text:
New Orleans Saints' Drew Brees Big Winner At 2010 ESPYS
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was the big winner at Wednesday night's (July 14) 2010 ESPY Awards in Los Angeles, winning honors in four categories including Male Athlete of the Year.
Brees beat out other major athletes for the big award, including Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Jimmie Johnson and Albert Pujols.
He also took home ESPY trophies for Best Championship Performance, Best NFL player and shared the Team Award with his Super Bowl champion teammates.
"I'd also like to thank the Who Dat nation," Brees said during his acceptance speech. "We love you."
As for Female Athlete of the Year, that honor went to gold medal-winning skier Lindsey Vonn, who beat out Serena Williams and basketball players Maya Moore of Connecticut and Diana Taurasi of the Phoenix Mercury to take the trophy.
She also took home Best Female U.S. Olympian.
Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson took home honors for Best Coach, while his star player Kobe Bryant won Best NBA Player.
Lebron James didn't take home any awards, nor did he attend. It was probably a good move, because when James' image was shown during a montage of male athlete nominees, the crowd booed.
Lebron got made fun of a bit too. Actors Steve Carell and Paul Rudd spoofed James' hourlong "Decision" special on ESPN in a pre-taped bit that ended with Carell announcing he had chosen to eat dinner at Outback instead of his longtime haunt Chili's.
And "Saturday Night Live" comic Seth Meyers who served as the show's host also threw in a jab when he ended the show saying: "Stay tuned to ESPN for an encore presentation of LeBron James' 'The Decision.'"
Pro-golder Phil Mickelson took home the award for Best Male Golfer, ending Tiger Woods' five-year run as the winner and what would've been Woods' 23rd career ESPY.
Even though he didn't win, Woods was worked into the show thanks to some jokes via Meyers. He worked in various jokes poking fun at the superstar golfer's much talked about sex scandal
"We all know which free agent is making the most money this summer — Elin Nordegren," he said, referring to the golfer's estranged wife.
"Everyone, give it up for Tiger Woods, if you haven't already," Meyers added later.
Other winners during the evening included:
Snowboarder Shaun White who was named Best Male Olympic Athlete for his gold medal, as well as Best Action Sports Star.
Running back Chris Johnson of the Tennessee Titans was named Best Breakthrough Athlete after rushing for more than 2,500 yards this past season.
Quarterback Brett Favre and receiver Greg Lewis of the Minnesota Vikings received the award for Best Play, for a passing play that resulted in a touchdown when Favre tossed the ball under pressure and Lewis caught it at the end of the game early last season.
Best Upset Victory went to the men's basketball team from the University of Northern Iowa for its surprise win over the University of Kansas in the NCAA championship tournament.
ESPY Awards
JSkillet says:
Good to know Chris Johnson rushed for 2500 yards last season. I'm surprised nobody else talked about it.
millie duet says:
GEAUX DREW!
b.k. da wrestler says:
Congratz 2 all da winners frm espyz
Hong Kong Fuey says:
GEAUX SAINTS! WHODAT?!!


text:
Godło Turkmenistanu – symbol państwa turkmeńskiego.

Opis
Tarcza herbowa godła Turkmenistanu ma formę zielonej ośmioramiennej gwiazdy, której ramiona posiadają boki ułożone wobec siebie pod kątem prostym. W jej wnętrzu znajdują się dwa okręgi, ułożone współśrodkowo, z których większy ma barwę czerwoną, a mniejszy – niebieską.

Na zielonym tle ośmioramiennej gwiazdy, dokoła czerwonego okręgu, znajdują się wyobrażenia głównych elementów decydujących o bogactwie Turkmenistanu i symbole kraju:

 w dolnej części – 7 otwartych torebek nasiennych bawełny
 po obu bokach – 2 stylizowane kłosy koloru złotego
 u góry – biały półksiężyc (symbol Islamu) i pięć pięcioramiennych gwiazd. Symbolizują one wiarę w pomyślną przyszłość, a ich liczba oznacza pięć wilajetów kraju: achalski, bałkański, lebapski, maryjski i daszoguski.

W okręgu czerwonym umieszczono 5 typowych wzorów zdobniczych wyplatanych na tradycyjnych turkmeńskich dywanach. Ich umieszczenie ma nawiązywać do tradycji lokalnej sztuki z jednej strony, a z drugiej – symbolizować powiązanie wzajemne całego społeczeństwa. Liczba 5 prawdopodobnie wiąże się i liczbą obwodów (wilajatów) kraju.

W centrum godła, w niebieskim okręgu, umieszczono wizerunek Janardaga – konia rasy achał-tekińskiej, należącego do pierwszego prezydenta Turkmenistanu – Saparmurata Nijazowa (Turkmenbaszy), mającego uosabiać dumę Turkmenów i będącego klasycznym wizerunkiem tej rasy koni.

Godło państwowe ma symbolizować dawne dziedzictwo kulturowe kraju: chana Oguzów i Wielkich Seldżuków, którzy stworzyli potężne imperium i wywarli duży wpływ na historię powszechną.

Historia
Opis wizerunku godła i jego interpretacja znajduje się w Ustawie o państwowym godle Turkmenistanu z 16 sierpnia 2003 roku. Obowiązujące do 2003 godło Turkmenistanu wyglądało podobnie, miało jednak okrągłą formę. Tarcza herbowa została zmieniona, gdyż prezydent Nijazow oświadczył, iż u dawnych Turkmenów ośmioramienna gwiazda była symbolem obfitości, pokoju i spokoju. Pierwotne godło niepodległego Turkmenistanu, z 1992 roku miało nieco inną kolorystykę: zamiast zielonego dominował kolor czerwony, a umieszczony w centrum koń był maści białej. Godło to zastąpiło symbol używany w czasach sowieckich.

