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Last week to vote for Player & Fan of the Year
This is the last week of voting for the Leicester Tigers Player of the Season awards - and you can also help us find the Fan of the Year.
The winners will be announced at the Try Tuesdays Awards Night on April 29.
Following feedback from the Supporters Forum, the shortlist has been confirmed in four categories and we've also announced the creation of a new award for Fan of the Year.
Top try-scorer Vereniki Goneva, last year's winner Julian Salvi, and forward trio Jamie Gibson, Ed Slater and Tom Youngs are nominated for the DX Player of the Year Award.
Back-rower Gibson also features in the nominations for Best Newcomer, and fly-half Owen Williams is shortlisted in two categories too.
Long-serving second-rower Louis Deacon is named alongside front-rowers Marcos Ayerza and Boris Stankovich, and club captain Toby Flood in the DX Outstanding Service Award category.
See below for the full shortlist.
To vote in any of the other categories, or to make a nomination for Fan of the Year, click here and fill in your details.
The DX Try of the Season award is voted for only by Awards Night guests.
Awards Night is the most glittering evening of the season, in the company of the whole first-team squad and the coaching staff in the Premiership Suite at Welford Road. This event includes a three-course meal with a Tigers player at your table, interviews and highlights videos throughout the evening, and the presentation of the awards to the player and young players of the year, best newcomer and the player who has contributed outstanding service to the club.
More than 500 supporters attended last year's end-of-season awards dinner at Welford Road, with Julian Salvi, Manu Tuilagi, Adam Thompstone and Martin Castrogiovanni receiving the main prizes.
Tickets for the Try Tuesdays Awards Night, sponsored by DX, are available now, price £45 per person for season ticket holders and £55 for all other supporters. Buy at the Tigers ticket office, phone us on 0844 856 1880 (option 2) or book online.
Supporters' Awards shortlist 2013/14
DX Player of the Year Award
Vereniki Goneva
Julian Salvi
Ed Slater
Tom Youngs
Recent winners: 2013 Julian Salvi, 2012 Horacio Agulla, 2011 Thomas Waldrom
DX Young Player of the Year Award
Recent winners: 2013 Manu Tuilagi, 2012 Steve Mafi, 2011 Manu Tuilagi
DX Newcomer of the Year Award
David Mele
Blaine Scully
Recent winners: 2013 Adam Thompstone, 2012 Julian Salvi, 2011 Thomas Waldrom
DX Outstanding Service Award
Marcos Ayerza
Louis Deacon
Toby Flood
Boris Stankovich
Recent winners: 2013 Martin Castrogiovanni, 2012 George Chuter, 2011 Geordan Murphy
Polls are open until Easter.


Meet Guan Yu, the saint of war. In my opinion, he is one of the most damaging warriors in the game, and, since he have so much sustain and defence, you will have both damage and defence, which is always very usefull for the team in any game mode. My build conentrates on using his abilities to lower all your cooldowns. With 40% CDR it's not difficult to ride to war every 20-30 seconds if you use your abilities in an appropriative way. So, let's ride to war!
1) Conviction. Although heal is not so great comparing to Hel's or others, it's still pretty good, cuz you heal for 170 hp, and when your passive is full, you double that number. Also you get +45 physical protection, which is very good. You can survive in a very difficult situation simply using your 1)Convition and then 2)Warriors Will to escape, slowing down enemies you're passing through. And the most important thing on convition. Healing allied Gods lowers ALL your abilities cooldowns for 2seconds!. Isn't that amazing? But don't be very confident. If you heal 1 god or all 4, cooldowns will be reduced for 2 seconds anyway.
2) Warriors will. It does good damage, which can be enough for final blow, also it's very good for chasing people down. And, the most important thing: hitting enemy gods reduces all your cooldown for 2 seconds. Now did you get it?
3) Taolu assault. This is your main damaging skill. It does damage over time and also lowers enemy physical defence for 7 points for each stack for 3 seconds up to max 3 stacks. All in all it does 550+200% of your physical power. Not bad, yeah? The only problem is that you have to hit him all the time, it's burst damage is low.
4) Chivalry charge. My favourite skill in the game :-) It has biggest physical damage in the game, if executed correctly. It's really amazing at ganking, slaying and beating the **** out of anyone and anything especially if you have large CC like Hades or Ymir. This is your ultimate weapon, so pick a squshi target and stick to it, since you have 20% damage scaling on the consecutive hit on the same target. Enemies hit on dismount are stunned, so you can initiate with your ulti but it's not a good idea.
All in all it can do up to 1790+199% of your physical power!!! Just stick to a squshi god and anihilate him.
Now let's make it clear how you're actually going to ride to war. As you probably remmember, your 1st and 2nd skill reduce your cooldowns for 2 seconds. Now you get it?
You 40% CDR, and you lower CDs by hitting enemies with your 2nd and healing allies with you 1st. That's why you need Transcendence and Stone of Gia to make sure that you always have mana to for heal and slow. Anuthing else is very simple. Slow them with Creeping curse, use Girdle os Support and beat **** out of anything alive. WE RIDE TO WAR!!!
well I can put enough in this review about formatting and how much you miss and bbcoding so let's start.
you miss one of the most important sections the item section and you also miss teamwork and a proper gameplay section.
I'm not going to discuss your build because I don't play guan that much.
I don't agree on the damage ut of nowhere part. a lot of other warriors have better damage (out of nowhere) like [chaac]'s Thunder Strike or Tyr's Power Cleave.
on bbcoding and forematting it isn't there.
73271 Devampi well I can put enough in this review about formatting and how much you miss and bbcoding so let's start. you miss one of the most important sections the item section and you also miss teamwork and a proper gameplay section. I'm not going to discuss your build because I don't play guan that much. Your skill order is bad. You normally focus maxing 1 skill first then another and then the last (mostly lvling ult when available) I don't agree on the damage ut of nowhere part. a lot of other warriors have better damage (out of nowhere) like [chaac]'s [[thunder strike]] or [[tyr]]'s [[power cleave]]. your skill section is really bad formatted making it annoying to read (I even skipped readding it because of the mess) also spamming your heal and 2 isn't a relly good tactic you waste your (small) escape and your when you don't have damage. also your 3 is easy interrupted so it can be a big waste of mana and skills when you need them (and mostly your passive because your heal is better after taking damage) on bbcoding and forematting it isn't there.


