text:
<?php defined('PHPFOX') or exit('NO DICE!'); ?>
<?php /* Cached: February 25, 2013, 8:49 am */ ?>
<?php
/**
 * [PHPFOX_HEADER]
 *
 * @copyright		[PHPFOX_COPYRIGHT]
 * @author  		Raymond_Benc
 * @package 		Phpfox
 * @version 		$Id: controller.html.php 64 2009-01-19 15:05:54Z Raymond_Benc $
 */

?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.introduction'); ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.api'); ?>

<?php if (count((array)$this->_aVars['aMethods'])):  foreach ((array) $this->_aVars['aMethods'] as $this->_aVars['aMethodModule']): ?>

<a href="#" class="js_apps_menu_click" rel="<?php echo Phpfox::getLib('phpfox.parse.output')->clean($this->_aVars['aMethodModule']['module']); ?>"><?php echo Phpfox::getLib('phpfox.parse.output')->clean($this->_aVars['aMethodModule']['module']); ?>

<?php endforeach; endif; ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.as_a_developer_you_can_create_applications', array('site_name' => $this->_aVars['sSiteName'])); ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.setting_up_an_app'); ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.to_interact_with_site_name_your', array('site_name' => $this->_aVars['sSiteName'])); ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.when_you_add_an_application', array('link' => $this->_aVars['sAppLink'])); ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.requesting_a_token'); ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.whenever_you_plan_on_using_our_api_you_must_first_request_a_token_in_order_to_request_a_token_you_need_a_unique_key_that_we_send_to_you_when_a_user_visits_your_app_from_an_iframe_on_our_site_we_pass_this_along_as_b_get_key_b'); ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.this_is_an_example_of_how_you_can_request_a_token'); ?>:

<?php echo $this->_aVars['sTokenSampleCall']; ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.if_successful_you_will_get_a_json_response_like'); ?>:

<?php echo $this->_aVars['sTokenResponse']; ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.sending_a_request'); ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.now_that_you_have_a_valid_token_you_can_make_requests_to_our_server_with_each_request_you_must_pass_the_token_we_created_for_you'); ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.an_example_call_to_our_api_server_would_look_like'); ?>:

<?php echo $this->_aVars['sSampleCall']; ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.understanding_an_api_response'); ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.for_methods_that_could_return_more_than_on'); ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.to_the_left_you_will_find_a_list_of_the_modules_that_implement'); ?>

<?php if (count((array)$this->_aVars['aMethods'])):  foreach ((array) $this->_aVars['aMethods'] as $this->_aVars['aMethodModule']): ?>
		<div class="apps_module_holder" id="js_apps_module_<?php echo Phpfox::getLib('phpfox.parse.output')->clean($this->_aVars['aMethodModule']['module']); ?>">

<?php echo Phpfox::getLib('phpfox.parse.output')->clean($this->_aVars['aMethodModule']['module']); ?>

<?php if (count((array)$this->_aVars['aMethodModule']['methods'])):  foreach ((array) $this->_aVars['aMethodModule']['methods'] as $this->_aVars['aMethod']): ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getLib('phpfox.parse.output')->clean($this->_aVars['aMethod']['call']); ?>

<?php echo $this->_aVars['aMethod']['type'];  if (isset ( $this->_aVars['aMethod']['url'] )): ?> <?php echo $this->_aVars['aMethod']['url'];  endif; ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getLib('phpfox.parse.output')->clean($this->_aVars['aMethod']['detail']); ?>

<?php if (! empty ( $this->_aVars['aMethod']['response'] )): ?>

<?php echo Phpfox::getPhrase('apps.response'); ?>

<?php echo $this->_aVars['aMethod']['response']; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php endforeach; endif; ?>

<?php endforeach; endif; ?>


i'm gonna be hanging out around here for a while, so if anyone is looking for plot-filled threads give me a shout !
Oh my god. I need more threads. Just hit me up (message) me if you're interested.
The feeling of dread that the structure emitted became even greater as he felt the surface of the door. He was terrified. Suddenly, as soon as he was about to push open the door, he felt something behind him. Whatever it was had shoved him forward with enough force that the gate opened up, revealing a room that resembled a king's throne room that was missing it's throne. Emerging from the walls were small waterfalls of lava that flowed into a moat surrounding the room and creating a circle in the center. Sticking out of a large chunk of onyx black metal was a single katana, perhaps one used by a swordsman who had once lived there. He turned his head quickly, still unsure of what had caused this situation. A girl sat behind him with terror in her eyes. She appeared to be shaking, but that may have only been Shi's eyes playing tricks on him. His first instinct was to draw his curved sword, but the noirette stopped himself immediately. She did not look helpless, but she also did not seem like a fighter to him. Shi smiled at the girl, although it remained unseen due to his mask. He stepped towards the girl and reached out his hand, moving his white mask over to the left side of his head. "You okay?" The young woman was interesting looking. Not interesting as in weird, she was actually quite pretty. However, her hair threw him off. It was a mix of brown and pink. The man liked it. "I'm Shi, sorry if I scared you." He told the girl.
[OP-F16] Everyone needs a break in the summer. All competitions is over. Time for prizes!!!
At first, the fields were ghost-quiet. However, this changed quickly as Shi heard the inquisitive voice of a violet haired woman who had engaged in conversation with him. "I'm okay, thank you." He lied, giving the stranger a smile as she stood at a careful distance from him. Just by looking at the girl, the noirette could tell that she meant no harm towards the man. This caused him to become confused, as he could not figure out what it was she would gain from this encounter. It only took moments for the atmosphere around the two to become awkward and uncomfortable. For some time, no words were exchanged between them. It wasn't something he was used to. Shi lifted his hand and scratched the nape of his neck. "Uh," the man started, "My name's Shi." On another day, perhaps the conversation would have gone more smoothly. Maybe it wouldn't have felt as though he was forcing the words out of his throat. After the unfolding of the previous night's events, however, he was not in his right mind. Maybe this is good for me. I could use a pick-me-up.
Spencer, despite his shyness, was actually an incredibly well-rounded man with a variety of hobbies and interests. Shi found that interesting. "Before I ended up here I was a musician. I wasn't big or anything, but I did sing. I can play guitar as well." He replied. "I wouldn't say I'm super social, but I like conversations." The man chuckled, continuing down the straight, snowy path. After disconnecting himself from his relatives and old friends, he had noticed a steep decline in his day-to-day talks. Since he had left America, he hadn't been on a date, received a phone call from his grandparents, or even had the opportunity to bump into an old acquaintance on the street. He thought leaving his home town to explore a new environment would help him through his tough times, but that only backfired. On top of that, he was trapped inside of a video game that threatened his life. He wasn't really making any friendships in there. Until the noirette discovered Spencer. He was the first real person he felt a connection with; his first friend in Sword Art Online. That was something he could not throw around like it was nothing. "So, tell me about sign language. What about that interests you?" He laughed, finding it odd that the man took up a hobby such as that.
thanks for letting me know about my sig link, i'll get that fixed soon. overall, i love what you said and will likely incorporate most, if not all of your ideas. I especially liked the part about survivors guilt, it's something that I think I'll play with a bit. Thanks Bal!!
The blue sky seemed as though it were calling to Shi, pulling the man from the soil beneath him. In another time, he may have given in and followed the "voice." It was different now, however. Finally, after many long years, he had found the tiniest piece of hope. He planned on holding on to that. It took a moment for Shi to notice the woman standing near him. "Huh?" He stumbled for words, which wasn't something he was used to. The noirette pulled himself up onto his feet and wiped the small amount of dirt off of his dark pants. "Yeah, I'm good. Thanks for asking." Of course, that wasn't 100% true. He felt as if his emotions would flood out of him at any moment. Shi wasn't used to this feeling. "Sorry, my name's Shi." He reached out his hand, inviting her to do the same. He was having immense trouble thinking straight. That was the normal thing to do, right? He looked around for a moment, only slightly coming to his senses. Where did this girl come from? He eyed her down. Violet hair tied back in a ribbon, as well as a black and green uniform that resembled that of a soldier. "So," he started, "been watching me for long?" He was mostly joking, but somewhere deep down he likely felt at least a little bit self-conscious about what had happened prior to the engagement. Of course, he didn't even know what had happened, not really.


text:
Beauty Products & Tools
The Face-Sculpting Tool Used by Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, and More Celebrities Is 31% Off Today
"My jowls are gone and my face is toned," a 53-year-old shopper said of the face-lifting device.
Tamim Alnuweiri
Tamim is beauty commerce writer at InStyle, with nearly a decade of experience writing about beauty, fashion, wellness, and music.
Published on July 12, 2022 @ 03:30PM
There is… a lot to sift through for Prime Day 2022. As someone who literally shops for a living, it's overwhelming even for me. I have spent hours sifting through early Prime Day deals, in addition to keeping an eye on any and all current sales. Of all the beauty categories you can spend your time and money on, I recommend beauty tools, like NuFace's microcurrent device, which can be incredibly effective yet notoriously expensive.
It's an investment, but the proof is really in the pudding — the facelift tool is used by celebrities including Jennifer Aniston, Bella Hadid, and Kate Hudson. Thankfully, NuFace is participating in Prime Day with the NuFace Mini Starter Kit is 31 percent off — now $144, down from $209. The kit comes with the device, as well as a gel primer that is required to conduct the emitted microcurrent.
Although it may seem like it, it's not exactly electrocuting your face. NuFace targets the neck, jowls, jawline, cheeks, and forehead by sending low levels of microcurrents through the skin. During the recommended five-minute session, the electric currents purportedly smooth out wrinkles and lines as well as lift and tighten skin.
Shop now: $144 (Originally $209); amazon.com
Celebrity fans aside, this device has garnered a loyal following among regular folk, too, withcurrently over 1,400 five-star ratings on Amazon. One shopper wrote, "It makes a significant and noticeable difference… [if you] use it regularly, the effects get better with time." They added, "Skin gets firmer and the whole face [becomes] less saggy, and it also seems to have an effect on the quality of skin — brightness, pores, and so on." Ultimately, the shopper said it has "taken about 10 years off," their face. Another reviewer in their 50s wrote, "I started to notice that I was getting jowls… I use mine once a day about four or five times a week. My jowls are gone and my skin is toned."
Dozens of shoppers say that the device is well worth the price, so right now makes an especially apt time to finally get the NuFace Mini in your hands while it's 31 percent off (and in stock).
Shop More Prime Day 2022 Deals:
Shoppers Say This "Dyson Alternative" Styles Hair in 5 Minutes — and It's Going for Its Lowest Price Ever
Amazon's Best-Selling Vitamin C Serum With 69,000+ Perfect Ratings Is 45% Off — but Only for 24 Hours
Royals-Approved Comfy Superga Sneakers Are Up to 60% Off This Prime Day
Shop More InStyle-Approved Picks
This Hydrating, Multi-Use Balm Is a Cold Weather Hero for My Lips, Cuticles, and More
This Leave-In Conditioner Makes My Long, Thick Hair So Soft, I Don't Even Need a Hairbrush
I Walked, Ran, and Danced in These Ultra-Comfy Heels for 12+ Hours, and They Felt Like Sneakers
Jennifer Coolidge Is the Latest Celebrity to Call Out This Editor-Approved Face Wand That Smooths Fine Lines
Margot Robbie, Jennifer Aniston, and More Use This Facial Toning Device — and It's on Sale for 20% Off
This Mini Skin Tightening Device Is Straight Out Of the Future
The Face-Sculpting Tool Used by Jennifer Aniston and Miranda Kerr Just Launched a Customizable Version
This TikTok-Viral Lip Stain Lasted Through 5+ Hours of Eating and Drinking — and It's Just $6 Until Tonight
Elizabeth Olsen Uses This Jennifer Aniston-Approved Face Tool to Lift and Depuff Her Skin
Riley Keough Uses the Same Face Oil Olivia Munn and Chrissy Teigen Love for Soft, Bouncy Skin
Jennifer Aniston's Go-To Skincare Tool Is the Most Affordable Way to Get a Facelift at Home
Shoppers in Their 50s Are "in Disbelief" at the Wrinkle-Reducing Effect of This Skin Device
This $400 Microcurrent Device Drastically Reduces My Cellulite In Just A Few Sessions
12 Beauty Tools and Gadgets Worth Gifting to Elevate Anyone's Routine
Supermodels Swear By This Skin-Tightening Device for Photo Shoots (and Personal Use)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Calcaribracon conspiciendus är en stekelart som först beskrevs av Turner 1919.  Calcaribracon conspiciendus ingår i släktet Calcaribracon och familjen bracksteklar. Inga underarter finns listade.

