Achieved excellent results in selling line of ICs into Wireless, Networking, Video, and Power Management Led all regions in for number of new design wins on focus products MHz and 2. Direct and manage sales activities of two business development managers. Established and maintained relationships with key accounts 3M, ConAgra, General Mills , paper packaging converters and distributors. Call points include production, engineering, purchasing, marketing and plant management departments.
Surpassed Q1 sales forecast by 5. Created and implemented plan to increase customer loyalty in the Chicago market, reducing customer defections by 10, year over year. Developed a forecasting and budgeting system that enabled my territory to achive montly and quarterly quotas. Increased sales by creating numerous initiatives to highlight successes including monthly sales contests, monthly recognition, weekly sales calls and quarterly all-leadership meetings.
Showed positive return on key performance indicators, ensuring that we maintained the highest margins on our products while minimizing costs. Secured the largest Managed Services contract in area. The best approach is to focus on your skills instead. Extend your first paragraph, skills section, and education information to accommodate the gap left by a smaller or missing experience section.
If you do have any experiences to share, such as an internship, be sure to describe them thoroughly. Use our step-by-step resume builder and general manager resume sample to create your entry-level submission. Very few employers require resumes to be in a particular file format. Most of the time, you are free to use any of the standard formats. If the employer requests one of these file formats specifically, you can find out by checking the job description.
Now that you know how to write a resume for open General Manager positions, write a cover letter that will open doors with help from our General Manager cover letter sample. General Manager Resume Questions 1. What does a good general manager resume look like? How do you write an objective statement for a general manager resume?
How do you write the qualifications section of a general manager resume? How do you make a general manager resume for a first job? What format should your general manager resume be in? Experienced manager of teams of up to staff. Collaborative leader driven to develop high-performing teams. Hard working and resourceful with superb sales skills. A salesperson resume can range from entry-level to an experienced representative. A salesperson resume at the entry-level may deal primarily in canvassing areas for new prospects or shadowing experienced representatives as part of the learning experience.
The salesperson resume of an experienced representative would normally include experience with inside and outside sales. Some salesperson resumes may need to include specific training for more specialized kinds of sales positions. For example, the salesperson resume of an engineering sales professional would include an engineering degree pertinent to the kind of sales the professional engages in.
A salesperson resume with extensive experience in a variety of sales positions can often be a strength for the job hunter. Many companies hiring entry-level sales employees prefer to see salesperson resumes with a broad background in many different types of sales.
A salesperson resume with a defined career path in a particular field of sales can also be extremely helpful to experienced representatives. Salesperson Resume Salary Range According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, an experienced salesperson resume can elicit a median salary of 50, dollars per year.
A salesperson resume at the entry-level of the sales industry can earn in the area of 25, dollars per year, and a salesperson resume with many years of experience can earn in excess of , dollars per year. If you want to create an effective salesperson resume, then see the salesperson Resume Sample below.
The resources listed below will help you to write an effective salesperson resume and cover letter. Salesperson Resume Questions 1. What can you do to make your salesperson resume stand out? How many skills should you put on a salesperson resume? How do you highlight soft skills on a salesperson resume?
How can you highlight team experience on a salesperson resume? Should you include references on a salesperson resume?
Able to work independently and exceed sales goals consistently. Highlights Outgoing people person Customer service mindset Proficient salesperson Revenue generation ideas Marketing and merchandising Business development Key relationship management Exceptional networker and negotiator Consultative seller Discerning eye for detail Experience October to Current Williams Garden Center New Cityland, CA Salesperson Primarily sell lawn equipment such as riding lawn mowers.
Mission of barsauz.tk: The mission of barsauz.tk is to assist a job seeker with how to write a resume, distributing a resume, tips for interviewing, and numerous tools to get the perfect job. barsauz.tk was designed for everyone from the novice job hunter to the HR professional. Crafting a General Manager Sales resume that catches the attention of hiring managers is paramount to getting the job, and LiveCareer is here to help you stand out from the competition. View All Manager Resumes.


You will so be ready to flirt your way through the summer with our Something Tropical lip tint! Not only will your lips be silky and smooth from our all natural ingredients but they will also taste sweet and fruity while giving you a coral colored tint! If you're lucky enough to pack your bags for the beach, compared to the rest of us packing a nap sack for the pool, you won't want to forget to bring along your tropical lip tint!


As fans of the franchise might be aware, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call has been announced for the west and the game has just gotten its first E3 trailer.
The trailer boasts 221 songs from the Final Fantasy franchise, including songs from the Type-0 universe. There is also a new quest medley mode where your selected character will get to go on a mini adventure while clearing songs as part of the quest. This Theatrhythm sequel will also feature new characters such as Serah Farron from Final Fantasy XIII and Zack Fair from Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII.
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call will be out for the 3DS on 16th September in North America and on 19th September in Europe, and is available for pre-order on the Square Enix website now.


Cut grapefruit in half horizontally; with a sharp knife, cut around each section to loosen fruit. Place on a baking sheet.
Top each with 1/2 teaspoon butter. Combine the sugar substitute, brown sugar blend and cinnamon; sprinkle over grapefruit. Broil 4 in. from the heat for 5 minutes or until topping is bubbly. Serve immediately.
1 each: 62 calories, 2g fat (1g saturated fat), 5mg cholesterol, 20mg sodium, 11g carbohydrate (10g sugars, 1g fiber), 1g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 fruit, 1/2 fat.
Nice way to serve grapefruit in the winter.


text:
Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/e75e4305622a4f79a73674e258553110
Hakeem Butler
No. 23 Iowa State looks for 5th straight win vs Baylor
By The Associated PressNovember 8, 2018
Baylor (5-4, 3-3 Big 12) at No. 23 Iowa State (5-3, 4-2, No. 22 CFP), 3:30 EST (FS1).
Line: Iowa State by 14½
Series record: Baylor leads 9-7.
Iowa State still has a shot at the Big 12 title game, but it can't afford any more slipups after a 1-3 start. Baylor can become bowl eligible, which would be huge for a young roster coming off a 1-11 season.
KEY MATCHUP
Iowa State WR Hakeem Butler vs. Baylor's secondary. Butler leads the nation with 24 yards a catch, and he's scored five times in his last four games. Baylor, ranked 91st nationally in passing defense, will need to find a way to neutralize Butler if it hopes to spring the upset.
Baylor: QB Charlie Brewer. The sophomore starter came off the bench after dealing with concussion-like symptoms to lead last week's comeback over Oklahoma State. Brewer is completing 68 percent of his passes this season.
Iowa State: RB David Montgomery. Only nine teams in the country are allowing more yards per carry than the 5.5 Baylor gives up. Iowa State will likely hand it off to Montgomery, who has rushed for at least 100 yards in four of his last five games, as often as possible.
Baylor has blocked five kicks this season, the second most in America. ...Throw out the four non-offensive touchdowns Iowa State has allowed in conference play, and the Cyclones' defense is giving up just 19.3 points in league games. ...The Bears lead the Big 12 in time of possession average at 32:29. ...Iowa State has held half of its opponents below 300 yards of offense. ... Baylor LB Clay Johnston had 14 solo tackles in last week's 35-31 win over Oklahoma State. ... Iowa State has had 17 players pick up a tackle for a loss.
More AP college football: http://collegefootball.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP_Top25

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Corresponding to my piece on 11 tips for a healthy autumn, here's one of my favourite autumn recipes, using the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, and based on a recipe from my Chinese-malay mum! It's quick, easy, and most importantly, delicious. And it's vegan so everyone can enjoy this one!
Shiitake mushrooms (Lentinula edodes) were a favourite ingredient in my mum's Chinese cooking while I was growing up, and I still love them today. They're packed with flavour, have a great chewy texture and make an incredible meat alternative.
Their powerful immune-modulating and anti-tumour actions make them ideal as an adjunct therapy in cancer, for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Other medicinal mushrooms include maitake, reishi, and chaga. I often wonder how different our collective state of health would be if we routinely offered our kids traditional foods like these? I also chucked a little Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng) in for extra mum-staying power!


text:
Home / Entertainment / News Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read | Comment
Chinese Literature Experts Criticize Pop Music
Chinese literary experts are using Wednesday's International Children's Songs Day to air their considerable displeasure with modern pop culture. Fan Fajia, a children's literature expert with the Chinese Writers' Association, said more and more children had become attracted to what he described as "shallow and uninspiring pop music," lamenting the fact that few children were interested in the "simple and inspiring" children's songs of the past.
"More than 90 percent of the songs the kids hear every day are pop songs - children's songs are being squeezed out," Fan said, adding criticism on today's younger generation for "mocking some pop songs and ancient poems to create rhyming spoofs."
"Often, these self-created songs reflect their negative attitudes towards life and it is high time we influence children with good children's music," Fan explained.
Chinese children's songs experienced a boom in the 1950s and the 1960s, and they were often used to promote virtues like honesty and thriftiness.
The songs were aired through radio programs like the Little Trumpet, which was first aired in September 1956 on China National Radio. "These songs have had a lasting positive influence on some Chinese people," said Qian Wancheng, an expert in children's literature, "but children's music is losing ground to adult pop music."
It is not only children that appear disinterested in songs aimed specifically at a younger audience.
"Not many composers are writing songs for the children now because it is unprofitable compared with writing pop music," said Jin Bo, vice chairman of the Chinese music literature association.
"We need more composers to create inspiring music for our children," Jin said.
International Children's Songs Day was established in 1976 in an international poetry conference in Belgium, and approved by the UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999.
(Xinhua News Agency March 21, 2007)
- Cyber Songs Filled with Obscene Language
- Pop Songs Approved for Classes
- Celebrating the Festival of Children's Rhymes