Zobacz też
 Flaga Turkmenistanu
 Hymn Turkmenistanu
 godło Turkmeńskiej SRR

Przypisy

Turkmenia
Symbole narodowe Turkmenistanu

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Using Digital Elevation Model Derived Height Above the Nearest Drainage for flood inundation mapping and determining river hydraulic geometry
The size of this resource is 30.6 MB
Apr 25, 2018 at 7:56 p.m.
River hydraulic geometry is an important input to hydraulic and hydrologic models that route flow along streams, determine the relationship between stage and discharge, and map the potential for flood inundation give the flow in a stream reach. Traditional approaches to quantify river geometry have involved river cross-sections, such as are required for input to the HEC-RAS model. Extending such cross-section based models to large scales has proven complex, and, in this presentation, an alternative approach, the Height Above Nearest Drainage, or HAND, is described. As we have implemented it, HAND uses multi-directional flow directions derived from a digital elevation model (DEM) using the Dinifinity method in TauDEM software (http://hydrology.usu.edu/taudem) to determine the height of each grid cell above the nearest stream along the flow path from that cell to the stream. With this information, and the depth of flow in the stream, the potential for and depth of flood inundation can be determined. Furthermore, by dividing streams into reaches or segments, the area draining to each reach can be isolated and a series of threshold depths applied to the grid of HAND values in that isolated reach catchment, to determine inundation volume, surface area and wetted bed area. Dividing these by length yields reach average cross section area, width, and wetted perimeter. Together with slope (also determined from the DEM) and roughness (Manning's n) these provide all the inputs needed for establishing a Manning's equation uniform flow assumption stage-discharge rating curve and for mapping potential inundation from discharge. This presentation will describe the application of this approach across the continental US in conjunction with NOAA's National Water Model for prediction of stage and flood inundation potential in each of the 2.7 million reaches of the National Hydrography Plus (NHDPlus) dataset, the vast majority of which are ungauged. The continental US scale application has been enabled through the use of high performance parallel computing at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the CyberGIS Center at the University of Illinois.
Presentation at 2018 AWRA Spring Specialty Conference: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Water Resources X, Orlando, Florida, April 23-25, http://awra.org/meetings/Orlando2018/.
The content of this resource is part of: 2018 AWRA Spring Specialty Conference: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Water Resources X, Orlando, Florida, April 23-25, http://awra.org/meetings/Orlando2018/.
This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Award Title
Award Number
National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: Cyberinfrastructure for Advancing Hydrologic Knowledge through Collaborative Integration of Data Science, Modeling and Analysis OCI 1148453 and 1148090.
National Science Foundation SI2-SSI: CyberGIS Software Integration for Sustained Geospatial Innovation OCI 1047916, 1343785, and 1443080
Tarboton, D., X. Zheng, D. Maidment, Y. Liu, S. Wang (2018). Using Digital Elevation Model Derived Height Above the Nearest Drainage for flood inundation mapping and determining river hydraulic geometry, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/8ffaac4118db485badbe48bed96633be

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Dolls' Houses have been favourite toys for generations of children. Many are family heirlooms that pass from Grandmother to Mum and down to daughters. Our beautiful selection has something for everyone and we're sure you'll find the perfect present young children who would love to get into the property market! From classic wooden dolls' houses to more modern buildings to families of wooden dolls and lots of wonderfully detailed furniture, it's all here for your consideration. These magnificent wooden toys will inspire hours of thoughtful and imaginative fun and games and make fabulous gifts which will be treasured for many years.


text:
Q: Php curl request returns '405 Not Allowed', Is there any other method for scraping? I am using php curl, my code is working for other websites but when i request for this url https://i.local.ch/#q?q=manager&origin=&rid=ac8EV&sort=relevance it returns:
405 Not Allowed
nginx
Note: SSl is active on my domain
include "simple_html_dom.php";
$url="https://i.local.ch/#q?q=manager&origin=&rid=ac8EV&sort=relevance";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);

$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
print_r( $info );

echo var_dump($server_output);

A: HTTP 405 errors are caused when an HTTP method is not allowed by a web server for a requested URL.
Make same request from browser and check request headers. Make sure you are using correct method get, post or put while making request.  Also check if any additional headers are sent with request as some urls only allowed from ajax request and you can achieve this by adding proper headers with request.
You can send additional headers using below method

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    "Accept-Charset" => "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7",
    "Keep-Alive" => "115",
    "Connection" => "keep-alive",
    "X-Requested-With" => "XMLHttpRequest"
));

