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Published12 July, 2019, 4 days ago
Author: Micheal John, Editor
Showing the world how to be a humanitarian nation, Turkey continues to be home to the world's largest refugee population (UNHCR-Turkey-Fact-Sheet). The number is suspected to be over 4 million Syrians, Iraqis and Kurds (Kurdish regions of Syria and Iraq).
But Turkey is in the sights of antagonists in the United States despite Turkey's extraordinary hospitality to Americans since the 1950s. America operates two significant strategic Air Bases in Turkey including Incirlik and Izmir.
[News and Analyses] by Micheal John and Melissa Hemingway in Syria
Note on sources: Data quoted is from two documentary videos below.
Washington has been telling Turkey it may only buy defence systems recommended and approved by the United States or face grave consequences.
The only plausible explanation is monetary greed because its defensive systems are built by a country that doesn't need them. (The US excuses sound like its Huawei Technologies feeble rationale without evidence or fact.)
"You might tell them our secrets."
Turkey needs an aerospace defence system and it does not need "friends" like the current incarnation of the United States.
Russia which also has a dire need for defence against aerospace missile attack and air-breathing threats, builds the world's best air defence systems. Dozens of nations concur.
When Turkey asked to buy the US Patriot Missile System in 2013, the USA said "No".
Without an air defence system relevant to the Turkish threat scenario, Turkey was a sitting duck. After Turkey signed on to the S-400 programme with an option to join the S-500 project, America turned around last year and said, "OK you can buy 'Patriot Missiles if you don't do business with Russia". But the deal on the S-400 was done.
Russia has become a nearly unconditional ally and a friend to the Turkish people. The two countries' diplomacy has taken them through some extraordinary rough spots in Syria and heretofore saved a lot of lives, although the situation in Idlib, Syria, today, puts both on shaky ground because of enormous and unacceptable attacks on hospitals and medical units there. (see: Idlib, Syria Explodes Again. Hospitals are Targets.)
Turkey, with its own 81 million people, plus 4 million refugees, must protect the country from its violent and and well-armed neighbours, Syria, Iran and Iraq plus all their included militias, surrogate secondary wars, warriors and outright fundamentalist lunatic terrorists.
Turkey has not shared its detailed threat evaluations with FPMag but it has said that it has an urgent need to fulfill. It began taking delivery of the S-400 aerospace missile systems earlier Friday.
India also has bought the S-400 Aerospace Defence System
Interestingly, India has looked at the potential threat from Pakistan and China and after one and a half years of research and negotiations has also selected and committed to buying the S-400 systems, expressing some urgency for a fielded and operational set of air defence regiments instead of waiting for the S-500 operational units which may stretch out having operational units past year 2021. (See documentary video below.)
If the USA is breaking off relations with Turkey over the S-400 system purchase, when will the USA Incirlik Air Base in Incirlik, Turkey (1951-> ?) be closed?
Photo Credit: Google Maps
Photo Art: Rosa Yamamoto FPMag
Turkey's Punishment for not buying American
Because Turkey has acquired the S-400 Aerospace Missile System built largely in St. Petersburg, America has threatened Turkey with enemy-level sanctions; America says it will evict Turkey from the NATO F-35s project; and exclude Turkey from all other NATO collaborative defence projects. American bullying is seen across NATO as reprehensible but no contact wishes to speak out officially or otherwise.
Choosing the S-400 system was a gamble for the Turks, not because of the American threats but because Russia will soon put the more advanced (and more expensive) S-500 Aerospace Missile System into service. Turkey could not wait after being exposed to a risk that has indeed been realized, for five years. It has left the door open for the S-500.
Russia is not the Enemy – Arcane American Doctrine is the Enemy.
Doctrine invented by business planners inside a defence industrial base of Europe, Britain and America pegs Russia as a Machevalian enemy.
Russia, despite its truly passive nature since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989, is faced with a bizarre doctrine that labels Russia 'ENEMY OF THE FREE WORLD', like something from late night B movies. It is pure fiction.
That would be quite humorous if not for being outrageous. Russia is a country that was nearly wiped out by the Nazis in WWII. Some 20 to 25 million Russians, mostly women and children, were slaughtered by Adolf Hitler's Nazis in ways that were no different than the Nazis' slaughter of 6 million Jews. No different.
It is about money and about the rich getting richer and more powerful. Russia is not an enemy of anyone except those that make its people an enemy and threatens them harm.
America is a country that bullies everyone; espouses racist philosophies; snatches babies from the arms of migrant mothers; throws anyone who disagrees in prison; kills journalists; encourages school shootings; cheers for cops who gun down non-whites; and has lost its competitive edge to even developing nations.
These top sellers of weapons need an enemy to drive up sales.
Concomitantly, the nations America might attack need good protective, military defensive systems. Many countries are at risk from American hatred.
If for example, America truly believed that Russia was a dangerous enemy, why did it allow its military technology to fall to such an inferior state that America needs to bully its allies into buying its equipment?
S-400 & S-500 Aerospace Missile Defence Systems are most advanced in the world.
Directed at military targets, the two aerospace systems are exclusively defensive systems. They have a target acquisition, tracking, and targeting systems that allow defence against air-breathing and non-air-breathing attackers. That means they can kill attackers from space such as long range ballistic weapons or missiles fired from space-based platforms. America has already begun militarization of space. Likely other nations have reciprocated.
Feminine-Perspective:
It is instructive to note which country is making the best purely defensive aerospace missile protection systems. It is the country that suffered losses of 20 million mothers, children and their grandparents in the farms, villages, towns and cities of their homeland during the last world war. That's worth thinking about.
USA May ban Turkey from F-35 Lightning Project. Turkey would have acquired 100 a/c
Photo Credit: USAF Tech. Sgt. Andrew Lee/Air Force
Takeaway from recent American bullying of Turkey & India.
Turkey is the foremost humanitarian nation in the world hosting over 4 million refugees with a national smile.
Both Turkey and India are great countries with a potential for global leadership in many areas of human development. They have the right to defend their peoples from potential aggressors and the right to choose how they will do that.
Turkey has recently helped the global community having exposed the heinous crimes committed by America and Saudi Arabia against journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Russia designs good defensive systems because of its geo-political realities plus it has a legacy of justified fearfulness owing to the fact it once lost 20 million mothers, children and their grandparents in the farms, villages, towns and cities of their homeland during the last world war. ('Never again,' way of thinking?)
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Last Updated: Friday, 29 December 2006, 14:56 GMT
India anti-theft burka ban lifted
By Monica Chadha
BBC News, Mumbai
Gold jewellery is often seen as an investment
Jewellers in the Indian city of Pune have withdrawn their ban on serving women who wear veils over their faces.
The Jewellers Association in Pune - about 170km from Mumbai - introduced the ban this week after a spate of thefts by people wearing veils.
But they told the BBC on Friday that they had been advised by police not to implement the ban for fear of offending people's religious sentiments.
Groups representing Muslims had had a mixed response to the move.
Chairman of Maharashtra State Minorities Commission, Naseem Siddiqui said the decision hurt religious sentiments and should not be accepted by the government.
"The burqa is an integral part of Muslim religion and asking women to not wear it while shopping for jewellery will not be acceptable to the community," he said.
"Tomorrow they will say Sikhs wearing turbans cannot enter the store because they could be hiding a weapon in it."
The ban applied to all face-covering veils
However, activist and general secretary of the Muslims for Secular Democracy group, Javed Anand, told the BBC this was clearly a security concern and not a religious issue.
"There are always some fanatics in every community who will take an extreme view of things.
There is a valid point here and we must see it for what it is."
No arrests
The Jewellers Association said it was not targeting any particular religion but taking an essential security measure.
Head of the Association, Fatehchand Rankha told the BBC they had footage of women stealing jewellery but neither they nor the police could do anything about it because they could not identify their faces.
"The loss was almost one million rupees ($22,650) yet the police could not make any arrests. We could only see their eyes because the veil covered the rest of their faces," he said.
On Friday, Mr Rankha told the BBC that they withdrew the proposed ban because it had hurt people's religious sentiments.
A small shop on average has thousands of dollars worth of stock while a big store could have jewellery worth millions.
There are closed circuit cameras to track customers and private security guards usually stand outside the stores yet robberies take place often.
Dutch Muslims condemn burqa ban
Why Muslim women wear the veil
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04 May 04 | South Asia
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Why could PTSD injuries become more significant to WC?
While PTSD and other mental injuries are not common in WC, some experts believe the frequency may rise due to unreasonable workloads, long hours, and poor work-life balance.1 Several states are exploring expanding PTSD injury compensation, especially for first responders. These typically include firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians, but could possibly expand to occupations such as correctional officers, emergency dispatch operators, and child protective services employees. Florida, for example, recently enacted Senate Bill 376, which provides workers compensation indemnity benefits to first responders suffering from PTSD under certain circumstances, and does not require a physical injury to have occurred.
Worker advocates and other groups have raised awareness of PTSD and emphasized the importance of reducing the stigma associated with mental injuries in WC2 that could increase the number of claims filed and deemed compensable. PTSD now has its own category in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition, called "Trauma- and Stress-Related Disorders." The previous edition classified PTSD as one type of anxiety disorder.


