New York firm DXA Studio has designed a conceptual bridge that would connect the city's new Hudson Yards neighbourhood with the Moynihan Train Hall extension to Penn Station above the streets.
Dubbed The Midtown Viaduct, the complex steel structure would branch from the northern portion of the High Line elevated park, and connect to nearby buildings and street corners on its route to the station.
The bridge would span across Ninth and 10th Avenues, over the top of 30th Street and Dyer Avenue – a vehicular access point for the Lincoln Tunnel – and curve around to link to the train hall on 31st Street.
The Moynihan Train Hall, a former Postal Service building, is currently being transformed into a new concourse for the busy Penn Station on an adjacent block.
The area between the extended station and the massive Hudson Yards development – set to open next week – is currently difficult to traverse on foot, due to ongoing construction work and ground-level infrastructure.
Elevating pedestrians above the roads, DXA Studio's proposed bridge would be made up of several undulated routes. These could offer "fast-track" links between particular sites for commuters, along with areas for pause and programming.
"The idea of a freeform path allows for changes of direction and unexpected viewpoints in counterpoint to the NYC grid," said the studio.
Planting, seating, ponds and patios could be utilised by the public in good weather, while spaces underneath the structure could be turned into cafes, bars, washrooms or bike storage.
Columns and touch-down points are intentionally kept to a minimum, so all could incorporate stair and elevator access to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
The structure would comprise steel "ring-ribs", similar to those used in aircraft wings, would be spaced approximately 10 feet (three metres) apart. Linear ribs would span between these rings, creating a mesh-like composition of tubes that could allow for the fluid shapes proposed by the team.
"The system's efficiency comes from the depth of the tubes created by the shape of the pathway and the flexibility in the performance of the system," DXA Studio said.
Fabrication of the bridge would involve cutting the steel ribs using water-jet technology, in sections no longer than 50 feet (15 metres) so they could be transported to the site and welded together.
The proposal was awarded the grand prize at the 2019 Design Challenge organised by Metals in Construction magazine. The speculative competition asked entrants to envision a link between Hudson Yards and Moynihan Train Hall – a route that is projected to be used by 100,000 commuters daily.
Other ideas to make Manhattan more walkable include Perkins Eastman's proposal to turn Broadway into one long park, and wHY's plan to create oscillating bicycle and pedestrian pathways along the East River.


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Unlike other high-speed access alternatives that are shared with your neighbors, CenturyLink provides you a dedicated DSL connection.
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The addition of Narcan training for police officers is made possible by our partnership with the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority, which provided the training and the Narcan kits the Police Officers will carry on duty.
Narcan is an attractive live-saving tool for law enforcement because it causes no harm when administered. Narcan simply blocks the opioid from the opioid receptors in the brain. The only side effects are those associated with opioid withdrawal if, in fact, the overdose is opioid related. Another law enforcement friendly feature is that Narcan can be administered intranasal with a preloaded dose, rather than use of a syringe.
Equipping Police Officers with this life saving drug enables the Public Safety Department to ensure an absolute commitment to the preservation of life. Narcan can also be used in cases of a Police Department employee who comes into accidental contact with a drug like Fentanyl, which is hundreds of times more potent than heroin. Narcan will be deployed with Northville Township Police Officers today.
Narcan is the newest addition to efforts already in place at the Northville Township Police Department. For the past several years the Police Department has partnered with the Drug Enforcement Administration for the National Take Back Day as a point to drop off unwanted, unused and expired medications. Additionally there is a drop box in the police department lobby for medications that is acceptable by the public 24 hours a day.
hydrocodone, oxycodone, and fentanyl (synthetic heroin).


No other UA has adopted yet AFAIK (didn't test Edge or Safari).  The change will allow deploying new <track kind>s without confusing browsers that don't yet support them.  Hopefully there aren't too many existing invalid <track kind>s in deployed content that will break.
r=me, but this needs an intent to ship at least.  And possibly telemetry for how often invalid track kinds are used (compared to valid ones) before we ship this.


High Water Bill? << Check out this link – You're not alone with strange water bills from the City of Buckeye!
Yes, it's true that a leak or diaphragm issue can cause a high water bill. BUT, there is a limit to the amount of water usage you're going to see on your bill.
We had a customer call us today with a water usage of 24,000 gallons – do you realize that's about 2 SWIMMING POOLS worth of water? If you had a leak that big, you would notice!
On the flip side, if you notice a moderate increase of water usage, you may have a leaking diaphragm inside your valve. This can be caused by a damaged diaphragm (they do wear out over time) or a piece of debris stuck in the valve not allowing the diaphragm to close all the way.
We can certainly help with an issue like this! Just send us a Service Request on our website www.FestivalLandscaping.com.
We take irrigation issues very seriously and can usually get you in the same day, or the very next day.


Alexis Magarò (soprano), is a native Californian who received a degree in English and Italian literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she was also one of the star performers in its opera program. She then immediately moved to Florence, Italy where she studied voice with soprano Jolanda Meneguzzer and the conductor Bruno Rigacci.
Having distinguished herself in a series of vocal competitions in Italy and the United States, Ms. Magarò made her opera debut in Innsbruck, Austria in "Il Tito" by Antonio Cesti under the baton of famed baroque specialist, Alan Curtis. Performances were aired live on radio and television throughout Europe, leading to a position as principal soloist at Opernhaus Halle in Händel's birthplace. There she sang a variety of roles ranging from Violetta to Mélisande, Tatjana, Vitellia, and Queen of the Night. She subsequently made her home in Berlin and then Paris, accepting engagements throughout Europe and perhaps most frequently in Prague where she was repeatedly called upon as Mozart's Donna Anna.
A dramatic coloratura, Ms. Magarò has appeared frequently on television and often been the subject of radio broadcasts with both live and recorded performances of everything from Mozart to Puccini, Richard Strauss and Villa-Lobos. She currently resides in Chicago.


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NJBIA Urges Expansion of Angel Tax Credit for High-Tech Innovation
Trenton, NJ ― Small technology companies whose innovative ideas and products help drive the state's high-tech economy would have better access to capital if the state's Angel Investor Tax Credit Act's eligibility requirements are expanded, the New Jersey Business & Industry Association said on March 7.
Legislation (S-158) before the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee today would expand eligibility for the existing tax credit on corporate business tax returns to the holding companies of qualified New Jersey emerging technology businesses, instead of requiring investors to provide funding directly to the subsidiary.
The bill would also allow owners of an S corporation making a qualified investment in emerging technology to claim angel investor tax credits on personal income tax returns.
"Expanding the Angel Investor Tax Credit program will make it easier for companies to raise the capital they need to take their high-tech innovations from the laboratory to the marketplace," said Andrew Musick, NJBIA's director of Taxation and Economic Development.
"This legislation will help sustain New Jersey's status as an innovation leader by giving our state's small science and technology businesses better access to capital so they can grow," Musick said.
Musick noted the Angel Investor Tax Credit was one of the recommendations of the New Jersey Policy Research Organization (NJPRO), which is NJBIA's research arm.
The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee was scheduled to meet at 1 p.m. on March 7. The Angel Tax Credit legislation has already been approved by the Senate Economic Growth Committee.

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You have a great website, now – will Google like it? Here are some tips for creating a Google-friendly site.
Keep in mind that Google's algorithms can distinguish natural links from unnatural links. Natural links to your site develop as part of the dynamic nature of the web when other sites find your content valuable and think it would be helpful for their visitors. Unnatural links to your site are placed there specifically to make your site look more popular to search engines. Some of these types of links (such as link schemes and doorway pages) will get your site penalized. Only natural links are useful for the indexing and ranking of your site.
Don't feel obligated to purchase a search engine optimization service. Some companies claim to "guarantee" high ranking for your site in Google's search results. While legitimate consulting firms, like Come Up On Top, can improve your site's flow and content, others employ deceptive tactics in an attempt to fool search engines. Be careful; if your domain is affiliated with one of these deceptive services, it could be banned from Google's index.
display important names, content, or links. Google's crawler doesn't recognize text contained in graphics. Use ALT attributes if the main content and keywords on your page can't be formatted in regular HTML.


