A Republican carnival barker would use racially charged, xenophobic rhetoric, which would propel him into the GOP's top tier, pushing minority communities even further from the Republican Party. All the while, the GOP would find itself on the defensive, and more serious candidates would struggle to gain traction.
That is to say, no proper screenwriter would script such an episode except as naked farce. There is a reason truth insists on being stranger than fiction.
Benen also notes that some have made what seems the obvious point, that Trump, who has formerly identified with both parties, is a secret Democratic plant trying to wreck the Republican Party.


Marcelo Carrusca to catch up with former team-mate Carlos Tevez.
Marcelo Carrusca says the chance to catch up with former team-mate Carlos Tevez is an added bonus to next week's Foxtel A-League All Stars clash against Juventus in Sydney.
The Adelaide United midfielder played alongside Tevez in the Argentinian under-20 side that qualified for the 2003 FIFA Youth World Cup.
Tevez is part of a star-studded Juve side that is heading to Sydney for the August 10 clash against the Hyundai A-League's best.
The Foxtel A-League All Stars arrived at their Wollongong base on Friday to prepare for the huge clash, with Carrusca excited about the opportunity of coming up against his old mate.
"I hope he remembers me," Carrusca joked.
"I remember him which is important. We played together to qualify for the under-20 World Cup and we won so we qualified.
While Tevez was making a name for himself at famous Argentine club Boca, Carrusca graduated into the first team at rivals Estudiantes.
They played against each other in the domestic league before taking very different career paths.
But they will be reunited for the first time in almost a decade at ANZ Stadium on August 10.
"He was a team-mate and we had a good relationship but after a couple of years we both left the country and I haven't seen him since.
"He's amazing player. He was playing in all the national teams, under 15, under-17, under-20, since he was very young everyone knew his quality.
Carrusca was part of the inaugural Foxtel A-League All Stars side that went down to Manchester United last year but is thrilled to have another chance to impress the local fans.
"To play in front of so many people against this club is amazing," the 30-year-old said.
"You maybe have one chance in your life to play against this team. We'll try and enjoy and it's something we'll never forget.
"We want the fans to enjoy it too and hopefully we can get a good result. This is important, to try to win and do a good job."


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Saturday 17th September 2016 from 11:00 to 17:00, Annankatu 30, Helsinki.
11 – 12 "Secreto de Familia". Storytelling and Graphic Workshop.
Kuvataide luokka 2, 2nd floor.
For children over 4 years old with an adult.
We wil tell in español and suomea.
Each family has its own rarities, even more at 7:00 in the morning. What is this family secret? Isol and Telle tell us this story with intelligent and cool humor, stealing a smile from us. Afterwards, who will be willing to draw their family secret?
11 – 13 Storytelling Marathon "Isol Around The Sun".
We speak English, português, español and Arabic.
Let's go around the sun, listening to the not so crazy Isol's stories. It will be a multilingual marathon! Both narrators and languages will be switched every 20 minutes.
Storytellers: Maila-Kaarina Rantanen (PO), Hamza Amarouch (AR), Paco de Laguna (ES) & Cath Longmore (ENG).
11 – 12 – 13 "Casitas de Pájaros". Carpentry Workshop.
We speak English, español, português and suomea.
Teacher: interior designer Laura Zubillaga.
11 – 12 Pikku Aurinko I. Music Workshop for Babies.
We speak English, español and suomea.
Let's use music, movement and play to strengthen the bond between the caretaker and the child. We'll do this by giving them the chance to learn new songs and activities that they can practice later on. We will use Latin-American music in Spanish, native tongues, and Finnish.
Teachers: Clara Petrozzi & Grisell Macdonel, Aurinko ry.
11 – 16.30 Isol's Library.
Books in English, castellano, português and Arabic.
11 – 16:30 Pins Workshop.
Make your own Isol and Kolibri's pin. Come and make your own pin in bright colors!
12 – 13 Cueca Chilena. Dance Workshop.
For children over 5 years old with an adult.
We speak English & español.
Let's get to know Chile through the eyes of its children and national dance: "cueca". We will live together this folkloric rhythm whose roots come from Arabic-Andalusian traditions. A workshop for parents to remember and get excited dancing with their children. Do not forget to bring your scarf!
12 – 13 "Secreto de Familia" Storytelling and Graphic Workshop.
We will tell in español and Svenska.
Each family has its own rarities, even more at 7:00 in the morning. What is this family secret? Isol and Henrika tell us this story with intelligent and cool humor, stealing a smile from us. Afterwards, who will be willing to draw their family secret?
13 – 14 Alegría Amazónica I. Dance Workshop.
Teachers: Nieves Vuoristo & Suvi Salmilampi, Pasos de Fuego ry.
14 – 15 Alegría Amazónica II. Dance Workshop.
14:30 – 16:30 Alphabet – Graphic Workshop.
Workshop for children from 7 to 14 years old.
Isol shows her style work playing with the crazy ideas of her book "Abecedario a mano". After this you will have time to illustrate your most creative story, using different materials and techniques. What would be your favorite style?
15 – 16 Pikku Aurinko II. Music Workshop.
For children older than 3 years old with an adult.
Pikku Aurinko, a small sun, is a musical project in which children and youngsters can play and sing music from the land of the hummingbird (colibrí). Welcome to learn and enjoy new songs and activities that you can practice later on. We will be using Latin-American music in Spanish, the native tongues, and Finnish.
Teachers: Leandro Roco & Laura Havu, Aurinko ry.
We speak English, portuguêse and suomea.
Welcome to enjoy the good energy of Brazilian Capoeira! In this workshop Capoeira movements and steps will be taught in a dynamic way with games and music. The rhythm, joyful songs and acrobatic movements will offer the kids a great moment of amusement and learning about Afro- Brazilian culture.
Teacher: CM Bom Cabelo. Tambor Vivo ry.
16 – 17 Close Party Roda de Capoeira.
And to close a day full of creativity, joy and humor: dance and acrobatics to share with new friends. Welcome to say goodbye to the autumn's Kolibrí with a Capoeira party. We will enjoy the music, instruments, exhibitions and beautiful roda where young and not so young alike will have so much fun.


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Rogers Launches On Demand Online
Sunday, November 29, 2009 Last Mille
Canada's Rogers Communications launched its On Demand Online, a web-based destination for aggregated primetime and specialty TV programming, movies, sports and web-only extras. The service is available online exclusively to Rogers customers from any Internet connection within Canada.
The initial BETA roll out will feature more than 1,000 hours of aggregated content from 17 broadcast and production partners and 30 channels. Those Rogers Cable customers with matching cable TV subscriptions will be able to access online a selection of their own specialty TV programming they subscribe to at home.
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dc.identifier.citation Berbegal-Mirabent, J.; Sole, F. What are we measuring when evaluating universities' efficiency?. "Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies", Desembre 2012, vol. 12, núm. 3, p. 31-46.
dc.description.abstract Globalisation and the knowledge-based society have driven universities to an intense competition for the best professors, researchers and students. Yet, rankings and reports measuring how universities perform are available in abundance. Among these assessment tools it is worth highlighting those based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which since the 1980s have risen considerably. However, there is a lack of consensus when selecting the indicators that best represent the inputs and outputs of such institutions. Aiming to clarify how these proxies are chosen, this paper does an exhaustive review of the indicators used in DEA empirical studies in the last decade, classifying them according to their nature and use.
dc.title What are we measuring when evaluating universities' efficiency?
upcommons.citation.author Berbegal-Mirabent, J.; Sole, F.


