Östaden Ratzeburg ligger mitt i naturparken Lauenburgische Seen mindre än en timme resa med bil från Hansastaden Lübeck. Den är omgiven av fyra underbart vackra sjöar och erbjuder en hel rad möjligheter till utflykter med sightseeingbåtar där man kan utforska omgivningen.
Det finns rundturer från 30 minuter och ända upp till 2 timmar där man upplever "kulturen på domkyrkoön" med den betydande domkyrkan från tolvhundratalet i romansk stil, hertigarna av Mecklenburgs herresäte och de vackra husen och idylliska omgivningarna. Man kan dessutom upptäcka "naturen vid stora Ratzeburger sjön" under den fortsatta färden genom naturskyddsområdet och bioreservatet med sina skär längs sjöns östra strand.
Här häckar den sällsynta rördromen och även fiskgjusar och havsörnar förekommer flitigt. Här ser man också spännande segelregattor, tävlingsroddare tränar regelbundet och t.o.m. vikingabåtar, "vattencyklar" och drakbåtar kan upplevas i full aktion.
En båttur på Ratzeburger See är verkligen alltid en alldeles särskild slags upplevelse. När solen skiner är det härligt att uppehålla sig ute i fria luften uppe på däcket på båten Heinrich der Löwe. Vid blåsigare väder kan gästerna njuta av färden i de gemytligt inredda salongerna.
För barn i alla åldrar blir rundturen inte heller långtråkig. På den "stora" passagerarbåtens däck inbjuder ett "litet" lekfartyg till att en gång själv få vara kaptän.
För familjer, firmor, föreningar och klubbar erbjuder "insjöskeppen" en välsorterad matsedel och drycklista: piffiga snacks, maträtter som smakar som mammas hemgjorda, glass och drycker av alla slag, eller kaffe med fika under färden genom denna vackra och intakta natur innebär "energi och vederkvickelse för kropp och själ".
Information om tidtabeller och båtturspriser se motsvarande biljettförsäljning/kassa. Parkeringsplatser (dagsbiljett: 2,00 EUR) finns alldeles i närheten av tilläggsplatsen (huvudkaj) "Schlosswiese / Lüneburger Damm".
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"Asiwaju is not in Kano and has not been in Kano at any point during the conduct of these elections. The picture that these liars are circulating of Asiwaju and Governor Ganduje is one that was taken last year when the governor visited Lagos," Tunde Rahman, his media adviser, said in a statement late Tuesday, March 19.
According to the statement, those peddling the rumour know the picture is not true, but, "they still use it because their relationship to the truth is an adversarial one"
The statement added that Asiwaju has nothing but utmost administration and respect for the people of Kano and their brand of progressives politics adding that this provided the impetus for the formation of the APC.


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Isro turns to private sector for help as it targets 60 satellite launches in next five years
The space agency floated a tender inviting private companies to assist them in building more than 30 satellites.
Nov 21, 2017 · 12:57 pm
The Indian Space Research Organisation on Monday invited private companies to help build satellites as in-house capability will not be enough to meet its high targets, The Hindu reported. A tender was floated for the private sector for the assembly, integration and testing of 30-35 satellites.
Four to five companies will be selected for the contract by February.
The need for the private sector's increased involvement comes as Isro aims to launch 16 to 18 satellites a year, against just three to four a year currently, said Isro satellite centre's Director M Annadurai. More satellites are needed to meet the country's increasing demands, PTI reported.
The space agency also wants private companies to begin manufacturing satellites entirely at their own facilities, after they gain enough experience.
Another official said that Isro plans to launch nearly 60 satellites in the next five years. "Our in-house capacity is limited," he said. "So we are looking to offload 30%-40% of the work to the private sector."
Isro has also set 2021 as its target for the first satellite launch vehicle built entirely by private companies, Chairman AS Kiran Kumar told The Times of India. The space agency is planning a joint venture with a group of companies for the purpose, and work is in progress, Kumar said.
Indian Space Research Organisation
Indian satellites
ISRO may have reached the moon but its salary allotments for staffers are yet to take off

