Bloomberg has talked with the secret society of "people with knowledge of the matter" and THEY say Apple's suppliers have started manufacturing new 9.7-inch iPads. A new version of the 7.9-inch iPad mini is also entering production. A different group known as "people familiar with the situation" have said Apple will make announcements on Sept. 9.
Lyft gave some data to CNN which apparently shows 177 Uber employees ordered and canceled more than 5,000 rides from the rival company since October 2013. Lyft drivers complained that even when they don't cancel they sometimes take short low-profit rides in which they try to convince Lyft drivers to come work for Uber. Uber told Ars Technica the claims are "patently false," although Uber does run promotions to get riders and driver to convince other drivers to come work for Uber.
GigaOm reports Apple is the latest in a string of tech companies releasing diversity reports. Of Apple's 98,000 employees, 55% identify as white, 15% Asian, and 7% black. 70% are male, which is about the same as Google and Facebook. If you don't count retail stores, 35% of Apple employees are women, but if you further limit it to tech roles, it drops to 20%. In Apple's leadership team, 64% are white, 21% Asian, and 72% male.
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Sony had its share of Gamescon announcements in Cologne as well. The company announced it sold 10 million PS4 consoles worldwide. Sold not shipped. A new feature called "Share Play" will come inSystem update 2.0 and allow your friends to join a game or take over the controls from anywhere even if they don't own the game. NBA2K, Towerfall and Child of Light were all mentioned as implemtning SharePlay. Europe got a couple announcements. PlayStation Now the game streaming service, won't arrive until sometime in 2015. However, Sony's PlayStation TV, essentially a Vita in console form will come to Europe November 14th for99 euros.
ancrod2 posted the Washington Post story that the US FCC has established a task force to study misuse of surveillance technology that intercepts cellular signals to locate people, monitor calls, and send malicious software. The tech described is an IMSI catcher often called "Stingray" and is widely used by police and intelligence services. The devices work by mimicking cell towers. The FCC wants to determine the extent to which criminals and foreign intelligence services use the technology against US citizens.
Hurmoth pointed out the 9to5 Mac story that the USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced the USB Type C connector is ready for production. The new smaller USB port features a reversible connector. Its powerful enough that one design can work for both PCs and mobile devices. The spec allows for 10 Gbps speed and USB Power Delivery of up to 100W.
habichuelcondulce and TexasTeacher both submitted links about Tim Davis. Who is Tim Davis? Well, if you're one of the many people who've been feeling a little empty inside because there's been no outrageous Comcast customer service call lately, Tim Davis is your new best friend. Davis moved to a new apartment, and chose to self-install his Comcast wireless equipment. Everything worked just fine for a few weeks. Until it didn't. A Comcast technician was dispatched, and discovered a problem with the wires outside. Since the problem was out of Davis's control, he was told there would be no cost to him. On a call. Which he SECRETLY RECORDED. Then he got the bill. And lo, there were charges. Almost two hundred dollars worth, including a failed self-install. So Davis called again. And things did Not Go Well. But that crafty Tim Davis, he had a SECRET RECORDING, which he played for the Comcast rep. And only because of this SECRET RECORDING, he got his money back. So Comcast customers, perhaps its time to start SECRETLY RECORDING every single call you make to Comcast. Ever. Needless to say the link to this SECRET RECORDING will be in the show notes.
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Hey Tom, since you were talking a lot about gender and race in the last episode, I thought I might be able to give my two cents about these diversity reports coming out of the big tech companies. As a Sociology major in the tech industry, I think a lot about the gender and racial dynamics in each department. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that Asian males are more likely to be engineers than black females. It's hard to disagree with the fact that females are underrepresented in engineering roles, as are Black/Hispanic males and females on the whole, I think it's important to put these statistics into context.
Moral questions arise when there is such a great supply/demand mismatch and a company wants its workforce to reflect the population as a whole, but the pool of trained professionals in a field skews towards certain ethnic groups.
In my humble opinion, a more fair metric of how to gauge the ethnic and gender diversity in departments is to compare the percentage of professionals with relevant skills in each racial group or gender with the percentage of people in each group at a respective company.
Obviously, this is super difficult to quantify, but I don't think it's fair to companies like Apple to expect their workforce to look so drastically different (in terms of gender and race) than the pool of professionals with those skills.
I care a lot about getting more women and minorities into STEM subjects, but the Sociologist in me says that these issues are best addressed by making sure our engineering classes resemble the population as a whole before we start blaming these companies for underrepresenting these groups.
Anyways, huge fan of the show. Stay awesome.
Wanted to comment on your back of the envelope calculation of gender. The population ratio of males to females is NOT the same as working males to females. The percentage of females in the workplace lower than the percentage of females in the total population. I am not going to address the rest of that issue, just your calculation that something must be wrong because the near 50% female population isn't what is showing up in the tech workplace.
Hmm well that wasn't my point. My point was that there are more females than males in existence so if we were going to be close to parity in the workplace then we'd need to get closer to 50%. The fact that the workplace in general has fewer than 50% females doesn't really make a difference in my point, I don't think.
Good points, Shawn from Blissful Berkely. This reminds me of studying Deming's guidance on quality. You don't beat the inspector who finds defects, you figure out what's causing the defects at the root source, no matter how far back in the supply chain/engineering design chain you must go. Another analogy would be measuring the end condition alone is like weighing yourself – it doesn't help you lose weigh but if you measure caloric input and output you can figure out what to change in order to influence the weight. You still have to measure that end condition.
And Average Random Joe – if 66% like science and math in 4th grade then you'd think we should be able to get to 50/50 even with some women choosing not to be in the work force, or at least a heck of a lot closer to it than 20%!


