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Former Cranes Coach Sebastien Desabre Joins Egyptian Side, Pyramids FC
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Sebastien Desabre (R) during a news conference where he was unveiled as Pyramids FC tactician.
Less than 48 hours after parting ways with the Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) as Uganda Cranes tactician, French national, Sebastien Desabre, has Monday been unveiled as the head coach of Egypt's top flight club, Pyramids FC.
At Pyramids FC, he has been signed on a two-year contract.
"I am very grateful having joined Pyramids football club. I was very focused on Uganda Cranes duty and and respected FUFA very well but I decided very quickly. I am now focused on my new project," Desabre said in reaction to his new assignment.
Over the weekend, FUFA announced that they had mutually agreed with Desabre to terminate his contract one year to its expiry and that the move was for the benefit and growth of both parties.
His resignation came moments after a great performance by The Cranes in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Egypt where they managed to reach round of 16 of the tournament after over 40 years.
"FUFA recognises the contribution by Mr. Desabre for the improvement of the sporting and professional organisation of the Uganda Cranes inclusive of qualification to the AFCON 2019 Finals and also to the Round of 16," FUFA said in a statement.
Born on Aug 2, 1976 in Valence, France, Sebastien Desabre joined the Cranes in December 2017, permanently replacing Micho who had quit to join South Africa's Orlando Pirates.
Prior to coming to Uganda, the soft-spoken tactician had managed football clubs like ESC Rocheville in France as assistant Coach, ASEC Mimosas in Cote D'Ivoire, CS Garoua in Cameroon and ES Tunis in Tunisia.
Others are Clube Recreativo Desportivo Libolo in Angola, Dubai Club in United Arab Emirates, JS Saoura in Algeria, Wydad Athletic Club in Morocco and Ismaily in Egypt.
Uganda Cranes is the first and only national team he has managed.
A number of Ugandans have already taken to social media wondering how Sebastian Desabre could land such a 'juicy' job in a period of hours after leaving Cranes, saying he must have been planning the move even when he was still with the team.
But, his at club level speaks it all, despite managing a number of clubs, the Frenchman has never lasted at them more than 16 months.
Found in 2008, Pyramids FC sits second in the Egyptian Premier league and has had four managers since, including Alberto Valentim, Ricardo La Volpe, Hossam Hassan and Ramon Diaz who departed last month. Desabre is their fifth Coach.
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YLP's many feathered friends did not disappoint, as a group led by an Audubon Society official took a Bird Walk on Tuesday, April 9 around Blue Heron Lake. YLP resident Debbie Shaw arranged for Robert Snow, president of the Fresno Audubon Society, to lead the excursion. Following is her email exchange with Snow after the walk. We appreciate and thank her for sharing!
Here is Robert Snow's email he sent after our bird walk this morning . There were around 30 people who showed up. It was a beautiful morning with interesting facts about our feathered friends. He admired our big slash piles along the lake, stating they are useful wildlife habitat.Thank you for posting his email. I think our residence will enjoy the names of the birds we saw today.
I'm glad your group enjoyed it. I especially liked having the children there. And thank you for raising $109 for our education program. We'll use this towards our fountain purchase for the River Center bird garden.
Here's today's checklist. There were more species (24) than it seemed as we were walking.
Comments: Clear, moderate wind, 55° to 61°. Fresno Audubon Society led Yosemite Lakes walk.


CV hints at possible Wii U version.
Ubisoft is still planning a sequel to its much-loved 2003 adventure Beyond Good & Evil, the company's boss has confirmed.
The news comes just a day after the game's creator Michel Ancel was rumoured to be quitting the company - something Ubisoft France denied to Eurogamer.
"It's coming," Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot said of Beyond Good & Evil 2, speaking to Kotaku at last week's PlayStation 4 event.
"I don't give comments any more on BG&E2," he continued, "because I think... the next time we communicate we have to have something new."
Fans of the original have been waiting for something new for some time. The game was last in "active development" in 2011, before it was put on hold again so Ancel could complete Rayman Legends.
In-engine footage and screenshots from an early build of the game have found their way online. More recently Ubisoft has said the game will require a new generation of console hardware to run.
A new CV-listing for an ex-Ubisoft level designer, spotted on LinkedIn, suggested that Beyond Good & Evil 2 may have been in development for Wii U (thanks, GoNintendo).
But the listing grouped the game alongside Killer Freaks (the Wii U prototype that grew into ZombiU), so it's unclear if the listed platforms (Wii U, PS3 and Xbox 360) refer to both.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 has now been in development for the best part of a decade. The series was originally planned as a trilogy, although poor sales for the first part put the latter two on hold.


If you've spent much time animating in Maya, you've probably run into this problem at least a few times: Crazy, crazy inbetweens after you've gone through and lovingly posed your keyframes. You wanted that leg to extend calmly from key A to key B? No. Instead, you get a leg-shaped hurricane. If you usually solve such dilemmas with grueling counter-animation, pleading with the graph editor, or throwing heavy objects, then you should know that a solution exists that is the equivalent to a "Fix Everything" button.
I just learned this trick a few months back and I only wish I'd read this article back when it was first written in 2007. Do yourself a favor and read it. You'll either thank yourself further down the line when the problem crops up for you, or you'll be the cool guy with all the answers when you notice your co-worker getting ready to throw his CPU through a window.
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It's often said that movies are made in the editing room. It's hard to understate how big of an impact the editorial process has on the quality of a movie, regardless of how it was shot or written. It's true that editing is unique to film, but even the most minute editorial choice can have vast ramifications on the final product.
More often than not, "unrated" or "extended" cuts advertised on home video releases of movies result in nothing more than being a giant cash grab. Sometimes however, there are diamonds in the rough. Here are five case-in point examples of superhero movies that were saved by an alternate cut.
While not necessarily a director's cut of Spider-Man 3, the editor's cut is probably the closest thing we'll ever see to Sam Rami's intended vision. Released ten years after the original as part of a blu-ray box set, the Spider-Man 3: Editor's Cut actually runs a few minutes shorter than the original. Along with restoring Christopher Young's original score in its entirety and several other minor alterations, there are two crucial changes that ultimately end up making a significant difference.
The first is the addition of a scene with Sandman and his daughter in the beginning of the third act. The second replaces the awful scene of the butler telling Harry how his father actually died with a scene where Harry makes the choice himself. Aside from the way that it makes the black suit more of a foreboding presence, the editor's cut vastly improves characterization overall. The film still has fundamental story and plot issues, but Spider-Man 3: Editor's Cut surely helps to ease the sting of the theatrical version.
Even though the theatrical cut of The Wolverine presented the most raw version of the character that we had seen up to that point, the extended cut of the film amplifies this even more. In what was essentially a proving ground for what would come a few years later with Logan, the extended cut of The Wolverine contains 65 alterations to the theatrical cut.
While some of the added scenes were probably better left of the cutting room floor, the film offers an overall improvement in quality. Added back in are numerous f-bombs, a whole lot of (mostly digital) blood, and even some additional/extended action scenes. The extended cut of The Wolverine doesn't necessarily solve the film's third act problems, but it does represent a more true interpretation of the character that ultimately improves the film. The only slight against it is not including the scene with the classic Wolverine costume—because why the hell not?
Originally thought to be un-filmable, Zack Snyder's 2009 adaptation of Watchmen hit theaters with a bit of thud. While the theatrical version of the movie was (mostly) true to the source material, it was ultimately hamstrung by a studio-mandated runtime for its IMAX release. When the film hit home video a few months later, a director's cut of Watchmen was also released—and what a difference it was.
With a massive runtime of 186 minutes, the director's cut of Watchmen improves the film in a myriad of ways. Just about every major sequence in the director's cut features alterations in some way. From simply being a couple of frames here and there to the addition of Hollis Mason's death, the director's cut of Watchmen is a much more introspective version of the movie. Even though there is an even longer version of the film called The Ultimate Cut, that movie doesn't work as well as the director's cut—at least according to Snyder himself.
Upon its release in 2003, critics and audiences alike largely panned writer/director Mark Steven Johnson's cinematic adaptation of Daredevil. While the film was ultimately criticized for it's weak characterization and lack of plot, this great featurette about the director's cut sheds some light on what actually happened. Of all the reasons that were given on why the theatrical cut didn't necessarily work, it seems that Johnson's vision was hampered by the PG-13 rating.
Released in 2004 as an R-rated version of the movie with 30 minutes of additional footage, the director's cut of Daredevil serves as a marked improvement over the original. Along with removing all of the scenes that were shot during additional photography, this new cut also includes a whole subplot involving one of Matt's clients played by Coolio, of all people. Overall, the director's cut adds a whole ton of character and the focus of the plot becomes much clearer ultimately making for a much more tolerable viewing experience.
The history behind how Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut came to fruition is a fascinating one. Originally, Superman and Superman II were intended to be shot simultaneously with Richard Donner helming both movies. Unfortunately, filming was halted and director Richard Lester eventually replaced Donner due to the latter's disputes with the producers. With a great deal of the film having already been shot by Donner, Lester was required to shoot at least 51% of the film to receive directing credit—according to DGA rules. This is exactly what the new team went about doing. However, Lester's near slapstick approach ended up creating a wholly different tone for the much-maligned sequel.
After decades of intrigue and many, many fan letters requesting the Donner cut, WB finally unearthed the footage, releasing the film in 2006 to coincide with the release of Superman Returns. In terms of changes from the original Lester version, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut is perhaps the most radical superhero movie that exists. In many ways, the Donner cut is a completely different movie. Although some of the Lester footage is used out of necessity, the overall tone is more in line with the original. The Donner Cut also provides better pacing and more interesting action scenes. But it is also hampered by the fact that it's not really a complete movie. Who knows how well The Donner Cut of Superman II would have fared if the director actually had the chance to finish it? At the very least, the film serves as a reminder of what it could have been.
What is your favorite alternate cut of a superhero movie? Let us know in the comments below!


