Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is embattled. Chatter suggested he wore blackface as a medical student at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Northam implied the picture in the school yearbook was potentially his. Then he denied it … and admitted that he wore blackface, but for another occasion. The public assumed the incident would finish Northam. He had to step down immediately, right?
Northam doesn't plan to hold any more press conferences any time soon. Advisers are in the midst of negotiations with major networks for a nationally televised interview they hope will humanize him.
Trump And The Global Economy ("Trump And The GE") is the perfect platform for Governor Ralph Northam to have his first public interview. Trump And The GE is quarterly speaker series that gathers politicians, activists, pollsters, economists and entrepreneurs to parse through President Trump's policies and explain how the impact the economy and community. The next event, Trump And The GE Does NY Fashion Week, takes place Monday February 11th at 2PM in New York City.
Governor Northam can deliver is message in the world's biggest media market in the middle of New York Fashion Week. All the politicos, fashionistas and taste makers will be present. He can also inform the country about Virginia's progressive policies and how he and the democratic party are moving the state forward. Northam could share the stage with Missouri Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal who stood tall for her constituents in Ferguson amid the chaos surrounding the murder of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson.
Ralph Baker, who founded Trump And The GE, will also be on the panel. Baker is the author of Shock Exchange: How Inner-City Kids From Brooklyn Predicted the Great Recession and the Pain Ahead. Shock Exchange is arguably the greatest book on Virginia history and a must read for Northam and every high school student in the state of Virginia. If Northam doesn't show then he obviously is not serious about making amends with the black community and or serious about his political career.
Tickets will be made available on Eventbrite over the weekend.
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This is a simple Raspberry Spinach Salad recipe that includes fresh raspberries and a homemade raspberry vinaigrette dressing. If you use olive oil in the vinaigrette, I would recommend using a light variety. Regular olive oil will be a bit too heavy for this recipe.I haven't included quantities in the salad portion of this recipe as you can just use whatever amount of each item that appeals to you. The dressing will make enough to dress a salad for 8-10 people.
Combine salad ingredients in a large bowl. In a separate bowl or cup, combine the vinaigrette ingredients. Add just enough dressing to lightly coat the spinach. Most likely you will not use all of the dressing but it will keep for at least a week in the refrigerator. Remember if you do use olive oil, that it will solidify when cold but will return to it's normal consistency when brought back to room temperature.


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Hurricane Florence has filled hotels in Greenville with evacuees from as far away as Myrtle Beach, Wilmington, New Bern and Jacksonville in addition to Pitt County residents seeking shelter from the storm, managers said Thursday.
More than 100 evacuees have been staying at the East Carolina Inn on Stantonsburg Road near Vidant Medical Center since Monday, and hotel manager Kevin Patel said the phone has been ringing off the hook.
"It seems like we're getting calls every 10 seconds and the calls keep coming," Patel said. Staffing has been an issue with some employees not wanting to work because of the storm. Patel said the hotel operations are holding up well despite the labor shortage.
"I don't think it's going to be that bad here, and we've even had some guests check out early and head back home toward coastal areas," Patel said.
Some hospital employees also are staying at the hotel to work their normal shifts, he said. "These people still have to go to work and we'll do our best to accommodate them like we do with all of our guests," Patel said.
At America's Best Value Inn, 810 S. Memorial Drive, all 46 rooms have been booked since Tuesday and half of the guests are from out of town. "All of our rooms have people evacuating from Hurricane Florence," manager Micky Patel said.
The Microtel Inn, 450 Moye Blvd., and other hotels also have purchased supplies to get ready for the hurricane.
"We bought generators, water, flashlights, and candles just in case power goes out," clerk Alexis Savage said "Many of our guests have requested to be on the second and third floor, just in case we have any flooding," Savage said.
Microtel also has been booked since Wednesday, and Savage said and the hotel expects to be full through Sunday.
Hilton and Choice Hotels in the Greenville area have been full since Sunday, according to a joint statement. They have opened up their conference areas to accommodate overflow if needed.
The Wingate Hotel, 3212 S. Memorial Drive, is housing many of its staff in addition to evacuees.
"We've actually had staff to call out because they had to evacuate, and for those who have evacuated, they are basically staying at the hotel for the time being," manager Sherronda Sims said.
Sims said that several evacuees have small children and that the hotel has rolled out cribs and high chairs.
"We've had a lot of people trying to get settled in, and for ones that have babies and small infants, we've put cribs in the room and high chairs in our breakfast area," Sims said.
Families have come from surrounding counties including Craven, Onslow, and New Hanover, and with the consistent demand, additional rooms are being made available.
"We had a few rooms out of order and fixed them up to accommodate additional guests," Sims said.


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For someone who had a whole theory about why he wouldn't buy one, I am very surprised how long I lasted before getting my iPhone. Yes, I finally have one and it is, all in all, and amazing combination of technology and user experience design.
Living about one hour north of the US border, I drove down to a small town in upstate New York last weekend to get my iPhone and activated it as a pay-as-you-go cell phone from a Starbucks (you know, the other Apple partner when it comes to this device) and updated it to the 1.1.1 firmware. As soon as I crossed the border back, I took the SIM card out so that the battery would not drain to quickly, especially as AT&T dosen't offer international roaming on their GoPhone plans. Oh yes, Apple, I know I removed the SIM card… no need to remind me about that on a regular basis with a modal dialog box.
Time to get a new completely unfounded rumor out of thin air: Apple is expected to announce the first four third-party applications as well as the SDK for the iPhone at the upcoming World Wide Developer Conference in San Fransisco, California. All these applications will not only be available for iPhone users, but will also be compatible with the iPod touch. And to make it the best user experience, all these applications will be available directly from the iTunes store for as little as $9.99. For the third-party developers: think about the game consoles model.
I've been using a WiFi Skype phone for a while. While the form facor was great, the sound quality wasn't perfect and I was missing the chat capability, which is one of my main usages of Skype. As the industry specialized in toys for geeks cannot stand still for very long, I knew it wouldn't have to wait for an extended period until a replacement device would come out… I just didn't expect it to be from Sony.
I got myself a Mylo about two weeks ago. It's a wired little piece of WiFi electronics that is targeted at the IM generation. The Sony Mylo is a device that is just slightly larger and thicker than an average modern cell phone, with a color screen, an 802.11b network connection and a sliding keyboard made for one thing: communicating through instant messaging and VoIP.
number of emails per hour = the new productivity measure?
In a modern business environment, email is everywhere. When using Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange / Outlook solutions, it is even the underlying technology for collaborative scheduling, tasks management and notes taking! And with emails being the "killer-app" for the mobile communication, from Blackberry to Palm Treo devices… it sometimes feel like your number one "productivity application" is your email client, with the word processor becoming the underlying technology for writing electronic documents sent over the Internet. Could this mean that the number of emails per hours (eMpH) one is able to process is the new way to measure productivity?
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Why is Blu-Ray going to fail?
The reason is simple: I got a Blu-Ray and not an HD-DVD player, and I always have the impression that the technology I go for will be the one that won't be the standard a few years later… but right now, all indications are going into the other way. While HD-DVD had an initial "first-to-market" advantage, Sony's decision to include a Blu-Ray player in the Playstation 3 has dramatically shifted the game and enabled this format to overtake the former within a few weeks.
As for any new technology introduced, being the choice of the early adopters and the market leader while adoption hasn't reached the mainstream users is in no way a guarantee for success. Offering the best or most advanced feature set is also a no indication of becoming the long term leader. We've seen this over and over again, from Apple Macintosh to the Palm. Being backed by Microsoft can help in the long term, but the iPod / iTunes offering is (so far) a proof of the opposite.
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Ниже приведен список деревень, которые обезлюдели или были разрушены во время арабо-израильского конфликта.