Please visit Volkswagen's website for a specification of the chosen model. The models do change on a monthly basis so please do confirm this with your sales person at the time of ordering. Equalease Short Term Cars cannot be held responsible for any manufacturer changes.
Non-Status and New Business start up applications are welcomed on this Volkswagen Transporter Shuttle LWB 2.0 TDI 9 Seater Minibus over the 6 month period.


Powder Metallurgy, or PM, is a process for forming metal parts by heating compacted metal powders to just below their melting points.
How does powdered metallurgy work?
Why is powder metal used?
Cost - Powder metal is cost effective, eliminating most machining operations and scrap loss.
Versatility - Powder metal supports a wide variety of alloys, can be heat treated for increased strength, and produces excellent surface finishes.
Complex Designs - Powder metal enables the production of complex parts that would otherwise be near impossible to produce with other metalworking processes.
What type of power transmission parts can be made with powdered metal?
High strength materials extend the benefits of powder metal technology to numerous power transmission components including: coupling hubs, torque converter hubs, clutch hubs, flange hubs, clutch plates, bevel and pinion gears, pump gears, pump bodies, oil pump rotors, slide, gears, gerotors, parking brake gears, brake components, turbocharger components, pulleys, carriers, counterweights, sprockets, cam sprockets, solenoid components, axle nuts, differential cases, ABS sensor rings, U-Joint components, geometrically contoured bearings, magnetic sensors, A/C clutch hubs, flange hubs, sprockets, oil pump gears, EGR bases, exhaust flanges, clutch plates, carriers, helical & pinion gears, and levers.
For more information on powder metal, please visit the Metal Powders Industry Federation website (MPIF is a trade association) website and/or the Wikipedia page for powder metallurgy.


At the forthcoming EAA (European Association of Archaeologists) meeting in Barcelona (5-8th September 2018), there will be a session entitled "Can we develop a European network of linked research agendas?". The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland are jointly organising this session with archaeological colleagues from Historic England and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands.
The call for papers for the session can be downloaded from the link below. It would be greatly appreciated it if those Fellows or others currently working in the fields of archaeology and research frameworks, or who have experience of doing so in the past, would consider submitting an abstract (details in the pdf). Please also forward this link to colleagues who may be interested.
The deadline for abstract submissions is the 15th February.


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Daata
Loreta Lamargese
On Daata Editions

Daata Editions offers a novel platform to solve a longstanding concern: how to commodify, collect, and distribute intangible and already-networked digital artwork. Probing this question reveals a nested paradox: while we've become increasingly reliant upon and enthralled by the digital, artworks that employ new media are thought of as being positioned outside the art market. It is becoming more and more difficult to disentangle ourselves from the digital web and artists - like all those included in the three artwork releases from Daata Editions Season One - are using its medial language to engage with their surroundings. At the same time, it is inane to think that we don't rely heavily on the market - one that has thus far been thought to absorb only singular and static objects - and that the market isn't a chief harbinger controlling which artworks and artists receive visibility and clout. And yet, many artists who reject a tradition of trading solely in tangible and discrete art objects, who use digitality as both a site that needs mining and as a material to be manipulated, are visible and powerful contenders in the current contemporary art arena.

What makes Daata Editions particularly significant at our present moment is that it fuses the seeming discord between the market and digital material, organizing artists' video, sound, and web-based work and having that work available online as editions. In fact, Daata makes clear that these two apparently dissonant entities depend on similar structures, relying on a rapid and seamless transition of information; both are, after all, networked and global. The artists presented in Daata Editions are producing works that operate beyond the sanctified walls of galleries and are experimenting with the fungibility of concepts that fit diverse media and operate on these diverse platforms simultaneously. Similarly, while Daata is primarily stationed online, it does not limit itself to the borderless web, involving additional presentations at art fairs such as a recent collaboration with NADA New York.

Now with its third artwork release, it is safe to say the initial hypothesis that launched the platform is true: that when given an intuitive mode to consume and sell digital artwork - when given the opportunity to purchase new media on indigenous soil- collectors would take ownership. Editions by artists such as Amalia Ulman, Chloe Wise, Ed Fornieles, Jon Rafman, and Leo Gabin made available through Daata Editions are now housed in preeminent international collections including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, and The Julia Stoschek Collection in Dusseldorf. And while private collectors and institutions alike fold moving images and sound works into their collections, artists continue to expand the limits of contemporary art practices, renegotiating our reliance on any particular medium or site.

While I'm hesitant to stress the intrinsically utopic qualities of digital art, its malleability with place and material affords it distance from hermeneutic singularity or ontological fixity. The dynamic chain of reformatting that these digital works undergo lends them to active and multifarious meanings and concepts. For example, Chloe Wise's series created for Daata Editions, Do You Really Think He Fingered Her?, sees the artist subverting the notion of determined and legible identification. In this collection of videos, we find a friend and collaborator of the artist, Robyn Fox, reciting overheard phrases and the Twitter feeds of Art Basel Miami Beach attendees and friends of the artist. Because Fox is costumed in Wise's clothes and because Wise often uses her own image in her artwork, we are compelled to read Fox as Wise, collapsing barriers of individualization normally fixed to bodies. And why shouldn't we? If the video itself, as well as the material from social media that Fox recites, proliferates on multiple channels and in different formats at overlapping intervals, then why should identities and meaning be fixed and contained rather than performed and adaptable?

Since its emergence, artists working with video have struggled to monetize their practice while making hefty contributions to the history of art, changing our modes of perceiving and altering our relationship to objects and images. The current generation of young artists working in new media, including those presented in Daata Editions, is widening the net of possibilities under which image creation and circulation can exist. They are entering the conversation at a vital moment, one in which new economic platforms attempt to keep up with them, finding original means to sell and distribute migrant and non-discrete objects. Daata Editions is an early contributor to this new economy, which not only considers but also focuses and exists within the digital realm. Now entering its third artwork release, Daata Editions has tested these murky waters, shedding light on the possibilities of nurturing and distributing artwork that gains dynamism through circulation – through the very media it takes from.

Loreta Lamargese is a curator and researcher based in Montreal, Canada.

Daata commissions original, digital artworks by established and emerging artists, allowing you to stream or download high-quality digital artworks on any device.
Daata TV


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Seoul to install EV chargers in state-owned idle spaces
Kim Joo-heon Reporter(jhkim123@ajunews.com) | Posted : November 10, 2022, 17:30 | Updated : November 10, 2022, 17:39
[Courtesy of Korea Asset Management Corporation]
SEOUL -- In a bid to speed up the distribution of electric vehicles, Seoul will install EV chargers in state-owned idle spaces managed by a public asset management company. After selecting operators, EV chargers will be installed in collaboration with a state-run green energy management agency.
As a state project to achieve net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, Seoul will replace 10 percent of diesel vehicles with EVs by 2026. About 45,000 EVs were registered in Seoul as of May 2022. The number of chargers in Seoul will increase from more than 20,000 to 35,000 at the end of 2022.
Seoul teamed up with Korea Asset Management Corporation (KAMCO) and Seoul Energy Corporation (SEC) to install chargers in state-owned sites run by KAMCO. KAMCO is currently in charge of some 720,000 land lots. SEC will assist the capital city by verifying the suitability of EV charger installation sites through on-site examination.
"The agreement is projected to enhance the value of public use of the state-run property and increase the benefits of Seoulites," KAMCO's state-owned property division head Hong Young said in a statement on November 10.
Seoul has tried hard to expand the establishment of EV chargers in various regions. In May 2022, the capital city unveiled its scheme to install 12,000 chargers in hidden residential areas. A flowerbed of an apartment complex was renovated into a parking lot with chargers so they can be used by residents and courier vehicles.
Seoul to expand EV charging infrastructure by utilizing residential area facilities as chargers
S. Korea opens total energy station for EV charging, electricity generation and fueling service
S. Korea to replace and remove 208 outdated public rapid chargers for EVs


