Just what every mekboy wants; an even bigger `Dread! This large new model is a great addition the Ork ranks; a smoke-belching, hydraulic monster able to tear apart enemy tanks and smash a side lesser war machines with contemptuous ease. Designed by Phil Stutcinskas with pilot by Mark Bedford, this is another amazingly detailed model which, standing at over 5" tall, dwarves a Space Marine Dreadnought.
Just as with our Space Marine Dreadnoughts we are selling the main body of the Mega-Dread (which also comes with two 'Gatling gun style' big Shootas) and its weapon arms separately. The two arms we are releasing with it are the Mega-Dread Killkannon arm and the Mega-Dread Rippa-Claw arm. Both of these weapon arms are designed to fit on either side of the Mega-Dread's body allowing you to customise it as you wish.
Ork Mega-Dread Killkannon: The Mega-Dread Killkannon is a large bore cannon which is fed shells revolver-style from a rotary magazine, and allows the Mega-Dread to tote an artillery piece as easily as an Ork Boy would his shoota, blasting the Mega-Dread's path through the enemy.
Ork Mega-Dread Rippa-Claw: The Mega-Dread Rippa-Claw is a huge mechanical pincer-claw designed to punch through the toughest armour, and it lets the Mega-Dread rip great chunks of wreckage from enemy vehicles and dismantle siege defences and bunkers piece by piece.
I bought mine at GamesDay 2009 and purchased it with two Killkannons as I didn't think much of the Rippa-Claw, it looked flimsy in comparison to the model as a whole. Here is a photo of all the resin pieces.
The body, waist and engine sections went together quite easily. I then added one of the exhausts.
The legs have a fair few parts, including pistons.


Is Liam Hemsworth a gay/bisexual?
What is Liam Hemsworth marital status?
Who is Liam Hemsworth wife?
Who are Liam Hemsworth parents?
Liam Hemsworth is a talented Australian-born actor, who created a bunch of natural male characters in popular movies and TV shows. In addition to his highly successful career, the man also gained recognition as on and off fiancé of Miley Cyrus. The couple started dating in 2009 after meeting on the set of "The Last Song" – a romantic drama, based on Nicholas Sparks script. They shared lots of sweet moment at red-carpet events, but soon split. In 2016 the couple reconciled and engaged. They got married on December 23, 2018. Two stars arranged a secret ceremony, and during a long period of time the press and fans didn't know about the change of their relationship status, till the couple's relatives started to post their wedding pics on Instagram.
Liam was born in the big Australian city of Melbourne and grew up in the company of two older brothers. He started acting at the age of 17 and appeared in episodes of several popular Australian soap operas, including "Home and Away" and "Neighbours".
In 2009 the reasonably popular Australian actor moved to USA, where started visiting auditions to American movies. He portrayed Spencer in Alex Proyas disaster film "Knowing".
After that Hemsworth proved, that he was worth the title of a rising Hollywood star – he designed a main male character in an adventurous film "The Hunger Games". After the premiere Liam got an invitation to act in the sequels of the film.
As for now, the actor has lots of interesting projects in his film list. He looked brilliant and honest at the set of "The Dressmaker" opposite stylish Kate Winslet. Then featured in "The Duel" alongside Texas-born star Woody Harrelson; and soon the fans will see him in a comedy "Isn't It Romantic".


Most organizations with many buildings to manage struggle with the issue of providing comfortable building environments for occupants while balancing energy costs. Studies of U.S. college and university buildings found that about 67% of building energy costs are due to lighting, heating, and cooling. Occupancy levels can vary greatly depending on class schedules and special events. Equipment installed in the building influences the environment too. A recent study indicated that by carefully monitoring occupancy and performing analytics on the occupancy data, energy savings of 10-15% are likely.
In order to better manage energy costs and provide the occupants with a comfortable environment, cameras can be deployed in key areas so people traffic and congregation areas can be monitored and HVAC adjustments made accordingly. Automating this process means connecting cameras and sensors to a central IoT platform like Nokia's IMPACT, and using video analytics to remotely trigger temperature or lighting adjustments based on occupancy. A pre-requisite is to ensure IoT-ready connectivity to all the locations.
The obvious return on investment is based on energy savings. However, university will continue to leverage their connectivity and IoT platform capabilities to other IoT projects for other insights and return on investment.


