Meals: Daily breakfast & dinner.
All transfer & sightseeing are on seat in coach basis as mentioned in the itinerary.
Other meals which are not mentioned in the itinerary.
Laundry, telephone calls, and incidentals etc. are not included.
Appreciate a private exchange between the airplane terminal and your lodging with an English-talking guide.
Get onto a departure from Chiang Mai to Koh Samui, with benefit by means of Bangkok. Rough flight time is 3.5 hours.
Meet your driver for an air terminal exchange with a private vehicle, driver, and English talking guide.
Since opening in 1987, The Tongsai Bay has built up itself as the main family possessed lodging on the lovely island of Koh Samui, Thailand. Covered up among 25 sections of land of amazing regular excellence and ignoring a sandy cove, the lodging is prestigious for its security and peacefulness, its enthusiastic love for the earth and to wrap things up, the kind disposition and polished skill of its staff. This offers ascend to our glad gloat that the Tongsai Bay is "Koh Samui's most sentimental inn".
You will be gotten at a young hour early in the day from your inn and exchanged to Nathon Pier. The watercraft leaves from that point at 8:00 am. A light breakfast on the watercraft is incorporated. Landing in Angthong Marine National Park is around 10:00 am. You will begin the primary session of kayaking toward the beginning of the day along the island of Koh Mae and visit the perspective and the Green Lagoon (Emerald Lake). Lunch is ready the watercraft as it goes toward the northern islands. After lunch, begin your second kayak visit investigating little buckles, lakes and shorelines at Koh Thai Plao. Swimming is additionally conceivable around there. At last, leave from the Marine Park for Koh Samui.
Koh Samui is Thailand's third biggest island, a tropical heaven in the Gulf of Thailand and an extraordinary base for investigation. The inns here offer a large number of exercises to engage, or do basically nothing by any stretch of the imagination. With fascinating tropical timberlands to investigate and flawless shorelines to unwind on, we exceedingly prescribe multi day at recreation. Attempt one of the nation's renowned back rubs, feast on just-got fish, or visit neighboring islands for the day – such a great amount of is readily available in this island heaven.
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Playa Largo is a popular calm beach and bay, perfect for a relaxed shore or boat dive.
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Q: Find the value of $(a - b)^2$ given $a + b = 2$ and $a^2 + b^2 = 6$
$$a + b = 2\\
a^2 + b^2 = 6$$
Find the value of $(a-b)^2 $

My workings till I got stuck -
$$(a-b)^2 = a^2 - 2ab + b^2 \\
= a^2 + b^2 - 2ab\\
= 6 - 2 ab $$
I'm stuck at how to find $ab$ . Can I get hints on how to find $ab$? Thanks a lot.

A: Use
$$(a-b)^2+(a+b)^2=2(a^2+b^2)$$
Thus, here,
$$(a-b)^2+4=12$$
$$(a-b)^2=8$$

A: We will solve for the values of $a$ and $b$. $a=2-b$ so $a^2+b^2=6 \iff (2-b)^2 + b^2 +6 $
This means $2b^2-4b-2=0 \iff b^2 -2b -1 +0 $. The solutions of this equation are $b=1-\sqrt{2}$ and $b=1+\sqrt{2}$. Then $a=1+\sqrt{2}$ or $a=1-\sqrt{2}$
Then, in any case $(a-b)^2=8$

A:
$$a+b=2$$
$$\implies(a+b)^2=4$$
$$\implies a^2+b^2+2ab=4$$
$$\implies2ab=-2$$

Also,

$$(a-b)^2=a^2+b^2-2ab$$
$$6-(-2)=6+2=8$$(by substituting $a^2+b^2=6$ and $2ab=-2$)

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In the aftermath of a successful referendum process in South Sudan which will likely lead to the emergence of two new states – North and South Sudan – from one, and against the backdrop of sweeping changes throughout the Middle East and North Africa, violence in Darfur appears to be on the rise. In this context, the vigorous diplomacy of the Obama Administration, which made a significant contribution to preventing conflict leading up to the referendum itself, needs to be extended. While key issues related to consolidating peace between North and South remain unresolved, and continued U.S. and international attention on these and related matters remains an imperative, Darfur must become a focus of U.S. and broader international policy equal to that of the North-South dynamic.
As the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, moves forward and the United States begins the process of reviewing Sudan's State Sponsor of Terrorism designation accordingly, it is important to reemphasize that the overall process of normalization of relations, including the full lifting of U.S. sanctions, is dependent upon verifiable improvements of conditions on the ground in Darfur. Given recent reports of escalating violence, including aerial bombardment of civilians, the challenges to achieving progress in Darfur remain urgent.
With the current Darfur peace process in Doha proceeding towards conclusion, it is time to reassess and rebuild a more robust, comprehensive and coordinated Darfur peace process. The revised approach should be one that is truly cooperative and eliminates the tensions between the envoys that has itself become an obstacle to peace. With senior level attention as we saw in advance of the referendum, the United States could lead in re-conceptualizing and guiding the Darfur peace process, and ultimately in contributing to securing a more peaceful environment for the people of Sudan.
Frustration with Doha, which threatens to result in an even worse outcome than the failed 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement, signed in Abuja, clearly necessitates a radical reexamination of the overall peace strategy for Darfur. The shortcomings of Doha and Abuja, however, will only be worsened by acceding to the Sudanese government's plan for full nationalization or "domestication" of the peace process prior to fundamental changes on the ground, and will not be solved solely by cosmetic changes to the venue and mediation. Recent escalating attacks on civilians by the Sudanese Armed Forces and rebel groups, ongoing restrictions on humanitarian and peacekeeper access, and the detention and repression of human rights activists and political protestors make Sudan an impossible venue for such critical negotiations.
There already exists a model of successful peacemaking in Sudan: the process that led to the CPA in 2005. In that case, there was one single, empowered mediator supported by the key multilateral institutions and countries with influence. The process took place in a nearby country that allowed freedom of movement for the various participants, without interference from Khartoum. The mediation was extremely proactive in presenting compromise positions and moving forward with a single text that addressed the fundamental issues causing war between the North and South. Leverage was built and utilized by governments that backed the process and united in support of a just outcome. A similar process must be created from the ashes of the existing efforts, making improvements based on lessons learned.
We propose a peace process for Darfur with three separate but interlinked components:
High-level political negotiations outside of Sudan between the various parties to the conflict, including the government of Sudan, the Justice and Equality Movement, the Sudan Liberation Army – Abdel Wahid, the Sudan Liberation Army – Minni Minawi, and the Liberty and Justice Movement.
Civil society engagement inside Darfur with numerous stipulations, and with the intention of creating a mechanism through which their voices, as well as the voices of Darfuris outside of Sudan, can be part of the peace process; and
High-level coordinated diplomatic engagement to push for democratic transition in North Sudan in support of human and civil rights in the region. It is essential that the international community work to ensure that the secession of southern Sudan does not lead to a further decline of rights and political space in the North, but rather offers an opportunity for increased transparency and pluralism. Although democratic transformation is in no way a prerequisite for peace in Darfur, it is crucial that the Darfur peace process be incorporated into the broader context of the future of the North.
Just as each of the above components is necessary to secure a sustainable peace, none of them will suffice on their own. A political process outside Sudan is critical to getting the rebels to the table, but cannot succeed without meaningful civil society engagement, both inside and outside Darfur. Any peace deal achieved can only be maintained and consolidated if it is firmly grounded in the future of all of North Sudan, while recognizing that Darfur still requires unique international attention.
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Out of love, the Apostle Paul appeals to the Ephesian believers to be examples of Christ by being kind, compassionate, and forgiving to others. He reminds them that it is Jesus' method; it must be theirs as well.
Our new nature helps us become imitators of Christ. The only Christ our world may see is Christ in us. Therefore, the Christian has a solemn, yet joyful, responsibility to mirror the beauty of Jesus to a waiting world.
Our test draws three very important truths: kindness, compassion, and forgiveness – characteristics Jesus exhibited throughout His ministry and qualities we must exhibit in our relationships.
Kindness is the ability to show understanding sympathy, and tolerance – one of the fruits of the Spirit (Gal.5:22). Jesus taught kindness as He dealt with children. The disciples rebuked Him because He was taking so much time with children. But Jesus showed His kindness to children by taking them onto His lap and saying, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these" (Matt.19:14).
Jesus taught us to be kind, even to our enemies, "But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked" (Luke 6:35).
In The Lion and the Mouse, Aesop noted, "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." The apostle Paul said, "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience" (Col.3:12). We are to put on kindness as we would a garment.
A Yale University president gave wise counsel to a former president of Ohio State, "Always be kind to you're A and B students. Someday one of them will return to your campus as a good professor. And also be kind to your C students. Someday one of them will return and build a $ 2 million science laboratory." Although we are not to be kind for the reward, kindness doe spay.
Compassion is that ability to share in the suffering of others. Matthew tells us that, "When Jesus saw the crowds, He had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd" (9:36). Christ's compassion was illustrated at the tomb of Lazarus when He openly wept with Lazarus's family (John 11:35). So genuine was His compassion that even the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" (v.36). We must exhibit compassion even in the manner in which we speak to people.
Jesus commanded His followers to be forgiving, "For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins" (Matt.6:14-15); "And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins" (Mark 11:25).
Jesus demonstrated His own teaching about forgiveness as He hung in agony on the Cross. Looking down at those who had crucified Him and were gambling over His clothing, He prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing" (Luke 23:34).
General Oglethorpe once said to John Wesley, "I never forgive and I never forget." To which John Wesley responded, "Then, sir, I hope you never sin." When we reflect on how much God has forgiven us, it behooves us to be forgiving to others.
When Joseph's brothers came before him in Egypt asking for food, he faced a very stiff test of forgiveness. Years before, his brothers had threatened to kill him; then they sold him into slavery. But Joseph forgave them. Even after their father, Jacob, died and they feared Joseph might take revenge, he assured them of his complete forgiveness. Forgiveness is not always easy, but it is one of the best ways to imitate Jesus to a lost world and to free our own spirits of bitterness.
The story is told of a seminary student in Chicago who faced a difficult forgiveness test. The only job he could find was driving a bus on the south side of Chicago. One day a gang of tough teens boarded his bus but refuses to pay the fare. After several days of harassment, the seminarian spotted a policeman on the corner, stopped the bus, and reported them. The officer made them pay, but then he got off.
When the bus rounded a corner, the gang robbed the seminarian and beat him severely. He pressed charges, and the gang was rounded up, tried and found guilty. But as soon as the Jail sentences were given, the young Christian saw their spiritual need and felt pity for them. So he asked the Judge if he could serve their sentence for them. The gang members and the Judge were dumbfounded. However, his request was denied, because it was too late.
We all stand in need of forgiveness. Jesus' forgiveness brings peace. Our forgiveness to others restores broken relationships. As Corrie ten Boom has said, When God buries our sins in the deepest sea. He posts a sign that reads, "No Fishing!" We should cease fishing when we have forgiven others.
May we become imitators of Christ through our kindness, compassion, and forgiveness.


