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James Ellington taking legal action against Nigel Levine for 2017 motorbike accident
Connor Craig-Jackson | 01/11/2019 01/11/2019 | Breaking
James Ellington ahead of his comeback race at the London Diamond League. Photo: Matthew Quine
A new twist in the comeback of former British international James Ellington has seen him take legal action against his Olympic team-mate Nigel Levine over a motorbike crash in early 2017 that left Ellington out of action until 2019.
Levine was driving the motorcycle with both athletes on during a training camp in Tenerife before a collision with a car left Ellington with multiple broken bones in his legs, fractures to his eye socket, pelvis and ankle while he also lost six pints of blood.
The accident saw his career and indeed his life placed on a knife-edge, with Ellington saying at the time "I truly am blessed as I do not know how me or my training partner Nigel are still alive."
Every step felt like I was being stabbed, but the pain was worth it. Apparently I wasn't suppose to be able to do this again. Now I have a year to get myself ready 🇯🇵 #defiance #comeback #track #mindset #mentality
A post shared by James Ellington⚡OLY (@jimmyells) on Jul 29, 2019 at 3:33am PDT
Until this point, the Newham and Essex Beagles sprinter had had a promising career, regularly featuring in the GB 4x100m relay team and also picking up Commonwealth silver and two European golds.
The European medallist did make a remarkable return to the track this year, running 10.93 for 100m at the London Anniversary Games. However, his current situation, being far behind his 2016 standard with no sponsorship or funding, has led him to file a personal injury case against both his team-mate Nigel Levine and the driver of the car that the pair collided with back in January 2017.
"It's been almost three years now since the crash and the road to recovery is proving to be long and painful," said Ellington. "However, my intentions are clear: I want to return to the world of professional sprinting and will do whatever I can to make that happen."
Overwhelmed and truly touched by everyone's messages and support, I truly am blessed as I do not know how me or my training partner Nigel are still alive. Me and him are both strong characters and will be looking to bounce back from this horrific accident.
A post shared by James Ellington⚡OLY (@jimmyells) on Jan 18, 2017 at 9:34am PST
While not as extensive, Levine himself also suffered serious injuries during the crash, needing surgery to stabilise his pelvis.
Since his return in late 2017 however, he has been on a four-year drugs ban for using the asthma drug clenbuterol, which he claimed were discovered due to contaminated substances.
However, on top of his ban, the former GB sprinter now faces an unexpected legal fight against his former team-mate, with Ellington's Lawyer Demetrius Danas, of Irwin Mitchell describing how the case has escalated.
"We have tried to settle the case amicably with those involved in the crash," he said "but we have now been left with no choice but to begin legal action at court against all vehicles involved in the accident
"James is now running again and has big ambitions for the future but he is still in the process of recovering from life-threatening injuries. As his funding has come to an end, currently he is unable to access the rehabilitation and support which he needs to once again sprint at a world-class level."
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TakeOver: Brooklyn 4 Spotlight: Tommaso Ciampa vs Johnny Gargano
Posted on August 18, 2018 by Andrew Henderson
Tomorrow night is NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn 4. It looks set to be a fantastic show, with all of the matches having so much potential. But as always with my Spotlight columns, I only pick one to look at in depth, and to be honest I'm a little surprised looking back on it that I haven't written about Johnny Gargano vs Tommaso Ciampa before.
I think the reason for that may lie in the beauty of this rivalry – it writes itself.
For all the complaints that are strewn across the internet about WWE's creative team, NXT delivers 90% of the time. Even on those rare instances where it feels like something didn't quite go the way it should have it tends to be leading to something bigger and better, or when a build feels a bit lackluster the match delivers to make you forget about the weeks gone by in the end.
And this Gargano vs Ciampa arc has been masterful. From becoming a beloved tag team quite out of nowhere upon their debuts, any split was always going to be heartbreaking, and at TakeOver: Chicago it certainly was that.
Any split was also inevitably going to lead to an intense personal feud between the two men. We saw that they could deliver big on matches when they had what was my match of the first round in the Cruiserweight Classic two years ago, and that was with the story of being friends fighting. The prospect of actually having a grudge to battle over made their matches an enthralling prospect.
But Ciampa got hurt. He was out of action on NXT TV for almost a year. That could have been the death of the rivalry if Gargano moved on to other stories.
Actually it couldn't have been, because Ciampa wasn't going to let him. What could have been the end of a potentially spectacular series of matches before they had even begun ended up being the best thing that could have happened for the story, as we got character development that was far more fleshed out that I could ever have dreamed when Ciampa took his moment for his own.
We saw Gargano struggle to move on from the memories of Ciampa that haunted him. He lost match after match, he missed opportunity after opportunity. It was six months before things started looking up for him again, when an undisclosed injury to Velveteen Dream took him out of the running to become the number one contender for the NXT Championship, Gargano received what could have been his last chance, but he grabbed it with both hands and refused to let go.
He earned a championship match, only for his crowning moment to be denied by the returning Ciampa who it seemed only showed up with the purpose of reminding Gargano of what happened in Chicago.
Others have gone into the nuances of what has happened since. Ciampa recreated his moment to drill it into Gargano's mind time and time again. Ciampa would not let Gargano move on and forget, because that was the only thing that kept Ciampa in relevance while he was injured too. Both men felt betrayed by the other, and both men were determined to rid themselves of the burden that was their former best friend.
And so we came to TakeOver: New Orleans. The match a year in the making. Passions and tensions running high. And Gargano triumphed. He was able to overcome his nagging nightmare, and should have been able to move on to his other main focus: becoming NXT Champion. But Ciampa wouldn't let him.
Ciampa wouldn't lie down after the loss and let him be. In his own words, Gargano won the battle, but it would be Ciampa that would win the war. Gargano ended up in the hospital again. Candice LeRae got involved, and would get hurt herself. Gargano had two wins over Ciampa, but it was the Psycho Killer that was winning the mental conflict at every turn.
At TakeOver: Chicago II, in the same building that DIY split up, Gargano and Ciampa put each other through hell. Only this time, Ciampa found a way to walk away – however battered and bruised – able to call himself a winner.
That's all he wanted, to prove that he was better than the man he believed was about to replace him.
He had suckered Gargano into letting emotions get the better of him. Ciampa had forced Gargano into becoming more like him to try and destroy him, knowing that it would tear Gargano apart having to sink to those depths that he had despised for over a year. Ciampa took advantage, and won.
And so Ciampa then did exactly what Gargano had tried to do after the first match. He set his sights on the NXT Championship. And Gargano tried not to let him, but he would instead assist him and Ciampa would become the top champion on Wednesday nights. It's possible that Ciampa doesn't even care about being champion. But Gargano does, and Ciampa knows that it hurts Gargano to see him hold the title and call himself the best, especially knowing that Gargano is the reason he can.
Gargano has to deal with knowing that Ciampa has bested him – both in the mind games and in the ring. But now Johnny Wrestling has seen the light.
He realises that he has to fight his own fight. He realises that in trying to make the diabolical, conniving Ciampa atone for his sins, Ciampa will always have the better of him. He has to do things his way, and prove that his ways and means are better than Ciampa's, more effective than Ciampa's, and that he really is the better man. Even better, because of Aleister Black being taken out of the equation, Gargano can finally capture the elusive NXT Championship by doing so.
Only it's a Last Man Standing match. Which means that under normal circumstances Gargano would have to employ some Ciampa-like tactics to keep his opponent down for a count of 10.
This is a battle of wills. This is neither man willing to let the other have success. This isn't going to be about who can inflict the most devastating punishment on the other, this is going to be about who has the stronger capability to keep coming back for more when they've already been pushed beyond their limit. This is a war. This is a masterpiece.
Regardless of the outcome, this is storytelling. This is a storyline that has run from the minute the Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa set foot in NXT. Gargano will be a much bigger face coming out of this than he was a year ago, and Ciampa will be a much bigger heel than he was a year ago. Storylines and matches should leave all the superstars involved in a better place than when they started, and this feud has accomplished that and then some.
What worries me to an extent is that they have to try and top last time. They had a spectacular match, full of violence with moves onto the exposed ring panels, on to the concrete and on the stage. With the title on the line and the Last Man Standing stipulation, it feels like the stakes are that much bigger, and the ante of the match has to be well and truly upped. What more can they do? We'll have to wait and see.
As for the result, I think it's Gargano's time. Three matches over a four and a half month span is extremely rare in any of WWE's brands today, and I think it feels right to end the feud here. Gargano can't come up short to end the feud. I wonder if Gargano will win the NXT Championship, but Ciampa will get called up to the main roster. That way both men have something to brag about.
Either way, this is a feud that can always be revisited down the line and feel special because of the work of everyone involved. If this is the end of this chapter, whenever these two come face to face down the line there will be guaranteed electricity. And that is what professional wrestling is all about.
Category: PPV SpotlightTags: Johnny Gargano, Last Man Standing, NXT Championship, TakeOver: Brooklyn 4, Tommaso Ciampa
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Harry looked around at the other two, now mere outlines in the darkness. He saw Hermione point her wand, not toward the outside, but into his face; there was a bang, a burst of white light, and he buckled in agony, unable to see. He could feel his face swelling rapidly under his hands as heavy footfalls surrounded him.
Unknown hands dragged Harry roughly off the ground. Before he could stop them, someone had rummaged through his pockets and removed the blackthorn wand. Harry clutched at his excruciatingly painful face, which felt unrecognizable beneath his fingers, tight, swollen, and puffy as though he had suffered some violent allergic reaction. His eyes had been reduced to slits through which he could barely see; his glasses fell off as he was bundled out of the tent; all he could make out were the blurred shapes of four or five people wrestling Ron and Hermione outside too.
