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A TEENAGE boy from Tamworth has been arrested and charged after he allegedly hit road spikes and crashed a stolen car during a police pursuit in Moree. Police claim the car had been stolen from Tamworth on Sunday, and the 14-year-old boy refused to stop for police in the early hours of Monday morning in Moree. Road spikes were deployed and the vehicle crashed when, according to police, the teenager and other occupants of the car tried to escape on foot. The 14-year-old was found soon after, arrested and taken to Moree Police Station, where he was charged with a raft of offences related to driving and destroying property. READ ALSO: He was charged with taking and driving a vehicle without the consent of the owner; police pursuit and reckless driving; two counts of entering the prescribed premises of any person without a lawful excuse; destroy or damage property; carrying a cutting weapon upon apprehension; and driving without a license. He was granted strict conditional bail and will appear at Tamworth Children's Court in July. He has not been required to enter any pleas. The Tamworth teenager was one of nine young men between the ages of 13 and 20 that were arrested in Moree on Monday after a spate of alleged break and enters and car thefts. New England Police said officers responded to reports of two break-ins; three thefts; two stolen vehicles; an attempted stolen vehicle; and an alleged police chase involving one of the stolen vehicles on Sunday night alone. Police said a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy, both from Tamworth, were among those arrested in Moree on Monday following investigations into property crime in the area. Both were refused bail by police, and were due to front court today. Our journalists work hard to provide local, up-to-date news to the community. This is how you can continue to access our trusted content:
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Moree arrests: Three Tamworth men among several charged by police after a spate of alleged car thefts and break and enters in Moree
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ARRESTS: Nine men have been arrested by police after a spate of alleged offences on the weekend. Photo: New England Police
A TEENAGE boy from Tamworth has been arrested and charged after he allegedly hit road spikes and crashed a stolen car during a police pursuit in Moree.
Police claim the car had been stolen from Tamworth on Sunday, and the 14-year-old boy refused to stop for police in the early hours of Monday morning in Moree.
Road spikes were deployed and the vehicle crashed when, according to police, the teenager and other occupants of the car tried to escape on foot.
The 14-year-old was found soon after, arrested and taken to Moree Police Station, where he was charged with a raft of offences related to driving and destroying property.
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He was charged with taking and driving a vehicle without the consent of the owner; police pursuit and reckless driving; two counts of entering the prescribed premises of any person without a lawful excuse; destroy or damage property; carrying a cutting weapon upon apprehension; and driving without a license.
He was granted strict conditional bail and will appear at Tamworth Children's Court in July. He has not been required to enter any pleas.
The Tamworth teenager was one of nine young men between the ages of 13 and 20 that were arrested in Moree on Monday after a spate of alleged break and enters and car thefts.
New England Police said officers responded to reports of two break-ins; three thefts; two stolen vehicles; an attempted stolen vehicle; and an alleged police chase involving one of the stolen vehicles on Sunday night alone.
Police said a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy, both from Tamworth, were among those arrested in Moree on Monday following investigations into property crime in the area.
Both were refused bail by police, and were due to front court today.


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The CEO of Meljenstin Youth Empowerment Initiative and Reviewer of the book, Ambassador Chibuzor Patrick, has said that books are a veritable tool for social reengineering and nation building, NaijaAgroNet reports.
Speaking at the unveiling of a book, Short Stories with Morals by Vivian Opara-Anyiam, at the weekend, declared that there is nothing one can do without books.
"Books are the only tool that can change this generation. Reading is a skill whereby you get information for your life to be illuminated. Knowledge is the principal thing. It comes with wisdom because a closed book is a closed life. I have essay competition in Meljenstin just to encourage reading culture. Without books no generation can stand, because in reading we find solution to our problems", she stated.
Short Stories with Morals, she informed NaijaAgroNet, is designed to touch every aspect of our lives. "It is simple in language, unique in its own way because the book deals on: respect, honesty, kindness, impatience, obedience, humility, forgiveness, anger, conscience, jealousy, wickedness, quarelling, greed, stealing and envy among other themes and these are issues we need to deal with in our society. As the reviewer of the book I recommend it for everyone: the parents for their children, the church for their members. A life will be changed positively after reading this book". She advised the young ones to write instead of depending on uncles which in most cases do not work. She said there is no perfect book yet. "Put down that thing you call nonsense because tomorrow it may make sense to some people some day," she concluded.
According to the writer of the book in an exclusive interview with NaijaAgroNet, her aim of writing the book is to impact morals in the life of Nigerian youths, children and young adults who love reading literature books. "When you look around, a lot has gone wrong with our morals .This book is written to serve as a corrective measure towards this direction, it will impact morals in the life of people after reading it, you will feel the impact of what you are reading and you will learn a lot, not just moral but other aspects of life.
She admitted to NaijaAgroNet that the first obstacle she faced as a young writer was the issue of finance. "You have good intention or inspiration but when it comes to financial aspect you have to run up and down to look for money to implement it. But I give God the glory that I did not just write the book and abandon it, God gave me the grace I was able to publish it which is what we are about to unveil today".
She however dropped a word of advice to other upcoming writers, "if you know that you have the gift or the inspiration to write, you can start by putting those ideas down one day you can put those ideas of yours together to form a book", adding that by the special grace of God by the end of next year her poem collections and short plays will be out.