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Don't segregate boys and girls in classrooms
Michael Kimmel and Special to CNN
Updated 3:53 PM EST, Mon February 3, 2014
PHOTO: Photo Illustration/Thinkstock
Michael Kimmel: Are single-sex classes an effective way to educate our children?
Kimmel: No, single-sex classes in public schools might do more harm than good
He says single-sex classes reinforce gender stereotypes about boys and girls
Kimmel: Some would also argue that sex segregation is a form of sex discrimination
Editor's Note: Michael Kimmel is distinguished professor of sociology and gender studies at Stony Brook University. His new book, "Angry White Men," will be published by Nation Books in the fall.
Is your daughter a tomboy? Your son not especially into football? Does your daughter excel at math? Your son a skilled artist? Or does your daughter switch roles, relatively easily, from skinning her knees on a soccer field to worrying about what to wear to a party? Or does your son, like mine, come home sweaty and bruised from lacrosse practice only to sing gorgeously in the shower as a member of his high school a cappella group?
If your answers are yes – and probably most parents recognize some elements of these traits in their children – you can breathe a bit easier today. That is, at least, if you happen to live in Wood County, West Virginia.
That's because recently, under a legal challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union and its local affiliates, the Wood County Board of Education agreed to abandon for two school years its program of separating boys and girls into single-sex classes. The ACLU had filed a lawsuit on behalf of a mother and her daughters who claimed the sex segregation was a form of sex discrimination against girls.
This little-noted legal settlement gives all of us – parents, teachers, administrators, and kids themselves – something to think about: Are single-sex classes really an effective way to educate our children?
Historically, of course, single-sex schools – especially private schools and colleges – were the norm. But since the dawn of the 20th century, both educators and parents have seen them as historic anachronisms, especially for boys. Single-sex schools for girls may have challenged stereotypes, but single-sex schools for boys reproduced them, fostering what David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, in their monumental midcentury study, "The Academic Revolution," called "male arrogance."
Today, single-sex schools may provide some benefits, though these tend to be benefits that accompany the economic privilege of the families that can afford them. (That is, single sex private schools tend to also be schools for the elite.) But single-sex classes, in otherwise coeducational public schools, are entirely misguided.
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In recent years, single-sex classes in public schools have become increasingly popular as a low-cost remedy for two issues that plague our country's public school system: the efforts to encourage girls' ambitions in traditionally "masculine" arenas such as science, technology, engineering and math, and to address the "boy crisis" in schools, the chronic underachievement of boys, especially in traditionally "feminine" subjects such as English.
It's a popular theory. After Title IX regulations changed in 2006, more than 1,000 public schools segregated at least some of their classes by sex, a 2010 Feminist Majority report said. The National Association for Single Sex Public Education states a lower number — it says 500 U.S. public schools "offered single-sex educational opportunities" for the 2011-12 school year.
Regardless, the theory is wrong. In fact, single-sex classes might do more harm than good.
To be sure, there is some anecdotal evidence that some students prefer single-sex classes (though they tend not to "prefer" to take calculus and we still insist they do). And especially in inner-city communities, single-sex "academies" have gained popularity because of their brilliant combination of rigid discipline, uniforms and powerful sense of community and school spirit. But, according to Pedro Noguera, an education expert, there is no research that shows the "single-sex" part of the equation has any independent effect on student performance.
Instead, evidence points decidedly in the other direction.
Single-sex classes reinforce harmful stereotypes about boys and girls. A 2011 article in the journal Science concluded that "sex-segregated education is deeply misguided, and often justified by weak, cherry-picked, or misconstrued scientific claims rather than by valid scientific evidence. There is no well-designed research showing that single-sex education improves students' academic performance, but there is evidence that sex segregation increases gender stereotyping and legitimizes institutional sexism." The article's authors, all researchers, were also members of the nonprofit American Council for CoEducational Schooling.
These efforts are often based on the flawed notions of a few educational consultants, such as Dr. Leonard Sax. He's the founder of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education, which is now more innocuously titled the National Association for Choice in Education as if to obscure its actual mission. Under these theories, school districts have experimented with different curricula, seating arrangements, pedagogical styles and even room temperature, 72 degrees for girls and 68 degrees for boys.
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According to a brief filed by the ACLU in 2010, boys in one Louisiana school read "Where the Red Fern Grows" while girls read "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" because "boys like 'hunting' and 'dogs,' but girls prefer 'love stories.' "
"Girls tend to look on the teacher as an ally," the association's website explains. "Given a little encouragement, they will welcome the teacher's help. A girl-friendly classroom is a safe, comfortable, welcoming place. Forget hard plastic chairs: put in a sofa and some comfortable beanbags."
In the case of Van Devender Middle School, the school in Wood County, West Virginia, the ACLU said the principal defended the layout of the boys' class – students seated side-by-side, bright lighting because "when they look at each other in the eye, it becomes more of a confrontational type of thing." Girls had dimmer mood lighting, and they would, "sit around tables, where they can make eye contact, where they can make relationships, and that sort of thing."
The ACLU said the mother who challenged the single-sex class arrangement was furious that one of her daughters was constantly told to sit still – despite the fact that she had attention deficit disorder and the boys in the adjacent classroom had opportunities galore to move around. Another girl with poor vision struggled to read in the dimmer light. A third was prohibited from taking notes during a presentation because her teacher said that girls learn better through auditory, not visual, input.
I assume that most of the parents of girls find such stereotypes deeply insulting. But I'd hope that parents of boys find them equally insulting – that boys are only capable of learning in a Spartan setting, more like boot camp than school. What's the recommendations for boys – that classes be experienced as unsafe, that we seat them in uncomfortable chairs, bark at them and make them read "If" and "Invictus?"
We know that boys and girls are as different from each other as they are from every other child.
Parents with larger families often see this better than parents who have one boy and one girl and observe categorical differences between the two, assuming that such differences are somehow biologically hard-wired. Good social science is different from good parenting, and requires a sample size greater than two.
If you have, say, six kids, you'll describe one or two of your boys as "more quiet, a bit shyer" than the others, or a girl as "the tomboy" who "loves to play sports." Imagine what would happen to those "nonconformists" in a single sex class that is entirely oriented to the rough and tumble boys or the quiet girly-girls.
Fortunately, the tide is turning.
As the evidence mounts that single-sex classrooms confuse the norm with the normative, teaching to stereotypes rather than children, parents are challenging every effort as both discriminatory and harmful to their children. In the past year, the number of single-sex options in public schools dropped for the first time in more than a decade. Several schools – including some in Boston; Pittsburgh; Madison, Wisconsin; and Durham, North Carolina – have dropped existing or planned single-sex classes after ACLU involvement.
Our nation's schools serve us best when they teach our children as individuals, with remarkably diverse personalities and learning styles. All our children – boys and girls – deserve no less.
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Q: Single or multiple queries I have 3 table. I need to output the results from all three but group them by date and show a count of records per day.
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I am not sure if I should try and get this all into a single query of run a query where I will get distinct dates and total record counts and then run additional queries to retrieve additional information?..
I started with this but did not get too far.
SELECT
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LEFT JOIN users ON (articles.user_id = users.id)
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ORDER BY articles.time DESC
GROUP BY articles.date
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Limit actually should be the number of days, and not records...
The final result should look something like:
July 20, 2015 (2)
    Some item -- 10:00 am
        Name: John M
        Role: Admin
        Action: login