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What is the outcome we want to achieve?
2. What are the change drivers?
A change to a process or system?
A change to the way you work together?
What is the business case for this change?
How does it relate to your business strategy?
How does it add value for customers?
Is the culture in your organisation predominantly one of command and control, or do you have a systems approach? Will your environment help or hinder the change?
Use the System model tool to understand how your organisation works.
Then, using the Performance Driver Framework, you need to consider the impact of the proposed change on other elements of your organisation.
Finally – what impact will your organisational culture have on how you go about delivering change (see Test your culture).
There is ample evidence to show that by involving people in changes that affect them, they more readily embrace and adopt change. If you do not involve and engage people, they are often resistant or slow to respond.
Leading is about creating and sustaining purpose, direction, and intent. Managing is about processes for planning, monitoring and controlling change. Both are required to bring about successful change.
Ensure that your business case makes sense to those involved.
Explain to people what is in it for them.
Involve people to engage their commitment.
Keep programme management realistic, ensuring wide involvement and the participation of others in setting measurements, and continuing to communicate.
6. Change begins with you!
You need to be prepared to change yourself if you expect others to change.
How do you get to be 'OK with change'?
What actions, specifically, will you take to show that you are willing to change?
Understand that people are OK with change if they feel engaged: if they understand the reasons for it and feel at least partially in control.
Healthy communication and conversations between people are vital.
Make sure they feel listened to and acknowledged.
Be open, democratic and sharing.
The change curve illustrates common stages that people go through during change and offers actions to help overcome each one.
The starting point is the status quo – before the person knows about the change.
The next stage is the initial shock of realising that change is on they way.
Then comes denial, which must be countered with feedback.
This is followed by self-awareness and possible resistance.
With encouragement, the person then realises that they can make the change.
Experiment and learning follows, so you must accept mistakes.
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You need to find a balance between project management (planning, goals, monitoring, logic), ownership (the more people own the change, the more they will become involved in implementing it) and legitimacy (you need to encourage disputes between factions into the open, where they can be discussed).
You need to use your Political Intelligence to work behind the scenes – building commitment, unblocking resistance and dealing with conflict.
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If change is too slow, you will not get the results you need. If it is too fast, you will burn out your people.
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You need to manage the pace of change so that people are within their comfort zone or stretched, but not panicked.
You need to manage people's perceptions to keep them in the good zones, either by increasing their ability or by decreasing their perceived difficulty of the task.
Beware of a lack of clarity around the purpose of the change.
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Within a change programme there needs to be space and time to adjust or amend direction and expectations in the light of what is actually taking place.
You need to recognise that things never go as planned.
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The problem-solving approach sees an organisation as a problem to be solved.
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Realise that everything will not go smoothly.
Be prepared to deal with things skilfully when they do go wrong.
Don't rush on – take time to reflect.
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Daniel Theis (* 4. April 1992 in Salzgitter) ist ein deutscher Basketballspieler, der seit Juli 2022 bei den Indiana Pacers in der NBA unter Vertrag steht. Zuvor hatte er mit den Boston Celtics die Vizemeisterschaft in jener Liga gewonnen.

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Theis spielte in Salzgitter als Jugendlicher Fußball. Nach seinen Basketballanfängen beim SV Glück Auf Gebhardshagen wechselte er in den Nachwuchs der SG Braunschweig. In Braunschweig freundete er sich mit seinem Mannschaftskameraden Dennis Schröder an. Laut Liviu Călin, der beide Spieler als Trainer förderte, fanden Theis und Schröder auf dem Basketballfeld schnell zu einem aufeinander abgestimmten Zusammenspiel, das Călin als "eine Art Telepathie-Spielkultur" bezeichnete.

In der Saison 2008/09 erzielte der 2,04 Meter große Power Forward/Center in der NBBL in 13 Spielen im Durchschnitt 14,6 Punkte und 7,1 Rebounds für die SG Braunschweig.

Im darauffolgenden Jahr steigerte Theis seine Werte auf durchschnittlich 19,5 Punkte und 10,0 Rebounds, die er in der Saison 2010/11 auf 19,7 Punkte und 11,4 Rebounds verbesserte. Zudem kam er in diesen beiden Jahren in der 2. Basketball-Bundesliga zum Einsatz und konnte dort im ersten Jahr 4,8 Punkte und 3,6 Rebounds verbuchen, die er im zweiten Jahr auf 12,1 Punkte und 9,1 Rebounds steigern konnte. In der Saison 2010/11 kam er außerdem für die New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig gegen die Giants Düsseldorf zum ersten Kurzeinsatz in der Bundesliga.

In der folgenden Saison kam er dann zu regelmäßigen Kurzeinsätzen in der Basketball-Bundesliga, in denen er durchschnittlich 3,2 Punkte und 1,8 Rebounds erzielen konnte. Weiterhin wurde er als Stammkraft bei Spot up Medien Baskets Braunschweig in der 2. Basketball-Bundesliga eingesetzt und erzielte dort 18,4 Punkte und 8,9 Rebounds im Durchschnitt.