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Home » Lands of Faerûn » Portals of Faerûn
Perilous Gateways
Portals of Lantan
By Jeff Quick
The Welcome Gates
The Lantanese government has two great desires for their people: to let them invent, and to be allowed to do it safely. While wars and nations raged on mainland Faerûn, Lantan has maintained peace and noninvolvement. The most amazing facet of Lantan's obscure security is not that they stay hidden, but that they do it without looking like they're hiding.
In retrospect, this is not a terrible surprise from a nation whose main inhabitants prize trickery. The Lantanese do not erect stout defenses or possess overwhelming offenses; they just look uninteresting and give the impression that they are too much trouble to invade. They claim to be open and willing to trade, but they develop obtuse entry statutes and trading policies for nations they would rather avoid. They rarely hide, but they have a near-bottomless supply of diversionary tricks. As the old gnome expression says, "Always smile, but do it with false teeth."
Nowhere is this policy more evident than the absurdly named "Welcome Gates." The Welcome Gates is a large, clearly labeled (but never advertised) portal leading from the Lantan Embassy in Waterdeep to an area known as the Visitors' Vale right outside Anchoril on Lantan's southern isle. On both ends, the portal is 12 feet tall, 8 feet wide, and bordered by a metallic frame imbedded with countless whirring mechanical gewgaws. Travel through the Welcome Gates is ostensibly free and open. In reality, it's troublesome and convoluted by design.
Lantanese residents and their families have access to the portals whenever they it. Residents must show a passport and proof of residence, and they may obtain a gate pass for a small fee. The process for obtaining a gate pass by non-Lantanese is a labyrinthine five-day affair involving numerous forms, daily trips to various official buildings around Waterdeep, and signatures from three to six different city officials (depending on the stated nature of the visit).
Welcome Gate hours for nonresidents are only the daylight hours between dawn and dusk, except between highsun and afternoon, when they are closed. The precise interpretation of when highsun and afternoon begin and end depends on who is acting chief portal warden that day. Illiterate visitors are flatly denied entry (according to the application handbook) as Anchoril can be dangerous to visitors who cannot read warning signs.
The gate pass is a small wind-up toy -- a tin bird with flapping wings. Portal wardens inform visitors that the gate pass is the portal key. The key is actually the word "enjoy," spoken in Gnome, which a warden works into the conversation as visitors stand before the portal, ready to activate it with their phony key.
Most of the paperwork and runaround that Welcome Gate portal wardens require is perfunctory, and like many gnome behaviors, a blind for the actual process. Regardless of an applicant's ability to fill out forms and follow obscure directions, the wardens observe applicants' behavior and then divide them into three categories:
Keep Out is designated for known or suspected troublemakers. Portal wardens know enough tricks to keep these types tied up indefinitely.
Tourist is someone who seems like a minimal security risk and has shown enough interest in visiting to get through part of the application. But the would-be visitor either doesn't have the wherewithal to wade through the full application process, or perhaps he or she knows someone who the portal wardens consider trustworthy to vouch for them.
Watch Carefully is reserved for anyone who calmly threads the bureaucratic labyrinth. Anyone who shows enough determination to jump through all appropriate hoops without getting discouraged or upset probably has a hidden agenda. These people are allowed through, but a "Visitor Assistant" (government spy) is assigned to "help coordinate" (monitor) the visitor's every action in Anchoril.
None of this behavior is ever presented as a security precaution, but rather as a desire to help the applicant get the most out of his or her visit to the Multifaceted Capital, Anchoril. (The fact that other gnomes claim that Sambar, or sometimes Sundrah, is Lantan's capital is an incidental gnome misdirection ploy. All three cities are considered to be a capital of something.)
Some Basic Tasks Portal Wardens Assign
When the portal wardens want to keep out a possible threat, they first resort to some of these basic tasks:
Literacy Test: The applicant must first prove that they can read and write Common.
Proof of Identification: The applicant must also prove that they are who they say they are. This can include a variety of tasks, such as bringing five people who know the applicant to vouch for him or her, getting a public official to write a note with a bonded messenger that vouches for the applicant, submitting to a magical test of the gnome's devising, and whatever else the gnomes can think of. This part of the process can take several weeks of time in itself and include several stages.
Proof of Ability to Survive Portals: The applicant must prove that he or she can travel through portals without experiencing problems. After all, the gnomes don't want to be responsible for any imbalance within the applicant that could lead to the applicant's death. The proof can be as simple as having a gnome representative go through a different portal with the applicant and "testing" the applicant's health on the other end. Portal wardens also might make it more difficult if they choose.
Affidavits from Past Travelers to Lantan: The applicant must seek out a number of different past visitors to Lantan and get these people to sign off on official affidavits before the local (to the past visitor) magistrate.
These three different tasks can take the applicant a long time to complete, and each can have a series of stages if warranted. Portal wardens can easily add on more tasks, such as requesting a Purpose of Visit form to be completed and notarized by a gnome in a different part of the world, verifying the identity of anyone who shows up on earlier forms, and so on.
The Delights of the Visitors' Vale
Once visitors make it to Lantan, they enter at the Visitors' Vale. The Vale is a pleasant bowl surrounded by low hills and is about half a mile from the entrance to Anchoril. This side of the portal requires no key, although the pretense of the toy bird is continued for visitors. In the Vale, two 10-foot-tall iron statues flank the Welcome Gate. These statues are of a male and female gnome, with the expression and posture of benign workers, tinkering with the edges of the portal. They are, of course, iron golems who spring to life if a weapon is drawn or if any of the five basic elements (fire, lightning, cold, acid, sonic) magically appear within the Visitors' Vale. The golems defend themselves, but their main order is to move combatants back through the portal.
Though effective, statues that turn out to be golems is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Anyone who pays attention knows that the obvious threat is seldom the only threat when gnomes are involved. The vale has a flagpole at five points around the perimeter of the hills. Beneath the huge Lantan flag on each pole is a large metal horn, which is known as a vale sounder. Sounders are the second line of defense, and gnome watchers activate them only if one of the golems falls.
Iron golems (2): hp 170 each.
How to Incorporate the Welcome Gates Into Your Champaign
Getting into Lantan is tricky, and no one gets in without knowing someone who already lives there. Some ways that PCs might break through the screen include the following:
While in Waterdeep, the PCs are approached by a petitioner with a nine-page form, half written in Gnome. If the party has a cleric of a commonly lawful and/or good god, the petitioner asks the cleric to verify that he is an honorable and forthright person by means of divine power, and sign the form in several places. The petitioner seems confused and doesn't know why this is necessary. However, he does mention that he's doing this so that he can visit Lantan.
If the PCs are an honorable lot, a gnome who seeks to be escorted from her current location (which is well away from the Welcome Gates) to Waterdeep contacts them. As they travel, the PCs discover that the gnome is a target of a particularly vengeful and stubborn group of assassins. Should the gnome die, she will give the PCs a message to deliver to the portal warden in Waterdeep that will allow them to use the portal. She also gives them an item to deliver once in Lantan. What the item is, who the assassins are, where they need to deliver it to in Lantan, and why the item needs to go to Lantan is up to the DM!

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Q: Authenticate google certificate by c# code? When I browse google.com I can ensure that it is google.com by clicking in the address bar :

But let's assume google is exposing  Service1, and I - using c# consume this service (wcf) -
How can my service be assure that he is connecting to google.com ?
I know there is a certificate involved here.
I already  know how to read local certificates from my store. but this certificate is not in my store.
Question :
So How do ( and in what stage) can I read google's certificate data and to assure i'm connecting to them?
Thank you.

A: ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback =
    (sender, certificate, chain, policyError) => {
        var subject = certificate.Subject;
        return subject == "CN=www.google.com, O=Google Inc, L=Mountain View, S=California, C=US";
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If you are planning to unmold the panna cotta, brush 6 ramekins. You can also serve panna cotta on a glass in order not to unmold it.
Put the water in a small bowl and add the gelatin and let it soften, about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a bowl combine milk and heavy cream.
In another larger bowl add and lightly beat the yogurt and then add the half of the amount of the milk-heavy cream mixture, with a hand whisk. Set aside.
In a small pot simmer the remaining milk-heavy cream mixture and sugar. Add the water-gelatin mixture (it will dissolve immediately), and remove from heat.
Then add this mixture to the yogurt mixture and add the lemon juice.
Divide the mixture equally to the 6 ramekins and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
When you are ready to serve to unmold the ramekins, by filling a small pot with water and letting it simmer for a bit. Dip the lower part of the ramekins in the pot for 5 seconds. Turn each one out on to a serving plate.
To serve, top each panna cotta with 1-2 teaspoons of pine tree honey and sprinkle with chopped walnuts. These will keep for a few days in the fridge.


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The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Inc. (CFDA), founded in 1962 by publicist Eleanor Lambert, and headquartered in Manhattan, is a not-for-profit trade association comprising a membership of over 450 American fashion and accessory designers. The organization promotes American designers in the global economy.

In addition to hosting the annual CFDA Fashion Awards, the organization develops future American design talent through scholarships and resources in high schools, colleges, and postgraduate schools. The CFDA also provides funding and business opportunities for working designers. Through the CFDA Foundation, the organization supports charitable causes.

History
The first president of the CFDA was Sydney Wragge (from 1962 until 1965). Steven Kolb is the CEO since 2006. As of January 2023, Thom Browne is the group's chairman; he follows Tom Ford who served as chairman for three years.  Additionally,  Diane von Furstenberg served as chairman for 13 years from 2006 until
2019.

The following people were founding members of the CFDA, from 1962:

CFDA Fashion Awards
The CFDA Fashion Awards was founded in 1980 with the first awards in 1981 and honors excellence in fashion design. The CFDA Fashion Awards is an organized event created by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. They honor and showcase the excellence in fashion design in America. It has been called "the Oscars of fashion". Prior to the establishment of the CFDA Awards, the Coty Awards filled a similar role until they ended in 1985, with the final Coty Awards given in September 1984. In 1997, the CFDA Awards made a decision to open its doors to younger and upcoming designers.

Nominations are submitted by the Fashion Guild, a group of over 1,500 CFDA members including fashion editors, retailers, and stylists. Award winners are determined by vote and announced at an annual black tie event held at Lincoln Center, in Manhattan. Award winners receive a trophy made by the New York firm Society Awards.

For the 2022 edition Amazon Fashion sponsored the event.

Collaborations
In 2010, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists Monique Péan, Patrik Ervell, and Sophie Theallet teamed up with Gap Inc. In 2012 and 2013 the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners and runners-up each created capsule collections with J. Crew.

