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Star Wars Episode VIII: Executioner Trooper MMS428
The highly-accurate collectible figure is specially crafted based on the image of Executioner Trooper from Star Wars: The Last Jedi featuring new matte black with glossy white colored helmet and armor design, newly developed body and under-suit with improved articulations, the trooper's unique weapon: electric axe with electricity effect parts, a blaster rifle, and a specially designed figure stand!
Star Wars fans shouldn't pass up on the opportunity to add this new First Order trooper to your collection!
The 1/6th scale Executioner Trooper Collectible Figure specially features:
- Authentic and detailed likeness of Executioner Trooper in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Approximately 30 cm tall
- Specially applied matte black and glossy white painting on armor
- Newly developed body with over 30 points of articulations
- Nine (9) pieces of interchangeable gloved hands including:
- One (1) pair of fists
- One (1) pair of relaxed hands
- One (1) pair of hands for holding blaster rifle
- One (1) pair of hands for holding taser axe
- One (1) gesturing left hand
Costume:
- One (1) streamline designed Executioner Trooper armor
- One (1) newly developed black under-suit
- One (1) belt with pouches
- One (1) pair of white boots
Weapons:
- One (1) articulated electric axe with electricity effect parts
- One (1) blaster rifle
- Specially designed figure stand with nameplate and Star Wars logo
**Prototype shown, final product may be slightly different
**Product details could be subjected to change without further notice
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Established in 2000, Hot Toys Limited is a high-end collectible brand, devoted to designing, developing and producing high quality and highly detailed collectibles with authentic likeness. Initially started the business from producing 1/6th scale military action figures, Hot Toys has since expanded its product scope to specialize in 1/6th scale collectible figures from popular movies, video games, comics as well as world renowned celebrities.
Since 2003, Hot Toys has acquired the official merchandising rights in producing collectibles from international movies which includes Iron Man, The Avengers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman, The Dark Knight, Superman, Terminator Series, Aliens & Predator franchises as well as world famous celebrities such as King of Pop Michael Jackson, martial artist Bruce Lee, two-time Oscar winner for Best Actor Award Marlon Brando, American film icon James Dean, renowned movie actor and musician Leslie Cheung and Wong Ka Kui, the founding member of the Hong Kong rock band – Beyond. Hot Toys' collectibles have been sought after by movie, figure, and pop culture fans and also appreciated by celebrities including Sylvester Stallone, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Renner, Clark Gregg, Byung-hun Lee, Naoto Takenaka, Mari Yaguchi and more.
Hot Toys is the leader in the 1/6th collectible industry and has led the quality of collectible figures development to another climax over the past years. Moreover, Hot Toys has obtained the patent for its innovation of Parallel Eyeball Rolling System (PERS) and Interchangeable Faces Techniques (IFT) for its DX series, which has further increased the likeness of the collectible figures.
In addition to 1/6th scale collectible figures, Hot Toys also focuses on product diversity by introducing highly detailed 1/4th scale collectible figures, 1/6th scale collectible vehicles. 1/4th scale collectible busts, as well as 3" and 6" Cosbaby series.
Adding to the popular Movie Masterpiece Series (MMS) and Deluxe Series (DX), Hot Toys has expanded its collection series in recent years to include the 1/6th scale MMS Diecast Series, Power Pose (PPS), and Diorama Series.
The Hot Toys brand is widely acclaimed in different parts of the world with products sold by our strategic worldwide distributors to over 30 countries including the United States, Europe, Greater China, South East Asia, Japan, Korea and the Middle East.
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This following describes all of the default data entities available in API Services, and their default properties. Each entity can be accessed in a corresponding collection, named with the plural form of the entity name (see API BaaS Data model for more information on how data is stored in API Services).
Properties marked 'required' must be set for the entity to be successfully created. Properties marked 'optional' are reserved by the API but not required. All other properties are automatically set and returned by the API when the entity is created.
For information on creating custom entities or custom properties for any entity, see General-purpose endpoints.
The activity entity represents a user activity, and is specifically designed for use in data streams as defined by the JSON Activity Streams 1.0 specification.
For more information on using the activity entity, see Activity feeds.
type string Type of entity, in this case "activity"
actor ActivityObject Required. Entity that performed the 'action' of the activity (see JSON Activity Streams 1.0 specification). By default, the UUID of the user who performed the action is recorded as the value of the 'uuid' property of this object.
The application entity is the base entity for accessing your application data in API Services. Aside from creating the application entity, most apps using API Services will never need to access the application entity directly.
For more information on creating and configuring applications in API Services, see Creating a new application.
type String Type of entity, in this case "application"
The asset entity represents a binary data object stored in API Services infrastructure, such as an image, video or audio file. The asset entity does not contain the binary data, but rather contains information about the data and points to the location where it can be accessed in API Services infrastructure.
For more information on using the asset entity, see Uploading assets.
type string Type of entity, in this case"asset"
The device entity represents a unique device that is being used to access your app. Device entities should be associated with a user entity. The API Services push notification feature requires the device entity.
For more information on using the device entity, see Managing users and devices.
type string Type of entity, in this case "device"
collections: Nested object that contains paths to data entity collections associated with the device.
The event entity is used to log application data, primarily for performance and error monitoring. Event entities can be also associated with users and groups. The event mechanism in API Services is optimized to handle large numbers of events, so it is an ideal mechanism for logging in your application.
For more information on using the event entity, see Counters & events.
type String Type of entity, in this case "event"
The folder entity is used to emulate a file structure for the purpose of organizing assets or custom entities.
For more information on using the folder entity, see Folder entity.
type string Type of entity, in this case"folder"
The group entity allows you to group users based on any criteria. Multiple group entities can be nested to create sub-groups. Users can also belong to multiple groups. Examples of uses for the group entity include grouping users by interest or location.
The look-up properties for the entities of type group are UUID and path, that is, you can use the uuid or path property to reference a group in an API call. However, you can search on a group using any property of the group entity. See Querying your data for details on searching.
For more information on using the group entity, see Working with group data.
sets: Nested object that contains the 'rolenames' and 'permissions' properties.
rolenames: Path to retrieve a list of roles associated with the group.
permissions: Path to retrieve a list of all permissions directly associated with the group. If the group is associated with a role, the list will not include permissions associated with the role entity.
collections: Nested object that contains paths to data entity collections associated with the group.
The notification entity represents a push notification, including notification message and details. A notification entity is sent in conjunction with a notifier entity to a notification service, such as Apple Push Notification Service, to initiate a push notification.
For more information on using the notification entity, see Creating and managing notifications.
state string The current delivery status of the notification: "FINISHED", "SCHEDULED" or "CANCELED".
collections: Nested object that contains paths to data entity collections associated with the notification.
receipts": Receipt entities for delivery attempts"
The notifier entity contains the credentials necessary to securely access push notification service providers, which in turn send your notifications to targeted devices.
For more information on using the notifier entity, see Creating notifiers.
provider string Required. Push notification provider: "apple" or "google"
environment string Required. The environment that corresponds to your app: "development" or "production"
The receipt entity is created after a push notification has been sent using API Services. The receipt is a record of an attempted push notification, including if the notification was successful, and when it was sent.
For more information on the receipt entity, see Creating and managing notifications.
payload string The push notification message that was specified in the 'payload' property of the notification entity associated with the push notification.
errorCode String Error code returned by the notification service, if any.
The role entity is used to define standard permission sets that can be assigned to user and groups entities. For example, you might create an Administrator role to easily grant certain users full access to all app features.
For more information on using the role entity, see Using permissions.
type string Type of entity, in this case "role"
inactivity string The amount of time, in milliseconds, that a user or group associated with the role can be inactive before they lose the permissions associated with that role. By default, 'inactivity' is set to 0 so that the user/group never loses the role.
sets: Nested object that contains the 'permissions' property.
permissions: Path to retrieve a list of all permissions associated with the role.
collections: Nested object that contains paths to data entity collections associated with the role.
The user entity represents a registered user of your app, and includes optional properties for common user details, such as real name, email address, and password.
For more information on using the user entity, see Working with user data.
activated boolean Whether the user account is activated. Set to 'true' by default when the user is created.
rolenames: Deprecated. Use /users/<uuid|username\>/roles instead. Path to retrieve a list of roles associated with the user.
permissions: Path to retrieve a list of all permissions directly associated with the user. If the user is associated with a role or group, the list will not include permissions associated with those entities.
collections: Nested object that contains paths to data entity collections associated with the user.