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News » News Lead
The child of a secret underground adoption goes hunting for her past
by Rebecca Meiser
Ruth and Fred Wildau were elated to meet their adopted daughter for the first time.
As a child, Debbie wondered why her birth mother had given her up.
Debbie's birth mother, Ida Pearlman
Neither Debbie (right) nor her sister Bonnie were raised by their mother, Ida.
Out there, in her little house on the mountain, the days passed slowly for Debbie Boursier — much more slowly than they had in Cleveland.
She'd moved to that rural patch of Rapid City, South Dakota, with two toddlers and a husband. She hadn't wanted to go, but Charlie was a second lieutenant in the Air Force. As any good military wife knows, when the Air Force says move, you move.
South Dakota was beautiful, but also isolating. Their ranch overlooked acres of farmland, and from her studio window, Debbie could see her neighbor's horses lolling about the pasture, their tails swooshing like the pendulum of a grandfather clock. Charlie was away most nights. Often alone, Debbie felt like she was slogging upstream. Everything seemed hard; even the act of waking required extreme effort.
But then, one morning in 1984, everything suddenly felt different. She woke feeling exuberant but frantic. Her 32-year-old body suddenly pulsed with electricity. Though she hadn't painted more than an hour at a time in the past few months, she knew she had the ability inside her that day to create a masterpiece.
So she grabbed a brush and splattered streaks of turquoise across a canvas, admiring how the paint dripped down like raindrops. She dipped another brush in gray and flung more color onto the surface. Then she added greens and pinks and reds. But she wasn't done. She took out another blank canvas, this time experimenting with golds and silvers. When she was done, the floor was speckled with bits of rainbows.
Debbie felt flushed and re-energized. She moved to the kitchen and started to make dinner — for the whole week. She made lasagna, spaghetti, risotto, hand-rolled meatballs, and salad. It went on like that for days, she recalls, with no desire for sleep or food — living purely off her own adrenaline. But on the seventh day, she collapsed. All the brightness of the days before suddenly dimmed. Everything seemed blurred and out of focus. All she wanted to do was sleep.
Something, Debbie realized, was very wrong.
She called her doctor back in Cleveland, who urged her to fly back home for tests. He thought she might have a thyroid problem — or, God forbid, a brain tumor.
It turned out to be neither. He diagnosed Debbie with manic depression, also called bipolar disorder. It was, he said, most likely a genetic condition.
Debbie sat in his office, trembling with fear and anxiety. She knew nothing about the disease. Didn't know anyone else who'd ever been diagnosed with a mental illness. The word, she kept thinking, sounded a lot like "maniac."
Then the doctor asked her the question she loathed most, the reason she often avoided doctors' offices in the first place: Do you have a family history of bipolar disease?
Debbie had no idea. She would spend the next two decades searching Cleveland for the answer. And when it finally arrived, even Debbie — who'd known since day one that she'd been adopted — could barely believe it.
From all appearances, Ruth Wildau had the perfect life. It was 1953, and Ruth lived in a cute suburban colonial in University Heights. Her husband, Fred, adored her. And as the wife of a shoe-store owner, she could get any style heel delivered to her doorstep at any time.
But what she didn't have was a child. And after two years of trying, it became obvious that she would probably never conceive one naturally.
Ruth called the adoption department of Jewish Family Services to ask about adopting a child. Social workers from the agency came to her home, asking questions. At the end, the workers smiled kindly, then explained that the waiting list was already lengthy. It could take two years before the agency contacted her again. And there was no guarantee there'd be a baby available then.
"I thought I'd never get a baby," says the 87-year-old widow, who still lives in University Heights.
But a few weeks later, Ruth arrived for a scheduled visit with her doctor, who also worked at Mount Sinai, a now-defunct hospital on the East Side. In the checkup room, Ruth broke down. Her doctor waited while she dried her tears. "If you really want a child, there are other ways," he said quietly.
Adoption was a booming business in the 1950s. With more adoptive parents than potential adoptees, a practice called "baby brokering" was growing, driven by women like Georgia Tann. A social worker in Tennessee, Tann privately arranged more than 5,000 adoptions across the country. Some of the transactions were legal. Other times, though, Tann went to bizarre lengths to get the children, even stealing babies from the back yards of poor homes and transferring them to the arms of wealthy patrons in other cities — including Cleveland, says author Barbara Raymond, Tann's biographer.
Though many state officials knew how Tann operated, most ignored it. More than a few, including the then-governor of New York, had adopted children through her organization themselves. "She had the system in her hands," says Raymond.
Throughout the country, from tony suburbs to rural Appalachia, boarding homes that catered to pregnant females were emerging. Females who entered these homes were expected to give up their children immediately after birth, often in exchange for room and board. But the places weren't always safe havens. Pregnant teens were often viewed simply as "breeders." At the Frances Crittenden Home for Girls, on Eddy Road in Cleveland, a teenage mother from West Virginia told doctors that she wanted to keep her baby. Post-birth, Doctors informed her that the child had been stillborn. The woman learned of the lie only decades later, when her daughter came looking for her.
Most private brokers weren't so nefarious. They were men and women you'd know from church or the grocery store, a lot of them "doctors, working out of local hospitals," says Betsie Norris, the executive director of the Cleveland Adoption Network. They were the first people to learn about a pregnancy. Arranging a private adoption meant their clients wouldn't have to go through the very complicated — and very public — adoption process. So they helped arrange their own so-called "gray market" adoptions, using an underground network of doctors and lawyers. The process was viewed uneasily by social workers, who found the lack of screening and oversight worrisome. But it was perfectly legal.
And Ruth's doctor just happened to know about one of these chains.
His name was Dr. George Goler. He was head of the OB/GYN unit at Mount Sinai — a jovial, competent man, graduate of Case's medical school, and a well-known activist in Cleveland's Jewish community.
In 1953, a 35-year-old woman named Ida Pearlman went to see Dr. Goler. Pearlman, a waitress at the Carousel Bar in downtown Cleveland, already had four children and was about to go through a divorce. Her pregnancy was an accident.
Goler told her he could help.
A few months later, Ruth and her husband were packing to leave for a monthlong vacation to California. The night before they left, Ruth decided to check in with her doctor. She wanted to know whether he'd heard any more news.
"Don't go," the physician said. "I've got a baby that's about to be born any minute."
Ruth canceled her trip. She and her mother had less than a week to prepare her home for a new baby. They bought cribs and blankets, diapers and formula and bottles. Soon their living room seemed more a storage space. Four days later, Debbie was delivered to the Wildaus' front door.
The attorney who brokered the private adoption was Goler's brother, Abby. Ruth immediately trusted Abby — he was young but kind, and he had the doctor's seal of approval. From his easy familiarity with the adoption process, she assumed he'd done this many times before. So she paid him for hospital bills and legal fees. It would take a year for the adoption to be finalized.
For four months, Ruth lived a blissful existence. Debbie was an easy baby, with plump chipmunk cheeks and a sprig of brown hair that looked just like Fred's. Most people assumed they were biologically related. But in the spring of 1954, Estes Kefauver, a senator from Tennessee, decided to take on black-market adoptions as his personal crusade. Hoping to set a federal standard for adoption practices, he held a series of senate hearings in which birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees told chilling tales of unethical adoption processes. There were stories of children kidnapped by private agencies and sold to rich families, of birth parents whose newborns were stolen from hospital nurseries, of children with life-threatening medical conditions who were placed in the homes of unsuspecting adoptive parents.
"The problem," says Raymond, "is that he tarred everyone with the same brush. He equated independent adoptions with black-market adoptions."
Soon the feds started cracking down on private adoptions, including one that attended their Cleveland synagogue. Ruth got scared. "I worried someone would take away my Debbie," she recalls. She called Abby, hoping he could ease her fears, but he didn't answer. When she went to his home, Ruth learned he'd fled the state — with all of their paperwork. He was scared of getting prosecuted, neighbors told her.
"Oh God," Ruth recalls thinking. "What will become of us?"
For weeks, Ruth and Fred worried about what to do. If they confessed, would the courts simply take the child away? What if they moved out of the country? Would that save them?
They opted against life as fugitives and called a lawyer instead. And then they went straight to the courts and explained how they'd adopted Debbie.
The magistrate was sympathetic but stern. Ruth and Fred were allowed to keep the baby for a year — but were treated as any foster parents would be. For a year, they underwent intensive scrutiny, with social workers dropping by for unexpected visits to grill the couple. Ruth felt like a pledge during sorority rush — always being studied, never knowing whether she was good enough. She spent sleepless nights staring at Debbie's face, memorizing the shape of her eyes, listening to the sound of her breath.
"It was a very tough year," Ruth says. "We lived in fear."
Finally, in August, the magistrate reported back. The Wildaus received stellar reviews. The adoption could proceed. Everything was legal. And more important: "No one could ever take Debbie away," Ruth says.
The years passed, and Debbie began to crawl, then walk and take in her surroundings. From the beginning, Ruth told Debbie she was adopted. Other adoptive parents took extreme measures to hide this fact from friends and family — mothers wearing pillows under their shirts, fathers forging new birth certificates. Ruth took the opposite tack: She read Debbie books on adoption, told her how special she was to have "been chosen."
And then one day, she told Debbie her birth parents had died. The child began to cry.
"I remember thinking, 'I'm alive and they're not. That must be my fault,'" Debbie, now 54, says, fiddling with an empty Caribou Coffee cup at a shop near her home in Beachwood. Her squinty blue eyes, framed by chunky glasses, look briefly into the distance.
She never stopped thinking about her birth parents, she says. When she picked at piano keys, she wondered: Was my mother a musician too? When she looked in the mirror at the sharp, arrowhead-like angle of her nose, she wondered: Did my dad have that profile too?
"It was kind of like an archaeological dig, and all I was getting was dust," she says. "There was no recognizable picture of me anywhere, because I had no history. No pictures. No stories.
"I spent my childhood mourning these people."
Then, one day in her 16th year, Debbie was in the bathroom, when her mother knocked at the door.
"There are some other things about your birth mother that I never told you," she said hesitantly.
Debbie sat up in the tub, heart pounding.
"At the time of your adoption, your mother was separated and going through a divorce," Ruth began. "Your father was not the man she was married to."
"What else do you know?" Debbie was screaming now.
Ruth spoke slowly, sitting on the side of the tub. There were other kids, she said. Three others.
"Do you know their names?"
Ruth shook her head.
There's one more thing, she said.
"Your parents didn't die."
She left Debbie in the bathroom, stunned and alone.
I have to find my family.
That was Debbie's first thought. There were people out there built from the same genes. Were they anything like her? Did they have her perfect pitch, her small-lidded eyes?
And, most pressingly: Did they know about her?
Then, just as quickly, she decided she didn't want to know. Was it fair to these children to show up unannounced, to arrive at their homes like a ghost? And what about her adoptive parents? They'd been nothing short of amazing. How would they feel if she started searching for her "real mother"?
And there was another thing: There must have been some reason her mom chose to give her up. Debbie wasn't sure she was prepared to find out what it was. "What if I found her, and she had swept the whole adoption thing under the rug?" she asks. "The fear of rejection is a driving force."
She pushed the news to the back of her mind, trying to forget all she'd just learned. For the next few years, she'd glance at the obituaries every few days, looking for her birth mother's name. When she went to the mall or out to dinner, she looked hard at people's faces, trying to find traces of herself. The brown-haired boy behind the counter at Macy's, with the narrow nose — he had the same shape face as her: Could that be her brother? The waitress at Swingos, whose blue eyes were also flecked with yellow. Was she a relative?
