A group of new volunteers is starting this month and you would like to get them to help you increase the income of the organization. How to do that? They might not have any experience with the world of fundraising, and might have never heard of funding applications, donors' reports or fundraising campaigns.
However, if you have selected them and they have chosen you, they are surely interested and passionate about the work you do!
This post gives you 5 ideas to capitalize on the volunteers' passion and commitment in order to financially support your NGO. Remember that most volunteers strive to help and learn! With the right tools and guidance, they can make a huge difference to the work you do, and to your fundraising efforts.
This is for everyone working in or near any lively urban centre, where locals or tourists have enough spending power to participate in your events. If you work in an underprivileged context, just keep on reading: there is something for you just a few lines below!
Don't forget to make sure your volunteers understand two fundamental concepts: what the "ethos" of your organization is and how the local context works. And what's in for your volunteers? The chance to improve their organization and management skills, to begin with. And a lot of fun!
It takes all kinds to make a world! And every culture is beautiful and worth discovering. Wherever you work in the world, there will sure be handcrafts or products that people back home might be interested in buying. Or even better, your NGO might be involved with a social enterprise!
Volunteers are the best sales rep for the products of the region they discovered through their placement. They have an emotional bond to it, and they know it quite well. Let's get to work then, and start planning how you can do this. They could carry a few items back home and sell them within their social circle or local community. Profits will be donations that will go towards the work you do. Or you have anything else in mind?
Please check it is legal and safe for a volunteer to carry a certain amount/ number of items of the product back home!
Are there any successful businesses in the area you work in? Any successful restaurant, bar, shop, tourist agency? You don't need to be a huge organization to work out a win-win partnership with a local enterprise. So get your volunteers to work! Ask them to start networking with these local stakeholders, presenting the impact your work has on the local community and how much beneficial their help would be. A long-term partnership is what you are looking for: recurrent donations will make such a difference to your finances and to their public image.
And what if you work within an underprivileged context? Your volunteers can do this back home! Propose them to start networking with businesses that are somehow connected to what you do (but it can be anyone really). Ask them if they would be interested in sponsoring you by "dedicating" a dish, or a product, to your NGO. And then, a small percentage of the item's sale price will go towards your charity. It makes sense, doesn't it?
Good-will ambassadors are probably the best "marketing" tool for small organizations. And returning volunteers are definitely the best ambassadors you can find! Never let your volunteers go away and forget about you, after learning and experiencing so much with you.
Having ambassadors is key to finding new individual donors. It might also be a good way to get known within a university charity group, a school or another kind of community. Making a good impression on them might lead to the organization of a charity event for you, or a regular donation. You can never know what people can come up with, once they hear about the amazing work you do.
5- Get volunteers on a challenge!
Taking on a challenge for charity is rewarding and fun! In some countries, it is already common practice: you sign up to a marathon, a hike, or a competition and ask your friends and family to support your challenge by donating for a good cause. Admittedly, in other countries it might be a bit weird, and your friends might first reply: "What? Paying in order to see you sweat for 42 km?". But they will eventually get it!
Some of your volunteers might be really sporty, or adventurous, and they will happily do it! Sign them up for a competition once they are back home (you pay this time!) and help them run a campaign and set a up a crowdfunding page connected to your bank account. That's it!
And by the way, they can put this on the CV too! We promise it looks good.


It might be strange to think of failure as a good thing, but even the most successful people have probably failed at something at least once. Their secret? They learn from their mistakes. So when an interviewer asks you the "have you ever failed" interview question, see it as a great chance to turn failure into interview success!But first, before we look at the best ways to respond to one of the most frequently asked questions, let's take a look at why interviewers even ask it.
When I was in my in my last semester at grad school, I was busily interviewing for jobs at banks and investment banks. And I was trying my hardest to look "perfect", since I knew there were always people with higher grades and better connections.But I was also rather naive and inexperienced. And I knew almost nothing about job interviews! So when an SVP asked me "have you ever failed at anything?", I got nervous inside thinking about all the ways my answer might go wrong, so I just blurted out a simple "no" and looked the interviewer in the eyes, hoping to see approval.Instead, he turned to me and said "Too bad. You learn a lot from failure." And we talked about that for a while. I was lucky that he was feeling fatherly toward me – and he offered me some great advice about the value of failure … and the value of trying things that might fail.After a few more rounds of interviews I wound up getting the job offer anyway, but I always remembered what he said. He was right. How we handle failure can say a lot about who we are and how we will handle things that go wrong in a new job – and they will go wrong.
I think this question touches on our deepest insecurities. Just as I was trying to be so "perfect" in that interview, we worry that people will judge us if we even admit to having failed at something. And so we often try to cover up any mistakes or failures.But great scientists and leaders and people who have made real change happen, all had to take a chance at failing. And when they did fail, the thing that sets them apart from those that don't succeed or don't even try – is that they know deep inside that they will find a way.And so they pick themselves up, dust themselves off and continue forward, maybe looking for things to change or new allies to help – but with the very real belief that they will get there eventually. And many of us are afraid that even the smallest failure means we won't get there.
What employers are looking for is someone who knows that somehow, some way they will get there. And that they are resilient enough to handle any problems or obstacles when they do arise with a good sense of perspective, confidence, willingness to look at ways they can improve themselves or the situation, and then the flexibility to regroup and move forward again.To answer the question effectively, you want to go through your work history and come up with an example of something that went wrong or a mistake you made or a project that failed where you found a way to turn things around – or at least learned a lesson that you can show you later applied successfully.A strong story from your personal life or volunteering or even school would also be ok if you don't have anything else to offer (and if it doesn't don't reveal too much personal information), but a workplace story is the best.Just remember that the idea is to have something that isn't TOO bad that shows your resilience, determination, problem solving skills and a sense of someone they can trust to handle things even if things go wrong!Good luck!


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La théorie des mutations domaniales, en droit administratif français, expose que l'État peut, arbitrairement et sans indemnité, modifier l'affectation d'un bien appartenant au domaine public d'une autre personne morale de droit public.

Exposé de la théorie
En 1909, le Conseil d'État a indiqué que l'État pouvait de façon autoritaire, au nom de l'intérêt général, modifier l'affectation d'une dépendance appartenant au domaine public d'une collectivité territoriale. Cette conception a été désignée sous le nom de « théorie des mutations domaniales » par Marcel Waline qui en a contesté la validité.

Selon cette théorie, l'État n'a pas à indemniser la collectivité territoriale car il n'y a pas de transfert de propriété mais seulement un changement d'affectation, dans l'intérêt général. L'arrêt de 1909 estime que le domaine public est grevé d'une « servitude dans l'intérêt du public » et que la puissance publique est libre de décider de l'affectation de ce domaine. Seuls les dommages de travaux publics peuvent le cas échéant faire l'objet de compensations financières. Dans une République unitaire telle que la France, selon les tenants de cette théorie, l'intérêt de l'État doit primer sur celui des autres personnes publiques. Il s'agit d'un principe général du domaine public.

En 2004, le Conseil d'État (arrêt Commune de Proville) confirma le principe de la théorie domaniale tout en continuant à refuser toutes demandes d'indemnités par la collectivité lésée.

Depuis l'entrée en vigueur du Code général de la propriété des personnes publiques, l'article L. 2123-4 consacre cette théorie.

Doctrine et jurisprudence
Les juristes, depuis Hauriou qui parlait de « spoliation », ont souvent critiqué cette théorie en estimant qu'elle établissait une inégalité anormale entre l'État et les collectivités locales. Or le Conseil constitutionnel, dans une décision rendue le , estime que le droit de propriété affirmé avec force par la Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789 concerne « à titre égal la propriété de l'État et des autres personnes publiques ». D'autre part, la réforme constitutionnelle de 2003 a inscrit le rôle des collectivités territoriales dans la loi fondamentale. Enfin, l'État peut exercer ce droit par de simples décrets et sans concertation publique, même si le changement d'affectation a pour conséquence des travaux d'aménagements très importants.

