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Cancer Research UK appoints Anomaly
Cancer Research UK has appointed Anomaly London as its lead creative agency after a competitive pitch.
Anomaly beat FCB Inferno, Grey and Mother to win the contest, which began in April.
Anomaly is charged with creating an integrated brand campaign for Cancer Research UK that will go live in December 2015.
Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO had worked with Cancer Research UK on its brand campaigns for the past five years but did not pitch for the account. The agency continues to collaborate with the charity on a project basis.
Camilla Harrisson, Anomaly's chief executive, said: "We are elated. It's a massive privilege and a huge responsibility. I can't think of a brief which is more demanding of brilliant work that overperforms."
Cancer Research UK launches first ad from Anomaly
Cancer Research encourages people to leave donation in will
Cancer Research UK reviews creative account


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They may seem opaque to most of us moderns who know no Latin or Greek, but the botanical names of plants often translate into crystal-clear descriptive terms.
Knowing what they mean can, in a few cases, make choosing plants for the garden easier. Planning a white garden? It might help to know that the blooms of plants named "alba" might only be whitish, while those called "niveus" are snow white, notes Julia Fitzpatrick-Cooper, who teaches plant identification at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.
Similarly, while "purpureus" indicates purple blooms or leaves, "atropurpureus" means darker, richer purple.
More often, though, understanding a plant's scientific name refines the gardener's appreciation for the plant. For example, the botanical term "lavandula," for lavender, comes from the Latin lavo, to wash. It's assigned to these lovely, fragrant plants because they have been used in soaps for centuries.
Knowing that doesn't make it any easier to decide whether there's a spot in your garden for lavender (as if any garden should be without lavender), but gives the plant an air of timelessness, something else to consider when we linger over pots of lavender.
Botanical names, as many gardeners know, are usually made of two words, the first indicating the plant's genus and the second the species.
Genus is the larger category in which there are many species. A plant name with single quotation marks is a cultivar, or commercially developed refinement of a species.
The system lets scientists communicate with one another across political boundaries, but unfortunately its language is a line many of us can't cross anymore. That's too bad, because there are countless insights into the structure, origin and history of plants locked up in their botanical names.
Now, while we can't make a classical scholar out of you with one article, we have rounded up some translations of the names of plants commonly grown in Chicago gardens. We had help from a panel of experts: Fitzpatrick-Cooper; retired Morton Arboretum taxonomist Floyd Swink; Karen Midden, assistant professor of horticulture at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale; Don Newcomb, horticulture chairman at Triton College in River Grove; and two useful books, both available in area bookstores. They are "Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners" by William T. Stearn (Sterling Books, $17.95) and "Gardener's Latin" by Bill Neal (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $14.95).
Captivating insights, and sometimes magical images, are tucked into many botanical names. Seventeen are unearthed here.
- Artemisias are named for the Greek goddess of the moon, Artemis. It's apt, considering their luminous gray foliage.
- Chrysanthemum is Greek for golden flower, from chrysos for gold and anthos, for flower. Two other familiar flowers have similar roots. Helianthus means sunflower, which is the common name we use. And straw flower, helichrysum, means sun gold.
- Delphinium is from the Latin delphinus, for "dolphin." Picture those lovely blue buds floating beside the flower stalk before opening. Yes, tiny dolphins.
- Dianthus is the god's flower, from the Greek dios, or "of Zeus," and anthos, for flower.
- Geranium is from geranion, the Greek term for crane. The long beak on the geranium's fruit gives it that name, and the common name cranesbill.
- Ginkgo biloba, an ancient tree that is still a good choice for many gardens, in the 17th Century was known to the Japanese as gin kyo, the silver apricot. It's a reference to the fruit of the female tree--something we rarely plant because the fruit smells rank. Biloba describes the two-lobed leaf, which looks like a fan.
- Iris was the Greek name for a woman who personified the rainbow. Irises do that, both strictly, with varieties coming in many colors; and poetically, their flowers so beautiful they seem impossible--like a rainbow.
- Maple trees are in the genus acer, Latin for sharp. Romans used the trees' hard wood for the handles of spears, which are, of course, sharp.
- Marigolds, those most resilient of annuals, are in the genus tagete, named for an Etruscan deity who sprung out of ground that was being plowed.
- Miscanthus, an ornamental grass whose blooms stand on stems up to 5 feet tall, takes its name from the Greek miskos, or stem, and anthos, flower.
- Nasturtium is from the Greek mnastorgion for "one that longs for wet soil." This term makes sense when applied to the true nasturtiums, like watercress, but the annuals we call nasturtiums aren't particularly thirsty.
Those plants have the botanical name tropaeolum peregrinum, which, when translated, paints a striking picture of the plant. The first word is from the Greek for trophy. Linneaus thought the plant, growing up a support, looked like a stack of green shields and colored helmets, which would be erected to mark a battlefield victory. The second word is related to peregrinate, or travel, which the plant does happily, scrambling over anything in its path.
- Peony is named for Paeon, who was the healer for the Greek gods. Although the soapy blossoms are beloved in American gardens, the name is for the plant's roots, which were once used to cure seizure disorders.
- Poplar trees were the Roman empire's most familiar tree. They were known as the people's tree. Hence the botanical name populus.
- Tithonia, a fiery red and orange annual whose common name is Mexican sunflower, derives its name from Tithonus, a man who was loved by the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora.
- Virginia creeper, the aggressive vine, is in the genus parthenocissus. That's from parthenos and kissos, Greek for virgin ivy. The plant was first found in Virginia, which was named in honor of Elizabeth, England's Virgin Queen. The species name is quinquefolia, or five-leaved, and it fits.
We've selected six botanical names that contain especially vivid descriptions of their plants. Can you match each with the right flower?
1. This plant's botanical name, tulipa, is a Latin version of the Turkish word for turban, tulbend. These flowers were planted in Turkish gardens for centuries before Europeans went crazy for them.
2. One of the most-loved flowers for cutting, this plant has sword-shaped foliage. Who carried a sword? Gladiators. The botanical name is gladiolus.
3. This native plant's flower has a forbiddingly spiky center, not unlike the hedgehogs and sea urchins from which its botanical name, echinacea, was taken. The Greek is ekhinos.
4. This vining fruit once deserved its genus name, lycopersicon, which came from the Greek words lykos for wolf and persicon for peach. When it was believed to be poisonous, it seemed to be a peach fit only for a wolf. Now we know better.
5. Each of the flowers on this staple of the cottage garden could be the finger of a glove. That's why it's called digitalis, from the Latin for finger.
6. The Greek word for star, aster, is also the botanical name of this plant whose starburst flowers are as abundant as the lights in a summer sky.