So it went for the next few decades, as she graduated from art school in Minnesota, got married to her college sweetheart, raised her children in Beachwood, and started substitute teaching. The facts surrounding her adoption became just another part of her origin and history — like the date of her birth, the time she first menstruated, the moment she first fell in love.
And then she got her diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
Suddenly, she was faced with a whole new slew of concerns. She wondered what other kinds of medical life sentences she might pass on to her children. And she decided that searching for her heritage was no longer a selfish decision. It would be selfish not to.
Debbie possessed a road map to her past, but it was full of holes and blanks. On her birth certificate was the name of the man who had delivered her: George Goler.
So in 1984, after receiving her diagnosis, she found her way to the lobby of her doctor's Beachwood office and picked up a pay phone outside. With shaking hands, she slid two dimes into the coin slot and dialed the number listed for Goler. He answered, and Debbie introduced herself. She told him he'd delivered her 32 years ago, that her birth mother's name was Ida Pearlman. Did Goler have any idea where her mother might be?
From the other end of the line came a long spell of silence.
"I can't help you," Debbie remembers him saying. Then he hung up the phone.
Debbie next tried to contact the Cuyahoga County courthouse. The receptionist was kind in bearing the bad news: "All records are sealed." In the interest of protecting birth parents who might not want to be contacted by children they'd given up, Ohio had ordered all records closed in 1965.
For the next few years, Debbie tried to fight the twin demons of an unpredictable illness and a marriage that was slowly suffocating. She and her boys left South Dakota and moved back to Cleveland for good.
Not long afterward, she attended an outdoor family picnic with her mother. On the way home, Ruth turned to her daughter.
"Did you see that tall man with gray hair talking to your cousin Carol?" she asked.
Debbie nodded, wary of yet another setup attempt. Ever since she'd separated from Charlie, everyone, it seemed, had a nice, available man they wanted her to meet.
"Well, that was Abby Goler," Ruth said.
It was the first time Ruth had seen the man since 1954, when he'd arranged Debbie's adoption and skipped town.
A combination of nausea, excitement, and outrage welled up in Debbie's stomach. "Why didn't you say anything to him?" she asked. "Aren't you livid? Why didn't you hit him with a frying pan?"
Then: "Do you think he knows about my birth mother?"
Ruth promised to find out.
She called Debbie the next day with news: Abby had fled to Florida after the crackdowns started making the front page. He'd come back to Cleveland about 10 years ago. The lawyer believed that Ida had passed away a few years before. He didn't know anything about her other children.
The quest was deadlocked once more. But Debbie's mission was about to get a little easier, thanks in part to the Ohio legislature.
The next few years were challenging. The medications Debbie was taking left her sluggish and sleepy. "It was very rough going," she says. "It took a long time to come to grips with everything."
But in the early '90s, Debbie was referred to a new psychiatrist, who didn't believe in overmedicating his patients. He lowered her doses and weaned her off the harsher drugs. Slowly, she began to feel better. "It wasn't like a window shade suddenly snapped open," she says. "But the light definitely started moving in between the cracks."
In 1993, Ruth, tired of seeing her daughter alone and depressed, urged her to get involved in a philanthropic organization. Debbie finally agreed, signing up to solicit donations for a charity auction for cancer. One of the first places she went to ask for a donation was Pastabilities, an Italian restaurant on Cedar Road. There she met Harvey Smith, a charming sommelier with kind eyes and a loud laugh. A few days later, he asked her out. One year later they were married. The following year, she gave birth to a daughter, Zoe.
At the same time that Debbie's life was changing, Ohio's adoption laws were getting their own makeover. In 1996, after decades of fighting by Ohio adoptees, the courts finally changed their rules governing sealed records. Anyone born before January 1, 1964, was now allowed access to original adoption files.
But now that the door was open, Debbie was unsure whether she wanted to walk through. "Once it's opened, you can't shut it again," she says.
But an unexpected diagnosis forced her hand. In 2007, doctors found a rare type of tumor, the size of a fist, on her liver. As Debbie sat in the hospital, shocked and scared, she wondered: Is this another genetic whammy I'm being handed?
So in January 2008, after undergoing a successful round of surgeries, Debbie called Columbus and asked for her adoption file. Three weeks later, the package arrived at her Beachwood doorstep. She pulled out a white, typewritten form, filled with identifying details of her mom's past — her birth date, place of birth (Michigan), and most recent street address: Hamilton Avenue, an old West Side street that used to house dozens of apartment buildings.
Sitting at her kitchen table in Beachwood, Debbie reached for her husband's hand and squeezed it hard. She felt both anxious and excited. "I'd been looking for this information for such a long time," she now says. "To see this stuff there, substantiated in documentation — it's like legitimizing your own life."
On the form, under the section listing "children," someone had typed in the number "four" — two more than Debbie had originally thought. She reached for the Kleenex box.
"As a single child, I'd grown up fantasizing about two little sisters — now there were two others? It was unbelievable," she says.
The pieces of information were small — things that most biological children inherently knew and took for granted. But to Debbie, each new piece was a gift. And over the next few days, as she moved between chores, she'd stop and take the documents out, gazing at them with a look of disbelief.
These documents provided Debbie a key to her biological road map. Armed with Ida's last-known address and her age at Debbie's birth, Debbie and Harvey began searching through old Cleveland directories and newspapers for any mention of the name "Ida Pearlman."
It was long, time-consuming work, and their eyes blurred and throbbed after hours of looking at microfiche. But one day, Harvey came home triumphant: He'd found a marriage certificate with Ida's name. Two years after Debbie's birth, Ida, they discovered, had married again to someone with the last name Dailey.
Back they went to the archives. Weeks of searching yielded another gem: Ida's death certificate. She'd died in 1989 in California.
Reading the news, Debbie felt a strange sense of abandonment. She'd mourned her mother's death years before, when she was six. She thought she'd buried all expectations when Abby confirmed Ida's death a decade before. But as Debbie went through these records, Ida felt like a living, breathing person. Reading the death note, Debbie felt her mother slip away once more. A vital connection had been cut. "I was angry and sad all at once," Debbie explains.
But she kept digging, and the trail of records led her to exactly what she sought: her siblings. Contained in the divorce files were the names of two of Ida's children, Bonnie and Sharon Pearlman. Originally, Ida had been given custody of the girls. But, citing "abuse" and "neglect," the government had taken the kids back from Ida in 1954. According to the documents, both were temporarily placed in Bellefaire foster care.
Afterward, Sharon was moved to a house on South Taylor Road — mere blocks from where Debbie grew up. The many times that she'd spent picturing her imaginary siblings, they could have been passing her on the street or sitting next to her on the bus. "The thought," Debbie says, "was incredibly spooky."
Armed now with names and dates of birth, Debbie and Harvey headed back to the archives. Just this February, they hit pay dirt: Records showed that a Sharon Pearlman, originally of Cleveland, married Alan Knard in 1974. And there was a listing for a Sharon and Alan Knard in a small southeastern Ohio town on the border of West Virginia.
Harvey handed Debbie the phone, but Debbie was too nervous to take it. What if her sister didn't want to talk to her? What if she slammed down the phone? Called her a liar? "I didn't know if I could handle the rejection," she says.
So Harvey dialed the numbers. From Debbie's spot in the living room, she could hear muffled sounds. He'd reached Sharon's son. They now had her personal phone number.
Fingers trembling, Debbie wrote the digits down.
And then she picked up the phone and dialed her sister's number.
"Is this Sharon Knard?" she asked.
In a soft, measured voice, Sharon said yes. And Debbie, filled with a wholeness she'd never felt, began to cry.
Later, she'd learn that Ida too had most likely suffered from bipolar disorder, that her face mirrored that of her sister Bonnie, and that Ida had insisted, for some reason no one understood, that Sharon name her first child Debbie. But at that moment, all Debbie could think was "I'm home." And in the calmest voice she could manage, she told her sister: "I've waited my whole life to meet you."
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Supply chain risks linger in Asia
China's zero-COVID strategy hasn't just impacted those living within its borders — a ripple effect has been felt across Asia
As the world attempts to move on from the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns are a thing of the past in most countries. However, Asia's biggest economy, China, has continued down its zero-Covid path as it attempts to eradicate the virus.
In early July, Chinese authorities put 1.7 million citizens in central Anhui Province under lockdown following a spike in cases, a month after locking down millions in the financial centre of Shanghai.
The moves have put China at odds with its neighbouring nations and trading partners, further exacerbating ongoing regional supply chain issues caused by Covid.
China's strategy hasn't just impacted those living within its closed borders — a ripple effect has been felt across Asia, hitting regional and international companies and constraining activity across a range of sectors.
As the Covid crisis refuses to budge, building resilience in supply chains remains a high priority.
Navigating a perfect storm
The ongoing supply chain problems, war in Europe, pandemic and climate change are combining to pose a threat to international companies.
The pandemic continues to prompt unexpected policy measures, hindering the flow of goods and services across Asia. Containers remain unloaded in ports, while a slowdown in the manufacture of microchips will have long term ramifications.
Two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses are urged to focus on supply chain resilience and how insurance can add a layer of protection against global events.
FM Global's 2022 Global Resilience Index underlined the significant supply chain issues facing Asian countries. It revealed that a number of key manufacturing centres across the continent remain exposed to supply chain risks.
The Index, published in June, reviewed supply chain risks for the first time, and ranked Singapore at the top of the list for supply chain resilience. However, the news was less positive elsewhere in Asia. China ranked 38th, ahead of India, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, according to the Index.
The different regions of China were ranked as the 64th, 71st, and 77th most resilient overall. With no sign of pandemic restrictions easing in the world's second largest economy, Asian countries may have to live with significant regional supply chain disruption for some time yet.
Check your BI
Todd Wilhelm, head of property & casualty, marine and aerospace for Axa XL in Asia, doesn't believe that supply chain bottlenecks have begun to unwind across the continent. He says insurance loss costs continue to rise due to supply chain issues.
"As we navigate through the global economic environment, the supply chain issues are more acute and severe for some products or industries, thus giving the perception that some others are unwinding.
"From an insurance perspective, loss costs - both attritional and large - continue to increase as longer lead times are needed to source for appropriate labour and to replace or repair damaged property."
Faced with ongoing disruption, Wilhelm urges Asia-based risk managers to plan ahead.
"Ensure your business continuity plans are up to date to include availability of spare parts and materials as well as appropriate labour," he says. "Perceived little things, such as electrical or communication wiring, may be the bottleneck in returning your operations to normal."
He says companies might benefit from a new inventory management strategy. "Consideration may be given to changing just-in-time delivery of supplies to temporarily increasing supply stock."
Business interruption insurance remains a key risk transfer tool to navigate supply chain problems. In the current environment, policy extensions can prove worthwhile.
"Risk managers should ensure that they have adequate cover for their business interruption exposures including BI extensions such as Customers & Suppliers cover," Wilhelm adds.
supply chain risk management
China tightens security after anti-lockdown protests
Officials are expected to respond swiftly to stem the social risk of escalating unrest, possibly via "piecemeal easing of restrictions"
Inflation drives up cost of vessel, cargo repairs
The rising prices of steel, spare parts and labour are all factors in the increasing cost of hull repair and machinery breakdown claims
COVID BI test case rumbles on
Australia's High Court to hear arguments in the country's second BI test case, which has so far favoured insurers