    Another Item -- 10:30 am
        Name: Jeff M
        Role: User
        Action: publish

July 18, 2015 (3)
    Some item -- 2:00 am
        Name: Bill M
        Role: User
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    Another Item -- 10:30 am
        Name: Bob W
        Role: Manager
        Action: exit

    One more item -- 2:00 pm
        Name: William N
        Role: User
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A: In order to limit by the number of days, you need to join with a subquery that gets those dates.
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Some life
Glimpses into nature
The Fate of the Badger
Interview with Emma Powell
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Richard finds it difficult to separate out the different elements of his life because, as he says, it's all life – intricately connected just as is any 'web of life' which is what ecologists study.
As he says, "For me, an ecologist notices things visually, analyses them logically and writes them down accurately. If you have a sense of beauty, you notice the aesthetics of these things. If you possess a degree of curiosity, you want to know more about them. And if you want to remember these things, you write them down or draw them."
Bringing all that together is where, for Richard, Art begins to make sense. A lapsed term these days is 'Natural philosophy'. Although an ecologist, Richard is happy to be called a Naturalist even though it's another term fallen into disuse these days due to ever increasing specialisation and reductionism. Specialism narrows scope and obscures the web of life, and you end up "not seeing the wood for the trees". Reductionism means you look in more and more detail and lose focus on the entire organism.
Richard writes some more about his wildlife here:
Some wildlife
I was tempted to call this 'Some wild life' but by some standards it's not been that wild at all although at times it has seemed so.
Most children love animals, that's perfectly normal, although when I was growing up in the fifties kids still went bird-nesting and my father reared pristine butterflies and moths from caterpillars only to kill and stick pins in them to mount in glass cases. I could never understand or join in with any of these activities. It gave me a reputation of being 'soft-hearted'; I don't know what that means unless it's pathetic and babyish. I was certainly never that, but just never had, even from earliest years, anything but a deep respect for all living things, plants included.
One early memory which might serve to illustrate is lying on my front at the edge of our garden pond, fishing out flies and other insects from the water and laying them on sun-warmed rocks to dry. Many years later, I found myself doing much the same thing one afternoon in Kenya when out there studying birds.
Throughout my career, much of it spent in zoos and wildlife collections, people tried to brutalise me, 'desensitise' if you prefer, to absolutely no effect. In fact, if anything, it steeled me and I've never allowed the charge of sentimentality – one of the harshest charges you can lay on any scientist – to diminish me. As I wrote in one of my books, sentimentality can humanise us.
I could write a book about my zoological experiences, and it might be something if spared I'll do one year. But here I've decided to limit remarks to just two species: a bird, the Chough, and a mammal, the Badger.
Choughs
While writing the badger book in 1985, Mij and I were ambitiously trying to start up a Field study centre on the fringe of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, and I was beginning my research into the decline and extinction of the Cornish Chough. Our aim to return it to its English homeland. As luck would have it, just as I was planning this I had a call from a local ornithologist of high repute, Steve Madge, telling me that a pair of Choughs had turned up on the Rame peninsular just in Cornwall, west of Plymouth. So I spent that winter, one of the coldest we'd had for a long time before and after, trekking over daily to study them (xxxxxxxxxxxxxx).
Thus on the wild coasts of Wales, Scotland and Brittany my adventure with this iconic and beautiful bird began. Four years of intensive field work followed before writing it all up in Glasgow.
My affiliation with this strange and rare crow began once more in childhood (I suppose most things do for everybody). Father was the Chief District Engineer for the then Ministry of Works in North Wales principally in charge of Ancient Monuments. I was occasionally allowed to accompany him on his visits: Caernarfon Castle (Anglicised to Caernarvon in those days) was my favourite. And there, looked after by the Custodian, a tame Chough strolled around the castle bailey. Another odd quirk that I feel connects me with this odd bird is being brought up in Flintshire where there are no cliffs or any recorded history of Choughs having lived there and yet on its coat of arms are these four resplendent Choughs:
I guess they used to live and nest among the range of limestone hills just inland and which were my stamping ground then (Oh, I wish they were again!), and Thomas Pennant writing in the 18th century thought the same.
Arriving in Cornwall just as the species was becoming extinct simply reinforced what felt like a mystical connection. Extinction in Cornwall meant extinction in England. The remnants of a fragmented British population is scattered along the Celtic maritime cliffs which fringe the western coast of Britain, Ireland and Brittany.
If anyone is interested in this story please go to the Operation Chough website mentioned at the top.
I have to admit that my lack of formal education did make this whole doctoral enterprise an adventure but I had to do it. There was no-one else with the freedom or grounding to take it on and I felt that if I applied myself to the rigorous science then it wasn't beyond me. The field work was utterly intriguing and the writing and study presented no insurmountable problems but the gruesome statistics and mathematics - a part of any modern ecological study, especially given that I had not even a Maths O-level/GCSE – were a different matter. However we did it.
In my naivety I had no suspicion that later in life my unconventional background would mean effective exclusion from the scientific clique but even though I've never really been accepted, I'm gratified that the actual work has never been criticised. I've found some established ecologists (not all by any means) patronising and dismissive. Something which amazes me, especially since ecology should mean the very opposite of that.
If you read Influences under Writing , you'll see there a reference to Frances Fyfield. She dedicated a book to me based on a tragic reminiscence I told her of a girl student colleague who had plunged to her death on Skomer Island off the Welsh coast. It was called Looking down. Here a young Chough still missing its startling red beak and legs rests upon it.
This bird was one of the first Choughs we bred at Paradise Park in Cornwall as part of our re-establishment project. Choughs are now flying free around The Lizard peninsular and also on Jersey in the Channel Isles. A small but important triumph.
I wish I could say the same about Badgers.
Oh, what a grim and shocking story this is.
You know what it's like when you hear a report on the media about something you really know about and you're left thinking "No! It's nothing like that"? Well, think that in buckets about the subject of Badgers and Bovine tuberculosis.
Here Cornwall in the seventies again rears its craggy head. The Chough was dying out due to man's direct and indirect actions, and so was the Badger over much of its Cornish range, and was being gassed wholesale on Dartmoor in neighbouring Devon.
At that time I was busy breeding tropical soft-billed birds (these are mainly fruit and nectar feeders) and the badger saga existed in the background (see Articles under Writing). It was not for another ten years that it forced its black and white striped face into the foreground again.
I was doing a Natural History evening course with Exeter University when a few of us attended a public meeting about the plight of the Badger. Horrified by what we heard, we formed BROCK, the Cornish Badger Group. Being the only person near to being a professional naturalist, it fell to me to do a lot of the spade work; oops, sorry about that(!), let's call it research. This all began just as we were attempting to start a Field Study Centre on the edge of Bodmin Moor.
Our Study Centre became the focal point for meetings, but soon, as was inevitable, we upset the local farming community who, of course, hated badgers for a variety of reasons. We became ostracised and then excluded from all the land we'd hitherto had access to. It became very nasty indeed.
I had obtained a year's contract with the World Wildlife Fund (founded by my early mentor Sir Peter Scott) to liaise between farming and conservation interests. It was a near impossible job and yet out of this deeply depressing experience came my book The Fate of the Badger (Batsford 1986).
In 2016 it was republished as a 30th anniversary edition (see www.fire-raven.co.uk).
When this project was mooted I thought large chunks of it would have to be rewritten after so long. But reading it through, I realised that, it was all still true! I could hardly believe it. How could this be? So we decided, to prove the point by publishing the contents in facsimile form with just a new cover, new Foreword and new chapter with additional appendices grafted on at the end.
How many books about an important topical subject can be reprinted after 30 years with little or no editing? I submit not many.
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No matter what happens in the last two legs of the second round on Wednesday and Thursday, the Serbs can no longer be pushed out of the top three teams in Pool E, while the Netherlands, also unbeaten, Japan, currently on 6-1, and Brazil on a 5-2 record, will be battling it out for the remaining two spots in the pool.
On Monday morning in Nagoya, Serbia downed Sunday's sensation Germany in straight sets with Tijana Boskovic leading the way with 17 points. The Germans served well, piling up eight aces, with Jennifer Geerties responsible for four of those and Louisa Lippmann – for three.
In Pool F in Osaka, four teams remain in contention for the top three places in the final standings. The fierce race between unbeaten Italy (21 points) and USA (19 points), as well as China and Russia (6-1 win-loss, 18 points each), is about to heat up further as these teams will be facing each other directly in the last two legs on Wednesday and Thursday.
• In the second Pool E match on Monday's programme, Mexico surprised Brazil by winning the first set, but the South Americans reacted well, especially in blocking (11 stuffs in the game), to reach a four-set victory, their first against this opponent in any major world-level competition. Tandara Caixeta's 25 points for Brazil made her not only the best scorer of the match, but also the best scorer of the day across both pools. Mexico's serving efforts produced seven aces against none for the eventual winners.
• Lonneke Sloetjes hammered out five of Netherlands' eight aces on the way to their straight-set win over the Dominican Republic in Pool E. She topped the charts of the match with a total of 23 points. This is the seventh victory in a row for the Dutch since the start of the tournament, the highest number of wins they have ever registered at a single edition of the World Championship.
• Puerto Rico's 11 kill blocks did not stop hosts Japan from delighting a home crowd of eight thousand in Nagoya with a straight-set win in Pool E. This is the fifth consecutive and sixth overall victory for the Japanese at this World Championship.
• Bulgaria snatched one set from Russia in the early match in Osaka, Pool F's only game of the day that lasted longer than three sets. While the southern European side have yet to beat Russia at any major world level competition, the Russians registered their 150th match and 125th win at the World Championships. Both sides displayed some quality blocking, with Bulgaria tallying 12 stuffs against 11 for Russia.
• The remaining three matches in Pool F on Monday were quite one-sided, with favourites USA, China and Italy convincingly shutting out Turkey, Azerbaijan and Thailand, respectively.
Tuesday is a day off at the World Championship. Wednesday offers another set of eight matches in Pools E and F in Nagoya and Osaka.