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A Traveller's Guide to Havana: Cuban Cigars, Mojitos & Endless White Sand
Luke Turner 5 years ago
Havana, Cuba. A Caribbean paradise home to the world's finest cigars, the best Mojitos and classic automobiles. At least, that's what the tourist brochures will have you believe, and there's no denying that's part of it. But in truth it's a unique and edgy place which can only be experienced to be believed.
Cuba's history reads like an adventure novel. Pirates, slaves and empires have all left their mark on the island, not least on Havana, always something of a city of sin. In the 1950s, the American mafia brought decadent pleasures to foreign tourists. Gambling, prostitution and drugs dominated the city, until it all came to an abrupt end with the 1959 Revolution. Economic isolation since then has kept Havana in something of a 1950s timewarp, albeit a vibrant and ever changing one.
I stayed at the famous Hotel Nacional. Once frequented by the likes of Churchill and Al Capone, it's not exactly a budget option. But with its faded 1930s grandeur and stunning coastal views, it's a great place to explore the city. Havana's old town is where most tourists head. Founded by Spanish colonists in 1519, it's a maze of narrow streets, ancient squares and hidden courtyards. It's an attractive place to spend a day or two, where you can sip a Mojito or two in one of the many elegant and old fashioned bars, watching the world go by. But with its elegant colonial hotels and restaurants, it's increasingly becoming something of a tourist enclave.
To see more of the real Havana, head to the centre, a bustling and chaotic area with crumbling buildings, cheerful hustlers and vibrant street life. There's no shortage of historical sites in the area, including the Museum of the Revolution. Housed in the former Presidential Palace, this opulent building still has bullet holes from a student uprising in the 1950s. Further west of the centre, lies Vedado, a more affluent area of grand boulevards and tree lined avenues, once home to Havana's numerous nightclubs and casinos. Much of that has gone, but it remains a vibrant area well worth a visit.
Later that evening I got chatting to a couple of students near the university, and we ended up spending a few hours at a locals bar, tucked away down a side street. Life is tough for most Cubans; rationing and shortages are a normal feature of life, and the stark divisions between the tourist and the locals became very apparent. But for all that, it's one of the friendliest and gregarious countries I've been to. And of course, I was persuaded to sample one of Cuba's famed cigars. I'm not a smoker, but when in Rome….
You could spend weeks exploring Havana, or just soaking up the atmosphere, but it's not a place for relaxation. If the heat and chaos of Havana become too much, head to the beaches of Playas del Este, only 20 minutes by taxi to the east of the city. Beaches don't get much better that this; endless white sand and palm trees, just like the brochures promise.
My Tip: Go now! Havana is unique but it's not going to stay this way for ever.
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Hope you get to visit sometime 🙂
Great review, love the old-school look of the place. It's going on my bucket-list!
Thanks lizzy!
Jodie Wilde
Great post Luke, love the car and the photos 🙂
thanks Jodie 🙂
Luke Galbraith
Hey Luke!
Great little article.
Im going to Cuba in a month and will be travelling through from Holguin to Havana so have a few questions.
Whats the cash situation over there like in terms of exchanging? What currency would you recommend taking? Sterling? Dollars? Also do you need proof of a flight out of Cuba to get through customs?
Would be grateful for any info here mate 🙂
Thanks Luke! I took sterling and euros, can be easily changed at most hotels. There's a tourist currency and a local one. Not sure on the onward flight – probably worth checking. Have a great time!
Sweet thanks Luke. Im gonna take euros and sterling as well – seems to be the most advised approach.
Did you need a visa or were you on a short stay? Any ATM's in Havana?
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Russian missile diplomacy in three stages
For a long time I wanted to write my first and also quality article about Russia, and now I have finally decided to do it. In a bunch of information from the global scene that come to us about the involvement of Russia about the issue of Syria, Iran, Ukraine and others, I will try to get out what might be important and crucial during 2014, as well as relations between the United States and NATO – on one hand and Russia on the other. I will start my analysis with the annual press conference held by President of Russia Vladimir Putin on December 19th, 2013. The conference lasted more than 4 hours and topics were various, from Snowden to the Ukrainian issue, but what is important for this text and what I will point out here, is actually the question of Russian ballistic missile systems. This part is important because it applies as a potential answer on the setting of NATO ( U.S. ) missile shield in Europe called EuroPRO. Putin´s conference was very interesting for watching, and from minute 28 in video you can find a question that reporter asked Putin regarding the missile systems Iskander. Video of particularly this part I put below.
The most important moment in Putin´s answer was the information that Moscow has not yet made an official decision about placing those missiles in the Kaliningrad region, and that the "Iskander missiles are not the only means we have at our defense however, and not the only possible response to the threats we see around us. They are just one possible response and certainly not the most effective, though in their particular class they are the most effective weapons system in the world." Now we ask ourselves which are an additional potential responses and what is the meaning of Putin´s words? I will try to give my opinion and to explain this below, but first something about the operational – tactical missile system called Iskander and its performance.
Iskander system consists of two subsystems Iskander – M and Iskander – E. These are new Russian tactical ballistic missiles on solid fuel and with range from 50-280 km (Iskander M) and 400 km (Iskander E). In addition to this feature there is also modern inertial – optical guidance system, warhead with weight of 480 kg and possibility of use on temperatures between – 50 and + 50 degrees of Celsius. Rocket is launched from launch carrier military vehicle that can carry one or two Iskander missiles. Accuracy of "Iskander" is two meters shortfall, which is ideal for shooting small targets. Although to its ballistic trajectory, "Iskander" missile is set on vehicle as sloping shot, and it allows missile to remain almost hidden from radar one part of the flight. In the picture below you can see a graphics that explains the features of "Iskander".
As Putin himself said in response, Iskander is not all that Russia can "offer" and that's just one of the possible options. The real question is what is the second stage of Russia adequate response to the actions of NATO? The answer was just given by Dmitry Rogozin in his New Year's greeting card addressed to NATO from his official Twitter profile.
Life Поздравляем наших друзей из НАТО с Новым годом!) pic.twitter.com/e3fndoMlHa
— Dmitry Rogozin (@Rogozin) December 28, 2013
Naturally this was joke from our great and convicted Serbian friend, who also mentioned information about his Serbian ancestry in one interview few years ago. As we know by the Murphy´s law that "in every joke has a bit of a joke", and based on it, this image carries a strong diplomatic message. On this photo except Santa Claus, his pretty Claus Lady and soldiers, there is a missile Topol – M or the smartest rocket in the world! I believe that Putin, in his reply at the conference primarily meant exactly on this rocket, as something what Russia can further show or just simply "the second stage of missile diplomacy". Topol – M rocket is also on solid fuel with static and mobile base. Length of its three stage corpus with the head portion is 22.7 m and diameter is 1.95 m, while the weight of the warhead is 1.2 tons! The range of missile is greater than 10 000 km and it crosses that distance as shown from rehearsals in 20-25 minutes. According to the level of combat readiness and precision this missile twice exceeds all previously existing intercontinental ballistic rockets in the world. The missile complex "Topol – M", in the eyes of its general constructor Yuri Solomon, overcome all other intercontinental ballistic missiles by many parameters, and "fall into the brightest flares that we have today". To shut down Topol – M someone must use between 5 and 7 interceptors from land. Today United States have 26 installed interceptors at Fort Greely in Alaska and 4 at base Vandenberg in California. At the same line with this info, we should add an interesting report of Chuck Hagel U.S. Secretary of Defense about installment of additional 14 missile interceptors until 2017. So, from the everything above we can make conclusion that " Topol – M " is the second level that comes after "Iskander".
If putting in readiness of Topol – M system wouldn´t be sufficient for the U.S. and NATO to stop their unilateral hegemony in its own polar world, I believe that Russians will enter into last stage before final and worst stage called global war. That war will be only in case if they are forced to, they will not cause it first, certainly because in the west "Me" is written with the uppercase M, and "me" in the east is written with lowercase letter. By my opinion and research the third phase of the Russian missile diplomacy would be positioning their submarines on the coast of Cuba. That position of Cuba was used earlier in the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union at the period of "Cuban missile crisis in 1962." Nowadays, the president of Russia, "probably would not" install missiles directly on the territory of Cuba, but at the Cuban coast there would be at least one Russian submarine. That submarine would be probably the newest one and most modern that Russia is currently building of the class Borei, called "Vladimir Monomakh". It is named after one of the best statesmen in medieval Kievan Rus, which participated in 13 successful military battles in the name and honor of his father, and except battles he often participated in diplomatic negotiations, so you have to admit that background of this submarine name fits nicely into the whole story. The first submarine of this class "Yuriy Dolgorukiy" whose construction began in 1996th, recently completed successfully a program of tests and is already officially in the use. Other submarine of the same class named "Alexander Nevsky" was introduced a few days ago in the composition of the Russian Navy at yearly ceremony. They carry out missile from the system "Bulava" which is actually a naval version of the continental system "Topol – M" with similar performance and range, by this we can clearly imagine their strength and purpose. Apart from these two submarines, Putin announced that Russia will expand its fleet to eight new submarines from the class of Borei by 2020.