Am 9. Juli 2012 gab Ratiopharm Ulm seine Verpflichtung für drei Jahre bekannt. Der vom ehemaligen Nationalspieler Ademola Okulaja als Berater betreute Theis hatte eine Klausel in seinem Ausbildungsvertrag genutzt, um nach Ulm zu wechseln. Am 15. August 2012 erhielt er nach einigem Hin und Her mit seinem ehemaligen Verein New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig vom Deutschen Basketball Bund die Freigabe, für Ratiopharm Ulm am Spielbetrieb teilnehmen zu dürfen. Braunschweig forderte eine Ablösesumme für Theis, leitete rechtliche Schritte ein, zog die Klage im Februar 2013 aber zurück.

Am 27. April 2013 meldete Theis sich zum NBA-Draft 2013 an, wurde allerdings von keiner Mannschaft ausgewählt. Am 13. Mai 2014 wurde er im Rahmen des zweiten Playoff-Spiels gegen Alba Berlin als bester deutscher Nachwuchsspieler (U23) der Saison 2013/14 in der Bundesliga ausgezeichnet. Nach Ablauf der Saison 2013/14 verlängerte Ulm den Vertrag mit Theis nicht.

Zur Saison 2014/15 wechselte Theis gegen eine Ablösesumme zu den Brose Baskets Bamberg und unterzeichnete dort einen Zweijahresvertrag mit einer NBA-Ausstiegsklausel. In der Vorsaison hatte die Mannschaft erstmals seit fünf Jahren den Meistertitel verpasst und wurde von dem neuen Trainer Andrea Trinchieri neu zusammengestellt. Nach der Finalniederlage im BBL-Pokal 2015 gegen Gastgeber EWE Baskets Oldenburg zogen die Brose Baskets als Tabellenerster in die Playoffs der Basketball-Bundesliga-Spielzeit 2014/15 ein. Bamberg gelang der Sweep in die Finalrunde, wo man auf Titelverteidiger FC Bayern München traf. In fünf Spielen gegen den Vorjahresmeister aus Oberbayern triumphierte letztlich Bamberg und holte sich den Meistertitel zurück. Mit Bamberg spielte Theis auch im zweithöchsten Vereinswettbewerb Eurocup 2014/15, in dem man sich ins Achtelfinale kämpfte. Dort traf man auf die zuvor in 16 Spielen unbesiegten Lokomotive Kuban Krasnodar, die von Malcolm Delaney angeführt wurden. Auf eine mit 78:80 knappe Niederlage im Hinspiel folgte eine deutlichere mit 53:70 im Rückspiel gegen die Russen und Bamberg schied aus. In seiner ersten Saison in Bamberg erzielte Theis in durchschnittlich 20 Minuten Spielzeit 9,8 Punkte und 5,2 Rebounds pro Spiel. Im April 2015 verlängerte er dann seinen Vertrag um ein weiteres Jahr bis zum Ende der Saison 2016/17.

In der Saison 2015/16 spielte Theis mit Bamberg erstmals im höchsten europäischen Vereinswettbewerb, der EuroLeague-Saison 2015/16, für die man als Deutscher Meister das Teilnahmerecht erhielt. Es gelang der Einzug in die Zwischenrunde, jedoch verpasste man knapp um einen Sieg die Teilnahme an den Playoffs, was bis dahin auch noch keiner deutschen Mannschaft gelang. In der BBL erreichte man nach der Halbfinalniederlage im BBL-Pokal 2016 gegen Gastgeber München erneut die Playoffs als Hauptrundenerster, in denen Bamberg ohne Niederlage blieb und die erneute deutsche Meisterschaft gelang. Für das All-Star Game wurde Theis in das BBL All-Second-Team berufen und gewann mit der nationalen Auswahlmannschaft.

In der Saison 2016/17 nahm Bamberg erneut an der EuroLeague teil, die in dieser Spielzeit erstmals in einem neuen Modus ausgetragen wurde. 16 Mannschaften spielten in einer Gruppe Hin- und Rückspiele gegeneinander, um sich als einer der besten Acht für die Playoffs zu qualifizieren. Diese zusätzliche Belastung von 30 Spielen und der damit verbundene Reisestress (man bestritt unter der Woche bis zu zwei Spiele in Europa) zehrten an den Kräften der Mannschaft. Bamberg beendete die EuroLeague-Saison 2016/17 mit zehn Siegen auf dem 13. Platz, wobei zwölf Niederlagen mit sechs oder weniger Punkten ausgesprochen knapp entschieden wurden. In der BBL gelang erstmals unter Trainer Andrea Trinchieri der Gewinn des Pokals und Theis wurde als Bester Verteidiger der Basketball-Bundesliga ausgezeichnet. Am Ende der Hauptrunde qualifizierte sich Theis mit Brose Bamberg als Tabellenzweiter für die Playoffs. Nur in der Serie gegen die Telekom Baskets Bonn gab es einen Niederlage zum Auftakt, ansonsten marschierten Theis und die Bamberger ohne Niederlage durch die Playoffs und gewannen zum dritten Mal in Folge die Deutsche Meisterschaft sowie das vierte Double in der Vereinsgeschichte.

Wechsel in die NBA

Boston Celtics
Im Sommer 2017 unterzeichnete Theis einen Zweijahresvertrag bei den Boston Celtics. Er überzeugte in seiner ersten Saison in der NBA und erzielte in durchschnittlich 14,8 Minuten 5,3 Punkte und 4,3 Rebounds. Im März 2018 zog er sich in der Schlussminute der Partie gegen die Indiana Pacers einen Meniskusriss im linken Knie zu und wurde operiert, wodurch er für den Rest der Saison ausfiel. Im Sommer 2019 verlängerte Theis seinen Vertrag mit den Boston Celtics um weitere zwei Jahre.

Chicago Bulls
Am 25. März 2021 wurde Theis nach knapp vier Jahren bei den Celtics zu den Chicago Bulls getauscht. Für Chicagos Mannschaft bestritt der Deutsche 23 Einsätze, in denen er auf Mittelwerte von 10 Punkten und 5,9 Rebounds kam.

Houston Rockets
Im Sommer 2021 einigte sich Theis mit den Houston Rockets auf einen Vierjahresvertrag, der ein Gesamtgehalt von 36 Millionen US-Dollar beinhaltete. Der Vertrag beinhaltet einen sogenannten Trade Kicker, also eine im Falle eines Spielertausches an den Spieler fällige Bonuszahlung in Höhe von 15 % des verbleibenden Vertragsvolumens. Die Bulls verkauften den Rockets diesen sogenannten Sign-and-Trade-Vertrag für 1,1 Millionen US-Dollar und erwarben damit eine Spielerverkaufsausnahme in Höhe von 5 Millionen Dollar für ihr eigenes Gehaltsgefüge. In 26 Spielen für die Texaner verbuchte Theis im Schnitt 8,4 Punkte sowie 5 Rebounds je Begegnung.

Boston Celtics
Im Februar 2022 kehrte Theis im Rahmen eines Tauschhandels, der weitere Spieler, darunter seinen nach Houston wechselnden Jugendfreund Dennis Schröder betraf, nach Boston zurück. Er verzichtete in diesem Tausch auf seinen Trade Kicker im Wert von mehr als drei Millionen US-Dollar. Mit den Celtics unterlag Theis erst in den Finalspielen der Saison gegen den Meister Golden State Warriors.

Indiana Pacers
Im Zuge eines größeren Spielertauschs, durch den sich die Celtics die Dienste von Aufbauspieler Malcolm Brogdon sicherten, wurde Theis im Juli 2022 an die Indiana Pacers abgegeben.

Nationalmannschaft
Im Juli 2012 nahm er mit der deutschen U20-Nationalmannschaft an der Europameisterschaft in Slowenien teil, konnte aber aufgrund einer Bänderverletzung im ersten Spiel und Magen-Darm-Problemen gegen Ende des Turniers nur wenig zum fünften Platz beitragen. Am 6. August 2012 wurde Theis von Bundestrainer Svetislav Pešić in das Aufgebot der Nationalmannschaft berufen, konnte aber aufgrund der Bänderverletzung nur einen kurzen Besuch beim A-Nationalkader absolvieren.

