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Buraco ›
Rules of Buraco
Game tutorial
How to play Buraco
The wildcards
Value of the plays
Methods of play
Ranking for points
Buraco is a card game for 2 players or pairs. The object is to create flushes of the same suit or groups of 3 or more of the same cards to get more points than your opponents.
The game is very popular in Italy in the Open Dirty mode and in Brazil with its different methods.
It's played with 2 French decks with wildcards (except in Open mode). The games can be played at 2000 or 3000 points per game.
11 cards are dealt to each player and two groups of 11 cards each are left aside, which are called "stock". The other cards will become the deck from where the players pick up cards.
The first player must take one card from the deck, and try to make combinations to place them on the playing area (minimum 3 cards). One can put down as many combinations as desired.
Note: in the Open and Closed STCL modes, only flushes are allowed to be made.
When finishing, the player must mandatorily throw one card of his/her hand and lie it down faced-up in the center of the table (pile).
At the beginning of their turn, each player has the option to take one card from the deck or stay with all the acculmulated cards in the pile to make the combinations (It's compulsory to take them all from the deck).
As well as making new combinations, you also must incorporate cards into the combinations you already have in play.
The twos and jokers have the function of wildcards and can be used in any combination.
Note: in the Open mode there are no jokers.
In a combination there can only be one wildcard. There can be 2 twos only if one of them has the function of a wildcard and the other its normal value.
It is possible to replace a joker at stake for the correspondending card. In that case, the joker will be moved in the sequence having another value according to the following conditions:
If the 2 functioning as a joker has the same suit of the combination and it can replace the 2, it will not function as a joker anymore to take the place of the 2.
If it is not possible, it will keep on functioning as a joker at the right end of the sequence (where the highest cards are placed).
If it is not possible, it will keep on functioning as a joker at the left end (with the lowest cards).
If the sequence is completed (from ace to ace), it is not possible to replace the joker.
At one side of the table, two piles with 11 cards each are reserved, they are called "stock". When one of the players has no cards, he/she catches one of the piles of the stock. Each partner can only use one of the stocks in a game.
When the cards of the deck finish, one of the piles of the "stock", if there are any, will replace the deck.
A canasta is formed when a combination of 7 or more cards is made.
Depending on how they are formed, there are different types of canastas:
Dirty run: It is formed with the help of a joker.
Clear run: It is formed with no jokers.
Royal run: It is formed when it is possible to form a clear run from the Ace to the King (but when arranging it, the ace is placed after the king because it has a higher value).
Canasta of ace to ace (except in Open Dirty mode): manage to form a natural canasta that goes from ace to ace.
Note: a dirty run can become a clear run when the 2 used as a joker can be moved to the position of the 2. If this is not possible (for example, if a combination has a joker), it can never be a natural canasta.
A player "closes" when he/she has no more cards in his/her hand. There are different ways to "close":
Direct: When a player lies down his/her last card over his/her game area, catching the stock and keeping on placing combinations in the same play.
Indirect: When a player throws his/her last card in the pile, he/she cannot use the stock until the following round.
End: When a player puts down the last of their cards and can no longer pick up from the dead cards, having at least one canasta in the playing area. The games ends with this play.
Note: in the Open Dirty mode, to be able to "bater" or go out, it is necessary to dispose of one card on the pile.
The points are scored the following way:
3 to 7: 5 points
2 (joker): 10 points (20 in Open Dirty)
8 to king: 10 points
Ace: 15 points
Joker: 20 points (30 in Open Dirty)
Final closing: 100 points
Dirty run: 100 points
Clear run: 200 points
Royal run: 500 points
Ace to ace run: 1000 points
Also, not picking up the dead card 100 points are taken. If it is picked up and not used, 100 points are also taken away (except in Open Dirty). The points of the cards that are left in your hand are also taken away.
The game ends when a player or pair gets the amount of points necessary to win.
If there is a draw, the winner will be the player or the pair that started the game.
There are no jokers.
Straights only (three of a kind not allowed).
To be able to go out, you need a natural canasta.
A straight ace to ace is allowed and is worth 1000 points.
The twos add on 10 points.
You can go out by disposing of one card or putting it in a combination.
Open pile
Open dirty
With jokers.
Straights and thre of a kind (3 twos are not allowed).
You can close with a mixed canasta.
An ace to ace straight is not allowed (As, 2, ..., Q, K, 2/joker is allowed)
The twos add 20 points and the jokers 30 points.
To be able to go out it is necessary to do it disposing of one card.
Straights and three of a kinds.
A natural canasta is needed to be able to go out.
Closed pile: to be able to take cards from the pile, it's compulsory to play the last of them immediately.
NTCR (no trio clean run), closed
Dirty and closed
Select a correct combination of cards to press on the table to put them into play.
Why do robots play? What for?
In some games, when a player loses connection during the game, a robot substitutes until the player can return. The player has a time allowed of some minutes to return to the game and continue playing.
End the game amicably (cancel game)
Some games have the option of ending the game amicably. If this happens, the game is cancelled. That is, the players don't receive or lose points and the game doesn't count in the leaderboards or statistics. What's more, the chips bet are returned to each player (except in the case of penalisation for abandoning the game).
To cancel a game, one of the players must click the following button . All the players must agree to end the game, otherwise the game will continue.
The robot doesn't count in the votes to end a game amicably.
The table options are chosen by the master (the first player to sit at the table and that has a star beside his/her avatar).
To see or change the table options, press the following button . The table options can be changed before starting a game or in the middle of the games. If the icon is changed to red, that means the master changed some of the options.
Time per turn
Used to indicate the time a player has to play on his/her turn. If the time ends, the game plays for him/her. See also: Game in automatic mode
Compete for points and chips.
Permits playing competitive games. Deactivate this option to practise (you will not score points or win chips, nor will you get badges or level up).
Bet per game:
Indicate the amount of game chips you will bet in the game. The winner takes the pot. See also: What are the game chips? How can I get them?
Private table.
If this option is active, only invited players or friends can sit in. See also: How to invite other players to play at your table.
Spectators allowed.
Other people can enter the table to watch the game and chat. See also: Watchers during the games
Method of Buraco:
Open, Closed, NTCR (no trio clean run), closed, Dirty and closed, Open dirty
Express (Quick games)
It is the fastest way of play. Played without point limit.
Limit of points
Determine the end of the game. The player or pair that gets total points, wins the game.
To take part in the leaderboard of this game, it is necessary to be registered and have chips enough to meet the bets.
To score points, the games have to be competitive (indicated by a boxing glove or swords). There is no scoring if 2 players at the table share the same IP.
If at one table game chips are being bet, you will need to have sufficient chips available to cover the bet. The winner of the game will get the XP points and the chips bet (the bank will receive 20% of the pot).
The experience points (XP) got depend on the kind of the game.
XP Points
Going for points
2 players or in pairs
40 XP points 20 XP points
The players that lose a game, add 5 points. If the game is ended amicably, each player gets back their chips bet.
Play Buraco
Play Buraco and have fun!
Become the king of Buraco


