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LARRY ZOX "SINGLE FILE" DRAWING, 1965
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of abstraction in American art of the 20th century.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklahoma and went on to work under the tutelage of modernist Georg Grosz at the Des Moines Art Centre. Zox moved to New York City and established his reputation by the mid 1960's. His studio was located on 20th Street and he was surrounded and inspired by a melting pot of jazz artists, bikers, and boxers.
Zox was one of the most successful practitioners of hard-edge or geometric abstraction and not surprisingly was championed by Frank Stella, amongst others.
By the mid 1960's, Zox arrived at his characteristic style, utilizing hard-edge shapes in bold colors to create geometric patterns, which were often created on raw canvas.
"Single File" is a quintessential example of his mastery of geometry and color. In this exemplary work on paper, Zox's drafting process is left exposed, containing the boldly-colored geometrics.
Zox's hard-edge geometric creations from the late 1960's and early 1970's are arguably the most important from his oeuvre. Fittingly he had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1973. Today, numerous museums including the Whitney, the MoMA, the Tate and the Metropolitan all have examples of his work from this era.
Click here to see another example from Zox's "Single File" series.
Signed and dated by the artist.
18"H 23"W (work)
20.5"H 25.5"W (framed)


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Co-op Warm Space Funding Boost
24th January 2023, 11:12am | By Karen |
This £1m match fund has been launched by Co-op to support local organisations who are supporting their communities through rising costs this winter, by bringing people together into warm spaces.
To be eligible for match funding your organisation must:
Be based and have a bank account based in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland
Be a not-for-profit constituted organisation, including community groups, schools, registered charities and social enterprises
Have a bank account in the name of the organisation
Run a crowdfunding campaign this winter, delivered by 31st March, 2023
Be raising funds for revenue costs only (capital costs such as building refurbishment are not eligible)
Your project must be a community organisation that welcomes people into a community space in your local area to provide support and needs urgent help this winter to:
Maintain vital existing services in the face of rising energy costs
Make the community space that you operate from more welcoming
Increase opening times or extend services Typical projects may include (but are notlimited to):
A community cafe that needs funding to continue offering their building as a warm space.
A local village support group wanting to extend existing activities to support more people in their community.
A community fridge, wanting to promote their services more widely to meet increasing need.
A youth group whose energy costs have increased.
Match Funding criteria: To receive match funding, the following conditions must all be met:
For every donation made towards your project we'll match it up to £250, so if your project receives a donation of £20 we'll add another £20, If your project receives a donation of £600 then you'll receive an additional £250.
Only one donation per supporter will be matched (we will not provide match funding where a supporter is deemed to have made multiple donations).
You can receive a maximum of £5,000 of match funding per organisation in addition to the Co-op boost of £500.
Projects will be required to agree to the Terms and Conditions
Eligible organisation types:
Registered UK Charities including charitable incorporated organisations
Registered community benefit organisations
Registered social enterprises and charity companies
Community interest companies
Constituted community groups
Churches and other religious organisations (if the funded activity is not deemed to be promoting religious beliefs).
Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs)
Schools (if funded activity is provided in a way that local community can be involved and is not part of a school's core educational role)
Community amateur sports clubs
Co-ops Non-eligible organisation types:
Statutory bodies such as local authorities or health institutions
Unregistered organisations
Unincorporated organisations
Individuals or sole traders
For profit businesses or partnerships
Commercial sport and physical activity providers, e.g. private gyms
Organisations providing onward grants
Organisations without a UK registered address
Organisations without a named UK bank account
Organisations where funds are solely for the provision of bursaries to individuals or families
You will be required to provide the following documentation and evidence of your organisation's eligibility:
Governing documents (such as constitution or Memorandum & Articles of association) Selection process
All projects that meet the criteria set out above will be assessed to determine which will receive match funding. Project owners will be informed whether their application has been successful or not. Co-op reserves the right to vary these criteria. Projects will be notified if their criteria will vary from the stated terms above. Co-op reserves the right to not fund a project or to withdraw funding during a campaign, if it becomes apparent that any of the criteria are not being met.
You will be ineligible for funding from Co-op, at Co-op's sole discretion, if it is not satisfied that all the supporter pledges on your project are genuine pledges. Project Owners or the campaigning organisation pledging to their own campaign is allowed, however this should not be a significant amount unless discussed before the pledge is added. Small offline donations that have been collected may also be added, however you may be required to evidence the origin of these pledges (receipts, letters of support, copies of cheques or bank statements etc.) Where projects or pledges are identified as fraudulent, potentially fraudulent, or demonstrative of manipulating the pledging on a project in order to obtain match funding, this is taken very seriously. Where appropriate, the police or other relevant authorities will be informed. In addition:
Your application for funding will be refused and any existing commitment for funding will be withdrawn.
Your Crowdfunding project may be cancelled and you will be ineligible for future applications or projects.
Action will be taken to recover funding which has been paid out.
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This statistic shows the revenue of other reservation service and related activities in Luxembourg from 2010 to 2015, with a forecast to 2022. It is projected that the revenue of other reservation service and related activities in Luxembourg will amount to approximately 44.4 million U.S. dollars by 2022.
The industry classification is based on the NACE Rev. 2 - system in Luxembourg. The industry "other reservation service and related activities" has the code "N7990".


Kolawole Akinyede Johnson (KAJ) comes out with a different sound "TALENU" produced by Chilly Ace, proving himself a versatile artiste.
The American based Nigerian indigenous rapper had his first appearance in the music industry with his previously released music "AMOPE" featuring 9ICE, while the audio and video are still gaining lot of airplays.
The rapper who decided to jump on a fast beat, gives us a sweatable dance hall music which is equivalently a banger. Kindly download and share and always keep in touch with KAJ. (@officialkajj).