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Start applying the colors of your brand The first thing to think about is how you would like to customize the template with the addition of your brand colors. The template uses all the latest web development tools and is based on the latest version of Bootstrap, Bootstrap 4, to facilitate the maturation of your project. It has been downloaded 5,027 times. Editable templates are extremely useful to use. Finding a free blank template is really a matter of great luck.
Decide the type of template you want to use and you are ready to start! The template is extremely colorful in itself and has 5 color schemes to choose from as well. It is very easy to customize after downloading. There are several sample templates floating in line, which causes more confusion.
The template includes many features. It provides all the functions that are required in an administrator template. You can start with your completely free form templates or you can start with a blank form.
The template can be purchased from ThemeForest at a price of $ 24 for the normal license. It has all the important features, such as graphics, forms, tables, a collection of user interface elements and many more pages. It is well documented to help you start with the template easily without any problems. The administrator templates are used to build the back-end of an application for the role of controlling and managing the application. There are many free and premium administrator templates available that you can use to start your project without delay. There are a variety of templates available that can be used to reserve tickets.
You can download the tickets HERE. The printing of tickets is possible with programs that are now installed on your own personal computer if you do not require variant data, such as a seat number or a ticket number, but it is faster and simpler to use a program that is specially made for printing tickets. Ticketing is the ideal way to manage the seating plan and other characteristics of the event efficiently in order to create an event or other successful meeting. The San Jose ticket is a little harder to read.
You can customize the tickets when you find a template that suits your occasion. The ticket must be universal enough for replication through thousands of different events, maintaining a distinct identity. It's easy to convert your movie tickets into a nice learning game. Large movie tickets are usually offered in one design.
Know which stadiums you will need to obtain tickets in advance and which ones can ensure better deals in Stubhub closer to the day of the game. An event ticket is similar to any invitation card that contains information about the theme of the function. Most tickets are made and sold for fundraising events, as it provides an organized method to raise money for a great cause or any other nonprofit project. Creating tickets and raffle tickets is simpler than you might anticipate.