Malgré ces considérations, le juge administratif continue à reconnaître la théorie des mutations domaniales. Elle fait toutefois l'objet d'applications assez rares.

Traduction et réaménagement de cette théorie dans le Code général de la propriété des personnes publiques
Le Code général de la propriété des personnes publiques, entré en vigueur le , a traduit par écrit cette théorie prétorienne. Son article L. 2123-4 dispose désormais : "Lorsqu'un motif d'intérêt général justifie de modifier l'affectation de dépendances du domaine public appartenant à une collectivité territoriale, un groupement de collectivités territoriales ou un établissement public, l'État peut, pour la durée correspondant à la nouvelle affectation, procéder à cette modification en l'absence d'accord de cette personne publique".

Du fait de l'affirmation progressive de la décentralisation et de la libre administration des collectivités territoriales, ainsi que des nombreuses critiques doctrinales susmentionnées, certaines garanties ont du être apportées. En premier lieu, l'article du Code général de la propriété des personnes publiques inscrit dans le droit positif le principe d'une indemnisation « à raison des dépenses ou de la privation de revenus qui peuvent en résulter pour la personne dessaisie ». Il s'agit formellement d'une remise en cause de l'un des éléments les plus contestés par la doctrine.

Contestation doctrinale contemporaine
La doctrine relève aujourd'hui principalement les doutes quant à la portée exacte de cette indemnisation. D'aucuns considèrent que l'objet même de l'indemnisation semble révéler une inconstitutionnalité : l'absence d'indemnisation automatique pour simple privation de jouissance reviendrait à "nier le principe de libre administration des collectivités en ignorant l'atteinte indirecte porté au droit de propriété par la seule privation de l'exercice du pouvoir d'affectation" . Aujourd'hui, ce n'est donc plus le principe des mutations domaniales qui fait l'objet de critiques : "ce sont les conséquences issues de cette modification forcée de l'affectation qui préjudicient le plus au principe de libre administration des collectivités".

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Hallucinating Superstars In The Coachella Valley: Ariel Pink Live
Tim Burrows , May 13th, 2011 08:20
As Ariel Pink hits the UK, Tim Burrows recalls his recent Coachella Festival performance and reveals that, while California went "meh", for the writer it was a revelation
In Indio in the Californian desert, I am jetlagged to the point of hallucination, freaked out by the shiny, happy hedge-fund hippies that surround me at the 2011 Coachella Festival. Musclemen and Daisy Dukes, who appear to me right now like body-fascistic proponents of the kind of psychotic power games dreamed up by Burroughs or Hunter S, so at home do they seem here in the green, palm-lined grounds of this exclusive polo club in the otherwise dusty Coachella Valley where the festival takes place each year.
As often is the case in America, though, I find it hard to fully see what is in front of me: jetlag depletes the senses and I wander around allowing sights and sounds to awaken memories formed from days and days of watching trashy TV, children's comedies and low-grade Hollywood movies during the holidays in the 90s, which all seemed to emanate, stylistically at least, from America's entertainment heart, the Golden State. Ciro, the kid receptionist at the shabby hotel that we stayed at near LAX airport the night before, had a bowl-and-sideburns haircut that I swear I had seen in an episode of Quantum Leap some years earlier; his not-quite-broken, squeaky speech took me back to a Simpsons episode I'd last seen 13 years ago. As a 1970s MOR station blared in the air conditioned hire car on the way to Indio next morning, all the Californian clichés had grabbed hold of me: the freeways that swooped through the sky like rare, focussed dreams on the way out of LA; the unending blue sky and heat, and the palm after palm after palm that flew by.
Last year I wrote a slightly ranty article for this site (file it under "Sure It's Skewed But Didn't It Get You Talking!") that bemoaned the export of recycled lo-fi sensibilities emanating out of California that had resulted in hypnagogic pop, glo-fi and the like seizing the global indie zeitgeist without breathing much life into it. I singled out the scene's apparent figurehead: "Ariel Pink enjoys a comparable position to the Velvet Underground in that he is, above all others, seen as the linchpin behind this disparate bedroom scene, but between the two there is a chasm in sentiment and quality. The Velvets used irony sparingly, as counterpoints to offset thrilling dirge, wild, cataclysmic noise and beauty. With Pink, it is laden so thick that these ears have trouble distinguishing it from parody."
Sometimes, though, you have to go to the source to fully understand something and, wiping chips off my shoulders as if they were blocks of dandruff, I wandered dazed yet purposefully into the tent for Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. Star and band stood against the bolt-upright palms and mandatory blue sky behind the stage like dark-yet-hilarious suppressed thoughts that had suddenly manifested themselves into shapes and sounds. Songs that seemed at first to struggle to assert themselves wriggled into your head; a bit like Beefheart-style jamming with 1970s and 80s rock and pop as its starting point and not the blues. Without noticing I'd found my way to the front. It was mesmerising – music that I'd neglected to give a chance through not opening up to it had bitten me. Elements of belligerence, of refusal, in a festival so commercial it felt like it was taking place in an iPad. I swear I was tearful.
Coming out of my trance, I realised that the vibe around the tent was not quite as chill as I suddenly was. California had made Pink and now you felt, while not rejecting him, it was doing even worse: it was meh-ing him. Irritable indifference was the feeling that hung around us, enmeshed with the fragrant hint of weed (which I thought might be the sole vice of these latte-sipping festival-goers until later at Magnetic Man, when I saw a topless and gurning giant of a man stare into the end of his own wiggling fingers: he was lost in his makeshift glow-gloves, the more he wiggled his pinkies, the more beautiful secrets he would receive from some distant, unspeakable source).
"I know you hate me," Pink, sensitive to crowd's antipathy, spat at them with a chew-wasp face. "We're not gonna play anymore. I'm sorry." He fled behind the stage, ran around, jumping up and down with his fists clenched; he smoked his cigarette so hard he nearly ate it. He came back, though, fizzing and wild with an aggression that shook his diminutive frame, a rare danger in this respectful indie-rock setting (but perhaps only to himself and his band).
He barely sang for the rest of the set, just held strained positions, joining in occasionally, and scowling at band members, stuck between affecting that he did not care in the face of the questioning eyes and ears in the audience, and the reality that he does care: he obviously cares about these songs and his woozy, reverb heavy approach which stem from an almost pathological artistic desire to keep on creating. He couldn't hide it, the same way the some members of the crowd couldn't hide the fact that they could take or leave him.
Retromania, published by Faber in June, sees inky legend and Pink-fan Simon Reynolds (a recent émigré to LA from New York) question his faith in his hero and hauntological music in general, in terms of advancing music: "what exactly is this music's contribution," he posits. "Isn't it sterile?" But is there any other choice within the enforced conditions of the internet, which in giving us everything at once has resulted in making us feel as if nothing will ever happen again? That's the topic of discussion in the writer's latest essay for the new issue of Wire, which acts as an accompaniment to Retromania. It problematises the current malaise, looking at its main cause, the rise of digital culture. "Fanatical identification with an artist, scene or youth tribe has given way to drifting eclecticism and 'partial allegiance'," says Reynolds.
As Haunted Graffiti stopped playing for the final time in a stunted yet thrilling performance, there were vague shouts of "Arsehole" and similar from those around me that had stayed until the end, while Pink scrambled around the stage floor to collect up his things. But as the crowd thinned, some rushed to the front, with one or two arms stretched out: perhaps grasping to touch this mirage of a superstar, a miniature hero alive and unwell in front of their eyes. This bedraggled person behind the name that has twinkled on thousands of computer screens around the world: is that what a star looks like?
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti play Koko tonight before a small UK tour. They play The Quietus Village Mentality Stage at Field Day on August 6th
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Substitute Al Capone for Mickey Cohen, and you have a gangster movie closely following The Untouchables' formula but devoid of that film's style and wit; an elite squad of police misfits are assembled to bring down a mob boss, and they aren't afraid to get their hands dirty.
Director Ruben Fleischer (whose Zombieland was a lot of fun, but it's difficult to see how anyone thought he'd bring out the best in this material) and writer Will Beall are no Brian De Palma and David Mamet, but I think they'd quite like to be. The Untouchables played on the clichés of the crime fiction and Mamet delivered an intentionally straightforward morality play; the flourish of De Palma's direction and Ennio Morricone's score transformed it into something indelible. The writer/director team of Gangster Squad simply delivers the B movie material in B movie fashion.
The production design and period trappings furnish the production with the kind of finesse you'd expect, but Fleischer's approach is resolutely cartoonish. This is one step up from Dick Tracy, rather than one step down from serious mob fare. As if to emphasise its true heritage, Sean Penn's Cohen is buried under ridiculous prosthetics; he looks nothing less than a supporting villain in Warren Beatty's take on the comic book detective. Sure, the director can handle an action sequence. But he has no take on the material other than to render it as blandly pulpy as possible. When Cohen informs a henchman "You know the drill", and seconds later the boss and a couple of goons make mince of his brains with an electric drill, it's clear that this film has few aspirations to intelligence or refinement.
Needless to say, the script plays fast and loose with the history of the case. Early on, it looks like it might have the balls to eke out a distinctive path as squad leader John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) takes an unwise brawn-before-brains approach and nearly gets the team killed. But, with only a couple of sequences illustrating their approach and almost no insight into Cohen and his activities (other than that he is nasty, has designs on expanding his empire, and has a squeeze – Emma Stone – who is also seeing squad member Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling)), it's set to end up shallow and dissatisfying. Lip service is paid to outsmarting Cohen, but the film is really only interested in over-the-top shootouts and car chases with tommy guns blazing. Such an approach could only take off if told with vibrancy, but what we get is so-so pastiche.
As such the cast is a waste; Brolin and Gosling give shading to the honourable cop and the jaded cop respectively. Brolin, at least, is something of a hardnosed variation on Costner's clean-cut Elliot Ness. Mireille Enos also provides a different take on the devoted wife; pregnant and reluctant to see her husband killed, she gives his list of squad candidates the once-over to ensure he has adequate protection. Stone has great chemistry with Gosling, but her role is entirely derivative. Penn is unimpressive; most likely the script is partly to blame, but he's your standard rent-a-thug. In The Untouchables, De Niro has considerably less screen time as Al Capone but the impact and economy of Mamet's writing ensures that his presence is felt throughout. Other members of the squad are given little chance to make an impression, with Beall hoping the audience will pick up on their "types" in the place of characterisations (Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribsi – not mugging frantically for a change -, Michael Pena and Robert Patrick). It's a predictable measure of Beall's indebtedness to The Untouchables that the brains and old-timer in the squad don't make it to the end credits; there is none of the pathos of the 1987 film, however.
The film required reshoots when a sequence in a movie theatre was cut following the Aurora shootings. It was replaced with the film's Chinatown sequence; the makers would have better spent their time attending to the telegraphed plotting and lack of intrigue, rather than adding more explosions and bullet-riddled bodies. It is a violent film, but one with little impact; you don't care much for the protagonists or their agenda and, by the time of the wearisomely inevitable fistfight announces the climax, Fleischer has completely lost any grip on the material.