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Boeing has begun to assemble an unmanned, liquid-hydrogen powered, high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) aircraft. The twin-engine Phantom Eye will have a 150-foot wingspan and be capable of flying for more than four days at altitudes up to 65,000 feet while carrying a payload of up to 450 pounds. In addition, the Boeing Phantom Works is working on Phantom Ray, a fighter-sized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will serve as a flying test bed for advanced technologies.
Boeing has begun to assemble an unmanned, liquid-hydrogen powered, high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) aircraft. The twin-engine
Phantom Eyewill have a 150-foot wingspan and be capable of flying for more than four days at altitudes up to 65,000 feet while carrying a payload of up to 450 pounds.
Phantom Eyeis designed to maintain a persistent presence in the stratosphere over a specific area, while performing intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance and communication missions. Boeing engineers are also developing a larger HALE that will stay aloft for more than 10 days and carry payloads of more than 2,000 pounds. In addition, the Boeing Phantom Works is working onPhantom Ray, a fighter-sized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will serve as a flying test bed for advanced technologies.
"The essence ofPhantom Eyeis its propulsion system," says Darryl Davis, president of Boeing Phantom Works. "After five years of technology development, we are now deploying rapid prototyping to bring together n UAV with a breakthrough liquid-hydrogen propulsion system that will be ready to fly early next year."
"We believePhantom EyeandPhantom Rayrepresent two areas where the unmanned aerial vehicle market is heading," adds Dave Koopersmith, vice president of Advanced Boeing Military Aircraft. "These innovative demonstrators reduce technology risks and set the stage for meeting both military and commercial customers' future needs."
Phantom Eye'sentire propulsion system, including its engine, turbo chargers and engine control system, successfully completed an 80-hour test in an altitude chamber last month, clearing the way for the propulsion system and UAV to be assembled.
According to Davis,Phantom Eyeevolved from Boeing's earlier success with the piston-poweredCondor, which set several records for altitude and endurance in the late 1980s. Boeing is working closely with Aurora Flight Sciences, Ball Aerospace, Ford Motor Co. and Mahle Powertrain to develop the experimental aircraft.Phantom Rayevolved from the X-45C program and is scheduled to make its first flight in December.
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notes on IJburg
IJburg is Amsterdam's newest neighbourhood.
Though the Netherlands is known for its land reclamation projects, IJburg is built on soil and sand that has been transported and piled up along the Eastern banks of the IJ (pronounced like eye), the major waterway that runs between North and Central Amsterdam and eventually to the North Sea.
As it is the focus of much current development in Amsterdam, IJburg is home to some very experimental (/cutting-edge/progressive) architecture and urban design. A lot of it comes from the schools of urban planning and architecture that are viewed as best practice today: the avoidance of single developers and monotonous housing projects with little architectural variance, and the championing of mixed-use, diverse and walkable settlements — the tenets of contemporary urbanism toward the realization of a "livable city".
One way these lofty ideals are being achieved is the allowance for people to design their own houses. As peoples' preferences are unsurprisingly varied, there is a lot of diversity in housing-form. Classical Amsterdam Canal-houses are set alongside dramatic post-Modern homes. (For example, an entirely yellow facade, articulated by small windows on the upper floors). The result is a highly varied and engaging streetscape and a whole-hearted departure from the traditionally homogenous suburb.
A starkly yellow facade, alongside less extreme post-modern homes
Urban Planning, a relatively new, and constantly self-justifying discipline has yet to fully heal its reputation from the misguided and heavy-handed plans that defined the field in the 1960s. The success or failure of IJburg, and the urban plan that is guiding its growth, will make a strong statement about the legitimacy of the theories of Urban Planning — and indeed of the entire discipline – today.
I visited IJburg on a grey March day. The cold wind blew fiercely, making biking difficult, especially on the bridges between the neighbourhoods and islands of Indischebuurt and Zeeburg along the way.
That despite the weather, I felt good in IJburg, is a real testament to the quality of this housing project. A good place feels good in the shimmering days of mid-Summer, but also on the greyest, coldest Winter afternoons.
As a place of urban experimentation, IJburg inspired a lot of thought. Here are some notes on the neighbourhood that I jotted down while exploring earlier today.
☉IJburg is a strong skeleton for a city. But because it is intensely planned, it unavoidably feels that way. People react negatively to places that feel over-planned: spaces that are sterile and uninspiring. With time, however, the messy urbanism that makes cities spontaneous, dynamic and desirable will find its way into IJburg. Once the buildings and infrastructure begin to decay, and the neighbourhood is truly lived in, this has the potential to be an exciting part of the city. IJburg is healthy bones.
☉(Another related possibility is that if there were an economic collapse, and developers/the city became no longer able to continue with its development, informal ways of engaging with urban space becoming the norm, IJburg would provide a good setting for creativity & experimentation)
☉The newest parts of IJburg, those developments at its edge that are mostly vacant or are in the process of being constructed also feel full of potential. Unlike that ghostly feeling you get from the newest phase of a gated community in Florida or empty towers in resort condominiums built for time-share users, the emptiness of the newest parts of IJburg feel like they will soon be home to a busy and well-used city. The potential-energy in IJburg is palatable.
☉IJburg is built strongly in the tradition of a early 20th century North American urbanism. It is cozy, and people-sized, but is makes space for car use. The scale reminded me of Rosemount or the Plateau in Montreal.
☉Rather than thinking of IJburg as an extension of central Amsterdam, it might be better to conceptualize it as its own world: a nearby, highly connected village. IJburg's communications with Amsterdam are strong. The 26-Tram runs every 6 minutes mid-day, and commuters are invited to bring their bikes on board (the only tram in the city to allow this). At €1.95 per trip, the ride is affordable. The 26 also takes an interesting journey through the city from its Eastern edge to the centre. More of a commuter-train, the tram's route is equipped with level railroad crossings that stop traffic until it passes. This makes the journey to Centraal Station quite fast.
Toward the end of my exploring, I found a part of IJburg that has not been built on yet. It is a heap of sand that protrudes out into the IJ. It is a wild, desertous dune-scape, that, though empty now, feels alive with the city that will grow over it. I walked to the edge of the sandy peninsula and stood, facing the water and the wind. I thought to myself: the Netherlands is a present place. Not too caught up in its history, it embraces and is playful with growth and change.
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Selvinas says:
I like some of the buildings there and the beach but yet the place still feels too new and dull for me..it's always so quiet and I never see any stores..
Sure it's not like that everywhere on Ijburg. Maybe only the part I know.
Nice pictures though 😉
Daniel Rotsztain says:
I did not take the pictures, I collected them from around the internet.
synonymous scales | the urban geographer says:
[…] newest neighbourghood, IJburg, is built in the scale of early 20th century North American urbanism, much like Montreal's […]
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Agua Dulce is home to Vasquez Rocks Natural Area. It's unique rock formations have been used in several photo shoots, television commercials and series episodes, and motion pictures.
If you're ready to "get away from it all", Agua Dulce may be your best choice!
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Brief bio of the first English Baha'i and an individual central in early European Baha'i community.
Written for the Centenary of the Baha'i Faith in the United Kingdom.
Original site defunct; archived at archive.org.
See also http://bahai-library.com/picture_gallery_british_bahais.
Who Was Thomas Breakwell?
by Robert Weinberg
published in Bahá'í Journal (UK)
The first Englishman to declare his faith in Bahá'u'lláh...
'Abdu'l-Bahá loved him dearly...
Discovering the Bahá'í Faith changed his life for ever...
Imagine if you will a young woman living in Paris at the start of the 20th Century. A beautiful young American woman who, following the instructions of her beloved Master 'Abdu'l-Bahá, is staying on in the great French capital, thousands of miles from home, angering her mother, who has gone away on holiday. A young woman who, thanks to a generous friend who loans her an apartment, is staying on in the city because her heart's desire, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, whom she had met on the first ever pilgrimage from the west in 1898, has specifically requested that she remain on in the great cultural centre of Europe, Paris.
Thus we discover May Ellis Bolles, 31 years old, later to become the immortal May Maxwell, mother of 'Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum, alone in Paris awaiting some instruction from the Master that she might leave and rejoin her mother.
Imagine one summer's day, a knock at the door reveals two people - an old friend from America and a young man whom she has never seen before. A young man on whom her attention is riveted, of medium height, slender and graceful with intense searching eyes and an indescribable charm. Thus May discovers Thomas Breakwell, a young man who is destined to go down in history as the first ever Englishman to declare his faith in Bahá'u'lláh. He was in his twenties.
A chance meeting across the Channel
Thomas Breakwell, although English, lived in the southern states of America holding an important position in a cotton mill. He always spent his summer vacations in Europe and it was on a boat crossing the Channel in the summer of 1901 that he had met May Bolles' friend, Mrs Milner, who told him of May and her friends in Paris, although she did not mention the Faith. As May talked to Thomas on the beautiful summer's day in 1901, she discovered a rare person of high standing and culture, simple, natural, and intensely real in his attitude towards life and humanity.
Although at that first meeting no mention was made of the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Breakwell studied May with a searching gaze and asked if he might see her the following day.
"My heart was aflame with love..."
He arrived the next morning in a strangely exalted mood. May wrote, "His eyes burned with a hidden fire and looked at me earnestly, he asked if I noticed anything strange about him. Seeing his condition I asked him to sit down and reassured him, saying he looked very happy!
'When I was here yesterday,' Breakwell said, 'I felt a power, an influence that I had felt once before in my life when for a period of three months I was continually in communion with God. My heart was afire with love for the supreme Beloved - I felt at peace, at one with all my fellow men. Yesterday when I left you, I went alone down the Champs-Elysees. The air was warm and heavy, not a leaf was stirring when suddenly a wind struck me and whirled around me, and in that wind a voice said, with an indescribable sweetness and penetration, Christ has come again! Christ has come again!'." With wide startled eyes he looked at May and asked if she thought he had gone crazy. "No," she said smiling, "You are just becoming sane."
Over the next few days Breakwell became drunk with love for the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh. May told him about the Bab and thousands of martyrs who shed their blood so that the Faith might be established, of His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh who had given to mankind the law of God for this age, and of 'Abdu'l-Bahá who was still at that time a prisoner in Akka.
Breakwell's heart was filled with such longing that he gave up his journey, cancelled his plans, and became determined to go and gaze upon the face of the Master. Having met another young American Bahá'í who was on his way to Akka, Breakwell sat down and wrote a brief but poignant message:
"My Lord, I believe, forgive me.
Thy servant, Thomas Breakwell."
Meeting 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Akka
The two of them set off for Port Said in Egypt to await the Master's reply. That evening May went to the entrance of her apartment and discovered a cablegram from 'Abdu'l-Bahá. It read "You may leave Paris at any time." Thus she was able to rejoin her mother and brother, having completed her mission - a mission of which she had had no previous knowledge - the induction of a rare soul, Thomas Breakwell, into the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh.
When Thomas and his companion arrived in Akka they were ushered into a spacious room at one end of which stood a group of men in oriental clothing. Breakwell suddenly felt ill and weak, thinking that he had failed to recognise 'Abdu'l-Bahá. His mind buzzed with confusion - why had he come here? Why had he given up his vacation to come to a remote prison seeking... whatever. He became desperate and depressed.
Suddenly a door opened and in the opening he saw what seemed to him the rising sun. So intense wand brilliant was this light that he sprang to his feet and saw approaching him from out of this light the figure of 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
The days in Akka were spent wrapt in the Master's loving care and attention. Breakwell literally burned away with love. When he informed 'Abdu'l-Bahá that the cotton mills he worked in used young children as workers, 'Abdu'l-Bahá looked at him sadly and said "Cable your resignation." Breakwell obeyed immediately and in doing so severed all ties with his old life.
The guiding star for the Paris Bahá'ís
Returning to Paris, Breakwell became like the candle which 'Abdu'l-Bahá had often mentioned, which wept away its life drop by drop in order that it might give out light. He became the guiding star for the Paris Bahá'ís, his calmness and strength, his simplicity and powerful speech quickened the souls of all who heard him. One day, May recalls they were crossing a bridge over the River Seine when Thomas noticed an old woman laboriously pushing an apple cart over the bridge. He immediately climbed down off the bus and joined the old woman in the most natural way, helping her with her load over the bridge.
The Bahá'í Revelation had penetrated his soul, giving his real insight into human needs, an intense sympathy and genuine love for all. Those afflicted with sorrows were drawn to him like a magnet and would leave his presence uplifted and revitalised. He was the first westerner to pay Huququllah and he lived in a cheap and distant part of Paris, walking miles to the meetings in order to save his money to give to the fund. He was particularly kind to May's mother and knew the value of imparting happiness.
Thomas Breakwell, however, was a sick man who suffered from tuberculosis. His life was far too short and within just a year of learning of the Faith, which had set his heart aflame and would, in turn, transform the entire planet, Thomas lay dying in his apartment in Paris. Even at this stage he wrote to 'Abdu'l-Bahá asking if he could possibly leave Paris in case one of his parents in England became sick. His parents, however, arrived in Paris to try to take him back. Breakwell was faithful to 'Abdu'l-Bahá's instructions though, and so impressed his father that he too embraced the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh. Breakwell died a few months later. In his last letter to 'Abdu'l-Bahá's secretary he wrote, "Suffering is a hardy wine. I am preparing to receive that bounty which is the greatest of all. Torments of the flesh have enabled me to draw much nearer to my Lord... I wish life to endure longer, so that I may taste more of pain. That which I desire is the good pleasure of my Lord. Mention me in His presence."
Heartbroken at the passing of Thomas Breakwell, although miraculously no-one had told him it had happened, 'Abdu'l-Bahá revealed the most moving and inspiring Tablet, telling his translator to translate it so that all who read it would weep:
O Breakwell! O my dear one! Where are thy beauteous eyes? Thy smiling lips? Thy princely cheek? Thy graceful form? O Breakwell! O my dear one! At all times do I call thee to mind, I shall never forget thee. I pray for thee by day and by night. I see thee plain before me, as if in open day. O Breakwell! O my dear one!
A year later 'Abdu'l-Bahá received a letter from Breakwell's father. It was a small violet. On the card was written: "He is not dead. He lives on in the Kingdom of God... This flower was picked from Breakwell's grave. Praise be to the Lord that my son left this world for the next with the recognition and love of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. "
" ...so shall your powers and blessings be."
Imagine if you will a young man, shining as the brightest example to the youth of Europe. A young man who clearly proved that such detachment, that such a depth of faith and devotion to the covenant of Bahá'u'lláh is possible and can be achieved. The spirit of Thomas Breakwell - the courage to fight battles for the Army of Light and win triumphant victories despite the poorest physical health - is a spirit which lives on among us here, now. In the words of the Master As ye have faith, so shall your powers and blessings be... This is the balance. This is the balance. This is the balance.
See the UK Bahá'í Heritage Site Picture Gallery of Early British Bahá'ís for a photo of Breakwell.
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Andreas Frege (Düsseldorf, 22 de juny de 1962), més conegut com a "Campino", és un cantant, compositor i actor alemany. És popular per ser el líder de la banda punk-rock de culte alemanya Die Toten Hosen. Va ser votat pels espectadors del programa de la ZDF Unsere Besten — Wer ist der größte Deutsche? com un dels cent alemanys més importants de tots els temps.