In celebration of the organization's 50th Anniversary, Target and Neiman Marcus partnered with 24 CFDA members to create a special holiday collection that was available at both retailers. Additionally, the CFDA has partnered with Kohl's on designer collaborations such as Derek Lam for Kohl's and most recently, Catherine Malandrino for Kohl's.

On October 3, 2013, the CFDA and Google+ launched an innovative shopping tool, titled "Shoppable Hangouts", where users had the ability to shop Hangouts on Air (HOA). The CFDA kicked off the product launch with CFDA President Diane von Fürstenberg. Rachel Zoe, Marcus Wainwright and David Neville of rag & bone, and Rebecca Minkoff also participated in the Shoppable Hangout experience.

Programs

CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund
The CFDA and Vogue Magazine have created an endowment for the stated purpose of funding significant financial awards to one or more designers and provide business mentoring. Awarded recipients are selected by a committee of industry experts.

The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Selection Committee annually selects three emerging fashion designers, who receive:

 Business mentoring from an established team of fashion industry professionals, in areas such as business planning, marketing, sourcing, production, exporting etc.
 To encourage and enable the recipients to pursue his/her own independent design plan (one winner at $300,000 and two runners-up at $100,000 each).

2010s Finalists and Winners
 2014: Paul Andrew (Winner), Wes Gordon, Edie Parker and Simon Miller
 2015: Becca McCharen-Tran of Chromat; Rio Uribe of Gypsy Sport (Winner)
 2017: Chromat: Becca McCharen-Tran (Runner Up), Telfar Clemens (Winner)
 2018: Kerby Jean-Raymond (Winner)
 2019: Abdul Abasi and Greg Rosborough of Abasi Rosborough; Alejandra Alonso Rojas; Victor Barragan of Barragán; Hillary Taymour of Collina Strada,  Danielle Hirsch of Danielle Frankel; Raffaella Hanley of Lou Dallas; Siying Qu and Haoran Li of Private Policy; Reese Cooper; Natalie Ratabesi of Tre by Natalie Ratabesi; and Christopher John Rogers (Winner)

2020s Expansion and Winners
As of 2021, all 10 designers are to be granted resources including funds and mentorship.  Global editorial director of Vogue and chief content officer of Condé Nast, Anna Wintour, made a public statement noting that "After an incredibly challenging time for all of us in fashion, especially here in New York, we're thrilled that this year we are able to support all of our finalists."  This was to address the challenges the American fashion industry is facing.

 2021:  Batsheva Hay of Batsheva; Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta of Eckhaus Latta; Anifa Mvuemba of Hanifa; Rebecca Henry and Akua Shabaka of House of Aama; Kenneth Nicholson; Jameel Mohammed of Khiry; LaQuan Smith; Abrima Erwiah of Studio 189; Edvin Thompson of Theophilio; and Willy Chavarria

 2022:   Jacques Agbobly of Black Boy Knits; Elena Velez; Felisha Noel of Fe Noel; Lauren Harwell Godfrey of Harwell Godfrey;  Taofeek Abijako of head of State; Conley Averett of Judy Turner; Colm Dillane of Kidsuper; Pia Davis and Autumn Randolph of No Sesso; Omar Salam of Sukeina; and, Jackson Wiederhoeft of Wiederhoeft

CFDA {FASHION INCUBATOR} program
The CFDA {FASHION INCUBATOR} is a business development program designed to support the next generation of fashion designers in New York City. The program provides a creative professional environment with the mission of helping to grow and sustain the businesses of the 10 participating brands over the course of the two-year program. By offering low-cost design studio space, business mentoring, educational seminars, and networking opportunities, the program provides a way for participants to reach their full potential and become an integral part of the New York Fashion community. In 2010, the program partnered with New York University's Stern School of Business to create a Masters Workshop that pairs their top MBA Students with the designers to work on business development projects.

Successful alumni of the Incubator program include Prabal Gurung and the 2013 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners, Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne of Public School.

The 4.0 class (2016-2018) of the {FASHION INCUBATOR} includes Alexandra Alvarez of Alix, Aurora James of Brother Vellies, Charles Youssef, Daniel DuGoff of Ddugoff, Tim Joo and Dan Joo of Haerfest, Jason Alkire and Julie Alkire of Haus Alkire, Ji Oh, Katie deGuzman and Michael Miller of K/ller Collection, Thaddeus O'Neil, and Molly Yestadt of Yestadt Millinery.

Fashion Manufacturing Initiative
The Fashion Manufacturing Initiative (FMI) is an investment fund to help revitalize New York City's garment industry. The program offers matching financial grants to New York City's fashion manufacturing production facilities.

In March 2018, the CFDA and NYCA announced that the following seven production facilities would receive a combined total of $480,000 in the fifth round of FMI grants: Atelier Amelia, Sunrise Studio, In Style USA, Mudo Fashion, New York Embroidery Studio, Season Wash, and Werkstatt.

Fashion Targets Breast Cancer
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer® (FTBC), a charitable initiative of the CFDA/CFDA Foundation, seeks to raise public awareness and funds for the breast cancer cause.

The Fashion Targets Breast Cancer name and symbol were created by Ralph Lauren and subsequently entrusted to the CFDA Foundation.  FTBC was first presented in the U.S. in the spring of 1994 during New York Fashion Week, and was formally launched in September 1994 at a special White House reception hosted by then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. During this initial campaign, 400,000 FTBC shirts were sold, raising $2 million to benefit the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Health at the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center.  This center was chosen as beneficiary at Ralph Lauren's request, in memory of his friend Nina Hyde, the former fashion editor of The Washington Post, who died of breast cancer in 1990.

Since 2011, the council has led an annual campaign to promote the initiative and partners with well known fashion icons. In 2017, Fabletics partnered with Fashion Targets Breast Cancer to produce an activewear collection. A portion of all sales for the collection would be donated to target breast cancer screening and treatment.

To date, nearly $50 million has been granted to breast cancer charities worldwide from FTBC campaigns. CFDA Members have designed special FTBC branded or inspired merchandise, which was either sold or auctioned over the course of the campaign.

CFDA Scholarship Program
The CFDA scholarship program was created to award annual merit-based scholarship grants to students who study in a four-year, full-time college level design program. It has awarded $1,399,250 to students. The Geoffrey Beene Design Scholarship Award, the Liz Claiborne Design Scholarship Award, and the CFDA/Teen Vogue Scholarship Award in partnership with Target selected scholars from one of the CFDA's 20 participating design schools and donated $25,000 towards tuition and educational expenses. The awards are based solely on merit and judged by a panel of industry experts.