Will the poor record of minor premiers failing to win a Holden Cup Grand Final repeat itself at ANZ Stadium this Sunday?
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles supporters will be hoping so!
History shows just two minor premiers (Canberra, 2008) and NZ Warriors (2011) have gone on win the seven Grand Finals contested since the National Youth Competition's inception in 2008.
Facing the 'omen' will be the Sea Eagles' opponents, the Penrith Panthers, who secured the minor premiership in the final round when the competition leaders Nth Qld Cowboys suffered a shock loss.
The shocks continued in the eyes of Holden Cup commentators last Saturday when the Sea Eagles caused a 'huge upset' to advance to the Grand Final against the Panthers.
Penrith will be out to secure their second Holden Cup premiership in three years. Their last grand final victory came in 2013 with a 42-30 victory over the Warriors. The minor premiers were Canberra.
The Panthers go into the Grand Final on the back of a crushing 50-16 win over the Warriors last Friday night and have the added comfort of beating the Sea Eagles twice in the regular season.
They then recorded a 44-24 victory over the Sea Eagles in the first week of the finals.
However, the Sea Eagles will take a ton of beating if they can reproduce their outstanding performance in the one-point victory over the Cowboys in the preliminary final.
Sea Eagles Coach David Heath is happy to be the underdogs.
"We get another go at them. We earnt it, so we get another crack.
Kick-off is 1.35pm. The match will be shown live on Channel Nine and Fox Sports. Supporters can also follow live updates on the Sea Eagles' Twitter and Facebook accounts.