Harry's stomach turned over. He knew who this was: Fenrir Greyback, the werewolf who was permitted to wear Death Eater robes in return for his hired savagery.
"Search the tent!" said another voice.
Harry was thrown facedown onto the ground. A thud told him that Ron had been cast down beside him. They could hear footsteps and crashes; the men were pushing over chairs inside the tent as they searched.
"Now, let's see who we've got," said Greyback's gloating voice from overhead, and Harry was rolled over onto his back. A beam of wandlight fell into his face and Greyback laughed.
Harry did not answer immediately.
"Yeah, looks like it," said a second voice.
"What's your name?" snarled Greyback.
"A Weasley?" rasped Greyback. "So you're related to blood traitors even if you're not a Mudblood. And lastly, your pretty little friend . . ." The relish in his voice made Harry's flesh crawl.
"Easy, Greyback," said Scabior over the jeering of the others.
"Penelope Clearwater," said Hermione. She sounded terrified, but convincing.
"Accident?" There was more jeering laughter.
Someone yanked Harry up by the hair, dragged him a short way, pushed him down into a sitting position, then started binding him back-to-back with other people. Harry was still half blind, barely able to see anything through his puffed-up eyes. When at last the man tying them had walked away, Harry whispered to the other prisoners.
"No," said Ron and Hermione from either side of him.
It was a new, but familiar, voice, and it came from directly behind Harry, from the person tied to Hermione's left.
"Not a bad little haul for one night," Greyback was saying, as a pair of hobnailed boots marched close by Harry and they heard more crashes from inside the tent. "A Mudblood, a runaway goblin, and three truants. You checked their names on the list yet, Scabior?" he roared.
He crouched down beside Harry, who saw, through the infinitesimal gap left between his swollen eyelids, a face covered in matted gray hair and whiskers, with pointed brown teeth and sores at the corners of his mouth. Greyback smelled as he had done at the top of the tower where Dumbledore had died: of dirt, sweat, and blood.
Harry could barely breathe: Could luck, sheer luck, get them safely out of this?
A dark figure came bustling toward them, and Harry saw a glint of silver in the light of their wands. They had found Gryffindor's sword.
As Scabior said it, Harry's scar, which was stretched tight across his distended forehead, burned savagely. More clearly than he could make out anything around him, he saw a towering building, a grim fortress, jet-black and forbidding; Voldemort's thoughts had suddenly become razor-sharp again; he was gliding toward the gigantic building with a sense of calmly euphoric purpose. . . .
So close . . . So close . . .
With a huge effort of will Harry closed his mind to Voldemort's thoughts, pulling himself back to where he sat, tied to Ron, Hermione, Dean, and Griphook in the darkness, listening to Greyback and Scabior.
Harry's scar burned in the silence, but he made a supreme effort to keep himself present, not to slip into Voldemort's mind. He heard the creak of Greyback's boots as he crouched down in front of Hermione.
Hermione's terrified squeak was as good as a confession.
"' . . . known to be traveling with Harry Potter,'" repeated Greyback quietly.
A stillness had settled over the scene. Harry's scar was exquisitely painful, but he struggled with all his strength against the pull of Voldemort's thoughts: It had never been so important to remain in his own right mind.
"Well, this changes things, doesn't it?" whispered Greyback. Nobody spoke: Harry sensed the gang of Snatchers watching, frozen, and felt Hermione's arm trembling against his. Greyback got up and took a couple of steps to where Harry sat, crouching down again to stare closely at his misshapen features.
"What's that on your forehead, Vernon?" he asked softly, his breath foul in Harry's nostrils as he pressed a filthy finger to the taut scar.
"Don't touch it!" Harry yelled; he could not stop himself; he thought he might be sick from the pain of it.
"I thought you wore glasses, Potter?" breathed Greyback.
And seconds later Harry's glasses had been rammed back onto his face. The Snatchers were closing in now, peering at him.
— Time to fly . . .
"Will you summon 'im? 'ere?" said Scabior, sounding awed, terrified.
Harry thought he knew why Greyback was not calling Voldemort. The werewolf might be allowed to wear Death Eater robes when they wanted to use him, but only Voldemort's inner circle were branded with the Dark Mark: Greyback had not been granted this highest honor.
— The window was the merest slit in the black rock, not big enough for a man to enter. . . . A skeletal figure was just visible through it, curled beneath a blanket. . . . Dead, or sleeping . . . ?
The prisoners were dragged to their feet. Harry could hear Hermione's breathing, fast and terrified.
The prisoners lurched into one another as they landed in a country lane. Harry's eyes, still puffy, took a moment to acclimatize, then he saw a pair of wrought-iron gates at the foot of what looked like a long drive. He experienced the tiniest trickle of relief. The worst had not happened yet: Voldemort was not here. He was, Harry knew, for he was fighting to resist the vision, in some strange, fortresslike place, at the top of a tower. How long it would take Voldemort to get to this place, once he knew that Harry was here, was another matter. . . .
One of the Snatchers strode to the gates and shook them.
"Come on!" said Greyback to his men, and the prisoners were shunted through the gates and up the drive, between high hedges that muffled their footsteps. Harry saw a ghostly white shape above him, and realized it was an albino peacock. He stumbled and was dragged onto his feet by Greyback; now he was staggering along sideways, tied back-to-back to the four other prisoners. Closing his puffy eyes, he allowed the pain in his scar to overcome him for a moment, wanting to know what Voldemort was doing, whether he knew yet that Harry was caught. . . .
The emaciated figure stirred beneath its thin blanket and rolled over toward him, eyes opening in a skull of a face. . . . The frail man sat up, great sunken eyes fixed upon him, upon Voldemort, and then he smiled. Most of his teeth were gone. . . .
As Voldemort's anger throbbed inside him, Harry's scar threatened to burst with pain, and he wrenched his mind back to his own body, fighting to remain present as the prisoners were pushed over gravel.
Light spilled out over all of them.
"What is this?" said a woman's cold voice.
Greyback seized Harry and dragged him around to face the light, forcing the other prisoners to shuffle around too.
Through his puffy eyelids Harry saw Narcissa Malfoy scrutinizing his swollen face. Scabior thrust the blackthorn wand at her. She raised her eyebrows.
"Bring them in," she said.
Harry and the others were shoved and kicked up broad stone steps into a hallway lined with portraits.
The drawing room dazzled after the darkness outside; even with his eyes almost closed Harry could make out the wide proportions of the room. A crystal chandelier hung from the ceiling, more portraits against the dark purple walls. Two figures rose from chairs in front of an ornate marble fireplace as the prisoners were forced into the room by the Snatchers.
The dreadfully familiar, drawling voice of Lucius Malfoy fell on Harry's ears. He was panicking now: He could see no way out, and it was easier, as his fear mounted, to block out Voldemort's thoughts, though his scar was still burning.
Harry did not dare look directly at Draco, but saw him obliquely: a figure slightly taller than he was, rising from an armchair, his face a pale and pointed blur beneath white-blond hair.
Greyback forced the prisoners to turn again so as to place Harry directly beneath the chandelier.
"Well, boy?" rasped the werewolf.
Harry was facing a mirror over the fireplace, a great gilded thing in an intricately scrolled frame. Through the slits of his eyes he saw his own reflection for the first time since leaving Grimmauld Place.
His face was huge, shiny, and pink, every feature distorted by Hermione's jinx. His black hair reached his shoulders and there was a dark shadow around his jaw. Had he not known that it was he who stood there, he would have wondered who was wearing his glasses. He resolved not to speak, for his voice was sure to give him away; yet he still avoided eye contact with Draco as the latter approached.
"I can't — I can't be sure," said Draco. He was keeping his distance from Greyback, and seemed as scared of looking at Harry as Harry was of looking at him.
Harry had never heard Lucius Malfoy so excited.
"Now, we won't be forgetting who actually caught him, I hope, Mr. Malfoy?" said Greyback menacingly.
"Of course not, of course not!" said Lucius impatiently. He approached Harry himself, came so close that Harry could see the usually languid, pale face in sharp detail even through his swollen eyes. With his face a puffy mask, Harry felt as though he was peering out from between the bars of a cage.
"Looks more like a Stinging Jinx to me," said Lucius.
His gray eyes raked Harry's forehead.
Harry saw Draco's face up close now, right beside his father's. They were extraordinarily alike, except that while his father looked beside himself with excitement, Draco's expression was full of reluctance, even fear.
"I don't know," he said, and he walked away toward the fireplace where his mother stood watching.
"What about the Mudblood, then?" growled Greyback. Harry was nearly thrown off his feet as the Snatchers forced the prisoners to swivel around again, so that the light fell on Hermione instead.
The drawing room door opened behind Harry. A woman spoke, and the sound of the voice wound Harry's fear to an even higher pitch.
Bellatrix Lestrange walked slowly around the prisoners, and stopped on Harry's right, staring at Hermione through her heavily lidded eyes.
Lucius froze, his index finger hovering over his own Mark. Bellatrix strode out of Harry's limited line of vision.
"What is that?" he heard her say.
"Sword," grunted an out-of-sight Snatcher.
There was a bang and a flash of red light: Harry knew that the Snatcher had been Stunned. There was a roar of anger from his fellows: Scabior drew his wand.
They were no match for her, even though there were four of them against one of her: She was a witch, as Harry knew, with prodigious skill and no conscience. They fell where they stood, all except Greyback, who had been forced into a kneeling position, his arms outstretched. Out of the corners of his eyes Harry saw Bellatrix bearing down upon the werewolf, the sword of Gryffindor gripped tightly in her hand, her face waxen.
"Where did you get this sword?" she whispered to Greyback as she pulled his wand out of his unresisting grip.
She waved her wand, and the werewolf sprang to his feet, but appeared too wary to approach her. He prowled behind an armchair, his filthy curved nails clutching its back.
She stood, panting slightly, looking down at the sword, examining its hilt. Then she turned to look at the silent prisoners.
She turned back to her sister again.
"Do it! You have no idea of the danger we are in!" shrieked Bellatrix. She looked frightening, mad; a thin stream of fire issued from her wand and burned a hole in the carpet.
Narcissa hesitated for a moment, then addressed the werewolf.
Greyback gave a grunt of pleasure.
Bellatrix hit him across the face; the blow echoed around the room.
She threw Greyback's wand back to him, then took a short silver knife from under her robes. She cut Hermione free from the other prisoners, then dragged her by the hair into the middle of the room, while Greyback forced the rest of them to shuffle across to another door, into a dark passageway, his wand held out in front of him, projecting an invisible and irresistible force.
Harry could feel Ron shaking. They were forced down a steep flight of stairs, still tied back-to-back and in danger of slipping and breaking their necks at any moment. At the bottom was a heavy door. Greyback unlocked it with a tap of his wand, then forced them into a dank and musty room and left them in total darkness. The echoing bang of the slammed cellar door had not died away before there was a terrible, drawn-out scream from directly above them.