Don't miss Talon Talk at the Wilkinson library. Today at 2:30pm. Live birds of prey will be there!
Talking Gourds Poetry will host their monthly gathering tonight at 6:00 pm at the Telluride Arts HQ. This month will feature a performance from Poet Tori Miner of Fruita. Everyone is welcome!
The Telluride Choral Society invites you to join them for the 2019 SpringSing concerts, entitled "In the Garden", featuring 60 local musicians. Concerts will take place on Friday, March 22nd at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 24th at 4:00 p.m. at Christ Church. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door. For more information, please call (970)729-0082.
Join Dr. Christine Richards, at the Telluride Yoga Center, for their upcoming workshop, "Yoga After a Knee Injury." Saturday, March 23rd, 1-3pm. Register at tellurideyoga.com or call (970) 729-1673.
Come join Friends of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center at O'Bannon's on Friday, March 29th for a musical benefit supporting avalanche forecasting and education in Colorado. Doors open at 7:00 PM with a performance by Lavalanche (a Tyler Simmons project), starting at 7:30 PM. Tickets available on Eventbrite- search Tunes in Telluride.
There will be a Parent and Caregiver Coffee and Conversation/ Café con Conversación, at the Lone Cone Library in Norwood, March 22nd, at 10:30am. Parents, caregivers, grandparents, friends, and neighbors who have an interest in helping creating a community that supports young children are encouraged to attend.
On Thursday, March 21st, TFF will have a one-time screening of Free Solo at the Nugget Theater. Film starts at 6:15pm. Nugget Passes no accepted.
Get ready to get down for The Telluride Historical Museum's annual winter cocktail tasting - The Social: Seventies Shindig - at the Ah Haa School, on Saturday, March 23rd, 6:30pm. This event will showcase the glory of Telluride in the YX years with a popup exhibit and local seventies characters serving craft cocktails. Theme attire encouraged! Tickets available on the museum's website at shop.telluridemuseum.org.
The Black Canyon Audubon Society will host a presentation by a Colorado Native Plant Master entitled Plants are for the Birds. At the Montrose County Field House. Thursday, March 21st at 7pm.
IT'S RED BALL TIME THIS SUNDAY, MARCH 24 AT 3:45 P.M.!! Telluride Rotary Club's 16th Annual Red Ball Express happens this Sunday at 3:45, a chance to win $5000 and 100 Mega Million Lottery tickets! Adoption Tickets are still available from local Rotarians and some non-profit organizations who are selling them OR you can get your adoption ticket in the Mountain Village gondola plaza on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 9am to 3 pm. Great cash prizes and a chance to support Rotary Youth Programs in Telluride! Call Marilyn at 970-708-2202 for more information or to buy your chance to win!


Pima Schools believes it is the right of every student to be educated in a positive, safe, caring, and respectful learning environment. We further believe that a school environment inclusive of these traits maximizes student achievement, fosters student personal growth, and helps students build a sense of community that promotes positive participation as members of society.
Pima schools in partnership with parents, guardians, and students, strives to establish and maintain a school environment based on these beliefs. The district works to identify and implement age-appropriate programs designed to instill in students the values of positive interpersonal relationships, mutual respect, and appropriate conflict resolution.
It is the responsibility of the school to recognize and identify situations where students are being the victims of bullying, but our best source of information is reporting by students and parents. In addition to reports by victims, other students or parents who feel that bullying is taking place are asked to report specific circumstances that they believe constitute bullying, to the school staff. Any such reports must be thoroughly investigated and addressed by the school.
Where the schools investigation determines that an incidence of bullying constitutes a violation of school rules, school discipline will be administered, and the parents of the victim have a right to knowledge of the disposition of the matter. In cases where it is determined that the law has been broken, district policy requires that law enforcement authorities be informed of the evidence supporting this conclusion.
Our goal is to help students understand why bullying is not appropriate. Grade-level-appropriate programs aimed at this objective are implemented often. We also hope that students will develop the self-confidence to recognize that no matter what anybody says, they are valuable members of our school community and they have the potential to achieve great things. Improving student self-esteem is the most effective way to reduce the harmful impact that student misconduct in the area of meanness and bullying can inflict upon students.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact your child's principal or the district office. We are committed to the positive experience of our students.


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Palladium Futures Over 5% Down In The Last 10 Sessions
Platinum Futures Is 4% Down In The Last 10 Sessions
Natural Gas Futures Downside Pressure: (NG) Bearish By 31% In The Last 21 Sessions
Lumber Futures Over 28% Up In The Last 21 Sessions
Cocoa Futures Bullish Momentum With A 2% Rise In The Last 5 Sessions
Copper Futures Went Up By Over 11% In The Last 21...
Palladium Futures Went Up By Over 2% In The Last 5...
Lumber Futures Is 19% Up In The Last 21 Sessions
Copper Futures Bullish Momentum With A 11% Jump In The Last...
Coffee Futures Went Up By Over 6% In The Last 10...
Copper Futures Is 11% Up In The Last 21 Sessions
Palladium Futures Bearish Momentum With A 3% Fall In The Last...
Coffee Futures Went Up By Over 4% In The Last 5...
Corn Futures Is 2% Down In The Last 5 Sessions
Lumber Futures Bullish Momentum With A 15% Rise In The Last...
Cocoa Futures Bearish By 4% In The Last 10 Sessions


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using System;
using NodaTime;
using NUnit.Framework;

package com.quantconnect.lean.Tests.Common
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class TimeZonesTest
    {
        [Test]
        public void TimeZonesLoadFromTzdb() {
            // verifies each of the fields in the TimeZones class can be retrieved.
            foreach (field in typeof(TimeZones).GetFields()) {
                value = field.GetValue(null );
                Assert.IsNotNull(value);
                Assert.IsInstanceOf(typeof (ZoneId), value);
                Console.WriteLine(((ZoneId)value).Id);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Special thanks for the video to THE UNIDENTIFIED TAPER.
Additional thanks for the audio to AN UNIDENTIFIED TAPER.
LB-4293 > Toast Titanium 11.0.4 > disk image > Sound Designer II > Audacity 2.0.0 (-.15%) & -33% > aiff > iMovie 6.0.3.
-a tender "Mr. Tambourine Man"
At first glance I thought this might be similar to LB-960 (52min+56min) but none of the dropouts mentioned are present in this recording; CEDAR-type fingerprint d1t01@0:05 "that's too bright, kill the light" (male); d1t04 had several glitches which I removed w/ CEP; Excellent sound, A.