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Fog to Blame for Multi-Vehicle Crash Near Sawyer, ND
Driving car in the fog / Getty Stock / ThinkStock
Sawyer, ND (KEYZ) Heavy fog is to blame for a multi-vehicle crash near Sawyer early Thursday morning, August 25, 2022.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports troopers responded just before 8:00 a.m. to a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 52, approximately one mile southeast of Sawyer. The crash involved four commercial motor vehicles and eight passenger vehicles. Heavy fog at the time significantly reduced visibility, which led to the crash. Only minor injuries were reported.
A school bus and an Air Force bus, each carrying passengers, were in the vicinity at the time but were not involved in the crash.
The McHenry County Sheriff's Office, Ward County Sheriff's Office, and the Velva Ambulance also responded to the scene. The crash remains under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol.
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Television Firsts Surround the Crowning of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953
The occasion of the 1st International Television Event arrives but is overshadowed by CBS & NBC in their race to be 1st.
Richard Wirth
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June of 1953 was a flawless production. Rehearsed, reverent, professional, everyone agreeing to what had to be done to make it the classic ceremony that had taken place time and again over the last thousand years. The only difference this time would be the common folk in Great Britain and ultimately millions worldwide would have a better seat for the ceremony than any Duke, Duchess or Earl. The difference would be television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tU5-XCTCUU&feature=youtu.be
From the beginning the groom, Prince Phillip, had advocated modernization. At the other end of the spectrum, the older establishment including the Queen Mother and the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, insisted on maintaining tradition and said no to television. While it would seem to indicate Phillip had been overruled, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) leaked the decision of the traditionalists to the general public. In the court of public opinion, 78% favored televising the Coronation. Bowing under pressure from the royal monarch's subjects, the BBC received a go ahead to bring their live cameras to the ceremony.
Peter Dimmock, BBC Director/Producer explains further in this BBC clip.
https://youtu.be/xszwsnKjaKQ?t=2261
Most of Europe could be serviced by a live signal. In the years after peace was declared in Europe, "Eurovision" was a concept being advanced by the continent's television and radio services. Leaders of the group were the BBC and Rediodiffusion et Télévision Françaises (RTF) representing France. Tests had been done and some working agreements had been created.
On the day of the Coronation, BBC sent a live feed to the continent by way of a microwave link from Dover, across the English Channel to Calais, France, then to the Netherlands and Germany. Kinescopes of the proceedings would have to do for the rest of the world. Within days of the broadcast, the films would be made available to existing television stations around the world including the U.S.A.
https://youtu.be/2S_eLejI0Jo
Remember there were no overseas live capabilities we take for granted now. Satellites were at least ten years away. Likewise, the invention of videotape was still three years away. Other than "Live," kinescope recordings were the only way to distribute television programming. The BBC was creating the first television event of international proportions.
The BBC was most gracious in accommodating the many requests for copies in places they could not reach with a live signal. Had they known what lengths the Americans would go, specifically CBS and NBC, they might have thought better of giving up the films without more stringent restrictions.
For example, in the remote hope of getting a live signal from the BBC, NBC made elaborate plans including pressing RCA's Long Island shortwave listening post into service. According to a June 1st, 1953, article in the New York Times, "Only occasionally in the past have British television signals, through some freak of nature, been received clearly in this country on frequencies used by the BBC." Special aerials were erected and a British television receiver and kinescope film recorder were installed at Riverhead, Long Island, to intercept the signal should it appear. A helicopter will be standing by to rush the film back to Manhattan.
And then there were the airplane races.
Reuvan Frank who later became a president of NBC News, writing about the Coronation in 1993 for American Heritage, said, "ABC was involved in none of this. The network 'runt of the litter' was still several years away from [challenging] the big boys on their own turf." Instead they "arranged to carry, at no charge, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) telecast of the kinescope of the entire BBC coverage." ABC's only expense would be for transmission lines and costs from the CBC.
But CBS and NBC both had reasons to beat the other to air the first pictures. They had promised their affiliates they would be first and worth the faith their stations (both current and potential) had placed in them. Aside from what it would do for the ego in one of the two executive suites, both networks were in a battle to win affiliation contracts.
NBC had lost the lead to CBS in radio, still the more widely reaching, and therefore, more profitable of the two media. And NBC's affiliated station in Norfolk, Virginia, had just been lured away by CBS and others were on the "critical list." Affiliates were concerned about leadership at RCA/NBC. On the other hand, before the VHF station freeze, CBS had advised its radio affiliates to wait to apply for television licenses so they could build their facilities around the CBS color system. Now it looked like color wasn't going to happen anytime soon and when it did it would not be the system CBS had advised its affiliates to wait for.
The two networks sent separate teams to London to set up for the broadcast. It appears no expense was spared. Both networks chartered large aircraft. CBS's British Overseas Air Corporation Stratocruiser, the largest airplane in transatlantic service at the time had a downstairs bar area that had been removed and converted to an office area, projection room and editing area. NBC's Pan American DC-6 charter was similarly equipped for television. Both of these aircraft would fly directly to Boston for the late evening recap's, about a ten hour flight. Boston was the closest U.S. city to London saving about an hour of flying time over New York.
Adding to the costs, CBS set up a facility in a Quonset hut at Heathrow Airport. Likewise, Charles Colledge, second in command in NBC News, picked out Blackbushe Airport, a small private airport forty miles outside of London and set up a live microwave feed from BBC's downtown tower to their Quonset hut. In both locations, the buildings would become combination offices, film laboratories, recording studios and editing rooms.
Boston also was the closest transmission point with the ability to feed the entire country for both networks. Again, buildings were leased and a microwave relay to AT&T's television circuits were installed at the city's Logan International Airport.
To get the kinescoped footage to Boston, both networks reserved space on a Royal Air Force jet bomber. The CBC wrote "It involved Royal Air Force Canberra light bombers and Canadian CF-100 fighter jets flying coronation films from London to Goose Bay, N.L., to Montreal in a relay" to deliver the kinescopes. The stop in Goose Bay, Labrador, would allow CBS and NBC to offload their film to their P-51's for delivery to Boston.
British Canberra Bomber on the left; Royal Canadian CF-100's on the right.
Now the story becomes interesting if not a little silly. CBS knew that the actor, Jimmy Stewart, was both a part owner of one of its affiliate stations but also enjoyed being an owner of a World War II P51 Mustang that had been souped up for racing by its pilot, Joe De Bona. Through Stewart, CBS made arrangements for the De Bona P51 to pick up the film in Goose Bay and fly it to CBS at Logan Airport.
NBC arranged for another P51, also a racing plane flown by Stanley Reaver, to meet their film in Goose Bay. Reaver had just lost first place to De Bona in a major air race and was interested in a high profile rematch.
Unbeknownst to anyone outside of NBC's team, the secretive location NBC had chosen was to hide its "secret weapon." They had entered into a discussion with the manufacturer of the airplane, English Electric's Canberra jet bomber. It so happens the company was about to deliver one of its jet aircraft to the Venezuelan Air Force in late May or early June.
In the agreement NBC struck with the ferrying company, the pilots would fly the early kinescopes to North America, drop off the film while making a refueling stop in Boston and continue on to Venezuela. According to Reuvan Frank's article, "Getting the ferrying company to move the delivery date to June 2nd was much easier than Colledge anticipated, although he later remembered one thousand pounds changing hands…"
On June 2nd, over twenty million viewers watched live over the BBC as Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in a service conducted in Westminster Abbey. In the U.S., the "Today" show went on the air at 5:30am EDT to begin coverage in any way it could. It relayed the BBC's radio coverage and still pictures using a device called "Mufax," a wire transfer machine that would relay still images in only nine minutes.
Inside the control room in Westminster Abbey
By 7:30am EDT the ceremony film was processed and cut. Once the films had been packed, the Royal Air Force jet delivering the CBC (and those from CBS and NBC) could begin its 2,480 mile journey across the north Atlantic to the Americas.
But before that aircraft was able to take off, bad news was getting out about the NBC Venezuela jet that had gotten underway at 6:24am EDT. After about two hours into the flight the jet had to turn back to London due to fuel line problems. Luckily, NBC continued with the arrangements for the P51 to pick-up the footage from the morning ceremonies merely as a backup plan.
The race would start at Goose Bay. The Royal Air Force jet fighter took off at 8:46am EDT and landed in Labrador at 1:45pm EDT. The British jet was unloaded. The CBC films were loaded on the Royal Canadian Air Force jet fighter and took off for Montreal arriving at 3:45pm. The CBC technicians would start the BBC kinescope program after they had finished their coverage of the Canadian celebration emanating from Ottawa.
Walter Cronkite telegraphed the CBS group aboard the Stratocruiser to let them know the status. It was addressed to Sig Mikelson who was the first president of CBS News and wrote the book "The Decade that Shaped Television News." Mikelson wrote he was among the group along with Ed Murrow, Don Hewitt, Bill Lodge (VP of CBS Engineering) returning aboard the evening plane trying to make a 10:30pm EDT air-time. They had just joined the British flight crew in toasting their new queen when they received the wire that NBC's Venezuelan jet was returning to London with a fuel line problem. Now they only had to sweat out the airplane race to Boston. They probably refilled their glasses again to toast that De Bona in the CBS P-51 would succeed.
About this same time, the two P51's took off for Logan Airport. The CBS flight got underway first at 2:02pm. NBC started out behind as its P51 didn't get in the air until 2:15 and had problems with icing. As the minutes ticked by it became obvious the NBC flight was not going to catch up to the CBS aircraft.
In the CBS converted aircraft hanger, the personnel were hearing the NBC plane wasn't making good time. And in the makeshift offices of NBC, as reported by Reuvan Frank, "the gloom was thick enough to touch." Then there was an idea. The idea went up the chain of command until it reached Charles Barry, NBC's Vice President for television programs. As Frank described it, he reached for a telephone and secluded himself under a desk in the back of the control room. He called Robert Kintner, the president of ABC. "If I pay for your line charges from Montreal, may I share the lines with you?"