2017 nahm er mit der deutschen Mannschaft an der Europameisterschaft teil, 2019 gehörte er dem deutschen Weltmeisterschaftsaufgebot an. Bei der WM in China stand Theis in allen fünf Spielen der deutschen Auswahl auf dem Feld und kam im Durchschnitt auf 7,6 Punkte sowie 6,0 Rebounds je Begegnung. Letztere Zahl war der Mannschaftshöchstwert. Bei der zum Teil in Deutschland ausgetragenen Europameisterschaft 2022 erreichte Theis mit Deutschland den dritten Platz. Er erzielte im Turnierverlauf im Schnitt 8,8 Punkte je Begegnung.

Erfolge
 3× Deutscher Meister: 2015, 2016, 2017
 1× Deutscher Pokalsieger: 2017
 BBL All-Second-Team: 2016
 Bester Verteidiger der Basketball-Bundesliga: 2017
 Bronzemedaille bei der Europameisterschaft 2022

Karriere-Statistiken

BBL und Europäische Wettbewerbe

NBA

Hauptrunde

Play-offs

Sonstiges
Sein älterer Bruder Frank war in Braunschweig in der 2. Bundesliga ProB zeitweilig sein Mannschaftskamerad.

Im Juli 2018 wurde Theis als Auszeichnung für seine "Vorbildfunktion für Kinder und Jugendliche in Niedersachsen" sowie sein soziales Engagement die Goldene Ehrennadel des Niedersächsischen Basketballverbandes verliehen.

Der VfL-Wolfsburg-Fan verkündete am 10. März 2023, dass er Teil der Besitzergruppe des 2024 in den Spielbetrieb der USL Championship einsteigenden Rhode Island FC aus Pawtucket sei.

Siehe auch
 Liste der NBA-Spieler aus deutschsprachigen Nationen

Weblinks

 Daniel Theis auf: NBA−Website (in Englisch).
 Daniel Theis auf: Basketball Reference−Website (in Englisch).
 Daniel Theis auf: RealGM−Website (in Englisch).

Einzelnachweise

Deutscher Meister (Basketball)
Basketballnationalspieler (Deutschland)
Basketballspieler (Chicago Bulls)
Basketballspieler (Boston Celtics)
Basketballspieler (SG Braunschweig)
Basketballspieler (Basketball Löwen Braunschweig)
Basketballspieler (Ratiopharm Ulm)
Basketballspieler (Brose Bamberg)
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Relieved after eventually breaking their six-match losing streak with a convincing 8-wicket win over Kings XI Punjab, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) all-rounder Marcus Stoinis said the team desperately needed to get started and they aren't looking too far ahead in the Indian Premier League.
New Delhi, Apr 14 () Foreign investors have pumped in a net sum of Rs 11,096 crore into the Indian capital markets in April so far, driven by global and domestic factors.
Far Cry: New Dawn, the latest installment in the post-apocalyptic action-adventure Far Cry series has hit the markets today.
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On behalf of all the team working on producing "Amsterdam the Musical" with a story that links two well- known but very different cities Marbella and Amsterdam, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the enterprising Euro Weekly News and its positive owners Michel and Steven Eusden, for helping to support our latest intiative once again, and for their past support during the difficult days of the Marbella campaign that I conceived some years ago, and whose help, freely given by them, was essential during those negative times for Marbella.
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Is the PBA ripe for expansion?
Dubai International Airport has launched a departure clearance scheme using travelers' smartphones instead of their passports or express cards at the airport's smart gates.
Banking transactions in the United Arab Emirates are normal amid the breakup of diplomatic relations between Qatar and four Gulf nations.
The UAE government has moved in to address concerns about the abuse of its 90-day visit visa program, allowing only selected travel agencies to process applications and subjecting the paperwork to rigid scrutiny.
overseas Filipino workers to Qatar.
The Gulf diplomatic crisis has spilled over to sports as beIN Sports and Al Jazeera's broadcasts of major football games and news in the UAE are now blocked while their websites are no longer accessible.


Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas has denied that aid for Syrian refugees was cut because of obstacles placed by the Lebanese government.
"The assistance provided by the UNHCR (the U.N. refugee agency) has not stopped and Lebanon does not interfere in it," Derbas told An Nahar newspaper published on Monday.
His comment came after reports that aid for the displaced Syrians had stopped in several areas.
Derbas also denied new refugees had come to Lebanon.
He said he was informed by the UNHCR that it had recently registered 1,400 new refugees for "humanitarian reasons." But the Lebanese authorities rejected its move.
Although Lebanese border officials began informally restricting the entry of Syrians last October, Beirut officially imposed visa regulations earlier this month on visiting Syrians. The move was the first such in decades.
There are now around 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
The issue will be discussed during a one-day visit that German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier plans to make on May 15.
During his trip, Steinmeier is scheduled to meet with his Lebanese counterpart Jebran Bassil and Prime Minister Tammam Salam, said An Nahar.
The talks are expected to focus on the results of the Berlin conference that was held in October last year, it added.
During the conference, Steinmeier said his country had taken in 70,000 Syrians since 2012 and was prepared to do more but urged other European nations to also open their borders to Syrian refugees.
Pretty soon it will be the Lebanese who will be displaced and will be asking for assistance! how much more refugees can lebanon take???!
Well flame if you have a valid suggestion to make to how these refugees can be fed and housed were all ears here and are willing to learn. The country has about 30% of the infrastructure it needs to sustain itself not to mention were in debt up to our eyeballs with no long term solution to get resolve on it. Yet Countries like Jordan and Turkey who have laws and government not to mention a budget plan each year have taken less refugees than Lebanon why? is it because were so kind or simply have no concept to what citizenship responsibility is?


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The time Eddie Murphy went to Pluto and he's named like this.
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a 2002 Australian-American science fiction action comedy film directed by Ron Underwood (the director of Tremors and City Slickers) and starring Eddie Murphy (in a dual role), Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzman, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier and John Cleese.
The film is known to be one of the biggest box office bombs of all time (only making $7.1 million of its $100 million budget) as well as being nearly universally panned by critics and moviegoers alike. This film is widely considered to be one of or arguably Eddie Murphy's worst movie that he ever starred in, and one of the worst movies of 2002.
1 Why It Sucks
2 Redeeming Qualities
Why It Sucks
The plot is dull, especially for something built around the seedy underworld in the future on the moon.
The jokes tend to focus on robot sex humor (such as the robotic maid constantly bending over to show her crotch & the android not wanting to get a euphemism for a penis length) or "space" jokes (as in things are different because its space).
Pluto is supposed to be a successful nightclub owner, but the opening scene doesn't give that much credibility.
The acting is horrid, even from acclaimed actors like Eddie Murphy and John Cleese. While other actors sound like they could nail it in their sleep (as the Nostalgia Critic described), Rosario Dawson seems to be the only one trying.
A key part that was heavily advertised in promotion of the film was the characters trying to get disguises where they are transformed (with CGI) into hypothetical designs. Only two are used (bodybuilders & tribesmen) and both are visually unpleasant.
Plot progression is weak. A scene where the characters crash and runs out of oxygen is immediately solved by a passing space turnip truck.
How the mobsters cloned Rex from Pluto's appendix is very confusing.
The reasoning for Rex is even more confounding than how he was created in the first place, as the mobsters wanted to kill Pluto and replace him with a person who looked exactly like Pluto but was favorable to the mafia. Usually in fiction, the mafia would whack the owner, buy the property in liquidation, and put an associate in charge.
Star Eddie Murphy refused to promote the film, while Alec Baldwin hated the film so much that he went uncredited.
Redeeming Qualities
The universe has a bit of a Blade Runner feel to it.
Some of the special effects are pretty good.
The film killed Ron Underwood's career as a director.
Jennifer Lopez and Halle Berry were the first and second choices for the role of Dina, but both passed on the part. Berry declined because the filming schedule clashed with her wedding.
Alec Baldwin hated this film and wanted to be uncredited (mentioned earlier in last WIS reason).
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I think I was most recently in Portland OR in 1996 for meetings on my book. But lately the social justice warriors have attacked small food businesses there to absurd ends.
These were mostly locally branded businesses, not (trademarked) franchises.
In one case a restaurant was forced by harassment to change its name because it seemed to be supporting "colonialism". Well, Anthony Bourdain has criticized that on his visit to the Congo.
I don't see how "white people" selling burritos from a truck is "stealing Mexican culture". (By the way, a lot of people who self-identify to Census as Hispanic are of largely European heritage if you go back far enough.) Later, other ethnic restaurants were harassed for taking away market share from down to earth places owned by "POC". I usually prefer regular "MAGA" food when I travel, but the idea is stupid.
There does seem to be a case of a bakery not properly serving a black person (this is not Masterpiece Cakeshop), and that is legitimate to complain about. It's fine for Starbucks to close everywhere for diversity training for an afternoon, by the way.
The market share complaint could spread to other areas. For example, my blogs, they way I run them, might take away "market share" from partisan (especially Leftist) sites begging for money.
The most absurd idea of all reported in the article is the "Reparations Happy Hour".
No, the art work today is not from Portland.


