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OregonLaws
Oregon Administrative Rules
Oregon Revised Statutes
Oregon ORS
Section 40.150
Evidence Code
ORS 40.150
Rule 401. Definition of "relevant evidence"
Annotations 33
"Relevant evidence" means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence. [1981 c.892 §21]
(Rule 401)
See also annotations under ORS 41.220 in permanent edition.
Notes of Decisions
There are seven factors to be considered as guidelines to determine relevance or probative value of proffered scientific evidence under this rule. State v. Brown, 297 Or 404, 687 P2d 751 (1984)
In prosecution under child neglect statute, ORS 163.545, evidence of whereabouts of mother and that she was drinking beer and fact that there was house fire and that children died in fire was relevant and properly admitted. State v. Goff, 297 Or 635, 686 P2d 1023 (1984)
Testimony that defendant had chased another person with hammer 20 years ago was not probative of defendant's intent at time of shooting. State v. Parks, 71 Or App 630, 693 P2d 657 (1984)
Five Step Analysis In Weighing Probative and Prejudicial Value of Evidence Is
1) need for evidence; 2) certainty that other crime was committed by defendant; 3) strength or weakness of evidence; 4) inflammatory effect on jury; and 5) time-consuming and distracting nature of proof of other crime. State v. Johns, 301 Or 535, 725 P2d 312 (1986); State v. Kim, 111 Or App 1, 824 P2d 1161 (1992), Sup Ct review denied
In Determining Relevance of Prior Crime Evidence to Issue of Intent or Absence of Mistake, Court Should Consider
1) whether intent is part of current charged act; 2) whether prior bad act required intent; 3) whether victim was identical or of same class; 4) similarity of acts; 5) similarity of physical elements; and 6) whether evidence meeting first five criteria is unduly prejudicial or inflammatory. State v. Johns, 301 Or 535, 725 P2d 312 (1986); State v. Blanscet, 230 Or App 363, 215 P3d 924 (2009)
Where inference could be drawn that defendant's ability to drive was impaired by alcohol, trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting evidence of officer's observations and blood-alcohol test in prosecution of defendant for reckless driving. State v. Vorseth, 100 Or App 359, 786 P2d 217 (1990)
Where defendant's motive was not relevant to issue of whether he acted "with intent" to conspire to commit crime of burglary or "knowingly" in committing crime of burglary and theft under this section, proffered evidence was not admissible as evidence of defendant's state of mind. State v. Troen, 100 Or App 442, 786 P2d 751 (1990), Sup Ct review denied
Evidence of how parties acted after purported rescission is probative of whether they intended to rescind. Pfeifer v. DME Liquidating, Inc., 101 Or App 106, 789 P2d 266 (1990)
Evidence that defendant had alleged association with gang members and that gang members used stolen cars in illegal activities was irrelevant to prove defendant's knowledge that car was stolen. State v. Stone, 104 Or App 534, 802 P2d 668 (1990)
If choice-of-evils defense is unavailable under substantive law, evidence in support of defense is irrelevant. State v. Clowes, 310 Or 686, 801 P2d 789 (1990)
Trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence that defendant had told victim, his wife, that defendant had killed girlfriend, where that evidence could make it less likely victim would have consented to defendant's entry into apartment where defendant allegedly attempted to rape her. State v. Carrillo, 108 Or App 442, 816 P2d 654 (1991), Sup Ct review denied
Where evidence was insufficient to support determination that uncharged acts were sufficiently similar among themselves or to charged offenses to support rational inference of distinctiveness probative of identity to crimes charged, evidence of three prior bad acts was not relevant to prove person who committed them also committed charged offenses. State v. Westby, 117 Or App 14, 843 P2d 973 (1992), as modified by 124 Or App 265, 862 P2d 1318 (1993), Sup Ct review denied
Sidewalk dedication ordinance is relevant to issue of just compensation in condemnation case. Dept. of Trans. v. Lundberg, 312 Or 568, 825 P2d 641 (1992)
Documents and cash belonging to defendant together with photos of defendant's home and bank records, standing alone proved little about who possessed marijuana in storage unit, but considered in combination with other testimony, tended to show that defendant was drug dealer, and therefore was relevant. State v. Nunez, 121 Or App 578, 855 P2d 1162 (1993)
Forensic DNA testing has sufficient scientific reliability to have probative value in matters of identification. State v. Futch, 123 Or App 176, 860 P2d 264 (1993), aff'd 324 Or 297, 924 P2d 832 (1996)
RFLP method of DNA analysis and resulting testimony concerning occurrence of shared trait in population was admissible. State v. Futch, 123 Or App 176, 860 P2d 264 (1993), aff'd 324 Or 297, 924 P2d 832 (1996); State v. Herzog, 125 Or App 10, 864 P2d 1362 (1993), aff'd 324 Or 294, 924 P2d 817 (1996)
Where credibility of witness was called into question by defendant, testimony that defendant threatened witness during trial recess was admissible to show bias of defendant toward witness. State v. Collier, 124 Or App 100, 861 P2d 397 (1993), Sup Ct review denied
Polymerase chain reaction form of DNA testing was sufficiently reliable to be relevant and probative. State v. Lyons, 124 Or App 598, 863 P2d 1303 (1993), aff'd 324 Or 256, 924 P2d 802 (1996)
Evidence that defendant had previously possessed different weapon of same unique type as murder weapon was admissible to show defendant's proclivity for possessing that type of weapon. State v. Trinh, 126 Or App 324, 868 P2d 779 (1994), Sup Ct review denied
Evidence of general tendency of drivers to react to highway design in particular manner was relevant to determining likely cause of particular collision. Dyer v. R.E. Christiansen Trucking, Inc., 318 Or 391, 868 P2d 1325 (1994)
Evidence addressing weaknesses in proof is directly relevant as part of case in chief and cannot be restricted to use as rebuttal evidence. State v. Galloway, 161 Or App 536, 984 P2d 934 (1999), Sup Ct review denied
Physician's diagnosis that patient is suffering from particular condition is subject to foundational requirements for scientific evidence. State v. Sanchez-Cruz, 177 Or App 332, 33 P3d 1037 (2001), Sup Ct review denied
In prosecution of child sexual abuse under ORS 163.427, admission of evidence that defendant possessed two pairs of children's underwear is relevant to show defendant had sexual interest in children. State v. Williams, 357 Or 1, 346 P3d 455 (2015)
Where trial court excluded evidence of police department's use-of-force policies, error was not harmless because evidence could have shown police officers' motive to testify that defendant pointed air gun at them, which would protect officers from adverse employment consequences based on use of deadly force against defendant. State v. Crum, 287 Or App 541, 403 P3d 405 (2017)
(Generally)
General rule is that polygraph evidence is inadmissible in proceeding governed by Oregon Evidence Code. State v. Brown, 297 Or 404, 687 P2d 751 (1984)
Party could introduce results of polygraph test taken by spouse for purpose of showing that response of party upon learning polygraph results was reasonable. Fromdahl and Fromdahl, 314 Or 496, 840 P2d 683 (1992)
Where state law completely precludes reliable, materially exculpatory evidence, exclusion of that evidence violates Due Process Clauses of United States Constitution. State v. Cazares-Mendez, 233 Or App 310, 227 P3d 172 (2010), aff'd State v. Cazares-Mendez/Reyes-Sanchez, 350 Or 491, 256 P3d 104 (2011)
Oregon Evidence Code articulates minimum standards of reliability that apply to many types of evidence for admissibility, including eyewitness identification evidence, and parties must employ code to address admissibility of eyewitness testimony. State v. Lawson/James, 352 Or 724, 291 P3d 673 (2012)
Law Review Citations
59 OLR 43 (1980); 19 WLR 343 (1983)
Annotations are listed under the heading "Under former similar statute" if they predate the adoption of the Evidence Code, which went into effect January 1, 1982.
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by Langdon Hickman
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Das Bismarck-Denkmal in Dresden war ein Werk von Robert Diez und ist eines der heute nicht mehr erhaltenen Denkmale der Stadt. Es wurde 1903 aus Granit und Bronze errichtet.

Idee und Wettbewerb
Die Idee zur Schaffung eines Bismarck-Denkmals in Dresden entstand wie in zahlreichen anderen Großstädten, des Deutschen Reichs anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags des Reichskanzlers Otto von Bismarck. Im März 1896 schrieb die Stadt mit Einsendeschluss 15. Oktober einen allgemeinen Wettbewerb aus. Das Ziel war ein Standbild auf einem Steinsockel.