That this story about third stage of Russian missile diplomacy have its value, is also confirmed by news from the August last year about "friendly visit" of Russian military ships to Cuba. All of us who observe the world with the eyes of geopolitics will certainly know that except friendly motives there are also those geostrategical. Beside this, relations between Cuba and Russia are more than friendly and that this visit is not just accidental is shown by the info from December last year. Info was about that Russia wrote off 90% of debt that Cuba had with the former Soviet Union, which amounted to 29 billion $. In addition, at the end of this text in last sentence, there is point about interest of Russian oil companies for drilling in Cuba. Following this sentence, I came up on information about official meeting at the end of last year, between Raul Castro and Igor Sechin CEO of Rosneft, as well as the activities of Zarubezhneft in Cuba in 2013. With all these geostrategic, friendly, diplomatic and economic initiatives Russians are obviously trying to provide support from Castro and to get undisturbed access to Cuban territorial waters. Someone would say, "once partners, always partners."
With this I would try to finish my strategic text, which slowly introduces us to return of a bipolar world, or if you ask me the better one, because this polar we have on the scene today since the fall of the Berlin Wall, was not proved as successful at all. Many of us in the past 20 years or so, felt that hegemony on our back. If you are small and weak as it was case with fragmented republics of former Yugoslavia, there was no other option except to stay on your own way and being hit on your back immediately and now, or join them and also being hit on back during some time but so subtly and with a smile, and finally at least lose yourself even more. Certainly in geopolitics there is one old phrase and rule that only interests are eternal. This rule not exclude either Russia when the interests are at stake. They also showed their "capitalist teeth" even to Serbs, especially with agreements about South Stream ownership. We have choice to be in favor or against, but for the whole world balance and future of the planet, the awakening of Russia and eastward shift of pin scale is generally a positive thing. The first example of this kind that we have witnessed is the one with Syria issue, and stop of the resolution for the bombing which has proved so far as right decision. And we who are "small and weak" but with a big heart, should slow down a little bit and wait for the pan on a global scale to balance completely. If we put the question of Kosovo* in focus, Russia is the one who will put veto on Kosovo* application for membership in the UN, it will certainly not be done by the European countries in the Security Council, and neither the United States. If we put at that same focus the question of the Republic of Srpska then the presence of Russian companies here will actually ensure strategic compact of Republika Srpska in Brcko as well peace and stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina, because I doubt that the Russians would left their capital to "war junta" if by any chances we maybe experience war again in Bosnia. The third argument is the historical connection and sentimentality which our Serbian people has with Russia or as we call it sometimes (mother Russia). Of course that's fine and nice, but today at the time of capitalism, big oil companies and global muscle training, I will leave this argument still in third place. These arguments we certainly do not have with a western civilization heritage, unless we exclude the first major export of prunes from Serbia to the U.S. in 1882, and its value of one million $/per year. But as far as I know, those were old better times of some other America, and other Serbia. Большое спасибо!
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This is why we fought the Crimean War against Photius Heresy so they could never Bystra Paris again! Putin's tax, gay and oil policies are almost as bad as Sarah Palin's
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By Dirk Libbey published 18 October 16
It appears that Jimmy Kimmel Live has figured out this whole viral internet thing. They know fans want to know about Avengers: Infinity War, so they got Cobie Smulders to spill the beans. To be clear, she doesn't actually divulge any information about the new film. She just spills beans, like, on the floor.
To be fair, there's nothing incorrect about the headline "Cobie Smulders Spills Bean on Avengers: Infinity War." There was a sign that said the name of the movie and a can of beans was spilled on it, though she very nearly missed the sign the entirely with the beans. We'll be curious to see if this clip actually gets significantly more views online than the average video that Jimmy Kimmel Live posts online. We're guessing it may get a few more, even if those clicking don't actually believe they're going to get "everything" as they are promised.
Of course, since the clip has absolutely zero actual discussion of Avengers: Infinity War, there isn't even a hint of any actual news. Cobie Smulders has been a consistent part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since her debut in the original Avengers film, she's even one of the few characters who has appeared on both film and television thanks to an appearance on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. However, her role in Avengers: Age of Ultron wasn't very large and considering the volume of characters that Infinity War is going to need to juggle, we'd guess that any role Smulders will have in the new movie probably won't be too large either. If standard practice to avoid leaks is taken, that means Smulders probably doesn't know anything herself about the parts of the movie she's not in, which would be most of it.
Spoilers are an interesting thing. Fans are so curious about what a particular movie is going to do that many will go looking for whatever information is available. Of course, if one succeeds in actually finding it, there's a noticeable decline in the fun one has actually watching the movie. As somebody who is basically contractually obligated to be spoiled for every movie ever, it's not that much fun. And yet, as a movie fan, if I heard that some new news had come out, I'd be there along with everybody else to see what we've learned.
It's a difficult line to walk. Talking about movies is a lot of fun, but spoilers can be frustrating. What's your policy on spoilers? Do you mind knowing all the details in advance, or do you do your best to avoid learning anything about a movie before it's released? Let us know how you handle it in the comments.
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Tickets TOM JONES 16º EDPCOOLJAZZ 2019 | Blueticket
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Legendary icon, Tom Jones is confirmed in the 16th edition of EDPCOOLJAZZ and will perform on July 25th at the Hipódromo Manuel Possolo, in Cascais. Jones is returning to Portugal 16 years after his last performance here and takes to the stage of EDPCOOLJAZZ, delighting generations of fans with hits including "Sex Bomb", "Delilah", "It`s Not Unusual" and "Kiss" as well as tracks from recently released albums, Praise & Blame, Spirit in the Room and Long Lost Suitcase, for which, at the age of 78, Tom has received some of the best reviews of his career.
With about 50 years of career, Sir Tom Jones continues to show how he can grow with the times, making a sound adaptation of his songs, as his voice continues to be a reference for the music industry. 16 years later, the artist returns to Portugal bringing unique performances that have created an exclusive connection with the public during his several years of career. Tom Jones continues to have the ability to reinvent throughout the decades in areas of gospel, pop, country, even television and film, inspiring countless artists.
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All good things must come to an end. Sucky? Yes. But with the premiere of the last season of The Big Bang Theory coming up, we're already trying to figure out how it's going to wrap. Series star Kaley Cuoco definitely has her thoughts on what she wants to see happen in Season 12 — and it's probably the same thing many of the fans want.
YES. The elevator has been out of order since 2003 — four years before the series began — thanks to Sheldon putting Leonard's experimental rocket fuel formula into it and it exploding. Leonard, Penny, Sheldon and Amy live on the fourth floor and as the years have gone by, that's a lot of stair-climbing, almost too much for the characters to take.
As for the decision for the show to come to an end, Kaley admitted it was "tough" — but it was going to be difficult, no matter what.
Co-creator Bill Prady told Us Weekly he has no clue how the show will end. "We're approaching the final season the same way we've approached the 11 seasons before: with no planning whatsoever," he explained. "From day one, we have never planned an arc for a season. We don't plan ahead, we just kind of just tell the next story." That story better include some sort of elevator repairman.
The Big Bang Theory premieres on CTV on Monday, Sept. 24 before moving to its regular Thursday night timeslot on Sept. 27.