Ron stopped shouting. There was a sound of movement close by them, then Harry saw a shadow moving closer.
"Luna, can you help us get these ropes off?" said Harry.
She was back within seconds.
"You'll need to stay still," she said.
Harry could feel her digging at the rope's tough fibers to work the knots free. From upstairs they heard Bellatrix's voice.
"We found it — we found it — PLEASE!" Hermione screamed again; Ron struggled harder than ever, and the rusty nail slipped onto Harry's wrist.
A few seconds later, there was a click, and the luminescent spheres the Deluminator had sucked from the lamps in the tent flew into the cellar: Unable to rejoin their sources, they simply hung there, like tiny suns, flooding the underground room with light. Harry saw Luna, all eyes in her white face, and the motionless figure of Ollivander the wandmaker, curled up on the floor in the corner. Craning around, he caught sight of their fellow prisoners: Dean and Griphook the goblin, who seemed barely conscious, kept standing by the ropes that bound him to the humans.
From above came Bellatrix's voice.
Harry felt the ropes fall away and turned, rubbing his wrists, to see Ron running around the cellar, looking up at the low ceiling, searching for a trapdoor. Dean, his face bruised and bloody, said "Thanks" to Luna and stood there, shivering, but Griphook sank onto the cellar floor, looking groggy and disoriented, many welts across his swarthy face.
Ron was now trying to Disapparate without a wand.
Hermione was screaming again: The sound went through Harry like physical pain. Barely conscious of the fierce prickling of his scar, he too started to run around the cellar, feeling the walls for he hardly knew what, knowing in his heart that it was useless.
Dumbledore's eye was gazing at him out of the mirror.
The eye blinked and was gone.
Harry dashed across the cellar to where Griphook was huddled on the floor.
He could hear someone scuttling down the cellar steps; next moment, Draco's shaking voice spoke from behind the door.
They did as they were bidden; as the lock turned, Ron clicked the Deluminator and the lights whisked back into his pocket, restoring the cellar's darkness. The door flew open; Malfoy marched inside, wand held out in front of him, pale and determined. He seized the little goblin by the arm and backed out again, dragging Griphook with him. The door slammed shut and at the same moment a loud crack echoed inside the cellar.
Ron clicked the Deluminator. Three balls of light flew back into the air from his pocket, revealing Dobby the house-elf, who had just Apparated into their midst.
Harry hit Ron on the arm to stop him shouting, and Ron looked terrified at his mistake. Footsteps crossed the ceiling overhead: Draco marching Griphook to Bellatrix.
Dobby's enormous, tennis-ball-shaped eyes were wide; he was trembling from his feet to the tips of his ears. He was back in the home of his old masters, and it was clear that he was petrified.
An awful scream drowned Harry's words: Hermione was being tortured again. He cut to the essentials.
"You can Disapparate out of this cellar?" he asked Dobby, who nodded, his ears flapping.
The elf nodded for a third time.
"Of course, Harry Potter," whispered the little elf. He hurried over to Mr. Ollivander, who appeared to be barely conscious. He took one of the wandmaker's hands in his own, then held out the other to Luna and Dean, neither of whom moved.
"Harry, we want to help you!" Luna whispered.
"We can't leave you here," said Dean.
As Harry spoke, his scar burned worse than ever, and for a few seconds he looked down, not upon the wandmaker, but on another man who was just as old, just as thin, but laughing scornfully.
He felt Voldemort's fury, but as Hermione screamed again he shut it out, returning to the cellar and the horror of his own present.
They caught hold of the elf's outstretched fingers. There was another loud crack, and Dobby, Luna, Dean, and Ollivander vanished.
Harry and Ron stared at each other.
Footsteps crossed the room overhead, then there was silence. Harry knew that the people in the drawing room were listening for more noises from the cellar.
"We're going to have to try and tackle him," he whispered to Ron. They had no choice: The moment anyone entered the room and saw the absence of three prisoners, they were lost. "Leave the lights on," Harry added, and as they heard someone descending the steps outside the door, they backed against the wall on either side of it.
The door flew open. For a split second Wormtail gazed into the apparently empty cellar, ablaze with light from the three miniature suns floating in midair. Then Harry and Ron launched themselves upon him. Ron seized Wormtail's wand arm and forced it upward; Harry slapped a hand to his mouth, muffling his voice. Silently they struggled: Wormtail's wand emitted sparks; his silver hand closed around Harry's throat.
"What is it, Wormtail?" called Lucius Malfoy from above.
The silver fingers slackened. Harry had not expected it: He wrenched himself free, astonished, keeping his hand over Wormtail's mouth. He saw the ratlike man's small watery eyes widen with fear and surprise: He seemed just as shocked as Harry at what his hand had done, at the tiny, merciful impulse it had betrayed, and he continued to struggle more powerfully, as though to undo that moment of weakness.
"And we'll have that," whispered Ron, tugging Wormtail's wand from his other hand.
Wandless, helpless, Pettigrew's pupils dilated in terror. His eyes had slid from Harry's face to something else. His own silver fingers were moving inexorably toward his own throat.
Without pausing to think, Harry tried to drag back the hand, but there was no stopping it. The silver tool that Voldemort had given his most cowardly servant had turned upon its disarmed and useless owner; Pettigrew was reaping his reward for his hesitation, his moment of pity; he was being strangled before their eyes.
Ron had released Wormtail too, and together he and Harry tried to pull the crushing metal fingers from around Wormtail's throat, but it was no use. Pettigrew was turning blue.
"Relashio!" said Ron, pointing the wand at the silver hand, but nothing happened; Pettigrew dropped to his knees, and at the same moment, Hermione gave a dreadful scream from overhead. Wormtail's eyes rolled upward in his purple face; he gave a last twitch, and was still.
Harry and Ron looked at each other, then leaving Wormtail's body on the floor behind them, ran up the stairs and back into the shadowy passageway leading to the drawing room. Cautiously they crept along it until they reached the drawing room door, which was ajar. Now they had a clear view of Bellatrix looking down at Griphook, who was holding Gryffindor's sword in his long-fingered hands. Hermione was lying at Bellatrix's feet. She was barely stirring.
ing his breath, fighting against the prickling of his scar.
Relief broke across her face, all tension drained from it.
And she pushed back her sleeve and touched her forefinger to the Dark Mark.
At once, Harry's scar felt as though it had split open again. His true surroundings vanished: He was Voldemort, and the skeletal wizard before him was laughing toothlessly at him; he was enraged at the summons he felt — he had warned them, he had told them to summon him for nothing less than Potter. If they were mistaken . . .
And Voldemort's fury broke: A burst of green light filled the prison room and the frail old body was lifted from its hard bed and then fell back, lifeless, and Voldemort returned to the window, his wrath barely controllable . . . They would suffer his retribution if they had no good reason for calling him back. . . .
"Expelliarmus!" he roared, pointing Wormtail's wand at Bellatrix, and hers flew into the air and was caught by Harry, who had sprinted after Ron. Lucius, Narcissa, Draco, and Greyback wheeled about; Harry yelled, "Stupefy!" and Lucius Malfoy collapsed onto the hearth. Jets of light flew from Draco's, Narcissa's, and Greyback's wands; Harry threw himself to the floor, rolling behind a sofa to avoid them.
Panting, Harry peered around the edge of the sofa. Bellatrix was supporting Hermione, who seemed to be unconscious, and was holding her short silver knife to Hermione's throat.
Ron stood rigid, clutching Wormtail's wand. Harry straightened up, still holding Bellatrix's.
"I said, drop them!" she screeched, pressing the blade into Hermione's throat: Harry saw beads of blood appear there.
"All right!" he shouted, and he dropped Bellatrix's wand onto the floor at his feet. Ron did the same with Wormtail's. Both raised their hands to shoulder height.
Harry knew it; his scar was bursting with the pain of it, and he could feel Voldemort flying through the sky from far away, over a dark and stormy sea, and soon he would be close enough to Apparate to them, and Harry could see no way out.
At the last word there was a peculiar grinding noise from above. All of them looked upward in time to see the crystal chandelier tremble; then, with a creak and an ominous jingling, it began to fall. Bellatrix was directly beneath it; dropping Hermione, she threw herself aside with a scream. The chandelier crashed to the floor in an explosion of crystal and chains, falling on top of Hermione and the goblin, who still clutched the sword of Gryffindor. Glittering shards of crystal flew in all directions: Draco doubled over, his hands covering his bloody face.
As Ron ran to pull Hermione out of the wreckage, Harry took his chance: He leapt over an armchair and wrested the three wands from Draco's grip, pointed all of them at Greyback, and yelled, "Stupefy!" The werewolf was lifted off his feet by the triple spell, flew up to the ceiling, and then smashed to the ground.
As Narcissa dragged Draco out of the way of further harm, Bellatrix sprang to her feet, her hair flying as she brandished the silver knife; but Narcissa had directed her wand at the doorway.
The tiny elf trotted into the room, his shaking finger pointing at his old mistress.
"You must not hurt Harry Potter," he squeaked.
"Kill him, Cissy!" shrieked Bellatrix, but there was another loud crack, and Narcissa's wand too flew into the air and landed on the other side of the room.
Harry's scar was blinding him with pain. Dimly he knew that they had moments, seconds before Voldemort was with them.
"Ron, catch — and GO!" he yelled, throwing one of the wands to him; then he bent down to tug Griphook out from under the chandelier. Hoisting the groaning goblin, who still clung to the sword, over one shoulder, Harry seized Dobby's hand and spun on the spot to Disapparate.
Bill and Fleur's . . . Shell Cottage . . . Bill and Fleur's . . .
He had disappeared into the unknown; all he could do was repeat the name of the destination and hope that it would suffice to take him there. The pain in his forehead pierced him, and the weight of the goblin bore down upon him; he could feel the blade of Gryffindor's sword bumping against his back; Dobby's hand jerked in his; he wondered whether the elf was trying to take charge, to pull them in the right direction, and tried, by squeezing the fingers, to indicate that that was fine with him. . . .
And then they hit solid earth and smelled salty air. Harry fell to his knees, relinquished Dobby's hand, and attempted to lower Griphook gently to the ground.
"Are you all right?" he said as the goblin stirred, but Griphook merely whimpered.
Harry squinted around through the darkness. There seemed to be a cottage a short way away under the wide starry sky, and he thought he saw movement outside it.
He looked around. The little elf stood feet from him.
The elf swayed slightly, stars reflected in his wide, shining eyes. Together, he and Harry looked down at the silver hilt of the knife protruding from the elf's heaving chest.
He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's front, and that he had stretched out his thin arms to Harry with a look of supplication. Harry caught him and laid him sideways on the cool grass.