They haggled while precious minutes crept by and then Kintner gave in.
Mikelson wrote that on board the Stratocruiser they were calculating when ABC would be getting to the actual crowning. They would be running the CBC feed which was uncut from the BBC feed. "It was a reasonable certainty that CBS would show the Archbishop of Canterbury placing the crown on the Queen's head before the CBC version reached that point."
At 3:56pm both ABC and NBC switched to the CBC's Ottawa program. It was 4:16pm before the CBC switched to Montreal and the BBC London footage finally began to roll on North American television screens. It should be pointed out that neither the CBC nor the BBC had any pressure on them. Both of them can more aptly be compared to the USA's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) than to the U.S. commercial networks.
At Logan International, CBS's P51 landed at 4:13pm and the network went on the air with its edited BBC kinescope footage at 4:23pm. Broadcasting magazine said, "…that its telecast gave the American audience its first view of the actual Coronation rite" even though it was last getting the program on the air.
So, who won?
Well, technically, nobody did. After all, when it came down to the broadcast of the coronation and crowning, all NBC had done was abandoned the P51 and take the feed from ABC who was rebroadcasting the Canadian Broadcasting feed who in turn was only running a kinescope of the uncut BBC live feed. CBS was the only network to run its own edited version.
If anybody could justify saying they won, it would be ABC who let the British and Canadians handle the whole show. And they were magnanimous about it.
Both NBC and CBS placed full-page ads in the New York Times the next day bragging about how they brought the coronation to the U.S. first. From NBC's claims "First Pictures" (the wirephoto stills from the Today show's Mufax machine) to CBS's claim "…the best medium to stage a spectacle is the best showcase for a product. There's crowning success for both on television's most popular network."
ABC kept their advertisement in the trade press. In Broadcasting of June 15th, 1953, they lauded the British for their restrained and reverent coverage of the event and praised the Canadians for their efficient and speedy delivery. ABC said, "if we can take credit for anything, it's the fact that we brought this nationally important event to America efficiently, effectively and economically." The ad wraps up by saying they think "the crown for coronation coverage should stay in England and Canada. It doesn't fit right on our American head."
In December, 1953, the Sylvania Television Awards singled out ABC-TV, BBC and CBC by honoring them for Timely News Coverage for the Coronation.
In a post script, years later, Charles Colledge found himself in London at a dinner with a BBC staffer he had gotten to know. Frank writes, "Colledge asked him why the BBC had the plane ordered to return. [The BBC staffer] did not deny that it had. He said only: "To protect our Canadian coverage."
Nobody knows where the edited program that NBC had sent with the Venezuelan jet ended up. According to Frank, "The two or three people who saw it said later it was a wonderful program…The film was never found, the program never shown." To this day it is still missing.
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Just hours before their observing run at Keck Observatory will start, NASA scientists Eliot Young and his team will give a talk in the Hualalai Conference room at Keck Observatory's headquarters in Waimea. Join us at 7:00p to learn about the science of Pluto, the Kuiper belt, dwarf planets and more.
At 1:49am the next morning, the NASA New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to make its closest approach to Pluto, and Young's team will be collecting close-up data on the dwarf planet and other distant solar system objects for the first time ever.
Young is the principle scientist from the Southwest Research Institute, one of the partners involved in the building of the New Horizons craft.
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Football Agents: The gift or the curse?
The ECHO examines the role of football's most controversial, divisive and misunderstood figures
Eric Hall, one of football's most high-profile, and controversial, agents
Of all the figures involved in the high-stakes, lucrative world of football, few are more controversial, divisive or misunderstood as agents.
To some, they're the curse of the game; self-serving megalomaniacs with shady pasts, shady futures and shady intentions. Ask a manager or chairman about their dealings with agents and the chances are you'll be met by a sharp intake of breath and a litany of horror stories.
And yet to others, the role of the agent is altogether different. Not so much a necessary evil as an absolute necessity. As one agent told the ECHO "people don't like us, but try getting things done without us!"
On Merseyside at present, they're something of a hot topic. At Liverpool, the ongoing saga surrounding Raheem Sterling has dominated the news for longer than anyone would have wished, with his agent, Aidy Ward, fanning the flames at every turn.
Over at Goodison Park, meanwhile, the fear is that something similar could soon emerge with Romelu Lukaku, whose representative, Mino Raiola, is famed for his ability to manufacture big-money transfers for his clients. Noises emerging from Raiola in recent months, and 'convenient' stories surfacing linking Lukaku with a move away from Everton, have the Blues on high-alert.
Here, the ECHO looks at the role of the agent, some of the myths surrounding them and why, for some people, a few bad apples have ended up spoiling the whole batch.
Aidy Ward
Tasked first and foremost with managing the financial affairs of footballers, an agent's role often (or at least should) go far beyond that. They should be, in no particular order, a talent scout, confidante, critic, motivational coach, marketing and media consultant, friend and fixer all rolled into one.
"We look after every aspect of their careers," says Jonathan Barnett, co-founder of one of the biggest agencies in the UK, Stellar Group. "The most important thing for us is that footballers can just concentrate on playing."
Agents - good agents at least – should have their client's well-being at the top of their agenda. Indeed, their influence can often stretch into something approaching parental concern. They hear players' hopes and fears, massage their egos, help deal with their insecurities and fight their corner. They speak to them about tactics, training, their on and off-field relationships, their past, their present and their future. They book hotels, take care of travel arrangements, answer fanmail, even monitor a player's social media output. In short, they care.
As one agent, who asked not to be named, put it: "you're working 24 hours a day, eight days a week!"
"We like to educate players that football is a business and everything they do will impact on their future," says Pete Smith, who represents Wales captain Ashley Williams, among others. "We help with their finances, contract negotiations and transfers, but we also offer daily support.
"That means we spend half our lives on the motorway, and often don't get home until 3-5am."
In addition to the day-to-day, client-driven stuff, agents can also be used as intermediaries by clubs, to identify potential new players, or to help find new clubs for players they are looking to discard. An agent's contacts book is always a handy tool for clubs, from the highest level down.
Belgium's Romelu Lukaku and Kevin Mirallas (right) looking in opposite directions on the bench before kick-off
Driving a hard bargain
The key role of agents, though, and the one that tends to propel them into the public eye, concerns the negotiating table.
It's why Ward, largely unknown prior to this year, is now an unpopular figure amongst Liverpool fans, and why the likes of Raiola and Portuguese businessman Jorge Mendes have earned the tag 'super agent.'
Whether it is a contract renewal, or a transfer between clubs, agents have a big part to play. Firstly in an advisory capacity (i.e. is this decision the right one for the player?) and then in terms of negotiating the deal itself. Without being unkind to footballers, the complexities of modern contracts, with their clauses, bonuses and incentives, are often some way beyond their field of expertise.
Still, some deals are more straightforward than others; Kevin Keegan, for example, remembers negotiating the world-record signing of Alan Shearer for Newcastle in 1996 with the player's representative, Tony Stephens. Shearer's only contribution to the discussions was to ask for the No.9 shirt, and then leave. "He trusted Tony to do the right thing for him," Keegan says. Brendan Rodgers did not use an agent when negotiating his move from Swansea to take over at Liverpool.
Others, though, can be more complex. And as seen with the current situation surrounding Raheem Sterling, the negotiating table can break a relationship as easily as it can make one.
"It's not always about money, though" says Jonathan Barnett. "It's also about the progression of the player, and whether it's the right move for them."
Barnett, incidentally, was the agent who almost caused Ashley Cole to "swerve off the road" when informing him that Arsenal were offering "only" £55,000 a week during a contract re-negotiation. Soon after, Cole moved across London to Chelsea.
During the period October 2013 to September 2014, a total of £115.2m was paid by Premier League clubs in agents' fees - Liverpool accounted for £14.3m of that, Everton £5.75m.
Critics argue that such money could be put to better use by clubs, in helping boost the game at grass roots level, say, or by reducing ticket prices for spectators. Agents, though, would argue that their work behind the scenes helps make footballers into what they are, and that they earn their fees.
One of football's more colourful agents Eric 'Monster' Hall (200)
Image problem
Part of the problem, as far as agents are concerned, is that they only really come into the spotlight during high-profile transfer and contract negotiations - a time where they stand to make a significant personal profit.
They're rarely talked about when they're securing partnership deals for their clients, talking them through their latest bout of self-doubt or speaking to their manager about what they need to do to get into the team.
The case of Ward, for example, is an interesting one. The 34-year-old has emerged as a hate figure for Liverpudlians, seen as the driving force behind Sterling's desire to leave Anfield. Even within the game, among other agents, his methods have raised eyebrows.
He would argue, of course, that he is simply looking after the best interests of his client. And though he clearly wields significant influence over Sterling (and Saido Berahino, his other major client), it would be wrong to suggest that he is the sole reason for the player's current situation. His main failure, it seems, has been the way the issue has been played out in public, and the damage that has done to his player's reputation.
That, of course, has not helped change the public perception of the agent. But the reality is that, as in any profession, there will always be some whose actions can tarnish the reputations of those around them.
There are those who have been accused of blocking deals because their own cut was not big enough, those accused of turning players against clubs and vice versa, using the media to plant messages and push agendas, and there are those who have been found to be operating illegally, taking under-the-table payments and extracting money from the game.
There are bad agents, undoubtedly. Agents who act in their own interests, and whose actions have damaged the perception of the profession.
But the reality is, football agents are here to stay. Their influence is growing, and their networks are valued.
And as one player told the ECHO: "A good agent is worth his weight in gold to a player. The game might not necessarily like them, but it needs them."
Are agents a good thing for football?


