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He writes, Overseas Property Alert, a weekly eletter covering market information and updates
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Part-Time Colombia & Portugal Expat
Still traveling and attending LIOS conferences.
Splitting the majority of my time between Lagos, Portugal and Medellin, Colombia.
Looking forward to my Marriott Hotel room on Ambergris Caye and scuba diving when there.
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Full-Time Panama Expat
With over 30 years' experience of globetrotting, courtesy of the U.S. Navy, Dusty decided it was time for a change. Retiring from the Navy, Dusty next became a professor for the Ventura Community College District before going to work with a big box retailer.
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He is a Sagittarius who personifies his birth sign. He explored 47 states and 35 countries before finding "home" in Valencia, Spain at the age of 65.
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Director, Abruzzo Rural Property
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After graduation, she did her postgraduate studies in the UK, achieving a master's degree in technical translation. During her three years in England, she began to develop a passion for the countryside and country properties.
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Q: Is there a way to use the String replace() Method to replace anything Something like
sentence.replace(*, "newword")
(which doesn't work, btw)
Let's say
sentence = "hello world"
return sentence.replace(*, "newworld")
should return "newword newword"

A: Since you aren't going to be replacing a specific word, str.replace() won't really support any kind of pattern-matching.
However, you could use the re.sub() function that will allow you to pass in a Regular Expression that would match everything and replace it :
import re
# Replace each series of non-space characters [^\s]+ with "newword"
sentence = re.sub('[^\s]+','newword',sentence)

Example
You can find a complete interactive example of this here and demonstrated below :

A: What you're looking for is a word replace. So instead of string.replace which replaces characters, you want something that will replace all words.
>>> sentence = "hello world this is my sentence"
>>> " ".join(["newword"] * len(sentence.split()))
'newword newword newword newword newword newword'

In the above case we're spiting the sentence into a list of it's words and simple making another list of words "newword" of the same length. Finally we're joining the new words together with the " " character in between them

A: If you care about speed, just crafting the string manually seems to be twice as fast:
In [8]: import re

In [9]: sentence = "hello world this is my sentence"

In [10]: nonspace = re.compile('[^\s]+')

In [11]: %timeit re.sub(nonspace, 'newword', sentence)
100000 loops, best of 3: 6.28 µs per loop

In [12]: %timeit ' '.join('newword' for _ in xrange(len(sentence.split())))
100000 loops, best of 3: 2.52 µs per loop

In [13]: sentence *= 40  # Make the sentence longer

In [14]: %timeit re.sub(nonspace, 'newword', sentence)
10000 loops, best of 3: 70.6 µs per loop

In [15]: %timeit ' '.join('newword' for _ in xrange(len(sentence.split())))
10000 loops, best of 3: 30.2 µs per loop

And join is actually faster when you hand it a list, so ' '.join(['newword' for _ in xrange(len(sentence.split()))]) should result in some performance improvements (it caches the result in my informal %timeit tests, so I didn't include it)

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Man United Supporters Thread (Part 51)
Fergie86 Posts: 5,833
06/02/19 - 18:18 #4502
toastie15 wrote: »
snafu65 wrote: »
See OGS attended Vincent Kompany's fundraising event for the homeless. Another bit of class from Ole. 👏
Yep and Phelan touch of class by them both.
Yes it was, I wonder if Lou Macari was their as he has opened a homeless shelter in both Manchester and Stoke to provide food and beds for people who don't have a home and to help them to get of alcohol and drugs. Macari can sometimes come across as a bit miserable(probably due to his own sons death) but he is also doing his fair share and deserves some praise as well.
Also as today is the 6th of February RIP to all those who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster.
Michael_Vaughan Posts: 4,928
LFC supporter here in peace.
Rest In Peace to the Busby Babes and all who perished on that terrible day.
JimVic Posts: 60
Michael_Vaughan wrote: »
Thanks a million for that mate.
toastie15 Posts: 3,025
08/02/19 - 08:31 edited 08/02/19 - 08:32 #4505
Phil Jones has also signed a new deal to 2023!!!
f_196 Posts: 11,803
Safe to say it's gone down like the heaviest of lead balloons on Twitter.
The immediate response to the club's post is savage.
I hope it's just a retainer for backup. If not, ****!
Flukie Posts: 40,429
a lucky boy to be paid a fortune for another 4 years doing little.
He's one I was hoping we'd get rid of. He'll spend most of that time being injured. He's spent most of his United career out injured.
He's also always a disaster waiting to happen.
33 year old Young and now Jones. Depressing. I was hoping we'd build to a settled back 4 we can rely on for years. Obviously not.
Tribec Posts: 8,620
I hate to tempt fate by saying this with tomorrow in mind, but Jones has probably been our best centre half behind Lindleof this year and also played some real decent stuff last year around the start of the year. He has his moments, just as anyone does, but when he's actually doing OK he's a very decent defender. I'm happy to have him in our squad for sure, if he can be injury free and develop the partnership with Lindleof then we may have a pairing, I'm not saying we don't need a new centre half, but you all know which of the current lot I feel needs getting rid of to make that space.
Phil Jones has signed a new deal until 2033, it is like the nightmare will never end, he did is not good enough for United
Tribec wrote: »
Someone once put up the hard facts about Jones - how many games he's played against how long he's been out injured. I can't remember the figures but I remember the reactions from people to find he's spent the majority of his time injured.
Some people actually think this is a ploy to get more money for him in the summer?! Lol
Any club who would want him can see his injury record. Why would th e y want to pay over the odds for such a player?
Like I said, he's a lucky boy. Maybe it's in honour of fergie who of course said Jones could be United's best ever player.
Fergie86 wrote: »
He might well be good enough. He's just never been fit enough in the 8 seasons he's been at united to find out. And as he has been there that long the people who opinions matter obviously think he is good enough.
He's also a disaster waiting to happen, and he's even injured a few players in training!
mindset Posts: 23,484
The local glue factory must be double-booked.
Jesus H. Christ.
mindset wrote: »
The medics must have begged for him to stay. He must be part of the furniture in the treatment room, so the thought of losing him must be too much for them to bear!
I just looked up Jones injury record and the number of games he has missed each season.
There is a miracle in there - not one game missed in his first season, 11/12. Maybe he didn't play much in his first season cos even in his last season at Blackburn when he was only 18, he missed 12 games.
Between the seasons 12/13 and 17/18 Jones has missed 114 games. That's 3 seasons worth of games.
In 15/16 alone he missed 33. He missed 23 in 16/17, 13 last season and he's even missed 5 so far this season.
In his early days at united, after that miracle first season, he missed 24 games in 12/13, and 13 games in 14/15. His most injury free season apart from the first, was the moyes season when he missed 8.
114 games in 6 seasons (less the 5 so far this season) that's literally 3 premier league seasons worth of games he's been injured.
And the club has given him another 4 years.
He must think all his birthdays have come at once!
NorthernNinny Posts: 18,340
Amongst one of the biggest and dumbest decisions since Fergie left and the competition is strong!
Been stealing a living for years!
Jim De Ville Posts: 12,206
I've got no problem with Jones being given a new contract.
We're pretty much nailed-on to bring in a centre-half in the summer, and Lindelof seems to have found his feet, this season. Having Jones around as an option doesn't bother me. If we do decide to move him on, we'll get a bit more money than we would have.
Don't really understand why some are so worked up about it.
snafu65 Posts: 10,193
Well Fellaini signed a new deal last Summer and he's gone now, so I'm not too perturbed by it. Doubt he'll still be at Utd in 2023.
I do hope for his sale that ole had little to do with the young and Jones decisions or it'll take some of the shine off his halo! Lol
Jones will spend most of the time injured anyway, so it's not really an issue.
Felli got an extra year, not the same thing. Jones injury record would probably put off most clubs anyway.
Flukie wrote: »
I doubt it. I suspect that most of the clubs below the top 6 would be interested. Wilshere's injury record didn't put off West Ham, and his is much worse than Jones'.
Jim De Ville wrote: »
Not convinced we will get a CB now whatsoever!
Being injured means he can't mess up again, so there is that!
Jamesp84 Posts: 16,609
Ashley Young has a 1 year deal and we'll either sign a right back or give Dalot more game time. He can also cover multiple positions.
I'm failing to understand the outrage tbh.
And as for Jones, personally I think it's quite fitting that days after the Munich anniversary, we've given an extended contract to the next Duncan Edwards.
Jamesp84 wrote: »
No issue with Young but Jones is a lummox.
Do you honestly think that Jones wanted that sort of comment made about him and that sort of expectation put on him when he joined? If you are bringing that sort of comment here, you are essentially calling Sir Alex rather than Jones and we know that sort of thing doesn't end well.
The other thing is it sounds as if people think that Jones enjoys and goes out to get injured. Another player who gave it there all, who often got injured due to having to recover from being caught out of position or simply by trying to hard was Bryan Robson. No one brings his poor injury record up for discussion and that wasn't helped either by his heavy drinking that ultimately cost others as well. Let's be fair to Jones here, since Fergie left when have we had a centre back that could remain fit, every one of them have been on the physio's table at any one time. Rojo, Bailly, Smalling, Jones have all got season tickets to the rehab lounge. Before them it was Rio and Vidic at the back end of the careers and Evans had a couple of injuries as I recall a few comments about his injury record as well in here.
yaristaman Posts: 1,340
That WOULD be a nightmare
Not overly upset about it. As injury prone as he can be, I have no issues with him as a backup defender. Would not be happy if he was there as a first choice CB though but we have Bailly, Lindelof and (hopefully) A N Other who would be ahead of him.
As Jim De Ville said, wouldn't be a surprise if we were able to offload him to another club anyway. One of the promoted teams is always likely to be where the likes of Huddersfield and Fulham find themselves at the moment. They can do a lot worse than getting an experienced defender in during one of the windows.