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Epilogue to von Simson book on strategy puts the spotlight on innovation
By Nancy Weil
Managing Editor, IDG News Service | PT
After Ernest von Simson's book, The Limits of Strategy: Lessons in Leadership from the Computer Industry, was published three years ago, he watched major shifts occur at the IT companies he had focused on, notably the slide of Hewlett-Packard at the same time that stalwart IBM maintained its industry standing.
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The juxtaposition of the two companies got him thinking again about innovation and led him to write an epilogue for a new edition of the book. "What makes for that [innovation] in a large and relatively traditional enterprise? Why is one innovative and why is the other one not?" von Simson said in a recent interview. "That was my initial thinking. I was also interested in filling out what happened with the 'Star Walkers,'" he added, referring to Michael Dell, Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy, Larry Ellison and Bill Gates, who are central to the book's narrative.
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"Once again, we focus our queries on the factors that advance or retard a firm's ability to change with the technology and ahead of the marketplace," he wrote in the epilogue. "Those factors are a combination of leadership, business model, R&D, and mergers and acquisitions."
Von Simson's career path has given him an insider look at the IT industry as a co-founder in 1970 of The Research Board, along with Naomi Seligman, his wife. The exclusive, IT-focused think tank gave them the opportunity to watch corporate leaders steer their companies through enormous change over nearly 30 years. They sold the company to Gartner in 1999 and went on to found Ostriker von Simson, a consultancy that works with large global enterprises to advise them on choosing and deploying technologies and software. Von Simson, Seligman and Abigail Kramer also are directors of the CIO Strategy Exchange, a joint venture with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, that offers a forum for emerging startups, enterprise IT heavyweights such as IBM, Oracle, Dell and HP, venture capitalists and CIOs from a range of multinational companies.
From that perch, von Simson continues to see the importance of "steadfastness as the key quality of successful CEOs," along with the necessity for "a contingent of capable lieutenants strong enough to be heard when either encouraging or declaiming CEO decisions," he wrote in the epilogue, adding that the strength of those lieutenants is "the surest way to gauge the true caliber of a CEO." A board of directors that has overall been in place "long enough to inculcate the company's culture and understand its strategy" is "equally critical."
The epilogue also notes that "the dark side of steadfastness is stubbornness—the leader fastened to a destructive idea long enough to pull the entire company over a cliff," which takes the conversation first to the topic of Dell and then to HP. If von Simson had any particular leaders in mind when he penned those words (and surely he must have) he isn't inclined to a public outing. Asked specifically about Michael Dell and the flagging fortunes of his namesake company, von Simson characterized the CEO as "an enormously capable executive" who faces a daunting rebuilding challenge to contend with a market that is now focused on tablets and smartphones.
"I think it's a huge waste of everybody's time when whoever is managing Dell—whether it's Michael or anyone else—has to be restructuring the company," von Simson said. At HP, CEO Meg Whitman has before her a very difficult job in trying to move the company forward while also dealing with the fallout from the disastrous acquisition of Autonomy, which is accused of accounting improprieties that led HP to take an $8.8 billion write-down last year. That write-down tanked HP's share price and led to serious concerns about the future of the company.
"They've got an activist shareholder right now as chairman," von Simon said of Ralph Whitworth, who was named interim chairman on April 4. "I think that could be a lead indicator [for where the company is headed]. I think Meg is trying to maintain the PC business and the printers to some extent as cash cows to move the rest forward. I don't know how plausible that is. I can't tell you how significant a 24 percent drop in PC shipments is to a company that's troubled in the first place," referring to first-quarter numbers from market researcher IDC.
HP, he said, has been mismanaged for the last 15 years, but if anyone has a shot at righting the sinking ship it has become it would be Whitman. "She's very smart, very capable," he said. "Everybody asks, 'can Meg do it?' I hope so—because HP is an American icon. But if she doesn't succeed, it's not her fault. It's just all this crap going on that has been going on for so long."
He also questions Apple's continued resistance to the enterprise market, entry into which he wrote in the epilogue "is blocked by a now-pervasive cultural aversion cemented by Steve Jobs." That aversion was on display the last time he and Seligman saw Jobs, running into him on the Hawaiian island of Lanai in April 2011. When Jobs said to them during that chance encounter that "some day corporations will buy our products," and Seligman responded that "they already are, and in quantity," Jobs insisted that Apple would "never sell to enterprise CIOs. Anything we do there will be purely opportunistic."
That exchange prompted von Simson to wonder in the epilogue whether Apple will ever "escape its roots and innovate into a new distribution channel."
Besides updating the trajectories and IT leaders he focused on in the book, von Simson wanted to write the epilogue as a way to note how rapidly IT has changed in just a few years, with the advent of tablets and smartphones. He is tracking Android's emergence, along with the rise of the bring-your-own-device movement and its effects on enterprise IT. He's also interested in cloud computing and SaaS (software as a service), which is "obviously very important," he said, adding, "I always thought it wouldn't be." But the rise in cloud computing changed his viewpoint, with SaaS central to that, now having obvious advantages in many areas such as back-office, legal, accounting and human resources.
"So, if you were HP, you're sitting right in the cross hairs [of that industry movement] and the great hope was going to be Autonomy," he said. "I think they just didn't do the right due diligence, but the idea was probably right, to build it through an acquisition. It just wasn't the right one."
When his book was first published, von Simson was engaged in cybersecurity research that he couldn't say much about at the time, but returned to in his most recent interview with IDG News Service. "Everybody's vulnerable," he said. "That's what I knew but couldn't really tell you last time we talked, was that we knew that all of our clients had been penetrated—everybody. You might ask, 'didn't they have security?' Well, yeah, they all had great security. It's just hopeless."
So hopeless, in fact, that he believes the comments last October from former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta were not unnecessarily alarmist. "I think he was two or three years late. I don't think it is overblown. Just from my observations and talking to our clients, I don't think it's overblown."
Ultimately, network infrastructure has to be rethought and retooled, he said. "I have a funny feeling that all of the money we've spent on making these systems efficient and friendly and accessible has been right in one notion and exactly wrong in another notion." And it may be too late to fix what's wrong in any easy way, von Simson suggested, bringing up the idea of fingerprint identification as a savior. "What if somebody steals your thumbprint? Then you're done."
A less-serious topic of previous discussion had been his views of social networking, specifically Facebook, which in July 2010 he called "banal." While he is a Facebook member, he only checks in there every six months of so, but that's not because he's averse to social networking itself. "I really love LinkedIn," he said, adding that he finds it a worthy vehicle for reconnecting and staying in touch with people in his line of work.
"I think you need a business model for these social networks," he said. "Absent that, it's just too annoying. So figure out a way to do that—and it's almost impossible to do it going backwards."
At one point in the conversation, von Simson said that if he'd had the same insights at the beginning of writing the book that led him to pen the epilogue that he could write yet another book. But by the end of the interview, the question of whether he's got another book in him is begging to be asked."I think so," he said, "but I'm not exactly sure how to attack it. It's scary when you start a book."
Nancy Weill is managing editor of the IDG News Service.