Gadolinium oxysulfide crystal is a wide-gap semiconductor material known as an excellent host for trivalent rare-earth ions. The present investigation explores the upconversion and thermal properties of Er3+-doped Gd2O2S crystal powders as well as their potentiality for anti-Stokes cooling. A detailed study of the wavelength and pumping power dependence of the spectroscopic properties and temperature field for samples of various erbium concentrations is presented.


Making Regular Reservations for the boats.
Reservations for all the WHY BUY boats, regardless of location, will be handled in the same manner.
Groups who have paid the Full Time fare are allowed to book the vessel for any day of the week, any of the three time slots available. Groups paying the "Restricted" membership fare are only allowed to make reservations for the morning or afternoon sessions Monday through Friday.
There are 3 available times each day. From dawn to 12:00, 12:30 to 17:00 and from 17:30 to dusk. Please allow enough time to be back at the dock and have the boat cleaned for the next group. If you decide to operate the vessel during hours that require running lights, you are responsible for provided them. Legal requirements for vessels under 7 meters in length are for a single white light (flashlight).
Reservations for all the boats will be made by accessing the online reservation system through our website. You will enter your group id and password, then the location you wish to sail, and the date / time. This will be the only way to enter a reservation. There will be a $2.50 use charge for each reservation.
NOTE: You will be charged the fee ($2.50 per reservation) for any reservation not cancelled.
If the date and time you wish are not available, please try another date and time.
There is no limit on the time limit for making a reservation but each group is only allowed to have one reservation on the books for the Cherry Creek, Chatfield Reservoir, Carter Lake or Dillon boats at any given time.
The boats are insured for racing. If you wish to race at any of the Club races you must register with the Yacht Club. Please do not go out to the race course and just start to race with the other boats.
Making Short Term Reservations for the Vessels.
A short term reservation is a reservation that is made less than 12 hours from the time you wish to sail.
A short term reservation will not affect any other reservation the group already has on the books.
If you have a reservation for a boat and realize that you are not going to be able to use the vessel, please cancel the reservation as soon as possible to allow others to book the time. If you do not cancel the reservation, prior to the start of the reservation, you will be charged for the reservation.
The boats are equipped with the required safety gear for 5 average sized adults. It is your responsibility to provide PFD's for smaller or larger members of your party as appropriate.
The boats at Cherry Creek, Lake Dillon and Lake Carter will have gas outboard engines. There is an account at the Marina office in the name of Victoria Sailing School. If the tank is less than 1/2 full please re-fill. There will be oil stowed on the boat. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO ADD THE OIL. If you cannot find the oil, purchase some more on the charge account and store in the boat.
All vessels have buckets, brushes and cleaning fluid on board. The cleaning fluid is very high concentrate and needs only a small amount in the bucket to clean the vessel. PLEASE WASH & CLEAN THE VESSELS AFTER EACH USAGE.
Please PICK UP ALL GARBAGE on the vessels when you are finished with sailing for the day.
We are trying very hard to keep the vessels as clean and in good repair as possible. Please help us as much as you can. Thanks.
Please notify Jim Cook (303) 898-8498 as soon as possible any breakage on the boats so we can repair it as soon as possible.


It was only a matter of time before a social media platform was designed with mobile specifically in mind. And that audio would become the next big thing. Welcome to the world Audioboo, the simple way to share audio.
Audioboo is an audio-digital archive, web-connected dictaphone or simply a great way to let your friends, family, customers, colleagues or target market know what you're up to.
Launched initially as a free downloadable application for the iPhone, Audioboo works by allowing smartphone users – iPhone, Android and Nokia, with Blackberry and Windows Mobile following soon – to record and playback digital recordings of up to five minutes. These recordings – known by users as 'boos' – can then be posted on the Audioboo website where users have their own pages similar to Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. Users choose to follow and listen to 'boos' that interest them, link them to other social media sites or download them to their mobiles (just like a podcast). Photos can also be added along with a title, geotagging and category tagging. It's basically Twitter without words, with the ultimate goal – according to Audioboo's CEO Nick Hancock – that the term 'to boo' becomes as common as 'to tweet'.
Audioboo is the new face of online media content and can be credited with the birth of the 'audio-blog'. Five hundred thousand monthly users tune in to listen to what businesses and high profile contributors such as Stephen Fry have to say. BBC London, for example, is using it to report business reactions to news such as the effect of the Budget and the way forward for businesses caught up in the Arab spring.
So is another social media platform really needed and, if so, how should businesses use it?
Audioboo adds a different dimension to how you can communicate with your customer base, your colleagues and your target market. It represents another way to network, which cannot be ignored in today's competitive business world, and offers businesses another audio route to market previously only reached by radio advertising – just like Twitter uses the written word to by-pass the press.
Similar to our recent blog on online video, Audioboo is especially relevant for businesses whose products require quick tips or directions – it's a friendly voice to talk a target audience through the process, plus allows businesses to provide their views on the news, and post comments and interviews.
For any business that regularly blogs, an application like Audioboo can bring the blog to life, allowing audiences to not only read the text, but also listen to the author in their own words.