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In re Plains Exploration & Production Co. S'holder Litig., Consol. C.A. No. 8090-VCN (Del. Ch. May 9, 2013) (Noble)
In this opinion, the Court of Chancery denied the motion of stockholders of Plains Exploration & Production Company ("Plains") to enjoin preliminarily the proposed merger (the "Merger") between Plains and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. ("Freeport") on the grounds that Plains' board of directors (the "Board") breached its fiduciary duties by allegedly failing to (1) obtain the best sales price available for Plains from Freeport and (2) provide adequate disclosures in the definitive proxy (the "Proxy") so that Plains' stockholders could make a fully informed vote on the Merger.
On December 5, 2012, Plains and Freeport entered into a merger agreement (the "Merger Agreement") under which Plains' stockholders will receive, for each share of Plains common stock, 0.6531 shares of Freeport common stock (the "Exchange Ratio") and $25 in cash. The Merger consideration was initially $50 per share, but since the Merger was announced, the market price of Freeport's stock has declined significantly. In a separate transaction, Freeport is to acquire McMoRan Exploration Co. ("McMoRan")—of which Plains owns 31.3% of the outstanding shares—for per-share consideration of $14.75 cash and 1.15 units of a royalty trust that will hold a 5% overriding royalty interest in future production of certain McMoRan ultra-deep exploration properties.
In early 2012, James Flores, Plains' CEO and Chairman, and James Moffett, Freeport's Chairman, had initial discussions about a potential combination of Plains, Freeport, and McMoRan. Flores informed the Plains Board in April of these preliminary conversations. The Board notified Barclays PLC ("Barclays"), Plains' long-time advisor, of Freeport's expressed interest. More discussions were held in late April, and, in early May, Barclays gave a presentation to the Board about a potential combination. By late May, Freeport and McMoRan each had appointed special committees to consider the potential transactions. Plains did not form a special committee. The Plains Board considered the possible combination over the summer, and never sought any other potential acquirers or potential business combinations. The Board had determined to either pursue Freeport's expression of interest or continue as a stand-alone company.
On September 12, 2012, Plains, without notifying Freeport, agreed to acquire various oil and gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico for more than $6 billion (the "Gulf of Mexico Transaction"). The transaction was to be financed largely by debt. Upon learning of the transaction, Freeport offered to assist with financing the acquisition, but Plains rejected the offer. Flores then informed Freeport's special committee that Plains was terminating discussions with Freeport so that it could focus on its newly acquired properties. Not discouraged, Freeport's special committee asked Flores to attend a previously scheduled meeting and make a presentation on the Gulf of Mexico Transaction. Thereafter, Freeport continued to pursue a merger and, although Flores had called off such a transaction, he nonetheless reengaged in discussions with Freeport's special committee in late October.
On November 1, 2012, Freeport offered $47 per share for Plains, half in stock and half in cash. Freeport indicated its desire to retain Plains' management to ensure the future success of its existing operations. In considering the offer, the Board received a preliminary financial analysis from Barclays, which opined that a price around $50 per share would be fair. The Board responded with a counteroffer of $55 per share, with one-third in cash and two-thirds in Freeport common stock. Flores also attempted to seek an equity "kicker" through a royalty trust. Barclays proposed the possibility of using a collar to protect against any drop in Freeport's stock price, but this option was not implemented by the Board. Freeport made a counteroffer of $49 per share, in equal amounts cash and stock. Freeport was unwilling to offer more than half the merger consideration in its stock. At numerous times throughout November, the Board met with management and its financial and legal advisors to discuss the potential merger. Eventually, the parties agreed to a price of $50 per share, with Plains' stockholders having the right to elect stock or cash, subject to pro-ration. Once the price was agreed to, Flores and the rest of Plains' management met with Freeport's special committee to discuss their roles in the combined company. Flores was to serve as CEO of Freeport's oil and gas operations. Flores also agreed to take all of his Plains' restricted stock units in Freeport stock subject to a three-year lockup.
On December 4, 2012, the Board formally met to discuss the final $50 offer price and the terms of the Merger Agreement, which contained deal protections including a no-solicitation clause with a fiduciary out, matching rights, and a 3% termination fee. The following day, the Board met to approve the Merger Agreement. Barclays again opined that the $50 per share price was fair. The McMoRan merger agreement was signed the same day.
Stockholders of Plains filed suit to enjoin the Merger, alleging that Flores was conflicted, that the Board abdicated its duties (and that it should have formed a special committee), and that the Board breached its Revlon duties by, among other things, failing to (1) shop the company, (2) seek a go-shop period, and (3) conduct a pre- or post-signing market check. Plaintiffs further asserted that the Proxy was materially deficient because it failed to disclose the unlevered free cash flows that Barclays used in its discounted cash flow ("DCF") analysis. Plaintiffs also contended that there were other misleading and inadequate disclosures in connection with the methodologies and inputs that Barclays used.
The Court denied Plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, holding that they lacked a reasonable probability of success on the merits of their claims. The Court first explained that the Board engaged in a reasonable negotiation and decision-making process, notwithstanding its decisions to not form a special committee and to allow Flores to run the negotiations; the Court reasoned, first, that seven of the eight directors on the Board were indisputably disinterested and independent, and, second, that Flores was properly overseen by the Board and his significant ownership of Plains stock aligned his interests with those of the stockholders generally.
The Court next rejected Plaintiffs' argument that the Board breached its fiduciary duties by not shopping Plains, explaining that the Board had sufficient expertise, experience, and information from which it could make an appropriate decision. The Court also noted that the deal protections to which the Board agreed were not onerous and would not unduly impede a topping bid. The Court also observed that, in the months since the Merger was announced, no competing bid has come along, and "for good reason" in light of the 40% premium to Plains' pre-Merger announcement closing price.
Next, the Court rejected Plaintiffs' argument that the Board should have negotiated for a collar or a royalty trust, explaining that these decisions were within the business judgment of the Board. The Court stated that while the Board's decision not to ask for a collar may have been, in hindsight, a poor decision in light of Freeport's subsequent stock price decline, that did not make it an unreasonable decision. For similar reasons, the Court found that the Board's failure to secure an equity "kicker" did not support a Revlon claim, noting too that the mix of cash and stock will allow Plains' stockholders to share in the upside potential of the combined company.
The Court also determined that Plaintiffs' disclosure claims were insufficient to support injunctive relief. The Court found that the Proxy disclosed a fair summary of Barclays' work. The Court held that unlevered free cash flow numbers did not need to be disclosed because (1) other cash flow data were disclosed, (2) Plains never provided unlevered free cash flows to Barclays, and (3) Plaintiffs failed to explain how such information would affect a reasonable stockholder's vote. The Court found that Plains' EBITDAX (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and exploration) did not need to be disclosed because this information would not significantly alter the total mix of information when management's EBITDA projections were disclosed. The Court rejected Plaintiffs' complaint that the Proxy did not disclose how Barclays determined the discount rates it used in its DCF and net asset value analyses, reasoning that these were immaterial disclosures. The Court also rejected Plaintiffs' criticisms of the methodologies and inputs used by Barclays, stating that these were merely "quibbles" with Barclays' work and cannot be the basis of a disclosure claim.
The Court rejected Plaintiffs' disclosure claims concerning the negotiation process, viewing them as immaterial and of the "tell me more" or "why?" variety. The Court also rejected Plaintiffs' request for more disclosure regarding (1) Flores' alleged conflict of interest, (2) the purported conflict of interest of Freeport's banker, JPMorgan, which had worked for Plains on the Gulf of Mexico Transaction, and (3) Barclays' alleged conflict, as it owned Freeport stock. The Court found that the Proxy fully disclosed Flores' alleged conflict and Barclays' stock holdings in Freeport, and failed to see the materiality of JPMorgan's putative conflict.
Finally, the Court rejected Plaintiffs' request that the shareholder vote be delayed so that the drilling results relating to a particular oil well could be released and factored into shareholders' voting decisions, finding this argument to be pure speculation.