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Opinion Columnists 22 Oct 2017 It's time for Muslims to embrace liberal opinion
Opinion, Columnists
It's time for Muslims to embrace liberal opinion
The writer, an author and former diplomat, is a member of the JD(U).
Published : Oct 22, 2017, 12:41 am IST
Updated : Oct 22, 2017, 12:41 am IST
Other Islamic seminaries, and so-called Islamic clerics, have not been lagging behind in their misplaced activism.
The truth is that there is a great deal of evidence of fundamentalism and an ostrich-like aversion to change among the self-anointed guardians for the welfare of Muslims. (Representational image)
Sheikh ul Islam Faqeeh ul Asar Hasrat Mufti Taqi Usmani is a Hanafi Muslim scholar from Pakistan who also served as a judge in that country's Federal Shariat Court. The esteemed gentleman has recently come out with a fatwa that Muslim women should not post pictures of themselves or their family on social media, including specifically, Facebook.
Our own Darul Uloom Deoband, which claims to be the highest Islamic seminary in India, came out earlier this month with a fatwa that is even more bizarre. It banned Muslim women from plucking, trimming and shaping their eyebrows! The same seminary, which has a separate wing to issue fatwas — Darul Iftaa — had earlier issued directives that stated that Muslim women cannot hold jobs, either in the government or in the private sector, nor can they become judges.
Other Islamic seminaries, and so-called Islamic clerics, have not been lagging behind in their misplaced activism. A maulvi in Midnapore (West Bengal) issued a fatwa on what Sania Mirza should wear or not wear. The Majlis Bachao Tehreek has issued a fatwa against exiled Bangladesh writer Taslima Nasreen offering unlimited financial rewards to anyone who can kill her.
The venom that suffuses such fatwas should not be underestimated. In Bihar, on July 30 this year, the day Nitish Kumar won the trust vote with the support of the BJP after breaking ties with the RJD and the Congress, the only Muslim minister in his new Cabinet, Khursheed alias Firoz Ahmed, chanted the slogan "Jai Shri Ram" outside the Bihar Assembly. A fatwa was immediately issued by Maulvi Sohail Quasmi of the seminary Imarat Shariah, pronouncing that the minister's marriage must be annulled for his act of "error". Firoz Ahmed protested at first, even saying that he would not be cowed down by such threats, but later succumbed to the pressure and apologised.
Apart from the Islamic seminaries, we have organisations like the All India Muslim Law Board. The board was set up in 1973 to protect and interpret Muslim personal law, and projects itself as the leading body to articulate Muslim opinion in India. However, it has hardly covered itself in glory for the opinions it has held. For instance, the board objected to the law on the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (2009), on the ground that it will infringe on the madrasa system of education. Are madrasas private properties of the board, beyond the purview of law and reform? The board also supported child marriage. Its members prevented Salman Rushdie from participating in the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2012, even when this participation was only to be in the form of a video conference.
The board has been the most retrogressive to Muslim women rights on the question of triple talaq. It actually said that while the practice was not without blemish, it must still be regarded as valid. Fortunately, the Supreme Court intervened in the matter in August this year and pronounced it illegal. Even worse, the board justified the practice of Nikah Halala wherein a divorced Muslim woman must sleep with another man before she can remarry her first husband. A report carried out by India Today revealed that "Islamic scholars" were charging a hefty fee for one night stands with divorced Muslim women so as to sanction their wish to remarry their first husband.
The fact of the matter is that Muslim clerics, and organisations like the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, represent the worst form of medieval patriarchy, and appear to be completely impervious to the rights of Muslim women sanctioned within the Quran. They have thus far exercised a monopoly on what constitutes "correct" Muslim behaviour, and are stubbornly unwilling to accept that their views are outdated, iniquitous, and insensitive to notions of gender equality, to the much-needed reform within the Muslim community, and to the concept of a modern and progressive society. It is not surprising that of the 50-odd people who constitute the board, women are in a complete minority, and are not more than four as per the board's own website.
The truth is that there is a great deal of evidence of fundamentalism and an ostrich-like aversion to change among the self-anointed guardians for the welfare of Muslims. Such guardians, who issue all kinds of ridiculous fatwas at the drop of a hat, need to be challenged, not the least by liberal Muslim opinion itself, of which, unfortunately, we do not see too much evidence. Politicians too must stop pandering to such medieval interpretations of Muslim personal law merely for vote bank politics, as happened in the Shah Bano case in 1985.
There is another important reason to consider. As my good friend, commentator and journalist, Shahid Siddiqui says, one cannot counter Hindu fundamentalism by pandering to Muslim fundamentalism. Both are wrong, and both need to be condemned and opposed. In one sense, both extremes feed off each other. When Muslim clerics issue fatwas merely because a Muslim has the temerity to acknowledge Lord Ram, Hindu fundamentalists go to the other extreme and paint all Muslims as being anti-Hindu. This grossly distorts the debate, and the possibility of a meeting ground, which most Hindus and Muslims would be more than happy to share, between people of different faiths who together make up the vibrant Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb or culture of our composite and plural national fabric.
Besides, the time has come to ask: Do these ultra conservative thekedars of Muslims actually represent the real wishes of the community? In 2003, Outlook magazine carried out a survey in which the bulk of the respondents (40 per cent) replied in the negative when asked: Do you consider those fighting the Babri Masjid case as true spokespersons for the Muslim community?
Many Muslims may, perhaps, have reason today to suffer from a siege mentality. We need to oppose those forces that have created this mentality, but equally, Muslims too must show the courage to embrace liberal opinion and challenge the stranglehold of those who claim, in such primitive ways, to speak for them.
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Conger Eels inhabit rocky ground and spend most of daylight hours hidden away in caves or other small spaces and come out to feed at night, although in deep water they will feed at any time. They will wait and ambush fish or swim around freely to hunt fish, although they are also happy to scavenge along the sea bed for dead, rotting or injured fish. Occasionally, Conger Eels will emerge from their rocky homes under the cover of darkness and hunt over mixed ground or even sandy seabeds, meaning they can turn up unexpectedly in angler's catches. Despite their fearsome reputation, divers observing of Congers in the wild have found them to be fairly passive creatures which simply ignore any fish which are too big to eat and even retreat into their lairs when threatened. However, it would be a mistake to think that Conger Eels are timid once hooked by an angler as they put up a strong fight when being reeled in and often spin & thrash when taken from the water. Special care must always be taken when landing & unhooking a big Conger Eel.
Conger Eels are extremely fast growing with a report in The Fisherman's Handbook from 1977, stating that a 3 pound Conger kept in the Southport Aquarium reached 69 pounds in 4 years and another of a similar starting size reaching 90 pounds in 5 years. Despite this fast growth rate, little is known about the ages at which Conger Eels become sexually mature. It is thought that males may need to reach at least 5 years old to reproduce and females need to be up to 10. Once they are able to reproduce, the Conger Eel has a very interesting & unusual breeding cycle. At some point after the Conger has become sexually mature, major changes take place: they stop feeding altogether, the skeleton loses mass and becomes much weaker and the head changes shape, the males eyes enlarge, the female's body swells up massively. The Conger then swims several thousand miles to the tropical & sub-tropical areas of the Atlantic, Azores and Sargasso Sea. Once there, the female Conger Eel will lay eggs which are fertilized by the male. Shortly after this is done, both Conger Eels will die. The fertilized eggs float in the sea before the baby Conger Eels hatch. After 2 years, the young eels will be around 6 inches in length and will begin the long journey back to Europe where they live before reaching sexual maturity and undertaking the whole process all over again. Because of this breeding cycle, it means that any Conger Eel caught from the shore indeed, any Conger which are feeding, cannot have reproduced. For this reason, it is best to return any caught Conger Eel to the sea to allow them to live and hopefully one day swim to the tropics to reproduce and therefore maintain populations. Congers are extremely tough & hardy and can survive being out of the water for a long time and so make ideal candidates for catch-and-release fishing.


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There are many amateur photographers who work as apprentices with the leading photographers in order to learn how to take artistic photographs. The fact is that the maestros can teach one the essentials of photography, but with practice can one develop their own individual style. According to the experts digital art photography is all about trail and error, and can never reach the hilt of perfection. In fact, most believe that the day a photographer feels they have captured the perfect image, they should move onto a new profession. Instead a good image should be the pivotal point for trying something better.
• Blurry pictures have an impact: Sometimes a picture taken out of focus can make for an artistic image if the subject is interesting. The blurry image gives a feel of movement. It creates the illusion of movement, for instance capturing moving cars after sunset. The streaks of light give a different feel altogether.
• Shadows and dark corners give a feel of mystery to the picture.
• When editing the image, it is important to be creative when cropping. Most photographers make an attempt to keep everything in the picture they have captured, however, cropping can creative a better impact. However, when cropping one should remember to save a copy of the original image, in case one prefers to retain the entire image, as it is.
• Close up shots of objects, from various angles make interesting digital prints. In fact, when capturing candid moments of subjects expressions, its better to play with mid to close shots to capture the details of those facial expressions.
• One needs to ensure proper lighting when shooting to prevent the ugly shadows.
• Do not take the subject or object in isolation. In fact, when the background and foreground is included, and yet not taking attention from the main subject/object, then the image seems to be telling a story of its own. The best of art prints have people staring at them for a long time, as if lost in the scene.
• People viewing the image seek something more than what meets the eye in normal circumstances, and the art digital photographer should keep this in mind when capturing images.
• Empty spaces in images add depth to picture and capture a viewer's attention for longer amount of time. So, when photographing a picture of a baby, instead of a close covering the entire space, seat the baby in a way that there is empty space in the space.