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Sports|NBC Wins U.S. Television Rights to Four More Olympics
NBC Wins U.S. Television Rights to Four More Olympics
By RICHARD SANDOMIR JUNE 7, 2011
Since 2000, no network has carried the Olympics but NBC. But when NBC Universal was bought by Comcast this year, there was doubt that it had the passion for the Olympics that led the network's former parent, General Electric, to pay billions of dollars to stock NBC with the Summer Games and the Winter Games.
But Tuesday, Comcast responded with a knockout bid and a promise that it would show every event live, on television or online, a recognition of the immediacy of technology and a drastic reversal of NBC's policy of taping sports to show them to the largest possible audience in prime time.
ESPN and Fox Sports also promised to carry everything live, but their bids were dwarfed by NBC's during an auction held at the International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Comcast agreed to pay $4.38 billion for the United States media rights to four Olympics from 2014 to 2020, which eclipsed a $3.4 billion offer from Fox, a division of News Corporation. In an auction that allowed bids for two or four Olympic Games, or both, ESPN, a division of the Walt Disney Company, offered $1.4 billion for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, and the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Fox also bid $1.5 billion for the 2014 and the 2016 Olympics.
Brian L. Roberts, the chairman and chief executive of Comcast, said that spreading costs over four Olympics was critical to the bid, which was divided in two: $2 billion for the 2014 and 2016 Games, and $2.38 billion for the next two, whose locations have not been selected. NBC paid $2 billion for last year's Winter Games in Vancouver (and lost $223 million) and next year's Summer Games in London.
"We've said all along that we'd take a disciplined approach, where we could take a path to profitability," Roberts said in a conference call. "It was responsible."
Still, Comcast is paying considerably more than Fox to keep the Olympics in the NBC family than General Electric did for the Vancouver and the London Games. Neal Pilson, a former CBS Sports president, said, "I think Brian felt some pressure to validate the merger, and I think this also establishes that, as everyone felt, the Olympics were more important to NBC than they were to any other network."
ESPN and Fox bid as if they did not feel they had to win the auction. In a statement, ESPN said: "We made a disciplined bid that would have brought tremendous value to the Olympics and would have been profitable for our company. To go any further would not have made good business sense for us."
Craig Moffett, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said Comcast's winning bid was out of character for a company that has been "relatively cautious." But, he added: "I think it's fair to say that at this price, the Olympics are going to be a loss leader for Comcast and they will have a negative effect on short-term earnings. Still, strategically, it's possible they can pay for themselves."
By combining NBC's broadcast and cable networks with Comcast's sports assets, which include the Versus sports channel, the Golf Channel and 11 regional sports networks, Roberts said he believed his Olympic investment could turn a profit. Mark Lazarus, the chairman of the NBC Sports Group, said that there were more ways to make an Olympic profit "than the old NBC was capable of doing."
The three competing networks, Fox, ESPN and NBC made their presentations on Monday and Tuesday to nine officials of the Olympic committee, including Jacques Rogge, its president. Credit Alastair Grant/Associated Press
NBC's Olympic cable coverage has in the past been on the USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and Oxygen channels. The old NBC was personalized by Dick Ebersol, who ran the network's sports division for nearly 22 years until resigning last month in a salary dispute that was the climax of a power struggle with Comcast executives. Ebersol had been critical to every Olympic bid since the acquisition of the rights to the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games; he also engineered two pre-emptive bids within a few months in 1995 that brought NBC the rights to every Olympics from 2000 to 2008, at a cost of $3.5 billion to General Electric.
The timing of Ebersol's departure puzzled Barry Frank, an executive vice president of I.M.G. and a former Olympic negotiator. "Why would you let Dick Ebersol go, and a month later, buy four Olympic Games, when what Dick did best, better than anyone else, is produce the Olympics?" he said Tuesday.
Clearly, Comcast felt it could could replace Ebersol in NBC's executive suite with Lazarus, and replace Ebersol in the Olympic production control room with some of his disciples. Comcast is also ending Ebersol's practice of tape-delaying many sports, especially the most popular ones, like figure skating and gymnastics, and more recently, snowboarding, to build a four- or five-hour prime-time program.
Even as NBC introduced online streaming, Ebersol nonetheless delayed showing some events during the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing and even more last year in Vancouver.
But fans grew angry with NBC's ways as they found it increasingly easy to learn the results of Olympic events, or watch events live on pirate Web sites. Lazarus said NBC felt it was time to make all events available live, to all coasts, on television, on broadband, and perhaps through other technologies.
"We have a smart plan to let the superfan watch events live and not detract from prime time," Lazarus said. "We don't think that streaming will affect the shared experience of families watching together at night."
NBC will still have a traditional package in prime time, with taped and live coverage.
Comcast did not reveal any production plans, but one addition to the lineup of networks, probably in time for London next year, will be Versus. Comcast's hope is to use the Olympics as a way to raise its number of subscribers and the monthly fees they pay. "If you can add 20 or 30 million subscribers," Pilson said, "and raise fees by 30 or 40 cents a sub, that's significant money."
The auction began Monday with Fox's presentation, which was followed Tuesday by ESPN's and NBC's pitches. After NBC's presentation, all three networks deposited sealed bids in a plexiglass box. Fox dropped in four envelopes, ESPN put in two and NBC dropped in a thin envelope and a noticeably thicker one. The I.O.C. deliberated for several hours and did not tell ESPN and Fox they had lost until well after informing NBC of its victory.
What I.O.C. officials saw inside the envelopes were the details of the Comcast/NBC bid: $775 million for Sochi, below the $820 million paid for the money-losing Vancouver Games; $1.22 billion for Rio de Janeiro in 2016; $963 million for the 2018 Winter Games — which will be in Munich; Pyeongchang, South Korea, or Annecy, France — and $1.41 billion for the 2020 Summer Games.
"We were blown away by the NBC presentation and the passion the team has for the Olympics" Richard Carrion, the I.O.C. member in charge of the auction, said in the conference call.
But he added, "I'd be less than honest if I said the dollars didn't come into play."
A version of this article appears in print on June 8, 2011, on Page B13 of the New York edition with the headline: NBC Wins U.S. Television Rights to FourMore Olympics. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