text:
Best Action 2020 Movies
Run Hide Fight
17-year-old Zoe Hull uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-streaming school shooters.
Genre: Action, Best 2021, Best Action 2020, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best Action 2020, Best Adventure 2020, Best Drama 2020, Drama, Featured movies, Oscar 2021, Western
Wonder Woman comes into conflict with the Soviet Union during the Cold War in the 1980s and finds a formidable foe by the name of the Cheetah.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best 2021, Best Action 2020, Best Adventure 2020, DC Comics, Fantasy
A portal transports Lt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best 2021, Best Action 2020, Best Adventure 2020, Fantasy, Featured movies
Max Cloud
A space cruiser crashes on a planet that is home to an intergalactic prison.
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Comedy, Science Fiction
The Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity
Every few hundred years, the most powerful demon on earth—a snake demon—awakens, and the Yin-Yang Masters are summoned to the capital. Meanwhile, the Princess of the realm has her own…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Drama 2020, Best Fantasy & Sci-fi 2020, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction
Movie was released on 2020-11-13, the IMDB rating is 6,6 (upd: 11-11-2020) and lasts 100 min. Fatman belongs to the following categories: Action, Comedy, Featured movies. Directed by Eshom Nelms,…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Comedy 2020, Best Fantasy & Sci-fi 2020, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller
Torbaaz
At an Afghanistan refugee camp, an ex-army doctor seeks to bring children joy through cricket and soon realizes that the stakes go beyond the sport.
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Drama 2020, Drama, Sport
Caught In Time
A detective tracks down a gang of criminals ten years after they initially evaded arrest.
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Crime 2020, Best Drama 2020, Crime, Drama
Movie was released on 2020-11-26, the IMDB rating is 7,0 (upd: 11-27-2020) and lasts 101 min. Mosul belongs to the following categories: Drama, War. Directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan.OverviewWhen ISIS…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Drama 2020, Drama, War
Honest Thief
Movie was released on 2020-09-03 and lasts min. Honest Thief belongs to the following categories: Action, Crime, Drama, Featured movies, Thriller. Directed by Anthony Beckwith, Kate Hennessy, Mark Williams, Nicholas…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Crime 2020, Best Drama 2020, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Movie was released on 2020-10-30, the IMDB rating is 5,9 (upd: 10-29-2020) and lasts min. Rogue City belongs to the following categories: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Directed by Olivier Marchal.OverviewCaught…
Movie was released on 2020-09-23, the IMDB rating is 6,1 (upd: 09-20-2020) and lasts 123 min. Enola Holmes belongs to the following categories: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Featured movies, Mystery. Directed…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best Action 2020, Best Adventure 2020, Best Crime 2020, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Movie was released on 2020-10-16, the IMDB rating is 6,9 (upd: 10-16-2020) and lasts 118 min. Love and Monsters belongs to the following categories: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction. Directed…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best Action 2020, Best Adventure 2020, Best Comedy 2020, Comedy, Oscar 2021, Romance, Science Fiction
Movie was released on 2020-09-04, the IMDB rating is 4,2 (upd: 09-07-2020) and lasts 115 min. Mulan belongs to the following categories: Action, Drama, Fantasy, War. Directed by Niki Caro.OverviewWhen…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best Action 2020, Best Adventure 2020, Best Drama 2020, Best Family 2020, Drama, Fantasy, Featured movies, Oscar 2021, War
Movie was released on 2020-08-22, the IMDB rating is 8,0 (upd: 08-24-2020) and lasts 150 min. Tenet belongs to the following categories: Action, Thriller. Directed by Christopher Nolan.OverviewArmed with only…
Genre: Action, Best 2020, Best Action 2020, Best Fantasy & Sci-fi 2020, In theatres, Oscar 2021, Thriller
Movie was released on 2020-07-02, the IMDB rating is 6,2 (upd: 10-17-2020) and lasts 90 min. Unhinged belongs to the following categories: Featured movies, Thriller. Directed by Angel De La…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Thriller 2020, Thriller
Movie was released on 2020-07-29, the IMDB rating is 6,5 (upd: 11-13-2020) and lasts 119 min. Greenland belongs to the following categories: Action, Featured movies, Science Fiction, Thriller. Directed by…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Drama 2020, Best Thriller 2020, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
The Swordsman
Movie was released on 2020-09-23, the IMDB rating is 7,1 (upd: 11-08-2020) and lasts 100 min. The Swordsman belongs to the following categories: Action. Directed by Choi Jae-hoon.OverviewTae-yeul, a swordsman…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Drama 2020, Drama, History
The Silencing
Movie was released on 2020-08-14, the IMDB rating is 6,0 (upd: 08-06-2020) and lasts 93 min. The Silencing belongs to the following categories: Action, Crime, Featured movies, Thriller. Directed by…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Crime 2020, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Movie was released on 2020-08-14, the IMDB rating is 7,6 (upd: 08-08-2020) and lasts 113 min. Project Power belongs to the following categories: Action, Crime, Science Fiction. Directed by Ariel…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Crime 2020, Best Fantasy & Sci-fi 2020, Crime, Science Fiction
Movie was released on 2020-08-14, the IMDB rating is 7,2 (upd: 09-24-2020) and lasts 147 min. The Eight Hundred belongs to the following categories: History, War. Directed by Guan Hu.OverviewIn…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Drama 2020, Drama, History, War
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WW2. With no air…
Genre: Action, Best 2020, Best Action 2020, Drama, History, Oscar 2021, War
Four immortal mercenaries who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best Action 2020, Fantasy
Movie was released on 2020-08-05, the IMDB rating is 6,7 (upd: 09-21-2020) and lasts 108 min. Deliver Us from Evil belongs to the following categories: Action, Crime. Directed by Hong…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Crime 2020, Best Thriller 2020, Crime, Thriller
A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Drama 2020, Drama, Featured movies, History, Memorial Day, War
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Comedy 2020, Best Crime 2020, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Tyler Rake, a fearless black market mercenary, embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he's enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.
After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best 2020, Best Action 2020, Best Adventure 2020, Comedy, Crime, DC Comics
Marcus Burnett is now a police inspector and Mike Lowery is in a midlife crisis. They unite again when an Albanian mercenary, whose brother they killed, promises them an important…
Genre: Action, Best 2020, Best Action 2020, Best Comedy 2020, Best Crime 2020, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine – Bloodshot. As…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best 2020, Best Action 2020, Best Fantasy & Sci-fi 2020, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Wanting to leave their dystopian world behind for a faraway paradise, three outlaws plot a money heist — and draw the attention of a vicious killer.
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Crime 2020, Best Drama 2020, Crime, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Spenser Confidential
Spenser — an ex-cop better known for making trouble than solving it — just got out of prison and is leaving Boston for good. But first he gets roped into…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Comedy 2020, Best Crime 2020, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen – for a very specific purpose…
Genre: Action, Best 2020, Best Action 2020, Best Horror 2020, Best Thriller 2020, Featured movies, Horror, Thriller
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Comedy 2020, Best Family 2020, Comedy, Family
Walkaway Joe
A young boy named Dallas, who goes on a search for his pool-hustling father after he abandons their family. Dallas is determined to bring his father home when he meets…
Genre: Action, Best Action 2020, Best Drama 2020, Drama
A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.
Genre: Adventure, Best 2020, Best Action 2020, Best Adventure 2020, Best Drama 2020, Best Family 2020, Drama, Family
Based on the global blockbuster videogame franchise from Sega, Sonic the Hedgehog tells the story of the world's speediest hedgehog as he embraces his new home on Earth. In this…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best 2020, Best Action 2020, Best Adventure 2020, Best Comedy 2020, Best Family 2020, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Featured movies, Science Fiction
Movie was released on 2020-02-28, the IMDB rating is 5,7 (upd: 07-30-2020) and lasts 104 min. Mortal belongs to the following categories: Action, Adventure, Fantasy. Directed by André Øvredal.OverviewFantasy adventure…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best Action 2020, Best Adventure 2020, Drama, Fantasy
After 10 years, Eddie Franks (Craig Fairbrass) is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother Sean (George Russo) has other ideas….
Genre: Action, Best 2020, Best Action 2020, Best Crime 2020, Best Drama 2020, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Breaking Surface
Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Best Action 2020, Best Drama 2020, Best Thriller 2020, Drama, Thriller
A drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire.
Genre: Action, Best 2019, Best Action 2020, Best Comedy 2020, Best Crime 2020, Comedy, Crime, Featured movies


Pro-Russian rebels have abducted an artist in eastern Ukraine, the International Business Times reported. Sergei Zakharov, who created the Murzilki art project, had previously mocked the separatist group that's taken over the city of Donetsk and declared it the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
Zakharov attracted attention over the past month in Donetsk for the Murzilki project, a series of public art actions ridiculing the DPR. Most recently, he targeted leader Igor Girkin "Strelkov," who has claimed responsibility for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and is also believed to have fought with the Serbs during the Bosnian War. The artist depicted Strelkov holding a gun to his own head, below him the encouraging Nike slogan: "Just Do It." Zakharov's plywood cut-out figures have also depicted commander Arsen Pavlov as a devilish faun and a DPR soldier as a character in Mikhail Bulgakov's 1925 satire Heart of a Dog.
The DPR has proven itself exceedingly concerned with art's political reach. In June, it took over an arts nonprofit. Pro-Russian fan art also abounds on the group's VKontakte (Russian Facebook) page.