Källor

Bracksteklar
conspiciendus

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Grew up with Yesilyurt (Turkey) youth teams.
.made his debut with Yesilyurt, in the Turkish 2nd divison, during the 2001-02 season.
Signed for the 2002-03 season by Turk Telekom Ankara.
Signed by Banvit BK for the remainder of the season.
Signed for the remainder of the season by Efes Pilsen Istanbul.
Signed for the 2007-08 season by Antalya Belediye.
Signed for the 2009-10 season by Galatasaray Istanbul.
Signed for the 2010-11 season by Olin Edirne.
Signed for the 2014-15 season by Istanbul BB.
Signed for the 2015-16 season by Sakarya BB.
Won the 2011-12 Turkish National Championship with Besiktas JK Istanbul..won the 2007 Turkish President Cup with Efes Pilsen Istanbul.
Played the 2011 and 2012 Turkish All Star Game.
Won the bronze medal at the 1999 European U-16 Championship.


I made this thread so that people could post things that may of be some interest or could be a suggestion to some people. It can be anything you found online like amazon, discussed on Reddit, on a forum, something you plan on buying from ebay/online shop. This wont be a spot where you can post upcoming Steam Sales, Game Deals anything to do with desktops, laptops or gaming consoles.
Something to combine your keys into one thing. Theres an added accessory where you can add a usb stick to it.
That is a beautiful sword.
Yes Jord I agree completely! Sooo jealous right now!
Handcrafted wooden dragon. Named him Parmatirno - guardian of the books.
Always wanted to have one of these just because it looks so dumb.


The maximum size of picture 4015×6005 pixels, you can download with JPG format. This picture was created by Sony Ilce-6000 camera with shooting mode E 35mm F1.8 OSS - 35.0mm · ƒ/6.7 · 1/250s · ISO 160. Archived in the category "Science/Technology" and our photographer was tagged: Strommast, Puddle, Mirroring, Reflection, Power Poles.


text:
Tower Ticker
THE MEDIA BUSINESS IN CHICAGO AND BEYOND
BY PHIL ROSENTHAL | E-mail | About | Twitter
« Oprah Radio: Live stream a first step or just promotion? | Main | O'Brien surrenders 'Tonight' to Leno, but free to work Sept. 1 »
Conan, NBC announce divorce; it's about time and so much more
Late-night television host Conan O'Brien and NBC formally announced their multi-million dollar divorce Thursday, with the network getting "The Tonight Show" back after Friday night's program and O'Brien granted full custody of his career in a matter of months.
Jay Leno, who hosted "Tonight" for 17 years before the network moved him aside in favor of O'Brien around seven months ago and whose subsequent nightly prime-time version bombed, will be reinstated as host of "Tonight" on March 1, the network announced separately.
"NBC and Conan O'Brien have reached a resolution of the issues surrounding O'Brien's contract to host 'The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien,' " NBC and O'Brien said in a joint statement, issued by the network. "Under terms of an agreement that was signed earlier today, NBC and O'Brien will settle their contractual obligations and the network will release O'Brien from his contract, freeing him to pursue other opportunities after Sept. 1, 2010. O'Brien will make his final appearance as host of 'The Tonight Show' on Jan. 22."
As in any good TV soap opera, these calamitous storylines had been building for weeks, months and even years, but they only built to a crescendo in recent weeks, becoming the talk of not only their own shows and network but others as well. And this latest episode is unlikely to be the last.
Leno will slide back into the time slot and job he took over from 1962-92 "Tonight" host Johnny Carson. O'Brien, meanwhile, will be free to negotiate with rival networks such as Fox, which has failed miserably in previous attempts to start weeknight late-night franchises from scratch, first with Joan Rivers and then Chevy Chase.
"We're pleased that Jay is returning to host the franchise that he helmed brilliantly and successfully for many years," Jeff Gaspin, NBC Universal Television Entertainment chairman, said in a statement. "He is an enormous talent, a consummate professional and one of the hardest-working performers on television."
O'Brien has Will Ferrell, Tom Hanks and Neil Young scheduled as guests for Friday's finale. NBC plans to air reruns of his version of "Tonight" through mid-February, when the network's regular programming is pre-empted by coverage of the Winter Games in Vancouver. Leno, whose final prime-time show is set for Feb. 12, will return to "Tonight" after the Olympics end.
As for the future beyond that, Fox is hardly a sure thing for O'Brien as not everyone at that network or all its affiliates reportedly are convinced of O'Brien's viability. (Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co. owns seven Fox affiliates.) And now that O'Brien is officially available, other suiitors may emerge as well.
On O'Brien's NBC "Tonight Show" Web site, there has been a poll inviting visitors to vote on which job offer the host should take. The options: Pasadena Community Network cable access, Jewish Life TV, dramatic role as IRA terrorist on FX drama "Sons of Anarchy," morning show sidekick on Y-94 in Fargo, N. D., starring in the porno film "Conan the Bangbarian" and a stint on "Dancing with the Stars."
Terms of the separation were not announced, but the Associated Press reports the exit package is worth $45 million with O'Brien getting more than $32 million and the remainder earmarked for O'Brien's non-union, non-contract staff.
Among points of contention said to have delayed the settlement, which had been anticipated for days, were the staff severance payments, concern over who owned comedy bits developed by O'Brien during his more than 16 years at NBC, first as host of "Late Night" and then "Tonight," and prohibitions on disparaging NBC and its executives. O'Brien joked about this on Monday's "Tonight," indicating such a clause would prevent him from saying bad things about his soon-to-be former employers but not singing bad things about them.
O'Brien and "Tonight" were paired only seven months despite a five-year betrothal, as NBC in 2004 made Leno a lame duck in the "Tonight" job he took over for Carson. NBC's promise was designed to keep its "Late Night" host from leaving for a rival that year by assuring Leno's job would be his by 2009.
But wanting to keep top-rated Leno in reserve rather than lose him to ABC, NBC signed him to a new deal in late 2008 with hopes that he could host a prime-time version of "Tonight" that would prove cost-effective.
Low ratings for "The Jay Leno Show' hurt affiliates' local news ratings and profits, the prime-time show got pink slipped. NBC hoped to wedge Leno in between late local news and a displaced O'Brien's "Tonight," which had slipped from No. 1 after Leno's exit.
O'Brien balked. He argued that a show immediately following another talk show and not starting until after midnight on the East and West coasts wasn't really the "Tonight Show" his contract called for, and this proved to be an irreconcilable difference.
Ironically, the long-term Leno-to-O'Brien succession plan was NBC's strategy to avoid the acrimony and costliness of its 1992 Carson-to-Leno "Tonight" transition, which resulted in "Late Night" host David Letterman defecting to CBS in 1993, instantly giving that network a viable late-night franchise.
Hedging its bets by keeping Leno on board -- either because it doubted O'Brien would succeed or because it feared what Leno would do for a rival -- and the resulting chaos of knocking O'Brien from "Tonight" may even prove more damaging, however.
The timing certainly doesn't bode well, what with network broadcast television in decline and NBC Universal about to be taken over by cable overlords at Comcast. The situation has cast both NBC and Leno in an unflattering light, at least temporarily, and it's not clear what if any lasting scars have been inflicted upon the long-standing "Tonight" franchise.
On Monday's "The Jay Leno Show," Leno gave his own version of events, more or less blaming the situation on his network bosses (see video above).
Leno said the network executives first assured him their research showed the prime-time program would be successful and then that O'Brien would go along with a compromise by which he would do a half-hour program after late local news followed by the one-hour "Tonight" with O'Brien; they were way off on both counts.
Letterman ridiculed Leno's take on the situation on Tuesday night. Saying he had known Leno for 35 years, he called it "vintage Jay." The following night, Leno shot back with an allusion to the CBS host's recent sex scandal, saying that the way to get Letterman to ignore you is to marry him.
NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker told PBS' Charlie Rose in an interview Monday that he took responsibility for the mistake of moving Leno out of late-night and into prime-time, but "the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger." The decision to keep Leno and release O'Brien was a "business decision" based on how the two hosts performed from a financial standpoint.
"We believe we've made the right business decision," Zucker told Rose. "We think that Jay, who was the ratings champ in late night for almost 15 years, will go back to 11:35 (10:35 p.m. Central) and be successful."
Zucker acknowledged that O'Brien has to make "a decision that's in his best interest, but we made a business decision that's in our best interest, and that's really what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to make hard business decisions without any personal feelings, and that's what we're supposed to do, and that's what we've done here."
Interestingly, media entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban rallied to Zucker's defense on his personal blog, saying the Leno prime-time experiment, while risky, had tremendous potential upside and was the sort of chance companies are supposed to take.
Posted at 10:49:32 AM in Chicago, Fox Broadcasting, NBC Universal, News Corp., Television, WBBM-TV, WFLD-TV, WMAQ-TV
Enough, already! Very few people watched O'Brien which I suspect shows how few care two-bits about this.
Here's what it boiled down to. It was a failure all around. NBC failed to take seriously what any of it's talent really wanted. They cynically thought that cash would solve everything. They thought that Leno wouldn't care about being pushed out of the Tonight Show as long as they paid him. Ditto for Conan. Conan and his reps made the mistake of assuming that Jay would just willingly move along for Conan and that there wasn't any need for locked-in guarantees. NBC made the mistake of not doing the real research back in '04 and making the decision on Conan then and there, not punting it ahead 5 years. Because in the end, what will probably end up happening is this: Conan will go to Fox. He may win his first few weeks. After a while, Leno will be back on top, and Conan and Letterman will be fighting for 2nd/3rd. NBC didn't have to spend over $100 million (when you add up all the money spent for Leno's guaranteed 2 year contract for the primetime show, all the promos and expenses for Conan's first 7 months, the lost advertising revenue from the primetime show, and Conan's payout) to come to the decision that they could have come to if they had just bothered to actually think about what they were doing.
Posted by: zooguitar | January 22, 2010 at 11:11 AM
This is really one of the best post i have ever seen about the relation ship and divorce. So truly speaking that i am really impressed to know about that. SO i think this is one of the best resource to know about the topic. Anyways keep sharing your thoughts.
Posted by: Austin | February 02, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Tower Ticker RSS
This is an expansion of the Chicago Tribune column I have written since April 2005, and the columns I wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times and Los Angeles' Daily News for two decades before that. It's TV, radio, newspapers and whatever, both locally and nationally. Beyond sharing what crosses my desk—and my mind—this will be a venue for you to share your takes with me as well as with each other.
• About Phil Rosenthal
• Thank you for checking on Tower Ticker
• Phil Rosenthal's new Tribune business column
• Paige Wiser, ousted Sun-Times critic: 'I am ashamed'
• Beck, Couric, Pelley and the Trib all try to leverage strengths
• Katie Couric's Disney-ABC deal gives her 3 p.m. WLS-Ch. 7 slot in fall '12
• 'Windy City Live': WLS Ch. 7's post-Oprah baby needs to be stronger if it wants to run
• Nils Larsen becomes Tribune Broadcasting CEO; Jerry Kersting exits as president
• ESPN's story in highlights, hits, errors and lots of scores to settle
• Oprah's last show boosts TV ratings
• Bulls' NBA playoff struggle against Heat still attracts a TV crowd on TNT
• Arbitron
• CBS
• Chicago
• Clear Channel
• CLTV
• CNN
• Disney
• Emmis
• Fox Broadcasting
• Johnson Publishing
• Lawsuit
• Magazines
• Mancow
• NBC Universal
• News Corp.
• Newscasters
• Newspapers
• oprah
• PBS
• Sirius XM_
• Sun-Times Media Group
• Super Bowl
• The CW
• Time Warner
• Tribune Co.
• Washington Post Co.
• WBBM-AM
• WBBM-FM
• WBBM-TV
• WBEZ-FM
• WCFS-FM
• WCIU-TV
• WDRV-FM
• WFLD-TV
• WGCI-FM
• WGN-AM
• WGN-TV
• WIND-AM
• WKQX-FM
• WKSC-FM
• WLIT-FM
• WLS-AM
• WLS-TV
• WLUP-FM
• WMAQ-TV
• WNUA-FM
• WOJO-FM
• WPWR-TV
• WPWX-FM
• WSCR-AM
• WSNS-TV
• WSRB-FM
• WTMX-FM
• WTTW-TV
• WUSN-FM
• WVAZ-FM
• WVON-AM
• WXRT-FM
More from Phil Rosenthal
Check out Rosenthal's latest columns by following the links below or visit his column archive.
June 2011 posts
Browse Tower Ticker archives
Terms of Service | Privacy | Feedback | Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611