This Symposium will convene a group of scholars to reflect on the history and evolution of the Constitution of Canada, on its written and unwritten dimensions, on its influence abroad, and on prospects for its reform.
Submissions are invited from scholars of all levels—from senior scholars to doctoral students—on one or more of the following subjects. We invite participants to take any methodological approach they wish, including comparative, doctrinal, empirical, historical and/or theoretical perspectives.
The Symposium will be highlighted by a keynote address by Susanna Mancini, Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Bologna, and will feature Paolo Carrozza (Scuola Sant'Anna, Pisa), Giacomo Delledonne (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles), Anna Gamper (University of Innsbruck), and Patricia Popelier (University of Antwerp).
Interested scholars are asked to submit an abstract no longer than 500 words by 15 December 2016 to stalsworkshop2016@gmail.com. A Symposium Selection Committee will choose abstracts and notify all scholars no later than 20 January 2017. Full drafts of papers will be due by email to stalsworkshop2016@gmail.com no later than 20 April 2016. Papers should be no longer than 10,000 words (footnotes included).
The Convenors intend to seek publication of the papers presented at the conference either an edited volume or a special issue of a law journal, subject to successful blind peer-review. Papers submitted but not accepted may be considered for publication in the STALS Research Paper Series: www.stals.sssup.it.
There is no cost to participate in the Symposium. Participants are responsible for securing their own funding for travel, lodging and other incidental expenses. Scuola Sant'Anna will sponsor lunch and dinner on the day of the Symposium, as well as a welcome reception for participants on the evening prior to the Symposium.
Please direct inquiries in connection with this Symposium to Giuseppe Martinico by email at martinico@sssup.it.
Scuola Sant'Anna (http://www.santannapisa.it/en) is a public university institute provided with special autonomy. The main aim of the Scuola Sant'Anna is to experiment with innovative paths in education and research, so as to meet the modernization and innovation expectations of contemporary society. In line with this goal the Scuola Sant'Anna responds swiftly to each and every societal challenge by adopting a multidisciplinary and forward-looking approach.
Comparative and European Union law are also relevant matters in the research activities of ScuolaSant'Anna, especially in the framework of STALS (Sant'Anna Legal Studies: http://www.stals.sssup.it), a project made possible thanks to the financial support offered by ScuolaSant'Anna, issued within the framework of the School's internationalization policy, where both young and experienced scholars can share a space and propose papers that are classified by topics (European politics and policies; subnational constitutional law; constitutional developments; judicial dialogue and transnational law; European and international economic law; global legal pluralism), in order to foster discussion and research at the supranational level, promoting cooperation with other researchers abroad and organizing seminars and conferences with the participation of judges and members of EU institutions and international organizations.


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One year to Rio 2016: Troubled waters for Brazil
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In exactly a year's time, the world's biggest sporting event – the Olympics – will kick off in Brazil's Marvellous City, in what is South America's first chance to host the unrivalled celebration of sport.
Despite Brazil's experience in hosting major sporting events, the numbers for Rio 2016 are still daunting:
Nearly 11,000 athletics from 205 National Olympic Committees will be taking part in 19 days of competitions in 33 venues across four city clusters.
Some 3,200 referees and their assistants will make sure everyone is playing fair as athletes vie for 306 medals up for grabs across 42 sports, this time also including golf and rugby.
The Paralympics will also follow in September 2016, with 4,350 athletes and 23 sports.
And that's before you consider the hundreds of thousands of tourists and the five-billion-strong global TV audience.
The numbers are intimidating enough, but then consider that the Olympics will be held just two years after a World Cup that severely tested Brazil's resolve – it was a tournament plagued by fears over protests sparked by public outrage at the cost of the events and FIFA profiteering on the back of woefully-underfunded public services, and concerns that key venues and promised infrastructure wouldn't be ready in time.
Brazil is still sore from its calamitous 7-1 defeat in the semifinals, but the World Cup did eventually run smoothly. However, many of the promised infrastructure projects were not completed on time, scaled back or scrapped altogether.
For this reason, the government has been keen to make clear that projects pegged to the Olympics are ones that are for Brazil long term – urging ordinary Brazilians not to worry themselves over missed deadlines and be reassured that the city's Olympic legacy will, eventually, be achieved.
For now, the only protests currently taking to Brazil's streets are against government corruption: anti-Olympic sentiment has all but petered out. Perhaps it's because the Olympics are less significant to Brazilians than other sporting events almost inevitably focused on football. Perhaps it's because many of the sports will be alien to the average Brazilian. Perhaps people here are just tired of protesting and are resigned to the fact that the event will probably go ahead anyway.
In terms of international pressure, Brazil won't be keen to hear more criticism, particularly after the haranguing it got in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup. To stave off that negativity, officials have been giving updates on the pace of progress with Olympic preparations.
The Maracanã cluster, including the legendary football stadium where the Olympic torch will arrive on August 5 next year after a 20,000-kilometre journey around Brazil, is virtually ready, as it only requires small adjustments from recent billion-real reformations for the World Cup.
The temporary beach venue in Copacabana will be put up shortly before the Games.
The biggest cluster and main Olympic venue – the Barra Olympic Park – is now 86% ready, according to officials. Of greater concern is the Deodoro cluster, where the Hockey Centre is only 51% ready and the Aquatics Centre is only 32% finished.
That said, as with the World Cup, the venues will – we're assured – be completed on time. They simply have to be. At least the basics. Things might be a little rough around the edges and there may be last-minute scrabbles and pared-back plans, but the sites will function and the Olympics will go ahead.
Whether visitors will be able to find accommodation and negotiate Rio is another thing.
The authorities will also be looking to make sure a new wave of protests does not mar the build-up to the event, as happened with the World Cup. And one major factor will help them: the Olympics are far more contained, almost completely taking place in Rio, rather than 12 cities across the continent-sized country.
Although there have been isolated, fierce protests regarding the eviction of vulnerable communities when a small number of favelas were bulldozed to make way for Olympic infrastructure, this is not universal enough a problem to capture wider imaginations.
Social movements will try to ratchet up the pressure as the event approaches but it is unlikely to spark mass protests.
However, political corruption and the lacklustre state of the economy in Brazil, which many expect will contract by well over 1% this year, could yet prove to be a sticking point: people may still take umbrage at the Games' 40-billion-real price tag ($11.5 billion at today's rate), as unemployment is now picking up and salaries are falling.
But beyond the threat of protests, there is a more immediate problem – and one that there is no chance of rectifying in time for next August's event.
Recent analysis of the waters have shown that athletes will be expected to swim and sail in waters with horrifying levels of viral contamination.
Untreated human waste flowing freely into the city's bays and lagoons means the waterways contain hideously high levels of viruses and bacteria. Some athletes training in Rio have already reportedly fallen ill.
Although the city is slowly changing the situation, many of the favelas – home to a quarter of Rio's seven-million-strong population – are not plumbed into waste water infrastructure.
Despite reassurances from local authorities that waters will be safe for the Games, these first independent and comprehensive tests by the Associate Press revealed virus contamination at 1.7 million times the level considered hazardous in the US in certain locations checked in Rio.
Many believe Brazil bit off more than it could chew with both the World Cup and the Olympics, but the country would very much like to prove them wrong.
It would also mean a lot to the country's embattled president, Dilma Rousseff – currently "enjoying" approval ratings of just 8% due to the country's flagging economy and a vast corruption scandal involving members of her government.
Now entering the final strait, it feels as if Brazil is perhaps looking forward to time out of the international spotlight, hoping Rio's festered waters will not be the world's lasting memory of its historic Olympic Games.
Either way, Rio is running out of time.
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963 schools in Balochistan not functional
Syed Ali ShahPublished March 29, 2017
Despite an education emergency imposed by the provincial government, 963 schools out of more than 13,000 schools in the province are yet to be made functional.
Secretary Education Balochistan Shan ul Haq termed the lack of building and teacher as the main cause behind non-functioning school.
"All efforts are being made to ensure functioning of educational institutions in the province," said Haq.
However, sources in the department put the number of ghost and dysfunctional schools higher than what was quoted by the secretary education.
Another official from the education department claimed that there were 5,000 one room, one teacher schools across the province.
He added that most of the schools are deprived of basic facilities.
The secretary education said more than 3,000 teachers will be inducted this year through the national testing service.
"We will make the dysfunctional schools functional after this recruitment," said Haq.
The provincial government has declared emergency with regards to education and announced implementation of article 25-a of the Constitution, which says the state "shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen years in such manner as may be determined by law."
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What a surprise. People who don't want to be educated won't be.
S. Daniel
And our dear prime minister is only interested in Gawadar.
Big pahalwan
Those teachers will make up about 3 teachers per school on average. I hope those schools will emphasize Mathematics, Science, and English and Social Studies.
SadFaces
5000 ghost schools with 50000 people on payroll for the past 30 years. Please start accountability right now on ghost schools using technology so we can progress as a nation.
KHALID YOUSAFZAI (UK)
This is how our politicians are DEAF, DUMB
Other than that The primary syllabus is worst too and very poor teachers, the future is in the dark because of those poor teachers...
SaqUib
Sorry to say, no one are responsible for this, we blame it ourselves, because our children take education in Cambridge system, and these children goes to GOVT PELAY SCHOOL. We have to revolutionaries in our Educational System to give it one platform.