Im Preisgericht saßen Robert Diez, Alfred Moritz Hauschild, die Bauräte Hermann Klette und Richter, Edmund Bräter, Paul Wallot, Ferdinand von Miller und Fritz Schaper. Zur Errichtung des Denkmals stand ein Budget von 90.000 Mark zur Verfügung.

Das Preisgericht begutachtete am 30. November 1896 insgesamt 62 Entwürfe und prämierte, ohne einen 1. Preis zu vergeben, den Entwurf von Werner Stein mit dem 2. Preis, außerdem den Entwurf von Wilhelm Wandschneider, den gemeinsamen Entwurf von Bildhauer Oskar Rühm und Architekt Hans Pätzel sowie den Entwurf von Bildhauer Carl Meisen (Berlin) jeweils mit einem von drei 3. Preisen. Drei weitere Entwürfe wurden angekauft, darunter einer von Hugo Lederer.

Ein Auftrag zur Ausführung des Denkmals wurde jedoch nicht erteilt, was bei dem nicht vergebenen 1. Preis (für einen nach Meinung der Jury ausführungsreifen Entwurf) zu rechtfertigen war. Stattdessen wurden zu Beginn des folgenden Jahres die Preisträger Werner Stein und Wilhelm Wandschneider, sowie die Dresdner Bildhauer Robert Diez und Johannes Schilling gegen ein festes Honorar zu einer engeren Konkurrenz bis zum 1. Januar 1898 eingeladen. Im Anschluss forderte das Preisgericht Robert Diez zu einer Überarbeitung seines Entwurfs in größerem Maßstab auf. Nach dessen Vorlage erging der Auftrag an ihn. Die Ausführungszeit des Denkmals lag zwischen 1899 und 1903. Den Bronzeguss übernahm die Kunst- und Glockengießerei C. Albert Bierling in Dresden.

Errichtung und Beschreibung
Als Ort der Errichtung hatte die Stadt Dresden eine Fläche im Bereich der Ringstraße, nahe der Ecke Seestraße bzw. Prager Straße, vorgesehen. Dabei handelte es sich um eine Fläche im Zentrum der Altstadt. Die feierliche Einweihung erfolgte am 30. August 1903. Das Denkmal wurde zeitgenössisch als Darstellung mit energischer Bewegung beschrieben.

Das Denkmal hatte eine Gesamthöhe von etwa 3,50 Meter. Die überlebensgroße Bronzestatue Bismarcks war in der Mitte eines Granitsockels aufgestellt, der von allen Seiten über vier Stufen betreten werden konnte.

An zwei Ecken befanden sich zwei Stelen aus demselben roten Granit wie im Sockel, auf denen jeweils eine allegorische Greifenfigur aus Bronze stand, bestehend aus der Gruppe Kampf und der Gruppe Sieg und Frieden (mit Putte).

Die bronzene Bismarckstatue stand auf einem niedrig gehaltenen Granitsockel, hielt in ihrer rechten Hand einen Kürassierhelm und in der anderen Hand einen Pallasch. Hinter seinem rechten Bein stand ein Wappenschild mit dem Reichsadler als Symbol seiner Rolle.

An der Rückseite des Sockels befand sich eine allegorische Gruppe aus Bronze, bestehend aus einer Putte mit einer Herkuleskeule auf der Schulter und einer weiteren Putte, die auf einem Löwenfell sitzend nach dem Eichenzweig greift. Im Zentrum dieser Gruppe war eine Urkundenrolle sichtbar. Darauf befand sich die Aufschrift "Wir Deutsche fürchten Gott, aber sonst nichts in der Welt". Dieses Zitat von Bismarck stammt aus seiner Reichstagsrede vom 6. Februar 1888.

Der hintere Abschluss bildet eine gebogene Balustrade aus dem Granit, die eine abgesenkte Podestfläche umschließt und zwei seitliche Ausgänge zulässt.

Die Bismarckstatue blickte in Richtung Neues Rathaus.

Spätes Schicksal und Verbleib nach 1945
In der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurden 1944 einzelne Bronzeteile entfernt, um sie für die Rüstungsproduktion einzuschmelzen.
Die Bombenangriffe fügten der Statue nur geringe Schäden zu. Die Sowjetische Militäradministration setzte das Denkmal nach Besetzung der Stadt auf die Liste des zu schützenden Kulturgutes. Im Zuge des Nachkriegsaufbaus sollte ein neuer Standort gefunden werden. In der Nacht vom 13. zum 14. Mai 1946 wurde die Bronzestatue von FDJ-Aktivisten gestürzt und abtransportiert. Ohne Rücksprache mit dem Landesamt für Denkmalpflege hatte die städtische Verwaltung diesen Abbruch veranlasst.

Die Bismarck-Plastik fand zwischenzeitlich eine Einlagerung im Johanneum und ist 1947 eingeschmolzen worden. Die Teile des Treppenpodestes und weitere Teile aus Granit zerschlug man 1949 (Anschaffungswert 20.000 Mark), um ihn zu beseitigen. Eine noch erhaltene Erinnerungstafel schmolz man zusammen mit anderen Bronzeplastiken aus Dresden im Jahr 1951 zugunsten der Metallneugewinnung ein.

Literatur
 Deutsche Bauzeitung, 30. Jahrgang 1896, Nr. 20 (vom 7. März 1896), S. 132. (zur Wettbewerbs-Auslobung)
 Deutsche Bauzeitung, 30. Jahrgang 1896, Nr. 21 (vom 11. März 1896), S. 136. (zur Wettbewerbs-Auslobung, Nachtrag)
 Deutsche Bauzeitung, 30. Jahrgang 1896, Nr. 90 (vom 7. November 1896), S. 568. (zum Wettbewerbs-Ergebnis)
 Otto Richter (Hrsg.): Dresdens Entwicklung in den Jahren 1903 bis 1909. Dr. Güntz'sche Stiftung, Dresden 1910.
 Ernst-Günter Knüppel: Robert Diez. Bildhauerkunst zwischen Romantik und Jugendstil. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-355-6.
 Florian Schmitz: Bismarck und die Dresdner. Konfiguration einer Erinnerung. In: Frank Almai und Ulrich Fröschle (Hrsg.): Literatur im Kontext. Kunst und Medien, Religion und Politik. Festschrift für Walter Schmitz. Thelem, Dresden 2014, S. 368–403, ISBN 978-3-945363-15-7.

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Stan na 16 stycznia 2022, na podstawie, o ile nie zaznaczono inaczej.
 NCAA
 Uczestnik II rundy turnieju NCAA (2014, 2015)
 Zawodnik roku konferencji Pac-12 (2015)
 Zaliczony do:
 I składu:
 All-Pac-12 (2015)
 najlepszych pierwszorocznych zawodników C-USA (2012)
 turnieju Pac-12 (2014, 2015)
 II składu All-Pac-12 (2014)
 III składu:
 All-Conference USA (2013)
 All-American (2015 przez TSN)
 Lider:
 konferencji w skuteczności rzutów wolnych:
 PAC-12 (2014, 2015)
 USA (2013)
 strzelców konferencji PAC-12 (2015)

 Indywidualne
 MVP meczu gwiazd CBA (2019)
 Uczestnik meczu gwiazd chińskiej ligi CBA (2019)
 Lider strzelców ligi chińskiej (2020)

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 Profil na uhcougars.com
 Profil na draftexpress.com
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 Profil na insider.espn.go.com
 Profil na rotoworld.com
 Statystyki na basketball-reference.com
 Profil na sports.yahoo.com
 Profil na hispanosnba.com
 Profil na foxsports.com

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Koszykarze NCAA All-American
Koszykarze Indiana Pacers
Koszykarze Oregon Ducks
Koszykarze Fort Wayne Mad Ants
Koszykarze Jiangsu Monkey King
Koszykarze Houston Cougars
Koszykarze Birmingham Squadron
Ludzie urodzeni w Houston
Urodzeni w 1992


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No realtime media services with content and actions confirmed by blockchain, targets and executors catching via map.
Alternatives: google maps, youtube, google drive, socials nets.
1. Interaction with the person who is in the right place and at the right time. 2. Spatial-temporal filters allow to select the proper people, objects and events in real time and directly address to them, including for tasks placing and performers searching. 3. AI helps manage user's photos and video, automatically sorting galleries on semantic content. 4. Trust and guarantee of the tasks accomplishment in the system are strengthened with the blockchain technology and anonymous voting. 5. Specified objects tracking using advanced image processing algorithms and neural networks is available in real time and in history. Optionally, you can allow AI to place tasks to receive data for the objects tracking purpose in real time. 6. Business options are available for building of distribution and dealer network development maps using AI. 7. Monetization is realized within the framework of the token economy, according to the pre marketing plan for Manhattan.