1880—1946

Арабские деревни
Многие из этих деревень в Изреэльской долине были заселены арендаторами, и были проданы местными владельцами либо семьями землевладельцев, не проживающий в своем имени (:en:Absentee landlord) (такие как Каркаби, Туэйни, Фарах и Хури и семья Сурсок из Ливана). В некоторых случаях земля продавалась напрямую местными феллахами (крестьянами-собственниками). Продажа земли еврейским организациям означало, что фермеры-арендаторы будут выселены.

По данным организации Зохрот, с начала первой алии и до 1947 года были разрушены 57 арабских деревень.

Еврейские деревни

1929 Палестинские беспорядки
Во время беспорядков 1929 Палестине:

Арабское восстание 1936-39 в Палестине
Во время арабского восстания в Палестине 1936-39:
 Кфар Шилоах
 Сильван — еврейское население было удалено Бюро социального обеспечения Кехила, а позднее Британскими властями во время арабского восстания 1936-39 в Палестине
 Кфар-Эцион
 Хеврон

1948 Арабо-Израильской Войны

Арабские деревни
К июню 1948 года страну покинули жители 190 арабских деревень; 155 из них с населением около 145 тысяч человек находились на земле, отведенной Израилю планом ООН по разделу Палестины. К концу войны число беженцев увеличилось до более чем шестисот тысяч человек.

 Аль-Кастал
 Атлит
 Ахзив
 Ашдод
 Бейт-Шеан
 Дайр-эль-Касси
 Дейр-Ясин
 Икрит
 Илания
 Какун
 Кафр-Бирим
 Коразим
 Латрун
 Лифта
 Лод
 Рамла
 Сабалан
 Сатаф
 Сепфорис
 Хиттин
 Шейх-Мунис
 Эйн-Керем

Всего опустели около 400 арабских городов и деревень.
См. также

Еврейские деревени
Еврейские кварталы в Восточном Иерусалиме были депопулированы иорданскими силами после Иорданской оккупации Западного берега. Некоторые были вновь заселены после Шестидневной войны.
 В районах, ставших Израилем
 Хартув
 На Западном берегу и в секторе Газа
 Атарот
 Бейт ха-Арава
 Калия
 Неве-Яаков
Гуш-Эцион недалеко от Иерусалима:
 Эйн Цурим
 Кфар-Эцион
 Масуот Ицхак
 Неве-Даниэль
 Ревадим
Сектор Газа:
 Кфар-Даром (заселен вновь, но эвакуированкак часть плана одностороннего размежевания 2005 года)
 Израиль с Сирией
 Аврана
 Израильско-Иорданскую граница
 Нахараим (Таль Ор)

Шестидневной Войны

на Западном Берегу
Три арабские деревни, Бейт Нуба, Имвас и Яло, расположенные в Латрунском коридоре, были уничтожены по приказу Ицхака Рабина из-за стратегического положения, дороги в Иерусалим, и из-за того, что жители деревни якобы были пособниками египетских коммандос, нападавшим на город Лод. Жителям трех деревень были предложены компенсации, но не были допущены обратно.

Хеврон и район Вифлеема
 Сурит
 Бейт-Завтраки
 Бейт Мирсем
 Шуйух

Иордан
 Аль-Джифтлик (обезлюдела, но вскоре вновь заселена)
 Агарит
 Хусеират

Район Иерусалима
 Наби Самуил

Негев и Синайская пустыня
 Ауйа Аль-Хафир — демилитаризованная зона

Голанские Высоты
Более 100 000 жителей Голанских высот были эвакуированы из примерно 25 сел по приказу сирийского правительства или из-за нападения израильских сил обороны и высылки после прекращения огня. В течение следующих месяцев, более ста сирийских деревень были уничтожены Израилем.

Египетско-Израильский Мирный Договор 1979 года

Израильские поселения
Израильские поселения на Синайском полуострове были эвакуированы в результате египетско-израильский мирный договор в 1979 году.
 Авшалом
 Ацмона
 Дикла
 Холит
 Нетив ха-Асара
 Ницанейпэ-Синай
 Офира
 Сосе
 Талмей-Йосеф
 Ямит

Израильский план одностороннего размежевания
Как часть плана одностороннего размежевания, 21 израильское поселение, а также район в северной части Западного берега, содержащий четыре израильских деревени, были насильственно вывезены. Жилые дома были полностью разрушены Израилем, но общественные структуры остались нетронутыми. Религиозные строения, которые не были удалены Израилем, впоследствии разрушены палестинцами.

Израильские поселения

См. также
 Арабо-израильская война (1947—1949)
 Накба

Примечания

Ссылки
 Карта 1947 года ООН плана

Арабо-израильская война 1947—1949 годов
Списки населённых пунктов
Палестинские беженцы

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Unruly Founders To Step Back From Operational Roles
12 years after founding the company, co-founders Sarah Wood, Scott Button and Matt Cooke today announced they will be moving out from their full-time executive positions at Unruly and stepping into new advisory roles on the Unruly Board.
Below is the email sent by CEO Sarah to all Unrulies earlier today:
I'm writing to let you know that over the next few months myself, Scott and Matt will be moving out of our full-time executive Unruly positions of CEO, CSO (Scott) and CTO (Matt), and will be taking up advisory roles on the Unruly Board.
As you can imagine, after 12 exhilarating years of building a global business and challenging the norms of adtech at every step, we are looking forward to handing the baton to our highly experienced and talented Exec team, whose ambitious vision for Unruly 2020 will ensure that we continue to deliver wow for advertisers and take the lead on transforming advertising for the better, as well as upholding the Unruliness you have all come to expect! As part of the transition, I have made some exciting internal promotions, with Steve Hayes taking on the CTO role, Ken Suh stepping into the role of COO and Louise Tullin becoming CMO.
Scott and Matt will be focused on handover until the end of 2017 and will be taking up Board responsibilities with immediate effect to provide strategic guidance for the Company going forward. I'll be here until the end of March 2018 as we search for a programmatic superstar to take up the role of Unruly CEO. From April 1, 2018, I'll take up the role of Chair of the Unruly Board (and will also be stopping by for Friday beers no doubt!).
I know I speak for all three of us when I say that it has been a privilege and a pleasure to play our part in the growth of such an incredible company. There are far too many highlights to mention, but here are a few that really make us smile:
Flashmobbing the launch event for London's Tech City with a silent pillow fight (flashmobs were a "thing" back then);
Nyan cats, Harlem shakes, IceBucket challenges, T-shirts that wink and smile;
Running the best and most effective XP product development team in the world (fact!);
Making it into the Guinness Book of World Records – twice! Once for Evian Roller Babies in 2009 and again for Dove Real Beauty Sketches in 2013;
Raising a Series A and acquiring a brilliant German company called ShareIfYouLike, which catapulted our DE business to the next level and brought an incredible team into the business;
Watching our Ops team win award after award for delivering the most awesome social video campaigns on the planet;
Seeing 90% of all Unruly views delivered on comScore 1000 sites, including 43 News titles such as The Wall Street Journal, The Sun, Sunday Times Driving, News.com.au, The Daily Telegraph and The New York Post;
#SharingTheLove with numerous pro-bono campaigns, consultancy for good causes and charity-matching programme for all Unrulies;
Being acquired by News exactly 2 years ago in one of UK adtech's biggest success stories. For Unruly, the deal led to investment in UnrulyX and has turboboosted programmatic revenues beyond all expectations. It also made the Future Home a reality, providing investment for an unforgettable experience that's wowing advertisers and placing Unruly at the forefront of marketing innovation.
Above all, we're proud of the incredible global team of Unruly PANDAS. It's a long time since we were 3 people in a leaky-roofed office in London's East End, before it was Tech City (and even before it was Silicon Roundabout). There are 300 of us now, and whenever I visit any Unruly office, it's clear how hard Unrulies everywhere work to #DeliverWow and #ShareTheLove with colleagues, clients and the wider community.
For those of you who know us well, you'll also know we're not ones to look back in nostalgia. One of the secrets to Unruly's success is our willingness to embrace and inspire change, and now more than ever there is so much to look forward to in the business, so many new opportunities to seize and so many more successes still to come! Over the last 2 years, we've generated exponential growth in programmatic video revenues and we've built a first-class global leadership team to take the company forward.
We have a phenomenal premium media footprint, highly viewable formats and a unique first-party data offering that is truly Unruly, bringing emotional intelligence to programmatic video advertising. We also have the premium media platform and passionate support of News Corp globally. When you combine all these ingredients with the strength of our values and the fierce determination of Unrulies around the world, you have a company with unlimited potential for innovation and impact, where new trails will be blazed and the best is yet to come. Each and every one of you has a critical part to play in encouraging and empowering each other to do your best work and we're looking forward to cheering you on and contributing in our new roles.
Sarah, Scott and Matt
Any questions, please email [email protected]
Associate Marketing Manager – New York