A version of this photo, from the 2010 Monrovia Day Parade, is in his new book: Dr. George: My Life In Weather by Dr. George Fischbeck and Randy Roach.
I grew up watching Dr.George do the weather on channel 7, as did a lot of others. He was unlike anyone else and the weatherman to watch. I can still remember him, hand over heart, like it was yesterday.
Pick up the book and see why he's a local legend. Read about his life, his accomplishments, the millions of dollars raised for multiple charities and see the photo of his visit to "his friends" in Monrovia.


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Apple Products Discontinued Today
Along with Apple releasing new iPhones and the Apple Watch Series 4 today, they did actually end the life of a few of their other products. Some of these were rumored and people saw coming, but some did not.
Here are the following products that were discontinued as of today:
iPhone SE: One of the more notable products that was discontinued today was the iPhone SE. This was Apple's 4-inch smartphone that was released in March 2016. After Apple's event today, it's fate was sealed and it was removed from the online Apple Store.
iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus: This iPhone was released in September 2015 and was the first iPhone to have 3D Touch, which is essentially a right click for the iPhone.
iPhone X: A year later after it's unveiling, the first full-screen iPhone with Face ID is no more from Apple.
Apple Watch Edition: This is one of the last Apple Watches that came out when the Apple Watch was released in 2015. According to The Verge, the initial Apple Watch Edition was priced at $10,000 and could be modified to cost up to $17,000.
Product RED iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus: Consumers can still buy the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, just not in the red color. Now the only colors you can get the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus in are silver, black and gold.
It should also be noted that the discontinuation of the iPhone SE and iPhone 6S, those were the last iPhones with the headphone port in them. Currently, the entire iPhone line on Apple's website no longer have the headphone port.
To find out what happened at the event itself, check out our overview of the event here.
Author: David Becker
Apple Watch Edition
Overview of the September 2018 Apple Event
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The initiative comes following the Hospital's success with a previous telehealth-based disease management program - one which helps patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) breathe easier. The Temple Lung Center at Temple University Hospital partnered with Philadelphia-based healthcare technology provider HGE Health to create a telehealth platform and mobile app to connect physicians with COPD patients - many of whom would have had to travel great distances across the country to utilize the pulmonary expertise at the Hospital.
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Now, Temple University Hospital and HGE Health are bringing this advanced care management technology to help patients suffering from IPF.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is experienced by roughly one in 200 American adults - mostly middle-aged men. There is no known cause or cure for the disease, which causes severe scaring throughout the lungs, affects the sufferer's ability to breathe, and limits nearly all activity as attacks of breathlessness can even occur while the patient is sitting. Without a lung transplant, most patients have approximately three-to-five years to live - though new treatments and therapies are emerging which can slow the spread of lung damage and help patients better manage their symptoms.
Temple University Hospital believes that remote patient monitoring could be particularly beneficial in improving treatment outcomes for IPF patients, as traveling long distances to meet with specialists becomes less and less of an option as the disease progresses.
"Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a debilitating, emotionally challenging disease that limits its sufferers from living a full life. IPF patients can experience worsening of their respiratory symptoms, especially breathlessness and cough," said CEO and Director at HGE Health, Michael J. Markus, Ph.D. "Our unmatched leadership in telemedicine-based programs in COPD is why we're so confident we can provide the same timely care for IPF patients. By providing adjustments to the treatment plan based on a change in symptoms, we have the opportunity to improve respiratory symptoms in patients with IPF and perhaps compliance with their IPF medications. A telemedicine-based disease management program for patients with IPF has the promise to improve their quality of life as well as clinical outcomes."
The new program is initially being made available to Temple University Hospital's 3,500 to 4,500 patients with pulmonary interstitial lung diseases - many of whom are suffering specifically from IPF, and who have previously had to travel from far and wide to meet with their physicians.
With IPF, the quicker changes in symptoms are addressed, the less likely they are to become more complicated, resulting in better outcomes for the patient. Under the new telehealth program, pulmonary patients can use their smartphone to securely communicate with the HGE Health platform and report daily symptoms to their physician, who can then make immediate changes in treatment whenever necessary.
Healthcare providers have been increasingly turning to telehealth and remote patient monitoring programs to improve care management and coordination for patients with chronic issues living at home. Some 56% of healthcare leaders surveyed for a recent report by Sage Growth Partners said that their facilities had already implemented a telehealth program, with 86% of those who had not stated that adoption was a medium to high priority.
As Temple University Hospital shows, utilizing telehealth technology enables providers to reduce the costs and stress involved for patients traveling to and from doctors' offices for regular check-ups, and improves health outcomes through near real-time monitoring and collaboration.
Temple University Hospital and HGE Health have also recently rolled out their telehealth platform and mobile app to help surgeons care for patients pre- and post-lung transplant. As a result, Temple has been able to scale its high-quality care to its rapidly growing pulmonary patient population, ensuring patients have daily interactions with their physicians no matter where they are.
"We're excited to see HGE Health's technological innovation continue to play a key role in the health and wellbeing of pulmonary patients," said President and CEO of Temple University Health System, Larry R. Kaiser, MD, FACS. "Along with our talented transplant team, HGE Health is one of the reasons the Temple Lung Center has become the busiest and best pulmonary program in the nation. They have made it easier for patients and physicians from not only across the U.S. but around the world to take advantage of our life-saving expertise."
You can hear Dwight W. McBee, Chief Experience Officer at Temple University Health System speak at NGPX 2018 this November at the Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, CA.