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THE LAST WORD: Power to the people as 1.8m receive cheques from npower
By Tony Hazell for the Daily Mail
Around 1.8 million people are currently receiving cheques worth an average £41 plus interest from energy supplier npower.
This is entirely due to the work of Consumer Focus, an organisation the Government is planning to abolish.
These payments are being made because npower overcharged customers in 2007 to the tune of £63 million. Add to that £3 million VAT and £4 million interest, and Consumer Focus achieved a £70 million victory. Some customers will get as much as £100 plus VAT and interest.
Ray of light: Payments are being made because npower overcharged customers
Before Consumer Focus' s intervention, npower had agreed with the regulator Ofgem to pay a measly £6 each to 200,000 customers.
Consumer Focus spent £5.75 million in total last year helping energy consumers - so its returns were 12 times its investment. not bad for any organisation. Consumer Focus is also responsible for forcing banks and building societies to improve the terms and conditions of cash Isas from next year.
It was Consumer Focus's investigation, following a Money Mail campaign, that led to providers agreeing to cut transfer times and to print interest rates on the top of statements. Money Mail has no time for cash-wasting quangos that merely provide employment for the great and good. However, Consumer Focus has proved itself to be a worthwhile champion for the downtrodden consumer.
It has the strength, resources and power to take on large organisations in ways that others, such as Citizens Advice Bureau and Which?, cannot.
Big business can call upon billions of pounds of resources in any fight against the consumer, whereas Consumer Focus will this year cost a mere £14 million.
I think that's good value - and if there is any way it can be saved, then it should be.
Losing spirit!
Today, Money Mail launches the award no company wants to win. our Wooden Spoons have proved tremendously popular with readers since we launched them two years ago, but are universally loathed and feared by companies who offer third-rate customer service.
Since October, we have been receiving phone calls from quaking press officers because their directors want to know whether they will make our shortlist this year.
They know that our Wooden Spoon awards are a true measure of how the British public view their customer service. And for many large organisations that can mean a massive thumbs-down.
Customer service should be a simple affair. You offer a free phone number or at least a normal phone number. you answer the phone promptly and listen to the problem. If you can't solve it there and then, you promise to call back at a specified time. You fulfil that promise.
If the problem is complex, it should be escalated to a more senior member of staff who then takes personal responsibility and keeps the customer informed. It's not rocket science.
Instead, many companies charge customers they have wronged by using 0845 or 0870 numbers. They leave them on hold, they don't return calls when promised, they lose details of the problem ... and then they wonder why customers call back steaming in frustration.
We don't draw up our shortlist lightly. Those that make it have appeared in our mailbag time and time again throughout 2010. It's not their mistakes we're judging them on, it's their failure to resolve them. now, it's your turn to pass judgment on them. We look forward to your verdict.
Pension trick
Those who were unlucky enough to choose pension companies that have now closed to new business might have thought they had suffered enough from poor investment performance. But these firms have a nasty trick up their sleeves, as we reveal today.
The annuities they offer usually paid far less than those available elsewhere. So having received appalling returns on your savings, you will at retirement be offered a pathetically small income.
Fortunately, there is a solution - and it's a simple one. never, ever, take an annuity from your existing pension provider without first checking the best annuity rates available. you can do this by going to the Financial Services Authority's internet site at www.fsa. gov.uk or by contacting a specialist independent financial adviser.
Half an hour's investment could bring you hundreds or even thousands of pounds more income every year for life. It really is worth the effort.


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Cousins seeks rebound from rough game as Vikes face Raiders
By DAVE CAMPBELL - Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - During his nine-year hiatus from the NFL sideline, Jon Gruden evaluated players like he was still a coach, drawing particular attention as an analyst for ESPN for his one-on-one film breakdowns with quarterback prospects entering the draft.
Kirk Cousins was one of those pupils. Though only a fourth-round pick by Washington in 2012, the eighth player selected at his position that spring, Cousins made a clear impression on Gruden with his attention to detail and ability to communicate. Gruden even remarked at the end of that episode that perhaps he'd get back in the game to coach him.
Well, this week, Gruden and the Oakland Raiders have been scheming against Cousins, who will try to bounce back for the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday from one of the worst performances as a pro.
"He works hard at football. He's had a lot of production," said Gruden, who took over as coach of the Raiders last season. "Hopefully we can find a way to slow him down and win a football game."
That's what Green Bay did last weekend, when Cousins posted the second-worst completion percentage of his career and committed three turnovers in a 21-16 defeat. The comeback bid was waylaid by a first-and-goal interception in the end zone, an off-balance throw he said afterward he should've sent to the seats. Vikings coach Mike Zimmer expressed anew the team's confidence in Cousins, who's in the second season of a three-year, $84 million, fully guaranteed contract.
"You've got to play well to earn peoples' confidence, so if he's saying that, it's because he's seen practice reps, he's seen game reps, he's seen what we're capable of as an offense throwing the football," Cousins said. "So you've got to go out and earn it. Believe me, I'm not going to be playing quarterback here if I go out and play the way I did this past Sunday for much longer. So I understand that, and I look forward to getting out there and playing at a much higher level."
Here are some other angles to follow on Sunday:
ROAD TRIPPING
The Raiders (1-1) have begun this week a whopping 48-day stretch without a game at the Oakland Coliseum. After visiting the Vikings, the Raiders will travel to Indianapolis, then London for a "home" game against Chicago. After their bye week, they go back on the road to play Green Bay and Houston. The Raiders won't play in Oakland again until Nov. 3 against Detroit.
"We're still trying to understand how that happened, but we're going to have to deal with it," said Gruden, whose team went 1-7 on the road last year. "We've just got to showcase our mental toughness and deal with it. It's uncommon, maybe unprecedented, maybe unrealistic that this should ever happen in pro football. I'm not excited about it, but we'll adapt and do it the best we can."
INCOGNITO RETURNS
The Raiders will get a boost on the offensive line this week when left guard Richie Incognito makes his debut for the team. The four-time Pro Bowl pick missed the first two games, while suspended for violating the NFL personal conduct policy. He's eager as ever to see the field for the first time since a Jan. 7, 2018, playoff game with Buffalo. Incognito did not play at all last season.
"All the negative stuff is behind me. Just eyes forward, staying positive," he said. "Relishing the opportunity, enjoying every day in here because you don't know how many more you're going to have."
BURFICT, BEWARE
Another talented veteran with a troubled past who joined the Raiders this year, linebacker Vontaze Burfict, is well-known to Zimmer, who was the defensive coordinator for Cincinnati during his first three NFL seasons. Burfict has been repeatedly fined and suspended by the league throughout his career for late, violent hits.
"He knows the defense as well as anybody, probably as well as I do. He's very instinctive. He's very athletic. He reads things extremely quick, and he's a thumper," Zimmer said. "We better make sure the officials know he has to play clean."
Gruden wasn't having that.
"Burfict's played for us for two games. He hasn't had any penalties. So I don't know about all that," Gruden said. "He's had a bulls-eye on him in his career in Cincinnati, and I'm sure the referees are looking out for him. I don't think the refs need any more help than they already have."
The Vikings, though, were prepared to keep their head on a swivel when catching a pass in traffic.
"We've all lost our emotions at times, or what have you, so I think he's learned from that stuff, and I think he's been a pretty clean football player recently," wide receiver Adam Thielen said.
FAST START, SLOW FINISH
The Raiders have made a bad habit in one-plus season under Gruden of stalling by the offense after fast starts. They're tied for fifth in the NFL with an average of 2.83 points per drive on their first possession since the start of 2018, but that production has dropped to barely half of that over the rest of the game, with an average of 1.46 points per drive following their opening possession. Last week against Kansas City, Oakland had 10 points after two drives but didn't score the rest of the game.
"We've always been able to start fast, which is good, and hopefully we can do that again this week but then maintain it and then cut out the penalties," quarterback Derek Carr said.
RUNNING MEN
The Vikings, with Dalvin Cook leading the NFL in rushing, aren't the only team in this pass-favored league that's content to keep the ball on the ground. Rookie Josh Jacobs, one of three first-round draft picks by the Raiders, has 184 rushing yards, fourth in the NFL.
"He runs hard, for sure," Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen said. "He has the quickness to get the ball outside and cut it outside quick. He's a downhill runner, and he can make the big play."
More AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL