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RIM Postpones Planned BlackBerry Outage
Last week we dropped word that RIM had scheduled a "planned outage" for 12am to 4am CST on Saturday, March 22nd while they set out to perform database upgrades.
I stayed awake for the planned outage, but as I mention in the CrackBerry Podcast I never noticed anything out of whack with my BlackBerry at all. As it turns out, RIM postponed performing the upgrades. From KSDK.com:
Director of Public Safety Mark James applauded the outstanding cooperation from Research In Motion (RIM) with Missouri's emergency response community. RIM postponed a scheduled 4 hour BlackBerry Database upgrade for all North American subscribers from early Saturday morning, until a future date. Several flooding rivers in the St. Louis and eastern Missouri are scheduled to be at their record peak at the same time of the scheduled outage. Many first responders and emergency management officials who are feverishly working to protect citizens from the record flooding rely on their "BlackBerry" devices for critical communications. Missouri Homeland Security officials requested RIM to postpone the scheduled outage late Friday afternoon.
"RIM officials recognized the criticality of reliable and redundant communications for our first responders in an ongoing emergency, and didn't hesitate to cooperate in putting the upgrade off until Missouri's crisis passes. For this, I am extremely thankful," James said.
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import javax.swing.border.Border;
import javax.ws.rs.client.Client;
import javax.ws.rs.client.Entity;
import javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Form;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.srb4j.desktopclient.model.AuthTokenResult;
import org.srb4j.desktopclient.model.ErrorResult;
import org.srb4j.desktopclient.support.SdcConstants;
import org.srb4j.desktopclient.support.SdcFoAuthTokenResponse;
import org.srb4j.desktopclient.support.SdcRestHelper;
import org.srb4j.desktopclient.support.SdcTokenStore;
import org.srb4j.desktopclient.view.ViewUtils;