Between 1886 and the spring of 1892, the area along the upper North Fork of the Kaweah River was the scene of an epic experiment in utopian socialism that, to this day, continues to be the subject of serious study by historians, writers, and students of economics, history, and political science. This was the Kaweah Co-Operative Commonwealth, generally referred to as the Kaweah Colony, and today within the boundaries of the small community of Kaweah.
Kaweah is located on North Fork Drive near Three Rivers, three miles from State Highway 198. The town's entrance sign boasts a population of "480 Souls." The town exists today because of the historic Kaweah Post Office, established to serve the Kaweah Colony in 1890. There are no retail businesses in the community, only the post office, a church, homes and ranches, historic remnants of the Colony, and the beautiful North Fork of the Kaweah River running through it.
Colony founders Burnette G. Haskell, John Hooper Redstone, and James John Martin, all of whom had been active in labor organizations in San Francisco, were impressed with the theories of Laurence Gronlund, an American socialist originally from Denmark. They decided to form a colony with timberlands as the source of income based on these principles. After a search of the entire Pacific Coast and parts of Mexico, the leaders of the proposed colony selected land between the Middle, Marble, and North forks of Kaweah River, which became the Colony's namesake.
The first Colony settlement, established in the spring of 1886, was called Arcady, later named Haskell's Bluff. It was a camp located three-and-a-half miles up the North Fork from present-day Three Rivers on land owned by Sam Halstead. The first undertaking of the Colony was to build a road to the timber claims so pine and fir lumber could be brought down from a sawmill in the forest. The colonists originally planned to build a railroad along the North Fork, easterly along Yucca Creek (called East Branch by the colonists) and up to the sawmill in the vicinity the future Colony Mill Ranger Station (that would become the original entrance to Sequoia National Park, created in 1890). The colonists soon realized that their limited finances would not support a railroad project and it was abandoned in favor of a wagon road.
Colony headquarters and the primary settlement during the road-construction period were at Advance, a few miles up the North Fork from Arcady. The building of the road began October 8, 1886, and as work progressed, various other road camps were established. After four years of backbreaking labor, with a crew of 20 to 30 men and tools that consisted of little more than picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows, the road was completed. To this day, this hand-built road (now a part of Sequoia National Park) is an engineering marvel, maintaining a gradual eight percent grade for the nearly 18 miles and 4,000-foot vertical elevation gain from start to finish. A sawmill was built and in operation by the summer of 1890, cutting lumber at the rate of 3,000 board feet per day.
Concurrent with the completion of the road, Congress created Sequoia National Park. Any possibility of the colonists securing their timber claims was usurped with the stroke of a pen. By 1892, the colony had disbanded and most of the colonists had moved away.
The Colony Mill Road, with an eight-mile extension above its original terminus built by the U.S. Cavalry in 1903 to allow tourist access to the Giant Forest area, remained the only vehicular access to Sequoia National Park until the completion of the present-day Generals Highway in 1926. The coolonists were never compensated for their efforts in building the road.
During the short existence of the Kaweah Colony, the colonists published the first newspaper in the Three Rivers area, the weekly Kaweah Commonwealth, from which the current local newspaper derives its name. A lasting, local vestige of the Kaweah Colony is the Kaweah Post Office that is now located three miles up North Fork Drive. On May 17, 1890, the colony's camp of Advance was granted a post office. From time to time, the building was moved to meet the needs of its patrons or to accommodate the postmaster. The present 10-foot by 12-foot structure was built in 1910. It is registered as State Historic Landmark No. 389. The Kaweah Post Office is still in operation today and descendants from Kaweah Colony resident members still reside in the Three Rivers and Kaweah communities.
Since 1995, Sarah Barton Elliott and her husband John Elliott have been owners/publishers of The Kaweah Commonwealth, the weekly newspaper of Three Rivers, Calif. Visit us regularly at www.kaweahcommonwealth.com, where week in, week out, there's always something new! Or, better yet, subscribe as some of the regular weekly features are not available online. For additional information on The Kaweah Commonwealth, see its listing on the Sierra Nevada Geotourism site (or copy and past this link in your browser: http://www.sierranevadageotourism.org/content_detail.php?uid=sieB962E07DAC371C91B).
"Journalism is the first rough draft of history."
I'm curious as to when the sign "Kaweah." was erected. I visited family on the North Fork (and picked up mail at the post office) for over 70 years and this picture of the sign is the first I've seen.
Our beloved Kaweah Post Office was damaged by breakage of a drought stricken oak tree on Sept 21, 2015. Fundraising has begun to make needed repairs.