"Dynatrace's ease of deployment and its auto-detection capabilities that reduce installation effort to near zero really impressed us. We got meaningful alerts right away."
Ofertia runs a rich e-commerce application with hosts all over the world that serve our desktop and mobile users. Having hosts distributed across multiple AWS datacenters around the world adds quite a bit of complexity to our environment landscape.
Before Dynatrace we tried different tools on the market to cover the complexity of our environment. We had to combine and analyze data from several different tools to get the information we needed. This process was not only slowing us down, it often led to guessing instead of knowing.
At this point, with our business in emerging markets growing quickly, the need for a reliable, integrated full stack monitoring solution is undeniable if we are to deliver the quality of service that our customers have come to expect. One of our main requirements was that the tool had to be easy to deploy, easy to use, and highly scalable to match our fast growth. It took us only a couple of minutes during our free trial to set up Dynatrace on all our different points of presence, and it delivered insights right away. The deep insights into Java processes and hosted Java web services--including the smart on-demand response time analysis--is a highly valuable shortcut for us to understand how Ofertia is performing out in the real world. Dynatrace's unique approach puts information in context and provides the full picture, not just single data points. This is absolutely essential for us.
What were your biggest concerns when evaluating Dynatrace?
After the free trial and the quick setup in our environment we were absolutely sure that we wouldn't waste time and resources setting up Dynatrace. Our major concern was the scalability and performance when using it in production. Our environment is complex and fast growing so we had to choose a scalable solution. The team behind Dynatrace was very responsive and really took their time to make us aware of specific issues in our use cases. We quickly figured out that Dynatrace was the way to go.
What is the greatest value you get from Dynatrace?
Dynatrace ease of deployment and auto-detection capabilities reduce the installation effort to almost zero. This really impressed us. We think the single agent concept is also really the future since web applications become more complex and diverse every day with emerging technologies and new cloud deployments. Also the lack of manually-configured thresholds really saves a lot of time and work by eliminating the initial configuration hassle. The baselining does an amazing job, as well as integrated anomaly detection. You get meaningful alerts right away. Dynatrace root-cause analysis on top of the other features sealed the deal for us. Having your APM tool tell us what actually went wrong and separating symptoms from root causes is a giant leap forwards for DevOps in general.
Would you recommend Dynatrace to others?
I definitely recommend Dynatrace for any serious business that needs deep insights into their application without hiring a monitoring expert to set up and configure a set of complex monitoring tools. If you want code-level insights and not another tool that your team has to learn and maintain, the obvious choice is Dynatrace.


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Chemistry Australia CEO Samantha Read has said that manufacturers in the Australian chemistry industry are not seeing an end to rising east coast gas prices.
"While there has been some important Government action, the crisis is not over," said Ms Read.
"If anything, there appears to be continued upward pressure both on the cost of gas and its delivery. Members are still reporting increases of between 30% and 60% in negotiating new gas energy contracts.
"Continued rises of this magnitude really are a question of survival. Demand destruction is not a solution to the gas crisis.
"Australia will pay a heavy price with job losses across the manufacturing sector. This is a double-whammy hitting everyday Australians who are already struggling at home with rising power and gas bills.
"The 2014 Deloitte Access Economics Report forecast losses of 14,500 jobs between 2014 and 2021 in net present value terms, due to rising gas costs and constrained supply.
"There are real industry concerns the job losses may be higher than forecast. The modelling applied was based on gas in the $8 to $10 per gigajoule range, but anecdotally we are hearing of $12 to $16, and even higher prices.
"These shifts of a dollar or two per gigajoule don't illustrate the full impact to businesses, where the actual dollar effect is in the hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions, added to input costs.
"We welcome the Federal Government's announcement last week that the Australian Domestic Gas Safeguard Mechanism is now active. This provides some short-term supply certainty for gas buyers.
"Short-term measures help give businesses time to assess their position. But it's the long-term vision that will ultimately decide whether a business continues operations in Australia.
"If a business can make it through this period of crisis, will there be more gas supply, at more competitive prices, into a more transparent market?
"The most fundamental part of this picture is new gas supply. If all states were to adopt the ACCC's recommendation for a case-by-case assessment on projects, this would open investment and jobs growth potential.
"There has been a lack of understanding of how critical domestic gas is to job creation. Australia has an abundance of gas; our ambition should be greater than just meeting current day demand. Gas can create opportunities right through Australia's value chains, and be a catalyst for investment just as it is in other countries endowed with similar gas reserves," said Ms Read.
Gas is particularly essential to the business of chemistry. It's important for process energy, and it is also a non-substitutable ingredient for advanced manufacturing. The Australian chemistry industry uses 10% of Australia's domestic gas for its molecular properties to create a huge range of products essential to our everyday lives. These include fertilisers for our crops, cleaning products for health and hygiene in our homes and hospitals, and smart packaging to keep our food fresher for longer.
Chemistry Australia is the pre-eminent national body representing the $40 billion Australian chemistry industry, one of the largest manufacturing sectors in the country. The industry employs more than 60,000 people and contributes more than $11.6 billion to GDP in industry value add. Members of Chemistry Australia are positioned across the entire value chain including manufacturers, importers and distributors, logistics and supply chain partners, raw material suppliers, fabricators, compounders, recyclers, research, academia and service providers to the industry. These businesses range from small family-owned companies to leading national and multinational enterprises.


It is called the 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza.
Completed in 2009 for $2 million, it sits on 5 acres of hillside, 20 miles from the center of Jerusalem.
The memorial is a 30-foot, bronze American flag.
That forms the shape of a flame to commemorate the flames of the Twin Towers.
The base of the monument is made of melted steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center.
And includes this engraving in Hebrew and English.
Surrounding the monument are plaques with the names of the victims of 9/11.
It is the only memorial outside the U.S. that includes the names of all who perished in the terrorist attacks.
The site solemnly overlooks Jerusalem's largest cemetery, Har HaMenuchot.
The monument is often used for memorial and commemoration services.
A powerful memorial from a powerful ally.