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FlyDubai Passenger Plane Crashes in Russia, Killing All 62 Aboard
Human error, technical issues, and inclement weather could be causes.
By Laura Beck
CNN reports that Flydubai flight 981 crashed en route from Dubai to Russia early in the morning on March 19, killing all 62 people (55 passengers and seven crew members) onboard. The Flydubai Boeing 737 was scheduled to land at Rostov-on-Don airport, but due to high ground-level winds and poor visibility, crashed during its second landing attempt. The aircraft reportedly climbed to 4,000 feet, then descended rapidly and crashed into the ground.
According to CNN, authorities have ruled out terrorism as a cause. Investigative committee spokeswoman Oksana Kovrizhnaya says they are currently looking at the possibilities of technical issues, severe weather, and human error.
It is Flydubai's first fatal incident in the seven-year history of the airline.
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I had less than a year of experience working in executive search when my boss emailed me along with every other Associate at our company, asking if anyone spoke French. My interest was piqued, as I had been studying French from the ripe age of twelve. More recently, I had made multiple French speaking friends abroad while traveling. I always enjoyed testing my conversation skills and really felt they were better after several drinks. I was young and trying to set myself apart from the rest of the entry level Associates, so I felt bold enough to walk down to my boss' office and offer a hand. This ended up being one of the best career decisions I have ever made and it opened up doors for opportunities that I had only dreamed about until then.
There was a new assignment that had just come in and my company needed someone who could call into automotive factories in France and look for Plant Managers. Our client was a well-known automation company that made parts for cars and they were looking for someone to manage several sites in a region a couple hours southwest of Paris. "Start calling, let me know what you can come up with," I was told after a brief overview of the details of the role and company.
I had no idea where to begin. What do I do? Who can I call? Has anyone else called French companies like this before? There were no other names in the database; I had nowhere to start. Can I actually speak French well enough to make this work? I started to second guess if I could even start this assignment, but knew I couldn't walk back into my boss' office and tell her that. For a little while I panicked and thought I was destined for failure, that I never should have taken that walk down the hall and volunteered for this. I thought about giving up…but I knew that at the very least I had to give it a try.
I reached out to a colleague in the Netherlands who taught me how to find specific phone numbers for manufacturing plants in France. I started coming in excessively early to call Europe; lo and behold the French came back to me like riding a bike! I was meeting people, being introduced to their coworkers and I started receiving resumes of qualified candidates. It was working! I was ecstatic and felt great about the people I was bringing forward. The senior consultant paired with me was happy and so was the client. Eventually the position was filled and my boss told me we had a new long term client because of my efforts and that I had done a great job. A few months later she asked me if I wanted to work in our European headquarters, which I had been chosen for, exclusively because I had volunteered for the search in France. It was the greatest thing I could have asked for and at the time I had never felt more fulfilled in my career.
All it took was a leap of faith and belief in myself. I stopped second guessing my ability and instead when asked to do something, I would just do it and learn on my feet. Of course there have been times that I've failed but for the times that I tried, my efforts opened up doors and led me to where I am in my life right now.
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Cardinal Hayes High School's Joe Toussaint is one of seven preliminary candidates for Mr. New York State Basketball, the Basketball Coaches Association of New York announced.
Toussaint has helped Cardinal Hayes to a 17-4 record and a No. 6 ranking in this week's New York State Sportswriters Association Class AA poll.
Isaiah Whitehead, Greg Paulus, Sebastian Telfair, Elton Brand, Stephon Marbury, John Wallace, Jamal Mashburn, Kenny Anderson and Malik Sealy are among the previous winners of the award.


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Music, dance and drama this March at St Helens Theatre Royal
Spring at St Helens Theatre Royal is off to a superb start with a month of entertainment for audiences of all ages.
Getting things off with a bang (quite literally) on Friday 6 March is the return of LiveWire – The AC/DC Show. The hugely successful, six-man tribute to rock music's greatest band comes complete with cannons and a wall of Marshalls' for a two-hour spectacle of high voltage Rock 'n' Roll critically acclaimed for its closeness in look and sound to the real thing.
Audiences will be dancing in the aisles on Saturday 7 March with Northern Live – Do I Love You? Keeping the faith to the original sounds of the underground movement that started on the dance floors in the North before sweeping the nation, this 11-piece band with four lead vocalists perform over 30 original hits by artists such as Dobie Gray, R Dean Taylor, Frank Wilson, Gloria Jones and many more.
Irish country sensation Derek Ryan returns to St Helens with his band on Friday 13 March as part of his biggest concert tour yet. The winner of the Sunday World Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year awards performs many of his classic hits from Hold On To Your Hat, Down On Your Uppers and God's Plan.
Roy Hemmings' Hits of Motown is back on Saturday 14 March. The former member of the Drifters is here with an electrifying new show, featuring over two hours of classic hits by Motown's most iconic artists, including The Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Martha and The Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Ritchie and (of course) The Drifters.
From Tuesday 17 – Saturday 21 March, St Helens Theatre Royal welcomes the UK premiere tour of Helen Forrester's By The Waters of Liverpool. This period drama of wartime Liverpool, fully authorised by the Helen Forrester estate, features a star studded cast including Sian Reeves (Coronation Street), Mark Moraghan (Holby City), Parry Glasspool (Hollyoaks), Lucy Dixon (Waterloo Road) and Eric Potts (Coronation Street), with Lynn Francis, Danny O'Brien, Roy Carruthers and Chloe McDonald. The play tells the story of young Helen, who fights a bitter battle with her parents for the right to educate herself and go out to work. With Britain on the brink of war, Helen has never been kissed by a man. But then she meets a tall, strong seaman and falls in love.
On Monday 23 March, Strictly Come Dancing stars Ian Waite and Vincent Simone make a welcome return with their brand new show Act Two. The fabulous duo promise another wonderful evening of old-fashioned variety – dance, comedy and song, featuring beautiful costumes, gorgeous lighting and world class routines, including an incredible Argentine Tango routine by the master!
On Friday 27 March, Faith – The George Michael Legacy celebrates one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time. This brand new show takes an energetic, vibrant musical journey through 35 years of hits from George's glittering career, performing all the hits from Freedom! '90 to Club Tropicana, Outside to Careless Whisper, the beautiful I Knew You Were Waiting and the show stopping Somebody To Love, all brought to life by a fantastic cast and sensational live band.
There's an action-packed end to the month on Saturday 28 March, when the Stars of American Wrestling get ready to rumble with a worldwide championship spectacular featuring a Tag Team Challenge, plus the chance for audience members to meet the stars of the show at a free meet and greet!
Chantelle Nolan, Theatre Manager said: "We're starting Spring with an excellent mix of music, dance, drama and fun at St Helens Theatre Royal this March. Highlights include musical tributes to some of the greatest artistes of our age, one of Ireland's best country music singers, a spectacular show by the boys from Strictly Come Dancing and a star-studded UK premiere tour of Helen Forrester's best-selling novel By The Waters of Liverpool."
Livewire AC/DC Show
Date: Friday 6 March 2020
Tickets: £20.50/17
Date: Saturday 7 March 2020
Tickets: £23.50
Derek Ryan Live In Concert
Date: Friday 13 March 2020
Roy G Hemmings Hits Of Motown
Date: Saturday 14 March 2020
By The Waters Of Liverpool
Date: Tuesday 17 – Saturday 21 March 2020
Time: 7.30pm / 2.30pm matinee Wed & Sat
Tickets: From £16
Ian Waite & Vincent Simone – ACT TWO
Date: Monday 23 March 2020
Faith – The George Michael Legacy
American Wrestling
Tickets: Adult £14, Child £12, Family (2ad, 2ch) £44
All ticket prices are inclusive of a £1 per seat transaction fee. On-line bookings are subject to an additional 50p per seat on-line processing fee.
THEATRE ROYAL BOOKING DETAILS
Book in person at the Theatre Royal Box Office, Corporation Street, St. Helens, Merseyside WA10 1LQ (Mon – Sat 10am – 5pm). Alternatively, call 01744 756 000 or log on to: www.sthelenstheatreroyal.com.
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Tilda Swinton Shares List Of Her 11 Favourite Films – Read
As part of her fellowship with the British Film Institute, Tilda Swinton has compiled a list of her favourite films which is great for all your coronavirus-induced social isolation needs.
Besides this, the actress also engaged in a fascinating, one-hour career-spanning conversation discussing her days as a newbie actor and her creative collaborations with Derek Jarman and Sallu Porter. She also spoke about what it is like to work with Lynne Ramsay and Bong Joon Ho and how it was working in the Oscar-winning Michael Clayton.
Here are eleven of her favourite films:
I Was Born, but… / Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
La Belle et la Bête (Jean Cocteau)
M (Fritz Lang)
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
My Childhood / My Ain Folk / My Way Home (Bill Douglas)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
"Exquisitely atmospheric summer cruising. Boys looking for boys and the idyll of abandon. A breathtakingly swoony study in wicked tension, the romance of danger, and real erotic yearning," the actress said about Stranger by the Lake.
"One of the most elliptical and mesmerising films I know. George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman caught in a landscape of alienation — from each other, from southern Italy: a study in inarticulacy, loneliness and longing, built on a radiant belief in miracles," she wrote about Journey to Italy.
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Cross dated of 1537. It bear engraved in hollow the name of P. Alaman, the person who ordered the cross.
At the top of the shaft : St Jean Baptiste, patron saint of the prieural church. The cross is maded with sandstone and measure 520 cm hight, 239 cm wide and 128 cm deep. It was restored in 1998 by the Conte company.