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The Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland links to this article about the man who saved Monty Python from being erased. Whenever I see stories like this, I'm aware of just how fragile so much of our classic TV heritage is, and why it's important to preserve what we do have.
As bare-bones e-zine continues with the Hitchcock Project, I had to struggle for a moment to recall the episode entitled "The Crocodile Case," but as soon as I started reading, it came back to me. A clever, entertaining episode, with a great twist at the end.
A new addition to the Classic TV Blog Association is Reelweegiemidget, with a question that's fun whether you're talking about television or movies: recasting roles made famous by other actors. In this case, who would you cast as Indiana Jones?
Another week, another British detective series unfamiliar to me until now. However, thanks to British TV Detectives, we can read about Death in Paradise, the comedy-drama that has aired on BBC One since 2011.
Cult TV returns to his analysis of the first season of The Avengers with a review of "Crescent Moon." I was trying to remember whether or not this was one of the handful of episodes available on the DVD set of The Avengers, but fortunately I quickly found out hardly any of it still exists - and what does exist isn't particularly satisfying.
I will be honest here and tell you that B.J. and the Bear was not a series I watched when it was on, and I've seldom given it much thought. That doesn't mean I can't appreciate Some Polish American Guy's look at the second season episode "Pogo Lil." It's certainly the week for great episode recaps, isn't it?
Joanna at Christmas TV History is calling for submissions for her annual Christmas in July roundup. This year, it's a questionnaire that anyone can answer, so there's no excuse for you not to join in the fun. I dropped the ball on this last year, but not this time!
At Television Obscurities it's a look at one of those comic book TV-tie ins - this one for the short-lived relevant lawyer series The Young Lawyers, which aired on ABC in 1970. It wasn't one of Lee J. Cobb's more distinguished moments in showbiz.
Finally, from The Ringer, another article that doesn't deal specifically with classic TV programs, but which I find quite relevant. It's Chuck Klosterman's essay on "The Future of Television," and one of the questions he asks is this: Which American TV programs — if watched by a curious person in a distant future — would latently represent how day-to-day American society actually was? Klosterman says it's "the kind of question even people who think about television for a living don't think about very often," but in fact it's the question that's driven me since the start of this blog. And I still don't have an answer. TV
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Jack Seabrook June 10, 2016 at 9:32 AM
Thanks, Mitchell!
Mitchell Hadley June 10, 2016 at 9:44 AM
No, thank you! :)
Not seeing the forest for the trees
What's on TV? Tuesday, July 2, 1968
This week in TV Guide: June 29, 1968
The Rebel: a portrait of America's existential crisis
What's on TV? Wednesday, June 24, 1959
TV Jibe: cut to the chase
The charm of "Monsterpiece Theatre"
What's on TV? Thursday, June 14, 1956
This week in TV Guide: June 9, 1956
From the mailbag: A TV Guide online website?
What's on TV? Saturday, June 2, 1956
Whispering Smith: Audie Murphy's cold-blooded West...


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2014 marked the 50th anniversary of both the Second Vatican Council and the British Council of Churches' Faith and Order conference in Nottingham, both of which took place in 1964 and both of which were key to the development of Christian unity in the last fifty years.
Unitatis Redintegratio is Vatican II's Decree on Ecumenism. It was promulgated on 21 November 1964 and represented a huge shift in the official teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, although signs of change had been evident earlier. Unitatis Redintegratio officially recognised that ecumenism is a priority for the Roman Catholic Church which no longer understood unity as 'separated brethren' returning to the fold, but as restoration, a way forward to a unity which is not uniformity.
In September Churches Together in England's Enabling Group took the opportunity to study the document with a talk by Bishop Paul Hendricks.
On 11 November, there was a seminar in Leeds and ecumenical vespers attended by key ecumenical guests and most of the Catholic bishops of England and Wales. The preacher was the Most Revd Sir David Moxon, co-Chair of ARCIC, the Archbishop of Canterbury's Representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. The sermon and all of the conference presentations are brought together in a booklet which is available here.
On Saturday 15 November there was a day conference in London: Christian unity since Vatican II -- memory, present, where now?
24-26 November saw an important invitation-only conference for Ecumenical Officers in Britain. Entitled The ecumenical landscape: changing seasons -- expanding horizons, key speakers were Bishop Paul Hendricks (scroll down the page!), Dr Keith Warrington, Revd Dr David Cornick, Dr Emma Wild-Wood and Dr Marcus Pound.
On Wed 21st January there was a service at Northampton Cathedral with Archbishop Bernard Longley speaking, organised by the Diocese of Northampton Ecumenical Commission. Link to brief report and homily text from the Archbishop.


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Home > Arts & Culture > Remembering Chanie's journey through the forest
Remembering Chanie's journey through the forest
by Daniel J. Rowe - November 1, 2016 June 10, 2018 0255
Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack.
It is a name the entire country should now know, though few knew the boy during his 12 short years.
His story was originally told by McLean's magazine in a cover story by Ian Adams from 1967, after he ran away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School and died in the cold northern Ontario winter October 22 – 50 years ago.
Wenjack's story is the inspiration behind Tragically Hip front man Gord Downie's Secret Path graphic novel, album and short film, and Adams' cover story prompted a public inquiry into the boy's death that in the end questioned the philosophy and morality of the residential school policy.
Enter Joseph Boyden, and his newly published novella Wenjack (Hamish Hamilton, $12).
The 97-page story with illustrations by celebrated Cree/Irish artist Kent Monkman follows Chanie through the cold forest while empathetic yet indifferent nature watches.
The Manitous, spirits of the forest, come in the form of spider, pike, goose, lynx, and other animals, who watch Chanie as he struggles in the cold, holding fast to memories and images from his home, as the elements slowly take his life.
The animals and boy take turns narrating the story, creating a landscape where man (boy) and nature are fused in antagonism to the government's education policy that caused Chanie to try the over 600-km trek to his Ojibway community of Ogoki Post.
"He travels most of the day as we gorge just a little on his blood with our tiny fangs' pierce, and when he reaches the place where the path divides, he steels himself and hurries along the lake as best he can, reaching the uncle's cabin by mid-afternoon. But no one is there," Boyden writes as wood tick.
"Chanie sits on the stoop and waits, staring out at the lake, an east wind rippling it, the wind cold. Weather will change, and it won't be good."
The foreboding doom that awaits the young boy is chilling from the opening page. The reader should know how the story ends, but miserable hope guides us on, as we see glimmers of a chance that he might just make it home. It's a huge success to cause readers to hope against what they already know is going to happen.
Throughout the journey Chanie gives glimpses of what he is running away from.
"The slap of amik (beaver) tail is the slap of teacher across my face," Boyden writes. "The other children stare at me. I spoke out loud in the class in my tongue because I forgot what Nindede (father) warned me."
Boyden's short story is riveting, compelling, tragic and beautiful.
He said in a Globe and Mail interview that it's some of the strongest writing he has ever done, which is saying a lot, and absolutely true.
From line one, the story takes hold, and doesn't let go.
"Gimik-wenden-ina? Do you remember? I remember, me."
An essay and change could be written just about that three-sentence opening. It speaks of survivors. It speaks of history. It speaks of tragedy. It speaks of the country, and it's a challenge.
Much like The Education of Augie Merasty: a Residential School Memoir (an equally short but powerful read), Wenjack tells the story succinctly avoiding many traps stories of this nature fall into.
Neither book forces melodrama or use gratuitous imagery, but succeed in giving a clear picture of a residential school student's fear and pain at being taken from home and put in a dangerous and abusive situation.
Both are short, but huge, and are must-reads.
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Dioscorea traillii är en enhjärtbladig växtart som beskrevs av Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth. Dioscorea traillii ingår i släktet Dioscorea och familjen Dioscoreaceae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Ronald "Ron" Pierce, född  i Livermore i Kalifornien, är en amerikansk travkusk. Han är en av nordamerikansk travsports mest framgångsrika profiler. Han har kört hästar som American Winner, Like a Prayer och Donato Hanover.

