-off period.
Minor hockey can be a wonderful tool for learning about life, success and failure, how to cope with injustice and disappointment and how to turn challenging situations into opportunities. Let's help make the hockey arena a building block for adulthood.


Indie studio Entertainment One and Virgin Produced — the production unit of Richard Branson's Virgin Group — have signed a two-year, first-look development deal in which eOne will have exclusive rights to all scripted TV development at Virgin Produced, which has been ramping up with deals since forming 11 months ago as a joint venture with Relativity Media under the leadership of CEO Jason Felts and chief creative officer Justin Berfield; the development, packaging and producing division already has a first-look deal with E! Entertainment for nonscripted TV development. The deal adds to EOne's stable of content creators, which this year has netted NBC's upcoming The Firm, ABC's Rookie Blue, Syfy's Haven, HBO's Hung and AMC's upoming Hell on Wheels.


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5-8 1st couple dance between 3rd couple and cast up into second place on own sides.
9-12 1st couple set advancing to first corners (who set back)2 and turn ¾ with two hands to finish in line across the dance, 1st woman between 2nd couple and 1st man between 3rd couple.
12-16 1st couple set advancing to second corners (who set back)3 and turn ¾ with two hands to finish between their corners (i.e., 2nd place on opposite sides).
17-20 With hands joined on the sides, all set then all turn partners with two hands once round.
21-24 1st couple dance half figures of eight across, 1st woman around 2nd couple and 1st man around 3rd couple,4 passing through second place on own sides to finish left shoulder to left shoulder in the center.
25-28 1st couple dance right hands across, 1st woman with 2nd couple and 1st man with 3rd couple.
29-32 1st couple dance left hands across, 1st woman with 3rd couple and 1st man with 2nd couple (1st couple pass right shoulders in the center to begin), finishing in second place on own sides.
At the end of bar 10, 1st couple should be back to back in the center facing their first corners.
At the end of bar 14, 1st couple should be back to back in the center facing their second corners.
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Armor of God Balloon Patter: Part 1
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by Andrew Grosjean
The Bible says that if we are Christians, we are engaged in warfare, spiritual warfare. Ephesians 6:10 says, "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."
So, we must understand and prepare with our spiritual armor. We need a volunteer. I like to choose someone who is being self controlled. It is fun to put the armor on an adult if one is willing. How about YOU!
Okay, stand over the trap door. Facing the audience. What's your name? How do you know? Insert your own gag introductions here.
The first requirement of being a soldier of Jesus Christ is TO STAND. Verse 14 says, "Stand therefore. . ." To the volunteer. Can you stand like a soldier? Have him stand up straight like at attention. I you will not stand to fight, you will never be ready to fight. One wise man said that if you will not stand for something, you will fall for anything. So, stand like a soldier.
The first piece of armor is the belt. The Bible says, "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth. . ."
To the volunteer. Put your hands up. . . You know what, put 'um back down. No up, down, up, down. Do this until he looks like he is flapping. Just kidding. Put them up. Tie belt around. Why is the belt so important to a soldier? The Roman soldier would wear a tunic, which was kind of like a dress. Is it easy to run and jump and kick and stuff wearing something like a skirt? No. So, the Roman soldier would take up his tunic and wrap it into the belt. So, when he was done, he would look like he was wearing shorts. Is it easier to run and jump and kick and stuff wearing something like a skirt or short. So, the belt was very important because it bound up the tunic. It made the soldier free to move as needed. So, for the spiritual soldier, the truth is just as stabilizing and freeing. A person that lives in lies is not free to move and do because he is always worrying about getting tripped up in his lies and being caught.
Review each piece of armor with the audience each time you move on to the next. Have them say the underlined words. "14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;" This piece of armor is important because it protects the vital organs of the body: the heart, the lungs, the guts. These are all the things that you need to live. In the same way, for the Christian, righteousness protects our heart and vital spiritual organs. The Bible says in Proverbs 4:23, "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life." But we are not righteous and cannot be without Christ. He is the one that gives us His righteousness if we will walk by faith in Him.
Patter Continued
So, 14 "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;" The shoes for the Roman soldier were not like ordinary shoes of the time. They had spikes on them, nails like the cleats that the football player has. These helped him so that he could run and jump and stuff without slipping and falling and dying. The last thing you want in a battle is to slip and fall and die. The Bible says that the Gospel is our shoes. It can take us anywhere and protect us. If you will be ready to proclaim the gospel, it will take you safely through the most dangerous places or to kings' palaces.