Ruth Thomson, Interim Director of Strategic Innovation sat down with Jelena, one of Mango's machine learning experts.
I've been using machine learning for many years. I first started using machine learning as part of my PhD in Physics over 12 years ago using a neural net for mainly pattern recognition in particle physics. And I've been using it ever since in projects and for clients when it is the best tool for the job.
Because I've been using it for so long, I find it amusing that machine learning is now being marketed as a new thing. The algorithms and approaches have been around since the 1970s. The exciting thing is that we now have computers powerful enough to enable the greater use of machine learning to help improve decision making.
Now as a Senior Data Scientist at Mango, I use machine learning in our consultancy projects and I also train data scientists around the world in the world's largest companies in how to use machine learning. Most recently, for example, I have been training analysts and data scientists at one the UK's largest banks.
One thing I love is understanding how tools like machine learning can be used to drive business value. How has Mango helped clients use machine learning recently?
We've been using machine learning in a range of different companies recently. For example, one way has been to help our customers reduce the costs resulting from late payment of invoices and another is using machine learning to create better sales forecasts. It is a powerful tool, that for the right problem, can be very effective.
What advice would you give to organisations who want to gain value from machine learning?
Recognise that machine learning is one of a suite of advanced analytics tools you can use to drive value. The most important thing to do is to define the business problem or opportunity you have and then use machine learning if it is the most appropriate tool.
That is so interesting. It can be really easy to get drawn into the hype around machine learning. As someone who has used machine learning extensively over many years. What's your opinion?
From my experience, the most dangerous misconception is that machine learning is an ultimate oracle. Businesses see all things that have been achieved and think that machine learning is the right tool for every situation. In reality, it is a useful tool but it needs to be applied in a smart way.
I totally agree. We have seen and heard of so many projects where machine learning was used, to great cost and investment, when a simpler and better solution could have been applied. This has happened where organisations have started with the answer – machine learning, rather than with the question – what business problem are we trying to solve?
Exactly. And another danger is that machine learning is being sold as a tool that you can use out of the box. Just press a button and the answer will appear. In reality that is so far from the truth and some businesses have had to find that out the hard way.
Is it fair to say that the businesses who are going to drive real business value are ones who have a clear focus on the question they are trying to answer with machine learning?
Yes. A smart business will have a clear business case and a clear question that is being answered with machine learning. Then look at whether machine learning is the appropriate tool to answer that question. Baring in mind that setting up a machine learning environment is not a cheap exercise and no business wants to waste money on tools that are not needed.
Another important area for businesses to consider is the data they have available. In machine learning, having the right data is critical. In many businesses, far more attention needs to be paid to the data available, the data quality and preparation to enable machine learning.
I feel we could talk about this topic for hours! In summary, if you could a message with businesses considering using machine learning, what would it be.
Machine learning is a powerful tool but it is only one of many tools you can use. It is also not a tool, yet, that can fully replace the data analysis process. Use it as part of an advanced analytics programme focused on driving business value.
If you're an organisation considering using machine learning or improving your current use of machine learning, get in touch with us.


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The Companies Office has laid criminal charges in the Auckland District Court against Trevor Allan Ludlow, Anthony David Banbrook and Carol Anne Braithwaite, the Directors of National Finance 2000 Limited.
"The charges relate to untrue statements in the company's registered prospectus and failure to comply with financial reporting standards" said Registrar of Companies Neville Harris.
The prosecution is being carried out by the National Enforcement Unit of the Companies Office.
The Serious Fraud Office is also conducting a separate investigation into National Finance 2000 Ltd, and the agencies have been liaising closely as appropriate.
The defendants are due to appear on Thursday the 23rd of October 2008 in the Auckland District Court.
Mr Harris said the case was now before the Court and it would not be appropriate to comment further.


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Państwo-gospodarz (ang. host nation, lub HN) – państwo przyjmujące obce wojska w ramach programu HNS, prowadzonego przez NATO.

Wsparcie przez państwo-gospodarza HNS
Host Nation Support oznacza cywilną i wojskową pomoc, świadczoną w okresie pokoju, kryzysu i wojny przez państwo-gospodarza dla sił sojuszniczych i organizacji NATO, które są rozmieszczone na jego terytorium, lub przemieszczają się przez nie. Podstawą takiej pomocy są zapisy wynikające z bilateralnych i wielostronnych porozumień pomiędzy NATO a państwem-gospodarzem.

Państwo wysyłające (SN) zajmuje się przerzutem wojsk, jego zaopatrzeniem oraz zasilaniem. Państwo przyjmujące (HN) bierze na siebie odpowiedzialność za transport, kontrolę ruchu, obsługę i serwis, magazynowanie, oraz dostarczenie wody, paliwa i żywności. Ponadto, państwo przyjmujące wyznacza, zależnie od potrzeb, miejsce składowania lub stacjonowania, lub obszar odpowiedzialności dla obcych wojsk.

Usługi realizowane w ramach wsparcia
W ramach wsparcia przez państwo-gospodarza wojska mogą korzystać z:
 lotniczych i morskich portów wyładowania i załadowania
 usług w portach lotniczych i morskich (urządzenia portowe, obsługa, place, magazyny, ochrona, naprawy ekspresowe, remont uszkodzonych lotnisk)
 dostaw amunicji, a także: udostępnianie magazynów amunicyjnych, transportu do przewozu amunicji, obsługiwanie materiałów wybuchowych
 cywilnej siły roboczej (zespoły pracowników wykwalifikowanych i niewykwalifikowanych)
 łączności (środki łączności, personel)
 usług budowlanych (montaż konstrukcji, odbudowa obiektów, w tym i infrastruktury transportowej, budowa mostów)
 usług pomocniczych (zakwaterowanie, administracja, magazynowanie)
 dostaw paliw płynnych, a także: składów paliwowych, rurociągów paliwowych, usług laboratoryjnych
 remontu uzbrojenia i sprzętu wojskowego, w tym także ewakuacji ratownictwa technicznego
 pomocy medycznej (szpitale, ewakuacja medyczna, pomoc w nagłych wypadkach)
 usług prasowych oraz zabezpieczenia przyjmowania delegacji (baza hotelowa i gastronomiczna, transport, przewodnicy, łączność)
 usług na rzecz jeńców i osób internowanych
 zapewnienia bezpieczeństwa w obszarze tyłowym (wydzielenie personelu do ochrony)
 rejonów do ześrodkowania wojsk oraz wsparcia w tym zakresie (magazynowanie zapasów, pomoc w rozliczeniach finansowych za świadczone usługi)
 zaopatrzenia i usług gospodarczo-bytowych (dostawy żywności, wody, zakwaterowanie, łaźnie, pralnie, odpoczynek, rekreacja i rehabilitacja, ochrona osobista)

Podstawy prawne
Podstawą prawną w prawie międzynarodowym jest artykuł piąty Traktatu Waszyngtońskiego, przyjętego 4 kwietnia 1949 roku w Waszyngtonie, który mówi, iż strony zgadzają się, że zbrojna napaść na jedną z nich w Europie lub Ameryce Północnej będzie uznana za napaść przeciwko nim wszystkim i dlatego zgadzają się, że jeżeli taka zbrojna napaść nastąpi, to każda z nich, w ramach wykonywania prawa do indywidualnej lub zbiorowej samoobrony, uznanego na mocy artykułu 51 karty Narodów Zjednoczonych, udzieli pomocy stronie lub stronom napadniętym, podejmując niezwłocznie samodzielne, jak i w porozumieniu z innymi stronami działania, jakie uzna za konieczne, łącznie z użyciem siły zbrojnej, w celu przywrócenia i utrzymania bezpieczeństwa regionu północnoatlantyckiego.