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These cheap brake discs from Brembo are for the Clio 172, 182 Renaultsport models and are a very high quality and popular product. Brembo make both front and rear brake discs for the Clio Mk2 and they are suitable for road and racing.. Brembo high carbon (HC) front brake discs are available with a protective UV coating. Now Brembo Xtra drilled discs are also available to give increased brake cooling. These are also High Carbon. The Renault Clio rear discs have the integrated high quality bearing and fit straight on with only an ABS ring needing to be fitted. Brembo brake discs work with standard brake pads or uprated aftermarket pads such as the Ferodo DS2500, DS1.11 or CL Brakes range.
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Drivers using the Renault Clio RS for Race or Rally use should use the CL Brakes race brake pad range but to get the ultimate in performance use CL Brakes both front and rear. For gravel rally cars use the RC5+ as it does not grab and lock wheels as easy. For Tarmac Rally and Circuit, RC6 fronts and RC5 rears (wet dry), RC6(dry) and for endurance racing use the CL Brakes RC6Endurance.
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The UV coating on the braking surface and on the outer diameter of the hub assures the complete protection of the brake disc giving resistance to corrosion, moisture and high temperatures. This UV coating is applied to the whole disc and keeps the disc surface where the brake pads do not touch looking newer and cleaner in appearance. This coating gives a metallic finish providing an appealing aesthetic. These Brembo UV coated discs are Eco-friendly as water based UV paint does not require any solvents. The ultraviolet (UV) coating process is extremely efficient from an energy point of view. These UV discs have a marking on the hub which allows the installer to immediately read the Minimum Thickness required for replacement.
The Brembo Max brake discs have a lot of improvements over the plain high carbon discs. The disc surface is slotted to improve wet weather performance by dispersing water much like a cars tyre tread would. The unique asymmetric grooves in the Brembo Max brake discs will deglaze and revive the pad surface should they overheat during hard use. These Brembo Max high carbon discs also have a higher friction than the standard disc, improving stopping distances and more effective braking action. Lastly the discs have a special anti-corrosion coating. This will keep the discs in better condition for longer, especially on the surfaces not cleaned by the brake pads.
Not all drilled discs are created equally. Brembo have been making long lasting drilled discs for many years for OEM applications. Brembo have released there Xtra range for 2016, offering a high carbon brake disc similar to the Brembo Max range. The Brembo Xtra discs have 'painted' centres and edges to combat corrosion, but with drilled holes instead of the slotted discs. This design is often found on the discs Brembo makes for OE manufacturers with holes for aesthetics and improved braking.


Reared under the tutelage of a mysterious and traditional shaman, Onyesonwu discovers her magical destiny—to end the genocide of her people. The journey to fulfill her destiny will force her to grapple with nature, tradition, history, true love, the spiritual mysteries of her culture—and eventually death itself.
This book will change the way I see the world forever. It is a genre so different and yet so similar to those I have read before, but it made such an impression on me. I am going to read everything Nnedi Okorafor has ever written, because it will make my world better and deeper. How many books can you say have done that for you? Few for me. I cannot recommend it to you highly enough. Who Fears Death had just enough fantasy, just enough feminism, just enough social justice, and just enough beauty to leave me in awe of every word. Okorafor has won a ton of awards for a reason—I couldn't believe her talent.
Onyesonwu is a formidable human being. She is strong and angry. She has power. She is not particularly feminine, and yet also incredibly woman. She is both good and bad, but mostly good. It is hard to wrap your head around her character, but she also finds it hard to wrap her head around her own self, so this isn't surprising. The result is that even though she is magical and powerful, she is also extremely human, and very beautiful.
The other characters in the story begin as very two-dimensional, but as it progressed, I found myself surprised by how much I either loved or hated them. This helped reinforce the theme that all people are human, that no one deserves to be treated a specific way based on superficial impressions, and that the world can always use more compassion.
If you take only one of my recommendations ever, let it be this one. Read this book.