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I am beginning to understand what people mean by no one goes to seminary alone. This statement I have heard a lot since my wife started her winding path for her Masters of Divinity, and I am beginning to understand what they mean. I have learned so much about my faith and about the scholars and great thinkers of Christianity that came long before me. I didn't expect to learn as much as I have through my wife's education.
Through discussing some of her early courses to help find out how she actually believes, I applied the same lessons and questions to myself. That is where it began. We were going to a Church of Christ at the time and the particular one we were attending was more of the liberal end of the spectrum. Through these questions and self-reflection, we learned that the denomination as a whole was not what we actually believed.
That brought us to the United Church of Christ, and that one word makes a lot of difference. It is a very liberal denomination and has been very good for both of us. It has allowed us to continue to grow and heal from the wounds of our past. Those of you that have read my blogs for a while will know that my mind goes into all kinds of different places as does my spirit. Talking this week with the pastor of Wedgewood United Church of Christ over lunch something of a realization came about. There are a few constants in my life that I continue to return to.
First, I am someone that seeks to understand how things work and how things function. This is also very true with my faith. This seeking to understand got me into a lot of trouble when I was 10 years younger. I had to know how the physical, metaphysical, spiritual and mental physiology of existence worked. I do this in my career. I do this with everything that I get my hands in. Until I understand the layers of how things function I do not feel that I understand anything at all.
Take a car for instance. It is not enough for me to know you have to have a good battery, gas in the tank and the key in the ignition to make the car start when you turn the key (or hit that little button now). No, I had to understand how the fuel made it to the engine, how the battery turned into combustion to set the engine running. Still with cars, the components that I don't understand make me feel like an idiot sometimes when it comes to cars, but yet many of my friends will call me for advice when they are having car trouble. Many times I do know the answer or know how to change the part that is giving them problems.
It is those missing pieces of things that prevent me from calling myself a mechanic, even a shade-tree one. When it comes to faith that is very hard to do. Solomon was given wisdom to the fullest extent and I doubt he understood how it all worked. Part of faith is accepting that we don't know how it all goes together, but trusting that when we turn the key the car will start. Millions of people do it every day. You don't understand how all that stuff under the hood works, but you believe it will work. You have seen it work and you trust in it.
Look to the lives of the elders of our churches, by title or experience, and see how faith has guided them through the good times and the bad. You can see the same thing there. The only difference is that you can open the hood and see the engine. Pulling back the veil between the physical and the spiritual is not as easy. There are those that have seen what is behind the veil and will say with certainty that there is something there and that it is certainly not just some hocus pocus.
Second, I have a deep love and respect from nature that I gained through connection with my father. That love and respect is not just on the level of the mountains are beautiful we must preserve them. No, it runs much deeper than that. Somewhere along the lines of a returning respect. If you respect and take care of the earth/nature it will in turn do the same for you. My father ensured that I could survive off the land and the whole thing of only take what you need and no more was there as well. My father is not a main of faith, but is a spiritual person, even if he would not like to admit it.
This respect and care for nature is a spiritual thing for me. It is part of my faith. It is part of who I am as a person. I have seen animals in the wild up very close when I should not have. We would not hunt or fish for sport. Even when we hunted things we did not personally eat, we make sure there was someone around that we could give the meat to before we would even step foot in the woods for that purpose. Yes, this is coming from someone that considers himself liberal. Mind-blowing I'm sure to some.
As many from Eastern Kentucky, I am heavily Scotts-Irish. Granted truth be told I'm a good old mutt with blood from whatever my ancestors happen to fall into love with. Since I began reading, I was drawn to mythology nearly as much as I was drawn to fantasy. It started out with the standards of Greek and Roman. Then I expanded with the Roman Empire to Egyptian and Celtic. Norse had become my favorite by the end of things.
Norse and Celtic Mythology still to this day hold a very special place in my heart. That pulse around those two were always strongest. Celtic Christianity is a new chapter in my search and seeking. That respect of nature is there. It brings some of my beliefs that I have held firm to into a new light of acceptance. The principle of God being within the creation is the core belief that I am speaking towards here.
I touched on this in my last article. I believe this is the case. I believe that God is in everything he created. She placed her hand in everything and gave it that spark to live for the time it should live. His hand was placed into each of us and the soul that is within us; the spirit the dwells within is our connection to that divinity, but not just in the metaphysical sense of the word. No this connection is the same as a piece of hair is to the head. It is part of the creator. It is part of who and what we are as a whole.
We can look a little deeper into we are the Body of Christ. Each of us is a cell of what would make up the Body of Christ. We have that divinity within us. That is why by nature we desire to do good. We desire to help. It is after the world has made us feel that we are not connected to anything else that we stop believing and become jaded to that inner nature. As Pelagius would speak to, you can't tell me that a child starts out life with the desire to do harm. There are many reasons why there is evil in the world.
Another constant is that understanding that there is evil out there. That evil is physical and metaphysical. It is real and touchable just as much as it is invisible. When I took my first step off the path of Christian Faith to another faith it was to a nature based faith. My first step was Wicca. I won't go into the details of what I learned there, but in the end it was the fact that there was almost a denial that Evil existed that drove my feet further along that road. I knew that evil was there.
As I told Chris, Never did I stop believing in the existence of God; likewise I never stopped believing that the demons were just as real as angels were. Even now reflecting on the experiences that I have along this interesting road that I find myself on, I have a hard time believing that what I have seen and felt actually happened. I can tell stories for days that would make for great fiction. Alas, that evil exists. Why does it exist? Because it must. I have accepted this fact. Right now in this imperfect world and imperfect existence that we find ourselves in. Evil must exist. It serves many purposes.
J.R.R. Tolkien is most known for The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, but those are far from his only works in middle earth. The Silmarillion is one of these other works. In this book is the creation story for middle-earth. In it you have the creator god character, Iluvatar who created these Angelic eternal spirits called the Ainur. Among them you have Melkor, who was entrusted with the larger part of the plan than the others. Well as they were singing the world into being, Melkor liked a few of his ideas better so he starting bringing in dissonance into the song. Many began to follow his song. It was essentially bringing Heavy Metal into an Ethereal Opera is the way it plays out in my head (Go figure).
Well, others started singing with him. Illuvatar would guide the song back. When it was done, Illuvatar called out Melkor and told him that the darkness that you have sang was to my design and through it the greater glory manifest. Without Melkor being the Lucifer, the rest of creation would have been lack luster. There is no secret that Tolkien was of the faith, in fact chatted with C.S. Lewis quite a bit. That would have been some interesting bible studies. I believe that part of the story was heavily influenced by Tolkien's study of the nature of God.
God was no fool; he knew Lucifer would rise against. We children screw up. We fall short of the mark. We always have and we always will. It is the nature of imperfection. As this world is imperfect. Through the failings of one of Gods most beloved we can find that way back to the father. Anyone who asks, it shall be given. You can find your way to the Heart of God. Momma is still waiting. The song is still being sung. Creation is still going, it's not over yet. Find who you are and who our creator made you to be. That personal identity is very important.
"If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything," comes to mind. For me my walk will continue to be an interesting one. I cannot thank everyone that influenced me enough. No matter how little or large the act, it has made things very interesting. Faith is the shield that I carry. Strangers passing in the night that I will likely never see again all the way to the clear and obvious mentors that held my hand through trying times. I thank you all.
For those of you that I am currently saying Hello to, take from me what you need. Enjoy your personal journey to God. However, know that your personal walk does not need be a solitary one. If I can find like-minded people to converse with, you can as well. I leave you today with "The Glory in the Grey" by George MacLeod. May peace be with you in whatever path you might be on.
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Leyla Hussein, a Somali psychotherapist and social activist, interviewed for the Guardian Somalia's first female presidential candidate, Fadumo Dayib. Elections are expected in November 2016.
Dayib, 43, is the daughter of uneducated Somali parents. Her father, a truck driver, and her mother, a "nomad," fled the violence in Somalia to neighboring Kenya, where Dayib was born. Dayib, her mother and siblings were subsequently arrested and deported back to Somalia. As Somalia descended into further chaos, Dayib's mother, who had already lost 11 children, arranged for Dayib and her two siblings to leave the country. Dayib was reunited with her mother in Finland through a family reunification program, and her mother spent the last years of her life in Helsinki, learning to read and write at the age of 68 before her death in 1995.
Dayib worked in Somalia for six months setting up maternal health clinics before the UN evacuated her over security concerns. She also worked for the UN in Fiji and Liberia, where she helped set up HIV prevention offices and trained health care providers. Dayib currently works in Helsinki helping refugees arriving in Finland to find work.
Living in Finland, she says, gives her many privileges she wouldn't have had in her own country, and she wants to extend these to women and girls back home. Dayib wasn't fully literate until the age of 14 but now has several degrees in international public health, including one from Harvard, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Helsinki.
Dayib plans to return to her homeland, a country engulfed in a civil war that continues to displace, kill, and wound its civilians. Restrictions on humanitarian access persist and exacerbate the human rights and humanitarian crises. The Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab maintains control of large areas of south-central Somalia, where it administers public executions and beatings and restricts basic rights, and periodically carries out deadly attacks in government-controlled areas targeting civilians, including lawmakers and other officials. Somali's own government security forces, African Union troops, and allied militias are reportedly responsible as well for indiscriminate attacks, sexual violence, and arbitrary arrests and detention.
The 2016 Global Peace Index ranks Somalia as the fifth-most dangerous country in the world. Will Dayib, a mother of four children, survive the many death threats she already receives?
Midwest cities struggle with how welcoming to immigrants they should be.


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La stagione 1961-62 dei Cleveland Pipers fu la 1ª e unica nella ABL per la franchigia.

I Cleveland Pipers vinsero la Eastern Division con un record di 45-36. Nei First Half Playoffs persero con i Kansas City Steers (2-1). Nei play-off vinsero i quarti di finale con i San Francisco Saints (1-0), la semifinale con i New York Tapers (1-0), vincendo poi il titolo battendo nella finale ABL i Kansas City Steers (3-2).