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Peculiar Odyssey: Newsman Jimmie Omura's Removal from and Regeneration within Nikkei Society, History, and Memory - Part 4 of 7
By Arthur A. Hansen / 7 Sep 2012
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During the last half of 1947, Omura did take another stab at editing the Rocky Shimpo. But his postwar editorial mission to expose and stop the JACL occurred when their leadership controlled the community, enjoyed the full support of the U.S. government, and was promoting measures resonate within their community and mainstream America. This story deserves extended treatment,1 but only one sidebar, Omura's clash of words and worldviews with Minoru Yasui will be broached here.
It is ironic that Yasui and Omura, Pacific Northwest Nisei dissidents who alike championed constitutional and human rights, should have become mortal enemies within wartime and postwar Denver. Their interaction commenced while attorney Yasui was serving a jail sentence in Portland, Oregon, during 1942-1943 for violating the Army's curfew order so as to provoke a constitutional test case. Although Yasui was a member of JACL, its leadership opposed test cases by, to quote Mike Masaoka, "self-styled martyrs."2 While in solitary confinement, Yasui took exception, by post, to Omura's published boast that his placement bureau "represent[s] the ONLY people of Japanese ancestry to demand equal consideration and treatment as citizens of the United States and to fight for these rights."
Their next confrontation was in Denver on April 19, 1944, just before Omura's resignation as editor. While detained at the Minidoka camp Yasui had altered his attitude toward Nikkei who chose the path of most resistance during wartime. Along with two local JACL leaders, Yasui came to the Rocky Shimpo office to confer with Omura about his Nisei draft position, but left by snarling at him, "I'm going to see you go to prison one way or another."3
Yasui became a Denver resident in fall 1944 and began his law practice two years later. Additionally, he promoted JACL fortunes as the local chapter's vice-president and the national organization's regional representative. In fall 1947, he became a Colorado Times columnist, and through his "Denver Nisei-Grams" column Yasui next locked horns with Omura.
On May 16, 1947, Omura promised Rocky Shimpo readers in his resuscitated "Nisei America: Know the Facts" column to expect a "progressive type of journalism" that will "freely criticize wherever occasions demand." He further sounded a warning to the JACL leadership: "Those who have disagreed with us in the past and have been unpardonably guilty of working nefariously in the shadows may evince certain misgivings with our return to the Nisei journalistic wars. They have cause to feel uneasy."
Omura's special brand of "liberalism" pervaded his 1947 columns,4 roughly one-fifth of which criticized JACL leadership and policies. On August 2, for example, Omura blasted the "selfish and arrogant" JACL leadership for denying "the right of any Nisei to hold views contrary to its own."
Min Yasui's initial Colorado Times column of September 23, 1947, boosted Denver: a liberal, progressive city that was "fair-minded toward minority groups." Thereafter, Yasui's columns were free of boosterism,5 except when spotlighting the JACL leadership. "Despite acrimonious criticism to the contrary," declared Yasui on September 30, "[Mike]Masaoka has done an outstanding job in Washington D.C. He has been able to shove through a complete legislative program [naturalization rights for Issei; evacuations claims indemnification; and equality in deportation laws] halfway thru Congress in a single session."
A face-off between Omura and Yasui was catalyzed by Omura's strenuous objection to Times editor Fred Kaihara's statement that no discrimination of significance toward Nikkei existed in either wartime or present-day Denver. Wartime discrimination against Japanese Americans, fumed Omura, had been both "widespread" and "bitter," especially in employment, while postwar prejudice extended to public accommodations, education, and housing.
When Yasui charged that Omura's ravings about discrimination were "not borne out by facts," Omura denigrated Yasui as a "whipping boy" for Kaihara who was "not conscientious of the truth." Whereas the Rocky Shimpo's policy "pointed up" instances of discrimination, observed Omura, the policy of the Colorado Times "pointed down" such behavior.
What differentiated his outlook from Omura's, bristled Yasui, was that "we have tried to DO something actual about discriminatory situations," while he has been negatively fixated on the fact of discrimination. There was probably a basis for a debate between them, Yasui pondered, "but we refuse to fight the wind, even as we found that butting our head against a stone wall during evacuation was fruitless."
Omura's November 24 issue featured a city-commissioned report's finding that "racial prejudice in Denver was on the rise and had seeped into virtually every phase of community life." In this same edition, Omura took Yasui to task for calling him a do-nothing Cassandra while posturing as a constructive doer in the fight against discrimination.
On December 4, a small Rocky Shimpo item announced James Omura's resignation as editor, effective December 15. Personal finances figured heavily in Omura's decision. So also did fatigue. Throughout much of his editorship, Omura had operated the Omura Landscape Service,6 and this double duty exacted its price.7
Omura fired parting shots at the JACL, the Colorado Times, and Min Yasui. On December 3 he declared the JACL's liberal element its best reform hope. But it would have to occur, he wrote on December 9, before the JACL's fanatics destroyed the organization. Unfortunately, he remarked, these fanatics pervaded the top leadership, demanded other Nisei's unqualified allegiance, and were virtually immune to constructive criticism.
Omura's December 12 editorial compared his newspaper's approach with that of the Times. Whereas the Rocky Shimpo was forthright about the inadequacy of the JACL leadership, the Times both defended that leadership and shielded it from criticism. A "vicious example" was Yasui attributing to Omura the "patently false and absolutely untrue" allusion that none of Denver's leaders were any good at all. "We have labeled this statement," explained Omura, "a lie. Mr. Yasui has threatened to sue us unless we retract. We have refused to retract. The next move is Mr. Yasui's."
In the December 18 Times, Yasui responded to Omura's indictment of the Rocky Shimpo: The Times believed in objective reporting of the news and covering topics of interest to local Nisei residents, including discrimination, but also strove to encourage Nisei and place Nisei activities in "the best possible light." He admitted his having considered suing Omura, but now felt this action pointless. It was quite enough for him that "a disturbing factor in Denver journalism is now gone."
Still, on December 29 Yasui revisited the issue most responsible for the bad blood with Omura—wartime Nisei draft resistance. What provoked Yasui's editorial was President Harry Truman granting amnesty to the 315 convicted Japanese American draft violators. Although charitable toward those resisting "to register a legal protest against evacuation," especially under the extenuating circumstances, Yasui's commentary represented a stinging critique of the Fair Play Committee, Omura, and Nisei draft "evaders."
When other Nisei boys were slugging against the enemy, reports of draft violation hit the morale of our Nisei GI's. On the home front, refusal to serve was construed by the public as out-right disloyalty. But now…we believe that this is the end of that sad and shameful story.
A moral that we can safely draw…is that as citizens and as human beings, we must first fulfill our obligations to the nation and society before we can legally or socially expect that our complete rights will be granted to us."
Thus, by the closing of 1947, a perceptive observer could conceivably have grasped the current power arrangements in Japanese Denver, glimpsed the contours of the emerging collective memory as to the Japanese American wartime experience (within both the Nikkei and mainstream American communities), and fathomed the likely trajectory of postwar Japanese American society and history.
1. See Arthur A. Hansen, "Return to the Wars: Jimmie Omura's 1947 Crusade Against the Japanese American Citizens League," Chp. 7 in Sucheng Chan, ed., Remapping Asian American History (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2003).
2. See Minoru Yasui's interview in John Tateishi, And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps (New York: Random House, 1984), 80-82.
3. Omura to Hansen, 301.
4. Omura praised the Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO), urged Nisei to join unions, and called for the abolition of race, sex, and creed-based restrictions in union constitutions.
5. Commonly, Yasui promoted civic-minded, liberal organizations and individuals, and minority rights.
6. See "Shimpo Editor to Assume Full Time Duty With Paper," Rocky Shimpo, 30 October 1947.
7. See "The Facts and Mr. Tanaka," Rocky Shimpo, 12 August 1947.
* Arthur A. Hansen, "Peculiar Odyssey: Newsman Jimmie Omura's Removal from and Regeneration within Nikkei Society, History, and Memory" in Louis Fiset and Gail Nomura, eds. Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005, pp. 278-307.
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We shot this all in a single day and, for me, it came out much better than expected.