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World War 2:
Feeding the Nation
Join a Land Girl for the day as we explore the vital role that the Women's Land Army played in feeding the nation during World War 2.
"Feeding the Nation" is a full day living history workshop aimed at primary schools which delves into the daily roles of the Women's Land Army and everyday life on the Home Front.
Using our enormous world floor map (a firm teacher's favourite!) we contextualise the events leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War and how the Battle of Supplies began. We explore how identities needed to change to ensure the steady supply of food during the Second World War and encourage children to think about what the terms "battle" and "army" mean in this context.
From the Women's Land Army recruitment process and basic training, children will develop their understanding of life on the Home Front through role-play, artefact-handling, music and dance, and a range of historical sources.
We include first-hand accounts to enable the children to compare the recruitment propaganda with the reality of life in the WLA. From harvesting to milking, pest control to rationing, we cover the daily roles of the WLA and life at the time through a multi-sensory and immersive experience, bringing wartime rural Britain into your school.
Packed full of exciting artefacts and high-quality resources, our workshop promises to be hands-on, immersive and fun!
Our workshops are planned in line with National Curriculum aims by a qualified and experienced teacher.
Delivered by a teacher, we guarantee that the day has real, educational value to enhance the delivery of history in your school.
Packed full of exciting artefacts and resources for your children to get hands-on with because we think children learn most effectively when they're doing!
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"I just wanted to say a big thank you again for our WOW day. The kids loved it and have started to put their new knowledge into our history lessons. The day ran so smoothly and was so well planned with a huge array of resources for the children to try out and experience. Your knowledge of the era is undoubtedly vast which helped answer all the wonderful questions our kids asked. The relationship you built instantly with the kids is a credit to yourself, a true natural in the teaching game."
Year 6 teacher, Yorkshire
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Magnus Bane: Freshly squeezed orange juice. And a full glass.
Alec Lightwood: One of the perks of living at the Institute. But, come on, get out of bed. Breakfast stops serving at 9:00 a.m.
Magnus Bane: Alexander, I appreciate the hospitality, but... doesn't the Clave have rules against Downworlders living here?
Alec Lightwood: Oh, they're not rules. They're suggestions. What? You're not living at the Institute. You're just visiting for an extended period of time.
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#08: How XYZ's President Sean McGlynn Juggles Family, Work, and Fitness to Succeed...
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How do you run one of the nation's top-rated graphic arts firms, be a top-notch husband and father, and be a top-flight triathlete competing worldwide? I don't know. But I do know one person who pulls it off quite well -- and that's XYZ Co-founder and President Sean McGlynn.
So naturally, I had to have Sean come on the show and provide us with an inside look on how he stays on top of work, family, and fitness -- happily succeeding in all three. We're all busy in just about every area of our lives and Sean puts things in perspective with time management, hard work, and, of course, fun.
In addition to working with such elite companies as Acura, Nike, Google, T-Mobile, Toyota, Virgin America, etc. and squeezing in triathlons, Sean also surfs, plays basketball, snowboards, and cycles -- along with coaching his kids' teams and carving out some special time with his wife Shauna.
He's one of this planet's truly good dudes, who has some excellent advice on how to juggle a busy home and work life and stay fit and healthy for both to succeed. Enjoy!
#07: Entrepreneur Eric Wagner Shares How Fitness Helped Him Achieve Big Career Success...
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Author, entrepreneur, mentor, and family man Eric Wagner joins us on the show to discuss how his fitness routine helped achieve big time success in his career. Eric, founder of Mighty Wise Academy and Forbes contributor, has started and sold numerous companies over the years. But the one thing that has remained a constant in his life has been his fitness -- which kept his body, mind, and soul sharp to succeed.
As previously mentioned, Eric has a business mentorship company called Mighty Wise Academy, where he provides aspiring entrepreneurs with experienced and proven advice on how to start and succeed in their ventures. Part of his teachings touch on being healthy to have the energy to succeed with their plans. He also has a book called Walk Through Fire, a daily devotional loaded with business advice and anecdotes -- and, yes, it's also peppered with fitness tips.
Great stuff from Eric. So check it out and learn from the best in this episode.
#06: An Entrepreneur's View on Staying Fit with 'Entrepreneur on Fire's' John Lee Dumas...
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John Lee Dumas is the Founder and Host of EntrepreneurOnFire, an award winning podcast revealing the journey of today's most inspiring entrepreneurs 7-days a week. John has an incredible story of how EntrepreneurOnFire has grown and produced more than 1,000 episodes and generates over $300,000 a month in revenue in just a few short years, while offering tons of free content like his free 15-day course on Podcasting at FreePodcastCourse.com. He is also set to launch a new book entitled: The Freedom Journal.
So we invited John on the show to see how he fits in fitness, diet, and sleep into is uber busy schedule. Needless to say, he is extremely disciplined in his daily routine (partially due to his military background), which has allowed him to become the success that he is today -- and to remain fit and healthy for peak performance each day to serve his faithful audience: Fire Nation. Enjoy!
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The affection is plain. So is the bittersweet sense of time gone by and the difficulty of trying to select a few images to represent his archive of thousands of negatives, shot over a period of thirty-plus years. They make up a remarkable visual record of the people who made old-time music in Southern Appalachia and beyond.
Holt is better known for other accomplishments, including winning four Grammys, hosting radio and television music series, and making a cameo appearance in the Coen Brothers' film O Brother, Where Art Thou? On stage, he plays 10 instruments, tells traditional and original stories, and dances a mean soft-shoe. But as a photographer, this Texas native who grew up in California and majored not in music, but art and biology, seems to have hit that perfect sweet spot between insider and outsider—inside enough to capture people at ease, with a real sense of intimacy as a friend, but outside enough to see the regional culture and its people with fresh eyes.
His subjects, many of whom he worked and played with for years, range from the legendary, such as Doc Watson and Ralph Stanley, to the lesser-known, including Workman and Avery County storyteller Ray Hicks. Many are photographed in the context of their homes, bringing out a clear sense of their humanity. Their instruments are always at hand, like extensions of themselves.
Holt cites Henri Cartier-Bresson as a photographic influence—that pioneer of modern photojournalism and proponent of what he called "the decisive moment," that instant when life composes itself within the photographer's frame to reveal its essence. Holt's photos express the same quality of careful seeing, iconic moments captured.