Current members
Notable CFDA Members include:

 Tom Ford
 Gladys Tamez
 Prabal Gurung
 Calvin Klein
 Michael Kors
 Alexander Wang (designer)
 Vera Wang
 Diane von Fürstenberg
 Tommy Hilfiger
 Gabriela Hearst
 Ralph Lauren

Publications
The CFDA has published the following books, listed in order by publish date:

 American Fashion Home
 American Travel

See also

 New York Fashion Week
 Arab Fashion Council
 British Fashion Council
 Fédération française de la couture
 National Chamber of Italian Fashion
 List of fashion awards

References

External links

 2008 CFDA Photo Gallery
 CFDA on The Sche Report

Arts organizations established in 1962
Fashion awards
Fashion organizations
Lifetime achievement awards

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Barbados: More than a Destination for Recreation
02/08/2021 12:58 PM | Sherry Lee (Administrator)
David D. Cutting, Honorary Consul General of Barbados, discusses Barbados as a business and investment destination.
The mention of the word Barbados conjures up in the minds of most people, an exotic island with flawless, white sandy beaches and the warm azure waters of the Caribbean Sea on its West Coast and the rolling waves of the East Coast fueled by the intoxicating trade winds coming across the Atlantic Ocean. This is all true in addition to wonderfully diverse choices of hotels, villas, and Airbnb's.
What is less well known about Barbados is that it is a thriving business jurisdiction. The country's commitment to transparency, information exchange and the enactment of anti-money laundering legislation places it among the most important and reputable financial centers in the world. Barbados is therefore considered to be a quality jurisdiction in which to live, play and do business.
Invest Barbados, an Agency of the Government, is responsible for promoting Barbados as a destination for Investment and a home for companies and businesses who are interested in embracing the unique range of advantages in this well-regulated business friendly environment. Barbados has a well-developed legal system, based on English Common Law and Statutes. It offers a wide range of investment opportunities in several areas including:
International Business, Financial and Insurance Services
High value-added ICT services
Niche Manufacturing/Medical Devices
Education and Knowledge Delivery
Tourism/Niche Medical Tourism
The compelling case for Barbados as an attractive jurisdiction is further supported by the following:
High international rankings
Strong human capital
High-quality infrastructure and technological readiness
Competitive tax rates
Captivating lifestyle
Outstanding professional services
Political, social, and economic stability
Expanding treaty network
Full and unrestricted repatriation of capital, profits, and dividends
Over the years Barbados has purposefully pursued an expanding treaty network and has double taxation agreements with over 40 countries as well as nine investment treaties in force. Under these agreements, Barbadian entities that invest in other contracting states benefit from provisions offering protections including guarantees of non-discriminatory treatment of their investments, the transfer of investments and returns held in the host state and recourse to international arbitration to settle disputes with the host state.
The government has employed a creative response to the current global pandemic which has stalled a hitherto burgeoning tourism business. The government introduced the novel "12-month Barbados Welcome Stamp" initiative. This offer to work remotely from paradise in Barbados, has attracted several applicants, including families, and is providing some relief for local hotels and property owners.
Barbados continues to warmly welcome visitors and investors. The island offers a nurturing environment from which business can excel.
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With 70 recipes covering breakfast, lunch, snacks and teatime, plus a guide to the basics of toasting and a photo for every single recipe, this is the ultimate gifty cookbook or self-purchase for toast addicts, expert chefs and novices alike.
It's toast. And it's posh. It's Posh Toast.


Two weeks from tonight, the Children's Cancer Center will host its first Wine, Women and Shoes event at the Renaissance Tampa International Plaza. This will be the ultimate girls night out, raising money for the Children's Cancer Center with the fine wine, fashion and shoes!
Emceed by Jayde Donovan from 101.5 HOT Mornings with Jayde, the show will feature music, shopping, tastings, a live auction, entertainment and a runway fashion show. The runway show will feature exclusive fashion from national and local retailers such as W by Worth, Urban Body Clothing, Penelope T and Andrew Ashton Couture Gowns.
Now let's talk about wine! Wine Women & Shoes will feature wineries from across the country, including a few of my favorites! Click here to see the participating vineyards. There will be amazing food, a social media lounge and entertainment from charming local Sole Men.
You will have an opportunity to shop at the walk-around boutique marketplace featuring local and national boutiques and designers. A portion of the proceeds from local retailers' sales during the event will benefit the Children's Cancer Center and 100% of ticket sales will go directly to the Center to help them support Tampa Bay families battling childhood cancer or chronic blood disorders.
If you are in the Tampa Bay area, come out and support this great cause. General Admission tickets are $75, VIP tickets are $125. Visit WWSTampa.com to purchase your ticket today.
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University of the Aegean - Forum Ανακοινώσεις Σχολών, Τμημάτων, Συλλόγων & Υπηρεσιών Ανακοινώσεις Σχολών & Τμημάτων (Μυτιλήνη) Τμήμα Γεωγραφίας
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Critical Theory in Dark times and the challenge of social emancipation.
Our dark times reveal that the questions raised by the Frankfurt School authors are still present in contemporary capitalism. Horkheimer and Adorno wrote in the Dialectics of the Enlightenment "what we had set out to do was nothing less than to understand why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new genre of barbarism". A central question for the authors of the Frankfurt School after the end of the Second World War, which in our time is more important than ever.
The global revival and/or emergence of fascism, the increasing of social inequality, injustice, structural and physical violence, the extermination of peoples and cultures, racism, environmental destruction: all are deadly consequences of capitalistic and neoliberal politics worldwide. In this dark age, new questions arise about the ways to think about utopia and social emancipation.
During the workshop an international group of ten scholars connected with the seminar "Subjetividad y Teoría Crítica" which takes place in the city of Puebla in Mexico will discuss the potential of Critical Theory not only meant as an analytic tool to study capitalist forms, but also as a possible theoretical frame to imagine a free world, beyond the boundaries shaped by the politics of identity.
NAMES OF THE PARTICIPANTS
Oliver Gabriel Hernández Lara. Professor of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México: Polarization, Dispersion and Crisis. The territorial struggles under the context of the urgency
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Women in black pants more likely to garner hot sex
by Rebecca Czaplewski
As the staple wardrobe piece of most young college women, black pants have been linked to an increase in what University researchers call "action."
After months of research at bars and dance clubs throughout the metro area, University officials said women wearing black pants were more likely to report incidents of "getting a piece."
"We've spent countless nights at many downtown bars, such as Brother's," said researcher Bill Gregory. "Our team can conclude, without a doubt, that women wearing black pants attracted more young, college-age men."
But the findings do hinge on some specifications for the pants.
They must be black and the fit of the pants is also a factor — as Gregory said, "the tighter, the better." Slightly flared pants also fared well in the report, along with those that hit just below the navel. Despite being the season's hottest trend, capri pants received mixed reviews.
The report might be making waves throughout the fashion world, but University women aren't surprised by the research.
"I've known that black pants were a magnet to guys since, like, the 11th grade," said sophomore Jessi Roberts. "My roommates and I totally always wear them when we use our fakes to go out to the bars."
Junior Dana Wagner agreed with Roberts' sentiments.
"I have about five or six pairs of them," Wagner said. "They're so versatile — when some drunk guy spills his beer on you, it just blends right in."
A closer look at University bars and dance clubs reveals that the drunken young men do indeed take notice of women in black pants.
"Yeah, I guess a lot of guys are attracted to chicks who wear black pants," said sophomore Lex Montgomery, who spent last Saturday night at Spanky's. "I probably got together with most of my past girlfriends because of that reason alone."
Montgomery added he had never had a girlfriend for more than a weekend.
Other than being versatile and attractive to the opposite sex, University women say black pants are simply a confidence-builder for a night out on the town.
"When I wear my new black pants from Express, all eyes are on me," said freshman Tracy Johnson-Holmes. "Every cute baseball hat-wearing, Tommy Hilfiger cologne-spritzing guy in the place will be looking at me."