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Talking or not talking about Bad Lip Reading
This year, Bad Lip Reading is ten years old.
The spoof YouTube channel overdubs pop promos and current affairs broadcasts, getting Rebecca Black into a Gang Fight, having the Black Eyed Peas sing about poop, and giving Michael Bublé a scatological hit song about a Russian Unicorn.
This is the point where my jaw drops to the floor. Where did that ten years go? I can't be bothered to cut and paste emojis into Blogger, but if I did, you would be seeing a little yellow face with an exploding head. Ten years. Ten years!
I really liked Russian Unicorn. It turned something as bland as Bublé, who posted a good natured video reply because that somehow is ultimate Bublé, into something full of unhinged energy. Even better was Morning Dew, which mashed together Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and Jay-Z to make a peon to furry pet monkeys and broccoli pizza.
Part of me insists I shouldn't like Bad Lip Reading. It revels in the worst pop music (Bieber, BTS, James flipping Blunt) and legitimises it through affectionate parody. It's decidedly off-key in places, referring to women as "chicks" and using a slang word for cerebral palsy that is pretty much verboten in the UK.
And it's fallen hard for Star Wars fandom, that most tiresome of fandoms, producing songs about seagulls in space, death by chicken-duck, and Yoda's stick ("it's just a stick"). That last one is pretty poor, but then again they did come out with the smooth electro banger Hostiles On The Hill in which the Skywalker guy fights the long leggy things in the Antarctic or somewhere. You can tell I'm a fan.
What's strange about the success of BLR, and channels like it, is its wonky place in popular culture. Take traditional TV as a comparison. 30 million people watched the Eastenders episode in which a vengeful Dirty Den give Angie divorce papers for Christmas. For years, that scene appeared in compilation shows and newspaper lists. It turned Christmas dark, and soaps have never looked back since.
The most successful BLR video has four times the views: their top five videos have racked up a third of a billion watches. Yet in the past ten years, I don't think I've experienced a single 'watercooler' moment about Bad Lip Reading. The same goes for other YouTube big hitters at the geekier end of culture: Tom Scott, Drew Gooden, those never-ending Vox factual videos.
This is all to do with the fractal nature of modern entertainment, where the metaphorical family sofa has been replaced by a wide scattering of deck chairs: the watercooler is now a zillion single water bottles. This more personal method of video consumption means we can spend an entire evening wasted on Fail Army clips without ever mentioning it to anyone ever. Maybe one day you'll mention it on a blog. Maybe.
And yet, I don't fully buy that. It's not fractal, is it. What we've done, in the UK at least, is swap four or five terrestrial television channels (and a wall of DVDs) with fewer providers of televisual entertainment. YouTube and Netflix dominate the market as BBC1 and ITV did in the olden days. I don't have Freeview or anything, but don't tell me that endless menu of things you don't want to watch adds up qualitatively to anything more than a single day of programming on Channel Five.
Anyway. Go and watch Bad Lip Reading videos so we can talk about it one day. A lot of it sounds like Uptown Funk but there are roses among the thorns. One of their BTS videos is childish cack, but the more recent BTS one seems to take ballad writing seriously.
What did we do without YouTube? Actually, we watched Flash videos. Badger, badger, that sort of thing. That is, oh goggle-eyed viewer, a whole different blog post.
Further Fats: Insanity Prawn Boy (2005)
Read more on: black eyed peas, bruno mars, bts, jay z, lady gaga, michael buble, rebecca black
An update: so whose blog post is this?
Hello. My name's Fat Roland. You might remember me from 'Fat Roland: A Space Odyssey', 'Dude Where's My Fat Roland' and 'The Fat Roland Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain'.
I thought I'd plop a quick update on my blog, lest you think I've been kidnapped by monkeys or something. Most of these updates are trivial. One is not (but don't worry, it's nothing too serious).
Update one. I've been listening to a lot of Pet Shop Boys, and I'm in awe of the lyric:
I'm always hoping you'll be faithful
But you're not I suppose
We've both given up smoking 'cause it's fatal
So whose matches are those?
Update two. I had to postpone my Seven Inch show for obvious lockdown reasons, but it's all cool because I'll do an online version that is going to kick ass. And because it'll be online, I'm going to have to storyboard my whole show, which will be equally fun and brain-breaking.
Update three. I've just realised I'm the same age Susan Boyle was when she first appeared on Britain's Got Talent. I also saw a picture of myself which made me realise I'm now properly middle-aged. I'd better do something constructive with my life, like being a brain surgeon or flying helicopters or something.
Update four. A few days ago, I got evacuated. And no, I don't mean I had a bodily mishap with a hoover. The river Mersey got a bit angry and I got a phone call from Floodline telling me my life was in immediate danger and I had better do something about it. I spent the night at a friend's place, then went back to a thankfully unflooded home once we'd be given the all-clear. My main takeaway. A bit of discombobulation, but it was amazing to visit my friends. Thank you, friends.
Update five. Did you notice that update four was the non-trivial one? You did? Good.
Update six. I tweeted "I miss Donald Trump. His touch. His embrace. His warm breath. His fine collection of venus clams" and it only got two likes, and now I'm worried people will think I actually want to touch Donald Trump.
Update seven. Yeesh. I've said Donald Trump too much. Bernie Sanders is way better. I think he looks great in those mittens.
Update eight. That's it. That's all my updates. This was a bitty blog post without much focus, but better to have some scruffy words than none at all.
Happy new 2021 Fat Roland
Happy 2021, idiots.
Yeah, you heard. I called you an idiot and you can do nothing about it. This is the new me: confident, assertive, dominant, and wearing a special hat that says "I am the best".
In previous years, my new year's resolutions have been pathetic. Staying off Facebook, answering emails more quickly, being nicer to dogs, that sort of thing. Those resolutions are for small-minded losers. The new me, the 2021 me, is going to have a big mind.
Everything is going to be bigger.
Strap in, because these ten 2021 resolutions are so full of confidence, they're going to blow your socks off. You have rubbish socks, by the way. Yeah, you heard.
Resolution 1:
Beat Gary Kasparov at chess
I reckon I can take him. I watched that chess drama with the gaudy wallpaper and I'm an expert at chess now. The castle goes down the edges, the donkey does a sideways jump like it's avoiding an ants' nest, and the tall one just stands at the back and does nothing. Easy. Once I've trounced him at chess, I'm going to destroy him at Ludo.
Become a superstar DJ like they had in the 90s
I mean, how hard can it be? Stick a cassette tape on, pretend to move all the knobs, move the vinyl back and forth while saying "wickedy-wah", get on the front cover of Mixmag. I'm going to wear a tie-dye shirt with smiley faces on. The only song I'll play is Doop by Doop.
Populate Mars
Pretty simple. Buy a nice house on Mars, preferably near a newsagents and a well-maintained public leisure centre. And then populate the planet by either sexy bonky times or a mass cloning programme. I've not worked out the details: my many offspring can sort that out. I'm sure my logic's pretty solid on this one.
Patent a two-tier urinal system
Men! Fed up of queuing for a wee in public toilets? Want to avoid todger-tinkling tailbacks? I will invent a two-tier urinal system to speed things up. I can't reveal too much for intellectual property reasons, but Tier One is "Measured Micturition", which involves a tape measure and a waterproof notepad, and Tier Two is "Splash And Dash" which involves standing in the doorway and arcing over the loo queue. Just hand me my million pounds now, Dragon's Den.
Host the 2021 Olympics
I will become an Olympic host, just like a country. I don't know if we're due an Olympics this year: Sebastian Coe won't return my calls. But I will totally host it single-handedly. I might not have stadiums (the correct plural of which is "stadiumii"), but I can run around my living room in jogging bottoms balancing an egg in a ladle. Not a real egg, obviously, I'm not stupid.
Resolution 6
Become the world's tallest man
I'll just stand on some bricks or something.
Win all the marathons
All of them. London, Munich, Sydney, Bhutan, everywhere. Eddie Izzard did loads of marathons because standup comedians run about a lot on stage, so it was a natural progression. I don't want to do any actual running: I'm pretty sure if you bung the finish-line marshals a few quid, they'll plant a few bogus "this way" signs so my competitors get lost and/or fall into a crocodile pit.
Become 'Back Flip Guy'
Just imagine. I'm in a board meeting. Some suit is pointing at figures on a white board. The big boss at the head of the table asks for blue-sky thinking. I do a back flip right out of my chair, and everyone says it's "well skill" while doing the gangsta hand-snap thing. Hey! I'm the Back Flip Guy! It's what I do! See also: AA meetings, supermarket queues, rollercoasters, egg-ladle racing.
Invent Star Wars
Do you know how much money Star Wars made? It was like a thousand pounds or something. I'm going to get rich by inventing Star Wars, although I'd get rid of all those little furry animals and the droopy-faced racist guy and all the robots and anything to do with space. It's basically going to be a dozen films of me sat in my pants playing computer Solitaire. The merch is going to be amazing.
Resolution 10
Use the word "horse" instead of other more useful words
My final resolution is going to horse your brain. I'm going to horse a seventy-foot horse in front of a crowd of horse, while horse-rope walking across a huge chasm which is horse metres high. Everyone will totally horse, and within horse weeks, horse will ask me to horse a horse, with horse horse and horse. Horse horse ladle, horse, horse on horse horse. Horse— (that's enough horsing around - ed)
Further Fats: Top ten ways to write a top ten music list (2012)
Further Fats: The only new year list that counts (2017)
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// AssistantWebContainerEventObserver:

class AssistantWebContainerEventObserver : public ui::EventObserver {
 public:
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Residents of U.S. pig farming state kick up a stink over property rights
by Carey L. Biron | @clbtea | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:33 GMT
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Communities in the United States' second-largest pork producer have for years complained about the smell and pollution caused by the animals' waste
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON, June 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From not being able to hang laundry outside or have friends over for a barbeque to health problems, residents of the U.S. state of North Carolina are having their lives disrupted by large industrial pig farms, said a lawsuit filed on Wednesday.
Communities in eastern North Carolina, the United States' second-largest pork producer and one of the densest hog farming areas in the world, have for years complained about the smell and pollution caused by the animals' faecal waste.
But state laws passed in 2017 and 2018 curtailed their ability to file multi-million dollar lawsuits - so-called "nuisance orders" - against the farms.
On Wednesday, environmentalists and community groups filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn those laws by arguing they violated property rights and the state's constitution.
"How is it that the state can take away my community's ability to protect our homes and health?" said Devon Hall, co-founder of the Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help, one of the plaintiffs.
A spokeswoman for the North Carolina attorney general declined to comment on the lawsuit, as did a spokeswoman for Smithfield Foods, a major hog producer in the area.
Residents say the stench can be so bad they can't hang their laundry outside or have friends over for barbecues, advocates told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"All of these things ... really result in severely diminished enjoyment of one's property," said Will Hendrick, a staff attorney with Waterkeeper Alliance, an advocacy group, and party to the suit.
"It's long been considered that a man's home is his castle, but this waste is breaching the castle."
There are about 10 million pigs in North Carolina producing roughly 9.5 billion gallons of faecal waste a year, according to those behind the lawsuit.
The waste is stored in vast open cesspools until it can be sprayed onto nearby fields as fertilizer.
A Duke University report in September found a range of health conditions associated with people living near large hog operations in eastern North Carolina, including higher mortality rates, but said the exact causes of the ailments were unclear.
The North Carolina Pork Council, an industry group, has expressed concern about the long-term impact of nuisance lawsuits on rural communities where "agriculture is critical to economic growth and success".
Starting in 2013, hundreds of nuisance orders were filed and juries awarded tens of millions of dollars in compensation before the state legislature passed two laws restricting such suits, said Hendrick.
The first capped the amount that can be awarded under nuisance claims, while the second strictly limited the circumstances under which such suits can be brought.
(Reporting by Carey L. Biron, Editing by Tom Finn and Claire Cozens. Please credit Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)
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Lindsay Wildlife Experience, formerly known as Lindsay Wildlife Museum, is a family museum and wildlife rehabilitation center in  Walnut Creek, California. Lindsay is the first wildlife hospital established in the United States, and a popular family museum in the San Francisco East Bay Area. Founded in Walnut Creek in 1955, the museum's programs "connect people with wildlife to inspire responsibility and respect for the world we share." The museum features a number of California wildlife exhibits, natural history specimens, and a special theater offering a look into one of the hospital's many wildlife treatment rooms. The rehabilitation center—still among the largest in the country—treats more than 5,000 injured, sick, or orphaned wild animals each year.

History
Lindsay Wildlife Museum was founded in 1955 by Alexander Lindsay as the Diablo Junior Museum. It became the Alexander Lindsay Junior Museum in 1962 after Alexander Lindsay died at 44. In 1965 it moved to a water-pump house in Larkey Park in Walnut Creek. In 1970 the museum started the first formal wildlife rehabilitation program in the United States. In 1986 the City of Walnut Creek ended operations and the museum became an independently operated not-for-profit organization. The next year "Junior" was dropped from the title, making it the Lindsay Museum. In 1993 the museum moved to a newly built  museum near the old pump house. Three years later the name was changed to Lindsay Wildlife Museum. In recent years, the museum has added a number of major new exhibits. Wildlife Hospital Behind the Scenes lets visitors watch a live veterinary procedure at the hospital through a large, one-way window. At Raptors visitors can soar virtually over Mount Diablo and measure their armspan against raptors' wingspans. At Hive Alive! and Hive to Honey~Honey Bees and Beekeepers at Work visitors can watch thousands of live bees and their queen and learn what jobs different bees do. In fall 2013, the museum opened the new exhibit The Burrow where visitors can go "underground" to discover the world of wildlife beneath their feet. The museum changed its name to Lindsay Wildlife Experience in 2015.