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The 2008 Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl was the fifth season of the Courts Pro Bowl, which is a knockout tournament competition for teams in the TT Pro League. W Connection entered as the tournament's defending champion. The tournament commenced on 6 May, with 10 teams competing in single elimination matches and concluded on 23 May, with Caledonia AIA defeating Defence Force 2–0 to claim the title.

Qualification
Every club from the TT Pro League automatically qualified for the competition. Seeding was determined by the league standings following the fourth match day of the 2008 season. Teams ranked seventh to tenth were placed directly into the qualifying round which determined the seventh and eight spots in the quarterfinals.

The automatic quarterfinal qualifiers in order of league position were: Caledonia AIA, W Connection, San Juan Jabloteh, United Petrotrin, Joe Public, and Defence Force.

Schedule
The schedule for the 2008 Courts Pro Bowl, as announced by the TT Pro League:

Bracket

Results
All matches were played for 90 minutes duration, at the end of which if the match was still tied, penalty-kicks were used to determine the match winner.

Qualifying round
In the qualifying round, St. Ann's Rangers defeated Tobago United 3–1, whereas North East Stars upended Ma Pau 1–0 to advance to the quarterfinals.

Quarterfinals
Caledonia AIA and W Connection met little resistance from St. Ann's Rangers and North East Stars respectively. However, Defence Force upset San Juan Jabloteh 5–4 on penalties after the match ended 1–1 in regulation. United Petrotrin advanced to the semifinals after they beat Joe Public with the lone goal from Beville Joseph.

Semifinals
On 16 May, Caledonia AIA needed penalty kicks to defeat United Petrotrin 4–2. In addition, Defence Force continued their run through the competition with a 2–0 upset win over W Connection.

Final
In the final on 23 May, Caledonia AIA claimed the title over Defence Force following a quick goal from Kendall Velox in the 6th minute and an own goal by Corey Rivers a minute before half-time. Using a double in W Connection's win over North East Stars, Oscar Velasco-Torijano was the tournament's leading goal scorer.

References

External links
Official Website

2008 Courts Pro Bowl
Pro Bowl

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Bedømmelse for Clapton, Eric: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013 (3xVinyl)
Disc One
1.	"Tears In Heaven" - Eric Clapton
2.	"Lay Down Sally" - Eric Clapton with Vince Gill
3.	"Green Onions" - Booker T. with Steve Cropper, Keb' Mo', Blake Mills, Matt "Guitar" Murphy & Albert Lee
4.	"Heavenly Bodies" - Kurt Rosenwinkel
5.	"This Time" - Earl Klugh
6.	"Mirabella" - Earl Klugh
7.	"Great Big Old House" - The Robert Cray Band
8.	"She's Alright" - Doyle Bramhall II with Gary Clark Jr.
9.	"Bullet And A Target" - Doyle Bramhall II with Citizen Cope
10.	"Queen Of California" - John Mayer
11.	"Don't Let Me Down" – John Mayer with Keith Urban
12.	"Next Door Neighbor Blues" - Gary Clark Jr.
13.	"Damn Right, I've Got The Blues" - Buddy Guy with Robert Randolph & Quinn Sullivan
14.	"Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad" - The Allman Brothers Band with Eric Clapton
Disc Two
1.	"Congo Square" - Sonny Landreth with Derek Trucks
2.	"Change It" - John Mayer with Doyle Bramhall II
3.	"Ooh-Ooh-Ooh" - Jimmie Vaughan
4.	"Save The Last Dance For Me" - Blake Mills with Derek Trucks
5.	"Don't Worry Baby" - Los Lobos
6.	"I Ain't Living Long Like This"- Vince Gill with Albert Lee
7.	"Diving Duck Blues" - Taj Mahal with Keb' Mo'
8.	"When My Train Pulls In" - Gary Clark Jr.
9.	"Mná Na Héireann" - Jeff Beck
10.	"The Needle And The Damage Done" - Allman, Haynes, Trucks
11.	"Midnight Rider" - Allman, Haynes, Trucks
12.	"Key To The Highway" – Eric Clapton with Keith Richards
13.	"Gin House Blues" - Andy Fairweather Low with Eric Clapton
14.	"Got To Get Better In A Little While" - Eric Clapton
15.	"Sunshine Of Your Love" - Eric Clapton
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Do you find it hard choosing between job offers? Do you find yourself torn between jobs that seem attractive to you? Finding the right type of work isn't always easy and choosing a job offer can be even harder. If you are just starting a new career, or switching from your current job to another, it's important to choose the job that will cater both your needs and your preferences.
When choosing a job offer, priorities should be non-negotiable. Everything else can change, but your priorities should come first. Start with understanding your motive for picking a job offer. Are you looking for a job to acquire new skills or expertise? Are you looking for one with a better compensation? What is your main reason for switching jobs or for looking for one? Make time to think through your personal criteria, both your negotiables and non-negotiables. It's important for you to know what your priorities are, both in work and life, before considering a long-term job. Knowing what you really want, and where you want to be going, will go far in choosing the job that's right for you. Not only will it keep you happier while you work but it will do much to keep you from suffering the pains of regret later on.
2. What Is The Company's Culture?
Even if you are going to work online, it's still important to analyze your company's culture. You can do a little bit of research about their background to find out if you would fit in. Are you are going to click well with your boss? It's much easier to work with people that you can connect with than those you don't. Does the company your looking to work for make their employees a priority? Some companies can be very selfish and treat their employees like commodities, to use and abuse, if they can get away with it. See if you can find feedback from current and former employees. You'd ideally want to find a job that both values you and gives you the opportunities to grow with them along the way.
3. Will It Suit Your Preferences?
Finding the best job also means looking for one that will suit your preferences. Let's admit it — nobody wants a job that is inconvenient. The fact that you chose to work online likely means you're looking for conveniences that office jobs are typically unable to provide. Know your preferences, know them well, and see if the job you're considering would truly be good fit or not. Again, the size of a paycheck can be attractive, and it is important as well, but there's so much more to finding the job that's right for you.
4. Will It Grow You In Your Craft?
Whether you're aiming for a promotion or not, it's always wise to know if the work you choose will grow you in your expertise. It's easy to only consider the pay and the convenience of a job, and many stop there. But if you want to become better as you go, and have greater opportunities in the future, you need to aim for a job that will both challenge and support you along the way.
5. Will It Be Something Worth Doing?
After covering all these basics, and doing thorough research, try to see if the compensation and the demands of the job will be right for you. Try to find a healthy balance in everything that you need to consider. Will it be worth your time? Will it be worth all your required effort and contributions? Not all job offers are. Seriously, don't be in a hurry to make your decision unless finding a job is an emergency. Whether you're looking at the job as your first step, or as a further step in your career, always take time to make sure it's something worth doing—pay, time, stress, work hours, and so much more must first be considered if you want to find a job worth keeping.
Choosing the right job, without worry or second guessing, is much easier when you know the right things to consider and prioritize. It is a process, and it can be stressful, but keeping these things in mind will help make sure your next job is your best one yet!


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Q: ViewController with proportional view layout I am wondering if i can achieve this with Xcode's IB auto layout constraints, as currently i am beating my head against a wall, referring to the image below:
I have three views, and want the upper and lower to be proportional to the screen, and have the middle lock x pixels from each. I am sure i can manually do it, but am also sure that somehow the aspect ratio constraint can allow this to happen.
I am pinning the top/bottom view to sides (0), and respective top/botton (o), laying out the view i want in IB's iPad rendering so the proportions look proper, then setting aspect. Logically this makes sense to me, but it isn't working, so i suspect I am making assumptions about the aspect constraint.
Hopefully this is explained well enough to elicit a saving thought or two. thx.