Did you upgrade your computer or change its components or change a setting in the BIOS which caused your system to stop booting. If so, then you might think of resetting your BIOS to the factory defaults.
BIOS can be reset by shorting motherboard jumper, which forces your computer to load with default BIOS settings.
1. Switch OFF your computer.
2. Unplug the power cord from the computer power supply unit.
4. Now search for Jumper in the Motherboard which shows CMOS or "Reset CMOS" as shown in the image.
5. This CMOS Jumper will be a three pin jumper and its operation is tabulated.
6. Your BIOS Jumper should be in 1,2 position as that is the normal operation. Now change the Jumper to 2,3 position to drain the CMOS.
7. Switch ON your computer and check whether your BIOS settings are reset. If so, then switch OFF your computer and then replace the jumper to the original position.
Note: Sometimes the BIOS cannot be reset by shorting the motherboard jumper, due to some virus attack or malfunction settings. In that case, check Three Ways to reset your BIOS for other ways to reset your BIOS.


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MYO+PYTHON+BEBOP
=========

Program developed for fly drone bebop, it integrate the Myo armband and Bebop drone on python, also you can fly with buttons

For detail info see
https://github.com/Cubillosxy/MYO-PYTHON-BEBOP

![MYO-PYTHON-DRONE](https://github.com/Cubillosxy/MYO-PYTHON-BEBOP/blob/master/Bib_ima/image_s.jpg)

video
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Fliying Parrot Bebop drone using Myo Armband
[![ScreenShot](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o3lv6g7j-yE/sddefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3lv6g7j-yE)

# Notes

Requirements:
* Python 2.X
* Myo library
* Myo Connect

That project uses:

[https://github.com/robotika/katarina/]   library for control of bebop

[https://github.com/NiklasRosenstein/myo-python]	 library for control of Myo

Actually only you can fly, the video stream is not supported.
_Warning!_ this project uses libraries who still is on developing , then you can experimenter different problems
I recommend restart the program for any problem, if the issue continue reconnect all the devices.

The code evolved into next files:

* _main.py_     this is the main file who import other control files, this file contains the GUI,
* _Drone_Int.py_  here you can find some functions for fly drone.
* _myo_Input.py_  this file contains the main functions for send and receiver data for myo, also contain functions for data procesing

Known bugs:
* Wifi drone only support one connection, for avoid problems only connect your PC to Wifi drone

Thanks to:

* NiklasRosenstein  for myo-python library: [myo-python](https://github.com/NiklasRosenstein/myo-python)
* Group of robotika.cz for katarina		  : [katarina](https://github.com/robotika/katarina)
* Aldo Contreras González for contribution: aldocontrego@gmail.com
* Nicolef Lorena Avella  for contribution: lorenavellam@gmail.com

#Questions?