Podstawą prawną w prawie polskim jest Ustawa z 17 grudnia 1998 o zasadach użycia lub pobytu Sił Zbrojnych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej poza granicami państwa () oraz Ustawa z 23 września 1999 r. o zasadach pobytu wojsk obcych na terytorium Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej oraz zasadach ich przemieszczania się przez to terytorium ().

Jeżeli okres pobytu obcych wojsk na terenie Polski nie przekracza 3 miesięcy, stosowną decyzję wydaje Minister Obrony Narodowej. Jeżeli okres ten jest dłuższy, decyzję wydaje Rada Ministrów.

Na mocy porozumień międzynarodowych (Umowa sporządzona w Londynie 19 czerwca 1951 , Protokół sporządzony w Paryżu 28 sierpnia 1952 ), wojska sojusznicze, korzystające z gościny państwa-gospodarza, nie podlegają obowiązkowi paszportowemu. Nie podlegają również przepisom dotyczących rejestracji cudzoziemców, ale też nie uzyskują prawa do stałego pobytu na terenie tego państwa. Wymagane dokumenty to dowód tożsamości, wydany w kraju pochodzenia, oraz indywidualny lub zbiorowy rozkaz wyjazdu. Obce wojska podlegają kontroli Polskiej Straży Granicznej przy przekraczaniu granicy.

Zobacz też
 Status of Forces Agreement

NATO

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I would say the best secret of the central coast of Oregon is whale watching. The most excited moment was watching a gray whale up close. It swam across the water by the whale watching center at the Depoe Bay State Park. At first we had no clue where to look. After standing in the chill pacific wind for quite some time, a guy spotted a whale by the huge rocks on the shore. Stephen saw it, too. I looked over that way and searched real hard for any signs of whales, but didn't see anything except the crashing waves. After a while, I saw a spout of water coming up from the water nearby, then the back of the whale appeared above the water. Wow! I saw it for the first time ever!!! The giant gray whale swam along the shore and crossed the water beneath. It spouted water, arched up its back, waved its tail, and dove down. I recorded it on the camcorder. That was way cool!
The whale kept swimming by the shore and further away from the watching center. We still saw it spraying water and up and down the water. Now I knew the first sight of whales is the spouting water. There were whale watching boats heading out to the sea. Usually we saw the spouts near the whale watching boats in the distance. 25 whales were seen yesterday. The gray whales spend their summer and fall along the Oregon coast, migrate to the south for breeding in winter. Other good places to watch whales are Rocky Creek Wayside and Boiler Bay.
After a delicious seafood lunch at the local restaurant, we walked back to watch the whales again. Adding to the fun was the sight of two black birds with long red beaks landing on the rocks. The afternoon sun warmed up the cool air. It was pleasant leaning against the rock wall and listening to the sound of the waves crashing on the huge black rocks on shore.
We left Depoe Bay and stopped by the Rocky Creek State Scenic Viewpoint. The little Whale Cove doesn't have a public access but we could see it afar from the viewpoint. The sky was hazy. It might be the smoke blown from the wildfire in central Oregon. Some brave people climbed on the cliff by the cove. There are some huge houses sitting on the terrace facing the ocean. What a great place to live watching the whales and the seascape! We saw whales again in the distance.
We walked through a narrow trail down to a huge fine sandy beach. The sand was hot under the bare feet. Walking closer to the ocean, the wet sand was easy to walk on and was cooler. Huge white waves rolled over roaring to the beach. Facing the coming tide, I deeply felt the enormous power of the ocean. The sea water was cold even in the hottest summer day. Mists floated above the beach in the distance. A lighthouse was barely visible from afar. Kids were playing with dogs. People were running around, chasing the waves, sliding on the beach, or just watching the waves coming and going.
We stopped at the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area to see the lighthouse. But what lit up our eyes was not the lighthouse. There are some big rocks in the Tidepools. Lots of black seabirds were resting on the islets by the shore. We saw the whales in the water again! As I was enjoying the grand vista of the ocean, Stephen walked around. A moment later, he signaled me to go over. "Seals! There are seals on the rock!" He spoke excitedly in a low voice. From the binoculars, I saw about a dozen mammals on the giant black rock down there in the water. We were told those with grey dots were harbor seals and a couple of brown ones were sea lions. The best kept secret of this place is wildlife watching!
A seal was lying on a tiny rock next to the big rock. After a while, it left and swam towards the big rock where other seals and sea lions were hanging out. After several tries, it finally jumped onto the bigger rock with the help of the waves. It crawled on the rock awkwardly, and found a good spot to lie down enjoying the warm sun. Another seal also climbed up to the big rock. It was a lot more fun to watch seals in the wild.
There were lots of kids and adults in the Tidepools by the pebble beach. I joined them and climbed up to the rocks to watch another group of seals and sea lions. A couple of seals were playfully swimming in the water. Their cute round heads stuck out of the water once in a while. Kids were searching for sea stars, shells, crabs, mussels, and more. The pebble beach is covered with black round pebbles. Nothing should be taken away from this natural area to preserve its beauty and wilderness.
We crossed the old Yaquina Bay Bridge twice today and got some pictures. Watching the sunset from the east bank of the Alsea Bay was the last beautiful moment of the day. A few seagulls flew on the water, and a couple of seals were in the bay. The color of the setting sun was as red as the watermelon. It emitted soft lights and set peacefully without brilliant arrays of color display. We were so happy to find some of the secrets of the central coast of Oregon and glad we are here.
What a magical place! Love your photos.
Thanks Kathy! I love this place. It is so much fun!