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Maurice Camara
WordStream is a rare example of a company that truly stands by its core values. We love what we do, and it shows in our results. I personally get immense satisfaction from helping business owners properly track conversions. The camaraderie I share with my colleagues is one of the many reasons why I can't wait to get in the office, as well as the can-do attitude that fills the air.
My favorite icebreaker when I started at WordStream was showcasing card tricks I learned.
My favorite food is definitely Dibisogo. It's roasted meat seasoned with secret spices made in Mali, which is where I grew up. I could sell my soul for some. :-)


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World War One Memorial in Tübingen
These pictures were taken on July 10, 2005, in Tuebingen, a famous university town on the Neckar river in the southwest of Germany. The monument is located away from the city center, just south of the railroad tracks near the Finanzamt. To find it, walk through the tunnel under the railroad tracks about 200 meters east of the main train station.When you emerge from the tunnel, it is on your right.
The monument commemorates the 10 Wuerttemberg Infantry Regiment in the First World War. I assume that that unit is somehow associated with Tuebingen or perhaps with the south part of town where the monument is located.
The monument appears to be a product of the early 1920s, judging by the architecture and especially the writing, usually called "gothic" in English. It shows no evidence of having been "updated" in any way to include the Second World War. The monument doesn't list any names, but instead lists the locations where the unit fought. I will translate the words with the appropriate photo.
Although I have ridden my bicycle past this monument several times per week for several years, I have never seen a single person pay any attention to it. But it is reasonably well kept up and cared for.
Wide angle shot of the monument. The Finanzamt is in the background. The monument makes generous use of space, with room for small ceremonies or for people to sit or stand in contemplation.
The various battles in which the regiment fought are listed here. In 1914, the unit fought in the south, later it was moved north into Flanders.
The plaque reads, "To the memory of the 10th Wuerttemberg Infantry Regiment Nr. 180". The small plaque above shows the coat of arms for Wuerttemberg and reads, "Fearless and loyal". The cross on top seems almost an afterthought. Christian imagery certainly isn't central to the monument.
This plaque is over on the left, facing to the side. It reads,"141 officers and over 3000 other ranks fell for the Fatherland".
This picture was taken on 15 November, 2005. An acquaintance said that the wreath appeared on the 14th. It reads, "Universitätsstadt Tübingen". Since that is the official designation of the city, "University City Tübingen", it doesn't necessarily have anyhting to do with the university. These wreaths are routinely dropped at all the city's war memorials before the second Sunday after All Saints Day for the national day of mourning. They are not used by anybody at most of the sites, however. .
In the fall of 2007, the memorial was vandalized with these sprayings of ejaculating penises. A short time later, and after this photo was taken, the city cleaned it up, but as of late 2008, the desecration is still clearly visible.


Are you ready for your front door to be kicked in by a CDC swat team and your children to be held down at gunpoint while being injected with the latest experimental vaccines for anthrax, zika, ebola, HPV, measles, chicken pox, swine flu, influenza, and whatever else they think up this year? The National Meningitis Association (NMA) thinks if you don't get every vaccine in the book then you are a menace to society and an irresponsible parent who needs to be scared to death more often by extreme and isolated infectious disease tales.
When you and your children get molested by the Vaccine Antifa in your home, it won't be on the nightly news or in the newspapers, because the orders will come from the very top of the vaccine violence food chain, and we all know pharma controls the mass media. If you resist, the Vaccine Antifa, working in conjunction with Child Protective Services, will drag you from the scene, kicking and screaming, while doing the "noble" work they were set out to do – and that is raise the rates of autism, auto-immune disorders and cancer while boosting profits for the vaccine industry. You think we're joking? These freaks want to "educate" you by having an outbreak and then use fear tactics so you will support legislation for mandatory and forced vaccination nationwide.
The National Meningitis Association (NMA) convened in New York City this past May to "Advance Vaccine Impact" and spread their fake science propaganda through several industry shills and pharma "panel" mouthpieces, including their insidious leader and vaccine sales puppet Paul Offit. The gathering of shills was moderated by a huckster (Arthur Allen) from Politico, a fake news outfit known for being Nazi sympathizers and pushing their own brand of violence and journo-terrorism.
The ultimate goal of the panel gathering was to cast blame on "anti-vaxxers" for vaccine failures, and to cover up the plague of chemical violence that's been perpetrated on Americans from the carcinogenic ingredients in vaccines – namely mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, MSG and live "attenuated" virus combinations.
Fear sells, says the biggest vaccine industry shill of our time – the infamous maker of the most toxic vaccine ever known to mankind, Rotateq (which contains a deadly pig virus called circovirus) – Dr. Paul Offit. The only way to sell toxic vaccines to Americans who have been educated about the dangers of vaccines and the carcinogens they contain is to scare the living hell out of people using infectious disease propaganda, because science and reason are the vaccine industry's worst enemies. That's why over $3 billion has been paid out to vaccine-injured families from a hush fund the secretive vaccine court controls.
There's no need to bring baseball bats, shields and soda cans filled with cement to the Vaccine Antifa conference, because violence is perpetrated through a needle using chemicals and a silent, secretive agenda. Mad scientists and Frankenstein-style doctors like Paul Offit scurry around in their white lab coats mixing (and patenting) deadly pig viruses with mercury, formaldehyde and aluminum, figuring out new ways to medically abuse children and get paid millions for doing it.
So far, the history of vaccines is quite ugly, and these vaccine profiteers are doing their best to keep it all covered up, but they're losing that battle. Social media and independent truth journalism are their nemesis. From the faked science of the polio vaccine on down to the terror-vax swine flu injection, no vaccine has ever been proven completely safe or effective, and that's the cold hard truth no medical doctor wants revealed to the masses. Herd theory is a farce and the injected babies are the shedders. Do the research and make sure these pharma clowns don't scare you into injecting known neurotoxins into your babies. Next thing you know, the NMS will be doing live streaming conferences with the insidious mass murderer Dr. Farid Fata from his federal prison cell about the "safety and efficacy" of vaccines and chemotherapy.