A: Use equal height or width constraints to the superview and set multiplier to the percentage you want it to take. 50% would be .5. To create these in the document outline drag from the child view to the parent view. You will see the option of equal heights or widths. Choose edit on the constraint and change the multiplier from 1 to the desired number. Cheers. Or see answer How to scale height of views and postion of the views relative to the screen size using AutoLayout

A: I'm not sure if I understood what you mean correctly, but is that effect below you would like to achieve?

Take a look at the constraints.

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Why the Discovery of Troy Is a Bad Analogy for Finding Atlantis
One of my big pet peeves with alternative writers is the way they wave around Heinrich Schliemann's discovery of Troy as proof that their desire to read myths as literal is well-founded. Philip Coppens makes the claim in his newest book, The Lost Civilization Enigma, but it has been a popular alternative claim at least since Schliemann announced the site's rediscovery in the 1870s. The most succinct (if obviously wrong) version is probably Erich von Däniken's from Chariots of the Gods: "Heinrich Schliemann accepted Homer's Odyssey as more than stories and fables and discovered Troy as a result" (p.69). Most frequently, this claim is used to justify the belief in Atlantis as somehow equal to Troy in historicity. Nevertheless, Schliemann's discovery of Troy does not prove what alternative writers think it does.
Let's begin with the obvious facts. First, Schliemann did not learn the location of Troy from Homer, and the Iliad and Odyssey did not give him a map to the city's ruins. This is a myth Schliemann himself was instrumental in creating. Instead, Schliemann, attempting to find Troy, searched many sites and turned up nothing (proving Homer's directions weren't that good) before another man, Frank Calvert, contacted him to tell him he had discovered Troy on his family's land in Turkey. Calvert had done preliminary excavations in 1865 and was convinced the Bronze Age city of Troy buried beneath the Hellenistic and Archaic layers. Schliemann arrived in 1868, and immediately doubted the site was Homer's Troy. Calvert eventually convinced him, and Schliemann took over the excavations in 1871. When he reported the results in 1875, he tried to bolster the credibility of his find by carefully relating it to Homer.
The long and short of it is that Schliemann and Calvert first found a site and then were able to use that site to verify that the Homeric descriptions were accurate. (Later, sadly, it would turn out that Schliemann identified the wrong occupation layer as the probable Homeric Troy.)
So, myths and legends did nothing to find the site; instead, the site's discovery came before the effort to match a myth to it. Schliemann's later excavations at Mycenae turned up Mycenaean ruins (which were previously known—he didn't "discover" them from directions in the Iliad either), but his actual attempt to use Homer's Odyssey to find a site on the island of Ithaca mentioned in the text ended in failure.
Second, Troy had a continuity in history that fictional locations like Atlantis do not. Troy was occupied from 3000 BCE down to Homeric times, and the ancients had no doubt about its existence because it was still in existence. The site ceased to be occupied sometime after Homer likely composed, probably around 700 BCE. The Romans later built a new city atop the abandoned ruins, Troy having ceded its ancient name, Ilion, to the nearby Roman city of New Ilium. The claim that Troy was nothing but a myth was actually a modern invention, one generated by early modern critical history when early modern scholars were not able to find a physical site to pin to Homer's poems, which were increasingly seen as fictional rather than historical. But the fact that the Trojan War had no historical support should not have translated into doubts about Troy's physical existence since every other pre-Classical Greek epic was tied to a specific, and known, city, such as Corinth, Athens, Mycenae, Thebes, and Tiryns (said to be built by Cyclopes!). (So far as I know, fictional places, like Atlantis, Panchaea, and others begin to appear in literature—though not epic—only during the Classical period, several centuries later.)
Today, thanks largely to Martin Nilsson, we know that the ancient Greeks consistently associated mythic tales—fictional though they be—with actual geographic locations from the Mycenaean past, creating elaborate and interlocking (if fictional) histories for these cities. Atlantis fails this test because it plays no role in any mythic cycle and is never mentioned outside Plato and those dependent upon his text. Bronze Age cities were celebrated in epic poetry; Troy was one of these cities, but Atlantis was not.
Now, against this is the fact that a Scot, Charles Maclaren, actually did deduce the location of Troy in 1822, largely from the Homeric description. He even picked out the exact hill, called Hissarlik, where Calvert and Schliemann later excavated.
But he could do this only because Troy, like Athens, Mycenae, Pergamum, and other ancient sites, was and had always been real. It was only early modern scholars who had invented the fable that Troy was entirely fictional in a surfeit of skeptical zeal. By contrast, Atlantis was always fictional; the ancients themselves could find no evidence or tradition of its existence (though some believed it real), and only Victorian pseudo-scholars invented the myth that Atlantis had a factual grounding.
So, in sum: Schliemann didn't use a map drawn from Homer to find Troy (though Maclaren did), and the entire claim that Troy was mythical was merely a modern fiction that had received repeated challenge even in the century when it was believed. Finally, Troy's reality could be demonstrated from several interlocking lines of evidence, including multiple ancient texts, a cluster of archaeological sites and geographic names tied to Troy, and (later) Hittite evidence documenting a relationship with Wilusa, believed to be Ilion, whose oldest name would have been Wilion before the Mycenaean digamma ("w") fell out of Classical Greek. Again, Atlantis has none of this.
So, if you want to argue that Atlantis is real because Troy is, then you need to get in your submarine and go find it, since no line of evidence provides for Atlantis any of the proofs used to determine Troy's reality.
Ed Nauen
Interesting article. Broadly, I agree with you - pseudoarchaeologists will claim any old tosh as evidence! I have been reading "The future of the past" by Zangger recently, however, he makes some very interesting points about parallels between Troy and Atlantis. I wouldn't say I am 100% convinced but it definitely left me a lot less certain that Atlantis is entirely mythical. Best wishes, keep up the good work.
It's an interesting idea, but it has serious problems. First, the Greeks knew of Troy, so why would there be a "double" of it? Second, how would the story have been transmitted from Solon to Plato hundreds of years later? Third, why should we assume on the basis of Plato's relation of "Mycenaean" era details that Atlantis was "really" Troy, when those same details could have been borrowed from Homer, who discussed the actual Troy?
The only way to make it work is, as always, to abandon almost everything Plato said about Atlantis to make it fit another pet theory.
New discovery came from Croatia.Vedran Sinožić, author of the book NAŠA TROJA (OUR TROY) says that city of Troy is in Istria,todays city of Motovun .We know that.Homeric Troy is placed on the hill,and Hissarlik it is not.Many villages in Istria take the names of Trojan wariors and aristocracy.It is unknown,because focus is only in wrong location.Many of scientists and historians dont believe to theory of Hissarlik.Realy, Homeric map you could find in peninsula called Istria,-mountains,rivers, coasts,islands,capes,bays.There is an interesting toponim:-valley Troja,near city of Boljun.Homeric Troy,-city of Motovun has the prehistorical rudiments,old -1350 before,C.E.- to 1200 before C.E.,-like in a Homer story,and Hissarlik is oldest (tell),and not available. It is.unconfirmed,confused,bad location. Best regards.
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I think modern scholars dismiss ancient historical "myths" and stories too quickly. Troy isn't the only example of when they were wrong. Just a couple of examples off the top of my head: They didn't believe the Hittite civilization from the Bible existed until it was found. They also taught for decades that the Irish came from central Europe when Nennius wrote in the 8th century that the original Irish came from Spain. Now DNA proves they came from Spain. Why would modern scholars doubt the works of someone who was there much closer in time than we are? Just pride and politics in the academic world.