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Pubs Lose 10 Million Pint Bank Holiday Weekend Boost Due To Lockdown
May 26, 2020 May 26, 2020 News, Pubs
Bank holiday weekend of good weather and FA Cup Final, which would've seen Brits flock to pubs and their beer gardens, adds to woes of pubs in lockdown
FA Cup Final alone would have boosted beer sales by 2 million pints on Saturday alone
BBPA calls for bank holiday in October to "replace" May bank holidays
The upcoming bank holiday weekend (Saturday 23rd to Monday 25th May) is to add to the woes of pubs who've had to shut for the COVID-19 lockdown.
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA), the leading trade association representing brewers and pubs, has revealed that pubs will lose a boost to beer sales totalling as much as 10 million extra pints over the bank holiday weekend compared with a normal weekend as a direct result of the lockdown.
With good weather expected across the duration of the bank holiday weekend, reaching as high as 24C on Monday afternoon, Brits would have typically flocked to their local pub beer garden to soak up the sun and enjoy the weekend under normal circumstances – boosting sales by up to 10 million pints.
Furthermore, the weekend would have included the FA Cup Final on the Saturday – a key sporting event in the calendar for pubs that would have also drawn customers in to revel in the unique matchday experience that can only be found in the local. According to the BBPA, the FA Cup Final on Saturday alone would have contributed 2 million pints of the overall 10 million pint boost.
Pubs were the first businesses to be ordered to shut down by the Government all the way back in March, and could be amongst the last to re-open as lockdown restrictions are lifted for them from July 4th as part of the Government's third phase of re-opening.
The BBPA has re-iterated though that not all pubs will reopen from July as many won't be able to meet the social distancing measures required by then. No two pubs are the same and for many, ensuring a distance of two metres will be impossible, keeping them closed for much longer.
The trade association has therefore proposed using advice and guidance from the World Health Organisation from July, which suggests using one metre for social distancing as opposed to two metres. This, it says, would help pubs to re-open viably and serve their communities again – by significantly increasing the number of pubs that could re-open by 120%. Pubs are already looking at operating plans and preparing additional safety protocols to reassure staff and customers they can create a safe socialising environment.
It has also stated that pubs with beer gardens or outside terraces should be best placed to meet social distancing restrictions required for re-opening from July 4th, or maybe even open pub beer gardens earlier if Government allows, enabling people to enjoy their local community pub's beer garden in the summer sun. The trade association estimates that there are some 27,000 pubs across the UK with beer gardens – more than half of the UK's 47,000 pubs in total.
There has also been speculation that Government is considering introducing more flexibility for pubs, restaurants and bars to use other outside space including pavements and could also be given permission to sell food and drink from street stalls outside their premises in the coming weeks.
To help steer the reopening of Britain's pubs, the trade association is also to work in partnership with the Government through its pubs and restaurants taskforce. It will offer its expertise and insights to the taskforce, including through offering assistance with pilot schemes, to help ensure pubs re-open safely for staff and customers and under conditions that are operationally viable
Tourism businesses including pubs and brewers have also welcomed suggestions of an additional bank holiday in October to "replace" those they have not been able to take full advantage of this month. The Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Parliamentary committee has written to the Government suggesting such a bank holiday, which the BBPA welcomes.
Emma McClarkin, Chief Executive of the British Beer & Pub Association, said:
"This bank holiday weekend would usually bring a much needed boost to our sector – as many as 10 million extra pints could have been sold in pubs. With such good weather, Brits would normally flock to their local pub beer garden to make the most of the sunshine.
"The FA Cup Final, which would have taken place this weekend, would have boosted pub beer sales by 2 million pints on Saturday alone.
"We're all looking forward to pubs re-opening so we can catch-up with friends, families and neighbours over a beer once we are through this crisis. Those pubs with beer gardens and outside terraces are best placed to meet social distancing restrictions to open from July 4th.
"We are working with Government to consider all the possible options for our nations pubs to reopen safely and viably as soon as is possible.
"We welcome the idea of an additional bank holiday in October and support any Government help to boost the speed of recovery of pubs and breweries."
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Split Enz – Mental Notes (1975)
Posted on November 22, 2015 by zapniles
4.5 out of 5 Stars!
For years I had avoided investigating this New Zealand band, and for only one reason—the weird image really turned me off. I was never a fan of quirky, costume-wearing acts such as Devo, considering them all one-hit wonders of the ever-trendy and often-silly Pop world, and I always categorized Split Enz among groups of that nature. New Wave Pop garbage, is what I'd always assumed, a style of music I could never come to embrace.
But what's the old adage about never judging a book by its cover?
Anyway, after several decades, I eventually ran across recommendations for the band's debut album, with several people claiming Split Enz wasn't anything like Devo (the goofy image aside), but instead was a band that played music (at least on this album) more akin to a blending of Prog-Rock outfits such as Genesis, Kayak, or Camel with eclectic Art-Rock acts such as The Tubes, Brian Eno, and Sparks, creating a sort of Pop-Art-Prog-Rock genre. And, darn it, after finally giving this album a chance, I concluded that the above description is exactly what the band turned out to be.
For certain, Mental Notes contains some odd vocals at times that will likely not appeal to everyone, but the wonderfully twisted melodies and complex instrumental passages really do make this album something quite special. I can't actually compare the group to any specific band, that's how unique its overall style. Sure, on tracks such as "Spellbound," "Stranger Than Fiction," "Walking Down a Road," "Maybe," and "Under the Wheel" I can detect traces of all the acts I mentioned above, but I truly can't recall any other band that has Split Enz's particular balance of influences within its music, or a group that mixes them up in an occasionally theatrical or whimsical fashion like this.
Therefore, I ended up giving Mental Notes 4.5 Stars due to the band's special (and successful) marriage of styles, plus the flavor of tongue-in-cheek wackiness, which somehow made a unique genre all its own. I'm unsure whether the group continued with this sound/style on further releases, but seeing how the band's image (its costumes, etc.) seemed to change throughout the '70s and into the '80s, I'm assuming the music also fluctuated and evolved with the times. Maybe one of these days, if adventurous, I'll investigate further.
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In the live setting, we used to play to a couple thousand of faces at night, and now we play to a couple of thousand phones held up in the air. It's a little bizarre. Chaney: Followed by thousands on YouTube, like in an hour. Navarro: It's a little unnatural having come from a time--. Chaney: The stone ages?. Navarro: A time when it wasn't like that. Now you're playing to a sea of phones and watching them on their screens. It's a little awkward. But you know, the bright side is people who aren't able to be there can at least see imagery from the performance. It's both a positive and a negative.
A price war in the world's second largest mobile services market has brought two rivals together to bring 4G to villages, towns and cities across the country, India has a new largest mobile network operator and it's all thanks to a $23 billion merger of two former rivals, The Vodafone Group announced on Monday that it was merging its Indian operations with competitor Idea Cellular to create a new giant in India's telco space, boasting over 400 million customers, Be respectful, keep it civil and octopsychedelia iphone case stay on topic, We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read, Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion..
The HP Slate 6 VoiceTab will be available at retail in May in France, Italy, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, and at the same time through the HP Store in France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and the UK. The first great smartphone of 2015. Beautiful and bold..with complications. The new no-compromise MacBook. A stellar on-ear headphone. Crave-worthy curves for a premium price. With a nice screen, good sound and dual SIM support, the HP Slate 6 VoiceTab aims to make some noise this May. BARCELONA, Spain -- HP may have introduced its new VoiceTab line with a focused release earlier this month in India, but here at Mobile World Congress the old dog is sending its new tricks into wider release.
There's more than meets the eye when it comes to the Thrill's screen, though, Like the Evo 3D and Nintendo 3DS, the smartphone's display has a parallax barrier that allows it to display two different images on top of the screen to create a 3D effect without the use of glasses, Overall, we found the 3D experience to be better on the Thrill 4G than on the Evo 3D because it offered more depth of field, meaning there was a bit octopsychedelia iphone case more dimension in the background, By comparison, on the Evo 3D, it felt like only the objects in the foreground popped off the screen, while the rest of the image stayed flat..
But, you'll ask, that doesn't tell us what went wrong, which liquid hydrogen tank sprung a leak. This now gets us into two more topics: sync and size. Sync here means keeping information identical, consistent over two or more devices. Less abstractly, for a simple example, I have a phone and a computer, I want their address books to identical or, at least, consistent. On simple cell phones, I use a cable (or a Bluetooth wireless connection) plus software to copy (parts of) my computer address book to the phone. But, wait a minute, I entered numbers on the phone that are not on my computer; I don't want the copy from the computer to wipe out those new numbers. Trouble starts, as if connecting the cell phone to the computer and running the program wasn't buggy enough. You want the software to compare the two address books, the phone's and the laptop's and decide what to keep and what to change, on both devices. But what about homonyms, or different numbers for the same person's home? The program, hopefully, raises those "exceptions" and lets a human arbitrate.


A commuter tried to stop a man from harassing a woman while riding a subway train through Forest Hills on Wednesday afternoon and wound up being stabbed for his trouble, police reported.
Law enforcement sources said the incident took place at 5 p.m. on Sept. 26 inside a Jamaica-bound F train as it stopped at the 75th Avenue station, below the intersection of 75th Avenue and Queens Boulevard.
According to published reports, the 49-year-old male commuter witnessed the suspect harassing a female passenger and decided to intervene.
Police said the commuter then got into an verbal argument with the man that quickly turned violent when the suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim in the chest and leg.
Seconds later, the assailant exited the train at the 75th Avenue station and fled in an unknown direction. Before he fled, however, another train rider managed to take cellphone images of the suspect; they were later submitted to police as part of their investigation.
Officers from the 112th Precinct and the NYPD Transit Bureau responded to the incident. Paramedics rushed the injured man to Jamaica Hospital, where he was treated and released.
Cops describe the assailant as a black man believed to be 45 years of age, standing about 6 feet tall and weighing 220 pounds with brown eyes, a dark complexion, a medium build and a gray beard. He was last observed wearing a tan cap, a gray sweatshirt, black pants and black sneakers.