Despite an industry lobbying for a relief of Business Rates, the UK government is clashing with retailer on another front, by introducing a digital tax on internet sales.
Chancellor Philip Hammond in his Budget speech last week, proposed retailers pay a digital levy, including e-commerce giants Amazon, in a bid to help revive the high street.
Amazon, for example, pays a slim fraction of the rates of high street-based groups. Amazon will see the total business rates bill for its nine main distribution centres in England and Wales cut by 148,000 pounds to 11.3 million pounds a year, despite posting annual sales in excess of 6 billion pounds.
But it is the small companies who will suffer the most. Entrepreneurs, emerging brands, new boutiques and online startups will have had to deal with the doubling of insurance premium tax, automatic pension enrolment, the extra cost of the living wage, the infrastructure levy, the revaluation of business rates and now the "making tax digital" plan, said the Daily Telegraph.
Other online groups, including Asos, AO and Shop Direct, which owns Very, have all seen bills drop by 2 per cent on their warehouses. The cut is paid for by increases in areas where property values have soared to keep the overall total the same.
According to Bloomberg, changes to the tax system could be introduced at the autumn budget, which will become the chancellor's main fiscal event of the year. The UK's outdated model of business rates taxomeans bricks and mortar business pay the majority, despite online sales accounting for over 12 percent of all retail sales in the U.K., the highest proportion globally, according to Mintel.


text:
REGISTER / MY ICM
ABOUT ICM
Special Sectional lectures
Keith Ball
Nikhil Bansal
Georges Gonthier
Peter Hintz
Gustav Holzegel
Bruce Kleiner
Yann LeCun
Marc Levine
Huijia (Rachel) Lin
Elchanan Mossel
Amit Sahai
Richard Schwartz
Joseph H. Silverman
Bernd Sturmfels
Eric Vanden-Eijnden
Melanie Matchett Wood
University of Warwick, UK
Survey lecture on convex analysis and its connections to other areas of mathematics
Jointly in sections 8, 10, 12, 13
Keith Ball is a professor at the University of Warwick. His interests are in high-dimensional and discrete geometry, information theory and (more recently) analytic number theory. He was scientific director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh from 2010 to 2014 and holds honorary professorships from the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University.
Towards the end of his tenure at ICMS he was chair of ERCOM, the umbrella organisation for European mathematics research centres.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was on the governing council of the Royal Society during 2018-2019.
Among other things his research demonstrated that the central limit theorem of probability is driven by an analogue of the second law of thermodynamics: namely, that entropy increases along the central limit process. He is also known for a popular book on mathematics entitled «Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits...»
Survey lecture on discrepancy theory and related algorithms
Jointly in sections 14, 16, 18
Nikhil Bansal is the Patrick C. Fischer professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He completed his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003 and has previously worked at IBM Research, TU Eindhoven and CWI Amsterdam. He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science with focus on the design and analysis of algorithms, discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization. Some of his notable works include understanding the algorithmic aspects of discrepancy and algorithms for the k-server problem.
Inria - Saclay Île de France, France
Lecture on the state of the art of computer‑assisted proofs
Sections: 1, 14
Georges Gonthier is a researcher at Inria — Saclay Île de France.
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Survey lecture on recent progress in general relativity
Joint lecture with Gustav Holzegel
Sections: 5, 10, 11
Peter Hintz is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zürich. His research focuses on partial differential equations arising in the theory of general relativity. In particular, he is known for his proof, joint with András Vasy, of the global nonlinear stability of rotating Kerr-de Sitter black holes. His awards include a Clay Research Fellowship and a Sloan Research Fellowship. His research has also been featured in popular science media including Quanta Magazine, Live Science, and New Scientist.
University of Münster, Germany
Joint lecture with Peter Hintz
Gustav Holzegel is a member of the Institute of Mathematics in Muenster (Germany), where he holds a Humboldt Professorship. He is also affiliated with
Imperial College London, where he has been a member of staff since 2012. Holzegel's main interests are the partial differential equations of general relativity.
He is mainly known for his work on black holes and spacetimes with a negative cosmological constant.
His notable distinctions include an ERC Consolidator Grant (2017) and the Whitehead Prize (2016).
NYU, USA
Developments in 3-d Ricci flow since Perelman
Sections: 5, 6, 8, 10
Bruce Kleiner is a Silver Professor of mathematics as well as the chair of the mathematics department at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. His interests include geometric analysis (especially geometric flows), analysis on metric spaces, and geometric group theory. He has given an invited sectional lecture at the 2006 ICM and invited plenary lectures at the annual meeting of the AMS and the International Congress of Mathematical Physics. He received the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing and has been a Clay Institute Scholar and a Sloan fellow.
Facebook AI Research and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA
Lecture on some of the mathematical questions raised by deep learning
Sections: 14, 17, 18
Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist at Facebook and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & the Center for Data Science.
He was the founding Director of Facebook AI Research and of the NYU Center for Data Science. He received an Engineering Diploma from ESIEE (Paris) and a PhD from Sorbonne Université.
After a postdoc in Toronto he joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1988, and AT&T Labs in 1996 as Head of Image Processing Research.
He joined NYU as a professor in 2003 and Facebook in 2013. His interests include AI machine learning, computer perception, robotics and computational neuroscience.
He is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Turing Award (with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio) for «conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing», a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
The University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Survey lecture on motivic cohomology
Sections: 2, 3, 4, 6
Marc Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan.
He is a Senior Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
He works in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology, specialising in motivic cohomology, algebraic K-theory, algebraic cobordism, motives and motivic homotopy theory, with an interest in applications to basic problems in algebraic geometry and arithmetics.
He is a member of the Leopoldina-German National Academy of Science and the Academia Europaea, and is a recipient of the Wolfgang Paul Award (2001) and the Senior Berwick Prize (2018). He also held a Humboldt Professorship at the University of Duisburg-Essen (2009-2014).
University of Washington, USA
Lecture on obfuscation schemes
Joint lecture with Amit Sahai
Sections: 1, 2, 14
Huijia (Rachel) Lin is an Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where she co-leads the Cryptography Lab. Before joining the University of Washington, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Earlier, she obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, and was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Department of Computer Science at Boston University.
Her research interests are in Cryptography, and broadly its interplay with theory of computer science and security. She is known for her works on program obfuscation, functional encryption, secure multiparty computation, non-malleability and concurrent security. She is a recipient of a US National Science Foundation CAREER award, a Hellman Fellowship, a JP Morgan Faculty award, and a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.
She has won a best paper award honorable mention at Eurocrypt 2016, a best paper award at Eurocrypt 2018, and a best paper award at STOC 2021. Her papers have been many times invited to special issues of journals for selected papers at cryptography and theory of computing conferences, and covered by media such as the Quanta Magazine and Forbes.
MIT, USA
Survey lecture on combinatorial statistics and its role in the sciences
Sections: 12, 13, 14, 18
Elchanan Mossel is a Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research spans a number of topics across probability, statistics, economics, computer science, and mathematical biology.
He is known for his work in discrete Fourier analysis and its applications to computational complexity and social choice theory and for his research of information flow in biological, economic, and inferential networks.
Mossel held a Sloan Fellowship. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, a Simons Fellow and a Vannevar Bush Fellow.
UCLA, USA
Joint lecture with Huijia (Rachel) Lin
Amit Sahai is a Fellow of the ACM (2018) and a Fellow of the IACR (2019). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2021), and Advisor to the Prison Mathematics Project. He is the incumbent of the Symantec Endowed Chair in Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2000. From 2000 to 2004, he was on the faculty at Princeton University; in 2004 he joined UCLA, where he currently holds the position of Professor of Computer Science. He serves as an editor of J. Cryptology (Springer-Nature). His research interests are in security and cryptography, and theoretical computer science more broadly. He is the co-inventor of Attribute-Based Encryption, Functional Encryption, and Indistinguishability Obfuscation. He has published more than 150 original technical research papers at venues such as the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), CRYPTO, and the Journal of the ACM. He has given a number of invited talks at institutions such as MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley, including the 2004 Distinguished Cryptographer Lecture Series at NTT Labs, Japan. Professor Sahai is the recipient of numerous honors; he was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow in 2002, received an Okawa Research Grant Award in 2007, a Xerox Foundation Faculty Award in 2010, a Google Faculty Research Award in 2010, a 2012 Pazy Memorial Award, a 2016 ACM CCS Test of Time Award, a 2019 AWS Machine Learning Research Award, and a 2020 IACR Test of Time Award (Eurocrypt). For his teaching, he was given the 2016 Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award from the Samueli School of Engineering at UCLA. His research has been covered by several news agencies including the BBC World Service, Quanta Magazine, Wired, and IEEE Spectrum.
Brown University, USA
Survey lecture on billiards
Richard Schwartz is the Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at Brown University. His research interests lie in geometry and dynamical systems, especially in the computer-assisted exploration of these topics. In particular, he is known for the proof of quasi-isometric rigidity of rank one lattices, the proof of the Goldman-Parker Conjecture about complex hyperbolic ideal triangle groups, the solution of the Moser-Neumann problem about unbounded orbits of outer billiards, and the solution of Thomson's 5-electron problem. He was an Invited Speaker at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians inBeijing, and has held Sloan, Guggenheim, Clay, and Simons Fellowships. Hisresearch has long been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
His other interests include computer programming, writing children's books, cycling, yoga, tennis, weight-lifting, and spending time with his family.
Google DeepMind, UK
Lecture on recent breakthroughs in reinforcement learning
Sections: 14, 17
David Silver is a distinguished research scientist at DeepMind and a professor at University College London.
David's work focuses on artificially intelligent agents based on reinforcement learning. David co-led the project that combined deep learning and reinforcement learning to play Atari games directly from pixels (Nature 2015).
He also led the AlphaGo project, culminating in the first program to defeat a top professional player in the full-size game of Go (Nature 2016), and the AlphaZero project, which learned by itself to defeat the world's strongest chess, shogi and Go programs (Nature 2017, Science 2018).
Most recently he co-led the AlphaStar project, which led to the world's first grandmaster level StarCraft player (Nature 2019).
His work has been recognised by the Marvin Minsky award, Mensa Foundation Prize, and Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal.
Survey lecture on arithmetic dynamics
Sections: 3, 9
Joseph H. Silverman is a Professor of Mathematics at Brown University.
His interests include elliptic curves, arithmetic geometry, arithmetic dynamics, and cryptography.
In particular, he is known for his numerous books on these subjects, and for being one of the founders of the field of arithmetic dynamics, a subject in which number theory and dynamical systems on algebraic varieties are intertwined. He is also a co-inventor, with Jeffrey Hoffstein and Jill Pipher, of NTRU, the first practical lattice-based public key cryptosystem.
He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a recipient of the AMS Steele prize.
MPI Leipzig/ UC Berkeley, Germany/ USA
Survey lecture on applied / computational algebra
Bernd Sturmfels is a leading experimentalist among mathematicians.
He is well-known for his contributions to computational algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, geometric combinatorics, and their applications, notably in statistics, optimization, and the lifesciences. He has authored 11 books and 270 research articles.
Sturmfels received doctoral degrees in 1987 from the University of Washingtonand the Technical University Darmstadt, and an honorary doctorate in 2015 from the Goethe University Frankfurt. He joined UC Berkeley in 1995, where he is a Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. In 2017 he moved to the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, where he is a director and the head of the Nonlinear Algebra department. He is also affiliated with the Technical University Berlin and Leipzig University. Hishonors include a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, a Humboldt Senior Research Prize, the SIAM von Neumann Lecturership, and the George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics. He is a fellow of AMS and SIAM,and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
Sturmfels is passionate about promoting outward-looking mathematics and the inclusion of talents from all backgrounds. Among his 60 doctoral students and countless postdocs, many are female. He firmly believes in excellence through diversity, and the axioms laid out by Federico Ardila.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences/NYU, USA
Lecture on the computational aspects of statistical mechanics
Eric Vanden-Eijnden is a Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,New York University. His research focuses on the mathematical and computational aspects of statistical mechanics, with applications to complex dynamical systems arising in molecular dynamics, materials science, atmosphere-ocean science, fluid dynamics, and neural networks. He is also interested in the mathematical foundations of machine learning (ML) and the applications of ML in scientific computing. He is known for the development and analysis of multiscale numerical methods for systems whose dynamics span a wide range of spatio-temporal scales. He is the winner of the Germund Dahlquist Prize and the J.D. Crawford Prize,and a recipient of the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship.
Harvard University, USA
Interactions between number theory and random structures
Melanie Matchett Wood is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University and a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Her work spans number theory, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, additive combinatorics, and probability. In particular,she studies the distribution of number fields and function fields and their fundamental structures, including class groups and the Galois groups of their maximal unramified extensions. In part to understand these distributions, she studies the probability theory of random abelian and non-abelian groups,which also has applications to other randomly arising groups, such as the Jacobians of random graphs and cokernels of random matrices.
She has received a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, the AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory,an American Institute of Mathematics Five-Year Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
© International congress of Mathematics, 2022
Tue Dec 28 2021 11:53:17 GMT+0300 (Moscow Standard Time)