If you're trying to decide on which career to pursue or simply want to switch from your current one, then you may want to go where the money is. While you should still pick a job that you think you will enjoy, there is nothing wrong with pursuing a substantial paycheck as well.
The ability to save lives can propel you to the top of society. This is why surgeons are some of the most respected people on the planet, as well as some of the highest paid. Expect to earn $150,000-$300,000+ per year. Of course, getting fully qualified will take a while: often 7-10 years.
This job can be extremely stressful as you will have patients' lives on your hands. The time commitment to become qualified is also hard for most people to handle.
If you're interested in this profession, then you will need to excel at your studies, with a focus on biology, chemistry, and physics. You will also need to develop strong interpersonal skills.
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Except to be paid around $70,000-$150,000 per year.
Getting into one of the top vet schools isn't easy. Then once in, you will need to complete four years of rigorous study.
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It can be difficult to decide what type of engineer to become because there are so many options. Some may work on site as a civil engineer, while others may never leave the office and simply do design work on a computer.
To become qualified you will typically need to complete a four-year engineering degree that will be stuffed with challenging maths and science papers.
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I want you to remember a time when a friend or someone close to you avoided you, shrugged you off for some reason. Now imagine that person being in all kinds of trouble or having a lot of problems because of a bad choice that included walking away from you. Then they come to you for help and you help them as if they had never shrugged you off and hurt you. That's mercy. Mercy – to show compassion to someone who offended you.