Biografia
L'avi de Campino, Ludwig Frege, va ser un important jurista que va arribar a ser president de la Cort Federal Administrativa (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) i els seus pares un jutge i una professora anglesa, fet pel qual va tenir una educació bilingüe. Un dels seus cinc germans, dotze anys més gran que ell, va ser qui l'introduiria més tard a la música punk. A l'edat de dos anys es va mudar amb els seus pares a Mettman. Allà va cursar estudis durant un any a l'institut Heinrich Heine, i seguidament es va traslladar al Humboldt de Düsseldorf, on els seus companys de classe van començar a anomenar-lo "Campino", nom d'un tipus de caramels. Va repetir curs en dues ocasions, i gràcies a això va conèixer a Michael Breitkopf, un altre dels membres fundadors de Die Toten Hosen. Els dos es van examinar de l'Abitur el 1983. Va complir vuit mesos de servei militar a la Bundeswehr fins que es va declarar objector de consciència. El temps que li faltava el va complir de servei civil juntament amb Breitkopf en un psiquiàtric del barri de Grafenberg (Düsseldorf). Entre 1978 i 1982 va ser el cantant de la banda de punk ZK. Després de la dissolució d'aquesta, va fundar Die Toten Hosen amb Andreas von Holst, Michael Breitkopf, Andreas Meurer, Trini Trimpop i Walter November. A més a més de cantar, Campino compon la major part de les lletres de la banda renana.

Com a actor, va començar amb dos papers secundaris, al drama televisiu Verlierer (1986) i a la sèrie policíaca Der Fahnder (1992). Aquest mateix any va interpretar el paper protagonista de la comèdia Langer Samstag, de Hanns Christian Müller. El 2006 va debutar al teatre amb el paper de Mackie Messer en una adaptació de L'òpera dels tres centaus de Bertolt Brecht dirigida per Klaus Maria Brandauer. El 2008 ha sigut protagonista de la pel·lícula de Wim Wenders Palermo Shooting.

En algunes ocasions, Campino ha dut a terme treballs periodístics. El 1994, Der Spiegel va publicar una entrevista del cantant a la llavors ministra Angela Merkel, en la que li preguntava sobre les seves experiències amb les drogues i l'alcohol. Altres personalitats a les que ha entrevistat són Paul McCartney, Joe Strummer (cantant de The Clash) i Joey Ramone.

Té un fill en comú amb l'actriu alemanya-polonesa Karina Krawczyk.

Dedicatòries de cançons

Campino va compondre la cançó Alles ist eins, continguda en el senzill Pushed again, en memòria de Rieke Lax, una jove neerlandesa que va morir durant el concert número 1000 que van oferir els Toten Hosen al Rheinstadion de Düsseldorf. El tema Nur zu Besuch tracta sobre la mort de la seva mare. Del mateix mode, Unser Haus parla sobre la infància de Campino i la defunció del seu pare. Després de la mort dels seus protagonistes, en ambdós casos deguda al càncer de còlon, Campino ha format part en diverses campanyes de conscienciació, amb l'objectiu de fomentar la detecció precoç d'aquesta malaltia.

Polèmiques
Personatge controvertit, Campino ha tingut frecs de diversa consideració amb diversos artistes, com Die Ärzte, Die Krupps o Rammstein. El juliol de 2005 va atreure l'atenció pública per unes declaracions relatives al concert benèfic del Live 8 que va tenir lloc a Berlín. Segons dades dels organitzadors, van acudir-hi prop de 200.000 persones que, com a la Love Parade, es van reunir al Tiergarten. Molts només van poder veure el que succeïa a l'escenari a través de les vuit pantalles gegants que es van col·locar. Campino va fer el següent comentari al respecte:
 En aquest context, va qualificar d'idiota a l'alcalde de Berlín Klaus Wowereit, del SPD. Després es va negar a disculpar-se personalment.