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Q: Getting a gem from a repository with a specific version I'm trying to get an old version from a repository using bundler.
For instance, in my Gemfile I have:
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gem "custom-metrics", "~> 0.14.0", git: "https://gitlab.custom.co/gems/custom-metrics.git"
...

This is properly installing the version 0.14.0. Then I pushed a 0.14.1 version in the dependency repository, and it's still the same, as expected.
In the dependency, I'm setting the version in my .gemspec file as:
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.name = "custom-metrics"
  spec.version = 0.14.0
  ...
end

If I now push a 0.15.0 version, it would stop working. In this case, I have to specify the ref: to the previous commit. So it seems it's not that bundler can't install the version, but that it only looks for versions in the last MINOR version (in this case, it would be in 0.15.*)
I couldn't find any doc that confirms my hypothesis.
> Am I missing something?
> Would it be possible to specify a version and be sure that bundler will always find it?

A: When loading a gem directly from a git repository, then Bundler loads exactly the version that it find in the defined branch, at the ref or tag.
When you define that a specific version of the gem should be used, then Bundler will check if the version of gem found in the repository matches that condition.
Therefore, you likely do not want to simply install the latest available version of a gem directly from a main branch from GitHub. But instead defining to install from a specific branch, tag, or ref might be easier to manage.
How to install gems from git repositories from the Bundler docs.


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Last week, I shared the videos from our Transforming Hollywood: The Future of Television conference. This year, we had a pre-conference event hosted at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and sponsored by the Annenberg Innovation Lab as part of its Geek Speaks series. We brought together a diverse set of women who have been showrunners, creators, head writers, and/or executive producers on television series, examining both the challenges that still confront these women working in what remains a male-dominated space and their creative contributions to the current state and future direction of this medium. The conversations which emerged were lively, provocative, and substantive: they gave us lots to think about. Thanks to all of the participants, but especially to Sophie Madej from the Annenberg Innovation Lab staff for all of her work in making the conference possible, and to Erin Reilly and Francesca Marie Smith for serving as moderators.
Geek Speaks: The Women Who Make Television (Part 1) from USC Annenberg Innovation Lab on Vimeo.
Geek Speaks: The Women Who Make Television (Part 2) from USC Annenberg Innovation Lab on Vimeo.


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Please make sure all bank fees are covered by the submitting account and that the payment is free of charge for the receiver account, all bank charges must be fully covered by the participant. Possible bank charges arising from your payment have to be paid (cash) after arrival at the registration desk.
In order to identify your payment, it is necessary to specify the name of the participant (with a registration ID).
A collective payment for several participants from one institute/workplace should be accompanied by a list of participants with detailing of the amounts to be paid. This document should be sent to the ICXRL 2018 conference office by e-mail.
For payment by credit card please use the on-line payment system . You will receive a link with pre-filled details after submitting your registration.
All fees are quoted in CZK and include VAT. A tax invoice will be issued by our financial department after your payment, and sent by e-mail to you. If you need it, don´t forget to fill in the necessary details (address + VAT number) in the registration form.
Entry visas are required from some foreign citizens. Please check with your travel agencies or with the consular offices of the Czech Republic whether you need an entrance visa. The conference office assists the delegates by processing the official letter confirming their registration for the conference. These letter do not commit the Organizing Committee to any financial obligation. Please note that the Organizing Committee is not responsible for any procedures with the Foreign Police. Fill in the necessary details in the registration form if you are going to apply for the entrance visa at the Czech Embassy and a confirmation letter is necessary.
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"Pinocchio and Friends" will come alive on the small screen in Q4 2021
Rainbow Group partners with Toonz Media Group to adapt iconic children's classic Pinocchio into tv animated show
After captivating global audiences with the evergreen Winx Club and the award-winning 44 Cats, Italy's animation pioneer, Iginio Straffi is ready to set a new milestone on the entertainment scene by partnering with global animation major Toonz Media Group for yet another highly anticipated success.
Italy-based family entertainment powerhouse inked a special partnership with global animation leader Toonz Media Group to produce a contemporary, amusing children's series based on legendary Italian author Carlo Collodi's masterpiece The Adventures of Pinocchio, the fairy tale which has inspired multiple generations of kids around the world. The 26 x 12' CGI show is expected to hit the small screen by the end of 2021 and will be targeted at 4 to 7-year-olds.
"The new Pinocchio I imagined speaks to children in a light-hearted, educational way and empowers their dreams. Families will love this compelling series and kids will find their new TV hero in Pinocchio ", commented enthusiastically Iginio Straffi, Founder and CEO of Rainbow Group. "We are glad to partner with Toonz, combining the great expertise of both our solid and international teams, which will be indeed an asset of this great production for a worldwide audience".
"Giving life to a world classic is always a challenge, but at the same time very exciting as well. We are happy that Toonz has got a great partner in Rainbow to take up this challenge and deliver Pinocchio as a top-notch series with very high-quality content. I am sure kids across the world will love and enjoy this show," said P. Jayakumar, CEO of Toonz Media Group.
Paying tribute to Collodi's avant garde work, Mr. Straffi reimagined a story that many studios have tried to adapt – but with fresh eyes and a modern twist.Rainbow's visionary transports the classic character into today's world of bustle and smartphones, filling his world with adventure, comedy, fun, and educational elements while bringing out the essence of what makes the original character of Pinocchio so inspirational and timeless.
Pinocchio is an enchanted puppet living in today's world, one where anything is possible. He grows alongside his best friends – Grandpa Geppetto, the pirate doll Freeda and the Talking Cricket – as he dreams of one day becoming a real boy by following the advice of the Fairy with Turquoise hair. Characters from the original story are joined by new ones in a fantabulous setting that promises to bring fresh air to televisions around the world, and to the licensing market. While the pre-production, post-production and supervision operations will be carried out at Rainbow studios in Italy, the animation – from 3D asset creation to final LRC (Lighting, Rendering & Composting) – will be done at Toonz's studios. Toonz will handle distribution rights of the show in the Indian sub-continent, South East Asia, Spain, and Portugal. Toonz will also hold the Licensing and Merchandising (L&M) rights of the show in the Indian sub-continent. Distribution and L&M rights in the rest of the world will be handled by Rainbow.
Teaser trailer: https://youtu.be/rmoC3dL-RX0