Karriär
Pierce inledde sin kuskkarriär på 1980-talet i Kalifornien, och flyttade samma årtionde till New Jersey, där karriären tog fart på allvar. Han har tagit ett flertal segrar i många storlopp i Nordamerika. Han har bland annat tagit tre segrar i Hambletonian Stakes, två i Yonkers Trot och tre i Kentucky Futurity. Totalt har han tagit nästan 10 000 segrar.

Pierce har kört tre upplagor av Elitloppet på Solvalla (1993, 2000, 2007), med en andraplats med Mr. Muscleman 2007 som bästa placering.

Privatliv
Pierce gifte sig 2011 med svenskan Therese Olsson, som bland annat skötte om Scarlet Knight, tränad av Stefan Melander, då de segrade i Hambletonian Stakes 2001.

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Idrottare från Kalifornien
Amerikanska idrottare under 1900-talet
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Warmest March Ever Recorded: Seed Man Says, "Go Jump in a Lake!"
As the air temperatures begin to warm, we've prepared an area for a wildflower planting, spread our seed and anticipate quick germination and flowers shortly after. Or you may have planted in the fall for early spring color.
But as certain as spring arrives, so do the calls during April/early May months from customers wondering why their seeds aren't doing anything. Or if they have germinated, there has been minimal growth. Through over 20 years of advising wildflower enthusiasts, I have created this analogy that seems to resonate with both the novice and avid gardeners alike.
My delivery is usually a bit softer than that, but the idea is simple. Like a large body of water, ground temperatures take a long time to warm. We all get garden fever after that first 80 degree day, but it's often weeks before the ground is warm enough for germination. Like a large body of water, ground temperatures take much longer to warm that most people realize. With cool ground temperatures it can take a little longer during these early spring weeks for germination to occur.
Certainly if you're one of those people who sowed earlier and your seeds haven't shown signs of life don't panic. With a little help from Mother Nature and the gradual warming of the ground temperatures, your seeds should begin germinating and you'll be on your way to a meadow of beautiful wildflowers!


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Why Microsoft's Cosmos DB represents the future of cloud databases
Here are four reasons why there's more to Microsoft's new database as a service than minimal management and greater flexibility
At first glance, Microsoft's new Cosmos DB Azure database seems like a rebadged successor to Azure's planet-scale NoSQL offering, DocumentDB. It's easy to read Cosmos DB as a point-revision version of its predecessor, down to the fact that existing DocumentDB users will be automigrated.
But what's most important about Cosmos DB is not where it's coming from, but where it's heading—and how it may be taking a sizable slice of the cloud-native database world with it. Here are four reasons why Cosmos DB is a harbinger of what's to come for cloud-native database technology and how it's a sign of what's already arrived.
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1. Every major cloud vendor will need to complete with similar options
Here, "similar" means a single database as a service that offers familiar database metaphors (such as SQL), high consistency and availability, horizontal scale, and minimal management hassle.
Right now the most direct competition in terms of total feature set is the newly unveiled Google Cloud Spanner. Amazon has multiple offerings, but each provides only part of the picture: managed conventional databases (Amazon RDS), NoSQL (Amazon DynamoDB), and a data warehouse (Amazon Redshift). IBM is in a roughly similar position; it has various options for different use cases, but no single product can fit the whole bill.
On the other hand, a one-size-fits-all offering could be overkill. Not everyone needs to have scale-out, zero maintenance, or high availability out of the box for their first project. But it's a draw to have those features when you need them without switching systems—and it's even better if the one-for-all solution can do so without any major downsides.
2. Committing to one model of consistency is on the way out
Databases have long been distinguished by their model for consistency. You could choose strong consistency (conventional SQL) at the cost of scale, or you could chose eventual consistency (NoSQL) and get enhanced scale, though at the cost of consistency across nodes.
With Cosmos DB, Microsoft offers multiple consistency models in the same database, so the choice of model can be a function of the workload rather than the product. Cloud Spanner and CockroachDB both attempt to provide horizontal scale without sacrificing strong consistency, but they don't offer a mechanism for choosing a compromise between the two when it makes sense.
3. Also out: Choosing one particular style of database
Cosmos DB also doesn't force a commitment to a conventional column-style, key/value, or document-based paradigm. Existing NoSQL systems like MongoDB can use Cosmos DB as a storage back end, or Cosmos DB can be queried by conventional SQL. It's also possible to use Cosmos DB as a graph database with the Gremlin graph database API (available only in preview as of this writing).
What Microsoft is offering here isn't one particular kind of database. It's a universal back end for different kinds of databases—likely including future styles of database that haven't been invented yet. Rather than devise a new product to support customer demand for a new database, Microsoft could use Cosmos DB as the substrate and get to market faster than the competition. Customers who've already built on top of Cosmos DB would be able to dive in and start swimming sooner, too.
4. Same goes for database management generally
If there's a consistent theme with databases as a service, it's relieving the hassle of managing a database. The bigger and more complex the average workload, the more prominent the appeal of this approach. Case in point: Snowflake, a data warehouse as a service with minimal management needs.
Cosmos DB has several of the same ambitions, as many of its features don't require close work to run well. For instance, it provides mechanisms for partitioning data, but they're decoupled from the applications using the data, so any changes to one doesn't automatically require changes to the other. The schema-less design of the system also reduces the amount of work needed to make global changes like adding columns.
The convenience of any cloud-hosted database is universally appealing, but the frontier for those conveniences won't stop at having hosted, managed versions of known quantities like MySQL or PostgreSQL—or even SQL Server. What's next, and what's already started to come upon us, are databases built not only to be cloud-first, but to challenge assumptions about whether the hard choices we had to make when picking such products even need to be made anymore.
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"As an old messenger, I've ridden with sling bags and backpacks for years. The single-strap messenger bag conforms to your back and makes looking over one shoulder easier. It's great for retrieving items quickly, but most aren't as stable as a double-strap (backpack style) bag. Also, carrying heavy loads on only one shoulder will eventually lead to an overdeveloped muscle on one side of your back. Backpacks and messenger bags are dynamic weight: it moves with you and doesn't affect the performance of the bike.
"I rode with a backpack everyday in college. It was ideal for short trips across campus, as I spent a lot of time walking from class to class too. Now that my commute is 30+ minutes each way, and I ride my bicycle absolutely everywhere I go, I've totally adopted the pannier lifestyle.
Specifically, I've been using the Ortlieb City Roll Top Panniers (which we sell at the shop!). I bought these in October 2016, and over two years later of 50-100 miles of riding a week, all year round, rain or shine, they show almost no signs of wear. These things are 100% waterproof, and extremely durable! (What was the Sham-Wow Guy's tagline? Something about how "you know the Germans make great stuff"? Well he was right, if these bags are any indicator). And what's more, they have a unique quick-release attachment system where they clip onto nearly any rack very securely and extremely conveniently. I honestly can't imagine changing to any other type of pannier.
While these panniers have a shoulder strap, I will say that they're not the most conducive for walking around town. However, if you wear one of our wool cycling caps when you walk around with this pannier, everyone immediately will know you're that cyclist guy who rides bikes, and that totally justifies why you're walking around with a big red rubber bag with sharp hooks digging into your back when you could have a normal backpack like everyone else.
Well, there you have it folks! As always, if you have any questions, just swing by the shop or give us a call at 617.670.0637, and we'll be more than happy to get you set up with a carry solution that fits your needs.