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Album Review: 'Introspection' by Solid Stone
The Coldharbour Recordings Family and Solid Stone proudly present the album 'Introspection'. Coldharbour Recordings owner Markus Schulz has played many of these tracks in his sets this year, and a few of them have been revealed throughout the year on the Global DJ Broadcast. Solid Stone hails from Montreal, and the dark underground sound of the city is to be highlighted. The reputation of the city of Montreal with this more progressive trance sound has been credited to the delights of many fans visiting or residing there.
The album begins with the track "Introspection", and immediately gives you a sense of what is to come as the album progresses. "Broken" & "Ursa Major-Wellenrausch" continue the story of upbeat vibes, but with a sense of curiosity. The journey progresses with even more upbeat, and feel good vibes from the track "Profound". If you have had the chance to enjoy a set by Solid Stone, Markus Schulz, or have been listening to the Global DJ Broadcast you may recognize this track. It is the perfect track to begin your night at a club or find yourself in the rabbit hole.
"Heart Call" and "Pushing Up" both featuring the vocals from Jennifer Rene round off the journey in the album. Those who listen to this album in its entirety will have to figure out what that journey with the music is, but nevertheless Solid Stone, Coldharbour family, and Markus Schulz should be proud of this artist album release.
Which track or tracks are your favorite?
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Set Review: New World Punx at EDC Las Vegas
As the line up for Dreamstate Sunday at Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas was announced, many trance fans anticipated a schedule full of great trance DJs and producers. The likes of which included Paul Oakenfold, the return of Paul Van Dyk, Ferry Corsten Presents Gouryella, Markus Schulz, Gaia, and Aly & Fila.
Since Insomniac built an app for up-to-date news and information for all in attendance to download, the New World Punx (Markus Schulz B2B Ferry Corsten) slipped in the schedule in a little intimate venue known as the #SmirnoffHouse. So if you made your way from the #circuitGROUNDS over to this small house sponsored by Smirnoff and Mixmag, you found yourself another place to dance with other attendees in the 21+ age group.
Upon gaining entry to the Smirnoff House minute before New World Punx were slated to begin their set, another DJ had the party going, but with other vibes. Do not get me wrong, playing other genres of music is welcome at a festival, but not mixing well as a DJ is disappointing. From the constant talking on the mic, to the missed mixing, then the plead to keep going when the new crowd in the house was there for New World Punx, was not ideal. Eh, the exiting DJ got the message when the crowd started to chant "New World Punx".
The set itself included New World Punx tracks, trance favorites, "Free Tibet", a mix of Metallica's "Enter Sandman", and overall great vibes. The ability to enjoy this fun set in this intimate setting by this duo was amazing! Despite the venue, if you ever get a chance to experience a New World Punx set, DO IT!
Track Review: "Eleven 11" by Omair Mirza & Danilo Ercole
In case you haven't figured it out, Trance music (which really never left) is on fire right now. There is something about the intricate melodies infused with drops and beats that satisfy your senses. Thus, with the previous great track by Omair Mirza, he has done it again with Danilo Ercole.
The intro of the track starts with a great series of beats, then builds to a great melody to embody what progressive trance should entail. You feel a sense of calm mixed in with happiness mixed in with unknown feelings, thus that progressive trance. The melodies by different sounds highlight the track to bring that home.
Please take a listen to this teaser, then buy the track when it becomes available June 27th!
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EDMBiz Panel Highlight: Beyond the Boys' Club: What's Next for Women in Dance Music
Upon doing research for the upcoming EDMBiz Conference & Expo, one particular panel has caught my eyes. That as evident by this post's title, 'Beyond the Boys' Club: What's Next for Women in Dance Music'. The prevalence of the topic of gender equality in many different industries is a hot button issue, and many have different perspectives on such topic. However, for a genre of music that has been growing in popularity exponentially in the United State over the past 10 years, this topic is repetitively new to discuss.
From the DJ/artists to the industry leaders, men are well represented. According to the panel description, the panel hopes to discuss this in further detail as well as find ways for others to keep the discussion going. This panel is one step in getting a discussion going, but is this panel going to help make changes happen? Or will we continue to debate this topics in the next 10 years?
Depending on your perspective, and what sub-genre you gravitate towards, you are wondering why such discussion exists or does not exist. With the main focus being on the music or what most fans claim the focus is, the sense of unity should welcome people from all walks of life.
What will it take for the Electronic Music Dance business to have gender equality?
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Everything you need to have a great Hanukkah this year
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, celebrates stories of a mighty few overcoming the odds. The holiday commemorates the victory of a small group of Jewish rebels over an enormous Greek army to defend their heritage, and a miraculous amount of oil that burned in their reclaimed Temple's menorah (candelabra) for eight nights instead of one. This year, Hanukkah begins on the evening of December 10. Here's everything you need for an unforgettable celebration.
It feels like almost every TV show has a Christmas-themed episode, but Hanukkah specials are few and far between. We rounded up the eight best TV episodes that celebrate the festival of lights.
8 of the best Hanukkah-themed TV episodes to watch
As the weather gets colder, there's no better way to pass the time than bingeing some holiday episodes of your favorite TV shows.
How to make the perfect latke
Latkes, or simply potato pancakes, are a delicious, crispy treat served with sour cream and applesauce.
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Akita's own, Clay Smith shares an unconventional milestone with readers and what he's learned along the journey in "How to Lose Your First 10 SaaS Customers".
Over on Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré's blog, guest author Shayla Price encourages readers to build a strategy for facilitating and handling subscription cancellations in the steller piece "How Transparency in SaaS Offboarding Reduces Churn".
Alan Finlay of Relay discusses the merits of having a proactive approach to customer support and tips for moving from the traditional reactive model in "Proactive Support Guide: How to Serve Your Customers Before They Ask for Help".
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Is there any chance that President Barack Obama can return to his long-held stand critical of nuclear power? Is he open to hearing from scientists and energy experts, such as Amory Lovins, who can refute the pro-nuclear arguments that have apparently influenced him?
Obama's declaration in his State of the Union speech on January 27 about "building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country" marked a significant change for him. His announcement Tuesday on moving ahead on $8.3 billion in federal government loan guarantees to build new nuclear plants and increasing the loan guarantee fund to $54.5 billion was a further major step. Wall Street is reluctant to invest money in the dangerous and extremely expensive technology.
Before taking office, including as a candidate for president, Obama not only was negative about atomic energy but—unusual for a politician—indicated a detailed knowledge of its threat to life.
Yes, that's the big problem with splitting the atom—one that has existed since the start of nuclear power and will always be inherent in the technology. Using the perilous process of fission to generate electricity with its capacity for catastrophic accidents and its production of highly toxic radioactive poisons called nuclear waste will always be unsafe. And it is unnecessary considering the safe energy technologies now available, from solar, wind and other clean sources.
Just how dangerous it is has been underlined in a book just published by the New York Academy of Sciences, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment. Written by a team of scientists led by noted Russian biologist Dr. Alexey Yablokov, using health data that have become available since the 1986 accident, it concludes that the fatality total "from April 1986 to the end of 2004 from the Chernobyl catastrophe was estimated at 985,000 additional [cancer] deaths." This is in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries where Chernobyl's poisons fell. The toll, they relate, continues to rise.
Chernobyl was a different design from the nuclear plants which the U.S., France and Japan seek now to build but disasters can also happen involving these plants and they, too, produce the highly toxic nuclear waste poisons. The problem is fission itself. It's no way to produce electricity.
In his first year as president, nuclear power proponents worked to influence him. Among nuclear opponents, there has been anxiety regarding Obama's two top aides, both of whom have been involved with what is now the utility operating more nuclear power plants than any other in the United States, Exelon.
Rahm Emanuel, now Obama's chief of staff, as an investment banker was in the middle of the $8.2 billion merger in 1999 of Unicom, the parent company of Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, and Peco Energy to put together Exelon. David Axelrod, now a senior Obama advisor and formerly chief campaign strategist, was an Exelon consultant. Candidate Obama received sizeable contributions from Exelon executives including from John Rowe, its president and chief executive officer who in 2007 also became chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the U.S. nuclear industry's main trade group.
It's not only been nuclear opponents who have seen a link between Exelon and the Obama administration. Forbes magazine, in its January 18th issue, in an article on John Rowe and how he has "focused the company on nuclear," displayed a sidebar headlined, "The President's Utility." It read: "Ties are tight between Exelon and the Obama administration," noting Exelon political contributions and featuring Emanuel and Axelrod with photos and descriptions of their Exelon connections.
Climate change has been used by those promoting a "revival" of nuclear power—there hasn't been a new nuclear plant ordered and built in the U.S. in 37 years—as a new argument. In fact, nuclear power makes a substantial contribution to global warming considering the overall "nuclear cycle"—uranium mining and milling, conversion, enrichment, fuel fabrication and the disposition of radioactive waste, and so on.
Climate change is also one argument for pushing atomic energy of another major influence on Obama on nuclear power, Steven Chu, his Department of Energy secretary. Chu typifies the religious-like zeal for nuclear power emanating for decades from scientists in the U.S. government's string of national nuclear laboratories. Chu was director of one of these, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, before becoming head of DOE.
First established during World War II's Manhattan Project to build atomic weapons, the laboratories after the war began promoting civilian nuclear technology—and have been pushing it unceasingly ever since. It has been a way to perpetuate the vested interest created during World War II. The number of nuclear weapons that could be built was limited because atomic bombs don't lend themselves to commercial distribution, but in pushing food irradiation, nuclear-powered airplanes and rockets, atomic devices for excavation and, of course, nuclear power, the budgets and staffs of the national nuclear laboratories could be maintained, indeed increase.
Lilienthal wrote about the "elaborate and even luxurious [national nuclear] laboratories that have grown up at Oak Ridge, Argonne, Brookhaven" and the push to use nuclear devices for "blowing out harbors, making explosions underground to produce steam, and so on" which show "how far scientists and administrators will go to try to establish a nonmilitary use" for nuclear technology.
Chu, like so many of the national nuclear laboratory scientists and administrators, minimizes the dangers of radioactivity. If they didn't, if they acknowledged how life-threatening the radiation produced by nuclear technology is, their favorite technology would crumble.
A major theme of Chu, too, is a return to the notion promoted by the national nuclear laboratories in the 1950s and 60s of "recycling" and "reusing" nuclear waste. This way, they have hoped, it might not be seen as waste at all. The concept was to use radioactive Cesium-137 (the main poison discharged in the Chernobyl disaster) to irradiate food, to use depleted uranium to harden bullets and shells, and so on. In recent weeks, with Obama carrying out his pledge not to allow Yucca Mountain to become a nuclear waste dump, Chu set up a "blue-ribbon" panel on radioactive waste—stacked with nuclear power advocates including Exelon's John Rowe—that is expected to stress the "recycling" theory.
The $8.3 billion in loan guarantees Obama announced Tuesday is to come from $18.5 billion in guarantees proposed by the George W. Bush administration and authorized by Congress in 2005. "My budget proposes tripling the loan guarantees we provide to help finance safe, clean nuclear facilities," said Obama Tuesday, referring to the DOE plan which would add $36 billion and bring the loan guarantee fund to $54.5. And this despite candidate Obama warning about "enormous subsidies from the U.S. government" to the nuclear industry.
The $8.3 billion in loan guarantees is to go toward the Southern Company of Atlanta constructing two nuclear power reactors in Burke, Georgia. These are to be AP1000 nuclear power plants designed by the Westinghouse nuclear division (now owned by Toshiba) although in October the designs were rejected by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission as likely being unable to withstand events like tornadoes and earthquakes.
As to government loan guarantees, "The last thing Americans want is another government bailout for a failing industry, but that's exactly what they're getting from the Obama administration," said Ben Schreiber, the climate and energy tax analyst of Friends of the Earth.
"It would be not only good policy but good politics for Obama to abandon the nuclear loan guarantee program," said Mariotte of NIRS.
Nuclear opponents have been disappointed in a lack of access to the Obama White House of those with a critical view on nuclear power—who could counteract the pro-nuclear arguments that Obama has been fed. Will President Obama open himself to hearing from those who question nuclear power?
KARL GROSSMAN is professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury. He is author of Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power, Power Crazy and The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat To Our Planet and writer and narrator of television programs among them Nukes In Space: The Nuclearization and Weaponization of the Heavens (www.envirovideo.com).