Hospital

The wildlife rehabilitation hospital at the museum receives more than 5,000 California native wild animal patients every year. The hospital is a pioneer in wildlife rehabilitation and many now-standard protocols across the country were developed here. Hospital staff and volunteers treat animals that have been poisoned, struck by automobiles, fallen from trees during trimming, and injured by other often human-related activities. They also care for orphaned young, both onsite and at the homes of specially trained volunteers. After being treated, an animal is released back into the wild. If it cannot be safely released, it may join the museum as a resident "animal ambassador". As many animals brought to the hospital are cat-caught, the museum strongly encourages visitors to keep their cats indoors.

Animal ambassadors

Lindsay Wildlife Experience specializes in the care of animals unable to return to the wild. Of the 70 animals that call Lindsay Wildlife home, nearly all of them have a physical, psychological, or behavioral problem that would make them unable to survive in the wild. All of the animals that live at Lindsay Wildlife Experience serve as animal ambassadors and educate the public on conservation and natural history. Some animals are on view to the public; others live off-exhibit and are brought out for presentations, classes, tours, and private animal encounters.

Amphibians
 California tiger salamander

Birds
 Acorn woodpecker
 American kestrel
 Bald eagle
 Band-tailed pigeon
 Barn owl
 Barred owl
 Golden eagle
 Great grey owl
 Great horned owl
 Greater roadrunner
 Harris's hawk
 Mourning dove
 Peregrine falcon
 Red-shouldered hawk
 Red-tailed hawk
 Swainson's hawk
 Turkey vulture
 Western screech owl
 White-tailed kite

Mammals
 Domestic rabbit
 Domestic rat
 Ground squirrel
 Guinea pig
 Mexican free-tailed bat
 North American porcupine
 Virginia opossum

Reptiles
 Aquatic garter snake
 California kingsnake
 California mountain kingsnake
 Common chuckwalla
 Desert iguana
 Pacific gopher snake
 Northern alligator lizard
 Southern alligator lizard
 Western pond turtle

Invertebrates
 Banana slug
 Black widow spider
 Cactus longhorn beetle
 Chilean rose tarantula
 Desert blond tarantula
 Desert hairy scorpion
 Desert millipede
 Madagascar hissing cockroach
 Wolf spider

References

External links

Institutions accredited by the American Alliance of Museums
Wildlife rehabilitation and conservation centers
Nature centers in California
Walnut Creek, California
Museums in Contra Costa County, California
Natural history museums in California

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Proving Securities Ownership
Proving securities ownership is easier if you can remember how the security was acquired.
Brokerage Firm
If you bought the security through a brokerage firm, contact the firm and ask if they have a record of your ownership. Brokerage firms are required to keep records for only six years. Copies of confirmations are only required to be kept for three years. In many cases, brokers may retain records longer at their own discretion.
Transfer agents work for the security issuer to record changes of ownership, maintain the issuer's security holder records, cancel and issue certificates, and distribute dividends. Transfer agents are usually banks or trust companies, but sometimes a company acts as its own transfer agent. Transfer agents are required to be registered with the SEC, or if the transfer agent is a bank, with a bank regulatory agency.
Most issuers identify their transfer agent on their company website under the "Investor Relations" tab. You may need to contact the company directly to obtain the transfer agent's name and contact information.
If the company is not actively traded and you cannot locate it, you can contact its state of incorporation for information. A state's office of the secretary of state or corporate division usually maintains state corporate records. A list of secretaries of state can be found by visiting the National Association of Secretaries of State.
Escheatment
All states require financial institutions, including brokerage firms and transfer agents, to report when personal property has been abandoned or unclaimed after a period of time specified by state law — often five years.
As part of the escheatment process, the state will hold the account as a bookkeeping entry, against which the former account owner may make a claim. The state routinely sells the securities in escheated accounts and treats the proceeds as state funds. When a former account owner makes a valid request, however, the state will normally provide the former owner with cash equaling the value of the account at the time of escheatment. This amount of cash does not include any dividends or interest covering the time after escheatment.
There are several websites, including commercial sites, where you can search for unclaimed property. The National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators, a non-commercial site, allows you to search by individual state. The claims process is usually relatively simple so give careful consideration before agreeing to compensate anyone for handling it for you.


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Andrew Haigh sets new feature 'Strangers' with Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell
1st Assistant Director is Marco Petrucco
Hair & Makeup Designer is Zoe Clare Brown
Andrew Haigh is to direct Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell in Strangers, with the UK's Blueprint Pictures producing for Searchlight Pictures and Film4.
Production has already begun in the UK.
Haigh wrote the film's script, loosely based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Japanese writer Taichi Yamada. The story follows a screenwriter (to be played by Scott) who, after an encounter with a mysterious neighbour, is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers his long-dead parents looking the same as they did 30 years before.
Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin are producing for Blueprint, along with Sarah Harvey. Blueprint's Ben Knight and Diarmuid McKeown are executive producing, together with Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek and Farhana Bhula for Film4. Release plans have not yet been revealed.
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Türkisches Kroatien oder Türkisch-Kroatien (kroatisch Turska Hrvatska, italienisch Croazia turca) war ein während des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts von den Osmanen eroberter Teil im Königreich Kroatien. Als sich im Laufe des 19. Jahrhunderts abzeichnete, dass die Kroaten infolge der Eroberung bzw. Vernichtung dauerhaft verschwinden würden, setzte sich allmählich der Name Bosanska Krajina (Bosnisches Grenzgebiet) durch. So blieb es bis heute.

Das Türkische Kroatien war im Osten ungefähr vom Fluss Vrbas, im Nordosten vom Fluss Save, im Nordwesten vom Fluss Una, im Westen vom Cazinska krajina (Cazines Grenzgebiet) und im Süden vom Dinara Gebirge begrenzt. Heute ist dieses Gebiet ein Bestandteil Bosnien und Herzegowinas.

Geschichte
Nachdem die kroatischen Stämme im 7. Jahrhundert die nordöstliche Küste des Adriatischen Meeres und dessen breites Hinterland bis zum Fluss Drau im Norden besiedelten, wurde das Gebiet des Türkischen Kroatiens zu einem zentralen und östlichen Teil des mittelalterlichen kroatischen Königreichs (10.–12. Jahrhundert). Damals war der Begriff "Bosnien" nur auf ein relativ kleines Territorium entlang des oberen Teils des Flusses Bosna begrenzt, das im Osten knapp bis zum Fluss Drina reichte. Erst im 14. Jahrhundert, als Kroatien geschwächt wurde durch die mehr als zwei Jahrhunderte lang währende Personalunion mit Ungarn, entwickelte sich der mittelalterliche bosnische Staat unter dem König Stjepan Tvrtko I., der auch einige Teile des heutigen Kroatiens umfasste.

Der Fall Bosniens in osmanische Hände 1463 hatte zur Folge, dass Kroatien immer mehr unter Druck geriet und danach (besonders während des Hundertjährigen kroatisch-osmanischen Krieges zwischen 1493 und 1593)  stückweise Teile seines Territoriums verlor. Bis Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts wurde das gesamte Gebiet Türkisch Kroatiens von den Türken erobert. Die verbliebenen Kroaten wurden entweder getötet oder als Knabenlese in die Türkei verschleppt. Einem Teil des kroatischen Volkes gelang es dennoch, aus den gefährdeten Territorien zu fliehen. Einige Kroaten nahmen dagegen den Islam an, um zu überleben. Katholische Kirchen wurden zerstört oder zu Moscheen umgebaut; Priester und Bischöfe  kamen ums Leben oder flohen.