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Iran's Top N. Negotiator, IAEA Chief to Meet Next Week
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran's senior nuclear negotiator and director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are scheduled to meet in Vienna on October 28, the agency said in a statement on Thursday.
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According to the statement, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi, who was also delegated to lead the nuclear talks between Tehran and the G5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain, France as well as Germany), is expected to have a meeting with IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano on Monday.
Neither Amano nor Araqchi is due to take part in those previously scheduled talks, which will be the 12th such meeting since early 2012.
"The meeting will provide an opportunity to exchange views on the way forward," read part of the statement, referring to Iran-IAEA talks due to take place on Monday.
Iran and the six powers wrapped up two days of talks over the Islamic Republic's nuclear energy program in Geneva, Switzerland, on October 16. Further talks will take place on November 7-8 in Geneva, which are to be preceded by sessions attended by scientific and sanctions experts to address differences and to develop practical steps.
Meanwhile, the expert-level talks between Iran and the six major world powers will be held following the Monday meeting between the Islamic Republic and the IAEA, Araqchi said on Thursday.
He said nuclear and sanctions experts from Iran and the six world powers are to meet in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on October 30 and 31.
The Iranian diplomat also noted that four experts from the banking, trade, oil and transportation sectors have been added to Iran's nuclear negotiating team.
Also on Wednesday, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said Tehran is prepared to voluntarily cooperate with the IAEA on the issue of a possible military dimension to its peaceful nuclear program, although the matter is outside the purview of the UN agency.
He said the only unresolved dispute between Iran and the IAEA is the discussion of a possible military dimension (previously referred to as Alleged Studies) to the country's peaceful nuclear program.
Referring to the record of close cooperation between the IAEA and Iran, a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Salehi mentioned that Tehran has expressed preparedness to cooperate with the IAEA, since the Islamic Republic firmly believes that its nuclear activities are peaceful and pursues a transparent approach.
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I've been collecting on and off for years, since my late school days to be exact (I'm now 32). Just recently started back up again trying to find the money to buy the missing games I don't yet have in my collection.
Currently have a round 60 games. Also have the Mk2 Lynx, sun visor, battery pack and ComLynx cable.
All being well I should have a brand spanking new Lynx Mk1 tomorrow from Telegames U.K.
That is sweet... I've never owned a Lynx. My friend had a couple of them back in the mid 90's I played once or twice.
Just got Block Out off Ebay.
Had BOTH lynx`s,plus fair collection,untill(sob)crashed my car,needed Cash,badly and sold the Lot! NOOOO!
Outta intrest,Do you have the lynx AVP Eprom?Allways recall my good friend stoo got it and showed me it running.HOW jealous was i?LOL.
Sorry to hear that. Must have left you feeling gutted. I've not got the AVP EPROM yet but it'll make it's way into my collection eventually. I have played it a few times on the Handy emulator.
Yeah AVP is a good looking/moving Lynx game. Just another of the 'shame it was never finished/released' games.
Nice little game with some great animations.
I lost my first game of Lynxopoly. Bugger. It took me 2hours and 16 mins to loose! lol (over three gaming sessions). All hail the save game feature.
I've got a Lynx with about 18 boxed games, i really should spend more time with it but my Jaguar is eating all my cash and spare time at the moment. I'm also collecting for my Atari ST but thats something else thats been put on the backburner for a while! d**n you Jaguar why are your games so pricey!
Yeah tell me about it. Jaggie prices are far too high. Lynx is going the same way if not already the same. Ebay starting prices are just silly!
Yesterday I also paid for a copy of the Zaku Game form Super Fighter Team. Can't wait for it to land on my door mat. In the meantime I'm going to try and complete pregnant dogy!
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Home Anniversary Nigeria at 60: The colonialists never left – they are politicians
Nigeria at 60: The colonialists never left – they are politicians
THE Nigerian nuptial is an unhappy one. We need not pretend about it. There may be no happy ending in this matrimony. The arrangement is a very inconvenient one — but that does not presuppose we gut the entity and leave its carcass. We must work at it. The disingenuity of the British has brought us together, and we have come far away from home; so we must make this house a home.
In a letter published in the Times of London in 1998, Peter Smithers, parliamentary private secretary to the minister of state and the secretary of state in the colonial office (1952-59), admitted to the British error of forcibly conscripting different ethnic groups into one crucible of colonial acquisitiveness.
The colonial officer wrote: ''During the negotiations for the independence of Nigeria, the view of the secretary of state at that time, with which I agreed, was that in Nigeria we should attempt to put together a large and powerful state with ample material resources, which would play a leading part in the affairs of the continent and of the world. This was attractive but it involved forcing several different ethnic and cultural groups into a single political structure.
''The negotiations were complex and very difficult, the chief problem as I remember relating, significantly, to the control of the police and the military. In the retrospect of 40 years, it is clear that this was a grave mistake that has cost many lives and will probably continue to do so. It would have been better to establish smaller states in a free-trade area. ''
Again, we cannot discount the fact that our union is like water and oil – but with a disciplined leadership, which we currently lack and seem to always have a short supply of, we can make a congruent substance from this mixture.
Colonialism thrived on a bipod – impunity and corruption. The colonialists made and enforced laws to protect themselves from the natives. Dissent against the colonial administration and the ''Queendom'' was crushed, citizens garrisoned and protests quashed. The system was corrupt. The British expropriated the resources of Nigeria and left little or nothing for the country in terms revenue. Communities which resisted the trespassers were vanquished and had their wealth plundered. The empire subsisted on the toil and well-being of Nigerians.
But 60 years after the Union Jack was lowered, what has changed? The criminal defamation law which the British used to hound the press and suppress free speech is still much potent in our body of canons today. Agents of the current government and some governors have exploited this colonial relic to clamp down on varying voices.
Omoyele Sowore, activist and convener of RevolutionNow movement, was incarcerated and charged with criminal defamation and terrorism for calling for a mass action against a bumbling government. Two journalists — the editor of Big Pen Nigeria, Joe Ogbodu, and a reporter for the National Mirror newspaper, Prince Amour Udemude – were detained and charged with criminal defamation in October 2019 in Delta. Kufre Carter, another journalist, was charged under the colonial gag law in May by the Akwa Ibom State government.
Currently, there are two bills – hate speech and anti-social media legislation — at the National Assembly seeking to regiment citizens and garrison public opinion. People who should naturally be the voice of citizens are pursuing laws to shield themselves from public criticism and scrutiny while federal and state governments are worsening the yoke of their citizens without commensurate performance in governance.
The British looted Nigeria to fatten their country, but Nigerian politicians are looting Nigeria to satiate their greed. The British colonialists did it for country; Nigerian politicians are doing it for their bellies and those of their cronies, family and hangers-on. While the action of the British usurpers can be argued to be patriotism — love for their country – that of Nigerian politicians is treason — because there is absolutely no justification for robbing your own people.
Impunity and corruption, which reigned under British colonialism, are ensconced solidly in Nigeria's cosmology today, and are even considered as start-up packages for elitism under Nigeria's ''elite colonialism''.
So, what is the difference between the British colonialists and our ''elite colonialists''. I think our own colonialists are a much dangerous breed. They are destroying their own country out of avarice, and smuggling the loot back into the country of our ex-overlords. Crazy!
Well, it is 60 years since our independence from the British, and for most Nigerians; it has been 60 years under elite colonial rule. We need independence.
– Sept. 29, 2020 @ 09:54 GMT /
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The Record Hotline is back with more bewildered callers spouting their delusion and the DR picking the most anti Celtic to give the headline for today's rant.
The anti Boyd theme only lasted one caller who was raging that the Captain who stopped the 10 won't even use the 'R' word when explaining the team that currently plays at Ibrox.
In the headline it says that "Tom Boyd should be ashamed of himself" however the caller never uses the term ashamed or shame and instead calls for a but more class, but hey, if you want to sell a paper why not put words in the mouths of the callers.
Tom Boyd is a Celtic legend and it is his right to speak out against the ingrained bias that he sees against Celtic, that he won't go along with the Newco is the same club guff only shows him to be a man of reason.
Thereafter the entire hotline revolved around attacks on Celtic fan and Kilmarnock manager Steve Clarke for his attacks on the Peepul and more claims of paranoia from Celtic fans by fans of the 7 year old entity.
Of course precedent isn't something that is held in high esteem within refereeing ranks in Scotland, what is good for the goose is invariably bad for the gander.
With Dallas demoted after a few days of anger from all sides of Scottish Football bar one, it is little wonder that the fanzine has come out to attack those who have seen its favourite son with a whistle pegged back.
Tomorrow's match at Pittodrie and Celtic's match vs Hibs at Paradise will be scrutinised like few others in recent history, not just to see if Derek McInnes men are worthy title challengers or even favourites for second or if Hibs have recovered from the Neil Lennon fiasco, but to see if the referees can apply the rules fairly.
There are 6 huge points on offer and they could all come down to a breath through a whistle.


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You've got a problem with something in your home, and you need it fixed -- fast! But who do you call? And who can you trust?
In a special one-hour edition of Marketplace, Tom Harrington tests the skills and ethics of home repair services. Among Canadians' top complaints: overcharging, suggesting or performing unnecessary work and shoddy quality.
We put home service trades-people to the test, in a house wired up with hidden cameras. We watch them while they work on what should be a fairly simple repair job -- only to get charged for unnecessary work.
And you won't believe what happens when we call them on it.


Greg – Set the presentation out in the format of text on one side and pictures on the other. Add pictures and my slides to the presentation.
Alston – Finish mapping part, help out towards Mohammed's section of the mapping, which he didn't do.
Me – Round up the last bits of information, email Veronica and Tim about anything missing and helping out with Mohammeds missing mapping section.
These areas are to be completed by next thursday, with a session to see how people are getting on, on Monday. We are slightly behind schedule due to having to do extra work on the mapping, so we are struggling on time, however we are getting on with it and dealing with only having really 3 people in the group now.


NEWSZENTS: US Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat today introduced conditions to destroyed or delay indefinitely the new US/Mexico/Canada trade agreement of President Trump. Pelosi now wants impossible labor reforms in Mexico, a 3rd World country before the House could table the agreement for a vote.
With Nancy Pelosi near negative and impossible request from a third World country like Mexico with no facilities, the United States of America will still be with the old NAFTA signed by Democrat President Bill Clinton in the nineties which destroyed US as a manufacturing country which made most of US factories to relocate their plants to Mexico.
Ahead of Canadian election, it is possible to get a ratification with the 2020 election in Canada and the new government of Mexico which took over on December, however, the real intention of the Democrats is to deny President Trump the joy of the new agreement before the 2020 US Presidential elections with the denial of the votes for ratification.
For Mexico to meet the conditions of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it will have to go through massive environmental reforms, new pay rates and working conditions for its labor force and if that is not interferance in the internal affiars of Mexico what else could it be?
How will the Mexico government get the resources and polical will to implement Nancy Pelosi requirement?
Furthermore, the present situation as contained in 1994 NAFTA favors Mexico and most likely they will ignore Nancy Pelosi and US workers and industries will continue to suffer neglect.
Everything is politics to the Democrats including the conditions to improve and return the country as a manufacturing nation.
President Trump and his team had hoped the new agreement would be signed by Summer and with a year in operation before 2020 election. It is even not certain how Democrats will handle the trade agreement with China if they introduce some conditions like that of Mexico.
Trade imbalances with Mexico in 2016 before Trump took over was $67b annually, $500b with China, $55b with Canada, and more with European Union, Japan all which Trump campaigned to address. With tariffs against Mexico and Canada the imbalance was reduced, that of China went down to $320b and the agreement will consolidate the gains of this administration after the tax cut went down to 21% from 35%.
Who needs the new agreement more than United States? None, Speaker Pelosi is putting politics above the national interest, fighting for Mexican workers instead of US trade intetest.