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14 "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked."
Above all means that the next armor and weapons listed are the most important ones. The Roman soldier's shield was long and he could almost hide his whole body by crouching down behind it. It was covered in thick leather and the shield was soaked in water all night long before a battle. The enemy would often shoot arrows that had fire on them. Well, when the fiery arrow hit the water soaked shield, it would put the fire out. Satan's lies are like arrows. Our faith is built on the Word of God. The Bible often speaks about the water of the Word of God. Our faith is the shield that is drenched in the water of the Word. It can put out the fiery arrows of Satan's lies that he shoots at us. Our faith in the Word can protect us.
"Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation,"
Why is the helmet so important? Because it protects the BRAIN. A soldier would not go to fight a battle without protecting his head. You may have the strongest, fastest, fiercest body in the world, but without the brain working, it does no good. So, Satan loves to attack our minds and confuse and deceive us so that we do not think the way God wants us to. If we do not think right, we cannot do right. The helmet of salvation is vital because it keeps our minds stayed on the truth that we are saved. That fact if remembered will protect from all kinds of spiritual confusion.
14 "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:"
This is the first weapon listed. The Roman's sword was very sharp. It was a straight sword. It had two edges and it had a very sharp point. It was short because it was used for close up combat. In the same way, the Bible is straight, like the straight way to heaven. It is very sharp because it cuts between soul and spirit. It has two edges. It cuts any way you move it. It is also meant for close combat. It is meant to pierce deep into the soul and spirit.
And is that all? Is there another weapon of the Christian. What are the next two words? "18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;" Prayer is the Christian's long range weapon. It can reach where we cannot go. Speak for those who cannot hear us. It can protect those separated from us. It can even reach into the future though we are limited in the present.
So, let's review one last time. 14 "Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;"
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Melissa on August 14, 2013:
Thank-you very much - I was looking for a skit I could use with an Armor of God themed VBS this year, and this is perfect! Others I found mentioned the scriptures, but almost as an "also." Your explanations are plain and easy to understand. Again, thank-you for helping to spread the word!
Ericthekid on September 29, 2010:
Thank you so much from blessing us with that skit.. i am actually putting on a skit for my church about spiritual war fare and this was a very BIG help thank you
Timothy Donnelly from Ontario, Canada on December 12, 2009:
You are so cool, PastorAndrew; you certainly have a way.
And you are so right, when you mention prayer as our sometimes forgotten tool in our personal (familial, and national) battles of spiritual warfare. Because, we should pray always, it is really our first, middle, and last article of battle regalia. Thank you for your uplifting and entertaining Hub.
H P Roychoudhury from Guwahati, India on December 11, 2009:
Obama is saying Afghan war and sending of American troops to Afghanistan is a war for peace as the religious ethic says spiritual war is a war for peace. Thanks.
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A motion picture, usually called a movie or film, is a series of many thousands of still images which, when projected on to a screen in quick succession, creates the effect of moving images. A movie is created by shooting actual scenes with a movie camera, by taking pictures of drawings or models (traditional animation), or by CGI (computer-generated imagery) and computer animation. The first movie was shown in Paris in 1895. Since then, cinema has become popular all over the world. Thousands of people work in the movie industry, involved in every part of making a movie, from working the cameras or acting in front of them to making costumes and writing the script.
In 1891 American inventor Thomas Alva Edison built a machine called the Kinetoscope to show films shot by his Kinetograph, which was one of the first movie cameras. It was the first successful moving-picture machine, although only one person at a time could view through an eyepiece as the sequence of photographs on a strip of film wound past. Just four years later in 1895, two brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumière, gave the first public cinema show in a café in Paris. The movies showed scenes of everyday life in the city.
The first moving picture sequence, called "Roundhay Garden Scene", was taken on a single-lens camera by French inventor Louis Le Prince in 1888. Development work abruptly ceased when Le Prince vanished from a train on 16th September 1890 and was never seen again.