text:
Scientists left stunned after melting gold at room temperature
by Colm Gorey
20 Nov 201816.48k Views
Image: © rcfotostock/Stock.adobe.com
Scientists were dumbfounded after finding it is possible to melt gold at room temperature using an electron microscope.
For thousands of years, famous scientists and alchemists attempted to find a way to turn common metals into gold. While this proved to be a thankless pursuit, a new discovery announced by a team from Chalmers University in Sweden has managed to find an altogether different and mysterious property of gold itself.
After placing a small piece of gold in an electron microscope, researcher Ludvig de Knoop ramped up the magnification to the maximum and increased the electric field step by step to see what would happen to the gold's atoms. To his amazement, he noticed that the surface layers of gold had actually melted at room temperature.
"I was really stunned by the discovery. This is an extraordinary phenomenon, and it gives us new, foundational knowledge of gold," De Knoop said.
Publishing his findings in Physical Review Materials along with his university colleagues and Finnish theoretician Mikael Juhani Kuisma, De Knoop explained that the melting occurred because the atoms became excited. Under the influence of the electric field, they suddenly lost their ordered structure and released almost all their connections to each other.
When they examined it further, they discovered it was also possible to switch between a solid and molten structure. The researchers have stressed this discovery to not just be spectacular, but also groundbreaking scientifically.
Using theoretical calculations, the researchers believe it is possible to melt gold at room temperature because the surface melting can be seen as a so-called low-dimensional phase transition.
Eva Olsson, professor of the Department of Physics at Chalmers University, said: "Because we can control and change the properties of the surface atom layers, it opens doors for different kinds of applications.
"For example, the technology could be used in different types of sensors, catalysts and transistors. There could also be opportunities for new concepts for contactless components."
Related: Chemistry, Sweden, materials science, research
Colm Gorey is a senior journalist with Siliconrepublic.com
Engineers forge 'exceptional' foam for large-scale carbon capture
9 Dec 2019730 Views
Secrets of ancient scrolls could be revealed by latest x-ray tech
Cellevate aims to reduce the cost of bringing new drugs to market
Researchers forge 'impossible' superconductor using 'forbidden' compound
Sustainably produced artificial leaf creates renewable fuels on a cloudy day
Eco-friendly battery closer to reality after aluminium breakthrough
30 Sep 20191.88k Views
More from Discovery


text:
Good Characters, Male Characters, Earth-Two Characters,
Bronze-Age Characters
Height 5'
Height 5' 10"
Robert Kanigher/Creator
Frank Thorne/Creator
Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)
Hawk Haukins (New Earth)
Hawk, Son of Tomahawk
Hawk Haukins
Son of Tomahawk
Tom Hawk (father) · Moon Fawn (mother) · Wise Owl (uncle) · Grey Elk (grandfather) · Small Eagle (brother)
Echo Valley, American midwest
Frontiersman
Privately educated
Earth-Two · New Earth
Robert Kanigher · Frank Thorne
Tomahawk #131
Hawk was born in the year 1800, the child of an Indian woman, Moon Fawn, and her husband, the famed frontiersman, Tom Hawk, aka, Tomahawk.[1] Hawk grew up in an isolated cabin with his parents in the midwestern town of Echo Valley.
Unlike his celebrated father, Hawk was contemptuous of violence, particularly as it related to racial relationships and brutality between Native American tribes and white men.
Tomahawk trained Hawk in all of the skills required to survive in the wilderness including, hunting, fishing and trapping. He also taught him how to handle himself in a fight. Although Hawk was more than capable of getting himself out of scrapes, it didn't prevent his father from lending him a hand on occasion.
Hawk carved out his own legend during the early years of the 19th century. He developed a close friendship with another young fighter known as Firehair.
By the 1870s, Hawk, well into senescence, was still engaging in various adventures across the Midwest and the Southwestern United States. Hawk and Firehair assisted several younger frontier fighters such as Jonah Hex, El Diablo, Bat Lash, Johnny Thunder, Madame .44 and Super-Chief against the villainy of Black Bison as well as that of his outcast, elderly uncle, Wise Owl. During this adventure, Hawk also had an encounter with the time-lost Earth elemental Alec Holland. The Swamp Thing's essence was temporarily bound to this time period until Hawk used the Claw of Aelkhünd (given to him years earlier by his father) to free him.
Following this affair, Hawk published his memoirs titled, Hawk, Son of Tomahawk. In the late 20th century, a copy of his book was discovered by Alec Holland's wife, Abigail.[2]
Claw of Aelkhünd: Hawk possessed the mystical Claw of Aelkhünd passed down to him by his father who acquired it shortly before Hawk was born. In 1872, he used the power of the Claw to free the Swamp Thing and send him back through the timestream.
Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-Two era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985–86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and no longer apply.
Swamp Thing (Volume 2) #86
Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol 1 10
17 Appearances of Hawk Haukins (New Earth)
1 Images featuring Hawk Haukins (New Earth)
1 Quotations by or about Hawk Haukins (New Earth)
Character Gallery: Hawk Haukins (New Earth)
Hawk, Son of Tomahawk at dccomics.com
Hawk, Son of Tomahawk at Wikipedia.org
Hawk, Son of Tomahawk at DCU Guide
↑ Swamp Thing (Volume 2) #86
Retrieved from "https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Hawk_Haukins_(New_Earth)?oldid=2255089"
Earth-Two Characters


If you seriously need to save money, you need to get frugal. This means cutting out all the luxury items and really knuckling down on your spending. Why not set yourself a challenge for just one month and see how much money you can save in 30 days?
It sounds obvious but the reality is that most people buy things they want, rather than actually needing. What are the bare basics that you can get by on each day, each week and each month? Sit down and figure out what are your needs versus your wants and set strict shopping lists that you stick to.
For non-negotiable items like groceries, make sure you set limits. While we all need to eat, are all the items in your trolley essentials? If you have a pre-paid mobile phone and/or broadband service, decide on how much you'll need for the month, then purchase this much in credit and don't recharge until next month (unless you're in an emergency situation). Also, identify if you can save on transport costs. Take public transport or car pool and walk or cycle where possible.
For most households, the main expenses are utility bills such as electricity, gas, telecommunications (phone and internet) and water. The easiest way to reduce your bills is to monitor and reduce how much you use these services. Are there ways you can reduce your energy and water consumption? Can you reduce the number of phone calls you make and use the internet less? To make an even bigger impact, can you start researching new utility suppliers and their rates and plans? Can you bundle services (such as your phone, mobile and internet) in order to reduce your bills?
Living frugally may not be a lot of fun, but it is very effective if you need to drastically cut your spending. Set yourself challenges for short periods of time and see what a difference it can make to your finances. For more great advice and tips on saving money and reducing debts, consult Fox Symes.
Is A Debt Consolidation Loan For You?
5 Simple Steps to Paying off Credit Card Debt FAST!
Which debt solutions seem the most attractive to you?