Naviswiss miniaturizes and simplifies surgical navigation to reduce cost and improve quality.
Naviswiss has created a miniaturized handheld navigation unit. Suddenly navigation can be used like a surgical instrument and with similarly instantaneous results.
The stamp-size NAVItags add to the simplicity of the surgical process: intraoperatively they are easily cleanable and require only minimally invasive bone fixations.
Small size and a simplified surgical process lead to important cost savings. Acquisition and operation of the surgical navigation system is more affordable.
Visit us at one of the following conferences, learn more how "New Navigated Surgery" can help you improve your results.
We are pleased to announce our partnership with Bepex in Israel. With Bepex we have a competent distribution partner for our surgical navigation system who handles this important market for us.
We are pleased that the miniaturized Naviswiss hip navigation also helps surgeons in Israel to achieve the best results for their patients.
A series of navigated hip surgeries in different hospitals around the country mark a successful start of the cooperation.
We warmly welcome Ulrike Peuckert to our team.
As Sales Director DACH she will be responsible for customers in the German speaking part of the world: Germany, Austria, Switzerland.
Bigger is better may be true for many things. Not this time!
This small femoral plate gives full control over leg length and offset during navigated total hip replacement.
It allows the minimally invasive and secure attachment of a NAVItag to the femur with only a small screw. Together with the Naviswiss system the femoral plate facilitates the adjustment of leg length and offset exactly to the preoperatively planned values.
Naviswiss is pleased to announce our partnership with Active Surgical for Australia and New Zealand. With Active Surgical, we have a small but competent distribution partner who handles these important markets for us.
We are pleased that our technology will also help surgeons in Australia and New Zealand to achieve the best results for their patients.
Naviswiss was one of the few small companies in the exhibition. Our miniature navigation system raised a lot of interest. One unforgettable visitor asked: "Where is your navigation system?" to realize 3 seconds later "…Oh, THIS is small!".
The three "navigation and robotics" sessions were of very good quality and well visited (picture).
The 2nd World Arthroplasty Congress WAC was organized by the European Knee Society (EKS), the International Congress for Joint Reconstruction (ICJR) and supported by the European Hip Society (EHS). It takes place every 3 years.
Showing the Naviswiss navigation for the first time at AAOS in the US to a truly international audience was an extremely positive experience. The crowd arrived at 09:00 sharp. The "Newcomer" area was well visited and we gave hands-on demonstrations almost non-stop. Business meetings were held with potential future cooperation partners. Conclusion: the time is right for Naviswiss!
How can navigation improve surgery?
What do you expect of navigation?
What was your experience with Naviswiss?
Is it a worthwhile investment for hospitals?
Today the orthopedic clinical at the cantonal hospital of Schaffhausen (Switzerland) has become the center of the world of surgical navigation.
PD Dr. Karl-Heinz Widmer and his team performed a minimally invasive (DAA) total hip replacement surgery for the first time with the assistance of Naviswiss' miniature handheld navigation system.
We are glad to have received the european CE approval for our navigated hip replacement. Miniaturized navigation now becomes available to customers throughout Europe.
Thank you for visiting us during one of the past conferences, exhibitions and other Naviswiss events. You made our public appearance a great success. During our first year in public we have received very encouraging feedback from both, orthopedic surgeons and industry professionals.
Navigation for Accuracy. Pract Patient Care. 2017:39.
Die Navigation der Hüfte vereinfachen. Spitzenforschung in der Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie. 2017.
"SmartTRAK Life Sciences News and Analysis Blog" has reported about Naviswiss directly from the DKOU with the following video.
Naviswiss has successfully closed financial round D and secured CHF 3.5 million in private equity. This is expected to provide working capital until break even.
Now it is official: Together with Erdmann Design we win the renowned Silver A' Design Award for medical devices.
The prestigious A' Design Award is given to top designs that has carried out an exemplary level of excellence in design. Entries to the A' Medical Product Design Awards are peer reviewed and anonymously judged by a grand jury panel of leading academics, influential press members and established professionals. The ultimate aim of the A' medical product Design Competition is to create a global awareness for good design.
The Naviswiss navigation system has passed final wet lab validation tests with its total hip replacement module for patients in supine position.
The previous navigation unit was designed to prove functionality and design.
…and a stunningly beautiful design.
We are glad to announce the arrival of the first batch of production level navigation units. After the wet lab session in November 2016 several usability improvements were implemented. Now the units not only look great, but they are now fully functional and undergo intensive testing for their approval.
The NAVItags™ are a key component of the Naviswiss surgical navigation system. The navigation unit detects each tag by its unique pattern and accurately determines its position within the surgical space. This ultimately leads to accurately measured anatomic landmarks and precise navigation of the surgical instruments.
The tags can be easily cleaned with a wet cloth to remove blood stains quickly and efficiently and they are largely insensitive to the bright OR light.
Vigorous tests with this first serial production batch have demonstrated excellent performance in all requirements.
Visitors update their surgical navigation know-how on Naviswiss' booth during the SIF Basel.
Many high ranking visitors from business and politics have visited our booth at the Swiss Innovation Forum (SIF) in Basel. Many interesting discussions were held and new contacts made. Visitors also updated their surgical navigation know-how. We were showcased at the accompanying Future Expo together with other promising projects and futuristic Swiss technologies.
Years of hard work have paid off, bringing us one major step closer to market readiness. Our medical partners conducted two navigated total hip replacements with outstanding results.
Surgeons Dr. Widmer (2nd from left) and Dr. Schroeder-Boersch (3rd from left) during the successful wet lab session.
This summarizes the experience of the 4 hour wet lab session at AMTS Academy for Medical Training and Simulation in Muttenz, Switzerland together with our medical partners PD Dr. Karl-Heinz Widmer (Orthopädie Kantonsspital Schaffhausen) and Prof. Dr. Henrik Schroeder-Boersch (HELIOS Aukamm-Klinik, Wiesbaden). The goal of the wet-lab was to verify the navigation technology and the instruments under real-life conditions.
The navigation with the new miniaturized Naviswiss system was effortless and the measurement results immediate.
No line of sight issues occurred (unlike conventional navigation systems which have a large equipment tower standing outside the sterile area and therefore need free view on the patient – but usually someone or something is standing in the way).
All instruments worked well. Small optimizations will be implemented before obtaining the CE approval early 2017. The patented NAVItags worked very well and supported the minimally invasive direct anterior and antero-lateral approaches. No problems with visibility or cleaning occurred during any of the two surgeries.
Now we have it all together: engineering, medical partners, management, finance and – finally – marketing and sales.
We are excited to announce a new addition to our team: Christian Calame is a sales and marketing professional with many years of experience in the field of orthopedic navigation, and just the person to help launch Naviswiss' New Navigated Surgery onto the market.


In the latest global Libor settlement, Royal Bank of Scotland (NYSE:RBS) said Wednesday it will shell out $612 million in fines and a Japanese subsidiary will plead guilty to criminal wire fraud in an effort to put rate-rigging charges behind it.
Shares of RBS, which is majority owned by the U.K. government, had a muted reaction to the official settlement that follows similar agreements by British banking giant Barclays (NYSE:BCS) and Switzerland's UBS (NYSE:UBS).
U.S. and U.K. regulators accuse RBS of manipulating Libor rates, which are used to benchmark trillions of dollars of credit around the world, including mortgages, credit cards and complex derivatives.
"Our message is clear: no financial institution is above the law," assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.
As part of the global settlement, RBS agreed to pay a combined $612 million, including $325 million to the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission, $150 million to the DOJ and $137 to the U.K. Financial Services Authority.
According to the Meister, Libor traders and submitters at RBS sat next to each other in London and "traders seized the opportunity" to ask colleagues for favorable rate submissions. The CFTC also accused RBS of coordinating with other banks, colluding with UBS on Yen Libor and an unnamed other bank on manipulating the Swiss Franc Libor.
RBS said those involved in the Libor scandal have left the company or been hit with disciplinary action.
The DOJ, which has largely refrained from bringing criminal charges against global banks for crisis-era incidents, also said RBS Securities Japan Limited is pleading guilty to felony wire fraud and is admitting its role in manipulating the Japanese Yen Libor.
The U.S. also reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the parent company RBS that accuses the company of wire fraud and participating in a price-fixing conspiracy. The agreement requires RBS to admit and accept responsibility for its misconduct and to pay fines of $150 million.
"As we have done with Barclays and UBS, we are today holding RBS accountable for a stunning abuse of trust," said Breuer.
UBS's settlement also included an agreement for the banking giant's Japanese unit to plead guilty to wire fraud.
U.S.-listed shares of RBS, which is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, gained 0.09% to $10.65 Wednesday morning, leaving them down about 1.3% so far this year.