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package com.wantdo.stat.rest.shop.market;

import com.wantdo.stat.beanvalidator.BeanValidators;
import com.wantdo.stat.entity.front.vo.TableDTO;
import com.wantdo.stat.entity.front.vo.ProductVo;
import com.wantdo.stat.rest.RestException;
import com.wantdo.stat.service.account.ShiroDbRealm;
import com.wantdo.stat.service.account.UserService;
import com.wantdo.stat.service.shop.market.ProductService;
import com.wantdo.stat.web.MediaTypes;
import com.wantdo.stat.web.Servlets;
import org.apache.shiro.SecurityUtils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;

import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.validation.Validator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * 产品管理Restful
 *
 * @ Date : 2015-8-27
 * @ From : stat
 * @ Author : luanx@wantdo.com
 */

@RestController
@RequestMapping(value = "/api/v1/market/product")
public class MarketProductRestController {

    private static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MarketProductRestController.class);

    private static final String PAGE_SIZE = "10";

    @Autowired
    private UserService userService;

    @Autowired
    private Validator validator;

    @Autowired
    private ProductService productService;

    @RequestMapping(value = "{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = MediaTypes.JSON_UTF_8)
    public TableDTO<ProductVo> getAllProduct(@RequestParam(value = "offset", defaultValue = "1") int offset,
                                                           @RequestParam(value = "limit", defaultValue = PAGE_SIZE) int pageSize,
                                                           @RequestParam(value = "order", defaultValue = "auto") String sortType,
                                                           @RequestParam(value = "search", defaultValue = "") String search,
                                                           @PathVariable("id") Long organizationId, Model model,
                                                           ServletRequest request) {
        Map<String, Object> searchParams = Servlets.getParametersStartingWith(request, "search_");
        searchParams.put("LIKE_sku", search);

        int pageNumber = offset/pageSize + 1;

        TableDTO<ProductVo> products = productService.getProductVo(organizationId, searchParams, pageNumber, pageSize, sortType);
        if (products == null) {
            String message = "产品不存在";
            logger.warn(message);
            throw new RestException(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND, message);
        }
        return products;
    }

    @RequestMapping(value = "/{ids}", method = RequestMethod.DELETE)
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.NO_CONTENT)
    public void delete(@PathVariable("ids") List<Long> productChecked) {
        //调用JSR303 Bean Validator进行校验,异常将由RestExceptionHandler统一处理
        BeanValidators.validateWithException(validator, productChecked);

        //删除产品
        productService.deleteProductChecked(productChecked);
    }

    /**
     * 取出Shiro中的当前用户Id
     */
    public Long getCurrentUserId() {
        ShiroDbRealm.ShiroUser user = (ShiroDbRealm.ShiroUser) SecurityUtils.getSubject().getPrincipal();
        return user.id;
    }
}

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Am Fam Physician. 2003 Mar 15;67(6):1349-1353.
Accurate identification of periorbital and orbital cellulitis is essential for appropriate treatment. Givner reviewed the characteristics (see accompanying table) and treatment of these two clinical entities.
Sources of periorbital infection can be trauma, including insect bites, or bacteremia. The resultant cellulitis is preseptal, or anterior to the orbital septum, involving a fibrous layer beginning at the periosteum of the skull and extending to the eyelids. Periorbital cellulitis does not progress to orbital cellulitis because of this protective fibrous barrier.
Orbital cellulitis is postseptal and involves the orbit itself. The most common cause is extension of infection from sinusitis, although penetrating trauma causes some cases. The orbit is surrounded by the sinuses. The ethmoid sinus is the most common source of orbital infection because a very thin septum separates it from the orbit. Generally, orbital cellulitis occurs in older children because sinusitis is more common as children reach the preteen years. Orbital cellulitis can cause bacteremia.
Adapted with permission from Givner LB. Periorbital versus orbital cellulitis. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2002;21:1158.
The clinical signs help to distinguish periorbital from orbital cellulitis. Periorbital infection causes erythema, induration, and tenderness of the periorbital tissues, with patients rarely showing signs of systemic illness. The latter signs are more likely if the infection results from bacteremia. Orbital cellulitis may have the same signs and symptoms in the periorbital tissue but also results in proptosis, edema of the conjunctiva, ophthalmoplegia, or decreased visual acuity. Because the eyelids usually are swollen shut, computed tomographic (CT) scanning with contrast infusion may be necessary to confirm the diagnosis. Nearby sinusitis generally is evident. Although it is associated with orbital cellulitis, periorbital edema can occur without infection, but this condition can be identified by a lack of induration or tenderness.
The causative organism is related to the pathogenesis of infection. Post-traumatic periorbital cellulitis usually is caused by Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes. Because Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of bacteremia in young children, it is also the most common cause of periorbital cellulitis. Haemophilus influenzae type b is becoming a rare cause because of the prevalence of H. influenzae vaccinations. Orbital cellulitis results from the pathogens causing sinus infection, often similar to those causing periorbital infection, but may be polymicrobial.
Givner concludes with treatment recommendations. Uncomplicated post-traumatic periorbital cellulitis usually responds to oral antibiotics, such as cephalexin, dicloxacillin, or clindamycin, that treat gram-positive microbes. If there is evidence of bacteremia, the risk of meningitis may require lumbar puncture. Children should be hospitalized initially for parenteral treatment with ceftriaxone (if they have normal cerebrospinal fluid findings), and vancomycin and ceftriaxone (if they have abnormal spinal fluid findings). Response to antibiotics in children with periorbital cellulitis usually is rapid, and a 10-day course of treatment generally is sufficient.
Orbital cellulitis requires careful examination of the eyes and sinuses. Ampicillin/ sulbactam is a good treatment choice; operative drainage is no longer being done. Patients with a large abscess or significant symptoms may require surgical drainage of the abscess and involved sinuses. Improvement should be noted in all patients within 24 to 36 hours. Those who do not improve should have repeat CT scanning and, possibly, surgery. Three weeks of antibiotic therapy, with at least the first week of therapy being administered parenterally, is required in the treatment of children with orbital cellulitis.
Givner LB. Periorbital versus orbital cellulitis. Pediatr Infect Dis J. December 2002;21:1157–8.