Edwin Cubillos Bohorquez, Colombia : edwin.cubillos@uptc.edu.co
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This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Copyright  2016 Edwin Cubillos

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This book will be useful to those in the West and in the Middle East with an interest in the contemporary state of the higher educational system in the region and in education in general. It concentrates on the Gulf, but the problems of control, development, curriculum and purpose in higher education are found throughout the Middle East.
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The 2018 FIFA World Cup is the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018,[1] after the country was awarded the hosting rights on 2 December 2010.
This is the first World Cup held in Europe since the 2006 tournament in Germany, the first ever to be held in Eastern Europe and the eleventh time that it has been held in Europe. All of the stadium venues are in European Russia to keep travel time manageable. It is expected to be the most expensive football championship in history, budgeted at US$11.8-14 billion surpassing the cost of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.[2][3]
The final tournament will involve 32 national teams, which include 31 teams determined through qualifying competitions and the automatically qualified host team. Of the 32 teams, 20 will be making back-to-back appearances following the last tournament in 2014, including defending champions Germany, while Iceland and Panama will both be making their first appearances at a FIFA World Cup. A total of 64 matches will be played in 12 venues located in 11 cities. The final will take place on 15 July at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.[4][5][6]
The winners of the World Cup will qualify for the 2021 FIFA Confederations Cup. Pre-tournament favorites to win the final were Brazil, France, Germany and Spain.[7]
The bidding procedure to host the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups began in January 2009, and national associations had until 2 February 2009 to register their interest.[8] Initially, nine countries placed bids for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, but Mexico later withdrew from proceedings,[9] and Indonesia's bid was rejected by FIFA in February 2010 after the Indonesian government failed to submit a letter to support the bid.[10] During the bidding process, the three remaining non-UEFA nations (Australia, Japan, and the United States) gradually withdrew from the 2018 bids, and the UEFA nations were thus ruled out of the 2022 bid. As such, there were eventually four bids for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, two of which were joint bids: England, Russia, Netherlands/Belgium, and Portugal/Spain.The twenty-two-member FIFA Executive Committee convened in Zürich on 2 December 2010 to vote to select the hosts of both tournaments.[11] Russia won the right to be the 2018 host in the second round of voting. The Portugal/Spain bid came second, and that from Belgium/Netherlands third. England's bid to host its second tournament fell at the first hurdle.[12]
The voting results were as follows:[13]
2018 FIFA bidding (majority 12 votes)
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The process was not without criticism: allegations of bribery on the part of the Russian team and corruption from FIFA members were made particularly by the English Football Association. It was alleged that four members of the executive committee had requested bribes to vote for England, and Sepp Blatter said that it had already been arranged before the vote that Russia would win.[14] The 2014 Garcia Report, an internal investigation led by Michael J. Garcia, was withheld from public release by Hans-Joachim Eckert, FIFA's head of adjudication on ethical matters. Eckert instead released a shorter revised summary, and his (and therefore FIFA's) reluctance to publish the full report caused Garcia to resign in protest.[15] Due to such controversy, the FA refused to accept Eckert's absolving of Russia from blame, with Greg Dykecalling for a re-examination of the affair and David Bernstein calling for a boycott of the World Cup.[16][17]
For the first time in the history of the FIFA World Cup, all eligible nations – the 209 FIFA member associations minus automatically qualified hosts Russia – entered the qualifying process.[18] Zimbabwe and Indonesia were later disqualified before playing their first matches,[19][20]while Gibraltar and Kosovo, who joined FIFA on 13 May 2016 after the qualifying draw but before European qualifying had begun, also entered the competition.[21] Places in the tournament were allocated to continental confederations, with the allocation unchanged from the 2014 World Cup.[22][23] The first qualification game began in Dili, Timor Leste, on 12 March 2015 as part of the AFC's qualification,[24] and the main qualifying draw took place at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg on 25 July 2015 at 18:00 local time(UTC+3).[25][26][27][1]
Of the thirty-two nations qualified to play at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, twenty countries competed at the previous edition of the tournament in 2014. Both Iceland and Panama qualified for the first time, with the former becoming the smallest country in terms of population to reach the World Cup.[28] Other teams returning after absences of at least three tournaments include: Egypt, returning to the finals after a 28-year absence from their last appearance in 1990; Morocco, who last competed in 1998; Peru, returning after a 36-year absence (since 1982); and Senegal, competing for the second time after reaching the quarter-finals in 2002. It is the first time three Nordic countries (Denmark, Iceland and Sweden) and four Arab nations (Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia) have qualified for the World Cup.[29]
Notable countries that failed to qualify include four-time champions Italy (for the first time since 1958) and three-time runner-up the Netherlands (for the first time since 2002), and four reigning continental champions: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations winner Cameroon, two-time Copa América champion and 2017 Confederations Cup runner-up Chile, 2016 OFC Nations Cup winner New Zealand, and 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup champion United States (for the first time since 1986). The other notable qualifying streaks broken were for Ghana and Ivory Coast, who had both made the previous three tournaments.
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Alexandre HolroydMember of the French National Assembly representing French citizens in Northern Europe
Alexandre Holroyd was elected as a Member of the French National Assembly on the 18th June 2017 for Emmanuel Macron's En Marche movement. His constituency is composed of the French citizens living in Northern Europe (UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia and Iceland). Prior to his election, he was working in the private sector and co-founded En Marche! in the United Kingdom in 2016.
Now a member of the Foreign Affair Committee, where he sits as co-chair of the Brexit steering group, he is a former member of Assembly's Finance Committee, which determines and oversees the national budget. Within the Commission, he worked in 2017 and 2018 on a mission focusing on the public finances of the INSEE and the Banque de France and became in 2019 the special rapporteur for public expanses on Immigration, Asylum and Integration.
In addition, he sits in the European Affairs Committee, for which he was in charge of co-writing a special report on Eurozone governance. He then proposed a European resolution which has now become the official position of the National Assembly on the Eurozone's future. Those topics allow him to speak regularly with officials all over Europe to enlighten french perspectives.
Deeply committed to the Franco-British relationship, he is the President of the Franco-British parliamentary friendship group and a member of the Franco-British Young Leaders. He was the rapporteur in charge of the Brexit bill at the French national Assembly, which allowed the government to take the necessary measures in case of a no-deal Brexit : on citizen's rights, infrastructure and financial transactions.
The former French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, has also nominated Alexandre Holroyd for a six-month mission under the joint authority of the Minister for the Economy & Finance and the Minister for Ecology, Energy & Sustainable Development looking into green finance.
The aim of the mission is to formulate policy and regulatory recommendations to the government both from a market perspective (insurance, investment and banking community) and from a « consumer perspective » (retail banking, green saving products). There is a strong benchmarking element looking particularly at the City of London and the Nordics markets (as well as Luxembourg and the Netherlands).
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As Account Takeover (ATO) attacks become more common and more damaging to companies and websites, organizations should consider sharing responsibility for their customers' faulty passwords.
When people choose weak passwords and reuse them across websites, they bear some responsibility for security breaches that impact them. Historically, this was where it stopped: if you got hacked, it was your fault. But as Account Takeover (ATO) attacks become more common and more damaging to companies and websites, organizations should consider sharing responsibility for their customers' faulty passwords.
This argument may sound counterintuitive: shouldn't individuals bear the blame if their poor choices leave the door open to cyber-attackers? Yes, but since the damage caused by these bad actors ripples across the entire organization, it makes sense to improve web application security broadly, throughout the software development lifecycle -- long before end users set up credentials. This is ultimately the best way to minimize the impact of ATO and credential stuffing attacks.
One thing is for sure: the security problem arising from stolen credentials will only get worse. Not a week goes by without numerous disclosures of organizations impacted by such attacks, and the damage they cause can linger for years. As a result of just a single successful ATO attack, the 2013 breach at Adobe, more than 100 million username/password combinations were leaked to the dark web, where criminals of all stripes can easily access them. This is why ATO attacks are now the single-largest attack vector for cyber-criminals, according to researchers at Verizon.
In fact, one could argue that organizations have become too good at shielding their users from the impact of such breaches. If I know that Facebook is really good at protecting my account even though I've picked a weak password, I might be less motivated to pick a stronger one. If my bank automatically refunds any fraudulent charges resulting from security breaches, it might make me lazier when it comes to security.
Meanwhile, insecure web applications give attackers a relatively simple mechanism to steal user credentials, and commonly used security tools such as Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) fall short. They were designed to protect the perimeter, but ATO and credential stuffing attacks can easily bypass the perimeter to target web apps directly.
Adding to the problem is the fact that protecting user accounts piecemeal is all but impossible, when every application uses custom security measures. It quickly becomes a management nightmare to keep these security measures up to date, but failing to do so means your web apps are now a security liability.
Fortunately, there are proactive steps organizations can take right away to minimize the risks to their web apps. Encouraging secure password practices is a good place to start. Companies should put mechanisms in place to enforce a minimum level of password security, alerting users if their chosen passwords are too weak, and prompting them to choose passwords that are harder for attackers to guess.
It's important to note that in this process, each organization will have a different level of tolerance for relative password weakness. If your apps deal with sensitive financial information, protected health data, or any other highly valuable information, it's wise to make two-factor authentication mandatory. But this higher level of security won't be necessary for all organizations.
In addition, companies should develop a backup plan for instances when password authentication can't be trusted. If a user has the right credentials but there's a good chance they're not the right user because your system has been breached, implementing security solutions that detect fraudulent logins will add an extra level of security. Then, ensuring that you have secondary email addresses and/or phone numbers for your users on hand, you'll be able to contact them to verify their identity.
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A Masonic Italian Journey
Charbel T. Fahed
Grand Master of Masons of the District of Columbia
Masonry is travelling, as we all know, and I have had many opportunities to undertake journeys as Grand Master, including to Lebanon, the Philippines, and Italy. This month, I would like to share my experiences in Italy, as much of the classical, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture we associate with Masonry is also associated with the Italian Peninsula. Indeed, the first European country which triggered the Renaissance was Italy, namely, the romantic and glamorous city of Florence. From there the Renaissance spread throughout Europe, making Italy an important font of European culture.
During my recent visit to the Grand Lodge of Italy with our Grand Secretary, we deeply enriched our minds with the most valuable jewels of the Renaissance. We started in Rome – "Rome is a world," wrote our Masonic Brother Goethe in Italian Journey, "and one must spend years before one can become at all acquainted with it."
Nonetheless, our all-too-short visit to the ruins of the ancient Roman Coliseum and our subsequent viewing of the colonnade and elaborations of St. Peter's sculpted by Bernini in the Baroque era were reminders of how swiftly the sands of time run for man and his creations, from century to century and from millennium to millennium. Yet these wonderful expressions of architecture crafted by operative Masons transcend history and are truly monuments to the greatness of the human spirit, from generation to generation.