The other day my kids were out picking fresh raspberries and blueberries out in the woods. I love that you can get so much fresh produce right now even in the stores and the farmers market. I would love to have more berry bushes on our property. Little Isabella is smitten with raspberries so ours is always picked clean these days.
I wanted to share a quick smoothie recipe for you to enjoy. We like to use our Nutribullet to make them in since it is so easy to make them in there, but you can use any blender and that should do.
Berries are great antioxidants and are good for your heart and fighting cancer and I love being able to make something healthy for our family that tastes so good. I especially like to make smoothies when I feel a cold or virus coming on--it helps to ward it off and strengthen the immune system.
Here is the recipe below--feel free to print it out!
Blend this all together and you have a healthy summer smoothie in minutes! You could even add a dash of chia seeds or flax seeds to make it healthier. If you use frozen berries you can omit the ice.
You can find more recipes for smoothies HERE.
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OMEGA CAR (Omega Carinae). Well, somebody has to be last. And Omega Carinae certainly does that. It was not only given the last letter in the Greek alphabet, but it's the most southerly star in Carina, the Keel of Argo, the mythical Ship of the Argonauts. Though not by much, as at 70 degrees south of the celestial equator, Omega beats out brighter, second magnitude Beta Car (Miaplacidus) for the title by only a third of a degree. (Much too far south for Bayer to see, Carina's Greek letters were applied by Nicolas de Lacaille, who lived between 1713 and 1762). There is not much between Omega Car and the South Celestial Pole except fourth magnitude I ("eye") Car (HR 4102) and Gamma Chamaeleontis (also fourth mag) in eponymous Chamaeleon. None of this discussion, however, tells us anything about the Omega Car, which is a rather bright third magnitude (3.32) class B (B8) "giant" (but see below) that lies 342 light years away (give or take just 3). A temperature of 13,180 Kelvin, from which we can evaluate the amount of ultraviolet radiation, allowance for a six percent dimming by interstellar dust (consistent with the star's lying nearly a dozen degrees from the Milky Way's midline), and distance give a luminosity 1040 times that of the Sun and a radius of 6.2 times solar. Theory then shows the star to be not so much a giant as a subgiant that has given up, or is about to give up, core fusion of hydrogen, and yields a mass of 4.8 to 5 times that of the Sun, depending on the exact state of evolution. Born just under 100 million years ago, Omega Car is destined to slough off its outer envelope and have its core die as a fairly massive white dwarf of 0.85 solar masses. What makes Omega Car more special is a surrounding equatorial disk that makes it into a "B-emission" or "Be" star (the "e" implying emission lines of hydrogen) in the mold of Zeta Tauri, Gamma Cassiopeiae, and many others. The disk is thick enough along the line of sight for Omega Car to be called a "shell star." The "Be" phenomenon is clearly tied (though in an unknown way) to fast stellar rotation, and sure enough, Omega's spectrum reveals it to be spinning with an equatorial speed of at least 235 kilometers per second, which gives it a rotation period of under 1.2 days. Observations of the disk suggest a tilt of 65 degrees to the plane of the sky, which gives an actual rotational speed of 260 kilometers per second, roughly 85 percent of the speed at which the star would begin to come apart. The rotational velocity is high by solar standards (2 kilometers per second), but well below the record. At such a speed, Omega Car must be ellipsoidal, flattened at the poles, which compromises the measured surface temperature (the star being hottest at the pole, coolest at the equator). Such stars are often unstable, as witnessed by Gamma Cas, Dschubba (Delta Scorpii), and a variety of others, though Omega Car shows no sign of variation. On the other hand, is anybody watching? Nor is there any evidence for a companion of any sort, the star notable for its obscurity and its loneliness in addition to its position at the end of the alphabet.
Written by Jim Kaler 3/29/13. Return to STARS.


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package com.facebook.presto.spiller;

import com.facebook.presto.spi.PrestoException;
import org.testng.Assert.ThrowingRunnable;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom;

import static com.facebook.presto.spi.StandardErrorCode.GENERIC_INTERNAL_ERROR;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertNotEquals;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.testng.Assert.expectThrows;

public class TestAesSpillCipher
{
    @Test
    public void test()
    {
        AesSpillCipher spillCipher = new AesSpillCipher();
        // test [0, 257] buffer sizes to check off all padding cases
        for (int size = 0; size <= 257; size++) {
            byte[] data = randomBytes(size);
            // .clone() to prevent cipher from modifying the content we assert against
            assertEquals(data, spillCipher.decrypt(spillCipher.encrypt(data.clone())));
            assertEquals(ByteBuffer.wrap(data), spillCipher.decrypt(spillCipher.encrypt(ByteBuffer.wrap(data.clone()))));
        }
        // verify that initialization vector is not re-used
        assertNotEquals(spillCipher.encrypt(new byte[0]), spillCipher.encrypt(new byte[0]), "IV values must not be reused");

        // cleanup
        assertFalse(spillCipher.isDestroyed());
        byte[] encrypted = spillCipher.encrypt(randomBytes(1));
        spillCipher.destroy();
        assertTrue(spillCipher.isDestroyed());

        spillCipher.destroy(); // should not throw an exception

        assertFailure(() -> spillCipher.decrypt(encrypted), "Spill cipher already destroyed");
        assertFailure(() -> spillCipher.encrypt(randomBytes(1)), "Spill cipher already destroyed");
    }

    private static void assertFailure(ThrowingRunnable runnable, String expectedErrorMessage)
    {
        PrestoException exception = expectThrows(PrestoException.class, runnable);
        assertEquals(exception.getErrorCode(), GENERIC_INTERNAL_ERROR.toErrorCode());
        assertEquals(exception.getMessage(), expectedErrorMessage);
    }

    private static byte[] randomBytes(int size)
    {
        byte[] bytes = new byte[size];
        ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextBytes(bytes);
        return bytes;
    }
}

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Employers Listen Up: USCIS Launches "I-9 Central"
On May 13, 2011, the USCIS rolled out a very helpful online service for employers called "I-9 Central".
"I-9 Central is the latest in our ongoing efforts to better serve the 7.5 million employers who use Form I-9 every time they hire an employee," said USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas. "It provides critical information for all employers – whether they hire a single employee or hundreds – in an accessible, intuitive and comprehensive online format."
I remember when President Reagan signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 which established the I-9 requirement. I was recruited by a local Congressman to give a series of seminars to employers in his district about their responsibilities under the new law. I warned them that they were walking a tightrope. The form was only one page long and looked very simple to complete. However, if they were not careful in completing, updating and storing their I-9 forms, they could be subject to civil fines. On the other hand, if employers tried to train their HR managers to be junior immigration officers, they ran the risk of huge fines for violating the document abuse and antidiscrimination provisions of the law.
"We are very pleased by the services we get from the Law Offices of Carl Shusterman. Our experience in the past year with all our H1B renewals has been amazing, and we've obtained great results."
- KRG Technologies, Valencia, California
Now, a quarter century later, the task of completing, updating and storing I-9 forms is exponentially more complex than it was in 1986. USCIS' "Handbook for Employers" is over 60 pages long. The books that we immigration attorneys read on this subject number in the hundreds of pages. Think that the I-9 process is easy? Do you know how to complete the form in a "portability" case? In a "cap-gap" case? Where there has been a corporate merger or acquisition? Do you store your I-9s manually? Do you use microform or electronic retention? Are you enrolled in the E-Verify Program?
Have you read about some of the multi-million dollar fines paid by employers in recent years?
Wal-Mart's $11,000,000 fine in 2005 allowed the company to escape criminal penalties.
Golden State Fence Co., a California employer, paid $4.7 million to ICE in a plea bargain in 2007. The U.S. Attorney sought prison terms, but the Judge granted the executives probation.
Last year, Abercrombie & Fitch paid penalties of over $1 million even though they used an electronic I-9 system purchased from a vendor.
Last October, a large health care provider was forced to pay fine of over $250,000 not because they hired any undocumented workers, but because in attempting to comply with the law, they asked for more paperwork from persons born abroad than they did from native-born U.S. citizens.
The Obama Administration has greatly increased the number of employers who are being subject to government audits. I have been interviewed on various occasions regarding the ongoing criminal investigation of Chipolte's hiring practices.
Given the possible consequences, what's a company to do?
This is an area where well-trained HR managers can save their companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. It is a great idea to hire an attorney experienced in immigration law to perform internal audits of your I-9 forms before you receive a Notice of Inspection from ICE. The money that you pay the attorney will be far, far less than what you may have to pay in fines in the future. I have never performed an internal audit where a company was 100% compliant with the law. It's complicated!
And now, there is "I-9 Central".
I-9 Central is a very well-written online resource which is divided into the following topics:
Complete & Correct
Accepted Documents
Retain & Store
About the Form
For employers in Southern California, I have been invited by the Professionals in Human Resources Association (PIHRA) to conduct a series of seminars on I-9s during the first week of June. See Topic #3 below.
Our Employers' Immigration Guide contains a wealth of information about employers' I-9 responsibilities under the law including two videos entitled "Employers: How to Survive an I-9 Audit".