/**
 *
 * @author chenjianjx@gmail.com
 *
 */
public class RegisterForm extends JDialog {

	/**
	 *
	 */
	private static final long serialVersionUID = -4850695503187481955L;

	private JLabel errLbl = new JLabel();

	private JTextField emailFld = new JTextField(20);
	private JTextField passwordFld = new JPasswordField(20);

	private JButton submitBtn = new JButton("Submit");

	private Client restClient = SdcRestHelper.getInstance().getRestClient();

	public RegisterForm(Frame owner, boolean modal) {
		super(owner, modal);

		JPanel pane = new JPanel();
		Border padding = BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(10, 10, 10, 10);
		pane.setBorder(padding);
		setContentPane(pane);

		GridBagLayout layout = new GridBagLayout();
		pane.setLayout(layout);

		int gridy = 0;

		errLbl.setForeground(Color.RED);
		// errLbl.setText("\t\t");

		pane.add(errLbl, buildGridBagConstraints(0, gridy++, 2, 1));

		pane.add(new JLabel("Email:"), buildGridBagConstraints(0, gridy, 1, 1));
		pane.add(emailFld, buildGridBagConstraints(1, gridy++, 1, 1));

		pane.add(new JLabel("Password:"),
				buildGridBagConstraints(0, gridy, 1, 1));
		pane.add(passwordFld, buildGridBagConstraints(1, gridy++, 1, 1));

		pane.add(submitBtn, buildGridBagConstraints(1, gridy++, 2, 1));

		this.setTitle("Register");
		this.setSize(800, 600);
		setLocationRelativeTo(null);

		// add actions
		submitBtn.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

			@Override
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {

				String username = StringUtils.trimToNull(emailFld.getText());
				String password = StringUtils.trimToNull(passwordFld.getText());

				WebTarget target = restClient.target(
						SdcConstants.BACKEND_FO_REST_URL).path(
						SdcConstants.LOCAL_REG_URL);
				Form form = new Form();
				form.param("grant_type", "password");
				form.param("username", username);
				form.param("password", password);

				Response restResponse = target
						.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE)
						.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE)
						.post(Entity.form(form));
				SdcFoAuthTokenResponse clientResponse = SdcFoAuthTokenResponse
						.parseRestResponse(restResponse);

				if (clientResponse.isSuccessful()) {
					AuthTokenResult tokenResult = clientResponse.tokenResult;
					SdcTokenStore.getInstance().setToken(tokenResult);
					RegisterForm.this.dispose();
				} else {
					ErrorResult errorResult = clientResponse.errorResult;
					ViewUtils.showErrForUser(errLbl, errorResult);
					ViewUtils.logErrForDev(errorResult);
				}

			}

		});
	}
}

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Here is a quick rundown of the male and female winners from the 2011 Half Marathon Championship in Houston on Saturday.
Ryan Hall was leading at the 13 mile mark before Trafeh unleashed a Michael Phelps like kick over the last tenth of a mile to beat Hall by three seconds. It was a tight finish among the top five with just 32 seconds separating the group.
The women had a little more separation with Rhines winning by 24 seconds over Burla. 5th place finisher Tera Moody finished 1:16 behind Rhines. The win for Rhines, a 3-time Olympian, was a personal record.
The same course will be used next year for Olympic Marathon qualifying.


All prices are not created equal: Visitors to Home Depot's website may assume they're getting the same deal as everyone else—but in reality, the retailer charges higher or lower prices based on each individual visitor's zip code. (Home Depot bases its virtual prices on the shopper's nearest brick-and-mortar store.) A better-known tactic employed by airlines alters fares based on factors such as time of day, day of the week, and traveler zip code.
Both are examples of "price discrimination," a method by which retailers segment their market and charge a different price to each segment. Despite its widespread use, price discrimination is largely happening without the knowledge of the general public, whose generally negative opinion of the practice (especially among Boomers and Millennials) has yet to be heard.
Retailers with unprecedented access to consumer data are rolling out personalized pricing.
According to economists, price discrimination comes in many forms. The mildest level (in terms of capturing consumer surplus) is "third-degree price discrimination," by which retailers offer the same product at a discount to certain consumer groups—e.g., senior discounts. Then there is "second-degree price discrimination," by which retailers offer tiered prices based on product quantity or quality (where premium options are priced far above cost)—e.g., airline ticket classes or bulk discounts. Finally comes personalized pricing, also called "first-degree price discrimination" or "perfect price discrimination" because it enables retailers to use personal data to charge the equilibrium price to each consumer.
In recent years, personalized pricing has spread extensively among e-commerce retailers—since they have access to the abundant personal data that make it possible. Orbitz has been showing higher hotel prices to Mac users since at least 2012. Same-day booking app HotelTonight recently introduced two features that show discounted rates to users based on their location. How is this possible? The instant you enter an e-tailer's domain, the company can see everything from your browsing history to your zip code. New "fingerprinting" technology even allows vendors to track users across multiple browsers. It's little wonder that Amazon is able to update its prices for each customer every 10 minutes.
But in-person retailers have been catching up. In-store analytics enables brick-and-mortar firms to learn about consumers as they navigate the store. Omnichannel shopping allows these firms to merge online and offline purchase behavior by pulling data from shoppers' smartphones. These data are supplemented by the 3.3 billion loyalty program memberships in the United States (roughly 29 per household).
The potential revenue gains brought on by personalized pricing are impressive. Economics professor Benjamin Shiller estimates that a pricing model based on Web-browsing variables could increase Netflix's profit by 12%. Consider also the added revenue from a personalized coupon campaign that increases redemption rates from 1% to as much as 25%.
Big Data and sophisticated digital IT is just one prerequisite for the spread of personalized pricing. Another is the general decline in marketplace competitiveness and transparency—and the waning of antitrust enforcement efforts. Personalized pricing cannot work without some degree of monopoly power along with widespread consumer ignorance of the practice. Otherwise, savvy consumers would buy products from a cheaper source and "arbitrage out" the difference by reselling at a markup.
But personalized pricing may soon run into a populist headwind that limits its growth potential.
When consumers realize that price discrimination is occurring, they object. Most, in fact, mistakenly believe it to be illegal. A 2005 Annenberg Center study found that 64% of adult Internet users thought it was illegal for e-commerce sites to charge different prices to different customers—and 71% thought it was illegal for brick-and-mortar retailers to do so. In truth, it is only illegal to price-discriminate when done on the basis of a protected class (like race or gender) or when it causes "competitive injury" to another company.
These concerns tend to fall along generational lines. As a general rule, older customers are wary of any personalized shopping experience. Just 28% of Boomerswould welcome a clothing store automatically selecting items for them, compared to 45% of Millennials. For Boomers, a retailer that knows enough to offer a different price to each individual seems intrusive.
Generation Xers, by contrast, see personalized pricing as an opportunity to get the best possible deal. These savvy shoppers know the stakes, and are likely the ones gaming the system by looking for flights from an Internet café instead of their living rooms to get lower fares—or filling online shopping carts without buying just in hope of being offered deals.
For Millennials, the story is more conflicted. On the one hand, young adults who grew up immersed in technology do not think twice about handing data over to retailers. Fully 57% of 18- to 24-year-olds value their personal data at $20 or less, compared to 41% of 45- to 54-year-olds. On the other hand, Millennials don't like being "pitted" against one another because of their zip code or browsing habits.
But for now, most consumers remain largely in the dark. In fact, many companies openly price discriminate—but do so under the guise of philanthropy. Federal student aid programs enable colleges to scoop out the demand curve by offering "discounted" tuition (grants and loans) to everyday Americans who would not otherwise be able to afford it. Another example is Big Pharma: Firms routinely sell their drugs at a high list price—and then give discounts to low-income nations or individuals who can demonstrate their inability to pay the full price.
Going forward, personalized pricing will go in one of two directions. On the one hand, greater access to consumer information makes personalized pricing easier to implement. On the other hand, growing populist backlash against companies that prey on unsuspecting consumers may undermine the practice. President Trump straddles the line: His administration and inner circle are lined with Wall Street CEOs who profit hugely from price discrimination. Yet he also courts an active populist constituency that expects him to protect them from price predation. On which side he and his administration ultimately step remains to be seen.