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Dixio: The dictionary that knows
Published by jloug099@uottawa.ca on 2012-02-02
No doubt about it, dictionaries are a translator's best friend! When in trouble, we can always depend on them to help us find a solution. Each type of dictionary has its own look and layout, and contains its own set of tricks. And after a while, all translators seem to establish their favourite dictionary (or team of dictionaries) that will accompany them through the most difficult of tasks. What great companions they are!
To continue with my last entry on semantic technology, I decided to try a demo version of Dixio the Smart Dictionary software, available through Semantix. This dictionary is claimed to use this type of technology to search for entries in a more effective and relevant way. By using "language detection, morpho-syntactical analysis and the analysis of context, the word you are looking up is examined and prepared for subsequent treatment.1" On YouTube, some demo videos of the software display its unique features, such as integrating into different file types and programs and detecting complex forms (tenses, derivatives, phrasal verbs, etc.).
With over 90 dictionaries and glossaries integrated into it, Dixio is packed with useful resources that contain a large number of entries for almost any term. Intrigued by this seemingly unique dictionary, I tried testing Dixio with a variety of terms to see what it could handle. Here are the results:
Sample 1:
I am amazed at our progress in creating systems that not only come closer to imitating the functions of the human brain, but that also go beyond its abilities.
Source: WordNet
come close
1 nearly do something; She came close to quitting her job
2 (approximate) be close or similar; Her results approximate my own
© 2005 Princeton University
Sample source: Semantic Technology: It isn't just about words on a page anymore
It goes without saying that recent technological wonders have…
Source: Concise Oxford English Dictionary
go without saying be obvious.
See: say
© ISBN 9780199548415 Oxford University Press 2008
Source: Diccionario Inglés-Español de Semantix
go without saying
loc.
ser obvio, no necesitar explicación;
Ver: say v.
Ver: go v.
© 2010 Semantix
As my first order of business, I hope to…
(agenda, agendum) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
agenda, orden del día, relación de temas a tratar;
Ver: order n.
Ver: business n.
Each of these is produced artificially in a nuclear reactor, from the fertile…
→ n.
1 (also nuclear reactor) an apparatus or structure in which fissile material can be made to undergo a controlled, self-sustaining nuclear reaction with the consequent release of energy.
2 a container or apparatus in which substances are made to react chemically.
3 Medicine a person who reacts to a drug, antigen, etc.
4 Physics a coil or other component which provides reactance in a circuit.
Sample source: Physics of Uranium and Nuclear Energy
Morgan Stanley, owner of the world's largest brokerage, will also cap…
Source: English Wikipedia
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley operates in 42 countries, and has more than 1300 offices and 60,000 employees. The company reports US$779 billion as assets under its management. It is headquartered in the Morgan Stanley Building, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
The corporation, formed by J.P. Morgan & Co. partners Henry S. Morgan (grandson of J.P. Morgan), Harold Stanley and others, came into existence on September 16, 1935, in response to the Glass-Steagall Act that required the splitting of commercial and investment banking businesses. In its first year the company operated with a 24% market share (US$1.1 billion) in public offerings and private placements. The main areas of business for the firm today are Global Wealth Management, Institutional Securities, and Investment Management.
Sample source: Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Lead Retreat on Investment Bankers' Compensation
…that has the potential to fill the gaps that machine translation leaves behind.
1 depart and not take along; He left behind all his possessions when he moved to Europe
2 (leave) be survived by after one's death; He left six children; At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats
3 (leave, leave alone) leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking; leave it as is;leave the young fawn alone; leave the flowers that you see in the park behind
phr. v.
1 (objeto) dejar, abandonar, no llevarse consigo;
2 (muerte) dejar, dejar como familiares directos supervivientes;
3 (lugar, planta, animal) dejar, dejar en paz (fig), dejar tranquilo, no molestar, dejar tal cual;
Ver: leave v.
In the many cases shown above, Dixio does more than the average electronic dictionary. Dixio takes a word or series of words and actually analyzes the morpho-syntactic structure to give a more contextual and precise definition. It was able to recognize proper nouns, compound nouns, idioms verb phrases and phrasal verbs, and even their derivations. Any translator or language learner knows that this is incredibly useful!
That is not without saying, though, that there weren't any troubles with the software. Some compound nouns and more informal phrasal verbs (for example, "getting closer") were not picked up by the program. In addition, Dixio shows some issues with Firefox as it sometimes misread text in the browser. And I was slightly disappointed by the fact that Wikipedia was a common resource for the dictionary, especially for compound and proper nouns.
For the most part, however, I was very impressed with Dixio the Smart Dictionary. Its ability to look past the text on the page and provide fast and comprehensive entries proved to be very useful. With some additions, such as more relevant and credible content and resources, Dixio would be an asset to any researcher, language-learner, translator or language professional.
Of course, one downfall of the software is that it is only available in English, Spanish and Catalan at the moment. And it does not, as it stands, have a translation function. Using this type of technology (semantic technology), however, I can easily see how translating could be that much quicker. Not only would you have access to more entries quicker, but you would also have definitions and translations in context! To me, that sounds like a translator's dream.
Although I have started to see how semantic technology can be used through my test of Dixio, I feel that there is still more to be discovered about this context-based search tool. I will continue to dive into this topic and see what more there is to explore…
1 Our Technology, Semantix. <http://www.semantix.com/en/tecnologia.html>. 1 February 2012.
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John Bolton former embassator to the UN says , and I quote of Obama. "How can an American President say that as though he is a detached observer? And doesn't care about American dieing? I think people have been worried about his qualification to be commander in chief for a long time. and that outta prove it!" After Obama said "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, ever the biggest attack ever.....we absorbed it and are stronger."
Lets see, a conservative woman that dated a kid in HS that was dabbling in so called witchcraft, and she spoke out against porn and got labeled anti-masturbation vs Self proclaimed Marxist?
All I can say is if this is the worst the left can find-man they are really digging here.
or perhaps they are starting a criminal investigation to insure that criminal investigation does not go here
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Hate speech and sedition--why is this man still free? Better question why is he allowed to teach???????????
Here this has absolutely nothing to do with politics, religion or world problems
just take a minute or two and feel good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDNOB6TnHSI
I don't remember the dimensions, but I remember reading this once and was shocked because it was not very big
OOPs after I wrote that I looked it up, I'm old and feeble minded I guess, I was wrong!
But at least I'm honest
Some have said that the stimulus hasn't saved any jobs, but here is a case where at least one job was saved. Oregon State University Athletic Director Bob DeCarolis was considering firing their basketball coach, Craig Robinson, after an 8-11 start (2-5 in the Pac 10 conference). When word of this reached Washington, Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter was dispatched to Corvallis with $17 million in stimulus money for the university. Craig Robinson's job is safe for this year. For those of you unfamiliar with Coach Robinson, he just so happens to be Michelle Obama's brother. Just a coincidence I'm sure!
News from the heartland
Ashtabula County Common Pleas Judge Alfred Mackey was asked what residents should do to protect themselves and their families with the severe cutback in law enforcement.
"Arm themselves," the judge said. "Be very careful, be vigilant, get in touch with your neighbors, because we're going to have to look after each other."
So this is what the out of control spending by leaders in both parties has brought us too. Mind you Ashtabula County is just north west of Cleveland where like Detroit Liberal leadership has been in place for generations
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Q: $α$ root of $f$, $β$ root of $g$. Show $f$ irred. in $\mathbb{Q}(β)$ iff $g$ irred. in $\mathbb{Q}(α)$ Context is a course covering field theory (ch. 13) and Galois theory (ch. 14) of Abstract Algebra by Dummit & Foote.
Let $f, g ∈ \mathbb{Q} [x]$ be non-constant, irreducible polynomials. Let $α$ be a root of $f$, and put $K := \mathbb{Q} (α)$. Let $β$ be a root of $g$, and put $L := \mathbb{Q} (β)$.
Show that $f$ is irreducible in $L[x]$ if and only if $g$ is irreducible in $K[x]$.
I could use a hint to get started with this. I suppose I only have to show one way due to symmetry.