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Cruise NewsRoyal Caribbean News
Godfamily to Name World's Largest Cruise Ship
Photo By: Royal Caribbean
For the first time ever a godfamily will christen a cruise ship! Royal Caribbean has chosen Carlos and Alexa PenaVega, along with their 17-month-old son Ocean to name Symphony of the Seas which is currently the world's largest cruise ship.
Godfamily to Name Symphony of the Seas
The announcement of the PenaVegas as Godfamily is a first for the cruise industry, reinforcing Royal Caribbean's promise to deliver unforgettable experiences to guests of all ages. The selection of a new ship's guiding spirit, customarily a godmother, is rooted in a longstanding maritime tradition.
The role is often held by renowned athletes, celebrities and royalty. In November 2018, Carlos, Alexa and Ocean will be the first family to have the honor of naming Symphony of the Seas and bestowing a blessing for the safekeeping of her crew and guests during a formal ceremony when she arrives to her permanent home in Miami.
Michael Bayley, President and CEO, Royal Caribbean International, said:
"Carlos and Alexa have been an extension of our family for quite some time, and they truly personify our spirit of innovation and adventure in every way."
"We're very excited to welcome them and their son Ocean as the first-ever Godfamily to officially name a ship. Their passion for cruising and commitment to family make them the perfect choice to serve as the guiding spirits for Symphony of the Seas."
The young family has firsthand expertise on the distinct combination of high-energy experiences only found on Royal Caribbean, having celebrated a number of milestones on the award-winning Oasis Class ships, including getting engaged on Oasis of the Seas and spending their babymoon on Allure of the Seas. Royal Caribbean's nearly 25-year relationship with Carlos began on his first cruise when he was just 4 years old, only to be beat by son Ocean, who sailed for the first time at 13 months.
The newest ship to join the Royal Caribbean fleet, Symphony of the Seas redefines how guests of all ages stay and play, delivering the ultimate family adventure. The PenaVegas are globetrotters who inspire families as they explore and open themselves to a variety of the world's most exciting cultures, foods and experiences.
Carlos PenaVega, alongside Alexa and Ocean, said:
"Words can't describe the overwhelming emotions we're feeling"
"Royal Caribbean ships have been the backdrops to so many unforgettable moments in our life, and it means so much to us to be named Godfamily of Symphony of the Seas. Royal Caribbean continues to make amazing memories with our family, and this next adventure will be our best yet."
Symphony of the Seas is homeported in Barcelona, Spain for the summer, visiting Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Provence, France; and Florence/Pisa, Rome and Naples, Italy as part of 7-night Mediterranean sailings.
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Beginning Nov. 9, Miami will become Symphony of the Seas' year-round homeport, making Symphony the first new Oasis Class ship to sail from the cruise capital of the world and Royal Caribbean's new state-of-the-art Terminal A. The ship's 7-night Eastern and Western Caribbean cruises will feature visits to CocoCay in the Bahamas.


Web Summit 2018: could e-sports be present at the next Olympic Games?
Home>News>Web Summit 2018: could e-sports be present at the next Olympic Games?
Although electronic sports (e-sports) fall short with respect to traditional sports when it comes to the profits they generate (being these about 800 million dollars per year), its 300 million fans around the world put them on the map as one of the most popular things of the moment. Seeing their great popularity, will they ever be awarded the highest sporting recognition, and will they be accepted at the Olympic Games? This is a really debatable topic, and that was precisely what was discussed at the Web Summit 2018.
"As you can see, the physical aspect that the people who compete in video games have is less than what the people that practice physical sports such as football, but in everything else, such as strategies, team play, the will to win, the excitement of winning and the fear of losing… All that is exactly the same, so there are not many differences compared to traditional sports" said Euronews Ralf Reichart, who is the CEO and co-founder of ESL, which is the largest sports company in the world, in the edition of the Web Summit 2018 held in Lisbon.
How would its integration in the Olympic Games be achieved?
When it comes to the integration of the e-sports in the Olympic Games, a couple of possible scenarios should be discussed: one is that they enter the Games as a medal sport like any other, in addition of being created as a separate event, as the Paralympic Games are, counting with different regulations but still under the umbrella of the IOC.
However, during the Web Summit 2018, the IOC announced that without an organization that represents e-sports around the world, one that could count with the same values, rules and regulations that the Olympic Games have, their inclusion in these it could not be considered in its entirety.