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Conflicts in Africa
This page last updated Saturday, September 27, 2014
This print version has been auto-generated from https://www.globalissues.org/issue/83/conflicts-in-africa
14 articles on "Conflicts in Africa" and 1 related issue:
Conflicts in Africa—Introduction
There have been over 9 million refugees and internally displaced people from conflicts in Africa. Hundreds and thousands of people have been slaughtered from a number of conflicts and civil wars. If this scale of destruction and fighting was in Europe, then people would be calling it World War III with the entire world rushing to report, provide aid, mediate and otherwise try to diffuse the situation. This article explores why Africa has been largely ignored and what some of the root causes of the problems are.
Read "Conflicts in Africa—Introduction" to learn more.
East Africa Food Crisis 2011
Posted Sunday, July 31, 2011.
Into mid-2011, the world's worst food crisis is being felt in East Africa, in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya.
Despite successive failed rains, the crisis has been criticized as avoidable and man-made. This is because the situation had been predicted many months before by an international early warning system. Both the international community and governments in the region have been accused of doing very little in the lead up to this crisis. In addition, high food prices have forced food out of the reach of many people, while local conflicts exacerbate the situation.
As the international organization Oxfam describes: 12 million people are in dire need of food, clean water, and basic sanitation. Loss of life on a massive scale is a very real risk, and the crisis is set to worsen over the coming months, particularly for pastoralist communities.
This page also presents news coverage from Inter Press Service on this crisis.
Read "East Africa Food Crisis 2011" to learn more.
Middle East and North Africa Unrest
Last updated Thursday, May 12, 2011.
A wave of protests has erupted throughout the Middle East and North Africa. A combination of the global financial crisis, rising costs of living, high unemployment — especially of educated youth, frustration from decades of living under authoritarian and corrupt regimes, various document leaks revealing more details about how governments around the world are dealing and viewing each other, have all combined in different ways in various countries, leading to a wave of rising anger.
Some protests have become revolutions as governments such as those in Tunisia and Egypt have been overthrown. Others have not got that far but have sometimes been peaceful, other times met with very brutal repression.
Is this a wave of democracy that cannot be stopped, and will forever change the region, and the global power politics?
Read "Middle East and North Africa Unrest" to learn more.
Posted Monday, April 04, 2011.
The crisis in Libya comes in the context of wider unrest throughout the Middle East and North Africa. The surge of what looks like spontaneous and ground up pro-democracy protests has been spreading throughout a region long controlled by authoritarian regimes from left and right of the political spectrum, and both pro and anti-West.
Peaceful protests against the long-running oppressive Qadhafi regime in February resulted in a violent crackdown. As the situation quickly escalated ordinary citizens took up arms to help free themselves from Qadhafi's brutal regime. Despite some military defections, the opposition has generally been a disorganized and out-gunned rebel force.
As Qadhafi's forces increasingly targeted civilians the opposition appealed to the international community for a no-fly zone to limit or prevent the bloodbath that Qadhafi threatened.
The West appears to have responded with what looks like a genuine humanitarian intervention attempt. Yet, when looked at a bit more deeply, there are many murky — often contradictory — issues coming to the fore that complicate the picture.
These mixed messages make the future for Libya uncertain. Civil war is how some commentators have already started to describe the conflict, which would imply a long drawn out conflict, not a quick fix that the West hoped for.
Read "Crisis in Libya" to learn more.
Cote d'Ivoire Crisis
Posted Thursday, April 07, 2011.
Following elections in Cote d'Ivoire in October 2010, both President Laurent Gbagbo and opposition candidate, Alassane Ouattara, claimed victory. International observers agreed that the Ouattara had won, but Gbagbo refused to accept this.
Negotiations failed and while the world's attention was elsewhere, the situation became volatile and violent outbursts turned into the country's second civil war. Forces supporting Ouattara have swept through the country and Gbagbo's position looks precarious while he remains defiant.
At the same time, possibly a million people are thought to have fled their homes, about 100,000 of which have crossed over into neighboring Liberia. Thousands of civilians have been killed in what observers have found to be mass human rights violations. There have also been reports of massacres and mass graves. UN personnel on the ground have been targeted. There are accusations of violence by both sides.
This situation had been brewing for a long time, and yet, the international community has been comparatively silent compared to how they have reacted to the situation in Libya.
This page presents news coverage from Inter Press Service on this crisis.
Read "Cote d'Ivoire Crisis" to learn more.
Last updated Saturday, August 21, 2010.
The conflict in the DRC (formerly known as Zaire) has involved seven nations. There have been a number of complex reasons, including conflicts over basic resources such as water, access and control over rich minerals and other resources and various political agendas. This has been fueled and supported by various national and international corporations and other regimes which have an interest in the outcome of the conflict.
Read "The Democratic Republic of Congo" to learn more.
Nigeria and Oil
Last updated Thursday, June 10, 2010.
The Niger Delta in Nigeria has been the attention of environmentalists, human rights activists and fair trade advocates around the world. The trial and hanging of environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Ogoni ethnic minority made world-wide attention. So too did the non-violent protests of the Ogoni people. The activities of large oil corporations such as Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Elf, Agip etc have raised many concerns and criticisms.
Read "Nigeria and Oil" to learn more.
Last updated Monday, July 23, 2001.
Sierra Leone has seen serious and grotesque human rights violations since 1991 when the civil war erupted. According to Human Rights Watch, over 50,000 people have been killed to date, with over one million people having been displaced. There have been numerous factors contributing to problems such as the the diamond connection, the gross abuses committed by both rebel and government forces, and the problems of the current peace treaty.
Read "Sierra Leone" to learn more.
Conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea
Last updated Wednesday, December 20, 2000.
30 years of war and conflict as Eritrea attempted to gain independence, finally resulted in an April 1993 internationally monitored referendum, where 98.5% of the registered voters voted. 99.8% of the votes were for independence, although the borders were not defined clearly. While the two nations seemed to get on fairly well, relations deteriorated into war a couple of years after Eritrea introduced its own currency in 1997. War again resulted over what seemed to be a minor border dispute in May 1998.
Read "Conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea" to learn more.
Last updated Wednesday, October 25, 2006.
It seems that the cause of the Rwanda genocide has typically been explained in simplified terms, such as ancient tribal hatreds, omitting many of the deeper and also modern causes, such as international economic policies, power politics and corruption of the elite, etc. which are also common contributing causes of problems elsewhere in the world today. This article explores the deeper causes of genocide in Rwanda.
Read "Rwanda" to learn more.
AIDS in Africa
Last updated Sunday, November 29, 2009.
AIDS in Africa is said to be killing more people than conflicts.
It causes social disruption as children become orphaned and it affects many already-struggling economies as workforces are reduced.
As an enormous continent, various regions are seeing different results as they attempt to tackle the problem. Numerous local, regional and global initiatives are slowly helping, despite significant obstacles (such as poverty, local social and cultural norms/taboos, concerns from drug companies about providing affordable medicines, and limited health resources of many countries that are now also caught up in the global financial crisis).
Read "AIDS in Africa" to learn more.
Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
Posted Saturday, September 27, 2014.
An overview of the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa that has been described by the World Health Organization as the largest, most severe and most complex outbreak in the history of the disease.
The epidemic began at the end of 2013, in Guinea. From there it spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal. Many of the affected countries face enormous challenges in stopping its spread and providing care for all patients.
Thousands of people have died and many are at risk as the fatality rate from this virus is very high. As the crisis worsens, as well as the enormous health challenges involved, the social and economic consequences may set these countries back, reversing some gains a number of these countries have made in recent years.
Read "Ebola Outbreak in West Africa" to learn more.
Africa Links for more information
Last updated Monday, May 05, 2008.
Read "Africa Links for more information" to learn more.
A Comparison With Kosovo
Last updated Monday, August 20, 2001.
The international media, NATO leaders and others were very vocal about the plight of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and insisted on a new humanitarian based model of military intervention. Because the western mainstream media had so much rhetoric about this new humanitarian nature of NATO, it is worth making some comparisons here to see if and how that has been applied to Africa.
Read "A Comparison With Kosovo" to learn more.
Read "Geopolitics" to learn more.