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Savidge Reads Grills… Val McDermid
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting up with the lovely Val McDermid for a good long coffee and catch up thanks to the joys of twitter and knowing she was in the vicinity. I hadn't seen her since she came and talked at Bookmarked Literary Salon last year, so we had much to discuss. When I got back I suddenly thought 'hang on, didn't I do a Savidge Reads Grills… with Val?' It turned out I had last year when her latest novel 'The Retribution' came out and then very naughtily hadn't used it, probably because I had done an interview with her for We Love This Book. Well 'The Retribution' is out in paperback now, you can see my review here, and so I thought that I would post it today as it seemed timely.
For those crazy people who haven't read a Tony Hill novel yet, how would you describe the series of books he features in?
The Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novels are dark psychological thrillers that explore the extremes of what human beings are capable of doing to each other. Tony is a psychologist who profiles for the police, Carol is a senior detective. Tony explores crimes by worming his way into the head of the killer; Carol uses more traditional detective techniques. He is motivated by compassion and empathy, she is motivated by justice. And at the heart of the books is the relationship between them, a relationship that is complicated by the damage they have both sustained in the cases they have worked.
Do you think people can come into the series at any point, especially with 'The Retribution' which sees one of Tony Hill's old adversaries's returning to the scene?
Each book in the series can stand alone but if you start at the beginning and read them in order, it will be a richer and more complete experience.
Have you ever liked one of you criminal characters, you see I think Jacko Vance is a brilliant psychopath… though that might say more about me as a reader maybe?
I don't like them in the sense of wanting to go out for a beer with any of them. But I feel a sense of satisfaction when I think I've achieved a villain that feels like a three-dimensional character. Even if all three of those dimensions are pretty dark!
Each of your books is very different, be they in a series or a standalone, where do the ideas generate from? Does the murder come first or the story itself?
Occasionally it will be the murder, in the sense of a scenario for the crime or even an unusual method (such as the murder of the footballer in Beneath The Bleeding). But mostly it's a situation or an interesting piece of information that sets me off on the 'what if?' game. Sometimes it's an anecdote told by a friend, or a throwaway line in a radio programme or a magazine article. It could be anything, as long as it piques my interest.
And how do you know if the story is one for a series or one that needs to simply standalone?
I can tell from the shape of the story, pretty early on. Rule of thumb – if it's a serial killer, it's probably Tony & Carol. If not, it's going to need a whole new cast of characters.
Do you think Lindsey Gordon or Kate Brannigan will be coming back soon? Is there another series waiting in the wings?
I don't know. And I don't know. It depends what shouts loudest inside my head. I know the next two books will be a standalone followed by another Tony & Carol, and that's all I can say right now.
How did it feel when Wire in the Blood the series was made, is it hard to see your work adapted?
I was very well served by the adaptation. I thought we ended up with excellent TV that felt like it occupied the same fictional landscape as the books. Coastal Productions took an unusually collaborative approach in the development and making of the show, and that is a large part of the reason it ended up being something I was very comfortable with.
How relevant do you think book blogging is to the publishing industry? Do you ever pop and see what people have thought of your books or is it something you avoid at all costs?
It's a great way of getting the word out about books that excite and fulfill readers. There are so many books out there and relatively few are reviewed in the traditional media. There' s a huge range of bloggers but once you find a few who are in tune with your own tastes, it can be a fast track to finding new writers to enjoy. I have my own personal preferences, and yes, it's gratifying to read good things about my work.
When did you first know that you wanted to be a writer? Was it an easy thing for you to do?
I first knew I wanted to be a writer when reading the Chalet School books revealed that being a writer was a proper, paid job, not just something people did out of the goodness of their hearts! I came from a very non-traditional background for a writer – I grew up in a working class family in a mining community. But I was always encouraged to read, to educate myself and to work hard. All of which came in very handy. I had a couple of false starts in my creative writing career – including enough rejection letters to paper the bathroom — but once I began to write crime fiction, it all came together.
Is there anything you wish you hadn't written in a book?
Nothing I can think of except maybe one dedication! And no, I'm not going to tell you which one.
You have always loved crime fiction, what is it that you love so much about the genre?
I love that it gives me the opportunity to put characters under pressure and see what that makes them do. I love that moment of delight when I finally get the plot to make sense so that all the other elements of the book can fall into place. I love that there's room to write decent prose while still moving the story along. And I love that crime writers take their work but not themselves seriously.
Do you ever think a crime book will win the Booker Prize?
Why does it matter? Really, crime writers and readers need to stop being so chippy about this. We know the quality of the best of our genre. We don't need the imprimatur of the Booker or any other prize to justify ourselves.
Which books and authors inspired you to write?
Elinor M Brent Dyer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Norman MacCaig, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Sarah Paretsky. And many, many others.
Are there any books you wish you had written yourself?
Treasure Island.
Which contemporary authors do you turn to?
Margaret Atwood. Ali Smith. Reginald Hill. James Sallis. James Lee Burke. Kate Atkinson. Michael Robotham. Andrea Camilleri. And many, many others.
Describe your typical writing routine, do you have any writers quirks or any writing rituals?
I get out of bed, I shower, and I drink two cups of coffee. I eat bacon and beans and a portion of fruit. I go out to the office, turn on the music and start the writing day revising what I wrote the day before. That's pretty much it.
Which one book must all Savidge Readers run out and buy right now, which is your very favourite?
I don't have a favourite. I really don't.
What is next for Val McDermid?
A standalone called The Vanishing Point. Then another Tony & Carol. And maybe another radio drama serial, because I really enjoyed the one I did this spring.
A big thanks to Val for doing this. If you want to see any of the other previous Savidge Reads Grills then do pop and have a look. Reading this interview back and seeing Val last week has reminded me I must read 'Wire in the Blood' very soon. Which of Val's books have you read? Have you stuck with the series, the standalones or both?
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Ruthiella
My experience with Val McDermid has been hit and miss. I thought "A Place of Execution" was fantastic; I could not put it down. I then went on to read "Killing the Shadows" and "Grave Tattoo" and neither measured up to my expectations. I just got "The Mermaids Singing" from the library, however, and am looking forward to reading it soon.
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I must read Place of Execution I have heard its one of Val's best. I thought The Mermaids Singing was great, its the first in the Tony HIll series, I went from first to last and now want to work my way through all the inbetweens.
Had read most of Val's books then read Mermaids. After that one, I had to stop reading her. Too intensely gory for me. Wonderful writer, however!
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It's August here in America and school has started once again. Everyone has moved up and grade and is excited for the up-and-coming year.
What we might have forgotten is that a whole group of teens have just recently graduated and are in college. It is at this point we find out if their faith they professed in High School is real. For many, the mask comes off and we see the ugliness of sin that has always been there. How does this happen? How can a "good" kid go off to college and then leave the church and the faith? Why do so many students leave the church (and therefore Christianity) after High School?
This is an excellent question and one of which many a youth pastor and parent has had to wrestle with. I believe I answer is simple and biblical: the #1 reason why students leave the church and their confessed "faith" in Jesus is because they were never truly Christians.
They are now indwelt by the Holy Spirit (Rom 5:5;8:9) to be pleasing to God.
They possess every spiritual blessing from God in order to accomplish the work God has started in them, to which God will complete (Eph 1:3;2 Pet 1:3; Phil 1:6).
Unfortunately, there are a lot of counterfeit "Christians" whose bearing fruit is nothing more than a pretense, a performance. We can become experts at the routines, the lingo, and "acting Christian," while experiencing no real power and bearing no eternal fruit. Our hearts remain self-centered, angry, and joyless even while we go through the motions of serving God. When we love, desire, pursue, and fear the same things that the rest of the world does, we are not abiding in Christ, even though our lives may be full with church-related activity. And, often, we don't realize that we are living fruitless lives (1 John 2:15–17).
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A Darkness at Sethanon first edition cover.
Kinuko Y. Craft
The Riftwar Saga
1986 (Doubleday)
Print (hardback & paperback)
425 (first edition)
813/.54 19
LC Class
PS3556.E446 D3 1986
A Darkness at Sethanon is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist, the third and final book in The Riftwar Saga, the first series of novels in The Riftwar Cycle . It describes how Murmandamus, a new prince of the Dark Brotherhood, marshals the forces of the Moredhel and invades the kingdom, with the intent of finding the Lifestone, a powerful relic with which he will be able to destroy every living thing in the world, so as to resurrect the Valheru Lords of old. Only Pug and Tomas can stop this new evil, thereby ending the Riftwar.
Plot summary[edit]
Arutha, Prince of Krondor, uses an attempted assassination as a ruse to fake his own death so that he may travel north to confront Murmandamus. In his travels to the Northlands, Arutha finds his father's former enemy, Guy du Bas-Tyra, as the Protector of the city Armengar, the first location to be invaded by the dark army under Murmandamus. In an attempt to destroy a majority of the army, Guy orders the evacuation of the city, and ignites the naphtha mines below the city. Murmandamus escapes unscathed, and the army marches towards the border of the Kingdom of the Isles.
Meanwhile, Pug and Tomas begin searching the world, and eventually beyond, for the famed sorcerer Macros the Black, thought killed when he helped to destroy the rift (at the end of Magician). Macros reveals that he had put into motion a grand plot to instill Tomas with the powers of the Valheru, Ashen-Shugar, in order to turn the tides of the coming battle in their favour.
Murmandamus, having successfully overrun the border city of Highcastle, marches towards his final objective: the town of Sethanon, which lies above an ancient ruins containing an artifact of power known as the Lifestone.
Murmandamus lays siege to Sethanon, causing wholesale slaughter regardless of his own soldiers, in order to draw his necromantic power from their deaths. Steeped in power, he descends into the chamber of the Lifestone, and is confronted by Arutha, where they begin to duel. A rift begins to form within the chamber, held closed only by the magical efforts of Pug and Macros.
Arutha manages to kill Murmandamus, revealing his true form as a Pantathian impersonating a moredhel. With his death, the escaped magical energy causes the rift to open briefly, releasing a Valheru, and a life-stealing Dreadlord. Tomas, now fully embracing his Valheru heritage, battles his ancient kin, while his dragon mount fights the Dreadlord.
At the climax of the battle, Tomas stabs his sword through his enemy, and into the Lifestone, inadvertently releasing the spirits of all other Dragonlords. Their combined might, however, is no match for the Lifestone, the nexus of all life on Midkemia. They are drawn into the Lifestone and trapped for all eternity. The invasion is over.
Afterwards, Macros entrusts the guardianship of the world to Pug and Tomas, saying that his task to protect Midkemia is finished, and disappears.
Works by Raymond E. Feist
The Riftwar Cycle
The Empire Trilogy
Daughter of the Empire
Servant of the Empire
Mistress of the Empire
Legends of the Riftwar
Honoured Enemy
Murder in LaMut
Jimmy the Hand
The Riftwar Legacy
Krondor: The Betrayal
Krondor: The Assassins
Krondor: Tear of the Gods
Krondor's Sons
Prince of the Blood
The King's Buccaneer
The Serpentwar Saga
Shadow of a Dark Queen
Rise of a Merchant Prince
Rage of a Demon King
Shards of a Broken Crown
Conclave of Shadows
Talon of the Silver Hawk
King of Foxes
Exile's Return
The Darkwar Saga
Flight of the Nighthawks
Into a Dark Realm
Wrath of a Mad God
The Demonwar Saga
Rides a Dread Legion
At the Gates of Darkness
Chaoswar Saga
A Kingdom Besieged
A Crown Imperilled
Magician's End
The Wood Boy
Midkemia (Novindus)
Kelewan
The Kingdom of the Isles
The Empire of Great Kesh
The Kingdom of Roldem
The Kingdom of Queg
The Keshian Confederacy
Elvandar
Crydee
Pantathians
Tsurani
Faerie Tale
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1986 American novels
1986 fantasy novels
American fantasy novels
Books with cover art by Kinuko Y. Craft
Doubleday (publisher) books
Novels by Raymond E. Feist