Enjoy mini golf, go karts, canoes, kayaks & more!
Enjoy beautiful scenery, golf under the waterfall surrounded by water and wildlife. Come for summer fun with our go karts, kayaks, canoes and more! Family owned and operated for over 30 years, fully licensed and insured. *Closed for the winter.


text:
Modern Languages for Continuing Education
Modern Languages for Continuing Education: French
Guide to resources available for language students, from the Continuing Education Department or online.
Subjects: Continuing Education, Modern Languages
Other Languages A - J
Other languages K- Z
The Library has a collection of films which are available to borrow or to watch in the Library with headphones. See the Library website for details.
Please note: the films listed below are available in VHS format only (not DVD).
French Language films (with English subtitles) include:
À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard) (1960)
Ridicule (Patrice Leconte) (1996)
Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle) (1987)
La règle du jeu (Jean Renoir) (1939)
Les quatre cents coups ( François Truffaut) (1959)
Online resources for French Language
These websites provide free online resources to help you learn and practice French.
Bonjour de France
Website recommended by Conted French tutors, which has exercises organised by level.
includes grammar exercises, listening activities and games. Recommended by Conted French tutors.
BBC Languages - French
French language resources, including grammar and vocabulary revision, and links to French TV programmes and newspapers.
The digital platform of the Alliance Française de Londres. An online multimedia library providing access to free French e-books, videos, podcasts and other learning resources
French at the Open University
Free online short course from the Open University
Sesame Project - French
Resources written by or selected by OUDCE tutors
Online resources for French Literature
These resources are suitable for students who are studying French Literature.
Aventures from the bookshelf
A blog (in English) from Oxford University exploring French literature
The digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
A website (in French) of news, reviews and resources connected to French literature and publishing
French books at Continuing Education
Some books are kept in the Language cupboard at Ewert House, while others are in the Library at Rewley House. Those at Rewley House can be found at the following call numbers:
443 French/English dictionaries
445 Books for students of French, including textbooks, grammar, and simple stories
French Literature - overviews and histories of French literature ( in English)
French Literature - works - in both English translation and French
Below are some examples of books that are held at the Rewley House Library. Continuing Education students may borrow these books.
Grammaire Progressive du Francais by Maia Grégoire; Gracia Merlo (As told to)
Call Number: 445 GRE
L'express: aujourd'hui la France : choix de textes by Steele,Ross Pavis, José
Call Number: 445 STE (Oversize)
La littérature française au présent : héritage, modernité, mutations by Viart, Dominique | Vercier, Bruno | Evrard, Franck |
Call Number: 840.9 VIA
A Short History of French Literature by Sarah Kay; Terence Cave; Malcolm Bowie
Desert by J. M. G. Le Clézio
Call Number: 843.914 LE C
Many e-books purchased by Bodleian Libraries are available and can be found on SOLO. You can access the content of these on computers in the Library or in the Resource Room at Ewert House.
E-books may include books written in English about French language, literature and culture, as well as books written in French. Below are a few examples and there are many more on SOLO. To search for books in French, go to Advanced Search, click on "Any language" and select French from the dropdown menu. To find e-books, refine your results to 'show only online resources'.
French All-in-One for Dummies® by Consumer Dummies Staff
A Comprehensive French Grammar by Glanville Price Characterized by clear and accessible explanations, numerous examples and sample sentences, a new section on register and tone, and useful appendices covering topics including age and time, A Comprehensive French Grammar, Sixth Edition is an indispensable tool for advanced students of French language and literature. A revised edition of this established, bestselling French grammar Includes a new section on register and medium and offers expanded treatment of French punctuation Features numerous examples and sample sentences, and useful appendices covering topics including age, time, and dimension, all available in an easily-navigable format Written by renowned French scholar, Glanville Price
The French Language Today by Adrian Battye; Marie-Anne Hintze; Paul Rowlett This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the French language from the perspective of modern linguistics. Placing French within its social and historical context, the authors highlight the complex, diverse aspects of the language in a lively and accessible way. A variety of topics is covered, including the distribution of French in the world, the historical development of standard French, the sound system of French, its sentence patterns, and its stylistic and geographical variations. Fully updated and revised, this new edition places a greater emphasis on sociolinguistics. To make the book more user-friendly, the following new features have been added: * a further reading guide at the end of each chapter * a glossary of linguistic terms * an expanded bibliography and index.
The Cambridge History of French Literature by William Burgwinkle (Editor); Nicholas Hammond (Editor); Emma Wilson (Editor)
Open Access e-books
Some e-books are available online from any internet connection, without the need for a log in. These are marked on SOLO as "Open Access". Some examples of open access French books available via SOLO are below:
Le roman français au tournant du XXIe siècle by Blanckeman, Bruno | Mura-Brunel, Aline | Dambre, Marc
Le roman français contemporain face à l'histoire : thèmes et formes. by Viart, Dominique, Author | Rubino, Gianfranco
<< Previous: Finding articles
Next: German >>
Last Updated: Jun 25, 2021 1:05 PM
URL: https://ox.libguides.com/conted-languages
Tags: continuing education, french, german, italian, language, modern greek, russian, spanish


I've published this Ultimate Synergy Survival guide now for seven years running and it's always popular with both regulars and newbies. Now updated with 2019 links, content and Atlanta-specific information. It's a living document, so will be subject to updates as we get nearer the conference.
I've published this Ultimate Synergy Survival guide now for six years running and it's always popular with both regulars and newbies. Now updated with 2018 links, content and Anaheim-specific information. It's a living document, so will be subject to updates as we get nearer the conference.