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By aliibrahimblogger@gmail.com — Sunday, July 14, 2019 — Facebook Age Requirement
A federal legislation planned to protect children's personal privacy might unwittingly lead them to reveal excessive on Facebook, a provocative brand-new academic study shows, in the current example of exactly how tough it is to regulate the electronic lives of minors.
Facebook bans youngsters under 13 from registering for an account, as a result of the Children's Online Privacy Security Act, or Coppa, which requires Internet firms to obtain adult permission prior to gathering personal information on youngsters under 13. To navigate the restriction, children frequently lie concerning their ages. Moms and dads often help them lie, and also to keep an eye on what they upload, they become their Facebook friends. This year, Customer Information estimated that Facebook had more than five million youngsters under age 13.
What Age Are You Allowed On Facebook
That reasonably harmless family members trick that allows a preteen to jump on Facebook can have potentially serious effects, consisting of some for the child's peers that do not lie. The research, carried out by computer scientists at the Polytechnic Institute of New York College, finds that in a given high school, a small portion of pupils who lie regarding their age to obtain a Facebook account can aid a full unfamiliar person collect sensitive details about a bulk of their fellow trainees.
Simply put, kids that deceive can jeopardize the personal privacy of those who don't.
The most up to date study is part of a growing body of work that highlights the paradox of applying children's personal privacy by regulation. For example, a study collectively composed this year by academics at 3 colleges and Microsoft Research study located that despite the fact that parents were worried regarding their youngsters's digital footprints, they had helped them circumvent Facebook's terms of solution by entering an incorrect day of birth. Numerous moms and dads appeared to be uninformed of Facebook's minimal age requirement; they believed it was a suggestion, comparable to a PG-13 motion picture score.
" Our findings reveal that moms and dads are undoubtedly worried concerning privacy as well as online safety and security concerns, yet they likewise reveal that they might not recognize the dangers that youngsters encounter or how their information are utilized," that paper ended.
Facebook has long stated that it is challenging to hunt down every deceptive teen and indicate its added safety measures for minors. For kids ages 13 to 18, just their Facebook friends can see their blog posts, including photos.
That system, however, is endangered if a youngster exists concerning her age when she enrolls in Facebook-- as well as hence ends up being a grown-up rather on the social media network than in reality, according to the experiment by N.Y.U. scientists.
The trick to the experiment, described Keith W. Ross, a computer technology professor at N.Y.U. as well as among the authors of the study, was to very first find recognized present pupils at a specific high school. A child could be found, for instance, if she was ten years old and said she was 13 to sign up for Facebook. Five years later on, that same kid would appear as 18 years old-- a grown-up, in the eyes of Facebook-- when in fact she was only 15. At that point, a stranger can likewise see a list of her good friends.
The researchers performed their experiment at 3 high schools. They had the ability to create the Facebook identities of the majority of the colleges' existing pupils, including their names, genders as well as account photos.
The researchers recognized neither the institutions nor any of the trainees. Their paper is awaiting publication.
Making use of an openly readily available data source of signed up voters, somebody might likewise match the youngsters's last names with their parents'-- and also potentially, their house addresses, Professor Ross mentioned.
The Coppa law, he argued, appeared to work as an incentive for kids to lie, yet made it no much less hard to confirm their genuine age.
" In a Coppa-less world, the majority of children would be truthful regarding their age when developing accounts. They would certainly after that be treated as minors up until they're actually 18," he claimed. "We reveal that in a Coppa-less globe, the attacker locates much less trainees, and also for the students he finds, the accounts have very little details."
Just how youngsters behave online is just one of the most troublesome problems for parents, to say nothing of regulators and also legislators who claim they want to shield children from the information they scatter online.
Independent studies recommend that moms and dads are worried about how their kids's social media network blog posts can hurt them in the future. A Pew Net Center research study launched this month showed that a lot of moms and dads were not simply worried, however many were proactively trying to aid their youngsters manage the privacy of their electronic data. Over fifty percent of all parents said they had spoken to their kids regarding something they posted.
Young adults seem to be vigilant, in their own means, about controlling that sees what on the web pages of Facebook.
A different study by the Family members Online Safety And Security Institute that was released in November located that 4 out of 5 teenagers had adjusted privacy setups on their social networking accounts, including Facebook, while two-thirds had placed constraints on that can see which of their posts.