Discografia

Amb ZK
 1981: Eddie's Salon
 1982: Leichen pflasterten ihren Weg (en directe)
 1996: Auf der Suche nach dem heiligen Gral

Amb Die Toten Hosen
(només els discos d'estudi)
 1983: Opel-Gang
 1984: Unter falscher Flagge
 1986: Damenwahl
 1988: Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau
 1990: Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück
 1991: Learning English Lesson One
 1993: Kauf MICH!
 1996: Opium fürs Volk
 1999: Unsterblich
 2002: Auswärtsspiel
 2004: Zurück zum Glück
 2008: In aller Stille

Discografia com a artista convidat

En les següents obres Campino ha cantat al marge de Die Toten Hosen.
 1988: Àlbum Wild Times Again de The Lurkers (Regne Unit).
 1993: Àlbum Bajo otra bandera de Pilsen (Argentina), a la cançó Caramba, carajo, ein Whisky.
 1996: Àlbum Honest John Plain & Friends, disc homenatge a Honest John Plain, cantant de The Boys; cançons Thinking of You, Song for Me y Marlene.
 1997: Àlbum Power Cut de The Boys (Regne Unit).
 1998: Senzill Raise your Voice de Bad Religion (Estats Units).
 2003: Àlbum En vivo y ruidoso II de Los Violadores (Argentina), cançó Viva la Revolution.
 2006: Àlbum 26 1/2 de Fehlfarben (Alemanya), cançó Paul ist tot.
 2006: Àlbum A Foot Full Of Bullets de Peter and the Test Tube Babies (Regne Unit), cançó Smiling Through the Tears.
 2007: Àlbum La Vida… es un Ratico de Juanes (Colòmbia), cançó Bandera de manos.
 2009: Àlbum Crisis de Motorama (Argentina), cançó Do anything you wanna do.

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Enllaços externs

 Entrevista amb Campino

Objectors de consciència
Persones de Düsseldorf
Cantants britànics
Cantants de Rin del Nord-Westfàlia

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RNM to hold public symposium in Khartoum without permit
An opposition party has asked the Sudanese authorities to allow a public symposium to be held in Khartoum today, pre-empting on the possibility that security forces might stop the gathering.
The Reform Now Movement…
The Reform Now Movement, headed by Dr Ghazi Salaheldin Atabani, said on Monday that it "respects the Constitution and the law", and that it does not want to fight or provoke anyone by holding a symposium.
Hassan Rizeg, the deputy head of the RNM, renewed his call to the authorities to allow the party to hold the symposium at Shambat square in Khartoum North on Tuesday.
"In order to test the seriousness of the government on allowing political parties the freedom to hold their political activities within and outside their headquarters," Rizeg told Radio Dabanga.
"There can be no [National Dialogue] while mouths are silenced because talking is part of the dialogue."
On Saturday, security authorities refused to issue a permit to the RNM for a symposium at El Rabita Square in Shambat. A prominent party member told Radio Dabanga that the party planned on holding the symposium on Tuesday, with or without a permit.
The party organised a street symposium in a transport station in Khartoum on 4 September, during which four prominent party members were detained by security agents.
The Sudanese president recently announced the restoration of political and civil freedoms in the country and a two-month ceasefire in the war-torn Sudanese regions, some time before the launch of the first session of the National Dialogue on 10 October, in an attempt to create a suitable environment for the opposition to participate.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden Joseph (Joe) Robinette BidenElection analyst says Biden could face uphill battle attracting small-dollar donors Biden's announcement was a general election message, says political analyst Gillibrand 'not worried' about being 'discounted' in 2020 race MORE is coming out against the universal basic income idea that is gaining traction in Silicon Valley and some European nations, arguing instead that the U.S. needs to "build a future that puts work first."
"Our children and grandchildren deserve the promise we've had: the skills to get ahead, the chance to earn a paycheck, and a steady job that rewards hard work," Biden wrote in a blog post for the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware.
Some prominent voices in the technology industry, such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff, have recently championed the idea of a universal basic income. Supporters of the idea have argued that a guaranteed income from the government could assist those who've lost their jobs due to technological advances.
But Biden said there's a "better way forward," calling for policymakers to prioritize employment.
"While I appreciate concerns from Silicon Valley executives about what their innovations may do to American incomes, I believe they're selling American workers short," the former vice president wrote.
Biden, who has been floated as a possible 2020 presidential contender, is launching an initiative at his namesake institute at Delaware to come up with ideas to boost economic growth. He is speaking to CEOs in Washington, and he is also hosting a panel discussion in Delaware on Tuesday that will include Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Elaine Lan ChaoHillicon Valley: Trump meets Twitter CEO after slamming company | Kushner calls Russia probes more 'harmful' than election interference | Dem wants FTC to hold Zuckerberg 'liable' for data missteps | Sri Lanka faces tough questions over social media ban FAA approves drone delivery for Google spinoff Wing Why an independent panel must investigate Boeing crashes MORE.
The Biden Institute plans to examine how to improve the education system to train and retrain people for jobs and how to ensure that workers continue to receive benefits and protections in an economy where the nature of work is different, the former vice president wrote.
"All of us together can make choices to shape a better future. Our workers, our businesses, our communities, and our nation deserves nothing less," he wrote.


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Q: When to use Weak and Phantom references in Java I read many articles, but I don't understand - where do I need to use Weak and Phantom references in practice? Soft references - is a good choice for cache, as I understand. But weak and phantom, I don't know when to use. Please provide examples of real tasks where we need to use them.

A: You can use weak references for cache, simply like soft references as you said.
What good are PhantomReferences? I'm only aware of two serious cases for them: first, they allow you to determine exactly when an object was removed from memory. They are in fact the only way to determine that. This isn't generally that useful, but might come in handy in certain very specific circumstances like manipulating large images: if you know for sure that an image should be garbage collected, you can wait until it actually is before attempting to load the next image, and therefore make the dreaded OutOfMemoryError less likely.
Second, PhantomReferences avoid a fundamental problem with finalization: finalize() methods can "resurrect" objects by creating new strong references to them. So what, you say? Well, the problem is that an object which overrides finalize() must now be determined to be garbage in at least two separate garbage collection cycles in order to be collected. When the first cycle determines that it is garbage, it becomes eligible for finalization. Because of the (slim, but unfortunately real) possibility that the object was "resurrected" during finalization, the garbage collector has to run again before the object can actually be removed. And because finalization might not have happened in a timely fashion, an arbitrary number of garbage collection cycles might have happened while the object was waiting for finalization. This can mean serious delays in actually cleaning up garbage objects, and is why you can get OutOfMemoryErrors even when most of the heap is garbage.
for more details see this page :
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2006/05/04/understanding-weak-references

A: Basically, you'll use a Weak ref when you want to associate some additional data with objects whose source code is not under your control. By using a weak ref you'll couple the lifecycle of your meta-objects to the lifecycle of the primary objects.
The main use case for phantom refs is implementing your own finalizer thread without the dangers associated with the default mechanism, which is forced to make the reference to the supposedly unreachable object accessible to the finalization code.
Soft refs are primarily for caching, but, as said in another post here, they can give quite disastrous effects in practice, undermining the very point of caching. A major GC (the one that will clear your Soft refs) usually doesn't happen until the pressure on your app's performance rises. This is the time when you need your cache the most, and the time you are most likely to lose it – all at once.

A: I think this post answers your question pretty well.
What is the difference between a soft reference and a weak reference in Java?
Basically a soft reference is slightly stronger than a weak reference.  A weak reference will be discarded on the next GC cycle, while a soft reference will stay in memory until there is memory pressure and the JVM wants to reclaim as much as it can.
You should think about how important is it to your program that the reference you have is still valid.  For something that is extremely cheap to recreate a reference to, I would lean towards a WeakReference, but if it's a value from a DB you might lean towards the soft reference since you'd rather not rerun a query unless you really need to.

A: This article has a great answer to this question.

A: SoftReference objects are not collected until all WeakReference objects have been garbage collected.
So put less important objects in WeakReference objects, and use SoftReference objects to hold more important object.
Given those facts you should use the good Reference objects depending on you need in term of garbage collection. The WeakReference are collected first, then the SoftReference and finally the PhantomReferences.
The documentation says :

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*Soft references are for implementing memory-sensitive caches

*Weak references are for implementing canonicalizing mappings that do not prevent their keys (or values) from being reclaimed

By the way, in some case, for cache purpose, it can be a good idea to use WeakReference instead of SoftReference  because the cache can be heavy in memory, and so, need to be cleaned.
For PhantomReference, the use is different. They are for scheduling pre-mortem cleanup actions in a more flexible way than is possible with the Java finalization mechanism.
This article elaborate a bit on what can be the use of PhantomReference.

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Q: ANT Script to move specified File I'm trying to write a simple ANT script that copies a file/folder to a specified directory. For example by running:
ant deploy src/classes/myClass.class

The file "myClass.class" is copied from "src/classes/" to "deploy/src/classes/". Also, this should work for a specified folder so running:
ant deploy src/classes/

Should copy all files from src/classes" to "deploy/src/classes". Also, the destination folders will not exist before the script is ran and would therefore need "touching" first...
From looking around copying the files isn't really an issue but I can't figure out how to get this to work with parameters (as above)...
Does anyone know how this can be actived?