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Q: $\int \tan(x)\operatorname{tanh}(x), \operatorname{dx}$ I was wondering if there existed a closed form for $$\int \tan(x)\operatorname{tanh}(x), \operatorname{dx}$$ I don't think this integral has a closed form, but could it be evaluated over some points $a$ and $b$?
Note that solving the integral above is the same as solving $$\int\frac{i (e^{-i x}-e^{i x}) (e^x-e^{-x})}{(e^{-i x}+e^{i x}) (e^{-x}+e^x)}\operatorname{dx}$$ which may be an easier task.

A: By using the formula http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/math/7/2/a/72a1058ad2087aec467af24bddcf9479.png, we have $\int\tan x\tanh x~dx=x\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty\sum\limits_{m=1}^{2^n-1}\dfrac{(-1)^{m+1}}{2^n}\tan\dfrac{mx}{2^n}\tanh\dfrac{mx}{2^n}+C$

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BRAVETTI L. & PRANZINI G.
L'evoluzione quaternaria della pianura di Grosseto: prima interpretazione dei dati di sottosuolo – Quaternary evolution of the Grosseto plain: preliminary interpretation of surface data
The sedimentary evolution during the Pleistocene/Holocene is schematically outlined using subsurface data collected for a hydrogeologic study. During the Upper Pleistocene fluvial and aeolian sediments were deposited, which now crop out in low terraces along the borders of the plain (gravel and sand: q), and in the southern-central part of the plain (gravelly alluvium: acg).During last glacial interval, when the sea level dropped about 100 metres below its present level, the Ombrone and Bruna rivers cut two valleys in the Pleistocene deposits, on the opposite sides of the plain. These valleys became inlets during the Versilian transgression and were later filled by the sediments supplied by the rivers. The filling of the inlets took place for the most part in historic times. Because the Ombrone River carries more solid material than the Bruna Rivers does, the southern inlet was filled more rapidly. During Roman times the north-western part of the plain was still a lagoon, and became a marsh during the Middle Ages (favoring the spread of malaria in the process) which would still be there if the land had not been reclaimed. The interpretation we are presenting is confirmed by the faunal analisysiof the samples recovered during the drilling of eight water wells. The data show that the recent sediments underlying the land fill were deposited under predominantly swampy and lagoonal conditions. Fluvial episodes, more frequent in the lower part of the sections, were probably due to cataglacial conditions. The sands of the coastal dunes, whose innermost ridge is related to a tombolo that is probably Etruscan in age, continue inland under the land fill for 2-3 km, and reach the thickness of 30 m. This indicates that the formation of a beach ridge certainly predates the cultivation of large areas in the Bruna and Ombrone drainage basins, that had formerly been woodlands. The deforestation of these areas resulted in increased land erosion and transportation of solid material in streams, mostly the Ombrone, which is responsible for the prograding of the beach ridges and the Ombrone delta into the sea.