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Bacteria in the gut may mean the difference between relapse and remission in kids with MS
New research, published this week in Journal of the Neurological Sciences, shows that a reduced abundance of a particular bacterial phylum in the gut is associated with subsequent relapse risk in pediatric multiple sclerosis (MS). The pilot study, led by Dr. Helen Tremlett and Dr. Emmanuelle Waubant (University of California, San Francisco), may offer a potential drug target to decrease relapse risk in some patients.
Researchers analyzed stool samples from 17 children who had recently been diagnosed with MS, and evaluated their subsequent relapse risk over a period of 20 months to determine whether microbes – or an imbalance of them – played a role in MS relapse risk.
They found that a depletion in Fusobacteria was associated with more than three times the risk of an earlier relapse during the 20-month period.
Fusobacteria are a group (phylum) of bacteria that are involved in digestion, but that are also associated with diseases including cancers of the digestive tract, Crohn's disease, and obesity. That a depletion in the bacteria is associated with increased risk of relapse in a neurological condition such as MS means that further investigation into this particular phylum of bacteria and their role in modifying MS risk is warranted.
"We are cautiously optimistic with these preliminary findings," says Dr. Tremlett. "Firstly, we need to validate (and replicate) findings in a larger group of children with MS. We also need more data to understand which bacterial species or strains within this broad phylum of Fusobacteria might be of greatest relevance."
The MS Society of Canada and the MS Scientific Research Foundation have provided funding to pursue a larger gut microbiome study in pediatric MS, which is part of a collaboration with the Canadian Pediatric Demyelinating Disease study led by Dr. Brenda Banwell.
The US Network of Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Centres is also a study partner in this new study, led by Dr. Emmanuelle Waubant at the University of California, San Francisco.
The current study was in collaboration with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, led by Dr. Emmanuelle Waubant. The study was funded in part by the National MS Society (USA, PI Waubant), National Institutes of Health (USA, PI Waubant) and The Race to Erase MS (PI Waubant) and the Canada Research Chair program (PI Tremlett).


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All False Claims Act are placed "Under Seal", a period of time when the case cannot be discussed or even alluded to until the Government decides what action, if any, it wishes to take. When a Roswell False Claims Act attorney helps whistleblowers file a claim, the Department of Justice (DOJ) first reviews the case. Because False Claims Act cases are brought on behalf of the taxpayers, the Government attorneys at the Department of Justice get to review all cases to decide whether the Government will take the lead on prosecuting the case.
If the Government chooses to take the lead role, it is said to "intervene" in the case. Relators (the whistleblower and their counsel) still play an important role in the case, but the Government will handle directly negotiations and litigation with the defendant and its counsel. Roswell whistleblower protection attorney Mike Bothwell of Bothwell Law Group and his team of legal experts has a lengthy history of successful whistleblower settlement awards while working with Government counsel.
But it is important to know that for a variety of reasons, including low potential damages, resource allocation issues, cost of prosecution, political incentives, and types of cases already being prosecuted in a given district, over 90% of cases are not intervened. Roswell Qui Tam Lawyer Mike Bothwell helps whistleblowers even when the Government declines the case.
A Georgia case that is not intervened is said to be "declined" ("Declination"). In a declined case, the roles are reversed. Relator and relator's counsel, who should be a Georgia False Claims Act attorney who focuses solely on whistleblower law, take the lead and the Government, who remains the "real party in interest," take a secondary role.
An Experienced Georgia Whistleblower Help Lawyer Knows What to Do, Whether There is Intervention or Declination.
With less than 10% of cases being intervened, you can see why it is critical both to have an experienced Georgia whistleblower help lawyer who knows what to do, whether there is intervention or declination.
Remember: more than 9 out of every 10 people who think they have a "slam dunk" case get an initial declination by the government. In our experience, non-intervention has little to do with the relative merits of the case.
Bothwell Law Group knows how to best prepare your case, and why it is critical to ask whether your law firm will handle your case even if it is declined. We only take cases we believe in, on the merits – not based on a lottery ticket mentality. Call Georgia qui tam litigation lawyer Mike Bothwell at Bothwell Law Group today for a free consultation and let us guide you through the entire lifecycle of your case.
-What is Government Intervention and Declination?


SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah man accused of plotting a deadly attack on a luxe outdoor shopping center in the heart of Salt Lake City this week told investigators he planned to "just randomly shoot and kill people."
Jack Harry Stiles, 42, told a crisis counselor he was preparing to "kill as many people as possible" on Wednesday because it marked the anniversary of his mother's death, authorities said.
Jail records show Stiles was booked into the Salt Lake County jail Monday and remains there on $1 million bail. The Salt Lake Legal Defender's Office said he didn't have any attorney yet.
Court documents show he didn't have any weapons but was planning to buy two guns with silencers and stock up on ammunition.
His motive was unclear, but he may suffer from a mental disorder, prosecutor Sim Gill said.
"Hopefully as we go through the process, we'll get a little more clarity on that," Gill told The Salt Lake Tribune. "People who do need help fall through the cracks. Our mental health system is in absolute crisis.
Stiles planned to open fire at City Creek shopping center, the $1.7 billion centerpiece of Salt Lake City that spans two city blocks, charging documents say.
He also told investigators he planned to "shot people's heads off" at a movie theater across town, and then wire a bomb underneath a transit bus.
His plan was to carry five extra magazines, and he had "scoped and mapped out the best spots" for hiding to "kill the most amount of people," authorities said.
Charging documents don't say why Stiles wanted to do it, whether he offered a reason, or why the anniversary of his mother's death was a motivating factor.
Police first learned of the plan Aug. 12 when a West Valley police officer was dispatched to Pioneer Valley Hospital by a crisis worker. The charging documents do not say why Stiles was at the hospital.
Investigators couldn't say whether Stiles was capable of carrying out his plan, but took the threat seriously.
"The thing that gave us concern was the amount of planning and detail," Sim told KSL-TV.
Court records show Stiles had a run-in with Utah Transit Authority in October 2011 when he was charged with theft of services. Stiles failed to appear in court on the charge, was arrested on a warrant and booked in jail for a time. Most recently, he planned to fight the charge at a trial.