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Ron Johnson Gets the Last Word When Biden Nominee Calls GOP Senator a 'White Supremacist' - Video
By Elizabeth Stauffer, The Western Journal February 10, 2022
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson's exchange at a Feb. 8 Senate confirmation hearing with Biden nominee Deborah Lipstadt was pure gold.
Lipstadt, a historian who has authored several books about the Holocaust, has been tapped to lead the State Department's Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. The Washington Post describes her as an "authority on antisemitism."
If confirmed, Lipstadt, 75, will serve in a diplomatic role, which is slightly ironic given the ease with which she insulted the senator from Wisconsin in a March 2021 tweet.
Speaking with radio host Joe Pagliarulo the previous day, Johnson said he had not been worried during the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion, but he would have been had the rioters been members of Black Lives Matter or antifa, according to Haaretz.
He told Pagliarulo: "I knew those were people who love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so I wasn't concerned."
"Now, had the tables been turned, and Joe — this is going to get me in trouble — had the tables been turned and President Trump won the election and tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa, I might have been a little concerned," the senator added.
Johnson came under vicious attack by the left following those remarks.
Attaching the Haaretz article, Lipstadt took to Twitter and wrote the following:
This is white supremacy/nationalism. Pure and simple. GOP Senator Johnson slammed as 'white nationalist sympathizer' after race remarks https://t.co/9vaBQsqK7J
— Deborah E. Lipstadt (@deborahlipstadt) March 14, 2021
Johnson began his exchange with Lipstadt by citing Biden's inaugural promise to "heal" the divisions in America and asked her if she thought he had been successful. She replied, "I think not. I think there are deep divisions."
He agreed. Next he told her about a hands-on program he had initiated with a Wisconsin pastor that has already transformed the lives of hundreds of people, the majority of them black.
"A way not to heal, I think, is what's happening on social media," Johnson said calmly. "It was interesting to hear [Senate Majority Leader] Sen. [Chuck] Schumer talk about the malicious poison … And it comes from across the political spectrum. We need to all condemn it.
"Let me ask you a question. If somebody came up to you privately, quietly and said, 'You're a racist. You're a white supremacist. You're a white nationalist.' By the way, I do not believe you are. I would never assume that because certainly growing up, when I was being taught the Commandment that says, 'Do not bear false witness,' my Lutheran catechism says, 'always put the best construction on things.' In other words, always assume the best about people."
"How would you feel if somebody just privately called you a racist?" he asked.
"First of all, I would say they're wrong. Second of all, I would disagree with them," Lipstadt responded. "And, as I said earlier, but I want to reiterate, that even in my critiques of people, I'm very careful never to ascribe to the person — ."
Johnson abruptly cuts her off and says, "I heard that. I thought that was interesting."
Do you think Lipstadt should be confirmed by the Senate?
No: 100% (25 Votes)
Then he goes for the jugular: "So you never criticize the person, but that's not true. What you just testified there is false. Because not only did you go on … First of all, you don't know me. You don't know a lot of the people that you have accused online in front of millions of people. You have engaged in the malicious poison. You've accused people you don't know of very vile things. Wouldn't you agree that probably calling somebody racist is just under murderer and rapist, calling somebody a racist? Isn't that about as serious and vile an accusation as you can hurl against somebody. Somebody you don't even know. You've never talked to me. You've never met me. You don't know what's in my heart, do you?"
She tells him she has no idea what's in his heart.
"So why would you go on social media and make those charges?" Johnson asks. "This position is supposed to be for a non-partisan. It seems like how you engage in malicious poison is purely partisan. You're hurling these charges against people that are generally of one political persuasion."
"Why did you go on social media and level these vile and horrible charges against people, including me, that you don't even know?
Lipstadt was clearly rattled and tried to deny it, but Johnson held up a copy of the tweet which shows precisely what she'd said.
He asked her if she felt bad about that.
"As I said earlier, it was not nuanced. I would not do diplomacy by tweet … I certainly did not mean it, and I'm sorry if it was taken — and I'm sorry if I made it in a way that it could be assumed to be a political — at the person personally."
"Listen, I appreciate your apology, and I'll accept your apology," the senator said. "But I think somebody that has had a 30-year professional career ought to know better, and when you're being nominated and considered for confirmation to a position of diplomacy representing these United States, I certainly cannot support your nomination. I hope my other colleagues won't either."
Johnson concluded, "You're just simply not qualified for it. I wish you the best in life, and I do accept your apology."
Talk about a TKO!
What a superb takedown of a liberal.
We're tired of hearing from Democrats that all Trump supporters are racists, white supremacists and domestic terrorists.
The left claims to be so enlightened, while they declare the right to be so vile and contemptible.
Democrats have played the race card so casually in today's world that it's begun to lose its power.
Americans, in large numbers, have begun to understand what's behind the liberals' incessant use of the race card. At its very essence, it's simply a tactic used for political gain. Denigrating Republicans as racists has increased their power.
But the tactic is becoming worn from overuse.
Leftists like Lipstadt put out their woke nonsense from behind the safety of their keyboards. The separation provided by social media has made the left very brazen. It's easy to cavalierly toss out labels on Twitter, but when pressed, face to face, and asked to explain their baseless accusations, liberals lose their boldness and begin stumbling and bumbling — as Lipstadt did when Johnson confronted her.
It's rare that someone gets the chance to respond in person to an individual who has baselessly attacked them online.
Sen. Johnson was lucky. When offered the opportunity to face his accuser, he pounced.
He proved that this woman didn't have the gall to say the same thing to him directly; he also proved she wasn't willing to stand behind her comments.
It's a shame more Twitter trolls aren't held to account like this.
At least this time, Johnson was the one who got the last word.
American left, biden-administration, liberal racism, race card, Racism, Twitter, white-supremacy
Elizabeth Stauffer, The Western Journal


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Lux Global Label Announces New Leadership
Lux Global Label has announced a series of leadership additions, including the appointment of Todd Kennedy as CEO and a member of the board of directors. The company has also announced the addition of two labeling and printing industry veterans, Robert Coleman and John Wurzburger, to its board of directors.
Prior to being named CEO of Lux Global Label, Kennedy served as CEO of The Kennedy Group, a producer of labeling solutions. for a variety of industries, including consumer products, food, beverage, material handling, manufacturing, automotive and household chemicals as well as media and promotions companies. The Kennedy Group also is a co-investor in Lux Global Label with Resilience Capital Partners and LBC Credit Partners.
"There is tremendous opportunity for Lux Global Label, a recognized innovator in the labeling and printing industry with an unmatched, 103-year history of serving customers around the globe," Kennedy says.
With the addition of Coleman and Wurzburger, both former Avery Dennison executives, Lux Global Label now has a six member board of directors.
"These leadership additions demonstrate that we are already ahead of plan and, within 60 days, have completed operational improvement initiatives that will enable Lux Global Label to build upon a century of excellence in the labeling industry," says Steven H. Rosen, Co-CEO of Resilience Capital Partners and a member of Lux Global Label's board of directors.
Lux Global Label is the newly formed holding company that purchased certain assets from National Label, a 103-year-old global leader in the labeling industry. The establishment of Lux Global Label was announced by Resilience Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm, in April.
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Q: SQL Server 2008 R2: Update with condition Table: Dots
CREATE TABLE dots
(
    cola VARCHAR(50),
    NAME VARCHAR(10),
);

Insertion:
INSERT INTO dots VALUES('59.96.12.563','');
INSERT INTO dots VALUES('594.966.127.5683','');
INSERT INTO dots VALUES('5998.8896.4412.22563','');
INSERT INTO dots VALUES('791','');
INSERT INTO dots VALUES('891','');
INSERT INTO dots VALUES('691','');