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Man receives racist letter over Black Santa decoration — and neighbors have his back
Chris Kennedy's Black Santa in his Arkansas yard.
Chris Kennedy's Christmas display features a seven-foot Black Santa that stands tall in his yard along with a Christmas tree and a large shining sign that reads "Joy."
Until now, he has received nothing but compliments since he first moved to his North Little Rock, Arkansas, neighborhood in 2017.
But just before Thanksgiving this year, he received in the mail an anonymous racist note condemning the decorations in his yard.
"You should not try to deceive children into believing that I am a negro," said the letter, which was signed 'Santa Claus.' "You being jealous of my race is no excuse for your dishonesty."
Kennedy read the note over a live stream on his Facebook account.
"I am trying to be as nice as I can in this very moment because I am actually filled with rage," Kennedy said in his live stream.
In the video, he also revealed an image of a white Santa with two thumbs down, and the label taped to the front of the envelope that resembled the Lakewood Property Owners Association's (LPOA) logo.
"The real thing that angered me was the fact that the person who wrote it suggested I move out east where I guess they feel all black people live," Kennedy told CNN.
The LPOA had nothing to do with the letter, Lakewood Property Owners Association executive director Evan Blake told CNN.
Blake said that he visited Kennedy and his family to condemn the letter. He also gave him a free membership to the LPOA as a gesture of assurance that the Kennedys are very much a part of the North Little Rock community.
"We have never had anyone attack anyone based on their race," Blake said. "Racism is something that we do discriminate against and we will not stand for it."
Decorations harken back to family tradition
Kennedy does have his suspicions about what motivated the unknown person to send the insensitive letter and worries someone will try to take down his decorations.
"I feel like it's a combination of politics and actual racism," Kennedy told CNN. "I am not sure that it was solely about just the black Santa display as much as it was legitimately just racism, in general."
Other North Little Rock residents living in different neighborhoods have contacted Kennedy to share similar stories about racist remarks and gestures. According to the 2019 U.S. Census Bureau, African-Americans comprise 44.7% of the population in North Little Rock.
For Kennedy, this isn't just about the color of Santa's skin, but instead about a rich family tradition that brings back fond childhood memories of looking at elaborate light displays with his father, who died over 15 years ago on Thanksgiving Day. Each year on Halloween, Kennedy, his wife and 4-year-old daughter decorate early for the holiday season.
"Putting up Christmas displays reminds me of him," Kennedy said of his father. "The main reason we put out the display is to bring joy to the neighborhood and brighten it up a little bit."
Black Santas 'flood the neighborhood'
And the community is rallying behind him in no better way than spreading this same Christmas cheer on their own lawns.
"People are buying black Santas and trying to flood the neighborhood," said Blake.
The LPOA is planning on displaying a black Santa in its office as soon as it arrives in the mail.
Although appreciative of the army of black Santas now lining his street and kind notes from neighbors disgusted by the act, Kennedy says he would rather see people donate to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas for the children who do not get to be at home with their families this Christmas.
"Keep smiling, keep God first and push forward," is the message Kennedy wants to share with anyone who may be battling similar instances of racism during these contentious times.
"There are still loving and caring individuals out there," said Kennedy. "I know that my neighborhood has definitely lifted us up."
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Biden to nominate DHS Secretary-designee Andrea Palm as deputy secretary to HHS
Inauguration update: Biden to propose 8-year citizenship path for immigrants; his favorability on rise
4 hurt in string of shootings in Pennsylvania's Poconos


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Ramaphosa's pledge to dry villages
18 February 2019 - 09:09
By Frank Maponya
Image: 123RF/Andriy Popov
President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured Giyani residents that provision of water in 89 villages will be given a priority by his government.
Ramaphosa expressed worry about the situation in Giyani, where many residents are still without water despite a multi-billion rand tender to provide water to the communities having been awarded.
Ramaphosa was speaking during the ANC's Limpopo manifesto launch at the Thohoyandou Stadium in Venda, which was also the party's 107th anniversary celebration on Saturday.
"I'm aware that there are 89 villages that are still without water in Giyani. As we go forward, we will make sure that we solve the water problem experienced by people in the country, especially in Giyani. The provision of water will be given priority," he said.
Ramaphosa said he was working on rooting out corruption where it manifested itself, be it in the public or private sector. He also commended the party's Limpopo chairperson and premier Stanley Mathabatha for taking action against officials who were linked with the VBS Mutual Bank scandal in which public funds were stolen.
Contractor Khato Civils fired, Giyani water project stalls
He said he was told earlier during a meeting with ANC veterans in the Vhembe district that the money should be returned so that beneficiaries could get their monies.
"I want to thank premier Mathabatha for putting aside officials of the organisation linked with the collapse of VBS. This is a step in the right direction for the party," Ramaphosa said.
He added that it was also encouraging that some of the mayors had been removed from their positions after their municipalities had invested monies into the VBS.
Mathabatha had earlier said forensic investigations had been instituted to probe what had led to the looting of public funds at the bank.
"When we came into government last year we realised that there were thieves.
"We are working hard to root out any form of corruption, theft of public funds and nepotism as a way of renewing the organisation," Mathabatha said.


About to configure monitors for Azure Notification Hub in ARM portal and unable to find the metrics for configuring monitors.
But can able to see the monitors in Azure classics portal..
Advice How to configure the Notification Hub in Azure ARM Portal..
Is there a way to configure from Azure Portal or from Azure powershell or DSC scripts..