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Locking down the pressure cooker
A subdued yet tense Argentina is locked in an extended waiting game – for the effects of these new restrictions, for the arrival of more vaccines, for the results of the midterm elections.
Locking down the pressure cooker | Art by Joaquín Temes
Nine Days was the title of a film last year and also the length of Lady Jane Grey's reign in England nearly half a millennium ago (in contrast to the current monarch) and it is now supposedly the duration of the strictest lockdown in Argentina since the initial quarantine amid the coronavirus panic of 14 months ago.
While there is only one syllable's difference between the words "pandemic" and "panic," the accelerating virulence of the former will not automatically lead to the return of the latter, thus reinforcing strict compliance. Yet while too much has happened for the mood of that initial reaction to be restored, the self-regulation of society does seem to have risen slowly even ahead of last Thursday's announcements in response to this month's dire figures. But passing judgement on the nine days starting today is obviously going to be far more the task of next Saturday's newspaper than this edition and even then could be premature – a short and sharp spell carries the advantage of straining civic quarantine fatigue less but is also too brief to factor into any assessment the time lags typical of this coronavirus pandemic (10 to 15 days between contagion and requiring intensive care in the worse cases and a similar timespan between respirators and death in the worst, the latter period now lengthening as the average age of the infected descends).
Nine days also happens to be the length of the farm strike in reaction to the beef export ban ordered at the start of the week by a government equally desperate for votes and dollars and finding both in conflict, but this issue is amply commented elsewhere in this newspaper. In a world struggling to deal with the pandemic and its aftermath, Argentina must surely be the only country whose government turns into a top legislative priority the size of the parliamentary majority needed to appoint the attorney-general while the opposition evidently feels more comfortable joining in this debate with some institutional grandstanding than in seeking some solutions to the grimly pressing public health and economic realities. Whichever way this issue turns out, it will not change much although some declaim that the future of democracy is at stake – as it is indeed but for many more reasons (some of them stretching back years and decades) than this bill.
A subdued yet tense Argentina is thus locked in an extended waiting game – for the effects of these new restrictions, for the arrival of more vaccines, for the results of the midterm elections. Meanwhile we can perhaps learn more about the shape of what might come from looking elsewhere in the region – at the turbulence in Colombia and at the seismic political shifts in that land of earthquakes, Chile, both of which could be projected here.
The main lesson from the violent protests in Colombia is that popular discontent can erupt even in a country which has been something of a regional success story in the five years since signing peace with the FARC guerrillas – otherwise that famous first line from Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina – "All happy families are alike but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" – could be extended to each unstable country being unstable in its own way so that the details of the developments in Colombia may not have much predictive value here.
But in contrast, last Sunday's constituent assembly elections in Chile might just end up being a pretty accurate forecast of this coming spring's midterms here. Last Sunday's results with all the parties which have governed Chile in the past three decades, centre-left and centre-right, garnering just 61 of the 155 constituent assembly delegates between them, in a 40 percent turnout, points to political disenchantment of a magnitude which might seem unimaginable here but who knows? Whatever the grieta rift between followers of the previous and present presidencies, the balance between promises made and results obtained is broadly similar for both administrations, with at least one opinion poll showing four out of every seven voters ruling out voting for the current government while a precariously united opposition spends too much time criticising Kirchnerite outrages rather than offering a road map out of the crisis to capitalise. In Chile a centre-right presidency steered negative voting to the far left (27 delegates) while a centre-left government here might favour extreme libertarians but Chile's nebulous middle ground (channelled into 48 independent delegates) could be equally large here.
But meanwhile we have at least nine days of lockdown ahead of us.
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Osco-úmbrias, também chamadas Sabelianas:
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Campânios
Pelignos
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In our last winter storm I was out in the elements crazily dusting snow off my vexed violets, cooing and fussing over them as they braved their way into early spring. Frankly, I'm fascinated with these lovelies, but I'm just another smitten suitor dazzled by their delicate beauty.
Those charming vixens! Spring's early seedlings of mystery wink and nod as if masked in shocking displays of purple isn't enough, then they taunt us with their intoxicating scent and coyly retract it, leaving us begging for more.
It's true. These fragile beauties have a darker side, and as stellar leads in nature's early chorus line, why shouldn't they? Violets have the disarming ability to give it and take it away. They possess ionone, a cunning chemical that affects our olfactory nerves. After one enchanting whiff it derails our senses and inhibits our ability to recapture their elusive perfume. A disappearing act! Those Spring Teasers!
Throughout history Violets have been valued for their culinary and medicinal uses as well as their beauty and scent. Even Pliny recounts their power to 'lessen anger and strengthen the heart.' Today they are still used in healing poultices, easing inflammation and relieving bruises.
Clearly, these are no vapid underachievers, Violets have real strength and character. Sweet Violets, how I salute you!
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Big Shine had the privilege to exhibit at the largest U.S. energy conference and technology expo this year. The World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC) conference in Charlotte, North Carolina brought national and international energy professionals into one common space filled with innovative energy-efficient technologies. Since Big Shine has global presence, WEEC was an ideal stage for our company to connect with local, national, and international audiences. We were given an opportunity to make an impression as a domestic and internationally grounded technology company. Big Shine established itself in diverse consumer markets around the world with the ability to adapt engineered solutions to specific consumer niches. WEEC was a perfect tool for Big Shine to naturally connect with the attendees, who came from other countries.
Big Shine's lighting design and manufacturing division, Big Shine LED, showcased several energy-efficient fixtures manufactured with green technology and certified for national and international applications in the public and government sectors. Attendees experienced live demonstrations of various Big Shine LED industrial and commercial lights. Among the sorts, expo guests and exhibitors received a first-hand glance of Korean quality in the form of solid-state lighting right inside Big Shine booth #709. Our Korean LED product-line alluded to Big Shine's roots as semiconductor experts who got their start in South Korea. Big Shine's East Coast lighting specialists and corporate team members were busy giving interested individuals tours of the booth and answering technical questions about our LED technology and high-quality lighting products. On Thursday, October 18, Big Shine's CTO, August Kruesi, captivated the diverse crowd as he elaborated on lighting trends, the impact of CRI on the environment, and measurements on average color fidelity (TM-30). The audience was able to engage in various thought-provoking topics and discussions related to important lighting and LED patterns and trends that allow us to be ahead of the market no matter where we are in the world.
A common goal amongst governments, corporations, businesses, and individuals is to use their resources and take responsibility to contribute to reducing carbon levels on a global scale. At WEEC, Big Shine was able to connect with like-minded companies, who recognize the role technology—renewables, HVAC, smart building systems, lighting, and onsite generation—can have on managing energy to help accomplish that goal. Big Shine Energy, our energy division, provides a turnkey solution driven by their Approaching Zero initiative to help lighten the carbon load through LED and HVAC services. Many businesses, industrial, and institution users at WEEC showed interested in the turnkey concept and were able to set-up future appointments and meetings with our company representatives. The diversity of energy solutions and expertise in those fields gave our Big Shine team opportunities to think about partnerships to expand on Big Shine's energy capabilities, even beyond the U.S. borders. As facility optimization and energy-efficiency continues to evolve, Big Shine Energy will be ready to adapt and grow with it.