Nach dem Habsburgisch-Türkischen Krieg 1878 und dem Untergang des Bosnischen Vilayets blieb Türkisch Kroatien ein Bestandteil Bosnien und Herzegowinas, das damals zu einem neuen habsburgischen Kronland wurde. Das zum größten Teil in Bosanska krajina umbenannte Land war zu der Zeit zwar befreit, doch Kroaten lebten dort kaum noch.

Landkarten

Siehe auch
 Geschichte Kroatiens
 Geschichte von Bosnien und Herzegowina
 Kroaten

Weblinks
 Türkisches Kroatien – Verlust des südöstlichen Kroatien an die Türken
 Festungen gelegene in Türkisch Kroatien (Seite 56) (PDF; 1,5 MB)
 Geologische Bücher über Türkisch-Kroatien aus dem 19. Jahrhundert (PDF; 713 kB)
 Abbildung des Buches "Bosnia, Hercegovina e Croazia Turca" von August Kaznačić aus 1862 (italienisch)

Historisches Territorium (Kroatien)
Kroatische Militärgeschichte
Geographie (Kroatien)
Historisches Gebiet (Bosnien und Herzegowina)
Kroatische Geschichte (16. Jahrhundert)
Kroatische Geschichte (17. Jahrhundert)
Kroatische Geschichte (18. Jahrhundert)


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Africa: Covid-19 Pandemic Stalls Global Economic Recovery – UN Report
The UN's key report on the global economy, released on Thursday, shows that the rapid spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant has put the brakes on a rapid recovery, counteracting signs of solid growth at the end of last year.
The 2022 World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report, produced by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), cites a cocktail of problems that are slowing down the economy, namely new waves of COVID-19 infections, persistent labour market and lingering supply-chain challenges, and rising inflationary pressures.
The slowdown is expected to carry on into next year. After an encouraging expansion of 5.5 per cent in 2021 — driven by strong consumer spending and some uptake in investment, with trade in goods surpassing pre-pandemic levels — global output is projected to grow by only 4.0 per cent in 2022 and 3.5 per cent in 2023.
'Close the inequality gap'
Commenting on the launch of the report, António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, declared that, with WESP calling for better targeted and coordinated policy and financial measures, it is time to close the inequality gaps within and among countries. "If we work in solidarity – as one human family – we can make 2022 a true year of recovery for people and economies alike", he said.
Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, drew attention to the importance of a coordinated, sustained global approach to containing COVID-19 that includes universal access to vaccines, and warned that, without it, "the pandemic will continue to pose the greatest risk to an inclusive and sustainable recovery of the world economy".
The report predicts that developing countries will take a greater long-term hit that wealthier nations. Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean are projected to see significantly lower growth, compared to pre-pandemic projections, leading to more poverty and less progress on sustainable development and climate action.
The number of people living in extreme poverty is projected to remain well-above pre-pandemic levels, with poverty projected to increase further in the most vulnerable economies: in Africa, the absolute number of people living in poverty is projected to rise through 2023. In contrast, the economies of richer countries are expected to almost fully recover by next year.
The special financial measures put in place by many governments since the pandemic – such as bailouts, improved social protection and job support – should, says the report, stay in place to ensure a strong recovery.
However, in light of rising inflation, several central banks have begun to unwind their extraordinary monetary response to the crisis.
Many low-income developing countries, are facing unsustainable external debt burdens, amid sharp interest rate rises.
Additional borrowing during the pandemic and increasing debt-servicing costs, have put many of them on the verge of a debt crisis. These countries are in urgent need of further and coordinated international support for debt relief, the report notes.
Jobs, slow to re-appear
Employment levels are projected to remain well-below pre-pandemic levels during the next two years, and possibly beyond. Labour force participation in the United States and Europe remain at historically low levels, as many who lost jobs or left the labour market during the pandemic, have not yet returned.
These shortages in developed economies are adding to other pressures, such as inflation, and supply-chain challenges.
At the same time, employment growth in developing countries remains weak, amid lower vaccination progress and limited stimulus spending. Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Western Asia, are projected to see a slow recovery of jobs. In many countries, the pace of job creation is not enough to offset the earlier employment losses.
The WESP was released two days after the latest World Bank's Global Economic Prospects report, which drew similar conclusions, predicting that, given the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to disrupt economic activity in the near term.
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Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature. Never losing its cultural prescence, Melville's nautical epic has inspired many films over the years, including the film adaptation of Nathanael Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Wishaw, and Brendan Gleeson, and directed by Ron Howard. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception. This Penguin Classics edition, featuring an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and notes by Tom Quirk, prints the Northwestern-Newberry edition of Melville's text, approved by the Center for Scholarly Editions and the Center for Editions of American Authors of the MLA.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.
Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.
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Dal 2011 al 2012 è stato l'allenatore del Valencia Basket Club, squadra già allenata dal 2002 al 2004 ed all'epoca delle giovanili. Proprio con il Valencia ha vinto l'ULEB Cup 2002-2003.

Nel 2005 ha guidato la Spagna under 20, classificandosi al 9º posto.

Palmarès

Valencia: 2002-03
Campionati messicani: 3
Fuerza Regia: 2016-17, 2018-19, 2020

Collegamenti esterni


Yesterday I went to the MTV TV and Movie festival which was held near the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The festival had a stage where performers like Bea Miller and Zara Larson entertained the crowd. The red carpet for the 2017 MTV TV and Movie awards took place at the festival too. Free tickets to the festival were given out through a ticketing website called 1iota. 1iota also gave out free tickets to the show and picked some people to be seat fillers during the show. How did I get to go to the awards show? 1iota gave me tickets to the festival where I won tickets to the show by playing a game.
My friend Bruno and I had a great time until it started hailing. Next year if you don't get tickets to the actual awards show through 1iota you should try and get the festival tickets. That way you can still see the stars and have a great time. Plus, if you're lucky you might be able to win a pair of tickets to the show like I did. If you're ever been to the Jingle Ball Village at LA Live this festival was similar to that one but even better. Later this month you can go to the Wango Tango village for free too. You don't even have to have tickets to get into that one.
The awards show was held at the Shrine auditorium. Adam Devine from Pitch Perfect and Mike and Dave Need Wedding dates hosted the show. He started off the night with a Beauty and the Beast themed introduction. The show had its good moments, but it definitely wasn't the best awards show that I have been too. Though since the tickets were free I can't really complain. Emma Watson, Hugh Jackman, Rebel Wilson, Millie Bobby Brown, and Shay Mitchell were among the actors in attendance at the show.
Would you like to attend other award shows? You can learn how to attend other shows by reading this post.