I realized I was dreaming. I raised my arms and began to rise (actually, I was being lifted). I rose through black sky that blended to Indigo, to deep purple, to lavender, to white, then to very bright light.
I was standing in a field in an open area when my wife pointed in the direction of the sunset. I looked at it and thought, " How odd"; I've never seen colours like that before." Then it dawned on me: "I must be dreaming!" Never had I experienced such clarity and perception-the colours were sp beautiful and the sense of freedom so exhilarating that I started racing through this beautiful golden wheat fiels waving my hands in the air and yelling at the top of my voice, " I'm dreaming! I'm dreaming!"
I am studying to become a professioanl musician ( French Horn) and I wished to remove my fear of performing in front of people. On several occasions I placed myself in a state of self- hypnosis /daydreaming by relaxing my entire body and mind before going to sleep. Then I focused on my desire to have a dream, in which I was performing for a large audience by myself but was not nervous or suffering from anxiety.
Strange, marvelous, and even impossible things regularly happen in dreams , but people don't usually realize that the explanation is that they are dreaming. Usually doesn't mean always and there is a highly significant exception to this generalization. Sometimes, dreamers do correctly realize the explanation for the bizarre happenings they are experiencing , and lucid dreams , like those recounted above, are the result.
Empowered by the knowledge that the world they are experiencing is a cration of their own imiganition, lucid dreamers can consciously influence the outcome of their dreams. They can create and transform objects, people, situations, worlds. Even themselves. By the standards of the familiar world of physical and social reality, they can do the impossible.
The world of lucid dreams provides a vaster stage than ordinary life for al,ost anything imaginable, from the frivolous to the sublime. You could, if you chose , revel at a saturnalian festival , soar to the stars, or travel to mysterious lands. You could join those who are testing lucid dreaming as a tool for problem solving, self-healing, and personal growth. Or you could explore the implications of teachings from the ancient traditions and reports from modrn psychologists that suggest that lucid dreams can help you find your deepest identy-who you really are.
Lucid dreaming has been known for centuries , but has until recently remained and rare and little-understood phenomenon. My own scientific and personal explorations, together with the findingd of other dream researchers around the world, haver just began to shed light on this unusual state of consciousness. Recently this new research field has captured the attention of the population outside the world of scientific dream research because studies have shown that given proper training , peopl;we can learn to have lucid dreams.
But why are people interested in learning to be conscious in their dreams? According to my own experience, and the testimony of thousands of other lucid dreamers, lucid dreams can be extraordinary vivid, intense, pleasurable, and exhilarating. People frequently consider their lucid dreams as among the most wonderful experiences of their lives.
If this were all there were to it, lucid dreams would be delightful, but ultimately trivual entertainment. However, as many have already discovered, you can use lucid dreaming to improve the quality of your waking life.Thousands of people have written to me at Stanford telling how they are using the knowledge and experience they ahve acquired in lucid dreams to help them get more of living.
Although the outlines of a practical art and science of lucid dreaming ae just beginning to emerge and the systematic use of lucid dreaming as a tool for psychological self- exploration is still in itys infancy, most people can safely use the available knowledge about lucid dreaming to conduct their own explorations. Probably the only people who should not experiment with lucid dreaming are those who are unable to distinguish between waking reality and constructions of their imagination.
Lucid dreaming will not cause you to lose touch with the difference between waking and dreaming . On the contrary, lucid dreaming is becoming more aware.


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John Cleese, Martin Bell and Jay Rosen among those appearing at Byline journalism festival in Sussex this weekend
BBC driver killed taking journalist colleagues to work as explosion rocks Kabul
Daily Mirror political editor Jack Blanchard moving to Politico
By Freddy Mayhew Twitter
The Daily Mirror's political editor Jack Blanchard is set to leave the newspaper to take up a new role at Politico later this summer.
Blanchard shared the news on Twitter this morning, saying: "After three-and-a-bit unbelievable years at the Daily Mirror, am properly excited to be joining Politico later this summer. Thanks to all."
The announcement was met with congratulations from fellow political journalists, including the Sun's Tom Newton Dunn who said Blanchard's departure was "a big loss for newspapers".
Blanchard, who has been reporting on the general election campaign trail, was booed at the launch of the Labour manifesto earlier this month after asking a difficult question of Jeremy Corbyn.
He told Corbyn his policies had proven popular with Mirror readers in an opinion poll, but added: "What they didn't like was you as leader. Why do you think that is?"
Blanchard moved to the Mirror in 2014 from the Yorkshire Post, where he had been political editor for two years.
He started his journalism career on the Boston Standard in Lincolnshire, before moving to cover politics at the Worcester News.
Politico covers politics and policy in the US, where it was founded, and in Europe via a daily website. It also publishes a bi-monthly printed magazine.
Schools Week first out of the blocks with Labour manifesto leak, Mirror and Telegraph first with the full story
Politico expands European team with former Times and Reuters reporters
Politico to launch website and print edition for Europe employing 40 journalists
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LACK OF RESPONSE OF PIGEON PEA (CAJANUS CAJAN L. HUTH) TO N AND K FERTILIZER ON A MOLLISOL OF PUERTO RICO'S SOUTHERN COASTAL PLAINS
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Reinaldo Del Valle-González, Miguel Santiago-Córdova, Agenol González, Weed control with preemergence Ametryn in Arracacia xanthorrhiza , The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico: Vol. 74 No. 3 (1990): Vol. 74, No. 3, July 1990
Reinaldo del Valle-González, Carmen T. Ramírez, FAILURE OF CALCIUM SOURCES TO CONTROL BLOSSOM-END ROT IN WATERMELONS , The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico: Vol. 73 No. 3 (1989): Vol. 73, No. 3, July 1989
Reinaldo del Valle-González, Miguel Santiago-Córdova, Nitrogen rates and sources and Guinea Negro yam in an Ultisol in Puerto Rico , The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico: Vol. 74 No. 1 (1990): Vol. 74, No. 1, January 1990


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Mike Hodges is an American politician who is currently serving as the Georgia State Senator for the 3rd district.

Education
Born in Glynn County, Hodges attended Brunswick High School and graduated in 1971. He then attended Brunswick Junior College and earned a BBA in banking and finance at the University of Georgia.

Career
Hodges was a founding director of the First Bank of Brunswick, and later its CEO. The bank was purchased by Ameris Bancorp in 2001.

Hodges announced his run for the Georgia State Senate in February 2022.

Elections
Hodges' state senate bid was endorsed by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.

Primary and general elections, 2022
The primary election for District 3 was held on May24, 2022. The two other candidates were Nora Lott Haynes and Jeff Jones.

After no candidate won over 50% of the primary vote, a runoff between Hodges and Jeff Jones was held on June21, 2022.

In the general election, held on November 8, 2022, Hodges was unopposed.

Personal life
Hodges and his wife Dana have been married since the mid-1980s. They have two sons.

References

Living people
Republican Party Georgia (U.S. state) state senators
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import React from 'react'

import AddTodo from './AddTodo'
import Todos from './Todos'
import Footer from '../components/Footer'

class App extends React.Component {
    constructor (...args) {
        super(...args)
    }
    render (){
        return <div>
                <AddTodo />
                <Todos />
                <Footer />
            </div>
    }
}

export default App


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Q: Conversion from java to c# -Covariance and Contravariance   public interface IStorage<T> extends Iterable<T> {
        public void copyTo( IStorage<? super T> dest);
        public void copyFrom( IStorage<? extends T> src);
    }

Above is the java code that I have to put in c#, for the moment it looks like
 interface IStorage<T>:  IEnumerable<T>
    {
     void copyTo( IStorage<? super T> dest);
     void copyFrom( IStorage<? extends T> src);}

But I have troubles to find the equivalent  of  when it appears in the parameter of function, I found the in/out or where approaches but it's still not clear to me.

A: Generic variance in C# is very different to generic variance in .NET.
You sort of want something like this:
public interface IStorage<out T> : IEnumerable<T>
{
    // This won't compile - the constraint is on the wrong argument
    void CopyTo<TDest>(IStorage<TDest> dest) where T : TDest
}

But that's invalid, as indicated.
As written, the method doesn't really make sense to me - you'd need something else in the interface which would accept values of type T, at which point IStorage could no longer be covariant in T anyway.
Given that you can't achieve exactly the same effect, I suggest you think about what you really want to achieve, and consider something like:
public interface IStorage<out T> : IEnumerable<T>
{
    void AddAll(IStorage<T> source);
}

Or even just:
public interface IStorage<out T> : IEnumerable<T>
{
    void AddAll(IEnumerable<T> source);
}

So you reverse the target of the call from the source to the destination, at which point the destination can pull values from the source, which is more in-keeping with IEnumerable<T> being a source of values.