My name is Kathy Ellis, CPDT and I am a graduate of Animal Behavior College where I earned my certification as an ABC Certified Dog Trainer. Animal Behavior College (ABC) is approved by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education and is an internationally recognized school. My year long commitment to this program has provided me with a formal education in canine obedience training and understanding behavior and its motives. My certification, education and experience provide me the skills required to effectively and humanely train your dog while keeping alive the spark that makes your dog so special to you. I am also ACE Shelter and Rescue Care certified. And have recently become an AKC APPROVED CGC EVALUATOR.
Much thanks to teacher, Becky Winslow, her class and the Mentors at Cross Creek High School. They have taken their prevocational instruction time to prepare doggie treat bags and information pamplet bags for my dog obedience classes. They did a wonderful job and were a big help to me!
Serving Augusta, North Augusta, Evans and the CSRA.
Kathy did a great job helping us train our rescue puppy. She followed up each session with detailed notes and suggestions. Above all she was very patient with our puppy and us.
Kathy has helped me brainstorm ways to address Hannah and Jolene's unruliness! She has helped me learn that it is my consistency that is ultimately going to change my girls' behavior! That means restricting access, setting up structure, and reinforcing appropriate behaviors. Things get better everyday!!
So Lil Wheezie graduated today from Good Dog Paws-itive Training with Kat Ellis. I still have a lot of work to do with Wheezie at home but Kat Ellis has put us on the right track! Thank you Kathy for your patience with Wheezie and your awesome insight. Peanut is coming to see you next!
Thank you for saving Zena, my beautiful Anatolian Shepherd.
Zena quickly outgrew my limited training ability. It had become dangerous for me to work with her. At 6 months she was approaching 70 pounds of raw power. She is also very intelligent, stubborn, and full of puppy play. She was jumping on me and mouthing/biting to the point that my family was concerned for my safety. She was also ignoring commands that she knew. Zena is a livestock guardian but she was chasing the chickens and goats. Kathy saved my beautiful Zena. She arrived with a knowledge of the breed as well as many ideas, skills, and training methods. She observed me with Zena before she designed a training plan specifically for Zena. At 11 months Zena is well on her way to reaching her potential. I am not fearful of her. She is enjoying her work and I enjoy working with her as well as her companionship. Kathy gave me the skills and confidence to continue working and training Zena.
Working on "place"....Progress after day two is very encouraging.
Kathy has given me the confidence to continue with Levi's training and help him develop into best dog possible.


text:
Talk:How do you type with boxing gloves on?
How do you type with boxing gloves on? is a featured article, which means it showcases an important part of the Homestar Runner body of work and/or highlights the fine work of this wiki. We also might just think it's cool. If you see a way this page can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, feel free to contribute.
As I understand it, Strong Bad does not type with boxing gloves on his hands, his hands are boxing gloves the same way Homestar, Marzipan, Homsar, and the King of Town don't have arms. -- The Real Zajac 20:20, 4 Jan 2005 (PST)
1 It all becomes clear...
3 Theories
4 Caps in Title
5 How he types W.B.G.O
6 Featured
8 Homestar Quiz
9 The Cheat
10 PennRadio Homestar (Strongbad) fan
11 Renamage
12 Pom Pom
13 Unnecessary Passage
14 Dangeresque 3
15 new hands
16 It's so obvious
[edit] It all becomes clear...
It all becomes crystal clear after watching SBEmail 37, Dullard. Go on, watch it.
Stinkoman's question would probably be "How do you type with fighting gloves on?' right?
I think it would be more like, "How do you type with shiny red balls on your hands?" -- Super Sam 09:48, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)
More like "What's that? What's THAAAAT??? Some kind of special powers? Or maybe a challenge!?" :) — KieferSkunk (talk) — 23:15, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Probably resulting in *ahem* DOUBLE DELETED! User:FalconPuncher
[edit] Title
Is there any way to shorten this? It is a pretty awkward title. Rogue Leader / (my talk) 01:54, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
It's not that bad. Before shortening, Count Longardeaux's Book was way longer. It took up two lines. I like it the way it is, but I will present a suggestion anyway: Typing with Boxing Gloves. --DorianGray
Aw, this is an awesome title! If you need to shorten it in an article, you can always use a piped link. But this really isn't something that gets linked to every day. For an absurdly long title, see this page. — It's dot com 02:03, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Holy crap. Nevermind. Just never let us get a title that long. Rogue Leader / (my talk) 15:10, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
I know this discussion was over a month ago, but I say that I like this title. — talk Bubsty edits 02:06, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
[[The Special Powers that Allow Strong Bad To Type With Boxing Gloves On, Perform the Double Deuce, and Become Invisible, as Well as With Other Characters That Do Not Appear To Have Visible Arms. But Don't Let That From Organizing Your Own!]] — KieferSkunk (talk) — 23:19, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Theories
I think Strong Bad has Technokinesis or short range Telekinesis. - BlackWidower 22:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
no, he probly has one of those thigs that allows u to type by talking into it, which would also explain how the text changes when he changes tone, something about that was in one of the commentaries, cant remember which one it was
Or maybe it is just some running gag in a dumb kid show about dumb animal characters. Geez, not even I am this worked up over stuff like that.
Or maybe this conversation is over 3 years old and you ARE getting worked up about it... — Defender1031*Talk 22:46, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
The main problem with the talking theory is that in pom pom, he talked clear English and random letters still appeared on the screen. I think he just types normally. I mean, try typing with oven mitts or boxing gloves. I bet you can type normally. User:doctorwho295 7 March 2010
[edit] Caps in Title
Do we really need to capitalize every word in this title? How about only the first word, ala What are you supposed to be? — Has Matt? (talk) 03:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] How he types W.B.G.O
I think I know how he types With boxing gloves on. When he goes to his compy/lappy/tandy he takes them off and keeps them on top of his hands with the string. He probably also puts his fingers right on the keys so nobody sees his fingers. Tampo (T/C) 23:54, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
But boxing gloves are his hands... — Elcool (talk)(contribs) 07:56, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Featured
Shouldn't the {{featuredarticle}} be on this article?--H*Bad 19:47, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] SMS
Would it be appros to add the reference in the end of virus where he mimicks "How do you text with boxing gloves on?"? MetaStar 02:40, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Sure, why not? We list every other specific appearance. =3 --DorianGray
[edit] Homestar Quiz
In the Homestar Quiz, Strong Bad shows his real hands. Shouldn't that be in this article, too? (just thought I'd ask first, before adding it myself) kartoffel (D.C.) 19:01, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Those are oven mitts. -- Tom 19:03, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Cheat
Doesn't The Cheat type with, uh.... flippers? SaltyTalk! 18:17, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
pws, you mean... paws, bubs has fliiper arms
[edit] PennRadio Homestar (Strongbad) fan
Just wanted to mention that someone called up PennRadio (www.pennradio.com), a nationally broadcasted radio station hosted by Penn from Penn and Teller, and asked the question today "How do you type with boxing gloves on your hands".
When the show shows up on their website for download, I'll add the link here. But the broadcast date for it was "November 3rd, 2006".
Radio Sightings would be the place for this... --phlip TC 01:06, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Renamage
Per Talk:Painting_of_a_Guy_with_a_Big_Knife#Capitalization I would like to suggest that this page be moved to How do you type with boxing gloves on?. However, a redirect already exists in that page and since I'm not an admin, I cannot move this page into the redirect (with a rather colorful, history ); how is it that a troll noticed something we hadn't!? Anyway, I digress, as usual. I'm not sure if the capitalization issue has been completely settled, but I think there is enough agreement for this one to go ahead. Questions? Comments? Free Samples? --Stux 18:34, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm in agreement with all lowercase, aka How do you type with boxing gloves on?. Dr. Clash 21:33, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I was the one who suggested that like a friggin' year ago... but whatever, I'm still all for it. — Has Matt? (talk) 23:42, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I just found this suggestion a minute ago. Is it too late to say I agree? Homestar-Winner (talk) 01:42, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Not at all — this was a great forgotten suggestion, so I went ahead and moved the article. Trey56 02:37, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pom Pom
Would this be the right article to mention that in pom pom he couldn't type blindfolded? --Philip8o
[edit] Unnecessary Passage
I don't think the examples of him typing with one hand are especially relevant- I'm doing so now; and there's even a special Dvorak format for it. Would anyone mind if I snipped them? — 97.118.118.225 (Talk | contribs) 00:55, April 23, 2009 (left unsigned)
Yes, I would mind. — MichaelXX2 06:04, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
I'd say that this post by the anonymous user requires more than just a terse one-line response. An explanation as to why it belongs there or not is in order. So, Michael, why do you think the information should stay? To be clear: I'm not taking sides. I'm just establishing a discussion. --Stux 06:14, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Dangeresque 3
Where's the refrence in Dangeresque 3: TCP from? User:FalconPuncher
[edit] new hands
Does new hands count as a variation? After all, that e-mail is about about his hands/gloves.
It would count if his typing was mentioned at all. But alas, it was not. StrongAwesome 03:18, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
[edit] It's so obvious
Haven't you seen all the evidence!?!? He clearly types with a combination of his thumbs and lightly tapping the keys with the top part. I rest my case. --Lumpster702 02:06, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Retrieved from "http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Talk:How_do_you_type_with_boxing_gloves_on%3F"
Category: Featured articles
This page was last modified on 18 April 2015, at 02:07.