!! OMG, WATCH: Tom Cruise's hot new mess, THE MUMMY gets The Honest Trailer treatment !!
This film looked disastrous! Poor Tommy Girl! Check out what HONEST TRAILERS has to say about THE MUMMY remake.
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Sago or saboodana is enriched with carbohydrate. It contains 94 % carbohydrate, .2% protein, 0.5% dietary fibre and a little bit calcium and iron. The saboodana is used to prepare several dishes. In our series of fitness recipes, we have come up with saboodana khichdi recipe. Its preparation takes 4 hours while the cooking takes only 15 minutes.
Keep the saboodana soaked in water for 2 hours.
Wash the saboodana in running water to wash its starch off.
Keep it in a sieve and place aside for 2 hours to remove all the water from the sago.
Remove the potato cover and make small pieces. Place a pan on the flame to heat the ghee.
Add the green chillies when the jeera get spluttered.
Add the potato pieces after cooking the cumin seeds and the chillies for 10 seconds.
Keep frying the potatoes till they get half cooked.
Now add the peanuts. Keep cooking for 2-3 minutes.
Add the tomatoes and keep cooking for 4-5 minutes by covering the top.
Add the drained sago along with the salt and keep cooking for 4-5 minutes.
Decorate it when the saboodana gets transparent.


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Sports Marketing During a Pandemic
By Robin Carr, Senior Counselor
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently told The New York Times that he runs daily to relieve stress. However, what he really wants – like so many sports fans – is to go to a baseball game. He's sorely missing his favorite team, the Washington Nationals.
"I don't think there's any place I relax more than in Nats Park, watching my now-World Champion Nats play a game," he said. "That is a catharsis for people who have a stressful life like I do."
Although there are clearly more important things in world than sports right now, I've got to agree with Dr. Fauci – I miss the games like Wimbledon, which was cancelled for the first time since World War II. We'll also miss watching this year's Olympic Games in Japan, which have been pushed back to July 2021.
Who won the Masters? We'll know in November – if this rescheduled date will still apply. Somebody should have slipped into his green jacket in the Butler Cabin on Easter Sunday, but not this time. For everyone, this was an Easter like no other. It defined fractured relationships with our families, jobs, health, cultures – and our identities.
That said, one need not be a sports fan to appreciate what's not happening. No peanuts and Cracker Jack at the ballpark, no basketball, no hockey, no Premier League, no Olympics, no racing – neither horse nor auto – no spring football…pretty much no nothing. Part of the fabric of our worldwide connectivity is missing.
So much remains at stake for things to return to "normal" anytime soon. Not only must we get the upper hand on COVID-19 so everyone can feel safe about group activities, but corporations, brands, leagues and rights-holders, must also manage significant financial risk. Sports isn't fun and games for them, it's business. I don't blame them.
Sports would be a welcome distraction to all the anxiety and uncertainty in the world right now. It would give us something else to talk about, to share and to enjoy. Maybe we'll all get our games back soon and the only mask we have to worry about for a little while is the one the catcher is wearing.
How about the bright spots? Professional baseball is being played in Taiwan and South Korea, albeit with no fans, no food and no high-fives. ESPN is airing some of these games for baseball-starved North Americans, and of course ESPN is seeing gigantic ratings from the Michael Jordan documentary, "The Last Dance." The big business of the NFL was on full display in April, when ABC, ESPN and the NFL Network aired the annual (but this year, virtual) 2020 Draft to record ratings. The audience was clearly starved for something sports-related in an otherwise barren sports TV landscape.
I do know first-hand about sports as a big business: I spent 18 years of my PR career in sports media relations with the San Francisco Giants, Nike and EA Sports. A lot of people are ready to get back to work, from vendors and parking attendants to video crews and, yes, each team's PR professionals.
Like Dr. Fauci, I'm optimistic that we will, eventually, get to use two of our favorite words again: PLAY BALL!
Posted in Public RelationsTagged COVID-19, Fauci, hockey, PR, public relations, robin carr, sports pr
7 thoughts on "Sports Marketing During a Pandemic"
Sean Dowdall says:
I know we'll once again be able to attend sports and arts events. I hope soon!!! Thanks Robin – great post!
Brianne Miller says:
Having a collective shared experience with thousands of people you don't know – whether it's sports or concerts or high school graduations – is a feeling like no other. I know we all miss it and feel terribly for those directly and tangentially affected (hmmm…is cracker jack in financial trouble? what about the folks who print diplomas? ticketing companies?). My grandfather was an usher at the old Shea Stadium, former home of the NY Mets, and we counted down each year to opening day. I'm ready to hear "play ball!"
David Landis says:
Robin, great blog. We're all going a bit stir crazy, aren't we? But soon we'll be back to the game – maybe just in a different form. Cheers, David
Polly Ikonen says:
Just today, the NYT ran a piece [link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/sports/will-there-be-an-nfl-season.html%5D contemplating whether and how the NFL might have a fall season. It seems the most likely – and strangest – solution might be to hold games without an audience, as they're doing in Asia. I imagine that must be strange for the players, who draw upon the energy of thousands of people to play their best games. It might, in fact, be more strange for them than for us fans, who – while we may pine for the smell of beer and garlic fries – at least know what it feels like to watch a game on TV.
Thanks for this interesting perspective on an industry that is definitely reeling from the effects of this pandemic. I'm very curious to know how this will all shake out. Perhaps you can write a follow-up blog later in the summer to let us know how things are evolving? 🙂
– David C.
Happy to! Thank you all for the comments!
Leigh Anne Varney says:
Oh, how each spring I've always looked forward to watching a baseball game both on TV and in person as it heralds that summer is just around the corner! Never realized how I mark the passage of the seasons via sports and how I love keeping up with stats on ball players and tennis stars, specifically. I've never taken sports for granted and as you point out, there are so many people affected up and down the line. The sun will shine again on sports and things may have to adjust a bit but I can't wait to revel in a game. Any game!
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3. Rejected the doctrine that Jesus was a real human being.
4. Either were immoral, or else went to the other ascetic extreme, and thought even marriage was bad.
Here is a list of earl Church writers who wrote about the Gnostics.
JM Justin Martyr 119 pgs 138-165 A.D.
He Shepherd of Hermas 47 pgs 160 A.D.
Th Theophilus [Antioch] 33 pgs 168-181/188 A.D.
Ir Irenaeus 264 pgs 182-188 A.D.
Te Tertullian [Rome] 830 pgs 200-220 A.D.
CA Clement of Alexan. 424 pgs 193-217/220 A.D.
Hi Hippolytus, 233 pgs 225-235/6 A.D.
Or Origen 622 pgs 225-254 A.D.