Note: Now I want to update the NAME column in the table Dots to the value IP for those records who contains the 3 dots on it in column Cola. For example as shown below in the expected result.
Result:
Cola                    NAME
--------------------------------
59.96.12.563            IP
594.966.127.5683        IP
5998.8896.4412.22563    IP
791
891
691

A: Try the below code snippet -
UPDATE dots SET Name = 'IP'
WHERE (LEN(cola) - LEN(REPLACE(cola, '.', ''))) / LEN('.')  = 3

A: Try this:
UPDATE dots
  SET   NAME = 'IP'
  WHERE cola LIKE '%.%.%.%'

A: The correct way of checking would be using LIKE, this will check for exactly 3 dots:
WHERE
  cola like '%.%.%.%'
  and cola not like '%.%.%.%.%'

If you fancy the REPLACE method. This is the correct syntax:
 WHERE
   LEN(REPLACE(cola, '.', '.X')) - LEN(cola) = 3

The reason is that
LEN(cola) - LEN(REPLACE(cola, '.', '')) = 3

Will fail in case the text ends with space period.
Example:
SELECT LEN(REPLACE('.  .', '.', ''))

Returns 0 indication there are 4 dots in the text.
This may not be an issue since the spaces are probably not existing in your IP addresses.


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The results of treatment of patients with urolithiasis by Renotinex® in early postoperative period DOI: 10.29188/2222-8543-2020-13-4-35-40
For citation: Kotov S.V., Nemenov A.A., Boeva I.D. Results of the application of the herbal complex Renotinex® in patients with urolithiasis in the early postoperative period. Experimental and Clinical Urology 2020(4):35-40. https://doi.org/10.29188/2222-8543-2020-13-4-35-40
S.V. Kotov, A.A. Nemenov, I.D. Boeva
Kotov S.V. – Dr.Sc., Head of the Department of Urology and Andrology, Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogova, Head of the University Clinic of Urology, Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogova, chief specialist of Medsi in the field of «Urology»; Moscow, https://doi.org/0000-0003-3764-6131
Nemenov A.A. – senior laboratory assistant at the Department of Urology and Andrology, Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogova; Moscow, Russia
Boeva I.D. – 2nd year resident at the Department of Urology and Andrology, Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov; Moscow, Russia
Introduction. The article analyzes the results of the clinical application of the herbal complex Renotinex®, which helps to normalize the function of the urinary tract, reduce pain, remove small stones from the kidneys and reduce the risk of recurrent stone formation.
Materials and methods. At the University Clinic of Urology, Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov, a prospective, single-center, randomized study was carried out from November 2019 to March 2020. All patients underwent contact ureterolithotripsy. The patients were divided evenly into 2 groups: group A (n = 30) – patients receiving Renotinex® from the first day after surgery (within 1 month), and group B (n = 30) – a control group of patients not receiving specific therapy.
Results. After 1 month of continuous use of the drug, there was an increase in the percentage of calculi discharge after contact ureterolithotripsy, a decrease in the severity of pain, normalization of the temperature curve and the absence of subfebrile condition in all patients.
Conclusion. Renotinex® has a lithokinetic effect, its active ingredients contribute to the prevention of infectious and inflammatory complications of urolithiasis.
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Keywords: urolithiasis, ureterolithotripsy, terpenes, Renotinex®.
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Meredith Ann Pierce Books In Order
Publication Order of Darkangel Trilogy Books
The Darkangel (1982) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A Gathering of Gargoyles (1984) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Pearl of the Soul of the World (1990) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Firebringer Books
Birth of the Firebringer (1985) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Dark Moon (1992) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Son of Summer Stars (1996) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Woman Who Loved Reindeer (1985) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Where the Wild Geese Go (1988) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood (2001) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Collections
Waters Luminous and Deep (2004) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Meredith Ann Pierce is an American young adult, fantasy, and science fiction author best known for the "Firebringer" and "Darkangel" series of novels. She is known for writing novels in the fantasy world in mythical settings. However, she often goes against convention by writing in young women who wish to be loved and love. These women usually face all manner of dangers and hazards as they try to save their world and their way of life and will usually not receive recognition or respect for their efforts until much later in the story. Born in Seattle in Washington, Pierce went to the University of Florida from where she got her bachelor's and masters before she went to Florida State University, where she graduated with an MLS. She now works a 9-5 as a librarian and writes in the night and during the weekends. When she is not writing her novels, she can be found playing her harp and composing music. She currently lives in her solar-powered house in the small town of Micanopy, Florida.
Pierce developed her creativity and imagination when she would entertain herself as a child. As a child, she loved collecting stuffed animals and at some point, she imagined herself living in an alternate world with her stuffed animals. She played with everything she could get her hands on whether it was animate or inanimate. She was always imagining herself in a different setting and she asserts that it felt like she was doing role-playing games in the mold of "Dungeons and Dragons" though such types of games were yet to be invented. Meredith Pierce was also a voracious reader of books and these played a significant role in fueling her imagination, as she was already reading at the library by the time she was three years old. She particularly remembers "Alice in Wonderland "by Lewis Carroll that became almost like a religion for the budding author. It became wired into her psyche as it was introduced into her system even before her bodily immune system was fully developed. As such, her early influences and the creative mythology, she came up with as a child often inspire many of her characters and storylines. She has said that some of the stuff from the likes of "The Wizard of Oz" and "Alice in Wonderland" made a huge impact on the impressionable girl she was and hence became an inseparable part of her thinking.
By the time she was a student in junior high school, Meredith was spending much of her time in the adult section of her school's library. She would constantly pen stories and ideas she had, but never once did she think of making a career as an author of fiction novels. For her parents, writing was something that they saw as an obsessive hobby, and given this attitude, she pretended not to like it so much and found a career that was more acceptable to them. But while she was at the University of Florida, she went to the creative writing class and it was here that her teachers opened her eyes to the opportunities available in professional authorship. They also encouraged and nurtured her enthusiasm and talent. During her studies at the University of Florida, she was required to hand in something worthy of submission to a publisher at the end of the school term. Once the teacher had looked over the story, Pierce mailed off the manuscript for what would become "The Darkangel" her debut novel. She submitted it to seven publishers and it was finally published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1982, soon after she graduated from college.
"The Darkangel" by Meredith Ann Pierce is the intriguing story of "The Darkangel." Once upon a time, he was a mortal with some characteristics of a vampire though he is not yet come into his full powers. To become fully vampire, attain immortality and unlimited power, he needs to bed 14 brides. His wives live in his cold castle since he has taken their souls leaving them cold wraiths while he wears their souls in lead vials that he walks around with. When he kidnaps Eoduin, her friend and slave Aerial vows to avenge her and lies in wait or the time the Darkangel comes around looking for another victim. But when he reappears, she finds that he is too handsome that she just cannot kill him. She thinks she is destined to be one of his wives but he dismisses the idea saying she is too unattractive or him. Instead of making her his bride, he brings her back to his home as a servant that will make the clothes for his fourteenth bride. In the dungeons beneath the castle is Talb, a little magician who takes pity on Aerial and helps her make it through the first few months. He keeps her company when the souls of the brides make too loud of a din and also offers her food. Being the gentle soul that she is, she soon makes friends with the gargoyles the Darkangel has in the dungeons and comes to love and even feed them. It is not long before she is friends with Darkangel and who knows what will happen as things progress.
Meredith Ann Pierce's "A Gathering of Gargoyles" continues with the fascinating look into the life and times of Aerial. She is a brave young woman that has decided to stand against a dark evil threatening to take over her world. She had cut out her heart and offered it to Irrylath the Darkangel and believes she has found a way to save his soul and save her world from the evil and vicious White Witch. They had finally managed to break the curse that had been placed on Darkangel and head to Irrylath's childhood home. It is the place where Dirna his nursemaid had sold him to the White Witch in exchange for power and life. Back home, Darkangel finds his true brothers, his mother, and finally claims his birthright as heir to the land and eldest son. But even though their Esternese kin welcomes them with open arms, things are not so easy. Irrylath still has to deal with horrible nightmares and begins withdrawing from Aerial's compassion and touch. Upon further investigation, Aerial discovers that her husband is still in the clutches of the White Witch. To save the man she loves from the Witch she needs to go on a perilous quest and solve a hidden, and ancient puzzle.
Meredith Pierce's "The Pearl of the Soul of the World" is the last of the Darkangel Trilogy. Aerial had given her heart to Irrylath her husband to ensure that he did not have to live as a true Darkangel. Since then she has been on a quest to solve an ancient riddle. She has been through the vast seas hoping to save her world and husband from the White Witch that is still interested in making her husband a Darkangel. She has finally managed to bring together an army powerful enough and she believes she has the firepower to defeat the Witch. But then her memories are lost when she is run through the cruel pin by the Witch. She now needs to go on a quest to NuRavenna the great city and get a precious pearl that she will use to save her world and stop the Witch.
Book Series In Order » Authors » Meredith Ann Pierce
Bernard Cornwell attempted to enlist in the British armed services at least three times, but was rejected on the grounds of myopia.