Today the Supreme Court granted cert in Frank v. Gaos, a challenge to the class action settlement negotiated by the plaintiffs' lawyers in Gaos v. Google which provided $0 to class members and $8.5 million to be divided between the plaintiffs' lawyers – who received $1000/hour on this case – and third-party charities unrelated to the case. The challenge was brought by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is representing petitioners Ted Frank and Melissa Holyoak.
CEI Director of Litigation and petitioner Ted Frank said, "We are hopeful that the Supreme Court's review will result in a standard forbidding attorneys from misusing class action settlements to selfishly put themselves and third parties ahead of their clients."
The Supreme Court is expected to hear argument in this case during the fall session.
ABOUT: The Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Class Action Fairness represents class members against unfair class action procedures and settlements. Originally founded by Ted Frank in 2009, the center has secured millions of dollars for consumers and shareholders and won landmark precedents that safeguard consumers, investors, and the courts.


Instagram is taking its Shopping ads one step further by making it possible for people to buy the products in the ads without leaving the app.
The feature, called Checkout on Instagram, is currently being tested in a closed beta program by nearly two dozen businesses and is only available to users in the US.
Inside Retail NZ has asked for details about if and when the feature will be available outside the US but had not received a reply at the time of this writing.
Adidas, Burberry, Dior, H&M, Michael Kors, Nike, Outdoor Voices, Uniqlo and Zara are among the 23 fashion, beauty and accessories brands now rolling out the feature. Others will be added in future, according to Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.
When users tap on a product in a Shopping ad from one of these businesses, they now see a "Checkout on Instagram" button. By tapping the button, they can select the size and colour of the item they want and enter their payment and shipping details to purchase.
Users receive notifications about shipment and delivery within the Instagram app, and the platform saves all their information for future purchases.
In the past, if users wanted to purchase a product linked to a Shopping ad, they were redirected to the brand's website. The new feature removes this step and – crucially for Instagram – keeps consumers in the app.
"Social selling is really taking shape both in Australia and globally and it's great to see Instagram leading the way through the next stage of the social selling journey. Giving consumers the option to complete a purchase right then and there in the app will simplify the shopping process and allow brands to connect more easily with shoppers," said Jordan Sim, group product manager at BigCommerce, an e-commerce platform that has been active in offering integrations with Shopping on Instagram to its users.
Many brands have said that Shopping ads drive sales, but there's a trade-off: visibility and control over their customer data. As Instagram continues to make the purchasing process more seamless – that is, takes control of the process – some businesses will undoubtedly question whether the trade-off is worth it.
It is unclear whether the Checkout feature applies to Shopping posts in Instagram Stories, or only to posts in the feed. Last June, Instagram revealed that of the 500 million people using Instagram every day, 300 million use Stories every day.