A: Ant is not a computer language. It's a matrix dependency language.
The difference is subtle: Programming languages are much more flexible, but you have to tell it each and every step to take. A matrix dependency language figures out the order of execution.
It can be a subtle, but important difference. In standard Ant, basic control structures like while loops, for loops, and if/then statements are missing.
It sounds like what you want to do would be much easier with a standard computer language. Maybe Python, Perl, or even a shell script.
Type "ant -help" on the command line, and you'll see there's no real way to pass parameters into Ant like you can with regular programming languages. Instead, you can set properties on the command line that Ant can then use:
$ant -Ddeploy.classfile=src/classes/myClass.class deploy

The -D allows you to set a property when calling the deploy task. You can then use the deploy.classfile property to use it in an Ant  task in your  target. I would make a rough estimate that even such a simple build.xml file would require about 20 to thirty lines. This is especially true that you will be giving it a class file or a directory, and you'll have to handle them differently which would require a second target. Not only that, but it would be hard to understand the workflow.
Here's an idea, why not use the destdir target in your <javac> task to create the required *.class files in the deploy directory in the first place. One of the prime practices with Ant is to separate out files you build from files that are in your repository. It makes cleaning up much, much easier. Plus, the <javac> task knows not to rebuild classfiles for source files that haven't changed.
<target name="compile"
    description="Compile your source files">

    <property name="main.destdir" value="${basedir}/deploy/classes"/>
    <property name="main.srcdir" value="${basedir}/src"/>

    <path id="main.classpath">
        <fileset dir="${basedir}/lib/>
    </path>

    <javac srcdir="${main.srcdir}"
        destdir="${main.destdir}"
        classpathref="main.classpath"/>
</target>

Now, you don't have to copy files from your source directory to your deploy directory. Even better, <javac> doesn't recompile source files that haven't changed. Let Ant do the job it was designed for, and for everything else, use a good scripting language.

A: If you don't have a problem with changing your input command line string, here's something that should work.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<project name="Deploy" default="copy">

    <!--
        This script is called in the following manner:

        ant deploy -Dsource.dir=src/classes     (to copy the entire directory)
        ant deploy -Dsource.dir=src/classes -Dsource.module=myClass.class
                                                (to copy one class)

    -->

    <!-- <property name="source.dir" value="src/com/ggl/unzip" />  -->
    <!-- <property name="source.module" value="myClass.class" />  -->

    <target name="copy">
        <condition property="source.module.text" value="all files">
            <not>
                <isset property="source.module" />
            </not>
        </condition>

        <condition property="source.module" value="**.*">
            <not>
                <isset property="source.module" />
            </not>
        </condition>

        <property name="source.module.text" value="${source.module}" />

        <echo>Copying ${source.module.text} from ${source.dir} to deploy/${source.dir}</echo>

        <copy todir="deploy/${source.dir}" overwrite="true" verbose="true">
            <fileset dir="${source.dir}">
                <include name="${source.module}" />
            </fileset>
        </copy>
    </target>

</project>

A: Why don't you use the good old fashioned cp in a shell script rather than an ant script? cp -r would allow you to copy directories recursively...

A: To provide values to ant from console you need to use ant-properties, you can pass them with -D prefix, so you must call your build as:
    ant -Ddst=deploy -Dsrc=src/classes/
(also I suggest to switch src and dst positions - as in cp command)
In build.xml you can access this properties as ${dst} and ${src}.
I it is not suits you, then you need make new ant entry point class for ant and call
ant -main <YourClass> arg2 arg3

Example is here(first example)


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Comedian, actor and best-selling author, Jay Mohr, has been performing stand-up comedy since he was sixteen years old. With a career that has spanned over three decades, Jay has become an artist that is very difficult to define. After landing his dream job on Saturday Night Live, it appeared Jay had reached the height of comedic success. Little did he know that just three years later, he would be cast opposite Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire, and that same year, co-star with Jennifer Anniston in Picture Perfect. After two books, 25 films and starring in his own groundbreaking series produced by Joel Silver and the late Ted Demme, he starred in the CBS scripted comedy Gary Unmarried, which was critically acclaimed and ran for two seasons. Anyone that has ever seen one of his shows will be quick to tell you that there is no one better. Comedy Central agrees, having named Mohr one of the 100 greatest stand-up comics of all time. A simple bio doesn't do the stage show justice, as there are no notes, no two shows the same and an act that never picks on the audience. These are the three tenets that Jay believes makes great live comedy, and the foundation is laid when Jay often tells his audiences, "Let's just jump off a cliff together and build our wings on the way down!" Visit: https://www.jaymohr.com/. /Watch: https://youtu.be/ieRH69UrqFY.
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Growing up, Kane Brown moved around quite a bit.
In fact, he attended four high schools — Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe, Red Bank, Ridgeland and Soddy-Daisy. Things were not always easy, and at one point he and his mother and brother lived in a car.
"I had it tough, but I got through it," he said in a previous interview.
Today, life is much different.
Just two years after signing a recording contract, he is engaged to Katelyn Jae and the couple has purchased a five-bedroom home in the Nashville area. On Saturday, he will take a detour from touring with Jason Aldean and return to North Georgia to headline the first CountryFest in Northwest Georgia Amphitheatre in Ringgold, Ga.
› When: 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2; gates open at 5:30 p.m.
› Where: Northwest Georgia Amphitheatre, 220 Catoosa Circle, Ringgold, Ga.
"It has been crazy. Amazing," he said.
"It's been crazy from trying to get to discovered and never knowing what is going to happen the next day."
In addition to the changes in his personal life, Brown is most excited about four new songs he recently recorded. They have been added to the deluxe version of his self-titled debut album, which came out in December.
Brown co-wrote three of the four new songs — "Setting the Night on Fire," "What's Mine is Yours" and "Found You" — and said he believes they represent his best work. He said he thinks they will be his next four singles.
"I'm really stoked about that."
CountryFest is taking place through a new partnership involving US 101, iHeartRadio, Friends of the Festival and Catoosa County government.
If Brown was uncertain about how he would spend his days in the past, he is pretty certain today. He knows he will be on the road heading to his next show.
"They (Sony Records) don't believe in breaks," he said with a laugh.
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TS Intermediate 2nd Year Time Table 2019: TSBIE has announced the Inter Second Year Public Examination Time Tables 2019 today. Students can check their Telangana Inter 2nd Year Schedule March 2019 along with subject wise dates from below links and bie.telangana.gov.in.
Manabadi TS Inter 2nd year Time table 2019 Download: Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) is the Telangana State level education board to monitor the Intermediate education in the state. The department organizes the examinations, releases the results, monitors the quality of education and operates on many areas related to the Intermediate education. Every year TSBIE conducts the Intermediate examinations in the months of March-April and releases the results in the month of May. The time tables for the TS Intermediate examinations released in November/December months usually. Yearly, the student rate is remarkably raising in Telangana and also the pass rate is raising at a proportional rate.
TS Inter Second year Time Table 2019: As per reports, the board is expected to release the date sheet for Intermediate 2nd Year examinations at a time. The sources say that last year the organization released the Telangana Intermediate Date sheet in the month of November. Hence this year also the TSBIE is expected to release the time table in the month of November last week or December earlier weeks. Hence the students undergoing the Intermediate education in the state of Telangana can get ready to download the final exam dates shortly. The date sheet will be released for Science, Arts, and Commerce courses for both years. TSBIE will announce the theory and practical exam time tables for the Intermediate students. Stay checking the TSBIE official website, bie.telangana.gov.in to check the updates regarding time table.
All the students presently gaining the education in Telangana in the Intermediate 2nd year can check the end exam time table shortly. The date sheet is released in november. Candidates can download the TS Intermediate time table for theory and practical examinations. Soon after the time table is available, candidates can check the subject-wise exam dates and get ready for the examinations. To avoid the confusion of exam dates, clearly, go through the date sheet.
It is hereby informed that on December the Teangana State Board of Intermediate Education has announced the Intermediate Public Examinations, March 2019 (Theory) schedule to be started from February, 2019. Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Education also announced its IPE March 2019 (Theory) schedule starting from 28-02-2019.
How to Download Telangana Inter 2nd Year Time Table 2019?
Visit the TSBIE official wesbite, bie.telangana.gov.in and you will be navigated to the homepage, initially.
Search for TS Intermediate 2nd Year Time Table 2019 for [Science/Maths/Arts] Download link on the homepage.
The TS Inter Time tables 2019 will be downloaded on the screen.
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Other Ranges: To go to pages for other ranges either click on the map above, or on range names in the hierarchy snapshot below, which show the parent, siblings, and children of the Hozameen Range.
Jack Mountain is one of the monarchs of the North Cascades, in elevation, prominence, and scenic splendor (2011-08-13).
Castle Peak from North East (2014-04-13). Photo by Serguei Okountsev.
Hozomeen Mountain South Peak from the east (2015-06-13). Photo by Grant Myers.
Three Fools Peak (2007-08-29). Photo by David Carmody.
Frosty Mountain East (2014-04-13). Photo by Serguei Okountsev.
Full Moon Rising (2015-06-12). Photo by Grant Myers.
North Ridge of Mount Winthrop (center) in the morning. Spring 2014 (2014-04-13). Photo by Serguei Okountsev.
Shull Mountain (2011-08-19). Photo by David Carmody.
North face of Three Aunts, from Castle Creek basin (2018-07-22). Photo by Jeff Guderian.
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Healthcare Providers in Taiwan industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2012-16, and forecast to 2021). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.
The Taiwanese healthcare providers sector had total revenues of $31.9bn in 2016, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.7% between 2012 and 2016.
The outpatient care segment was the sector's most lucrative in 2016, with total revenues of $9.2bn, equivalent to 28.8% of the sector's overall value. The inpatient care segment contributed revenues of $9.1bn in 2016, equating to 28.5% of the sector's aggregate value.
Taiwanese healthcare system faces the problem of ageing population that has rapidly increased nowadays. Particularly, the 7% of population aged over 65 years in 1993 has been doubled to 14% in 2017. Accordingly, healthcare costs are expected to surge over the next years, so that the government will have to increase spending or adjust the public system to these demographics.
What was the size of the Taiwan healthcare providers market by value in 2016?
What will be the size of the Taiwan healthcare providers market in 2021?
What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the Taiwan healthcare providers market?
What are the main segments that make up Taiwan's healthcare providers market?