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Look up alternative, alternativism, or alternate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Alternative or alternate may refer to:
1 Arts, entertainment and media
1.1.1 Genres
2 Culture and society
4 Mathematics and science
Arts, entertainment and media[edit]
Alternative (Kamen Rider), a character in the Japanese TV series Kamen Rider Ryuki
The Alternative (film), a 1978 Australian television film
The Alternative, a radio show hosted by Tony Evans
120 Minutes (2004 TV program), an alternative rock music video program formerly known as The Alternative
The American Spectator, an American magazine formerly known as The Alternative: An American Spectator
Alternative comedy, a range of styles used by comedians and writers in the 1980s
Alternative comics, a genre of comic strips and books
Alternative media, media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication
Alternative reality, in fiction
Alternative title, the use of a secondary title for a work when it is distributed or sold in other countries
Alternative (album), a B-sides album by Pet Shop Boys
The Alternative (album), an album by IAMX
"Randy Scouse Git" (released as "Alternate Title" in the UK), by the Monkees, 1967
"Altern-ate", song by H-el-ical//, 2020
Genres[edit]
Alternative country
Alternative hip hop
Alternative metal
Alternative R&B
Alternative reggaeton
Alternative rock, also known as "alternative music" or simply "alternative"
Indie pop, sometimes known as "alternative pop"
Indie folk, sometimes known as "alternative folk"
Culture and society[edit]
Alternate (sports), a replacement or backup for a regular or starting team player
Alternative culture, a variety of subcultures existing along the fringes of mainstream culture
Alternative dispute resolution, processes and techniques outside the traditional mainstream of jurisprudence
Alternative fashion, for example Gothic fashion, Punk fashion, Fetish fashion
Alternative lifestyle, a lifestyle that is not within the cultural norm
Alternative medicine, healing practice that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine
Education[edit]
Alternative education, non-traditional education
Alternative school, a school geared towards students whose needs cannot be met in a traditional school
Mathematics and science[edit]
Alternative algebra, an abstract algebra with alternative multiplication
Alternativity, a weaker property than associativity
Alternate leaves, a classification in botanical phyllotaxis
Politics[edit]
The Alternative (Palestine), a former electoral alliance of several socialist Palestinian groups
The Alternative (Denmark), a green political party in Denmark
The Alternative (Kosovo), a liberal political party in Kosovo
Alternative investment, investment other than stocks, bond (finance), money funds, and cash
Alternate (theatre)
Alternatives, a Canadian non-governmental organization
Alternating (disambiguation)
Alternative press (disambiguation)
The Alternate (disambiguation)
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Alternative.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alternative&oldid=1055064292"
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Nicole completed her Bachelor degree in Optometry at the University of Melbourne in 1995. Having worked in rural Victoria, she moved north to Coral Sea Eyecare in 2001. Nicole has since obtained her Certificate in Ocular Therapeutics at QUT in 2007, and her Post Graduate Diploma in Practice Management in 2006. Nicole has participated in outreach eye programs to East Timor, and was a Queensland finalist for the Telstra Business Awards. She now consults part time at the Practice while raising her young family.
Gary Venz
B App Sc (Optom)/ Grad Cert Ocular Therapeutics/ B App sc (Physics)/ PhD
Gary completed his optometry degree and his graduate certificate in ocular therapeutics at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He has worked as an optometrist in north Queensland since moving north from Brisbane in 2011. In his spare time Gary loves to be outdoors. Having completed many marathons, including an ultra-marathon, he is always looking for new running adventures in Australia and overseas. Gary is also a qualified Justice of Peace.
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Kelda graduated with her Level 6 Diploma in Ophthalmic Dispensing from Bradford University in the UK. She has worked at Coral Sea Eyecare since 2007, and has over 16 years' experience in the optical industry. Kelda is kept busy in her spare time hosting children's birthday parties, studying and taking care of her two young children. She enjoys working four days at Coral Sea Eyecare. You will often see a glimpse of her creativity throughout the practice.
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Erica Pinese
Erica recently re-joined the Coral Sea Eyecare team after two years sojourn in Victoria. She couldn't stay away, and is happy to be back living and working near her family. Erica completed her Cert 4 in Optical Dispensing through TAFE and assists patients in all lens selections. In her spare time Erica likes to spend time with her two young children and has an interest in beauty therapy.
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SwitchArcade Round-Up: Huge 'Super Mario Maker 2' Update Coming Tomorrow, 'Hatsune Miku' Western Release Set for May, and More
Posted on April 21, 2020 by Shaun Musgrave
Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for April 21st, 2020. In today's article, we've got some awesome news to cover. That includes a phenomenal Mario Maker 2 update, a Western release date for Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix, and a brand new event for Tetris 99. We've also got a summary of today's sole new release, and a big list of sales with a few very nice gems in it. Let's get to it!
'Super Mario Maker 2' Gets One Last Big Update Tomorrow
The update schedule for Mario Maker 2 has been a bit underwhelming when compared to that of the Wii U original. In fact, this is only the second major update to the game. And guess what? It's apparently the last one! While we may see some minor updates here and there in the future, this is going to be the final big drop. The good news? This update reads like a massive list of wishes being granted. Super Mario Bros. 2 stuff? Yes, albeit only through a power-up mushroom and a few new items and enemies. Extra suits? You get the Frog Suit, the P-Balloon, the Acorn Suit, the Boomerang Suit, and some interesting new ones. The Koopalings? They're all here!
But the biggest of all: you can now make your own full game, complete with overworld map and multiple themes for worlds. You can build up to 8 worlds with 40 levels. That's not quite as big as later 2D Mario games, but hey, it's awesome anyway. There are some other goodies in this update, but those are the high points. This update is scheduled to hit… tomorrow! Wow, that's pretty cool. I can't wait to see what the many clever creators in this game's community come up with now that they can build series of stages. Maybe… maybe Shaun can make a game? Ha ha, just kidding. Unless…
'Ring Fit Adventure' Event Comes to 'Tetris 99'
It's been a while since the last Tetris 99 Maximus Cup, which happened in January. It's been even longer since the last Maximus Cup that offered a new theme. That one was in November, when a Pokemon theme was up for grabs. Well, we're back to business again this weekend. The 12th Maximus Cup event is patterned after the ever-elusive Ring Fit Adventure, and as with other similar events you need to try to earn 100 points before the event is over to permanently unlock the special theme. As you can see from the promotional image, the event starts on Friday at 12:00 AM PT and runs through 11:59 PM PT on Monday. That's plenty of time to get the new theme even if you're as lousy at the game as I am.
'Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix' Arrives in the West May 15th
Hatsune Miku isn't just one of the most famous fictional musicians in the world. She's also the star of a really great series of rhythm games, the latest of which hit the Switch in Japan a couple of months back. SEGA of America has announced a Western release date of May 15th for the new game, titled Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix. It will be available in two packages: a base version for $39.39 (in Japanese that price could be pronounced 'Mi-ku Mi-ku') and a $59.99 Mega Pack that includes six DLC song packs that total up to 36 additional songs. Oh, and there's a demo for the game so you can try it out yourself and see how you like it. That demo is available… right about now.