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Report On The Mintzberg's Article In The Harvard Business Review About The Fall And The Rise Of Strategic Planning
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Day & Age
Day & Age is the third studio album by American rock band The Killers, released on November 24, 2008 in the UK, Canada and the US. Vocalist Brandon Flowers states that it is the band's "most playful record." The title was anounced in an NME video interview at Reading and Leeds Festival with lead singer Brandon Flowers. The band headed to the studio in June and the album was being produced by Stuart Price. In the October 2008 edition of German magazine Musikexpress, in an article dated August...
Day & Age is the third studio album by American rock band The Killers, released on November 24, 2008 in the UK, Canada and the US. Vocalist Brandon Flowers states that it is the band's "most playful record." The title was anounced in an NME video interview at Reading and Leeds Festival with lead singer Brandon Flowers. The band headed to the studio in June and the album was being produced by Stuart Price. In the October 2008 edition of German magazine Musikexpress, in an article dated August 15, 2008, Keuning said, that the new record was 99% finished. The Killers selected Paul Normansell to do the artwork for the new album, which included some of Normansell's artwork and portraits of the band themselves. Flowers also stated in an interview with Q that he was excited to play a new song called Tidal Wave, influenced by David Bowie's Drive-In Saturday and I Drove All Night Roy Orbison. The setlist of The Killers' July 29 and August 1, 2008 show at New York City's Highline Ballroom and Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel and Spa contained two new songs: Spaceman and Neon Tiger. These songs were also played at The Killers' show on July 31st at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. These songs were also included on Day & Age. During their brief summer tour in 2008, The Killers confirmed several other potential song titles for Day & Age: Goodnight, Travel Well, Vibration (it wasn't included), Joy Ride, I Can't Stay, Losing Touch, Fairytale Dustland and Human. The first single from the album, Human, was released to radio on September 22, 2008, and became available for download on September 30, 2008. The band performed Human and Spaceman on the October 4, 2008 episode of Saturday Night Live. Spaceman was released for download on November 4, 2008. The vinyl edition was released in the US on November 18, 2008, and included a free download of the album from Island Records. The album debuted at number one in the UK albums chart selling over 200,000 copies in its first week, and at number 6 in the USA selling over 190,000 copies in its first week. The album has sold over 1.5 million copies as of January 1st 2009, and has gone 2x Platinum in the UK, and Gold in the USA. It has since gone platinum in Australia and gold in New Zealand and Greece. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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People are both the creators and demolishers of civilisational accomplishments. They are the only beneficiaries of every great civilisational output. Similarly, people are the conceivers, creators and users of architecture — a physical locus of civilisations.
They create architecture and then use and interact with it. They do so either commendably, securing and enjoying the fruits of their rightful acts so long as they stick to the right systems that led them to such a state, or appallingly with no clear purpose or direction. In the latter's case, things always work against the authors of and heirs to such an architectural tradition as is anchored in flawed worldview and value systems, making people's lives despondent and perilous.
Thus, of the essence is that individuals are constantly and painstakingly educated and nurtured. Their progress and involvements should be overseen and monitored along the lines of an adopted proven and genuine worldview, philosophy and vision. In this way, erroneous and unproven world views, philosophies and visions can be easily kept at bay and done away with. Their inappropriateness and hazard will always come to the fore whenever contrasted with the recognisable and ubiquitous value and quality of the former.
A microcosm and identity of cultures and civilisations
Hence, so important is a state of architecture in the lives of humans that it signifies a microcosm and identity of their cultures and civilisations. It is the people's third "skin", their actual skin and clothes being the first and second skin.
It goes without saying that people are the direct cause of their own architectural destinies and they are fully responsible for them. The causal relationship between people and their architectural processes and ultimate legacies are clear. Equally clear are the prospects of reversing an architectural process and setting things right when they go wrong. Thus, diagnosing architectural ailments and providing effective remedies are made more promising.
In this context, calls for creating and enhancing awareness about sustainable architecture, coupled with calls for creating and promoting actual sustainable architectural systems and styles, are to be viewed. Such calls denote certain people's realisation that the current architectural practices cannot go on indefinitely.
The human population has increased so great and their impact on the natural world grown so devastating that what was regarded a progress in the past may soon turn out to be a source of our civilisational downfall. Without a doubt, the world of architecture is set to become a means and tool for such a downfall. It is set to gradually emerge as the main culprit and, at the same time, one of the main victims of the situation's adversity.
However, on account of the laws that govern the rise and fall of human civilisations – which are echoed, framed and facilitated by architecture – people are given the hope that the situation can be reversed. By the law of causality that also affects architecture, a feasible blueprint for a change could realistically be drawn.
Calls for sustainable architecture
Thus, at the core of those calls for radical changes in the substance of human civilisational trajectory lie calls for sustainable architecture. They represent the people's intellectual maturity, hope and courage. Many people have truly come to terms with what is going on. Before all hope vanished, they would want to try to reverse the situation. They wanted to do their part and so, absolve themselves of any potential subsequent guilt.