George Springer delivered a go-ahead, two-out RBI single in the seventh inning and the Houston Astros survived a historic bout of wildness to defeat the Texas Rangers 4-3 on Saturday at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
Springer snapped a 3-all tie with his sinking line drive to left field off Rangers right-hander Jose Leclerc (1-2), scoring Max Stassi from second base. Texas left fielder Joey Gallo played the hit off the short hop, a prudent decision that prevented Tony Kemp from scoring behind Stassi.
The Astros (41-25) led 2-0 and 3-2 before surrendering each advantage. Right-hander Charlie Morton struggled mightily commanding his offerings, issuing season highs in walks (six) and hit batsmen (four) over 3 2/3 laborious innings. Morton allowed only one hit, but the constant traffic resulted in an abbreviated outing, with Morton departing after 87 pitches.
What proved pivotal for Texas was an inability to deliver with runners on base. The Rangers (27-40) went 1-for-17 with runners in scoring position and stranded 17 baserunners total. Such ineffective clutch hitting enabled Morton to leave with the score tied at 2-2 and Brad Peacock to allow three hits, one walk, and one hit batter over his 1 2/3 innings of relief, but surrender only one run — Ronald Guzman's single to plate Rougned Odor in the fifth.
With two runners on and one out in the ninth, pinch-hitter Adrian Beltre grounded into a 5-4-3 double play against Astros right-hander Hector Rondon, who recorded his second save.
The five hit batsmen by Astros pitchers set a club record. Despite that dubious distinction, Houston can complete a sweep of the four-game series with a victory on Sunday.
Texas left-hander Mike Minor worked six innings, overcoming a wobbly start. Two batters into the game Houston led 1-0 when Alex Bregman followed a Springer walk with a double to left. Yuli Gurriel, celebrating his 34th birthday, added a single that scored Bregman and upped the lead to 2-0. Stassi clubbed his sixth homer in the fifth to push the Astros back in front 3-2.
Minor allowed three runs on six hits and one walk with four strikeouts. Left-hander Tony Sipp (1-0) notched the win for the Astros with a scoreless inning of relief, including three strikeouts.


Partizan – Panathinaikos 63:56 before 22.567 fans!
The world basketball capital of Belgrade, Serbia became the proud owner on Thursday of the single-game record for attendance at an indoor basketball game in European club history! Officially, 22,567 fans packed Belgrade Arena for the Last 16, Week 5 game between hosts Partizan and Panathinaikos of Greece.
Say no more… Such a spectacle was not enough for hungry Partizan – no, they had to win too!
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G. Richard Mahland, 76, of Ridgefield, has Died: G. Richard Mahland, 76, of Ridgefield, passed away on Friday, April 19, 2019. He was the loving husband of Mrs. Michele (Wireback) Mahland. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Kane Funeral Home, Ridgefield.
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Q: MySQL: Order by time (MM:SS)? I'm currently storing various metadata about videos and one of those bits of data is the length of a video.
So if a video is 10 minutes 35 seconds long, it's saved as "10:35" in the database.
But what I'd like to do is retrieve a listing of videos by length (longest first, shortest last).
The problem I'm having is that if a video is "2:56", it's coming up as longest because the number 2 is more than the number 1 in.
So, how can I order data based on that length field so that "10:35" is recognized as being longer than "2:56" (as per my example)?

A: SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY str_to_date(meta_time,'%l:%i')
You can find the specific formatters on the MySQL Website.
For example:
%k -> Hour (0..23)
%l -> Hour (1..12)

A: The easiest choice is to store a integer (seconds) or a float (minutes) instead of a string.  So 10:35 would be 635 in seconds or 10.583 in minutes.  You can sort by these numerically very easily. And you can output them in the format you'd like with some simple math and string functions.

A: Some options:

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*Save it as an integer representing the total number of seconds. "10:35" => 635

*Save it as a timestamp object with no date component. "10:35" => MAKETIME(0, 10, 34)

*Save it with leading decimals or spaces. "2:25" => " 2:25"
My preference would be for the first option.

A: You could try to see if
ORDER BY TIME_TO_SEC(timefield)
would parse it correctly, however it is not an optimal approach to store time as strings in the database, and I suggest that you store them as TIME if you are able to. Then you can use standard formatting functions to present them as you like.

A: I had the same problem - storing videos length in database.
I solved it by using TIME mysql type - it solves all ordering and converting issues.


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Das Nasobēm (Nasobema lyricum), ein fiktives Tier, das auf seinen Nasen einherschreitet, ist der Titelheld eines Gedichtes seines Schöpfers Christian Morgenstern, erschienen in den Galgenliedern:

Das Nasobēm

Auf seinen Nasen schreitet
einher das Nasobēm,
von seinem Kind begleitet.
Es steht noch nicht im Brehm.

Es steht noch nicht im Meyer.
Und auch im Brockhaus nicht.
Es trat aus meiner Leyer zum ersten Mal ans Licht.

Auf seinen Nasen schreitet
(wie schon gesagt) seitdem,
von seinem Kind begleitet,
einher das Nasobēm.

Das Nasobēm ist ein klassisches Beispiel der Literaturwissenschaft dafür geworden, wie eine übermütige Idee eines Dichters zahlreiche Folgeschriften hervorgerufen hat, denn inzwischen steht es als fingierter Lexikonartikel auch in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon und im Brockhaus und natürlich auch in der Wikipedia.

Das Gedicht inspirierte auch den namhaften deutschen Zoologen Gerolf Steiner (unter dem Pseudonym Prof. Dr. Harald Stümpke) zum Buch Bau und Leben der Rhinogradentia, das seit 1957 in mehreren Nachdrucken im Gustav Fischer Verlag (jetzt Spektrum Akademischer Verlag) erschien. Die Nasobeme oder Nasenschreitlinge werden in Anatomie, Physiologie, Ethologie, Ökologie und Systematik ausführlich dargestellt.

Das imaginäre Tier wird folgendermaßen beschrieben:
Artname: Nasobema procedens Mor. (von Stümpke als Nasobēma lyricum Str. zu den Rhinogradentia gestellt). Kennzeichen: Die vierhöckrige Nase, auf der sich das braun bis goldbraune und scheue Tier sehr bequem fortbewegt, macht es unverkennbar. Augen: dunkel- bis nachtbraun, Ohren und Schwanz nach außen unsichtbar, Hinterläufe etwas stärker entwickelt. Höhe bis 80 cm (davon die Höcker rd. 20 %). Vorkommen: Mitteleuropa, auf dem Grunde des Luftmeers, vorwiegend auf Wiesen, Fluren, Triften. Sehr selten geworden (ausgestorben?); ein rezenter Nasobemschädel wurde 2005 an der mitteldeutschen Schleife im Rippach-Tal (nahe der BAB 9) freigepflügt. Das letzte Exemplar seines nächsten Verwandten, des Nasobema ferox L., wurde 1914 im Oberen Lötschtal gewildert. Paart sich ganzjährig, jedoch setzt die Hinde immer im März. Das Kalb steht nach einer Stunde und kann nach einer weiteren die Mutter begleiten, die es bis zur Geschlechtsreife führt. Dämmerungsaktiv. Nahrung sind zumeist Asphodelen, doch nimmt es auch junge Tatzelwürmer auf. Keine natürlichen Feinde.