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Grooming, or Product Backlog Refinement if you prefer, has always been a troublesome, not to mention kinda-boring concept in Scrum.
And in recent years it's somehow turned into a meeting, which it seems most people hate, but do anything, because apparently they were told to. Apparently unless you don't do something in a meeting then it's not Agile (how ironic).
Having practiced Scrum for years without such a meeting I found myself wondering what people were doing in it. Turns out, at least in the cases I observed, that it seems to be mostly a combination of Planning Poker™, followed by demands for more detailed acceptance criteria and then arguing. Whatever floats your boat I guess, but it wasn't my idea of a good time.
This "Grooming Thing" was also creating some kind of weird division, in what I'd always assumed was a Cross Functional Team. Suddenly the world was divided into The People Who Did The Work and The People Who Prepared the Work for The Other People To Do.
Weirdly, it was only The People Who Did The Work whose time seemed to matter, and was thus tracked and reported on in great detail, the preparation people were apparently free.
I however was keen to get back to the collaboration and cross-functional team stuff. I had good memories, it was both fun and effective. Neat!
But damn, Grooming is tearing us apart. How could we get the band back together?
What we were missing was a A Bright Line for Grooming. A way of describing Grooming that didn't involved creating Groomers and Groomees.
And then it hit me, it's so simple.
Grooming is any work you do that results only in a change to the Product Backlog.
Oh, you're an idiot, I hear you say, we already knew that, that's not new.
But hear me out. Because a simple example might make all the difference in understanding what I'm talking about.
Imagine a team that starts a story, and for whatever reason (it really doesn't matter) the story is not finished at the end of the Sprint. We asked for a feature, a deliverable, but we don't have that. What we have instead is increased WIP. No cause for panic. It happens.
What are the relevant Scrum Rules in this situation?
So what has the team done exactly? What's their output?
What do we call it when the team estimates a Product Backlog Item?
The Team just spent the entire Sprint on grooming that story.
CODE WAS WRITTEN, TICKETS WERE CLOSED IN JIRA® THAT'S NOT GROOMING!!!!! THAT'S REAL WORK!!!!
Sometimes it's obvious that we're grooming, but other times we don't know that we are until after the fact.
I don't have my feature, but I do have an updated backlog, so you, my dear team spent the entire sprint grooming. ALL OF YOU.
And the best part? There is no longer an us and a them. There's just us, because you never know when you'll find yourself grooming.
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This delightful kitchen can be found in a beautiful newly renovated house in Naas County Kildare. The mix of Calacatta Extra marble and the shaker style cabinets and the opulent colour choice create a timeless and classic look. Material used: Calacatta Extra Marble. Status: Completed in Winter 2016.


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Revstat Statistical Journal- Impact Score, Overall Ranking, h-index, SJR, Rating, Publisher, ISSN, and Other Important Metrics
Title Revstat Statistical Journal
Abbreviation Revstat Stat. J.
Subject Area, Categories, Scope Statistics and Probability (Q3)
Publisher Instituto Nacional De Estatistica
Country Portugal
About Revstat Statistical Journal
Revstat Statistical Journal is a journal covering the technologies/fields/categories related to Statistics and Probability (Q3). It is published by Instituto Nacional De Estatistica. The overall rank of Revstat Statistical Journal is 9401. According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), this journal is ranked 0.538. SCImago Journal Rank is an indicator, which measures the scientific influence of journals. It considers the number of citations received by a journal and the importance of the journals from where these citations come. SJR acts as an alternative to the Journal Impact Factor (or an average number of citations received in last 2 years). This journal has an h-index of 15. The best quartile for this journal is Q3.
The ISSN of Revstat Statistical Journal journal is 16456726. An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique code of 8 digits. It is used for the recognition of journals, newspapers, periodicals, and magazines in all kind of forms, be it print-media or electronic. Revstat Statistical Journal is cited by a total of 99 articles during the last 3 years (Preceding 2020).
Revstat Statistical Journal Impact Score 2020-2021
The impact score (IS) 2020 of Revstat Statistical Journal is 1.10, which is computed in 2021 as per its definition. Revstat Statistical Journal IS is increased by a factor of 0.47 and approximate percentage change is 74.6% when compared to preceding year 2019, which shows a rising trend. The impact score (IS), also denoted as Journal impact score (JIS), of an academic journal is a measure of the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. It is based on Scopus data.
Revstat Statistical Journal Impact Score 2021 Prediction
IS 2020 of Revstat Statistical Journal is 1.10. If the same upward trend persists, impact score of joule may rise in 2021 as well.
Year wise Impact Score (IS) of Revstat Statistical Journal. Based on Scopus data.
Revstat Statistical Journal h-index
Revstat Statistical Journal has an h-index of 15. It means 15 articles of this journal have more than 15 number of citations. The h-index is a way of measuring the productivity and citation impact of the publications. The h-index is defined as the maximum value of h such that the given journal/author has published h papers that have each been cited at least h number of times.
Revstat Statistical Journal ISSN
The ISSN of Revstat Statistical Journal is 16456726. ISSN stands for International Standard Serial Number.
Revstat Statistical Journal Rank and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
The overall rank of Revstat Statistical Journal is 9401. According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), this journal is ranked 0.538. SCImago Journal Rank is an indicator, which measures the scientific influence of journals. It considers the number of citations received by a journal and the importance of the journals from where these citations come.
Revstat Statistical Journal Publisher
Revstat Statistical Journal is published by Instituto Nacional De Estatistica. It's publishing house is located in Portugal. Coverage history of this journal is as following: 2010-2020. The organization or individual who handles the printing and distribution of printed or digital publications is known as Publisher.
The IS0 4 standard abbreviation of Revstat Statistical Journal is Revstat Stat. J.. This abbreviation ('Revstat Stat. J.') is well recommended and approved for the purpose of indexing, abstraction, referencing and citing goals. It meets all the essential criteria of ISO 4 standard.
How to publish in Revstat Statistical Journal
If your research field is/are related to Statistics and Probability (Q3), then please visit the official website of this journal.
Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems and Manufacturing journal 17837 Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers 18 0.68
Forum of Clinical Oncology journal 30616 Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology (He.S.M.O.) 5 0.00
Biometrics journal 1050 Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd 130 2.56
Revista Brasileira de Saude e Producao Animal journal 19974 Universidade Federal da Bahia 12 0.39
American Journal of Criminal Justice journal 6063 Springer New York 27 2.19
Archivos Venezolanos de Farmacologia y Terapeutica journal 18825 Sociedad Latinoamericana de Hipertension 7 0.54
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development journal 8046 Wiley-Blackwell 59 1.71
Genetics journal 723 Genetics Society of America 246 4.25
Journal of Mining Institute journal 7036 Saint-Petersburg Mining University 13 1.66
Psychology and Sexuality journal 8620 Routledge 26 2.13
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The opening of the gates in the new Smithers arena boards to the public is delayed again.
Arena opening delayed again
The opening of the second indoor ice surface in Smithers is delayed further after town council approved another extension last week.
Chris Gareau
The opening of the second indoor ice surface in Smithers is delayed further after town council approved another extension at last week's council meeting.
C&M Development was given a month-long extension in August, bumping the completion date from the end of September to the end of October. A provision for a $500 per day fine was added to incentivize getting the project done by the new deadline. The need to relocate a condenser because of the location of a B.C. Hydro transformer was given as the reason for the initial delay.
Now C&M has been given until Dec. 1 to have the arena ready for use. The fine will not be implemented. The company told council that it expects the work to be done by the second week of November, but wanted the cushion just in case further delays arose.
Mayor Taylor Bachrach said the penalty clause now applies for any delay after Dec. 1. He described the two-month delay as reasonable, and touted the fact the project is still on budget.
"This is a big project obviously for our community, and council is very happy with how it's gone so far. It's gone remarkably smoothly, and I think we have what is going to be a great facility," said Bachrach.
The mayor said there are no major issues with groups who had planned to use the facility, and no revenue is really being lost by the town.
"There's no real operating costs either. And if you look at our current arena, it's a subsidized operation," explained Bachrach.
CDC gathers support for Columbia Drive move
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Q: Notation for vectors that exclude zero Is there a conventional notation for the set of all vectors of length $n$ such that not one element of the vector is equal to zero?
Right now I have to write out something like "vector $B$ blah blah blah, where
$B \not\in \left\{A =[a_1, a_2, a_3, ..., a_n], \textrm{ where } \forall i, a_i \neq 0 \right\}$.
I'm wondering if there is a more compact/conventional way to express this?