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True to its title, A Quiet Place may just be the quietest movie of the year.
It might also be one of the scariest.
In an exclusive featurette, John Krasinski – who directed, co-wrote, and stars in the film – explains how he turned sound into a tool for ramping up tension in every single scene.
As star Emily Blunt put it, "Sound plays another character in this film. Sound's the enemy of this family."
And it works like gangbusters, if Krasinski may say so himself. "That's the psychological thriller aspect", he says. "If you can get tension to the highest level and then just start unraveling, there's no coming back from it."
Judging by the nail marks left on my palms after seeing this film, I'd say mission accomplished.


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Three Pianists Advance to the...
Three Pianists Advance to the Cooper Competition's Final Round
By Erich Burnett
2018 Cooper Competition Concerto Finalists Tony Yun, Yunchan Lim, and Kai-Min Chang (from left). Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
Each will perform with The Cleveland Orchestra July 20 at Severance Hall, with a $20K first prize on the line.
The masterful performances that marked the 2018 Cooper Competition's preliminary rounds carried over into the Recital Finals at Oberlin on Wednesday. At the evening's conclusion, three pianists were selected to advance to the competition's Concerto Finals July 20 at Severance Hall in Cleveland.
The Concerto Finalists are Kai-Min Chang (age 17) of Changhua County, Taiwan; Tony Yun (17) of Toronto, Canada; and Yunchan Lim (14) of Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
On Friday, each finalist will perform a complete concerto with The Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Jahja Ling.
Chang will perform Chopin's Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11; Yun will perform Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23; and Lim will perform Chopin's Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21.
Friday's concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
Also honored at the Recital Finals were Ryan Zhu (14) of Vancouver, Canada; William Chen (15) of New York, New York; and William Yang (17) of Natick, Massachusetts, who earned fourth through sixth place, respectively. Each takes home a prize of $1,500.
For the first time in Cooper history, the 2018 Audience Prize was shared by Lim and Yun, both of whom earned the prize of $500.
Tickets for the Concerto Finals begin at $13, and all students under age 18 are admitted free with a paying adult. Tickets for the Concerto Finals can be obtained at the Cleveland Orchestra website.
In addition, Oberlin will host an evening of standout performances from the competition's Semifinal Round in a free Honors Concert in Warner Concert Hall at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 19.
Can't be here? Follow the action live online: Thursday's Honors Concert will be live streamed at oberlin.edu/cooper. Friday's Concerto Finals will be broadcast live by Cleveland's classical music station, WCLV 104.9 FM.
About the Cooper Competition
Founded in 2010, the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition is dedicated to presenting an important international competitive opportunity to outstanding young musicians. It is made possible through the generosity of Thomas Cooper, a 1978 graduate of Oberlin College, and his wife, pianist Evon Cooper. The Cooper Competition alternates annually between piano and violin and is open to participants between the ages of 13 and 18. Past winners include George Li and Leonardo Colafelice, both of whom have cultivated outstanding young performance careers.
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Mucho Gusto won his fourth career graded stakes on Sunday at Santa Anita Park with a comfortable 2 1/4-length score over stablemate Roadster in the $100,000 Affirmed S. (G3).
Roadster, who hadn't run since the Kentucky Derby (G1), was the favorite at post time, but Mucho Gusto's recency over the track, including a win last out in the Laz Barrera S. (G3) on May 18, had the Michael Petersen colt in perfect form for Sunday's 1 1/16-mile contest.
Jockey Joe Talamo got the normally-keen Mucho Gusto to sit just off the pace this time, something Baffert has been wanting the 3-year-old colt to do. It wasn't until about three furlongs to run that Mucho Gusto made a three-wide move for the lead, coasting to the front as the field entered the stretch. Roadster made a move from well back, but was no threat to the winner, who got the distance in 1:45.15.
"I told Joe, if we are going to win any bigger purses this horse need to learn to relax instead of going out there fast all the time," said Baffert. "I think this horse is maturing, he is a late foal and he's getting better. There's some derbies around, but I think he'll probably go to the Haskell (Invitational, Grade I, 1 1/8 miles July 20 at Monmouth Park). As long as he relaxes, he'll run that far."
Mucho Gusto has won five of seven starts and upped his earnings to $430,800. He gave Baffert a record six wins in the Affirmed.