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Ideally you could show me what I need (or can reuse from my current setups) for 50 GHz mixer based measurement setups, distributed RF setups, or S-parameter measurement setups.


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These promotional renderings were created for publishing in magazines or to be used in advertising material. Respectively: a Fury-class fighter, the commodity center on Augustus and an intense combat scene.
These ads appeared in a variety of places throughout the XBox dashboard over the summer. The campaign highlighted the fact that Arena was Live Arcade's first 16-player game. The art is very similar, though not identical, to some of the renders featured online.
Did you get a random Wing Commander CCG card in your copy of Wing Commander IV and wonder: what the hell is that? In an oddly unexplained promotion, a random card was inserted into roughly one in ten copies of the game. Unfortunately there was no explanation or promotion attached, so it seemed to most that their game just had a small picture of a torpedo or a nav point for some reason. Rarer still, was this special card -- a unique promotional card of Admiral Tolwyn not included in the regular set. These appeared in about 1 in 100 copies of the game's first pressing. Luckily, the kind people at Mag Force 7 were happy to give out more copies upon request at the time. Very cool art, too!
This full spread for Academy has some temporary art in the form of a Morningstar schematic on the Wraith's left VDU. The Wingmen are also different from what made it to the final game. Rusty, Dingo, Gauntlet and Harridan were eventually replaced by Maniac, Hobbes, Angel and Lightspeed.
The artwork for this full page ad features the familiar Arrow, but only in this scene do they face off against a trio of heavy Gorans. Placeholder text seems to exist instead of mine, shipyard and fortress images, and the final look of the strategic map was tweaked slightly before release.
Largely identical to the advertisement for the floppy version, but some textual differences. Play directly from the CD to conserve hard drive space, but only if you have 8 megs of RAM!
An advertisement for Origin's CD-Rom catalog. Part of 1995s 'interactive movie' push, which included System Shock, Ultima VIII, Wings of Glory, Wing Commander III and Wing Commander Armada. "Hunt down the meanest aliens in dozens of different galaxies -- without having to guess what they really look like."
Another advertisement for Origin's CD-Rom catalog. Part of 1995s 'interactive movie' push, which included System Shock, Ultima VIII, Wings of Glory, Wing Commander III and Wing Commander Armada. "Prepare Yourself and Your Shelves."
Another advertisement for Origin's CD-Rom catalog. Part of 1995s 'interactive movie' push, which included System Shock, Ultima VIII, Wings of Glory, Wing Commander III and Wing Commander Armada.
A preview card for the Armada Strategy Guide (ultimately released as the Playtesters' Guide). The back of the card contains a WC3 guide advertisement.


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Q: Calculate Cumulative Average using Pandas I have a Dataframe as below.
Name  2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Name1  2    5     0    0    4    6
Name2  1    4     2    0    4    0
Name3  0    5     0    0    0    2

I wanted to calculate the cumulative average for each row using pandas, But while calculating the Average It has to ignore if the value is zero.
The expected output is as below.
Name  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006
Name1  2    3.5    3.5  3.5   3.75  4.875
Name2  1    2.5   2.25  2.25  3.125 3.125
Name3  0     5     5     5    5     3.5

A: First, it seems to me that there is a math problem in your calculations also according to your comments.
If in the first row you are taking 3.5 (that is what you call current cumulative) PLUS 4 (the value at 2005 in the first row) and gives --> (3.5+4)/2= 3.75, then there is an error later in row two column 2005.
In fact, there you have (2.25 + 4)/2 = 3.125.  What you wrote is 3.175.
Now I believe there are a much better ways to implement my solution, but I get what you need here.
def cumulative_av(x):
    b=[]
    b.append(x[0])
    for i in range(1,len(x)):
        if(x[i]!=0 and b[-1]!=0):
            b.append((x[i]+b[-1])*0.5)
        elif(x[i]!=0 and b[-1]==0):
            b.append(x[i])
        elif(x[i]==0 and b[-1]!=0):
            b.append(b[-1])
        elif(x[i]==0 and b[-1]==0):
            b.append(0)

    return(b)

apd2=pd.DataFrame(columns=["2001", "2002", "2003", "2004", "2005", "2006"])
for i in range(3):
    apd2.loc[i]=cumulative_av(apd.loc[i,].to_list())

Where "apd" is your very initial pandas dataframe.   cumulative_av is a function that generates what you have defined (it is a very strange function in my opinion).
Here the results of my code:
    2001    2002    2003    2004    2005    2006
0   2.0     3.5     3.50    3.50    3.750   4.875
1   1.0     2.5     2.25    2.25    3.125   3.125
2   0.0     5.0     5.00    5.00    5.000   3.500

A: def cumavg(s):
    avg=[s[0]]
    for i in range(1,len(s)):
        if s[i]!=0:
            if avg[i-1] ==0:
                avg.append(s[i])
            else:
                avg.append((s[i]+avg[i-1])/2)
        else:
            avg.append(avg[-1])
    return np.array(avg)
df.apply(lambda s:cumavg(s),axis='columns')

A: Given the following dataframe:
import pandas as pd
data = {
    '2001': {'Name1': 2, 'Name2': 1, 'Name3': 0},
    '2002': {'Name1': 5, 'Name2': 4, 'Name3': 5},
    '2003': {'Name1': 0, 'Name2': 2, 'Name3': 0},
    '2004': {'Name1': 0, 'Name2': 0, 'Name3': 0},
    '2005': {'Name1': 4, 'Name2': 4, 'Name3': 0},
    '2006': {'Name1': 6, 'Name2': 0, 'Name3': 2}
}
df = pd.DataFrame(data)

You basically need to perform a cumsum (column-wise, so axis=1) and then divide it by the cumsum of all elements that are not 0.
This can be done with:
df.cumsum(axis=1) / (df != 0).cumsum(axis=1)

The result will be:
       2001  2002      2003      2004      2005  2006
Name1   2.0   3.5  3.500000  3.500000  3.666667  4.25
Name2   1.0   2.5  2.333333  2.333333  2.750000  2.75
Name3   NaN   5.0  5.000000  5.000000  5.000000  3.50

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Dulce de leche u španjolskom ili doce de leite u portugalskom jeziku je tradicionalni južnoamerički slatki namaz.

Posebno omiljen je u: Argentini, Brazilu, Čileu, Dominikanskoj Republici Paragvaju, Peru i Urugvaju. Popularan je u Meksiku pod nazivom cajeta a u Kolumbiji i Venezueli pod nazivom Aarequipa.

Ime znači na španjolskom jeziku doslovno sladko od mlijeka.

Francuski verzija Confiture de lait vrlo je slična dulce de leche-u.''

U većini osnovnih recepta kombinira se kipuće mlijeko i šećer, a recepti mogu sadržavati i druge sastojke kako bi se postigla posebna svojstva. Dulce de leche također može biti pripremljen od zaslađenog kondenziranog mlijeka, koje se kuha i po nekoliko sati. Ova metoda pripreme često se naziva karamelizacija, a to je zapravo vrsta kemijskih reakcija s nazivom Maillardova reakcija.

Dulce de leche rabi se kao namaz na kruh ili druge slastice kao što su keksi ili kolači.