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Human Resources / Health and Safety
Criminal History Regulations: CalChamber Seeks Rejection
Jennifer Barrera
The California Chamber of Commerce is asking the state Office of Administrative Law (OAL) to reject proposed regulations that create confusion regarding when employers may consider criminal history in making employment decisions and which could lead to litigation.
The CalChamber does not believe the Fair Employment and Housing Council (FEHC) has authority under the law to adopt the proposed regulations.
No Authority
CalChamber does not believe that anything within the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) grants the FEHC authority to impose mandates on how employers use criminal history in employment decisions.
In addition, there is no statutory authority for the FEHC to interpret the Civil Code or the Labor Code regarding the relevancy of criminal convictions, based upon the time that has passed, as the council seeks to do in the proposed regulations.
Legislation introduced on February 16 further emphasizes the FEHC's lack of statutory authority, the CalChamber points out.
The bill, AB 1008 (McCarty; D-Sacramento) includes various mandates set forth in the pending regulations, including requirements for employers to:
consider the factors and nature/gravity of the offense or conduct, the time passed since the conviction and the nature of the job sought;
conduct an individualized assessment; and
allow the employee to respond and mitigate any criminal history information.
If the FEHC had authority to promulgate the regulations that include these new mandates on employers, there would be no need for the Legislature to amend the Government Code as proposed in AB 1008.
Confusion, Litigation
The CalChamber points out that the regulations essentially preclude employers from having policies that uniformly exclude applicants with certain criminal convictions unless that employer can establish that it assessed each applicant individually and determined whether that applicant posed an unacceptable risk.
The regulations then create a presumption that considering any conviction more than seven years old is discriminatory.
If the employer deems that the applicant does pose a risk, the employer could be exposed to litigation for discrimination under FEHA.
If the employer decides the applicant does not pose a risk, the employer could expose members of vulnerable populations, such as children or the elderly, to potential harm.
Similar concerns apply to individuals who have felony convictions dealing with theft or embezzlement, and whether such individuals should be hired for a position dealing with customer financial information, employee personal data, and employer financial accounts or money.
The risk of litigation under FEHA is enhanced by the catchall provision at the end of the regulations that states even if an employer demonstrates its decision not to hire an applicant with a criminal history is job-related and excluding the applicant is consistent with business necessity, the employer still may be liable if the applicant can show there was a less discriminatory alternative available other than denying the applicant employment.
OAL has 30 days to review and disapprove or approve of the pending regulations. OAL has until March 27 to take action.
Staff Contact: Jennifer Barrera
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Jennifer Barrera oversees the development and implementation of policy and strategy as senior vice president, policy, and represents the CalChamber on legal reform issues. She led CalChamber advocacy on labor and employment and taxation from September 2010 through the end of 2017. As senior policy advocate in 2017, she worked with the executive vice president in developing policy strategy. Before joining the CalChamber, she worked at a statewide law firm that specializes in labor/employment defense. Barrera earned a B.A. in English from California State University, Bakersfield, and a J.D. with high honors from California Western School of Law. See full bio.
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Reports: U.S. officials in South Korea to discuss military costs, intelligence
Elizabeth Shim
Assistant Secretary of State David Stilwell talks to reporters at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea on Tuesday. Photo by Yonhap/EPA-EFE
Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Two senior U.S. officials are in South Korea this week for discussions that could address defense-cost sharing and GSOMIA, a military intelligence-sharing agreement between Seoul and Tokyo.
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Q: Is there a limit on number of MS Graph API calls? I have created an App in Azure and given, as I thought, sufficient privileges.
Now when using the Api from the App, I get occasional errors.
For example:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/members?$select=id,userPrincipalName

gives usually the correct result, i.e. the members of the group. When I run it multiple times, however, I get:
{
  "error": {
    "code": "Authorization_RequestDenied",
    "message": "Insufficient privileges to complete the operation.",
    "innerError": {
      "request-id": "xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
      "date": "2020-04-27T07:35:43"
    }
  }
}

This happens not only from the app, but using Postman with the same credentials.
How can I have insufficient privileges, if the call has gone through multiple times already, then all of a sudden it does not.
Is there a limit on number of MS Graph API calls? I couldn't find any informatin on this.
Appreciate any help.
EDIT:
Thanks to everyone trying to help here. But the problem apparently was with Microsoft.
After seeing a couple of other people having the same problem, I put it aside for a few days.
Now revisiting my app, all the calls work fine.