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Plot: Giant Glenn's worried sister finds him in Mexico, but he later escapes, meeting his demise near the Griffith Observatory.
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GENESIS JOINS ESPN'S MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL AS HALFTIME PROGRAM, SERIES PARTNER
Monday Night Football Halftime to Include Music Performances Throughout the Season Offered Commercial Free, Courtesy of Genesis
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., September 10, 2018 – The Monday Night Football halftime show will have a new marquee sponsor, luxury automotive brand, Genesis, when the season kicks off on Monday, September 10, with a doubleheader on ESPN. This year marks the 49th season of Monday Night Football, making it sports television's longest-running series.
The Genesis Monday Night Football Halftime Show will be hosted by Suzy Kolber with Pro Football Hall of Famer Steve Young and Louis Riddick. A special custom opening each week featuring landmarks and vistas from the host city will introduce that week's musical artist and flow into the halftime show, which will be presented commercial free, courtesy of Genesis.
The cornerstone of the agreement will be a unique musical performance to close the halftime show, by a different artist each week. In week one, Boyz II Men will perform a special tribute to Aretha Franklin in Detroit with special guest Tori Kelly. On select Monday nights, these performances will take place live, on the field, during halftime of the Monday Night Football game. Some of the additional artists to be featured during the season include Zac Brown Band, Ciara and Daughtry.
Genesis will be incorporated into Monday Night Football through a number of branding elements, including on-screen graphics, desk signage, tune-in messaging, audio mentions and more. The brand will also receive commercial inventory throughout the season.
"Genesis is partnering with ESPN to re-define Monday Night Football halftime shows and expand our presence as the official luxury car of the NFL," said Manfred Fitzgerald, Executive Vice President and Global Head of the Genesis Brand. "We bring culture into everything we do at Genesis and we're excited to combine sports and music performance for Monday Night Football."
Added Renie Anderson, SVP, NFL Partnerships, Sponsorship & Consumer Products, "One of the benefits of being a League partner is that Genesis has the ability to leverage this authentically with ESPN, unlike any other in their category. Having the NFL's official luxury automobile have a presence in one of the premier brands across the entertainment landscape – Monday Night Football – is a perfect combination."
Said Ed Erhardt, President, Global Sales and Marketing, "This is the marquee position in one of the most storied franchises in sports history. Genesis' innovative advertising and sponsorship approach is reflective of their brand and will give them exposure to the vast, passionate fan base of the NFL. We've worked hand in hand with them and with the NFL to bring this to fruition and we can't wait to watch it unfold throughout the season."
ESPN introduces a dynamic, new commentator team, including play-by-play voice Joe Tessitore, analysts Jason Witten and Booger McFarland, and reporter Lisa Salters as part of the 49th Monday Night Football season. A doubleheader will kick things off on Monday, September 10 – New York Jets at Detroit Lions (7:10 p.m. ET) and Los Angeles Rams at Oakland Raiders (10:15 p.m. / 7:15 p.m. PT). ESPN's 17-game prime time schedule in 2018 will feature 11 of the 12 playoff teams from 2017, including both the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles and AFC champion New England Patriots.
ESPN play-by-play voice Beth Mowins, analyst Brian Griese and sideline reporter Laura Rutledge will call the Jets vs. Lions NFL game from Ford Field. ESPN's new MNF team of Tessitore, Witten, McFarland and Salters will make its debut during the Los Angeles Rams vs. Oakland Raiders game.
ESPN'S 2018 MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Sept. 10 7:10 p.m. New York Jets at Detroit Lions
10:15 p.m. Los Angeles Rams at Oakland Raiders
Sept. 17 8:15 p.m. Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears
Sept. 24 8:15 p.m. Pittsburgh Steelers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Oct. 1 8:15 p.m. Kansas City Chiefs at Denver Broncos
Oct. 8 8:15 p.m. Washington Redskins at New Orleans Saints
Oct. 15 8:15 p.m. San Francisco 49ers at Green Bay Packers
Oct. 22 8:15 p.m. New York Giants at Atlanta Falcons
Oct. 29 8:15 p.m. New England Patriots at Buffalo Bills
Nov. 5 8:15 p.m. Tennessee Titans at Dallas Cowboys
Nov. 12 8:15 p.m. New York Giants at San Francisco 49ers
Nov. 19 8:15 p.m. Kansas City Chiefs vs. Los Angeles Rams (Mexico City)
Nov. 26 8:15 p.m. Tennessee Titans at Houston Texans
Dec. 3 8:15 p.m. Washington Redskins at Philadelphia Eagles
Dec. 10 8:15 p.m. Minnesota Vikings at Seattle Seahawks
Dec. 17 8:15 p.m. New Orleans Saints at Carolina Panthers
Dec. 24 8:15 p.m. Denver Broncos at Oakland Raiders
Jan. 5-6 TBD NFL Wild Card Playoff Game
Jan. 27 3:00 p.m. NFL Pro Bowl
Genesis Motor America, LLC is headquartered in Fountain Valley, Calif. Genesis is a global luxury automotive brand that delivers the highest standards of performance, design and innovation. A total of six new Genesis models, including the flagship full-size G90 luxury sedan, mid-luxury G80 and G80 Sport sedans and soon-to-arrive G70 near-luxury sport sedan, will launch by 2021 and compete with the world's most renowned luxury car brands. All Genesis vehicles sold in the U.S. are covered by an industry-leading warranty with enhanced roadside assistance and concierge services. In just the first half of 2018, Genesis won highest-ranked brand in the automotive industry awards for quality and owner satisfaction from highly-respected, third-party experts Consumer Reports, J.D. Power and AutoPacific.
For more information on Genesis and its new definition of luxury, please visit www.genesis.com
Please visit our media site for the latest news at www.genesisnewsusa.com
Genesis Motor America on Twitter │ YouTube │ Facebook | Instagram
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Welcome to one of PADI's most popular specialties – the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air. Diving with enriched air means more time underwater – but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization).
Whether you're into underwater photography or wreck diving, on vacation in some tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive site, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more time underwater. This is a non-diving course where you will learn the advantages of Enriched Air, how to analyze Enriched Air cylinder contents and plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers.


Congratulations to Marco Diaz from Mexico, our final Major Prize winner in the Meet Messi promotion!!
Marco had not one but two amazing entries in the Meet Messi Promotion and the FootBubbles team were impressed with his bag of tricks! Marco will be joining the FootBubbles team for a meet and greet with Leo Messi in Barcelona. Check out Marco's first video below.
Thank you to all our entrants for participating in the promotion – it's been a blast!
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Q: How to calculate facebook access_token using app_id and app_secret I was wondering a way to let the functions calculate the access_token in PHP giving them the app_id and app_secret.
Is there a way or I have to calculate externally and past it as a value?

A: Here from the Facebook Documentation:

To generate an app access token, you need to make a Graph API call:

GET /oauth/access_token
?client_id={app-id}
&client_secret={app-secret}
&grant_type=client_credentials

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In Salah (en idioma árabe, عين صالح), también llamada Aïn Salah, I-n-Salah o 'Ayn Şalih, es una ciudad-oasis en el centro de Argelia, que una vez fue un vínculo comercial importante de la ruta trans-sahariana de caravanas. Según el censo de 2008, tiene una población de 32 518 habitantes. En el área que rodea In Salah se ubican algunos de las más grandes reservas de petróleo y gas de Argelia, como así también sus plantas de procesamiento. El pueblo está situado en el corazón de la región del desierto del Sahara, al norte de África. El nombre In Salah proviene del término "buen manantial", aunque el agua es conocida por su sabor salado, más bien desagradable.

Clima

La región del desierto del Sahara argelino tiene un clima prácticamente carente de toda lluvia. En promedio, In Salah recibe menos de 20 mm anuales de precipitaciones (ver diagrama climático de In Salah). Las temperaturas de verano son consistentemente altas –con índices térmicos que llegan a niveles extremos durante cuatro meses del año–, pero las temperaturas por la noche son lo suficientemente bajas como para resultar tolerables. Las noches de invierno pueden ser frías y las heladas no son desconocidas, pero los días son cálidos y soleados.