2019 Chevrolet Trailblazer, What New?
The 2019 Chevrolet Trailblazer comes with the new layout for 2019 Model, The next-gen 2019 Trailblazer will have more technology inside. The Chevrolet Trailblazer is an SUV that is additionally referred to as Colorado 7 in the United States markets. Many thanks to lots of resemblances, the connection in between those 2 versions is solid. However, do not error Colorado 7 for that Trailblazer that was offered in the USA in between 2002 and also 2009. Currently, Chevrolet's SUV is back as well as it has numerous updates.
The business is discovering a method to enhance the outside of 2019 Chevrolet Trailblazer as there was constantly that existing sensation that this SUV ought to look far better. Additionally, indoor experienced a lot of modifications, as well as talking the drivetrain, exact same 2 diesel motors remain in the deal.
The account of the 2019 Chevrolet Trailblazer is just what the American firm prefer to call "body in-wheels out" layout. The hood looks effective as well as in mix with various other front components, it takes a solid position. Effective appearances are in addition improved many thanks to a LED headlamps and also the dual-port grille looks famous as well as sophisticated. Haze lights are positioned listed below the grille and also trims in the fascias looks excellent with some brightened lightweight aluminum design. It gauges Lenght 192.4 inch, Size 74.9 inch, Elevation 72.9 in and also its Wheelbase is 112 in.
Chrome products are controlling via all body as well as at the back, taillights look narrower. Back home window is huge as well as many thanks to that, brand-new Trailblazer is very easy to place. It will be offered in few-body shades Top White, Sizzle Red, Silver, Blue Hill, Black Saphire, Satin Steel Gray and also Auburn Brown.
The inside of the next-gen 2019 Chevrolet Trailblazer looks high-end many thanks to the brand-new upgrades. Nonetheless, its surface areas supply a costs feeling. The brand-new design will be offered in a couple of trims. The base LT 2WD and also LT with 4WD designs are having an 18″ alloy wheels, MyLinkT as well as Use CarPlayT phone assimilation, back haze lights, back park aid, 7-inch touchscreen, USB ports, as well as Bluetooth as common. Nonetheless, the LTZ with 4WD will additionally obtain underbody skid plate, guiding wheel sound controls as well as cruise ship control system.
The following trim is LT Z71 4WD, this will obtain additionally all LT choices plus will include black Alloy wheels 18 inches, black door manages and also mirrors, black hood, black body moldings on the side and also Z71 logo design. LTZ 2WD and also 4WD version supplies also far better convenience as well as things like dual-zone electronic environment control, 7 audio speakers superior stereo, natural leather inside, 8″ touchscreen, LED daytime running lights, front as well as back park aid, onward crash sharp, lane separation caution. The very same version with the 4WD system will be offered with front and also underbody skid plate.
Security rankings are high, as well as the brand-new version will be really risk-free. The dashboard festinates and also brand-new guiding wheel includes controls for cruise ship control and also radio controls and also sides blind alert. The last one is LTZ Z71 4WD, this set has All LTZ choices as well as extra Key Features like 18″ black Alloy wheels, Z71 symbols that remain on outside and also inside, black door deals with, mirrors and also body side moldings.
The version 2019 Chevrolet Trailblazer is an excellent SUV with a lot of safety and security Key Features. This SUV obtain a great rating in the accident examination. Additionally, it will be furnished with attributes like vehicle driver as well as front traveler airbags, drape 1st and also the Second row, automated accident reaction, taken lorry help, seat belt pre-tensioners, outside light control that is totally automated, reduced tire stress caution and also back youngster safety and security door locks.
Large adjustments are occurring with 2019 Chevrolet Trailblazer, however, engine section is not component of those modifications. The very same 2 diesel drivetrains that powered the previous variation of Trailblazer get on the deal. The base version includes a 2.5-liter engine that generates approximately 150 HP as well as 260 pound-feet of torque. The design will be offered with the 2WD system or optional 4WD, Presently there is no information concerning gas economic climate, yet we anticipate great numbers.
The following one, as well as optional powertrain, is a 2.8-liter that returns 205 HP and also 355 pound-feet of torque. Both engines are providing a 6-speed guidebook or transmission. Conjectures are stating that for other markets like the Center East, also a gas device will come to be a choice. Nevertheless, from that supposition, this SUV may obtain a 3,6-liter V6 engine. If this information holds true we anticipate that this engine will make around 240 HP.
The brand new 2019 Chevrolet Trailblazer will maintain the existing cost and also will set you back in an array in between $38,000 and also $41,000.


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Q: Terraform state - local workspaces to remote storage containers I initially saved terraform state in multiple workspaces (for each environment) locally as that part of infrastructure was intended to be updated very rarely. However, now I want to store the state for each workspace in a separate azure storage container (one per environment).
What is the best way I can move the terraform state (per workspace) into its own remote storage i.e. azure storage container?
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*Using terraform init --migrate-state and using the backend with remote storage seems to be moving the state files for all workspaces into the same storage container (eg: dev). After this, using terraform workspace select  would not let me re initialize the terraform init to point to the remote storage for the next workspace/environment.

*Trying using multiple backend files for each environment. Since we cannot have multiple backend files in the same code, this is not an option.

Can anyone suggest any other solutions to this? I want to avoid duplicating the code for each environment into separate folders and then reconfiguring the terraform state to point to the respective storage container.
Thanks!


Ofsted has opened a consultation on its new Education Inspection Framework.
The EIF covers all stages from early years to further education, and shifts the focus of inspections from data to the curriculum.
The closing date for responses is 5 April 2019.
Read Nursery World's articles about the EIF, which will launch in September.