From Rome, we drove about five hours to Rimini, a gorgeous city lying on a Mediterranean beach which attracts people from all over the world. Here in the midst of such natural beauty at the seashore, the thoughtful traveler may ruminate of the fragile state of man against the powerful forces of nature. Again, turning to Bro. Goethe's Italian Journey: "In the upper provinces, Rimini . . . has suffered. The earth has strange humours, and people talk of earthquakes here just as we do of wind and weather." One cannot think of Roman Pompei without remembering its ancient destruction at the whims of a volcano. This is ever a reminder that just as man thinks his greatness is still aspiring, he falls, like autumn leaves, to enrich our mother earth.
In the coming issue of The Voice of Freemasonry, I will be sharing more thoughts on my "Masonic Italian Journey." In the meantime, summer is a time when many of us go on vacation – a necessary break from our routine labors which allows us to recharge with the required energy needed to propel us into real action and productive accomplishment as we return to our everyday lives. Let me encourage all Brethren, if within the length of their cable-tow, not merely to use vacation time as a reduced work schedule. It is rather time to "vacate" the house and the usual locales and use free time for travel and the wonderful opportunities it provides for recreation, learning, and personal development.
Grand Master's Message: Reflecting on the Cedars of Lebanon
On the afternoon of March 17, 2019, as Grand Master accompanied by members of the Grand Lodge and with three other Grand Masters in attendance, I joined the Tall Cedars of Lebanon and laid a wreath at the tomb of our late brother George Washington, the father of our beloved country, first president of the United States, and a great light in Masonry. I noticed there at Mount Vernon a cedar of Lebanon which shades the sacred grave area where we were standing. The tall, sturdy cedar under which we gathered that day testifies to the strong resolution and firm determination for our Masonic fraternity to exist and remain standing tall and proud from age to age. The cedar tree reminds us of the valuable principles transmitted throughout history to practice our Masonic values and preserve the most sacred Landmarks of our order.
Bearing in mind the strength and beauty of the cedar trees of Lebanon, it is little wonder that King Solomon, our ancient Grand Master, in constructing the Temple around which all Masonic Ritual revolves, asked that Hiram, King of Tyre, "hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon" (1 Kings 5: 6). We know from the biblical text that Hiram responded by "[giving] Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire" (1 Kings 5: 10) and that the trees were felled and prepared in the forests of Lebanon, carried by sea in floats to Joppa, and from thence by land to Jerusalem, in order to build and adorn the Temple. When the building was completed, of course, it bore resemblance to the handy workmanship of the Supreme Architect of the Universe.
Such is the importance of the cedar trees of Lebanon in Scripture and in our Ritual, relative to the building of King Solomon's Temple. Even though "trees that are [hewn] for building by art are made to differ from those which abide in the wood[s]," as John Bunyan writes in describing Solomon's Temple Spiritualized, the cedar trees of Lebanon in their natural state have a beauty which is awe-inspiring and reflective of the majesty of God. I would like to take this opportunity to extend an invitation to everyone desirous to visit the actual cedars in Lebanon, some of which date back thousands of years. Reflecting upon the cedars of Lebanon and that one tree which stood high above us that March day providing shade at Mount Vernon, I can do no better than close with the following short poem written by a Masonic Brother:
Builder's Haiku
Cedar of Leb'non
How welcome thou art to see
Thou art beautiful.
 (Erwin M. Dreisonstok)
From the Archives: In the Land of Masonic Romance: The First Masonic Guide of D.C.
From the Archives By Bro. Chris Ruli
(Member: Potomac Lodge No. 5)
(From the Archives highlights interesting stories of past D.C. Freemasons and other hidden historical gems found in archives of the Grand Lodge of D.C. - ed)
In the Fall of 1965, Colonel H. Edmund Bullis, a veteran of the Second World War and Director of the Delaware Mental Health Association, received one of the highest honors in Masonry: the Thirty-Third and Last degree of the Scottish Rite. Professionally, for over thirty years, Bullis and a team of researchers methodically tracked and studied the effects of dementia praecox, commonly known as schizophrenia. Among one of his early financial supporters in this effort was the Northern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite, which raised more than 3 million dollars over a span of three decades towards research on schizophrenia. While he is rightly venerated for his work in public health, Bullis should also be recognized for his early contribution to the history of D.C. Freemasonry. In 1932, while living in the District, Bullis published what is considered the first Masonic travelers guide for the District, The Land of Masonic Romance: A Masonic Guide to Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia.
Originally from Virginia, Bullis received the Degrees of Freemasonry in 1912 at Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4. He later moved to the District to begin his health research, and in his spare time over the course of several years, began to methodically record and catalogue the Masonic affiliation of statues, paintings, and memorials of those who had a Masonic affiliation. "My aim," Bullis noted in the guide's introduction, "was [...] to let other Masons in on a hobby that I developed some years ago, when, as a Washington man, it was often my task to show out-of-town visitors the city. Occasionally, after pointing out a painting or statue of some eminent American, I would be surprised to have my visitor tell me that the man represented had been a very active Mason. [...] The amount of information and misinformation I gather through scattered contact of this kind started me on the hobby of definitely identifying great American Masons. [...] This material I have organized into standard guide form, so that the visitor, no matter what his itinerary might be, can refer to the Masonic significance of each item of interest as he views it." His hobby turned into a full publication, which guided the many Masonic visitors who flocked to the capital for the dedication of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial.
The guide begins with the laying of the first boundary stones and the cornerstone of United State Capitol. He guides the reader through the various halls of the Capitol and pauses to identify the paintings, ornate doors, and statues depicting noteable Masonic statesmen or artists whose art adorn each space. Bullis then jumps across the street to the Supreme Court and the Library of Congress, pausing to note the affiliation of each Masonic signer of the Declaration of Independence. In the second section, Bullis travels to the White House to provide a brief history of the Masonic Presidents. He proceeds to the many Masonic temples scattered across the city including the relatively new House of the Temple. Government departments and buildings are highlighted in the sixth section with particular emphasis on the "outstanding Masonic Generals in each of America's wars." The proceeding sections cover the statues and public spaces, churches, and interesting stops in and outside the District. The last section includes a suggested itinerary for visitors based on the duration of their stay.
While it is an impressive and detailed guide, there are several minor details that Bullis omits or misrepresents; however, he acknowledges these limitations and even provides an address for readers to send corrections. Additionally, it is not known if he ever published a section edition, as he likely left the District; deployed to Europe several years later to fight in the Second World War.
In his introduction, Bullies recognized William L Boyden and Major Hugh J. Tatsch for their assistance in publishing the guide. Boyden was a Masonic historian, charter member of Albert Pike No. 36, and served as the Librarian of the House of the Temple, the headquarters of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction. He previously served as Master of Osiris Lodge No. 26 in 1897 and died in 1939. Major Tatsch was also a Masonic historian and published several studies including his piece on Washington in 1932 called The Fact About George Washington as a Freemason.
A copy of the guide is made available below. Here are some other takeaways:
Bullis dedicates the second page of the guide to detail the number of Masonic lawmakers in Congress in 1932. It is an impressive figure and one that reminds us of the prominence of the Fraternity at that time:
60 percent of the members of the United States Senate were Masons, i.e. 58 out of 96 Senators. In the House of Representatives there were 291 Masons out of 435 Congressmen, or 67 percent. In both houses there were 349 Masons, or 66 percent of the total roster. Alabama, Delaware, and South Carolina had 100 percent Masonic representation in the Senate and the House. Twenty other states had 100 percent Masonic representation in either the Senate or the House.
President Millard Fillmore helped lay the cornerstone to the extension of the United States Capitol in 1851. According to Boyden, Fillmore received the degrees of Freemasonry but later recanted during the Morgan Affair:
Fillmore attended [the cornerstone event] in his official character, on the best of terms with the representatives of a Society that he had denounced as organized treason when an ambitious young politician in northern New York a quarter of a century before.
While we often recognize the Masons who served as President, Bullis expands on this to provide us a detailed account of the Masonic Vice-Presidents:
Aaron Burr, Union Lodge No. 40, Connecticut
Daniel D. Tompkins, First Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Northern Jurisdiction. Served as Grand Master of New York while serving as V.P.
Richard Mentor Johnson, Hiram Lodge No. 4, Kentucky
George Mifflin Dallas, Franklin Lodge No. 134, Philadelphia. Grand Master of Pennsylvania in 1834
William Rufus King, Phoenix Lodge No. 8, North Carolina.
John C. Breckinridge, raised Des Moines Lodge No. 41. Received the 4 - 32 degrees of the Scottish Rite from Albert Pike. Crowned a Sovereign Grand Inspector General in 1860.
Schuyler Colfax, initiated Lebanon Lodge No. 7 in D.C., passed and raised in St. Joseph Lodge No. 45, Indiana.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson, raised in Metamora Lodge No. 82, Illinois. Elected Grand Orator of the G. L. of Illinois.
Garret Augustus Hobart, raised in Falls City Lodge No. 82, New Jersey. Affiliated with Washington Commandery No. 1, D.C. His home is now part of the Cosmos Club in D.C.
Charles Warren Fairbanks, Oriental Lodge No. 500, Indiana.
Thomas Riley Marshall, Columbia City Lodge No. 189, Indiana. Past Grand High Priest and Illustrious Grand Master of the Grand Council of Indiana. Was Honorary and later Active Member of the Supreme Council, Northern Jurisdiction.
The minute book of Williamsburg Lodge No. 6 of Virginia is preserved in the Library of Congress. Notable members of the lodge included President James Monroe, the second Masonic President, and Charles Fierer, who moved to Georgetown in 1788 and formed Lodge No. 9 of Maryland, predecessor of Potomac Lodge No. 5 of D.C.
Bullis includes a detailed account of the Masonic Signers of the Declaration of Independence. He states that William Boyden was the first to compile a complete list:
Benjamin Franklin, St. John's Lodge, Philadelphia. Past Grand Master of P.A.
Lyman Hall, by tradition a member of Solomon Lodge, Savannah, Georgia.
John Hancock, Merchants Lodge No. 277, Quebec, Canada. Affiliated with St. Andrew's Lodge, Boston, Massachusetts in 1762.
Joseph Hewes, Mother Lodge unknown, record of him visiting Unanimity Lodge, North Carolina.
William Hooper, Hanover Lodge, Masonborough, North Carolina.
Thomas McKean, Mother Lodge unknown, visited Perseverance Lodge No. 21, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Nelson, Jr., Mother Lodge unknown, by tradition visited Yorktown Lodge No. 9 with Washington and Lafayette after the surrender of Cornwallis.
Robert Treat Paine, Mother Lodge unknown, visited a lodge in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
John Penn, Mother Lodge unknown, proceedings of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina assert his affiliation passed down by word of mouth.
Roger Sherman, Mother Lodge unknown, his masonic apron is preserved in the Yale University library.
Richard Stockton, Charter Master of St. John's Lodge, Princeton, New Jersey.
Matthew Thornton, received degrees in Louisburg Military Lodge, 28th Regiment, New Hampshire while a british colonial soldier.
George Walton, St. John's Lodge No. 1, New Hampshire
John Witherspoon, Mother Lodge Unknown, mentioned visiting Masonic meetings in his diary.
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The Globe Inn is an historic Lehigh Valley PA inn for sale. The 3-story brick landmark features a wide range of well-appointed B&B guest rooms, extended-stay suites, and comprehensive dining facilities. A vast fully equipped commercial kitchen, licensed full service bar and large banquet dining room offer tantalizing possibilities beyond the well-established and successful lodging business.
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A 20-mile bike-and-hike path winds its way to Valley Forge Park beginning one mile from the inn. Also, one mile from the inn is an internationally known prep school, which provides a great deal of repeat business. The inn is 10 minutes from the PA Turnpike and 15 minutes from a popular ski resort. A number of important manufacturing companies are located in the area, supporting the extended-stay business. And there are first-rate restaurants just minutes from the inn.
The Globe Inn retains its original historic façade and many of its original interior features. Modern updates compliment the original architecture. The banquet dining room, bar, kitchen, restrooms, laundry, office, the guest common room and three guest suites are located on the first floor of the inn. Six additional guest suites are located on the second floor. Guest suites on the first and second floor are quite spacious and nicely appointed with spa tubs, fireplaces, microwaves and refrigerators. On the third floor of the Inn are six extended stay suites, furnished with kitchenettes. All 15 units have private bathrooms.
Two other income producing properties, next door to the Inn, are available for $200,000. One is a duplex with 2 furnished apartments, the other is a 2-story commercial building.
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Hope you will enjoy this month's show.
I won't be able to join you here during the set, perhaps the last part of it.
Anyway, Hope you like it and have a great evening!