Durante el verano, la región del Sahara argelino es fuente de mucho calor y de viento polvoriento, llamado siroco. Este viento muy fuerte recorre las planicies del norte de Argelia en pulsos que duran alrededor de 1-4 días. El siroco causa condiciones de sequía a lo largo de la costa norte de África. Mucha gente atribuye problemas de salud al siroco, debido al calor y al polvo a lo largo de las regiones costeras de África. El polvo que el siroco lleva en suspensión puede causar abrasión en instrumentos mecánicos y penetrar en los edificios. El viento, con velocidades máximas de casi 100 km por hora (55 nudos), se produce generalmente durante el otoño y la primavera. Alcanza sus máximos en marzo y noviembre cuando es muy cálido.

Transporte
In Salah dispone de un aeropuerto situado 7 km al norte de esta villa.

Referencias

Localidades de Argelia

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The Two Paschas of Jews and Christians. A Previously Unpublished Letter By the Pope Emeritus
92 years after his birth and 6 after his resignation from the papacy, Joseph Ratzinger is still highly active. A few days after the sensational publication of his "notes" on the scandal of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, another never-before-published text of his is seeing the light, which was known to exist but can be read in its entirety only now, in this freshly published book edited by Elio Guerriero:
> Benedetto XVI in dialogo con il rabbino Arie Folger, "Ebrei e cristiani", Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo, 2019.
The text now made public is the letter that the pope emeritus wrote to the chief rabbi of Vienna, Arie Folger, in August of 2018.
Rabbi Folger replied to this letter on September 4, with a letter of his own that is also published in the book.
And this epistolary exchange was followed was followed on January 16 of this year by a visit to Ratzinger, at his Vatican hermitage, by Rabbi Folger, Darmstadt rabbi Josh Ahrens, and Saxony rabbi Zsolt Balla, member of the board of trustees of the conference of Orthodox rabbis of Germany.
"It was an intense conversation that lasted an hour," Folger comments in the preface to the book. "In him I found a very genial and profound thinker who is repulsed by anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism in all its forms."
And yet the questions discussed by the pope emeritus and the rabbis were not of little account. They have always been among the most controversial in the relationship between Judaism and Christianity: the messiah, the promised land, the covenant, worship, the commandments.
Ratzinger had discussed these in depth in a previous text of his, sent in 2017 to Swiss cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Vatican commission for dialogue with Judaism, and published the following year in the international theological magazine "Communio" in its editions in German, French, and English (this last with the entire text downloadable) and finally, in Italian, at the beginning of 2019, in the "Rivista di Vita Spirituale."
And in its turn this text by Ratzinger - entitled "Grace and call without misgiving. Observations on the treatise 'De Iudaeis'" - followed a document published in December of 2015 by the Vatican commission headed by Cardinal Koch, at the 50th anniversary of the declaration "Nostra Aetate" of Vatican Council II.
This document, entitled "The gifts and call of God are irrevocable," rejected first of all, on the Catholic side, the so-called "theory of replacement," according to which Israel, for having refused to recognize Jesus Christ as messiah, ceased to be the bearer of the promises of God, in this "replacement" by the Church.
Moreover, it decisively maintained that between God and the people of Israel there endures a "covenant never revoked."
So then, in Ratzinger's judgment "both of these statements are fundamentally correct, in many aspects, but they are imprecise and must be critically, further developed."
And it is to precisely this development that his entire text of 2017 is dedicated.
Which immediately received, after its publication in the summer of 2018, a storm of criticism on the Catholic side, especially from German-speaking theologians who saw in it "a danger for Catholic-Jewish dialogue" and even "the foundation for a new anti-Semitism."
Ratzinger replied to one of his critics, Wuppertal theologian Michael Böhnke, in the magazine "Herder Korrespondenz" of December 2018.
At the same time, however, on account of that same text of his Ratzinger elicited interest and appreciation in the Jewish camp, which was expressed by, among others, Rabbi Folger in a commentary published in "Jüdische Allgemeine" on July 16 2018, with the interrogative title "Danger for dialogue?"
It is precisely in response to this commentary that Ratzinger wrote to Rabbi Folger the letter that has now been made public.
The book edited by Elio Guerriero - for twenty years the director of the Italian edition of "Communio" and author of an acclaimed biography of Benedict XVI that has been translated into many languages - collects this sequence of letters and documents, among which there is also a place of great prominence, on the Jewish side, for the 2016 declaration entitled "Between Jerusalem and Rome," undersigned by three of the most important religious Jewish organizations: the conference of European rabbis, the rabbinical council of America, and the chief rabbinate of the state of Israel.
But it should suffice here to cite the most evocative passages of Ratzinger's letter of August 2018. Starting with that phrase which was greeted by Folger and both other rabbis with warm approval and has been printed with great emphasis on the back cover of the book:
"By human reckoning this dialogue will never lead to the unity of the two interpretations within the current history. This unity is reserved to God at the end of time."
Regarding the messianic hope of Israel, Ratzinger writes:
"I have sought to grasp 'ex novo' the entirety of the messianic promises in their multiformity and thus to understand the 'already' and the 'not yet' of the hope in their intimate interpenetration. The form of messianic expectation that is based on the figure of David remains valid, but is limited in its meaning. The decisive form of hope for me is Moses, of whom Scripture says that he spoke face to face with the Lord, like a friend. Jesus of Nazareth appears to us Christians as the central figure of hope, because he stands on a first-name basis with God. From this new vision the time of the Church no longer appears as the time of a world definitively redeemed, but rather the time of the Church is for us Christians that which for Israel the forty years in the desert were."
As for the promised land, Ratzinger writes that "the State of Israel as such cannot be considered theologically as the fulfillment of the promise of territory. In itself it is a secular state," which however "has entirely legitimately religious foundations." Therefore "I maintain that in the formation of the State of Israel one can recognize in a mysterious way the fidelity of God to Israel."
Finally, as for the commandments and worship, Ratzinger writes that "over the entire theme from the beginning of the modern era there extends the shadow of the anti-Jewish thought of Luther… which has generated a pseudo-religious 'Marcionism' that has not yet been brought truly into discussion. I maintain that precisely on this point there are present important possibilities for a renewed dialogue with Judaism."
In the letter to Rabbi Folger, Ratzinger does not return to the question of the salvation of the Jews in God's plan. But he did so in his text of 2017, particularly in this passage:
"Not only does Saint Paul write that 'all Israel must be saved,' but the Revelation of Saint John also sees two groups of the saved: the 144 thousand of the 12 tribes of Israel, and beside these 'an immense multitude that no one could count,' as a representation of those saved among the pagans. From the point of view of the New Testament tradition, this perspective is not a reality that will simply take place at the end, after many millennia. It is instead something that in some way is always present."
Present like the two Paschas celebrated this year during the same days and with the respective "interpretations" both by the "12 tribes of Israel" and by the "multitude" of believers in Jesus of Nazareth. In the hope of that unity "reserved to God at the end of time."


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