text:
Kalani Soli
Class: Junior Position: Height: 5-5 Previous School: Tyler JC Hometown: Carson, Calif.
• Played for Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas
• Member of No. 1 ranked team in the country at the junior college level
• Claimed a regional championship and also reached the final of the fall national championships as a sophomore
• Went unbeaten in No. 2 singles and No. 2 doubles as a freshman with the Indians
• Won the national championship at both flights as a freshman and clinched a team national championship in her doubles win
• Finished her junior career in 2016 as a Blue Chip and was ranked as high as No. 17 in the country
• Won tournament matches against: No. 5 Salma Ewing (signed with USC), No. 7 Victoria Flores (signed with Georgia Tech), No. 13 Hannah Zhao (signed with Duke) and No. 15 Christie Wan (signed with Columbia)
• Qualified for finals at the Cal State Northridge ITA
• Claimed the Claremont-Mudd Scripps College ITA title
• Reached the finals at the ITF Spring National Championships in 2014
• Daughter of Savelio Vaefa and Meapae Vasati Soli
• Majoring in criminal justice
• Birthday is Oct. 13
Soli Becomes Liberty's First ASUN Women's Tennis Player of the Week
Liberty junior Kalani Soli has been selected as the ASUN Women's Tennis Player of the Week. Read More
Soli Captures Four Medals at 2019 Pacific Games
Liberty women's tennis rising senior Kalani Soli captured four medals at the 2019 Pacific Games. Read More
Women's Tennis Recap vs. Stetson (4-4-19)


Mission's pen pals site! Free penpals service for Mission people meet at aPenpals.com. Mission has many members just like you seeking online friends. Looking for new friends at Mission penpals website is easy. Sign up today and find many local and international pen pals in Mission.
Mission's aPenpals is 100% free. Please put away your credit card. Have fun!
I have been married for over 31 years, have four grown children and ten grandchildren. I enjoy music, movies, socializing, shopping at second hand stores and garage sales to name a few. I am seeking to make friends with males or females that likes to communicate on a regular basis.
I would like to talk to someone to teach me about a bit vietnam and Vietnamese, I would love to know about some history to.
Just looking for a friend to chat with. Want to know more about Scotland.
I am 56yrs old,divorced,with one daughter who does not live at home. I am 5 foot 6inches tall with blonde hair,hazel eyes and weigh 120lbs.
Mission pen pals: aPenpals.com is a free pen pals service to connect friends in Mission. Join our penpals site to meet beautiful women and men in Mission. Many online pen pals in Mission are waiting to meet you online. Making pen friends in Mission is completely free. This is one of the free pen pal sites in Mission that can help you meet a new friend. Search, find and interact with free pen pals in Mission today.


Inspired by the many blessings they were fortunate to enjoy during childhood, brothers Robert and Nick More developed the best of MORE to share with you unique and life-enriching experiences. These span the most breath-taking regions of Southern Africa.
MORE is a fourth-generation family business, which owns and manages a private collection of luxury safari lodges and boutique hotels, set within some of Southern Africa's most inspiring locations. Our origin dates back to 1933… Great grandfather, Guy Aubrey Chalkley was awed by the pristine beauty of the Sabie region and purchased a farm here that would later form the base of our Lion Sands Game Reserve. Continuing his legacy of dedication to the environment and inheriting his passion for sharing it, we have expanded the MORE conservation and hospitality footprint – including Marataba Game Reserve. Her raw beauty rendered us breathless, her wild and untamed nature captured our hearts, and it is with great love that we transformed her lodges into the very special and singular places they are today.
We have established eight lodges in three uniquely different reserves, and three hotels in the vicinity of two Natural Wonders of the World. In so doing, we have committed to protecting Southern Africa's last wild places, bringing people together here, and creating enriching experiences for you to share in. Led by Robert More, our passionate team appreciates that every day we have the opportunity to inspire your renewed appreciation of life – your own and the natural world – which also allows us to continue conserving the region's untainted wildernesses for generations to come. We know that Mother Nature is the greatest teacher of the only things in life that truly matter.
For this reason, you will find us in the most awe-inspiring and untouched parts of Southern Africa. Some of our properties are part of the More family heritage – tremendous gifts, handed down through generations of custodians. Others took time and patience to curate, and great passion to transform into the very special and singular places they are today. Each MORE lodge and hotel provides a place for loved ones and friends to some together and with every comfort and convenience afforded, there is time for the rest to take care of itself… During this pause, our commitment is to creating experiences that, shared, reconnect you with yourself, each other and the 'wonder-fullness' of life.
Over the years, MORE Private Travel has grown from a simple travel desk to a full-service concierge agency, offering complimentary and bespoke travel planning to each guest of MORE. 'Private' is ultimately what sets us apart – through our years on the ground, we have come to understand what it is you are looking for and provide you with highly-personalised service. Ours is no one-size-fits-all operation, and the essence of our business is creating life-enriching journeys – as unique as you are. From your Private Travel Planner to destination Concierge Executives, we are with you every step of the way. This leaves you free to relax and be present in the moment. And the return value? A more meaningful experience for you.
The heart of our operation – More Community Trust (MCT) helps fulfil our commitment to creating opportunities for people to enrich their lives. As a non-profit organisation, MCT gives long-term, meaningful assistance to the communities in which our lodges and hotels operate. Empowerment projects here are designed around: early childhood development; skills development and enterprise; access to clean, running water; and improving living standards. But together, we can do more. Over the years, MCT has developed close relationships within these communities, and we invite you to visit, experience a different – and humbling – way of living, Get Your Hands Dirty helping out, and make a tangible, positive difference in their people's lives.


text:
Athamanthia is an Eastern Palearctic genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Athamanthia is differentiated from Lycaena by characters of the male genitalia.