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I actually bought a bike last week to get back into exercising – which I have stuck to everyday so far. The last time I rode was when Bush was still in office. And I mean 41, not 43.
Saw this before the changeover, but now it's more known (since it's on the banner).
@PlacidPenguin Should be an interesting day tomorrow over there.
@PlacidPenguin Think it qualifies under the free Prime shipping policy?
I could definitely make use of an enclosed trailer.
Ya, I would rock this. Appears to be a converted VW bus. Want. Want want want.


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New York shelters 'overrun' with animals plead for help
Buddha's teachings at a monastery in New York | Finding Faith
Apollo 11 launched 50 years ago on July 16, 1969
After responding to wreck, deputy adopts kitten found inside car and names her 'Crash'
The Fox 5 Weather blog
Small plane crashes on Long Island
Posted Apr 15 2019 06:05AM EDT
Video Posted Apr 15 2019 06:13AM EDT
Updated Apr 15 2019 07:01AM EDT
VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. (AP) - Police on Long Island said a small plane carrying three people went down in a residential neighborhood of Valley Stream Sunday night. Newsday reports that a disoriented pilot flying a rented single-engine plane flying in thick fog with a disoriented pilot ran out of fuel and clipped the roof of a church just after 10 p.m.
Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said the three on board, all of Flushing, Queens, were associated with a flight school at Republic Airport in Farmingdale. He identified the pilot as Dongl Kim, 27, and the passengers as Hung Joo-Na, 29 and Jung Woo, 26. He said the plane had been rented at Republic. All three sustained minor injuries. The fixed-wing Cessna made four attempts to land at Republic but the pilot became disoriented and missed each time due to dense fog, Valley Stream Fire Chief Jason Croak said.
The plane was then redirected to Kennedy Airport but the pilot became disoriented again and the aircraft eventually ran out of fuel, officials said. The plane clipped the roof of Hillside Avenue's Revival Outreach Ministries. It then glided into the wires above the front yard of a home a block away and ended up suspended a few feet above the home's front yard. The wires stopped the plane from striking the home, police spokesman Det. Richard LeBrun said.
The pilot and passengers had safely made it clear of the plane and appeared uninjured while sitting on the sidewalk when first responders had arrived, Ryder said. Officials said about two dozen homes were without power. The National Weather Service had issued a dense fog advisory at the time of the crash.
By Dana Arschin, FOX 5 NY
Nick Link came to East Harlem's Animal Care Centers of NYC to adopt Barbie. He says it was love at first sight. Just a few days ago, she was brought in after a good Samaritan found her tied to a fence in a city park. Nick is ready to fatten up the skinny dog.
Animals are overcrowding the center. During these hot summer months, ACC takes in 75 to 100 animals a day. So the nonprofit tried a new strategy this year. It posted an open letter to New Yorkers on its social media platforms.
"We really called the community for support, for assistance to try and get our animals adopted and get our animals fostered," Mike Salmond said. "Really trying to inspire New Yorkers to come together."
By Sharon Crowley, FOX 5 NY
The Buddhist Association of the United States President Bhikkhu Bodhi was ordained as a Buddhist monk nearly 50 years ago while living in Sri Lanka. And before 1973, Jeffery Block, as Bhikkhu Bodhi was then known, lived in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where he grew up in a secular Jewish family.
Now 74, he and a few other Buddhist monks and nuns live the Chuang Yen Monastery in Putnam County, New York. The serene setting provides a tranquil place for those devoted to studying and practicing the ancient teachings of the Buddha. Inside the Great Buddha Hall sits the largest indoor Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere.
Bhikkhu Bodhi spoke to Fox 5 about the meaning of Buddhism. He said the Buddha believed in what he described to his disciples as the "four noble truths."
By Kelly Taylor Hayes
A woman said her family received a cheeseburger bun with a swastika drawn on it in mustard at a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Indiana.
The worker involved in the incident has since been fired, the company said.
"Hey Buffalo Wild Wings in Columbus thanks for the special cheeseburger for my 12 year old," Julie Roll wrote on Facebook with a photo of the bun, posted Sunday.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in crisis over profane online chat


Chad Marks, 38, is an inmate at FCI Ray Brook, a federal prison in upstate New York. He's currently serving a 40-year sentence for selling cocaine, and is scheduled to be released in 2038. Marks, who has worked in his prison's law library helping other inmates file appeals, has applied to President Obama for a clemency and is currently waiting to hear back. In a phone call yesterday, he described what it was like for him to watch the election results come in on Tuesday night. His story has been edited and condensed for clarity.
The last time I cried was when I was sentenced to 40 years. I didn't think anything could hurt me more than that—I've been stabbed in prison, I've been in solitary confinement, and that didn't break me.
When Hillary Clinton lost Pennsylvania, that broke me. And when she gave her concession speech, that broke me again.
We didn't believe she would do as much as Obama as far as the clemency thing goes, but we figured that she would continue the process and give us a chance. There are 2.2 million prisoners in prison throughout the U.S., and we all have family members. We can start changing the voting blocks.
When we woke up this morning, seeing the other guys—just to look at their faces, we were all hurting. We're devastated. We're asking ourselves, what are we going to do? Are we done? Trump won by fear-mongering and lying, we know that. But now, it's hard to express in words. We don't know what's going to happen.
I've had a clemency petition in for 26 months. That gave me hope, because I think I have a good case. When I was sentenced, one of my co-defendants got 15 years, another got 12 years, and I got 40 years because I went to trial. I had a plea agreement for 10 years. I instructed my attorney to take it and he didn't. Later he testified six times that I instructed him to take it, but the judge said he didn't believe him. You just can't justify that. And there are so many other guys in here who deserve clemency too.
I'm so thankful for what President Obama and Eric Holder did with clemency—they gave us hope when we had no hope. But now the hope is gone.
President Obama wrote me a personal letter a while back. I wrote to him, and he wrote me back. He said that prison isn't about punishment but about rehabilitation, and he told me to make better choices, keep pushing on, and help other people.
Donald Trump says he's the 'law and order' candidate, but I don't know if he believes all the stuff that he says. We would hope that Trump makes an informed decision about criminal justice reform and he doesn't make one based on fear-mongering. My opinion is they're probably going to do something on criminal justice reform—the Speaker's always been onboard, obviously some guys in the Senate are on board.
Trump should look at it based on the fact that people have the capacity to change and should earn the opportunity to improve their lives. If you do everything to better yourself, I think you should get that chance.