text:
Veronica Fernandez's Diary
Havana Can't Bear Anymore
September 5, 2009 September 6, 2009 Veronica Fernadez	4 Comments
By Veronica Fernandez
House in the Havana suburb of Cojimar. Photo: Caridad
For some time I have wanted to comment on this issue once again, because I experience it daily and it has now become a part of history for its long duration. Day after day I have noticed that instead of it getting addressed, it's getting worse.
For several months, the center of the Cuban capital had seen certain improvements in terms of transportation, because numbers of new buses had been imported to the island, principally from China and Russia.
Also, new bus routes have been established in search of alternative solutions to incorporate previously existing ones. Of course, they will never be able to fully serve the mass of people who live in Havana today.
For a great number of these people, coming from the eastern provinces and having squeezed into every corner of the capital, the situation has existed for many years. As alluded to in the famous song "La Habana no aguanta más" (Havana can't bear any more) by the Cuban group Los Van Van. This circumstance has caused the Cuban government take steps to control this situation.
It is obvious that this mass movement of people to the city has overloaded all of the city's systems, including employment, housing, food markets, public recreation, workplaces, etc.
This whole situation has reverberated in areas such as Cojímar, which was a small community up until 15 years ago and has now become a large suburb. This is due to the number of people who live in such neighborhoods and the quantity of houses and apartments that exit there. The majority of these homes have been built by the occupants themselves and range in condition from critically substandard to very nice, according to the purchasing power of each family.
As an example, I've lived in the same place for four decades. Behind my house there always existed a plot of land on which vegetable gardens were grown by the neighbor residents. When the "Special Period" economic crisis of the 1990s hit, what was cultivated on that patch of ground helped us to subsist.
Right now, seven two-story homes are under construction in the neighborhood to house more people; we still don't know where they are coming from. In short, though Cojímar is already immense, we continue being served by just a single bus route to Havana whose frequency is unpredictable. Adding to that unpredictability is that we never know – after waiting more than an hour at the bus stop – whether all the people will be able to get on.
Main Street of the Havana suburb of Cojimar. Photo: Caridad
This is because this route (the #58) arrives completely full of passengers coming from another suburb named Guiteras, which is also to the east of the city and also packed with people. The difference between it and Cojímar, though, is that Guiteras residents can take this bus line or others to get to the center of Havana, but we residents of Cojímar cannot.
A few days ago, I found myself in the Revolution Square area, where riders can board the #58. The bus driver announced to the people waiting for it that he would let on whoever he wanted to, not to mention how he communicated this to us shouting with a complete lack of common courtesy.
I wondered to myself, on top of having to wait so long to go from one place to another, and with such uncertainty, why do we also have to put up with these tirades of bad manners and disrespect?
But like this incident, I have thousands of other anecdotes. Among those that those stand out are when the drivers – whichever one it might be – "killing time." In order to pack the bus with people and collect more fares. They pack the bus full with citizens and then say they cannot continue because they have to break for a snack half way along the route, or these drivers might stop the bus and get out to make a phone call.
It is endless how much one can say about the poor service on this route and of its employees and administrative staff who reside at the end of the line in Guiteras.
Why is it that other places and suburbs of the capital have benefited from transportation, new facilities, street repairs, sewer systems, public lighting, etc., and Cojímer residents continue to be forgotten? – this village of such history and being so close to the very center of the city.
Who is to blame? I'm sure it is not for a lack of complaining or making suggestions. Many think that it's because of negligence, because as the saying goes: when there's a will there's a way.
What can be done with all these inconveniences and discouragement to people who are honest, simple and supporters of the Revolution?
← No More Faces
Time for Saving Energy →
Veronica Fernadez
Veronica Fernandez: I was born in the town of Regla, on the other side of Havana Bay. Over the years, many people from Regla have gone to live in Cojimar, fleeing the contamination from the petroleum refinery in Regla. That's what my family did when I was just four years old. Since I was a little girl I have been drawn to the arts and letters. Poetry and narrative writing are my favorites. I had the good fortune to study philology, a branch of the human sciences dealing with language and literature, at the University of Havana with top notch professors. As a Capricorn, I adore organization, people who are mature, the romantic things in life and the lack of self-interest that is the backbone of these times. I enjoy our typical Cuban food, (white rice, black beans, pork and yucca with garlic sauce) and also Italian food. I also like chocolate and drinking a mojito (rum cocktail) in the historic center of my city.
4 thoughts on "Havana Can't Bear Anymore"
@Grady Ross Daugherty
The Cuban government already tried agricultural co-ops, and as you know recently Raul Castro referred to the fields situation as critically unproductive. Now the government is trying to reverse the process and rent that land to private farmers. What makes you think that co-ops will work out this time?
Alberto N Jones
All attempts to determine where people can or should live in their country is wrong and may become a source of serious social friction/stratificacion, with the creation of ghettos etc. Best examples are the Balkans, Palestine, or India. The problem in Cuba has been a lack of official vision, by focusing the limited development that have taken place in the country in the past half a century, in Havana. Copelia Ice Cream parlor, Amadeo Roldan Theater, William Soler Hospital or Lenin Park, exists only in Havana and no where else. What are people expected to do? Most people in Europe or the US, do not wish to live in the inner city, because they enjoy all of life ammenities in the suburb or small communities. Restore the beauties of Santiago de Cuba, Holguin or Ciego de Avila, provide the population with similar amenities and development opportunities and once again, people from the interior visit Havana and go home. Fix the problem, do not blame the victim!
Many years ago the guaguas drove though the side streets, next door in Camilo Cienfuegos and made pick-ups.
Grady Ross Daugherty
We live in Santa Monica, California, 10 miles west of the center of Los Angeles. Bus service here and in Los Angeles is municipally owned and is fairly good. It could however be much better, as fares rise continually and poorer people have to bear rising costs. Although there is a great difference between Cojimar/Havana and Santa Monica/Los Angeles, it seems that there is a common solution to the problems of both districts. That solution would be for the transport companies to be owned and run as cooperatives. In such cooperatives the drivers, maintenance people, administrators and managers would own capital shares. Government would own non-controlling, preferred shares, and therefore not have to tax the bus line profits. Riders might help capitalize the transport companies through preferred (non-controlling) stock purchases. All in all, the answer to the problems of citizens in both countries, whether having to do with bus service, or other enterprise and consumer problems, is co-ops
Café Paris, Havana, Cuba – Photo of the Day
Cuba: Diary of an Embarrassed Spectator
Waiting for the New Year with Riot Police at the Door
Colombian Journalist Andres Guevara Murdered
Honduran President Accused of Taking Bribes from Drug Traffickers
Fact Check: "Nobody is Punished in Cuba for their Thinking"
Horse-Drawn Taxi, Cienfuegos – Photo of the Day
A Call for Tolerance in Cuba