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A word from Protector of Citizens
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Announcement regarding the International Day for Older Persons
The Protector of Citizens points out that the elderly need support and understanding in order to preserve their dignity and exercise their rights. It is necessary to combat the social exclusion and isolation of the elderly and to take measures dedicated to their active participation in society, the prevention of poverty and the improvement of financial position of the elderly, in the area of providing community services, health and social care, personal and family life, said the Protector of Citizens, Zoran Pasalic, on the occasion of the International Day for Older Persons.
The most common problems faced by the elderly are poverty and neglect within the family, including disposition of their property without their consent, dissatisfaction with exercising the right to material support when they are in a difficult financial and life situation due to lack of income or insufficient amount of income, and when they are in poor health condition, exercising the right to the assistance and care of another person is difficult.
Although domestic violence has ceased to be a "private family matter" and a taboo topic, violence against the elderly is not recognizable and visible enough. The elderly are less likely to report violence, especially when the perpetrators of the violence are their children; in such situations – primarily because of loyalty to their own children – older and infirm parents are willing to suffer the most cruel forms of violence, rather than to seek protection from the system. In one case, which the Protector of Citizens investigated on its own initiative, an elderly woman was a longtime victim of her son's violence. She was kicked, slapped, punched, insulted and belittled. Still, she did not want to press charges against her son, in order to protect him from prosecution. Although the victim did not report him, the police, guardianship authority and the health institutions were aware of the violence but failed to take action to protect the victim and prevent the recurrence of violence. Despite the history of violence against the elderly by her son, police officials did not estimate that there was a risk of violence, and the guardianship authority, instead of violence, was concerned with "repairing family relations between mother and son". The extent to which the police, health care and guardianship authority estimates were incorrect, and the activities inadequate, was shown by the unfortunate tragic death of the victim, who died at the hands of her own son, which is unacceptable.
The lack of support services is still present, especially home support services that are often necessary for this group of population, given that the elderly often live alone and do not have relatives to care for them. These problems are particularly pronounced in rural areas, where elderly women living in single households are in a particularly difficult position, Pasalic said.
Participation of Olja Jovicic at the ECRI conference
Secretary general of the professional service of the Protector of Citizens, Olja Jovicic, participated in the conference of the highest representatives of the European institutions for equality "Towards effective equality – new responses to racism and intolerance" in Paris on the occassion of the 25th anniversary of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe (ECRI). The conference was held on September 26-27, 2019, within the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Council of Europe.
The main topics of the conference were mutual cooperation in the field of equality protection, the most effective ways to build an inclusive society, the benefits and risks of using new technologies, as well as the future of the idea of equality and combating racism and intolerance.
The aim of the conference was to formulate a common strategy and plan activities that will meet the biggest challenges in Europe in these areas.
Representatives of the Protector of Citizens at the regular annual ENOC conference in Belfast
Assistant secretary general, Natasa Jovic, and the Head of the Cabinet of the Protector of Citizens, Marija Podunavac, participated in the regular annual conference of the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children, held in Belfast from 25 to 27 September.
The theme of this year's conference were the rights of the child in the digital environment, both from the point of view of protecting children on the Internet and from the point of view of promoting the rights of the child to information, participation, expression, association and the exercise of other rights and freedoms of the child through the use of information technology (IT). A significant part of the conference was dedicated to the participation of children, through the European Network of Young Advisers, which is made up of children, who gave their own assessment of the rights of the child in the digital environment, their perceptions of the risks they are exposed to and their views on how children can be provided with knowledge and skills for responsible and secure use of IT. Particularly significant is the fact that children indicate that adult attention is predominantly focused on the risks to children's safety when using IT, and less on the benefits that children undoubtedly derive from information technology.
Assistant secretary general, Natasa Jovic, presented experiences, achievements and challenges in Serbia at a workshop dedicated to safeguards and strategic documents in the field of child protection in the digital environment. She emphasized that Serbia has ratified all key international treaties that are important for the protection of children in the digital environment, and that it has a national legal framework that provides a very good basis for establishing and developing mechanisms for protecting children in the digital environment.
Visit of the Ombudsman of Romania to the Protector of Citizens of the Republic of Serbia
Ombudsman cooperation in the region is of the utmost importance in the protection of human rights, especially useful through the exchange of experiences in work with the aim of improving good practices and the efficiency of independent institutions, said the Protector of Citizens, Zoran Pasalic, in cnversation with the Romanian Ombudsman, Renate Weber, who with her associates paid a two-day working visit to the institution of the Protector of Citizens. In addition to the Secretary General of the expert service of the Protector of Citizens, Olja Jovicic, the Ambassador of Romania in Belgrade H.E. Oana-Cristina Popa also attended the talks.
Pasalic expressed his expectation that the new Draft Law on the Protector of Citizens will be in the legislative procedure and informed Webber about organizational changes in the institution after the systematization in December 2018, especially about the function of the new organizational unit –Department for urgent action. The Romanian Ombudsman showed special interest in the competences and authorities of the Protector of Citizens and the international cooperation with ombudsmen from the region.
Speaking to the Romanian Ombudsman and the Protector of Citizens, the vice-president of the National Assembly, Djordje Milicevic, expressed his satisfaction that the good political and parliamentary cooperation between Serbia and Romania is accompanied by good cooperation between these two independent institutions. He welcomed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Protector of Citizens of the Republic of Serbia and the Ombudsman of Romania, as well as the establishment of the Network of Balkan Ombudsmen. In the conversation, he emphasized the importance of successful cooperation of the Protector of Citizens with the National Assembly, which elects the Protector of Citizens and to whom he is responsible for his work.
Zoran Pasalic said at the press conference at the Serbian Parliament, after meeting with the Parliament's vice-president, Djordje Milicevic, and the Ombudsman of Romania, Renate Weber, that the Ombudsman's contact with the Parliament is important and that the Ombudsman is an advisor to the Serbian Parliament who, by communicating the results of his work and experience and by speaking openly to the Members of Parliament about what systematically or individually bothers Serbian citizens, indicates what needs to be changed in order to align the regulations with the needs of the citizens. These institutions have an obligation to strengthen the protection of our citizens in Romania and Romanian citizens in Serbia through contact. Independent ombudsman institutions are at the disposal of citizens and in protecting their rights, the citizens can contact us, Pasalic said.
The Ombudsman of Romania, Renate Weber, stated that the Ombudsman's institution is crucial for all democratic societies, and that mutual exchange of work experience is of the utmost importance, especially in order to promote good practice and efficiency of independent institutions in Serbia and Romania.
On the second day of the visit, representatives of the National Council of the Romanian National Minority spoke about the position of the Romanian national minority in Serbia, as well as the problems they face on a daily basis, while representatives of the NPM and the Department for urgent action spoke about the work and typical cases from these organizational units.
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You may ask yourself, what is this theme this week? And you may say to yourself, why is there so much death? And you may say to yourself, how did we get here? It's been a rough week for me here at Strawberry Tongue. Not because of anything music-related at all, but, because I had to put my little dog Polly, to sleep. She was a 17-year old, blind, diabetic Chiweenie who had chronic kidney failure and most recently, diagnosed with cancer. Coming in at ten pounds, the little fur face ruled my world. It's just by a weird coincidence that a couple of the bands that sent me music this week had "death" in their names, so, I went with compatible themes – death and love. Call me morbid or call me awesome, I think you will love tonight's lineup as much as I do.
Tonight's bonus tracks are all new material that has been recently released.
The Grey Merchant is new to our playlist and we are showcasing their song, The Last Transmission. Heralding from Cork, Ireland, the trio plays a blistering and vibrant indie rock.
Phantom Tails is a deep-space doom-funk quartet from Minneapolis, that has been a long-time favorite of Strawberry Tongue. Tonight's track "Don't Vanish" is from their 2017 release Horizon, Check.
PVT is an electronic trio that is another STR favorite. Tonight's track, "Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend," is from their 2017 release New Spirit and is an atmospheric, distorted nine-minute track.
Listen to Strawberry Tongue Radio to hear our unique playlist featuring current and classic artists playing post punk, new wave, indie, electronic and experimental music.
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Gaby Coorengel (born 27 November 1969) is a Dutch former professional tennis player.