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VC Young Artist Jonian Ilias Kadesha is Loaned "Ex-Moser" Guarneri del Gesù Violin
The Greek-Albanian violinist has been loaned the c.1743 violin made by Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri from a private collection
The c.1743 "Ex-Moser" Guarneri del Gesù violin is named for German violinist and pedagogue Andreas Moser, who was handed the instrument by his violin teacher Joseph Joachim.
"I am and feel extremely lucky to start playing on this incredibly beautiful violin…It will be loaned to me on a long-term basis from a private collection," wrote VC Young Artist Jonian Ilias Kadesha in a Facebook post.
The violin has also been played by artist and amateur violinist Paul Klee, and in recent years, by eminent violinists Ulf Hoelscher and Ilya Gringolts. As archived by Tarisio, its other owners have included Frau Haas-Pfister, as well as Henry Werro.
Crafted in Cremona by Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri, the "Ex-Moser" is among approximately 150 to 250 of his violins which are known to exist, alongside some violas and at least one violoncello that are attributed to him, according to Mio Cannone.
"I am looking forward to exploring and taming it a little, as it is quite a beast," Jonian said of his new instrument. "I would like to thank from my heart Stephan Jansen & @stretton society for loaning to me the amazing and brilliant Nicolas Lupot, which I really enjoyed playing and learned a lot from!"
Previously, Jonian played on the 1749 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin, also on private loan.
A student of Antje Weithaas at the Kronberg Academy and a former student of Salvatore Accardo, Grigori Zhislin, and Ulf Wallin, Jonian was a first prize winner at the 2018 Young Classical Artists Trust Auditions.
He has appeared with orchestras including the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, CHAARTS Chamber Orchestra, Athens State Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra, and Meiningen Staatskapelle.
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Offices may not be the most obvious place to suffer an injury. But if offices were safe, there would be no need for the numerous regulations that exist to protect office workers – and if you are unlucky enough to be involved in an accident in your office workplace, the consequences can affect you as much as any type of accident.
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Todd Manley is the Northern California Water Association's (NCWA) Director of Government Relations. He is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento's College of Business Administration where he received the degree of Master of Business Administration. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History from the University of California, Davis. Todd is also a graduate of the California Agricultural Leadership Program.