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The history of Atari began in 1972 when the company was founded by Nolan Bushnell and his associate Ted Dabney. Originally the firm was called Syzygy but Bushnell later changed it to Atari.
A year before the company was founded Bushnell hired Al Alcorn to recreate the Odyssey game Tennis for Two. The result was Pong. When the game was released in 1972, it became a huge hit. The Atari Company was founded that same year (the word Atari means go in Japanese. Sometimes it is also translated as to hit the target).
The success of Pong (150,000 copies sold) marked a significant turning point in the history of Atari. In 1975, Bushnell sold the company to Warner Communications.
It was under Warner that the gaming platform attained success. The Atari 2600 was so popular the sales made up a third of Warner's profit for the first few years. In 1980 the Atari home video system made nearly half a billion dollars in sales.
In 1983 sales of video games plummeted in the United States. Atari losses amounted to over $550 million. The following year Warner handed over Atari to Jack Tramiel (former head of Commodore). The Atari St came out and sales peaked at $25 million in 1986.
The next stage in the history of Atari involved its struggles with rival Nintendo. Their rival was winning market share so Atari worked on the Lynx system. It was a handheld console complete with color. The Lynx sold poorly for two reasons. Number one, shortage of components prevented it from being released during the 1989 holiday season. Second it cost twice as much as the Nintendo Game Boy.
Tramiel had also stressed personal computers were Atari's future. Its computer line however, was affected by the unexpected rise of Microsoft Windows. In 1992 Atari released the Jaguar, but it could not revive the company's fortunes. The company also became involved in a series of lawsuits with Nintendo.
bought them for $5 million.
In 2000, Hasbro sold Atari Interactive to Infogrames. In 2008, Infogrames bought all the shares of Atari and became sole owner. At the end of the year 2008, Atari Inc (under Infogrames) took over Cryptic Studios.
However there are reports Namco Bandai wanted to obtain a stake at Atari Inc. As of the present time, there is no clear indication as to what direction the company will take in terms of producing or distributing games.
Going over the history of Atari, it's clear that the company is now but a fraction of what it once was. Nevertheless, its contribution to the gaming world cannot be denied.


Lock in a great price for InterContinental Malta – rated 8.2 by recent guests!
The location! It was near several bus stops so easy to navigate the city from the hotel. It was near a small beach (St George's) as well as many restaurants in the area from which to choose, as well as a shopping mall. Other hotels in the area (Hilton, Westin) perhaps had better views of the ocean, but I wouldn't replace for the convenience of this location. Having Ambassador status, we were upgraded to a Deluxe suite (from "Junior Suite" which is really just a larger room) on Floor 15 which is convenient to the Club Lounge. Water and fruit brought to room daily. Staff was very attentive and friendly. Breakfast buffet was good - made to order eggs included omelettes, Eggs Benedict and Eggs Florentine. Daily waffles also were a treat. Can't say enough good things about our stay there!
Location, personnel, room design, natural flower ornaments, indoor heated pool.
The view is not on the sea even with paying 100 euros for a night !
Clean, super friendly staff, delicious bfast, beautiful view.
The staff was extremely helpful and nice. The breakfasts were incredible. We had a wonderful weekend. Loved the roof bar.
The staff was great and accommodating however the rooms smelt of Mold. We had very bad room experience. Our sheets had to be replaced 3 times due to wetness.
This hotel is delapided and should not be on booking or a part of the intercontinental chain. It's very substandard to what I am used to from the intercontinental brand.
InterContinental Malta This rating is a reflection of how the property compares to the industry standard when it comes to price, facilities and services available. It's based on a self-evaluation by the property. Use this rating to help choose your stay!
One of our top picks in St. Julian's.Set in the heart of St Julians, InterContinental Malta is 650 feet from its own free private beach on St. George's Bay. It offers spacious rooms with free WiFi access and balcony.
The Malta InterContinental is set around large landscaped gardens. Free sports facilities include indoor and outdoor pools, squash courts and a Kids' Club. Suites also include free access to an exclusive seasonal SkyBeach area with an infinity pool and bar.
Its restaurants and bars serve Mediterranean and Italian cuisine.
The hotel is a 2-minute walk from St Julian's Terminus bus station, and 6.2 mi from Malta Airport. Valletta, the island's capital, is only a 15-minute drive away.
뀐 Located in the real heart of St. Julian's, this property has an excellent location score of 8.3!
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Spacious and modern, this air-conditioned room features a balcony and a flat-screen TV with satellite and pay-per-view channels. The large private bathroom is complete with a hairdryer, bathrobes, slippers and toiletries.
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Spacious and modern, this air-conditioned room features a balcony and a flat-screen TV with satellite and pay-per-view channels. The private bathroom is complete with a hairdryer, bathrobes, slippers and toiletries.
This air-conditioned room includes a balcony. It features a satellite TV, minibar, desk and ironing facilities. Each room has a private bathroom with free toiletries.
Spacious and modern, this air-conditioned room features a flat-screen TV with satellite and pay-per-view channels. The private bathroom is complete with a hairdryer, bathrobes, slippers and toiletries. It includes access to the Club InterContinental Lounge and terrace, plus private check-in and check-out. Also includes breakfast, refreshments throughout the day, afternoon tea and pre-dinner drinks in the Club InterContinental Lounge.
This suite features a balcony, executive lounge access and sofa.
Also includes refreshments throughout the day, afternoon tea and pre-dinner drinks in the Club InterContinental Lounge.
This suite has a balcony, sofa and executive lounge access.
Also includes refreshments throughout the day, afternoon tea and pre-dinner drinks in the Club InterContinental Lounge, as well as free access to the SkyBeach area.
This suite features a executive lounge access, tile/marble floor and seating area. It includes a 39 ft² private terrace.
Room rates include free access to the Club InterContinental Lounge and to the SkyBeach area.
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Smog ridden balcony full of exhaust fumes! Offices looking into the room!
We stayed in the Intercontinental Malta and had our rooms upgraded on arrival. It could not have been a better experience and with the lounge access we had a memorable trip. The staff throughout the hotel were incredibly helpful and nice and the breakfast was top class. Will definitely come back.
Nothing in particular ,but checked in us late after getting there at 11am ,they apologised and a complimentary room was offered.
We loved so many things... The service their Kindness . Great healty breakfast in bed!. The pool & sauna& Hammam. Allways smiling at you - The spa also was great! Helpd us a lot with reccomendtions of malta , bus full explenation pag. We have high expectations & the hotel rised above it.
The room was fairly disappointing, not what you would expect from the Intercontinental chain at all. The TV was 10+ years old, the hairdryer was pretty much useless and the shower kept fluctuating in temperature. The breakfast bar was limited compared to other Intercontinentals that I have stayed at. If this hotel was in another country, the closest chain I would compare it to would be a Holiday Inn or an equivalent 3-4* chain.
Good location, in the centre of St Julian's. Easy to get around by bus/taxi to all the usual destinations (Valetta, Mdina, Gozo etc.) Bustling nightlife and a wide range of restaurants to choose from during the day. The pool and gym were nice, but the annoyance of having to use shoe protectors ruined the experience (you have to walk through the pool to get to the gym).