The plants are tobacco, but they are not intended to be smoked. Instead, the scientists who work on them believe they could save lives. Each has been genetically engineered to carry a gene that is usually found in common algae. Inside its cells, the foreign DNA forces the tobacco plant to churn out a protein that is useless to it, but that happens to be a potent drug against HIV. The scientists say the drug, and others like it, could save millions of lives across the developing world. The technique has been dubbed pharmaceutical farming, or pharming, and it is emerging as the latest battleground in the war over genetic modification.
On the other side: scientists, frustrated by the possibility that a technology they see as having the potential to save millions of lives may be stymied by fears that they see as unfounded.
The second reason has to do with what some might call "contextual" or (broadly) "environmental" issues. According to one industry spokesperson: "There is no tolerance, either regulatory or in public perception, for a human gene-based pharmaceutical to end up in the world's food supply." In other words, even if industry believes this process is safe, not enough people outside of industry are convinced of that to make it a viable business.
Britain has rejected GM plants once already – a media and consumer backlash persuaded most companies there was little market in the UK for crops that have had their genes tweaked to be resistant to pests or herbicides. But with pharming the battle lines are less clearly defined, as protesters who trashed experimental GM corn plants in France discovered. The crops were making a protein that could be used to treat cystic fibrosis, and when patient groups angrily denounced the action, mainstream green campaigners were forced to deny involvement.
So, what is a company engaged in this sort of work supposed to do when told (as companies often are) that they're ethically obligated to take stakeholders into account? Key stakeholders, here, disagree with each other. Should the company side with patient groups (how could anyone have more of a stake than them?) or with environmental groups (who, after all, claim to represent the interests of nothing less than the planet and every living thing on it)?
This is just the kind of real-life case-study that everyone with a theory (or even just an opinion) about business ethics ought to be thinking about. Ask yourself this: does your way of thinking about business ethics (or the theory proposed by your favourite guru) help you sort your way through to a reasonable point of view on pharming?


Gandhiji once said, "There is no God higher than truth". The two main pillars of his enduring philosophy were truth and non-violence. Gandhiji strictly maintained that the concept of truth is above and beyond all other considerations and that one must unfailingly pursue truth throughout one's journey.
Gandhiji was easily "a man of the millennium". This is because his philosophy for life is not only relevant today but is applicable to many facets of one's life. The financial services industry is built on a bedrock of trust and honesty. When a contract is drawn or a product is sold, there is an implicit understanding that the two parties to the contract are honest or the product that is being sold is "true to label".
When it comes to your hard-earned money, you deserve financial products and services that are honest and deliver on the promised commitments. For example, when you invest in a mutual fund scheme, you would expect the scheme to stay true to the promised style of investment. Any deviation from that which has been promised can derail your investment journey and have an impact on your ability to reach your investment goals. When you start your investment journey, the first thing that you do is determine your ability to take risk and the returns required to reach your goals. Thereafter, you create an asset allocation strategy that is designed to help you meet your investment objectives. As an investor, you can maintain your portfolio's asset allocation only if your investment avenue remains true to its portfolio construction. A fund is selected for a portfolio based on its style and potential risk/return metrics.
In addition to being honest about portfolio construction, fund houses should also ensure that they are transparent and that they keep their communication simple and accurate. An honest communication is one in which there is no room for doubt and everything is simple and easy to understand. As we all know, honest and open communication is the thread that holds a healthy relationship together.
Investment firms need to respect their investors' choice and empower them to make the investment decisions that suit them the best. This is only possible if they create honest funds that remain true to label and communicate in a truthful and simple manner.


Hiatus Kaiyote made their Jimmy Kimmel Live! debut last night, performing "By Fire" on air, and bonus tracks "Breathing Underwater" and their Grammy-nominated song "Nakamarra." Watch bassist Paul Bender hold down the groove for this exciting up-and-coming band from Australia who are making big waves.
Stay tuned for a feature on Bender in an upcoming issue of Bass Player Magazine.


text:
Q: Creating multiple HTML elements with JavaScript. Dynamic forms? I'd like to insert a block of HTML into the DOM when a checkbox or radio button or button is pressed.
For example, when a button is pressed, then another set of the labels and inputs below are added to the form.
<form class="details">

  First name:

  <input type="text" id="fname" name="fname">

  Last name:

  <input type="text" id="lname" name="lname">

  Job:

  <input type="text" id="job" name="job">

  ID:

  <input type="text" id="id" name="id">

  Shoe size:

  <input type="text" id="shoesize" name="shoesize">

  Helmet size:

  <input type="text" id="helmetsize" name="helmetsize">

</form>

Every time a button is pressed I'd like another set of fields where someone else can add their details to the form.
I am aware of document.createElement(), but it seems like I can only create 1 element at a time using that. This form will probably grow and so would like something less verbose.
I've experimented with appendChild()  e.g.
var details = document.getElementsByClassName('details')[0]

var newDetailsSection = '

  First name:

  <input type="text" id="fname" name="fname">

  Last name:

  <input type="text" id="lname" name="lname">

  Job:

  <input type="text" id="job" name="job">

  ID:

  <input type="text" id="id" name="id">

  Shoe size:

  <input type="text" id="shoesize" name="shoesize">

  Helmet size:

  <input type="text" id="helmetsize" name="helmetsize">

'

details.appendChild(newDetailsSection)

But I am getting an error because newDetailsSection is not of type Node - it is a string and I understand that.
I am new to web development.
Is this a use case for a JS framework that handles components? Is this what a component is?

A: if u want to add html string; innerHTML is your friend.
to append use details.innerHtML = details.innerHtML + newSectionHTML;
ofcourse i would recommend using document.createElement and create a function that returns element that contain label:
example:
function creatInput(name, label){
const labelElm = document.createElement('label');
const inputElm = document.createElement('input');

labelElm.setAttribute('for', name);
labelElm.innerText = label+':';

inputElm.setAttribute('name', name);
inputElm.setAttribute('id', name);
inputElm.setAttribute('placeholder', label);

labelElm.appendChild(input);

return labelElm;
}

this way you can reuse it for all your input simply call:
var details = document.querySelector(".details");

details.appendChild( createInput('fname','First name') );
details.appendChild( createInput('lname','Last name') );
/// .. etc