Species
 Athamanthia athamantis (Eversmann, 1854) Turan, Dzhungarsky Alatau
 Athamanthia rushanica Zhdanko, 1990 western Pamirs, Turan, Gissar Range
 Athamanthia sogdiana Zhdanko, 1990 southern Turkmenistan (Badhyz State Nature Reserve), southern Gissar Range
 Athamanthia churkini Zhdanko, 2000 Keke-Meren River, Kirghizia 1650 m
 Athamanthia phoenicura (Lederer, [1870]) Turkmenia (Kopet Dag), southern Armenia, Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan
 Athamanthia dimorpha (Staudinger, 1881) northern Iran, northern and western Tian-Shan, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Saur Mountains, Tarbagatai Mountains, southern Altay Mountains, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, southwestern Mongolia
 Athamanthia japhetica (Nekrutenko & Effendi, 1983) Azerbaijan
 Athamanthia issykkuli Zhdanko, 1990 Kyrgyzstan (Issyk-kul)
 Athamanthia eitschbergeri Lukhtanov, 1993 Kyrgyzstan (Issyk-Kul lake)
 Athamanthia namanganica Lukhtanov, 2000 Kyrgyzstan (Tschatkal, western Tian Shan)
 Athamanthia zhdankoi Lukhtanov, 2000 Kyrgyzstan (Sarykamysch Mountains) 1600 m
 Athamanthia dilutior (Staudinger, 1881) Kyrgyzstan
 Athamanthia alexandra (Püngeler, 1901) Uzbekistan (Nuratau Mountains), Syr Darya, Dzhungarsky Alatau

References

Lycaeninae
Lycaenidae genera


text:
Achilles tendon rupture - treatment, surgery
neoorthopaedics
An Achilles tendon rupture or rupture occurs when the tendon "ruptures or tears" leading to separation or discontinuity in the tissues that make up the tendon.
Dr Ashu Consul
What is Achilles tendon rupture?
In terms of anatomy, the Achilles tendon, a sort of fibrous "ribbon" or "cord" that connects muscle to bone, is the largest and strongest tendon in the body that connects the calcaneus (heel bone) to the medial gastrocnemius muscles., lateral gastrocnemius and soleus muscles (popularly known as calf muscles or "leg belly" muscles). When the muscle contracts, it "pulls" the tendon, which in turn moves the foot.
The rupture often reflects the previous existence of tendinosis phenomena caused by sports microtraumas or degeneration (aging) of the tendon. In most cases, the tear occurs at the bottom of the tendon (just above the heel), but it can occur anywhere along the tendon. In the presence of a healthy tendon, the lesion can appear in the bone or muscle.
Total ruptures, partial ruptures
We can generically classify Achilles tendon ruptures into:
Total rupture – in the total rupture of the Achilles tendon, the tissues break completely, that is, the tendon is completely "separated".
Partial rupture – in a partial rupture of the Achilles tendon, the tendon does not completely rupture, only an incomplete rupture occurs. Partial tears can vary greatly in severity according to the extent of the injury.
A total rupture is more frequent than a partial rupture. As a rule, a total rupture is a more serious injury when compared to a partial rupture and with more exacerbated symptoms. A partial tear can also present with pain that can range from moderate to severe and, if not recognized, it can quickly progress to a total tear.
See more information on treatments to better understand the different therapeutic approaches according to the extent of the lesion.
Achilles tendon rupture – causes
The Achilles tendon can lose elasticity and become "weak and thin" with age and lack of use. Then, it becomes prone to injury or breakage.
Rupture is more common in people with pre-existing Achilles tendonitis (tendon inflammation). Repetitive tendinitis and the consequent calcifications are a risk factor for tendon rupture.
Certain diseases (such as arthritis and diabetes) and medications (such as corticosteroids, for example) can also increase the risk of rupture.
Rupture occurs most often in the middle-aged male athlete. The injury usually occurs during recreational sports that require impacts with the ground, running, jumping, etc. Most of the time, these are football, athletics, tennis, basketball, among others. Injury can happen in these situations as a result of traumatic dorsiflexion when the muscle is strongly contracted causing it to tear.
Breaks can, however, also occur in everyday activities. For example, when falling from a significant height, when entering a pothole abruptly, traffic accidents, etc.
Achilles tendon rupture – symptoms
The signs and symptoms of Achilles tendon rupture are:
Sudden, severe pain may be felt in the "back" of the ankle or the "tummy of the leg", often described as "being hit by a rock or shot" or "like someone stepping on the back of the ankle";
A loud clicking sound can be heard;
A discontinuity ("gap") or depression (void) can be felt and seen in the tendon above the calcaneus (heel bone);
Inability to stand on tiptoe on the affected side;
Initial pain, swelling (swelling) and stiffness may be followed by bruising and weakness (not being able to land on the foot, walking).
Achilles tendon rupture – diagnosis
The diagnosis is made by the orthopaedic doctor in Delhi after collecting the clinical history, performing the physical examination and some complementary means of diagnosis (MCDT).Bottom of Form
A simple test is to "stretch" the "calf or calf muscles" while lying on your stomach (Thompson test). In the impossibility of being able to elevate the foot, there is, most likely, a rupture in the tendon. This test isolates the connection between the "calf muscles" and the tendon and eliminates other tendons that may still allow poor movement.
The orthopaedic doctor in Dwarka may order the following tests to confirm the diagnosis and to know in greater detail the location and degree of severity of the lesion:
Plain radiography (XR) – not being a very useful exam, it can identify a bone fragment avulsion of the calcaneus;
Ultrasound or ultrasound – Ultrasound of the leg and thigh can help assess the possibility of deep vein thrombosis and can also be used to rule out a Baker's cyst (or cyst). Ultrasound can identify Achilles tendon rupture or signs of inflammation (tendinitis or tendinosis);
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) – MRI is extremely sensitive for diagnosis and allows you to determine if there is still a tendon in continuity. It allows other diagnoses such as tendinitis, tendinosis and bursitis.
Pain in the "back of the heel" is not always due to an Achilles tendon rupture. In the differential diagnosis, tendinitis (inflammation of the Achilles) and bursitis (inflammation of the bursae) should be considered, among the most frequent pathologies that cause pain in the Achilles region.
Achilles tendon rupture – treatment
The objective of the treatment is to restore the function of the tendon, for this, it is necessary that the tissues that make up the tendon heal "united" with each other. In this way, it will be possible for the patient to return to the same level of activity before the injury. Regaining Achilles tendon function after an injury is critical to making walking possible.
Treatment reflects a balance between tendon protection and initial movement. Protection is necessary to allow time for healing and to prevent further injury. Moving the foot and ankle is necessary to prevent stiffness and loss of muscle strength.
We can divide treatment options into surgical and non-surgical. Conservative (non-surgical) treatment consists of a set of therapeutic attitudes aimed at healing the tendon and restoring its function without resorting to any type of surgical intervention.
The choice between surgical and non-surgical treatment can be controversial in some cases. Both surgical and non-surgical treatment will require an initial period of approximately six weeks of immobilization. For most patients, both treatment options have good functional results.
Nonsurgical treatment is often used for non-athletes or for people with a low general level of physical activity who will not benefit from surgery. In the elderly and people with clinical complications, conservative (non-surgical) treatment should also be considered as a first option.
Initially, a cast below the knee is performed with the foot in equinus (foot in marked plantar flexion, "down"). Although it is not routine, it is possible to perform an MRI to verify that the tops of the tendon are in contact. The cast is changed, at intervals of two to four weeks, to slowly stretch the tendon back to its normal length. This treatment usually takes 8 to 12 weeks. During this period, global strengthening and flexibility exercises are taught.
SURGERY (SURGICAL TREATMENT)
Surgery on Achilles tendon rupture is often indicated in healthy and active people who want to resume activities such as walking, running, cycling, etc. Even those who are less active may be candidates for surgical repair of the tendon. The decision to operate should be discussed with your orthopaedic surgeon in Delhi.
Surgery should not be performed if there is an active infection or damaged skin at or around the Achilles tendon rupture site. In addition, some diseases or lifestyle habits, such as diabetes, smoking habits, sedentary lifestyle, steroid use and inability to follow instructions after the operation, may be a contraindication for surgery.
Surgical intervention for an Achilles tendon rupture is usually performed on an outpatient basis. This means that the patient is operated on and goes home the same day.
We can identify two distinct surgical approaches:
The first is to perform the intervention percutaneously, allowing to perform a minimally invasive surgery, through small incisions. A kind of needles with attached sutures are passed, allowing the Achilles tendon to be sutured.
The second approach is the open approach (traditional method, where the surgeon makes an open incision to access the tendon). This starts with an incision made in the back of the leg, just above the calcaneus (heel bone). After the best orthopaedic in Dwarka finds the two ends of the torn tendon, these ends are sutured. The incision is subsequently closed.
The surgical technique will be previously determined by the orthopaedic in West Delhi, depending on the type and location of the rupture, among other factors. In the postoperative period, regardless of the surgical technique chosen, the patient is immobilized with an equinus foot.
Despite being a safe surgery, some complications can arise, such as risks associated with anesthesia, infection, damage to nerves and blood vessels and bleeding or blood clots, among others. A new rupture can also occur (recurrence).
Recovery after surgery
After the surgery, the patient is placed with a splint or a "plaster boot" from the foot to the knee. Usually, the patient cannot walk or put weight on the involved leg. Crutches, a walker or a wheelchair are used to allow the patient to remain mobile for the first few times. Patients are encouraged to keep the operated leg elevated above the level of the heart to decrease swelling (swelling) and pain.
Patients are usually seen in the office two weeks after surgery. The splint or cast is removed, and the surgical incision is evaluated. Stitches are usually removed at this point if necessary. After two to six weeks, depending on postoperative protocol and orthopedic in Dwarka preference, patients may be allowed to begin performing some force. For this, a "hiking boot" can be used. Ankle movement is often allowed and encouraged.
After six weeks, full-body strength is generally allowed. Physiotherapy in Dwarka will need to be started and is intended to restore ankle range of motion. Strengthening of the "calf muscles" and Achilles is gradually allowed as the tendon heals. It is usually possible to resume full activity after six months. Recovery time after surgery can extend up to a year, until the patient can achieve full rehabilitation.
Even in cases where surgery is performed, the above-mentioned therapeutic attitudes are included in the rehabilitation plan. See more information on conservative treatment.
orthopaedic in Dwarka orthopaedic doctor in Dwarka orthopaedic doctor in Delhi orthopaedic in West Delhi orthopaedic surgeon in Delhi Achilles tendon rupture


How does dead reckoning work?
Dead reckoning is accomplished by monitoring your speed and direction and using this data to keep track of your position relative to a known starting location.
Sophisticated systems may combine data from sensors with map data to more accurately plot your course along curves and turns in a road.
The effectiveness of dead reckoning depends on how accurately a navigation system is able to monitor your speed and direction.
Where are GPS reception problems likely to occur?
Will I need an external GPS antenna?
Copyright ©2005-2011 Rare Niche Web Sites.