We discovered this handmade sterling silver pendant on a recent trip to Ladakh, India. It is one of the finest pieces of silver that we came across, with a very unique style and superior craftsmanship.
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This round pendant is made of high quality Tibetan turquoise and sterling silver by today's finest Newari artisan. Turquoise is thought to provide solace for the spirit and well-being for the body, benefitting overall mood and emotion by balancing and inducing a sense of serenity and peace. You can see the high quality in the intricate design and craftsmanship of the sterling silver setting and the authentic turquoise.
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This pink rose crystal and sterling silver pendant is handmade by one of today's finest Newari artisans. Sometimes called the 'heart stone' or 'crystal of unconditional love,' this lovely rose quartz is soft and luminous. Set in sterling silver, the high quality craftsmanship is clear in the design and detail of the setting.
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This beautiful Tibetan gau pendant is a piece of Tibetan culture. Gau, or g'au, are small prayer boxes that were used when Tibetans travelled and wanted to carry Buddhist prayers and relics with them. The front of this handmade gau is crafted from sterling silver and decorated with a large piece of blue turquoise and smaller matching turquoise, and red Italian coral. The removable back is also made of sterling silver and can open to store personal items.
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A hundred years ago, Tibetan women wore large beautiful turquoise earrings like this to show off their beauty and wealth. We have converteded this antique Tibetan turquoise and silver earring into a pendant to make it easier to wear and enjoy for today's lifestyle.
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Home Basketball The Lakers wanted to trade Marc to the Timberwolves
The Lakers wanted to trade Marc to the Timberwolves
According to the latest information, the Lakers wanted to transfer Marc along with Caruso to the Timberwolves. Finally, the pivot is still in the team.
The market is on fire and the Lakers have been protagonists. The Angelenos have made a lot of moves and have been left with a strange team. The signing of Russell Westbrook left them tied hand and foot when it comes to the salary margin and there have been many minimum contracts to reinforce the different positions: Trevor Ariza, Carmelo Anthony, Malik Monk ... Many proper names that leave a veteran team built around Westbrook himself, but also, of course, to surround LeBron James and Anthony Davis, the two legs of a project that won the ring in 2020 and that now generates a lot of uncertainty.However, the Lakers had another move in mind. Alex Caruso signed with the Bulls for four years and 37 million dollars, but the Angelenos had in mind to make a sing and trade with the point guard and transfer him to the Timberwolves ... along with Marc Gasol. The center did not square off particularly well in his first season in Los Angeles and is not overly pleased with his role, so there were options to come out after making his $ 2.5 million player option effective. And, as Ramona Shelbourne has revealed in an article collected by Silves Screen and Roll, he could have headed to Minnesota.
Finally, the Spanish will remain in the Lakers after announcing his definitive retirement from the National Team. There will be one more season in which the Angelenos are candidates again, but with an aging squad and a lot of work ahead. The doubts have multiplied and there are those who think that the team is not here to win. But with LeBron James and Anthony Davis anything is possible and the Lakers are sure to still have a lot to say. We'll see.