text:
Czech Republic chooses a populist party founded by a media mogul
Andrej Babis, the prime minister of the Czech Republic, is called the "Czech Trump" by some because of his populist views and business empire, according to CNN. Photo courtesy of CNN.
By Charlotte Stone
December 3, 2017 | 11:49pm EST
On Oct. 20, an anti-establishment political party founded by a media mogul won the general election in the Czech Republic.
ANO, which is an acronym for the Czech name "Action of Dissatisfied Citizens" and translates to the word "yes" in Czech, won 30 percent of the vote and beat the Social Democrats, the Czech Republic's longstanding party up until this point.
Andrej Babiš, the founder of the party, and therefore the Prime Minister designate, is a tough-talking tycoon who promised to run the Czech Republic like a business. His party proposes a cleanout of the government — a removal of all the supposedly corrupt political and elite figures who have been running the country.
Although Babiš' supporters celebrate this supposed win against corruption and the establishment, many Czech citizens are concerned that Babiš, a billionaire who had been investigated on corruption charges and tax crimes himself, will send the Czech Republic in the opposite direction from what he promises.
"This man, who came to his wealth because of corruption, builds his campaign on a slogan 'Down with the Corruption,' represents everything his supporters do not like about 'the system,' but they trust him anyway," Michal Plzák, a history professor at The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute, said.
Because Babiš embodies the character he seems to declare has no place in politics, some believe that his political aspirations come strictly from a place of desire for power, rather than an intent to truly help the country.
"He is using the country to enrich himself more and more," Lukáš Vopršal, a senior at Charles University in Prague, said. "He found success everywhere and now he's thinking, 'okay what can I do now to get more power.'" Vopršal voted against Babiš in the election.
Though Babiš claims to be anti-establishment and anti-corruption, the rest of his policies seem unclear. He has found political success by making broad and vague claims — his campaign slogan for ANO was "Things Will Get Better." What is obvious, however, is that anyone who disagrees with Babiš is not welcome.
"ANO — it is not a party – it is a one-man movement," Plzák said. "All of Babiš' members are just his puppets – those few, who expressed a difference in opinion, are no longer there."
Babiš also uses fear as a tactic to gain supporters. He is vehemently against the acceptance of refugees within the Czech Republic, particularly Muslims. With these anti-immigrant policies, as well as the billionaire's blunt and outspoken nature, many people have made comparisons between him and U.S. President Trump.
"He declares himself a populist that has a 'traditional' ideology like Trump — slogans that appeal to the emotions of an angry crowd, vague promises that seem easy to break, and good marketing," Plzák said. "Babiš is very similar to Trump."
Furthermore, some citizens are concerned that Babiš owns multiple newspapers in the Czech Republic.
Enjoy what you're reading?
"As a journalism student, I am concerned about the freedom of the press," Vopršal said. "It's unfair that he can control a part of the media to make sure it represents him in a flattering way. People in politics or connected in government should not own media at all."
Plzák also used to write for Lidové noviny, one of the newspapers Babiš controls, from time to time, he said.
"But last week I refused to go on. It is no longer an option for me," Plzák said.
Though Babiš still has many supporters — mostly frustrated citizens from a lower socio-economic class who feel ignored by the current government — many are also deeply concerned for the future of their country.
"Because of his lack of democratic orientation, wisdom and principles, people like Babiš should not have any position in politics," Plzák said. "The state is just a laboratory for his power experiment and he is obviously ready to play with fire, foolishly thinking it is just a game."
Contributor Charlotte Stone is currently studying abroad in Prague, Czech Republic. Contact Charlotte at charlotte.stone@richmond.edu.
Support independent student media
You can make a tax-deductible donation by clicking the button below, which takes you to our secure PayPal account. The page is set up to receive contributions in whatever amount you designate. We look forward to using the money we raise to further our mission of providing honest and accurate information to students, faculty, staff, alumni and others in the general public.
By Mary Margaret Clouse | Yesterday
By Sophia Demerath | Yesterday
Career night for Doogan propels Spiders over Saint Joseph's
By Jimmy James | Yesterday


Carbon competition racket with ITTF approved 4 You rubber sheets.
The Carbon Pro is a competition-level racket that combines a carbon-infused blade with professional quality 1.9 mm JOOLA 4 YOU rubbers on both sides. This racket blurs the line between recreational and professional and is best known for its use of the new JOOLA Carbowood Technology, which provides a larger sweet spot and decreased vibration, resulting in better stroke accuracy.
CARBOWOOD: Carbon fibre replacement. Larger sweet spot, less vibration, more stroke accuracy.
Nothing special, but really good for a premade racket. Good for beginners. Has average speed and good control. The Rubber is definitely non tacky, making a bit hard to make loops and spins. After a while I have changed rubber to a cheap chinese rubber (Reactor Conor), then I have discovered a new racket, much better to help me to improve my strokes.


Why study Law at Católica Porto?
Created in 1978, the undergraduate Law course was the first one to be offered in Porto. It gradually gained national and international prestige, not only because of its teachers and students but also for its initiatives and excellent facilities.
Today, the Law graduation course has a wide base, and it allows the students to diverge into several different professional careers.
At the same time, the creation of distinct divisions towards the end of the course guides the student into various specialized branches of judicial science. The course itself motivates the student to learn how to think well, creating true judicial minds and not just technical interpreters limited to a rigid knowledge of the law.
The objective for the Católica Porto Law School is, in fact, to synthesize fundamental theory and a practical application of the law.
Tradition and Modernity - True to its tradition of rigour and excellence, the Católica Porto Law School is strongly committed with innovation and modernity.
Teachers - Over more than thirty years, we have been forming a strong body of teachers, internationally trained in prestigious universities across Europe and North America.
Transversal Education - Taking advantage of being located in a campus along with other Schools, we are able to ensure our students a transversal education (including Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Management, Economics, Marketing, and Political Science). Also, we are working on a project targeted at students´ ability for teamwork, fluency in foreign languages such as mandarin, the use of information technologies, the development of communication skills, creativity, ability to solve new problems, critical thinking, negotiation and leadership, among other soft skills. Students at Católica Porto Law School will not only acquire an excellent level of technical education but will also learn how to be free, responsible and autonomous individuals.
International Experiences - As a part of the "educating jurists for the World" attitude, we privilege and strongly encourage international mobility among the students.
Practical Approaches - As our commitment to link theory and practice, we regularly have at our School law professionals to lecture practical subjects and seminars.
Católica Porto Law School is a nationally and internationally renowned institution. It is ranked among the top ten European Law Schools by independent international institutions.
It is the Law School's purpose to build a school that is open to changes, constantly striving to help its students achieve their career plans and committed to providing its teachers and researchers with the best possible conditions for the pursuit of scientific truth.
Católica Porto Law School is strongly committed to strengthening internationalization activities while expanding its international partnership network and increasing the number of international students.


text:
North Korea Experiences Internet Outage Amid US Hacking Dispute
By Reuters | Updated: 23 December 2014 09:23 IST
North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony pictures, itself experienced Internet outages on Monday, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said.
New Hampshire-based Dyn Research said the reason for the disruptions was not known but could range from technological glitches to a hacking attack. Several U.S. officials close to the investigations of the attack on Sony Pictures said the U.S. government was not involved in any cyberaction against Pyongyang.
U.S. President Barack Obama had vowed on Friday to respond to the major cyber-attack, which he blamed on North Korea, "in a place and time and manner that we choose."
Washington last Thursday requested China's help, asking Beijing to shut down servers and routers used by North Korea that run through Chinese networks, senior administration officials told Reuters.
The United States also asked China to identify any North Korea hackers operating in China and, if found, send them back to North Korea. It wants China to send a strong message to Pyongyang that such acts will not be tolerated, the officials said.
By Monday China had not responded directly to the U.S. requests, the officials added.
In Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday it opposed all forms of cyber-attacks and that there was no proof that North Korea was responsible for the Sony hacking.
Trouble staying online
North Korea has denied it was behind the cyber-attack and has vowed to hit back against any U.S. retaliation.
The hackers said they were incensed by a Sony comedy about a fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which the movie studio has now pulled from general release.
The United States had also asked several other countries in the region for help, including Japan, which strongly condemned the attacks but stopped short of blaming North Korea.
Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, which detected the North Korean Internet outage, said: "For the past 24 hours North Korea's connectivity to the outside world has been progressively getting degraded to the point now that they are totally offline.
"There's either a benign explanation - their routers are perhaps having a software glitch; that's possible. It also seems possible that somebody can be directing some sort of an attack against them and they're having trouble staying online," he said.
Current and former U.S. law enforcement and security officials said only a tiny number of people in North Korea's leadership have access to the Internet, and that almost all its Internet links and traffic pass through China.
In its statement on Monday, China made no reference to calls by the United States for joint action with it and other countries to counter any similar cyber-attacks.
"Before making any conclusions there has to be a full (accounting of) the facts and foundation," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said. "China will handle it in accordance with relevant international and Chinese laws according to the facts."
She said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in a conversation with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday, "reaffirmed China's relevant position, emphasizing China opposes all forms of cyber-attacks and cyberterrorism."
Cyberspying
China is North Korea's only major ally and would be central to any U.S. efforts to crack down on the isolated state. But the United States has also accused China of cyberspying in the past and a U.S. official has said the attack on Sony could have used Chinese servers to mask its origin.
South Korea, which is still technically at war with North Korea, said computer systems at its nuclear plant operator had been hacked and non-critical data stolen but that there was no risk to nuclear installations or reactors.
"It's our judgment that the control system itself is designed in such a way there is no risk whatsoever," Chung Yang-ho, deputy energy minister, said by telephone.
He made no mention of North Korea and could not verify messages posted by a Twitter user claiming responsibility for the attacks and demanding the shutdown of three ageing nuclear reactors by Thursday.
North Korea has denied it was to blame for the attack and has vowed to hit back against U.S. retaliation, threatening the White House and the Pentagon.
At the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power dismissed as absurd Pyongyang's demand for a joint U.S.-North Korean investigation of the hacking of Sony Pictures and threats of retaliation if the United States refused. "It is exactly the kind of behavior we have come to expect from a regime that threatened to take 'merciless countermeasures' against the U.S. over a Hollywood comedy, and has no qualms about holding tens of thousands of people in harrowing gulags," Power said.
Several U.S. officials said that the FBI, which has taken the lead inside the government in investigating the Sony hack, had help from other agencies, including spy agencies, among them the secretive National Security Agency.
The NSA's cyber-security and cyberspying capabilities are the most formidable of any U.S. agency, but it has been under criticism since former contractor Edward Snowden disclosed secrets of the agency's surveillance mechanisms last year.
Further reading: Cyber Attack, Cyber Security, Hackers, Hacking, Home Entertainment, Internet, North Korea, Sony, Sony Pictures, The Interview
Intel Pentium G3258 Review: An Anniversary and a Rebirth
Entry Point in JPMorgan Data Breach Is Found
US Sets Up $10 Million Reward in Fight Against Ransomware Attacks; Payout Option in Cryptocurrency
India's Offensive Cyber Capability Pakistan-Focussed and Not Tuned Towards China, Study Claims
Check Point Mobile Security Report 2021 Says Four Out of 10 Mobiles Are Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks
Cyber Sabotage Could Have Cause 2020 Mumbai Power Outage, Maharashtra Minister Says
US, Britain Call Out Russian Hacking Spree, Cyber-attacks Against Olympics