Help Will Come Tomorrow ($19.99)
Whatever you end up feeling about Help Will Come Tomorrow, you have to at least admit that the premise is intriguing. The setting is Russia in October of 2017. A train making its way through Siberia is attacked, leaving four survivors stranded in the hostile wilderness. They need to stay alive long enough for help to arrive, and your job is to help them do that. You'll need to take care of their essential needs but also manage the morale of the little group. There are a lot of dangers surround you, both natural and man-made. To tell the truth, you can tell that this game was designed for a computer interface as its UI really doesn't work well with the Switch's controls. If you can get around that, you'll find a rather cool survival story here.
(North American eShop, US Prices)
There are a lot of new discounts today, but a huge chunk of the list is pure dreck. The biggest highlights are the absolutely wild prices on Celeste and TowerFall, both excellent games that are worth way more than the fiver being asked for at the moment. Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns and SuperEpic: The Entertainment War are also pretty awesome if you're hunting for something else to pick up. The outbox doesn't have too much going on that you should worry about, but you should absolutely grab Invisigun Reloaded while it's only a buck. It's not likely to hit that price again soon.
Select New Games on Sale
Celeste ($4.99 from $19.99 until 4/27)
TowerFall ($4.99 from $19.99 until 4/27)
Bouncy Bob ($0.10 from $0.99 until 4/27)
Bouncy Bob 2 ($0.50 from $5.00 until 4/27)
Avenger Bird ($0.23 from $2.29 until 4/27)
Guess the Word ($0.18 from $1.79 until 4/27)
Pet Care ($0.14 from $1.49 until 4/27)
I Wanna Fly ($0.24 from $2.39 until 4/27)
Little Shopping ($0.14 from $1.49 until 4/27)
Darkest Hunter ($0.53 from $5.30 until 4/27)
Godly Corp ($0.79 from $7.99 until 4/27)
Theatre Tales ($0.14 from $1.49 from 4/27)
Hotel Dracula ($0.56 from $5.59 until 4/27)
Gym Hero Idle Fitness ($0.22 from $2.19 until 4/27)
Selma and the Wisp ($0.99 from $9.99 until 4/27)
Robot Squad Simulator ($1.49 from $14.99 until 4/27)
Scrap ($0.49 from $4.99 until 4/27)
Redneck Skeet Shooting ($0.49 from $4.99 until 4/27)
Bus Fix 2019 ($0.59 from $5.99 until 4/27)
Car Mechanic Manager ($0.39 from $3.99 until 4/27)
Car Mechanic Simulator Pocket ($1.99 from $19.99 until 4/27)
Car Trader ($0.39 from $3.99 until 4/27)
Car Trader Simulator ($7.64 from $8.99 until 4/27)
Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator ($0.69 from $6.99 until 4/27)
Garage Mechanic Simulator ($0.69 from $6.99 until 4/27)
Demolish & Build 2018 ($1.49 from $14.99 until 4/27)
Ships ($1.39 from $13.99 until 4/27)
Ultra Off-Road 2019: Alaska ($1.89 from $18.99 until 4/27)
Catch a Duck ($0.49 from $4.99 until 4/27)
Blindy ($0.79 from $7.99 until 4/27)
Otherworldly ($4.19 from $6.99 until 4/27)
The Mims Beginning ($0.89 from $8.99 until 4/27)
Shadows 2: Perfidia ($0.79 from $7.99 until 4/27)
Epic Clicker Journey ($0.49 from $4.99 until 4/27)
ESport Manager ($0.79 from $7.99 until 4/27)
GoFishing 3D ($1.49 from $14.99 until 4/27)
Fishing Adventure ($5.49 from $9.99 until 4/27)
Ski Sniper ($1.99 from $4.99 until 4/27)
AvoCuddle ($5.19 from $12.99 until 4/27)
Chicken Rider ($0.39 from $3.99 until 4/27)
Chicken Assassin Reloaded ($0.99 from $7.99 until 4/27)
Down to Hell ($0.99 from $9.99 until 4/27)
Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns ($7.49 from $14.99 until 4/26)
Bowling ($1.99 from $9.99 until 5/10)
SuperEpic: The Entertainment War ($14.39 from $17.99 until 5/10)
Shift Happens ($5.09 from $14.99 until 5/10)
Felix the Reaper ($8.49 from $24.99 until 5/10)
Silence ($9.99 from $39.99 until 5/10)
AER Memories of Old ($9.99 from $19.99 until 5/10)
The Long Journey Home ($14.99 from $29.99 until 5/10)
Deponia ($9.99 from $39.99 until 5/10)
Chaos on Deponia ($9.99 from $19.99 until 5/10)
Goodbye Deponia ($9.99 from $19.99 until 5/10)
Deponia Doomsday ($9.99 from $19.99 until 5/10)
Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes ($9.99 from $19.99 until 5/10)
Animus ($3.99 from $7.99 until 5/11)
Sushi Time! ($0.49 from $4.99 until 5/11)
Golf Peaks ($2.49 from $4.99 until 5/11)
Bullet Battle: Evolution ($7.49 from $14.99 until 5/11)
Irony Curtain ($1.99 from $9.99 until 5/11)
Legends of Amberland ($17.99 from $19.99 until 5/4)
Big Pharma ($17.99 from $29.99 until 5/4)
Dyna Bomb ($1.59 from $1.99 until 5/4)
Metaloid: Origin ($5.59 from $6.99 until 5/4)
Roarr! Jurassic ($1.99 from $4.99 until 5/4)
Apocalipsis Wormwood ($1.99 from $4.99 until 5/4)
Ding Dong XL ($0.09 from $0.99 until 5/8)
Super Bit Blaster XL ($0.99 from $3.99 until 5/8)
kuso ($2.49 from $4.99 until 4/25)
LOVE ($1.49 from $2.99 until 4/25)
Pulstario ($0.49 from $0.99 until 4/25)
Sales Ending Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 22nd
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics ($12.49 from $24.99 until 4/22)
American Ninja Warrior ($11.99 from $29.99 until 4/22)
Animated Jigsaws Collection ($12.49 from $24.99 until 4/22)
Bard's Gold ($2.69 from $8.99 until 4/22)
Big Buck Hunter Arcade ($4.99 from $19.99 until 4/22)
Cartoon Network Battle Crashers ($4.99 from $19.99 until 4/22)
Chess Ultra ($6.24 from $12.49 until 4/22)
Chicken Range ($4.99 from $9.99 until 4/22)
Contraptions ($4.99 from $9.99 until 4/22)
Crash Dummy ($4.99 from $9.99 until 4/22)
Doubles Hard ($4.49 from $5.99 until 4/22)
Final Light, The Prison ($0.69 from $6.99 until 4/22)
Glass Masquerade 2: Illusions ($9.59 from $11.99 until 4/22)
Goosebumps The Game ($4.99 from $19.99 until 4/22)
Horizon Shift '81 ($4.99 from $9.99 until 4/22)
Inversus Deluxe ($1.49 from $14.99 until 4/22)
Invisigun Reloaded ($0.99 from $19.99 until 4/22)
Ironcast ($6.49 from $12.99 until 4/22)
Julie's Sweets ($3.99 from $9.99 until 4/22)
Kuukiyomi: Consider It! ($3.74 from $4.99 until 4/22)
Light Tracer ($10.49 from $14.99 until 4/22)
Mad Bullets ($4.99 from $9.99 until 4/22)
Nickelodeon Kart Racers ($11.99 from $29.99 until 4/22)
Overdriven Reloaded: Special ($2.99 from $7.99 until 4/22)
Paper Train ($4.99 from $9.99 until 4/22)
Party Crashers ($2.25 from $15.00 until 4/22)
Party Golf ($2.25 from $15.00 until 4/22)
Rapala Fishing Pro Series ($4.99 from $19.99 until 4/22)
Red Siren: Space Defense ($4.99 from $9.99 until 4/22)
Sir Eatsalot ($9.09 from $12.99 until 4/22)
Snakeybus ($9.59 from $11.99 until 4/22)
Snooker 19 ($17.49 from $34.99 until 4/22)
Space War Arena ($7.49 from $14.99 until 4/22)
Spider Solitaire Black ($3.75 from $4.99 until 4/22)
Squidgies Takeover ($1.50 from $15.00 until 4/22)
Starman ($0.89 from $8.99 until 4/22)
Street Outlaws: The List ($19.99 from $39.99 until 4/22)
Sudoku Relax ($3.75 from $5.00 until 4/22)
Swim Out ($2.99 from $5.99 until 4/22)
The Drama Queen Murder ($4.99 from $9.99 until 4/22)
The Spectrum Retreat ($6.49 from $12.99 until 4/22)
Tower of Babel ($0.59 from $5.99 until 4/22)
Vegas Party ($10.99 from $21.99 until 4/22)
Vektor Wars ($0.99 from $9.99 until 4/22)
Where Angels Cry: Tears of Fallen ($14.99 from $19.99 until 4/22)
Whip! Whip! ($4.99 from $9.99 until 4/22)
Woodle Tree Adventures ($0.69 from $4.99 until 4/22)
Xtreme Club Racing ($0.98 from $9.89 until 4/22)
ZikSquare ($2.99 from $6.99 until 4/22)
Zombieland Double Tap ($19.99 from $39.99 until 4/22)
That's all that's good for today, friends. Tomorrow has a couple of new releases on the schedule, and we'll be taking a look at those as usual. There should also be a little bit of news and some new sales to dig into as well. If things end up being a bit light, I do have a couple of Mini-Views I could probably throw in there. We'll have to see how it goes. I hope you all have a good Tuesday, and as always, thanks for reading!
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Wrox Press (основано в 1992 году) — одно из крупнейших издательств, занимающееся выпуском компьютерной литературы. Первоначально располагалось в Великобритании. Издательство одним из первых стало активно поддерживать инициативу «Программист — программисту» (), согласно которой книги для профессионалов пишут сами профессионалы, как правило это разработчики программного обеспечения со стажем.