A: Let $\deg(f)=m, \deg(g)=n$. Then $[\mathbb{Q}(\alpha):\mathbb{Q}]=m$ and $[\mathbb{Q}(\beta):\mathbb{Q}]=n$. Now suppose $f$ is irreducible over $\mathbb{Q}(\beta)$. Then the minimal polynomial of $\alpha$ over $\mathbb{Q}(\beta)$ has degree $m$, so $[\mathbb{Q}(\alpha,\beta):\mathbb{Q}(\beta)]=m$. By the tower rule we conclude that $[\mathbb{Q}(\alpha,\beta):\mathbb{Q}]=mn$, and hence $[\mathbb{Q}(\alpha,\beta):\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)]=n$. This means that the minimal polynomial of $\beta$ over $\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)$ has degree $n$, just like the polynomial $g$. It follows that $g$ must be irreducible over $\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)$, because otherwise the minimal polynomial would have smaller degree.

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Monthly Report on 5G Trends — October 2019
"With the upcoming commercialization of 5G in 2020, SEP licensees and licensors must pay close attention to the latest 5G SEP trends."
Up until now, almost 40 companies have declared their property to the ETSI database, and have contributed over 18,000 patent families. Among them, 42.3% of the declared applications are active, while 41.8% of them are still pending. To identify the technologies invented after the beginning of the 5G discussions, we applied the filter "earliest priority date is before or after June 2016" to our analysis. At that time, 3GPP announced that "the latest plenary meeting of the 3GPP Technical Specifications Groups (TSG#72) has agreed on a detailed work plan for Release-15, the first release of 5G specifications." This could be viewed as the beginning of 5G. The results show that almost 70% of the patent families with the earliest priority date are before the date that we set.
The data retrieved for this report is for US, WO, EP and CN patent applications (excluding US provisional patent applications) declared to ETSI in November 2019.
In the following page, these entities will be combined into one group
* CATT includes CATT, and CATT(Datang).
* QUALCOMM includes QUALCOMM Inc and Qualcomm Incorporated.
* Nokia includes Nokia Technologies Oy, Nokia Shanghai Bell, NSN, ALCATEL-LUCENT, and ALU.
* InterDigital includes IDAC Holdings, InterDigital Holdings, IPH, and ITC.
* NTT DOCOMO includes NTT DOCOMO INC. , and NTT DOCOMO, INC.
5G ETSI Declaration Activity: October 2019
The above charts indicate that ZTE, Nokia, LG, FGI, and Samsung are the top 5 declarants of 5G SEPs for October 2019. We have noticed that there has been a significant increase in SEP declarations when compared to the last two months.
The dashboard also details the number of declared patent families for each Technical Specification. The top 3 for October 2019 are as follows:
TS38.331 (Radio Resource Control);
TS38.213 (Physical Layer Procedures for Control);
TS38.211 (NR; Physical channels and modulation).
Cumulative Rankings for 5G SEP Declaration
Top 10 Owners
Now, let's take a look at the cumulative rankings. Surprisingly, Huawei has now passed the number one position to Samsung in the quantity list for declared SEPs. It's also worth noting that Huawei previously held the top spot for the highest quantity of declared SEPs for almost seven months. Currently, Huawei, LG, ZTE, Nokia complete the top 5.
Furthermore, if we take only the quantity of declared 5G SEP families into consideration, the benchmark for entering the top 10 is 715 patent families (declared by Sharp.)
The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo is fast approaching, more and more mobile operators and equipment manufacturers have announced that they will trial 5G commercialization during this period. An article published by Forbes in September stated that "Intel has provided more details about how it plans to use technology (5G) at this the largest and the most famous sports event."
With the high expectations surrounding 5G, there are many different 5G-related technologies in the spotlight, for example, 5G enabled smartphones, real-time VR, and self-driving cars, etc. However, the critical and influential functions offered by 5G are based on well-designed, cutting-edge communication technologies. Some of these technologies are patented and have a significant impact on those who manufacture 5G equipment or offer 5G services. In the following section, we will present the insights that we discovered and the phenomena that we explored (related to these patents.)
Further Insights
For our legal status analysis, we used patent applications as our statistical unit instead of simple families. Because simple families can have one or more patent members, it is troublesome to identify the legal status of a patent family. From the dashboard below, we can observe that a small proportion of the declared SEPs is inactive. On the other hand, both the active and pending patents have surpassed 40%.
Earliest Priority Date After June 2016
According to the 3GPP website, the 3GPP Technical Specifications Groups (TSG#72) took place on Jun 13-16, 2016, in Busan, Korea. A detailed work plan was agreed for Release-15, which is the first release of 5G specifications. The scope for Release-15 should support both standalone and non-standalone NR operations. Non-standalone NR in this context indicates using LTE as a control plane anchor, whereas standalone NR implies full control plane capability for NR. In other words, some of the existing LTE technologies are probably workable on non-standalone NR operations. To target the legitimate potential 5G inventions, we should consider the inventions with the earliest priority date after June 2016. Our results show that only 30% of the patent families meet our assumption.
Uncertainty Issues
In our last report, we discussed over-declaration issues and the consequences that they might bring. As you can see from the charts below, we have presented a "total share" pie chart where you can see that almost 64% of the data has no issue date. The PCT patents predominantly cause this. In the rightmost stacked bar chart, we have excluded the data that has no issue date.
From the cumulative statistics table that only considers quantity, it's easy to discover the ranking differences by adopting different perspectives and by utilizing various combinations of filters. In other words, to uncover a more accurate and more in-depth understanding of 5G SEP declaration data, it's crucial to integrate the domain knowledge of standards, patents, SEPs, and data skills.
We believe that the value of insight derived from our data research is provable, providing that the data interpretation is both meaningful and useful to those who wish to understand this field better.