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I-League: Mumbai aim to end Bengaluru's winning streak
Football, Sports January 26, 2016, 7:44 pm Daily World
Mumbai, Jan 26 : Former champions Bengaluru Football Club (BFC) will aim to maintain their all-win record and build on a perfect start to the season when they take on Mumbai FC in an I-League match at the Cooperage Stadium here on Wednesday.
Bengaluru coach Ashley Westwood couldn't have asked for a better start to the new season as his boys made it three wins in as many games after beating Shillong Lajong 3-0 at the Kanteerava last Sunday, to go top of the table. While Bengaluru defence was impregnable, Westwood's strike combination of CK Vineeth and Kim Song Yong justified the gaffer's pairing of them, grabbing the goals against the team from the hills.
BFC, who had won the I-League in the 2013-14 season, had earlier defeated Salgaocar and top flight newcomers Aizawl FC to give their campaign a superb start.
"Kim being physical and Vineeth being in good form and using his pace to link together is a good partnership. Udanta and Sunil can also play in those positions. At the minute, Vineeth and Kim are doing well but we definitely have more options in that respect," Westwood was quoted as saying in a statement on Tuesday.
Mumbai FC however, have proven to be a difficult team for BFC in the past. The two teams have met four times in the I-League and have always ended up sharing the spoils — a habit Bengaluru will be keen to change.
Eugeneson Lyngdoh and Josimar da Silva were on target for Bengaluru and Mumbai respectively in a 1-1 draw between the two sides at the Cooperage Stadium last season and a good result on Wednesday will be the perfect injection for BFC who travel straight to Kolkata where they play East Bengal on Saturday.
Westwood maintained that his boys will look to take on the hectic schedule with positivity.
"It's important to win every game. We have a tough schedule ahead of us as we play six games in the next twenty days which is unheard of. We have four away fixtures in our first five games as well but we're looking to stay positive and get good results," he said.
Mumbai, on the other hand, are coming off a win themselves, having downed Salgaocar 2-1 at home on Sunday and with five points from three games, are yet to taste defeat this season.
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Looking back at some of my recent posts, I realized they've been pretty serious. So I figured I would try to lighten things up a bit by talking about one of my favorite topics of all time- food.
My story today was about how the city of Des Moines received $10 million for a pretty big road project- the SE Connector. By dinner time, we had our interviews, and most of our video, and time seemed to be on our side, so my photographer and I decided to stop for a dinner break at one of the businesses in the area- it was actually one we included in the story.
It's called "Capitol Pub & Hotdog Company." As a vegetarian, I was already planning what bar-food appetizers could constitute as a meal (maybe they'd have a side garden salad!) But to my surprise (and delight) the menu had a lot to offer me! First off, it had one of my all time favorite foods- deep fried pickles. I was almost giddy by the time I noticed vegan hotdogs!
Okay, first of all, yes, I always get this excited about food, and second, can you blame me? While many places do have vegetarian options, I often don't get to partake in all the fun- like fancy toppings and recipes. But today I did! My order- a vegan "hotdog" tempura deep-fried with spicy mayo, cream cheese, cucumbers, and wasabi. So good!
Another Des Moines based restaurant I recently had the pleasure of trying – Proof. I had an awesome falafel and tasty feta salad.
Now if only I could learn to cook some of this stuff myself- I would save so much money. I mean don't get me wrong, going out is such a treat, but that's all I really want it to be – a treat. And with all these awesome farmers markets here in Iowa, I would love to try to expand my (very limited) cooking skills.I have been dabbling in the kitchen a bit lately actually. Just the other day I tried my hand at a veggie and tofu brat dish on the stove. A dash of spices and olive oil and I had myself quite a tasty dish.
My homemade lunch with plenty of veggies. Yummy!


IPPF celebrates a number of important advancements in sexual and reproductive health and rights made at the 38th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), which concluded on July 6th in Geneva, Switzerland.
We commend Mexico and Colombia's leadership, together with other 58 co-sponsors, for a bold and looking forward resolution on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by consensus. For the first time, the Council recognizes that safe abortion is included under international human rights law and States must respect women's bodily autonomy. IPPF strongly supports concerns expressed in this resolution at the backlash to progress on women's and girls' rights linked to economic crisis and inequality, regressive lobbies and political or religious interpretations. It's regrettable, however, that some Member States still oppose terms such as Comprehensive Sexuality Education – a programme that aims at equipping children and young people with knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that empower them to realize their health, wellbeing and dignity - or Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), despite it being the most common form of violence against women in the world, with 1 in 3 women experiencing IPV in her lifetime.
IPPF strongly welcomes the resolution presented by Canada aiming at preventing and Responding to Violence against Women and Girls in Digital Contexts. For the first time, the HRC puts the spotlight on the numerous and diverse forms of abuse, harassment and violence that women and girls disproportionately face in digital contexts and provides key guidance on how States can advance and fulfil women and girls' human rights, including through countering structural inequalities and gender stereotypes, guaranteeing essential rights on privacy and confidentiality, and ending impunity by holding perpetrators to account.
We commend Portugal, Brazil, Colombia, Mozambique and Thailand's leadership in the Human Rights and HIV initiative. It demands for protection and fulfilment of human rights, non-discrimination and non-violence in the context HIV and AIDS as well full access for all persons living with, presumed to be living with, at risk of, or affected by HIV, including key populations, adolescents and young people, women and girls, migrants, etc. to HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care and support. Also, for the first time there was consensus in calling States to include information on sexuality as one of the elements of comprehensive educational programs for adolescents and young people. This critical educational component had been left out of previous resolutions, and its inclusion is a major step forward in guaranteeing comprehensive sexuality education for all.
We also applaud the condemnation and prohibition of all forms of female genital mutilation, including in medical contexts, in the African Group initiative on this matter, as well as the recognition that States must harmonize their laws to effectively combat the cross-border practice of this practice.
Finally, IPPF warmly welcomes the resolutions on The Right to Education, which calls on states to eliminate school-based sexual harassment and sexual and gender-based violence, and the education system to strengthen their monitoring and accountability systems, mainstream human rights across all training and curricula. We also welcome the Chile, Ireland, Japan, Sierra Leone and Tunisia initiative on the Civil Society engagement with International and Regional Organizations, which highlights the important role of civil society organizations and human rights defenders in the promotion of human rights and condemns the violence and discrimination they face.