Can tailor-make trips to all corners of Zimbabwe, from self-drive safaris to five-star journeys.
The place for national park accommodation booking, and a good source for current information. Conveniently, you can pay by credit card, and online bookings should be available by the time you read this.
Voluntary organisation that campaigns for the rights of the LGBTI community in Zimbabwe; also has an office in Bulawayo.
For serious medical issues, this is the best private medical care and evacuation rescue service via air and road.
Stamp sales and poste-restante facilities are in the arcade, while the parcel office is downstairs.
Supplies a free Harare city map and a few brochures, but it's not really worth visiting.
Stocks a few brochures and maps, but is of most use for its excellent website.
Experienced Dutch-owned company specialising in group and tailor-made tours.
Books tours around Zim and Southern Africa.
To extend your visa, contact this office.


Flowers are said to symbolize innocence, life and beauty. How ironic, then, that the largest of them all is evocative of death. Titan arum, or the corpse flower, exists naturally in the rain forests of Western Sumatra and in the gardens of botany big-leaguers throughout the world.
With dark purple coloring not unlike bruises and pooled blood, the corpse flower's imposing size is as commanding as its carrion stench: at its heaviest, the imposing plant weighs in at around 165 pounds with a height of over 10 feet.
In spite of this plant's foul odor, the dead horse arum lily bears the official title of an "ornamental" plant. In order to lure in pollinators (re: lots of flies), the flower uses its stench and also its rare thermogenic properties to raise its own temperature and thus entice its fly friends to pollinate nearby.


Protima Tiwary takes you through a simple warm-up routine before you start running.
Getting out of bed early in the morning for a run seems like a huge task in itself, and adding a 20-minute warm-up routine before your run makes you want to crawl right back in. Yes, we understand how that feels, and while we know it is tempting to miss out on a warm-up, it can prove to be harmful, even dangerous in the long run. Warm-ups and stretches reduce the chances of injury and also improve performance during the run. They also help combat muscle soreness.
Here's the good news- you don't need to spend 20 minutes for a warm-up routine. We are here to show you a warm-up that will take you only 5 minutes and absolutely no equipment. Get out your pen and paper and take notes!
This will help you warm up and get your heart pumping. Do 40 jumping jacks to kickstart your warm-up routine. If you want, you can also time yourself and see how many can you do in a minute.
When you touch the group again, your arms and legs are in the extended position.
This movement mimics those in running and will help open up the abdominal, leg and hip muscles. Do 25 each of these.
Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, with arms at your sides.
Now start running in place, but with your knees reaching up to your chest.
Now start running in place again, but this time with your feet trying to touch your glutes.
This will help activate your chest muscles, deltoids and upper back. Do 10 for each hand.
This helps stretch your torso before your run and will help you combat side stitches during your run too.
Bring your arms over your head, and keeping your abdominal muscles tight, lean to the right. Hold for 10 counts.
Now do the same for the left side.
Make sure only the torso is leaning, with your feet grounded firmly.
This helps stretch the glutes and lower back. Do these 10 times each in a clockwise and anti-clockwise rotation.
Make a circular motion with your hips. Make sure your feet stay grounded.
This will help stretch the hips and leg muscles. Hold this position for 10 counts on each leg.
This one is for your core, hamstrings and deltoids. Do this 10 times.
Hold for 5 seconds, then walk back with your hands to touch your toes.


Some doubted it would ever come. Some said it had been seen riding unicorns in misty valleys in the Scottish highlands. Others had seen it teaching design techniques to Duke Nukem, seemingly Forever. But today, the vapor has condensed.
Icon Resource 2 is actually here.
It's great, because today is also my birthday. The best present I could give myself is bringing Icon Resource 2 to all existing members and welcome new members to the website.
As interest for techniques in iOS icon design has grown considerably, Icon Resource now has a small sibling in iOS Resource, which (for now) teaches you iOS icon design techniques, but will soon rise up next to its brother with full fledged tracks on scalable UI design and other techniques that are essential in designing for iOS.
If you are an existing members, you will get several new advanced level courses in icon design for free. You should get an email soon with new login information that gives you access to the member area. If you have not received an email by tomorrow, do drop me a line (twitter also works). I hope you enjoy all the new content, and I will update this new platform more this year with free new content.
It's always a huge leap for a designer to come up with designs for a platform you're not familiar with. I remember feeling extremely uncomfortable at first when I designed my first iPhone icons and interfaces, and while the iPad was a logical extension of the iPhone UI, it still felt like a significant step to take.
Imagine how I felt when I was sitting at my desk, Nexus One in one hand and pen in the other, after being asked to design doubleTwist's media player for Android. Android doesn't have a very nice media player in terms of design (I'm carefully picking my words here – I don't want to offend the undoubtedly hard working people at Google) and it was easy to just go the way some developers go: make an iPhone app, shoehorn it into Android, and call it a day.
We wanted something that actually advanced the state of the art. I sure as hell wasn't going to use an entirely new platform for months just to ape another. It was a mixed blessing to have so little limitations on what constituted a 'native' user interface.
Android has its guidelines, but most apps (even the Google-sanctioned Twitter app) have a very 'custom' appearance. We opted for a look that works well on the various devices and custom 'shells' (notably, HTC's terrible "Sense" interface) and arrived at this muted, native-looking yet polished visual scheme, which also helps users navigate the app in direct sunlight, where OLED screens like the Nexus One's tend to be hard to read. Subtle usage of textured surfaces in the application also help prevent color banding on the color-limited OLED screens.
I'm happy to have this in the hands of Android users. It's sometimes depressing to read comments on tech websites of people exclaiming: "Why would you even care about how a media player looks or works? You play music and turn off the screen!", but I am sure there's a lot of people who will appreciate the thought and details that went into this app. And that makes it all worth it.
The player is available on the Android Marketplace for free for a limited time.
In August last year, I decided to hold a limited sale period for Icon Resource, since I was about to upgrade it with new content for existing members. I like giving people free upgrades whenever possible: Icon Resource was always meant to be an ongoing project, and it still is. However, it's taking longer than expected to roll out the new websites. It'll certainly be worth the wait, though!
Here's a brief a look at the new Icon Resource – and its new brother, iPhone Resource. There's something new for previous and new members in the works, but I'm not ready to release it yet. This only means that there'll be that much more content for you if you're a member: two entirely new courses on Mac / Windows icon design, including intermediate and advanced techniques.
iPhone Resource, a separate and new set of courses, focuses on making amazing iPhone icons and interfaces. It's shorter and more concise than its big brother, but from what I've seen in the App Store, it's certainly sorely needed.
You will also get a brand new member area, where you can watch course videos, review lessons and download files. An iPhone application is also in the works, but I can't tell much about that yet. It'll be released a bit later than the actual upgrade.
Much design love went into this new version, and all pages have been redesigned from the ground up. The new login page went through over a hundred iterations. Click on the image to view it at full size on Flickr.
I expect to roll out the entire new Icon Resource upgrade in late February or March. As an existing member, you will be notified by email (and only this time! I hate newsletter spam) when the new content arrives. The price will remain unchanged.
It's official: I never had as much giggles in an evening designing this poster for Cocoaheads WWDC. Scott asked me if I'd like to speak at the well-known Mac developer event, and I happily obliged. I also did a bit of poster art for the presentation screen and for, well, fun.
and me. Perhaps an excellent chance to give away a shirt?
It'll be held Wednesday June 10th, 7-9PM, at the Stockton St. Apple Store in San Francisco.
I'm really looking forward to WWDC this year. Hope to see you all at Cocoaheads or elsewhere during the week!
And yes, those are little Xcode hammers in the smoke.
As I alluded to earlier today, Sean Patrick O'Brien and I are working on the very first Mac application that will be released under the Cocoia 'brand': Composition. Composition allows you to take any image and get a pixel-perfect preview of iPhone's default effects at regular home screen size and Settings/Spotlight small icon size. It also lets you look at your icon in a virtual home screen to achieve a native look (and yes, both iPhone and iPod touch home screens will be represented), and export it for further usage on websites and other materials.
Composition is not an icon generator or designer in any way; it is made for people who care about the way their icons look, and want to get a break from the horrible workflow of mashing previews of icons together in Photoshop. There will be several easy-to-access Photoshop templates accessible from the app, but the actual design work is left to applications that are excellent at that kind of work. It will also be completely free!
I will announce more news about it as the application nears the beta milestone; in the mean time, drop an email to this address to get a spot on the list.