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Eile mit Weile (französischsprachige Schweiz: Hâte-toi lentement, italienischsprachige Schweiz und Norditalien: Chi va piano va sano!) ist ein Brettspiel, welches vor allem in der Schweiz bekannt ist. Dort gilt es sogar als eines der bekanntesten Brettspiele. Es ist eine Variante des Pachisi und somit verwandt mit dem deutschen Spiel Mensch ärgere Dich nicht.

Es gibt Spielbretter für bis zu vier Spieler und sogar für bis zu sechs Spieler – letztere sind aber eher selten und manchmal auf der Rückseite des Viererbrettes zu finden. Die Spiele mit Spielbrettern auf Karton werden heute häufig mit einem Mühle-Spiel oder einem Halma auf der Rückseite verkauft.

Zugleich ist Eile mit Weile ein Oxymoron, also ein rhetorisches Stilmittel aus zwei Begriffen mit gegensätzlichen Bedeutungen, das als Redewendung bekannt ist.

Herkunft

Eile mit Weile ist eine Abwandlung des altindischen Spieles Pachisi und ist stark mit dem spanischen Parchís, dem kolumbianischen Parqués und dem US-amerikanischen Parcheesi verwandt.

Das Spiel Pachisi ist im 6. Jahrhundert entstanden. Eile mit Weile ist aber deutlich weniger taktisch und strategisch ausgearbeitet als das ursprüngliche Pachisi. Die Regeln wurden sehr stark vereinfacht.

Eine Legende berichtet, dass im 16. Jahrhundert der Großmogul Akbar I. das Spiel im Freien mit sechzehn Haremssklavinnen anstelle von normalen Spielfiguren auf einem grossen marmornen Spielbrett gespielt haben soll.

Das Spiel kam erstmals im 19. Jahrhundert mit den Briten aus Indien nach Europa und danach in die USA. Um das Jahr 1863 kam es in abgeänderter Form als Patcheesi (später Parcheesi) oder als Game of India in die Läden. Gegen Ende des Jahrhunderts entstand aus dem Parcheesi in der Schweiz und Deutschland das Spiel Eile mit Weile. Im Jahr 1914 wurde Eile mit Weile von der 1785 gegründeten Spielwarenfabrik C. Abel Klinger aus Fürth (1972 von der Vereinigten Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkartenfabriken AG gekauft) in Deutschland und auch in der Schweiz patentrichtlich geschützt, die Eintragung wurde 1918 erneuert. Das Spiel ist heute aber in Deutschland praktisch verschwunden, da ein neuer Pachisi-Abkömmling sehr beliebt wurde: Mensch ärgere Dich nicht erschien 1914 bei Schmidt Spiele und wurde vor allem in Deutschland sehr populär. Der Grund der Diversifikationen in den einzelnen Ländern könnte das Markenrecht gewesen sein. Ein leicht abgeändertes Spiel konnte problemlos veröffentlicht werden, das Original dagegen nicht.

Eile mit Weile scheint eine direkte Abwandlung des Spiels Parcheesi, The Game of India zu sein, welches von der Firma Selchow & Righter im Jahr 1874 herausgegeben wurde und urheberrechtlich geschützt war. Spieleschachteln aus der Jahrhundertwende und dem frühen 20. Jahrhundert trugen häufig beide Spielnamen, «Parcheesi» und «Eile mit Weile». Ebenso tragen frühere Bretter in den Ecken Sterne, die auch bei den ersten Parcheesi-Ausgaben auf Holz zu finden sind.

Eine Besonderheit des Eile mit Weile ist, dass die Mitte häufig aus einem Bild einer Herberge oder Stadt besteht und das Spiel so den Weg von Zuhause in die Stadt oder Herberge darstellt. Es hiess früher nicht nur Eile mit Weile, sondern auch Der Weg zur Herberge, Mit Bedacht zum Ziel oder Immer vorwärts.

Spielbrett

In der Mitte ist ein Kreis oder ein Achteck mit einem Bild. Ziel ist es, alle Figuren in diesen Kreis zu ziehen. In dieses Mittelfeld führen vier sogenannte Treppen mit sieben Feldern in den Figurenfarben. Rund herum sind weisse und braune Felder angeordnet. Weisse Felder sind normale Zugfelder und braune Felder heissen «Bänke». In früheren Spielbrettern waren statt brauner Felder an diesen Positionen kleine Sitzbänke eingezeichnet. In den vier Ecken befinden sich je vier runde Startfelder in den Figurenfarben.

Spielregeln

Vorrunde

Es spielen zwei bis vier Spieler gegeneinander. Diese wählen eine Farbe und setzen die Spielsteine in die runden gleichfarbigen Felder. Es beginnt derjenige Spieler, der in einer Auslosrunde die höchste Würfelzahl würfelt.

Spielzüge

Beim Spiel zählt beim Würfel die Seite 6 doppelt und wird auch Zwölf genannt. Gezogen wird gegen den Uhrzeigersinn. (Frühere Spielbretter kannten auch den Uhrzeigersinn als Zugrichtung.) Die Spieler wechseln  sich ebenfalls gegen den Uhrzeigersinn ab.

Nun geht das Spiel reihum. Jeder Spieler würfelt und macht seine Züge. Würfelt ein Spieler eine Zwölf, darf er nochmals würfeln. Würfelt ein Spieler dreimal Zwölf hintereinander, muss er alle seine Figuren, die sich noch nicht im Zielkreis befinden, wieder auf ihre Startposition («daheim») stellen und darf nicht mehr würfeln.

Wenn dieser Fall nicht eintritt, kann der Spieler die Augenzahlen der einzelnen Würfe auf seine Figuren aufteilen. Beispiel: Würfelt der Spieler zweimal Zwölf und dann eine Fünf, kann er mit der einen Figur vierundzwanzig Felder ziehen und mit der Fünf eine neue Figur ins Spiel bringen. Eine Figur, die neu ins Spiel kommt, darf sich aber in der ersten Runde noch nicht fortbewegen.

Können Augenzahlen nicht gespielt werden, verfallen sie. Es herrscht Zugzwang: Kann ein Spieler noch mit einer Figur ziehen, dann muss er auch.

Würfelt der Spieler eine Fünf, muss er, wenn er noch keine Figur auf den Spielfeldern hat, oder alle seine aktiven Figuren blockiert sind, eine Figur von den Startfeldern auf das Spielbrett stellen. Das erste Spielfeld ist immer die Bank zwischen den Startfeldern und der eigenen Treppe. Hat er bereits eine Figur auf den Spielfeldern, kann er entscheiden, ob er mit einer neuen Figur ins Spiel kommt oder eine bereits aktive Figur zieht.

Figuren schlagen

Gegnerische Figuren (Spielsteine) können auf weißen Feldern geschlagen werden. Wenn ein andersfarbiger Spielstein auf ein besetztes Feld gelangt, so wird der dort stehende Spielstein geschlagen. Auch alle überholten gegnerischen Spielsteine gelten als geschlagen und müssen zurück auf die Ausgangsfelder.

Steht eine Figur auf einer Bank (braunem Spielfeld), kann sie nicht geschlagen werden.

Eine geschlagene Figur wird «heimgeschickt», also auf ihre Startposition zurückgestellt.

Blockaden errichten

Stehen zwei gleichfarbige Figuren auf einem Feld (Bank oder weisses Feld), errichten sie eine Blockade. Diese Blockade ist für sämtliche Spielfiguren verbindlich, auch für die Figuren desjenigen Spielers, der die Blockade errichtet hat. Die Blockade bleibt solange bestehen, bis der Spieler eine Figur wegzieht oder wegziehen muss. Es können sich somit auf einem Feld mit einer Blockade nie mehr als zwei Figuren befinden. Eine Blockade endet, wenn der Spieler eine blockadebildende Figur wegzieht.

Treppen und Ziel

Die Treppen sind für andersfarbige Figuren tabu. Jeder Spieler muss über die eigene Treppe ins Ziel gelangen. Eine Figur kann aber nur mit einer genau passenden Augenzahl ins Ziel eintreten. Steht z. B. die Figur auf dem letzten Treppenfeld, muss zwingend eine Eins gewürfelt werden.

Die Figuren auf der Treppe müssen bei dreimal Zwölf ebenso in die Startfelder zurückgesetzt werden. Nur die Figuren im Zielfeld bleiben von dieser Aktion verschont.

Verpasst ein Spieler seine Treppe, zum Beispiel weil er erpicht darauf ist, eine andere Figur zu schlagen, muss er eine Ehrenrunde einlegen. Dies kann im Spielverlauf bei unaufmerksamen Spielern tatsächlich vorkommen.

Gewonnen hat derjenige Spieler, der alle seine Figuren ins Ziel gebracht hat. Meistens spielen dann die übrigen Spieler weiter, bis eine vollständige Rangfolge von Gewinner zu Verlierer feststeht.

Abgrenzung

Es geht aus den Spielregeln nicht ganz hervor, ob sich zwei gegnerische Figuren auf einer Bank treffen dürfen. Dies ist beim Parcheesi nicht erlaubt. In den Spielregeln für «Eile mit Weile» steht dies aber nicht explizit. Es wird deshalb häufig so gespielt, dass mehrere gegnerische Figuren auf einer Bank stehen können. Deshalb kann eine Blockade auf einer Bank noch eine gegnerische Figur haben, wenn sie sich vor Blockadenbildung bereits auf diesem Feld befunden hat.