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Democrats And Racism
I ran across this 4 year old article recently and thought it a good "share".
As on so many other issues, the hypocrats Democrats say whatever they have to say to get votes, no matter how shameful the lies or the manipulations.
The black vote has long been one of their mainstays, which is really pitiful as they have proven, decade after decade, that they are the worst enemy of black Americans, the very party that holds them back while blaming the Republicans, whose intent is to give them real equality and real equal market share in America and the American Dream. Considering their track record, the very fact that blacks continue to vote Democrat probably confirms in their eyes that blacks are exactly what the Democrats think they are. After all, when you run such a transparent scam on the bulk of a major voting block for so many years and they continue to allow you to lead them around by the nose, how smart can they be, right?
Of course, the Democrats have their own black perpetuators of racism, such as the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who depend on playing the race card to earn their miserable livings by helping to keep their fellow blacks from waking up and smelling the proverbial coffee. These two individuals are the real "tokens" or "Uncle Toms", as they sell out their own for their white masters in the Democratic Party in order to perpetuate their own careers.
The OpEd is here.
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Some Bigots Got Themselves A Bit Fooled, Heh
Leonard Pitts, Jr. has a column running at Jewish World Review this weekend that's kind of an amusing look at the stupidity of the average racist, such as the kind belonging to the Ku Klux Klan, that hate organization created by southern Democrats.
Another Triumph For Provocateurs Of Racism
This Toledo, Ohio occurance was, indeed, a crying shame. Michelle Malkin has it covered completely, as always.
So the way it went down was, the Nazi scum were scheduled to march and local black gang-bangers were prepared to give them an exciting reception. To head off trouble, the city cancelled the Nazis' march, but that didn't stop the gang members, who were too ready to riot and destroy other people's property to quit just because there was no longer a reason to take any action. They wanted to hurt some white people, create mayhem and burn things down, and it didn't matter that their excuse no longer existed.
As far as I'm concerned, much of the blame for this inexcusable and inhuman behavior falls in the laps of such self-motivated instigators as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan. I find it repulsive that Jackson and Sharpton dare place religious prefixes before their names, for they are nothing short of Godless hatemongers, as is Farrakhan.
These are people who thrive on racial hatred, because the only political platform they have is racism. By continually shouting to all too many blacks who give them credibility that "Whitey is racist and he wants to keep the black man down" and representing themselves as defenders of their race against this insidious white plot that really, really does not exist, they retain their power bases among blacks and gullible liberals of other ethnic persuasions.
They keep racism alive in the black community as they feed the flames of a simmering rage that needn't be, simply because they need as many downtrodden people as they can inventory into their ministries of hate in order to maintain the constituencies that support their miserable careers.
Like the ACLU, these Provocateurs of racial violence are the enemies of the blacks and other minorities, posing as their friends while using them to meet political agendas. It's just too bad so many people listen to these parasites and believe what they're saying.
Like I said, a crying shame.
Columnist Michael Graham has an opinion piece on the affair in Jewish World Review.
So how did these fringe fascists get blamed for the Toledo riot?
Maybe it's the press's anti-Nazi bias. If so, they'll get no complaints from me.
Or maybe the mainstream media buys the argument, offered by some of the rioters and their defenders, that the riot was a civil rights protest against fascism.
Probably, to the last. Our Mainstream Media, just like most liberals, are living in their own private Idaho{h/t, B-52s}.
So to recap: In response to a Nazi rally that didn't happen, several hundred black Americans burned down buildings and looted businesses in their own community, apparently in protest of the First Amendment, while the elected mayor of a mid-sized American city negotiated with the gangsters among them to plead for order in the streets.
And it's all the Nazi's fault?
Even if you believe that neo-Nazism poses an imminent threat to the Republic, how does destroying a Toledo gas station or setting a local bar on fire help hold back the Aryan hordes? I just wonder how many other Americans, watching the disturbing images of hundreds of black neighbors rushing a local convenience store, were reminded, not of Nuremberg, but New Orleans?
I have a lot of black friends and acquaintances, and none of them would ever dream of participating in anything like the Toledo rioting or that which occured in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict.
Those inclined to mob violence are the folks who allow themselves to be kept down and out of the "loop" of mainstream society by the same black community leaders and white liberals that claim to represent their interests.
I realize that, as a white guy, I am supposed to let this behavior go by without comment. That was certainly the mainstream media's strategy.
I'm also not supposed to notice that on the same day, a thousand miles away in Washington DC, thousands of black Americans gathered to hear Louis Farrakhan's latest theory on how the Bush administration blew up the levees in Louisiana. If I'm alarmed by the sight of great masses of my fellow Americans in support of a anti-Semitic loony waiting to be beamed up to the Mother Ship, it's my duty as a white guy not to let it show.
But it does make me nervous. If the American Nazi Party had a million members, I'd be nervous about that, too—even if that number represented a mere1% of America's white population. The same would be true if thousands of Hispanic Americans were rioting on behalf of the "reconquista" movement to return the southwestern US to Mexico.
But they aren't. There is only one community in America where this irrational, self-destructive street violence occurs again and again. As an American, I'd like to do something to help change that fact. But I don't think I'm allowed to, because I don't think I'm allowed to even acknowledge that there's a problem.
Unfortunately, the problems facing black Americans are very real. The lingering racism black Americans face is real, too, as are the setbacks some black Americans choose to bring upon themselves.
Fatal Hate Crime
I'd like to be able to say, with total honesty, that this is "fucking unbelievable," but unfortunately I can't as it seems our society, from the perspective of timing coinciding with the War On God, has regressed in some quarters to a level at which human life is valued as worthless as it is in so many third world countries while racism, thanks in large part to the bottom feeders at the ACLU, has begun a revival in America.
Despite what the ACLU would have us believe, racism can also define an anti-white stance.
July 6, 2005 -- A racist excon confessed that he fatally stabbed a beloved mother of two at a White Plains mall because he wanted "to kill a white person."
"She was not innocent. She was white," convicted rapist Phillip Grant confessed in a chilling videotaped statement to cops that was played in White Plains City Court yesterday -- the same day victim Concetta Russo Carriero was laid to rest.
This is a real shame, my prayers and my deepest condolences go out to the family of Mrs. Russo Carriero.


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Females in Trades (FIT) is a mentoring and support initiative created by Group Training Organisation, East Coast Apprenticeships (ECA) to address the under-representation of females in trades in Queensland. The essential role of females in trades has long been recognised, but inspiring women to take up a Trade career continues to be a challenge.
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) 2016 figures state that less than half of all Trainees and Apprentices are female.
NCVER reported that traditionally, females enter Apprenticeships such as Hairdressing or Commercial Cookery, but there is a need to promote non-traditional Trades to females. What was needed to ensure a better completion rate for females working in traditional male roles? Research shows that females that were supported by other females as mentors/role models had a better completion rate.
At East Coast Apprenticeships, we pride ourselves on engaging gender diverse Hosts to ensure that young females who are searching for an Apprenticeship feel supported.
The FIT initiative is run by females for females, offering initial support from promoting various Trade opportunities starting at the school level, to conducting behavioural interviews with potential candidates. Female Apprentices may also have opportunity to be mentored by successful Tradeswomen, and in turn, become involved in an extended network of Tradeswomen by participating in external events and Media & Marketing campaigns.
The Females in Trades Team promote, identify and connect Apprentices and Employers to ensure the right 'fit', which in turn encourages retention and success.
Since the FIT Program began in 2015, 73 females have been offered Trade Apprenticeships. This is 5.8% of the 1,256 male and female offerings between 2015-2017.
In 2016, the success of the Females in Trades Program saw ECA win the 'NAWIC Crystal Vision Award for Advancing and Furthering the Interests of Women in the Construction Industry'. East Coast Apprenticeships continue to support females into non-traditional Trade Apprenticeships in 2018.
2. Diversity in the workplace can start with you!