Coorengel reached a career-high singles ranking of 229 and won four ITF titles. As a doubles player, she had her best years in the early 1990s, in partnership with Amy van Buuren, reaching a best ranking of 117 in the world. The pair made the second round of both the French Open and Wimbledon in 1991.

ITF finals

Singles: 5 (4–1)

Doubles: 14 (6–8)

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1969 births
Living people
Dutch female tennis players


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During the 1975–76 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, came third out of 10 clubs in the Scottish Premier Division and reached the fourth round of the Scottish Cup.

Scottish Premier Division

Final League table

Scottish League Cup

Group stage

Group 2 final table

Knockout stage

UEFA Cup

Scottish Cup

See also
List of Hibernian F.C. seasons

References

External links
Hibernian 1975/1976 results and fixtures, Soccerbase

Hibernian F.C. seasons
Hibernian


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News Aug 12, 2019
African Swine Fever confirmed in Serbia
After more than a week of speculation, the official confirmation arrived yesterday: African Swine Fever virus (ASFv) has also reached Serbia late July.
In total 4 outbreaks were reported yesterday to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE); they were found in relatively small farms in the district around the capital Belgrade and the adjoining Podunavlje district. All outbreaks were found in a relatively small patch, close to each other. In total 7 animals were found infected, and another 114 animals had to be culled.
A backyard farm is being disinfected to avoid further spread of ASF. Photo: Dr Iwona Markowska-Daniel
ASF outbreaks reported to OIE
Chronologically, the following outbreaks were reported:
July 30: Backyard farm with 24 animals of which 1 died from the ASF virus. This was in the village Rabrovac-Sume, near Mladenovac, Belgrade district.
August 1: Backyard farm with 10 animals; again 1 animal died from the ASF. This was in the same district, in Velika Krsna, at about 6km south east of the 1st outbreak.
August 6: Backyard farm with 23 animals of which 3 died from the ASF. This occurred again in Velika Krsna, so close to the outbreak of August 1.
August 7: The biggest facility reported in this report, on a farm with 64 pigs, 2 died from the ASF. This occurred in Kusada, Podunavlje district, but still within a few km of the other 3 outbreaks.
Suspicions about the news already circulated for a while in the local media.
Media in Bosnia report about a potential outbreak of #ASF in Serbia 🇷🇸, near Mladenovac, south of Belgrade. So far, no confirmation has been given. If confirmed, it would be the 1st time African #Swine Fever is found in Serbia. #fingerscrossed ⏩ https://t.co/9qS1IMQ6Vt
— Vincent ter Beek (@vincenttb) August 3, 2019
ASF virus flaring up in Eastern Europe
The virus is lately flaring up in many countries in Eastern Europe. Last week, reports came through of in total 130,000 pigs having to be culled in Bulgaria. In addition, recently, the virus also was confirmed in Slovakia.
All in all, it means that since the introduction of ASF in 2007 in the Caucasian area, now 16 European countries have had to face the virus in its wild boar or domestic pig herd population – or both.
Click here for all the latest information on the outbreak of ASF - plus interactive maps to tracks its path
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Hey, friends! Our topic for today is How to Setup and Install Players Klub Add-ons on Kodi Guide but before proceeding towards for discussing the same, let's take the overview of Players Klub Add-on. This overview is for those users who are not aware of the same and in order to make them aware of it we have to discuss some of the features of the Players Klub Add-on so that the users will understand better about the Kodi Players Klub Addon.
The Players Klub is an IPTV service which costs around $5 per month and it serves over more than 600 HD TV Channels. Therefore, the user needs to register on the official website of the Players Klub premium Add-ons and the user needs to make their account on that for which they can use their billing panel. Once, the users will get their website, they need to click on the pricing or plan links and after that they need to make a click on the option that says Sign up which is under the option of Premium Package.
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However, this IPTV services also includes an EPG which is called as Electronic Program Guide which looks somehow familiar as to those that are found on dish services and cable services and this Player Club has worked perfectly on both of the system i.e. on Fire TV and on Fire TV Stick which are considered as one of the most popular streaming devices. Therefore, there are different ways of installing the Players Klub APK Add-ons and we have shared the simplest one with our users so, they can install it easily.
Below are the steps for installing the Players Klub Add-ons.
Step 1: First of all, the user needs to install Kodi on their streaming box or in their system (PC).
Step 2: Then, they need to launch Kodi.
Step 3: After that, the users need to click on the option of settings which is on the top of the left side of screen that will come under the logo of Kodi.
Step 4: Then, the user needs to click on the system settings.
Step 5: After doing this much, the user needs to come over the menu of Add-ons and then the user needs to turn on the option of Unknown sources.
Step 6: When the user have done this much, they will get a confirmation message and they must click on YES option.
Step 7: Then, the user needs to click on the remote and they need to go back to the System Page.
Step 8: Then, they need to click on the option of File manager.
Step 9: After that, they need to click on the option of Add Source.
Step 10: Then, the user needs to click on None option.
Step 11: Once, the user have done this much, they need to enter the URL i.e. http://theplayersklub.us/playersklub and after entering this, they need to click on OK.
Step 12: Then, the user needs to highlight the box that is under the source in which the user have typed the above URL. The user has to give a name to that source as well and they need to remember the name that they have given to them and after this they need to click on OK.
Step 13: After this, the user needs to click on the back button until they will be get back ot the home screen of kodi.
Step 14: Then, the users need to click on the menu items of Add-ons.
Step 15: After this, the users need to click on the Open Box which is at the top of the screen that is on the left side of page under the heading of Addo-ns.
Step 16: After doing this, the user needs to click on the option of Install from Zip File.
Step 17: Then, the user needs to click on the source ( which they have named in earlier steps).
Step 18: Now, the user needs to click on repository.playersklub zip file.
Step 19: Then, the users needs to wait until the players klub repository add-ons installed.
Step 20: After this, the user needs to click on the option of Install from the repository.
Step 21: Now, the users needs to click on the option of Players Klub Repository.
Step 22: Then, click on the Video Add-ons.
Step 23: now, click on Player Club Add-ons.
Step 24: then, click on Install.
Step 25: the user needs to wait until they see the message of installation of players klub addons.
Step 26: At last, the user needs to launch the Players Klub Kodi Add-on and after that the user needs to enter their account username and password.
Thus, these are few simple steps of installation of Players Klub Add-ons and the users needs to read them carefully in order to install them properly. Hope the users will get all the relevant information which is required for proper installation of Players Klub Add-ons.
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(Курганы) Менард-Ходжес — археологический памятник на территории штата Арканзас. Включает два крупных кургана и несколько «домовых курганов» (то есть таких, на вершинах которых в позднюю доколумбову эпоху сооружались дома). Является типовым памятником для т.наз. «фазы Менард» Миссисипской культуры. Возможно, относится к области Анлико, упоминаемой в отчёте об экспедиции Эрнандо де Сото в 1540 году. Поселение Менард-Ходжес было возведено и существовало одновременно с другими крупными памятниками той эпохи: Паркином, где, по мнению ряда археологов, обитало упоминаемое де Сото племя каски, и Ноденой, где могло обитать конкурирующее племя пакаха.

Курганы Менард-Ходжес объявлены Национальным историческим памятником в 1989 году.

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Археологические объекты Арканзаса
Национальные исторические памятники Арканзаса
Археологические культуры Северной Америки
Арканзас (округ)