Varianten

Moderne Variante in der Schweiz

Seit den 1980er Jahren hat sich eine Spielvariante herausgebildet: Hier werden Figuren nicht geschlagen, indem ein Spielstein auf ein weisses Feld einer gegnerischen Figur gezogen wird, sondern ausschliesslich, indem sie überholt wird. Dies kann nun in einem oder zwei Zügen geschehen. In einem Zug werden alle gegnerischen Figuren auf weissen Feldern nach Hause zurückgestellt, die zwischen dem Ausgangsfeld und dem Zielfeld der gezogenen Figur stehen. Zieht eine Figur auf ein Feld der gegnerischen Figur, so bleibt diese stehen und darf im nächsten Zug auch weiterbewegt werden. Blieb sie aber auf der Stelle stehen und die angreifende Figur zieht im zweiten Zug an ihr vorbei, so wurde die gegnerische ebenfalls überholt und muss zurückgestellt werden.

Auch die Blockaden erfuhren eine Regeländerung: Eine Blockade ist nur für diejenigen gegnerischen Figuren verbindlich, die sich noch nicht bei der Errichtung der Blockade auf dem gesperrten Feld befanden. Es dürfen nun gegnerische Figuren auf das blockierte Feld gezogen werden, aber sie dürfen nicht weitergezogen werden. Ebenso wird die Verbindlichkeit häufig anders festgelegt: Für die Figuren derselben Farbe ist eine Blockade unverbindlich.

Die gewürfelte Sechs ist bei manchen neuen Spielanleitungen eine gefahrene Sechs und keine Zwölf wie bei früheren Spielregeln.

Variante von Carlit

Dem heute erhältlichen Spiel der Firma Carlit, wurde eine Regel beigelegt, bei der die über mindestens ein Jahrhundert geltende Regel des «Überholens» fehlt. Ebenso wird auf dieser Schachtel nicht mehr «Chi va piano va sano» als italienische Bezeichnung, sondern «Pachisi» wie das indische Original angegeben. Diese Änderungen sind wahrscheinlich auf mangelnde Sorgfalt seitens der Herstellerfirma zurückzuführen.

Weblinks

 Eile-mit-Weile-Website inkl. Geschichte

Einzelnachweise

Spiel (19. Jahrhundert)
Pachisi-Variante
Oxymoron

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Кири́лл Фоми́ч Томаше́вич (1852 — после 1909) — член Государственной думы Российской империи III созыва от Могилёвской губернии, входил в русскую национальную фракцию.

Биография
Окончил Горыгорецкое земледельческое училище. С 1872—1874 годах был в составе межевых чинов Могилёвской люстрационной комиссии. В 1879 году поступил на службу смотрителем и преподавателем арифметики в Могилёвской центральной фельдшерской школе и в центральной повивальной школе-физики.

В 1884 году был назначен помощником правителя канцелярии Могилёвского губернатора. Позже состоял в должности старшего чиновника особых поручений при Могилёвском губернаторе, одновременно исполняя обязанности секретаря губернского статистического комитета и члена отделения государственного крестьянского банка. С 1902 до выборов в Государственную думу был членом Могилёвского губернского по городским делам присутствия. Кроме того, К. Ф. Томашевич состоял 12 лет гласным городской Думы, более 4 лет — председателем общества взаимного кредита и с 1904 года — директором тюремного комитета. Землевладелец (40 десятин).

Литература
 3-й созыв Государственной Думы: портреты, биографии, автографы. — Санкт-Петербург : издание Н. Н. Ольшанскаго, 1910.

История Могилёвской области
Умершие в XX веке
Члены Государственной думы Российской империи III созыва
Члены русской национальной фракции
Члены Государственной думы Российской империи IV созыва
Члены фракции националистов и умеренно-правых


"You are born with two eyes. Right shows you good way and left one will be against it."
But I stop when the cut, I strike, laughs at me saying,"You poor girl. How would you find white flesh unless you get the black one? There is bad in good and good in bad for a depressed soul everywhere. You have to make a choice to move on."


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Fradizela es una freguesia portuguesa del municipio de Mirandela, con 13,46 km² de superficie y 300 habitantes (2001). Su densidad de población es de 22,3 hab/km².

Enlaces externos

 Gobierno civil e información administrativa del Distrito de Braganza

Freguesias de Mirandela


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Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds donate $1M to 2 food banks amid pandemic
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FILE - Actor Ryan Reynolds, left, is joined by his pregnant wife, actress Blake Lively at the premiere of "Pokemon Detective Pikachu" at Military Island in Times Square on Thursday, May 2, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Actress Blake Lively and her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds recently donated $1 million to two non-profit organizations amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to People, the stars donated to Feeding America and Food Banks Canada.
Feeding America posted on social media thanking the two for donating.
"Thank you, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, for being our hunger-fighting dream team!" the non-profit tweeted. Your second $500K gift will make a big difference for people across the country."
The married couple previously donated $500,000 to both food banks in early 2020 when the pandemic first began.
Food Banks Canada also posted on social media thanking the couple, adding that Reynolds continues to be their favorite Canadian and their favorite superhero.


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LSU Family Medicine Alexandria
Staff Faculty Physicians
Robert Moore, M.D., Residency program Director
Dr. Moore became Residency Program Director in January, 2016. He was a private practitioner in Alexandria over the last decade, but has worked with the Family Medicine Residency Program since inception. He was the former Associate Program Director and remained as teaching faculty for our Procedures Suite while in private practice. He is a graduate of LSUHSC-Shreveport School of Medicine. Dr. Moore has implemented a new Dermatology Clinic as part of our training program.
Michael Madden, M.D., Program Director Emeritus
Dr. Madden has been in private practice in rural Louisiana and came to us from the faculty of the University of Missouri in Kansas City and holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine. He served as Residency Director from 2001-2005, and is the current interim Residency Director. Dr. Madden spearheads community involvement for the program. He was named the 2009 LAFP Family Physician of the Year, and also placed in top five finalists in the country for the AAFP Family Physician of the Year Award in 2010.
Brian Jobe, M.D., Clinical Director
Dr. Jobe hails from Eunice, Louisiana. He received his doctorate from LSUHSC-Shreveport School of Medicine and completed residency training at University Medical Center in Lafayette. Dr. Jobe was a residency faculty member from 2002 to 2007 and rejoined the program in late 2011. He has experience in Emergency and Industrial Medicine. Dr. Jobe oversees Geriatric patient care component of residency training.
Robert Larimer, M.D., Internal Medicine Curriculum Coordinator
Dr. Larimer is a graduate of McGill University Medical School and is board-certified in Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine. He has served as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tulane from 1982 to 1985, and also has served on the Board of Governors for Orleans Parish Medical Society. Dr. Larimer is an avid traveler and has been to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, and Spain.
Dana Mays, M.D., Procedures Coordinator
Dr. Mays is a former graduate of the Alexandria Family Medicine Program, where she served as a Chief Resident. She has been in practice in the Alexandria / Pineville area for 7 years. She received her medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine - New Orleans. She is the Director of the Procedures Suite for the residency program, overseeing endoscopy, newborn circumcision, colposcopy, cervical cryotherapy and dermatologic surgery.
Micah Pippin, M.D., Associate Program Director
Dr. Pippin joined the faculty in July, 2016, after completing residency training at this program. He served as Chief Resident during the 2015-2016 academic year. He is a graduate Tulane University School of Medicine – New Orleans, where he gained experience in the Patient Centered Medical Home concept as a member of the TRIP Immersion team. Dr. Pippin is from Woodworth, Louisiana. He will be in charge of resident didactic education development and scheduling.
Paraveen Budde, M.D.
Dr. Buddee became a member of the residency Faculty in July, 2015. He is a 2012 graduate of LSU Health - Shreveport, where he served as a Chief Resident. Dr. Budde practiced Family Medicine for the past three years in Fort Morgan Colorado, where he served as Chief of Staff and Family Medicine Director. He leads research and accreditation measures for the Alexandria Family Medicine Residency program.
PROCEDURAL SUITE FACULTY PRECEPTORS
Brian Elkins, M.D.
Dr. Elkins served as the Alexandria Family Medicine Program Director from 2005 to 2013. He is currently practicing at Central Louisiana Health and Wellness Center as attending physician. A graduate of LSUHSC-Shreveport, he was the 2008 LAFP Family Physician of the Year, and also placed in top five finalists in the country for the AAFP Family Physician of the Year Award in 2009. With 15 years of experience, he also precepts in the Procedures Clinic performing endoscopy, newborn circumcision, vasectomy, exercise stress testing, colposcopy, cervical cryotherapy and dermatologic surgery.
CONTINUITY CLINIC PRECEPTORS
Robert Moore, M.D.
Dr. Moore is a private practitioner in Alexandria, who has worked with the Family Medicine Residency Program since inception. He is a graduate of LSUHSC-Shreveport School of Medicine. He performs endoscopy, newborn circumcision and dermatologic surgery in his capacity as preceptor at the residency program's Procedures Suite.
John Haag, Psy. D.
Dr. Haag joined our faculty in March, 2007, serving as Psychologist. He provides patient services on a part- time basis. Dr. Haag also co-conducts Balint and Residency to Reality didactic lectures. Residents join Dr. Haag for patient visits as part of Practice Management.
Charles Norwood, M.D.
Dr. Norwood practices as a Family Medicine physician in the central Louisiana area. He is a graduate and fellow of LSU Health Sciences Center. He has worked with the program in various capacities since its inception, and is currently a resident preceptor in the program's Continuity Clinic. Dr. Norwood also has extensive Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care experience.
Darien Slaughter, M.D.
Dr. Slaughter is a physician at Cenla Family Medicine Center in Lecompte, Louisiana, a part of the Rapides Regional Medical Center Group. A graduate of LSUHSC-Shreveport, Dr. Slaughter has worked with the residency since 2000, currently as clinic preceptor. He is also an Emergency Medicine Specialist, and has 18 years of experience and practices in Family Medicine and Sports Medicine.
Rajinder Verma, M.D.
Dr. Verma is a Family Medicine practitioner in Ball, Louisiana. He received his medical degree from Government Medical College, Patiala and has been in practice for 43 years. He is one of 32 doctors at Rapides Regional Medical Center who specialize in Family Medicine. Dr. Verma has been affiliated with the residency program since 1997, and continues to be a resident preceptor in the Continuity Clinic.
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Q: Why i have to create instance if hashset manually in many to many relationship?cant spring do it for me? hello everyone can someone explain why do i have to create an instance of HashSet ? and is there a way to avoid it ?
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      private Set<Movie> movies = new HashSet<>();