Games have always been popular among human beings. There have been different kinds of games in human history. As human developed games also went on changing, improving in their content and reach. In the modern times science and technology have revolutionized every field of human activity. Games are no exceptions.
In the place of the old games there came video games and then computer games. They have so completely transformed the world of games that the old ones are no longer found. People of all ages have been attracted by video games and computer games. We even find children who spend hours in front of the computer playing their favorite games.
Though computer games give us enjoyment and diversion from our concerns, too much of it is surely harmful. It is not only harmful to the eyes, but also to the mind. So we should be careful about allowing our children to play computer games. There should be a strict time frame for them.
As computer games have become increasingly popular, they have become costlier as well. Though we are enchanted by newer varieties of games we can't afford to buy them. In this context the best way out is buying them online or downloading them.
If you buy them online you have a few advantages. You can have a trial before you decide to buy one. That way you can verify the quality of a game before you buy it. It also provides you with the opportunity to test a large number of games before making a decision. You will be acquainted with newer varieties of games.
It is easy for you to download and enjoy your computer games. For that you have to download the necessary software. There are a large number of sites which allow you to download games freely. You can search for the best games and then you can download them. With that your favorite games will be there in your computer and you will be able to play them whenever you like.
You can also play them any number of times. When you are tired with them you can naturally uninstall them and go for newer ones. So at no cost you can renew the games occasionally.
Among the games that are available for downloading, some famous games can be mentioned which are easily available and are top ranking among all the games available. The World of Warcraft, Command and Conquer 3, Universe at War, Crysis Demo, Squad Command, Mysterious Island, Titan Mode, Portal Ren Test, Sam and Max, Modern Warfare, Tom Clancy Rainbow Six, World in Conflict, etc., are just a few games that can be downloaded easily from the websites. A host of other games are there too that can be downloaded. The games like the Play Station have been modified often are designed keeping in view different tastes of the players.
All kinds of war games, construction games, child games and the mind games are very easily downloaded and enjoyed. This state of downloading the computer games software has been spreading so rapidly that everyone is joining the mania of downloading and playing these games.
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Putting Pride Aside: One Father's Story
by Colleen Callahan
For Lamont, his most important role was being a father who could provide for his family. He worked hard to give his children a life he never had – a comfortable one, where they had everything they needed and more. He worked day in and day out to make this possible. But one day, he got hurt at work, and it all fell apart.
While working for a cable company, a coaxial cable struck Lamont's eye. He was supposed to be out for just a short while, but as it turned out, the cable ruined his vision and left him unfit for the job. All he had to rely on was his workers' compensation, and that wasn't enough to feed his family.
"Things got really bad for us," Lamont said. "I had promised myself I'd never be in a position where I couldn't provide for my family, but one day, my kids were hungry, and I had nothing to give them. That was the lowest moment for me."
Lamont didn't want to visit a pantry. He had never wanted to ask for a hand out. "My wife reminded me, however, that this was beyond my pride," Lamont said. "This was about feeding my children, and I needed to sacrifice my pride so that they had enough."
Lamont decided to visit his local pantry, and it changed his life.
"I was scared walking through that door for the first time. I thought I'd be judged – but really, I was just judging myself," Lamont said. "Everyone was so kind. They shook my hand, hugged me, and helped me see that this didn't mean I was a failure as a father, as a man. It just meant that I needed help to get back to where I was before."
Lamont began volunteering at his local pantry – served by Utah Food Bank, as he looked for work. The pantry saw something special in him and offered him a job. "Eventually, I was promoted to a director and now I'm in charge of a program that works with families to break the cycle of poverty," Lamont said. "I can provide for my family again, and not only that, I'm truly fulfilled. I know I'm making a big difference in people's lives."
Watch Lamont tell his story of how he put his pride aside to feed his family. Listen, and then share his story, so that others can understand the sacrifices fathers like Lamont make every day to make sure their children have enough to eat.
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WRAL-TV Showcases Next Gen TV's Potential
Raleigh station teams with NBCU, NAB to show NBC Olympics' 4K UHD HDR coverage
Phil Kurz
RALEIGH-DURHAM, N.C.—WRAL-TV, with the help of NBCU and NAB, put on quite a display of Next-Gen TV last night at the State Club near the station's studios.
Ostensibly, the reason for the gathering was to view NBCU's 4K UHD HDR coverage of the Winter Olympics from PyeongChang, South Korea, being transmitted over-the-air by WRAL on Channel 39.
Jim Goodmon Jr. presenting during Next Gen TV Monday in Raleigh, N.C.
But there was far more to this event than a demo of Ultra HD. This was a public showing of a complete ATSC 3.0 ecosystem that is as well suited to delivering 4K HDR as it is to serving up mobile television, interactivity and advanced emergency alerts. In other words, next-generation TV today is delivering on its many promises—not simply in South Korea where it has been deployed to deliver that nation's coverage of the Winter Olympics over the air in 4K, but also here in the United States.
"I think what you are seeing… is the standard has now been completed," said NAB CTO Sam Matheny during an interview in the hallway outside the event. "It [ATSC 3.0] was finished in January. Here we are in February broadcasting the world's largest sporting event in a demonstration like we have tonight."
Inside, WRAL Director of Engineering and Operations Pete Sockett walked the roughly 75 people in attendance for the VIP Next Gen TV event through the demonstration. WRAL broadcasts ATSC 3.0 to Raleigh from an elliptically polarized antenna affixed 1,740 feet in the air on one of its towers in a nearby rural community, according to Sockett.
"It's a 40kW transmitter that's covering all of Raleigh," he explained. "To put that into perspective, this signal is 40kW; WRAL's main signal is a million [watts ERP]."
MORE POWERFUL & EFFICIENT
ATSC 3.0's OFDM modulation scheme is so much easier to receive than ATSC 1's 8VSB –even at the comparatively low power WRAL is using—that the new standard will make it possible for broadcasters to reach viewers over-the-air using smaller home antennas, on the road and even in their basements, he said.
[Next-Gen TV Using Olympic Stage as Showcase]
On two tables arranged side-by-side, the demo illustrated how the standard enables different physical layer pipes (PLPs), to deliver a high data rate bitstream to a Samsung 4K UHD HDR television using a simple Mohu Leaf antenna and a much lower data rate bitstream to deliver a highly robust 1080p signal to ordinary media tablets equipped with a Next Gen TV dongle and antenna from South Korea's ETRI electronics institute.
"This is PLP 1, which is the enhancement layer of LDM [at] 19.5Mbps HEVC," said Sockett during a one-on-one interview as he pointed to the Samsung UHD television. "PLP 0 [which was being received by the dongle-enabled tablets] is a robust, lower data rate [of] 4.5Mbps throughput, which is running our regular WRAL [content] HEVC encoded [and] AAC audio," he said.
Sockett added that he has received a robust mobile signal with a tablet outfitted with a dongle supplied by ETRI (a South Korean government tech research group) at 70mph as he has driven home from the station. Jim Goodmon Sr., CEO and chairman of the board of Capitol Broadcasting Company, interjected at the conclusion of Sockett's presentation that ATSC 3.0's robust signal will one day put over-the-air television on mobile phones.
Recounting the failure of Mobile DTV, Goodmon reminded the room that the first go broadcasters had at delivering TV to mobile devices depended upon a separate signal, not the core ATSC 1.0 transmission, because the main signal was not sufficiently robust to be received by cell phones and other mobile platforms.
"We came up with a new plan and created another signal, and guess what the networks said," recalled Goodmon. 'The networks said, 'Guys, that's another TV station. You can't put our stuff on that mobile signal.'"
However, with ATSC 3.0, the same type of decoder chip used in a television will be available to cell phone makers to receive the same Next-Gen TV signal, he noted. Jimmy Goodmon Jr., president and COO of Capitol Broadcasting Company, reiterated his father's comments in an interview outside the event.
"It [the separate A/53 and A/153 signals] created a complicated, a bit convoluted, unknown ecosystem," he said. "Mobile DTV didn't take off because we couldn't get the content. If we would have gotten the content out there, the chip makers would have made the chips, and I think people would have put the chips in the phones."
The tablet portion of the demo also featured an ATSC 3.0 gateway taking in the off-air signal from a Mohu Leaf antenna and retransmitting it as a Wi-Fi signal to an ordinary media tablet.
AWARN ENABLED
Elsewhere in the room, the latest developments in advanced emergency warning (AWARN) enabled by ATSC 3.0 were on display. Created by NAB and LG for the demonstration, the setup illustrated how AWARN could be used to better inform the public in an emergency through the use of rich media informing viewers what to do and where to avoid.
"We can send all of this information [over the air]. None of this needs the internet," said Sockett, who also pointed out how much more flexibility the new system offers over existing EAS. "Say there is a missile warning and you want to stop the missile warning—we can actually stop it," Sockett said, referring to the recent missile false alert in Hawaii.
Pete Sockett, and the rest of the event, highlighted some of ATSC 3.0's capabilities in relation to NBC Olympics' broadcast.
At the ATSC 3.0 interactivity demo, So Vang, vice president of advanced technology for NAB, showed off the latest interface his tech team has created to give users access to Next-Gen TV's hybrid broadband-broadcast interactivity. In keeping with the evening's Winter Olympics focus, Vang presented an on-screen tote board used to track the medal count of nations and individual athletes that pulled data from the internet. He also showed the Next-Gen TV connected to an ATSC 3.0 gateway retrieving WRAL weathercasts from the internet, on-demand WRAL content, a WRAL-specific electronic program guide and a user account screen that allows individuals to set up their unique preferences.
[ATSC 3.0 Rollout Can Begin Next Month]
Rounding out the demo area was an ATSC 3.0 signal analysis ecosystem with equipment from a variety of companies including DekTec, Triveni and Rohde & Schwarz. "When we first started this a year and a half ago… there was a lot of guessing going on," said Sockett. "Well this community is growing up as well, and it's really made a difference."
ATSC 3.0 transmission isn't limited to Raleigh and South Korea, however. Sinclair Broadcast Group has been testing SFN transmission in the Baltimore-Washington corridor and has announced plans to do a full SFN test rollout in Dallas. NAB and CTA are on-air from a Tribune station in Cleveland; and the Pearl TV consortium is setting up a model ATSC 3.0 market in Phoenix.
"There are other stations we have talked to that have intentions of going on the air [with ATSC 3.0]," said NAB's Matheny. "So, what I think you are starting to see is people saying, 'OK, the standard is done. What can we do to begin deploying it?'"
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Abubakar Sidiq Usman, a blogger, who was arrested for offences bordering on cyber stalking by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared that he never expressed disappointment in President Muhhamadu Buhari.
The blogger was taken into custody because he published a report on his blog alleging that acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu was intimidating and bullying officials of the commission thinking they are behind his delayed confirmation for the job at the senate. The report also claimed that Magu is corrupt.
The blogger who is the publisher of Abusidiqu.com was picked up at his Kubwa, Abuja home in the early hours of Monday August 8, 2016 by operatives of the EFCC and was in custody for over 24 hours till he was released on administrative bail by the EFCC.
Upon his release, there was news reports that he expressed disappointment in the Buhari led administration; a report he has refuted in a statement.
The statement reads in full: "It has become expedient for me to respond to a publication by an online platform which headlined a story claiming that I said Buhari's Government has let me down," he said.
"If those words were what the online platform used to mean that I said the Buhari govt has let me down, then I must have been quoted out of context. What I was simply trying to say is that I fought for the government, but the incidence of my arrest by the EFCC has shown that it is not what we fought for that happened.
"If that statement expresses any iota of disappointment, then it will be on the Magu-led leadership of the EFCC who simply arrogated to himself the judge and the jury in a case that he is the principal subject.
"President Buhari in the spirit of strengthening institutions in Nigeria gave the EFCC the freedom to independently carry out its constitutional responsibilities. It is the EFCC chairman that decided to abuse that independence. Therefore, the President should not be dragged into this matter.
"To set the records straight, there is no way I could have expressed disappointment in a government that one of its institution decided to abuse its powers. It will only amount to meaning that I expected the Buhari government to stand by me whether or not I am guilty of the offence alleged.
"That will be dragging us to the past days of impunity which informed my decision to support the person of President Muhammadu Buhari and his change mantra. I know for one that the Buhari government will not shield anyone found wanting whether or not you support or is part of his government. So expecting such would have been disastrous.
"I have been an ardent supporter of the president since 2003 and despite every opportunity to jump ship, I stayed the course because of my conviction that he is the man to turn around the fortunes of the country and he has already set towards that path. It will be foolhardy to therefore quit at a time a course I stood with for over 15 years was already bearing fruits.
"I therefore want to restate that I remain committed to the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and I will do everything to ensure that it succeeds including calling out any individual in the government who is yet to imbibe the spirit of change.


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Q: Java animation applet with MediaTracker, threads and timer I have 3 questions about my animation project.

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*Is the structure of the program correct (see below)

*My first image (from an array) isn't behaving properly.  Sometimes it pops up and then disappears, and then the rest of the images display correctly.

*How do I control when the audio clip starts to play.  It also sometimes sounds like a needle is ripping across a record...?

REGARDING THE PROGRAM's STRUCTURE:
Are the following in the right order:
IN INIT:

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*Set applet size.

*Run a timer task with a sleep time

*Get the sound file.

*Get the images from the array.

*Initialize the MediaTracker object and tell it to "wait for all" images.

*Play the sound file.

IN START(Graphics g)
1.  Draw the applet and load the first image of the array
IN START:
1.  Check the threads for null values, if not null, start them
IN RUN:
1.  Use a variable "iPictureNumber" to iterate through the images in sequential order also using repaint and Thread.sleep methods
IN UPDATE:
1.  Draw the applet again.