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Home > Resources > News > Latest News > One in three European and Central Asian LGBTI organisations received no external funding in 2017
One in three European and Central Asian LGBTI organisations received no external funding in 2017
Report 'Funding for LGBTI Activism in Europe and Central Asia launched' by ILGA-Europe and the Global Philanthropy Project.
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Posted: 6 February 2019
Research carried out by ILGA-Europe and the Global Philanthropy Project reveals one in three LGBTI organisations in Europe and Central Asia received no external funding in 2017.
The report shows that the most important strategies identified by activists are poorly funded. These strategies include countering populist and right-wing movements, providing emergency support and supporting LGBTI communities.
"In the current socio-political context, LGBTI people and activists are often at the forefront of suffering from rising populism and extremism. But LGBTI activists who are working to resist from groups and institutions a rollback of rights, protections and equal opportunities across the region, are doing so with a lack of sufficient resources." notes ILGA-Europe Programmes Director Björn van Roozendaal.
It is increasingly clear that backlash against equality and threats to civil society support are no longer limited to Eastern Europe, but are also occurring across Western Europe.
Recent examples include public manifestations of transphobia trying to block access to human rights for trans people in the UK, an attack on a LGBT centre in Barcelona by right-wing extremists and an orthodox declaration against the human rights of LGBTI people in the Netherlands.
"Overall resources and capacity in the region don't match the challenges at hand, thereby increasing the potential that we could rapidly lose ground. This is why there is an urgent need for governments and other funders to step up their support and make sure civil society groups get access to more and better funding across Europe. And that they do so now." added van Roozendaal.
The data also points to several areas of organising that can help respond against the backlash, including supporting LGBTI groups working who work with underrepresented groups within the LGBTI community, such as trans and intersex people, as well as LGBTI migrants and refugees.
The new report compares the key findings from ILGA Europe's 2018 Funding for LGBTI Activism in Europe and Central Asia: Priorities and Access to Resources [7] report with a deeper-dive analysis of European and Central Asian grantmaking data from the 2015-2016 Global Resources Report:
Philanthropic and Government Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Communities [8].
For more information, contact ILGA-Europe media team at media@ilga-europe.org [9] or Programmes Director Björn van Roozendaal [10] at +32 49 762 5322
Source URL: https://www.ilga-europe.org/resources/news/latest-news/new-report-funding-comparing-priorities
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[4] https://www.ilga-europe.org/tags/funders
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Baseball: Spartans rally against Trojans
Champ Robinson
Gonzales varsity baseball head coach Erik Lopez stood with his team huddled around him in shallow right field on the Alisal baseball diamond beaming with pride.
His Spartans – trailing 4-0 in the top of the sixth inning – forced extra innings and scored two runs in the top of the eighth to beat the Trojans 6-4 to start the 2017 season for Gonzales.
The come-from-behind win for Gonzales was no surprise to Lopez, however.
"That was kind of what we did a lot of last year," Lopez said of the comeback. "They just finished. That's what we didn't do last year, but that's our plan this year, to finish games."
Pedro Villacana took the hill for Gonzales and threw four innings while allowing four runs.
The trouble began in the bottom of the first inning for Villacana as Alisal starting pitcher Raul Garnica sent an RBI single to center field to give the Trojans a 1-0 lead.
In the bottom of the second, Villacana and the Spartans would find themselves in more trouble as Josiah Ramos would drive in two runs with a single to give Alisal a 3-0 lead.
The Trojans would add their fourth run of the game in the bottom of the fourth as the Spartans defense attempted to turn a double play with one out.
The relay to first would skip to the fence in foul territory as Sergio Sandoval raced home for a 4-0 Alisal lead that the Trojans would take into the fifth inning.
Lopez said Villacana's outing wasn't indicative of how well the right-hander can pitch.
"Our defense was kind of shaky in the beginning, but with Pedro, he's always going to be in the strike zone and he's always going to get outs."
In the top of the fifth, Lopez would hand the ball to senior right-hander Elijah Rodriguez.
Lopez said Rodriguez will see an increased role in pitching this year after they gave him opportunities last season.
"We brought him in (during) some crucial situations and he came through for us," Lopez said. "We went into this season knowing if we have a game on the line, he's getting the ball.
"That's the type of player he is. That's the type of character he has and he didn't disappoint."
Rodriguez would keep Alisal off the scoreboard in the fifth inning and the scoreless frame would pay dividends in the top of the sixth for Gonzales.
After recording the first out in the top of the sixth, Garnica would walk Xando Mendez and Rodriguez to give the Spartans runners on first and second with one out.
That would end Garnica's day as Ruben Gomez was brought in for relief. After runners moved up on a wild pitch from Gomez, it was Villacana who pushed the first run across for Gonzales with an RBI single to make it 4-1. Villacana would advance to second on the throw home to prevent the second run from scoring and the Spartans were far from finished in the inning.
Alejandro Madrigal would drive in Gonzales' second run of the inning with an RBI single to make it 4-2. Three batters later, after a Colt Rubbo walk to make it a 4-3 game, Gonzalo Villagomez would tie the game up at 4-4 with an RBI single.
Rodriguez would allow two hits over the next two innings against Alisal to send the game into the eighth inning where the Spartans would strike again.
With two on and no out after a walk and hit batter, Alisal brought in Sal Lopez to try and get the Trojans out of the jam.
Lopez would induce a ground ball to second base for a double play opportunity, but the relay to first skipped to the fence in foul territory as Rubbo raced home for a 5-4 lead.
Later in the inning, Marc Godinez would send a sac fly to center field that would score Giovanni Garcia to make it a 6-4 Gonzales game heading into the bottom of the eighth.
Alisal would stage a rally of its own as they would have the bases loaded and one out with the top of the order coming up.
Rodriguez and the Spartans defense would answer the call.
After a flyout to right field for the second out of the inning by J.C. Maravillo, Rodriguez would get Josiah Ramos to pop out to Rubbo at shortstop to end the game.
Rodriguez said he was happy to come through for his team and help secure the win.
"Knowing I can trust myself (in big situations) and my coaches trusting me, that builds my confidence a whole lot more. I feel like I'm smarter on the mound."
Looking back the the Spartan's four-run sixth inning, Lopez said he talked to his team before the start of the inning and let them know that their bats needed to come alive.
"I told them, 'If you got to kiss them, talk to them, do whatever you got to do to wake those bats up,' " Lopez said. "We struggled in the beginning but the way they've been working throughout the whole preseason, this is the type of team that they are and they're not going to give up."
Gonzales (1-0) travels to Seaside on Saturday in a matchup between two schools with the Spartans name.
For Gonzales to come out with another win, Lopez said it will happen by just building off what they did against Alisal.
"They don't make too many mistakes," Lopez said of Seaside. "They put the ball in play and got pitching. We're going to have to start a little better next game. If we can just do what we did today, we're going to be OK."
Alisal
WP: Rodriguez. LP: Gomez. Gonzales: Villagomez 2-2, RBI; Villacana 1-4, RBI; Madrigal 1-3, RBI. Alisal: Maravillo 2-4; Ramos 1-4, 2 RBI; Garnica 1-3, RBI.