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Galore: Professional Hmong Women's Network - 4:33
Lisa Xiong
https://comcastnewsmakers.com/Videos/2015/07/31/galore-professional-hmong-womens-network
Minnesota is home to the 2nd largest Hmong population in the U.S. with multiple generations now calling Minnesota home. That journey has been bolstered by organizations like Galore: the Professional Hmong Women's Network, which supports the transformation of Hmong women's lives through personal and professional growth.
Produced by: Twin Cities Newsmakers Team
#Minnesota #Wisconsin #General Interest
DNA Technology and Crime
DNA Technology and Crime - 5:22
Hampden County District Attorney, Anthony Gulluni, discusses his top priorities, community outreach - specifically tackling distracted driving & promoting internet safety; and increasing the use of DNA technology for criminal investigations and prosecutions.
https://comcastnewsmakers.com/Videos/2019/6/18/DNA-Technology-and-Crime
Supporting the New Tech Based Economy
Supporting the New Tech Based Economy - 5:35
Pam Eichenbaum, Sr. Business Development Associate, Innovation Works Inc., discusses with host Sheila Hyland supporting and investing in the new tech-based Pgh area economy. Recorded at Alloy 26 at Nova Place in Pittsburgh. innovationworks.org
https://comcastnewsmakers.com/Videos/2019/4/30/PGH041819_InnovWx
New Initiatives and Summer Events
New Initiatives and Summer Events - 4:10
Jill Horner speaks with Annamarie Lalevee, Director of Public Relations and Fundraising from The Arc of Warren County, about New Initiatives and Summer Events. Interview recorded 6/25/2019.
Robocall Legislation
Jill Horner speaks with US Representative Frank Pallone, Jr., from the United States Congress, about Robocall Legislation. Interview recorded 2/11/19.


Have you ever had a time in your life when you felt constantly tired, anxious, and generally "on a short fuse"? Or stuck, depressed, and unable to decide what to do next? Have you ever found yourself relying increasingly on crutches like cigarettes, alcohol, or excessive amounts of tea or coffee or sugary foods? Or perhaps gone through a period of low self-esteem or feeling overly sensitive to negative situations around you? Many of us have gone through all these and more, and the questions are – did we really need to feel so bad? How did we get into these states in the first place? …and is it all really as inevitable as we think at the time?
Having done a lot of work on myself, and by undergoing various stages of personal transformation, I realized that I could further enhance my methods of working through studying hypnosis and psychotherapy. This developed the understanding that very often, physical symptoms have their roots in emotional situations or mistaken beliefs, and that therefore, it is possible to relieve symptoms by working out what is going on in the mind and changing those thought patterns to create a more empowering mindset.
One of the things I find to be at the core of most of the difficult situations we find ourselves in is "STRESS". Stress is determined by our mindset and sometimes by our learned responses and even by a habit of anticipating that things will go wrong at some future point. Just think about something that was going great in your life, and then something simple happened that threw the situation out of balance. What did you focus on at that point and afterwards? Did you think about how to re-balance what was already going so well? Or did you focus exclusively on the perceived hitch? I have found that the majority of people focus on the hitch, and then wonder why things go from bad to worse. What tends to go unnoticed in such a scenario is that WHATEVER YOU FOCUS ON GROWS.
So- when we take a few moments to look at what we require or desire to be happening on a positive level, we can often clearly see how to overcome the small setback or at least put the situation back into perspective. Usually the setback is a symptom that an adjustment of some kind needs to be made; – so, by acting as a result of this helpful prompt, we re-balance and empower ourselves to retrieve this viewpoint in future scenarios if we wish. With practice, we can become adept at discovering solutions in any situation and thus developing a much broader outlook that takes in more of the "bigger picture" in life – and why would we want to go back to a limited and frustrating perspective when so much more is possible?


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Leader of Nevada City Based Mortgage Fraud Scheme Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison
Leader of Nevada City-Based Mortgage Fraud Scheme Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — James Christopher Castle, 57, formerly of Petaluma, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for a bank fraud scheme that sought to fraudulently eliminate home mortgages and then profit on the subsequent home sales, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
On Aug. 2, 2021, a jury found Castle guilty of 35 counts of bank fraud. According to evidence at trial, in May 2020, Castle was extradited to the United States from Australia. Castle had fled to New Zealand and then Australia in 2011 when it became clear that his scheme was unraveling. After a three-year extradition process, Castle was transported back to the United States by the U.S. Marshals Service to stand trial in the United States.
Between April 22, 2010, and Nov. 18, 2011, Castle was the leader of a conspiracy that ran a "mortgage elimination program" that purported to help distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure. The conspirators fraudulently altered the chain of title on residential properties, sold the properties, and received the sales proceeds.
As a requirement for participation in the "mortgage elimination program," the conspirators enrolled homeowners as members in a Nevada City-based church named Shon-te-East-a, Walks With Spirit, or its successor entity Pillow Foundation. The conspirators told the homeowners that these entities would offer protection against the banks.
Castle directed other co-conspirators in all aspects of the mortgage elimination program, including recruiting homeowners into the scheme, marshaling the necessary recorded documents, and guiding the homes through sale. Once the homeowner enrolled with Shon-te-East-a or Pillow Foundation, Castle would cause a sham deed of trust to be created and recorded, giving the impression that the homeowner had refinanced the mortgage loan with a new lender. In reality, the new lender was a fake entity controlled by the conspirators, and the homeowner owed no money to the purported new lender.
The next step in the process was also a recorded document. The conspirators caused a fake deed of reconveyance to be recorded, giving the appearance that the true mortgage loan had been discharged and that the true lienholder no longer had a security interest in the home.
With title appearing to be clear, the conspirators caused the sale of the home and split the proceeds between the co-conspirators and the homeowners.
In total, 37 properties were sold through the Shon-te-East-a conspiracy. The conspirators recorded fraudulent documents on an additional approximately 100 homes but were unable to sell these before the scheme unraveled.
This case is the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Audrey B. Hemesath is prosecuting the case.
Three other co-defendants have previously entered guilty pleas. On April 21, 2017, Remus A. Kirkpatrick, 65, formerly of Oceanside, pleaded guilty to one count of falsely making writings of lending associations and was sentenced to six years in prison. On May 26, 2017, Michael Romano, 75, of Benicia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and was sentenced to three years in prison. On July 14, 2017, Laura Pezzi, of Roseville, pleaded guilty to falsely making writings of lending associations and was sentenced to time served.
In related cases, on Sept. 4, 2015, Tisha Trites and Todd Smith, both of San Diego, pleaded guilty to related charges. Trites is scheduled to be sentenced on June 14, 2022, and Smith was sentenced to two years in prison.
Two other co-defendants, George B. Larsen, 60, of San Rafael, and Larry Todt, 70, of Malibu, were convicted of conspiracy and bank fraud following a jury trial in December 2017. Larsen was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and Todt was sentenced to 7 years and three months in prison.
Co-defendant John Michael DiChiara passed away on Aug. 24, 2019, while awaiting trial.
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Former Fresno-Area Auto Dealer Sentenced to 4.5 Years in Prison for Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft
Defense Contractor Sierra Nevada Corporation Pays $10 Million to Settle Allegations of Overcharging Federal Agencies
Shasta County-Based "Joined Inc." CEO Sentenced to 18 Months in Retirement Fund Embezzlement Scheme
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What we call God depends upon our tribe, Clark Jo. Because God is tribal. God takes sides. No man in the sky intervened when I was a boy to deliver me from daddy's fist and abominations. I've figured it out way back, if God is all powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He is all good, then He cannot be all powerful. And neither can you be.
The Red Capes are coming! The Red Capes are coming!