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AASHTO and ASTM International Agreement Benefits U.S. and Global Road Construction and Transportation
November 9, 2012 rockman Press Releases Comments Off on AASHTO and ASTM International Agreement Benefits U.S. and Global Road Construction and Transportation
November 6, 2012, WASHINGTON – Today's signing of an Agreement on Standards between the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and ASTM International solidifies coordination between two organizations working in the common interest of highway construction, safety, maintenance, and sustainability in the United States and around the world.
AASHTO Executive Director John Horsley and ASTM President James A. Thomas today signed an agreement which serves as the basis for continued mutual cooperation on the development and publication of highway construction standards.
Through AASHTO, the nation's preeminent transportation experts provide an unparalleled resource for the development of more than 125 volumes of standards and guidelines that are used worldwide in the design, construction, maintenance, operation, and administration of highways, bridges, and other transportation facilities.
"A top priority at AASHTO is to find faster and smarter ways to build the transportation systems that the economy and communities depend on," said AASHTO Executive Director John Horsley." This agreement will help our organizations to avoid duplication of effort and streamline the process, saving both time and precious resources."
"ASTM International is pleased to enter into this agreement with AASHTO," said ASTM's Jim Thomas. "We hope it will foster better coordination in mutual areas of interest, reduce unnecessary duplication of effort, and be responsive to industry needs in an efficient and collaborative manner."
By supporting the science and technology of highway construction, road safety, maintenance, and sustainability, ASTM standards help to ensure that roadways are reliable, safe, and built to last. In the transportation field, several ASTM technical committees develop the standards relied upon by the industry, such as ASTM Committees C01 on Cement, C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates, D04 on Road and Paving Materials, D18 on Soil and Rock, D35 on Geosynthetics, and others. For over 100 years, ASTM has developed more than 1,000 standards that address the needs of road construction and transportation.
About AASHTO
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) is the "Voice of Transportation" representing State Departments of Transportation in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. AASHTO is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association serving as a catalyst for excellence in transportation. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/aashtospeaks.
About ASTM
ASTM International is one of the largest international standards development and delivery systems in the world. ASTM International meets the World Trade Organization (WTO) principles for the development of international standards: coherence, consensus, development dimension, effectiveness, impartiality, openness, relevance and transparency. ASTM standards are accepted and used in research and development, product testing, quality systems and commercial transactions. ASTM International welcomes participation in the development of its standards. For more information on becoming an ASTM member, visit www.astm.org/JOIN.
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ASTM Updates for October 2012
National Work Zone Awareness Week, April 7-11 2008
April 7, 2008 rockman Press Releases Comments Off on National Work Zone Awareness Week, April 7-11 2008
April 7-11 is National Workzone Awareness Week (NWZAW) which draws attention to the hazards roadway construction crews face from motorists not heeding safety warnings. For 2006—the last year for which data is available—more than 1,000 died in work zones. Figures for 2007 will be released by the National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse later this year. Motorists are also at risk for not following work zone safety precautions. They may face damage to their vehicles, injuries, and loss of life. For 2006, 614 motorists died in work zone crashes. (Graphic by Caltrans)
Below are a few items to think about the next time you're driving through a workzone taken from a Caltrans fact sheet. More after the break (sorry for the "Duh" ones, but I didn't write them). As someone who occasionally works on the road and knows many more people who do, please, please remember to slow down!
Most injuries and deaths in the Cone Zone are from rear-end collisions.
If you slow from 65 to 55 mph for one mile, you only lose 10 seconds on your travel time.
The first cause of death for people aged 16 to 20 is car crashes. Even if you don't lose your life causing a car crash, it could still cost you your license or a heavy fine.
If a car's speed is doubled, the stopping distance is doubled twice over. For example, if a car traveling at 30 mph requires 100 feet to stop, the same car at 60 mph takes not 200 but 400 feet to stop.
At 60 mph, you're traveling 88 feet per second. A lot can happen in one second, so give yourself plenty of room to stop in case of an emergency.
For the 15,000 miles of California highway Caltrans maintains, it must buy 120,000 new cones every year to replace ones run over by careless drivers.
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ASTM Standards November Update
November 26, 2008 rockman Standards and Codes Comments Off on ASTM Standards November Update
November was a big month for updates to ASTM Standards…84 updates to be more specific. Several that caught my attention were D4546 One-Dimensional Swell or Settlement Potential, D7383 – Standard Test Methods for Axial Compressive Force Pulse (Rapid) Testing of Deep Foundations (a new standard), several standards that might affect shotcrete design and a large number of water testing standards. Read on for the list.
ASTM Updates April 2009
April 27, 2009 rockman Standards and Codes Comments Off on ASTM Updates April 2009
Our monthly ASTM standards update for those in the geotechnical, geo-environmental, hydrogeology and geo-construction fields. This month there are some new standards related to structural cementitious panels, revisions to standards related to slate and dimension stone, and a reapproved standard for monitoring well protection among others. Click through for more info.


Coylus avellana 'Contorta' is a deciduous woody shrub with an appearance that is as unusual as its common name: Harry Lauder's walking stick. 'Contorta' is a sport—a naturally occurring variation of Coylus avellana, a shrub commonly known as the common hazel or European filbert. The 'Contorta' variation was discovered in the mid-1800s in Great Britain and was named for a Scottish vaudevillian entertainer, Harry Lauder, who used a crooked branch from the shrub as a walking cane. It's unusual appearance led to this variation being extensively propagated by grafting onto rootstock. Growing to a maximum height of 8 to 10 feet, the shrub is commonly used in hedge and screen borders where the interesting stems can be observed up close. The cut stems are frequently used in decorative arrangements.
Technically a deciduous flowering shrub, the grafting process by which the 'Contorta' branches are joined to the donor tree at a height of about 4 feet means that it is often grown as a dwarf tree.
Soil pH: 6.0 to 8.0; acid to alkaline.
Plant this shrub in moist, well-drained soil rich in organic material; it does not tolerate dense clay soils. The shrub is normally planted from balled-and-burlapped specimens or potted plants in fall or spring. It grows well in full sun to part shade. Water quite frequently in the first few years after planting to help the shrub establish a strong root system; you can water less frequently once plants are mature.
Remove root suckers as they appear, since these grow from the rootstock and will not have the contorted shape found on the grafted branches. Pruning is normally done to maximize the appearance of the interesting twisty branches; the foliage is bland. The catkins are nondescript in winter, but in spring they lengthen to 2 or 3 inches and become yellow. Winter and spring are the best seasons for this shrub. This plant offers no fall-foliage color of note.
Plant Harry Lauder's walking stick shrubs in full sun to part shade.
This shrub prefers well-drain loam rich in organic material and may struggle in dense clay soils. If the soil is not ideal, dig in organic amendments before planting. This is a shrub with very good tolerance for alkaline soils.
This shrub needs about 1 inch of water per week during the growing season. Excessive water can cause the roots to rot, especially in soils that are dense. Frequent watering is more important when the shrubs are young.
This sturdy hedge shrub tolerates a wide range of temperature extremes but may require extra water in very hot climates.
Usually, this shrub requires no feeding, but if soil tests indicate a deficit, fertilize in late fall or early spring with a granular slow-release balanced fertilizer.
As a grafted plant, Harry Lauder's walking stick is difficult to propagate. Neither the seeds nor the root suckers can be reproduced true to the original plant. Some people have success with soil layering, a somewhat difficult process.
Recently, a new cultivar named 'Red Majestic' has been introduced. It has burgundy-colored new growth, which gives the shrub more summer appeal that traditional 'Contorta,' whose foliage is unattractive.
Inspect the shrub monthly for suckers, which should be cut off. Trimming of the bush is usually done to enhance the visibility of the contorted, twisty branches, as well as to control the size of the shrub. Make each cut about 1/8 inch above a leaf bud, and make sure to make clean cuts without crushing the branches. Be judicious and conservative with trimming, as this is a slow-growing shrub that will require time to recover. To train the plant as a small tree, cut away the lower branches, leaving a central trunk.
This shrub has good resistance to the filbert blight that can devastate other members of the genus.
Occasional disease problems include black knot, crown gall, apple mosaic virus, and leaf spot. Affected branches should be removed and destroyed, but viruses, in particular, are very hard to treat. These problems can be minimized by using sterile tools when trimming, and by keeping the ground around the shrubs free of debris. Leaf spots can be treated with fungicides.
Scale insects and Japanese beetles can attack the plant. To control the scale, spray with organic Neem oil at the first sign of their presence. Japanese beetles are easily picked off by hand and drowned in a can of soapy water.