text:
MRO KEY READ
Toledo (1-1, 0-0 MAC) at
Cincinnati (0-0, 0-0 AAC)
7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 12
Paul Brown Stadium
ESPNU
It's Week No. 3 for most teams – unless you are the Cincinnati Bearcats, who finally open up their 2014 season by hosting the Toledo Rockets.
Hopefully, Rocket fans know to set their navigational tools on Paul Brown Stadium as a destination. They may be sorely disappointed if they don't, because Cincinnati's normal home – Nippert Stadium – is undergoing renovation. Hence, the Bearcats are playing at PBS – home of the Cincinnati Bengals – this season.
The Bearcats are coming off a 9-4 (6-2 AAC) campaign in 2013 and, despite some significant personnel losses, returns 16 starters. Cincinnati was picked as a favorite to win the conference title this year.
The UC starting quarterback spot remained a question heading into fall as senior Munchie Legaux and talented transfer Gunner Kiel battled for the nod. It looks like Kiel will get the call, but either one would likely fare well in the spot. Legaux was a starter until he suffered a season-ending leg injury last year.
Kiel is the nephew former Notre Dame and NFL quarterback Blair Kiel. Gunner was a hot prospect coming out of high school (No. 1 QB in nation/Rivals). He elected to attend Notre Dame, but after redshirting as a true freshman, he elected to transfer to Cincinnati.
Kiel sat out one year per NCAA regulations, but quickly showed his worth with a solid showing in the spring game.
The Bearcats receiving Corps includes Mekale McKay, Max Morrison, Shaq Washington and Chris Moore. Washington led UC in catches (78) and totaled 783 yards for the season. Moore (45 catches) and Morrison (29 catches) were also among the 'Cats top four receivers in 2013. Moore's nine TD receptions led the unit.
Senior Hosey Williams (5-9, 199) is back after leading UC rushers with 655 yards on 115 attempts (5.7 ypc). Tion Green (6-0, 220, Jr) gives the offense a bit more size. He registered seven touchdowns to lead the backfield unit and was third on the team with 435 yards on 91 carries.
Cincinnati's defensive unit was particularly impressive in 2013, allowing 21 ppg (14th nationally) and ranking ninth in total defense.
Senior linebacker Nick Temple (5-10, 218) was second on the team with 80 stops, including a team-high 13.5 TFL with 5.5 sacks last year.
Jeff Luc is also a returning strength at linebacker. The senior had 43 stops with 6.5 TFL in 2013.
Veteran placekicker Tony Milano struggled at times on FG attempts last year. It was part of a special teams unit that hopes to improve in 2014.
The Rockets are trying to bounce back from a disappointing 49-24 loss to No. 24 Missouri. The Tigers bolted out to a 35-7 lead midway through the third quarter before UT's offense put a pair of TDs on the board – both on short runs by Kareem Hunt.
The 5-11, 215-pound sophomore totaled 148 yards on 15 carries (9.9 ypc) with three touchdowns.
Toledo totaled 410 yards for the day, including 256 through the air as Phillipy Ely completed 17 of 34 (204 yards) and Logan Woodside connected on 6 of 10 (52 yards).
Alonzo Russell's six catches for 89 yards led a list of nine Rockets with at least one catch.
Jordan Haden and Chris Dukes each recorded one interception, with Haden returning his 26 yards.


text:
La sialométaplasie necrosante est une lésion salivaire inflammatoire. Elle s'observe habituellement chez un homme d'environ 40 ans dans les glandes salivaires du palais, essentiellement du palais dur ou à la jonction palais dur-palais mou. Elle est d'évolution lente, de résolution le plus souvent spontanée, en 1 à 3 mois.

Anatomie pathologique
La sialométaplasie nécrosante est souvent ulcérée. Elle correspond à une nécrose de coagulation associée à des zones de métaplasie malpighienne, une hyperplasie pseudo-épithéliomateuse de l'épithélium adjacent et une inflammation.

Diagnostic différentiel morphologique
Le diagnostic peut être très difficile, en particulier à l'examen extemporané per-opératoire.

Il existe deux principaux diagnostics différentiels :
le carcinome épidermoïde
le carcinome muco-épidermoïde

Dans la sialométaplasie, l'architecture lobulaire est conservée, il n'y a pas d'atypies cytonucléaires et l'inflammation est intense et polymorphe.

Références

Lésion salivaire


On your wedding day, I have the privilege of being able to tell your story through a series of natural, thoughtful and emotional photographs. These photographs will show a great deal about the spirit of your personalities, your love for each other, and the love among your family and friends. I would be honored to photograph your wedding day. Please view a sample of the slideshows that I make for each of my couples following their wedding. These are short and sweet and great to share with family and friends.
I am often asked for referrals to the best wedding day professionals who can deliver services and products that will make their wedding day extraordinary. Our first recommendation is to enlist the help of a great wedding planner. The art of having every aspect of your wedding day look beautiful and run smoothly is best done by: Melissa Haggerty at Spectacular Spectacular, Lianne Adelson at The Event Boutique, Naomi Serkin 416-567-5530, or Karen Jacobs at Karen Jacobs Consulting.


For an unnoticed set of hill along the Leicestershire/Northants border they do have one claim to fame. They represent the border between the River Severn, the Wash and the Humber. This might seem a strange thing to claim as the hills are miles from the sea but it is true. When the rains falls on these hills it will eventually flow east via the River Welland to the Wash, North via the River Soar and River Trent to the Humber and westward via the River Avon to the Severn Estuary.
Of course the hills have one other, far more unwelcome, claim to fame. They are the site of the battle of Naseby that raged through the rolling countryside. You can decide which is more important.
This entry was posted in autumn, Photography and tagged Battle of Naseby, Farming, Kelmarsh, Mosley, Northamptonshire, photography, sheep, South Leicestershire, sunset, wind farm. Bookmark the permalink.


text:
Home Apple Big Tech News Television People suggest the launch of a new Apple TV
The latest model of Apple TV was rolled out at the end of 2017 and since then, no one has heard a word about it from the tech giant. Majority of the Apple users have taken Apple TV to their homes and it has become an important part of their lives, especially during the entire pandemic. according to a survey conducted by 9to5Mac, more than 45 percent of their readers are demanding and willing to buy a new Apple TV whereas, around 30 percent suggest that Apple should roll out multiple models.
Currently, the factors that have glued the users to the Apple TV include, its software and user interface along with a 4K support on YouTube. While the Apple TV app is available on almost every Smart TVs that were launched in 2018 or new including, Chromecast, Fire Stick, AirPlay 2 PlayStation 4 and 5 and Xbox, the biggest factor that differentiates the Apple TV itself from the Apple TV app on other Smart TVs is its incredible user interface.
Either you want to stream your favorite movie or web series, listen to songs or podcasts or access your iPhone gallery on the TV, everything is just a few clicks away. Moreover, Apple TV provides an ad-free experience which is something that people wish for in today's digital marketing era.
Apple has gained tremendous fame and appreciation from its users due to the impressive quality of products it maintains hence, Apple users are expecting a new model of Apple TV with even better features to be released soon. Several people have suggested Apple keep the Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD in continuation with a relatively reduced price as this could satisfy both types of consumers' i.e., those who want to upgrade on a discounted-priced Apple TV and those who are willing to pay a couple of more pennies for an extraordinary experience.
People suggest the launch of a new Apple TV
Published by Yamna Ali Friday, March 26, 2021
Apple Big Tech News Television


And I wanted to talk about an alternative to insurance.
an insurance policy, but through diversification.
Through owning a variety of assets.
And here again, we're going to start by assuming a blank slate.
You as an individual have no risks that are inherent to you.
You don't live in an earthquake zone.
But you do have to take on risks in order to get a good investment.
So the idea is that risk is inherent to investing.
opportunities are doing something in the real world, which is risky.
And if it weren't risky, it wouldn't be giving you an extra return.
That's the core idea that we want to develop.
assets, not putting all your eggs in one basket.
So that's the core idea that we want to develop today.
So I said, put your eggs in one basket.
I was wondering, you've heard that term.
Who said put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket.
That might have been Mark Twain.
I have to look it up.
But, more famous is don't put all your eggs in one basket.
So, I tried to search where did that first appear?
And I found it in a book by Alexander Crump in 1874 about how to invest.
And then he says, there is an old saying.
[LAUGH] That it is inadvisable to have all your eggs in one basket.
his old saying but that's the earliest reference I could find for it.
I like history of thought.
I always wonder where it comes from.
The portfolio theory approach describes everyone as the same.
we've already taken care of them.
I bought an insurance policy.
So, what if I calculate the optimal portfolio, the best diversified portfolio?
The insight, the core insight of this theory is, you know what?
It's going to be the same for everybody.
I mean if I can serve quantified risks and returns and I calculate the optimum.
Then why is it different from one person to another?
because you might be more risk averse than others.
You might have a greater or lesser tolerance for risk.
tolerance to risk could be adjusted by leveraging your portfolio up and down.
everyone should be doing the same thing.
an individual is the performance of your whole portfolio, right?
an econ as they call them, why do you care if one stock goes up or down?
It's the total that matters to you.
variance of the return on your whole portfolio.
And you just don't care about what one asset or another does.
people boast about their investing skill with regard to individual assets.
But they shouldn't because you win some and you lose some.
It is the average that matters.
you care about how uncertain the total return of the whole portfolio is.
which I think, it's due to Harry Markowitz, in the early 1950s.
He was a graduate student at University of Chicago.
He had this neat idea.
I can write down how to optimize risk?
a little bit of technical apparatus, and statistics.
And I suppose I know what the expected returns are in various assets.
What should I do as a portfolio manager?
It was like one page of math.
it kind of amazes me that It wasn't known before.
But there are moments in history when certain ideas suddenly crystallize.
The idea of measuring risk by a standard deviation.
or minimum compared to some expected return.
That led to a big revolution in finance.
So, but it's a mathematical discipline, not that we saw in class.
but they're not the whole story either.
each asset that you invest in.
And there's a lot of complexity in the decision.
sometimes you want to hold a negative amount.
on the expected return of other assets and their covariance with this asset.
Harry Markowitz just worked it out in his room at the university City of Chicago.
And it's with us ever since.
So that was one thing I wanted to cover early in the course.
because I just like the model.
I don't trust it either [LAUGH] but I like it.