Povezani članci
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Vanjske poveznice

A simple recipe for making Dulce de Leche using only a can of sweetened condensed milk

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Do you want to work in a place investing in the transformational power of culture?
It's a really exciting time for the area as it builds on the momentum generated by Paisley's bid for UK City of Culture 2021 and drives forward Paisley's legacy plan.
Five brand new job positions have opened across Renfrewshire Council and Renfrewshire Leisure – and all of them will have a key role to play in what Paisley does next.
The Strategic Lead – Paisley Partnership is a senior role within Renfrewshire Council and will be at the forefront of Paisley's cultural regeneration. The post will lead the delivery of Paisley's legacy plan – including building our economy, changing perceptions, lifting communities out of poverty and transforming our town centre – as well as maximising the activities of our Paisley Partnership.
This post will be supported by a new Cultural Regeneration Officer to lead and deliver on these exciting plans for Paisley's future.
Renfrewshire Council is also seeking an experienced and enthusiastic PR and Marketing Officer to join the marketing, events and communication team. This role will help promote the new destination brand paisley.is by devising visitor campaigns and creative PR to continue shining a spotlight on Paisley and Renfrewshire both nationally and internationally.
Renfrewshire Leisure is also looking for a Heritage Manager to play a key role in local heritage and community sectors. This will support the development of the Paisley Museum Reimagined project, the services for the town's new publicly accessible museum store and Paisley Museum's reopening.
The fifth role in the recruitment drive is a new Arts Manager to build on the legacy of Paisley's bid for UK City of Culture 2021. The Arts Manager will build a talented team and lead on the long-term development of the relationships, partnerships and working culture which support creativity and the arts across Renfrewshire.
If you are interested in any of the roles above, you can find out more and apply with MyJobScotland and Renfrewshire Leisure.
I don't live in Paisley, but I work there, and I love walking up from the train station and looking over towards the town hall, seeing the usual people walking about and saying 'Hello'.


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Insecure in Love
How Anxious Attachment Can Make You Feel Jealous, Needy, and Worried and What You Can Do About It
Leslie Becker-Phelps
Jun-01-2014
Has your romantic partner called you clingy, insecure, desperate, or jealous? No one wants to admit that they possess these qualities; but if you find yourself constantly on the alert, anxious, or worried when it comes to your significant other, you may suffer from anxious attachment, a fear of abandonment that is often rooted in early childhood experiences.
In Insecure in Love, you'll learn how to overcome attachment anxiety using compassionate self-awareness, a technique that can help you recognize your negative thoughts or unhealthy behavior patterns and respond to them in a nurturing way-rather than beating yourself up. You'll also learn how insecurity can negatively affect healthy dialog between you and your partner (or potential partners) and develop the skills needed to stop you from reverting back to old patterns of neediness and possessiveness.
If you suffer from anxious attachment, you probably know that you need to change, and yet you have remained stuck. With compassionate self-awareness, you can successfully explore old anxiety-perpetuating perceptions and habits without being overwhelmed or paralyzed by them. By understanding the psychological factors at the root of your attachment anxiety, you will learn to cultivate secure, healthy relationships to last a lifetime.
If you're ready to stop getting stuck in the same hurtful relationship patterns and finally break the cycle of heartache, this book can show you how to get the love you deserve-and keep it!
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"I've always been fascinated by attachment theory, which does a wonderful job of explaining how pivotal early events color all of life. Leslie Becker-Phelps helps us understand how `anxious attachment' plays itself out in our current relationships-and what we do can to heal from that substantial early wound. Highly recommended!"
-Eric Maisel, PhD, author of Rethinking Depression and The Van Gogh Blues
"Drawing on the latest scientific research but written in an entertaining and accessible manner, this book will help you understand why you're insecure in your relationships. It will also help you heal, so that you can have healthier relationships with others, and perhaps more importantly, with yourself."
-Kristin Neff, PhD, author of Self-Compassion and associate professor of human development and culture at the University of Texas
"This is a wonderfully user-friendly handbook on healthy relating, both with others and with ourselves. Leslie Becker-Phelps mentors us in such a clear-and encouraging-way. She shows us how we can open ourselves to others while tending our own boundaries so that real love can happen."
-David Richo, author of How to Be an Adult in Love
"Insecure in Love provides a step-by-step guide for overcoming the psychological hurdles that prevent so many people from finding and creating lasting and satisfying relationships. Becker-Phelps provides easy-to-use assessment tools and exercises that will help readers identify faulty ways of thinking and behaving, understand their childhood context, increase their self-compassion, and form loving and secure attachments going forward."
-Guy Winch, PhD, author of Emotional First Aid and The Squeaky Wheel
"A wonderfully readable synthesis of attachment theory, mindfulness, and cutting-edge approaches to developing self-awareness. This is illustrated throughout with practical advice and vivid stories told by a wise and caring therapist, who is a recognized expert on cultivating successful relationships."
-Diane Handlin, PhD, founder and executive director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Center, NJ
"Leslie Becker-Phelps explains how early attachments can create obstacles to healthy and secure connections in adult romantic relationships. Insecure in Love provides the self-knowledge and the tools necessary to overcome these obstacles and get you closer to feeling secure, happy, and loved in your relationships. Highly recommended for anyone who feels anxious and insecure in a relationship."
-Michelle Skeen, PsyD, author of The Critical Partner and host of Relationships 2.0 on KCAA 1050-AM
"If you're single, you'll discover how to choose a partner who is truly available for a connected, supportive, nurturing relationship-someone who accepts and loves you for you. If you're in a relationship, you will gain insight into your partner's behavior and motivation and discover how to create a loving connection in which you both feel truly valued and cared for.
"Filled with relevant, real-life examples and powerful exercises, Insecure in Love will help you leave your self-criticism and sabotaging behaviors behind and develop true self-compassion. No matter how much you've struggled in the past, you will finally understand how to create happy, healthy relationships and experience true, lasting love."
-Mali Apple and Joe Dunn, authors of The Soulmate Experience: A Practical Guide to Creating Extraordinary Relationships
"It is rare that an author can take such a deep and meaningful subject and present it in a helpful, caring, and hopeful manner. Those who are suffering from anxiety disorders that have undermined past relationships will find her suggestions and exercises easy to understand and potentially very successful."
-Randi Gunther, PhD, author of Relationship Saboteurs
"Motivated by her professional interest in humans and attachment theory, Dr. Becker-Phelps has developed a solid resource for men and women to improve their lives and their relationships. Insecure in Love is a clear and comprehensive guide for self-understanding and self-compassion in which readers are encouraged to explore themselves and complete step-by-step exercises. The end result will be greater understanding of your relationships and a healthier, more secure self!"
-Kathryn Cortese, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, co-owner and president of G?rze-Salucore Eating Disorders Resource Catalogue
"Insecure in Love is engaging, practical, and comprehensive all at the same time. It takes the latest theories of love and provides a useful roadmap for why couples struggle to maintain closeness. Becker-Phelps gets to the heart of the challenge and describes what individuals need to address about themselves, as well as what couples can work on together, in order to recreate a meaningful connection between two people."
-Daniel Goldberg, PhD, director at the New Jersey Couples Training Program in the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey