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Already closed | Soho/Tribeca
Leap and the Net Will Appear
Members say: Great staging, Disappointing, Slow, Funny, Absorbing
Through a voracious ride of transformation, New George's "Leap" asks us to suspend the world we know in order to envision the world as it might be. More…
What happens when Margie (raised to be a good girl; wants to be a lion) leaves home: twenty years whiz by like a moving train, logic and time escape their usual confines, steaks are eaten, tuxes are worn, the world expands, people transform, there is a rule that is breaking. In a world that is close to ours but is not ours, lions run with limitless grace, we all eat cake, have some champagne.
Already closed | The Flea Theater / The Sam (Soho/Tribeca)
Cast & Creatives | Official Site
Great staging, Disappointing, Slow, Funny, Absorbing
Jim Jim Jim
Fractured, Surprising, Brilliantly played, Innovative
See it if you'd like to see a truly innovative play that, despite a wildly diffuse plot, holds its pieces together.
Don't see it if you want a play that tells a typically coherent story.
Also This season the plays that have interested me most are so quirky in form & in what they have to say that they skirt incoherence. (Many of these plays have opened at season's end.) "LEAP AND THE NET WILL APPEAR" is among the least traditional & the riskiest. Neither the characters nor the story—spread across 3 continents & at least a couple of decades—fully cohere. Yet the cast of downtown all-stars from a few different generations make all those deeply idiosyncratic characters memorable, important to us for their very refusal to be consistent. There are also a series of smart, angular songs written & performed by Andrew Lynch that kind of reveal the deepest feelings of the central character Margie. Does it sound like a mess? Well it is messy. But so is the inconsistent human heart, especially if monitored across a number of years & in relation to a number of other messy, inconsistent hearts.... Read more Read less
Disappointing, Great staging
See it if A play about finding your animal self, with consistently memorable staging, lighting, and sound design throughout.
Don't see it if Super twee (take it or leave it), not a huge amount of dramatic movement or tension. Eliza Bent was great as the Roman Centurion son!
ClaudiaRose 2014
25-34 |
Slow, Quirky, Funny, Clever, Absorbing
See it if you love experimental, language-based or fantastical plays, you like female-driven narrative, you like ensemble theatre and live music
Don't see it if you want something that grapples seriously with some of what it poses
Also Beautiful costumes and fairly strong ensemble performance, generally. The language is lush and the acting is strong. The play is at its best when it embraces its own fantasy, and at its worst when it fails to really think through some of its choices (there's a character who very very throw-away may or may not be trans or genderqueer, - and while that doesn't at all need to be "a thing the play is about," we then literally never hear about it at all). The play sometimes gets trapped in its own fairy tale logic in a way that does it a disservice and fails it from moving past a playful, engaging, poetic place to a place of depth that it seems to want to get to, at times.... Read more Read less
HELEN 9171
Heavy-handed, Great music, Slow, Edgy
See it if You have a big appetite for flat-affect genderqueer absurdism. If pretty costumes/cleve staging can overcome a deadly deadpan script
Don't see it if You have no tolerance for one-note absurdist comedy and cliched Jewish parents shtick
William H 6232
Great staging, Great acting, Cliched, Disappointing
See it if you're looking for a few laughs.
Don't see it if you're expecting an ambitious play.
Also There was plenty of potential substance here, but none of it realized, as if the playwright kept choosing to stop short of having something to say, deflating every potentially effective moment with a never-ending onslaught of daft humor. I was hoping to see a serious attempt at experimental, thought-provoking, surreal theater, but was instead treated to a kind of absurdist sitcom. On the plus side the actors and director did a great job with their limited material.... Read more Read less
Alexis Soloski |
"Somewhere in 'Leap,' there is a wilder play, an angrier exploration of choice and defeat and desire, particularly of the female variety, but this one stops short of anything too troubling. Ms. Porter's script can skew precious...Tara Ahmadinejad can't keep these 90 minutes from dragging, or stre...
Ran Xia |
"The play has a lot of potential with its innovative form and intriguing characters. However, it fell short because of a lack of connective tissues from moment to moment in its storytelling. The surrealism and hyper-self-awareness start to feel like a crutch."
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University Hospital Coventry
Woman found dead alongside injured man on M1 motorway
The man remains in a critical condition at University Hospital Coventry
Katy Hallam
A woman found in the carriageway of the M1 motorway this weekend was pronounced dead at the scene.
Leicestershire Police confirmed the woman's death, and said a man she was found on the motorway with remained in a critical condition yesterday (October 7).
He was rushed to University Hospital in Coventry by air ambulance.
The pair were found close to a bridge near the Leicester Forest East Service station shortly after 2pm on Saturday (October 6).
It is understood they fell from the bridge closing the motorway for several hours and leading to tailbacks stretching miles.
Another woman was pronounced dead on Thursday, October 4 after being hit by a van on the same stretch of the motorway between J20 and J21.
Police appeal
Leicestershire Police has not yet revealed any details about the deceased woman.
They are continuing to investigate the circumstances and have appealed for motorists who have dash cam footage that may help with enquiries to come forward.
The force has said that no vehicles were involved in what happened on Saturday and the woman's death is not being treated as suspicious.
Officers are preparing a file for the coroner, who will identify the body.
Anyone who witnessed the incident involving the two people found on the carriageway is asked to call the force on 101.
Motorway closed
The incident resulted in the M1 being closed in both directions for around four hours so 999 vehicles could access the scene.
The M1 was shut between Junction 21, by Fosse Park and 21A near Leicester Forest East, for several hours leading to long tailbacks in the area.
All the lanes were eventually re-opened by around 6pm but it took some time for the congestion to clear.
The delays affected motorists into the early evening including some Leicester City and Everton fans trying to get home after the match at the King Power Stadium.
A previous version of this story has appeared in LeicestershireLive .
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Q: Convert MemoryStream to FileStream with C#? I am working on a project that receives a FileStream and it should receive it with a method that returns a MemoryStream.
How can I convert the MemoryStream to FileStream? I can't touch those codes and there lies the entire problem.

A: If I understand your question correctly, you have a method that returns a MemoryStream, and you need to pass that stream to a method that takes a FileStream.  I've seen several instances where colleagues of mine have written methods with a FileStream parameter when the parameter type could have been Stream.  This is an excellent example of why it's better to use the less-derived type for the parameter.
The only solution I can think of is to write the memory stream to a temporary file: create a file stream for the temporary file, copy the memory stream to the file stream, and then either set the position to zero or close the stream and open a new stream on the same file, to pass to the method.
If I have misunderstood your question, please clarify.

A: This has been discussed at Convert a Stream to a FileStream in C#


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A simple [FullSlate](http://www.fullslate.com/) API wrapper written in JavaScript (ES6).

## Install

```sh
$ npm install fullslate
```

## Usage

To use this library, you will need a valid FullSlate API token and key. [Based off of the FAQ](http://support.fullslate.com/hc/en-us/articles/204901135-Does-Full-Slate-offer-an-API-), to obtain an API token you have to contact their support and the key is usually your FullSlate subdomain (e.g. **mycompany**.fullslate.com, ***mycompany*** would be your key).

All API requests return a Promise, Promise rejections will occur from API failures, missing tokens, and/or bad API calls. Not all API calls require an API token though, see the documentation below.

```js
import FullSlate from 'fullslate';

// Initialize the FullSlate wrapper
const fsapi = new FullSlate({
  key: 'Your_FullSlate_key'
  token: 'Your_FullSlate_API_token'
});

// Get a list of your employees
fsapi.employees()
  .then(employees => {
    console.log(employees);
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.error(err);
  })
```

## Implemented APIs

* [X] Employees
* [X] Services
* [X] Openings
* [ ] Cross-realm Openings
* [X] Bookings
* [X] Clients
* [X] Events
* [X] Products
* [X] Vouchers
* [ ] Company Configuration

## API

### `employees([id])`
* `id` (Number) *optional* - If `id` provided, will limit returned employees detail to a single employee, if no `id` provided an array of employees will be returned.

### `services([id])`
* `id` (Number) *optional* - If `id` provided, will limit returned services to a single service, if no `id` provided an array of services will be returned.

### `openings(id[, options])`
* `id` (Number|Array) *required* - The service id or an array of services are required to get the openings
* `options` (Object) *optional* - See FullSlate API documentation for full options and, example options are `employees`, `before`, `after`, `window`, `range`

### `bookings(id)`
* `id` (Number) *required* - The booking id, which will return details of the booking

### `book(options)`
* `options` (Object) *required* - See FullSlate API documentation for full options and descriptions. The booking object at minimum must include `at`, `service`, `first_name`, and `last_name` and any additional requirements specified by the provider.

### ***Private Company Resource APIs***
The FullSlate API token must be defined for the following calls.

### `clients([id][, options])`
* `id` (Number) *optional* - If a `number` is specified, the library will assume it is a client `id` which will limit the response to the specific client `id`. If no `id` is specified, a full list of clients will be returned. This first parameter can also be an `object` which will return the full list of clients with the `object` acting as the `options`.
* `options` (Object) *optional* - See FullSlate API documentation for full options
* `options.include` (Array) *optional* - Additional fields to include in the response API, valid values include `emails`, `phone_numbers`, `addresses`, and `links`.

### `events([id][, options])`
* `id` (Number) *optional* - If a `number` is specified, the library will assume it is an event `id` which will limit the response to the specific event `id`. If no `id` is specified, a list of events will be returned. The first parameter can also be an `object` which will return the full list of events with the `object` acting as the `options`.
* `options` (Object) *optional* - See FullSlate API documentation for full options, date parameters must be in the format of `YYYY-MM-DD`.

### `products([id])`
* `id` (Number) *optional* - If `id` provided, will limit returned products to a single product, if no `id` provided an array of products will be returned.

### `vouchers([id])`
* `id` (Number) *optional* - If `id` provided, will limit returned vouchers to a single voucher, if no `id` provided an array of vouchers will be returned.