text:
Edition No. 241 February 23 – March 1, 2019
As the Federal Court prepares to make a ruling on the AWU raids, and it emerges Michaelia Cash refused to give a statement to the federal police over her office's involvement, The Saturday Paper reviews the minister's position to date.
By Mike Seccombe.
Cash not for comment
Michaelia Cash gave new meaning to the expression "in denial" this past week.
She not only denied, as she has done for some 18 months, any foreknowledge of dramatic police raids on the offices of the Australian Workers' Union on October 24, 2017. She also denied evidence given to the senate this week by the Australian Federal Police that she had failed to provide a witness statement about the matter, and so hampered a criminal investigation.
She refused to address the court admissions by two of her former staffers that they, in concert with others, had tipped off journalists in advance of those raids. Instead, she questioned the accuracy of every media outlet that had reported those court proceedings.
She denied the need to correct the record in relation to past statements to parliament, now shown clearly to be wrong, insisting she had been consistent throughout the whole affair.
And she denied – under oath in the Federal Court– that political considerations had motivated her pursuit of an ancient, minor, potential breach of union rules by former AWU secretary now opposition leader Bill Shorten.
To understand how she got here, we need to go back 18 months.
Cash's former media adviser, De Garis, struck such a deal, to receive protection from self-incrimination in return for evidence.
The whole business was set in train by an article in The Australian newspaper on August 12, 2017, relating to a $100,000 donation made more than a decade earlier by the AWU, under Shorten, to the nascent progressive activist group GetUp!
The article, under the byline of Brad Norington, questioned whether the donation had received the proper, documented approval of the AWU national executive.
On the strength of that, Cash, who was then the minister for employment, wrote the first of two letters to the newly established Registered Organisations Commission, known as the ROC, suggesting they look into the issues raised.
The ROC was set up as an independent statutory body. That meant Minister Cash could refer matters to it, but could not direct it to do anything. It could make up its own mind whether to investigate any issue. Readers of The Australian might have been forgiven for thinking otherwise, however.
On August 16, just four days after his initial story raising questions about the circumstances of the AWU donation, Norington wrote a follow-up piece, declaring: "Bill Shorten will be investigated over a large donation of union funds he made to GetUp! when he was leader of the Australian Workers' Union, following a referral to the Registered Organisations Commission by Employment Minister Michaelia Cash."
It would have been a bold journalistic call to assume an independent body would begin an investigation simply on the basis of the minister making a referral. It was all the bolder because Norington's story appeared before the referral had even been sent to the ROC.
As evidence before the Federal Court showed, Norington was twice prescient. Cash sent another referral to the ROC on the basis of another of his stories – this time about the AWU decision to give $25,000 of union funds to Shorten's election campaign – and again Norington knew about the referral and predicted the ROC would act upon it before it was sent.
As predicted, the independent ROC decided to investigate.
On October 24, that investigation became spectacularly public when dozens of police carried out co-ordinated raids to execute search warrants on the AWU offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
Once again, the media – not just Norington this time, but lots of media, including all the television networks – were tipped off.
As reported in this paper shortly after the raids, the AWU's Victorian branch secretary, Ben Davis, was fortuitously in the offices of the union's lawyers when, at 4.22pm, he got a phone call from his assistant secretary, Liam O'Brien, asking if he had any idea why a large group of media had gathered outside.
He didn't. But he found out three minutes later why they were there, when he got another call, this time from the ROC, alerting him that the police were about to raid the union.
As I wrote then: "About the same time, in Sydney, word reached AWU assistant national secretary Misha Zelinsky, up in the union's 10th-floor Sussex Street office, that a media pack had gathered in the street below. He sent someone to find out what they were doing. They were there for the raid."
It was very precisely choreographed. The media got about half-an-hour to set up before the Australian Federal Police, along with officers of the ROC and state police, arrived in force, simultaneously in both cities.
In Canberra, Cash and her staff watched it all happen on TV.
For the government, it looked at first like the stunt – for that, we know now, is what it was – had paid off. Via the optics and initial stories about the AWU raids, it looked like a telling blow had been landed in the government's "Kill Bill" strategy, which had long sought to link the former AWU national secretary to union malfeasance.
The glow lasted about 28 hours. The day after the raids, before a senate estimates committee, Cash was questioned about how the media came to know about the raids in advance. Five times she aggressively denied she or anyone in her office had anything to do with it.
This was not true, and during the dinner break in estimates her media adviser, David De Garis, admitted to her that he had informed media. His confession came after he was outed as the source in a BuzzFeed article.
De Garis resigned but maintained he had only heard of the raids from some in the media and passed on the intelligence to others. Cash claimed not only that she knew nothing of De Garis's tipoffs but that she had no advance knowledge of the raids at all. The first she knew of them, she maintains to this day, was when she saw them happening on TV.
Since then two things have kept this issue quietly alive: first, the AFP's continued investigations into the leak; and, second, the AWU's action in the Federal Court to quash the ROC investigation into its long-ago donations and get back the documents they believed were improperly taken in the raids.
Those separate processes have now combined into big trouble for Cash and for the government – in particular for then justice minister Michael Keenan.
First, to the police investigation.
Before senate estimates on Monday, the Federal Police expressed their frustration about the way their leak investigation, now ended, had been hampered by the government and the ROC.
Commissioner Andrew Colvin began by reaffirming his "grave concern" about the way the AWU raids were "inappropriately disclosed".
The AFP, he said, had undertaken a thorough investigation of the leak and compiled "the strongest brief of evidence it could", which was then referred to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.
"In this case, the Commonwealth DPP determined that, despite our best efforts, the brief did not have sufficient prospects of success for them to prosecute," he said.
As a result, no charges were laid.
Colvin lamented the fact that the AFP could not compel people to provide witness statements or indeed to assist at all in its inquiries.
Deputy Commissioner Leanne Close filled in some details for the committee. Investigators, she said, had sought witness statements from more than 60 people.
"Any cabinet ministers?" asked Labor senator Murray Watt.
Close: "Yes. We spoke to the offices of two cabinet ministers: Ministers Keenan and Cash."
Watt: "So, you spoke to their offices, asking for the ministers to make a witness statement?"
Close: "Yes."
Watt: "Did that occur?"
Close: "They both provided a statement in writing to the AFP."
But, as she later elaborated, the letters the two cabinet ministers sent to the police did not amount to formal witness statements.
Each minister, Close said, had been asked at least twice to assist.
"We wanted to have the opportunity to speak to them both and see if they could provide information to support our unauthorised disclosure investigation."
Watt: "But they declined your request and just sent you a letter?"
Close: "They sent us a letter."
Cash's co-operation extended only to referring the police to her previous evidence, given in earlier estimates hearings.
She continued to insist she had fully co-operated, and even had the chutzpah to demand an apology from Watt and other Labor figures who rightly said, on the basis of the AFP evidence, that she had not provided a witness statement.
Close told the committee eight people had declined to provide statements, including some former ministerial staffers, as well as current or former employees of the ROC.
Other than Cash and Keenan, though, we don't yet know exactly who they are. As a Federal Court case relating to the raids is still running, said Close, "it is probably not appropriate for me to name names at this point, because some of the witnesses have been called and we know that that matter is part-heard from last week – it will continue on".
That case presents the best chance of getting to the bottom of the matter, as Commissioner Colvin pointedly observed in his evidence to estimates.
"I understand from that [media] reporting that the court has used section 128 of the Evidence Act to require witnesses to give evidence and offer them protection against self-incrimination. This is not an option open to police in a criminal investigation," he said.
And what he said put the lie to the claim that he had merely heard of the impending AFP raids from some media sources, and passed the information to other media. According to his evidence, given last Wednesday, he was told about them by Cash's then chief of staff, Ben Davies, several hours before they were to occur. De Garis then spoke with Michael Tetlow, media adviser to Keenan. Keenan, as justice minister, had portfolio responsibility for the federal police.
The two media advisers then "organised to disseminate this information to the media together", De Garis told the court. He called print journalists while Tetlow called TV stations.
But how did Davies know the feds were about to raid the AWU offices? In evidence on Monday, he said he had been told by the then media adviser to the ROC, Mark Lee. Lee, incidentally, had been interviewed by Davies for a job in Cash's office.
As to why there had been a decision to raid the AWU at all, given that up until that point they had been co-operating with the inquiry, Davies said Lee told him there had been a tipoff that the union might have been preparing to destroy documents. Lee did not inform him of the source of that information.
And so the damage spread, from Cash's office, to Keenan's, to the "independent" regulator, the ROC. This week, Lee and the executive director of the ROC, Chris Enright, who launched the investigation, are due to give evidence.
It is important to note that neither De Garis nor Davies has implicated Cash in the leak.
Cash, of course, denies involvement. As well as telling the court last week that she first learnt of the raid when she saw it on TV that afternoon, Cash also denied that there was any political consideration in her decision to refer the AWU matter to the ROC. It was of "no particular interest" to her that Shorten had been secretary of the AWU at the time, she said.
The fact that Shorten was named in the Norington story, she said, made no difference to her decision to refer the matter. She was simply going about the "discharge of my ministerial functions".
Back in parliament, though, she shed the dispassionate mantle and became again the political animal. Her confrontation with Labor senator Doug Cameron – an old and bitter adversary – on Wednesday was particularly fiery.
Cameron opened proceedings by observing that almost $1 million had been spent "to deal with the cover-up in relation to your staff leaking details of the AWU raid by the federal police".
"Don't you think it's about time you just came clean about this and saved the taxpayer any more unnecessary expenditure?" he said.
In response, Cash went straight on the attack.
"I gave evidence, under oath, in the Federal Court last Friday. That evidence is consistent with the evidence I gave for the last 15 months.
"What I would do, though, is say Mr Bill Shorten could potentially go under oath and tell the Australian people whether or not he had the appropriate authorisations to donate $100,000 to GetUp! – AWU members' funds. But on top of that, $25,000 to his own election campaign. One has to wonder what is in the documents that the AFP have seized from the AWU, that they are fighting tooth and nail to ensure the commission and the Australian public never ever see them."
Cash went on to justify the costs incurred, which actually total about $288,000 in her case, plus another $550,000 for the ROC, plus untallied costs for the police investigation, the DPP and the running of the Federal Court.
When it became Cameron's turn again, he ratcheted up the rhetoric: "Minister, you've been humiliated. Your credibility has been shredded. The record clearly shows now that on almost 20 occasions you've denied involvement of your staff in relation to the leaking of the raid."
Why, he asked, would she not correct the record now it was apparent what she had said was not true?
"Senator Cameron, I am assuming that you are referring to media reports of evidence that has been given in the court proceedings," she said.
Well, she was not going to give a "running commentary" on those proceedings until she had seen a "certified transcript of the evidence". She would "certainly not do it on the basis of news reports".
So it went, at vast length, with Cameron asserting the inconvenient realities of the AFP evidence to estimates, the admissions made in the Federal Court, and the inconsistencies between those realities and Cash's long-held position. Cash refused to accept those realities and repeatedly asserted that the person with real questions to answer was Bill Shorten.
In truth it generated a lot more heat than light. But Cash can be given credit for her toughness: she never deviated from her denials, never wilted before the onslaught and never lost her composure, even when Cameron accused her, on multiple occasions, of having perjured herself.
Icily, she invited him to "step outside and say that".
And really, the florid rhetoric of her Labor opponents in parliament is not her biggest concern. That will be the measured judgement of Justice Bromberg of the Federal Court. Findings there take more than chutzpah to deny.
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on Feb 23, 2019 as "Cash not for comment". Subscribe here.
Mike Seccombe
is The Saturday Paper's national correspondent.