NLSC Forum • Injuries & City Edition Courts are now in NBA Live 19!
Injuries & City Edition Courts are now in NBA Live 19!
I've noted this in the Official Patch topic, but it's worth spotlighting in its own topic as well. In-game injuries have been added at long last, along with City Edition courts!
Really glad to see these in the game, and hopefully, they'll continue to have a presence in NBA Live 20. I know some people are saying it should've happened a long time ago, and I understand the sentiment, but I also think that it's great that it has now happened, not only enhancing the current game but putting things in place for the next one. More steps in the right direction, which is certainly welcome. It's also NBA-oriented content, which is very promising given the focus on The Streets the last couple of years.
Re: Injuries & City Edition Courts are now in NBA Live 19!
As wrong as it sounds to say, it's a welcome sight. Injuries are an unfortunate part of sports, but they're something that sim-oriented games need to replicate, and they've been conspicuous by their absence in NBA Live for a long time. I'm really glad to see a vital sim element introduced back into the game at long last.
I don't know about this year's 2k, but the injury video here actually shows the injured player on the floor holding his knee. In 2k, all they ever showed was the player being helped off the floor, but you never saw the actual injury. Showing the injured player on the floor is a lot more realistic.
You do see players go down in NBA 2K as well. This is definitely one of the best injury animations we've seen in NBA Live, though.
They were added to the patch notes, but they didn't get a lot of promotion aside from that.
It sounds sick to say, but it's really cool to see all these injury animations. I'm feeling more optimistic about the NBA and sim side of things moving forward.
Andrew wrote: It sounds sick to say, but it's really cool to see all these injury animations. I'm feeling more optimistic about the NBA and sim side of things moving forward.
Must be all that video game violence!
Agreed, I'd like to see injuries happen outside of shooting fouls as well.


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The fashion grapevine is rife with rumours; retail giant H&M has a new project in the pipeline. Everyone is wondering what to expect when H&M launches and Other Stories. The Swedish company confirmed that the new stores are called, & Other Stories. These shops are going to open in 2013.
Riding high on its success from recent tandems with high street fashion designers such as Lanvin, Versace, and more recently, Marni, the Scandinavian retailer continues to expand its market presence. One thing is sure though; the top brass at H&M are confident of the success of their upcoming endeavour, continuing their winning streak due to collaborations with renowned designers in the past.
Indeed, H&M Press Officer, Hacan Andersson confirmed in an interview with Relaxnews last April 2012 saying, ""It is correct that H&M will launch a new chain in 2013 called & Other Stories, but this is all the available information we have as of today."
Already the retailer is enjoying the success of COS stores which has branches in the UK, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, and other European countries selling premium, luxury clothes for men and women.
With all the secrecy and silence, we excitedly keep our ears and eyes open when & Other Things stores open their doors. Will the newest venture of the company become a hit? Time will tell as we eagerly await announcements on the new chain of stores. Hopefully, it will be a whole lot of exciting and delightful stuff for fashion buffs and trend setters.
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HARRISBURG, PA — Tröegs Brewery took home three medals at 2010 Great American Beer Festival Competition (GABF), the largest national beer competition recognizing the most outstanding beers produced in the United States. The winners in the 79 beer-style categories were announced September 18 at the 29th Annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado.
Tröegs Brewery won a gold medal in the Barleywine category for The Flying Mouflan, a silver medal in the Bock category for Troegenator and a silver medal in the Amber Ale category for Hopback Amber. The three medals represent the most medals won by a Pennsylvania brewery at this year's competition.
This year's GABF competition attracted 151 beer judgers from 10 countries with 3,523 beers from 516 breweries competing for gold, silver and bronze medals. The average numbers of competition beers entered in each category was 44. More than 49,000 people attended the three-day beer festival with 455 breweries pouring more than 2,200 beers.
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With a lot of attention to detail, creativity and polished ideas, LifeXperiences turned an old idea into a completely new event concept: Glamping ("Glamorous Camping"). The basic idea of camping is well known to everyone and often associated with amusing, original holiday experiences with family and friends.
LifeXperiences utilises this basic idea, recreates the entire framework, ultimately offering a new concept for meetings, incentives and team building events as a once in a lifetime Xperience. The nights are spent in double or single occupancy tents on original and spacious hotel matrasses. Depending on the size of the group, a complete camping village with luxurious sanitary facilities, free Wi-Fi, 24-hour reception, food trucks for a little snack and drink in between and large stretch tents can be set up as a meeting or dining area throughout the time.
The participants are welcomed with homemade lemonade and fresh fruit before moving on to an evening full of live music and the joint preparation of a delicious Paella dinner. Additionally a decadent breakfast buffet with a show-cooking station and freshly brewed coffee ensures that the guests start the day off right, prior to their incentive or meeting right in the middle of nature. The surroundings provide for a rather special and motivating environment.
Whether the location choice tends towards the middle of the Tramuntana mountain range or near the beach, anything is possible. This type of event offers many opportunities in regards to the creation of tailor made incentive programs with spectacular activities on land, water and air.
Depending on the program, lunch is always freshly prepared and served directly from the quirky food truck at a chosen location. In the evening, guests are invited to enjoy a delightful beach BBQ and cold drinks at the beach bar. As the sun sets, the guests dance to chilled DJ beats with a subsequent party, all of course barefoot right next to the sea. In the early morning hours the group moves back to the camp sight, which, by now, resembles a fairy tale forest, covered in purple light.
Creating new, unique Xperiences, being a part of something great and making company history together with co-workers, results in team growth and motivates the group for new upcoming challenges in future.


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'Drive-By Dunk' Challenge Causes Damage in Newington
By Jamie Ratliff	• Published August 2, 2017 • Updated on August 2, 2017 at 10:50 am
"The "Drive-By Dunk" is the latest challenge that children and adults are taking part in across the country and it's happening in a Connecticut town.
While it might seem like fun and games, it involves trespassing and in one instance, neighbors said the game caused significant property damage.
The Drive-By Dunk Challenge involves someone driving around in search of a basketball hoop on a stranger's property, then jumping out of the car with a basketball and attempting to dunk.
In Newington, drive-by-dunking has caused damage to a car and startled several neighbors.
In one instance, a resident said his whole basketball setup came crashing down onto his car over the weekend, cracked his windshield and dented part of the hood.
The owner said he plans to file a report with police but he didn't know what happened with the hoop until he heard about what other neighbors witnessed about a mile away.
"I heard these people playing basketball down the street. I could hear where it was coming from. I couldn't see from my porch," Sarah Jorgensen, a Newington resident, said.
Jorgensen said she saw four or five adults with a late-model silver Honda or Toyota near her neighbor's basketball hoop Monday night. They were dunking and quickly drove away when they saw her. She then informed her neighbor, who called police.
"Because I didn't know about it, it was kind of scary at first," Jorgensen said.
Lisa Mooney and her daughter also said dunking drivers hit their hoop on Monday night.
"Came outside, the hoop was down," Mooney said. "Someone physically moved the bricks [that keep the basketball setup upright], and [the hoop] was a couple inches away from another car."
While there was no damage this time, Mooney said she's not going to let there be a next time.
"I'm going to start sitting outside starting tonight, I think, in the dark on the deck and keep an eye out," Mooney said.
At the very least, the challenge includes trespassing.
NBC Connecticut reached out to Newington police several times to try and find out how many complaints they've received as well as what charges there could be if anyone was caught doing the challenge, but we have not yet heard back.