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Christians of Raqqa in a succession of ISIS
Hamoud Almousa November 23, 2015
ISIS accuse Muslims of being infidels and apostates, what he is going to do with us we the Christians ", this cynical and sad words outlined Christian citizens within Raqqa about their fears after ISIS control of the city of Raqqa.
Raqqa which was the first Syrian province, which has been completely freed from the grip of the Assad regime in early 2013, at a defining moment and a turning articular in the history of the Syrian Revolution interrupted by an overwhelming feeling of joy overwhelming was not confined to the city alone, but across Syria, but the joy was short regime of Assad who went out of the door of Raqqa humiliated and subdued returned to it from the window.
The regime returned in a different way and picture, he returned with beards and short Jellalab and minds of fossilized claim ownership of the original and only copy of "true Islam", to fall Raqqa again in rapist grip unjust least worse and brutal of Assad regime and the gangs that wreaked in the country havoc for decades.
The suffering of Christians began with ISIS control of Raqqa
Extremist organization began to impose its provisions and laws that include all walks of life and directly affect the daily lives of civilians and their affairs, it has also started the implementation of strict sanctions against those who dare to violate these laws by saying or doing. These provisions were included all the components of society, without discrimination or regard for privacy that was living under its shadow some sects and ethnic groups within the city, and here began the suffering of Christians in Raqqa.
ISIS looks at Christians as infidels loyal to the West more than their loyalty to their homeland which they live, and on this basis began to impose restrictions and additional conditions on this sect to contribute to blur the identity and history of long-standing and deep-rooted within the Syrian society, and forcing the rest of the sons and elderly to leave the city unwillingly not voluntarily.
ISIS issued a series of rulings on the Christian population in the city of Raqqa, in the context of what called the "contract disclosure in the Levant between the Islamic state and the Christians of the state of Raqqa" the published contract at the twenty-sixth of February of 2014, included a series of provisions and commands Christians must adhere to under pain of severe punishment against those oppose it, this document came in the form of seven items in the following form:
Christians obliged to pay tribute to all of their males, four dinars amount of gold to the rich people, and half of that on the middle course, and half of it to the poor.
Not to build monastery and church or silo of monk in the city or around and not to renew what ruined of them.
Not to show any cross or and of their books in front of the Muslims or in their markets and not to use loudspeakers when performing their prayers, as well as the rest of their worship.
Not to let recite their books and voices of bells heard by Muslims and keep it inside the church
Not to do any acts of aggression against the Islamic state.
Not prevent anyone from Christians to convert to Islam if he wanted it
Not trade in the sale of pork and alcohol with the Muslims or in their markets, and not to drink it publicly
ISIS said: "the will ensure the safety of Christians in exchange for the payment of tribute, and their commitment to the provisions of the contract disclosure," adding that the imposition of tribute was based on the choice of Christians after the delegates on their meeting with the representatives of ISIS in Raqqa, and after was giving them the choice between that convert to Islam, or pay tribute, and was their choice to pay tribute.
Although the payment of tribute has been stopped for centuries, but it resurfaced at the hands of ISIS, in a move seen as arbitrary and encroachment by them in the application of Islamic texts in the eyes of many Muslim scholars and even some theorists of the Jihadist Salafist movement who have significant with their opinions and fatwa
Tribute in the Islamic Sharia is the amount of money paid by the able-bodied fighting non-Muslim "dhimmi" in exchange for their protection, and exempted the elderly, women and children, the infirm, the disabled and those who are fighting in the ranks of Muslims.
It is not just a financial tax paid as a substitute for murder or convert to Islam, but is more like a social contract between those citizens of the Islamic state at the time, with the consequent responsibility of each of rights and duties the most important to protect religious freedom, and this is what did not ISIS commit to clearly in the contract, as they did not commit the on other hand, of the contents and the terms of this contract on the ground.
ISIS policies aimed at the expulsion of Christians from tenderness
Based on the document in question, ISIS has warned the the rest of the Christians and Armenians in the city of Raqqa to pay tribute or to leave it, confirmed Christian citizen still resides inside of Raqqa city, who requested anonymity, that "ISIS imposing tribute to Christians in the city, starting at 25 thousand Syrian pounds for the unemployed, and 50 thousand for the worker, and a hundred thousand for property owners and businesses, and in the case of defaulted payment for a family will be expelled out of the city and the seizure of their property. "
He added that "This tribute is a heavy burden for many families," noting that "a lot of Christian families left Syria, and was forced to give up their property, fearing of the ambitions of the organization and his quest to capture it."
One of the people in Raqqa his name is Jameel said: "The members belonging to the organization told the Christian and Armenian families in Raqqa that they should pay tribute to the organization or get out of it."
Jameel added: Christians began to worry since September / September of the year 2013, when a number of members of ISIS entered the Bshara Church and the Church of the martyrs church in the city of Raqqa, and broke crosses, and collected everything of the pictures, crosses and they burned it, as they raised the flag of the organization instead of the cross.
Christians of Raqqa between a rock and a hard place
Christians today live in Raqqa in a terrible conditions their situation Like the rest of the components of society in the city, ISIS practicing its provisions and practices of atrocities on the ground, and Assad regime and the Russian ally bombing the city day and night their aircraft that do not discriminate between civilians and "ISIS member", and between this and that civilians live in light of squalor conditions of economic and living and service..
The Christians who are a few families remained inside Raqqa, added to the status quo ante they are suffering from the need to wear clothes and appearing as imposed by ISIS on their Muslim counterparts, which is not used in the past. As well as the multiplier fear they feel at the traffic barriers of ISIS and security points, not for something specific or fault of their own, but merely belonging to a religion not recognized by the organization and not pleased with him altogether.
On the other hand, Christians have ceased to show celebrating holidays and events of their own, as organizers of the churches stopped percussion bells, and disappeared crosses and symbols and monuments fully within the city, after ISIS confiscated most of the buildings and endowments of Christianity, including the Armenian Club in the city, as on the other hand, the confiscation of Christians properties who left the city earlier because of the harassments and practices of ISIS against them
Churches are sad in Raqqa
Churches that adorned the city with it architectural designs, and crosses that were sending love and coexistence letters between the sons of one homeland, dressed today in black, which symbolizes the oppression and injustice that happens, and the darkness that nestles in the hearts and minds of rapists, after it turned into the headquarters of security and military centers belonging to the organization
The province Raqqa had four churches; two in the city are the Saida Bshara and the martyrs church, the tow martyrs Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Tabqa city, and a church in the city of Tel Abyad.
Noteworthy that the number of Christian families in Raqqa was more than / 1500 / family before control of ISIS over the city, half of whom are Greek Orthodox and the other half from all other Christian denominations, but the number of these families do not exceed today 25 families only, so as to not being able to leave the city, and because they are poorer at all.
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Who killed Jon ?
I live in a country where most people are christian or like me dont have any religion and I can publicly tell that and nobody cares, it's allright and I can have a free living and do what I like and all that I take for granted. Should be happy about it every day.
Living inside so much darkness, yet your writing is a burning Candle that shines on the bitter truth of the living condition under those mentally twisted psychopathic cult of Islam.
My heart is bleeding for you and the people of Raqqa who are experiencing this never ending nightmare of death. Stay safe my friend, Raqqa needs you and the whole world respect you and hope for the day when this nightmare ends, so that we could celebrate your courage and contributions to the destruction of Daesh.
mary ann harter
I can send you stuff. You can come here. How can I help you?
How terrible!
Willem-Jan van den Eik
May the Lord be with our Christian brothers and sisters as well as with the other inhabitants of Raqqa. My prayers are with you. Once this will be over. Love from the Netherlands (visited your beautiful country in 2006).