This code is an updated version of another program I have that didn't use threads, so I'm not sure if this is the correct structure.
My goal is to use best practices with this type of simple program.  I can provide the images and sound in a zip file if needed.  Please advise, thanks in advance.
HERE IS THE CODE:
// Java animation project with array of images and 1 sound file using threads
 import java.net.*;
 import java.io.*;
 import java.lang.*;
 import java.awt.*;
 import java.awt.event.*;
 import java.awt.Frame;
 import java.awt.Graphics;
 import java.awt.Image;
 import java.awt.MediaTracker;
 import java.applet.Applet;
 import java.applet.AudioClip;
 import java.util.*;

 public class c_TrainAnimation extends Applet implements Runnable
  {
     Image trainAndBush[];
     int totalImages = 17,
     currentImage = 0,             // Set current image array subscript to 0
     sleepTime = 900;
     Image imageCurrent;  // Set to the matching image in "trainAndBush" Array
     MediaTracker myImageTracker;
     Timer myTimer;
     Thread threadTrainAnimation = new Thread(this);
     Thread threadSoundFile = new Thread(this);
     AudioClip mySound;

     public void init()
     {
    setSize(400,400);

        myTimer = new Timer(true);
    myTimer.schedule( new TimerTask()
          {

              public void run()
               { repaint();}

            } // end TimerTask

               ,0,sleepTime);

       mySound = getAudioClip(getDocumentBase(), "onpoint.au");
       trainAndBush = new Image[ totalImages ];

       // Load the array of images into the Applet when it begins executing
        for( int i = 0; i  < trainAndBush.length; i++ )
       {
             trainAndBush[i] = getImage(getDocumentBase(),
              "Hill" + (i + 1) + ".jpg" );

        myImageTracker = new MediaTracker( this );

        // Give the images an ID number to pass to MediaTracker
        myImageTracker.addImage(trainAndBush[i], i);

        // Tell MediaTracker to wait until all images are loaded
          try
    {
        myImageTracker.waitForAll();
    }
    catch(Exception e) {}

         mySound.play();

         }   // end for loop
     }       // end init

     // check threads for null values and then start threads
     public void start()
      {
     if (threadTrainAnimation != null )
        threadTrainAnimation.start();
     if (threadSoundFile != null )
    threadSoundFile.start();
      }

     // Draw the applet with the first image of the array
     public void start(Graphics g)
      {
     g.drawImage(trainAndBush[0],50,50,300,300, this );
     currentImage = 0;
      }

      // Set "imageCurrent"to appropriate "trainAndBush image" in the array and_
         loop through
     public void run()
       {
     int iPictureNumber[] = {0, 1, 2, 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16};
       while( true )
    {
          for( int i = 0; i < iPictureNumber.length; i++ )
           {
         imageCurrent = trainAndBush[iPictureNumber[i]];
         repaint();
       try
        {
         Thread.sleep( sleepTime );
        }
        catch( InterruptedException e) {}

         }  // end for loop
       }   // end while statement
     }  // end run

     public void update(Graphics g)
      {
    g.drawImage( imageCurrent, 50, 50, 300, 300, this );
      }

    } // end of Applet

A: I wouldn't use Applet, use JApplet, it will solve dozens of problems off the bat ;)
I probably would probably use separate Runnables for the threadTrainAnimation and threadSoundFile, but I've not had much experience with sound in the past.  The problem I see though is you have two threads accessing the portion of code simultaneously doing the same thing. This is just making a mess of things.
You need to figure out how to sync the sound and the animation.
The use of the java.util.Timer is incorrect for what you are trying to achieve, it's also overkill given the fact that you have threadTrainAnimation running, as they are generally doing the same thing.  In this case I'd probably just get rid of it.  In the future, you're better of using javax.swing.Timer as it provides better support for the Event Dispatching Thread
I, personally, wouldn't load my resources in the init method the way you are.  This is going to slow down the loading of the applet and make users upset.  You'd be better putting up a nice "loading" image and use a Thread to perform the loading.  Once done, using something like SwingUtilities.invokeLater to start the animation.
Don't override the update method, you should override the paint method instead.
It's also possible that images are been changed faster then they can be painted, you may want to give some thought to this as well - that is the run method may execute a number of times before paint is called
As a suggestion, I'd read through

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*Concurrency in Swing

*Performing Custom Painting

*Painting in AWT and Swing

*How to make Applets (as they discuss animation here)

If you're serious about animation, I'd also check out

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*TimingFramework and/or

*Trident
Which are animation frameworks for Java


This Vegan New York Baked cheesecake is so delicious that you would be hard pushed to know that it is vegan.
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Rich and satisfying, it is very like the real thing.
It has a base made of gluten free rolled oats and raw almonds and a creamy topping made with raw cashews and vegan cream cheese.
Serve on its own or with a fruit coulis - so yummy. Sure to be an absolute knock out!
Vegan, dairy free, refined sugar free, and made with gluten free ingredients.
Perfect for parties and special occasions, or just as a treat.
This cake is made in a 21cm diameter tin and serves 8-10 - it's rich so you don't need a huge slice!


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ccdiscoveryInternational NewsRussia begins troop mobilisation for Ukraine fight
Russia begins troop mobilisation for Ukraine fight
International NewsUS NewsStories
By Carlie Porterfield
Workers remove debris from a residential building hit by a missile in Kharkiv. Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
Moscow began its mandatory troop call-up Thursday to try to bolster a stumbling war effort in Ukraine, with authorities saying thousands had volunteered even as Russian men fled the country to avoid being forced to fight.
1 Annexation 'vote'
2 'Anyone would want to leave'
Amateur footage posted on social media since President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilisation of reservists on Wednesday purported to show hundreds of Russian citizens across the country responding to military summons.
The call-up came as Moscow-held regions of Ukraine are to vote in coming days on whether to become part of Russia in referendums that have been called an unlawful land grab by Kyiv and its allies.
Moscow took these steps after Ukrainian forces seized back most of the northeastern Kharkiv region, which has been seen as a possible turning point in the seven-month war that had fallen into stalemate.
The Russian military said Thursday that at least 10,000 people had volunteered to fight in 24 hours since the order, but men also rushed to leave Russia before they were made to join.
"I don't want to go to the war," a man named Dmitri, who had flown to Armenia with just one small bag, told AFP. "I don't want to die in this senseless war. This is a fratricidal war."
Lyubov Prokopivna in her damaged building, hit by a missile in Kharkiv on Wednesday. Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
Annexation 'vote'
Military-aged men made up the majority of those arriving off the latest flight from Moscow at the Armenian airport and many were reluctant to speak.
Yerevan has become a major destination for Russians fleeing since war began on February 24, drawing fierce international opposition that has aimed to isolate Russia.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday demanded Putin be held to account as he faced Russia in a Security Council session in which the United Nations catalogued abuses in Ukraine.
"We cannot — we will not — let President Putin get away with it," Blinken told the Security Council in a special session as leaders met at the United Nations.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov — whom Blinken has refused to meet individually since the February invasion — lashed out at Western accusations.
"There's an attempt today to impose on us a completely different narrative about Russian aggression as the origin of this tragedy," Lavrov told the Security Council.
The confrontation on the diplomatic stage escalated as Kremlin-installed officials in Ukrainian regions controlled by Moscow's forces vowed on Thursday to press ahead with annexation polls this week.
Four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine — Donetsk and Lugansk in the east and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south — announced that they would hold the votes over five days, beginning on Friday.
Vladimir Saldo, the Moscow-installed head of Kherson, which fell early into the Russian invasion, said the referendum would go ahead in his region regardless of the criticism.
"The date has been set. We have the green light. Voting begins tomorrow and nothing can prevent this," he told Russian state-run media.
"People have been waiting and they're demanding that this vote is held soon," he added.
Western leaders convening in New York this week unanimously condemned the ballots.
Speaking at the United Nations, US President Joe Biden accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of "shamelessly" violating the UN Charter with a war aimed at "extinguishing Ukraine's right to exist as a state".
'Anyone would want to leave'
The integration of the war-scarred regions into Russia would represent a major escalation of the conflict, as Moscow could then try to say it was defending its own territory from Ukrainian forces.
After the votes were announced by his proxy officials in Ukraine, Putin announced that Russia would call up some 300,000 reservists to bolster the war effort and cautioned that Moscow would use "all means" to protect its territory.
Former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev said in a statement on social media that those means included "strategic nuclear weapons". He predicted the voting regions "will integrate into Russia".
For most observers, the results of the concurrent votes are already a foregone conclusion and were rushed because Ukrainian forces were making sweeping gains in a counter-offensive to recapture the east.
The referendums are reminiscent of a similar ballot in 2014 that saw the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine annexed by Russia. Western capitals said the vote was fraudulent and hit Moscow with sanctions in response.
Election officials in the Donetsk region, which has been partially controlled since 2014 by Moscow-backed separatists, said that voting would take place door-to-door for the first days. But it would only be possible in polling stations on the final day, Tuesday.
Putin's move this week to call up reservists for Ukraine sparked small protests across Russia, resulting in more than 1,300 people being detained.
Flights out of Russia to neighbouring countries, mainly former Soviet republics that allow Russians visa-free entry, are nearly entirely booked and prices have skyrocketed, pointing to an exodus of Russians wanting to avoid going to war.
Looking lost and exhausted in the arrivals hall of the airport in the capital of Armenia, 44-year-old Sergei said he had fled Russia to escape being called up.
"The situation in Russia would make anyone want to leave," he told AFP on condition of anonymity.
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I am a Texas native covering breaking news out of New York City. I was previously an editorial assistant at the Forbes London bureau. Follow me on Twitter @reporterfield
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