JA Julius Africanus 232-245 A.D.
Cp Cyprian and friends 270 pgs 248-258 A.D.
The Pastor/Shepherd of Hermas and the Letter of Barnabas are at the end of the Sinaiticus manuscript.
Tertullian mentions Tatian as a heretic.
Tertullian mentions Simon the Magician. Tertullian's De Fuga Persecution ch.12 p.123 and A Treatise on the Soul ch.24-25 p.215-216.
Tertullian mentions Dositheus the proto-Gnostic, as the first to repudiate the prophets Against All Heresies ch.1 p.649.
Tertullian mentions Saturninus Against All Heresies ch.1 p.649.
Tertullian describes the heresy of the Gnostics Basilides and Nicolaus (Nicolatians) in Against All Heresies ch.1 p.649-650.
Hippolytus mentions Anaxagoras, Anaximenes, Archelaus, Aristotle, Chrysippus, Democritus, Ecphantus, Empedocles, Epicurus, Hippo, Leucippus, Pythagoras, Thales,Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Socrates, Stoics, Zeno, Brahmins/Brachmans, Celtic Druids, Hesiod. The Refutation of All Heresies Contents p.9.
Hippolytus refers to the following Greek philosophers in discussing heresies. Thales of Miletus, Pythagoras, Empededocles, Heraclitus of Ephesus, Anaximander hearer of Thales, Anaximenes of Miletus, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, Archelaus of Athens, Parmenides, Leucippus, Zeno the stoic, Democritus, Ecphantus of Syracuse, Hippo of Rhegium, Socrates hearer of Archelaus, Plato disciple of Socrates, Aristotle pupil of Plato, Chrysippus and other stoics, Hesiod.
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Winter storm 'Carmel' wreaks havoc with heavy rains, wind
One death blamed on storm, as woman crashes car into pole; weather system brings down trees and poles, causes fires and floods
People take cover from the rain as they walk on Jaffa Road in the city center of Jerusalem on December 20, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Israel's most intense storm of the winter wreaked havoc across the country Monday, bringing down trees and electrical poles, sparking fires, bringing widespread flooding, and causing at least one deadly car crash.
At least one death and several injuries were blamed on Winter Storm Carmel's walloping rains and wind, as well as near-freezing temperatures, throughout the country.
The storm intensified throughout the day on Monday and was forecast to continue through the night and into Tuesday morning. The coldest temperatures were felt in the Hermon, which also saw one of its most intense snowfalls of the early winter season.
Among the weather related incidents:
A 30-year-old woman driving between Migdal Haemek and Yafia in northern Israel lost control of her vehicle in the pouring rain, slamming into a traffic pole. She was flung from her car, and paramedics were forced to declare her death shortly upon arrival at the scene.
In the nearby Bustan al-Marj Regional Council, a 58-year-old woman was found disoriented on the street after having suffered from hypothermia. She was evacuated to a nearby hospital for treatment.
In northern Tel Aviv, a taxi driver drove into a sinkhole that was created by the storm. Half of his vehicle plunged into the hole, but the driver himself was left unscathed.
Two people were treated by the Magen David Adom ambulance service for light injuries after an electricity pylon in Jerusalem was knocked down by the storm, hitting the truck they were traveling in.
Near Majdal Shams on Israel's northern border, heavy rains sent large boulders falling onto Route 98, damaging a number of cars.
In Rishon Lezion, strong winds caused a small fire at the Loft restaurant, authorities said, though they did not elaborate on exactly how the storm sparked the fire.
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In Nahariya, authorities worried Monday night that the ongoing storm would cause a flood from the town's Ga'aton River, which had risen to its full capacity. Two years ago, deadly floods inundated the city, and though officials promised to install new safeguards, critics say not enough has been done yet.
Earlier Monday, a man sustained a serious head injury when the stormy weather blew over a tree that landed on him in the coastal city of Netanya. Paramedics who arrived at the scene treated the man, 49, sedating and intubating him before transporting him to Beilinson Medical Center where he had since stabilized, while remaining in serious condition.
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— מגוון החדשות (@r0QPh35NAIbPhiI) December 20, 2021
The man was apparently walking past the tree, on Raziel Street, when it snapped off at the roots and toppled onto the sidewalk, striking him.
Wind speeds in the area had reached 60 km/h (37 mph), Hebrew media reported.
Another tree blew down in Haifa, landing on a car, but not causing any injuries.
The IDF halted all navigation exercises, due to the weather, and placed restrictions on outdoor leisure activities for soldiers in the north of the country.
In the northern coastal cities of Nahariya and Acre, which were expected to see particularly heavy rainfall and winds, local authorities closed schools and ordered that classes be held remotely via the internet.
Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton ordered that all off-site activities planned by schools across the country be canceled from Monday through Wednesday, as a precaution.
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— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) December 20, 2021
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority closed many sites around the country, including the ancient Masada desert fortress and water hikes in the Judean desert. In the coastal city of Caesarea, the ancient hippodrome remains were also closed to the public.
Video shared on social media showed powerful waves smashing against the sea wall in Caesarea.
הסופה "כרמל" | הים סוער בגן הלאומי קיסריה
(אורלי אלקלעי, צילום: עידן יצחקיאן, רט"ג) pic.twitter.com/NvxZCvEu9W
The government-owned Mediterranean Coastal Cliffs Preservation Company warned that cliffs along the coast could collapse, dropping boulders down the cliff faces, and advised the public to stay away from such areas.
In Jerusalem, the temperature during the day was forecast to be 8° Celsius (46.4° F); in Tel Aviv 14°C; in Haifa 12°C; and in Eilat, the warmest place in the country, 20°C, though it was expected to drop 14°C at night.
An electricity pylon in Jerusalem was knocked downed by stormy weather, hitting a truck and injuring two, December 20, 2021. (Magen David Adom)
Preparations for the storm began Sunday with emergency services gearing up for various rescue tasks, while local authorities prepared backup generators and trimmed vegetation near powerlines to prevent cuts when the storm made landfall.
Police and fire services warned the public to refrain from unnecessary travel during the storm, which is expected to last until Wednesday. They also urged Israelis to avoid underground parking garages and other areas that could experience flooding, given expectations of up to 150 millimeters (nearly six inches) of rain in some locations.
Sunday's preparations came during a lull in the stormy weather after rainfall and high winds lashed parts of Israel on Saturday. The weather was blamed for the death of a homeless man, who died of hypothermia.
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Q: codeigniter session : php I have one header file for the home page and the login page
in that header. I wrote this code on top of it
<?php
if ($this->session->userdata('logged_in')==true ){
  redirect('home','refresh');
}else{
  redirect('home/login','refresh');
}
?>