text:
Aphragmus oxycarpus är en korsblommig växtart som först beskrevs av Joseph Dalton Hooker och Thomas Thomson, och fick sitt nu gällande namn av Saiyad Masudal Saiyid Masudul Hasan Jafri. Aphragmus oxycarpus ingår i släktet Aphragmus och familjen korsblommiga växter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Korsblommiga växter
oxycarpus

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Deulgaon Raja
Everything you need to know about Deulgaon Raja: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Chhattisgarh hostage crisis: Govt. should adopt holistic approach, says D. Raja
New Delhi, Apr 24 (ANI): Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja on Tuesday said the government should adopt a holistic approach to secure the safe release of Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon from his Maoist kidnappers.
CAG indicts Vilasrao Deshmukh in land scam
New Delhi, Apr 5 (ANI): A leaked report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has reportedly indicted Science and Technology Minister and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh in connection with a land scam.
2G: Ravi Ruia, three others appear before court
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Corporate honcho Ravi Ruia of the Essar group and three others Saturday appeared before a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court hearing of the 2G spectrum allocation case, after skipping court many times and moved their bail application.
CAG report on Coal allocation puts UPA on back foot
The latest revealing by Comptroller and Auditor General regarding allotment of coal blocks without auction has created a new trouble for UPA govt.
BJP to continue to demand for political accountability of Chidambaram in 2G case
New Delhi, Feb 4 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said that it will continue to demand political accountability of Chidambaram in the 2G case, after a Delhi court today dismissed Janta Party President, Subramaniam Swamy's petition to make Union Home Minister P Chidambaram a co-accused in the case.


Spacenotes: We can accommodate small meetings from 8-36 in our Meeting Room, depending on the set up. Our Pool Bar and outdoor space is perfect for receptions or can be set up as banquet space around the pool.
1) Pool Bar & pool area includes 300 sq ft bar and 1200+ sq ft of outdoor space if needed. 2)Meeting Room is 450 sq ft with good natural light and soft colors.


Use the TODAY and NOW functions as shown in the following example to insert the current date or time so that it can be updated. The Date shows the system's idea of the current date with and without time.
Puerto Rico, what time is it? Would you like to see the time in Puerto Rico in comparison to your home? Select a date and time and then click "Send", and we will help you converting it from Puerto Rico time to your time zones. Check out our World Meeting Planner and get a colour graphic that compares the time of night in Puerto Rico with all other Puerto Rican cities around the world that others will attend.
You about to make an intercontinental long-distance call to Puerto Rico? Only confirm the time?
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT/UTC) minus 5 hrs. offsets apply to Eastern Time only, during Daylight Saving Time the offsets are -4. Type your position or any place of your choosing to make further comparison.
To enter the date and time, hold down Ctrl+; (semicolon), then space, then hold down Strg+Shift+; (semicolon). To enter the date and time, hold down Ctrl+; (semicolon), then space, then enter a semicolon (+ ;). Any date or time that is updated when the spreadsheet is re-calculated or the spreadsheet is opened is regarded as "dynamic" instead of being static.
Once you have copied the example to an empty spreadsheet, you can customize it to your needs. Remark: The results of the TODAY and NOW features only vary when the spreadsheet is computed or when a function containing the feature is executed. Time and date are taken from the system time of the computer.


text:
Click on any of the links below to download this week's worship aid for our Video-Recorded Mass.
January 16, 2022 - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 9, 2022 - Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
January 2, 2022 - Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord
December 31, 2021 - Solemnity of the Mary Mother of God
December 26, 2021 - Feast of the Holy Family
December 24, 2021 - Christmas Eve
December 19, 2021 - 4th Sunday of Advent
December 12, 2021 - 3rd Sunday of Advent
December 8, 2021 - Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
December 5, 2021 - 2nd Sunday of Advent
November 28, 2021 - 1st Sunday of Advent
November 25, 2021 - Thanksgiving Day
November 21, 2021 - Solemnity of Christ the King
November 14, 2021 - 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
November 7, 2021 - 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
November 2, 2021 - Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls' Day)
November 1, 2021 - Solemnity of All Saints
October 31, 2021 - 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 24, 2021 - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 3, 2021 - 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 26, 2021 - 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 5, 2021 - 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 29, 2021 - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 22, 2021 - 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 15, 2021 - Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
August 14, 2021 - Vigil of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
August 8, 2021 - 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 25, 2021 - 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 4, 2021 - 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
June 27, 2021 - 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
June 6, 2021 - Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
May 30, 2021 - Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
May 23, 2021 - Pentecost Sunday
May 22, 2021 - Solemnity of Pentecost Vigil Mass
May 16, 2021 - The Ascension of the Lord
May 9, 2021 - Sixth Sunday of Easter
May 2, 2021 - Fifth Sunday of Easter


text:
	$r.translate("chelp.notif15")

	$r.translate("chelp.notif1") $r.translate("chelp.notif2") $r.translate("chelp.notif3")

	$r.translate("chelp.notif4") $r.translate("chelp.notif5")

	$r.translate("chelp.notif14")

	$r.translate("chelp.notif6") $r.translate("chelp.notif7") $r.translate("chelp.notif8")

	$r.translateWithPackage("org.olat.notifications", "overview.column.type"):  $r.translate("chelp.type")

	$r.translateWithPackage("org.olat.notifications", "overview.column.resname"):  $r.translate("chelp.resname")

	$r.translateWithPackage("org.olat.notifications", "overview.column.subidentifier"):  $r.translate("chelp.subidentifier")

	$r.translateWithPackage("org.olat.notifications", "overview.column.action"):  $r.translate("chelp.notif12") $r.translate("chelp.notif13")

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
EU Consent Policy
Solar Sonic Spike Giveaway
Welcome to the Solar Sonic Spike Giveaway
Hosted by: SaraLee's Deals Steals & Giveaways
Sponsored by: Sweeney's
Chasing away moles, gophers and other destructive burrowing animals just got a whole lot easier. Using the sun – the strongest and least expensive power source available – the effective, eco-friendly Solar Sonic Spike PRO with Hyperpulse Technology emits powerful vibration and sound pulses that drive away burrowing animals without a scratch. This humane, poison-free mole and gopher repeller is safe to use around children and pets, so you can kick back and enjoy some peace of mind, not to mention a destructive-free yard.
Now for the giveaway: One lucky person will win a Sweeney's: Solar Sonic Spike PRO with Hyperpulse Technology. This is open to US and ends 10/07/14 @ 11:59 pm est. To enter, Simply do the tasks on the Giveaway Tools widget below and you're set to have a chance to win! Remember you can't win if you don't enter. It only takes one entry to win!
Good Luck, Thanks for entering!
Disclaimer: Please note that SaraLee's Deals Steals and Giveaways are not responsible for prize fulfillment.
Posted by Jalynn Patterson at 5:05 AM
A Simple Life,really?
A SimpleLife, really?! Cookies Policy
Last updated: May 29, 2018 A Simple Life, really?! ("us", "we", or "our") uses cookies on the https://asimplelifereally.blogspot.com/ website (the "Service"). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies. Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies. This Cookies Policy for A Simple Life, really?! is powered by TermsFeed. What are cookies Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. How A Simple Life, really?! uses cookies When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: To enable certain functions of the Service We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service: Essential cookies. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. What are your choices regarding cookies If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly. For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050 For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=en_US For any other web browser, please visit your web browser's official web pages. Where can you find more information about cookies You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites: AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/
Tooth Whitening Gel
For Future Review Opportunities
Please also keep in mind I ONLY review books in PRINT. No digital copy.
Contact me via email: pattersonmom24@aol.com
All reviews on this site are my own personal opinion and are not expressed by the authors or publishers in any way.
Blog Archive January (7) December (6) November (3) October (10) September (3) August (9) July (6) June (7) May (4) April (3) March (3) February (1) January (2) December (3) November (2) October (5) September (3) July (6) June (5) May (3) April (5) March (2) January (6) November (2) September (4) August (5) July (3) May (3) April (1) March (6) February (7) January (7) December (3) November (8) October (6) September (2) August (2) July (3) June (8) May (10) April (1) March (3) February (4) January (7) December (7) November (5) October (4) September (3) August (4) July (8) June (7) May (12) April (9) March (11) February (10) January (7) December (14) November (30) October (20) September (28) August (38) July (23) June (25) May (28) April (41) March (26) February (33) January (20) December (32) November (43) October (40) September (30) August (30) July (23) June (44) May (40) April (31) March (36) February (33) January (29) December (31) November (52) October (50) September (35) August (36) July (42) June (40) May (40) April (48) March (62) February (42) January (59) December (49) November (52) October (68) September (76) August (56) July (62) June (68) May (76) April (53) March (62) February (56) January (55) December (43) November (51) October (54) September (54) August (40) July (41) June (31) May (54) April (56) March (47) February (31) January (24) December (24) November (16) October (16) September (7) August (7) July (3) June (11) May (8) April (17) March (2)
Check Page Rank of your Web site pages instantly:


text:
Lifestyle	April 9, 2021
Tohji's Music Can't Be Summed Up, And Here's Why
Source: The Fader
Something about Tohji's music and visuals draws you in instantaneously. After watching his video for Oreo, you need to see more. In fact, you can't look away. Maybe it's the hazy good-time visuals — the video is set in an allusive beach paradise. Or maybe it's his hard-hitting, high vocals that have you enchanted. For some, it may be the honest lyrics — sometimes cathartic and sometimes obscene. Either way, you wanna get the full low-down on this guy.
So here it is. Well, here's what you can take from his tracks, allusive internet presence, and tongue-in-cheek interview style. Raised between Tokyo and Yokohama, Tohji has recently erupted into the burgeoning rap scene of Japan. The success of his debut full-length, Angel, is what cemented him as an influential figure in the scene.
Source: Dummy
And while he is an indisputable success in the electro-rap scene, his work challenges expectations and pushes the broader boundaries of rap as we know it, calling into question whether his music can really be defined as rap. Oreo and its accompanying video almost mimic naughties pop, both aesthetically and melodically.
His Spotify page points out his success in the Japanese rap scene, but defines his fanbase as "dreamers." Here, his style is described as an "infectious" one, with " hard-hitting highs and mellow lows." And that's exactly what Tohji's music achieves. As such, his melodies (and his visuals, of course), have captured the attention of many across the globe.
Since the release of Angel in 2019, touring has taken the artist around Europe and Asia. And he hopes that he will continue going back and forth around Asia, as well as "spending some time in Western countries." Meeting old friends and the possibility of new ones are what seems to motivate his travel.
Source: Neocha
Part of his international success may come down to his bi-lingual lyrics. Writing in both languages, English and Japanese, is the "most natural" form of expression for Tohji, he told Office Magazine. This gives his music firm rootings in its Japanese origins while appealing to a wider audience.
Much of the mystical and chaotic atmosphere surrounding the artist come from his videos and overall visuals. He has a keen eye for visuals and takes inspiration from movies, although which movies exactly, he leaves unclear, in typical, mysterious Tohji fashion. He told Office, "when I quit my high school, I spent a year in my room watching movies, drinking a bottle of whisky every day. That was precious time for me." Maybe horror movies and sci-fi, judging by the other-worldly video for HI-CHEW.
Source: Ele-King
"I'm the new visual Beatles" he was quoted as saying by The Fader. When asked about this quote by Office Magazine, he said, "I make a whole big swag." It's this cheeky, allusive spirit that makes the artist so intriguing. You're never completely sure what's going on, which genre you're listening to and whether he's coming or going.
But you stick around to catch glimpses of his brilliance.
Post Written by Madeleine Urban
Lifestyle Music


President Obama responds to Paris shootings and bombings – YouTube.
Who Wants A Malala Bratz Doll For Christmas? – YouTube.
Zayn Malik's New Music Is Reportedly "Really Good" – YouTube.
Toddler's head reattached by doctors in medical miracle – YouTube.
This 16 months old baby was in a car crash with his mother and sister. The impact was severe and he suffered internal decapitation: his spine was dislocated, the head separated from the neck (only the bones were separated, the spinal cord inside and the skin and flesh around were still attached).
Hundreds of migrants and refugees head to border of Austria by foot – YouTube.
Ahmed Mohamed, a 14 year old boy, built a clock and brought it to school to impress his teacher. He was suspected of having built a bomb and was brought to the police station in handcuffs.
He was then released when the police realized he was just a clever kid who had built an ordinary clock.
He recieved a lot of support from all over the Internet, including messages from President Obama and MarkZuckenberg, and was invited to several outstanding technological and scientific institutions.
Ahmed Mohamed Was Arrested For A Clock And Then Broke The Internet – YouTube.
Soccer Players Are Scoring For Refugees – YouTube.
Divers Find Treasure In Florida … Again – YouTube.
▶ Blind Girls Learn To Fight Back Against Violence – YouTube.
▶ Ireland Votes to Legalize Gay Marriage – YouTube.
▶ Guantanamo's Youngest Prisoner Released – YouTube.
The 2 euro T-Shirt – Would you buy it if you knew?
The 2 Euro T-Shirt – A Social Experiment – YouTube.
How its made ice cream cones – YouTube.
50 years ago, brave people marched across a bridge to demand equal rights for Black people in the USA. This weekend we honor their action gratefully. See President Obama speak in Selma, Alabama.
▶ Selma to mark 50th anniversary of historic civil rights march, 'Bloody Sunday' – YouTube.
▶ Dancing Man who was shamed by bullies is tracked down and invited to VIP dance party – YouTube.
New York City mayor Bill De Blasio annouces that, as promised, New York public schools will now have 2 Muslim holidays added to their calendar, starting next school year.
New York Public Schools Add Two Muslim Holidays in Their Calender: Mayor Bill de Blasio – YouTube.
This great lady will be visiting our school on Monday March 9th 2015.
This brave mother lost her son when Mohamed Merah killed him a few years ago. Instead of collapsing she took action and becale an activist against radicalisation.
Now she visits middle schools and high schools in France to talk to young people about integration, brotherhood, religion, family, and the need to integrate to play a part in society.
Grieving mother turned activist against radicalization – The National – CBC Player.
▶ Yusor Abu-Salha Blessed To Be American – YouTube.
This young girl, her husband and her sister were killed recently by a neighbor. The inquest is not over so we don't know yet if this was a hate crime against Muslims or a neighborhood killing. Either way, their deaths are a sad blow to the community of Chappel Hill they belonged to.
Fox TV had said there were "no go zones" in France and England where police and non-Muslmis could not enter. That was untrue and has been retracted after Europeans, shocked at seeing their peaceful neighborhood in Paris included in those allegations, reacted.
People in New York City and Washington DC have protested yesterday against police violence which recently killed several Black persons.
Those marches show young and old, Black and White, together in their demands for more equality and less violence by the police.
Eric Garner, Michael Brown: Tens of thousands across U.S. protest police killings – World – CBC News.
▶ Already snowed under, Buffalo braces for more snow – YouTube.
(CNN) — Arnold Abbott handed out four plates of food to homeless people in a South Florida park. Then police stopped the 90-year-old from serving up another bite.
Abbott and two pastors in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were charged for feeding the homeless in public on Sunday, under a new ordinance banning public food sharing.
Now they face possible jail time and a $500 fine.
"Just because of media attention we don't stop enforcing the law. We enforce the laws here in Fort Lauderdale," Mayor Jack Seiler said.
It's a battle Abbott has fought before. In 1999 he sued the city for banning him from feeding homeless people on the beach — and won.
He said the threat of charges won't stop him from doing it again.
"I'm not afraid of jail. I'm not looking to go, but if I have to, I will," he said.
On Wednesday, Abbott said he'll be at Fort Lauderdale Beach, ready to serve another meal.
▶ Officer: 'Drop That PLATE, Right Now' – recalled 90-year-old Man Arrested for Feeding Homeless – YouTube.
▶ WATCH: Deer Crossing Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco | Deer Running Across The Golden Gate Bridge – YouTube.
SAUSALITO , California. — Two northbound deer briefly stopped traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge Friday night as they made a run for the hills of Marin County, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The deer, reported at 5:24 p.m., appear to have entered the bridge from the south.
The two deer brought traffic to a halt in three lanes of traffic.
Drivers appeared to have slowed behind the animals, leaving the lanes clear in front of them.
"They pretty much created their own traffic break," police officer Barclay said, noting that northbound traffic tends to be backed up and slower around 5:30 p.m. anyway.
Mother sheep and father goat have a baby "geep"!
▶ Aww what a cute geep! Wait, what's a geep? – YouTube.
▶ Perth Commuters Lift Train To Free Man's Leg | People Push A Train To Free A Man's Leg | VIDEO – YouTube.
Quick-thinking passengers and staff saved the man's leg, as it was being squeezed by the 90-tonne of train, by collectively rocking the carriage.
'He stood in the doorway and as he was sort of taking up his position there, one leg slipped outside the door, slipped outside the gap, and he was stuck,' Transperth spokesman David Hynes told the ABC.
'We alerted the driver, made sure the train didn't move.
▶ Company Created Blankets To Protect Children From Shootings, Tornado Debris – YouTube.
▶ 25 Common Words That You Didn't Realize Are Actually Brand Names – YouTube.
▶ Things You Didn't Know Could Kill You – YouTube.