История
Американская холдинговая компания оригинального издательства «Wrox Press» под названием Peer Information лишилась своих активов во время процесса банкротства в 2003 году . Название и некоторые из наиболее успешных брендов (но не сами компании) были приобретены хобокенским издательством John Wiley & Sons, продолжившим выпуск книг под брендом «Wrox».

Среди авторов, изданных «Wrox», были такие признанные эксперты, как: Майкл Кэй, Скотт Хенсельман, Билл Эвьен, Кристиан Нейджел, Томас Риззо, Айвор Хортон, Аймар Спаанджаарс, Рето Мейер, Брайан Найт, Брайан Д. Паттерсон и Скотт Гантри.

P2P Forum
P2P Forum (P2P — сокр. от «Programmer to Programmer») — специализированный форум для разработчиков, запущенный в ноябре 1999 года издательством "Wrox". Форум представляет собой как обсуждения, так и рассылки по электронной почте, охватывая такие темы, как вопросы языков ASP, Java, PHP, Perl, SQL и Visual Basic, а также уделяя значительное внимание платформе .NET Framework. В настоящее время на нем появляется около 2 000 новых сообщений в неделю.

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90% of Ocean Plastic Disaster Caused by Third World Pollution
Chris Rossetti 2019-04-05
Chris Rossetti · 5 April, 2019
90 PERCENT of the plastic pollution in the world's oceans — a disaster which threatens the entire earth's eco-system — comes from the Third World, and specifically China, India, and Africa, according to a major study of pollution sources carried out by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ in Germany.
The study, titled "Export of Plastic Debris by Rivers into the Sea," was prepared by two experts employed at the UFZ (which is funded by the German government as is its official advisor on environmental matters.
The report revealed that every year, "millions of tons of plastic debris ends up in the sea — a global environmental problem with unforeseeable ecological consequences."
The paper went on to say that the "path taken by plastic to reach the sea must be elucidated before it will be possible to reduce the volume of plastic input," but there has to date "only little information available on this. It has now been followed up by an interdisciplinary research team who were able to show that plastic debris is primarily carried into the sea by large rivers."
In the meantime, minute plastic particles can be found in the water in virtually every sea and river. "This constitutes a serious and growing global environmental problem.
There are enormous quantities of input each year and plastic weathers only very slowly. Marine life can be harmed by the tiny plastic particles floating in the water. One example of how this happens is when fish, seabirds or marine mammals mistake the particles for food and consume them, the paper continued.
"It is still impossible to foresee the ecological consequences of this. One thing is certain, however: this situation cannot continue," says Dr. Christian Schmidt, a hydrogeologist at the UFZ. "But as it is impossible to clean up the plastic debris that is already in the oceans, we must take precautions and reduce the input of plastic quickly and efficiently."
However, in order to take practical measures to reduce plastic input, it will be necessary to answer the initial questions: Where does all the plastic come from anyhow? And how does it get into the sea? the paper said.
Schmidt and his team addressed these questions by analyzing scientific studies that examined the plastic load — that is the quantity of plastic carried by the water — in rivers.
They converted the results of the studies into mutually comparable datasets and determined the ratio of these figures to the quantity of waste that is not disposed of properly in the respective catchment area.
"We were able to demonstrate that there is a definite correlation in this respect," says Schmidt.
"The more waste there is in a catchment area that is not disposed of properly, the more plastic ultimately ends up in the river and takes this route to the sea."
In this context, large rivers obviously play a particularly large role — not only because they also carry a comparatively large volume of waste on account of their larger discharge.
Schmidt says, "the concentrations of plastic, i.e. the quantity of plastic per cubic meter of water are significantly higher in large rivers than small ones. The plastic loads consequently increase at a disproportionately higher rate than the size of the river."
The researchers have also calculated that the ten river systems with the highest plastic loads (eight of them are in Asia and two in Africa) — areas in which hundreds of millions of people live, in some cases — are responsible for around 90 percent of the global input of plastic into the sea.
The rivers which put 90 percent of all the plastic pollution into the world's oceans: all are in the non-White world.
From this study it is clear once again that, just like air pollution, the greatest threat to the world's environment does not come from the White world, but rather from the non-White world.
Continued denial of the racial factor as the primary cause of world events is the real reason why the "experts" can never arrive at a satisfactory answer of "why" things happen, and also what is needed to stop these things happening.
Until racial realism is restored in world science, the problem will continue, and the world will continue its downward spiral.
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In Australia, we are subject to recycle. I am not a fan of it, mother nature will balance itself out, as I see it. Anyhow, it has now been revealed to us, that government doesn't recycle it just throws it in the pile of trash along with the rest of the disposable rubbish. Then another shocker comes to light, as Australia was sending it's trash to the landfills of India, which has now banned plastics. So now, Australia has run into a bit of a pickle. Where will it throw its trash?
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Train travel from Dong Hoi to Hanoi
Of the five daily trains from Dong Hoi to Hanoi, three travel overnight and two travel during the day. The journey normally takes at least 10 hours allowing for delays so many travellers choose to book a sleeper berth on this route.
Train Times: Dong Hoi to Hanoi
The fastest train service from Dong Hoi to Hanoi is Train #SE2 which departs from Dong Hoi at 19:39 and is scheduled to arrive in Hanoi 9 hours 51 minutes later at 05:30.
Train Dong Hoi Hanoi
SE10 16:14 03:08
The slowest of the train services from Dong Hoi to Hanoi is Train #SE6 departing at 08:35 and arriving in Hanoi at 19:12, a journey time of 10 hours 37 minutes.
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Location of Hanoi Railway Station
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Vietnam War Memorial in Hanoi
The Vietnam War Memorial was constructed in 1993 to commemorate those who died in the Second Indochina War which lasted from 1955 to 1975. The Second Indochina, which had the Viet Cong, North Vietnamese Army and assorted allies on one side, and the South Vietnamese Army and American Armed forces, plus allies, on the other, resulted in between 1 and 4 million Vietnamese people dying as a direct consequence of the fighting. Estimates of the number of Vietnamese causalities vary dramatically. To learn more about the Second Indochina War consider also visiting the Vietnam Military History Museum, which is a 600 metre walk to the south of the Vietnam War Memorial. The Vietnam Military History Museum provides a Vietnamese perspective on this terrible 20 year long conflict.
The Vietnam War Memorial is located near to Ba Dinh, in the same vicinity as the Ho Chi Minh Memorial and Vietnam National Parliament Building, and is the focal point for official functions commemorating the war dead which are held regularly. The memorial, like many other modern public buildings in Vietnam, incorporates the brutal modernist architectural style often associated with the former Communist Soviet states with the traditional architecture of Vietnam.
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