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// four random zero bytes, but it should be vanishingly unlikely.
// bionic and glibc use the same guard for every thread.
// For ARM and MIPS, glibc has a global stack check guard value.
// Android releases that didn't implement the TLS guard value.
* eventually resulting in a SIGABRT.
* compiler generates the proper stack guards around this function.
// Store local array's address to global variable to force compiler to generate stack guards.


you can feel the moonlight dancing across your skin.
and hide in the shadows for safety.
and cooling as much as it warms.
nonetheless it brings me life.
I know I'm trapped in the looking glass.
but perhaps beautiful all the same.
just trying to stay warm in the crystal midnight air.


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"""

import argparse

import importlib

from sunhead.cli.abc import Command

class Runserver(Command):
    """
    Start HTTP Server
    """

    DEFAULT_SERVER_CLASS = 'sunhead.workers.http.server.Server'

    def __init__(self, server_class_name=None):
        self.server_class_name = server_class_name or self.DEFAULT_SERVER_CLASS

    def get_server_class(self):
        # fixme: add errors handling
        module, name = self.server_class_name.rsplit('.', 1)
        mod = importlib.import_module(module)
        server_class = getattr(mod, name)
        return server_class

    def handler(self, options) -> None:
        srv_class = self.get_server_class()
        srv = srv_class(fd=options['fd'], host=options['host'], port=options['port'])
        srv.run()

    def get_parser(self):
        parser_command = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Run application server")
        parser_command.add_argument(
            "--fd",
            dest="fd",
            type=int,
            help="FD is filled by Circus manager",
        )
        parser_command.add_argument(
            "host",
            help="IP address for listen",
            nargs="?",
        )
        parser_command.add_argument(
            "-p", "--port",
            help="TCP port address for listen",
        )
        return parser_command

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Johann Christoph Bach, född 6 december 1642 och död 31 mars 1703, var en tysk tonsättare.

Bach var en av de mest bekanta äldre medlemmarna av Bach-släkten. Bach var organist i Eisenach från 1655 och fram till sin död. Hans kompositioner utgörs av kantaten Es erhob sich ein Streit, en del motetter, 44 koralspel och en sarabande med variationer för piano.

Källor
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Tyska klassiska kompositörer
Födda 1642
Avlidna 1703
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Los Angeles Times: California lawmakers accepted $810,000 in gifts and overseas trips in 2018
The beaches of Maui are a popular destination for California lawmakers. (Irene Lechowitzky)
By Patrick McGreevy and Taryn Luna
Mar 05, 2019 | 12:45 PM
| Sacramento
California lawmakers were showered with more than $810,000 in gifts last year, many from powerful interest groups lobbying the state who handed out concert and professional sports tickets, spa treatments, gourmet dinners and trips to a dozen countries, new state reports show.
The annual economic disclosure reports shed light on how state legislators can augment their annual $110,459 salaries with gifts that allow them to travel the world and eat at expensive restaurants, often in the company of corporate executives seeking to influence their decisions in the Legislature.
The legislators reported accepting travel expenses for trips to China, Poland, South Korea, Japan, Chile, India, Spain, Germany, Israel, Mexico, El Salvador and the Netherlands. Closer to home, they also flew to New Orleans; Las Vegas; Aspen, Colo.; New York; and Maui. Many of the trips were billed as study or trade missions, while others involved speeches and panel discussions given by the lawmaker who reported the gift.
"The truth is the vast majority of gifts and trips are given because the gift givers want something in return," said Rey Lopez-Calderon, executive director of California Common Cause, a government watchdog organization. "It's not just a question of the gift giver wanting something in return, but that the public could infer that even if it's not true. There is potential for the public's faith in government to be undermined."
While some gifts are made through nonprofit organizations, others are paid for directly by interest groups.
Former Assemblyman Dante Acosta (R-Santa Clarita) reported accepting a luxury box seat worth $615 to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers play the Boston Red Sox in the World Series from a group called Communities for California Cardrooms, whose board of directors is made up of casino operators. Acosta lost his bid for reelection in November.
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) received more than $1,800 in tickets to sporting events, including $460 for a pair of tickets to Game 5 of the World Series. The tickets were provided by Michael Lizarraga, president of the East Los Angeles Community Union.
Rendon also received $305 worth of tickets and food from the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club to attend a day of horse racing.
Assemblyman Steven Choi (R-Irvine) attended a concert by Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. The gift was provided by the Pechanga Resort and Casino that included lodging and meals, with the whole package reported to have a value of $400.
Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) accepted a $238 ticket from AT&T to a Katy Perry concert.
And Assemblyman Brian Dahle (R-Bieber) reported gifts including tickets worth $882 to Disney on Ice paid for by the California Building Industry Assn. and the California Correctional Peace Officers Assn.
Other lawmakers were treated to a weekend at the golf resort in Pebble Beach, Calif., on the dime of the Assn. of California Life and Health Insurance Companies, while the California Charter Schools Assn. paid expenses for 19 lawmakers it invited to attend a symposium in La Jolla. Those who accepted travel expenses of $800 or more included Assembly members Heath Flora (R-Ripon), Devon Mathis (R-Visalia) and Marie Waldron (R-Escondido).
Other gifts included bottles of wine and champagne, boxes of oranges and almonds, cowboy hats and spa treatments.
The lawmakers who received the most gifts in the two houses were state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who accepted $59,000 in travel, meals and other gifts, and Assemblyman Mike Gipson (D-Carson), whose tally was $41,400.
Wiener's trips included a $14,798 study trip for 10 days to Japan paid by the Japanese government, a $12,138 trip over 11 days to the Netherlands to examine flood management and infrastructure, and an $11,330 trip over two weeks to Chile to discuss clean energy and emergency preparedness.
Gipson was among several other lawmakers who also were part of the legislative delegation to Chile and the Netherlands.
The latter two trips were paid for by the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy, a nonprofit group partly financed by the oil and telecommunications industries and construction labor groups. The organization's board of directors includes executives from PG&E, Southern California Edison, Shell Energy North America, Western States Petroleum Assn., AT&T, Comcast and Health Net Inc.
The foundation's "forums and study travel projects put a diverse cross-section of California leaders into direct contact with their counterparts around the world," said P.J. Johnston, a spokesman for the group. "This sharing of views and experiences leads to a broader understanding of complex issues while also promoting what makes California special."
Wiener noted that the foreign trips he took were not paid for by taxpayers.
"My preference is to spend my non-Sacramento time in San Francisco, but at the same time, seeing and learning about other countries' policy approaches to issues confronting California — including meeting with senior government officials and advocates — makes me a better and more informed legislator," Wiener said.
He said he learned about energy and water issues on his travels to Chile and the Netherlands. In Japan, he gathered information on issues including housing and high-speed rail.
A trip with one of the largest groups of lawmakers attending —14 — was to an annual conference on Maui sponsored by the Independent Voter Project, a nonprofit group that receives funding from corporations and labor groups, including the California Correctional Peace Officers Assn., tobacco giant Altria and the California Cable & Telecommunications Assn., all of which lobby extensively in the state Capitol.
Lawmakers received about $2,600 each for expenses to attend the annual conference at a luxury resort.
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