A: You need to have Ms Graph level permissions for fixing the error. According to
List members documentation One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To Use Graph API in Postman find document here.
To learn more, including how to choose permissions, See permissions.

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Patients go from one organization to the next giving out bits of information, but only as they are required to. Changing doctors and hospitals can lead to the loss of patient access to past data, and the provider retains primary stewardship. This can result in potential problems, such as when a patient moves to a new location. Record maintenance can become quite challenging to initiate as patients are rarely encouraged and seldom enabled to review their full records. But blockchain technology may help eliminate these issues.
As the volume of patient data managed by healthcare facilities increases each year organizations can securely share information and allow each party to verify the data is correct. Primary data sources could be electronic health records (EHRs), health information exchanges (HIEs), data gathered from monitoring systems and IoT devices, as well as medical insurance claims.
Patient data managed by hospitals, doctors, and clinics is increasing each year. With other technologies coming out, like telehealth – which allows the patient to be seen from their home – the increase of patient data at each medical facility will grow even further. The blockchain technology gives a new way of securing this data, and giving the proper access to the right individuals no matter where they are.
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PG Wodehouse's most famous non-theatrical creation Jeeves has, of course, been in the West End before -- as a one-man show in 1980 by Edward Duke called Jeeves Takes Charge, and as a notorious Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn flop musical five years before that (called simply Jeeves) that returned more successfully to the Duke of York's in 1996, by then re-titled By Jeeves. Now the Duke of York's is home again for a new stage play called Perfect Nonsense, that a programme note asserts is the first time one of his novels will have adapted for the West End stage.
To be frank a little of Jeeves goes a long way for me; I find myself watching his antics and hearing his anecdotes through, if not gritted teeth, then at best a fixed smile. So it is only fair to say that members of the audience around me were laughing far more freely than I was, but also that I could see the reason for some of their mirth. Director Sean Foley certainly provides enough visual gags of his own to keep the thing buoyant and fast, while the Goodale Brothers script -- adapted from Wodehouse's The Code of the Woosters that they previously also adapted for a one-man show that Robert Goodale performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1993-- is packed with Wodehouse's trademark verbal polish and punch.
But it simply doesn't deliver the killer blow for me. I smiled a lot, but laughed out loud just a few times. Nevertheless, I will also admit that I was greatly impressed by the trio of fine actors who bring a furious commitment and playful energy to it as they set off on a chase for a silver cow creamer (don't ask) that the convoluted plot revolves around.
Stephen Mangan brings a mouth full of teeth and an infuriating honking laugh to Bertie Wooster, while Matthew Macfadyen is kept busy as both his valet Jeeves and stepping in for numerous other supporting roles (including, at one point, two of them at the same time, one male, one female, and both in separate costume, too, using the old vaudeville trick of dressing each half of the body differently). Macfadyen, with his tall, bulky frame, reminded me at times of David Haig on steroids.
Best of all is Mark Hadfield, boisterously filling in all the other roles with unflagging energy. But even though Sean Foley's spruce and spirited production, with an amazingly resourceful design by Alice Power, keeps the physical comedy flowing throughout, I found my own energy flagging long before the end.
"I suspect that Wodehouse himself would have loved this production, and there is no doubt that it captures the dotty, sunlit innocence of his work with panache. "
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"Knockabout prod"
Paul Taylor for The Independent
"It's an evening that reveals more of Wodehouse's gift for farce than of his matchless verbal felicity."
Michael Billington for The Guardian
"This unapologetically frivolous show should entertain those who have never been exposed to Wodehouse, and devotees will lap it up."
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Over the past few years, I have created a number of customizable base maps that I subsequently used to make the original GeoCurrents thematic maps that have been posted on this site (which are themselves now searchable by country and by topic). These customizable base maps were initially created by hand in Keynote, the Apple presentation program that competes with PowerPoint. Over the next several weeks, I will be fine-tuning all of these maps and then releasing them for downloading on this site in both Keynote and PowerPoint formats. Please free to use these customizable maps as you like. All that I would ask is that you retain the source note on the maps: GeoCurrents Customizable Base Map.
These maps can be profitably used in the classroom. If students are provided with a customizable map of a particular part of the world along with a data list pertaining to the same place, they can make their own thematic map. One example would be a map of African countries along with a list of African countries by per capita GDP. This exercise will help students learn the locations and shapes of the units in question (the countries of Africa in this case), and will allow them to grasp the patterns that they are mapping much more effectively than by merely looking at a map that someone else has made. Such a process is also useful for teaching students about selecting appropriate breaks in the data for effective map visualization, the use of different color schemes in mapping, and so on. One can also scatter the country shapes and then ask students to reassemble the map as a sort of game. Unfortunately, the shapes will not "click" into place, but the process still works well enough.
I am beginning this project by releasing a single map, that of the countries of Africa. Several different versions of this map are available in the PowerPoint and Keynote files provided below this text. The first is a simple outline map of the conventional countries of the region (although some insular African countries are excluded: Cape Verde, Seychelles, and Mauritius, as well as the French department of Reunion). Boxes with the word "text" next to them can be used to construct a map key. The second is the same map but with the addition of country names. As the maps are all customizable, these names can be easily removed to (re)create the initial map. The third map includes two de facto changes to the basic political map that have not been recognized by the international community: the effective independence of Somaliland, and the extension of Morocco over most of Western Sahara, along with the virtual independence of the so-called Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in the remaining territory. The essentially collapsed states of Libya and (the rest of) Somalia still appear on this map as regular countries, but that could easily be changed by the user (such as by turning them to a darker shade of grey). The final map includes the base map that was used to create the customizable map, which is a physical map of Africa. This version of the map can be used in a variety of ways. If one wants to include rivers or certain other physical features on one's own map, just click on the relevant countries, turn their "opacity" settings to zero, trace in the feature in question, and then click on the countries again and reset the opacity to 100 percent.
Please note that these maps have limited resolution. Small features, such as many of the islands on the Africa map, were by necessity reproduced as mere ovals or triangles. Boundary lines between countries, moreover, have not been perfectly traced out: as a result, boundary thickness is somewhat uneven. I personally find the end result aesthetically pleasing, as it gives these maps a somewhat soft appearance. Other users, however, may disagree. Users could, however, manually adjust the boundary lines to make them fit more precisely. I have done a lot of that work myself, but eventually I give up and decide that the map in question is good enough.
Also note that the physical base map was made before South Sudan gained independence. As a result, South Sudan appears as a layer placed over pre-2011 Sudan in my customizable maps. On the map (with rivers added) posted here, I somehow neglected to restore South Sudan. Other customizable maps that I will post later will not have such problems.
As this might be confusing, I would be happy to answer any questions in the discussion forum.