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The Karenni people celebrate their 140th National Day
June 16, 2015 by karennisdc Comment Closed
SDC students march for Karenni National Day
On 21st June, our students joined with many other young people and organisations for a celebration in Karenni Refugee Camp 1 to recognise Karenni National Day. Karenni National Day commemorates the day that Karenni State was granted independence. For this day, Karenni people across the camp and across the globe unite in their shared history and roots.
Every year the Karenni leaders remind their people of their history on the 21st of June. On this day, in 1875, the Burmese minister of foreign affairs, Kin Woon Mingyi and Sir Douglas Forsyth, a representative of the British viceroy, signed a treaty recognising Karenni independence.
The treaty stated "It is hereby agreed between the British and Burmese governments that the state of Western Karenni shall remain separate and independent, and that no sovereignty or governing authority of any description shall be claimed or exercised over the state."
Despite this treaty, successive Burmese governments have ignored Karenni State's independence and occupied their state. The 1875 agreement has frequently been cited during the long conflict to achieve independence. More recently, the main Karenni political group in conflict with the Burmese government, the KNPP , have changed their stance to demand for a general federal state within Burma.
In the camp this year, Karenni People marched to the ceremony's location. At the ceremony, leaders from our community spoke to the audience. They reminded the audience of the Karenni People's history and encouraged them to maintain patience and trust that one day they will be able to return to their homeland. Many of the camp residents celebrated the day amongst their community.
Our SDC is proud to participate in any event that recognizes our Karenni history and helps the preservation of our own cultures and traditions.
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While music continues to be my passion, moments to write and record are few and far between! I completed my most recent recorded work, Gone Forever, in July, 2011, just before heading to the Bluegrass State. I still have a few copies of this project available, along with two other short recordings, and you set the price for any or all of them. Just click on "Purchase CDs" to the right for more information.
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Q: Getting DIVs same height and not covering each other Here is my current code in JSfiddle
There are 4 Div's two that are side by side in the middle.
What I'm trying to do is get the two child divs to be the same height as the parent and show a white background.
Right now the bottom DIV is sitting on top of the two other ones in the middle and the background isn't white.
I've been messing with different display methods (table, flex, grid) but haven't found a working combination yet.
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.left, .right {
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    .left {
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EXCLUSIVE: Jewel Makes Her Debut on Discovery Channel's 'Alaska: The Last Frontier' -- Watch the New Trailer!
By Philiana Ng 10:00 AM PDT, September 5, 2016
It's good to be home.
Seven years after leaving her hometown of Homer, Alaska, singer-songwriter Jewel Kilcher, better known as Jewel, is reuniting with her family on the homestead in the new season of Discovery Channel's Alaska: The Last Frontier.
RELATED: Jewel Looks Back on 20 Years in the Spotlight: 'I'm Proud I Made It'
ET exclusively premieres the first trailer from the upcoming season, in which Jewel makes her debut on her family's long-running reality series.
"I grew up working cattle with my dad [Atz Kilcher]," Jewel says, as she wrangles cattle on the ranch. "I'm just real glad to be back."
Jewel's son, Kase Murray, with ex-husband, Ty Murray, will also be featured in the upcoming season, as the singer aims to show Kase a glimpse into how she was raised.
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Back in 1995, only ET was at home with a fresh-faced Jewel, then 21, and her dad in rural Alaska, where she adorably struggled to remember all the words to her future hit single, "You Were Meant for Me."
Twenty years later, during an exclusive sit-down with ET in September 2015, Jewel spoke highly of her Alaskan upbringing.
"I'm proud of where I'm from," she said. "Alaska's so beautiful and I love how I was raised."
Alaska: The Last Frontier premieres Sunday, Oct. 2 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery Channel.
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Mabel Elizabeth Jamieson was a World War One nurse who trained and worked in Palmerston North. She was born on July 21, 1881 to parents Thomas and Frances Jamieson in Kumara, Greymouth, South Island, New Zealand.
Her name appears on page three of this booklet and is believed to have died by drowning on 23 October, 1915 when the HS Marquette sank due to being hit by a torpedo launched by a submarine.
Jamieson is one of thirty-one nurses who were serving on the HS Marquette and died that day. Most died during the evacuation process as lifeboats tipped over.
She held the rank of Staff Nurse and served in the Army.


I'll admit it. When the folks asked me if I would do some "tweeting" for Merrill Gardens, I gave them a funny look. For one thing, I had no idea what a "tweet" was. And even when they told me, I couldn't imagine why anyone would want to do it. I like nice long conversations Who can have a good ole chat in 140 letters?
But look, I love our Wii and Facebook, so I wasn't going to shun this new technology. And you know what? It's actually fun. I can sit and read quick news items and quick thoughts form our friends and colleagues across the country. I get news articles that I'd never find otherwise.
This entry was posted in Ms. Merrill on September 28, 2010 by MsMerrill.
SeniorSpectrum.com had a nice write-up on the 100th birthday of long-time Merrill Gardens resident Jesse Herb Thomas.
Born and raised in the Wilcox, Canada, Jesse was the second child born to Jesse J. and Caroline Thomas. With older sister Mary and younger sister Bessie, Jesse grew up farming with his family in the Szechuan region until moving to Omaha, Nebraska, in his early teens.
Jesse served in World War II in the West Pacific and was married to Teckla Thomas, now deceased. He moved to Sacramento in 1988 to be closer to family and moved into Merrill Gardens four years later.
Jesse loves to socialize, has a passion for card games and still enjoys happy hour and movie night. He can be found getting his daily exercise in by walking around the community.
Happy Birthday from all of at Merrill Gardens!
This entry was posted in General Discussion on September 16, 2010 by MsMerrill.


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L'université de technologie Kim Chaek est une université située en Corée du Nord, sur les rives du Taedong à Pyongyang. Elle est nommée d'après le général Kim Chaek. Les formations de l'université, tournées vers les réacteurs nucléaires, l'électronique nucléaire, le combustible nucléaire et l'ingénierie nucléaire, sont destinées à des chercheurs et à du personnel technique. Les diplômés seraient affectés au Centre de recherche nucléaire de Yŏngbyŏn ou à des installations nucléaires à Packch'ŏn-kun.

Histoire
L'université de technologie de Kim Chaek faisait partie de l'université Kim Il-sung avant d'être fondée en 1948. En 1951, pendant la guerre de Corée, le nom de l'université a été changé pour « institut de technologie Kim Chaek ». En 1988, l'institut a été promu au rang d'université. Entre 1981 et 1993, un programme de construction à grande échelle a doublé la superficie du campus pour atteindre les  actuels.

Formations
L'université compte 18 départements et environ 80 programmes, environ  et . Il y a 10 instituts de recherche et une école d'études supérieures. Il y a 54 laboratoires et une bibliothèque avec environ . Le campus a une superficie totale de .

Le Département des sciences et de l'éducation du Comité central du Parti des travailleurs coréens exerce un contrôle général, mais le Département de l'enseignement supérieur du ministère de l'Éducation gère les affaires administratives. Au , Ri Won Chil est le vice-président. En 2012, quelques étudiants ont travaillé avec Nosotek et Koryo Tours pour créer Pyongyang Racer, un jeu vidéo de course qui promeut le tourisme en Corée du Nord.

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