## Contributing

### Running tests

To run the test suite, you'll have to define your API key and token as an `export`:

#### OSX

```sh
$ export FULLSLATE_TOKEN=MY_TOKEN_123456
$ export FULLSLATE_KEY=MY_KEY
```

```sh
$ npm test
```

## TODO
* [ ] Clean up the code, it's not very DRY
* [ ] Implement `Cross-realm Openings` and `Company Configuration`
* [ ] Make more robust tests

## License
[MIT](LICENSE)

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Foster daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya lit the pyre as cries of "Atal Bihari Amar Rahe" reverberated in the air and a light drizzle fell, piercing the sombre silence.
NEW DELHI: Bugles sounded the last post, uniformed soldiers gave a gun salute and silence fell over the crowd as former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's mortal remains were consigned to the flames today evening, the sun setting on the life of a poet-politician who combined accommodative politics with graciousness.
President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh were among the thousands of people at the Rashtriya Smriti Sthal on the banks of the Yamuna, the BJP patriarch's final resting place along the stretch which also houses the memorials of Mahatma Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
Several foreign dignitaries, including Bhutanese king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali and Pakistan's Law Minister Ali Zafar were present as Vajpayee was cremated with full state honours.
Thousands of mourners poured into the streets of the national capital as Vajpayee's cortege made its way from his home to the BJP headquarters on Deendayal Upadhyay Marg and then to the Rashtriya Smriti Sthal.
Modi, who along with BJP president Amit Shah walked behind the gun carriage decorated with flowers for the entire route of nearly 3.5 kilometers, later said people came from all parts of India and from all sections of society to pay tributes to an extraordinary personality who made an extraordinary contribution to the nation.
"India salutes you Atal Ji!" Modi tweeted.
The tricolour draping Vajpayee, who died yesterday at the age of 93 following prolonged illness at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, was folded and handed over to his granddaughter Niharika.
The intensity of the moment and the heat led to some mourners fainting. Among them was Khush Chaturvedi.
"I am not politically inclined but I wanted to meet (former president) Kalam and Vajpayee once. I couldn't manage to meet them when they were alive, but I had to be here today," the 27-year-old from Siwan in Bihar told PTI.
There were people everywhere, covering the roads along the route from the BJP headquarters to the Smriti Sthal from side to side, with security personnel maintaining strict vigil to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
The crowds had begun gathering from last night itself as news came in of the death of the three-time prime minister -- who joined the RSS in 1947, rose through ranks to become a stalwart of the BJP and was the first non-Congress prime minister to complete a full term in office. They first gathered at the hospital, then at his Krishna Menon Marg home and then at the BJP headquarters.
The young and old, men and women, some with children, collected outside the gates of the BJP office, anxious for a last glimpse of the late leader. Some clambered on a neem tree outside, desperate to be part of the proceedings but unable to get inside.
Inside, Modi and a host of ministers and party workers paid their last respects to the late leader, mourned by them and the opposition as one of India's tallest leaders.
Hundreds of people were also seen with a large portrait of a smiling Vajpayee -- a BJP flag on either side -- in the backdrop.
Earlier in the morning, hundreds of people chanted "Atal Bihari Amar Rahe" as Vajpayee's cortege made its way from his home through the city to reach the BJP office about five kilometres away.
Mourners walked and ran beside the carriage, also chanting slogans like 'Jab tak sooraj chand rahega Atal ji ka naam rahega (Till the sun and moon endure, so will Atal' ji's name)", punctuated by patriotic cheers of 'Bharat Mata ki jai' and 'Vande Mataram'.
In the crowd were Ganeshan, 38, and Chennaiah Nadesan, 45, who had flown in from Tamil Nadu, who described Vajpayee as "achcha politician, achcha parliamentarian, pure man" in a mix of Hindi and English after paying his homage.
Aakash Kumar, 25, rode his scooter from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, about 70 km away.
"I was probably in Class 3 or 4, when I heard one of his speeches and got drawn towards him. I really liked his poems," Aakash told PTI.
As eulogies were written, analysts took stock of the politician and the man and the city returned to normalcy, BJP leader Anurag Thakur said the massive turnout showed he resided in the hearts of people.
"Not only has India has lost a leader, a son, the world has lost a statesman," Thakur told reporters.
Seen as a moderate face of BJP, Vajpayee first became prime minister in 1996, leading a shaky coalition whose members were suspicious of the BJP's right-wing politics. It lasted for 13 days and collapsed after losing a vote of no-confidence.
Finally, the NDA with Vajpayee as PM returned to power in 1999 and was voted out in 2004.


Last weekend's fantastic Cork victories at the World Rowing Championships by the O'Donovan brothers and Sanita Puspure were matched by another Rebel victory closer to home. Footage emerged last Sunday of three raiders entering a bookies in Glanmire the previous evening, only to be tackled by eighty year old local man Denis O'Connor who turfed them out.
The extraordinary footage shows three masked men entering the shop – two jumping the counter holding hammers while a third points, what appears to be a gun, at the shop's two customers. The octogenarian darts behind the counter and overpowers one of the hammer wielding raiders before bundling him out the door causing the gunman to panic too and leg it.
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We're making progress, he says. We're building houses, he says. And, er, yes, the numbers are going the wrong way, he says. This messer has been in the job, talking rubbish, for far too long while thousands of Irish kids go without homes. He needs to be turfed out the door with a swift Dinny funt up his privileged Dublin 4 arse.
Who does this fella think he is standing up to The Boy Keane and telling him that he's not the gaffer of the Republic of Ireland? Martin O'Neill is the Michael D. Higgins of Irish football - a polite figurehead with no real power. We all know the way it works: Roy writes the team sheet, hands it to Martin who then tells the players. Arter should present his buttocks for a Dinny Funt at the next Ireland training camp. Only those with Premiership medals should be allowed to execute the funt.
High concrete walls around our beautiful river? No, thanks, OPW. This crowd of bluffers should be treated exactly like the Glanmire chicken raiders, except instead of throwing them out onto the road to go back to Dublin they should be Dinny funted off Sullivan's Quay, and told to swim home. Of course, they'll be glad of the low walls around the River Lee when they're desperately trying to attract the attention of passers-by, won't they?
The messing that this man, who is allegedly the second most powerful man in the country, has done with Cork's event centre definitely earns him a Dinny Funt. In fact, what this project really needs is not more time in planning, another waffle heavy press release about how another announcement will be made soon or more bluffy applications for funding by the developer but a giant, whopper of a funt up the arse.
Well used to balaclavas and humiliating failures, Norn Iron's assembly hasn't met in nearly two years despite its politicians being paid handsomely to sit around shouting something about 'brown cows' at each other. Quite diplomacy hasn't worked so get them into a room with Dinny O'Connor and if they don't play ball, bundle them out Glanmire style and stop their pay – no ifs or butts!
The man who is responsible for Britain leaving the European Union ran from power quicker than a chicken with an underpants on his head in a Glanmire betting shop, when he was given the chance.
Instead of a pair of jocks on his head, Johnson keeps an electrocuted sheep on his, yet our neighbours are about to follow him over the Brexit cliff like the three clowns running blind into the bookies. Johnson should be run out of the British Parliament and given a swift Dinny Funt up the gluteus maximus.
The softly-softly approach of Panaban 2 means private cars are still spamming Patrick's Street in the late afternoon hoping not to be nabbed. Gardaí on bikes order some of them to turn around but what is really needed is for drivers to be hauled out their cars on a live Facebook feed and Dinny funted back in behind the wheel. That'll learn them.


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Compassion in Colombia
Colombia is associated with violence, kidnappings and drugs but is also a place of hope for over 55,000 children.
by Ben Steed (01/31/2013) | Compassion International
When you think of Colombia, the first thing that comes to your mind probably isn't children. A country that is often associated with brutal violence, kidnappings and drugs is also a place of hope for over 55,000 children thanks to Compassion International.
I was privileged to travel with a team of people to see the work that Compassion is doing in partnership with nearly 200 local churches in Colombia. We were able to take a first-hand look at how their child sponsorship program works by connecting sponsors with kids, helping them to escape the grip of poverty in all its forms.
Nicol. Sebastian. Miguel. Wendy. Samuel. Pablo. Just a few names from the hundreds of kids we met that refuse to believe the lie of poverty which says they don't matter. They were beautiful children with incredible stories of heartbreak and hope.
(Photos by Dan Pritchett)
But the story I'm sharing today belongs to an adult whose childhood was very similar to the children I met. Jailer (pronounced "high-ler") was an eight year old kid growing up in Colombia. 80% of the people in his neighborhood were enslaved by poverty. It was a place where hopes and dreams were as scarce as food and clothing. Now 24 years old, Jailer has a degree in civil engineering and works with Compassion International's Complementary Intervention Program. I was fortunate to spend several days with Jailer as he served as a translator for our team. He's a great young man full of life and love for God.
Jailer's story is much different than it could have been thanks to Michael and Susan Sutherland: a couple who sponsored Jailer through Compassion International for 10 years. They shared their story of sponsoring Jailer at the Catalyst Convention in 2012. Here are two videos from that event:
It was a place where hopes and dreams were as scarce as food and clothing.
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While Jailer's story of success and accomplishment is moving, I'm more deeply moved by the love of the Sutherlands. They saw a child—the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:14)—and rather than keeping him from Jesus as his apostles did, they committed to helping him grow in wisdom, stature and favor with God and man. Their sponsorship of Jailer through Compassion International was the kind of action Christ not only demonstrated but asks of us. While the Sutherlands are proud of the man he's become, his success was not a condition of their love and support—it was a byproduct of it.
Here at Heartlight we've personally sponsored several children through Compassion International and I can say without hesitation how incredible and beneficial this program is in the lives of over 1 million children in 26 countries. I also want to thank you, our readers for helping sponsor over 650+ children over the past several years! We're extremely proud yet humbled by your willingness to care for "the least of these."
If you haven't ever considered sponsoring a child, would you please prayerfully consider it? You can learn more about the program by visiting Compassion International's website or contacting us. We hope you'll join us in this wonderful work of releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name.
Video of Jailer's Story at Catalyst 2012
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