but it keeps redirecting me to the same page and it shows nothing

A: <?php
 if ($this->session->userdata('logged_in')!==FALSE){
    redirect('home','refresh');
 }
  else{
   redirect('home/login','refresh');
 }
?>

try the above code..

A: $user_logged_in=$this->session->userdata('logged_in');

if (!$user_logged_in)
{
  redirect('home/login','refresh');
}else{

    redirect('home','refresh');

}

A: Remove the else redirect on login page, its already in login page
if ($this->session->userdata('logged_in')==true ){
  redirect('home');
}

except login, you can redirect the page :)
to differ the login page and home page just send the
$this->data["pagename"]="login"; in login function and
$this->data["pagename"]="home"; in home function

and in header
if ($this->session->userdata('logged_in')==true ){
      redirect('home');
    } else {
      if($pagename!="login")
       {
          redirect('home/login');
       }
    }

A: Try this
put these line in every controller's __construct function
    if ($this->session->userdata('logged_in') !=true) {
      if ($this->router->fetch_class() != 'home' && $this->router->fetch_method() != "login") {
        redirect("home/login");
      }
    }

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Dayton VA Center Investigating Improper Conduct
WYSO | By Dayton Daily News
Published February 23, 2012 at 8:27 AM EST
A report says the Dayton VA medical center is investigating allegations of improper conduct by an employee.
Allegations have been made that a doctor drew blood from patients under anesthesia without their knowledge or consent.
The Dayton Daily News reports the claim was made anonymously to the VA's Office of Inspector General, and a review is underway.
The newspaper also says a complaint alleges the doctor improperly kept a supply of the powerful sedative Propofol in his office that wasn't monitored or managed through the VA pharmacy even while there was a nationwide shortage of the drug in 2009.
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Joplin City Council advances nature center agreements
By DEBBY WOODIN dwoodin@joplinglobe.com
Debby Woodin
Volunteers with the Wildcat Glades Friends Group were commended Monday night by Joplin city officials for their work to reestablish the local nature center and Wildcat Park.
A number of the volunteers watched as the City Council gave first-round approval to two ordinances that will set up new lease for the renamed Shoal Creek Conservation Education Center and give the friends group a role in maintaining and operating Wildcat Park. Final council action is expected at the panel's next meeting.
City Attorney Peter Edwards explained to the council that one ordinance terminates the lease with the National Audubon Society, which a year ago announced that it was withdrawing from operation of the nature center. It establishes a new lease between the city and the Missouri Department of Conservation.
A second ordinance provides an agreement between the city and the friends group for maintaining the park and the nature center trails.
Joplin's parks director, Paul Bloomberg, said the new arrangement is exciting.
"They are going to be a huge asset to us," Bloomberg said of the friends group. They have been working together on a number of projects, including maintenance work on the trails, cleaning trash from the park and partnering for an Earth Day celebration.
"That's a beautiful area down there," said Steve Gaarder, president of the nonprofit friends group. "We have great passion for the glades area. Joplin is lucky to have a 3 1/2-mile trail that goes around a river (Shoal Creek), a spring, a nature center and a beautiful overlook of Shoal Creek at the Redings Mill bridge."
Under the agreements, the group will conduct educational nature activities, operate the nature center's gift shop and maintain the trails and park. In return, it can use the property to generate revenue for the costs of those activities. Gaarder thanked Bloomberg for his help and recognized the friends group members and board and program director, Robin Standridge.
He said the work at the nature center is intended to enhance the quality of life for Joplin residents and attract new business and residents.
Aaron Jeffries, deputy director of the Missouri Department of Conservation, said a lot of questions were asked of the department when it found it had inherited the center "and there was only one decision and that was to find a way to make it work." He said it has worked out because of the determination of the Conservation Commission, some key state legislators who helped and the friends group volunteers.
He also commended the city staff and parks department for their work.
"I don't know if you all remember the movie 'The Money Pit,' but as we dug into renovating the facility we continued to find a few more issues and challenges," he said. "I do hope the community can remain patient as we hope to open the facility later on."
Some of those problems have included a leaking roof and a broken aquarium.
Jeffries said he still does not know when the center will open. He told the Globe last week there will be allocations in the department's budgets for the next two fiscal years for repairs.
• A resolution establishing the Joplin Arts District for marketing purposes of the downtown area was authorized. Mayor Pro Tem Ryan Stanley commended the work of arts advocate Linda Teeter and other artists and arts supporters for their work in supporting the effort.
• Assignment of four part-time police officer positions and other staff changes at the Joplin Regional Airport were OK'd to accommodate current and anticipated new airline traffic there.
• A set of zoning codes that will allow medical marijuana to be sold in appropriately zoned areas was authorized by a unanimous 9-0 vote after hearing from three people who spoke in favor during a public hearing.
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Overstock CEO on indefinite leave following Hepatitis C complications
by Tammy Johnson April 11, 2016, 9:08 am 111 Views
Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock.com, has announced an indefinite leave of absence.
Byrne said he contracted Hepatitis C in 1984 in Xinjiang, China, "when a barefoot doctor sewed up a head wound under less-than-ideal conditions." He says he finished treatment and thinks he can beat the disease, "but only time will tell."
In his statement about his leave of absence, Byrne quoted the character Chief Dan George in the Clint Eastwood movie "Outlaw Josey Wales": "I myself never surrendered. But they got my horse, and it surrendered."
When he was 22 years old Byrne was diagnosed with testicular cancer which metastasized throughout his body. He was fought back against several recurrences and complications from his cancer diagnosis.
Despite his health complications Byrne has built Overstock.com into a profitable company that earned $1.7 billion in sales in 2015. The company is anticipating a $40 million profit in 2016.
On its website, Overstock describes Byrne as "a leading voice in a growing movement convinced that powerful interests on Wall Street are destroying American companies for profit — robbing investors and destabilizing our financial system in the process."
Serving as CEO will be Mitch Edwards, former CEO of BitTorrent and Skullcandy.
"Mitch is an outstanding full-spectrum entrepreneur who has serving as our general counsel for six months and has learned our business, and understands our efforts to revolutionize the capital markets," Byrne said.
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Faced with tragedy, Collins uses sports to cope
Jim Krajewski
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Faced with one of worst situations of her young life, Hayley Collins used sports to help cope, and she buried herself even further into an already flourishing academic career.
In the summer between her sophomore and junior years, Collins' father, Joe, committed suicide.
Collins was at softball tournament in Colorado in June 2015, when she found out her father had died.
"I got a call at midnight. It was the hardest call of my life, having to experience that. I had to get a last-minute flight back to Reno," Collins recalled.
She withdrew from friends and family for about a month.
But she has always been highly motivated and, through running along with going on solo wilderness hikes, she was able to deal with the loss.
"It was the hardest month for me. It happened in the summer, which gave me time to cope. I isolated myself. I would use running as a way to cope," she said.
Collins, now a senior at North Valleys, is the school valedictorian. She will graduate in June with a weighted GPA of 5.35, 4.0 non-weighted. She is also one of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association Top 10-Student-Athletes this year.
"At one point, I wanted to give up," Collins said. "It was really hard, but I used it as motivation. I didn't want to be that kid that students pity, I wanted to be that student that gets out there and shows them what I have in me."
The death of her father led to another change, one that also helped her cope.
After years of playing softball, both club and high school, she made a switch to running competitively. She ran on the North Valleys cross country team the past two seasons and is on the track team, running middle distances, the 800-meter and the 1600.
Her dad had played baseball, in high school at McQueen and Reno, and in the minor leagues, and he taught Hayley how to play softball, which she did on travel teams.
But for her, the joy was gone.
"He taught me the game, but it didn't feel the same anymore," she said. "I enjoyed running, so I thought, why not try running instead of softball."
She also wanted to try to help change the landscape of athletics at North Valleys, which has not seen much success since the school opened, 16 years ago.
Hayley said one of her goals since she arrived on campus as a freshman has been to help the school earn more respect.
Her mother, Beth Collins, said Haley has been extremely driven since she was a small child.
"She knew what she wanted and she worked hard for it," Beth said. "She always had goals in mind. I was worried she was pushing too hard."
In the eight grade, Haley announced to her parents that she wanted to be the valedictorian in high school. She asked the school counselor how to accomplish that goal.
Then she took the honors classes required, and she studied constantly, even on the road at softball tournaments in other states. She got up early to take zero period in school.
It all helped as she earned straight A's on her report card, never getting a 'B' or worse in any class.
Hayley took it upon herself to help her family deal with their father's death.
"I said I didn't want to fall apart. I said I'm going to have to be an adult now, now that my dad is gone," Hayley said.
Her mother said sports helped Hayley cope.
"It was hard on all of us. We all coped with it a little differently. We had to go through counseling. I let them all do what they felt they needed to do to be able to cope," Beth said. "Being around other kids and doing sports and being able to go somewhere and having to be at practice did help her get through it. Sports were her way of knowing that she had something to do, a purpose. Not just sitting around the house and being upset. There's still times when it's hard on them."
Hayley has a twin brother, Hunter, who played football at North Valleys and an older sister going to school at UNLV.
Hayley will study biology with a minor in political science at Nevada with the plan to possibly go to medical school.
The Northwest Invite, one of the largest track and field meets in Northern Nevada, is Saturday at McQueen.
Collins and all the Top 10 student-athletes selected by the NIAA will be honored at a banquet at the Peppermill on April 26.
The following (five boys & five girls) were selected as NIAA-Lifetouch Photography Top 10 Student-Athletes of the Year in Northern Nevada:
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Cost engineering to pick the exact right time of failure has gotten considerably more precise since then. The warranty on the array controller in my enterprise backup server expired on Jan. 2, 2011 – just over two weeks ago. Today, a surface mount capacitor decided it had enough, I'm impressed with how close to the end of the warranty it lived.
My last computer was dead-on perfect, though. A voltage regulator at the base of the board decided to end its life in a spectacular fashion while playing an online game, releasing the smell of ozone into my apartment and leaving me staring at a black screen for a minute wondering if my computer really did just explode or I was imagining it.
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Roy Harper (Origin) – Comic Basics
By Joel Scott / January 7, 2020 September 28, 2022
Origin of Roy Harper – Speedy
Real Name: Roy Harper
First Appearance: More Fun Comics #73 (November, 1941)
Powers: Roy Harper doesn't have any superpowers in the traditional sense. Instead, he's a highly skilled marksman, is proficient in many forms of combat, is in peak athletic form, and has an arsenal of trick arrows at his disposal.
Affiliation: Justice League of America, Teen Titans, Outsiders, and the Outlaws.
Did You Know? Roy Harper has gone by many names. The most famous of these include Speedy, Red Arrow, and Arsenal.
The origin of Roy Harper is pretty straightforward.
Roy Harper was created by Mort Weisinger and Paul Norris and first appeared inside the pages of More Fun Comics #73 back in 1941. In this appearance and for the next many decades, Roy went by the name Speedy.
When just a boy, Roy lost his father to a forest fire on a Navajo reservation. Sensing great skill in the young Harper, the medicine man of the local tribe, Brave Bow took him in. Under Brave Bow Roy learned and excelled in archery and marksmanship.
As Roy free so too did his fascination with the superhero, Green Arrow. In an effort to prove himself without of the Green Arrows eye, Roy entered into an archery contest. Unfortunately, although he had the skills to win, he didn't. All wasn't lost, however. Seeing the same great skill that Brave Bow saw, the Green Arrow took Roy under his wing and began to train him in the ways of crimefighting. After showing exactly how quick his draw of an arrow was, Roy adopted the name Speedy.
Once ready, the now named Speedy joined the Green Arrow as a superhero and hasn't remained there ever since.
And that's it. The origin of Roy Harper.
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