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Interview of the Week – October 22: German and Brose Baskets Bamberg center Tibor Pleiss
2009 EuroBasket, Euroleague - Eurocup, FIBA basketball, FIBA Europe Youth Tournaments, German BBL, NBA, one-on-one 2 comments
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heinnews' David Hein took a trip up to Bamberg to talk to young German basketball national team center Tibor Pleiss from Brose Baskets Bamberg. They discussed Pleiss's eventful summer; what he learned from playing against players like Sofoklis Schortsanitis; the insolvency of Köln 99ers; Germany's new regulations for German players; and the NBA as a goal for the future.
heinnews: Tibor, you have been in Cologne for the past three years, what's it like now in Bamberg?
Pleiss: I'm just getting used to things here. Of course it's a pretty big change since the city is quite a bit smaller than Cologne. But it's a classy team and I think I will fit in just fine. And I think we will have a very good season.
heinnews: Let's go back to this summer. You had a pretty event time with the U20 European Championship in Rhodes and then the German senior team training camp as well as making the EuroBasket 2009 squad. Start with the U20s, the team came in with high expectations – possibly even of reaching the semis – but ended up fighting off relegation. What did you think about the U20s this summer?
Pleiss: We had a really good team. And we thought we had real chances of reaching the semi-finals. But every team had a way they could beat us. So it was basically a 50-50 chance each time out. We lost the first two games really close – the first one in overtime to Croatia and the second at the buzzer to Serbia. And that kind of hurt our mentality and our motivation since we knew we couldn't reach the next round. We thought we should have gone a lot further and then we lost another game and ended up just barely staying in Division A.
heinnews: You had helped Germany get promoted to Division A the summer before. And the team came in with such high expectations, how important was at least avoiding relegation?
Pleiss: It was very important. We had a good success with the promotion. And then we thought we are in a pretty good spot and I think we put ourselves under a lot of pressure. So I was really happy that we ended up getting it done in the end.
heinnews: Then you were invited by German coach Dirk Bauermann to the senior national team training camp. What kind of feelings did you have about that?
Pleiss: It was pretty special to play against very good players. Of course it was pretty difficult since I had played with the U20 national team. Then after EuroBasket, I was pretty tired for the first couple of training sessions here in Bamberg. Maybe it was a bit much but slowly I am getting back to where I should be.
heinnews: How was Poland for the EuroBasket?
Pleiss: Poland was great, especially just being there. That was an honor. I didn't play all that much. But being part of the team spirit was great. We really pulled together. It was great.
heinnews: Knowing that the big names were missing and that there were no real expectations on the team, how easy was it for the team to play?
Pleiss: It was easier because you were able to play more freely. As a team we went a lot further than many in Germany thought we would. I think that was our advantage because we didn't put a lot of stress on ourselves.
heinnews: What was it like playing against a guy like Sofoklis Schortsanitis?
Pleiss: (Laughing) Actually I had played against him already. Back then it was in the Euroleague with Köln. That was a while ago. But it is pretty nice playing against him – and other great players. It's a chance to show I can play. He knocked me down once. But it was okay.
heinnews: What kind of things did you learn from your time with the senior team?
Pleiss: I learned so much in the few weeks with the national team – much more than during the same time in the Bundesliga. It's just a different quality and a much higher quality. You prepare yourself. There are a lot more drills in order to play at the highest European level.
heinnews: What was the most important thing you learned?
Pleiss: To assert myself under the basket; battle; to believe; and try to play with more intensity.
heinnews: The summer of course also included the whole mess with your former club Köln 99ers. The team filed for insolvency during your time at the U20s and your team-mate from there Philipp Schwethelm was also there. How did you respond to the whole situation?
Pleiss: That did stress me out quite a bit, I must say, trying to find another club. That wasn't easy in this situation because I had assumed things would continue in Cologne. I really thought a lot about it, and I think that influenced me during the first couple games during EuroBasket because I was also in contact with my agent about a new club.
heinnews: How did you end up deciding for Bamberg?
Pleiss: I wanted to play in Germany. I also had offers from Spain, Greece and Italy. But I decided for Germany because I wanted to improve my game more first. At the end of last season I played more and more at Köln and I wanted to do that again in Germany this season.
heinnews: The past couple weeks there has been plenty of discussion about Germans playing in the BBL and the 6+6 regulation starting in a few years was implemented. The other option was 4+1 where one German had to be on the court at all times. What did you think about all this talk?
Pleiss: I think it was a very good discussion and important because Germans – especially young Germans – have shown at the EuroBasket that they can play. Someone like Robin Benzing for example. Or Elias Harris. You could see that these kinds of players can play in the BBL. This will give a lot of Germans the chance to show they can play as well. And the EuroBasket was important for that too, showing that they can play at the high international level as well.
heinnews: Let's talk a bit about your future. You said you had offers from Spain, Greece and Italy, and there were plenty of NBA scouts and scouts from big European clubs at the U20 European Championship in Rhodes. What are your goals for the next three or four years?
Pleiss: In the next three or four years I would like to play in Spain. Every player has the dream of playing in the NBA. And that's my dream. I will do everything I can to get there – prepare myself physically and in my soul – that's important too. So, yeah, those are my goals for the future.
heinnews: And what are maybe two or three things you need to work on to get to the next level?
Pleiss: I think I need to get more athletic. Also when I make mistakes some times I give up too quick. So I need to get stronger at that as well.
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Rural Community Workers Alliance (RCWA) has been making strides in rural America to build welcoming, inclusive communities for refugee and immigrant workers and Latinx populations. The organization has been especially focused on empowering groups that are vulnerable to human rights abuses, including workers in food, meat processing, and confined animal-feeding operations.
Recently, the staff at RCWA joined us for a Q-and-A, sharing insights into their strategies and how human rights advocates can resist the criminalization of our neighbors and build safer, more just and welcoming communities.
What would you like people to know about the human rights issues you're working to address?
RCWA: Jobs in the meat processing industry are among the most dangerous in the United States. For immigrants and refugees, their social status and lack of knowledge about their rights can make them more vulnerable to abuses, injustices, and mistreatment by employers and supervisors. On multiple occasions it has been reported that workers were denied bathroom breaks, resulting in them urinating on themselves or abstaining from fluids. The high speed at which work lines in the processing plants often operate also puts workers at risk of accidents and injuries from repetitive movements. There have been many cases when workers have not received proper compensation after an on-the-job injury. Laws must be improved to protect workers from these atrocities and empower them to speak out for their rights.
What strategies have you used to build welcoming communities and resist criminalization?
RCWA: We focus on supporting immigrant and refugee leaders' empowerment. This includes organizing solidarity meetings with workers from diverse backgrounds to share ideas on how to address issues affecting them. We also work to strengthen relationships with other organizations who are creating positive change and build connections with community leaders' congregations, institutions, and local authorities. Likewise, we strive to expose citizens and consumers to the issues impacting people who are vulnerable to abuse in our community.
Can you share a story of a community member's experience that has been impactful for the RCWA team?
RCWA: We have supported many workers to gain courage to file their grievances with the worker compensation division and claim compensation after having suffered injuries at work that their employers did not report. This was the case for José who suffered severe acid burns at his workplace when cleaning a machine. His employer did not report the accident, arguing that his injuries were minor. We helped José understand his rights, and he filed his own claim to be compensated for the scars and damage.
RCWA supported José to get compensation for severe burns he suffered at work when cleaning a machine.
How can people support you and similar organizations in your work?
RCWA: Consumers should do everything possible to find out where their groceries come from to make sure the companies that make their food provide employees with good working conditions. Communicate with your elected officials or decision makers to improve laws and policies that uphold workers' rights. And participate in campaigns that seek to improve respect for civil rights and labor rights.
What are your thoughts on the value of joining together as advocates and grassroots organizers in this moment?
All grassroots organizations together with communities, foundations, congregations, institutions, elected officials, and individuals must work together to address the negative rhetoric that affects us and threatens the well-being of the people in our communities.