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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 By Jennifer Smith
Community Questions Governor Appointee
Senators hear what community has to say about newly appointed Director of Planning.
Molokai transplant Abbey Mayer said he has the right qualifications to be the director of the Office of Planning, but he still needs to convince State senators.
By Jennifer Smith
The credentials of the newly appointed Director of the Office of Planning (OP) came under heavy scrutiny during a Senate confirmation hearing last week Wednesday on Molokai. Senators Clayton Hee and Kalani English traveled to the Friendly Isle to hear testimony from community members who were unable to attend the Senate confirmation hearing held the previous week in Honolulu. Nearly 100 people attended the event at Kulana `Oiwi Halau.
Mayer moved to Molokai from the East Coast in 2004. "If anyone would know him it would be the people on this island," said Hee. The senator explained that multiple hearings on the appointee's credentials would not have been necessary if Mayer was highly qualified.
"When I look at his qualifications I think there is reason to be concerned," Molokai Community Service Council Director Karen Holt said.
Over two-thirds of the testimony opposed the appointment.
"As a ship carpenter and a foreman of a boat yard, does this qualify him to carry out the responsibilities of Coastal and Ocean policy management for State of Hawaii?" Molokai resident Julie Lopez asked in written testimony.
Other testimonies citing a lack of experience on Mayer's resume said an art degree from Yale, two years writing an unpublished novel, and no more than a couple of years in any given position were not enough to justify his appointment to the OP.
Supporters of Mayer referenced his accomplishments on the Molokai Livestock Cooperative and Enterprise Community (EC).
"Mr. Mayer has operated with dedicated professionalism," EC board president Stacy Crivello said.
Former work associate of Mayer at the EC, Zhantell Dudoit, said she fully supports him and is confident in his abilities.
Additional Mayer supporters included his Aikido student Dick Wheeler, Na Pu`uwai Executive Director Billy Akutagawa, Monsanto General Manager Ray Foster, and his wife Rose Mayer.
Mrs. Mayer said her husband was qualified for the job and committed to the people of Hawaii. He has "worked tirelessly in the midst of controversy."
The EC, a federally funded non-profit which Mayer directed for the past two years, has attracted considerable criticism from the Molokai community for supporting the proposed La`au Point Development.
"Governor Lingle pretty much presents Abbey with the key to La`au Point," Enterprise Community (EC) board member Bridget Mowat said.
Governor Lingle and Mayer claim to stand against further reliance on a land-development based economy. "I think crucial to rural places is the preservation of agricultural lands," Mayer said. However, both have publicly endorsed the reclassification and development of 613 acres of agricultural land in the conservation district of La`au Point on Molokai.
"I cannot figure out what is going on," cultural rights advocate Walter Ritte said, explaining that the appointment "is not about what you know, it is about who you know."
"This is how the government fills their closets with political puppets," Homesteader Martin Kahae said, claiming that political agendas were at play with Mayer's appointment.
Holt said Mayer's support of the proposed La`au Point development would violate "almost every point of good planning principles."
Urban sprawl, lack of water, energy consumption, and the protection of wildlife habitats were among the many unresolved issues Holt found with the proposed development. "I want the top planner for the state of Hawaii to care about that," Holt said.
After nearly four hours of public testimony, the senators took turns questioning Mayer's vision, priorities, and views of sustainability and affordable housing.
To remedy the effect of real state speculation on affordable housing, Mayer said proposed developments should contain a mandatory construction of 30-50 percent of affordable housing. For the 200 proposed La`au Point lots, Mayer agreed that 60-100 affordable homes ($200,000-$300,000 by his standard) should be built.
Sen. English was critical of Mayer's inability to provide innovative ideas for issues facing the OP.
"People are no longer satisfied with development," and they are no longer willing to fund tourism, said Sen. English. A Director of Planning must consider the effect developments have on community members' quality of life, he added.
The senator said on islands like Molokai, productivity and happiness levels should be considered in planning models.
"I regret that I don't have all of the answers statewide going in," Mayer said in a response about the status of Big Island planning. "My best answer is that I learn quickly," he said, adding that he has an extremely experienced staff to support him.
Mayer said he is confident he meets the qualifications for the position. "The Lingle administration was particularly impressed with my ability to form partnerships during my work with the EC… I think I am an accomplished administrator."
Mayer refuted allegations that his official support of the La`au Point development would present a conflict of interest, adding that he has initiated discussions with both the Attorney General's office and ethics committee to verify this.
Despite his enthusiasm for the appointment, Mayer's inability to answer job-specific questions left the senators uneasy with the appointment.
"I haven't been able to see you think as a director," Sen. English said, adding that he wanted to know more about Mayer's vision and plans for the Department of Planning.
"I think he really wants the job," Sen. Hee said. However, he explained that desire was not enough and that the position requires more than "on the job training."
When asked where 282,000 people should live, the Director of Planning should have the answer, even if people disagree with it, Sen. Hee said.
Sen. Hee expected a vote to take place within a month, and said there is a 50 percent chance of an additional hearing.
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Good movement over Cape Greco from 8am to 12pm this morning. Flocks totaling 54 Purple Heron and 16 Grey Heron were heading south and there were unseen European Bee-eaters flying over as well as plenty of Barn Swallow, a few Sand Martin and a flock of around 40 Red-rumped Swallow. Four European Rollers were in the area.
The stars though were the raptors. It was interesting to see that the 230+ European Honey Buzzard that passed over or were seen gaining height in the distance approached from the north, north east or east and the Harriers from the north or north west. There were forty Western Marsh Harrier including ten males and a male and two ringtail Montagu's Harriers throughout the morning. One of the early birds was an Osprey and a European Sparrowhawk over the view point as I arrived. I counted at least eight Black Kite – mainly in with the Honey Buzzard. On two occasions kettles of Honey Buzzard rose up over the ridge to the east of the observation point and over my head. Great views.
Not many passerines around – two Cyprus Wheatear and a juvenile Red-backed Shrike.
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La liste des plus hauts murs d'escalade présente la liste des plus hauts murs d'escalade en intérieur ou en extérieur.

Extérieur
 Le barrage de Luzzone au Tessin en Suisse a été aménagé pour l'escalade et la voie mesure
 Le barrage de Beauregard en Italie, avec des voies de 80m
 Le mur d'escalade, le CommRow, à Reno au Nevada aux États-Unis mesure 49,39 mètres
 La Tour Patrick Berhault à Vaulx-en-Velin en France avec 48 mètres

Intérieur
 Le plus haut mur d'escalade artificiel indoor du monde est le Kiipeilyareena à Helsinki en Finlande avec 29 mètres
 Le plus haut mur d'escalade artificiel indoor de France est le mur du Climbing Mulhouse Center à Mulhouse en France avec 25 mètres

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Mur d'escalade
 Escalade en salle

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Draft Scouting
2022 NHL Draft Notebook: Salomonsson, Odelius and Hävelid
Kicking off the year with a profile on three Swedish defenders in the upcoming draft class.
By Eric D@OnTheFutureOTF Feb 11, 2022, 12:00pm EST
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It's that time of year; my NHL Entry Draft coverage has begun. When it comes to this iteration of my player profiles, I'll be doing things a bit differently and compiling a few prospects of the same position from similar circuits to analyze. This will allow me to share more brief but concise updates on more players eligible for this summer's draft between now and July.
To start, I've taken a look at a trio of Swedish defenders who are hoping to hear their name called on day one.
Elias Salomonsson | D | Skellefteå AIK J20
Salomonsson is a later birthday in this class, being eligible by just a few weeks. The 17-year old stands at 6'1" and plays for his hometown Skellefteå club.
Salomonsson caught the eyes of many scouts with an impressive performance last season as a 16-year old at the U20 level; he scored four goals and 15 points in 14 games and even earned a three-game call-up to the SHL. This year has been a different story both statistically and in his development. He started the year with just two points in his first six games but then ripped off a four-game goal streak. He dressed for four games with the U18 national team in November before going back to the J20 Nationell and playing a few more SHL games. Once identified as a potential first-round pick, Salomonsson's on-ice performances have been shaky (if not a step-down from last year) at many moments this season.
Salomonsson (#55, white) moves extremely well in all four directions for his size as you can see above, but—as demonstrated early in the clip—he can be careless with unforced errors in dishing the puck. It's not an issue with skill (see here), it's just...well...careless. He transitions well between forward and backward skating and uses his hips well to open up his body when receiving a pass or making a move on opponents; he also dishes a sweet pass here for a brilliant scoring chance. But, you can sense there's more that he can bring to the table with the puck on his stick.
I love how aggressively he can sit in the offensive zone, flirting with the top of the circles, and he can make good passes under pressure or jump into the rush at the right moment as he does above, but he's not always consistent. He demonstrates a good stride extension and recovery to get back on defense and ultimately uses his body to force a change of possession.
Salomonsson will also likely be used as a key asset on any team's power play; for Skellefteå, he mans the half-wall, pestering goalies with effective wrist shots or dishing to his teammates.
Overall, he's got good size and a tantalizing skill set, but he's just too inconsistent night-to-night. Defensively, he can misread gaps, mistime his pivots, or chase a play, so at this point, he's likely a mid-second or third-round pick at this point.
Calle Odelius | D | Djurgårdens IF J20
Contrary to Salomonsson, Calle Odelius has been a steady riser in public opinion all year. The 17-year old defender stands at 6'0" and has been lighting up the J20 Nationell this season. The Djurgårdens skater is second among U18 defenders in the league with 22 points in 33 games; he's also skated in seven SHL games this season.
Odelius (#20, white) is another mobile defender who could refine a few of his skating mechanics—notably his knee bend. He doesn't have amazing footspeed, and in the clip above, he's able to race back and take out the puck-carrier with his physical play, but some skating touch-ups would help him win that race much more easily.
In all zones, Odelius is constantly mapping out all the moving parts around him, and he uses that to walk the blue line well and control and distribute the puck. His shooting talent is okay, but that will be improved with added strength. He attacks open space, giving his teammates more passing options, and when he's on his game, he makes it hard for opposing forwards not to chase his puck play.
When Odelius starts the transition from his own zone, he jumps quickly into the play after his first pass, contracting the space the other team has to defend throughout the rest of the ice. With his stronger skating skills, he's largely able to negotiate timing between moving up and moving back well, but he can still get backed up back faster puck-carriers and maintain poor gap control or miss his pivots as seen above.
While it may be later on day one, Odelius is a fairly clear first-rounder to me.
Mattias Hävelid | D | Linköping HC J20
Rounding out this notebook is the exciting defender Mattias Hävelid. He turned 18 at the start of this year, and he's smaller in size at just 5'10", but he may have the highest ceiling of this group.
The Linköping blueliner has notched seven goals and 14 points in 22 U20 games this year and has graduated to play in 17 SHL games; he's also scored two goals and 10 points in nine games for the U18 Swedish team this season.
Hävelid (#6, white) has his fans, and he has his detractors; what few can deny is how mesmerizing he is with the puck on his stick. He keeps his head up the whole way up the ice, uses linear crossovers to build space between him and the other team, and freezes defenders with his adept, but not chaotic, stickhandling. He doesn't have the straight-line speed to excel like this in the NHL right now, but his confidence will go a long way to him hopefully becoming a top-four defender at the pro level.
On defense, Hävelid's instincts are okay. He tends to let the play come to him and kind of float in space when not challenging the puck in neutral ice. He doesn't engage puck-carriers like you want a top defender to do despite his ability to be so dynamic when possession flips to his side of the ice. In the defensive zone, I have concerns that he's too stagnant and waits for a moment to rush up ice instead of creating that chance himself.
When it comes to putting the puck in the net, Hävelid comes with an impressive shooting arsenal and can really let the puck rip as we see above.
While some of his SHL performances have drawn questions about the ceiling of his defensive game, Hävelid oozes skill. He's a later first-round pick for me and will be a fun player to develop for any club.
All statistics are courtesy of eliteprospects.com.