text:
class ofxCvOpticalFlowLK
{
public:
	ofxCvOpticalFlowLK(void);
	~ofxCvOpticalFlowLK(void);

	void allocate(int _w, int _h);

	void calc( ofxCvGrayscaleImage & pastImage,
			   ofxCvGrayscaleImage & currentImage,
			  int size);

	void setCalcStep(int _cols, int _rows);

	void reset();
	void draw();
	void draw(int width, int height);

	ofPoint flowAtPoint(int x, int y);
	ofPoint flowInRegion(float x, float y, float w, float h);
	ofPoint flowInRegion(ofRectangle roi);
	ofPoint averageFlowInRegion(float x, float y, float w, float h);
	ofPoint averageFlowInRegion(ofRectangle roi);

	//Used to filter noisey or erroneous vectors
	float minVector;
	float maxVector;

private:

	void boundsForRect(float x, float y, float w, float h, ofPoint* topLeft, ofPoint* bottomRight);

	static const int DEFAULT_CAPTURE_WIDTH = 320;
	static const int DEFAULT_CAPTURE_HEIGHT = 240;

	int captureWidth;
	int captureHeight;

	static const int DEFAULT_CAPTURE_COLS_STEP = 4;
	static const int DEFAULT_CAPTURE_ROWS_STEP = 4;

	int captureColsStep;
	int captureRowsStep;

	IplImage* vel_x;
	IplImage* vel_y;

};

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Brian Lara / Ricky Ponting International Cricket 2005 - Facts
Press Day
Post Game Interview
Squad List
Each weekday Codemasters release a Fact of the Day about Brian Lara/Ricky Ponting International Cricket 2005 within their official forums. To make to easy for you to scroll through the facts we have put them all together here:
There's eight different pitch types and even footmarks which change progressively; this can be used as a guide to put spin on the ball.
We're photographing and recording pitches in each of the major countries to get pitch colours, bounce, grass etc all correct.
All round excellent gameplay: there's fully intuitive batting, bowling and fielding in the game, and each is as important as each other.
Adding to the televisual style of presentation, Brian Lara International Cricket will also utilise cutting-edge broadcast devices, including Hawk-Eye – fully licensed from its creators, The Television Corporation.
Brian Lara International Cricket unlockables include a classic squad of 20 with the greatest names from cricket history – WG Grace included.
If you want to get your skills up to international standards, there are Practice nets to get in shape.
In the Friendly match option, you can play a One Day International, Test Match, or Double Wicket game.
Double Wicket cricket, included in the 'Friendly' section of the game, is a very accessible way to play BLIC2005 quickly, featuring two batsmen and two bowlers (so it works well as a two- or four-player game). You choose which players you would like (a batsman and a bowler, or two all-rounders, would be good – at least one player handy with a bat and one with a ball) and then the amount of overs playable and how many penalty runs any wickets cost. Then you play the game as usual. If the opposition get a wicket it just means that the batting side are docked runs (the penalty runs mentioned before).After the set number of overs, the side that was previously bowling comes in and they play their overs at bat. Best score, after the penalty runs have been taken off, wins.
Choose 'One Day International' in the 'Friendly' section of the game and you can change the default number of overs (50) to create a 20:20 match instead.
There's over 800 players animations in the game, fully motion captured.
There will be a four-player multiplayer game available (2v2), with the chance for each gamer to join or leave the game at any point.
There will be full use of the modern technology that's used in the cricket coverage on TV – more on this very soon, when I can say more – but I'm sure you can guess what innovations will be alongside Hawkeye to add to the 'TV-style' coverage.
Further to the classic section I was mentioning yesterday – in BLIC2005 you will also be able to replay classic matches, such as the first Ashes test from 1889.
There's six Game Modes: Friendly, Tournament, Challenge, Coaching, Custom, and The Pavillon
Talking about game modes, 'Challenge', as mentioned on Monday, will have two major parts – the classic matches, and the Beat the All-Stars section.
In the Classic Match scenarios, part of the Challenge mode, we have initially gone for 10 classics.
The 'Pavilion' section of the main game menu will contain all of your stats, the cricketing records (so you can try and bet them), and all of the unlocks and rewards available in the game
In the classic match section you get to take over at a critical point and see if you can pull off the same cricketing feats as happened in real life.
Certain key players will have fully artworked faces rather than all of them having generic features. You will be able to recognise them quite easily!
In BLIC2005 the commentators will be: David Gower Jonathan Agnew Bill Lawry Ian Bishop Tony Greig Jeff Thomson
Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 will be the first cricket game to ensure that batting, bowling, and fielding all have fun gameplay (rather than just the batting like most cricket games).
The footmarks on the pitch change progressively throughout each game, and can be used as a guide for spinning the ball.
Brian Lara Criket will have a plethora of well-known cricket sponsors – ad hoardings, teams, bats, balls and helmets will display that distinctive logo or touch to make the game experience even more immersive and encompassing.
In the 'Custom' section of the game you can create your own 'best of the best' from all the players in the game, both current and classic.
While there will be a speedometer after you have bowled of course to tell you the speed you bowled at, to control the speed while you bowl, you select the type of ball you want to bowl (using the controller buttons on PS2/Xbox, not sure on PC yet) and then the speed of the ball depends on your run-up, a what point you release the ball, the swing, if your bowler is 'finding his groove' (how bowlers come into and go out of form throughout a match) and the pitch conditions after the ball has left his hands.
The pitch point marker works differently to previous cricket games in that it is active throughout the run-up rather than being set before the bowler starts his run. This allows for late adjustments to the line and length you are bowling right up to the point when the ball is being released from the bowler's hand.
The Customise menu of BLIC2005 will include a Player Editor, to edit exising players in the game.
Batting AND bowling can be controlled up until the 'last second' – just as in real life and just as it should be.
Key to the difference between top quality, average, and tailend batsmen in Brian Lara 2005 is in the foot movement range associated with each batsman type and the range of shots available to them. The better batsmen have much better foot movement, allowing them to play shots that tailenders would struggle with, and they also have many more shots available to them (as in real life).
Each player is accurately rated in all batting skill areas … which affects their timing for each shot type. So as you can see there are a multitude of factors that effectively determine differences between the varying levels of batsman skill whilst playing the game – and we'll have them in the game.
There's no streakers and no pigeons in the game sadly.
In the Practice Nets section you can select the batsman and/or bowler you want to be – so if you're facing a fearsome fast bowler in your next match, you can practice your batting against him before the game starts. Alternatively, you can also pit your bowling wits against the world-class batsman that you can select, who might hit you for six in next round and find his weak-points.
While Online play isn't supported in this version of the game, multiplayer can make up for it, with the Double Wicket match supporting up to 16 players at the same time (eight teams selected, two players per team).
There are 17 One Day International teams in the game.
One of the classic matches isn't a match as such; you get an innings, as Sir Gary Sobers, to attempt to make six sixes in one over.
Their are nine variables you can choose when setting up a one-off match: Difficulty (meausred by village green to test match) Match Length (in overs) Stadium (chose between all the stadiums in the game) Time (day, night, day/night) Weather (adds moisture the air, for example) Pitch Type (Aussie, northern hemisphere, dry Windies pitch etc – that kind of thing) Ball Degradation (how quick the ball ages) Ball Type (the usual balls included) Ball Condition (how old the ball is to start with)
Bowling incorporates four different types of delivery, along with an extra two special deliveries.
One of the classic matches will be Don Bradman's farewell innings v England (OK, it's not the 'Gentlemen of England' but I'm sure you'll let us off) – you also have to get a 100.
While playing a game as the bowling/fielding side, you automatically field the ball to the most dangerous end of the wicket (the one that will most likely result in an out), rather than having a choice of wickets to aim for. That doesn't mean the CPU does everything for you though…
As throwing the ball from a fielder will be controlled by a meter shown on-screen. Throw it within the zone and it'll go to the wicket keeper/bowler (whoever is protecting the stumps). Throw it when it's on the line and you'll hit the stumps (obviously the further you are away from the stumps, the smaller the line). Miss the zone in the meter altogether, and it'll be a misthrow or overthrow.
In classic matches you can play as either team involved in the original match, so, for example, if want to try and stop Bradman getting his farewell century or Sobers getting his six sixes, you can try.
There are 3 completely licensed stadiums in the game – The Oval, Egbaston and the Rosebowl, while the others are very recognisable even though the names aren't the same (for example, the ground shown in the screens last week).
The Tournament mode will include the World Cup, and the Champions Trophy.
All statistics and records in the game are supplied by our official partner – Wisden
Umpires will have the correct names and some are modelled accurately.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there will be 10 test match teams in the game. There are more ODI / non-test sides in the game…
You can play a full 'tour' series against the opposition, choosing the number of ODIs and full tests you would like to play against them.
There will be a demo – probably around May time.
The stats screens for the game engine will include the scoring 'wagon wheels' as used on TV.
In the tournament section of the game all kits will be perfectly recreated and licensed.
There are 16 players per squad plus additions in World Cup, classic players and more…
The stadiums list will including the 2003 World Cup venues.
The game will include all-time bowling and batting records (Lara's 501 for example) – and if you beat it you will become the record holder in the game's Hall of Fame, unlocking rewards along the way.
The tournament section includes a mode similar to the Super Series – containing three ODIs and a six-day test.
In series' you can play up to six tests and six ODIs
You can save up to three career players in the game.
In the ICC 'World Series' you select a team and you pit your skills against specially customised teams from around the World including African, Asian, Northern and Southern Hemisphere XIs, and ultimately the World XI.
In the Challenge mode you can play the 'World XI Challenge', a gradually harder and harder task as you play as every international team against a World XI.
More about the career mode:
Create your own Career Player and represent your nation in every available mode
Set your player's specialist skills and attributes and earn stat points to improve your player
Select your real licensed kit manufacturers and bat types and weights
Hit milestones and unlock Career Player Trophies
In challenge mode you can select your World XI, and play against a Classic XI side – which is the best team in history…
In the Customise section you can create your own XI from all of the players featured, design your own tournaments and leagues, and edit an existing player's name and attributes.
There are 15 stadiums to choose from in the Exhibition mode.
In the World Cup and Champions Trophy modes you can elect to start at any point; you can do the full tournament or start at the Super Sixes, Semis or Final in the World Cup, and in the Champions Trophy you can start at the Round Robin stage, or the Semis or Final.
There are ten trophies to win for your trophy cabinet.
Boring fact but one for those with superior technology – the game can run at 50hz and 60hz mode.
As I'm looking at a new version of the game this afternoon I'll wait on Fact of the Day, so have a screen today (these aren't going out on general release so I'll have a few to show over the next few weeks exclusively for you) of Shoaib Akhtar instead. View Screenshot
Some of the equipment licences for the game include Hunts County, Newberry, Gray Nicolls, Gunn and Moore, Slazenger, Duke, and Morrant. There will be more…
There will be NO manual appealing in the game. It will be future versions but not in this iteration
The meter at the bottom left of the screen is the confidence meter – for a bowler if the confidence is high (and he's a highly-rated bowler) he can throw in a few surprise deliveries that will not be shown by the marker on the pitch.
The confidence meter also affects the batsman – depending on skill the batsman, when he's done a few very good shots and is high on confidence, he can get out of tricky bowling situations (the ones detailed yesterday), and also smash away balls easier.
The in-game cut scenes include the batsmen and bowlers eyeing each other up and sledging each other, after deliveries.
The cut scenes after the batsman is hit by the ball are particular good – see him limping around the wicket, or rubbing his arm – looks very good in the game.
In Display Options within the game engine (so while you're playing) you can turn on/off the replays, hawkeye, batting meter, bowling meter and radar – so you can tailor the in-game action to what you would like to see.
An obvious one but after every wicket the batting side can choose the next batsman – it's not decided by your team sheet. So you can have a night watchman if you want one…
The 14 bowling styles I've seen so far – available in practice mode and I'll assume available in the main game as well: Left arm: chinaman, fast, fast-medium, googly, medium, slow orthodox Right arm: fast, fast medium, leg break, medium, medium fast, off-break Leg break: LB, LB googly
I've counted 39 types of bat in the game – from Duncan Fearnley, Gun and Moore, Hunts County, Kookaburra, Newberry, Gray Nicholls and Slazenger.
You can unlock special abilities for your career player by winning certain trophies (I'll provide a list of these as they are finally confirmed).
When starting a career player the first screen will give you the chance to name your player, along with options on whether he will be a bowler/batsman/all-rounder, the country he will play for, the batting position, his head shape, his height, and his weight. Height and weight makes a difference to his cricketing style
In the career section, after choosing the name, type of player, country etc (covered yesterday) the next screen with be based on what type of player your career player will be. If he's a batsman you have 900 points (TBC) to play with racking up your player's specific stats, All-Rounders have 600 (TBC) and bowlers have none (it'll just skip this screen for bowlers). You can use these points to up the players skills in Attack, Defence, Front Foot Play, Back Foot Play, Offside Play and Legside Play. It's then to the Bowler's Stats screen…
Continuing the career mode set-up – after selecting your batting stats, the next screen is for the bowling stats. 200 points (TBC) to play with if you've going to be a bowler or 100 points (TBC) for an all-rounder (the screen is skipped for batsmen). You then decide on the which hand you'll bowl from (left, right) and also the style (fast, medium, offspin or legspin). And then it's on to the fielding stats…
Final screen for imbuing (good word!) your career player with skill points is 'fielding' – where each player, no matterwhat primary skill, gets 50 points (TBC) to assign to reflexes, throwing, fitness and/or speed.
After assigning all of the points to your career player (see the last three facts of the day) it's finally on to the Kit Bag, to choose the bat you want each career player to play with – as before you'll get a choice of 39 bats from seven manufacturers. You also get the choice at this point of whether you want face paint for your player as well!
The 39 bats (TBC) available to the career player in the game are: Duncan Fearnley – Gold, Batwing, Hammer, Cobra Yellow, Cobra Orange and Cobra Blue Gunn and Moore – Purist Original LE, Maxi Original LE, Hero Original LE and Maestro Control Original LE Hunts County – Glory Custom Classic, Tsunami Custom Classic, Steelback 5 Crown, Insignia Custom Classic, Mettle 5 Crown and Pulse Custom Classic Kookaburra – Kahuna Ricky Ponting, Kahuna Limited Edition, Diablo Damian Martin, Diablo Limited Edition, The Beast and Ultimate Belta Newbery – Mjolnir, Navarone, Uzi 20/20, Samurai, Zeus and Merlin Gray Nicolls – Gladius, GN Monster, Longbow, Millenium, Phoenix and Powerbow Slazenger – V800 Ultimate, V900 Ultimate, V200 Pro, V1200 Pro and V600 Ultimate
After every wicket you will get the full action replay, available from different angles, including the stumpcam.
There is a third umpire available for close decisions. The umpire on the field will call for a decision from the stands and then the game will replay the action in slow-motion (going back and forth, just like the TV coverage). A call will then be made as to whether the player is out or not out.
Hawkeye will not be just about LBWs – it will also be used to show the path of the deliveries per over, where the ball pitches, along with the runs-scored wagon wheel.