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Authors: Aaron Becker
Illustrators: Aaron Becker
By Aaron Becker
Illustrated by Aaron Becker
Aaron Becker, creator of Journey, a Caldecott Honor book, presents the next chapter in his stunning wordless fantasy.
A king emerges from a hidden door in a city park, startling two children sheltering from the rain. No sooner does he push a map and some strange objects into their hands than he is captured by hostile forces that whisk him back through the enchanted door. Just like that, the children are caught up in a quest to rescue the king and his kingdom from darkness, while illuminating the farthest reaches of their imagination. Colored markers in hand, they make their own way through the portal, under the sea, through a tropical paradise, over a perilous bridge, and high in the air with the help of a winged friend. Journey lovers will be thrilled to follow its characters on another adventure threaded with familiar elements, while new fans will be swept into a visually captivating story that is even richer and more exhilarating than the first.
Follow-up to Aaron Becker's critically-acclaimed picture book debut, Journey, allowing readers to learn what became of the boy and girl and their purple and red markers.
For fans of Chris Van Allsburg, Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Red Book, and wordless picture books.
Aaron Becker has made several memorable journeys in his lifetime. He's lived in rural Japan and East Africa, backpacked through the South Pacific and Sweden, and most recently, ventured from the San Francisco Bay area to Amherst, Massachusetts, a town he now calls home with his wife, daughter, and lazy cat. To this day, his favorite destination remains his imagination, where you can often find him drawing secret doorways and magic lanterns.
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Q: Cannot open file with relative path? (C++ ifstream) I know this seems like a simple question, but I tried everything I can think of to no avail to something that shouldn't have been a problem in the first place.
This is a small C++ program that opens a file. When I open it with its absolute filepath, it works fine. With a relative path, however, it stops working.
Here's the file path of the program and the files I'm trying to read:
C++ program: "/Users/Baggio/C++/Lab0/Lab0/Lab0/main.cpp"
Files: /Users/Baggio/C++/Lab0/Lab0/Lab0/result.txt, /Users/Baggio/C++/Lab0/Lab0/Lab0/dict.txt
Here's the code snippet:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {

//    string dict_filename = "/Users/Baggio/C++/Lab0/Lab0/Lab0/dict.txt";
//    string result_filename = "/Users/Baggio/C++/Lab0/Lab0/Lab0/result.txt";

    string dict_filename_string = "dict.txt";
    string result_filename_string = "result.txt";

    const char* dict_filename = dict_filename_string.c_str();
    const char* result_filename = result_filename_string.c_str();

    //  open files
    ifstream dict_file(dict_filename, ifstream::in);
    ifstream result_file(result_filename, ifstream::in);

    if (!dict_file || !result_file) {
        cerr << "File could not be opened." << endl;
        exit(1);
    }
}

Result of execution
File could not be opened.

I'm sure I've done all the includes right, and the data types right for the ifstream constructor arguments. The only thing I can think of worth mentioning is the system I'm on: I'm on a Mac and I'm using XCode6 as my IDE.
Also, I've tried to move the files' location (results.txt and dict.txt) to these locations to no avail:
/Users/Baggio/C++/Lab0/Lab0/Lab0/

/Users/Baggio/C++/Lab0/Lab0/

/Users/Baggio/C++/Lab0/

/Users/Baggio/C++/

Thanks for your help guys!! Any suggestions or thoughts appreciated.