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Ho Chi Minh City leaders join canal clean-up to kick-start environmental campaign
Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan (C) helps clean up the Lang Canal in Binh Thanh District on October 21, 2018.
Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City have joined hands to clean up a local canal to mark the beginning of a large-scale environmental campaign across the southern Vietnamese metropolis.
Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan, Chairman of the People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong, and other high-ranking officials participated in a clean-up at the Lang Canal in Binh Thanh District on Sunday.
The activity was part of the kick-off ceremony of a years-long campaign that encourages citizens to stop littering along streets and canals, and which is aimed at keeping the city clean and alleviating inundation.
The campaign will conclude in October 2020.
Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City attend the kick-off ceremony of the environmental campaign on October 21, 2018.
At the event, chairman Phong called on all residents to start protecting the environment by such simple activities as limiting the use of plastic bags and tidying the public space in front of their houses.
"Each citizen should contribute to a more civilized and modern city with better living conditions. This is how we show our love to the city," the leader remarked.
Environmental pollution, especially waste-related problems, is one of the challenges to the socio-economic development of the metropolis, Phong continued.
People clean up the Lang Canal on October 21, 2018.
The chairman tasked the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment, in collaboration with district-level administrations, with adding more recycle bins across the city, raising awareness among young students, and preventing garbage to pile up in residential areas.The issue arose from poor awareness among residents and lack of coordination between competent authorities in dealing with the situation, he added.
Following the ceremony, a group of volunteers joined hands to redecorate old tires and used them to build a children's playground.
Residents in Ward 12, Binh Thanh District were also gifted new recycle bins as part of the event.
Design of a children's playground made from old tires and other recycle material.
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Passengers travelling internationally this December holiday season will have to negotiate the latest COVID travel regulations.
By Alia Chughtai
Published On 22 Dec 202122 Dec 2021
With the onset of the typically busy end-of-year travel season coinciding with the rapid spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, passengers are navigating the latest changes to COVID regulations.
At least 50 million people worldwide are projected to be travelling on international flights during the season, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
Most countries require pre-travel COVID testing and vaccination certificates for entry. The discovery last month in southern Africa of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, which has since been detected in at least 89 countries, has led to tighter curbs on travel.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said Omicron is spreading significantly faster than the Delta strain and is causing infections in people already vaccinated or those who have recovered from the COVID-19 disease.
Many countries and airlines require passengers to present a negative PCR test result within 48-72 hours before boarding a flight. In some countries, a pre-and post-departure rapid test is required to be taken at the airport, in addition to the pre-travel PCR.
For entry into the United States, travellers need to show evidence of a negative COVID test (PCR or Antigen) no more than one day before the departure date.
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The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is considered the gold standard for diagnosing viruses and bacteria.
A PCR test is an inexpensive way to quickly analyse a small amount of DNA. The test is conducted by a nasal or throat swab to determine the presence of COVID-19 ribonucleic acid (RNA).
When a sample reaches a lab, a reagent solution is added. The reagent starts a chain reaction in which copies of genetic material in the virus are created. This enables the identification of the virus.
PCR tests are generally considered to produce highly accurate results.
Rapid antigen test
Rapid antigen tests, or lateral flow antigen tests, involve swabbing the nasal cavity, placing the swab in a vial of solution, and then squeezing drops of the solution onto a small strip.
Most rapid antigen test results are available within 15-30 minutes. Some countries and airlines require rapid tests on departure and arrival in addition to the PCR test.
Antibodies/IgG-IgM test
This test does not detect the present status of the virus – it can only show if a person has had the virus, and what IgG antibodies were created during the exposure of the viral load and infection.
The IgG Quantitative Antibody Test is conducted by a finger-prick blood sample, similar to checking blood glucose levels. This test should be conducted 15 days after exposure.
The price of COVID tests
The prices of COVID tests vary greatly from country to country, depending on the types of tests needed, the departure point and the destination and the test provider.
For international travel from the United States, a certified practitioner or laboratory can issue a COVID test certificate for fit to travel. In the US, a private COVID test pre-travel PCR test that gives same-day results can cost $375, but there are also many free options across the country.
In the United Kingdom, a clinic or laboratory approved by the Public Health authority can issue a fit-for-travel certificate, and prices can range from about $50 to $130.
In Japan, the cost of a PCR test with a certificate in English for travel can cost up to 33,000 YEN ($290). Governments in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have introduced price caps on COVID tests.
Many countries have vaccination requirements for travellers, with some specifying the brand of vaccine needed to enter or avoid a stay in quarantine, but others only require passengers to take COVID tests.
Pre-travel and on-arrival testing can be pre-booked and paid for to avoid long waits at the airport.
Passengers can be asked to fill out online health forms, or download an app or use a QR code to show their test results or vaccination status.


Connecticut has a multitude of laws regarding theft. Some deal with activities that many people may not consider "theft" in the traditional sense of taking an item that doesn't belong to you. For example, "theft of services" is a crime.
This involves intentionally avoiding paying for services rendered. This can include skipping out on the bill at a hotel or at a restaurant. (The latter is commonly known as "dine and dash.") It can also involve failing to pay a taxi fare or for any sort of public transportation.
While it may involve running away without paying, some people facing this charge are accused of using intimidation or deception to avoid payment or engaging in some sort of mechanical tampering.
We sometimes hear about people stealing cable or wi-fi. That could be considered a theft of utility service. This crime intentionally obtaining gas, water, electricity and telecommunications services without paying for them. Often this involves some sort of tampering with equipment or software. It may involve changing the settings on a meter that measures the use of a particular utility.
Some people may consider finding a way to get free service harmless, particularly if they believe that a provider charges too much. However, theft of services is not a victimless crime. Providers of these services can and do press charges.
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