There has been urgent attention given to the matter of how best to process Breton workers now starting to arrive for the potato harvest.
There has been urgent attention given to the matter of how best to process Breton workers now starting to arrive for the potato harvest. With the Aliens Officer already stretched to capacity by his present duties, the Lieutenant Governor has imposed strict conditions on anyone arriving from France to work in the Island.
Despite fears that the war would severely decrease the availability of seasonal labour from France, Breton farmworkers have recently begun arriving in considerable numbers. As designated 'aliens', wartime travel regulations and restrictions apply to them and need enforcing. This includes checking every person's papers. With boats arriving from France at all times of the day and night, meeting each and carrying out the necessary checks had been proving too difficult for the Aliens Officer, Arthur Luxon. To ease matters, the harbour authorities are now preventing any passenger from disembarking until ten o'clock in the morning.
Furthermore, boats carrying French workers are now only permitted to dock at St Helier or Gorey harbours. It is forbidden to land any persons at one of the Island's smaller harbours and ports. The Honorary Police will receive instructions to strictly enforce this latter regulation.
Jersey Archive document A/E/11/13 - contains correspondence between the Lieutenant Governor and Bailiff on the matter of controlling the arrival of Breton farm labourers.


This Sunday, June 3rd, is More Light Sunday.
More Light Sunday and Evolution Sunday are two of my favorites. Here are sermons I preached on More Light Sundays Past, 2011, 2010. In 2010, our Peacemaking Committee devoted their table to getting rid of our discriminatory policies. That worked out nicely. This year marriage equality. Let's make it happen.
This year we are not celebrating More Light Sunday on the first Sunday of June. Instead, it will be on Sunday July 1st with Rev. Don Steele preaching. I'll be at General Assembly doing my part to move our denomination closer to a church that stands on the side of equality and justice.
This year the theme is Standing on the Side of Love.
That is a good place to stand.
I am pleased that the PC(USA) is making positive changes for equality. Even though some mock, ridicule, bully, and bear false witness, they are in the words of Bishop John Shelby Spong, "loud but not deep."
Our denomination is making the better choice, a choice for equality and justice, and that is standing on the side of love.
Let the ranters rant and "sit in the seat of mockers." Their own words only show more clearly who is standing on the side of love.
And whether it is celebrated on June 1 or July 1, every Sunday is More Light Sunday, "for God hath yet more light and truth to break forth from the Word."


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Blick in Richtung Südwesten. Bei guter Sicht bis zu Rigi, Pilatus und Mythen sowie vielen anderen Berggipfeln mehr.


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Club Tropicana the Musical
Oxford New Theatre
I try to accept "the given" of anything I see. But I am afraid that this time I simply cannot accept Club Tropicana. I tried. I wanted to enjoy it. I wanted to to indulge and niftily provoke my low tastes.
Instead I found it seriously dire throughout. I hate saying this because I thought the cast was working hard and professionally, and they were putting a lot of energy into what they were doing. I thought Nick Winston's choreography went some way towards making it worth watching the goings on; and really liked the comedy of Kate Robbins. I did want to know more about the couple running the resort and could have used a backstory for the rather pointless character played by Joe McElderry.
It ain't the production or the cast that I minded. I could even summon up some praises for the sets and costumes and lighting. It is the basic material that irritated the hell out of me. It was like a really bad attempt to recreate Hi-De-Hi. There was no wit, no self-awareness, no real irony or satire in the script. There were no contemporary references to offset things. We needed winks and nudges and a real sense of knowingness about how feeble the material actually was.
The plot arch of Club Tropicana is simply a warmed over series of events. That you have seen before. It is a story where you know the outcome within about the first five minutes and the journey to get there is unimaginative, cliché ridden and tacky. I wasn't all that keen on the choice of music either, thinking that in the whole evening maybe two songs worked for the show. And where was the actual song Club Tropicana?
The mugging was outrageous. It's a shame, because the cast is made up of some very good singers who know how to deliver the songs. I blame the director, Michael Gyngell, for the lack of any real satire and for all the ersatz energy. This is a show that really needs not to be presented by people going over the top for no good reason at all. The whole thing struck me as tacky and, at times, gross. It was also very camp, which can be a very good thing but somehow, here, isn't. And it was way too broad ever really to be amusing or funny. You may have gathered by now hat I really do not rate this show. And I hate not rating it, because there are some very talented people up there on the stage.
For me, Club Tropicana was like a really tired seaside resort attempt at a kind of summer holiday pantomime. It could and should have been funny. It could have had the audience feeling real nostalgia. It think the show was meant to be going into the West End and that they are ironing out the problems on this tour. Well, there is simply too big a pile of ironing to do. Unless someone can apply some wit, true satire and real creative energy, we can only commiserate with the rather skilful, accomplished and highly professional cast of performers giving their all to a theatrical zombie. The show needs some heart, a rethink about who the characters are and what is troubling them. I was hoping for an approach to the old 1980s tropes that would be more like the way Singin' in the Rain sent up the sillier side of the silent films. But you cannot send something up unless you have real knowledge of it as well as real affection for it. Think of the Marx Brothers sending up opera in A Night at the Opera. This was just doing Hi-de-Hi and a tired, recycled plot without any wit, irony, point or tenderness. I felt there was no love or warmth in the conception at all.
The paper-thin plot is not entirely a problem, because most jukebox musicals have paper thin plots. But such plots are usually created joyfully and with tongue in cheek. I am afraid that this show bites its tongue rather painfully. Club Tropicana could and should be outrageous, it should be exuberant. But for this member of the audience at least, it ain't!
By Michael Gyngell
Directed by Samuel Holmes and Nick Winston
Choreography by Nick Winston
Cast includes: Joe McElderry, Neil McDermott, Kate Robbins, Emily Tierney, Cellen Chugg Jones, Amelle Berrabah, Rory Phelan, Rebecca Mendoza
Canadian-born Mel Cooper first came to the UK to study English Literature at Oxford University and stayed. He was captivated by the culture and history of Britain, which he found to be a welcoming and tolerant country. After working in highly illustrated, non-fiction publishing for over a decade, he founded and edited the magazine Opera Now. Since then he has worked as a consultant to the Japanese broadcaster NHK, a broadcaster on British Satellite Broadcasting, a maker of audio shows and arts critic for several airlines, and as one of the team that started Britain's first commercial classical music radio station, Classic FM, on which he was both a classical music DJ and creator and presenter of shows like Classic America and Authentic Performance. Throughout this period, he also lectured in music and literature in London and Oxford and published short stories in Canada. After working with the Genesis Foundation on helping to fund arts projects, he continues to write, review and lecture on music and literature. His first novel has just been published as an e-book. The title is City of Dreams. It is the first volume of a projected saga called The Dream Bearers. You can find the Kindle version of the book on Amazon.


Well, here I am again, finally. Did you miss me?
For Christmas we went to New York State. to stay with my brother and sister in-law.
There was plenty of expected fun.
My in-laws were wonderful hosts and their house was deliciously cozy and Christmassy. We enjoyed spending time with them and with each other, with no work or homework to think about. We were super-excited to have snow. Real snow and real cold. The kids had never experienced that.
And so I took photos of my children sledding for the first time in their lives at ages 14 and almost 17. But hey, to me they looked just as cute as if they had been three.
My in-laws live in a small town, so I could experience walking to a coffee shop again. Not only that, but walking in the snow. And feeling the invigorating cold on my face. It was marvelous!
After Christmas my brother-in-law took us to a local farmers' market where I had the surprise of my life. I was pleased as punch to find Dutch cumin cheese, made by an actual Dutch person, but I had had cumin cheese in a fancy restaurant the day before, so I knew I might run into that. I also found nettle cheese.
Grinning from ear to ear already, I wandered into the next room (it was an indoor market) and yelled OLIEBOLLEN before I realized what I was doing.
Across the room, another Dutch lady was selling them. Just like that, in the middle of New York State! So I had my first oliebol in twenty years, and then a second, while making sure T and my brother-in-law had one, and then I went all out and bought ten more to take back, especially so the kids could have some.
For those who don't know: oliebollen and appelflappen are deep-fried Dutch treats we have only once a year. They are a bit like donuts or beignets, but different. And no euphemisms here like "dough nuts": oliebollen are–literally translated–oil balls and appelflappen are apple flaps. Both must be generously sprinkled with powder sugar.
I was in seventh heaven. I don't even like oliebollen all that much. I would have them on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but I preferred appelflappen. But the fact that I hadn't had them for so long and that it was a complete surprise to find them made it special.
Well, that's putting it mildly. It was one of the food highlights of my year.
If you're an immigrant or an expat anywhere, and you've ever been that excited to find a food from your home country, tell us about it.
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We were travelling along in New Zealand and were on the ferry from the North Island to the South Island. Arriving in Picton there was a Dutch bakery and they sold oliebollen, suacijzenbroodjes, gevulde koeken and apple cake and some real Dutch baps etc! We were over the moon!
Hmm, saucijzenbroodjes! But what are baps? I don't remember those. Or is it a typo?
Baps – alles van kadetjes tot ronde bolletjes, echte krentenbollen!
Nooit van gehoord. Is dat Arnhems?
Great story, Barbara. One observation: what you call "appelflappen" we called "appelbeignets". A difference between Eemnes and Baarn, perhaps?
Ha! Ja, Eemnes was definitely boers and Baarn chic.
Happy New Year to you as well! I DID miss you, and wondered just where you were in all that snow! How fun to let 17-14 year olds have the amazement and joy of toddlers. Glad you had a great cross country trip. AND got some oliebollen!
Thanks, Jackie. I wish it was a cross-country trip. We flew, but I hope to drive up there some time. I hate to miss all the country in between when I fly.