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Environment for Beginners Air Pollution and Solutions Can a Pollution Permit and Carbon Credit Reduce Pollution?
Can a Pollution Permit and Carbon Credit Reduce Pollution?
The answer is yes, pollution permits and carbon credits can reduce pollution, even though the idea of distributing permission to pollute and carbon credit can be morally debatable. Let's explain this idea with one general principle: the Earth can tolerate a certain amount of pollution without being seriously harmed. After all, someone who has peed in a lake can't be blamed to contaminate the whole water with his small amount of urine.
Dilution works the same way with gas when carbon dioxide gets absorbed by trees and other vegetation. In the context of using polluting permits and carbon credits, we would give every company on the planet a right to issue a certain amount of carbon dioxide. The total amount distributed would be an amount tolerable for the planet to ensure dilution of the carbon dioxide and consequently, avoid drastic environmental issues such as global warming. Therefore, polluting permits and carbon credits can help in reducing the amount of pollution on the planet, because we would be able to measure and control carbon emission.
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Overwatch is the first first-person shooter developed by BLIZZARD Blizzard. It was launched globally on May 24, 2016 and made Netease as agent in mainland China. The game can be played in a variety of modes between the two fighting sides, covering all kinds of gameplay in the past FPS games. Unlike traditional FPS games, the heroes of "Watching Pioneer" are bound to weapons, and there are no AK47 and other common firearms. The roles are divided into assault type, defensive type, reload type and support type.
In the game, whenever the level is upgraded, you will get 1 supply box, including hero skin, character voice, funny paint, hero avatar, hero expression action… but it is also means that the later the level becomes slower. The speed will also slow down. If you think it is too slow, you can pay for it. The average game is about 10 minutes per game. Instant and play, fast match, suitable for team battles with friends.
Blizzard store's Overwatch: Legend Edition is officially on sale, including 5 epic skins and 5 legendary skin and hero skin, and presented to the player Heroes of the Storm Tracer Hero, World of Warcraft Baby Winston Pet, Diablo III Mercy's Wings, StarCraft II In-game Portraits and a Hearthstone Card Back.


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Thumbing through the proposed 2012 Federal budget I noticed $143 million earmarked for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership — a relatively unsung arm of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology. "M-E-P," as it's called, was created in 1988 to assist companies with fewer than 500 workers tap a nationwide network of public and private resources attuned to growth, cost cutting and innovation.
The results sound stunning. On average, Commerce claims, every dollar the federal government earmarks for MEP generates $32 in new sales growth – a 3,200 percent return, or $3.6 billion in new sales annually. What's more, a miniscule investment of $1,570 creates or retains a job.
Could it really be true, I wondered, that 45 bureaucrats on the federal payroll in Gaithersburg, Maryland, leveraging 1,400 experts nationwide, help thousands of companies generate returns that venture capitalists drool over?
Skeptical about self-serving government data, I checked out Delivering Measurable Results to Manufacturing Clients for more detail. That's where Commerce explains how it arrives at such a stunning claim. Short answer, it's what companies report so I'd expect that numbers were tweaked favorably but otherwise credible. Since 1996, MEP has asked client companies to quantify results of collaboration in a survey conducted by Turner Marketing Inc., an outside market research firm. Six months after local centers complete assignments, companies answer a dozen questions about resulting sales, investment and cost savings.
* Generating cost savings of over $1.3 billion.
* Do you need to identify ways to cut costs, increase productivity and improve quality through lean manufacturing?
* Do you want to grow your business, add sales, products and new markets and link up with technology resources?
At Ossagian Canoes in Lebanon, Missouri, the prohibitive cost of shipping finished aluminum canoes once ruled out exports. But as USA Today has reported, MEP opened a door to foreign partnerships. Ossagian linked up with a Danish manufacturer that assembles and sells the canoes in Europe, an arrangement that now rings up 15 percent of the canoe-maker's sales.
Under price pressure from global rivals, Accurate Screw Machine Products (ASM) in Fairfield, New Jersey has attributed $250,000 in cost savings and $500,000 in retained sales to NJMEP in 2010, allowing it to remain open with 90 employees. How? By educating frontline employees on the merits of a lean manufacturing operation with state money that MEP helped ASM obtain.
The list goes on, much but not all of it related to coping with overseas competition. All told since its launch, MEP has completed more than 430,000 engagements at small and mid-sized companies to make them more competitive. The service is not free, but leveraging government resources keeps costs low. The meter starts after an assessment of manufacturing and business operations shows that a project can yield benefits. Companies and local centers negotiate a price tag based on a company's means and expected benefits, usually somewhere between a couple of thousand dollars and $50,000, and more often at the lower end of the range. It's enough so that firms with skin in the game demand services they value and see them through to completion.
Not every outing chalks up stellar returns. But, according to the latest survey, two of every three MEP protégés would recommend MEP to other companies. If MEP is big government at work, maybe small business needs more of it.


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This is one of the first images produced by the talented Lauren Fowler as part of her illustration portfolio in 2008. The objects are all different things from vintage coffee sets, the fountain in De Waal Park to a Nokia 5110 and a crazy Babushka doll.
Drawn with fineliner and finished in Ad obe Photoshop.


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A Plateau de Beille egy síparadicsom a Pireneusokban. Ariège megyében, a Középső-Pireneusokban található. A sportközpont 1790 méter magasan található.

A síközpont Tarascon-sur-Ariège és Ax-les-Thermes között található, a spanyol határhoz közel.

A mászás
Les Cabannes-ból (535 méter) a Plateau de Beille-re (1790 méter) 15,8 kilométer hosszú úton, 1225 méter emelkedéssel (átlagosan 7,9%-os szintemelkedéssel) lehet felmászni. A maximum szintemelkedés 10,8%.

Tour de France
A Tour de France-on 4 alkalommal volt itt szakaszbefutó a Tour de France-on: 1998-ban, 2002-ben, 2004-ben és 2007-ben. Érdekesség, hogy aki ezt a szakaszt megnyerte, az nyerte a Tourt is. Marco Pantani (1998) Lance Armstrong (2002 & 2004), és Alberto Contador (2007).

Szakaszgyőztesek

‡: 1998-ban a befutó 1747 méteren volt, a többi alkalommal 1780 méteren.

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This three-day, hands-on training course provides delegates with the skills and knowledge that they will need to support and troubleshoot OS X El Capitan in the real-world.
Designed to cover every aspect of OS X 10.11 El Capitan, this course will begin by highlighting the functionality of Apple's client software, before revealing best practices when supporting users of OS X El Capitan.
Combining instructor-led lectures with hands-on case study exercises, this course will teach delegates everything they need to know about OS X El Capitan, before showing them the real-world tasks that they will be expected to perform while supporting users of the software.
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While not as popular as Windows client operating systems in enterprise environments, OS X is the software of choice for many start-up companies and those in creative industries. Moving away from the busy Windows marketplace and having the skills and knowledge to support OS X will allow delegates to carve out a position in a niche, but in-demand, area of IT.
This course includes an official exam, which will validate a candidate's ability to support and troubleshoot OS X El Capitan in a work environment.
What's the average UK salary for IT professionals working with OS X El Capitan?
What's included with this OS X Support Essentials training?
This three-day instructor-led course will allow delegates to get hands-on experience with OS X El Capitan, so that they are comfortable with the OS as normal users, they will then learn common faults and troubleshooting techniques, so that they are able to support end users in a business environment.
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As an essential briefing on supporting Mac OS X El Capitan, this course only requires delegates to have an understanding of, and previous experience of using, Mac OS X El Capitan.