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Rusko oružje za masovno uništenje pretežno je nastalo tijekom hladnoga rata i utrke u naoružanju između SSSR-a i SAD-a. Rusija ima oružje za masovno uništenje kao ostavštinu SSSR-a, koji ga ima od 29. kolovoza 1949. godine.

RDS-1 (rus. reaktivnyj Dvigatel specialʹnyj; specijalni mlazni motor) bio je prvi sovjetski nuklearni test, 29. kolovoza 1949. u Semipalatinsku (današnji Kazahstan). Jakost eksplozije iznosila je 22 kilotona TNT-a, jačine slične napadu na Nagasaki. Na inzistiranje Lavrentija Berije, oružje je bilo više-manje kopija američke bombe "Debeljko". Sovjeti su događaj također nazvali "Prva munja", a zapadnjaci "Joe 1". Razvoj ovog oružja iznenadio je zapadna vojna-obavještajna predviđanja, te šokirao njihove političke krugove.

Sovjetski Savez razvijao je program nuklearnog naoružanja, pomoću prebjega sa Zapada, koji su među ostalim pomagali SSSR-u, zbog straha od monopola SAD-a nad oružjem za masovno uništenje. Staljin je želio imati oružje za masovno uništenje što prije, radi ravnoteže u naoružanju i povećanja vojne sigurnosti SSSR-a.

U trenutnoj vojnoj doktrini, Rusija si zadržava pravo korištenja nuklearnoga oružja, ako se ono upotrijebi protiv nje i/ili njezinih saveznika.

Prema Federaciji američkih znanstvenika, organizaciji za procjenu zaliha nuklearnoga oružja, Rusija posjeduje najveću zalihu oružja za masovno uništenje u svijetu. Organizacija također tvrdi, da Rusija ima 4,650 aktivnih nuklearnih bojnih glava, dok SAD ima 2468. Drugi izvori, međutim kažu da SAD ima više nuklearnih bojnih glava, a stvarne brojke ostaju predmet procjena. Rusija je odlučila smanjiti taj broj po stopi od 5% u šest mjeseci. O tome je potpisan sporazum između SAD-a i Rusije u svibnju 2002., s ciljem da se smanji na oko 1700 do 2200 bojnih glava na svakoj strani.

Osim nuklearnog oružja, Rusija je objavila, da ima arsenal od 39,967 tona kemijskog oružja 1997. godine, a od toga je 57% kasnije uništeno. Sovjetski Savez ratificirao je protokol Ženevske konvencije 22. siječnja 1975. Rusija je također potpisala ugovore o biološkom i kemijskom oružju.

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Pamochrysa stellata är en insektsart som beskrevs av Bo Tjeder 1966. Pamochrysa stellata ingår i släktet Pamochrysa och familjen guldögonsländor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Maine issues first red tide warning
The Department of Marine Resources bans the harvesting of mussels and surf clams from Harpswell to the New Hampshire border.
PORTLAND — The Maine Department of Marine Resources has issued its first red tide warning of 2010, banning the harvesting of mussels and surf clams from Harpswell to the New Hampshire border.
Red tide has been a growing problem with major outbreaks in three of the past five years. Red tide taints clams and mussels, making them unsafe for people to eat.
State officials already warned of the prospect of widespread red tide outbreaks this spring and summer that could force hundreds of miles of clam flats to be closed.
Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine said she's sponsoring a bill that includes, among other things, more funding for next-generation buoys that can monitor for red tide.