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Should high school start times be later? | The Daily Gazette
Should high school start times be later?
'People value the research and they do see that it is compelling'
By Zachary Matson | July 9, 2017
PHOTOGRAPHER: Shutterstock Image
Guilderland High School has one of the earliest start times in the Capital Region, but its school board is hoping to get state lawmakers to make it easier for them and other districts to move to later start times.
The local school board's proposal, which will work its way through the state School Board Association during the coming months, seeks to develop incentives that would ease the transition to something pediatricians and other experts have long advocated but district officials have been reluctant to take on: starting high school and middle school classes later in the morning.
"We just keep trying," said Guilderland school board member Barbara Fraterrigo, who spoke on behalf of the board and has been interested in the issue for a decade. "It's like turning the Titanic; you have to do it in little steps."
The Guilderland school board approved a resolution last week that calls for "any and all changes to state law, regulations and state policies that encourage and incentivize… later school start times." If adopted at a regular meeting of school board members across the state in the fall, the proposal becomes a legislative priority of the state School Boards Association.
Guilderland High School starts classes at 7:30 a.m., according to the district website.
In Schenectady, which starts high school classes at 8:30 a.m., the school board approved a resolution supporting Guilderland's position last week.
Meanwhile, superintendents from throughout the region have discussed the issue of later start times during regular meetings hosted by the Capital Region BOCES. Those discussions generated enough interest that the group commissioned a research brief that cataloged of how districts in the area have transitioned to later start times.
"I can't speak to why the changes haven't been made yet, but I do believe there is interest," said researcher Jennifer Bashant of Capital Area School Development Association.
CASDA, a regional education research group affiliated with the University of Albany, worked on a literature review of school day start times for publc school superintendents.
"People value the research and they do see that it is compelling," Bashant said.
The research dates back to at least the 1990s and indicates strong connections between better academic and behavioral outcomes when students in their teenage years start school later in the morning.
The American Academy of Pediatricians in 2014 recommended middle and high schools start school no earlier than 8:30 a.m.
But few districts have moved toward later start times, pointing to the logistical hurdles of reshaping bus routes, changing traditional schedules for after-school athletics and other activities and disrupting accepted schedules in countless households. Some districts, according to the CASDA study, have analyzed the start time issue but ultimately did not make changes.
"There isn't much to speak against it except for some of the challenges that come up in terms of just making changes and getting everyone on board," Bashant said.
One argument holds that a shift to later start times would be eased for individual districts if a larger number of districts made the move at the same time, facilitating widespread scheduling changes. But districts also fiercely hold their independent decision making powers, and every district operates at its own pace.
Advocates of later start times argue that hurdles don't end up being as difficult as perceived and the benefits far outweigh any initial challenges. They emphasize the importance of consistent communication with all those involved.
"As long as they were communicating clearly with parents and the board of education, they were surprised how few barriers came up," Bashant said of districts that have successfully moved to later start times.
The leaders of districts that have made the move remain strong supporters of later start times. In Glens Falls schools, limited bus use made the move slightly easier, but the district's Superintendent Paul Jenkins has said the challenges were worth overcoming.
"The biggest thing is that the benefits far outweigh the challenges…. The challenges we have are really adult challenges, they aren't challenges for kids," Jenkins said in a previous interview. "We are here to do what's best for kids, and we know allowing them more time in the morning is going to be beneficial health-wise and academically."
Schenectady moved its high school start time to 8:30 a.m. in the early stages of Superintendent Larry Spring's tenure. Spring has said concerns over athletic scheduling have been manageable but that the more significant problems was creating after-school care challenges for families that had relied on an older sibling taking care of a younger sibling.
For Fraterrigo, who has served on the Guilderland school board for more than 20 years, it's only a matter of time before high school students will be starting class a little bit later.
"I think it will happen, I fully believe it will happen," Fraterrigo said. "Research study after research study is coming out and saying you are basically hurting kids by sticking to early start times for teens."


Steven is currently the Technical Lead for Client custom projects. He has been writing SQL Code starting in SQL 7. Over the years he has put on many hats, DBA, Developer, Web Developer, C#, VB.NET, Cold Fusion and Java. But at the end of the day, he prefers to write SQL. He has spoken at SQL Saturday's in Houston on the topic of Dynamic SQL.


Tender and juicy. Served with 3 flour tortillas and garnished with pico de gallo and jack cheese.
Topped with cheddar and sour cream.
Chopped romaine, croutons and parmesan cheese. Vegetarian.
Baby spinach, dried cranberries, diced cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion and feta cheese. Vegetarian.
Chopped romaine, grilled chicken, sundried tomatoes, red onion, olives, feta cheese and croutons.
Served with fresh pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream, red onion, cheddar cheese, tortilla shell and salsa.
Served with fresh pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream, red onion, cheddar cheese, crispy tortilla shell and salsa.
Cooked in spring mix, salad with tomato, avocado, tortilla strips and toasted sesame dressing.
Served with bacon and ranch.
Served with warm pita bread, celery, carrots and cucumbers.
Served with breadcrumbs and fresh parmesan.
Stuffed with goat cheese, bread crumbs, bacon and pico de gallo. Topped with balsamic reduction.
Onions and jalapenos. Served with ranch.
Grilled chicken, lettuce, tomato, taco sauce and cheddar cheese. Served with chips and homemade salsa.
Served with pico de gallo, romaine, avocado, chips and homemade salsa.
Sauteed shrimp, lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole and taco sauce. Served with chips and homemade salsa.
Blackened tilapia, lettuce, pico de gallo and taco sauce. Served with chips and homemade salsa.
Served with cilantro, white onion, salsa verde, chips and homemade salsa.
Grilled spinach, mushrooms and onions. Served with cheddar, jack cheese, chips and homemade salsa.
Served with garlic parmesan mashed potatoes and calabacitas.
Served with garlic parmesan potatoes and calabacitas.
Lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion and mustard. Served with hand cut fries.
Skillet chili, cheddar cheese, mustard and pickle. Served with hand cut fries.
Lettuce, tomato, mayo and bleu cheese crumbles. Served with hand cut fries.
12 lb. burger with provolone cheese and grilled onion on sourdough. Served with hand cut fries.
Panko-crusted portobella, goat cheese, mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, red onion with a balsamic reduction. Served with hand cut fries.
Jumbo grilled shrimp wrapped in pepper jack cheese with grilled jalapenos, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on a hoagie. Served with hand cut fries.
Served with jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickles and mayo. Served with hand cut fries.
Served with grilled jalapenos, grilled onions, jack cheese and guacamole on a toasted hoagie. Served with hand cut fries.
Bacon, lettuce, tomato with mayonnaise, sliced avocado and toasted sourdough. Served with hand cut fries.
Served with melted provolone, lettuce, tomato, onion and pesto mayonnaise on a toasted hoagie. Served with hand cut fries.
Served with melty cheddar, bacon and roasted hoagie with lettuce, tomato, onion, horseradish mayonnaise and hand cut fries.
Honey ham and cheddar cheese with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on a hoagie. Served with hand cut fries.
Lettuce, tomato, provolone and mayo. Served with hand cut fries.
Green chili pork, honey ham, provolone, pickles and creole mustard on a grill-pressed hoagie. Served with hand cut fries.
Covered with provolone cheese with grilled onion, grilled jalapenos, avocado and mayo. Served with ranch and hand cut fries.
Served with fresh tomato and red onion.
Nuts, whipped cream, chocolate syrup and cherry.
Served with vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup and candied pecans.
Served with vanilla ice cream and cinnamon.