A: Print out your current working directory when you run the program:
char buffer[256];
char *val = getcwd(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
if (val) {
    std::cout << buffer << std::endl;
}

This will tell you where you are running your program from and thus why the path doesn't match for relative paths. A relative path is relative to the current working directory, not to where your binary is located.
If you want to make the path relative to the location of the binary then you will have to do that yourself. Many programming languages offer this as an option, but it is not built-in to C++. You can do this by finding the executable using the argv[0] from main. Then you need to drop the file component of the executable path and replace it with the file name that you are interested in.
Since C++17, you can use std::filesystem::current_path() instead of getcwd.
std::cout << std::filesystem::current_path() << std::endl;

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Patrick Stewart made it so today. This afternoon in Croydon, South London, the Star Trek star carried the Olympic torch for a short distance – through the streets and into the St. Andrew's School -- as the iconic Olympic symbol grows closer and closer to the Olympic Stadium. The torch has been on a 70-day trek through England (not to mention Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Scotland) on its way to London, host city of the 2012 Summer Olympics. It will, on Friday, be used to light the cauldron during the opening ceremonies of the Summer Games.


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Q: Custom button with drawable, like facebook I have been all morning trying to do an custom shape like as facebook button like this:

But I'm trying to do it customizable, so in the future I could change the icon for example, but I'm going crazy.
How I can make a button like this? Only the right part must be pressed, the left with the icon must be static although it will be pressed.
I have this for the left side:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid
                android:color="@color/gecas_blue"/>

            <corners
                android:topLeftRadius="4dp"
                android:topRightRadius="4dp"/>
            <size
                android:height="@dimen/bt_icon_size"
                android:width="@dimen/bt_icon_size"
            />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item
        android:left="10dp">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid
                android:color="@color/gecas_blue"/>
            <size
                android:height="@dimen/bt_icon_size"
                android:width="@dimen/bt_icon_size"
                />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item android:drawable="@android:drawable/ic_input_add">
        <size
            android:height="@dimen/bt_icon_size"
            android:width="@dimen/bt_icon_size"
            />
    </item>
</layer-list>

And this for the right, but I know how to continue:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid
                android:color="@color/gecas_blue"/>

            <corners
                android:topLeftRadius="4dp"
                android:topRightRadius="4dp"/>
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item
        android:right="10dp">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid
                android:color="@color/gecas_blue"/>
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

This is the most similar library that I've found.
Flat Buttons

A: Try https://github.com/medyo/fancybuttons it almost fit what you try to do.


A sugared rim adds elegance, texture, and forward sweetness to the classic Sidecar — which is why you need to mess with the recipe.
Demerara sugar adds a certain "whole grain crunch" to the classic Sidecar.
Regular readers of this blog — both of them — may note that controlling sweetness is a sort of crusade of mine. A perfectly balanced drink rides that delicate edge where tart and sweet and booze all contribute equally, none getting too much attention.
Which brings me to the Sidecar, a pre- [or during-] Prohibition [-ish] drink that in most contemporary renditions is mixed 2:1:1 — 1.5 oz cognac, .75 oz lemon juice, .75 oz Cointreau.
The Sidecar is a wonderful, and yes, perfectly balanced, drink — solid, simple, satisfying, the color of parchment. Classic, as they say.
Somewhere along the way — let's call it 1934 just for sport — the drink picked up a sugared rim. The great Dale DeGroff, in his 2008 The Essential Cocktail, recommends the 2:1:1 ratio along with the sugar rim, explaining that the flourish is an adaptation of Jerry Thomas' [him again] Brandy Crusta [page 52 of his Bartender's Guide, for those following along via knockoff reprint].
And so with the contemporary Sidecar we have a classically balanced drink — with an added garnish that tips it, for me, into an unwholesome sweetness.


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Elder Scrollers rejoice! The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset is coming to PC/Mac on May 21 and Xbox One and PlayStation®4 June 5. The ancient homeland of the reclusive High Elves will open its borders to outsiders for the first time in recorded history.
Read more about this expansion's new story and available features in the official Elder Scrolls Online news article: Boundless Adventure Awaits in Summerset.
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