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State fair set to open this week amid virus concerns
Jul 18th, 2020 · by Glenn Rolfe · Comments: 0
Two girls ride the Alpine Bobs on the Midway at last year's Delaware State Fair.
HARRINGTON — On the fairgrounds bordering the southern edge of Harrington, the 2020 Delaware State Fair will be staged, albeit unlike any of its 100 predecessors.
With lead approval from Delaware's Division of Public Health, the 101st edition will play out July 23-Aug. 1, with the state four-plus months into the global COVID-19 pandemic that has caused cancellation of other large-scale events.
Approval to stage the fair with health-related requirements followed a review process involving both the Division of Public Health and Division of Small Business.
"Some events require more input from one division or the other," said Division of Small Business spokesman Michael Chesney. "In this case, given the unique nature of the state fair, DPH took the lead."
"The fair provided a comprehensive plan that addressed key concerns, including distancing and face coverings, and provided solutions to concerns and questions raised by the Division of Public Health during the review process," said Division of Public Health spokeswoman Jen Brestel.
During the fair's 10-day run, cleaning and sanitizing will be paramount, and social distance and other guidelines will be in effect. Facial coverings will be required at certain times and in certain areas, such as Quillen Arena, Exhibit Hall, Dover Building and the Delaware Building.
Due to the pandemic, concerts at the M&T Grandstand have been canceled.
Harrington City Manager Daniel Tartt said city hall is receiving inquiries with concerns about the state fair.
"We have been getting calls at city hall, thinking that we have authority and control over the fair, but we don't. We are getting calls complaining because the fair is going to be open," Mr. Tartt said. "Most callers believe that Harrington has some control or authority over Delaware State Fair operations. We have no power, no authority over the fair whatsoever. They are a completely separate entity,"
Mr. Tartt, noting that Harrington has cancelled its annual Heritage Day Festival which was scheduled for Aug. 29, said some calls to the city are questioning why Heritage Day has been cancelled yet the fair is still going on. "They think that we control the fair," he said.
Karley Busker from Harrington with her cow during the Cow Parade and Judging at the state fair's Quillen Arena last year.
The city is, however, planning for the aftermath of the state fair.
"Harrington has already requested, and is working with the governor's office, on scheduling a testing session one week after the end of the fair. Concerned citizens, employees, business owners and their employees and visitors will be able to get tested," said Mr. Tartt. "We have concerned citizens. We have concerned city employees. We have business owners who are concerned.
"You got the rides and all the vendors that are coming, we don't know where they are coming from. All the other events are cancelled so I think a lot of people are going to be trying to come to this event … and around town, shopping maybe, eating, etc., so there is concern in town."
A social media survey on the decision to hold this year's fair drew mixed opinions.
"My thoughts are if you don't feel safe stay home from larger events. If one can hold an event, they all should be able," stated Karen Schreiber in a Facebook post. "I also know a ton of planning goes into the fair each year."
"I've never missed it. But won't be going this year," Dawn Smith Rexrode posted. "Just not sure how it will work. And just don't feel safe going."
"Our kids and grandchildren have shown livestock at the fair for about 30 years," stated Lou Ann Rieley. "We camp up there all week and it is the highlight of the year for our family. This year we are going also. We are not afraid because of the virus but are very concerned because of the restrictions. If people are afraid then they can do whatever they think necessary to take care of their health. Outdoor transmission has proven to be extremely rare, so I am not sure why the mask mandates for outside activities."
Suzanne Farris in a post stated, "I think it's completely irresponsible. My kids and I look forward to the fair every year and they've been working on their exhibits since this time last year, but we won't be anywhere close to that event and anyone who attends should have to quarantine afterwards. Think of the carnival workers traveling across the country and the number of visitors from all over. If the fair is safe, then all the other things canceled are safe. I want to know why the health department shut down the peach festival but is allowing the fair."
Fat Daddy's was a go, other events are off
Recently, the Division of Small Business rendered approval for a concert and fireworks show that was staged July 4 on the grounds of Fat Daddy's BBQ along Seashore Highway west of Georgetown. That event, brokered in large part by State Sen. Brian Pettyjohn, was limited to a maximum 800 attendance count.
This past week, the annual Wyoming Peach Festival was cancelled after the Division of Public Health and Division of Small Business in a joint review of the event committee's proposal determined the Aug. 1 event would be too large to keep all attendees safe.
Earlier this month, organizers of Apple Scrapple, Bridgeville's mega-open street festival, announced the town's early October tradition would not be held this year. Karen Johnson, Apple Scrapple Festival executive director, made note of the difference between Apple Scrapple and the state fair in addressing social media inquiries as to why the state fair is a go and Apple Scrapple is not.
"One of the factors with the Delaware State Fair, they do have gates. With the Delaware State Fair, they have a larger footprint, and unfortunately for our festival we do not have those," Ms. Johnson said.
In general, lack of a specific entrance and exit is a concern for open street festivals, Mr. Chesney said.
"I think the events that are most likely to put folks in situations of greater likelihood of transmission have been canceled," Bob Wheatley posted in a comment, adding "transmission outdoors appears to be quite rare. Staying away is not a matter of fear. It's a matter of assessing one's own vulnerability and appetite for calculated risk — and how much one enjoys the events that aren't canceled! I'll be staying home …"
The state fair is gated with a controlled entrance.
"The largest factor is the level of control that the organizers have over the event and the environment," Ms. Brestel said. "The fairgrounds allow for controlled access to the facility via admission ticket sales, monitoring over all areas because they are all owned by the fair and coordination among all vendors and attendees."
Ms. Brestel said the DPH noted that "the fair also has the ability to limit access if distancing or other concerns arise and to remove non-compliant people from the fairgrounds. Other types of events held in publicly accessible areas are more difficult to ensure the level of control and enforcement needed for a safe event."
State fair employees will be monitoring building entrances to remind guests of the face mask requirement and to count people entering and exiting due to the decreased occupancy, presently at 60 percent during Phase 2 of Gov. John Carney's executive order.
"The approved plan addressed all areas of concern raised by the Division of Public Health," said Ms. Brestel. "The fair's willingness to consider reductions in capacity, changes to operations and their communication and cooperation with the Division of Public Health contributed to the approval of the plan."
Mr. Tartt said he spoke with Delaware State Fair Friday and "they questioned me on what we were requiring in the city of Harrington, and I said we're following the Governor's guidelines."
In addition to the events, competitions and activities on tap for this year's fair, the Delaware State Fair website – www.delawarestatefair.com – has an entire section on COVID-19.
Reach staff writer Glenn Rolfe at grolfe@newszap.com
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French government resigns; German business confidence falls.
By ANTONIA OPRITA Aug 25, 2014 | 05:30 AM EDT
Stocks quotes in this article: ITMN, BKW, THI
European stocks started the week in the green as comments by ECB president Mario Draghi at Jackson Hole last week were seen as dovish. Asian markets closed mixed, with the Nikkei managing a gain of nearly half a percentage point.
Here are five things that matter for markets now:
The French government resigned, a day after Finance Minister Arnaud Montebourg called for fiscal relaxation, arguing that deficit-cutting measures in place since the financial crisis were hurting the eurozone.
As Ukraine marked its national day, rebels paraded captive Ukrainian soldiers in the cities they hold and Russia said it wants to send a second humanitarian aid convoy to Ukraine's regions where pro-Russian rebels are active. In the latest twist in the conflict, Ukraine's government said on Monday morning its forces were engaged in conflict with a separatist armored column six miles from the border with Russia.
German business confidence fell for the fourth month in a row and was lower than forecast. The Ifo institute's business climate index was 106.3 in August from 108 in July and vs. expectations that it would drop to 107.
Swiss drug maker Roche agreed to buy U.S. biotech firm InterMune (ITMN) for $8.3 billion. The price is a 38% premium on the August 22 closing price for InterMune.
Burger King (BKW), the second-largest burger chain in the U.S., is in talks with Tim Hortons (THI) of Canada to acquire it and move its headquarters there, in order to relocate to a lower-tax country.
At the time of publication, Antonia Oprita had no positions in any of the securities mentioned.
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Jan 18, 2020 12:00 PM EST
For shareholders of record as of Jan. 22, MSC Industrial will make the big payout next month, but it will do so on borrowed cash.