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Consanguinity: A risk factor for adverse birth outcomes
Dr. Khalida Naz Memon and Prof. Aneela Atta Ur Rahman
Background & Objective: Marriages between close blood relations are extensively researched as being a risk factor for new borne but this aspect of research has not been done in our setup. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of consanguinity on birth come. Methods: A comparative cross sectional study was conducted on 356 new borne delivered in various hospitals by filling a pre designed questionnaire. Intra uterine deaths, premature births & low Apgar score at birth were the selected variables for the study. The results were compiled through bivariate & logistic regression analysis. Results: Among 203 new bornes of consanguineous parents, highest number was recorded for first cousins i.e. 99 (48.8%). In all, twenty four (6.7%) died intra utero, 38 (10.7%) were the premature, 64 (17.9%) had APGAR ≤ 6 at birth; five (1.4%) had no improvement at 5 minutes. Mean gestational age in consanguineous new borne was recorded as 38.15 ± 1.81 weeks as compared to 38.68 ± 1.11 weeks in non-consanguineous. Lowest gestational age at birth was observed among new bornes of uncle-niece relation i.e. 37.76 ± 2.02 weeks. Strong association was seen between consanguineous status & adverse birth outcome (p= 0.02); parental inbreeding revealed even more strong association (p=0.00). The odds of adverse birth oucome for consanguinity after incorporating other possible covariates, was 1.84 (95% CI= 1.56 - 8.905; p= 0.02). Interpretation & Conclusion: Parental consanguinity is a risk factor for undesired birth outcome; however more rigorous studies with a large sample size separately incorporating adverse effects will be more conclusive.


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Hubert Maria Otto Schniewind (* 14 de diciembre de 1887, Saarlouis - † 26 de marzo de 1964, Linz am Rhein) fue un marino alemán que llegó a almirante general en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y jefe de estado mayor del Mando de Guerra Naval.

Carrera militar
Schniewind ingresó el 3 de abril de 1907 en la Marina Imperial y sirvió durante la Primera Guerra Mundial como alférez de navío, y desde junio de 1917 como teniente de navío y comandante en varios torpederos. Durante el traslado de la flota alemana a Scapa Flow en 1919 fue jefe de la 7.ª flotilla de torpederos y tras el hundimiento de la flota fue hecho prisionero por los británicos. A su regreso pasó un tiempo sin trabajo y después realizó trabajos de liquidación de unidades militares hasta mediados de abril de 1920, siendo desde entonces hasta mediados de julio jefe de compañía en la 2.ª Brigada Naval del Freikorps.

Schniewind fue entonces admitido en la Reichsmarine en formación, asignándosele la unidad de instrucción de la 4.ª flotilla. Desde mediados de agosto a mediados de diciembre de 1920 fue ayuda de campo y al mismo tiempo comandante del dragaminas M 133. Tras formarse la Reichsmarine estuvo Schniewind en diversos destinos de estado mayor y entre 1925 y 1926 fue ayudante naval del ministro de Defensa Otto Geßler. Luego fue destinado al frente de la 4.ª semiflotilla de Torpederos y en 1932 nombrado comandante del crucero ligero Köln.

En 1934 Schniewind fue nombrado jefe de estado mayor del Mando de la Flota, donde permaneció hasta 1937, cuando ascendió a contraalmirante (1 de octubre) y fue nombrado jefe del Departamento de Defensa Naval (día 20). El 31 de octubre de 1938 fue destinado como jefe de estado mayor del Mando de Guerra Naval (Seekriegsleitung), donde fue nombrado el 1 de enero de 1940 vicealmirante y, el 1 de septiembre de 1940, almirante.

Tras morir el jefe de la Flota Günther Lütjens en el hundimiento del Bismarck, Schniewind fue nombrado su sucesor en junio de 1941. Desde marzo de 1943 fue además comandante supremo del Mando de Grupo Naval del Norte (ver la estructura de la Kriegsmarine). El 1 de marzo de 1944 ascendió a almirante general. El 30 de julio de 1944 fue relevado de su mando, sin que volviera a recibir nuevo destino hasta el final de la guerra. El 30 de abril de 1945 fue formalmente jubilado de la Armada.

Como jefe del Mando de Grupo Naval del Norte, Schniewind era también juez en los consejos de guerra en su ámbito. Desde ese cargo suspendió el 1 de junio de 1944 la sentencia emitida por un juez militar el 14 de marzo anterior contra el marinero Walter Gröger. A Schniewind le parecía suave una condena de ocho años de prisión mayor y pérdida de la honorabilidad militar por el delito de deserción consumada, y argumentó que "debía habérsele condenado a pena de muerte", refiriéndose a la directiva sobre desertores emitida por Hitler el 14 de abril de 1940 y a un decreto del comandante supremo de la Kriegsmarine (ObdM), Karl Dönitz, fechado el 27 de abril de 1943. La directiva de Hitler exigía la pena de muerte para deserciones en el extranjero o de reincidentes, pero reconocía circunstancias atenuantes, para las que bastaría la prisión mayor, como "la precipitación juvenil, malos tratos por parte de sus mandos, problemas familiares u otros motivos no deshonrosos". En cambio, el decreto de Dönitz pedía para todo desertor, al que calificaba de "fracasado y débil falto de fe", la pena de muerte. Como fiscal del nuevo proceso, Schniewind eligió al que luego sería presidente del gobierno del Estado de Baden-Würtemberg: Hans Filbinger, quien pidió la pena de muerte para Gröger. El defensor, Werner Schön pidió clemencia, asegurando que se había probado que no se trataba de una huida al extranjero, y acusó al juez y al fiscal de prevaricación, pues la pena máxima para el delito de "alejamiento indebido" del alojamiento de la tropa era de 10 años de privación de libertad. El juez naval Adolf Harms condenó a muerte a Gröger el 22 de enero de 1945. El 27 de febrero el Comando Supremo de la Armada (OKM) confirmó en Berlín la sentencia, rechazando la petición de indulto. El 16 de marzo el joven marinero fue ahorcado. Esta condena jugó un papel fundamental en 1978 en el Caso Filbinger, que concluyó con la dimisión de este como presidente del gobierno de su Estado.

Tras la capitulación, Schniewind fue juzgado por un tribunal militar de Estados Unidos en Núremberg en el Juicio del Alto Mando por su papel en la ocupación de Noruega (Operación Weserübung), pero en 1948 se le declaró inocente y el 30 de octubre de ese año quedó en libertad. Desde abril de 1949 hasta 1952 fue director del Naval Historical Team en Bremerhaven.

Condecoraciones
 Cruz de Hierro (1914) de 2.ª y 1.ª clase
 Cruz de Federico-Augusto de 2.ª y 1.ª clase el 14 de agosto de 1918
 Comandante de la Orden Sueca de la Espada de 2.ª clase el 30 de junio de 1936
 Gran Comandante de la Orden de la Corona de Italia el 23 de septiembre de 1938
 Orden Serbia de San Sava de 2.ª clase el 1 de junio de 1939
 Cruz Española del Mérito Naval con distintivo blanco el 21 de agosto de 1939
 Medalla en Recuerdo del Regreso a la Patria de la Región de Memell el 26 de octubre de 1939
 Broche para la Cruz de Hierro de 2.ª y 1.ª clase el 29 de septiembre de 1939
 Cruz de Caballero de la Cruz de Hierro el 21 de abril de 1940
 Insignia de Guerra de la Flota con brillantes el 30 de julio de 1944
 Orden del Santo Tesoro

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Dermot Bradley (Hrsg.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Deutschlands Admirale 1849–1945. Die militärischen Werdegänge der See-, Ingenieur-, Sanitäts-, Waffen- und Verwaltungsoffiziere im Admiralsrang. Tomo 3: P-Z. Editorial Biblio. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1499-3. Páginas 247-248.

Marinos de Alemania
Alemanes de la Primera Guerra Mundial
Alemanes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Grandes oficiales de la Orden de la Corona de Italia
Condecorados con la Cruz de Caballero de la Cruz de Hierro
Condecorados con la Cruz de Caballero de la Cruz de Hierro de la Kriegsmarine
Almirantes de la Kriegsmarine
Comandantes de la Orden de la Espada
Miembros de primera clase de la Orden del Sagrado Tesoro
Nacidos en Saarlouis
Personas de la Provincia del Rin