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Q: How to Filter out null rows from DataTable with linq? I have a Datable that I have built from excel data, but sometimes excel returns rows in which all the fields are null.
I'd like to filter these out generically without regard for column names.
I think Linq would do this nicely but having a bit of trouble getting this to happen.
So far this is what I got:
 var nonemptyrows = from r in table.AsEnumerable()
                                              from f in r.ItemArray
                                                  where f != null
                                                     select r;

But it's not quite there. Anyone see what I'm missing or if I'm on the wrong track?
Thanks in advance!

A: Like this:
table.AsEnumerable()
     .Where(r => r.ItemArray.Any(v => v != null && v != DBNull.Value))

Or, using query comprehension syntax:
from r in table.AsEnumerable()
where r.ItemArray.Any(v => v != null && v != DBNull.Value)

A: A bit cleaner, using the table columns :
var nonemptyrows = from row in table.AsEnumerable()
                   where table.Columns.Any(col => !row.IsNull(col))
                   select row;

A: Thanks for your reply! right after I posted, this idea below hit me and it worked for me:
var nonemptyrows = from r in table.Rows.Cast<DataRow>() where r.ItemArray.All(c => c != DBNull.Value) select r;


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package io.sipstack.netty.codec.sip;

import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
import io.netty.channel.Channel;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
import io.netty.util.AttributeKey;
import io.pkts.buffer.Buffer;
import io.pkts.buffer.Buffers;
import io.pkts.packet.sip.SipMessage;
import io.pkts.packet.sip.Transport;
import io.pkts.packet.sip.address.SipURI;
import io.pkts.packet.sip.impl.SipParser;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.SocketAddress;
import java.util.Optional;

/**
 * @author jonas@jonasborjesson.com
 */
public abstract class AbstractConnection implements Connection {

    private final ConnectionId id;
    private final Channel channel;
    private final InetSocketAddress remote;
    private final Optional<SipURI> vipAddress;
    private final static AttributeKey<Object> key = AttributeKey.newInstance("generic_object");

    /*
     * protected AbstractConnection(final ChannelHandlerContext ctx, final InetSocketAddress remote)
     * { this.ctx = ctx; this.channel = null; this.remote = remote; }
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    protected AbstractConnection(final Transport transport,
                                 final Channel channel,
                                 final InetSocketAddress remote,
                                 final Optional<SipURI> vipAddress) {
        this.id = ConnectionId.create(transport, (InetSocketAddress)channel.localAddress(), remote);
        this.channel = channel;
        this.remote = remote;
        this.vipAddress = vipAddress == null ? Optional.empty() : vipAddress;
    }

    protected AbstractConnection(final Transport transport, final Channel channel, final InetSocketAddress remote) {
        this(transport, channel, remote, null);
    }

    public Optional<SipURI> getVipAddress() {
        return vipAddress;
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    protected Channel channel() {
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    @Override
    public Transport getTransport() {
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    @Override
    public ConnectionId id() {
        return this.id;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return this.id.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public void close() {
        // TODO: do we need to do more?
        channel.close();
    }
    @Override
    public byte[] getRawRemoteIpAddress() {
        return this.remote.getAddress().getAddress();
    }

    @Override
    public byte[] getRawLocalIpAddress() {
        final SocketAddress local = this.channel.localAddress();
        final InetAddress address = ((InetSocketAddress) local).getAddress();
        return address.getAddress();
    }

    @Override
    public final InetSocketAddress getLocalAddress() {
        return (InetSocketAddress)this.channel.localAddress();
    }

    @Override
    public final String getLocalIpAddress() {
        final SocketAddress local = this.channel.localAddress();
        return ((InetSocketAddress) local).getAddress().getHostAddress();
    }

    @Override
    public final Buffer getLocalIpAddressAsBuffer() {
        return Buffers.wrap(getLocalIpAddress());
    }

    @Override
    public final InetSocketAddress getRemoteAddress() {
        return this.remote;
    }

    @Override
    public final String getRemoteIpAddress() {
        return this.remote.getAddress().getHostAddress();
    }

    @Override
    public final Buffer getRemoteIpAddressAsBuffer() {
        return Buffers.wrap(getRemoteIpAddress());
    }

    @Override
    public int getLocalPort() {
        final SocketAddress local = this.channel.localAddress();
        return ((InetSocketAddress) local).getPort();
    }

    @Override
    public int getRemotePort() {
        return this.remote.getPort();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isUDP() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isTCP() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isTLS() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isSCTP() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isWS() {
        return false;
    }

    // protected ChannelHandlerContext getContext() {
    // return this.ctx;
    // }

    /**
     * All {@link Connection}s needs to convert the msg to a {@link ByteBuf}
     * before writing it to the {@link ChannelHandlerContext}.
     *
     * @param msg
     *            the {@link SipMessage} to convert.
     * @return the resulting {@link ByteBuf}
     */
    protected ByteBuf toByteBuf(final SipMessage msg) {
        try {
            final Buffer b = msg.toBuffer();
            final int capacity = b.capacity() + 2;
            final ByteBuf buffer = this.channel.alloc().buffer(capacity, capacity);

            for (int i = 0; i < b.getReadableBytes(); ++i) {
                buffer.writeByte(b.getByte(i));
            }
            buffer.writeByte(SipParser.CR);
            buffer.writeByte(SipParser.LF);
            return buffer;
        } catch (final IOException e) {
            // shouldn't be possible since the underlying buffer
            // from the msg is backed by a byte-array.
            // TODO: do something appropriate other than this
            throw new RuntimeException("Unable to convert SipMessage to a ByteBuf due to IOException", e);
        }
    }