Portraying humanity's gloomy scenario and the role of architecture, it is established that by the early 21st century the building of shelter (in all its forms) consumed more than half of the world's resources — translating into 16 percent of the earth's freshwater resources, 30–40 percent of all energy supplies, and 50 percent by weight of all the raw materials withdrawn from earth's surface. Architecture was also responsible for 40–50 percent of waste deposits in landfills and 20–30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
Many architects after the post-World War II building boom were content to erect emblematic civic and corporate icons that celebrated profligate consumption and omnivorous globalisation. At the turn of the 21st century, however, a building's environmental integrity — as seen in the way it was designed and how it operated — became an important factor in how it was evaluated". (Green Architecture, www.britannica.com)
As a result, a new philosophy of architecture was taking hold. It is a philosophy that advocates sustainable energy sources, the conservation of energy, the reuse and safety of building materials, and the siting of a building with consideration of its impact on the environment.
In sustainable architecture, the entire life cycle of the building and its components is considered, as well as the economic and environmental impact and performance. However, building within our environmental limits is only one of the central principles of sustainable architecture whose focus is much broader.
Sustainable architecture also relates to social, educational, cultural and economic development. It relates to life in its totality on account of architecture corresponding to its facilities, framework and corporeal manifestation.
Coexistence between humanity and nature
Hence, sustainable architectural designs aim at encouraging and supporting coexistence between humanity and nature at all levels in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition, recognising their mutual subtle interdependence. They respect relationships between spiritual and material consciousness.
Sustainable architecture further makes people admit and accept their responsibilities for the consequences of their architectural decisions on both human and natural wellbeing. It eliminates the concepts of waste, profligate consumption, haughtiness, greed, elitism, imbalance and absolutism. It also seeks constant improvements in architectural education that aims to produce generations of designers and architects with the highest standards of sustainability professionalism, integrity and competence.
In other words, at the centre of the whole mission of sustainable architecture stand people with a delicate interplay of their rights and responsibilities, their existential and environmental consciousness, as well as their intellectual and spiritual orientation and proclivity. By people we mean both professionals and users, just as by sustainable architecture we mean every aspect and tier of life that the former in its multidimensional sphere embodies.
Sustainable architecture is a school of thought in its infancy. Its fundamental problems of definitions, goals and methods are yet to be fully identified and agreed upon. Since its loose and patchy inception, as a reaction against the established modern architectural practices that in the long term were promising more drawbacks than benefits to humanity, its progress has been sluggish at best.
If truth be told, nonetheless, hopes for any real progress in the field will be probable only when all the root causes that led mankind to embrace the known destructive tendencies towards the wellbeing of the natural world, are tackled head-on and without exemptions. Such causes are deeply embedded in humans and are ideological, psychological and spiritual in nature.
The actual environmental devastation that we witness around us is just an effect and reflection of what essentially befalls man at the material, intellectual and spiritual levels of his existence. Architecture is a field of human activity where such inner human confusions and disorders are best manifested. Accordingly, soulless people produce a soulless architecture, confrontational people produce a confrontational architecture, and people who lack understanding of, and respect for nature produces an architecture that is incompatible, yet in overt conflict, with the natural environment.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr summarises the root causes of the predicament in the affirmation that modern man has de-sacralised nature, rendering it opaque and spiritually meaningless. In short, the disequilibrium between modern man and nature, and between man and his very self, is due to the destruction of the harmony between man and God.
Islamic architecture
As far as Islamic architecture is concerned, its propensity for sustainability and peaceful coexistence with nature is inherent in its core, notwithstanding the ways people understand and call such a character. Islamic architecture could thus be understood as the type of architecture whose functions and, to a lesser extent, form, are inspired primarily by Islam as a comprehensive worldview, value system and a way of life.
Islamic architecture is a framework for the implementation of Islam. It facilitates, fosters and stimulates the 'ibadah (worship) activities of Muslims, which, in turn, account for every moment of their earthly lives. Islamic architecture only can come into existence under the aegis of the Islamic perceptions of God, man, nature, life, death and the Hereafter. Thus, Islamic architecture would be the facilities and, at the same time, a physical locus of the actualisation of the Islamic message.
Practically, Islamic architecture represents the religion of Islam that has been translated onto reality at the hands of Muslims. It also represents the identity of Islamic multi-tiered culture and civilisation.
Finally, Islamic architecture, as a revolutionary phenomenon, should be viewed as one of universal and abiding significance which reveals the standards and values that gave rise to it. True, it was as responsive to the climatic, geographical and cultural requirements as any other architectural tradition. Nevertheless, it never treated them away from the exigencies of a higher order and meaning of things.
By means of skills, creativity and imagination, on the one hand, and by its distinctive combination of aesthetic and utilitarian ends, on the other, Islamic architecture never drew a wedge between the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of man. Man has been created as God's vicegerent or trustee on earth and whose earthly mission is all about sustainability, one way or another.
An authentic Islamic architecture is sustainable, not only on environmental and economic, but also social, educational and spiritual development. In the same vein, a truly sustainable architecture is rightly called "Islamic", rather than those architectural traditions as endorsed and practiced literal symbolism, shallow formalism and blind following, regardless of where such traditions are applied and by whom. ***
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