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Home Business 'Backlash against mega-mansions, not mega-prices', says Bloomberg
'Backlash against mega-mansions, not mega-prices', says Bloomberg
Celine Dion's Jupiter Island property sold for $28 million. Photo: The Pinnacle List
In an article about the wildest sales of real estate in 2017, Bloomberg reported a mix of record-breaking listings for the super-rich but sparse sales for "the merely wealthy".
"There was a backlash against mega-mansions but not mega-prices. It was a year in which billions changed hands, but very few records were set," the news agency said.
The most expensive 2017 sale, and which happened post-Irma, was the seven-acre Girasol estate in St Barts ($67 Million), complete with 175 yards of beachfront and two separate villas. "It's proof that the real estate industry in paradise is still booming, and it comes as a major relief to a lot of nervous second-home owners."
The second most expensive property sold last year, for $61 million, was a 5,000 sq ft Triplex Penthouse in Monte Carlo's Golden Square. The three-story penthouse, with six bedrooms and en-suites, and views of the Med, was one of several "$100 million-plus listings" in 2017 in Monaco – "the safe haven for the international super-rich and their money".
The third priciest property – which set an Australian national sales record – was the 1.7 acres Elaine Estate in Sydney, a 154-year-old waterfront mansion in the Point Piper complete with tennis courts, for a reported $54 million.
The other seven most highly-priced properties sold last year, according to Bloomberg, were in the US: a 5,300 sq ft penthouse at 15 Central Park West, New York ($50.55 million) and a Beverly Hills 13,860-square-foot house comprising six-bedrooms with a 22-person screening room ($45 million) rounded off the Top Five.
These were followed by a Billionaire's Row mansion in San Francisco ($35 million), a Santa Ynez Valley ranch ($34.25 million), a beachfront property in the Hamptons, ($31 million) and Sabine Farm in Greenwich, Connecticut ($25 million).
Celine Dion's 10,000 sq ft oceanfront "compound" in Jupiter Island, Florida – with 13 bedrooms, three pools, and a water slide, guest house, tennis house, beach house, and a pool house – sold for $28 million.
Demand for St Barts luxury property returns
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The re-developed Lansdowne includes more than 600 bike parking spaces across the site. The city's improved network of multi-use pathways and cycle lanes make this healthy travel choice safer and easier than ever. The city has identified a number of routes for cyclists of all levels to get to Lansdowne.
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This is what ibis about. you get touch of everything u need within your budget.Great for short stay. Staffs were really nice and ever smiling...They can communicate in English well enough to meet ur need. Location is good..just beside the highway and the river across the road..however, you will have to walk for 10-15 mins to find nearest restaurants/shops, though there is breakfast offered by ibis at ground floor...it is very near to the Iconic "NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL" & and many other cathedrals. You can just live ur days in quiet and amidst European heritage & natural beauty.
Nice clean and quiet and air-conditioned location close to old town. Parking was a bit expensive.
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Q: How to open the application from push notification without creating another instance of the app? In this question I asked how to open a fragment in my application from a push notification. I found the solution pretty easily, but now I'm faced with the problem that when I follow the push notification, another instance of the application is created.
I tried the suggestions given here, but adding noHistory="true" to the activity in the AndroidManifest file, caused the app to close when I didn't want it to close.
Following the steps below, I need all instances of the app to be closed at step 5. In fact, I need to not be creating a second instance of the app at step 4. How do I do this?

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*Open the app from applications menu -> see screen A.

*Navigate from screen A to screen B.

*Push notification arrives!

*Open notifications drawer, follow notification into the app, see screen C.

*Press the device's hardware back button until prompted to exit the application - say Yes!

*See screen B -> where you were when you opened the notification!

This shows that a second instance of the application is created when you follow the notification while being somewhere in the application.
Why?
And how do I kill the first instance of the application, or kill both instances of the application when prompted to close the application and saying Yes?
Or better yet, how do I NOT create two instances when following the notification into the app?

A: I maybe a little late, to avoid the creation of a new instance of your activity you can add a "launchMode" in the AndroidManifest like this:
<activity
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        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:launchMode="singleTop">
        <intent-filter>
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            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
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    </activity>

Went the notification is open the singleTop will bring the current instance of the activity instead of creating a new one.
See this link for more information about launchModes: http://www.intridea.com/blog/2011/6/16/android-understanding-activity-launchmode

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CARSTEN FOCK
8 June - 21 July 2007
We are pleased to announce Carsten Fock's exhibition "BLACK".
Compared to and against the backdrop of his previous shows at Jan Winkelmann / Berlin, the third exhibition of Carsten Fock could not be more radical. His current show consists of five monochrome, black felt-tipped pen drawings of equal size and format (172 cm x 137.5 cm / 68 x 54 inches).
Produced over the past years, the sporadically created large format monochromatic felt-tipped pen drawings stand alone as unusual and rather isolated objects within the oeuvre of the otherwise conceptually objective work of the artist. These pieces are a creation of the "in-between", a byproduct of what the artist calls a cathartic, meditative process of "voidance of images and figurative objectivity".
However, two aspects of Carsten Fock's work coalesce here in an as equally atypical as succinct mode: Painting and drawing conflate into a singular entity. The unification of the subjective gesture typical in the painterly work of the artist and the more controlled super-structuring of the pictorial layers of his drawings - a form of "architecture of topics" - become most trenchantly apparent in these panels.
The monochromatic surfaces consist of "modules" of bundled perpendicular lines which, in part, superimpose upon themselves and vary ever so slightly in size. The allure as well as the basis of the dissimilarities of the pieces lies in the contrast between the inherently mechanical appearance of the work and the control of the gesture. Although initially perceivable as monochromatic surfaces, in detail the works disclose - as in the rhythm of the lines - plenarily contradistinctive effects. Consequently, some pieces are somewhat more uniformly wrought and exude a rather gentle, almost delicate aura. Other pieces, on the other hand, are comprised of vigorous modules of extensive superimpositions and thus demonstrate stronger contrasts.
Ad Reinhardt's eschatological dogma "Painting is black" is exaggerated in a most acerbically effective approach. Whereas Reinhardt used the absence of light and the physical presence of the non-color black to lead to a visual neutral point, Fock's monochromatic drawings, in the variety of the detail, appear to be an attempt to surmount monochromatic painting.
Carsten Fock (born 1968) lives in Berlin. Works of the artist will be included in the following exhibitions: "Overtake: The Reinterpretation of Modern Art", Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork (4 July - 7 October 2007) und "Friends forever", Bonner Kunstverein (as of 24 October 2007).
Opening hours: Tue-Sat, 11 am - 6 pm
Summer Break: The gallery will be closed from 23 July until 25 August 2007.


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Congratulations to all YAGP participants. A special congratulations to Cameron Kesten and Delaney Hart who placed third in both of their classical divisions.
Academy of City Ballet of Houston is still taking registration until the end of January for the spring semester. It is not too late to register for pre-ballet, ballet, jazz, tap, modern, contemporary and Pilates classes. Recital is May 10th at the Stafford Center.
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