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Is James Bond Going to Die in 'Bond 25'?
James Bond is used to operating in the midst of chaos, but the story behind the scenes of Bond 25 is intense even by his standards.
Just a few short months after officially signing on to direct the 25th James Bond film, Danny Boyle abruptly left the production citing "creative differences." Different rumors have since emerged over the exact reason behind Boyle's departure. There are some reports that he disagreed with Bond star Daniel Craig over the casting of his main antagonist in the film. And now The Sun claims that the real reason he left was his refusal to participate in a highly unconventional ending for a 007 adventure. Apparently, Bond 25 could have ended with the death of Bond:
An insider said: 'There were discussions about killing off Bond in dramatic fashion at the end. It would be a final hurrah for Daniel, and leave fans hanging. It would also leave it open for a twist in the next installment — either Bond hadn't died or there could be a Doctor Who-esque regeneration with a new actor.'
As already noted, there's a lot of rumors floating around about Bond 25, and this is just one of them. But it's an interesting one that probably would have made some film fans happy; I've seen a lot of people reacting to the news that Bond 25 was in creative turmoil, and likely missing its intended November 2019 release date with relief. Their argument is that James Bond belongs to another era, his time has passed, and it's time to move on.
I'm not sure I agree. Remember: you only live twice. Bond should get at least one more crack at it. As of this writing, there is still no replacement for Boyle, or news on when Bond 25 will now hit theaters.
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I examine the effects of occupational licensing on the quality of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). I exploit the staggered adoption of the 150-hour rule, which increased the educational requirements for a CPA license. My analysis shows that the rule reduces the number of entrants into the profession and increases their wage premium. The same premium is enjoyed by grandfathered accountants, suggesting it is not a return to higher quality. Labor market proxies for quality find no difference between 150-hour rule CPAs and the rest. These findings are consistent with the theoretical argument that the rule reduced the supply of new CPAs and increased rents to the profession with little impact on quality.


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Globally, GB-TAF is one of the most important single sources of systematics information. The total of more than 80 million specimens including 1.5 million holotypes and paratypes housed in the three institutions are the cumulative efforts of nearly 300 years of collecting and research.
GB-TAF Member Institutions
The Natural History Museum (NHM)
Access is available to NHM's 70 million natural history specimens, including 800,000 type. The specimens are stored in secure storage units and well-organised in accordance with taxonomic groupings. This includes the Darwin Centre (Phase 1 & 2) a state-of-the-art facility housing 23 million zoological specimens in alcohol, plus all the majority of the entomological and botanical specimens.
Our collections are on the move!
As curators prepare for the move of over 38 million objects around the Natural History Museum sites and to our new centre at Harwell Campus, access to staff and collections will be affected
Intermittent disruption to collections access for visits and loans is expected until at least 2027
To be among the first to find out about changes to collections access sign up to the mailing list (nhm.ac.uk/harwell)
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RBGK has the largest living reference collections in Europe and an extensive preserved collection of vascular plant material and fungi.
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RBGE is one of the major research institutes in the UK focusing on the Systematics and Conservation of plants. Its collections are of world importance, holding the second largest collection of living plant species in Europe, a herbarium of 3 million specimens, and one of the best botanical libraries in the UK.
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Former Derby County striker Darren Bent has again spoken of his interest in moving to Scotland to get back playing football.
The experienced striker has been without a club since being released by the Rams at the end of last season.
When initially released, the 35-year-old had been training with Burton Albion, where he spent the second half of the 2017-18 campaign on loan.
In September, Bent was asked whether a move north of the border to join Steven Gerrard at Rangers would appeal.
Bent's former Tottenham Hotspur team mate Jermaine Defoe joined Rangers in January and would be interested in following in his footsteps.
"It's something I've looked at before," the striker told Sky Sports Goals on Sunday.
"There were a few links there and a few clubs, but it was back in the day. The timing wasn't great for me as things were going pretty well for me down here (England).


283 small block/2spd powerglide 2 dr cpe. this one has front clip off now but have it in storage.body is solid/trunk is still sealed.only holes are in floor above exhaust and for floor shifter.
the other is the same but only red in color and body is ruff-needs rear quarters and floor(has been patched)original mn.car but in running condition w/motor having been gone thru.
will sell only as a pair....best offer over 3500.00 takes em both. will post pic of red car also soon as I can.
Dose Jimbo still have the Impala's for sale?


All classes and open gyms will resume, Sunday, April 28th!!!
All of our registrations will open on Monday, April 15th. Click on the picture above to go to our registration page and then select the program and classes that best fit your fall schedule!!! See you again in the fall.
Take I-93 to Exit 3 in New Hampshire onto route 111 east for approximately 5.5 miles. The Phanzone Complex is on the left.


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Plaato was founded by Pål Ingebrigtsen and Michael Kononsky in 2015. The motivation was to experience the whole journey from idea to product, and at the same time work with our hobby. Beer brewing had been very popular in Norway for several years, and as eager beer brewers, we found a way into product development through beer. Making products that we and all enthusiastic homebrewers could enjoy using has always been our goal.
PLAATO Airlock: The First Product
It took about a year and a half before we could quit our jobs, and fully focus on making brewing equipment. We are grateful for getting to work with something we love, all our products are truely by brewers, for brewers. By early 2016 the first prototype of the PLAATO Airlock was ready, and by June 2017 the final product was launched. Making it possible for all homebrewers to experience the magic of fermentation in a new, better way was and will always be the reason why we love our jobs! Read more about our first product, the airlock here.
In parallel the development of the Industrial version of PLAATO begun, and by the end of the same year, the prototype was ready. Several pilot studies with industrial breweries were conducted, giving great feedback, before the expected launch in the beginning of 2020. We always aim for the highest standards in our products, which makes it a great confirmation of doing something right that both homebrewers and industrial brewers approve of our products. Read thourough reviews of the PLAATO Airlock from some of our favourite brewers here.
The airlock was fully funded on Kickstarter after seven hours, and reached 700% funding and a total of $230 000 after thirty days. Today we have sold over 6.000 of the airlock.
PLAATO Keg and Valve
The keg was fully funded on Kickstarter after just one hour(!) and reached $151,627. We currently have 4.000 preorders of the keg, which will ship in January 2020.
The Valve has sold 4.000 thus far, and has proved to be a simple yet useful tool. We believe that it is better to be safe than sorry when making a precious homebrew. That is why we developed the valve to qualize any negative pressure that might be present in the system, eliminating suckback. Check out the review from our friend and fellow home brewer, David Heath Homebrew here.


Are you looking for some fun St. Patrick's day treats to take to your child's classroom or to work? Last week, we decided to make some St. Patrick's day cutout sugar cookies and decorate them with green royal icing. For these cookies, you can make your favorite sugar cookie recipe. The one that I used, didn't seem sweet enough to me so I will be looking for the perfect recipe.
In the past, I've always struggled with rolling out cookie dough that had the same thickness. After seeing a professional cookie maker rolling out her dough, I noticed that she was using silicone measuring dough strips to make her cookies the same thickness throughout. I didn't have a rolling pin, so I opted to buy a rolling pin that has the thickness rings included. You can buy it here (aff link).
Royal icing is a bit tricky to figure out but if I can achieve it then so can you. The first time that I made royal icing, it was a bit too runny and it ran off the cookies. This time, I adjusted the powder sugar content and it turned out so much better.
This recipe for Royal icing calls for using raw egg whites but I opted to use the pasteurized egg whites. I'm always super careful when it comes to food safety. Even though egg whites aren't supposed to contain salmonella or other food-borne illnesses, it is still possible for the yolks to cross-contaminate your egg whites.
How to make royal icing using pasteurized egg whites for your favorite sugar cookie recipes.
6 cups Powder Sugar Start with 6 cups and add more depending on the consistency.
Wilton leaf green gel food coloring.
Measure and pour pasteurized egg whites into your mixing bowl.
Add vanilla, cream of tater, and food coloring. You only need a small amount of gel food coloring.
Slowly add the 6 cups of powdered sugar and begin mixing the royal icing on low-medium speed until you get a smooth consistency.
Use a toothpick to test the consistency. When you use the toothpick to separate the icing, it should take about 15 seconds to come back together. Or you can use a spoon, knife, or a whisk and lift out of the bowl. If the icing holds together in a peak, it is the correct consistency.
Adjusting the icing to the correct consistency. If the icing is too thin, slowly add more powdered sugar until you reach the desired consistency. Add a small amount of water if your icing is too thick. Use the mixer on low-medium to stir in the additional powdered sugar or water.
Cover immediately until you are ready to use it.
Pipe the outside edges first and allow the icing to dry. Then come back and use the flood technique to fill your pattern.
Allow the icing to fully dry before placing them in a sealed container. If the icing isn't fully dry, the cookies will end up sticking together.
How do you celebrate St. Patrick's Day? Have you ever made clover cookies with royal icing?
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