There are several bugs to watch out for while hiking or going on camping trips. Bugs to watch out for are ticks, chiggers, and both the brown recluse spider and the black widow spider.
If you get bit by a chigger, don't panic – it won't be fatal. Chiggers are extremely small and they burrow into the pours of your skin. Chigger bites are not deadly, however they cause some itching such as a mosquito bite would. If you are bitten by one, you can be relived of its itch by using calamine lotion or dabbing the bite with clear nail polish.
If you are bitten by a brown recluse spider, you may not know it right away. It can take two to eight hours for that bite to take effect. The symptoms of the bite of a brown recluse spider are: swelling, pain, and redness. An open sore will most likely form at the location of the bite. The victim will also experience fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, and joint pain. A light rash will commonly formed over the victims wound.
A bite from a black widow can cause sharp pain and redness at the wound. The victim may also suffer sweating, nausea, vomiting, severe muscle pain, stomach cramps, shock and spasms. Breathing can become difficult as well. If you have never been bit by a black widow before it is recommended to go to a primary care center. If you are allergic the bite can be deadly.
Next, tick bites. If you are bitten by a tick, you are advised to use tweezers and gently pull the tick out. If you jerk the tweezers and are to restless, the ticks mouth piece could break off into your skin. After that, wash the wound with soap and water and apply antiseptic. Sometimes ticks can carry diseases such as Lyme disease and Rocky mountain spotted fever. Lyme disease can affect your skin, nervous system and your joints. Rocky mountain spotted fever can cause headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, and muscle pain. A rash can also occur , but won't show in the first few days. If this is not treated it can be fatal.
Finally, if you are stung by a bee or hornet, you should take the dull side of a knife and scrape over where the stinger is. If you do not have a knife handy, a credit card works as well. You never want to squeeze the stinger, because that can make more venom go into the skin. If you have never been stung by a bee or hornet before and you feel sick, you are to go straight to the E.R. If you are allergic, bee stings can be deadly. If you know you're allergic, it is advised to keep an EpiPen with you at all times in case you are stung.
Insect stings usually just cause some pain, a little swelling and itching. Others may have a more serious reaction called anaphylactic shock. Someone experiencing anaphylactic shock may have symptoms of swelling of the throat which makes breathing very difficult. In this case, immediate medical attention is necessary.
Always be prepared with a first aid kit and dress appropriately. In a first aid kit, you should have remedies for these bites.
If you are hiking in the woods, you should have a hoodie, jacket, long sleeve shirt and long pants. Button your shirt and tuck your pants into your boots so these bugs won't be able to bite you as easy. Make sure you bring calamine lotion, gauze pads, band aids, antiseptic, Neosporin and mole skin.
Have a cell phone in case you need to call for help.


Next, learn all of the photography techniques that are possible with your camera. Even if all you can afford is a rudimentary compact, or point-and-shoot, camera, then experiment and practice with it until you're able to manipulate its features to produce the best photos possible.
You can learn plenty of editing techniques with low-cost, basic software, so you'll understand (and be able to control) the fundamental concepts and techniques before concerning yourself with professional-grade tools, such as Photoshop.
5. Develop a Photographer's Eye and Mind.
Once you acquire the true mindset of a photographer, you can shoot excellent pictures with the most limited equipment. Developing a photographer's eye and mind is similar to what an accomplished painter or sculptor is able to do, which is to "see" the image of what they want to create in their heads, and then create it.
6. The History of Photography.
Read, and know, the history of photography (which is rather short compared to most histories) at least in broad, general terms. This may never help you compose a better photo, but having this knowledge is some portion of what it takes to be a successful photographer.
The same goes for the great photographer: You should know the people that made the history and how and why. This portion of photographic knowledge is often where a budding amateur finds his or her passion, in the example of a photographic pioneer, for a particular kind of photography and/or style.
8. Study Today's Leading Photographers.
Don't stop with the great photographers of the past. It's equally important to know who are today's best photographers, and in various categories: sports, landscapes, portraits, etc. These people are your contemporaries; they are occupying and experiencing the same world as you, so they have much to teach you about how to photograph this time and place.
9. Join a Local Photography Club.
Being a member of a group of like-minded photographers is one of your best success steps. You'll have the opportunity to explore challenging techniques with other photographers similarly challenged and be guided by advanced photographers who know how to overcome those challenges. The club experience can be an excellent source of inspiration as well as stimulating competition.
10. Find a Photo Buddy.
Ask another member of the club to be your "photo buddy." By shooting together, each of you has someone immediately available to discuss your images and suggest ways to improve or re-compose them. It's often easier to learn all the many concepts and techniques of photography when two brains are doing it together.
Find a photography mentor or more than one. One of the most valuable benefits of being mentored by a successful photographer is that he or she knows at least one path to success: his or hers. He or she probably knows many, and is willing to guide you every step of the way.
If you truly want to succeed as a photographer, then you must understand it as an "industry" as well as an art form. By attending local, regional or national industry events, you're able to see all the latest equipment as well as listen to the professionals speak about what it takes to succeed.
Viewing photographs in a gallery setting, as prints, is a totally different experience than browsing through them on the Internet. Seeing photographs in the printed medium speaks to your brain very differently and will expand your knowledge about how success is defined photographically.
14. Create a Web Site.
Even if your photo portfolio is mostly filled with casual pictures of family, friends, events, etc., you can still create a Web site. The further you advance as a photographer the more important a Web site will become; therefore, now's the time to learn the basics.
15. Learn How to Use the Internet.
You may already have a Facebook page and a Twitter address and you share photographs with family members and friends regularly. Spend some time, however, learning how and why the Internet is a critical tool for successful photographers. Understand how Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc. are used to market photography and photographers.
There are photo contests for every level of photographer and any kind of photography. You can start entering photo contests almost as soon as you start taking pictures with any kind of camera. Even if your entry is a picture of your dog, it's a learning experience because successful photographers win photo contests or are recognized as among the best pictures submitted.
Many of today's best photographers are graduates of photography schools. Obviously, it's a stimulating environment, but it is also where you learn technique and how to refine it into a style. Part of your self-education is to research the various formal photography educations available. The New York Institute of Photography, for example, offers a free course catalog here.
Create a reading list for yourself that includes photography topics, but also other topics, such as personal development, business and marketing. These will become more important as you succeed, especially if your goal is to succeed financially as a photographer. There are countless books, programs, seminars and online tutorials available. Research the sources. Search some blogs. Ask your photography friends for referrals.
19. Develop the Persona of a Professional.
Whether your goal is to be an excellent serious amateur or start a photography business, understanding what it means to be a professional and then acting as such, will definitely help you succeed.
20. Schedule Regular Time with Your Camera.
As a famous writer said, "A writer writes," so a photographer photographs. If you expect to succeed as a photographer, then you must make it a habit, a regularly part of your daily or weekly schedule. Success in photography is similar to success in tennis or golf: You must hit millions of balls before you have the skills to succeed.
Don't limit your photography experience to one or a few kinds of photography. Pictures of your family and friends (and pets) are important, but you want to try your hand at landscapes, nature close-ups, street photography, sports and all the other many other forms. Again, one of these experiences may be the source of your passion and developing your photographer's mind and eye.
Regardless of your definition of success as a photographer, it should always be an enjoyable experience. This is just as much a sign of success as the quality of your photographs.


You can win a free trip to Stockholm by just answering few questions.
Foodie or fashionista? Culture or adventure?
Take the test to see what kind of traveler you are, and have the chance to win a trip to Stockholm!
Just like their Facebook application here and start playing.
VisitDenmark has teamed up with Urban Danish Design Company BoConcept to offer you the chance to win a trip for two to Copenhagen ! Only for US residents !
A trip for two people to the wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark! The prize package includes roundtrip airfare from a designated US location, five night's hotel accommodations at the lovely Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center. In addition, winner will receive two CPH City Cards giving FREE access to attractions and transportation all over Copenhagen. The complete package is valid from December 1, 2013 – December 1, 2014.
A stunning BoConcept "Ogi chair" in a select choice of fabric options.


The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has ruled that the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, has a case to answer in his ongoing trial over alleged false assets declaration.
Backstory: At the resumed trial in Abuja, the counsels to the Federal Government and Justice Onnoghen argued their positions on the no-case submission.
The prosecution had closed its case and Onnoghen was arguing that they had no case which the tribunal has now overruled.
Despite pleas for an adjournment, Chairman of the CCT, Danladi Umar, insisted that Justice Onnoghen must enter his defence on Monday, April 1.
Onnoghen's counsel, Adegboyega Awomolo, accused the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) of not following its standard procedures in instituting the case against the suspended CJN.
Awomolo stated that the highest authorities at the CCB were not consulted before a charge was filed at the CCT.
Umar, however, said that the CCB Act cannot override the powers of the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, as enshrined in the constitution.


text:
Our Team Name
"The Young Doctor"
Dry Point Print by Trevor Anderson of
Hunter S. Thompson's self portrait
The late Hunter S. Thompson defined the term "GONZO" as:
"Total Commitment, Total Concentration, A mad sort of Panache"
Dr. Thompson practiced what he called "Gonzo Journalism" - inserting himself into the
story as he reported it. As we are doing essentially the same thing with desert racing
and our website, we have appropriated the name in his honor...... We are (were) fans
of Dr. Thompson and try to apply our sense of his style and dedication to desert racing.


In the alleys of Kaifeng, the world's greatest city before the 19th century, Michael Wood hears legends, samples the cuisine and explores printing. We see a huge working replica of an astronomical clock made by 'China's Leonardo da Vinci', one of the inventions that made the Song a great era of science. And at a crunch Chinese Premier League match, we learn that the Chinese even invented soccer!
China developed the world's first great restaurant culture, and it's still going strong!
Michael Wood visits a Chinese Premier League soccer game seeking the origin of "Kickball."