text:
foam.CLASS({
  package: 'foam.nanos.auth.test',
  name: 'DummySp',

  documentation: 'A fake/mock/dummy model just to test ServiceProvideAware',

  implements: [
    'foam.nanos.auth.ServiceProviderAware'
  ],

  javaImports: [
    'foam.nanos.auth.ServiceProviderAware',
    'foam.nanos.auth.ServiceProviderAwareSupport'
  ],

  properties: [
    {
      name: 'id',
      class: 'Long'
    },
    {
      name: 'owner',
      class: 'Reference',
      of: 'foam.nanos.auth.User'
    },
    {
      name: 'spid',
      class: 'Reference',
      of: 'foam.nanos.auth.ServiceProvider',
      storageTransient: true,
      javaFactory: `
        var map = foam.util.Arrays.asMap(new Object[]
          {
            DummySp.class.getName(),
            new foam.core.PropertyInfo[] { DummySp.OWNER }
          });
        return new ServiceProviderAwareSupport().findSpid(getX(), map, this);
      `
    }
  ]
});


Businesses, take cover(age): D&O policies in the Dodd-Frank era p2 | Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin, P.A.
We are continuing our discussion of the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on business insurance. The law includes protections and incentives for whistleblowers that may very well result in internal and regulatory investigations. Even if there is no wrongdoing, the costs of these investigations will likely be steep. Companies, then, will want to review their insurance policies, particularly their directors and officers coverage.
Federal authorities like the U.S. Attorney's office send target letters when they believe they have "substantial evidence" of criminal activity. A Wells Notice is similar; the Securities and Exchange Commission sends a Wells Notice to notify an individual that it will be bringing an enforcement action.
Again, these are actions taken against the directors or officers of the company — the people who were led out of their plush office towers and down Wall Street.
In the pre-Dodd-Frank world, D&O insurance would only cover someone who was facing a perp walk. The company was on its own unless it was also a named insured. And, as with all insurance policies, there were coverage exclusions for companies (and directors and officers) in these policies.
If a whistleblower were to trigger an internal investigation by notifying the company's own compliance officer or team, then, chances are good that there would be no coverage at all.


text:
Curricular Advisors
Multi Day Trips
Impact Shopping
On our programs, participants:
Gain an appreciation for history of the local Jewish community
Learn how a variety nonprofits are effecting social change in the local community
Volunteer by participating in engaging and collaborative justice work
Explore the local food scene and learn about different ethnic communities
Learn Jewish texts that deeply connect us to the work we do
Ride through Los Angeles while learning about social justice efforts. Through service work, meeting with community leaders, and exploring diverse neighborhoods, the City of Angels will bring on a new definition.
Our responsibility as human beings is with our Central American neighbors in Guatemala. During this trip, we will meet with different Jewish communities, learn about the history and economy, and travel by land and sea through this colorful country
Border Trip to Arizona
Visit Phoenix, Tucson, and Nogales, Arizona, on this immigration justice program. We will meet with organizations and people directly directly affected and enforcing the flow of migrants from the United States to Mexico.
Put education into action during disaster relief trips around the country. We will rebuild communities devastated by natural disasters and put our Jewish values to work.
The Appalachian Region is oftentimes overlooked and underfunded. On this program, we will build houses and gain a greater understanding of this area in United States.
Do you have a specific subject matter or location in mind? Create your dream trip alongside our expert staff.
Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than all of Europe. We will enjoy some Las Vegas entertainment, but also learn about some of the economic justice issues Sin City faces. We will also visit a nearby Native American Reservation and learn about that hidden population of our country.
Immigration and Refugees, A Deeper Look
Eat at a restaurant owned by a refugees (cost of lunch not included) and hear the owner's story, meet a DACA recipients and meet organizations doing work to help the immigrants and refugees in our country, and possibly have an encounter with an ICE agent.
Homelessness Karaoke
This Wednesday night activity is good for teenagers ages 16 years of age an older. We visit Skid Row and participate in a karaoke experience never to be forgotten.
Supporting People Special Needs
Visit various non-profits and social enterprises that work with children and adults with varying special needs. End the day by working alongside special needs adults while helping them sell their products on Venice Beach.
Gang Life and the Prison System
Meet current and former gang members, learn what is being done to get gang members more productive and learn about the prison system in LA
We begin our journey at the California Museum of African American Museum for a customized visit. We will meet with people involved with Black Lives Matters and also learn about Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice which believes that all racial justice stems from economic issues.
Los Angeles Promo Video
Guatemala Promo Video
© 2020 - Impact Travel and Social Justice Tours. All rights reserved.


text:
The Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota
Sahota's second novel is a sweeping, lyrical epic that traces the lives of four young Indians of varying legality as they struggle to make t
The Expatriates, by Janice K Lee
A novel set in Hong Kong, about the lives of three expatriate women, will most likely attract readers because of its exoticism. However,...
London Tsunami and Other Stories by Jaq Hazell
Londoners will recognise and love this ode to human experience, while others get a glimpse behind the scenes, beyond the marketed...
Something Will Happen, You'll See by Christos Ikonomou
Beautifully translated by Karen Emmerich, Something Will Happen, You'll See is a modern Greek tragedy. Telling the stories of ordinary...