}


Followers of Middle Eastern affairs know two things: always expect the unexpected, and never write off Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has more political lives than the proverbial cat.
Only yesterday came news that Syrian rebels plan to give Israel the Golan Heights in exchange for creation of a no-fly zone against the Assad regime. In an even bolder move, it is now revealed, Israel will withdraw its settlers from communities beyond the settlement blocs—and relocate them at least temporarily to Ukraine. Ukraine made this arrangement on the basis of historic ties and in exchange for desperately needed military assistance against Russia. This surprising turn of events had an even more surprising origin: genetics, a field in which Israeli scholars have long excelled.
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The vibrant, metropolitan city of Barcelona, and capital of Spain's Catalonia region, is a fantastic holiday destination year-round!
This beautiful city is one of the oldest in the world, dating back over 2,000 years, and a fantastic cultural hub ready for you to explore. Boasting pleasant weather throughout the seasons, with the best weather between May and August, Barcelona is a brilliant escape no matter the time of year.
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Striking Barcelona also offers an excellent nightlife scene! When the sun goes down, the streets come alive with buzzing bars, loud music and epic nightclubs, including the city's biggest nightclub, five room multiplex Razzmatazz. Many of the city's clubs stay open until 6am – so you can dance from sunset to sunrise! Las Ramblas is a popular area of the city in particular, a street stretching for 1.2 kilometres consisting of five boulevards, busy and bustling with tourists and locals in the day and night.
Barcelona is home to an array of stunning, historic architecture ready for you to explore. Its infamous Sagrada Família is a must see here; a large Roman Catholic Church designed by Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí and a UNESCO recognised World Heritage Site. The Gothic Quarter, the centre of the old city of Barcelona, is popular amongst tourists, stretching from La Rambla to Via Laietana, and from the Mediterranean seafront to Ronda de Sant Pere.
This stylish city boasts an exciting array of museums for you to explore on your travels too! Aside from the popular Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, you can also visit the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, the national museum of Catalan. The attraction is home to an extensive collection of Romanesque church paintings and Catalan art dating back to the 19th century. Art-enthusiast are also welcomed to the Museu Picasso, home to one of the most extensive collections of artworks by the Spanish art Pablo Picasso, housed in five adjoining medieval palaces in Barcelona's La Ribera.
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UK private jet flights on the rise
By Helen Norman on	 18th October 2016 Charter
Magnus Aviation, a UK-based private jet charter business, has confirmed a huge increase in bookings over the summer period as a result of commercial flight delays and cancellations across mainland Europe, and also security fears following terrorist attacks. As reflected in industry data provided by WINGX and EUclaim, Magnus Aviation has experienced a 40% rise in flight bookings from London to France over May and August, compared with the same period in 2015.
Other stats show a rise in bookings from London to Belgium of 20%, while private aviation flights departing the UK as a whole are said to have increased 2.1%, again over the same summer period.
In July, there were 11.2% more flights from the UK to France than the same month the previous year, with European commercial flight delays and cancellations in July and August said to be 28% higher than normal for this time.
James Armstrong, head of commercial development, Magnus Aviation, said, "We have definitely seen an increase in bookings since the recent terrorist attacks in mainland Europe and the rise in commercial flights being cancelled or delays. The benefit of flying privately is that passengers often avoid the busy main terminals and fly in and out of dedicated business jet terminals with VIP lounges and handling. Some clients prefer to fly to and from these private terminals or avoid the main airports altogether, therefore bypassing the bigger ones which could face heightened security risks."
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Detroit — Three design teams competing to overhaul the 10 blocks around the Detroit Institute of Arts into a walkable "cultural campus" were told to think big and innovative. On Wednesday, the public got its first chance to decide whether the teams succeeded.
Renderings of the finalists' plans went on display at the DIA, and the images reveal ideas that go beyond green space and bicycle/pedestrian paths. There are proposals for amphitheaters, a "fog garden," a permanent outdoor DJ booth, an "interactive graffiti wall," an outdoor children's reading area, cafés and a Brush Street hotel.


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MIAMI BEACH — Joystick steering dominates the docks this year at the Miami International Boat Show, which opened this morning and runs through Feb. 18.
I had an opportunity to test two new joystick systems for outboards — Yamaha's Helm Master and Teleflex's Optimus 360 by Sea Star. I had already tested Mercury Joystick Piloting For Outboards at the 2012 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.
The Yamaha Helm Master functions with its V6 4-stroke models — the F225, F250 and F300 — as well as the V8 F350. Teleflex showcased its technology in a marriage with high-horsepower Evinrude E-TEC outboards from Bombardier Recreational Products.
I spent about six hours on the docks — and the boats. I tried the Yamaha Helm Master on the new Pursuit SC 365i Sport Coupe with twin Yamaha F350s and the Teleflex Optimus 360 by Sea Star on the Andros Offshore 32 with a pair of 250-hp E-TECs. I also jumped at an opportunity to try out Yamaha's new four-cylinder 200-hp 4-stroke that powered a 23-foot center console, the Sportsman 229.
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The 487-pound F200 has giddyup, for sure. The boat accelerated from 20 to 30 mph in about 4 seconds and hit 43 mph (WOT) in another 3-1/2 seconds. The engine never broke free from its grip on the water when I whipped the boat into some high-speed doughnuts.
The F200 weighs 119 pounds less than Yamaha's V6 F200 and 14 pounds more than Yamaha's 2-stroke Z200 HPDI outboard. The engine is built with a 2.8-liter, 16-valve dual overhead camshaft powerhead.
The representative from Sportsman, Ralph Archer, was impressed with the engine and boat's ability to stay on plane at a measly 15 mph. "That slow planing speed is ideal for driving in rough waters when 15 mph is as fast as you would want to go," he said.
I started the day aboard the Pursuit, an innovative boat that hides the outboards in a stern engine compartment. I had tested her without Helm Master at the builder's press outing last fall in Fort Pierce, Fla. It took a Pursuit team about three days to install the system, said Pursuit design and engineering manager Chris Gratz.
Meeler patiently walked me through the functions, features and components of Helm Master. You can set the friction control at two levels. It controls the number of turns it takes to get from lock to lock, as well as the required steering effort.
To engage the joystick you simply shift into neutral and press thebutton called joystick.Meeler said it's best to manipulate the stick in a rolling motion, which I did. I used the joystick to circle a navigational marker — a piling — a couple of times. The current was reasonably strong, and the Helm Master had plenty of thrust to overcome it. Twin F350s powered this craft, but with triple-engine setups the center engine remains active in reverse. "With other systems it's idle, but we're using it for extra thrust," Meeler said.
Helm Master friction control gives you a range of four to nine turns lock to lock. The default setting, in this case seven turns, is set by the boat manufacturer.
The Teleflex Optimus 360's lock-to-lock steerage ranges from 3-3/4 to eight turns. Like the Yamaha, the Optimus has two thrust settings, but with different monikers —normal and "boost."You push two buttons to engage the joystick — the "+" button on the throttle control unit and the boost buttonon the joystick base.
I maneuvered the Andros in a similar pattern that I followed in the Pursuit test, circling a piling and pushing the bow and stern every which way.
The Evinrude/Teleflex system uses Evinrude's ICON electronic shift and throttle (EST), said Evinrude senior product specialist Larry Koschak, who showed me the system on the Andros. "The Optimus 360 takes over with the power steering pumps, the steering helm and the joystick. So the major steering duties start with Teleflex," he said.
The Optimus 360's thrust seemed to pack a slightly better punch than the Helm Master, which may be attributable to the larger size of the Pursuit. Overall, the joysticks and complete steering systems did a fine job, delivering the precise control this technology is known for. Switching from joystick to throttle and shift and vice versa was simple.
• Pursuit engineers told me they were able to bump up the top-end speed of the 365i from 43 to 47 mph and boost acceleration.
• The vessel now travels from zero to 30 mph in 15 seconds, compared with 17 seconds previously.
• Pursuit adjusted the trim tab installation and propellers sizes to improve these numbers.


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Legislature Lets Illinois Governor's Death Penalty Reinstatement Proposal Die
An attempt by Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner (pictured) to reinstate Illinois' death penalty by attaching it as an "amendatory veto" to proposed gun-control legislation has failed. Rather than accede to a plan that would condition stricter gun regulation upon reintroducing the death penalty for murders of police officers and any murder with more than a single victim, the state legislature rewrote the gun-control measure the governor had amended, dropping any mention of capital punishment. In May, Gov. Rauner used an amendatory veto—a power some governors are granted that permits them to amend legislation in lieu of an outright veto—to add death-penalty reinstatement to a bill that created a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases. The governor's provisions would have created a new crime of "death penalty murder," potentially applicable whenever a police officer or more than one person was killed, subject to a "proof beyond all doubt." Rauner touted his changes, which also included additional gun control measures, as a comprehensive public-safety policy, but critics called it political grandstanding and state prosecutors objected to its adoption through the veto process without meaningful review and consideration. In a letter to the state House Judiciary-Criminal Committee, John Milhiser, the association's President, wrote: "there is no consensus of opinion on support for the death penalty" among Illinois prosecutors, but they agreed that the proposal "involves constitutional and legal concerns that cannot be evaluated in the brief time thus far allotted." Democratic state Rep. Jonathan Carroll, the gun-control bill's sponsor, said the governor had not consulted him about possible changes and had "hijacked my bill and put politics ahead of policy." The state house held a brief hearing on the bill on May 21, but did not act on it within the 15-day state constitutional window prescribed for consenting to an amendatory veto. On May 31, 2018, the final day of the legislative session, the legislature passed a clean version of the 72-hour waiting period bill, with no mention of the death-penalty proposal. Governor Rauner has 60 days from passage to take action on that bill.
(Brenden Moore, 72-hour gun purchase wait period bill heads to Rauner's desk, The Herald & Review, June 1, 2018; Daisy Contreras, Illinois Lawmakers Hear Arguments On Rauner's Death Penalty Plan, Illinois Public Media, May 22, 2018) Read the letter from the Illinois State's Attorneys Association to the Illinois House Judiciary Committee. See Recent Legislative Activity.
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