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Q: ¿Cómo saber si usuario leyó Email enviado en -Net Core 6 -c#? Buen día.
Necesito capturar el momento en que el usuario abra un Email enviado desde una API creada en .NET CORE 6
Lo que hago es crear una imagen de 1 x 1 en la que en el tag src le envió la url de un servicio que captura el Guid del registro para marcarlo como abierto:
string mailTracker = $"<img src=\"{url}/"mark-email-as-opened/{guid}/image.png" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" />";

Para esto generé una función que reciba un Guid y guarde el log en base de datos así:
[HttpGet("mark-email-as-opened/{guid}/image.png")]
    public async Task<IActionResult> MarkEmailAsOpened([FromRoute] Guid guid)
    {
        Response response = await _emailService.MarkEmailAsOpened(guid);

        if (response.IsSuccess)
        {
            return StatusCode(StatusCodes.Status200OK, response);
        }

        return StatusCode(StatusCodes.Status400BadRequest, response);

    }

Pero los gestores de Email alteran el src por lo que nunca ejecuta el método
¿Qué otra alternativa existe para poder hacer seguimiento del Email?
Muchas gracias.


This work is in very good condition overall. There are 4 small squares on the face of the work, 2 on the right edge, and 1 on the left edge have lost their color plates. There are minor dust accretions scattered across the work. Unframed.


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AINA Editorial
Australia's Assyrians in Focus
By Peter Ahern
Children from Kids World Kindy, in Fairfield Heights, performed in traditional Assyrian costume to celebrate the Assyrian New Year last year.
Fairfield, Australia (AINA) -- On Sunday 27 March the Australian Broadcasting Commission presented a special documentary on Australia's Assyrian community as part of the long-running and popular "Compass" series. The Assyrian community is not widely known in Australia. The program presenter, Geraldine Doogue, set the scene by describing the Assyrians as "a people, culture and religion marked by persecution from ancient times to the present day."
Assyrians have been settling in Australia since the 1950s, with the first arrivals fleeing from the 1958 revolution in Iraq. One of the earliest Assyrian arrivals, Phillip Damon, who arrived in Australia in 1964, explained the reaction of these first pioneers, saying that "Assyrians were happy to be settling in a democratic country and, more importantly, in a Christian country."
The Australian Assyrian community grew steadily in subsequent decades, reaching today's figure of 40,000 nationwide, with three quarters centered in the state of New South Wales and most in the suburb of Fairfield in Western Sydney. As the community grew, so did their churches, which played an important role in community life. In October 2015 the Australian Assyrian community celebrated the 25 year anniversary of the construction of the Saint Hurmizd Cathedral in Fairfield. Australia's second largest city of Melbourne hosts an Assyrian community of around 10,000, with two churches available for religious and social activities. The Australian Assyrian community continues to grow with the special intake of refugees from Syria currently being received under national government immigration priorities.
The Compass documentary underlined the important role of the church in maintaining Assyrian identity, faith and culture.
In an interview, Reverend Father Narsai Youkhanis, who at 21 was the youngest priest to be ordained into the Assyrian Church of the East, emphasized the church's key role in gathering and protecting Assyrians and their heritage. His ordination in 2010 was attended by over 2000 people, representing some 5% of the entire Assyrian community in Australia. It is hard to imagine another church in this country attracting 5% of the population to an ordination of one of its clergymen. This testifies to the degree to which church and community are inextricably interwoven in Australia's Assyrian community. This was also emphasized in interview by Natalie Moshi of the Assyrian Church of the East Relief Organization, who said: "Because we as a nation cannot point to a map and see Assyria clearly defined there, the church has as a result, almost by default, become our country, our guiding father, our guiding mother, a place where we can go to see our fellow people, to see our community."
Assyrian genocide monument in Fairfield, Australia, Erected on August 7, 2010.
The Australian Assyrian community is very conscious of the suffering of its fellow Assyrians overseas. The theme is emphasized by church figures such as Father Narsai, who commented that "suffering has made our church stronger. That is part of our DNA."
The community commemorates Assyrian Martyrs Day, to remember those Assyrians massacred at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during the First World War. However, it doesn't only look back to past suffering.The Australian Assyrian community is very conscious of the current plight of Assyrians overseas, especially in the Middle East. The Assyrian Resource Center in the heart of Fairfield is very active in this regard. Speaking on behalf of the ARC, Carmen Lazar explained how the Center helped Assyrians displaced by war in Syria in sponsoring them to come to Australia. She explained how the Assyrian church represented the first port of call for assistance: "Our churches are our shelter; our churches are our point of contact. Without our churches we are not recognized anywhere."
While clearly active in its advocacy for the Assyrian community in Australia and overseas, the Assyrian Church of the East also devotes attention to presenting a relevant message to its local youth. The Eucharist is traditionally said in ancient Aramaic. However one of the initiatives by Father Narsai has been to conduct the Mass in the modern Assyrian language in order to reach out to the youth of the community. This has attracted some criticism from conservative voices in the community, concerned by the fact that modern Assyrian includes some loan words from Arabic, Turkish and Kurdish. Additionally, the Eucharist is now also being celebrated in English in some masses so that it is more accessible to the increasing numbers of Assyrian families in Australia who only speak English.
Though only representing 0.15% of Australia's overall population, the Assyrian community is vibrant and growing. Its identity is not under threat, not only thanks to new arrivals through Australia's refugee and immigration program, but also thanks to the dynamic nature of the Assyrian church, which serves as a place of faith and worship, as well as an engine of advocacy and social action. The Assyrian community in Australia is clearly here to stay and represents a welcome addition to Australia's multicultural society.


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The Clasp to the Iron Cross (Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz) was a white metal medal clasp displayed on the uniforms of German Wehrmacht personnel who had been awarded the Iron Cross in World War I, and who again qualified for the decoration in World War II.

During the war, over 100,000 clasps were awarded.

Description
A holder of the 1914 Iron Cross could qualify for the same grade of the 1939 Iron Cross. To permit the two awards to be worn together, a "1939 Clasp" (Spange) was established to be worn with the original 1914 Iron Cross. It depicted a national eagle clutching an oak leaf wreath surrounding a swastika above a trapezoid bearing the year 1939.

For the Second Class, the clasp was attached to the ribbon of the 1914 Iron Cross, either on a ribbon bar, or when the ribbon was worn through a tunic button hole. For the First Class, a larger differently proportioned clasp was pinned directly on the upper breast pocket above the Iron Cross 1st class (1914) of the wearer. This pin-back clasp was usually awarded in a presentation case.

While Nazi era awards were initially banned by the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1957 many World War II military decorations, including the Iron Cross, were re-authorised for wear by qualifying veterans. With display of the swastika banned, the clasp to the Iron Cross was re-designed as a silver rectangular bar bearing the date '1939', with a miniature Iron Cross in the centre of the bar.

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Military awards and decorations of Nazi Germany
Awards established in 1939
1939 establishments in Germany

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