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Bin-Laden Neutralized & Al-Qaeda Restrained; US Has Achieved Its Afghan Objective – Blinken
By Raina Preeti
US Secretary Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg held a Joint Press Conference where they discussed Afghanistan.
Blinken said – It's very good to be back here at NATO just a few weeks after my first visit as Secretary of State, particularly for such an important day in the history of our alliance.
Blinken further said – Twenty years ago, after the United States was attacked on 9/11, this alliance invoked Article 5 for the first time in its history. An attack on one is an attack on all. Together, we went to Afghanistan to root out al-Qaida and prevent future terrorist attacks from Afghanistan directed at our homelands. Now, we will leave Afghanistan together and bring our troops home.
President Biden just laid out our plan in detail in a speech to the American people.
And as you heard and as Jens just noted, we'll begin our troop withdrawal by May 1st and we'll complete it before the 20th anniversary of 9/11 later this year.
After years of saying that we will leave at some point, that time has come. The threat from al-Qaida in Afghanistan is significantly degraded. Osama bin Laden has been brought to justice. We have achieved our original objective.
PM Suga welcomes Sec Blinken and Austin March 2021 – Wikimedia Commons
And we don't believe that maintaining an indefinite troop presence in Afghanistan is in our interests – not for the United States, not for NATO and our allies. The world has changed dramatically over the last 20 years, and as you heard the President say, we have to adjust our strategy to meet the threats of 2021, not 2001, and take on the challenges that now demand our focus and resources.
The United States and our allies will coordinate closely on our next steps. We have always said, as the secretary-general noted, that our plan was "in together, adjust together, out together." And today, we began to hammer out what "out together" looks like. We will withdraw our troops responsibly, deliberately, safely.
Let me be clear: Even with our troops home, we as an alliance and the United States as a country will continue to invest in and support the Afghan people and their chosen leaders.
We'll also remain vigilant against any possibility that the threat of terrorism re-emerges in Afghanistan. We'll reorganize our counterterrorism capabilities to stay on top of that. We'll also hold the Taliban accountable to its commitments to keep al-Qaida or any terrorist organization from using Afghanistan as a base for attacks against us.
We'll pursue a durable and just political settlement between the Government of Afghanistan and the Taliban. And we'll engage other countries that have a major stake in a stable future for Afghanistan and will now have to step up after years of NATO underwriting stability.
We'll continue to support the Government of Afghanistan and provide assistance to the Afghan Security Forces who have fought and continue to fight valiantly and at great cost on behalf of their country.
And we'll keep investing in the well-being of the Afghan people. We'll bring our diplomatic and development resources to bear to protect and build upon the gains that the Afghan people have made in recent years. We'll continue support for the rights of Afghan women and girls, minorities advocating for their meaningful participation in the ongoing negotiations and their equal representation throughout society, and we'll maintain significant humanitarian assistance to those in need.
In short, bringing our troops home does not mean ending our relationship with Afghanistan or our support for the country. And as Jens said, this will be the start of a new chapter grounded in diplomacy – just like our relationships with other countries. The future of Afghanistan ultimately is in the hands of the Afghan people, where it belongs. But our support, our engagement, and our determination remain.
Let me just also take a moment to acknowledge the extraordinary courage and strength of the troops who have served in Afghanistan over the past 20 years. At its height, the International Security Assistance Force had troops from 50 NATO and partner countries.
Today, Resolute Support has troops from 35 NATO Allies and partners. Our service members risked their lives, lost their lives in this effort, but we have succeeded in achieving the objective that we set out to achieve thanks to them, and we honor their service and their sacrifice.
I also have to say that the United States will never forget the solidarity that our NATO Allies have shown every step of the way. No country could have achieved what we achieved as an Alliance working together. And as my friend Secretary Austin can attest, these years in Afghanistan have transformed our troops and our countries in ways that we will be reflecting and acting on for a long time to come.
On a separate note, as the Secretary-General said, we also spent some time today talking about the deep concern that Allies share about Russia and its actions on the borders of Ukraine, the largest concentration of forces there since 2014. And what was striking to me was, in the North Atlantic Council meeting, listening to every single ally, all 30 of us, express those concerns and a determination to see Russia take steps to de-escalate the tensions that it is creating.
Our conversations today here at NATO are just the start of the intensive planning that our countries will do together over the next several months. We are grateful to our Allies; we're grateful to you, Mr. Secretary General, for your leadership, as we undertake this historic transition together.
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Q: unix nohup sqlplus not working Trying to run all of the sql scripts in one NOHUP command. Below is my code. But, it is not running in nohup mode based on the below.  There are no errors either.  How do I run all of the below in one NOHUP command??
nohup sqlplus -S /NOLOG << %EOF% > engine_error.log
WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT 1;
@$Level2/passFile server05
@engine_check.sql $stroke1 $bore1
@engine_start.sql
%EOF% &

A: Try putting this in a script and then nohup the script. The nohup is probably getting confused because of the command.
#!/usr/bin/env
#query.sh
sqlplus -S /NOLOG << %EOF% > engine_error.log
WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT 1;
@$Level2/passFile server05
@engine_check.sql $stroke1 $bore1
@engine_start.sql
EOF

Then in your shell try doing this
nohup query.sh &

A: When you have a script that must start some background jobs, make a script that starts functions with & and nohup your script.
When your script startit.sh looks like
function f1 {
   echo "f1 start"
   sleep 2
   echo "f1 end"
}

function f2 {
   echo "f2 start"
   sleep 1
   echo "f2 end"
}

function f3 {
   echo "f3 start"
   sleep 1
   cat <<END
f3 start here
more f3
f3 end here
END
   echo "f3 end"
}

f1 &
f2
f3 &

call nohup startit.sh.

A: Problem is "&" (or any sign) in same line with EndOfMessage-String.
"EOF &" is not equal to "EOF" -> "inline script" is still waiting for "EOF".
A line with only the defined string after "<<" can finalize the "inline script":