Wonderful vase from the fifties, manufactured by the german brand Fohr to celebrate the 100 year existance of the firm.
The vase is 25 cm high and has a diameter of 9,5 cm. The vase is in great condition and still has the original Fohr sticker.


Celebrity Cruises will homeport a second ship in the increasingly-crowded UK during the summer of 2013.
The line also revealed they will put their first Solstice-class ship in Alaska and have their biggest European season ever.
CND readers also read about Grand Cayman quashing a rumor ... one of the things they do with the buses in Alaska during the off season ... and another financial impact from the loss of Costa Concordia.
It's a big week for baseball fans. Major League Baseball spring training began this week, and at the same time, MSC Cruises announced the schedule for their winter 2012-2013 Baseball Theme Cruises in the Caribbean.
SpongeBob moved into his new home aboard Norwegian Gem this week, currently sailing out of New York. He's brought Patrick, Dora, and a bunch of other Nickelodeon characters along with some new Nick experiences that for now will be unique to Norwegian Gem.
When Cunard announced the change of registry of their ships from Britain to Bermuda, one of the benefits was to be the opportunity for passengers to be able to be married at sea aboard the Cunard liners by the captain.
Today, Cunard provided the details and said the program will begin in May.
Divers in Italy today located eight more bodies in the wreckage of Costa Concordia.
Meanwhile, the Italian prosecutor said today that seven additional Costa employees are under investigation. The group consisted of four officers from the ship and three shoreside employees, including Roberto Ferrarini, head of Costa's crisis unit. He was on the phone with the ship's captain the night of the incident. The move is viewed to be somewhat of a procedural matter since there special evidentiary hearing that will commence shortly, and none of the seven have been arrested or charged.
CND subscribers also read about another Aurora passenger on the world cruise found to be carrying a large amount of cocaine ... and St. Croix backs down on proposed cruise passenger tax increase.
How many times have you flown into your ship's port of embarkation, taken a taxi to the pier, boarded the ship, and left on a wonderful cruise, and never seen the city?
That will now happen less frequently on Crystal Cruises because the luxury line has doubled the number of cruises that begin with two days (and a night) in the port of embarkation.
CND subscribers also read about a mystery aboard MSC Armonia ... and proof surfaces couple was waiting to board lifeboat aboard Costa Concordia.