Handmade by British firefighter George Smallwood, this Sheffield, England, shed pipes a converted black cab and an Irish pub to an esteemed position. Plus, it's a gardener's dream–self-watering, self-sufficient home for vegetables, herbs, and insects.
"The competition was extremely tough this year, from a musical shed on the water, to a taxi, to an authentic Irish pub. George's shed stood out due to it's impressive, handmade structure but also because of its unique story and special purpose," says competition founder Andrew Wilcox. This Cuprinol-sponsored contest is now in its eleventh year. Cuprinol is a British brand of paint made specifically for outdoor structures such as fences and sheds.
Last year's winner was The Mushroom Shed. This quirky hangout, hand-built by Ben Swanborough and his 12-year-old daughter features a trap door, hidden treat shelf, and glass floor that overlooks a stream at the bottom of the garden.


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A Guy Makes Millions by Playing Video Games on YouTube
Last Updated: Aug 9, 2016
When YouTube launched eight years ago, the first major videos were Charlie Bit My Finger, Evolution of Dance, along with other hit videos that came out of nowhere. After a few years, recurring videos from the same person started cropping up and video gaming became one of the YouTube communities' most popular video niches.
What started as a way to show funny moments quickly became one guy playing a game from start to finish, with an audience watching every episode of the "Let's Play" and following the YouTube personality through the game.
In 2014, there are dozens of million dollar YouTube channels who regularly do Let's Play's as a way to make a living. The biggest in the bunch is Swedish personality PewDiePie, who currently has 24 million subscribers, grabbing around $140,000 to $1.4 million per month.
PewDiePie managed to grab this huge number through his personality more than anything else, the loud foul mouthed Swede has drawn in millions of peoples to the simplest of games and tends to play horrors and Indies, he is well known for his screaming in horrors.
Other personalities like Toby Turner, Yogscast, Roosterteeth and SkyDoesMinecraft also draw in millions of viewers, but unlike PewDiePie they like to mostly focus on Minecraft. The open world builder has been a huge hit for plenty of YouTubers, who can use their imagination and personality to build Let's Play's, rather than use the IP of gaming creators as back up.
While this all sounds easy to do, this YouTube success is only available to the 1%, with hundreds of thousands of content creators not being able to gain a living making content for YouTube and not being able to attract an audience big enough to even pay rent for a flat.
Even if the YouTube luck does not hit some content creators, there are valuable lessons to learn from making content on YouTube. The biggest one is video editing and being able to create and sync video with audio, something a lot of media companies would pay you for if YouTube doesn't work out.


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Judson Linsley Gressitt (16 June 1914 – 26 April 1982) was an American entomologist and naturalist who worked in Japan and China. He worked mainly on beetle diversity in Southeast Asia and in applied areas, particularly medical entomology, and was the founder of the journal Pacific Insects (which became the International Journal of Entomology) and the Wau Ecology Institute in Papua New Guinea. Apart from insects, he collected specimens in numerous taxa and several have been named after him.

Life
Gressitt was born in Tokyo, Japan, where his parents were Baptist missionaries. The family became refugees after the earthquake of 1923 and they moved to Oakland, California in 1925 where he recovered from pneumonia and typhoid. Through his cousin E. Gorton Linsley, he became interested in insects and the outdoors as Boy Scouts where they were influenced by Brighton C. Cain. He began to collect specimens in the Sierra Nevada and when the family moved back to Japan, he began to work at the USDA lab in Yokohoma. In 1932 he graduated from the American School, Tokyo and taught English at a Japanese school for a year. He made a visit to Formosa for three months between studies at Stanford University and collected nearly 50000 specimens. In 1935 he moved from Stanford to UC Berkeley and obtained a BS in 1938 followed by a Master's in 1939. His first entomological publication was on Japanese Cerambycidae. After his MS, he worked at the Lingnan Natural History Museum in Canton and taught at the Lingnan University.

In 1941, he married Margaret Kriete, who also came from an American missionary family in Japan. Margaret was interested in music, teaching music at the Honolulu Symphony, and took a keen interest in natural history publishing along with Linsley. The Japanese placed the couple under internship in Canton on December 8, 1941 (in Canton time, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor) and later kept separate during which time their first daughter was born. The family were reunited only in 1943 and returned to the United States. Linsley then worked at Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1945 for research on the Cassidinae. He worked towards the end of the war with the US Medical Research Unit in Guam, Philippines, and Japan. In the 1950s he returned to work in Southeast Asia and took part in an expedition to study Metasequoia glyptostroboides, a living fossil in Sichuan. In 1950, the family was again interned in Canton at the beginning of the Korean War and was released only in 1951. In 1952, the family moved to Honolulu and he worked at the Bishop Museum. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1955 and a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America since 1943. In 1965 he explored the insects of the Antarctic region.

Gressitt founded the journal Pacific Insects and published numerous descriptions. He published nearly 300 papers, mostly monograph and worked mainly on beetles. Gressitt Glacier in Antarctica was named after him. He and his wife were killed in an aircrash on a routine flight (CAAC Flight 3303) from Canton to Guilin where he had been invited to talk. They had four daughters. The species Paramelomys gressitti; the leaf-beetle genera Gressittella and Gressittana; and the horsefly genus Gressittia are named after him.

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External links
J. Linsley Gressitt Center for Research in Entomology, Bishop Museum
Photograph of Gressitt in 1955, Guggenheim Fellow
Entomology of Antarctica (1967)

1914 births
1982 deaths
American entomologists
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Academic staff of Lingnan University (Guangzhou)
Fellows of the Entomological Society of America
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in China
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1982
20th-century American zoologists
American expatriates in Japan


Join Lulu as she teaches you some basics about water gardening and how to set up you own solar water fountain in your yard or on your porch. Everyone will go home with supplies and plants to build their own. So fun and easy! $35 includes wine and nibbles. Go to www.visibook.com/workshopswithlulu to register.


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Pneumatic castors contain wheels that are filled with air. Pneumatic castors are designed for low speed applications where you need to move equipment over rough surfaces. They provide shock absorption and quiet operation, as well as cushioning when bumps are encountered. This makes them ideal for moving fragile goods and delicate materials, and they can also be used on rougher terrains too, whether it is grass or a gravelled path.
Pneumatic casters and rubber castors are also popular for indoor use in various settings, including hospitals, hotels, scientific and electronic laboratories, department stores, TV studios, and more.
Richmond NZ is known for providing a wide range of quality wheels and castors to its customers. This also remains true for this particular series of casters. Our team of experts design some of the best rubber castors from high-quality raw materials, ensuring hard-wearing pneumatic casters that deliver exceptional performance. We also adhere to the highest industry standards and only supply the best products to our clientele.
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The original Imperial Good Companion was introduced in 1932 and became a best seller almost immediately, possibly helped by being named after the J.B. Priestley play 'The Good Companions' - with the author's full permission!
An excellent, sturdy little typewriter, it continued in production - almost unchanged - right through until 1957.
This 1940 version is identical to the pre-war machine, the only real difference being the crackle-finish black paint, first seen in this year and subsequently applied to all Imperial typewriters until the mid-1950's.
The machine has a 44-character keyboard, single and double line-spacing, and a fold-up paper rest.
A popular vintage typewriter in good condition, with many more years of faithful service ahead of it !